PowerCrazy

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[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Eh. She dismisses the role of capitalism, which was a huge part of the rise and fall of the "british empire" and is literally the reason America exists as the evil empire it is. Also I'm not sure why the comparison matters? A find and replace could change America to Roman, or British to Egyptian and it would be basically the same shallow article.

I award the Author zero points for knowledge, insightfulness, or being novel.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He has exactly the same capability of abolishing the NYPD as you do. You are welcome to go and start "abolishing" individual NYPD members. But I don't think you'll have much success. What Mamdani can do, and I hope will do, is improve material conditions for enough new yorkers, that various city-council members will be replaced with workers that can actually start defunding the NYPD and reforming what policing is in NYC.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (13 children)

How about abolish the police?

He literally cannot do that.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (19 children)

He doesn't really have another option right now. I'm not aware of an NYC red guard that could whole-sale replace the NYPD, the Mayor also can't unilaterally fire and replace the NYPD. So what should he do?

I'd rather him work on his social agenda.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Delta8 is shit quasi-leagal substances that aren't the same as actual Cannabis. It's stuff that should "probably" be illegal, but that isn't why it was included in this bill. It's a just a backdoor ban for legal weed.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 days ago

Most people already know. Now what?

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 days ago

Are you under the impression that the US Government and electoral system represents its citizens?

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Primaries are controlled by a private corporation that can literally so anything they want. The two party system freezes out anyone else unless they are acceptable to one of the two private corporations that control the "D" and "R" ballot.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

If they didn't already know and internalize it after Obama, they will certainly forget by 2026.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Perhaps the time has come for adventurism.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

It’s important to realize that many of these people are free masons and they vote as a block.

So when you see the retiring Democrats agreeing to fuck over the poor, and the remaining Democrats not, and wonder how it could happen, the answer is likely that the orders come from the Masonic Lodge.

If a senator ranks at a certain level, and is outranked by other Masons, and the Masons make a decision, that senator is going to do as the Masons say because their wealth, power, and position come from the Masons and the Masons keep tabs on their families, supposedly to help them out if things are needed, such as when a Mason passes.

See something in politics that makes absolutely no sense? The answer is almost always Free Masons.

The idea that politicians are completely democratically elected is questionable. I would bet Gavin Newsom is a free mason and has already essentially been selected President, unfortunately, and will be pushed on the public through a combination of campaign donations and media coverage, ensuring that other candidates who could be better are eclipsed.

The problem now is that the clear desires of regular folks who vote for either Democrats or Republicans are not aligning with what is best for Masons… which is how you get bizarre outcomes like this in which politicians make decisions that the entire country hates and you would expect the Democrats to stick it to the Republicans but instead they are just rolling over for no apparent reason.

Then again, the Masons previously gave America a choice, a black women who would be fair to the lower and middle classes, or some rich guy who would take away programs from poor white America (and everyone), and white America voted to choose racism. Perhaps we all deserve this?

This is amazing 1800's conspiracy shit here. A deep cut. I prefer to blame the Knights of Templar myself, as the foundation of the banking system is more germane to our current issues, but really it's just another aspect of the crab-bucket mentality that Capitalism instills in us all.

 

The idea of "student loan forgiveness for entrepreneurs" is something I noticed 10 years ago during Hillary Clinton's uninspired campaign for president, even before Trump entered the arena as a serious candidate.

Looking at a few search-engine hits filtered for only 2015, and I see the following article. There are a few other derivative articles with same idea.

https://www.nbcnews.com/better/careers/helping-millennial-entrepreneurs-conquer-student-loan-debt-n408636

But basically the idea of this group of young "entrepreneurs" who were saddled by student loans deserved special government attention. Especially from the Clinton campaign.

Kind of weird, but they had a campaign full of weird shit, like Russian Drone submarines, or a no-fly zone over Syria, or the declaration that universal health-care "will never ever happen."

But then 4 years later after Clinton was humiliated, we have her heir-apparent Kamala Harris talking about the same oddly specific policy: "According to her plan, Harris intends to give student loan debt forgiveness to Pell grant recipients who successfully open businesses in underserved communities and operate those businesses for three years."

https://psmag.com/news/kamala-harris-student-debt-forgiveness-plan-part-of-proposal-to-support-black-entrepreneurs/

And now it's 4 years later, and we have a very old representative of New York City, Nydia Velázquez introducing the same policy!

https://democrats-smallbusiness.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4769

Who the fuck is pushing this policy? Who is it for? Why are Democratic Politicians so fixated on this fucking worthless extremely narrowly targeted policy? It's been 10 years, and this policy keeps coming back almost as a slogan. Why?!

 

Garbage Island full of garbage people thinks cars prevent sexual assaults.

 

A pretty standard pro-environmental piece, however I do appreciate how it calls out the "German Green Party," which is obviously just an astro-turfed political party funded by the coal industry.

And of course the criticism of about the farce of Carbon Capture is spot-on.

 

A growing number of Senate Democrats appear open to making it harder for migrants to seek asylum in order to secure Republican support for aiding Ukraine and Israel.

This is what the democrats stand for. Unlimited funding for the MIC and border-control, but social issues are not a priority.

Stop voting for the parties of Capital.

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