These people are all about punishing women. Think about all the arguments used for abortion.
People who want fathers (or even alleged fathers) to pay child support for children they didn't ask for, for 225+ months, use the exact same arguments and reasoning as those who want to force women to carry parental responsibilities they didn't want for 9 months.
Your $5000 buys you ten credit hours according to your own link. Not including fees. No one offers a masters degree for ten credits. You gonna put down the shovel, or do you want to keep digging into this fantasy you've constructed of the world?
That's an impressively batshit crazy framing of the issue. Are you and your friends going to hold a tearful service, complete with burning candles below a picture of St. Rand....because....less of your tax money will be subsidizing a trillion dollar company??? Amazon paying $15 an hour means less people on food stamps and Medicaid, slick.
Poverty is strongly correlated with how much money your daddy had, same as it does for the rich
FTFY. People "choose" to be poor like you "chose" not to own your favorite sports team and be a tech billionaire before you turned 25.
An obvious way to help these people is to make it EASIER for employers to hire them and give them a chance to turn their lives around.
Companies will hire the minimum number of workers needed to produce the maximum results. How "easy" that is is as irrelevant to that equation as high corporate tax rates are.
But Bernie's poverty tax does the exact opposite. It penalizes companies for hiring the people most in need of a job.
Aside from the service, the tears and the candles, maybe you could start a GoFundMe for Bezos, because having a larger net worth than dozens of countries just isn't enough. Were you the inspiration for that South Park scene where we're all supposed to cry for the rich because they had to settle for a Gulfstream III instead of a Gulfstream IV for their private jet? Or maybe the fundraiser for Kylie Jenner, to hurry up and be the youngest billionaire before she turns 22.
It is a myth that "low pay" is a significant cause of poverty.
The fact that someone can work full time and be below the poverty line makes a bad liar out of you.
There is no plausible proposal for basic income that "closes the gap" and provides a living income to everyone. They only proposals that come close do so by eliminating social security, which is politically infeasible and deeply unfair to the people that paid into the system for a lifetime, and by raiding medicare, which ignores the fact that medical expenses are not evenly spread.
Mark Hamill called, and said every word in those sentences are false.
Markets don't work that way. Nobody would accept a job for a penny
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Yes, they can go deeper into debt slavery that way - constant income is a loan magnet.
Nothing compared to pay day loan companies that "help" people avoid homelessness with friendly, 6,000% loans. Your confirmation bias and anecdote of some kid splurging with his first real paycheck after living on Ramen for four years aside.
What planet do you live on where being a car driver - be it taxi, limo, Uber, etc. - makes 60K + benefits?
Who implied they did, on any planet?
And they still have choices whether you think so or not.
Not if there aren't any opportunities, clown shoes. They can't make jobs appear out of thin air through sheer force of will anymore than you can meditate and find yourself owning your favorite sports team the next morning.
Yeah, so why I said "you hit on one of the main reasons". You just took understatement to 11, as hyperspace rams take four decades of Star Wars space combat, and throws it all in a dumpster fire.
The Fin character was an established annoying coward since the first movie with all the attached dumb character motivations so hardly a surprise there.
Established bullshit, by the fact that he defected, knowing full well what that would mean. If he was just a coward, he would have just "accidentally" injured himself for a medical discharge.
Again: that blacks are subject to a brutal police state was not news to them. You are repeating McCarthyite talking points straight out of smears made against MLK and other civil rights protesters in the 50's and 60's. So all that ranting about ignorant dipshits? Take it to your bathroom mirror.
First time I saw mention of an Interdictor was in Timothy Zhan's trilogy. If they'd written that into the movie, it it still would have been a pile of shit, but not a steaming pile:
DJ (Benicio Del Toro) still runs out of time to disable the hyperspace tracking system, and still appears to betray what remains of the Republic to the imperials. On his way out of the ship with his money, he winks at Finn and says "stay safe, kid". Because he sabotaged the gravity well generator, which shuts off in time for Holdo's suicide run, which doesn't spoil 40 years of Star Wars space combat.
My Cisco CCNA cost me $400. ($300 for the exam, $100 for study materials, YouTube study videos free).
