The Democrats have had almost FIFTY YEARS to increase taxes on the rich to pre-Reagan levels.
I’m starting to think that maybe they’re in on it
You can complain about this on any other day but today. It doesn’t matter how bad you think the democrats are. Currently they are the only way to limit Trump’s power.
This sort of stuff discourages people to vote.
You vote for the Democrats to slow the slide to the right. But never hope for them to ever reverse anything. They will just do it more discreetly.
I’ll vote for them because there’s no viable third party option that speaks to me.
They’re also easier to push to more progressive laws.
Also: all the Republicans are pushing trans ads HARD. I’m paying so much more for groceries and they’re airing ads about trans kids. Out of touch asshats.
They love to demonize the 1%, just point their ire at the entirely wrong 1%.
This is actually a tough point, because of all the non-mainstream parties available, I’ve got the Greens for a moderate reform and that’s basically it. A Natural Law party appeared on the ballot, but I get the prayers-over-pursuit vibe from them, even if they may not associate with Christianity.
Convinced that the only way third parties are going to get seats is if they campaign as Republicans or Democrats and then switch after election
They haven’t limited his powe r when they have had the chance no and there has been a couple times thy could have. I don’t expect much from them honestly.
The side of the democrats who actually want some vaguely leftwing policies is currently increasing their numbers
Support them, please
Sanders has a whole book showing how even in the dems there are people paid by corporations and AIPAC, he knows, he says it publicly, yet he’s out there supporting some democratic candidates.
You know Republicans have to vote for it to pass it right? The last time they had a majority was for only 2 months in 2010 and it wasn’t a true majority because Kristin Sinema and Joe Manchin blocked everything.
they had both house and senate in 2019-2023 https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-control-house-senate-first-time-since-2011-schumer-ousts-mcconnell-1563229
they had both house and senate in 2019-2023
From the article:
Control of the Senate shifted over to a 50-50 party split on Wednesday as Democratic Georgia Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock were both sworn in as the 49th and 50th Democratic senators, leaving Vice President Kamala Harris as the deciding vote should the chambers’ votes ever end in a tie.
50-50 split with Republicans potentially posing as Democrats is a pretty weak level of absolute control, but you’re technically correct.
Yeah thats pretty much been it. Since Reagan both parties had a trifecta three times each. Democrats have always had a few spoilers on anything (Sinema, Manchin, fetterman types) and razor thin margins. Republicans are much more likely to vote lockstep unless someone (Collins) can do a vote against for show. They also have had more years with a trifecta total.
Thats not even factoring in the supreme court bullshit we’ve had going on since Bush.
The thing is we’ve already seen that voting matters. Republicans always showed up and voted for the furthest right. That made more of them keep fucking going right. Meanwhile progressives stay home because “theyre not good enough” and that Overton window just keeps going.
If the working class would show the fuck up and always vote for the most left, we could make that Overton window shift further and further left.
Yea, but at least they’re not into regime change in other countries, waging senseless wars and supporting genocide…
/S
Here in California, we have a billionaire tax on the ballot that is about to lose in a landslide. And we are about to pass one of the worst voter ID laws in the country, so California may well go red next time. The billionaires bought a whole state.
Why is it losing? From a 10-second read it looks like the opposition argument is basically “it might get complicated”
The media has been flooded with emotional negative ads, paid for by our billionaire masters. They’ve bought California.
How are any of these ads even remotely convincing though? Like tax the mega rich, the “elites” if you will. It’s so simple.
Because California is one of the most corrupt states in the union. Unironically. Socially they’re fairly progressive, but economically they’re essentially three mafias in a trenchcoat pretending to be a carnival owner.
Take the high speed rail project. Or how they have implemented cannabis licensing, or the ridiculously bad infrastructure and homeless resolution spending problems.
The day-to-day in California is shit for the average person, and they’ve now been told they are the most left-wing state for decades because of some social issues; so they’re associating the shitty life they are living with left wing economics, despite pretty much no left-wing economics being involved. Populist propaganda works because you are correctly recognizing the problems involved, regardless of whatever solution you’re selling – and more “left wing” (aka neoliberal/conservative gay-accepting) candidates are essentially unelectable and objectively not the solution. Unfortunately the DNC refuses to run anyone remotely left wing in the entirety of California.
