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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • Unionize. Seek work in union workplaces. Vote for and lobby politicians to strengthen labour rights by passing laws that make it very easy to unionize and very hard to bust unions. Unions increase the share of wealth labour produces that ends up in the workers’ pockets. Unions decrease the political power of the elite by decreasing the money available for them to spend on politicians while increasing the money labour can spend on politicians. Which further limits how much wealth can accumulate at the top.


  • Influential commentator Tucker Carlson urges Trump to ‘drop’ Israel

    Carlson has been a leading voice within right-wing circles calling for Trump to avoid being dragged to war with Iran by Israel.

    After Israel attacked Iran, the talk-show host, who spoke at the Republican National Convention last year, said the US should not support Netanyahu’s “war-hungry government” in the conflict.

    “If Israel wants to wage this war, it has every right to do so. It is a sovereign country, and it can do as it pleases. But not with America’s backing,” the Tucker Carlson Network morning newsletter read.

    It added that a war with Iran could “fuel the next generation of terrorism” or lead to the killing of thousands of Americans in the name of a foreign agenda.

    “It goes without saying that neither of those possibilities would be beneficial for the United States,” the newsletter said. “But there is another option: drop Israel. Let them fight their own wars.”

    Interesting 🤔







  • Yeah, capital is fundamentally opposed to democracy because democracy means people without capital can get more power in society than those that hold more capital. What could possibly be the result of a system that removes the brakes from capital exercising its power other than the erosion of the power people without significant capital have. Which then results in further capital accumulation, which results in further disempowerment of regular people, in a feedback loop. Hell we even shoveled important public property into private capital’s hands… And here we are at near historic level of income and wealth inequality.

    And it isn’t just me saying this. If you examine some of neoliberalism icons’ musings, you’d discover they see democracy as a hindrance to the full realization of an absolute free market economy, for this exact reason. People tend to vote against the privatization of public services they depend on, and against stripping labour rights to name a couple of things that tend to rain on neoliberalism’s parade.






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    There’s the problem. Removing taxes on tips makes it cheaper for employers to have their workers survive on tips instead of wages. Therefore they keep wages low. As a result, everyone subsidizes those employers’ profits, many of which are large chain ops. Instead of removing taxes on tips, we should remove the double standard low wage for tipped workers, and bring the wage floor up. Also make it easy to unionize and encourage it. Also do something about lowering the profits made by landlords who rent to small businesses. Also do something to lower the profits made by grocers who a lot of those small businesses buy inputs from. If we did all of that, we’d have well paying tipped jobs that could even be viable careers, as well as vibrant local economies that don’t ship most of the profits to a nameless building in some financial capital around the world. And tips would serve the same purpose they do in most of Europe - express gratitude for outstanding service, not a payment the employee depends on for making rent.