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>>2400782 479 posts and 134 image replies omitted.>>2403668Thatâs pretty fucked up honestly.
There should be just a state-owned matchmaking app that has algorithms based on successful relationships and body fat percentage.
>>2403814Consumers do not in themselves have value though. The merchant cares for
nothing but the consumer's money hence why scamming is among the oldest human activities. High quality products themselves, however, are always valuable.
https://paydayreport.com/ford-breaks-union-neutrality-agreement-in-kentucky-union-drive/?ref=payday-report-newsletter
>On Jan. 7 of this year, six weeks after UAW officials announced that a majority of BlueOval SK workers had signed union cards, the workers filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board. At the NLRB, which administers labor law, the median wait between petition and election under the Biden administration was 31 days. But it was not until June 26, nearly six months after workers had requested an election and five months after Donald Trump took office, that the board even ordered BlueOval SK to hold one. An election date has not yet been set.Â
>âA lot of my co-workers just want an election. Theyâre ready to vote,â Bill Wilmoth, a formation production operator and part of the volunteer organizing committee, told Capital & Main in June.Â
>The election delay began when BlueOval SK responded to workersâ election request by filing an NLRB complaint. The company argued that current workers represented too small a share of the eventual workforce at the plant to gain standing as a union.Â
>During that delay, BlueOval SK has worked to block the union. This winter, BlueOval SK paid LRI Consulting Services, a firm known for sending anti-union staff to trail retail workers at their jobs, $425 an hour to hold informational meetings with workers. BlueOval SKâs legal representation, Frost Brown Todd, has a website page devoted to âunion avoidance/campaignsâ offering âcampaigns that empower employees to vote ânoââ on a union. The company also spent $17,229 on ads targeting Kentucky audiences through Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, between April 6 and July 4. The ads include a video urging workers to âtap the brakesâ and âvote noâ on the union.Â
>BlueOval SK did not return requests for comment.
>Multiple workers who talked to Capital & Main say theyâve been driven to organize because of workplace injuries and threats to health and safety. Workers have filed multiple safety and health complaints, and reporters from The Louisville Courier Journal extensively documented workplace injuries, mold contamination, bat infestations and chemical exposure risks.Â
>Thatâs driven workers to demand a fair election, said Wilmoth, but the companyâs anti-union efforts have taken a toll. âTheyâre smart enough to figure out their environment and whatâs best for them,â he said of co-workers. But the companyâs opposition means âtheyâre very hesitant to have discussionsâ openly about unionization, he added. Workers say management has pulled employees aside for âconversationsâ and told them to attend meetings that some workers did not know were anti-union meetings until they got there, while new hires have reported experiencing anti-union rhetoric during training.
>The UAW has filed six unfair labor practice complaints with the NLRB, including as recently as July 2. The union alleges that BlueOval SK threatened, restrained and coerced workers through destroying union materials shown in nonwork areas; threatened closure of the facility; and fired workers for supporting the union. https://theconnector.substack.com/p/cryptocurrency-epstein-and-the-bullshit
>But hereâs the thing about what happens when your entire world is built on bullshit and bullshitting. When you get caught in a blatant contradiction, one so large that it canât be waved away, the whole edifice gets very shaky. And that, I think, is why Trumpâs current effort to cover up his relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is so important. On the one hand, the Justice Department from Attorney General Pam Bondi on down has promised to get to the bottom of the Epstein case, release all the files, and go after anyone who has committed crimes against victims. Theyâve done so with bluster. But then theyâve also claimed the case was closed, also at the behest of the President, who has begged his followers to move on.
>So far, they arenât. Number go up, indeed!
>Many of Trumpâs minions owe their rise to fame and fortune on the relationship theyâve built with their online audiences, something theyâve cultivated in large degree by feeding and ratifying their belief in conspiracy theories. As the Wall Street Journal noted yesterday, âThe decision to not release the files and the harsh fallout among the public has roiled some of Trumpâs senior staff, who have staked their reputations on exposing the ties between Epstein and moneyed elites. [Kash] Patel, the FBI director, and his deputy, Dan Bongino, had been in favor of releasing more documents, people familiar with their efforts said. Bongino has told colleagues that his association with the administrationâs decision to keep the files private has eroded his credibility among the base of support that fueled his rise as a successful podcaster and media personality on the right, according to a senior administration official.â In other words, Bonginoâan online influencer who had no qualification to be deputy FBI director other than his slavish loyalty to Trumpâis now caught between what he believes he has to do to keep his audience and to maintain his position with Trump.
