Connor Mulhern
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Sir you are the Hungarian ambassador to the Vatican why are you talking like you play paradox games.
Forget Greenland and Canada - I am thinking since days how history could have gone if the princes of tiny š±š® Liechtenstein had bought Alaska from the Russian Czar when he offered it to them.
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I donāt think people have fully metabolized that the DnNc helped create an insular community of pro establishment posters because they got mad at chapo trap house in 2017.
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Islamists stopping the teaching of evolution despite the fact that young earth creationism isnāt textually supported in the Quran
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@davidrkadler They claim that its ok because on the back they specify that this wont affect "legal immigrants" but given the fact that they use the Identarian code word "remigration" on the front of the ticket, its literally this meme but for nazism.
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@lefttwick Legitimately what these people donāt seem to understand is that itās not a man vs woman thing; itās a lack of familiarity with the local store you send people to and a time crunch.
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There were exactly zero dsa members on the committee that voted to ban TikTok. For as much as these people love to talk about the threat of disinformation, they love posting it themselves.
Fun fact: After viewing classified material about the CCP's influence on TikTok, the bill to ban TikTok passed committee with a 50-0 vote. Fifty to zero, MAGA + centrists + DSA members were unanimous. All the accounts bemoaning this seem totally incurious why that might be.
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@sopjap @davidrkadler Yep, 100%, the chapter of the AfD that sent it confirmed it, and the qr code on it links to the chapter's website.
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@ya_masters @lefttwick Itās nice when youāre really sick or you just *really* canāt be fucked to move for whatever reason (really drunk for example) but itās a like, once a every few months kinda thing. These people order on the daily.
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One of the funniest results of centrist negative polarization against progressives is that they disbelieve the mere idea that a progressive could have an honestly held opinion with a basis in reality. Everything is an evil plot to undermine democracy, even trains.
How much train discourse comes from the belief all trains are the first class cars on the Orient Express.
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@ShadowyZephyr @MrUnfamilar @DreamLeaf5 So, youre fine with them being exploited as long as they are on a visa then?. How about we grant them broad labor market protections akin to citizens as soon as they enter the country instead of creating a two tier labor market?.
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The milage this meme gets out of South Korean news is insane.
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@seepree3 @lefttwick āIāve seen these videos enough timeā. Bro listen to yourself a TikTok trend is not evidence.
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Some guy did a crash diet over a week by drinking only Coke so now we have to do race science is one of the most insane claims I have ever heard but also seems about accurate for Twitter dot com under Elon Musk.
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@lukeisamazing Japan did something right here imo. Shutter sound that is impossible to turn off.
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@butleriano @Athenion3 India is doing that thing where countries privatize a certain public service like healthcare or water or whatever to move it off the public balance sheet and into the private foe worse quality, but for an entire economy.
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@lukeisamazing "Why wont you sell your extremely profitable social media company at a cut throat rate?".
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āA ban on wearing masks for the purpose of committing crimesā . Torres finally figured it out, we are going to make crimes illegal!.
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@ShadowyZephyr @MrUnfamilar @DreamLeaf5 Ok, but what happens in that period before the person has a green card?. Yes, H1B can transfer employers, but it is more difficult, and importantly, the timing makes it nearly impossible. Which gives space for labor exploitation since they can hold the legal status against you.
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The American people yearn for
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@LittleMammith @Tyler_A_Harper That is literally what Bernie is saying, yes, if you read the statement. Like itās literally in there, maybe read the thing you are bashing, crazy thought!
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Honestly at this point its hard to not call this outright antisemitism. No, Bernie Sanders did not have some secret plan to undermine the Democratic Party and thus American democracy. He is thing this called a "leftist" who "believes in things".
Bernieās not stupid; he knew M4A would never pass. It was a bad thing to polarize a ton of left wing people against the Democratic Party by promising them something unrealistic.
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Idk how fascism related to keeping a base in one of the most left leaning areas of Japan that clearly doesnāt want it there and where the locals have to endure constant rape and harassment issues by American soldiers.
Tankies will never forgive America for fighting fascism
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I donāt think lowering taxes is a good explanation for āusual billionairesā either. The rich are motivated by the exercise of power, and get incredibly mad when that is limited. I would bet you a lot of billionaires would trade higher taxes for being able to beat their staff.
For the millionth time āliberal journalists were too mean to billionairesā is probably one of the most important motivations for the Tech Right. The usual billionaires want tax cuts motivation is convenient but fundamentally wrong.
