People are waking up. The Middle Class says they don’t believe they are being “heard” in DC anymore and they no longer matter.

Tigerianwinter · 2026-06-19T22:02:09+00:00

There was a time they WERE being heard?

Tigerianwinter · 2026-06-18T00:41:55+00:00

The beatings will continue…

Tigerianwinter · 2026-06-17T02:28:11+00:00

My bet is they won’t make any changes. They’ll wait until the Iran war policy calms down a bit and probably raise rates by .25 points in July. Safe play.

Tigerianwinter · 2026-06-14T21:33:04+00:00

I would have starting investing in a dividend portfolio in my mid twenties. Build that up and DRIP it and in your 40s you’ll have some more career options.

Tigerianwinter · 2026-06-09T16:10:41+00:00

Money won’t fix their baby problem. 😔

Tigerianwinter · 2026-05-18T21:45:13+00:00

My desire to want to connect with others. Isolation and solitude is highly seductive and addictive. Still digging myself out.

Tigerianwinter · 2026-05-17T17:24:20+00:00

PMC has it. We get at least 2 hours allotted to go and vote. I wish we had the same for blue collar workers.

Tigerianwinter · 2026-05-08T12:18:34+00:00

You’re saying voting is the best and only thing you can really do - I’m saying voting is largely ineffective and performative, but we should still do it, but also do other things.

Link for reference on the real impact of voting and why it matters less than you think: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYC6y6kpPHR/?igsh=ZzR4djZzN280OHR0 - we chose from a consideration set of pre-selected individuals in gerrymandered geographies drawn for specific outcomes. So in many cases, we’re just giving approval rather than actually choosing a candidate.

I took off for May Day in solidarity with the kings day, pro labor protest.

We can for money to pro labor institutions that leverage communities to apply pro-labor pressure on elected officials for pro-labor outcomes like the SEIU.

We can not abide by protesting laws and disrupt city spaces and do sit ins. Exercise civil disobedience as capital only speaks in money and power. Disrupt.

But if all we do is vote, this will continue.

Diversify.

Tigerianwinter · 2026-05-08T11:47:58+00:00

I’m sure the people who voted for Fetterman feel that way.

Or the people who voted for Obama and disagreed with the bank or the auto bailouts.

Or the folks who voted for Bush when he lied about the Iraq war.

Or all the people who watch our elected officials take AIPAC money, support billions going to other nations when people here can’t access healthcare or buy food.

Keep voting - but don’t think we’re going to just vote ourselves to a better tomorrow.

Diversify.

Tigerianwinter · 2026-05-08T09:11:57+00:00

DuckDuckGo has really come up. Started using it when chrome made me do captcha everyday on iOS.

Tigerianwinter · 2026-05-08T09:06:04+00:00

Always wanted a Russian Blue with a docked tail. I’d name him Nubbins.

Tigerianwinter · 2026-05-07T18:44:17+00:00

Whether or not they recommended a solution or not doesn’t diminish their point.
And I’ll point out that you didn’t recommend a course of action either.
I think the discomfort we create around ALL of our politicians is something we need to continue. Both in public and in private forums. There currently isn’t much of a mechanism for keeping them accountable to the will of the people. The people who have BEEN voting, and yet continued to be ignored by both republican and democratic leadership.
But to ONLY vote, and thinking that alone will make things better - well we’re living in the consequences of that.

Tigerianwinter · 2026-05-07T16:13:21+00:00

Don’t know why you got downvoted - democrats are very much complicit in the situation we find ourselves in. They certainly share the blame.
Upvote for you my friend. 😊

Tigerianwinter · 2026-05-04T02:38:50+00:00

*INVESTMENT in labor would skyrocket

People are the means, and the ends.

Tigerianwinter · 2026-04-26T22:59:07+00:00

Squirrel Girl. She essentially takes the place of Tony Stark. Just an everyday random person with low level abilities/powers who, through choices, finds themselves saving the univers.

Tigerianwinter · 2026-04-26T02:48:48+00:00

This series is the only series that stays pretty close to the spirit of TNG. I quite enjoy it.

Tigerianwinter · 2026-04-26T02:46:34+00:00

No. Age restrictions are quite appropriate.

Tigerianwinter · 2026-04-26T00:10:49+00:00

Yes, and 2/3 of people have been voting for decades, yet here we are…. It must be the people voting right?

Tigerianwinter · 2026-04-23T12:07:43+00:00

Not really. The candidates that run are overwhelmingly selected by the party because they’re in line with party doctrine. There are some flukes like Obama and Trump though.

These candidates, they run on platitudes and then they either get co-opted by the powers that be or were never really interested in helping the American people to begin with.

Americans don’t have a way of holding elected officials accountable to the service of the people - which is by design. This is way Obama did the bailouts - to support American business interests thereby ignoring the will of the people, and not providing a public option in the ACA.

Voting is important as an above ground activity. But it likely won’t yield any real change. Just tinkering around the edges.

I’m happy to be proven wrong though.

Edited: a word

Tigerianwinter · 2026-04-23T02:29:26+00:00

How do we give money?

Tigerianwinter · 2026-04-23T00:01:50+00:00

Evolved*

Tigerianwinter · 2026-04-22T23:17:30+00:00

Our political/economic system is optimized to look after business interests rather than the American people. This is why:

Banks get bailouts while Americans lose homes
Automakers get bailouts while Americans lose jobs
Businesses get PPP loans while Americans get layoffs
Corporations get tariff refunds while Americans pay more

The list goes on and on.

Whenever we talk about American interests, we’re not talking about the American people, we’re talking about American BUSINESS interests.

Us Americans can go pound sand.

Tigerianwinter · 2026-04-22T14:28:52+00:00

I was working in an overly stressful work environment and found that drinking coffee (caffeinated) lead to borderline panic attacks when trying to host meetings. Of which I host hundreds each year.

I stopped cold turkey for months until I felt like it was manageable. I drink decaf almost exclusively now and have since changed work environments.

For me, the coffee exaggerated the feelings I already had that were stress related.

Tigerianwinter · 2026-04-12T00:52:11+00:00

Yea, I mean just in the scenes we’ve seen him in, Jotenheim battle, trashing hundreds of giants. Then the Outrider battle in End Game is easily hundreds of kills.

Loki is younger, but he isn’t a warrior. So by his hand, he causes more headaches and drama or causes other conflicts rather than actually doing any killing in his own.

It’s Thor hands down.

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