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No, you missed a very crucial point:
- Make it illegal to post screenshots of text posts instead of just the text.
I like it, so I know it’ll never happen. Some gun control would be nice too. And $20 fed minimum is probably too much
I feel like it should be tied to inflation and cost of living
It used to be the equivalent of $24.
I’d say end private student loans, not federal, and develop a program for automatic forgiveness and universal higher education.
Most people most of the time should be able to get as much education as they care to get, courtesy of the public. For everything else I could see deferred interest federal loans with a procedure for automatic forgiveness. (Went to Cambridge but then came back to the US to live and work? Should cost you as much as going to a state University, just more paperwork)
I’d also like easier immigration, and much more lax work visa standards. Right now people can get taken advantage of with the H1B program, since deportation for unemployment is a pretty strong incentive to put up with bad work conditions.
I agree with everything here. Do I need to move to a different instance?
No, this is the democratic far left wishlist, which I think is core lemmy. Good luck getting it done. Once you step over that line, you may want to find another instance.
Far left… Ahahaha.
Capitalism has really done a number on these poor Americans, the right wing have managed to push the compass so far in their favour that even a lot of the most basic items in this list are considered “far left” to them.
One prime example of the extremes of propaganda within the US has to be the mass opposition towards unions (which has thankfully began to ease in recent years.) I could never comprehend why so many people would argue against having a union to protect their own rights as workers. it was bizarre to me.
No offence to any Americans that read this. But I’ve done my fair share of arguing for you over the years, and some of the opposition I have come up against is just completely bewildering. Almost like some sort of capitalist Stockholm syndrome.
capitalist Stockholm syndrome.
That infused with the idea that anything that isn’t capitalism is socialism (which might as well be communism). It’s like we’re afraid to leave our abusive financial system.
You are, and that’s by design, as the core of your country from the education right down to the media and pop culture, all revolve around the financial system, designed to keep the wealth in the pockets of the few while everyone else argues over the same pointless and divisive issues that are pushed every single day. It happens in most countries, but the US is the best example due to how transparent it all is.
Thanks for writing this up, but you don’t have to convince me. 😋
lemmy.world is not far left by any stretch of the imagination
Not far left, democratic far left. I’m no talking about leftist, I’m just talking about the lib left.
I don’t even think Lemmy.world is far left within the context of the Democratic party 😭
According to the upvotes (which isn’t totally accurate since I upvoted from Midwest.social, but all the true leftists and maybe the far right instances have been defederated), it’s about a 70/30% split of people who agree with these democratic far left ideas.
Don’t bother with this whoreticulture account, they are just on here to pretend to be trans and then they behave like an ass to try to get people to dislike trans people or something. I know it’s stupid, but you can take a look at their account history to see what they are doing. It’s no wonder it’s a new account, I imagine they are doing this a lot. I’m working on a little script that just auto-warns people about them.
this person is mad that I called them a terf lol
I’m not mad. I haven’t called you any childish names, or did anything else that would indicate anger. That would be you and you alone, and unless you go and start editing your posts anyone can clearly see that.
I’m gonna be real, looking through your account, you seem like a bioessentialist. Potentially a terf, though one that hides it well.
Some of the things you’ve said are rooted in bioessentialism and come off as very backhanded which I’m assuming set off the other commenter’s alarm bells. Quit the act or educate yourself from a trans positive feminist angle, whichever fits your role better.
for anyone that happens to read this and feels lost, here is a good place to start with what bioessentialism is and why it’s linked to terfs.
TERF isn’t name calling, it’s a description of your beliefs. the fact that you see it as such shows me you are one, terfs are the only ppl who refer to “terf” as a slur
Collateral for loan is realised gain. Nice. I always wondered what a good mechanism against that kind of tax cheating would be.
How about ending step-up basis and have the taxes in gains taken from the estate before inheritance?
Robocalls should be opt-in unless emergency broadcast. Examples for TTY or other systems typically via text/email for vision impaired.
I don’t think they mean services people subscribe to.
I wouldn’t be opposed to any of these, except I would question streamlining work visas. I wouldn’t want our country to bypass background checks, or other security measures by shortening the time needed to streamline those visas.
Oh, and something that would help me greatly (not sure how others feel), but an automatic investigation into any claims of being bullied out of employment by gangs, or other such groups. I don’t know if others have experienced this situation, but when you’re poor, going through divorce proceedings, have children to raise, are sinking in debt, and dealing with health problems, the last thing you need is to have some local gangs bully you out of work with death threats. Your plan looks fine, but I also need a guaranteed safe place to live and work, and no politician seems to want to address this topic because it isn’t about money, or some measure on the ballot.
Transition to metric system
Lol what
The list loses a lot of credibility for being all over the damn place. Like metric is already used. My second grader is being introduced to metric and my sixth grader uses it exclusively. Regular ol public schools.
