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How will they rule ??!


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Marley2

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No one thinks a surgeon should make the same as a ditch digger. But the ditch digger should be paid a living wage. As FDR so eloquently said:

“It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.”

Which is more relevant than ever when thousands of Walmart employees still need government assistance.

Did the revered FDR say to to the Japanese he threw in concentration camps?

Or to the Americans he seized the gold from, priced at 25 an ounce then immediately it went up to 35 an ounce?

FDR, my ***. Joke of a president.
 

Marley2

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I’m on record saying all religions are hilarious, wacky, and dangerous. A bunch of weak minded idiots who need an imaginary friend to either ask for **** or blame **** on. I’m shocked that any functioning adult believes in the idiocy. I know I’ve been way happier since I came to my senses. And that 10% of gross I’ve saved the last 15 years paid off my house. Winning all around.

Funny how you describe yourself for decades as a weak minded idiot.

Spot on, Canuck
 

Fanon

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hey moron ... you are a micro ... not a macro ... so quit bitching and zip your pants up in the front and quit expecting your religion, big government, to do your bidding.
You're both. Not one or the other. Every individual is just what make up the macro statistics. The macro is inherently personal.
 
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Bigmikeydelight

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That's the framework of UBI. Consolidate and update all of these outdated, inefficient, patchwork, relic support systems into one cost of living allotment. Combine Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, SS, and the rest. Universal healthcare, education, and basic income. Everyone has a basic place to live, food to eat, life to live. A base to succeed or fail from. Everything you want you go contribute and earn. On your merit. It's really the meritocracy wet dream all these capitalists say they want. (Which is how you know they're lying about their true intentions, but that's a topic for another post.)
If these technocrats are correct about AI, this concept of being paid to exist will be something everyone needs to be onboard for.
 
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Fanon

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Actually, when our country was at its 'strongest' was before we ever had an income tax and pre federal reserve creation in 1913. Learn something, commie boy. Quot spouting tag lines that sound good.
Empty rhetoric, full of sound and thunder, no substance at all.

Just a liberal leftist sheep bleating about how rough you have it, and it's all Elon's fault.
America was not its strongest ramping up the Gilded Age and about to fall into the Great Depression. It's inarguable. We fell off a cliff of our own making.
 

Fanon

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Can you comprehend that without the evil owners, none if those employees have a job, correct?

How many people work for Elon amd what is the value added to the economy of his companies?

I don't think it matters if he owns 500 billion worth of tesla stock.

You do comprehend if he sells it all, it destroys the company and bankrupts hundreds of thousands of actual workers and investors?
Economic activity has existed throughout all time. You paying fealty to parasitic owners is just the way our economy currently operates, it doesn't encompass all possible economic activity. You're so smallminded.
 
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Fanon

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Karl is on a real heater to end the year. As always, he seeks to make sure everyone has an equal slice of a very small pie. If only he understood why communism always ends in murder. Maybe 2026 will be your year for enlightenment, Karl.
Or yours. Hope springs eternal.
 
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Marley2

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Joe-King

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I believe Dan is spot on...


 

SDC337

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Probably, but this system where 60% of Americans cannot afford a 500 surprise bill sucks too. Gotta figure out that fine line where people feel incentivized to work and also not survive from paycheck to paycheck.

99% of the world can't afford a 500 dollar surprise bill.

If you could create a system where more people could, it would be coupled with less wealth and more misery. Just as you can't fix a country you don't love, can't help people whom you hate, you cannot design a system when you've never designed anything for yourself. You're a government employee, for whom living off the government teat is acceptable... for us, and many others like us, it simply is not. It's the American creed. I am all for helping people who are struggling (my AMERICAN countrymen of all stripes, not your DEI multiculturalism nonsense), but in no way, shape or form am I for people like you deciding what is fair vs. what isn't. It's not for you to decide what my fair share is, and no, we are not accountable to one another. I am not to be held to account by you, or anyone else, and certainly not the the government. We are given certain inalienable rights as outlined by our founding fathers which you are not to infringe upon. You (the government) are not allowed to take these (life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness) away.
 
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SDC337

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Oh i'm there ...

so you only have platitudes ... no REAL plans. you're such a f***ing intellectual coward. put your ideas out there ... details ... HOW will it work? cmon smart guy ... great intellectual ... HOW will you put in a floor? will there be income limits? HOW do you change "contribution" instead of "capital". You make me laugh.
Here's Dion's "plan" ... "i want all people to do what i approve ..."

wait, most people have phones... do they ... gulp ... own phones? or do they own nothing? you're such a tard, you might actually be sam. you're a worthless sack of excrement and a lying, evil hypocrite. you say people own nothing, but you actually ... you know ... own something. LMAO. you're so stupid dion. you really are.

Part of the schtick is just to get under your skin with his ignorance. There can never be real details beyond useless platitudes, never any numbers.

Communists don't know how, even Marx understood this. He needed capitalism to exist first so that he could take from the rich, because there's no hope for socialism to create from the ground up.

As Thatcher(?) said, parparahsed, the problem with socialism taking other people's money is that you eventually run out of people to take from.
 
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SDC337

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At the end of the day you have to advocate and fight for yourself. You can’t waste your energy on boogeymen like Elon musk, who if I’m not mistaken ironically enough is from South Africa which is much poorer than the US. If you work in coal testing you might be working for a large company that offers a 401k which is great. Investing has never been easier or more accessible than it is now, you can download the robinhood app and put money in the s&p 500 right this minute. The average saving rate of an American in this country is 4.7% which is very low. You can’t rely on the government trying to fix it and you can’t waste your energy arguing with old retired guys on the internet who are bored and have nothing else to do. My family and I are immigrants, my father immigrated here when he was 51 without a penny to his name and has done amazing for himself and is ow in his 80s. Whether you’re in Harlan county or Harlem you’re still in the richest country in the world with immeasurable opportunities, but you have to be proactive and fight for them and yourself, and no one is going to help you. Good luck!

You are engaging someone who is having a conversaiont with himself under multiple accounts and multiple distinct personas, fancying himself some sort of ben franklin.

He's an actual admitted Revolutionary Communist. He's a Marxist. Marx admitted his philosophy was a religion to change man. He's literally practicing his religion; thinks he's advancing the socialist "dialectic." Just as you cannot dissuade a religious zealot, talk someone out of their cult beliefs a moment before they drank the Kool aid, you will never be able to talk sense to him: the only people he hates more than you (the successful) are the more successful.

Under socialism, there are no you. Your story never happens.
 

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I keep feeling like there should be a game today. My failing memory says this is one of the longest pre-conference gaps but I could be wrong. Seems like there is always a game between Christmas and New Year's. I'm not sure if this is good or bad especially with Bama on the road next Saturday. Maybe good for Lowe's shoulder.
 

Simple Man

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Its a beautiful day,thank you God.
Think about the fact that we do not wake up worried about if the sun will rise each morning. There is something within us that trusts that the world and the universe are working around us. God is the answer. He made all and He holds everything together. His very breath created everything. How could you be more in awe of Him today?