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I wonder what percentage of public services will be privatized by 2100. Capitalists don't seem to really give a gently caress about whether it even makes sense so we can probably consider almost everything on the table.
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Mind_Taker posted:I'm very glad President Donald J. Trump is tackling the important issues our people face such as...air traffic control? Desperate for a win, Trump is leafing through a pamphlet on the Gipper's presidency.
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https://twitter.com/RaleighReporter/status/871749352108294145 Stayed the order for special elections but overall a solid "get hosed" to the GOP.
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AstheWorldWorlds posted:I wonder what percentage of public services will be privatized by 2100. Capitalists don't seem to really give a gently caress about whether it even makes sense so we can probably consider almost everything on the table. That's what Putin did in Russia. It's fascism. No Democrat votes for any of these schemes are acceptable.
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https://twitter.com/yashar/status/871756831579750400 So another special election coming up? Also re ATC: https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/871765130165530625 https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/871762636794458112 https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/871762802599505920 https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/871763699295375360 Party Plane Jones fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Jun 5, 2017 |
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AstheWorldWorlds posted:I wonder what percentage of public services will be privatized by 2100. Capitalists don't seem to really give a gently caress about whether it even makes sense so we can probably consider almost everything on the table. "Hell if we privatize things like water and gas even more we can Party Plane Jones posted:https://twitter.com/yashar/status/871756831579750400 He's in LA, if anything he'll get a raise
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Jealous Cow posted:https://twitter.com/RaleighReporter/status/871749352108294145 Isn't this just good for, you know, America? Citizens? Humanity?
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:Isn't this just good for, you know, America? Citizens? Humanity? It's super cool, but like Texas they're gonna put redistricting off as long as humanly possible because "oh it takes a lot of resources"
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Jealous Cow posted:https://twitter.com/RaleighReporter/status/871749352108294145 It's more problematic than it sounds on face value... https://thinkprogress.org/supreme-court-easier-gerrymandering-e6c986056e62
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Holy moly, an anti-privatization comment on TD, of all places. Informative too. Up is down, down is up (the responses are still hosed up of course). 
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Retro42 posted:None of that matters because privatization = better. Whats a few more ATC related accidents a year when the system will be "better". Capitalism will sort this all out. Died in a horrific accident because of inadequate following distance? Should have spent the extra $1,500 to upgrade to a Delta Premium flight, which includes an extra 2 inches of legroom, a 20% larger buffer between you and other planes, and complimentary soda and snacks!
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-un-rights-idUSKBN18W173quote:The United States is expected to signal on Tuesday that it might withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council unless reforms are ushered in including the removal of what it sees as an "anti-Israel bias", diplomats and activists said.
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Spaced God posted:https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/871761178858577920 For me, that building will forever be associated with the seminal Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett novel Good Omens thanks to it having a scene where one of the Four Horsemen was dining with his accountant at a restaurant there.
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Why do air traffic controllers keep coming up in US policy debates over the decades?
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cause reagan started federal union busting with them
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enraged_camel posted:Holy moly, an anti-privatization comment on TD, of all places. Informative too. My guess is he'll either drop it or be banned from T_D for
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Javes posted:Why do air traffic controllers keep coming up in US policy debates over the decades? Yeah I feel like ATCs show up disproportionately. Like, masons.
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enraged_camel posted:Holy moly, an anti-privatization comment on TD, of all places. Informative too. Guaranteed this person will be banned and these posts scattered to the winds very soon, if it hasn't already been done.
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mcmagic posted:It's more problematic than it sounds on face value... This article is not correct. First, we're talking a difference of one year in how long the old maps will be in place. It's not going to be significant and they try to make it significant by essentially decieving the reader: pointing out that North Carolina got to run 3 elections under the bad maps. Yes, true: but with the court-ordered remedy they'd have gotten to (in effect) run 2.5 elections under the bad maps. We're talking a difference of .5 elections, not 3. Second, the Supreme Court decision there was narrow and pretty much correct: ordering a state to hold off-year elections is a big deal and it's not authorized by statute: that's a court exercising equitable powers to fashion a new remedy that's never been used before. A court needs to explain its reasoning when taking a step like that: the court can go back and explain its reasoning and reach that exact conclusion again (though it'll be harder to explain how NC can manage to make new maps and hold special elections in 5 months instead of 11).
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Party Plane Jones posted:https://twitter.com/yashar/status/871756831579750400 THEY ARE LITERALLY LETTING HIM PRETEND TO PRESIDENT
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Pikavangelist posted:For me, that building will forever be associated with the seminal Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett novel Good Omens thanks to it having a scene where one of the Four Horsemen was dining with his accountant at a restaurant there. Ooh, prescient.
