spacemang_spliff posted:

isn't this the poo poo that made trump a dicktater

Gumball Gumption posted:

No one actually likes the new Beyonce album. The good reviews are out of touch liberals and the hoi polloi are mostly clowning on that Jolene cover.

The good doctor just won my vote

bedpan posted:

not haley but I saw this happened today Famed photographer quits Ford board over Liz Cheney snub

lighting my career on fire because someone didn't reward Liz Cheney for ???

Joementum posted:

i promise you that i'm not posting this in the wrong thread

https://twitter.com/people/status/1777820792505458738

quote:

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has been pursuing a bizarre legal strategy at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against a former employee who filed an unfair labor practice (ULP) charge against the ACLU after the organization fired her for criticizing her supervisors (I, II, III). After the case started getting attention, AJ Hikes, the second-in-command at the ACLU, allegedly instructed staffers not to talk about the ULP charge pending against the organization, which resulted in another ULP charge being brought against the ACLU late last month.

On April 16, the NLRB attorney responsible for the case involving the former employee filed a motion with the administrative law judge (ALJ) that reveals the precise instruction given by Hikes to ACLU staff. According to the motion, Hikes made the following statements in a live chat:

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Normally, we are not able to comment on personnel matters, but since this has been reported in the Times, it's a matter of quite public record, and so I just have one or two things I would like to say. This case is principally about a former employee who demonstrated a consistent pattern of anti-Blackness in this organization and I don't want this to get lost in the conversations that we have about this outside of this space. Over and over and over again, this person was counseled on that behavior. And so I don't want it to be seen through a myopic lens as it's been represented here as somebody who's deeply involved in it. And we will not tolerate treatment of employees like that, certainly on my watch, at this organization, at all. I'm not going to get into a back-and-forth with folks, especially non-Black folks frankly, about what anti-Blackness is and is not, but I will say very clearly that is what's at the heart of this case.
. . .
The tone in this chat is all the way out of pocket. Y'all got me on the right day today. I understand frustration. I understand the need to advocate. I understand that. And we are your colleagues. We are your colleagues. Please, please, please, please try to come at your colleagues with some sense. That is all I have to say. Laugh all you want. But baby, I'm not the one or the two or the three. Please, please, please, please try to get this together, y'all. Office hours is a very important space for us to be able to connect, for us to be able to answer questions, for us to be able to engage around each other's work. We are not coming here to harass people, to humiliate people, to drag people, to act a fool. Please, please, please try to treat each other a little bit better than this.

Before getting into the problem with saying this kind of thing to workers, it is worth recalling that the “anti-blackness” Hikes is referring to was former employee Katherine Oh engaging in the following conduct:

After the national political director, a manager that Ms. Oh and her colleagues had submitted complaints against, left the organization, Ms. Oh stated that, even after his departure, “the beatings will continue until morale improves.”

Ms. Oh said in a phone meeting that she was “afraid to raise certain issues” with her direct supervisor.

Ms. Oh claimed that another manager “lied to her when she identified the members of management who had ultimate responsibility over whether to proceed with a particular campaign.”

ACLU acknowledges that there is no racial content to any of these criticisms, but Hikes apparently believes that, because the supervisors being criticized are black, that makes the criticisms anti-black. The ACLU also appears to believe that it has a right to fire Ms. Oh for making these complaints despite the fact that criticizing working conditions is protected activity under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).

The problem with the new statements made by Hikes is, as noted in the motion, that they threaten employees with unspecified reprisals for raising concerns about working conditions and constitute an unlawful overly broad directive to employees not to raise concerns about working conditions to management.

In addition to likely being separate unfair labor practices, Hikes’s coercive statements here also could cause problems for ACLU’s already very weak case against Ms. Oh as they reveal a pattern of hostility to protected activity and specifically the kind of protected activity that Ms. Oh engaged in, which is raising issues about working conditions to supervisors.

Beyond the legal implications of this, Hikes’s statements here appear to confirm that ACLU’s management — and Hikes in particular — has (or at least pretends to have) a peculiar view about anti-blackness that leads them to think they can crack down on workers in ways that are actually illegal.

gradenko_2000 posted:

mycelium - notes on imperialism

in online leftist spaces the overlap between solidarity for victims of western imperialism and solidarity for victims of non-western imperialism appears diminishingly small. the same is true of activist spaces i'm involved with in real life.

i dislike binaries, but here i use this one - western vs. non-western - because it's the same that many anglophone leftists choose to adopt in their worldview. this binary is violent, a product of a long history of colonialisms and imperialisms that as leftists we are presumed to be most familiar with - that of western european colonial powers and the modern american empire.

it is this same worldview that informs the echelon of anti-usa, anti-nato, anti-west leftists who are willing to sacrifice ukrainians, syrians, hong kongers, tibetans, uyghurs, indigenous peoples under russian and chinese occupation, taiwanese etc. at the altar of an imagined, morally pure form of "decolonisation" and "anti-imperialism."

syrian writer leila al-shami writes of an "anti-imperialism of idiots" - that group of self-proclaimed leftists who equate imperialism with the actions of the usa alone, and in the process fall in with fascist states sporting minimally "socialist" aesthetics.

