The Trump administration is considering reprioritizing H-1B visas. Right now, such visas are given out based on a lottery around April 1, which is utterly irrational and chaotic; it causes outsourcing firms to flood the visa application process with numerous fake applications, instead of the visas going to US companies that actually need those workers. Under the new rules, H-1B visas would be given to the highest paid workers and with precedence to people graduating from US universities. No matter what you think about the absolute number of H-1B visas, that's a good change to the immigration program.
If, in addition, the US reduces the number of work visas, that would result in more foreign competition, unless made up for elsewhere. But Trump has generally advocated a merit-based immigration system, which may mean more skilled immigrants (as opposed to H-1B visa holders) and less unskilled labor and family-based immigration. Again, that seems like a win-win.
Of course, we'll have to see what he actually does. The Orange One is a bit unpredictable and tends to act rashly.
The links here are not the data, they're right-wing opinion pieces about the data.
So? It provides the information, plus a good, logical, rational explanation of how to interpret that data. Do you find any fault with their arguments?
but cases of violence by police against blacks (including pointing a gun at them) was MUCH higher than for whites - something the right wing blogs neglected to mention.
Of course they are. That difference is rooted in other racial differences. And the rate isn't "much higher", it's around 20-25% higher, which is basically noise when you look at social science data.
So in between passively listening and actively lecturing, where does the much-vaunted right to free discussion sit?
I never postulated a "right to free discussion" on sites like Reddit. Reddit editors are free to ban you. Reddit itself is free to ban any or all libertarians, classical liberals, conservatives, alt-righters, or whoever. Reddit can wrap itself into a tight neutronium opinion bubble if it wants to.
What I am saying is that progressives would benefit from shutting up and listening for a while. It's because progressives evidently have trouble understanding why Americans are voting the way they are, and because progressives evidently have trouble making persuasive arguments.
If you don't want to shut up and listen for a while, that is your good right. As it is the right of voters to vote in an orange loudmouth because they consider the alternative even worse.
They say you are a false-fenceposter, pushing a liberal agenda, and start breaking out terms like "virtue signalling" and blah blah blah; then they ban you.
Well, if you're doing what they are saying, it's not surprising that they ban you.
Nobody needs to listen to that horseshit. Fuck the legitimization of white nationalism. Breitbart publishes white nationalist material, and Bannon is complicit in it. It's still on their site right now.
You learned that from your hero, Goebbels, right? If you repeat a lie often enough, people will start to believe it. Go to hell.
Misattributing the problems of African Americans to systemic racism is really dangerous. It's like insisting your doctor treat you for cancer when you're really suffering from heart disease.
Communists love to call people fascist. To the Soviets, West Germany, the UK, and the US were fascist. To be called a "fascist" by the left is good for a brief chuckle, nothing more.
Given that people like Bannon and papers like Breitbart have been denounced as white supremacists and anti Semitic, it's obvious that the term has lost all meaning. Frankly, I don't care anymore whether people call me a racist or white supremacist; it's about as ridiculous as calling me a zoophile or cannibal.
Banning these people from Reddit only means that progressives will be even more out of touch with mainstream America than they already are. That kind of ignorance doesn't hurt Republicans, it hurts Democrats and progressives. You can't effectively advocate your point of view from a position of ignorance, or by demonizing the people you want to persuade.
Reddit and Twitter have little influence on Trump / right wing voters. This kind of move just deepens the ignorance of progressives. Good luck trying to win elections that way.
The answer to free speech you don't like is more free speech. And who knows, if you engage in a discussion, you might actually learn something and change your own mind.
They can't be very good scientists if they "marvel" at long predicted and long observed gradual changes in climate. Yes, the Arctic is getting warmer. That's pretty much what we expect to happen. And it will likely continue to get warmer. Every couple of years from now on, we will have a new high-temperature record in the Arctic and the whole planet (it's pretty much the same thing). No need to hyperventilate or write new sensationalist headlines every year.
They are not "Jesus types" - they are the merchants in the temple at best and more like the violent activists you mentioned.
You apparently have little idea of what it means to actually live under an oppressive or homophobic regime.
I think you are going to be getting a lesson soon that is going to teach you about government and that how even a mediocre one is better than both anarchy and what we'll soon be seeing.
Yes, that's pretty much the attitude of progressives these days: if you don't get your political way, you take glee in chaos, destruction, and violence.
