Everyone who is capable of being reasoned with is already a Democrat.

The role of government as understood on Nextdoor as explained by tree removal permits:

1. I need permission from government to cut down a tree on my own private property!?OVERREACH!!

2. They let that developer cut down a tree without a public hearing and vote?! CORRUPTION!!

What power? The readership of the New York Times already votes for Democrats by like 90% margins, and the median voter is a mindless idiot who has no awareness of the news whatsoever. It's like the old saying goes "we already have the vote of every thinking person, unfortunately we need a majority"

The aristocracy had already been abolished by the time they were sent to the guillotines, so they were already not aristocrats. It doesn't accomplish anything, it's just retribution.

Someone else will just do the crime instead, which obviously applies to CEOs even more than it does to criminals since being a CEO is literally a job that people get hired to do.

Most people are stupid assholes so the side of stupid assholes is "populist" but simultaneously stupid assholes are highly overrepresented among the rich and powerful, and of course are going to be overrepresented in the organized actions of the stupid-asshole movement.

The ineffectiveness of the death penalty is one of the most fundamental facts about criminal justice.

marx was anti-capitalist in the sense that he longed for what (he thought) would come after; these days it seems many anti-capitalists are anticapitalists insofar as they long for what came before

The belief that it's bad to be a loser and a pussy is one of the foundational principles of fascism.