American Politics VII: Virginia Reel

[The Andorian System]

They constantly ask you to have 5 years experience in management for an entry level job. They are insane.

Saw a job posting yesterday that demanded a doctorate for $16 an hour.
A goddamn DOCTORATE.

A lot of these so-called Employment Agencies are rackets. They get money to find quality workers for companies, then turn away potential workers because they don't have a proven track record. It never occurs to them that 95% of workers with a proven track record are employed. It never occurs to them that the only way for some unemployed people to get a proven track record is ON THE JOB.

Covid-19 has been a convenient excuse for shitty people to be shitty.

[Genivaria]

Desperate NYC taxi drivers go on hunger strike
The Medallion Crisis Is So Bad That Taxi Drivers Are on a Hunger Strike
A hunger strike? That's some next level shit there.

[The Jamesian Republic]

Desperate NYC taxi drivers go on hunger strike
The Medallion Crisis Is So Bad That Taxi Drivers Are on a Hunger Strike
A hunger strike? That's some next level shit there.

What is the Medallion Crisis?

[Genivaria]

Desperate NYC taxi drivers go on hunger strike
The Medallion Crisis Is So Bad That Taxi Drivers Are on a Hunger Strike
A hunger strike? That's some next level shit there.

What is the Medallion Crisis?

I had the same question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_medallion

A taxi medallion, also known as a CPNC (Certificate of Public Necessity and Convenience), is a transferable permit in the United States allowing a taxicab driver to operate. Several major cities in the US use these in their taxi licensing systems, including New York City, Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.

The medallion system is a government-created intentional constraint on the supply of taxicabs, and because cities have historically increased the number of medallions at a slower rate than the growth in demand for taxis, medallions have generally been considered a valuable investment;[1][2] though recently the increased supply of cars for hire created by ridesharing companies has been eroding the value of medallions.[3][4][5]

So basically in order to be a taxi driver you need to fork over hundreds of thousands first forcing many drivers into massive debt.

[Spirit of Hope]

What is the Medallion Crisis?

I had the same question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_medallion

A taxi medallion, also known as a CPNC (Certificate of Public Necessity and Convenience), is a transferable permit in the United States allowing a taxicab driver to operate. Several major cities in the US use these in their taxi licensing systems, including New York City, Boston, Cambridge, Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.

The medallion system is a government-created intentional constraint on the supply of taxicabs, and because cities have historically increased the number of medallions at a slower rate than the growth in demand for taxis, medallions have generally been considered a valuable investment;[1][2] though recently the increased supply of cars for hire created by ridesharing companies has been eroding the value of medallions.[3][4][5]

So basically in order to be a taxi driver you need to fork over hundreds of thousands first forcing many drivers into massive debt.

NYC badly mismanaged their medallion system, basically creating a bubble. When that bubble burst it badly hurt taxi drivers.

[San Lumen]

https://queenseagle.com/all/2021/10/22/ ... for-office

New York Governor signs bill allowing candidates to use chosen names in bids for office

[The Jamesian Republic]

I had the same question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_medallion

So basically in order to be a taxi driver you need to fork over hundreds of thousands first forcing many drivers into massive debt.

NYC badly mismanaged their medallion system, basically creating a bubble. When that bubble burst it badly hurt taxi drivers.

How do you mess up handing out what is basically a license to drive a taxi?

[Great Algerstonia]

https://queenseagle.com/all/2021/10/22/gov-signs-bill-allowing-candidates-to-use-chosen-names-in-bids-for-office

New York Governor signs bill allowing candidates to use chosen names in bids for office

Deez Nuts 2016

[Gravlen]

Protesting is speaking out, so that doesn't clear up anything.

I guess it's down to whether you approve of the message or not. If you like it, it's "FREE SPEECH!", and if you don't you need valid justification for using your free speech rights - meaning there's no valid reason as long as you don't approve.

I hate to do this, but I am going to be ending this debate simply because I don't think I can explain my position very well but do know that my position is neither transphobic nor advocating for government authoritarianism.

Fair enough. And just for the record, I wasn't thinking either, I simply felt your position was inconsistent and not thought all the way through.

[Corrian]

Yes, I'm sure that news organizations like Fox News shouldn't be allowed to exist.

You don't support free press then.

Fox News shouldn't even be considered press. Its a propaganda network.

[Alcala-Cordel]

You don't support free press then.

Fox News shouldn't even be considered press. Its a propaganda network.

Yup

[Ifreann]

https://queenseagle.com/all/2021/10/22/gov-signs-bill-allowing-candidates-to-use-chosen-names-in-bids-for-office

New York Governor signs bill allowing candidates to use chosen names in bids for office

Loads of politicians don't use their given names in office, so this seems entirely normal. Like, Mitch McConnell's given name is Addison McConnell. Mitchell is his middle name. Or Madison Cawthorn, first name David.

[Rusozak]

https://queenseagle.com/all/2021/10/22/gov-signs-bill-allowing-candidates-to-use-chosen-names-in-bids-for-office

New York Governor signs bill allowing candidates to use chosen names in bids for office

Loads of politicians don't use their given names in office, so this seems entirely normal. Like, Mitch McConnell's given name is Addison McConnell. Mitchell is his middle name. Or Madison Cawthorn, first name David.

But those are still part of their full legal name. I wonder if this means people can run under an alias. Imagine if politicians start taking stage names like wrestlers.

