Are these people idiots? Talk about sour grapes. A school can admit whoever it wants to, as long as it isn’t based on race (or a couple other things). Your last name or the size of your bank account is not one of those prohibited criteria, unlike your race. All this BS would be hilarious, if it wasn’t getting so tiresome.
A separate campaign is urging the alumni of 30 prestigious colleges to withhold donations until their schools end legacy admissions.
Morons. Those donors are the ones who benefit from such legacy admissions policies…
Two glass bottling plants operated by the Ardagh Group, which had a contract with Anheuser-Busch, will be closing down in North Carolina and Louisiana. This decision will result in the layoff of approximately 645 employees.
The move comes as a result of declining Bud Light sales and widespread boycotts sparked by a controversial partnership between Bud Light and transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. As retailers, distributors, bars, and contracted companies feel the impact of the boycotts, the bottling plants have experienced decreased production and dwindling demand.
I was scared of more backlash and I felt personally guilty for what transpired
Pretty sure most agree with you on that.
Mulvaney also reveals that throughout all of the harassment, Bud Light never said a word to her. “I was waiting for the brand to reach out to me but they never did,” she said.
“For a company to hire a trans person and not publically stand by them is worse in my opinion than not hiring a trans person at all.”
You arent special. Anyone who causes a quarter of business to evaporate overnight is going to be a persona non grata. Welcome to being a celebrity, sweetheart. You put yourself in this situation.
Following up on Biden’s attacks on free speech, his DOJ is pressuring journalists to try to make their case for Assange be thrown away in some US prison hole.
I do not think Mulvaney is personally responsible. The blame lies solely with the marketing people at Budweiser who hired him. They knew that he plays a weird caricature of a woman, but hired him anyway.
They displayed a contempt for their customers, and still have not apologized. Their only response is to try to change the subject.
The left media say that the new social network is friendlier than Twitter. Yeah, right.
Meta claims that over 10 million people had signed up for its Twitter competitor, Threads, in what CEO Mark Zuckerberg framed as a “friendly” alternative to the little blue bird.
Meanwhile, data privacy and censorship concerns have emerged , with former Twitter owner Jack Dorsey highlighting the vast amount of data collected by Threads.
First, Bud Light now ice cream. There’s not going to be any junk food left.
“This 4th of July, it’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it.”
The ice cream company is also having a “glass houses” moment. As Newsweek reported, there have been suggestions that Ben & Jerry’s lead by example. Some have argued that Ben & Jerry’s Vermont headquarters is itself built on what it describes as “stolen” land of the Abenaki tribe — prompting questions as to whether it would give the property up and move elsewhere.
“What’s stopping you? Go ahead — give up all your property,” Dan Crenshaw, a GOP congressman for Texas responded to the company’s call. “It would be easy to do, so why aren’t you doing it?”
I asked [the] teacher [involved in the incident] how he wanted to handle it, if he wanted me to just teach them about misgendering or would he like me to speak about being trans. He asked me to educate on transgender. It was well received from students and parents
Of course it was well received, you’ve silenced everyone who disagrees.
Part of one’s physical needs vis-à-vis restorative justice is “sexual expression,” according to GUSD.
WTF does a high school even consider it appropriate to get involved in student’s sexual expression?
Sending children to these schools is child abuse. Parents should do anything they can to pull their kids out. Homeschool if possible. If not, carefully evaluate a private school to see if they engage in this nonsense.
Ben & Jerry’s has called on the US to give back “stolen Indigenous land” including Mount Rushmore — and now a Native American chief in Vermont said he’d like to talk about the land that’s under the ice cream maker’s headquarters
What super-extra assinine is that in California, parents can be fined and jailed if their child misses school. It’s one of the few instances where they are happy to threaten to take away those precious welfare benefits.
So before this discussion can go any further, I think these lunatics first need to make up their minds - are parents responsible for their children’s behavior/actions or not? Forget the insanity of all this, right now, in all regards besides this one issue, they dont even believe their own BS.
There are ways for parents to homeschool if they jump through the right hoops. Actually, California comes out as having moderate regulation of homeschooling. See this.
But California is highly abusive in other situations and is getting worse. See this heartbreaking testimony about how California CPS removed a child from her mother and the child later committed suicide.
You’re diving in way deeper than I intended. I was just saying that either parents are responsible for their children’s choices, or they arent. If you are going to threaten to jail parents because their kids keep choosing to skip school, it’s pretty hypocritical to also claim those kids’ choices should be actively hidden from those same parents. There’s no reconciling the position just on basic common sense consistency, before even considering the [complete lack of] merits of the issue itself. They’re all-in on pushing this crap on everyone, but they still havent even picked a lane for themselves yet.
Good article on the Facebook, Twitter killer Threads app from the New York Times of all places. The author reminds us of the Google+ Facebook killer app
A big tech company with billions of users introduces a new social network. Leveraging the popularity and scale of its existing products, the company intends to make the new social platform a success. In doing so, it also plans to squash a leading competitor’s app.
If this sounds like Instagram’s new Threads app and its push against its rival Twitter, think again. The year was 2011 and Google had just rolled out a social network called Google+, which was aimed as its “Facebook killer.” Google thrust the new site in front of many of its users who relied on its search and other products, expanding Google+ to more than 90 million users within the first year.
But by 2018, Google+ was relegated to the ash heap of history. Despite the internet search giant’s enormous audience, its social network failed to catch on as people continued flocking to Facebook — and later to Instagram and other social apps.
Parents can only be fined or jailed if they allow their child to miss school. They’re not responsible if they don’t allow it, which I think makes both points consistent, not hypocritical.
I don’t know all the rules, but from what I read, fines and jail time for parents/guardians are reserved only for allowing the child to miss school. And given that California doesn’t even jail actual criminals these days, I doubt this ever happens.
And if the parent doesnt allow it, the kid isnt absent to create the issue in the first place…
“Allow” is just a polite way to say “doesnt stop it”. Yes, it’s the extreme, rarely used consequence, but a consequence that is on the books none-the-less. Parents are expected to take responsibility for some choices their kids make, while it’s expected they not even be made aware of other choices their kids make.
This hypocrisy applies to any type of neglect. In general, parents are expected to get proper medical treatment for their kids, at the risk of losing custody. Except in this one instance where they’re expected to secretly be cut out of the decisions altogether.
If these nutjobs truly believed their BS, and the expectation is that the parents would not give “proper” care when told of their kid’s condition, the correct reaction would be to petition the court with a claim of neglect so an advocate can formally take over making medical decisions. But they know such a claim - that a parent is neglecting their kid after actively and intentionally leaving them in the dark - would be laughed out of court, so instead they’re hellbent on doing this in the shadows so hopefully no one ever finds out it’s happening.
Parents need to stop bitching about such secrecy policies, and start suing these school districts for the very blatant parental interference. But doing so requires throwing their kid under the bus in a very public manner, and, despite claims to the contrary, most parents wouldnt do that.
