Abolish Tesla.
Just putting this out here.
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Abolish Tesla.
Just putting this out here.
Knowledge is empowering
you can literally get gender changers for like $3
And yes, that's literally what they're called.
Reblog if you got a gender changer for like $3
Unmute !
Fuckin love how absolutely flat-out feral kittens get when they have something they shouldn’t.
A little salami as a treat 🥺
Ah, I see Smudge has been reincarnated.
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The Tax Reform Act of 1986 was enacted on 22 Oct. 1986. It was the first time in history that the highest tax rate was reduced (from 50% to 28%) while the lowest rate was increased (from 11% to 15%).
Before the law took place the top 1% of America’s income earners received 8.4% of the nations pay, by 1989 they accounted for 13.5% and by 2012, nearly 25%.
The Tax Reform Act not only saw an increase in the income inequality, combined with increases in government spending, it also resulted in significant increase in the national debt. In fact, the loss of revenue and increased government spending during the 1980s tripled the Federal Debt.
This was literally the Day the Middle Class Died.
This began the “Area of Smaller Government”, which promoted privatizing state and local municipal services, and dismantling opportunities and the safety-net for those who had been able to find a path way to the middle class as the result of the Civil Rights Act and public sector employment.
It took 30 years for Republican Tickle Down economics to decimate the American Dream and insure that the next generation has far less than the one that came before it.
A day that will live in infamy
RONALD REAGAN, bad actor & horrendous president, was THE FATHER OF THE END OF DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA.
Fucking Republicans
Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge.
This woman needs to be kicked off the bench and disbarred. Then, she must be prosecuted for abuse of power.
https://www.propublica.org/article/black-children-were-jailed-for-a-crime-that-doesnt-exist
Read the article. It left me shaken.
THIS RIGHT HERE
You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.
I want to drill this into everybody’s head:
The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world
Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)
Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.
The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system
Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated
Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.
If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.
Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.
I’d also like to drop recommendations for The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness and Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.
They both tackle the historical evolution of modern-day mass incarceration (e.g. slavery giving way to convict leasing giving way to the modern prison-industrial complex & for-profit prisons) and how it relates to voter disenfranchisement.
We provide the New Jim Crow as a free PDF under our social justice resources alongside several hundred other racial injustice and prison abolition resources here.
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Lol John Deere executives think they can break the worker’s strike by having Terry from HR build an engine.
Anyone else have the “Shake Hands With Danger” song playing in their heads?
For those unaware of this masterpierce, it’s from a 1980′s industrial safety training video, and it’s main character is named ‘Three Finger Joe.’
I’m just imagining some farmer trying to fix his combine in 2023, saying “I don’t know why it won’t work, it’s only 2 years old,” and then they open up the engine and the dusty hand bones of a middle manager fall out.
Things are going great over there!
It’s day 1 and salary workers are joking about forming their own union, this is great stuff.
That’s beyond ridiculous. And ableist.
what the actual fuck, memphis oral school?
THE FUCK
that is some insane and incredibly horrible bullshit
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The Real Reason the Economy Might Collapse
Skyrocketing wealth inequality isn’t just wrong. It’s also weakening our economy.
70 percent of the US economy depends on consumer spending. So American consumers need to spend enough money to buy most of the goods and services Americans are capable of producing.
This means that over the long term their incomes need to keep pace with their productivity.
But their incomes haven’t. Over the past 40 years, most people’s wages have basically stagnated, while worker productivity has soared.
Where did the economic gains go? Mostly to the top. The wealthy now own more of the economy than at any time since the 1920s.
Here’s the economic problem: The wealthy spend only a small percentage of their income and wealth. Their spending is not enough to fulfill the consumer demand that keeps the economy churning.
Lower-income people, on the other hand, spend almost everything they have – which is becoming very little. Most workers aren’t earning nearly enough to buy what the economy is capable of producing.
The result is a gap between potential output and potential consumption.
To fill the gap, the economy depends on people going deeper and deeper into debt so they can buy. Even in 2018, when the economy appeared strong, 40% of Americans had negative net incomes and were borrowing money to pay for basic household needs.
The Fed has had to keep short-term interest rates lower and lower to accommodate this buying. And the government has to spend more and more to fill the remaining gap.
None of this is sustainable. At some point, widening inequality causes the economy to collapse.
We’ve seen this before. Years ago, Marriner Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1934 to 1948, explained that the Great Depression occurred because the buying power of most Americans fell far short of what the economy was producing.
He blamed the increasing concentration of wealth at the top: “A giant suction pump had by 1929-1930 drawn into a few hands an increasing portion of currently produced wealth. As in a poker game where the chips were concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, the other fellows could stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit ran out, the game stopped.”
While the wealthy of the 1920s didn’t know what to do with all their money, most Americans could maintain their standard of living only by going into debt. When that debt bubble burst, the economy tanked.
