• Digit@lemmy.wtf
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    Remembering sept 10th, 2001, hearing about 2.3 trillion missing…

    … doubting Trump’s an architect, nor even operator, nor even agent, and continuing to presume merely asset.

    Even a flat robin-hood style redistribution of all billionaire wealth gets us each a few grand, utterly dwarfed by how much richer we each and all are with the emancipatory technologies no longer being suppressed and inventors no longer being “disappeared”.

    Keep reminding the billionaires even they are better off with prolific provisioning of emancipatory technologies… no longer having to watch their back.

    Do you have spaceships yet? And the reassurance that no one is trying to take yours?

    Spaceships for everybody.

    No cull necessary. Nor any billionaire ploys to pit us against each other. Nor any perpetuation of slavery and oppression via manufactured scarcity, nor the lethal mayhem pantomime of resource wars.

    Remember a third of a year before that (^ sept 10th 2001), the disclosure project conference at the press club? And the free energy conferences around the same time. … Before they initiated the cascade of contingency plans for mass distraction to allow the continuation of the PNAC’s hegemonic jingoistic global domination plans (and the plans within that, and within which the PNAC sits) [the fake [but still lethal] terrorist thing, pandemic thing, [burgeoning] nuclear war, [upcoming] alien invasion, with side dishes of climage disaster [weather warfare weapons] throughout and economic/energy collapses peppered around]. We were headed for skipping ahead to the star trek future, and better. We still could sublimate to that. As I recall from those free energy conferences, there had already been over 3000 free energy device patents secreted by the year 2000 according to patent office whistleblower Tom Valone.

    We have so much headroom, without the crooks keeping us down.

    Imagine if we obsoleted the billionaire producing paradigm, reminded all would be billionaires that even they are richer in ending manufactured scarcity and embracing abundance.

    No more billionaires, nor their puppets of hate.

    Keep on dreaming while learning to learn, y’all. :)

    … or so I aspire manifest.

    … so much headroom…

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      What i find intersting and encouraging is that saying what you just said 20 years ago people would completely dismiss any line of thinking like this. Now, if i said something similar to someone in an elevator they would engage and want to discuss it. Change might actually be possible if minds were more open to the headroom possible.

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    What we need is people who actually write up policy proposals. It doesn’t matter whether you have a senate majority, you need to write the policy proposals now. What actually changes things is societal pressure, and you only build that up by showing that another way is possible, which you show by writing down how exactly you would run an alternative society. For which you have to write down policy proposals.

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      I think his crypto scam actually made that true. Millions of people are willing to spend money to prove their loyalty.

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    They’re billionaires because of monetary policy, Elon Musk and Tesla wouldnt be worth so much if inflation didnt reward risky assets and provide an unlimited runway to profitability. We bid up asset prices until prices rise 2% a year; prices that exclude assets like housing, subjective hedonic downward adjustments of goods prices, and substitutions/shrinkflation.

    Blame the rich if you want, I blame the unelected central bank thats debasing your paycheck with 7% annual money supply growth, QE, and bailouts. If the money supply didnt grow every year you wouldnt need to beg your boss for a cost of living adjustment that doesnt match reality. Our parents ate free range grass fed meat, we eat corn fed factory farm troglodytes, and our children will eat highly processed imitation meat slop, and the CPI will mark no difference between the three.

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      Tesla would be worth basically nothing if the federal government weren’t artificially propping them up by banning Chinese EVs.

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      wouldnt be worth so much

      “worth” is an interesting choice of word there…

      If the money supply didnt grow every year

      I blame Nixon.

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        Well there was a great society program in the 60’s that ran up debt, by do-gooders who didnt properly fund their ambitions.

        Society needs to learn that we need to actually tax the rich and run low deficits if we want to spend big on social programs.

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    This was a joke, right? Good one

    Yeah, it’s Trump, everything will be fine when he dies!

    Trump could never have been elected without you hacks, your corruption made him possible. He could never be in any position of authority without decades of unbridled rot to pave the way… if he’s the monster, you’re the Dr. Frankenstein who created him.

    Good job

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      Donald Trump is literally everything wrong with The United States of America distilled down to a person and squeezed into an ill fitting suit. All the self obsession, anti-intelectualism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, paedophilia, war mongering, greed, hate, and cruelty rolled into the ugliest person you’ll ever know. Did I miss anything?

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        Technically you covered this, but the narcissism rolled up with many of those other things, speaks to abuse, trauma, and how he has always been in an environment where getting professional help was never an option. So now he’s everyone’s problem. Passing the buck on abused people is far too normal around here.

