That industry will just buy out every room in every Trump hotel for a week and Trump will tell him to shut the fuck up or fire him and hire Joe Exotic.

I will do so!

Police unions do not see themselves as part of this movement. With one exception – the International Union of Police Associations, which represents just 2.7% of American police – law enforcement unions are not affiliated with the AFL-CIO, the U.S. labor body that unites all unions.

Because as outlined culturally the police see themselves as the system itself, by nature of the job, as evidenced by their hostility towards the larger labor movement they’re often tasked with breaking, something the vast majority of other union heavy vocations don’t do, and are often given special carve outs when the labor movement and unionization are targeted legislatively precisely because it’s their job to enforce those rules.

American police are more a capital defense force, and unlike the larger labor movement, have their priorities of being unaccountable to those they police backed by the state. They’re the owner’s special little boys/girls, they attract and recruit conservative minded power seekers who conflate legality with morality, and they like it that way. Note their awesome insurance, their massive starting salaries with high school education, they have little to complain about. Not to the owner’s level at all, but they don’t live in the same America most do.

They probably could take this country for themselves, but have you ever met a cop who wasn’t a fan of structure for its own sake?

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If it really does just boil down to Workers v Owners, why don’t the cops simply seize the means of production themselves?

https://theconversation.com/why-police-unions-are-not-part-of-the-american-labor-movement-142538

While globally true, it isn’t what the United States heavy handed Democrat party is at all. They work with Republicans to deny class struggle exists while they bicker on social issue symptoms. A for profit media amplified left/right freak show designed to keep us distracted and hating each other over relatively petty social issues so the owners can bleed us dry in peace. They’ve made us so divided on so many lines we can barely see straight, all to facilitate profit/growth/metastasis at all other expense.

The handful of spoiler candidates the DNC despises and undermines more than Republicans notwithstanding, the owner’s succeeded in legalizing political bribery in the US, and thus we have an economically right-wing neoliberal party and a “put undesirables in concentration camps” party to the right of them.

A leftist movement either needs to steal the DNC infrastructure out from under them and force the neoliberals out as Trump did with the GOP by out-hating them, or we need to somehow make a third party work.

Because the DNC and the RNC are high on Corporate bribe money. Their values align more with one another than their voters. They will do all they can to undermine this movement, and will cooperate on that like peas and carrots.

https://apnews.com/article/business-nancy-pelosi-congress-8685e82eb6d6e5b42413417f3d5d6775 (Pelosi defends lawmaker stock trades, citing ‘free market’)

https://www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-and-nancy-pelosi (Nancy Pelosi ‘Making Calls’ to Undermine AOC’s Bid for Top Oversight Role)

Alternatively, we can just continue to be comfortable having our children murdered solely to increase quarterly earnings of cheering profiteers that would consider your dead child less than human if they bothered to think about them at all, which they wouldn’t.

You.

Take.

That.

Back.

Oh noooo…

https://apnews.com/article/business-nancy-pelosi-congress-8685e82eb6d6e5b42413417f3d5d6775 (Pelosi defends lawmaker stock trades, citing ‘free market’)

…anyway

Up vs. Down. She’s made hundreds of millions selling us out and undermining the occasional spoiler candidate that has actual economic leftwing views within her own party (the DNC only promotes bribe taking neoliberals) harder than she fights her supposed opposition party:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-and-nancy-pelosi (Nancy Pelosi ‘Making Calls’ to Undermine AOC’s Bid for Top Oversight Role)

Oh noooo…

https://apnews.com/article/business-nancy-pelosi-congress-8685e82eb6d6e5b42413417f3d5d6775 (Pelosi defends lawmaker stock trades, citing ‘free market’)

…anyway

Up vs. Down. She’s made hundreds of millions selling us out and undermining the occasional spoiler candidate that has actual economic leftwing views within her own party (the DNC only promotes bribe taking neoliberals) harder than she fights her supposed opposition party:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/aoc-and-nancy-pelosi (Nancy Pelosi ‘Making Calls’ to Undermine AOC’s Bid for Top Oversight Role)

Absolutely agree.

Framing/Marketing is essential.

It’s how they’ve sold this exploitative hellscape.

“This isn’t hell, this is freedom! Freedom from responsibility to one another. Free to win big or lose bigger!”

It’s sad that it does work, but it does. Hell, marketing has convinced us that a blatant antisocial vice like greed is virtuous rational self-interest. Marketing 👐

Exactly.

Freedom without responsibility or equity is a rampage.

Our people are only free in the sense that our most successful sociopaths are free to take everything their fellow citizens labor for without giving back anything, and everyone else is free to die in the gutter.

Societies have social contracts backed by law, we forgot and deregulated ours half a century ago, and even then it was lacking.

What society would want an economy that makes it untenable for most humans to raise a family on a single earner’s income so a partner can raise kids? That was stolen for the owners profit. Such a society plainly does not prioritize having any future.

