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Shattering the mirror doesn’t change what is reflected.

https://orinocotribune.com/venezuela-and-iran-a-shared-struggle/ thanks to this newsfeed, for the article: https://news.abolish.capital/

https://youtu.be/QPYUOPVsBq0

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Cake day: June 16th, 2024

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  • Costco, I try to avoid Amazon, and haven’t bought anything there but twice in several years. Clothing, uh, lol. I bought a couple of sets of work clothes at a store going out of business, and the two nearish villages to mine have indie thrift stores. If I need something else, I’ll pick it up locally at a dollar store or small, indie grocery, but if I’m by a chain grocery and I get a good price, I’ll go there.









  • Think of it this way: Federal welfare and entitlement reform that lowers the welfare consumed by the hypothetical native-born American above from $1,500 to $200 a month would be a monumental achievement. Scholars would write books, academic papers, and a million blog posts and news stories about it. American taxpayers would save money, and the scale of welfare in this country would shrink to a level so low that European stereotypes about American state stinginess would start to match reality. But you’d never know it happened if you relied on Camarota’s method of measurement.

    TAX. WEALTH. OUT. OF. EXISTENCE!








  • There’s no struggle. People want to do this physically punishing and mentally taxing work, but the pay is low and without benefits, you use your own transportation and devices, buy your own fuel, tires, maintenance, clock-in and note apps are intrusive AF, you pay for your own certifications, and heaven forbid you get hurt, because these places delay turning in Workers’ Comp, it’s slow to be approved, then you get the hellscape, piecemeal, contracted services, and if you’re still fortunate enough to have a job after that, they cut hours to nothing, or suddenly can’t find you suitable clients.

    I personally think that funding has been cut to force people into “skilled nursing facilities,” owned by holding companies, that they can not afford, so they end up on Medicaid, if they qualify, which requires the recipient to sign over their home to the state, who then sells it to pay what Medicaid doesn’t cover, often to, wait for it… The same holding companies.


  • In the United States, No Child Left Behind tied school funding to standardized test results, while also increasing the required number of standardized tests. These are already biased to favor white, middle and upper class boys, anyway. Teachers taught rote, that’s basically it, to improve test scores, not learning. Before that, you can look for Lee Atwater’s full interview about the Southern Strategy he did with The Nation. But in introduction to sociology, in college, it discusses how schools were designed to teach kids enough to understand and follow orders, not enough to question those orders. That makes for a hella compliant work force, military, police, FBI/NSA force. Other Western states followed suit, some got the privilege to pay for it, others the privilege of having it deducted from pay, through taxes, which is fine if it were to actually…educate.

    I think graded levels are a terrible idea and that all schools should follow the Montessori model.