Alexfire
@Alexfire@lemmy.world
- Comment on Americans Increasingly Support Stronger Unions. Approval Rate Tops 70 Percent. 1 week ago:
“When asked if they will vote for the platform that most supports union, workers’ rights, which are human rights, only 30% said they would.” “They also said they “feel like” the party doesn’t pass laws from the platform federally, but realized some states have, and that federally need enough majority and for long enough to keep the legislation people want.” Kidding, I made that up, but somehow that 70% this claims, does not translate to consistent election wins, and then rights for the majority of us are chipped away each time, life seems harder so people often double down on blaming minorities and make harsher laws. It’s a historical pattern you can learn about and see it repeating again, or how to avoid it would be fun!
- Comment on On Labor Day, Mamdani Announces City's First Office to Organize Workers 1 week ago:
It’s sad most people don’t know the history of unions, the casualties workers suffered to win rights, fair pay for labor and benefits, less death and maiming on the job too! Too many people forget history and get less than they deserve again. Sure it’s not lost limbs, but lost wages, healthcare for all, paid sick and family leave, etc. that workers in other countries demanded and would never accept what usa workers do.
- Comment on Min wage in most states is so sad 1 week ago:
Unfortunately that’s one issue with too many workers is they want others to have less, like they do, rather than demand that they also deserve more! Take away what’s good for all, rather than feel they deserve it too. It’s low self-esteem perhaps and many need therapy, but healthcare costs too much and told it’s not macho to do so won’t. And that’s part of how we are here rather than like workers in EU that have benefits they expect as basic, and usa like “oh please some crumbs, sir!”
- Comment on wiki workers united! 1 week ago:
Congrats! This is how it should be if people voted based on what really will benefit them, data-backed and all that, and prevents the excuses so many have about lazy workers won’t get fired in unions or whatever they use as excuses to go along with their team’s wide stance.
- Comment on Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps 2 weeks ago:
Hopefully, if too many aren’t so strongly indoctrinated and identified with the team against unions and better worker benefits. Workers in other countries have benefits at all jobs, and they would never go back to the lack of benefits that usa workers accept. Workers here like to feel special that they have a job with “good benefits” that others don’t have so they prefer that. It’s part of the “pioneer, cowboy, self-made” story, but in reality it’s the same selfish and greed that runs deep and they’re proud of it.
- Comment on Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps 2 weeks ago:
They’re scrolling tiktok and whatever feeds them a constant supply of propaganda, to numb the pain of life, caused by the controlling systems they support, as a team sport, identity their fragile egos are too weak to choose to change. That takes too much courage and integrity.
- Comment on Walmart actually teaches their employees how to get food stamps 2 weeks ago:
Exactly, if the owners paid enough wages then people would make too much to qualify for the public assistance and would be happier and healthier. That’s what controlling systems don’t want, gotta keep the majority in scarcity mode so they keep making bad choices from stressed brain, can’t use prefrontal cortex as much which critical thinking requires.
- Comment on Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt 2 weeks ago:
Model what works elsewhere and do more of this, to reduce wait times and costs and more good wage and secure jobs:
A study of 39 countries found that 69% have implemented “task shifting” from physicians to nurses or other advanced practitioners. Most developed health systems already do this to some degree. The U.S. is actually unusual in how much it restricts NP/PA scope of practice at the state level.
- Comment on The uber wealthy arent leaving. Its a lie. 2 weeks ago:
It’s also shown when people have enough, crime goes down, quality of life goes up, artificial scarcity anxiety goes down. Hmm, so then the for-profit prisons won’t be full and workers will have more bandwidth to question why they don’t get more of the pie, like people in other wealthy countries do, more stable and wouldn’t ever accept the downgrade to system usa.
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 2 weeks ago:
More info: The “frazzled” state you describe is literally chronic cortisol dysregulation — the body’s stress response stuck on. Research confirms this drives insulin resistance, visceral fat accumulation, arterial stiffness, immune suppression, gut dysbiosis, and prefrontal cortex damage (impaired planning, impulse control). When someone says “I just can’t get my health together,” the framework gives them a different explanation: you’re running a fight-or-flight response 16 hours a day because the system is designed to keep you in survival mode. That reframe reduces shame and opens the door to action.
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 2 weeks ago:
Hoarding wasn’t allowed at one time, in <150 person groups, then came the ever increasing wealth and power inequalities, and the supernatural stories to justify their power, justify the suffering now for later reward and easier than brute force. It’s the same systems and people protecting their wealth and keep the majority in artificial scarcity, so they feel frazzled and not much time to ponder these truths, and decide how they want to go forward, keep the indoctrination of the systems or pull back the curtain?
- Comment on An American city has been without power for 2 weeks, unacceptable. 3 weeks ago:
All the sheep spouted,
“The best country in the world”,
And they believed it
- Comment on All we did was make the already rich even richer 3 weeks ago:
Despite this massive investment, the U.S. ranks last overall in health system performance when compared to nine other high-income nations.
Healthcare has gotten worse under maga, along with democracy/freedom/quality measures. Look up the data. The same patterns are visible in other failing countries like Russia, Argentina, and in history too we can see it, yet they say they need to be more strict to fix the problems their bad ways created. High-control systems are the wrong answer if we want healthy progress for humanity first. The wealthy/powerful have benefitted from the systems for so long, if you really look at history, when the wealth/power inequality began, along with supernatural excuses they invented to keep the power.
- Comment on Capitalism is an unrealistic death cult. 3 weeks ago:
An extinction event is currently ongoing that humans caused