"If you don't wear Special Clothes around me I'm going to lose it."
When are we going to move past costuming for work?
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2023
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The only costume I wanna wear for work is a mascot costume for a sports team that named themselves after an animal.
It's ok to admit you're a furry on the Internet. We run the damn thing, after all
Look at the instance that user is from
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Nonsense ideology that dates back to medieval times. I subscribed to it for years until I realized it had no bearing on my work. I tell my interns and staff “dress appropriately,” meaning be comfortable - unless we’re meeting with clients, whose expectations may not align.
Dress codes serve as class signifiers. Like most rules of decorum, they're cultural artifacts used to delineate the haves from the have-nots. They don't dislike the fact that Fetterman refuses to wear a suit. They dislike the fact that he dresses like the common people he actually represents. Whereas they dress like the people they represent - capitalist oligarchs. They're wanting to close ranks and keep people from realizing that not everyone in the senate serves the same masters.
People with their little collars and jackets and ties to make them feel important
Isn't the logic that it's an easy thing to use as a sign of conformance? A check to see if you're willing to compromise your personal choices for the groups mandate?
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Probably never. People will always judge others based on how they are dressed. We subconsciously attach a certain image of what people should look like. And these dress codes are often enforced by society indirectly. 99% of people would not want to have a lawyer dressed casually to court and will pick someone else even if the alternative is by all accounts not as good as the casually dressed lawyer.
I'd be happy to have a lawyer in casual attire if it wouldn't bias the judge and jury against him (or me).
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Thats right. I judge them by how they are dressed. Fetterman is a working class american, and the others are my enemy.
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You see, this impacts them. Never mind that there's no actual impact, they only want those among them who behave as expected. Also, he got excessive attention due to his attire, which gave him a bigger audience for his political views.
So youre saying that things need to impact these people?
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Once the Miserables found themselves outvoted in the Estates General of 1789 by about 3% of the population (the ones with money), it became very uncomfortable in France for aristocrats.
Just saying,
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Would love to see some bipartisan support for banning congress members from trading stocks. Both sides are doing it to such a degree that they are more likely to be replaced before any legislation regarding this gets passed. Obligatory Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker link: https://twitter.com/PelosiTracker_/
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Formal dress codes are upper class by aesthetics. Its just another little bite of compliance that one is expected to take before joining those in power.
It is funny and sad how many ways of getting ahead in society can be interpreted as testing your tolerance for bullshit.
Okay. All those fat old men (on both sides) wearing ill fitting suits should be expelled from houses of government until they wear a fitted suit. Same with the women.
Their priorities are “fuck you got mine”
need a retirement age for all public employees. I mean let them get paid to do nothing where we don't have to listen to them pretending to do serious stuff.
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I mean they kinda always had it out for hoodies.
Ever since that one congressman wore one to protest the treatment of black kids by the police for wearing them.
They put up a dress code, then one of their own rocks up wearing denim dungarees.
Isn't insider trading literally illegal tho?
Technically, yes, per the STOCK Act. But there's a loophole for Congress.
It doesn't count as "insider trading" for them if the information they use is based on bills they are passing as a part of their job.
Democrats have repeatedly tried to pass a law to ban this loophole as well, such as Adam Schiff from January of this year, but Republicans always vote such bills down or have them die in committee.
That sounds like we should follow Congress' stock trades for our own benefit. I bet there's a tracker out there since all that is supposed to be public information.
There is but the data is delayed by (I think) 30-ish days.
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Not if you're a member of Congress.
Not for congresspeople. Just normal citizens.
any publicity is good publicity and maybe he can use this platform to get his messages across
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