I’m voting for the NOT TRUMP candidate until we fix this broken system and have better options. Couldn’t really stand Biden, but I was supporting the fuck out of that dude if it meant we could avoid the shit show that would be a Trump presidency.
“I never vote for, only against.” – W.C. Fields in a rare serious moment.
Something I take to heart. I will never get a candidate who represents everything I stand for, but there will always be one who represents less of what I stand for than the other.
THIS. Campaign Finance & Election Reform is the most important single-issue in America right now because it impacts quite literally every other problem and the disenfranchisement and frustrations so many Americans feel with the system right ow.
Amidst this 2-Party System, we have no choice but to vote for the lesser-of-two-poor choices.
Between these two parties, only one party has actually advocated for fixing the system.
We need a Constitutional Amendment. It’s the only way.
This movement needs to be grassroots and built state-by-state.
The good news is that there is untapped bipartisan support for said initiative. We just need to ALL keep repeating this, which again, is easy because it can be injected into nearly every single political conversation.
My Windows computer was infected more than once by virus spreading ads on legitimate websites. The site owners denied any responsibility for the viruses saying it was the fault and responsibility of the ad companies. Never again.
That’s wayyyy too early to say. Her only really different policy position is on Medicare For All and fracking, everything else is a matter of degrees. Even then Biden doesn’t particularly oppose Medicare For All, he just said it needs to be tax supported and not based on debt spending.
Whether she’ll be better in practice is really more a function of Congressional support. If the Dems can’t take Congress and the pack the Court nothing else will matter anyways.
Unless she wants to take a firmer position vis a vis Officially Acting to Publicly Execute certain Justices. I don’t believe she’s stated an intent on that.
We can never expect anything groundbreaking out if the Democratic party. The best thing is just solidifying some already predatory practice that may be slightly better than the previous predatory practice. Your best bet is to support any sort of voting reform that you come across such as Ranked Choice Voting. With that, we can hope to rid ourselves of the two-party hegemony.
Absolutely. Add capping campaign spending, overturning Citizens United, and making it easier for alternative political parties to get on the ballot to that list, too.
I mean that’s established political wisdom: establish yourself as a progressive in the primaries and then move towards the centre for the general. That has been the democratic playbook for many elections. And it kinda makes sense: You need the base for the primary but those voters alone are not enough for the general.
Biden was actually an outlier in that regard. He actually moved left in his campaign rhetoric after Bernie dropped out.
Ten months into Israel’s war on Gaza, the death toll has passed 40,000, according to health authorities there. Most of the dead are civilians and the total represents nearly 2% of Gaza’s prewar population, or one in every 50 residents.
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Those left behind by each attack have to deal not only with their grief, but the trauma of living on in the shadow of death and the constant threat of another attack.
In November an airstrike destroyed Ali Abbas’s apartment building, killing two of his children, Fatima, 17, and Omar, five, his brother and two nieces, one of them just 20 days old. There was no evacuation order or warning.
Abbas was so badly injured he spent two weeks in intensive care, initially shielded from news about his children’s deaths. When he was told, he tried to disconnect all the tubes keeping him alive. What is left of their family now lives in a tent.
“I always say we should go to stay in my mother’s house. But my son refuses because he has developed a phobia of buildings and walls, and he is afraid of the dark because the building collapsed on top of us when it was bombed, and people had to pull him out from under the rubble.
“I wake up to his screaming. He usually has nightmares that he is still under the rubble and he begs: ‘Help me, help get me out, please!’”
I don’t understand how arbitration ever came to be. It completely bypass the court systems, the very court systems that are put in place exactly for the purpose of making these type of decisions.
It’s meant for B2B lawsuits, so they can both avoid extra litigation costs. They forced it onto consumers because they wanted to win more. They get to choose their arbitrator and avoid more public cases.
There has been some push back in recent years. This article by Consumer Reports shows some ways as to how people have been fighting back.
It’s a perversion of justice because of how its used to oppress people, that’s for sure. The last two places I rented had mandatory binding arbitration by an entity of the Landlord’s choosing, and in practice that means you’re completely at the legal mercy and whim of someone else.
It might as well read that I agree to sign away all my rights, and yet, people need a place to live. What choice do we have?
It doesn’t completely bypass the courts. Arbitrators don’t have the authority to enforce anything by themselves.
After both sides present their case, an arbitrator will write an opinion. That opinion must still be sent to an actual judge who checks it for errors and who has to take responsibility for enforcing it. Though it’s rare, judges have on occasion thrown out the arbitrator’s opinion.
Rent seeking on housings is revolting. I wouldn’t call myself hardcore communist but damn how I wish housing is not something someone can make rent(as in economics) off of.
I am not American, so my opinion doesn’t matter anyway, but if I were, then Harris would probably be the first time I would be voting for a major party candidate. She has her flaws too I am sure, but no one better seems to be running this time.
Yes. I believe it’s entirely up to police discretion so depending on your skin color and whether johnny law had lunch will determine whether you get the 1k fine and or jail time.
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