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• https://www.dineshdsouza.com/news/fa...american-left/

• Short Video - highly educational: https://www.prageru.com/videos/fascism-right-or-left

Of course I want equal rights – equal human rights. I don’t want rights based on race, gender, or any other discriminative metric. The only way to achieve leftist “equality” is through racism, discrimination, and sexism. If you promote one demographic of people based on race, gender, or some other inherent quality, then you infringe on someone else’s rights. For example, the left keep pushing for 50% women/50% men (equality of outcome) rather than having equal human rights and letting the outcomes fall out naturally. In order to achieve 50/50, you have to discriminate based on race, gender, sex, etc.


Have you noticed that the Democrats have not improved anything for minorities? That’s not their real goal. They simply want more votes by “giving you stuff” which ironically was stolen initially via theft through taxation. Keep in mind I am not a defender on the Republicans either but the Democrats market themselves differently. Don't believe leftist marketing slogans. It’s still the Bloods vs. The Crips.

• https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/j-matt-barber/lefts-orwellian-censorship-campaign

• Google intensifies censorship of left-wing websites

• YouTube Censors Video on … Left-Wing Censorship

• BOMBSHELL REPORT: Twitter Employees Admit To Censoring Conservatives, Banning Them For Political Reasons

• Rigged: Twitter Caught Censoring Tweets About Censorship

• Conservative And Independent YouTube Channels Hit By Censorship And Demonetization

Nothing for the economy? Really? Can you prove that high tax rates are beneficial to the USA? At what point will you say taxes are high enough – provide a percentage.

• San Francisco’s Human Poop Map Shows City Is in Deep Doo-Doo

• San Francisco's downtown area is more contaminated with drug needles, garbage, and feces than some of the world's poorest slums

• Los Angeles tops the nation in chronically homeless people, federal report finds

• California ranks last in quality of life in new report

• Skid Row in Los Angeles. Katie Hopkins. – really good video report on Skid Row (2018) in L.A.

Democrat policies in motion…

• Let the events in Cypress be a warning to us
• Are Italy’s Banks About to Explode?
• The Greek financial crisis, explained in fewer than 500 words
• Sweden: Rape Capital of the West
• The most violent country in Europe: Britain is also worse than South Africa and U.S
• Brexit The Movie ---- this is a REALLY good documentary.

Sure there is… independent thinking! I’m not constrained by the false left/right paradigm. I see both parties as being anti-liberty, anti-Constitution, anti-freedom, pro-war, pro-big government, anti-free speech, etc.

I don’t support groupings of people (governments, associations, unions, special interest groups, and so on) by that nomenclature alone. If their principles align with me, then we can work together. I support individual principles and actions, not people blindly.


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queue

I agree with everything you said. About the seniority list...

How do you integrate military pilots into it? It can't be a simple hours conversion. The military has a vastly different operating domain incomparable to civil transportation operations. There are guys that fly at 80,000 ft.+ in astronaut suits, guys that fight in wars, mid air-to-air refueling of heavy aircraft, low-level airdrops, air-to-air combat, bombing missions, aircraft carrier operations, nuclear weapon missions, test pilots, and so on... They fly a lot less "hours" but they do 10 times more because they do things that isn't done in civil Point A to B flying. I've really considered this and talked it out with ALPA big dogz and there's no fair or easy solution. I'm genuinely interested in finding a good way to have some kind of seniority list.... By definition, a seniority starts when you begin civil flying operations, otherwise you have to somehow insert military pilots into the stack.



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PasserOGas

Give them a credit. 10 years of seniority in honor of their service. Easy.

Southerner

I disagree. Assuming a national list existed, seniority should start when you get hired at your first airline, just like everyone else. We all choose our path, and they chose the path with free flight training and decent pay while they serve the country. While I applaud and celebrate their service, I do not believe that it should place them ahead of anyone who worked their way into the industry in other ways.

Granted, it's far easier now for civilian guys than it was when most of us came through, but imagine how angry you would be if on day 1 at your regional the military guys could hold captain earning $60,000 a year, and you were a junior reserve in the right seat making $18,000 per year. No way would that fly. Maybe a longevity credit that have them a pay bump? That's fine and has no impact on their fellow pilots. But a seniority bump puts them ahead of the line, which isn't fair.

WhistlePig

You are definitely not offering legal advice.

Warhawg01

A national seniority list? Can anyone name a seniority list integration resulting from a merger of just *two* airlines that didn’t result in serious consternation? Heck, go read the Alaska/VA thread right now.

What color is the sky in your utopian fantasy land?

BeatNavy

Not debating your point because I agree with it, but a national list has been discussed ad nauseum...there’s just no good way to establish it. The problem is, we are the only industry where we can’t take our experience and longevity with us if we are dissatisfied with our emoloyer, or if our employer goes under, which puts us at a huge disadvantage against management since they can drag out negotiations, keep pay lower knowing we are “stuck” (in the sense that it would cost us too much to give up our seniority and start over). I don’t think queue is the first to bring it up, and I don’t think it’s only his utopian fantasy land.

WhistlePig

On the other hand, you move up in the system simply by continuing to work. If you do the minimum required on Day 1, you can still do the minimum required on Day 10,000 and be very well compensated. Other professions don't have that benefit. Not by a long shot.

The thing about arbitrary line drawing is, well, it's arbitrary.

MGMTiswatchingU

One way that they can spin it too is "31 days of negotiations", meaning if you negotiate for 4 days this month or even this yearrr and you have 27 days left to negotiate. Which technically could still take negotiation 3, 4, 5 years (or as long as they want just like now) before "day 31" occurs. So there would need to be a caveat in there to force company to conduct negotiations atleast 2 days per month, the most they'd delay an agreement is 15 months before a strike. Just a thought.

queue

True. Legalistic contractual language would be different so as not to allow loopholes. "30 contiguous calendar days originating at the initiation date as filed by the grieving party to include weekdays and weekends but not including federal holidays."




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