LostWon

...but morale can remain low as always?

I'm sure amateur and professional historians that specialize in that era of US history are interested, but definitely not as much as we all are in a certain other set of files.

Exactly. Very little relation, when people chart out the timings of even just the larger waves of immigration vs. house prices. I think The Breach was one of the ones who had articles and/or videos about that in the past. Millennial Moron (don't mind the name - he does great analysis) has also shown there's been lower and lower net migration for a while now. (Conservatives are cherry picking numbers from early in the year and pretending numbers stay that way all year on social media, but the long-time trend-- which I've also seen on StatsCan's site myself in the past-- is that the first half of the year always has more people coming in and the second half drops off.) So if the TFW population is dropping, why aren't jobs getting easier to come by? Could it be our young people are struggling with today's unfair barriers and requirements to job applications (and wasting time on phantom job postings)?

It seems LPC and CPC "swap" policies (or probably more accurately, reveal what they really feel on TFW labour) depending on who's in power. Media is also captured by the ownership class that drives policy and wants cheap, easily-exploited labour. Governments especially like getting a boost to tax revenue from TFWs who get little to nothing back in services. Maybe the owner class will eventually stop all this... by replacing workers entirely with AI and/or robots.

If the wealthy aren't adequately taxed to balance the economy so it's not just a relentless upward flow (and thereby make our democracy more responsive to most of the people), we will lose our middle class to a collapse of white collar prestige jobs, combined with rising asset prices from wealthy people buying everything up with the excess piles money they have after buying our politicians and media. Rising poverty is gravy to big investors like them, after all. The more workers have to stay in debt rather than pay off houses/cars/student loans early, the more somebody gets out of their securities investments.

Someone has to help them see the contradictions within their own beliefs, if they don't get there on their own. For the most part, I think the most likely candidates are people who were once like them (and there are social media accounts like this), since they'll be more likely to listen to someone who they feel understands them. If people who have already recovered from that life aren't available, then someone matching the qualities they wouldn't reject in a friend is the next best thing. In other words, THIS is where allies are supposed to shine if they want to be doing something meaningful to help.

At the earliest, those of us in one or more of their currently most hated marginalized groups can start stepping in once they've crossed the threshold from "this doesn't feel right" to "how do I start connecting with others in a healthier way." Allies should help them bridge that initial gap first, and then the tougher-skinned ones among their friends in marginalized groups can ideally join in. That's how a functioning, healthy society should work. Instead of tunnel vision/pipelines and social bubbles, we need genuine healing and connection.

As an aside, I've been thinking a lot lately about how preemptive (as opposed to reactive) social isolation is actually remarkably analogous to expecting someone in financial poverty to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. It's just that the problem is an emotional form of poverty instead of financial (or both). Some externalize the pain (hating/blaming group X), and some internalize it (any marginalized group that tries to be MAGA), and some do both ("own the libs!") but all in all we're talking about people trying to convince themselves they're happy while also struggling to drown their own humanity.

Only a fourth playthrough of Hollow Knight? I'm waiting on Silksong too for now, but I'm sure I easily exceeded that, just getting the achievements back when I first got into HK. 😅

Your idea explicitly plays into phobic "corrupting our youth" tropes that past activists fought against for decades, which are still used today to ban books in libraries (and worse). It's also incredibly unpleasant to be counted that way if you're agender or asexual (or both). Using actual names for as much of the coalition as feasibly possible is far more respectful than reducing us to that.

The umbrella term shouldn't be focused on sex.

I've definitely heard of RCMP basically being on call to oil corpos in the past.

It's missing in "flavour" too, actually.

I tried to set one (within size requirements) soon after I made my account, but it never took for some reason.

While I recall seeing some columnists who seem to have a specific agenda to back certain industries, I think what most people are concerned about is not that breaking reports are done by cartoonishly evil journalists, but that foreign interests have undue influence over editorial decisions. (As I see it, billionaires from our own country are equally as bad and media concentration in general should also be addressed, but it makes sense to have reasonable restrictions on foreign-ownership of media.)

I get the reference on the one hand but I'm concerned what people who don't follow the series might think that flag means. (I can think of other sorts of imagery from One Piece that might have been a lot better to reference, honestly, like either the

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Revolutionary Army's

flag or all of the subtle

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sun symbol

variants that appear throughout the series.) I appreciate the article providing other examples of young adult protests that made pop culture references. Nice to hear more about the different trends among young protesters abroad.

Also, professor Suyanto's analysis:

"And I see it as effective … their voices became louder and many political elites have responded, though whether [their] response meets the public expectations is another matter."

"They don't need to take to the streets, confront authorities, or face police batons."