As dystopian as it is, one has to admire the patience and determination displayed by corrupt politicians. They slowly get their way unless they are constantly beaten away by a stick made of civil unrest.
People have been intentionally trained to have zero media literacy and propaganda works. You would think the elites would learn, seeing as teaching a population to uncritically ingest everything put in front of them is how we ended up with antiscience flatearth antivaccination sovereign citizens voting in the pedophilic reality show “star” who is actively destroying the world’s economy. Greed has worped the ultra rich to the point they literally can’t see anything further then how their own stock portfolios are doing right this moment. Fuck them. And fuck us too I guess because we let it happen.
fat lady ain’t singing yet
I think the deeper issue is that a lot of people think they’re going to be wealthy one day, and propaganda against taxing the wealthy makes them feel like the government is taxing their feelings about being wealthy in the future, causing them to vote against their own interests and prevent themselves from actually becoming more wealthy.
I starting to wonder if their really are enough delusional people for that to be a thing, what pea brain actually think they might end up a billionaire in their life time, they have better odds winning the lottery and that wouldn’t make you a billionaire either.
They have better odds of being hit by lightning 5 times in a lifetime, but don’t you dare give them math.
are they telling people to eat trash ?
This meme misses the whole point. This ain’t about eating the rich. (though feel free if it looks good on your plate - I won’t stop you)
Modern consumers will barely eat the crust off a piece of bread. Let alone just scrub a carrot or potato under running water and then eat the whole thing. You won’t even eat odd looking fruit and vegetables either. Those just end up in that garbage. Nutritionists have been trying to tell to eat those peels for decades. There is more fiber, vitamins, and minerals in the peels than in the insides.
Eat more of that stuff BEFORE you need to go digging through the garbage/compost pile. Y’all are so wasteful it’s beyond the pale.
The main reason we peel veggies and fruits are the tons of pesticids poisoning their surface.
So please let’s not transfer again yet another industry fuck-up responsibility onto consumers.
They could avoid saying literally “in your garbage” tho
Fiber not fibre?
Edit: found the actual article and it has the correct spelling.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw5ynver15jeo
At home, people might want to try leaving skins on kiwi fruit, using broccoli stalks in stir-fries or adding bell pepper seeds to dishes, the researchers suggest.
I agree with the article, people toss out the best parts.
it’s amazing how few people on lemmy actually read the articles, because my first read was “oh they mean you should eat the stuff you typically throw away” and not “you should eat scraps from the garbage.” and looky here.
but hey, being angry and posted an unfounded kneejerk reaction gets attention, so…
The (original/BBC) title was intentionally clickbaity.
It helps when the article isn’t shared. It’s a screenshot of a knee jerk reaction which gives the assumption that between the commenter and the screenshotter that someone confirmed it.
We can do both. Tax billionaires and eat more sustainably.
I don’t think it’s necessary to turn raccoon just to be able to eat.
That’s not what I’m saying. We throw away a ton of perfectly edible food, some of which is waste like peels and such which often contain a lot of the non-sugar nutritional content of the crop.
While it might not be palatable on its own, many of the things listed would be fine in a smoothie.
Not enough. Need to make sure billionaires don’t exist ever.
Jusy gimme the scopdog already.
what’s scop dog
SCOP = Single-Celled Organic Protien
It’s lab grown meat paste used to make various meat substitutes in cyberpunk fiction. A scopdog is a hotdog made from scop.
oh thanks i was just trying to make a bad joke haha
People do throw out tons of good stuff though. We can eat the rich and be sustainable
Eating fruit and vegetable scraps such as peels and stalks could provide a health boost that most of us are missing, say UK researchers.
They say scraps are an overlooked source of dietary fibre and are encouraging people to try “root-to-tip” eating, including watermelon rind, pineapple core and butternut squash seeds.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw5ynver15jeo
I was going to agree with the article, but nevermind. There has to be a better way to get your fiber.
