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In reply to the discussion: Why do disagreements here [View all]HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)19. For the threads I'm usually on . . .
. . . it comes down to the simple fact that the crowd giggling and giddy at the notion of Creative Destruction and laissez-faire economics have no place on a progressive board.
You want to shit on labor and be glib and dismissive of it's future, go to . . . any other internet comment board where corporate water is carried and the conquered are divided. We support workers and try to come to solutions here. If life doesn't get more fair pretty damned fast, none of us are going to have much of one.
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Because it's easy when you are sitting behind a soda-(or beer/wine)speckled computer screen...
ScreamingMeemie
Jan 2014
#2
It has gotten noticeably better since the "5 hides and you're in the naughty chair"
Nye Bevan
Jan 2014
#7
...and then pull out their handy-dandy notebook to write down everything that happened,
ScreamingMeemie
Jan 2014
#13
Have you noticed how many arguments begin with a reply that almost always begins with...
pacalo
Jan 2014
#67
Because 3rd way/NSA lovers have no winning logical/ethical/moral argument n/t
PowerToThePeople
Jan 2014
#11