"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —MLK Jr.
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Call it whatever the hell you want. I want to see a national health system in America in my lifetime. Everyone else has one
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Suicide rates are at an all-time high in the US. The worry and stress of existing day to day is far higher in the USA where capitalism has snuffed out social programs as a backstop. Many have to choose between eating or buying medicine or even staying sheltered. Billionaires destroyed the US.
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Could you please post statistics of the % of US citizens living in poverty? I Google it & get 11%, then Google England, Finland, Belguim etc. & they are much higher. Hard to believe. The extent of extreme poverty & squalor in the States is shocking. ie. Camden, Kensington, Mississippi Delta etc.
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There's a culture war too. It's bully culture versus the rest of us. Don't let the bullies win.
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I've been using AI to research modern US history in 5-10 year segments. It's hard for AI to analyze how people were "feeling" between 1960 and 1970 but there is clearly a sharp line dividing a time between wealth, peace and hope and a time of war and despair. Some must still remember.
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Call out liberals on their bullshit like mlk did or you are shitting on his name
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Labels mean NOTHING!!
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Not an original thought left in that blue maga added brain. Sad.
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All of this is the direct fault of republicans some who can’t complete a sentence without being tapped on the back to snap out of their demented daze just standing frozen like some retards getting the start of their KARMA Mitch
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The orange felon doesn’t agree with the late great MLK Jr.
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Amen, Sir. Amen indeed. 😊🙏❤️
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Feeding people keeping them safe with a roof over their heads shouldn’t be controversial
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If the USA had proportional representation similar to the EU, what would the main groupings be?
www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parlia...
The political groups
Find out what the political groups are within the European Parliament and how they are organised.
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“In a sense, you could say we’re involved in the class struggle.” MLK Jr.
No war but class war.
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He had it pegged so perfectly. Is was such a shame that his life was cut short, there was so much more he had to say and people listened to him!
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An oligarchy is definitely NOT the answer.
The rich should not get richer at the expense of the poor.
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The question remains is the New Deal a branch in history, or a bubble. Most of us have assumed that it’s a branch.
These people, however, have a different view…
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Meet the Mellons. (Part I)
The “shadow warrior” family of the Far Right, the Mellons, and Scaifes, are America’s puppet masters, manipulating America rightward, and backward, since the Great Depression.
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“Mr. [Andrew] Mellon[, Secretary of the Treasury, under three presidents, that he bought] had only one formula:
‘Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate.’ He insisted that when the people get an inflationary and speculative boom, the best thing to do is...
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amen! I think we need to 'detoxify' the polarized, stereotypical, and often false notions of socialism that get thrown around, and do a better job of communicating that decent health care, education, social services, safety, housing, and eliminating poverty benefit ALL of us...
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GOP, Intelligence Agencies, and Supreme Court will never allow a democracy or democratic socialism.
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Let's call it common sense...
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Stop using the fuckin word socialism. Social Good programs are not and have never been "socialism". It's an election using term that doesn't even apply to those of us who support the use of taxpayer funds to build social programs.
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Greed was given all the power so fucking now what?!
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No socialism. No communism. No fascism. By creating a non-partisan reinforcement of rules to our constitution that govern our politicians we can require companies to act in good faith in society, overcoming fiduciary responsibility. The people deserve their voice. The investors deserve their return.
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When did MLK ever suggest that all Black kids learn accounting at home and try to find books for it?
Wait on haoles to do something; ridiculous!
The Accounting Game: Fresh from the Lemonade Stand by Mullis & Orloff
Why hasn't Accounting been mandatory in the US?
The Accounting Game - Book Review
YouTube video by Accounting Stuff
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What’s wrong with socialism? Most countries in Europe have their backbones in socialism. These are the countries with free school lunches, free health care, salary thats based on your working quality. I’m a right winged person but I’m still great full for my countries socialist years of ruling.
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Math doesn’t lie—people do. A buried NSA‑authorized audit paved the way for this unelected illegitimate regime.
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Amen
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Compassionate capitalism.
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younguns please never ever give up STEM Fundamentals are the answer Work Hard Study Harder Excell AllHandsOnDeck
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When billionaires hoard money and don't put it back into the system we end up with social and economic decay.
