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Or people need to understand that when you associate with bigots you'll be labeled as such and whatever granular point you're trying to make gets lost behind that larger point.

I don't realize or agree with any of this. As a black person, I can tell you that it's been untrue for our community so I don't think it different for the trans community.

Completely aside from this, how can you support Trump while knowing that he doesn't support you and his VP actively fights against LGBT rights?

Evidence because I'm being downvoted.

>Employees, as well as many employers, commonly but mistakenly believe that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees "freedom of speech" at work. In fact, the First Amendment applies only to government action and neither limits the rights of private employers to regulate employees' communications nor provides any constitutional right for those workers to express thoughts or opinions at work. As a result, there is no constitutionally protected right of "free speech" in the offices and factories of private employers. Although employees may be entitled to express their views freely on their own time or on a soapbox in the park, they have no such wide-ranging constitutional rights at work. Absent rights provided by one of the limited exceptions discussed below, there are no legal protections for political activities in the workplace, so private employers generally may refuse to hire, adjust pay/benefits and even discharge "at will" employees because of their political views.2 In short, "political discrimination" often is not unlawful discrimination.

https://www.hklaw.com/publications/politics-in-the-workplace...

>The problem is that all the spaces I listed seem (to me) to be controlled by the same social forces that conservatives are concerned about with respect to free speech and actual dialogue.

Whenever I hear conservatives talk about free speech and dialog I think about Fox News and Breibart and think that I'll pass on whatever amounts to the conservative version of free speech and dialogue.

>That's largely fair, but I'll point out that Trump didn't get a majority of the Republican primary vote.

True, but he got enough to get the nomination. It also shows a lot about conservatives that more than not thought he was the best option and also how bad the other options had to be to get to this point.

>Is it cool if I fire all democrats from my company because I don't like their speech?

Only if they bring it to work or make it affiliated with your company/brand outside of work and then only individually, not as a whole. Ultimately though, you can fire whomever you wish for whatever you wish outside of a narrowly defined set of restrictions in most states.

I shouldn't respond but I will anyway.

Free speech is only protected by and from the government. It's not protected by and from any other repercussions. I don't have to like you or accept you because I support or defend your ability to exercise your freedom of speech to the government. I do not have to allow that in my home, my business, or my friendship circles.

The rest of what you said isn't worth a response.

I think people no longer feel fine with lip service to hate speech as free speech. You have the right to believe that Hitler was right and to share that, you don't have the right to make people listen or respect that view.

People are no longer as religious as they once were. Gender and race equality are accepted more than dissented. These ideals are the cornerstones of conservative beliefs, as well as the whole Fake News era. It's not surprising to me that people are choosing not to share their space with ideas that are so obviously discriminatory and outdated.

All that said, I'll defend, against the country and every other government apparatus, any conservative's right to say such things. I will not be sad when a company or a person doesn't want those views affiliated with them or their brand though.

God that is hard to read. The guy might be thought a genius but I got absolutely nothing from that passage save the penguins.

I just didn't think the movie was as 'fun' as the previous movies. I think the Disney movies are good movies, I felt like the Lucas movies were fun movies. All the rest of it is secondary to that for me.

I've taken entirely too much Ibuprofen - I've had a lot of babies. Since the sample size of this study is 31 people, I say that my one case is significant and this study is bunk.

That's why you can't rely on a study of 31 people.

"I found out avoiding gluten and taking probiotics cured mine."

I've done keto and it worked for me, could have been the elimination of gluten in retrospect. Haven't tried the probiotics.

For me it was increasing meat and fat and cutting carbs. Doing that has all but eliminated my reflux until I change my diet for a moderate amount of time.

Seriously. I've been taking it sporadically for about that long as well. Doing the same as you now.

Just become a consultant. Much more lucrative and much more freedom.

You're absolutely right. But sometimes it's just the confidence and competence. If you're actually good at your job and you know that, you can push back on insanity and not panic if you come up craps.

"The end result being people ask me either to do the stuff because "I am the expert" or resend the document link for them to study."

This is the most frustrating thing. If you can't even save the link or search your mailbox then I no longer WANT to help you. Figure it out.

Maybe - or maybe it just requires a specific way of thinking about things i.e. Problem Solving and Time/Task Management? As well as the ability to learn the task of course.

Yeah, totally agree on that. The worse part is that you can't offer a solid argument without being called biased by the other side.

I think this is one where you just have to call them wrong and tell them to do one if they disagree. Hate speech just isn't something that we have to accommodate, nor do we have to give credence to the arguments for it.

I'm pretty sure I've heard this argument made about the campaign for our recent President as well. HRC had to use words well because she, and her supporters, believe in them.

While DJT and his supporters believe in "LOL - just kidding - can't you take a joke? Don't be so uptight." So he was free to play with the truth. His supporters aren't trying to convince themselves - they know their arguments to be BS - instead they're trying to find the secret code to convince enough bystanders.

I think the confusion just over this title is a good illustration of the existing state of nutritional science.

We've been so poisoned by bad science that it's hard to come to a consensus on anything.

Honestly PEDs should be legal and regulated in athletics, if not for performance, then at least for recovery. It's completely arbitrary what's legal and not anyway and a good training program and the best coaches also function as a PED.

Make it uniform and regulate it and maybe you keep everyone safe. Or not. I don't really care, I build scripts for a living. /shrug

Sorry, that's not true at all. My phone provides the same services to me digitally that the analog world provided. It just does it more efficiently. I can read a book, keep in touch, learn a new skill, or research a topic all from the same device. That's an insane amount of value and I won't panic over using it because we didn't in the old days.

A lot of the issue with this is that people don't often know their rights. In most of these cases the person being sued can turn the tables and extract penalties from the debt collectors because they violate all sorts of laws that provide statutory penalty. Unfortunately no one reads the law until it affects them and often not even then.

And that he has control over the voting stock. He's quite far from a non-entity at Uber and quite far from Steve Jobs as Jobs couldn't technically veto his own firing.

And this is how you abuse a monopoly. It's win-win for Amazon. Every possible outcome is more money for Amazon either through decreased competition or increased utilization of Amazon fulfillment services revenue.

Calling out the prime goal of remedying a toxic sexist culture in an article that is being written because of said company's toxic sexist culture isn't identity politics nor SJW, it's reality.

It doesn't when this entire drama is due to the company's sexist and toxic culture.

And this is why we'll never have meaningful police accountability and reform. Even being caught in the act, on video, of planting evidence someone will create an excuse for why what they did wasn't wrong. Sickening.

For the purposes of selling ads. Maybe not initially, but definitely now.