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Venezuela just enacted a 3,500% increase to salaries and are not allowing businesses to increase the cost of goods and services to cover the increased wages. This is resulting in 40% of businesses simply shutting down due to an inability to function. Many people in the US advocate for higher minimum wages but there are those who say simply increasing wages will only hurt and not solve any problems. Recently Alexandria Ocasio Cortez lamented the closing of her old job, however the coffee shop closed because they couldnt cover the cost of increasing wages, something that Cortez actually supports. Will increasing the minimum wage help or hurt in the long run? Unfortunately current data is conflicting. Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recently at a conference the Dalai Lama, a renowned spiritual and world leader, said that "Europe Belongs to Europeans" and that refugees should go home and rebuild their own countries. The comment was made following large gains by Sweden Democrats, who are considered to be Sweden's "far right party" Naturally this comment sparked outrage with people calling the Dalai Lama a "bigot of the first order" due the comments similarities to nationalist talking points. But if Europe does not belong to Europeans then who does it belong to? Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new law would require companies to maintain a minimum amount of women on their corporate boards. Many argue that discrimination is keeping women out of STEM fields while others argue that men are just more interested or more likely to take these jobs. Regardless of why, California has passed a bill mandating companies promote and hire women to their boards. Is this just social justice gone too far or are women really being held back by discrimination that a feminist push could alleviate? Was this the right move or will it just make things worse? Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A google video leak shows just how biased they really are but even after numerous examples of social media being biased against conservatives Republican politicians do almost nothing to combat this. A new forecast from Nate Silver shows that Democrats will take the House. As republicans ignore the bias from massive tech giants they are free to push far left ideology unabated. So long as "social justice warriors" and the far left reap benefits from these tech companies they will never call them out for manipulating public discourse. Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Norm Macdonald's appearance on the Tonight Show was canceled because he made tepid comments about the MeToo movement. All he simply said was that it was good that things slowed down because some innocent people have faced the brunt of false allegations. Some say this is Social Justice Warriors going to far and others say he made rude and "ton-deaf" comments and should have his Netflix show canceled. But for me, This story , Aziz Ansari's Story, Hardwick's story, and The Asia Argento Scandal say to me that things have gone too far and need to be criticized. Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A comic was published depicted Serena Williams as having a temper tantrum and people are decrying the comic as a racist caricature. But what exactly makes it racist? We are now even hearing that umpires may boycott Serena over her sexism claims after the US Open Final. Is this issue really about gender and race or is it about someone breaking the rules and complaining about it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBynDg1TnQI&list=PLxQaod7tWvYIujAxNsDkb6iP-S9wTKS4W Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Serena Williams broke the rules and was penalized for it but she says that men get away with breaking the rules all the time. Following the match she decried what she says is sexism and many agree. However when I look into archives I can see that Serena has a history of bad behavior, men do get penalized, and so do other women. Why would this incident be worse than others? Is this an incident of unreasonable feminist "social just warriors" in action or a just and honorable call out of bigoted behavior from the ump? Sexism in Tennis does exist and we have even seen recent examples, but is it fair to say this incident was the same? Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vox typically takes the stance that differences in race based statistics are due to environmental factors. But in the past they have published a few op-eds that argued in favor of race realist beliefs but simply argued they were morally wrong to pursue. We have had a few issues of political take downs of scientific articles in the past week or so and this led me to look at why the Left would push for articles to be unpublished. It would seem that even though they might agree with the science they view it as morally wrong. Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nike sales are up and people are claiming that this is proof they did the right thing with hiring Colin Kaepernick. But market research data shows that ALL demographics, even democrats, view Nike less favorably following their campaign. The controversy may have resulted in a temporary sales increase but this may be due to tribalists buying products to show support. It would seem that by entering the culture war on the side of Social Justice they have only damaged their image in the long term. Even among Democrats Nike favorability has declined. They sacrificed their entire Republican base on this campaign and even Gen Z and the Democrats have pulled back. Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yesterday Twitter gave advanced notice to CNN about a story they are a subject of allowing them to break the news on a controversy they pushed for Darcy said Jones was only banned due to media pressure which means CNN profited off of an issue they created Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices