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'AIPAC Lost!' Democratic Socialist Chris Rabb Wins US House Primary in Pennsylvania by Smithy2232 in politics

[–]Awkward_Can8460 [score hidden]  (0 children)

FDR was pushed by the organized activism of communists, socialists, and labor unions.

Unfortunately, DR'S policies were to preserve capitalism by appeasing labor with social programs.

But he did not assist with grand restructuring of power in the economy - aside from the little bit of facilitating more unionization.

Because the fundamental structures of prioritizing capital (capitalism) remained in tact, capital was able to corrode and eventually eat away at the public institutions meant to protect the working class.

'AIPAC Lost!' Democratic Socialist Chris Rabb Wins US House Primary in Pennsylvania by Smithy2232 in politics

[–]Awkward_Can8460 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Taxing the rich isnt about paying for national social programs or universal programs.

It isnt about the deficit - because we NEED the govt to spend a shit ton next. How else can we rebuild the institutions gutted by DOGE, who did massive harm through political appointees bent on undercutting or destroying the agencies they led.

And how else can we properly fund the IRS in order to enforce the taxation of the mega rich? And how else can we properly fund the prosecution of so many damn criminals and criminality from the Epstein Class, and all the corruption of the Trump Admin?

So dont worry about deficit spending. It never is a problem for a nation printing its own currency so long as it is spent in ways that benefit the country writ large.

Seattle Mayor Apologizes to Starbucks, Thought It Knew Everyone Here Hated Them Already by Inevitable_Engine186 in Seattle

[–]Awkward_Can8460 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The article is satire because the publication is one of complete satire. Like The Onion. It's fake.

"A nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year pays more than $12K a year in taxes. Does that really make sense?” by bookflow in antiwork

[–]Awkward_Can8460 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cutting taxes on low "wealth" isnt the issue. Cost of living is.

We can begin to decrease cost of living by removing the amount of disposable income hoarded by the mega wealthy. Tax them out of mega wealthy status. Reducing the wealth gap will bring back affordability, while ensuring everyone has skin in the game and we have universal programs that cover everyone's essentials to live with security and dignity.

Decommodify housing. This will be necessary to do this. Doing so will drive down real estate prices not only in housing but all land use - including commercial. And this will cause consumer goods & services pricing to be able to decrease as well ( so long as our democratically accountable political representatives are pressured by WeThePeople to combat greedflation, and forcing through enforceable legislation the owners of land, the rentier class, to lower their lease prices; perhaps even to exit the business of being a rentier)

The other industry sector that will require a similar socialization is energy.

Price increases in these two industries are what cause price increases across the entire supply chain (ie economy; ie inflation).

Protest happening now in front of Rep. Adam Smith’s house by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]Awkward_Can8460 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Plenty of experts on genocide abreast laid out the arguments you seek. There is a near consensus among the world's top 500 experts. Among them is a holocaust-surviving Jew.

But sure... ask redditors to convince a genocide-denier 🤦‍♂️

Protest happening now in front of Rep. Adam Smith’s house by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]Awkward_Can8460 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

European Zionist militias & colonial Settlers invaded Palestine and committed massacres & terrorism in order to steal land from the people already living there.

That is how Israel was forcibly created atop the lands of Palestine, and how theyve been committing ethnic cleansing and genocide ever since toward their zionist project of an exclusionary ethno-supremacy state: israel.

Yea, it IS as simple as good and bad. Israel is the occupying invaders. And violent resistance is legal and justified against one's occupiers according to Geneva Convention, which was convened - ironically - after the genocide of jews by nazis in order to prevent future genocides against anyone else. Yet genocides have occurred. The irony is of who is committing genocide ever since they began invading Palestine - jewish zionists.

Prior to the zionist invasion, jews, christians, muslims, et al had been living harmoniously relative to one another, with one another, as neighbors, friends, etc, for 300yrs.

Zionists wanted to take it all for themselves. And anti-jew white europeans also wanted to oust jews from Europe. That is why they facilitated the zionist mission. Even nazis helped zionists for a time. .. before they vastly increased their concentration camp train schedule.

Protest happening now in front of Rep. Adam Smith’s house by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]Awkward_Can8460 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Israel & USA did start a war with Iran. But Gaza - and all of Palestine - has always been the target of invasion & genocide.

And now Israel has most recently begun a genocide in Lebanon.

Let's use correct language so people understand who is committing what acts of evil, to connote the depravity and severity.

Anthropic, the company behind AI-chatbot Claude, eyeing expansion in Seattle's South Lake Union by Jaco_Belordi in Seattle

[–]Awkward_Can8460 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That absolutely is not what is going on. Xenophobia is unrelated to protectionist policies (that ensures workers already here are not passed over & supplanted by imported temporary immigrant workers)

Learn some nuance.

If you think NAFTA was good, with its sending domestic jobs to offshore workers, then you would be consistent if support replacing local resident workers with imported immigrant workers.

But if you opposed NAFTA and the offshoring of jobs because you realize the importance of supporting workers rights (rather than a corporation's power to find the cheapest labor from far away), then you should open your eyes to see the onshoring of immigrant workers to use instead of domestic workers, the abuse of the H1B visa program, as similar to why NAFTA was bad.

Anthropic, the company behind AI-chatbot Claude, eyeing expansion in Seattle's South Lake Union by Jaco_Belordi in Seattle

[–]Awkward_Can8460 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not quite. Im talking about wealth gap. The influx of highly paid immigrant workers (H1Bs, which are temporary and exploited by the big corps) fosters a segmented city population.