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āEl wokismoā. God Spanish liberals are something else. The dude implemented the ciudadanos platform, but because he doesnāt call immigrants slurs he obviously is a communist lmao.
Trudeau ya es historia. Uno de los mayores defensores del wokismo que de liberal tenĆa el nombre y poco mĆ”s. Se celebra.
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@JeremiahDJohns Are you actually calling the fucking financial times communist LĆ¼genpresse? Because you do realize that in Chinese it is called MĆ”o ZhĒxĆ YĒlĆ¹ (ęÆäø»åøčÆå½) and it only colloquially referred to as the little red book in English, right? That term is not used in Chinese.
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@nikicaga I imagine unlike a Torres who has been negatively polarized by aipac people into being a conservative, ansari will be much more of just a classic progressive except for Palestine.
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@Thorongil16 Are you suffering from a form of brain damage? Removing Cuba from the state sponsor list is good!.
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I guess we now have our substitute for the term āAssad marginsā.
š²š½#Mexico, President Sheinbaum (Morena) approval rating poll:. ā«Approve: 80 % (+4).ā¬Disapprove: 16 % (-5). Enkoll/El Pais, 05/01/25
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@ArchysLife My crank opinion is that this would have been more widely accepted if the push had been for like āTurkiyaā or something that sounds just mildly more anglicized.
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Every political organization is predominantly middle class and white. Like, literally just spend 5 minutes interacting with your average democratic campaign. The DSA, however, is closer to the mean population of the left in the United States than most other political orgs.
I need desperately need Social Democrats to internalized two things. 1. DSA is not the multi racial working class, it is a prominently white middle class organization and there has been little meaningful reflection on how to change that let alone attempts.
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Walz is a moderate that went along with the agenda that the more progressive legislature passed, except when it threatened capital (aka the Uber bill). But because he is also a partisan Democrat who didnāt ritualistically cater to Republicans, Matty G thinks heās a communist.
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@ShadowyZephyr @MrUnfamilar @DreamLeaf5 Essentially the only reason it is not exploited more is that there is a statutory cap on visas, and thus its a literal lottery if you can find a replacement easily. But if that cap is removed? Work 80 hour weeks or I fire you and bring in somebody new.
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I mean this honestly when I say that one of the simplest policies that the left can do to advantage itself is re-ban gambling.
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Idk the teacher shortage probably has a lot more to do with the increasingly shit pay while the benefits, such as pensions, are being destroyed. Legitimately this argument is indistinguishable from a conservative one.
It's actually really alarming that a generation has no personality outside what an algorithm feeds them. We're facing a teacher shortage crisis because kids have become feral illiterates.
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@ArchysLife Iāve been on this for a while, but specifically inflation that is bought monthly or less (which in the United States is gas, rent, food) is way more psychologically impactful than say, car inflation, even if the latter might have a greater effect on your pocketbook.
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The thing that has made Bernie popular is consistency of political positions despite the mood of the public. Saying āyeah a lottery system for visas bad, and we need to make sure that we eliminate guest worker programs and move towards an equal playing field is classic Bernie!ā.
Between opposing the H1B program, expressing openness to RFK Jr.'s confirmation, forcefully backing Biden's re-election after the debate, and underperforming Harris because he ran for re-election aged 83, it's not really been a banner 6 months for Bernie Sanders.
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Considering you refer to the āpopulationā and not a specific political organization, yes that is genocidal to withhold aid from an entire population.
Not wanting to send aid to the population that just started a war by burning families alive in their safe rooms and taking hostages at a peace concert is not āgenocidal fervor,ā you feckless cretin.
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@ishaantharoor The extent to which the FPĆ and AfD have just been straight up taken over by the neo-fascist Identitarian movement is not really understood outside of some very very narrow circles. The Postdam conference guy is having a field day one year on.
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Hereās how Bernie can still win!.
Lebanon: One MP casts a ballot for Bernie Sanders for President. Speaker Nabih Berri goes āwhat?ā. Unfortunately Bernie is not eligible for the position as he is not a Maronite Christian.
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IMO, the fact that the US had a relatively competitive election all things considered, and not a Reagan style blowout, tells me that if Trump had won re-election in 2020, we would be looking at the first double digit popular vote victory since 1984 and a map like this.
Itās stuff like this that makes me wonder where weād be if Trump squeaked by in 2020.
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I mean zuck and bezos dropped their DEI policies because of threats of retaliation by the Trump government. So while ācisgenderā being considered a slur isnāt state policy yet, we are a week out from that actually being the case.
Do people think the government is forcing Elon to do that.
