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Post by Stranded Hatter on Aug 17, 2024 21:56:52 GMT
DOO is dangerous. The people pushing for it know it is, but paying guards costs money and that's all they care about. As a young man I'd have loved driver only trains, it was quite a difficult job avoiding the Hector on long away trips. Guards traditionally don't check tickets, so you'd be fine in those youthful adventures. You get "commercial guards" who do but all they can do is sell you a ticket or turf you off at the next stop if you can't/won't. It's revenue protection who issue fines. A guard's job is to guard the train and its passengers. The role is safety critical and most of the RMT strikes have been around keeping it that way. There really are a lot of dodgy goings on from DFT/TOC negotiators. Deals being agreed in principle only for when it comes to finalise there being conditions attached (such as shutting ticket offices I mentioned previously) or even negotiators simply not showing up to those final critical meetings!
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Post by herbiedumplings on Aug 19, 2024 6:37:12 GMT
Speaking of unions - the state of today’s Mail: “Labour are Funded by the Unions!!! ” (I may be paraphrasing slightly.) I look forward to the pullouts explaining how the Earth goes round the Sun, why you shouldn’t go down stairs in rollerskates, and why banks don’t always like it when you spend money you don’t have.
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Post by Mozzer on Aug 19, 2024 6:49:08 GMT
People who stand up for workers = bad. People who screw workers over for financial gain and power = good. Make sure you support the latter.
Yes, Mr Rich Man with Power, we will. You definitely know what's best for us.
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Post by Count de Stockport on Aug 19, 2024 7:28:21 GMT
People who stand up for workers = bad. People who screw workers over for financial gain and power = good. Make sure you support the latter. Yes, Mr Rich Man with Power, we will. You definitely know what's best for us. It's supply-side economics, stoopid!
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Post by Fez on Aug 19, 2024 17:02:40 GMT
Trump continues his mission to turn everyone who was on the fence and just might have voted for him, against him. He's losing what's left of his mind. In a conference yesterday he equivalenced the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Medal of Honour. Then, doubling down by stating that it was probably the bigger honour of the two by ramblingly stating that some woman he had presented it to was very attractive, whereas the soldiers who win the MoH are messed up or dead. Captain Bonespurs has never respected and frequently insulted the military. Beats me why so many in the armed forces seem to support him politically. He's called them "suckers" and "losers" (specifically, the thousands of WWI dead interred in France); refused to be seen with wounded personnel because "it doesn't look good for me"; berated the Pentagon when a wounded veteran sang at an event because "nobody wants to see the wounded", and had the same reaction to maimed veterans in a parade; dismissed traumatic brain injuries suffered by soldiers as "headaches"; cut VA funding; insulted a Gold Start family by suggesting that he's made as many sacrifices as them; told a grieving widow that her husband "knew what he was signing up for"; called a strategic panel of generals "a bunch of dopes and babies"; asked "what was in it for them?" at Arlington cemetery; and sneered at Sen. John McCain, a tortured Vietnam War PoW, saying he was "not a war hero" and that "I like people who weren't captured".
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Post by bigmartin on Aug 19, 2024 17:21:22 GMT
Trump continues his mission to turn everyone who was on the fence and just might have voted for him, against him. He's losing what's left of his mind. In a conference yesterday he equivalenced the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Medal of Honour. Then, doubling down by stating that it was probably the bigger honour of the two by ramblingly stating that some woman he had presented it to was very attractive, whereas the soldiers who win the MoH are messed up or dead. Captain Bonespurs has never respected and frequently insulted the military. Beats me why so many in the armed forces seem to support him politically. He's called them "suckers" and "losers" (specifically, the thousands of WWI dead interred in France); refused to be seen with wounded personnel because "it doesn't look good for me"; berated the Pentagon when a wounded veteran sang at an event because "nobody wants to see the wounded", and had the same reaction to maned veterans in a parade; dismissed traumatic brain injuries suffered by soldiers as "headaches"; cut VA funding; insulted a Gold Start family by suggesting that he's made as many sacrifices as them; told a grieving widow that her husband "knew what he was signing up for"; called a strategic panel of generals "a bunch of dopes and babies"; asked "what was in it for them?" at Arlington cemetery; and sneered at Sen. John McCain, a tortured Vietnam War PoW, saying he was "not a war hero" and that "I like people who weren't captured". Jesus. Now that you come to mention it...
