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  • Zohran Mamdani's Win Is the Beginning of the End of the Old Democratic Party

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  • Beating well-established Democratic royalty on their home turf by a Muslim is a pretty solid punch in the face.

    He even had Clinton's endorsement. This was a very clear Fuck You to the Democratic party.

  • Iranian immigrant who has lived in New Orleans nearly 50 years arrested outside Lakeview home

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  • Never forget that the President is of pure German ancestry. It's in his DNA.

  • Andrew Cuomo concedes New York Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani

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  • I'm with ya.

  • Norwegian tourist claims he was 'strip searched' before being denied entry to US over JD Vance meme on phone

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  • I deleted my comment after rereading it, and realizing that it could be easily, and rightfully, misconstrued. Thanks for this link, though.

  • Why Factories Are Having Trouble Filling Nearly 400,000 Open Jobs

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  • When people say it's about Money, specifically, it is about Profit. They are making obscene profits, and they can't sacrifice one single penny of it; in fact, they have to have even more of it. They can't continue to exist without a constant stream of ever increasing profits, to hear them tell it.

    The Federal Minimum Wage has been increased only twice since 1997 for a total of $2.10. It has been at $7.25 since 2009. When people demand an increase in the minimum wage, there are only two outcomes expected from it - higher prices, or lost jobs, and it is always presented as if those are the ONLY two options available. It never occurs to anyone to perhaps demand that corporations should MAKE LESS PROFIT.

    That profit should go back to the workers who actually EARNED that profit through their sweat equity. The argument that they already earn enough doesn't wash when employed people are living in their cars as a housing choice. Push those sorts of lifestyle compromises long enough, and they become normalized. Someday soon, we'll have celebrities on TV talk shows going on about how they lived in their car for the first few years they were in town, and it was AWESOME!

    Since Covid, Transnational Corporations and their Sociopathic Oligarch owners have reset the costs of living in America, raising prices on everything, without any adjustment on the compensation for labor side.

    We've been screwed since Congress redrew the Tax Code in 1974, which baked Trickle Down Economics into the tax code. Ever since then, more and more money is transferred from the middle/working classes to the wealthy. They've been stealing from us for decades, and they just want to keep doing it.

    The median salary of $43K in 1975 has increased to only $50K today, while they would have been making $92K if the tax code hadn't been steadily re-written to enrich the wealthy at the cost of the middle class and poor.

    In that same time period, the mean income for the top 1% went from $289K to $1.384 million, while they would have been making $630K under the old tax codes.

    Thats a 17.4% increase in the lower median, and an increase of 321.6% in the 1% median. Clearly there has been an upwards distribution of wealth at the expense of the middle class since the tax codes started to be re-written in 1974 to favor the top economic tier.

    Read more about it :

    New York Mag: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2020/09/rand-study-how-high-is-inequality-us.html

    Fast Money: https://www.fastcompany.com/90550015/we-were-shocked-rand-study-uncovers-massive-income-shift-to-the-top-1

  • Why Factories Are Having Trouble Filling Nearly 400,000 Open Jobs

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  • Just having a job where you can say No to unreasonable demands makes life a lot easier. That's probably the best benefit of being self-employed - nobody forcing you to do stuff you hate.

  • Norwegian tourist claims he was 'strip searched' before being denied entry to US over JD Vance meme on phone

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  • 128 Democrats join House Republicans to block AOC, Al Green bid to impeach Trump

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  • I hear you. I was a fairly big poster on Reddit, with a 12 year old account, nearly a million Karma, and a lot of followers. Then I got permabanned during the post-inauguration bloodbath.

    Lemmy's reach is growing. It feels very much like Reddit when I first started, and nobody knew what it was. Today, Reddit is on its way down, and will continue to slide as they kick out any MAGA opposition.

    I'm still reaching a lot of people, and I believe Lemmy's influence will continue to increase, as Reddit's influence and reputation continue to plunge.

  • 128 Democrats join House Republicans to block AOC, Al Green bid to impeach Trump

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  • I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Unaffiliated Independent, which makes it almost impossible to win.

    Besides, I have too many skeletons in my closet. I would get blown out in a dozen ways. I'm also too radical, I'd say something to end up disappeared to a Black Site.

    Keyboard Warriors like me also serve a key role in spreading the message. The MAGA Nazis have the Conservative Propaganda Machine, so I can do my best to do my small part to fight them on the Left. That's my role.

  • Andrew Cuomo concedes New York Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani

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  • My mid-20s son is energized for the first time. He's been voting all along, but he's been very unmotivated by his choices. This is the first time I've seen him excited to vote (for Zohran).

    We are finally seeing progressives, especially YOUNG progressives reaching their breaking point. They are justifiably pissed off at the establishment Democrats who are complicit in the rise and dominance of MAGA, and they are determined to make a change. They fully believe that their futures depend on it, and they now understand that they will get absolutely no help from the Establishment Dems. They know it's up to them to sculpt their own future at the ballot box.

    Give them candidates that they can believe in, like Zohran, and Young Progressives will come out big.

  • 128 Democrats join House Republicans to block AOC, Al Green bid to impeach Trump

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  • My guy is on the list, so he'll be getting a call from me today. He's useless anyway. I wish he'd get primaried by a tough progressive.

  • YouTube star Mikayla Raines dies by suicide at 29, husband blames online abuse

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  • The guitar world is pretty competitive, too. Perhaps the difference is the guitar is exceedingly difficult to learn, and we've ALL struggled with it, and have had help from others overcoming our problems. So we can all sympathize with each other, and want to share our help and knowledge.

  • Stephen Miller owns stock in Palantir — an ICE contractor powering deportations

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  • These jackals are always whining about Democratic insider trading, and here they are doing it themselves, and hiding it in their child's account. At least corrupt Dems like Pelosi and Schumer own it themselves.

  • Stephen Miller owns stock in Palantir — an ICE contractor powering deportations

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  • Stephen "PeeWee Himmler" Miller is Grima Wormtongue, whispering poison into HitlerPig's miraculously healed ear.

  • YouTube star Mikayla Raines dies by suicide at 29, husband blames online abuse

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  • It really feels like the human race is determined to destroy itself.

  • YouTube star Mikayla Raines dies by suicide at 29, husband blames online abuse

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  • That seems so crazy to me. I'm on a bunch of different guitar forums around the Internet, and I don't recall a single time when I've seen anyone attack or harass a content creator or anyone else. It's a really friendly, highly supportive, international community, and it's HUGE. Everybody feels like a friend.

  • YouTube star Mikayla Raines dies by suicide at 29, husband blames online abuse

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  • She was the subject of harassment for reasons, and here were some of them. Whether the allegations were true or not isn't the point, she still felt harassed enough to do something terrible.

  • YouTube star Mikayla Raines dies by suicide at 29, husband blames online abuse

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  • Thanks for the context. Very helpful.

  • Andrew Cuomo concedes New York Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani

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  • I have seen articles saying that a Zohran win would force the Democratic Party to face change, and acknowledge the rising progressive movement. Let's see if they accept the changes, or they fight against it. I suspect they'll fight, but if other elections start moving left, they'll be forced to change.

    The next big test will be the mid-term primaries. Hopefully, this win will encourage progressives to run, and hopefully they'll win enough primary races to become a serious threat, especially against Establishment Dems.

    And I hope one of them is AOC primarying Chuck Schumer. That spineless, whining bitch has got to go. He holds a lot of the blame for the rise of MAGA.