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Look, they basically tried to force somebody to sell their house using eminent domain. Except it turns out they have no legal authority to force them to sell. Why would basically any company sell their most profitable venture at cut throat prices?.
I think itās pretty clear a lot of Washington expected ByteDance to divest from TikTok and that the app would never *actually* be banned. Ironically the fact this didnāt happen probably proves those same lawmakers prescient in their concerns.
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imagine the international culture of a world where basically everything was the same except the united kingdom was completely overrun by zombies lmao.
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The thing about Drew is that he perfectly vacillates between being a terrible person and an amazing performance artist.
Dear @TheOmniLiberal, I've just cleared my entire schedule for February. Ready to fly into Miami to do Bridges any time you need.
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It would be fascinating to study from the angle of linguistics, how these people went from refusing to use the ceasefire in September to November 2023 since it implied the fighting would totally end, to now claiming that a ceasefire means the end of all issues when it doesnāt.
The fact that my classmates at Columbia University are protesting for Palestine DURING A CEASEFIRE tells you everything you need to know.
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Guy who was totally convinced history had ended like 8 months ago: . Man why do all these leftists have bizarre beliefs about liberalism.
What's really bizarre is that so many leftists on here actually cheered on the collapse of liberalism because they had some insane fantasy belief about socialism rising from the ashes. Of course right-wing authoritarianism was going to come afterwards!.
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I mean at this point its pretty clear that the strategy was never to "defeat Hamas" it is to kill as many civilians as possible as part of a genocide.
I have been teaching strategy to militaries for 15 years, and this is what strategic failure looks like . After 15 months and <50,000 civilians deaths, Hamas is still firing rockets and attacking the IDF's rear, the hostages are still not home and Israel is politically isolated.
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I really cannot emphasize enough that if you think there was a groundswell of people who suddenly sided with bin Laden, youāre as gullible as the half dozen of people who decided to become pro bin Laden.
I had no problem with TikTok until that random Sunday when all the kids suddenly decided that Bin Laden was actually cool and good. Do they expect us to believe this was a completely organic thing with no one behind the scenes pushing it??.
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Itās almost as if he couldnāt message it for shit, like most of his other accomplishments.
it is just incredible that Biden somehow got negative clout for passing the largest climate change bill in world history.
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1. This guy is actually think about switching parties.2. He is *deep* into the discourse/posts and 100% has an alt on here. All I have to say is: hi John Fetterman.
I asked John Fetterman about why he voted on the motion to proceed for Hegsethās confirmation and he said āif I change my parties, youāll all be the first to know.ā.
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Point out where the error is?.
Chinaās Xi called the German Greens āultra right wingā and the CDU āenemiesā.
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H1B needs serious reform; immigrant advocates will tell you that. 1. Lottery doesnāt encourage a bidding process to make sure the most needed come in.2. Skills shortage requirements are easy to game.3. The difficulty of finding a sponsor makes job switching very hard!.
Workers of the world unite, but not over here. Unite somewhere else.
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While Israelis could probably never make true allies out of people like the Sami or other indigenous groups, they could absolutely use them as a tool to push a narrative about the concept is complex and can vary. But the Israeli libs are so racist they canāt help themselves.
LMFAOOOOOOO THEY'RE LARPING AS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE BEING COLONIZED BECAUSE THEY HATE GREEN ENERGY TEJDJDIXJBWKSOXIFNJCDUAODJDN.
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āThe noble houses of England preferred to speak French, therefore English identity is fakeā ass argument.
It is hilarious that what were once slurs (Turk, Uzbek, Arab) have become the names of nations that their citizens proudly claim. It shows how ignorant modern people, especially nationalists, are. If you had called an Istanbulite Pasha "Turk," a Cairene Amir "Arab," or a Mughal
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@constans @ArabMulberry @lefttwick A new government ofā¦? Because one of bibiās core demands was that the West Bank and Gaza could not be governed by the same entity.
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Yes young people donāt want to live in small towns because they have been hollowed out institutionally in terms of cultural and entertainment venues. I disagree with Kate a fair amount but youāre literally just doing this.
My guess is that Kate would not want to move back to her hometown, become an office manager, and marry a beverage salesman/distributor, even if it meant she could own a house and live better than her parents did.
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āBut all the dsa people have grad degreesā have you literally ever interacted with another political organization?.
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@ArchysLife Think about it, do you honestly keep track of how much, say, a pair of pants costs? A movie ticket, Or pick your āI go and buy this a few times a yearā kinda thing. Even in the high inflation context of Turkey, any increase is just āthat increasedā not āup by āŗ3,ā but pasta?.
