Not just the US, seems like a united oligarchy front and initiative; The UK just re-sold the royal mail last week to a billionaire who will move operations and taxation out of the UK in 5 years. Same stupid short-term thinking that got governments in a shitshow to begin with.

Vote by mail and democratic participation smothering is also the goal of privatizing so there is less transparency and accountability and more corruption angles.

Protect your Post CA!

Maybe the deep south is our poison reflex to vomit; the deep south knows it’s the sickest part of a dying patient and is trying to eject the venom.

Ah, sorry I found the link through Google, didn’t know there was a paywall, I don’t have a sub either. It looks like if you read the top before the paywall it still has the article summary; London rents rose 11.4% YOY.

The jokes will be on the billionaires whose wet dream for the last 4p years was to gut social security…not only will people pass from Deaths of Despair long before that. 67 YO in this world? Lol. Give capitalism another decade unfettered and male life expectancy will be in the 60s, guaranteed.

-life expectancy is already plummeting in the US vs. other countries, but the morons are going to kill much immigration–the only thing that has been sustaining the US’s population. Every other country would be desperate for cheap, unskilled labor to exploit and birthrates but not these short-sighted greedy fucks.

I use brave as default search on Firefox, and search in incognito by default. On mobile, brave doesn’t save the “disable AI” setting so the slop is there for every search, not to mention slowing down the process.

As if to prove your point on London, this is timely…https://www.ft.com/content/fa6fdb8e-c36e-4854-8b3a-1552ab41f217

This 13% permanent reduction in benefits by raising Full Retirement Age several months for each birth year from age 65 to 67was passed under Reagan. It was bad policy then and coupled with allowing companies to offload the management of pensions with the advent of the disastrous 401k scam will combine to have very few Americans being able to stop working in their later or even very late years.

The same corporate greed that cut pensions is the same force that has kept wages stagnant or declining in purchasing power for decades, which only exacerbates the dependency on social security. The complexity and specialized knowledge required to independently manage and plan for one’s own retirement is beyond almost all americans–regardless of their income as, like the Tax Code, is arcane, opaque and takes enormous effort and time to learn and understand.

Worst of all, and somewhat aligned with your post title, with the raising of the SS retirement age (which will also be proposed and MASSIVELY hammered in the US media to support fucking over the public further when Trifecta Trump and congress ram it through) and the disappearance of pensions, even those who do have the means, it becomes less clear when it’s appropriate to retire. Golden years, time with grandchildren, focusing on ones health…it all will be assaulted again. I fully expect the retirement age will be raised or even eliminated and, unlike the french, our pathetic, gullible public will eat it up and then wonder why life is so hard.

I recommend Work, Retire, Repeat that came out this year for a thorough review with solutions and the many more attractive options our country has to choose from…if we can wrest control back from the ultra-wealthy who just want slave labor until you die and care nothing for your life, family, friends, or our society and country.

Temu Tom

I can’t help with that, but let me transfer you to someone who you’ll get to explain it all to over again.

Moore was way to the left of Obama and always has been. What you want, him to get up on stage at every moderate and right winger and shout “I’m still correct and more progressive that you are” to prove he’s consistent?

Dude hasn’t changed what he does since the beginning, maybe pay attention.

He’s been on a roll since 1989 with Roger and Me, the hell do you mean “lately”?

For the basic plan, based on usage though it looks like you’d save more with our premium tier that allows unlimited flushes per day and includes our smellfesh scent subscription.

Employee salaries in HR; they are both correctly paid(employer perspective often), underpaid (employee perspective often), and overpaid (company and co-worker perspective). Depending on how and how often you open the box, any of these views can be accurate.

If you’re shocked that broad corporate fair-weather astroturfing wasn’t actually what it claimed, you were naive. The speed coming the other way–from not acknowledging LGBTQ or other minority groups existed as humans who deserve a voice or consideration to sponsoring pride shirts and hiring visibly tokenized figureheads–should have been indicative the change wasn’t organic, which means it wasn’t going to stick at the first pressure; economic, political, or other.

Companies largely follow non-discrimination laws related to employment not because it’s the right thing to do, but because they can be sued easily under federal and many states’ employment laws. Don’t put your time into company-run employee groups, put it into getting progressives elected and engaging with unionization so you can take your place at the table rather than waiting for it to be given.

Sample bias. Any advertising, campaigning, fawning and celebrating are the exceptions. You are exposed to the “success stories” exponentially more through media thanks to government and corporate forces despite the successes being exponentially rarer than the failures: suicides, mental health disorders, divorces, denied medical care by VA, insufficiency of college fund programs, underemployment, etc. The coverage Success Stories get as the 1% or whatever, dwarfs the failures which are the 99%. This reversed representation explains why they may be perceived as equally likely, which is confusing.

The answer is sample bias; deliberately misleading. After all, who is going to sign up if they could see reality represented? Most would just work fast food–same crappy outcomes, fewer bullets.

Completely walking away from sports you followed with passion your whole life because you just aren’t interested in learning the next crop of pros. Also, you know the way money and politics and other things force things in sport and it takes the fun out of it…same can be said for music.

They have to make a statement, they’re attempting to not hide but also not enrage further. They, of course, because they can’t be honest nor fix the structural issue that is the cause of the problem in the first place, failed.

To directly fund the president’s choice of Bitcoin reserve to the spectacular enrichment of himself, Texas and anyone else in the know. The oil rush is on and there will only be one winner…

Label creation is nothing better than generalization to avoid critical thinking. While helpful at an elementary level for a basic understanding of the world, is generally harmful to humans being better humans.

Historically used as a weapon of manipulation by fascists (immigrants are x, Jews are y, etc), it’s also come into common use among “liberals” in the US who started dropping to the level of conservatives post-great recession or around the time the whole population had smartphones and their news from Facebook. It’s why the US has arrived at such toxic levels of “discourse” in society, false dichotomies, and echo chambers.

Do you hear the people sing?

Singing the song of angry men

This is the music of a people

Who will not be slaves again

When the beating of your heart

Echoes the beating of a drum

There is a life about to start

When tomorrow comes