The hell you did. This tired anti-union trope is based on the premise that Steve is just dying to step in and do Bob's work if Bob starts to slack off. Which of course is complete batshit nonsense. If you are Steve would you want to do your own work plus Bobs at a non-union company? Of course not. Would joining a union make you want to do your own work plus Bob's? Of course not. Which means you are engaging in willful dumbfucerky, same as every other toolbag in this story.
The UAW has a long and illustrious history of cooking geese.
Like agreeing to take pay and benefit cuts to keep companies afloat after disastrous decisions by company management? Or maybe that's your boilerplate anti-union dumbfuckery. If we applied the standards held to unions (who are capitalist by nature) to non-union enterprises, everything from car dealerships to lawn care businesses would be banned, because Enron, because reasons.
Oh, blow it out your ass, capitalist bootlicker. By that standard of hand waiving purity, all for-profit enterprises need to be banned immediately, because Enron, because British Petroleum, because reasons.
No, no, and no. Unions got you payed overtime for such things. You can still be expected to work on a weekend, on a holiday or more than 8 hours. Pre-union it might be part of your daily/weekly salary, you might not even be getting an hourly rate, not a penny extra.
Yes, yes, and yes - you're handwaving. Working retail you are likely to have to work on weekends -but then you have other days off during the week. As opposed to pre-union where the boss was "generous" if you worked six day day a week.
As my 40-year IBEW member grandfather explained that was all true and unions were a godsend back in those early decades. However he said that in the 1960s-70s timeframe they became a useless bureaucracy working to perpetuate their own existence and the salaries and perks of the union staff/leadership, not the members.
Thus begins every warmed over piece of anti-union bullshit - my brother's wife's cousin's best friend says unions protect laaaazy people. If your grandfather was a real person, and that's what he actually said, he was a fucking idiot and a traitor to his class. Unions will always be a necessary counterbalance to bosses, to capitalists, to greed. Have bosses, capitalists, and greed cased to exist in the 60s-70's? Of course they haven't, which makes you a fucking idiot, even if your grandfather is a made-up person. And applying this same standard of purity to business, capitalism should have been banned entirely after Enron blew up the energy market, after the banks blew up the worldwide currency market in the housing bubble, and after BP blew up the Gulf of Mexico with their incompetence.
If you oppose unions being able to pool their labor, then you must also oppose capitalists being able to pool their capital. If not, you're a corporatist hack.
This is by design. The left has seized this approach above all others to kill nuclear power plants.
The same left that hasn't gotten a single policy past since Medicare/Medicaid since the 60's? Tthat couldn't get a Public Option through congress much less single payer? You're a complete idiot if you think the left has any power.
They have networks of friendly lawyers who file bogus suits before amenable judges. They have friendly regulators that change the rules midstream. The effect is blah blah blah blah
This is under the same government that DGAF about mass poisonings in leaded drinking water or DuPond runoff, that exports fracking to the world, and lets BP go on incompetently drilling of the coast after trying their best to run the Gulf of Mexico?
It pretty much makes them bourgeois, which may be as insufferable and as much an enemy of the poor as rich capitalists. 50% over median income puts them over what, eighty percent of the population? Yeah, they may be stuck with high rent, a shitty job and student loans, but still better off than the people living in their cars or couch surfing, who may not be receptive to the bourgeois sob story.
It's a fact you're as batshit delusional as a Clintonite who insists that NAFTA and bank deregulation were great for the working class, because reasons.
Most of the people earning $150-300k will be living in a place like the SF bay area (because that's where the work that pays that much is), where their income is 12.5-25% of the median cost of a home
Which is still 50-100% over median income, so don't hold your break on waiting for people to cry you a river.
the top 10, 5, and 1 percentage income earners pay the way for everyone else.
If that were the case, you wouldn't have millionaires, much less billionaires. Almost all economic gains have gone to the top percentage points of the population. This is old news, so why are you bothering trying to bullshit anyone?
Is that before or after the Easter Bunny had babies with Santa Claus? As long as you're making shit up for an alternate universe, might as well go all out.
Our founding fathers were extremely wise and understood human nature well.
They were elitist shitbags (many of whom owned slaves) who wanted to maintain aristocracy without being subjected themselves to the whims of a monarch.
So if your solution is some sort of direct democracy I don't see how giving the ignorant masses direct control of the government would turn out well.
Okay, elitist shitbag who doesn't want the proles to have a say in their own governance, name the last time direct democracy caused a global clusterfuck, as opposed to the representative democracies that caused two world wars. Just for starters.
