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rapidhighway · 5 months

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um hi again I just think she's fun

#sooo fun to draw :3c #and I've been reading archie for days MY BRAINNNN HELP ME #archie sonic #julie su #fanart

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mostlysignssomeportents · 6 months

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Biden wants to ban ripoff “financial advisors”

I'll be at the Studio City branch of the LA Public Library on Monday, November 13 at 1830hPT to launch my new novel, The Lost Cause. There'll be a reading, a talk, a surprise guest (!!) and a signing, with books on sale. Tell your friends! Come on down!

Once, American workers had "defined benefits pensions," where their employers promised to pay them a certain amount every year from their retirement to their death. Jimmy Carter swapped that out for 401(k)s, "market" pensions where you have to guess which stocks will be valuable or starve in your old age:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/25/derechos-humanos/#are-there-no-poorhouses

The initial 401(k) rollout had all kinds of pot-sweeteners that made them seem like a good deal, like heavy employer matching that doubled or even tripled the value of every dollar you put into the market for your retirement. But over the years, as Reaganomics took hold and workers' power ebbed away, all these goodies were clawed back. In the end, the market-based pension makes you the sucker at the poker table, flushing your savings into a rigged casino that is firmly tilted in favor of finance barons and other eminently guillotineable plutocrats.

Neoliberalism is many things, but most of all it is a cult of individualism. The fact that three generations of workers are nows facing down retirement without pensions that will provide them with secure housing and food – let alone money to see the odd movie, buy birthday gifts for their grandkids, or enjoy a meal out now and then – is framed as millions of individual failures, not a systemic one.

In other words, if you are facing food insecurity and homelessness after a lifetime of hard work, it's because you saved wrong. Perhaps you didn't save enough (through a 40-year run of wage stagnation and skyrocketing housing, health and education costs). Or perhaps you saved wrong, making the wrong bets on the stock market. If you can't afford to run your air conditioner during a heat dome, that's on you: you should have been better at stocks.

Apologists for this system will say that you don't have to be good at stocks – you just have to pay an Independent Financial Advisor to pick the stocks for you and you'll be fine. But IFAs don't work for free! What if you can't afford one?

Enter "predatory inclusion" – the practice of offering scammy, overpriced and substandard products to poor people and declaring it to be a good deed, because otherwise, those poor people would have to do without. The crypto bubble relied heavily on this: think of Spike Lee and others shilling for pump-and-dump scams as a way of "building Black wealth":

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/07/business/media/cryptocurrency-seeks-the-spotlight-with-spike-lees-help.html

More recently, Intuit and other scammy tax-prep services have argued against the IRS's plan to offer free tax preparation as bad for Black and brown people, because it will deny them the chance to be deceived and ripped off with TurboTax:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/27/predatory-inclusion/#equal-opportunity-scammers

Back in 2018, Trump won the predatory inclusion Olympics, when his Department of Labor let the Fifth Circuit abolish the "Fiduciary Rule" for Independent Financial Advisors:

https://www.investopedia.com/updates/dol-fiduciary-rule/

What was the Fiduciary Rule? It said that your IFN had to put your interests ahead of their own. Like, if there were two different funds you could bet on, and one would pay your IFN a big commission, while the other would be a better bet for you, the IFN couldn't put your retirement savings into the fund that offered them a bribe.

When Trump killed the Fiduciary Rule, he proclaimed it a victory for poor people, especially Black and brown people. After all, if IFNs weren't allowed to accept bribes for giving you bad financial advice, then they would have to make up the difference by charging you for good advice. If you couldn't afford that advice, well, you'd have to make bad retirement investments on your own, without the benefit of their sleazy self-dealing.

The Biden Administration wants to change that. Biden's Acting Labor Secretary is Julie Su, and she's very good at her job. Last spring, she forced west coast dockworkers' bosses to cough up the contract they'd stalled on for a year, with 8-10% raises for every worker, owed retroactively:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/16/that-boy-aint-right/#dinos-rinos-and-dunnos

Su has proposed a way to reinstate the Fiduciary Rule, as part of the Biden Administration's war on junk fees, estimating that this will increase retirees' net savings by 20%:

https://prospect.org/labor/2023-11-07-julie-su-labor-retirement-savers/

The new rule will force advisors who cheat their clients to pay restitution, and will require them to deliver all their advice in writing so that this cheating can be detected and punished.

The industry is furious, of course. They claim that "The Market (TM)" will solve this: if you get bad retirement savings advice and end up homeless and starving, then you will choose a different advisor in your next life, after you are reincarnated (I guess?).

