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Postby Bear Stearns » Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:26 pm

Torrocca wrote:
Cekoviu wrote:So that it can be consumed by Alphabet without struggling?


Alphabet should be concurrently seized by the workers.


By H1b aspberger software engineers with a god complex?

No fuck them, they should be deported.
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Postby Cekoviu » Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:28 pm

Torrocca wrote:
Cekoviu wrote:So that it can be consumed by Alphabet without struggling?


Alphabet should be concurrently seized by the workers.

Ooh, I like where you're going with this. GM is merged into Alphabet, which is then merged into 3M?
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Postby Diarcesia » Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:31 pm

Cekoviu wrote:
Torrocca wrote:
Alphabet should be concurrently seized by the workers.

Ooh, I like where you're going with this. GM is merged into Alphabet, which is then merged into 3M?

And then Disney buys 3M and owns that, Alphabet, and GM.

Amazon, you're next.

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Postby Torrocca » Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:31 pm

Cekoviu wrote:
Torrocca wrote:
Alphabet should be concurrently seized by the workers.

Ooh, I like where you're going with this. GM is merged into Alphabet, which is then merged into 3M?


3M should also be concurrently seized by the workers.

Just nothing but workers seizing their companies all the way up and down and around.
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Postby Gormwood » Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:32 pm

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Cekoviu wrote:Ooh, I like where you're going with this. GM is merged into Alphabet, which is then merged into 3M?

And then Disney buys 3M and owns that, Alphabet, and GM.

Amazon, you're next.

And then in the end, the world becomes Microsoft.
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Postby Cekoviu » Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:33 pm

Gormwood wrote:
Diarcesia wrote:And then Disney buys 3M and owns that, Alphabet, and GM.

Amazon, you're next.

And then in the end, the world becomes Microsoft.

Not quite the end, because Microsoft is then consumed by Bath & Body Works.
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Postby Bear Stearns » Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:34 pm

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Gormwood wrote:And then in the end, the world becomes Microsoft.

Not quite the end, because Microsoft is then consumed by Bath & Body Works.


In the end owned by a PE fund no one has likely heard of.
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Postby Czechoslovakia and Zakarpatia » Tue Sep 17, 2019 8:56 pm

Bear Stearns wrote:
Torrocca wrote:
Alphabet should be concurrently seized by the workers.


By H1b aspberger software engineers with a god complex?

No fuck them, they should be deported.

RIP much of the internet's search results then. And none of them have a "god complex".

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Postby Telconi » Tue Sep 17, 2019 9:01 pm

Czechoslovakia and Zakarpatia wrote:
Bear Stearns wrote:
By H1b aspberger software engineers with a god complex?

No fuck them, they should be deported.

RIP much of the internet's search results then. And none of them have a "god complex".


You know every employee at Alphabet?
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Postby Pan-Asiatic States » Wed Sep 18, 2019 12:31 am

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Postby Czechoslovakia and Zakarpatia » Wed Sep 18, 2019 5:27 am

Telconi wrote:
Czechoslovakia and Zakarpatia wrote:RIP much of the internet's search results then. And none of them have a "god complex".


You know every employee at Alphabet?

Having a god complex is a very good way to get yourself fired, especially if you try using it against your boss. After all, thinking you are a deity and acting upon it isn't gonna win you favours in a hierarchical workplace.

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Postby The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp » Wed Sep 18, 2019 5:47 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Czechoslovakia and Zakarpatia wrote:https://inhomelandsecurity.com/outsourc ... istration/
Yeahhh, no.

1. Outsourcing is in spite of trump's rhetoric not because of it.

2. As far as the GM line worker, and his or her family or friends, or people who fix their cars and do their banking with, there is only one issue here; what does the final contract look like and what part if any did the president play in it.

If by some act of biblical proportions, trump somehow reopens the two plants, and gets that and what else gm offered, the democrats will lose the midwest in 2020.



Eh, nah. The damage is allready done to Trump. If he does get the plants reopened it would help him and be one of the few times he actuly did something good. But it's allready too late.

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Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Sep 18, 2019 6:09 am

The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:1. Outsourcing is in spite of trump's rhetoric not because of it.

2. As far as the GM line worker, and his or her family or friends, or people who fix their cars and do their banking with, there is only one issue here; what does the final contract look like and what part if any did the president play in it.

If by some act of biblical proportions, trump somehow reopens the two plants, and gets that and what else gm offered, the democrats will lose the midwest in 2020.



