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IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
It's Labor Day and I'd love for unions all around the world to start pushing for universal basic income and all the additional bargaining power and strike power that UBI would provide to all workers, paid and unpaid alike.
The chart says union membership but unions have power collectively through the ability to withhold labor via strikes and the strike funds that make strikes possible. That's why whenever I look at this chart, I see the impact of the power to say no, and thus the promise of unconditional basic income.
Weird I'd have thought the Official Government Antisemitism Czar might have had something to say about the literal neonazis marching and attacking people yesterday. 🤔
It seems obvious to believe that welfare should be targeted to the poor, but the reality of targeting is paid targeters and how that means corruption and bribery. Universal basic income gets around this problem by reaching everyone directly. Then taxes can be used to subtract from high income folks.
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
What are YOU doing?
It's rare that I wish for someone's job to go away, but normalizing profit from illness & pain is a direct invitation to escalate to profiting from death in refusing care. Health insurance is a crime against humanity & an indictment of how far we've allowed commodification to go off the rails.
Exactly. Neoliberalism & conservatism, as ever, have been allowed to whittle away the budgets to the point where dissatisfaction can be exploited. Closing hospitals due to a lack of profitability, running on bare minimum staff, insufficient investment in diagnostic equipment, etc.
Your metric of "success" subsidizes tens of billions in profits for middleman racketeers. That's in PROFIT. That's not counting at least that much in redundant infrastructure & administrative costs. There's no barrier to comprehension, you're just objectively incorrect.
The instant corporations are involved, it's no longer about care, it's about profit. Any improvement in outcomes is a honeymoon period con job designed to undermine public healthcare, & sucker people into pushing for privatization. If we can afford to pay for war crimes, we can adequately fund M4A.
This is propaganda. I'm an American living in Canada & everything wrong with healthcare here is a result of conservative capitalism (budget cuts, etc.) There's no benefit in subsidizing the profit of parasitic institutions that couldn't be achieved with adequate government funding.
Add UBI to the list, since I doubt they're going to curtail A.I. enough to get ahead of job losses.
I'm going to go ahead & mute you, because there's no version of this where your choice of words wasn't tone deaf as fuck. Do better in the future.
She's literally a trans person. I think you know that her position, while deeply flawed, & incredibly problematic doesn't actually support this level of nuance-averse hyperbole, & she's not literally a Nazi. Continuing to double down is only making you appear wilfully obtuse, but you do you.
You should think your "passing comments" through more carefully. Telling trans people to off themselves because they have a bad take on something is not okay, even in "passing".
Call her out on her positions, by all means but in this context, you chose the least acceptable rhetoric imaginable.
I could just as easily ask if telling a trans person to kill themselves makes you akin to a Nazi. Answering a phenomenally bad take with another bad take is counterproductive. Failing to adequately denounce genocide sucks, vut suggesting a trans person kill themselves is the wrong rebuttal.
I'll be glad he's worm food, but fascism was the trajectory back when he was bankrupting casinos & it doesn't die with him. Capitalist neoliberalism to fascism is a self fulfilling feedback loop. I'll celebrate when Americans have an alternative to corrupt fascists & sellout shitlibs.
What did Biden taking up space for four years accomplish? Jack. Fuck. All. Fascism wasn't defeated, nor will it ever be by AIPAC pawns & corporate sellouts. You're trying to hide sepsis under a bandage instead of treating the infection, shitlib. Enjoy being muted.
If you're too dim to grasp that capitalist neoliberalism is fertilizer for fascism & you're caught in a feedback loop, then any assessment of my intellectual magnitude on your part has as much value as pocket change from a country that doesn't exist anymore.
A predictably vapid response. I've supported the mediocre lesser evil thus far, but when the "lesser evil" are funding genocide, throwing trans people under the bus, & buying off Youtube pundits with dark money to push propaganda & silence criticism, they're just evil & I'm not in a cult.
