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Steve Cox

@RealSteveCox

24 Jul

@M4M4ALL

The truth as I understand it regarding my not being allowed to finish my speech today at the @M4M4ALL rally in Los Angeles:

I was confirmed as a speaker 6+ weeks ago, thanks to the advocacy of @bigclasstraitor. I was allotted 6-7 min, and I immediately wrote my speech.
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About 3 weeks ago, Savage Joy (we don’t get along *because* I criticize Bernie and the Squad—you can search our last interaction on Twitter as proof) had me removed from the docket. Then I had a lot of people fight for me to get me back on the docket, but organizers resisted.
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@bigclasstraitor

One reason they gave was that there was already too many white men speaking and they wanted more diverse speakers. When @bigclasstraitor told me that, I asked him to please, in the next meeting, tell them how sorry I am for the circumstances of my birth.
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Steve Cox

@RealSteveCox

23 Mar

Neither party wants to address the root causes of any problem we face because they rely on these problems to campaign against each other. The best you’ll get from either party are ineffective laws that they’ll try to sell afterward as “helping”.

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But the goal isn’t to help us. The goal is to garner and maintain power for their party and its big-money backers.

To appeal to voters, they pass ineffective laws and then launch PR campaigns, while the problem they’re supposedly addressing remains unchanged.
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Example:
The Affordable Care Act was a handout to health-insurers, providers and Big Pharma, but the Democrats tried to present it as the greatest healthcare reform in history in order to garner voter support.

It’s only gotten worse since.
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Steve Cox

@RealSteveCox

11 Mar

Quick explainer:
I’m a left-wing libertarian.
Right-wing libertarians typically only care about negative liberty, which is about *preventing* (thus, “negative”) the government from interfering in your life. But on the left side of that...
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On the left side of libertarianism (which is actually the root of the libertarian concept), we care about negative liberty but also *positive* liberty, which is not just about preventing interference in your life, but actually empowering people to be *able* to live freely.
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Conceptually, think about the right to travel wherever you want. Negative liberty would just prevent the government from stopping you. Positive liberty builds the interstate highways, airports, railroads, etc, that enable you to actually travel.
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Steve Cox

@RealSteveCox

10 Mar

Thread:
The most difficult thing for our campaign has always been fundraising. The services that provide donor contacts usually cost thousands up front so you have to raise money before you get the contacts to raise money.
#Paradox

@grassrootsmath

About a year and a half ago, a campaign volunteer asked a service that supposedly only supports “left wing” candidates, and does it with no money up front, Grassroots Analytics (@grassrootsmath), working with our campaign. They said no because I’m not a Democrat.

A few weeks ago, I decided to ask them myself. They charge no money up front, but charge 3% of what your campaign raises (with or without using their contacts). They set up a phone meeting and then sent over a contract after that meeting!

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