Eh, nah. The damage is allready done to Trump. If he does get the plants reopened it would help him and be one of the few times he actuly did something good. But it's allready too late.

That remains to be seen.
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Postby Aclion » Wed Sep 18, 2019 6:22 am

Czechoslovakia and Zakarpatia wrote:
Telconi wrote:
You know every employee at Alphabet?

Having a god complex is a very good way to get yourself fired, especially if you try using it against your boss. After all, thinking you are a deity and acting upon it isn't gonna win you favours in a hierarchical workplace.

Depends. Maybe it's a pantheon.
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Postby LimaUniformNovemberAlpha » Wed Sep 18, 2019 1:19 pm

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LimaUniformNovemberAlpha wrote:Maybe Americans could start purchasing from nationalities that are better at auto manufacturing?


Or not, because other nationalities are not magically better at automotive manufacturing.
It is not built into the national DNA or something. And we are good enough at it.
We make fine vehicles.

Asians have higher IQs. Would that not translate into higher automotive manufacturing skills?
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Postby Chestaan » Wed Sep 18, 2019 1:33 pm

LimaUniformNovemberAlpha wrote:
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Or not, because other nationalities are not magically better at automotive manufacturing.
It is not built into the national DNA or something. And we are good enough at it.
We make fine vehicles.

Asians have higher IQs. Would that not translate into higher automotive manufacturing skills?


Is this really the case?
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Postby Cekoviu » Wed Sep 18, 2019 2:10 pm

LimaUniformNovemberAlpha wrote:
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Or not, because other nationalities are not magically better at automotive manufacturing.
It is not built into the national DNA or something. And we are good enough at it.
We make fine vehicles.

Asians have higher IQs. Would that not translate into higher automotive manufacturing skills?

IQ tests aren't designed to measure automotive manufacturing skills.
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Postby Thermodolia » Wed Sep 18, 2019 2:21 pm

Chestaan wrote:
LimaUniformNovemberAlpha wrote:Asians have higher IQs. Would that not translate into higher automotive manufacturing skills?


Is this really the case?

Hardly
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Postby Thermodolia » Wed Sep 18, 2019 2:21 pm

LimaUniformNovemberAlpha wrote:
Novus America wrote:
Or not, because other nationalities are not magically better at automotive manufacturing.
It is not built into the national DNA or something. And we are good enough at it.
We make fine vehicles.

Asians have higher IQs. Would that not translate into higher automotive manufacturing skills?

Then why are the vast majority of Asian designed vehicles made in the US?
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Postby Bear Stearns » Wed Sep 18, 2019 2:30 pm

Thermodolia wrote:
LimaUniformNovemberAlpha wrote:Asians have higher IQs. Would that not translate into higher automotive manufacturing skills?

Then why are the vast majority of Asian designed vehicles made in the US?


Same reason US-designed vehicles are made in Mexico. It's cheaper. We don't need the cars to be engineering marvels, they just need to be good enough to meet regulatory standards.
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Postby Bear Stearns » Wed Sep 18, 2019 2:31 pm

Chestaan wrote:
LimaUniformNovemberAlpha wrote:Asians have higher IQs. Would that not translate into higher automotive manufacturing skills?


Is this really the case?


East Asians (Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese) have higher average IQs than most Westerners, but it's not really a major difference.
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Postby Bear Stearns » Wed Sep 18, 2019 2:32 pm

Czechoslovakia and Zakarpatia wrote:
Telconi wrote:
You know every employee at Alphabet?

Having a god complex is a very good way to get yourself fired, especially if you try using it against your boss. After all, thinking you are a deity and acting upon it isn't gonna win you favours in a hierarchical workplace.


I feel like you've never worked in an office before. Ego is like 80% of the game.
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Postby Liriena » Wed Sep 18, 2019 2:33 pm

I love it when the labour movement grows a pair and wrecks their employers' shit... so this is good. Hope the strike succeeds.

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Postby Gormwood » Wed Sep 18, 2019 4:20 pm

LimaUniformNovemberAlpha wrote:
Novus America wrote:
Or not, because other nationalities are not magically better at automotive manufacturing.
It is not built into the national DNA or something. And we are good enough at it.
We make fine vehicles.

Asians have higher IQs. Would that not translate into higher automotive manufacturing skills?

Invoking racial stereotype. Wow.
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Postby Torrocca » Wed Sep 18, 2019 4:55 pm

So, 50,000 union workers go on strike, and GM responds to cutting their insurance, which is now leading to shit like this.

Sure gotta love it when Capitalism works as a system.
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