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lemonaz

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  • YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech

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  • Yeah, especially after he attacked the ADL for so long. Huge disappointment.

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  • IMO the Democratic Party is just an institution. It can be taken over the same way MAGA took over the GOP. I agree a multi-party system would be better, but that requires Ranked Choice Voting and I'm not sure if even regular voting is safe right now (although this is an opportunity to reform voting into popular vote + RCV, since it's clear the current voting system isn't enough to protect democracy). But I digress.

    With the current system you need progressives to primary the crap out of corpo Dems. Parties don't have ideologies, people do. Change the people and you change the party. (Incidentally, this is what Project 2025 is trying to do with the state: replace all the government workers who oppose them with Trump worshippers.)

  • Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you

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  • This sounds nice but in practice will backfire. You need the systems to be universal, so that everyone, including the richest, have a stake in wanting to see them improved. Otherwise you'll get a two tiered system where the public versions are trash because they're underfunded and the private versions (what the rich use) are great but also expensive af.

    You want things to work like insurance, where everyone pays in but only the people who need them use it. I want Musk to pay a fuckton into Social Security, not nothing at all because he doesn't use it. Even now there's a problem with Social Security in particular because, even though everyone has to pay it, it puts a cap/limit on how much you pay, so Musk currently ends up paying his share in the first day of the year, and his contribution amounts to the same as a teacher or something.

    Universal programs with progressive taxation, that's the way. Low taxes at the bottom, high taxes at the top.

  • Musk’s purges suddenly take a horrific turn—and wreck an ugly MAGA lie

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  • Many just straight up don't believe you when you tell or even show them. They think you're brainwashed so they don't take you seriously. They just believe Big Brother loves them and would never lie to them.

  • Musk’s purges suddenly take a horrific turn—and wreck an ugly MAGA lie

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  • Also, they won't be cheaper.

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  • "MAKE A DEAL MELONI, MAKE A DEAL"

  • Germany right now

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  • I'm stealing that analogy, thank you very much.

    I'd generalize it a bit to say, fascism is the immune system of any system built on bad principles that's collapsing under the weight of its own internal contradictions. The obvious decay then creates a space psychos and grifters to pose as faux saviors and gain power by scamming people into something they pretend is a solution but is actually a death cult.

  • Government oversight agency rules Elon Musk’s mass firings are illegal

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  • It is. That's why the corporate fascists are trying to demonize and dismantle it. There's a reason Musk started with the ones that were investigating his companies.

    Although keeping it in check will likely require the authorities to obey the findings of these agencies. They'll be getting conflicting orders from the MAGA admin. That's the constitutional crisis in a nutshell — if authorities side with MAGA, then it becomes a coup.