US Politics Mega-thread - Page 7877

On June 17 2017 03:54 Mohdoo wrote:


Amazon has an insane amount of cultural advantage though. Amazon is a company people would feel encouraged to test out. I generally agree with Amazon's perspective on how they can improve my life and add value. Walmart is like every single thing wrong with our country. I go out of my way to not interact with Walmart.

On June 17 2017 04:02 Plansix wrote:

Yes and you are clearly part of the demographic that Walmart wants, while Amazon wants to break into Walmarts hold over low income markets.

I am also not super exciting about Amazon’s pushes into all areas of the economy. I use their services, but I keep reading not great things about retail market nationwide. And the supply change for retail is a big part of our economy and tax base for states. I wonder if Amazon’s success will continue once the states have to start looking for other ways to pull in tax revenue.

On June 17 2017 04:08 Nevuk wrote:
I like amazon as a company but there's tons of horror stories about employees for them being denied bathroom breaks and having crazy hours. I think they're paid better than walmart for the most part, but it's still problematic.

On June 17 2017 04:08 Nevuk wrote:
I like amazon as a company but there's tons of horror stories about employees for them being denied bathroom breaks and having crazy hours. I think they're paid better than walmart for the most part, but it's still problematic.

On June 17 2017 04:20 Gahlo wrote:

Nope. I had no idea that they could tack 2 hours onto my shift as mandatory overtime on an already 10 hour shift when it was guaranteed that I would have it every day for the short time I would have worked there. Had I known that, I wouldn't have taken the job.

On June 17 2017 04:06 Mohdoo wrote:


Kinda same deal as coal. The way I see it: If this is happening eventually anyway, let's just go ahead and rip the band aid off so we can deal with the problems sooner. We don't help ourselves by having pity on retail workers because their doom is already certain.

On June 17 2017 04:12 Mohdoo wrote:


Intel, Samsung, Space-X and Tesla are similarly "cruel", but they go into it knowing and are well compensated.

On June 17 2017 04:30 Plansix wrote:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/the-silent-crisis-of-retail-employment/523428/

How every NeoLiberal of you, no pity for people who lose jobs and there is nothing to replace them. And we wonder why Hillary lost.

It is a much larger market. 100K jobs were lost in 6 months, which is the entire coal and steel industry in the US. I don’t think it is a disaster, but the “let the free market churn” style of economics might lead to many more sections of the country feeling left behind and ignored. I have no problem with change in economic realities, but they need to be managed.

On June 17 2017 04:31 Nevuk wrote:


Samsung isn't an american company. Intel is uh, whatever. I have an aunt that works there and she's never had any horror stories (she started like 30 years ago or something though).

I think Space-X is actually getting a pretty bad reputation (engineers are trashing it on reddit as a labor farm or something, people work there for a year, get burned out and leave, get replaced with inexperienced engineers, repeat). The best spin people were putting on it was that it was like working at the big 5 for an accountant, but most disagreed with the concept that anyone really needed to work there.

On June 17 2017 04:35 KwarK wrote:

But the new coal mine Trump was bragging about is going to employ 70 people!

On June 17 2017 04:39 Plansix wrote:
The parallels to the tech industry and the robber barons of the late 19th century grow by the day. Especially the “you know what you are getting into” attitude. Tesla not wanting its workers to unionize and other complaints. Uber existing. Facebook and Google doing anything to avoid hiring humans to moderate their websites. The unregulated, free spirited, scrappy, innovative upstarts taking on the world got rich and now they can’t understand why they should have to play by the same rules.



Its ok, through the magic of positive thinking, Trump will get the economy to 5%. And we will do this by mandating 10 hour work days, 6 day work weeks and push the retirement age to 75. And all millennials must have at least 2 children after 1 year of marriage.

On June 17 2017 05:21 Trainrunnef wrote:



I thought they were the anti-marriage generation... maybe we need to mandate that too.

Miami (CNN)President Donald Trump slammed former President Barack Obama's dealings with the communist regime in Cuba on Friday in Miami, charting his own course of more confrontational relations with the Castro-led government.

The speech, which came as the President signed a directive outlining his posture toward Cuba, is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to chip away at Obama's legacy. Obama spent the last two years of his presidency looking to warm relations with Cuba, including a trip to the island in 2016.
"I am canceling the last administration's completely one-sided deal with Cuba," Trump said.
Casting the Obama administration as people who looked the other way on the Castro regime's human rights violations, Trump said that he, as President, will "expose the crimes of the Castro regime."
"They made a deal with a government that spread violence and instability in the region and nothing they got, think about it, nothing they got, they fought for everything and we just didn't fight hard enough, but now, those days are over," Trump said. "We now hold the cards. The previous administration's easing of restrictions of travel and trade does not help the Cuban people. They only enrich the Cuban regime."
Trump listed some of the Castro regime's anti-United States actions, ranging back to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and added, "We will never, ever be blind to it. We know what is going on and we remember what happened."
Although Trump said he was "completely" canceling Obama's Cuba policy, the change is posture is only a partial shift from Obama's policy.

Diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba will remain open, as will the newly opened embassies in Washington and Havana. And there will be no further restrictions on the types of goods that Americans can take out of Cuba, including the country's popular rum and cigars.
Trump said he is keeping the embassy open "in the hope that our countries can forge a much stronger and better path."
The changes do, however, tighten restrictions on Cuba and ratchet up rhetoric on the Castro regime in hopes that it will lead to a transition of power on the island. Many presidents, though, have predicted the end of the Castros and, to date, none have been correct.
The Trump administration will begin strictly enforcing the authorized exemptions that allow travel between the US and Cuba and prohibit commerce with Cuban businesses owned by the military and intelligence services. The President also directed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to convene a task force on expanding Internet access on the island and reiterate the United States' opposition to efforts in the United Nations to lift the Cuban embargo until more is done to honor human rights.

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On June 17 2017 05:27 Plansix wrote:

I saw two sets of think pieces on millennials side by side.

Set one:
Millennials don’t care about sex
Millennials are only into casual sex, not long term relationships.

Set two:
Millennials are not into eating out
Millennials don’t cook.

So as far as I can tell, Millennials are mythical creatures that don’t eat food and have relationships in ways we cannot comprehend. And are also killing Applebees.