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Or be like me and try to do such a deed then realize your bad aim in video games carry over IRL, then you get shot dead by their security and go to some purgatory with this moment replayed forever, reminding you how much of a failure you were.
The only reason I don’t want to try is because if I miss, its gonna be so embarassing, I don’t even wanna thinkg about it.
This would be me if I took the three squares with free housing and healthcare route.
With the suicide rate as high as it is, I’m honestly shocked more people don’t try to take these scumbags with them.
General strike in the US seems like less of an impossibility year by year
Just restating some of the greatest hits:
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Universal healthcare
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Universal education through university level or trade school
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At least a month pto annually
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Parental leave for births
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Guaranteed sick leave
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32hr new full time threshold before overtime
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Only public, equal funds for elections, no PACs/dark money/donations, no lobbyist bribes
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Any elected official over a certain level cannot engage in trading of individual stocks or own businesses, dump it all in an index fund or hand off management to someone else they cannot contact without a mediator and recording, immediate expulsion & no longer able to hold office when found in violation
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No billionaires/oligarchs, anyone with earnings and assets over a billion should be taxed at 100% and assets redistributed
Edit: May 1st 2028 looks like a good target thanks to the UAW https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/general-strike-2028-unions-labor-movement/
Why not beta test a general strike on Jan 6, 2025?
Nothing about replacing First-past-the-post voting?
Campaign finance reform under 7 would allow further reforms to follow, without those regulatory capture and bribery are legal and prevent any other electoral reforms benefiting the working class.
General strike in the US sounds more like a civil war
@ #9; Whoa there. 100% is unreasonable. Still there’s room to start at a hard 90% at about 250 million and then incrementally scale until the tax is say, about 95-97% by about a billion.
Unfortunately you cannot tax anyone 100%; that would ultimately be unfair and demotivating and only motivate corruption to avoid the tax
It’s progressive. You’re still allowed to have a billion. That’s just a cap. Anything past that goes to the public.
You’re still allowed to have a billion
Why? Why do you feel the need to hold on to this “aspiration”?
You will never become a billionaire, stop defending your exploiters.
Makes perfect sense. It’s like having $999,999,999.99 in a management game.
It doesn’t go above that, but if you buy a ton of assets and set them down, it’ll probably climb right back up there to the limit again at some point.
You still have a billion bucks to do whatever with.
Although yeah, businesses routinely buy things for billions (like acquiring Minecraft? Hah) So they’d find some clever way of putting it all in some kind of “company trust” or something, so they don’t have it as an individual.
But I’m no lawyer. I still think having it on the books would be better than not, if it went to healthcare and education instead of funneling into the defense industry, that is…
demotivating
that’s the motherfucking point, bootlicker.
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jail is not fun. no computer.
Sneak one in in your butt
By 2028 this may be possible idk.
Depends on the country
Which country has both abusive crony-capitalist billionaire CEOs and fun jail?
For me American prison sounds a lot worse than whatever comes from climate change, so personally I’d pick that.
For now. Give it a few decades when the effects of climate change start forcing people out of their homes, cause widespread crop failure, kill thousands with heatwaves and storms, etc.
If you’re choice is between
- losing your home, starving to death, or in some way dying in the streets
Or
- losing your home, starving to death, or in some way dying in the streets after holding those responsible to account a la the adjuster
More and more people will choose option 2.
I mean even thinking that that’d be the actual situation for me where I live in few decades vs. spending those few decades and rest of my life in American prison, it’s going to be a very easy decision for me
I mean, come on. Uncertain future some decades ago vs the certainty that I’m rotting in an American prison for the rest of my life starting now. Easiest decision of my life
It very well could be the rest of your life in both cases.
Yes and that still gives me some decades before something might happen vs spending those decades and the rest of my life in American prison. I mean have you really considered the options here lol
I think you’ve misunderstood. I’m talking about the choice that people make when these effects start happening, not a choice now. Of course most people aren’t opting to get violent yet, there backs aren’t yet against the wall.
In that case I wouldn’t worry about either choice if it’s decades away. I’d wait and see how bad it gets before making the decision.
Sure. But my whole point is that we’re headed in that direction.
Intentional heroin overdose
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No, don’t throw the younger generations under the bus to clean up our messes.
If nothing else we are ride or die with them.
Unfortunately you won’t die with us, you’ll die much sooner, not choking on a lack of oxygen or dying of dehydration.
We need more elders like those in Japan who volunteered to clean up nuclear waste because they wouldn’t have to live with the long-term side effects of being exposed to radiation.
As elders, y’all wouldn’t have to live as long in jail ¯\(ツ)/¯
Just get a vasectomy so your children won’t be wage slaves. EZ
Who’s to say you can’t get conscripted out of prison to die in the climate wars?
Surrender and/or nade the commissar tent?
Russia already is doing this!
They’re so ahead of the times!
When you take away people’s reason to live, their time, their hobbies, their ability to raise a family, their loved ones, you make those people very desperate…
…you might not be glad that you did.
glares in Nick Fury
“The most dangerous man is the man with nothing to lose”
very apt quote.
pretty sure this applies to Xers to.
Excuse me, I plan to die at the beginning of the Climate Wars - hopefully in a spectacularly stupid way.
Not if i’m your juror.
“Hmm. Golly i’m just not convinced HSR is guilty beyond reasonable doubt”
There must be hundreds of youths with 3d printed guns and bad opinions about the absolute worst companies
Why not both? I have a strong suspicion the climate wars are going also be a class wars. Although, if the common folk won’t, getting jailed for war crimes against the rich may never be prosecuted 🤷♂️
Aren’t all wars?
And as always, GenX just forgotten.
Not forgotten, too many of you guys are sellouts. They’ll die in the climate wars so they’re covered.
Please refer to me as Oregon Trail generation.
Hey maybe someone will spend life in prison for disposing a president ele… better not finish typing that one out
Two people have tried, so far.
There’s only so many CEOs and billionaires
They’re outnumbered :)
And they’re stuck in here with us
