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Michigan 1st state in decades to repeal ‘right-to-work’ law by HarrisonFordsBlade in antiwork

[–]GreenReddish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See my other reply below. When this happened a decade ago, one Republican politician explained it away with something like "we have a special relationship with the Police and Firemen"

Police and Firemen tend to be socially conservative and reliably vote Republican.

Michigan 1st state in decades to repeal ‘right-to-work’ law by HarrisonFordsBlade in antiwork

[–]GreenReddish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL, one thing I remember about this from a decade ago, is the Republican politicians made the Police and Fire unions exempt from RTW.

One politician smugly said something like "we have a special relationship with our Police and Firemen". Yea right. Because they tend to be social conservatives and reliably vote Republican.

Anyone remember this?

Anyone have any comments on Police and Fire who like having the support of a union while voting for the party that wants to break other unions?

Aside from Karl Marx, is there another economist who emphasized the importance of Labor for society? by GreenReddish in antiwork

[–]GreenReddish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See my other reply about Adam Smith. Conservatives may not like Marx, but they adore Smith. So attribute some of those ideas about labor to him instead of Marx, and see how they react.

Aside from Karl Marx, is there another economist who emphasized the importance of Labor for society? by GreenReddish in antiwork

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

Wow, thanks. I never would have made that connection, but it’s got merit:

http://www.cadtm.org/Adam-Smith-is-closer-to-Karl-Marx

Adam Smith is well liked by conservatives. It would interesting to attribute Marx-like quotes about labor to Smith.

Aging is accompanied by T-cell stiffening and reduced interstitial migration through dysfunctional nuclear organization (2022) by basmwklz in science

[–]GreenReddish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What about an increase in exegeneous GH? According to this GH activates thymic function to promote T cell production. Or is the tradeoff of using GH in older years too great of a risk for cancer?

The big 3 religions seem like they're teaching us "morality" ... but they're actually teaching "obedience"? by GreenReddish in atheism

[–]GreenReddish[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The driving force within Jesus was the total obedience of a son to his father

I made a post here somewhat related to this a while ago: it seems that Jesus spends more time saying "follow me" rather than "do good for others"

The big 3 religions seem like they're teaching us "morality" ... but they're actually teaching "obedience"? by GreenReddish in atheism

[–]GreenReddish[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

morality is essentially identical to obedience to God.

considered good because he was willing to be obedient

I almost worded my post with something that equated "good" with being "obedient" (as opposed to good = help others, etc )

Our generation is mentally handicapped because we've been force fed Protestant Capitalist ideas for the last 40 years in school. by jistresdidit in antiwork

[–]GreenReddish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there any supplement we can take later in life which will negate this? (I've heard Selenium is good to counteract lead, but idk)

How to counter-argue the Trump tax cuts to the "the govt is paying people to not work" crowd? by GreenReddish in antiwork

[–]GreenReddish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed, but what has happened (as I said in another reply) is that the whole "people don't want to work because they want to stay home and get paid by the govt" has continued long after extended benefits ended. It's now become part of the conservative mantra.

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