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MAGA has a hardon for cruelty. It's about hurting people.
the sheer amount of my taxpayer dollars that will go into lawsuit settlements over the next 20 years is infuriating
Why do you think any lawsuits for any of these things would actually get anywhere at this point?
The repercussions of this administration will be going on for decades
Dude, he appointed three supreme court judges. They are young as hell and will cause hell for 35 to 40 years at least. This is what he did without a second term.
With a second term we might see repercussions and hell probably until the very late 21st. This is assuming it stops with him.
Hmm.
Nope. Can't see any work arounds to lifetime appointments.
Right but you seem to be inferring that the totalitarianism sweeping the nation at the moment will just go away or something, and lawsuits on things like this will actually be a thing in, say, 10 years.
yeah this is just the start. it's gonna get progressively worse until inevitably the system blows up. that could take decades. i'm guessing it culminates in some sort of unwinnable war
New tax on billion dollar entities or higher scaling exponentially for every additional zero , make them pay it. Government should spend money, on the people for the people and by the people
Getting fired because you're a woman, with reasoning that seems to boil down to "we don't think a woman can do this job," sounds like a pretty good case for a wrongful, discriminatory firing suit.
4/9 of the supreme court are women. When are they going to go?
At least 1 black guy to my knowledge too
We don't count that Uncle Tom mother fucker
Why not, his ass should absolutely be out of a job, and one of those women should be too.
Fascists will still count him if his knee doesn't bend enough.
You guys need to remember the real constitution that our oligarchy follows "Rules for thee, not for me"
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They just put an asshole in charge of the EEOC who doesn’t believe this is discrimination. Who would enforce a judgement even if they won?
I guess her crime was to try to employ more people who weren't cishet white men. Unforgivable to the fascists in charge. And anyway, they just get off on cruelty because it distracts them from the emptiness inside.
Given their recent demand that NASA remove information about "women in leadership", it paints a pretty clear picture of why she was fired. Nothing to do with capability, competence, or any issues with her command.
Margaret fucking Hamilton, got us to the moon.
For those not in the know:
Here, Margaret is shown standing beside listings of the software developed by her and the team she was in charge of, the LM [lunar module] and CM [command module] on-board flight software team.
For those confused and thinking that the Wicked Witch of the West was somehow aging backwards after faking her death and escaping from Oz:
Your name is correct
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It’s almost like Hegseth was lying when he said he respected women in the military.
Her crime was being a woman to begin with.
Have you seen the list of flagged words for federal grants? It includes "female" and "woman", but not "man" or "male".
Here's the list of words that will now get your scientific publication flagged for ideological review:
- activism
- activists
- advocacy
- advocate
- advocates
- barrier
- barriers
- biased
- biased toward
- biases
- biases towards
- bipoc
- black and latinx
- community diversity
- community equity
- cultural differences
- cultural heritage
- culturally responsive
- disabilities
- disability
- discriminated
- discrimination
- discriminatory
- diverse backgrounds
- diverse communities
- diverse community
- diverse group
- diverse groups
- diversified
- diversify
- diversifying
- diversity and inclusion
- diversity equity
- enhance the diversity
- enhancing diversity
- equal opportunity
- equality
- equitable
- equity
- ethnicity
- excluded
- female
- females
- fostering inclusivity
- gender
- gender diversity
- genders
- hate speech
- excluded
- female
- females
- fostering inclusivity
- gender
- gender diversity
- genders
- hate speech
- hispanic minority
- historically
- implicit bias
- implicit biases
- inclusion
- inclusive
- inclusiveness
- inclusivity
- increase diversity
- increase the diversity
- indigenous community
- inequalities
- inequality
- inequitable
- inequities
- institutional
- Igbt
- marginalize
- marginalized
- minorities
- minority
- multicultural
- polarization
- political
- prejudice
- privileges
- promoting diversity
- race and ethnicity
- racial
- racial diversity
- racial inequality
- racial justice
- racially
- racism
- sense of belonging
- sexual preferences
- social justice
- sociocultural
- socioeconomic
- status
- stereotypes
- systemic
- trauma
- under appreciated
- under represented
- under served
- underrepresentation
- underrepresented
- underserved
- undervalued
- victim
- women
- women and underrepresented
The List of Trump’s Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF
Great, now science is gonna have to start sounding like people avoiding social media filters.
"In my report, we examine how nonmen and oppomajorities are unscriminated against.."
Victim? So no more funding into crime research then.
We live in the stupidest timeline. May Trump’s reign be very short.
There are so many words in that list that are either general use or widely applicable in so many fields, it's crazy. Some fields popping off the top of my head.
- barrier: biology, as in the blood-brain barrier. Or engineering, economics,
- biases: AI, psychology
- disabilities: medicine, sociology
- diversified: finance
- excluded: just about anything
- female: electronics, engineering, as in female connectors or receptacles
- gender: biology
- historically: also just about anything
- status: just about anything, but a lot in IT and engineering
- systemic: biology, medicine
- trauma: medicine
- under represented: anything with statistics
This is just getting me depressed.
They papered over all the female and black peoples at the NSA Museum too. A bunch of former NSA has to go complain for them to uncover it. They claim it was to “act fast” to keep from being defunded.
Elon would have been arrested in any other circumstance for this behavior. We’re fucked.
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Is he literally saying "Girls can't do that job, that's a job for a man"?
Yes
The left needs to learn how to "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Speaking softly alone gets you fucking nowhere. This is why the far right gains so much ground. They know the DNC and the apparatus of the left is toothless. All they do is browbeat.
Get.some.fucking.teeth.
If the DNC cannot bite back, it needs to die or else ethnic cleansing and genocide is inevitable in this country.
The little person, too, needs to learn to just say no. Make them push it farther. Fight back and get pyrrhic victories.
I'm guessing this was on a military base, so the usual eviction shit doesn't apply, but remember that in civilian life, until law enforcement shows up with a court order in hand, anyone removing you from your house is breaking criminal law.
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They’re bullies. They get off on acting like this.
over concerns
No.
Do higher ups like her get better movers than enlisted? Because I have heard horror stories about the state of objects after military moving companies get ahold of them.
That first move was fucking rough. I was so relieved until I walked into my living room full of dented cardboard boxes. Never again. I opened up a dented box of dishes I had packed meticulously and wrapped in bubble wrap. Ate off of chipped plates for a couple weeks before I had time to replace them....I couldn't fucking imagine using them when I had actually valuable shit.
I got a buncha other grunts to help me move the next time. The fucking butter bar that was watching us move my shit into the new place was all "Why didn't you just use United? Command pays for them. Waste of money. You grunts never learn." I politely asked him if he'd had them move him in. "Well uh no. We're paid better than to need that." Lol
Come to find out the crews that work the government jobs get the worst pay and are often stiffed on tips because command never tell the enlisted to fucking tip. So yeah, they'll happily fuck up your shit to get the job over ASAP and move on to a better paying civvie job. And to be honest I can't really blame em. Especially now with Elon saying the Government isn't gonna pay contractors anymore.
You’re not supposed to tip military movers, it’s in the instructions you’re provided.
My wife and I just recently moved using military movers and all our stuff is fine. She’s a captain (the O3 kind).
Both teams of people were professionals and we didn’t lose anything to theft or damage. Maybe we just got lucky, idk. My experience as lower enlisted having government movers pack up my shit in Italy to move back to the states was similar back in 2014 though. Never had an issue.
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almost there
Serving a violent, racist, patriarchical empire isn't all that it's cracked up to be.
Class fucking act. Man I get the problems folks had with Obama but class, dignity, just fucking cool. I yearn for those times.
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