How I'd this not a free speech violation?
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2025
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This is their professional speech, not their personal speech. Your employer has the absolute right to fire you if you use swear words in communique with your work email. That's not a violation, just like this isn't.
The federal government simply considers this unprofessional, and since they're applying the rule equally there's also no basis for a discrimination or wrongful termination suit.
What free speech rights does a government employee have in their official correspondence?
This is a civil rights violation, not a free speech violation.
Amazingly fragile.
Tackling the big issues. This will certainly decrease the price of eggs (that have gone from $3.18/dozen to $7.79/dozen in the last 3 weeks), and ground beef (up from $3.63/lbs to $4.83/pound this month).
The USA has high egg prices because they have built a system that is not only extremely vulnerable to diseases, but is also extremely effective at generating new ones. They build ranches of horrifying cruelty with millions of individuals. (The average ranch size in Canada is about 30k.) When one gets sick, the whole million plus flock of individuals are slaughtered. Meanwhile, the USA is a huge global viral reservoir and multiplying reactor, putting not only other agricultural populations at risk, but the entire fucking human race when this inevitably jumps to humans. So hard to be sympathetic that this is costing your daily needless cruelty a few cents more.
I get my eggs from a friend who has rescue chickens as pets.
Right, just like everyone I speak to on the Internet. Your friend is BUSY! And you never consume food while you are away from home from whatever crappy fast food joint you happen to be close to. You never consume anything with eggs while you are out visiting. Because you care so much about animals, that you only abuse, enslave and murder the ones that live on your friend's ranch.
Riddle me this, Batman. If you only buy eggs from this one magical ranch free of the concerns of factory farming because they only have rescue hens (that they then force back into commercial egg laying, some rescue!!), then why have your eggs gotten more expensive? They should have ALREADY BEEN EXPENSIVE, and then been unaffected by the events in the wider industry.
The lies we tell ourselves are not convincing to others. What was the point of that lie? Are you that worried how a vegan sees you on the internet that you have to steal valor?
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Well u can't really blame trump for the eggs that is an issue of h5n1 and speculation on the egg market.
As much is trump is fucking shit the eggs are an outlier
Then maybe he should focus on bird flu instead of my pronouns.
so stupid. that always helps a lot. at my company we've discussed 15 minutes with 10 people, how to address the person from another company, who's gender we don't know and who's name can be male and female, without hurting their feelings. i ended up writing an email asking about their pronouns. this wastes so much time and in the case of the white house, even taxpayer money. people can become super insecure if they don't know. we also have a guy at the office who frequently gets misgendered because of his unusual first name. he always get's super angry about it, but he also understands this can happen. why would one make this more complicated.