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[-] [email protected] 100 points 1 month ago

I never would have guessed that the captured regulators would choose the owner class over the working class.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

The regulators are the National Labor Relations Board, who brought the suit attempting to force Starbucks to re-hire them. The regulators are doing their jobs in this case. The courts, especially the Suprene Court, are the ones captured.

[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago

Terrible, but unsurprising.

[-] DudeImMacGyver 28 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

The real question is why would you want to be rehired. I understand a settlement check but I mean were you really digging the job that much to begin with?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago

Much more important to dig your job than have food on the table and roof over your head.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

I read a couple places that it's terrible but healthcare.gov is pretty great ngl..I did hear you get that Spotify premium tho fr fr bussin

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

This would not have happened if the non-voting bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe idiots had bothered to vote in 2016, allowing republicans to stage a executive and legislative right-wing coup of the supreme court.

But here we are. And their ostrich head-in-the-sand response to this ruling and their passively complicit role in it will most likely and idiotically be, once again, yOu SeE? bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe

"I voted once ten years ago, and I didn't get my pony overnight. bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe"
Now thanks to these lazy, mediocre "muh purity" reprobates cutting off their noses to spite ALL our faces, things are now sliding faster toward a "yee-haw!" banana republic from within.

[-] [email protected] -4 points 4 weeks ago

Bruh, there's a right wing majority on the bench because Obama in an unprecedented move, gave his Supreme Court pick to Trump.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago

This is... not true. Orrin Hatch said if Obama nominated someone like Merrick Garland, the Republican Senate would approve it. Obama nominated him, then the Republican Senate said "psych."

The checks and balances were broken by the Republican Senate because they decided "advice and consent" could be abused to mean "wait until there's a Republican president."

The public decided the solution to this was selecting a Republican president and keeping a Republican Senate. It's a perfect plan for Republicans, because people on the left just blame Democrats so that the same pattern can happen again next time.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Agree entirely except the part about the people keeping a Republican Senate. The Senate is rigged. 1 person from Wyoming should not have the same power as 65 from California. The entire point of the Senate is to rig things against what most people want if it goes against what small states want.

"According to James Madison, "The use of the Senate is to consist in proceeding with more coolness, with more system, and with more wisdom, than the popular branch.""

By far the popular vote is not for the GOP and hasn't been since 2004. The Senate makes sure that doesn't matter. Gerrymandering the house does the rest.

Similar to the Senate issue, the last time a Republican won both the popular vote and the electoral vote was again 2004. The electoral college is the same problem compounded. The people haven't picked a Republican president in 20 years.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

No it is true, nominating Garland to begin with was a major capitulation to Republicans. He was basically a moderate Republican that made the base not care about the nomination.

And Democrats could of and should have shut down the government over what McConnell did but did what they always do. Perform a right wing ratchet where they simple stop the country from becoming right wing but never push it left. Then when a Rep comes into office the push the country right once again which is exactly what happened.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Case in point

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

Well, Obama tired playing by the rules to which the Republicans just kicked the pieces over and shat all over the board.

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