Because all poor people have $400, an internet connection, leisure time and more importantly, a job waiting for them. Make as many rehashes of the bootstrap cliche, but people can't make employment materialize through sheer force of will.
My masters degree in computer science from Georgia Tech will cost $5,600. That's $7,000 tuition minus $1,400 tax credit.
You forgot to mention the DeLorean and traveling back to the late 80's. A single year at Georgia Tech is $11,000 for a state resident after your tax credit, just for tuition and fees.
Minimum wage doesn't force companies to increase wages. It forces companies to choose if they will retain employees or not.
A common conservative refrain - but like all conservative refrains, it's bullshit. Labor is a cost, one that all companies will try to minimize whether the minimum wage is 20 cents or 20 dollars an hour. No company hires extra workers out of the goodness of their capitalist hearts.
If the company hadn't also planned to deliver $20 billion to shareholders via stock buybacks over the next two years, a decision announced before the tax bill was passed, it could have done a lot more.
If Walmart wanted to spend that $20 billion on workers instead, according to a report released by the left-leaning think tank the Roosevelt Institute this week, it could increase their wages by $5.66 an hour to a $16.66 base wage. Or it could buy its employees Walmart stock and turn them all into shareholders, doling out about 113 Walmart shares - currently valued at about $83 apiece - to each.
Good luck with the apologia for a feudal club you'll never be admitted to.
the Sharks won't turn on each other. It doesn't take much, but it does take _something_.
And all the sharks I just mentioned that were in the water with zero outside influence needed? Copy and paste: The neo-McCarthyite hysteria wasn't around in the 90's, when Republicans were accusing Bill and Hill of being mass murdering drug lords, nor was it around after 2008 when Teabaggers lost their minds and accused Obama's parents of planting a fake birth announcement almost half a century prior because their son might have become president someday.
It's like westerners are reenacting that scene from Austin Powers, but instead of Dr. Evil coming up with crazy schemes, it's crazy schemes being blamed on Russia. Only for people in the room to point out said crazy scheme was already happening, without any foreign involvement whatsoever.
Why did no one fly jumbo jets into a skyscraper until 2001-09-11?
Why you skipping the park about Kamikaze pilots? If a single Zero could disable or sink a battleship, instead of merely starting a deck fire, naval warfare would have an entirely different history.
Using spaceships as weapons is a horrible waste of resources unless it's the only option available, so it might not even stand out as an option.
Throwing away expensive X-Wings and X-Wing pilots (also previously mentioned) is a horrible waste of resources to take down Imperial cruisers when a hunk of lightspeed junk will do the same job.
Alderaan was a peaceful planet. They had no weapons.
Pedant fail: peaceful != unarmed. Jedi are peaceful. They are also armed. Given that pirates and warlords have been around for millennia, that the Clone Wars were still a recent event, and that Alderaan has been invaded before, there's no way they aren't going to at least have the equivalent of the Coast Guard in the system.
The Star Destroyers could do that with turbo lasers
Star Destroyers that can be shot down by enemy ships or planetary defenses. As opposed to any old ship flying from outside a solar system directly into a planet.
but the Death Star was intended to strike fear into the galactic populace
So what. The DS wasn't the first superweapon, and it wasn't the last. You know what else would strike fear into the hearts of a populace? A Hutt obliterating a continent with a lighspeed mass driver, and it would be such a shame if the rest of their nice planet met the same fate if they didn't pay one millllllllllllion dollars in extortion.
But that hasn't happened. Because while there has been no shortage of shitty Star Wars plots and ideas, no one had a clusterfuck of this magnitude until Rian Johnson came along.
Suuuuure. And when you graduate with five figures in student loan debt - just in time for the second dot com bubble to pop? When the new BA's are competing for entry level jobs with people who have masters degrees and fifteen years of experience? And that's before we even get to the offshoring and H1B's....
And you know what? It's working. Not that we needed very much, given how Balkanized we are
Then why would Russia bother. The neo-McCarthyite hysteria wasn't around in the 90's, when Republicans were accusing Bill and Hill of being mass murdering drug lords, nor was it around after 2008 when Teabaggers lost their minds and accused Obama's parents of planting a fake birth announcement almost half a century prior because their son might have become president someday.
