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Old 01-12-2021, 12:30 PM
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Just a normal day in "journalism".

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The dims want to make every Trump supporter pay somehow for the last four years. I'm hopeful conservatives/republicans will start firing all the democrats that work for them. Hiring requires answering a political affiliation question correctly. We'll see who wins.
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Originally Posted by poormxdad
Hiring requires answering a political affiliation question correctly. We'll see who wins.
It would depending upon the state having jurisdiction over the employer. In some states, the interviewee would win the civil suit following the interview. In other states, the employer would have no liability.




Completely unrelated, I would probably call BS if someone posted a screenshot of this without proof, so here's a link to the actual thread:


Here's a screenshot, for posterity, in case it goes away:

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Old 01-12-2021, 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
It would depending upon the state having jurisdiction over the employer. In some states, the interviewee would win the civil suit following the interview. In other states, the employer would have no liability.
I don't believe political affiliation is a recognized group, such as race, creed color, religion, cross-********, Karen, illegal alien, etc.,
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Originally Posted by poormxdad
I don't believe political affiliation is a recognized group, such as race, creed color, religion, cross-********, Karen, illegal alien, etc.,
At the state level, California, New York and DC have specific laws protecting employees from discrimination based on their political affiliations and activities. Oregon and Wisconsin have slightly more vague laws which still effectively prohibit workplace discrimination based on political affiliation.

At the Federal level, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has already been found to extend to political activities which have some connection to race, ethnicity or religion. Examples are employees who exhibit a political affiliation based on a certain party having a historically anti-abortion stance, as that philosophy is strongly associated with the Christian / Catholic religions. Or exhibiting a political affiliation which is tied to a certain party strongly preaching an anti-racist message, as has commonly been the case these past few years.

The courts have been showing an increasing amount of lenience towards generous interpretations of such statutes.

But that's merely the legal aspect.

Any business which made a point of discriminating against employees based on their affiliation with the democrat party can look forward to being de-platformed, "dragged," picketed, subjected to frivolous (and costly) lawsuits, etc.

To pick a name completely not at random, consider Parler. Based upon their affiliation with a radical pro-right group, they have been effectively put out of business, despite having broken no laws.
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It's a short video to begin with, but the fun part starts at 1:12

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What do we think the stock market is going to do in the next month or so after Biden is sworn in?

I have a 5 figure RSU bonus that I'll get around the 7th. Of course I won't be cashing out if the market tanks and drops the value.
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Originally Posted by z31maniac
What do we think the stock market is going to do in the next month or so after Biden is sworn in?
I've long since given on on trying to predict the market.

As a broad generalization, markets tend to be future-looking, so the present valuation of the indices already accounts for the fact that Biden will become the President in a week.

I put $100k into an S&P index fund during the dip, and so I'm obviously up massively this year. Wishing I'd put more in, as I did not expect the recovery to be so rapid. If some of those gains go away, well, I'll be a little sad, but probably won't do anything.

If the markets tank, I'll transfer more money into my brokerage account.
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I think that the markets have already baked in their take on the Biden transition, so I will be very surprised to see any big movement in any direction in the short run.
Longer-term, I think by the time we get to the 3rd quarter, if the vaccination program goes as advertised there will be a strong upswing as life starts getting back to normal.

Between the Fed and congress, they pumped about $10T of liquidity into the economy. It’s estimated that about $1.8T just went into extra savings, because people are nervous about the future and the places/ways to spend it have been seriously limited. If the world opens up again and anxiety fades, that’ll be a lot of money looking to be spent.
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thank god they impeached Trump, again.

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I would post the entire dir list, but it id have to split it up into about 10 posts... only 6657 videos of the party of peace.
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This is really quite interesting, if you think about it:


Pirate Bay Founder Thinks Parler’s Inability to Stay Online Is ‘Embarrassing’

Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi calls Parler’s face plant in the wake of its deplatforming 'embarrassing,' driven by 'egotism.'

