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If a grassroots movement has been set up when Roe vs.wade was overturned I'm pretty sure people could have organized using social media. Doesn't have to be working class union people, Could be lawyers, tech folks, etc . I hear a lot of excuses but no action. If you won't take a risk you won't make change.

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Sugar explosions are never a pretty sight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Georgia_sugar_refinery_explosion

It's still not ratified yet FYI.

Putin and underestimating his European adversaries, name a more iconic duo.

Chief twit has a long history of being a terrible coder. His foundation is terrible code, before the Paypal dumb luck.

>Except the masons are a real group, just much more boring than Hollywood and conspiracy leads you to believe.

I know, I used to know a member

The rhetoric matters, especially about invading Russia, because of the territory Russia annexed. They now believe it to be theirs by right, so liberating it for Ukraine is sold to Russians as Russia being invaded.

Yeah, but they didn't cram every detail of the article in the headline. So Reddit thinks that makes it clickbait or something.

It feels like it's been moving the past 5 or so years. I'm in Quebec and we used to get an odd tornado every 5 to 10 years. Now it's been 1 or 2 every year in may-june-july. Our homes are sturdier than down south, but I don't think my province or Toronto will give a F and be prepared for tornadoes until they get hit with a deadly tornado and face the consequences of not being prepared and safety. People out west know the signs of a tornado and get ready, but east coast doesn't or doesn't care and it's concerning.

When we once had an alert in june 2022 for a tornado warning (the ingredients are in place, same cell dropped another tornado in Ontario) and I spotted a funnel right outside my workplaces's window. I panic as its forming. Its inching down and coming towards us. my bf who works with me just goes to the window, shrugs and goes back to working at his desk as if its a normal storm. Even if it was coming towards us and I'm begging him to GTFO into the middle of the building with me that's far away from the walls or windows.

Thankfully didn't touch down near us, but my bf rightfully got a slap to the back of his head for ignoring me once he realized I was being serious, very much scared and showed him the photo I took of it and other funnel clouds and that one did drop north of us (that spawned from that funnel cloud) that he had a "oh, durrr" moment. 🤦‍♂️

Are they going to send Jackboots to every single person's house? The beauty of a general strike is you just stay home, you don't even have to gather in the streets. Sure they may send a few groups to make people leave their houses, but they can't do that for the entire country. If you tried to fight them with peashooters, you are going to get massacred. They have cruise missiles, Apache gunships, tanks, chemical weapons, etc...etc...if they are truly a tyrannical government like Russia, they will just kill everybody whether they have a gun or not. But if they have no one to run the factories or feed the army, or keep trade afloat, they are literally powerless. It renders military aggression completely impotent.

Edit: Look what Russia has done to the very well armed citizenry of the cities of Ukraine, they have blown them to shit. The cities are rubble. The military of Ukraine and the equipment being donated to them by the West is what is keeping them in the war, not a bunch of their citizens taking pot shots with AKs.

they sub to antiwork too ironically.

"We don't need no OSHA regulations to tell me how to do my job!" and "What's that? You expect me to put effort into my job?"

It's not reasonable to expect people to strike without a union. If I refuse to go to work and my coworkers show up, all that happens is that I get fired. You need an organization to get everyone to agree not to show up.

Oh I see persolb - dying is just a thing that everyone who goes into work just has to deal with. Like, who cares if you die at work. Right buddy?

Except people no longer have to die. Follow these rules and put this gear on or use these guards or follow these steps and you will never get killed at a job. Which is why your statistics are so low for workplace deaths.

I’m am betting you never saw someone get killed at work. Have you?

I have. Twice. Both “just wanted to get things done”. No extra time was saved and both will never see their kids grow up or go home again.

Comments like yours are just coming from a place where you don’t know any better. I felt that way too. Then I saw a guy get crushed. Another get smashed into the warehouse floor after falling from the top level racking.

Except the masons are a real group, just much more boring than Hollywood and conspiracy leads you to believe.

Not like this. First the child labor. Now people’s lives too. Darn it big chocolate. Why you gotta ruin a good thing with your evils.

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Meh, you can't really quote Putin on that kind of stuff because it's all bullshit to begin with. I can't logically believe Putin thinks NATO is going to invade Russia, at least not prior to him starting his war in Ukraine. His excuses for the war like NATO expansion or Nazi Ukrainians is all bullshit. He wants those resources and he wants to control the bottle necks into Russia. After the USSR collapse they lost so much population it set them back so hard they're still feeling it today.

Frankly, if their government wasn't so corrupt and they'd bothered to actually promote family and a more democratic government they'd probably be doing a lot better but instead they decided to go with an oligarchy and slowly trying to invade countries that left the USSR to recapture both, the population, and the borders they once controlled.

Now Putin is at the point where he fucked up and is desperately trying to unfuck his situation and it's not working. Hence why nukes are being shipped to Belarus. Come spring we're going to see how this is going to play out long term and I suspect it's not going to be in Russia's favor and the likelihood of tactical nukes being deployed is going to be much more likely.

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The word on the street is Putin didn't actually expect them to break the 80-year nonalignment tradition and apply for membership. But it's based on anonymous Kremlin sources so take it with a grain of salt.

I agree. But, it’s just a headline. It’s become too normal to use body. Body this body that for one or two paragraph articles that serve no other purpose than to generate revenue from the dozen advertisements on the page. Last week locally “body pulled from pond” when the first paragraph gives the man’s name, age, circumstances (accident). Why not “56yo local man recovered from pond following accident”? It is just something that grinds my gears.

That’s not going to spontaneously happen without mass union organization and militancy

And how are these strikers going to defend themselves when the government sends the jackboots in? The reality is if we really wanted to overthrow the government we’d need a combination of both. The problem is we’re nowhere near the level of organization necessary for either one to happen.