The Biden Administration is suing the Sheetz convenience store chain for only hiring job applicants who pass its criminal background check, which the White House sees as disparate impact racial discrimination against the more criminally inclined races.
From AP:
Convenience store chain with hundreds of outlets in 6 states hit with discrimination lawsuit
by: The Associated Press
Posted: Apr 20, 2024 / 05:12 PM EDT
(AP) — The Sheetz convenience store chain has been hit with a lawsuit by federal officials who allege the company discriminated against minority job applicants.
Sheetz Inc., which operates more than 700 stores in six states, discriminated against Black, Native American and multiracial job seekers by automatically weeding out applicants whom the company deemed to have failed a criminal background check, according to U.S. officials.
President Joe Biden stopped by a Sheetz for snacks this week while campaigning in Pennsylvania.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit in Baltimore against Altoona, Pennsylvania-based Sheetz and two subsidary companies, alleging the chain’s longstanding hiring practices have a disproportionate impact on minority applicants and thus run afoul of federal civil rights law.
Sheetz said Thursday that it “does not tolerate discrimination of any kind.”
“Diversity and inclusion are essential parts of who we are. We take these allegations seriously. We have attempted to work with the EEOC for nearly eight years to find common ground and resolve this dispute,” company spokesperson Nick Ruffner said in a statement. …
Federal officials said they do not allege Sheetz was motivated by racial animus, but take issue with the way the chain uses criminal background checks to screen job seekers. The company was sued under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion and national origin.
“Federal law mandates that employment practices causing a disparate impact because of race or other protected classifications must be shown by the employer to be necessary to ensure the safe and efficient performance of the particular jobs at issue,” EEOC attorney Debra M. Lawrence said in a statement.
“Even when such necessity is proven, the practice remains unlawful if there is an alternative practice available that is comparably effective in achieving the employer’s goals but causes less discriminatory effect,” Lawrence said. …
The agency found that Black job applicants were deemed to have failed the company’s criminal history screening and were denied employment at a rate of 14.5%, while multiracial job seekers were turned away 13.5% of the time and Native Americans were denied at a rate of 13%.
By contrast, fewer than 8% of white applicants were refused employment because of a failed criminal background check, the EEOC’s lawsuit said.
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This is an odd word to use, as it implies agency on the part of Sheetz. In most cases, a background check is a binary result, one either passes or one fails; there is no gray.
As an analogy, in some jurisdictions, are you "deemed" to be driving under the influence if you don't pass a field sobriety test but refuse to submit to a breathalyzer?Replies: @deep anonymous
In the upside down world of politics, that should lead to loosening of fidelity bond standards, because discrimination. Brilliant political solutions could involve federal backstopping of liability akin to deposit insurance, with added oversight by select committees and constituencies. What could possibly go wrong?
“Blacks tend to be criminals” = illegal racist stereotype.
“Blacks tend to be criminals, therefore you can’t look at their criminal background” = enlightened civil rights policy.
Us racists sure are sneaky! When we don’t want to hire any blacks, we give them a test they have almost no chance of passing: only 85.5% of them make it through.
*I'm talking about hiring them in places like convenience stores, not as teachers in schools. Obviously hiring someone who owns a child sex doll as a teacher in a school would be too risky and should thus not be done.Replies: @AceDeuce
Owned one C-store back in the ’80s. Ran it in my spare time for 6 months. Even back then had to document for EEOC, as the applicable employee radius was 35% black. Every black employee had shortages of 10-15% during their shift.
Leased it out and had zero interest to manage it again.
I mean, all they have to do is stop committing crimes at disparate rates if they want the impact to be at parity with whites. How is this even controversial?
Heads they win, tails we lose.
Blacks: "Let us commit crime without consequences."
Politician: "I'll see what I can do."
Rule one of shit-lib world.
Apparently, high crime rates in the Black population are not a new trend. If this “Time Magazine” article is authentic, mayors of Northern cities were expressing concerns privately about Black crime all the way back in the 1950s.
https://gab.com/White__Rabbit/posts/112311075397416381
One interesting thing about the article is that the mayors were reluctant to go public with their concerns. Why? What would have happened to them? This was the 1950s!
Also, regardless of how most people felt privately it was probably still considered inappropriate by "polite society" to express -- in print anyway -- offensive generalizations about "the negroes." Liberal intellectuals were the arbiters of high status option then, as now.
It's always interesting to read original source materials instead of assuming the current characterizations of the past are accurate.Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Anonymous, @Ben the Layabout
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,810262,00.html
The conclusion. And how did that work out, Mr. Reynolds?Some San Francisco context.
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=WWII_In-migration_%26_Rising_Bigotry
https://www.abaa.org/book/1182243205
https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-07/AARAC%20Reparations%20Final%20Report%20July%207%2C%202023.pdfReplies: @Stan Adams
I just cannot believe that DIE Joe would stereotype blacks,prehistoric immigrants and mixed race people like this.
“Sheetz” sounds jewish, black, and indian (call center not casino) all at the same time.
the Sheetz he went into is not far from where i used to work by the Pittsburgh airport. was working in an office out there on 9/11. the local yokel police officers at the airport still think it’s 9/11. they love waving their guns at you when you’re just trying to catch a ride home at Arrivals. i’m not exaggerating. as if terrorists would ever, ever hit a second rate, third rate target like Pittsburgh. that’s one of the reasons i knew the Baltimore thing was not terrorism.
probably a quick photo op for Biden on his way out of town. didn’t go so great.
guy looks like he doesn’t even know what planet he’s on. even worse, he runs into kids immediately and his pedo instincts kick in. good think Secret Service was there. the shower diary was real. as if this guy could get any more dislikeable.
at first i thought this happened on the east side of the state and was wondering why he wasn’t in a Wawa. Sheetz and Wawa have a handshake agreement to stay on their sides of Pennsylvania. later on i realized he did go into a Wawa earlier on his trip. Wawa recently had to lock down retail at some of their locations due to the usual reasons.
There is a fairly good convenience outlet in three northern states called Kwik Trip. Their condiment bar offers sauerkraut! At least in their more spacious stores. (I make my brats a veritable-- and inexpensive-- salad.) However, in one of those states, Iowa, they go by Kwik Star, to avoid confusion with QuikTrip, a Tulsa-based chain with several stores in the same state. Kwik Trip's home is La Crosse. (I just don't see sauerkraut at at Tulsa chain. Would be happy to be proven wrong.)
There goes Canada!
So the poor old natives get their wages driven down and their housing costs increased by immigration - to the point where even a small English country town has two foodbanks - and then the immigrants are in the food queue with them!
I was originally going to say "and then the very people responsible for their impoverishment are in the queue with them", but the people responsible are the business organisations who love cheap labour, and the politicians who they bought - in this case Conservative ones.Replies: @lavoisier
In 2020 the population was 38 million, a staggering increase close to 30% in a period when the existing population was decreasing.Canada is approaching Day Zero for it's national history.
as for Sheetz, presumably they are doing a criminal background check on every applicant, at their own expense, similar to what happens when you apply to buy a firearm and get checked against a database. like a bank checking your credit score for a loan, Sheetz has absolutely, positively nothing to do with the databases and the numbers. they don’t even know who you are or what you look like. if they get a positive result for a felony, they just drop you right there from hiring search and you don’t move on to the next step.
why they doing this? probably because of Democrats and their largely successful “Ban the Box” initiative. normally for these low level jobs, employers had a 1 or 2 sheet application that you would fill out, and right on the first page was a big rectangle that you were supposed to ‘Check Here’ if you were a convicted felon. well, lots of states made that illegal. Pennsylvania is one.
it’s not illegal for the company to proactively do this check on their own at their own expense i’m guessing. for now. you know DC would make it illegal if they could. so i guess Sheetz does this as one of the first steps in the screening process.
well, 8% of pale people get dropped right on the spot, and since there’s like 6 or 7 times as many pale people applying for these jobs as other people, literally hundreds of crackers get zapped in the job search right away every year. but DC doesn’t give the slightest shit about that. what they care about is the other people who were failing at double the rate, like 13 to 15 percent. hundreds of fewer people failing per year than the pale persons, but this smaller group of dropped applicants bothers DC tremendously.
Sheetz’s rate of customers raped in-store by employees was unacceptably low.
Also, young white men on every college campus across the Nation are rape-happy.
We must increase funding for our residential rape factories in order to meet the challenges of the future.
Whatever you do, do not vote for that tangerine-shaded lunatic, or this all might change.
>Bai Dien uses a Sheetz for a failed photo op
>Sheets is now under investigation for whatever
Easy, don’t let the Old Man in. Oh, I want to do a photo op. Yeah, no ‘ablar, buddy.
The Democrats have to support this because they depend on the Black vote in order to get elected.
The Democrats have increasingly become the party of special interests versus average people. In addition to being for criminal Blacks, for example, they have become the party of the military-industrial complex.
The Democrats in the House just voted unanimously for the Ukraine military aid bill while the majority of Republicans opposed it. The Ukrainian-American Republican Congressional representative just north of me, Victoria Spartz, voted against it. She knows average people here in Indiana do not care about the Ukraine. We also did not care about the silly and futile attempt previously to occupy Afghanistan and then try to turn the radical Muslims living there into Jeffersonian democrats.
Because, to quote this guy I like to read, blacks are “above criticism but beneath agency”. I.e., if they’re in jail more, it’s not because they’re more likely to behave criminally, it’s because they’re more likely to be unjustly criminalized because of the color of their skin! It’s Science, you can’t debate it.
Heads they win, tails we lose.
OT — By way of Soldo, Foreign Affairs, the propaganda organ of the Council on Foreign Relations, now admits that yes pease was possible and even EU membership was possible for the Ukraine but now ppppssshhhh you chose to be a State Department catspaw and now look where that got you.
How does anyone manage the cognitive dissonance?
OT: Looks like Ukraine aid is gonna go through now that Trump supports it. A good thing, since I hope Ukraine can win. The “America first” “non-interventionists” have nothing to say. I wonder what it’s like to go through life with the taste of Trump’s d*** permanently in one’s mouth.
