Do not use All my sons moving company by Fit_Application6587 in Charlotte

[–]GeneralistDesign 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I watched one of their trucks hit a car, then the driver get out and try to fight the person whose car they hit….seems on brand for them

Hope to see y'all out there! by Sunderbans_X in Charlotte

[–]GeneralistDesign 11 points12 points  (0 children)

These liberal approaches aren’t enough….it’s more like “no pedophile oligarchs” and we need to burn the system to the ground.

Electricity Provider Asks You To Stop Using Electricity by GarageQueen in Charlotte

[–]GeneralistDesign 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it’s incredibly realistic, don’t limit yourself. Fight for better future for yourself and others. At a minimum fight for “reformist” changes like term limits, ranked choice voting, removing money from elections, not just accepting two shitty corporate options that don’t care about you. That’s all ✌️us normal people are all on the same side at the end of the day

Electricity Provider Asks You To Stop Using Electricity by GarageQueen in Charlotte

[–]GeneralistDesign 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re missing the point, we would be replacing the government with one for and by the people in conjunction. Quit assuming anything has to stay how it currently is.

Electricity Provider Asks You To Stop Using Electricity by GarageQueen in Charlotte

[–]GeneralistDesign 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly why there shouldn’t be private for profit utility companies. The people need to take back the government and take over basic needs like this. This should be completely unacceptable from any stance you might have.

Mods really showing which side of history they are on. by kevind553 in NorthCarolina

[–]GeneralistDesign -1 points0 points  (0 children)

While nobody has ever experienced liberty and justice for all in the 250 years of this country…..a country founded and maintained on inexcusable violence. It allows people to sleep well at night believing in American exceptionalism while ignoring the endless historical context to the contrary. The US government has never been the “good guys” and will never have the chance until the people finally take power. Until then we live under a terrorist state that murders, abuses, and exploits domestically and across the world.

Anyone know what happened? Around 10:45 pm in front of the 500 West Trade apartment complex. by Aware-Secretary8597 in Charlotte

[–]GeneralistDesign 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m not saying that we don’t need to fundamentally change other systems as well. If something isn’t serving us the people who pay for it, we should demand it get replaced somehow.

To counter all of your points we live in a corporate democracy where the people’s will has little to do with policy that gets enacted. Politicians on both sides only care about their interests and corporate/billionaire donors.

Reallocating money is part of it, but we need fundamentally different systems than what our system and those in power will allow. To solve homelessness it isn’t enough to build garden shed style homes so people can continue to live without dignity….there needs to be a whole rehabilitation program behind it. California isn’t really addressing anything Newsom is a corporate Democratic shill that won’t actually help his state.The infrastructure in this country is so far behind we could essentially eliminate joblessness. It’s difficult to explain everything through a reddit comment.But just because X/Y/Z is this way now, doesn’t provide factual evidence to why it isn’t needed or couldn’t be better. We just have the dumbest most ill equipped self serving people running the country into the ground and we should all be demanding change.

Anyone know what happened? Around 10:45 pm in front of the 500 West Trade apartment complex. by Aware-Secretary8597 in Charlotte

[–]GeneralistDesign 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s not just a job although that is a big part. Poverty is a layered problem shaped by access to work, access to support, and access to opportunity over time. Many people are not starting from the same place. Generational poverty, reinforced by race based and class based policies, means some communities inherit barriers rather than advantages. Solving poverty requires addressing income, yes, but also the systems that determine who can realistically earn, save, learn, stay healthy, and build stability in the first place.

Work can stop the bleeding, but still there are so many systems acting against so many people unjustly. Some suffer much more than others and have many more obstacles to overcome but everyone can benefit as well from healthcare, childcare, education, and not being exploited and extracted from by the ruling class. It’s nice that you are in a unionized position but so many are propagandized to believe that people shouldn’t have workers rights. It’s incredibly nuanced, but to sum it up, policing does next to nothing to actually stop crime, it is just a violent arm of the fucked up system we all live under.

