Yeah that logo of theirs is very much reminiscent of the designs and motifs of the (not-very-)socialist (but very authoritarian) regime of Eastern Germany, especially the two hand thing. I'm sure we don't need to recycle THAT.
It's funny how a whole bunch of stuff they accuse the left of is stupidly incorrect, but then occasionally they manage to be accurate and everyone is like "...I don't see the problem."
So i didn't know what the DSA wanted to accomplish until now. Those are ducking banger goals. Ranked choice voting! That right there is fantastic. Then they top it off with ending aid to Isreal! Thats just some icing on top of the cake.
Amazing to me they have so many people brainwashed that providing social programs and healthcare supported by our tax dollars is a bad thing by creating the narrative "its a hand out". Now (just like we predicted) they're framing social security as an entitlement despite paying into it all of our working lives.
Given that the media and corporate dems keep highlighting the far right toads (tucker Carlson and MTG) saying something remotely critical about Trump instead of anyone left, the idea is to normalize right wingers
It's amazing how condescending this little twat is when he is saying things that are objectively good for the people at large. Crazy how blatant the corruption is now. Yes you little shit, we want what's good for everyone, not just you and the other cronies
Feels the swedish right has also gotten tired of ruling since they have decided to make life even worse for those that already struggled the most with money.
My guess is they have been bought. Corporations are trying to buy politicians in every country 100% of the time. It's the quickest way to the highest dividend and there are rarely any consequences for getting caught. It's bad business not to try. And Conservatives are literally the easiest to buy because they covet money above all else.
Don't think people would not be willing to break the law to break the law. Meaning just cause legal systems are set up does not mean they will be followed. America is shining example of that.
Nah, it's not an overt kind of bribery / corruption. It's more the conservatives that actually are in charge of things happen to live in the same neighborhoods as the people who govern things. It's the subtle bribery, more like influence. Their wives go to the same spa, kids are in the same school, they all golf at the same club. They just switch seats back and forth. Go along to get along.
Their reasoning is more or less that our high unemployment rate is 100% cuz unemployed are lazy good for nothings living on the tax payers dime so making it almost impossible to survive will force people to take any job, there are 150k jobs free atm and 550k unemployed, so yeeeeee.
Conservative covet money above all else. They would rather see people die homeless than pay to have it not happen. They are literally saying "More homeless!" as a slogan but with more words. Because there is no other outcome to taking those programs away. Taxes will not go down they will just be used to buy stuff from companies.
Same thing here in Australia, except that of the "500k + jobs" that're listed, about 90% of them are data harvesting ghost ads. The rest are either extremely specific roles that require decades of extremely specific knowledge and skills, or a 'potential' 4 casual hours a week on a zero hour contract. The centrists and the conservatives are united in their blaming the people rather than the corporations and businesses for this situation.
Hey, the exact same things the establishment said about them in the US, and I believe when used to sell austerity in the UK... same playbook, different country.
I am waiting for the day our Republicans try to impose "austerity" on the US, like they weren't the ones cutting taxes on the rich for 45 years and running the national debt to interstellar levels. The europeans want to know what it'll take to see knives come out here, and I'm betting on "austerity."
They've been doing that, Social security, medicare, every government program, DOGE's mess. I'd have to dig, but there's a bunch of other parts they keep cutting back on.
Oh for sure, but that's just their usual policy agenda. I'm imagining like what I think I remember Greece had, with a big announcement telling the greek people they're gonna need to tighten their belts because they owed too much money to germany and the EU was getting mad. And then the greek people were like "fuck you, fuck that, fuck this" (in Greek of course).
Stock market is public ownership lol. The ownership is sold to the public in the form of shares. This is why you can only trade publicly owned companies.
From my understanding of this, ownership would be like, if your company gets the majority of its income from fed contracts then guess what, unions get a voting seat on your board and the fed gets shares proportional to how much their contacts are as revenue. 10% not an issue, +50% are you really a private company? Btw 70 of the top 100 companies hold federal contracts. 4 or 5 receive more than 50% of revenue from the fed. So it would be a small amount.
That's funny, but naw; I more imagine him being one of the extras sent there, and he just becomes the house/castle Maid-whore of the story's main Villain or Antagonist. ^_^ LOL!
