Democrats keep trying to increase minimum wage, read a fucking News source.
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The problem is, we need caps on profit margins on necessities, and to stop the making of things we need for basic survival investment opportunities.
But that would be difficult to get done. So they go for the low hanging fruit of wages, which never permanently solve anything because they’ll just keep raising prices under this scamflation cycle we’ve been in since COVID.
Every service that is necessary for human survival should have a not-for-profit vendor.
When all it takes to stop them is the nonbinding opinion of an unelected advisor, are they really trying, though?
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Yeah, subby. We get it. "Both sides are bad." But one side is boring corporatists who don't give a crap and the other side is 100% concentrated evil fascists, authoritarians and religious nutjobs. And while that's a choice between the lesser of two evils, it's not a difficult one.
That may have been the point of the original comic, but given the caption, I think OP's point wasn't that both sides are bad, but was that a two party system is inherently biased towards corporate capture.
That’s the problem with this “both sides” take. Yes, there is no true leftist party in the US. They’re both corporatists. The Republicans are undeniably much worse, though. Anti-union, anti other labor rights, oppose every kind of social safety net, want to privatize (loot) and profit from public assets, are thoroughly in favor of racist classist policies of every type imaginable. Some democrats are too, but ALL republicans are like that.
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I'm just here to watch the complete and total dumpster fire in the comments.
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Minimum wage works. Here is an article from the german newspaper FAZ (leans economically right) that presents a study that shows the low income sector has shrunk since the implementation of minimum wages.
Germany before had one of the biggest low income sectors in the western world.
And no, the unemployment rate did not skyrocket. In fact, Germany is as close to full employment as it gets.
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Oh look, more both sides trash slapped on top of someone else's work. Lazy fucks can't even propagandize properly.
How about spending some of your time and energy telling moderates they can either compromise with leftists and progressives or lose to fascists a second time?
But if they compromise with leftists instead of telling them to suck an egg, they won't have a scapegoat anymore to blame all their losses and woes on!
Sure, they might just win instead, but that's like at best third on their list of priorities behind corporate donors and the status quo.
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Criticism of the comic aside, two party system is still definitely undesirable. I believe it is a side effect of first past the post voting. What we really should implement is ranked choice voting. It gets rid of the dumb "voting third party is voting for [opposite party]" argument by letting you vote for who you want guilt-free and falling back on your lower-ranked votes if #1 wasn't popular enough.
But you know, this will always meet resistance because politicians would lose their jobs for implementing this.
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Let's break that shit up!
Approval voting and proportional representation! So long as we have single-seat elections using choose-one voting, we'll be stuck with two parties.
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There are two sides, but you can alter that a bit if you get your asses to the primaries.
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This is incorrect and lazy.
bOtH fUcKiNg SiDeS is an attitude that can suck my wang
🚫 Both sides are equally bad.
✔️ Both sides are bad, but not remotely equally so.
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