"If you don't wear Special Clothes around me I'm going to lose it."
When are we going to move past costuming for work?
The only costume I wanna wear for work is a mascot costume for a sports team that named themselves after an animal.
It's ok to admit you're a furry on the Internet. We run the damn thing, after all
Look at the instance that user is from
Nonsense ideology that dates back to medieval times. I subscribed to it for years until I realized it had no bearing on my work. I tell my interns and staff “dress appropriately,” meaning be comfortable - unless we’re meeting with clients, whose expectations may not align.
Dress codes serve as class signifiers. Like most rules of decorum, they're cultural artifacts used to delineate the haves from the have-nots. They don't dislike the fact that Fetterman refuses to wear a suit. They dislike the fact that he dresses like the common people he actually represents. Whereas they dress like the people they represent - capitalist oligarchs. They're wanting to close ranks and keep people from realizing that not everyone in the senate serves the same masters.
Isn't the logic that it's an easy thing to use as a sign of conformance? A check to see if you're willing to compromise your personal choices for the groups mandate?
People with their little collars and jackets and ties to make them feel important
Probably never. People will always judge others based on how they are dressed. We subconsciously attach a certain image of what people should look like. And these dress codes are often enforced by society indirectly. 99% of people would not want to have a lawyer dressed casually to court and will pick someone else even if the alternative is by all accounts not as good as the casually dressed lawyer.
I'd be happy to have a lawyer in casual attire if it wouldn't bias the judge and jury against him (or me).
Thats right. I judge them by how they are dressed. Fetterman is a working class american, and the others are my enemy.
My knee jerk reaction to seeing anyone in a suit is "Asshole".
Once the Miserables found themselves outvoted in the Estates General of 1789 by about 3% of the population (the ones with money), it became very uncomfortable in France for aristocrats.
Just saying,
American's don't have the drive or the energy to care. We willingly lost 40 years ago.
You see, this impacts them. Never mind that there's no actual impact, they only want those among them who behave as expected. Also, he got excessive attention due to his attire, which gave him a bigger audience for his political views.
So youre saying that things need to impact these people?
Only very small things though. A few millimetres at most.
Do you think about 5.56 milimeters would be enough, or should we splurge on 7.62 milimeters?
Formal dress codes are upper class by aesthetics. Its just another little bite of compliance that one is expected to take before joining those in power.
It is funny and sad how many ways of getting ahead in society can be interpreted as testing your tolerance for bullshit.
Okay. All those fat old men (on both sides) wearing ill fitting suits should be expelled from houses of government until they wear a fitted suit. Same with the women.
Their priorities are “fuck you got mine”
need a retirement age for all public employees. I mean let them get paid to do nothing where we don't have to listen to them pretending to do serious stuff.
Epic hoodie man calls for full-blown genocide of Palestinians, crowd goes wild
Source?
Now is not the time to talk about a ceasefire. We must support Israel in efforts to eliminate the Hamas terrorists who slaughtered innocent men, women, and children. … We can talk about a ceasefire after Hamas is neutralized.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/john-fetterman-israel-position-explained.html
So basically, Fetterman believes that Israel can keep killing thousands of children as long as Hamas continues to exist.
I've from the city that fetterman is from. His position on Israel is a long-standing one and he believes in unequivocal and relentless support of the occupation, armament, and apartheid Zionist policies.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/john-fetterman-israel-position-explained.html
I disagree with his apparent unwavering support for the Israeli government, as it seems many other people also disagree.
Characterizing it as "calls for full-blown genocide of Palestinians" is disingenuous.
Call it whatever you want I guess but Israel is the one starving millions and cutting off fuel resulting in children drinking sea water and getting bombed to shit
They're wiping out entire neighborhoods via bombing for fuck's sake and the ground invasion hasn't even happened yet
any publicity is good publicity and maybe he can use this platform to get his messages across
Isn't insider trading literally illegal tho?
Technically, yes, per the STOCK Act. But there's a loophole for Congress.
It doesn't count as "insider trading" for them if the information they use is based on bills they are passing as a part of their job.
Democrats have repeatedly tried to pass a law to ban this loophole as well, such as Adam Schiff from January of this year, but Republicans always vote such bills down or have them die in committee.
That sounds like we should follow Congress' stock trades for our own benefit. I bet there's a tracker out there since all that is supposed to be public information.
There is but the data is delayed by (I think) 30-ish days.
Not if you're a member of Congress.
Not for congresspeople. Just normal citizens.
Look, I'm all for raising the minimum wage, and if it ever comes across the ballot I would always vote yes. But this is such a shit take, of fucking course dress code is easier to deal with than the economics of the whole country. If you're going to critique the government, make sense at least.
Fuck’s sake, we don’t pay these cunts for theatrics and the resolution of trivial matters that they deem to be problems. They could all wear fucking jeans and a t-shirt for all I give a shit. These assholes are OUR EMPLOYEES, and they’ve been fucking us over since time immemorial. Yeah, no fucking problem - it’s $1M+ for any old shitbox in much of the country; half of the fucking cunts are authoritarians who are nakedly trying to take away our rights; economic stratification is worse than ever; 2nd in line to the Prez believes in fucking fairy tales and wants to subjugate everyone who doesn’t; I could go on ad infinitum, but no, let’s fucking worry about the clothes these fucking cunts have on, yeah?
It was easy because nobody added any other bullshit to it. Do you think it would have passed that easy if the democrats insisted it include funding for planned parenthood? Or if the republicans would only allow it to come to a vote if it included a ban on funding Ukrainians? The minimum wage hasn’t changed this millennium, this isn’t hard until they make it hard. You want to make it easy? Here it is, make the minimum wage match the minimum cost to live in in each jurisdiction, updated every 10 years with ( and by) the national census. If you can impose a fine you are a jurisdiction and it is your responsibility to implement. Done, next issue.
Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.
Rules (Subject to Change)
--Be a Decent Human Being
--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title
--Posts must have something to do with the topic
--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.
--No NSFW content
--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world
