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>Advertising the sale or rental of a dwelling indicating preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, disability or national origin.
This is the one that I think would probably apply. However, it can be argued that if the ads themselves don't indicate preference, then it's legal. Would it be legal for a apartment complex to only put their advertisements at local churches, a men's magazine, a local college, or a local fair? (assuming for a moment that they had permission to do so)
I can certainly see the reasons that we might want to rule that they can't. That any advertising that they conduct must be broadly targeted enough. I think the substantive counter argument is that it might burden the apartment complex too much. Even if it's the whole of all advertising, and specific things are fine. I can imagine it having the impact of them effectively not being able to advertise in certain ways.
There is also the point that targeted advertising is arguably more useful to customers then broad advertising.
I think the specific issue with the Facebook ads was that they were engaging in some ol' fashioned Redlining
, in which any applicants from X area were excluded wholesale, regardless of personal histories for possible applicants.
"Would it be legal for a apartment complex to only put their advertisements at local churches, a men's magazine, a local college, or a local fair? (assuming for a moment that they had permission to do so)"
Based on my understanding, if the end result excludes historically disadvantaged groups in what should be a fair and equal market, then no, it would not be legal.
Only advertising your men's deodarent in a men's magazine is fine, that was always intended for that core audience anyway. Only advertising your apartment, which by law are supposed to be for everyone, rentals in a men's magazine means you're excluding women and that's not fine.
Edited by Parable on Mar 28th 2019 at 2:20:00 AM
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2019/03/28/day-798/
https://www.apnews.com/c53b37110eb94149bf925c660ad16fb4
2/ Barr is expected to miss the House Democrats' April 2nd deadline for him to turn in the full Mueller report to Congress. Democrats are expected to subpoena the Justice Department for the full report if Barr misses the deadline. Barr also suggested that it will likely take weeks to redact the report. House Judiciary Committee chairman, Jerry Nadler, said Barr "wouldn't commit" to releasing the report to Congress without redactions, but did agree to testify to the committee "reasonably soon." (Washington Post / Bloomberg / The Guardian)
3/ Trump and Republicans in Congress are calling Adam Schiff to resign after Mueller's report did not conclude that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 election. Trump accused Schiff of having "spent two years knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking" and should therefore "be forced to resign from Congress!" Schiff insists that "undoubtedly there was collusion" and vowed that the House Intelligence Committee will continue to look into the counterintelligence aspects of Mueller's investigation. (Politico / Reuters / CNN / NBC News)
A federal judge has ordered that the Justice Department and FBI turnover James Comey's memos in full. Many of the memos have been released publicly, but some parts remain redacted. Earlier this month, the Justice Department argued that release of other information in the Comey memos could hurt the then-ongoing Mueller investigation. (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/28/politics/james-comey-memo-lawsuit/index.html
Jared Kushner met privately with the Senate Intelligence Committee, which wanted to re-interview witnesses central to the Russia investigation. (CNBC / CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/28/politics/jared-kushner-senate-intelligence/index.html
Russian agent Maria Butina will be sentenced on April 26. Butina pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to act as a Russian agent without registering with the Justice Department. She faces a maximum of five years in prison but could receive zero to six months because of a plea deal. (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/28/707633211/russian-agent-maria-butina-to-be-sentenced-april-26
4/ Trump frequently exaggerated his net worth and hid his debts to lenders and investors, sometimes sending official-looking documents called "Statements of Financial Condition." Investigators on Capitol Hill and in New York are attempting to determine if Trump's inflated numbers ever crossed over into fraud. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/trump-statements-of-financial-condition/
5/ The Department of Homeland Security will ask Congress for the authority to deport unaccompanied migrant children more quickly. Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will also propose holding families seeking asylum in detention until their cases are decided and allow immigrants to apply for asylum from their home countries. (NBC News)
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/28/trump-mexico-border-migrant-surge-1241307
