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Summary

Trump evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her military housing with just three hours' notice, despite an earlier 60-day waiver.

Fagan, the first woman to lead a military branch, was dismissed on Trump's second day in office over concerns about DEI policies and border security.

Homeland Security officials cited her termination as justification, though sources called it a "petty" move.

Fagan was forced to leave most belongings behind, spending the night with friends while awaiting relocation of her personal items.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 minutes ago

Getting fired because you're a woman, with reasoning that seems to boil down to "we don't think a woman can do this job," sounds like a pretty good case for a wrongful, discriminatory firing suit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 hours ago

over concerns

No.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Is he literally saying "Girls can't do that job, that's a job for a man"?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 hour ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The left needs to learn how to "Speak softly and carry a big stick."

Speaking softly alone gets you fucking nowhere. This is why the far right gains so much ground. They know the DNC and the apparatus of the left is toothless. All they do is browbeat.

Get.some.fucking.teeth.

If the DNC cannot bite back, it needs to die or else ethnic cleansing and genocide is inevitable in this country.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 hours ago

almost there

[–] [email protected] 75 points 9 hours ago

They’re bullies. They get off on acting like this.

[–] [email protected] 131 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

I guess her crime was to try to employ more people who weren't cishet white men. Unforgivable to the fascists in charge. And anyway, they just get off on cruelty because it distracts them from the emptiness inside.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 52 minutes ago

They are the grey shirts. Because they are so fucking empty.

https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat?ref=thenerdreich.com

The call themselves that, let’s adopt it

[–] [email protected] 89 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Given their recent demand that NASA remove information about "women in leadership", it paints a pretty clear picture of why she was fired. Nothing to do with capability, competence, or any issues with her command.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

Margaret fucking Hamilton, got us to the moon.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

For those not in the know:

Here, Margaret is shown standing beside listings of the software developed by her and the team she was in charge of, the LM [lunar module] and CM [command module] on-board flight software team.

https://science.nasa.gov/people/margaret-hamilton/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 52 minutes ago

For those confused and thinking that the Wicked Witch of the West was somehow aging backwards after faking her death and escaping from Oz:

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Her crime was being a woman to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Have you seen the list of flagged words for federal grants? It includes "female" and "woman", but not "man" or "male".

https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou/113943275616933776

[–] anomnom 4 points 2 hours ago

They papered over all the female and black peoples at the NSA Museum too. A bunch of former NSA has to go complain for them to uncover it. They claim it was to “act fast” to keep from being defunded.

Elon would have been arrested in any other circumstance for this behavior. We’re fucked.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Class fucking act. Man I get the problems folks had with Obama but class, dignity, just fucking cool. I yearn for those times.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Do higher ups like her get better movers than enlisted? Because I have heard horror stories about the state of objects after military moving companies get ahold of them.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 hours ago

Nah they will probably do it worse on purpose. It's a real shit show

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

That first move was fucking rough. I was so relieved until I walked into my living room full of dented cardboard boxes. Never again. I opened up a dented box of dishes I had packed meticulously and wrapped in bubble wrap. Ate off of chipped plates for a couple weeks before I had time to replace them....I couldn't fucking imagine using them when I had actually valuable shit.

I got a buncha other grunts to help me move the next time. The fucking butter bar that was watching us move my shit into the new place was all "Why didn't you just use United? Command pays for them. Waste of money. You grunts never learn." I politely asked him if he'd had them move him in. "Well uh no. We're paid better than to need that." Lol

Come to find out the crews that work the government jobs get the worst pay and are often stiffed on tips because command never tell the enlisted to fucking tip. So yeah, they'll happily fuck up your shit to get the job over ASAP and move on to a better paying civvie job. And to be honest I can't really blame em. Especially now with Elon saying the Government isn't gonna pay contractors anymore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

I wouldn't take a butter bar's advice, neither. Not unless a sergeant had just them what to say.

[–] deranger 16 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

You’re not supposed to tip military movers, it’s in the instructions you’re provided.

My wife and I just recently moved using military movers and all our stuff is fine. She’s a captain (the O3 kind).

Both teams of people were professionals and we didn’t lose anything to theft or damage. Maybe we just got lucky, idk. My experience as lower enlisted having government movers pack up my shit in Italy to move back to the states was similar back in 2014 though. Never had an issue.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

My move was in the States. And yeah, the not tipping part is how most of us get fucked. Happy you had a good experience. I have nothing against movers for the record. It's a tough fucking job.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not a veteran, but I couldn't possibly imagine not tipping movers.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

What? Tipping movers is a thing‽ I’ve only ever moved myself, but I always assumed that you hire movers specifically to move you. Isn’t that the point? Why would you have to pay them more than they bill you? That feels like tipping your plumber for fixing your drain. Do people do that too?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, if it's a difficult move. Multiple pieces of furniture, up several stairs, etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Yes, people definitely tip plumbers. Are you in the US?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

People tip plumbers? The fuck do you mean? It's a skilled trade, you're already paying for that shit like twice over when they invoice you... Or do you use some bizarre corporate plumber who pays their workers minimum wage or some shit??

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Oddly hostile reply, but ok. It's not required at all, but yes I have tipped plumbers and so have people I've known. I have had a plumber come out to take a look and tell me in like 5 minutes what was needed. He didn't charge me anything, even though I agreed to a nominal site visit charge, because the quote was astronomical and I wasn't going to go through with the project and he was only there a few minutes. I definitely tipped him and have used him twice since. He's very nice and knowledgeable and tbh it feels like he way undercharges for his work. Maybe it's just my personal experience. Not everyone should or has to or anything.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Hostile? Because I cursed? Huh.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not personally offended or anything, but it was the overall tone of the comment. Yea, the cursing was unnecessary, but then the accusation of using a corpo place that's taking advantage of the workers, and the multiple question marks does kinda contribute to an overall overly incredulous tone to the point of hostility towards the person you're responding to. Comes across as flippant and mocking (to me). Again, I don't really care, just thought I'd mention because sometimes people don't know how their text is perceived.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

Just for an external point of view, to me it read as shocked rather than hostile

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I apologize if you took it like that, but the multiple question marks, and overall tone, have more to do with my own frustrations. Don't take it personal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

No worries. I didn't take it like anything. I generally try to just respond to the content of a comment and ignore the tone, since you really can't tell. Like I said, mostly mentioning in case it benefits you in the future. Also, fyi, Google seems to agree with you that tipping plumbers is not expected. My understanding is unless it's a sit down restaurant, tipping should never be expected, but I'm happy to tip most people doing manual labor if they do it well or go above and beyond. I'm happy with my plumber and will probably continue to tip, but you're fine not to tip. More to the main point, google seems to think tipping movers is much more common. The internet consensus has spoken lol.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I am.

But the plumber already charges for the service call + hourly rate + parts + after-hours/holiday emergency surcharge… what is the tip for? Was I supposed to have been tipping my mechanic too all these years?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah no, that's absurd. People don't tip plumbers... Right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I have this sinking feeling that Anakin is standing behind us with a smug ass look in his eyes…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

The only thing I can imagine is like some corporate plumbing company that pays their workers hourly? Otherwise, they invoice you and they take most (if not all) of that money.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

Tipping culture in the US is out of hand, but in my experience most home service people are tipped. The main exception being people there for multiday renovations/work or people not doing manual labor.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 hours ago

There are some other countries that would gladly put her up in exchange for information