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u/CHUBBL3S · 1 pointr/OurPresident

I'm glad you're open to entertaining different viewpoints than your own, thank you for being here. I don't like how polarized online political spaces are, especially those that agree with a rational and solution-based policy rather than a reactionary one.

Did you buy the book? No? As I stated earlier I want to remove barriers to education, not support them. Sharing a file I legally obtained, of a book that I own, on a privately-owned forum... we can ask the author his feelings on this particular instance, though I'm positive I know the answer already. As for others' perceptions of me, I really don't care, although if I said I would if they looked at the material, I might admit it. (You might find in the work that there is no such thing as a pure system, and though ours is predominantly universal/communist, it is unique in that it has a tick stuck on a certain part of the system... find out where, and why it predominantly affects the middle class!)

I hope you realize the majority of the practices you defend having and "Killing someone who is convicted of horrible crimes is cheaper than jailing them for life, killing someone with a terminal illness is cheaper... Does not mean that is what we should do" is directly contradictory. "Expensive" things are okay when you do them, not when others do them. (Just for the record, the life sentence is cheaper than the death penalty. The terminal illness thing is a non-sequitur though, don't know where you're going with that.) You can tell a market failure 9 times out of 10 by seeing if the discrepancy has had a moral outrage tagged on it. I am not arguing that things are cheap, therefore good. Medicare for all, tuition reform, investment in renewables, are all ethically good but are branded as coming with a price tag. In reality they save money (well, not for the owners of the industries) and stimulate the economy to boot. The most extreme example I can think of is Housing First solutions to homelessness, where a person is literally handed keys to an apartment, free from rent for some amount of months. It's not only the most effective way to help a person secure a job and safely break from any addiction, and it's monstrously cheaper than the costs to taxpayers accrued by being on the streets, visiting the hospital for constant illness, law enforcement incidents, etc... it helps society and the person affected. (amazon link, you bastard) But, it helped an asshole, grr. Legislative policy should not be retributive. We're not out for revenge, we're out to establish a standard of living. If feelings get in the way of that, maybe talk about it with a friend, but try not to let it affect others. Morality, separation of church and state, etc.

I think you are missing my point as to my standard of living. I worked as hard as it was possible to work to get to my current standard of living, e.g. below your standards. Now I am working and taking 17 college credits, which I was only able to do by first overcoming that hurdle. This is the best a person can do. This is the greatest success of my class. The vast, countless majority of my peers are working very hard and didn't get nearly as far. Why should I care about the freeloaders now, until I see that the most hardworking Americans are getting the life they earned, no less? And, in all the ways I see to help them, for less money than I as a taxpayer are currently spending? I only see one person accepting a handout they did nothing to deserve, and using it as justification to deny others, and it's you. I don't dislike you for it, but I wonder why you insist I spend more on a system that is neglecting the basest services a government itself was conceived to supply.

u/justinmchase · 2 pointsr/OurPresident

Without pressure from the left they will continue to slide right. They will continue to accept money from corporations and they will continue to support their causes, they will fail to represent us and continue to rig elections.

They organize wedge issues specifically designed to split us up into groups, squabbling over issues that do not fundamentally alter society or power structures, while silently passing legislation which consolidates power for the wealthy. Many wedge issues we deal with today would essentially be trivially solved in a world where our government was run by and worked for the people rather than the wealthiest 1%.

I highly recommend reading this book: Understanding Power: The indispensable Chomsky

u/VeganAncap · 1 pointr/OurPresident

>Denmark (where I live) through unions have negotiated a $22 minimum wage.

This isn't a government/state mandated minimum wage, it's also allegedly 110 DKK per hour (according to this article) - I guess the Danish public education system can't be that great in terms of math, since it appears that 110 DKK is only $16.76 instead of the $22 that you suggest it is.

>We are also paid to go to college

For a lot of people Tertiary education isn't a valuable thing to obtain. Bryan Caplan's The Case against Education is a good read to see how it's not beneficial - nor is state funding of it.

As for whether it's good at all, I'll let you Google the average income of an American and the average income of a Dane - I know which I'd rather be. While you're at it, be sure to look at migration rates from Denmark to the United States, as opposed to the other way around.

u/Synux · 19 pointsr/OurPresident

She was a threat long before 2016 but if we just look at her attacks on We the People in 2016 we see:

Second signed agreement between HRC and the DNC promising to rig the election in exchange for funding:
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/03/561976645/clinton-campaign-had-additional-signed-agreement-with-dnc-in-2015

DNC lawyers statement admitting to rigging the primary by asserting they get to do so because they are a private organization:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/31/1662843/-DNC-lawyers-say-it-can-pick-candidates-in-smoke-filled-back-room

After providing HRC with advanced information on upcoming debate questions, Donna Brazile admits to being aware of rigging of the primary in interview and in her NYT Best Seller:
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/donna-brazile-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders

Tom Perez admits the primary was rigged:
https://observer.com/2017/02/dnc-chair-candidate-tom-perez-admits-democratic-primaries-rigged/

DNC emails admit to rigging the primary:
https://observer.com/2016/07/wikileaks-proves-primary-was-rigged-dnc-undermined-democracy/

77 Billion to One are the odds against a fair 2016 Democratic primary election according to a study done by a body of statisticians, attorneys, and technologists.  100 pages of peer-reviewed statistics determined the Margin Of Error on exit polls far exceeded U.N. maximums. These events occur where voting is electronic, they favor HRC, and impacted no other candidate regardless of party.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M1D0VY7/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Hillary Victory Fund - Money laundering, fraud, and campaign finance violations:
https://nypost.com/2018/06/09/democratic-parties-accused-of-funneling-84m-into-clinton-campaign/

I feel threatened.

u/Sigma__Phi · 1 pointr/OurPresident

If you wanna talk about Occam's Razor:

  • "Idiot" Donald Trump conspired with Russia to hack the election and covered it up well enough that the only documentation remaining was enough to fill a blackmail dossier that says he hired hookers to pee on a bed Obama may have slept in.
  • Hillary's campaign advisors used "Russian hacking" as an excuse for why they lost, to keep their base agitated and convinced of his supposed illegitimacy.

    You somehow find the first scenario more likely. Despite insider testimony supporting the second scenario. (here's an archive with direct quotes [link])

    And before you ask (because of course you will): no, Shattered was not written by right-wing conspiracy theorists, the authors write for the NYT, The Hill, and Politico.

    Speaking of conspiracy theories: relevant xkcd.
u/gideonvwainwright · 5 pointsr/OurPresident

Now you're just talking out of your ass. Read his book. Read some articles. Bernie Sanders grew up with his brother in a Brooklyn rent-controlled tenement apartment where he and his brother slept in the living room because the apartment was so small. His father sold paint for a living. His mother died when he was a teenager; his father was dead by the time he was 21. All of his father's family, and some of his mother's were killed in the Holocaust.

Edit - here, I'll help you. Amazon has excerpts of his book https://www.amazon.com/Our-Revolution-Believe-Bernie-Sanders/dp/1250132924