Said it before, and I’ll say it again — if the union chooses to represent officers, the union, and not the state, should be taking legal and financial responsibility for the outcome from then on. If it results in a multi-million dollar settlement, the union has to pay it, not the taxpayers. The instant that happens,…

True enough. The white world has spent at least a thousand years building up a ‘society’ predicated on its worst members not paying what they owe, taking whatever they want, and crushing anyone who dares to challenge that status quo. The only thing America really did ‘differently’ is that they allowed a greater…

And, uh, just how much wealth was the original family denied the right to produce by having this land stripped from them? Because it’s a certainty that same property generated a vast amount of wealth for the thieves who’ve been  using it all this time. I’m thinking getting their land back doesn’t quite cover what…

That’s great and all, but will it have some real *depth* to its story, like, well, none of Bethesda’s previous works have managed? There’s a consistent ‘miles wide, but an inch deep’ approach to ‘story’ telling in their Elder Scrolls series and their Fallout additions. And it gets shallower and shallower with each new…

If people, on average, behaved decently to one another, then — and I cannot stress this enough — society wouldn’t need laws to remind people what that entails...or spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year enforcing them and punishing those who break them.

Frankly, the figures that need to be getting thrown at these companies and corporations need to have set minimums of a fixed percentage gross earnings. The only way to have this issue taken seriously is to make them too expensive to permit. Then, AND ONLY THEN, will they be taken seriously.

Her refusal do the bare minimum to protect the health and safety of the people around her is far more sick and disturbing. So, yeah, I hope she refuses, gets fired and thrown out on her ass. Because I’m through with catering to toxic stupidity and virulent ignorance.

Despite With people of color making up 95 percent of the state’s growth over the last decade, Republicans are moving to diminish their voting power.

The students maybe. But that doesn’t mean the *board* will reflect that, which seems doubtful, given that they’re the same people who voted to move forward with the process of firing him in the first place. It’s kind of like the idea of a ‘jury of my peers’ as written versus how it ends up working in practice.

...Principal James Whitfield will have an opportunity to appeal the decision.

And yet, it still got done, with our without approval, legal or otherwise, with or without winning lawsuits. That’s the point. He’s not ‘powerless.’ He shouldn’t be abusing the powers given to the president the way Trump did, but short of doing so now, there’s no way we’re going to unfuck state elections and get…

“The Handmaid’s Tale is not a blueprint.” — Margaret Atwood.

That, too. Breaking stuff is a whole lot faster and easier than fixing it afterward. Especially when roughly 1/2 of congress is steadfast in their resolve to keep things broken (at least until someone offers them the proper kickbacks to get out of the way).

Not that I disagree with you, but Biden isn’t entirely powerless either. As demonstrated by Trump, a lot of things are simply ‘accepted norms’ rather than strict limitations on presidential powers.

Essentially “...and then they came for me...”

I did say the *average* CEO. I think we both agree they are not examples of the average CEO.

Sadly, that could take some rooting. It was an article read in passing — with ‘No durr?’ results — and then largely forgotten. Because the results were, as said ‘No durr?’

Given that the decisions of the average CEO has demonstrated to be, at best, a coinflip chance of being a good one (to say nothing of being a great or the best one), they really aren’t all that useful or valuable. Your average highschool dropout can probably perform the job at a comparable level.

That’s just not what AB’s upper management is going to see. They will only see a game that failed to perform to expectations and blame the people who worked on it. You have to understand the ‘corporate executive’ mentality — they are *NEVER* to blame, so if something went wrong, it’s somebody else’s fault. Which is…