Yes, I had it too. I got it under control with an anti-fungal cream and gentle cleaning. It still took a while before it was entirely gone though, partially because I did not get the "gentle" part of the cleaning right at first.
Oh, absolutely. Still probably everyone of us will remember one or several occasions when a union abandoned its stance in order to reach some sort of "deal" to the detriment of its members. I am 100% in favor of unions big and small, but I also don't harbor any illusions about them being able to *not cave under pressure.
I am also not particularly optimistic that it will change much, but nonetheless I respect the union and its member standing up for their principles.
I added an archived version.
Ah yes, Midgar from Final Fantasy 7!
Why, thanks for disseminating the queerphobic talking point that seeing queer people makes children require therapy, Mr. Wholesome-Pixar-Movie-Guy. (Yes, I know the statement can be read differently, but it resembles the right-wing's narrative to a T, so there is no reason to assume he meant anything different.)
It all makes sense if you assume that everything Musk does is intended to impress a 4chan nazi circa 2012.
Dictionaries are - by definition - descriptive. It is not their duty to judge what goes into them. They merely collected terms used by people and explain what they mean.
Demanding to remove information from a dictionary, because you do not like what it expresses or the people who use those terms, is the very definition of censorship.
The problem is that it's not a question of intelligence.
Trumpists and their ilk are living in echo chambers of "alternative facts", perpetuated by Fox News, Murdoch newspapers and an nearly endless amount of rightwing influencers (starting with Rogan at the top). They are not looking at what's happening, because they are surrounded in a very comforting bubble of disinfo and propaganda that confirms everything they wanted to hear: The illegals get deported, the queers get finally put in their place, the liberals are frothing with anger, finally men are back in charge who tell women where they belong and America is going to be "great" again any moment now.
It's fascism and fascism has always been a "cult": The early pioneers of fascism (particularly D'Annunzio and later Mussolini) explicitly said their aim was to create a "secular religion" around the nation, the people and the leader. And you can only be a member of that religion if you accept its "truth" and reject everything that contradicts it.
Very smart people can adhere to a religion for a variety of reasons and the most obvious one is (and always has been) because it promises them power over others.
This is a prime example of why patriarchy is hurting men too, because what this guy is saying boils down to:
- We can make them work at any hour of the day because who cares if these guys have any life outside work?
- We don't have to do any work management, we just call those guys
- We can send them wherever, whenever
- We can create a toxic work environment and it's okay to treat guys like shit
- And those guys don't even complain because they need this job so bad
Isn't it great?
The statement about "workplace laws" is so telling: Yeah, who cares about treating men with respect and dignity!?
It's not just about discriminating against women, it's also about mistreating men. That's what patriarchy is at its core: Pit men and women against each other and then reap the benefits. It's a "divide and conquer strategy".
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