Coincidentally, I was taken as a plus-1 to a Broadway musical, "Ragtime", this month. I normally don't go out much for theater, but it was free so I went.
It wasn't bad. The style of music isn't my jam, but it had some fun parts.
Also interesting is the play's message seems to be "the only way you'll get something approaching justice is violence" and I'm not sure if that's the author's intent.
more public housing. Homes are owned by the people who live in them, or the state. No profit seeking private orgs.
close the "buy borrow die" loopholes, where people get untaxed loans to access their wealth without paying taxes
more tax on the wealthy
look into making property tax progressive like income. That is, the first $nnn of your house is untaxed, the next chunk at some percent, the following chunk at a greater percent, and so on.
all Republicans removed from office. They are barred from government positions for life, as well as any private role with decision making power.
break up mega corps. Disney, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. Their current leadership has their wealth seized, and they are barred from leadership positions for life.
invest heavily in public transit and safety improvements to existing roadways. Cars are literally killing us as well as sapping our resources.
mandatory profit sharing for employees.
mandatory pay transparency
maximum pay gap between roles. No more janitor making $7/HR while the CEO makes $300/hr
accounting hijinks to pretend like your org made no profit, or "they're not employees they're contractors" are punishable by seizure of all wealth and a prohibition from similar roles for life
come up with something so venture capitalist bros aren't deciding the future, if the above doesn't somehow fix it.
Well, yes. The only things that change people's minds are peer pressure and horrific trauma. People generally believe what their trusted in-group folks believe. And given how many stories there've been like "my family was abducted by ice and i spent a month in jail, but i'd still support trump" I'm not sure about trauma.
One difference that sets maga types apart is their "in-group" is overflowing with liars, fools, and other scumbags. Healthier people consider better people to be in-group.
I just saw a play that has a plot point about how someone gets robbed by some racist, well connected shits, and the police won't do anything to help. The closest he gets to justice is vigilantism, where he hunts down and shoots 3 of his assailants dead. Only then does anyone start to listen to him, but when he agrees to talk peacefully they shoot him dead.
I'm not sure "the only way you'll get justice is with your own bloody hands" was the author's intent, but that seems to be the message.
Mistrust and anger with the federal government appears to have contributed to a willingness of some of the jurors to nullify, meaning they refused to side with prosecutors to send a larger message, people familiar with the jury’s deliberations told CNN.
Do these stories change minds, or are conservatives such masters of cognitive dissonance that nothing at all will cause them to defect from their in-group?
Sometimes the manual steps grow like weeds. Where I'm at now, they haven't invested in automation much at all. Now deploys take all day. Making a code change is a sweaty manual regression search process. It's bad.
It's a post-truth world for many people and maybe always has been. Feelings are the only things that matter. The "facts don't care about your feelings" line was, as always, projection.
Broader experience will help you make more informed decisions about the world.
Also when you say something like "I've never met an atheist who didn't celebrate Christmas" you sound extremely, let's say, provincial, and that may have adverse consequences for you in some social contexts.
If americans could learn we wouldn't have a 2nd trump presidency. We're on average stupider than bart with the cupcakes.