Surprise

It's very expensive to be poor in USAmerica, Inc.

Erika Jordan

On the long history of how the rich and powerful are always fucking over the people who do the work.

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Sometimes, it's like she's been readin' my mail.

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I may be paranoid, but that don't mean nobody's out to get me.

The strangulation of media freedom has to be slow and gradual. Like the bit about boiling the frog.

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" ... dressed like a coupon, but acting like a ransom note."

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It cycles.

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Democrats need to put labor issues up near the top of their list.

Fuck the PACs and Super PACs, and fuck the big-dollar donors.

You've got the point of the spear, Dems - stick somebody with it.

Erika Jordan

68% of low-wage earners are victims of wage theft every week.

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A How-To video.

1. Google "Ballot Initiative Process [your state]"
2. Write the law
3. File it with your state's Secretary Of State
4. Collect signatures
5. Turn in the signature sheets

The problem is the system depends on people staying poor.

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There's no masked gunman - no scene of the crime - just a soft and steady sucking sound of dollars being siphoned out of our pockets and into the Plutocrats' numbered accounts.

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The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale

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American conservatives die early.

Erika

The fish rots from the head.

Erika

Turns out "Idiocracy" was actually a training film.

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MAGA chuds are convinced of the absurdities, and are now cheering for the atrocities.

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Surface Acting

A drowning person, when asked, "How ya doin'?", is required by social norms to perform floating.

Alexithymia:

Often called "emotional blindness," alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by significant difficulty identifying, understanding, and describing emotions. It is not a mental illness, but rather a deficit in emotional processing that makes it challenging to connect physical sensations - like a racing heart - with specific feelings.