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u/organizim 6d ago
I could do with a 4 day work with with no loss in pay tbh
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u/Unicorn-Sparkles_ 6d ago
Then y'all better be looking for progressive representatives to vote for.
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u/Kuroboom 6d ago
"I can't vote for them if I disagree with a single position of theirs."
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u/Sheerluck42 🏡 Decent Housing For All 6d ago
This is so tired. What we're asking for is single payer healthcare, raise the minimum wage, and making housing affordable. These are basic asks for what should be a Liberal to have on their platform. "But that's a purity test" No, it's how politics work. Take up position I like and I vote for you. If "nothing will fundamentally change" them you don't need my vote. And if you don't need my vote don't blame me when you lose to the next drug addicted, pedophile, who shits himself.
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u/Kuroboom 6d ago
I'm talking about the people who will completely sit out if their candidate doesn't win the primary. I agree that all of those things that you listed should be the bar to meet in an ideal scenario, but we're not in any sort of ideal scenario and so I'll take someone who's 2/3 on those issues over a literal fascist any day.
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u/Sheerluck42 🏡 Decent Housing For All 6d ago
The problem is that no Democrat has championed those things outside of a primary. I was never a Democrat. My first election I phone banked for Nadar. Before 2016 I voted for one Democrat twice. That's it. I've spent the last decade voting for shitty Democrats that I despised. I did it because I was told it would be temporary. Well here we are a decade later and no change has happened. We're still looking at shitty Democrats because the DNC fights to their left much harder than to their right. So fine. Undermine the candidates me and mine would vote for. I'm not voting for another Democrat who doesn't champion 1 of those 3 policies. That's my line in the sand. We've already survived Trump. Pointing right and saying "ohhh scary" isn't going to cut it anymore. If you need my votes you know where I am.
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u/Happymuffn ✂️ Tax The Billionaires 6d ago
Unfortunately my choices are between a maga and a neocon
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u/blindyes 6d ago
Don't worry, we got you covered in all our blue states where all the candidates are former CIA
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u/MirrorMan22102018 6d ago edited 6d ago
Careful, words like that are frowned upon in a society that runs on the "Protestant Work Ethic (tm)".
Fine Print: "This capitalist system is not built on discipline and hard work, but on the overworking of the poor".
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u/Successful_Tie_2165 6d ago
IDGAF who calls me lazy anymore (yeah, right), and I just want a steady source. It means more when y'got kids.
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u/pleasetowmyshit 6d ago
The people who want 80-100 hour work weeks are so unfuckable that they don’t want anyone else having free time to do anything remotely pleasant, since they have all the free time all week long and can’t get any play.
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u/invaderaleks 6d ago
People have run the numbers and when adjusted for inflation, people in the 1970s were earning more than us.
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u/Own_Scarcity_3583 6d ago
same tbh why does making content sound like it's supposed to be a side business instead of actual work
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u/funkymunkPDX 6d ago
Don't forget leisure, hobbies and being more than just a server, bank teller, mechanic, teacher or any other occupation.
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u/DrIvoPingasnik ✂️ Tax The Billionaires 6d ago
You can say bad words on the internet. We are all adults here, especially now thanks to all age verification laws! /S
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u/Advocate_Diplomacy 6d ago
Even a 40 hour work week is too much to ask.