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on: Today at 06:27:00 PM
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Started by I spent the winter writing songs about getting better - Last post by Fuzzy Bear
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The statements were not made while he was an employee. That, to me, is highly relevant. His position was not a political position, it was not public employment, and it was not a position like, say, law enforcement, where the very appearance of bias is something that can jeopardize one's credibility.
If we want to "go there", how long should it be before this year's Ivy League grads get their first professional job once people find out they were part of the "From the River to the Sea . . ." crowd? Would it be right to assume the worst of these students and simply not hire them for their issues positions, even in positions that were not political or ideological?
In a job like being the manager of First Avenue, the manager's politics should have nothing to do with it; only his conduct as an employee should matter.
It dawns on me here that lots of people who are all in on this would be bent out of shape if a person of color were fired from a job after an old criminal arrest were discovered, even if it were a misdemeanor or a drug felony that was old and the person passed pre-employment drug screening. Most people here would be upset; they would be going on and on about systemic racism and not wanting to give someone who's changed a chance because of their past. And I generally agree with that, but you have a Forum full of people that would likely be upset if a person were fired from First Avenue for prior felony, but who are fine with firing this person who has committed no crime at all.
Republicans are the ones who want at-will hiring and firing to be legal and Republicans are the ones who have voted for it. Democrats generally aren't in favour of that. So we can sit here and talk about who thinks this is fair and who thinks that is unfair, but the only reason this situation even happened at all is because Republicans enacted their poltiical power to make sure that there were not laws to prevent things like this from happening. "Being lawfully fired for supporting Trump" doesn't exist in a world where Democrats write the laws.
Is it fair? I didn't ask if it was legal. I asked if it is fair, and, if so, why is it fair? |
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on: Today at 06:26:00 PM
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Started by Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden - Last post by Republican Party Stalwart
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Voted Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina.
Those states, to me, have throughout time been the most consistently and staunchly "Southern" in every sense of the word.
Your listing those states in alphabetical order was not lost on me. Kudos. Anyway, while it makes for very bad policy in practice to use partisan politics as the primary method of gauging whether or not any certain parts of the US are culturally "Southern," I nonetheless don't think it should go unnoticed that those six states are indeed the same southern states which voted for Al Smith over Herbert Hoover in the Presidential Election of 1928. |
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on: Today at 06:23:26 PM
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Started by Woody - Last post by Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers
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Laki thinks his R nut maps is gonna come true lol Rs haven't won since 2016
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on: Today at 06:21:13 PM
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Started by Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden - Last post by Republican Party Stalwart
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"Culturally Southern" being defined as any state which has retained its Southern character. This automatically excludes Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri. Florida, the Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia, Texas, and even Tennessee as they have enough transplants and/or cultural influence from other states or countries that they probably aren't "fully Southern" today for the purposes of this poll. Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and probably Oklahoma, Louisiana, and West Virginia make the cut. I'm waffling on Kentucky, but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to rank Kentucky as culturally Southern but not Tennessee. Of course, you could argue that Kentucky has enough influence from the Cinci metro area to not be.
Giving us this strange map:
By no reasonable account is West Virginia possiblly any more "culturally southern" than Kentucky. The entire Northern Third of West Virginia is unambiguously no more culturally Southern than those parts of Kentucky's northern fringe - Cincinnati and Evansville IN metro areas - which are least "culturally Southern" relative to the rest of Kentucky; Northern WV has as in much with Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania, and Appalachian Ohio, as Boone, Kenton, and Campbell counties in KY do with Cincy or Henderson KY does with Evansville. The far northern Panhandle of WV is if anything less culturally Southern than every part of Kentucky. The Northern Third of WV sin the northern Panhandle is at most as culturally Southern as Louisville, KY. |
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on: Today at 06:16:46 PM
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Started by Woody - Last post by Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers
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We don't need GA or NC all we need is NV and or AZ to clinch
which is why every red avatar is panicking when someone suggests to move GA into lean R or suggests that Biden cannot really win GA anymore.
Besides you don't look as great in AZ and esp. NV either.
Lol Biden can win GA these are polls not votes |
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on: Today at 06:14:14 PM
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Started by Hnv1 - Last post by Meclazine for Israel
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Josh Breslow from FOX sounds exactly like Mikey Day from SNL. Fox News 70 Strikes on Gaza Yesterdayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJqir-Kdm28Discussion of the 130 hostages. American and Israeli families must have given up hope now that their loved ones are still alive. Israeli's are not dealing with a normal situation. The reminder of the massacre of 1,200 people on October 7 through the discussion of hostages keeps this war in the "white hot" stage. Are there really only 4,000 remaining Hamas militants left in Rafah? |
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