Democratic Party Rebuild

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@Pull Up the Roots Get your shyt together and read this in detail.

A YIMBY Theory of Power

Pro-housing advocates offer an analysis of class relations that is more sophisticated and has more explanatory power than the one held by many critics of the “abundance agenda.”

www.thenation.com

Progressives have been lying to you.

It’s the same thing with this “billionaires suck” rhetoric. It’s not fixing anything. Billionaires aren’t the problem. It’s government cowardice from delivering.

 

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@Pull Up the Roots Get your shyt together and read this in detail.

A YIMBY Theory of Power

Pro-housing advocates offer an analysis of class relations that is more sophisticated and has more explanatory power than the one held by many critics of the “abundance agenda.”

www.thenation.com

Progressives have been lying to you.

It’s the same thing with this “billionaires suck” rhetoric. It’s not fixing anything. Billionaires aren’t the problem. It’s government cowardice from delivering.

Billionaires and unchecked capitalism literally is the problem, prior to the 1970s the wage wealth gap disparity for simply owning a home was not where near what it is today. Unchecked capitalism, low tax rates and flat out bad policy have allowed businesses to either move out of the country or close shop and move to undesirable locations with low tax breaks to benefit billionaires. Like @Pull Up the Roots said zoning isn't the issue, unchecked monopolies is the problem. It's pretty much impossible to block a vertical merger in the year 2025, capitalism tax rates and monopolies are the problem not zoning laws. Yes some zoning laws can be fixed but it's not the only reason, Florida is flat out allowing homes to be built in sink home regions and farm land this should not be the goal of the united states. Common sense home building should be the goal, we have a lot of vacant properties that could and can be replaced. Japan does well with this

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Billionaires and unchecked capitalism literally is the problem, prior to the 1970s the wage wealth gap disparity for simply owning a home was not where near what it is today. Unchecked capitalism, low tax rates and flat out bad policy have allowed businesses to either move out of the country or close shop and move to undesirable locations with low tax breaks to benefit billionaires. Like @Pull Up the Roots said zoning isn't the issue, unchecked monopolies is the problem. It's pretty much impossible to block a vertical merger in the year 2025, capitalism tax rates and monopolies are the problem not zoning laws. Yes some zoning laws can be fixed but it's not the only reason, Florida is flat out allowing homes to be built in sink home regions and farm land this should not be the goal of the united states. Common sense home building should be the goal, we have a lot of vacant properties that could and can be replaced. Japan does well with this

I don’t give a fukk how many billionaires there are. Just give people more housing, better transportation infrastructure, and better labor protections.

The rest will work itself out.

 

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I don’t give a fukk how many billionaires there are. Just give people more housing, better transportation infrastructure, and better labor protections.

The rest will work itself out.

Yes and you get that by raising taxes against billionaires and corporations. You literally are agreeing that billionaires and capitalism is the problem

Transportation and labor protections literally suck due to billionaires and corporations buying off politicans

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Yes and you get that by raising taxes against billionaires and corporations. You literally are agreeing that billionaires and capitalism is the problem

Transportation and labor protections literally suck due to billionaires and corporations buying off politicans

Confiscatory taxes on the wealthy wont pay for that. You only do that just to keep rich people in check. You can’t tax your way into infrastructure.

 

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Confiscatory taxes on the wealthy wont pay for that. You only do that just to keep rich people in check. You can’t tax your way into infrastructure.

Did you miss the point where I said corporations?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Did you miss the point where I said corporations?

You’re just throwing out random terms to this its helping you understand a complex issue.

Corporate taxes aren’t gonna pay for high speed rail. You tax these entities to rein them in.

 

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You’re just throwing out random terms to this its helping you understand a complex issue.

Corporate taxes aren’t gonna pay for high speed rail. You tax these entities to rein them in.

raising the corporate tax rates and banning super pacs would literally be a huge step towards high speed rail way. one doesnt exist not due to cost, it doesnt exist due to railroad company monopolies buying off politicians. And yes you can cut defense spending in order to help pay for it

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I’m glad Ezra and Derek shytted on you anti-business progressives.