Another disphit refrain is that Russia is behind Black Lives Matter activists taking issue with unaccountable violent cops. As if it was news to black Americans that they were living in a racist police state.
And sure, in a civilization with sentient robots for some reason she needed to piloted a suicide attack against the chasing fleet. And sure, if that attack is so devastating why aren't there weapons that do that?
Yeah, you hit one one of the prime reasons. Why bother building expensive X-Wings and training expensive X-Wing pilots when you could take any thousand year old personal shuttle that can make lightspeed, put a thousand year old droid in control, and use them to disable/destroy a Star Destroyer. Why didn't Alderaan's defensive fleet (they must have had something) all go Kamikaze on the Death Star within a minute of it dropping out of orbit. Why bother building a Death Star when you could load up some ancient freighters and use them as mass drivers to exterminate all life on a planet.
And so on. This was a much more severe hurdle in the suspension of disbelieve than sound effects and aerial banking maneuvers ever were in space.
but Last Jedi really wasn't that bad
Indeed, it was much worse. Most of the primary characterizations were crap, like turning Finn into a coward after he defected from the First Order, knowing that was signing his own death warrant. But the real hairball of the movie was what they did to Luke Skywalker. They took a man who risked everything to save a mass murdering father he never knew - a risk that succeeded not just in saving his father but the rebellion itself - to one that would cut down his own nephew. Who he's known his entire life. Because he might be falling to the dark side.
The main thing that really bothers me about The Last Jedi, is that all the hate and trolling has managed to pretty much taint any and all actual criticism of the movie.
Riiight. In the same way that if you questioned Obama's drone strikes or bank bailouts, you were in the same camp as the people who questioned his birth certificate.
....yes? Oh, I was late for work the other morning - the Russians must have been involved. Justice League was a shitty movie - must have been the Russian's fault.
Because reasons.
Not that TLJ is an objectively shitty movie. The whole lightspeed ram that wrecks 40 years of continuity. Why build a Death Star when you can get a few junk freighters and use them as mass drivers against a planet? Why did the Alliance bother with those Death Star plans when a half dozen Kamikaze runs in quick succession could have disabled either of them? Why did Luke, who risked everything to save a mass murdering father he barely knew (and succeeded!!!!) decide to cut down his own nephew, who he's known his entire life, because he suspects the kid might be going to the dark side?
Nice try, but France standardised reactor designs massivly driving down const of construction.
So they only have gargantuan price tags instead of astronomical ones. Whooo. French nuclear power is still unjustifiable on cost unless you throw cost effectiveness out the window.
Decommissioning in general is only an issue if you expect on doing so. Why would you be crazy enough to actually attempt to completely dismantle something on site other than because law makers want to make it expensive.
Because the constant radiation means you can't recycle the parts closest to the reactor, and those concrete cooling towers aren't going to last forever.
As for the tax payers paying.... GOOD.
Public investment in infrastructure is good. So invest it in wind and solar, which will create more jobs across countries, in less time for less money, with none of the hazards or long term costs to worry about.
you'd be begging for the tax rates and "socialism" of countries like France.
Good thing you put scare quotes around socialism, as even the recent socialist presidents have been hardcore austerity capitalist warmongers.
It's not a penny in the jar. Remember Sanders' free college plan that was widely mocked as unaffordable? A mere $60 billion a year. Trump's wall? $25 billion once.
Which are pennies in the penny jar next to what's now (probably) over a trillion and a half a year on war pork:
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People who want fathers (or even alleged fathers) to pay child support for children they didn't ask for, for 225+ months, use the exact same arguments and reasoning as those who want to force women to carry parental responsibilities they didn't want for 9 months.
You misspelled "Hillary".
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Err, 30 credits. Which is about half what you need from a tech school for an AS diploma. Not a bachelors degree, much less a masters.
Your $5000 buys you ten credit hours according to your own link. Not including fees. No one offers a masters degree for ten credits. You gonna put down the shovel, or do you want to keep digging into this fantasy you've constructed of the world?
That's an impressively batshit crazy framing of the issue. Are you and your friends going to hold a tearful service, complete with burning candles below a picture of St. Rand....because....less of your tax money will be subsidizing a trillion dollar company??? Amazon paying $15 an hour means less people on food stamps and Medicaid, slick.
FTFY. People "choose" to be poor like you "chose" not to own your favorite sports team and be a tech billionaire before you turned 25.
Companies will hire the minimum number of workers needed to produce the maximum results. How "easy" that is is as irrelevant to that equation as high corporate tax rates are.
Aside from the service, the tears and the candles, maybe you could start a GoFundMe for Bezos, because having a larger net worth than dozens of countries just isn't enough. Were you the inspiration for that South Park scene where we're all supposed to cry for the rich because they had to settle for a Gulfstream III instead of a Gulfstream IV for their private jet? Or maybe the fundraiser for Kylie Jenner, to hurry up and be the youngest billionaire before she turns 22.
The fact that someone can work full time and be below the poverty line makes a bad liar out of you.
Mark Hamill called, and said every word in those sentences are false.
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Nothing compared to pay day loan companies that "help" people avoid homelessness with friendly, 6,000% loans. Your confirmation bias and anecdote of some kid splurging with his first real paycheck after living on Ramen for four years aside.
The poor and the working class were the revolution. The people who went to the gulag were the aristocrats and their lackeys, the bourgeois shitbags.
Who implied they did, on any planet?
Not if there aren't any opportunities, clown shoes. They can't make jobs appear out of thin air through sheer force of will anymore than you can meditate and find yourself owning your favorite sports team the next morning.
Yeah, so why I said "you hit on one of the main reasons". You just took understatement to 11, as hyperspace rams take four decades of Star Wars space combat, and throws it all in a dumpster fire.
Established bullshit, by the fact that he defected, knowing full well what that would mean. If he was just a coward, he would have just "accidentally" injured himself for a medical discharge.
Again: that blacks are subject to a brutal police state was not news to them. You are repeating McCarthyite talking points straight out of smears made against MLK and other civil rights protesters in the 50's and 60's. So all that ranting about ignorant dipshits? Take it to your bathroom mirror.
First time I saw mention of an Interdictor was in Timothy Zhan's trilogy. If they'd written that into the movie, it it still would have been a pile of shit, but not a steaming pile:
DJ (Benicio Del Toro) still runs out of time to disable the hyperspace tracking system, and still appears to betray what remains of the Republic to the imperials. On his way out of the ship with his money, he winks at Finn and says "stay safe, kid". Because he sabotaged the gravity well generator, which shuts off in time for Holdo's suicide run, which doesn't spoil 40 years of Star Wars space combat.
Because all poor people have $400, an internet connection, leisure time and more importantly, a job waiting for them. Make as many rehashes of the bootstrap cliche, but people can't make employment materialize through sheer force of will.
You forgot to mention the DeLorean and traveling back to the late 80's. A single year at Georgia Tech is $11,000 for a state resident after your tax credit, just for tuition and fees.
A common conservative refrain - but like all conservative refrains, it's bullshit. Labor is a cost, one that all companies will try to minimize whether the minimum wage is 20 cents or 20 dollars an hour. No company hires extra workers out of the goodness of their capitalist hearts.
Walmart is paying $20 billion to shareholders. With that money, it could boost hourly wages to over $15.
Good luck with the apologia for a feudal club you'll never be admitted to.
And all the sharks I just mentioned that were in the water with zero outside influence needed? Copy and paste: The neo-McCarthyite hysteria wasn't around in the 90's, when Republicans were accusing Bill and Hill of being mass murdering drug lords, nor was it around after 2008 when Teabaggers lost their minds and accused Obama's parents of planting a fake birth announcement almost half a century prior because their son might have become president someday.
It's like westerners are reenacting that scene from Austin Powers, but instead of Dr. Evil coming up with crazy schemes, it's crazy schemes being blamed on Russia. Only for people in the room to point out said crazy scheme was already happening, without any foreign involvement whatsoever.
Why you skipping the park about Kamikaze pilots? If a single Zero could disable or sink a battleship, instead of merely starting a deck fire, naval warfare would have an entirely different history.
Throwing away expensive X-Wings and X-Wing pilots (also previously mentioned) is a horrible waste of resources to take down Imperial cruisers when a hunk of lightspeed junk will do the same job.
