@PhilJamesson
If I was your professor and you handed in a paper like that, I'd have to invent a new letter grade low enough for it (F - isn't low enough) - and then give you an F minus for that class, and every other class you're taking, and every class you ever take at that school
@Tinkzorg
so... if I convert to Islam it means I never get to eat that.... (alleged) "food"??
well then!
“Ashadu an la ilaha illa illa-ilah, wa ashadu anna muhammadan rasul ullah.”
@bardo_lincoln
@GloriaPazmino
they died in the cellars of the buildings they lived in - probably because they lived in illegal apartments in those cellars, which exist because rent is too high, and which are unsafe because they were not designed for people to live in
bike lanes won't solve that
@ladiesofchaos
@inihelene
China never tried to invade Australia
Japan did.... but they were defeated by Australian, New Zealand and British forces
so not sure how Australia would be speaking Chinese - or how that merits you getting a discount at a fast food joint
@TheQuartering
@jemelehill
so you're all "PROTECT WOMEN'S SPORTS" when it's a pretext to be a transphobe - but not when it comes to protecting women athletes from being harassed by men while traveling?
@edzitron
studies have shown that the
#1
factor in successful entrepreneurship is having a family wealthy enough to subsidize your business losses - so you can repeatedly fail without consequences until you manage to create a successful business
it's not about skipping a cup of coffee
@slwsmmrdrwning
the most racist place I've ever been to in the United States was the affluent parts of Boston, Massachusetts
but yeah, go on with your regional prejudices and classism
@thenovanglus
@Shogun_lux
nope - you're doing stoop labor 84 hours a week & you're at the mercy of insects, the weather & all the other things that can go wrong in farming - also you don't have money or insurance - yes, so much better off!
@F_I_Tally
@kvlton_
@mjohnston069
the Labor Management Relations Act penalties for getting fired for union organizing are minimal - a small fine equivalent to a traffic ticket and a little bit of back pay - and it takes years to get that back pay
@as_a_worker
I was born at St Vincent's back in 1968 - they were the only medical center for the Village, Chelsea and Clinton, also they were a world leader in the treatment of HIV and AIDS for the better part of 25 years
but we really needed more luxury housing!
@dennismhogan
I was a New York union carpenter at the time the towers fell - a bunch of our members worked there and got sick as a result, many of them have sinced passed - yes, those workers were lied to so they could get the site demoed to grade ASAP - they were considered expendible
@asymmetricinfo
only rich Americans pay people to do their household chores - also if you think Danish homes are small, come see a New York apartment
also - the Danes have free health care and most of them have a union protecting their rights at work
@KetoAurelius
my dad went to war on behalf of the US empire at 17 - it really really sucked (and that was "the Good War" - WW II) - he strongly advised against it
the only people who romantacize miltiary service are those who have never served
@Peterteviot52
Jimmy Hoffa (dude on the left), President of the Teamsters Union from 1957 to 67 was murdered in 1975
his son, James Hoffa (dude on the right), president of the Teamsters Union from 1998 to present, is still alive
@MsTaraDowdell
@blixberrie
they beat the case because these child rapists "might be eaten alive in prison"?
why exactly is that a bad thing?
it's what they deserve
@50kshay
@HazelMonforton
actually the driver's family did the GoFundMe - UPS didn't even do that
As a multi billion dollar global corporation...they literally could have WRITTEN A CHECK and paid for the funeral, and gave money to his widow and kids as well
pro tip - if a friend of yours gets convicted of rape, fight the urge to be a character witness at their sentencing - yes, they were good TO YOU - but the person they raped is not you and they were very not good to them
#DannyMasterson
@sssabriiiinaaa
from a carpentry perspective it's not that hard - triple rock all the party walls and perimeter walls (that's carpenter speak for 3 layers of sheetrock on each side of the walls between apartments and the walls on the hallway and exterior wall sides of the apartment)
@xoayquanh
you can make a lot of money owning a car dealership - especially if it's a busy one
beverage distributors exist because anti trust laws prohibit beverage manufacturers from directly wholesaling their product
@ytnessisdeath
that's what you see
I see a bunch of people (mostly women) having to waste a whole day in a crowded uncomfortable space, and people "watching each other's loads" - to throw your stuff out of the machine so they can get a machine, so you have to watch your load like a hawk
@Devoya
@HopeLikely
@PageSix
if you're poor and Black and don't wash your kids, you will be hearing from ACS with a quickness... but apparently that doesn't apply to everybody
@sssabriiiinaaa
also put fiberglass insulation in all those walls, plus put hardwood floors with sleepers (long pieces of wood perpendicular to the flooring) and insulation under the floors, plus have triple rock insulated ceilings above every apartment - and double paned windows
@NomikiKonst
or, Puerto Rico should be a state on general principle - as should DC, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam & the Northern Mariana Islands
@lukeoneil47
it's weird - here in NYC, lots of construction workers really enjoy gourmet coffee (some are even coffee snobs!) so this idea that you're not a "real man" if you drink lattes... well, somebody needs to tell that to the guys in Ironworkers local 46
@birthmarxist
if I was in FBI counterintelligence, and I wanted to present communist ideas in a way that would utterly disgust most working class Americans... that's the kind of statement I'd come out with
@spillthekatea
@_glorianas
@LITTLEBlRDS
ever been around industrial machinery?
those machines have to be built, delivered, installed, serviced & periodically replaced - there's still a lot of labor even in "fully automated" production
even after communism, you're still going to have to get up & go to work
@ohJuliatweets
Jerry's just mad because the public's taste in comedy has changed - also the rise of youtube & tiktok has allowed a lot of comedians more talented than he to be able to find an audience - also he's hurt that bigotry is less acceptable than it was in his day
@princess_antifa
I actually have railroad track safety training, it is in fact protocol, and if we "abolish police immediately", it will be a field day for criminals - they can rob, rape and kill with no fear of punishment - so that's a really silly idea that shouldn't be taken seriously
@sshghfs
@JamesHarrisNow
Victorian era London had signs in French, Italian & Yiddish - so why can't modern London have signs in Hindi and Bangla?
is there a problem? (other than racism?)
@nephew_time
@Sulliedsubjects
@LineGoesDown
longtime union activist and communist here
there's a lot of pluses to working union
- more money
- benefits/pension
- better working conditions
-more power/rights on the job
the right to off the job free speech falls in the last category - and it's pretty important
@alexSevera4
@_glorianas
& there was a caste system as to who got to use them - state officials, Party members & high government officials got a whole lot more vacation time than nurses or factory workers & went to much nicer resorts
@bardo_lincoln
@GloriaPazmino
we need to provide decent housing that working class people can afford so nobody has to live in a cellar - that's a higher priority than bike lanes
@politico
They really want "diversity" how about a cabinet composed of plumbers, teachers, scientists and farmers, instead of finance bros and stock market con artists?
@keribla
@davidjmalan
it should be a legal requirement that all prisoners have access to phones, the internet and the mail free of charge - that would help them keep in touch with their families, contact their attorneys... and in general to participate in society
@2RawTooReal
she's Puerto Rican and she was a bartender before she got elected
not sure what "privilege" she had
Also, the word you're looking for is "accustomed"
yes, my friend, you are 'too raw' - perhaps you came out of the microwave too early
@arjie
@Andrew__Boley
if you can take a month's vacation, spend a couple grand flying to Nepal, then spend a grand traveling from Kathmandu to Everest, then spend $30 grand to climb the mountan (minimum $33k, way more than a used Subaru) YOU ARE IN FACT A RICH PERSON
@MelanieArtigo
@GuyLabour
shutting down service entirely is more effective than running the system and not charging for it - precisely because it inconveniences the employers of all the workers who couldn't get to work -this motivates them to pressure the government to settle
@sssabriiiinaaa
but it would make those apartments more livable - there's also a side benefit of all those layers of fireproof material would make those apartments a hell of a lot safer from the perspective of fire safety
@LavenderNRed
working 9 hours a day 6 days a week in a sweatshop, with no free trade unions and no right to strike, is "the future of mankind"?
that future kinda sucks
do not want
@GrooveSDC
Joe Rogan is just some dude on the internet
Sheriff Arpaio ran a law enforcement agency in a large city that administered a very large jail
people literally DIED under his watch
@hannahcrileyy
here's a better idea - give them landlines in their cells and let them use the landlines free of charge - but the calls are recorded in case they use the phones for criminal purposes
@ironcretin
@WhackNicholson
that's actually true - I'm an OLD, born in the 1960s
when I walked to school as a kid, I had to step over all the bodies of ADHD people who couldn't go to the supermarket - they died in the thousands! it was a real tragedy!
@hannahtee07
@lolacoaster
what they're trying to say is that if you go over a bridge or through a tunnel it's easy for the police to stop your march from continuing, and even to move in and make arrests - it's known as "kettling"
@mattyglesias
working class Americans have seen our standard of living decline dramatically over the last 50 years - telling us how "high" our living standard is (relative to, say, Mongolia or Botswana) is breathtakingly tone deaf
@angelavixii
80 year old freely elected congressperson who won 27 contested multi candidate elections calling an unelected absolute ruler a dictator
not sure why that's an issue
@erinnthered
@F_I_Tally
better to build aggressive strike prone unions that respond to illegal firings with immediate open ended strikes (that's what unions did pre NLRA and it worked)
@sssabriiiinaaa
that would be virtually soundproofed - and that's how they build the walls in lots of luxury housing - but, it takes about four times as long to build those apartments, and extra manhours and materials means it will cost a whole hell of a lot more to build like that
@HesterBlum
@BlkLibraryGirl
I mean, you can totally do that, if you want to be a noncooperative patient who works against your caregivers, rather than with them......
@bethanyshondark
I have coworkers that died from covid
I lost about five thousand bucks in wages from staying home during the worst of the pandemic, and then had to go back to work during the pandemic
I work for a living so "vacations" aren't a thing
is that bad enough for you, Bethany?
@stretch919
@abirlios
@BigZlizek
@le_shipster
or, Canada is an imperialist power in it's own right - they're not "lackeys" of the American capitalist class, they're allies with similar interests in unequal trading relations with the Third World (& the military coersion you need to maintain that)
@ErikLoomis
Marx was right about a whole lot, and the philosophical system he developed helps us understand capitalism and how to fight it
a left without Marx would be a left without class struggle and that's not really very useful
@tylernewcomb_
why do you spend so much time worrying about what other people choose to drive and trying to dictate the behavior of others?
strong hall monitor energy here
@MZanona
nice outfit.... but she's against a minimum wage increase and gives speeches at pro union busting conferences
she's a very stylish enemy of the working class
@buyingtops
@Nicole_Lee_Sch
that's not how labor markets work in the real world
if capitalism paid people based on how hard they work, stockbrokers would make minimum wage and farm laborers would make six figures
let's be for real for real
"race" is bullshit - a fiction invented by slaveowners to justify their atrocity
there is one race - human - we all belong to it - and the only thing that divides us is how we make our money
we live off our labor, or we live off the labor of others
@Loganinthestars
@ladiesofchaos
@inihelene
I'm American too - we're not all like that
there's a certain type of veteran here that is constantly fishing for compliments and discounts for the 2 years they spent as an army file clerk