Gen Z “Tour to Save Democracy”

[post]

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I just saw this and I’m impressed.

The same age group as the students you see protesting in college campuses.

They’re going on “tour” - to try to flip Republican held districts across the country.

https://tourtosavedemocracy.org/

And I’m so very happy to see it.

Go Gen Z!

Misguided youth, why don't they support the masochist party?

Here is a list of its positive accomplishments and positive stands it's taken (zero), if they took the time to do a pros and cons evaluation,

 

[post]

They getting bored with destroying college campuses?

What do you think Kirk and Young Republicans do "on campus," with every waking breath?

Do you consider them to be "civic minded"?

 

[Deuce]

Yeah.......they want colleges to hate jews.

It is antisemitic of you to conflate opposing actions by the government of Israel with "hating Jews." You are repeating white supremacist tropes that Jewish people are a global cabal beholden to Israel.

Be better.

 

[TobyOne]

I'll take things Hitler said for $500, Alex.


(h/t to Godwin)

The reason to have a powerful federal government is because it serves all of our concerns in society.

The vast majority of people don't want everything free. They are happy to work for what they achieve because then it has more meaning. What they want is a fair playing field that isn't rigged by big money against the common worker. It requires a powerful government to stand up to the power of big money. We need a government of the people, by the people and for the people. Not the rich.

 

[TobyOne]

Gen Z needs to figure out the difference between a male and female before they "save" democracy.

 

[Hypothetical]

The students want their universities to divest in Israeli businesses. They did the same when they wanted their universities to divest in South Africa's Apartheid government. And their protests help bring about the end of it.

The federal government is trying to help them with student loan relief. College students can decide what to protest all by themselves.

Have you not had your coffee yet?

then they need to understand the difference in meaning between stop funding Israel "

and the very ugly "WE ARE HAMAS".

 

[Geoist]

They getting bored with destroying college campuses?

Campus Protests are as American as apple pie. They played big roles in shining light on the injustices of war, systemic racism, and apartheid.

 

[Geoist]

Yeah.......they want colleges to hate jews.

To imply criticism of a government's policies are antisemitic is itself antisemitic.

 

[Geoist]

then they need to understand the difference in meaning between stop funding Israel "

and the very ugly "WE ARE HAMAS".

I saw a 2 second clip of one girl saying it. If that's the best you have then you've got nothing.

 

[Geoist]

I think Millennials did much more damage.

Please explain how Millennials did more damage than the Boomers who destroyed union memberships, advocated decades-long wars, and the war on drugs. This should be interesting...

 

[EnchantedMuggle]

Gen Z needs to figure out the difference between a male and female before they "save" democracy.

 

[rickc]

The capitalist will do anything required to protect/increase their wealth. They always have. Only government can control them. Left alone they will run till they crash. The robber barons of the late 1800's, the roaring 20's and present day. It always ends badly.

Democrats have to pick up the pieces and rescue the country. We need another FDR!

Republicans and their brainwashed supporters are the enablers now. My hope is this younger generation will do whatever is necessary to end America's Oligarchy.

 

[redbeer]

TRUE!

By the way, do you have any idea why 80% of Gen Z voted Democracy in 2022? I just can't figure it out. Why don't Gen Z like conservatives? What did we ever do to them?

The idiots are brainwashed into thinking Maga is some kind of cult....

 

[redbeer]

True, it has been much worse naturally in the distant past. Another fact is emissions are making it worse. Both things can be true.

Cultlike behavior, removing fossil fuels having to rely upon wind/solar, forcing people to buy EV's is batshit crazy and will roll the world back several hundred years, causing people to burn everything in sight only to survive......wars, anarchy, rise in socialism, lawlessness. Freaking people are idiots.

 

[redbeer]

So true!

How do you suggest we defeat the climate death cultists? Sometimes I lose hope and it feels impossible considering how powerful they are. Considering they control almost every country's government, every major scientific institution throughout the world, thousands of ultra wealthy ESG collaborators, the media and independent press across almost every country, every independent investigative journalist who all refused to expose this obvious global network, and every large humanitarian organization?

It just feels so impossible sometimes. How did the Death Cult manage to all so much power and get all these groups to defend their cause?

Propaganda.....the Nazi's ain't got nothing on the liberals of today.

 

[beefheart]

They are gonna save this country from the Christo fascists

 

[beefheart]

The idiots are brainwashed into thinking Maga is some kind of cult....

You wearing diapers over your pants to the nexr rally?

 

[ralfy]

You don't actually realize the economic system we have, there are great differences between the dictionary definitions of capitalism and what the system the US uses is in practice.

Capitalism is for the capitalist, and they still would exist in a free market system, they would just not be able to defraud us with the help of government.

One of the richest men in the world, Elon Musk, has two core businesses, Tesla and SapceX, both heavily subsided by the Federal Government with money out of not just our pockets, by future generations pockets.

Elon was born rich and he likely would have remained rich, but he would not be this ungodly wealthy at our expense without the help of government.

They socialized the costs while privatizing the profits.

The entire banking system of most of the world does exactly the same thing, it does no work like people think that it does. When you fallow the money you can come to the truth of what I say, but I can'y type 10 million words people will never read to bring anyone to the truth.

If you want a starting place to true wisdom, John Kenneth Galbraith summed it up very well with:


The study of money, above all other fields in economics is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled. With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent.

When you understand what he meant by that come back to me and we will have an adult conversation about the problems of the world and how to fix them, because you are NOT an adult until you understand the money system.

FWIW, definitions usually refer to investors as private individuals owning businesses, but there are also businesses owned by the public (state capitalism) and by workers (cooperatives). The U.S., like most countries, has a mixed economy, or a combination of private and public corporations.

Concentration of wealth takes place as the net profits go to investors, and that can be diluted in public corporations and cooperatives.

Because banks and similar lending facilities exist, then there's also financing, which includes speculation. This is what makes individuals rich much faster. This also explains why one study reveals that much of the global economy is controlled by a few corporations, and they're mostly in financing:

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world

As anti-capitalist protesters take to the streets, mathematics has teased apart the global economic network to show who's really pulling the strings

www.newscientist.com

 

[redbeer]

You wearing diapers over your pants to the nexr rally?

All that glare coming off your head is running all of your family and friends away, fyi.

 

[element94]

Please explain how Millennials did more damage than the Boomers who destroyed union memberships, advocated decades-long wars, and the war on drugs. This should be interesting...

I may have been off a generation, or there is overlapping. I'm looking into it. One thing is for sure, the school shooters didn't come from the boomer generation.

 

[element94]

Cultlike behavior, removing fossil fuels having to rely upon wind/solar, forcing people to buy EV's is batshit crazy and will roll the world back several hundred years, causing people to burn everything in sight only to survive......wars, anarchy, rise in socialism, lawlessness. Freaking people are idiots.

Is this more 'no we're not, you are' nonsense?
I will say current electric vehicles are unsafe and not the answer. Hybrids may have to be the answer for the time being.

 

[beefheart]

All that glare coming off your head is running all of your family and friends away, fyi.

If your cult leader tells you to wear diapers, you will, you have no choice, you will obey cult leader.

 

[beefheart]

All that glare coming off your head is running all of your family and friends away, fyi.

No glare here, but I do need a haircut soon. What a random and stupid thing to say.

 

[BirdinHand]

I may have been off a generation, or there is overlapping. I'm looking into it. One thing is for sure, the school shooters didn't come from the boomer generation.

The Boomers just raised the first generation of them.

 

[element94]

The Boomers just raised the first generation of them.

Well, it goes back much further than the boomers. It's the increase in number of mass shootings each new decade that really tells the sad and failing story.