For some reason I don't think you'd be happy if the IRS went around arresting everyone who didn't file their taxes on time or properly as it would have a disproportionate affect on lower income workers and small businesses.
How will Joe Biden GOVERN? General Biden Administration F**kery Thread
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mastermind
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see friends, this is called moving the goalpostsFor some reason I don't think you'd be happy if the IRS went around arresting everyone who didn't file their taxes on time or properly as it would have a disproportionate affect on lower income workers and small businesses.
nah the Jacobin article is just attempting to repackage the defund the police talking points.see friends, this is called moving the goalposts
But it's failure is that it's operating under the framing that we don't have social programs because we spend money on police. Or that we don't have social programs because we spend money on the military.
The decision isn't fiscal, it's that Americans simply don't prioritize those programs as beneficial, as a right and still believe in the welfare queen trope.
And while it does a good job explaining how more cops and prisons don't necessarily lead to a safer society, it fails to provide a data based alternative to property and violent crimes. And since the argument is a response to the SF DA recall, I think it crazy for them to think the solution is just to say, "crime doesn't happen as much as you think" as the solution.
Everyone knows justice isn't applied equally across the board, but as I said much of that comes from the behavior of our elected officials who prosecute these crimes and sentence individuals.
mastermind
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I don’t really disagree with most of this, but Americans shytting on government help ain’t the same as not actually wanting help. We saw that with people shytting on Obamacare but telling republicans not to get rid of the ACA.
I don’t think you can or should run this government thinking through status quo is fine when at the same time people moving towards extremist positions because the status quo ain’t fine.
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It’s always fun to see people hand waive decades of propaganda after a reading a story that spells out in detail why it’s bad and what it leads to lol
Biden isn’t the problem
storyteller
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There’s time to fix this but damn! I’m tempted to say he should pick a successor and the party needs to start pumping them up early but:
1. I probably won’t like his pick bc we know it’s probably Pete if it’s not gonna be kamala
2. I thought that was the plan for kamala but that has either not worked or wasn’t really the plan…bc their promotion of her is trash and her approval ratings are wack too.
3. With as bad as the Dems are at promoting their own, it might be better to pick a successor quietly and not give the GOP a head start attacking them.
Biden is old as fukk. Not surprising folks want someone else to run.
storyteller
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Biden is old as fukk. Not surprising folks want someone else to run.
Also...his approval rating
Either way, there needs to be an exit strategy to get him out and have someone that Americans actually like run. Kamala and Pete seem like the most likely choice, but I don't see enough being done to promote them. Pete's seemed to make a few pushes recently, Kamala's got the GOP troll army turning everything she does into an attack (like really blatant reaches).
