Uncle Billy's Raven

This place is not twitter in 2016. In that place ppl sometimes had substantial political discussions where they disagreed on some things and agreed on others and didn't block at the tiniest disagreement even when it was civil. Kinda hate it here

seems like not depending on the stock market for retirement would be a better system. Ie a stronger state social safety net could break this messed up cycle

I'm almost definitely shadow banned except for ppl who follow me. That really sucks.

The reason twitter Democrats would rather scold voters then win their votes is because most of them did fine under Trump. They do not care about the people who struggle no matter who is president.

Everyone needs to watch this. Everyone.

Democrats blaming Misogyny for the loss of Latino men to Trump I guess don't know that Mexico has a woman president and that Hillary Clinton won Latino men. Stop coping, start speaking to the working class

Democrats need to not brag about full employment when 1/3rd of FAMILIES live on less then 50k

find you someone that loves you as much as the DNC loves liz cheney

DOGE exists to help the extraction class disguise corruption, cronyism, and the brutal dismantling of consumer protection, labor rights, and the social safety net as as "innovative efficiency reforms" and from everything I've seen the U.S. press is super keen to help support the illusion

Corporatism is the dominant ideology of the media/political class, which bakes this ideology into news coverage & pretends it is objectivity, even though it's the opposite. More & more of the audience can now see this sleight of hand, which is why the media/political class faces a credibility crisis

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Capitalism is destroying the planet. Everyone knows it. The rapacious consumption of resources by individuals placed in artificial conditions of scarcity to enable billionaires to live as royalty skimming the value of our labor... We overthrow it, or the planet dies. These are the stakes.

Alcohol is a horrific poison on so many different levels and we don’t talk about it enough because we’re too busy glorifying it.

Consider the possibility that social media exists to provide an understandably unhappy population the anesthetizing sensation of engagement and activism, but without any *real* human engagement or meaningful agency, which takes a lot more effort.

The 4 major potato companies agree to feed data into PotatoTrac. “Using this aggregated pricing data, they have been able to coordinate prices…to artificially inflate the price by ensuring that no price competition takes place,” one lawsuit argues.

This is the craziest most elitist take ever from a party that is supposed to represent the working class. Wtf are democrats even for if they don't support unions?

We’re so back

The algorithm wants to focus on good news over criticism just in time for the new administration lmfao

gee, will she listen if a woman says the same thing?

I think I'm shadow banned. Which happened right after asking what evil things Jess Singal has done. Weird

Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned from the Washington Post after the paper killed her satirical cartoon depicting WaPo’s owner Jeff Bezos, as well as other media and tech giants, genuflecting to Donald Trump. Ann Telnaes’ integrity, journalistic standards, and…

Man, Jeff Bezos really did bring in these idiots to kill off the @washingtonpost.com They censored an @anntelnaes.bsky.social political cartoon. So she quit Time to financially punish not just the Post but Amazon anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

Time to unfollow @washingtonpost.com.

As Veterans, we upheld our end of the social contract with this country. Now the GOP threatens to break theirs by targeting benefits we earned. To my fellow Vets and those who support us: stand up, speak out, and let them know our sacrifices won’t be ignored. #ProtectVeterans #CallToAction

While the rich pulled further ahead, the poor are also catching up to the average earner — that’s probably the source of some discontent for the middle-class, whose earnings have fallen behind the rich and grown more similar to the lower class. cc: @financialtimes.com

"Amazon has for a decade engaged in a slow squeeze of its third-party sellers. In 2014, Amazon was taking a 19 percent cut of seller revenue; by the first half of 2023, this was up to 45 percent" prospect.org/power/2025-0...

Basically people have lost any sense of having actual evidence and logic underpinning their views. Every request that people justify their views just gets a mash of excuses and insults. They are completely unable to do so.

The Meta AI is doing a shitty job representing human diversity but it gets an A+ for uncanny imitation of Democratic centrism.

"There's a storm coming, Mr. Bezos. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us." www.rawstory.com/amazon-wareh...

Since there seems to be a lot of discussion surrounding H-1B visas ⬇️

No, you should not go into debt to see your doctor.

TEEN: you’re the only one who understands me danny. my stupid dad won’t let me go see billie eilish with gretchen AI CHATBOT DANIEL PLAINVIEW FROM THERE WILL BE BLOOD: Your father is a bastard. Fit for a hole in the ground. You will go with Gretchen. Even if your father must die, as a bastard dies

Surgeon General Calls for Cancer Warnings on Alcohol Alcohol is the 3rd leading preventable cancer cause in the U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy urges updating warning labels, linking alcohol to 7 cancers—even at low intake. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/h...

I sorta wonder how much money immigration activists get from corporations

saying you "resist" is a really empty gesture. It's embarrassing

Why Do Republicans Hate a Prosperous Middle Class? Oh, yes the real reason GOP policies target wages, unions, and public education.... hartmannreport.com/p/why-do-rep...

it's a fact that foreign workers depress the wages of Americans both by expanding the labor pool and by their willingness to accept a lower wage. Calling that xenophobic is in service of the oligarchs. You need to help ppl in the countries they come from

GREECE: Public Sector Union Pushes for Reinstatement of Holiday Bonuses in Court www.tovima.com/society/gree...

stop bragging about buying and reading books

I helped out with this piece on Energy Islands - with Belgium set to build one in the North Sea. Bringing the energy from many offshore wind farms onto an island could help make transmission, storage and trade easier. But will they be worth the cost? www.nesta.org.uk/feature/futu...

As an IT professional with 28 years of experience, rest assured the ONLY reason Musky wants to increase tech migrants is b/c he can pay them half of a USA based salary! It's not Latin Americans that should concern us, it's the folks from Prague and Mumbai! They can be easily manipulated...

He is correct. My deceased husband was an electrical engineer and in our experience, companies sought to hire engineers from outside the country in order to pay them less than American engineers, bringing down salaries for all engineers.

Bernie on H-1B

Until a member of Congress goes to jail for theft and/or fraud, these offenses are going to keep happening. It is time for us to publicly declare—if by no means accept—that both DOJ and the FBI have no problem whatsoever with politicians defrauding their donors or stealing money from voters. None.

TODAY’S EPISODE OF: WE FU*CKING WARNED YOU A Trump-supporting dairy farmer is still in denial about mass deportation threats and drops this gem: “Nobody will be producing food. Within two days, we will not have food. There will not be food anywhere.”