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Javes posted:Why do air traffic controllers keep coming up in US policy debates over the decades? Air traffic controllers get paid a heap of money, and have a big union. They also got hosed (hard) by the FAA in 06 with wage freezes and pay cuts for new hires; there's now less controllers (10,000) because of that cut than there were when Reagan fired them all
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enraged_camel posted:Holy moly, an anti-privatization comment on TD, of all places. Informative too. Regarding that last comment there - what "profit motive" would a privatized air traffic control system have to avoid a failure situation? It's not like travelers can just choose a competitor instead.
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aka Cajun John Wayne from the few viral videos he was in a couple years ago. He's a stupid gung ho coonass that thinks he is some super cop. Far too many people like him around here.
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TildeATH posted:Yeah I feel like ATCs show up disproportionately. Like, masons.
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CommieGIR posted:Is....is this real? It's a new Twitter bot that reformats Trump tweets onto White House stationary.
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mcmagic posted:It's more problematic than it sounds on face value... Also, to reply to the same post twice, this article doesn't get how good the Supreme Court's decision on the factual issue was. The Supreme Court didn't just uphold the district court. They basically said that North Carolina's claim there was anything to even consider on appeal attacking the factual conclusion they racially gerrymandered was garbage and not worth their time. That is really, really important because it sends the signal they are not interested in saving states from obvious racial gerrymanders when they've been caught dead to rights, which will motivate lower courts to be less concerned that the Supreme Court will overturn their factual findings on some thin pretext. Plus, the way they affirmed the lower court decision has precedential value. It's not like if they denied cert (which doesn't have precedential value but leaves the lower court decision intact), they actually affirmed the lower court decision.
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Pikavangelist posted:For me, that building will forever be associated with the seminal Neil Gaiman/Terry Pratchett novel Good Omens thanks to it having a scene where one of the Four Horsemen was dining with his accountant at a restaurant there. DC Comics had their offices there for decades before moving to LA, so it makes sense for Gaiman to have set a scene in a book he wrote duting his Sandman days there.
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botany posted:with its record of human rights violations maybe the US shouldn't be on it anyway Eh, it's not like that the rest of that body has a great record in that respect, often
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Spaced God posted:https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/871761178858577920 Look at the flag behind trump, note the red stripe placement.
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DaveWoo posted:Regarding that last comment there - what "profit motive" would a privatized air traffic control system have to avoid a failure situation? It's not like travelers can just choose a competitor instead. The funny thing is that the org has to be a non-profit.
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If you want an idea of what privatizing air traffic control would be like, download and play "Air Control" from Steam.
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Spaced God posted:It's super cool, but like Texas they're gonna put redistricting off as long as humanly possible because "oh it takes a lot of resources" http://www.salon.com/2017/05/26/texas-gop-wants-to-redistrict-before-the-2018-elections/ Texas wanted to redistrict seeing the cards in the wind next election cycle.
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cochise posted:aka Cajun John Wayne from the few viral videos he was in a couple years ago. quote:
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I think this "privatization" is less privatization in the sense of selling the stuff to private owners to run for profit and more spinning it off into a nonprofit governmental corporation which operates in an odd legal world where it is controlled by the government but not part of the government so its exempt from some stuff but not all stuff about how the government must do business. A corporation isn't going to cut a check for a few billion to take it over. That said, I have no idea about the pros/cons behind this besides that if it's pushed by trump it's probably a stupid idea.
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Party Plane Jones posted:Air traffic controllers get paid a heap of money, and have a big union. They also got hosed (hard) by the FAA in 06 with wage freezes and pay cuts for new hires; there's now less controllers (10,000) because of that cut than there were when Reagan fired them all To be fair we did get all that pay back over a few years in 2009 (IIRC, I didn't join the FAA until 2011) with a new collective bargaining agreement. The thing that really hurt us staffing wise was sequestration and the last shutdown which closed the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City for 9 months. No new trainees for that long, in a job that can take 2-3 years to fully certify really hurts. My last facility was supposed to have 18 fully certified controllers, and when I left it went down to 9. I worked almost 400 hours of overtime last year to cover for the 8 missing certified controllers. The overtime and constant training starts to wear on you pretty quick, and I know there are facilities out there that are worse off. Our union (NATCA) would be for a not-for-profit privatization as long as we were at the table and we're able to keep the benefits we enjoy now. We want more reliable funding so we can do our jobs effectively. Like has been brought up many times, many countries run on a non-profit quasi government corporation model and do just fine. We're all anxious to see how this goes.
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