I left the US 4 years ago and make about 40 percent more in Melbourne than I ever did in Fairfield county, Connecticut. I didn't even have to try. An added bonus was 4 weeks paid leave to start.

Raises and bonuses are almost unheard-of in the IT industry in America.

Actually, pretty much exactly what happened.

Libertarianism isn't "the truth". It's exchanging one form of tyranny (the federal government) for thousands of others with far less accountability (corporations.)

Sadly, I absolutely do not trust the US to make the correct decision in this case. IP law in America needs to be nuked from orbit and rebuilt from scratch, and the prevailing attitude there right now doesn't seem to be amenable to something like that.

It's nice that my former country had a "secret killing program" in Iraq.

Fuck, I'm glad I left.

Don't forget about the right-wing anonymous retards throwing out their standard liberal insults!

Oh, I see you didn't forget.

This is a roundabout way of saying "the stock market is a cancer and needs to be abolished." If your lone justification for doing something is because your shitty shareholders will sue you otherwise, something is wrong.

Hell, these days, Richard Nixon would be considered a Marxist. That's how far to the right the Overton window has shifted in the US. It's truly terrifying.

What's even funnier is, I bet half the members on the investigating committee have paid for a hooker on the taxpayer's dime before, too.

Go fuck yourself, you right-wing imbecile.