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Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

Hellblazer187 posted:

"Human capital isn't actually a thing," - Forums Poster and Economic Genius Jizz Festival

It isn't called Human Resources for nothing.

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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!!
May 31, 2006

Inferior Third Season posted:

Democrats are so loving terrible at messaging. Why do they agree to use the phrase "right to work"? Nobody even blinks when Republicans say "death tax" instead of "estate tax".

Can they not afford even one Frank Luntz type rear end in a top hat to work on their side?

the democratic messaging that tests well is socialist as all hell

the democrats do not wish to use that messaging, for an exciting array of justifications to move around saying "it's real bad for donations/post-congressional careers."

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

quote:

So - my GF Consiladated all her Student Loans a few years ago. Everything was fine. Except, for whatever reason, there was a single loan that didn't get consiladated. No problem - she had it on a payment plan.

Well, this week she gets a letter in the mail, from the state of South Dakota, telling her that her License would be suspended at the end of next month.

So she calls the number on the letter and finds out that the South Dakota State purchased her Loan debt (from a company based in Wisconsin). Because she now owes South Dakota money, and because SD passed a law recently that allows the state to suspend Licenses for people who owe the state money - they're suspending her drivers license because now, she owes the state of South Dakota money.

So she calls the original owner of her loan - and they confirm it.

The State of South Dakota scoured their citizens for college grads, cross-referenced those Citizen-Graduates with Purchasable Outstanding Student Loan Debt, purchased that debt, and are holding Drivers Licenses' against the debtors... at least that's what it looks like.

To make matters worse - my GF had 4 years left to pay on that loan, specifically. She'd setup a payment plan and was paying it off.

Now, however, the State has given her 20 months to pay off the entire debt. That's as deep as the state is willing to go on a payment plan. 20 months. So her payments went from something like >$100 a month to $330 a month.

Is there anything she can do? Is there any way to fight this? Is this even legal? Thanks.

Edit/Conclusion/Consensus: State can puchase individual private debt and use the powers of government to force payment (via suspension of licenses/liens). Really? Yes. Why? "It's not illegal." Best bet = Write Government Officials.

Click this for hot reddit action and South Dakota rendering itself even more uninhabitable.

Pembroke Fuse
Dec 29, 2008

Office Pig posted:

Click this for hot reddit action and South Dakota rendering itself even more uninhabitable.

This is insane. Just loving insane.

twice burned ice
Dec 29, 2008

My stove defies the laws of physics!

Pembroke Fuse posted:

This is insane. Just loving insane.

No, it's good fiscal policy! :eng101:

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

WE ARE SMART

Office Pig posted:

Click this for hot reddit action and South Dakota rendering itself even more uninhabitable.

This seems like a great way to discourage college grads from living in their state.

The Kingfish
Oct 21, 2015


We need to brainstorm a scarier and more accurate name for what is currently called "Right to Work" and a better name for whatever the alternative is because I don't even know it.

twice burned ice
Dec 29, 2008

My stove defies the laws of physics!

The Kingfish posted:

We need to brainstorm a scarier and more accurate name for what is currently called "Right to Work" and a better name for whatever the alternative is because I don't even know it.

the alternative is "Unions Work" essentially, but good luck getting middle-class America on board with that message in TYOOL 2017.

A better name for right to work is something like "right to work with union protections without paying the union, thereby weakening the union" but that's kind of a mouthful.

Paracaidas
Sep 24, 2016
Consistently Tedious!

twice burned ice posted:

No, it's good fiscal policy! :eng101:

Brownback is sitting back and applauding somewhere. Lowering taxes and regulations to draw in businesses while directly driving away their labor force is impressive. Usually it's the second order effects that drive talent away.

ded redd
Aug 1, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

Paracaidas posted:

Usually it's the second order effects that drive talent away.

Or walk away, as the case may be.

Taerkar
Dec 7, 2002

kind of into it, really

twice burned ice posted:

the alternative is "Unions Work" essentially, but good luck getting middle-class America on board with that message in TYOOL 2017.

A better name for right to work is something like "right to work with union protections without paying the union, thereby weakening the union" but that's kind of a mouthful.

"Right to Work for Less"

twice burned ice
Dec 29, 2008

My stove defies the laws of physics!

Taerkar posted:

"Right to Work for Less"

Unfortunately that's not accurate. Right to Work actually guarantees workers at union companies who refuse to join that union the same terms the union members get under their CBA.

