This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see.
Reminder: this is how you steal an election.
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This is the best explanation of gerrymandering you will ever see.
Reminder: this is how you steal an election.
The Rigging of the American Market
Much of the national debate about widening inequality focuses on whether and how much to tax the rich and redistribute their income downward.
But this debate ignores the upward redistributions going on every day, from the rest of us to the rich. These redistributions are hidden inside the market.
The only way to stop them is to prevent big corporations and Wall Street banks from rigging the market.
For example, Americans pay more for pharmaceuticals than do the citizens of any other developed nation.
Thatâs partly because itâs perfectly legal in the U.S. (but not in most other nations) for the makers of branded drugs to pay the makers of generic drugs to delay introducing cheaper unbranded equivalents, after patents on the brands have expired.
This costs you and me an estimated $3.5 billion a year â a hidden upward redistribution of our incomes to Pfizer, Merck, and other big proprietary drug companies, their executives, and major shareholders. Â
We also pay more for Internet service than do the inhabitants of any other developed nation.
The average cable bill in the United States rose 5 percent in 2012 (the latest year available), nearly triple the rate of inflation.
Why? Because 80 percent of us have no choice of Internet service provider, which allows them to charge us more.
Internet service here costs 3 and-a-half times more than it does in France, for example, where the typical customer can choose between 7 providers. Â
And U.S. cable companies are intent on keeping their monopoly.
Itâs another hidden upward distribution â from us to Comcast, Verizon, or another giant cable company, its executives and major shareholders.
Likewise, the interest we pay on home mortgages or college loans is higher than it would be if the big banks that now dominate the financial industry had to work harder to get our business.
As recently as 2000, Americaâs five largest banks held 25 percent of all U.S. banking assets. Now they hold 44 percent â which gives them a lock on many such loans.
If we canât repay, forget using bankruptcy. Donald Trump can go bankrupt four times and walk away from his debts, but the bankruptcy code doesnât allow homeowners or graduates to reorganize unmanageable debts.
So beleaguered homeowners and graduates donât have any bargaining leverage with creditors â exactly what the financial industry wants. Â
The net result: another hidden upward redistribution â this one, from us to the big banks, their executives, and major shareholders.
Some of these upward redistributions seem to defy gravity. Why have average domestic airfares risen 2.5% over the past, and are now at their the highest level since the government began tracking them in 1995 â while fuel prices, the largest single cost for the airlines, have plummeted?
Because America went from nine major carriers ten years ago to just four now. Many airports are now served by one or two.
This makes it easy for airlines to coordinate their fares and keep them high â resulting in another upward redistribution.
Why have food prices been rising faster than inflation, while crop prices are now at a six-year low?
Because the giant corporations that process food have the power to raise prices. Four food companies control 82 percent of beef packing, 85 percent of soybean processing, 63 percent of pork packing, and 53 percent of chicken processing.Â
Result: A redistribution from average consumers to Big Agriculture.
Finally, why do you suppose health insurance is costing us more, and co-payments and deductibles are rising?
One reason is big insurers are consolidating into giants with the power to raise prices. They say these combinations make their companies more efficient, but they really just give them power to charge more.
Health insurers are hiking rates 20 to 40 percent next year, and their stock values are skyrocketing (the Standard & Poorâs 500 Managed Health Care Index recently hit its highest level in more than twenty years.)
Add it up â the extra money weâre paying for pharmaceuticals, Internet communications, home mortgages, student loans, airline tickets, food, and health insurance â and you get a hefty portion of the average familyâs budget.
Democrats and Republicans spend endless time battling over how much to tax the rich and then redistribute the money downward.
But if we didnât have so much upward redistribution inside the market, we wouldnât need as much downward redistribution through taxes and transfer payments.
Yet as long as the big corporations, Wall Street banks, their top executives and wealthy shareholders have the political power to do so, theyâll keep redistributing much of the nationâs income upward to themselves.
Which is why the rest of us must gain political power to stop the collusion, bust up the monopolies, and put an end to the rigging of the American market.
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Another woman utterly failed by our societyâs devaluation of womenâs reproductive health. We canât wait around for male doctors to decide what we need to know. This is why we need to take control and educate ourselves about our own bodies.
and hereâs some comments i saw under the post. why is this a pattern?? why is this a recurring theme?? why is this information not common knowledge? what the fuck are doctors doing??
This is news to me so letâs share it so people will know!
Gross tmi: but i passed a pretty big clot after having my daughter. It was about the size of a baseball. It actually hurt worse because while 15 hours of labor opened my cervix, i passed the clot in 30 minutes. I knew it was a possibility because of my midwife and reading, but everyone Ive told after this (mostly other pregnant women) were shocked that this could happen.
