The past week on my facebook newsfeed, has been a damn horror show. The sheer amount of xenophobia and hipocrisy that reared its ugly head, is unbelievable.

The hipocrisy is staggering.

It's obvious that you have a steady job and/or a lot of money. I'm so very happy for you.

I apply for a job--I jump thru all the hoops, except I refuse to give up my passwords--I don't get the job--how am I to know what their reasons are? If it's because I didn't give up my passwords how would I ever be able to prove it?

No one ever said that employers owe anyone a job--they do however owe everyone a modicum of dignity.

You don't see your argument as idealogical--your ideology has blinded you.

"Doesn't matter how important you consider a job to you or your family's survival, it's never your only possible means to survive." I imagine that someone probably would have said the same thing to Jean Valjean before he stole that loaf of bread.

I'm done responding to you.
>> ^renatojj:

This isn't ideological, it's about defining coercion. If you can prove in court that you were under real economic duress, then you can say there was coercion involved in denying your job because you didn't hand out your passwords.
However, we must be careful not to accept this interpretation that employers owe us jobs. That when they deny us a job, they are taking away something that is rightfully ours.
A job is a voluntary relationship that usually involves a contract. So, by definition, no coercion is involved, because no one is ever forced to hire/accept a job.
The hipocrisy of people who yell coercion, is that they want government to make laws to coerce those that aren't coercing at all. So we end up with a less civilized society overall.
You shouldn't resort to violence to stop something that isn't violent to begin with. How about not panicking, and coming up with non-violent solutions?

This isn't ideological, it's about defining coercion. If you can prove in court that you were under real economic duress, then you can say there was coercion involved in denying your job because you didn't hand out your passwords.

However, we must be careful not to accept this interpretation that employers owe us jobs. That when they deny us a job, they are taking away something that is rightfully ours.

A job is a voluntary relationship that usually involves a contract. So, by definition, no coercion is involved, because no one is ever forced to hire/accept a job.

The hipocrisy of people who yell coercion, is that they want government to make laws to coerce those that aren't coercing at all. So we end up with a less civilized society overall.

You shouldn't resort to violence to stop something that isn't violent to begin with. How about not panicking, and coming up with non-violent solutions?

The hipocrisy of the Republicans is astounding -- not calling for the resignation of David Vitter or John Ensign, but calling for the resignation of Anthony Weiner.

http://videosift.com/video/Rachel-Maddow-It-s-Okay-if-you-re-a-republican

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Meanwhile, she wasted no opportunity to stir up the Brownshirts at her rallies with rhetoric ten times uglier than the supposed insult that Letterman never said or implied.

You'll have to clarify which of your imaginary universes this figment took place in.

the vast majority of us assumed that "daughter" meant the knocked up one, not some random other child of theirs that most of us have never heard of

Which makes insulting women, females, and children with jokes about assault and rape perfectly OK. Glad you clarified that. :eyeroll:

As entertainment, reveling in the hipocrisy that is the Palin family is pretty terrific, if I do say so myself.

And that pretty much says it iall. Neolib hypocrisy & ugliness isn't pretty, but at least you're open about it.

McCain...Limbaugh

Any such commentary by someone about children is a jackass who should apoligize in sackcloth and ashes for being a stupid idiot, a fool, and a mean SOB.

I have to disagree with you Sotto, Letterman didn't fuck up. The joke was aimed at the general population, not at the Palins and as such the vast majority of us assumed that "daughter" meant the knocked up one, not some random other child of theirs that most of us have never heard of. In light of how jokes are constructed there is no surprise that he didn't allude to the fact that it was the 14 year old at the game...we don't care and as a comedian he isn't there to fact check his jokes, he is there to entertain. As entertainment, reveling in the hipocrisy that is the Palin family is pretty terrific, if I do say so myself.

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I don't know how this will one will do considering the strong bias around here. I'm hoping people find the hipocrisy funny as I did. I hate seeing political ads and don't upvote them unless they are too funny.

Background:
Michael J. Fox did an ad for Ben Cardin in Maryland similar to the one we all know for McCaskill in Missouri.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CXwHc-RgCs

This is a response ad where they shame them for using a "victim" of a horrible disease by using a "victim" of another horrible disease!

And to set the record straight, Michael Steele says he supports embryonic stem cell research if it doesn't destroy the embryo. Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/29/AR2006102900240.html