I'm pretty sure the tactic he's relying on here is to conflate "Democratic" with "Democrat". He's not trying to scare people away from democracy, but rather make the DSA sound like they're pushing for unfair Democrat advantages. Framing them, ironically, as an organization that's trying to destroy the "fairness" of the American system to take over and hoping that the GOP's brainwashed, propagandized constituents will blindly accept his bullshit, twisted narrative as factual.
I agree. I've noticed Republicans very often say things I know are false but word them in a way that I know an uninformed or biased person won't realize is misleading or wrong. They know the average American isn't very smart/is too busy to keep up with politics and how government works, and they exploit that. "I love the uneducated" -DJT
FrogDelay
Are….are any of those bad things???
SciFiGuy2018
Our founding fathers also opposed the two-party system, so were they the founding members of the DSA?
Buckeye8781
Please be a real commercial
JohnDennis1999
You might get a kick out of this old political AD. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-biden-white-house-b2377889.html
NoodlesDOTExe
Sign me THE FUCK up. Please, and thank you.
TrumpRapesAndEatsChildren0002
We need to work with DSA on their symbolism - urgently. -- Signed, former eastern bloc inhabitant.
Mgxr44
Can you elaborate on that?
TrumpRapesAndEatsChildren0002
Yeah that logo of theirs is very much reminiscent of the designs and motifs of the (not-very-)socialist (but very authoritarian) regime of Eastern Germany, especially the two hand thing. I'm sure we don't need to recycle THAT.
chaoskingzero
The Electoral Collage should've died with slavery, since that's the only reason it was even implemented
CelestialSea
The founding fathers acknowledged the electoral college was flawed and wanted it corrected.
PoliticalWanderer
MRW whenever Republicans talk about the "bad" things Dems and socialists want to do:
Heisanevilgenius
It's funny how a whole bunch of stuff they accuse the left of is stupidly incorrect, but then occasionally they manage to be accurate and everyone is like "...I don't see the problem."
katzohki
They spent decades talking about the "evils" of socialism and now younger generations are like "yes, give me that" lol
LunarEntropy
It was communism the generations before. Nebulous buzz words to be a boogie man.
esco167
Kaze54
So i didn't know what the DSA wanted to accomplish until now. Those are ducking banger goals. Ranked choice voting! That right there is fantastic. Then they top it off with ending aid to Isreal! Thats just some icing on top of the cake.
DesdemonaMoor
Amazing to me they have so many people brainwashed that providing social programs and healthcare supported by our tax dollars is a bad thing by creating the narrative "its a hand out". Now (just like we predicted) they're framing social security as an entitlement despite paying into it all of our working lives.
DesolatedMaggot
If I say it with a snarky voice that makes it bad.
CheeseB0t
The stupid part is that it works.
WoeToHice
Note the tone and the face when he says "democratic control and accountability to the people".
azazyel
His inflections makes it even dumber.
ReverseSyzygy
his inflections WORK on his target audience
OhIfIMust
That little air-quote...
HolyFreakingToast
united we stand. there are less than 900 billionaires in the usa
TheGrumpyOldTroll
neverhappytoasterdog
I like how he tries to make accountability sound like a bad word.
katoutwo8
That's when it became clear that Trump planned the whole thing:
Be a complete douche!
Start wrecking everything!
Awaken the centrist-left!
Unite the populace!
Make the sweeping changes the people need!
10/10 did not see this coming.
Brilliant!
ellevacion7
This! This should be the reply to anyone saying Trump is playing 4D chess.
dohcohv
Cause an oil supply shock that encourages the world to switch to renewable energy at a faster rate.
Clockworkdancerobot
Given that the media and corporate dems keep highlighting the far right toads (tucker Carlson and MTG) saying something remotely critical about Trump instead of anyone left, the idea is to normalize right wingers
Shadowkrieger
So if they are upset at public ownership of largest corporations. He is really upset at trump taking nvidia stocks?
jwillywill
rockarolla
Fuck yeah rtj
TheGrumpyOldTroll
Dear Sir, Madam, or otherwise
please give sauce?
blackozone
DJ Shadow - Nobody Speak ft. Run The Jewels
rockarolla
👉👊
blackozone
🤙👊
Kalli
Flame your crew quicker than Trump fucks his youngins
TheGrumpyOldTroll
a rule is you. ty!
ibuycrap
I love the way he says “democracy” so sarcastically.
