Paying your dues is bullshit. I work for a non-profit organization who when I 1st got here gave me the “Work hard and you’ll be rewarded” speech which I bought into like some cultist at the initiation ceremony. I’ve put in long hours with little pay only to get a slight glimpse at a carrot every time I consider…

I think we need to take the moral high ground on an issue like this and ask ourselves, how can we leverage this effectively so that Ernie Grunfeld gets fucking fired?

I would say I’m surprised Dwight has stayed silent and not tried to refute these claims, but he’s always been hesitant to defend and rebound in big moments.

Man, former journalist here (15 years in the industry before I left) and your comment is like my early life being read back to me. I hung in there and eventually landed at a mid-tier paper... newsroom of 30 reporters (before they started cutting). I left last year ... I just couldn’t handle the endless depression of…

Tech is much the same. They act like they are doing you a favor to overwork and underpay you. Which is a drag, because it wasn’t always like that.

I was in a very similar job and situation to you (long hours on the beat for little pay), and ended up leaving both the job and the industry altogether at 34. I’m glad to be able to afford life in expensive-ass NYC now, but there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t feel wistful about my old career. Even several year…

I feel for you. I started out in journalism during college but a hiring freeze dashed any hopes of staying with the company full-time—where I could make food-stamp-level wages AND not even be able to afford the health insurance plan. Now I’m squarely in my mid-30s, working in medical writing....but at a non-profit…

On the subject of Paying your Dues,

Absolutely.  My hope for AOC and all other progressives is to continue to put pressure on on the establishment...almost as much as putting pressure on Trump.  Centrists have polluted the party and need a kick squarely in the ass.

AOC stands in stark contrast to the phony aesthetic of Donald Trump; one of the working class who has seen (and still experiences!) their struggles first hand, versus someone who never has, and whos claim to speak for them is just one of many lies he tells all the time. They’ll tell us Rump speaks for the real america,…

It’s almost like you’re illustrating the point of this article.

Her constituents did that already.

“-functions much in the same way flat-screen televisions and nice sneakers show up in conservative rhetoric about people on Medicaid or receiving food stamps.”

♫♫ I’m not whiiiitteeeete ♫♫

You mean like the years 2008-2016? Obamacare came from a Republican think tank and was first implemented in MA by Mitt Romney, and was still described as an insane Communist socialist government overstep by the right. It was centrism defined, and it should have been the most bipartisan thing imaginable, but the center …

That’s not fair. Hillary would check the polls first and then pee on you three weeks later. 

Hey man, I freely admit that I’ve undergone my own evolution. Obama seemed fine to me for the most part. And that’s what I’m talking about - he wasn’t actually fine, and the state of affairs was and is not fine either.

One of the more discouraging aspects of the last few years, and there have been many, is finding out how many of my friends are just content to direct their hatred towards Trump and Trump alone, and just yearn for the Obama years of a cool dude being in charge even as he double-tapped weddings in Yemen and deported…

Fox sat on their own balls?

Yeah this here. This is the reason why people have a difficult time trusting centrist and right-wing Democrats. Because they insist on fronting candidates like this and fighting tooth and nail to defend them instead of acknowledging reality and cutting bait. How is this person going to reasonably govern any…