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US amusement parks and exclusion

mercredi 17 août 2022 à 00:33

In the 20th century, many US amusement parks practiced excluded blacks, in some cases violently. This was not only in the south; it occurred even in New York City.

Nowadays, black customers face hostility from staff at some amusement parks, as at Sesame Place. With so many racists in the US, that is going to happen randomly. But is it more than that? It could be that that particular park has a habit of bigotry among its staff.

Leondra Taylor fired for cartoon

mercredi 17 août 2022 à 00:33

Delta Airlines fired Leondra Taylor for posting a cartoon showing the corrupter with a Ku Klux Klan hood. The company called this cartoon "disrespectful, hateful or discriminatory", which is quite a distortion. Taylor is suing.

(Satire) Mar-A-Lago

mercredi 17 août 2022 à 00:33

(satire) *FBI Sent Itemized Bill For 12-Hour Stay At Mar-A-Lago.*

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New article

mercredi 17 août 2022 à 00:33

On punishing crimes of corporations by dissolving them.

Stock buyback tax

mercredi 17 août 2022 à 00:33

The new 1% tax on stock buybacks will make those corporations pay a little more tax. That is a step forward.

It also sets a precedent: if we can tax them 1% today, we can tax them 25% next year. If we keep raising that, eventually the percentage will get big enough to discourage buybacks.