_chris_real

@_chris_real@kolektiva.social

I might have to make a hard climb.
You might have to make the same one too.
So I don't see a difference this time.
I end up at the same place as you.

(If you wanna know my politics, read my posts.
Also: I Follow in haste, and Block at my leisure.)

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matdevdug, to tech
@matdevdug@c.im avatar

The thing about that people who haven’t been through it often don’t understand is that morale never recovers. The employees who remain will never have the same relationship with that company, bosses or peers.

Watching people you respect pack their stuff and crying on the phone with their spouses is something that never goes away. When I survived a layoff in my 20s I became a “do exactly what the ticket says” person. I stopped suggesting ideas, providing feedback, believing anything a manager told me.

If you are a company considering layoffs, especially a profitable company, you should approach it as “this department will have 100% turnover”. The second I got another job offer I left that company and six months later nobody who had been there at the time of layoffs remained.

I’ve seen that pattern play out multiple times.

_chris_real,

@matdevdug

100% turnover is great for obliterating any retirement benefits plan.

My grandfather was laid off after 19 years and 50 weeks. You can guess what he was entitled to if he had worked there for 20 years.

Permanent part-time for service employees is a micro-management of the same goal.

jonny, to random
@jonny@neuromatch.social avatar

They did WHAT
https://retractionwatch.com/2024/02/05/no-data-no-problem-undisclosed-tinkering-in-excel-behind-economics-paper/

_chris_real,

@jonny

Economics is astrology for the rich.

This will explain all, in this matter of mild concern.

ned, (edited ) to random

Honest answer.

_chris_real,

@wesdottoday @shansterable @ned

We don't need to depend on 'heroes' if we have many ordinary people deciding to step up for a moment and speak truth to power.

Simply stating the truth is within the capabilities of anyone—excepting magats, who have sworn an oath NOT to.

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

Mastodon is what happens when well-read children and compassionate thinkers grow up, and congregate in one place.

_chris_real,

@RickiTarr

It's jarring to hear a sincere statement without sarcasm or irony on social media, but it actually feels true.

The fools and trolls flitter away fast—not enough nourishment for their appetites—and I am left with people who like to share interesting or important things they either found out or had already known.

One of the signs of success is that you don't care what people say about you.

pvonhellermannn, (edited ) to random
@pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green avatar

My discipline, anthropology, is not seen as a “growth" discipline, and departments are being closed down. But the world needs Anthropology and Anthropologists now more than ever!

Here are my 8 reasons for this:

  1. POSSIBILITIES
    At a time of polycrisis, when the destructive fallouts of capitalist modernity are ever more apparent, anthropology highlights that there are myriad alternative ways of thinking and living; that there is so much to learn from other peoples in the world. 1/n
_chris_real,

@pvonhellermannn @academicchatter

It's no accident that a dying capitalist culture is trying to protect its narrative* by disempowering a field that has plenty of proof that other cultures thrived without that narrative.

The last social movement that challenged the narrative was OccupyWallStreet—founded in part by David Graeber, who was an anthropologist.

*Btw, the narrative is that capitalism is ubiquitous, inevitable, and responsible for all that is good in society. . .

_chris_real, to random

People who say we shouldn't give Orange Jesus a matching jumpsuit because "it would divide the country! blah-blah-blah" should know this:

I was a teenager when Nixon was caught doing crimes. There was relief and contentment when they showed the helicopter escorting him from the White House, forever.

But when Ford pardoned him, the resentment and sourness returned.

And his chief lackey—Roger Stone—licked his lips, and plotted his way back to this traumatic place, to where we are today.

So I say, we've seen what happens when justice is delayed. This time, let's finish the job.

Our country doesn't need denial or discretion.

It needs CLOSURE. Put the gangster in prison.

_chris_real, to random

"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard.

"Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.

"Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place."

___Kurt Vonnegut, who survived the
fire-bombing of Dresden during WWII

_chris_real, to random

The London judge threw out the charge against Greta Thunberg because—

"no evidence of any offence being committed . . .

