CantTrip [she/her]
The War on Drugs is in many ways the root of exploding police budgets…
Pedantic point, maybe, but the real root of those things was a mix of racism and a desire to violently oppress poor people to benefit the wealthy. The War on Drugs was a powerful means to do this, but without it, there would have been something else.
“The War on Bad Childhoods,” where Black and/or poor parents are surveilled/incarcerated/beaten/shook down for “yelling” at their kids, perhaps?
I’m gonna say 54. I think it will be similar to, but slightly under 2016. There’s been no progress enfranchising people, and the situation is largely the same: uninspiring “less evil” vs “worst evil ever” with the latter having a dedicated minority fan base.
The pandemic/ mail ballots will decrease it by the ~1.5% (well, more than that but I’m offsetting it with how even more dangerous Trump is to people). The percentage of people who are too disinterested/ cynical/ exhausted/ unmotivated to vote will remain the same. Most leftists who swore they wouldn’t vote are coming around, the ones still holding fast mostly didn’t vote last time.
If I’m right, how many upbears are mine to keep?
I love when cats chill up high and then peer down at us. It is the correct way of things.
When there is no actual outlet for your political imagination or building towards your goals, the “just do a bunch of charity” fantasies creep in.
I know, I have them too. Hopefully someday we’ll have built enough of a movement that there’s too much to do in that arena to think about a quiet life where I just give what I can away.
Wages aren’t entirely insulated by industry, though. A simple exemplary scenerio: if everyone knew engineers could stop engineering tomorrow and get data entry jobs for 45k/year, engineering firms would pay their engineers more to keep engineering. But if those decent jobs aren’t available to them, the firm knows the workers will be much more likely to accept 45k a year to engineer.
Though some industries (“biomedical engineering”) are more insulated from wage depression and men-dominated careers do tend to be more insulated than women- dominated or equitable careers.
No totally, you’re point is very clear and well- taken and the person you’re replying to must have had a recent bad convo with some chud using vehicular death as a minimization or something.
Just because someone “could” use vehicular death as a minimization of other things doesn’t mean that’s what you’re doing, and I think the users here aren’t so disingenuous that you can’t even raise your point.
Tons of violent road deaths, tons of trauma and broken families, and an unwillingness to examine it because greatly improving it would cost money.
I totally agree - I really like watching it as mindless entertainment. Cops upsets me too much - there’s violence against vulnerable people that are also being exploited and humiliated. But Shark Tank is just some upper middle class, wannabe tyrants waggling in front of some Uncanny Valley- looking monsters.
The only thing that bothers me is the heaps of liberal feminism:
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“Young women like you are exactly what we need more of in the sports equipment subsector,” shouts Barbara
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“You boys WILL let me finish talking” (about how many tons of plastic I’ve sold on TV that’s now in landfills), admonishes Lori
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The massive, cringe chorus of “You go girl!” in response to any woman, of any age, having a good sales statistic
It’s soo superficial, of course 99% of women could never get off the ground enough to get on the show. But those women just aren’t hustlers.
Oh, and every veteran gets a deal. That’s a rule of Shark Tank.
This source could be helpful i think. They use a poverty model beyond the “income cut off.” This is their predictions for January under different scenarios (click Download Brief)
Edit: If the unemployment bolsters from the CARES Act expire, they predict the poverty rate will climb to 17.5%
As of December 2020, two unemployment provisions of the CARES Act remain in place until the end of the year: Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), which expands eligibility for unemployment benefits, and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), which extends the duration of unemployment insurance coverage. If the PUA and PEUC expire, we find that the number of individuals in poverty in January 2021 will increase by approximately 4.8 million.
I can’t find their actual numbers for November. But my phone sucks.
Getting an IUD was such a load off my mind. Definitely increased my sexual happiness. Yes, insertion is painful and I wish my partner and I could trade off every 5 years. Actually, we’d both probably just get it because increased security is worth the 3 minutes of big ouch and 1 day of small ouch.
Condoms are not as effective as hormonal (or copper iud) birth control. Using them instead of birth control increases “fairness” but the least fair thing that can happen in consensual, healthy sex is an unwanted pregnancy and that happens to the AFAB person.
This argument is so stupid for the majority of people who have sex. Exception being AFABs with awful side effects.