From a strictly cynical political perspective it was the smart thing for Trump to do because now people like you can't blame Ukraine's collapse on Orange Man failing to give them money. Biden and the Deep State will own it 100% when the helicopters are flying off the roof of the embassy in Saigon 2.0.Replies: @Bardon Kaldian
Ukraine cannot "win". They lost when the Neocon's staged their coup in 2014. Everything these people touch turns to shit.
Too many congresscritters defy their voters on issues dear to the Establishment's heart. They promise one thing, but vote the other, even after they have gotten personally wealthy in Washington. It can't be the corporate money after a legislator is worth a few million bucks. He is already rich. It's the stick, not the carrot, making him betray his voters time-and-again. Blackmail is the only plausible answer.
Because reasons.
Giving their fellow thieves a break!
? They realized White Supremacism was the greatest terrorist threat facing this country long ago.
About five years ago when I worked for a very well-known nationwide retailer I saw their policy on hiring people with criminal records and it was actually quite nuanced. Convictions for any sort of theft were automatic disqualifiers, as were some violent crimes, but with things such as drug possession store managers had some discretion.
On the bright side, this sort of crap will handicap big chains more than it will mom-and-pop operations.
I like a nation of small businesses and owner-operators — and ironically, that will favor non-blacks much more than the big-corporations-and-employees model will. As a practical matter, no one can make Lee Fang of Lee Fang Hardware hire anybody he doesn’t want to.
Was Biden investigating this matter in person when he dropped by a Sheetz a few days ago? Newsweek covered the story in the predictable “conservatives pounce” manner.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/joe-biden-s-gas-station-visit-mocked-by-conservatives/ar-AA1nefQ3
Biden recently complained about all the “F— Biden” signs he sees. He’s surprised that his frequent expressions of hatred of the half of the population that didn’t vote for him has had this effect.
“Noticing” now a federal employment crime.
Once again our beloved iSteve here is far ahead of the curve.
On the Silver Lining side, if former President Donald Trump is railroaded into prison, a solid job with Sheetz is likely to be a sure thing for a post-incarceration job opportunity.
He may not need that option, but if the Feds say you shouldn’t exclude former offenders, voters may decide to take the hint and give him a more important job…
The EEOC has Trump’s back.
These are the kinds of junk chain stores that are an indicator of the local demographic trends. Like when a Popeye’s or a Carmax or a JJ Fish goes up in your neighborhood, it’s probably a bad sign about who’s living close enough be shopping there.
These places cater to ghetto people so not sure why they wouldn’t want to hire them.
Another good indicator: Billboard advertisements for Bail Bondsmen.Replies: @prosa123, @Art Deco
And Auto Dealers have sweetheart legal protections from many state governments. Manufacturers cannot pull their franchises for anything but the worst behavior.
That's why you don't see nationwide marketing of common cars, like a mid-level Camry, Civic, or RAV 4.Replies: @Mike Tre
You’re gonna have your mind blown when you read what people thought about blacks back in the say, 18th century!! Why, they used to do a little something called “slavery” and “lynching” on account of uh, perceived incompatibility of that population with freedom.
Being a long time Sheetz customer, I’m left to wonder if disparate outcomes (i.e. greater minority employment) will help the organization in this case. What will happen if Sheetz can prove that a disproportionate number of employees are not white?
Blacks in the North were an important political constituency. Originally as part of the Republican coalition, and then the post New Deal Democrat coalition. Newspapers and politicians had to be respectful and not alienate them.
Also, regardless of how most people felt privately it was probably still considered inappropriate by “polite society” to express — in print anyway — offensive generalizations about “the negroes.” Liberal intellectuals were the arbiters of high status option then, as now.
It’s always interesting to read original source materials instead of assuming the current characterizations of the past are accurate.
In fact, some dissident historians lay the blame for reformist urges much further back, indeed to the Reformation or its secular cousin, the Enlightenment. Now don’t get me wrong; I’m much in favor of many of those ideals, like individual freedom and the like. Problem: along with the good came idiotic idealist thinking like every human being could rise to a high standard, that all inequality could be eliminated, and so on.
Your recommendation that it’s good to read written history has its merits, but I would warn that a written history is hardly more immune to bias or other inaccuracy. The best that can be said for it is that what was written down did not mutate a dozen or a hundred retimes in the retelling, as would be the case with oral histories or folk memory.Replies: @Ancient Briton
So eventually background checks will have to be discarded and not only Blacks! failing them but non-Blacks! failing them will have to be hired. This of course factors in every time a standard is thus abandoned. This multiplier effect is little or not at all recognized. But you see it at work in a place like Portland, where the miscreants taking advantage of lax law enforcement and those killing themselves with fenty as a result of drug legalization on behalf of Blacks! skew whiter than the rest of the country.
Had they went public with their concerns in the 1950s, they feared that they might undermine the still-ongoing civil rights movement, with Southern racists and segregationists pointing to the high black crime in the North as an argument against integration.
Yeah, I mean, which other test would work here just as well? I mean, I could see logic in employers wanting employees with clean histories since they don’t want to risk having their employees steal their stuff, et cetera. But I do think that people who are charged and convicted for victimless crimes, such as drugs and child sex dolls, should perhaps still be hired if they are not deemed a threat* and if they have no violent crimes on their record.
*I’m talking about hiring them in places like convenience stores, not as teachers in schools. Obviously hiring someone who owns a child sex doll as a teacher in a school would be too risky and should thus not be done.
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OT — HOW DARE YOU
Also, regardless of how most people felt privately it was probably still considered inappropriate by "polite society" to express -- in print anyway -- offensive generalizations about "the negroes." Liberal intellectuals were the arbiters of high status option then, as now.
It's always interesting to read original source materials instead of assuming the current characterizations of the past are accurate.Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Anonymous, @Ben the Layabout
As I said in one of my earlier replies here, white Northerners also probably didn’t want to undermine the still-ongoing civil rights movement by publicly complaining about the high black crime rate in the Northern US. They no doubt felt that blacks had a significant bad apple minority, but also felt that having blacks solve their legitimate grievances by helping them in their push to abolish Jim Crow was more important.
Also, regardless of how most people felt privately it was probably still considered inappropriate by "polite society" to express -- in print anyway -- offensive generalizations about "the negroes." Liberal intellectuals were the arbiters of high status option then, as now.
It's always interesting to read original source materials instead of assuming the current characterizations of the past are accurate.Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Anonymous, @Ben the Layabout
Is this theory plausible? I am not saying it is implausible, but play out the scenario. Suppose a Northern city mayor in the 1950s did speak out against Black crime. If that angered some Blacks, where would they redirect their votes? Then, even if some Blacks redirected votes, would that loss of votes not be offset by increased turnout from Whites and law abiding Blacks in favor of the plainspeaking leader?
Diversity and inclusion are essential parts of who we are.
Screw them. I hope they lose.
Everything you’ve been told about race in America is a lie. Negroes were a prized possession of the ruling class and were, in many cases, treated better than “poor White trash”. They were used as a cudgel, still are, against Whites to keep poor Whites from getting uppity. The poor black victim was a common theme of early American movies and especially through the 40s and 50s. ‘No Way Out’ starring Potier as a noble doctor mistreated by White thugs was released in 1950 and wasn’t the first, or last, of its genre.
Shut up, racist!
There was almost a major runway collision at Reagan National airport a couple days ago. If you listen to the audio, you can hear what appear to be 2 black air traffic control officers:
https://www.mwaa.com/community-sustainability/diversity-inclusion
I am sorry that you are going to be disappointed. The over-under is whether they make it through the election.
From a strictly cynical political perspective it was the smart thing for Trump to do because now people like you can’t blame Ukraine’s collapse on Orange Man failing to give them money. Biden and the Deep State will own it 100% when the helicopters are flying off the roof of the embassy in Saigon 2.0.
https://i.postimg.cc/PrcLMtDf/ukraina.jpgReplies: @Dumbo, @QCIC, @Hypnotoad666, @Mr. Anon, @Ryan Andrews
Each city and election was different, I suppose. But one common thread is that, I imagine, no Northern mayor wanted to have the fancy do-gooder white and Jewish elites label him as a “race baiter” like he was some backward Southern hick.
That is what happened to Agnew. It also happened to former Baltimore County Executive Dale Anderson, who was a staunch opponent of efforts to build Section 8 housing in what then was a White suburban county. I think it also happened to the former Anne Arundel County Executive from the late 1960s or early 1970s but I no longer remember for sure. But the point is, evil forces have almost unlimited behind-the-scenes leverage over "our" elected officials. That's how "Our Democracy" works.Replies: @Sick n' Tired
All quality control measures will harm NAMs BC they poor quality primitives.
From a strictly cynical political perspective it was the smart thing for Trump to do because now people like you can't blame Ukraine's collapse on Orange Man failing to give them money. Biden and the Deep State will own it 100% when the helicopters are flying off the roof of the embassy in Saigon 2.0.Replies: @Bardon Kaldian
Sure …
What is wrong with Croats? They are the sorest losers in the Balkans, and that's saying a lot. Even Bosnians seem calmer, nicer, less easily triggered people.
Or maybe I should just ask, what is wrong with you? I have never seen you post anything even remotely useful. You're worse than Ebony Obelisk, and ten times more prolix.
If they want to pursue this war that's their business. But I damned sure don't want to pay for it.Replies: @Pastit
In California, there’s a wildly popular fast food chain, “In ‘N Out,” that has always puzzled me regarding their hiring practices, and how they got around not hiring peasant class Latino’s and idiot black folks, while larger chains like Wendy’s and especially McDonalds hires anything with a pulse.
In ‘N Out does hire minorities, but they’re always bright and professional. I’ve never run into one loser, whereas at McDonald’s, loser employees are a given. Like 50-something Latino men with a very shakey grasp of English, fat surly black chicks, or indifferent lowbrow cholo chicks. And I’ve never run across any In ‘N Out’s employees that gave off the unmistakable vibe of an ex-con!
