Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
@maggiemaybe @selzero @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social Umm, if more people voted Blue, you’d see the Democrats acting more like liberals. They in most places, are always having to look over their political shoulders. I’m not a Demicrat, but I look at the choices, Red is out, Socialist won’t get elected. I’d have voted Sanders if he had won the Dem nomination.
@selzero @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social because it would not have passed?
@selzero @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social The difference today, is that as of about 20 years ago, automation was reported to be able to replace 75% of the jobs if business wanted to pay for it. If you look at the trend the middle class has steadily shrunk for the last 4 decades in the US due to job exportation.. Now we are approaching something that simulates the human brain, and all bets are off when the first corporation replaces a job or thousand of jobs, maybe more, with AI driven tech, 🤔
@selzero @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social I did not, have not, taken Revolution off the table, I said it could be inevitable. I don’t believe that would be ideal, but I really can’t claim to know how Revolution would unfold, nor how many would die…🤔
@selzero @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social I want to know how you avoid compromise in a Democratic representative system? There is no such thing as just dictating to the other side (ok tell that to the GOP 🤔) You either have the votes or you don’t. And I believe if the majority would get off their asses and vote, the #GOP would be vanquished as a threat to the country as it currently exists.
@selzero @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social Obama pushed as hard as he could. You either work within the agreed to structure and get what you can get, or you do as the GOP is currently doing, breaking the system in an attempt to hold power. Once we start start down the cheat to win path, either the majority throws out the cheaters, or there is a breakdown, and imo, it will be surprising in any drastic change, if there is not much bloodshed. That could end up being inevitable. 🤔
@selzero @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social 3) The big money will fight vigorously to preserve what it has. Revolution followed by anarchy for a time, maybe inevitable. I’m saying now quite often that automation and AI may help reach the tipping point when Capitolism can no longer hold the system as it exists together.
@selzero @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social 2) In any given district, you either have the votes or you don’t based on the ideas of the politician.
The problem as I see it are voters, bigotry, intolerance and selfishness, but also people who are struggling economically and pick whatever boogey man that’s in (or placed in) their heads.
The direct contributor is Capitolism. And since we can’t seem to control it, the challenge is how to change it, with agreement, and not a revolution. (Cont)
@selzero @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social 1) First of all If Capitolism can’t be reigned in, then I’m against it. This is probably a given I can’t.
I watched the video linked, and it is good overall, but my critiques are, in a Democracy, in any system, good ideas are good ideas and unfortunately if you want to get things passed in a representative system, compromise is required. This is the structure of Representation and liberals working within it. (Cont)
Huntn00
boosted
The insulting part: 2 things and I believe we have a Stockholm Syndrome blindness to them.
1- Normalizing the right by compromising on things.For example. Obama should have gone all out and put in place a universal healthcare system. He should have pushed the system to it's limits in the same way the right is doing about abortion. But he caved to corporate pressure. This compromising with the philosophy that human health is an economic resource is barbaric.
@selzero @Radical_EgoCom@kolektiva.social I looked up some definitions, and I’ll agmit that I did not realize socialism in some defs, included collective ownership, which I’m not sold on. So I admit there is a difference. I was thinking in terms of social benefit, social safety nets, medical programs, education, housing and substinance.
Please describe why you are insulted if mistaken as liberal. A difference I see is private ownership, depending on def used.
https://www.wordnik.com/words/liberalism
https://www.wordnik.com/words/socialism
Huntn00
boosted
I don't want to be liberal. I'm a socialist.
Huntn00
boosted
@tofugolem@mastodon.social @Huntn00@talkedabout.social @StillIRise1963@mastodon.world All true. For me the weirdest piece of that whole puzzle is that the police have their own union. It's like they admit that it works, it has a purpose, for them. But then they want to get the benefits of unionization for themselves while at the same time denying those benefits to others.
Huntn00
boosted
@Huntn00 @StillIRise1963
It's not just racism.
In every strike, they side with the corporate owners and never with the strikers. This is no accident.
The police do not exist to protect you from criminals, they exist to protect wealthy people from YOU.
Huntn00
boosted
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/multiple-people-killed-jacksonville-store-shooting-mayor-102589687 Waters said the shooter, who was in his 20s, used a Glock handgun and an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle with at least one of the firearms painted with a swastika. He left behind writings that led investigators to believe that he committed the shooting because it was the fifth anniversary of when another gunman opened fire during a video game tournament in Jacksonville, killing two people before fatally shooting himself.
The shooting happened just before 2 p.m. at a Dollar General near Edward Waters University, a small historically Black university.
Huntn00
boosted
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/26/us/jacksonville-florida-shooting-multiple-fatalities?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_msn “This shooting was racially motivated and he hated Black people,” Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said at a news conference. He said the shooter, who is White and shot himself after the attack, left behind evidence that outlined his “disgusting ideology of hate” and his motive in the attack.
All three victims were Black.
The shooting happened blocks away from Edward Waters University, a historically Black school where students living on campus were told to stay in their residence halls.
Huntn00
boosted
https://post.news/@/Celset/2UXvbU1t2eqslEks4FanDxqMpvb https://post.news/@/Celset/2UXvbU1t2eqslEks4FanDxqMpvb He wanted to kill n****rs —
“He hated Black people,” Sheriff T.K. Waters told a news conference. Sheriff T.K. Waters called the shooter's manifesto a "disgusting ideology of hate" and said: "This shooting was racially motivated. He wanted to kill n****rs — that's the one and only time I'll use that word." (Waters had been quoting the manifesto when he used the racial slur.)
@amaditalks The Broken Bad GOP is in full blown power grab mode. How long will the majority stand for this? My suggestion is to swarm the polling places legally and vote the bumps out. 🤨
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
