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President Donald Trump voted by mail in Florida's Republican primary, voting records from Palm Beach County show, even as he continues to publicly rail against mail-in voting and push for sweeping restrictions on who can use it. Records show Trump requested his ballot in late July and it was returned on August 13. It is not the first time. He also voted by mail in a Palm Beach County special election earlier this year. Trump has repeatedly called mail-in ballots "inherently corrupt,” including in July this year. He is pushing Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, which would mandate photo ID and proof of citizenship for federal elections and severely restrict mail-in voting to military personnel, travelers, and those with a disability or illness. His administration is simultaneously asking the Supreme Court to allow a presidential executive order on mail-in voting to take effect before the midterms, after a federal appeals court blocked it earlier this year. The White House called the story a "non-story," with spokesperson Olivia Wales saying Trump participates in Florida elections as a Palm Beach resident but "primarily lives at the White House in Washington, D.C.". Florida's Republican-controlled legislature has not acted on Trump's demands to restrict mail-in voting, maintaining a longstanding state law that allows any registered voter to request a mail-in ballot, though restrictions on ballot collection and additional ID requirements have been added in recent years.

"Joe Biden’s former commerce secretary Gina Raimondo has decided that UBI in response to AI is the thing to fear most. At the Reagan National Economic Forum, she said: "I personally think it's like the end of America."

She is now heading up a newly-launched, extremely well-funded organization to make sure the country reaches for anything but a basic income in response to AI.

On the one hand, while selling themselves to investors, Big Tech says it can eventually automate almost any job a human can do. What they don't want is any responsibility for their actions. I'd expect conservatives to be against UBI, but Gina Raimondo, the person heading this up, is a Democrat.

The upside? This conversation is getting harder to ignore, and Gina Raimondo is bringing more attention to it, even if it's with dud ideas. In years of paying attention to this topic (AI/robots capable of most work), I've yet to come across a solution that isn't some form of Socialism or UBI.

So give it all you've got, Conservatives & Centrists; I doubt you'll come up with any workable alternatives, despite your $500 million funding.

Gina Raimondo Says Basic Income Would End America. Her New Billion-Dollar Org Is How She Plans to Stop It.

Who wants to fuck with Elon Musk?

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There's something shitty going on with the video.

I've reposted the video in the comments and I will continue every time it's taken down because I have a saved copy

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This is the first of several in a series I'm working on - detailing their efforts across platforms, people, and organizations to create another "Red Scare" for people who don't know what communism/socialism is. They are doing everything they can to use old "boogeyman" tactics as the Overton window shifts left. My goal is to shed light on their obvious and outdated attempts to foment fear among the uneducated.

Billionaires need us, but we don't need them. All throughout history, things have changed when enough people realized "oh, yeah, there's way more of us than them..." - so it's not like we've entered some twilight zone where this isn't the case anymore. Revolution is possible, but the billionaire class monopoly on media, social media, and violence requires us to use our numbers more than anything else.

But remember:

Central to Marxist theory is an explanation of social change in terms of economic factors, according to which the means of production provide the economic base, which influences or determines the political and ideological superstructure. So why do most people think it's scary?

Six corporations control 90% of American media: Comcast, Disney, News Corp, Warner Bros Discovery, Paramount, and Cox. Social media is controlled by a few billionaires and corporations. The press and flow of information cannot actually be free when it operates as a propaganda tool for its owners. You can see this in how stories are framed: a labor strike is almost always described as an "inconvenience" to the consumer rather than a fight for dignity. Billionaires are treated like visionary entrepreneurs while the public rarely hears about workers being forced to pee in bottles to meet quotas.

Ideas like Medicare for All usually poll at seventy percent support, yet the media treats it as a fringe or "unrealistic" position. Meanwhile, tax cuts for the wealthy are presented as responsible and necessary policy. Social media has only made this worse because algorithms are designed to promote outrage to generate more ad revenue. These companies knew their platforms were creating deep divisions but chose profit over society. While we are stuck in different realities based on our filters, local journalism is dying out. Hedge funds have gutted over two thousand newspapers since 2004, leaving huge parts of the country in "news deserts" where corruption goes unchecked.

• How do we educate people about the benefits of putting people before capital - thereby immunizing them from "Red Scare" tactics?