Scent of Worf posted:

this dude's brain is perfectly smooth

loquacius posted:

that wasn't what the derail was about

It was about whether the average person who tweets stuff about persisting or buys t-shirts etc knows who "she" is

and the majority, it turns out, did not

and about 17% did say HRC

so there

Al! posted:

https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/887672213947678720

gradenko_2000 posted:

zegermans posted:

that tagline was false the Predators won and it was generally agreed that that was a good thing for humanity

Concerned Citizen posted:

no it was definitely people insisting to me that the dnc "she persisted" bumper sticker was meant to be about hillary clinton, and it was just so incredibly obvious most people thought it was her. go back and look it up m8

zegermans posted:

It's hard to separate reality from the yelling itt but I thought the DNC kinda co-opted Warren's moment to shine in Hillary's post-failure life and I thought that was bullshit

was that a thing that happened or just one of those perceived slights

Concerned Citizen posted:

harris is for decriminalizing marijuana

Karl Barks posted:

eric garland deep cuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA1f1WZajBk

Al! posted:

you know what else makes deep cuts????

logikv9 posted:

commie nedflanders Twitter spotted

Squizzle posted:

btw anyone here want to catch a 6xer?? im happy to supply em rn

zegermans posted:

28 days later hot take:

DNC ignoring races actually helps candidates because their national brand is so toxic that all you have to do is run ads with Nancy Pelosi and not even mention the local candidate

quote:

StoryCorps employees say that their union organizing drive began in earnest late last year, and by the end of May this year, they had gathered enough union cards to approach management and ask that their union of more than 30 employees, organized with the Communication Workers of America, be recognized. The union’s mission statement lists a set of fairly nonthreatening goals: better workplace communication, fair pay, diversity, and, perhaps most notably, to “Honor the integrity of StoryCorps’ mission and core principles, internally and externally.” Two longtime StoryCorps employees involved in the union drive that I spoke to, Yosmay del Mazo and Haley Shaffer, both cited a desire to standardize basic things like job titles, severance pay, and layoff procedures, and to improve communication within the company and create formal channels for internal feedback as motivating factors.

In early June, shortly after the employees had requested union recognition, StoryCorps held its all-staff summit in Brooklyn. After the summit, employees say they were subjected to multiple “captive audience meetings” at which their employers lectured them on why a union was a bad idea—meetings that grew so heated that one of the bosses even started yelling at one point. “You could essentially play anti-union bingo” with the company’s rhetoric, del Mazo said. Shaffer characterized the company’s message as, “We’re pro-union—just not at StoryCorps,” and said that staffers were accused of being “entitled” for asking to organize. In an effort to cut down the number of workers who would be included in the union, the company forced them into a National Labor Relations Board hearing earlier this month, aimed at cutting the potential unit by more than half. The nascent union will have to settle that battle before moving on to what will surely be a bitterly contested election.

...

The entire StoryCorps enterprise, based on presenting the stories of regular people in their own words, can be thought of as a descendant of the work of the great writer and historian Studs Terkel, who used this technique most famously in his classic book “Working.” This connection was made explicit when Terkel himself made an appearance at the openings of the very first StoryCorps recording booth in Grand Central Station in 2003. Terkel spoke at that event about the importance of “celebrating the uncelebrated,” and credited Dave Isay with great things. Isay himself in turn celebrated Terkel in 2012, saying “May his voice and spirit continue to nourish and inspire us all for the next century and beyond.”

Studs Terkel was a lifelong labor and worker advocate who celebrated unions and decried the “day after day after day of the putting down of labor organizations, or not mentioning them, that has led to the children not knowing a thing about it.” His protege, Dave Isay, has built a company that says “We believe that the core issues expressed by those employees hoping to unionize—a desire to have more of a say in organizational decision-making—are not meant to be resolved through collective bargaining.” One can imagine what Studs’ response would be to that. But all is not hopeless, StoryCorps aficionados. It may be that the soul of the place is alive among the workers, if not the bosses.

Agean90 posted:

nuclear take: when your brand is that toxic you should probably disbamd

Darkman Fanpage posted:

please never post rain dog

The Little Kielbasa posted:

Zager keeps the thread moving when news is slow. CC keeps it from entirely degenerating into mutual masturbation. They are among the most important components of the Suck Zone ecology.

Agean90 posted:

nuclear take: when your brand is that toxic you should probably disbamd

The Little Kielbasa posted:

Zager keeps the thread moving when news is slow.

Oh Snapple! posted:

the candidate is going to be linked to the national party no matter how much (or how little) they spend so you should probably just spend the drat money.

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

anyone who denies the existence of the alt-left is completely delusional

it's real and it's getfiscal, and, to a lesser extent now that they've been banned from twitter, baby finland

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

anyone who denies the existence of the alt-left is completely delusional

it's real and it's getfiscal, and, to a lesser extent now that they've been banned from twitter, baby finland

zegermans posted:

I've said before that I consider myself a poo poo stool

Al! posted:

lol what did baby finland get banned from twitter for

Bushiz posted:

Lol @ y'all thinking this is stupidity and not a deliberate thing to equate leftists and Russia

GalacticAcid posted:

getfiscal is the most disciplined and original mind on the Western Left

https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/879493550886486017

https://twitter.com/HenryKrinkIe/status/887492542874386432