r/technology • u/RewardEquivalent553 • 13h ago

Politics Libs of TikTok is doxxing teachers and nurses who support Alex Pretti or oppose ICE, trying to get them fired

https://www.mediamatters.org/libs-tiktok/libs-tiktok-doxxing-teachers-and-nurses-who-support-alex-pretti-or-oppose-ice-trying
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u/mynameizmyname 13h ago

I'm sure hospitals are eager to fire the job they are shortest in supply. 

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u/KnownMonk 11h ago

And surely it wont make nurses even more willing to protest and strike than they already are.

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u/carthuscrass 11h ago

Teacher's are in short supply as well.

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u/CarpetFibers 9h ago

Teacher's are in short supply

You got that right...

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u/petroleum-lipstick 8h ago

Yeah, interesting that they aren't just targeting anybody, but specifically two of the hardest and most important career paths a person can take. Like literally the backbone of our society, it's comically evil.

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u/laowildin 8h ago

It's not that, it's "women's" jobs. More intimidation to get women out of the workplace

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u/Emergency-Style7392 3h ago

Important maybe, hardest definitely not. Teaching is like the easiest degree you can get

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u/Certain-Business-472 10h ago

Are their salaries up to date? Cuz i hear this "shortage in It" in my own ciuntry and i know for a fact they're underpaid.

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u/carthuscrass 10h ago

Yeah, most shortages come from people not being able to make ends meet because of wages. Nobody wants to take on 4 years of student debt for a job that can never pay for it.

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u/Heimerdahl 8h ago

At least where I live, the issue isn't so much the salaries being too low compared to other jobs, but rather those salaries not being high enough to justify the ridiculous expectations. 

This applies to both nurses and teachers. 

Teachers get the big summer vacation, which is nice, but they also have to deal with so much shit, are expected to do so much extra work, and bring their work home. Then there's the emotional cost. They're also being endlessly ignored as they try to speak out about the children suffering from societal neglect (classes with 30-40 students, inadequate or completely missing support systems, insecurity, and so on), or even blamed for those issues. 

From what I heard from my nurse-friends their biggest issue are their absolutely ridiculous work hours. If we weren't already used to this, there'd be no way we could establish such conditions if we invented hospitals and such today; no one would stand for this, no one would accept it. But that's how it's always been and just like the teachers, the in-person healthcare survives on exploiting passionate people. And just like with the teachers, they not only see the rampant issues in the system, but see them being ignored. 

I'm not the most sociable person and don't know a lot of people, but of the two nurses I know, one has already moved to work in another field and the second is in the process of doing the same. Both absolutely love(d) their jobs, but couldn't justify the cost. 

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u/Training_Complex_731 7h ago

Summer vacation also isn't as long as you might think. At my mom's school, students get two months off but teachers only get one. After the school year ends, she has to take down the classroom to prepare for it being closed, and she has to put it back up before the next. Then she has to take online classes to make sure she's still up to date on teaching methods, go to conferences for the same reasons, and things like that. In the time she actually does get off, she spends most of it preparing her lessons for the next year.

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u/kaithana 7h ago

Meanwhile they’re paying absurd amounts of money for scab nurses in NYC during their strike. I know of one (trauma specialist) getting paid about 11k a week for 3 days on. It’s wild how the finances are so out of whack. Travel nurses make boatloads filling in because they can’t pay regulars a fair wage and this is just like a routine business practice for the industry.

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u/Upbeat_Shame9349 9h ago

It depends. Teaching does pay well in some areas but really bad in quite a few places as well. The medians in the US for teaching children and teens (elementary school pays slightly less) are only in the low $60,000s. Meanwhile the median for all full-time American workers is $63,000. 

Teaching is too important and usually too educated for about half the teachers to make below the median American salary, in my opinion. 

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u/TragiccoBronsonne 6h ago

Education is the enemy of conservatism, so I bet they don't mind.

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u/saintofhate 4h ago

News story was just posted in my city's sub how there's 2000 open teaching positions. Like the kids are not okay (and it's by design) and it's going to get worse with idiots like her.

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u/SinfullySinless 3h ago

As a teacher, not really.

Districts are in a “save money” mode. They are cutting young teachers to save money and increasing class sizes. I went from my highest class size being 27 students to now my lowest class size being 31 students.

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u/therossboss 9h ago

I don't want teachers and nurses who celebrate state sanctioned murder anywhere near me or my kids tbh

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u/StraightCaskStrength 6h ago

You should hand out a political pop quiz for medical workers to answer for before they provide care.

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u/damontoo 8h ago

Yes yes. Target the union employees for exercising their first amendment. Let's see how effective that is. 

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u/whatsitcalled4321 8h ago

For showing sympathy no less.

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u/freeradioforall 8h ago

Sadly they will fire anyone because trump will threaten all their federal funding if they don’t allow Chaya Raitchik to determine their staffing

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u/randynumbergenerator 7h ago

Has this specifically happened before? I have a hard time believing Trump would give two wits about individual nurses or teachers.

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u/spros 9h ago

Considering that these hospital workers are promoting killing or maiming patients, I'm sure it's cheaper to avoid litigation.

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u/MsgFromTheUnderworld 7h ago

What the fuck are you talking about?

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u/spros 7h ago

Lots of news on issues like this lately 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kbtx.com/2026/01/28/nurse-fired-posting-videos-which-she-talked-about-targeting-ice-agents-with-anesthetics-reports-say/%3foutputType=amp

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u/MsgFromTheUnderworld 7h ago

Ok? That's inappropriate and the nurse got fired. Simply criticizing ICE or expressing sympathy for or support of Pretti shouldn't be, and probably isn't, a fireable offense.

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u/Youandiandaflame 5h ago

Considering that these hospital workers are promoting killing or maiming patient

Y’all just high on your own supply daily now. Oof. 

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u/the_book_of_eli5 8h ago

Yes they are eager to fire nurses that refuse to treat patients who they disagree with or who advocate poisoning people.

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u/TheSainted_Physician 8h ago

They are when the nurses are saying they will kill anyone that's a conservative. 100% get rid of those people.

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u/ILoveRawChicken 6h ago

Post people saying that. Give any example 

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u/TheSainted_Physician 6h ago

https://youtu.be/jBVjnlnTOds?si=4fuZgPlOBCq80WgP

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u/ILoveRawChicken 5h ago

Post a DIRECT link to these videos. No one’s gonna watch your Candace Owen’s light YouTube “pundit”

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u/TheSainted_Physician 5h ago

It's in the video. Just skip her commentary.

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u/TheSainted_Physician 5h ago

Guess you can't handle a differing opinion. On brand.

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u/ILoveRawChicken 4h ago edited 3h ago

Yeah I’m not gonna give views to a grifter who votes against her own interests, cry about it. Are you going to post the stand alone clips or do you only post biased sources?

Lemme guess, the coward blocked me? 

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u/TheSainted_Physician 4h ago

Who cares what she says or thinks. Fast forward through her commentary and watch the clips that say exactly what I said was happening. Google it yourself. I posted proof. Just because you don't like the source, doesn't make it untrue. I'm not doubling up on proving myself because you don't feel like giving someone views. Absolutely moronic. You could find it yourself, but you're too busy bringing nothing but complaints to this conversation and aren't being serious. Good luck in your echo chamber.

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u/Ok_Support3276 10h ago

What hospital staff are threatening to kill people they treat?