How does In ‘N Out pull off discarding the riff raff from the get-go without Biden’s handlers going after them? I feel like something is going to happen to them any day now.
Incidentally, there’s another fast food chain in Cali called “Dog Haus,” which specializes in gourmet hotdogs, and they openly brag that they hire ex-cons straight out of prison, and some days it’s more apparent than others. On the days it’s more apparent, I feel I know what it’s like to eat in a prison mess hall. The employees are what one would politely designate as “super sketch.” Some of their employees look like they were let out far too early.
The bad news is that it’s McDonald’s, so it’s greasy slop.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Culture/In-N-Out-Burger-DEI-E14276.htm
Related question at Quora and a relevant answer.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-secret-to-In-N-Out-Burgers-hiring-training-of-staffReplies: @AceDeuce
In an ideal world, this case is where the doctrine of disproportionate impact goes to die …
The way it played out in the Baltimore area was that local officials who voiced the slightest pro-White sentiments were subsequently weeded out by federal prosecutors. You have to understand that most if not all local politicians took (probably still take) kickbacks from interested parties (e.g., real estate developers, builders, etc.), leaving them vulnerable to selective prosecution.
That is what happened to Agnew. It also happened to former Baltimore County Executive Dale Anderson, who was a staunch opponent of efforts to build Section 8 housing in what then was a White suburban county. I think it also happened to the former Anne Arundel County Executive from the late 1960s or early 1970s but I no longer remember for sure. But the point is, evil forces have almost unlimited behind-the-scenes leverage over “our” elected officials. That’s how “Our Democracy” works.
Joe Rogan has a joke about when you're elected president, they sit you down in a room and show you video of the JFK assassination from a completely different angle, then tell you how you're going to play ball.
What kind of a name is “Sheetz” for a grocery store? They might as well have named it “Sheeeeeit!!!”
*I'm talking about hiring them in places like convenience stores, not as teachers in schools. Obviously hiring someone who owns a child sex doll as a teacher in a school would be too risky and should thus not be done.Replies: @AceDeuce
XYZ,
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Ukraine will sure win… in the amputee Olympics.
What is wrong with Croats? They are the sorest losers in the Balkans, and that’s saying a lot. Even Bosnians seem calmer, nicer, less easily triggered people.
Or maybe I should just ask, what is wrong with you? I have never seen you post anything even remotely useful. You’re worse than Ebony Obelisk, and ten times more prolix.
I always liked Tommy’s better than In N’ Out.
I found it curious that the highest rejection rate (Blacks) was only about 50% more than that of Whites. Blacks commit serious (and I assume, petty) crimes at several times the rate of Whites. Then I remembered that we are dealing with a self-selected group (e.g. job applicants), which is not likely representative of each population. The ability to show up on time and sober, not to mention being willing and able to actually learn to do a job, is far from a universal trait. And I don’t mean just among people of color.
https://i.postimg.cc/Znbz5KPN/1713749100411921.pngReplies: @Bardon Kaldian
Not fair. Such a shit should have a chance to be posted.
I noticed this too. Maybe there are other ways to “deem” that you have failed — like if you refuse to submit to the check or provide identifying information that they can’t verify?
As an analogy, in some jurisdictions, are you “deemed” to be driving under the influence if you don’t pass a field sobriety test but refuse to submit to a breathalyzer?
I have no special love for Congress (nor anyone in Federal government, for the matter). However, cut them a break. Our elected representatives are subject to various types of shall we say, “influence” by hidden powers (the intelligence agencies are a prime suspect) and there are various ways to get them to go along with various game plans that don’t frequently make the news. Bribery, entrapment, coercion and other dirty tricks are standard operating procedure, even if they are not discussed in polite company. Jeffrey Epstein would say “hi” except he’s been dead under very odd circumstances these several years.
A plebiscitary dictatorship that actually implemented the policies that the vast majority of the voters actually want, would be far more "democratic" than the system of "our democracy" that we currently live under.
When TPTB talk about "our democracy" they just mean the system that delivers the policies that they want, regardless of how anti-democratic it is in actual reality. This is what happens when you insist on sticking to the forms of parliamentary democracy rather than being concerned with the substance of the actual politics that actually occur: you reify the deception.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
As to Congress Critters, there is no way at this point that anyone elected to that body isn't already aware of the true nature of the "deal" that they are signing up for, so I cut them no slack. Just because they don't talk about it (with rare exceptions) doesn't mean that they are unaware.
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Also, regardless of how most people felt privately it was probably still considered inappropriate by "polite society" to express -- in print anyway -- offensive generalizations about "the negroes." Liberal intellectuals were the arbiters of high status option then, as now.
It's always interesting to read original source materials instead of assuming the current characterizations of the past are accurate.Replies: @Mr. XYZ, @Anonymous, @Ben the Layabout
Thank you for the insight. The influence of New England in our history has been enormous, not the least reason being that this is where most of the initial White settlement occurred. Even four centuries later, the USA continues being shaped for better or worse by Puritan traditions. Oversimplifying a bit perhaps, this was a very strong religious tradition intent on reforming society’s ills, whether that was the evils of slavery or to give women the vote. Here at Unz the Jews often take a lot of the blame. To be sure, they are a powerful force, especially in the modern world, but numerically they are (and were) a bare chemical trace of the overall population.
In fact, some dissident historians lay the blame for reformist urges much further back, indeed to the Reformation or its secular cousin, the Enlightenment. Now don’t get me wrong; I’m much in favor of many of those ideals, like individual freedom and the like. Problem: along with the good came idiotic idealist thinking like every human being could rise to a high standard, that all inequality could be eliminated, and so on.
Your recommendation that it’s good to read written history has its merits, but I would warn that a written history is hardly more immune to bias or other inaccuracy. The best that can be said for it is that what was written down did not mutate a dozen or a hundred retimes in the retelling, as would be the case with oral histories or folk memory.
Politician to Blacks: “What can I do for you to get your vote?”
Blacks: “Let us commit crime without consequences.”
Politician: “I’ll see what I can do.”
Sheetz is a company with its corporate headquarters in Altoona, Pennsylvania. It is still largely a family owned and operated business. The family ownership is neither jewish nor black nor indian (dot or feather both). That is why it is being targeted.
There goes Canada!Replies: @bomag, @YetAnotherAnon, @Muggles, @mc23
“The looting continues apace.”
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The red area in the last map is obviously what Russia cares about the most. The maps do not show Ukrainians who have fled the country or those that have died. These population changes make it much easier for Russian troops to control the rest of the country when Ukraine eventually capitulates. They maps also do not show the Ukrainian nuclear power plants which the West would have the Ukrainians destroy to create a big mess for Russia. Russia has recently started attacking the power grid with some seriousness. The fact they had not done this earlier always made it clear they were biding their time in the SMO for reasons of their own.
‘Sheetz’ sounds like a rather clumsy anglicisation of an original German surname which was pronounced rather too close to ‘shits’ for comfort.
Cf the ‘Koontz’ or even ‘Coons’ surname.
https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=sheetz
This happened to Dollar General in 2019.
https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/crime/2019/11/19/dollar-general-pay-6-million-settlement-racial-discrimination-lawsuit/4232444002/
Yes, the politician race.
The “alternative practice.”
There is another business that is obligated by regulation to use background checks. Bank employees all have fidelity bonds. If you can’t meet the fidelity standard, you are not hired. If a past crime pops up somehow, then you are fired.
In the upside down world of politics, that should lead to loosening of fidelity bond standards, because discrimination. Brilliant political solutions could involve federal backstopping of liability akin to deposit insurance, with added oversight by select committees and constituencies. What could possibly go wrong?
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Now do casualties and the size of the remaining army.
https://i.postimg.cc/prXH9rdB/uk1.jpg
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https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1781809629896568840
https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1781567790257758254Replies: @Peter Akuleyev, @Gallatin
If the intel agencies are so powerful, why haven’t they destroyed Tucker Carlson yet? That would seem fairly easy to do. Or is it because Tucker is protected by the Russian intel agencies?
What are the odds that a case like this makes its way up to the Supreme Court and leads to the reversal of Duke Power and all its rotten fruit?
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended
It is a lot more complicated that just having a criminal record. The question is convictions versus arrests and how long ago were the convictions. A company should never refuse to hire someone because of a past arrest unless there was a conviction.
A company "should" be able to hire, or not, whoever it damn well wants to for any reason at allReplies: @guest007
Screw them. I hope they lose.Replies: @Mr. Anon
They (Sheetz) tried to placate the beast with the magic words. But the beast will not be placated with words. It demands……………….sacrifice.
why they doing this? probably because of Democrats and their largely successful "Ban the Box" initiative. normally for these low level jobs, employers had a 1 or 2 sheet application that you would fill out, and right on the first page was a big rectangle that you were supposed to 'Check Here' if you were a convicted felon. well, lots of states made that illegal. Pennsylvania is one.
it's not illegal for the company to proactively do this check on their own at their own expense i'm guessing. for now. you know DC would make it illegal if they could. so i guess Sheetz does this as one of the first steps in the screening process.
well, 8% of pale people get dropped right on the spot, and since there's like 6 or 7 times as many pale people applying for these jobs as other people, literally hundreds of crackers get zapped in the job search right away every year. but DC doesn't give the slightest shit about that. what they care about is the other people who were failing at double the rate, like 13 to 15 percent. hundreds of fewer people failing per year than the pale persons, but this smaller group of dropped applicants bothers DC tremendously.Replies: @guest007
When a provider goes a “criminal background check” one of the things that happens is that the credit report is ordered because that is how the company doing the background checks finds out where one has lived in the past. Companies can get into serious trouble using that credit check and credit rating to make hiring decisions.
https://i.postimg.cc/PrcLMtDf/ukraina.jpgReplies: @Dumbo, @QCIC, @Hypnotoad666, @Mr. Anon, @Ryan Andrews
Do you maintain that Ukraine is winning? Sure doesn’t seem that way. All we’re doing in subsidizing their government (and we are subsidizing their government – we are literally providing money for them to pay their government officials) is helping them get a lot of their own people killed. Whether the war ends today, two years from now, or two years ago, the territorial outcome will be little different. But the total number of people who end up dead will be.
