Did you know that despite their pleas of being pro-2nd amendment gun control laws have been passed specifically to disarm black people specifically passed by Republicans?
A great way to get Republicans to turn on guns is have heavily armed black men just walk through suburbs/exurbs that went for Trump in 2016. Make it a regular thing.
Did you know that despite their pleas of being pro-2nd amendment gun control laws have been passed specifically to disarm black people specifically passed by Republicans?
A great way to get Republicans to turn on guns is have heavily armed black men just walk through suburbs/exurbs that went for Trump in 2016. Make it a regular thing.
That's rotten. To be fair though, the Mulford Act dates back to the 60's and Democrats were passing racist laws during that era as well.
Dubya refused to say if he had done cocaine or not. Obama admits he used to do cocaine. I refuse to believe Trump went through the yuppie 80s without doing cocaine at some point. Yet we destroy peoples lives for catching them with the stuff. Its ridiculous.
National Guard called into Portland amid ‘widespread violence’ after election
The Oregon National Guard was called into the city of Portland after protests in the city turned violent Wednesday night, police said.
Local authorities declared a riot after groups of demonstrators destroyed property in the downtown section of the city, which the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office described as “widespread violence.”
“In the interest of public safety, Governor Kate Brown, under the advice of the Unified Command, has activated the use of the Oregon National Guard to assist local law enforcement,” the agency said in a tweet.
*YAWN* its Portland. There is constant violence there. Did you know that Portland is still a fully functioning city even with the 2-3 blocks that have protests daily?
Oh shit look its an Antifa riot taking over America!................actually no its Poland and they have been protesting for days due the courts taking away the right for an abortion in almost all circumstances. No doubt the Alex Jones types are twisting this into "Antifa" cuz why not
I am curious if Trump is going to leave office or try and tear the whole country apart. I'm concerned some whack job is gonna try and shoot Biden or something. I hope Harris and Biden stay far away for a while.
But a guy who can't even speak is? Hmmm.. Interesting.
He did OK during the debates but yeah he is getting old. I'm a Sanders supporter and he seems a lot more with it then Biden for his age. They viewed Sanders as too extreme, funny since all Sanders supports is basically the same policies they have in Europe and Canada. Thats America for you.
But a guy who can't even speak is? Hmmm.. Interesting.
He did OK during the debates but yeah he is getting old. I'm a Sanders supporter and he seems a lot more with it then Biden for his age. They viewed Sanders as too extreme, funny since all Sanders supports is basically the same policies they have in Europe and Canada. Thats America for you.
Remember, the Democrats were ree'ing as loud (in 2016) as Trump supporters are now and claiming voter fraud for at least three of the past four years, actually spending $10's of millions of taxpayer money investigating Russia collusion. Please, don't try & sell us that Dems suddenly believe the system works.
Biden is a 78 yo, senile & easily controlled old man, with one foot in the grave. Seems highly implausible that voters would've chosen somebody who's on death's doorstep over younger, mentally capable candidates. That's why it should be called "selection," rather than election. lol. It's a selection process, with actual nomination carried out by corrupt elites behind closed doors, under the guise of an election. Voters didn't pick Biden. Biden was chosen, by the establish, as your only option.
imo, the Matrix movie is classic because it's loosely based on our political and socioeconomic system. i.e. the system and our "choice" within the system are illusions, engineered illusions, to get us to willingly accept unfavorable parameters the elite set for us.
Sanders never stood a chance in hell of winning the nomination because he was never the establishment's darling candidate. Reason being, Sanders and Biden are not alike. Sanders has integrity and won't sell us out to the enemies of the American people (the CCP and corporate America). Sanders is of sound mind, not senile, and an independent thinker. Sanders is a true progressive who would bring legit healthcare reform and probably keep us out of wars. Biden is an establishment candidate who would double-down on an Obamacare-like healthcare that forces people to buy insurance (a gift to the for-profit insurance companies), reignite America's "adventures" in the middle-east, and resurrect Obama's TPP (trade pact favorable to China, exporting more American jobs).
Why Capitalism Was Destined to Come Out on Top in the 2020 Election
BY RICHARD D. WOLFF
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair
No matter who “won” the U.S. election, what will not change is the capitalist organization of the country’s economy.