"And challenging the incumbent, all the way from Delaware, Joe 'The Punisher' Biden!"

[Cannot think of a name]

Loads of politicians don't use their given names in office, so this seems entirely normal. Like, Mitch McConnell's given name is Addison McConnell. Mitchell is his middle name. Or Madison Cawthorn, first name David.

But those are still part of their full legal name. I wonder if this means people can run under an alias. Imagine if politicians start taking stage names like wrestlers.

"And challenging the incumbent, all the way from Delaware, Joe 'The Punisher' Biden!"

You should look up Jello Biafra's campaign for mayor in San Francisco. (the lead singer of Dead Kennedys, not the (former?) poster Jello Biafra.)

Jello Biafra: Five years later, when Kopp was still on the Board Of Supervisors, they passed a law preventing anyone to run for office using an assumed name. He admitted that one of his targets then was me. You couldn’t have people like Jello Biafra humiliating candidates who had spent tens of thousands of dollars on their campaign. To which my reply was: “Wasn’t that the whole idea?”

[San Lumen]

Loads of politicians don't use their given names in office, so this seems entirely normal. Like, Mitch McConnell's given name is Addison McConnell. Mitchell is his middle name. Or Madison Cawthorn, first name David.

But those are still part of their full legal name. I wonder if this means people can run under an alias. Imagine if politicians start taking stage names like wrestlers.

"And challenging the incumbent, all the way from Delaware, Joe 'The Punisher' Biden!"

I don’t think that would be allowed.

[Vassenor]

Texas House of Representatives declares the state is exempt from the 14th Amendment and thus can declare same-gender marriages invalid within its borders.

[San Lumen]

Texas House of Representatives declares the state is exempt from the 14th Amendment and thus can declare same-gender marriages invalid within its borders.

If this passes the legislature and signed by the governor it will almost certainly be struck down in court. No way any judge wants to open this door especially the Supreme Court. What's next declaring interracial marriage invalid?

If SCOTUS upheld this and I don't see it happening the court would be so out of step with public opinion and lose all legitimacy.

[Alcala-Cordel]

But those are still part of their full legal name. I wonder if this means people can run under an alias. Imagine if politicians start taking stage names like wrestlers.

"And challenging the incumbent, all the way from Delaware, Joe 'The Punisher' Biden!"

You should look up Jello Biafra's campaign for mayor in San Francisco. (the lead singer of Dead Kennedys, not the (former?) poster Jello Biafra.)

Jello Biafra: Five years later, when Kopp was still on the Board Of Supervisors, they passed a law preventing anyone to run for office using an assumed name. He admitted that one of his targets then was me. You couldn’t have people like Jello Biafra humiliating candidates who had spent tens of thousands of dollars on their campaign. To which my reply was: “Wasn’t that the whole idea?”

On a side note his debate with Tipper Gore is absolutely worth watching. Jello is a master at humiliating politicians, it's kinda unfortunate that he stopped getting attention after the Dead Kennedys broke up. He seems pretty happy posting rants on his record company's YouTube channel though

[Corrian]

We don't have a labor shortage.

We have a slightly smaller workforce due to deaths and disability caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, but that is not causing a labor shortage. What we have is a shortage of jobs willing to pay their workers a decent wage, willing to meet the conditions of workers (such as working from home, because corporations feel like time is being stolen from them when workers that finish all their work slack off at home instead of slacking off in the office while waiting for more work), and so on... and workers are unwilling to take it anymore (even though many may starve or go homeless without jobs, because even with these jobs they are starving and going homeless).

I know I talk about my work a lot, but you can see it there. Like unemployment isn't even that low, its just people don't want to work for shitty companies anymore. It seems like there's more jobs open than there are people at the moment. Tons of people at my work this year are leaving either because they're a part of the mass migration in the US right now and moved, got "big boy" jobs as one put it, and management is worse then its ever been (Mostly the store manager and one of the new assistant store managers whose just awful and already has been reported to HR repeatedly) so its pushing even more people away. The company as a whole has gotten worse as well. And I'm already hearing how many people are on their "last straw" with dealing with the bullshit and it'll get even more fun once the OSHA rule is enacted.

[Fahran]

Milo Yiannopolous is straight now, allegedly.

So are the folks who go to conversion therapy, allegedly.

Mind you sexuality is fluid and can change based on a variety of factors, but you cannot simply pray or will the gay away. It doesn't work like that.

[San Lumen]

https://www.nj.com/monmouth/2021/10/mur ... n-too.html

https://newjerseyglobe.com/governor/mur ... ngs-debut/

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy voted in Long Branch today in the states first ever day of early voting. Murphy is the favorite in the election for what would be his second term.

[New haven america]

Ok, this is getting almost comical

Abbott's really worried about his election chances, isn't he?

[San Lumen]

Ok, this is getting almost comical

Abbott's really worried about his election chances, isn't he?

what makes you say that? i very much doubt hes going to lose reelection.

[Deblar]

Ok, this is getting almost comical

Abbott's really worried about his election chances, isn't he?

Thanks to all that voter suppression he signed into law, unlikely

[New haven america]

Ok, this is getting almost comical

Abbott's really worried about his election chances, isn't he?

what makes you say that? i very much doubt hes going to lose reelection.

Before the Texas government started up with its current round of bullshit his election chances were ~50/50.