One person, one vote. Keeping track of voting in multiple districts would be a hot mess, and if you have enough money to have more than one property, you probably have enough money to make political donations. And politicians pay the most attention to donations, not votes.
It was the repeal of Glass Steagall in 1999 that directly paved the way for the 2008 crisis, by removing the firewall between depository and investment banking. Who was president in 1999?
You really think the majority of Trump's base are long-term unemployed adults?
Yeah, that was a bit of an exaggeration on the part of the parent poster, but not a big whoop.
Let's think about that - you think millions and millions of long-term unemployed adults with no means other than government handouts, are die-hard trump supporters cheering him on to wipe out the very programs they personally rely on to survive?
Partisan tribalism makes for powerful cognitive dissonance - on both sides of the aisle. See Craig Nelson's "I've been on food stamps and welfare, anybody help me out? No." quip as an example. But that's nothing compared to Democrats, who constantly gripe about Republican voters who vote against their own interests. Because no one does a better job of stabbing their base in the back, or hurting working class or poor people, than the Democratic Party. It wasn't Reagan who passed NAFTA and signed draconian crime bills in the 90's, and it wasn't Bush who stood by as banks stole millions of homes and deported a record number of immigrants.
No, your tired and frayed racist card has no meaning.
It's not "playing the race card" when you're an actual racist. You're engaging in anecdotes, confirmation bias, and healthy portions of bullshit to demean a vast group of innocent minorities who have never done a thing to you.
Like every other bigot in the history of the universe.
I referenced statistics that shows the Black Lies Matter narrative is bullshit
To paraphrase NDT, the neat thing about facts is they don't give a shit if racists believe in them or not. That a black person is much more likely to be murdered by cops than a white person is indisputable. Go move to an island with the people who work "white privilege" into a sentence so you can fling poo at each other.
It wear on my intelligence to argue with sympathizers of domestic terrorists from the Black Liberation Army.
MAGA hatters have been running around wearing this t-shirt which celebrates Pinochet throwing thousands of people out of helicopters over the ocean. Which numerically is 40,000 times worse than your fifty year old police shooting. By your line of dumbfuckery, all Republicans, Trump supporters and a good number of Libertarians are all bloodthirsty fascists who need to be denounced and rejected. Because a few people have bought a t-shirt.
But any person who made such an argument would be an utter moron - just like you.
Doesn't mean they're wrong about everything, including covering basic statistics.
It means you're further flying your idiot flag when you call them a leftist newspaper. That's what it means.
It's also a numerical fact that a black is for more likely to be involved in a violent crime, which has fuck-all to do with police murdering people minding their own business or assigning the death penalty for petty BS like selling loosie cigarettes
FTFY. Blacks could be responsible for 100% of all violent crimes, and you'd still be using racist as fuck "Jews killed Jesus" reasoning from the Klan when you try and justify police state brutality against innocent people. You do know that Tamir Rice and John Crawford had nothing to do with Willie Horton (or whatever boogyman you want to use) when cops decided to murder them without warning, for holding not-guns in an open carry state.
He only mentioned the Eric Garner case, and he did indeed resist arrest.
Cops assault people all the time and resisting arrest can mean anything from "couldn't get on ground after being tazed" to "suspect was trying to get away (from the police dog tearing up his leg)". In Garner's case, he kept saying he couldn't breath, as he couldn't breath in a banned choke hold. At no point did he try to fight off the officers and make a break for it.
But he's white, so his life didn't matter. Or it didn't happen. Or he deserved it.
Sarcasm is noted, but that's exactly what your words would say if you expanded them to people with lighter skin.
To say All Lives Matter is racist.
When trying to pretend there's any equivalency between blacks and cops getting murdered? Yeah. It is. When a black person commits a crime, especially against a police officer, everyone expects that black person to go to jail. Including other black people.
Whereas chickenshit cops are free to murder people with impunity, and people like you go around making excuses for them while blaming the victims.
Just to refine the point a little (since I can't stand those people) I'll ask them if putting on their seat belt means the SJW plans on driving drunk or watching a movie on their phone while behind the wheel. Or....maybe they're just taking reasonable precautions because an unlikely event can be disastrous, not because it's a sign of guilt or not being able to control themselves.
I'm a little surprised that it was an Asia Argento who put some breaks on the #MeToo witch hunt, instead of another Duke Lacrosse incident blowing up in their faces.
Is Apple as accommodating when you chose to quit using iTunes? Will your local cable company burn your 'legally purchased' movies to DVD when you switch to Sattelite TV?
Whatever drugs you are taking to come up with those analogies, did you bring enough to share?
umm why should felon's (people who destroy society) be able to say have a say in society through voting????
No taxation without representation, along with plenty of other reasons. Or states being happy to count ex-cons when it comes to the census and having the number of congressional seats allocated, same as when slaves couldn't vote but counted as 3/5 of a person for congress.
So you can fuck off right there. Besides, what the hell do you think ex-cons are going to do - get a supervillian elected as president?
Leftists have been propagandized to think that they can force businesses to pay workers more than they are worth to the business. Elementary logic ought to tell you that that is impossible. But, of course, elementary logic is what leftists lack (not to mention a lack of morality, decency, and compassion).
Speaking of lacking competence in remedial logic, what workers are paid has little to nothing to do with how much they are worth to the business, and its stupid to claim otherwise when the company is taking 80% or more of their output. Companies pay their workers as little as possible, unless those workers are in a strong negotiating position (powerful union, pro athletes, extremely limited labor pool like heart transplant surgeons, etc).
I know having your wingnut merit badge means shaving 50 points off your IQ, so I'll speak slowly and use small words for an example. A friend of mine used to work for a company that would wire new office buildings for telephones. Company would charge $110 per hour for the wiring, which....I'll give you a second to think about this....means by definition my friend was worth that much per hour for the contractor. He got $18.
So you're saying that a high minimum wage is a rational choice because Trump might support a tax on Amazon?
The point was simple enough to understand the first time. Do you really like paying more in taxes so more-money-than-God corporations can enjoy even more profits? Let me guess....you're one of the people who gave to the gofundme for Kyle Jenner because you "don't want to live in a world where Kylie Jenner doesn't have a billion dollars". And when you watched that old South Park episode on copyright infringement, you actually teared up when Lars Ulrich had to wait a few months to get his gold-plated shark pool for his mansion, and when Britney Spears had settle for a Gulfstream III, instead of a Gulfstream IV.
For some strange reason, there are people who cannot grasp the simple concept of risk versus reward, and cannot understand that it is not fear.
Ask em if they put their seat belts on when they get in the car. It's not because they're planning on getting in an accident, but on the 1% chance (or whatever) that they might get in an accident that day. SJW's are thick but they'd have a hard time failing to see the logic in the comparison.
Great idea.... but the pace of stock trades makes it impossible to track. The nature of a corporation is as a tracking body of pooled shareholder interests, and ultimately, the corporation has to be taxed as its constituent stockholders through a year are in the trillions as an aggregate. Nice theory, but IMHO, impractical.
Can't be tracked? How do you think stock exchanges handle transactions and prevent fraud? More to the point, if banks can track billions of credit card/EFT transactions every day with near-perfect accuracy, methinks they can handle a little high-frequency trading.
"Wont somebody please think of the capitalist children!" is so obnoxious. The objects of your misdirection can keep it local, or pay the taxes like everyone else.
Instead of two $15-16/hour workers, they'll hire one $2-30/hour worker and a machine to help them do their job.
If the machine can do the job for less than they can pay a human, sure - but mostly this is apologia for corporate greed and resulting poverty wages. Amazon would love to build robots that could replace these human workers if they could - but they can't. And when those robots are a reality, Amazon will quickly mass produce them, and it wont matter if their workers are paid $12.50 or $1.25 an hour, they're getting a pink slip.
If a business can't pay a living wage, that business doesn't deserve to exist. Besides, a higher minimum wage means more people with more money to spend at small businesses.
Corporations don't pay taxes. They shift the cost to their customers via higher prices
No, they don't. Prices are set to maximize revenue, and taxes on profit have nothing to do with that calculation. If a company could raise prices on its products willy nilly without driving away more customers than they make up with increased prices, they wouldn't wait for a tax increase to do so.
Sure, and I have a (old by this point) example of that: years ago I bought some memory off of Ebay, from a seller that had a 96% rating. Shoulda coulda woulda checked the other four percent, as the seller always left negative revenge feedback in response to complaints. Which happened to me when I got the memory certified as DOA and Ebay forced the return.
So I still check the one stars, but don't spend a lot of time there as they read like a drunken Trump tweet. Let's say a one star for Joe's Bistro:
POOR SERVICE! Waitress Jennifer was a bitch. NEVER EATING THERE AGAIN!!!!!
Vs a two star for the same place:
Service was slow despite the place not being busy. Entrees mediocre for the price. Couple in the next table said this was typical, but that the lobster ravioli was fantastic. Their suggestion was to call and place a ravioli order to go if we wanted to try it next time.
I find the signal to noise ration to be best at the two and three star levels, but as always YMMV.
Slashdot Mirror
The tragic consequences of a Civilization addiction....
Remind us again why Mexico's border doesn't extend up into Oregon?
Mexicans subsidize your dumb nativist ass by paying billions into benefits they can't collect on, like Social Security.
One person, one vote. Keeping track of voting in multiple districts would be a hot mess, and if you have enough money to have more than one property, you probably have enough money to make political donations. And politicians pay the most attention to donations, not votes.
Adrian Veidt?
It was the repeal of Glass Steagall in 1999 that directly paved the way for the 2008 crisis, by removing the firewall between depository and investment banking. Who was president in 1999?
Yeah, that was a bit of an exaggeration on the part of the parent poster, but not a big whoop.
Partisan tribalism makes for powerful cognitive dissonance - on both sides of the aisle. See Craig Nelson's "I've been on food stamps and welfare, anybody help me out? No." quip as an example. But that's nothing compared to Democrats, who constantly gripe about Republican voters who vote against their own interests. Because no one does a better job of stabbing their base in the back, or hurting working class or poor people, than the Democratic Party. It wasn't Reagan who passed NAFTA and signed draconian crime bills in the 90's, and it wasn't Bush who stood by as banks stole millions of homes and deported a record number of immigrants.
You mean you're willing to judge a whole race by the actions of a single person committing a B&E? How very non-tiki-torch burning of you.
It's not "playing the race card" when you're an actual racist. You're engaging in anecdotes, confirmation bias, and healthy portions of bullshit to demean a vast group of innocent minorities who have never done a thing to you.
Like every other bigot in the history of the universe.
To paraphrase NDT, the neat thing about facts is they don't give a shit if racists believe in them or not. That a black person is much more likely to be murdered by cops than a white person is indisputable. Go move to an island with the people who work "white privilege" into a sentence so you can fling poo at each other.
MAGA hatters have been running around wearing this t-shirt which celebrates Pinochet throwing thousands of people out of helicopters over the ocean. Which numerically is 40,000 times worse than your fifty year old police shooting. By your line of dumbfuckery, all Republicans, Trump supporters and a good number of Libertarians are all bloodthirsty fascists who need to be denounced and rejected. Because a few people have bought a t-shirt.
But any person who made such an argument would be an utter moron - just like you.
It means you're further flying your idiot flag when you call them a leftist newspaper. That's what it means.
FTFY. Blacks could be responsible for 100% of all violent crimes, and you'd still be using racist as fuck "Jews killed Jesus" reasoning from the Klan when you try and justify police state brutality against innocent people. You do know that Tamir Rice and John Crawford had nothing to do with Willie Horton (or whatever boogyman you want to use) when cops decided to murder them without warning, for holding not-guns in an open carry state.
Cops assault people all the time and resisting arrest can mean anything from "couldn't get on ground after being tazed" to "suspect was trying to get away (from the police dog tearing up his leg)". In Garner's case, he kept saying he couldn't breath, as he couldn't breath in a banned choke hold. At no point did he try to fight off the officers and make a break for it.
Sarcasm is noted, but that's exactly what your words would say if you expanded them to people with lighter skin.
When trying to pretend there's any equivalency between blacks and cops getting murdered? Yeah. It is. When a black person commits a crime, especially against a police officer, everyone expects that black person to go to jail. Including other black people.
Whereas chickenshit cops are free to murder people with impunity, and people like you go around making excuses for them while blaming the victims.
