Normal companies have KPI or safety calls every week for their senior managers. Apple has Union busting calls. Managers are asked to report if they even hear any employee discussing unions in any capacity so the corporate terrorist, I mean union busting team can react quickly.

Source: worked at a store for 3 years and my MIL was a store leader for 5 years.

It’s terribly representative of the outcome of libertarian ideas in general, you mean.

Great if you’re already wealthy, sometimes. Horrifying if you aren’t.

I remember it was a pretty big thing during the 2016 election cycle.

My most enduring memory of Gary Johnson’s pathetic campaign was an interview in which a reporter asks him what he thinks of the shelling on Aleppo and his response was “What’s Aleppo?”

The organizers of the coup attempt were mid-level officers who experienced ridged rejection of their plan at basically all levels of the army and the imperial palace they tried. In short, it was never going to work and never came close to working.

The whole story of how Japan came to surrender is really fascinating, partly because it’s been heavily distorted by the American government in particular. It’s not hard to see why: the whole justification for using atomic weapons on Japanese civilians is dependent on the “Japan is too stubborn to surrender” narrative.

And while it’s true that the decision makers in Japan exhibited incredible resilience to the pressure being applied by the US, if you care about understanding their own internal justification for that stubbornness, you will see that using the nuclear bombs was ineffective, unnecessary and largely the result of institutional inertia set in motion before Roosevelt’s death.

Highly recommend this if you want to know the whole story: https://youtu.be/RCRTgtpC-Go

Smells like the perfect time to start pearl clutching about the deficit as an excuse to delete social security again.

The current dumbasses forgot the pearl clutching step and are just trying to cut it.

The comparison between the treaty of Versailles and the collapse of the USSR seems like one hell of a false equivalence, and suggesting anybody cater to it seems like trying to beat Putin at a rigged game.

Yeah, Versailles was a terrible solution in hindsight. But Germany had quite a bit of culpability in the millions of lives lost in the war, and the harsh terms can be understood from that perspective.

The USSR collapsed under its own weight. The other Soviet states chose to become independent. It’s literally nothing but petulant entitlement for the Russian Federation to lay claim to any part of them now.

If they want a more regional power base to counter NATO, perhaps they should try diplomacy rather than dick swinging, manipulation and conquest.

I think it says a lot that if you’re looking for something that physically exists, searching in google maps is almost always better than regular search.

Images became utterly useless like 10 years ago when it became completely infected with Pinterest posts that can’t be saved or viewed without logging into that cancer website. Bing image search is just objectively better.

And in regular search you have to scroll basically to the bottom of the first page find the first “legitimate” search result anymore.

Google is pretty garbage. Except maps. But I’m sure they’ll find a way to ruin that too soon enough.

Well, there you go.

Roe wasn’t made up, it just offends the reactionary way of thinking. Clearly, making up a bit of history is a smidge distasteful to you, but whatever it takes for the cause, right?

But here in the real world, it’s impossible to create a set of laws that covers every facet of human need an behavior. There is no choice but to infer judgement in cases where the law is not explicit. And I really doubt you want to start arguing that a right to privacy is a terrible thing that is unconstitutional and needs to be overturned across the board. But maybe you do, who knows. The fascists are everywhere these days.

Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett are hacks, and Roberts is a pussy. They will enforce their personal preferences upon the law with the flimsiest justification, regardless of what the law says or means, and often in direct opposition to what is right. The deepest of irony is looking back at those decades of reactionaries whining about activist judges, and then coming to a full realization of how deeply they have fucked the country by installing these hacks for life.

Their whining was always projection. Because these people don’t give a shit about law, they just want the legitimacy that the “law” provides. Their way of thinking would be laughably childish if it weren’t hurting so many people.

That’s not relevant to what I said man.

In the opinion in which they overturned Roe, they blatantly disregarded precedent, fabricated a history that doesn’t exist, and just plain made things up.

We’ve got 5 judges that are ok with doing these things. And you think it makes a single bit of difference how much a topic is covered by the text of a law?

I mean, did you read any of the Roe opinion?

They super obviously don’t give a shit about precedent anymore and have no compunctions about making shit up out of whole cloth.

I know your brain is probably addled from licking all that boot rubber, but you might consider picking up a dictionary so you don’t look like a moron when you try and use the big boy words.