• @lanolinoil@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      end citizens united – corporations aren’t people

      end lobbying so shell oil doesn’t have 10000000X time and money to affect the government as a person does.

      Quit assigning good/bad labels to companies that operate within the law and furious pursue laws that make us more equal, richer and safer overall

      ???

      profit

      • @MartianRecon
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        1321 days ago

        Yeah, but how are you going to realistically do that?

        I’d love to know. Because I hate citizens united. But what do you propose people do about this?

        • @lanolinoil@lemmy.world
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          721 days ago

          I don’t know – It feels like we should be able to use the internet to make grass roots new and hard to corrupt political movements but I don’t see that happening at all.

          There’s also the 250 year empire rule which we’re at now against stability with the current system.

          I honestly have no answer other than a “vote or die” but we all know that doesn’t work.

          • @MartianRecon
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            821 days ago

            The answer is you vote or we lose democracy. That’s the simple end-all be-all answer here.

            Biden might not be what every single leftist wants, but I guaranfuckingtee that it won’t just be illegal aliens in his camps. It will be you as well.

            I personally don’t want to live in Gilead. I don’t want to fight in a civil war. I’d rather much prefer we vote in Biden, let the Silent/Boomers die off, so we can fix this shit.

            • @stringere@sh.itjust.works
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              220 days ago

              I can almost smell the Gen X coming off your grim resignation to boomer die off as a new beginning. We’ve waited impotently for so long.

              • @MartianRecon
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                220 days ago

                Hah, I’m actually a millennial, but it’s happening to the tune of 5,500 boomers a day. Even more for the silent gen.

            • @lanolinoil@lemmy.world
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              121 days ago

              yeah but that just kicks the can down the road, not that I disagree or anything. I don’t know of any real solution.

              The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.

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                421 days ago

                Okay so what’s your option then?

                Because sitting out wont do anything, and acting like nothing is happening for people is also not doing any good.

          • @MartianRecon
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            120 days ago

            I said realistically. That’s not realistic at all. It’d be great to have a post scarcity economy. I’d love it. But that’s not realistic.

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              19 days ago

              african countries are doing this right now. we have a consistent method already.

              all you need is actually wanting it. doing nothing is not gonna fix anything.

    • Refurbished Refurbisher
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      1321 days ago

      Force all companies to be worker-owned cooperatives, Richard Wolff-style.

      Also the stock market doesn’t really need to exist. It’s just gambling with extra steps, and the people who win at that game end up having control over way more than one person should ever have. Also goes along with the above, which is complete worker ownership over companies.