• @[email protected]OP
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    Joe doesn’t have a big mouth like Trump, but he actually does accomplish things. Trump’s jealous because he has no clue about how

    Pete Buttigieg was point man and mentioned by both sides. History will tell a story about Pete IMO.

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      It’s still crazy to me that Trump has all three branches and didn’t pass a single piece of major legislation.

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        He passed 1 major piece of legislation.

        Absolutely nothing got in the way of his capital gains tax cut.

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          Lmao that’s true. Does that count as major? It PALES in comparison to the Biden Infrastructure bill in terms of scope.

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            It’s the only thing he cared about.

            And it pulled the last frail harness off the billionaire class.

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        Thursday’s deal came after Biden administration officials met with foreign-owned shipping companies before dawn on Zoom, according to a person briefed on the day’s events who asked not to be identified because the talks were private. The White House wanted to increase pressure to settle, emphasizing the responsibility to reopen the ports to help with recovery from Hurricane Helene, the person said.

        Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su told them she could get the union to the bargaining table to extend the contract if the carriers made a higher wage offer. Chief of Staff Jeff Zients told the carriers they had to make an offer by the end of the day so a manmade strike wouldn’t worsen a natural disaster, the person said.

        By midday the Maritime Alliance members agreed to a large increase, bringing about the agreement.

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          You seem to be proving my point, in what way does Biden deserve credit for not squashing the longshoreman’s strike like he did the railworkers’?

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          921 hours ago

          Is liberal supposed to have a negative connotation?

          Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law.

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            Read David Graeber: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-the-utopia-of-rules

            The Iron Law of Liberalism states that any market reform, any government initiative intended to reduce red tape and promote market forces will have the ultimate effect of increasing the total number of regulations, the total amount of paperwork, and the total number of bureaucrats the government employs.

            History reveals that political policies that favor “the market” have always meant even more people in offices to administer things, but it also reveals that they also mean an increase of the range and density of social relations that are ultimately regulated by the threat of violence. This obviously flies in the face of everything we’ve been taught to believe about the market, but if you observe what actually happens, it’s clearly true. The bureaucratization of daily life means the imposition of impersonal rules and regulations; impersonal rules and regulations, in turn, can only operate if they are backed up by the threat of force. And indeed, in this most recent phase of total bureaucratization, we’ve seen security cameras, police scooters, issuers of temporary ID cards, and men and women in a variety of uniforms acting in either public or private capacities, trained in tactics of menacing, intimidating, and ultimately deploying physical violence, appear just about everywhere—even in places such as playgrounds, primary schools, college campuses, hospitals, libraries, parks, or beach resorts, where fifty years ago their presence would have been considered scandalous, or simply weird.

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              I used to hold the same belief and considered myself a proponent of limited governance. However, the individuals I know that advocated for smaller government did so because they preferred to be governed by the church instead.

              I don’t believe that labeling others as liberal or conservative helps anything.

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                Conservatives are also liberal, and I’m not interested in helping any government they’re considered a valid part of. In a sane world they’d be trying every living president at The Hague.