they just want it to work. Youtube promises advertisers that their algorithms will target likely buyers to push them over the edge into becoming customers or find those folks who are forgetting your brand and bring them back to the fold. The last thing and advertiser wants to do on youtube is the hard work of figuring out who to market to. If they were going to do that they wouldn't need youtube...
it was their old system. It lead to a few adverts showing up on Neo-Nazi channels. The advertisers freaked out thinking they'd be associated with supporting Nazis and pulled their ads. Like it or not youtube, like tv, has to worry about offending people since people who get offended are loud. Annoying, but loud.
is folks flagging stuff as 'controversial' because they disagree with it. Lots of the left wing channels got flagged. But even some science channels got flagged by the anti-climate change folks and the 'intelligent design' crowd.
and you're trying to hold onto the standard of living you've had as your wages have stagnated. Yes, somebody in that bracket can downsize. Sell their home and start running a 2-3 hour commute. Buy an economy car. Stop taking vacations. Eating crap food.
Yeah, somebody in that income bracket has a lot further down to go, but they're still going down. When you start talking about tax raises you lose them and their vote. This is exactly how the ruling elite keep us at each other's throats. Whatever you have you're always just barely hanging on to it. That's the essence of 'Conservative'. It's a kind of desperation that leads to easily exploitable fear.
in the butt. The folks in the elite class making stuff like this happen aren't very bright, they're just very rich. We keep letting them run the economy all by themselves they're gonna run us over a cliff. I'm not saying we go full commie, but there's a balance and we sure as hell tipped it if crap like this can happen.
to take away food stamps. The only reason they haven't is big agribusinesses & grocery chains block it. But those folks are gradually being beaten back in the name of lower and lower taxes. Mostly because it not takes being a billionaire to buy off a politician. Being a mere multi-millionaire doesn't cut it.
You completely ignore my argument. I will address your straw man just for fun. Hilary Clinton is not, never was, and probably never will be part of the left. She was a Goldwater Girl for Christ's sake. Her husband ran with a D next to his name because John Kennedy was a hero of his. Every one of his economic policies (and hers) were far right. We look back at them as centrist because his politics moved the country so far right that it seems left wing in comparison. That's like saying giving somebody 100 lashes is a left wing policy because at least you didn't cut off their hands.
I never said anyone 'fell for it'. I said it was meant for the well to do. If it so happens to work for you, goody gum drops and congrats. For most even with decades of savings it won't be enough to replace a proper pension. It was never supposed to, but it was sold to workers as such and is also being used as a reason to end social security among the right wing.
I ran the numbers. Assuming you give up $100/mo of Starbucks ($5/day 5 days a week, that's a lot of Starbucks) and poured all that into your 401k that you somehow have matching funds on you'd have $51,000.... if you started in your 20s. Early 20s.
Now, taking inflation into account that's like $25k. Congrats, you strugged through 45 years of labor without sugar and caffeine (no cheating and buying cheaper coffee or it drops to $15k - 20k) and you can pay for one night at the ER after Medicare goes away.
fyi, the guy that invented the 401k said himself it's not meant for retirement. It was meant for the well to do (think $300k/yr minimum) to shore up their savings. It's a smokescreen the wealthy elites use to make us ignore the growing insecurity in life. That way they can blame the working class for not saving enough, kinda just like you did. Congrats, you fell for it.
or any of that right wing manufactured nonsense? You've been watch way, way too much fox news. I never once espoused a single communist idea. You really have absolutely not idea about, well, anything do you? Again, you've got google and a keyboard. Use it and look up 'Straw Man' argument, which is what your pointless call for data is.
Also, are you a Russian troll or something? You've clearly been doing the right wing troll thing long enough to know the points to hit to get modded up. You went overboard at the end, but I imagine you've got a few alts you can use to mod yourself up. Do you make enough money doing this to make throwing your fellows in the working class to the wolves? Inquiring minds want to know.
You sound like your trying to defend your anti worker pro corporate ideas with facts but you don't offer any. You're full of it, and I just wish the rest of the country would realize it. There's plenty of food, medicine, shelter, etc so that we don't have to live in constant fear of death is we stop moving for an instant like some kind of perverted shark wearing a business suit. People like you spreading the lie that if we tax the wealthy elite to pay for the society they both enjoy for everyone else that all somehow be poor are the worst sort. You have the internet. There's no excuse besides greed or willful ignorance.