"This pro-fascist left seems blind to any form of imperialism that is non-western in origin... Everything that happens is viewed through the prism of what it means for westerners – only white men have the power to make history." (Leila Al-Shami)

i reject this binary worldview which plagues the anglosphere left. the palestinian cause is linked to the syrian cause is linked to the ukrainian cause is linked to the uyghur cause, and so forth, because imperialism doesn't actually discriminate between western and non-western victims, and the us, western europe, israel, china, russia etc. can all be as bad as each other. decolonial and anti-imperialist solidarity means we stand with all oppressed peoples, so we go back to that tired old saying - none of us are free until all of us are free. 9/9

Fister Roboto posted:

Are those words supposed to be a jumble of nonsense or am I having a stroke?

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

reminder: that library is planned to be entirely digital. all that space is being occupied not by books or records but by Obama's ego.

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If anything at all can stop the path we’re on, it’s voting.

MadSparkle posted:

I’ll probably regret it, but where are these poop stories coming from? I’m not surprised they exist but goddamn it makes me so loving mad that this farce of an election is continuing at all

Gripweed posted:

How the gently caress can anyone listen to Biden speak and think this is OK? It doesn't matter what he's talking about, just listen to his voice. He is too old. How are people denying that?

ArmedZombie posted:

pass a carbon tax you stupid gently caress

Uncle Boogeyman posted:

https://x.com/aklingus/status/1782432276602835028

lmfao

Maed posted:

i'm sure he took many grad level stats classes in his *check notes* modern history degree lolol

HallelujahLee posted:

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

So, this bartender thing, how much of it was the real deal, and how much was she left a staff position or something a year out specifically to set up this run?

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/RyanChandlerTV/status/1783200338440314913

Bishyaler posted:

Its wild watching liberals do a instant pivot on previously held beliefs and rigorously defend something that they were railing against years, months, even minutes before.

The bad thread suddenly thinks a Tiktok ban is good because those perfidious Chinese are manipulating the algorithm to make people mad! Don't draw parallels to the corporate media its not the same for **reasons**. And how dare you accuse our politicians of doing this for censorship, where is your proof beyond all the videos of them admitting its about Palestine!

We should be allowed to bully these people off the internet

quote:

If you're going to ban it because of "Security Issues" then there's a lot of *cough* facebook *cough* other apps that are probably just as bad, if not worse.

It's clearly because TikTok users made President Thinskin look bad. Also anti-China racism/xenophobia

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fuckin lol surely this alienates virtually everyone under the age of 30 that had even the smallest possible inkling of voting trump

Like even if I didn't use TikTok (I don't) I'd be pissed off that the government was literally taking that choice away for no legitimate reason.

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Oh my god are they really going through with this? I thought somebody talked the Pissbaby down

This can't really just be about "Teens used TikTok to prank me: punish them!" right?

Like they have an actual given reason that is slightly less stupid?

Also, are they still going through with the Tencent ban because holy poo poo is that going to gently caress up video games

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Lol Donny loving with TikTok guarantees a whole generation of kids aged 12-20 will loving hate his and the GOP's guts.

Maybe he can go after Fortnite next

quote:

Diddums is still hyper pissed that the TikTok kids t-boned his Literal Murder Rally last month.

quote:

quote:

The TikTok thing is really bad because the main reason both parties are after it, aside from escalating things with China, is that its turned into a way for protesters to organize in the states and for people outside of the states to show their support for the protests. Both parties want to shut it down if they can, and if not force the sale to an American company so they can scrape their data for information on dissidents

Its yet another way to crack down on freedom of speech

Dems don't hate TikTok, what the gently caress?

loquacius posted:

??? how does he think anti-vietnam-war protests were legitimate in a way anti-gaza-genocide protests are not

Officer Sandvich posted:

https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1783167575670636934

Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:

it's all such a bizarre overreaction

my own beloved alma mater just called in the cops on a bunch of dorks on a damp, chilly lawn near the old library, the one nobody uses. if it had been left on its own it would have been gone inside of 24 hours, 36 on the outside. they have absolutely no way to accomplish anything beyond generate It's A Bad Look, Chief memes, and the administration's coming down on it harder than they've come down on anything in a generation

if they could believe it was going to dissuade the kids I could -maybe- see it but come the gently caress on, you have just told a bunch of late teens early 20somethings that they've got some kind of power over you, what do you think their next move is going to be

PhilippAchtel posted:

Well, only in certain states, depending on what candidates you have access to voting for...

In Training posted:

In US history books its presented as a series of peaceful sit ins, MLK gave a nice speech and that was that .

Uncle Boogeyman posted:

you learned about the Black Panthers in school?

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

a winning message:

https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1784951750262395237

spacemang_spliff posted:

if housing affordability is a key issue then what are the democrat party doing about it lol

between skyrocketing inflation, huge interest rates and the explosion of housing costs, there is no way I'd be able to afford to buy the home I'm in right now if I had to buy it today. The estimated value of my house is twice what I bought it for in 2016. My mortgage would literally be twice what it is now. The democrats aren't doing anything about that lol

And like I dont have an amazing house. it's a 2 bed 1 bath ranch built in 1950 lol poo poo I probably couldn't even afford to rent it

Willa Rogers posted:

I'd reckon they've also got some program that scours their social media for the bad buzzwords like "genocide"

Maximo Roboto posted:

feels like the coconut tree meme and clips like this are to meme Kamala into an adorkably halfway acceptable alternative who is too bumbling to be evil. and you know what, they are pretty funny regardless

https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1785074492315693266