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Tuesday, August 9, 2022 7:41 AM
SECOND
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Tuesday, August 9, 2022 10:32 AM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Saturday, August 13, 2022 7:35 AM
Sunday, August 14, 2022 6:15 AM
Sunday, August 14, 2022 8:10 AM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Quote:Originally posted by second: I taught my kids about democracy by letting them vote on which movie to watch and pizza to order. And then I picked the movie and pizza I wanted because I'm the one with the money.
Sunday, August 14, 2022 8:15 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: Quote:Originally posted by second: I taught my kids about democracy by letting them vote on which movie to watch and pizza to order. And then I picked the movie and pizza I wanted because I'm the one with the money. I have to wonder ... why do you even bother to virtue-signal? ----------- Pity would be no more, If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
Sunday, August 14, 2022 8:23 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: House passes $700B bill that cuts costs for Medicare, targets tax cheats, boosts green energy
Sunday, August 14, 2022 4:33 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: I taught my kids about democracy by letting them vote on which movie to watch and pizza to order. And then I picked the movie and pizza I wanted because I'm the one with the money. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Monday, August 15, 2022 4:16 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: I have to wonder ... why do you even bother to virtue-signal?
Monday, August 15, 2022 4:45 PM
Monday, August 15, 2022 5:03 PM
JAYNEZTOWN
Wednesday, August 17, 2022 6:08 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: Remember, pity (and many government programs) would be no more (or not so big) if someone were not MAKING someone poor. FDR wasn't supporting "the people" with his government programs, he was trying to save "capitalism" (such as it was) from itself (and the huge wealth inequality it had built up.)
Wednesday, August 17, 2022 6:17 AM
Wednesday, August 17, 2022 9:04 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: it’s just hard to do accurately without sounding a bit left leaning.
Thursday, August 18, 2022 8:16 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Get fucked, Brian. You'll never see Democrats in charge again in your life.
Thursday, August 18, 2022 8:19 AM
Friday, August 19, 2022 6:17 AM
Friday, August 19, 2022 9:15 AM
Friday, August 19, 2022 9:37 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Fuck your Newsspeak. Only Democrat voters are dumb enough to believe anything in that wall of text you wrote above. Good thing for Americans that Democrats will never be in power again once November rolls around.
Friday, August 19, 2022 1:05 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Fuck your Newsspeak. Only Democrat voters are dumb enough to believe anything in that wall of text you wrote above. Good thing for Americans that Democrats will never be in power again once November rolls around.Back in Texas, Trumptards make all kinds of optimistic predictions about the future of Trump and the Republican party. But when the predictions fail, they claim "Fake News" and that Democrats cheated Republicans out of their winnings. That is pretty much why the Democrats I know are at least twice as rich as the Trumptards. Trumptards accusing Democrats of stealing what Trumptards think is theirs is why Trumptards aren't rich. You Trumptards never understand that your relative poverty compared to white Democrats is because Trumptards are stupid, lazy, obnoxious, drunken, poor white trash. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Friday, August 19, 2022 10:25 PM
Saturday, August 20, 2022 8:26 AM
Saturday, August 20, 2022 8:59 AM
Saturday, August 20, 2022 9:34 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: What, are you Joe*'s fluffer now?
Saturday, August 20, 2022 10:14 AM
Saturday, August 20, 2022 11:35 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: President Biden @POTUS tweeted: It's now law that big corporations pay a minimum 15% tax on the profits they report to their shareholders, instead of getting away with paying zero dollars in federal income taxes. 6:00 PM · Aug 18, 2022·The White House https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1560401151941611528 Joe Biden stated on April 7, 2021 in remarks at the White House: “A new, independent study put out last week found that at least 55 of our largest corporations used various loopholes to pay zero federal income tax in 2020.” https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/12/joe-biden/fact-checking-joe-biden-corporation-taxes/ The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Monday, August 22, 2022 5:21 AM
Monday, August 22, 2022 8:49 AM
Monday, August 22, 2022 9:24 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Oh. Rents are high? I didn't notice.
Monday, August 22, 2022 9:31 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Oh. Rents are high? I didn't notice.You would be able to experience what it feels like to be a true Capitalist if you were a landlord. Twelve month leases with an automatic increase of 20% in rent when renewing would give you the experience of seeing desperation in the faces of your tenants confronted with the choice of either moving out or going hungry.
Monday, August 22, 2022 9:34 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Don't pretend to care now. I'm making fun of YOU here.
Monday, August 22, 2022 9:40 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Don't pretend to care now. I'm making fun of YOU here.Capitalism is NOT about caring for people. By the way, if you are the the landlord, never give back the security deposit. Your tenants will use that money to pay for moving out, but you want their next move to be as painful as possible so that they will stay and pay you 20% more than they were paying last month. Capitalism is a beautiful system if you are a landlord (or landlady). The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Monday, August 22, 2022 9:44 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: I've been talking about rent prices along with all the other ways Americans are being financially fucked all year long. You're only finally piping up about it because your Legacy Media Masters have conceded that it is a problem and they finally put together a list of apologistic propaganda for idiots like you to parrot. I figured out all of this was coming decades ago. I didn't know when, but I knew it would. One might argue that I did too good in preparation, giving me a means to destroy myself for 5 years without being thrown out on my own ass without a nickel to my name. But I woke up earlier than most. I'm hoping now that a lot of others are finally waking up they don't go right back to sleep whenever (and if ever) a more competent governing body comes along to fix what the current regime broke.
