The Glade 4.0

What? You've never heard of a "School Resource Officer"?

They've been around since the Columbine incident at least and they're part of the reason you see police getting involved in minor classroom misbehavior, unfortunately.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

You know the difference between Game of Thrones and United Airlines?

One of them puts you in an inhospitable, cruel world of brutal violence. The other only lets you watch it on TV.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Yeah but they didn't kill anyone. I feel like United is playing catch-up ball here.

Also a lack of hot redheaded barbarian women.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

What are we not supposed to be noticing with this overcoverage?

Yes, it is a stupid thing an out of control airline did, but as DE said, nobody died.

United lost a billion in value. People's jobs are going to be lost. The boarding clause of the contract may be rewritten. The deboarded and beaten Doctor will probably get a nice payday.

It shouldn't be this big a story.

What are we missing.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Nothing. This is what the media does - grabs a story with emotional impact and runs it into the ground.

This case is just unique because the media bad guy really is unequivocally the bad guy, United itself grossly mismanaged the response as well as the actual incident, and because huge numbers of people can relate to being crapped on by an airline.

Essentially, the media's usual hype and sensationalism finally found a perfect storm where the actual situation was exactly what they were claiming it was - an absolutely outrageous abuse of a person by a large, powerful entity for no good reason whatsoever. The blind squirrel really did find the nut here.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

New airline marketing slogans:

"We beat United's prices harder than they beat their customers."

"We beat the competition, not the passenger."

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

No, I was shocked at the response. I said "never call the police" and compared them to bears, and you didn't spaz.

I'm quite fond of bears, actually, and I agree - don't call the police and then expect them to not handle it as a law enforcement matter. In many cases, the problem with the police response is the fact that someone called them.

Your posts get the response they deserve. That was a good one.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I agree with you, but at least I got some real life chuckles out of the #UnitedAirlinesNewMotto twitter hashtag. Some clever stuff in there.

No more booting people who are already seated.

you'd think this would have been obvious from the start.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."