Mind you the US already has globally record setting levels of retribution in the form of imprisonment, death penalties, broken justice system etc.
Perhaps it's worth looking at other G20 countries with lower crime rates, less economic disparity, police that carry minimal weaponry, etc. and ask how is they appear to be doing better.
If that were true, we could simply wait for them to all die out and be done with the problem for good. And since that won’t work, this claim can be dismissed.
True, it's sad to see activists needs to be on duty 24/7/365 and yet it's useless if they can't get normal people to follow them and spam the inbox of every single EU employee just to delay more whatever chains they're trying to pass.
Spamming EU employees (the correct term to use) is useless not because it requires 24/7 attention but because there is no reason for any EU employee to care. The EU is constitutionally designed to eliminate democratic mechanisms. And as we saw with Brexit, citizens are kept in line by massive threats of punishment if they leave (although in the case of the UK the EU chickened out and showed itself to be a paper tiger).
> “The unapologetic and robotic style of communication makes it clear that they don’t care that many of us have high rents and mortgages to pay, children to feed and plans that depend on having an income,” the staff member added.
Don’t know what this bloke things a job is… They are your employer, not your parents
Frankly, many people do work at places where people are trying to look out for each other as humans and for a long, long time that was in fact the norm -- especially in white collar work.
Faceless, sterile companies with no investment in their employee's humanity were the domain of grim jobs in industrial manufacturing, resource extraction, and some agriculture.
It's true, but also troubling, that this dehumanizing view of labor has now also taken root in most of the largest white collar companies and among many of the smaller companies that compulsively emulate them, but we really don't help anybody by normalizing that without criticism because it's a very bad thing for society.
Basically: you're not wrong for what that kind of job is like today, and that's exactly what they're bringing attention to with that statement.
Because when it benefits the company (in terms of encouraging you to work more), companies are the first ones to claim that “we are a family” and bullshit like that.
No need to invoke such things. If jobs are this fragile and scarce in a society, it means that society has failed and whatever it is doing is not working. If the social contract is broken, the employees have no obligation to heed any social contract or concepts like the above.
It's Ireland. Europe generally has higher expectations of the behavior of companies. The 'unapologetic and robotic' style of communication is very American. It literally costs nothing to be a bit kinder. They spend a fortune building their image as a great place to work then nuke it when the going gets tough.
Not that anyone should believe all that 'we're a family' garbage anyway, for any company.
I have read all comments (there are not that many as of now) and I have not seen a single one defending the Russian government.
There are many comments comparing this censorship to the censorship that other countries are famous for having applied for a long time, and therefore it seems to me that those comments are decrying all kinds of censorship. This is only an issue for those who think censorship is good when it is applied to things they don’t like.
I think he is mentioning my comment and another one mainly, I personally decry all kinds of censorship, not only the Russian one.
Its just one just cannot be taken seriously when defending "hate speech laws" is ok when they protect things I agree with (lgbt rights), but then decry the same thing done with things I dont agree with (lgbt rghts).
The main counterargument is the kind of claiming hate speech defend "human rights" as some kind of universal moral good and "protecting vulnerable groups" but these laws dont seem to do any of those, they cynically cloak themselve in such purposes but eventually are used for nefarious purposes and to increase state overreach (see the infamous PATRIOT act).
What is “left libertarianism” supposed to look like? I find this concept baffling. The end result of libertarianism is nothing like what the left is supposed to support.
