danibky.bsky.social
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AOC, Crockett, Pritzker, a couple others are the only Democrats I see fighting.
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I'm watching alongside Illinoisans what's happening in our country right now with dread.
The authoritarian playbook is laid bare: they point to a group of people who don't look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.
What comes next?
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My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country.
We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one.
I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.
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Class consciousness is an alternative to our current politics but it's next to dead in the US.
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I had a few other goals for 2025: make a true effort to recycle, use cloth bags at the grocery store, cut back on diet soda, y'know. Now the biggest is buy nothing & keep a job. Sad ass economy.
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Eh, Tik Tokflation certainly isn't all or most of the complaints re COL but perhaps just enough to swing an election which I take to be Stancil's point.
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There are legitimate economic concerns, of course, but eh less & less l think inflation is one or was this election vs. the media environment. I have two jobs and student loan debt. I certainly understand working class problems.
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Huge car payments, shopping addictions by another name. It's endless. And of all of these videos were released or most popular 1 month before the election. Some had very explicit anti gov & anti tax messaging alongside crypto schemes & courses on "buying your 1st rental property".
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I'm thinking Stancil may be right on this after all. I watched several Tik Tok debt & COL compilations recently. Most have questionable spending habits. Spending $60 on luxury skincare & complaining about the cost, complaining about the cost of nail salon visits, putting Hello Fresh on Afterpay etc.
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I framed a pitch around relational individualism & a tech future focused art/leisure culture.
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The levels of political polarization, wealth inequality, etc. are all at levels that in other countries signify a political collapse or descent into mass political violence. It should be worrying that even a staunch Trump supporting veteran saw collapse coming despite Trump running.
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I've reported this list to moderation.
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I guess I have to screenshot everything on bluesky.
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Addressing wealth inequality would not automatically address the needs of ex. the black community. You can do both so there is no reason not to.
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& their jobs & education being heavily data driven. There's very little big picture thinking involved. It's all minutia.
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It would've been priced into rent soon enough.
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Locally, DEI policies helped open the first hospital in a black neighborhood in 150 years. The equitable use of the black community's resources/tax dollars is ensuring healthcare outcomes on par w/ other groups for the funds spent & services rendered. That's DEI at it's most basic.
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Costco has a strong record of stakeholder capitalism, this is right in line w/ their business practices. & DEI needs a committed defense from liberals.
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& if so few people benefit forgiveness shouldn't skew working class, it should all go to the working class or to the poor, indebted minorities first.
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Then there are other ways to be creative. Organizing business to pay their workers student debt as a benefit as Biden organized business for the Chips act may have been just as beneficial or more to reelection.
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A lottery system would be more fair at this point, so few is the number of people who benefit from forgiveness.
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Student loan debt is at $1.77T. $180b is a drop in the bucket. Borrowers w/ some of the most debt come from low income black families who can't finance college any other way & for whom even $20k wouldn't have paid off their debts.
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If you have the time & interest.
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That's beneficial but I suppose I was thinking more broadly. Support for worker cooperatives or a true democratization of the stock market, a reinterpretation of corporate fiduciary responsibility or other thing for fair wealth distribution at the point of wealth creation.
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Yes, I would like to hear your thoughts.