• PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social
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    1 month ago

    In the olden times, it was a big point of pride of American politics that a lot of people didn’t want to kill the leaders. It was sort of assumed that in feudal style European politics, of course the common people kind of wanted to kill you, because you were threatening their safety and taking their stuff. In America, the way we did things was to earn the respect of the people you governed. The people actually wanted this person to be in charge. Why would I shoot that guy? That’s who we picked, we like him.

    Of course there are some caveats (slavery large among them). The reality never matched up to the ideal. But we’re going back to where even the approximation of consent of the governed that we used to have, isn’t assumed anymore. Fuckin bullshit

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            1 month ago

            Same. I can talk about combining Socialism, UBI, with a dash of heavily regulated capitalism that has wealth caps, and downvoters crawl out of the woodwork.

            Anyhow, toss me a link to one of your most detailed posts about this attention economy thing? I can’t promise to like it, but I should see if there are bits that would fit into the “Universal Ranked Income” system that I have been tinkering with.

            • Angry_Autist@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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              Yeah I had a great thread on reddit about it, detailing how the currency and resources would be distributed, focusing on a curator ecosystem that replaces nearly all traditional advertising. It went on for several days with well over a dozen people contributing and mostly positive interactions

              Then later last year reddit permabanned me for saying ‘punching nazis is a moral good’, so I purged all of it.

              Appreciate your curiosity, wish I had a way to fulfill it

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                1 month ago

                I’m not expert, but i’d start with ranked choice voting, campaign donations must come from a natural person and not a company, PAC, or any other organization, and term limits.

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                Bring back the Fair doctrine or whatever it’s called and tax the shit out of the wealthy and super wealthy.

                Oh yeah, universal healthcare for all. Bring back regulating major industries and start basic income.

                • Angry_Autist@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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                  I’m trying to contain a literal caldera of bitter vitriol, I am making a very strong effort not to use words that would get me banned, and I am probably going to fail.

                  Listen you rancid swatch of fasciitis infected distended rectum, there is no point in any of my threads here were I mention socialism. Not fucking once.

                  And this happens every motherFUCKING time I try to point out that rampant capitalism is literally killing the earth.

                  Me: Hey guys, maybe money making money is a bad economy

                  You: FUCKING SOCIALIST!

                  That’s why I have a no discussion rule, because of assmasters like you

                  And now that you’ve done your job of pissing me off to the point I get banned while looking like a cute little innocent angel, I’ll take my ban and you can fuck yourself till your bishop turns blue and falls off