sarker
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sarker
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7hr ago
Yes, Democrats are le bad. Thanks. Let's review my original question.
why don't we have mandatory e-verify despite a Republican Congress and white house?
Republicans have controlled two branches of government since November 2024. Where mandatory e-verify?
sarker
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10hr ago
Every employed illegal also went through it.
Indeed. But they didn't go through e-verify. The question is, why is e-verify not mandatory? It can't be due to discrimination suits, because I-9 verification is obviously not discriminatory, and e-verify is more of the same, but harder to fake.
sarker
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11hr ago
Employment verification is not discrimination. Have you seriously never gone through I-9 verification to work?
You are perhaps correct in the broader sense of "if you do X to everyone it's not discrimination". However, you are obviously wrong in the narrower sense of "if you do work authorization verification to everyone it's not discrimination," which is the one that I was claiming.
It is completely standard for large American employers to do I-9 verification for all employees. My employer has in fact verified my citizenship twice because they somehow fucked it up the first time. This has never been ruled as illegal discrimination and, again, is completely standard for the kinds of businesses that don't employ illegal immigrants. Now, I realize that you can't be expected to know this since you are a Belgian (?). Nevertheless, the confidence about American discrimination jurisprudence in the context of work authorization seems misplaced.
sarker
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12hr ago
I had the mistaken impression that you were responding to the substance of my argument. I apologize!
Let's try again.
Your argument is that mandatory e-verify would be ruled as illegal discrimination and that companies would be forced to hire people without work authorization?
sarker
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12hr ago
To be absolutely clear on this point - your position is that we don't have mandatory e-verify because Congress and the president know that the courts would make it de facto illegal to hire a person without work authorization? Do I understand you correctly?
sarker
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13hr ago
Mandatory e-verify has nothing to do with discrimination. By definition, if you e-verify everyone, you aren't discriminating.
sarker
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15hr ago
Employers are not the villain here - employers are legally required to accept any "reasonably genuine" documents that appear to relate to the employee, even if they are not ultimately confirmed by e-verify.
Okay, and why don't we have mandatory e-verify despite a Republican Congress and white house?
All of the obstacles you mention could easily be cleared with legislation.
sarker
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15hr ago
None of those women are alt.
sarker
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1d ago
I was eating it while doing a completely fat-less, salt-less, low protein diet
Why would you do this?
sarker
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2d ago
Rum, hot chocolate, and miso paste is a winning combination.
sarker
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2d ago
Let me guess, use your promo code MOTTE for 15% off at checkout?
sarker
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2d ago
Sorry, I missed the club soda at the end.
sarker
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2d ago
I'm going to make that first one but it's hardly a "fizz".
sarker
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2d ago
I wouldn't bat an eye at someone claiming that brands that are doing that are trying to normalize mastectomies. I'd be skeptical of a claim that they're doing that to propitiate Baal.
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2d ago
It would be weird to think that they're doing that to get people to eat bugs (which restaurants aren't doing) instead of thinking that they're doing that because they offer tofu (which they are doing). Bugz on the brain?
sarker
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2d ago
Really, restaurants around you are selling bugs?
sarker
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6d ago
A better example would have been how the T at the beginning of “ten” is a completely different sound than the T at the end of “net”. (You make the former sound by touching your tongue to the part of your mouth right behind your teeth, but you make the latter sound by closing your vocal folds, no tongue involved at all.)
Are you a bong or something? Both of those are /t/ for me.
sarker
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6d ago
I'm a simple guy but for my money the moka pot makes a nice strong coffee that I can dump a bunch of milk into for something approaching a latte with espresso.
sarker
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6d ago
the same way English speakers think of the voiceless th at the start of "think" and the voiced th at the start of "then" as the same sound because they're written the same.
Of course we don't think of these sounds as the same - it's the difference between "teeth" and "teethe".
sarker
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6d ago
It's difficult to imagine that pre-reform Russian orthography would have prevented much higher rates of literacy. English famously has ridiculous orthography ("waiter, I'll have the ghoti") and high literacy. A few additional Russian characters and weird spelling rules is not even close to the insanity of Chinese orthography, and they still have high literacy despite the fact that their system is insane even after "simplification".
sarker
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6d ago
The 4chan guy is probably a close second in terms of sheer output though.
Okay. So if it's not solely democrats' fault, and "establishment" Republicans are also obstructing mandatory e-verify, and the "establishment" is, presumably, the business establishment eager to continue hiring illegal immigrants (see Trump walking back restrictions on hotels) then I'd say we're pretty far from "blaming employers is a left wing misdirection."
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