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If it were easy we wouldn't need lawyers.

Edit: Yeah, no one would believe this caused emotional distress. /s

Around 8 p.m. on March 14, she wrote that she was alone in a stall in the women's restroom when she heard a man yelling.

“The voice was much louder than simply someone yelling in from the door. This man was fully IN the restroom, yelling something about” transgender women, Davis wrote.

Davis said the man yelled he was going to “beat" them and was going to “protect his wife/girlfriend from them” while his wife or girlfriend was pleading with him to stop and leave before he got into trouble.

Davis wrote she was scared and froze, not knowing if the man was going to physically attack her.

“I was the only one in there so it seemed pretty clear that he saw me enter the restroom and he assumed that I am trans because of my height,” Davis recalled. “It was terrifying and I wish no one else ever had an experience like that.”

The man eventually left, and Davis was able to leave the restroom and return to her workstation.

“My immediate supervisor came by and noticed that I was visibly shaken and emotional. After taking a few moments to calm myself down, I told her what had happened. I didn't go home since it wasn't long until my shift was done (10 p.m.),” Davis wrote. “Less than a week later, I was fired.”

The reason given for her termination was that she did not report the incident to a salaried management employee and, therefore, created a security risk.

“I took it to mean that I was the security risk because someone had mistaken me for trans,” Davis told the Washington Post.

Davis said she was devastated. Because of the anti-LGBTQ+ climate in Florida, she had been planning on leaving the state. But now, she doesn't know after losing the job.

She appealed the termination through Walmart’s internal review process but was denied. She filed for unemployment insurance but also took her story to Facebook, where it soon went viral.

Emotional Suffering, and IANAL but I'm sure there's more.

So fragile and white...

Republicans: Meh, what's the big deal?

I will accept zero claims regarding the sanctity of free speech from any Conservative who doesn't feel this is just as horrible as I do:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/donald-trump-news-ice-immigration-student-rumeysa-ozturk.html

To be perfectly clear, Ozturk is not accused of breaking the law. The Department of Homeland Security hasn’t bothered to explain its reasoning, but several outlets reported that Ozturk co-authored a student opinion piece urging Tufts to recognize the International Court of Justice’s declaration of a “plausible risk of genocide” unfolding in Gaza and to divest from Israel. You can read the article if you like. It does not mention Hamas.

I actually like this one just as much but couldn't find it before.

It's something, but it still applies to his commanders and everyone who followed the orders. (including him - though it wasn't my intent to single him out)

Maybe in his case it would be a valid defense, especially since he publicly spoke out about it. It didn't go over well at Nuremberg, but I think it's clear there will be no prosecutions for Israelis over this.

Just following orders...

Fucking crybaby.

He just needs it to get to scotus.

You are both right, but this armchair psychologist thinks it's similar to how popular skeuomorphism was in the early day of PC guis and such compared to today.

I think many folks really needed that metaphor in the early days, and I think most folks (including me) easily fall into the trap of treating LLMs like they are actually "thinking" for similar reasons. (And to be fair, I feel like that's how they've been marketed at a non-technical level.)

This might be the new high bar for scary action by this admin.

So is he arguing for additional tariffs on those countries (which wouldn't surprise me since he's a Trump supporting shitstain) Or is he arguing for not doing the tariffs?

Although that is great news, I hope we're all taking notes about how far Republicans are willing to let their elected officials go before them being pieces of shit finally matters more than owning the libs. Quite fucking far, like destruction of the nation far. (Trump still polling at 92% approval with Republicans)

If we have free and fair elections again, let's all please remember this. I plan to reach the end of natural life expectancy without ever pulling a lever for R, not even for the tiniest of local positions. They showed us what they do when they get power in 2017, then had four years to plan, and now are really showing us where their values are. Turns out their values are exactly as shitty as we expected.

R is the party of destruction, intentional harm, and bigotry. It's all they do.

I don't think they are stalking me - it usually looks like they just go down the thread and everyone who is +1'ing that day's ranting or mockery of Trump/Musk gets a downvote.

No, I meant anointed by the God-Emporer.

"I have a clear mandate." 🤮

Shocking that the Republicans started liking him when he became more and more fascist and racist. They tell you all day long how we falsely accuse them of bigotry and racism, but they support it every last time.

Edit: I continue to love the one Lemmy maga who shows up to downvote any comment critical of the admin or Musk, but who never has the courage to disagree openly with anyone. I hope you read this, Sir, or Madam, so you can know the joy I take in finding evidence of your passing through a thread, even on my own comments.

It's like finding sasquatch poop in the wild.

His approval rating is low? Might matter for anyone who needed to be elected. Doesn't matter for the anointed.