And yet, when pressed on how to solve the living wage issue, you balk at the idea of the government asking corporations and the obscenely wealthy to give up a small fraction of their profits as a means of more fairly compensating the exploited worker class for their labor.
Who do you think deserves a bigger slice of the billions of dollars that Amazon rakes in every year: Jeff Bezos or the thousands of workers in Amazon warehouses whose very presence determines whether Amazon stays in business?
The age of the country is irrelevant. It has been around long enough to see what works in other countries. Public healthcare works in every country that has it—maybe not with 100% efficiency, but it works. The only difference between the U.S. and those countries is our leaders have convinced the general population that nationalized healthcare is luxury gay space communism that can never work anywhere (except for icky socialist countries like, y’know, Canada).
the ‘ruling’ party only cares about the top or the bottom
That’s cute, that you think the people who rule this country give a fuck about the poor. If that were true, we wouldn’t have food deserts and homelessness and practically every other side effect of poverty and the extreme wealth gap that compounds the issues of poverty.
Living wage is good. You don’t do that
…by making wages stand still for a couple of decades and waiting for the benevolence of corporations and the obscenely wealthy to “trickle down”. You do it by making those entities pay their fair share in taxes and pay a living wage to the people whose labor is exploited for those massive corporate profits.
If Jeff Bezos stopped working, Amazon would keep going. If Amazon’s lowest earners stopped working, Amazon would die. Who deserves a better wage: Bezos or the people killing themselves in Amazon warehouses? Knowing you, you’d say “the workers, but not at the cost of corporate profits”. In which case, I’d ask you a simple question: Where the fuck do you think the money to pay better wages is going to fucking come from?
$10/hr in southern Missouri or northern Arizona is very different from NYC. Or LA.
The opportunities affored to people in southern Missouri are hardly equal to the opportunities afforded to people in cities like Los Angeles. $10 per hour may go a little farther in one place than the other, but unless the prices for everything are lower in one than the other, $10 per hour is still not a living wage. (At this point, if wages kept pace with inflation, a living wage would be $20 per hour.)
nobody wants to look at the problem.
You’re right: Nobody wants to tell corporations and the obscenely wealthy that their hoarding of wealth is contributing to increased poverty and the negative effects thereof.
…well, nobody in the government (or the corporations) with the power to do something about it, anyway.
That you would refer to the obscenely wealthy paying their fair share in taxes and paying a livable wage to the people they exploit as theft of any kind is sad. I mean, you do know that kissing rich ass isn’t going to make you rich, right? They’d sooner kill you and hold a press conference about their having killed you.
You talk about our politics and think we don’t have a left.
The Republicans are heavily right—I’m talking humping-against-fascism right—and the Democrats are, by and large, right-leaning centrists. (Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are not representative of the party as a whole no matter how much you want to believe otherwise.) The U.S. doesn’t have a meaningful leftist presence in politics; saying otherwise is ignoring facts.
The economy didn’t collapse back down until blue states shut down.
Maybe those shutdowns had to do with a viral disease that the Trump administration didn’t give a shit about until thousands of people had died. And let’s not forget that Trump himself threatened (on more than one occasion) to withhold government funding from “blue states” for whatever reason he thought would make his base angrier at Democrats.
We have long been one of the largest international investors and walk away with the fewest benefits of being so.
What the fuck benefits do you want—control over other countries?
Instructs the US to disassemble it’s energy and industrial sectors while China goes on being the largest polluter 3-fold.
20 other countries join the U.S. and China in being responsible for more pollution than damn near the rest of the world combined. And nobody has ever asked the U.S. to “dismantle [its] energy and industrial sectors”—only to make them more clean so the U.S. can help prevent the worst effects of (the now-unstoppable) global climate change taking place as we speak.
For all the internal fighting most of us are still glad to be American.
I’m happy to live in this country—but I’m not going to kiss its ass and pretend everything is awesome. I am an American, and my duty as a citizen is to dissent, to criticize, to shittalk both this country and its leaders so the nation can strive to become a more perfect union.
