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There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

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Demand your GOP congressman cut their budget and lay off some staff. Congress spends 6.4billion/year on their own operations.

submitted 9 hours ago • 697 comments

Mitch McConnell announced his retirement after 40 years of working hard to make Kentucky one of the poorest, most under-educated, and unhealthy states in the US.

submitted 2 days ago • 415 comments

Crockett on Trump's relatively high approval: We've gotta do better at education. People don't understand. But you will understand when your Medicaid goes away. You will understand when planes continue to fall out of the sky... maybe Sleepy Joe is what we wanted, bc we could at least sleep at night.

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History: “Eventually the incompetent fascists invariably lose power and then society recovers in a new and stronger way” Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??” History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”

submitted 4 days ago • 391 comments

Zelenskyy challenging a US official to join him in a visit to an active frontline is iconic. Unlike other countries whose leadership wages war from thousands of miles away, he has visited the trench line on multiple occasions. Armed himself to fight Russian special forces sent to kill him in Kyiv.

submitted 3 days ago • 136 comments

Trump will be remembered by future generations as the WORST traitor in American history, and his sycophantic political supporters will be compared to those who decades ago supported Hitler.

submitted 3 days ago • 582 comments

We wanted them to have healthcare and a high paying job and a planet to live on and freedom. They want us to suffer. The parties are not the same.

submitted 3 days ago • 495 comments

When you sell your soul to the devil.

submitted 3 days ago • 1718 comments

Still hard to believe we voted for fascism with unemployment at 4.2%, the strongest performing economy in the rich world, & inflation, at 2.4% PCE in Nov 2024, closer to target than 85% of the months since we established it in 2012: bsky.app/profile/mcop.... Verily, a marvel of political economy.

submitted 5 days ago • 39 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 4 days ago • 1065 comments

Whether it’s Mussolini making the trains run on time or Donald Trump making the planes crash, both fascist dictators showed a strong interest in transportation.

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 4 days ago • 8251 comments

Fighting evil does not make you evil.

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments

This shit doesn’t happen in France and I’ll tell you why: the rich went too far once and they cut all their heads off and now, when those in power fuck workers over, the French stop working. Don’t forget your real power Americans. They don’t let you have unions for a reason.

submitted 6 days ago • 65 comments

It’s sad on the eve of Presidents Day it’s appropriate to have to post this.

submitted 6 days ago • 342 comments

Here’s the thing. Every one of these people in tears heard Trump on the stump before Nov. They knew he was cruel. But they were fine with it, thinking he’d only hurt the people they didn’t like. The problem with cruelty—It spreads. You don’t get to control it. Sooner or later, it comes for you too.

submitted 7 days ago • 1750 comments

The Republican Party is a goddamn motherfucking joke.

submitted 9 days ago • 951 comments

If your argument is "sure, a terrible modern event has a parallel in the 1920s and 30s but don't worry we turned out just fine", might I suggest reading about the 1940s.

submitted 9 days ago • 392 comments

From the "legal" point of view, it may be a matter of perspective.. From the HUMAN point of view, a law that allows for children to be murdered, is nothing but criminal and evil! NEVER FORGET: it all started with the deportations ‼️ NEVER AGAIN ‼️‼️‼️

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

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Whether's Taylor Swift endorsing Kamala Harris or Kanye West declaring his love for Hitler, musicians on both sides of the aisle have embraced controversial figures.

submitted 15 days ago • 105 comments

Déjà vu all over again.

submitted 14 days ago • 963 comments

One of these days we're gonna have to reckon with the fact that "money that I spend which does not directly benefit me is a waste" is a popular sentiment. I think we should state plainly that this is selfish on its face. And stupid when you have awareness which extends beyond your nose.

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submitted 16 days ago • 1381 comments

The only immigrant trying to destroy the country.

submitted 16 days ago • 789 comments

The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

submitted 18 days ago • 1325 comments

Just need to say it. I feel responsible even though I voted for Kamala. I shouldn’t have been so afraid to talk about politics. I should have been more engaged with my community. Whatever happens, this is a scar that will never heal.

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Trump orders cause babies to die. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

How odd that when Trump announced his “deal” with Mexico he failed to mention that the US committed to halting the flow of assault weapons from the US to Mexico. Why did he leave that out?

submitted 19 days ago • 641 comments