Right to Work doesn't actually harm wages until it successfully kills unions.

The Kingfish
Oct 21, 2015


twice burned ice posted:

the alternative is "Unions Work" essentially, but good luck getting middle-class America on board with that message in TYOOL 2017.

A better name for right to work is something like "right to work with union protections without paying the union, thereby weakening the union" but that's kind of a mouthful.

We need to be as weaselly as possible. It probably shouldn't even have the word "union" in it.

El Pollo Blanco
Jun 12, 2013

by sebmojo

The Kingfish posted:

We need to brainstorm a scarier and more accurate name for what is currently called "Right to Work" and a better name for whatever the alternative is because I don't even know it.

Clawing back compulsory union membership is probably one of the most impossible tasks faced by unions the world over, to be honest.

Taerkar
Dec 7, 2002

kind of into it, really

twice burned ice posted:

Unfortunately that's not accurate. Right to Work actually guarantees workers at union companies who refuse to join that union the same terms the union members get under their CBA.

Right to Work doesn't actually harm wages until it successfully kills unions.

It is very accurately stating the intended goal of the laws.

Paracaidas
Sep 24, 2016
Consistently Tedious!

twice burned ice posted:

the alternative is "Unions Work" essentially, but good luck getting middle-class America on board with that message in TYOOL 2017.

A better name for right to work is something like "right to work with union protections without paying the union, thereby weakening the union" but that's kind of a mouthful.

If you're willing to call out voters for their parasitic desires, pretty much every anti-welfare message applies here. The problem you run into is the same reason why the GOP racially codes their anti-welfare schtick... you don't want to drive away potential voters while appealing to your base. "The only moral [x] is my [x]", etc. When a white conservative uses food stamps or UI, it's to get back on his feet after bad luck, not mooching off the system like those Cadillac driving welfare queens.

Calling out the WWC for wanting to leech off of the labor of others without contributing any time or money of their own is usually the sort of messaging that is frowned upon in these parts.

Fitzy Fitz
May 14, 2005




Office Pig posted:

Click this for hot reddit action and South Dakota rendering itself even more uninhabitable.

Holy poo poo.

If an arsonist runs for president in 2020, I'm voting for them. Burn it all to the loving ground, preferably with the rest of the Boomers locked inside. They have royally hosed our generation.

RuanGacho
Jun 20, 2002

"You're gunna break it!"

Taerkar posted:

"Right to Work for Less"

Too liberal, need to make it punchy.

Hostage Work
Employer welfare
Just "Work for Less"

Counter Proposals should be named
New Deal
Work Freedom
Personal Liberty
Tax Fairness.

botany
Apr 27, 2013

by Lowtax
https://hopenothate.com/

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/opinion/alt-right-white-supremacy-undercover.html

quote:

Undercover With the Alt-Right

Last September, Patrik Hermansson, a 25-year-old graduate student from Sweden, went undercover in the world of the extreme right. Posing as a student writing a thesis about the suppression of right-wing speech, he traveled from London to New York to Charlottesville, Va. — and into the heart of a dangerous movement that is experiencing a profound rejuvenation.

Mr. Hermansson, who was sent undercover by the British anti-racist watchdog group Hope Not Hate, spent months insinuating himself into the alt-right, using his Swedish nationality (many neo-Nazis are obsessed with Sweden because of its “Nordic” heritage) as a way in. It wasn’t always easy. “You want to punch them in the face,” he told me of the people he met undercover. “You want to scream and do whatever — leave. But you can’t do any of those things. You have to sit and smile.”

[...]


Some of Mr. Hermansson’s most arresting footage comes from a June meeting with Jason Reza Jorjani, a founder, along with the American white nationalist Richard Spencer and others, of the AltRight Corporation, an organization established to foster cooperation and coordination among alt-right groups in Europe and North America.

Mr. Hermansson and Mr. Jorjani met at an Irish pub near the Empire State Building, where the baby-faced Mr. Jorjani imagined a near future in which, thanks to liberal complacency over the migration crisis, Europe re-embraces fascism: “We will have a Europe, in 2050, where the bank notes have Adolf Hitler, Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander the Great. And Hitler will be seen like that: like Napoleon, like Alexander, not like some weird monster who is unique in his own category — no, he is just going to be seen as a great European leader.”

