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Ironically, it's only the wealthy that have the financial privilege to bankroll frivolous lawsuits. Folks inside 2 standard deviations of mean wealth, ain't got NEARLY that kind of time and money to waste on bullshit.

28.03.2024 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Many are asking this

28.03.2024 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Definitely though people--e.g. Steve Bannon--from the outside who looked in and said "mmmmmmm, damn I could make that the useful idiots a powerful weapon to keep the rich rich, and the rabble at each others throats, not asking questions."

28.03.2024 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds like a great plan, I'm game, when do we start?

28.03.2024 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🚨🚨EMERGENCY🚨 🚨

We do not have enough food for tomorrow.

This is an emergency request for both local & international donations.

This is a plea for voucher donations.

Please donate a voucher below πŸ™πŸ½

28.03.2024 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

It's true, there's some age that no one warns you about that one day you just hit and suddenly there are at most four distinguishable ages: child, young, adult, and old.

28.03.2024 20:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

WOKE DESTROYED MY RENTAL PROPERTIES!

28.03.2024 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Land Day Flier, March 30 4:00 PM DuPont Circle

Land Day Flier, March 30 4:00 PM DuPont Circle

This was sighted on my walk. An upcoming Palestine action in DC. I was probably going to take part, maybe capture interviews for our radio show or not. I encourage local people to come out to this.

28.03.2024 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Just making a case study in realtime of the socialist critique of capitalism, the need and superiority of a worker owned & operated model excluding the very chuckle-fucks that obviously made the bad decisions prioritizing quarterly profits over plane quality (or anything else for that matter).

28.03.2024 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🀣

28.03.2024 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Charlie Day & Frank Reynolds from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" dressed in business attire. Caption reads "what do we create? Wealth; what do we make? money"

Charlie Day & Frank Reynolds from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" dressed in business attire. Caption reads "what do we create? Wealth; what do we make? money"

28.03.2024 18:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I am the great cornholio, I need revolution, for my bunghole!

28.03.2024 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Musk's X to pay legal fees to support doctor who sued to silence her critics (and lost) The

Elon Musk & X just announced that they'd help pay legal fees for a Canadian doctor to defend her against efforts to "cancel her speech"

but X left out a major detail

the doctor is the one who filed the lawsuit to silence her critics' speech (and lost) mashable.com/article/elon...

26.03.2024 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 495    πŸ” 128    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 15

#Meritocracy

28.03.2024 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Scene from "Jesus Camp" where they bust out the cardboard cut-out of George W. Bush and do the very uncomfortably close to the Nazi salute "laying on hands" thing (stretching out one arm towards thing/person) some Christians do, and praying.

Scene from "Jesus Camp" where they bust out the cardboard cut-out of George W. Bush and do the very uncomfortably close to the Nazi salute "laying on hands" thing (stretching out one arm towards thing/person) some Christians do, and praying.

Y'all remember this (it's from Bush era documentary on Chrisitian nationalist sentiment, I don't recall if they were using that specific name, but it's the same shit--"Jesus Camp")?

28.03.2024 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

so on--just quitting and going to the next employer, who has the SAME incentives, and you're in the SAME (individually) weaker position in terms of bargaining power, is therefore a temporary, partial, and unreliable answer at BEST.
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28.03.2024 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

way to get employers to act different would be to change that balance of power and/or incentives--unionization, cutting out the middleman and having employer-owners operating the business for their own profit and wage as one and the same essentially, and
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28.03.2024 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

your finances in a catastrophic way. It doesn't actually change the conditions that created the actual problem to begin with at all though--the balance of power and incentives that permit and give a good reason (profit) for employers to behave in those objectionable ways status quo. The only
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28.03.2024 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That's all well and good, but it's not actually a solution to the problem. AT BEST it's a stopgap, which depends upon you being able to actually a find an employer willing to hire you that isn't as shitty or shittier than the current one and also, and make that transition without interrupting
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28.03.2024 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The slope on that purple Republican line, goddamn!

28.03.2024 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't think the world is ready for this

28.03.2024 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the darkweb, credit, etc. and remove shit" subscription models. Once again, expecting the general public to just individually absorb the costs of piling up failures of a society and government headed and ruled by for and of capitalists.
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28.03.2024 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Frankly already seeing that, and it's the perfect "free market solution" capitalists and their paid for representatives, so-called "elected officials", in the form of these as always left to the individual and their resources "pay us and we'll monitor
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28.03.2024 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That problem can be fixed by FAR LESS than even communism--literally just debt forgiveness, a thing with mountains of historical precedent during and before capitalism.

28.03.2024 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Why?

28.03.2024 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Most definitely, and since that's all most immigrants want it's obviously irrational to impose arbitrary limits and barriers by law.

27.03.2024 22:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I would have to imagine there are infinitely many levels of 'better/worse' (depending on your point of view) awards.

27.03.2024 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He just gets regular hell--he lost is "Special Services" commendation.

27.03.2024 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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