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mostly-funnytwittertweets · 5 months

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#lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #economics #economy #capitalism #politics #twitter #tweets #tweet #meme #memes #funny #lol #humor

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thoughtportal · 7 months

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#twitter #tweet #tweets #boomers #economics #economy #homeless #class politics #generational politics #class #inequality #wealth inequality

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mysharona1987 · 1 year

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#Blm #politics #lbgqt #trans #news #economics #the economist #woke #tucker carlson #Sweden #canada #australia

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qsycomplainsalot · 10 months

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#meme #politics #economics

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toastyslayingbutter · 2 months

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#degrowth #ecology #environmentalism #Kohei Saito #Current Affairs #Nathan J Robinson #political economics #slow down #socialism #communism #anarchism #leftism

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thistlecrimes · 5 months

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Things I've learned from getting covid for the first time in 2023

I wear an N95 in public spaces and I've managed to dodge it for a long time, but I finally got covid for the first time (to my knowledge) in mid-late November 2023. It was a weird experience especially because I feel like it used to be something everyone was talking about and sharing info on, so getting it for the first time now (when people generally seem averse to talking about covid) I found I needed to seek out a lot of info because I wasn't sure what to do. I put so much effort into prevention, I knew less about what to do when you have it. I'm experiencing a rebound right now so I'm currently isolating. So, I'm making a post in the hopes that if you get covid (it's pretty goddamn hard to avoid right now) this info will be helpful for you. It's a couple things I already knew and several things I learned. One part of it is based on my experience in Minnesota but some other states may have similar programs.

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The World Health Organization states you should isolate for 10 days from first having symptoms plus 3 days after the end of symptoms.

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At the time of my writing this post, in Minnesota, we have a test to treat program where you can call, report the result of your rapid test (no photo necessary) and be prescribed paxlovid over the phone to pick up from your pharmacy or have delivered to you. It is free and you do not need to have insurance. I found it by googling "Minnesota Test to Treat Covid"

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Paxlovid decreases the risk of hospitalization and death, but it's also been shown to decrease the risk of Long Covid. Long Covid can occur even from mild or asymptomatic infections.

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Covid rebound commonly occurs 2-8 days after apparent recovery. While many people associate Paxlovid with covid rebound, researchers say there is no strong evidence that Paxlovid causes covid rebound, and rebounds occur in infections that were not treated with Paxlovid as well. I knew rebounds could happen but did not know it could take 8 days. I had mine on day 7 and was completely surprised by it.

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If you start experiencing new symptoms or test positive again, the CDC states that you should start your isolation period again at day zero. Covid rebound is still contagious. Personally I'd suggest wearing a high quality respirator around folks for an additional 8-9 days after you start to test negative in case of a rebound.

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Positive results on a rapid test can be very faint, but even a very faint line is positive result. Make sure to look at your rapid test result under strong lighting. Also, false negatives are not uncommon. If you have symptoms but test negative taking multiple tests and trying different brands if you have them are not bad ideas. My ihealth tests picked up my covid, my binax now tests did not.

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EDIT: I'd highly suggest spending time with friends online if you can, I previously had a link to the NAMI warmline directory in this post but I've since been informed that NAMI is very much funded by pharmaceutical companies and lobbies for policies that take autonomy away from disabled folks, so I've taken that off of here! Sorry, I had no idea, the People's CDC listed them as a resource so I just assumed they were legit! Feel free to reply/reblog this with other warmlines/support resources if you know of them! And please reblog this version!

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I know that there is so much we can't control as individuals right now, and that's frightening. All we can do is try our best to reduce harm and to care for each other. I hope this info will be able to help folks.

#covid #covid 19 #harm reduction #apparently only 16% of Americans even got their booster #it's wild out there #which makes sense because our public health messaging has been super unhelpful and intentionally shifted the burden #of infection control onto individuals to avoid us holding them accountable because it's politically and economically inconvenient to them

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catchymemes · 27 days

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#funny #lol #haha #humor #meme #memes #tweet #twitter #adulthood #facts #politics #us politics #economics #economy

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beggars-opera · 5 months

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I love when newspapers are like "why are people so pessimistic about the economy when stocks are up and inflation is slowing?" Maybe because stocks mean next to nothing to the average person? Maybe because inflation slowing down still leaves it astronomically high when wages haven't kept up pace? Maybe because rents and housing in general have increased far beyond normal inflation and people are only left with the choice to pay up or be homeless? Maybe because most people's lives are still a complete hellscape in the real world regardless of the theoretical numbers on your little spreadsheet????

