chef's kiss

  • the_river_cass [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Going Postal is a Terry Pratchett novel about rebuilding the failed postal service by restoring the public institution, over private interests that want to keep it dead. decent book, fairly funny.

    • staplegun [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      And the alternative that supplanted the postal service is not-so-subtly supposed to be the Internet. The best part is that it champions both utilities even though they directly compete with one another, the only real bad actor in the book is the ISP analogue that ran the clacks.

    • rhaikh [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Bukowski is my favorite writer on this subject

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Mark Ames wrote a non-fiction book with the same title

    • determinism [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I was just reading about his family.

      Father was a novelist and screenwriter who wrote this brave piece on believing sexual assault victims while also jumping at the opportunity to work with their abusers. He's effectively saying "I believe you, I can empathize because I've had a similar experience, I just have too much to gain personally by neglecting your demands for justice".

      Grandmother also a novelist, wrote for the Daily Worker and then left the Communist Party in '52

      https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/yglesias-helen

      Grandfather also a novelist, also a CPUSA member, attended a Deweyite college, worked as an executive in a pharmaceutical company for ten years (starting around the time he and his wife presumably left the party).

      • the_river_cass [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        “I believe you, I can empathize because I’ve had a similar experience, I just have too much to gain personally by neglecting your demands for justice”.

        his cognition dissonance is earth-shattering. he literally points out the protective shield around famous rapists and then just doesn't acknowledge what he's doing by working for Polanski in full knowledge of the fact that he's a rapist.

  • Posadas [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Make me supreme ruler and I'll have the post office undercut the private mail industry so much that they'll collapse in a year or two.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      lmao if i were president id call for a general strike, use executive orders to broadcast it, and follow up by giving all strikers federal backpay guarantees

      then id just ram whatever i wanted through congress. probably do all this during a session downtime too for maximum effect.

      oh and of course, purge all the alphabet agencies and place socialists in charge by first hiring a ton of socialists and then firing the war criminals piecemeal

  • regul [any]
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    4 years ago

    Honest question: The USPS is established in the Constitution, right? How could they possibly privatize it without an amendment?

    • communistthrowaway69 [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Constitution is a spook.

      Even if something is unconstitutional, someone has to care, and sue, and the courts have to agree.

      If the ruling class agrees on something, it literally doesn't matter.

      It's Drumpf-Lib territory somewhat but Trump violated the emoluments clause from day one which is blatantly unconstitutional and even when they impeached him they didn't bring it up. Cuz they're all grifters and they don't want to bring attention to that.

    • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I believe Congress has THE POWER to establish post offices, but isn't required to

      • snackage [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Lol. TP has more worth and logical consistency than your constitution

  • hauntingspectre [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    "Going postal" used to mean that a person was about to perform a mass redacting, typically at their workplace.

    If Matty Y meant this title in that context, critical support for him.