I'm black and I'm mad

🆘 WE ARE DYING 🆘

Algeria, is suffocating and turning into ashes

First, we've been facing the third Covid wave few weeks ago and it was a disaster, our hospitals couldn't hold all the patients and dew to the lack of equipment it was impossible to handle the situation. Patients were dying just because there was an oxygen shortage, they suffocated to death. New borns, angels, died in the first minutes of their lives because there was no oxygen left to fill their fresh lungs.

Algerians did their best to help each other, until the second disaster happened..

20 fires, raging across many cities in the North of the country turned all the beautiful forests into ashes in few days.

Considering that the area had water shortage during the summer, managing the fire is almost impossible..

And once again, hospitals can't manage a second disaster and a call for global help is more than needed.

We need fire fighting plane, we need oxygen tanks and O2 extractors.

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OK, the report's out.

If you'd like to, please read through it. I'd recommend reading through the Headline Statements PDF - it's short, accessible and informative, and for some reason I can't access the Summary for Policymakers PDF, and that's 39 pages long anyway.

Some key takeaways from the PDF:

- It is now very likely that 1.5 degrees C will be exceeded without extremely strong reductions in greenhouse gases over the next few decades. This is a much stronger warning than before, and it should be a major wake-up call for the world.

Remember, though, that 1.5 degrees C is not a 'hard limit'. We will not suddenly be doomed at 1.5 degrees. What it does mean, though, is that a certain degree of climate change may now be locked in. That doesn't mean all climate change is now unavoidable - it means that the world has to work extremely hard to keep warming below 1.5 degrees, or below 2 degrees if we do not do that.

Climate change isn't a cliff that we fall off after a specific number of years or a specific amount of warming. It's a slope we slide down. Every tenth of a degree of warming makes the situation more dangerous, and every tenth of a degree avoided means more lives saved.

- Many climate changes that have already happened, including current sea level rise and the state of ice sheets, are irreversible on a time scale of centuries to millennia.

We will not be able to actually reverse these climate impacts, but that doesn't mean we can't stop more from happening. There are some things that we will be able to mitigate, and some that are already here and we will have to adapt our societies to.

And even if climate change impacts are already here, they can and will still get worse without the right action. How much worse they get is still in our hands.

- ECS (equilibrium climate sensitivity, aka how much the planet is expected to warm by 2100 under current emissions scenarios) is around 3 degrees C, but unlikely scenarios are still important to take into account.

We're at aeound 1.2 degrees already, and you can see what's happening. 3 degrees will be catastrophic, and more than 3 degrees will be even more catastrophic. But this is under our business as usual scenario - this isn't locked in, and we still have to limit warming as much as possible.

There is also the slight possibility that ECS may be higher than expected, or that climate impacts may be more severe than expected due to tipping points such as ice sheet collapse and changes in the ocean's circulation.

These are described in the report as "low likelihood outcomes", but with something as serious as this, these are part of risk assessment, and they cannot and should not be ruled out.

- There really isn't anything new here. If you've been following climate news, you will probably already know all of this. As I said yesterday, the IPCC reports are an aggregation of research. They present huge amounts of recent climate research together, and compile it all int o one report that represents the IPCC's scientific consensus.

This is mostly stuff that has already made the news, or that we already know. We know 1.5 degrees C isn't going to be easy. We know that dangerous climate change is here and now, and that we're not going to be able to reverse climate impacts, and that we don't really know what's going to happen next in the Earth's climate system.

But that doean't mean that all climate change is now inevitable, and it definitely doesn't change what we really need to do: cut greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible, and as much as possible.

This new bill has been introduced in both the house and the Senate.

Among other things, it will:

Raise the monthly disability income by just over 30 percent - bringing it to poverty level.

Remove penalties for recieving financial help from friends and family.

Increase the amount of assets a disabled person may have from $2,000 to $10,000 (this hasn't been updated since 1989)

Update outside income restrictions to allow disabled people to receive up to $399 a month without reducing their benefits.

REWARD, not penalize, people who want to receive additional income while on social security income.

REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN YES YOU READ THAT RIGHT THIS WILL REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN

For those unaware current regulations do a lot to oppress disabled people. In fact marriage equality doesn't even extend to disbled people who risk having their benefits reduced or outright taken away if they marry someone. This means that in common law states disabled people can't even live with their significant other or they risk losing their financial independence.

Current regulations mean that if you're disbled you can't have so much as one penny over $2,000 to your name. So buying a car and gaining more independence or freedom is largely out of the question for disabled people.