Theirs some good ideas with nonsense sprinkled in and the occasional bullet that makes you wonder if this is an outline for a middle school ELA quarterly assignment.
I still see miles per hour when driving. I still see ounces at the grocery store. Good to hear that your child is learning the metric system.
Every food/drink product I see at the grocery store has both US customary and metric units in use, e.g. all the 16.9 fl oz bottles also say 500 mL and I think all the foods are labelled in both oz/lb and grams/kg. I usually see things involving measurements in cm/m as well as in/ft, but not speed since nobody here knows what the fuck a kilometer looks like
Sooo it seems like there needs to be a transition to metric.
PLAN:
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List everything
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Fix everything
Looks solid!
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Abortion is important, but constitutional amendments are difficult so let’s make it count: bodily autonomy. This includes abortion but also assisted suicide, personal drug use, tattoos, gender reassignment, and much more.
I feel like that could backfire. The antivax movement would use it to try and kill off all compulsory vaccinations leading to a resurgence in otherwise rare diseases. ERs would hesitate to perform lifesaving operations without consent over fear of being sued later.
Then there is the question of who makes bodily autonomy decisions for children and people unable to make decisions for themselves. If parents, you could see an increase in religiously motivated mutilations. If the state…
People already do medically unnecessary genital mutiliaton to babies (circumcision). Parents have autonomy over their children until they reach the age of reason, or they become legally adults. I think pregnancy would have to create legal adulthood.
ER and Good Samaritan laws already indicate that when unresponsive, consent to save a life is implied. You can do CPR on an unresponsive person without repercussions.
For the vaccines, people should definitely be free not to do it, but then they are not admitted to public school. They are quarantined when they go to a hospital. They cant travel on airplanes or public transit. Just like you’re free to get face tattoos but some people might not want to look at you. Should we outlaw face tattoos? No, that should be unconstitutional. I don’t have a face tattoo and I don’t think anybody should, but I would fight for their freedom to make their own choice. It doesn’t have to be a good decision, it just has to be their own decision.
Of course there are details to hash out and decide in the courts, but that is the case with all good rights, even freedom of speech.
You are more optimistic than I am. I worry a particularly “slanted” Supreme Court might interpret school vaccine requirements, quarantine, etc. as coercive violations of bodily autonomy.
Maybe if the amendment had a limited public heath exception and some protections for doctors. But the wording would be tricky.
After what China allegedly did during Covid, I think we should think very carefully about the specific conditions of a legalized and forced quarantine.
Yeah, that’s why any exception would have to be narrow and carefully worded and I’m not even sure it would be possible.
Both risks are pretty bad. Make the protections too strong and people will abuse the privilege. Too weak and governments will abuse the exceptions.
Eh, maybe I’m overthinking it. Even the first amendment is understood not to protect certain kinds of speech. Although sometimes I wonder if those exceptions could survive if directly challenged in our modern situation…
A few years ago I would have said the courts would impose sanity over these extremes but that no longer applies.
Wait, do we actually ban tattoos somewhere in this country?
In South Carolina it’s illegal to tattoo above the neck.
(E) It is unlawful for a tattoo artist to tattoo any part of the head, face, or neck of another person.
Oh for fuck’s sake. Up to a year of imprisonment?!
Voting holidays tend to be a problem because many of the people least able to take time to vote would be considered “essential” and still end up working on the holiday.
Better to make voting holidays entirely unnecessary by relying on vote by mail and a week long opportunity to drop of ballots at secure locations.
Also, you might be able to simplify the voting method a bit by just requiring a candidate to win a majority (not plurality) of the votes. This would encourage districts to explore alternatives to first past the post because otherwise they would constantly need runoff elections.
Voting day being a holiday would be mostly symbolic. It also helps to ensure that there is no discrimination around the UBI bonus for voting. If an employer forced an employee to work on voting day then it would be grounds for a lawsuit because it’s a holiday. And yes, there would be weeks to vote by mail and vote early in person ahead of the actual voting day.
PLEASE MORE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, I BEG YOU
all my homies hate cars
And high speed trains
Carbon tax, eliminate cheap/free parking, congestion tax in cities. Using the roads and causing noise/danger to others while polluting should never be cheaper than using public transportation (not counting parking, which should be it’s own private cost not passed on to society).
Mass transit buss, train, continuous across the country (inter/intra state, city, etc…)
Pedestrian and bike infrastructure, continuous and shielded from motor vehicles, in part or supplement to all main roads, highways, etc…
End and roll back privatization of public services
Universal pre-K
After school activities funding
Safe third places for teens/young adults (malls? Pools? Idk what kids are into these days)
Free adult education (community college subsidy, Library programs, etc…)
Etc…
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