MonkeMischief

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14. He gets paid leave.Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding paid leave at least 23 times.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it help knowing that you made my day with that comment? :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All workers deserve the same Paid Time Off deal as Mitch.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah and we’d get fired for a “No call, no show” like next day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14. He gets paid leave.Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding paid leave at least 23 times.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I WISH magas thought about Jesus.

  Jesus: “Behold, I stand at the door and knock…”

  Magas: SOME SHAGGY IMMIGRANT BUM IS ON MY RING CAMERA, PROBABLY CASING MY PLACE TO STEAL MY TRUCK AND PATRIOTISM. GET THE SHOTGUN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Or even 7.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Allows?

  I hate to be a doomer but at this point it’s practically foundationally built on that very notion.

  That’s why it needs to be scrapped and rebuilt entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  A zombie movie realized would be so stupid…it sucks we’re in the stupid timeline. ._.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All part of their scam plan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “… And we pass the savings on to you!” , if not an outright lie, means they stole or cheated it from someone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Theft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Two things felt painfully obvious:

  1. They, being wealthy political class themselves, were completely detached from the people’s plight and motivations.

  2. They knew no matter how badly they threw the fight, they could still be chilling back, buying low and selling exponentially high through whatever easily avoidable economic crisis hit our (not their) country next.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literally⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That was beyond embarrassing. 'Pubbies dragged him through the mud for a spectacle to feed their news apparatus to get their seals clapping again.

  He rightfully exercised his rights and gave them nothing as they just slandered him over and over.

  Guy did the best he could while working for a bunch of cultist buffoons (who would share a single braincell, if only they could share anything, because sharing is socialism.)

  They’re desperately clawing for ANYTHING to support their bizarre conspiracies and pin their disaster on him. And of course distract from The Files and The War I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOC vs Graham on Social Security.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell upgraded their acoustic dampening. How nice of you to notice!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “5 more years, bro. I know I know, just 5 MORE years bro and we’ll have AGI on the moon bro, no idea how to monetize it but just 5 additional years bro!”

  How the heck does this keep generating cash flow? Are investors really this stupid?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Heehee this reads perfectly like a monologue from “Resident Alien” :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being poor is expensive⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah all these machines were supposed to have us working ten hours a week by now for a living wage what’s that about?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being poor is expensive⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they were often seen wearing as they spent a lot of time maintaining vehicles.

  DUUUUDE…I thought it was about all the hair product they used LOL!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being poor is expensive⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The biggest punishment you could enact on those monsters is to knock them all the way down to working class.

  They couldn’t cut it in the real world, with a real job. They’d lose their mind having to respect anyone else.

  Who knows, it could even possibly reform them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being poor is expensive⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s it right there. The politicians are always rambling “We need jobs.”

  No. We need money, which might come from decent jobs.

  “Jobs for jobs’ sake” is how we have mental health crises from countless practically-parentless households because everybody’s desperately, constantly working in needlessly stressful conditions.

  Jobs are why most of us have no meaningful connections shortly after our highest level of schooling, because everyone’s on wacky schedules and has no time for anyone but whomever they happen to be stuck working with.

  Jobs gave us broken homes and skyrocketing suicide rates.

  Jobs can shove right off, for all they’ve taken from us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being poor is expensive⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah plus most jobs don’t like you showing up dripping and smelling like a varsity locker room.

  My locale even tried to build in employee showers to encourage bike commuting, but it hits 110⁰F outside and there’s not a cloud in the sky LOL you gotta be kidding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Urine Luck⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With various opening and closing sphincters you have to time properly.

  It’d be like a trippy episode of Magic Schoolbus. XD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seagirl⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL that helps. Thanks for replying! :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seagirl⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, can’t really relate but it sounds like a great time hahaha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fingies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Appreciate this.

  Lol Tumblr biology is wild. 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More unions!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of national parks can be thirst traps if you don’t come prepared with ample hydration!

