Week two:

White House says it deliberately omitted Jews from its Holocaust Remembrance Day Statement.

https://time.com/4652863/white-house-statement-holocaust-remembrance-day/

Donald Trump signs new executive order stating that for every regulation that is implemented, two must be removed. (What the actual fuck is the point of this?) When you start working in the real world, you will understand the point of this. Governments will often implement regulation for political point scoring and nothing else. It complicates things, costs jobs and drives up costs.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-signs-executive-order-requiring-that-for-every-one-new-regulation-two-must-be-revoked-234365

A group of rogue White House staffers are supposedly tweeting White House secrets.

http://bgr.com/2017/01/30/donald-trump-vs-white-house-rogues/

Anonymous sources claim that an executive order allowing anti-LGBTQ discrimination is coming in the next few days. So the government will not force bakeries to make Wedding cakes for events which they disagree with on religious grounds. Bigots have the right to be bigots and private businesses have the right to run their businesses how they want. 

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/01/sources-report-trump-executive-order-lgbtq-community-coming-soon/

Donald Trump's first US military raid kills 30 civilians, including 10 women and children. Terrible news. But on the bright side, now you Lefty lunatics will take an interest in military operations as it will give you the opportunity to harp on about how Trump is "literally Hitler". Lets ignore the fact that drone strikes have been an ongoing thing for the past 8 years.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/donald-trump-us-military-attack-yemen-civilians-women-children-dead-a7553121.html

Here's a harrowing quote from that article;

"The operation began at dawn when a drone bombed the home of Abdulraoof al-Dhahab and then helicopters flew up and unloaded paratroopers at his house and killed everyone inside," said one anonymous resident, in an account of the incident corroborated by Yemeni security staff."

Donald Trump said he wanted to kill the families of suspected terrorists. This was not just a raid gone awry. This was intentional.

Jesus, this entire post is a disaster.

Speaking of the real world, have you ever run a small business? Regulations (anti-monopoly and diversified public contract laws are just a couple of examples) are often critical in protecting those businesses.

This idea that all regulations are bad, or inherently anti-business, is absurd. Indeed, if anything is "political point-scoring", it's signing an executive order that irrationally prevents a government from doing its job.

I actually like Trump a lot.... Lot's of straight talk 

Jesus, this entire post is a disaster.

Speaking of the real world, have you ever run a small business? Regulations (anti-monopoly and diversified public contract laws are just a couple of examples) are often critical in protecting those businesses.

This idea that all regulations are bad, or inherently anti-business, is absurd. Indeed, if anything is "political point-scoring", it's signing an executive order that irrationally prevents a government from doing its job.

So you support segregation then? 

Cinemas should be allowed to force their black customers to sit at the back?

Pubs should be allowed to refuse entry to non-whites?

If your answer is yes, then you're scum - if not, then you're an idiot and your argument is stupid.

Jesus Christ this is full retard.

I doubt you have ever worked in a small business if you think the current level of regulations is good for business. You don't strike me as a particularly intelligent person as you take everything I post to the most extreme element.

At around 1:45 (although the whole lot is a very clever)

Why should someone be forced to make a cake for an event of which they strongly disagree with on religious grounds and do not want to be apart of?

I'm insulting your intelligence because you changed my argument and tried to debate me based on things you said. It seemed idiotic to me.

For the same reason that white cinema/cafe/swimming pool owners in the American south back in the 1960s were rightly forced to serve black customers whom they despised on racial grounds and who might discourage racist white customers from patronising said cinema/cafe/swimming pool.

If religion somehow makes it different (and I don't think it does), would you be ok with a Muslim baker refusing to sell his goods to a Jewish customer?

How mature of you. I didn't change your argument at all.

You argued that Christian bakers had a right to refuse service to gay couples because "bigots have the right to be bigots, private businesses have the right to run their businesses how they want." 

That principle is exactly the same one used to defend racist segregation.

For the same reason that white cinema/cafe/swimming pool owners in the American south back in the 1960s were rightly forced to serve black customers whom they despised on racial grounds and who might discourage racist white customers from patronising said cinema/cafe/swimming pool.

If religion somehow makes it different (and I don't think it does), would you be ok with a Muslim baker refusing to sell his goods to a Jewish customer?

I doubt you have ever worked in a small business if you think the current level of regulations is good for business. You don't strike me as a particularly intelligent person as you take everything I post to the most extreme element.

Why should someone be forced to make a cake for an event of which they strongly disagree with on religious grounds and do not want to be apart of?

The incident you are referring to wasn't a case of a Christian bakery refusing to serve a gay couple because they were gay. It was a Christian bakery refusing to make a particular cake which contain a script in which the bakers felt was offensive. It's their business and they can conduct their business in the way which they feel is acceptable. They didn't refuse to make the cake, they refused to add the wording on the cake. I don't agree with their point of view or their business practice but I agree with their right to conduct the operation of their business how they see fit. It really does go without saying that there business should be run in accordance with the law but I think you might need me to spell that out for you.

Ok, let's take a more specific example.

Do you think a baker should be allowed to refuse to make a wedding cake for an interracial couple, because his views/religion are against miscegenation?

(It also does come down to denial of service - the gay couple aren't there to buy a chocolate eclair, they're there to buy a wedding cake, and that service is being refused to them because it would involve the baker writing stuff that triggers their religious sensibilities)

I work for a small-mid sized companies (30-40 employees) and fair work Australia and its laws have bent us over.

We had a graduate engineer crash a work car doing $3k damage. He is not obligated to pay and we cannot legally withhold his pay. He left the company and refuses to pay us a cent for hitting a tree stump in the car. Typical millennial fuckwit.

Also, really, is it that difficult to have a measured and polite discussion about something?

Surely you can have a discussion on the internet without resorting to insulting my intelligence/being condescending/calling me a troll. 

This is why ET has gone to shit.

If your company doesn't carry insurance for this sort of thing then they are the "fuckwits" as you so charmingly put it.