I know.

But at the same time, we can’t really pretend we give a shit about genocide and then vote Democrat or Republican, both of whom are a-okay with sending more WMD’s to Israel while they’re committing one.

I think, as more and more information on US’ involvement in the Israeli genocide come to light, we have to face the fact that American voters simply don’t care. Both major parties enthusiastically participate in funneling US taxpayers’ money to Israel, and watching them bomb children, hospitals, and innocent people day after day for an entire year hasn’t changed public sentiment on that.

If anyone really cared about the genocide, they wouldn’t vote Democrat or Republican. On this issue the parties are in complete agreement.

The minimum wage was always intended to be a living wage, and when I look at everything we’ve lost by electing people who coddle billionaires, it puts me in a blind rage.

Other countries have $25 billion dollar war budgets, universal health care, living wages, free college, and an actual social safety net.

We here in the US have 700 billionaires and an entire population of people who can’t endure any unexpected financial hardship without going further into debt.

It’s fascinating in a sad, depressing way, watching Harris promise to crack down on the border and, instead of touting various benefits for the people whose votes she’s courting, is instead promising tax cuts. She doesn’t seem to have an adequate understanding of what it means to be a working-class American, where a one-time tax cut cannot replace having a monthly or bi-weekly benefits check to help with the soaring cost of living. (A soaring cost that, coincidentally, the Biden Administration has kind of just ignored.)

At this point, if you’re not double-checking something produced by your AI tool of choice, it absolutely is your fault. It’s no secret that these applications were trained on garbage.

There’s plenty of evidence that social media is harmful to kids, teens, and adults. Several are referenced in this article: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/social-media-teens-mental-health

We also know that FB has used its platform to unknowingly run social experiments on users without their knowledge and helped the proliferation of misinformation to the tremendous detriment of our country and our people. With gen AI creating even more false information, it’s imperative that governments crack down.

Social Media can and should be regulated just like any other objectionable form of speech.

The Democrats here in America would love him.

The NY ‘News’ industry has, in recent years, routinely defended fascism as well.

I’m not sure how a person is realistically supposed to have a family when they’re having to work upwards of 80 hours a week just to cover basic living expenses.

Agreed.

But 99% of voters are going to pull the lever for the same people doing absolutely nothing about it in a month here in the US. The whole thing feels pretty hopeless.

There are so many high-profile assholes in this country named Eric.

Fair points all around.

It always makes me glad to see workers kick management in the dick, though.

Shit like this is what’s going to help Trump get elected.

It doesn’t matter how much you repeat the meme of ‘joy’ that the Harris campaign has fully embraced as their brand. Workers know full well how empty their dinner tables are and they live the extent to which the Democrats have failed them every single day.

A 100+ billion dollar valuation.

Absurd.

It’s just as absurd as when WeWork got a 40 billion dollar valuation.

These VC’s are insane and should be paying a high-as-fuck tax rate instead of having a bazillion dollars to drop on boondoggles.

That it does.

We still have to look at historical patterns and acknowledge that what a person claims to vote for is antithetical to what their party of choice is actually going to do.

Yes, it does. We may not like to consider that, but it’s the truth.

Does it not bother you that they all happened and got worse under Democrats?

Vote third party and be public about it.

Protests are a waste, so taking to the streets doesn’t matter much unless you can gather enough people to create a legitimate violent threat.

Absolutely right. The only power we have now is local.

Agreed.

If only.

If you want that to change, you have start local

You’re partly right.

The only power we have now is local, unless you’re a billionaire or willing to commit a terrorist act, both of which do not apply to me. You can always do good with your own two hands, but we can look at the last two decades and conclude correctly and definitively that voting for either major party is throwing your vote away, at least if you’re a wage earner.

The thing is, fascism’s already here for most. Abortion is criminalized in part of the country and will soon be criminalized in most of it, and it happened with Democrats in power. A vast majority of Americans have to work 2-3 jobs to survive now, and it happened while Democrats were in charge. If you have a major injury or illness, you will be bankrupted, and that remains true no matter who we elect. If you’re a person of color, a police officer can kill you at will and there won’t be any meaningful blowback to the police system, and not only did it happen under Democrats, Joe Biden mocked the defund movement in a SOTU speech.

It seems most people want to give credit to Democrats for what they say. I’m giving them credit for what they actually do.