Soon, Old Glory will have to be born in the land of the free and not merely flying over it.
Congress has passed a proposal to require the federal government to purchase only American flags that have been completely manufactured in the U.S. The U.S. imports millions of American flags from overseas, mostly from China, and the sponsors of the proposal said it’s time for American flags to originate in the country they represent.
Supporters of the proposal, led by Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, said the change is more than just symbolic — they believe it will support American jobs and manufacturers while preserving the nation’s most recognized banner.
my grandfather heard that crock of horse shit his whole childhood and when he grew into an adult he told his kids the same lie
am not telling my kids the same lie
shit does not get better because some less than quarter ass solution got implemented
I hope you never have kids if you’re going to tell them they have nothing to look forward to.
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Nobody needs foreign propaganda when Congress feeds us literal crumbs as the answer to offshoring. Yay we created 10 jobs. This is the fucking Senate. Not a random Appalachian county council.
I kinda relate with him here. It seems your options are to not have kids or to lie to them.
“nothing short of a revolutionary war is progress”
There is a wide wide gap between a revolution and requiring companies headquartered here to hire 51 percent of their staff from the US.
In the US today:
But yeah, nothing ever changes incrementally. All those activists who worked their whole lives to peacefully bring these things about, well, that was a waste.
ETA: I’m aware that the end of slavery was not quite “peaceful.” I stand by the point that things are getting better all the time, and that it is mostly from incremental gains.
Literally none of that was achieved via incremental politics.
All arrived at via constitutional amendments after mass protests opposed by moderates at the time.
Penal slavery is still rampant and officially allowed. And a fucking CIVIL WAR to get rid of chattel slavery is about as far from peaceful incrementalism as you can get.
Supreme court decisions after the incrementalist moderates had gotten nowhere for decades, even passing things like DADT and DOMA.
Thanks to mass protests and other actions by the labor movement opposed by moderates at the time.
Again due to mass protests and opposed by moderates at the time
No thanks to moderates, who have been dragging their feet until they could no longer get away with it
Due to sellers of fruit wanting to make money selling fruit.
Nothing significant, at any rate.
Many of these weren’t brought about peacefully and, as I’ve already explained, none of them incrementally.
Every one of those things was incremental. Of course women never had a partial right to vote which grew stronger all the time. They suddenly had all of that right at once. But the process that got us there was incremental change in people’s perceptions and attitudes. And that whole issue was one increment in the broader picture of all rights and protections for all people.
I’m very grateful to be alive today (and in the US) rather than 150 years ago. I owe most of that thanks to folks who worked peacefully, often in the face of terrible violence, to persuade good people to rethink their bad policies.
We have much further to go, of course.
No. That’s flat out false. The literal opposite of reality.
That’s not incremental politics, though, that’s natural cultural progress that happens regardless (if not in spite) of your precious moderates.
MLK was right about moderates: they always have been and always will be much more devoted to order than to justice.
I said nothing about incremental politics nor about moderates.
So that’s where you want the goal posts to be now that you’ve been proven wrong?
I’ve said what needed to be said and have better things to do with my time than indulging the bad faith distortions of delusional liberals, so have the day you deserve.
I have no idea why you are so angry, nor who you think you’re arguing with (it certainly isn’t me). I hope things get better for you soon. Really.
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women can vote until some police officer gets them on trumped up charges because he is on a prolife kick
people of all races can vote as long as they are allowed to new ways to ban people from voting are made up all the time
yes people of all races can own property if they can afford to $7.25 is still the minimum wage average US citizen’s purchasing power has not increased since about the 60s
corporations use prison slave labor all the time even McDonalds
yes for now marriage equality is a thing and Harris is the only loud supporter on this so far that is in the public eye this much
in right to work states yes they can
again in a right to work state a boss could fire you because he is having a bad day
but it takes more than 40 hours to afford just food and housing
if the people grow up in an environment filled with pollution and negatively they may get to college
justice for some is justice delayed it should be fifty states under one union
no cannabis prohibitions are ramping up not getting better bad products have flooded the market due to lack of regulations and lack of lab tested products
again with the lack of worker’s rights and stagnation of pay yes only if you got the funds for those avocados
Just FYI, you’re mixing up right to work and at-will employment. Right to work has nothing to do with with being fired.
Did you read the article you linked to? Because it doesn’t support your point at all.
In the United States, right to work has nothing to do with at-will employment. Succinctly, right-to-work laws prevent unionized workplaces from requiring employees who opt not to join the union (an option required by the Taft-Hartley Act) to pay toward the cost of union representation. That’s it. It’s all in the article you linked.
Even the international law definition has nothing to do with at-will employment.
TFW you share a link that decimates your own point.
They’re literally purging the voting rolls right now.
They’re literally purging the voting rolls right now.
You sure can own stuff. Good luck buying it.
There is official slavery. Read the 13th Amendment again.
Your Boss can fire you for anything at any time.
Your Boss can fire you for anything at any time.
The 40 hour work week is weaponized against hourly employees and non existent for salary employees.
Child labor is literally back on the menu in red states. And unenforced except for under age immigrants in blue states.
College requires selling yourself into lifetime debt.
This list wasn’t incremental. When these things happened they were big fucking deals and not baby steps. If we wanted to outlaw child labor again we’d invent some stupid scheme where kids had to spend increasingly less time at work until employers voluntarily stopped hiring them. Instead of how we actually did it. Not only have we allowed all of this to be seriously degraded in the post Reagan era, we’ve forgotten how we actually got this shit done in the first place. We didn’t ask nicely and accept baby steps.