I went to a bookshop and I got dizzy at the amount of books on stuff like “astrological feminism” “reclaiming womanhood through numerology” and all that shit…… One was called “cosmic fanny” or for my french speakers out there, “foufoune cosmique”. I think the fight against patriarchy is going really well
“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?”
the only thing im looking forward to in the bob dylan timothee chalamet biopic is that its supposedly being produced by bob dylan himself (implying that it will be the most historically inaccurate biopic of all time and full of misinformation)
I really think you’re a shitty person if you’re pro biden at this point
not pro Biden but this is pretty much straight-up misinformation? this makes it seem like this is a setback for unions, when the opposite is true: unions are largely in favor of this action!
Note that nothing here actually tells you what Biden actually did. What he did was create a board of neutral arbitrators to resolve the dispute and reach an agreement (without striking) within 30 days. Further, if nothing works within 30 days after that, then, as far as I can tell, workers can strike again. This is a delay to allow the chance to resolve the dispute via arbitration, not a quashing of strike power. And the resolution proposed by the arbitrators is entirely voluntary, and can be rejected.
Moreover, it’s not something Biden “just did” with executive power. The provision to create this board is already outlined under the Railway Labor Act. He didn’t say “fuck it” and whip up an all-powerful executive order, because, oh, now he wanted to, as the original tweet seems to imply—everyone expected the executive branch to do this at this point, because him doing this is already part of the law (and has already been done in the past).
In any case, the chance for workers to get the contract they deserve and to get their arguments heard without striking is good, because the immediate effects of a strike in this industry would be terrible for everyone. If the corporations still won’t give them the contracts they deserve, then yes, strike = good. But any other way to get those same contracts is better.
We commend President Biden for announcing a board of neutral arbitrators to investigate and report its findings and recommendations to help both parties work toward a resolution.
After nearly three years of bad faith negotiations by the railroads, it is sad but not surprising that we arrived at this point in the bargaining process governed by the Railway Labor Act.
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Quite simply, the facts are on our side and we look forward to the forthcoming recommendations of the presidentially-appointed arbitrators.
(That link and quote contains some more context about how what they really want is a fair contract, and the companies essentially just haven’t been listening.)
Like, this is very much a “workers getting their day in court” deal, except instead of court it’s a panel of arbitrators appointed by a pro-union president, and if they don’t get the result they want, they don’t have to accept it.
I will trust a thousand out-of-touch left-leaning southerners who don’t know every piece of correct terminology before I trust one weird “feminist/LGBTQ+ ally” dude who couches his bigotry in pseudo-progressive language
60-year-old former hippie I met in Arkansas: I don’t really know much about the whole deal, but I get it. I mean, you like ladies, and I like ladies, and some people like dudes. People should just leave fags and dykes alone, it’s common sense.
Me: Hell yeah brother
Closet-reactionary liberal college student I met last year: Of course I love and respect the queer and trans community! However, one can argue that the early gay community’s… casual attitude toward sex was a disastrous political and social mist–
Wait, I just remembered, Richard Nixon was the guy who signed the fucking legislation requiring childproof safety lids on medication. He literally did this to himself
There has never been a president so committed to owning himself as Tricky Dick
