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Donating to supports of overturning election

mercredi 30 juin 2021 à 02:00

Toyota has donated lots of money to Republican congresscritters that have supported overturning the election.

Republican narrative

mercredi 30 juin 2021 à 02:00

*The Republican narrative that enhanced unemployment benefits are dissuading people from returning to work—and that cutting off the aid is necessary to boost hiring—is running up against reality in the GOP-led state of Missouri, where officials have yet to see any significant increase in job applicants since the governor cut off pandemic-related federal programs last month.*

We don't see much effort by legislatures to stop landlords from holding apartments vacant until someone offers a higher rent. But if workers wait for a better offer, legislators insult them and try to pressure them. That's plutocracy at work.

Corruption to stop unionizing

mercredi 30 juin 2021 à 02:00

Uber and Lyft corrupted community groups to get them to push the companies' campaigns to stop gig workers from unionizing.

Entitled to not paying taxes

mercredi 30 juin 2021 à 02:00

A Disney heiress explains the attitudes she absorbed from her family while growing up, which taught her to feel entitled to avoid paying any taxes.

These people ought to pay lots of their income in taxes. Their political philosophy enables them to justify escaping from that, by spending a much smaller amount on philanthropy.

Critic of the ACCESS Act

mercredi 30 juin 2021 à 02:00

The EFF criticizes the ACCESS Act, a bill meant to stop platforms from mistreating users. It is too weak in several ways.

The EFF's criticisms are valid, but it doesn't mention a basic weakness: that it doesn't require services to allow anonymous use. If the service knows who the user is, it will track the user, and that is the basis for some injustices.