Monday, August 22, 2022 9:49 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Don't pretend to care now. I'm making fun of YOU here.Capitalism is NOT about caring for people. By the way, if you are the the landlord, never give back the security deposit. Your tenants will use that money to pay for moving out, but you want their next move to be as painful as possible so that they will stay and pay you 20% more than they were paying last month. Capitalism is a beautiful system if you are a landlord (or landlady). The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two We know dude. You hate Capitalism. So what is your alternative suggestion then?
Monday, August 22, 2022 10:16 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: I've been talking about rent prices along with all the other ways Americans are being financially fucked all year long. You're only finally piping up about it because your Legacy Media Masters have conceded that it is a problem and they finally put together a list of apologistic propaganda for idiots like you to parrot. I figured out all of this was coming decades ago. I didn't know when, but I knew it would. One might argue that I did too good in preparation, giving me a means to destroy myself for 5 years without being thrown out on my own ass without a nickel to my name. But I woke up earlier than most. I'm hoping now that a lot of others are finally waking up they don't go right back to sleep whenever (and if ever) a more competent governing body comes along to fix what the current regime broke.I don't think you will ever correctly understand this, but the elected governments in the states of the USA have almost zero control over the Capitalists who actual run the economies of their states. Governments change hands but your vote every other year will change almost nothing because the Capitalists are really in charge, not the government. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Monday, August 22, 2022 10:42 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Capitalism is the best system we've got. The problem now is that we're in a mutated system of Predatory Capitalism, and the regulations and taxes that have been imposed on normal people make it almost insurmountable to start up any potential competition for the big boys because after operating costs, compliance with regulations and the extremely heavy burden for running a small business, there's usually nothing left to make it a worthwhile venture. And that's just for the lucky ones that don't immediately find themselves under water after they made all that money for the Government to spend on dumb shit and/or shit that most Americans don't want any money being spent on.
Tuesday, August 23, 2022 12:03 PM
Tuesday, August 23, 2022 1:22 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: It's so annoying when people use terms they don't understand and couldn't define if challenged: Nazi, fascism, democracy, liberal, freedom, man, woman, racism ... capitalism... Words don't mean whatever you "want" them to mean. Unless there are commonly accepted definitions, communication is impossible. Your examples of "real" capitalism lack the one thing that makes capitalism work better than feudalism or socialism (at least in theory): competition. Bc your "real" capitalists have done all they can to eliminate the competition as much as possible. Some of them produce nothing of value, like Buffet (who got wealthy simply by buying stuff) and Gates (ditto. Gates BTW started out with a million dollars and his mom's contacts into IBM). They could be variously described as monopolists and/or financialists, and - since our government bends over backwards to promote these monopolists, our entire system might be described as fascist or oligarchy, but "capitalism" isn't the word to use.
Tuesday, August 23, 2022 2:56 PM
Tuesday, August 23, 2022 3:09 PM
Tuesday, August 23, 2022 5:56 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: It's so annoying when people use terms they don't understand and couldn't define if challenged: Nazi, fascism, democracy, liberal, freedom, man, woman, racism ... capitalism... Words don't mean whatever you "want" them to mean. Unless there are commonly accepted definitions, communication is impossible. Your examples of "real" capitalism lack the one thing that makes capitalism work better than feudalism or socialism (at least in theory): competition. Bc your "real" capitalists have done all they can to eliminate the competition as much as possible. Some of them produce nothing of value, like Buffet (who got wealthy simply by buying stuff) and Gates (ditto. Gates BTW started out with a million dollars and his mom's contacts into IBM). They could be variously described as monopolists and/or financialists, and - since our government bends over backwards to promote these monopolists, our entire system might be described as fascist or oligarchy, but "capitalism" isn't the word to use.I'll give you some examples of real Capitalism in action. The first is from a news story this week: Two cases of Predatory Capitalism, but unless some external force intervenes, all Capitalism becomes Predatory.
Wednesday, August 24, 2022 8:02 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: Why, you Marxist/Leninist, you! You have just removed all justification for capitalism. And libertarianism, BTW. I've posted... many times... that money and power behave gravitationally (that is,the more they accumulate the more they accumulate). There's no such thing as "trickle down" or "market forces" leading to a happy ending for most people. Thank you for providing stellar examples.
Wednesday, August 24, 2022 8:05 AM
Wednesday, August 24, 2022 8:15 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Since we're talking about free money, Joe* is about to give a bunch of college loans away. Maybe you get that youth back that is pissed off at all of your lies so far, but you're going to lose even more of the blacks and Mexicans than you've already lost, as well as everyone who paid off their college loans. This is a tax break for the most upwardly mobile white youth in the country. Now inflation is going up even higher to pay for this. And if you thought college was expensive before, you ain't seen nothing yet. Democrats are cancer.
Wednesday, August 24, 2022 11:55 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: Why, you Marxist/Leninist, you! You have just removed all justification for capitalism. And libertarianism, BTW. I've posted... many times... that money and power behave gravitationally (that is,the more they accumulate the more they accumulate). There's no such thing as "trickle down" or "market forces" leading to a happy ending for most people. Thank you for providing stellar examples SECOND: Capitalism is no different than electricity:
Wednesday, August 24, 2022 10:39 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: If "capitalism" stayed at the level of small businesses competing against each other there would be no need to guard against it.
Thursday, August 25, 2022 2:56 AM
Thursday, August 25, 2022 6:53 AM
Thursday, August 25, 2022 2:45 PM
Thursday, August 25, 2022 2:48 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Funding the tax police is very good
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