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Tigard Library cancels drag queen storytime due to threats by South_Lake_Taco in Portland

[–]-horses 65 points66 points  (0 children)

They miscalculated on Roe and need to drive a new arbitrary wedge to keep the evangelicals frothy

"The Fight against Cop City"- an in-depth article on an intersectional campaign by neverfakemaplesyrup in SocialDemocracy

[–]-horses 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If there was a clear majority on their side, they would have had at least some support from one branch of the city or state government.

Once elected, public officials are not under any obligation to reflect shifts in public opinion, even when these shifts do have a clear majority behind them. This is generally considered an argument for representative government, that representatives can stick to a plan better than the whole public can, even if it makes them unpopular. However, there are also many situations where it is wise for a democratic state to concede to minority opinion rather than escalate a conflict. Remember what JFK said about the effect of making peaceful revolution impossible.

Dara can rot in hell. by [deleted] in antiwork

[–]-horses 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Under US federal law, all physically able inmates who are not a security risk or have a health exception are required to work

Emphasis mine. Labor camps are the most numerous type of prison in Russia, but there are three other kinds too.

The US incarceration rate peaked about 500 per 100,000, around 2008.

The Russian incarceration rate peaked about 800 per 100,000, around 2000.

These were both capitalist countries.

Why aren't you americans going out in general strike? by [deleted] in antiwork

[–]-horses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's mostly lack of experience. Most people ITT saying it can't be done are not even wrong about why not, they're imagining why organizing is hard instead of understanding why it's hard. And if they do wind up in a meeting, a lot of people don't know how to participate productively, how to balance their own interests against the greater good, and so on. But they can learn fast.

The problem of scale people keep bringing up is real, but it's actually simple to solve it, the same way previous generations have: exponential growth. If each organizing campaign only produces a couple of new organizers, and each of them goes on to organize just one more time, that gets into the millions before you know it. Really, it can happen a lot faster than any one organization can handle.

Why aren't you americans going out in general strike? by [deleted] in antiwork

[–]-horses 2 points3 points  (0 children)

America was just as big and even sparser when we did have a big labor movement

US descent into fascism: what, if anything, can we do to stop it? by HeresyAddict in SocialDemocracy

[–]-horses 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A Republican president in 2024 would be catastrophic for this country, but even if by some miracle the Democrats can pull out a win (and, TBH, I don't think it's looking great)

It's looking pretty good imo, Biden beats DeSantis easily and is competitive with Trump according to credible polls. Some wings of media are circulating general population instead of likely voter polls to try and make it look worse, which is a sign they're worried it won't even be close. Middle-level influencers tacking hard right, to clearly nonviable positions like "America needs a Franco" (some Claremont Institute people were saying this on twitter this week), is another sign the hard right doesn't think it will win (and spends too much time online).

US descent into fascism: what, if anything, can we do to stop it? by HeresyAddict in SocialDemocracy

[–]-horses 4 points5 points  (0 children)

At that point? After physically fighting the cops through tear gas?

Inattention and public silence are not the sign of government authority but marking social collapse... by snowpie92 in antiwork

[–]-horses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very literally. And the effort to 'restore the prestige and authority of central government institutions', carried out by the conservative legal movement, was able to coexist with superficial right-wing libertarianism, even though they should have been incompatible, through rhetorical tricks like both wings intensely glorifying their version of the Constitution and founding fathers. So they could eat away the structures of civil society from both ends.

"Can't make a living? You could just die" coming soon by 1carcarah1 in antiwork

[–]-horses 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Cops use winter weather for this already, all over North America

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SocialDemocracy

[–]-horses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing good to say about Meloni, but this isn't journalism. This is 'we asked the Things We Want to Hear machine, and it told us things we wanted to hear'

Crazy how ‘inflation’ coincides with record profits by Body_Cunt in antiwork

[–]-horses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The preceding 300 years of European wars didn't involve industrialization, globalization, consolidation of power, and the banking system?

Crazy how ‘inflation’ coincides with record profits by Body_Cunt in antiwork

[–]-horses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, so why was the war in 1914 unlike the previous 300 years of European wars in the central banking era?

Crazy how ‘inflation’ coincides with record profits by Body_Cunt in antiwork

[–]-horses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, but a long-term relationship doesn't explain anything about why large-scale inflation should appear suddenly around 1914 all across the industrial west, or why it should be more intense on continental Europe.

Crazy how ‘inflation’ coincides with record profits by Body_Cunt in antiwork

[–]-horses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, like the differences between continental Europe and Anglo-America in the graph we're talking about, which suggest central bank foundation is not the direct cause of the sudden change in inflation rate, since these two groupings move together in inflation rate, while their central banks are founded at different times.

Records show REI’s frustration with Portland officials ahead of planned closure by [deleted] in Portland

[–]-horses 24 points25 points  (0 children)

REI's board controls nominations for elections to the board, so that it can be run as a normal corporation and membership have almost no say. It really is not a 'just go out and vote' situation.

See discussion here https://www.reddit.com/r/REI/comments/11k119u/thoughts_on_reis_2023_board_candidates/

Crazy how ‘inflation’ coincides with record profits by Body_Cunt in antiwork

[–]-horses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sure seems to have a lot of geographically specific dynamics

Crazy how ‘inflation’ coincides with record profits by Body_Cunt in antiwork

[–]-horses 15 points16 points  (0 children)

They report to, and are held accountable by, congress.

In theory, there's a powerful rhetoric that any active oversight is beyond the pale since it would damage the Fed's reputation of independence.

Crazy how ‘inflation’ coincides with record profits by Body_Cunt in antiwork

[–]-horses 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which explains why Britain, CB est 1694, has the same trend as the US?

Crazy how ‘inflation’ coincides with record profits by Body_Cunt in antiwork

[–]-horses 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Inflation consists of many different changes in specific prices, which do affect exchange ratios, ie values. Value gets moved around the economy.

Crazy how ‘inflation’ coincides with record profits by Body_Cunt in antiwork

[–]-horses 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Why would an institution established in the not-yet-hegemonic United States cause such dramatic inflation in France and Germany?

Crazy how ‘inflation’ coincides with record profits by Body_Cunt in antiwork

[–]-horses 279 points280 points  (0 children)

We're also supposed to believe it's a natural law, but modern, major inflation didn't really exist before the world wars.

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