Government agency removes spoon emoji from work platform amid protests
Government agency removes spoon emoji from work platform amid protests
According to a New York Times report, on Thursday, the U.S. government's General Services Administration (GSA) removed the spoon emoji as an option that
According to a New York Times report, on Thursday, the U.S. government’s General Services Administration (GSA) removed the spoon emoji as an option that users of its videoconferencing platform can select to express themselves.
The move comes a day after workers embraced the digital cutlery to protest the Trump administration’s “Fork in the Road” resignation offer.
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From the outside it's funny to see how fast America is becoming like China. But I feel for you guys, and in the long run nothing is funny about it, only in the short.
China for all its faults has a functional government, growing economy and rule of law is strictly enforced. Would we be so lucky to become like China. The US is spiraling towards becoming like post soviet Russia.
Would we be so lucky to become like China.
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Compared against the direction we are already taking its an easy choice.
Comparing one authoritarian country to another and having an answer other than "both are bad"... I guess at least China has socialized medicine so you won't die from ingesting boot polish.
Comparing one authoritarian country to another and having an answer other than “both are bad”
Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Israel are all "authoritarian" but wildly different societies. Merely labeling them as "authoritarian" and leaving it at that is short circuiting your reasoning skills.
One is a kingdom where everyone knows who is the king and who they are listening to.
The rest fake democracy, where you vote for a party and then find out it is run by some rich dude.
where you vote for a party and then find out it is run by some rich dude.
That's how neither of the last three work. To keep it short the last three are:
- settler colonial state where genocide has popular support.
- mafia-state where reality doesn't matter
- Indirect democracy dominated by a party particing Democratic-Centralism.
What your described is something like France and Bernard Arnault. There's many like this but that's your normal freedom loving democracy™.
edit: who is the secret rich dude running Russia and China if its not Putin and Xi? 🤣