>According to a new Fox News poll, âOnly 13% think the government has been open and transparent about the Jeffrey Epstein case, while more than five times as many, 67%, disagree â including 60% of Republicans and 56% of MAGA supporters. One voter in five says they havenât been following the case.â That means 80% of the public is paying attention. Hence the Trump regimeâs sudden move to release files on Martin Luther King Jr. and to try shine attention on Barack Obamaâs investigation of Russian efforts to interfere in our elections. As Andrew Egger put it in the Bulwark, âThe worse the Epstein revelations, the wilder the distractions issued to try to get the MAGA faithful to look literally anywhere else.â
>The opposite of the bullshit asymmetry principle might be phrased thus: âThe amount of energy needed to sustain bullshit that is obvious to all is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.â >>2403826"dozens of acres"
Yeah give him the gulag
>>2403822There used to be things like workers balls, hostels, a whole way of life that came with Communism. But then the USSR died and so a lot of funding went out the window. I donât think an app would be high on the list of priorities, and if we made it then youâd instantly have people claiming itâs some attempt by the feds to dox communists.
That aside, I think Communists in America are too incestuous, just contained to their little bubbles and doing nothing. I think whatâs needed is interacting with more people. Get liberal and conservative friends. Learn to associate with people who think differently. Thatâs what we need these days.
Shit, to some of the family from my right wing friends Iâm just âsome nice all American guyâ.
From yesterday.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-struggles-facts-fed-chair-jerome-powell-corrects-real-time-rcna221052Trump struggles with facts as Fed Chair Jerome Powell corrects him in real time
>During brief remarks with reporters, the president, with Powell standing just inches away, declared that cost overruns on the project have reached âabout $3.1 billion.â The Fed chair could be seen immediately and rapidly shaking his head, making clear to those in attendance that Trump was citing a number that wasnât true.
>âIâm not aware of that,â Powell interrupted. The figure, the Republican responded, âjust came out.â
>Moments later, Trump tried to justify his claim, pulling a document from his jacket pocket and handing it to the Fed chair. Powell quickly reviewed the data and noticed an important flaw.
>âYou just added in a third building,â Powell said.
>âItâs a building thatâs being built,â Trump replied.
>âNo, it was built five years ago,â the Fed chair reminded him. âItâs not new.â>>2403720This is coming from the "adulting is too hard generation" coming accuse their juniors of being "unserious"?
>>2403699That anon is dumb, quoting a typical feminist platitude.
Irony is, women are more scared of humiliation than men. Hell, feminists would accuse men of misogyny for allowing a woman to be humiliated.
>>2403708Suburban women are not innocent either.
>>2403788>>2403779>>2403761>>2403709I blame chivalry.
In most other non western societies, young women were punished for bad behavior.
Western society infantilised women do much it's unreal.
Whatever negative stereotype you have of teenage girls, women are at their worst behavior in their thirties and forties.
>>2402635>I agree and whats good about america is that theres no realpatriotism left in this country.
I think as tine goes on and things get worse people are going to start identifying more with their state or region than as Americans.
>>2402649It means whatever socialist state(s) born from the ashes of the US sending financial, material, and even military aid to revolutionary movements elsewhere in the world.
>We getting funding from china?China would do everything in its power to stop any of the things I mentioned because they would pose a threat to China's economic and geopolitical interests.
>>2403788>A man in her position very much would not receive any coddling but it's pretty normal to encounter women in their 50's that are just the perfect combination of complete narcissist + violent + unable to function without a male caretaker. This lady at my work is like that and talking to her is like dealing with a child.Comparing a woman like that to a child is insulting to children. That kind of behavior I have encountered as well. It's not normal of children.
Children can be petty, but, that's just something beyond childish. That's fucking psychotic.
>>2403751This. People were going crazy on opium in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century.
Or how about the flower power generation jumping out of windows high on acid?
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