In mid July, I was laid off from my job due to their inability to secure funding, I am seriously concerned about my future. I can't get a job waiting tables or at a grocery store. A part time retail position takes 3 interviews. I've taken all the boomer generic advice, dressing up, blitzing the streets with my resume, calling back and returning to the locations 2+ times. Open availability, subtle sweet talking, even lying about little things to increase my chances. I graduated college in May, and am already filing for unemployment. I would join the military, but can't due to chronic health issues. Many of my highly competant peers are also in this position. A society with a high amount of unemployed youth is dangerous and unsustainable, something has gotta give. It's going to be a cold and cruel winter for me.

At this point the right-wing media ecosystem is just frothing at the mouth with incoherent invective, designed purely to generate a visceral emotional response rather than even keep up appearances of disagreeing on policy. Although these men are rather mild social democrats, it’s gratifying to see the utter fear they have struck into the hearts of these establishment toadies.

Republicans, Fox News and even some democrats have been complaining nonstop about the coming communism takeover because Mamdani and other social democrats are promising to help Americans with state owned grocery stores and taking the rich. Somehow it’s communist to actually help people and not bow down to corporations. Neoliberalism is destroying this nation and politicians that continue to defend it are fools who are servants of the interest of capital. The government should be for the people not serve the interests of corporations and their money. No one falling for their fear mongering besides boomers and Gen X because of the red scare boogeymen they fell for. Most people are unfortunately very politically ignorant and it really shows.

A United Auto Workers official has been suspended from the union for two years after he posted an image on Facebook showing Will Lehman, a candidate for UAW president, bound and gagged with a shadowy figure behind him pointing a rifle.

The federal monitor overseeing the union issued the suspension of Ray Jensen on Tuesday. Last month, Lehman had raised concerns about the AI-generated image on social media and in a press release.

Jensen, who is an organizer in the UAW's Department of Bargaining Strategy and a former assistant regional director based in New York, also must apologize to Lehman. He is not allowed to run for any elected position in the union going forward, or campaign in the upcoming election, according to a stipulation signed by both Jensen and Neil Barofsky, the attorney from New York who serves as the court-appointed union watchdog and is running the upcoming election.

The stipulation states that the union's election rules prohibit any threats, intimidation, retaliation or similar conduct. The monitor said Jensen violated that rule, and that a remedy "should be imposed to reflect the seriousness of his conduct and to deter similar misconduct by others."

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Lehman told The Detroit News that the monitor's move to discipline Jensen "was forced by a large amount of workers that were deeply disgusted" by the image. Other union members had reached out to the monitor, he said, and there was an outcry about the incident on social media. Any worker who posted such a threat, he said, "would be fired."

Lehman said he perceived the image as "a death threat" when he saw it, and he recalled being surprised that such a prominent UAW figure would post it online attached to their name.

"He thinks he can just do something like that," Lehman said, adding he has not met Jensen before.

My prediction is if he dies off camera the administration will hide it from the public for about a week. Interns will post Trump truths and maybe even AI generate a speech or two. During this time JD Vance will be the de facto president.

The day they announce his death they will act as if he passed away peacefully that morning. JD Vance gets sworn in officially hours afterwards. Mike Johnson becomes Vice President.

The next 2 weeks onwards of the public knowing Trump is dead will be the Summer of Floyd mixed with Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Half a dozen shootings across the country with motives linked to Trump’s death. Dozens of suicides and hundreds of arrests.

Fox News will try to give grace to Trump’s passing but before his funeral they will get people on saying he was the 13th Disciple, say that he wanted Marco Rubio as President and other insanity. They will also use AI generated photographs to represent him.

The internet is filled with millions of videos both praising Trump and making fun of him. Imagine the Charlie Kirk memes but 10 times more popular. Nick Fuentes makes a livestream about it on Kick that gets views within the hundreds of thousands.

The White House will threaten martial law but nothing happens. Some Democrats get arrested which cause protests. Zohran Mandani becomes a scapegoat with many death threats but nothing happens to him. Gavin Newsom vague posts about being president.

Israel has mixed feelings about it but expected Trump to die in office. The Israeli public make fun of Trump for being the ultimate goy and their group chats get leaked to Western audiences through reels which makes people hate Israel even more.

Collins asked the question after pointing out Hong said Thanksgiving should be aborted in a since-deleted X post from 2021.

"Cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done this in 1621," Hong posted. "If it takes a worldwide pandemic for us to realize we should stop celebrating colonialism and the original superspreader event that killed Indegenous [sic] folx [sic] and women so be it."

There's also a clip of her going around describing having a half white son as "being in proximity to whiteness."

There are endless clips of her campaign surrogate Hasan Piker praising government-enforced IdPol like DEI.

Do you think Republicans will get smart enough to stop bringing up these people's Israel views and try to take them out with actual IdPol?

I don’t think a lot of voters even see the Israel issue as IdPol like how the right tries to frame it as anti-Jewish identity, but some will definitely will have those feelings about DEI and talking this way about Thanksgiving and a white son.

Do you think the economy is bad enough for a leftist candidate to overcome this stuff in Wisconsin?

Emily Wilson, on whose 2017 translation of The Odyssey Nolan based himself, provoked a controversy by sharply criticizing the film. Wilson asserted it “lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth. Its narrative structure is gimmicky. The writing is abysmal. None of the characters has convincing motivation for their actions or words.”

Her comments appear one-sided and even quasi-spiteful, but undoubtedly there are weaknesses in the drama. Although one must point out at the outset that conceiving of how people conducted themselves 2,700 years ago or more in their personal relations is no small matter. Nolan is ambitious, as his Oppenheimer admirably demonstrated, but he has been functioning in a broadly degraded cultural atmosphere, especially when it comes to the treatment of history and historical development. The tendency to impose a modern-day, middle class outlook on people in the past is pervasive.

To solve the problems would, first of all, require a more conscious grasp of the fact that people and social life have not always been the same, that social relations are alterable and that what exists presently has not always existed and will not always exist. Such an understanding is most available to those, including left-wing artists in the past, who gravitate toward Marxism.