And of course, they're also claiming that forcing IFNs to stop cheating their clients will deny poor people access to expert (bad) advice. As the Financial Services Institute's Dale Brown says, this will have a "negative impact on Main Street Americans’ access to financial advice":

https://www.fa-mag.com/news/legal-challenge-predicted-for-new-dol-fiduciary-proposal-75257.html

Here's that rule – read it for yourself, then submit a comment expressing your views on it. The government wants to hear from you, and administrative law requires them to act on the comments they receive:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/11/03/2023-23782/proposed-amendment-to-prohibited-transaction-exemptions-75-1-77-4-80-83-83-1-and-86-128

Su is part of a wave of progressive, technically skilled regulators in the Biden administration that resulted from a horse-trading exercise called the Unity Task Force, which divvied up access to top appointments among the progressive wing and the finance wing of the Democratic Party. The progressive appointments are nothing short of incredible – the most competent and principled agency leaders America has seen in half a century:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/23/getting-stuff-done/#praxis

But then there's the finance wing's appointments, like Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley, who ruled against Lina Khan's attempt to block the rotten Microsoft/Activision merger (don't worry, Khan's appealing):

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/#the-peoples-champion

Perhaps the worst, though, is Biden's Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, a private equity ghoul who did a stint for the notorious wreckers Bain Capital before founding her own firm. Raimondo has stuffed her department full of Goldman Sachs alums, and has sidelined labor and civil society groups as she sets out to administer everything from the CHIPS Act to regulating ChatGPT.

As Henry Burke writes for the Revolving Door Project and The American Prospect, Raimondo's history as a corporate raider, her deference to the finance sector, and she and her husband's conflicts of interest from their massive stakes in companies she's regulating all serve to undermine Biden's agenda:

https://prospect.org/economy/2023-11-08-commerce-secretary-gina-raimondo-undercutting-bidenomics/

When the administration inevitably complains that its popular economic programs aren’t breaking through the media coverage, they’ll have no one to blame but themselves.

The Unity Task Force gave us generationally important policymakers, but ultimately, it's a classic "pizzaburger." If half your family wants pizza, and the other half wants burgers, and you serve them something halfway in between that makes none of them happy, you haven't made a wise compromise – you've just made an inedible mess:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/17/pizzaburgers/

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/08/fiduciaries/#but-muh-freedumbs

#pluralistic #julie su #fiduciary rule #intergenerational warfare #aging #retirement #401ks #old age #pensions #finance #pizzaburgers #Gina Raimondo

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genderfluidsilver · 5 months

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they really just let him say whatever back then

#sth #archie sonic #archie knuckles #knuckles the echidna #julie su #vector the crocodile #suicide.

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the-infamous-man · 1 month

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I commissioned @/Drag0nartzz over on Twitter to bring Julie-Su from my Archie/IDW Sonic the Hedgehog fanfic, Rediscovered Frontiers, to life! Julie-Su/Pink Knuckles shows that she can be pretty scary if you’re her enemy…

If your interested in Rediscovered Frontiers, my IDW/Archie Sonic the Hedgehog crossover, please check it out here:

#fanart #crossover #fanfic #art commisions #sonic the hedgehog #commission #idw sonic #archie sonic #rediscovered frontiers #sonic the hedghog fanart #julie su the echidna #Julie Su #artificial limb #chainsaw arm #artificial eye

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nightfurylover31 · 1 year

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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY TO AN AWESOME CAST OF LADIES!

(I know there's a lot more but I can't squeeze them all in)

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magicvicky1 · 3 months

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A small comic I drew imagining how their dynamic would work :3 Rouge would obviously always be a tease with Su lol

Translation:

“Knuckles never told he had such a pretty girlfriend~. Your name’s Julie-Su, right?”

“Hmph! Don’t you think that those tricks will work on me.”

“That's what they always say”

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic the hedghog fanart #sonic art #my ship art #archie sonic #sonic archie #rouge the bat #julie su the echidna #julie su #rouge x julie su #julie su x rouge #julouge #roulie su

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sonicplushiee · 4 months

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:3

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tillytilli · 5 months

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hands u julouge propaganda

#julie su #julie-su the echidna #rouge the bat #archie sonic #sonic archie #sonic the hedgehog #sth #julouge #my art

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archiesonicforever · 1 year

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Archie Sonic Forever cover

Here's the cover for Archie Sonic Forever #0. This special prologue chapter releases on our website, May 6th.

This issue picks up right before the cliffhanger ending of Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog #241, and begins a new course for the ongoing Mecha Sally saga.

