PallasRiot

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Autonomy and liberation without concession.

Transphobia is patriarchy, Marxism-Leninism is spicy liberalism, analysis is not advocacy, I have no patience for boneheaded contrarianism.

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PallasRiot10h ago
Pulte is getting tapped for DNI because he's already been proven to be willing to do crimes and abuse power for Trump. The silver lining is he's not actually any flavor of spy so he may not be very effective.
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I fucking hate apps so fucking much
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I mean in any way. If I have to scan a QR code for a menu I'm eating elsewhere. If you have a rewards program that doesn't use a punch card or a phone number then I'm not doing it. If you require your employees to ask me to get an app every time I go to the register I will literally just stop going to your store.

Your business should be able to function without my cell phone and if it can't then I'm not paying you

PallasRiot17h ago
I don't want your app. I will not download your app. If your business relies on an app I will not use your business
PallasRiot23h ago
Anyone good at finance stuff want to give some advice on whether to make any changes to 401K investments? It feels like there's a whole stack of reasons why we're hurtling towards a market crash and idk if I should be taking any steps to minimize the effect or just ride it out or what
PallasRiot1d ago

RE: https://wikis.world/@bvibber/116666605146141540

I was once at an event with a bunch of labor organizers and got to talk to some medical research scientists who were bargaining their first contract. It's extremely rare for academic workers to unionize, especially ones in positions that are considered high status like these folks. They told me about how when they were first forming their organizing committee to do their union drive, a few UAW organizers came to talk to them. The UAW guys included a couple of older auto workers, who wanted to help but were confused why these particular workers might have felt the need to unionize when it's so rare for their field. The researchers talked about their working conditions for twenty minutes.

The veteran auto workers never asked again.

Those guys from the auto plants threw everything they had behind the researchers, and fought a real fight against the company to get those researchers their union. The guys who had seen on the job deaths in industrial accidents and spent years fighting deindustrialization heard what these researchers went through and practically declared Blair Mountain on the spot.

Whatever your job is you deserve a union, and you can fight for one. No matter what your skill or trade or role or job, if you work for a living you can win, and damnit you deserve to win.

PallasRiot1d ago
Chuck Schumer did a nazi march that seems like a big deal
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A highly centralized, fully professional army is a real gift to authoritarianism.
PallasRiot1d ago
Probably unpopular opinion but the fact the US has basically ended the draft is bad, actually. Conscription raises the political cost of war, which is actually why the DoD never wants to do a draft again
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Like, to be clear, the DSA was explicitly formed as a response to the greatest modern electoral disaster prior to Trump, and the founders were responding to the fact that the US left had largely abandoned electoral and even broader movement politics in favor of a narrow focus on doomed independent party pipedreams and fairly ineffective labor organizing. The purpose of the DSA was twofold; to reconnect the US left with civil rights movements, environmentalism, anti-war, ect, providing bridges to organizing with left-liberals, with the second purpose of taking over the Democratic party as much as possible. The goal of the DSA from the beginning of the organization was as a structure to build political power on the left separate from the Democrats, while also mounting a sustained campaign to take over the Dems, with those two goals supporting each other.

So then the DSA ended up actually being reasonably effective at both those things, slowly but steadily building power and credibility, and then basically the second the DSA got real national attention a bunch of chapters get swamped with all kinds of weird entryists who want to have their own very specific vanguard party but recognize that the DSA has more legitimacy and infrastructure.

There's literally DSA chapters that refuse to have anything to do with Democrats.

Guys you are literally the DSA lol, if you don't want to try to influence the Democratic party you should consider building your own org