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Yo, is Americorps VISTA good to join? They sound cool but I'm looking for a catch.
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I'm always poor, but I already live with family, and I'm loving sick of doing jobs that don't help people. I'm just now wrapping up a couple months of seasonal work at an Amazon warehouse and I feel used and worthless, but if I can handle Amazon in December then I can do better than Amazon, so gently caress them and gently caress poverty and hello VISTA, if they'll have me. Yeah, I just found out this evening that repubs hate it. My aunt, a tireless sharer of conservative Facebook horseshit, has just told me Americorps and the Peace Corps are both not helping anyone, really, and I should stay at Amazon. I told her I didn't want to argue about it, then looked up what republicans think of this kind of thing when I got home. I was hoping it'd be something better than "it's unhelpful to help people," but the Google link titles came from places like the Cato Institute so I stopped caring. I decided to just ask goons, because I knew some of you would have direct experience. And I appreciate the warning on the lovely wages. Not everyone could live with that. But I've got the privilege to keep me from being homeless, and if I can use that to do something actually helpful then I'd love to. The only question at this point is whether I'm qualified for any available position. How do they feel about epilepsy? It took Amazon two months to wear me down enough to give me a seizure, so I know I can handle stress and exhaustion, but I can see how that'd be a dealbreaker anyway. Ragnar34 fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Jan 2, 2018 |
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In an American History class last year, I was taught some things that didn't pass my smell test, but I'm not sure how to correct them because I don't know poo poo. I'm particularly looking for book recs to address the following arguments my prof made: 1. The Great Depression could have been prevented, or at least softened, if employers had been freer to downsize and/or lower workers' wages as they needed. 2. MLK is a polarizing figure even now among historians. Regardless, it's likely he did more for the civil rights movement through his death than anything he did in life. 3. Strikes held by unskilled laborers tend to be less effective than by skilled workers because unskilled workers are much more replaceable. The third one is the only one I think is vaguely probable, but I don't have the education to prove anything either way. In fact, since I've got doubts about that professor in general, is there a textbook or two that I can pick up that'll help me learn about anything he might have distorted or left out?
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Mar 1, 2018 02:39
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This is fascinating. Thanks, all.
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Mar 1, 2018 03:06
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"Still planning to not bulldoze the Native American reservations, right?" "Kimosabe potluck gutentag." Zinke never said yes. Maybe that was the master plan here? 
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Mar 16, 2018 06:50
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I would vote for Onion Biden over any other American tbh. I'm so sick of voting for people without cool arrest records.
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Apr 4, 2018 08:26
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Lightning Knight posted:Hey USPOL, wanna hear a joke? 
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Apr 16, 2018 06:15
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Office Pig posted:gently caress it. Let's sue a nation! They'll run out of money before we do. Wait, no, the opposite.
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Apr 20, 2018 17:24
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voiding but I don't feel any better
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Ague Proof posted:Who is Botha? Is he related to Brady C. Olson? Running mate. The two are in for a long and hard campaign and it might get hairy in a couple places, but we can be confident he'll thrust his way into the oval office with a spray of ejaculate.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:tl;dr: human extinction, also extinction of ants and bees and probably all life By hunger they definitely meant the very drive to eat anything at all, and by war they definitely meant the human capacity to resist difficult situations. What other reading could there be of that sentence? You nerd. Or are you doing a satire? Is this about how neoliberals assume any motivation for working short of self-preservation/precarity will cause society to collapse?
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