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[DinoTriz]

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

honestly yes. i misjudged you. very mad at myself.

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[JurisDictum]

My worry is politicians telling their constituents that they should be harassing people who have differing opinions.

That's pretty broad and subjective isn't it?

[mickmoranis]

with every dunk I post thats ignored, i become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.

[JurisDictum]

Time is your most valuable resource. And wasting our time is how the media and their buddies in Washington keep us all in-line.

There is only so much air space or time to consider things in every election. The media is working hard to make sure we waste it all on inconsequential toothless bullshit -- every 2 years.

[JurisDictum]

Want to Expand the Economy? Tax the Rich!

Altogether, corporate America has announced more than 140,000 job cuts since the 2017 Republican Tax Act passed—nearly 87,000 shed by Fortune 500 companies alone—while sharing just 9 percent of its $76 billion tax windfall in the form of wage hikes and one-time bonuses. But to quibble over jobs and wages would be to entirely miss the point. Wealthy shareholders like me? We’re doing great, thanks to an astonishing $480 billion (and counting!) in stock buybacks announced since the Tax Act’s passage—more than 68 times the return to workers. By that metric, the tax cuts are working exactly as intended.

Of course, nearly everyone knew the Republican tax plan was just another trickle-down scam—a massive and destructive financial giveaway masquerading as pro-growth tax reform. But as disreputable as the trickle-down brand has become, its economic narrative remains so deeply rooted in our national politics that Republicans can still run and expect to win on tax cuts, despite the predictably dismal results.

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As a venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur who’s made a personal fortune founding or funding more than 30 companies, I can tell you firsthand that this classic trickle-down narrative represents more than just a fundamental misunderstanding of how market capitalism works; it is in fact a con job and a threat—an intimidation tactic posing as a theory of growth. The con works like this: If we can get you to believe these three things—that if you raise taxes on the rich, we’ll refuse to invest; that if you regulate corporations, they’ll be less competitive; and that if you raise the minimum wage, we’ll hire fewer workers—then you will accede, to some degree or another, to a 1 percent–enriching trickle-down agenda of tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation of the powerful, and wage suppression for everyone else. Yet despite these claims, what you’ll never get from trickle-down is faster growth and better jobs. Because economic growth doesn’t come from making the rich richer; it comes from making the middle class and working people generally stronger.

But the media would rather us talk about a fucking Mexican restaurant. Giving a chance to lionize some Democrat-whos-name-I-already-forgot.

[JurisDictum]

Time is what is being taken from Americans. Even moreso than material comforts. We have the longest working week in the developed world. Least amount of vaction time and no guaranteed leave. Almost no recourse if you get fired unless you get your boss calling you a faggot in writing or something.

The shareholder class seems to rallying to make us all have less time. This is done by making sure workers rights continue to be non-existent...and people are ever more desperate for money. No healthcare, education, training, or living minimum wage is on the menu.

They don't want anyone to starve -- they just want everyone to be so busy and desperate for a little dough so they can't think.

Living expenses keep rising. Wages keep falling. Education is declining. Automation is coming.

The rich are building luxury bomb shelters for apocalyptic scenarios.

[DinoTriz]

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

Time is what is being taken from Americans. Even moreso than material comforts. We have the longest working week in the developed world. Least amount of vaction time and no guaranteed leave. Almost no recourse if you get fired unless you get your boss calling you a faggot in writing or something.

The shareholder class seems to rallying to make us all have less time. This is done by making sure workers rights continue to be non-existent...and people are ever more desperate for money. No healthcare, education, training, or living minimum wage is on the menu.

They don't want anyone to starve -- they just want everyone to be so busy and desperate for a little dough so they can't think.

Living expenses keep rising. Wages keep falling. Education is declining. Automation is coming.

The rich are building luxury bomb shelters for apocalyptic scenarios.

Are the mega rich comparable to say, the elite guilds of P99 that have all the raid targets on lockdown?

I'm a causal player myself, but I'd like to get my hands on some VP loot.

Am I part of the P99%?

[AzzarTheGod]

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

Winning is more important.
We are told what to believe, and how to believe.
Getting our "own way" is more important. (the way we are told and taught to think)


Backing poor disenfranchised suffering people up against a wall and enabling bigotry and hatred is a surefire way to get a bloodbath.

Everyone behind Trumps administration want a bloodbath. They think they are bigger scarier and manlier than everyone else. They have been brainwashed to believe they'll win in a bloodbath. They've already decided that they know best and everyone else doesn't matter. Our lives do not matter. It's silly to hold any pretense that they care about me, or you. They will lie, and say they do. They'll say think of the children when railing against queers and using us as boogeymen. But they could care less how many children like me end up casualties in their ideological war.

America is selfish. Greedy. Sexist. Racist. Patriarchal. Fearful. Hateful. Might makes right. She's blind. Her justice serves corporations. Her laws enable monopolies and antitrust and unholy usury.

America is satanic. Christian America is infested with Satanism. The devil lives in the hearts and minds of the Christian right under Mike Pence.

Thanks for speaking up Zodium. Get rich. Get power. Vote. Fire these people. Deny them healthcare. Kick them out into the streets. Shut them down and destroy the corporations like Facebook that feed them.

Good luck, and God bless.

pulle a bus`e li`que a leug fore a p ` yound

m` hy offe s`ye geek en

[JurisDictum]

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

Are the mega rich comparable to say, the elite guilds of P99 that have all the raid targets on lockdown?

I'm a causal player myself, but I'd like to get my hands on some VP loot.

Am I part of the P99%?

Yes.

And you should be aware the internal policies of those guilds are rigged so that the "trackers" get 80% of the loot (at least the best loot). Chances are the top trackers are cheating and probably know the spawn times.

p99 is an interesting microcosm of the real world.

[DinoTriz]

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

pulle a bus`e li`que a leug fore a p ` yound

m` hy offe s`ye geek en

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