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by devoply 7y ago
Let's not leave the rest of it, threatened with its drivers unionizing Uber tries to play the individualism card to dissuade collective action. "California drivers deserve access to flexible work." https://www.inde
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by devoply 7y ago
The legal system has its own objectives, for instance dissuading people from even coming to the courts, they often enough don't coincide with the objectives of the little man. Psychopaths and corporations game the system as they have n
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by devoply 7y ago
Court costs and lawyer fees are expensive, Google the monopoly can afford the best lawyers... So this is crying for a class action lawsuit with the best lawyers. When all is said and done it will be a slap on the wrist compared to Google&#x
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by devoply 7y ago
Often enough. Like how many times is too many when we are talking about sending people away for years? If they find something that exonerates you, who is looking out for you, do you have the right to find evidence that clears you? Can you a
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by devoply 7y ago
It would be fine if they simply approached people and tried to rule them out, but due to the psychopathy in the justice department they often try to paint the people they find into the perp often hiding evidence that exonerates them.. in ot
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by devoply 7y ago
> With nearly a year elapsed since the warrant was served, that suggests this particular reverse location search may not have been as fruitful as investigators hoped. They did not find anything. But God help you if you have a prior recor
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by devoply 7y ago
Well what truth do you want? China wants to extradite Hong Kong citizens to China to stand trial. Hong Kong citizens want autonomy. This is a classic David vs Goliath battle.
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by devoply 7y ago
Just watched this which calls CPC a mafia... Interview with Miles Kwok by Kyle Bass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cwXifDaCjE
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As people in Hong Kong have shown, it's as easy to tear all this shit down as it is to put it up.
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by devoply 7y ago
> "Information provided to us by [FBI Agent Steve] Vienneau and other members of the Innocence Lost Task Force confirm that, unlike virtually every other website that is used for prostitution and sex trafficking, Backpage is remarka
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by devoply 7y ago
Yes you either pay for the shipping or you pay the middle man. It's much cheaper for the consumer to subsidize the shipping than it is for the consumer to subsidize the middle man. I expect going forward Alibaba will open warehouses al
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by devoply 7y ago
You want to deport illegals, no objections from me. But in this case the ends don't justify the means. Do it correctly without causing unnecessary suffering and you won't hear a peep out of me.
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by devoply 7y ago
> Everyone is separated from their kids when they're arrested. This is a fake scandal. Fake outcry. If a parent is sent to jail, the children are given to protective services not sent into internment camps without basic necessities
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by devoply 7y ago
Yes a gay man like Thiel not looking out for LGBTQ people's rights would be quite shocking. But then money knows no gender orientation.
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by devoply 7y ago
There is a logic to that and the logic is partially found among Luddites and will continue to "annoy" us. In that technology in a hierarchical civilization like ours is highly dis-empowering and supports those at the top of the hi
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by devoply 7y ago
Fire the board, upper management, and ceo... confiscate stock from all shareholders and do an ipo with it. install new management from the industry. Ban existing management from serving in that capacity for the rest of their lives. Now let&
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by devoply 7y ago
Less corruption and more job opportunity / money I think sums it up for most people. Maybe rights and freedoms being a peripheral concern but for most people their countries of origins are free enough in that they know how to act not t
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by devoply 7y ago
Religion was always political it's just a modern slight of hand to label the prevailing ideology secular and dis-empower the clergy. Does not seem to have worked very long though. I think we'll see more political moves by religion
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by devoply 7y ago
After all the shit the invader ruling classes in the United States did to the native population it's in fact THE LEAST it could do. Political representation is a very very small gesture to address invasion of homeland and subjugation o
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by devoply 7y ago
Because it's all sophistry. The elite or corporations have no ideology or principles with which they are operating. They are machines that will say anything anyone wants to hear to make more money. And then they will stop saying it onc
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by devoply 7y ago
It's because everyone has bought the doctrine of the invisible hand and self-interest, as a panacea of all that ails everything. While yes these tools do exist, they must be balanced with your obligations to others, else society become
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by devoply 7y ago
Another thing I hate is all these places asking for additional money to give to charity. So they can engage in corporate giving. If they are so interested in corporate giving why don't they give from their profits?
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by devoply 7y ago
Would be easy enough to sanitize using radiation if you really wanted to. Fact is humans are resistant to many things.
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by devoply 7y ago
It seems none of this turn people into peon services at behest of capitalists are really sustainable other than for deceptive tactics to bilk more money than customers are willing to pay by for instance stealing tips in order to make them s
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by devoply 7y ago
“Contrary to the common assumption that eyewitness identification is strong evidence, it’s long been known, and overwhelmingly empirically proven, that eyewitness identifications make for very strong testimony but very unreliable evidence,”
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by devoply 7y ago
We need to genetically engineer trees and the like to produce houses. We should be living with life rather than a cancer against it.
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by devoply 7y ago
See anyone saying anything against Western countries for not trading with Iran, Venezuela, or North Korea?
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by devoply 7y ago
Without the West's various investments and opening of trade partnerships and eventually ushering China into the WTO, China would be in nowhere near the position that it is in today.
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by devoply 7y ago
I have said it before but all of this is pretty classic fascist behavior where loyalty to the corporate state is demanded without question. This is for all serving purposes a monster that the West created. I just worry about what this looks
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by devoply 7y ago
Sign all communication with a private key. Have mail clients verify it. Make that government mandated.

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