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US labour watchdog halts Apple cases after group’s lawyer picked for top job

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croes ◴[04 Apr 25 13:27 UTC] No.43582033[source]▶
Drain the swamp for sure.

At which point does the ordinary MAGA hat realize Trump isn't working for them?

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UncleMeat ◴[04 Apr 25 13:55 UTC] No.43582443[source]▶
My aunt shares AI-generated memes about hispanic and palestinian people crying as they are rounded up by ICE. Her key motivation above all others is making particular groups of people she hates suffer. Everything else is acceptable as long as she gets that.

It's a concerning vision for the country.

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giraffe_lady ◴[04 Apr 25 14:06 UTC] No.43582606[source]▶
Yeah it's unpopular to point this out right now but racism is a key political motivator for a lot of people, with varying degrees of awareness of that. He is working for them.
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mrguyorama ◴[04 Apr 25 16:22 UTC] No.43584648[source]▶
The people who threw rocks at the Little Rock Nine, the first black kids let into an alabama "White's only" school are barely retired. They still vote.

They never changed their mind.

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williamscales ◴[04 Apr 25 19:19 UTC] No.43586616[source]▶
Damn, I never did the math on this. I have always been of the opinion that racism drives a lot of political behavior but this really drives home how close my US is to an even darker racist past.
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1. UncleMeat ◴[04 Apr 25 22:37 UTC] No.43588466{3}[source]▶
The chief justice prior to our current chief justice (Rehnquist) wrote a memo as a clerk arguing against the holding in Brown v Board and bought a house in a neighborhood where it was illegal to sell homes to Jews while he was on the supreme court.

A huge amount of our current law was built by segregationists.