mieseratte

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by mieseratte 7y ago
> The right to refuse service to customers, and birth control to employees, on the basis of religious belief of business owners, has been confirmed by the US Supreme Court. That is not the case at all.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> You should be just as sick that these companies are pulling One can be sick of people turning the office into a political battle-field and simultaneously have no problems with outward corporate lobbying. These are different problems.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> Red states that vote the most against social programs are the biggest beneficiaries. It's the leech screaming "Leech!" in the mirror You're assuming in a "Red State," all those using social programs are th
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> It's more like they're willfully choosing to suffer. So in that case, enjoy your misery! So, you're going to speculatively stereotype an entire group of people and condemn them based on your own hunch as to their politic
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by mieseratte 7y ago
As a sibling comment mentions, non-profits aren't always "above board" in reality, e.g. the NFLs or Susan G. Komens of the world. The position that I'm coming from is that a newspaper isn't always meant to be partic
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by mieseratte 7y ago
What would that solve, specifically?
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by mieseratte 7y ago
Exactly my thought! This has "tax loophole" written all over it. Company gets to subsidize favorable propaganda, while at the same time getting a nice tax write-off. Edit: For those downvoting, would you care to elaborate? I don&#
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> Like saying Jill Stein is a Russian asset because literally 1 post in 10,000 (from troll farms) mentioned her as a "redirection" effort. Therein lies a good point I routinely use to befuddle, is how do you know these trolls a
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> All of a sudden the political subs were... reasonable. Yeah... no. It went full "Not My President" overnight. Hell, not even overnight. It went full "Not My President" that very night. And if you think that's b
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> but Russian troll farms used Sanders to divide the left on social media websites. Weird, IMHO Hillary and the Democrat party really seemed to be the one's doing the dividing.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> It's well-understood by Marxists how the mode of production determines the cultural superstructure[1] (and vice-versa). It's not "understood," it's a sociological theory. Hardly hard science.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
Would be great if TFA elaborated on just how they "knew" such a thing.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
As always, the question is how many and to what degree.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> Some would argue that millennial are entitled to feel "entitled". Some of us would argue that is a garbage mentality at the root of the problem. I would sooner wish to emulate the "Greatest Generation" than the Boom
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by mieseratte 7y ago
In defense of "the Boomers," and believe me I have plenty of gripes about trends within that generation, we Millenials aren't exactly above reproach. I can agree that it's not nearly as easy for us as it was for the past
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> Really? i thought i ended when everyone was talking about how millennials are ruining companies by not buying affordable products. I think it's important to differentiate between "media-driven narrative" and real-world r
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by mieseratte 7y ago
It’s not xenopohobia, it’s a hard problem. China actively exploits American tolerance for their own gain, and we have no good way to stem corporate espionage other than a blanket ban. Even then, good old corruption of non-Chinese is still p
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by mieseratte 7y ago
You need to get out of the city from time to time. I've done plenty of business where one or both parties were packing, yet no threat of violence, no sense of coercion.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
Not all degree programs are equal.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
Thank you!
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> Here are just a couple of recent examples that invalidate your claim. They were pretty easy to find: These are several years old. Can you find something from the past year? Turnover happens, missions change. From the outside, looks li
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> It's even worse when you consider how it's based in binary gender thinking. More like even better. Glad to see a website exercising critical thinking. > Are a transgender person's nipples allowed, or not? Is it sexual
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> For humans that would be almost impossible, because the screen would scroll when the mouse approaches the border. That humans cannot reliably perform these actions because of the limitations of our corporeal form means that Alphastar h
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> And one is for globalization. And the other is for stronger US labor unions, as mentioned in the article. Weird, I never thought of the Republicans as being pro-Union.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
I’ve been told everything is political, when questioning someone once. So I suppose Twitter will bow block all ads?
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by mieseratte 7y ago
Like a moth to a flame.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
What makes you feel the OTA wouldn't similarly fall victim to cronyism and lobbying? Soon enough your head of OTA would just be another corporate flunky like any other agency. This is a result of structural issues with our government,
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> So the issue is that the power outages and fires really haven't affected the wealthy or tech elite. Between that and the favel... homeless camps, California is really looking foreign. Perhaps they can secede and join the BRICS clu
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> Your whole reply just oozes with paternalistic co-dependence. Do you realize that? As does yours. As if you know any more than anyone else.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
Get a small business loan from your parents? Loads of kids do that for things like a lemonade stand or a lawn mowing business during the summer.

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