Rightoids cant fathom that it requires great collective sacrifice to maintain their preferred racial makeup of their town.

I know Hamas is popular with some RS people but let's be honest. The Gazans are very pro Hamas and Hamas is a terrorist group. Parading murdered babies around today was probably not a good optical choice for the Gazan people. If the Gazans did not support terrorists, wouldn't it help their case? They want the world's sympathy but taking women and babies hostage and killing them is probably not going to warm people's hearts. I'm sick of paying for Israel's wars but I still think Islam is a wicked and violent religion, barbaric and worthless.

I haven't paid federal loans since before 2020 and I was just recently hit with a 120 point credit score drop.

Did this happen to anyone else? My wife didn't get the credit hit yet.

Didn't Biden say that no credit would be reported until Sept / December 2025?!

I was on an IDR plan before 2020.

Did Musk do this?

Burgers cannot for the life of them ever take responsibility for their own actions

https://m.slashdot.org/story/438631

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43009682

https://old.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/1imuxxx/jeep_introduces_popup_ads_that_appear_every_time/

redditors - actually this is a good thing as the ai is leaning towards just being a good person

fun fact, I was joking about this before reading the thread, then this is the 2nd post

https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1iq0jic/study_finds_that_chatgpt_one_of_the_worlds_most/mcw6nk6/?context=8

!neolibs wtf lol

i love the disco elysium portraits and the Delilah paintings from dishonored so i was inspired. reference was the least porny generate from chatgpt. feed back welcome, i was lazy on the hair :(

Today I have decided to return to calling myself English because I am.

Born in England, makes me English.
🙌🏾 pic.twitter.com/cjhDvq8PIr

— Bushra Shaikh (@Bushra1Shaikh) February 17, 2025

!nooticers

You will never be English.

You have no Anglo, you have no Saxon.

You are a Pakistani twisted by ideology and delusion into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection.

All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted.

The Celts are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of… https://t.co/ughNxveCjP

— Callum (@AkkadSecretary) February 17, 2025

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This dude is greeaaaasey in the words of bubbles.All joking aside I don't understand the lefts infatuation with this guy. They are acting like the messiah has returned. (15)

he understands money and could probably run a popsicle stand, so I do understand the appeal. But the liberals are sneaky that's for sure. I'm a swing voter. (-3)

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Yall realize parliament has to vote to install emergency powers, right? He cant just wave his peepee and make it happen. Same with removing them. Theyre voted in/out. And this quote was in response to building infrastructure / pipelines. At least give some context. (22)

Fair point. He's the wrong guy to be musing about this stuff though. (-1)

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he was head of the BoC and BoE. He understands money clearly. Real estate is decoupled from the local economy due to money laundering and a population with no sense of self preservation. Can't really tag that on Carney. (11)

He started the push down on interest rates in 2008-2009. It made debt cheap and drove up prices. If anything all he had to do was hold rates. (0)

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so you're suggesting that the man should have told everyone to get fricked and die in the street after 2008 for optics in 2025? Carney fulfilled his directive at the bank. It's not right to me to hold that against him or try to make it seem like low interest rates were his idea when it was really a cultural expectation of a bunch of slobs who want their children to pay for their comfort. (2)

No he should have let the market correct itself. People who way over leveraged them selves should have lost the assets. There is a reason why our markets are all so messed up across western nations and its because instead of allowing natural corrections to happen we flood the markets with cheap debt and money printing. The only slobs are the ones who over spent and over extended themselves that should have lost those assets. Instead the next generations pay for their bailouts through inflation. Fear of hardship today only continues to multiply the damage future generations will have to deal with. (1)

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I'm hardly a conspiracist. But this is a warning to be heeded coming from a guy who wrote a really gross op-ed endorsing police state tactics during the Trucker Convoy.The use of the Emergencies Act, you will remember, was considered unreasonable by a judicial review.Mark Carney's incredibly shabby democratic credentials are on full display here. Don't expect anything pretty to come of this declaration. (3)

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Yeah no one is really sure about the fixed election date law and if they could just cruise past it without an issue. They definitely can't get past the 5 year law. That's in the constitution.I don't know what if any "emergency" powers would allow the government to circumvent parliament's ability to approve spending either. The government doesn't have enough money to operate indefinitely without parliament resuming and all the parties, the NDP now included, have made it clear they intend to bring down the government at the earliest opportunity. (2)

I think it might be possible to say that an International Emergency might give them the authority to appropriate funds (see Section 30) but that would set up a constitutional crisis. Parliament could also revoke the emergency. (2)

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Former Prime Minster John Howard has had shoes thrown at him during an episode of the ABC’s Q and A.