"police attempted to impose unlawful conditions . . .

"anyone failing to comply were actually committing no offence . . .

"no witness statements taken . . .

"no evidence of any vehicles being impeded . . ."

The quotes fall like rain.

_chris_real, to random

Just a headsup if you come across this word, and think it means something positive. (Well, in some ways it is; but only if you're a billionaire, or work for one.)

"LONGTERMISM is a quasi-religious worldview, influenced by transhumanism and utilitarian ethics, which asserts that there could be so many digital people living in vast computer simulations millions or billions of years in the future that one of our most important moral obligations today is to take actions that ensure as many of these digital people come into existence as possible."

https://www.salon.com/2022/08/20/understanding-longtermism-why-this-suddenly-influential-philosophy-is-so/

_chris_real, to random

"You want to know why Roe was overturned? Because it could be. For 49 years, the entire right to abortion in this country hinged on a court ruling, not a law."

"Democrats had trifecta control of the House, Senate and White House in 1993 under Bill Clinton, 2009 under Barack Obama, and 2021 to 2023 under Biden — and they could have codified Roe through any of those years."

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/09/on-abortion-rights-blue-dog-biden-is-all-bark-no-bite/

_chris_real, to random

No one should take comfort in the fact that Trump is losing his mind, Reagan spent the last year of his presidency losing his memory from Alzheimer's.

Stephen Miller is perfectly capable of running the government while propping Trump up for television appearances.

Even if he dies, I'm sure Miller has seen "Weekend At Bernie's".

SallyStrange, to Economics
@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe avatar

"Debunking degrowth" or trying to, anyway

"In the degrowth literature, a caricature of the typical economist is presented as believing in unlimited economic growth, and that growth should be pursued regardless of its environmental impact. This is a straw man. It would be a naïve economist who did not recognise that constraints exist. And economists usually limit their projections to a few decades to come, rather than to the infinite future, in which they supposedly believe in unlimited exponential economic growth. Certainly, there are theoretical economic growth models which portray the possibility of exponential growth into the infinite future, but economists have had enough common sense not to assume stylised theoretical models are the be-all-and-end-all when it comes to public policy."

Then why, Mr. Tunny, is it so hard to find an economist who can tell us when the economy should stop growing?

https://www.cis.org.au/publication/debunking-degrowth/

_chris_real,

@simon_brooke @SallyStrange

I consider economics to be astrology for the rich. And act accordingly.

_chris_real,

@yianiris @simon_brooke @SallyStrange

David Graeber pointed out how much the monetary view has infected culture, in his book, "Debt . . ." such that your opinion is referred to as "my two cents".😔
An unintentional irony, I'm sure . . .

jackhutton, to Russia
@jackhutton@mstdn.social avatar

“Nobody wants the Russians here; we didn’t invite them. In Kharkiv, we used to see Russians—and I am not exaggerating—as our brothers. Every fourth person here either hails from Russia or has family there. But not even in our worst nightmares could we imagine that they would bomb our residential areas, destroy our city’s infrastructure. Our people are in shock…
Excerpt From
Our Enemies Will Vanish
Yaroslav Trofimov

_chris_real,

@MugsysRapSheet @jackhutton

You should assure your friend that the majority of Americans support Ukraine.

But the same people who are distracting us from Ukraine by trying to elect a dictator here, are the same people blocking aid to Ukraine in congress, with their slim majority.

DemocracyMattersALot, to random
@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social avatar

You want new candidates? Don’t throw support behind a third party candidate in the existing system— convince or compel those politicians already in power – generally representing the two established parties – to change the rules of how we elect candidates.

Until then, a vote for anyone but Biden is a vote for Trump and fascism.

Can the US ever break the two-party binary? https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/1/26/can-the-us-ever-break-the-two-party-binary?traffic_source=rss

_chris_real,

@DemocracyMattersALot

Dear Democrats—
Telling supporters to shut up and vote against fascism, THEN telling them to shut up after you win, because "we're busy" is not the long-term strategy you think it is.

