• lanolinoil@lemmy.world
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    end citizens united – corporations aren’t people

    end lobbying so shell oil doesn’t have 10000000X time and money to affect the government as a person does.

    Quit assigning good/bad labels to companies that operate within the law and furious pursue laws that make us more equal, richer and safer overall

    ???

    profit

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      Yeah, but how are you going to realistically do that?

      I’d love to know. Because I hate citizens united. But what do you propose people do about this?

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        I don’t know – It feels like we should be able to use the internet to make grass roots new and hard to corrupt political movements but I don’t see that happening at all.

        There’s also the 250 year empire rule which we’re at now against stability with the current system.

        I honestly have no answer other than a “vote or die” but we all know that doesn’t work.

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          The answer is you vote or we lose democracy. That’s the simple end-all be-all answer here.

          Biden might not be what every single leftist wants, but I guaranfuckingtee that it won’t just be illegal aliens in his camps. It will be you as well.

          I personally don’t want to live in Gilead. I don’t want to fight in a civil war. I’d rather much prefer we vote in Biden, let the Silent/Boomers die off, so we can fix this shit.

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            I can almost smell the Gen X coming off your grim resignation to boomer die off as a new beginning. We’ve waited impotently for so long.

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              Hah, I’m actually a millennial, but it’s happening to the tune of 5,500 boomers a day. Even more for the silent gen.

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                I know its someone’s grandma or granpa but 924,000 is an exciting number.

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            yeah but that just kicks the can down the road, not that I disagree or anything. I don’t know of any real solution.

            The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.

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              Okay so what’s your option then?

              Because sitting out wont do anything, and acting like nothing is happening for people is also not doing any good.

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          I said realistically. That’s not realistic at all. It’d be great to have a post scarcity economy. I’d love it. But that’s not realistic.

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            african countries are doing this right now. we have a consistent method already.

            all you need is actually wanting it. doing nothing is not gonna fix anything.