You don't need to be a Republican to think people are BIG FAT CHUMPS in California for putting up with those real estate prices and those insane health insurance rates.
That's why I fled in the other direction.
I would still vote Democrat if they handn't turned into socialists.
Hysterically complaining about who is in government while at the same time pining to give that same government a monopoly on your cancer treatment is insane beyond description.
> As for min wage workers in CA getting free housing, day care and food, dream on.
So you've never heard of Section 8 or Food Stamps? It's a minor scandal that's well reported in the news media that poorly paid Amazon and Walmart employees are on partial public assistance.
Bernie Sanders is even making noises about a punitive tax directed squarely at Amazon over this. HELL, it was posted HERE.
> 1) LOL. Houses aren't that cheap anymore, even in the Midwest.
Sure they are. They certainly are com pared to California.
Outside of California, the options are diverse enough that you don't have to make yourself house poor. You can live in a cheaper neighborhood or buy a smaller house.
You also have a very real possibility of having your house COMPLETELY PAID OFF. Mine is. My 2nd is and I'm working on getting #3 paid off.
You sound like you are trying to convince YOURSELF much more than the rest of us.
People aren't any different just because they are on the other side of the planet. I bet if I asked Rwandan nursing home worker, she would have an equally dire view of her own poor relations that I have of mine.
> Fortunately you'll never be awarded enough responsibility to have to put your money where your stupid mouth is.
That's just a lame way of saying that you don't have a useful counter argument. In real life, foreign aid gets funneled through multiple intermediaries. ANY of these can skim or steal the whole thing.
Having a fat wad of cash is dangerous in any poor area. You don't need to have gone to Africa to understand this. Some less than "privileged" life experience could have clued you in to this.
Beyond that, we have ample examples from lottery winners of what happens when you give people money when they aren't used to having it.
Again, even those extreme examples aren't even really necessary if you aren't hiding in the suburbs with your head up your ass.
I can point to personally observed examples of poor people being retarded with their money.
Even RMS has a policy of not giving cash to panhandlers.
> Your lack of experience of what modern mass transit is actually like, ie. what we, as Americans, for the most part do not actually have, can be forgiven as a basis for your negative attitude.
A bus in America is no worse than a bus in Europe.
A train in America is no worse than a train in Europe.
Both of those have cost, convenience and efficiency problems.
You can have the most ideal bus setup possible regardless of how much you want to hate on America and it will still be 3 times slower.
You can do amazingly well for yourself if you come from that background and simply choose not to breed like a rat. Some of us know this as a matter of personal first hand experience.
> Nope. Turns out that the people opposed to basic income (and opposed to any form of social assistance for the poor) are also the same people who are opposed to government-provided birth control.
The pill is a $5 generic medication.
Unless you are so poor that the government is already paying for your own health care, there is no reason you can't buy it yourself.
There is no FUCKING NEED for you do be the government's itty bitty baby here.
Somebody has to pay for shit. You can't ALL be takers.
> Single-payer health care and higher tax rates on the upper class are mainstream left-wing ideas.
Not quite. Government owned medicine is the crap that makes people run in the other direction.
It only perhaps SEEMS mainstream because anyone that's not a communist gets branded as an alt-Right Nazi at this point. You purge the moderates and independents and the left is going to look more extreme.
The new socialists are just the Tea Baggers of the other side.
> I could wish on you unemployment and having to take any job you can get, thereby destroying our "let them try to get a better paying job" mantra that lolbertarians love to float around.
I grew up with that. That's what motivated me to do better.
So I find your rant to be rather hilarious.
You sound like a spoiled out of touch rich nit wit.
This is a further reminder that there has ALWAYS be "free" content for as long as broadcasting has been around. That's longer than there has been paid physical media. If you can watch it for free on YouTube then IT DOESN'T MATTER that you can "record" it. You ALREADY have a payment avoidance mechanism.
> There are people who care about others in the world,
You are a sanctimonious jackass trying to claim you are the only person with compassion or empathy.
Your perspective is not the only valid one. You can also see this as child kidnapping and endangerment. I could just as easily accuse you of being just as callous for your defense of child abuse.
