"Obamacare" is hardly distinguishable from what you had before. Except that insurance companies could line their pockets now with money from everyone except only those that could actually really afford healthcare. What exactly changed for the population? Well, now they have to be insured. Unless they belong to one of the many, many "exempt" groups, or are too poor to afford an insurance. That means what exactly changed? Nothing. Anyone who could afford an insurance already had one (at least if they had half a brain), those that could not afford it still have none and are still on medicaid or whatever that bullshit is called.
In the end, it changed exactly nothing. It was a huge smoke and mirror battle fought over a molehill of nothing.
And now it get canceled. Again, a huge controversy. And what will change? Take a wild guess.
I got told time and again that Ds and Rs are so vastly different, but in the end what was eventually touted as the huge dividing topics was petty, insignificant bullshit that may actually affect people on a personal level like abortion or gay marriage, but that has neither any impact on 99% of the population nor on their economic situation, their chances or their prospects.
What changed during the Bush administration? What changed during the Obama administration?
Why the fuck do you expect change now?
I don't get it. I really don't. NOTHING changed from one administration change to the next for the past decades. Oh yes, there was a war on terror. Oh. And? That would have been in what way different under any other rule?
Face it, folks: You're fucked. You have a system in place that allows you to choose every 4 years whether you want to feed one group of useless gits or the other group of useless gits. That makes a huge difference for the gits, and that's why that election fight is fought tooth and nail because it's all or nothing for them. Fo you, it's nothing. Either way.
Mostly because you don't get to choose who you can vote for. That's chosen for you. In the end, when you strip the whole fluff, the whole spectacle has a lot of the old Soviet times when you even sometimes got to choose between two candidates from the same party, supporting the same ideals and the same economic system, not questioning in the slightest the all-holy doctrines and differing in insignificant bullshit topics that were hyped and emotionalized to insane levels despite having exactly zero impact on anything that really mattered in the end.
Let's be brutally honest: The same is true for your DemRep Party.
And it's still true tomorrow when he says the opposite. It's just another truth! He is Trump! He has more truths than anyone else! Make America true again!
The main reason more and more people are still "living in their mom's basement at 28" is that they can't afford moving out. Where should Generation Internship get the money from to rent a flat or even (gasp) buy their own house?
Sorry, not gonna work. Yes, that used to work out back when the American dream could still come true, but know what? It's over. Been over for a long time now.
The American Dream was "work hard, climb the ladder, make wise investments and one day you'll live comfortably".
Doesn't work anymore. You can work your ass off and you will won't get anywhere, earn enough to actually make any investments and you'll never live comfortably. You'll work to your grave.
The new American Dream is "fuck this, try winning the lottery or get hit by someone with money with his car and sue his pants off".
In case you're not familiar with this, spare parts for cars is a HUGE business. And everyone involved is fleecing you, no matter where you get that part, whether it's a "genuine" original, a knockoff, even if you get it from a junk yard from a wreck, in the end you'll be charged many, many times over what the part actually costs you to build it in a 3D printer.
Can you imagine just what kind of industry you're standing against if that takes off? If you think the MAFIAA's battle against that dreaded "copying" was big, just wait 'til car companies and the fully dependent downstream companies (which are far from mom'n'pop shops as well!) feel the pain of you creating your own plastic parts for a buck that they wanted to sell you for twenty after mass producing it for a cent.
In this case please enlighten us what is our benefit? What part of the DMCA is actually in favor of the general population instead of catering to the interests of an insignificant minority to line their pockets.
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And the other side claims they don't but oddly does exactly the same.
You could shoot both cows to keep them from shitting on your turf.
Someone told the new administration to RTFM.
Truth be told? It's a joke.
"Obamacare" is hardly distinguishable from what you had before. Except that insurance companies could line their pockets now with money from everyone except only those that could actually really afford healthcare. What exactly changed for the population? Well, now they have to be insured. Unless they belong to one of the many, many "exempt" groups, or are too poor to afford an insurance. That means what exactly changed? Nothing. Anyone who could afford an insurance already had one (at least if they had half a brain), those that could not afford it still have none and are still on medicaid or whatever that bullshit is called.
In the end, it changed exactly nothing. It was a huge smoke and mirror battle fought over a molehill of nothing.
And now it get canceled. Again, a huge controversy. And what will change? Take a wild guess.
You had me 'til you tried to play the race card.
I was thinking the same until I noticed that I do not SPEAK anything confidential in my home, if anything, I TYPE it.
