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Cake day: October 6th, 2023

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  • Absolutely. I guess I just consider those things more in the realm of “hobby” rather than a job that might come to the union. No reason someone shouldn’t be able to make wood-whatever and sell it in their retirement. That was actually one of the things my dad argued, it’s sad to see someone work their whole lives to become a tradesman, only to have that same ability kneecapped because you’ve retired. And I agree. That’s why I also made point 3, because usually when things don’t make sense there’s a reason. Whether it’s a lack of information or just misinformation. We both had a lot of questions neither of us could answer, ya know?


  • Had to explain this to my dad when he told me about the carpenters unions not allowing his brother to work after he retired.

    1: Unions are the democratization of workplaces; for better or for worse.

    2: Should you really be working when you’re claiming retirement checks from your union?

    3: People are often falsely confident on their views about things. People love to complain about the government while hardly understanding anything about it. The same happens everywhere, including unions. Just because some dude is miffed doesn’t mean they have any right to be. They can be misinformed.







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    2 months ago

    So by virtue of social media existing, it can’t be flawed? It can’t be broken? It can’t be harmful? It can’t be pushing racist and fascist ideology?

    There’s a mountain of evidence showing the harms social media does, and you’re just acting like all that research doesn’t exist.









  • Don’t forget to mention that the United States did a genocide so thoroughly that Hitler called it “the first great cleansing”. We were his ‘inspiration’, per se.

    And on the topic of Teddy (you’ll notice language very similar to that of the Nazis):

    When Theodore Roosevelt was a young man, he travelled to the great plains where he conducted several hunting trips.

    When the visit was over, he wrote a book about his experiences.

    In this book, we can read the following words about the American buffalo and the so-called Indian problem:

    “The destruction [of the buffalo] was the condition precedent upon the advance of white civilization…

    “Above all, the extermination of the buffalo was the only way of solving the Indian question…

    “The disappearance [of the buffalo] was the only method of forcing them to at least partially to abandon their savage mode of life.

    “From the standpoint of humanity at large, the extermination of the buffalo has been a blessing.”

    Source: Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman