Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "No, You're Not Crazy. Everything IS More Expensive. This Is Why." video.

Maybe no individual household should be allowed to amass more than 100 million in assets? I mean why has no one considered maximum income limits as well as other maximum limits and business controls? See the solutions are out there but we have a criminal political class that could care less of the 99% fall off a cliff, just so long as they continue to stay in office and the bribes keep coming their way. There are some simple solutions to this but it would require a political class that isn't owned, operated and controlled by the extreme elite class and that's rarely if ever happened in this country. The big money knows what they want and they know how to get it and the middle and lower classes seemed perfectly content to continue voting for the corporate uniparty system. People think there is such a thing as a progressive or useful Democrat in this country. See that right there tells me that they still don't get it. THE TWO PARTIES ARE THE SAME AT THE END OF THE DAY! It's two faces of the same shit apparatus- two sides of the same ass. They both serve their corporate masters and that's all. Taking turns re-electing one or the other isn't going to do a damn thing for the rest of us. The duopoly is the problem. It would be nice if we had some viable parties here whose only concern was the general welfare not Wall Street's bottom line. Don't know if we'll be able to change this in our lifetime. Modern feudalism is here to stay- at least for now. Of course we should continue to organize 100% and try to get outside the corporate duopoly at all stages, just not sure how much headway we're going to make over the next 50 years. But there is the courts, there are ballot measures; we do have some tools available to us.. such as they are. It would just be nice if we weren't completely fucked and held hostage by a single Wall Street uniparty with two faces. We should have a vibrant multi-party system here and we don't. There are a lot of good people in this country but I've come to believe that magical powers have decreed that no person of good soul or compassionate conscience can win in public office here, or if they do they're quickly run out or taken out. It sure would be nice to see this change at some point.
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And nothing has changed.
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Just let psychopaths run everything. I'm sure that will work well for everyone.
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@bobpurcell8357 no, we can get militant and organized and work locally to start independent hard left parties. Of course it'll be a super uphill battle but we have to start there. Or seek a left unity party- try to combine with all other outsider parties in a given county or state that are independent whose beliefs fall anywhere from the center to the hard left. Perhaps left unity is our way forward to get a real serious outsider party going. Forget the national stage that's owned by Wall Street- our moves are going to have to happen on much more local scales- city, county, or state. It's hard, but worth trying.
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People vote for their own chains and I don't see that changing. People want to be disempowered and soft-enslaved and they want to force others to be as well, whether it's on economic issues or civil rights issues. Look how they immediately demand people's civil rights be violently seized from them when they see a protest or demonstration they disagree with. Everyone suddenly shifts into Big Fash the moment they see an assembly no matter how peaceful broadcasting a message they disagree with. It's happening right now on college campuses across the country. Everyone wants to be a slave and literally gets angry when you have a problem with this and that is a fascinating and curious quirk of human behavior to me honestly from an analytical detached POV. There are people to this day that tried to justify the Kent State murders. It's crazy and then you ask them why do you want to be a slave???? Why do you find freedom terrifying and why do you insist I live under those same chains? They can't answer that. I wish everyone was like me wanted maximum autonomy, empowerment and liberation from tyranny and exploitation in all forms, esp State thuggery, but most people don't seem to want that. If they did wouldn't militant Left movements gain a lot more traction here? People WANT to be controlled and limited, I don't know what else to think. They have trouble thinking for themselves and continually make the GCE of blindly equating the concept of "legal" with "always ethically justifiable", as if legality is anything other than "some politician wanted it this way because it coincided with their belief system or the desires of whoever is pulling their chain". Perusing centrist or right-wing comment sections on other websites or social media platforms where this is how all of the lemmings think without question is a peculiar form of self-abuse (as I can't stop myself from doing sometimes). Many just seem cognitively challenged, believe anything they're told from a corporate outlet, think immigrants aka "illegals" are the next big threat AND think the current political structure serves them; good luck telling them otherwise. I'm referring to voters in the bottom 80% that are either comfortably middle class (for now at least), or in the working class or just poor. I wish them well in life and I hope they have a mostly positive existence but I'm just not sure they are reachable.
