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Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

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Post by andrewem »

briandear wrote: post #328
__jal wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unnecessarily bitchy defeatism aside, the answer to your question is the Democratic Party[1]. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/01/cory-...

Republican Rand Paul.. http://reason.com/blog/2016/01/15/rand-paul-says-pot-prohibi... Suggesting the Democrat party wants to decriminalize drugs and drug offenses isn’t entirely accurate. Some people in both parties would like to see that happen. States with vast Democrat majorities haven’t decriminalized drug offenses. Some states have to some degree, but you have to ask, when Democrats has the White House, House a…

Use of "Democrat" rather than "Democratic" in this context is meant as a term of abuse, at least by conservatives who have started using it.

If your goal is to signal that you despise that party, then by all means keep using it here, but it seems closer to the kind of substantive discourse that HN encourages to avoid it.

Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

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Post by mcappleton »

Danihan wrote: post #291

>Attitudes are changing quickly Are they now? Tell me, which political party is planning on decriminalizing drug offenses?

It's not just drug offenses. Now you can go to jail if you speed over 20mph over the speed limit even if your being safe about it

Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

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Post by mcappleton »

Danihan wrote: post #291

>Attitudes are changing quickly Are they now? Tell me, which political party is planning on decriminalizing drug offenses?

It's not just drug offenses. Now you can go to jail if you speed over 20mph over the speed limit even if your being safe about it

Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

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Post by toadi »

nulagrithom wrote: post #32

I went through an IT technical degree at a community college. Three of my classmates were timing their graduation to the year their felony fell off background checks. These guys spent 5 years grinding it out at whatever shit job would hire them just to spend 2 more in school + working with the hope of getting a simple rack & stack job, all because of some mistake they made in their late teens/early twenties. It was t…

Quite weird that background check. We have something like that in Belgium but no employer ever asks for it. They actually never even asked to provide proof of my degree.

Only exception government jobs....

Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

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Post by johnsonjo »

andrewem wrote: post #391
briandear wrote: post #328

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Republican Rand Paul.. http://reason.com/blog/2016/01/15/rand-paul-says-pot-prohibi... Suggesting the Democrat party wants to decriminalize drugs and drug offenses isn’t entirely accurate. Some people in both parties would like to see that happen. States with vast Democrat majorities haven’t decriminalized drug offenses. Some states have to some degree, but you have to ask, when Democrats has the White House, House a…

Use of "Democrat" rather than "Democratic" in this context is meant as a term of abuse, at least by conservatives who have started using it. If your goal is to signal that you despise that party, then by all means keep using it here, but it seems closer to the kind of substantive discourse that HN encourages to avoid it.

I feel more like a Democrat is just a shorter way to say a person in the Democratic Party. It doesn't sound right (to me atleast) to say someone is a Democratic. It may be where I am from but we don't use the term Democratic like that. I hear people around where I live say they are Democrats.

To me the -an suffix on Republican seems to suggest the word is about a person where as the word Democratic seems like it is an adjective so Democrat in my mind just gives it a more personified feel.

Conservatives may use Democrat derogatorily but it's still a useful term and in my opinion shouldn't be banned outright from discourse. Maybe I'm missing the context you were speaking of though.

Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

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Post by dang »

Danihan wrote: post #291

>Attitudes are changing quickly Are they now? Tell me, which political party is planning on decriminalizing drug offenses?

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14912009 and marked it off-topic.

Re: Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

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Post by dang »

ileze wrote: post #330

Sadly, 'round these parts you'll get more tolerance for your status as a felon, then for that of having religious beliefs.

Please don't post like this to HN. It makes the threads so much worse, regardless of how right your point is.

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