#noel's politics

[lonely-soul-02]

Re: Noel's views on ‘wokeism’ and pronouns. I've been reading all sorts of opinions about him on different platforms. I know some fans think that Noel is a bigot because of things he has said recently.

I really do not think Noel is a bigot. He doesn’t hate LGBTQ people. He’s hung around LGBTQ people from the earliest days, he has featured lesbians, drag queens and trans women in his music videos. I mean, he open mouth kissed his own brother. He may yet be LGBTQ himself. These are not the actions of a right-wing bigot who thinks LGBTQ people shouldn’t have rights.

What happened is that his culture changed as culture does. And like a lot of older people, he is confused and overwhelmed by the new discourse and language surrounding that change. Words and phrases that older people have been using for the past 50 odd years are suddenly not ok anymore, and they don’t know how to deal with that. Younger people are much more adaptable when it comes to social and cultural change. So it’s not that Noel has a problem with certain groups of people; he has a problem with language and discourse and cultural change. He’s not great at expressing his feelings on that in a diplomatic way, given that he is Noel Gallagher, ya know, not known for being diplomatic. Noel is many things, but he’s not a bigot. 

[whowouldwininafite]

[northern-passage]

clem is such an interesting character and so different from what i usually see in IFs like I've yet to see an RO who is scared of everything? in a world of girlbosses and mansplainers we need the clems

thank you!

i'm glad that they feel different :-) when i started tnp, a lot of romance stories, especially fantasy or supernatural, tended to put the mc in Clementine's role. there are exceptions now, of course, i'm not trying to make a broad statement, especially since within IF that's actually something that's changed a lot over the years, but i definitely wanted the mc in tnp to be the competent, protective, "mysterious stranger" type, which is an archetype that used to (typically) go exclusively to love interests.

which means that we get to have poor little meow meows like Clementine as our love interests, instead :-) i also really like having Clem as a bit of balance, because they're life has been so different from everyone else's - Merry is a career criminal, and we've seen that she has no hesitation getting nasty and violent, while Noel, Lea, and the hunter have all been entrenched in the Order for their entire lives, with all of them also being very familiar with violence and comfortable with it or at the very least indifferent towards it.

even though Clementine is running from something, and is just as much as a fugitive as Noel, compared to the others, they really are the "normal" one, who just had their life upturned by running into a group of hardened fighters and criminals. or at least, upturned in a different way than it already was.... we'll get to see their reaction in the second half of chapter 2, but Clementine deals with what happened in Blackwater very differently than everyone else, because it's not like something they've ever really experienced before.

[sunsetzer]

As a certified FF6 enjoyer I really loved the attention the characters got in OO so much. I think maybe the writers had a soft spot for a few games in particular and 6 was definitely one of them. They really captured the charming spirit of the Returners, and they were also multi-dimensional in characterization as well, which they absolutely could have been lazy with for a mobile gacha game. I think there was a lot of love put into it and I can't imagine how the team feels having the game axed before the story got a chance to finish. :(

[liamtwatter]

they insist : "she's a woman"... sure... that thing is to protect "the jewels"... oh he / she / it reached the final, oh wow congratulations, must've been hard, beating up women... (same as LIAM Gallagher, the fake politically correct one)... "guys that is a joke right ? that is a troll, there's no way that is the real thing, right ?"

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a cement mixing company that seeks to bypass federal labor law and sue a union in state court for the destruction of property caused by striking workers.

The Court said the dispute could continue in state court for now, a move that could chill workers’ decisions to strike for fear that unions would now have to face potentially costly litigation in state court for misconduct during federally protected strikes.

The union argued that the case should be handled by an independent federal agency that investigates allegations of wrongdoing, and that the union should not have to face costly state litigation.

The case had been closely watched by supporters of unions who have witnessed the conservative majority in recent years chip away their power.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing for the majority that included two of the court’s liberal members, said that the Washington state Supreme Court had been too dismissive of arguments made by the business that it should be able to move forward in state court with a claim of intentional destruction of property.

She pointed particularly to the fact striking workers “abandoned fully loaded trucks” of cement “without telling anyone,” a move that could have destroyed the trucks had they not been unloaded in time by non-striking workers at the company, Glacier Northwest.

Barrett said that the “union’s actions not only resulted in the destruction of all the concrete Glacier had prepared that day; they also posed a risk of foreseeable, aggravated, and imminent harm to Glacier’s trucks.”

Because “the union took affirmative steps to endanger Glacier’s property,” rather than “reasonable precautions to mitigate the risk,” the conduct at issue is arguably “not protected by the” National Labor Relations Act, Barrett wrote.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Brett Kavanaugh joined Barrett’s opinion.

Noel Francisco, an attorney for the cement company, said he was “pleased” with the court’s ruling. “Our client is entitled to just compensation for its property that the union intentionally destroyed.”

The ruling is a loss for the unions, but the majority maintained a test for future cases that the unions had argued should remain in place.

