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Easy to win, etc etc

5 minutes ago, run32.dll said:

My more reasonable and practical plan I could settle with:

• Medicare for All
• Free college education for all
• Raise social security to a living income
• Seize pharmaceutical companies, make the employees that actually research and develop medicine employees of the new socialized pharmaceutical administration. Imprison the c-suites of the pharmaceutical companies and anyone with 1% or more shares for life.
• Make C Corporations illegal
• Make it illegal for anyone who is not a current or former employee of a business to have ownership in it but only current employees have voting shares
• Make credit cards and payday lending illegal. Imprison the c-suites of these companies and anyone with 1% or more shares for life.
• Seize all vacation homes, rental properties, and investment properties and distribute them among the poor who have never owned homes at prices they can reasonably afford with 0% interest loans. Turn former apartments into public housing for the poor that will cost no one more than 1/5 of their monthly income.
• Seize hotels as needed in urban areas to be converted into full service centers for the homeless that will include on site mental healthcare, rehabilitation, and vocational training.
• Pull the military out of every foreign country, scale back the military by 75%
• Ban defense contracting
• Legalize all drugs, release all drug offenders that don't also have a violent charge from prison
• Abolish private prisons and seize private prisons as public prisons
• Put private prison owners, c-suite and controlling interest shareholders of defense contractors, c-suite of every Fortune 500 company, and anyone with more 1% or more shares in a Fortune 500 company in those formerly private prisons for life
• Abolish ICE, investigate current and former staff, and imprison them for terms ranging from 1 year to life depending on the severity of their human rights offenses
• Abolish the CIA and DHS, imprison everyone down to interns for life
• Send every cop who has shot an unarmed person to prison for life
• Make all street cops have to have a social worker with them in their car or walking a beat with them
• Make all officer involved shootings an automatic 3 month paid suspension from duty. Upon return they cannot work in a capacity that requires carrying a gun for another 9 months. If upon investigation it is determined they were not either at risk for their life or saving others whose lives were at risk they will be charged with murder
• Institute a 100% tax on all revenue above $500k/yr for any business whose employees are not unionized unless the business is employee owned
• Institute a maximum wealth increase per year of $250k/yr per individual. All wealth increase beyond that is taxed at 100%
• Cap political donations at the equivalent of one week's earnings for the national median income
• Make NASA great again
• Literally bury the Koch brothers and the Mercers alive in human shit
• Have Jeff Bezos publicly beaten to death with bottles full of piss
• Publicly lodge a Tesla up Elon Musk's ass and launch him into space
• All toilets will be exclusively cleaned by nerds that send people death threats on social media

Stop. I can only get so erect

4 hours ago, Chris- said:

• Implement a negative income tax; reduce other welfare spending as a result
• Increase the federal minimum wage to $12 and tie it to inflation
• Merge Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and ACA spending into one entity and allow public enrollment (private insurance can stick around for those who want it)
• Tax capital gains and dividends as income
• Institute an estate tax for estates over $2 million dollars
• Implement universal baby bonds, which fully vest at age 18 and can be used for any purpose; the amount per individual is based on their family AGI at time of birth
• A marginal tax rate of 45% for incomes over $1 million
• Institute a carbon tax
• Lower the corporate tax rate to 20%
• Legalize and regulate marijuana
• Legalize and regulate prostiution
• Declare sexual orientation as a fully protected class
• Ban all semi-automatic weapons and high capacity magazines
• Destroy Carthage

Lol dropping the corporate rate 1 percentage point makes the list?

4 hours ago, Ricofoley said:

Read yesterday that in terms of acreage burned, this year's wildfire season in the west is 25% ahead of where last year's was

And yet here in LA, people are still letting fireworks off.

2 hours ago, Massdriver said:

So what? The earth was a lot warmer 2 billion years ago. Everything is fine. 

Not sure if srs 

>Implying that Earth is older than 6000 years old

1 hour ago, RedSoxFan9 said:

 

Where's my clapping emoji where I can say "primaries aren't the same thing as the general election"?