> This is just nucking futs that this is news in the US.
Much of America isn't so poor or desperate that they need such a measure. They can stay out of work indefinitely and have as many kids as they want. They might not even go back to work ever.
I know a girl who was a COBOL programmer who did this.
I don't blame her one bit.
COBOL would drive me into permanent retirement.
Thanks to the level of economic opportunity that liberals will tell you doesn't exist, I could leave the rat race entirely if I wanted to.
I find work therapeutic. It distracts me from my illness. I could probably claim disability if I wanted to. I would rather curse the stupidity of my boss and coworkers.
> This is just nucking futs that this is news in the US.
Everything has to be paid for.
Americans hate paying for stuff.
That's a double edged sword. On the one hand, I have to pay for my own little one month "vacation" in the hospital. On the other hand, I make a better salary and keep more of it.
So I probably made out better in the end.
it was bad enough getting back in the grove after a mere month away from the office. Don't even want to contemplate 3 months or a whole year.
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> GOP backwoods faggots deserve their coal mine lifestyle,
Sure. Anyone that doesn't buy into the California Kool-Aid is a Republican. The only alternatives are "Carbon Creek" and San Jose.
It's this kind of deranged nonsense that gets you Trump.
Keep on stumping hard for the stupid Cheeto.
You don't need to be a Republican to think people are BIG FAT CHUMPS in California for putting up with those real estate prices and those insane health insurance rates.
That's why I fled in the other direction.
I would still vote Democrat if they handn't turned into socialists.
Hysterically complaining about who is in government while at the same time pining to give that same government a monopoly on your cancer treatment is insane beyond description.
> As for min wage workers in CA getting free housing, day care and food, dream on.
So you've never heard of Section 8 or Food Stamps? It's a minor scandal that's well reported in the news media that poorly paid Amazon and Walmart employees are on partial public assistance.
Bernie Sanders is even making noises about a punitive tax directed squarely at Amazon over this. HELL, it was posted HERE.
This stuff is no great secret.
> 1) LOL. Houses aren't that cheap anymore, even in the Midwest.
Sure they are. They certainly are com pared to California.
Outside of California, the options are diverse enough that you don't have to make yourself house poor. You can live in a cheaper neighborhood or buy a smaller house.
You also have a very real possibility of having your house COMPLETELY PAID OFF. Mine is. My 2nd is and I'm working on getting #3 paid off.
You sound like you are trying to convince YOURSELF much more than the rest of us.
Having kids in your 30's is highly dangerous for the mother and dramatically increases the odds of birth defects.
This is pretty much what you have in Europe for the same reasons.
It's that "utopian socialism" that leftists in America pine for so much.
The difference between communism and democratic socialism is the size of the dinky apartment you get to share with your parents.
America is reducing it's CO2 faster than anyone else despite your hate-on for the country.
This is despite the mindless hysterics over leaving the Paris agreement.
Now if we are "importing more CO2" then it hardly makes any sense to let China off the hook. Now does it?
> It really takes a special kind of person to consider an old document
No. You are just an arrogant moron with no sense of history and a high opinion of himself just because of the year you were born in.
People aren't any different just because they are on the other side of the planet. I bet if I asked Rwandan nursing home worker, she would have an equally dire view of her own poor relations that I have of mine.
> Fortunately you'll never be awarded enough responsibility to have to put your money where your stupid mouth is.
That's just a lame way of saying that you don't have a useful counter argument. In real life, foreign aid gets funneled through multiple intermediaries. ANY of these can skim or steal the whole thing.
Having a fat wad of cash is dangerous in any poor area. You don't need to have gone to Africa to understand this. Some less than "privileged" life experience could have clued you in to this.
Beyond that, we have ample examples from lottery winners of what happens when you give people money when they aren't used to having it.
Again, even those extreme examples aren't even really necessary if you aren't hiding in the suburbs with your head up your ass.
I can point to personally observed examples of poor people being retarded with their money.
Even RMS has a policy of not giving cash to panhandlers.