#eat the rich #politics #economics

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ahb-writes · 8 months

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"I am angry that I could not transcend the concepts and the ideology underlying the Western capitalist system. The system we are confronted with is supposedly based on human rights. In reality though, it is an elite group manipulating and exploiting the rest of humanity and nature, unleashing war whenever that is in their interest. They are the ones dictating the roles the rest of humanity must play."

Abdullah Öcalan (author, Manifesto for a Democratic Civilization, 2015)

#abdullah ocalan #capitalism #human wrights #political economics #ideological purity #kurdistan #unjustly imprisoned #kurdistan workers party #political prisoner

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charlesoberonn · 1 year

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Imagine purporting to be a journalist and saying there were no economic changes after 2007.

#this is why history is important #economics #politics #also why you shouldn't trust paid-for blue checkmarks on the muskrat's birdsite

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typhlonectes · 4 months

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#economics #money #phllosophy #politics #memes

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todaygwenlearned · 1 year

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Podcast: Audible Anarchist: Alexander Berkman: What is Communist Anarchism? Chapter 2: The Wage System

I've decided to skip back in the book and this is the earliest entry I have in my Audible Anarchist feed. I think I'm going to have to start at the beginning, but that's another project.

In this chapter Berkman describes the wage system and why it's bullshit.

No one has any control over the circumstances of their birth. We have no say in which parents we are born to. The children of the rich have the privilege of getting money which they can invest and then live off the proceeds. Everyone else has to sell their labour to get by.

Wages weren't always a fact of life. At one point artisans and crafters owned their own tools, bought their own raw materials, and did with their products whatever they wished. But these artisans and crafters were out-competed by factories and and large workshops. The smaller, independent artisans (smaller inasmuch as they had less capital) couldn't compete with the inexpensive products being produced by these larger outfits. So the artisan had to go work at the factory.

In capitalism we cannot work for ourselves, we must find an employer. We sell our labour to employers who in turn compensate us with wages. On a social scale we can say that the working class sells its labour power to the capitalist class. The capitalist owns the factories and the tools, the means of production, and also has ownership over everything that the worker the worker produces with those tools. This is the wage system in a nutshell.

But the truly wild part is that labour builds everything. It built that factory, it built those tools, it built the rails, roads, boats, and planes that transport products. And at every step of the way the workers who built those things did so knowing that what they were building was for someone else to get rich from.

Berkman's overall point, I think, is that labour creates all value, be it use value (the relative usefulness of a thing) or exchange value (how much a thing can be sold for). And yet by dint of law, the capitalist retains all of the future profitability because it was their capital that paid for it.

Workers know that there's something wrong, but they're so indoctrinated into supporting capitalism that they assume that it's only their particular circumstances that are problematic. In response to this feeling workers generally just seek better wages elsewhere. They don't tend to organize with their fellow workers to demand better wages. We are never ever told that the rich got all of their wealth from the working class, that it is the stolen value of our labour that we had no choice but to accept. And that's the crux of it. Capital has the state on its side, the state is a mechanism of capital, and so capital has the law on its side and so anyone who doesn't want to spend any amount of their life in prison has to conform to capital's demands. So we have no choice but to work for wages. We conform or we starve or get thrown in prison. It's a coercive relationship and nobody except socialists acknowledges it. Then when we point out how unfair it is, we're called "communists" and "anarchists" as though those are bad things.

Why doesn't anyone do anything about this? The short answer is because very few people see that there's anything wrong with this at all. We're all taught from a young age that things are the way they are because that's the way they are. Our parents don't always have nuanced and knowledgeable answers to our childhood questions and often default to "because that's the way things are." We are told that capitalism is good, that our nation is good, that there must always be rich and poor, that your life is ordained by God, and that any problems within the system is attributable to individual bad actors.

Criticisms and notes:

The idea that one could be born to different parents has always irritated me. It is a condition of your existence that you were conceived and born when you were That's an inherent part of being you. There is no "what if you had been born somewhere else or at a different time?" The answer to that is you couldn't have been. There's no soul factory where we all exist before we're born waiting to be placed into a body.

When Berkman says that we cannot work for ourselves I'm sure he's speaking in general terms and not for the small percentage of people, artists and artisans, who do just that. The vast, vast majority of us have to find employment.

I wonder what Berkman would say about salaries. Because salaries are paid by an employer but aren't strictly contingent upon hours worked. Maybe he'd say that salaries are the wages of the middle class.

Another reason why we don't organize is that organizing is very difficult nowadays. In many entry-level, front-line jobs workers will be fired if their bosses overhear them mentioning anything related to organizing.

#politics #political economics #wage labour #capitalism #anarchism #anarcho communism #alexander berkman

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mysharona1987 · 1 year

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