The Goat Pen

hedge wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 5:25 pm "I am ally of the women here."

You're a vocal opponent of abortion rights yet you claim to be an ally to women?

innocentbystander wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 5:52 pm

hedge wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 5:25 pm "I am ally of the women here."

You're a vocal opponent of abortion rights yet you claim to be an ally to women?

Yes. There is NO contradiction.

You think Amy Coney Barrett wants women to have the right to abort their children in utero? She is a woman. What, does her position on abortion make her an enemy of herself?

DooKSucks wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 5:57 pm

innocentbystander wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 5:52 pm

hedge wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 5:25 pm "I am ally of the women here."

You're a vocal opponent of abortion rights yet you claim to be an ally to women?

Yes. There is NO contradiction.

You think Amy Coney Barrett wants women to have the right to abort their children in utero? She is a woman. What, does her position on abortion make her an enemy of herself?

There were many Jews who collaborated with the Nazi’s.

DooKSucks wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 8:12 pm Thanks, Adolph.

DooKSucks wrote: ↑Wed Dec 08, 2021 12:40 pm The Nazi’s didn’t ban gun ownership despite your right wing fantasy to the contrary.

The 1938 German Weapons Act, the precursor of the current weapons law, superseded the 1928 law. As under the 1928 law, citizens were required to have a permit to carry a firearm and a separate permit to acquire a firearm. But under the new law:

Gun restriction laws applied only to handguns, not to long guns or ammunition. The 1938 revisions completely deregulated the acquisition and transfer of rifles and shotguns, and the possession of ammunition.[8]
The legal age at which guns could be purchased was lowered from 20 to 18.[9][10]
Permits were valid for three years, rather than one year.[9]
Holders of annual hunting permits, government workers, and NSDAP (the National Socialist German Workers' Party) members were no longer subject to gun ownership restrictions. Prior to the 1938 law, only officials of the central government, the states, and employees of the German Reichsbahn Railways were exempted.[8]
Manufacture of arms and ammunition continued to require a permit, with the proviso that such permits would no longer be issued to any company even partly owned by Jews; Jews could not manufacture or deal in firearms or ammunition.[8]
Under both the 1928 and 1938 acts, gun manufacturers and dealers were required to maintain records about purchasers of guns, with serial numbers. These records were to be delivered to a police authority for inspection at the end of each year.

The 1938 Regulations Against Jews' Possession of Weapons, which came into force the day after Kristallnacht,[11][12] effectively deprived all Jews living under the Third Reich within the occupied Sudetenland and Austria of the right to possess any form of weapons, including truncheons, knives, firearms and ammunition. Exceptions were made for Jews and Poles who were foreign nationals under §3 of the act.[13] Before that, some police forces used the pre-existing "trustworthiness" clause to disarm Jews on the basis that "the Jewish population 'cannot be regarded as trustworthy'".[8]

Gun laws in Nazi Germany have been the subject of debate in the United States over gun regulations, with various opponents of gun regulation arguing that gun regulations in Nazi Germany helped the Nazis to cement power or to implement the Holocaust. Fact-checkers have described these claims or theories as "false" or "debunked".[14][15][16] On the whole, gun laws were actually made less stringent for German citizens who were loyal to Nazi rule.[10][14]

At no point between the mild recession in 2001 and the Great Recession did the number of job openings exceed the number of unemployed persons. During the Great Recession, the number of job openings decreased, and the number of unemployed persons increased. Both happened steadily throughout the entire 18-month recession, with unemployed persons increasing faster than job openings were declining.

The gap between them reached its apex in October 2009, when there were nearly 13 million more unemployed persons than job openings. It gradually closed over the next eight years, finally disappearing in January 2018. (You may remember this talking point from the Trump administration: We had more jobs than people to fill them.) Things had seemed to stabilize at a little over 1 million more job openings than unemployed persons.

Then the pandemic recession hit. The number of unemployed persons jumped from about 6 million in February 2020 to 23 million in April 2020. The number of job openings fell from 7 million to 4.5 million over the same span. That was normal recession behavior, direction-wise: The number of unemployed persons goes up, and the number of job openings goes down.

But things have snapped back in a very unusual way. By May 2021, only twelve months after the end of the pandemic recession, there were already more job openings than unemployed persons. What took 103 months after the Great Recession only took twelve months after the COVID recession. And the gap is already much larger than it was before the pandemic: There are almost 3 million more job openings than unemployed persons.