Frisco’s workers banned from doing business with some states

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21 Oct 2019, 5:43 pm

I think that's all bullcrap.

We should always have a free business environment, though regulated.

I feel this is playing into Trump's hands, actually.....making places like New York and San Francisco seem like "radical bastions."



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21 Oct 2019, 5:49 pm

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Looks like it's time to move my holdings from San Francisco to Chicago.

Sure, if you don't like the laws in another state, ask for voluntary boycotts; but legislating people's behavior on moral grounds smacks of religious conservatism, even though San Franscisco's government is protesting anti-abortion laws.


I thought this was a women's rights issue, not a moral one?


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21 Oct 2019, 5:50 pm

Are we about to have customs and border patrol agencies set up by the 50 state governments to say sorry, you are in California, you can't bring in a package from Alabama or vice versa?



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21 Oct 2019, 5:52 pm

This kind of stuff happened under the Articles of Confederation.

That's why a Constitutional Convention was called which resulted, of course, in our Constitution.



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21 Oct 2019, 5:57 pm

I know about Confederate times, I have seen the currency used during that time when all states had separate systems and it was harder to spend a new York dollar in Alabama then than trying to spend a yen in the US today. I wasn't sure if we were on the verge of revisiting those times today.



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21 Oct 2019, 5:59 pm

I don't mean the Confederacy which was in rebellion against the Union during the Civil War.

I mean the basis from which the United States was governed BEFORE the Constitution. That document was known as the "Articles of Confederation." Each state happened to have a different currency then, too. It became ridiculous.

The Constitution was ratified in 1789. This means we were not governed under the Constitution for 13 years until 1789.



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21 Oct 2019, 6:03 pm

Oh, I misunderstood you. But I still think that the civil war policy is relevant as a question of are we on the verge of having history repeat itself.



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21 Oct 2019, 6:05 pm

I feel like giving too much power to the states can potentially create LOTS of problems.

You are right about the "learning from history" part.



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21 Oct 2019, 6:18 pm

I am waiting to start seeing advertising for the new Cali Credit Card!

*Not valid in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and several other states.

**It is not known if this product could potentially be the cause of cancer.



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21 Oct 2019, 6:19 pm

Yep...and New York State will have a new currency: called "Empires."



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21 Oct 2019, 6:21 pm

Atleast your Empires wouldn't have the cancer risk of the Cali Card



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21 Oct 2019, 9:39 pm

why can't SF do business with whom it chooses to do business? why MUST it do business with rightie places?



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21 Oct 2019, 9:44 pm

You might have a liberal who happens to own a business in a conservative state.



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21 Oct 2019, 9:44 pm

auntblabby wrote:
why can't SF do business with whom it chooses to do business? why MUST it do business with rightie places?

Because public workers are suppose to be working for the public, and not themselves.


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21 Oct 2019, 10:34 pm

they are working for me too, i'm not chopped liver no matter what you think, and if i were a resident i would object to my tax dollars supporting that anti-abortion mess.



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22 Oct 2019, 5:31 am

Fnord wrote:
Bravo5150 wrote:
A rainbow flag in general doesn't surprise me. I was specifying a rainbow Confederate flag to make it a more personalize thing against all of the southern states.
I can't even imagine what that would look like!

It's kinda like trying to imagine a Nazi flag with a peace sign where the swastika would be -- it just doesn't seem right somehow.

The internet can help you with that. You can find simply a rainbow confederate flag, and there are some other interesting examples, such as this:

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Just needs a rainbow hammer and sickle in the middle as well. :mrgreen: