I'm not saying I'm not GoodGuy, but I'm not saying I am, either.

https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1igf92q/these_little_boys_stole_our_election/

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Thank you for letting them dip out quietly. wtf.

He should've fired them. Unless their felons with active warrants these guys would never bother them.

I don't think Americans are aware of what their food is going to cost without cheap exploitable labor.

About the same tbh.

These squads always look the same. Pudgy white guys who aren't well put together. They don't know what they're doing most of the time..

What? There's 2 fatties in there and they look like they know what they're doing. Believe it or not plainclothes units don't want to look like cops.

I mean, look at them as a unit. They look goofy. I understand multi agency cooperation but let's be real. They don't look serious. They look like the boys about to hit the airsoft range. One is excited about his buddy's gun for some reason, when they really should all be familiar enough with their shit that it's no big deal. Probably some new toy bought with tax money though. There's no uniform in sight. Just a bunch of tacticool gear in whatever ensemble you want apparently. Also we're gonna gather out here in this parking lot and goof off till 0600 then it's gravy time.

I can see the SWAT jacket on one.

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— Somto Okonkwo (@General_Somto) February 16, 2025

!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."

"At California’s Yosemite National Park, the Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday. He was the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms." And at other parks: pic.twitter.com/y3ngZyncW2

— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) February 20, 2025

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I feel like we're now being assaulted by waves of loser rightoid energy. Rightoids! I never cared about your puritan no s*x getting angry incel bullshit, I just wanted to use you as foot soldiers to hurt the SJWs. Now that you did that, I would rather not support your own insane no kitty getting puritan self-pitying shit, I just want you to go away.

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leafcucks are BIG MAD! 2,105 comments of delicious Canadian seethe to pour onto your pancakes

I get it people don't like Trudeau but to side with someone who is literally trying to destroy your country is wild.

I didn't realise Trump did this?

I'm a conservative, I agree with Trudeaus response… we have too respond we can't just sit back

Entire Canadian military force:

Frick les traîtres!!!

Traitors..?

Frogs go literally two seconds without switching sides challenge

As an American, I'm so sorry that our idiotic country voted for this guy.

please love me

So do something about it

Mass protests in all 50 states are planned for February 5th.

mass protests huh?

How insane must somebody be to support a foreign politician (which is kinda weird by itself, I don't walk around with hats of foreign politicians 🤣🤣🤣)

Uh, yeah almost like Canada is just an American state at this point, huh? Someone should do something about that...

Woa there buddy, don't go getting all patriotic on unceded land. According to its leader, Canada is a post-national state with no core identity, after all.

chuds are so fricking boring

If you support the leader of a nation who openly declares war on our country and constantly talks about annexing us, you're a fricking traitor.

He declared WAR? No way. Do you have a link to anything saying that?

Not all wars are fought with sticks

Nowadays they're fought with !

By the way, THE ENTIRE SUBREDDIT is just a huge struggle session about DJT. There's more seethe here than I know what to do with.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskCanada/comments/1ig4q57/asking_the_important_question_everyday_is_trump/ REPORTMAXXERS IN IN IN

All I can see is a people ripe for conquering. Demoralised and impotent, the Canadian nation has jeeted itself into irrelevance. !leafs weigh in

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— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 21, 2025

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— 의코 (@ui2ko) February 11, 2025

Note: I posted this in a different sub but wanted to share here too. I'm just so angry

As a Black woman, the entitlement of white families and the shit they get away with both amazes me-and enrages me.

I'm away on a business trip-kind of my first. They are paying for my hotel room and everything. It's pretty awesome. The hotel I'm at has a swim pool so I decided to bring my bathing suit and go for an evening swim after my conference.

I figured I'd wait till about an hour before pool closing so it'd be less busy. Clearly, everyone had the same idea as me. Fine, whatever. There were 3 parties of us there-myself, solo, a filipino family (maybe 5-6 of them children included) and a big group of white families together for what I assume to be a hockey tournament (I saw them checking in with their sticks and hockey bags in tow).

The white adults were absolutely plastered. They had several coolers in the pool (not allowed) boxes of pizza (also not allowed). The adults were all drinking beers poolside (again, NOT allowed). Meanwhile, their kids are causing an absolute disturbance. Prior, their sons were playing FRICKING FLOOR HOCKEY in the hotel HALLWAY. I could hear them before I left and I saw them on during my time in the pool (they were coming in and out) and on my way back to my room.

