They have (multiple) literal billions, they have a playbook, and they’ve been at this for awhile. Both things have to be done. IDK if you have children in school or have turned on your television this morning, but schoolkids are doing a walkout that could be conceived of as phase II of what the Parkland kids started —…
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On a basic level, this isn’t about Tamika Mallory or Farrakhan, it is about who in the black leadership class supports Israel or not - it’s about who controls black politics etc. If it was solely about antisemitism Rev Billy Graham’s body would not be allowed to rest in the capital’s rotunda, and people like Rev John…
LOL....Florida does make you wonder. I’m still simmering over Election 2000 that brought us Fuzzy Math 43 which led to the further destabilization of the Middle East.
I’m thinking Bugs could have started sawing a couple of states further north…
It’s criminal.
That’s particularly true of the market for unskilled labor. People need to eat, they need shelter - they aren’t in a position to say no. So we get Amazon employees on SNAP, afraid to report their work-related injuries in case they get sent home and lose pay. There’s no reason for it, we have all the tools we need to…
I agree. Thats why Republicans want to fix the system by taxing the poor and giving to the rich.
Luxembourg: The Delaware of Europe.
The problem is much larger than corporate boards staffed with CEOs giving each other raises. The problem is that markets are not inherently just. If we want them to operate in a just fashion we have to manage them accordingly. That responsibility has been abdicated and a few people (like Jeff Bezos) have reaped huge…
Congrats, you just bummed me the hell out. Hell, Bezos could help by reviewing wages at Amazon blue collar facilities and either increase wages or put that money into retirement plans that workers could keep/borrow off of if things go bad for them individually. That said... aren’t they already going to go full evil…
Corporate cronyism =/= free market. Huge difference there.
What if he did?
Indeed, “industry disruption” is the techy marketing term for, “If we ignore labor, tax, and whatever other laws we feel like, business is more profitable for us and the shareholders.”
Bezos and his peers have legalized theft. They are a drain on our society and we will be a Third World nation if they aren’t stopped.
I agree with every single point you’ve made here.
Those would be the same moderate rights that the Clinton campaign catered to while maligning the left? A winning strategy, to be sure.
Fantasies can offer us visions and goals, but they can’t function as blueprints.
The whole of our current world is based on the colonialism of Western European countries and the economic systems they set up. Before being invaded, native cultures had, surprise!, their own values systems, economics, and political structures. Calling Wakanda’s society “unrealistic” shows how thoroughly entrenched…
Trump has pushed our country to the breaking point. We can take some solace that he did not win the popular vote and that there are actually more sane than insane people voting.