THANK YOU. And they’re just leaving the tube all in the middle of the counter like they have no designated spot for anything.

Obama has unequivocally called intervention in Libya the worst mistake of his presidency. It was Hillary’s call, not his, and the subsequent descent into anarchy and extremism there was the main reason why by the end of her term as Secretary of State he no longer relied on her counsel regarding the region.

Assad is in a civil war and has wiped out a majority of his country. He’s got swarms of extremist groups wrecking havoc. People are pouring out of the country in droves. I don’t think its stable.

I’m not saying I necessarily agree with any of this - that’s why I said I’m KIND of in the same boat. I guess my main point was that I can’t criticize Trump for doing it just because he’s Trump, when I feel like Obama would have done very much the same thing. If we’re going to criticize it, it should be on the basis…

I shop at both Target and Wal-Mart, so I am 100% not trying to start anything, but Target is not really any better than Wal-Mart when it comes to how they treat their employees. Target doesn’t go so far as to advertise to its employees how to apply for SNAP, but the pressure it puts on its employees to push those…

THISTHISTHISTHIS.

*standing ovation*

Wow, that was the most pretentious, classist statement I’ve read on Jez in I don’t know how long.

I grew up in a rural town - the nearest Walmart was 30 minutes away on the highway. You had to drive 2 hours over a mountain (not always passable in the winter) to get to a mall. There was definitely an element of privilege and wealth for the people who could afford to buy non Walmart clothing.

You disdain for the Walmart customer is amazingly classist.

It’s depressing because poverty is depressing.

THANK YOU for this post. As someone who grew up poor, shopping at Walmart in a poor town, who honestly still has to shop there, I get really tired of the well-off “activists” who decry those who shop there as either people unconcerned with social issues or destitute waifs who need to be pitied.

But you DO need some degree of privileges to boycott Wal-Mart.

Read my whole post, it’s not rich versus poor thing, it’s a rural versus suburb/city thing. I mean if I was poor in the city, I would atleast have the alternative of buying something at Target or a thrift store. Your location is a privilege for you. The fact that you never had buy something at Walmart means you had…

I think it’s more of a luxury if you’re someone who doesnt live in a rural area, I live in NY so I have waaaaay more options than Wal Mart, if I want affordable clothes I go to my local rainbow and buy 3 fashionable shirts for 15$, when I want affordable food I go to Giuntas, it’s not so much about wealth (money is…

“...refuge for people who have completely and utterly given up.”

My partner and I are well-off now, but when I was freelancing and still searching for a permanent position places like Wal-Mart were a godsend. We were living paycheck-to-paycheck and had to make every dollar stretch to its absolute limits.

There it is. This what I’m talking about. Comments like these sound so much like the comments you got in high school if you were caught wearing Walmart clothes. Even though it’s all your parents could afford .

a refuge for people who have completely and utterly given up.

So why aren’t you living on a commune?