Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"If they have no bread, let them eat food banks -- that's Thatcherism, the legacy we are still to bury before it buries us." - Selma James

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, donut shops always had the same coffee makers as gas stations; now "Donut Shop" is a special coffee flavor. WTF?
#DumbAllOver

Before reading this Selma James book, I hadn't encountered much mention of WFH (Wages for Housework) in previous feminist literature. I had encountered racial and class divisions in the previous feminist literature, but this presented a whole new level of class division. I strongly agree with the WFH campaign. Even though I would never classify such work as "women's work" (except for the child bearing aspect), it still largely falls to women by tradition and (in some countries) mandate.

In the 80s, many recognized the Reagan administration as Christofascist, racist, anti-working class, and anti-environment. The Christofascism can be charged to Ike. The overt racism was Nixon's Southern Strategy. Reagan nailed home the anti-worker and anti-environment.
#merica

What’s Worse Than Inflation? Fighting Inflation. | Ted Rall's Rallblog
https://rall.com/2022/07/19/whats-worse-than-inflation-fighting-inflation

#ReaganomicsKillingYouReaganomicsKillingMe

Lakes in hot water, climate change creating a cauldron of issues
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220718181041.htm

That feeling when you get reminded of why the software team needs you, followed by the reminder of why the software team won't let you fix the problem.

#FML

I don't know which is funnier; someone using a FAX machine, or same person having trouble figuring out how to use FAX machine.

Too bad their gains were labeled as welfare rather than wage, and the next president, Reagan, started a war on women under the "pro-family"[sic] banner, where the GOP defined family as church-going, working man, subservient woman, and many kids.

#FTFY

Now reading. Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet. Selma James. 2021. PM Press.

Instantly struck by how it, like Global Civil War, rejects identity politics as a detraction from the main goal for equality, which in this case is Wages For Housework (WFH) movement.

1971: "Women of all ages from every region chanted together: 'Every mother is a working mother!'. Not even the Ku Klux Klan, which was openly present in the Mississippi delegation, could deny that!"

Biodiversity survey reveals that more species are threatened with extinction than previously thought
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220718142320.htm

Water resources to become less predictable with climate change
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220718154343.htm

Got a plentiful water supply? Maybe not in the future. Water fiefdoms in North America in our post-apocalyptic, changed climate, future.

#DumbAllOver