EmptySlime @ EmptySlime @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Not Getting Pounded in the Butt by the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Even After I Attempted a Coup to Get Him to Notice Me.

Truly, this is one of the ways of all time for one to Prove Love. His trot is truly unlike any other.

It's closer to hair color for cats. Race would be more like the breed of the cat.

Yes, he stopped the train strike. He then worked with the rail unions for weeks negotiating with the bosses and now the rail workers have the sick days that was one of the big drivers of them going on strike for. Here's the statement straight from the IBEW.

They literally thank Biden's administration directly for applying pressure in the weeks after blocking the strike that eventually led to the union getting what it was asking for. I'm no big fan of Biden's, but trying to paint him as anti labor especially using him blocking the rail strike is just patently untrue. With everything that's been happening around Biden's NLRB under Lina Khan he is easily the most pro worker president we've had in decades.

Not even detonated. They just get strapped to a table and their skull slowly crushed by the body of the nuke.

The implication is that the kid was a femboy before this text coming out as trans and is presumably coming out as a trans girl in this text. So Mom is essentially jokingly saying that by going from Femboy to Girl that's Femboy Erasure.

I don't necessarily agree in this case that it's specifically calculated to do this but the idea is that it's not taking away an option from another group it's just only opening up a new option to a certain subset of a group.

Hypothetically, if two groups have 100 voters each right now they're split 50-50 right? Now this rule comes out and it means that for group A, 50 new people who had previously gone unregistered are now suddenly registered automatically but for group B only 25 new people are registered automatically, then now suddenly A has 150 registered voters but B has only 125. A suddenly has an advantage they didn't have before because their group benefited disproportionately from adding that method of registering.

Now I'm just picturing like an Irish Drag King called Gil O'Tien heading up the executions of billionaires.

I mean that's been their goal for decades. You see it plainly in their attempts on the Post Office and Social Security. They want to privatize everything. Strip the government for parts and sell it all to private corporations. No Department of Energy? Guess we'll have to just let the power companies manage our grid with no oversight. No Department of Education? Guess your only options for education are for profit private schools if you can afford to attend them. No IRS to collect those pesky and complicated income taxes? Guess we'll have to switch to collecting everything via sales tax. Oh what's that? Not enough money? Good thing we have this Social Security trust fund that's just been sitting here not being used for Wall St speculationcollecting dust.

No like, the IBEW workers actually have the sick days now. It's like the first thing they say in the article I linked.

Quote again:

After months of negotiations, the IBEW’s Railroad members at four of the largest U.S. freight carriers finally have what they’ve long sought but that many working people take for granted: paid sick days.

Then they thank the Biden administration specifically for helping them provide the pressure on the rail companies that helped them get the sick days. So yeah, breaking the strike was shitty but he at least didn't leave them out to dry and helped them get what they wanted.

The point about the NLRB changes being administration dependent is true. Which is a big part of what moved myself specifically from "Ugh... I guess I'll hold my nose and vote for Biden because I don't want the fascists to win," to actually feeling like I had a reason to vote for him.

Don't get me wrong, fuck the DNC for deciding that there's essentially not going to be a primary. We deserve the chance to pick someone better than Biden if we can find them. But if we can get 4 more years of the kinds of labor and union gains we've been seeing I think that's worth voting for.

He did shut down the strike yes, but was recently credited by the unions for helping them in the months since to apply pressure to finally get them the sick days they were after.

Quote from the article:

"We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers.

That's not even mentioning all the good things happening at his NLRB under Lina Khan. My favorite of which being the new rule that straight up just orders companies found to have engaged in union busting tactics in response to workers trying to get a union election to immediately recognize and begin bargaining with said union.

I was specifically trying to get all the achievements in it in 1 run because I had borrowed it for just a weekend from a buddy of mine at my college. I got to the final boss and just unloaded everything. Fight ended in like 30 seconds.

I told him to check my achievements when I gave it back to him. I get a random Xbox live voice message of him just screaming "WHAT AAAAARE YOU!?" 10/10 would torture myself again.

It's toxic AF. Years ago when I was finally first starting to figure out that I was non-binary I tried to join a few online spaces to talk to people. The amount of places I was outright banned from or just made to feel I was clearly not welcome because I'm AMAB and was not on or planning to start HRT and my very existence was "triggering" to people there already was insane. And then there was the seemingly neverending parade of trans women who saw me as just an egg in need of cracking because of course they knew my gender better that I could possibly have and I'd be so much happier once I let go of all that internalized misogyny that was obviously the only thing keeping me from being an out and proud trans woman.

Never had anyone do that to me IRL. Even looking like the dudeliest Dad this side of a barbecue and the literal textbook definition of a Bear.

Because anything that isn't "Ukraine rolls over and gives Russia everything," is escalation. Obviously.

Nevermind that Russia is the aggressor who invaded another country and has been continually escalating the level of violence they're using. Anything other countries do to help Ukraine is seen as prolonging the war, and anything that Ukraine does to fight back is called escalation.

I'm theory I like this idea, make the person that killed the parent and remove that support try to replace it. I just don't know how well it's going to work in practice. Like, I don't know how many drunk drivers have a high enough income that any meaningful amount of child support would be derived from this. Not that a drunk driver being poor or not should get them out of consequences. But like my dad weaseled his child support payments down to $25 a month and it was just ridiculous. It didn't help at all. But some nice karma on him was that all those years of working under the table to lower his child support meant that when the piece of shit got injured and needed to try to get disability he hadn't gotten enough work credits in the previous ten years.

I feel like it would probably be better if the state established a fund that they could use to pay out to those kids that they could fund at least partially with fines brought against drivers convicted of DUI. That way we could guarantee some level of support for the kids that lost parents and still force the drunk drivers to at least partially fund it but a kid won't get screwed just because the drunk driver that killed their parent particularly happened to be poor.

"You should let The People decide." - Republicans

Just not those people.

Because for the people that truly hate us, the ones that truly just want us dead. LGBTQ people's very existence is antithetical to their fundamentalist worldview. Us simply existing puts the lie to many of their so-called "natural" elements of society related to gender, sex, sexuality, and just love in general.

If trans people can exist, there can't be anything inherent to the biological sex that puts men above women. If gay and lesbian couples can exist, then there can't be anything inherent to relationships that says women have to be subservient to men and that these relationships only exist for procreation. They can't just let us live in peace because our very existence proves that their entire worldview is a lie.

"It should be left to OUR people to decide."

That's what they mean. They know the people that vote for them will largely vote for a fucking Ham Sandwich if it has an R next to its name. So they know that they'll almost certainly never face consequences for anything so long as it's up to the people that vote for them. They can purge voter rolls, strategically close polling places, attack mail in voting. There tons of things they can do which will impact potential Democratic voters more than Republican voters.

I'm so terminally awkward about all this. Cuz I want to be sure that the person I'm about to ask for help isn't like on break or waiting for their shift to start or something and "Excuse me, are you on the clock?" Sounds super condescending to me. So I just awkwardly default to "Do you work here?" or "Do you know someone who can help me?" because English is basically impossible for my dumbass self.

I would love to elaborate. Really, I would. But after the words left my mouth my brain just kinda closed that tab on me and it's gone forever. Not even I know what I was saying.