That anxious desperation you feel in the pit of your stomach all the time?

YOU caused that, not people who are unhappy with the corporate-happy alternative to fascists.

Cuz corporatists give money to BOTH sides.

_chris_real, to random

I've heard that Harvard has fallen on hard times. A previous 'whale' donor has taken his $500 million dollars and gone home.

Any school that accepted Ted Cruz had it coming to them.

_chris_real, to random

There's an old adage that sez "The party that's getting laid will be the one winning the election—and hookers don't count."

The people who think Taylor Swift is a Democratic psy-op DEFINITELY aren't getting any.

_chris_real, to random

For those people who are hoping Trump's dementia will keep him out of office, remember—Reagan was exhibiting symptoms of Alzheimer's DURING the Contragate investigation, and had no memory of any planning he was involved in. And Reagan ended his term with great public support.

Trump as a babbling puppet is no longer essential to his plan. His minions and fl

_chris_real, to random

Now that she knows that his trial will be delayed until after the election, judge Cannon has decided to save herself from removal by not allowing him to release classified documents to the public.

Self-interested passive agression at its finest.

_chris_real, to random

Gabe Sanchez makes the case that Vivek was a "spoiler". A candidate who runs to split the votes of the lesser candidates to help the front-runner.

https://youtu.be/02IqX3L3aSg?si=xfmPyE3NXdu2ogI8

KevinCarson1, to random

Weird how, for many right-libertarians, the only criteria for crediting something as a "fruit of capitalism" is that 1) it's good, and 2) it's sold for profit by a private corporation. And right-libertarian polemicists point to things like increased per capita global GDP over the past century as "benefits of capitalism."
But when you point to the centrality of state intervention to the global corporate economy and the profit model of virtually every large corporation, it's suddenly "not real capitalism" any more.
Capitalism can't simultaneously be the name for the entire system we live under, responsible for everything good over the past several centuries, but also something that's "cronyism, actually" unless it comes from the Laissez-faire region of Ancapistan. You have to pick one.
https://reason.com/2024/01/18/how-to-assemble-a-vegan-plate/

_chris_real,

@KevinCarson1

I usta think that people who discussed capitalism understood that it was basically making money by using other people's money. (Exploration leading to the slave trade was exactly that.)

Buying, selling and trading things is just what people have done for thousands of years, simply to obtain things they need.

I read Marx's "Capital", and he made a clear distinction. So I assumed this was understood.

Now I see that it's difficult to defend capitalism unless you conflate all of it.

_chris_real, to random

No one has pointed out in that rally clip about the 'cognitive test' where Trump sez "so they give you 6 things . . ." he only lists 4 things. He does this TWICE.

No one has pointed this out, so I did.

(**Okay, I just now noticed that Seth Meyers noticed it earlier yesterday, so it was just him and me. My bad.)

_chris_real, to random

(dump-dump-tarrrump-tarrrump),
Another One Bites The Dust!!

Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina takes his job and shoves it . . .

https://youtu.be/isdyKotOzfc?si=YlvCLqLu06SIQZmY

_chris_real,

@JonChevreau

Nahh, Trump blamed him for losing the E.G. Carroll case, said he told him not bother showing up for it, and NOW sez that's the reason he lost.

In other words, Trump threw him under the bus. Which is typical.

_chris_real,

@thepoliticalcat @JonChevreau

The reason his party is so epically bad is that THOSE were the job qualifications.

Sycophancy is merely one character flaw: sadism, narcissism, etc. can be found in all the rest of his hires and appointees.

Yes, we have to support the people who are opposing and fighting him.

After he's decisively defeated, that we can go back to criticizing Dems on policy.

But still acknowledge that they did their duty defending democracy.

thepoliticalcat, to random
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    _chris_real,

    @thepoliticalcat

    This woman was deeply evil.

    It's fitting that they dumped her simply because they no longer needed her.

    But because she was black, I'm sure they didn't give it a second thought.

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