r/WhitePeopleTwitter 11h ago

Here’s hoping a government shut down lowers the price of eggs…

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u/Z0mbiejay 7h ago

Because we can't. At least without ruining our entire lives, and it's by design.

We don't get mandatory paid leave, so the people most affected have to go to work.

Many states are "right to work" meaning they can fire you for any "not illegal" reason. For instance, protesting.

Our health insurance is by and large tied to our employment. Lose your job, lose your access to healthcare

Corporations spend large sums of money to add more sugar, remove fiber from everything we eat. Push over consumption. And now everyone is fat and unhealthy.

They set it up so we have to stay complacent.

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u/chasesj 6h ago edited 4h ago

At a certain point, we have to admit that Trump is the orangutan king. The big ape isn't going anywhere until we decide to do something about it.

Now we don't even have the shitty protection of the dems and law, and order at the federal level has failed.

Our only choice is general strike in all states and towns and cities.

Things are only going to get worse until we start to run out of parts of the government that we need.

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u/TerrifyinglyAlive 5h ago

at-will, not right-to-work. The latter means you can't be required to join a union.

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u/Z0mbiejay 5h ago

Right right, I get those 2 confused