If full time Walmart employees need government assistance programs to afford food and pay their rent, is it not Walmart who is leaning on government assistance?

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  • I used to wonder, but after how many people I saw talking about the Epstein files and Trump after Elon brought them up as if this is a new accusation, I no longer think they have vision or hearing outside of their safe spaces.

    Connecting this back to the rural republican divide: They seem to have come to the conclusion that Trump wants to be a dictator entirely by listening to him and other Republicans.



  • I never thought about it that way. Great take. If empathy is tied to percentage of wealth donated then surely the middle or middle upper is the winner, but in terms of what one wishes to give, I find it hard to believe from my experience with extremely impoverished people that they wouldn’t give more if they could.

    I’ll never forget a guy in Chicago that while we were checking out a pizza place he walked up, obviously struggling, but was highly recommending the place and gave me a free slice because he was full after his first one. I didn’t want to take it but eventually did because it seemed important to him. I think about him often.



  • This is not true at all. Poor people are incredibly empathetic and forgiving. The middle class is a mixed bag but mostly just want to understand why and how to avoid it in the future. Rich people are a mixed bag, too, but most of the biggest assholes are rich.

    This is from experience as a banker for many years. Whenever I had bad news (fees for example) for a poor person, they just looked sad. Whenever I had bad news for a rich person 1/3 of the time, they’d want me fired for being the messenger, 1/3 they disappear to talk to a higher up, and 1/3 they grumble and accept it. There are exceptions in every gro. Some rich folks were super nice, some middle class people were nightmares, but there was never a poor person who took it out entirely on the low tier employees.

    I think there’s solidarity that the decision comes from others and it’s out of our hands. This may also be because I never told them bad news without advocating for them behind the scenes and understanding the whole sequence of events first. Probably over half the time I got the fees revoked since it was an accident or bad timing on something the bank did. Since we were a small bank, I had more power than big banks would allow.








  • All it takes is Google search to see they do not have exactly the same rights, and you are entirely unconvincing of your opposition to genocide when you deny apartheid. Iran’s actions being worse than Israeli actions immediately harkens back to my original point, which is that I’ve never talked to a progenocider that didn’t think history began at the last time they remember a Muslim doing something bad. Answering bad faith with good faith is a gift, you’re welcome.


  • Lasherz@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldEvery single time... -.-
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    Not really… Iran and Houthis do bad things, so does Hamas, but we don’t look at the little baby trees when we see the conflict, we look at the monstrous forest of horrendous shit Israel has done, and continues to do. Iran is not an ethnostate, Israel is. Your hive mind barbaric Muslim neighbors argument falls well short and you look like a concern troll. If you knew enough to be antigenocide here then you’d also well understand why the Israeli ethnostate should be dissolved and those there should be given equal rights for once in their lives.




  • Why is it that nobody outside of the left has the ability to tell the difference between an accidental attack (that Israel didn’t even try to intercept) and deliberate bombings of civilian centers back to back? You look like an idiot when you compare apples to oranges, but you’re just so thirsty for others doing wrong when it’s your bread and butter.

    Unsurprisingly, most of this Allah account is literally just spreading hate about Muslims mostly from Indian sources, who’da guessed? Modi and Netanyahu can die in a bunker together like the Hitlerites they are.


  • A multimeter. There’s so much you can do and learn with a decent multimeter. Extech is a good cheaper brand, as is BK Precision and Brymen. Just make sure it has a built-in fuse for the Amperage reading, and ideally, it should be true RMS.

    A pentel twist erase pencil… best pencil 10/10

    If you wear contacts, use dailies. It’s so liberating to not care if you waste one because it fell in a dirty sink or remove them right before bed without a mirror.

    Automatic plant watering systems. They’re dirt cheap, can run on batteries or USB, and work great.

    A detachable base wood clamp for recycling cardboard. Pierce all your boxes with the end and then put the base back on and haul more boxes at once than you thought was humanly possible.