Rayne Fisher-Quann, Standing on the Shoulders of Complex Female Characters
Definitely not because dear leader just got hosed by both the stock and crypto exchanges
I honestly had a feeling this would not go through. He’s just the type to blow a lot of hot air and not actually back up his words with actions. But we’ll see
At face value, this is a ridiculous headline. But the article then says his managers berated and insulted him for leaving the party after an anxiety attack, and the company then fired him for taking days off work for “unsafe work practices,” due to having anxiety?
Seems like pretty often headlines that paint a lawsuit as frivolous and ridiculous seem a little more rational after some digging
There’s so much more to it as well. He repeatedly asked the company not to throw a party for him due to his anxiety (apparently this is standard practise for their office and he knew it would be triggering for him) and they “forgot” about his request. On the day in question, he predictably had a panic attack and went to his car to do breathing exercises.
The next day he was called into a meeting where he was insulted and grilled about “ruining the party” and “stealing his co-workers’ joy”, which caused him to have another panic attack and start doing coping behaviours like hugging himself, at which point his employers decided he must be angry and was going to turn violent. They then suspended him for days and later told him he’d been fired.
So yeah, it’s not over an “unwanted birthday party”, it’s over employers repeatedly failing to accommodate someone’s disability, trying to frame them as the villain for having accessibility needs, and firing them for not conforming to some stupid office politics.
“People might be confused about how a Republican Party that once worried about government overreach now seeks to control medical care for transgender children and retaliate against a corporation for objecting to a bill targeting LGBTQ students. And why is it that the most ambitious Republicans are spending more time battling nonexistent critical race theory in schools than on health care or inflation? To explain this, one must acknowledge that the GOP is not a political party anymore. It is a movement dedicated to imposing White Christian nationalism. The media blandly describes the GOP’s obsessions as “culture wars,” but that suggests there is another side seeking to impose its views on others. In reality, only one side is repudiating pluralistic democracy — White, Christian and mainly rural Americans who are becoming a minority group and want to maintain their political power.”
— The GOP is no longer a party. It’s a movement to impose White Christian nationalism.
STILL USE PRIVATE AND SECURE BROWSERS TO MAKE THESE PURCHASES AND CHECK YOUR BANK DISCLOSURES RE: privacy information. Do not post about it and do not leave digital trails about if and when you do this
some people are reacting to this with “in other news, water is wet” and the like. but not only is it always valuable to have actual scientific data even for things we think are obvious – be real, y’all didn’t really know this for sure. we’ve all seen that comic about how anonymity turns normal people into raging dickbags.
but it ain’t so, and these folks did the science to prove it. irl jerks are online jerks and vice versa.
if there’s any action item we can take away from this, i reckon it’s that if somebody’s a button-mashing blowhard on the internet, it’s statistically likely they’re a lifestyle idiot, and there’s no point trying to talk them around. delete, block, shunnnnn.
Bor told Engineering & Technology that the results supported stricter enforcement of rules against hate speech, as it is “not born out of ignorance” and aggressive people are fully aware of how disruptive and harmful their actions are.
The entire article is fascinating but this really stuck with me
“It may sound crass to react to the news that the Supreme Court seems close to overturning Roe v. Wade by asking how it will, or should, affect the midterm elections and the 2024 presidential race. But the reality is that the most important factor in determining whether abortion rights will continue to exist in America is whether Democrats win more elections. And there’s a real danger they’re going to mess this up. There are any number of ways that could happen, but they all trace back to some deep-seated beliefs about abortion politics and public opinion, ones that stop Democrats from being as aggressive and forceful as they should. If they want to win, they have to get over their timidity and go on the attack. If ever a political development deserved a furious backlash, it’s this one. But it won’t happen unless people, including Democratic politicians, make it happen. You know who understands that better than Democrats do? Republicans. They’re doing everything they can to dissipate the controversy, calm things down and divert attention from the horrors they’re gleefully preparing to rain down on American women.”
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Democrats need to find the courage to engage the abortion fight
Republicans always bring a gun to a knife fight, while Democrats bring a policy paper. It’s time for Democrats to bring a fucking nuke and use it.
“What do you think Republicans fear more, a Democrat who says “You would take away reproductive rights,” or one who says “You would force a 12-year-old rape victim to bear a child for her rapist”? Because that is what is at stake here. Every Republican should be asked what they’d say to that 12-year-old rape victim. Every Republican should be asked how much time they think women should serve in jail for having abortions. They should also be asked whether they are coming for birth control next, because that is what many in the anti-abortion movement want to do. They falsely believe birth control pills and IUDs are “abortifacients” and therefore should be outlawed. I don’t know how many Republican candidates agree with that. I don’t know how many favor the national abortion ban activists are planning to push for. But since every Democrat running for Congress apparently must answer questions about “defund the police,” an idea almost no Democrats actually support, shouldn’t every Republican everywhere be asked if they want to arrest women who get abortions and outlaw birth control?”
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Democrats need to find the courage to engage the abortion fight
Don’t fuck this up, Democrats.
We are literally living in the darkest timeline if our government is so evil that corporations like Amazon are actually the good guys by comparison & are willing to pay travel expenses so their employees can cross state lines to get abortions
I mean to clarify they probably just don’t want to lose a good chunk of their workforce due to forced pregnancy. But still at least they’re doing something.