Message from @GoldenPhoenix
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we don't want to echo chamber ourselves
Oh I know, the only ones that actually are informed around me though are the professors. As long as they are not downright commie clowns. They give me the best debates and discussions.
My friends on the other hand are not informed for the most part, they see Vox and Buzzfeed article headlines and regurgitate the same points I hear all the time on Twitter.
I try to not live in an echo chamber, which is why I watch Tim haha.
Tim is as far left as I go.
Besides talking to random people on Discord.
So I can kind of say I'm not in a bubble.
I'm in a communist echo chamber of my own free will, but it's deafening to sit and listen to
Well, I am a Northern Republican AKA a Rockefeller Republican. So I do hold some values that could be considered left wing. But I am slowly slowly renouncing a lot of leftist values just because of how out of touch a lot of them are.
Lets brainstorm from TIms' newest video. How does the right fight back against all the attacks on funding from the Left wing lunatics that are the vocal semi-minority?
Making our own independent platforms.
Or will this escalate into something that is just inevitable?
enter into individual negotiations with possible sponsors and using the power of the individual to regain control of society
The answer is to use the same tactic as the left does
Force the companies to realize that their actions have negative consequences via pr mobs
How does the right enter into individual negotiations when most of the people who are becomming unsupportive of right wing values and ideas are corporations? Something us on the right want to protect?
The right uses purchase power rather than direct activism.
large corporations are anti-market and socialist anyway
Agreed, we can see that with the stocks of gaming companies who are bowing to leftist demands.
the invisible hand of the market may seem like a joke, but that's because we've let monopolies and oligopolies rise up, giving credence to the left's ideologies
The left hurts your image but the right hurts your pockets.
So then would government intervention into the markets be a good thing? Or would the right have to "rise up" to the level that would hurt these monopolies and oligopolies?
the left hurts those it claims to protect by patronizing and belittling them, the right doesn't care about anyone, so you can do what you want
On an individual level it would take immense pressure from a huge base in order to put a dent into these companies. All the while they will become more echo chambers of leftist ideologies. While government intervention would be faster, but in turn it is the government. So we know how that turns out.
I propose we 1. let government sponsored companies die and stop bailing them out, 2. federalize or locally legitimize utilities to be a basic right to humans rather than something passed around by large corporations under the pretense of competition, and 3. prevent unnecessary monopolization of goods
Depends on the kind of intervention. Breaking up monopolies and guaranteeing freedom of speech is good but besides that I don't like the government in businesses.
also, the government shouldn't be allowed to act like a business
So we need people in the government with these types of ideals. Are republicans the answer, or just part of the problem?
Will there be a rise of a third party or even a fourth party as long as both sides remain ignorant for the most part and continue to vote party based?
parties are the problem, we need to move to a runoff system of voting that will undermine the US 2 party system and give voice to ideas beyond the two parties that have become so centralized they barely have differences
Establishment republicans are part of the problem.
Basically we need more millenial republicans then?
I sound like a fucking commie but this is the good parts of their rhetoric
we need fewer "republicans" and fewer "democrats" and more "americans"
Well communists will say that but also ask for a single party system while you are advocating for more than just 2. So i wouldnt think too much about being a communist.
Agreed, but is the millenial wave of republicans more "American" than those republiucans that are sitting in congress and the senate right now?
runoff voting would eliminate strategic voting and result in much closer races, along with races that can include closer to 5 parties. We also need final voting to be non-partisan, meaning that the end result could in theory be 2 democrats or 2 republicans, making each candidate more unique since they're racing against their fellow party members, not just the other parties
I identify myself as an American, a Veteran, a Dreadnaught, and an Asshole.
this would shift the idea of "Parties" from a legitimized system of governmental division to an ideological divide, making it a descriptor rather than a slot to fill on the ballot
Until this happens, republicans and democrats can safely hide behind their parties instead of thinking for themselves, and once this occurs, our representatives will then be responsible for their own decisions, not just their party affiliation