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The DNC will ask you for a fiscal donation while you are volunteering time to them.

Been true forever

I'm a single-issue voter and that issue is smashing the skulls of the super-rich against a farking wall until candy comes out.

📌 YUP

Turns out welfare works as proven by the success of decades of wingnut welfare

This is an insult to ass hair.

That's why many of us became government employees honestly. Best way to get by and feel like you're making a difference. At least it was pre-DOGE and Trump 2.0.

We got nothing to lose. Fuck em!

Yes, this modern mash-up of the confederation, idiocracy and nazi Germany will surely end well.

Our society pays at an inverse rate to your utility

We are reverting to a world where this was the norm. Liberalism/Socialism/Progressivism hasn't been something people get paid for across most of human history... Because the wealthy largely don't approve of it. This isn't particularly strange historically unfortunately.

Most of those rich Dems are hedging their bets in case the orange Mussolini decides to name himself emperor.

we need a new model that supports disaggregated journalism. maybe royalties tracked like streaming — pay $25-$50/m and pro-rate the $ based on views: 1) instead of subscriptions because there are too many = cost prohibitive and 2) allows even single viewings w/o paywalls and email-capture systems.

Yes this is one reason why the rich need to be taxed.

Oh no I meant the first part

And, inexplicably, the undead remnants of James Carville?

Why do you say ezra is center right?

Ezra Klein seems to have a niche as "conservative, not crazy" but somehow that's about as left as the mainstream media goes these days.

Don't know if you know her work, but Susan George had similar things to say about this in the 1990s in her essay "How to Win the War of Ideas: Learning from the Gramscian Right" www.denknetz.ch/wp-content/u...

Rich "Democrats" are mostly donating to centrists to keep the Democrat party from getting any radical ideas. Santa Claus for leftists is never going to happen.

Fuck, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer could fix this with their personal wealth alone.

And this very much connects to the Dobson news. As a Peace Corps volunteer in South Africa I tagged along to a free workshop for teachers that turned out to be from FotF. Don't really even remember the details, except that it sucked, but there's always money in the RW banana stand.

hoo boy yeah i empathize

I’m pretty confident if we motivated our poaster talent, we could absolutely break the way too online core of the current right and get them to do publicly all sorts of bananas stuff to alienate most of the population. Most of the staff at all levels of the right live half their free time on X

Incentive: you get to live in a free nation maybe

The incentive is that he doesn't have to deal with the Bolsheviks.

He wants tax cuts from the libs

Once again asking myself what Tom Steyer has been doing with his oodles of cash, besides sulking after the 2020 primary

Likely that just a few wealthy Democrat congresscritters could bankroll that. This just in: But they won't.

I saw a thing where you can buy tickets to come see a scientist lecture at the pub like it’s a trivia night.

*they think this has bugged me every single time i get a notification

But they're rich no matter what. Why would they want things to change?

You can, subscribe to the Guardian and the Philly Inquirer.

Liberals have no problem with wealth. Leftists might get an annoyed audience.

deep cut! A different time.

I hear it and see it too - good people are struggling. Bad guys are winning big $.

There was a song with lines: Money is the power Power is the money!

Yep, I know SO, a fantastic mid career environmentalist who got his dream job last September, and lost it when Trump 86ed his position in February. Many, thousands of unemployed people.

This has been a growing problem for AT LEAST 20 years. But it has never been worse than it is now. It has chased me out of the work twice because I could not handle the economic precarity.

yes, a wealth cap of $500m say would be enough to let the wealthy live a life of luxury and opulence and comfort but also not single-handedly distort the nation's politics at their will

So do the rich if we eat them.

when you are a bad person that is willing to do bad things, you can go super far

It's hard when most of the billionaires are, at best, simply interested in their own wealth but, at worst, are literal fascists. Not many willing to sacrifice even a little bit of their wealth in ways that fight fascism and certainly not the wealthiest.

It's amazing how far lying will take you and only one group you described are willing to do that

" I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix"

We have those thought leaders. The ubiquity of decent people capable of making strong arguments in favor of liberal ideas is part of the issue. A Koch-style astroturf project is easier to sell in a world where there's only a handful of people who openly share your opinions.

it doesn’t get better

We've got a half a million dollars a day to occupy DC but no money for housing vouchers. We've got signing bonuses for entry level ice jobs but no money for teachers with masters degrees. Upside down priorities...

At least we can all lift together right?

MEFO's for a Fucked up Generation

And those who are at least in stable employment tend to be white collar professionals or those in administrative roles who do not have the capacity, either in time, resources, or skill, to contribute to these projects beyond maybe a subscription.

Personally I find it pretty unsettling 😭

If you haven’t read it this is a classic. Ol man Brinton is also a big believer in elite oversupply

Just over here rubbing my palms together waiting for the NMA to capture the king.

I often wish I could be shameless enough to be a right wing grifter/“influencer”. It must be mind blowing to amass a huge following and get paid obscenely just to constantly spout the rock-bottom dumbest shit you can think of.

It's crazy to me that Democratic Party organizations and outside groups aren't making priority ONE building a media ecosystem since nazis took over the existing one.

exactly, while the left raises billions of $$ but hopes a bunch of nazis will do the media stuff for free

Here's a screengrab from the 1997 Susan George essay www.denknetz.ch/wp-content/u...

The problem is bigger. There is a massive wealth distribution not just from poor to rich but from everyone to the hard right. The signing bonuses for ICE aren’t just a recruitment tactic. They’re how this administration makes sure that the neoNazis have lots of disposable income.

could really use some of that Soros money tbh