"And fight to break up Big Tech so you’re not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets."
It makes her sound like an entitled senator princess. After reading it several times,
I think she was actually trying to make a joke. That only makes sense as a joke if she considers herself as one of the little people, not as one of the most powerful people in the country. She is firmly in the 1%.
She is your elected representative. By heckling her Amazon is mocking you, and how powerless you are to make tax rules that big corporations have to follow.
In a democracy you are in charge, via your representatives. Corporations are supposed to operate at your pleasure, under your rules. Amazon is saying that they have taken over and subverted your democracy.
Elizabeth Warren needs to be mocked. She doesn't represent anyone but herself. She's the last person you want in your movement if you want it to have any chance of success.
She'll forever be known as Pocahontas or Fauxahonthasx after claiming she was native American but it turned out "the results of the DNA test, showing that she had between 1/64th and 1/1024th Native American ancestry" which is less than the average among white Americans
" Warrenâ(TM)s 1986 registration card for the State Bar of Texas could put an end to all that. The Washington Post obtained a copy of the signed document in which she wrote that her race was âoeAmerican Indian.â This supports the two critical charges against her: that she knowingly and personally claimed Native American heritage, and that she did so for the purpose of career advancement. "
So yes she should be mocked. As should anyone who voted for her.
She claimed that she had a family story that she was some significant part native.
Warren claimed her mother was "part Cherokee". Even if one were to believe her version of this "family story", the biggest "part" one can be is half, so by her own statements Warren herself could be no more than ONE QUARTER Cherokee.
Apparently, 1/4 Cherokee is enough to list "American Indian" as her one and only race on several documents, including her Texas Bar Association registration. [vox.com]
I'll give her one thing, though. Warren hated being white before it was fashionable to hate being white.
Warren claimed her mother was "part Cherokee". Even if one were to believe her version of this "family story", the biggest "part" one can be is half, so by her own statements Warren herself could be no more than ONE QUARTER Cherokee. Apparently, 1/4 Cherokee is enough to list "American Indian" as her one and only race on several documents,
Well, it is. You only have to be like 1/16 native to qualify as one for legal purposes, IIRC.
I'll give her one thing, though. Warren hated being white before it was fashionable to hate being white.
I'm 1/4 Mexican. When I am asked my race, have to pick something, and can't choose "multi-ethnic" or "other" I choose "hispanic" for two reasons. One, representation. Two, benefit. I've gotten school money for being hispanic and poor before. Well, so what? I was hispanic and poor.
The real question, which is probably unanswerable, is whether Warren genuinely believed the story of her supposed heritage when she was be
The real question, which is probably unanswerable, is whether Warren genuinely believed the story of her supposed heritage when she was benefiting from it. If she did, she's just a fool. If she didn't, then she's a thief and a fraud. I'm open to examining evidence that suggests the latter, but haven't seen any yet.
What I've noticed is that the same people who say "corporations aren't cheating, the tax code lets them avoid those taxes" are the people up in arms about Warren gaming the system. It's one or the other.
To be fair to Warren, the assumption that personal family history includes Native American heritage is widespread where she grew up in Oklahoma. Hell, the license plates have in various incarnations included either "Native American" or images of Native Americans for decades.
No, it isn't. You recall incorrectly. For a person to be considered "Native American" by the United States government, they must be on a tribal registry and have a CDIB card.
Actually, I know about the tribal registries. One of the bands of Pomo in Lake County went through a whole scandal where they removed a bunch of people from the registry for political reasons, because they're always fighting amongst themselves.
Can't choose "multi-ethnic" or "other"? Those options have been on every damn government/corporate/educational form for at least 20 years.
No, no they have not. Many, many forms don't have such options. I know because I've run into them.
You are *one quarter* hispanic. My great grandmother was a Kenyan woman, so I'm 1/8th black. But if I ticked "black" as my race/ethnicity on a form in order to get benefits of any kind, people would be all over me like stink on shit.
Well, that's fucking stupid in a nation where the "one drop" system pervades. Everyone says you're black if you're any percentage black. That makes you black.
But still, she is your elected representative and Amazon was not mocking her dubious claims, it was mocking her position and relative powerlessness to control a powerful corporation.
I see my post was modded down by trolls who got offended by the mere suggestion that unbridled capitalism could be a less than stellar way to run things. That's why you are slaves to it, you bring it on yourselves by refusing to even listen to criticism.
No man is an island if he's on at least one mailing list.
How Dare They (Score:5, Insightful)
How dare they heckle senators.
She's a Senator, you know!
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I couldn't believe she actually wrote this:
"And fight to break up Big Tech so you’re not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets."
