spriteblood

The issue is voters talk about how regular people are doing, while politicians talk about “the economy” which is rich people and business…

This, 100%.

Ask some person on the street how their stock portfolio is looking, and they’ll probably be like “The F are you talking about???”

Ask the same person about the cost of groceries, and they’ll have a rant locked and loaded about why a 12 pack of soda costs $10 now.

When people respond to these surveys, they are taking their experiences with them, and most of us are seeing expensive gas, expensive groceries, expensive housing, and jobs that don’t pay enough to live. People couldn’t afford to live on $8 an hour a decade ago, and now everything costs more.

This has downstream effects in that it makes it harder to switch jobs because you cant wait two weeks for your new job to kick in - much less afford to take off work to go to an interview. You can’t move to a city with more opportunities because cities are more expensive and you can’t even afford to save up enough to make the move because you’re paycheck to paycheck. Jobs paying “market rate” for wages which is dragged down because the system keeps people desperate enough to work for cheap.

These are people who have had to live with the boot of the economy on their necks for a long time. And while politicians can talk about all the great jobs out there and how amazing the economy is, for real people that boot is just stepping down harder. It’s no wonder they blame leadership when this is their experience with this economy.

Trust him, he’s an expert on not paying bills.

But deliberately misunderstanding the term antisemitism is also quite frustrating.

Given how the term is broadly understood in modern usage, I wouldn’t say the players are misunderstanding it; I think it’s more a question of misidentifying where the pushback is actually coming from.

And I am sympathetic, given all the reasons both modern and historical that might make it easy to infer antisemitism. But starting there shuts out any possibility for nuance or discussion or learning.

What frustrates me is how hard it is to get people out of that mindset - of taking things other people are communicating and adding one’s own assumptions on where they’re coming from. You have to be able to recognize how your behavior is limiting your ability to empathize and grow, and that kind of change can be so challenging.

It feels like an uphill battle, but positive change doesn’t happen overnight.

I’m no linguist, but aren’t Palestinian people also under the umbrella of Semites? Like, by definition?

With horror movies, you at least have that layer of knowing it’s not real. Seeing the real horrors of mankind without that to protect you is truly disturbing.

Sure, but only if you count stealing nudes off her underage daughter’s phone then keeping the child porn in her possession for an undetermined amount of time until she found a spiteful enough reason to tweet them out to her 3.5 million followers being abusive.

I’m not one to tee off on people who show growth and empathy.

Pretty sure Moses wasn’t the one in charge of Egypt in Exodus.

Maybe he should stop reading his weekly report about his son’s masturbation habits and open a Bible.

I guess when they call themselves the party of law and order they’re talking about the TV show???

That’s total number of employees for the company at large, including dozens of subsidiaries, their various product teams, AWS (which is reportedly in the ballpark of 130k), Prime Video, marketing, and all other departments.

Do you have a breakdown of how many of those are actually factory workers?

Updated headline:
Does violate gag order, justice system to do nothing about it because rules don’t apply to the wealthy

He’s just calling Pressley a poser because the OG KKK votes Republican.

The US government were also months late to handling COVID, and the conservative leadership in power was actively demonizing safety protocols such as masks, vaccines, social distancing, etc not to mention their own Center for Disease Control, to the point that a fair percentage of the population is distrustful of medical science and unwilling to consider those safety protocols.

A lot of the news media (left and right) focused on things like getting people back to work in spite of the ongoing pandemic so it really forced the narrative away from collective safety and survival into economic prioritization and the illusion of normalcy.

A bit misleading, though I get your point. 2/3 of people who file for bankruptcy have medical debt, not that the medical debt was the cause of the bankruptcy.

Your assessment of this is incorrect.

The study I was referencing reports on people who specify that medical-related financial stress contributed directly to their bankruptcy. This was broken down by medical expenses and medical issues leading to loss of income - with medical expenses being the higher percentage at ~60%, and the combined percentage sitting between 65-70% (with overlap in responses).

But that costs money.

It’s worth noting that a lot of solutions actually save money.

For example, universal healthcare is a big issue in the US. Around 2/3 of all bankruptcies are from medical debt. People ration lifesaving medication like insulin because of how prohibitively expensive it is. GoFundMe is of the largest healthcare providers in the country, and over 1/3 of all campaigns are for medical expenses.

They’ve created a system where it’s prohibitively expensive to seek necessary medical care, and is built on the foundational acceptance that people need to die and suffer for it to function as intended.

Yet a universal healthcare system is projected to cost the US an estimated ~13% less than they are paying.

Taking into account both the costs of coverage expansion as well as savings that would be achieved through the MAA, we calculate that a single-payer, universal healthcare system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national healthcare expenditure, equivalent to over $450 billion annually.

I see it as a clever way to circumvent the dumb bureaucracy BS that might otherwise inhibit their ability to protect them.

They could try to rework the system in place, and spend however many months or years working through that process, or they could slap some duct tape on there in the meantime AND look to rework the system.

There’s also a shockingly high failure rate for modes of state execution, and a lot of gross details surrounding it as a method of punishment. Jacob Geller did a great and disturbing video about it:

https://youtu.be/eirR4FHY2YY

How is Trump not the embodiment of Christian values? Last time I checked, the Bible didn’t have any kind of rules about adultery, coveting, stealing, bearing false witness, or having graven images of yourself worshipped by a cult-like fanbase.

And I guarantee you I can go toe-to-toe with the majority of these Christians on Bible knowledge and the teachings of Jesus.