What fucking rules?
None of this has been vetted by Congress or the courts, or, more importantly, by the states; tiny-d donnie and his administration and his bootlicks in the USPS are just making shit up as they go, because they don’t want the normal democratic processes to work in this country.
Yes, but have you considered “trans, immigrants, communism socialism, think of the children, support the troops, and ice is one phone call away, what’s your background anyway”?
You’re right, time to buy a red hat and a Cybertruck that’s been modified to roll coal.
Honestly i think they already do that, ya know, catching on fire
It’s not a “defective battery”, it’s energized coal!
WHEN ARE YOU FUCKERS GONNA START SETTING YOUR FOOT DOWN?
CALL A FUCKING GENERAL STRIKE.
Americans make movies depicting themselves as badasses ready to fight for freedom, while in reality they can’t even do the most basic thing to defend their democracy.
Not to mention how their shit spills out all over the world.Listen pal, nearly every American is a slave to their day job(s) - especially given the massive uptick in living expenses over the last year/months.
If I “strike” and refuse to show up for my second shift at Winn-Dixie, all that will happen is I lose my sub-30 hour a week job, and someone else gets their prayers answered for more shifts (offsetting their cost of living a sliver) while I get to have Mr Ulcer come back over concerns about how I’ll feed my family.
I’m not saying a nation wide stoppage wouldn’t have an impact - but this nation is geographically massive compared to your average European country. There is no social safety net outside of if someone is lucky enough to be in a defanged union.
Calling for general strikes in this way feels like an oil exec saying I should use paper straws/recycle to save the environment while they are boiling the ocean.
We’ve all heard these excuses before. Why do you want to force me to repeat the usual answers?
What few rights you have were paid in blood, and you refuse even slight discomfort, you simply don’t care enough, stop making excuses.
I don’t see how the size of the country matters, when labor movements have always been GLOBAL. What does Europe have to do with this?
I mentioned Europe because places like France have their protest game on point. (grills mounted on tram tracks for making burgers while protesting? Genius.)
And yes, our labor rights (not much anymore as they are) were paid in blood. I remember learning about the Triangle Waistcoat Factory as a kiddo.
But I take issue with saying “slight discomfort” when referring to keeping my family housed and fed. Most Americans are living not just paycheck to paycheck but have zero significant savings to weather a medical emergency (or an open ended strike).
And the only alternative party to the current administration isn’t offering options like, “if you all just wait it out for a few months, we can take back the House/Senate/Presidency, pass UBI, help you get your money and financial stability back… Oh and pad SCOTUS so some fucker in a red state doesn’t sue to undo all this relief”.
You have to understand. This shit is bleak. We are clawing on to the only thing we have because there is nobody coming to save us, and we cannot save ourselves.
Yeah the only action that could possibly have an impact at this point would be to resurrect the militias of old and start a good old county war. Not particularly viable in the current political and economic climate, also I’m not entirely sure where you attack to cause significant damage outside of maybe bridges on the interstate and highway systems, the rails, and maybe the electrical grid around industrial centers and AI data centers.
Saying that and doing that is also a massively different thing, back when the old militias were about they didn’t really have in investigationn methods and also they could literally go to work with basically no reprisal after shooting up some deputy or whatnot.
Mate, some of us got kids to feed. Them going hungry isn’t just a slight discomfort.
The Postal Service wants to require that both the “outbound” envelope carrying the ballot to the voter and the “inbound” envelope bringing the ballot back to the election office have a barcode for automated tracking that’s unique to each voter.
No more secret ballots?
Yeah this is kind scary. Let’s open up this ballot and see who he voted for so we can put him on our ICE harassment list.
Since when. Do I have to subscribe to CNN read their articles
paywall
Reader mode will bypass many-a-paywall
I don’t understand the how or why it works, but it was life changing when I started tapping that little magic button.
Wait, what the actual fuck?? How long has this existed?! Thank you Hotsauce and Moose for teaching me about this.
Same with adding unwall.app/ before many urls. Or looking for it on archive.is.
At this point, I just assume most things are behind a subscriber wall, at least, and act accordingly.