“That is for the Iraqi dead,” the man said as he threw two shoes

A female audience member then shouted: “You’ve got blood on your hands,” before walking out pic.twitter.com/dAcy8tW2ju

— Clown Down Under 🤡 (@clowndownunder) February 20, 2025

!strayans

I think the Arch is cursed

This video is from Doctor nowhere, from YouTube

Have great days and nights, ya'll!

!animalposters !cats

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!thotpatrol !babykillers

I don't get why it's so hard to just let someone be alone and in love.

!nooticers !antibharatiya

New data show how TCS makes heavy use of employment visas reserved for managers. Ex-staffers say it was to get around H-1B rules.

The first time Donald Trump took over the White House, Anil Kini alleges that executives at India's biggest outsourcing firm ordered him to take part in what he describes as a coverup.

Kini, who was an IT manager working in Denver for Mumbai-based Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, or TCS, says his superiors ordered him to falsify internal organizational charts — to make them appear more top-heavy with managers than they really were.

The goal, Kini later alleged in a federal lawsuit and in interviews with Bloomberg News, was to prepare for any heightened scrutiny of the way TCS was using employment visas. It was 2017, and Trump had campaigned on an anti-immigration platform, but his focus wasn't confined to undocumented immigrants. He'd also assailed a widely used skilled-worker visa program, called H-1B, saying it provided "cheap labor" that hurt US workers. He said US-based companies should instead prioritize hiring Americans.

Kini and two other former TCS employees who filed similar lawsuits say the company repeatedly made improper use of special manager-level visas to hire front-line workers who had no management responsibilities. All three cases, which were filed under the federal False Claims Act, were dismissed before the allegations of visa fraud were examined in court; Kini's is on appeal. The manager visas, known as L-1As, are easier for employers to obtain and have fewer guardrails; for example, they lack even the minimal pay requirements that Congress has imposed for H-1B holders.

Kini told Bloomberg that as Trump took office eight years ago executives at TCS, an arm of the Indian conglomerate the Tata Group, were trying to make their organizational charts match their visa applications, before any federal inspectors showed up on their doorstep.

While officials in Trump's first administration continued to criticize employment visas, the anticipated crackdown failed to materialize. Now, with Elon Musk and other tech executives defending the H-1B program, Trump has changed his rhetoric. "I've always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas," he told the New York Post in December. That flip-flop has triggered pushback from his MAGA base, pitting his nativist supporters against his newer backers from the tech industry. Although studies have shown immigration has been a net positive for the US economy and for government budgets, Kini's story along with allegations in the other lawsuits, internal company documents, emails and federal data obtained by Bloomberg, suggest TCS has used L-1A manager visas in ways that echo Trump's earlier concerns about undercutting American workers. The data, which is previously unreported, shows that the number of L-1A approvals the company has received far exceeds the number of managers it disclosed employing in mandatory federal reports to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It also shows that TCS, which works with some of the largest US tech companies, has obtained far more manager visas than any other employer in recent years.

In response to detailed questions about the allegations and Bloomberg's data analysis, a company spokesperson sent a statement denying any wrongdoing: "TCS does not comment on ongoing litigation, however we strongly refute these inaccurate allegations by certain ex-employees, which have previously been dismissed by multiple courts and tribunals. TCS rigorously adheres to all U.S. laws." The company declined to provide further details.

It's unclear how many manager visas TCS may have obtained for workers who, as Kini and others allege, weren't really managers. Kini and others say they knew personally of dozens of cases. Legal experts say it's common for employers to game the L-1A program, and over the past decade, federal officials uncovered nearly 200 cases involving L-1A recipients who weren't actually managers, according to federal data obtained by Bloomberg.

outsourcing firms have overwhelmed the annual lottery that decides which applicants can get new H-1Bs. L-1As, meanwhile, aren't capped and carry no pay requirements. TCS has used the management visas on a scale unmatched by any other US employer, according to exclusive data from the Department of Homeland Security. Bloomberg News obtained the data after filing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The company declined to answer detailed questions about Bloomberg's data analysis. The data show that the USCIS approved more than 90,000 L-1A visas from October 2019 through September 2023. IT outsourcing firms — which contract with US employers to handle information-technology tasks — were the program's heaviest users, but TCS far outpaced its rivals. The firm received upwards of 6,500 approvals, more than the next seven largest L-1A recipients combined. (The US State Department can also issue L-1As under a blanket approval process, but the agency does not release information on how many it authorizes; experts say the department has issued comparatively few since 2008.)

Compared to its competitors, TCS reported far fewer managers relative to its total US-based workforce. The company declined to respond to detailed questions about the numbers it submitted to the EEOC. It's possible that some high-level employees who do not supervise others could qualify as "functional managers" under L-1A rules. But experts say such cases are rare.

Immigration attorneys say fabricating job titles to obtain L-1As for non-managers would be a violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act and that gaps in federal enforcement authority have allowed employers to abuse the system. Shilpa Malik, a managing attorney at VisaNation Law Group PLLC, said she has encountered instances when companies manufactured evidence in applications for L-1A visas. "The L-1A is often found to be a substitute for the H-1B. Are they all legitimate managers? No, they're not."

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services has had only limited authority to investigate allegations of visa abuse, including any gaming of L-1A visas. Some employers have argued that the agency lacked the legal authority to conduct site visits, and in the past, companies have refused to allow USCIS officials to visit their offices or interview employees alone.

Nevertheless, during the past decade, USCIS has uncovered about 1,800 instances of fraud related to L visas, including nearly 200 cases in which the agency found L-1A recipients were not actually managers, according to USCIS enforcement data obtained by Bloomberg. The agency redacted the names of employers that were the subject of enforcement actions, and it did not respond to questions for this story.

Site visits "do help circumvent fraud," said Erin Green, an employment visa expert and former head of US immigration at Infosys Ltd., one of TCS's competitors. But in many instances USCIS officers simply ask for information by phone or email, "instead of visiting the actual client site," he said. Like many Indian outsourcers, most of TCS's staff members are in India, where it provides back-office IT services for its customers. But the company also needs client-facing workers in the US, and it employs thousands of Americans. Outsourcers often operate on what's known as the 80-20 model: About 80% of their staffers work from India or another low-cost location near their clients, while 20% are in clients' home countries, such as the US, said Peter Bendor-Samuel, founder of Everest Group, a Dallas-based company that advises global firms on outsourcing.

submitting two inaccurate organizational charts. One said he had managed five people in India, and the other said he would have five direct reports in the US.

But he "never managed these individuals, never had a conversation with these individuals, and never met any of these individuals," the complaint said. Govindharajan named 11 other TCS staff members whom he said received L-1A visas using false organizational charts, part of what he called TCS's strategy to save some $2.4 million annually in visa fees. He said in the complaint that TCS's business model depends on paying Indian workers less than Americans. The US government declined to pursue the case, and it was dismissed in 2023 "without prejudice," which means Govindharajan could refile it.

In a separate False Claims Act lawsuit, filed in 2016 in Pennsylvania, another Indian TCS worker on an L-1A visa alleged that the company frequently submitted applications containing "made-up organizational charts to demonstrate a make-believe hierarchy." The worker, Bedatanu Banerjee, said in filings that internal guidelines suggest ways staff should inappropriately bolster their resumes to correspond with visa requirements. TCS used L-1A visas "to 'creatively' get around" H-1B restrictions, Banerjee alleged in his complaint. The DOJ declined to join in the case and a judge dismissed it without prejudice. Banerjee couldn't be reached for comment.

Whistleblower Alleges Coverup Anil Kini spent nearly a decade building a career in IT management before joining TCS in India in 2006. The 49-year-old was born in India's southern Karnataka state and grew up in the financial center of Mumbai. He earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Mumbai before studying programming and working in a series of progressively senior IT positions.

After six years at TCS, he was offered an opportunity to migrate to the US on an L-1A visa to run TCS's project providing IT services to Western Union Co., a financial services company based in Denver. Kini supervised 37 employees. All but two of his team were from India, and they had replaced Western Union's previous staff, according to Kini. A representative for Western Union declined to comment.