If they want to pursue this war that’s their business. But I damned sure don’t want to pay for it.
In n Out is a Christian business, albeit a less doctrinaire one than Chick-fil-A. While there’s no religious test for job applicants the company’s nature may keep the more uncouth types from applying.
These places cater to ghetto people so not sure why they wouldn't want to hire them.Replies: @Mr. Anon, @ScarletNumber, @mikeInThe716
Waffle House, Bojangles, Dollar General.
Another good indicator: Billboard advertisements for Bail Bondsmen.
I don't know anything about JJ Fish.--Waffle House, Bojangles, Dollar General.Dollar General is the most downscale of the Big Three dollar stores. Dollar Tree is the most upscale of the bunch, so to speak, while Family Dollar (owned by Dollar Tree) is somewhere in the middle. Never been to a Waffle House or Bojangles.
One thing I've heard is that the best of the dollar stores actually was the smaller 99 Cents Only chain in California and nearby states. Unfortunately, it's on the verge of liquidation due to LBO debt.--Another good indicator: Billboard advertisements for Bail Bondsmen.Most of the billboards I've seen have been near courthouses.Replies: @Mike Tre, @Reg Cæsar, @John Johnson
The good news about McDonald’s is that I can order my food and have it brought to my table using the app on my phone. If you have the app you can get a medium Quarter Pounder or Big Mac combo (with fries and drink) for $6.50, or a large cup of coffee for a dollar.
The bad news is that it’s McDonald’s, so it’s greasy slop.
According to which sources? I prefer something empirically provable
If you’re going to look at maps, look at the latest ones. After chewing up the Ukrainian armed forces by destroying Zelensky’s idiotic attacks against layered defenses, the Russians are slowly rolling up western Ukraine. Zelensky has no more trained reserves, he can’t get enough ammo for his guns, and F-16s and $61 billion aren’t gonna do anything except fill the pockets of Western arms contractors and Ukrainian oligarchs.
It’s clear to those paying attention. Soon it’ll be clear to everyone.Replies: @J.Ross
It’s not like the Ukies have to grab old men off the street and drag them kicking and screaming to die horrible deaths on the front lines.
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The court process has started. Here are some recent articles. It looks like the idea is to throw Plunkett (the non parolee stabber) under the bus and let Harris (who initially took Maher down) off relatively lightly. Perhaps another clue as to race? Still no real information about race though.
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/04/18/detective-testifies-casper-teen-accused-of-killing-bobby-maher-said-he-wanted-to-gut-that-dude/
https://oilcity.news/crime/2024/04/18/first-degree-murder-charges-against-two-teens-advance-to-district-court/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13327633/Bobby-Maher-killers-stabbed-Wyoming-mall.html
An interesting excerpt from the second link. Another clue?Also. No good deed goes unpunished?This seems odd.Also notice who got the more senior pubic defender.More about Booth in 2019 trib.com article titled: Judge declines to take public defender off Casper stabbing case that could put a man in prison for lifeJob titles and salaries for both public defenders.
https://govsalaries.com/salaries/WY/public-defendersReplies: @JimDandy, @Mike Tre
Thanks. Full article available on Time’s website here.
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,810262,00.html
The conclusion. And how did that work out, Mr. Reynolds?
Some San Francisco context.
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=WWII_In-migration_%26_Rising_Bigotry
https://www.abaa.org/book/1182243205
https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-07/AARAC%20Reparations%20Final%20Report%20July%207%2C%202023.pdf
https://archive.org/details/time-1958-05-26/Time%201958-04-21/
I was surprised to see two full-page ads for private aircraft (Piper and Cessna). The Time subscriber base was pretty upscale in those days.Replies: @Charlotte
https://twitter.com/Yung_Spengler/status/1781772631399600175Replies: @res
Thanks. Diversity and inclusion at the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
https://www.mwaa.com/community-sustainability/diversity-inclusion
Because Tucker is CIA.
In-N-Out has decent diversity ratings which probably helps them avoid the DIE stormtroopers. The least happy group appears to be trans employees.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Culture/In-N-Out-Burger-DEI-E14276.htm
Related question at Quora and a relevant answer.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-secret-to-In-N-Out-Burgers-hiring-training-of-staff
This Supreme Court needs to kill “Disparate Impact”, and bury it in concrete in the Marianas Trench.
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,810262,00.html
The conclusion. And how did that work out, Mr. Reynolds?Some San Francisco context.
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=WWII_In-migration_%26_Rising_Bigotry
https://www.abaa.org/book/1182243205
https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-07/AARAC%20Reparations%20Final%20Report%20July%207%2C%202023.pdfReplies: @Stan Adams
Here’s a scan of the entire issue:
https://archive.org/details/time-1958-05-26/Time%201958-04-21/
I was surprised to see two full-page ads for private aircraft (Piper and Cessna). The Time subscriber base was pretty upscale in those days.
You mean there was a time when they were something else? Even at their high point, in the 1930s, they were a coalition of fringes: immigrants, crackers, and farmers. And they lost the farmers big-time in 1938. Something about feeding your hogs from the other end of your modest spread constituting “interstate trade”.
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All of us are part of special interests. What's interesting about today's Democratic Party is that they're a collecting pool of the malevolent: professional politicians, professional 'activists', government employee unions, the educational apparat, the social services apparat, the non-profit blob, the mental health trade, crooked professional associations, most of the legal profession, most of the casino banking subsector, corporate HR, corporate communications, and the media.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
The same people who continue to say “Blacks and Native Americans have a higher crime rate than Whites” don’t like to notice the fact that men have a higher crime rate than women. In fact they try to move goalposts when I bring up this fact, or that AJs are less criminally inclined than other Whites, or that Asians are the least criminally inclined.
Nobody - here, or anywhere else - maintains any such thing.
I notice that they never mention that not hiring criminals discriminates against another “protected class”- men. I guess that’s because even the most strident, gullible, msm watching democrat would immediately think to themselves, “Yeah, but it’s because men commit more crime” and such thoughts might eventually lead to wrong-think.
I thought Omaha was crazy for making your grocery shopping a choice between Hinky Dinky, Piggly Wiggly, and Jack & Jill. Pennsylvanians are smart to prevent this between Wawa and Sheetz. Heck, it sounds like the question “Number one, or number two?” (“Convenience” stores should offer both!)
There is a fairly good convenience outlet in three northern states called Kwik Trip. Their condiment bar offers sauerkraut! At least in their more spacious stores. (I make my brats a veritable– and inexpensive– salad.)
However, in one of those states, Iowa, they go by Kwik Star, to avoid confusion with QuikTrip, a Tulsa-based chain with several stores in the same state. Kwik Trip’s home is La Crosse. (I just don’t see sauerkraut at at Tulsa chain. Would be happy to be proven wrong.)
There goes Canada!Replies: @bomag, @YetAnotherAnon, @Muggles, @mc23
I donate to my local foodbank, and I’m seeing more and more diverse recipients in the queue.
So the poor old natives get their wages driven down and their housing costs increased by immigration – to the point where even a small English country town has two foodbanks – and then the immigrants are in the food queue with them!
I was originally going to say “and then the very people responsible for their impoverishment are in the queue with them“, but the people responsible are the business organisations who love cheap labour, and the politicians who they bought – in this case Conservative ones.
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Except for the fact that your 2023 map is entirely fake—the Russian loses in the northeast and around Kherson happened in 2022.
And even the 2022 map is kinda fake. To what extent the Russians ever controlled any of the land north of Kiev, other than a few roads, is highly questionable. The initial invasion consisted of something like 150,000 Russian troops running around like assholes (bypassing most population centers), I guess hoping that the Ukrainian government would collapse in panic, because obviously (at least it should be obvious) 150,000 troops is not near enough to pacify a state of 35 million people covering a territory larger than California. To their credit, the Ukrainians kept their cool.
But now it’s been like a year-and-half since the Ukrainians put any Ws on the board. And when you combine immigration and territory lost to Russia (not to mention military casualties), they’ve probably lost like half their population over the past two years. And they were in a demographic death spiral even before the war.
And for what? Not to deny Russian revanchism, but that is not the proximate cause of the war. The sole cause of this war is Ukraine insisting, on principle, that they have the right to join an anti-Russian military alliance. If Ukraine had backed down from that plank, the war would not have happened. The outrageousness of this does not get nearly enough attention. It’s one of the most irresponsible state policies in the history of the world.
No, it’s definitely not a new trend. I remember a while back seeing data from antebellum Philadelphia showing Black homicides there were wildly disproportionate to their share of the population. This isn’t a problem that started with rap music.
In her seventies, 45 years later I was talking to her about it and she blurted out "we had to move, we saw what they did in the other neighborhoods." the first and last comment I ever heard about why they moved.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Culture/In-N-Out-Burger-DEI-E14276.htm
Related question at Quora and a relevant answer.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-secret-to-In-N-Out-Burgers-hiring-training-of-staffReplies: @AceDeuce
In-N-Out has long been famous for paying its employees and managers significantly more that the going rate for fast food workers. They hire the best, train them well, and pay accordingly.
They weren’t a coalition of the fringes in 1935, though they had fringes.
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There goes Canada!Replies: @bomag, @YetAnotherAnon, @Muggles, @mc23
Another subcon grifter.
JimDandy, any idea why Paul Kersey seems to be choosing not to publish the comment after the MORE?
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The court process has started. Here are some recent articles. It looks like the idea is to throw Plunkett (the non parolee stabber) under the bus and let Harris (who initially took Maher down) off relatively lightly. Perhaps another clue as to race? Still no real information about race though.
