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Flying_Crab
Apr 12, 2002



https://twitter.com/rawstory/status/1190321745456238596?s=21 :pray::10bux::pray:

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A Bad Poster
Sep 25, 2006
Seriously, shut the fuck up.

:dukedog:
Hey.

They're all good dogs.

Necrocult
Oct 18, 2010

Form Fitting

A Bad Poster posted:

Hey.

They're all good dogs.

Jarmak
Jan 24, 2005

Y'all are in here getting all worked up about a 50 employee minimum and separately incorporating a million business units as if joint employment doctrine didn't exist.

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





A Good Poster posted:

Hey.

They're all good dogs.

Jarmak
Jan 24, 2005

Also the contracting thing doesn't get you out of it either unless you're an actual contractor https://casetext.com/case/demers-v-adams-homes-of-northwest-florida-inc-mdfla-11-7-2007

edit: didn't notice the first link I grabbed for this case hid half of it behind a paywall

Jarmak fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Nov 1, 2019

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


A Bad Poster posted:

Hey.

They're all good dogs.

:yeah:

Acebuckeye13
Nov 2, 2010


If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling
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Ultra Carp

A Bad Poster posted:

Hey.

They're all good dogs.

agreed

here's my mutt:

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
Maybe health insurance should be ripped out of the hands of employers entirely and they all get told to go gently caress themselves without lube?

Would solve that 50 employee bullshit and subcontractors of subcontractors of contractors not offering actual jobs, just gussied up wage slavery as relates to coverage.

Anyone saying, "But I love my employer insurance don't take it away abloo-bloo" is a short-sited sucker waiting to find out how well that coverage works out the second they get downsized, outsourced, and off-shored with a pink slip or do expensive stuff like actually start to use their coverage. The law doesn't mean poo poo, employers will find an excuse to "let someone go" if their usage of the benefits ups the rates and means a single red cent comes out of management pockets.

A Bad Poster
Sep 25, 2006
Seriously, shut the fuck up.

:dukedog:
Lots of people have been protesting in support of Hong Kong at Blizzcon by wearing Winnie the Pooh costumes, because Xi Jinping is a gigantic babyback bitch.

Edit: also, healthcare coverage should not be dependent on employment. It's insane that it is.

Vasudus
May 30, 2003
I have incredibly good health insurance for the private sector. I pay 250/month for myself, have an 1150 deductible and 2300 maximum out of pocket. So theoretically my health insurance costs me a maximum of no more than 5300 bucks for a year. My company dumps a grand or more into my HSA every year.

I would gladly pay considerably more than that on the assurances that everyone else gets it and it's not tied to employment.

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!


Beto just dropped out of the race.

He also quickly said that he is not going to run for Senate either.

Syrian Lannister
Aug 25, 2007

Oh, did I kill him too?
I've been a very busy little man.


Sugartime Jones

Handsome Ralph posted:

Beto just dropped out of the race.

He also quickly said that he is not going to run for Senate either.

Where are you seeing this?

e

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/01/politics/beto-orourke-drops-out/index.html

e:2 Harris supposedly laid off a bunch of people in Maryland as well.

Viva Miriya
Jan 9, 2007

Handsome Ralph posted:

Beto just dropped out of the race.

He also quickly said that he is not going to run for Senate either.

Lol pwnd

devmd01
Mar 7, 2006

Elektronik
Supersonik
Apparently Butler University, of a few years ago final four almost-immortality (I was at that game), has decided that it is in the e-sports arena now against other college teams. Behold, their intro video in all it‘s glory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sP-Y1-fq58

I’m sure as hell embarrassed by proxy for my alma mater.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

https://twitter.com/theonion/status/1190322883442163712?s=21

Acebuckeye13
Nov 2, 2010


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Ultra Carp

Syrian Lannister posted:

Where are you seeing this?

e

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/01/politics/beto-orourke-drops-out/index.html

e:2 Harris supposedly laid off a bunch of people in Maryland as well.

New Hampshire, which is not a good sign for her campaign.

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1190391755029565441?s=20

She's basically toast. The primary is really down to four people at this point—Bernie, Biden, Butt, and Warren.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

devmd01 posted:

Apparently Butler University, of a few years ago final four almost-immortality (I was at that game), has decided that it is in the e-sports arena now against other college teams. Behold, their intro video in all it‘s glory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sP-Y1-fq58

I’m sure as hell embarrassed by proxy for my alma mater.

You'd figure they'd use their avatars.

Will the ncaa pay them for their likenesses in 2k ESports 2020?

CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Nov 1, 2019

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Handsome Ralph posted:

Beto just dropped out of the race.

He also quickly said that he is not going to run for Senate either.
He was reasonably close last time. But he decided to fly way too close to the sun, sort of run for president, and mouth off about guns.

Bored As Fuck
Jan 1, 2006
Be prepared
Fun Shoe

Acebuckeye13 posted:

New Hampshire, which is not a good sign for her campaign.