Kini says higher-ups repeatedly asked him to sign off on visa applications certifying that front-line IT staffers were managers — using the L-1A program to circumvent H-1B caps, he alleges. He says he did not comply with those requests.

On Jan. 19, 2017, the day before Trump's inauguration, Kini was called into an urgent meeting with a TCS senior manager, who gave him a spreadsheet of employees, according to Kini and internal company documents and emails submitted as part of his lawsuit. His job would be to quickly change the internal organization chart to hide the obvious discrepancies for three of his direct reports, who had no management responsibilities, the records show. In all, Kini said that of the 22 L-1A visa employees on the Western Union account, only eight performed managerial roles.

After the January 2017 meeting, Kini said he began complaining. "If there is any site visit, USCIS will easily know the real reporting structure," he wrote in one 2017 email to his supervisor, which was submitted as part of his lawsuit.

Kini said he was emboldened to speak out at the time because the US government had just approved his green card, which meant his employer no-longer controlled his ability to live and work in the US. Otherwise, with only a visa, "TCS could send me back to India with an hour's notice," he said. Soon after, he says, the company began to retaliate against him, cutting him out of meetings and removing his responsibilities before firing him in August 2018.

Nearly a year before he was fired, Kini sued TCS, alleging the company had violated federal visa rules and retaliated against him as a whistleblower. A federal judge dismissed the case last February, ruling that Kini failed to meet legal standards under the False Claims Act.

After being ousted from TCS, Kini says he found himself ostracized from the tight-knit Indian IT community he had belonged to for more than 20 years. Former colleagues blocked his phone number and family friends avoided eye contact when he saw them at Indian grocery stores.

"Definitely it was a loss," Kini said, "when you're not part of those events and get togethers and birthday parties. We used to go out for movies, we used to go out trekking, and suddenly they're not available."

These days, Kini has found a new career — running a tutoring franchise in Lone Tree, Colorado, just south of Denver. His calls to seek jobs at other IT outsourcing firms went unanswered, he said, despite his decades of experience. Kini said that while the upheaval has been difficult for him and his family, he believes he did the right thing in blowing the whistle. "I have no regrets."

Govindharajan, meanwhile, said that after returning to India he struggled to find work with another IT firm and fears his legal battle with TCS has damaged his prospects.

"It all makes me so angry," he said. "I'm still really angry at TCS."

We are all equal

This teacher’s crashout over Trump is legendary.

**He has been fired. pic.twitter.com/I08Ddia06n

— The Older Millennial (@teameffujoe) February 13, 2025

Article

https://nypost.com/2025/02/13/us-news/nyc-high-school-teacher-launches-unhinged-anti-trump-tirade-at-student-in-leaked-audio/

!neocon !neolibs

To all our well-meaning newly-arrived liberal refugees, who is this "we" you keep referring to when you lecture and virtue signal about Ukraine?

As far as "we" are concerned, you're all 80% as complicit as the isolationists in the current rightoid administration for the current geopolitical state of the world. It was Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal which emboldened Putin. It was years of liberal soft-handedness and tolerance of crossed red lines from Russia, which prevented Ukraine from joining NATO. It was Biden who refused direct intervention even when Russian troops were miles away from Kyiv. From Iran to Russia to Hamas, and soon China, we've warned for decades that authoritarians are deterred by solidarity and strength, not olive branches.

And now you want to lecture about Republican isolationism? My brother in Allah, you're the problem. As far as we're concerned, you're post Molotov-Ribbentrop Stalin lecturing about the dangers of nazi expansionism. Our contempt for isocucks does not preclude our equal contempt for you. So spare us the self-righteous lectures. The prisoners at gitmo are lucky they were only subjected to waterboarding, and not "self-righteous lecture by self-unaware liberal".

"Could it be the fault of Bush fricking up the Iraq War (and lying about WMDs) that Americans are now isolationalist? Nope. It's Obama's fault"

#Anonymous message to the people of the United States and Trump pic.twitter.com/vPyQmAPi8Y

— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) February 7, 2025

Blah blah blah boring... Drumpf is literally the end of the world.

https://tiktok.com/@anon_1525/video/7465868840254115103

Tiktokers call them cringe as shit and they're crying that the zoomies and alphas are bullying them. They will no longer post on TikTok (lmao)