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/04/18/detective-testifies-casper-teen-accused-of-killing-bobby-maher-said-he-wanted-to-gut-that-dude/
https://oilcity.news/crime/2024/04/18/first-degree-murder-charges-against-two-teens-advance-to-district-court/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13327633/Bobby-Maher-killers-stabbed-Wyoming-mall.html
An interesting excerpt from the second link. Another clue?
Also. No good deed goes unpunished?
This seems odd.
Also notice who got the more senior pubic defender.
More about Booth in 2019 trib.com article titled: Judge declines to take public defender off Casper stabbing case that could put a man in prison for life
Job titles and salaries for both public defenders.
https://govsalaries.com/salaries/WY/public-defenders
Maybe all the links flag the comment? Just guessing.Replies: @res, @ScarletNumber, @res
Doesn’t the US military do the same thing?
Cf the 'Koontz' or even 'Coons' surname.Replies: @res
Right.
https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=sheetz
Please show me an example of someone denying men have a higher crime rate than women.
Another good indicator: Billboard advertisements for Bail Bondsmen.Replies: @prosa123, @Art Deco
These are the kinds of junk chain stores that are an indicator of the local demographic trends. Like when a Popeye’s or a Carmax or a JJ Fish goes up in your neighborhood, it’s probably a bad sign about who’s living close enough be shopping there.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Popeye’s. It’s a definite step up from KFC. As for Carmax, I believe it tends to be quite expensive, not aimed at a downscale demographic at all.
I don’t know anything about JJ Fish.
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Waffle House, Bojangles, Dollar General.
Dollar General is the most downscale of the Big Three dollar stores. Dollar Tree is the most upscale of the bunch, so to speak, while Family Dollar (owned by Dollar Tree) is somewhere in the middle. Never been to a Waffle House or Bojangles.
One thing I’ve heard is that the best of the dollar stores actually was the smaller 99 Cents Only chain in California and nearby states. Unfortunately, it’s on the verge of liquidation due to LBO debt.
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Another good indicator: Billboard advertisements for Bail Bondsmen.
Most of the billboards I’ve seen have been near courthouses.
Or Carmax. Or Popeyes.
We're not the only ones who know Dollar Tree owns FD. When I spoke with staff at our local DT, they said they field FD complaints all the time. On the outside, FD appears to rank above DT, but the view from the inside is the opposite.
We have at least one of each in our county. DG is definitely in the middle. DT is the most modest, but the best run. This may differ by region. My complaint with DG is their uniformly and deliberately bland buildings. Come on, you're cheap, we get that. But even Walmart has that daisy!
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The court process has started. Here are some recent articles. It looks like the idea is to throw Plunkett (the non parolee stabber) under the bus and let Harris (who initially took Maher down) off relatively lightly. Perhaps another clue as to race? Still no real information about race though.
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/04/18/detective-testifies-casper-teen-accused-of-killing-bobby-maher-said-he-wanted-to-gut-that-dude/
https://oilcity.news/crime/2024/04/18/first-degree-murder-charges-against-two-teens-advance-to-district-court/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13327633/Bobby-Maher-killers-stabbed-Wyoming-mall.html
An interesting excerpt from the second link. Another clue?Also. No good deed goes unpunished?This seems odd.Also notice who got the more senior pubic defender.More about Booth in 2019 trib.com article titled: Judge declines to take public defender off Casper stabbing case that could put a man in prison for lifeJob titles and salaries for both public defenders.
https://govsalaries.com/salaries/WY/public-defendersReplies: @JimDandy, @Mike Tre
Thanks. No, I have no idea. I’m just shocked and baffled that in this day and age of the internet we still don’t have any idea who these murderers really are.
As an analogy, in some jurisdictions, are you "deemed" to be driving under the influence if you don't pass a field sobriety test but refuse to submit to a breathalyzer?Replies: @deep anonymous
No but they have another way to get you for that. States have what is called an “implied consent” law. As a condition of applying for your driver’s license, you “consent” to submit to a breathalyzer test when an officer has reasonable suspicion to believe you are driving while impaired. If you later refuse to take the test, you get a license suspension or revocation for the refusal, not for actually driving while under the influence. If they really have it out for you, you could still be tried for DUI and convicted on the basis of the officer’s testimony. A breathalyzer result is good evidence but is not absolutely required.
*I am not an attorney
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The court process has started. Here are some recent articles. It looks like the idea is to throw Plunkett (the non parolee stabber) under the bus and let Harris (who initially took Maher down) off relatively lightly. Perhaps another clue as to race? Still no real information about race though.
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/04/18/detective-testifies-casper-teen-accused-of-killing-bobby-maher-said-he-wanted-to-gut-that-dude/
https://oilcity.news/crime/2024/04/18/first-degree-murder-charges-against-two-teens-advance-to-district-court/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13327633/Bobby-Maher-killers-stabbed-Wyoming-mall.html
An interesting excerpt from the second link. Another clue?Also. No good deed goes unpunished?This seems odd.Also notice who got the more senior pubic defender.More about Booth in 2019 trib.com article titled: Judge declines to take public defender off Casper stabbing case that could put a man in prison for lifeJob titles and salaries for both public defenders.
https://govsalaries.com/salaries/WY/public-defendersReplies: @JimDandy, @Mike Tre
It appears to be a random error. Once in a while I’ve comments held up in his articles for several days but I don’t think PK actively mods his comments like SS does.
Maybe all the links flag the comment? Just guessing.
Links and length are plausible explanations, but it has been a while.
I don't know anything about JJ Fish.--Waffle House, Bojangles, Dollar General.Dollar General is the most downscale of the Big Three dollar stores. Dollar Tree is the most upscale of the bunch, so to speak, while Family Dollar (owned by Dollar Tree) is somewhere in the middle. Never been to a Waffle House or Bojangles.
One thing I've heard is that the best of the dollar stores actually was the smaller 99 Cents Only chain in California and nearby states. Unfortunately, it's on the verge of liquidation due to LBO debt.--Another good indicator: Billboard advertisements for Bail Bondsmen.Most of the billboards I've seen have been near courthouses.Replies: @Mike Tre, @Reg Cæsar, @John Johnson
“I don’t know anything about JJ Fish.”
Or Carmax. Or Popeyes.
“The sole cause of this war is Ukraine insisting, on principle, that they have the right to join an anti-Russian military alliance. “
I think it all goes back to the 2014 coup, where 100+ people were shot in Kiev and they still haven’t found the perps – but the deaths provided the martyrs for the insurgents, who I assume were backed and funded by the US, in order to install an anti-Russian administration.
It might even go back to Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1997 and The Grand Chessboard:
https://www.pdfdrive.com/the-grand-chessboard-american-primacy-and-its-geostrategic-imperatives-d175987890.html
And, Brzezinski argued, Russia allied with Ukraine could be that undesirable challenger. Therefore Ukraine must be detached.
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All of us are part of special interests. What's interesting about today's Democratic Party is that they're a collecting pool of the malevolent: professional politicians, professional 'activists', government employee unions, the educational apparat, the social services apparat, the non-profit blob, the mental health trade, crooked professional associations, most of the legal profession, most of the casino banking subsector, corporate HR, corporate communications, and the media.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Immigrants and Southerners of 1935 had grudges to nurse as well. Farmers probably did, too, but the target of grudge would have shifted in 1938. As it did for those of Irish or German background a couple of years later.
I don't know anything about JJ Fish.--Waffle House, Bojangles, Dollar General.Dollar General is the most downscale of the Big Three dollar stores. Dollar Tree is the most upscale of the bunch, so to speak, while Family Dollar (owned by Dollar Tree) is somewhere in the middle. Never been to a Waffle House or Bojangles.
One thing I've heard is that the best of the dollar stores actually was the smaller 99 Cents Only chain in California and nearby states. Unfortunately, it's on the verge of liquidation due to LBO debt.--Another good indicator: Billboard advertisements for Bail Bondsmen.Most of the billboards I've seen have been near courthouses.Replies: @Mike Tre, @Reg Cæsar, @John Johnson
Not around here. Family Dollar is atrocious. When a clerk says she can’t help you because it goes against company policy, that’s one thing. When she says she can’t help you because she would lose her job, that suggests serious problems with lower and middle management. A contact to which I was not given. (I am always polite to front-line staff, by the way, having been there myself. Didn’t help.) That may be why they are closing over a thousand stores, including those in our county. Won’t miss ’em.
We’re not the only ones who know Dollar Tree owns FD. When I spoke with staff at our local DT, they said they field FD complaints all the time. On the outside, FD appears to rank above DT, but the view from the inside is the opposite.
We have at least one of each in our county. DG is definitely in the middle. DT is the most modest, but the best run. This may differ by region. My complaint with DG is their uniformly and deliberately bland buildings. Come on, you’re cheap, we get that. But even Walmart has that daisy!
There could be some interpretation of (or gray area for) a background check on the part of an employer. It isn’t necessarily binary like a true or false test. I obviously don’t know what their policy is, but I could see similar past infractions from two different applicants being viewed in a different light by the HR dept. If one of the applicants lied about his record and was unfriendly and arrogant during the interview, his criminal past may not be entirely in the past. Regardless, the employer should be the party who decides who they hire and fire, not the government.
My big concern is that this lowest common denominator racial justice logic for job hires will eventually be used to get guns legally in the hands of violent people with criminal records. Yes, there are a few nutty gun rights people (as opposed to wise 2nd Amendment advocates) who could go along with such a thing. BTW, “Sheetz” seems like a good name for a convenience store chain in black communities, though maybe not as good as “Ho!” or “MoFo.”
WTF?
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I don’t believe that child sex dolls should actually be criminalized:
https://reason.com/2019/05/28/florida-makes-possessing-child-sex-dolls-a-felony/
It’s perfectly legal to have consensual sex with an adult who looks like a child, no matter just how creepy it is and even if one oneself is a pedophile:
One can even combine it with both ageplay and rape fantasy roleplaying if both partners genuinely want to do this, and it would still remain legal. So, I don’t see why exactly purchasing, owning, and having sex with a doll that looks like a child should be illegal. (Though I acknowledge that there is a valid debate over whether one should be able to get them automatically or require a medical prescription for them.)
