[-] Rilichu@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"[Kevin Klowden, chief global strategist at the Milken Institute] explained that the work stoppage will impact other businesses besides production, including restaurants, catering companies, trucking agencies, and dry cleaning businesses, among many others. 'The main thing we're really factoring into it is the lost wages,' Klowden told Yahoo Finance Live"

Got to sow that discontent for the strikers among other workers. As if the Hollywood business execs give 2 shits.

Also checked up about this Milken Institute and of course it's some scumbag think tank. The opening paragraph on their Wikipedia page is great and totally makes them seem like a reputable and unbiased source.

"The institute was founded in 1991 by Michael Milken, a former Drexel Burnham Lambert banker who gained notoriety for significant financial success as a pioneer of "junk bonds" as well as his subsequent felony conviction and prison sentence for U.S. securities law violations."

[-] Rilichu@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tldr is that the official term "city" in the UK is pretty much entirely ceremonial.

All it means is that the ruling monarch liked your town enough that they would give it city status by royal decree. That's why "city status" seems so arbitrary because it's entirely is.

[-] Rilichu@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Try to do that at an airport and you'll get arrested."

She knows plane spotting at big airports is a pretty common thing too right? Hell, some airports even have a place where it's specifically encouraged. Reagan Intl has a park that was built at the end of the runway for plane spotters.

"I'm the media"

You'd think she'd be better at researching basic stuff that takes a 5 second google search to know it's perfectly fine to do

[-] Rilichu@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

"Well, there was a bit of a stir when it was decided that since corporations are people, they could technically run for president. But President Walt Disney-Pepsi-Comcast has done wonders for the economy... given that it's... now the economy"

[-] Rilichu@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I've known a number of self labeled "liberals" that basically think being progressive means simply not being openly racist and restraining from yelling slurs on a street corner.

Surprise surprise it turns out they were just closet bigots who were aware what crowds they could get away with expressing their horrid views with and in the recent years figured street corners are now perfectly up for grabs.

[-] Rilichu@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think they still got their white hoods collecting dust in the closet

[-] Rilichu@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

"Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothin' to eat And the obese milkin' welfare"

Misremembered the line but regardless, still sure sounds like he's blaming them.

[-] Rilichu@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Also, it's hilarious how he can touch on 20 issues that every one of us agree with, but the left hyper-focuses on one line they don't like, because he just looks like a hillbilly trump supporter to y'all."

That's sorta the problem of right wing populism dude. Yeah, many of the issues pointed out in the song are legitimate and need to be addressed but how he tacks on "welfare queens" is trying to shift the blame onto people have nothing to do with your own hardships. That family getting $400 a month in food stamps is not the reason everything sucks right now.

[-] Rilichu@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Kenneth Copeland is straight up one of the creepiest persons alive. He has that look and mannerisms like he's actively deciding what part of your body best matches his evening cabernet he has as he waits for his skin suit to be dry cleaned.

[-] Rilichu@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

"Those insidious trans trying to trick people into sleeping with them! They just don't have any respect for people's body autonomy.

Now anyways, time for me to drug random women without their consent."

[-] Rilichu@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The GOP gladly let their party turn into a cult and very few cults manage to live on after its leader is dead/no longer viable.

[-] Rilichu@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People are so unaware how common politically motivated murder was in the late 19th/early 20th century in the US. Our country is rittled with shallow graves belonging to labor and civil rights activists. Wikipedia for example has a list documenting anti-labor murders totaling just over 1100 that we know of. Much of that violence was especially targeted towards black labor organizers.

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