Tariffs seem popular with the right, they voted for them and seem to love they’re paying more for products so don’t count on it

For any Americans that don’t know, China is taking over Europe as we speak and legacy companies are about to gut their companies to try to compete

Well that’s unsurprising since they have the largest population and trends usually scale.

I think it is important to note they have been moving more toward republican votes over the last presidential elections, which if anything shows why Newsom is a symptom, not the cause–and I say that not liking the dude.

Despite much ignorance and ado, California is politically moderate. Their own voters shot down basic protections for unsecured laborers for private equity-backed driver services who are then wards of the state; no workers comp, no unemployment, no flsa protections…these are the bare minimum of a society that doesn’t eat children. The states voters did this after the state just went through the clear and costly lesson of a mass layoff situation due to covid and it was clear these predatory companies were designed to screw workers and the state to maximize returns to shareholders, even beyond how bad a standard worker has it. If the states own voters arent anything more than moderate, why would the hope be the governor of the state would be?

Anything to the left of Pinochet is being labeled as anarchist left wing terrorist by fascists who are actively dismantling government, legal, social protections.

The article is heavy on narrative but…did the CEO leave? Did they take him into custody? Kind of the important result of reporting on the arrest, which if something came of it is great. I assume it wasn’t reported because the CEO just left and they didn’t hold him by force and no one took him into custody.

There are few social spaces where people can meet in healthy ways without having to pay some private entity for the privilege.

The rungs of society have never been further apart, nor has it ever been more transparent.

Education has been systematically underfunded for 50+ years, the economy in accelerative wealth concentration. Adults suffer and the home environments for children suffer.

I can’t stand street racing, and barely drive unless forced to but it’s not hard to understand why many would find a somewhat cheap thrill attractive when their lives are filled with hopelessness or despair.

I remember learning a statistic in the early aughts that only 17% of US households were married man/woman married with child(ren), when so much of media and societal representation and expectations was based around norms from the 1950s or earlier. Society changed for real in the US mid century, and continued to evolve; single parents, adults with no children, skipping marriage, same sex and/or other sex/gender/orientation households, but the christian-facist propaganda kept up.

Just remember, something as basic as “what is a home or family group”, the “standard” or “normal” is less than 1 out of 5. It’s actually the exception! This applies elsewhere.

Don’t discount imposter syndrome, it’s powerful. We’re all, mostly, normal.