Current regulations penalize social security recipients who receive income from outside sources, even if those sources are reimbursement. Did you get paid to babysit for a few hours? That's income, and you get your benefits reduced. Did you loan a friend $10 and they pay you back? The government considers that $10 income, and you get your benefits reduced.

These aren't mere anecdotes - these are all examples of actual things that have happened to disbled people I know, and if you have any disabled friends in your life I'm sure they can tell you the same stories.

The Greater Mississippi River Basin had a population somewhere between 5 and 12 million, the Eastern Woodlands had about as many, about as many in the Central Amazon, and almost as many on the American West Coast and North West Coast respectively. All of which saw 85 to 99 percent population losses in 2 or three generations after the others.

Multiple factions if European interests killed all the natives they could and destroyed all the culture and history they could. They were not limited by gender, language, religion, culture, ethnic group, nationality, geography, or time period; just every single person they could.

Tw genocide, tw violence

When Columbus realized the pigs they brought were getting the Islanders sick he arranged to loose as many as possible ahead of them primarily into the Benne region, I believe. Cortez loaded sickened corpses into Tenochtitlan’s aqueducts, Spain deliberately targeted the priests of Mexican society first because they knew it would severely undermine the public ability to treat disease. When the post Incan city states developed a treatment for malaria, the Spanish deliberately targeted the cities producing the quinine treatment and made it illegal to sell it to non-christians. The Spanish took all the sick and forced them at sword-point to go back to their homes instead of to the sick houses or the temples throughout the new world, and forced anyone who wasn’t sick to work in the mines or the coin factories melting and pressing their cultural treasures down into Spanish coins. The English were just as bad, they started the smallpox blankets. A lot of the loss was not deliberate infections like this but it was preventable at a million different crossroads and every European culture took the opportunity to weaponize the plagues when they could.

They knew what they were doing, just cuz they didn’t know what germs were doesn’t mean they have some accidental relationship with it. Alexander the great used biological warfare after all, so it’s not like you can pretend the concept was alien to them, they wrote about it.

Besides they did plenty of old fashioned killing too, there were Spanish conquistadors that estimated their own personal, individual killings might have numbered over the ten thousands. They were sure they’d killed more than ten million in “New Spain” alone. They crucified people they smashed babies on the rocks, they set fire to buildings they forced women and children into and cooked their meals over the burning corpses, they loosed war dogs on people. They sold children into sex slavery to be raped by disease riddled pedos back in Europe and if taking their virginity didn’t cure the sick creeps the native children would be killed or sometimes sent back.

The English were just as bad, shooting children in front of their mothers and forcing them to mop their blood with their hair. Turning human scalps into currency. Feeding babies to dogs in front of their mothers and fathers. Killing whole villages and erasing them from their maps so that historians would think God had made it empty just for the English.

The Americans after them burned crops and drove several species of bison to extinction just to starve the plains tribes. They pushed the blankets too. On top of the wars of extermination and scalp hunting and concentration and laws defining natives as non-persons so that we’d never be protected by the Constitution.

And even if you wanna live in some dreamy fairytale where God just made a whoopsie and then there were no natives left, nobody forced them to erase our history. The Spanish burned every document they found to erase the literacy and literary tradition of the Central and South Americans. There are essentially three Aztec documents left and some excavated pottery, and some archeological inscriptions and that’s it. The single most advanced culture in math and anatomical medicine erased probably forever. Same to the Inca, the most advanced fiber and alloy engineers and economists gone forever. Nobody made them do that. Nobody forced the American colonizers to steal political technology and act like they invented democracy or sovereignty. Nobody forced them to build their cities on top of native ones and erase them from history forever. Baltimore was built on Chesapeake, which translates roughly to “city at the top of the great water” in most Algonquin tongues. My favorite example is Cumberland in Western MD, they didn’t even reshape the roads or anything, they paved the steps and walking paths natives had used for hundreds of years and now it’s almost impossible to drive cuz the streets are too narrow or steep. The culture that built them didn’t have horses. Phoenix AZ, called Phoenix cuz the settlers literally found an old city and “brought it back to life.” Did they save any history or cultural artifacts? No. Most cities on the east coast are like this. Nobody forced them to erase that history.

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As a white person, there's nothing for me to add on to the video itself, but if you ever considered yourself an ally to POC and specifically movements like Black Lives Matter, share this information with your followers.

"Global struggles are everyone's struggles." - no matter the cause, no matter the country.

