Madzielle @ Madzielle @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I slept nearly 12 hours last night, woke up, had a panic attack, then took a nap for four hours.

Woke up, put on The Elephant Graveyard Radio Hour, danced and cleaned my house happy.

It's also been a long time since a nap like that worked so well. Sometimes ya just need to sleep.

I laughed too, until I raised a toddler with ADHD. He wasn't diagnosed yet, but lord was it obvious he had the markers. Never leashed him, but definitely ran after him a lot, and had to keep a hyperfocused eye on him at all times.

I don't laugh as hard now, I still giggle, but just not as hard

Which is different than starting over entirely

My vote was against rump roast, not FOR the Dem running office in 2020.

I'm not for any candidate standing against Medicare for all and the working people.

So yeah they won, but not because of love for the party.

Not just that, but making voting day a holiday would help. Make it a friday to monday four day event for fucks sake!

That's like not liking how your Civilization game is playing out and hitting restart, it's lazy.

I disagree, we need to do it the hard way and have actual reform so we have stronger checks and balances.

I keep writing my senators. One senator I voted for under the Working Families' Party (his name next to both WFP and Dem). The Second Senator is an old fart who I wanted to look up to, but continues to enable the R party as a Dem.

I write them often, and a few days ago, wrote the old fart to let him know his actions directly are why I just changed my voter registration to independent. Im no longer registered Democrat. I was there for Bernie, and nothing good has come of anything over my 10 years as a Dem. I write the WFP senator to remind him I voted for him under that party name.

Will it do anything? I don't know, but I hope everyone is writing thier senators and reps at least bi weekly. Its so easy to do today, you dont even need a stamp!

Money really needs to get out of politics. It's foul how we have to play the game to judge the integrity of decisions.

For the people? Or for the payout?

Obnoxious government

Thank you for your sincere response

Write your senators about this folks, if you really care about Bernie and AOC, write your Senator and let them know you support Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Urge them to stand with them, or to at least listen to what these two folks have to say.

It probably wont do anything, but if we keep writing them (I write weekly) dropping their names, maybe they will take the fuckin hint

I saw a weird propaganda YouTube short the other day about him. It was a half AI short video just talking about how good of a person he is LMAO

I agree with you, but I also feel that AOC is what the Democratic party is supposed to be. She is not the status quo.

Yes

How can you represent the interests of the people, and their needs, while also representing the interests of a corporation when their goals dont align?

I'm here for group three

The revolution is basically inevitable now. May take decades before anything meaningful changes for the people, but it's suffering is inevitable.

The dems are complicit, as a youth I was an independent. Bernie got me to register Dem, and I've never felt so betrayed, betrayed by this party constantly. I'm out. Its going to get worse before it gets better, sucks but, here weeeeee ah goooo

So I understand you likely are against any universal healthcare in our country? Because of jobs?

There's always more healthcare staff needed everywhere, maybe if education and trainings for those jobs wasn't so expensive...

Not every person in New Jersey works for big pharma. There are other folks too, Booker should be representing all of them, not just the ones who pay him off.

Bro

Was watching the knicks game the other night, noticed a man with an isreal flag hat on standing behind the coach. I couldn't enjoy the rest of the game.

They're out there.. blind obedience is fucking illogical

Everyone here seems to be talking about co-ops... And I'm really confused by the conversation in this thread, alas,

I worked for some years for a manufacturing company that was 100% employee owned. We were a multinational manufacturer for: wire and cable, aerospace, and medical. The company began around 1972, started the EO process in the early 90's becoming 100% employee owned by 2000.

The [National Center for Employee Ownership] (nceo.org) is a good resource for businesses looking at employee ownership. The most common ESOPs are manufacturing companies in the states last I heard at one of the nceo conferences.

The obstacles that I see, is that most companies have Investors. Obviously we all know what the investors want as they own the stock. It takes a generous leadership/company founder to sell their stock to the company for employee ownership. It's a long process with lawyers and other legal hurdles. Not impossible, but finding generosity in the white collar business class, especially today, is not common it seems. You must have initial generosity and care for your employees from the initial owners. They decide to go employee owned or not. They either see the investment EO is, or they keep greedy.

The founder of the EO I worked for sold his last stock to the company for the same price he sold his first stock (which in the ten-ish years it took to get to 100% EO, raised considerably).

Profit sharing is dope. Basically we all got an extra large paycheck every quarter. This company I worked for paid $3-$4 more per hour to start than any other manufacturing company in the area, and bennies began the day you were hired. They literally held financial literacy classes for all employees, to better understand our financial reports, as the company was super transparent. They believed that the best ideas come from the ones running the machines, and the founder often could be found sweeping floors of his shops to better know his employees and their struggles. In 2019, the company stock was valued at over $6K a share.

The original owner passed away, then covid hit, (I left) then the leadership changed to new people who never met the founder. It's gone down hill since. Im to be paid out this year, and the stock is half was it was when I left. I still carry a card with the original founders mission and values listed for the company. That card is no longer what they follow. It's been sad to see.

However, I still believe Employee Ownership is a solid pathway to restoring the middle class.

Folks who began in the 90s were retiring after 25 years with the company with $1-$2 million dollars in their esop accounts alone. I know what a Roth IRA is, what it means to diversify, and what dividends are all because of this company's financial literacy classes.

It also is possible a company becomes too big to support the EO model. This company was hitting that point around the time I left, they told us "we're hiring lawyers to make sure that it doesn't happen", but as I've watched the stock price drop year over year, yeah bet-

Which is why I scream about employee ownership whenever I can. It's the closest we can get in the states I think right now. NCEO

Fine, yes. I was just throwing an idea out there. I don't know how to pirate shit anymore, and am to an age where I can afford to support artists directly, so if one can, one should.

Where did the music to pirate come from back in the day? Was it not uploaded from a CD and then file shared?

I did learn in this thread there are numerous other streaming services I was completely unaware of, so thats cool