Disaster

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[–] Disaster 2 points 4 days ago

They literally ruled "See you next Tuesday". Lol.

[–] Disaster 2 points 5 days ago

actual LOL. Now I have water up my nose πŸ˜‚

[–] Disaster 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Judge Bayer didn't seem too enthusiastic about backing that one up..

[–] Disaster 2 points 6 days ago

The particles spewing from both ends also don't help.

[–] Disaster 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nope. The rulings coming out of the Federal courts (more often than not from Trump appointed judges) are unambiguous and the executive branch is largely complying with them once a ruling is handed down.

They are playing a game of legal brinkmanship in order to to try and circumvent the law (the whole dismiss-and-arrest thing happening at immigration courts - which are NOT full courthouses, btw), but don't think for one second the Judges and attorneys working on these cases aren't fully aware of what's going on.

*edited for less word salad. Yikes

[–] Disaster 13 points 1 week ago

For the car analogy, the incentives are even more perverse than that!

[–] Disaster 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

There's little evidence that debate changes people's ideas.

[–] Disaster 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There has been no blanket ban, however many individual cases are being reverse and TRO's are flying in full swing. I'd suggest following this immigration attorney for a (very depressing) play-by-play including links to the filings.

[–] Disaster 14 points 1 week ago

..or organize, start/join unions, get involved with your local community and build up some real resistance that isn't based off obscene wealth, lawfare or media brainwashing. Once you have experienced something real, it's quite hard to understand how or why anyone would fall for the alternative.

[–] Disaster 15 points 1 week ago

Well.... there is that bit where his companies now have all of the data they were able to loot from the Federal departments he ruined.

[–] Disaster 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Disagree. UAW's high profile cases are a good example of effectively run established old-style unions getting big wins, and unionization is occurring at high rates compared to the historical mean of the past fifty years worldwide, even in the face of total hostility from government and the owner class.

Many unions are currently in a place where they need to hand over the reigns from an older generation that got way too comfortable with cost of living adjustments and cosy relationships with management to a new generation who have been directly blocked from power most of their working lives by that older generation.

Things are going to get much spicier, just watch.

[–] Disaster 2 points 1 week ago

Well, there's the Defined Benefit pension, however typically these pension funds then become institutional investors who seek to own shares in... you guessed it - stocks.

At least those institutional investors are at least somewhat responsive to public pressure campaigns, as the state/local comptrollers are a politically appointed position.

When you give your money to a 401k, the fund manager gets all the voting rights on the corporate board and is generally only accountable to "A reasonable rate of return"

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