We used to have progressive income taxes that did this.

Reagan, Thatcher and their ilk pulled them because "trickle down, a rising tide lifts all boats, thousand points of light, blah blah blah"

Other than selling mediocre coffee and McMansions to each other, Canada has precious little else. That's why we cling like limpets to extractive industry: without it, we've got nothing because our governments have comprehensively failed to develop much of an industry, preferring to give tax breaks to oil barons and house traders.

The problem with the US (and Canada, and to a lesser degree the UK) is that the centrists would rather lose to the far right than legitimize actual leftism.

We’ve seen this in Canada several times, at all levels, where the Liberals would rather go down in flames in an election, knowing that they'll get another shot in a few years time, then share power with actual leftists in order to keep the right from doing more damage.

I'm really impressed with Macron. That's a level of long term holistic thinking that you don't normally see from neoliberal politicians.

How much of this is decline at the expense of Windows 11, due to Steam lowering barriers to entry, fatigue with Windows' hard selling, and/or extending the useful like of hardware that W11 abandoned.

This'll be interesting, because staying in power is the only way Netanyahu stays out of court, if not out of prison.

If Democrats want change, this is how to do it:

1. Win general elections; vote blue no matter who. 2 Primary out the corporatist candidates every chance there is, right down to the level of school trustee.

This actually works, as we've seen with the GOP and their turn to rabid fascism. It can also work for good.

Oh no, not the capital investment! Anything but that!

For the record, the oil industry's global profits were $4T. Not revenue, profit. $75B in investment sounds like a lot, until you realize all it means is that they'll need to dig into that $4T to fund stuff, and that $75B is less than two percent of $4T, and the actual hit to revenue and income will be even less.

They can cut back on avocado toast, as it were.

Yeah, because just letting Russia have what it wanted worked out really well the first two times. I'm sure that of Ukraine just rolls over That the Russians won't be back in two or so years.

Jesus only physically attacked one group of people.

Religious capitalists.

So let me get this straight, NPR lost America's trust?

America was radicalized by a Australian billionaire and his oil-industry buddies feeding straight up lies to a captive audience, and this is NPR's fault?

Dude, one media company had to pay almost a billion dollars in damages for their election fraud narrative, and that company wasn't NPR.

And yet somehow, this is NPR's fault?

This is some grade-A fascist apologist bullshit, up there with the New York Times whitewashing fascism in Ohio diners and commenting on how nicely Neo Nazis are dressing these days.

Well, maybe stop exploiting everyone for the benefit of the rich and this wont be an issue?

I mean, that's how we got the modern welfare state, and how we managed to engineer one of the most relatively tranquil, peaceful and progressive periods in human history: by ensuring everyone had enough, rather than letting a few fight for it all while most had none.

It's like the solution is staring these people in the face, but they can't--they won't--see it.

This is the most British act of vandalism ever.