Good job Mel.
in general the notion that we have collective obligations that require us to affirmatively do something has been greatly eroded in American life.
When people frame voting as a personal choice, a consumer action, they expect that they are getting a service or product that meets all of their needs. If a candidate isn’t holistic when they’re asking for your vote, then you shouldn’t “buy in” to what they’re selling. That’s not how it works!
We treat voting as a matter of consumption, a buy-in to a candidate and their entire platform, a reflection of our personal values. This is not what voting is or how it was meant to function! Yet, capitalism is gonna capitalism. It’s a category error that convinces people to opt out of voting.
I'm still having a fear response over the time FB admitted they literally put bad & depressing news in your TL to see if being angry and sad would make you stay on the site longer
I’ve pointed out that the RR union thanked Biden for getting workers what they wanted out of that strike. That success didn’t get the same coverage. Oddly enough. www.ibew.org/media-center...
After months of negotiations, the IBEW’s Railroad members at four of the largest U.S. freight carriers finally have what they’ve long sought but that many working people take for granted: paid sick da...
“she was too prepared to be there and i didn’t trust that” is absolutely wild. trump has absolutely acculturated a lot of voters into thinking that being a stark raving maniac is a welcome form of authenticity
There's allay just the issue that not building in disaster-prone area only mitigates risk, not eliminates it. Like, areas can go decades and even centuries without certain kinds of major disasters, but they can still happen.