Father; husband; mechanical engineer. Posting from my self-hosted Lemmy instance here in beautiful New Jersey. I also post from my Pixelfed instance.
A tenuous argument could be made that Israel and the US are the same country. Is that what you are getting at?
For most people, having an occupation means giving up roughly half of your waking hours, as well as a toll on your body and mind, to the minority class that happens to own the things needed to do this occupation in exchange for wages. These wages are required to buy the necessities for the rest of your life from this same minority class. Getting rid of occupations means ending this relationship so that we no longer have to support the exorbitant lifestyles and cruel whims of this minority class. It means putting us in control of the value we create with our labor and not wasting it on the likes of telemarketing, car dealing, or denying health insurance claims.
Yeah, but who cares about the camel? How are you going to move all this straw now?
I wonder which country will be next to carry out a nuclear strike, Russia or Israel.
All of them. Abolish occupations.
I wonder if Netanyahu’s position is tenuous enough that assassinations of key political allies might lead to his outster and arrest, and then to overall destabilization. Maybe they’re just too well protected or too numerous.
We have a big trash day once a month in my town and I always keep an eye out for something good. Recently I picked up a nice, sturdy, homemade cart with big casters in good condition.
The Emperor’s psychic beacon, of course.
Better than plastic explosives and shrapnel.
Maybe it’s a typo. I searched the referenced papers and the word infallibly doesn’t turn up.
I think that is why it won.
I don’t think age is very relevant. Anyone who files a tax return should be allowed to vote.
If someone doesn’t pay forward a favor of mine, then I just show up at their house.
I wonder how they did it. Was the firmware hacked to make the batteries ignite or were separate explosives implanted in each pager?
Harris is the VP now. She and her boss have a track record that’s pretty close to Trump’s on these issues and that should carry more weight than a campaign webpage. Also, Harris is notoriously non-committal in her speech (except on Israel), so she really went out of her way in the debate to make it clear that she’ll be tougher on the border and do more fracking than Trump. That’s the real Kamala.
And just so everyone is clear, Trump is also bad. Do not vote for Trump either.
I did not change any topic. The “positions” you found on Harris’s campaign website are bogus and I already addressed that.
We all watched the same debate. Don’t pretend you didn’t notice how Harris wouldn’t be outdone on Israel, the border, or fossil fuels. Whatever Trump said on these topics, Harris promised to do it harder and meaner. She was clearer on these points than she’s been on anything in the past six years.
During the debate, Harris made it clear that she supports Israel, fossil fuels, and tougher border policies much more strongly than Trump. That’s a deal breaker.
As far as I can tell, the PSL opposes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and doesn’t have a position on gun control.
I’m not saying that talent, preference, or experience aren’t real or that people won’t naturally focus their efforts on certain activities. I’m saying that people shouldn’t have to effectively blackmailed into certain activities, whether they align with their preferences or not. I like being a mechanical engineer. I do not like that I have to do it for forty plus hours a week, 49 weeks out of the year. Getting rid of occupations means that I would not be penalized if I decided to cut back on engineering and devote some real time to things that actually matter to me, my family, and my neighbors.