It makes her sound like an entitled senator princess. After reading it several times,
I think she was actually trying to make a joke. That only makes sense as a joke if she considers herself as one of the little people, not as one of the most powerful people in the country. She is firmly in the 1%.
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She is your elected representative. By heckling her Amazon is mocking you, and how powerless you are to make tax rules that big corporations have to follow.
In a democracy you are in charge, via your representatives. Corporations are supposed to operate at your pleasure, under your rules. Amazon is saying that they have taken over and subverted your democracy.
Re: How Dare They (Score:4, Informative)
Elizabeth Warren needs to be mocked. She doesn't represent anyone but herself. She's the last person you want in your movement if you want it to have any chance of success.
She'll forever be known as Pocahontas or Fauxahonthasx after claiming she was native American but it turned out "the results of the DNA test, showing that she had between 1/64th and 1/1024th Native American ancestry" which is less than the average among white Americans
https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2019/08/19/elizabeth-warren-scrubs-website-of-cherokee-ancestry-claims/amp/
And indeed she used her fake identity for carreer advancement : https://www.google.com/amp/s/a... [google.com]
" Warrenâ(TM)s 1986 registration card for the State Bar of Texas could put an end to all that. The Washington Post obtained a copy of the signed document in which she wrote that her race was âoeAmerican Indian.â This supports the two critical charges against her: that she knowingly and personally claimed Native American heritage, and that she did so for the purpose of career advancement. "
So yes she should be mocked. As should anyone who voted for her.
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She claimed that she had a family story that she was some significant part native.
Warren claimed her mother was "part Cherokee". Even if one were to believe her version of this "family story", the biggest "part" one can be is half, so by her own statements Warren herself could be no more than ONE QUARTER Cherokee.
Apparently, 1/4 Cherokee is enough to list "American Indian" as her one and only race on several documents, including her Texas Bar Association registration. [vox.com]
I'll give her one thing, though. Warren hated being white before it was fashionable to hate being white.
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Warren claimed her mother was "part Cherokee". Even if one were to believe her version of this "family story", the biggest "part" one can be is half, so by her own statements Warren herself could be no more than ONE QUARTER Cherokee.
Apparently, 1/4 Cherokee is enough to list "American Indian" as her one and only race on several documents,
Well, it is. You only have to be like 1/16 native to qualify as one for legal purposes, IIRC.
I'll give her one thing, though. Warren hated being white before it was fashionable to hate being white.
I'm 1/4 Mexican. When I am asked my race, have to pick something, and can't choose "multi-ethnic" or "other" I choose "hispanic" for two reasons. One, representation. Two, benefit. I've gotten school money for being hispanic and poor before. Well, so what? I was hispanic and poor.
The real question, which is probably unanswerable, is whether Warren genuinely believed the story of her supposed heritage when she was be
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The real question, which is probably unanswerable, is whether Warren genuinely believed the story of her supposed heritage when she was benefiting from it. If she did, she's just a fool. If she didn't, then she's a thief and a fraud. I'm open to examining evidence that suggests the latter, but haven't seen any yet.
What I've noticed is that the same people who say "corporations aren't cheating, the tax code lets them avoid those taxes" are the people up in arms about Warren gaming the system. It's one or the other.
To be fair to Warren, the assumption that personal family history includes Native American heritage is widespread where she grew up in Oklahoma. Hell, the license plates have in various incarnations included either "Native American" or images of Native Americans for decades.
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No, it isn't. You recall incorrectly. For a person to be considered "Native American" by the United States government, they must be on a tribal registry and have a CDIB card.
Actually, I know about the tribal registries. One of the bands of Pomo in Lake County went through a whole scandal where they removed a bunch of people from the registry for political reasons, because they're always fighting amongst themselves.
Can't choose "multi-ethnic" or "other"? Those options have been on every damn government/corporate/educational form for at least 20 years.
No, no they have not. Many, many forms don't have such options. I know because I've run into them.
You are *one quarter* hispanic. My great grandmother was a Kenyan woman, so I'm 1/8th black. But if I ticked "black" as my race/ethnicity on a form in order to get benefits of any kind, people would be all over me like stink on shit.
Well, that's fucking stupid in a nation where the "one drop" system pervades. Everyone says you're black if you're any percentage black. That makes you black.
"Hispanic" l
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But still, she is your elected representative and Amazon was not mocking her dubious claims, it was mocking her position and relative powerlessness to control a powerful corporation.
I see my post was modded down by trolls who got offended by the mere suggestion that unbridled capitalism could be a less than stellar way to run things. That's why you are slaves to it, you bring it on yourselves by refusing to even listen to criticism.