Bongo_Stryker @ Bongo_Stryker @lemmy.ca

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It is certainly a sign of moral and cognitive backwardness in this nation that to speak out against the systematic murder of civilian noncombatants is to be called pro-hamas.

To protest the killing of over 13,000 innocent children is to be reviled, called a criminal, and to risk arrest.

It is also backwards that the conservative, who always seems to be on the lookout for government tyrrany, should call for the arrest of those who speak out against their own government supplying bombs that are to be dropped on innocent children.

Great! The bankers are doing well. However, people with jobs are still showing up at community kitchens. The community kitchens that also got their funding cut.

Now you hold onto your biscuits, mister. Are you suggesting that basic human necessities, things that some might consider human rights, shouldn't be turned into commodities?

Good news! They got job offers 4 days later.

https://kmph.com/news/local/baskin-robbins-offers-fresh-start-for-fired-foster-freeze-workers-in-lemoore

Edit: I posted this in the wrong place. Sorry.

That happened the same day the new minimum wage law took effect, raising pay for fast food workers to $20 an hour from $4.

Thats where I got the $4 from. It wasn't clear me it was a 4 dollar raise. I admit I may have had a poor reading comprehension moment there, but in my defence I have a concussion and my eyes are a bit blurry, also I am trying to avoid my wife catching me on the internet, since she thinks I should be resting in a dark room. Still, that's a poorly written sentence.

I see. So Navarro the assistant general manager, who was probably getting an above minimum wage, was cooperating in the exploitation of whoever was working for $4 an hour. No one can support themselves on $4 an hour in California, so it was likely teenagers or students who probably won't be cast into the street or go hungry at the loss of such a low wage job.

I agree wages should have been raised gradually over time. There was very strong and well organized opposition to such an idea, mainly among republicans but also democrat collaborators.

Another difference between the USA and Denmark: trade unions. Unfortunately for US workers, there has been a long history of union busting in America. Coupled with deliberately weak labor laws, union busting goes on.

To act like a wage increase is some kind of curse against fast food employees is to ignore the long history of anti-worker legislation and practices in this country, which is again, either foolish or deceitful.

I missed that one. Did you post a link to it? I don't see any other links in this thread. I admire your concern for the people who lost their jobs and I share that concern. You should never doubt that the plight of the proletariat is a fundamental concern at the heart of the revolutionary's critique of capitalist exploitation.

I love this narritave that people working in fast food for low wages are joyfully living their best life making big macs and singing gospel songs in 4 part harmony and on their day off they swing by the community food bank and everything is great - untill the evil Liberal McSocialist takes their job away with an evil laugh Mwahahaha! and the poor franchise owner loses everything he has to wear a barrel instead of clothes and smoke Honduran cigars instead of Dominican Oh such folly! Such Tribulation! Alas Babylon!

So you agree with me that there's no direct connection between minimum wage and unemployment rate.

Unverifiable statistics from a fascist propaganda machine.

Meanwhile, the nation of Zimbabwe has no statutory minimum wage and the unemployment rate for 2023 was 9.1. There is no direct connection between these two things and anyone who claims so is either foolish or deceitful.

Being a solutions-oriented guy, Rowe suggested some — both for the university itself, and for Americans fed up with the situation at our institutes of higher education

How bout a solution for the death of more than 13000 children and the deliberate starvation of not yet dead children? I'd like to hear a solution for that.

https://youtu.be/_61hzuGGJX0?si=7oUEolE4sUeJOIJa

Yeah that's true.

Once a person begins to see how insidious and evil, how dehumanizing and destructive capitalism is, it can make people angry.

Well are we glad about this because dislike of Muslims or mad about this because religious intolerance? I'm not sure which way to be outraged.

I don't either but the report you reposted seems to suggest not treating anyone. Apparently there's a lot of conservatives that don't want anyone to recieve any treatment, and don't want trans people to exist. Reposting antitrans propaganda appears to support that agenda.

I'm not going to start a free trial to read the whole thing, but I did look elsewhere to read about this report.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/puberty-blockers-review-1.7172920

There actually is a lot of evidence, just not in the form of randomized clinical trials," said Dr. Jake Donaldson, a family physician in Calgary who treats transgender patients, including prescribing puberty blockers and hormone therapy in some cases.

"That would be kind of like saying for a pregnant woman, since we lacked randomized clinical trials for the care of people in pregnancy, we're not going to provide care for you.… It's completely unethical."

Donaldson called the systematic review paper and the broader Cass Review "politically motivated."

Dr. Tehseen Ladha, a pediatrician in Edmonton and assistant professor at the University of Alberta, says the review may be misleading and ignores the context of pediatric medicine — where there is often imperfect evidence.

"That is the case in almost every sphere of medicine because the cost, time, feasibility and ethical ability to conduct what is considered a high-quality scientific trial, it is just not there," she said.

Getting that research done can be even harder when it comes to marginalized populations like trans youth, she said. "They haven't been thought of as priorities or important."

Ladha wondered if the review was "coming from a place of bias."

"I think the framing of it really made it feel as though it was trying to create fear around gender-affirming care," she said.

So it reads to me like the Cass report is saying there isn't enough evidence to support gender affirming care because there isnt enough research because we don't do research on people we don't like and want banned from existence.

Well now just hold on a gosh darned minute there Mr. Flippy Mcflopper, "A plumber should not be paying for your gender studies degree" and yet you want me to pay for treatment of people who gave themselves diabetes by eating too much heavily subsidized sugar?

Anyway if you are slowly coming around to democratic socialism thinking that's great and I won't tell anyone, but you should realize education is as important as healthcare to a functioning society.

Interesting take! I'd be curious to hear any thoughts on the Friedman doctrine as it relates to healthcare, and in broader terms of social services or just in general.

A new mom died after giving birth at a Boston hospital. Was corporate greed to blame?

Spoiler: corporate greed was to blame. Private capitalist healthcare is a bad idea in theory -and in reality.

Edit: fun fact: the private equity firm that owns the hospital in this story is called Cerberus Capitol Management - named after the three headed hound that guards the gates of hell.

...it was tiresome, hearing the same bias, incessantly. Never digging in to understand the differences in perspectives, just claiming one way of thinking (on any given subject) was obviously "right". News shouldn't attempt to tell you what's right...

I agree with this so much.