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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
> The courts don’t conflate these activities and as we’ve discussed Again, what is the basis of this statement? You're not actually backing this claim up with anything, you're just postulating it as fact. From what I can find,
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
Yes, it is possible to have an 80% white organization without discrimination. Perkins Coie is ~80% white but is gender representation is much closer to parity [1], so I'm not sure why you're referring specifically to "white
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
If the courts haven't found in favor of companies using quotas as incentives, then you have no basis to claim that that quotas are legally acceptable as long as they're framed as incentives. This is directly relevant to your claim
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
When has the court upheld a policy of setting a specific percentage racial or gender quota, and penalizing employees financially if that quota is not met? If I told my employees "I'll reduce your pay by 90% if you hire any pregnan
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
> it's not possible to end up 80% white guy without discriminating? This is untrue, though. The fact that a company does not have representation that is exactly equitable with the general population is not evidence of discriminatio
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
Yes, the lawsuit against Perkings Coie was dropped, after the law firm agreed to stop engaging in discrimination. As per the case, Parkins Coie did explicitly require that applicants to its diversity fellowship be Black, Latin, or a membe
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
The fact that the company is majority white does not make discrimination legal. If the Perkins Coie wants to do things like anonymize its interviews, or send fake interview packets to its recruiters and looking for disparities in call back
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
They settled out of court, YouTube didn't prevail in court. The evidence speaks for itself. Did you not read the emails that plaintiff's manager sent, explicitly telling him to cancel all non-diverse applicants' interviews? Y
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
Yes, they did dislike it because it was discriminatory, not because it helped poor and Black people. I don't know the views of people you've met, but in my circles the opponents of DEI are mostly tech workers in SF and Seattle - n
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
Three out of the four companies I've worked at, for one. YouTube was sued for directing one of its recruiters to exclusively advance diverse candidates for a period of time, and eventually settled with the recruiter [1]. Intel [2] and
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
DEI wasn't demonized because it tried to fight bigotry. It demonized itself because it routinely became a dishonest two-faced movement that public denied to be discriminatory, but then privately implemented policies that explicitly dis
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In case you couldn't infer from my username, I am Latin.
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Opposition to DEI is not opposition to diversity so much as it is opposition to discrimination. More than just discrimination, DEI often came in the form of a particularly dishonest and two faced approach to it. Unlike affirmative action -
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
It doesn't matter where the trust exists, what matters is that the people drawing from the trust pay income taxes on that money.
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Without paying the estate tax, but when those heirs draw money from the trust it's not taxed as income.
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> The billionaire pays less on $10 in marginal income than a poor person, because the taxes and benefits phase outs result in absurdly high marginal rates on the poor. This is just patently false. The highest marginal income tax rate is
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
Correct, corporate tax rates are generally regressive in their effect. Building jets and houses creates jobs though. A more likely outcome of a consumption tax is that wealthy people simply spend less.
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As per your linked article, they mainly either give away their money to charity, or they set up trusts. When beneficiaries receive money from the trust, it's taxed as income.
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In this case, the beneficiaries of the trust pay income tax on the money they receive from the trust.
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
What "high end electronics" would be taxed at a medium rate? Do billionaires not just use iPhones? Most high end private planes are the same models as regional jets (e.g. Embraer ERJ line), so a tax on them would still be mostly i
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
This would be an extremely regressive tax regime, effectively a flat tax rate. Worse than a flat tax rate, actually, since consumption rates do not scale linearly with income or wealth.
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
That scheme still wouldn't work. When that new corporation is first formed, it's near worthless. After the series of favorable deals, the value of each share in that corporation goes up. Thus it still incurs capital gains taxes. O
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
They have to sell eventually to pay off the loans. And if they die, their estate has to sell the assets to pay off the loans, and then their heir will pay inheritance taxes on top of that. Unless their spouse is still alive. In the US, asse
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
Two things here: one, hovering is actually much more energy intensive than horizontal flight. Two, a megawatt isn't that much energy in the context of aerospace. A 737 engine produces nearly 100 megawatts at peak output (the engines ar
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
It sure sounds like the contents of this channel are retained and subject to public records requests. From the article: > Through public records requests, Prism obtained the Seattle Shield bulletins, as well as a full list of Seattle Shi
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
You realize that you can contact law enforcement through means that are not immediately publicly visible like on Next Door? Like, if you call 911, that's not immediately public for the world to see? A 911 call might be subject to publi
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
Put yourself in the shoes of the police here: A store keeper emails this shield group and says "hey this person came into my store and engaged in disruptive behavior." An Amazon security personnel emails this shield group and says
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
Sure, but nobody tries to portray NextDoor as an "intelligence sharing network operation" and a "nationwide surveillance apparatus".
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As per the article, this isn't just used by Amazon and Meta, local non profits are also use this resource.
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by Manuel_D 5mo ago
Innocent until proven guilty only applies to the government. Again, say you run a store in the city. You encounter someone who smashes some merchandise. The police don't make an arrest because the person insists it was accidental, but

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