In our culture, itâs much more common to do deep research about what family cars we want to buy than we do about childbirth when we âre pregnant.
Tmi: I passed a huge clot after birth in the bathroom of my hospital room and called the nurse sobbing because I didnât know it was normal. She treated me like an idiot, but NO ONE told me it was a possibility. And the pain associated with healing for the first couple of weeks after birth was worse than the labor imo. Again, I had no idea. They didnât tell me a thing besides âsitz bath regularly and change your pads.â Before discharging me from the hospital.
I was most definitely told about this in school. Fucking hell, 4-6 weeks of bleeding? My periods were/are bad enough, why the hell donât we get told this?
I didnât know it could last so long, wtf? Is the bleeding inevitable after birth?Â
Bleeding is inevitable after birth - your uterine wall is shedding a fuck ton of lining. It can last from three to six weeks (possible longer) and it tapers off.
More TMI - I passed a MASSIVE clot after my fourth birth. At this point I already knew this could happen - itâs normal. What I DIDNâT know, was that I had caused it.
My post birth contractions were so bad after the birth that it felt like full transition labor. And they donât give you anything for the pain. So I used a hot water bottle, without the nurses knowing, and it caused me to bleed even more. I lost so much blood that by the first time they sat me up to go to the bathroom, I fainted. It took three more tries until I could sit up.
Anyway, thatâs not the point. The point is, the next morning I passed a clot the SIZE OF ANOTHER PLACENTA I KID YOU NOT, and I know what is and is not normal. So I called for the nurse and through the door told her I had passed a huge clot, and her response was - âItâs not big. I know what big is.â She hadnât even looked. So I rolled my eyes and said, âYeah, no. Itâs big, Iâm telling you.â
So, sounding extremely put upon, she asked me to open the door. I did, and after a long pause she goes, âOkay, yeah, thatâs a little big.â
YOU DONâT SAY.
The point Iâm trying to get across is that this shit is so common - women not knowing this stuff is so expected, and it keeps getting reinforced. People donât expect you to know anything, donât teach you anything, and then make you feel like youâre totally ignorant and a burden for your lack of knowledge when THEY WONâT SHARE.
Fucking learn EVERYTHING you can when it comes to childbirth, girls. It is the single most empowering thing you can do for yourself. And if you missed something, thatâs okay. But the more knowledge you arm yourself with, the more in control of your situation youâll be.
A few post partum tips:
DONâT use a hot water bottle - lol.
ONLY pads - NO tampons. Tampons can cause severe infection, not to mention, you probably donât want to be shoving anything up there any time soon.
If youâve had stitches, sitz baths DO help relieve the pain. Another great pain reliever? Dampen some pads and freeze them. Let one thaw slightly and use it on top of another pad. This will help with the pain as well as reduce swelling. Change the pad out as soon as itâs thawed completely. This REALLY helps on the first couple days after giving birth.
If you pass a clot, donât sweat it. Even the one I passed, which was fucking massive, just required that we keep an eye out to make sure it didnât happen again. If it does, talk to your doctor.
Take a pain killer half an hour before nursing. Because YES - your uterus is contracting after you give birth, to get back to its original size, and nursing causes much stronger contractions. Taking nursing-safe painkillers wonât prevent the pain, but it will reduce it.Â
Buy disposable underwear for the first few days after birth. They will get VERY dirty. Or use your ratty old pairs that youâre ready to get rid of. Double up on pads - line them all the way up your ass-crack. I am so serious. And wear dark pants.
Pee in the shower. You do NOT want to wipe down there right after birth because ow. Peeing in the shower lets you just rinse afterwards. Especially if youâve had stitches, peeing in the shower, with the shower-head rinsing AS you go, keeps stinging to a minimum. And fuck everyone else - keep on peeing in the shower until you feel ready to move back to toilet paper. Middle of the night and need to pee? Get your pants off - get in the shower and just go.
This is just a few things, but PLEASE feel free to send me an ask if you have any questions about ANYTHING childbirth/pregnancy/nursing related. I have four incredible kids. Iâve done it all - c-section, vacuume birth, episiotimy, stitches, with an epidural, without an epidural. Iâm here.
And this is precisely why it pisses me the hell off when people say âYou need to be your own health advocate.â Um, yeah, okay, but... that doesnât make it okay that doctors/nurses withhold information, or treat you like you should know something you have no way of even knowing might be a possibility, or - when you do know something - they get annoyed because you appear to be doing their job for them, which you are.
I love that there are people out there willing to tell you the basic truth about things and allow you to ask them questions about their experiences. You people rock the world!