The more fucked up life and the world is, the more rational the choice to find a small amount of mercy or relief in drugs.
That puritanical attitude about suffering bringing one closer to god, or pleasure being the devil’s work, that bullshit can go die in a fire.
And with the bullshit that is the US “Healthcare” System I completely understand people who have to go around it and self medicate.
Remember this guy?
I last heard about him a couple of years ago and he was a bit depressed due to all the negative backlash he received. But it looks like things have gotten better for him and his employees.
The right-wing radio pundit, Rush Limbaugh, whom Price had listened to every day in his childhood, called him a communist.
“I hope this company is a case study in MBA programmes on how socialism does not work, because it’s going to fail,” he said.
Two senior Gravity employees also resigned in protest. They weren’t happy that the salaries of junior staff had jumped overnight, and argued that it would make them lazy, and the company uncompetitive.
This hasn’t happened.
Yeah, there was some blowback because he was under a lawsuit at the time, and people questioned whether that was his motive for doing the right thing. But he has stuck with it for years. So even if it was prompted by the lawsuit, he chose a good response and stuck by it.
George Mason University.has been connected with the right wing for some time now-- Kochs, James Buchanan, Ed Meese, etc. This might be a minor step in the right direction.
Just two good ol’ boys never meanin’ no harm.
Adding my smidgen of hope; I put this in my front bay window:
The VMI case was all about this kind of win.
Hope:
Additionally, who recognizes the style of the arranger? He’s also singing backup.
They had the enemy alone and cornered. Their response was to form a human shield around him. To risk their own safety, to protect and defend their enemy. Someone who was explicitly there to attack them. But at the end of the day, was just another person like them. I can’t think of anything more human than that. There is hope for us yet.
THIS. Flint, MI is one town whose citizens of color have every fucking right to be angry. This history of the city is filled with violence and poverty. And it is important to me, because that’s where my father was born.
Aren’t they also ashamed to work for Zucherberg?
Not everyone embraces the risk of holding out for the right gig. It’s not a light decision either. If you have little or nothing to lose with that strategy, great. If not, whether your commitments or debts are real or imaginary or could be twisted into extortion, those are often real factors. Aversion to risk, contrary to Randian game-theorists of the eighties, is not a fallacy.
All we had to do was talk to them, and now we’re walking with them. … The cops in this community, we condemn what happened. That guy (Chauvin) is not one of us.
That is awesome, and so good to hear.
It’s so unexpected though, it does trigger my wonder over whether I am indeed living in reality and that’s a thing that really happened, or if I’m asleep or in a coma or something, and just dreaming all this.
But then I have to get a bit metaphysical and ask why? People generally are good, or at least intend good, though their ideas of good may vary. How have I gotten so jaded that that literally sounds like something from a dream or another reality?
I wonder if maybe a lot of people are operating at such extremes, and a big part of the problem is that they’re just not talking and walking with each other and stuff.
You and me both.
