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.

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

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

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…

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.

There will be so much winning, the corporations will be sick of it!

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.”

People are always falling over when a group of men lift you and then let go.

Wow, what a bunch of THUGS

This is a crazy time stream we’re in. I wonder what’s happening in the reality that has Hillary as POTUS.

It seems hypocritical to keep referring to it as an egg and not a chicken.