I guess I can see why this is being posted, but if you are entering this era thinking that because you’ve seen a video of something that it must have happened…well, you haven’t been paying much attention and opening yourself up to being easily manipulated.
He got what he wanted. The only thing that will happen is the bus bouncing a couple times after he throws her under it. Source: look at every other person in Donald’s orbit.
From a better solution that actually improves the lives of people.
He’s just advocating for revenge. It doesn’t solve anything.
Let me say it again for the people in the back: it’s better to redistribute these people’s wealth than to throw them in prison without redistributing their wealth.
And yet in the same breath we often point out that prison time doesn’t rehabilitate (think petty crime). I think realistic fines to individuals AND companies that are more than “cost of doing business,” as well as blacklisting the (undoubtedly several) individals responsible from being able to hold that level of power in an industry, not just the company, then there may be a reasonable deterrent, and it won’t be a languishing burden on tax payers to put these guys up in dressed up 4 star hotels.
People deliberately putting children’s lives at risk should be jailed the same whether or not they are doing it from hiding behind a limited liability. And also the prisons should be changed so that they are actually about rehabilitation.
The judge said everyone gets warnings and fines before jail time. If he could, he’d issue a large fine, but he can’t because state law caps the fine at $1,000 per violation. The judge acknowledged that a $10,000 fine for a multi-millionaire isn’t even a punishment, but immediately jailing someone because they can easily afford the fine seemed wrong. Trump violated the gag order 10 times before being officially told to stop, so the judge is lumping them all into a “first” violation. He said the “second” violation absolutely will be punished with jail time. We’ll see.
…but immediately jailing someone because they can easily afford the fine seemed wrong.
No it doesn’t, not even a little bit! Restrictions on their time are the only things rich people understand; they should be jailed instead of fined early and often.
And then they get the case cancelled because it’s clearly bias against them that they don’t get to just pay the same fee as anyone else as a first warning.
You do if it’s Trump and he uses it to question the judge’s neutrality.
How long do you think before they replace the judge and get things started again? If you believe it won’t be long enough to get him elected then I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
This is the second time in this criminal trial (all previous ones have been civil trials), and this me the judge stated that fines are clearly not working and that jail time could be necessary if it keeps happening.
Yes I knew we’ll all believe it when it happens, but it is different now that he’s in criminal court and the maximum fine has been dealt both for the first and second infringement.
Constant lying, killing puppies. Seems like she’ll be very popular with republican voters. The fact she hasn’t left already shows there’s at least some truth to it
I’m not usually one to invoke the founders, because they were a bunch of misogynist slave owners, but for fuck’s sake, this country was literally founded on protesting!
I grew up with classmates named Autumn, April, and December (she went by DeeDee). I had a co-worker named June. I’ve known of kids named Summer, January, Augustus, and September. But none of them picked these names; it was the parents who identified them as months or seasons!
(And yes obviously the Fox story is beyond stupid)
“I feel more masculine in the summertime. I wear more masculine clothing, I wear shorts. I normally have my hair up more and I just feel more ‘boy’, whereas in the winter – for some reason – girl mode comes out and I’m loving skirts and dresses and having my hair down.”
This is from a video that the Fox story is about. Fox totally missed the point, I’m guessing intentionally so.
But can we talk about that statement for a second? (I’m leftist af and I strongly believe trans people should be able to do whatever the fuck they want, just like everybody else; this has nothing to do with that.) I’m having a hard time accepting this statement.
I would obviously never support the misogynistic belief that women should (only) wear skirts/dresses. But as it turns out, the idea that dresses and long hair are inherently feminine (or that shorts and short hair are inherently masculine) also makes me uncomfortable. I recognize that a lot of people see it that way, but I don’t think that makes it right, or a belief that should continue to propagate.
I’m a dude, and I hope to see a day where I can grow out my hair and wear a dress without people assuming it means anything about me beyond that I like dresses and long hair.
(Please let me know if this is insensitive and I will remove my comment. I’m not interested in starting an unproductive or hateful discussion here)
Are you responding to me, or just the story in general? I basically agree with you entirely and don’t have much to add to what you just said.
Well, except that long hair and long skirt-like clothing items were worn by men for hundreds of years; look at almost any painting from the middle ages lol
It’s like the conservatives always say! Too big to fail, too criminal to be brought to justice, accountability will lead to lawlessness, rules are made to be broken, party of law and order, don’t tread on me…
and the ultimate classic, whatever you do - don’t be a hypocrite!
I’m not young, but I feel the same way as these young people. I don’t care about this country, I don’t care about its people, and I don’t care about its future. It’s like that Bob Dylan song, “I used to care, but things have changed.”
I care about its people. I always care about people. Just some people need to be rescued from their hate filled delusion. It’s sad to see these poor suckers get tricked into being angry about things that have absolutely nothing to do with them. Talking about conservative media and how all it does is lash out against things. I don’t even think there is ryhme or reason to it. It is as if they offer up a topic and open the floor to anyone who has some minor complaint.
