The Ripamaru ⭐⭐
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The Ripamaru ⭐⭐
@Ripamaru
Chelsea supporter, founding member of NW Arkansas Blues supporters club. 49ers, A's, Sharks, Kings, Kentucky FB+BB fan.
Siloam Springs, AR Katılım Mayıs 2009
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@SER1897 Naaaa. GOP is super easy. Just say the right buzzwords and appear on Fox and he's golden.
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It's also important to note that Fetterman is very lazy. It takes a lot of work -- more so than just appearing on Fox News every day -- to raise money, get endorsements, and he'd have to start from scratch with the GOP.
🌼🌹Raquel🌹🌼@eternallyRaq
I’ve seen people try to say that Fetterman’s popularity with republicans will help him. But he had to win Pennsylvania democrats over first. If democrats hate him and republicans won’t actually vote for him in a general election, then he’s finished.
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@MarkNorberg2 @kdaw196158 @JustinInBmore You are correct about the existing party being right wing and I hate all of that. Those existing levers you speak of are weaker than the ones blocking 3rd party access btw. One of the 2 must be broken. Id be thrilled if your idea won out. We want the same things.
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@Ripamaru @kdaw196158 @JustinInBmore The existing Dem party is a right-wing org filled with corporately-corrupt, right-wing fascists with too many levers to stop institutional change -- as the Bernie movement has shown time and again. It is a total dead end for anyone who thinks they are on the Left.
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So then...why is she running as a Democrat?
adri ♡@socialistadri
WHEN @hasanthehun ASKED @CoriBush IF SHE FEELS LIKE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS TAKING THE BLACK VOTE FOR GRANTED, SHE SAYS "ABSOLUTELY!" AND SHE ABSOLUTELY DEVOURED ‼️ SHE clocked that the Democratic Party is not a true oppositional party.
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@MarkNorberg2 @kdaw196158 @JustinInBmore I do not belong to any party and I oppose all of that. How do you plan to build a coalition to oppose this if you alienate people who want the same things you do?
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@kdaw196158 @Ripamaru @JustinInBmore You belong to a right-wing party that sues to keep 3rd parties of off ballots. We're not on the same side.
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The point of this tweet is not that progressive prosecutors are responsible for the precipitous drop in murders in Philly and NYC since 2022. The point, rather, is that we have no clear idea why the murder rate has fallen off a cliff, and explanations that point to "tougher prosecutors" can't explain what's happened in much of the country.
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@MarkNorberg2 @kdaw196158 @JustinInBmore If you believe there are enough people of conscience to replace the party with a better one there are logically also enough people to take over the existing party. I'm saying it's an easier sell than a 3rd party is. Doesn't matter if you think the belief is untrue. Most do not.
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@Ripamaru @kdaw196158 @JustinInBmore People stupidly believing something that is not true is on them. If you & the rest of Dem voters want to turn yourselves into supporters of right-wing, war-mongering, genocidal fascism because you think you have no choice, you are welcome to do that. I will not be joining you.
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@MarkNorberg2 @kdaw196158 @JustinInBmore I'm not suggesting anything of the sort. I'm talking about purging those people out of the party.
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@ThreeHatsInARow @tonyannett They weren't as easy to avoid as they are now. They paid a higher effective tax rate even if it wasn't 94%.
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@Ripamaru @tonyannett I'm guess I'm unclear on how taxes that are easy to avoid slow down top-end wealth growth. Pushing the wealthy into inefficient investments?
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Lots of comments pointing out that very few people paid these taxes. That is correct. The goal was to reduce oligarchic power, to stop the buildup of intergenerational fortunes that were associated with Europe.
Tony Annett@tonyannett
During the 30 golden years, the American top income tax rate varied from 70% to 94%.
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@kdaw196158 @MarkNorberg2 @JustinInBmore Oh for sure. I have opinions and some strongly held but I've been wrong before and will be wrong again about some things.
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@MarkNorberg2 @JustinInBmore @Ripamaru It is a free country though and you are welcome to have a differing opinion on the matter.
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@ljmontello This is the natural behavior of people who believe they (and only they) are ideologically correct.
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What is it about every wsws person that makes them so insufferably smug while contributing absolutely nothing to any conversation they drop into than proclaiming how much smarter they are than everyone else.
J.M. Bee@j_em_bee
@ljmontello Correct. And it’s important to understand that calls for #M4A, while better than the center-right ACA, are a dead-end. As long as the capitalist class remains in place, it will never allow such an incursion into its wealth and profits. Only socialism can get us universal HC.
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@amandalitman Most of them just want to feel like someone is actually gonna fight for their interests and correctly intuit that most politicians are there fighting for an entirely different set of people.
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Just fwiw, since this started with a screenshot of me (ahem), I have never *ever* said the latter!
Nate Silver@NateSilver538
@mattyglesias Obviously, "voters do not have coherent ideologies" is correct, also obviously, "therefore they must implicitly agree with my lib/progressive positions endorsed by Ivy League graduate students" is incorrect.
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@MarkNorberg2 @kdaw196158 @JustinInBmore You think it's impossible to convince people to vote out corporate Democrats (reform the party) but somehow possible to convince them 3rd parties aren't wasting their votes. A very odd set of beliefs.
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@kdaw196158 @JustinInBmore @Ripamaru You are not answering the question: what is stopping everyone from voting 3rd party like I do every election? Can you or can you not answer that?
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@ThreeHatsInARow @tonyannett Sure. It was never blocking wealth. It just slowed down extreme inequality. The other half of that was much better wages and benefits for the working class.
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@Ripamaru @tonyannett ? Investing grows your personal wealth
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@MarkNorberg2 @kdaw196158 @JustinInBmore You know the answer. Everyone knows the system is designed to prevent them taking hold. Convincing people to change their minds on that is harder than convincing them to only vote for Dems who don't take money from the donor class.
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@cyclnvancouver @tonyannett We can look at wealth inequality to see it worked quite well actually.
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@tonyannett I doubt anyone back then ever used that word. All rich people employed tax accountants and lawyers to evade taxes. It worked. And, JFK started reducing high marginal rates.
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@ThreeHatsInARow @tonyannett Inequality didn't get anywhere near as bad as it has now. They were forced to reinvest money instead of hoard it.
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@tonyannett Totally different tax system, people still got rich they just moved money through untaxed avenues
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@katewillett The system is designed to prevent it being fixed. Fixing policing would require a mass purge of officers, admistrators, etc.
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I thought Zohran’s NYPD wasn’t going to collaborate with ICE?
If he’s just learning about this, he’s not to blame, but if Tisch keeps her job while doing this, that’s not excusable.
Sandy Nurse@SandyforCouncil
What I witnessed last night while ICE was present at Wyckoff Hospital in Bushwick:
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