JeffersonClay posted:

now let me tell you about the noble child laborer and his equally noble parents

Lightning Lord posted:

Where does goddamn child labor come into play here? If we don't jail people because their kids cut class, they're going to be put to work in workhouses? You're so disingenous

quote:

As soon as this week, the Senate is likely to vote on Marvin Kaplan, the first of these two nominees. A former GOP Hill staffer, Kaplan drafted legislation—strongly supported by business lobby groups—which would have made it easier for employers to fight unionization campaigns.

Trump’s other nominee, William Emanuel, is a veteran management-side lawyer who touts his “particular expertise with laws concerning union access to the private property of employers.” He’s also filed briefs in three cases claiming that employers can force workers to waive their right to bring class actions and similar lawsuits.

quote:

Yet, while partisanship has shaped the NLRB’s decisions for quite a while, if Kaplan and Emanuel are confirmed, the Board will have a Republican majority for the first time in the post-Tea Party, take-no-prisoners era of GOP politics that began shortly after the Obamas moved into the White House.

The new majority on the board is likely to confront, and possibly reverse, a number of Obama-era decisions on important matters such as whether graduate students with significant work responsibilities should be allowed to unionize.

But the GOP’s recent approach to unions suggests that the party will not be satisfied with simply rolling back union rights to where they stood in the Bush era. Last year, the Supreme Court came within a hair of defunding many public sector unions based on an aggressive reading of the First Amendment — the suit failed only due to Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, and a similar suit is likely to prevail soon now that Neil Gorsuch occupies Scalia’s seat.

Republican governors like Scott Walker crusaded against unions in their states. Senate Republicans even attempted to shut down the NLRB entirely during the Obama presidency — an action that would have rendered much of federal labor law unenforceable — by refusing to fill vacancies on the Board.

It is likely, in other words, that the NLRB’s incoming majority will push much harder against the right to organize than even President Bush’s appointees to the Board.

Kokoro Wish posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4DE9fnPqpA

TL/DR: Cory Booker introduces fantastic new Marijuana bill advocating for states' rights to legalize!*


*because his biggest donors in the pharma industry are now looking into acquiring all of the smaller companies that open up in states that legalize.

VitalSigns posted:

Anyhoo just to have something to talk about other than Jefferson Clay trolling this thread by """pretending""" to be an amoral sociopath:

Mecha Gojira posted:

I'm shocked. SHOCKED!

Wait, no I'm not.

JeffersonClay posted:

Let's go to south LA tomorrow and ask "in what way is your community different from, say, Haiti, I'm curious, is that a good comparison for me to be making?" and see how it goes.

twodot posted:

Ok, go do this and report back. If you're just posting nonsense, just post "I'm an idiot and put me ignore" and I'll do that. Just please pick one.

Jefferson Clay posted:

VitalSigns posted:

Nope, joke's on yall. He doesn't need to ask, he can channel the thoughts of people from photos of downtown LA and translate their life story into MSPaint color-coding.

Kokoro Wish posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3wEc9uxKZI

A group called The Yes Men, basically hung the DNC out in the open when one of them managed get into Politicon masquerading as a DNC representative.

Now the DNC basically has to say "Yeah, we don't stand for any of what he said".

Kilroy posted:

Clearly, sending (black) parents to jail for having out-of-control (black) kids is the sort of thing you do in order to help them develop a non-criminal culture.

That explains JC's position on this and I guess it explains the 600 or so posts ITT since this afternoon or whatever, but I'm sure as hell not going back to check.

Kokoro Wish posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3wEc9uxKZI

A group called The Yes Men, basically hung the DNC out in the open when one of them managed get into Politicon masquerading as a DNC representative.

Now the DNC basically has to say "Yeah, we don't stand for any of what he said".

Trabisnikof posted:

She certainly could have reduced the number of prison slaves in California if she had wanted to do so. It seems insane to me to think it is fine to keep adding thousands of people into slavery but somehow stopping a few people from exiting slavery is much much worse.

Asking for a candidate that has never taken actions that led fellow humans into slavery isn't asking for perfection is it?

