• SupraMario@lemmy.world
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    Here I’ll fix our problem

    Pay teachers more

    Build more schools to reduce class sizes

    Make sure all kids have access to school food 3 meals a day

    Single payer healthcare

    Increased mental healthcare facilities and workers so kids don’t turn to suicide

    Improve safety nets

    End the war on drugs

    End for profit prison system

    End qualified immunity

    Hey look gun violence has dropped like a hot rock…

    But no please keep doing the same shit and spend political capital on shit a very large portion of the usa doesn’t want.

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      Turns out that some random Lemmy poster actually has better answers than both of the major political parties.

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      Pay teachers more

      Build more schools to reduce class sizes

      Make sure all kids have access to school food 3 meals a day

      Single payer healthcare

      Increased mental healthcare facilities and workers so kids don’t turn to suicide

      Improve safety nets

      End the war on drugs

      End for profit prison system

      End qualified immunity

      Civilized countries only have most of those and don’t have the gun problem. It seems like you can get by with just a smart subset of this as a base.

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      Just an FYI, you gotta add a blank line between each item if you want them to display like a list and not a giant run-on sentence. Assuming it’s like reddit, you should be able to do bullet points with an asterix and a space before each item on the list if you’re into that.

      Would make your comment much more readable

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        Yea I wrote that in the AM without my brain having been fully awake lol fixed the formating cause that was a hot mess to read.

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      While I agree with you, any politician with an R beside their name is going to actively obstruct everything you just listed.

      So then it becomes what takes more political capital, one thing they’ll fight tooth and nail or ten?

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        If the dems had a spine they’d use their antigun capital on getting single payer passed. It would probably cut gun deaths in half alone.

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          At the rate hospitals are going belly up after getting drained of cash, there won’t be a health system left by the time any of this happens.

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      Ending the war on drugs doesn’t. I disagree

      Sorry. It’s the exact opposite. Here in Australia we have a serious meth problem and we are full of assholes who are incredibly toxic and drugged up. Ending the war on drugs just makes addictive drugs even more accessible, so people are more likely to try them and encourage others to do so

      Highly addictive drugs should not be legalized, and it certainly isn’t the reason for school shootings and such

      What protects us is gun laws, and you guys need stronger ones

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        The war on drugs is a euphemism. Ending It doesn’t mean stop drug legislation, it means stop putting parents in jail for 10 years and putting their kids in care because they smoked weed and the kid accidentally told a cop when the cop visited their school and told them if they didn’t rat out their parents something worse would happen.

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      Pay people more. Make it really fucking hard to be a billionaire anywhere in the world.

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        hard to be a billionaire

        You’re gonna need to tax people’s income for real. Comically that’s the one thing from the 1950s USA they don’t wanna MAGA. They want the racism, the sexism, the authoritarianism, the mcCarthyism … but not the taxation that built roads.

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      Public all day preschool and early childhood interventions. Retrain doctors to take people’s conditions seriously and how to properly diagnose and give prescriptions.

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        Absolutely! Add in maternity/paternity leave that allows the parents to bond with their child for at least 6 months.