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Comment Re:So it was illegal (Score 5, Informative) 49

Biden and other corporate-friendly Democrats are the center. Certainly right of Elizabeth Warren and Ro Khanna. Biden is equal to or possibly left of Kamala Harris.
Even Bernie is somewhat moderate depending on how you measure him. He's certainly not New Left, as he eschews multicultural identity politics. While mainstream democrats play nice with corporate donors while simultaneously carrying water for intersectional grievance groups.

A true left wing party doesn't really exist in the US. Certainly nothing strictly socialists or marxist is main stream. And even being pro-labor has become a liability when it comes to fund raising these days. Instead of left you get welfare capitalism, a moderate position, and now called Progressive. Even Democratic Socialists are few and far between despite being a "big tent" group that tends to focus equally on social issues as labor issues without. Members might espouse anti-capitalist slogans during protests, being at least true to DSA roots, in practice the party does not hold any significant anti-capitalist platform.

P.S. I'm fine if you're all pro-capitalist. I made a lot of money off capitalism. I'm just willing to admit that rationally speaking, there are problems with it as a system. Especially without putting some guard rails in place. People are not well-represented when money buys political influence. And when wealth concentrates under a few, future generations have even less of a chance to wrestle their government back into the hands of the people.

Comment Re:So it was illegal (Score 5, Interesting) 49

Why would the GOP willingly give up power? They've gone all-in on this man, much of the GOP's very survival depends on not letting Democrats back into power. 2026 is going to be a huge surprise to Democrats that thought we are still following "established norms".

Classic autocrat behavior is to get every industrial leader under you. Scratch each other's backs, and shut down any opposition to the arrangement. I know I'll take crap here for bringing up Mussolini, but what do you all think the odds are that we'll soon have a Department of Corporations not unlike Italy's old Minister of Corporations?

Comment Re:Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys! (Score 1) 59

And don't make the mistake of thinking the government doesn't have more resources to throw at a case than any private entity does.

Legislature and Executive branches intentionally hamstring our institutions because some key people in power want to raid the wealth of our nation and bring about the downfall of our society.

Comment Re:too bad (Score 1) 311

It means a military outfit. Well-regulated as in training and discipline. Not a bunch of yokels showing up to show off their new guns to their buddies.

But SCOTUS re-interpretes the 2A in part because of the 14A. So we have no one to blame but ourselves for the muddiness of the amendment. We had 250 years to fix it and we never bothered.

Comment Re:Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys! (Score 1) 59

That's just how a corporate controlled system wants it. Fight every thing in court, when you have an army of high-paid lawyers up against public servants on a much more limited salary. Frankly we should not be surprised that an agency that is charged with regulating business does not actually have any authority to regulate business.

I am generally happy when my individual rights are respected. But I don't equate corporations to being individuals or deserving of the same rights. I don't even consider innocent until proven guilty to matter when dealing with a commercial organization in a civil matter. They certainly have some right to appeal decisions, but forcing every attempt at regulation into a court case is designed to cripple our institutions and waste taxpayer money.

In 10-20 years we'll have politicians telling us how expensive and ineffective regulations now and convince us taxpayers to de-fund them. It's all planned as part of a slow slide into corporate kleptocracy.

When you all wake up, you'll be wondering where you country went. It's gone in the same direction it has been aimed at for 50 years, you just made excuses on the entire trip.

P.S. Your analogy is nonsense. I'm not sure what you're try say by comparing apples to oranges. The concepts are legally quite different. and the purposes of the two are agencies (local law enforcement and a federal regulatory agency) are wildly different.

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