agreed. It is about mitigating how much damage is done before change, of whatever form, can be affected. Mamdani's popularity, even if it is NYC, thus more fertile ground for progressives, is a good sign. The way all of the establishment reacted to him killing that primary tells me this is a guy I want to back. So I have. I am also active with several activist, and specifically leftist, groups. We have moved the little, dying, shit hole city, I currently live in, more progressive. We have restructured, what used to be, the worst projects in the state to a place, which is still all section 8, into a nice place, where people get town houses, and the same space has more resident capacity, and have yards, and have freedom to like repaint, redo the garden, etc. Things to make it feel like their home, not a human filing cabinet. This worked, super well. The crime in my neighborhood has plunged since then. We have also accomplished free public transportation, though it is pretty limited compared to more developed countries. We are working on ending the status of food desert for my neighborhood, and the surrounding ones, too.
There is more, primarily getting changes to the DA, a judge, and city council, and other local politicians, but I think you get the idea. The shift in crime from the project reform basically assured our current mayor was going to get re-elected, and even though I have some big differences in ideas than he does, he is very progressive, you know, for a US politician. If this wasn't a dying place we probably would have gotten further than we have thus far.
Yeah, I don't think capitalism is sustainable, and the we need to more away from it for a lot of reasons. These kinds of actions though, they prove ineffective, and at worst they actively push people away. Which is my point with the fact that if anyone stops this bill from cutting 14 million people from they need to live, it will be the democrats, and anyone who sees these sentiments, and then has the democrats come in for them, in a life saving situation, will likely be pushed more towards being liberals. They will take away from this type of interaction that leftists are the coddled, privileged, kids they were told to expect, and move away from it.
That is what a theory is, lay terms are different. Yes doctors do still use germ theory of disease. Because people don't use these words right, doesn't mean that is not how they are used.
Look around, the majority of people don't vote, and haven't historically. Capitalism thrives on civil inactivity, and it is getting worse. So what you do is provably not efficacious, if it were the fact that most people do not vote would have weakened the capitalist state, it proves to do the opposite. It also just helps to cement the two party dictatorship.
I just like telling people what their decisions do to others, so I will do it as much as I see fit. I also see that you keep interacting, funny for someone who doesn't want to hear what I have to say. The reality is if anyone stops this new bill from killing me, it will be democrats, and then I will literally have had my life saved by that party, while the no vote protest just calls me, and everyone in my position, things like tosser, and disregards our lives, and loses support. 14 million people will die in the next 6 years because of the bill decisions like your brought about.
No raindrop wants to be blamed for the flood, but they are all equally guilty.
RFK had a book published some time back in which he reveals he doesn't believe in germ theory. Germ theory. This should have automatically disqualified him from doing anything that gives him decision making powers dealing with health, and medicine.
it's nice that other people's voting habits aren't going to literally kill you. Have fun on that high horse, I am sure slowly, and painfully, dying, was worth your sense of superiority. Though, I doubt you believe this is a fatal turn of events for me. Privilege blinds people.
Yup, the "none of this will get worse FOR ME" crowd who dismiss the idea that everything else will be worse, likely even the situations they "care" about, but they aren't actually affected by. No sense of harm reduction when the harm isn't upon you, yet.
Yeah the difference is the people who vote for Trump will kill me with their vote out of stupidity, and/or maliciousness. Those who do not vote will kill me simply to feel superior to those who vote.
I think the his/her here isn't due to not knowing their gender, but because the ghandi everyone knows is male, and the one in this article is female, so it is both
A while back it was shown that while most of the the fediverse was clear for access in places like russia and china, the triad were not. Which became a meme for a bit. Don't know if this is still true though.
Neo-cons are socially conservative politicians who have adopted the neo-liberal economic model