Social credit in America - Politics invades personal finance

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https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/wireStory/north-carolina-governor-veto-election-bill-sparking-override-102537362

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a sweeping Republican elections bill Thursday that would end a grace period for voting by mail and make new allowances for partisan poll observers.

In a video message, the Democratic governor accused legislative Republicans of using their slim veto-proof majorities to execute “an all-out assault on the right to vote,” which he said has nothing to do with election security and everything to do with their party keeping and gaining power. The bill would make voting more difficult for young and nonwhite voters who are are more likely to vote absentee and less likely to elect Republicans, he said.

How more blunt could he be? How come there isn’t outrage over the claim that black folks can’t follow rules?

The new bill, passed last week along party lines, would remove a state law that allows elections officials to count absentee ballots received by mail for up to three days after the election if they are postmarked by Election Day.

Sounds fair. If they won’t allow someone to walk up and cast a vote three days after election day, why would they allow a mailed ballot to show up three days later and be counted? It’s sad that expecting all voters to play by the same rules is considered unfair and discriminatory. But these are the same group that thinks it’s ok to allow some men (but only certain ones) to play women’s sports so they can feel a little better about themselves at everyone else’s expense. Fair is a relative term, I guess.

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Cooper is running the Democrat playbook to try to increase turnout by demographics that give them more votes.

I do not know how their stance on transgender helps to get more votes but they are pros must know what they are doing.

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Cooper is term-limited out, so he may be looking for dollars to support a Senate run, or he’s just paying back the money mules.

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Now that Elon Musk is part of the Evil Far Right, the DOJ is hassling his SpaceX company for not hiring… enough illegal alien refugees?

If only all of those we keep letting in could be qualified space engineers instead of unskilled wards of the state or criminal gang members…

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Maybe I’ll take up drinking beer


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Anyone see this in a store yet? Just curious if it’s in bottles, and the prices. Their online price seemed pretty steep, even after Bidenomics.

I like one of their slogans - If you know which bathroom to use, you know which beer to drink. :smile:

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I have a nice cold Heineken in the late afternoon. And I know which bathroom :toilet: to use. :wink:

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LOL. Wouldn’t be surprised if this is private labeling – same old piss in a brand new can :rofl:

if you’ve got sons, fear for the Matriarchy. They keep lying about the discrimination against men/boys and with the media on their side, facts will not change anything.

For decades, researchers have hunted for evidence of overt discrimination against women as well as subtler varieties, like “systemic sexism” or “implicit bias.” But instead of detecting misogyny, they keep spotting something else.

Of course, females in the past did suffer from outright discrimination, but most American institutions eliminated those barriers at least 40 years ago. Women have been a majority of college graduates since 1982 and dominate by many other key measures. They not only live longer than men but also benefit from a higher share of federal funding for medical research. They’re much less likely to be fatally injured on the job or commit suicide. They receive the lion’s share of Social Security and other entitlement payments.) (while men pay the lion’s share of taxes). They decide how to spend most of the family income. Women initiate most divorces and are much likelier to win custody of the children. While men are ahead in some ways—politicians love to denounce the “gender pay gap” and the “glass ceiling” supposedly limiting women—these disparities have been shown to be largely, if not entirely, due to personal preferences and choices, not discrimination.

Gender disparities generally matter only if they work against women. In computing its Global Gender Gap, the much-quoted annual report, the World Economic Forum has explicitly ignored male disadvantages: if men fare worse on a particular dimension, a country still gets a perfect score for equality on that measure

The result, published this year, is by far the most thorough and balanced assessment of gender bias in academic science. After sifting through thousands of studies, the authors conclude that, while female scientists in the past did face discrimination, since 2000 they have fared as well as comparable males in receiving federal grants or in getting an article accepted at a journal. And when it comes to being hired at universities, the authors find that women have an advantage over men with similar credentials. “Academia is actually doing a disservice to women and to science by perpetuating myths of bias against women that the weight of the evidence doesn’t support,” Kahn says. “It discourages women from entering academic careers and discourages institutions that have actually been quite successful in leveling the playing field.”

