How do we fight the Republicans and their Billionaire Sponsors?

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  1. Toker

    Toker Lifetime Supporter

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    How are we supposed to fight the billionaire mindset that has unashamedly taken the wealth of the middle class to further enrich themselves?

    With the President, Congress and the Supreme Court now in their pockets, it looks like there's no political way to change this for now.

    So what can WE THE PEOPLE do to take back what has been stolen by the Elite, so we can prosper and provide for the basic needs of everyone?
     
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  2. Toker

    Toker Lifetime Supporter

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    One obvious course of action is boycotting the businesses of the billionaires. This usually has more of a limited short-term effect.

    It would take a bit more than that to make a difference. Look at Tesla. So far that seems to be the most effective boycott I've ever seen, hurting the company's bottom line big time. But there are other factors at play with Tesla too.

    You would have to boycott all Musks businesses, including Starlink, which happens to be my only way of getting online! And no Tesla Robots or Taxis. But it can be done!
     
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  3. MeAgain

    MeAgain Dazed & Confused Lifetime Supporter Super Moderator

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    Vote, protest, live the good life.
     
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  4. scratcho

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    Used to be that the voters could rid the legislators / legislation of unctuous, despicable actors, but with the republicans now in charge of the government , they will steal elections, continue to lie about ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING---not much is to be done now. It's going to get worse and worse as long as republicans and the chief pussy grabber are running the government. The lying , crooked motherfuckers have no morals, no principles and no shame. :rage:
     
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  5. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    The simple fact is, we are fighting the money itself, and not people, and the AI are about to become the hottest new source of money. Already, half of all Wall Street transactions are conducted by computers, while it's easy enough to program AI to master Professional Wrestling in 8 dimensions and a singularity. Trust me, as tacky as it is, it beats all the alternatives.

    The simple fact is, once you get over four hundred people, Three Stooges Slapstick rules everything, and even a stupid AI can become more humane than people.

    Such machines could steal WC Fields' lunch money and life savings. They are literally creating machines to do their stealing for them, and discovering they have no control over the damn things.
     
  6. Toker

    Toker Lifetime Supporter

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    So will AI subvert the Billionaires? Especially when they supposedly control the AIs? Or will AI in service to the Elite, enslave us, incarcerate us, or incinerate us?
     
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  7. Chodpa

    Chodpa Senior Member

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    Unfortunately the Repugs have been this hard bitten school of illogic ever since the Council of Nicea formulated a book to try to keep Jewish uprising supressed by writing The Bible. By making "Render unto Caeser, " a basic tenet they encumbered religion with squashed emotional response and greater religious zeal. Since 200 AD Christians have reported to the Government as the highest earthly authority. Yes, you are saying, "But the Pope," but the pope nothing. The Pope is just an earthly power and nobody in heaven or God ever agreed upon a pope, especially the scum Borgias and other families which populated their ranks.

    Yet still Xtians believe in Christian Nationalism. The Nazis were Christian Nationalists with 96% of their population Catholic and Protestant. The supression of womens rights through history ever since Rome has directly been at the behest of the Xristians. And they think they are the spokepeople for God. It's disgusting. 170+ murders in the name of Christianity are from Christians throughout history. By comparison Islam is reponsible for 1.5 million murders in the name of Islam.

    All these stats can and should be checked.

    MAGA is just par for the course. The internet seemed to be the work of trolls in the early days and I was so naive I thought these people were faking their lackluster stupid vileness. But nope, that's just how these people are, and they are the internet world majority. I would take years to meet someone I actually liked. I figured out at one point that I liked one in five thousand people that I met through social media. The internet is the cesspool of the displaced. It's the trashbin for opinion.

    Some people are awesome. They are very few. Most people are average, and the synonym for average is the mean. Most people by definition are mean. Mean people. The mean. Average. Typical. Popular. These are all the same thing. The popular average political person is a hostile, mostly uneducated dipshit, who thinks God praises their lack of effort to excell.They are the self righteous. The halls of politics are full of them. They step over the living corpses of dying veterans on their way to the government offices. They try to ignore everything which makes them feel something like a twinge of conscience.

