CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
If you listen to only one celebration of the life of our beloved legend Dolly Parton today, make it this one βΌοΈ
Not because I'm the one posting it.
Because I doubt that anyone can ever top Pink on honoring her! β€οΈ
You were all that's good about this world, Dolly!
Rest in Love and Power π
#Dolly
Trans people are the best personification of possibility, because we have the audacity and honesty of showing that there are no limits to becoming.
To knowing ourselves in such a way that the notion of controlling our narrative belongs to nothing but our countenance.
Never stop becoming.
hi pets, it seems that, our government aid has been delayed until the end of the month. we need this money to survive now
we've added $115 to the goal, as that's roughly what it will pay
there is no estimate for her pay to return
being disabled, this is all I can do to help
ko-fi.com/baladesilver
hi pets! wife's job won't pay as much, because of budget cuts. turns out that we really need to pay this month's rent, food, meds and other groceries.
we hate to ask for money again, but we're between this and being homeless, so we're trying our best to live.
we need US$400
ko-fi.com/baladesilver
"Data centers use up less water than berry farming!"
Yes but it's now in addition to the water already being used and also berries are fun to eat and don't contribute to a mass surveillance dystopia
Hourly wages are up 3% since 2019. Corporate profits are up 50%.
Laborβs piece of the economic pie is the smallest itβs been in over 75 years, while corporate profitsβ share is the *biggest* itβs been since 1950.
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
$30 billion+ on a war in the Middle East that no one wants, while millions of people at home struggle.
"That's just how it is."
The fact that Thomas Massie lost a Republican primary because he wants pedophiles to face justice tells you everything you need to know about the state of the Republican party.
Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98%
Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4%
Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5%
Just thought I should point that out.
Only in America can one party control the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives, win the popular vote,and hold the majority of governorships... and still blame the other party for everything wrong with this country
The three phrases that might actually end the world:
1. βBut her e-mailsβ
2. βHeβs oldβ
3. βShe cackles and might not have worked at McDonaldβs in 1982β
All of it for the crazy reality show the political press has worked to engineer for a decade now. And give them credit. They made it happen π
NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.
A short clip from today's upcoming YouTube video. #AngryVeteran #BigSarge talks about an administration that hates veterans, sending us to war, but overreacting when they get pushback from veterans. Make sure you follow the Sons of Liberty YouTube and get notified when we post content there.
polymarket: bad, evil, insider trading platform, place for gambling addicts to lose their shirt
also polymarket: ok but can the dolls make money predicting who will come out as trans
like this is the one thing we might actually have the insider advantage at
It would be a mistake to see Trumpism as authoritarianism imposed on an unwilling nation, as opposed to authoritarianism implemented in a nation with a plurality that is already made up of authoritarian bootlickers who created the context for Trumpism to thrive.
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are whatβs paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
π¨Itβs βalmost as ifβ the Trump regime knew that their ICE goons are likely to commit crimes including murder and had pre planned what their Bullshit response would be (blame the victim) when it inevitably happens like it did today in Minneapolis.
Itβs a coordinated LIE
It's like the oligarchs are *literally* going "I'm going to take every book or movie I've ever heard of and be a stupider version of the bad guy. No, but for *ME* it's going to work!"
This would be exceedingly bad. If it passes, there goes your right to say anything on the internet. And the fact that Dems are on board with this too is frightening.
Mark Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana that will use 3x more electricity than all of New Orleans.
Oligarchs want YOU to pay for these data centers with higher water & electric bills.
Americans must fight back against billionaires who put profits over people.
List of people "AI" companies have pissed off:
- Artists
- Graphic designers
- Writers
- Animators
- Video makers
- Translators
- Closed captionists
- Environmentalists
- Water conservationists
- People in poor neighborhoods getting polluted
- PC Gamers
Not sure who's left before riots start.
I know there's a lot of other massive problems with "AI," but as a techie and a PC builder I am GODDAMNED FUCKING SICK of some stupid hype bubble designed to fleece investors and nothing else ruining my hobby.
Your crypto shit took all the video cards. Your "AI" took GPUs *and* RAM.
Fuck you all.
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.