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To all my American friends, the time is now.
Please, execute a BOMBARDMENT. Call your representatives!
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This is a GREAT idea
“For far too long, millions of Americans suffering from long COVID have had their symptoms dismissed or ignored – by the medical community, by the media, and by Congress,” said Sanders. “That is unacceptable and has got to change. The legislation that we have introduced finally recognizes that long COVID is a public health emergency and provides an historic investment into research, development, and education needed to counter the effects of this terrible disease. Congress must act now to ensure treatments are developed and made available for Americans struggling with long COVID. Yes. It is time for a Long Covid Moonshot.”
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The Long COVID Research Moonshot Act would establish a new research program within the NIH to better understand, prevent, diagnose, manage, and treat long COVID and related conditions. The legislation would also:
- Require the NIH to establish a long COVID database, advisory board, and a new grant process that would accelerate clinical trials.
- Fund information gathering and public health education.
- Require any new treatments developed by the NIH to be reasonably priced so that every patient can receive it.
- Fund multidisciplinary long COVID clinics that provide comprehensive, coordinated care – especially in underserved, disproportionately-impacted communities.
- Develop and implement best practices for clinical care and social services.
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Context. Don't cut off the thread to intentionally obscure meaning.
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Interesting to call this “confiscating” when it’s just making the rich pay their fair share, especially considering all the stolen wealth from the bottom 99% and historic tax evasion.
Besides the obvious, the hidden benefit of this is that it provides an endpoint to runaway growth.
The biggest problem with capitalism, the reason it's so destructive to the planet and to the workers and even, ultimately, to the capitalists, is that, after a certain point, the money's just a way of keeping score. The number at the bottom of the column has no bearing on what you can buy or do; as a result, there's no such thing as enough. The number can always be bigger.
Under this proposal, once you hit $1 billion, you've won capitalism. You beat the game, achieved the maximum score; you're finished. There's nothing more you can accumulate. You now have to find a purpose in life other that the relentless pursuit of profit. (And if we're really lucky, it might be something that actually benefits other people, but even if not, it's unlikely to be as damaging as whatever it is you were doing to get that $1 billion.)
Instead of companies expanding endlessly, like tumors, there's a point where, when all the major stakeholders are maxing out on profit, it makes sense to just hold steady. Keep doing/making/selling whatever it is you do/sell/make, but stop trying to do/sell/make more of it every year.
The problem with a tumor--what makes it cancer--is that it keeps growing and growing, until eventually it's taking up so much space and consuming so many resources that the surrounding tissues can't function. The tumor doesn't have to do anything better than the other tissues in order to crowd them out; it just does it faster. Stop the uncontrolled growth, and it's something you can live with.
Stopping the uncontrolled growth of capital means more opportunities for multiple businesses--big and small--operating in the same sector, since it doesn't make sense for any one company to gobble up too much of the market share. That, in turn, means more choices for customers--and workers, since they can take their skills to another employer doing similar things. It means less waste, as there's no longer an economic upside to spewing cheap goods out of a fire-hose before you even know whether anyone wants to buy them. That could mean slower, more thoughtful use of resources in the first place, but at minimum, it's going to mean not manufacturing products only to immediately throw them away.
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Interesting to call this “confiscating” when it’s just making the rich pay their fair share, especially considering all the stolen wealth from the bottom 99% and historic tax evasion.
Absolutely. Capitalism literally creates profit by not paying workers what their production is worth. You can't rob a thief.
Also it's just good for society. Letting people accumulate $1bil is BAD; it distorts society in inefficient, destructive, and unjust ways. It's just flat-out good policy -morally good, practically good, productively good, politically good, good for rich people themselves since wealth legit makes you delusional- to take such gross excesses away from those who accumulate them, and collectively decide how best to use those resources.
You let people steal and hoard this much wealth and they start thinking of themselves as gods, and then they start acting like they're gods, then insisting other people TREAT them like gods, and then you wake up one day and you're in the fucking Warring States period.
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Chicago! Get out and vote for Brandon Johnson today!!!
(April 4, 2023)
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This is theft in every sense of the word. The value of the railroads comes from the labor of the workers making sure it runs. Any profit made is stolen from them. The railroad industry is not only willing to steal the value of their labor in profits, but - as is the nature of capitalism - is stealing their health, sleep, and social time as well.