If that means criticizing a man who spent four years trying to find a way to become a king—and all of his shithead supporters, including the ones who rioted against actual goddamn American democracy—so be it. If that means criticizing a man who is either unwilling or unable to make two Democrats-in-name-only U.S. Senators blow up the filibuster for the sake of protecting voting rights, so be it.
And if that means pointing out that there is no significant leftist presence in American politics—which would sure as hell explain things like the lack of desire from the supposed “leftists” in government to play hardball against right-wing proto-fascists instead of trying to compromise with them—then so motherfucking be it.
Now let’s see you be equally as critical of your goddamned demigod Donald Trump, you fascist-supporting cunt.
You can show that you bought a license; you haven’t proven that the license was legally valid. You’re still a criminal under your “all copying is infringement” logic, and you should burn alongside all the other sinners you want burned in your holy crusade, you son of a bitch.
your solution is to make sure the businesses left go out of business creating more unemployed AND increase the cost of living for them at the same time?
Maybe they wouldn’t be going out of business if mega-corporations would stop raising prices on everything so they can keep making tens of billions of dollars in profit instead of single-digit billions of dollars in profit.
Maybe they wouldn’t be going out of business if mega-corporations also raised wages so that people could afford to buy things other than the bare necessities in life (if even that).
Maybe they wouldn’t be going out of business if people like you would stop kissing corporate ass because you think people worth billions of dollars—people who didn’t do nearly the same amount of work to “earn” their obscene wealth as people who earn minimum wage put in to earn even that pittance—don’t deserve to be “punished” for their success(ful exploitation of the lower class).
But sure, all these businesses are being driven out of business because of people who want to be paid a wage that lets them worry less about being one bad day away from homelessness~. That’s gotta be the root cause~. Can’t be all that other shit I said~.
What’s sad is that Project Veritas can now use this situation as a pretext to grift gullible moro…I mean, fundraise for future bullshit stories by (somewhat accurately) claiming persecution at the hands of Democrats. Even when they “lose”, they win.
Your goal to crush anyone not in New York, La, Chicago
My goal, such as it can be, is to improve the lives of the marginalized and less fortunate—regardless of where they live. A queer person in Bumfuck, Arkansas deserves the same chance at living a fulfilling life as does a straight person living in New York City. A poor Black person in Chicago deserves as much of a chance at success as does a rich White person in some “Bible Belt” town in the deep South.
My problem with people who oppose this ideology—the ideology of society, of cooperation, of working together to raise up as many people as possible—is that they’re big believers in the “fuck you got mine” mindset. You yourself have admitted to being someone who literally can’t be bothered to give even a single fuck about the same society in which you live. You’ve advocated, even if only by implication, for widening the wealth gap and further marginalizing trans people (among other horrid positions) because you admit you don’t give a fuck about the poor and the marginalized.
Hell, in the comments on this article alone, you’re acting like people who want to see the federal minimum wage raised to something approaching a living wage are bastards trying to install luxury gay space communism and guillotine everyone making over $100,000 a year or some shit. I’m someone who wants the minimum wage raised for the sake of the poor and the marginalized who could use that money to improve their lives, and you think that’s a horrible mindset to have.
Policies that help the poor can help poor people who disagree with me, and I’m okay with that. Policies that protect the marginalized from discrimination can also protect the majority, and I’m okay with that. You’re the one who has a problem with and a government willing to take care of its least well-off peoples and…how did you put it…oh yeah, “too many protections” for the marginalized. Our government should want to care for and protect those people; policies and politics that make the lives of those people worse are abhorrent and immoral.
You have no compassion, no empathy, and no remorse for lacking both those qualities. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your blackhearted soul.
all the employers willing to pay a living wage have been driven out of business by those corporations who refuse to do so, thus ensuring that they have to scrape by on food stamps
Side note to this logic: Any company whose employees are on food stamps is the entity being subsidized by the food stamps program.
All you did was make things more expensive for those that are poor.
I didn’t do that; corporations did. They’re the entities who see their profits—and the continued growth thereof—as more important than paying people a wage that lets them live at least a metaphorical inch above the poverty line. They’re the ones raising prices on their products to keep profit margins high even as some of their lowest-paid employees work multiple full-time jobs for the sake of staying alive. They’re the entities that refuse to cut the obscene multi-million-dollar salaries of their executives in favor of paying a fair wage to the workers who do the heavy lifting that keeps those corporations afloat. (The CEO of McDonald’s isn’t going to serve food to millions of people around the world all by himself, after all.)
