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GraffitiTavern OP t1_jdrvwbq wrote

I agree, was floating general principles before specifics but I went too vague. The amount that corporations have been fucking with us recently is horrible. Dems have been either unwilling or unable to actually fix it, even if they support the stuff on paper or in a speech. I was just trying to consider some basic coordinated demands for people and groups throughout the state, to try and make a dent in actually getting us out of this hole. I think I communicated it badly in the original post.

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GraffitiTavern OP t1_jdrumm9 wrote

The platforms often don't get implemented or are dropped quite quickly, I have just been trying to think of a few core economic demands which could be coordinated, and specifically counter a lot of the troubling national trends(deregulation, etc). I think I have communicated it badly, this wasn't a proposal for some new org or anything. Wages are still rock bottom where I live in Erie, and even if the Dems back min wage, they don't control the state senate, and popular organization would help ensure that we actually get some of this stuff implemented.

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internetonsetadd t1_jdrpyq1 wrote

My mom put things on layaway at Clover on the regular. My grammy bought me and my brother a hot dog and an Icee at the counter most times I went with her. My mom said no every time.

My friend got caught shoplifting baseball cards there. I didn't steal any and somehow managed to just keep walking when security stormed down the ramp to the mall and grabbed him. They were apparently really nice and showed him how many cameras had been on him while he waited for his mom to pick him up. I called my mom from a payphone. She knew something was up when I said my friend was getting his own ride, but she didn't pry.

When I moved into my first apartment, my mom and I went to the mall after the Clover became a Value City and she helped me pick out a set of Revere Ware pots and pans. I still have two of them. My mom loved Value City. My brother and I made fun of her a bit because we thought it was cheap and shitty.

Clover's gone. Value City is gone. My mom is gone. I wish I had gone to Value City with her more.

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