leftytighty

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[–] leftytighty 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

out of the principle of charity I chalked it up to the type of person who fixates on the wrong thing but I suspect you're right

[–] leftytighty 5 points 2 weeks ago

They're actively being combatted by the right.

[–] leftytighty -2 points 2 weeks ago

People are explaining the nuance to you and you're not getting it, maybe it wasn't an act.

Don't deprive German consumers of Coca Cola they did nothing wrong

[–] leftytighty 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

granted, I should have given more thought to my hyperbolic hypothetical.

point being I dread to think what "lesser evil" we're looking at when the time comes

[–] leftytighty -2 points 2 weeks ago

let he who is without sin cast the first stone isn't really about encouraging everyone to cast stones simultaneously and at will

[–] leftytighty 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm (truly) not sure if this reasoning applies to the people of Israel at large. To be fair, the same can increasingly be said of Americans who continue to support Republicans as they go mask off.

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/05/30/israeli-views-of-the-israel-hamas-war/

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/war-gaza-netanyahu-likud-israel-election-poll

https://en.idi.org.il/articles/56081

[–] leftytighty 12 points 2 weeks ago

This is what happens when NDP policy is filtered through Liberal government, it would be nice if we could give them a direct chance.

[–] leftytighty 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If there was a strong unified labor force we could use general strikes and other collective action to fight back. I don't know why the American left isn't trying to organize something like this.

[–] leftytighty 8 points 2 weeks ago

if we're imagining a better place why not go further? private ownership over collective production is the only way such gross amounts of wealth are possible.

A 100% tax bracket is fine and all, but why don't we reimagine the economy so that individuals aren't controlling so much of it? We built the infrastructure, we built the factories, we invented the machines and algorithms.

[–] leftytighty 5 points 2 weeks ago

Not the only way... Maybe we should do something about the "invisible hand" constantly giving us the middle finger

[–] leftytighty 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

20 years ago it was Bush and the Cheneys that were so bad we would have been told to vote for anyone running Blue.

Can't wait to vote for the Democratic candidate in 2048 based on the idea that they'll only conscript first-born children into mandatory asteroid farming and have Barron Trump's enforcement over Megahitler.

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