Category: Current Events

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This is What We're Dealing With in This Country

And WHY it is so important that Biden did what he did yesterday (even though it won't affect this particular company because it is apparently so small).

From fuck-customers:

Manager – "With the way things are going it looks like we'll have to have another shut down in the fall."

Our senior supervisor- "No … we can't. If we shut down I'll lose my house! It's selfish that you would do that."

Manager- "Well … 3 staff members have tested positive with covid. We either plan a shut down or we lose our entire staff."

Senior Supervisor- "We haven't caught covid, that means we can still work!"

Manager- "So you want us to work until we catch covid? Are you realizing that would endanger their lives? We're down to a staff of 10 people. 3 of them are over the age of 65, 3 of them are asthmatics and 2 are prone to sickness. You're our senior supervisor, show some respect and compassion for your team."

Senior Supervisor- "FUCK THE TEAM! Im concerned about not losing my house!"

So the manager put her on leave. He said she needed to cool down and they would assess her position when she got back. I understand being scared of losing your home, but maybe don't say "fuck the team" in front of the man that hired you to help and support the team. Also, when we shut down we still get paid by our workplace. During the first shut down they payed us through most of it. We only had to do 1 month of unemployment. Being a little worried financially is worlds better than watching your coworkers die.

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Cut Texas Off

Businesses need to pull out of Texas. Entertainers need to cancel concerts and tours. A clear message needs to be sent to those elected officials that their ban on abortion is not acceptable. Hit those asshole legislators where it hurts—in their wallets.

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Quote of the Day

All empires die. The end is usually unpleasant. The American empire, humiliated in Afghanistan, as it was in Syria, Iraq, and Libya, as it was at the Bay of Pigs and in Vietnam, is blind to its own declining strength, ineptitude, and savagery. Its entire economy, a "military Keynesianism," revolves around the war industry. Military spending and war are the engine behind the nation's economic survival and identity. It does not matter that with each new debacle the United States turns larger and larger parts of the globe against it and all it claims to represent. It has no mechanism to stop itself, despite its numerous defeats, fiascos, blunders and diminishing power, from striking out irrationally like a wounded animal. The mandarins who oversee our collective suicide, despite repeated failure, doggedly insist we can reshape the world in our own image. This myopia creates the very conditions that accelerate the empire's demise." ~ Chris Hedges (via azspot)

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People Want To Get Back Out Into This?!

We had to go to the mall yesterday. I say had to because a friend of ours wanted to buy a new iPad and Ben offered to purchase it for her with his education discount.

It was an absolute zoo. As I've gotten older my discomfort in large crowds has been increasing, and I welcomed last year's lockdown with open arms. I would say that fully 75% of the people we encountered yesterday were unmasked. Forget about any kind of social distancing. The Apple Store, thankfully, required masks (and provided them to patrons who did not bring their own), but social distancing was still a joke.

At this point I have no faith whatsoever the human race is going to dig itself out of this pandemic, although I do applaud those entities that are requiring proof of vaccination or masks to be allowed to participate in whatever function they're hosting.