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the sheer amount of my taxpayer dollars that will go into lawsuit settlements over the next 20 years is infuriating
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.
4/9 of the supreme court are women. When are they going to go?
At least 1 black guy to my knowledge too
You guys need to remember the real constitution that our oligarchy follows "Rules for thee, not for me"
The moment they have their "hol' up" moment of clarity about how a ruling will affect them personally
Serving a violent, racist, patriarchical empire isn't all that it's cracked up to be.
ITT, and every thread about Trump, : 'Fight guys! I'll sit here with my tendies and watch how it goes. "They've picked the wrong fight!" and all that, carry on!'
When you're asking yourselves how the Germans let Nazis happen, remember: if you haven't shot a fascist yet, you're one of the Germans that let Nazis happen. Stop calling for other people to fight, you fucking cowards. Go fight for yourselves.
Edit: for what it's worth, I'm American and will not be flying across the country to throw my life away.
So you're literally describing yourself?
We can protest. Armed even. But check out these subs, its actually kinda been refreshing https://reddit.com/r/optimistsunite and r/liberalgunowners
Meh
over concerns
No.
Is he literally saying "Girls can't do that job, that's a job for a man"?
No no no it's clearly DEI
Yes
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.
The little person, too, needs to learn to just say no. Make them push it farther. Fight back and get pyrrhic victories.
I'm guessing this was on a military base, so the usual eviction shit doesn't apply, but remember that in civilian life, until law enforcement shows up with a court order in hand, anyone removing you from your house is breaking criminal law.
maybe whack them good with the stick before speaking softly.
almost there
They’re bullies. They get off on acting like this.
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.
They are the grey shirts. Because they are so fucking empty.
They call themselves that, let’s adopt it
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.
Margaret fucking Hamilton, got us to the moon.
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.
For those confused and thinking that the Wicked Witch of the West was somehow aging backwards after faking her death and escaping from Oz:
Her crime was being a woman to begin with.
Have you seen the list of flagged words for federal grants? It includes "female" and "woman", but not "man" or "male".
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.
Class fucking act. Man I get the problems folks had with Obama but class, dignity, just fucking cool. I yearn for those times.
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.
Nah they will probably do it worse on purpose. It's a real shit show
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.
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.