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Here’s What It Means to Be a Democratic Socialist - Universal health care, taxing the wealthy and opposition to military aid to Israel are among the movement’s key tenets

In USA, bOtH pArTiEs fully support Israel due to decades of generous financial support from Christians and Jews (and their wealthy organizations).

Meanwhile, churches and temples and mosques and everything else are TAX FREE, with far more benefits than secular charities.

Our taxes support these organizations, all of whom make a fortune a course, and that fortune is then used to influence policy with political "donations" of all kinds.

So, the masses are supporting organizations that then funnel money back to our government representatives in an endless loop of financial corruption... which can't even be considered corruption, since it's the law.

The USA created Israel, and won't stop supporting it willingly, and this won't be changed by voting.

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"I can't believe I have to say this, but arresting civilians for collecting paint chips and not arresting the people in power for raping children is fucking evil."

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The Secret Service, FBI, and CIA are actively busting every attempt at oppositional organizing. Telegram, Discord, and so on are all open books for intelligence organizations, they don't need to get a court order and the Patriot Act gives them free reign. AI increases their ability to sift through all of that information.

Do they read everything? Probably not... but they read enough to consistently stop every attempt so far, and to run counter intel on any movement of size.

In other words, you can't organize online discretely for long. Anything successful must be small, and have impeccable counter-intel. It's not 1776 any longer.

Balkanization is probably our only hope, in my opinion; our debt-based economy will collapse in on itself at some point. Spontaneous revolt of the country? I don't think that can happen any longer, there's nowhere to hide, they are listening.

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60% of TikTok videos are AI slop; 21% of YouTube ones

On Youtube, there are a multitude of new "hosts" like C.S. Lewis (a dead author), sitting at a desk and spewing almost legible gibberish (in an AI voice resembling their own) vaguely referring to their favorite topic. Also psychologists, historians, and more. I've started to look more and more for videos over three years old if I want a decent history program.

Some are hours long. More and more, every day.

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Raising taxes on the superrich is popular with voters. So why is it so hard to get done?

Over 70% of voters want universal healthcare. About the same amount want a higher minimum wage.

About 90% of Democratic voters want universal healthcare, more than half of all independents want the same thing, and even a huge amount of Republicans want universal healthcare (around 40%).

Even so, D&Rs can't be bothered.

(yes yes, I know, BoTh SiDeS so I must be a secret Nazi bot, etc. you got me)

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Get a little angrier, you're just not disdainful enough to be right yet. Insult them with the very first word and end the sentence with a nazi closer, maybe.

Sure, you could try to make a point, but why? Insults are all that matters.

p.s. you're still wrong, throw a tantrum

fuck_ai

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Why is that?

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That's corporate propaganda, don't fall for it. "We" would be more than happy to do agriculture, janitorial, construction, etc... but we need to be able to feed ourselves and our families on the income from "burger flipping".

You know, like we could do for generations.

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Greenwater Services will get the job done.

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Because the man owns and operates the corrupt company in question.

She is a gold digger, and that's her choice. She knows the deal she has made, we know the deal she has made, she knows that we know, what's the controversy?

Almost anyone can do the same thing, we just have different options. Even I could be a gold digger! Sadly, my gold mine would be one of those 800-pounders that needs me to make her meals and wipe her ass.

It ain't easy being sleazy