jonne

Imagine being the pope's brother and still thinking he's wrong about what Jesus would do.

Yeah, maybe the exploitation is what it's really about, no matter how much it would cost them in actual dollars.

The fact that the employers are on board with the plan definitely makes me suspicious. Maybe they made the 100k tax deductable so it doesn't actually cost them anything or something like that?

It feels like some initiatives are shifting income from the treasury straight into the executive branch (same as the tariffs), so maybe this is just a way of shifting money from one branch to another.

The H1-B visa was bastardised from a program targeting speciality workers to just importing workers to undercut local ones (as since your visa is tied to your employer, your bargaining options are limited).

Charging $100k/year wouldn't be the change I'd make personally but would probably help with the excesses (I'd personally just abolish it, or mandate a minimum wage of 200k/y, or only allow it for unionised locations).

The thing I worry about with this change is that employers would still exploit the workers and pay them like $40k even if they have to hand $100k to the government for that privilege.

Yep, as long as the employer is the one paying the $100k, this is actually a good change.

The Venn diagram of black people that know their own history and the ones that voted for Trump are probably 2 distinct circles. I doubt they care about more erasure of history.

I'm sure he'll have the right take in 2 years.

Honestly, the democratic brand is so tainted the the left really should embrace a strategy of running independents in solid red states. They're receptive to a Bernie style message (tell them big Ag is trying to buy your farm, go big on right to repair so John Deere can't screw you on parts, tell them that Medicare for all is actually good for small businesses that can't compete on health care, etc), but after decades of right wing propaganda you can't do anything under a democratic banner in those places (especially since the democratic party would put their thumb on the scale for the centrist guy in a primary).

Yeah, probably. The US had a good run, but I guess getting land to vote instead of people will eventually fail.

And electorally, their inaction cost them. FDR's popularity rose because he did shit. There's this view democrats have that they only have limited political capital and they have to choose where to 'spend it', but it just doesn't work that way.

I mean, the only check on the president is impeachment, and they've tried they twice without success. There's no legal or democratic options to stop him from doing anything at this stage unless he somehow manages to hand democrats a supermajority in the senate.

Would be great if all current late night hosts just started some other creative endeavour together. Network TV is dying anyway, these guys got more views on YouTube than their actual shows.