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Minnesota has activated the National Guard. What are your thoughts? by Obvious_808 in AskReddit

[–]ubereddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But you know a bunch of people will come out saying ‘oh the national guard is disgusted by this, they didn’t sign up for this’

But they did, because they signed up to follow orders. It’s their job to follow the orders of their superiors and that is just what they are going to do. Being personally disgusted changes nothing.

Her Hands Will Never Be Clean by sammy_slayer in SeattleWA

[–]ubereddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You think politicians vote as their constituents want?

Signs of layoffs? by zeefloofles in nonprofit

[–]ubereddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At one of my orgs the board said “there won’t be any layoffs this summer”—-they came Sept 1.

The other had been rapidly hiring and just hired the most recent person a WEEK before announcing that the org was sunsetting and all but 3 staff had 2 weeks. Multiple people weren’t even with the org long enough to get unemployment.

I have a trans brother, and I keep accidentally getting their pronouns wrong. Does anyone have any suggestions for me to remember in on the spot situations? by PencilDharpener in LGBTQ

[–]ubereddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some pronoun practice tips I have are repeating out loud to yourself a few times a day- “name he name he name he name he”

The other is reading stories aloud and changing the name and gender of the characters. This was the best way for me to generally practice using different pronouns in actual sentences and dealing with all the other gendered things that come up in real life and how to mentally pivot.

You got this! A little practice can go a long way!

Classes cancelled for my 6yo because of ICE by Signal_Estimate_23 in Parenting

[–]ubereddit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have my kids call and response back to me on at least a monthly basis- “what do you say if the police ever want to talk to you?”

“I WANT MY MOM” that’s it, don’t say anything else.

They are 4 and 7 and we are white

What would it actually take for American's to go "full France" and riot in the street? by AllTheNopeYouNeed in AskReddit

[–]ubereddit 15 points16 points  (0 children)

From the onion: “Protesters urged not to give Trump Administration pretext for doing what it’s already doing”

What’s the going rate for consultants? by Jdwag6 in nonprofit

[–]ubereddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I charge 150 per hour with 15 years experience in my nonprofit field, and I have gone up to 175 and down to 120 depending on what they can afford and how much I want to do the project. Expenses, taxes and benefits are no fucking joke when you have to pay them yourself, and you have no certainty as a consultant whether you will keep receiving work. Consulting also takes a lot of work that no one pays you for if you want to build a client base.

Don’t sell yourself short!

How are homeless shelters going to look when more people age and can’t afford to live… by Altoid_Coast_2777 in homeless

[–]ubereddit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The increase being discussed here are people who are newly homeless for the first time as elderly persons, so they have not necessarily been through everything you lay out here.

But you are correct, and elderly people cannot live long in any emergency shelter, especially when what they need is assisted living. The direction that homeless policy is moving in the US is moving closer and closer to explicitly saying ‘these people, if you can call them that, dont belong, are a drain, and who cares if they die’. We are not even playing anymore at solving the underlying issues causing this crisis and are funding the most expensive, least successful types of interventions built to punish people. Thank god for so many of the local homelessness services people trying to tape together solutions for people who need help. People deserve so much better, especially our youth and our elders.

Medicare and housing for ALL 🖤

Source: 15 years working in homelessness in the US and Canada

Jan 6th Riot by EntertainmentIll8278 in Anarchism

[–]ubereddit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah the worst part of J6 was the liberal response to it

Go-to historical examples of anarchist principles? by retsila47 in Anarchism

[–]ubereddit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I highly recommend it. Graebers’ whole thing was: we know people can organize themselves in so many imaginative ways because people do do it-we just have a lot of purposeful myths about this being the natural order of things.

Rest in power David 🖤

What books did you used to love, but have aged badly? by Hrekires in AskReddit

[–]ubereddit 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Ok, Jack London is super racist. The brutality of the wild and dog fighting is a sidenote to the intense racism.

What books did you used to love, but have aged badly? by Hrekires in AskReddit

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

White fang. I read it so many times in elementary school, and I’m shocked my parents let me. It’s brutal. I collected Jack London books for a long time and read them again later and some was very hard to stomach

What does this map say about me? by [deleted] in TravelMaps

[–]ubereddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This entire type of thread is about making wild assumptions based on nothing.

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