The fact it’s literally an official statement directly from the Virginia ACLU, on their own site, about the actions they took, is overshadowed by it being a “blog”, cool
Edit Legit what’s the point of this comment? The ACLU defends fascist violence. They did it while trump was in office, they’re doing it now with literal neo-nazi terrorists, and they’ll do that all throughout trump’s next term as fuhrer until he has them all put in camps along with the actually vulnerable people they protect. ACLU is not your friend. They’ll just act like it while also defending the fascists trying to kill you. None of this is changed just bc this statement is in the form of a blog post.
My god man. Are you actually trying to say that free speech should be regulated to allow only what YOU like to hear?
The ACLU adhered to constitutional law. That YOU don’t is irrelevant. They said they abhor his ideology but protect his right to say what he wants. Because … that’s how it works.
Do you also hate the military? Because they exist to defend the freedoms Americans enjoy. Like free speech. Which means they also defend the rights of asshole wannabe Nazis.
You can’t cherry pick the laws. Do you see how MAGA conservatives circumvent and violate the constitution on abortion rights and biblical studies in classrooms?
Yeah… you’re doing the same thing by whining about how the ACLU protected someone’s rights in a country where they’re allowed to speak.
If you don’t like what people say- don’t listen to them. But YOU have no right to dictate the rights of others. Even if they’re asshole Nazis.
Now go ahead and accuse me of whatever will make you sleep better at night.
It’s funny how MAGA bots pretend to have a cause so long as it reduces the amount of people That vote against their boy. I’m pretty certain there aren’t many people that actually believe that tire here in good faith.
Because we both know that your gEnOciDe is going to be worse under Trump. And you don’t give two shits it seems.
I disagree with you, that makes me a maga bot cx it’s funny how liberals can’t imagine for even one second the idea that someone besides a trump supporter wouldn’t be 100% on board with everything democrats do. I don’t tolerate nazis, therefore I am one. Very solid deduction, another mystery solved thanks to detective samtanko xD
Well, considering that you hate Biden, and according to you- the military… right there seems to be two things you have in common with Trump. The third being that you don’t seem to ever think before you speak. Because nearly everthing you say is either flat out untrue, or rearranged half-truths. So it’s not a giant leap to mark the similarities between the two of you.
And I didn’t call you a Nazi. Stop trying to be a victim here. That shit doesn’t fly. What I did say is that you possess very striking similarities to MAGA trolls.
Well yeah. I mean, the big companies hire psychologists to conduct user studies to maximize time on device, and they model their user experience after variable reward schedules from slot machines. Seems obvious that they’re nefarious.
I just have no idea how you can effectively regulate big tech.
At every corner, the fundamental dynamic of big tech seems to be: Do the same exploitative, antisocial things that we decided long ago should be illegal… but do it through indirect means that make it difficult or impossible to regulate.
If you change the definition of employment so that gig-work apps like Uber become employers, they’ll just change their model to avoid the new definition.
If you change the definition of copyright infringement so that existing AI systems are open to prosecution, they’ll just add another level of obfuscation to the training data or something.
I’m glad they’re willing to do something, but there has to be a more robust approach than this whack-a-mole game we’re playing.
Edit: And to be clear, I am also concerned about the collateral damage that any regulation might cause to the grassroots independent stuff like Lemmy… but I think that’s pretty unlikely. The political environment in the US is such that it’s way, way more likely that we just do nothing – or a tiny little token effort – and we just let Meta/Google/whoever fully colonize our neurons in the end anyway.
unpopular opinion, but, as someone who can afford it, I like TurboTax as a product. hate Intuit as a company for all their bs lobbying, but I like having TurboTax as an option. I have like a dozen accounts across multiple banks and turbotax gets me done with my taxes in like 30 or less every year for cheaper than my old accountant did when I used one.
yeah I agree. that’s why I included that the perspective was as somebody who can afford it and that I still hate what Intuit does. But at the same time saying I like the product instead of the TurboTax sucks circlejerking that the Internet loves doing.
because they said they wouldn’t. the direct file program said they’re placing themselves as an option besides ones already on the market and will NOT replace any existing technology already on the market. so you still need to manually file with them. it’s not the situation where they already have the documents so you don’t have to do anything.
Edit:
The IRS tool is meant to be an additional option people have to file their tax returns and will not replace any existing options for filing, said IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel on a call with reporters Wednesday.
well the difference is that the government won’t go oops you traded a stock, so you need to use premium for $120 and also shove sales and dark patterns in your face to trick you into buying premium. most others that were free usually charged to file state taxes or something or another too. definitely a win for the average joe, but it’s not the process that people are imagining. the IRS has pretty directly said that they are providing another option to people and not making other services obsolete.
free fillable forms has always been free. its just online pdfs for the physical forms and the irs has been offering them for awhile. I have not used a physical in awhile. My point was if they can't pull the forms with the data its not really more useful than the current free fillable forms option.
think of it as TurboTax free file made by the government and that’s it lol theyre a bit more than just PDFs online. theyve specifically said they’re making another option on the market alongside existing products. but they’re specifically NOT undercutting other existing technology.
yeah the only way I can see it being better since the irs already offered the free fillable forms is if it would autopopulate known forms like a w2 or 1099 (or is that 1098. I only know these things for like 3 months a year)
The government statistics are put up to make fools of people if you believe them you are the fool. Everybody with half a brain can tell that inflation is higher than 20 percent over the past four years.
What a rubbish! It’s awful that the enslaved Chinese workers in Xinjiang and elsewhere in China actually are bearing the burdens of Chinese cheap cars.
Guess what: Chinese cars aren’t even made in Xinjiang.
Politicians are just conflating two completely unrelated issues to drum up support for eliminating the supply of cheaper in demand products that consumers prefer over the overly expensive choices from the Western owner donors.
We agree that the ethnic cleansing and slavery in Xinjiang is absolutely abhorrent and that workers throughout China should have much better wages and conditions, but this would have no effect on the former and devastatingly negative consequences for the latter.
First, your statement is outright false, one example being the plant operated until recently by a subsidiary of SAIC-Volkswagen near Urumqi, the capital of China’s Xinjiang Region. Volkswagen had to leave the joint venture with SAIC exactly over forced labour allegations.
And second, even if true it wouldn’t matter as forced labour in China doesn’t just take place in Xinjiang alone. There are many other examples across the country.
Even so, tariffs on Chinese cars won’t do anything to lessen the problem of slavery and will hurt Chinese workers and people who want to wean themselves off fossil fuels IMMENSELY.
The two issues of tariffs and slavery aren’t related and that you’re using the former as a defense department the latter is a sign that you don’t have any real reasons not to oppose such destructive protectionism.
It’s like saying that there should be a tariff on American cars because number plates are being made via penal slavery.
<a href="" rel="nofollow">@Viking_Hippie</a>First your are claiming that Chinese cars aren’t manufactured in Xinjiang. When I provide evidence that this is false, you say “even so” and repeat your opinion. It seems whatever one says, no matter if evidence proofs otherwise, you “know” it better, continuing with your false narrative and spreading your opinion. Some may find such conversations funny, I say it is waste of time.
Your points in your statement above are false again.
Nope. The location of the factories was never the point.
The point is what the effects of tariffs would be: they would help the bottom line of Western competitors and nothing else at the expense of Chinese workers and German consumers. It wouldn’t help Chinese slaves in any way.
THAT’S the point. THAT’S what matters.
It seems whatever one says, no matter if evidence proofs otherwise
Dude. You haven’t presented any evidence. You have CLAIMED that there is a car factory in Xinjiang and, rather than waste a bunch of time and energy confirming or disproving your claim, which is irrelevant to tariffs, I reiterated the important part.
continuing with your false narrative and spreading your opinion
I’m not making any false claims (with the possible exception of mistakenly thinking that there’s no car factories in Xinjiang) and the fact that the ones paying for the tariffs would be Germans buying more expensive cars as well as Chinese workers losing their jobs as their employers lose market share is just that: a fact. NOT an opinion.
To quote yourself to yourself, your points in your statement above are false again.
Their components most certainly are. Most of the inexpensive products imported from China are produced by the forced labor of the Uyghurs. Batteries, motors, and electronics for EVs are included.
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