You can set the bar damn high and not hurt actual small businessmen/women (whichever one you are) like yourself. Bogging us down in discussions about taxing small biz is exactly how the ruling elite keep their taxes low.
is there's no choice at all. All you have to do is show up at your primary. Do you have any idea how much power there is a in a primary vote? Jeff Sessions just shut his career down because he's going to lose his primary challenge (sadly he's being replaced by an even bigger nutter, since the voters know Sessions isn't helping them but they don't yet know what else to do, so they're doubling down on right wing politics).
Show up at your primaries and vote for the most left leaning candidate you can. If everybody did that we'd have Bernie Sanders for president.
have lost all of their net worth. Not a one. They've lost some paper money that had little or no impact on their quality of life. They've lost some power, some of the ability to make politicians and workers dance to their tune. But they've never really lost anything. They've never lost their only home. They've never had to choose between food and medicine for their kids. They've never looked at their mounting debt and wondered if they'll make it, because they always know that bankruptcy law will protect them (any anyone else with more than $100k in debt, which is the cut off where you can't discharge).
Are you actually this naive or do you work for them shit posting to shut down progress?
the drugs that kept a family member of mine alive were made in Europe at public Universities. Most drugs are (and then they're packaged up my big Pharma into profits). The computer I'm typing on wouldn't exist without massive public spending.
We're cutting all this back so we can give more and more money to the elites. Let's stop that. I get it, everybody's afraid of tax raises because even at $250k/yr a lot of us are paycheck to paycheck (60-80% depending on how you run the numbers). But here's a crazy idea: We can raise taxes on the wealthy elite without raising taxes on the workers? I know, crazy right? All it takes is to stop voting for your friendly neighborhood right winger. Oh, and make sure you show up at your Primaries so they don't sneak an economic right winger in because they're socially left wing.
is another man's justice. Most wealth comes from two sources: Natural resources and scientific discoveries. The ruling elite claim both simply by virtue of being present when they were first discovered. When our managers do this to us we get pissed off. Not sure why it's OK when rich elites do it.
Besides, study after study shows that unless you're willing to do some really nasty shit (death squads and the like) then taking care of your working class saves more money. Crime rates drop when people have heath care. Productivity goes up when folks aren't living paycheck to paycheck. And it takes desperation to put a man like Mao or Stalin in power, so it even stabilizes your politics and prevents out of control government oppression.
Of course, if you're actually OK with all that oppression so long as it doesn't happen to you and yours then that's another matter all together. What was that old line? "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law". But you'd never actually come out and admit that, would you?
Liz Holmes got where she got because of connections. Just because her company lost it's value doesn't mean she's out on the street. She was the CEO of a $4 billion dollar startup that appears to have been a scam. She would have drew a multi-million dollar salary for years until somebody noticed it was all B.S..
Bill Gates didn't work his way up from nothing. Donald Trump never really went broke. Only the poor and working class have to worry about collapsing into poverty. The elites take care of their own. I sure wish the rest of us yahoos did.
for the sins of the heretic. Look at Sodom and Gomorrah, Noah's Ark, or the raft of preachers who just got done telling us how the hurricanes were caused by us turning our backs on God.
I've heard it said Islam is worse than Christianity because it encourages it's adherents to kill unbelievers. But honestly if you're a sensible Christian, given the history of God and how he reacts to sin on a large scale, you'd be well advised to do the same. If only for self preservation and defense.
Give an app permission to use your camera and it can use your camera. Who knew? Also, how slow a news day does it have to be to greenlight something like this?
with a constant stream of anti-NK news in all outlets. Seriously, they did this for Iraq too and nobody remembers it. Or if they do they don't care, they're just looking forward to the next war.
BTW, what are we gonna do with 22 million shell shocked refugees in a country that doesn't have any natural resources whatsoever?