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
. People are told food, water, and power are unaffordable. That’s false. What costs a fortune? Corporate executives squeezing every dime for their profits. The rest is smoke and mirrors. .
It's because of their donors. The donors pressure them to shift further right or else they pull funding. They don't see politics as helping people, they see it as jingling keys long enough that they get to stay in power for another 4 years. It's a career to them, not a movement.
the full collapse of modern civilization would be preferable to nazi control of it
Most of the EU has found a better way. Bribery is illegal. Citizens United was bipartisan in practice. Neolibs and Neocons. What’s really depressing is half of you will read this and think, “Yeah, thanks to libtards” while the other half will think, “Thanks to MAGAts.” You deserve each other.
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
You libs keep falling for the same "vibes over substance" performative bullshit from AIPAC pawns & corporate stooges & you wonder why the actual Left doesn't co-sign to every shitty politician you put on a pedestal, or take their bullshit at face value. Muting you for being terminally gullible.
& also, you can drop the impotent scapegoat bullshit. We "have Trump" because the Democrats have been a corrupt, mediocre joke my entire lifetime, & blue cult clowns like you never hold them accountable, & blame everyone else when your corrupt sellout candidates can't coast on being "less worse".
Ah yes, the worn out "lesser evil" defense. Because that's been such a successful strategy so far. Being less worse than Nazis is literally burying your mediocre party. No, I'm not "equating" anything, & nobody's provided any evidence that these people are actually being treated humanely.
Wow. I've got huge issues with some of her recent commentary re:Palestine, but that's a pretty fucked up thing to say to someone from a social group with a high suicide rate. I usually reserve that kind of rhetoric for full-on Nazis, personally.
Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
I can’t find the lie in this.
Obviously not, but that doesn't mean the alternative is actually better. I'm going to need more than Gavin's talking points. He simply has no credibility.
Newsom is frequently full of shit, so I'm not taking this on his word. He needs to show his work. He might be good at mean tweets, but he's a corporate sellout & transphobe who platforms fascists on his podcast. I trust him as much as I would a poisonous snake.
No, I want credible evidence that these people aren't in prison, & that the infrastructure you're referring to actually EXISTS. Homelessness is a SYMPTOM of the policy failures of both parties, & nobody seems to be focusing on the actual catalysts.
Wow. You're kind of a transphobic piece of shit. We get it. You don't like White people.
Wow. This take is stupid as fuck.
When there are fascists literally trying to erase trans people, yes. Yes, the fuck it is. Queer people, along with opposition journalists & the disabled were rounded up in the early stages of the Holocaust & marched into ovens & gas chambers. Never again.
Housing in six years doesn't do shit for the people he's displacing now.
Yes, I've seen the prepared statements. Unfortunately, Newsom's track record of bullshit gives me zero confidence any of that is actually happening. I'm going to need more definitive evidence that these people are getting good outcomes.
The only war for Liberty they'd ever fight would be to protect the fucking guns. 🫤
I always thought “Fighting a Tyrannical Government” was the wet dream for these 2nd Amendment guys? I was told that dead kids were the price we pay for a “Well Regulated Militia.” Ok. There are masked Secret Police in the streets. Where’s the “Good Guy with a Gun” we were promised?
Exactly. Harm reduction is a myth. The acceptable amount of evil is zero. The DNC needs to figure that out already, because if the "good guys" are betraying trans people & doing genocide, then I'm ready to just start sharpening guillotines.
No really, how is anything he's doing in regard to homelessness different than Trump? I'll wait....
Thanks. It's like watching the Patricians feign surprise as Rome burns. "But my brunch..."
So he's housing people....where, specifically now?
I didn't prove your point. I dismantled it.
Nobody is advocating for people living on the street. Get back to me when Newsom is giving out housing.
Gavin Newsom is not "on the left".
