TheSanSabaSongbird @ TheSanSabaSongbird @lemdro.id

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Like Ironworkers, steelworkers or tinbenders? They are all separate unions here in the US though all three are AFL-CIO.

If anyone is wondering, Ironworkers are erectors, steelworkers work in foundries and steel mills and tinbenders are sheet metal guys. Roughly.

Rupert Murdoch is another great example. Thanks Australia. Thanks a lot.

This is not true in any US state per the 1st amendment of the Constitution. What you may be thinking of are so-called "right to work" states which have effectively defanged unions by making it illegal to require union membership or payment of union dues as a condition of employment. (It's actually a little more complicated than that, but you can easily look it up if you want the details.)

Anyhow, the end result is that in "right to work" states it's almost impossible to unionize.

Fuck McKinsey. Seriously. Fuck those guys with a 3 foot piece of 1 inch rebar.

Right here motherfucker.

Not very bright, are you?

This is a stupid canard. Obviously the US has centrists relative to its own domestic politics, and obviously that's what the idiot above is referring to.

We vote by mail in my state. I love it. Me and The Wife sit down at the kitchen table and fill out our ballots together and then pop them into the mail and that's it. Granted, I live in a solidly blue state so my presidential vote basically doesn't matter anyway.

He's had meetings with Heritage on how to implement the plan. They are already in the process of lining up his appointees so that they can hit the ground running. You are badly misinformed as to how far this has already gone.

Nope. There's nothing special about Americans just like there's nothing special about any nation or large group of people. You have to be deeply ignorant of history to think otherwise. We're all the same species and when things play out in specific ways it's always for a similar set of reasons and circumstances.

As Dan Carlin would say, "it's a human thing." You think this kind of insanity can't happen in your country because it hasn't yet. But you're wrong. It can and has happened, many many times throughout history, in various forms, all over the world.

Again, Americans aren't special and you have to be deeply stupid and/or ignorant to think otherwise.

If you have to ask...

Polls a year out from the election. They have zero predictive value with regard to the ultimate outcome. Any pollster will tell you this. In fact, they have been telling us precisely this, but maybe not all of us are paying attention.

These results are still deeply disturbing.

Toyota makes way too much money off of the Tacoma is why specifically. The Hilux would undermine that market by being significantly cheaper. People are willing to pay ridiculous amounts, even for used Tacomas.

Sure but you could do that with a regular-sized truck too.

I'm saying that you're drunk.

Are you a moron or what? WTF are you on about?

That's because they are authoritarians too.

I downvoted them because while they're correct, they are not evaluating the risk of a Trump win correctly. None of this will matter if Trump wins. None of it.

Fortunately we have a year to change their idiot minds. Democracy is on the line. Sitting this one out because we have hurt feelings is not an option. These people clearly don't understand risk management and assessment.

Journalism is easily one of the most self-critical professions there is. There are entire publications and non-profits dedicated solely to critiquing news coverage. CJR and AJR are great examples.

I am not surprised that you appear to be unaware of this as media illiteracy is the norm for most citizens.

Additionally, who else would we even want to criticize news coverage apart from an expert who understands all of the nuts and bolts of how the industry works?

Simply being a consumer of news doesn't make you an expert in journalism any more than consuming medical care makes you a doctor.

In my experience the vast majority of people who have no formal training, or have never worked in mass communications tend to labor under a huge set of misconceptions about how the news industry operates and what really goes on in news rooms. People honestly have no clue and tend towards being confidently and even disastrously incorrect.