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by wfo 9y ago
Small correction: Soros primarily supports pretty mainstream centrist liberal organizations. Stuff like the ALCU, pro-choice organizations, immigrant rights groups, mainstream minority advocate groups, public health and environmental advoca
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by wfo 9y ago
Instead of worrying about potential foreigners competing for your job, you should wonder why there are so few jobs out there: it's because the rich are hoarding them. The money for them, that is. There is so much work to be done, plent
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by wfo 9y ago
If people don't like the concept, they don't really understand it. The way the word is often used and even the word itself, absolutely that ruffles some feathers and rightly so. They do studies, if people are given massive advanta
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by wfo 9y ago
Oh I certainly agree. And in general, beware anyone who uses the phrase 'common sense' - it turns out it is often not so common, not so sensical, or both. But the notion that media influences culture (for which there is overwhelmi
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by wfo 9y ago
>I am tired of seeing issues framed this way: "Despite all objective evidence, my ideology drives the view that it must be making men brutal and compromising women's power" The paragraph you quoted is literally saying &quo
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by wfo 9y ago
Sure there is, I'll articulate one: the federal government is giving preferential treatment to people who waive their constitutional privacy rights (and pay money) and going out of its way to intentionally inconvenience those who don&#
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by wfo 9y ago
Oh yes I agree strong leaders like I've described with the power to change society can be bad. Change is not always good. But a qualified technocrat will not ever change anything much, for better or for worse. Why change a system that
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by wfo 9y ago
>But current screening measures are not unconstitutional. That really depends on what nine partisans in fancy robes think, a group whose makeup changes over time and who can change their minds. I think what GP was getting at is that it s
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by wfo 9y ago
> It is consistently ranked as one of the better places for software engineers to work Where? By whom? I looked for a while and I couldn't find a single source to suggest this. There are plenty of lists of good software workplaces,
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by wfo 9y ago
A lot of the swing states are controlled by Republican state governments who impose draconian racially targeted voter suppression measures yes, but this is true in every election. 2000 was won for Bush first by deep and massive illegal vote
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by wfo 9y ago
>Converted an un-safe warehouse district into prime, central real estate and a thriving neighborhood (South Lake Union) SLU was not un-safe. The idea that there is a seriously unsafe neighborhood in the city of Seattle is laughable. I re
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by wfo 9y ago
Okay, if you will only accept extremely specific tailored data on tiny fractions of the population you are perfectly capable of finding it yourself. I'll be happy to review it with you when you do. The other responder to you has alread
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by wfo 9y ago
If you believe this you will always get a technocrat with a great resume who has spent years enforcing the status quo, and, once elected, will do nothing to change it. If you want anything to be better you need to move away from gatekeeping
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by wfo 9y ago
Are you a software engineer in one of these cities struggling to find a job? Would you take one at Amazon, knowing that it's one of the worst software jobs out there because of horrible working conditions? Would you last significantly
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by wfo 9y ago
First link on google on poor voters going Democratic: http://www.businessinsider.com/exit-polls-who-voted-for-trum... Every income group over $50k voted Trump. If you scroll down you see that rural voters did indeed go for
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by wfo 9y ago
>you have no ability to negotiate because they have something you want, and you're unwilling to give them anything they might want. would a meaningful fraction of the population pay even $1/mo to receive better contractual term
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by wfo 9y ago
It is terrifying how this power is being wielded. Cities try to compete to see who can be more obsequious and subservient to corporate interests in the hope that they win some "victory" -- the company moving to their town -- which
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by wfo 9y ago
With far-right racist and anti-immigrant sentiment rising and taking power in the US, as a brown immigrant even if you can get a visa wouldn't you be concerned about moving your life here?
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by wfo 9y ago
Just an aside, Trump supporters are NOT poor or the working class, this is a myth. The poor are non-voters and if they vote it's mostly Democrat by and large. Trump voters for the most part were middle class suburbanites or exburbanite
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by wfo 9y ago
A man with a gun and a baton beating you (if you resist) and physically forcing you into a tiny windowless cage and locking you in for an extended period of time is... not violence, you suggest? And you claim words mean things? Who is being
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by wfo 9y ago
You are very correct, the fundamental problem here is not that people don't read the EULA, it is that the world "agree" is not meaningful in this context, there is no equitable power relationship between you and the company y
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by wfo 9y ago
The theory that a party that has consistently screamed bloody murder for the last 60 years about anything that even smells like toning down the war on drugs or carceral state is somehow playing 1000 dimensional political chess and cracking
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by wfo 9y ago
It is not wrong, but it is irrelevant except as propaganda: it frames the cost of government services as being borne by the wealthy and suggests the wealthy are being charitable already or that they should have some extra say over where th
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by wfo 9y ago
Being fired from a private sector job is a due process issue as well.
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by wfo 9y ago
It is not OK for these companies to be huge either. Companies, no matter how large are always dictatorially controlled by a tiny group of ultrawealthy oligarchs. Large company == massive concentrated power with zero oversight or democratic
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by wfo 9y ago
Millenials aren't whiny, they are angry. They have been screwed and want revenge. They correctly asses that boomers climbed up the ladder then burned it to the ground. They took cheap publicly subsidized education then massively defund
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by wfo 9y ago
Unregulated corporate power destroyed your life and your response is "no, this is actually good" and then you tell us not to be blinded by partisan ideology?
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by wfo 9y ago
Recall that for someone "making" $5M per year, the majority of income that high is inevitiably extractive and exploitative and comes from ownership and power, not the output of their actual work. One could argue if they deserve an
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by wfo 9y ago
But their owners and managers who actually tell them what to do and have all of the power over the networks are nearly all Republicans (or right-wing democrats). They don't do it for free, they do it out of self-interest. For example,
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by wfo 9y ago
Totally agree. But the only way for software people to take any power or control (really, for any worker to have any say in the business at all) is to unionize, and us tech folks tend to treat that like a curse word.

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