You’re so enamored with the idea of “fuck you got mine” economics and protecting the obscene wealth of people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos that you’re unable to see how those people don’t need to hoard billions of dollars in their bank accounts and stocks and whatnot every year. If a company that makes several billion dollars per year loses less than a billion dollars in profit as a result of paying employees a living wage, for what reason does that company legitimately need to raise prices on its products other than pure, unadulterated, “fuck you got mine” greed?
Because unlike you, I’m aware of Scott Cawthon’s work and familiar with the design of the Springtrap character you ripped off. You’re still a criminal under your logic.
I have to wonder who would be the arbiter of what is true under such a law. Will it be you? Will it be the president? Will it be the 1989 Denver Broncos?
Would you have the police involved, such that they can arrest people for their speech? And what would the punishment be for lying on the Internet under this law—a fine, a jail sentence, or worse?
You think you want this law, but were it made an actual law, you’d likely be in its crosshairs the moment it goes into effect. Sit with that thought for a while.
Why Rockstar and Take-Two would want to bite this hand that very much feeds them is a mystery to me.
They make many, many millions of dollars from Grand Theft Auto Online. Unless these actions cut into those profits, Rockstar and Take-Two have no reason to give a good god’s damn about pissing off modders.
Again, I could rip you apart point-by-point at great length, but I’d rather not waste that much of my time. So I’mma just stick to one thing that caught my eye:
Every time you raise the wage you raise the prices.
Here’s a fun question: For what reason must prices be raised when wages are raised? The answer: profit.
A corporation wants to make as much money as possible, which is why most corporations keep their wages as low as the society in which they operate will accept. But when wages are raised, profits go down—and even a small loss of profit for a company that makes billions every year is unacceptable to the executives who reap the most reward from that profit. (And in many cases, it is unacceptable to the shareholders, who often demand constant profit growth every year.)
Prices don’t go up to pay for the rising wages of workers. Prices go up to make sure executives can keep their insane salaries intact. But hey, keep telling me about that flat tax idea—and while you’re at it, tell me how trickle-down economics works, too. I’m sure it’ll all make sense once you explain it~.
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And yet, when pressed on how to solve the living wage issue, you balk at the idea of the government asking corporations and the obscenely wealthy to give up a small fraction of their profits as a means of more fairly compensating the exploited worker class for their labor.
Who do you think deserves a bigger slice of the billions of dollars that Amazon rakes in every year: Jeff Bezos or the thousands of workers in Amazon warehouses whose very presence determines whether Amazon stays in business?
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The age of the country is irrelevant. It has been around long enough to see what works in other countries. Public healthcare works in every country that has it—maybe not with 100% efficiency, but it works. The only difference between the U.S. and those countries is our leaders have convinced the general population that nationalized healthcare is luxury gay space communism that can never work anywhere (except for icky socialist countries like, y’know, Canada).
That’s cute, that you think the people who rule this country give a fuck about the poor. If that were true, we wouldn’t have food deserts and homelessness and practically every other side effect of poverty and the extreme wealth gap that compounds the issues of poverty.
…by making wages stand still for a couple of decades and waiting for the benevolence of corporations and the obscenely wealthy to “trickle down”. You do it by making those entities pay their fair share in taxes and pay a living wage to the people whose labor is exploited for those massive corporate profits.
If Jeff Bezos stopped working, Amazon would keep going. If Amazon’s lowest earners stopped working, Amazon would die. Who deserves a better wage: Bezos or the people killing themselves in Amazon warehouses? Knowing you, you’d say “the workers, but not at the cost of corporate profits”. In which case, I’d ask you a simple question: Where the fuck do you think the money to pay better wages is going to fucking come from?
The opportunities affored to people in southern Missouri are hardly equal to the opportunities afforded to people in cities like Los Angeles. $10 per hour may go a little farther in one place than the other, but unless the prices for everything are lower in one than the other, $10 per hour is still not a living wage. (At this point, if wages kept pace with inflation, a living wage would be $20 per hour.)