More shockingly, Mr. Jorjani bragged about his contacts in the American government. “We had connections in the Trump administration — we were going to do things!” he said at one point. “I had contacts with the Trump administration,” he said at another.

[...]


(read the full article, watch the videos as well.)


quote:

As video Hermansson provided to the New York Times shows, he got one of the group’s highest-ranking members — Alt-Right Corporation board member Jason Reza Jorjani — to admit his “final solution” for minorities.

“It’s gonna end with the expulsion of the majority of the migrants, including [Muslim] citizens,” Jorjani told an undercover Hermansson at a pub near the Empire State Building in New York City. “It’s gonna end with concentration camps and expulsions and war at the cost of a few hundred million people.”
(http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/its...cubtBIc.twitter)

Chilichimp
Oct 24, 2006

TIE Adv xWampa

It wamp, and it stomp

Grimey Drawer

The Kingfish posted:

We need to brainstorm a scarier and more accurate name for what is currently called "Right to Work" and a better name for whatever the alternative is because I don't even know it.

Workers Rights vs. Right to Fire

twice burned ice
Dec 29, 2008

My stove defies the laws of physics!

quote:

“It’s gonna end with the expulsion of the majority of the migrants, including [Muslim] citizens,” Jorjani told an undercover Hermansson at a pub near the Empire State Building in New York City. “It’s gonna end with concentration camps and expulsions and war at the cost of :siren:a few hundred million people.:siren:

This guy wants to make the holocaust look like amateur hour.

twice burned ice
Dec 29, 2008

My stove defies the laws of physics!

Chilichimp posted:

Workers Rights vs. Right to Fire

Right to Fire is At-Will Employment, not right to work.

Paracaidas
Sep 24, 2016
Consistently Tedious!

Taerkar posted:

It is very accurately stating the intended goal of the laws.

It's stating the distant effect, not the immediate goal or the mechanism.

It oughta be something like Jared Laws.

Y'all know Jared, right? That lazy jerk who comes in at the end of the project and takes the credit without doing any work? The guy who keeps getting raises because he married the owner's daughter, but everyone else always has to do more work to fix what he breaks? Have any of you ever seen Jared work for two consecutive hours? Has he ever been in at 9? When was the last time he still at his desk at 3, much less 5?

Governor Lafferite and his cronies in the legislature are defending the laws that let Jared get paid more than his coworkers while still getting better insurance, sick leave, PTO, and job security than most other Stateonians. Tell them you won't stand for it. This November, say no to Jared. Because here in State, we work hard. We look out for each other and we're all in this together.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


That people think you can reason these guys out of wanting to reenact the Holocaust is the most supreme hubris.

Gyges
Aug 4, 2004

NOW NO ONE
RECOGNIZE HULK
I will never understand how you can have this giant hard on for the magical purity of the Aryan race, and then list your all time favorite Aryan leaders as Hitler, a Corsican, and a Greek.

Chilichimp
Oct 24, 2006

TIE Adv xWampa

It wamp, and it stomp

Grimey Drawer

twice burned ice posted:

Right to Fire is At-Will Employment, not right to work.

"right to work" and "at-will-employment" go hand-in-hand in the case of Georgia, and I assumed everywhere.

Leon Trotsky 2012
Aug 27, 2009

YOU CAN TRUST ME!*


*Israeli Government-affiliated poster

Chilichimp posted:

"right to work" and "at-will-employment" go hand-in-hand in the case of Georgia, and I assumed everywhere.

Not even close.

Every state in the US, except Montana, is at-will employment.

Only about half are right to work.

botany
Apr 27, 2013

by Lowtax

Radish posted:

That people think you can reason these guys out of wanting to reenact the Holocaust is the most supreme hubris.

did you watch the videos? there is literally a scene where they are sitting in (i think) a hotel lobby, talking about how to approach "the jewish question, or, the jewish problem". the solution is, of course, ethnic cleansing.

i want to slap every moron in the face with that documentary who says thinks like this:

https://twitter.com/chadfelixg/status/910287864088420352

Inferior Third Season
Jan 15, 2005

twice burned ice posted:

Unfortunately that's not accurate. Right to Work actually guarantees workers at union companies who refuse to join that union the same terms the union members get under their CBA.

Right to Work doesn't actually harm wages until it successfully kills unions.
Maybe just call them "Freeloader Laws", and states that implement them "Freeloader States".