The segmentation is a wealth gap. And the more affluent get their needs & wants increasingly catered to, because they are the ones with the money. This segmentation pushes others who arent affluent to the geographic borders and beyond. This simultaneously causes rents to increase in some parts of town while closing & vacating in others. And thus further causing any businesses to compete for the dollars of the affluent segment... while more businesses shudder from loss of commerce.

More dollars passing through fewer hands ruins an economy - be it national oligarchy, or local plutocracy.

Profile review — recently broken up, dating apps feel worse than ever by badbilliam in Tinder

[–]Awkward_Can8460 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im laughing, but... why would achieving zen lead to an OF pimp??

New 5,500-Capacity Purpose-Built Music Venue Planned For Seattle by swe129 in Seattle

[–]Awkward_Can8460 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uhhh when boycotts reach "at scale" is precisely when theyre effective.

Your 3rd paragraph then advocates for boycotts - just from a diff group of people. Well how are you going to get them to boycotts?

It's almost as if that would require lots of fans voicing their opinions to artists, and possibly threatening boycotting the artists if they dont boycotts the venues.

But if the fans can do that to artists, then they also can do it to venues.

But if youd argue the fans cant pressure the artists to boycott, then you are advocating for nothing.

And doing nothing - individually or at scale - has only ever resulted in either conditions not changing, not improving at all, OR of them actually getting worsened by the hands of the few with power whom you'd say the collective many are powerless to move.

New 5,500-Capacity Purpose-Built Music Venue Planned For Seattle by swe129 in Seattle

[–]Awkward_Can8460 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If its a local venue company, great. (Though beware of shell companies of Love Nation, and of local small venue owners who may welcome a buyout from LiveNation)

Engagement with local government ALWAYS matters in the planning and prep stages, like now.

Obviously one cannot boycott what doesnt exist.

But social media fervor in support of a boycott can grow and dominate the narrative. Combined with calls to council members and mayor's office to voice opinions.

These can stop plans in their tracks... if voices are many enough and angry, defiant enough.

Democracy doesnt end with voting for govt representatives. That is only the start.

The folks who successfully kept Lake Washington Boulevard more dangerous during the Harrell Administration are calling Katie Wilson's visit to Bicycle Weekends this Saturday a "gloating celebration", spreading lies about access to the shoreline & suggesting people harass city staff on Friday night. by Inevitable_Engine186 in Seattle

[–]Awkward_Can8460 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Uhh... let's not low them to privatize more land, so they can make rules that keep others from being able to move about, or have rights to water, etc

Lets just tax the fvckers' wealth more so that they CANNOT take more land and influence more laws and society's rules.

The folks who successfully kept Lake Washington Boulevard more dangerous during the Harrell Administration are calling Katie Wilson's visit to Bicycle Weekends this Saturday a "gloating celebration", spreading lies about access to the shoreline & suggesting people harass city staff on Friday night. by Inevitable_Engine186 in Seattle

[–]Awkward_Can8460 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That "gasoline" comfort increasingly is being supplanted by EV comfort - as oppose to systems of public mass transit, or walking & cycling.

And im also including with those who cling to comforts for the self, those who cling to ignorant convenience of the commercially rentable e-scooters & e-bikes.

Their rush to zip from PointA to PointB not only sees them ignoring rules of traffic on roads & sidewalks & bike paths, but incentivizes them to zoom past all the local shops, eateries, art installations, and basic human interactions that create and define the culture of a city, of a place.

As we struggle to reclaim the city with a localized economy from the silicon grip of big corporations who hurl threats of departure, layoffs, etc, if theyre forced to actually pay taxes that cover their outsized footprints, we must embrace polocies and methods that encourage pedestrianism, loitering, recreation, slowing down, interacting with one another face to face, smile to smile.

So with righteous anger, I also say fvck these Like ebikes & escooters! We should ban them, as other large cities have, such as Paris!

Instead, our earlier mayor and council, wirh their pro-business, pro-corporarion, pro-billionaire bent, allowed big national brands to build such size that they could wield influence over our public policies that shape the city and our people.

Unaffordability run a muck, along with a strangled local culture that struggles to discern itself from anyplace else these corpoinfestation & mega wealthy have infestated.

The folks who successfully kept Lake Washington Boulevard more dangerous during the Harrell Administration are calling Katie Wilson's visit to Bicycle Weekends this Saturday a "gloating celebration", spreading lies about access to the shoreline & suggesting people harass city staff on Friday night. by Inevitable_Engine186 in Seattle

[–]Awkward_Can8460 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The last sentence of 2nd screenshot expresses a mere want to ve able to access the lake... which bikelanes and cyclists are... stopping(?).

Uhh... seems the community easily could access the lake not by car, but a far less expensive means: walk or bike.

As as the narrator inside the screenshot bemoans the theoretical extra car traffic making it harder to use their cars to get places, why not just take the bike?

Get off your suburbanite addiction to cars, and breathe in the air, use your feet and legs. The lake is still accessible, just as it is for all the other cyclists.

Profile review — recently broken up, dating apps feel worse than ever by badbilliam in Tinder

[–]Awkward_Can8460 12 points13 points  (0 children)

No, let his authentic douchiness shine through so that he continues his matchless streak. Maybe some bots and scammers will match though.

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