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[Gaidin]

People still eat there?

[Infidel144]

"Despite U.S. policy efforts to promote racial integration in American neighborhoods, a new University of California at Berkeley study has found that more than 80 percent of metropolitan regions in the country have actually become more segregated over the past two decades. And in the Bay Area, Oakland and Fremont were listed among the most segregated.

Analyzing U.S. census data, researchers found that 169 out of 209 large metropolitan regions, with populations of at least 200,000 people, have increased in their levels of segregation from 1990 to 2019. Only 40 regions have become less segregated."


The most segregated regions in the US:



https://www.ktvu.com/news/report-oak...ore-segregated

Large metropolitan areas tend to be run by Democrats. The most segregated regions seem to be Democrat.
"Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!"

[Vanoi]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hotel-cha...135553853.html

Guests who opt-in would pay tips when they left the hotel, Ted Darnall told Insider on Thursday. The chain has more than 80 hotels and resorts in the US and around 6,000 staff.

Darnall said better tipping policies - not raises and bonuses - could help hotels and restaurants retain workers amid the US labor shortage. The US Chamber of Commerce has declared the shortage a "national economic emergency."

Some hotels have been raising salaries and offering bonuses, but Darnall said that this has "never been the solution" for hiring challenges in the hospitality industry. "If somebody pays a dollar more then somebody else is going to match that," Darnall said.

"I call that an unsustainable competitive advantage. In other words, you're at a competitive advantage for an hour, until somebody decides to match it," he said.

I'm going to laugh next time I hear the words "labor shortage." There's no labor shortage in the US. There's simply a shortage of workers willing to work low paying jobs with no possibility of better pay.

[Morticia Iunia Bruti]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hotel-cha...135553853.html



I'm going to laugh next time I hear the words "labor shortage." There's no labor shortage in the US. There's simply a shortage of workers willing to work low paying jobs with no possibility of better pay.

But, But ... That's socialism! ^^

Capitalism only = increase of profits for corporations and stagnating wages

[Lord Thesaurian]

"Despite U.S. policy efforts to promote racial integration in American neighborhoods, a new University of California at Berkeley study has found that more than 80 percent of metropolitan regions in the country have actually become more segregated over the past two decades. And in the Bay Area, Oakland and Fremont were listed among the most segregated.

Analyzing U.S. census data, researchers found that 169 out of 209 large metropolitan regions, with populations of at least 200,000 people, have increased in their levels of segregation from 1990 to 2019. Only 40 regions have become less segregated."


The most segregated regions in the US:



https://www.ktvu.com/news/report-oak...ore-segregated

Large metropolitan areas tend to be run by Democrats. The most segregated regions seem to be Democrat.
"Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!"

While the left would indeed have no one to blame but themselves if this were actually the case, this study is a work of propaganda put together by a left wing group of activist academics framing increased numbers of immigrants into urban centers - the very thing they normally insist is a wonderful sign of progress - as evidence of increased segregation.

The same trend holds in particular cities. A recent survey by the Washington Post using the same data showed that “90 percent of U.S. metro areas have seen a decline” in racial segregation since 1990. That is the polar opposite of the story told by the Othering and Belonging Institute.

So how can the institute claim that segregation is increasing? By creating yet another index, which it calls a “divergence index,” and which adds together the difference between the proportions of all of the races in each neighborhood and their citywide average. Instead of looking at how much of each race in a city would have to move to be spread evenly across a city, the index calculates how different each neighborhood’s racial percentages are from the whole city’s.

The big problem with this measure is that it makes cities that have become more diverse look as if they are getting more segregated. If a city had no Asian or Hispanic residents 30 years ago, but some moved in and didn’t perfectly scatter in every neighborhood, the statistics would show a sudden increase in racial “divergence.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-advo...on-11625004857

[Infidel144]

So that would be:
'Surprise! leftists race hustling (as usual)...'

