The U.S., EU, etc. grew past this stage around the 1900s.
Income inequality is worse now than it was in the 1920's. A handful of billionaires have more wealth than the bottom 50% of the country.
A market economy *wants* everyone to be as productive as they can, because the feedback effect of that maximizes corporate profits.
Productivity has been climbing for decades but wages have remained completely stagnant.
Henry Ford accidentally stumbled upon this when he discovered that paying his workers above the prevailing wage actually resulted in more business for himself
And now companies like Amazon and Wal-Mart pay their employees so little that they qualify for food stamps, paid for with your tax dollars. Capitalist Winning!
When labor prices go up, this is what happens. It's not PR bullshit, it's hard cold reality.
More like warm, stinky Libertarian BS. You'd pay the same price for a Jack burger in Australia as you would in the U.S., even though their minimum wage is more than twice what is here. Hell, in Germany workers are reacting to improvements in automation by demanding a 28 hour work week without cutting wages. You may want to start a White House petition to put the country on the regime change list.
Everywhere they have raised the minimum wage, wages and hours worked have gone down.
Wages go down when wages go up - come again? And of course hours go down, because people can get by on one job working 40 hours a week, instead of working three jobs at 70+ hours a week to keep a roof over their heads.
Please explain the limiting principle that makes a cake shop a "public accommodation" when its owner decides to go into business selling cakes, yet does not make a prostitute's services a "public accommodation" when the prostitute decides to go into business selling their body.
Because no one's body is a public accommodation. Do you have a Ph.D in dumbfuckery to have to have this explained to you?
He probably is. His memo was pretty liberal leaning after all
Depends on the sort of liberal under discussion. Many of them are right-wingers looking to rationalize the blatant contradictions between what they way they want and the politicians they support.
If anything, it's Salon's, The Verge's, Vox's and other right-wing Dem blogs
FTFY. It's right-wing Democrats who keep fucking the chicken of identity politics to distract from the fact that their party is frequently more extreme than the GOP. Any time Obama stabbed a part of his base in the back, every time news broke of Hillary's corruption/incompetence/hypocrisy...out comes the identity politics club to bash their fellow right wingers (but who wear the R label) for partisan gain and to beat their base into meek compliance.
I don't like the double standard that gets applied to 'progressive' causes at the expense of individual freedoms.
That's ok, I don't like all the willful dumbfuckery in defense of bigotry.
How about going to a halal butcher with a pig and demand that they butcher it for you, religious beliefs be damned?
How about not being so willfully obtuse? If the butcher doesn't sell pork to anyone, he doesn't sell pork to anyone - thus there's no discrimination. If the gay couple had walked into the bakery and the shopkeeper said "we don't bake wedding cakes, only muffins and cookies" there would have been no discrimination and thus no story. A straw man about the baker engaging in discrimination because he wont sell you a hammer or change the oil in your car would make just as much sense.
Fun and jokes aside; I get the Jim Crow aspect of it, I do.
Then why defend the indefensible? This "argument" was settled in the 60's when stores and restaurants had to take down their "whites only" signs.
Thoughtless experiment, in areas where prostitution is legal, should they have the right to refuse clients of certain race, ethnicities, genders, or body types? Where does the line get drawn?
Because being a homophobe with your public accommodations is exactly the same as picking and choosing what to allow into your mouth, anus or vagina.
All that should have happened is that the bakery gets some bad press, the couple finds a different bakery, and life goes on.
Discrimination would have been unacceptable if there were a hundred other bakeries on the same street - but what if this is the only bakery within 50 miles that the couple can go to. Or hardware store. Or car dealership. Or clinic. Or clothing store.
Fun and jokes aside; I get the Jim Crow aspect of it, I do.
Ever heard of the Green Book? The sort of discrimination you want to legalize was so bad that black Americans printed their own travel guide, showing where they could buy gas or get a hotel room with some measure of safety.
