2020 Election MEGAthread

[BlackBellamy]

Originally Posted by Morton Jr [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

all they do is stay home and do shit on the internet

no hanging out, no mischief, no dating, just cams, drugs and gaming

There's a street that goes through a couple of towns near here, it takes a couple of names, but we just called it "The Ave". We would pile in the bomb, big Chevelle that took six and we would careen down that street and stop every time we saw a girl and try to pick them up with some fake bullshit about a party which would actually be beers by the NJ Transit tracks in the Meadowlands. They knew we were lying but free beer and also passing trains. This was some real Bruce Springsteen shit. We would watch the planes land at Newark, one after the other coming over the giant garbage mounds and radio towers and get stinking drunk and drive back to drop the girls off and help them up their stairs and run back to the car god help you anyone saw they were all like 17.

We did this every Friday and Saturday, well not really but you know. That was the scene. People who had cars that ran would be cruising around and there were kids hanging out everywhere, especially in front of the school or the library or that little park with the cannon in it. You would bullshit with someone and move on, make plans for party later, hop into someone's car for a quick ride to Paterson to score some dirt weed then back to the scene, always more beer runs, finally you wind up with twelve strangers in someone's basement and you pass out and hope you can find a way home all right next day.

That was the late 80s.

Thirty years later the streets are empty. Me and my friends we go for nostalgia rides once in a while, just to go for a ride and bullshit, and we go down the same old streets and there is just no one there. Oh sure, some people. Couples with kids, pushing a carriage, out to get some air, joggers, and a guy on a bicycle. But no children. No young people. Only adult people with a purpose. No one is hanging around, no one is standing or walking just to socialize with other people. The density is one tenth, if that, of what it was. Everyone that drives by just stares straight ahead. There's nothing to look at.

There's no way to make that kind of social change without damage. No way. Not that quickly.

Vote conservative.

[theaetatus]

Originally Posted by BlackBellamy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There's no way to make that kind of social change without damage. No way. Not that quickly.

Vote conservative.

Vote to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. That will surely solve all such social problems!

[douglas1999]

Originally Posted by theaetatus [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Vote to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. That will surely solve all such social problems!

Do you speak entirely in bumper sticker slogans?

The poor of today are much more wealthy than the poor of the past. Rich people being rich does not make poor people poor, that's absurd. Rich people, for one thing, often employ thousands of people. They can't do that without being rich. When you raise taxes on the super wealthy, the government ends up collecting *less* total money, because the rich find legal ways to make their wealth tax exempt to avoid the high taxation. The super wealthy already contribute something like 70% of all federal tax revenue. So go ahead and continue to be jealous and envious and covetous of other people. We should just make you high emperor so you can decree how much money people are allowed to have, comrade.

Far leftists always seem to think that wealth just sort of magically appears, and it's a simple question of how it's distributed "fairly". Wealth is created. A dirt poor immigrant can become incredibly rich by the end of their life in this country, it happens all the time.

[theaetatus]

Originally Posted by douglas1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

A dirt poor immigrant can become incredibly rich by the end of their life in this country, it happens all the time.

Yeah, keep on falling for the same shit people have been falling for for centuries.

If the super rich are getting away with crime, don't bother holding them to account, just accept it. Only the poor are real criminals after all.