Meet Sarya: she was experiencing a mental health crisis. Police came and tackled her. She is 15.

Saraya Rees is a 15 year old biracial girl from Coos County, Oregon. After being abruptly instructed to stop taking her antidepressants by a local pediatrician, Saraya went into psychosis. In her manic state, Saraya poured a small amount of gasoline on the floor. Her parents called Coos Health & Wellness in hope that that would send mental health advisors, Coos Health & Wellness sent the police. While still in psychosis, the officers arrested her, questioned her without her family or lawyers present, charged with attempted murder and assault, and sent her to juvenile prison for 11 years.

This is not justice.

This is inhumane.

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP:

Call these people and demand that she be let go to the custody in her parents.

Please call Governor Kate Brown and Senator Jeff Merkely.⁠

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can affect on functioning in every day life so badly that it interferes with taking care of very basic human needs

is not 10 yrs old white boy exclusive disorder

is not a fake disorder created to benefit medicine companies

One of the most treatable “psychiatric” disorders (although it’s more accurately a neurodevelopmental disorder), with approximately 90% of patients able to find a treatment regimen that works well for them, given appropriate medical support. ADHD stimulant medications in particular (Ritalin and Adderall and their variations) are some of the most effective psychiatric medications in existence. 

Contrary to popular opinion, extremely under diagnosed overall, particularly in populations that are not young white boys (women, adults, people of color, etc.)

So there are a LOT of people out there who could be helped by getting a diagnosis and treatment but are not, in part because of the negative stereotypes around ADHD and ADHD medication that are prevalent in pop culture.

Able to coexist with a number of other conditions or traits that may change its presentation and/or impact, including mental illnesses such as anxiety or depression and various learning disabilities but also giftedness/high intelligence.

In fact, in adults diagnosed for the first time, it is extremely common to have comorbidities, in large part because ADHD can be so hard to cope with.

Sleep disorders are also frequently comorbid with ADHD. Additionally, being poorly-rested makes ADHD symptoms worse, which makes you more likely to sleep badly. It’s a hellish merry-go-round.

In some cases, “twice exceptional” people (gifted + ADHD) have extra trouble getting appropriate support, because some ADHD symptoms can be masked by intelligence (for instance, if a child is bright enough to do their homework in the ten minutes between classes and master the test material by cramming the night before, they may never see the poor academic performance that might lead to testing), and because the symptoms of ADHD may also mask their giftedness - so they end up stuck in classes that are too easy for them, and therefore boring, which makes the ADHD symptoms worse. Also, people who know they are intelligent but have untreated ADHD can be really prone to some of the other psychological comorbidities, especially as they become adults, because they know what to do and how to do it and that they SHOULD do it, and they WANT to do it, but they still can’t make themselves actually do it, so they start to beat themselves up, thinking “I’m too smart to constantly be this stupid, I must just be really lazy, maybe I really DON’T care, maybe I’m just a terrible person.” Ask me how I know.

Can also have less-common symptoms associated with it. I actually had my hearing tested before my diagnosis because I had so much trouble following conversations if there was background noise. My hearing is fine: my issue is auditory processing. My brain just can’t focus on conversations if too much else is going on. (This also applies to following dialogue on television if there is a lot of background noise/music. I use the captions a lot.

In some cases, extremely disabling. Under the Americans With Disabilities Act, a disability is “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activity.” A sampling of major life activities that might be substantially limited by untreated ADHD includes:

Managing finances (largely through impulsive spending, frequent lost items that need replacing, forgetting to pay bills, forgetting to do routine maintenance and having issues like larger repairs needed)

Basic self-care (remembering to take meds, go to doctor appointments, eat and drink at appropriate times, go to bed at appropriate times)

Employment (difficulty being on time for work or work activities, difficulty meeting deadlines, propensity to make “careless errors”, difficulty with emotional regulation)

Interpersonal relationships (memory problems so you never remember important dates, time issues meaning you’re late meeting them, forgetting commitments, easily distracted during conversations, impulsivity leading to interruptions/saying or doing stuff you didn’t think through, difficulty responding appropriately to social cues (through distraction/impulsivity), difficulty with emotional regulation)

Maintaining a clean and sanitary home (forgets steps in household chores, distracted away from finishing them, loses key equipment, impulsive purchases clutter up the home, loses interest in projects and leaves them out half-done)

If untreated, linked to higher rates of all manner of negative outcomes when compared to similar neurotypical populations, including: 

unemployment

divorce

substance abuse

injury or death in accidents, especially car accidents 

arrest

None of this is because people with ADHD as a group are, like, bad or lazy or evil or irresponsible or don’t care. People with ADHD are just people, and exist on the same range of good, bad, and in-between that all people do. However, the parts of our brains that are meant to help us regulate our emotions, plan for the future, remember to do important things, and not act on every impulse that crosses our minds just don’t work properly. A lot of us might lean in to an airhead, spacy artistic type, class clown, or similar persona to mask our deep shame over not being able to “just” do all these basic things that other people seem to do with no trouble at all. 

