I too have always thought our school system does a terrible job teaching kids about opportunities in the job market. Like food? Doesn’t mean your only job possibility is chef. There are thousands of jobs related to the food industry from packaging to food safety to sales to product advertising to farming solutions…

And maybe a public education that can also focus teaching kids skills. Not everyone needs to go to college to have a job that will keep them out of poverty.

agree with every thing you said. I am glad someone else uncomfortably sort of agreed with what he was saying there. Like yea dude we totally need to show people there are millions of opportunities and provide paths to achieving those opportunities. But part of that is making sure you have a roof over your head and…

I agree that that’s a solid statement on its own, but then he fucked it up by that “If you’re poor, it’s your fault because it’s only up to you to stop being poor” bullshit. Just what you want coming out of the HUD Secretary’s mouth, for Chrissakes.

A lot of times if you go to a disadvantaged neighborhood, you ask the kids, ‘What do you want to do when you grow up?’

YES THIS EXACTLY. This guys’ agenda was to shut down well-meaning witnesses from standing up when the rhetoric isn’t directed at them. These acts are exactly what allows hate crimes to happen in plain sight.

Similar: about a week ago the weather/civil defense sirens went off at 3AM and I awoke and thought, “Okay, I guess we’re at war with North Korea or something.”

I guess that matter would be up to a court to decide in 2018/2019. My gut says they could sue for a refund then since the promoter would have failed to deliver recompense guaranteed by the ticket (and of course, barring any liability-limiting language in the fine print of that offer).

Not yet, but it’s inevitable. They had no money to pay for logistics, no money to pay the musical acts and now no money for payroll. That means the venture is tits-up and broke. Add in the lawsuits and it’s only a matter of time (and more lawsuits over unpaid wages).

You are correct. This is not legal. But I imagine this guy doesn’t have money for a lawyer anymore anyway so...he’ll find out eventually when his former employees sue him for back pay.

I looked into this once but forget the exact details. What I remember though is that payment just has to be given out in a certain amount of time. Honestly I think I remember it just saying something like “A timely manner”. So it is possible for Fyre to say they will not cut checks for now but still plan to pay anyone…

It’s going to be fun to see how the “we just did it and became legends, man” defense works out in court.

Nor does he apparently understand it now, since he’s not supporting Jon Ossoff because he somehow doesn’t meet the standards of Bernie’s ever-changing “progressive” litmus test.

This is the greatest thing I’ve read on the internet so far today. Might as well sign off on a high note. Well done!

I stand by your comment. Honestly, what is there left to do? The maniacs and Holnists are in charge. If nothing changed after Sandy Hook, I do not think jokes about Betsy DeVos are going to change anything one way or another.

The OP was making a point about the absurdity of the right, in this case DeVos, with respect to gun laws. You’re failure to understand this means you might not be ready for the Internet. Maybe you should stick to coloring books.

Agreed. If people don’t like your comment, they can scroll past, or as one so sweetly put it to you downthread, shut the fuck up. My kid is the teacher - you know, the one who has spent a significant amount of the last several years of her life picturing how she’ll respond when it happens at her school, so she can…

Sociopathic? Jesus, it’s called gallows humor. There are different kinds of humor. This is just one of them. And this is rich coming from someone who has STALIN DRESSED AS MARIO AS THEIR ICON. Stalin murdered millions and terrorized even more. But you think it’s funny that he is dressed as a video character. You have…

Well we might as well laugh because we’re clearly not going to do anything else about gun violence.

Thank you for making me laugh, you magnificent bastard. This situation is so heartbreaking.