Gotta love a shitty repub SCOTUS. Its awesome.

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Fuck Texas, residents of the state can keep their fucking non-competes if they love them so fucking much… elsewhere let’s move ahead with this fucking awesome policy.

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If your company has PTO hours and you leave your job in Texas they don’t require you get paid out those hours so they are just lost. My coworker learned that. Absolutely need better worker protections across the board and Non-competes getting tossed is huge.

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Honestly, if you’re choosing to live in Texas at this point you should expect to have very few personal rights.

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… do you just expect everybody who lives there to pack up and leave? Even though their entire lives might be there and moving costs a ton?

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22 points

Fuck Texas. Anytime I hear people complain about “Democrat policies” around me, I just wish they’d move to their utopia in Florida, Texas, or any of the other “who’ll come up with the stupidest bullshit freedom-encroaching laws next” red state.

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Workers leaving states like CA for Texas are like anti-vaxxers who think vaccines are stupid because they don’t know anyone with polio.

If our country survives for another couple decades, they’ll be so proud of themselves for “inventing” all the same worker protections they left behind. But not before experiencing their economic polio first hand.

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Rule of law is quickly being destroyed in the US. It’s a full-on coup of lawmaking ability

Congress blocks laws. Agencies can’t make laws. Judges can make laws. President is above the law.

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Everyone should expect to see A LOT more of this ‘lacks authority’ bullshit to regulatory bodies in the wake of the sup court’s Chevron decision and everything else the federalist society’s thinktanks come up with

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Weird cause I’ve got the FTC act right here. Says this:

(a) Declaration of unlawfulness; power to prohibit unfair practices; inapplicability to foreign trade (1) Unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, are hereby declared unlawful.

And then later on it has this whole entire section where it lays out the process for how the FTC is supposed to make rules in regards to unfair or deceptive practices

Except as provided in subsection (h) of this section, the Commission may prescribe– (A) interpretive rules and general statements of policy with respect to unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce (within the meaning of section 45(a)(1) of this title), and (B) rules which define with specificity acts or practices which are unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce (within the meaning of section 45(a)(1) of this title)

And more sections about how they can enforce those rules on individual rule breakers.

Sure sounds like congress was trying to give the FTC the authority to make rules about unfair competition. Both general rules and with “specificity” apparently. Specifically here, non compete agreements have been declared an unfair practice and they followed all rule making procedures as laid out in the law.

https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/statutes/federal-trade-commission-act/ftc_act_incorporatingus_safe_web_act.pdf

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You missed the news where the Supremos say they’re the only regulators that matter now. In the decision before that they legalized bribery.

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Not bribery, just a surprise gift after doing a favor without being promised anything in return! Totally different thing, you guys!! /s

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4 points

You know they’ll start pulling shit like ‘You do this new thing for me and I’ll tip you for that other thing you did for me in the past <wink>’

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A gratuity of 10k. I guess for the corrupt members of the court, $10k and $10 are about the same.

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Yes, theoretically this should be fine even in a post-Chevron environment. Let’s see how it goes, though…

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Federalist Society member, nominated by Trump.

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