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@ArchysLife I mean he works for aei so Iām sure he supports young earth creationism now despite claiming to be a partisan democrat or whatever.
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The fundamental bargain in western democracies has been āyou protect me from some market forces and I lend legitimacy to your political systemā . The problem is that under neoliberalism, the logic has been to protect the market from consumer demands, not citizens from markets.
I don't think Dems appreciate that no matter how many jobs are created, Americans live under a general experience of being constantly fleeced at every turn (by landlords, banks, grocery stores, insurance companies, etc etc) & this significantly impacts perceptions of the economy.
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@ThatchEffendi To be fair itās being used to make fun of Nazis who literally want to ethnically cleanse the country of everybody who is considered ānot biologically Germanā which is very much an imagined communities concept tied to nationalism.
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Iām not going to fully defend this, but a starting salary of 64k was 48k a decade ago. Definitely what would be considered a good starting salary, but could be considered poor depending on location and degree. And the projected starting salary for those entering now? 68k
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Yes, some ānewsroomsā did this thing called āinvestigative reportingā and didnāt just uncritically republish press releases like they used to. If that is the level of fealty that was being demanded by tech oligarchs the equilibrium was never going to last.
Years ago, some newsrooms and liberal circles decided to be antagonistic towards tech, as @mattyglesias wrote. The reality we have today is a mix of things, including a heavy dose of opportunism, but that decision had consequences too.
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This man is going to be on his death bed blaming the cancer on the fucking Bernie bros.
Bernieās run in 2016 was perhaps the worst thing to ever happen to the Democratic Party because it have a bunch of lefties false hopes followed by an incredible persecution complex.
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If those 29% had actually stuck with Harris, we would be talking about a President Harris right now. Granted a 270-268 win with PA decided in the courts, but a win. Beyond that, do you know how unprecedented that a double digit number of Americans care about foreign policy?.
@EricLevitz Part of the problem is an epidemic of dishonest push polls that are massaged until they get the desired result. This isnāt even a particularly good one, since it shows that 71% of Biden 2020 voters/2024 nonvoters prioritized an issue other than Gaza.
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I love how the anti-anti-trust chuds fully decided to copy and paste their critiques of Warrenism onto Lina Khan despite the fact that the latter is very good about actually communicating what these policies mean in real terms.
There are two paths before the Democrats: the party of Lina Khan or the party of Mark Cuban.
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@LittleMammith @Tyler_A_Harper Yes, itās clear he does want it restricted, because thatās how the fucking visa works! Itās not supposed to be for jobs without a skills shortage. He claims that the tests there are not working properly. If youāre arguing to decap H1B visas, then fucking argue that!.
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God I love how stupid my home stateās politics can be.
Whoa: MN Democrats are mulling not showing up for the first two weeks of the legislative session to prevent the chamber from achieving a quorum. They hope to block Republicans from using their temporary, 1-seat majority to elect a GOP House speaker.
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That may have been its (very marginal) real world impact, but Stancil legitimately believes and insists that the entire reason why Harris was media distortion, rather than a secular worldwide phenomena of backlash to inflation.
People misrepresent Stancil's war on distorted reporting on the economy as an unofficial campaign strategy rather than a (rather effective) pressure campaign essentially entirely out of the general public's sight. He was right to wage it!.
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Idk if youāre aware of this but Arafat has been dead for over two decades.
Enough with this "Netanyahu is from Poland" bullshit. Unlike Arafat, he was actually born in the country he leads.
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Like billionaires like lower taxes because it means they have more power in the form of money, but after a certain point you become rich enough where the raw exercise of power is the main source of pleasure.
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No, the American left is not just a āfew mentally ill grad students on Twitterā and if you honestly believe that, you absolutely belong in the āfew mentally ill grad students on Twitterā category, even if you are not of the left.
There's a synthesis here you guys aren't gonna like.
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You can really tell that centrist are shadow boxing here because Bernie literally argues in the statement that it should be easier for H1B holders to switch jobs, which is literally the thing that makes it hard for them to stay!
@Tyler_A_Harper But that's not what Bernie is saying, right? He's talking about foreign workers coming in and driving out American workers while pushing down wages - am I supposed to think his proposed solution to that is making it even easier for them to stay in the country and "steal jobs?".
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Palestinians in Gaza: We are in great suffering, this is a genocide, all of Gaza is in ruins. Palestinians 0.009 seconds after the ceasefire agreement signed:. WE WON! WE LOVE HAMAS! We will destroy Israel!. That's not how the Tutsi or the Jews reacted after their genocides.
