So, when I was in kindergarten, I wasn’t allowed to carry an umbrella on the bus.

Here’s the proof that the rich and the corporations they represent are insane:

Their wealth is based on consumerism. They write and lobby for laws and regulations that make it more difficult for consumers to exist. They don’t want to raise wages because people are buying from them less for some mysterious reason.

Or roads that aren’t 75% pothole.

Not to mention all those layers of middle management were ruthlessly stripped out during the “lean, mean” 90s during the endless corporate buyouts, all of which profited—guess who?

I also think poor people are socialized to think they’re not good enough to deserve a living wage.

GAH I’m so sick of that line of reasoning. “I DON’T GET WHAT SHOULD BE BASIC WORKER RIGHT, WHY SHOULD YOU?”

YES. My husband made this argument (because he was raised by bootstrappers), and I pointed out that there are ALWAYS a finite number of upper-level positions. Some people simply don’t move up due to lacking skills, discrimination, or just plain old bad luck.

It would be nice to have bridges that didn’t just keep falling the fuck down.

I have heard that so many times. The best argument against it that I have heard is simply, “If you think fast food workers [or anyone really] shouldn’t get $15 an hour because you don’t get paid that much then guess what? You’re probably being underpaid, too!”

I’m in that boat with ya. I really don’t get why people who make close to $15/hr or just above it give so much of a damn if other people besides themselves can actually buy food and pay bills without counting value of food by ounces/calorie ratios. I work an office job, have an MA, and I’ve been brute force applying…

Another argument to add to those who’ve already replied: Some jobs don’t need to be paid a living wage! They’re held by teens / retirees / ex-house-spouses / college students looking for a few extra bucks!

I’m calling BS on that right now, no way some limp-dicked meat bag like McKinley was known to the Egyptians. The awesomeness that is the time travelling cyborg known as Theodore Roosevelt is a different story altogether.

20th and 21st = centuries! Don’t you even math?

I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that was a clumsily-executed “Australians say ‘mate’ all the time” joke.

That requires small amounts of critical thinking, not something the religious right is noted for.

The only good thing McKinley gave us was Teddy Roosevelt.

ask those people if they knew who he was before last week

Do they mean “Kenyan” as in “Swahili”? Because according to good old (FUCKING FREE, EASY TO FIND) Google Translate, black power = nguvu nyeusi.

I imagine this is what it’s like to work at Snopes.

I haven’t seen this one, but the favorite comment I saw on Facebook included this line: