no. those federal agents murdering people are our employees. we pay them, those that can handle violence and those that cant. everyone needs to own what people are doing IN THE NAME OF AMERICA, in our name, with our money, and with our blessing if we dont stop them, all of us
watching people you employ kill someone makes you uncomfotable?
im sorry. im exhausted with conversations over just how radical we should be acting. and im so tired of forgiving selfish people who marched us into this mess for paychecks. literally physically and mentally exhausted with trying not to be so fucking pissed at how surprised everyone seems at how decades of complicit behavior has led to such dire circumstances
yup sorry Im all for building communities, but I have no sympathy for anyone working for google. this didnt happen overnight, add now theyre actively helping the sad excuse for trumps secret police to kidnap people.
i guess you draw the line somewhere else. does blowing up babies do it for you? helping kidnap people off the street with no due process sure, lets think of the poor, bedraggled tech bro- but surely if google starts blowing up babies am I allowed then to start calling the employees selfish and complicit, and call for radical action?
you just let me know where the line is. because apparently actively supporting an out of control police force terrorizing the country isnt far enough
:/
sounds like its time to make google employees a “vulnerable group” who fear being outed publicly for their fascist shit, too
“There’s no emergency,” said attorney Kelly Wood with the Washington Attorney General’s Office.
yay! this is fantastic news
resist. resist. resist.
shut it down. ignore the epa. fuck the national government, act in open revolt. its over, stop listening to them out of some sort of misguided sense of “well if we just go along with it now, later we can deal with the consequences” OR we can stop.
its our government. we made the rules. we can break them in times of need. this is that time. close the fucking coal power plant as planned, fuck what these people who EVERYONE KNOWS has bullshit intentions says. just ignore them. they have no power if we all stop listening
“but they have guns”
they cant kill us all. and if you think itll get to that point, then youre to blame for letting it get this bad in the first place. the time to sit the fuck around and watch football and wait for the midterms nd hope it doesnt get too much worse is long past- by a few decades at least
stop listening to the stupid bullshit the administration says. states, gang together, fuck the national govt until it gets its shit together
why is this so hard- this is what we get for voting career politicans into office. theyre all too scared to do something that could get them primaried- not by the will of the people, but of their party overlords- and so this is what we get, because we were too lazy to participate ourselves. in true american fashion, instead of taking turns in the government before returning to our nornal lives, as was the plan and makes sense, we outsourced the running of our communities to career politicians who we vote into office time and time again, politicians backed by the factory owners we’ve been fighting since factories came about
not with a bang, but with a pathetic, lazy, spoiled whimper
it’s food.
Food!
FOOOOOOD!!!
it’s FUCKING FOOD you SPOILED FUCKING BRAT - in a normal community, in a compassionate society, and to ANYONE WHO ISNT A SELFISH EMBARASSMENT TO SENTIENCE, food isn’t something you lock behind any paywall, work restriction, qualification or barrier or any kind! you, as a rule, make enough for everyone, and see that anyone who needs it, gets it
why? because that’s the right thing to do, what other reason is necessary to treat the worst off among us the best we possibly can?
the alternative is needless, selfish greed. shut the fuck up, selfish, greedy jon husted- you likely have nothing of value to say that bears repeating. make way for those who havent given up on basic human decency.
lol “work ethic” they shipped all the fucking union factory production industry jobs overseas, you twatwaffle- you want me to raise a fucking family working a starbucks and moonlighting with uber? what fucking JOBS do you expect us to go get? lolol in ohio no less this guy is like “our generation dismantled your industrial base and left you with the shell of a nation- now go get a service industry job with no pension and absolutely no job security and like it, or i guess you can starve idk”
shut the fuck up, you distasteful joke of a human being
Nope. I don’t think you understand; there is no conversation to be had.
Imagine youre trying to have a discussion with someone. And then they say “well we know God gave mice magical powers to hold everything down on the Earth and that’s what you call gravity” and no matter what you say, or how much you’re sure that’s probably not true, theyre certain of it, and anything you provide as logic or reason is ignored.
That’s what it’s like talking to you. You’re not interested in being part of the common collective- you’re right, and we’re wrong, and your supposed truth is absolute. That being the case, why on earth would you think I would ever want to try to have a conversation with you? How interested are you in questioning your faith? Oh, perfectly comfortable, because there’s nothing anyone could ever say or do to change what you believe? …see?!
I came here to point out the contradiction in your professed beliefs, and to rage about your religion abusing its protected status as a nongovernmental entity to push transphobic, population dividing legislation. And I guess Im not surprised youre so completely in your own world that you havent taken any of this as an insult, as that’s kind of the whole problem
Anyway seriously im not trying to get banned but, dude, really, I cant walk away with you so seriously misunderstanding just how completely either brainwashed and duped, willfully ignorant, just plain selfish, or combination thereof you are- all catholics are- to be so blindly proud of something so many other people can recognize for what it is. It’s cute until you start telling me my business, and how I should live, and at that point “but my god said” is no longer a cute defense for your quirky behavior; it’s offensive transphobia and you can all go fuck yourselves for thinking “because my super nice and all loving manifestion of love we call god said we should pass these laws” is a valid excuse or reason for literally anything- the rest of us are trying to have a functioning community here and youre hiding behind unconditional love while giving support to hateful legislators pushing population dividing laws
your club sucks, and mostly because of the arrogance with which you conduct your entire thing. No, to reply to what you were trying to say- good and bad arent relative; love is not subjective- hearing stories of jesus as a kid, ignoring political and religious boundaries to point out love is universal helped teach me that! and a bunch of the shit you do in the name of jesus “because the church says so” clearly isnt in the name of love, but you dont really care about that, just obeying your human masters and their contorted, twisted rules, and belonging to your openly transphobic club
Please stop trying to defend- I’m not interested. Supporing transphobic legislation is not unconditional, radical love, and quite the opposite. Any formal organization that does so is shit in my book, period, and has a problem with me when they do it in my neighborhood
Ive had good luck with porkbun
I guess I didnt make it clear that Im glad anyone of any faith or belief has a place to congregate and discuss and be a part of the greater community here, and that I didn’t post to randomly insult you. Ive said my peace about how I think it’s happy, comfortable, willful cognative dissonence to say what you believe and then act how you do, I think it’s insulting the arrogance with which you treat people who do not believe what you believe, or people who know something different in their heart just as much as you can know anything in yours. My post was because Im tired of people using this radically compassionate figure to justify actions that have nothing to do with loving your neighbors. Im tired of people telling me to follow their faith when theyre not even doing a good job of it themselves. Its downright silly you expect anyone to listen to you, yet you act as if your belief gives you license to act this way. It’s disappointing you think you can get away with claiming to follow jesus and then act the way you do. My relationship with the jesus i was taught exists is just fine, imho you might want to check yours 🤷
If the god you think exists really does, and they are exactly how the catholic faith as you see it describes, I wouldnt want to worship them. If the god as I understand the bible and christianity tries to describe it exists, then the path to salvation (or whatever) is simply by living like jesus. no preaching, no judging, just compassion. there are no other litmus tests for “entering heaven” no oaths or pledges or weekly meetings- if you think anything beyond living a thoughtful life is important then, wow, I guess
anyway, with the trying to describe supporting anti-trans legislation as just “some of the things the church promotes” … yeah, your transphobic organization sucks. enjoy the rest of the holidays
I appreciate your courage to be disliked.
You’re not the super-best defender of your faith, never mind against the specific things I was mentioning, so I’ll try to be polite.
to gain favor with one person or another
there’s what, a billion christians in the world who are not catholic? about one person in the world for every catholic who knows allllll about catholicism, but said ‘hey wait a second…’ to at least part of the whole thing, and still chooses to try to live like jesus, just not be catholic, risking going to hell. I’d say that’s a few more than ‘one person or another’ who thinks it’s great that y’all are so married to your faith, but it has serious flaws, flaws that don’t say wonderful things about the god catholics worship, nor consequently the catholics themselves.
you are upset at the church on gender issues
you can have all the gender issues you want! but now you’re making them official church policy, and you’re making endorsing LAWS public church policy, and that’s a nice slice of nonsense if you want to continue to be governed and regulated like a church where people go to discuss faith in things unseen, not a political organization using their property for and captive audiences to gather signatures
please don’t attempt to muddy the waters with conflating actively pushing legislation to providing sleeping bags to cold people, or helping immigrants with shelter from a government the church is actively aligning on with issues like gender regulations for children’s sports results (helping fix problems you’re helping create in the first place isn’t a great argument)
purpose of the church is the salvation of souls
the purpose of the church jesus would have started is for everyone to commiserate about how awesome it would be if everyone was nice to each other all the time, but how impossible that is. the rest is window dressing. it’s to recognize love’s awesome power in the face of despair, it’s to instill in people that living like this jesus fellow is probably something awesome to aspire to be, because that’s how you ‘save souls’
I have this discussion with jehovah’s witnesses who show up at my door. god wants you out here shilling for your church? really? i’m pretty sure god wants you feeding the poor. i dont care if some of you in your congregation are already doing that, im pretty sure he wants all of you doing that, all the time, until there’s no one left to feed, and then you can move onto clothing and housing and the rest of the things neighbors need. you know what your neighbors dont need? you telling them how great your church is, or how i should be a member. you get members BY EXAMPLE you dont go bother people about it
and you sure don’t go around as an organization telling other people how they should live, which is what gathering signatures to get a law passed is
it’s impossible to take a stance and not offend someone
the catholic church doesn’t take stances. you’re either living like jesus would, or you’re not. it’s pretty simple, actually, and it’s a super easy way to tell a real christian from one in name only. unfortunately what happens is the people who run your church use its dogma and doctrine to convince members it’s ok to do things that aren’t living like jesus would, for various reasons. now, I guess since y’all have a pope, you can have stances, and they are the official position of catholicism and your god. the fact that these stances so often are total opposites of “radical compassion” and anything that jesus would have wanted, said or encouraged is probably a reason why for every person who claims to be a catholic, there’s another who claims to be christian, but not catholic. but what do I know
anyway. I just figured the church was so hurting for members that you’d finally stopped the anti-trans nonsense. but hey enjoy your continued slide into obscurity, and totally thanks for helping to further divide americans to further your own selfish interests, rather than help unite us with love against this transphobic hate. if trends over the last few hundred years mean anything, whatever humanity chooses as replacements for a much needed sense of community wont be you :shrug:
Now make the executives pay back every bit of money they stole from their employees
Gig economy was our justice system asleep at the wheel while fatcats created a way to work around all our hard won labor protections
The people in charge and the investors will never be made to give back what they stole from the people who actually did the work. Uber, doordash, instacart, theyll all fail, thousands will lose a source of (illegally low) income, and the ones who made it happen and profitted the most will happily move onto the next clearly illegal venture until the court catches up with them again.
I say we hunt them all down and make a nice stew. They know what they did, and Im fresh out of compassion for the rich- the rest of us are trying our best not to be complete assholes and theyre just laughing like “you idiots could have a yacht!”
But, hey, enjoy your gig economy stuff, dear reader. Youre totally not condoning their behavior by continuing to order thru amazon or riding with uber. Enjoy those sweet, sweet savings youre making off the backs the would be union employees, who instead get to work as contractors with less than minimum wage and no unemployment, no disability, no medical or dental or vision insurances. No raises. I mean people made good money doing USPS, UPS, FedEx hell even domino’s pizza, and now we’ve whittled away those careers - and people have the balls to complain about missing packages? youre the one who only wants to hire somone willing to work for a pittance to deliver your stuff
Theyve been employees the whole time and there will be NO recourse for those who knowingly and willingly stole from these workers for years. Years! As we all looked on and bought stock in their illegal companies because the giant corporation we work for doesnt have pensions anymore
Yeah this is all a wonderful system working perfectly, no notes
…im gonna go have a good cry
“This is not the end-all, be-all. It’s not going to solve all our problems,” Saka said. “But it will help us investigate some crimes.”
correct- putting cameras everywhere wont address any of the root causes for any of the crimes youll end up investigating with them!
the question for the city council is why don’t you spend the city’s resources on addressing those issues, instead? I dont want to see more prosecutions! I want to see less crime because the underlying issues have been worked through, not because government enacted more privacy invading stop gaps
If they don’t have to explain themselves, then they shouldn’t expect one when the angry mob shows up at their door 🤷
As someone who just went through the process to qualify, it took FOUR WEEKS. I was warned from the outset it might take 2-4. Telling someone they wont know if their application for a single unit (the application isnt transferable) will be accepted for 2-4 weeks (when regular, non income restriced units take a few days to a week at most) makes it extremely difficult to shop around. How do you apply for a backup if you wont know if youll be approved for your first choice until maybe a month later?
There is a website run by the city to point you to these units, but it’s one giant list/map, and has no knowledge if any of the units are actually available, just if a property participates. There are dozens (hundreds?) of properties with these units- it was a slog to find some available.
I admit unexpected downtime sometimes frustrates me, too, but SDF is community funded and volunteer operated. I always assume there is someone working to fix things (as soon as they actually know something is down), but I also know crashes, upgrade woes, hardware failures and the like will happen. Have you asked the SDF community if there is anything you can do to contribute to better uptimes?
Putting out there that if you’re waiting for the next outage of a few days to move servers, it’s more than likely going to continue to happen 🤷
citing an executive order
An EO!? It doesnt fucking matter what any despot wannabe in office says- we have a constitution. It states you havr freedom of speech. As long as they were on their off time, someone should lose their job for this firing.
She says ‘it was clear’ the airline and the union ‘needed another tool’ to continue negotiations after the union went on strike.
Arbitration isn’t a fucking “tool” that somehow magically facilitates negotiation; it’s a weapon used to bypass the legal system and force parties to agree to a resolution. Take your fucking doublespeak and shove it. If parties can’t reach a resolution within the legal framework, it’s not the damned government’s job to step in and force one- that totally negates the power labor has to refuse to work.
This Jobs Minister clearly cares more about perception and finding a resolution ASAP than she cares about labor and our rights as workers. Never forget who actively works against us as workers.
primary them. all of them. no incumbents.
they. do. not. care. about. you.
stop fawning over the stupid fucking D next to their name and have some self respect!
every american who does not run themselves, or does not help someone other than the incumbent in the next election is complicit in everything. youve seen what they do and who they care about, and you choose them AGAIN to represent you? im left with no alternative but to assume this is the extent of how much youre willing to work, or that you dont think things are that bad that replacing your representative is warranted
complicit, lazy ass, selfish mfs gonna vote in these career politicians AGAIN and then claim it was the best choice- YEAH after you sat on your ass and did NOTHING when you had the chance
my entire life, same fucking excuse, over and over and over, for decades, and they want you take them seriously when they whiiiiine and complain
oh this system for me, by me and of me, its so corrupted and broken and twisted around worshipping profit, whatever can we do- MOTHERFUCKER LOOK IN A MIRROR IF YOU NEED TO FIND WHO IS RESPONSIBLE
:/