I Bid You Stand, Men of the West

"A single thread in a tapestry, though its color brightly shine, will never see its purpose in the pattern of the Grand Design"

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

[utah-mountain-drifter-deactivat]

At face value, this is a ridiculous headline. But the article then says his managers berated and insulted him for leaving the party after an anxiety attack, and the company then fired him for taking days off work for “unsafe work practices,” due to having anxiety?

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

Seems like pretty often headlines that paint a lawsuit as frivolous and ridiculous seem a little more rational after some digging

[clockworkrobotic]

There’s so much more to it as well. He repeatedly asked the company not to throw a party for him due to his anxiety (apparently this is standard practise for their office and he knew it would be triggering for him) and they “forgot” about his request. On the day in question, he predictably had a panic attack and went to his car to do breathing exercises.

The next day he was called into a meeting where he was insulted and grilled about “ruining the party” and “stealing his co-workers’ joy”, which caused him to have another panic attack and start doing coping behaviours like hugging himself, at which point his employers decided he must be angry and was going to turn violent. They then suspended him for days and later told him he’d been fired.

So yeah, it’s not over an “unwanted birthday party”, it’s over employers repeatedly failing to accommodate someone’s disability, trying to frame them as the villain for having accessibility needs, and firing them for not conforming to some stupid office politics.

Source with the court documents

[puttingherinhistory]

I am completely pro-lawsuit. Lawsuits are often the only tool that otherwise powerless individuals have to demand some accountability from large corporations and institutions, and historically lawsuits have been a very important tool for civil rights, women’s rights, LGBT+ rights, and disability rights. But this is exactly why the media is always depicting lawsuits as something frivolous and silly that only uptight spoiled crybabies who want easy money do, and people just eat up that propaganda without doing any research or critical thinking.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA AND THAT SENSATIONALIZED JOURNALISM FALLS UNDER THAT

[stellanslashgeode]

Never forget that McDonald’s coffee gave that lady 3rd degree burns and she just wanted money to cover her medical bills.

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

as much as I want to tell this sad sack to get over himself and eat the damn birthday cake, I am also pro-lawsuit because sad sacks like this generate lots of business for my guild.

[dertaglichedan]

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

Who names their kid SPARKLE?

[sugar-petals]

hot take in a roundabout way i think that's also why so many of us opt out of becoming parents ourselves

[advanced-passenger-train]

Does anybody know how to fix it

[rosslynpaladin]

Start disappointing people and not backing out of it when they are upset, reject feeling ashamed of everything including of yourself, start saying No to things you do not want to do not just things you're scared of, do more of those things you're scared of but wish you could do, make your own plans and execute them, decide to do or not do something without basing it on who will Dislike it.

Free Will takes practice, and the chance of making someone somewhere Slightly or even Very Disappointed In You. But you're an adult and you can't be made to stand in a corner anymore.

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

I have complex thoughts on this topic

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[sawbuckplus]

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Why did some random beauty influencer get a press pass?

also, they talk about "heroic violence", and say "well, the second amendment is about protecting democracy!"

Murdering a private citizen is a democracy issue?

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

I wonder what they'll say when they suddenly find themselves put "on the list"

[1991series]

[crowisgone-deactivated20230422]

Imagine going to a party and the white suburban stay at home mom with two overachiever kids and white dad who barbeques but doesn’t know how to barbeque and yet is always surrounded by other white Dads who compliment his barbqeuing even though they’re just store bought preshaped frozen patties from Ralph’s or Food 4 Less and while he’s cooking those the white mom comes out and says “okay kids, here’s some pizza!” And she pulls this out and starts telling the kids why its a “fun pizza” and then cries in her master bedroom when no one likes it or finishes it and the white dad is then consoling her why she sobs that she’s a terrible mother and ruined her fourth grade straight B+ sons birthday and thinks her kids hate her but they don’t care but she continues crying softly into her pillow while the children eat poorly cooked burgers with unmelted kraft singles and too much mayonnaise and the only other condiments are two pickles and pepper because the dad calls it his special burger with a secret spice but the spice was just pepper and the kids just keep playing E rated games on their Nintendo Wii while the 17 year old older sister starts cleaning the tragedy up and throwing away uneaten “fun pizza” and whole burgers dejected from the start while she dials Pizza Hut to get these kids an actual birthday lunch and the mother then throws a fit because the daughter did something the kids liked and she didn’t and was the only one making a huge deal out of it and the daughter was then grounded from her TV in her room for only two days and the son went to blow out the candles in his standard birthday cake from food 4 less the mom added strawberries to so she could feel she did something but was still slightly teary and sad because her day was ruined by no one wanting to eat her “fun pizza”

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

real talk though. On a hot summer day, and that "fun pizza" taken fresh out the fridge? I'd absolutely house that poolside. Looks delicious and refreshing.