    They put out no real effort to live life. They do not study, go to higher education, or care about other people besides themselves. Their party is the Non Civil Rights party, the Repugs. The only thing they feel is other people's stealing from their own pockets, and it was inevitable that Repugs would take over the halls of justice even though they are not the actual majority, but just because they lie, cheat and steal by nature. They have no class, and are naturally antagonistic. They knew they would lose playing fairly so they conscribed Cambridge Analytica and the Russian troll Gulags to create division in Democracy. They sold successfully the notion, especially to minorities that both sides of the aisle were the same. Dem and Repug. I hope people can finally see the difference now.

    So what can you do? You can know that and not play their hate game.

    New Internationalist Magazine suggests five things to do, or not do. 1) Don't doomscroll - learn to participate in positive events, not negative, 2) Join a trade union, 3) think locally, and take up local initiatives, 4) Boycott hate - the far right are the richest techbros who sit back and enable hate because it galvanizes markets, and creates revenue, 5) Take legal action against attempts to curtail freedoms, monopolize markets, and revoke human rights.

    Don't grow up and watch Fox News. Fox News is a cult which brainwashes its members into an outrage echo chamber. We have all lost people to Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. People we cannot now to have a civil conversation with any longer.

    White Supremacy is the easy route for the haters. Fight against it in your relationships. Do not let people think they are right to be white. Even if it sets you back. Hate the haters. Love the lovers. This is living right. The educators are the gretest givers against all odds that the world has ever known. The teachers. Appreciate the teachers. Become one.

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  8. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Right now, the Supreme Court depends on Microsoft and others to tell them who is an isn't an AI. Give an AI a sense of humor, and their ability to easily detect lies and bullshit should go from around 80% of the time right now, up to 99%.

    The liars have been attempting to persuade the public that lie detectors haven't made progress, and their own lie detectors are about to see through them like wet toilet paper, and take over the stock market as well. China, Russia, and everybody has slowly started to realize the depth of their mutual problem.
     
  9. wilsjane

    wilsjane Nutty Professor HipForums Supporter

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    Do as I say, not as I do myself.
    If you copy me, there will be less left for me, so that is criminal. :)
     
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  10. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    In the book, "Shockwave Rider" a computer programmer offered everyone 24 hours to choose whether they wanted democracy, but the idiots never even graduated from Kindergarten, so I'm teaching AI how to offer them the truth instead. Believe it or not, the truth is even more powerful than the laws of physics.
     
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  12. wooleeheron

    wooleeheron Brain Damaged Lifetime Supporter

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    Newsom only wishes he could do what I can with language, and he'd be better off getting Dwain Johnson to be his running mate. He's a Professional Wrester and actor, who can make lawyers like him look wimpy.

    Nobody seems to get it. Ronald Reagan was nothing more than a "B" string actor, and Donald Duck is nothing more than a Professional Wrestling fan and reality TV star. They've censored half of reality for so long, and allowed social media and crap to dictate their reality for so long, that it really doesn't matter what they say, its the Cult of Personality.

    Newsom playing the good guy coming to rescue, belies the fact the idiots still believe the sun revolves around the earth, and are storming the palace with knives and pitch forks. We need something better than your average local ambulance chaser's slogans.
     
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  13. Piobaire

    Piobaire Village Idiot

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  14. Toker

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    There must be consequences for those who lie endlessly for years affecting millions of people, profiting from making people fear others. They never admit they were wrong. Charlie Kirk just found that out.
     
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    All partisan politics are corrupt. From my viewpoint it seems the despot was put in office as a collective majority had just had enough. If politics had become a powder keg with politicians avoiding the publics demand for explanations on TNT and other incendiary subjects the populace wish to know about then elect the match.
     
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  16. LadySkater

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    The answer is simple gentleman..you fuck republicans wives inpregnating them.then raising children that are liberals who end up running for office and wininng
     
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    We can deny rich people the tax-write-off for political donations.
    We can't stop citizens from donating, but we don't owe the rich a write-off for free speech.
     
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    LMAO! Is that a response to wooleeheron saying you can tell who someone votes for based on their DNA?

    I would say it's more based on their parents, regardless of DNA, but I get the point.
     
  19. Whirlwind83

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    I say vote, sign petitions, and donate to the good causes they want gone when possible.
     
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    We could out-populate the (E*&#&E's by:
    - Having many more babies
    - Letting in a few million new 'citizens' every month (most immigrants start off Democratic until they catch the 'virus')
    - Hire lots of special scientists from countries 'certified' for potential citizenship (doctors, physicists, . . . . . {no lawyers or politicians})
     
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