I would argue we would be better off moving back towards the original design of a weak federal government and most issues dealt with at a state level.
So some states would be indistinguishable from third world countries? In a rush to get your cholera?
Well, that's at least a change from the "well u must love Putin!". Same shit, different pile - same as anyone who questioned the Iraq war was labeled a "Saddam lover" back in 2003.
But back to the subject at hand: put up or STFU on Russiagate evidence. Until you guys do, you're in the same boat as the Birthers or the people who still insist that Bill Clinton ordered a hit on Vince Foster.
Last year attorneys for the software maker quietly sued the hacker group known as Fancy Bear in a federal court outside Washington DC, accusing it of computer intrusion, cybersquatting, and infringing on Microsoft's trademarks.
Anyone who talks about "Fancy Bear" or "Cozy Bear" without irony is as much of an idiot at this point as those who still question Obama's birth certificate. It's all based on a CrowdStrike study paid for by the DNC (who wouldn't let the FBI touch it, another giant tell people choose to ignore). But it's a company with no credibility and has ties to the anti-Russian Atlantic Council.
This is pure swiftboating, only this time flowing from Democrats. The election interference last year wasn't from Russia in the general, but by the DNC in their own primary. Hacking is what Obama did to Angela Merkle's cell phone.
Exploiting the f**k out of any bug you find is the equivalent of lynching the first black person you see
Wow. Where any shrooms involved in the formation of this analogy? Why don't you go pay a visit to Eric Garner's family and tell them that taking advantage of a web site's shitty security to get cheap tickets is just like their dad being strangled to death on the street. You might wanna bring a cup and a mouth guard.
Which is why they are using other means besides their regular army. Ukraine, hacking, etc.
Western Exceptionalist Swiftboating - taking your absolute worst flaws and projecting them onto someone else. It was the State Department and the CIA that overthrew the elected government of Ukraine, and hacking is what the U.S. does Angela Merkle's personal cell phone.
Would hypersonics keep the Russians out of Ukraine, let alone Crimea? The Chinese off the Pacific sandbanks? The NorKs from developing missiles? ISIS out of Raqqa? Iran from developing nukes?
Except: the hyper-aggressive military power in desperate need of containment is not on your list. It's the rest of the world that needs protection from American imperialism, not America needing to protect itself from the rest of the world.
Then they need to refer to the aforementioned Oatmeal cartoon and stop whining about piracy where they don't make the content available. Even more basic.
Is watching Game of Thrones now a human right or something?
What's the difference between someone who downloads a BitTorrent and someone who would never pay for the show if BitTorrent (or other options) weren't available? None.
Are you arguing that you are not willing to pay for the content so your only choice is left is to steal it?
It's not stealing, dumbfuck. Are you committing rape whenever you drive over the posted speed limit? There are different terms for different violations of the law for a reason.
Only if the people were actually able hold them to account.
FTFY. The bipartisan oligarchy works very, very hard to ensure you have a "choice" between capitalist shitbag from Party A , or the shitbag from Party B.
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The hell you did. This tired anti-union trope is based on the premise that Steve is just dying to step in and do Bob's work if Bob starts to slack off. Which of course is complete batshit nonsense. If you are Steve would you want to do your own work plus Bobs at a non-union company? Of course not. Would joining a union make you want to do your own work plus Bob's? Of course not. Which means you are engaging in willful dumbfucerky, same as every other toolbag in this story.
Like agreeing to take pay and benefit cuts to keep companies afloat after disastrous decisions by company management? Or maybe that's your boilerplate anti-union dumbfuckery. If we applied the standards held to unions (who are capitalist by nature) to non-union enterprises, everything from car dealerships to lawn care businesses would be banned, because Enron, because reasons.
Why.
Oh, blow it out your ass, capitalist bootlicker. By that standard of hand waiving purity, all for-profit enterprises need to be banned immediately, because Enron, because British Petroleum, because reasons.
Says the tool who needs to quit his job and work at Taco Bell at minimum wage to see if it pays all his troll bills.
Yes, yes, and yes - you're handwaving. Working retail you are likely to have to work on weekends -but then you have other days off during the week. As opposed to pre-union where the boss was "generous" if you worked six day day a week.
Thus begins every warmed over piece of anti-union bullshit - my brother's wife's cousin's best friend says unions protect laaaazy people. If your grandfather was a real person, and that's what he actually said, he was a fucking idiot and a traitor to his class. Unions will always be a necessary counterbalance to bosses, to capitalists, to greed. Have bosses, capitalists, and greed cased to exist in the 60s-70's? Of course they haven't, which makes you a fucking idiot, even if your grandfather is a made-up person. And applying this same standard of purity to business, capitalism should have been banned entirely after Enron blew up the energy market, after the banks blew up the worldwide currency market in the housing bubble, and after BP blew up the Gulf of Mexico with their incompetence.
