NC Republicans, remind me again of this free market thing you claim to hold oh so dear

Then United shouldn’t have scheduled a flight crew in Chicago to be flying out of Louisville without an assured way of getting them there.

That “trash” Italy team is still better than the U.S. will ever be.

I think it’s the “beloved” part that is questionable here.

(either that or the shocking lack of respect for Your Saviour Christian Pulisic)

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…

“[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…

Labor forgets its class consciousness sometimes, but capital never does.

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…

Falling in line every time JUST MOVES THE FUCKING LINE.

“Well, I don’t love the customer service of Forced Sodomy Air, but they are $13 cheaper than JetBlue, so I guess I’ll have to suck it up.”

I’m sure other people have written and theorized about this idea better than me, but I’ve come to the conclusion that Capitalism has basically become the official religion of this country. Making any argument against the actions or motives of a corporation will basically get you the same reaction as questioning the…

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

“He is the best soccer player ever born in this country and is beloved for that fact, even though he never played for the U.S.”

What’s worse are the losers spending their day defending those policies all over these articles.

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…

Mencken said that no one ever went broke underestimating the stupidity of the American people, and I would argue that no one ever went broke underestimating their apathy. It’s amazing the kind of mental logic people will put themselves through to avoid even questioning the status quo a little bit. The (insert…

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…

This is the same argument for people who argue in favor of management over labor. Theoretically, only a tiny, fraction of a percent of people should be making those arguments, yet, anecdotally, it is an alarmingly large percentage.

This whole “OBEY ANY AND EVERY ORDER YOU ARE GIVEN OR YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS ARE FORFEIT” deal aboard airliners is getting really old.

“I beg to differ.”