I hate when companies say they’re “forced” to do layoffs. Elon could easily pay six figure salaries to 14,000 people for over a decade before he noticed even the slightest change to his net worth. What they really mean is that by upending the lives of 14,000 families, they’re hoping to get a temporary bump in the stock price this quarter so they can buy another yacht.
I really find the hatred of layoffs some of the most nonsensical criticism of capitalism.
If you are going to pay people for doing nothing useful, because your company no longer needs their work, why make them go to work? You can save their time and your money (office costs, taxes, administration, etc.) if you just give them the money after you fire them.
I think it’s more so that the corporate culture lately is extremely short-sighted and makes lay-offs in incredibly dumb ways (i.e. you can see their future half-year problems). Which many times will need to be re-hired by paying lots of money to idiotic recruiters to hire new people (because the older folks have switched ship and are not coming back) and train them. Lots of instability caused by extremely poor management (who get payed a lot even though they make stupid decisions).
I mean, what you say is true although I suspect it is a lot less common than the headlines would lead you to believe. Its probably just selection bias since news don’t report on companies running well.
Either way, that is not what the comment I was reacting to is saying.
Indeed… top comment is a bit more… emotional. I just try to perceive where the general emotion is coming from (because it is definitely shared by many)
That’s pretty rude to all the troglodytes who passed by that spot, thought some version of “That’s a cool rock formation!” and went about their troglodytey day without knocking it over.
I feel similarly. My reactions were “Why?!?”, “Are you utter idiots?!” and “I hope that your hate and idiocy isn’t passed down through gene pools!”.
Edit: I agree with other posters that it’s demeaning to troglodytes for someone not a troglodyte to claim that these wastes of air and proteins are troglodytes.
I’m down 40ish in a year. I mean, it’s weight I’ve been trying desperately without success to lose for years, but eventually I’m going to run out. And then when it’s 3am on a Tuesday and I’m lying awake mentally working through my budget for the 11th time that week I go “I’ve been stressed and skipped meals before and never lost weight, do I have cancer? Because I really can’t afford that.”
When the economy is bad, prices go up, wages stay low and we get fucked. When the economy is good, prices go up, wages stay low and we get fucked.
Seriously fuck the economy, it only benefits the 1% so why should I care? That’s why you do the minimum the your job requires, don’t ever give extra, don’t be a “team player”, cause come pay time there is no team
When you work part time jobs you generally don’t get benefits (paid by the company) but you will get welfare and food stamps when you work at Walmart for 39 hours a week, for example.
Poster offered up evidence. You’ve just attacked them. It’s clear who has more faith in their position. It’s clear who arguing with their reason and which is arguing with their emotions.
True. And the least trustworthy source is some random in the comments section making baseless claims. Treasury.gov is at least a thousand times more reliable than that. Probably safe to say a million times. Hell, if you can’t believe treasury.gov, what would you trust?
While I agree that people in social media users have biases and ignore even a reputable evidence, but with economics though, it’s complicated. One economic metric alone is sometimes not enough, has limitations and therefore doesn’t give the full picture. I don’t know much about purchasing power parity to comment on it, but the best example I can give is on GDP or gross domestic product. A country that has high GDP in let’s say, $100 billion, shows that the country is rich. That implies that the population in that country are also also wealthy enough, right? Not really. If the GDP per capita/person is in $1,000 in that country, as opposed to US’s of over $60,000, then the people in that country are not affluent enough.
Immense wealth is nothing if they’re not distributed equitably. The higher purchasing power of Americans is taken on average but does not take into account that certain areas do not have higher purchasing power. California would have higher purchasing power as opposed to rural folks in the Rust Belt. And the latter are Trump supporters for a reason.
I agree with your point, but don’t see how it makes sense here. The article doesn’t just throw out a single metric that would be misleading due to wealth inequity. There’s a whole section about real wages over the income distribution. It’s much more granular.
But you can donate sick pay to a coworker who got attacked in a home invasion, or hurt in a car accident or needed a life saving surgery! You can even donate to a fundraiser for a coworker run by an employer announcing double the profits of 33 years ago and paying for fewer benefits than ever.
Well, many conflate the economy with the stock market. To me, If wages are flat and people are hurting, the economy is not good. The stock market may look good, but if the middle class isn’t growing from the bottom the economy sucks. Like right now.
The taxpayers are gonna lose millions while the cops responsible for this suffer no consequences whatsoever. And any politician trying to hold them responsible will be treated as being “weak on crime.”
The taxpayers are gonna lose millions while the cops responsible for this suffer no consequences whatsoever.
That’s the really disgusting part. It’s disgusting they designed a system like this, and that the system is working as designed. This is not an oversight. This is intentional.
He doesn’t “feel” any of this except in the ego, and the ego would hurt more if he admitted he was wrong. He can private jet around all day and not run out of money for the rest of his life. Maybe it delays his plans to be able to more fully buy people, but that’s not a feeling I’m curious to feel.
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