+10 for title!
ouhhmytralalamydingdingdong
I don’t see anything wrong here? Except decking the fuck our of flaccid Johnson here
Ddenver
Again. The problem is ...
jwillywill
Shovi
Pls dont use the dog torturer as a template for a meme.
Harbltron
You forgot your '/s'
Alternatively you're as sharp as a bag of wet sand if you truly believe Hasan is abusive to Kaya
Shovi
No i didn't forget the /s. That guy is a fucking piece of shit. Here, literal proof https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMatpatEffect/comments/1tza6d2/high_quality_video_of_hasan_piker_activated_shock/ Go fck yourself for trying to defend that pos.
HairyChairstepper
It's amazing how condescending this little twat is when he is saying things that are objectively good for the people at large. Crazy how blatant the corruption is now. Yes you little shit, we want what's good for everyone, not just you and the other cronies
TrilithonStone
What are YOU "about", Mike?
flordelasantillas
Be afraid Johnson, be really afraid. Dems will investigate and prosecute you.
veronicablood
it's just amazing to see how insulated these republicans are from reality.
GlenL
Looks like nothing is coming up Milhouse
swedeonamoose
Feels the swedish right has also gotten tired of ruling since they have decided to make life even worse for those that already struggled the most with money.
notmyrealface
My guess is they have been bought. Corporations are trying to buy politicians in every country 100% of the time. It's the quickest way to the highest dividend and there are rarely any consequences for getting caught. It's bad business not to try. And Conservatives are literally the easiest to buy because they covet money above all else.
ellevacion7
And power. Money and power
micicle
No guessing needed the citizens united ruling ensured your political class would be bought and paid for moving forward.
justheretocommentonce
That would be difficult in the Nordics. Not saying it won't happen, but saying that it will be problematic if it comes to light.
notmyrealface
Don't think people would not be willing to break the law to break the law. Meaning just cause legal systems are set up does not mean they will be followed. America is shining example of that.
khora
Yes, but it is culturally not ok. Though Sweden has fallen down to 6th least corrupt country in the world.
notmyrealface
It starts somewhere but I hope you're right.
DecentUsernameUnavailable
Nah, it's not an overt kind of bribery / corruption. It's more the conservatives that actually are in charge of things happen to live in the same neighborhoods as the people who govern things. It's the subtle bribery, more like influence. Their wives go to the same spa, kids are in the same school, they all golf at the same club. They just switch seats back and forth. Go along to get along.
swedeonamoose
Their reasoning is more or less that our high unemployment rate is 100% cuz unemployed are lazy good for nothings living on the tax payers dime so making it almost impossible to survive will force people to take any job, there are 150k jobs free atm and 550k unemployed, so yeeeeee.
notmyrealface
Conservative covet money above all else. They would rather see people die homeless than pay to have it not happen. They are literally saying "More homeless!" as a slogan but with more words. Because there is no other outcome to taking those programs away. Taxes will not go down they will just be used to buy stuff from companies.
RockTheBackblast
Same thing here in Australia, except that of the "500k + jobs" that're listed, about 90% of them are data harvesting ghost ads. The rest are either extremely specific roles that require decades of extremely specific knowledge and skills, or a 'potential' 4 casual hours a week on a zero hour contract. The centrists and the conservatives are united in their blaming the people rather than the corporations and businesses for this situation.
Clockworkdancerobot
Hey, the exact same things the establishment said about them in the US, and I believe when used to sell austerity in the UK... same playbook, different country.
crazyspelling
I am waiting for the day our Republicans try to impose "austerity" on the US, like they weren't the ones cutting taxes on the rich for 45 years and running the national debt to interstellar levels. The europeans want to know what it'll take to see knives come out here, and I'm betting on "austerity."
Clockworkdancerobot
They've been doing that, Social security, medicare, every government program, DOGE's mess. I'd have to dig, but there's a bunch of other parts they keep cutting back on.
crazyspelling
Oh for sure, but that's just their usual policy agenda. I'm imagining like what I think I remember Greece had, with a big announcement telling the greek people they're gonna need to tighten their belts because they owed too much money to germany and the EU was getting mad. And then the greek people were like "fuck you, fuck that, fuck this" (in Greek of course).
dyerzeve
I mean…don’t threaten me with a good time
YouRadicalizedMe
Off with their heads first!
