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Started by linate

This will be way more of a vanity run than last time. She thinks that since she might be popular with a plurality of democrats that she'll be popular with most of them, let alone most Americans, sounds like a vanity and power trip more than anythingShe can't even articulate why shes best other than

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Started by Double_R

The president's corruption has gotten so bad that wet literally can't even keep up with it anymore. Most recent example is that he bought stock in Dell right before they were awarded a massive government contract, and also told a crowd to buy stock in Dell, for no apparent reason other than to boost

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Started by melcharaz

Do feminists push pornography or publically support it? There is evidence of porn activism, some by former porn stars, others by people who identify as left leaning or lgbtqi.But do feminists ACTUALLY support it?Discuss/debate

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Started by bubbatheclown

This proposal would see possession - though not distribution - of small quantities of dangerous hard drugs (such as heroin) decriminalized, or at least changed from a felony to a misdemeanor. The legal threshold (again, for possession) will fall just below the amount that your average user will cons

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Started by FLRW

Tired of Political Chaos? So Is AI.With all the chaos and division I’ve been following in American politics lately, I’ve genuinely started thinking — what if we removed political parties and individual leaders altogether, and replaced them with a centralized artificial intelligence?An AI that propos

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Started by linate

Food Deserts are where grocery stores dont locate in urban areas cause its not profitable enough. So local people dont get access to basic nutrition. But why make every possible governmemt intervention as by definition wrong? Why frame every decision that affects the livelihood of citizens through p

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Started by linate

Giving more tax cuts to the wealthy?Yeah leftists have a lot of interventions to try to make life more affordable. Some r good ideas and some are not. But what are the rights solutions? It seems as far as I can tell is do nothing and hope somehow the economy that is making things worse will just mag

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Started by fauxlaw

Virtrually nothing. Oh, they claim they are:Establishing a dedicated task force... Developing mechanisms...Security Council resollutions...Wow! Such action. Unfortunatly, I read these direct quotes from the UN as nothing more than talk-talk-say-nothing. Something the UN is well-practiced doing. They

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Started by SatanLucy

Wars arent free.Wars are far from free.Iran has done attacks on oil transport and oil production in the region, as a response to US aggression.Iran knows it cant defeat USA in a military sense, but also cannot be defeated by it in any short time.But economically, Iran can defeat USA.By choking US ec

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Started by fauxlaw

"Socialist feminism fights for queer liberation and the freedoms of all working class women. Stop gender violence and end policies that oppress bodily autonomy and intimate life, including patriarchal restrictions on abortion, childbirth and childraising [sic], gender expression and transition, marr

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Started by fauxlaw

Part 9: "What We Fight For" Healthcare for All"Guarantee universal healthcare at no cost to individuals, including complete access to reproductive and gender-affirming care. Expand healthcare access and quality by investing in new public hospitals and clinics. Make all medical education and training

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Started by fauxlaw

"Empower workers to come together and fight the boss. Protect, expand, and enforce the rights of all workers to form, join, and strike with their unions, regardless of industry. Support union members who organize reform caucuses, democratize their unions, and take political action."  - DSA https://p

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Started by linate

https://www.rawstory.com/west-virginia-food-stamp-income-limits/Of course, considering these red state maggots who are losing food stamps also part of the maga cult, they will swiftly put the blame where this belongs... with Biden. Or maybe jimmy carter?? Of course the blame doesnt lie with the man

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Started by fauxlaw

El Sayed [MI] wins by an entire 1%. Wow! A landslide! MI does not register voters by party affiliation, but, generally, in MI, voter registration is 53.2% by voting for a Democrat candidate, and is 30.2% voting for a Republican. That's a 23% spread. Typically, the "Democrat," El Sayed, should have w

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Started by fauxlaw

This last post goes beyond the DSA's platform. This is a summary, only, so there is no blurb from DSA.So, what is really accomplished by the "fight," the objectives of the DSA, if some workers become bosses?Becoming, is, after all, the whole point of communism by the platform of the Democratic Socia

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Started by linate

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/poll-us-boomers-support-tax-100500119.htmlIt's interesting that boomers overwhelmingly would want to increase taxes on the younger generation to fund their social security, but it might be even more interesting that the article chose to frame it as b

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Started by linate

Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in. Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool. Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms. Step 4: Fres

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Started by linate

On debating maga..."It's always been baked in to the maga agenda. Never believe that maga are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words re

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Started by fauxlaw

This slogan was masively popularized by Marx & Engels, your socialist heroes. It is, however, incorrect to believe your heroes coined the phrase. Nope, just like money, these socialists depended on another's cleverness and productivity. They merely borrowed the phrase, to the extent that the tru

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Started by linate

Actually some insightful wisdom hunter be spitting (if its really from him)I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday. 1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away. 2. Endorsements from t

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Started by linate

The Fall of the New RomeIs the United States the new "Rome"? If so, can America be saved, or must it fall victim to the forces of fascism, corporate plutocracy and tyranny? Is there a way out, to return to democracy and freedom? This blog explores the political, social and spiritual issues that affe

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Started by linate

A Market-Based Universal Healthcare Guarantee: A Proposal for a Universal Catastrophic Coverage Public OptionIntroduction: Protecting Americans Without Replacing American HealthcareThe United States does not need to choose between two extremes: a healthcare system where people can be financially des

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Started by fauxlaw

Y'all hang that "DEMOCRAT" flag in front of socialism, and you think that makes it a different philosophy? Bullshyte. The only difference is that the donkey is now pulling a failed cart. That is what socialism is: FAILED. Failed because it has never, ever, ever been able to sustain itself in 178 yea

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Started by fauxlaw

This particular case beforee the Supreme Court to reach a decision on whether or not the original framers of the14th Amendment citrizenship clause [Clause 1] intended what has been determned by US v. Wong Kim Ark in 1898, and this case today, let alone several cases in between. This case was not an

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Started by linate

Conservatives often argue that there are no successful socialist countries. But by the same logic, there are also no successful purely capitalist countries. Virtually every prosperous nation operates with some mix of markets and government programs rather than adhering to either extreme.It's not as

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