$2 trillion in deeply harmful cuts through 2034 in programs and services for families and communities, including cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and student loans.
Any vestiges of actually good things the federal government does are being wittled away. F***ing pathetic
If only we could have stopped this somehow
The government has always been run by the wealthy, half-assedly protecting workers rights at best. The only logical choice remains - unionization.
Bit late for that. I think at this point what you need is a revolution.
What if we win - will we just try again, but voting harder until we need revolution again? With our current demographics, it could easily become a right wing revolution too.
We need a new power structure centered around workers, and always have. This is where capitalism leads.
The logical choice was to not let trump win, to keep things moving forward and to make progress.
There are a lot of accelerationists in the crowd and they don’t appreciate how bad accelerationism makes things. It’s a shame.
Things weren’t moving forward though, that’s exactly how we lost the support of the working class. Inequality and cost of living have been going up every decade.
You still could, but it requires taking to the streets in protest. The days are ticking away as he consolidates his power. It won’t always be an option.
I appreciate the protests that are happening, but protests won’t do much until polling changes.
Pretty sure Trump just made a thinly veiled threat on the life of the Governor of Maine while declaring that, “I am the federal law”.
You’re asking a lot of people for very little return.
very little return
Seriously?! Stopping the march of fascism is “very little return”?! You understand that this will get worse and worse, right? It might not seem that bad now, but they’ll haul away more and more minority populations, steal more power, start wars, and oppress everyone else. You’re not fighting against what conditions are like now. You’re fighting against what they will be when he takes full control.
There is only one way out of fascism, and that’s by fighting with everything you’ve got. But it seems like once you finally realize this, it’ll be too late.
I know people who voted for Trump because they thought these tax cuts would apply to them. With them not being super rich, it’s never going to happen. Can’t convince them otherwise though.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had a great way of exposing that attitude through the Ferengi. Quark, the proprietor of Quark’s Bar, mistreats his employees again, and they are pissed. Station chief Miles O’brian tries to rally them to form a union of bar workers and to strike, and one of them, Rom, actually says:
Ferengi workers don’t want to stop the exploitation. We want to find a way to become the exploiters.
The lie of the “american dream” - don’t rally against rich people, for you might once become one of them[1].
your chance might be less than one in a trillion ↩︎
It’s because they all think that they’re temporarily inconvenienced billionaires, with rivers of money about to pour in, any time now… any day… so of course they vote for anything that will benefit them based on their expectation of being part of that group
Last time they gave a few $1000 that expired after a few years. They’ll probably do something similar again.
and yet, conservatives will eat it up. while screaming cry more libs, and crying about owning the left whatever they think that means as majority poor members of the working class 💀 you can’t make this shit up
I haven’t heard them explaining this. Have they said that this will help the rich pay the poor, or have they dropped all pretence yet?
Conservatives don’t care, all they hear is “Donald trump is winning and that’s great!”
Nazis are fucking stupid.
Might be time to just worry about state taxes and not federal.
Wow look at all the corruption they’re uncovering, that’s crazy how much money they are saving us Americans. I can’t wait to recoup my money the government is saving…
