Topic: Nice, Democrats. The solution to MAGA fake populist grifters is…democratic socialism?

Anonymous A started this discussion 3 weeks ago #136,457

Fucking loony left idiots.

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 13 minutes later[^] [v] #1,448,524

Demsocs are based, anyone saying otherwise fell for the right's latest boogyman, again

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 28 minutes later, 42 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,526

As opposed to what? Diet Republicans?

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 48 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,536

Oh. So you’re saying they should do undemocratic socialism instead?

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 21 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,541

@previous (Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc)

> Oh. So you’re saying they should do undemocratic socialism instead?

How about no socialism and no neoliberalism? Let’s go back to clean air, clean water, and smart regulation Democrats. Socialism is just another useless bureaucracy of fucktards who siphon money and get nothing done. See: State of California.

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc replied with this 3 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,542

@previous (E)
Isn’t the GPD of California bigger than the GDP of India?

You sound brainwashed.

Anonymous E replied with this 3 weeks ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,544

@previous (Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc)

> Isn’t the GPD of California bigger than the GDP of India?
>
> You sound brainwashed.

Doesn’t matter. The California bureaucracy can’t build aquifers, can’t do desalination plants, can’t build a light rail. There are layers of process and it’s not integrated. All of this could be fixed. But it needs criticism with treason. Meanwhile, they let the state utility run roughshod over consumers just like Texas does.

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc replied with this 3 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,545

@previous (E)
What does that have to do with socialism? California isn’t socialist and the entire United States sucks at those things. Why do you think we don’t have any high speed rail?

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc double-posted this 3 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,547

I’ve also lived in the south before, they’re pretty incompetent in general, so I’m not sure why you’d bring up Texas.

Anonymous E replied with this 3 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,548

@1,448,545 (Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc)

> What does that have to do with socialism? California isn’t socialist and the entire United States sucks at those things. Why do you think we don’t have any high speed rail?

They have no ability to execute big projects critical to the state’s future. The state government is a job shop that lives for process. Ridiculous tax rates drive out business and, sadly, infect Colorado and Arizona with Cali tax refugees.

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc replied with this 3 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,549

@previous (E)
What are you talking about? California is home to the largest tech companies in the world.

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 3 hours later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,599

@previous (Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc)

> What are you talking about? California is home to the largest tech companies in the world.

And Tesla, Oracle, HP, Palantir, and Charles Schwab moved to cheaper locales.

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 35 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,603

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What about apple, google, meta, and nvidia?

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc double-posted this 3 weeks ago, 3 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,604

Market caps of the companies you listed:

Tesla: 980.87 billion

Oracle: 331.23 billion

HP: 23.55 billion

Palantir: 294.68 billion

Charles Schwab: 177.34 billion

Market caps of the companies I listed:

Apple: 4.89 trillion

Google: 3.91 trillion

Meta: 1.51 trillion

Nvidia: 5.01 trillion

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc triple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 7 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,607

Now don’t get me wrong, I think there are some issues with the economy in California, but it’s not the tech companies I’m concerned about.

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc quadruple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 6 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,608

Part of it though, I think is due to their universities. Especially Stanford. If you look into where the founders of a lot of American tech companies came from, a lot of them went to very prestigious universities even if they dropped out. Not every state in the US has world class universities. Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg went to Harvard, Elon Musk went to UPenn, and then enrolled at Stanford for graduate studies, the google founders were graduate students at Stanford, Jeff Bezos went to Princeton. There is a pattern where kids with millionaire parents get educated at certain schools and then become billionaires and later start yapping about how you don’t need a college degree when all their job listings require a bachelors degree *cough* Elon Musk.

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc quintuple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 3 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,609

And then there’s apple and UC Berkeley, I left that out for some reason.

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 39 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,623

@1,448,547 (Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc)

> I’ve also lived in the south before, they’re pretty incompetent in general, so I’m not sure why you’d bring up Texas.

Texas and California represent a yin and yang of shitty state governance. Texas is business first to the point they dampen environmental monitoring and any kind of regulation. California is a regulatory hell. You can’t get anything done. Yet both somehow kowtow to inept public utilities.

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 32 seconds later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,624

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Tbh I’ve never been to Texas or California in my life.

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc double-posted this 3 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,625

I just find it interesting how Texans and Californias have their beef with each other and think the fate of the US depends on it when what they don’t realize is half of us live on the other side and don’t care.

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc triple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,626

You know, the half of the continent that’s actually green.

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc quadruple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 4 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,627

Honestly, the US is so big, I have zero desire to ever drive across it. I never want to do that.

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc quintuple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 1 minute later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,628

Like, you can drive from one state to the next, my state is huge. It’s massive. And then you look at the map of the country, and you realize you’ve spent hours and have gotten nowhere. It’s like… it’s too big.

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc sextuple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 29 seconds later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,629

Flying is okay though.

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc septuple-posted this 3 weeks ago, 2 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,631

I’m not sure I believe in overpopulation anymore also. There’s no shortage of empty space. There’s so much empty space it never ends.

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 3 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,632

And don’t even get me started on Canada, they have even more space and 1/10th as many people. In some places it’s not even farmland it’s just trees. It’s literally just trees, it’s just endless nature. It’s literally freaking wilderness up there!

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 17 minutes later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,633

It also makes you wonder how it’s possible anybody in this country is poor. There’s no shortage of resources whatsoever.

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !EQEF.CrTL6 joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 12 hours later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,780

raping nigguhs!

Anonymous M joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 3 hours later, 23 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,816

@1,448,627 (Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc)

> Honestly, the US is so big, I have zero desire to ever drive across it. I never want to do that.

It can be quite interesting with local sites and stuff. I was driving my late stepfather’s car cross country but it darted out halfway into the trip.

Anonymous N joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 3 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,870

@1,448,524 (B)
We have a couple running in the primaries here, I totally tossed them a vote. At least they have a platform other than 'orange guy bad.'

Anonymous O joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,886

@previous (N)

> We have a couple running in the primaries here, I totally tossed them a vote. At least they have a platform other than 'orange guy bad.'

So whats the platform then im curious whats their plan or policy they have to propose to get your vote since “orange guy bad” is not sufficient.

Mr. Bloody Lemonade !0JqexkOGBc joined in and replied with this 3 weeks ago, 18 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,448,890

@previous (O)
Orange guy bad is sufficient for me. The way I see it there are four personality types, every combination of being smart or stupid and good or bad.

Any of the other 3 are superior options.

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