Do you think it would be possible (and how could we get it done?) to unite millions of people who collectively agree to target an individual company for a short time unless the company meets our demands? For example, for the month of March we all pledge to not purchase anything from Apple unless Apple does XYZ... Either they do it, or we tank their stock... Move on to the next company target

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22263596

from New York Times
Opinion - Guest Essay
by Peter Beinart
Nov. 7, 2024

Fair.org

"While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change," said the Vermont Independent. "And they're right."

Everywhere you look, in all countries, there’s a burning hatred of the rich and powerful: the bankers, Wall Street, and the establishment in general. This hatred was cleverly exploited by Donald Trump. And this has appalled the serious representatives of capital.

Armed with a better understanding of government, Trump is expected to pursue a bigger agenda, faster than he did in his first term.

Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States and controls the world's most lethal state. The Democrat vote collapsed: here's why. —— Jason Hickel

A Post for Posterity

To win working-class voters — and possibly today’s election — Democrats need to attack economic elites. But the Kamala Harris campaign hasn’t consistently offered an anti-elite counter to Donald Trump’s right-wing populism.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22207480

Carter Sherman, Noa Yachot and Andrew Witherspoon
Wed 6 Nov 2024 06.04 EST

“The only thing I really like to do is fuck the wives of my best friends,” Trump allegedly told Epstein after a tryst. “That is just the best.’”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22122373

https://www.rockthevote.org/how-to-vote/same-day-voter-registration/

map from: https://www.axios.com/2024/10/31/voter-registration-election-day-2024

Another note that New York is currently even weirder having only allowed same day voter registration on a single day of early voting rather than the entire period unlike North Carolina

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While other states consider implementing ranked choice voting, Alaska may be first state to repeal it.

"The earliest testimony we have on it is from a soldier who was aware of it just a few weeks after the ground invasion began," one human rights expert said. "The latest testimony we have on this is from the summer."

New research I conducted with rhesus macaque monkeys suggests that when it comes to decisions like voting, people are not nearly as rational as they would like to believe.

The cause of increasing poverty levels continues to go unquestioned

Like what are the practical steps to take? Stuff like universal healthcare isn't even a controversial policy. How do we form a voting bloc around that?

Workers still nervous that the industry is facing another wave of consolidation and cutbacks that threaten their livelihoods, job security and being thrown into unemployment and poverty.

Thunberg added that “no matter” which one of them wins, America “will still be an imperialist, hyper-capitalist world power that will ultimately continue to lead the world further into a racist, unequal world with an ever increasingly escalating climate and environmental emergency”.