When a company is profitable, but the profit margin is considered “not high enough”, so employees are laid off or given reduced hours (or as seems to be common practice, benefited, experienced employees are laid off, then replaced with part-time employees at a lower wage and no benefits) so that the stock dividends can stay high and executives get hefty bonuses (because profits are high), how is that a moral failing, or even bad luck, on the part of the worker?
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Poverty seems to be more and more a result of pure and simple exploitation.
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trolls = narcissists, same behaviour.
"Common examples of baiting include:
Overt insults: such as mocking, taunting or ridiculing with offensive jibes. 
Guilt-tripping: They may play the victim, such as blaming others for their own unhappiness, in order to elicit a response.
Intimidation and threats: Provoking fear or anxiety is a form of emotional blackmail to keep the recipient compliant. For instance, they may threaten to publicly expose secrets, vulnerabilities or insecurities." 1/2

So. The Russians. Enough.

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Iranian chess player appears at Kazakhstan tournament without hijab for second day -Reuters witness(Reuters-no sub needed)

#CoSoNews #News

https://archive.vn/A71S0#selection-439.0-439.99

light your 3rd today #kwanzaa2022 for Ujima

Collective Work - do something collectively with your family - bake cookies, clean house - make it fun, tho

Collective Responsibility - as a family extend yourselves to contribute to a neighbor

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Emmett Till And His Mother Posthumously Awarded Congressional Gold Medal

The award will be on display near Till's casket, which resides at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/emmett-till-mamie-till-mobley-congress-award_n_63a759c0e4b0d6f0b9ede709

Kwanzaa 2022: Everything you need to know about the week-long holiday
The holiday celebrating African culture and heritage lasts from Dec. 26 to Jan 1.

https://abc7.com/society/what-to-know-about-kwanzaa/12594135/

#Kwanzaa #Celebration #BlackCoSo #Unity #Culture

Should be able to just FIRE that lying 🤐

Democrats call for George Santos to resign over ‘whopping lies’

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3789059-democrats-call-for-george-santos-to-resign-over-whopping-lies/

#News #Politics #CoSoNews

It's Day 2 of #Kwanzaa Kujichagulia

koo-jee-cha-goo-lee-ah

#Culture #Celebration #BlackCoSo

#affirmations

Just say NO, it’s okay
#affirmations

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#politics Rep-Elect Santos is a test case that you can blatantly lie about your Resume and still face no consequences as long as you are a part of the Republican party

30 years ago, they would have had the decency to resign because it was easier amd caused less damage to the party (and congress) then face expulsion

now they just don't care.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/26/politics/george-santos-admits-embellishing-resume/index.html

I always feel a bit off in the stomach when I see travel bloggers I respect spending money in places like Saudi Arabia.

You do know how women are being treated there, right? You do know that gays, dissidents, protesters, and trans people are being killed by the state there, right?

You want to do something, give that money to causes fighting for equality and civilized treatment of the people, all the people.

Tibet is a country, Taiwan is a country.

Howcum if some asshole politician grabs a bunch of people off the street w/o telling them where they're going & ships them cross country to strand them someplace unaware they're coming & isn't prepared for them, it's a cute stunt, but if I do it it's kidnapping & a federal crime?

We need to start seeing some criminal charges for the ones responsible for this. Lying to people and dumping them off on your political rivals' doorsteps to annoy them, with no food, shelter, or weather appropriate clothing is vile. The fact that many of these migrants are children makes it even worse.

Human trafficking and child endangerment come to mind...
#Politics

OH DEAR. THIS POST WAS SET TO SELF-DETONATE 💣 💥 🔥

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