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the car companies are fighting R2R laws tooth and nail. I'm not sure I want to add the software industry to that list.
they just want it to work. Youtube promises advertisers that their algorithms will target likely buyers to push them over the edge into becoming customers or find those folks who are forgetting your brand and bring them back to the fold. The last thing and advertiser wants to do on youtube is the hard work of figuring out who to market to. If they were going to do that they wouldn't need youtube...
it was their old system. It lead to a few adverts showing up on Neo-Nazi channels. The advertisers freaked out thinking they'd be associated with supporting Nazis and pulled their ads. Like it or not youtube, like tv, has to worry about offending people since people who get offended are loud. Annoying, but loud.
Could you _please_ put some more effort into trolling. You're embarrassing yourself.
is folks flagging stuff as 'controversial' because they disagree with it. Lots of the left wing channels got flagged. But even some science channels got flagged by the anti-climate change folks and the 'intelligent design' crowd.
and you're trying to hold onto the standard of living you've had as your wages have stagnated. Yes, somebody in that bracket can downsize. Sell their home and start running a 2-3 hour commute. Buy an economy car. Stop taking vacations. Eating crap food.
Yeah, somebody in that income bracket has a lot further down to go, but they're still going down. When you start talking about tax raises you lose them and their vote. This is exactly how the ruling elite keep us at each other's throats. Whatever you have you're always just barely hanging on to it. That's the essence of 'Conservative'. It's a kind of desperation that leads to easily exploitable fear.
in the butt. The folks in the elite class making stuff like this happen aren't very bright, they're just very rich. We keep letting them run the economy all by themselves they're gonna run us over a cliff. I'm not saying we go full commie, but there's a balance and we sure as hell tipped it if crap like this can happen.
Yes, more unions are needed. The working class needs to start working together to protect it's interests.
to take away food stamps. The only reason they haven't is big agribusinesses & grocery chains block it. But those folks are gradually being beaten back in the name of lower and lower taxes. Mostly because it not takes being a billionaire to buy off a politician. Being a mere multi-millionaire doesn't cut it.
You completely ignore my argument. I will address your straw man just for fun. Hilary Clinton is not, never was, and probably never will be part of the left. She was a Goldwater Girl for Christ's sake. Her husband ran with a D next to his name because John Kennedy was a hero of his. Every one of his economic policies (and hers) were far right. We look back at them as centrist because his politics moved the country so far right that it seems left wing in comparison. That's like saying giving somebody 100 lashes is a left wing policy because at least you didn't cut off their hands.
I never said anyone 'fell for it'. I said it was meant for the well to do. If it so happens to work for you, goody gum drops and congrats. For most even with decades of savings it won't be enough to replace a proper pension. It was never supposed to, but it was sold to workers as such and is also being used as a reason to end social security among the right wing.
I ran the numbers. Assuming you give up $100/mo of Starbucks ($5/day 5 days a week, that's a lot of Starbucks) and poured all that into your 401k that you somehow have matching funds on you'd have $51,000.... if you started in your 20s. Early 20s.
Now, taking inflation into account that's like $25k. Congrats, you strugged through 45 years of labor without sugar and caffeine (no cheating and buying cheaper coffee or it drops to $15k - 20k) and you can pay for one night at the ER after Medicare goes away.
fyi, the guy that invented the 401k said himself it's not meant for retirement. It was meant for the well to do (think $300k/yr minimum) to shore up their savings. It's a smokescreen the wealthy elites use to make us ignore the growing insecurity in life. That way they can blame the working class for not saving enough, kinda just like you did. Congrats, you fell for it.
or any of that right wing manufactured nonsense? You've been watch way, way too much fox news. I never once espoused a single communist idea. You really have absolutely not idea about, well, anything do you? Again, you've got google and a keyboard. Use it and look up 'Straw Man' argument, which is what your pointless call for data is.
Also, are you a Russian troll or something? You've clearly been doing the right wing troll thing long enough to know the points to hit to get modded up. You went overboard at the end, but I imagine you've got a few alts you can use to mod yourself up. Do you make enough money doing this to make throwing your fellows in the working class to the wolves? Inquiring minds want to know.
You sound like your trying to defend your anti worker pro corporate ideas with facts but you don't offer any. You're full of it, and I just wish the rest of the country would realize it. There's plenty of food, medicine, shelter, etc so that we don't have to live in constant fear of death is we stop moving for an instant like some kind of perverted shark wearing a business suit. People like you spreading the lie that if we tax the wealthy elite to pay for the society they both enjoy for everyone else that all somehow be poor are the worst sort. You have the internet. There's no excuse besides greed or willful ignorance.