If you oppose unions being able to pool their labor, then you must also oppose capitalists being able to pool their capital. If not, you're a corporatist hack.
The same left that hasn't gotten a single policy past since Medicare/Medicaid since the 60's? Tthat couldn't get a Public Option through congress much less single payer? You're a complete idiot if you think the left has any power.
This is under the same government that DGAF about mass poisonings in leaded drinking water or DuPond runoff, that exports fracking to the world, and lets BP go on incompetently drilling of the coast after trying their best to run the Gulf of Mexico?
It pretty much makes them bourgeois, which may be as insufferable and as much an enemy of the poor as rich capitalists. 50% over median income puts them over what, eighty percent of the population? Yeah, they may be stuck with high rent, a shitty job and student loans, but still better off than the people living in their cars or couch surfing, who may not be receptive to the bourgeois sob story.
It's a fact you're as batshit delusional as a Clintonite who insists that NAFTA and bank deregulation were great for the working class, because reasons.
Which is still 50-100% over median income, so don't hold your break on waiting for people to cry you a river.
If that were the case, you wouldn't have millionaires, much less billionaires. Almost all economic gains have gone to the top percentage points of the population. This is old news, so why are you bothering trying to bullshit anyone?
Is that before or after the Easter Bunny had babies with Santa Claus? As long as you're making shit up for an alternate universe, might as well go all out.
They were elitist shitbags (many of whom owned slaves) who wanted to maintain aristocracy without being subjected themselves to the whims of a monarch.
Okay, elitist shitbag who doesn't want the proles to have a say in their own governance, name the last time direct democracy caused a global clusterfuck, as opposed to the representative democracies that caused two world wars. Just for starters.
So some states would be indistinguishable from third world countries? In a rush to get your cholera?
So you want taxes to pay for things that benefit you personally, and screw everything (and everyone) else. Typical libertarian.
Well, that's at least a change from the "well u must love Putin!". Same shit, different pile - same as anyone who questioned the Iraq war was labeled a "Saddam lover" back in 2003.
But back to the subject at hand: put up or STFU on Russiagate evidence. Until you guys do, you're in the same boat as the Birthers or the people who still insist that Bill Clinton ordered a hit on Vince Foster.
FTFY.
FTFY. If you hate that agreement, but signing it means you and your kids wont be homeless next month, you'll sign the damned agreement.
Anyone who talks about "Fancy Bear" or "Cozy Bear" without irony is as much of an idiot at this point as those who still question Obama's birth certificate. It's all based on a CrowdStrike study paid for by the DNC (who wouldn't let the FBI touch it, another giant tell people choose to ignore). But it's a company with no credibility and has ties to the anti-Russian Atlantic Council.
This is pure swiftboating, only this time flowing from Democrats. The election interference last year wasn't from Russia in the general, but by the DNC in their own primary. Hacking is what Obama did to Angela Merkle's cell phone.
Wow. Where any shrooms involved in the formation of this analogy? Why don't you go pay a visit to Eric Garner's family and tell them that taking advantage of a web site's shitty security to get cheap tickets is just like their dad being strangled to death on the street. You might wanna bring a cup and a mouth guard.
Western Exceptionalist Swiftboating - taking your absolute worst flaws and projecting them onto someone else. It was the State Department and the CIA that overthrew the elected government of Ukraine, and hacking is what the U.S. does Angela Merkle's personal cell phone.
Except: the hyper-aggressive military power in desperate need of containment is not on your list. It's the rest of the world that needs protection from American imperialism, not America needing to protect itself from the rest of the world.
Then they need to refer to the aforementioned Oatmeal cartoon and stop whining about piracy where they don't make the content available. Even more basic.
What's the difference between someone who downloads a BitTorrent and someone who would never pay for the show if BitTorrent (or other options) weren't available? None.
It's not stealing, dumbfuck. Are you committing rape whenever you drive over the posted speed limit? There are different terms for different violations of the law for a reason.
Doesn't give you downloadable files that you can keep, is still geoblocked, and requires a decent internet connection to use.
See above, corporatist apologist.
FTFY. The bipartisan oligarchy works very, very hard to ensure you have a "choice" between capitalist shitbag from Party A , or the shitbag from Party B.