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socialist_in_seattle
unhinged instigator


i dont want to be a millionaire; i just want to be able to afford food that doesnt poison me
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unhinged only more so now


radicalized
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arwyn good! I'm proud of you and your convictions. radicalisation is the only way change can be affected in this age. It's frightening, but necessary. 181002
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unhinged i am active in my union now. i was on the picket line in august and the contract negotiations haven't moved an inch since so i will be on the picket line again this month.

i've had paid sick leave for years; i've also had a $15 minimum wage for a couple years now. i think every american should have those things.



it's sad to me how completely mccarthy destroyed any small sense of collectivism we had in this country. i have always thought in terms of the greater collective good; that is why i was initially attracted to buddhism. working together for a collective good seems to be antithetical to the creation myths about america we are taught as children. most people don't have the fortitude to examine those things. we just hunker down in our separate bunkers and shake our fists at each other.


so i'll be on that picket line. letting the corporation i work for know they are greedy pigs and i won't work another day until they give me my vacation pay back SEPARATE from my sick pay. for me, for all my coworkers. sad that one hundred years after the labor movement that killed people like me, i still have to do this.
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