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      Now I just need to figure out which crimes would get me life in Norway without hurting anyone. Maybe that’s not a bad backup retirement plan to be honest…

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    Or be like me and try to do such a deed then realize your bad aim in video games carry over IRL, then you get shot dead by their security and go to some purgatory with this moment replayed forever, reminding you how much of a failure you were.

    The only reason I don’t want to try is because if I miss, its gonna be so embarassing, I don’t even wanna thinkg about it.

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    on the plus side, i now know that if a climate disaster doesn’t do me in, the french revolution 2 electric boogaloo will

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    With the suicide rate as high as it is, I’m honestly shocked more people don’t try to take these scumbags with them.

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    General strike in the US seems like less of an impossibility year by year

    Just restating some of the greatest hits:

    1. Universal healthcare

    2. Universal education through university level or trade school

    3. At least a month pto annually

    4. Parental leave for births

    5. Guaranteed sick leave

    6. 32hr new full time threshold before overtime

    7. Only public, equal funds for elections, no PACs/dark money/donations, no lobbyist bribes

    8. Any elected official over a certain level cannot engage in trading of individual stocks or own businesses, dump it all in an index fund or hand off management to someone else they cannot contact without a mediator and recording, immediate expulsion & no longer able to hold office when found in violation

    9. No billionaires/oligarchs, anyone with earnings and assets over a billion should be taxed at 100% and assets redistributed

    Edit: May 1st 2028 looks like a good target thanks to the UAW https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/general-strike-2028-unions-labor-movement/

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      I’d recommend a longer full time week. If the full time week is too short, many people well rely on overtime for their salary. This completely destroys the benefits of some of your other points, since you can’t do overtime during vacations, parental leave, sick leave, etc. Overtime should not be the norm if you want a good social/financial security.

      Edit: part time job should of course always be possible if your revenue allows you to work shorter weeks

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        Campaign finance reform under 7 would allow further reforms to follow, without those regulatory capture and bribery are legal and prevent any other electoral reforms benefiting the working class.

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      @ #9; Whoa there. 100% is unreasonable. Still there’s room to start at a hard 90% at about 250 million and then incrementally scale until the tax is say, about 95-97% by about a billion.

      Unfortunately you cannot tax anyone 100%; that would ultimately be unfair and demotivating and only motivate corruption to avoid the tax

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        It’s progressive. You’re still allowed to have a billion. That’s just a cap. Anything past that goes to the public.

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          Makes perfect sense. It’s like having $999,999,999.99 in a management game.

          It doesn’t go above that, but if you buy a ton of assets and set them down, it’ll probably climb right back up there to the limit again at some point.

          You still have a billion bucks to do whatever with.

          Although yeah, businesses routinely buy things for billions (like acquiring Minecraft? Hah) So they’d find some clever way of putting it all in some kind of “company trust” or something, so they don’t have it as an individual.

          But I’m no lawyer. I still think having it on the books would be better than not, if it went to healthcare and education instead of funneling into the defense industry, that is…

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          You’re still allowed to have a billion

          Why? Why do you feel the need to hold on to this “aspiration”?

          You will never become a billionaire, stop defending your exploiters.

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    No, don’t throw the younger generations under the bus to clean up our messes.

    If nothing else we are ride or die with them.

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      Unfortunately you won’t die with us, you’ll die much sooner, not choking on a lack of oxygen or dying of dehydration.

      We need more elders like those in Japan who volunteered to clean up nuclear waste because they wouldn’t have to live with the long-term side effects of being exposed to radiation.

      As elders, y’all wouldn’t have to live as long in jail ¯\(ツ)

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    When you take away people’s reason to live, their time, their hobbies, their ability to raise a family, their loved ones, you make those people very desperate…

    …you might not be glad that you did.

    glares in Nick Fury

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    Who’s to say you can’t get conscripted out of prison to die in the climate wars?

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    For me American prison sounds a lot worse than whatever comes from climate change, so personally I’d pick that.

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      For now. Give it a few decades when the effects of climate change start forcing people out of their homes, cause widespread crop failure, kill thousands with heatwaves and storms, etc.

      If you’re choice is between

      1. losing your home, starving to death, or in some way dying in the streets

      Or

      1. losing your home, starving to death, or in some way dying in the streets after holding those responsible to account a la the adjuster

      More and more people will choose option 2.

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        I mean even thinking that that’d be the actual situation for me where I live in few decades vs. spending those few decades and rest of my life in American prison, it’s going to be a very easy decision for me

        I mean, come on. Uncertain future some decades ago vs the certainty that I’m rotting in an American prison for the rest of my life starting now. Easiest decision of my life

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            Yes and that still gives me some decades before something might happen vs spending those decades and the rest of my life in American prison. I mean have you really considered the options here lol

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              I think you’ve misunderstood. I’m talking about the choice that people make when these effects start happening, not a choice now. Of course most people aren’t opting to get violent yet, there backs aren’t yet against the wall.

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                In that case I wouldn’t worry about either choice if it’s decades away. I’d wait and see how bad it gets before making the decision.

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    Why not both? I have a strong suspicion the climate wars are going also be a class wars. Although, if the common folk won’t, getting jailed for war crimes against the rich may never be prosecuted 🤷‍♂️