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Couldn't states mandate jobs like NJ and OR did with gas station attendants being the only ones allowed to pump gas...? 
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"Walmart jobs aren't jobs worth adults having!" "Why are you enabling the automation away of all the Walmart jobs!?"
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Apr 25, 2021 14:24
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Apr 25, 2021 14:29
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Walmart would replace all employees and customers with robots if they could and will automate everything as soon as possible regardless of prevailing wage. Some poor tech making $7.50/hr is going to have a Five Nights at Freddie's experience at Walmart one of these days.
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Apr 25, 2021 14:48
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HashtagGirlboss posted:This is more easily achieved by giving most of the city with the exception of the mall and maybe foggy bottom or whatever back to Maryland, similar to when Alexandria was returned to Virginia. DC statehood doesn’t really make sense for a few reasons and I say this as somebody who unequivocally thinks PR should be either given full statehood or full independence The population of DC doesn't want to be part of Maryland, which is a problem if you believe in the right of self-determination. There's no reason why it doesn't make sense for DC to be a state, state borders are arbitrary, if we're going to have them (and we shouldn't imo or at least shouldn't have the senate) but if we are DC makes as much sense as Wyoming or Rhode Island
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Apr 25, 2021 15:13
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VitalSigns posted:shouldn't have the senate now THIS i can get behind
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Apr 25, 2021 15:32
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indigi posted:because DC is small both geographically and by population so enacting a grassroots campaign to get progressive third party senators and another rep could actually be effective. tactically and strategically it’s a no brainer. Glenn has a point, if you’re a loving idiot how's that idea worked out in the rest of the states that are small both geographically and by population? if u think about it the only moral position is mandatory slavery for the lower classes as that maximizes the amount of jobs
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Apr 25, 2021 15:37
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I used to work for a company that makes POS systems and there has been a sustained push for full automation for well over 20 years, lol. The minimum wage is completely unimportant to that, given that its barely changed in that time.
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Apr 25, 2021 15:38
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"capitalism rewards maximizing profit. also companies will not actively try to maximize profit through automation unless we suddenly remind them that the minimum wage exists. i understand my ideology"
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Apr 25, 2021 15:41
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World War Mammories posted:"capitalism rewards maximizing profit. also companies will not actively try to maximize profit through automation unless we suddenly remind them that the minimum wage exists. i understand my ideology" "Walmart, a company renowned for ruthlessly driving down labour costs by any means necessary, would surely not continue to drive down labour costs if we would just refrain from trying to raise labour costs"
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Apr 25, 2021 15:44
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VitalSigns posted:The population of DC doesn't want to be part of Maryland, which is a problem if you believe in the right of self-determination. Yeah internal borders are arbitrary and make no sense and the senate is stupid and anti-democratic. I agree. But if your goal is getting representation to the people who live in DC then I don’t see a path for statehood given the current structure of the senate and the fact that like it or not it is mostly a cynical power move by Democrats and not something they actually strongly believe. On the other hand I think ceding the majority of the city back to Maryland is probably actually possible and at least gets them representation and stops some of the worst poo poo like city legislation getting to be overridden by congress and stuff idk
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Apr 25, 2021 16:07
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there's also the thing were we, y'know, didn't actually raise the minimum wage
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Apr 25, 2021 16:18
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Every year the minimum wage isn't indexed to inflation it is lowered.
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Apr 25, 2021 18:58
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Zeroisanumber posted:Walmart would replace all employees and customers with robots if they could and will automate everything as soon as possible regardless of prevailing wage. the thought of a computerized forklift is making me laugh my rear end off Amazon's got them, but god, at loving Walmart lmao
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Apr 25, 2021 19:16
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Victory Position posted:the thought of a computerized forklift is making me laugh my rear end off Sometimes I think about that Ray Bradbury story about the automated house that keeps working after whatever unspecified apocalypse kills off humanity and it makes me giggle because I can’t imagine automation ever working that smoothly
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Apr 25, 2021 20:50
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Good. Now tax them and use the money to support people staying home in a pandemic.
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Apr 25, 2021 21:18
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These people saying that automation is only employed as punishment for uppity workers are really exposing the vile heart of America with the greatest precision possible.
