I still DO NOT understand how so many of you were hoodwinked into believing the government should not use the money you pay in taxes to create a social safety net that benefits you, fund public healthcare, lower housing costs, and make daily life more affordable.
@shadows_control Leaving is often impractical. They won’t stop mistreating you. They will just shift to the courts, the kids, your reputation, finances, etc. Predators don’t just let you go.
Brando: So for Tucker Carlson to say, "I've been defending the party for 35 years" -- you wasted 35 years of your life defending that bullshit. Because there was never a defense for it, at no point. The Republican Party has always been about tearing down progress, standing in the way of progress, walking on top of the less fortunate, and giving handouts to the people at the top.
Here are the policies that come from “the Left”
Social Security
Medicare
Medicaid
ACA
Food stamps
Unemployment insurance
Clean air and water
Weekends
Work place safety
Food safety
“The Left” created the American middle class
Laughter is anti-inflammatory. Crying is regulating. Hugging is immunoprotective. Singing is vagal toning. Dancing is neurogenic.
Joy is a biological necessity.
“If we wish to diminish the love of money which, we are told, is the root of all evil, the first step must be the creation of a system in which everyone has enough and no one has too much.”
— Bertrand Russell
Billionaires don’t create jobs.
They build businesses that wipe out smaller competitors, consolidate entire industries, and eliminate thousands of jobs along the way.
Then they hire people back at lower wages and call it “job creation.”
Capitalism built a system where doing the right thing is treated like bad business. We can’t have sustainable energy because it threatens the oil industry. We can’t have healthcare because it threatens insurance. We can’t have peace because it threatens the weapons industry.
"Trickle down economics doesn't work, so let's try piñata economics. That's the one where we beat the billionaires until the hoarded wealth falls out."
.@jamestalarico: I've had a lot of interviews with national media. No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. No one's asked me about the cost of prescription drugs. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.
The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. Undocumented people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%.
Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare. Undocumented people aren't defunding our schools. It's the billionaires and their puppet politicians
Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas