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The day socialists start a grassroots super-pac, lol. Seriously though, why don't socialists actually do anything.

No they didn't. "Corporate tax increases that have been enacted 15% corporate minimum tax: The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 established a 15% minimum tax on the average annual earnings of corporations with over $1 billion in profits. 1% tax on stock buybacks: This is technically an excise tax, but it functions as a corporate tax increase by placing a 1% tax on companies that repurchase their own stock. President Biden expanded Medicaid, SNAP, and the ACA through executive actions and legislation like the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act. Biden expanded Medicaid by ending work requirements and making it easier to apply and renew coverage, while expanding the ACA by increasing subsidies for marketplace plans. He also expanded SNAP by increasing benefits and expanding eligibility. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Medicaid expansion • Ending work requirements: The Biden administration ended Medicaid work requirements that were implemented by the previous administration. • Streamlining enrollment: A new rule from the Biden administration removed red tape to make it easier for people to apply for and renew Medicaid coverage. • Increasing access to care: The administration made changes to improve access to care for millions of Americans. [1, 2, 6] ACA (Affordable Care Act) expansion • Enhanced subsidies: The Inflation Reduction Act enhanced ACA subsidies, making health insurance more affordable. • Increased enrollment: The Biden administration has overseen a record high in ACA marketplace enrollment, with over nine million more people signing up than when he took office. • Protecting ACA: The administration has taken actions to protect and strengthen the ACA, including making health care more affordable and improving children's coverage. [3, 4] SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) expansion • Increased benefits: The Biden administration has increased SNAP benefits and expanded eligibility. • Making it easier to apply: The administration has streamlined the application process for SNAP benefits and reduced red tape. • Increased enrollment: As a result of these changes, more people are now able to access SNAP benefits. [1, 2, 4, 5] the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is providing billions of dollars to replace lead pipes, and a related EPA rule is mandating replacement within 10 years. The infrastructure law has allocated $15 billion for lead service line replacement, while the new EPA rule requires water systems to identify and replace all lead pipes within a decade. Biden's total student debt relief passes $183 billion, after he ... Jan 13, 2025 · Since Biden took office, he has forgiven debt for more than 5 million federal student loan borrowers, totaling $183.6 billion in relief" Dec 25, 2023 · The United States military will have the smallest force in over 80 years as it prepares for the start of 2024. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), Passed the House on November 7, 2009 (220–215) Passed the Senate as the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" on December 24, 2009 (60–39) with amendment House agreed to Senate amendment on March 21, 2010 (219–212) Signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010

He's also only 27, that's where my interest comes from. I don't see him going away, but possibly evolving given the economic downturn I foresee. I think he's the epitome of terminally online. All of his positions are based on false premises, like someone that's never left the basement. Sadly, there's a lot of younger people like that. Do you think he's a con? Or believes what he says?

And republicans would shutdown democrat administrations. You guys gotta quit thinking like this is checkers, the Hasan/AOC stupidity is a virus.

How receptive do you think gen Z and Alpha are to Fuentes' racism? I can't see his racism sticking very well, but he is a far better speaker and more intelligent than Ben Shapiro. The guy is very intelligent but obviously a coward that has hid in his mom's basement his entire life making him afraid of people with foreign accents. If he can pivot away from racism I think he has a really good chance to make it big though, if he would be anti-immigration without the racism. Racism and fascism thrive in economic downturn, which is the foreseeable future. Here is a good speech by Fuentes. I disagree with him, I think it's easily proven obvious his conclusions are wrong. But he does have a good grasp that there is a problem, just hasn't figured out Democratic policy is the actual solution. His logic is flawed by false premises about "Big government" and cultures. Hopefully his coarse honesty eventually leads him to the truth.

Democrats are not in power. Thats not how politics work, at all. You're looking at it like a religion or something. You think republicans are going to accept everything democrats want because they can shutdown.... republicans were voted in power, democrats should shutdown if they don't get what they want? People vote their pocketbooks. Trump 2016 won by running on lies, that caught up to him in the next election, where he lost to a dementia patient. Lying can work one cycle. Trump won 24 because of the inflation derived from Trump 16'. Trump 24' is going down even harder and you're ALREADY seeing a blue apocalypse for republicans, democrats took seats held red for 20 years. Biden and Harris' tax plans were to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy, Harris wanted to tax unrealized gains even, thats "moving right" to you. Newsom has the highest tax rate in the country on the wealthy in California, and just started a state ran pharmaceutical company. Thats "moving right" to you. You don't want to tank the economy even more with excessive shutdowns, trump is already doing bad enough job. When democrats get back in it takes time to rebound the economy, you don't want a massive downtrend like biden started with. People will vote opposite party when economy is faltering regardless of fault. Retaining aca with a republican majority is a near impossible task. Obviously we need to do shutdowns, but calculated, there are lives hurt by this shutdown. We should shutdown longer next time and keep shutting down, republicans are being ridiculous.

