What a petty baby bitch boi

Not my team

Literally

Idiot compassion... just ignoring bad behavior... is dangerous.

So is demonizing people that society has failed.

Anger is valid AND inadequate to restore society.
Restraint truly is the better part of valor.

Pavlovitz is not wrong.

There are also numerous politicians that failed to delivery an education system and an economy that would give these people those options.

I'm not saying we can save them from the consequences of their actions, but it's still tragic for them and their families.

YouTube video by VampireWeekendVEVO Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall (Official Video)

Recently rediscovered this song re-watching Ted Lasso.

Feels very apt these days with respect to the fascism. Really hits that emotional release point for me.

PS- u must admit my wife has been playing it for years and when she played it, it usually annoyed me 😂

youtu.be/IlkTVMMkCP4

It had its day. Time to move on.
I tried to make a witty reply with other tired phrases but could only get to "narrative". ✊🏻

Block on you crazy diamond

You can block if you want to
You can leave bad posts behind
Because your friends don't block
And if they don't block then they're
No friends of mine

I agree with this post so much I'm gonna pledge to block 3 people before the end of the day today

I really try to reserve blocks for people that I don't want reading my posts because I don't want to give people the attention of being blocked and just mute them 😂

Bored?
Most people have no hope here. We have health insurance, but if you get sick, you'll probably go bankrupt.
Most young people have no opportunity at earning enough money to support a family.
People spend lavishly on dinners because they know they have no chance of ever owning a home.

Now, if you're invested in the stock market, then you're doing fantastically. You barely have to think about what you invest in - you can just buy an S&P 500 index fund.

But every other societal standard, the US is in decline. Infant mortality rates are increasing!?
You're delusional.

The Ludwig Institute also says that the nation's official unemployment rate of 4.2% greatly understates the level of economic distress around the U.S. Factoring in workers who are stuck in poverty-wage jobs and people who are unable to find full-time employment, the U.S. jobless rate now tops 24%, according to LISEP, which defines these groups as "functionally unemployed."

Bored you say...

Most Americans don't earn enough to afford basic costs of living, analysis finds The bottom 60% of U.S. households don't make enough money to afford a "minimal quality of life," according to a new analysis.

www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of...

Now, if you're invested in the stock market, then you're doing fantastically. You barely have to think about what you invest in - you can just buy an S&P 500 index fund.

But every other societal standard, the US is in decline. Infant mortality rates are increasing!?
You're delusional.

Now, if you're invested in the stock market, then you're doing fantastically. You barely have to think about what you invest in - you can just buy an S&P 500 index fund.

But every other societal standard, the US is in decline. Infant mortality rates are increasing!?
You're delusional.

Bored?
Most people have no hope here. We have health insurance, but if you get sick, you'll probably go bankrupt.
Most young people have no opportunity at earning enough money to support a family.
People spend lavishly on dinners because they know they have no chance of ever owning a home.

The WTO was signed in 1999.

He's not clearly proving it cause he's not implementing tariffs in a way designed to protect jobs.

Unbridled free trade has given us cheap televisions and destroyed our industrial base. Is it worth being able to buy cheap crap off Temu instead of having living wages?

I don't think so.

The anti WTO protest in Seattle was about maintaining tariffs that protect workers and environmental standards.
Trump is of course doing it in the worst possible way, but those are the tariffs that the workers have been asking for 30 years.

Thinking that pushing for progressive legislation is what led to the alienation is the wrong lesson. It's continually embracing policies that benefit the rich that led to Trump.
All of the identity politics are a distraction from the actual gutting of the working classes economic prospects.

This starts with Jimmy Carter embracing deregulation continues with Clinton's gutting of welfare programs, embracing free trade and ending Glass–Steagall.

The Dems have been like an ugly duckling that keeps changing to fit in with the cool kids and ends up losing themselves.

To me it's another link in a long chain of dems making concessions to the elites without extracting anything for the masses.
Many of those financial institutions gained tremendous wealth when they should've gone out of business if anyone is to believe in free markets.

I wanna say it was the bailout of the financial system that spawned the Tea Party. Tea Party protests started immediately after Obama was inaugurated.
I remember that several friends who were generally leftists participated in the Tea Party cause they opposed the give away.

Anyone who starts a post with "Breaking:" and doesn't include a source is an immediate mute for me.

It's biggest red flag for an attention whore possible.

Graph shows health insurance company profits increased from 22.7 billion and20 13 to 70.7 billion in 2023

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"Oh yeah, sorry, we can't spend the political capital. We need to spend it all on making sure health insurance corporations get richer."

It's insanity.

That was the day that made it undeniable for me too.

The stench was so odious.

They did recognize it and they have preferred to lose repeatedly rather than give up the corporate and billionaire campaign contributions.

Sadly, Dems raise more money the worse the republicans get. The incentives are all wrong.