At least when they’re desperate for votes they can be convinced to stay out of our way? 🤷♀️
/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
At least when they’re desperate for votes they can be convinced to stay out of our way? 🤷♀️
It’s to prevent the expectation of privacy. We’ve all been trained to accept that we are being spied on, even when we shit.
.world loves to trot out the fact that highly skilled workers have sick leave now and it really pisses me off
The reality is 90% of workers have been able to get some form of sick leave, but 10,000 are still left with zero. It’s been years! If the unions had been allowed to strike they could and would have gotten sick leave for every single worker, probably immediately, but the most vulnerable were abandoned. That’s all that is possible without being allowed to strike. Imagine how much more was possible!
Just imagine what would have been possible if Biden hadn’t broken the rail strike.
I’m glad he realized doing that again would destroy Harris’s election chances. A lesson for labor: Democrats are only your friend when they need your votes.
Jesus fucking Christ
Social anxiety + extroversion is its own special hell.
It started in 1971 under Nixon. The guy who said "You start out in 1954 by saying, “N*gger, n*gger, n*gger.” By 1968 you can’t say “n*gger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N*gger, n*gger.”
What if I told you that the entire global economy of rich nations is slipping. The best of a declining cohort isn’t really that good.
Nationalities at least have a basis in actually existing nations. There’s literally no basis for generations.
Age cohorts exist. People born the same year have stuff in common. Generations aren’t like that, they’re just arbitrarily defined over arbitrary time spans.
Incarceration rates started skyrocketing in the 70s and only got worse from there. Did you forget about the war on drugs and who the primary victims were?
The meme is that boomers had it easy. Black boomers objectively didn’t. Black people have never had it easy in this country.
Yeah, these are pattern reproduction engines. They can predict the most likely next thing in a sequence, whether that’s words or pixels or numbers or whatever. There’s nothing intelligent about it and this bubble is destined to pop.
AI isn’t saving the world lol
If you live during a time when things get better that, by definition, means you also lived during a time when things used to be worse.
It’s completely arbitrary, especially towards the edges of the time period. A boomer born 1946 had a wildly different life than a boomer born 1964, and a boomer born in 1964 has way more in common with a Gen Xer born in 1965.
Age cohorts are real, but “generations” are just arbitrary groupings.
Putin can feasibly last until the West loses interest and stops supporting Ukraine, which with Trump that’s highly likely. Alternatively, Israel starts so much trouble the US is forced to prioritize and can’t afford to support Ukraine anymore.
And of course, Russia simply has more people than Ukraine. The most morbid possibility is the war lasts until Ukraine runs out of bodies.
You think he’s going to give up power?
Okay, but my point, that Black boomers didn’t have it easy, is still true.
Also generations are bullshit - they were made up by advertisers! They’re totally arbitrary.
Zero clue how you got this from my comment??? Ending Jim Crow was good, but claiming that Black boomers had it easy is fucked.
You realize that also means they got to suffer until those improvements happened? And then, of course, ending Jim Crow didn’t really fix everything. For Black boomers things got a little better for a while and then got worse again.
>When your antifascist coalition includes Zionist fascist collaborators.
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