Nazis aren’t marching while they’re at work. Most jobs and employers have policies preventing political expression at work. The NFL is a business. Players are employees.
If that were true, then the national anthem would not be sung at all. The national anthem is a political expression. A popular political expression is still a political expression.
You want political expression to be allowed, but only if it’s the politics you agree with.
Migrant children under the care of United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) were allegedly beaten, threatened with sexual violence and repeatedly assaulted while in custody between 2009 and 2014, according to a report released Wednesday from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School.
Based on 30,000 pages of documents obtained through a records request, the report includes gruesome, detailed accusations of physical and mental abuse at the hands of officers. The claims were filed by unaccompanied minors, most of whom hailed from El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Honduras. CBP officials have contested large swaths of the report, telling Newsweek that many of the allegations have been investigated and are “false.”
Border authorities were accused of kicking a child in the ribs and forcing a 16-year-old girl to “spread her legs” for an aggressive body search. Other children accused officers of punching a child in the head three times, running over a 17-year-old boy and denying medical care to a pregnant teen, who later had a stillbirth.
Mitra Ebadolahi, ACLU Border Litigation Project staff attorney, said the allegations describe a law enforcement system “marked by brutality and lawlessness.” The organization also accused Border Protection officials of failing to “meaningfully investigate” the allegations detailed in the public records.
“All human beings deserve to be treated with dignity and respect regardless of their immigration status—and children, in particular, deserve special protection,” she said. “The misconduct demonstrated in these records is breathtaking, as is the government’s complete failure to hold officials who abuse their power accountable.”
how bad do you think the american government and the capitalists in charge of it hate the internet for cluing in the not only the american public but the rest of the world that living in america actually sucks extremely hard
turns out it’s hard to lie to people about the quality of living in other countries when you can chat with someone in Sweden and learn that the government pays YOU to go to college there. or you can chat with literally anybody in literally any other first world country and find out that going to the hospital is Fucking Free.
like it’s no wonder captialists want net neutrality to end so badly. they’re getting exposed super hard and future voters are learning to fucking LOATHE the shit they’re doing.
SO fuckin often conservative dipshits will be like why don’t you go over to Europe and see how they live you’ll be so thankful for Republicans protecting you from taxes and regulation. And I’m like. Holy fuck youre brainwashed by fox news. It would be sad if you deserved any empathy at this point.
my favorite thing is when an american conservative politician is like “oh you don’t want to go to europe it’s a lawless hellscape where people are murdered in the streets” and then online people are like
a. what the fuck are you talking about i live in sweden and have never even seen a knife in my entire life
b. isn’t america a lawless hellscape where people are murdered in the streets every day? by COPS?
Wouldn’t surprise me at all if this is why there’s a yawning generational gap in support for left leaning politics in the US between people who grew up with the internet and people who didn’t.
people act like communism is a hard sell but there are people probably living in your neighborhood right now who think the apocalypse is imminent, that the moving of the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem will hasten its arrival, and that Jesus will rule over a literal kingdom of heaven on Earth for a thousand years.
Not to mention that a hardcore Randian is 3rd in line for succession right now and Rand’s fantasy novels required perfect Gary Stu characters and energy generating machines that ran off of magic to even function.
So workers are supposed to just challenge federal labor violations on an individual basis (which would almost certainly be ineffective or involve costly legal battles)… or trust every business/ corporation not to violate any federal labor laws?
Why is the Supreme Court makes it harder to enforce the laws they’re supposed to enshrine and protect?
wh..
it’s like we’re rolling back to the time of the west virginia coal wars..
This is one of those things that could have been fucking avoided if Trump hadn’t been elected. Let’s all take a beat to remember that the 5th vote was his pick for SCOTUS. It also your have been avoided if the GOP controlled Congress for as long as it did because let’s all remember that SCOTUS sat with only 8 Justices for almost a year while Congress refused to even hold a confirmation hearing on Obama’s pick. Elections have consequences. Every time. Every single one of them.
Unionizing is the only protection against wage theft now. The federal government has made clear they have no interest in enforcing fair labor regulations
though looking at the comments the folks who live in the red part think this is why the electoral college has got to stay. because they like getting 3.5 votes per capita.
Tyranny of the few is a pretty sweet deal if you belong to the few.
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