Fast forward 100 years and we see the same pattern. While the typical Americans’ wages have barely budged for decades, adjusted for inflation, most economic gains have gone to the top, just as Eccles’s so-called “giant suction pump” drew an increasing portion of the nation’s wealth into a few hands before the Great Depression.
The result has been an economy whose underlying structure is far more fragile than it may seem.
Remember the housing and financial bubbles that burst in 2008? We avoided another Great Depression then only because the government pumped enough money into the economy to maintain demand, and the Fed kept interest rates near zero. Then came the pandemic.
The Fed has had to keep interest rates near zero. And the government has had to pump even more money into the economy. While these programs have been crucial to staving off a pandemic-induced depression, they’re only temporary.
Over the long term, the real worry continues to be on the demand side. Widening inequality means not enough demand.
America’s wealth gap is now more extreme than it’s been in over a century. Until this structural problem is remedied, the American economy will remain perilously fragile.
It will also be vulnerable to the next demagogue wielding anger, racism, and resentment as substitutes for real reform.
Closing our staggering wealth gap is crucial to the survival of both our economy and our democracy.
You don’t have to be an economist to GET IT
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People on Twitter sharing mental health advice that helped them
So I thought this was ridiculously silly the first time I heard it. Then I had a really bad patch and decided to try it. Not only did this help me feel better, it made my friends feel better. They liked hearing the positive ‘thank you for helping me/ catching that/ understanding that’ which helped them be happier around me which helped lift up my mood.
This is also INCREDIBLY USEFUL in Customer Service. If I could teach one rule in customer service it would be “You’re getting paid to fix that idiot’s problem, it’s your job, quit acting like it’s not. You have nothing better to do with your time than to help that idiot with their problem, and they have no other way of getting that problem solved.” But if I could teach TWO, the second would be “Never apologize for anything that’s not specifically your personal fault.”
“I’m sorry you were on hold for so long.”
“Thank you for your patience; that was longer than it should have been.”
“I’m sorry the last rep treated you that way.”
“The last rep’s behavior was unacceptable; you won’t get that from me.”
“I’m sorry to make you do this, but it’s necessary.”
“I know this is unpleasant, and I sympathize, but this is what we need to do to fix the problem.”
This is excellent career advice in general. A lot of people make one of two mistakes when something comes up: they either apologize (owning the problem entirely when they might not have to) or try to push it off to someone else. But apologizing or pinning the blame on others doesn’t move you from the problem to the solution.
Changing your language is a really great step to appearing more professional and mature. The ^ is great for customer service, but it also works really well when addressing projects that might have run long or run into issues.
To your boss: ‘Thank you for your patience, we had to reach out to our partners to coordinate a response’ is better then ‘I’m sorry I screwed up and asked for help’ and ‘the other guys screwed up so I had to fix it’.
To someone helping you: ‘Thank you for your assistance/knowledge/expertise/advice, I appreciate it and you helped us achieve success here’ is better then ‘I’m sorry I couldn’t figure it out on my own’ or ‘someone else screwed up so we have to fix it’.
To the customer: ‘Thank you for your patience or understanding, we’ve achieved a better product/outcome now that we’ve had time to investigate and respond to the issue’ is better then ‘I’m sorry I let this break when I either couldn’t avoid that or dropped the ball on keeping it from breaking and kept you waiting’ and ‘don’t get mad at me get mad at someone else’.
Unless the mistake is catastrophic, pretty much everyone understands that things happen and minor errors slip by. Inserting a thank you into the sentence adds understanding that the other person is being inconvenienced, and tells them you recognize that and are responding to end that inconvenience as quickly and smoothly as possible. ‘We have a problem’ should always be followed by ‘and I’m on it to fix it’. Get into the habit of replacing ‘I’m sorry’ with announcing corrective action is being taken.
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I noticed there isn’t one here for Ireland, so
Irish free suicide helpline: 01-116 123
last time i reblogged this, i got this ask:
so please, please reblog. this could actually save a life.
keep yourselves safe!
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Our system is broken. It is cruel. It is dehumanizing, degrading, and it’s vile nature is so, so unnecessary.
We need universal healthcare today in America. We needed it 40 years ago. It’s cheaper, it’s simpler, it’s more efficient, it’s more effective and it is so, so, so much less cruel than what we have.
Additional sources/references:
Universal Healthcare Cost in America would be cheaper by trillions of dollars
The US has worse life expectancies than socialized healthcare countries
We have worse generalized healthcare results
We have the most expensive care
Our system is so cruel and unique that doctors from other countries literally can’t believe what happens here
I can’t tell you where or how to activate to help solve this. There are politicians, groups, and activists pushing for this in so many ways. I can tell you when, though.
Now.
If you can’t understand why everyone should have healthcare, you don’t have a soul. Medicine is a right, not a privilege.
I know it’s kind of suggesting it but this is exactly why businessmen (people) should not be politicians. Running a country is to benefit the people running a business is to benefit shareholders. Their “skills” are not interchangeable
Framing the USPS as a poor business rather than a public service is propaganda.