        I’m not saying he’s due a redemption arc (burned FAR too many bridges by now). Rather he’s a symbol of mental health around the US too. He’s a shambling husk made up of pure psychological damage, making every day an exercise in inflicting uncountable numbers of people with more of the same. And all of it was preventable if there weren’t so many institutional and social failures to address it, at every step in their life.

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        Did I miss anything?

        The other 100million Americans they concentrated to make him.

        Unfortunately this problem doesn’t end with Trump.

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    It’s because Republicans and neoliberal democrats (the majority of them) take their marching orders from the billionaire class.

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          Not in leadership, where it matters.

          Sure, there are lots of progressive voters, and even a few token reps. It doesn’t matter, window dressing for the defenstration.

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            Fair enough, of course the US government has literally never listened to the people which is statistically provable. What is worse is most nations are about the same.

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            Problem is Americans don’t turn over incumbents before the wealthy corrupt them or their peers assimilate them into the political class.

            The only path forward for US to remain a functional democracy is to primary sitting democrats at a rate faster than they can be corrupted.

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              Really we need a system that doesn’t use popular vote to determine representation. Even with good safety rails it eventually turns into an oligarchy which has happened to every major democracy.

              I would even argue that democracy itself is just a window dressing around the world for the ruling class.

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      You don’t know what “neoliberal” means. Lumping most Democrats in with Trump is painfully ignorant and divorced from empirical reality.

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        You don’t know what “painfully ignorant and divorced from empirical reality” means.

        bOtH pArTiEs take their orders from the billionaire class, get real, stop being a sucker

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          Thanks for admitting you don’t know what “neoliberal” means, you ill-informed blowhard. It’s just a buzzword to people like you.

          bOtH pArTiEs take their orders from the billionaire class, get real, stop being a sucker

          Grow the fuck up. If you can’t see the difference between the administrations of Biden and Trump, you’re an absolute fucking dumbass.

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          Look we have a both sider just in time for the next election. What a strange coincidence.

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            They want Democrats to keep loosing until their dumbass fantasy comes true.

            Lazy “billionaire” criticism is so frustrating when we watch Republicans cut taxes for billionaires and take away healthcare coverage from 17 million Americans.

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            Looks like we have a genocide stanning, Blue MAGA party loyalist, just in time for the next election, what a strange coincidence.

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              If your referring to me you are about as wrong as you can be. I have no qualms calling out the US as the fascist nation it has always been.

              I am also not afraid to call out Russia and China as fascist nations as well. I grow tired of campists from .ml as they are mostly just authoritarian apologists.

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                authoritarian apologists.

                Authoritarianism is a useless term created by Liberals to obfuscate the differences between Socialism and Fascism.

                Russia is a vaguely protofascist Oligarchy, that’s kind of true. They only deserve support in so far as their actions weaken imperial hegemony.

                China is not at all fascist and it’s laughable that you suggest it is. Unless your definition of Fascism is “when the government says there are things I’m not allowed to do”…

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                  Yup, found another authoritarian apologist. No surprise.

                  Tell me how China, that cranked out more billionaires than the US this and last year, is not practicing unfettered capitalism.

                  Tell me how supplying arms to war torn countries is not fascist. They are now the fourth largest producer of arms

                  Tell me how they are not an authoritarian oligarchy with a single ruling party where dissent is punished with prison.

                  Actually, don’t bother. I hate hearing from human rights abusers. Disgusting.

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            Oh yes, every two years, what an UNCANNY COINCIDENCE that an independent speaks six months before an election. You are truly the world’s greatest detective.

            meanwhile, in reality, independents are 40% of the electorate. Ds and Rs are down to 30% each.

            Perhaps you should listen to the independents, instead of insulting them? You need independents to win any election. You’re not doing yourself any favors.

            This is why bOtH pArTiEs are losing voters; when will you figure it out, detective?

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              This is why bOtH pArTiEs are losing voters; when will you figure it out, detective?

              Both parties aren’t losing voters, fucking dumbass. The same amount of Trump supporters shows up in 2024 as 2020.

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              Hey look, someone who thinks that independents can win and not just siphon off votes in our two party first past the post voting system.

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    It’s not in the Democratic Leadership’s interests to not cozy up to the true ruling class. However they’re a bit better than the alternative.

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    One day Dems and their moronic supporters will realize they are also the enemy and deserve just as much hate and punishment as conservatives and MAGA