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Idk itās probably a bad sign that a Jewish institution is already proclaiming mount Hermon as part of Israel.
A white Chanukah!. Winter has arrived & coated Mount Hermon in snow. Perhaps quiet will allow Israel's children to soon return to play.
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Itās also why a lot of the āgoodā billionaires just end up exercising influence via foundations and the like, where they demand control over state policy in exchange for money.
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As somebody who believes free movement is a basic human, itās amazing to watch all the same people who complain about the āprivileged college kids who run the Dem partyā come out and say that any reform of the H1B system is unacceptable. Talk about a āthe groupsā demand lmao.
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The H1B visa system as it exists right now is relatively non exploitative because the system is so broken. The lottery system makes it hard to hire and fire people on a whim. But if Elon succeeds at removing the cap, its on paper design is so ripe for exploitation its not funny.
I was on an H-1B visa for 8.5 years before I got my green card, and never once did I think I was exploited. I also changed jobs twice, so I wasn't an indentured servant. Stay in your lane; I don't need your paternalistic concern of trying to "protect" me from evil corporations.
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Ahhh Eastern Europe; where even the liberal oppositionās favorite past time is being racist as fuck.
Correction: These people are some of the lowest in our society: Gypsies, organised crime groups, football hooligans, peasants paid with a few beers. Organizers aim to hand over the country to Russia. I might be blunt but the description is accurate.
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Like he is the definition of a ācompromise pickā between the progressive and moderate wings of the party, but Matty was so surprised that he wasnāt being ritualistically thanked for his service like a troop that he assumed it was a hostile pick.
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The problem with Fetterman isnāt his ideology, that would be acceptable if he had come out of an Alaska, Ohio, Florida, Iowa, etc. The problem is he is acting like this in PA, which isnāt a red state. You need party discipline in swing seats for the Dems to be effective.
Widely adopting Fetterman's. unorthodoxy will be an extremely traumatic process that can cause ruptures in the party, like Trump 2016. But a lot of his appeal lies in his willingness to basically say anything and buck the party on a few key issues. Worth it? You decide.
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@ArchysLife Right but like I can give you a concrete number for bread when I lived there in 2011, (50 kuruÅ) do I know what anything else costed? Fuck if I know.
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That would open up those companies to massive legal liability, because ānot enforcingā something doesnāt mean they cannot be sued later. Biden could have requested the 90 day extension. He didnāt.
I love how the community note ignored the fact that Biden has already said he will not enforce the ban and cannot reasonably enforce these penalties in the less than 36 hours left of his administration. You canāt really contest the reason why TikTok didnāt even *try* to keep.
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This is perfectly rational behavior for a company who thinks . 1. Their platform is valuable.2. Their platform still has room to grow. This shit is qanon level conspiracism come the fuck on. Do people think Chinese companies donāt operate under a capitalist model?.
TikTok would literally rather shut itself off from its largest market, than divest its ownership from the CCP. To put it bluntly, these are not the actions of a rational corporation. They're giving the entire game away on who REALLY calls the shots.
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Right but then you have to experience the disaster that is Britain.
Unironically; it might well be the UK. We're especially well shielded from extremes and catastrophic events.
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My 100% crank thesis right now is that the "DEI is ruining everything" is catching on right now largely because the American job market is fucked, and it takes hundred of applications to get a job nowadays, and people are thinking those two are related.
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Are people fucking illiterate? The poll is 49% too far, 28% reasonable balance, 21% not far enough. But liberals are backing up the insane framing that itās 77% against despite that literally not what the poll says. Some of the issues need work but the overall picture is mixed!.
I'm very tired of seeing progressives trash sensible center-left liberalism as a dead end just because Harris lost by a few points, while they do absolutely zero self-reflection on the fact that their own positions are 80/20 unpopular after years of activism *they directed.*.
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Like I am sorry, I am going to trust a financial times reporter than guy who just googles "little red book" and doesn't even bother to open the wikipedia page before confidently claiming he knows the newspaper of capital is actually communist LĆ¼genpresse.
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We should reoccupy Germany and split it north to south this time. Maybe that makes a difference.
"Verso Books makes a casual inquiry to the German publisher of Alfred Sohn-Rethelās essays. The response from the publisher, Ƨa ira-Verlag, a classical anti-Deutsch institution:. On the one hand, we are delighted that Sohn-Rethel is attracting international attention and are not.
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@PinstripeBungle The absolutely most generous interpretation is that Bibi only folded once Trump got elected, but we would see Biden folks coming out and saying that if it really was the case.
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