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Kate Pryde

@Mutant187

Feb 19

@L_Toczylowski

@L_Toczylowski @eyemagistus There is no reason a person should have to take out huge loans to go into public service law.

It’s almost like society wanted to discourage people from going into the kind of law that actually helps people.

@L_Toczylowski

@L_Toczylowski @eyemagistus Or wanted to keep all but the children of the rich from entering the legal profession.
Knowing that the children of the rich will mostly work to support their own class interests, and that few will go into public interest specialties—or, heaven forbid, any kind of ACTIVIST law.

@L_Toczylowski

@L_Toczylowski @eyemagistus Now that $$ aid for postsecondary/postgrad education has morphed from mostly grants to mostly loans, a non-rich kid who wants a “power education“ must borrow—then enter a “lucrative“ specialty to make the payments.
“Lucrative“ = “part of the problem”.

Think this is by accident?

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Kate Pryde

@Mutant187

Feb 17

@Sbsb_bubu

@Sbsb_bubu @chemindefer12 @CynthiaNixon @hbomax @GildedAgeHBO Each made SOME $$ of her own, but Charlotte and Carrie wound up with rich men, and Charlotte became a “stay at home mom” (with plenty of paid help); whereas Samantha and Miranda (even after marriage) were basically self supporting. And Miranda may have made more $$ than Steve.

@Sbsb_bubu

@Sbsb_bubu @chemindefer12 @CynthiaNixon @hbomax @GildedAgeHBO It made NO sense that after SATC gave each woman her respective version of a “happily ever after” ending, the reboot undermined Miranda’s marriage and career by telling us she hadn’t been happy/had been living a lie—but left Carrie‘s and especially Charlotte’s choices unscathed.

@Sbsb_bubu

@Sbsb_bubu @chemindefer12 @CynthiaNixon @hbomax @GildedAgeHBO Yes, Carrie lost her husband—but the death of a 67-year-old man is something that happens in real life; it’s not like saying the whole relationship had been a lie or a mistake. Which, ironically, I think Carrie/Big was; in real life, THAT marriage wouldn’t have lasted.

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Kate Pryde

@Mutant187

Jan 14

@fbcooper1

@fbcooper1 @joepolitics4 @Scottcrates @Mayoisstillspi1 I heard that in CA, ballot materials—& definitely the Vote by Mail ballot itself—will NOT be sent to a PO Box/General Delivery/other mailing address, but ONLY to the “residence”. Somebody who had this problem said that’s what somebody @ Orange County Registrar office said.

@fbcooper1

@fbcooper1 @joepolitics4 @Scottcrates @Mayoisstillspi1 Or maybe the Registrar of Voters office said that a PO Box was okay for THIS purpose; but a PO Box costs money—and it DOESN’T work w/DMV for license/ID. What this person has is a (free) General Delivery address—which can’t be used to receive ballots OR driver’s license/ID.

@fbcooper1

@fbcooper1 @joepolitics4 @Scottcrates @Mayoisstillspi1 Apparently there’s no standard, LEGITIMATE way for people w/o a permanent address to get certain kinds of mail—or to get ID that requires home address.
All I hear are “workarounds”: a PO Box w/an address that doesn’t sound like one, or “using“ a friend’s or shelter’s address.

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Kate Pryde

@Mutant187

Jan 4

“Why are kids asking their parents or friends to help pay off student loans when such loans pretty much don’t exist in any other developed democracy (and didn’t in America before the Reagan administration)?”

”American government, uniquely in the developed world, routinely fails the majority of its people in need — all while handing billions in subsidies and tax breaks every year to the top 1 percent.

This is no accident.”

”A rightwing network of billionaires and foundations began, in the 1970s, following an outline by Lewis Powell selling Americans on the idea that government is an evil and dysfunctional thing and that the real core idea of America is ‘rugged individualism.’”

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Kate Pryde

@Mutant187

Jan 4

@Thom_Hartmann

America Must Awaken From the Big Lie of “Rugged Individualism”, by @Thom_Hartmann hartmannreport.com/p/america-must…

“Why is a children’s hospital on TV asking for money when every other developed country in the world finances pediatric research and pays the full cost of kids who need medical care?“

“Why are there over a dozen charities just here in Portland helping homeless people when Finland—a country nowhere near as wealthy as America (including per-capita)—has functionally ended homelessness according to a 2020 report at HUD’s website?”

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Kate Pryde

@Mutant187

Dec 5, 2021

@xxxtruth1

@xxxtruth1 @JannerDarren @CharlotteEmmaUK Ironically, early last year, Covid was thought to be a danger mostly to the very old & the very sick. #Covidiots thought those groups were expendable! “No need for us all to take precautions to stop the spread; if YOU’RE healthy & under 60--or 50, or 40, or 30–YOU’RE safe.”

@xxxtruth1

@xxxtruth1 @JannerDarren @CharlotteEmmaUK Few seemed to know—or care—that age & physical condition are gradients, not binaries. Those who were neither young & perfectly healthy, nor very old &/or sick, were expected to take their chances of exposure (at 1st, 2nd, or 10th remove) because someone flouted hygiene protocols.

@xxxtruth1

@xxxtruth1 @JannerDarren @CharlotteEmmaUK Some callous young-to-middle-aged adults referred to Covid as “Boomer Remover”.
And few even noticed—or cared—that midlife parents, teachers, and other workers with a pre-existing condition or two were at moderate or higher risk of serious illness if infected.
#SocialDarwinism

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