J Elliott

Old yet New / Slept for many long years, but now awake / Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable, and life is more than a dream. (MW)

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We need to keep the corrupt, inequality-creating, city-destroying Olympics out of Los Angeles.
https://t.co/sdF9NBpiUX

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@SeattleSoaker @NinaDontPlayMtG Before I go AFK. I'm not justifying corruption. I'm worried about the downstream effects of selective prosecution and giving CIA more power.

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@NinaDontPlayMtG I know that, Nina. And you and I both know that citizen protests didn't stop any of the recent wars. I don't want to fight with you. AFK

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@NinaDontPlayMtG They WANT Pence. Giving the Kochs what they want is a long term Clinton practice. This whole thing is a mess.

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@NinaDontPlayMtG I'm not interested in giving him a pass. But I'm not thrilled to watch the Dem/CIA coup succeed, either.

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@cjamesmay @meaganmday Okay. I'm blocking you for pushing agnotology. Speaking of which, try https://t.co/8BI0xPe92E or https://t.co/GZDtGKVERT

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@NinaDontPlayMtG That's fine. But I'm sick of the hypocrisy. I'd be down for a war crimes trial for Kissinger, Bush, Clintons, Obama, etc.

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@NinaDontPlayMtG My priority is to stay out of hot war in Russia, hopefully avoid installing a theocratic & purge corporate Dems out of power so left can win

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@cjamesmay @meaganmday You continue to reiterate fairy tales which are easily disproven by facts. Do I need to block you? Please find better sources.

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@NinaDontPlayMtG But how is this worse in any way than what Obama was bribed to do, or the Clintons? They're all crooks.

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@cjamesmay @meaganmday And it didn't magically vanish. It's not because Americans are lazy or stupid. It's because neoliberalism has worked DECADES to achieve this

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@cjamesmay @meaganmday No, you are pretending we llve in some pristine neoclassical economic paradise. In real world, labor's power to demand a just wage is gone.

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@cjamesmay @meaganmday No. OUR government is letting multinational corporations refuse to pay decent wages and benefits and bring in foreign wage slaves instead.

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@cjamesmay @meaganmday Please read up on current American labor conditions and practices, as well as basic economics.

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@cjamesmay @meaganmday Yes, which is why it's notable that both entry level AND experienced IT people are losing jobs to visa hires who often aren't as skilled.

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@cjamesmay @meaganmday No. That's utterly wrong. Advanced skills do not get you higher pay, or even an old fashioned job with benefits and security.

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@cjamesmay @meaganmday What's WORSE is that one reason foreign skilled labor is cheaper is because their countries provide free higher education and health care.

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@cjamesmay @meaganmday Ask any longterm IT professional. Disney fired an entire dept. of highly skilled programmers because they could visa in cheap foreign labor.

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@cjamesmay @meaganmday The Democratic Party is complicit in helping corporations destroy labor markets here by bringing in millions of non-citizens on visas.

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@DarbyKathleen He's seriously a huge idiot.

Now watch me get my first Twitter punishment.

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@jdubya65 @YAppelbaum @DemFromCT Nobody but the successful and selfish elites would fall for "you just need more skills" at this point. The rest of us know better.