Causing the longest shutdown in history because you're a party out of power fighting for aca, is not "shifting right". layoff the Hassan podcast. That's not how politics works, most people are not baristas living at their parents house.

Economic decline has barely started, it's going to only get worse and worse.

Democrats just swept the elections.... republicans were elected in charge of everything 2024, not democrats. This is what America voted for, and it's crumbling hard. There's no reason why America will vote republican, none.

It's only funded through January, they'll keep doing it until ACA is reinstated. This gives federal workers time to find other jobs, now that they know what's coming again. This was the longest shutdown so far, it will have serious effects and will kneecap the economy even more. The u.s. government is the largest employer in the country. We need to shutdown given Republicans rampage, but we can't just nuke ourselves or a single group of innocent people in the process. Shutdowns have lasting consequences. Medicaid cuts don't start for a year.

The person...

Who are you talking to?

Why should enlightenment be strived for? What happens when everyone enlightens?

Why can't enlightened people fly? Or do anything special? It just seems like escapism for mental health, not mystical.

This suffering is from valuing materialism. You probably value the sky and smells in nature, sunrises, sunsets, stars, nice glass of water, a nap in the sun. If you focus more on what you like that you do have, instead of what other people tell you you should like, you'll end your suffering. There's nothing wrong with working a low pay dead end job "just to live", the park is free, sunsets are free,... Get 'ahead' when/if you can, but in the mean time, soak up what you have.

Of course, but are you trying to attribute this to feminism? The comments would be even worse pre-feminism. Many redditors disavow the "liberal" label, as well, they're socialists, out and proud misandrists, they encourage murdering CEOs even. I got banned from every progressive subbredit last year for giving my opinion in one subbredit, that we should try to run a male candidate instead of Harris because of Hilarys loss, one comment. It's not liberal and they don't claim to be.

"BREAKING: DOJ BOMBSHELL — Epstein files reportedly “even worse for Trump” than Republicans feared. The panic inside the Republican party — due to its decisive losses in Tuesday’s elections — just got even more frantic. Multiple House Republicans are reportedly freaking out after hearing from the Department of Justice that the unreleased Jeffrey Epstein files are especially compromising for Donald Trump. According to veteran reporter David Shuster — who’s worked for MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News — “rumors are sweeping through the GOP caucus” that the Epstein evidence includes photos of Trump with half-naked teenage girls. Shuster says several Republicans told him they’d been quietly warned by contacts inside DOJ and the FBI that the material is even worse than the claims made by Trump biographer Michael Wolff, who described seeing “a dozen Polaroids” of Trump and Epstein with topless young women “spread out like a deck of cards.” You read that right. Trump’s own biographer says he personally saw the pictures — and the DOJ supposedly has copies. Now Republicans are reportedly “spooked.” And after Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to answer Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s direct question about whether she’d seen those photos, the tension exploded behind closed doors. Bondi tried to dodge by throwing out false attacks about Democratic donors — but Whitehouse fired back, calling her statement a flat-out lie."

Republicans also destabilize these other countries, creating refugees.

Mamdani can accomplish a few things, all relying on increasing the corporate tax rate, he obviously can't increase it too much though. Increasing taxes obviously increases revenue, but it will also drive some corporations out of town. Which can actually be a good thing, relieving pressure on housing, jobs leaving. Mamdani can subsidize housing, new and remodeled, whether through tax abatements or low interest loans. He can do his grocery stores, they should operate at cost given tax free real estate. Other community programs And police reform The problem is, this takes time and a huge team that would require time to get functioning well.... socialists will hang him by then. He didn't get 50% of the vote his first election full of promises and energy. Just don't get your hopes up, and quit making him like your MLK or something. If he fails he'll take DSA down with him.

You think Trump would prefer a free-market over one ruled by Imam Trump? No way. He would love to be over everything and decide who gets what, white wealthier America, then lesser paid worker brown countries. Evangelical-socialism, of the broad concept socialism.

I guess that's what's behind Trump then, evangelical-socialism. Socialism being such a broad concept including classes of people. Imam Trump.

Can you point me to this broad concept? Classes are fundamental to religion.

Religion and classlessness aligning? Baloney, religion is a class system. "Religion is the opium of the people. It is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of our soulless conditions.”-marx

Are you very familiar with Spira? You think someone with average intelligence can walk away from a Spira talk thinking 'I now need to attain enlightment'? That seems impossible to me. Spira teaches neo-advaita, legit neo-advaita though, not some contradictory runaround stuff, it's bare bones awareness. I don't see anything Spira teaches as something being shown as magical or supernatural, he goes straight to the point. I see his retreats as being sold as vacations, I think they do meditation, so a nice vacation like a meditation retreat. I will give you, he sells alleviation of suffering. But even look at the Sadhguru occultists on here, they think they're omniscient pontiffs now.

He supports government seizing the means of production. Obviously he'll do nothing like that, the only real problem is his base disowning him when he can't keep any of his promises, they'll lynch him. I think he'll do really good things though.