"Fings Break"
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From Monty Python:
Dino: You ought to be careful, Colonel.
Colonel: We are careful. Extremely careful.
Dino: Of course, uh, fings break, don’t they?
Colonel: Break?
Luigi: Well, everyfing breaks, don’t it Colonel (knocks a ceramic vase off the desk) Oh, there,
Dino: Oh see, my brother’s clumsy, Colonel. When he gets unhappy he, uh, breaks fings. Like, say he don’t feel the army’s playing fair by him, uh, he may start breaking fings, Colonel….
Colonel: Are you threatening me?
Luigi: No, no, no, no, no, whatever made you think that, Colonel?
Dino: The Colonel doesn’t think we’re nice people Louie,
Luigi: We’re your buddies, Colonel.
Dino: We want to look after you!
It's not just a few right wing crackpot business owners slipping their leashes and letting their enthused support for Romney carry them away to the point where they obliquely threaten the people who work for them. The idea comes from elected officials and candidates.
GOP Rep. Joe Walsh:
"If you run, manage or own a company tell your employees! What was the CEO this week that said, if Obama is reelected, I may have to let all of you go next year? If Obama's reelected, if the Democrats take Congress, I may not be able to cover your health insurance next year.
Mitt Romney, from Presidential Small Business Town Hall:
I hope you make it very clear to your employees what you believe is in the best interest of your enterprise and therefore their job and their future in the upcoming elections. And whether you agree with me or you agree with President Obama, or whatever your political view, I hope, I hope you pass those along to your employees…
Nothing illegal about you talking to your employees about what you believe is best for the business, because I think that will figure into their election decision, their voting decision and of course doing that with your family and your kids as well.
These people are scared. Republican efforts to make it as time-consuming and expensive as possible for many low income Americans to vote just aren’t enough. There are still a few members of the middle class, the ones who work in cubicles, who will likely get past the poll workers and actually get to fill out a ballot.
So, the GOP wants business owners to morph into the Vercotti Brothers. They want rank and file workers walking into the voting booth thinking, not of what a given candidate could do for them, but what their boss might do to them if his or her favored candidate doesn’t get elected.
Because the boss is worried! Honest! The boss wants to look out for you!
The boss just wants you to know that fings break.
Crossposted from Thoughtcrimes
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Date: 19/10/12 20:48 (UTC)Nice indicator by the way.
Either:
- I may not be able to cover your health insurance next year (-because of the higher price-)
or:
- I may not be able to cover your health insurance next year (-because My_Candidate is not elected-)
feel the difference.
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Date: 19/10/12 23:08 (UTC)It's a very strong mental Kung-Fu, to read " I may not be able to cover your health insurance" as "I'll fire you if you don't vote for my candidate".
But thanks for proving my "indicator" theory.
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Date: 19/10/12 23:21 (UTC)It definitely takes an effort to unfocus one's eyes, bat them innocently, and claim to be unable to see an attempt at intimidation.
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Date: 19/10/12 23:22 (UTC)Thanks for proving what I was pretty sure I knew.
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Date: 20/10/12 00:51 (UTC)Let us discuss the exact quotes you've posted, not the what-you-think-they-mean.
That is, nobody said anything about firing.
>> The boss wants his employees to vote, not for the candidate they consider the best person for the job, but for whoever is least likely to upset the boss.
The boss may want. An employee may do the same. Their speeches may be very emotional and even "intimidating": "We all are going to lose our jobs, they will come and take our children! TO EAT THEM ALIVE! VOTE FOR XXX!"
I may be wrong, but it looks like you're trying to mix "intimidation" and "threatening".
Every Sunday many churches "intimidate" people promising hell and suffering for wrong-doing.
Or look at this intimidating-intimidating ad, for example:
So what?
It doesn't stop you using your own head or make your own decisions.
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Date: 20/10/12 00:57 (UTC)Telepathic Accounting is your superpower, isn't it?
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Date: 20/10/12 01:19 (UTC)It cannot be universally defined, as if the environment that allows one piece of technology to thrive does so for every other piece. Same with "business." Some thrive in certain circumstances; others in, well, others.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you didn't overlook this key and quite obvious point of definition purely to score rhetorical points.
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