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Old 06-30-2021, 01:53 PM
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Socialists have NO ROOM to squeak about this BS at all, especially when they're artificially lowering the wage levels by opening the Southern border. Does no one think that there's not a robust underground economy that uses these shlubs for any and all work, depressing wages for Americans that would otherwise want to work? Ridiculous.
Tragic. Happening in plain sight. "Oh, they're just working jobs that Americans don't want" - because government is so busy paying Americans to stay unemployed? In your city, look at about 10 housecleaning, landscape, drywall businesse - usually all cash businesses, FYI. Family run, immigrant or migrant families with many family members working for them that don't fall under the wage rules. They bid jobs at less than market rates, get more clients, other competitors go out of business due to losing clients, then immigrant/migrants expand, raise prices.

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The cherry on top is always the Bourgeoisie Class who subsidize their children to go learn a skill as an "intern" at a company where they have some "pull". The kids learn a skill, meet the people they need to meet, and then make more money in their first year of work than the lower class kids made in five years working their way up the ladder. You can act the Socialist part in demanding a "living wage" while at the same time sending young Francis and Audra to intern at a shiny hedge fund. Gee, I wonder if that's how it happened with Hunter Biden?
In general, don't ever worry about people with that wealth level. There are so few of them in contrast to the reality of the country, the examples end up being ludicrous. Nothing you do is going to change the fact that their money makes money while on the way to deposit money in the bank. Increasing the size of government, creating a class of Government Rust Fund minimum wage babies, isn't the answer. Forcing businesses to hire based on skin color or gender or sexual interest but to enforce other laws that make sure they aren't making hiring decisions based on skin color or gender or sexual interest just isn't the path ahead.
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Old 06-30-2021, 02:12 PM
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In general, don't ever worry about people with that wealth level. There are so few of them in contrast to the reality of the country, the examples end up being ludicrous. Nothing you do is going to change the fact that their money makes money while on the way to deposit money in the bank. Increasing the size of government, creating a class of Government Rust Fund minimum wage babies, isn't the answer. Forcing businesses to hire based on skin color or gender or sexual interest but to enforce other laws that make sure they aren't making hiring decisions based on skin color or gender or sexual interest just isn't the path ahead.
The point isn't to worry about the Ruling Class, but to point out that the rules don't affect them. And should anything they do be illegal--see Hunter Biden for details--it's swept under the rug by the media and the government, who is controlled by and beholden to the Ruling Class.

The funny point is that their rally cry for a "fair living wage" is meaningless to them, and all but guarantees pain and economic hardship for the poor dumb bastards who believe them. It's like voting for Biden and then getting laid off from your union steel or pipe-fitting job, all while watching your gas bill double within months.
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I was actually with the alleged ATF agent when he said he wasn't getting on the ground, however, in the far majority of situations, my policy is that when a policeman rolls up to me as I'm walking down the street holding a Big Gulp and yells "drop the weapon", I'm dropping that cup. The far majority, 98%, of these situations escalate due to simple non-compliance or combative behavior.
TOTALLY overblown by the cop. Also totally expected for a perp to gaslight an ATF agent at the door. Boy, he must have been laughing through the window at the whole spectacle.

The most telling thing--how the cop acted AFTER he found out this guy was ATF....the same. Total douche canoe.
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That face you make when you find out that Bernie Sanders owns three homes and a red Audi R8.
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Originally Posted by cordycord
TOTALLY overblown by the cop. Also totally expected for a perp to gaslight an ATF agent at the door. Boy, he must have been laughing through the window at the whole spectacle.

The most telling thing--how the cop acted AFTER he found out this guy was ATF....the same. Total douche canoe.
i thought it was a perfect example of how police aren't racist and of how they don't follow their own rules
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i thought it was a perfect example of how police aren't racist and of how they don't follow their own rules
I can't fathom why the cop pulled his gun.
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I can't fathom why the cop pulled his gun.
It makes perfect sense if someone is impersonating a police officer. High probability of them being armed if they look like a cop.
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Originally Posted by Bajingo
It makes perfect sense if someone is impersonating a police officer. High probability of them being armed if they look like a cop.

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I'm watching Trans Jenner on NewsMax and it struck me that this needed to happen to further the agenda. By having conservatives embrace a transjenner person because they're supposedly (or actually) conservative, it furthers the cause that transgenderism isn't a fabricated condition to justify abnormal behavior. I don't trust either side.
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I'm watching Trans Jenner on NewsMax and it struck me that this needed to happen to further the agenda. By having conservatives embrace a transjenner person because they're supposedly (or actually) conservative, it furthers the cause that transgenderism isn't a fabricated condition to justify abnormal behavior. I don't trust either side.
trans-Jenner-ism?
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/minneapol...e-floyd-square

​​​​​​ terrorism charges when?
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Originally Posted by cordycord
TOTALLY overblown by the cop. Also totally expected for a perp to gaslight an ATF agent at the door. Boy, he must have been laughing through the window at the whole spectacle.

The most telling thing--how the cop acted AFTER he found out this guy was ATF....the same. Total douche canoe.

He was suspected of breaking into a house, he had a gun, he wasn't following commands, he was hysterical & combative, and he resisted arrest. Cops were totally overblown.

The ATF agent literally said "I'm hyperventilating, I have a heart condition, my wife's pregnant.... Please... Sir..."

he might of well had said "My name is George Floyd, I just swallowed a bunch of drugs...I cant Breeaaaffff"

You sound like BLM right now.
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/minneapol...e-floyd-square

​​​​​​ terrorism charges when?
Due to "systematic racism," black people can't be terrorists.
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quick! let's knock over a few buildings and bridges so we can give China our money!

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quick! let's knock over a few buildings and bridges so we can give China our money!

Can anyone justify to me why we would send any taxpayer money to China for any reason?? Whether for virus research or electric vehicle infrastructure?
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Originally Posted by Efini~FC3S
Can anyone justify to me why we would send any taxpayer money to China for any reason?? Whether for virus research or electric vehicle infrastructure?
No, because we aren't anti American morons.
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Can anyone justify to me why we would send any taxpayer money to China for any reason?? Whether for virus research or electric vehicle infrastructure?
reward for helping install our current President. Politics is just one big grift/embezzlement.
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Originally Posted by Braineack
He was suspected of breaking into a house, he had a gun, he wasn't following commands, he was hysterical & combative, and he resisted arrest. Cops were totally overblown.

The ATF agent literally said "I'm hyperventilating, I have a heart condition, my wife's pregnant.... Please... Sir..."

he might of well had said "My name is George Floyd, I just swallowed a bunch of drugs...I cant Breeaaaffff"

You sound like BLM right now.
The goal with the 2nd A is to be OK with EVERYONE having guns. If that's the case, it's unrealistic for every handicapped grandma and suspected speeder to kiss the ground every time a cop pulls them over. Cops have been trained in how to defuse situations, and the training works. After training, "suicide by cop" goes down and confrontations go down. The cop set the stage on this one.
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Originally Posted by Efini~FC3S
Can anyone justify to me why we would send any taxpayer money to China for any reason?? Whether for virus research or electric vehicle infrastructure?
I just read that Hunter Biden's capital firm helped fund research at the Wuhan lab. No, really.

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