When it drops, you can read for free at https://archiesonicforever.com

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sonicshipbattles · 7 months

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Round One

This poll is for the Knuckles/Julie-Su ship vs Knuckles/Julie-Su/Rouge, both ships from the pre-reboot Archie Comics All ships included were submitted to us. This tournament does not accept insults towards either ship - use propaganda to uplift your fave, not put down the opponent

#knuckles the echidna #julie su #julie su the echidna #rouge the bat #knuxjulie #knuxjulierouge #knuckles ship battles #round one

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z0nic · 25 days

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ok so while the au is about enerjak the main character is silver. he returns to his future after helping team fighters rescue mecha sally deroboticize her stop king naugus blah blah. wrap up the preboot threads quickly theyre not the focus. we need silver to go home (somehow). once he returns to his future he finds that the future is different. he recognizes it as similar to the future he encounters in dark mobius, and deduces that the timeline must have changed and enerjak was the cause for the ruined future at this point. while he is very devastated since he believed for almost all his life eliminating the traitor in the freedom fighters would fix everything he stills himself and goes to travel back in time again. (lets say the method he used to go back in the first place was that 2 way chaos control thing from 06) however the state of the future this time is a lot more intact than before, since eggman's takeover was much more destructive to mobius than enerjak's cleansing was (but silver wont know that). because of this, angel island is still intact and floating, although there is no master emerald. instead, the 7 time stones are keeping the island aloft (knuckles used the time stones to destroy little planet and freeze angel island in place but that will be revealed later). silver finds a library similar to the one he found antoine's diary in, but instead he finds locke's journal instead, mixed with assorted documents from haven (which silver won't be able to decipher very well). similar to antoine's diary, the last entry gives silver the information he needs to travel back in time, a description of what happened on the day of his death. and more importantly, the date. without reading any further than locke's description of the weapon to destroy enerjak and his transformation, silver grabs a time stone and warps back in time.

^THATS THE PROLOGUE THE REST ISNT AS DETAILED

silver arrives in the past, on angel island when locke teleports sonic and julie-su there. he's more confident than normal, since he's beaten enerjak before and didn't get the facts wrong this time. however, by the time he arrives to the master emerald shrine, sonic already destroyed the enerjak weapon. silver thinks that he was too late to change history, and angrily tries to immobilize sonic with his psychokinesis. at this point nobody knows who he is, and so while locke, sonic, and julie-su interrogate him and he tries to explain the best he can the destructix slip out of the way like they did in the normal story. after he clears things up, sonic declares that he has a plan to stop knuckles and silver follows him to the emerald. however, he notices finitevus lurking in the shadows while sonic turns super, and recalling how knuckles was turned by a hex on the emerald, silver rushes to grab sonic again at the instant he turns super. since he disrupted the transformation, sonic turns super but is knocked out, lying on the ground (and does not detransform). the feedback strikes silver too, so he's pretty winded. knuckles sees the commotion and goes down to the chamber too, where finitevus commands him to attack silver. they engage in a fight while locke and julie-su check on sonic and finitevus disappears through a warp ring. silver tries using the same tricks he did during the dark mobius fight, but due to the strength of the hex he doesn't do much other than slow enerjak down. meanwhile, super sonic awakes, but is noticably more sinister than normal. (either he changes to an entirely different form due to the hex or hes the evil super sonic from the red emeralds idk which yet) however, he still goes to fight knuckles, knocking silver down. sonic isn't trying to restore knuckles here he just wants to beat him up. silver recuperates with locke and julie-su.

silver asks if locke has a second copy of the weapon or anything similar to which he obviously says no. meanwhile finitevus tells enerjak to teleport super sonic to one of his labs in downunda, and knuckles complies. sonic moves to attack him again, but is stopped by finitevus who has deduced that his hex worked. some way or another (idk yet) he convinces super sonic to ally himself with him, and they go back to the master emerald chamber. immediately, finitevus tells enerjak to KILL locke and for super sonic to fight silver. both comply, and locke dies. no noble sacrifice for him here he just dies. its pretty unceremonious. i bet knuckles would feel bad though. julie-su holds finitevus at gunpoint and tells him to break the curse, pretty desperate at this point. finitevus says the same schpiel of someone sacrificing themselves, and julie-su assumes she'll have to do it but archimedes (hes here too i forgot about him sorry guys) offers to do it instead. however at that moment knuckles (who finitevus told not to interfere when julie-su threatened him) shows up and is all nuh uh. no sacrifices for you. and motions for super sonic to come back. silver is vaguely chasing after him but hes kind of slow. in the meantime, sonic and knuckles use the master emerald to absorb it fully, causing angel island to fall into the ocean. theyve now become twice as powerful, and the blast knocks out julie-su.