Sorry, that attitude is not going to win any voters back for progressives.
It sure looks like the order was issued without any thorough check on its legality.
It's not particularly nice to strand travelers or turn them away at the arrival airport, but it's hardly uncommon; the executive branch can pretty much exclude anybody they don't like. I think it's extremely unlikely that these lawsuits will have any effect. If anything, I expect the Republican Congress to give Trump more latitude in excluding people: it's popular, sensible, and it's what other countries do.
My claim was that Trump has probably committed impeachable offenses already,
No, your claim was that Trump has "undoubtedly already committed sufficiently many unconstitutional acts to support an impeachment". That's nonsense. Nobody knows whether he violated the emoluments clause because it hasn't been legally settled what that refers to.
(As an aside, I would also point out that Clinton accepted lots of money while in government employment, but the excuse people made for her was "it didn't influence her decisions".)
The House votes that the President has committed a High Crime or Misdemeanor, and violating the Constitution presumably counts.
Impeachment is a purely political matter; violating the Constitution is neither necessary nor sufficient for impeachment.
I give it a max of two weeks before Trump is going after you as well as the Muslims.
Well, I'm a citizen now. But until 1990, homosexuality was grounds for exclusion, and not being able to enter the US because a president screwed up an EO is hardly anything unusual either. Obama and Clinton both opposed gay marriage, until it was politically expedient to say something different; they are not trustworthy on gay rights.
As for direct threats, I consider violent activists a far bigger threat than social conservatives of any stripe. Jesus types may not like who I sleep with, but they generally don't throw Molotow cocktails into my car or punch me for being a gay white male in the wrong part of town.
You need to get some perspective, and your stupid fear mongering isn't working.
Whatever Trump may do, Obama's conduct needed to be punished at the polls; no party should get away with this kind of bullshit and then get reelected.
And it wasn't just this where Obama failed, it was also his massive crony capitalism, his sabotage of race relations, his drone killings, and his war mongering.
The classified rules dating from 2013, govern the FBI's use of national security letters, which allow the bureau to obtain information about journalists' calls without going to a judge or informing the news organization being targeted
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And we will remain as faithful to your party as you have been to us, the people!
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The Trump administration is considering reprioritizing H-1B visas. Right now, such visas are given out based on a lottery around April 1, which is utterly irrational and chaotic; it causes outsourcing firms to flood the visa application process with numerous fake applications, instead of the visas going to US companies that actually need those workers. Under the new rules, H-1B visas would be given to the highest paid workers and with precedence to people graduating from US universities. No matter what you think about the absolute number of H-1B visas, that's a good change to the immigration program.
If, in addition, the US reduces the number of work visas, that would result in more foreign competition, unless made up for elsewhere. But Trump has generally advocated a merit-based immigration system, which may mean more skilled immigrants (as opposed to H-1B visa holders) and less unskilled labor and family-based immigration. Again, that seems like a win-win.
Of course, we'll have to see what he actually does. The Orange One is a bit unpredictable and tends to act rashly.
Seriously, this is news? Google and others have had this for years.
So? It provides the information, plus a good, logical, rational explanation of how to interpret that data. Do you find any fault with their arguments?
Of course they are. That difference is rooted in other racial differences. And the rate isn't "much higher", it's around 20-25% higher, which is basically noise when you look at social science data.
The NYT is not a credible source of news or analysis, and it is highly biased, far more than those papers you call "right wing".
I never postulated a "right to free discussion" on sites like Reddit. Reddit editors are free to ban you. Reddit itself is free to ban any or all libertarians, classical liberals, conservatives, alt-righters, or whoever. Reddit can wrap itself into a tight neutronium opinion bubble if it wants to.
What I am saying is that progressives would benefit from shutting up and listening for a while. It's because progressives evidently have trouble understanding why Americans are voting the way they are, and because progressives evidently have trouble making persuasive arguments.
If you don't want to shut up and listen for a while, that is your good right. As it is the right of voters to vote in an orange loudmouth because they consider the alternative even worse.
No, you're the one lobbing baseless accusations at people.
You keep saying that. Where is the evidence?
Under Stalin no doubt.
Occasionally, foaming at the mouth progressives may call someone a "racist" who actually is; that doesn't excuse their behavior.
Well, if you're doing what they are saying, it's not surprising that they ban you.
You learned that from your hero, Goebbels, right? If you repeat a lie often enough, people will start to believe it. Go to hell.
