There are two parties because it’s a first past the post system, but that is a red herring. It’s not the source of the problem. The problem is that the US is a bourgeois democracy, AKA an oligarchy.

it’s the rich continuously stealing more capital and destroying businesses that is the problem

The rich are rich because they own the businesses. They own the means of production. The problem is capitalism; it’s private ownership of the means of production.

The reason it’s in Republicans the duopoly’s best interest to keep people stupid is that stupid people are much easier to propagandize to.

FTFY

We’ve been propagandized to believe that “centrist” journalism is the most reliable, and that the further from center the less reliable, and given how far to the right the Overton window is in capitalist states, “centrism” is objectively right wing. And the premise of “centrist objectivity” doesn’t hold water.

Unfortunately I don’t have time right now to dig up my relevant previouslies on media literacy, propaganda, and Gramscian hegemonic theory.

Edit to add: even what the average person considers to be”ethical” is shaped by how he ruling class. In capitalist states, for instance, private property is sacrosanct.

What the propagandized perceive as “unbiased” is in fact the hegemonic bias of the ruling class. That’s what you’re asking for without even realizing it.

Instantaneous Ship of Theseus

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Is OC not answering the question? Belief in a “woke mind virus” is a popular toxic mentality nowadays.

Obviously that’s not how body tags work. Either you or your friend is making this story up.

I heard it was 20 TRILLION!!

I know it isn’t from past experience with this turbolib.

Don’t ask questions to which you don’t want answers 👉 !rhetoricallyasklemmy@lemmy.ml

The word primordial doesn’t imply anything living. It means something that came before something else. It’s the soup of organic compounds from which life originally formed.

It’s a quote from the eponymous Pink Floyd album.

Mostly no. That’s more Hollywood fantasy than real life.

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Reporter, the first rule of Lemmy is you don’t make false reports against site admins’ posts.

Yes. This is covered in one of the YouTube videos I posted in this thread yesterday.

But you understand that everything you linked are examples of why a govt can’t actually print infinitely

We already agreed on why governments don’t print infinite money.

and can’t just pay interest to rich people

We know it can because we know it does. The wealthy buy US Treasuries for risk-free returns on investment.

Also it’s a red flag to me that all of your sources are youtube videos.

The reason I link to YouTube videos is because most people don’t read. They’re not going to read Karl Marx or Michael Hudson.

You’re still mistaking a state with monetary sovereignty for a business. It’s nothing like a business or a household or even a province or municipality. Money works completely differently at this level. Previously:

What if I told you that our federal taxes don’t go toward food stamps at all, and in fact pay for nothing?

• The United States can always pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that.
  — Former Fed. Res. Chair. Alan Greenspan
• Why The Government Has Infinite Money
• What Caused Hyperinflation In Weimar, Zimbabwe And Venezuela?