[-] ReiRose@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

I wonder if JetBlue'll try to bill him the $20k to repack it, or if they'll just eat it.

[-] ReiRose@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

And every politician, every cop on the street Protects the interests of the pedophilic corporate elite

Bo's song

[-] ReiRose@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

This! I love my sweet boy and he's so gentle and kind 99% of the time. But sometimes he choses violence. He is the reason I think all people who keep big cats as pets are not logical.

[-] ReiRose@lemmy.world 46 points 8 months ago

This happens at my job too. Overall the benefits of my union far outweigh how shit they are and the union dues. I'd rather have a crappy union than none at all.

I know my company would screw me over much worse than my union and company combined if there was no union.

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submitted 8 months ago by ReiRose@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

This article does a great job of explaining people's frustration with having to vote for Biden again. It's long, so here are some quotes. They're totally cherry-picked, I'd recommend reading the whole thing (especially if you think the problem started with Biden, and that Clinton and Obama were ever good choices).

during the 1980s and early 1990s, fears of a relentless Republican juggernaut pressured those left of center to take a defensive stance, focusing on the immediate goal of electing Democrats to stem or slow the rightward tide.

Today, the labor movement has been largely subdued, and social activists have made their peace with neoliberalism and adjusted their horizons accordingly. Within the women’s movement, goals have shifted from practical objectives such as comparable worth and universal child care in the 1980s to celebrating appointments of individual women to public office and challenging the corporate glass ceiling.

Each election now becomes a moment of life-or-death urgency that precludes dissent or even reflection. For liberals, there is only one option in an election year, and that is to elect, at whatever cost, whichever Democrat is running. This modus operandi has tethered what remains of the left to a Democratic Party that has long since renounced its commitment to any sort of redistributive vision and imposes a willed amnesia on political debate.

I mean, you probably should vote Biden this time, because he's not all that bad, he's done some good things. And trump is so terrible, it probably will be the end of democracy and the victory of fascism if he wins. Right? But what about in two years time, or four years, or eight years?

[-] ReiRose@lemmy.world 65 points 10 months ago

Some info that I found important that isn't in this article but is in the Wiki:

He spent 18 months in hospital, before going home. He was paralyzed from the neck down. His parents rented a portable generator and a truck to bring him and his iron lung home. Beginning in 1954, with help from the March of Dimes and a physical therapist named Mrs. Sullivan, Alexander taught himself glossopharyngeal breathing which allowed him to leave the iron lung for gradually increasing periods of time.

Alexander died from a COVID-19 infection on March 11, 2024, at the age of 78. He was one of the last two people still using the technology, alongside Martha Lillard, who first entered an iron lung in 1953.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Alexander_(polio_survivor)

(I haven't brought over the sources, they can be found on the Wiki link)

[-] ReiRose@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

They take quite a lot of money from the British public (taxes, not donations. They = British royal family). Part of the cost of that is being in the public eye. If she really thought royals deserved privacy I'm sure she would have said something when Meghan was being destroyed by the media.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/meghan-markle-kate-middleton-double-standards-royal

[-] ReiRose@lemmy.world 54 points 10 months ago

Let's escalate everything to death

[-] ReiRose@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

Do one illegal thing only

[-] ReiRose@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification

For others bc I had to look it up. Good tip. I will be more enthusiastic about being called for jury duty in future.

[-] ReiRose@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Intersectionality

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