[Abdülmecid I]

Donald Rumsfeld died at the age of 88. A great politician, in my opinion, and one of the few of the old guard Republicans remaining. He formed a very efficient team with Richard Cheney; I haven't noticed any duo as dynamic as them in the subsequent Democratic and Republican administrations.

[athanaric]

While the left would indeed have no one to blame but themselves if this were actually the case, this study is a work of propaganda put together by a left wing group of activist academics framing increased numbers of immigrants into urban centers - the very thing they normally insist is a wonderful sign of progress - as evidence of increased segregation.

They could always help redress that situation by moving into urban centres themselves and mingling with immigrant and "minority" populations. But somehow, they always end up moving into the leafy suburbs (or even the countryside) as soon as they start having kids, then send said kids to private schools (rather than the urban public schools where, you know, all the poor kids go and whites are a minority), then complain about the lack of divursity in their own community. Etc. pp. The Baizuo and their allies pretend this is about alleged racial injustices, but in the end it's really about class, and poor people of all skin colours get the short end of the stick.

[irontaino]

Donald Rumsfeld died at the age of 88. A great politician, in my opinion, and one of the few of the old guard Republicans remaining. He formed a very efficient team with Richard Cheney; I haven't noticed any duo as dynamic as them in the subsequent Democratic and Republican administrations.

He finally did something good for once in his miserable life.

[Prodromos]

Donald Rumsfeld died at the age of 88. A great politician, in my opinion, and one of the few of the old guard Republicans remaining. He formed a very efficient team with Richard Cheney; I haven't noticed any duo as dynamic as them in the subsequent Democratic and Republican administrations.

A great man indeed.

[Prodromos]

On human-rights fashion

https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...mbering-syria/

[Cyclops]

Donald Rumsfeld died at the age of 88. A great politician, in my opinion, and one of the few of the old guard Republicans remaining. He formed a very efficient team with Richard Cheney; I haven't noticed any duo as dynamic as them in the subsequent Democratic and Republican administrations.

A workhorse for Team Oil, and part of the cabal that sent the US into Iraq. I believe he played a huge part in privatising the US military along with Cheney. I wouldn't say he was responsible for the horrendous Iraq war, but he was responsible for many of its worse atrocities and is a symptom of how corporate interests control US public life.

I don't think he was a "great politician" (he was an appointed administrator in several cabinets), more a shameless thug henchman.

[Condottiere 40K]

I doubt we have to worry about labour shortage, since almost everything is likely to be automated.

Too bad robots aren't programmed to be consumers.

[The spartan]

Too bad robots aren't programmed to be consumers.

We'd have to pay them more, if they were.

[Prodromos]

This article is obscene but it really shows the moral depravity of the anti-immigrant movement.

Biden administration strikes down another Trump era rule on illegal immigration

On Friday a new policy was announced that ICE will no longer detain most pregnant, nursing, and postpartum women for deportation.

...

The statement from ICE includes some mumbo jumbo about infant development and parental bonding. These are words to humanize illegal entries into the United States.

[Infidel144]

Cuba libre

[Prodromos]

Why are Cubans so upset? They have free health care and a high literacy rate. I don't get it.

[Abdülmecid I]

Things don't look very rosy for our Nobel Peace Prize laureate in Ethiopia.

[Vanoi]

Things don't look very rosy for our Nobel Peace Prize laureate in Ethiopia.

It surprised me. Was sure the Ethiopian government had Tigray rebels on the ropes.

[Abdülmecid I]

I didn't expect such a massive surrender either, but the claims about the total defeat of the Tigray government was just posturing by the Ethiopian Prime-Minister. The fall of Mekelle was more like a withdrawal than a genuine defeat. Their forces still controlled the countryside unopposed. The majority of the Tigrayans side with the local government, especially after the war-crimes committed by the Ethiopian Army, so I doubt Addis Ababa can ever control the region without the consent of the People's Liberation Front. The alliance with the Eritreans probably didn't help much either.