US Joe Biden News Megathread - The Other Biden Derangement Syndrome Thread (with a side order of Fauci Derangement Syndrome)

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Let's pretend for one moment that he does die before the election, just for the funsies. What happens then? Will the nomination revert to option number 2, aka Bernie Sanders? Or will his running mate automatically replace him just the way Vice-President is supposted to step in after the Big Man in the White House chokes on a piece of matzo? Does he even have a running mate yet?
 
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Overly Serious said:
You get some autistic people who are really good at focusing on a task and that's handy for programming. But it's not like that's limited to autism.
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the difference is that you can work autists to near death without them complaining. no social life and nobody to talk to comes in real handy if you work your monkeys 60 hours a week-
 
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Target won't admit the real reason will they?
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Company officials cited improved remote work opportunities and less need for space as the drivers for the decision.

"In just one year we've proven that we can drive incredible results, together, from our kitchens and basements and living rooms," said Melissa Kremer, executive vice president and leader of Target’s human resources operations.

Target, the largest employer in Minneapolis with some 8,500 corporate workers, says the 3,500 employees who work at the City Center will still have a “home base,” but it will be at another Minneapolis location or in the nearby suburb of Brooklyn Park.
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A Story of Capital Flight?​

On one hand, there is little reason to doubt Target’s explanation for abandoning its headquarters. Many anticipated that the pandemic would lead to a normalization of remote work
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Part of that shift, it’s reasonable to assume, would be corporations moving away from high-end corporate real estate. Yet it also shouldn’t be forgotten (or ignored) that Target’s decision comes less than a year after Minneapolis suffered some of the worst riots in US history, prompted by the May 25 death of George Floyd.

The riots—which broke out after a video went viral showing police pinning Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, to the ground for nearly nine minutes before he died—caused an estimated $2 billion in damage.

Though Target made no mention of the riots in its announcement, last summer I noted that an abundance of evidence suggested that the economic damage of the riots would persist long after the wreckage had cleared.

“Economic research and basic economic theory indicate that local residents will suffer from myriad cascading consequences ranging from business flight, reduced capital investment, higher insurance costs, and lower property values. All of these effects will be especially hard on underprivileged communities,” I wrote.

That observation was prompted after a Minneapolis business owner announced he was leaving the city after he was forced to watch his business burn to the ground.

“The fire engine was just sitting there, but they wouldn’t do anything,” the business owner, Kris Wyrobek, told The Star Tribune.

Research Shows Riots Have Severe Economic Consequences​

Perhaps the most compelling data we have regarding the economic impact of riots come from a 2004 National Bureau of Economic Research paper authored by economists William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo. Examining census data from 1950 to 1980, their research concluded that the 1960s riots had a profound and pervasive negative impact on property values, particularly on black-owned properties.

“Using both city-level and household-level data, we find negative, persistent, and economically significant correlations between riot severity and black-owned property values,” wrote Collins and Margo. “[T]here was little or no rebound during the 1970s.”

Moreover, a separate 2004 study on the 1992 LA riots found that the riots accounted for a loss of economic activity that cost the city $3.8 billion in taxable sales and some $125 million in direct sales tax revenue.

Economist Victor Matheson, one of the authors of the study, noted it took more than a decade for economic activity to return to previous levels in the affected areas.



The takeaway is clear. Riots have a severe impact on capital investment and commercial decisions, and these impacts tend to hit the poor the hardest.

Violence as a Legitimate form of Political​

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say it with me white flight strikes again :story:
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God of Nothing said:
Everytime a hood nigger and white apologist gets their wish, the most beautiful remorse comes afterward for everyone with sense to laugh at.
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Corpun said:
Target won't admit the real reason will they?
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verissimus said:
Unless they got some bail-out money I'm not aware of, I highly doubt they did this just because of the rioting.
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So is Minneapolis due to become the next Detroit?
 
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lol openly at any copefag who doesn't recognize this is because
1. Target had their stores fucking looted and demolished last year. Sure, insurance probably covered a lot,
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2. They know that the chimpout which will occur when Chauvin either gets a slap on the wrist or doesn't get life in prison will make the Summer o Love '20 look like a walk through the daisies.
 
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