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  1. We have the money for universal healthcare, they just decided to spend it on tanks attacking American cities instead. Remember that the next time they ask anyone left of center “how will you pay for it?”

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    it’s become clear that state level gerrymandering bans were just unilateral disarmament and the only real solution is a federal gerrymandering ban…

    And the only way to get that is Dems pushing for maximal gerrymandering until we get a trifecta to pass the law and pack the courts to enforce it

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  3. not to keep this discourse going, but it really is surprising to me how many people say they wouldn't want to live forever, or at least until they could choose not to live. I would put the minimum length of time for to even consider checking out at least a millennium before I really got tired.

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  4. “We allowed markets to produce a class of politically connected billionaires… Now that enough billionaires have lined up behind fascism and authoritarian consolidation, it’s clear…liberal governments…will need to figure out ways to greatly reduce the wealth and social power of that class overall.”

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  5. George Carlin once said that Germany lost WWII, but fascism won.

    That fascism occurs when corporations take over. When the transfer of wealth happens from the masses to the rich.

    He said we don’t have rights, we have privileges.

    They can be taken away at any point.

    Carlin was a wise man.

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