Oh definitely. I think they’re being offered a horrible deal. But I can see how some might be inclined to take the shitty deal if their current financial situation is in fact one of desperation. I hope their citizens are in better shape than Americans.
Desperate is the right word, and I think they’re intending to make people more desperate in order to exert control.
I’m not saying a $10k gift would be life-changing, but it would pay off a significant amount of my debt, freeing up a lot of my monthly cash flow.
Is it “coke” or “cock”?
I wonder how fast and much daily fashion will change. Like, no more knitted or crocheted items, or their resale value will go way up.
Jesus Christ. What racist sludge.
even though he never said it out loud like Trump.
If he never said that, how do you know he believed it?
Nah, it’s the US National Parks.
But honestly, none of those are worth your safety as an international traveler. Just wait until it’s safer. Though that might be a couple decades, at this point.
you should improve the material conditions of people so they can have enough time to empathize with others
I just want to applaud this absolute gem hidden sneakily in this comment. Well done. Like, get out of here with that excellent anti-capitalism, pro-social, pro-human logic.
I hereby declare this statement to be the new rule of law by which all of society should be run.
I’ve read that the homemade laundry soap is actually soap, not detergent, and that it will over time ruin your machine.
So, I’ve just continued buying laundry detergent and have just used a fraction of what the instructions advise. It’s worked for me. I don’t buy softener or sheets. Couldn’t afford it if I wanted to. But I do have oxyclean on hand only for when I’ve forgotten a load in the washer until it’s stinky or when I wash the dog bed covers or whatever.
I can speak a little bit from an education perspective, like why a lot of universities are acquiescing to federal orders.
Right now, the philosophy at a lot of large universities is that it’s better to survive in some capacity to be able to educate young people (academic freedom is still allowed in classrooms, my university keeps insistently reminding faculty), than be shut down and shot and be unable to educate anyone at all. Also, they have thousands of employees relying on them for a paycheck to feed their families.
I’m still pissed at the loss of minority support systems. Students feel betrayed at the loss of gender neutral housing. There is righteous anger brewing. I’m part of the LGBT community, and seeing my community silenced as an organizational body and deleted from ongoing research boils my blood and makes me want to burn everything down.
But deep down, I get it. We have to keep educating youth about the true history of the USA, keep teaching them about how science works, keep exposing small town 18-year olds to other races and cultures to open their minds to empathy. If we don’t, we’ll have an entire generation that only has right-wing propaganda to teach them about the world.
Higher ed administration has a lot of weight on their shoulders. They of course side with minorities morally, ethically, and as human beings. It’s a really hard place to be in.
I’m wondering if this perspective is driving anyone in federal departments, as well.
I was going to say…sounds like the USA in about three months. (Obviously trans discrimination is already here… I’m referring to the LGBQ discrimination being included.)
I never once blamed the victims. And I never will.
Everything we do that makes dictatorships happy now will be something the USA will have to answer to in the international courts in the coming years.
Thank you for the encouragement. I do need to do this. Especially with the current climate in the USA.
wasn’t there a US news anchor recently saying that everyone on earth should strive to be part of the US?
What?? Really?? That’s horrible! Why are Americans wanting to move toward a colonist/Empire future? We were taught in schools (superficially, I guess?) that that kind of national behavior is BAD and caused a ton of violence and death. I am so baffled.
I vividly remember reading in English class both fiction and nonfiction stories about the atrocities done by the British empire in India and Africa. We all read Anne Frank. We learned in “socials studies” class about the tragedies committed against indigenous Americans. Where did all of this come from?
Agreed. The fact that we have to depend on structurally patriarchal/domineering justice system is the problem… It’s a whole mess.
Great point. Probably a filtering done by our national media so that any interaction with global entities makes it sound like we’re being praised….
I’d love to spread your family’s mindset through the larger white American culture (the one in which I was raised)!
I have! That show absolutely terrifies me, since yeah, a small minority of people convinces a ton of other people to do violence against women in a way that feels very USA 2025. But that’s a great point! When the main character realizes her power, she goes far in protecting herself and others.
It’s difficult because our culture trains us from birth to never realize we can fight back. Like, I have a strong suspicion that if I was suddenly attacked, my brain would dump all ideas of fighting back and just freeze, which of course allows the violence to happen. I don’t think this is a “natural state” of being for women or any person. I think we were just trained this way, which makes it a very difficult mindset to overcome; I believe that this is by design.
So…how do we retrain women and girls to respond with a #traumatizethemback mindset? Seems impossible to do this at the cultural level, at least for several generations.
Because that worked so well before.