u/cynica1mandate

The argument people use for not raising the minimum wage doesn't make sense to me.

They are saying if you raise the miminum wage to reflect the current cost of living you will force employers to fire more workers. In order to maintain jobs they must allow employers to keep paying people below the standard of living.

So...more workers with inadequate amount of pay vs less workers making adequate amount of pay.

The pay raise is framed as bad for the workers when it's really bad for the companies. If companies can't get a lot of workers to do the same job for less money then they can't grow as large as they are. If they aren't so large this leaves room for other companies to grow and hire their own employees. Thus seems like one of the ways we should be regulating the size of these huge companies that become so powerful they become the regulators and governors of society.

But this also unfairly shifts the problem of the rising costs of living into the worker. They are basically saying that the worker must absorb the pitfalls of this situation when they are not the cause of the situation. Who or what is responsible for the current rise in costs of living? I would argue a conglomerate of institutions, businesses, and industries- none of which involve the worker. But this argument frames and demonizes the worker for asking for FAIR PAY. Meanwhile the people causing the problem ls get richer.

It seems like an elementary lesson, but people put a lot of stock in their so-called belief in "freedom of speech."

In the case of Chud the Builder, this guy is going around harassing people while filming it on camera. If he approaches you, your choice is to either to endure this, to be forced to walk away so you don't appear like the bad guy, or fight him. And in every outcome you turn out worse. He's streaming all of this so if you endure all of this it's a public shaming ritual. If you walk away, this is basically saying you have to give ground to this provocateur or you are the bad guy. And if you fight then, of course, you're just a mindless savage with poor impulse control.

And the problem is we already know that not responding to this type of stuff is bull-crap because we know what happens when you let bullies run free. They get worse. Jose Torres and Kayla Norton are two examples of people who get so riled up by their personal politics and philosophy that they go around literally terrorizing people...for a while. Eventually they were stopped, but before the incident that actually got them arrested other Black families had to endure this.

Now imagine if a bunch of White people decided to...say...get dressed up in a bunch of bed-sheets with torches and ride to the border of your property and star shouting slurs at you. Free Speech, so this is completely acceptable, right? If the people in the house don't like it well they should just ignore it. Maybe move out of town. Which would probably be exactly what the terrorists want.

Bullies get worse if you allow them to and despite how much people like to say "law and order," this behavior actually got Chud a large following. Because "law and order" is usually just code for "terrorize Black people."

This doesn't mean that you should turn violent to all verbal provocation and most people did not respond violently to the provocation. But the moment you do, well you're the mindless animal and that is what they will claim is what's wrong with society. And...to be perfectly clear...this behavior is not without context. We understand exactly the kind of country we live in- it's past and it's present. Racists like to treat these issues separately and devoid of context, but they are not just a one-off incident you should have the maturity to ignore. There's a long and dark story they are perfectly aware of. A present...that they are perfectly aware of.

I don't really need to say this because I think people already know this. The game racists like to play is that they take these tongue-in-cheek defenses of violent racists and racial harassment because the game is the Black person will be judged by them in the wrong no matter what he does. If he's the abuser. Wrong. If he's the victim, well he overreacted in his response. If he does nothing, continue the abuse until he does. And they will always try to find some way to redeem or defend the racist offender- even saying "well he wasn't really racist. He was just putting on a display of free speech," even though the comment section of his videos often reveals the obvious...

Dehumanization. Power. That is what bullying is about. And people should stand up to it. We understand this as children, let alone adults. Someone walks up to you shouting that kind of nonsense he is a threat. And, true to it, Chud was walking around armed while doing this. And between this racist troll and a man who you would think would be considered a hero of these racists who so-called love freedom and honor the troops...they chose Chud as their hero, and that shows you just who and what they are.

I spent a little time dabbling into the Great Replacement theory that White people have about the West. And I couldn't help laughing because the general trend of it seems to suggest that this idea of "the Great Replacement" only matters when it's dark-skinned people coming to White-skinned people's countries...

They seem offended and outraged at the idea of it, as though it'a a moral and sacred right for people to maintain their own land and yet...how does a place like the United States of America come to exist? Canada? Australia?

What do the people of Hawaii and Puerto Rico and Argentina and Mexico and the Phillipines and Japan, and South Africa and Guam think about Great Replacement?

The funny thing is that current day White people fashion it as a hostile invasion of dangerous cultures. In actuality, the immigration is likely feuled by THEIR own cultures seeking to avoid fair compensation of THEIR own natural citizens. The immigrants are generaly peaceful- especially compared to the way Western "immigrants" came into their lands. Westerners are by far the most violent and subversive invasive culture. On record. You'd think Westerners were complete virgins to the idea with how victimized they present themselves as.

I think it's hilarious. Their own people are the ones instigating this plan. You might want to blame it all on the Jews but that's not true. There's much more complicity in this then there is coercion. They could not have done nearly as much as they are credited with without extraordinary complicity.

The real problem is that Americans citizens are now finding themselves on the wrong end of empires ruthless side and they don't like it much.

Like with everything else, it's not a big deal when the West does it to other people. They rebrand it as a positive. An improvement. People should be thankful they took over their land. Warped their culture, if not destroyed it. But when it's the other way around... WHITE GENOCIDE!!!

I think it does more harm than good. It's one of societies tolerated insanities. Something that is objectively not true, yet accepted and respected. And because a persons culture is infiltrated by such things it brings the minds of their people that much further down.

If I'm talking to a religious person, I understand that I'm generally either talking to a person who has expressed a tendency to believe in and live by the absurd with little to no proof or someone who doesn't truly believe, but goes through the motions for whatever reason. Either way, I find it fraudulent. And if you should ever wonder why people insist on believing in or acting on absurd things in general...religion is exhibit A.