A book that might see a new printing. If SCOTUS rules in favor of the homophobic bakers, it's a matter of time until you start seeing "whites only" signs again. Thanks, bigots!
You got it ass-backwards. I know. I lived through the 50s, 60s and 70s. I saw what really happened. The Democrat Party has always been home to the racists and sexists, and it still is today.
Then you know full well both parties traded places and all the racist sexists are now in the Republic Party. Don't compound the willful dumbfuckery by bringing up Byrd when he spent the rest of his adult live repudiating the KKK, whereas Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms went to their graves as unreconstructed Dixiecrats.
Can't make up and enforce terms once money has exchanged hands. Otherwise every used car dealer could put a sticker over the ignition stating that you have to get your oil changed with them every 1,000 miles at $100 a pop.
Kind of amusing that Fandroids have become the equivalent of AOLers given how snooty they tend to be.
FTFY. There's a group of people who harbor completely irrational emotions to the products one company makes - Apple Hatebois - and over there are people who buy whatever it is they want that does what they want at the price they are willing to pay.
Whine and hand wave as much as you want, it wont change the fact that vote fraud is so rare it may as well not exist. You know what the odds are on buying a winning Powerball ticket? Pinning your hopes on that as your retirement plan makes more sense than worrying about vote fraud, when it's on the order of a few dozen out of over a billion votes cast in the United States.
Nice way to play that cop without actually being that cop.
Nice hand waiving. I don't know about this municipality, but the remedial firearms safety course I took - when I was eight years old - stressed a few cardinal rules. One, never shoot at anything you don't want to kill. And two, always be sure of what it is that you are shooting at.
By definition, this cop didn't know what he was shooting at, as the man complied with demands and was unarmed, but was dead seconds after walking outside of his door. Which means the cop had no business using a firearm, much less being a police officer with a firearm.
This isn't a hard subject, no matter that some willfully obtuse people would like to pretend otherwise.
Uh huh. And where's that - somewhere in the EU? The U.S. is not a comparable situation, as you don't have people from eight countries over moving through on a regular basis. As the problem that voter ID purports to address - in person vote fraud - is so incredibly, infinitesimally rare it may as well not exist - there's no reason to require ID's even if they are free and easy to get.
But they are not free and easy to get for the destitute. Going to a DMV to get a license may take a 60 mile or more round trip, and costs money that the poor don't have to spend. And that's if the poor person can just walk in and get an ID - if they need additional documentation like a birth certificate, that can cost even more time and money.
Notably, if some of the voter ID laws had been in place when Ronald Reagan was running for office, he may not have been able to vote. Because he was born at home and had no birth certificate.
Because it costs time and money to get ID. A lot of time and money if you don't have identification to start with and have to try and get a birth certificate. When the problem it purports to address - in person vote fraud - is so rare it may as well not exist. Which means Voter ID laws are all about preventing poor people (disproportionately minorities) from voting.
Some elitists are even honest about this, and say they don't want the unwashed masses having a say in their own governance.
nfortunately, the Black Lives Matter movement co-opted the police militarization issue, and claim (incorrectly) that police militarization is driven by racism.
Police militarization is driven by the war on drugs, which absolutely has racist foundations and enforcement. You can't argue otherwise when blacks and whites use drugs at the same rate but blacks are FAR more likely to be arrested. That said, the wankers who say "oh this wouldn't have happened to a white person" are just as obnoxious, as half the people murdered by cops are white.
They showed up at a hose that didn't meet the caller's description, fired within seconds at distance, at someone for all they knew was one of the purported hostages. Of course the cop attached to the itchy trigger finger needs to spend a few years in prison for manslaughter. Cops get false or misleading calls all the time - if they can't assess the situation without killing a person in 5 seconds, they have no business being a cop.
The elephant in the room in the US is that there are so many laws, rules, and regulations with the force of law that it takes an immense amount of manpower to police & enforce them all.
Prioritization. Cops can always concentrate on actual crime, as opposed to nuisance traffic or pot possession tickets.
If they actually held law enforcement officers to higher standards and held them more accountable for their screw-ups, the government would either spend many times more than they do currently or not have nearly the manpower necessary to maintain order and minimal levels of enforcement.
Nah, they'd just know that they can't "screw up" and get away with it. When every cop knows a cop who did time for kidnapping (false arrest), breaking and entering (search without a warrant) they'll stop acting like unaccountable goons.
If it had been a real situation and the cop hadn't shot him everyone would be screaming at the police for not taking action when they had the chance.
Nope. Still bullshit:
it wasn't that clear cut, the fuckwit on the phone that called in the threat had supposedly shot his father and was holding the rest of his family prisoner and preparing to shoot them.
For all the cops knew, that was a hostage walking out the door.
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Income inequality is worse now than it was in the 1920's. A handful of billionaires have more wealth than the bottom 50% of the country.
Productivity has been climbing for decades but wages have remained completely stagnant.
And now companies like Amazon and Wal-Mart pay their employees so little that they qualify for food stamps, paid for with your tax dollars. Capitalist Winning!
More like warm, stinky Libertarian BS. You'd pay the same price for a Jack burger in Australia as you would in the U.S., even though their minimum wage is more than twice what is here. Hell, in Germany workers are reacting to improvements in automation by demanding a 28 hour work week without cutting wages. You may want to start a White House petition to put the country on the regime change list.
Wages go down when wages go up - come again? And of course hours go down, because people can get by on one job working 40 hours a week, instead of working three jobs at 70+ hours a week to keep a roof over their heads.
Do you? It doesn't matter if workers are paid 25 dollars or 25 cents an hour, capitalists want to maximize automation to minimize labor costs.
Another dumbfuck trying to claim that anyone's body is a public accommodation. You can stop trying to make that happen. It's not going to happen.
Because no one's body is a public accommodation. Do you have a Ph.D in dumbfuckery to have to have this explained to you?
A noun, a verb, and "government power-grab".
Depends on the sort of liberal under discussion. Many of them are right-wingers looking to rationalize the blatant contradictions between what they way they want and the politicians they support.
FTFY. It's right-wing Democrats who keep fucking the chicken of identity politics to distract from the fact that their party is frequently more extreme than the GOP. Any time Obama stabbed a part of his base in the back, every time news broke of Hillary's corruption/incompetence/hypocrisy...out comes the identity politics club to bash their fellow right wingers (but who wear the R label) for partisan gain and to beat their base into meek compliance.
That's ok, I don't like all the willful dumbfuckery in defense of bigotry.
How about not being so willfully obtuse? If the butcher doesn't sell pork to anyone, he doesn't sell pork to anyone - thus there's no discrimination. If the gay couple had walked into the bakery and the shopkeeper said "we don't bake wedding cakes, only muffins and cookies" there would have been no discrimination and thus no story. A straw man about the baker engaging in discrimination because he wont sell you a hammer or change the oil in your car would make just as much sense.
Then why defend the indefensible? This "argument" was settled in the 60's when stores and restaurants had to take down their "whites only" signs.
Because being a homophobe with your public accommodations is exactly the same as picking and choosing what to allow into your mouth, anus or vagina.
Discrimination would have been unacceptable if there were a hundred other bakeries on the same street - but what if this is the only bakery within 50 miles that the couple can go to. Or hardware store. Or car dealership. Or clinic. Or clothing store.
Ever heard of the Green Book? The sort of discrimination you want to legalize was so bad that black Americans printed their own travel guide, showing where they could buy gas or get a hotel room with some measure of safety.
A book that might see a new printing. If SCOTUS rules in favor of the homophobic bakers, it's a matter of time until you start seeing "whites only" signs again. Thanks, bigots!
FTFY. Southern Strategy, Nixon. Google it.