“Given the implications of the ruling, and the uncertainty it will create for when striking workers can and can’t be sued for damage to their employers (as Justice Jackson stressed in her dissent), it may seem odd that Justices Sotomayor and Kagan joined Justice Barrett’s majority opinion,” said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law.

“But compared to completely revisiting the court’s 1959 decision holding that state law generally doesn’t apply in these circumstances, the fact that Justice Barrett’s analysis rests on the narrow facts of this case – including the workers’ intentional misconduct and lack of effort to mitigate the damage – likely was enough to attract two of the three Democratic appointees, and too narrow for some of her fellow conservatives,” he said.

Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas agreed with the majority’s bottom line but would have gone further in their reasoning.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson filed a dissenting opinion joined by no other Justice, in which she suggested that the majority’s opinion “risks erosion of the right to strike.”

She said that the majority opinion would likely cause “considerable confusion” in the lower courts about what Supreme Court precedent requires, and she charged that her colleagues had failed “in multiple respects to heed Congress’ intent” that the National Labor Relations Board take a primary role in adjudicating labor disputes.

“In my view, doing that places a significant burden on the employees exercise of their statutory right to strike, unjustifiably undermining Congress’s intent,” Jackson wrote. She noted that “workers are not indentured servants, bound to continue laboring until any planned work stoppage would be as painless as possible for their master.”

LABOR DISPUTES AT THE COURT

Conservatives on the Court have diluted the strength of unions in recent years. In 2018, for instance, the Court held that public-sector unions aren’t automatically entitled to dues from non-union members.

Back in 2017, Glacier Northwest, a company that sells and delivers ready-mix concrete, was negotiating with Teamsters Local 174 when the company’s truck drivers went on strike. The workers left behind concrete in trucks, causing non-striking workers and managers to work quickly to remove the concrete so as not to damage the trucks. The trucks were saved, but the concrete went to waste and the company moved to sue in state court for damages that resulted from the strike.

A lower court dismissed the claims, holding that they were preempted by the federal National Labor Relations Act, a law passed in 1935 that established the legal right for workers to join labor unions and enter into collective bargaining. Under the law, labor disputes are resolved by an independent agency called the National Labor Relations Board set up to enforce US labor law.

In the dispute at hand, Glacier argued that the workers’ activity amounted to intentional destruction of property and did not fall under the scope of the NLRA because it doesn’t cover workers who fail to take “reasonable precautions” to prevent the destruction of an employer’s property. They said state courts are proper vehicles to decide tort claims.

The unions, on the other hand, said the workers had acted responsibly as evidenced by the fact that no truck was damaged.

The Biden administration supported neither party in the dispute, arguing that the lower court had erred, and the case should be remanded to the state court for further fact-finding.

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[ocdsaraberry]

Everytime someone writing a fic has Noel mention The Blue Angel and calls it a French film I lose years of my life

[dialogue-queered]

Comment:

Australia’s centre-right parties have been in disarray since the May 2022 national elections. Sustained moves to the right on climate change, lgbtiq rights, and even integrity issues saw them lose seats, especially in urban areas, to greens, to centrist ‘teal’ independents as well as to the Australian Labor Party which formed a narrow majority government.

Now, after decades of also playing wedge politics with the minority rights of Australia’s indigenous peoples reflecting ahistorical, proto-racist views, these centre-right parties led by a notorious populist conservative, Peter Dutton, have doubled down on that stance to reject a proposed direct reference and formal advisory role for indigenous folk in Australia’s written constitution known as ‘the voice’. (https://dialogue-queered.tumblr.com/post/713901890333802496/all-australians-own-the-constitution-now-we-have.) It appears the Coalition parties think they can build a majority for resentment against indigenous peoples at the very time when national reconciliation is progressing.

This formal advisory role was proposed (alongside treaty and truth-telling means for reconciliation) by a congress of indigenous peoples in 2017 that culminated in the ‘Uluru Statement from the Heart’ ( https://dialogue-queered.tumblr.com/post/713851452727197696/view-the-statement-uluru-statement-from-the.)

Noel Pearson (referenced below) was a member of this indigenous peoples congress.

A referendum to amend the constitution is proposed for late 2023.

Extract 1: The Liberal party yesterday formally resolved to oppose the referendum for a constitutionally enshrined voice to parliament, instead proposing symbolic constitutional recognition of Indigenous people along with local and regional voices set up by legislation. Symbolic constitutional recognition was rejected in the detailed consultation processes leading up to the Uluru statement from the heart, which called for a constitutionally enshrined voice.

On ABC’s AM program, Dutton claimed that the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, was “on a path to dividing the country” and that the voice would disrupt the process of government.

Extract 2: State Liberal leaders have publicly opposed the federal party’s decision, and federal MP Bridget Archer admitted she had considered quitting the party, saying her colleagues hadn’t learned the lessons of mounting election losses.

Extract 3: “Dutton sees his own political future tied up with getting this referendum to fail. This is more about his calculations about Liberal versus Labor, rather than what’s good for the country,” Pearson told ABC radio on Thursday morning.“He doesn’t mind chucking Indigenous Australians and the future of the country under the bus so he can preserve his miserable political hide.”

