So 200+ staff members at my university put together a petition of demands for the president since we start back in a week and are obviously massively unprepared. Slapped in this banger at the end:
It has become clear to all that the glaring failures of governance at ****** during the COVID-19 crisis are a direct result of decades of persistent narrowing of authority at the University into the hands of a tiny cluster of executives, all while excluding the inherent expertise and commitment held by the community itself. Democratic reform of University governance is long overdue.
Said executives refused to recognize it, of course. Really hoping some kind of strike can be organized, given how many people have to shut up and take whatever they're given.
The second you do something in this bullshit world of certifications you feel even slightly proud of, every job looks at you like you haven't accomplished shit.
I fucking hate job searching. "And why didn't that career work out?"
Oh, why, the corporate usurpation of inventions created for the good of humanity to form a money-printing machine based upon the suffering of the elderly and infirm? Didn't work out. Will work my hands bloody for bread for you, though!
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The demographics on reddit are so skewed. For American redditors, it's so disproportionately skewed to higher income, higher educated, and white. And they think the rest of the country is basically like it is in their own bubble (which very likely isn't different outside of reddit than it is inside).
I've heard his climate plan, while not as ambitious as we probably need, is still a pretty big step forward. Any sources on refuting that?
It's been a while since I looked into it, but I don't think your take is necessarily wrong. The reality is that the state of climate change-based action by the government is so paltry that spending a single dollar on progress is a breath of fresh air. The things sound good and are needed - infrastructure spending, enforcement mechanisms, punishing fossil fuel companies, etc. But you're right - it's not nearly as ambitious as we need.
I think the bigger question when it comes to his climate plan is: How the fuck does he plan on implementing it? Like, through what procedure? Even if the dems win the senate they won't have a 60 vote majority, so how do they plan to pass $2 trillion of legislation?
But then, too, it all feels performative for the left. All the people congratulating the Biden campaign for their bold innovative plans are the same people who spent months tone policing the left and sarcastically asking "hOw aRe YoU gOnNa PaY fOr It". Do you genuinely think these people would seriously stand up and fight for climate legislation (including skirting precious norms and procedure) after showing their hand on the GND and Bernie's proposals? I have absolutely zero faith in them.
I would love if we have actual climate legislation, but even Biden's watered down plan is too little, too late, and still too impossible to push through in any possible political scenario.
Day 2 of me demanding Liz Warren provide proof of life for Bailey
Growing squash was a great idea. Even if I get no fruit there are so many bumblebees visiting my yard.
I need backup on /r/breadtube, a bunch of libs are trying to get me to vote for Biden in the Vaush election rant post lol. I'm not voting for a rapist and a cop, goddamn it.
Honestly I just like Philosophy Tube and Thoughtslime, most of the other breadtubers are hit or miss for me lol.
I mean a lot of breadtube is lib shit but long videos aren't solely the realm of teens. I like to put on Shaun type vids while I game or do other shit in the kitchen.
I found that arguing over voting for Biden is mostly futile and I mostly deflect to the tickets glaring issues, and how people still have to be politically aware of their bullshit in office. It works for people who are younger and already accept that Biden is a “lesser evil”
That thread is such a condescending, lib, dumpster fire, although to be fair it is /r/breadtube so it's all par for the course
thinking about how we have proof that India has been doing actual ethnic cleansing of Muslims for years, and no one really knows or cares because they aren't an enemy of America
- Theory 20 posts
- Organizing 4 posts
- Praxis 10 posts
- Electoralism 3401 posts
Someone who is good at leftism please help me focus on the right things, my ideology is dying
Thinking about libs telling me two months ago that I'm stupid for saying Democrats are just as pro police state as Republicans only for Biden/Harris to get the nomination. I enjoy bashing my head into a wall.
Goddamn Tumblr has some incredible mental gymnastics going on for "vOte BluE nO maTteR wHo". The liberals would happily explain why Biden and KH is shitty, for paragraphs, and then call leftists who don't want to vote fash enablers or some other bs.
And then they say some petty shit like, "when is your revolution going to happen sweetie? Sorry but we live in the real world :nail polish:, so we have to choose the lesser evil. It's damage control!".
Anyways, electoralism is a fuck.
Yeah I also live in the real world, and in the real world, I ain't votin for Joe Biden or Copmala.
lol, this white guy larping as a POC unironically told me to 'learn2code' so I wont be poor
https://www.reddit.com/r/PresidentialRaceMemes/comments/i8dw37/democrat_voters_uhhh_guys_how_did_we_end_up_here/g1av60b/?context=10000
