ALEC Is Talking About Changing the Way Senators Are Elected and Taking Away Your Vote

hipsterkittypostingteenybopper:

If this project is approved by ALEC members, the resolution will become part of ALEC’s agenda for the states—advanced by conservative legislators who have established a pattern of rubber-stamping ALEC’s “model legislation.” If successful, they will reverse one of the great strides toward democracy in American history: the 1913 decision to end the corrupt practice of letting state legislators barter off Senate seats in backroom deals with campaign donors and lobbyists.

Make no mistake: Doing away with the direct election of senators would make Congress less representative and more likely to bend to corporate pressure on issues ranging from health care to wages to Social Security. The Senate would also, in all likelihood, become more socially conservative on issues such as abortion rights, gay rights, and the separation of church and state.

hipsterkittypostingteenybopper:

h-oney-b-ones:

intheicyairofnight:

kittykat8311:

uppityfemale:

I say this every time I argue for raising the minimum wage. I never hear anyone else say it and I’m glad I found this.

If you build your business and your bonus on the backs of others who you don’t pay a living wage you don’t deserve to be in business.

this is making capitalists bleed from the ears keep reblogging it

Since I tend to get into this with people who argue that robots will replace minimum wage workers if they get too expensive, I like to lean into the robot metaphor.

If you have a machine performing a valuable talk for your company, the upkeep of that machine is part of your operating cost. You have to pay to power it, to upgrade it, to fix it when it breaks. And if you can’t afford the machine, the manufacturer doesn’t have to do business with you. They’re free to take their service somewhere else where they think the price is fair.

For humans, a living wage is the operating cost. If you can’t afford to pay your worker enough to live nearby, feed themselves, and get basic health care – all of which are things they need in order to be able to work for you – you’re failing to pay for the cost of their service.

The difference is that humans have to eat, like, all the time, so they often don’t have the option of taking their business somewhere else if the price isn’t fair – even insufficient food and shelter is better then starving on the street. But that means those people are not really able to act as agents in a free market, and it’s easy to exploit them under the guise of “the market setting the price.” People can’t act like reasonable economic agents when they’re desperate. As for as I can tell, that’s the whole point of having a minimum wage.

Keep reblogging this, it’s making capitalists mad and reaching out to the working class

And if, at that point, it becomes cost-effective to automate the job instead of using a human to do it?

Sure! Go for it! Automate away. The entire point of machines is that we build them for us. If we’re looking at machines as competition, we’re looking at it all wrong – machines aren’t our enemies. They aren’t even our friends. They’re our tools, and we use them to make life easier.

If this ends up destroying a lot of jobs and replacing them with far fewer jobs – as some predictions I’ve seen seem to indicate – then that’s cause for celebration, yay! We’ve managed to cut down on the human labor necessary to keep society running, and that’s awesome.

It’s just that when you build an economy the way we’re building them, that leaves some people unemployed. We’d need to find a solution to that problem, too, not that I’m biased in favor of a particular solution or anything…

combat-femme:

flavoracle:

derinthemadscientist:

delirieuse:

@copperbadge

The fact that this joke can be made shows that English is doing fine

If Dovin Baan ever told a single joke in his entire life, it would be this one.

And I would respect him so much more for it.

@euryale-dreams

Science Fighter – What if the great scientists had special moves…by Diego Sanches.

norroendyrd:

mousathe14:

pr1nceshawn:

Charles Darwin – Evolution

Albert Einstein – E=mc2

Pythagoras – Tetractys

Marie Curie – Radium

Stephen Hawking – Wormhole

Pythagoras – Pythagorean Theorem

Isaac Newton – Opticks

This is too cool

@mutantenfisch Have you seen this, omg?

queerafricanboy:

weavemama:

Malala really is a class act for standing up against the horrors many women and girls face around the world. She needs to be protected at all costs, bc the world needs more people like her.

A Hero.

dreamy-lil-safe-space:

Sensory processing disorder things: sensitive eater edition

-You either absolutely adore crusts or hate them with all your soul
-”I don’t like [food] but I do like it when its prepared like THIS” (alternatively, “But you love [food]!” yeah, but not like that!)
-Will only eat this veggie raw, but this veggie only cooked, but this ve-
-meticulously checking meat for the dreaded gristle so you don’t gag at the dinner table.
-being told you’re too hard to cook for
-Picking the most normal/bland thing at a restaurant so you don’t risk getting something and then not being able to eat it
-Loving the taste of something, but not the texture

feel free to add on!

Suggestion

secretlyatargaryen:

maddie-grove:

New edition of ASOIAF where all the moms who died in childbirth instead die in skateboarding accidents. Dalla does a sick (but ill-fated) flip off the Wall. Joanna makes the classic beginner’s mistake of trying to do an ollie on top of Casterly Rock. (Tywin and Cersei still blame infant Tyrion, because “she wouldn’t have needed skateboarding if you weren’t a dwarf.”) Rhaella tries to prove that you can skateboard in the ocean. Lyanna and Ashara die in the same skateboard competition due to faulty ramp construction, but it’s covered up by Rhaegar’s friends because he built the ramp and they didn’t want to tarnish his memory.

“Ladies die getting sick air. No one sings songs about them.”