US Politics Thread

[Postman Pep]

 

[mat]

MTG in court later today.

A US law allows any insurrectionist to be barred from running from office. That is the question at stake - is she an insurrectionist?.

Well...That was fun.

"I don't recall" x 300.

 

[mat]

 

[super_city_si]

Well...That was fun.

"I don't recall" x 300.

Its a shambles. Fuck all will happen even though there are hours of video of her inciting and calling for insurrection and claiming the election was stolen. These fuckers can do what they want Without any consequence.

 

[m7mcfc]

Its a shambles. Fuck all will happen even though there are hours of video of her inciting and calling for insurrection and claiming the election was stolen. These fuckers can do what they want Without any consequence.

 

[m7mcfc]

Your last sentence sums it up.
The first ammendment.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Welcome to the new world, where immigration is nil, US demographics are thin, companies are massively short working people across a wide variety of industries, the bargaining shoe is on the other foot, and significant amounts of comparative data is available to the public for free with a few clicks so it’s easy to find out where one stands in the world on a relative basis (for good or ill).

Despite my general distaste for billionaire oligarchs (especially those who control information distribution platforms), Sanders demonizes them in kind of silly ways. I know comments about $500MM boats and enormous mansions are designed to inflame a sense of injustice in wealth distribution, but who built those boats and houses, Bernie? Non-working people?

 

[Vic]

Welcome to the new world, where immigration is nil, US demographics are thin, companies are massively short working people across a wide variety of industries, the bargaining shoe is on the other foot, and significant amounts of comparative data is available to the public for free with a few clicks so it’s easy to find out where one stands in the world on a relative basis (for good or ill).

Despite my general distaste for billionaire oligarchs (especially those who control information distribution platforms), Sanders demonizes them in kind of silly ways. I know comments about $500MM boats and enormous mansions are designed to inflame a sense of injustice in wealth distribution, but who built those boats and houses, Bernie? Non-working people?

That seems an uncharacteristically silly defence of billionaires' spending patterns.

People building mansions could have been building social housing out of higher taxes on billionaires.

What's wrong with inflaming a sense of injustice about wealth distribution? Wealth inequities are unjust.

 

[Bigga]

That seems an uncharacteristically silly defence of billionaires' spending patterns.

People building mansions could have been building social housing out of higher taxes on billionaires.

What's wrong with inflaming a sense of injustice about wealth distribution? Wealth inequities are unjust.

Daft, isn't it? Already wealthy people that don't think things through when they claim to be 'sympathetic' to the workers cause. It's a fleeting thought for them, literally in one ear out of the other!

'Left' in name only/ Champagne socialists.

 

[SWP's back]

Welcome to the new world, where immigration is nil, US demographics are thin, companies are massively short working people across a wide variety of industries, the bargaining shoe is on the other foot, and significant amounts of comparative data is available to the public for free with a few clicks so it’s easy to find out where one stands in the world on a relative basis (for good or ill).

Despite my general distaste for billionaire oligarchs (especially those who control information distribution platforms), Sanders demonizes them in kind of silly ways. I know comments about $500MM boats and enormous mansions are designed to inflame a sense of injustice in wealth distribution, but who built those boats and houses, Bernie? Non-working people?

The tax paid by US billionaires is minuscule compared to what would be fair (they pay a lower percentage than middle income families for a start). Same for many US companies on their profits.

Bernie wouldn’t even be classed as particularly left wing in the U.K.