of passing. The Dems might just barely eke out a victory in the House but they've got no chance in the Senate (baring some amazing bizzaro level sea change in politics). Plus Trump would Veto both bills. And finally there are "blue dog" or "corporate" Dems like Pelosi & Schumer who would vote against these bills.
If you want this stuff to change you'd need to get folks to register Democrat, vote in their primary and then put pro-worker anti-corporatist politicians in office. But America's a country of Wedge Issues and Voter Suppression. I'm not sure any of that's possible. This is why single payer healthcare is polling in the low 70s and still has no chance of passing...
Amazon like most modern companies makes heavy use of contractors for their lowest wage positions. That's how they hit that $12.50/hr average they quoted.
in that regard and pretty famous for it. And they make no bones about it, they don't want to lose French culture to the melting pot of globalization (waste of time in the Internet age if you ask me). I don't see that's what the EU is doing here. It just looks like an honest attempt to make sure home grown content doesn't get crushed by slick Hollywood production values.
defacto discrimination is the same thing as actual discrimination. You don't get to use dog whistles to hide from anti-discrimination laws. It's one of the things that makes the laws controversial. They're actually enforced, so we as a nation can't pretend they don't exist and just go about our business.
these are quotas on locally produced content. I'm not surprised the EU would want them. It's not hard to see why smaller local studios can't compete with (let's be honest mostly US based) mega corporations.
And it's not so much that nobody watches the local content as it's that nobody'll produce it because why spend money making content for 2 markets when you can do it for one and folks will watch by default.
Hell, I wish we'd do this in America. Lately the dialog and plots in American movies suck balls because they have to be watered down to get past Chinese censors and/or be easy to dub over.
I'm sure Amazon will have no trouble filling those positions with independently wealthy, heiresses and the Nouveau riche. I look forward to seeing Bill Gates, Warrent Buffet and (dare I dream?) Donald Trump packing the socks and chewing gum I buy off Amazon.
against discriminating on the basis of parenthood, so good luck with that. Bernie's been in the Senate for decades and has teams of staff members. You don't think maybe he thought of that?
he's one of the poorest. And when you consider how long he's been in politics it's frankly amazing how little he has. He's held one of the most powerful and prestigious positions of the most powerful nation on earth and he's barely a millionaire.
is some of those folks get desperate, work hard and move up the social ladder. We celebrate when that happens but I don't think we fully realize what it means. Those folks move on to better jobs. Like the ones/.ers have now. They end up competing with us and our wages drop. Then we end up doing the same and it cycles up until it hits the ruling class (where it stops, since with rare exceptions you're born into the ruling class)
I'm saying that even if you don't care what happens to those rock bottom folks from a human standpoint you still have a damn good reason to take care of them. They do not go quietly into that good night.
you're not free so long as anyone controls your access to food, shelter and medicine. Until then you're a few meals, a rent check or a bottle of pills away from doing whatever they say.
I forget where, so forgive the paraphrasing and lack of citation, but it boiled down to: "Just because you tax me doesn't mean I'm going to stop making money, so go ahead and tax me". He also pointed out that he pays less taxes than his $70k/yr secretary.
won't get you an appartment in most places. It won't buy you enough food. And $12.50 is the _average_. They don't pay that in places like Alabama where that would be a decent wage.
As for who they're exploiting, well, it's you and me. It's anybody who makes enough money to pay taxes. Amazon doesn't pay enough for their workers to have food, shelter and healthcare. But workers need those things to be productive. So they get the government to pay for those things. And by "government" I mean you and me. I think Bernie made all that very, very clear.
the proposed law applies to any business with more than 200 employees. It levies a tax when those employees qualify for food stamps and other forms of government assistance. It's not even meant as a punishment. It's meant to take back the billions they've been getting in subsidies. Their employees couldn't function without that help and they couldn't function without their employees. Time for them to pay up.
but it's anything but. Bernie is a United States Senator for one thing. Aside from SCOTUS and POTUS he's one of the most powerful men on earth. Folks don't seem to realize just how much power a US Senator wields.
As for his yelling, it's anything but cloud yelling. He has a very real goal and the thing he's yelling at (Bezos and the rest of the billionaires living high off my tax dollars) are very real themselves. I don't spend $150 billion a year on some puffy air in the sky.
Sorry to be so pedantic, but we shouldn't dismiss an honest attempt to address a real problem for the sake of a cheap laugh.
