CantTrip [she/her]
Oh fuck comrade I’m sorry. I was arrested long after getting clean on the bullshit ‘we found something suspicious in your car’ which they searched because dogs signaled, who were brought because I “seemed nervous.” It was a weekend morning. My boyfriend was sleeping in so I took the car to get donuts and run by the dollar store - it was rare for me to go off alone at that time. $300 to get the car out.
So my boyfriend was you.
We also went through a post-traumatic phase where we both preferred I not go anywhere alone. I felt - and still feel - that if I get pulled over, it’s game over. They see the history of addiction and find a way to find “something.” It’s stressful to always go together, stressful to worry when you’re apart.
But at least my history is something I made some choices to create - your gf being trans is just an inherent quality of who she is.
Fuck all of that. I hope things get better. Know that PTSD, stress, anxiety, anger, is 100% a common and reasonable reaction and may last a long time. Talk to each other about how you’re feeling (as soon as you can). You guys are tough, your gf is hella tough with the things she’s been through.
Things get better the longer you get from being totally justice non- involved. One thing that helps is even though we’re poor, we save to an emergency fund, so if I get fucked over again the financial element can’t be held over us. That’s empowering and stress relieving.
This comment is a textbook example of using PoC’s preferences (as you estimate them) as a stand- in for legitimacy in your reasoning.
And is the ultimate “white college educated middle class” thing to do.
A lot of Black women are inspired to be politically engaged by Neera Tanden. Does that mean Neera Tanden is good?
This line of rhetoric is very patronizing at best, objectifying at worse.
I actually know people who are most affected by neoliberal capitalism in real life - working class POCs
“Before I make my argument, let me just say, I have lots of Black friends…”
Your personal experience is that you think Jimmy Dore has some sort of positive impact on leftist discourse or exposure and shouldn’t be disregarded out of hand.
That’s fine, that’s an opinion, and I’m sure people would be interested to hear you out on it.
The rest was your guess at other people’s personal experiences and painting your opinion as the “Black-approved” one, which is then equated with the correct leftist view.
We see that tactic all the time when white liberals defend Bill Clinton.
On NPR early on, they talked to two ‘experts’ who were medical doctors, a listener-submitted question was about the efficacy of masks. Both said the droplets carrying the virus would escape through the gaps around the nose, rendering them useless. In Asian countries, you see a lot of masks, that’s more of a cultural thing, one said.
A couple weeks later masks were being recommended by the CDC but of course NPR never publicized a redaction, just pretended that of course they were saying it all along - they are the bastion of Good Information, bestowed upon them by God, immune to the failings that non-liberal journalism can suffer.
Yeah because it’s much easier to exploit people who care about the future of their communities than it is to exploit people who will gladly allow the meadow on the other side of town to be bulldozed if it means they get a Red Mango closer to their house
Our competition with one another for everything is the most obviously exploitable thing wtf
Good foresight. Although it’s amazing just how much they can make about communism [see blobjim’s comment].
In the same interview, they said that it was almost certain that asymptomatic people wouldn’t transmit the virus.
And I’m not upset they didn’t know things early on, it’s just the bravado over-confidence in the “Western method” of avoiding asking the populace to do anything and just letting the experts figure it out. They bent the limited data to their notion that something as goofy and paranoid as everyone masking up must be pointless.
I love when cats chill up high and then peer down at us. It is the correct way of things.
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.