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"Feelings shouldn't play a role in politics" - the side that threatens a bloodbath if you take away their toys
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This data just includes "incidents reported" for 2016. I was under the impression that conservatives were skeptical of hate crime reports in the wake of Trump's election as being made up by liberals to suit a narrative.
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Tom Clancy's NBA Live 18
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/18/minimum-wage-not-enforced-investigation-409644

As Democrats make raising the minimum wage a centerpiece of their 2018 campaigns, and Republicans call for states to handle the issue, both are missing an important problem: Wage laws are poorly enforced, with workers often unable to recover back pay even after the government rules in their favor.

Thats the conclusion of a nine-month investigation by POLITICO, which found that workers are so lightly protected that six states have no investigators to handle minimum-wage violations, while 26 additional states have fewer than 10 investigators. Given the widespread nature of wage theft and the dearth of resources to combat it, most cases go unreported. Thus, an estimated $15 billion in desperately needed income for workers with lowest wages goes instead into the pockets of shady bosses.

But even those workers who are able to brave the system and win to get states to order their bosses to pay them what theyre owed -- confront a further barrier: Fully 41 percent of the wages that employers are ordered to pay back to their workers arent recovered, according to a POLITICO survey of 15 states.

Thats partly because, in addition to lacking resources, states lack the tools to go after the landscaping firms, restaurants, cleaning companies and other employers that shed one corporate skin for another, changing names while essentially continuing the same businesses often to evade orders to pay back their workers.

This failure to enforce both the minimum hourly wage $7.25 under federal law and rules requiring higher pay for overtime distorts the economy, giving advantages to employers who break the law. It allows long-term patterns of abuse to take root in certain service industries, especially restaurants, landscaping and cleaning. Advocates for lowest-wage workers describe families facing eviction and experiencing hunger for lack of money thats owed them. And, nationally, the failure to enforce wage laws exacerbates a level of income inequality that, by many measures, is higher than its been for the past century.

Low-income workers are already in this fragile balance, said Victor Narro of the UCLA Labor Center. One paycheck of not being able to get the wages theyre owed can cause them to lose everything.

Interviews with scores of state officials, legal-services advocates and labor specialists indicate that the failure to enforce minimum wages touches every corner of the country, but is especially acute in the six states that have no investigators probing wage violations at all.

All six states that have no minimum-wage investigators are in the South, and in a seventh, Florida, former Gov. Jeb Bush eliminated the state Department of Labor over a period of years in the early 2000s. In theory, its responsibilities were distributed among other state agencies, but in practice Florida failed to undertake a single enforcement action for more than four years. Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina, Tennessee and Mississippi all have labor agencies, but workers cant file minimum wage or overtime claims with them; they must instead appeal to the U.S. Department of Labor, which takes cases only selectively, based in part on the number of employees involved and the extent of the wrongdoing.
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The federal Department of Labor has 894 investigators vastly more than any state agency. By historic measures, though, its investigative workforce isnt particularly large. In 1948, when the United States had 23 million workers, the division had 1,000 investigators. Today, the U.S. has seven times as many workers, but slightly fewer federal wage-and-hour investigators than it had 70 years ago.

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GregShmedley posted...

Obviously we won't get to a true zero but instead of compromising at banning one gun because it may lower the deathcount while an increase in available guns being used, we could nip the problem in the bud.

How many guns do we need to have to nip this problem in the bud? We're one of the most armed countries on earth, yet our problems with shootings are undoubtedly greater than most of the developed world.
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There's a reason we give the military rifles instead of knives: they are more effective at killing people than knives are. The same holds true in the hands of a bad guy.
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Don't you have a rough history making such declarations about parts of the Mueller investigation? Thinking specifically about your response to the Manafort raid
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To make it easier for you to understand, mal, consider your thoughts on Colin Kaepernick and his white adoptive parents.
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I saw my dad using something that looked like a Tinder knockoff, and his phone made high pitched chirps, almost like a cricket noise while he used it.
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Antifar posted...

The vitriol only intensified in the hours that followed, which baffled Aaron. Who, other than a white supremacist, would be offended by a message condemning white supremacy?

Who, indeed?
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I hope this painter's future subjects will think twice about working with an artist who glorifies violence. Look at how flatteringly he painted a guy who droned people all across the middle east.
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If the US applied Sweden's handling of rape claims, Admiral would decry it as feminist SJW bullshit.
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I, too, miss the better times of, uh...um.
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Help
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Every dollar Comcast isn't taxed is a dollar they can spend on lobbying to make your internet worse
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Is this virtue signaling
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What would be the worst condition in that blank where you'd still take the deal?
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https://twitter.com/electrolemon/status/960670825400614913
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Graphics: 9/10
Gameplay 8/10
Story: 4/10
Replay value: 7/10
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smh do they have a permit?
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Kids these days and their Facespace and InstaSnap
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Freddie_Mercury posted...

cjsdowg posted...

large flashlights

couldn't even get tiki torches smh

Are we sure that isn't a typo?
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Anteaterking posted...

Do you interact with people in real life?

He once thought about working up the courage to ask his neighbor to turn the music down, does that count?
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Algerians reading this topic:
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Capn Circus posted...

Then refer to the top 15 cities receiving food stamps and research the demographics--maybe then you will figure it out.

What is your theory for why "demographics" and poverty are correlated?
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The way that review puts it, he's just the Fight Club guy but with a degree.
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Are these needless deaths the fault of capitalism?
http://cw33.com/2018/01/22/dad-daughter-found-dead-in-home-sought-help-to-fix-furnace/
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Bullet_Wing posted...

He claims to have never supported Trump though. Ever since the election, he's been saying he "held his nose and voted Hillary" because he thought Trump would be the downfall of the GOP

This is true. But why does Admiral like the GOP? It's not like he's regularly preaching free market fiscal conservatism like Proudclad or ranting about abortion and gay marriage. Admiral's brand of conservatism basically mirrors Trump's: he prioritizes antagonizing minorities and college students.
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Bio1590 posted...

CE's obsession with this guy is so f***ing weird

No, it's very normal for 20-somethings to pledge fealty to a college professor who tells them to do chores.
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

The system works if you make wise decisions.

Relying on average people making wise decisions seems like a flaw in the system.
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I/Me/Blood is metal af
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Harsh immigration policies incentivize the use of illegal immigrants by giving employers additional leverage over them.
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I think just outright saying your opponents are complicit in murder is way more inflammatory and divisive than like, Obama saying Trayvon could have been his son.

But that's just me
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Laws regarding immigration are fine in theory and absolutely horrifying in practice.
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Mal spends the first 50 minutes of every CSI episode insisting the killer didn't do it.
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America's foreign policy record makes seeking a nuclear weapon the obvious choice for its enemies. Nothing short of that will ensure safety.

Obviously, we, as a country, aren't too concerned for the safety of the North Korean regime, but they are acting in self-interest. Even our enemies have the ability to do that.
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Uh, no
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You wouldn't make a point of calling someone who prefers to go by "Ed" Edward. Why do you make a point of calling someone who prefers to go by "she" he?
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What does Professor Genius mean by this? I don't have the required IQ to understand
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/950736306694336512

Maybe I'm just some yokel, but this looks like he's questioning Jerry Sandusky's guilt (and rebutted heavily in the replies)
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/950398806054481921
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FLUFFYGERM posted...

if you are a balanced and sane adult you respect him

Another example: what you're really saying here is "I am balanced and sane," which I think you'd believe regardless of your opinions on Peterson.
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nicklebro posted...

and if you'd actually even look into what Jordan Peterson has to say you'd know I was right,

"you'd know that you need a high intelligence to appreciate him, and that, by extension, I have one."
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Someone saying [X thing they enjoy] requires a high intelligence is generally talking more about themselves than their subject. You're like two degrees from describing yourself as a very stable genius, TC.
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Well?
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"Trump's only concerned with illegal immigrants"
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People decided that a tax on properties was preferable to a free-for-all on their properties
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Aren't you glad Trump lowered Google's taxes?
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