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Solidarity amongst workers!

I don't know much about economics, but I think wealth inequality and affordability issues may both be effects of other causes, like: neoliberal capitalist government policies, advertising ubiquity, and unprecedented consumer spending relative to earnings (eg, credit card debt).

I like the saying "buy less, be more" and I think it illustrates how society's doing the opposite. Dual earner households are the norm yet many seem to have less money to spend than generations before. So long as people need a new 'smartphone' every year or two and are overly dependent on services like food delivery or meal prep kits they're probably not going to be able to build savings. (For those making more money, replace 'smartphone' with brand new car.) "The cost of conformity."

I remember working a summer job in the financial industry (which I've spent very little time in). I heard of a boss who pushed new, young employees to get expensive car leases as soon as they joined the company. With that monthly bill on their books, those workers couldn't skip a beat at work. My point is that until "consumer spending is too low" for the capitalists' fancy, (the threat of) poverty in other people is profitable for the ultra rich and these trends will likely continue

That was my best guess too but I didn't want to assume. You said it really well

Thanks! Why do you share it?

Thank you, that's a nice example that a nation can learn from its history and do better going forward. South Africa is on the moral right side in 2024, while most powerful countries pretend there isn't a genocide going on by the apartheid state of Israel. My home country of Canada, which has its own history of genocide (Indigenous peoples), has something to learn from South Africa, the Non-Aligned Movement, and other nations who are bravely standing up against the perpetrators of war crimes and their accomplices

Misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, PoS Sean Strickland XD

Disgusting and reprehensible behaviour by the RCMP 🤮

Quotes from UFC champ Sean Strickland at media day 😳:

Misogyny:

Take Wednesday’s pre-fight media day, for example. Strickland showed up in a T-shirt that read: “A woman in every kitchen, a gun in every hand.” You know, just in case we were in danger of forgetting that this is the same fighter who has repeatedly insisted that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote or hold jobs.

Homophobia:

When Lee replied that he’d have no problem with having a gay son, Strickland replied: “Well, you’re a weak fucking man, dude. You’re part of the fucking problem. You elected Justin Trudeau, and he seized the bank accounts. You’re just fucking pathetic. And the fact that you have no fucking backbone, and have him shut down your country and seize fucking bank accounts, and you ask me some stupid shit like that? Go fuck yourself.”

Transphobia:

“Here’s the thing about Bud Light,” Strickland said. “Ten years ago, to be trans was a mental fucking illness. And all of a sudden, people like you have fucking weaselled your way in the world. You are an infection. You are the definition of weakness. Everything that is wrong with the world is because of fucking you. And the best thing is, the world’s not buying it. The world’s not buying your fucking bullshit that you’re fucking peddling. The world is not saying, ‘you know what, you’re right, chicks have dicks.’ The world’s not saying that. The world’s saying, ‘there are two genders, I don’t want my kids being taught about who they can fuck in school, I don’t want my kids being taught about their sexual preference.’ Like, this guy [gesturing to Lee] is a fucking enemy. You want to look at the enemy to our world? It’s that motherfucker right there. Asking me stupid fucking questions.”

“We can’t imagine what the people of Palestine are going through,” said Liberal MP Shafqat Ali. “What we witnessed with our own eyes, it’s basically constant humiliation, and constant mental torture.”

She said her Palestinian constituents warned her of what life is like in the West Bank, but she was still shocked. “I’ve never seen or imagined that level of dehumanization,” she said.

The group met Palestinian grade-school children who lamented being taught about human rights, which the students argue they don’t have. “That’s how the international community has failed, in that idea of an international, rules-based order, when that’s the base of it, when a 12-year-old kid can tell you,” Mathyssen said.

“I’ve seen conflict areas; I’ve seen areas where there’s some real poverty. And I would say that what we saw in Jenin was probably one of the worst things I’d ever seen,” she said.

“There’s such despair because it was relentless — the attacks, the loss of life, the impacts on the community. Every building had bullet holes in them, every family’s living conditions were damaged.”

End the genocide - Free Palestine!

It's totally not genocide though /s

Great coverage of the rally, thanks for sharing! Free Palestine!