Ornedan posted:

There's a distinction between charging people with offences punishable with time in prison, vs specifically arguing that people should not be released from prison since the state would then lose their forced labour contribution. In the first case, slavery is a side-effect, in the latter it's the whole point.

Kokoro Wish posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3wEc9uxKZI

A group called The Yes Men, basically hung the DNC out in the open when one of them managed get into Politicon masquerading as a DNC representative.

Now the DNC basically has to say "Yeah, we don't stand for any of what he said".

Kokoro Wish posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3wEc9uxKZI

A group called The Yes Men, basically hung the DNC out in the open when one of them managed get into Politicon masquerading as a DNC representative.

Now the DNC basically has to say "Yeah, we don't stand for any of what he said".

Kokoro Wish posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3wEc9uxKZI

A group called The Yes Men, basically hung the DNC out in the open when one of them managed get into Politicon masquerading as a DNC representative.

Now the DNC basically has to say "Yeah, we don't stand for any of what he said".

Kokoro Wish posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3wEc9uxKZI

A group called The Yes Men, basically hung the DNC out in the open when one of them managed get into Politicon masquerading as a DNC representative.

Now the DNC basically has to say "Yeah, we don't stand for any of what he said".

Condiv posted:

he wasn't arguing in good faith. he wanted to call me centrist cause he and yronic are really butthurt about that. he doesn't care about anything he was arguing for

Radish posted:

It's kind of a bummer when the DNC has to come out and sheepishly admit they aren't changing anything big after losing the most embarrassing election in a century.

Office Pig posted:

Imagine being one of those people in the audience, hearing this and finding reason for hope and possibility.

God that's depressing.

Iron Twinkie posted:

I wish that my politics could be legitimately called centrist. That would mean the far right would be arguing that we need to keep Capitalism small and regulated enough to drown it in the bath tub and the far left would be pushing legislation to dismantle all unnecessary layers of hierarchy. I think that would be real loving dope.

Kokoro Wish posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3wEc9uxKZI

A group called The Yes Men, basically hung the DNC out in the open when one of them managed get into Politicon masquerading as a DNC representative.

Now the DNC basically has to say "Yeah, we don't stand for any of what he said".

Iron Twinkie posted:

I wish that my politics could be legitimately called centrist. That would mean the far right would be arguing that we need to keep Capitalism small and regulated enough to drown it in the bath tub and the far left would be pushing legislation to dismantle all unnecessary layers of hierarchy. I think that would be real loving dope.

Kokoro Wish posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3wEc9uxKZI

A group called The Yes Men, basically hung the DNC out in the open when one of them managed get into Politicon masquerading as a DNC representative.

Now the DNC basically has to say "Yeah, we don't stand for any of what he said".

Kokoro Wish posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4DE9fnPqpA

TL/DR: Cory Booker introduces fantastic new Marijuana bill advocating for states' rights to legalize!*


*because his biggest donors in the pharma industry are now looking into acquiring all of the smaller companies that open up in states that legalize.

Razputeen posted:

I think this is analysis is cynical in the wrong way. The democrats can be against the bad things now that they're out of power again; see how they pretended to be against war in 2006/08, or see how they pretend to be for single payer now. Booker probably knows that this will have no chance of passing but will earn him support from the base, particularly in the primary if he chooses to run, which admittedly is smarter than promising them nothing on the basis that you're not Trump

Razputeen posted:

I think this is analysis is cynical in the wrong way. The democrats can be against the bad things now that they're out of power again; see how they pretended to be against war in 2006/08, or see how they pretend to be for single payer now. Booker probably knows that this will have no chance of passing but will earn him support from the base, particularly in the primary if he chooses to run, which admittedly is smarter than promising them nothing on the basis that you're not Trump

Razputeen posted:

I think this is analysis is cynical in the wrong way. The democrats can be against the bad things now that they're out of power again; see how they pretended to be against war in 2006/08, or see how they pretend to be for single payer now. Booker probably knows that this will have no chance of passing but will earn him support from the base, particularly in the primary if he chooses to run, which admittedly is smarter than promising them nothing on the basis that you're not Trump