And eaten?

I’m in Indiana.

Hey, at least you’re not in Ohio.

I’m a little verklempt. Discuss amongst yourselves.

Here, I’ll give you a topic: Rhode Island is neither a road nor an island.

Discuss

Hey! That’s different!

…In other shit that will never happen news, Trump enjoyed a joke at his own expense at a salad bar.

That was fucking great

ITT: Look at the parents, this kid was just rebelling!

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Or… He was a conservative that saw MAGA as the existential crisis that it is. He decided that he had nothing left to lose. He went for it.

Let’s be real here. The only shame was that he missed.

I think he died for a cause. But that could just be my bias showing.

I think we are agreeing with each other. Remember, the only good Nazi is a…

We should all arm ourselves now. Every single bit of this is unprecedented, in the worst possible way. Better to be safe than staring down the barrel of a Luger.

You may be on to something

No one is suggesting Trump step down because his base idolizes him. Like false prophet kind of shit. It’s scary, if I’m being honest. How can one convince a fanatic that they are wrong?

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I thought it was interesting data, so I put it in a reply.

If you really chosen people I cant wait til the lord takes you back.

Don’t be an antisemite.

We agree on many things.

The saddest thing I saw was young people refusing to sign the union card. We are a Right to Work state, so they don’t have to pay the dues to receive union benefits. This starves unions, which contributes to the toothless-ness.

Like I said, it was so sad to see. I tried talking to them, but they wouldn’t do it. They need every penny. I can’t fault them for that. Regardless of anything else, that’s how we see it in a plant. Maximizing your checks because the pay isn’t enough.

I’m sure that I am preaching to the choir here. But I want this up for people who’ve never known the life, to see how it is.

Come work for a week in a plant. We make shit wages, work way too hard for it, and see the economy as grocery bills being double what they were a few years ago. Most of us struggle to make ends meet. I can’t blame those that would cross a picket line to make $2 more per hour for less work.

The unemployment rate is a terrible way to gauge how the job market is.

That’s good to hear. I have first hand experience with manufacturing being part of a regional union. Unfortunately, we were UAW in name only. We were lucky during the strike, the plant we supplied did not strike. The other GM plant in my area went on strike. Anyone that supplied them laid off all of the workers. Where I live, that is $362 per week (you have to file for unemployment). That barely covered rent. Forget about gas, food, the light bill, and medicine.

Without us, GM would have no engines to put in their cars. But the UAW doesn’t look out for the “little guy”.

Sorry, I’ve got skin in the game, and it frustrates me to know end that we didn’t receive ANY of the protections that the GM workers did.

Yeah, I’m jaded. But I still know that strong unions are necessary for the workers to force management to listen.

I’ve looked at 3 separate polls, none of which listed the number of respondents, which calls every bit of it into question. In my opinion of course.

Via Pew Research

A new Pew Research Center survey finds that 39% of Israelis say Israel’s military response against Hamas in Gaza has been about right, while 34% say it has not gone far enough and 19% think it has gone too far.

I did find a <5% figure, on the same page

Israeli Arabs are much more likely than Jews to say the country’s military response has gone too far (74% vs. 4%).

Just a bit of context

What sucks is that in this economy, employers know that they can get scabs to come in at like a dollar more an hour—union be damned.

We need to get back to where employers feared, or at least listened to, unions and their power of collective bargaining. They’ve done an amazing job of gutting unions, and will not stop until they are made illegal.

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MAH GAWD THAT MAN HAS A FAMILY…WHO LIKELY HATES HIM!

Sure thing 🫡