As for saying that sex with dolls (or even with childlike adults) will make pedophiles hungrier for the real thing, that’s not actually obvious. I mean, people who engage in rape fantasy roleplaying in the role of rapists don’t become more likely to subsequently engage in actual rape, do they?
Sure, child sex dolls are disgusting, but then again, so is licking someone else’s asshole for sexual pleasure, and yet people are not advocating criminalizing that.
I think that people who have been arrested for owning child sex dolls (or robots) and/or cartoon/animated child porn should be able to work in places where they are not left unsupervised with children alone, assuming that they have nothing bad (actual child porn and especially personally doing anything sexual with an actual child) on their criminal record.
In fact, some dissident historians lay the blame for reformist urges much further back, indeed to the Reformation or its secular cousin, the Enlightenment. Now don’t get me wrong; I’m much in favor of many of those ideals, like individual freedom and the like. Problem: along with the good came idiotic idealist thinking like every human being could rise to a high standard, that all inequality could be eliminated, and so on.
Your recommendation that it’s good to read written history has its merits, but I would warn that a written history is hardly more immune to bias or other inaccuracy. The best that can be said for it is that what was written down did not mutate a dozen or a hundred retimes in the retelling, as would be the case with oral histories or folk memory.Replies: @Ancient Briton
You might enjoy David Hackett Fischer’s “Albion’s Seed”.
These places cater to ghetto people so not sure why they wouldn't want to hire them.Replies: @Mr. Anon, @ScarletNumber, @mikeInThe716
While not a chain per se, having a check-cashing store in your neighborhood is not a good sign.
Another negative indicator for a neighborhood is a title pawn place.
A couple weeks ago, I drove past a closed, boarded-up, and out-of-business title-pawn business.
What the Hell does that portend? When even the people who prey on poor people are going bankrupt?Replies: @prosa123, @Angharad
There goes Canada!Replies: @bomag, @YetAnotherAnon, @Muggles, @mc23
The TFR was 1.51 in Canada in 2000. The population in that year was a little over 30 million.
In 2020 the population was 38 million, a staggering increase close to 30% in a period when the existing population was decreasing.
Canada is approaching Day Zero for it’s national history.
That’s a nice thought, but the Civil Rights Act of 1991, Pub. L. 102-166, and subsequent amendments, codified much of the harmful effects, so there is not that much good SCOTUS can do. Specifically, the 1991 Act codified the burden shifting and the business necessity nonsense at issue in the Sheetz case.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended
The 1950’s or even 40’s was when White neighborhoods of Northern cities started to deteriorate. My parents moved in the late 50’s before I was born. My mother always spoke of how much she liked her first house. I always assumed they wanted a larger house.
In her seventies, 45 years later I was talking to her about it and she blurted out “we had to move, we saw what they did in the other neighborhoods.” the first and last comment I ever heard about why they moved.
Employees are just not worth the trouble anymore. A few years ago when I was responsible for the P&Ls of around 100 bulk fuel (propane and farm diesel) delivery locations I spent most of my time coming up with new ways to reduce headcount. Handheld computers, delivery routing programs, consolidation of field offices, paying overtime, converting customers to route delivery instead will call, larger delivery trucks, subcontracting out non essential services. Sure, sometimes service levels dropped and customers left because they no longer had a local office or driver, but the cost savings made up the difference. Even if the costs went up with the expensive technology, it was still worth it, less employees = equal less headaches. Office staff steal and drivers get DUIs/fail drug screens. When the corporate office hired a HR director and added all kinds of bs policies I finally walked away after 20 years and started my own business in a completely different field. Guess how many employees I have? 0. I work harder and make way, way less money (which was a serious problem with the wife for a couple of years). But my blood pressure is way down, I’ve lost 30 lbs and go fishing whenever the hell I feel like it.
So the poor old natives get their wages driven down and their housing costs increased by immigration - to the point where even a small English country town has two foodbanks - and then the immigrants are in the food queue with them!
I was originally going to say "and then the very people responsible for their impoverishment are in the queue with them", but the people responsible are the business organisations who love cheap labour, and the politicians who they bought - in this case Conservative ones.Replies: @lavoisier
NO way this ever happens.
But... our New Britons are more likely to be cheats/thieves than the native Brits, no doubt about it.
Ten years back big floods took out a water filtration plant serving a couple of hundred thousand people. The water company responded by dumping pallets of bottled water literally on every street corner.
I saw a van draw up and a couple of Asian guys (dot not Chinese - or probably Muslim), who presumably ran a shop, started loading pallets into the van.
When I go to my local wholesalers, the Asian guys (and Chinese restauranteurs) always buy everything with cash.
When a son was at university and renting a house, the owner didn't want the rent paid into a (identifiable) bank account. Instead, I wrote cheques to a "Mr Mohamed" - not many of those around! I assume he was avoiding tax.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Well in that case, of what use is Congress or any other parliamentary body that does not actually represent the interest and the wishes of the voters? Isn’t such a system in actual fact, anti-democratic?
A plebiscitary dictatorship that actually implemented the policies that the vast majority of the voters actually want, would be far more “democratic” than the system of “our democracy” that we currently live under.
When TPTB talk about “our democracy” they just mean the system that delivers the policies that they want, regardless of how anti-democratic it is in actual reality. This is what happens when you insist on sticking to the forms of parliamentary democracy rather than being concerned with the substance of the actual politics that actually occur: you reify the deception.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
As to Congress Critters, there is no way at this point that anyone elected to that body isn’t already aware of the true nature of the “deal” that they are signing up for, so I cut them no slack. Just because they don’t talk about it (with rare exceptions) doesn’t mean that they are unaware.
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101 vs. 112, that’s a bit of a slim majority. Almost half of House GOP and their leader, Johnson (Heritage/Colonial Stock Mike Johnson) voted for it.
A whooping 21 GOP voted against Israel Aid.
Massie is the only decent one of the lot.
“The West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path & the end result is Ukraine is going to get wrecked.” -John J. Mearsheimer
Also, young white men on every college campus across the Nation are rape-happy.
We must increase funding for our residential rape factories in order to meet the challenges of the future.
Whatever you do, do not vote for that tangerine-shaded lunatic, or this all might change.Replies: @lavoisier
It won’t change with the tangerine shaded lunatic.
Didn’t he just back the 100 billion grant for more war?
What has he ever done that makes you think that he will somehow become the person he claims to be?
https://i.postimg.cc/prXH9rdB/uk1.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/bNrPpZWy/uk2.jpgReplies: @Hypnotoad666, @Bizarro World Observer
Fun fact: When Germany collapsed in WWI it controlled the most territory.
Thinking of this article in concert with adjacent one regarding UCSD admissions, why isn’t it obvious to the Justice Department (if not the entire world) that UCSD is guilty of the same thing? How can anyone keep a straight face when a public university can adopt admissions criteria with a disparate impact but a private employer cannot (and gets sued for it)?
I suspect it’s really simple. The ap deliberately fudged the wording, in order to make Sheetz look racist.
https://archive.org/details/time-1958-05-26/Time%201958-04-21/
I was surprised to see two full-page ads for private aircraft (Piper and Cessna). The Time subscriber base was pretty upscale in those days.Replies: @Charlotte
I don’t think buying a plane or getting a pilot’s license was proportionally expensive in the fifties as it is today. Back then, one of my grandfathers, a successful but hardly wealthy Midwestern farmer, bought himself a small plane and learned to fly it.
https://airfactsjournal.com/2011/11/when-was-general-aviations-golden-age/
I think there are some check-cashing chains.
Another negative indicator for a neighborhood is a title pawn place.
A couple weeks ago, I drove past a closed, boarded-up, and out-of-business title-pawn business.
What the Hell does that portend? When even the people who prey on poor people are going bankrupt?
What the Hell does that portend? When even the people who prey on poor people are going bankrupt?
They're now illegal in some states.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
You are either a.) stupid, b.) high, c.) a congenital liar, or d.) a person who has no human contact.
Nobody – here, or anywhere else – maintains any such thing.
It’s not what he’s done, it’s what they’ve done in response to him.
A company should never refuse to hire someone because of a past arrest unless there was a conviction.
A company “should” be able to hire, or not, whoever it damn well wants to for any reason at all
Policy always must defeat Reality.
Rule one of shit-lib world.
What did he do and when did he do it that you can cite?
You’re a clown.
Ukraine cannot “win”. They lost when the Neocon’s staged their coup in 2014. Everything these people touch turns to shit.
Another good indicator: Billboard advertisements for Bail Bondsmen.Replies: @prosa123, @Art Deco
Bojangles is an ordinary fast food franchise whose signature is Southern fare like country ham and biscuits. Most of them are in the Carolinas.
Of course Dr Zaius defends Bojangles, their mascot is a monkey.
Meanwhile, in Sodom on the Sound:
https://conservativefiringline.com/seattle-cops-arrest-christian-who-was-assaulted-threatened-for-reading-bible-aloud-on-public-property/
That’s why I didn’t say it.
But… our New Britons are more likely to be cheats/thieves than the native Brits, no doubt about it.
Ten years back big floods took out a water filtration plant serving a couple of hundred thousand people. The water company responded by dumping pallets of bottled water literally on every street corner.
I saw a van draw up and a couple of Asian guys (dot not Chinese – or probably Muslim), who presumably ran a shop, started loading pallets into the van.
When I go to my local wholesalers, the Asian guys (and Chinese restauranteurs) always buy everything with cash.
When a son was at university and renting a house, the owner didn’t want the rent paid into a (identifiable) bank account. Instead, I wrote cheques to a “Mr Mohamed” – not many of those around! I assume he was avoiding tax.
Good point.
According to the ad, the Cessna 172 cost $8,995 in 1958 dollars ($97,211 in 2024 dollars). The current price is about $400,000.
In contrast, the Renault Dauphine (an economy car) was advertised in the same issue for $1,645 ($17,778). You can get a 2024 Nissan Versa for roughly $18,000.
