The key to happiness is not having expectations, unfortunately that is not always healthy. It’s like nature, evolution comes with just the right pressure. Life needs a little grit, unfortunately, but obviously not /waves arms at generally everything. Hoping for a Star Trek future where we can pursue becoming better people without the need to fight for our basic needs.
Well Nixon was an antisemitic genocidal mass murderer. And his antisemitic genocidal mass murderer secretary of state Kissinger is now praised as “great diplomat” in many western countries.
Yeah if it’s something your manager would get fired for it should take a president out of office almost immediately tbh. There’s a chain of command for a reason and it would actually make the role of VP mildly substantial lol.
He used his power and position to take advantage of an intern. Maybe you should care.
Most people that make it to the level of a president have done really shitty things, while this one wasn’t at the top of the list, it’s still pretty bad. Sucks that most of the hate and jokes were pushed towards the victim instead of the perpetrator.
Monica has come a long way, hate to see all the grief she still gets. I mean it takes two to cheat you know but does anyone give Bill shit? Not really.
Most powerful person in the world and a 20 something intern. Yep it was totally all her fault and we’re in the right for making fun of her 25+ years later.
She has composed herself with such dignity and grace All these years and she articulates the whole debacle so well including all the political and social implications involved, and so relatably and so intelligently. How can we not respect her
(source for what I’m about to say: I vaguely remember basically a couple headlines)
I remember reading a statement from Lewinsky regarding that allegation. Something along the lines of her agreeing that, while she had for many years defended him and declared to anyone asking that their involvement was purely consensual, she didn’t really have the power to consent. I believe it was referenced how the enlightenment of the recent Me Too revelations had influenced her evolving understanding.
People forget that ‘efficient’ in a capitalist sense means that all resources are used. So when you privatize security, prisons, public transport, etc. guess what happens: those companies try to extract as much value as possible and do as little as possible. Because that is what capitalist efficiency is.
A private company is absolutely more efficient than a government. The boss simply says “this is what we’re doing” and that’s it – it’s just a question of what goal they’re efficiently pursuing.
The problem is that intelligent, empathetic, and selfless people rarely rise to those positions. The few that do usually get pushed out of business by ruthless assholes.
I dont think that private corps with tens of thousands of employees can do that at all. Private companies also have committees and working groups and different departments that dont talk to each other (despite the committees), and policies that people follow even though the policy hasnt been good for years.
The boss says “this is what we’re doing” and then it takes years for those hundreds of departments and tens of thousands of people to do it. Or they dont do it, because they disagree with the boss and the boss is far away from any work that they have no idea if people are doing it or not. Or they sorta do it, but then a new boss comes in and has a different plan.
Despite the dictatorship of the owner in a private corporation, actually implementing a thing, especially a new thing, does take a lot of time.
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