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Baron Von J
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2·2 days agoOf course companies are going to try and game any system that regulated them. I believe the compensation is information that is included in the application for the visa. So if it’s deemed to be unfairly low for the position it can be denied. The salaries paid are public info, too. Plenty of sites to look them up.
I have always felt that all H1B should have to pay at least the average pay of the role performed by us citizens as part of its provisions.
They do. But when your ability to live and work in this country depends on the company continuing to sponsor your visa, you’re a lot less likely to stand up for yourself on things like overtime.
Edit: As an example, a friend was being pressured to take a different position, which including relocating, with his visa being used as the stick. He was fortunately able to nope on out and get his visa picked up by another employer.
3·4 days agoBen Affleck and Thomas Jane are wanted for questioning.
7·8 days agoTrump: Major Domo? Never heard of him! I think he just gets coffee.
There is reporting today that Israel has already violated the ceasefire.
edit: hit submit instead of preview and left out the link.
ps - I don’t think Biden handled it well and I agree that Kamala did not campaign well on it. I think the circumstances of the ceasefire are far too reminiscent of the Iran Contra situation with Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. I think Netanyahu supported Trump and purposefully timed it to that end.
It’s wrong and it’s bad and it’s worse
The “it’s worse” is all I’m arguing about. Not the degree to which it’s worse, just that it is worse at all. And by the definitions of the word empowering, Trump being worse than Biden is empowering the Israelis.
we have not lost a force for good in losing Bidenism. Bidenism with respect to Israel was evil. And Trump is eviler, but on this issue, there’s really not much worse it can get. On many many other issues Trump is incomparably worse, but no one should pretend Biden was in any way a bulwark against genocide and occupation…
I haven’t been arguing that Biden has been a force for good in this conflict. Agreement that Trump is worse was my only objective. So 🍻
I don’t understand why you’re trying to split hairs here as if it makes any difference
Because this comment thread is about whether Trump’s actions are empowering the Israelis. It’s apparent to me that most people are using a different definition of empowering than I am.
- to give official authority or legal power to
- Something that is empowering makes you more confident and makes you feel that you are in control of your life
Even though these actions don’t have a large practical impact on their military capability, or financial means, it does send the message that Trump isn’t interested in placing even performative restraint on Israel. Thus, he is empowering them to do even more.
How does Trump decreasing restrictions not give more diplomatic cover?
Perhaps we should try to agree on what empowering means:
- Something that is empowering makes you more confident and makes you feel that you are in control of your life
- to give official authority or legal power to
Trump’s actions are empowering the genocide because they are clearly supportive of both Israel’s bombing and occupation.
From Oct 7 2023 to Jun 28 2024 (the date of the reuters article that is being posted) we had shipped thousands of those bombs. We paused a shipment in May of 2024 (stated in that reuters articale), and here’s an article from July of 2024 saying we still had not shipped any of them
And I’ve found nothing indicating we have sent any more 2k pound bombs since May of 2024. So if we had, please provide a source reporting it.
Perhaps we should try to agree on what empowering means, though:
- Something that is empowering makes you more confident and makes you feel that you are in control of your life
- to give official authority or legal power to
Trump’s actions are empowering the genocide because they are clearly supportive of both Israel’s bombing and occupation.
My introspection was that I can’t stand by and let bad defeat better simply because best isn’t on the ballot, because that will hurt the ones I love.
Can you give me a citation for an incumbent party winning the election with a candidate other than the incumbent? I’m not aware of that every happening. Clinton won the popular vote in the 2016 primaries. That’s why I opened up with saying we need more progressive candidates and voters to participate in the primaries. We have more progressive representatives now than we did in 2016 because of Bernie’s 2016 campaign, not because of 3rd party voters.
And we’re not winning just because the person doing the fascism wears a blue pantsuit.
No. But we are farther from it when the President is engaging in trans-denialism and xenophopbia and pardoning convicted seditionists. but by all means, keep letting perfect be the enemy of better. I’m sure some day that will work.