The great majority of enterprises will continue to be owned and operated by a small minority of Americans. They will continue to use their positions atop the capitalist system to expand their wealth, “economize their labor costs,” and thereby deepen the United States’ inequalities of wealth and income.
The employer class will continue to use its wealth to buy, control, and shape the nation’s politics to prevent the employee class from challenging their ownership and operation of the economic system. Indeed, for a very long time, they have made sure that (1) only two political parties dominate the government and (2) both enthusiastically commit to preserving and supporting the capitalist system. For capitalism, the question of which party wins matters only to how capitalism will be supported, not whether that support will be a top governmental priority.
No matter who won, the private sector and the government will continue their shared failure to overcome capitalism’s socially destructive instability. Economic crashes (“downturns,” “busts,” “recessions,” and “depressions”) will continue to occur on average every four to seven years, disrupting our economy and society. Already in this young century, we have endured, across Republicans and Democrats, three crashes (2000, 2008, and 2020) in 20 years: true to the historic average. Nothing capitalism tried in the past ever stopped or overcame its instability. Nothing either party now proposes offers the slightest chance of doing that in the future.
No matter who won, the historic undoing of the New Deal after 1945 will continue. The GOP and Democrats will both keep reversing the 1930s’ reduction of U.S. wealth and income inequalities (forced from below by the Congress of Industrial Organizations [CIO], socialists, and communists). As usual, the GOP reverses these gains for Americans further and faster than Democrats, but both parties have condoned and managed the upward redistribution of wealth and income since 1945.
The GOP will likely celebrate explicitly the wealthy they serve so slavishly. The Democrats will likely moan occasionally about inequality while serving the wealthy quietly or implicitly. The GOP will “economize on government costs” by cutting social programs for average people and the poor. The Democrats will expand those programs while carefully avoiding any questioning, let alone challenging, of capitalism.
No matter who won, what U.S. politics lacks is real choice. Both major parties function as cheerleaders for capitalism under all circumstances, even when a killer pandemic coincides with a major capitalist crash. Real political choice would require a party that criticizes capitalism and offers a path toward social transition beyond capitalism. Countless polls prove that millions of U.S. citizens want to consider socialist criticisms of capitalism and socialist alternatives to it. The mass of voters for Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and other socialists provided yet more evidence. However, the system allowed and enabled a near-fascistic right wing to take over the GOP and the presidency. At the same time, it aided and abetted the Democrats in excluding a socialist from even running for that presidency. Trump and Biden are long-standing, well-known cheerleaders for capitalism. Sanders was, in contrast, a critic.
A new political party that offered systemic criticisms of capitalism and advocated for a transition to a worker-coop based economic system would bring real choice into U.S. politics. It would place before the electorate a basic question of vital importance: what mix of capitalist and worker-coop organized enterprises do you wish to work for, buy from, and live with in the United States? Voters could thereby genuinely participate in deciding the range of job descriptions from which each of us will become able to choose. Will we mostly have to accept positions as employees whose jobs are designed exclusively by and for employers? Or will all job descriptions include at least two basic tasks: a specific function within an enterprise’s division of labor plus an equal share (alongside all other enterprise workers) of the powers to design and direct the enterprise as a whole?
Any community that wishes to call itself a “democracy” for more than rhetorical, self-promotional reasons should welcome a one-person, one-vote decision-making process governing how work is organized.
Most adults spend most of their lives at work. How that work is organized shapes how their lives are lived and what skills, aptitudes, appetites, and relationships they develop. Their work influences their other social roles as friends, lovers, spouses, and parents. In capitalism, the work experience of the vast majority (employees) is shaped and controlled by a small minority (employers) to secure the latter’s profit, wealth accumulation, and reproduction as the socially dominant minority. In a real democracy, the economy would have to be democratically reorganized. Workplace decisions would be made on the basis of one person, one vote inside each enterprise. Parallel, similarly democratic decision-making would govern residential communities surrounding and interacting with workplaces. Workplace and residential democracies would have significant influences over one another’s decisions. In short, genuine economic democracy would be the necessary partner to political democracy.