@49 minutes:



Thank god. Progressives dont get it. Power is a stupid question when you ignore outcomes and the effort expended to achieve these things.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

raising the corporate tax rates and banning super pacs would literally be a huge step towards high speed rail way. one doesnt exist not due to cost, it doesnt exist due to railroad company monopolies buying off politicians. And yes you can cut defense spending in order to help pay for it

Is the government broke?

We dont have rail because a lot of yall get teary eyed about telling Grandma to move.

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

@Pull Up the Roots Get your shyt together and read this in detail.

A YIMBY Theory of Power

Pro-housing advocates offer an analysis of class relations that is more sophisticated and has more explanatory power than the one held by many critics of the “abundance agenda.”

www.thenation.com

Progressives have been lying to you.

It’s the same thing with this “billionaires suck” rhetoric. It’s not fixing anything. Billionaires aren’t the problem. It’s government cowardice from delivering.

No, I want you to plainly state how unleashing the market under our current corporate-dominated system is going to lead to tangible benefits for the public, and not just for investors, like it has every other time this was tried.

Billionaires might not be the *only* problem, but they are *a* problem, especially when it comes to shaping policy and influence. They're parasites.

I don’t give a fukk how many billionaires there are. Just give people more housing, better transportation infrastructure, and better labor protections.

The rest will work itself out.

How do you get better labor protections by unleashing the people largely responsible for weakening them in the first place?

The market will not work itself out. It never has, Ronald Reagan.

 

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No, I want you to plainly state how unleashing the market under our current corporate-dominated system is going to lead to tangible benefits for the public, and not just for investors, like it has every other time this was tried.

I didn’t say to open the free market. I said to stop making housing illegal.

Billionaires might not be the *only* problem, but they are *a* problem, especially when it comes to shaping policy and influence. They're parasites.

Billionaires honestly aren’t top 5 problems facing progressive wish lists

How do you get better labor protections by unleashing the people largely responsible for weakening them in the first place?

labor protections have nothing to do with Sergey Brin inventing Google.

Enforce existing laws and get bolder politicians.

The market will not work itself out. It never has, Ronald Reagan.

This has nothing to do with the Faircloth amendment.

 

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Is the government broke?

We dont have rail because a lot of yall get teary eyed about telling Grandma to move.

We don't have one due to rail road and airplane Superpacs we could easily have one, the government being "broke" isn't stopping us from investing in infrastructure

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

I didn’t say to open the free market. I said to stop making housing illegal.

Billionaires honestly aren’t top 5 problems facing progressive wish lists


labor protections have nothing to do with Sergey Brin inventing Google.

Enforce existing laws and get bolder politicians.

This has nothing to do with the Faircloth amendment.

You keep trying to distance yourself from free-market ideology while repeating its core tenets. Saying "stop making housing illegal" is just a rebranded way of saying "deregulate and let the market build," which is the abundance/free market argument, whether you want to say the words or not.

Corporate lobbying, billionaire-funded think tanks, campaign donations, corporate media narratives, and regulatory capture are exactly why housing is unaffordable, why labor protections are toothless, and why bold policies die before they get a vote. Ignoring that doesn't make it go away, it just reveals how unserious you are about power. Billionaire power shapes the playing field, and not in favor of working people.

No one claimed inventing Google caused labor exploitation, but Google (and tech giants broadly) do spend massive sums of money lobbying against labor protections, gig worker rights, unionization efforts, and so on. So yes, Sergey Brin's empire does have something to do with labor protections now.

Saying "just enforce existing laws" is hand-waving. Enforce them with what? The agencies gutted by the same corporate influence you refuse to name? You talk about solutions but duck every power structure standing in the way.

Still, the market won't "work itself out." We've tried that. The outcomes were skyrocketing rents, worker precarity, and billionaires deciding housing policy. If that's your idea of abundance, then it's abundance for landlords, not for working people. And that's why it will fail... again.

 

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raising the corporate tax rates and banning super pacs would literally be a huge step towards high speed rail way.

you really need to move past this swagless brand of communism

i get it, man, but come on. nobody believes you