It is...by nature...run by con man and patronized by the deluded or the deceptive. And I'm saying this analytically and it's objectively true. Even the people you would want to say are nice and mean nothing bad by it. Even they practice and perpetuate the delusion. You might think there's "no harm" until you think. What happens when you convince people that something absurd is actually real- to the point where they significantly shape their lives and beliefs around such a thing?

For instance...you might ask why would people believe such stupid things from politicians? Why do they keep voting for people who do nothing for them? Because they believe in the propaganda they are told. They don't know it's fact, they believe in it and act on faith. This politic becomes culture. And culture can normalize the insane. Even the evil.

It's more about the mindset that religion represents. Or, rather, the mind virus. You can't expect people to behave rationally in another instance, but then tell them they must accept and/or respect the irrationality of something else in another. When that happens, rationality is no longer objective but subjective, and when subjective thinking takes over your society, facts no longer matter. It could force people into instances of cognitive dissonance where they hold two competing thoughts as true. Insanity. If I can convince you a frog is a dog, it's a dog. Things are what people believe them to be. Religion is not the sole origin of this problem, but I believe it's one of the greatest signs of it persisting even in this "age of information."

I just also want to point out as clarification that I'm not saying it's only religious people who think like this. In fact, I think most people have a religious mindset and are actually taught to have this mindset where they believe to be true more things than they know to be true based on faith. For instance, in school you learn most of your science through a textbook. You aren't the one testing to see if everything being told to you in the book is true. You have faith that the book and/or the teacher know what is right or wrong. Then when you grow up you might learn that something you believed was true for a long time was not true. That's because your belief in the truth was faith-based, not based on evidence. And most people have this way of thinking. That's why politics can lead people astray so easily. They trust in the people they listen to. Faith-based reasoning. And when you allow this insanity into your society...it twists it.

Have you had enough of these weird, fast-talking political gerbil's who become really famous for speaking their parties talking points?

Well, tough luck. Adam Mockler seems to have taken up the throne for fast-talking weirdo who is praised by his particular party because he's saying all their talking points. And of course just like the conservatives they'll be an army of liberals who swear he's speaking facts.

But we already know the Democrat party is trash. The conservative party is trash. You support these parties if you like having corporate and globalist policies repackaged as "America-first" or "progressive" initiatives delivered to you by the party figure who succeeded in getting the most fools to support/believe them at any particular time.

But Mockler is the newest gen of political trojan horses. He understands what the people are most angry about so he will reflect criticisms over things past and gone like covid...and he give token criticism of Israel- like Mamdani...but will ultimately shepherd people into voting liberal and supporting present and future initiatives of the liberal party- saying the conservatives are the evilest evil ever and they must be stopped, yada yada.

Just another Ben Shapiro, but for the left. Not that all these trojan horses speak like that, but this type seems so insufferable.

I think it comes from this place where White people are sincerely ignorant about themselves or they simply enjoy lying on someone else... But is this all that unbelievable? A culture that would hang a Black mother...cut the baby out of her womb...and call her the savage?

Between Black Americans and White Americans in the sense of crime...the space can be measured in astronomical units. White America is not only a generational crisis to Black America, it probably is...as a matter of historical record...the worst offender of human rights the world has ever seen on a global scale, let alone a local one. If you want to include the West, in general, I think there's no contest.

But these are the types who want to point to us...people who've had their lives and cultures literally torn apart by them...as plagues on them. These people assassinated our leaders who tried to help us. The same way they killed Iran's leader. And called him a terrorist for it. They intentionally destroyed our communities. They put the drugs and guns there. But this isn't in their history books and even if it was, they would call that propaganda. There's this sick thing where they cry out as they strike you.

But I think it's just a tactic to distract from their own crimes. The deep evil in their society. Is Epstein a first? NO. Child predation is very, very old. Stories from colonial times on the part of people victimized by the colonist all up and down the Americas have stories of the nasty, twisted things West colonists do to children- a lot of them wearing a Christian Cross. But they do this to their own to. You ever hear of the name Jon Benet-Ramsey? You ever hear of all the sick and twisted things that go on in Hollywood. Not simply the elites doing this to kids, but ordinary Americans selling their kids into these systems for a chance at a better life for themselves. Ordinary Americans doing this to their kids...simply for the pleasure.

I don't know why but children are a thing in this land. They're not safe...and it's not Black people they have to worry about.

We're looking on Israel/Palestine and...believe me...you do not know the extent of what has been done to Palestine over there. Israel likes to pretend it is the victim of the Palestinians when it's the other way around and that's a story very much the same in the US. White people whine and pretend to be victims of Black people when it's the other way around.

And it's weird because Black Fatigue is something even non-Whites engage in even if we've done nothing to them. But in order to suck-up and align with White people they do this. People who come from places that were literally ravaged by White people. They come here, put on their MAGA hat, and sneer at us.

Who has spread the most pain and torment to anyone in this world? I'm asking that. Both historically and presently? Who? Who deals the most drugs? Who creates the most violence? Who steals the most...anything? Who? Black people...or White people. Right now there's a large amount of deed-thefts going on in NYC where I live. It's mostly targeting Black and Brown people. Who do you think is responsible? White people taking over whole communities from Black people...either through law-fare of just outright violence. They literally bombed a Black neighborhood in Philadelphia and let the fire burn the place down. Was this a hundred years ago? NO. 1985. Anyone punished? NO. But...Black Fatigue.

And this is why I know you can't even listen to these types anymore. You can't walk around waiting for them to magically learn something new or change because they don't care. They either reject it outright or humor it and you. Black Fatigue is just one more thing that lets me know these people don't care about anything they have done, they'll always see other people are the evil in the world and they'll always present themselves as the true victims...while complaining about "oppression Olympics."

White civlization...is a black stain...on humanity.