These places cater to ghetto people so not sure why they wouldn't want to hire them.Replies: @Mr. Anon, @ScarletNumber, @mikeInThe716
I’d give CarMax a pass. Sure, they will finance anyone with a pulse. But your local Auto Dealership is often a cesspool of nepotism and similar shady lending.
And Auto Dealers have sweetheart legal protections from many state governments. Manufacturers cannot pull their franchises for anything but the worst behavior.
That’s why you don’t see nationwide marketing of common cars, like a mid-level Camry, Civic, or RAV 4.
A company "should" be able to hire, or not, whoever it damn well wants to for any reason at allReplies: @guest007
Written by someone who has forgotten more than 50 years of EEOC regulations and laws. And discrimination is illegal.
The whole point of the American Revolution was to toss out a bossy super-state. Assert a man's right to liberty in his own affairs, and republican limited government for necessary community affairs, kept as local, close to the people, as possible. (Giving people the opportunity to "vote with their feet" and only be subject to government restrictions they consent to.)
A government busybodying every business's employee selection criteria is frankly appalling to free men.Replies: @guest007, @Jonathan Mason
Maybe all the links flag the comment? Just guessing.Replies: @res, @ScarletNumber, @res
Thanks. As far as I can tell he moderates all comments (no auto approval for anyone)? One of my earlier comments in that thread was held up a bit, but it seemed to go through when all of the other comments did. This one has been waiting a while and as I noted two newer comments have gone through since I posted it.
Links and length are plausible explanations, but it has been a while.
I don't know anything about JJ Fish.--Waffle House, Bojangles, Dollar General.Dollar General is the most downscale of the Big Three dollar stores. Dollar Tree is the most upscale of the bunch, so to speak, while Family Dollar (owned by Dollar Tree) is somewhere in the middle. Never been to a Waffle House or Bojangles.
One thing I've heard is that the best of the dollar stores actually was the smaller 99 Cents Only chain in California and nearby states. Unfortunately, it's on the verge of liquidation due to LBO debt.--Another good indicator: Billboard advertisements for Bail Bondsmen.Most of the billboards I've seen have been near courthouses.Replies: @Mike Tre, @Reg Cæsar, @John Johnson
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Popeye’s. It’s a definite step up from KFC.
It is easy to tell if a certain demographic is in the area if you see a KFC and Popeye’s within a block or two of each other. That is the sign. But ads for watermelon malt liquor at the gas stations are the bigger giveaway. You cannot stop for beer at a gas station near an army base. It will be overpriced and half of it will be fruity malt liquors and 9% ice beers.
I’ve had Popeye’s many times and I prefer KFC. Popeye’s sides are not as good and it doesn’t come out as fast. If there is a long line at Popeye’s then I definitely pass. I’ve never been to one that can keep up. But KFC got rid of their tenders which makes it pretty close.
I at least get Popeye’s.
What I don’t get are the waffle houses that are dotted around the south. I’ve never once been eating a piece of chicken and thought……what this needs is a waffle and some maple syrup.
There are other breakfast-food rules. Steak is allowed for breakfast only if served with eggs. Potatoes must be home fries, never baked or mashed. Sausage is okay only if it's specially designated breakfast sausage. And the only alcoholic drinks allowed are Bloody Marys and Mimosas.
As someone who works nonstandard hours I find this truly bizarre.Replies: @John Johnson
It would be interesting to see a cost comparison for owning and flying a light plane over the years. This does not exactly cover that, but has some related conversation.
https://airfactsjournal.com/2011/11/when-was-general-aviations-golden-age/
Another negative indicator for a neighborhood is a title pawn place.
A couple weeks ago, I drove past a closed, boarded-up, and out-of-business title-pawn business.
What the Hell does that portend? When even the people who prey on poor people are going bankrupt?Replies: @prosa123, @Angharad
A couple weeks ago, I drove past a closed, boarded-up, and out-of-business title-pawn business.
What the Hell does that portend? When even the people who prey on poor people are going bankrupt?
They’re now illegal in some states.
Now they are everywhere - this lot have 180 stores. It's almost a map of post-industrial England. 11 on Merseyside, 9 Greater Manchester, 12 Birmingham/Black Country, 5 on Teeside, 7 on Tyneside.
None in Oxford.
https://www.cashconverters.co.uk/storesReplies: @Ralph L
And the employer is required to hire an individual like this in spite of this information somehow coming up on their background check?
What I don’t get are the waffle houses that are dotted around the south. I’ve never once been eating a piece of chicken and thought……what this needs is a waffle and some maple syrup.
It all comes down to making chicken appropriate for breakfast. Eating chicken for breakfast is weird. But eating chicken on a waffle with syrup is perfectly fine for breakfast.
There are other breakfast-food rules. Steak is allowed for breakfast only if served with eggs. Potatoes must be home fries, never baked or mashed. Sausage is okay only if it’s specially designated breakfast sausage. And the only alcoholic drinks allowed are Bloody Marys and Mimosas.
As someone who works nonstandard hours I find this truly bizarre.
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As someone who works nonstandard hours I find this truly bizarre.I just ignore all these rules. I'm the guy that talks the waitress into making me a burger at 10 AM while my wife facepalms. I will also order diet pepsi with biscuits and gravy if I am given the choice of lousy coffee or orange juice. But I normally make my own breakfast. I really don't like paying $16 for waffles and sausage when they are so easy to make. I like going out for dinner with my wife but I don't feel like the value is there for breakfast. I only like breakfast in places like Vegas where they actually try to compete. In fact I normally skip the "free breakfast" coupon that hotels will sometimes give you. I'd rather just go to Starbucks and not deal with sitting down for lousy service because they know you are with the hotel.
The winner: The Chinese.
All this crap is a just a huge deadweight loss on the US economy. I think it’s perfectly respectable making a living as a company lawyer advising and defending against this glop, but your work is still utterly unproductive. The whole “Civil Rights” apparatus–bureaucrats, lawyers, HR compliance people–is just a parasite sucking on the productive economy–while laughably getting counted toward GDP.
And that’s just the direct costs. Even bigger issue is that productive businesses–both from being unable to test and screen as they’d like and to reach “diversity” goals to keep the super-state off their backs-end up with inferior employees at higher cost than they otherwise would.
A boat anchor. The Chinese of course have their own super-state issues weighing them down. But business being unable to hire talent as they’d like for “diversity” they are blissfully free from.
There are other breakfast-food rules. Steak is allowed for breakfast only if served with eggs. Potatoes must be home fries, never baked or mashed. Sausage is okay only if it's specially designated breakfast sausage. And the only alcoholic drinks allowed are Bloody Marys and Mimosas.
As someone who works nonstandard hours I find this truly bizarre.Replies: @John Johnson
It all comes down to making chicken appropriate for breakfast. Eating chicken for breakfast is weird. But eating chicken on a waffle with syrup is perfectly fine for breakfast.
I see morbidly obese people eat at those waffle houses at all hours.
I would rather eat chicken or the waffle and not 4000 calories.
This is why the South has so many fat people. They eat chicken and waffles for breakfast and then go stay inside all day because it is too hot.
There are other breakfast-food rules. Steak is allowed for breakfast only if served with eggs. Potatoes must be home fries, never baked or mashed. Sausage is okay only if it’s specially designated breakfast sausage.
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As someone who works nonstandard hours I find this truly bizarre.
I just ignore all these rules. I’m the guy that talks the waitress into making me a burger at 10 AM while my wife facepalms. I will also order diet pepsi with biscuits and gravy if I am given the choice of lousy coffee or orange juice.
But I normally make my own breakfast. I really don’t like paying $16 for waffles and sausage when they are so easy to make. I like going out for dinner with my wife but I don’t feel like the value is there for breakfast. I only like breakfast in places like Vegas where they actually try to compete. In fact I normally skip the “free breakfast” coupon that hotels will sometimes give you. I’d rather just go to Starbucks and not deal with sitting down for lousy service because they know you are with the hotel.
But... our New Britons are more likely to be cheats/thieves than the native Brits, no doubt about it.
Ten years back big floods took out a water filtration plant serving a couple of hundred thousand people. The water company responded by dumping pallets of bottled water literally on every street corner.
I saw a van draw up and a couple of Asian guys (dot not Chinese - or probably Muslim), who presumably ran a shop, started loading pallets into the van.
When I go to my local wholesalers, the Asian guys (and Chinese restauranteurs) always buy everything with cash.
When a son was at university and renting a house, the owner didn't want the rent paid into a (identifiable) bank account. Instead, I wrote cheques to a "Mr Mohamed" - not many of those around! I assume he was avoiding tax.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
And Auto Dealers have sweetheart legal protections from many state governments. Manufacturers cannot pull their franchises for anything but the worst behavior.
That's why you don't see nationwide marketing of common cars, like a mid-level Camry, Civic, or RAV 4.Replies: @Mike Tre
The ones here in Illinois all have the blue police strobe going at night just like in the Walmart parking lots. For whatever reason, they seem to attract more honor students than the local dealerships.
Enabling child molesters by giving them sex dolls they can legally play with is insane. There is a notion that sex dolls placate the desires of their users, but that is complete nonsense. If anything all they do is increase the desire to have the real thing.
Yes, at least if people convicted for other non-violent offenses such as drugs are able to have their own records ignored, as the Biden administration seems to be pushing for right now by suing Sheetz?
I used to occasionally have lunch there, ca. 2008. They had a five dollar lunch special, including drink. Their chicken fingers seemed to be made out of reconstituted chicken pulp. And it eventually dawned on me that there is no way they could serve a five dollar lunch using any kind of food one would want to eat.
That is what happened to Agnew. It also happened to former Baltimore County Executive Dale Anderson, who was a staunch opponent of efforts to build Section 8 housing in what then was a White suburban county. I think it also happened to the former Anne Arundel County Executive from the late 1960s or early 1970s but I no longer remember for sure. But the point is, evil forces have almost unlimited behind-the-scenes leverage over "our" elected officials. That's how "Our Democracy" works.Replies: @Sick n' Tired
All politicians are owned before they reach office, especially the higher up you go in politics. I did some work for a fairly unknown, multi-billionaire who owned a few yachts which he would “let prominent Dem politicians” use to hold fund raisers on when he was taking the boat from S. Florida to NY/NE for the summers. No different from companies lending politicians their private jets for campaigning.
