IT HAS ONLY BEEN SEVEN MONTHS since Trump's administration began implementing the Heritage Foundation's Christofascist "Project 2025".
That is a rapid descent my friend, a precipitous drop! It is now or never, they are LITERALLY implementing the police start right fucking now!
Baby steps were all the incremental shit since the garbage they pushed after 9/11. If you are waiting for a time to organize it was yesterday, the second best time is now. GET INVOLVED, THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE
Iran went from cosmopolitan egalitarian society, with girls free to wear what they wanted in college, to absolutely none of those things in 4 years; most of it in 2. After 4 years, it's as you see now, where women must dress and act a certain way for fear of mortal punishment from randos.
As someone watching with immense disappointment overseas, I'm not sure your midterms will save you.
I fully expect ICE to be policing outside your polling booths and illegally detaining anyone who looks foreign before they can vote. That'll disproportionately reduce your democratic voters for sure. And that's before you even consider whether Elon's magical polling machines are still in action.
Probably a lot of voters will be too scared to even go and vote if the ICE presence is heavy enough.
I support this because gig work as it's currently managed seems destructive to workers rights in general, but this seems kind of questionable. Most delivery drivers are gig workers who can choose to not take deliveries if things are getting too icy, so why are the customers making the decision for them?
Because someone is going to be desperate enough to take the delivery. Giving them a choice is like putting alcohol in front of recovering alcoholics. Maybe nothing happens, maybe someone gets blackout drunk and ruins their life. It's better to not even give the chance to ruin their life.
So it's paternalism. Liberals know what's best for the faceless workers who fetch their food. These aren't addicts. They're adults who in all likelihood are much more street smart and able to judge their individual risks than the people who don't want to leave their house to get food.
Paternalism? People being considerate and thinking "Maybe I shouldn't risk the lives of others for my minor convenience." is paternalism? Whatever bro.
What even is your point? That these "faceless workers who fetch their food" should risk their lives to deliver food because ??? I don't know even for what, so people who don't want to leave their house wouldn't have to inconvenience themselves?
EDIT: Just to be clear, I know it's paternalism in general meaning of the term. I reject his negative connotation of the word.
My point is you don't know better for them. Stories from a week ago were already talking about how many were avoiding delivering to DC, and calling them addicts who just can't help themselves if an order pops up is infantilizing.
You don't know better than recovering alcoholics either so I guess you do leave booze in front of them?
Let me give you a different analogy. Let's say someone puts a revolver to their head and pulls the trigger. Do you call them fucking stupid and take away the revolver if necessary, or do you think "well I don't know better than them, so it's fine"?
Why do we need shitty analogies? Just stick to reality: delivery drivers that you want to manage because you think you know better than them. They are not addicts.
Fine. Then we have nothing to discuss. You think it's okay for delivery drivers to put themselves in risk of getting picked up by ICE. I think that's not okay.
Making a decision for someone else who is fully capable of making the decision for themselves, even if you think it's in there best interest, is paternalistic.
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In case anyone was wondering how things are in D.C. tonight.. | Spyke
incremental steps to a fully authoritarian regime
baby steps, its just baby steps towards full blown fascism .... and by the time American gets there, it will be too late.
Uhh, the US is way past any baby steps!
IT HAS ONLY BEEN SEVEN MONTHS since Trump's administration began implementing the Heritage Foundation's Christofascist "Project 2025".
That is a rapid descent my friend, a precipitous drop! It is now or never, they are LITERALLY implementing the police start right fucking now!
Baby steps were all the incremental shit since the garbage they pushed after 9/11. If you are waiting for a time to organize it was yesterday, the second best time is now. GET INVOLVED, THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE
Iran went from cosmopolitan egalitarian society, with girls free to wear what they wanted in college, to absolutely none of those things in 4 years; most of it in 2. After 4 years, it's as you see now, where women must dress and act a certain way for fear of mortal punishment from randos.
I hope those midterms stop the damage.
As someone watching with immense disappointment overseas, I'm not sure your midterms will save you.
I fully expect ICE to be policing outside your polling booths and illegally detaining anyone who looks foreign before they can vote. That'll disproportionately reduce your democratic voters for sure. And that's before you even consider whether Elon's magical polling machines are still in action.
Probably a lot of voters will be too scared to even go and vote if the ICE presence is heavy enough.
How should we get involved? What sort of steps have you taken at this point?
At what point do we start sending the invaders home in less than mint condition?
Order delivery. Note the original location. Plan a few routes. Get friends in the area. Bring guns. Don't let ICE go home at night.
Start with the paintball rifles up the coat-sleeves, okay?
their guns won't be paintball
I support this because gig work as it's currently managed seems destructive to workers rights in general, but this seems kind of questionable. Most delivery drivers are gig workers who can choose to not take deliveries if things are getting too icy, so why are the customers making the decision for them?
Because someone is going to be desperate enough to take the delivery. Giving them a choice is like putting alcohol in front of recovering alcoholics. Maybe nothing happens, maybe someone gets blackout drunk and ruins their life. It's better to not even give the chance to ruin their life.
So it's paternalism. Liberals know what's best for the faceless workers who fetch their food. These aren't addicts. They're adults who in all likelihood are much more street smart and able to judge their individual risks than the people who don't want to leave their house to get food.
Paternalism? People being considerate and thinking "Maybe I shouldn't risk the lives of others for my minor convenience." is paternalism? Whatever bro.
What even is your point? That these "faceless workers who fetch their food" should risk their lives to deliver food because ??? I don't know even for what, so people who don't want to leave their house wouldn't have to inconvenience themselves?
EDIT: Just to be clear, I know it's paternalism in general meaning of the term. I reject his negative connotation of the word.
My point is you don't know better for them. Stories from a week ago were already talking about how many were avoiding delivering to DC, and calling them addicts who just can't help themselves if an order pops up is infantilizing.
You don't know better than recovering alcoholics either so I guess you do leave booze in front of them?
Let me give you a different analogy. Let's say someone puts a revolver to their head and pulls the trigger. Do you call them fucking stupid and take away the revolver if necessary, or do you think "well I don't know better than them, so it's fine"?
Why do we need shitty analogies? Just stick to reality: delivery drivers that you want to manage because you think you know better than them. They are not addicts.
Fine. Then we have nothing to discuss. You think it's okay for delivery drivers to put themselves in risk of getting picked up by ICE. I think that's not okay.
In both the case of the alcoholic and the person with the gun to their head, yes that's paternalism.
Is paternalistic behaviour always bad? Maybe not. But that's what this is.
This is paternalism.
Making a decision for someone else who is fully capable of making the decision for themselves, even if you think it's in there best interest, is paternalistic.