Congress gave you money to do a job, it’s not a suggestion, dipshit.

Same, when the rachet effect going on has been so effective on the other side it no longer behooves us to “be better” than to flip the direction and do the same by the same methods. Righteousness is all well and good until it becomes part of your opponents strategy to take advantage of you.

How is it a good approach to formally mandate their cowardice on messaging? If something isn’t popular it has literally nothing to do with whether it’s correct. Also, we can all just look and see that billionaires and Israel are unpopular, yet they never concede those talking points. Why is it that they’d abandon the underprivileged minorities but not the power centers if it’s not all entirely about consolidating their power? That’s their real agenda and this only memorializes it.

Can you imagine a hero in a movie having these beliefs? It’s pathetic that they view politics as such a passive endeavor at a moment where we need activism more than ever.

If the court was doing their job they would have ruled this unconstitutional in the first place. A tariff is a tax, the executive explicitly does not get that power

They do always seem to have something up their ass, makes sense.

NYT using neutral speak and missing important context, as always. Anything to cover for those in power.

On the bright side at least their health insurance extends during furloughs up to a year.

It’s important to be sympathetic but not capitulative imo.

Wormtongue Miller sure had an easy time with whatever’s left.

I look forward to the dam breaking on NC gerrymandering. They will never hold power again.

The point as I understand it is that they’re allowing other unions to set their contract expiration to the same date, which increases the potential for pain during their next negotiations and makes for a quasi general strike across all unions who participated. It’s a pretty good idea all in all.

Also, it’s complicated who Sean Fain aligns with. He’s pro-tariff and praised Trump for incentivizing cars to be made in the US, although it seems like that’s the extent of it, and I wonder how he feels about it now that it’s been fully unmasked to just be market manipulation by Trump’s circle of billionaires. Sean’s speech still hit most of the socialist talking points of pro labor even though it was to a bunch of Republican donors, leading to the funniest and most revealing awkward silences after sections about how the working class is who provides all of the value in an economy.

I’m dubious that a general strike is possible in the US. All of the other countries that have had massive strikes affecting large chunks of the market were driven by large unions. Our unions don’t have that sort of sway and they rarely help others to maximize their diminishing bargaining power with the ongoing degradation of workers rights. Importantly this also happens on the supply side, the consumer side will just buy it tomorrow instead usually. A day of no productivity has much bigger consequences.

That being said, I’ll definitely participate.

I don’t see her gaining prominence in the most misogynistic movement in America. She’s also such a bad actor she can’t even pretend to care about her husband’s death convincingly, “Don’t forget to buy the ‘my husband was murdered’ merch on the way out.”

Not just the poors, he’s a eugenicist, and I’m pretty sure he’d need a muzzle in the same room as Anthony Fauci… well more than he does normally.

Isn’t it kinda hard for LLMs to be programmed to not just point them towards leftism in that case? Right wing ideology isn’t based in established truths, it’s based on whatever the individual thinks at a given time subject to radical change. Leftism having consistency that science and academia offer means it is the obvious citation for most political facts if the model was going to choose an angle. Exception perhaps being anticommunism since it’s highly established in history books as justification for the Korean and Vietnam wars.

DHS trying to repair their reputation with local police departments one dead dog at a time.

Idk about you, but if my neighbor had a bunch of guns and threatened to shoot me if I ever got guns, I’d definitely secretly obtain guns.

These people are not equivalent at all lol

Because both parties have either been pushing narratives to make these actions sound reasonable or capitulating and staying silent as the other party does. This is why politicians who stand in opposition to constituents when they’re propagandized into the wrong position are the only ones with any chance of getting us out of this.

This you?