• John Richard
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      102 months ago

      Lol. Capitalism isn’t going away anytime soon. Democrats absolutely could have won if they actually stood for anything other than themselves.

      • @[email protected]
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        262 months ago

        Sure, but a big part of why they don’t do better is they want to continue the capitalist hellscape where a few people benefit from “owning” most everything.

        • John Richard
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          32 months ago

          Because that is the system people are subscribed to. You want big change & to take on capitalism you need a V for Vendetta. The system is built on capitalism. The best chance we’d prob have right now to take on capitalism is someone with a popular agenda that is good at acting, but once elected as President they basically say… Ha, now I’m immune & will use my platform to try to get rid of capitalism. They’d probably get assassinated real quick though. Or a complete collapse of the system.

          • @[email protected]
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            132 months ago

            Maybe. We can still try to work on multiple things at the same time.

            Demand more from the Democrats.

            Fight the right wing.

            Push for better systems.

            No one’s going to wave a magic wand and fix everything. though it would be funny to me if more billionaires were murdered , that’s not really likely or safe.

          • @[email protected]
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            It’s called building dual power, and many of us are actually doing things every day to further that goal.

            The best chance we’d prob have right now to take on capitalism is someone with a popular agenda that is good at acting, but once elected as President they basically say… Ha, now I’m immune & will use my platform to try to get rid of capitalism […] Or [cause] a complete collapse of the system.

            Is this sarcastic? Because that’s literally what we’re witnessing. We may have a chance at building a better world with better systems very soon.

            • John Richard
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              22 months ago

              Not if the same establishment Democrats get reelected then claim their hands are tied whenever Republicans try their usual antics.

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      11 month ago

      Money gets people elected.

      Many of the ultra wealthy are bought in on the idea of cyclical history where things go golden age, decadent age, disaster, GOTO 1

      So they fund the side that is most likely to wreck things, happy in the delusion that that must cause a golden age

      Then business prefers weak government and little regulation

      Then business wants more workers so they support whatever might get more babies born

      So less capitalism, more unchecked capitalism and high inequality, and propaganda directed at those in power and the fact that to win in a 2 party democracy you just need to appeal to the bulk of people