I had a colleague who went into a diabetic shock at work. Passed out, due to other related things, his retina disconnected. They had him back in two weeks, and framed him for stealing cash from the register rather than cover the treatment to recover. Gotta love corporate America.
Had another buddy, and three others conveniently murdered the night before a Lyft Union contract was up for negotiation in my home city. Needless to say, negotiations were conveniently cancelled, and the union disbanded in following days, suddenly lacking four of the main officers.
Just saying, if you think you’re costing the corporations too much, none of us are, and they’ll pay to make sure you don’t.
This is conservatism. Conservatives (including neo-liberals) serve the billionaire class. Conservatives have ALWAYS been the foot-soldiers of the wealthy.
It is conservatives who despise unions and conservatives who violently attack and murder union members for the rich during strikes. It is conservatives who allow the rich to be immune to laws and taxes.
Conservatives are doing this to us. They cannot stop on their own. We must physically, forcibly, violently help them stop. If we do not, they will kill us all.
The boss cannot be defeated until his foot-soldiers are dead.
Wen
The american dream is a nightmare.
Lhand ov the Fee!
American here, this isn’t even remotely the saddest story I’ve heard. In fact, it’s a pretty happy one.
I’m not joking.
Gets to recover in an office instead of a manufacturing line or coal mine, with 3 weeks off first? Guys got it better than half the people.
The American safety net is in israel right now. These guys just don’t fucking care about us. We are strategic human capital and we don’t matter. And these people claim they’re ‘godly’ . Imagine if they were satanist
Imagine if they were Satanist
We’d be a hell of a lot better off, considering levelheadedness and rationalism are central tenets of Satanism
This is just slavery. Fuck the USA. What a nightmare to live in
had a close friend try to defend 6 sick days a year as “generous”
lmao.
What is wrong with some people? Was he never sick? Does he not know sickness is a real thing? Jeez.
unfortunately i see it way too often in this country, eventually you get deep enough to become unable to reject the absurdity, as it would mean acknowledging your own status as a slave
Makes sense. Cognitive dissonance. Hard to blame as noone really wants to admit he’s basically just a slave with no option.
Although there is an option. Emigration. Be abetted treated slave elsewhere. But that probably also won’t come to mind if you’re already adamant you’re in the greatest nation already 😑
Yay Capitalism! /s
It’s spreading all over the world, I hope the rest are able to stop it
Doubt that, the rest will adapt or submit. Slowly but steadily.
Slaves aren’t armed to the teeth. Stop letting these people pretend cowardice is helplessness.
Who does the 70 year old need to shoot to fix his situation?
Himself - duh. The old Hunter S Thompson retirement plan.
Americans, forever incapable of imagining solutions above the level of individual behavior (though at a certain point one suspects you’ll fall back on any talking points that allow you to avoid actually doing something).
70 will hit you faster than you think- if you want to be considered an invalid at that age, be my guest.
What an empty and pointless response. It’s like you’re a bot trained exclusively on smug European comments.
Dude literally made his entire account about Americans, look at his profile lmao
Would, but I already got bored and blocked him lmao
Solid decision
Fascist enablers, always REAL defensive 👍
Enjoy MAGA. You’ve earned it.
Still haven’t told me who the old man needs to shoot to get good healthcare. I’m the defensive one?
Could start with another Brian Thompson.
We’re talking here about someone who has already given up. He could do nothing, or he could move the needle a bit.
You know what isn’t going to help him? Waiting for you to get off your able-bodied ass.
“Smug European” - this is cute. It’s like you don’t even clock how MAGA-adjacent you are.
What country are you from?
The one just north that’s been telling you for 30 years to get your house in order. ‘What country are you from?’ bullshit is clown-ass deflection from comfortable white liberals. We’ve been telling you for decades you were on this path, you refused to fix it, got belligerent, and renamed french fries in response, NEVER changed your tactics while the far right continually escalated, and now your failure is spilling across borders and becoming everybody else’s problem. You don’t get to export your Nazis and then suddenly discover nationalism when somebody outside your borders points out that your self-satisfied, shitty inaction is responsible. Keep sitting on your ass, you pants-pissing coward, while 30% of your country “jokes” about annexing mine. Fuck you.
Oh the one that had a Nazi parade this week?
