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  • The worst crackdown in recent memory on welfare happened under Clinton and the neolibs. I think both of these groups have examples of doing the things you’ve listed.

    I appreciate your insights but respectfully disagree as there are examples of your listed priorities across party lines.

    The end part is right. The same billionaires and companies pay both sides campaign bills. Which is why they’re basically the same economically.


  • Biden is performing theater about doing that. When was the last time dems actually managed a significant wealth tax? LOL

    It is pure theater. If anything like that ever got close to passing, and the paid actors Sinema snd Mansion weren’t enough, then they’d just pick another actor or two so the dems could pretend they really wanted to but no matter how much power they have its not possible to actually DO something.



    • Spend EVERY day having a press announcement on it and bashing the GOP with the latgest bully pulpit on the planet
    • Expand and pack the court
    • Push a court case that it was their duty.
    • Push a case that it threatened national security based on issues it was holding up.
    • Move to just put someone in the seat regardless and let it get argued in the courts meanwhile the seat is filled.
    • withhold all federal funds to any state who’s senator was blocking it
    • Any number of creative parliamentary maneuvers that let the GOP decide everything even when they’re in the minority
    • BREAK ALL NORMS, just like the GOP did in stealing th pick. But Dems roll over and play victim. It’s all they EVER do, even when they control Hoise, Senate and POTUS at the same time.

    There’s a ton of other shit too, but you get the point. Obama was quiet most days and played victim, bc the billionaires who owned him and who he bailed out of the financial crisis told him to ge a good boy and he did.










  • You’re going to get a LOT of reductive and low effort answers from Lemmy radicals. But this is a super complex question, and there’s not a 5-second ELI5 answer if you really want to understand.

    Also, when the radicals scream at you, there’s going to be a core of truth. They’re going to yell about colonization and empires. That’s a major factor, but not an exclusive one. However, for getting radical and rabidly furious its all they’ll bother posting to you.

    Things to investigate, because answering this for yourself in a meaningful way is going to take a while and require study. Here are some topics but NOT an exhaustive list:

    1. Colonization

    2. Resources (natural and otherwise)

    3. Schooling, education, etc.

    4. Stability, politically and otherwise (note this will have overlap with colonial and non-colonial powers destabilizing things intentionally for geopolitical gain)

    5. Infrastructure (transportation, economic, water, medical, etc.)

    6. Medicine as regionally practiced, traditional vs based on the the scientific method.

    7. Geopolitics (isolationism, etc)

    8. Geography (i.e. the US’s greatest asset is its location, it neighbors no enemies and its main enemies are separated by an ocean. One of the key reasons the US focuses on the ability to project force)

    9. Religion

    10. Corruption (politically and non politically)

    11. Crime and non-military/nation based violence (also could get grouped under personal safety and security)

    And again, honestly, a lot of these topics will overlap, but that’s what I mean by there isn’t a quick, easy answer.

    And the reductive stupid answer is just yelling colonialism.

    There’s a reason people get PhDs in this subject. It’s not a quick, easy question.