I don't see a lot of calls for violence on the #antifa hashtag. Funny enough, most of the posts seem to be opposed to anti-fa (with a few leaning towards violence...
Here's a thought: Antifa is just a boogieman created by Fox News and other right wing media outlets to mask and excuse right wing violence with "Whataboutism".
The Dems don't have a viable candidate. Their best hope was Al Franklin but some dirt was dug up on him and used to shut him out by Kamala Harris (who wanted him out of the picture for her own run). Thing is Harris is a right wing corporatists. She's basically Hilary 2.0. If she gets the nomination nobody's gonna bother showing up. What's the point of voting for another Republican with a "D" next to their name?
seems to me he ought to be kicked off for it, same as Jones was. And no, there's no way in hell Twitter will turn down those advertising dollars. The only reason they dumped Jones is they're worried one of his listeners might go of the deep end (sign... again...) and they might get sued for negligence.
with the actual left. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer aren't part of the American Left. They're right wingers running in districts that won't vote for Republicans. There's been attempts to kick them out via primary but they've got so much money they beat them back. Go look up the "Justice Democrats" on google if you want to see the actual American Left.
who are both well armed and prone to believe absurd conspiracy theories? Did you do it _after_ one of those people from your audience showed up at a pizza joint with a rifle and fired rounds into it? If so then yes, I would ban you from my platform if I was google or twitter. If only out of fear of a negligence lawsuit.
I don't recall Rachel Maddow miming shooting Trump, and I'm pretty sure if she had Fox News would make damn sure I knew. I don't recall her accusing Republicans of Blood Libel. I don't recall her suggesting armed rebellion against Trump. Jones has done all these things. He did all this while courting an audience that believes Sandy Hook didn't happen. He did all this while he knew (based on testimony given under oath at his divorce trial) that none of the crazy conspiracy theories he spouts are real (which is funny, it's biting him in the ass during his defamation hearing).
If you're gonna do Whataboutism can you at least try harder than that?
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+5 not enough. Also /. seems to have stopped doling out mod points to me. I've got good karma though, so go figure.
of passing. The Dems might just barely eke out a victory in the House but they've got no chance in the Senate (baring some amazing bizzaro level sea change in politics). Plus Trump would Veto both bills. And finally there are "blue dog" or "corporate" Dems like Pelosi & Schumer who would vote against these bills.
If you want this stuff to change you'd need to get folks to register Democrat, vote in their primary and then put pro-worker anti-corporatist politicians in office. But America's a country of Wedge Issues and Voter Suppression. I'm not sure any of that's possible. This is why single payer healthcare is polling in the low 70s and still has no chance of passing...
Amazon like most modern companies makes heavy use of contractors for their lowest wage positions. That's how they hit that $12.50/hr average they quoted.
in that regard and pretty famous for it. And they make no bones about it, they don't want to lose French culture to the melting pot of globalization (waste of time in the Internet age if you ask me). I don't see that's what the EU is doing here. It just looks like an honest attempt to make sure home grown content doesn't get crushed by slick Hollywood production values.
here in America we don't spill the blood of kings, and she was very well connected with the American equivalent of royalty.
defacto discrimination is the same thing as actual discrimination. You don't get to use dog whistles to hide from anti-discrimination laws. It's one of the things that makes the laws controversial. They're actually enforced, so we as a nation can't pretend they don't exist and just go about our business.
these are quotas on locally produced content. I'm not surprised the EU would want them. It's not hard to see why smaller local studios can't compete with (let's be honest mostly US based) mega corporations.
And it's not so much that nobody watches the local content as it's that nobody'll produce it because why spend money making content for 2 markets when you can do it for one and folks will watch by default.
Hell, I wish we'd do this in America. Lately the dialog and plots in American movies suck balls because they have to be watered down to get past Chinese censors and/or be easy to dub over.
I'm sure Amazon will have no trouble filling those positions with independently wealthy, heiresses and the Nouveau riche. I look forward to seeing Bill Gates, Warrent Buffet and (dare I dream?) Donald Trump packing the socks and chewing gum I buy off Amazon.
against discriminating on the basis of parenthood, so good luck with that. Bernie's been in the Senate for decades and has teams of staff members. You don't think maybe he thought of that?
he's one of the poorest. And when you consider how long he's been in politics it's frankly amazing how little he has. He's held one of the most powerful and prestigious positions of the most powerful nation on earth and he's barely a millionaire.
is some of those folks get desperate, work hard and move up the social ladder. We celebrate when that happens but I don't think we fully realize what it means. Those folks move on to better jobs. Like the ones /.ers have now. They end up competing with us and our wages drop. Then we end up doing the same and it cycles up until it hits the ruling class (where it stops, since with rare exceptions you're born into the ruling class)
I'm saying that even if you don't care what happens to those rock bottom folks from a human standpoint you still have a damn good reason to take care of them. They do not go quietly into that good night.
you're not free so long as anyone controls your access to food, shelter and medicine. Until then you're a few meals, a rent check or a bottle of pills away from doing whatever they say.
I forget where, so forgive the paraphrasing and lack of citation, but it boiled down to: "Just because you tax me doesn't mean I'm going to stop making money, so go ahead and tax me". He also pointed out that he pays less taxes than his $70k/yr secretary.
won't get you an appartment in most places. It won't buy you enough food. And $12.50 is the _average_. They don't pay that in places like Alabama where that would be a decent wage.
As for who they're exploiting, well, it's you and me. It's anybody who makes enough money to pay taxes. Amazon doesn't pay enough for their workers to have food, shelter and healthcare. But workers need those things to be productive. So they get the government to pay for those things. And by "government" I mean you and me. I think Bernie made all that very, very clear.
the proposed law applies to any business with more than 200 employees. It levies a tax when those employees qualify for food stamps and other forms of government assistance. It's not even meant as a punishment. It's meant to take back the billions they've been getting in subsidies. Their employees couldn't function without that help and they couldn't function without their employees. Time for them to pay up.
but it's anything but. Bernie is a United States Senator for one thing. Aside from SCOTUS and POTUS he's one of the most powerful men on earth. Folks don't seem to realize just how much power a US Senator wields.
As for his yelling, it's anything but cloud yelling. He has a very real goal and the thing he's yelling at (Bezos and the rest of the billionaires living high off my tax dollars) are very real themselves. I don't spend $150 billion a year on some puffy air in the sky.
Sorry to be so pedantic, but we shouldn't dismiss an honest attempt to address a real problem for the sake of a cheap laugh.
your economy is well and truly farked.
at least that's how it is with my kid. iMessage functions as a defacto social network. It's the killer app that keeps her stuck on the iPhone.
I don't see a lot of calls for violence on the #antifa hashtag. Funny enough, most of the posts seem to be opposed to anti-fa (with a few leaning towards violence...
Here's a thought: Antifa is just a boogieman created by Fox News and other right wing media outlets to mask and excuse right wing violence with "Whataboutism".
The Dems don't have a viable candidate. Their best hope was Al Franklin but some dirt was dug up on him and used to shut him out by Kamala Harris (who wanted him out of the picture for her own run). Thing is Harris is a right wing corporatists. She's basically Hilary 2.0. If she gets the nomination nobody's gonna bother showing up. What's the point of voting for another Republican with a "D" next to their name?
seems to me he ought to be kicked off for it, same as Jones was. And no, there's no way in hell Twitter will turn down those advertising dollars. The only reason they dumped Jones is they're worried one of his listeners might go of the deep end (sign... again...) and they might get sued for negligence.
by saying that it's both legal and allowed? After all, we ended Net Neutrality.
with the actual left. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer aren't part of the American Left. They're right wingers running in districts that won't vote for Republicans. There's been attempts to kick them out via primary but they've got so much money they beat them back. Go look up the "Justice Democrats" on google if you want to see the actual American Left.
who are both well armed and prone to believe absurd conspiracy theories? Did you do it _after_ one of those people from your audience showed up at a pizza joint with a rifle and fired rounds into it? If so then yes, I would ban you from my platform if I was google or twitter. If only out of fear of a negligence lawsuit.
I don't recall Rachel Maddow miming shooting Trump, and I'm pretty sure if she had Fox News would make damn sure I knew. I don't recall her accusing Republicans of Blood Libel. I don't recall her suggesting armed rebellion against Trump. Jones has done all these things. He did all this while courting an audience that believes Sandy Hook didn't happen. He did all this while he knew (based on testimony given under oath at his divorce trial) that none of the crazy conspiracy theories he spouts are real (which is funny, it's biting him in the ass during his defamation hearing).
If you're gonna do Whataboutism can you at least try harder than that?