Pearson, one of the architects of the Uluru statement, has for years attempted to convince conservatives of the merit of the voice concept. He was scathing of Dutton’s decision, calling it “very sad”. “I couldn’t sleep last night. I was troubled by dreams and the spectre of the Dutton Liberal party’s Judas betrayal of our country,” Pearson said.“They’ve had 11 years of power to work on a proper proposal for recognition and the decision they’ve taken yesterday is a very poor outcome … I see the leader of the Liberal party, Mr Dutton, as an undertaker preparing the grave to bury [the Uluru statement].”

Extract 4: Pearson said Dutton was on a “unity ticket” with One Nation’s Pauline Hanson and former prime minister Tony Abbott, who are both campaigning against the voice.“I believe that the Liberal party is greatly out of step with the sentiment of the Australian people on this issue, and we will succeed notwithstanding their very disappointing stance,” he said.“I am certain that every attempt to try and kill Uluru and bury it will not succeed. The Australian people will rise to the historic opportunity we have to achieve reconciliation at last.”

Pearson noted the former Coalition government did not secure constitutional recognition of Indigenous people over its decade in office, despite it being part of the party’s platform.

[cuntstable]

does anyone actually like watching those popular youtubers who are just like identical american white guys somewhere in their 20s and all they do is talk about videos or tiktoks that other people have made. like does anyone actually enjoy them why do they have millions of followers

[lonely-soul-02]

Noel Gallagher is not a Tory.

Besides the fact that his roots are working class and that Manchester is historically red wall country, Noel has made it crystal clear since the earliest days of Oasis, that he is a Labour supporter, has promoted Labour, bigged up Tony Blair (I'm convinced he had a crush on him ) and has repeatedly rubbished the current ridiculous Tory government. I think he has conservative leanings when it comes to economics - loves his money - but he is left leaning when it comes to social issues. He features trans women or drag queens in the Pretty Boy video and a lesbian love affair in the video for Love Is The Law. Highly unlikely that a right wing person is going to feature trans women and lesbians in their music videos. I mean, Noel himself is possibly bisexual.

Some people think his stance on Brexit muddies the waters but he's been consistent on that as well. He never thought Brexit was a good idea, but once the majority voted for the fucking thing, he said that it was their democratic right that the decision be upheld and Brexit be implemented. Supporting democracy and the vote of the majority, however daft the majority were to vote that way, doesn't make him right wing. Noel is many things: arrogant, an arsehole, smug, emotionally unavailable, a middle-aged rich white guy hurting from divorce and yelling at a Sara shaped cloud aka 'angry middle-aged women outburst', but a Tory he ain't.

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[liamtwatter]

Christie from Torquay where we were based in 94 for Oasis with tourbus… this is the type of politically correct bullshit (nothing to do with Oasis) Liam uses for virtue signalling, as when he said “snowperson” instead of snowman. Erasing from books (he never read one) “white teeth”, so it’s better to have them black and rotten… (white snow is allowed?) he was ridiculous before, now even more… just another slave of corporations. And he has to PAY Oasis songs to make people interested… the “pacifist” already had black teeth sometimes…

[morkedisblog]

Hristiyanlık dünyasının NOEL'leri kutlu olsun🎄🎉Sonra ben birşey söyleyince adım batı hayranı doğu düşmanı ekmek şişmanına çıkıyor ama haklıyım Hristiyanların Dini bayramları çok güzel ışıltılı insana ümid ve yaşam sevinci veriyor onlar mezhepçilik/dinin karanlık batıl tarafını/din devletini 100 yıl savaşları vs reformlarla tarihin sararmış sayfaları arasında bıraktılar bir de İslâm ülkelerine bak kendi rantı-gücü uğruna kutuplaştırma/baskı/karanlık/diktatörlük/yoksulluk/ cehennemle korkutma/canlı bombalar/İran molla rejimi/ Afganistanda taliban vahşeti/mezhep kavgaları/savaş/ yoksulluk 🔗Oysa biz TÜRK'ler İslâmın ve ortadoğunun aydınlık yüzüydük😢Bayramlarımız kandillerimiz neşe ve çoşkuyla kutlanırdı siyasal İslâmın tuzağına düşüp ortadoğu ve suriye batağına düştüğümüzden beri insanlığımızı/ gelecek ümidimizi/yaşama tutunma hevesimizi kaybettik önceden de hiç birşey tozpembe gökmavi değildi ama saygı sevgi vardı hayat kavgamızdan zevk alan içtiğimiz çorbanın temiz kazanım olduğunun farkına varan Halktık,eski Yeşilçam filmlerinin meşhur repliği"fakirdik ama gururlu ve mutluyduk"gine fakiriz araplardan sadaka almanın ezikliği topraklarımızı onlara peşkeş çekme rezilliğinden başımız dik değil⚫ bizi bu duruma getirenlerin hak ettiklerini bulmalarını umuyorum benim noel dileğim bu💔🙏🌈

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