At one point, one of the moms is so shitfaced she drops her glass and it shatters. she then starts scraping the glass into the pool where myself and the Filipino families kids were swimming. One of the moms goes "no no dont do that just leave it"

I decide I'm done with the main pool and head over to the hot tub where more of the Filipino family are hanging out. As we're relaxing, one of the front desk staff comes in with one of the boys. The boy goes "guys guys listen-the front desk says we need to quiet down we're being too loud" to which the moms respond "we're being too LOUD?! Tell them to shut the front door!" (Which makes zero sense because the pool door WAS shut-it requires key card entry). They were just that fricking loud.

Just the absolute gall and entitlement of the parents to think they should be allowed to disrupt everyone else was appalling. I lean over to someone in the hot tub and go "have they been acting like that all night?" "Yup, since we got here!" And then we started talking about how rude they were, the disrespect to public space, the glass in the pool, etc. Suddenly all the boys decide theyre down playing hotel hallway hockey and come into the pool. There's a huge sign that says "no diving-shallow pool". So naturally, they all start doing cannonballs. The splashes were so big they were hitting me and the family in the hottub. The parents continued to sit back shitfaced and pleased with themselves.

I'd had enough so I left and went to complain to front staff. I let him know that the family was drunk off their asses, not controlling their kids, the boys playing hockey in the hall, the broken glass, the pizza, the way the mom disrespected the first staff member to go in, all of it. He was very apologetic to which I said it's not his fault and the family would likely retaliate again (all the front desk staff were POC) and he said he'd handle it and escalate to management. I went off to my room.

Some of you are gonna say this is just a shitty parent thing-and it is. However, whiteness does come into play. Watch a Black person act up and see how we're shamed, dragged across the internet, everything. Watch a Black person follow the rules and still get shit. I'm thinking of those stories of Black people getting kicked out of pools in their own apartment complexes cause racists POS didn't think they live or "belong" there.

White people are just allowed to be shameless. The reason that mom was so bold talking back to the staff is cause she felt entitled and knew she held a position of power. She is the white woman, and is offended by the POC staff member politely telling her to get a hold of herself. The staff dare tell them how to behave??? They know at the end of the day they will get a free pass. I want to make sure to include the dads in this too cause they were shit too. I mention the mom cause my time there she was the one mouthing back. The dads were all standing around drunk and smug.

And this is how kids, especially white kids, turn into entitled adults. Mommy and daddy never say no. Of course theyd be allowed to play floor hockey in the middle of a hotel hallway and disrupt other patrons! Of course theyre allowed to break pool rules! Why shouldn't they? They're watching their parents do the exact same shit!

I'm not saying BIPOC should get a free pass to be unruly shits btw, or that we never act up. I'm angry at how different the repercussions are and how white folk are simply allowed to do whatever they please and train their kids to be the same because society has put them so far up on a pedestal.

he mumbled a lot and at one point i heard "40 acres and a mule" and then he went back to mumbling and now everyone on twitter is gloating about what he did with trump in attendance and i don't know what he was angling for

Am i allowed to make a psot consisting of every user alts. They wont have the @ symbol so no mass pings, no pings at all in fact. Repsot has leaked mine. Drowned has leaked mine. Fishy has said its ok to do.ive contacted @ a and they havent responded and they usually menas just go with it..

Take a look at me now..

3 buses exploded in Israel tonight and undetonated bombs were found on another 2 buses.

According to initial reports, they were supposed to explode tomorrow at 9am but instead exploded tonight at 9pm when the buses were empty and not in use pic.twitter.com/iX9h0WLfXB

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) February 20, 2025

!jidf

Did I *plan* this week's new episode knowing in advance I'd be in the (so far?) minority of critics with a positive take on a new release? No, but it's funny when it works out that way 🤣 youtu.be/50-PDnWMzVE?...

— Bob Chipman (@bobchipman.bsky.social) 2025-02-13T03:19:50.936Z

Review - "CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD" (2025)Marvel goes back-to-basics with lean, fast-paced throwback to Tom Clancy potboilers and its own 'Winter Soldier'/Phase2 mode of solo-franchise "multiverse who?" sequels.youtu.be/E6oPFS9dAvc?...#CaptainAmericaBraveNewWorld#CaptainAmerica

— Bob Chipman (@bobchipman.bsky.social) 2025-02-12T17:18:42.113Z

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everyone who disagrees with me is the same person

— josh (@fevered.earth) 2025-02-09T17:49:42.709Z

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Every time I'm reminded of how Moviebob writes/talks I laugh so hard bro

— Lew (@strongest-lewman.bsky.social) 2025-02-05T20:13:19.952Z