By Karl Bode
January 13, 2021, 8:08am




As one of the original co-founders of The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi knows a little something about keeping controversial services online. Kolmisoppi and his colleagues spent decades battling a global coalition of corporations, governments, and law enforcement agencies intent on wiping the file sharing website from the face of the internet. Unsuccessfully.

Kolmisoppi took to Twitter this week to share some thoughts on Parler’s recent deplatforming for failing to seriously police death threats and illegal content before and after the fatal Capitol riots.

“The Pirate Bay, the most censored website in the world, started by kids, run by people with problems with alcohol, drugs and money, still is up after almost two decades,” Kolmisoppi said. “Parlor and gab etc have all the money around but no skills or mindset. Embarrassing.”

Parler, part of a growing echosphere for rightwing conspiracy theories, is primarily financed by hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah. But the company’s deep pockets haven’t been able to assuage the concerns of companies unwilling to do business with a toxic enabler of hate speech in the wake of last week’s violent riot.

While Parler has found a new provider in the far-right enablers over at Epik, the service isn’t expected to get back online anytime soon, in large part because, according to CEO John Matze, companies with enough firepower to host the platform don’t want to be associated with bigotry.


Platforming white supremacy and hate speech is a tougher proposition than serving users pirated copies of the Prince discography. But Kolmisoppi was quick to laugh at the fact that despite being backed by billionaires and parts of the US government, Parler didn’t seem remotely prepared for the justified firestorm it found itself at the center of.

“The most ironic thing is that The Pirate Bay’s enemies include not just the US government but also many European and the Russian one,” he said. “Compared to gab/parlor which is supported by the current president of the US and probably liked by the Russian one too.”

Over the years, Kolmisoppi and The Pirate Bay crew explored no limit of strategies to keep its servers operational and out of the reach of law enforcement and the entertainment industry, even when that meant hiding them in caves and submarines, or even using low-orbit drones to redirect users to hidden regional servers hosting torrent indexes and trackers.

The organizations shift to magnet links in 2012 helped make it more difficult to take offline. And despite numerous trials, fines, multi-country IP address blockades, police raids, and even a stretch in prison, the website he originally co-founded on a shoestring budget remains more or less operational.

In contrast, Parler lost its primary cloud service provider and simply disappeared, seemingly incapable of any adaptation. Meanwhile, thanks to sloppy coding and substandard security standards, researchers are hard at work scraping publicly-available Parler data to help identify platform users who thought it might be fun to flirt with violent sedition on live television.

“In all honesty, the reason we did The Pirate Bay was to bring freedom and take back control from a centralised system,” Kolmisoppi said. “The reason that Gab et al will fail is because they're just whining bitches that have only one ideology: egotism. Sharing is caring y'all.”


In more recent years, Kolmoisoppi has moved on to fund Njalla, a privacy-centric domain name registration service. One he says was already asked to host Parler, and refused.

“Of course we wouldn't,” Kolmisoppi said. “We're pro human rights, which includes the right to not be killed by extreme right wing terrorists.”


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If Trump is convinced & barred from holding office ever again, what happens to all the election fund coin he's collected?
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Originally Posted by Braineack
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Heh.

Go back to the image you posted, and look real closely at this part:



Now I know who is FB-stalking me and poaching my original content.






Originally Posted by wackbards
If Trump is convinced & barred from holding office ever again, what happens to all the election fund coin he's collected?
Same as when a candidate drops out from a race. They can donate it to the party (most common), donate it to charity, give "gifts or donations of nominal value" to campaign donors or staff who are not members of the candidate's family, make contributions to other candidates' campaigns, provided donations do not exceed $2,000 per individual candidate (also fairly common), or even just sit on the money and let it accrue interest, provided that they do not use it for personal purposes.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
Heh.

Go back to the image you posted, and look real closely at this part:



Now I know who is FB-stalking me and poaching my original content.
Well done Sir!
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lol. You can tell I really pay attention of source...
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