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2024 Elections: One Last Chance for Democracy

Speaking of woke, the ALPA (union for all US airline pilots except American's) is apparently "WOKE" now, after it sent out a memo reminding members to stop using the terms "cockpit" and "airmen" in the 21st century.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Speaking of woke, the ALPA (union for all US airline pilots except American's) is apparently "WOKE" now, after it sent out a memo reminding members to stop using the terms "cockpit" and "airmen" in the 21st century.
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Would that really be the origins of the term 'cockpit'?

As in, the place in the plane where the cocks sat?
 
CBS News has a memo that says Dementia Donnie is opening 8 offices in Minnesota and some in VA as they think states are in play

as Tom Bonier said- “There are two possible explanations - the Trump campaign is truly dumb enough to waste money in non battleground states, or the media is dumb enough to not see through this headfake.”
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Speaking of woke, the ALPA (union for all US airline pilots except American's) is apparently "WOKE" now, after it sent out a memo reminding members to stop using the terms "cockpit" and "airmen" in the 21st century.
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Maybe all these trumpers will stop flying now :) mookie can get upgraded every time with ease
 
Wikipedia, so of course unimpeachable:

The word cockpit seems to have been used as a nautical term in the 17th century, without reference to cock fighting. It referred to an area in the rear of a ship where the cockswain's station was located, the cockswain being the pilot of a smaller "boat" that could be dispatched from the ship to board another ship or to bring people ashore. The word "cockswain" in turn derives from the old English terms for "boat-servant" (coque is the French word for "shell"; and swain was old English for boy or servant).
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TLDR: the term is fine, this is wicked stupid.
 
rufus said:
Would that really be the origins of the term 'cockpit'?

As in, the place in the plane where the cocks sat?
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No, it likely comes from the coxswain's position on a rowboat. EDIT: Kep beat me to it

Of course, there used to be an old, chauvinist saying used by some pilots, "It's called a cockpit because women don't belong in it." So over the years, there has been this misconception as to the actual origin and meaning of the term, and thus why they'd like people to adopt "flight deck" going forward.
 
Kepler said:
Linky no worky.
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It works just fine - TFG’s golden sneakers that went for $400 are now on clearance for $9.

ETA: I just googled “Trump MAGA sneaker” and they came up for as low as $5.54 on aliexpress.
 
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St. Clown said:
It works just fine - TFG’s golden sneakers that went for $400 are now on clearance for $9.

ETA: I just googled “Trump MAGA sneaker” and they came up for as low as $5.54 on aliexpress.
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Just like every other pump and dump pyramid scheme. No, initial buyers, there is NOT an infinite supply of bigger idiots who are going to buy that garbage.
 
St. Clown said:
It works just fine - TFG’s golden sneakers that went for $400 are now on clearance for $9.

ETA: I just googled “Trump MAGA sneaker” and they came up for as low as $5.54 on aliexpress.
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LOL.

I don't know what threads is but apparently my Idiocy Blocker don't like it.
 
I'm glad the Dumpsters opened wide again for their Philanderer King.

One may be born every minute, but apparently that's more like one per second in the red states.

Has anybody here ever seen any of the Golden Shower Shoes in the wild?
 
Just heard an interview with someone from Heritage on their Project 2025 thingie. Scary shit. I don't know how anyone with a functioning cortex can vote for any Republican at this point.
 
Big L Libertarian in my field office who loves to both sides both parties, brought up Project 2025 but followed it up with "... is just the Dems ginning up support, you never hear the Republicans mention it."

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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
CBS News has a memo that says Dementia Donnie is opening 8 offices in Minnesota and some in VA as they think states are in play

as Tom Bonier said- “There are two possible explanations - the Trump campaign is truly dumb enough to waste money in non battleground states, or the media is dumb enough to not see through this headfake.”
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Its obviously both. He didn't win Minnesota against Hillary (when we were a Bernie State) and he won't against Biden either. The media is falling for it because they havent been spending any money on field offices or ad buys (unlike Biden) but they keep bragging about fundraising. The media won't really care if the money isn't being spent on the campaign.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
Just heard an interview with someone from Heritage on their Project 2025 thingie. Scary ****. I don't know how anyone with a functioning cortex can vote for any Republican at this point.
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John Oliver's episode this week put the fear of god in me about p2025. Scary shit.
 
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