US Politics Mega-thread - Page 8001

On July 05 2017 22:38 JinDesu wrote:


This, in my opinion, is wrong. For a large corporation to hold hostage my personal info and give me a veiled threat that it can be released if I don't comply - that's wrong. If his info was exposed by someone, or if reddit detectives posted his info, so be it. If CNN told him about it but did not make the threat, fine. But that threat - that is wrong to me.

On July 05 2017 21:41 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:
Continue your slow fade to irrelevance with a little more dignity CNN.

On July 05 2017 22:56 Gorsameth wrote:
What has CNN done actually?

Threatened to release his personal info if he does something? That's entirely wrong for obvious reasons.
Did they release an internet mob on him? Or did 'the internet' do its usual thing and track him down and harass him on their own?

On July 05 2017 22:57 zlefin wrote:
People keep referring to the person as a "kid"; what do people mean by that? A minor? a legal adult who's still kinda young (18-20)?

On July 05 2017 23:00 Plansix wrote:

As far as I know, the internet tracked down his reddit account after he took credit for the .gif. Then a couple days later CNN found out who he was and tried to contact him. He purged his account after that and apologized. CNN then spoke with him and decided not to publish his name, but said they may do so in the future if he decides to change his story or something.

Long-lost court documents detailing President Trump’s alleged use of undocumented labor to pave the way for Trump Tower have been found — and could soon be unsealed.

The transcript and court brief were part of a lawsuit filed in 1983 by a union worker alleging that Trump — long before he moved into the White House — exploited undocumented Polish workers who demolished the building where Trump Tower now stands.

The transcript and brief, which detail the terms of a confidential 1998 settlement ending the case before it went to trial, were thought to have been lost.

But last week Lewis Steel, a lawyer on the long-dormant case, wrote Manhattan Federal Judge Loretta Preska that his colleague Wendy Sloan had found the papers. “She has the missing transcript and brief,” Steel wrote. “Ms. Sloan informs me that at all times these documents have remained in her possession and that she kept them confidential.”

Sloan, who was also an attorney on the case, is no longer practicing law.

Time magazine and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press had sought the release of the papers.

Last month, the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals overturned an earlier order keeping documents in the case secret.

“Certain types of documents should be publicly available,” the three-judge panel wrote.

The seven-page order revealed that some of the paperwork that would be most illuminating was thought lost. “Two of the documents the press organizations seek — the transcript and the brief — have been destroyed pursuant to the Southern District of New York’s standard document retention policies,” the order read.

Steel and Sloan then did a search of their files and discovered the paperwork. “We know of no privacy reason why these documents should not be unsealed,” Steel wrote.

A lower court judge must officially unseal the documents before they can be made public.

Last year, Time published an article, “What Donald Trump Knew About Undocumented Workers at His Signature Tower,” that cited documents from the case alleging that Trump was well aware that the Polish workers were complaining of unsafe conditions at the job site and unfair wages.

Workers even charged that Trump had threatened to call the Immigration and Naturalization Service and have them deported as the fight heated up.

Trump has long denied knowingly using undocumented workers on the job.

“I hire a contractor. The contractor then hires the subcontractor,” he said during last year’s presidential campaign. “They have people. I don’t know. I don't remember, that was so many years ago, 35 years ago.”

A cornerstone of Trump’s “America First” presidential campaign was a vilification of undocumented immigrants.

On July 05 2017 23:05 Gorsameth wrote:

See, that last bit is the troubling part.
Thats basically threatening to sic an internet mob on someone and thats not ok.

A dearth of marriagable men has left an “oversupply” of educated women taking desperate steps to preserve their fertility, experts say.

The first global study into egg freezing found that shortages of eligible men were the prime reason why women had attempted to take matters into their own hands.

Experts said “terrifying” demographic shifts had created a “deficit” of educated men and a growing problem of “leftover” professional women, with female graduates vastly outnumbering males in in many countries.

The study led by Yale University, involved interviews with 150 women undergoing egg freezing at eight clinics.

Researchers found that in more than 90 per cent of cases, the women were attempting to buy extra time because they could not find a partner to settle down with, amid a “dearth of educated men”.

Experts said the research bust the myth that “selfish career women” were choosing to out their fertility on ice in a bid to put their careers first.

They said sweeping social changes meant that many professional women now struggled to find a partner that felt like an equal match.

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The anthropologist suggested some women might need to be prepared to compromise some of their standards in order to find love. But she suggested society should act to increase the number of men going into higher education.

“It may be about rethinking the way we approach this,” she said.

“Most women who are educated would like to have an educated partner. Traditionally women have also wanted to ‘marry up’ to go for someone more successful, financially well off.”

“Maybe women need to be prepared to be more open to the idea of a relationship with someone not as educated. But also may be we need to be doing something about our boys and young men, to get them off to a better start.”

Some women were paying a high price for feminism, she suggested.

“As a feminist I think it’s great that women are doing so well but I think there has been a cost that has been paid,” she said, warning that many had been left in “sadness and isolation”.

In some cases, the women taking part in the in-depth interviews said they would be happy to be in a relationship with someone less educated, but they felt they were “intimidating” to the men who were available.