  …lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spoilers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  See my brain OCR said “Tooth Fairy Spiders” and I was like “Oh THAT makes sense but I’m feeling brave.” But ended up sort of confused. 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is something that drives me so mad, and it’s exactly why corporations need to be strictly regulated on a global scale.

  If people are granted any voluntary dignity, someone out there is always willing to “undercut” their fellow workers to get an “edge” on the market or whatever and prove what a sweaty exploitable tryhard they can be, then it races to the bottom for all.

  If a company wants to pay its workers a living wage, their competition will undercut them by stepping on their employees for an “advantage in the market.”

  You’re right, it’s simply not a system that solves for human well-being, it solves solely for hoarding and growing large numbers of imaginary value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, no I don’t believe I conveyed myself in that way, updoots seem to agree.

  I do think we’re in alignment here, but also I understand nuance is often lost over Internet posts so let me clarify my position. “Family values and housewives” as you put it being a great example:

  • Women having the opportunity to leave the home of their own volition and be in a career the same as a man? Awesome. Progress.

  • Women AND men alike, in a family unit, forced simultaneously into the career-style workforce or multiple garbage jobs because the family goes bust and destitute otherwise? Bullshit.

  • Programs for kids to safely socialize and learn as a community? Fantastic!

  • Overwhelmed daycares staffed by burned out underpaid care workers, costing half of everyone’s salary, because otherwise the only alternative is literally child abandonment, thanks to everybody needing to leave the home and devote a majority of their time to wage labor?

  That’s basically a systemic form of indentured servitude to pay ransom for one’s own children. It isn’t right.

  Parents should be free to choose parenting their children over creating shareholder value without starving. Parenting is already a full time job, and outsourcing it entirely to someone else’s employees sounds like a great way to wreck a society’s future adults.

  Especially in the U.S when maternity leave is laughably short for many, and paternity leave is a fanciful myth from faraway lands, and those early years spent with one’s family are CRITICAL for a child’s early development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds daunting but also incredibly noble of her. Prayers and well wishes to both you and your wife, especially in the early days of this endeavor!

  I love hearing about when someone sees a need they can fill in their community and they’re passionate about solving it. That’s so awesome. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Woah there, friend. Aren’t we being a little bit aggro here? I’m happy to hear your perspective.

  I never meant to come off that childcare is bad as a concept! That was never the point.

  What I am decrying is the requirement of families being coerced to put their children into a very expensive facility, because if everyone else in the house isn’t working a 5x40+ fulltime job, they can’t afford a reasonable quality of living. THAT is where it’s broken.

  Childcare as an option is fantastic for all the reasons you mentioned. Childcare as “the market raises your children with underpaid and exhausted, overhelmed wageslaves unless you’re insanely privileged” is not cool.

  I’m happy you’ve had a good experience though, and hope we can reach a solution where it’s done right for more folks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL almost. They basically take out all your teeth and replace them with synthetics, I guess?

  I’m sure there’s plenty of good dentists in Turkey, but what’s with this trend of people getting MAJOR medical work or body modification done ANYWHERE by whoever’s got a flashy Instagram or TikTok reel? Nuts.

  https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/turkey-teeth-leaving-brits-toothless-35327173

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s funny in a sad-not-haha way, is that labor for caretaking of small human beings is the enormous untenable driving cost here.

  Parents can’t afford the rates, daycares can’t afford living wages doe the caretakers. This is an endeavor, like many, that the Hand of the Market™ is OBVIOUSLY unsuitable for solving.

  The “funny” part: Parents would gladly do this job for free as they have for centuries and millennia. This problem was already solved, and wouldn’t be an issue if every member of the household wasn’t forced into full-time 40+ hour work plus hunting for side-hustles, and being taken away from their loved ones for most of their waking friggin lives, just to survive.

  How many generations deep are we now? Where so many kids spend so long in daycare from infancy that they never even get to form a decent bond with their own parents? How healthy is that, for anybody, much less larger society?

  “Parenting as a Service” is peak capitalistic hellscape…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thinking of going abroad for dental implants.

  Just don’t go to Turkey to hit up an Instagram dentist. That stuff is terrifying. <_<