"why don't you idiots just shoot them? It's a get out of jail free card!"

Another thing millennials are killing smh

No puppet

2 hours ago, Chairslinger said:

I am trying to figure out the nicknames we can give Senators for selling out Roe.

 

I get a feeling Collins might be more susceptible to shame on this one, but Coathanger Connelly sounds better alliteratively.

 

Back Alley Murkowski is also a possibility, but I think we can do better.

Collins: Won't support SCOTUS pick hostile to abortion rights

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/01/politics/susan-collins-supreme-court/index.html

Sure why not

15 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

The confederacy is full of fatties. 

The Commonwealth and Texass doe.

It's sucks when it's hot and muggy to do much in the Southeast. Where it is a dry heat or west you have higher numbers of activity

45 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

Liberals in the US (including all of you) need to wise up to the fact that the rules don't matter any more. The only thing left that matters is winning elections...and even that might not matter soon enough.

I think most of us here are well aware. Not sure if the Chuck Schumer's of the world get it yet though.

5 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

I bet Tim tokes up a phatty when no one's looking.

I can't believe Tim "milquetoast" Kaine it's a sponsor

1 minute ago, SaysWho? said:

McCaskill and Tester voted no for Gorsuch.

 

The ones to sway are Manchin, Donnelly and Heitkamp.

The last two are the real ones that will be lost. I think manchin is safe enough based on polling but the other two are gonners

4 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

But we're atheists or agnostics!

And care about more than just the physical safety of our loved ones and communities, unlike the maga chuds

4 minutes ago, marioandsonic said:

Why stop there?

 

I bet a vague "no illegals" sign is kosher with our new regressive supreme Court

Just now, marioandsonic said:

When was I ever happy?

Children are happy. Because they don't know better

1 minute ago, marioandsonic said:

I'll still vote.  It's just that I have no reason anymore to feel hopeful about pretty much anything for the next 2-3 decades.

Even better: you just know that should any climate change laws be passed in that time frame, they're going to be fine unconstitutional as well. So you will never be happy again.

1 hour ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

Oh cool cops can do "enhanced interrogation" too.

They feared for their lives. 

2 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

They were denied a routine service based on who they were. If the state commission hadn't been so outwardly hostile to the bigot's religious beliefs, the case would have gone in favor of the couple. 

 

So, no, I disagree with your stance. 

Just wait until the case goes back to SCOTUS now. Be prepared for "no homos" signs. 

Every person who voted for Jill stein should kill themselves

1 hour ago, Signifyin(g)Monkey said:

From a marketing perspective, however, I don't think adopting the 'socialist' moniker helps the (American social democratic) Left, or any other group in American politics really.

 

By using the label of 'socialism', they allow their critics to invoke Mao, Stalin, Chavez and Venezuela, etc.  Basically the totalitarianism of the state-run command economy.

 

I think they would be better off selling their program as a more 'humane' form of capitalism, or--better yet--reclaim the term 'Free Market'.  After all, when Adam Smith and the classical economists talked about 'free markets' they meant markets free from the rentier class--markets in which prices would be brought in line with the actual cost of production, rather than artifically inflated by the parasitic, unproductive costs of interest on predatory lending, monopoly rent and land rent.

 

Since the right has largely become the defenders of the rentier class, and perverted the term 'Free Market' to mean a market free for rent extraction and stacked against labor and industry, the (American social democratic) left has room to bring the term back to its original sense and use it as a marketing tool.

Playing no true Scotsman on the  term "free market" doesn't seem like a winner to me. Especially when the prevailing definition of free market is what we have now, and it's a fucking wreck. You'd be fighting an uphill battle from the start.

Stealing@Jason but

And sorry but most third way Democrats are shit. Incremental change is fine, but things are getting to the point in the cost of healthcare, housing, education, the climate and more than incremental change just isn't going to cut it. I don't want a government full of DSA members but we need more of them that's for damn sure. Like our own version of the Canadian NDP