You’re clearly taking a meaning that you’re inventing on your own, not from the text itself. “Let Israel go and finish it” could just as easily be interpreted as “they need to wrap this war up and reach a cease fire.”
I don’t need to make anything up. Trump followed up his words as a candidate with his actions as president to resume giving Israel the bigger bombs that Biden stopped giving them and to remove financial sanctions on Israeli occupiers.
Kamala called for a ceasefire, but her and Biden wouldn’t lift a pinky finger to actually produce such a cease fire.
I mean sure if you ignore the fact that Biden stopped shipping these bigger bombs and tried using financial sanctions then yeah, they didn’t lift a finger.
Trump seems to have actually succeeded at getting a ceasefire.
Trump himself said he’s not confident the ceasefire will hold, and by some accounts Israel has already violated it
You still are ignoring the fact that we were comparing Kamala and Trump.
We already have the template for how that works.
And Trump said as a candidate he thought we should do even less than Biden, and now is doing exactly that. So where in all of this am I supposed to have expected that Kamala would have been the same as Trump?
Trump could have said hey this sanction isn’t working, we need to strengthen it so that it does. But he instead said get rid of this sanction entirely. I get that you’re saying “well it didn’t really work and they had access to it anyway.” I do. But by your own account they had to go through extra steps to get it and now they don’t. That’s empowering. Even if just in the psychological sense that they now get to think “hey Trump is doing things to make it easier for me to keep occupying this land.” They now know that Trump is aiding them, so that gives them a greater sense of purpose and power to continue. And now they get more of the bigger bombs with which to do it.
Your link is published in June of 2024 and states:
The Biden administration has paused one shipment of the 2,000-pound bomb, citing concern over the impact it could have in densely populated areas in Gaza, but U.S. officials insist that all other arms deliveries continue as normal. One 2,000-pound bomb can rip through thick concrete and metal, creating a wide blast radius.
Here’s a link from July of 2024
The U.S. in May paused a shipment of 2,000-pound and 500-pound bombs due to concern over the impact they could have in Gaza
I can’t find anything saying we resumed shipment of 2,000 pound bombs in the remainder of 2024. So it seems to be true Trump is now reversing Biden’s [since May 2024] policy of withholding these bombs.
So how do you plan to succeed with third parties in the face of the cumulative failure of all third parties combined to win even 1% of the offices? In particular in contrast to the recent increase of progressive candidates running for and winning Democratic primaries?
Also, do some introspection.
I did, and that’s why I stopped voting for any 3rd parties in 2016. I had voted for candidates from all parties prior to then. Because they can’t win a large enough scale without electoral reform. And we won’t get that by losing all the elections.
they are fascists. Voting against them is a moral act.
So if we’re getting fascists either way (because again, the winners of >99% of elections around the country are going to be either the Democratic candidate or the Republican candidate), wouldn’t voting to prevent the ascension to power of the racist transphobes who are publicly voicing their desire to detransition transgender persons and denaturalize and deport citizens be the moral thing to do?
I’ve been saying it since June. I know I’m shouting into the void.
And I assume people like me have been responding to you the whole time. And your voices were enough to lose the election for the rest of us. So not much a void.
willing to go full Player 2 or you’re a billionaire
Sorry, I don’t understand the Player 2 reference. And since you don’t appear to have been paying attention, the billionaires are all winning now (they wanted Trump, they got Trump).
I’m not sure how telling me that she’s the same as Biden is any kind of rebuttal to what I said. I responded to someone saying they believed Kamala and Trump would have no meaningful difference in their handling of it. I replied by linking to quotes from those two people showing a markedly different attitude (one says “stop shooting” and the other says “keep shooting until it’s done”). And now we’re seeing that Trump, as President, is carrying out actions consistent with what he said as a candidate, which were and are the opposite of what Kamala was saying before the election.
Blocking and muting, detaching your post from quote posts, and hiding replies all make Bluesky a much saner place.