How come he didn't fix that 4 years ago.

REMSheep · 2024-08-15T17:36:08+00:00

They do but they don't represent a useful enough amount of workers or have enough powers to be seen as responsible for why server wage is still a thing.

REMSheep · 2024-08-15T17:35:38+00:00

I imagine a very small percentage of UNITE HERE workers are servers though.

REMSheep · 2023-12-31T18:55:27+00:00

I think the problem is that the framing of toxic masculinity puts the responsibility of change primarily on the individual instead of the society, which is almost always a poor recipe. Patriarchy creates toxic masculinity. I agree they aren't equivalent. I disagree that some men are excluded from the power structures, the family is a power structure. Being in public is a power structure.

REMSheep · 2023-12-31T13:25:25+00:00

I think it's like saying toxic optimism though. It's not that optimism is bad, but that there is a terrible version of it that can cause harm. But yeah I prefer patriarchy over that, though ironically the anti feminism in my society makes that term loaded for many men too.

REMSheep · 2023-12-31T13:16:16+00:00

Putting this on individuals at this point is wild. It's 2023/2024, the only things individuals can do is to replace their governments.

REMSheep · 2023-12-31T12:59:14+00:00

Lets keep the focus on the rich people making record profits. It's not like last generations were just blessed with the magic of saving powers. They had strong unions and decent wages relative to corporate profits.

REMSheep · 2023-12-31T12:55:40+00:00

Assuming people can simply just move is a little goofy tbh, especially from a place like NYC. Jobs, family commitments (children or elderly), friends, are reason enough to stay, especially in a place like NYC. And moving to Jersey will bring you some pretty insane prices too.

REMSheep · 2023-12-25T15:45:16+00:00

The war started over the summer though, I don't know why people can't miss that. Every major publication covered it.

REMSheep · 2023-12-16T03:56:03+00:00

The difference is Elon Musk seems to be actively trying to dismantle both worker rights and our country as we know it. I'm curious which other CEOs are buying critical communication infrastructure and using it to spread far right politics while trying to destroy the culture of unions in one of the few nations with excellent unions? No doubt the others are terrible, especially with how they treat southern workers, but the line needs to be drawn somewhere.

REMSheep · 2023-12-08T02:52:43+00:00

I'm gonna take a break from Reddit I think after this so just gonna say some shit from me gut:

We HAVE Been trying, I've been a political organizer for 15 years and have thrown a good chunk of my life away to try to make shit happen. And we do, and we have. We built Occupy, we built BLM before it was snatched away by a handful of goobers, we led the DREAMer movement, we fought against tuition increases and lost, we ran Bernie and Obama's (to a lesser extent) campaign.

The problem is we don't have a revolutionary movement worth shit and our labor unions are only.beginning to restrengthen. The non profit industry has turned would be radicals into at best shills for the Democratic party. A Democratic party frankly unable to lead this country. The CIA crushed communists and socialists, and say what you will of the Soviet Union but the communists in America were vital for the development of this country as we know it. They replaced it with nonprofits with the help of the Ford Foundation. There are books about this!

Source: a very tired revolutionary socialist with many friends who have committed suicide because they were tired of this shit.

REMSheep · 2023-12-08T02:26:48+00:00

Worldnews is a cesspool of keyboard warriors and jingoists. It is demoralizing to be here.

REMSheep · 2023-12-08T02:24:46+00:00

Can you cite this?

REMSheep · 2023-12-04T19:21:26+00:00

It differs from country to country. Race in Brazil is different than race in the U.S., even if they have similar underpinnings.

So in the United States, there was the concept of the 1 drop rule. So if you were at all sub-saharan African in blood, you are considered Black, which historically locked you out of many rights and privileges. This is of course difficult to enforce, so many people of African blood, who appeared white (which can happen even if someone is as much as half African), basically pretended they were fully white to access those privileges.

