They’ll be fine. Mass layoffs depress wages.

Ah ok I did misinterpret it! Thanks for the correction.

I don’t really understand what you’re saying, sorry.

Oh my bad. What does the meme mean then?

Am I reading this meme right when I think it’s implying that folks are getting over-diagnosed with mental disorders? Because that’s some RFK jr shit. Shame on you.

EDIT: I did misread it, I fully agree with OP.

Billionaires don’t make things

What? Context exists. Historically, we’ve enslaved peoples, we’ve genocided peoples, and so on. And yes, sometimes yhis entails different treatment of those peoples to right those wrongs. Pretending otherwise is some white lives matter shit.

It is worse to say the n word than it is to say cracker, and I will die on that hill.

I disagree. This same argument can be made for a minstrel style depiction of obama. It is precisely their historic use that makes them problematic.

That’s completely fair. Individuals did do a lot to change governments minds for the ozone layer. However, there are a lot of people who think that buying into oil companies’ propaganda and recycling or driving electric cars or whatever is the way to drive such systemic change, sadly. Instead of course (as the oil companies intended), all it does is make people feel good about themselves so they’re not motivated to do anything to actually solve the problem.

This exactly. It’s a room full of people wiping the floor with single tissue papers while one guy is spraying the floor with a fire hose. But hey, at least they get to feel good about themselves because they can tell themselves “I did my part”. What else could they do?

That’s all well and good, but relying on individual action to solve systemic problems still doesn’t work. Systemic problems require system-level solutions. We didn’t get rid of the hole in the ozon layer because everyone individually did their part; we got there through regulations, laws, and action on the level of governments.

That last part was interesting to me. Every president since Eisenhower, every single one, no exceptions (none), was a war criminal. Has any administration ever prosecuted a previous one for war crimes?

Yes, the order of the guys.

Not to get too “um actually” on this but Sputnik 1 predates Explorer 1

Oh shit, China invaded a country too? Which one? It really is WWIII

Being more left wing than a right winger does not make you a centrist.

The annoying thing here is that there is a relative and an absolute notion of leftism, and it’s really hard to get a good grasp of what actual centrism and actual leftism looks like when your entire context consists of people who consider anything slightly left of full blown fascism “centrist” or even “left wing”.

Please keep that in mind next time a democrat tells you they have to move further right to win voters. Your family member is very far from unique.

As long as they don’t drone strike entire weddings in Yemen, as long as they don’t explicitly protect the torturers of Abu Ghraib, as long as they don’t pass a copy of Romneycare but more right wing, as long as they don’t send 40B to a nation actively engaged in ethnic cleansing, as long as they don’t expand upon and set the stage for worsening the border policy that is already draconian, as long as they don’t send care packages to bankers responsible for the economy tanking. When will you moronic liberals get it through your thick fucking skulls that this is not about optics but about policy. Jesus fucking christ

Vote blue lol

Real “if a democrat were doing this we’d be at brunch right now” energy.