Watch out for all this 'self-care' bullshit.

https://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/22017/burn-out-work-self-care-union-national-nonprofit

Is it better to kick, or get kicked?

Normally I'd think the answer is obvious - the one doing the kicking would seem to be it.

But then it occurred to me - doing the kicking is implying you haven't yet achieved anything. That is, you're pretty much as bad as the one being kicked; just trying to make your self look better in one's own eyes, or someone else's perhaps.

Still for now, I'd certainly don't want to be a loser in someone else's game. So at least for now, I'd rather be doing the kicking.

You think these two events are connected?

Autoworkers conclude near-unanimous strike votes as corruption scandal targets charity run by UAW president

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/31/auto-a31.html

Big Brother(s) = Billionaires

That would make the Brotherhood the large corporations they control.

https://consortiumnews.com/2019/08/29/the-real-big-brother/

The U.S. government consequently encourages mega-corporations through taxes and regulations to crush small firms by making it harder for them to grow. That somewhat locks-in the existing aristocracy to be less self-made (as Bezos himself was, but his children won’t be).

Elected politicians overwhelmingly support this because most of their campaign funds were donated by super-rich individuals and their employees and other agents. It’s a self-reinforcing system. Super-wealth controls the government, which (along with the super-wealthy and their corporations) controls the public, which reduces economic opportunity for them. The end-result is institutionally reinforced extreme wealth-inequality, becoming more extreme all the time.

Establishment Media bias against a progressive US Presidential candidate?

Of course. Their goal in the 2016 election was to ensure Bernie Sanders didn't get nominated.

And ...

End of summer is coming fast.

Yes I know summer officially ends in September; fuck you.

For me, summer truly ends August 31 evening. Once Labor Day arrives and school starts, it's all over.

More terrible things the establishment does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Brazil_wildfires

Bad for you. Bad for me. Bad for all of us.

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has been blamed by international leaders and environmental non-government organizations (NGOs) for the extent of the wildfires within the Brazilian portion of the Amazon. Bolsonaro was elected in October 2018 and took office in January 2019, after which he and his ministries changed governmental policies that appeared to weaken the protection of the rainforest and make it favorable for farmers to continue their practices of slash-and-burn,^[20] accelerating the deforestation from previous years.^[3] Land-grabbers had used Bolsonaro's election to extend their activities into cutting in the land of the previously isolated Apurinã in Amazonas, where the "world's largest standing tracts of unbroken rainforest" are found.^[11] Among Bolsonaro's actions on entering office was to cut US$23 million from Brazil's environmental enforcement agency, making it difficult for the agency to regulate deforestation efforts.^[34] Bolsonaro and his ministers have also segmented the environmental agency, placing part of its control under the agricultural ministry which is led by the country's farming lobby, weakened the protections on nature reserves and territories belonging to the indigenous people of Brazil, and encouraged businesses to file counter-land claims against regions managed by sustainable forestry practices.^[58]