Eugene V. Debs' Ghost

I never understand why we keep voting for it each election, but more:

https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2024/11/california-propositions-election-results/

• Voted no on rent control because of successful propaganda by landlords
• Voted no raising the minimum wage because of successful propaganda by companies
• Voted no on affordable housing because “muh taxes”
• Voted no on banning prison labor, because “Hey if they went to jail, they should burn in a forest fire, paying them is icky!!”

You know why. Biden, like all presidents, doesn’t care about the actual heroes (Snowden, Manning, Luigi) and cares about people would make heroes required.

That law still pisses me off. I heard that it got a court check because of a clause in the amendment required a 7/8ths majorty vote in both the Senate and Assembly, but I don’t recall if the judge ruled to keep it or abolish it.

California can be such a great state, but sometimes we vote for the dumbest shit because companies lobbied for ads that make no sense but to the dumbest voter. The most recent set of props come to mind.

This is… a weird gotcha. “You claim to be aginast murder, but sometimes you like to order Taco Bell! Checkmate, progressives!”

I personally voted for Harris despite being in California, but I can’t afford doordash for going out. It’s often:

• Meal Price (often but not always extra charges because fuck you, they can)
• Service fees
• Driver fees
• Tip to get someone to deliver in my rural area

Meanwhile I can often walk to there and put in my order in the same amount of time. It’s often even cheaper to take the bus someplace, then take the bus back. Doordash makes more sense in an urban area, but I don’t live in one. And when I am in one, I’m often with a friend who knows how to drive.

And now Trump is going to ensure the same here.

Mask off moment, jesus christ. “I don’t understand why there are there, they needed to die tho!!”

Hell to the yeah!

It’s kind of like saying that the individual who isn’t responding well to the abysmal conditions created by capitalism is “broken” and not the system itself. So most of the time you are gonna get a “best I can do is give you some pills that dull all your emotions, good and bad”.

It’s me ✨😎🥰

When I constantly stated the same reasons for attending mental healthcare when I got there, after a shake up in the ownership of the network, I was terminated coverage by my place because no one there got it into their head:

Major sources of depression and anxiety aren’t fixable with therapy and pills, they are only fixed with a major change in income and political climate. Even if I somehow have a job that pays 8 figures, it doesn’t solve the social issues of me and my friends being future victims with no way to stop it.

And then they just went “Well since you’re too focused on what you can’t change, you can’t change at all, buh-bye!”

At some point I just gotta wonder who’s actually mentally ill. The people who see the truth and try to change it despite the lack of influence, or the people who ignore it and say everything is okay.

I mean, when I expressed to my last therapist of the network “Hey this place in town, violated the state labor laws and I’m trying to figure out if I can sue them.” she just said “But I like the gas in my tank.”