Posted on 05/10/2019 5:17:59 AM PDT by SJackson
It seemed to be more "Do as I say, not as I do" leadership from U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
On Wednesday, the New York Democrat enthusiastically threw in her support for Uber and Lyft drivers ahead of a worldwide strike, but campaign finance records indicate her team has spent nearly $2,000 on ride-hailing services this year alone.
The boycott was organized in response to Uber’s anticipated initial public offering this Friday for more than $90 billion – a figure drivers say comes at the cost of reduced wages and job security.
THE BIGGEST WINNERS FROM UBER'S IMPENDING IPO
In a Wednesday afternoon tweet, Ocasio-Cortez urged her followers to avoid using either Uber or Lyft to help support the drivers (though “Cabs are fine!" she wrote).
“It’s a small but big way you can help all the drivers you’ve met get paid more to feed their families + support themselves,” she wrote.
But despite overtures of solidarity, campaign records show Ocasio-Cortez’s staff spent nearly $2,000 on ride-hailing services in the first three months of 2019, and more than $16,000 last year. And Wednesday was by no means the first time Ocasio-Cortez took aim at the such services.
Since declaring her candidacy to unseat incumbent Democrat Joe Crowley in May 2017, her campaign has relied heavily on Uber, Lyft, and Juno, despite criticizing them for underpaying their drivers.
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I’m a driver for both Uber and Lyft, and the only way I can make more money is by driving more, not by taking part in any strike. And in my home town, business has been good this week. You should have seen the demand for drivers, after the downtown Pink concert last night!
Mmmmmmmm.....I can just hear Trump issuing the Ex/Order as we type......"no govt agency shall have an account on social media."
FYI----TRUMPS'S SOCIAL MEDIA HUD COMPLAINT NOW IN MOTION SAYS: Facebook mines extensive user data and classifies its users based on protected characteristics. Facebook’s ad targeting tools then invite advertisers to express unlawful preferences by suggesting discriminatory options. Among those options are physical disabilities, parents with children and even religious practices — advertisers are allowed to show their ads only to people Facebook deems interested in “Jesus” or the “Christian Church,” for example. Those practices could violate the Civil Rights Act, HUD said in the complaint, dated August 13.
FaceBook and Mark Zuckerberg are a self-dealing, intrusive publicly-held corporate entity.
ZUCKER IS CAPABLE OF ALMOST ANYTHING (HAT TIP gaijin)
Stole business ideas
Stole all the shares from his BEST friend
Secretly sold users’ data
Stated in a confidential email to a friend that people who trust him are “dumb-f*cks”.
Married in the community property state of California, the very day AFTER he took Facebook public.
Requested nude photos of users to “protect them against the risk of revenge porn”.
Secretly tried to get hospitals to release vast stores of patient data “so I can help cure diseases”.
Initially pursued total rights ownership of images uploaded to FB; if you’d been photoed as a happy youth with, say, a can of Coors then later got really famous, Zuck could be paid by Coors for zero work and YOUR old photo in a new ad while you, the centerpiece of the ad, would get NOTHING.
Struck down after lengthy legal battles.
De-platformed numerous Conservatives because he didn’t agree with their views, couldn’t define hate-speech when asked by Congress.
Secretly requested banks give him his users’ financial data, including transactions, so “my users can check their balances on my site.”
Digitally permitted his housing advertisers to filter out customers whose search histories were strongly associated with terms like “handicapped” , “mobility scooter” and “guide dog”.
Admonished that people “build bridges instead of walls”, all while building walls around his Palo Alto homes and around the huge Kauai Estate he bought and then threw the Hawaiians off of, an effort requiring 300 seperate lawsuits against local Hawaiian land claimants.
Established a “trustworthiness index” for ALL his facebook users while disclosing it to none of them.
Altered FB algorithms to flag content from conservative publications as spam.
Reveres Augustus Caesar, leader of Rome who assured 200 years of peace via harsh rule, possibly arranging the execution of his own grandson. On a wedding anniversary trip to Rome, Zuck gushed so effusively over sculptures and monuments dedicated to Augustus that his wife joked that three people, not two, were on their trip.
For years, Zuck traditionally closed high-level Facebook executive meetings by shouting, “DOMINATION..!”, perhaps half-jokingly.
Proposed installation in the homes of FB users special Facebook cameras that would monitor users and follow them around as they went about their private lives inside their homes. But the cameras, Zuckerberg assured, would come with privacy settings which Facebook would, like, totally respect, or something.
Asked for user telephone numbers for 2 factor authentication but within weeks used that data for marketing purposes. If users chose to share their entire contact list, Facebook also shared that data with advertisers, even phone numbers of people who NEVER had a facebook account.
After the Cambridge Analytica scandal, FB vowed to reinvigorate user privacy but neither of these practices has stopped.
In the runup to the 2018 midterm elections, FB removed over 800 conservative political pages and accounts in a clamp down on what the social media company arbitrarily termed, “inauthentic behavior”. The ambitious political move affected 66 million FB users, most of them Conservative.
Permitted the search term “white genocide” to be used as a targeting criterion to aim advertising for products at 170,000 users who interacted with that subject.
When at their SF HQ in 2016 FB employees replaced a mural slogal, “Black Lives Matter” with the words, “All Lives Matter”, Zuck returned the slogan to its original and reprimanded the employees as, “malicious and disrespectful”.
In South Sudan in late Nov. 2018, Facebook permitted the auctioning of a CHILD BRIDE, age 16. The girl was sold for 500 cows, 3 cars and $10,000 and went into hiding. Five men, including some “high-ranking government officials,” bid on the girl, according to Children’s rights organization Plan International.
At the same time it was revealed that Mexican child molesters had been using Facebook’s Messenger app to collude regarding available kids and ongoing grooming prospects.
‘just take a bus Gus...….’
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Why isn’t she always using the union cabbies?
I continue to be impressed by Uber drivers I meet. They are out there husting. Many of them have compelling stories to tell. A lot of them are immigrants. As they are being schooled in capitalism at ground level I am sure they’ll become successful.
Never mind...I filed it for future reference,,,,thanks.
Isn’t AOC the acronym a new brain disease?
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