Well I'm liking thunder a lot more anyway and it's ad free (or I'm just not noticing the ads which is whatever)
I'm just finally switching fully to Lemmy. I'm not from .ml but Im probably aligned with them afaik. I'm a communist.
To be clear, I'm not dunking on Bernie or AOC. Their intentions might be in the right place.
I'm saying the system will only allow so much muckraking. The ruling class ultimately determines who is on your ballot in the first place.
Then you have the list of other problems like first past the post voting, voter ID laws (poll tax), gerrymandering, the electoral college, and the fact that electorates are not legally required to vote the way their representatives vote in the election.
Its possible for both to be true. Id much prefer a ranked choice voting system.
What's also important would be to 1) unionize businesses over a certain size 2) convert those businesses to worker Cooperatives
A worker cooperative is a business that is owned collectively by all the employees and decisions are made through democracy (structure depending on application).
Some countries have had programs where unions can buy shares of the company they represent and the government will match it. Then either the union eventually owns the majority shares and it effectively becomes a worker cooperative or the state and the union own majority shares.
Those are all great in the context of US politics. But things like universal healthcare shouldn't even be part of the debate, they should just be the standard expectation.
Bernie is a centrist at best. Things like civil rights are bare minimum, I'm talking about fundamental workers rights like the right to unionize, repealing Taft-Hartley, setting up matching programs with unions so that they can buy up their companies and become worker cooperatives, etc.
I believe Bernie is more based than centrism in his real views, but his public views are centrist at best.
He exists to deal with the revolutionary energy that is building and make people feel like their voices are being heard under the current establishment. But the reality is that you need corporate backing to win an election in the US by design. It is a corporate oligarchy, not a democracy
The profits of investors is a very low priority concern.
What matters is the material conditions of the people.
China let housing markets exist just to get the houses built. Now that they have way more houses than they need, investors are left out to dry like they should be.
There will always be schmucks trying to get rich off the market. It's our job to force the market to build things that people need. The needs of investors are irrelevant.
Spoonfed propaganda. Have you ever even seen the full tank man video? I was told in school he got ran over, but he literally walks up to the tank and talks to the soldier before leaving the scene
In the US you would have been brought to a black site and had your skin peeled off.
I appreciate that it is peertube
The middle class doesn't exist. There is the working class and the idle rich
