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More importantly, can we please stop using the Left Right political spectrum to classify our society? This shit is so dumb and flawed.

Republicans are gonna lie and call these dimwits communists anyway. And then the dimwits in the Epstein class media will uncritically repeat those lies.

If AI doesn’t pan out, I think this would be fair. But even Elon Musk is talking about large UBI payments to take care of people after the robots start doing all the work. If so, then what are we discussing? A society where a half dozen people own 99%+ of the wealth and tolerate our existence?

Seriously, quit with useless slogans. How does the economy work when all work is automated? How is society organized? There will be no great inventors, no great scientists, no great business leaders who do anything but authorize AI to execute plans AI drew up.

If you don’t believe all economically useful work can be automated, justify that belief. It certainly can’t right now. Right now humans still do almost everything, and normal arguments in favor of the dynamism of capitalism apply. But those are all human motivations. Machines don’t need motivation

Machines will just get busy inventing everything economically useful at machine speed. Machines will work at the same maximally efficient pace regardless of incentives. Machines can and will plan and organize all of this. Machines can write books, make movies, create “art”.

I know your boss would make you cover this even if you didn't already have a massive boner for appeasers and quislings, but trust us when we say this is dead on arrival and going precisely nowhere.

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Nice of them to do this before most states (though not CA, sadly) have had their primaries, so it will be easier for actual left-wing candidates to knock them off.

Time to dismantle highways, libraries, water and sewer systems, public parks, USPS, public transit, social security, Medicare and Medicaid, the FDIC, the Federal Reserve, public education, all police departments, all fire depts, FEMA, and every contractor like Boeing and SpaceX with federal funds.

Centrist democrats launch new pledge, "We'd rather claw a loss out of an insurmountable win in November"

@tomsuozzi.bsky.social and @adamgrayca.bsky.social are telling you clearly they do not and will never represent you as constituents. Only the capital interests of big donors. Who now happen to be embracing fascism for control. bsky.app/profile/wash...

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Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Adam Gray (D-Calif.) have launched what they hope will act as a rallying cry for centrists, declaring that “we are capitalist, not socialist.”

Centrism is the position you take in public when the problems of the world are actually working out okay for you personally but you also don’t want the restaurant workers spitting in your food

Dumb. So-called socialist countries like Denmark, Norway, etc., have a free-market capitalist economy paired with a robust social safety net. Often referred to as the "Nordic model." Universal healthcare, as established in all advanced nations, can exist in a capitalist economy.

“It asks candidates to affirm that they “want safety, not lawlessness” and an “orderly immigration system” Wow, so brave! Taking the bold stances that 99.99% of people already agree on.

There is no acceptable center in a compromise with Christofacist Nazis. If ten people are sitting at a table and one is a Nazi there are ten Nazis at the table. We unambiguously state our positions, Constitutionally, legally, and morally.

Calm down, guys. Most Americans (especially Dems) who have started calling themselves "socialists" in recent years present no central challenge to capitalism itself. They're Keynesian social democrats who want to alleviate the more harmful externalities of capitalism in the imperial core.

Americans who voted for Trump couldn't explain the difference between a capitalist, a socialist, or a communist. Donald Trump and the Republicans' policies are very socialist, bordering on communist. Who are these Democrats trying to talk to?

Oh great! More division. Let's all dice up my Democratic Party into tiny bits & cancel each other out... That will surely defeat this RED & PROG COUP that was happy to put Satan in the WH- TWICE! Anyone who is able to find a democratic country that will allow you to emigrate should apply now.

History will show that as America became a fascist oligarchy, the Democrats did nothing but embarrass themselves, day after day, looking more like an Onion parody than an actual opposition party.

Remember when Biden was doing shitty numbers, then he adopted several of Bernie's policies and his numbers shot up? Also, Mamdani. And voters nationwide. ffs, it's like they want to fail

The center of extreme religious rightism and corporatocracy isn’t government for or by the people; it’s what we have now: homelessness, unnecessary violence, the highest per capita prison population in the world and a few entitled billionaires

I record some of the police reality shows and one of them starts with a blurb that says there’s an arrest made in America every 2.5 minutes. If our government wasn’t so corrupt and we invested a small percentage of what we spend on bombs on wrap-around services and basic income, crime would drop.

If they’d bother making sure that they are arresting the correct person it’d drop. That logic got our Philly DA reelected despite the D party being a bit hesitant to support him. Philly had many innocents incarcerated (still might but addressing it)

I get it. But I also think that there are proactive measures that can reduce actual crime. Our society is geared for profit, not human need. When basic needs are met, people can then go on to learn a trade, do an internship, get their GED. It also doesn’t help that prisons r for-profit corporations.

This is dumb shit. Our entire country and democracy itself has been destroyed by capitalist oligarchs. Any politician who doesn't have a plan to rebuild from the ground up is a weak loser who is of no use to us. They should just jump straight to their lobbyist job and stop wasting our time.

Trump just reclassified 8000 civil servants including *epidemiologists* so that they can be fired for political reasons. And these useless Democrats big idea is "we think profits are neato!". Like, hey dipshits, who are businesses going to sell to when everyone has tuberculosis and polio?

Well Tom and Adam, how do you define those vague words? Do you want to get rid of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid? Do you want to privatize the highways, fire departments, and police so someone can turn them into profit generating enterprises?

Love to play into the opponents framing. Good call. This is like MAGA campaigning on “we are not pedophiles! We just like very young women!”

"Rallying cry for centrists" is like "Rallying cry for muddy grey." Hard to get people excited for a philosophy obsessed with being "good enough"