Pedant fail: peaceful != unarmed. Jedi are peaceful. They are also armed. Given that pirates and warlords have been around for millennia, that the Clone Wars were still a recent event, and that Alderaan has been invaded before, there's no way they aren't going to at least have the equivalent of the Coast Guard in the system.
Star Destroyers that can be shot down by enemy ships or planetary defenses. As opposed to any old ship flying from outside a solar system directly into a planet.
So what. The DS wasn't the first superweapon, and it wasn't the last. You know what else would strike fear into the hearts of a populace? A Hutt obliterating a continent with a lighspeed mass driver, and it would be such a shame if the rest of their nice planet met the same fate if they didn't pay one millllllllllllion dollars in extortion.
But that hasn't happened. Because while there has been no shortage of shitty Star Wars plots and ideas, no one had a clusterfuck of this magnitude until Rian Johnson came along.
Who said that happened on any planet? Methinks you missed the (obvious) point.
As much as you "chose" not to be a billionaire or own your favorite sports team, sure.
If your business can't pay a living wage, your business doesn't deserve to exist.
Suuuuure. And when you graduate with five figures in student loan debt - just in time for the second dot com bubble to pop? When the new BA's are competing for entry level jobs with people who have masters degrees and fifteen years of experience? And that's before we even get to the offshoring and H1B's....
Then why would Russia bother. The neo-McCarthyite hysteria wasn't around in the 90's, when Republicans were accusing Bill and Hill of being mass murdering drug lords, nor was it around after 2008 when Teabaggers lost their minds and accused Obama's parents of planting a fake birth announcement almost half a century prior because their son might have become president someday.
Another disphit refrain is that Russia is behind Black Lives Matter activists taking issue with unaccountable violent cops. As if it was news to black Americans that they were living in a racist police state.
Yeah, you hit one one of the prime reasons. Why bother building expensive X-Wings and training expensive X-Wing pilots when you could take any thousand year old personal shuttle that can make lightspeed, put a thousand year old droid in control, and use them to disable/destroy a Star Destroyer. Why didn't Alderaan's defensive fleet (they must have had something) all go Kamikaze on the Death Star within a minute of it dropping out of orbit. Why bother building a Death Star when you could load up some ancient freighters and use them as mass drivers to exterminate all life on a planet.
And so on. This was a much more severe hurdle in the suspension of disbelieve than sound effects and aerial banking maneuvers ever were in space.
Indeed, it was much worse. Most of the primary characterizations were crap, like turning Finn into a coward after he defected from the First Order, knowing that was signing his own death warrant. But the real hairball of the movie was what they did to Luke Skywalker. They took a man who risked everything to save a mass murdering father he never knew - a risk that succeeded not just in saving his father but the rebellion itself - to one that would cut down his own nephew. Who he's known his entire life. Because he might be falling to the dark side.
GTFOH, Rian Johnson.
Riiight. In the same way that if you questioned Obama's drone strikes or bank bailouts, you were in the same camp as the people who questioned his birth certificate.
Because reasons, because false dichotomies.
....yes? Oh, I was late for work the other morning - the Russians must have been involved. Justice League was a shitty movie - must have been the Russian's fault.
Because reasons.
Not that TLJ is an objectively shitty movie. The whole lightspeed ram that wrecks 40 years of continuity. Why build a Death Star when you can get a few junk freighters and use them as mass drivers against a planet? Why did the Alliance bother with those Death Star plans when a half dozen Kamikaze runs in quick succession could have disabled either of them? Why did Luke, who risked everything to save a mass murdering father he barely knew (and succeeded!!!!) decide to cut down his own nephew, who he's known his entire life, because he suspects the kid might be going to the dark side?
So they only have gargantuan price tags instead of astronomical ones. Whooo. French nuclear power is still unjustifiable on cost unless you throw cost effectiveness out the window.
Because the constant radiation means you can't recycle the parts closest to the reactor, and those concrete cooling towers aren't going to last forever.
Public investment in infrastructure is good. So invest it in wind and solar, which will create more jobs across countries, in less time for less money, with none of the hazards or long term costs to worry about.
Good thing you put scare quotes around socialism, as even the recent socialist presidents have been hardcore austerity capitalist warmongers.
Which are pennies in the penny jar next to what's now (probably) over a trillion and a half a year on war pork:
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