In the real world, a full-time female worker over 25 in America earns 84 cents for every dollar a male earns, but even equalitarian researchers acknowledge that this gap is not due to overt sexual discrimination (illegal since the Equal Pay Act of 1963). It’s due mainly to men choosing higher-paying professions, like coding, instead of, say, teaching, and to the “motherhood penalty.” There’s no significant gender gap between childless singles in their twenties

There’s lots more in the article - many examples of studies that looked for female discrimination, found the opposite, and then of course recommended continuing policies to favor women over men, etc.

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Interesting articles. I have 2 sons, no daughters. My household consisted of mostly masculine interests right out from the cradle. But these boys and men were always respectful for feminine attributes. (It took time & effort) :wink:

Along with this article, one of my sons married a brilliant woman and I’m sure their salaries are comparable in fact hers probably exceeds his. No problem…

Finally, please keep a born male (transgender) out of the females bathrooms.

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It is amazing that people can claim there is discrimination against women at colleges

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Gates invests with his politics

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/06/investing/bill-gates-bud-light-shares/index.html

But it usually does not turn out well. He lost big on his Tesla short. See this July 2023 article. At today’s 9/6/23 ~$252 price a $1000 purchase would be worth $2605.

Investors who put $1,000 into Tesla in 2020 when Gates may have initiated his short position could have bought 10.34 shares based on the yearly average. The same $1,000 investment would be worth $2,884.34 today.

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The stores being closed are not in the wealthy suburbs. They keep electing Soros district attorneys.

https://www.thestreet.com/retailers/walmart-makes-a-first-ever-change-to-prevent-crimes-in-superstore

Walmart makes a first-ever change to prevent crimes in superstore

The Supercenter will reopen in 2024 and may look unrecognizable in an effort to prevent the rise of retail crimes.

“Theft is an issue. It’s higher than what it has historically been. We’ve got safety measures, security measures that we’ve put in place by store location,” Walmart CEO DOug McMillon told CNBC in late 2022. “I think local law enforcement being staffed and being a good partner is part of that equation, and that’s normally how we approach it. If that’s not corrected over time, prices will be higher, and/or stores will close.”

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This is off topic, but still a symptom of how out of wack the media has become:

https://www.parents.com/what-is-the-one-chip-challenge-7966011

What the hell does this have to do with “social media challenges”? If a food is deadly, it’s deadly. Blame the government for not regulating it, blame the company for selling it. But no, we decide to focus the blame on tiktok for “challenging” kids to eat food that is intended to be eaten. Because apparently if your kid just decides to eat a bag of these chips on his own, he’ll be fine :thinking:.

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I read the article. Good advertisement for that chip company. And we all know teenagers, especially boys are willing to take “a dare”.

But I imagine, as the article points out, that the :hot_face: hotness of the ingredients in the chips is what the company wants buyers to know about. It’s what sells the products. Folks that enjoy spicy :hot_pepper: foods will buy them.

So they warned buyers to read the label. I’m guessing most people don’t pay attention to what’s written on them. But kids are still going try!

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LGBTQ youth consist of 40% of the homeless youth population, and the majority of those young people are kicked out due to unsupportive families,” Parra said. “SB-49 makes it legal to out these young people to potentially abusive and unsupportive families who increase the homelessness rate

Isn’t that the entire reason why CPS exists?

Where’s the outrage when young people are outed for being disruptive in school, smoking in the bathroom, or getting bad grades? Isn’t it just as bad to tell mommy that little Johnny failed a test, as it is to tell mommy that little Johnny is insisting everyone calls him Jane? If it’s ok for schools to help students hide stuff that might make their parents mad, then it doesn’t really matter what that stuff is.

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Uhm, yeah, it does. The other things don’t cause them to get kicked out of their house, or at least not nearly as much.

That’s a pretty arbitrary standard, isnt it? I’m pretty sure there are tons of kids who would gladly trade how they’re treated in exchange for merely getting kicked out of the house.

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No. The other things you mentioned are also directly related to schooling (bad grades) or unacceptable or illegal behavior at school (being disruptive or smoking), while this one thing is not.

So kids with bad grades and kids who smoke just deserve whatever’s coming to them at home?

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