"DEI" is not a bad word. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are fundamentally American – a reflection of who we actually are.
After centuries of erasure, we've seen progress in representation in recent years, and I don’t want to go back.
The more wealth a person hoards, the less they can be trusted with any kind of power. Dragons don't care about the suffering of the little people. They only care about their mountain of gold.
Hear from healthcare worker and Workers Strike Back member Grey Martin (@Greyvmartin) who spoke at the Rally to Save the Civil Service in Seattle on why workers need to go on the offensive against these blatant attacks from the the billionaire Trump Administration. Trump and Elon Musk, the richest person in the world at nearly half a trillion dollars of wealth, are carrying out dramatic cuts to government programs like Medicare and Medicaid. There have been mass layoffs aimed at the more than 2.3 million federal workers, including a mass firing last week of nearly 10,000 workers and attempts to strip of job protections from 50,000 more.
“We need to fight back to protect these services!
It is the workers who keep the economy and the government running.
It is the workers whose power lies in being organized and willing to strike to withhold their labor.
It was the threat of strike action from flight attendants and air traffic controllers that ended Trump's government shutdown in 2019!”
Video credit: @AdamTheAlien
(and to clarify before people get mad, "they aren't inherently misogynistic" != "They aren't misogynistic." Obviously they are. I only mean that I'm not an essentialist. These aren't people with reprobate souls-- they're people who got radicalized into a misogynistic movement)
(how do you know that they aren't just inherently misogynistic? because there are constantly incels turning 23 and going wait, fuck, how do i get out of this weird cult, can someone help me? on derad forums)
also again, I want to emphasize that "well we just have a Bizarro Andrew Tate" is a losing strategy. Do you think left wing podcasts don't exist? Liberal podcasts don't exist? Algorithms favor grievance every time. You aren't going to win the algorithmic battle.
Like, these incel morons are not born with inherently misogynistic souls--if we're even talking about compromising with them, we're too late. The goal is to prevent them from entering into that ecosystem in the first place (and no one with any power will)
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