Wes4Humanity

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

No no no... Gaza can take out a loan with insane terms from the IMF just like every other slave country. /s

[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I hope some group starts tracking every bill against p2025, so that any time they try to squeeze anything in it into a bill everyone knows and we can make it impossible to pass. We also need to know if any Dems ever allow any of it to pass... Basically it should become the anti-Bible for the left... If it's in there, it's never going to be allowed to happen

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That's exactly what they want you to think! Muahhahah

Seriously though... It's not REALLY the US that's doing these things... It's the global oligarchy... They just use American soldiers because we were the only ones left with any after WW2 and it stuck. The oligarchy has no allegiance to any country or people and would absolutely bomb the shit out of America if it profited them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The type of people who seek power probably won't change generation to generation... But the voters are changing rapidly as boomers die and millennials/zoomers replace them (far more progressive overall)... The voters will force the change, not the small percent that seek their own glory (ie the list you have there)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The boomers grew up in the "Golden age"... Gen x is the boomers first round of kids... Born from hippy free love and mistakes... Then the boomers grew up, got divorced, and started their millennial "real" families... Gen x caught the shit end of the boomer stick for sure, and it fucked them up as a generation... That and the fact that they caught a lot of the boomers pig headedness, probably because they had far less access to information than millennials.

Luckily they're a small and mostly insignificant generation that won't ever be able to prop up the old oligarchy parties the way the boomers have been able to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah... I guess it's more like, millennials were the first generation to have a majority get it, and Gen z is even better about getting it... But it's still not 100%

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Should make it so you can just throw it in any no-sort recycling bin... Then collect them from the recycling center. No need for a whole new bin system.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

This is the standard view of the majority under 50

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Gen z understands that the rich are the cause of their poverty, not immigrants or libs or other poor people. That's a big step in directing action in the right direction.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They also keep everyone poor and stressed so we don't have time or energy to think about anything else... Let alone something as nuanced and important as politics/democracy

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (4 children)

And vote blue to the bottom of the ticket! Let's take the whole government and then push them hard to fix this broken system!

 

This idea has been kicking around in my head for a while, and I'm hoping some Lemmy geniuses can poke holes/ flesh it out with me.

Every person I've ever heard of works for and gets paid by some form of company. So instead of the company paying the workers and then those workers getting taxed, why not just tax it all to the corporations to begin with? Instead of hundreds of millions of individuals to think about, the IRS (in US) could just focus on a few million companies.

We the people democratically decide what we think is needed for a functioning society, and charge it to the corporations.

I'd say each company should be responsible for paying the same percentage of the bill as percentage of total "profits" they made. Like, if Apple makes 10% of all the combined profits of all the companies this quarter, they are responsible for paying 10% of the bill. Highest paid employee can make 10x what the lowest paid employee (including contracted and foreign workers) makes; more than that gets included in the calculation as part of the company's "profits". (So that CEO can still get paid absurd amounts of money, but the company will still pay taxes on most of it)

What if we created some sort of secure opinion/voting app where people go to cast their vote on whatever people think needs to be voted on. Should there be UBI? Should it be a token, living, or thriving wage? (Personally, I'd go with thriving and tie it to inflation) Single payer healthcare? All education paid for? Stop funding genocide? No more polluting the planet, or at least force companies to pay to clean up their own messes? When and where are companies allowed to market to us? Where should the threshold of agreement be to enact changes, 40% 50%+1 60%? Etc etc

Then we elect people who agree to simply enact what the people democratically agree on... And if the people don't agree, they'll stay away from it or leave it to the states. And hopefully someday we could build it out so that state and local governments work this way too.

I think we get bogged down on the 2 or 3 things we disagree on and allow that to mean we never get the things we DO agree on. Let's get the things we agree on first, and then continue debating the things we disagree on.

Also I think this would be a long term plan. 12 years would give us 2 full election cycles here in the US and would give zoomers time to grow up, settle, and start to really vote (hopefully with this new system).

Anyway, like I said, let's poke holes and figure out solutions. Thanks

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