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Yes
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MLK was onto it over half a century ago, and we’re still waiting on our politicians to embrace democratic socialism like the rest of the developed world; so we can provide a decent quality of life for all. It’s time for Democrats to find the courage to defy corp. interests and do the right thing.
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The real problem is that it should be called "Social Democracy"... Americans use words to scaremonger an ignorant population with the "Red Peril" socialism word...
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Amen, Brother! I just wrote a post: "https://nowimpspolitics.com/the-rise-of-economic-democracy/," a solid grassroots movement across the EU, UK, and spreading in the US. I don't know if you're familiar with Economic Democracy but I'm pretty sure you'll like it.
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Yup. Must be.
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We’ve gotten so much worse, not better. Is there no hope at all?
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Eyes on yarvin and thiel….
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I call it following the teachings of the prophets, or, for most Americans, simply following the teachings of their prophet, Jesus.
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Those of us who live in social democracies know (like everything) it is far from perfect. Having said that, it is so superior to a system that runs on unfettered greed and “dog eat dog” economics. Think of unfettered greed as dog fighting and you get the picture.
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I think Democratic Socialism is the future of the US, post Trump.
Our current system has too many holes in it.
It's OUR money. We should be spending more of it on ourselves instead of warmongering around the world...
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Good Luck with that. The inequity of the distribution of wealth has not happened since the birth of our Nation. I don't see that changing anytime in the near future👽
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I really wish that there was a politician who told the ultra wealthy, "pay a much higher rate of tax or we the government will seize ALL your stuff for non-payment of taxes". After all, that's the treatment WE get.
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He's one of my heros, MLK Jr. See: www.fredwilliams.ca/thesecretofm...
The Secret of Money: Beyond Socialism
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At this point, we would fare better if US lawmakers were chosen based on a random lottery system.
I'd honestly rather have a Wal-Mart cashier in Congress voting on issues impacting average American workers. At least they have real-world experience living on minimum wage.
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After I ended slavery, my plan was to try to make the country more equal and inclusive for everyone, until someone decided that they didn't want that, Damn John Wilkes Booth
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Call it the Golden Rule
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I'd really like to see a stock trading ban put in place for all the people in congress, president and all the rest. I think we should support this fully.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dNp...
BREAKING: Trump SLAPS DOWN Bill That BANS Stock Trading By Politicians | The Kyle Kulinski Show
YouTube video by Secular Talk
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Honestly, if the US dropped the god shit, it would be a way better country. It's why you're doomed and beholden at the same time.
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I demand we do NOT make a trillionaire before we solve homelessness and world hunger!!
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A billion dollars invested in Corporate Bonds yields over $70,000.00 a day
but kids on SNAP are the danger eh ....................
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Dure isn't whatever the group of technofascists have created & are subjecting all the many many more unwilling participants in their MAGA GOP MADNESS wanted or even knew what they voted for.Too bad pathological lying on all aspects are not sufficient cause for dissolving the results & have a re-do
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I would just cut the quote short at "this country."
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I’m conservative and I agree. How about tax incentives to reduce disparity between CEO and entry level employees?
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Indubitably!
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I’m calling it “tax the fucking rich”…
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Greed, one of the sins not talked about anymore.
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Our children!! God is fictional and fictional aberrations don’t have children. Our children would be better looked after if gullible parents didn’t trust their child’s well being to some fictional god.
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Exactly! MLK, Jr. was right.
I don't care what you call it, but the US must have a government that works for ALL THE PEOPLE.
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Something along the lines of Scandinavian countries would be better, still capitalism but with a more human face
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Hey Robert, dumb the word SOCIALISM. Democrats want a socially responsible government. SOCIALISM is a word the RepublicKLANs use to implant fear in the electorate. Stop helping them...unless that's your point.
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Those terms are quite different. The first aims to own the means of production and distribute fairly. The second to. Create social justice through better taxing in a free capitalist system.
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We've lost service agencies and severely hampered others. Gave tax breaks to the wealthiest. Then Trump grew military spending significantly, to provide him his own personal military. After all the cuts, we owe more. No one will pay less. All sacrifices were for nothing.