Then you know full well both parties traded places and all the racist sexists are now in the Republic Party. Don't compound the willful dumbfuckery by bringing up Byrd when he spent the rest of his adult live repudiating the KKK, whereas Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms went to their graves as unreconstructed Dixiecrats.
How does plugging a buffer overflow or privilege escalation (typical bug fixes) slow down the machine?
Can't make up and enforce terms once money has exchanged hands. Otherwise every used car dealer could put a sticker over the ignition stating that you have to get your oil changed with them every 1,000 miles at $100 a pop.
FTFY. There's a group of people who harbor completely irrational emotions to the products one company makes - Apple Hatebois - and over there are people who buy whatever it is they want that does what they want at the price they are willing to pay.
Were terms agreed to by both parties before money changed hands? If not, not a contract.
Whine and hand wave as much as you want, it wont change the fact that vote fraud is so rare it may as well not exist. You know what the odds are on buying a winning Powerball ticket? Pinning your hopes on that as your retirement plan makes more sense than worrying about vote fraud, when it's on the order of a few dozen out of over a billion votes cast in the United States.
Nice hand waiving. I don't know about this municipality, but the remedial firearms safety course I took - when I was eight years old - stressed a few cardinal rules. One, never shoot at anything you don't want to kill. And two, always be sure of what it is that you are shooting at.
By definition, this cop didn't know what he was shooting at, as the man complied with demands and was unarmed, but was dead seconds after walking outside of his door. Which means the cop had no business using a firearm, much less being a police officer with a firearm.
This isn't a hard subject, no matter that some willfully obtuse people would like to pretend otherwise.
Looks like you're just as full of shit now as you were in 2003, when you ran around calling Iraq war skeptics Saddam supporters.
Uh huh. And where's that - somewhere in the EU? The U.S. is not a comparable situation, as you don't have people from eight countries over moving through on a regular basis. As the problem that voter ID purports to address - in person vote fraud - is so incredibly, infinitesimally rare it may as well not exist - there's no reason to require ID's even if they are free and easy to get.
But they are not free and easy to get for the destitute. Going to a DMV to get a license may take a 60 mile or more round trip, and costs money that the poor don't have to spend. And that's if the poor person can just walk in and get an ID - if they need additional documentation like a birth certificate, that can cost even more time and money.
Notably, if some of the voter ID laws had been in place when Ronald Reagan was running for office, he may not have been able to vote. Because he was born at home and had no birth certificate.
Because it costs time and money to get ID. A lot of time and money if you don't have identification to start with and have to try and get a birth certificate. When the problem it purports to address - in person vote fraud - is so rare it may as well not exist. Which means Voter ID laws are all about preventing poor people (disproportionately minorities) from voting.
Some elitists are even honest about this, and say they don't want the unwashed masses having a say in their own governance.
Police militarization is driven by the war on drugs, which absolutely has racist foundations and enforcement. You can't argue otherwise when blacks and whites use drugs at the same rate but blacks are FAR more likely to be arrested. That said, the wankers who say "oh this wouldn't have happened to a white person" are just as obnoxious, as half the people murdered by cops are white.
They showed up at a hose that didn't meet the caller's description, fired within seconds at distance, at someone for all they knew was one of the purported hostages. Of course the cop attached to the itchy trigger finger needs to spend a few years in prison for manslaughter. Cops get false or misleading calls all the time - if they can't assess the situation without killing a person in 5 seconds, they have no business being a cop.
Prioritization. Cops can always concentrate on actual crime, as opposed to nuisance traffic or pot possession tickets.
Nah, they'd just know that they can't "screw up" and get away with it. When every cop knows a cop who did time for kidnapping (false arrest), breaking and entering (search without a warrant) they'll stop acting like unaccountable goons.
Easy peasy lemon squeeze. See how far down cops are? Take out car crashes (that kill everyday drivers every day) and they don't even make the top 20.
FTFY
Nope. Still bullshit:
For all the cops knew, that was a hostage walking out the door.