News
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
view the rest of the comments
You literally say it in the sentence above: we can't afford to. Best case you lose wages. Worst case you get fired, then you have literally no wages and also no health insurance.
That's why I only said it was a little weird. But there have been many populations in the world who have still protested despite the risk to their lives, immediate or otherwise, which is why I can't quite grasp how a slow death is what people are choosing for this specific issue.
It's not a US only problem either, most of the world is willingly going down the same slow death route with roughly equivalent problems, despite better laws around healthcare. This is why I wonder about the psychological aspect of protest and immediacy and what public political pressure needs to look like in today's world.
Because all of these people are not facing true suffering. They know where their next meal is coming from, they got a roof and bombs aren't incoming. We'll put up with anything as long it doesn't involve facing a missed meal, no shelter or no enemy to fight to get the other two.
Ask yourself; If I threw your ass out in the woods, butt naked, what would your priority be? Shelter probably, depending on your environment. Next, food. Starve the staunchest vegan for 72-hours and they'll be scheming on how to trap, kill and eat raw squirrel. LOL, bet a bunch of us would quickly reinvent the bow-and-sting fire starter!
I got 2.5 acres of mostly swamp in NW FL. Rarely freezes too hard, fair bit of forage and game, still, very thin on both counts. I have plenty of small caliber guns, shotguns and camping gear, all on site right now. I'm no Navy SEAL, but I could maybe get by out there? For a minute? (And that's with a load of simple infrastructure and tools in place!)
How about the rest of you? How long until you riot in the streets for lack of food security? Even given my extremely favorable circumstances, I ain't got a 2-weeks until I go full-on nuts. 6-weeks and you're looking like steak.
tl;dr We're collectively fine with being slowly boiled alive, as long as we have a roof and a chicken in the pot.
That's just propaganda to dissuade local action. There are plenty of unions everywhere getting things done for their members on much smaller scales through local industrial action.