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Post by hedleyverity on Aug 19, 2024 17:23:13 GMT
Captain Bonespurs has never respected and frequently insulted the military. Beats me why so many in the armed forces seem to support him politically. He's called them "suckers" and "losers" (specifically, the thousands of WWI dead interred in France); refused to be seen with wounded personnel because "it doesn't look good for me"; berated the Pentagon when a wounded veteran sang at an event because "nobody wants to see the wounded", and had the same reaction to maned veterans in a parade; dismissed traumatic brain injuries suffered by soldiers as "headaches"; cut VA funding; insulted a Gold Start family by suggesting that he's made as many sacrifices as them; told a grieving widow that her husband "knew what he was signing up for"; called a strategic panel of generals "a bunch of dopes and babies"; asked "what was in it for them?" at Arlington cemetery; and sneered at Sen. John McCain, a tortured Vietnam War PoW, saying he was "not a war hero" and that "I like people who weren't captured". Jesus. Now that you come to mention it... Similar to why anyone who is Christian would vote for him, inescapable conclusion just seems to be that an awful lot of people are very, very, stupid
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Post by bigmartin on Aug 19, 2024 17:35:59 GMT
Jesus. Now that you come to mention it... Similar to why anyone who is Christian would vote for him, inescapable conclusion just seems to be that an awful lot of people are very, very, stupid Not sure about that. Most Christians are utter hypocrites in my experience.
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Post by Fez on Aug 19, 2024 18:11:51 GMT
Jesus. Now that you come to mention it... Similar to why anyone who is Christian would vote for him, inescapable conclusion just seems to be that an awful lot of people are very, very, stupid A lot of them are Christian Nationalists, who play the merest lip service to their supposed faith. It was a neat trick by the Republican party back in the 1970s to court and win over the Evangelical movement, and the unholy (pun intended) alliance has thrived ever since. Aside from the Nationalists, a lot of actually kind but naive people have been fooled by this for the past 50 years. Of course, if they all actually followed the teachings and philosophies of their Christ figure, Yeshua the Nazarene, they would politically lean the other way, as (I'm glad to say) do the several Christian friends that we have made. Have you seen the latest tomfoolery from the MAGAs? The excellent Democratic VP candidate, Tim Walz, has openly talked about the IVF treatment he and his wife went through (a treatment that is under attack from extreme Republicans); so to mock him and others like him, they have been parading around brandishing sperm sample cups, branded with his opponent's face and the pretense of a container full of his Gentleman's Relish. While still sporting crucifixes and whatnot, of course. It's such a gross, weird and cruel cult.
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Post by nelly on Aug 19, 2024 18:24:03 GMT
Similar to why anyone who is Christian would vote for him, inescapable conclusion just seems to be that an awful lot of people are very, very, stupid A lot of them are Christian Nationalists, who play the merest lip service to their supposed faith. It was a neat trick by the Republican party back in the 1970s to court and win over the Evangelical movement, and the unholy (pun intended) alliance has thrived ever since. Aside from the Nationalists, a lot of actually kind but naive people have been fooled by this for the past 50 years. Of course, if they all actually followed the teachings and philosophies of their Christ figure, Yeshua the Nazarene, they would politically lean the other way, as (I'm glad to say) do the several Christian friends that we have made. Have you seen the latest tomfoolery from the MAGAs? The excellent Democratic VP candidate, Tim Walz, has openly talked about the IVF treatment he and his wife went through (a treatment that is under attack from extreme Republicans); so to mock him and others like him, they have been parading around brandishing sperm sample cups, branded with his opponent's face and the pretense of a container full of his Gentleman's Relish. While still sporting crucifixes and whatnot, of course. It's such a gross, weird and cruel cult. Jesus was a Socialist.
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Post by Fez on Aug 19, 2024 19:48:29 GMT
A lot of them are Christian Nationalists, who play the merest lip service to their supposed faith. It was a neat trick by the Republican party back in the 1970s to court and win over the Evangelical movement, and the unholy (pun intended) alliance has thrived ever since. Aside from the Nationalists, a lot of actually kind but naive people have been fooled by this for the past 50 years. Of course, if they all actually followed the teachings and philosophies of their Christ figure, Yeshua the Nazarene, they would politically lean the other way, as (I'm glad to say) do the several Christian friends that we have made. Have you seen the latest tomfoolery from the MAGAs? The excellent Democratic VP candidate, Tim Walz, has openly talked about the IVF treatment he and his wife went through (a treatment that is under attack from extreme Republicans); so to mock him and others like him, they have been parading around brandishing sperm sample cups, branded with his opponent's face and the pretense of a container full of his Gentleman's Relish. While still sporting crucifixes and whatnot, of course. It's such a gross, weird and cruel cult. Jesus was a Socialist. Yup. And quite possibly a Buddhist of sorts... or at least shared Buddhist traits. I've always liked the idea that the Jesus character roamed across south Asia in the unaccounted-for 18 year gap in the New Testament. There's a brilliant novel called "Lamb" by Christopher Moore that plays with this notion (subtitled "the Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal").