> I know it really upsets you anti-SJW people, but the truth is
I AM the kind of person you are trying to white knight here.
You just need to shut the fuck up.
You will get arrested and imprisoned for sharing works as old as Handel's Messiah or The Ode to Joy.
> Your lack of experience of what modern mass transit is actually like, ie. what we, as Americans, for the most part do not actually have, can be forgiven as a basis for your negative attitude.
A bus in America is no worse than a bus in Europe.
A train in America is no worse than a train in Europe.
Both of those have cost, convenience and efficiency problems.
You can have the most ideal bus setup possible regardless of how much you want to hate on America and it will still be 3 times slower.
If you have a decent walking pace, 45 minutes is 3 miles which is 300 calories.
You can do amazingly well for yourself if you come from that background and simply choose not to breed like a rat. Some of us know this as a matter of personal first hand experience.
> Nope. Turns out that the people opposed to basic income (and opposed to any form of social assistance for the poor) are also the same people who are opposed to government-provided birth control.
The pill is a $5 generic medication.
Unless you are so poor that the government is already paying for your own health care, there is no reason you can't buy it yourself.
There is no FUCKING NEED for you do be the government's itty bitty baby here.
Somebody has to pay for shit. You can't ALL be takers.
> Levy taxes on shareholders
Great. Kick retirees and aspiring retirees in the balls.
> Single-payer health care and higher tax rates on the upper class are mainstream left-wing ideas.
Not quite. Government owned medicine is the crap that makes people run in the other direction.
It only perhaps SEEMS mainstream because anyone that's not a communist gets branded as an alt-Right Nazi at this point. You purge the moderates and independents and the left is going to look more extreme.
The new socialists are just the Tea Baggers of the other side.
> I could wish on you unemployment and having to take any job you can get, thereby destroying our "let them try to get a better paying job" mantra that lolbertarians love to float around.
I grew up with that. That's what motivated me to do better.
So I find your rant to be rather hilarious.
You sound like a spoiled out of touch rich nit wit.
Yes.
That noise is just the price you pay for not living in a total bubble. It turns out that Liberty is somewhat "untidy".
Liberty requires tolerating things you hate and defending your enemies.
This is a further reminder that there has ALWAYS be "free" content for as long as broadcasting has been around. That's longer than there has been paid physical media. If you can watch it for free on YouTube then IT DOESN'T MATTER that you can "record" it. You ALREADY have a payment avoidance mechanism.
It's just like radio. It's just like MTV.
> There are people who care about others in the world,
You are a sanctimonious jackass trying to claim you are the only person with compassion or empathy.
Your perspective is not the only valid one. You can also see this as child kidnapping and endangerment. I could just as easily accuse you of being just as callous for your defense of child abuse.
> it's good that MS is making a stand to demand reasonable parental leave of its partners,
No it isn't. They using their market position to act as a bully.
They are trying to act as a de facto government entity. They are pretty blatantly trying to be Robber Barons.
This is the worst kind of corporate fascism possible.
Yet you gits eat it up because today's abuse of power suits you. You give no thought to the bigger picture or possible future implications.
> This is just nucking futs that this is news in the US.
Much of America isn't so poor or desperate that they need such a measure. They can stay out of work indefinitely and have as many kids as they want. They might not even go back to work ever.
I know a girl who was a COBOL programmer who did this.
I don't blame her one bit.
COBOL would drive me into permanent retirement.
Thanks to the level of economic opportunity that liberals will tell you doesn't exist, I could leave the rat race entirely if I wanted to.
I find work therapeutic. It distracts me from my illness. I could probably claim disability if I wanted to. I would rather curse the stupidity of my boss and coworkers.
> This is just nucking futs that this is news in the US.
Everything has to be paid for.
Americans hate paying for stuff.
That's a double edged sword. On the one hand, I have to pay for my own little one month "vacation" in the hospital. On the other hand, I make a better salary and keep more of it.
So I probably made out better in the end.
it was bad enough getting back in the grove after a mere month away from the office. Don't even want to contemplate 3 months or a whole year.
Do you even get anything done in your country?