Troy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 5:08 pm
I get the DEI thing, it's a main talking populist talking point right now, everyone loves it. Crusade away until you find the browns working all those jobs we don't need them in.
As opposed to the last four years, which was "I get the DEI thing, it's a main talking populist talking point right now, everyone loves it. Crusade away until you find the straight white males working all those jobs we don't need them in."
My argument is that fighting bigotry with bigotry isn't going to solve bigotry. Doesn't matter who is doing it.
Hire the most qualified person for every job. I don't care if they have a dick, vagina, they're furries, black, white, Asian, or they're literal Smurfs. If qualified people aren't available,
why aren't we training people to do the job?
Last time I checked, the government had job training programs. WTF are we training them to do if we have ATC jobs available?
Troy wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2025 5:15 pm
Most of my criticism here is for Trump being hella racist out the gate as the default, instead of taking a lick of ownership.
He should take ownership as the president. That doesn't mean taking blame, but it does mean ensuring it won't happen again. Going on the attack, he's not being a part of the solution. Post/during tragedy or crisis, we really need ALL of our politicians to stop with the rhetoric and attacks on one another. It'll never happen though. This is the system we've allowed to be created. Two parties whose core voters never hold them accountable because voting for the other letter makes you a fascist/snowflake/etc.
We all know he isn't the reason the job isn't staffed, but he must do a realistic "why" investigation and then fix it. Did the person manning that other desk quit in the last 10 days? How long has that job been open? Why weren't there backups? Are we not paying the job enough? Were qualified candidates not hired because their skin color didn't check a box? Why can't they fill these jobs? These questions matter.
And if these things happened while the previous people were in charge, maybe he's right to fire them all? Although, I'm try to figure out why the TSA and aviation security advisory groups matter to an incident that took place under FAA jurisdiction?
An Army blackhawk helicopter flew into a commercial airliner as the airliner was landing with all of its lights on, at a busy airport. Surely this is helicopter pilot error?
Pilot error is a definite factor, but the person in the tower is ultimately responsible. How the chopper pilot did not see the plane is beyond me. The light on the front of a plane is like the sun. He/she could not have been paying attention. Meanwhile, the pilots in the plane wouldn't be able to see the chopper...I don't believe. However, the tower is the one in charge of local traffic. I can't even figure out why they'd have a chopper crossing an active runway even if nobody was coming in for a landing at that very moment.
Oh shit. Anyone know the chopper pilot's name? There's a greater than 0 chance I know him.
