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by free_rms 6y ago
That's a really good point, although those jobs still don't pay great from a $/hr perspective. I think first generation immigrants cut across the conscientiousness/income relationship that's being presented in this
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by free_rms 6y ago
You don't think environmental factors might play in to the type of choices a 16yo gets to make?
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by free_rms 6y ago
Poor immigrants generally work the shitty jobs I'm referencing and try to make sure their kids are on the professional ladder before finishing high school. There's still no ladder for them, personally.
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by free_rms 6y ago
If you're not a member of the professional class, there's not a lot of options where long-term planning and sticking to goals at your gas station job get you ahead in life. The issue is that the ladder for those values to get you
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by free_rms 6y ago
Whomever's downvoting both of us should chill, first off. Second off.. I mean Biden's basically center-right, and he does nothing for any of the values most loudly espoused by the democratic base. He'd have been fired from
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by free_rms 6y ago
That's what the democrats did, though, by picking Biden over Bernie. And they sucked anyways. What values did Biden communicate during the campaign?
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by free_rms 6y ago
If we actually care about outcomes, then maybe we should use some of that vaunted intelligence to think about winning more. "You're dumb and racist, so vote for us" is apparently not a winning message. And spending hundreds
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by free_rms 6y ago
The rejoinder to this line of thinking is generally: "if liberals are so smart, how come they always lose?" Worth a thought.
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by free_rms 6y ago
Another key point is that 31 and 28 are well short of 51. What's the plan to get there?
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by free_rms 6y ago
And when you consider that concessions to the lower class by both parties are entirely cultural, linguistic and non-material..
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by free_rms 6y ago
No? Nobody was saying Hunter Biden ran a pedo ring with abductions and body doubles replacing key national figures. It's real-world verifiable that Hunter Biden made 600k/yr for several years for a foreign gas company while his d
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by free_rms 6y ago
It's ineffective and woo, but come on. Disrespectful? Can we get over this hyper-upper-class take on everything for lower class problems? When it gets vandalized, that's disrespectful, I guess, but putting it there is merely stu
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by free_rms 6y ago
It's not so much "regulation vs non-regulation". Yandex is all intertwined with the government, and the Chinese giants have benefitted from a lot of government protection. It's about political will. Like you say, Conco
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by free_rms 6y ago
More charitably, you could read that as "doesn't widely exist", which would track with my experience working with dozens of Indian developers over the last couple decades. I think OP was being curmudgeonly because they saw
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by free_rms 6y ago
We have social class as well. A plumber might make a lot more money than an associate professor, but it's crystal clear who's in the higher social class.
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by free_rms 6y ago
Their comment includes the phrase "I'm not saying it doesn't exist", so I think you're being a bit uncharitable with this retort.
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by free_rms 6y ago
The world isn't zero sum, Trump wasn't a topic here until you brought him up. You're basically doing a "but her emails" here. Biden's gonna win, most likely, will any pushback against our government be met wit
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by free_rms 6y ago
So who's gonna hold Biden accountable once he's President? You? The NYT and WaPo? Sure doesn't sound like it.
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by free_rms 6y ago
That's not very charitable at all. Can't one be upset at all corruption? Trump's gets coverage plenty of places, wall-to-wall. Yet any mention of Biden gets dogpiled by comments like yours. For the record, I'm a Bernie
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by free_rms 6y ago
They busted him for polite disagreement! Which the other party was totally cool with! Here's an idea, limit CoCs to actual harassment, with a warning. It's not harassment, definitionally, unless you persist after being asked to
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by free_rms 6y ago
This situation looks exactly like the people in charge doing whatever they want IMO.
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by free_rms 6y ago
I'm a reluctant Biden voter, but you're saying Hunter getting 600k for a bullshit job is totally above board? If I think that's fishy, I'm desperate and gullible? It's going nowhere, agreed, most blatant corruption
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by free_rms 6y ago
Naive is buying into a jingoist narrative about how everything bad in our own country is because of the scary Russians and Chinese. We've got billion-dollar Presidential campaigns and 100M-dollar senate campaigns, but an office floor f
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by free_rms 6y ago
If your kid is getting 600k/yr for a no-show job, you don't get to call your interventions "anti-corruption". Literally being involved at all is a conflict of interest.
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by free_rms 6y ago
It's undisputed that Hunter was getting 600k from a ukrainian national gas company and that Joe Biden demanded a prosecutor be fired. That's the real story, and it stinks. The computer repair shop thing is laughable, but that doe
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by free_rms 6y ago
Even if they're not authentic, it could just be a regular old lie. You know, lies? Like happen all the time in politics? Why does everything have to be a Russian conspiracy. There was a front page article on HN the other day with pe
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by free_rms 6y ago
That's a really good and fair point, but we're at a junction where looking at the Ukraine situation and saying "yeah but that looks fucked tho" is met with ABSOLUTE OPPROBRIUM. Come on. The same people who'd happil
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by free_rms 6y ago
Giuliani is a moron but there's no evidence that he's a foreign asset, besides saying things (and lies) that democrats don't like. It's possible, but there's no evidence, and occam's razor says he's just
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by free_rms 6y ago
Your last point is really good but there is still such a thing as a national political scene and federal government in the US, and it's a beat that we can expect a journalistic institution to cover. (despite an entire continent rollin
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by free_rms 6y ago
Sidebar: is there an age limit for ageism? When people complain about how old congress is, it's not like saying a 50yo can't code. It's more complaining about 75, 80 year olds who live off of name recognition rather than an

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