Hope is not a strategy. If someone came to you looking for a business loan and they said ‘we are going to hope people get tired of drinking soda which is terrible for them and switch over to our carrot juice’ - would you give them the loan?
My parents would never have allowed it or my dad would’ve gotten very creepy about it.
40% identify as conservative, 40% as moderate, and 20% (25 in a good year) identity as liberal.
Like it or not, your leftist agenda can only be achieved by working with those you’d rather not. Refusing to do so and not formulating a strategy to get them onboard with your agenda is detrimental to every goal you have.
Those Redditors are probably 16 year olds themselves upset that the girls they like are always going for 18 - 20 year olds
They’re experiencing positive re-enforcement when they get violent with the people they’ve intrapped. They’re getting more violent because they want more of the positive online feedback they’ve been getting.
There is no lofty thought process about justice.
In the 1980s, it was possible for a McDonald’s worker to afford a house on their salary alone due to lower housing costs and higher relative purchasing power. For example, in 1980, the average home price was around $47,200, and minimum wage workers could feasibly save for a down payment with disciplined budgeting[5].
Today, this scenario is nearly impossible. Housing costs have skyrocketed while wages have stagnated. A full-time McDonald’s worker earning $8.75/hour would gross about $13,811 annually, far below the income needed to afford even modest housing without spending more than 30% of their income on rent[2][4].
Citations: [1] Is it possible to move out parents house with McDonald’s income? https://www.reddit.com/r/McDonaldsEmployees/comments/15c54ah/is_it_possible_to_move_out_parents_house_with/ [2] Paycheck for a McDonald’s worker is very small. - Upworthy https://www.upworthy.com/heres-a-paycheck-for-a-mcdonalds-worker-heres-my-jaw-dropping-to-the-floor-ex1 [3] Mcdonald’s Real Estate: How They Really Make Their Money - https://www.wallstreetsurvivor.com/mcdonalds-beyond-the-burger/ [4] [PDF] Unaccommodating: Rental Housing Wage in Canada https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/attachments/Unaccommodating - Rental Wage in Canada.pdf [5] Could You Buy a House Working at McDonald’s in the 1980s? https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/could-you-buy-house-working-mcdonalds-1980s [6] [PDF] Salaried-Employee-Handbook-Office.pdf - McDonald’s https://www.mcdonalds.com/content/dam/sites/uk/nfl/pdf/uploads/careers/Salaried-Employee-Handbook-Office.pdf [7] How to work at McDonald’s and still become a millionaire - CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/09/how-to-work-at-mcdonalds-and-still-become-a-millionaire.html
Maybe this applies to some. But consider the conservative whose stomach does a flip flop whenever they just see a fat woman, a trans-person, or a black man.
They hate that flip flop, and the only way they think it’ll ever go away is if you remove those people from society.
He stole our hearts
Understands the importance of kidness and empathy but doesn’t understand economics
Also doesn’t apply to Resignation calls.
You can protest the bombing of yemen and you will be doing a noble thing and get zero attention and have zero impact.
If you clown on them for inviting a journalist into their secret consequence free war chat - you will recieve lots of attention and potentially play a part in forcing some of these gouls to resign.
Yeah but you also add in the energy consumption of the data scrappers
You can do your own dna testing at home now anyways
Burning 29 acres of rainforest a day to do nothing
The good news is it means the US plans for war with china are now compromised and no longer effective.
This guy is the biggest security leak I can imagine.
Disgusting
Then change your approach. Instead of trying to black pill every leftist on lemmy like you have been - go post in liberal or moderate social media circles and try to hone your message into something that is effective.