Enough With The Cutesy Titles, People Are Dead: US Politics January 2021 pt 2

Some labor news: SEIU has been pressing Biden to immediately fire Peter Robb, the NLRB's Trump-appointed general counsel. That's not normally done under a new prez. It would be a precedent-setting move that shows Biden willing to play hardball for unions https://t.co/IN6NHCYVxS

— Dave Jamieson (@jamieson) January 14, 2021

Scoop w/@josheidelson: Biden demanded the resignation of the federal labor board's top attorney just after being sworn in today. No word yet whether he'll leave voluntarily or force Biden to fire him. https://t.co/iYyDZ6lIio

— Ian Kullgren (@IanKullgren) January 20, 2021

I thought Madison signed right under Dick Van Dyke. I need new bifocals.

xp the good news just keeps comin'!

I want to read a hundred little items like that over the next few days as each little tick Trump embedded in various positions is plucked off and flushed away

And unlike the Trump White House, which replaced (or didn't!) each chump with a worse chump, there is pretty much nowhere to go but up.

The incoming Biden admin has hidden a message for IT folk in https://t.co/vF4SFEypzm's source code: pic.twitter.com/au0kdv0Fgp

— Raphael Satter (@razhael) January 20, 2021

I keep remembering all these outrages that would have been a huge deal if they weren’t just one of many. Like, are there any plans to move the FDA back from fucking Kansas?

In other words, stop virtue signaling. We get it.

― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 20:12 (seventeen minutes ago) link

Saying some is 'virtue signalling' is a textbook example of not getting it

My bad, USDA apparently

Saying some is 'virtue signalling' is a textbook example of not getting it

― xyzzzz__,

well, your posts here are textbook.

One of the good ones

I need to order t-shirts that say EMPIRE on them.

Have we even mentioned the coolest part of today? (After Kamala's swearing-in, that is)
There will be a rescue dog AND a cat inhabiting the White House

https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.1431677460.6399/ssrco,classic_tee,two_models,101010:01c5ca27c6,front,tall_portrait,750x1000.1.jpg

Alfred “virtue signaling” is a fake idea invented by reactionary trolls so maybe pick a different line of attack if you don’t want a reputation as a reactionary troll

gotta say, garth's amazing grace was pretty good! it was honest.

oh shit, i just his last verse. i'm being asked to sing along...i don't..is this the famous verse, shit here we go fuuuu

lady gaga's anthem was terrible but it's a terrible song

xps his candidate won, he doesn’t have to pretend to be progressive any more

watching a good national anthem is inspirational because it's like making strawberries out of a tarpit

Alfred “virtue signaling” is a fake idea invented by reactionary trolls so maybe pick a different line of attack if you don’t want a reputation as a reactionary troll

― Canon in Deez (silby)

If there's one thing I know, my public record suggests I'll earn a reputation as a reactionary troll.

So to be clear, table rolled in here with “Biden’s executive orders are good” followed almost immediately by “I don’t get why people are Celebrating The Empire” as if it’s not actually a big deal that a Black and Southeast Asian woman is Vice President for the first time in our history, but non-white posters are not allowed to push back on this blatant disingenuousness because it would make us neo-Nazis.

Why don’t you all go gush over Bernie’s mittens some more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-EZujn_aU0

xxpost lol, was gonna say

First they came for the sotos

I'd say “virtue signaling” is often used by reactionary trolls as a stick to beat people espousing progressive ideas. but to say it has no referent at all in reality shows a rather narrow experience of human beings.

well look who’s talking about blatant disingenuousness, yassssss kween Kamala, can’t wait for the foreign policy from the admin saying they recognise the coup stooge in Venezuela!

oh and btw, it’s south Asian, not southeast

damn leftist snowflakes

For years I’ve auto-SB’d anyone who accuses anyone else of “virtue signaling” & have no plans to stop. Don’t use the enemy’s language

fuck you, gyac

🙄

Yay I'm glad the politics thread can once again be left-on-not-left-enough action.

(Seriously, that makes me happy. It would just also be nice if the lefter part of that segment periodically remembers that there are many greater horrors lurking in the body politic than whatever corporate whoring constitutes the outrage of the day.)

Biden's concentration camps still operating presumably

one of these but for American empire when it's being run by liberals

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dwf22h9WkAAJPS6.jpg:small

I always assumed the "On Day 1 I'll..." stuff was just a rhetorical flourish, but apparently he's headed inside to sign some of those executive orders.

fuck you, milo

xp we got daylight, go for it! time's a'wasting and people are dying!

Like with "gaslighting", just because "virtue signaling" is often used incorrectly or disingenuously, it doesn't mean the term doesn't still have an applicable purpose.

The question isn't "criticizing American empire," it's "feeling a little better today as a POC, therefore this makes you a supporter of the American empire."

Now its a party, lads

ahh the arrows are all pointed inward again. must be a day that ends in "Y"

Like with "gaslighting", just because "virtue signaling" is often used incorrectly or disingenuously, it doesn't mean the term doesn't still have an applicable purpose.

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, January 20, 2021 12:53 PM (seven seconds ago)

there's not a "correct" version of the phrase, it's a coinage literally invented by reactionary trolls to accuse people of having ulterior motives for advocating for progressive ideas or even simply that women shouldn't be harassed on messageboards, just say something else!

it's easy to get tripped up when some people here do support american empire

About to leave the office. Class is over. Time for a drink!

it's easy to get tripped up when some people here do support american empire

― stylish but illegal (Simon H.)j

gabbneb is long gone iirc

it's the same thing as "white knighting", the implication is you're just trying to look good so you can get your dick wet, pure incel logic

posted in here too many times today, self-FP time

Perhaps being able to say 'these executive actions seem good' and 'this charade of nationalistic hooey is absolute bullshit and so is the bullshit politics of representation that dumb liberals are disingenuously engaging in' might be a bit much for you, DJP and Alfred, but it isn't for me.

Tables empire post was bad but to be fair he immediately said he shouldn’t be posting here and left. I don’t know what excuse the rest of us have.

Ha xp speak of the devil!