Heather

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09.03.2025 02:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Preventing equal access to education and employment is class warfare. Forget your isms.

11.02.2025 15:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lack of access to edication limits the hiring pool in highly skilled careers. (You keep saying you want the best as pilots, doctors, etc…most times the best is not a legacy trust fund recipient)
Public funding is necessary to maintain higher education at a competitive and beneficial level.

11.02.2025 15:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Strictly publicly funded institutions have no choice but to rely on donations, endowments, and hefty tuitions to continue.
This will severely limit access to education for lower and middle class citizens which in turn prevents access to higher paying jobs and upward mobility.

11.02.2025 15:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

reiterating for cathartic purposes…

Higher education is fundamental to our society.
Degrees and credentials are critically important to several occupations.
Creative and philosophical minds play a critical role in civilized society.
There are needs for trades and skilled labor.

11.02.2025 15:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Tryna strike a chord and it's probably A minorrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

10.02.2025 06:09 — 👍 28293    🔁 9075    💬 885    📌 590

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.

There’s not.

02.02.2025 14:55 — 👍 27327    🔁 6210    💬 733    📌 462

He is going to say "pinky swear you will protect our border. And buy more booze and stuff from us. "

They will say yes. Won't actually buy the stuff. And he will declare victory

Trumpenomics

03.02.2025 00:59 — 👍 24015    🔁 2977    💬 1945    📌 278

Last 3/7.

25.01.2025 22:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

4/7 of the representatives sponsoring SC H3537, which makes abortion punishable by death.

25.01.2025 22:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Costco shareholders reject call for review of diversity programs Costco Wholesale shareholders voted strongly against a proposal requesting a report on the risks of maintaining its diversity and inclusion initiatives, the U.S. company said on Thursday, sending a message running counter to the intense scrutiny many such corporate policies face.

Costco shareholders reject call for review of diversity programs reut.rs/4aswtYL

24.01.2025 08:04 — 👍 854    🔁 88    💬 24    📌 21

Is the action tangible, actionable, and detailed? Or intangible, abstract, and vague? When [Trump] leaves the details vague, we, collectively, cannot help ourselves. We try to fill them in. But — if Trump’s past promises are any guide — intangibility is a pretty good indicator that a proposal is a less-than-pressing concern.

Does this thing cause irreparable harm to real people? Deploying the military to conduct immigration raids and rounding people into mass camps is a major threat. An unspecified announcement (likely via Truth Social post) suggesting future plans to bully folks — as scary as that sounds — may not be.

Does this action target the opposition in a way that may cause anticipatory obedience? By targeting individual politicians, companies, civil servants, nonprofits, donors, media outlets, and journalists, [Trump] can cow hundreds or thousands of others into a more submissive and defensive posture.

Does this entrench the authoritarian faction in power and make it more difficult to dislodge? Trump and his supporters’ unifying goal will be to entrench themselves in power, indefinitely. Not necessarily by canceling elections outright, to be clear, but rather by tilting the political playing field so much that they’re unlikely to ever lose power through elections (or other means).

Authoritarianism wants you to feel like you’re drowning in chaos — headlines of breaking news, after breaking news. Here are 4️⃣ questions you can ask yourself to help spot genuine threats to our democracy.

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22.01.2025 21:42 — 👍 245    🔁 111    💬 7    📌 6

SC Bill 3537 seeks to charge women seeking abortions with murder.
SC already has a 6 week abortion ban. This is an attempt to completely ban access to abortions from the point of conception and to make it punishable by death.
Yeah, kill a woman for aborting tissue. No questions asked?

23.01.2025 15:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Same.

21.01.2025 22:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0