“One agent in the Arise network who won in arbitration, Tami Pendergraft, paid about $1,500 for home office equipment, paid for a background check and training, devoted 44 unpaid days to passing a certification course, and then worked three weeks fielding telephone calls from AT&T customers. After all that, she got a single paycheck for $96.12.”
AT&T makes $122 billion a year. No individual worker needs to be subsidizing their onboarding process.
Have they tried entering at the numerous official border crossing stations along major roads, highways, and ports, that are staffed 24/7 by US Customs and Immigration?
Probably not. It’s a cult of personality. The good news though is that most cults don’t survive the death of their leader. Usually it requires a solid second in command to step up and reform things to save it.
The most likely result here will be the crazy brigade will stay around until T***p dies. After that it’ll splinter and dissolve into infighting while some few people go back to something vaguely like reality.
Usually it requires a solid second in command to step up and reform things to save it.
And like most petty dictators, Trump has been diligent in preventing anyone from becoming a solid second-in-command, because he fears all potential threats to his dominance. If he dies, because he’s an out-and-out monarchist, the only possible heirs will literally be his heirs, and fighting between his children to assume his legacy will be bitter and bloody.
If you aren’t a cis white het male willing to lie about being prot this is the time to get dual citizenship somewhere else. And this is exactly why I am making sure my daughters get it.
You do not want to be in a line behind 30 million refugees trying to get into Canada. You want to be able to go to an embassy and secure right of return.
That would be a great thing but I also had another idea, why can’t a test be devised and codified into law, to tie minimum wage to. I know the main reasons why, obstructionist capitalists, but a test to find a living wage, average rent costs tied with other bill expenses and grocery costs. The companies raising costs feel free but the minimum wage will rise. Could something like this work? Tie wages and service/goods costs together to incentivize either livable/thrivable wages or lower costs. either way we need one of those two things, more buying power, or… more buying power.
Something to stop the decages long stagnation of worker compensation.
Well not only do you deserve to exist, but I am glad you exist.
How miserable must some peoples’ lives & minds be that they need to make Kyattophobia a significant part of their political concerns and/or personality?
In contrast, I find that being Kyattophilic enhances the life and the mind!
I love the analogy of Hummers overrunning Priuses, because while Hummers are more dangerous that Priuses, they both kill pedestrians, burn gasoline, and dump microplastics everywhere.
Part of me wants to write a WWZ style anthology about people telling their stories post Redcap takeover and eventually being kicked out.
So far I’ve got 3 world building points,
only landowning Christian men can vote, non-white Christian men are heavily discouraged by basically the Klan revived as a copy of Iran’s morality police. Voting districts are exclusively alloted based on square acreage instead of population size. The legislative body is called the Holy Synod of Saint Washington.
“holy crimes” get you branded with a literal scarlet letter, one of the worst examples is that rape victims are often branded J for “Jezebel” because their attacker was able to work some connections to get out of being prosecuted, so attempting to file charges instead gets treated as admitting to sex before marriage, something that only the woman gets punished for. Rest assured there are other also terrible letters, like S for sodomite or H for heretic.
You or your family can pay an exorbitant sum of money to have you “redeemed”, which instead sees you forced to wear a death mask in public as a “mortificant”, yes even if you have trouble breathing in it, no this doesn’t change that people will still treat you like shit, yes you’ll be treated as the one at fault if someone forcibly removes the death mask while you’re in public.
The point is that they’re doing shit that is considered heretical by most denominations and yet insisting the whole time they are true blue god fearing Christian folk.
No no, I know what you’re saying. But to me your post kinda read like your story was introducing something new (maybe I didn’t read it properly). I was just pointing out that the concept of “pay to sin” was literally employed by the Catholic Church before.
There is short novel called “If This Goes On…” describing a rebellion against an American theocracy and serves as a vehicle to criticise the authoritarian potential of Protestant Christian fundamentalism.
It was written by Robert Heinlein in 1940 and the theocratic takeover was written to occur in 2012.
Don’t forget the genocide against the Catholics and Mormons when the Evangelicals no longer need them.
Under prot rule atheists will be fine. We will just lie and be safe. The groups most at risk are the ones that are close to to prot but not quite there.
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