Because that’s exactly what it is. It’s a way for the rich to force the policies they want while quelching any policies they don’t.

I’ll never understand how lobbying became a thing. It should have been shut down as anti democracy the second it was proposed

Because my roommates dumbass mother keeps waking me up after 5 hours of sleep and I’m too livid to fall back asleep

Maybe they should stop decommissioning nuclear power 🤷

That’s why we call it “late stage” capitalism.

One of the presidents of the US did it regularly and he never got shot for it.

The kids only real crime was being too drunk to understand what was going on.

Who are you arguing for here?

No but the amount of people practically shitting themselves over someone’s social anxiety about phone calls is a little overdramatic.

He’s a terrible person and when he dies may he rot in piss.

I’d care about him going senile if him being sane wasn’t as detrimental as it was.

Empathy is a good thing but let’s save it for the people who actually deserve it and not old ass racist pieces of shit like him

Probably because most people don’t go around saving copies of these examples. You notice it make a mental note and then forget until someone brings it up again.

I sure as hell don’t go around documenting everything that bothers me about a tv show. In fact I usually do the opposite and try to ignore them.

This is something that idk if I’ll ever get used to about lemmy

It’s a meme. It’s a joke. It’s deliberately blown out of proportion.

Y’all need to calm tf down.

Yeah but as an American I’m the one that has to deal with the smell long after the sandwich is gone

I get not wanting to see it everywhere but you also have to understand that this is really world news. This is a central figure in American politics that is actually going to trial for an attempt to overthrow American democracy.

This is a historical moment that will probably be talked about for decades regardless of which direction it goes.

The difference is the employer has inherent power by being a money providing service as well as providing whatever other service/product they provide.

When you employ that many people the power naturally rises to the top. That’s why we need legislature to prevent that massive gap in power. Of course no one at the top will support this but the needs of the many outweigh the few regardless of how much money they have.

Remember corporate bailouts? “wE bAiLeD tHeM oUt BeCaUsE tHeY pRoViDe JoBs!!!”

Then there were mass layoffs.

You know what I’m gonna start posting about Trump even harder

Also just plain no. Americans have been waiting for this for the past few years and it’s fucking cathartic

It’s the same in my state but unemployment is only a fraction of what you made hourly

That’s why I brought up a restructuring. The ability to quit whenever should always be an option but being fired without notice for anything that isn’t just gross incompetence/negligence should not. I should be able to quit because my manager pissed me off. I shouldn’t get fired because I pissed the manager off.

I hope someone scrapes the plaque out of your grumpy ass brain

Yeah I knew it wasn’t the right wording I just couldn’t remember exactly what it was called.

But that’s exactly what I was bringing up. I’m supposed to work a 2 week notice but they can fire me instantly because I didn’t smile at the manager when walking into work.

We need to abolish right to work laws. Or at least restructure them. I shouldn’t be able to be fired for literally any reason they can come up with. Even fast food jobs should have contracts with certain clauses to protect the workers. You sign it when you start and you can’t be let go until it expires or you break it.