If every single Democrat was elected, they still wouldn’t raise taxes to pre Reagan levels and everybody would be sad. Suckered again!

Democrats haven’t raised taxes to pre-Reagan levels yet; they’ve been Republicans for about fifty years.

So… Lemmy is owned by billionaires?

I did not know that

Depends on what you mean by “media”, there are many varieties and many owners. Fox for example is owned by the Murdoch family.

Those are called “loosies”

These guys are leagues smarter than me, yet even I know this was a bad idea.

Perhaps you should curate the data, too? Let’s get crazy and leave out the David Icke forum, maybe that “Dinosaurs were on the Ark” website could be left out, you know, things like that. Think about it

AOC is my second favorite serving politician after Bernie, she would be a great President.

But I’m afraid that the Democratic leadership will squash her, as they did to Bernie. She’s pro worker, and the Ds abandoned labor long ago (and they were paid well to do so).

If she runs, I am voting for her, whether it’s with Democrats or DSA or Green.

Half of voters are not fine with this.

Most think the same as you. Trump’s campaign promises were no war and releasing the Epstein files after Biden did absolutely nothing and sat on them for four years.

We’ve been betrayed by bOtH pArTiEs over the last eight years (and before that, for that matter)… because they’re BoTh all over the Epstein files.

We don’t have a “No Epstein” party in the USA, that is not allowed. We just have two corrupt shit parties.

(I’m not making random claims, either. We do have some information, like flight logs. Democrats and Republicans found common ground somehow and fucking loved that plane and the young girls on it).

Man, I don’t know. I’m starting to think that unlimited campaign funds could possibly result in billionaires having more influence in politics than anything else, and that this might lead to legislation in their favor somewhat perhaps.

If only there was some way to prove this! but I guess it will always be a mystery.

He’s more important than you, you’re literally just a Lemmy poster, come on now

Microsoft is in the looting-by-executive phase of development, I don’t know why. I suspect that they see hard times for the company ahead and are extracting every cent that they can before the hammer falls.

My opinion

Who did they think their market would be?

Of course it’s ICE, and any other government agency with a budget to burn through.

their efforts aren’t buying the political capital they’d hoped for.

Trump did get elected by “AI money” and they all celebrated on stage with him, you know.

Midterms? Yeah, when you are an indisputably shitty President who has broken every campaign promise and is openly deranged, you will likely lose the midterms no matter how much you try to pump Republicans. Diminishing returns.

Usually the “winning” party only holds power for a couple terms, then, after their incompetence has disgusted yet another generation of voters, they lose, only to be replaced by the other party that will repeat the process.

bOtH sIdEs, YeS, oH My

I vote in every election, and you should too. Because it’s funny

i think that may be an improvement.

I did hate carrying change though. I’m never happy

Yeah… no.

There’s no way in Hell.

I will play Archon on my Commodore 64, fuck this noise.

This is silly, we can just print more money to cover the losses, ez pz !!!

It’s gotten weirder every year, and the pro-corporate horde grows every year.

people pay 200K for a wristwatch, and they’re proud. Let’s show it off on instagram! I’d be so ashamed I got suckered.

Who knew? I, for one, am flabbergasted.

This guy is nasty, many streamers are (because they’re just people, after all)

I don’t think he should have been banned, though.

I know a lot will disagree, go right ahead. But I think observation is best, because they always hang themselves. Instead of deplatforming, let them publicly entrap themselves, the humiliation and criminal penalties are so much worse.

Whether it’s Stormfront or 4chan or streamers, when you take away their platform, you erase the very best way to observe them and nail them to the wall.

Now, he can just talk to whatever minors he wants. He’s probably playing Roblox.

It’s a safe bet.

The bubble will burst, that’s our boom-bust cycle. I think we’re at the point where it is always a few bad decisions away.

I’m actually impressed that it’s still going

Coincidentally, The FED was made to stop boom-bust cycles before WWI. It’s never, ever worked, and it will never start working.