I've worked retail for over 15 years. I wage war with myself so that I don't become a misanthrope. But between fellow co-workers who don't care how their behavior makes your life more difficult and the customers who think you're literally there to worship them it's a struggle.

Retail just gives you multiple bullies to deal with instead just the owner or manager. All of who could end your employment.

No. I work retail. I don't get holidays. Any celebrating is done before or after.

Are they though? They seem impervious to facts.

So quotas may be a 'myth" but they absolutely impact promotions. Who woulda guessed?

Depends on your dress code. Fleece pants are really warm. Or just wear thermal underwear under your pants. Keeping your feet warm is really important to overall body warmth. Get nice thermal socks. Wear a warm vest if it's an option.

Same. Thanks for sharing.

The worse things get the more likely governments are to brutalize you back into the workplaces. The US labor history is one of violent government repression. Arguably the worst of all the industrialized countries. And one of armed resistance.

I think, in the US at least, the working class will need to organize a massive general strike and be prepared to defend ourselves.

And the government doesn't need an excuse to get violent. If it wants to do it it will and bull shit an excuse later.

I thought this was a parody for centrism at first.

How did Avatar: The Last Airbender not make the list? And Star Trek: TOS is garbage compared to DS9.

True. The ripping families apart was new.

I don't think Clinton would've opened child concentration camps (though I could be wrong). I think leftists tend to underappreciate that the micro differences are real people's lives and real suffering (because they understand that for the rest of the world it doesn't matter). Would Clinton have made a difference for anywhere else besides those on American soil? Not a one.

Sadly, lower than I would've guessed.

I had my wife bring them home. There's a no kill shelter a half hour away. Going to call on Monday to see if they'll take them. I'll probably have to wait til next weekend to go but they're safe on my 3 season porch (need to keep my cat safe just in case they're sick) with food, a litter box and water. Much better off than they were.

I agree cats shouldn't be outside for that exact reason. They're decimating native animals all over the world.

I had my wife bring them home. Probably going to bring them to a no kill shelter half hour away. They spay and neuter so even if someone takes it and allows it outside they won't at least have offspring.

Gotta second this. One of my favorite shows too

Probably dig her up and kill her again or put her in a gulag.

Nothing yet, unfortunately. I'll be sure to stop back when I do have something.

As I said above, and as GaldraChevaliere has also said, some visions are utterly incompatible. Right winger's vision of society is authoritarian and brutalizes the "Other." If you stand for solidarity and freedom then you oppose the right wing agenda. There is no agreeing to disagree. There's only agreeing to stand aside as they brutalize others. Always the powerless, of course, as they worship power.

There's certain things that one cannot simply agree to disagree about. Marxists and anarchists for instance. Either they're right and the revolution will never be possible by anarchist means or anarchists are right (of which I am one) and their efforts will ways devolve into authoritarianism. This is a gulf that cannot be bridged because failure is inevitable for one side or the other. Can a civil debate be had about why we believe what we believe? Sure. But somebody is right and it has significant implications for the future of a just society.

I am not as active on here as I would like to be so perhaps I am missing a particular situation.

I've been increasingly convinced debate is absolutely worthless. People's minds are changed by participating in new communities or witnessing direct action (not mutually exclusive). Debate is worthless with a fash. Flame them so marginalized people in the same spaces know you've got their back and move on.

If the adults in the area aren't intervening physical self-defense is the only solution. Put another way, when "civilized" means aren't possible "jungle" rules apply. I used to think otherwise because those kids are likely victims of terrible parents, as theblackcat already said, but getting bullied fucks you up. Believe me. Sometimes you have to choose the least bad option.

The store manager. Yes. She uses condescension and rage to control people. People are literally afraid to ask her a question because you never know if she'll be decent or vicious. She makes a lot of money to do it too.

Most of the assistants are just like me in that they're doing the best they can to feed their families. They get judged based on how they treat me. Dislike some but cannot say I hate them. They aren't vicious ass holes.