Fuck yes.

It’s a very specific group of people who suck like this, and they think they’re the heroes of the story.

These fucking Conservatives desperately need to have their fucking heads kicked in. They’re fucking apes; they don’t understand anything else.

100%

With all the money in politics now, and the fact that the campaigns with the most cash behind them almost always win, our representatives don’t have to be answerable to voters any longer. They just have to be answerable to the people spending the most cash.

Even then, the corporations and foreign entities that fund most of the campaigns right now just throw their cash behind the winners if the person they initially supported loses.

In the minds of people like Leon, you can literally buy elections simply by outspending the candidate you don’t like–and, looking at the statistics, he’s right. Then, even if they lose, they just chuck a bunch of money at the winning candidate. These people have no ethics, no respect for law, and they would rather destroy our institutions than have them work against them. And, unfortunately, they’re so wealthy now that they can, in fact, destroy our institutions.

And this will hit the people hardest who voted for them.

Back in the day, Wells Fargo would intentionally run higher charges first in their cycle so that people couldn’t skirt the edges of overdraft. Like, if someone made a $35 purchase, and three $1 purchases over the same two day period, they would immediately run the $35 purchase and then charge three overdraft fees for each of the $1 purchases instead of running the three $1 purchases first (even if they came first) and then charging a single overdraft fee when the $35 purchase hit.

I believe they got a fine for it.

This is the truth.

Politicians need to learn to fear repercussions from the people they are supposed to represent.

They don’t fear the vote any longer because, consistently, the politicians who spend the most money win. They just need to promise billionaires enough ill-gotten profit and they believe they’ll win. They don’t need to care about us at all–unless we force them to care.

Since 2015, the DoL reported a 283% increase in child labor violations; and perhaps more shocking, 28 US states have introduced bills to weaken child labor laws, with 12 of those states enacting those laws since 2021

Project 2025 proposes eliminating protections against hazardous work for children. Specifically, Project 2025 calls on the U.S. Department of Labor to “amend its hazard-order regulations to permit teenage workers access to work in regulated jobs with proper training and parental consent.” In plain English, revising these “hazard-order regulations” means letting teens work in hazardous jobs.

It’s only going to be poor kids working these jobs. We’ve had protections for child labor for the past century, and these fuckers are trying to roll them back.

They are fucking evil.

Truth. There’s a reason why they don’t have any art, don’t have any music, don’t have any movies worth watching. They lack all creativity, are almost completely devoid of imagination, and their frontal lobes just consume energy without doing any frontal lobe things. It’s a very specific type of person who obeys like this, and they just mimic their leaders; if their leaders are shitty human beings, then they think they’ll rise in the hierarchy by being shitty as well.

It’s a pattern that was primarily established when the Reagan Administration (and Don Regan, the CEO of Merrill Lynch) took over in the 1980s. Most of the ideas come from Lee Atwater who was an absolutely horrendous human being.

They have been running almost exactly the same playbook since then.

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It’s amazing how consistent this is with fascists.

You can look back at their statements and it’s true like 86% of the time–every SINGLE THING they accuse others of doing is something that they, themselves are demonstrably engaged in.

When those people post on the internet, it really should just be a long line of regular people replying ‘Every accusation is a confession.’

Damn–looks like the same terrible type of people are taking power in Finland as they are all over the world:

“The current government has pursued an exceptionally aggressive policy of cutting welfare and unemployment benefits, housing support for low-income families, and exemptions for part-time work,” said Hukka. “Their aim has been to drive down budget deficits, and they have done so without the customary parliamentary evaluations—which usually involve taking into account the cumulative effects of policy changes. Added to this is the downturn in the national economy and the reduction of state-supported affordable housing.

“It’s not a real surprise—a rise in homelessness is what happens when you cut housing benefits, tell low-income families to find cheaper housing, and offer no feasible supply of affordable rental properties. A huge shame, really, and totally preventable. Finland’s national debt is not out of control. Biting the bullet and accepting that investing in social housing and welfare benefits during a downturn – even if it requires increasing budget deficits – is, in my opinion, a reasonable alternative. Welfare reforms can wait for an economic upturn.

“Sadly, national debt is being used as a smokescreen, and the current government parties have a long-standing antipathy toward the Nordic welfare state as a whole. So, any adjustments to the current policy package seem unlikely.”

It’s the same scam everywhere, run by the same people:

Finland’s … most right-wing government in recent history.

I suspect that when their leaders disappear they’ll likely get a lot less malicious. These are the lowest rung monkeys in the monkey hierarchy–they simply mimic the monkeys at the top of their hierarchy.

They’re not particularly smart people.

Finland ended homelessness in Finland.

It doesn’t exist there.

It’s entirely possible to fix this problem. It’s possible to use our tax money to fix this problem.

But there’s one small group of people in the way.

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Kettlebells! Kettlebells are a great tool to have for home workouts. You might want to start with a lighter one–even if you’ve worked out some, you can still wear yourself out with even a 35 lb. kettlebell.

There is a long historical tradition of artists using images like this to mock the powers-that-be getting too big for their britches.