Franzia

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[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometimes, yeah. But you've got more allies too and we're loud and annoying. Black Lives Matter!!!!!!!!! :3

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are my favorite person today.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Unions exist in Liberal and Social Democracies, too. They want to keep us on this Neoliberal path, because it's so very exploitable. Unions are just a drop of democracy, but for your workplace, or sometimes renting and transit systems.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm already paying more for American made products, in search of better oversight and safety. If it offered workers better pay, that would be a huge win for "voting with my wallet".

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm out of the loop. I was under the impression all American car manufacturing started in Mexico and ended in the American Midwest / South. So it would just be moving production down that line. Did VW do manufacturing entirely in Mexico? Does VW have reliability issues? I stopped my interest after the Diesel scandal.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've never heard of Holacracy before. What? Why? How? Has it been tried?

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

This wouldn't be the first time a representative was shamed in slang. I remember the first time I felt Santorum for myself.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did as recently as 2020! I felt HBO had quite a lot street cred, hosting Vice News and shows about current American issues. And Bill was not so bad then, but he's rapidly become such an obvious shithead since then.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 year ago

where he tells his fellow ignorant people what to think.

In the last few years he's had a deeply progressive audience. And they used to groan at him. And he's just become more ignorant, and I hope it does ruin his reputation and that of his show. I soent so many nights thinking he would have great jokes about the state of things, just to be lectured about why transgenderism and wokism is an empty fad.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Yea he is fundraising and giving his weight to an issue rather than donating his own wages. John does deserve to keep the money he earns after working as a writer for like twenty years.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

I never noticed how insidious this was. I thought it was really funny at first. Like oh, I groaned and he's reminding me to have fun. But he has taken it to mean his audience needs to be exposed to grifters and harmful talking points disguised as "challenging ideas"

I mean I really kept watching Bill after he dropped the N-word, I am a die hard comedy fan and it's effectively impossible to cross the line with me. But Bill Maher is completely full of shit.

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