Additionally, even accessing ADHD treatment can be extremely challenging, because stimulant medications are controlled substances and there are so many false and damaging perceptions about the condition and medications out there. And even when you have a well-established diagnosis and are well controlled on a medication you’ve taken for years, you are never far away from potential disruptions to your treatment. I personally am a white professional with good health insurance and was able to get diagnosed and medication prescribed - which in itself is often really difficult - but even from that position of privilege I have experienced multiple gaps in my treatment for reasons like:

My pharmacy lost a prescription and had to get a new one. (My medication cannot be refilled; each month has to be a brand new prescription.)

My pharmacy was out of stock of my medication (I can’t transfer that prescription to a different pharmacy, and even if I had a paper prescription, you can’t call a pharmacy and be told the medication is in stock, you have to physically go there and ask.)

I forgot to make a doctor appointment in time (I have to have a doctor visit every three months to continue to get the prescription.)

I forgot to fill the prescription (since I, you know, HAVE ADHD, and you can’t set them up to auto-renew like you can other meds.)

My prescription is really expensive and there aren’t many savings options because it’s a controlled medication. (Even with savings I pay over $100 out of pocket for my ADHD meds every month. If the manufacturer isn’t offering a coupon that month it’s close to $300.)

Again, this is a LEGAL medication that I am LEGALLY prescribed by my supportive doctor with consultation from my supportive psychologist, for my actual disabling medical condition, and which all parties involved agree is extremely effective in helping me manage said condition. I’m in about the best situation you can be in short of being a millionaire who doesn’t have to worry about things like preapprovals or copays or taking sick time from work. 

I’ve also heard from others who have had to change doctors due to moving, job or insurance changes, etc., only to get issues like:

medical practices that flatly refuse to prescribe any controlled medications at all.

medical practices that don’t deal with ADHD specifically at all.

doctors that “don’t believe in” medicating adults/women/people with good jobs/people with good grades/anyone for ADHD.

doctors that won’t accept existing diagnoses or treatment plans.

Oh my god no please don’t do that to your phone (or mind tbh). It’s literally just the 10th circle of hell in (Stupidity) in tag form.

For starters: the old user of the thephantomporg84 url (currently derelict-stranger) is an infamous moron troll in the DMC fandom known for going on unhinged, nonsensical rants and sending death threats because people enjoyed DMC5, but I think she was a Star Wars troll even before that.

I’m actually @breezeinmonochromenight, but I swiped this account when porg deleted fucking everything a while back — more on that in a minute. Myself and a few others have the password to queue things, but it’s usually me.

Anyway, a brief(-ish) rundown:

Dec. 2018 — DMC5 ‘V’ trailer drops. If you’ve seen it, you know it really makes V’s real identity pretty obvious. Porg starts going around and making comments on posts that make jokes about V is Vergil/Everyone is Vergil, using the r-slur and other gross language. Myself and a few others just assumed she was some 12 y/o edgelord, soft block her/but make a note to keep tabs to police her comments on our posts. She was obsessed with V because he looked like Kylo Ren.

Late Feb. 2019 to April 2019 — Spoiler-y Vergil reveal trailer comes out right before DMC5 drops, early reviews and spoilers come out. Porg/derelict-stranger reads them, goes APE SHITT. I mean like psychotic break from reality ape shitt. Posts shit like this (below, though these are from the new acct) constantly on people’s artwork and gifsets. People ask her to stop being rude on other people’s work, she doesn’t. She gets blocked, she sends hateful Anons and pitches a fit. My role in this part, personally, isn’t much. I popped in to warn people getting blindsided by her (because I had her blocked) and that was pretty much it.

