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and btw, this isn;t about "keeping everyone happy". this is about people's humanity. Niemoller forgot about that part too.
August 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
and btw, this isn;t about "keeping everyone happy". this is about people's humanity. Niemoller forgot about that part too.
The Nazis came for the trans people first too. I think someone wrote a poem about what happened next. hmd.org.uk/resource/6-m...
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | 6 May 1933: Looting of the Institute of Sexology
On 6 May 1933, the Institute of Sexology, an academic foundation devoted to sexological research and the advocacy of homosexual rights, was broken into and occupied by Nazi-supporting youth. Several d...
hmd.org.uk
August 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The Nazis came for the trans people first too. I think someone wrote a poem about what happened next. hmd.org.uk/resource/6-m...
not only is that apt in the beach side community unaffordable, I am working a 2nd job to afford my current apt. Again, I now have a master's degree and am in management. Many in my age cohort, me included, simply never recovered financially from 2008.
August 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
not only is that apt in the beach side community unaffordable, I am working a 2nd job to afford my current apt. Again, I now have a master's degree and am in management. Many in my age cohort, me included, simply never recovered financially from 2008.
so yeah i think that "fetishization" is a nostalgia for affordability. in 1994, I lived in a beach side community, went to community college, and paid for it all myself waiting tables and bartending. This is impossible now.
August 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
so yeah i think that "fetishization" is a nostalgia for affordability. in 1994, I lived in a beach side community, went to community college, and paid for it all myself waiting tables and bartending. This is impossible now.
i'm have a master's degree and i'm a manager at my firm, and I could not today afford to rent the apartment I rented in the late 1990s when I was a community college student paying rent with $ I earned waiting tables.
August 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
i'm have a master's degree and i'm a manager at my firm, and I could not today afford to rent the apartment I rented in the late 1990s when I was a community college student paying rent with $ I earned waiting tables.
The number one cause of hating socialism is not having any idea what socialism is.
July 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The number one cause of hating socialism is not having any idea what socialism is.
how about we start by *using the housing we have?* why don't these geniuses ever think about this? fox5ny.com/news/empty-a...
NYCHA under fire over empty apartments in a housing crisis
Nearly 6,000 NYCHA apartments are vacant with over 240,000 families on the waiting list for public housing.
fox5ny.com
July 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
how about we start by *using the housing we have?* why don't these geniuses ever think about this? fox5ny.com/news/empty-a...
"why don't we use this environment-torching technology that steals from artists, can't render a human hand reliably or consistently, lies constantly, guzzles water, occasionally suggests users kill themselves, turns into Hitler and exists primarily at this point to separate labor from capital?"
July 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"why don't we use this environment-torching technology that steals from artists, can't render a human hand reliably or consistently, lies constantly, guzzles water, occasionally suggests users kill themselves, turns into Hitler and exists primarily at this point to separate labor from capital?"
she's doing the lord's work campaigning for mamdani and doesn't even know it
July 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
she's doing the lord's work campaigning for mamdani and doesn't even know it
Are we sure it's not parody? Is she maybe like a performance artist doing a Yes Men kind of thing?
July 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Are we sure it's not parody? Is she maybe like a performance artist doing a Yes Men kind of thing?
yes but then feel really guilty about wanting it even tho we know about the zillions of advertising $ and psychological manipulation in marketing techniques that are getting us to want it.
July 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
yes but then feel really guilty about wanting it even tho we know about the zillions of advertising $ and psychological manipulation in marketing techniques that are getting us to want it.
when you are on "the left", however defined, you're aware of the cruelties and injustices that are a feature, not a bug, of the system we live in. The need to make sure we're doing the best we can cld be a way of managing the cognitive dissonance of participating in and benefitting from it.
July 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
when you are on "the left", however defined, you're aware of the cruelties and injustices that are a feature, not a bug, of the system we live in. The need to make sure we're doing the best we can cld be a way of managing the cognitive dissonance of participating in and benefitting from it.
It's no coincidence that I cook almost every night now that I work from home and only have one job and a very reasonable side hustle as opposed to working one job plus an 8 hour week side hustle in addition to 12+ hours a week commuting. I just have more time, energy, and mental space to do it.
July 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It's no coincidence that I cook almost every night now that I work from home and only have one job and a very reasonable side hustle as opposed to working one job plus an 8 hour week side hustle in addition to 12+ hours a week commuting. I just have more time, energy, and mental space to do it.
**commuting 1 1/5 each way to work. The other thing to think about here is that often, though of course not always, women tend to be tasked with keeping track of groceries and meal planning for everyone in the house. Doing that plus working two jobs plus commuting? Fuck that.
July 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
**commuting 1 1/5 each way to work. The other thing to think about here is that often, though of course not always, women tend to be tasked with keeping track of groceries and meal planning for everyone in the house. Doing that plus working two jobs plus commuting? Fuck that.
When I was committing an hour and a half each way to work on the weekdays, plus working at eight hour day on Saturdays a second job the last thing I wanted to do was figure out groceries or cook. Or clean my kitchen after I had cooked. Or hunt through my fridge for Tupperware of leftovers.
July 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
When I was committing an hour and a half each way to work on the weekdays, plus working at eight hour day on Saturdays a second job the last thing I wanted to do was figure out groceries or cook. Or clean my kitchen after I had cooked. Or hunt through my fridge for Tupperware of leftovers.
I absolutely relate to this. One thing to also maybe think about as a degree to which many of us are working two jobs, commuting. The cognitive load it takes to plan a meal, prep it, keep track of the leftovers + you have so little spare time that u don't want to spend it chopping veggies.
July 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I absolutely relate to this. One thing to also maybe think about as a degree to which many of us are working two jobs, commuting. The cognitive load it takes to plan a meal, prep it, keep track of the leftovers + you have so little spare time that u don't want to spend it chopping veggies.
I assume that at least a few were antisemites. Not sure if were Jewish, but it's certainly possible. Point being: there are so many more points of difference than there seem to be similarities. I hope that the DNC is paying attention.
July 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I assume that at least a few were antisemites. Not sure if were Jewish, but it's certainly possible. Point being: there are so many more points of difference than there seem to be similarities. I hope that the DNC is paying attention.
There was a fascist. There was someone who maybe was kind of a libertarian? There was that very thoughtful latino who seem to realize that maybe he was in the wrong room on the wrong side. There were two Persians surrounded by white supremacist, who thought they should get out of the country.
July 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
There was a fascist. There was someone who maybe was kind of a libertarian? There was that very thoughtful latino who seem to realize that maybe he was in the wrong room on the wrong side. There were two Persians surrounded by white supremacist, who thought they should get out of the country.
I mean... we had two people whose primary concerns seem to be depressed worker wages. We had people who were unwilling to come out and say that they were white supremacists or maybe had not to come to terms with the extent to their racism was animating their views.
July 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I mean... we had two people whose primary concerns seem to be depressed worker wages. We had people who were unwilling to come out and say that they were white supremacists or maybe had not to come to terms with the extent to their racism was animating their views.