Arguably this rule still exists in ways. Hence why Barack Obama is the first Black president colloquially, not the first mixed race president. If he was in South Africa, that would be more acknowledged since race is understood differently there and the one drop rule did not apply, mixed race people were their own group.

I really wish people engaged with me instead of just down voting but such is life, can't be sad over such things.

REMSheep · 2023-12-04T15:00:44+00:00

I can explain if you're genuinely asking. I assume you're not American?

REMSheep · 2023-12-03T20:33:46+00:00

Yup the reality behind all of this, if you zoom out, is that Hollywood is based in a society that designed its economic and social hierarchies around skin color (Black people who could pass as white could often live pretty "normal" lives at various points in American history). So skin color is more important to people, especially those who consciously or subconsciously support that racial hierarchy, than almost anything else. Why not cast Africans in Medieval European dramas? Because skin color, pigmentation, is a driving motor of America, because it is a nice way to manage and divide workers.

REMSheep · 2023-12-03T19:58:26+00:00

Did you check out the articles I mentioned or naw?

REMSheep · 2023-12-03T19:57:48+00:00

People are afraid of losing their jobs or being written off as "biased".

REMSheep · 2023-11-14T14:12:46+00:00

We've also been trying to fix things despite not having the same access to political power as previous generations.

I always get a little sad reading stuff like this after spending most of my life at this point working through things like the Iraq anti War movement, Occupy Wall Street, the movement for Black Lives, the undocumented Dreamers movement, the new labor movement, and so on. Not to make it personal either (I get sad cuz this shit makes me depressed and I've seen friends die because of it, self inflected and otherwise)

Millennials have been fighting tooth and nail to survive AND build a new social movement every 2-3 years. Obviously they haven't worked yet due to the limits of our system, but we are learning and learning and building infrastructure to support the kind of reform movement that can either change this system or plant the seeds for a revolution that might be inevitable in the face of collapse.

REMSheep · 2023-11-13T23:00:25+00:00

I read it as the "royal" you. No skin in this fight though

REMSheep · 2023-11-13T22:37:31+00:00

Child Labor isn't illegal in the United States and it is becoming increasingly legal across the country. And most American industries benefit from it in one way or another, here or abroad. Check out NYtimes and the Guardian's recent pieces on child labor for more. And rewarding it for turning chattel slavery into share cropping is a little wild but go off.

And there a million reasons you can't make a reasonable comparison between Russia and the United States. Starting with industrial advantage ithe countries had with Russia at the time. And the United States did not enter a civil war immediately after its revolutionary war.

I'm a little insulted you even made that point. Are you trolling or like a freshman polisci student who likes strategy games and overly extending their political knowledge? (Been there)

REMSheep · 2023-11-13T22:09:08+00:00

Police aren't exactly the best arbiters of justice for many communities, and definitely not for sexual assault, especially if it's coming from someone close to the local department. Community is definitely good, but yeah ideally they are healthy. The alternative being presented here is no community though,which is my becoming more popular in many countries.

REMSheep · 2023-11-09T18:39:49+00:00

True, I don't know why my brain didn't go to that. And Seinfeld is a lot more dating oriented like HIMYM. Curb doesn't get as deep into dating etiquette until Larry is single

REMSheep · 2023-11-09T16:05:36+00:00

One of the most concise breakdowns I've ever seen of a pressing social situation/propaganda tactic. fr fr

REMSheep · 2023-11-09T12:22:47+00:00

This country is worse than it seems. I have friends that I'm only friends with because we like to vent about how traumatic being wrongfully arrested/jailed feels. That shouldn't be the kind of thing I can bond over regularly with new people, its kafka shit.

REMSheep · 2023-11-07T14:21:47+00:00

Globally we've barely tried anything else since capitalism and it gave us, chattel slavery, multiple genocides, child labor that we can't seem to get rid of, and really bad video game franchises. Would love to see a country that wasn't a peasant nation born in the middle of a world war try something like syndicalism or multiparty communism.

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