The shape of any society’s economy tells you everything you need to know about that society’s priorities. Ours says “everyone for themselves. You’re either in the boat made of bodies, or feel free to drown, loser.” Gotta love how enthusiastic our economists are about the system needing to have legions of “losers” as if their very lives are a fucking game.

Yes, those are some of the words the owners convinced the masses are SCAWY and EVIL, and only spoken by people that want to take your money when you’re a millionaire/billionaire one day.

Because clearly if you succeed, you would never want to have some of your success taxed to repair/improve the commons like roads, schools, and HEALTHCARE of the society that provided the conditions for your astronomical success in the first place.

That would be ridiculous. How can you expect to buy a pet mega yacht to keep your first mega yacht company, while buying an island, while buying up smalltime entrepreneurs that would compete with you, while space touristing, while building your luxury climate change bunker compound if you can’t suck entire nations dry?!

Exactly, multinational oligarchs live in their own reality, with their own infrastructure all over the world.

We are a piggy bank to rape for private profit, not their society.

That’s what happens when you let people accumulate society warping levels of capital to begin with. Beyond material desires, that’s what capital is: power. Power to propagandize entire nations with for profit media, power to capture entire state and world governments, power to live above the Commons you destroy.

No one should be allowed to gather more power in a society than their single vote allows. This is why civilized nations have publicly funded campaigns, and trying to buy votes is still a crime. Other people live here. Thre should be a 100% wealth tax somewhere in the high double digit millions where you get a cake and a medal and a senator comes and shakes your hand for all future money going to repair and improve the commons like roads and education and HEALTHCARE that facilitated their rise to such astronomical success to begin with.

Citizens of the Nordic nations, the happiest people’s on Earth, largely have no problem being taxed for success because they’re educated to understand that their success is society’s success, and they live in society so everyone wins. Hard work yields bigger homes and toys, but not sociopaths trying to buy half of Hawaii’s beaches to lock their fellow citizens away from that lived there first away from them for example.

They chose live together, we choose die alone. Most people suffer under die alone. I wish Americans weren’t so successfully propagandized into being hostile towards the very idea of society on the basis of “well you might be rich one day, and you don’t want filthy poor people making you less rich when that happens, do you, you fucking sucker?”

https://apnews.com/article/business-nancy-pelosi-congress-8685e82eb6d6e5b42413417f3d5d6775

We have no left party in the United States, merely an economically right-wing party to the left of a fascist party, with a few left-wing spoilers like AOC and Sanders that they despise far more than their fascist opposition party, because while Democrats and Republicans rage over social policy, often the symptoms of economic desperation, they drink from the same Wall Street gravy train and take the same orders on economic policy.

A party actually attempting to reorient our economy based on the needs and priorities of the citizens of our society would be catastrophic to their legalized bribery, and insider info feeding arrangement.

If you think either party under it’s current form will EVER lead to any form of universal healthcare, you’re deluding yourself.

The UK has had universal healthcare since 1948. Canada since 1968-1970(provinces rollout)

Market Capitalism needs homelessness.

If you will not make the owner’s money through labor, You will help them make money as capitalist scarecrows. A warning to any laborer thinking of failing to comply.

You WILL serve the owner’s greed disease, or else.

It would literally be cheaper to house them without conditions than all the conditioned programs and homeless encampment clean up costs.

But that doesn’t send a message of fear.

Herp derp Freedom 🇺🇸

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Ah yes, more of that freedom we crow so much about as our brand.

The company she spoke to is free to take her premium payments for years, then to kill her through claim denial, and she’s free say “thank you for taking my premiums all those years and now denying my claim” and then die quietly.

Herp derp Freedom🇺🇸

France is currently on its fifth Republic, while the United States is still on its second

Maybe the problem is that refreshing our tree of liberty would stifle the metastasis of our beloved economy, so we’ve left the tree to die of thirst.

Personally, I would have chosen liberty over a few rich sociopaths having pet mega yachts to keep their original mega yachts company. I’m a bad American in that sense I guess 🤷

I see it more as speed of descent.

I’m of the opinion this country is sold, and died about half a century ago as a democracy, and this is just leftover momentum. All but waned momemtum.

Our vote isn’t on whether to reorient the economy to reflect the priorities of its citizens, merely how, and if at all, to manage some of the social issue symptoms of our crumbling commons, the ruins of public education, as the owners search for new vectors of exploitation.

I see voting blue as akin to requesting we leave the water pumps turned on for this sinking ship to buy time(D), and voting red a vote turn them off because some passengers have been deluded into hating other passengers and really, really want to watch them drown® despite being in the same boat with them.

The holes are our economic policy, but ask either party about patching them and you’ll get something akin to “What holes? This ship is unsinkable! If you think there’s holes, you’re the problem.”

Dont worry though, there are lifeboats, just enough for the politicians and their donors. Wealth means not having any national allegience.

Jews for Nazism annoyed they aren’t welcomed into the 3rd Reich as “the good ones.”