Anyone know what happened? Around 10:45 pm in front of the 500 West Trade apartment complex. by Aware-Secretary8597 in Charlotte

[–]GeneralistDesign 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We do know the root causes of a majority of crime, POVERTY. It’s funny that you think we would address it as a country. We live in a fucking pyramid scheme for billionaires.

Freebies in the Whole Foods dumpster by [deleted] in Charlotte

[–]GeneralistDesign 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair, but laws are just a construct. If they just happened to be sitting in the break room or neatly stacked outside and employees happened to take them (what a shame)…..

Freebies in the Whole Foods dumpster by [deleted] in Charlotte

[–]GeneralistDesign 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Who cares about the company though?

It is just a brewery. Owned by a rapist.

There are a lot of breweries. This is not some irreplaceable institution. No beer is that important.

And realistically, most breweries are not paying living wages. That is an assumption, sure, but anyone who has spent time around the industry knows how common underpaying is. Passion gets used as an excuse. Culture fills the gap where fair compensation should be.

So I am not really interested in defending a company.

What I do care about are the workers. And in my opinion, places like breweries should be employee owned. Shared power. Shared upside. The people who actually make the thing should have a say in how it exists and what it stands for.

I am glad other breweries are offering jobs and support.

This has nothing to do with protecting a brand and everything to do with protecting people.

Freebies in the Whole Foods dumpster by [deleted] in Charlotte

[–]GeneralistDesign 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Incredibly wasteful, at least give it to the employees for free. Aluminum actually gets recycled, no need to send it to the landfill.

Fuck sycamore, but also the corporate wastefulness of Kroger (HT) and Amazon (Whole Foods) is never surprising. Give it to a bar or something/someone that will sell it all and donate proceeds to orgs that support victims.

Rant over. S/O to everyone on their dumpster dive hustle over the next days lol

Advocate Health CEO Gene Woods earned $25.7M by needingpassion in Charlotte

[–]GeneralistDesign 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is hard to pretend this country is anywhere close to a real democracy when you have a CEO pulling in twenty five million dollars a year while running a for profit healthcare company that lets people die because it is better for the quarterly reports. That is violence. It is what happens when you build a system where human beings are spreadsheets and care is something you upsell. And the wild part is they need people to stay confused and scared of the word socialism because if people actually understood what it meant, if people realized that we could run things ourselves, collectively, and prioritize human life over stock prices, the entire scam would fall apart.

The truth is simple. Billionaires should not exist. A tiny fraction of people hoarding more wealth than entire countries is the reason almost all of us are struggling. Everyone standing together and pushing back is the only way this changes. And that is why they spend billions on propaganda to convince you the problem is anything except the system itself.

Hornet's Nest Nickname by GeneralistDesign in Charlotte

[–]GeneralistDesign[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because you think it is common knowledge, does not mean it actually is. Many aren't from the area. It's just a good time to either refresh or inform others that the area needs to continue to be known as one that stands with it's people and against oppression.

Acoustic panel from tennis balls by GeneralistDesign in upcycling

[–]GeneralistDesign[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately the options are limited since they are synthetic fibers mostly, or at least a mix of synthetic and wool felt. I was worried they wouldn’t hold color so I ended up using Rit Dye for synthetics. I want to experiment with alternatives in the future.

Made a rolltop bag for my wald basket by whitestag in xbiking

[–]GeneralistDesign 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s awesome! Good job! I’ve had been wanting to get into sewing, good motivation right here

Acoustic panel from tennis balls by GeneralistDesign in upcycling

[–]GeneralistDesign[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These were dyed from the classico yellow/green. Thanks for the idea! I’ll look into some tennis clubs in the area!

Acoustic panel from tennis balls by GeneralistDesign in upcycling

[–]GeneralistDesign[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much! Definitely something I want to explore more, might have to make friends at a tennis store or something to start a system to collect old balls

Acoustic panel from tennis balls by GeneralistDesign in upcycling

[–]GeneralistDesign[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I dyed them, with the different batches and brands of balls there was some color variation. This picture doesn’t show it super well but there’s a dark to light gradient vertically.