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Apr 25, 2021 21:25
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Cerebral Bore posted:how's that idea worked out in the rest of the states that are small both geographically and by population? like Vermont?
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indigi posted:like Vermont? i feel i have to express a reservation or two to a plan where the best case scenario is getting another ineffectual dingus or two who will still get right behind the imperial murder machine when whoever's running it has a d next to their name
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Apr 25, 2021 22:45
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another ineffectual dingus or two could do an inordinate amount of good in our current government, like when Bernie forced the $600/week payments last year, or forced additional federal subsidies to Medicaid during the Obamacare debates. it’s silly to just dismiss out of hand when the Democrats are already on board with giving DC statehood
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buddy i think you're in the wrong subforum, d&d is thataway and once again, another bernie is the best case scenario. he's also the most extreme outlier. the likely scenario is that you get some blood-gargling rightwing psycho riding in on a wave of billionaire cash lured by the siren song of a safe seat for a pet senator or two, much like in literally every other state that falls under the criteria you described
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Apr 25, 2021 22:52
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Sometimes I think about that Ray Bradbury story about the automated house that keeps working after whatever unspecified apocalypse kills off humanity and it makes me giggle because I can’t imagine automation ever working that smoothly It doesn't. At the end of the story the house burns down.
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Apr 25, 2021 23:03
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Sometimes I think about that Ray Bradbury story about the automated house that keeps working after whatever unspecified apocalypse kills off humanity and it makes me giggle because I can’t imagine automation ever working that smoothly There Will Come Soft Rains
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Apr 25, 2021 23:11
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Zeroisanumber posted:It doesn't. At the end of the story the house burns down. Right, but only after some unspecified period of continued function I guess it’s left ambiguous but I got the sense it was supposed to be a long time of futile function. I could be misremembering I guess Dreylad posted:There Will Come Soft Rains That’s the one
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Apr 25, 2021 23:14
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Cerebral Bore posted:the likely scenario is that you get some blood-gargling rightwing psycho riding in on a wave of billionaire cash lured by the siren song of a safe seat for a pet senator or two lol sure
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which one is it? literally cultural appropriation or is it borderline?
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Apr 26, 2021 08:53
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i better stick to my own race and nationality. don’t want to learn anything about any other group of people or else i might accidentally culturally appropriate
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Apr 26, 2021 08:55
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libs literally "reasoning" themselves into segregation, but woke, will never not be incredibly hilarious to me
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Apr 26, 2021 09:02
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This is only very slightly less hot than “it’s cultural appropriation for Americans to speak English”.
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Apr 26, 2021 09:10
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Yet another entry in the long series of liberals not understanding a concept yet end up using it all the loving time.
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Apr 26, 2021 09:22
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at this point i have come to the regrettable conclusion that we shouldn't let liberals learn or use words
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Apr 26, 2021 09:47
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Platystemon posted:This is only very slightly less hot than “it’s cultural appropriation for Americans to speak English”. it’s only because of colonialism that people speak English in the British Isles at all
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Pirate Radar posted:it’s only because of colonialism that people speak English in the British Isles at all
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Apr 26, 2021 10:56
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Oneiros posted:libs literally "reasoning" themselves into segregation, but woke, will never not be incredibly hilarious to me  Cerebral Bore posted:at this point i have come to the regrettable conclusion that we shouldn't let liberals learn or use words 
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Apr 26, 2021 13:40
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Oneiros posted:libs literally "reasoning" themselves into segregation, but woke, will never not be incredibly hilarious to me
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Apr 26, 2021 13:49
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It’s just what happens when you try to understand criticisms of the status quo while being unable to see any problems with the status quo.
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Apr 26, 2021 13:58
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A Buttery Pastry posted:The world would be better off if Anglos abandoned language entirely as foreign/cultural appropriation, so the liberal might have a point. I can’t tell if this is the joke but that’s the plot of Metal Gear Solid V
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Apr 26, 2021 14:00
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Oneiros posted:libs literally "reasoning" themselves into segregation, but woke, will never not be incredibly hilarious to me A lot of the time its less "Libs" and more "Teens".
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One More Fat Nerd posted:A lot of the time its less "Libs" and more "Teens". https://aavenb.carrd.co/#list
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