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Post by bigmartin on Aug 20, 2024 6:57:00 GMT
Similar to why anyone who is Christian would vote for him, inescapable conclusion just seems to be that an awful lot of people are very, very, stupid A lot of them are Christian Nationalists, who play the merest lip service to their supposed faith. It was a neat trick by the Republican party back in the 1970s to court and win over the Evangelical movement, and the unholy (pun intended) alliance has thrived ever since. Aside from the Nationalists, a lot of actually kind but naive people have been fooled by this for the past 50 years. Of course, if they all actually followed the teachings and philosophies of their Christ figure, Yeshua the Nazarene, they would politically lean the other way, as (I'm glad to say) do the several Christian friends that we have made. Have you seen the latest tomfoolery from the MAGAs? The excellent Democratic VP candidate, Tim Walz, has openly talked about the IVF treatment he and his wife went through (a treatment that is under attack from extreme Republicans); so to mock him and others like him, they have been parading around brandishing sperm sample cups, branded with his opponent's face and the pretense of a container full of his Gentleman's Relish. While still sporting crucifixes and whatnot, of course. It's such a gross, weird and cruel cult. "we're not weird"...
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Post by Count de Stockport on Aug 20, 2024 7:23:01 GMT
Similar to why anyone who is Christian would vote for him, inescapable conclusion just seems to be that an awful lot of people are very, very, stupid A lot of them are Christian Nationalists, who play the merest lip service to their supposed faith. It was a neat trick by the Republican party back in the 1970s to court and win over the Evangelical movement, and the unholy (pun intended) alliance has thrived ever since. Aside from the Nationalists, a lot of actually kind but naive people have been fooled by this for the past 50 years. Of course, if they all actually followed the teachings and philosophies of their Christ figure, Yeshua the Nazarene, they would politically lean the other way, as (I'm glad to say) do the several Christian friends that we have made. Have you seen the latest tomfoolery from the MAGAs? The excellent Democratic VP candidate, Tim Walz, has openly talked about the IVF treatment he and his wife went through (a treatment that is under attack from extreme Republicans); so to mock him and others like him, they have been parading around brandishing sperm sample cups, branded with his opponent's face and the pretense of a container full of his Gentleman's Relish. While still sporting crucifixes and whatnot, of course. It's such a gross, weird and cruel cult. 'Of course, if they all actually followed the teachings and philosophies of their Christ figure, Yeshua the Nazarene, they would politically lean the other way': www.newsweek.com/evangelicals-rejecting-jesus-teachings-liberal-talking-points-pastor-1818706And why the f*ck would the pro-life crowd attack IVF?! Someone please help me make sense of it all!
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Post by herbiedumplings on Aug 20, 2024 7:44:51 GMT
A lot of them are Christian Nationalists, who play the merest lip service to their supposed faith. It was a neat trick by the Republican party back in the 1970s to court and win over the Evangelical movement, and the unholy (pun intended) alliance has thrived ever since. Aside from the Nationalists, a lot of actually kind but naive people have been fooled by this for the past 50 years. Of course, if they all actually followed the teachings and philosophies of their Christ figure, Yeshua the Nazarene, they would politically lean the other way, as (I'm glad to say) do the several Christian friends that we have made. Have you seen the latest tomfoolery from the MAGAs? The excellent Democratic VP candidate, Tim Walz, has openly talked about the IVF treatment he and his wife went through (a treatment that is under attack from extreme Republicans); so to mock him and others like him, they have been parading around brandishing sperm sample cups, branded with his opponent's face and the pretense of a container full of his Gentleman's Relish. While still sporting crucifixes and whatnot, of course. It's such a gross, weird and cruel cult. 'Of course, if they all actually followed the teachings and philosophies of their Christ figure, Yeshua the Nazarene, they would politically lean the other way': www.newsweek.com/evangelicals-rejecting-jesus-teachings-liberal-talking-points-pastor-1818706And why the f*ck would the pro-life crowd attack IVF?! Someone please help me make sense of it all! On the last point, it’s because not all embryos that are created are implanted. So if you take a fundamentalist view, the process involves the destruction of life. Of course, the KKK could also be described as ‘Christian nationalists’, and they were only bothered about preserving the life of ‘the right kind’ of people. Trump courting the Christian nationalist vote makes the ‘Blacks for Trump’ and ‘Latinos for Trump’ movements seem very weird indeed. [edit:] Add his recent court cases involving rape and covering up extramarital affairs, and you can include the ‘Women for Trump’ movement in the very weird indeed list too…
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Post by mattyovrio on Aug 20, 2024 21:44:00 GMT
Not sure where else to put this, but as politics is about the mediation of power…
I see MSM are doing their best to avoid linking the death of Mike Lynch and his co-defendant, who successfully avoided conviction in the billions of dollars fraud trail, but is anyone really biting the fact it is a coincidence. These lads must have seriously pissed off some very powerful people very badly and you don’t walk away from that.
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