I wonder if the ultra rich understand just how much genuine malice is directed at them.

People were cheering for the submarine to implode.

It really seems like the world is full of tinder, waiting for a spark.

My bad, I didn’t realize we were on your weird propaganda instance.

What’s with all this pro-communist crap on lemmy?

We’re down with Democratic socialism. They aren’t the same.

Well, if he’s going to push it that far back, he’s going to need to work out his court date with warden of whatever a Georgia State prison he’s living in.

The difference is that when Nixon was President we all shared the same facts and reality.

Today’s Republicans will simply never accept the reality that Trump is a criminal.

If you don’t understand that distinction, you’ve been missing the big picture.

My friends, the MAGA cult stuck with Trump through racism, rape, hush money, and an attempted coup! They are not budging.

Just a reminder that Grand Jury made up of Georgia citizens saw the evidence, most of which was provided by Republicans, and saw enough prima facea evidence of Trump’s guilt that THEY felt it warranted the indictment.

Fani Willis is doing her job. The only people playing politics are the ones trying to impeach her.

The guy attempted a coup. He should be on trial for his life right now… and still 30+% of Americans might support him.

I can see the bumper stickers now: “dumb and dumber 2024”

The RICO charge carries a mandatory 5 years that can’t be pardoned and can’t be paroled. And RICO is stunningly easy to get a conviction on. It was built to catch mob bosses who directed activity but didn’t get their hands dirty.

Until the RICO charge, I didn’t think he’d see prison either… but now… looks pretty good.

On none of their agendas: policy.

When your opponent is facing 80+ criminal indictments and you’re not out there calling him a criminal, you’re not running AGAINST them.

What a clown. The universe lobbed a softball at him and he didn’t even take a swing.

Capitalism. Full stop.

The issue is about economic efficiency.

Take a look at why communism failed: When resources are distributed by a central authority, it doesn’t matter how well intentioned they are, at best they can only approximate which goods will be valued most by which individual at any given time. People would end up with an abundance of stuff they didn’t want, and a deficit in things they needed.

In a free market, supply and demand are constantly adjusting on an individual level with every transaction. Can’t get flour at the price I want? Fine, I’ll get potatoes. Can’t get flour or potatoes? Maybe a communist government thinks rice would be a good substitute.

But if it’s money in my hand, maybe I know I’ve got some other carbs and starch, and if I can’t get flour or potatoes, my money would best go to medicine or shoelaces… the point is, I’m setting my own priorities, and they aren’t always related or predictable.

Maybe I really want shoe laces, but they aren’t worth $6 to me. Maybe I’d pay 50 cents for them, otherwise, I’d rather use butchers twine, for a fraction of the cost, and just resign myself to retying my shoe.

Capitalism allows people to be nimble and adaptive. Communism was a: you take what you get, and that’s IT.

So people were getting things they didn’t value, and highly valuing things they couldn’t get, and it was just … inefficient.

One of is. That’s for sure.

See, that’s just a profoundly ridiculous take.

1. Israel is by most accounts a nuclear power, and their conventional military is one of the strongest in the world. If they were committing genocide it would have been over and done decades ago.

2. The Palestinian population is growing, not shrinking.

3. There are plenty of Palestinians who are Israel citizens, and they enjoy all the same rights and privileges as any other Israeli citizen, including the ability to hold office in government.

There’s only one side of this conflict that is hell-bent on genocide: Palestinians. They elected a government that had GENOCIDE of the Jews in their written charter. We’re just very fortunate that they don’t have the ability to carry out their desires.

In girl chess the pieces are pink.

Palestinians are the terrorists because they literally are the terrorists.

As in, they deliberately target civilians, often specifically CHILDREN for death.

Is there misconduct in the Israeli army? Absolutely. But that is WORLDS apart from adopting a government POLICY of targeting children.

I think Israel has shown extraordinary restraint given that the Palestinians have been actively trying to murder their children for DECADES, including electing a government that had the GENOCIDE of Jews as part of their written charter.

I’m just describing the reality of the situation.

This is what Democratic socialism is all about:

Let the engine of capitalism generate wealth (as it does so better than any other economic system) … but then make sure that wealth is going to the people who generate it.

If the top is getting more than their fair share, redistribute it through government programs that benefit the workers and their families.

We need to do this nationwide so that tax cheats can’t just run away to a different state… And we need to do it at much higher level that recognizes the reality that no one has ever EARNED a billion dollars. They’ve only stolen it from their workers because of a rigged government and legal system.

And by the way, the rich should be super happy if we able to get this done, because the alternative is that we keep heading down the current path until the working class gets so poor that they can no longer feed their kids… and at that point, history tells us, the guillotines come out.

Eh … I’m not convinced.

We have an inexhaustible supply of real and unambiguous crimes and other offenses that we can pin on him.

I think it unnecessarily muddies the water to even bother with something this ambiguous.

The guy is on trial for RICO charges, and in all likelihood will see seeing a 5-year prison sentence for ORGANIZED CRIME in trying to overthrow a lawful election.

Let’s just keep talking about that. And these fact that we have it on tape that he was asking the Georgia Secretary of State to “find” exactly the number of votes Trump needed to overturn the election he lost.