I remember that year, it was the same year Biden cancelled Christmas. After black lives matter burned all the cities to the ground there was not much left for the holidays. A lot of people forget what really happened!

Child rapist points fingers at Hamas… Where in the world does this rant make any sense.

We are part of an international child rape ring but don’t criticize us, you should be angry at Muslims!? Oh lord help me.

The autocrats are shocked at autocracy!

A very well written and researched piece that gives us specifics to why the leadership in the Democratic party failed everyone.

I find the part about looming fascism a bit puzzling though mainly because the rest of the piece makes extensive claims about corporate influence throughout it. I think it is the white elephant in this room and the driving factor of why US politics are so corrupted.

That’s was a lot. Thanks for posting.

Just straight up murder, no question about it. Even blew up the survivors just to be sure.

I read a study somewhere that says wealth gaps and democracy can uneasily coexist as long as money stays out of politics. This is the essential problem I think.

When we allow money into politics it corrupts them. We have to look at actual metrics to measure and consider externalities whenever creating policy. Making sure a monetary system is working for everyone and that people who take advantage of the situation are dealt with is a no brainer.

I did a little research and it does appear CA law is a little lax around loaning for political campaigns. I am not from CA so I really don’t know if this is really a big deal or not. I would be concerned though that this system would be abused.

I personally think we should actively attempt to eliminate wealth gaps. Money has been used to divide people for far too long and it is such a corrupting force for some people. It is a problem that has consumed the US entirely.

Corrupt politicians are a dime a dozen. Healthy spider plants in the office on the other hand are pretty rare.

Court orders tax payers on the hook for criminal administration.

Out of all the things Trump has done, I draw the line at deferred maintenance.

Oh don’t get me wrong. Even though I live in a fascist nation my life is not bad. I just bought a house, I have a stable job. I have a big family I get to hang out with everyday.

I have a job for the first time in thirty years I can afford to insure my family with. A lot of my contemporaries are not so lucky though.

I think it is good just to point it out. It helps to keep me thinking straight and not feel gaslight by my government when it makes policy decisions to benefit the wealthy.

Oh, I like that because it puts a ever increasing burden to use it or lose it. Once it is no longer profitable it goes back to public domain.

I find patents of dubious value to say the least. It is definitely the worst part of IP.

If there is any chance of reform it would have to still appeal to all parties. We definitely need to think about solutions that have not been proposed before.

As much as I would like to advocate for abolishment of IP, I recognize it is an unrealistic demand.

After all, IP didn’t magically appear. It took hundreds of years of court cases and laws passed to get to the arguably ridiculous point we are now.

I like what he had to say. Maybe I am just a bit to cynical nowadays.

Personally, I think that if small business capitalism actually existed then it would run contrary to that.

There would be no need for copyright or patents. These systems create artificial scarcity which hinders society as a whole to benefit a minority.

I feel like our existing system of laissez-faire capitalism fully embraces the rent seeking found in intellectual property.

The fact that corporations are the dominate social structure is undisputable. Everything, including notions of democracy, is secondary to this. Whenever there is a conflict between wealth and the general populace the government will always side with money due to corruption.

This is pretty universal across all nations. There is not a democracy that does not suffer from this problem. At this point it really does feel that democracy in most forms is just a window dressing for corportocracy.

Inpantception 2: Under the Underpants

In a sane world we would already be working towards reforming the Presidential pardon. It is clear the current system is broken and prone to abuse. I guess it just took a rapist-in-chief to show us that.

Anyone has a fair shot at being a wage slave

People who defended capitalism at this point in time are in constant denial. Capitalism only works well for everyone in highly competitive new fields/markets.

Once the monopoly sets in it no longer serves a useful function to the rest of society but does enrich a minority.

An awful lot of capitalistic practice is rent seeking nowadays. It doesn’t add any value and instead creates it out of thin air.

There has never been an effective small businesses capitalism economy that every capitalists uses to justify capitalism. It always ends up as game of monopoly.

Copyrights and patents generate enormous amounts of wealth from rent seeking. This wealth has been used to continue to entrench these draconian concepts into our legal and governmental systems.

Even worse they have been used to stop the spread of information and monopolize development thus slowing down technological advancement. So many people have died so these clowns can make a buck.

One could argue that artificial scarcity is a farce, but unless you have more money than the people who benefit from IP, your voice will not be heard on a policy level.