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"If it was good enough for my grandfather to do dangerous work 20 hours a day and could be dismissed without reason or murdered for unionizing, and my grandmother to do menial labor where she could be raped and exploited, it's good enough for the new people."
"Hey, new immigrants, you're just not going to get any food stamps for your kids. Leave 'em back in the war zone, or get on the 'repeal child labor laws' train with the GOP!"
Hah hah this is all very amusing but immigrants in fact use fewer public services than comparable native born people so this is not a problem that needs to be solved just cruelty so heh HEH these people are monsters. Hah.
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1) Hey, I’m going to say this very nicely.

Because I am a good WGA member, when I see an official WGA letter in my email inbox, I spend the time and open and read it, because I assume it will have important information about the election.
2) When I invest my PERSONAL TIME in reading this email, it’s because I genuinely hope, in GOOD FAITH, it will contain an explanation of 1-3 coherent policy differences you have with your opponent(s), and HOW you will implement your plan,
3) So let me just say, if the content of your letter is NOT 1-3 clear, concise bullet points (or more if you’re the Liz Warren type!) on what differentiates you from your opponent(s) and why that should win our consideration, you are TRICKING me into reading something else.
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The insanity here of a) the sheer rage Donald Trump has that he's ever made not feel he's not part of "the Elite" and b) the idea of an "Elite" as both assumed and a GOOD THING, as *the goal*, is amazing. There is no possibility of equality, sharing, any non-zero power struggle.
This is part of the struggle. A conservative movement in the US not dedicated to Burkean moral order and slow adoption of change but assumption and propagation of straight-up Hobbesian brutality. It's a mindset you can't negotiate with.
"If you have universal health care, that means the poor are stealing yours. If we have a decent minimum wage, that money's being stolen from YOUR pocket. We can't allow immigrants because they must be taking YOUR jobs." There are winners and losers and nothing in between.
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HAH HAH HAH remember when 50% of bankruptcies were due to medical expenses and you can still lose your house if your kid gets cancer and did imention the diabetics dying I’M HERE ALL WEEK TRY THE VEAL THANK YOU GOODNIGHT TIP YOUR WAITRESS!
You gotta love somebody who gets thousands of replies that say “actually, the service is pretty good” Googles an old pic and then doubles down. Never retreat. Never surrender. Never an inch of compassion for anyone not living his life.
Jesus Murphy. “I know there’s millions of my fellow Americans in pain and suffering or unable to get child care but if the solution means that I MAY OCCASIONALLY BE INCONVENIENCED then no fucking way.”
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