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(05-20-2022, 08:30 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Point taken on the PR to members of the community who embrace those lifestyle choices and I agree employees requiring that type of support will be keen on Coles as an employer. I wonder what it will do for other Coles employees though who may have other issues and cant access that type of special leave?
Have no doubt Woolies and Metcash who own stores of IGA brand will follow Coles lead..... Announcing the leave is one thing. Taking it is another. How many people will actually qualify for it? How many of them will actually know about it 1 year from now when the whole thing is old news. Chances are its only for full time workers. Full time workers probably make (at most) 50% of their workforce.....and a lot of them are people who have been there for a decade or more and don't really fit the criteria.
Its like announcing special days for full time albino workers. Sure, its good optics and is progressive, but how many people does it actually apply too?
Will the others follow? Probably, but the damage is done. Coles have got all the headlines and did all the groundwork. They reap the good publicity.
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Reports of several assassination attempts on Putin in the paper with reports the weak prick is running scared surrounding himself with elite snipers. Hey Vlad, a couple of tips. The saying keep your friends close and your enemies closer doesn't apply here. Sleep with one eye open sunshine, its coming.
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(05-24-2022, 01:43 AM)Gointocarlton link Wrote:Reports of several assassination attempts on Putin in the paper with reports the weak prick is running scared surrounding himself with elite snipers. Hey Vlad, a couple of tips. The saying keep your friends close and your enemies closer doesn't apply here. Sleep with one eye open sunshine, its coming. I think his days are numbered due to health issues, his Oligarch mates who are losing their toy boats and lots of rubels are his main threat IMO to pay for someone brave enough to take him out. He has decent protection with the Rosgvardiya which are Putins SS led by his crazy loyal mate Zolotov so you would need to knock him off too imo. The Military are laced with counter intelligence officers so you are taking a big risk planning anything against him as failure would mean your family being wiped off the map similar to how Kim Jong operates vs his enemies.
Maybe his army of doctors who he has following him around with a few rubels heading their way can slip him something a bit stronger. Of course the worry is with him that if you fail he might decide to push the button and take us all with him if he feels he has no support at all even at home...
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(This post was last modified: 05-25-2022, 01:26 AM by LP.)
I don't get why people / parents feel the need to remain stoic in the light of events like today's shooting in Texas, they should feel free to weep openly and hopefully drown the NRA in the tears of mothers who have lost their children!
This stoicism needs to be be banished, replaced with tears and then fury against those mask oppression in a veneer of freedom as does the NRA!
The right to walk safely down the street is a freedom.
The right to be safe going to school or work is a freedom.
The right to own a weapon is not, and the right to kill people with that weapon is not!
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(05-25-2022, 12:57 AM)LP link Wrote:The right own a weapon is not
The US Constitution says otherwise. But it should.
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While my heart goes out to the parents who've lost children and the family of the teacher who was killed, I couldn't care less about expressing solidarity with Americans. This is an endless cycle: school and mass shootings followed by thoughts and prayers and nothing else. They should treat these murder victims as martyrs to the cause of arming everyone to the teeth. And their deaths will be a boon for gun manufacturers. Whenever there's any call for restrictions on gun ownership, sales go through the roof as "concerned citizens" make sure they get their hands on them before any laws come in. Not that they should be afraid: no laws will be passed and SCOTUS will strike down those that do. After a short while, the NRA will use the shootings as a call to arms: arm teachers with guns and the only way to deal with a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.
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(05-25-2022, 01:11 AM)capcom link Wrote:The US Constitution says otherwise. But it should. No, the Constitution protects the right of militias to bear arms. There was no need to interpret that as guaranteeing the right of an individual to buy a gun. Earlier rulings that interpreted the right more narrowly were overturned by conservative justices on the Supreme Court. SCOTUS is and will always be a political animal. Unfortunately, Democrats have been asleep at the wheel when it comes to ensuring the court isn't packed with right-wing hacks. Hillary warned Democrats to turn out to vote to protect constitutional rights. That should have been obvious to anyone with a brain cell given that McConnell had blocked Merrick Garland's nomination for a vacant seat on SCOTUS. The election was going to decide whether the balance between left and right wing justices would continue or Trump would get a chance to tilt the Court in favour of right-wing causes. But even though she won the popular vote, she bled votes from short-sighted Bernie Bros and other progressives who thought it was more important to manoevre for control of the Democratic Party.
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While the issue is politicised nobody can win, it's time for average American to rise up and say enough is enough. They should protest against the NRA in the streets by their millions in much the same way the fluffer nutters protested against the election!
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One viewing of doomsday preppers should throw fears into many.
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I read an interesting article a while back about the doomsday preppers being less of a monoculture than you'd imagine. The type of doomsday prepper we see on TV is at the more macho end of the spectrum. They're the guys who are all about securing resources and being prepared to repel the hordes who might want to steal them when the apocalypse comes. Guns take pride of place for those guys. But on 4Chan, there are more female-oriented doomsday prepper threads which are more about how to preserve social networks if the worst eventuates. Those who post on those threads are more interested in making sure they can grow their food and share that knowledge (and initially the produce) with neighbours in times of need. They also discuss what books and films they should preserve, how to make their own female hygience products and contraceptives and the like as well as preserving what they'll need to teach their children.
Post-apocalyptic shows tend to swing between these 2 ends of the spectrum. On Walking Dead, there'll be idyllic communities which are more like hippie communes but then they'll be overrun by Mad Max types who rape and pillage.
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