Simonbob
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As best I can tell, other way around.
Russian Gov is a bit less corrupt than Ukrainian. Not that either one would win any prizes (Without bribes, of course.)
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As best I can tell, other way around.
Russian Gov is a bit less corrupt than Ukrainian. Not that either one would win any prizes (Without bribes, of course.)
LordsFire
Internet Wizard
The war is rather demonstrating that it is the other way around.
Pre-2014, the Ukrainians may have been more corrupt, but things have changed to at least some degree.
Bigking321
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Right now they are just a money laundering scheme.
Ukraine needs help! Send billions of American money!
Money vanishes. Various world economic forum members get large donations for their election campaigns. Globalists super happy with another war to exploit.
Better send more money. You don't support Putin, right?
Ukraine needs help! Send billions of American money!
Money vanishes. Various world economic forum members get large donations for their election campaigns. Globalists super happy with another war to exploit.
Better send more money. You don't support Putin, right?
Karmic Acumen
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Meanwhile, Ukrainian MPs are crossing the border with billions in cash, weapon shipment don't reach soldiers and instead go to the organised crime, and said Ukrainian organised crime syndicates have moved to Bucharest.
Dick’s Sporting Goods Hit with Civil-Rights Complaint for Funding Employee Abortions, Not Childcare | National Review
Someone's sueing Dick's over there "We support the right to choose, so go off and get that abortion so that we can get out of paying for maternity leave.....I mean so that we can make a stand for women's rights!" policy. No idea if it's got any real merit, this is well outside my wheelhouse, but it certainly sounds plausible enough.
Someone's sueing Dick's over there "We support the right to choose, so go off and get that abortion so that we can get out of paying for maternity leave.....I mean so that we can make a stand for women's rights!" policy. No idea if it's got any real merit, this is well outside my wheelhouse, but it certainly sounds plausible enough.
posh-goofiness
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I would absolutely love for every corporation that funds one to fund the other. We would see a policy reversal so fast we wouldn't even have time to say "abortion is infanticide".
On the other hand, if they call our bluff, I'm not wild about corps paying for parenting. It seems like it opens the door for policies in the line of "he who makes the gold, makes the rules" and I don;t want corps to have any say in raising children. Ever.
On the other hand, if they call our bluff, I'm not wild about corps paying for parenting. It seems like it opens the door for policies in the line of "he who makes the gold, makes the rules" and I don;t want corps to have any say in raising children. Ever.
King Arts
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Just refuse the argument. Money does not grant you power force does. The army and police and those who can get away with killing listen to the government which is supposed to be picked democratically by the people.
They aren't really playing for parenting so much as they are paying for time off right after having a child, after a few weeks/months you're on your own.
A few places do cover day care and the like as an additional perk. It doesn't seem meaningfully different than corporations paying for employee insurance.
posh-goofiness
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That's fair. I definitely wouldn't say no to a, IDK, childcare stipend or whatever.
King Arts
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I thought they did? Like if you get married you don't have to live in barracks?
You get BAH and BAS.
It can be awhile before you get it.
August 1st will be three months since I submitted the paperwork after my marriage
King Arts
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Oh, congrats on getting married.
Wha is bah and bas?
Basic allowance for housing and basic allowance for sustenance
They are stipends the military gives to their members when those members are in civilian housing or are having to provide their own meals.
They amounts vary based on situation and living area.
They amounts vary based on situation and living area.
Ixian
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The highest BAH is in Hawaii I believe, followed by New York. I've been out a few years so maybe it's changed.
I've seen people get married just to get out of the barracks.
Typhonis
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Ocasio-Cortez, progressives call on Schumer, Pelosi to strip SCOTUS of abortion jurisdiction (msn.com)
They are aware the SC IS doing its job, right? Or do they want to see what happens when they piss them off?
They are aware the SC IS doing its job, right? Or do they want to see what happens when they piss them off?
Tiamat
I've seen the future...
I really wanna know what special sort of LSD, weed, mushrooms, crack cocaine, or special mixture thereof they are either smoking or snorting or shooting up to make themselves THIS deluded.
Socialism thats it anything for power and no attrocity to great to create their shitty utopia.