Chilichimp
Oct 24, 2006

TIE Adv xWampa

It wamp, and it stomp

Grimey Drawer

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Not even close.

Every state in the US, except Montana, is at-will employment.

Only about half are right to work.

That had always been sold to me as a trade-off... you can quit whenever you want for any reason, but they can fire you whenever they want for any reason.

I need to do some researchin'!

twice burned ice
Dec 29, 2008

My stove defies the laws of physics!

Chilichimp posted:

That had always been sold to me as a trade-off... you can quit whenever you want for any reason, but they can fire you whenever they want for any reason.

I need to do some researchin'!

This is just absurd. In no way should corporate agency and personal agency be treated as equal needs.

Capital has all the systemic advantages as it is, without ridiculous ideas of giving 'equal rights' to workers and their employers.

A worker should always have the ability to quit for any reason at any time. That's individual liberty.

Leon Trotsky 2012
Aug 27, 2009

YOU CAN TRUST ME!*


*Israeli Government-affiliated poster

Chilichimp posted:

That had always been sold to me as a trade-off... you can quit whenever you want for any reason, but they can fire you whenever they want for any reason.

I need to do some researchin'!

At-will Employment = You can quit employment at any time with no penalty and your employer can fire you for any reason that is not against state/federal employment law.

Right To Work = You cannot be forced to join a union for a job or pay union dues for any reason unless you do so voluntarily. No employers can establish "union shops" where you need to be a member of a union to work there. If a union exists in a workplace, then they have to provide basic services for all employees, but they cannot require any employees to pay union dues.

Eggplant Squire
Aug 14, 2003


botany posted:

did you watch the videos? there is literally a scene where they are sitting in (i think) a hotel lobby, talking about how to approach "the jewish question, or, the jewish problem". the solution is, of course, ethnic cleansing.

i want to slap every moron in the face with that documentary who says thinks like this:

https://twitter.com/chadfelixg/status/910287864088420352

This Chad guy isn't even a useless "both sides" idiot. He's a straight up fascist using those people's insipid notion that nazi speech isn't violent to attack minorities by equivocating them to nazis.

Eggplant Squire fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Sep 20, 2017

Gyges
Aug 4, 2004

NOW NO ONE
RECOGNIZE HULK

botany posted:

did you watch the videos? there is literally a scene where they are sitting in (i think) a hotel lobby, talking about how to approach "the jewish question, or, the jewish problem". the solution is, of course, ethnic cleansing.

i want to slap every moron in the face with that documentary who says thinks like this:

https://twitter.com/chadfelixg/status/910287864088420352

I just don't understand why so many people are desperate to live side by side with Nazis.

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.

Gyges posted:

I just don't understand why so many people are desperate to live side by side with Nazis.

Because they are the Nazis.

Acebuckeye13
Nov 2, 2010
Ultra Carp

loving Christ.

Like, we've all known these people are utter monsters, but to hear them state it so openly is absolutely loving chilling.

Chilichimp
Oct 24, 2006

TIE Adv xWampa

It wamp, and it stomp

Grimey Drawer

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

At-will Employment = You can quit employment at any time with no penalty and your employer can fire you for any reason that is not against state/federal employment law.

Right To Work = You cannot be forced to join a union for a job or pay union dues for any reason unless you do so voluntarily. No employers can establish "union shops" where you need to be a member of a union to work there. If a union exists in a workplace, then they have to provide basic services for all employees, but they cannot require any employees to pay union dues.

Thanks, Trots. Man, forcing unions to provide their services to every employee regardless of dues status is pretty loving cynical.

Cease to Hope
Dec 12, 2011

Gyges posted:

I just don't understand why so many people are desperate to live side by side with Nazis.

in this case, his career consists entirely of concern trolling people critical of anti-semitism and homophobia/transphobia. if he were to admit that they are actually problems, he'd be out of a job.

shrike82
Jun 11, 2005


here's what Jason Reza Jorjani looks like

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El Pollo Blanco
Jun 12, 2013

by sebmojo

Chilichimp posted:

Thanks, Trots. Man, forcing unions to provide their services to every employee regardless of dues status is pretty loving cynical.

It is an incredibly clever way of destroying unionism while letting them continue to function in providing benefits to employees until the point they stop existing, yes.

Contrary to what most people here believe Liberals are loving smart, in addition to hating the poor!

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