Mid-Late May 2019 — She does the above shit to some of creepyscritches’ DMC art, creepy starts the ‘#honk off’ hashtag, porg gets absolutely massacred because she’s revealed to be a 24-25 year old adult doing this and keeps trying to bait people into calling her something anti-Semitic so she can play victim. She also said some wonderful shit like:

This went on for a while. She got clowned on so hard that ‘thephantomporg84’ and ‘🤡’ were related tags for some time. People hated this girl so much that users from 4Chan’s /v/ were showing up in our inboxes telling us what she was up to because she was constantly ruining their DMC threads. The end result was her deleting everything and sending me and and ton of other people (and I mean like, a list she had of 50 or so names) death and rape threats. Threats that she denies to this day, but often identified herself in by name or by her… distinct… style of writing.

This is where I ended up getting involved. I kept responding to all her threats on my BreezeInMonochromeNight account with humor and basically talked shit at her — I won’t go into detail, that’s tagged under her usernames on my main for a reason — and she went fucking berserk (because she hates being laughed at/dismissed), sending me death threats in triplicate or more and a number of unhinged, often nonsensical rants about why the threats/homophobic/transphobic shit she said was justified.

I decided to take her old (this) url as compensation for my time and because I can have a pretty ugly mean girl/petty streak when I want to.

June 2019 to November 2019 — A former friend of porg’s outed her new url, derelict-stranger, shortly after she deleted in late May. People started blocking her ahead of time. I turned this account into a DMC fanblog thingy + a place where people can ask stuff, like you have. In the meantime, porg got herself banned from twitter and the DMC subreddit, and then her account nuked from reddit entirely for slurs/threats/hate speech/etc. She was even harassing/vaguely threatening the DMC5 devs, including Itsuno himself, on Twitter. (Yes, she’s that disturbed.)

Currently, she gets drunk/otherwise impaired, typically on weekends, and goes on rants like the first two screenshots in this post and unblocks people she blocked that were telling her to knock it off ‘harassing her’ to kill themselves and reblock them. A bunch of us in the DMC fandom keep tabs on her, and warn new fans/new artists/unfamiliar people if they look like they’re being blindsided. To date, she complains about how much she hates the fandom and how she’s been alienated bc she hated the game, when in reality it’s her fucking disgusting manner of speaking.

A friend of mine posted this and tagged my old instagram account, asking me to share it. I figured sharing it here where I actually have a following, would be far better.

Please remember that just because the government is giving into pressure and greed, that doesn’t mean that any of this is getting any better, in a lot of ways it’s getting worse. And even if you yourself aren’t being as heavily affected anymore, there are people and communities that are.

1. The law doesn't care how long your parents and family have been out of your life

2. The law doesn't care about your long term friends or "found family"

If you don't have legal documents that say otherwise, your biological family calls all the shots.

1) a medical power of attorney. This allows you and your partner/spouse to make life saving or life ending decisions. Keep several copies in accessible places like your glove compartment, a lock box at your home. While love might have won in the courts, medical professionals only have to follow your wishes if they want - or unless you can beat them over the head with the legal documents and the threat of a lawsuit

(also warning for anecdotes of transphobia in the vid too)

How to Write a Resume so You Actually Have a Prayer of Getting Hired

But also use those resume buzzwords too!

Hey guys, I realised that no one is talking about Rina Sawayama not being allowed to participate in The Mercury and Brits Awards. Both of these award shows require artists to have a british citzenship to be eligible for nominations. However, many artists like Rina Sawayama were not born into countries that allow dual citizenships. If she applies for a British citizenship, she must give up her Japanese citizenship. This is something that American and European immigrants will never have to suffer from. This rule restricts immigrants from participating in these award shows. So many of us are asking these awards shows to remove their citizenship requirement and/or give Rina Sawayama a pass on this requirement (she has lived in england for over 25 years).

That word DOES NOT MEAN you’re making it up. It doesn’t mean you’re imagining the symptom. What it means is that the symptom ISN’T DIRECTLY CAUSED BY ANY OF THE THINGS THAT WOULD NORMALLY CAUSE IT.

I fought to get a PCOS diagnosis for 2 and a half years. For the ENTIRE time I was fighting, I was dealing with 3 cysts that were not going away by themselves and eventually required surgery to remove. At one point close to the end of the battle, I suddenly went blind. I was visiting my parents and was standing on the veranda looking out over the tree we had planted in memory of my dog and suddenly I got one of the shooting pains that I was quite frankly used to at that point and my vision started to go dark. It was like the sun was setting while being completely hidden behind storm clouds but it was 2pm in the middle of Summer on a clear day. Within about 30 seconds I couldn’t see ANYTHING. I was 27 years old and I was screaming for my mother.

