Thinking about joining a cult any ideas?

Ok yeah good point. But the ladder only growing by 13% when the economy more than doubled in real terms is grim however you break it down

If your real wages had increased by 13% in the last 45 years I dont think you would be happy about that

Wages are up 13% in that period and worker productivity is up 60-80% in that period. that seems like a straightforwardly bad thing. also wages increasing 13% over a 45 year period is far from ideal and I’m not sure why anyone would think otherwise

The numbers I shared are from the St Louis fed. Is the idea that their numbers are incorrect? Or that “Median usual weekly real earnings” means something else?

.2%, not 2%. So functionally the same as 0%

The expectation would be that aggregate wage growth would roughly track productivity growth.

I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap.

I can’t believe it 😭

Employed full time: Median usual weekly real earnings: Wage and salary workers: 16 years and over Employed full time: Median usual weekly real earnings: Wage and salary workers: 16 years and over

fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES12...

Apologies for joining the pile on but this seems like a .2% annual raise since 1979, not decline but certainly stagnation

Isnt this why they wear diapers?

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize that protesting injustice and horror was an activity you only did when you were assured of total safety.

wow, I guess the No Kings protesters, including the pro-Palestine ones, are just way harder than the entire (elite!) campus protest movement huh?

Washington Post Trump warns ‘a whole civilization will die’ if Iran doesn’t make a deal The president had issued a deadline of 8 p.m. Eastern time for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, pledging destruction by midnight if leaders don’t comply. April 7, 2026 at 9:22 a.m. EDT26 minutes ago 2 min

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

Populists: We need to stop using weird complicated jargon that alienates working class voters

Also populists: The gerontocracy empowers the oligarchs and is bolstered by neoconservative neoliberals

Seems pretty straight forward tbh

Idk how that works though. All the right wing conservatives I grew up around were all secretly banging it out constantly.

Wonder if porn is the only point of reference they have for oral

if I were having kids take the piss outta me this bad I would simply not admit to it in a national newspaper

Run over by Tiger?

Find someone who looks at you the way Thor looks at little muffins

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

My hero. I will fight in the streets for you if called upon

Is AOC no longer a leftist? Was her membership canceled for being too good at politics?

I thought he was describing a 9-year-old 😭

What movie is that

How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...

I really wish that national magazine reporters who were profiling him in 2024 were repelled by him being a disgusting serial killer instead of trying to fuck him instead.

A number of Jewish organizations are shrilly insisting that any criticism of Israeli genocide and warmongering is an illegitimate attack on Jews. At the same time, an increasing number of non-Jewish people are insisting that any attack on Jews is a legitimate attack on Israel.

This sucks, man

Specifically did not realize they were including J Street donations and outright misinfo in their “AIPAC tracker.” Gross.