I'm a geek. Do you honestly expect me to have any friends in my life that were not added via a mouse click?
I tried, but neither me nor Alexa understood the answer.
Yeah, we think it's more acceptable to kill yourself than others. Hence you get beer with 16 and a driving license and gun with 18.
That must be it.
It cannot be that they're tossed out and replaced by the next batch of interns come next year and try to survive somehow on unemployment.
Please point out the differences. Please do!
I got told time and again that Ds and Rs are so vastly different, but in the end what was eventually touted as the huge dividing topics was petty, insignificant bullshit that may actually affect people on a personal level like abortion or gay marriage, but that has neither any impact on 99% of the population nor on their economic situation, their chances or their prospects.
You wanna do business on my turf, you do it by my rules. Don't like it, fuck off.
We're nothing if not adaptable. We learn Trump's ways faster than even he does.
What changed during the Bush administration?
What changed during the Obama administration?
Why the fuck do you expect change now?
I don't get it. I really don't. NOTHING changed from one administration change to the next for the past decades. Oh yes, there was a war on terror. Oh. And? That would have been in what way different under any other rule?
Face it, folks: You're fucked. You have a system in place that allows you to choose every 4 years whether you want to feed one group of useless gits or the other group of useless gits. That makes a huge difference for the gits, and that's why that election fight is fought tooth and nail because it's all or nothing for them. Fo you, it's nothing. Either way.
Mostly because you don't get to choose who you can vote for. That's chosen for you. In the end, when you strip the whole fluff, the whole spectacle has a lot of the old Soviet times when you even sometimes got to choose between two candidates from the same party, supporting the same ideals and the same economic system, not questioning in the slightest the all-holy doctrines and differing in insignificant bullshit topics that were hyped and emotionalized to insane levels despite having exactly zero impact on anything that really mattered in the end.
Let's be brutally honest: The same is true for your DemRep Party.
Europe here, what both sides do you mean? From over here, your both sides look similar enough to be considered the same side.
Maybe it's the distance that makes them indistinguishable from each other, I could swear that your politicians all say and do the same.
That's true!
And it's still true tomorrow when he says the opposite. It's just another truth! He is Trump! He has more truths than anyone else! Make America true again!
Famous line from "The Secret of my Success", THE yuppie-movie of the 80s:
Can you get promoted out of the mail room?
You can't even get paroled out of the mail room.
That of course changed.
Today, you CAN get fired out of the mail room.
The main reason more and more people are still "living in their mom's basement at 28" is that they can't afford moving out. Where should Generation Internship get the money from to rent a flat or even (gasp) buy their own house?
Sorry, not gonna work. Yes, that used to work out back when the American dream could still come true, but know what? It's over. Been over for a long time now.
The American Dream was "work hard, climb the ladder, make wise investments and one day you'll live comfortably".
Doesn't work anymore. You can work your ass off and you will won't get anywhere, earn enough to actually make any investments and you'll never live comfortably. You'll work to your grave.
The new American Dream is "fuck this, try winning the lottery or get hit by someone with money with his car and sue his pants off".
i develop a work ethic the moment my employer develops an employer ethic. Deal?
Like a comedian said lately "I need a job to get decent money, not to be occupied. I can keep myself busy all by myself just fine".
Are those jobs paying enough to live off them?
What's the big difference between watching someone type a PIN and watching someone smear finger grease all over his phone?
For now, until the SEO locusts find out that people start using that engine.
So maybe we should be quiet about it. let the SEOs mess with the results.
Only 'cause "Annoying Orange" is already an established character.
Just wait 'til 3D printing catches on.
In case you're not familiar with this, spare parts for cars is a HUGE business. And everyone involved is fleecing you, no matter where you get that part, whether it's a "genuine" original, a knockoff, even if you get it from a junk yard from a wreck, in the end you'll be charged many, many times over what the part actually costs you to build it in a 3D printer.
Can you imagine just what kind of industry you're standing against if that takes off? If you think the MAFIAA's battle against that dreaded "copying" was big, just wait 'til car companies and the fully dependent downstream companies (which are far from mom'n'pop shops as well!) feel the pain of you creating your own plastic parts for a buck that they wanted to sell you for twenty after mass producing it for a cent.
In this case please enlighten us what is our benefit? What part of the DMCA is actually in favor of the general population instead of catering to the interests of an insignificant minority to line their pockets.
Depends. Does he have stock in the megacorp?