politics

The moment anyone so much as an atom left of center is elected, all the forces and money of the nations ruling class bears down on them to prevent even a baby step of progress.

Why are capitalists so bad at investments?

Because it's actually worked. The wealthy have become outrageously more wealthy in the last several decades because of their interference in elections.

Mamdani is a setback for their plans, but honestly 56 million dollars is effectively nothing compared to the money the elite, donor-class holds and uses to influence society. The only way we topple their stranglehold is to have more "Mamdani Events" in every major city and state while we still have democracy and can launch grass-roots elections to remove corruption and money from politics.

Truth is that this sort of thing has worked out for them before. Trump would not be in office right now if he wasn't bankrolled by Musk and Thiel. There were reports in early 2024 that the GOP was basically broke.

A few million to a campaign can be converted into billions of tax benefits. Just think of how much they got out of the Trump tax credits from the first term. Pile on top of that cases where they get sweet government contracts (like Palantir). It's all a direct shift of money from the working class and into capitalists with the government as an intermediary.

Which is to say that, yes, it is good investment for them. They can afford to miss a few sometimes. Generally, they play the game to win more than they lose. If you win every time, it's actually an Enron-style red flag.

Weren’t they supposed to be the smart entrepreneurs?

Like Mamdani said. They're spending a lot more than what he's planning on taxing them.

Can you imagine the level of eternal fear that is required to be a conservative?

Just constant, relentless, crushing, completely ridiculously unwarranted fear. At all times. These people are little bitches.

Free bus rides and access to food. The humanity!

TG2, right? The other day they were saying that there was no genocide at all in Gaza, just "extremely targeted attacks against terrorists"

Trump seems pretty checked out lately, as expected for someone at the very end of the effective human lifespan who already has everything and anything he wants.

I would just love to be a fly on the wall to witness Stephen Miller's implosion right now. He's the sack of maggots and feces wrapped in human skin who has been effectively running the country for the last year or so because he has no qualms about taking Trump to the hilt and has earned the old man's trust that way. He has no power on his own because he's not liked and can't capture even a shred of political capital like Trump has, on some level he knows when this whole thing folds he will be completely shut out of politics and may even face prosecution.

Seeing something like Mamdani happen, as well as the blue wave that just crashed over major cities and states yesterday, is a reminder that his clock is ticking and running out faster than he would have liked. Expect to see some wild missteps from the administration over the next several months as Miller goes on an absolute bender and tries to accelerate all his half-baked nazi plans.

It is “crazy,” literally. Not being able to distinguish between a capitalist corporate shill like Harris and a literal madman is incredibly dangerous.

There have been so many dangerous reversals under this madman that would have never happened if Harris had won. The destruction of the CDC, environmental protections, radically defunding science and the humanities, ICE kidnapping and disappearing people, and literally tearing down the White House (a metaphor.)

If the prospect of that madman in the White House didn’t strike terror in your heart, there’s something wrong with you.

It’s certainly better to give people something to vote for, not against. But relinquishing self-preservation just because you don’t like what’s on the menu is indeed “crazy.“

One of the rare good things to come out of Indiana.

Yet conservatives get mad about Kirk jokes and wonder why they get kicked off platforms.