I mean, Wax used to be in the metal worker's union, which was fine, but now she works in phone customer service and like. The customer service union is in SUCH a bad position. I cannot BELIEVE a union lets the stuff by that she puts up with at this kind of pay. Like seriously??? And her job is still not as awful as yours.
But... yeah. I mean... I have a limited... not attention span, more like emotional spoons for politics? Which is still a lot compared tomany people though, and I do care about politics a lot. It's important to me to keep up, to a degree, with Finnish politics, but I've never been able to get in too much depth with it. And there's been a lot to get mad about over the years, but at the same time, it's always been less awful than what's going on in America and the world, and keeping up with American politics in more detail (I can still vote in their national elections and not Finland's until I pay the 300 bucks or whatever to apply for citizenship and I def. can't afford that right now...) and then world politics in like... even cursory detail... also takes a lot of brainpower. Obviously once I can vote I know I'm gonna have to pay more attention... and get more angry probably. But, like, I have a lot of anger at Finnish neoliberals for example, who can actually look at the current garbage fires in the US and UK or... anywhere really... and still think privatizing things and selling them off is a good idea (well they probably just want the money for their cronies and don't actually care if it's a good idea for other people, realistically)... but at the same time, a random Finnish neoliberal is usually gonna be more progressive than a prominent US Democrat. They're operating on completely different scales (except the racists and homophobes, of course, those are pretty similar everywhere).
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Date: 14/12/19 12:42 (UTC)But... yeah. I mean... I have a limited... not attention span, more like emotional spoons for politics? Which is still a lot compared tomany people though, and I do care about politics a lot. It's important to me to keep up, to a degree, with Finnish politics, but I've never been able to get in too much depth with it. And there's been a lot to get mad about over the years, but at the same time, it's always been less awful than what's going on in America and the world, and keeping up with American politics in more detail (I can still vote in their national elections and not Finland's until I pay the 300 bucks or whatever to apply for citizenship and I def. can't afford that right now...) and then world politics in like... even cursory detail... also takes a lot of brainpower. Obviously once I can vote I know I'm gonna have to pay more attention... and get more angry probably. But, like, I have a lot of anger at Finnish neoliberals for example, who can actually look at the current garbage fires in the US and UK or... anywhere really... and still think privatizing things and selling them off is a good idea (well they probably just want the money for their cronies and don't actually care if it's a good idea for other people, realistically)... but at the same time, a random Finnish neoliberal is usually gonna be more progressive than a prominent US Democrat. They're operating on completely different scales (except the racists and homophobes, of course, those are pretty similar everywhere).