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      Just as the Democratic nominee.

      He still has to win the general election and looks like cumbucket coumo is going to run against him as an independent to split the vote and hope that the Republican can manage to win.

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    They’re losing their minds because there’s no rational reason to keep the current system going…

    It’s impossible to keep it going at the current pace. Doesn’t matter if the wealthy want it to last forever. They can’t keep accumulating more and more finite and necessary resources.

    Eventually the current economic system will go away.

    Just a matter of how that happens, and who is (figuratively and maybe literally) left standing when the dust settles

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      They only understand scarcity when it makes money for them. They treat the economics textbook as a Bible, literally, they just pick what parts they like and ignore the rest…

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        It’s the same as any other group that manages to accumulate this much.

        They just refuse to believe it’s not sustainable, and if you don’t agree with them. Then they fire you if you worked for them, if you were a politician they found a competitor to knock you out of office and say the lies they wanted to hear.

        Which is the crux of the issue.

        They’ve spent decades and billions of bribes to make sure there were two options, and both would do what billionaires tell them to. But the billionaires no longer control both parties.

        Hell, they arguably don’t control either, trump just usually agrees with them on his own.

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      I mean they could keep going until the last wild tree dies, the last fish chokes, and the last person gets to breathe for free. And then the whole system crashes, because there’s literally nothing left to take.

      I agree it’s unsustainable, I just think that unless we do something to stop them, they will literally let us die by the billions, if it means they get to be in charge of the toxic landfill planet.

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    I like Mamdani but not to the extent that I can endorse unironic joker memes.

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    When is the actual election so I can ignore these posts until then as not to get my hopes up?

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    This is your friendly remind that one of the reasons for demonizing and subsequently genociding the natives was that people would regularly join them for a better quality of life.

    The system knows it’s terrible and the only way to maintain itself is to make, by any means necessary, all other systems unobtainable.