poll/ 56% of American say Trump has done too little to distance himself from white nationalist groups. 28% of Americans called Trump even-tempered and 36% called Trump trustworthy. (Pew Research Center)
The National Rifle Association is opposing an expansion of the Violence Against Women Act, which seeks to block people who have committed domestic abuse from obtaining firearms. (Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/nra-opposes-expansion-of-the-violence-against-women-act
Puerto Rico's governor called Trump a "bully" over the White House's efforts to limit disaster relief aid needed to repair the damages brought by Hurricane Maria in late 2017. Trump, meanwhile, claimed that no other "living human being" has taken better care of Puerto Rico than him.(CNN / Bloomberg / Politico)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/28/politics/ricardo-rossell-donald-trump-puerto-rico-funding/index.html
The Trump administration approved six secret authorizations to sell nuclear power technology and assistance to Saudi Arabia. The White House has been pursuing a deal that involves sharing U.S. nuclear power technology with the Saudis and building two nuclear power plants in the country. Russia, South Korea, the United States, and other countries are all competing on the deal, and Saudi Arabia is expected to announce the winners later this week. (Reuters / CNBC)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-saudi-nuclear-idUSKCN1R82MG
Trump says the FBI and Department of Justice will review the "outrageous" decision by prosecutors in Chicago to drop all charges against actor Jussie Smollett, calling the decision "an embarrassment to our Nation!" The DOJ declined to comment, and Smollett's attorney said "we have nothing to be concerned about" when it comes to the federal probe. (NBC News)
Trump's nominee for a seat on the Federal Reserve owes more than $75,000 in taxes and other penalties. Stephen Moore referred questions about the tax debt to his wife (Bloomberg)
Trump is expected to pick a Fox News contributor to be the new State Department spokesperson. Morgan Ortagus is under consideration to replace Heather Nauert, a former Fox News anchor. (NBC News / CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/28/politics/morgan-ortagus-state-department/index.html
Twitter is considering labeling Trump's tweets that violate its rules – but won't delete them because – they claim – they're in the public interest. (CNN / Washignton Post)
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/28/tech/trump-twitter-rules-label/index.html
Edited by sgamer82 on Mar 28th 2019 at 7:32:50 AM
There was a Vox article
discussing how the biggest threat to the Green New Deal isn't actually those on the right. Instead, the writer argues that the threat comes from the center left questioning the climate policies presented by more left leaning activists and politicians and demanding less sweeping change. The author then goes on to say that the only real solution is to cause sweeping changes in the structure of the government, such as turning territories and DC into states, destroying the power of the Senate filibuster, packing the courts, reforming the entire voting system (perhaps dismantling the electoral college), etc.
Basically, we need to stop playing into Republicans' zero-sum game. Stop taking the high road by letting them take advantage of our broken government system over and over. It's a harsh pill to swallow but I can definitely get behind this article.
"If you spend all your heart / On something that has died / You are not alive and that can't be a life"I'm referring to the Michelle Obama quote of "when they go low, we go high." There's a great video in the Alt-Right Playbook series
that goes into more detail on how Democrats tend to take the "high road" by essentially allowing Republicans to play dirty if only to look clean by comparison. Which gets us nowhere but further right.
X3 Thing is such activity isn’t taking the high rode, tying one hand behind your back isn’t being moral, if anything this being immoral because you’re handicapping your ability to help people.
Don’t buy into the false choice of “should we keep to our morals or ensure we win”, my morals have no issue with expanding voting rights and ensure that a tiny minority can’t force their view onto others, nor should yours.
I can’t speak for everyone but I know that my moral system doesn’t consider allowing exploitation and abuse to be taking the high rode, that’s the stupid rode, there’s nothing inherently moral about being stupid or anything inherently immoral about being smart.
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Oh please, net neutrality died the day Trump got elected, I’m realy tired of people trying to blame Dems for it, especially as such blaming seems to often come from people who either sat out 2016 or voted for Trump and want to avoid taking responsibility for the role they played in the death of net neutrality.
As for rightward Dems in general, they vote the party line when it counts, the Republians know that, it’s why they didn’t trust Manchin to be the swing vote on Justice Beer and had Murkowski abstain. Jones, Manchin and the others have fallen in line when we’ve needed them to on healthcare, if they need to make symbolic votes in favour of Justice Beer and again the NGD than that’s the price we pay.
