To be fair, oppression has existed in every generation. We are not immune, polling makes that very clear. As another example, the leaders of the generation that made the post world war 2 boom did everything in their power to prevent black people from benefitting. Just like the leaders of the baby boomers and silent generation decided to fuck over poor people and begin the regression to another gilded age in the 1970’s.

Don’t forget that if you say it’s because the minority group votes against you then it’s officially political and not racist. Thanks SCOTUS.

We were never going to do representation by population. We barely got the southern colonies to agree to apportionment with land. (This was the 3/5ths compromise.)

Israel killed it.

There are cats that definitely come with pre-conditions. For example our last cat was abandoned and he chose us next. But first he spent about 4 months learning to like being outside. So until we moved* he wouldn’t let us keep him inside. He’d literally climb out the window, up the wood framing, to the roof, get into the pine trees and work his way down from there. Eventually we’d just get a meow at the front door when we thought he was still chilling in the living room.

If you’re adopting a shelter cat or bringing up a kitten you should absolutely keep them inside. But some cats will let you know they have terms and conditions to your relationship.

Note - Once we moved he no longer wanted to roam so much and was content with being a balcony cat. Which strongly suggests it was tied to some idea of territory or familiarity with that area.

When everyone is rushing to find gold, sell shovels.

Sure as long as you donate 100,000 USD a year to my bank account.

You assume the restaurant’s prices are connected to wages in any meaningful way. We’re paying the wages. That’s all food cost and profit.

Trumps lawyer and some of the judges were obviously of the opinion that Congress has to create some sort of system for dealing with this. But that’s nonsense because no other bar to office requires positive action from Congress. And the next argument they’re going to make is that if Congress proposed a system it would require a 2/3rds majority to pass and implement because that’s the threshold for removing the bar from a candidate. They know full well that’s impossible but they’ll pretend that’s the actual law until the day they die because words mean nothing to fascists, only results.

If bad faith gamesmanship has gone that far then we’re already in the pot and we just don’t know it yet. What’s better, finding that out with Biden in the White House or Trump? Because the rules are very clear and bending them in hopes that the bad guys will just magically stop being bad is ridiculous. If they’re willing the DQ all other candidates then they’re also willing to just declare him victor of their state and send his delegates to D.C. In which case nothing we do matters.

The best thing we can do is hew to the rules while we have a sane president and deal with the fallout now. It only gets worse the longer you push it off.

Or the argument is to distract or derail the conversation. If it is the conversation going in though…

God when the whole Tiktok thing in Congress was going on nobody wanted to hear that their favorite big tech social media app was already selling information to China; had been caught doing so multiple times; and had never stopped despite promises and threats of prosecution the next time.

The Union Leadership is taking a victory lap. The Union itself was and is furious about it. It’s not that complicated. And his promises are in the press release linked in the comment. As for how to find out about those sick days being a trap? You kind of have to ask the railroaders themselves. Nobody is covering the fact that the days still count against their points system, have to be scheduled, and that not all railroaders have them. The companies gave them mostly to people that don’t actually run the trains or do critical track work. So what most of us think of as a railroad worker, still doesn’t even have sick days. I hate to send people to reddit but r/railroading has been a good source through all this.

It absolutely is a victory lap. Because we get this news and then nothing for another decade when suddenly everyone realizes we never made good on that progress. It happened in 2003, 2008, 2012, and now 2019. So yeah fuck that. I’m done waiting to be forgotten and then yelling into the void because the narrative of the win has set into the zeitgeist.

BLS never announced that. An “economic” think tank did. Coincidentally the math doesn’t work out and it’s an election year.

1994 Crime Bill, giving many people records and restricting their access to voting/housing/jobs/life.

1996 one of 24 Democrats to vote for the Welfare reform bill that kicked many people off of government benefits and caused needless suffering.

2003 American Dream Downpayment Act. It increased the amount of Adjustable Rate Mortgage you could get and made them available to low income families. This would prove to be a trap in 2008 that anyone with a basic education in economics could see coming because the rate was adjustable.

That’s just three examples, I’m not going to keep going. This is an old problem, older than- Well I was going to say older than him but he was elected to the Senate in 1972. He has presided over the entire crushing of the middle and working class. And we put him in the white house for it.

1994 Crime Bill, giving many people records and restricting their access to voting/housing/jobs/life.

1996 one of 24 Democrats to vote for the Welfare reform bill that kicked many people off of government benefits and caused needless suffering.

2003 American Dream Downpayment Act. It increased the amount of Adjustable Rate Mortgage you could get and made them available to low income families. This would prove to be a trap in 2008 that anyone with a basic education in economics could see coming because the rate was adjustable.

That’s just three examples, I’m not going to keep going. This is an old problem, older than- Well I was going to say older than him but he was elected to the Senate in 1972. He has presided over the entire crushing of the middle and working class. And we put him in the white house for it.

Yup you framed it the one possible way to make it look like good news. Great job, the Kremlin is always hiring propogandists.

Regaining 3.6 percent out of 137 points is a drop in the bucket. Of course if you frame it as just this last year it looks great. But food is still up by 20 percent on it’s own. Trying to take a victory lap on this is how the working class gets fucked over again.

Yeah that’s what everyone was afraid of, that people would just reference the Union’s own victory lap. The Unions called it a major victory but the actual union membership did not want that. They literally just wanted the ability to call in sick without being fired and to end the points system. Neither of which they got. The “short notice sick days” are scheduled a month in advance. And I sure hope they manage to schedule all of their sickness a month out, and within 7 days out of 365. None of Biden’s legislative promises appeared either because why keeping working on them after this victory lap?

The suits all got a pat on the back and the workers got fucked. Different day, Same America.

Also, it was never a national logistics disaster. We wouldn’t be the first country to have our logistics system go on strike. And we won’t be the last.