Oh, definitely. They're blowing money trying to figure out why they're hemorrhaging support because they don't like the answers they got for free via the success of candidates like Mamdani. They'd rather lose & elect fascists than back anyone left of sellout shitlib.
“He’s behind me, isn’t he?”
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They can't break the code. It's always someone else's fault. It's never the war crimes or adopting a right wing framing on half of everything, or the fact that they couldn't make a $15 hour minimum wage happen 15 years late.
Dems want to chase vibes, & reward empty rhetoric, & performative antics without ever having to have any consequences for supporting people who threw the trans community under a bus & funded genocide. You cannot defeat fascism this way. Quit worrying about your hurt feelings & evolve your strategy.
Electing lesser evils is like putting a bandage over sepsis. It barely hides the infection & does nothing to cure it. If you want to win, you need to be pushing these parrots & the party they serve out of the aisle, & demanding a stronger antidote in terms of policy.
Like, I get that you want to "win", but win what? A 4 year time out, while fascism continues to build momentum? That's all you're going to get without introspection & self critique on the part of the Dems. Refusing to hear criticism or learn from mistakes is literally self-defeating.
Instead of getting mad about all the wrong things & giving a pass on creators being mouthpieces for the ineffectual, deeply unpopular Democratic establishment, have you considered not continuing to alienate voters you clearly, desperately need & demonstrably can't win without?
Right, the guy being paid 8K in dark money monthly to glaze the establishment of a centre right party & parrot their propaganda without disclosing it is on the "same side" as the actual Left. 😂
If he is dying, I hope it hurts, and I hope he's scared.
Demonstrations can be important in building solidarity, & once something adjacent to opposition leadership emerges, certainly vast visible support will have potency. I know Democrats, though, & they're too quick to reward performative antics, & chase vibes, so that instinct needs to be curbed.
Blue State governors need to be recruiting defense militias, & taking control of the military infrastructure within their States, & preparing for the likelihood of conflict.
Fascism has never been defeated by peaceful protest. There are advantages & leverage previous resistance movements didn't have, though. Blue States are the economy, so Blue States need to be organizing outside the federal government & drawing up plans to at least threaten secession.
You probably have the rendition by Alex Ross, who is also a brilliant painter.
Trump is a symptom of our Democracy being dysfunctional. He's a biproduct, not the cause.
“It’s a case study in how labor, science, and regulation can still stitch together a community and economy.” (I wanted to post the preceding sentence as well b/c it’s beautiful, but consider that your incentive to RTFA)
The strategy that's working for him has not one single fucking thing to do with running as a Democrat, & I already explained why in great detail, so no. I'm good. No "reconciliation" required, & this wilfully simplistic shit has earned you a mute.
Abuses of power aren't "mistakes", & I've never done anything that boredered on war crimes or human rights violations, no. Muting you for abject vapidity. You are clearly a blue cult devotee & I don't have time to deprogram every propaganda addled shitlib who replies to me. Obama was mid. Cope.
The rejection, failure or regret rate is also evidently extremely low compared to dozens of other commonly practiced surgical procedures that don't face anywhere near the same kind of disproportionate scrutiny or debate.
In America we have city cops, different cops for your county, cops for the whole state, cops for soldiers, cops for malls, presidential cops, cops for the stock market, mail cops, federal cops, cops we secretly send to other countries. Even your neighbors get to pretend to be cops. We’re very safe
Wait! She's doing.......nope. Never mind. Definitely nothing.
Gee, already?
Nobody needs to be "influenced" that Trump sucks. Everyone who isn't in a cult already knows. People need a reason to believe Democrats can be an effective countermeasure, but the "lesser evil" schtick is hard when they support genocide & generally suck & are corporate/AIPAC sellouts.
Also, what "fight"? I see grandstanding, performative antics, & nothing of actual substance. Dems are way too caught up in chasing empty vibes & you don't hold them accountable for insufficient or destructive policy.
