NotLemming

Instagram isn't for sex is it?

I get that you're disheartened but pick yourself up.

Do you know that the vast majority of people lived in absolute poverty, working every working hour for not enough money to eat?

That's really wage slaving, when you're too poor to have a home or even to rent a bed and you sleep stood up against a rope to stop you falling on the floor.

Or you can't make it and you go into a workhouse, separated from your kids and made to work for no money and given gruel to eat.

The way people got out of that hell was to organise, to fight, to keep fighting. That's how workers won ALL the rights which are normal in the west - minimum wage, no child labour, maternity pay... Every single decent law was fought for.

So don't tell me we or you have it hard right now, just because things are harder than you're used to and we're all scared.

We've had it easier all our lives and most of us didn't want to go out of our comfort zone to fight to make life better. Our chickens are coming home to roost now.

Let's try to lift each other up instead of demoralising each other.

Agreed its not likely but it's not possible to give up. I mean, it could and has been worse. We aren't slaves, our country hasn't been invaded, we aren't living in Russia... It could be worse and we can't give up or it will probably get worse.

They could be organising huge nationwide protests or storming the capitol like he did. They could be telling the truth like AOC and Bernie

'Making the family blonder'

Aphantasia?

I think there's more than one kind of imagination. It's like the opposite of 'thinking outside the box'.

Theirs is more like 'wow this box is big! I'm gonna get inside a smaller one'.

I've had some good conversations with local TUSC members collecting signatures and so on, I've a lot of respect for them but sadly the general public don't seem to. I think after the kicking by thatcher, unions and socialism in general are out of fashion. I do think there should be a broadly left party, allowing secondary membership maybe. Work on getting agreement on some issues, laser focus on what's most urgent and get decent people elected. I'd support any party with decent policies and which had the most chance of getting elected.

I'm tall and a woman. It makes me happy and feel kinda powerful that I could cause this situation and maybe even have since I've dated shorter guys and am oblivious to social stuff.

Is this why the dems are standing aside?

Do they need him to be alive? They can use him as long as he's not rotting too obviously. I have a strong suspicion he already stinks.

Authoritarian tactics is extremely vague. I wonder if they could name one of those tactics? Could they point out one dictator in history and criticise them? Explain why they're different? Doubtful.

Tell us your friend is a white man without telling us