Seems it started more around World War 2. Still recent but not that bad. The 1973 thing was about the creation of HMOs that eventully fell to for profit HMOs. I fecking. Despise. The health insurance industry
i don’t know how to explain it but bargaining with your oppressor isn’t a good idea
a cis person who goes “normal trans people are okay, I just don’t like the freaks” is not your friend — their definition of “normal” WILL get smaller and more specific and their definition of “freak” WILL expand
repeating their text about “normal trans people” and “freaks” will only bring you temporary benefit! throwing other trans people under the bus will only bring you temporary cis approval points!
transphobic cis people are not your friends! appealing to them will not make them your allies! they’ll use you as a shield to be transphobic but they won’t like you and they won’t care about you!
I don’t know how to explain it but transphobes are not to be bargained with. in the end you will only lose and you will lose inevitably.
A federal grand jury in Texas on Thursday indicted Mark Forkner, 49,
Boeing’s former chief technical pilot on the 737 MAX program, charging
him with fraud.
This is the only criminal charge so far resulting
from a Department of Justice investigation into two deadly MAX crashes
that killed 346 people in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
The
DPA slapped Boeing with a relatively small fine of $244 million and
specifically exonerated Boeing’s senior management by stating that they
had not facilitated the misconduct. However, the agreement cited Forkner
and his deputy as being involved.
Thursday’s indictment alleges
Forkner deceived both the Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing’s
airline customers by withholding information about the MAX’s new
flight-control system — called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS.
“In an attempt to save Boeing money, Forkner allegedly withheld
critical information from regulators,” said Chad Meacham, acting U.S.
attorney for the Northern District of Texas. “His callous choice to
mislead the FAA hampered the agency’s ability to protect the flying
public and left pilots in the lurch, lacking information about certain
737 MAX flight controls.”…
The prosecution agreement, criticized for the way it let Boeing
executives off the hook, was filed by the then-U.S. Attorney in the
northern district of Texas, Erin Nealy Cox.
Cox left the
Department of Justice after the agreement and in June joined Kirkland
& Ellis, Boeing’s lead corporate criminal defense law firm. On
Kirkland’s website, she was welcomed to the firm as a partner by Mark
Filip, who had signed the DPA on behalf of Boeing.
Forkner’s indictment was filed by her replacement, acting U.S. Attorney Meacham.
Disabled people aren’t being class traitors when they report on their civil rights and humanity being violated
You all need to be very very careful in these next couple of years to be extremely good allies to disabled people because it is very likely they are going to attempt to kill us and the way that’s done in this country over the past few decades has been denying us access to necessary services and the money we need to acquire most of those services. So many people have died waiting on disability and the likelihood that this is going to get worse is very very high.
Hey, please take this seriously, this is me ringing the warning bell like I’ve done often over my life, I have been dismissed often and then have been proven by time to be correct. I would appreciate abled people sharing this.
IDs: a series of headlines. Headline 1: Nearly 19,000 People Died Waiting for Social Security Benefits In Two Years. More than 1 million former workers stuck in the backlog for benefits that were earned and promised. Headline 2: Almost 110,000 Americans died while waiting for a Social Security disability hearing. Headline 3: 597 days. And still waiting. 10,000 people died in the past year while stuck in a backlog of judges’ disability cases. What will happen to Joe Stewart? / end IDs
This is happening in the UK, too. It can take months to be approved for disability-related benefits here and if you’re turned down, appealing the decision can take many months more. People die while waiting for a decision all the time, or die within a few weeks or months of being denied benefit. They are ALREADY killing us.
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