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Trader Joe's is a company that carefully cultivates a progressive reputation. But over the past few years, we have seen the company culture shift from a workplace with incredible pay, benefits, and atmosphere, to a company with increasing turnover, declining benefits, and stagnating wages. The pandemic put those changes into stark relief as “essential” workers everywhere were asked to risk their health in order to keep the economy going. These two factors—the company’s internal changes...
    • krolden@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      ‘liberals’ isnt ambiguous slang. equating ‘the left’ with liberals is just being stupid.

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
        3·
        1 year ago

        ‘liberals’ isnt ambiguous slang

        Without a qualifier, I find it’s used in a negative way to ”fill in the blank" with whatever an OC’s target demographic is IMO… generally any hopes of having a rational conversation with OC may as well be be flushed down the toilet after observing that kind of usage

        As a sidenote, in a political context I don’t think it captures someone’s alignment in a universally understandable way. Different people with different perspectives interpret the literal phrasing “liberals” from their own POV.

        equating ‘the left’ with liberals is just being stupid.

        I agree.