Indeed. I tried this during the pandemic, in an attempt to both eat healthier and waste less food. Then I got hit with diverticulitis, because it turns out not everyone can digest all that inedible shit.
I mean, all you’d have to do is make a smoothie.
mhhmmm watermelon rind smoothie. My next favourite thing after Fall leaves lasagna.
I personally enjoy watermelon rinds.
I prefer fall leaf sausage.
I doing know why people don’t like pineapple core; it’s like a crunchier, milder pineapple. And pumpkin seeds are eaten quite commonly as a snack throughout the world.
My compost pile will appreciate those things more than my colon will.
Nah, your compost pile doesn’t give a shit, and because modern diets have so little fibre, your colon has trouble giving a shit, too.
https://smv.org/learn/blog/are-there-health-benefits-hunter-gatherer-diet/
TBF peeling is a big waste of food
Stalks be nasty tho
I’m not sure I could do watermelon rind, but I legitimately like pineapple core, and I know some people who roast the squash seeds and absolutely love em, like big sunflower seeds.
Yeah, the birds and deer out back can eat that shit.
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How will garlic scraps fuck up your stock? Too bitter?
It was just this year that I found out I was peeling carrots for no reason.
I am all about the watermelon rind, that is tasty. Not the skin though.
We can eat the rich and be sustainable
Do you know how much water it takes to get 1 kilo of rich meat? Not to mention the carbon footprint.
It’s worse than beef.That’s not even about being sustainable, it’s just about being healthy.
I’ve heard the rich are made of fiber
And high in protein
I prefer eating beans and rice, but I can help butcher them. Billionaire roast sounds fun
Reminder that JK Rowling’s descent into transphobia begun with her fearing she might have to pay taxes under a potential Corbyn presidency.
Wtf is it about rich people not wanting to share part of their imaginary wealth that they will never ever ever get to spend anyway.
It’s the meritocratic delusion; a well documented psychological phenomenon wherein people with good outcomes will twist the facts of their life into such a story as to justify their success. The most famous experiment was giving a monopoly player a headstart and seeing how that changed their behavior - with the near universal result being that the player with the headstart believes that their win in the game was due to their skill, not due to the headstart they have.
A: UK don’t have presidents, we have a Prime Minister
B: Evidence of her TERFism is found literally in her books from day zero, but it just was excusable before she unmasked as “maybe she’s unknowingly parroting harmful stereotypes?” cause it turns out that some older creators had such an influence on media that lots of the stereotypes she used were just background radiation.
(Goblin = Jew is as old as WWII, but probably older “They’re just a Man in a Dress” and “Cis Woman that looks masc is funny” is at least as old as 1800s, etc etc)
There was. Then the dipshit Ronald Reagan got put in office and he bent over and opened his asshole up to all of his corporate donors and destroyed America. That guy all he was good for was telling snappy one-liners and reading off a teleprompter. The rest was just a puppeteer running his pen.
He was such a cunt. He spent taxpayer money to dismantle the solar panels that were already installed in the WH
Eat your fiber, how are you going to overthrow the rich if you can’t take a shit?
I am stunned Prop 40 is polling so badly. Billionaires really bamboozled the half of Californians dumber than the average Californian.
Democracy under capitalism isn’t difficult, it’s impossible.
Because a bunch of the big companies in California have been moving to Texas to avoid taxes. They probably think this will cause even more money to leave the state.
A wealth tax would be a good start, but it won’t address the cause of the problem to begin with, which is capitalist domination of production and distribution. This is the base that the state rests upon, meaning any inch we take can be reversed without our consent. In order to truly deal with the problems of today, we need a new system, a socialist system, that cannot be won by the ballot box but instead is made by the people coming together and making it happen through organizing work and revolution.
I wouldn’t mind them having money so much if it wasn’t for them spending it on destroying democracy
The money is the fulcrum for doing so, they wouldn’t want or need it if it wasn’t useful for that