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

[fivepoint-12]

If you have a colleague here on a visa who clearly cannot do their job, report them anonymously.

They are here on the promise that employers could not find qualified Americans. Part of that qualification is the ability to communicate effectively and perform the work at the required level. Your company's bottom line might be in jeopardy if you don't.

You can report this safely and anonymously.

- USCIS Tip Form: uscis.gov/report-fraud/u…

- Department of Labor (Foreign Labor Certification issues): dol.gov/agencies/eta/f…

- DOL Wage and Hour Division: 1-866-4-USWAGE (1-866-487-9243)

This is not about nationality. It is about competence. If someone cannot do the job they were sponsored for, they should not be in that role.

[shadow27]

[witchofprose-deactivated2020041]

This is the FUNNIEST SHIT I HAVE EVER SEEN

[untitled12573]

Reblogging for cultural enrichment

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

bout time I brought back the Laurel and Hardy flex tape-

[knitmeapony]

From The Killers, 1946. A Film Noir Classic

[theprofessional-amateur]

I’m an archivist, behold my growing collection was of old photos mirroring timeless memes I’ve come across at various places I’ve worked.

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

people is the same

[nonevahed]

[bambamramfan]

Look. I am very supportive of the goals of the prison abolition movement, and am not worried about what a post-prison society will look like.

But "let's name our project a very deceptive name that sounds extreme and simple, and then condescend to people when they ask what is up with that" is the very definition of a political own goal.

Like no, there is no praxis that benefits from "refuse to explain what your movement is about and patronize people who even ask." It's just emotional self-indulgence and in-group politics.

[generallemarc]

Idk, I'd be pretty worried about a society where rapists and murderers had free, unfettered access to new victims because said society prioritized their right to be able to kill and rape more innocents over the safety of the rest of said society from being killed or raped.

[bambamramfan]

Almost every study ever done on the subject shows that potential-criminals are not stopped by harsher penalties, but by higher chance of getting caught.

You do not want more prisons, what you want is more cops.

[generallemarc]

No, I want prisons to keep proven rapists and murderers away from society. You stop someone from committing a crime by making it impossible, and when someone has proven they are so utterly evil as to kill or rape someone that translates to either life in prison or the death penalty, the latter of which is inherently tyrannical and thus leaves lwop as the only option. Punitive justice isn't entirely without merit but you're right in that it's not the magic fix-all for crime, but this isn't punitive justice in the sense of penalties deterring crime, it's preventative justice in the sense of criminals who've been proven to have done these abominable things being directly prevented from doing so again.

[bambamramfan]

Murderers who go to prison murder people there. Guards who staff them murder people. And societies that don't care about criminal's lives convict a lot of innocent people.

You don't want the murder and rape to stop. You want it over there, away from you.

[generallemarc]

So your logic to why we shouldn't protect society from murderers is that they're literally unstoppable and that all prison guards are also murderers, which is also a problem that can't be solved?

Amazing. Truly incredible. Anyways, instead of massively inflating the problem and then declaring it impossible, I'd much rather reform prisons to have better oversight and guard training rather so that murderers can't reoffend inside rather than toss them all back among helpless randos and hope that the "literally everyone can be re-socialized" idea is 100% accurate and workable. But lemme guess, my idea's bad and stinky because it doesn't involve tearing something down that offends you.

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

Yes. I indeed want murderers and rapists "over there" and "away from me". Thanks for asking.

[oldinfidel]

[theseinterestingtimes]

Citizen Vigilante Should Terrify Western Governments

Film critics hate it, but it is resonating with the general public.

[simply-ivanka]

And Coming Soon

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[1americanconservative]

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

Also having gay orgies in the desert with Large Penisey Men

[1americanconservative]

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

The Last, Best Hope

[foreskinnier]

"usamerican" has to be one of the most stupid names you guys keep trying to make happen. "But there's other people in the americas" I promise you the average Peruvian or Canadian is not calling themselves American. Like I promise you that. There's only one country on earth with the word "america" in its official name

[uncle-beanbag-mojave]

[amagi2000]

[unindoctrinated125]

Very wise man