You can set the bar damn high and not hurt actual small businessmen/women (whichever one you are) like yourself. Bogging us down in discussions about taxing small biz is exactly how the ruling elite keep their taxes low.
is there's no choice at all. All you have to do is show up at your primary. Do you have any idea how much power there is a in a primary vote? Jeff Sessions just shut his career down because he's going to lose his primary challenge (sadly he's being replaced by an even bigger nutter, since the voters know Sessions isn't helping them but they don't yet know what else to do, so they're doubling down on right wing politics).
Show up at your primaries and vote for the most left leaning candidate you can. If everybody did that we'd have Bernie Sanders for president.
have lost all of their net worth. Not a one. They've lost some paper money that had little or no impact on their quality of life. They've lost some power, some of the ability to make politicians and workers dance to their tune. But they've never really lost anything. They've never lost their only home. They've never had to choose between food and medicine for their kids. They've never looked at their mounting debt and wondered if they'll make it, because they always know that bankruptcy law will protect them (any anyone else with more than $100k in debt, which is the cut off where you can't discharge).
Are you actually this naive or do you work for them shit posting to shut down progress?
the drugs that kept a family member of mine alive were made in Europe at public Universities. Most drugs are (and then they're packaged up my big Pharma into profits). The computer I'm typing on wouldn't exist without massive public spending.
We're cutting all this back so we can give more and more money to the elites. Let's stop that. I get it, everybody's afraid of tax raises because even at $250k/yr a lot of us are paycheck to paycheck (60-80% depending on how you run the numbers). But here's a crazy idea: We can raise taxes on the wealthy elite without raising taxes on the workers? I know, crazy right? All it takes is to stop voting for your friendly neighborhood right winger. Oh, and make sure you show up at your Primaries so they don't sneak an economic right winger in because they're socially left wing.
in the whole city? There was nobody who was redeemable? Do we believe that being a skin flit deserves death? Of course we don't.
Also, that's not how most preachers sell it. What's written in the bible isn't nearly as important as what people _think_ is written in the bible.
is another man's justice. Most wealth comes from two sources: Natural resources and scientific discoveries. The ruling elite claim both simply by virtue of being present when they were first discovered. When our managers do this to us we get pissed off. Not sure why it's OK when rich elites do it.
Besides, study after study shows that unless you're willing to do some really nasty shit (death squads and the like) then taking care of your working class saves more money. Crime rates drop when people have heath care. Productivity goes up when folks aren't living paycheck to paycheck. And it takes desperation to put a man like Mao or Stalin in power, so it even stabilizes your politics and prevents out of control government oppression.
Of course, if you're actually OK with all that oppression so long as it doesn't happen to you and yours then that's another matter all together. What was that old line? "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law". But you'd never actually come out and admit that, would you?
Liz Holmes got where she got because of connections. Just because her company lost it's value doesn't mean she's out on the street. She was the CEO of a $4 billion dollar startup that appears to have been a scam. She would have drew a multi-million dollar salary for years until somebody noticed it was all B.S..
Bill Gates didn't work his way up from nothing. Donald Trump never really went broke. Only the poor and working class have to worry about collapsing into poverty. The elites take care of their own. I sure wish the rest of us yahoos did.
for the sins of the heretic. Look at Sodom and Gomorrah, Noah's Ark, or the raft of preachers who just got done telling us how the hurricanes were caused by us turning our backs on God.
I've heard it said Islam is worse than Christianity because it encourages it's adherents to kill unbelievers. But honestly if you're a sensible Christian, given the history of God and how he reacts to sin on a large scale, you'd be well advised to do the same. If only for self preservation and defense.
Give an app permission to use your camera and it can use your camera. Who knew? Also, how slow a news day does it have to be to greenlight something like this?
with a constant stream of anti-NK news in all outlets. Seriously, they did this for Iraq too and nobody remembers it. Or if they do they don't care, they're just looking forward to the next war.
BTW, what are we gonna do with 22 million shell shocked refugees in a country that doesn't have any natural resources whatsoever?
if my wrists weren't turned into a knotted, gnarled mess from years of forced motion controls in games.