Joe Rogan has a joke about when you’re elected president, they sit you down in a room and show you video of the JFK assassination from a completely different angle, then tell you how you’re going to play ball.
I misread EdwardM‘s question as a statement; you are correct that in many states (including New Jersey) refusing a breathalyzer is prima facie evidence of a BAC of 0.08%. It is worth noting that there is no implied consent to field sobriety tests, so I would advise* you to not submit to them. As a general rule with the police, it is very difficult to talk your way out of trouble but very easy to talk your way into it. Playing guessing games with the police on the side of the road falls into this category.
*I am not an attorney
Maybe all the links flag the comment? Just guessing.Replies: @res, @ScarletNumber, @res
From what I have noticed, two or more links will trip the filter and your comment will go into moderation, even if your comments normally get published in real time. I don’t know if this is a hard-and-fast rule however.
I guess that this explains all of the rapists who previously engaged in rape fantasy roleplaying, right? I’m just kidding; have there actually been many or even any of those?
Mike Whitney just wrote a long essay explaining the role of Mr Trump in securing the funding for the wars in Ukraine and Israel. I think you might find his evidence troubling about the claim that Mr. Trump is committed to stopping US wars.
Yes, it is illegal, presuming appellate courts can settle on a definition of ‘it’. We have for 60 years been learning the untoward consequences of allowing lawyers to second-guess everyone’s business decisions. We’re now being hit over the head with the consequences.
What the Hell does that portend? When even the people who prey on poor people are going bankrupt?
They're now illegal in some states.Replies: @YetAnotherAnon
When I was a child, or even a teenager, pawn-shops were something you read about in books. I remember being amazed to find a real one in our second city, Birmingham.
Now they are everywhere – this lot have 180 stores. It’s almost a map of post-industrial England. 11 on Merseyside, 9 Greater Manchester, 12 Birmingham/Black Country, 5 on Teeside, 7 on Tyneside.
None in Oxford.
https://www.cashconverters.co.uk/stores
Written by someone who just doesn’t like the idea of a free society?
The whole point of the American Revolution was to toss out a bossy super-state. Assert a man’s right to liberty in his own affairs, and republican limited government for necessary community affairs, kept as local, close to the people, as possible. (Giving people the opportunity to “vote with their feet” and only be subject to government restrictions they consent to.)
A government busybodying every business’s employee selection criteria is frankly appalling to free men.
If what you say is actually true then it was always excessively idealistic, although it might have worked better when it was primarily an agrarian society.
Before the revolution the United States was used as a penal colony for British criminals. That's why they only started sending them to Australia after the American revolution.Replies: @Art Deco
Maybe all the links flag the comment? Just guessing.Replies: @res, @ScarletNumber, @res
After thinking about it some more my guess is the problem is the link at the end to the job titles and salaries for the public defenders.
The whole point of the American Revolution was to toss out a bossy super-state. Assert a man's right to liberty in his own affairs, and republican limited government for necessary community affairs, kept as local, close to the people, as possible. (Giving people the opportunity to "vote with their feet" and only be subject to government restrictions they consent to.)
A government busybodying every business's employee selection criteria is frankly appalling to free men.Replies: @guest007, @Jonathan Mason
The problem was that the Jim Crow South used the force of law to discriminate against blacks (and women) and destroyed the idea that companies can discriminate on their own and no one will get hurt. If one wants to function in commerce, then one needs to follow the laws. It is the same as a company deciding not to do business with blacks when it was the government, in the old Jim Crow South, that was determining who was black and who was not.
We had this problem when I worked at a prison. We couldn’t find enough applicants for guards who didn’t have a criminal record, and yet we didn’t want to or couldn’t hire people who had criminal records.
I remember one time being surprised that a 19 year old female was in charge of an entire prison containing over a thousand inmates for a whole 12-hour shift. She was fairly capable, mind you. She told me she had previously worked as a waitress.
I imagine it would be the same in a convenience store. A lot of the time they would only be 1 or 2 employees there, so of course they would be in charge of the cash register and would have to be trusted not to pilfer or give freebies to their friends. Also in some cases they would have to do semi-legal stuff like checking people’s age to see if they can buy alcohol or cigarettes.
It is truly astounding how many people in the general population have criminal records of some kind. Much more than you would ever think if you have a sheltered life.
The whole point of the American Revolution was to toss out a bossy super-state. Assert a man's right to liberty in his own affairs, and republican limited government for necessary community affairs, kept as local, close to the people, as possible. (Giving people the opportunity to "vote with their feet" and only be subject to government restrictions they consent to.)
A government busybodying every business's employee selection criteria is frankly appalling to free men.Replies: @guest007, @Jonathan Mason
Then when they had the Shays Rebellion it was brutally suppressed. Plus ca change.
If what you say is actually true then it was always excessively idealistic, although it might have worked better when it was primarily an agrarian society.
Before the revolution the United States was used as a penal colony for British criminals. That’s why they only started sending them to Australia after the American revolution.
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I gather you don't want to pay your debts.
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1781809629896568840
https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1781567790257758254Replies: @Peter Akuleyev, @Gallatin
I’ve been claiming that Intel agencies have been blackmailing politicians on important votes for years now.
Too many congresscritters defy their voters on issues dear to the Establishment’s heart. They promise one thing, but vote the other, even after they have gotten personally wealthy in Washington. It can’t be the corporate money after a legislator is worth a few million bucks. He is already rich. It’s the stick, not the carrot, making him betray his voters time-and-again. Blackmail is the only plausible answer.
Now they are everywhere - this lot have 180 stores. It's almost a map of post-industrial England. 11 on Merseyside, 9 Greater Manchester, 12 Birmingham/Black Country, 5 on Teeside, 7 on Tyneside.
None in Oxford.
https://www.cashconverters.co.uk/storesReplies: @Ralph L
Before the pawnshops, everyone in England had to go to Queer Street when in financial difficulties.
No, you couldn’t be bothered to structure compensation scales and working conditions to attract applicants.
If what you say is actually true then it was always excessively idealistic, although it might have worked better when it was primarily an agrarian society.
Before the revolution the United States was used as a penal colony for British criminals. That's why they only started sending them to Australia after the American revolution.Replies: @Art Deco
Then when they had the Shays Rebellion it was brutally suppressed. Plus ca change.
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I gather you don’t want to pay your debts.
Written by someone who doesn’t know the difference between “should” and “is.”
You seem awfully confused. The abuse of blacks by public employees does not discredit principles of freedom of contract and association.
See https://www.amazon.com/Classified-Untold-Racial-Classification-America/dp/1637581734
Remember, the old Jim Crow South was done other the force of law and with the government doing the racial classification. In 2024, what business would want to be know that a racist organization? That is why disparate impact is used because so many organization work so hard to hide their discrimination.Replies: @Art Deco
If they want to pursue this war that's their business. But I damned sure don't want to pay for it.Replies: @Pastit
Ukraine is not winning, in fact the end is near. Over 600,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed. They are now enlisting 16 and 60 yr olds including women,
Who were the White Northerners to whom you referred? Surely, not the ones whose loved ones blacks were raping, robbing, maiming and murdering.
But for a business to keep blacks out of its business, it depends upon the force of the state to enforce trespass laws and to even use some definition of race that is not in dispute.
See https://www.amazon.com/Classified-Untold-Racial-Classification-America/dp/1637581734
Remember, the old Jim Crow South was done other the force of law and with the government doing the racial classification. In 2024, what business would want to be know that a racist organization? That is why disparate impact is used because so many organization work so hard to hide their discrimination.
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https://i.postimg.cc/bNrPpZWy/uk2.jpgReplies: @Hypnotoad666, @Bizarro World Observer
Your sources are liars. The Russians have already checkmated Ukraine. It’s only a matter of time now.
If you’re going to look at maps, look at the latest ones. After chewing up the Ukrainian armed forces by destroying Zelensky’s idiotic attacks against layered defenses, the Russians are slowly rolling up western Ukraine. Zelensky has no more trained reserves, he can’t get enough ammo for his guns, and F-16s and $61 billion aren’t gonna do anything except fill the pockets of Western arms contractors and Ukrainian oligarchs.
It’s clear to those paying attention. Soon it’ll be clear to everyone.
See https://www.amazon.com/Classified-Untold-Racial-Classification-America/dp/1637581734
Remember, the old Jim Crow South was done other the force of law and with the government doing the racial classification. In 2024, what business would want to be know that a racist organization? That is why disparate impact is used because so many organization work so hard to hide their discrimination.Replies: @Art Deco
Yessss, trespassing laws are enforced by police officers. The discretion to declare someone not licensed and privileged to be on your property lies with the property-owner, not the police. The police aren’t abusing you by enforcing the property owner’s wishes.
If you’re going to look at maps, look at the latest ones. After chewing up the Ukrainian armed forces by destroying Zelensky’s idiotic attacks against layered defenses, the Russians are slowly rolling up western Ukraine. Zelensky has no more trained reserves, he can’t get enough ammo for his guns, and F-16s and $61 billion aren’t gonna do anything except fill the pockets of Western arms contractors and Ukrainian oligarchs.
It’s clear to those paying attention. Soon it’ll be clear to everyone.Replies: @J.Ross
It’s fine, Steiner’s assault will bring everything under control.
Their elites, of course.
Another negative indicator for a neighborhood is a title pawn place.
A couple weeks ago, I drove past a closed, boarded-up, and out-of-business title-pawn business.
What the Hell does that portend? When even the people who prey on poor people are going bankrupt?Replies: @prosa123, @Angharad
There’s probably nothing left to take….
It is a very different case when one is a business, had an opened sign, and want to conduct commerce.