“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
- Audre Lorde
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Monday, April 22, 2019
genderfluidpositivity: “When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But...
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historyxcomplex: The shutdown has exposed Trumponomics for what it is: a disaster | Robert...
The shutdown has exposed Trumponomics for what it is: a disaster | Robert Reich
Federal spending accounts for just over 20% of the total economy. When that spigot is turned halfway off, as it is now, demand for goods and services necessarily drops. The result is less investment and slower growth.
Right now some 800,000 government employees aren’t collecting paychecks. Nor are hundreds of thousands of government contractors being paid. None of them can buy as much as before.
It’s just another aspect of Trumponomics, which stands for the highly dubious proposition that prosperity comes from cutting taxes on corporations and the wealthy, while squeezing American workers – the people who do most of the buying.
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“Why Most People Will Never Have Great Relationships” by Anthony Moore...
“Why Most People Will Never Have Great Relationships” by Anthony Moore https://link.medium.com/sBF32eCDqS
If you have great relationships, there’s virtually nothing that can defeat you, or even discourage you. As prolific author Frank Crane once wrote, having a close friend “doubles every joy and halves every defeat.”
But if most of your relationships are shallow and superficial, it doesn’t matter if you have the most “successful” life imaginable — everything still rings hollow if there’s no one to celebrate with.
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If men stopped working…the world would continue on.
If women stopped working, then things would get ugly.
What?
there has been an instance where this happened.
it was 1975 and icelandic women decided not to work for one day.
working as in cooking, cleaning, taking care of the children, doing chores and so on, not only “not showing up to your workplace”. women did nothing that day, except showing up in reykjavik and protesting for gender equality, equal pay and equal representation in parliament, you know, cool stuff.
you know what happened? havoc. men were left with food to cook and children they never took care of to pick up from kindergarden and entertain for the day. they went en masse to the food shops buying sausages because they could cook nothing else, they had to bond with children they never spent more than a couple hours a day with. they struggled combining their work day and the domestic tasks they had to sort out. and this just for one day.
iceland in 1975 stopped working and things indeed got ugly.
so ugly that women in the following decades became woke AF and soon it happened that women became president, took half of the seats in parliament and achieved one of the best living environments in the world.
is your astonishment solved now?yES
Very true.
people who are like “yeah, but i’m sure the same thing would happen if men left the workforce!!!” not really tho bc look at WWII??
^
Literally what happens then is women say “Ok fine we’ll do that too” and do it.
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the-afro-elf: whyyoustabbedme: It’s like ending network...
It’s like ending network neutrality/fair peering arrangements for postage, basically??
More insidious ways the Trump administration is fucking things up
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shadowraiku: shadowraiku: I saw this on facebook and honestly...
I saw this on facebook and honestly yeah
ok this has become a somewhat popular post, and I just want to add on because I realise this just says about dating, but it extends to friendships too. just be aware of this and remind the person of their worth, yeah? Even if it’s just a friend and not a partner
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profeminist: “Next Tuesday, McDonald’s workers at restaurants...
“Next Tuesday, McDonald’s workers at restaurants in 10 cities will walk off the job at lunch, waging the first-ever nationwide strike to combat sexual harassment.”
McDonald’s Workers Are Going on Strike Over Sexual Harassment
NEXT TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 18th - SUPPORT THE STRIKE!!!
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foxagandizeme: Trump tells bizarre lie, claims interview where he admitted firing Comey over Russia...
Trump tells bizarre lie, claims interview where he admitted firing Comey over Russia was ‘fudged’
Donald Trump started the morning with a string of allegations, including accusing NBC and Lester Holt of “fudging my tape on Russia.” Which would appear to be a claim that Holt had somehow altered or edited the interview that he conducted with Trump on May 11, 2017, just after Trump fired James Comey. In that interview, Trump admitted that the reason for Comey’s firing was that he refused to halt the Russia investigation.
Trump: In fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story.
Since that interview, Trump has neither backed away from that statement nor made any public claim that Holt altered the interview. In fact, both Trump and attorney Rudy Giuliani have adopted the “article two powers” defense, arguing that Trump can fire anyone he wants for any reason. Why Trump is now making a claim that Holt “fudged” the interview in some way isn’t clear. It’s even less clear why Trump would believe that Holt already “got caught” fudging the interview or that it “hurt [NBC] badly.”
It’s possible that somehow Trump has conflated together that interview with Lester Holt over confusion about contradictory statements from Michael Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis. However, in recent days, Trump has showed no hesitation to drag unsupported conspiracy theories from the depths of the alt-Reich web directly into his tweets—such as yesterday’s claim that China had hacked into Hillary Clinton’s email. Trump may be surfacing some alt-Reich claim that technology for modifying what people appear to do or say in a video, so called “deep fakes” were used to make him appear to say that thing that … he said, and hasn’t denied saying for over a year.
That’s just a guess. Sometimes Donald Trump’s morning tweets are a growl of semi-articulate rage from the great orange Bulk. More often, they’re point by point recaps of whatever Steve Doocy is saying at the moment. Honestly, we should all be grateful that Fox apparently gives Trump some sort of direct feed. Otherwise, half his tweets would consist of numbers we should all dial to Buy Gold Now. But on other days, and with increasing frequency, Trump’s tweets appear to be coming from the level so far down the hole the rabbits have been left behind. This is one of those mornings.
And the clearest message these fresh tweets deliver is: Trump is really, really afraid.
Just to be clear, Trump is going to continue his Orwellian gaslighting and doublespeak until Muller’s investigation, Congressional oversight under a Democratic Party led house and crack investigative journalism puts an end to it. An end to the endless lies.
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foxagandizeme: The Neoconservative Comeback While Trump is frantic over the walls closing in from...
While Trump is frantic over the walls closing in from his fealty to Russia, his campaign ties to Russia and their conspiracy against the United States electoral process, his corrupt, villainous administration and his obstruction of justice, that group of George W. Bush era neoconservatives that brought us the worst foreign policy disaster in United States history is back with their eyes on war with Iran, finishing Syria and possibly even North Korea.
[This article by Lawrence Wilkerson is a must read.]
We are going to have to do a better job of messaging. The conservatives that voted for Trump do not want these neoconservatives back in the Trump administration with their drumbeat of war with Iran, Syria, North Korea and wherever else these well funded, war hawk, get-rich-from-US-defense-spending think tanks think we should go.
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