Well I hope it turns out just as well as I think it will.

I mean if we have to suffer a version of France in 1793 because of AI, I’m very much okay with that then.

Glad we agree there Mr. Altman.

Would you really sail for Ladyballers 2 from Skydance?

Yeah, especially since Trump has now gutted it twice now.

The more than 80 tons of raw pork, beef and goat were packaged and sold with fake USDA labels, according to FSIS, and were not actually properly inspected by the agency. As a result, the 167,639 pounds of recalled meat could be contaminated or contain undisclosed ingredients or allergens.

While I don’t agree with your first statement that this type of gig works is an insult to people who clock in, I have to agree with you that’s it’s a scam to keep the working class down.

Jobs that you have to clock in at are being reduced all over the place at the moment for all kinds of reasons including the shift to AI for things like cashiers so no, I’m not going to look down on people trying to make a living in this crap society.

Back in the day, god I sound old, yes it was that restaurants had to have their own delivery drivers and was an employee of the restaurant and had to either pay for their vehicle or pay for their milage. Yeah, no every restaurant could afford to do so but at least they had a guaranteed income and work protections.

This bullcrap of being independent contractors where you’re at the complete mercy of the general pubic, which is on average full of horrible people in my opinion, and having to pay for your own wear and tear of your personal vehicle and no protections now from customers or the corporation is just another way to exploit the working class.

Schrödinger’s immigrant. Both a lazy welfare queen and taking all of the jerbs from the Real Americans^TM

I don’t know about you but I can’t wait until I get my tariff and doggy style check!

• Repubicans

Something, something landowner, something, something, white heritage only.

Gotta make you wonder how close we are to “Service guarantees citizenship”.

It wasn’t Nazi enough and their Republican base was confused.

Also don’t forget their logo was ripped right off of Star Trek which is ironic as fuck.

https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/09.13.26-Senate-Whistleblower-Letter-DHS-USCIS_combined_signed.pdf

Now if someone would also drill a nice hole into the statue.

Full Statement:

"I’m going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour. But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don’t lose sight of that.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in a fucked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words “Free Palestine” and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn’t get past his public facing, “I don’t take sides.

And I get why people don’t. Taking a side can cost you. Money, brand deals, sponsorships, festivals, private shows, relationships and access. I’ve lost all of those things. But there is no neutral position between the oppressor and the oppressed. When one side has the bombs and bottomless financial and military support from America, refusing to take a side doesn’t leave you in the middle.

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I’m sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, “Free Palestine” becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that’s why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying “Free Palestine” gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn’t protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn’t, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people being displaced, starved and killed while the world debates which words we are allowed to use to describe it, how those words make us feel, and whether our discomfort matters more than the people living through a genocide.

I didn’t need 10 shows from Ed. I needed 2. Two chances to stand in front of 90,000 people and say the words that somehow became too dangerous to say. Free Palestine. But if those words cost me the stage, while turning the conversation back to Palestine, then it was the most successful tour I’ve ever been on."

Follow on:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/macklemore-statement-dropped-ed-sheeran-tour-1235626135/

In a statement shared on Instagram, Macklemore claimed that Kraft called Sheeran ahead of Sheeran’s upcoming show at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, which is owned by the Kraft Group. “Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium,” Macklemore wrote. “Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: If Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.”

Not directed at you forgetting, more just the original OP and in general.

Didn’t feel like editing my original comment and just wanted to point this out to reinforce both of our points.

I mean how quickly people forget.

https://americanexperience.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/African-Americans-in-the-Military_.pdf

The War Department’s objections to military integration and the enlistment of African Americans were summarized by Secretary of War Harry Woodring, who stated that “The enlistment of Negroes . . . would demoralize and weaken the effectiveness of military units by mixing colored and white soldiers in closely related units, or even in the same units.”

Want to tell that the the African Americans who also went into the military despite being openly hated?

This isn’t about leopards eating faces, this is about a brave person fighting for basic human rights, human dignity, and making progress against bullshit bigotry conservatives yet again.

Sure. That’s probably thanks to the progressive taxation. I’d probably fall under the higher tax brackets if I had an equivalent job in Canada and probably be paying at least 15K a year for healthcare there.

But you know what? I’d be more than happy to pay that for if it meant free at the point of use healthcare for everyone since I’ve gone from poverty to not having food insecurity and know what it’s like to not have any insurance.

I mean I’m working at a fortune 500 company and with my stupid high deductible plan even I don’t want to go unless it’s something that pretty urgent. I mean I already pay 10K+ a year for my family and then it’s another 10K to meet the deductible and every doctor’s appointment that’s not the annual checkup is two to three hundred dollars and urgent care is even more expensive so yeah, it’s basically unless there’s something absolutely wrong, it’s avoid the doctor and only go when things are basically unbearable even knowing I could afford to go.

US heathcare is a joke and unpopular opinion but the ACA, aka, Federal Romneycare, needs to be ripped out and actual universal healthcare needs to be enacted.