HandoB4Javert
Lethous
I'm not convinced public ownership of large corporations is a good thing.
Tax them. Yes, heavily.
Regulate them. Fuck Yes.
Embolden their labor unions. Yes.
Own them? Slippery slope.
Morpheous
Stock market is public ownership lol. The ownership is sold to the public in the form of shares. This is why you can only trade publicly owned companies.
Onebigcanuck
From my understanding of this, ownership would be like, if your company gets the majority of its income from fed contracts then guess what, unions get a voting seat on your board and the fed gets shares proportional to how much their contacts are as revenue. 10% not an issue, +50% are you really a private company? Btw 70 of the top 100 companies hold federal contracts. 4 or 5 receive more than 50% of revenue from the fed. So it would be a small amount.
IMakeLotsOfReferencesAndRemakes
I will and you cannot stop me. Next we tax the rich.
dyerzeve
Nooooooooooyeeeeeessss!!
NoodlesDOTExe
I am open to these threats.
MylundTheMad
dyerzeve
Socialist democrats…..
HalloIamherenow
Oh the horror, and maybe some of that money will go into raising teacher salaries for public education or grants for disease tracing. The horror!
dyerzeve
Stop…STOP! Can only get so erect!
cdlong
What a pompous, condescending asshole.
Grenkak12
You could have just said "Republican"
schlummi
Whats even his point? "I'm scared of democracy"?
cdlong
Yes, exactly
youbetchamom
Ya, but he creates great ads for the Democratic party.
xj4low
He only serves Trump and anytime he comes up short with support within his own party, he shuts down congress calling early holiday/vacation.
Toodamagedtocare
Yep, like he just did AGAIN 🙄
WoodORama
Assholes serve a purpose.
LuveBunny
I'd wager he makes frequent use of more than one
lovehandlesmessiah
The poster child for Backpfeifengesicht.
ellevacion7
Such a chode
LuveBunny
I think bottom is a better term
ObjectivePragmatistWithHope
This motherfucker is an inbred Troglodyte, that needs an intimate meeting with Mr. Truck-kun. -_-
crazyspelling
I'm cackling at the thought of Mike Johnson being an isekai hero now.
ObjectivePragmatistWithHope
That's funny, but naw; I more imagine him being one of the extras sent there, and he just becomes the house/castle Maid-whore of the story's main Villain or Antagonist. ^_^ LOL!
Dimestream
I mean he does have some experience sucking up to power.
ChiLLeCheeze
Fucked up. How are you going to wish to unleash an evil like that onto another world without blinking an eye?
ObjectivePragmatistWithHope
Yeeeaaahhh... BUT "evil," doesn't surmount to much, when your ass winds up a servant hoe for a rando beast or warlord. ^_- ROFL!
Dabriusz
He really is.
slopwizard
Scare quotes around "democracy." What about multiple parties is not a democracy? I hope he gets hit with a meteor
Dimension09
Why does a cosmic force need to enact justice? We are perfectly capable of punching this pos ourselves
kimbozo
Maybe we could launch him out into space and he could become a meteor?
OshakhenneseyAyAyRonandJayQuelin
He is the one saying loudly, "Don't look up!"
Akurei00
I'm pretty sure the tactic he's relying on here is to conflate "Democratic" with "Democrat". He's not trying to scare people away from democracy, but rather make the DSA sound like they're pushing for unfair Democrat advantages. Framing them, ironically, as an organization that's trying to destroy the "fairness" of the American system to take over and hoping that the GOP's brainwashed, propagandized constituents will blindly accept his bullshit, twisted narrative as factual.
geekykeycap
I agree. I've noticed Republicans very often say things I know are false but word them in a way that I know an uninformed or biased person won't realize is misleading or wrong. They know the average American isn't very smart/is too busy to keep up with politics and how government works, and they exploit that. "I love the uneducated" -DJT
Akurei00
"Smart people don't like me."
I don't know how anyone can hear him say these things and not take it personally. But then I guess a broken clock is right twice a day.