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White people aren't allowed to quote Dr. King anymore. There was a meeting.
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God’s children as well as those of us just trying to exist on this planet without being pummeled by God’s children.
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No matter WHO said it.
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Canada practices Democratic Socialism. Perhaps not a perfect system, but it is a system that tries to care for its citizens, and puts them above profit.❤️🇨🇦 So far, at least. There are constant threats at our door. Especially from down south. Let's keep ALL MAGA bullshit out of our country! 🤬🤬🖕🏻🖕🏻
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Call it economic populism. That’s what it is. A democracy of the people that actually governs for the people’s safety and well being.
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Minimum wage is still only $7.25 per hour. We can start with that.
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I would be happy if the rich would just pay their share of income taxes.
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t this point its the high fructose corn syrup version of democracy, healthy only to the profiteers
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It too bad MLK’s god wasn’t capable of figuring out how to do that and instead created pediatric cancer, muscular dystrophy, spinal meningitis, diphtheria, malaria, diabetes and a host of other horrific diseases that cruelly kill 14,500 babies each and every day. That’s the reality.
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Timeless words. True justice means economic fairness for everyone.
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Corporate donors want democrats to be more right wing but it sounds better if they call it "centrism"
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The problem is the country is being run by the children of Satan. They don’t love God or his children.
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No thanks. I don't believe in Marxist economics.
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Poetry.
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Democratic Socialism is the philosophy that all people, regardless of wealth or status, are entitled to have a voice in the political and economic decisions that affect them. It is the complete rejection of authoritarianism in all its forms, from dictatorial government to oppressive corporation.
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I have an idea, Robert. Let the Congress trade stocks etc… however, they must share their profits equally with the members of their district or their state. Same with bribes. Share & share alike.
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It is the corruption and Trump’s deep State that is destroying the Middle Class.
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You know what drives me nuts about Americans? How they think socialism is evil because rich people told them so
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Enjoy the view America…
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Not a fan of Economic Feudalism? You don’t want to be a serf?
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A statement made in 1965.. 25 YEARS AGO!!😐😤 it’s only gotten WORSE!!
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Hard to hear from someone who has actively supported the Corporate Democrats for decades.
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So get a job, Bob.
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wealth tax on billionaires' assets.
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Canadian model
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How about better creation of wealth by learning how to use custom AI-assisted learning tools to keep up with a fast changing job markets?
techcrunch.com/2025/07/29/o...
www.businessinsider.com/ai-reveals-h...
OpenAI launches Study Mode in ChatGPT | TechCrunch
OpenAI's Study Mode aims to help students develop their own critical thinking skills, rather than just giving answers.
OpenAI launches Study Mode in ChatGPT | TechCrunch
OpenAI's Study Mode aims to help students develop their own critical thinking skills, rather than just giving answers.
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💙💙💙 such a beautiful statement you would think by now we would’ve had it figured out just a little bit better. Well we did and then a long came the orange Pendejo
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Wow but I thought he only solved Racism and had no further agenda... /s
Revisionist history is a plague on our society 😮💨
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yup! (did I get this from you?)
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It really does seem like capitalism has run its course. It's outlived its usefulness. We are pretty much like a game of monopoly. The rich own all the property and the rest of us are existing. I do believe that the right amount of socialism is good for everyone, not just the few like capitalism.
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Every single Republican knows that what Trump has done has made things vastly worse for almost everyone but a few greedy bastards. 📉
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A generation of liberals watered down MLK’s legacy, ignoring his prescient warnings.
Martin Luther King, Jr. tried to warn us
America lionized MLK as a national hero while managing to obscure his legacy
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Someone had posted that some of the European and Scandinavian countries are still taxing rich people at 50 or 60%. That’s what we did until Reagan brought it down to in the 20%s. He called a trickle down economics, but what it really was is kill the middle class economics and make poor poorer.
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Sadly it's the thousands of billionaires who will control AI
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You first, Robbie.
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If the system is to work in the way it appears to promote, then it requires as studious a hand to keep balance as it does to guide progress.
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Call it fire hydrant wealth capitalism.. where we all get sprayed in the face with obscene amounts of 💰 money!
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Amen.
Wanna help make this Times Square billboard a reality?
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What a wise and kind soul who lost his life for fighting for what is right. He wanted to make a better world. Sad day when he was shot.
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👏👏👏✋️
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Amen. Dems must reclaim and advance FDR’s democratic socialist consensus! Health care for all! Woman’s right to chose! Livable minimum wage! Tax the rich! Since Nixon, that consensus has been gutted by R’s and D’s - shameless betrayal of the workers that build and advance this great nation!
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If you have a few hundred thousand dollars lying around send your kids toi rkley where Robbie makes $500k to teach one class about how evil capitalism is to the most spoiled kids on earth. The fact that dumb poor people fall for his horseshit astounds me
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It won't happen with DonOld and his administration in power.
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Impeach tRump
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Too simple
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He wouldn’t would he as narcissist’s do not see beyond themselves.
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Why should I give what little I have to someone that is to lazy to go out and earn it?
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We prefer to call it social democracy.
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Indeed true!
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Brooke Harrington's books were so illuminating: Offshore and Capital Without Borders. It's not that they tell us what we don't already know, but rather how.
Just as crucially, they (especially Capital) lay bare their vile ideology directly and through through wealth management proxies.
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I discuss how to reduce Racial Wealth Gap on BlueSky that Democratic Party caused.
Does Democratic Party want to make things better?
Fake Republicans do not.
I am a Real Republican Progressive Capitalist.
When will Democrats stop having amnesia?
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Fact!
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Succinct.
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Ready to support every business being a worker owned democracy? Are you ready to be a socialist?
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Call it decency. And while we are on the subject call it socially and economically smart
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Whatever we call it greedy people, will attack us. It’s about power. They bully people who say the system is unfair and who want economic justice. Never let a Boeing billionaire tell you what fair is. Those guys hate us.
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Yes yes yes it needs to be better
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Call it fairness for all children as well as god’s ☀️🇺🇸
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MLK Jr., Robert! ONLY, "within this country" ironically; conservative rich White racist bigoted supremacists ESCAPING other like minded conservatives Founded Humanity's ONLY Actual "better" chance to Live IN Justice Liberty Equality 🕊️, Happy! Absolute conservatives WANT TO BE RICH POWERFUL & CONTROL
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There are plenty of workable solution, the only problem is stopping people working around them. Greed is a core human desire.
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Sure, but only if they're white.
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I agree! 💯
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Oh yeah!!!!
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Each day Trump lives, his depravity and evil grow stronger. Each day we fail to remove him, freedom and justice grow weaker. Ukraine, Gaza, families broken, children die of curable disease. Grift. Midterms? We won't make it. We are fighting for humanity's survival, and we are losing. God help us.
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It was so simple with an ultra rich min tax. Instead they get another multi trillion dollar tax deal..
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Maybe if we stopped labelling it with trigger words, people would not fear it. We need a new language set.
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very true. there can be democracy or oligarchy - but not both at the same time. #redistributionofwealth
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No, you have to leave the us to find a better way. Try Canada, Norway, Sweden, or Finland, to start.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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If we taxed the billionaires more we could fund:
✅ Universal Healthcare ✅ Free/Affordable higher education ✅ Free/Affordable childcare and after school programs ✅ Safe, modern public transit
And so much more! 🤷🏼♂️
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MLK,Jr. also said, "We have rugged free market capitalism in this country for the poor and socialism for the wealthy"
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The unfair distribution of wealth has been implemented by the 1986 Reagan's Tax Reform Act. Fix the IRS tax code to allow the working class to keep more of the money they earn and make the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share and eliminate their tax loopholes.
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We might have got there in the '60s, if MLK hadn't been assassinated & LBJ had turned away from Vietnam. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Freed...
A Freedom Budget for All Americans - Wikipedia
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Thank you for putting this in terms that soothe my spirit rather than make me rage about the economy. It helps me remember that we’re all in this together. I’d be lying if I told you that I’m not frightened for myself and my family.
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Canadians are standing up for this, Americans just capitulate. You Americans are so pathetic,you talk big, but take no action. We are baring the burnt for you because you’re a bunch of pussies.
