#union corruption

[mortuarybees]

same people crying about ups drivers winning $42/hour are the same people who dismiss unions and say they just take your money and don't do anything for you. Bet you'd like $42/hour!!!!!!!

[goldensunset]

“He was lonely…”

“He was trying to destroy everything around him! That is not the same as a lonely child! We can’t allow that!”

“The power of the mask made him do it. It was too much for him to handle.”

[szollibisz]

I think we should ban usamericans from having opinions on communism. This way conservatives couldn't use red scare era propaganda to justify why it's okay to charge an asmatic 5 million billion dollars per inhaler, and we would also get rid of the most annoying leftists on the internet. A win-win situation if you ask me

[relaxedstyles]

[millionmovieproject]

The Democrats put up no meaningful resistance to the BBB to be able to use it to elicit votes in 2026 and 2028. This was a coordinated attack to capitalize off of the suffering of the American people.

[degeneratedworker]

"Of the 19 human rights treaties within the UN, the United States has ratified only 5" Soviet Union 1983

[beedreamscape]

Now after watching Arcane, I have this headcanon that Zerxus pulled a Jinx and in the basement of his evil mansion in the Nine Hells, he has 'dolls' of the ring of brass for when he's feeling he's getting too lost.

They're built almost in the style of the hodmedods but a little nightmarish from corruption of zerxus' mind, made with scraps and relics and oddities, real hair and paint.

He also has a tempus made from collected feathers and shak made from a mosaic of slain dragon hides.

He doesn't make Evandrin though, almost as a way of saying 'he's not dead, so i can't remake him' even after all the centuries past.

Like 'oh this world is dark and relentless and cruel but this little irreverent and deeply silly secret grounds me'.

[minophus]

Minos and sisyphus in modern day. They both get arrested within 24 hours for public indecency+urination and arson respectively

[sciderman]

How do you feel about the increase in really weird NSFW ads on here (advertising panels that look like sexual encounters, and AI art apps that pride themselves on porn) but will take down NSFW posts from their users, even if it isn't technically sexual.

i hate all social media and it's consistent prioritising the advertisers over the users and the internet simply was a better place before capitalism sunk its hooks into it

[terminally-american-optimist]

truly insane to me how at a time when wealth inequality, corporate consolidation, and political corruption were objectively worse in america than they are today, the government just. stopped the union busting. dissolved the monopolies. ended (some) corruption. did its job. like thats a thing they did and could still someday do. like wow. how did they do it

[relaxedstyles]

[millionmovieproject]

[undergroundusa]

"The United Autoworkers Union's support for the Democrat Party in elections has become increasingly self-defeating because the Democrats' policies are anti-union; they are globalist and opportunistic in nature…"

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[dead-generations]

72% turnout is high for a non-compulsory election, for contrast US presidential elections usually have a turnout around 60-ish percent. And the remaining 28% ought to be assumed to be people with no strong feelings one way or the other who would accept either outcome

yeah and its absolutely fucked and really fucks with the political process. I talked about this at length previous but basically: In america (and britain and elsewhere) one of the key motivators for a politician is to mobilize their base and avoid mobilizing the enemy base. So a democrat politician might be extremely careful to avoid going strong on gun regulations, because it won't get more democrat voters to show up but it would get otherwise apathetic republicans to show up! You also have the inverse problem, where there's an incentive to never solve a particular issue your base is most passionate about (Abortion being a clear example) because the threat of The Enemy doing something to do/undo that key issue is a valuable mobilization tool. this is an insanely dysfunctional political calculus and leads to a sort of tyranny of the emotive.

I talk more about what this looked like for brexit and the pros and cons of compulsory voting below.

In brexit this was even more extreme: a lot of remainers simply did not take the issue seriously enough because they did not believe there were than many leavers, and the leavers were very galvanized. for such a consequential issue, you cannot let sufficiently motivated minorities dictate the affairs of state!

I can understand why you might keep local, general, or 'state' elections non-compulsory, but to my mind its madness for referendum to be non-compulsory and yet binding!

admittedly, compulsory voting has a flaw as well: since everyone has to vote, any policy which wound negatively impact the majority minorly but significantly benefit a minority is very difficult to have. Even minor housing reform is politically toxic, for example, because even though the majority of youth are suffering quite heavily from a housing crisis, the majority of australians period are older property owners, who are quite sensitive to minor fluctuations in property values.

Likewise political activism is not particularly efficacious here. If 15% of people care a whole hell of a lot about a thing, why would you care? It is very difficult for a highly motivated minority to affect significant change. sure, preferencing is a thing in our ranked choice system, which helps a lot. And there are certainly marginal seats, or seats composed heavily of voters with specific niche hot-button issues. A good example is how much a handful of muslim districts care about palestine, and those 3 or so elected members could be the difference between forming a government and a hung parliament, even though basically no one else has particularly strong feelings either way

But at the end of the day, everyone more or less has to vote, so the majority of your electorate will be distinctly median. All this causes it to be difficult for an australian government to develop long term vision and transformative policy.

Comparing the Brexit referendum to the Voice referendum here is, i think, quite useful. Brexit i have said was effected by a very motivated based well mobilized by a handful of ideologues, and the remainers suffered because they were the complacent median who really didn't see what the fuss was about.

Voice however. Many people have attributed its failure to "racism" but I think that is extremely simplistic. Frankly I think Yes ran a very bad campaign (which was obvious to most of it's supporters). What the "racism" analysts here fail to realise, is that the referendum was almost certainly decided primarily by the uninvolved. In brief: the voice would have created a constitutional amendment establishing an Aboriginal advisory body in the parliament

A lot of the campaigning focused on, to be uncharitable, white guilt. IE: colonialism is bad, we need to do right by the aboriginals we wronged. Fair enough. But a lot of the messaging was on making up for the wrongs of our ancestors, and, crucially, a plurality of australian voters are not settlers or their descendants. they have NO connection to and NO involvement in the establishment of colonial australia.

hell, their ancestors were bared from coming to australia under the white australia policy until the 1960s. That includes the greeks and italians, to say nothing of the large lebanese and chinese populations and the growing indian population. The pro-voice campaign's white guilt messaging just could not move them at all, and frankly the Yes campaigners ignored them completely. No, meanwhile, had a very easy time persuading them. after all, what did it have to do with them? Why would a chinese australian born in 1980 to recent chinese migrant parents feel a need to right wrongs they had nothing to do with?

And all these "uninvolved" non-white australians HAD to take a position on the Voice. and so what did they do? they voted no, because they felt that they didn't feel strongly about it, certainly about its (poorly communicated) aims, but they did think it could plausibly negatively impact them, and so they safe apathetic choice was no.

I think if the Voice happened without compulsory voting and Brexit happened with compulsory voting, the results would have been flipped!

[turnedpalefromlackofsun]

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[zcrayas]

Lord Rykard being a history nerd and explorer - What if Zorayas was a name is of ancient Gelmir descent to make a step to new direction. I mean man is a half snake but he still does speak so he may have a say at a name haha. Or if he had no involvement at all, maybe the priests placing her amnion in the chapel gave the red snake an ancient name.

And Rya was chosen later as a disguise name for public appearances. Maybe it was given by Tanith who subconsciously wanted to strengthen the bond of her daughter to her dear husband, honor and keep him with them at all times. You know, something that sounds familiar. Saying her name feels nice, as if they were one huge famileee.