There’s some rank hypocracy in people saying we need to get our hands dirty then loosing their shit when the rightward elements of the party make symbolic dirty votes so as to maintain their positions that they use to help people.
Edited by Silasw on Mar 28th 2019 at 2:10:45 PM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran![]()
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Agreed on reforming the system but hard pass on
scrapping the electoral college
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Edited by Spinosegnosaurus77 on Mar 28th 2019 at 10:16:12 AM
Peace is the only battle worth waging.This reminds me of people who claim to want politicians who are willing to compromise, only to flip their shit the moment politicians compromise on things they care about.
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You should be able to get around the paywall by copying the link & opening it in incognito mode. I also added a second link with no paywall.
Edited by Spinosegnosaurus77 on Mar 28th 2019 at 10:17:33 AM
Peace is the only battle worth waging.No, that's why I'm using quotes around high road, cause it's not really the high road. Instead, you have neoliberal and center left politicians like Pelosi, Clinton, Obama, etc. assuming that it is the high road.
"If you spend all your heart / On something that has died / You are not alive and that can't be a life"
Sorry, I was talking to Draghinazzo.
Edited by Spinosegnosaurus77 on Mar 28th 2019 at 10:22:29 AM
Peace is the only battle worth waging.I was responding to Silasw myself. And no, I would definitely get rid of the electoral college, honestly. It's an outdated system that not only inflates and deflates value of certain votes, but actually hurts smaller states as much as it hurts bigger states. Essentially, a system where you can win with just over a quarter of the votes is a bad system.
"If you spend all your heart / On something that has died / You are not alive and that can't be a life"That entire argument seems to just be an appeal to tradition and pointing out that the logical follow though of removing the electoral college is to change the senate so that each state no longer gets an equal number of senators, to which I say, sure, put it on the list.
Sure the electoral college was deeply designed by the founders, good for them, their opinions are not approve reproach, sure it played a key role in stabilising the US (by keeping it together) and avoiding a monarchy, but the breakup of the union and the establishment of a monarchy aren’t real threats anymore.
Like it’s a good history and all (it even points out that the 3/5th compromise was actually anti slavery) but it doesn’t provide any modern reason for keeping the electoral college, just an appeal to tradition.
The closest it gets to a real argument is pointing out that you may get more viable and less insane third party candidates under such a system, which doesn’t seem like a problem to me, though yeah it might be worth not using first past the post if you ever do manage to abolish the electoral college.
X3 What actions exactly were being shot down when the politicans you’ve mentioned bought up the high rode? Because I’m not awere of Pelosi, Obama or similar coming out against restoring the voting rights act, the GND, abolishing the electoral college or any one of the supposed low road ideas.
Also how did Clinton get into this? Neither Clinton is very active politically right now, like Pelosi is the speaker and the Obama’s have been doing tours, but where do either of the Clintons fit into this? It feels like you’re just rattling off the names of Democrats you don’t like and assuming that they oppose progressive policies.
Edited by Silasw on Mar 28th 2019 at 2:31:54 PM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranWon’t getting rid of the EC mean big states like California & NY can essentially decide the election by themselves?
Edited by Spinosegnosaurus77 on Mar 28th 2019 at 10:37:04 AM
Peace is the only battle worth waging.Maybe don’t go totally proportional, maybe split states into three categories based on population, each state gets one senate seat, each state above a certain threshold gets one extra senate seat and each state above another threshold gets another extra senate seat. If you want to keep a minimum of two seats per state than either increase the starting number to two or even have bigger jumps.
So maybe Vest Virginia gets two senate seats, Georgia gets three and California gets four.
If any state gets four or five senate seats maybe change Senator terms to be 8 or 10 years (with six seats you can keep six year terms and jsut have two up every election).
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran

Given the average GOP senator's attention span, I'm surprised he didn't try to make it two minutes.
Disgusted, but not surprised