california anti-drought measures are always like “take shorter showers! consider brushing your teeth with the sink turned off” and never mention the fact that nestle is bottling all of our fucking water and selling it to people who live in areas with plenty of water
It’s like the Irish potato “famine” I stg
In California, residential use only accounts for 4% of total water use. Industrial use is 80%.
This is true of any resource. Yes turning your lights off will save you a but of money. But industry wastes far more electricity than you. Yes recycling your garbage is good. But companies, like the retail chain i work at produce far more garbage than you ever could and do not recycle it at all.
Turning natural resource and environmental crises into individual responsibility is form of class warfare so fucking insidious
Honestly just burn every company to the ground or cut them off from electricity and water systems
Tax them heavily for their usage Make recycling mandatory or theyre fined Oh im sorry am i stepping all over your precious free market I hope to choke it out
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“Part of the problem is that we’ve been victims of a campaign of systematic misdirection. Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organized political resistance. An Inconvenient Truth helped raise consciousness about global warming. But did you notice that all of the solutions presented had to do with personal consumption—changing light bulbs, inflating tires, driving half as much—and had nothing to do with shifting power away from corporations, or stopping the growth economy that is destroying the planet?
Or let’s talk water. We so often hear that the world is running out of water. People are dying from lack of water. Rivers are dewatered from lack of water. Because of this we need to take shorter showers. See the disconnect? Because I take showers, I’m responsible for drawing down aquifers? Well, no. More than 90 percent of the water used by humans is used by agriculture and industry. The remaining 10 percent is split between municipalities and actual living breathing individual humans….People (both human people and fish people) aren’t dying because the world is running out of water. They’re dying because the water is being stolen.” – Derrick Jensen (author & environmentalist)
Do not buy into that bullshit about us getting a “raise”. It’s not a raise. Not when workers who have been there 2+ years who made $13 when they started and now make $14 are only getting that $15 like every other new employee is. We should be getting payed $16 but we aren’t.
They already took away our ability to earn payed days off. Yup that’s right. Thru points earned thru productivity we could earn a payed day off if we had a certain amount of points.
Now they take away our monthly bonuses too that we earned thru attendance and productivity.
AND they took away our stocks because of this so-called “raise”.
All they did was move the money elsewhere. Actually, I haven’t done the calculations yet but I bet we LOST money from our pay.
That “raise” is bullshit. Fuck Jeff Bezos and fuck Amazon.
The United States is a democratic republic, but our elections are an absolute mess. In an ideal democracy (either direct or republic), as close to 100% of adult citizens should be voting in every election, and the results should be as representative as possible. Here are some ways to work towards that:
1. Automatic voter registration. All adult citizens should automatically be on the voter lists. This means no one is denied the right and responsibility to vote because they were unable to register on time.
2. Mail In Ballots should be automatic and available for all. (Mail In ballots allow for people with busy schedules who would struggle to get to voting places to vote, but also allows voters the time to fully research all of the candidates and issues at their own pace.)
3. Voting rights should not be denied to anyone based on criminal record. (Felons and inmates should be allowed to vote, as they are still citizens. Especially given issues of racial inequality within the criminal justice system AND how things like drug laws are inconsistent across the states, it is not reasonable to deny this right and responsibility from people with criminal backgrounds.)
4. Voting should be obligatory.(While filing out a ballot with “abstain” on it will remain legal and allowable, a ballot MUST be submitted or else is punishable by a fine proportional to the person’s income. This encourages participation and awareness in elections, and also legally obligates the government to take further action to make voting universally available.)
5. Switch to either Ranked Voting systems (For elections with only 1 open seat) or Party Proportional Voting (For elections with multiple open seats) to promote more representative results and empower voting for 3rd party candidates.
7. For Presidential Elections, eliminate the Electoral College and move to a Ranked Voting System. (The Electoral College means that only the large cities in a few swing states states have real voting power in Presidential Elections, disincentives candidates from visiting the “safe” states, gives some citizens votes more power than others, erases the votes of political minorities within states, and puts us at risk of having a winner that is not representative of the majority of voters, which has happened 5 times.)
8. Extend the voting period of elections over several days, including at least 1 federal holiday. (This is less important if universal mail in ballots are enacted, but is a good alternative, allowing more people to be able to get to a polling place.)
10. Fixing heavily gerrymandered districts. (Depending on how an implementation of Party Proportional Voting was implemented, the need for specific districts could be phased out, but should they remain, all voting districts would need non-partisan review at least once a decade to ensure gerrymandering wasn’t at work.)
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