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1190391755029565441?s=20

She's basically toast. The primary is really down to four people at this point—Bernie, Biden, Butt, and Warren.

What a waste of loving money all those dumbasses' campaigns were. Booker never had a shot. O'Rourke never had a shot. Neither did Harris. These loving narcissists actually think they had a chance.

Vasudus
May 30, 2003
Harris had a legitimate shot except she squandered it. And then Biden entered the race and welp, that's it.

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Acebuckeye13
Nov 2, 2010


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Ultra Carp

Bored As gently caress posted:

What a waste of loving money all those dumbasses' campaigns were. Booker never had a shot. O'Rourke never had a shot. Neither did Harris. These loving narcissists actually think they had a chance.

Eh, some of them had a chance, but the ultimate problem facing any candidate in a crowded primary is how to make yourself stand out from the crowd in a good way—and while some candidates have been able to carve out a lane for themselves, "Mediocre Moderate" was a logjam from the beginning.

The one I'm actually mad at is Tom Steyer. Dude spent thirty million of his own money in his vanity campaign, when that money would have been better spent doing literally anything else.

Terrifying Effigies
Oct 22, 2008

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

They were all doomed as soon as they started trying to chase an imaginary middle ground between Bernie and Warren on the left and Biden in the center, neither the on-the-ground volunteers or big money donors were going to buy into that poo poo.

Osita Nwanevu had a good breakdown of Pete a few days back as someone who never really moved past their initial political awakening in the mid-2000s:

https://twitter.com/OsitaNwanevu/status/1189540506688200704

Flying_Crab
Apr 12, 2002



Handsome Ralph posted:

Beto just dropped out of the race.

He also quickly said that he is not going to run for Senate either.

Johnny Five-Jaces
Jan 21, 2009


This is good news.... for Jeb!

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Old Boot
May 9, 2012



Buglord
Has Bernie actually released any raw-numbers plans for M4A? I'm not finding anything substantial.

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

A Bad Poster posted:

Hey.

They're all good dogs.

Cop dogs are not good boys

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Nick Soapdish
Apr 27, 2008


Live from Who Cares, Mississippi, your good (great) President

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1190434301436928001

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD
Also Beto squandered probably the greatest political awakening in modern times because a bunch of Obama advisors got in his ear. In two years he'll be lucky if anyone outside of Texas remembers him

bulletsponge13
Apr 28, 2010

New Terminator is probably the best since 2.

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Nick Soapdish posted:

Live from Who Cares, Mississippi, your good (great) President

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1190434301436928001

Way to run against a not-running and a previous president.

UP THE BUM NO BABY
Sep 1, 2011

by Hand Knit

bulletsponge13 posted:

New Terminator is probably the best since 2.

That isn't exactly saying a whole lot

Acebuckeye13
Nov 2, 2010


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Ultra Carp

Old Boot posted:

Has Bernie actually released any raw-numbers plans for M4A? I'm not finding anything substantial.

The M4A legislation he's introduced and is campaigning on offers a number of funding options, but no hard numbers.* The most likely funding mechanism a Sanders presidency would utilize would be a payroll tax akin to social security (As mentioned a few times in this thread). However, the program would be expensive enough that multiple funding methods would likely be required regardless.

*From Sanders' site, funding options include:
  • Creating a 4 percent income-based premium paid by employees, exempting the first $29,000 in income for a family of four;
  • Imposing a 7.5 percent income-based premium paid by employers, exempting the first $2 million in payroll to protect small businesses;
  • Eliminating health tax expenditures;
  • Making the federal income tax more progressive, including a marginal tax rate of up to 70 percent on those making above $10 million, taxing earned and unearned income at the same rates, and limiting tax deductions for filers in the top tax bracket
  • Making the estate tax more progressive, including a 77 percent top rate on an inheritance above $1 billion;
  • Establishing a tax on extreme wealth
  • Closing the “Gingrich-Edwards Loophole”;
  • Imposing a fee on large financial institutions
  • Repealing corporate accounting gimmicks.

(Note that both Sanders and Warren have proposed variations of several of these bullet points, though for different programs—Warren for instance has made her 2% tax on wealth a cornerstone of her campaign, but has already allocated the money that would be earned towards a wide variety of programs.)

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

Nick Soapdish posted:

Live from Who Cares, Mississippi, your good (great) President

https://twitter.com/agearan/status/1190437844873076737

Edit: Man oh man, (un)Deadspin management is not good at this.

https://twitter.com/thetomzone/status/1190434036705050624

Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





Proud Christian Mom posted:

Cop dogs are not good boys

Go gently caress yourself

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A Bad Poster
Sep 25, 2006
Seriously, shut the fuck up.

:dukedog:

Proud Christian Mom posted:

Cop dogs are not good boys

They're victims as much as anyone else.

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Comrade Blyatlov
Aug 4, 2007


should have picked four fingers





UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

That isn't exactly saying a whole lot

I enjoyed Genisys

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