My mum raced me to her doctor (he was a 15 minute drive away as opposed to 45 minutes to the nearest hospital) and he quickly worked out that there was nothing wrong with my eyes and what had happened was totally unrelated to them. Then he said it was psychosomatic and I freaked out, yelling that I was NOT making this up and I definitely wasn’t imagining it. Very quickly he calmed me down and said he believed me and I had misunderstood. He explained that whatever was going on with my abdominal pains (he suggested PCOS which I hadn’t even heard of at that point) had been ignored for so long that my body was starting to do things other than the normal pain response to try to draw my attention to the problem. My sight going was my body basically jumping around in front of me going “HEY ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME HELLLOOOOOOO??????”

He gave me some prescription strength painkillers and my sight started to come back as soon as they started to kick in. About 45 minutes after it started I could see well enough to walk around without help and within a day and a half I was back to normal. On top of that I finally had a scan booked to figure out what the hell was causing all the pain.

When I was 18, only a few months after graduating from high school, I started having seizures. Serious, triggered at the drop of a hat, knock me unconscious for an hour or more and leave me dazed for days kind of seizures.

I was rushed to hospital two or three times within the space of a week after passing out in the middle of cooking dinner or talking with my family, but the hospital could not find anything wrong with me. I spent a week in the hospital in a planned admission, connected to an EEG monitor for 23 hours a day with the doctors hoping to catch my seizures in action and finally figure out what they were. I don’t know how many seizures I had during that week, but at the end of it, they said that even after all that, there was nothing wrong with me. After that, they sent me to a psychologist.

I was diagnosed with PNES - Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Siezures. Essentially, it was explained to me, I had been ignoring my anxiety and PTSD for so long that my body was acting out just like @kamorth ’s had. When they started treating me for anxiety and PTSD, my siezures eventually turned into panic or anxiety attacks, and then stopped altogether.

The final diagnosis was inflammation of my endometrium, which can happen with my connective tissue disorder but is rare. The cause? Apparently 6 solid months of long hours, long commutes, emotional distress due to several family situations, and anxiety manifested in this weird way because I am really good at ignoring my body’s warning systems. My body started with some panic attacks, which I ignored. Increased migraines- I just upped my ibuprofen use. I had pain in every ligament and tendon in my body at one point, and I just powered through. My body finally threw up its hands and yelled, “OK UTERUS, UNLEASH HELL” and I was completely unable to ignore it.

They’ve successfully convinced us that the unions are the greedy monsters. For so many years, the companies have painted unions as “we want you to pay janitors three million dollars a year and if you don’t we’ll set your stores on fire”. 

But it’s more like “We want you to take an almost imperceptible fraction of your bountiful profits and use it to make your employees’ live marginally better, and maybe give them medical benefits, y’know, so they don’t die”.

Big companies did not stop hiring ten year olds to work in coal mines because they just woke up one day and said “my god, we’re monsters”. They did it because their workers stood together and said “really, enough of this crap”.

Companies are not going to give people raises unless it’s economically necessary that they do so. Anything they can do to lower their expenses, and raise their profits, they are going to do. And no one person can stop them.

Just another reminder that Walmart Germany was a spectacular fail because of ver.di (which is a national service trade union that has it’s control over almost all trade and service companies in Germany) among other things.

Like, ver.di essentially came up to the CEO of Walmart Germany and was like “Hi, welcome, we wish you the best and that we can work together well :)” and the dude was like “hahaha no” and tried to pull the american concept here so ver.di pulled out a list of all the breaches of german law that Walmart was doing (underpaying workers, trying to avoid paying health care by using part-timers, trying to be open for more than 80 hours per week, firing people on short notice without warning or exit payments, etc) and long story short, they got some massive hefty fines for it. They also set up a list of demands for the workers and organized national strikes to push them through, making the employees of 85 hypermarkets neatly stand in front of the store doors with signs, whistles and chants (and certainly not the “Wallmart! Wallmart!” chant). In the end, that plus other things caused them to bail after 9 years with a gigantic loss (almost a billion just from sales) from one of the best retail markets in the world.

So all those issues like “no healthcare” or “work full-time and need food stamps” or “work on sundays and holidays” and shit? Unions are there to set their foot down against that for you. They are there to keep you safe from the corps wrath while fighting for your rights.

NATIVE AMERICANS ARE GOING MISSING

NATIVE AMERICANS ARE GOING MISSING

NATIVE AMERICANS ARE GOING MISSING

NATIVE AMERICANS ARE GOING MISSING