Taking back half of their stolen profits seems like a step in the good direction though. Let’s seize their assets, starting with the half here, and then close them down.
Edit: If the downvoters want to tell me where I’m wrong, I’d be glad to be corrected.
Fifth amendment to the constitution states: “nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation” meaning this proposition is straight up unconstitutional unless they amend it to pay. And i assume Bernie do know constitution of his own country so i have no clue how he proposed it like this unless it is to stir a shitstorm about “seizing” and then amend it as “compromise”.
In this case it might actually matter because it straight up defend billionaires property here. Remember how in “Democracy for the Few” Parenti agrumented that US system do appear to be completely paralysed in case of proposals working for the people, but works like well oiled machine when it comes for the ruling class interest.
Agree, but my point was that Bernie do know it’s unrealistic and illegal, so he must expect it either be shot down outright in which case it’s just a theatre or be negotiated to be legal (“just compensation”) in which case it’s a bailout for tech giants in the height of bubble.
I don’t know which is correct, but in either case Bernie comes out of it as unprincipled in best case and bootlicker in the worst.
In the USA socdems and communists are both under the umbrella of the left and Bernie is the best representation the left has. Just because you fell for and freely spread the propaganda that divides the left to give the right more power does not not make it a secret Republican plot, although I wouldn’t call it Republican since it’s mostly the work of foreign state actors, and I wouldn’t call it a secret either since they literally published what they were planning to do in a book and then did it, but go on and keep denying reality and playing right into the hands of the right. You’re really helping communism by driving that wedge even further!
Ngl fam I don’t even consider Bernie a leftist. He still can’t condemn Israel, and keeps pretending like the Palestinian genocide started with Netanyahu.
Yea, hopefully one day people like you will stop blaming minorities and foreigners for their countries failings and actually take responsability for your flaws
Bernie is a socdem and im a communist of course im going to criticize him, not everything is a secret republican plot
I don’t even understand the policy you’re complaining about lol
That’s not surprising
i dont like ai companies and their data centers, what else? lol
And Bernie is against that?
Who benefits from the government buying 50% overvalued shares? And when these companies inevitably fail, why should half the cost be soialized?
It’s not buying it, it’s seizing it. That’s means taking by force, you don’t pay for that. Try reading.
The US is a bourgeois state, this is not the working classes siezing it but the capitalists collectively.
It wouldn’t even happen under the current government. Republicans and liberals are too afraid of what they call government overreach.
Bernie isn’t a capitalist, I think y’all are wayyyy overthinking this one lol
Bernie is a social democrat, which sides with capital over socialism.
Taking back half of their stolen profits seems like a step in the good direction though. Let’s seize their assets, starting with the half here, and then close them down.
He’s not talking about seizing anything
He wants to take over 50% of the companies without paying them. If that’s not seizing then I don’t know what is.
Edit: If the downvoters want to tell me where I’m wrong, I’d be glad to be corrected.
Fifth amendment to the constitution states: “nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation” meaning this proposition is straight up unconstitutional unless they amend it to pay. And i assume Bernie do know constitution of his own country so i have no clue how he proposed it like this unless it is to stir a shitstorm about “seizing” and then amend it as “compromise”.
Are we still pretending the constitution matters?
In this case it might actually matter because it straight up defend billionaires property here. Remember how in “Democracy for the Few” Parenti agrumented that US system do appear to be completely paralysed in case of proposals working for the people, but works like well oiled machine when it comes for the ruling class interest.
So you do agree it’s seizing, which is all I said. I didn’t say anything about it being a realistic proposal.
Agree, but my point was that Bernie do know it’s unrealistic and illegal, so he must expect it either be shot down outright in which case it’s just a theatre or be negotiated to be legal (“just compensation”) in which case it’s a bailout for tech giants in the height of bubble.
I don’t know which is correct, but in either case Bernie comes out of it as unprincipled in best case and bootlicker in the worst.
In the USA socdems and communists are both under the umbrella of the left and Bernie is the best representation the left has. Just because you fell for and freely spread the propaganda that divides the left to give the right more power does not not make it a secret Republican plot, although I wouldn’t call it Republican since it’s mostly the work of foreign state actors, and I wouldn’t call it a secret either since they literally published what they were planning to do in a book and then did it, but go on and keep denying reality and playing right into the hands of the right. You’re really helping communism by driving that wedge even further!
Social democrats seek to reform capitalism, which is incompatible with socialism.
Confidently wrong.
anyone who isn’t fundamentally anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist does not represent the left in any way, shape, or form
socdems are on the right and they have more in common with maga republicans than they do with us
Ngl fam I don’t even consider Bernie a leftist. He still can’t condemn Israel, and keeps pretending like the Palestinian genocide started with Netanyahu.
so you do literally think there is a
JewishForeign plot against Bernie, lmaoAlso apparently helping communism is when you support destroying the enviroment to make an old socdem happy lmao.
Racism is nasty.
Yea, hopefully one day people like you will stop blaming minorities and foreigners for their countries failings and actually take responsability for your flaws