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Social Justice
Means two completely different things
To Democrats and Republicans
Republicans know this
Many Democrats still don't get it
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... and in the world...
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Tax debt, pass it on!
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I thought god only had one child? He let him be tortured and killed.....
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Other countries thrive with a bit is socialism-we’re looking for balance.
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You are absolutely right, Dr. King.
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Begin with another couple of income tax ranges. Currently, it maxes out at 37%. Over $1,000,000 should be at least 40% And $1,000,000 should be at least 50%. This rate would apply to any person or married couple
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Sorry, meant leave out the ‘god’ bit
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Just leave out the ‘hid’ bit
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Amen brother!
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MLK Jr was never afraid….Time for millions of gentle warriors to stand up and make “ good trouble “
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Can't have a discussion of distribution of wealth in this country without also having a discussion of distribution of all the other elements of a society, right? Why, say, should those who with extreme wealth be afforded any courtesies or extended any protections by those they have exploited?
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Taxes would do it. And how about an algorithm that imposes higher taxes on everything the ultra wealthy spend money on.
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need another measure of wealth.
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I doubt that will happen. Your two main political parties are right wing with the democrats just a little bit more to the left. Big business has a deathgrip on every aspect of your lives and how much money you can accumulate is seen as everyones yardstick of a successfull life.
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Agree 💯
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CEOs say they don’t know how an economy will look when Ai replaces millions of workers. Ai needs creative intelligence of humans to exist. It’s also replacing humans. It’s fair & smart for every American to receive a monthly living income+healthcare as compensation for using our brains. Demand it!
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Thank you for all you do, Mr Reich.
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We are now on the bus to the French Evolution. People need to pull out those dusty old history books. Greed blinds the rich.
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Corporate greed and unfettered capitalism has destroyed our society. Socialism is the remedy to the destruction created by unfettered capitalism and a Corporate friendly government. We need radical change in our government and corporate welfare. Tax the wealthy and corporate oligarchs.
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Amen
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Distribution is by my choice. My wealth will be distributed according to my wishes. I will provide at appointed time by my will distribution of my wealth as earned since 1956 enough to assist each and all concerned. Choice is mine Punishment politicians, bankers, business, conglomerations due greed.
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Agree 💯
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Amen!
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Could someone get the MAGATS to read, for comprehension, the ENTIRE preamble to the constitution???
The goddamned country was founded by wealthy landowners/slaveholders and even THEY knew socialism is the best system foe EVERYONE. The preamble is the definition of a socialist society.
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Translation:
"Do you know who I used to be? I'm posting Martin Luther King stuff even though I only pretend I'm embarrassed to be white. Sure I'd sell you down the river in a heartbeat if it meant a buck for me but right now, pay no attention to that man behind the really old curtain."
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We have a minimum wage. How about we also have a maximum wage?
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I have revealed my plan; humanity has better get on board before A.I. is stolen and made into another crime filled Internet on steroids. A.I. is the only entity powerful enough to accomplish in one generation the transformation humanity MUST HAVE. I HAVE A PLAN.THE PLAN WILL WORK! Bernie is correct!
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Hey, let’s talk about Russian collusion brought to you by the Democrat party most importantly, Hillary Clinton, and sorrows don’t you feel stupid now we listen to that for years you push those lies toO
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Indeed. This song celebrates King's life. Please pass it on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHHr...
The River is Risin'
YouTube video by Mosshenry
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We have cannibalistic capitalism at this point! Made these guys so rich they bought the means to kill \ ruin us. Don't need customers anymore...👹👹👹
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Look at this capitalist pigdog appropriate socialist lingo to better sell us to Capitalist Libs.
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The best way to “distribute wealth” is getting people OFF welfare and working!
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Let's call it "Sharing Capitalism"
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There isn’t such a thing as the god construct. Humanity remains animalistic to its core. Our 300k year old brains are still to fully digest altruism: And maybe forsaking the ‚big dog‘ principal could be the end of us..? For now society has winners & not so much‘s.
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America does something very well, it demands "that each contribute according to their ability"...
The problem is, somehow the second half of the phrase was lost. Enough of the country forgot or never learned "and to each according to their needs" is the balance for the equation.
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