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[-] lanolinoil@lemmy.world 54 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

end citizens united -- corporations aren't people

end lobbying so shell oil doesn't have 10000000X time and money to affect the government as a person does.

Quit assigning good/bad labels to companies that operate within the law and furious pursue laws that make us more equal, richer and safer overall

???

profit

[-] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 13 points 5 months ago

Yeah, but how are you going to realistically do that?

I'd love to know. Because I hate citizens united. But what do you propose people do about this?

[-] lanolinoil@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

I don't know -- It feels like we should be able to use the internet to make grass roots new and hard to corrupt political movements but I don't see that happening at all.

There's also the 250 year empire rule which we're at now against stability with the current system.

I honestly have no answer other than a "vote or die" but we all know that doesn't work.

[-] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 8 points 5 months ago

The answer is you vote or we lose democracy. That's the simple end-all be-all answer here.

Biden might not be what every single leftist wants, but I guaranfuckingtee that it won't just be illegal aliens in his camps. It will be you as well.

I personally don't want to live in Gilead. I don't want to fight in a civil war. I'd rather much prefer we vote in Biden, let the Silent/Boomers die off, so we can fix this shit.

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

I can almost smell the Gen X coming off your grim resignation to boomer die off as a new beginning. We've waited impotently for so long.

[-] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 2 points 5 months ago

Hah, I'm actually a millennial, but it's happening to the tune of 5,500 boomers a day. Even more for the silent gen.

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

I know its someone's grandma or granpa but 924,000 is an exciting number.

[-] lanolinoil@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

yeah but that just kicks the can down the road, not that I disagree or anything. I don't know of any real solution.

The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.

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[-] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 4 points 5 months ago

Okay so what's your option then?

Because sitting out wont do anything, and acting like nothing is happening for people is also not doing any good.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 months ago

ending capitalism. they won't let us otherwise.

[-] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 1 points 5 months ago

I said realistically. That's not realistic at all. It'd be great to have a post scarcity economy. I'd love it. But that's not realistic.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

african countries are doing this right now. we have a consistent method already.

all you need is actually wanting it. doing nothing is not gonna fix anything.

[-] variants@possumpat.io 1 points 5 months ago

Something Something profits!

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