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Politicians don't want to stop it though, at any level. They're completely owned operated and report to all of these large firms who are doing this. They're only too happy to take their money and let them dictate policy. Wall Street won't stop until half the country is bankrupt and/or homeless, and what then? No honestly I'm curious what politicians' agendas are then when half the country can barely afford to eat, live, keep a roof over their head, drive, etc. When the 1% has succeeded in their goal to take everything, then what? Do we all die, live on the street, what??? Since Wall Street and it's clones will never stop trying to take everything, I'm just curious how politicians think this will end.
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And among other things, this is why we need iron fists for big business and hard market share limits. Ofc that won't happen now with no difference between politics and organized crime. Evil owns America and the world. Not sure if that will or can change. I hope so, eventually. But so far the good guys always lose. I'd like to think someday that could change.
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What is this? What are you saying here? Your childish pictograms mean nothing to me, why don't you try using your words.
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>Strong Labor laws >Strict business regulation incl worker representation mandates and group layoff bans >Strict market share maximums >Strict private wealth limits >Strict wage minimums >Strict price and markup controls >Strict merger limits >Heavy taxes linear to business size Without all of the above, we are all fucked and Wall Street WILL control everything one way or another and they will and they do.
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@LeejaMiller it would be nice if we could but I mean it hasn't happened yet. How exactly are we to do that? Big business isn't going to give up and go away. I'm not saying give up, I'm just saying it seems to be a nut we're not going to be able to crack in our lifetime. Not that we should stop trying - I have no intention of giving up; I'm just saying we're up against Mount Everest with nothing but twine and slippers to work with. The current political structure wants to serve the big money and they have a media to promote their views which seems to work for most voters. I don't see what we can do to change that in our lifetime too much. But we do have some options with court cases and public ballots. But most courts are pretty dirty and judges seem easily bought so once again here we are trying to scale a steep wall with jelly on our feet. It's a hell of a situation you have to admit. Seems like in this country big money always gets what it wants. They seem to have it in the bag- local guns, State Police and the FBI are out there to ensure their interests are protected. I don't know, kind of sucks. Socialist and communist parties have tried to make headway before with some limited success but eventually petered out or failed. At a minimum it would be nice if the People had a voice that put their welfare and concerns first for a change - but again in the last 50 years hard left militant movements have all been stymied. There's a lot of angry sociopaths that don't like when outsiders challenge the system. Leonard peltier is still on death row. Wonder how often he gets to come out of his cage. Hard to imagine the kind of hatefulness and evil we're up against, and it all seems to circle back to money sooner or later - are in the situation with native americans, the theft of their land, a major resource. The big powers feel to have the right to take anything they want at any time from anyone and they don't like when someone opposes that. Morals? Respect for others' rights? That's for the weak. I don't know, I guess hope always springs eternal. There's always a first time. Maybe some change can happen in our lifetime I mean it sure would be nice. There's more than enough for everyone but good luck getting big business to back off. They want it all and intend to take it all so I don't not sure where this will end up, when their influence pulls the strings of the political assembly at all levels including down the road at city hall. But we the people aren't completely powerless, we have social media, we have each other, we have the ballot, and we have the courts, such as they are. It's up to us to make use of them.
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But we are raised from birth to believe that these psychopaths up top deserve everything they have and they deserve even more. That there should be no income limits or business controls in this country and to do otherwise is communism or some nonsense (as if that kind of Communism is bad). People are so stupid and it's very very sad. With a few simple socialist controls we can ensure a strong standard of living for every person in this country and break the control of the .1%, but not under the current paradigm. It takes bringing the iron fist down on the big business class and that's never happened in this country; big business has always controlled everything here and unless there's some kind of real revolution, it seems like it always will. The politicians on both so-called sides work for Wall Street and the Pigs without reservation are only too happy to take the dictates from politicians, both regarding suppressing dissent against foreign policy and when it comes to domestic uprisings such as BLM. So where is that leave us, the silent majority?? I really don't know. We need a political movement to represent the bottom 80% but one can never get started. Half the country let's current politicians tell them how to think, and vote for the status quo. The FBI does their work very well in squashing any kind of outsider Left movement based on racial, economic or civil justice. It's a hell of a setup that's for damn sure.
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