If you're turning to the people who paved the path that enabled fascism.... to defeat fascism, you're looking in the wrong place. The passage of time is irrelevant, & the influence of establishment Democrats is the last thing anyone needs. Hence the current abysmal approval rating of the party.
If Ashli Babbitt's parents really wanted to avenge her death they would, instead of pitifully whitewashing her legacy, be suing Fox News for filling their child's gullible head with dangerous nonsense that directly led to her death.
You couldn't "fight" your way out of a wet marshmallow. Mediocre shitlib neoliberalism isn't going to defeat fascism, you soulless AIPAC sellout.
Are Democrats going to stop blocking actual progressives? Because people were broke under Biden & Obama, too, & the party gave zero fucks.
That's great. Go fuck yourself bigot. This Jew would appreciate if you never spoke about antisemitism again. You're not qualified, and you get it wrong to the point of being antisemitic. In closing, take a flying fuck through a rolling donut, asshole. youtube.com/shorts/M8Vuz...
I just watched Adam Friedland expose your absolute lack of humanity. AIPAC got their money's worth out of you. What a fucking monster. You're no better than MAGA.
Coming to a capitalist dystopia near you.
I grew up in an Air Force family. My dad retired as a Lt. Col. It is infuriating to see Ashli Babbitt receive military funeral honors as the result of dying in an attempt to aid Trump's self-coup attempt. This is 1984-style revisionism. War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery. Insurrection is Patriotism.
Circumventing the party entirely seems a better overall strategy, since the only thing he's getting from them is a meaningless (D) in front of his name. He's winning on policy, & nobody outside of Blue MAGA believes in the party anymore.
Mandani is winning in spite of the party. They are in no way an asset & in every way represent an impediment.
He's a "Democrat" by name & necessity only, & the party wants nothing to do with him. These are key distinctions. The party itself, overall is still very much trash, & is in no danger of being pushed to the Left. It's actively been resisting any & all efforts to compell evolution.
Gavin Newsom appeals to people who think liking coffee is a personality trait.
Why can't Farage do the right thing for once & find a nice fire to die in? 🤦♂️
I'm not sure how you think we're making the same point. Mamdani is an outlier & the Dems want nothing to do with him, because they're a party of corpo stooges & AIPAC servants. Mamdani's LEFTISM is the crucial element, not the pretense to being a Democrat.
Remind me again which party funded a rapist in order to defeat him. 🤷♂️
"Democrat" except the entire party power structure has done everything it can to subvert his success, & learn nothing from it, while spending millions to figure out why they're losing, because they don't like the answers they're getting for free. But I'll support Leftists with Dem camouflage, sure.
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Texas Paul is a well meaning, out of touch goober. 🙄 You are undermining your own limited credibility by continuing to cite him as a source of insight. If you want Leftists to not vote, keep doing what you're doing. 🤦♂️ Muting you for my own mental health.
So they ARE useless. Thanks for catching up. & you think you can beat fascism with midterms? LOL Tell us the system is broken beyond salvage with too many words. 🤦♂️
The party approval rating is self explanatory. Instead of glazing wannabes 3 years ahead of time, you should focus on demanding stronger contenders who aren't willing to fund genocide, or betray marginalized communities, if you're actually worried about alienating voters.
I'm not interested in buying a 4 year illusion of normalcy, only for the fascists to capitalize on another term of stagnant, ineffective policy, while Dems line their pockets with AIPAC money.
No thanks. And no, actually, this mindless blue cult bullshit & willingness to support transphobes & Zionists in order to "win" is what's making people discouraged. This isn't celebrity worship, it's about POLICY. I give zero fucks about what colour their tie is.
Fascism isn't going to be defeated by corporate Democrats. You're trying to put a dirty bandage over sepsis. You aren't curing anything that way. The DNC doesn't care about "Democracy" only about maintaining their wealth & power. If you're looking to the establishment, you've already lost.
Exactly. Massaging optics & pretending they aren't inept is literally moving the needle in the wrong direction.