silver returns after the trio warped out of there, and not really sure what to do and believing he fucked everything up he brings julie-su to new mobotropolis to ask for help. the freedom fighters (and shadow i guess) are obviously horrified at that. silver tells them that at this point, their best bet is sending him back to his future so he can prevent this from happening. he doesnt say that doing this will probably erase everyone from the timeline.he asks if anyone has a time stone, but nobody knows what those fucking are. he determines that their best best is using chaos control again, and tails mentions that the chaos emeralds are in the special zone. just then, they get word that enerjak has completely decimated new megaopolis and sonic is coming for new mobotropolis next. silver tells everyone to hurry (real fucking helpful silver.) and asks if tails and shadow can accompany him to the special zone. they agree, and enter the special zone through the star posts just moments before super sonic and enerjak attack the city. they do some miscellaneous challenge that doesnt really matter and then return back through the star post portal, where super sonic and knuckles are waiting. they reveal that they saw the portal and deduced who had came through, and wanted to wait before destroying the star posts so they could finish them off too. sonic asks tails and shadow to join them (he doesnt care about silver), since he doesnt really want to fight his friends more than he has to (implied here he didnt kill the freedom fighters or chaotix but their fate is unknown). obviously they refuse and knuckles fires a Beam at them. tails absorbs the energy however, turning into turbo tails and telling silver and shadow to hurry and send him to the future. as the three fight, shadow and silver each grab a chaos emerald and prepare to chaos control. shadow asks what will happen after silver goes back, to which he professes that he doesn't know. they chaos control to make the time portal, and as silver goes through he sees shadow turn into chaos shadow and join the fight before closing the portal behind him. THE END!

#silver #knuckles #sonic #julie su #tails #shadow #finitevus #wow penosh thats so crazy. thats so crazy #i wanted to do more freedom fighters + chaotix stuff #i was gonna do a timeskip where they had an underground rebellion similar to dark mobo #where knuckles kills finitevus in a moment of vengance after realizing that he just killed his own damn dad #and is chilling with sonic. but that didnt fit so i axed it #sth #sonic the hedgehog #archie sonic #sonic au #sonic archie #archie sonic the hedgehog #<- ok thats enough engagement tags. be free my beautiful child

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rapidhighway · 5 months

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2nd time posting this will itwork, julie su… hi :3c cant shut tf up about u

#julie su #archie sonic #yes this is a lot for one night but who caresss

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mischeva · 9 months

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some enchiladas

-Knuckles the Echidna or as least my personal take on him. Thought it would be cool if he wore clothing more close to his favorite ancestor, Tikal. Yes they are very much related in my take.

-Jem the Echidna! Yup that’s right. I gave Julie-Su a new name/design cuz I didn’t like her original one… like…. at all. I also didn’t care for the kryptonian naming convention so that’s out the window. Also she has absolutely no relation to Knuckles. Dimitri is just her and her half siblings ancestor. He just happened to be a previous guardian.

-Linda the Echidna. Yup she got the re-name/re-design treatment too. I hate how they just look like knuckle clones so I decided to mix it up a bit and make them both more unique and related to each other looking. They’re both long beaked echidnas btw.

So yeah I tried my best to de-penderfy them. I like their personalities, but everything is completely changed. I could definitely go into my take on their lore if anyone’s interested 👀

I was also gonna draw two more echidnas, but then got burnout haha oh well

#sonic archie comics #archie sonic #knuckles fanart #knuckles the echidna #julie su #jem the echidna #if you get the reference of her name I love you /p #lien da #linda the echidna #sonic redesign

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utter-dismae · 9 months

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these were things I did on my twitter a while back that I want to do again, but damn did it take forever to do

#six fanarts #sonia the hedgehog #honey the cat #kamek koopa #relic the pika #scourge the hedgehog #proto man #shade the echidna #julie su #manic the hedgehog #sonar the fennec #belle the tinkerer #jewel the beetle #lien da #lupe the wolf

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the-infamous-man · 1 month

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I commissioned @/Steve_J_art over on Twitter again to bring Julie-Su from my Archie/IDW Sonic the Hedgehog fanfic, Rediscovered Frontiers, to life! Julie-Su/Pink Knuckles is showing she can more than handle herself in a fight!

If any of you are interested in Rediscovered Frontiers, which has the premise of the IDW/Game universe being the one born from the Super Genesis Wave, check it out here:

#fanart #crossover #fanfic #art commisions #sonic the hedgehog #commission #idw sonic #archie sonic #rediscovered frontiers #sonic the hedghog fanart #julie su the echidna #julie su #artificial limb #robot arm #chainsaw arm #artifical eye

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gigglegirlhappy · 3 months

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(3/25/23)

It was a legal requirement to draw Team Chaotix doing that one monopoly draw the squad meme. It was also a legal requirement to shoehorn my cringe ass Sonic oc into the vacant character slot.

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