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“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both,” said Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in 1941. Billionaires in the United States are subject to a lower overall tax...
by frankfaiola
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on Tue Feb 13, 2024 at 06:55 PM PST
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The New York stadium under construction was estimated to cost 1.4 billion. Of the cost for the stadium, public funds would be contributed amounting to $850 million. The Bills owner would contribute ...
by nailkeg
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on Fri Jan 05, 2024 at 05:00 AM PST
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The American political system has been taken over by major corporations. Many political scientists already do not consider the U.S. a full-blown democracy, rather they view it as an oligarchy. An oligarchy is a country ruled by the few, in America,...
by frankfaiola
45 comments
on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 11:10 PM PDT
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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s chance of winning the Republican nomination for president is next to nil. That being said, Christie is doing the one thing every single candidate facing ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Aug 09, 2023 at 02:11 PM PDT
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I haven’t been poor, or even lived paycheck-to-paycheck, for a long time. Even the hardest days of struggle that I’ve faced as an adult don’t hold a candle to the nearly constant trials of my childhood—hunger that went far beyond anything a sandwich...
by Jessica Sutherland
467 comments
on Fri Feb 03, 2023 at 10:25 AM PST
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Have you ever seen the movie “Trading Places”? I for one love that movie, and I have an idea on how to use it and make the rich and powerful take a step back and feel our pains. In the movie, the Eddie Murphy character quotes the following “The best...
by PapaBear
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on Tue Jan 31, 2023 at 04:34 PM PST
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Here in the United States, we have a truly unwieldy number of issues to tackle at any given time, especially if you’re not a white, cisgender, heterosexual, able-bodied person. Those people face real issues and barriers, too, of course, but...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Mon Jun 06, 2022 at 01:03 PM PDT
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Many would call out “gentrification” upon spotting an out-of-place coffee shop, bike lanes, or organic juicery. They may not be wrong—but what would they say about a vacant building? Would they find it as threatening or problematic? In the discussion...
by sophialburns
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on Wed May 11, 2022 at 05:59 AM PDT
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I know this is going to sound odd to Americans as there is no right to healthcare in the US, but I was recently at a meeting addressing the problems that exist both in provision of healthcare as well as social care in Britain, specifically in England...
by NY brit expat
26 comments
on Sun Feb 20, 2022 at 03:00 PM PST
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How sad that a millionaire main concern is not how to help those less fortunate but instead just wants to make sure poor people don’t live anywhere near his mansion
by The Boss Gomez
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on Wed Feb 09, 2022 at 07:19 PM PST
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Our favorite Fox News idiot is at it again. This time, instead of targeting women or people of color, Carlson has come to belittle the unhoused. During his Tuesday show, Tucker Carlson suggested that social services encourage homelessness and destroy...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Wed Jan 19, 2022 at 10:36 AM PST
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A coalition of activists are calling a statement by McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski "ignorant, racist and unacceptable." That’s an apt description of a text Kempczinski sent about the shooting deaths of two Chicago children in which he said, "the...
by JGoldblum
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on Thu Nov 18, 2021 at 12:54 PM PST
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Picture a dog that has lost a leg. Democrats will replace the leg so it will have 4 legs to stand on. Republicans will help the dog by chopping off a second leg, diagonal to the missing leg. The dog will have two legs to stand on. Those legs may get...
by 888guy
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on Sun Sep 26, 2021 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Americans allowed the system to deny them much of what they have worked for because of similar behavior to these five monkeys. It's time to unlearn. Five monkeys can teach us about us See full episodes here. On Sunday mornings, I listen to all the...
by Egberto Willies
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on Tue Aug 03, 2021 at 09:28 AM PDT
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I have never understood why Republicans hated Obamacare/ACA so very much. It was a way for millions to get health coverage that didn’t have it from anywhere else. It was more affordable and if the states had cooperated, it would have been more...
by leftwisdom
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on Thu Jun 17, 2021 at 11:48 AM PDT
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The GOP just can’t quit its desire to keep bashing the poors. It’s evil. From the “you can’t make this shit up” files, here’s the new proposal out of Ohio’s GOP-controlled Senate: The Ohio Senate added to its budget proposal a provision requiring the...
by Save the clock tower
203 comments
on Mon Jun 14, 2021 at 06:49 AM PDT
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I wrote this yesterday, but I waited until this morning to publish it as it was getting late. The title is the TL, DR version. ________________________________ Part of a comment in this diary ...
by joeschmeaux
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on Fri May 28, 2021 at 08:15 AM PDT
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I support, believe in and defend my party. I don’t excoriate center left democrats who are well within the mainstream of thought within the Democratic Party, especially if they only have one viewpoint which I detest. I compare them to the republican...
by Dem
25 comments
on Tue Mar 09, 2021 at 03:47 PM PST
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The Republican Party doesn't care about normal people or the country. Only the Democratic Party does (from my post on Facebook) Every republican voted for the $2 Trillion tax cut for the wealthy which the non partisan Congressional Budget Office stated almost exclusively benefited the rich in 2017 under President Donald Trump. Every democrat voted...
by Dem
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on Sat Mar 06, 2021 at 04:35 PM PST
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If the Trumpster was rich, he would have flown off in his private jet by now. Or taken a long vacation in his 300-foot yacht. Or retired to his private island. Instead he chooses to stay at a rundown has-been Florida resort with lousy food. If he was...
by jferris
64 comments
on Sat Feb 06, 2021 at 03:48 PM PST
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