Joe Biden Signs Bill For Juneteenth As A Federal Holiday

[DEAD7]

Nice.
Whats good on reparations though?

 

[mc_brew]

So cacs gonna get paid to stay home and do nothing .

I liked it better when I called off and left my white coworkers hanging

they get to stay home off the backs of our hard work and sacrifice... yet, they are not going to sit at home and relax and enjoy a holiday that came at our expense... no they are going bytch and complain about why those damn negroes have a day to commemorate them.... remember mlk day is a fed holiday too and it is the holiday cacs hate the most.. they'd happily come in and work on that day, with or without pay....

 

[Insensitive]

Symbolic bullshyt which means fukk all in material progress for 40 million people.

 

[Bunchy Carter]

You’re a caricature, have a good one “breh”

I don't believe you

 

[Professor Emeritus]

We still have slaves, we just keep them hidden in the global south.

To be clear Alito was one of the biggest opponents of the lawsuit. He would reject the lawsuit on different grounds, he only dissented on a technicality.

The rest of the justices said it is an overreach of American power to claim that American laws and courts can be applied to other sovereign nations. They stated that it's a bad rabbit hole to go down when you claim that US laws supersede international laws and other nation's sovereignty outside US borders. Unfortunately, this is an issue where specific laws have to be passed against the conduct of multinationals or nothing will happen.

 

[ORDER_66]

To be clear Alito was one of the biggest opponents of the lawsuit. He would reject the lawsuit on different grounds, he only dissented on a technicality.

The rest of the justices said it is an overreach of American power to claim that American laws and courts can be applied to other sovereign nations. They stated that it's a bad rabbit hole to go down when you claim that US laws supersede international laws and other nation's sovereignty outside US borders. Unfortunately, this is an issue where specific laws have to be passed against the conduct of multinationals or nothing will happen.

That literally makes no fukking sense, there's been plenty of times american govt and corporations have meddled in foreign affairs and hurt foreigners with no reprecussions!!! so child slavery done by an american ran company gets a pass??? this is some ole bullshyt...

 

[Professor Emeritus]

That literally makes no fukking sense, there's been plenty of times american govt and corporations have meddled in foreign affairs and hurt foreigners with no reprecussions!!! so child slavery done by an american ran company gets a pass??? this is some ole bullshyt...

To be clear, Nestle is a Swiss company and the plantations weren't run by Nestle or any American companies. The child slavery was undertaken by locally-owned and operated farms in the Ivory Coast and then Nestle and Cargill purchased cocoa beans from those companies. So they're arguing that American courts can't regulate the conduct of African companies even if the products of those companies are eventually sold in American stores.

Yes, American government and corporations constantly meddle in other country's affairs. But that's at the executive level, not the judicial level. In order for that to happen we'd have to actually pass a law. They should make it so that every country that wants to sell products here needs to absolutely prove they are doing XYZ through their entire product line (at very least no child labor, no forced labor, and some minimum of safety conditions and survival wages).

However, it's pretty clear that our courts aren't going to intervene based on existing US laws and nothing will change unless new laws are passed. And Americans have proven time and time again that they don't really give a shyt what happens to people in other countries. Even on these boards if someone started pushing this cause 70% of TLR would start shouting, "fukk those foreigners, they need to worry about the people right here first!"

 

[Corny Batman]

If I were an attorney and found myself in the position of having to argue that, technically, my client is not responsible for the child slavery they profited from, I would be high when they hit me.

 

[the next guy]

An extra federal holiday is good for everyone.

 

[ORDER_66]

To be clear, Nestle is a Swiss company and the plantations weren't run by Nestle or any American companies. The child slavery was undertaken by locally-owned and operated farms in the Ivory Coast and then Nestle and Cargill purchased cocoa beans from those companies. So they're arguing that American courts can't regulate the conduct of African companies even if the products of those companies are eventually sold in American stores.

Yes, American government and corporations constantly meddle in other country's affairs. But that's at the executive level, not the judicial level. In order for that to happen we'd have to actually pass a law. They should make it so that every country that wants to sell products here needs to absolutely prove they are doing XYZ through their entire product line (at very least no child labor, no forced labor, and some minimum of safety conditions and survival wages).

However, it's pretty clear that our courts aren't going to intervene based on existing US laws and nothing will change unless new laws are passed. And Americans have proven time and time again that they don't really give a shyt what happens to people in other countries. Even on these boards if someone started pushing this cause 70% of TLR would start shouting, "fukk those foreigners, they need to worry about the people right here first!"

Ok but there are labor laws in which the united states have not done business in certain countries with certain companies that use child slaves... how america gonna talk shyt constantly about china's practices but because nestle is a major white company it's ok...

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Ok but there are labor laws in which the united states have not done business in certain countries with certain companies that use child slaves... how america gonna talk shyt constantly about china's practices but because nestle is a major white company it's ok...

Not to mention that Apple and other major US companies have profited tremendously off of Chinese practices.

WalMart's entire business model is sourcing shyt from the most exploitative possible country they can find. I read one article where they moved a product line from Puerto Rico to Vietnam to China because they were desperately searching for the factory that would produce it for the absolute lowest cost possible (worst wages, fewest safety measures, etc.).

There was a case some years ago where hundreds of people died in a factory fire in Thailand cause it was an overcrowded sweatshop with no sprinklers, fire exits locked, etc. Mattel and a bunch of other US companies were having their shyt made there. Thailand tried to pass a new worker safety law afterwards, but Mattel and the others threatened they'd pull out their business and kill the economy if the bill passed, so the Thai government dropped the effort.

 

[OfTheCross]

Nice.
Whats good on reparations though?

Need more Democrats in office

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Need more Democrats in office

More democrats ain't gonna do shyt to make reparations happen.

Reparations has zero chance for passing until it's at 65-70% support minimum and right now it's like 28%. Public support needs to more than double before politicians will even begin to consider it, and even then they probably won't move unless it's the #1 push on people's agendas.

 

[ORDER_66]

More democrats ain't gonna do shyt to make reparations happen.

Reparations has zero chance for passing until it's at 65-70% support minimum and right now it's like 28%. Public support needs to more than double before politicians will even begin to consider it, and even then they probably won't move unless it's the #1 push on people's agendas.

I think that was sarcasm man...

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

I’ll be enjoying the holiday and extra family time