Many “capitalist” societies today include significant sites of enterprises organized as worker cooperatives. What they need but lack are allied political parties to secure the legislation, legal precedents, and administrative decisions to protect worker coops and facilitate their growth. Early capitalist enterprises and enclaves within feudalism likewise had to find or build political parties for the same reasons. Anti-feudal and pro-capitalist parties contested with feudal lords and their monarchs first to protect capitalist enterprises’ existence and then to facilitate their growth. Eventually, pro-capitalist parties undertook revolutions to displace feudalism and monarchies in favor of parliaments in which those capitalist parties could and did dominate.
Today, pro-capitalist parties publicly deny but privately fear that their political dominance is threatened. Mass disaffection from capitalism is growing. One reason is the relocation of capitalism’s growth from its old centers (Western Europe, North America, and Japan) to new centers (China, India, and Brazil). Globalization—the polite but confused term for that relocation—generates economic declines in the old centers that destabilize communities unable to admit let alone prepare for them. There, vanishing job opportunities, incomes, and social services provoke increasing questions and challenges confronting capitalism. These are now leading to broad and growing disaffection from the capitalist system. Polls and other signs of that disaffection abound. In the United States, on the one hand, the Republican Party lurched to the right. Trump-type quasi-fascism wants to impose a nationalist turn to “save” U.S. capitalism. On the other hand, the old, pro-capitalist establishment running the Democratic Party blocked Bernie Sanders and other socialists from any real power or voice. Saving capitalism was and also remains that establishment’s goal.
Capitalism eventually defeated and displaced feudalism by combining micro-level construction and expansion of capitalist enterprises with macro-focused political parties finding ways to protect those enterprises and facilitate their growth. Capitalists’ profits funded their parties’ activities. Socialism will defeat and displace capitalism by a parallel combination of expanding worker coops and a political party using government to protect them and facilitate their growth. The worker coops’ net revenues will finance their parties’ activities.
The emergence of politically significant socialist parties is well underway in the United States. Besides the small remainders of past socialist parties, Occupy Wall Street, the recent growth and prominence of the Democratic Socialists of America, the two Sanders campaigns, and the rise of other socialist politicians such as Ocasio-Cortez are all signs of socialist renewal. But those signs also reveal a huge remaining problem: disorganization on the left. The social movements, labor unions, and the new socialist initiatives need to coalesce into a broad, new socialist party. If that party could also become the political voice of a growing worker-coop sector of the economy, many key conditions for a transition beyond capitalism will have been achieved.
imo, a key point they often miss in these anti-Capitalist pieces is that Capitalism (as an economic system, not form of govt, of course) only works when the "little guy" is allowed to compete (because small business are the ones who drive the most innovation, as well as employ the most workers). I'm sure that big corporations loved the lockdowns, because it forced small businesses to shut down, causing them to go bankrupt, and leaving less competition. Granted, maybe that was part of the plan from the start.
But a guy who can't even speak is? Hmmm.. Interesting.
Well, at least he's not completely fucking insane like the current guy is. That must be worth something, no?
imo, "completely fucking insane" should be reserved for genocidal maniacs, like Stalin, Hitler, and Mao.
Ok, he's "insane" as in an egomaniac who constantly exchanged barbs (verbal attacks) with anybody who didn't like him. But actually not another Hitler, contrary to some claims from the left. Looking past the media spin and the rage they induce in their audiences, looking purely at the record.. Trump ran his presidency like a CEO, not a genocidal warlord. lol Actually, he kept us out of new wars and brokered several peace treaties in the middle-east. Truthfully, you'd have to go back in time about four decades, to Jimmy Carter, to find a U.S. president who's brokered so many peace treaties.
EU leaders & establishment hate Trump because, besides hating his brash & egotistical personality, he was stickler on trade dealings and insisted that NATO allies fulfill their monetary contributions (contribution amounts they had already officially agreed to under prior administrations.. but weren't paying).
Dunno if you guys have read up on QAnon much. Started out as an ARG on 4chan and exploded. Sadly it looks like it might have a bodycount. Might be a BS story but tons of people had relatives go nuts from too much QAnon stuff
It has been for a long time. Steve Bannon was Trump's chief strategist. He has been connected to the Alt-Right since the beginning, spent time in Europe trying to unite fascist groups, got arrested for running a giant GoFundMe "Build the Wall" scam, and is now calling for the beheading of people who are willing to stand up to Trump: