• acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    7 天前

    A classic anti-democratic and anti-socialist right wing argument is that people vote for the left because the left promises them government benefits.

    Mitt Romney :

    “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president [Obama] no matter what… who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it… My job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”

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    Republicans when talking about min wage: “We can’t give out money, or else inflation happens, learn something!

    Republicans when voting comes up: “HAVE FREE MONEY!”

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    Oh another morality test for America, the last one was " will you vote for a corrupt rapist who has proven they are bad for the country, or a woman". This one is " knowing exactly how fucked everything you care about will become, will you still vote for it if a corrupt liar says they will give you money that they literally cannot give you"

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    A promise from the always does lies man!

    Also, you’ve spent that and more on lost savings, higher gas, groceries, restaurants, fucking everything he broke.

    Shoots you in the toe, cuts off both feet and then announces, “if you keep me around, everyone gets a single shoe!”

    And if you’re a loyal cult member all this time, do you have any issue with the gate here? Like… Why isn’t he just giving you $5k today, or for the last election and and all the fascism you enabled? Almost sounds like he’s full of shit and only a moron would believe anything he says.

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    Democrats should counter that they’ll pay double whatever the Republicans pledge (min $10k, max $30k), paid entirely by a wealth tax on assets over $1 billion if they win a filibuster-proof supermajority.

    Billionaires actually have enough assets to get to $30.6k per person, so Democrats wouldn’t even have to tax their assets above $1 billion at 100% to get there.

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    I’m sad there are no repercussions. This shouldn’t be allowed. Its not okay. Even saying it isn’t okay.

    Election meddling isn’t okay.

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      It’s not ok that politicians on both parties are controlled by corporations. But here we are. Our political system is so bad I’m not even surprised they’d win with this lie

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    on the one hand this is stupid, on the other hand he was elected by stupid people, so upon reflection it will probably work as a motivation.