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lotrlocked

maya-of-lesbos

cryptid-sighting

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi calls Parler’s face plant in the wake of its deplatforming 'embarrassing,' driven by 'egotism.'

slimescholar

backwardsorbust

i knew this conceptually, but like you dont really KNOW that public school is designed to set you up to be a good worker bee until you're cracking out a report, after hours, at 7 pm on a monday night and it hits you; oh, i'm doing homework, this is why they made me do homework, and suddenly i'm feeling it in my chest. i cant believe i was raised by the state to be an automaton, and worse, i am one of the lucky robots who isn't doing manual labor.

backwardsorbust

ya know what fucking reblog this, we SHOULD be mad

anyroads

I took an entire course in college where we studied the ways the public school system in the U.S. is geared towards institutionalizing the country's population from a young age. It's not just about setting you up to be a good worker bee. The little windows on classroom doors? Gets you used to the idea of always being under supervision. But they also prepare a lot of students, especially those relegated to remedial classes, for the way prison life works and what to expect when they get there. Multiple choice tests, standardized tests, end-of-chapter tests that just ask you to regurgitate everything that was italicized in the text? They train you to repeat the ideas given to you and mechanize your thinking, and prevent you developing critical thinking skills. I could write more about this when I get my old college texts from this class (they're in storage and I can't access them during covid), but basically the U.S. public school system is geared towards churning out both middle class worker drones AND working class prison inmates. There is a direct relationship between the public school system and the prison industrial complex.

socialistexan

Europeans: “I don’t understand you Americans, if your working conditions, wages, and social safety net are so bad, why do you not simply unionize or strike?”

Americans:

afloweroutofstone

Also there’s literally so many restrictions on unions and strikes at this point that striking on any significant scale is nearly de facto illegal

anarchopuppy

Remember, folks: they wouldn’t be so afraid of it if it didn’t work. The IWW will give you the support and resources you need to organize

mysharona1987

firebirdeternal

Wages in the US have become wildly, fantastically unshackled from the costs of doing business, and they’ve been that way for decades. We’ve been told our entire lives that the world is such a way, and that it’s the Natural Normal result of things working the way they Have to work.

It’s a lie. It’s been a lie the entire time. They just Started Lying one day and didn’t stop until everyone who knew better died, gave up, or got their voice drowned out in all the noise.

only-trash-can

You can’t tell me a combo at any fast food restaurant hasn’t doubled in price since the 90’s. Guess how much minimum wage has increased....

rottenbrainstuff

1) if food prices go up if wages go up, complain about CEOs not taking the cut, not the workers who need the money to pay their rent

2) smash this idiot idea that it’s only high school kids working minimum wage jobs: who do you think is making you your Starbucks at 12 pm? The highschool kids are all in highschool, idiot. At my retail store where people make minimum wage, we have no staff under 25 years old right now, about half the staff have families, they are all making minimum wage.

3) these people are providing you goods and services that are important and you want. You want a burrito. You want a coffee. Why on earth should the people providing us essential services not make enough money to pay their rent and their bills? Explain to me why this group of people deserves to live in poverty?

4) these jobs are not “unskilled” as in they’re easy to do and any asshole could do them. They are working harder than any prick sitting in an office chair all day.

5) Canada has raised its minimum wage. My province has had a minimum wage of $15 per hour for four years. Burritos do not cost $30 here, no one has gone out of business because they can’t afford to pay their workers anymore. What HAS happened is that I can now afford to live with my kids in my own apparent and not have to share it with my sister and her kids, I can afford to actually buy things, I can afford to cook healthy food and replace my shoes when they fall apart. The extra money I am making goes straight back into the local economy. My health and the health of my kids will be better and we will cost our government less. Don’t be a fucking idiot.

Fuck every single asshole who ever shits on minimum wage workers, ESPECIALLY these days after the pandemic when we all screamed about wanting to go out and get a coffee during lockdown. Fuck every single one of you with a rusty rake.

mybrainrots

Reblogging for rottenbrainstuff’s excellent response.

yourladyindank

🤔🤔🤔

creativerogues

1d20 Dark Secrets Your D&D Character Would Prefer To Keep Private...

I have a Child I didn’t raise.

I disposed of a Dagger that may have been evidence in a Murder.

I once sold out a friend for 100 Gold Pieces.

I have a mysterious illness I keep hidden from sight.

I’m addicted to Potions of all magical varieties.

I put my trust and faith in a Deity that is overtly evil.

I am writing a biography of my life, but embellishing it to make myself sound more heroic.

I’m technically not alive.

I lost several minor appendages due a gambling addition fuelled by a local moneylending gang.

I’ve been exiled twice under different names.

I’m nothing but a construct made from the flesh of a (in)famous local noble.

I was forced to watch my family’s execution.

I’m the reincarnation of a legendary warrior, I swear!

I am the only surviving member of my previous adventuring party.

I have an irrational fear of cats.

I carry the skull of my best friend.

I hate the monarchy.

I fear that the Party will try to kill me if I leave or speak out of turn.

I was once imprisoned for my religious beliefs, but escaped under the cover of darkness.

I was raised as a hostage of my family’s enemies after my parents refused to pay the ransom.

#dnd #dnd 5e

otatma

headspace-hotel

You can identify a fake redneck by their passionate support of “blue lives matter.” Real rednecks have been in at least one physical fight and/or high-speed chase with police officers and would do it again

runyons6

axolola

why would you leave this in the tags, your gramps is a Legend

wingdingsandbrokenstrings

true red necks fought for OSHA, unions and labor rights

saltysalmonella

Ive seen too many “but there are two sides” whiners around - so here’s my two cents on that.

lesboevils

on one hand i don’t believe in really restricting media from my children. i understand the importance of varied intake with media. that being said i will not allow my children to watch paw patrol. it’s police propaganda.

davidalleynes

lesboevils

The Misogyny and Authoritarianism of ‘Paw Patrol’

davidalleynes

not to beat a dead pig but i just want my followers to know that while yes, this is funny in the sense that we live in a farcical dystopia, paw patrol is one of the most pro-cop, pro-surveillance state shows i’ve seen since like, 24

davidalleynes

also now they have a tracking puppy named tracker and he’s a chihuaha and lives in the jungle and he uses gratuitious spanish