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Insert Star Wars “right? right?” meme here.
Insert Star Wars “right? right?” meme here.
A) That may be true for some Democrats. It’s definitely not true for a lot of them, though, since a lot people really do think genocide is bad. Shocking as that may be.
B) So what? If that is what the voters really want, is that so bad? For instance, most voters don’t want abortion bans. Assholes like Cruz keep pushing for stuff most people don’t want.
Mixing kids who are simply in government care with ones that are violent, was never a good idea though.
That’s the issue here. There’s a huge difference between the kids in state care because they are orphaned and the kids who get sent to juvenile detention centers or even what we call in the US “alternative schooling.”
OK, I just didn’t hear the times he said he opposed them. I do remember him saying we should increase them, since at the time I thought that was a good idea (not sure anymore, since they can so easily be used to just bring in lower paid people instead of how they are intended).
Thanks for that!
For reference, CA is limited to 1.1% per year.
Yeah, the “washing machine” while you try to find the bottom to kick off. You’re in 3ft of water and can’t find either the bottom or the air.
Just swim sideways or float. It’s so easy to float in the ocean and doesn’t take much energy. Most people panic, though, and don’t remember to do simple things. When I was in lifeguard training, most of the stuff they teach you is how to deal with completely irrational actions people do when panicking.
Also, never underestimate the ocean (or any moving water). I’ve been swimming, waterskiing, surfing, scuba diving, whitewater kayaking, sailing for over 40 years, and I’ve had a TON of instances of “oh shit, I have zero control over what the water is doing to me right now.” Just completely powerless as the ocean tosses you around or the river pulls you down behind a boulder and holds you until you can find the bottom and kick out of the “hole.”
I’ll never understand why people like what I don’t like. It’s so dumb for everyone not to be like me.
Honest questions, because I don’t know much about Cyprus. Do they normally allow Israel to do military exercises from Cyprus? Are Cypriots known to be aligned with Israel?
If they don’t normally do stuff that would make a country think they would help out Israel militarily, then yeah, this is surprising. If they do have regular interactions with the IDF or are politically close to Israel, then I can see why someone would want to warn Cyprus to stay out of it.
That boy is looking at Death himself and is trying to maintain his own sanity.
Trump has been pushing for more foreign student green cards since before 2016. He said numerous times that he wanted to raise the number of H1b visas.
That’s not how it worked for any of the people I knew on student visas. All of them had to hope for a job with a company that would support getting them an H1b/EB2/EB3 visa. Trump has been pushing to raise the limits on H1B visas since before the 2016 election, and it’s one policy idea of his I (think I) agree with. One of the reasons so many foreign students stay on for grad school is because it allows them to stay on a student visa if they can’t get supported by a company.
There are 5 ways to go from a student visa to a green card: marrying a US citizen, employee sponsorship (H1b/EB2/EB3), the green card lottery, political asylum, get sponsored by a relative who owns a US company. There is also a 6th way that doesn’t require a student visa, the EB1, but that requires being a recognized leader in your field.
While there are no posts here defending Disney or disparaging the employees suing, I want to add why there is a major impact on people who move away from CA.
One thing that sets CA apart from I think the rest of the country is our limit on property tax increases. Most states, if not all others (I’m too lazy to check), raise your property based on assessed value on a regular basis. Some states do it every year, I think TX does it even more often. CA passed a law a long time ago saying that your house’s tax assessment only changes when you sell your house. It was intended to allow old people to stay in their houses when property values skyrocketed around them. It’s honestly amazing and the only reason I can keep the house I bought 12 years ago. Yes, it has loopholes that rich people can get around (buy the house with an LLC, then sell the LLC instead of selling the house), and it has also contributed to rising house values since nobody can sell their houses unless they get a significant salary increase or move out of state.
So these people are told they have to move out of state to some brand new facility for a super stable company. They plan to be in this new place for the rest of their career, so instead of keeping their CA house and trying to rent it they decide to do the easy thing and sell so they can buy a giant house in FL. Now they have to move back to CA, but the house they sold is both more expensive AND even if it were the same price their assess tax value went from $7000/year to $21,000/year. So they need at least a $14,000/year raise (after taxes!) just to be where they were when Disney told them to move plus some sort of post-retirement annuity to keep paying that extra tax rate.
While this should be cut and dry, I have no confidence the judge appointed by convicted felon Trump will make the legally correct ruling.
What a completely awful way to not address anything other than a desire for vengeance from victims.
The same dumbass somehow thought a vasectomy would be a punishment for sex offenders?? What the fuck is in the water down there?
In this case, it’s a Democratic senator who proposed the law.
The dissenting opinion basically ignores how wealthy people make money. Just because you don’t directly receive income from an asset doesn’t mean you aren’t making money. Banks lend money based on your assets. And when you have very large asset holdings, those loans can have very favorable terms.
The majority opinion was also very narrow about the ruling, hinting that they are open to a future challenge about wealth tax in general. That will be the real battle.
I read the article, and my take was more that I get a feeling she is gearing up to go against originalist doctrine FOR A REASON. Possibly she thinks something in the original Constitution is too liberal and anti-Jesus, so she wants to vote against things that follow that. It’s hard to put in words my feeling, but it wasn’t that this was a good thing.
I think it depends on whether the cookies are homemade or store bought. Homemade might be creepy from someone you don’t know. But if I got a pack of Oreos mailed to me from some random internet person, I’d be stoked.
Good, vote out people who vote for bad things. And good for her for stepping up and taking on the fight for what is right.