ImTheCaptain
I disagree with you
if we're talking about strategic bombing = mass murder, Churchill, Le May and FDR are far worse than Truman but sure.
George Bush says hello. Harry Truman too. Probably others.
if we're talking about strategic bombing = mass murder, Churchill, Le May and FDR are far worse than Truman but sure.
IMHO, one part of American exceptionalism has been the ability of American people to put aside differences in the face of a common enemy. This happened numerous times in history. In these instances there was general agreement between the political leadership and the technical experts on the course of action.
In the current situation with the Corona virus, the political leadership and the medical experts diverged early on. If Trump had made a "wear your mask" speech last spring and then done it when in public, millions of people might not have gotten sick. Many thousands would not have died early.
And Trump would still be president.
if we're talking about strategic bombing = mass murder, Churchill, Le May and FDR are far worse than Truman but sure.
On January 25, hundreds of workers at an Amazon warehouse in Chicago were presented with a baffling choice: sign up for a ten-and-a-half-hour graveyard shift, or lose your job.
Management informed workers that their warehouse, known as DCH1, would be shut down, and they were being offered a shift that runs from 1:20am to 11:50am, which is known as "megacycle," at a new Chicago warehouse.
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The ultimatum presented to workers at DCH1 reflects a broader strategy in the U.S. for Amazon. The company has been quietly transitioning warehouse workers at delivery stations nationwide to the "megacycle" shift in recent months. The megacycle shift collapses shorter shifts into one 10-hour shift that begins around 1 am and ends around lunchtime. It's unclear where the term megacycle originated but it's used by both managers and workers to describe 10-hour graveyard shifts, workers tell Motherboard. An Amazon spokesperson told Motherboard that more than half of its last-mile delivery network has already transitioned to the new model.
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The National Employment Law Project found in a 2020 report on workplaces injuries in Amazon warehouses is twice that of the national average for the warehouse industry.
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"Megacycle isn't not just bad for lifestyle reasons," a warehouse worker at a delivery station in Queens, New York and a member of the group Amazonians United NYC, told Motherboard. "It's bad for your body. I don't think everyone can handle this."
"If I work more than eight hours, it takes a day and a half to recover, and I'm a very fit person," they continued. "Amazon work can be so demanding that Jeff Bezos doesn't just own your time at work; he owns your entire weekend that you're in bed recovering so you can go back to the warehouse."
Churchill was not American, so this is yet another way in which America is not all that exceptional.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/04/us-is-worst-among-rich-nations-for-worker-benefits.html
American exceptionalism in action.
It's crystal clear that you both vehemently disagree with the concept of American exceptionalism and don't have the first clue what it actually means.
George Bush says hello. Harry Truman too. Probably others.
if we're talking about strategic bombing = mass murder, Churchill, Le May and FDR are far worse than Truman but sure.
I mean objectively Truman ordered the deaths of a lot of people