You’re right: Nobody wants to tell corporations and the obscenely wealthy that their hoarding of wealth is contributing to increased poverty and the negative effects thereof.
…well, nobody in the government (or the corporations) with the power to do something about it, anyway.
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That you would refer to the obscenely wealthy paying their fair share in taxes and paying a livable wage to the people they exploit as theft of any kind is sad. I mean, you do know that kissing rich ass isn’t going to make you rich, right? They’d sooner kill you and hold a press conference about their having killed you.
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Tell me you’re a right-wing fuckboi (instead of the libertarian you claim to be) without telling me you’re a right-wing fuckboi.
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The Republicans are heavily right—I’m talking humping-against-fascism right—and the Democrats are, by and large, right-leaning centrists. (Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are not representative of the party as a whole no matter how much you want to believe otherwise.) The U.S. doesn’t have a meaningful leftist presence in politics; saying otherwise is ignoring facts.
Maybe those shutdowns had to do with a viral disease that the Trump administration didn’t give a shit about until thousands of people had died. And let’s not forget that Trump himself threatened (on more than one occasion) to withhold government funding from “blue states” for whatever reason he thought would make his base angrier at Democrats.
What the fuck benefits do you want—control over other countries?
20 other countries join the U.S. and China in being responsible for more pollution than damn near the rest of the world combined. And nobody has ever asked the U.S. to “dismantle [its] energy and industrial sectors”—only to make them more clean so the U.S. can help prevent the worst effects of (the now-unstoppable) global climate change taking place as we speak.
I’m happy to live in this country—but I’m not going to kiss its ass and pretend everything is awesome. I am an American, and my duty as a citizen is to dissent, to criticize, to shittalk both this country and its leaders so the nation can strive to become a more perfect union.
If that means criticizing a man who spent four years trying to find a way to become a king—and all of his shithead supporters, including the ones who rioted against actual goddamn American democracy—so be it. If that means criticizing a man who is either unwilling or unable to make two Democrats-in-name-only U.S. Senators blow up the filibuster for the sake of protecting voting rights, so be it.
And if that means pointing out that there is no significant leftist presence in American politics—which would sure as hell explain things like the lack of desire from the supposed “leftists” in government to play hardball against right-wing proto-fascists instead of trying to compromise with them—then so motherfucking be it.
Now let’s see you be equally as critical of your goddamned demigod Donald Trump, you fascist-supporting cunt.
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You can show that you bought a license; you haven’t proven that the license was legally valid. You’re still a criminal under your “all copying is infringement” logic, and you should burn alongside all the other sinners you want burned in your holy crusade, you son of a bitch.
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Maybe they wouldn’t be going out of business if mega-corporations would stop raising prices on everything so they can keep making tens of billions of dollars in profit instead of single-digit billions of dollars in profit.
Maybe they wouldn’t be going out of business if mega-corporations also raised wages so that people could afford to buy things other than the bare necessities in life (if even that).
Maybe they wouldn’t be going out of business if people like you would stop kissing corporate ass because you think people worth billions of dollars—people who didn’t do nearly the same amount of work to “earn” their obscene wealth as people who earn minimum wage put in to earn even that pittance—don’t deserve to be “punished” for their success(ful exploitation of the lower class).
But sure, all these businesses are being driven out of business because of people who want to be paid a wage that lets them worry less about being one bad day away from homelessness~. That’s gotta be the root cause~. Can’t be all that other shit I said~.
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He was silenced—with a bullet.
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What’s sad is that Project Veritas can now use this situation as a pretext to grift gullible moro…I mean, fundraise for future bullshit stories by (somewhat accurately) claiming persecution at the hands of Democrats. Even when they “lose”, they win.
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My goal, such as it can be, is to improve the lives of the marginalized and less fortunate—regardless of where they live. A queer person in Bumfuck, Arkansas deserves the same chance at living a fulfilling life as does a straight person living in New York City. A poor Black person in Chicago deserves as much of a chance at success as does a rich White person in some “Bible Belt” town in the deep South.
