• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    I remember when FOX News first highlighted the talking points of the Green New Deal. They listed the agenda plainly:

    • Medicare for all
    • Housing as a human right
    • A federal jobs guarantee
    • Gun control / Assault Weapons ban
    • Criminal justice reform / End private prisons
    • Immigration justice / Abolish ICE
    • Solidarity with Puerto Rico
    • Mobilizing against climate change
    • Clean campaign finance
    • Higher education for all
    • Women’s rights (this was before the SCOTUS Dobbs ruling)
    • Support LGBT+
    • Support seniors
    • Curb Wall Street gambling / Restore Glass–Steagall

    Hannity was playing it for terror, and I was struggling to understand how his audience was so conditioned as to finding the agenda terrible. I still don’t get it.

    • 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world
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      One of the biggest problems I have is if you make ANY headway, they go home, flick on fox news, and are immediately re-programmed. You can convince them that there’s no ethical way to make hundreds of billions of dollars, and the next time you see them, they’re asking you why you have a problem with a guy renting an entire city for his wedding.

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      Even the things they acknowledge might be good, the argument is always “BuT wHo’S gOiNg To PaY fOr It!??1”

      Um, Bezos. Musk. Gates. Buffett. Not us. It’s right there in the plan.

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        You, You are going to pay for it, but it’s alright, because you’re already paying for it. Problem is that you’re currently paying an inflated price for a sub-par product, because too many people want a piece of the cake. However, if those people stopped sticking their dirty fingers in your cake, and the government started to manage the cake properly, while telling the cake touchers to go fuck themselves or face prison, everyone would get a much better product.

        To make my point more clear. If the capitalists would face any sort of punishment for trying to fleece the government, and if the government stopped encouraging it, people could get plenty of socialist policies for the money they’re CURRENTLY paying in taxes. The american system is so incredibly flawed, that you’re paying a lot more, than you’re getting, because the free market is more important than human lives and human decency.