chiliedogg

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Yeah. My sister's spouse is NB and they have significant means. I encourage them to leave with my nephew because I want them all safe.

I'm a white, male, Christian gun-owner. I can blend in for now and don't have the same financial resources. I'm also single and childless, so I can also care for my parents who are blind to what's happening.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

It's something I've noticed in general.

I had an amazing boss who was single and lived alone, and really love her staff. We had unecessarily long staff meetings every week. When I started I was annoyed by them until someone pointed out that the time we spent with everyone getting distracted and going off-topic and padding out the meeting while we ate our lunch around the conference room table was, for her, the weekly family meal.

I still don't like unnecessary meetings, but it gave me a different perspective on why some people like them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

A year is a nice long runway for that.

It sucks, but we aren't getting rid of the fascists over the weekend. They're in this for the long haul, and we need to be strategic about when and how we proceed. A general strike is a HUGE offensive in the fight, and it needs to be planned well. If we just mass buy shit before and after it doesn't do anything.

Targeted boycotts are similar. They need to be strategic in their timing. Refusing to shop on Amazon for a week doesn't do anything if we just go back to purchasing from them a week later. But what we can do is time it so it hits right before a fiscal quarter. That way it impacts the stock price and doesn't fully bounce back until the following quarterly report.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You don't have to talk to a masked gunman or engage with them in any way to call 911.

If you see masked people with guns, call 911. If they're authorized to be there, there's no harm in calling it in.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Dial 911 first, and say there's a masked person with a gun. No need to qualify that shit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago

They'd also be very difficult to place and remove.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

A 1-week strike ahead of the mid-terms would be enough to make the GOP turn on Trump.

But that's over a year out.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 21 hours ago

Good luck finding a decent lawyer to argue against this plaintiff.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

It's not like he's a vowel-hating Icelander.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

He saw the Escobar phone and thought it was a good plan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yes. He is the fulfillment of the law in that sacrificing Chriat absolves all.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I work in municipal government in a different enclave for the super-rich (I don't get to live here, of course). We aren't 100% billionaire, but we do have several billionaires and 100% are multi-millionares.

We also don't have the ability to test our own sewage and instead contract with a neighboring municipality.

But we pay for it. Anyone connecting has to pay impact fees. So if a sewer treatment plant costs 50 million dollars and a compound uses up 0.1% of its overall capacity had to pay 50 grand up to hook into the system, and any service line expansions required to reach their house must be paid for by the developer.

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