Capitalism as a system of never-ending extraction on a hoarding death drive is on its full display here. We'll never stop its incessant meat-grinder churn until we get rid of it. The legal and political system has been built to serve the system: it's got to go.
Find a revolutionary socialist organization near you (key word: revolutionary) and get organized, because the extraction is only going to get more brutal and more violent if we don't exert the power we have to stop the system by withdrawing our labor and using it for our own benefit instead of their greed.
Yes. And not just their health: ALL of our health
Read This Thread And Be Enraged. The Health and Safety standards those workers were striking for are as much about preventing ^^^THIS^^^ as they are about protecting the workers themselves. Undermanned trains suffer malfunctions. Broken stuff doesn't get seen, doesn't get fixed, or gets triaged in favor of bigger problems because the Company values the deadline over everything(somehow, I suspect incinerated cargo fails to meet its deadlines too). They hit damage and blockage to the rails that more eyes would have caught. Under-rested crews miss maintenance issues, or make mistakes, or flatout faint from exhaustion at critical times. Everything their job needs -quick thinking, clear assessments, sure hands, awareness, strong bodies- is undermined by insufficient rest.
These Fucking Shareholders take home TENS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR, the Executives executing their policies take home TENS OF MILLIONS, INSTEAD of paying for the staff they NEED to operate safely; INSTEAD of maintaining and upgrading the trains to keep them running sure and safe.
MILLIONS of dollars are spent ~lobbying~ Politicians that could have been spent making sure their trains DONT FUCKING EXPLODE and POISON towns in Ohio for Gods' know how long.
But Capitalists don't care. At the end of the day, the only thing they care about is how much higher their fucking pile gets, and how many OTHER Capitalists they can look down on that night. It's Fucking Ridiculous that the people with the least power in these companies, the people with the least authority, are the Only Fucking People who give a damn about their impact on the wider world. The workers die, WE Die, the Earth is POISONED, and it means nothing to them so long as Number Go Up. This is why Strikes are important. This is why we side with workers every time. You don't have to share my conviction that it is Unjust to work a person to the bone and pay them a pittance of what they earn while you do nothing and pay YOURSELF the lion's share. You just have to recognize that these fucking Moneymen will kill you to make a dollar, and that the only people even trying to fucking stop them are their striking workers.
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GET. THEIR. BILLIONAIRE. ASSES.
Source: twitter.com
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He’s offering $2k PER ADULT not per household and $1k for everyone below 18
enough primaries remain to get him nominated, please if you are in a state then campaign, if not contact people you know that are.
Bernie’s campaign suspended direct fundraising activities yesterday. Instead, they are asking supporters to donate to Meals on Wheels, No Kid Hungry, Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund, One Fair Wage Emergency Fund, and the National Domestic Workers Alliance:
Meals on Wheels delivers prepared food to seniors all across the country. This is especially important in the pandemic, as seniors are at high risk, and limiting their need to go to the grocery store by delivering these meals is a critical service.
No Kid Hungry makes sure that children get the food they need, especially since schools are closed across the country. Their service is especially important as families who lose their jobs need to keep their kids fed.
Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation COVID-19 Emergency Relief Fund is providing direct financial support to restaurant workers who are out of work or have reduced hours because of the pandemic. They are also supporting community organizations of local workers and providing loans to restaurants to re-open when it is safe.
National Domestic Workers Alliance is giving financial support to in-home care workers, nannies, and house cleaners who have to stay home and not work in order to reduce the spread of the virus.
One Fair Wage Emergency Fund gives funds directly to service workers affected by the pandemic, including restaurant, salon, airport, rideshare, and gig economy workers who find themselves out of work or without customers.
These five groups cover a large section of the problems that we are immediately facing as the health crisis creates an economic crisis. While we need to do much, much more as a country, supporting these groups is a good first step to take if you’re able to do so right now.
Living in Missouri, I’m particularly frustrated by the singular and specific lack of leadership form state & local government (I know, I know. I vote, but I’m outnumbered here), and it is strikingly apparent to me that the only clear and decisive leadership we’re seeing on the national stage is here, from Bernie Sanders. Nothing is decided.
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Biden vs Sanders
I think another takeaway from this post is also just how recently segregation was. We like to think of it as being a long time ago, but we have two presidential candidates who were not only alive during segregation, but who were also old enough to be politically active at the time.
