Yep. Cowards who substitute guns for manhood.

Lol, no... This would have been avoided had they pursued other options for moving the staff they wanted to bump the guy for , or if they’d handled this prior to boarding. Ianal, but I’m sure a lawyer could successfully argue that they had no standing to forcibly remove him from the flight. As fucked as it is that…

Do you realize, that “in court” if he just “deplaned” willingly and took their pecuninary sum that much of his argument would be lost. He had to do what he did to fight another day and they didn’t have to act as the did.

Right? People by tickets because (surprise surprise) they have somewhere to be at a specific time. You’d have to offer me a pretty sweet deal to rearrange my whole travel plans. Like, “Hey, we will put you on the very next flight and here is a ticket to Europe” kind of sweet deal. And I sure as hell wouldn’t give my…

This is what is so baffling to me, too (other than the obvious objective lack of humanity). What could have possibly been worth this kind of ubiquitous negative publicity?? I literally cannot imagine, from the perspective of an airline employee, why forceably removing a passenger was even an option they considered. Th…

There’s no way you actually believe those rent a cops and the airline acted even ok. Stop trolling. Unless you side with Stern and Goodell is sports labor disputes too. Would be more understandable then.

“[A]n immature and stupid response that literally could not have ended any other way.” What an impressively succinct encapsulation of exactly the type of reflexive bootlickery Burneko denounced in his piece. And the nice thing is, you can make literally the same exact argument in favor of literally any act of defiance…

Americans rush to defend the rich because we are a nation of temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

what pisses me off about this is the whole employee transfer thing. that united would rather 1) offer $3200 for people to disembark to save, what, $2000 flying the employees on another airline? and very obviously 2) beat the fucking shit out of a guy and settle the inevitable multi-million dollar lawsuit that results…

They’d offered everyone the option of $400, later increased to $800, a new ticket, and a hotel room for the night. That nobody thought this was enough should have been taken as a hint, rather than as some sort of act of war.

Counter counterpoint: he has made all his legal remedies more valuable and effective by raising the stakes.

I 100% agree. Everyone who posted shit about Jump When Told To Jump by the Authorities is already dead inside, and it makes me sad. There is no fight or spirit in these people, just the desire to get home to their TV.

Donald Trump went broke a few times on his own stupidity. But got back into the black (maybe?) by preying off other Americans’ collective stupidity.

Surely* you’ve already seen this, but the comments below Gizmodo’s coverage of this incident are similarly flabbergasting and demoralizing. To paraphrase many, “The corporation can do what it wants because its policies say it can” and “These are cops, so you have no legal protection. Comply or get your head smashed…

The American people, especially the honest folk of middle America, are not kind decent folk. Well, they may be, until they encounter hierarchy.

Then they become craven asskissing bootlickers. We are a nation of joiners and toadies, and I will put a huge amount of money on a very strong correlation with joining a…

The clinical term is carection.

Before people start freaking out about the one seat thing and how the car was seen testing with more than one seat, Dodge did say that the car would come with only one seat in standard trim. This implies that there will be trim levels with more than one seat. Woof. I’ve been wanting to say that for months but I’ve…

I wonder how much of it has to do with the fact that RAV-4 is surprisingly easy to rhyme. I’m sure the Kia Sorento or the Daewoo Laganza would fair pretty poorly in the rap game as well, but no one wants to take the time of day to figure out a way to work them into a rap.

Bonus points for making a burner specifically to make this joke.

This is a terribly biased article from the pro-mayo-startup press. Do your effing research! It's really about ethics in mayonnaise journalism.