We have the same problem friend, i’m not fighting you. I’ll fight beside you when the time comes, fuck man I am not even 30 yet, some of those early warnings were missed because I was either sperm or not old enough
I would belay judgement of others until you get the full picture, shame on you.
This doesn’t answer the very simply question of: Who does the 70 year old need to shoot to fix his situation?
What are you going to do with your guns? The army and police doesn’t have better guns, vehicles, high tech surveillance gear, AND the law on their side?
You can’t do shit even with your guns. You can protect your family and that’s what they are for.
You’re making a very convincing case for pipe bombs.
This bullshit argument has been shut down every time it’s been leveled, and always results in a page full of moderator-deleted comments.
Your schtick is tired.
I haven’t personally commented on this before so haven’t seen that, but if moderators shut down discussions about it, I guess we stick to memes. :)
I dunno what a gun would solve here for anyone? Shoot “the state”?
Charlie Kirk got pretty well “solved”
Couldn’t care less for this douche, but…what did that bullet solve? one less bootlicker, but system stays the same.
Every Charlie Kirk moves the needle.
Every piece of MAGA trash needs to think twice about opening their mouth or stepping out in public.
Nah. Making Kirk into a martyr was a mistake. He has a bigger presence on the right now than he did when he was alive.
Nobody gives a shit about Kirk anymore. I’m honestly surprised how little anyone cared a week later.
More Charlie Kirks every day, please.
True. But those who own you, you cannot just shoot as you will never ever even get in their rough vicinity. And those matter, not the legions of dumb kirks.
You’re a fucking coward.
“I care deeply as long as I don’t have to risk or sacrifice anything.” Fuck off. Blocked.
That’s disgusting.
Kirk was a racist asshole and we don’t need to feel bad for him to say it was shitty of you to post this.
Cool. Enjoy allowing your high profile Nazis to continue to feel safe in public. You’re not part of the problem at all.
Is there some way to get you to a mental health professional, because you have post after post calling for violence against people.
Only one thing ever stopped Nazis
But keep patting yourself on the back, you absolute coward.
The Republican plan for us all.
Netherlands here:
Yikes.
y’all need any immigrates? I’d love to bike more.
No we don’t need any more ‘immigrates’.
What about immigrants?
I see you understand conservatives’ opinions regarding asylum seekers.
Another dutchie here:
Yikes. +1
That’s happening pretty much everywhere in the corporate.
Heart attacks or people cannot afford to retire?
People not being able to retire, even not able to survive on the income they get. Heart attack is a consequence of lifestyle that people have to live these days. Many people simply don’t feel enough, that sense of not being enough and being replaceable often leads to a decline in mental and physical health.
This sums up capitalism, i.e. for-profit institution in general.
Long- and short-term disability need regulation. Companies cut funding to their own employees at times when it hurts the most while also throwing them to the health insurance vultures.
It sends the message fuck you, find your own way or die.
Why are private companies even in the loop? Where I live, the government pays disability.
Why are private companies even in the loop?
Because they own the politicians.
Murica, the ultra rich making anything related to the welfare of others “communism”
Basically 100 years of social engineering to convince 50% of the country that any that benefits them is evil and wrong
The funny part is that the second you actually need disability coverage, the companies are all too happy to throw you over to the government for that as fast as they can.
It does in the US too. I’m not sure what the previous commenter is talking about with companies cutting off funds. No company I’ve ever worked for paid workers for disability time. They throw you over to the government for that at the first opportunity, though they may be involved to the extent of validating yes this person works here, etc.
The issue in the OP is the amount paid, if we actually read it. Of course all the comments are just going in the usual directions of “fuck capitalism / corporations / the USA” and sadly nothings going to change that.
I believe they are talking about company-sponsored short term and long term disability, STD and LTD. LTD commonly covers a percentage of your wages… my companies provides 60% with an upper limit.
Government provided disability you have to qualify for and requires an application process. It doesn’t provide much money either, which is why companies often have LTD benefit plans a person can enroll in.
Has the frog been boiled yet?
It’s been liquified and is no longer recognized as such.
This man has likely been a part of the work force for almost SIXTY YEARS.
still not enough
It was international news when China proposed raising it’s maximum retirement age to 63.
I was told that this proved only Capitalism could guarantee a good retirement.
They meant having capital
