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MattyBeRad
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Writer, woodworker, tenant organizer, law student. He/him www.barad.me
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anyways if you feel this way join a union <3
The Farmer's life is objectively worse in most ways -- less free time, hard labor, high stakes, little room for error -- but it's also the opposite of the labor and social alienation most of us feel. To have your labor produce literal fruit, and to have a mutually dependent community.
I completely understand the ennui experienced by the average person in our modern age but it's very funny to be like "This sucks I wish I was a farmer in the 1400s"
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I would love one theorist of "why the democratic party should go right on immigration" to 1) look at what Clinton and Obama and Biden actually did, and 2) to reckon with the fact that despite those overtures, Stephen Miller now has a goon army doing forcible deportations without due process
love tim robinson but I don't think it worked in Friendship
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I'm definitely becoming a year zero guy for social media. shut it the fuck down. go back to RSS feeds and vbulletin forums. it should be more costly run a social media platform, doing so should involve more legal exposure, and it should be more difficult to access them.
I fucking hate dramatic irony. It just makes me anxious and upset to see bad things happen to helpless characters.
Devastating: my commute audiobook uses dramatic irony at the core plot device.
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The problem today isn't people questioning science, but that they don't want the answers. They assume gaps in their knowledge are universal. But scientists aren't idiots, and if you think you've found an obvious flaw in their arguments, it's usually you who have missed something.
Putting 'teacher union during covid' next to 'police unions' as examples of bad unions is bonkers. These people apparently wanted more kids and teachers to die and think opposing that was as evil as police brutality.
Solidarity with unions makes sense as long as they show solidarity with other workers. Looking into many examples, police union, teamster, teacher union during covid, ... you realize they too live in neoliberal era: they represent narrow special interests. They act as shareholders of a company.
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I think a pseudo-niche political opinion that I’m developing is judge-maxing. Both the United States and the world generally need far greater number of judges. I think we need legal-abundance: an oversupplied court system able to both clear simple cases quickly and devote more time to complex ones.
Ik it's annoying and banal to point out but at some point you just gotta say that, if a Democrat dog-catcher in Vermont did even one of Trump's daily corruption scandals it would be a month-long national news story. Media likes Trump and wants to help him win.
it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it
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"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
I think it's embarassing to own either a g wagon or a cyber truck
This is not true, at least not unless everyone gives up. If such a thing were tried, the richest and wealthiest states in the country would secede. It's easier to imagine America ending than America having a guy with 39% approvals as dictator for life.
Based on current trends and the way congress and the Supreme Court have bent the knee, there won't be a third term. The second term will become permanent. He will declare he is protecting the nation from illegal voting, and simply not allow elections or election results.
Why did those things rise? Who sponsored them?
I'm skeptical. Perhaps the project is to find an alternative; that structure failed for a reason.
Republicans oppose social programs because they make women and children harder to abuse.
i know we’re talking about the ACA but this was true for me and my bestfriend for ARPA. dv shelters were flush with cash for prob the first time ever. This meant i could flee with my dog and cat without a 10 month waitlist and traveling 300 miles. they covered a ~year of her and her kids rent.
My best friend was able to leave her abusive husband because the ACA made it possible for her to still get health insurance
We should also note that Biden guaranteed that trump got everything he wanted before even entering office. Biden let Israel decimate Gaza. It's easy to support a peace deal that is more-or-less a negotiated surrender.
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Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”
This would have been the first ever assassins creed game I bought lol, oh well.
SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...
Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year
Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File
www.gamefile.news
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if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately
The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Republicans mostly stand behind child rapist president
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Deploy the Illinois National Guard Guard.