I take it you’re ok with $200bn to another pointless war in the Middle East? Countless billions wasted? Politicians answer to the people in theory, but not practice.
mustlovehuskies
joined 1 day ago
The stats are on number of owners, not guns owned
Problem with that is it just transfers the money to the government, which is an own-goal for the people - look how it’s being used now, that’s how it’ll be used with any added tax. Trusting the government is just as foolish as trusting corporations or billionaires - and that goes for any government, honest people don’t become politicians. Going about it by way of tax just transfers power to the political system even more.
For the people to have any power the government needs to have reduced power. The best way to address billionaires is to address the system that creates them - by constraining capitalism enough to prevent monopolies and concentration of executive power in any one person or small group.
All corporations over 1,000 employees should be required to be employee owned co-ops with executive compensation approved by 70% employee vote.
Statistically not really. I’ve been part of liberal gun groups in the past and it was hard to get any traction. Many of the members were also extremely fuddy and mocked people for having “evil black rifles” rather than their preferred .38 cal revolver and 130 year old bolt action rifle.
If you go to a range and pick 10 random people to ask their politics the odds are that 9 or even all 10 will be either right of center or moderate (aka shy conservative really), the leftist gun owner is outnumbered like 25:1 by conservatives and probably 4:1 by right wing extremists.
Reddit hasn’t been an open place for intelligent discussion in ages, it’s slop to draw in the morons plus propaganda to control their ideology. No one with a brain takes a redditor seriously… So yeah, the remaining people/fleshbots can stay there.
Yeah that’s one of several reasons I host my own plex server, I control my content and don’t have ads shoved in anywhere. Jellyfin also a great option if I wasn’t sharing with friends who wouldn’t be able to use it remotely as easily.
The experience pirating is superior to the paid options now too, smoother and easier to navigate - none of this random series of categories with low budget crap I don’t want, but the algorithm thinks is the only thing I’m interested in so 1000 iterations of horror sci fi it is.
Cute, you still think that lobbyists don’t have the most control, along with other interest groups, which are all controlled by billionaires - who also shape public opinion of gullible people through the media.
Why was the big healthcare bill that was so “controversial” essentially a gift wrapped present to the health insurance companies? The only benefit of Obamacare for most people was the elimination of denials for pre-existing conditions. Lobbyists ensured that and billionaires even fought that via republicans. Both parties are bought and paid for by corporate America.
DNC panders to minorities and pretends to give a single shit about the poor (but nothing more than a pittance of concern) while lining their pockets with bribe money from corporations while RNC thinks we should be happy if we even have a job that pays us sustenance and should suck billionaires’ cocks for being so generous with us lesser than people by paying us $11.25/hr to do all the real work in their corporate slavery.
Government is the enemy. Corporations are the enemy. Billionaires are the enemy. The only ones that can be trusted are those close enough to you to have earned trust. The only real solution forward is to tear this shitty system down and begin anew without the billionaires or existing political class.