My problem with people who oppose this ideology—the ideology of society, of cooperation, of working together to raise up as many people as possible—is that they’re big believers in the “fuck you got mine” mindset. You yourself have admitted to being someone who literally can’t be bothered to give even a single fuck about the same society in which you live. You’ve advocated, even if only by implication, for widening the wealth gap and further marginalizing trans people (among other horrid positions) because you admit you don’t give a fuck about the poor and the marginalized.
Hell, in the comments on this article alone, you’re acting like people who want to see the federal minimum wage raised to something approaching a living wage are bastards trying to install luxury gay space communism and guillotine everyone making over $100,000 a year or some shit. I’m someone who wants the minimum wage raised for the sake of the poor and the marginalized who could use that money to improve their lives, and you think that’s a horrible mindset to have.
Policies that help the poor can help poor people who disagree with me, and I’m okay with that. Policies that protect the marginalized from discrimination can also protect the majority, and I’m okay with that. You’re the one who has a problem with and a government willing to take care of its least well-off peoples and…how did you put it…oh yeah, “too many protections” for the marginalized. Our government should want to care for and protect those people; policies and politics that make the lives of those people worse are abhorrent and immoral.
You have no compassion, no empathy, and no remorse for lacking both those qualities. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your blackhearted soul.
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To wit: those “Hang Mike Pence” chants.
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Side note to this logic: Any company whose employees are on food stamps is the entity being subsidized by the food stamps program.
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I didn’t do that; corporations did. They’re the entities who see their profits—and the continued growth thereof—as more important than paying people a wage that lets them live at least a metaphorical inch above the poverty line. They’re the ones raising prices on their products to keep profit margins high even as some of their lowest-paid employees work multiple full-time jobs for the sake of staying alive. They’re the entities that refuse to cut the obscene multi-million-dollar salaries of their executives in favor of paying a fair wage to the workers who do the heavy lifting that keeps those corporations afloat. (The CEO of McDonald’s isn’t going to serve food to millions of people around the world all by himself, after all.)
You’re so enamored with the idea of “fuck you got mine” economics and protecting the obscene wealth of people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos that you’re unable to see how those people don’t need to hoard billions of dollars in their bank accounts and stocks and whatnot every year. If a company that makes several billion dollars per year loses less than a billion dollars in profit as a result of paying employees a living wage, for what reason does that company legitimately need to raise prices on its products other than pure, unadulterated, “fuck you got mine” greed?
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Do you know for a fact that he did? If not, you’re still a criminal under your “all copying is infringement” logic.
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Because unlike you, I’m aware of Scott Cawthon’s work and familiar with the design of the Springtrap character you ripped off. You’re still a criminal under your logic.
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I have to wonder who would be the arbiter of what is true under such a law. Will it be you? Will it be the president? Will it be the 1989 Denver Broncos?
Would you have the police involved, such that they can arrest people for their speech? And what would the punishment be for lying on the Internet under this law—a fine, a jail sentence, or worse?
You think you want this law, but were it made an actual law, you’d likely be in its crosshairs the moment it goes into effect. Sit with that thought for a while.
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No, it doesn’t. But feel free to keep thinking that going after the tools instead of the people using those tools is the smart play.
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They make many, many millions of dollars from Grand Theft Auto Online. Unless these actions cut into those profits, Rockstar and Take-Two have no reason to give a good god’s damn about pissing off modders.
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Again, I could rip you apart point-by-point at great length, but I’d rather not waste that much of my time. So I’mma just stick to one thing that caught my eye:
Here’s a fun question: For what reason must prices be raised when wages are raised? The answer: profit.
A corporation wants to make as much money as possible, which is why most corporations keep their wages as low as the society in which they operate will accept. But when wages are raised, profits go down—and even a small loss of profit for a company that makes billions every year is unacceptable to the executives who reap the most reward from that profit. (And in many cases, it is unacceptable to the shareholders, who often demand constant profit growth every year.)
Prices don’t go up to pay for the rising wages of workers. Prices go up to make sure executives can keep their insane salaries intact. But hey, keep telling me about that flat tax idea—and while you’re at it, tell me how trickle-down economics works, too. I’m sure it’ll all make sense once you explain it~.
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I’m fine with them blocking all ads from politicians and Super PACs and such.
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