Just to refine the point a little (since I can't stand those people) I'll ask them if putting on their seat belt means the SJW plans on driving drunk or watching a movie on their phone while behind the wheel. Or....maybe they're just taking reasonable precautions because an unlikely event can be disastrous, not because it's a sign of guilt or not being able to control themselves.
I'm a little surprised that it was an Asia Argento who put some breaks on the #MeToo witch hunt, instead of another Duke Lacrosse incident blowing up in their faces.
Whatever drugs you are taking to come up with those analogies, did you bring enough to share?
No taxation without representation, along with plenty of other reasons. Or states being happy to count ex-cons when it comes to the census and having the number of congressional seats allocated, same as when slaves couldn't vote but counted as 3/5 of a person for congress.
So you can fuck off right there. Besides, what the hell do you think ex-cons are going to do - get a supervillian elected as president?
Speaking of lacking competence in remedial logic, what workers are paid has little to nothing to do with how much they are worth to the business, and its stupid to claim otherwise when the company is taking 80% or more of their output. Companies pay their workers as little as possible, unless those workers are in a strong negotiating position (powerful union, pro athletes, extremely limited labor pool like heart transplant surgeons, etc).
I know having your wingnut merit badge means shaving 50 points off your IQ, so I'll speak slowly and use small words for an example. A friend of mine used to work for a company that would wire new office buildings for telephones. Company would charge $110 per hour for the wiring, which....I'll give you a second to think about this....means by definition my friend was worth that much per hour for the contractor. He got $18.
The point was simple enough to understand the first time. Do you really like paying more in taxes so more-money-than-God corporations can enjoy even more profits? Let me guess....you're one of the people who gave to the gofundme for Kyle Jenner because you "don't want to live in a world where Kylie Jenner doesn't have a billion dollars". And when you watched that old South Park episode on copyright infringement, you actually teared up when Lars Ulrich had to wait a few months to get his gold-plated shark pool for his mansion, and when Britney Spears had settle for a Gulfstream III, instead of a Gulfstream IV.
Ask em if they put their seat belts on when they get in the car. It's not because they're planning on getting in an accident, but on the 1% chance (or whatever) that they might get in an accident that day. SJW's are thick but they'd have a hard time failing to see the logic in the comparison.
Can't be tracked? How do you think stock exchanges handle transactions and prevent fraud? More to the point, if banks can track billions of credit card/EFT transactions every day with near-perfect accuracy, methinks they can handle a little high-frequency trading.
"Wont somebody please think of the capitalist children!" is so obnoxious. The objects of your misdirection can keep it local, or pay the taxes like everyone else.
Tomato, tamahtoe. Either way, he's paid so little by Amazon and gets benefits so shitty he qualifies for assistance.
Debunking the racist 'welfare queen' trope isn't moving the goalposts.
One you can make without being a eugenicist.
If the machine can do the job for less than they can pay a human, sure - but mostly this is apologia for corporate greed and resulting poverty wages. Amazon would love to build robots that could replace these human workers if they could - but they can't. And when those robots are a reality, Amazon will quickly mass produce them, and it wont matter if their workers are paid $12.50 or $1.25 an hour, they're getting a pink slip.
Uh, no. See income taxes.
Why are you eager to pay more taxes so Amazon is worth a trillion dollars, instead of a mere 900 billion?
If a business can't pay a living wage, that business doesn't deserve to exist. Besides, a higher minimum wage means more people with more money to spend at small businesses.
Health insurance isn't welfare.
No, they don't. Prices are set to maximize revenue, and taxes on profit have nothing to do with that calculation. If a company could raise prices on its products willy nilly without driving away more customers than they make up with increased prices, they wouldn't wait for a tax increase to do so.
Still no connection between your premise and your conclusion.
Sure, and I have a (old by this point) example of that: years ago I bought some memory off of Ebay, from a seller that had a 96% rating. Shoulda coulda woulda checked the other four percent, as the seller always left negative revenge feedback in response to complaints. Which happened to me when I got the memory certified as DOA and Ebay forced the return.
So I still check the one stars, but don't spend a lot of time there as they read like a drunken Trump tweet. Let's say a one star for Joe's Bistro:
Vs a two star for the same place:
I find the signal to noise ration to be best at the two and three star levels, but as always YMMV.
No idea, that's why I'm asking the parent, who thinks there's something specific to Russia with the response to the leak.