US rule of law straining at the seams.
US science infrastructure choked and reeling.
Academic freedom squealing like a pig.
Global economy teetering on the edge of meltdown.
Wall St CEOs self-censoring on earnings reports.
It took them 81 days.
Talk about American exceptionalism.
US science infrastructure choked and reeling.
Academic freedom squealing like a pig.
Global economy teetering on the edge of meltdown.
Wall St CEOs self-censoring on earnings reports.
It took them 81 days.
Talk about American exceptionalism.
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The fascists don’t own us. And they never will.
US prestige culture, as seen from abroad, just evaporated.
Not this time though!
Had the same thing happened in any European country, the riot police woulf have to fight rioters basically 24/7 and any politician who supported that would basically be getting lynched.
This can't happen in Europe because we demonstrate and riot at the slightest misstep. Americans never ever did that and well, here we are
IMO, Columbia just trashed their brand. It’s a school for cowards.
The entire board should be dismissed
America just proved how easily easily everything thrown out the window and how useless the laws and guardrails meant to prevent that are.
And these clowns 🤡 are pretending that they have the upper deck.
The world has a different opinion.
This is a disaster the likes of which no one has seen before.
It is the single most consistent pattern of the archetypal "empire".
Not with a bang but with a whimper. TS Eliot
France would have been on fire and Macron’s head on a stick if he was attempting even 10% of Doge’s actions in US.
There is a vast split in views and demographics between the old industrial unions and the younger service industry ones.
And it is the latter that’s been pushing hard to expand unionization membership.
But this is yet another reason to rise up.
Essentially, most of the major gains in American labor rights were won by radical unions like the Wobblies and the Knights of Labor.
The federal government elevated a conservative union into “partnership” with business, and labor evolved in a right-ward direction.
It took me < 30s to bring this up ⬇️.
I will never again believe Eurotwaddle about how much better informed y’all are after all the ignorant nonsense Europeans have posted about unions 🤣.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/265958/percentage-workers-union-members.aspx
https://eji.org/issues/prison-conditions/
But we also feel a groundswell of opposition from the many millions of us with a lot less to lose.
It is time for a real meritocracy to emerge. We can see it won't come from the ivy's or the big corporations.
watching Chernobyl, that this is how it would go down in America today in the meltdown sequence and “We’d just abandon everyone” in the evacuation and cleanup episode.
Why are law offices and universities folding so quickly???
IT WOULD BE FUNNY IF IT WASN'T SO DISGUSTING
I think it was called Nosferatu?
A multitude of small acts incrementally boost their power. Therfore, they aren't the sole problem.
Conflict of any kind in professional settings is a disciplinary offense, when 20 years ago managers had to wrangle bitter battles over policy and procedure.
A culture of top-down leadership where orders flow from management to staff evolved over time.
Turns out some degree of workplace democracy and wider social support and civic culture are critical bulwarks against fascism.
That created a climate where people on the top feel they and only they have earned a right to a political voice.
Stay strong! Fight back!
On the other hand, the whole bottom had rotted out from under the country. The US is still refusing to produce George W Bush, who irreparably damaged the US (it seems) in a wide variety of ways, including sending people to foreign countries to be tortured.
Biden sat on his ass and did nothing about Trump's criminal behavior, did nothing about the Courts, about elections, etc. Now here we are.