This literally doesn't even matter. This bill is so much worse than that
There's a clause making it so judges can't enforce contempt charges against the federal government. The executive branch will literally be above the law... There's nothing the courts could do to enforce it
Don't get distracted, there's 1k pages of terrible bullshit, but this is literally democracy ending
Wokeness is what keeps them in the air, which is why they're falling out of it now
I do find it interesting...I don't think it addresses the problem, but it sounds like a great idea
Realistically, how much are companies going to pay out in royalties? As little as they can get away with
Let's say it's 2% of a game that made $100M - you're looking at tens of thousands each when it's all split up. Which is great, maybe even life changing for some of them, but it's not financial security kind of money
And then let's say the game flops or gets cancelled... Well that's not going to help much, so you can't really rely on it
So I think the idea is great, but it's still just fiddling with the knobs of capitalism
I'm increasingly convinced that we're already in hell and being taught a lesson
Who gives a fuck about that, it's tied to making the executive branch immune to contempt charges for ignoring the courts, retroactively no less
And it has a soft abortion ban (and maybe birth control too?) by banning any health plan that gets government assistance from providing it
And then there's weird shit... Like indoor tanning is getting a tax cut, as well as gun silencers
Also, there's the stuff on the label... Stripping food and medical care from the most vulnerable people. Which also fucks over farmers, because food stamps are a farming subsidy
This whole bill is really, really bad
So I should suffer just to suffer? You listed a whole lot of things that they hire people to do just about as soon as they can so they can. And offloading that let's them do their actual job better
I work with black boxes all the time. When I have a black box, I poke and prod it until I understand how to make it do what I want. And this particular black box was interesting, so I decided to open it up and learn how it works
That's the essence of software development. My job is not typing or data entry, my job is to trick a rock into doing things humans don't want to do
Of course - they certainly have to be replaced.
That's what the struggle over the dnc vice chair position is about - someone won who wants to use funds to primary representatives "asleep at the wheel", so they're pulling out procedural reasons to redo it
There's a plan... It's not a sure thing, but it's building a lot of momentum
People don't know what socialism is...Most people's understanding of socialism includes the government doing basically anything
What people want is free healthcare, affordable housing, tax the rich. We just need to double down on that populist messaging - and when they cry out "that's socialism" we have to stop trying to run from it
Tax the rich. How are we going to pay back our deficit? Tax the rich. Why does everything suck? Because we haven't taxed the rich. What are we going to do in office? Tax the rich. Isn't that socialism? Who cares, tax the rich.
Harris lost by a razor thin margin, and there's legitimate concerns that they cheated (more directly than usual). They lost because they tried to ease up her messaging to avoid alienating the people who were always going to vote for Trump
We need to rally around what everyone wants - free healthcare, affordable housing, tax the rich to do it. Just chant that over and over. Anyone who does that is going to win
No, we don't have time for that. We just have to do a tea party on the Democratic party... Which is what she's been doing
They do have to go, but we're keeping the house and the dog
Well... Yeah, that's why we're taking it over. What do you think all the tours and rallies are for? The fight is on, actual progressives and opportunity chasers are positioning themselves for it... It's happening
It's tea party time
Oh, I'm not saying it's not horrible and not a terrible part of the bill...I think you what you laid out is pretty close to what they intend to do
But I'm still saying, this doesn't even matter. Literally, one of the buried clauses let's the government blatantly ignore the courts, which means they get to blatantly ignore the law
If they pass contempt clause, the federal courts lose all power over the executive. It even cuts the path to getting the supreme Court to hear cases on unconstitutionality
This literally just doesn't matter, because the brown shirts could do whatever they want, and the states would have no mechanism to stop them anyways