insufferableninja

Is Maine the state that doesn’t actually have any trans athletes, but stood on principal? Hard to keep it all straight.

For anyone that isn’t aware of the 50501 protests (like I wasn’t), it’s nothing to do with Webster county Iowa, zip code 50501. It’s 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement.

You’re right about how many states have minimum wage either explicitly set to 7.25 or lower, or tracking the federal minimum wage (including Georgia, with a state minimum wage of 5.50). I assumed there were fewer of those states, because the number of workers that are being paid the minimum wage (or lower) is 1.1% and dropping.

I guess the question I was trying to allude to is: with fewer and fewer people being paid the minimum wage, and with such enormous disparity between cost of living within a state let alone between states, does it really matter that the federal minimum wage is below the poverty line? There are places in the US where you can live decently on 7.25/hr, and there are places where you would feel squeezed even at 40/hr. National metrics like this one are interesting but not really representative

Boy, fuck Idaho apparently

With most states having their own minimum wages higher than the federal one, how relevant is this really?

I mean to be fair to the framers, we’ve also changed everything about how we elect the president since their time

Y’all eating raw chicken over there?

In Die Hard, when Hans is describing Takagi, he says “interned at Manzanar 1942-43”. 9 year old imsufferableninja thought he was talking about an internship at a prestigious company called Manzanar. 25 year old imsufferableninja finally figured it out. They did not teach about the US’s concentration camps at my schools, for some reason…

By force, if necessary.

Under his eye

And shielding child rapists. Can’t forget that part.

Bullshit expansion of the commerce clause has been ongoing for at least 100 years.

c.f. Swift & Co, 1905 (?) and Wickard 1942

…a prostitute he was paying for what?

I read somewhere that the net payer / net payee numbers are pretty skewed by military bases - there are a lot more in red states, they go on the states’ balance sheets as income from the feds, and it’s not like the states have much of a choice in the matter. So economically starving some of those states might not be as cut and dry as it seems.

That being said, I’m all for giving it the ol’ college try. This experiment is over, we had a good run, and now it’s time for a national divorce.

Yeah bro, I’m into it. The US had a good run, but every empire has to fall eventually.

I read just the other day that California is also planning to negotiate trade deals directly with other countries

What are the “users” in this context?

Wag the dog

Really? What was their first clue?

Thanks, I was wondering where to go to pick up an AR-15

I guess this is as good a time and place as any to plug this site:

https://freesewing.org/