I'm not "building a strawman". Actually, I just despise you.
Well, you should go to those forums to listen and ask questions, not to lecture or proselytize.
Best thing is you look at the data yourself; that's what I did.
Academic studies find the same thing; here is a good summary: http://townhall.com/columnists...
Here is another article debunking other claims of strong racial bias: http://www.nationalreview.com/...
Misattributing the problems of African Americans to systemic racism is really dangerous. It's like insisting your doctor treat you for cancer when you're really suffering from heart disease.
Which only goes to show again that your political views are rooted in ignorance and partisanship
Where do you see irony? Trump and Republicans won the last election, didn't they?
Communists love to call people fascist. To the Soviets, West Germany, the UK, and the US were fascist. To be called a "fascist" by the left is good for a brief chuckle, nothing more.
Given that people like Bannon and papers like Breitbart have been denounced as white supremacists and anti Semitic, it's obvious that the term has lost all meaning. Frankly, I don't care anymore whether people call me a racist or white supremacist; it's about as ridiculous as calling me a zoophile or cannibal.
Banning these people from Reddit only means that progressives will be even more out of touch with mainstream America than they already are. That kind of ignorance doesn't hurt Republicans, it hurts Democrats and progressives. You can't effectively advocate your point of view from a position of ignorance, or by demonizing the people you want to persuade.
Learn to listen, people, or keep losing.
African Americans are actually statistically less likely to die in police shootings than they would be if policing was race blind.
Reddit and Twitter have little influence on Trump / right wing voters. This kind of move just deepens the ignorance of progressives. Good luck trying to win elections that way.
The answer to free speech you don't like is more free speech. And who knows, if you engage in a discussion, you might actually learn something and change your own mind.
They can't be very good scientists if they "marvel" at long predicted and long observed gradual changes in climate. Yes, the Arctic is getting warmer. That's pretty much what we expect to happen. And it will likely continue to get warmer. Every couple of years from now on, we will have a new high-temperature record in the Arctic and the whole planet (it's pretty much the same thing). No need to hyperventilate or write new sensationalist headlines every year.
It's getting warmer.
There is nothing we can do about it.
Learn to live with it and adapt.
You apparently have little idea of what it means to actually live under an oppressive or homophobic regime.
Yes, that's pretty much the attitude of progressives these days: if you don't get your political way, you take glee in chaos, destruction, and violence.
Sorry, that attitude is not going to win any voters back for progressives.
It's not particularly nice to strand travelers or turn them away at the arrival airport, but it's hardly uncommon; the executive branch can pretty much exclude anybody they don't like. I think it's extremely unlikely that these lawsuits will have any effect. If anything, I expect the Republican Congress to give Trump more latitude in excluding people: it's popular, sensible, and it's what other countries do.
No, your claim was that Trump has "undoubtedly already committed sufficiently many unconstitutional acts to support an impeachment". That's nonsense. Nobody knows whether he violated the emoluments clause because it hasn't been legally settled what that refers to.
(As an aside, I would also point out that Clinton accepted lots of money while in government employment, but the excuse people made for her was "it didn't influence her decisions".)
Impeachment is a purely political matter; violating the Constitution is neither necessary nor sufficient for impeachment.
I have never "cheered" Trump.
Well, I'm a citizen now. But until 1990, homosexuality was grounds for exclusion, and not being able to enter the US because a president screwed up an EO is hardly anything unusual either. Obama and Clinton both opposed gay marriage, until it was politically expedient to say something different; they are not trustworthy on gay rights.
As for direct threats, I consider violent activists a far bigger threat than social conservatives of any stripe. Jesus types may not like who I sleep with, but they generally don't throw Molotow cocktails into my car or punch me for being a gay white male in the wrong part of town.
You need to get some perspective, and your stupid fear mongering isn't working.
Obama firmly promised to stand up to this, and obviously he lied. Hillary must have been in on it as well.
And the voters did the right thing and kicked these jerks out of office.
Whatever Trump may do, Obama's conduct needed to be punished at the polls; no party should get away with this kind of bullshit and then get reelected.
And it wasn't just this where Obama failed, it was also his massive crony capitalism, his sabotage of race relations, his drone killings, and his war mongering.
Thank you, Mr. President, for restoring civil liberties, privacy, and the rule of law, like you promised! It's why we voted for you!
And we will remain as faithful to your party as you have been to us, the people!