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I don't speak cuckerish.
Turn that A/C down to 59 degrees!
I don't speak cuckerish.
You don't trust the government to take care of you. You've said as much in this thread.
But you do understand it.
You use the word more than anyone here Peter Pan.
Japanese. I just said it; I must speak it.
I do understand the meandering ways of you and your fellow betas.But you do understand it.
You know it, you live it.
Look at your ragged hand and beat up Johnson.
Thats right, women adore you.
Says the alpha who gets his pushed more than anyone on this board.
Such a fake wanna be.
Wanker...
Its a new world out there. Some officials get it.
Im sure there's a ton of stories out there of businesses and people helping others that we will never hear about. In my hometown the local Sonic is donating breakfast and lunch to school kids who eat at school....all they have to do is come by Sonic at a particular time in the morning and at a time at lunch.
This is revealing the failure of many "ins utions." It shows we need not to be re edly reliant on China for pretty much everything. Like it or not, their manufacturing is the lifeblood of our economy, and when supply chains are affected by even a percentage point, we see the chaos that causes.
It should also illustrate what a cluster of waste, inefficiency, and grift privatized healthcare is. South Korea has universal healthcare and their response to this was exceptional, since their leaders didn't have to play paddycake with private insurers and pharmaceutical companies.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/...-official-saysUnlike countries with centralized, government-based health care systems, the U.S. response is fragmented between public labs and private efforts by hospitals, universities and diagnostic companies.
To make an analogy, think of the coronavirus as a country we're at war with. How quickly does the American military act when faced with a threat? After 9/11, the Taliban was bombed into oblivion in about 2 minutes. Now imagine how sluggish that response would've been if you had to coordinate things between hundreds of different private and public en ies.
It should reveal what selfish pieces of our "billionaire class" is, and show to people that they aren't "heroes" to emulate nor deserving of the corporate welfare they receive. We could see a microcosm of their mentality by looking at how NBA players stepped up to the plate with donations to help workers affected by the league's shutdown before the owners.
Thus, this should illustrate the "failure" of our tax bracket system. Billionaires won't part with any cent they lucked into (and yes, they've lucked into it more than earned it) unless we tell them to. 1950s America (the "great America") had this figured out.Thankfully, some players stepped in and got the ball rolling. Cavs forward Kevin Love kicked things off, pledging $100,000 for Cleveland arena workers (prompting Cavs owner and Comic Sans enthusiast Dan Gilbert, worth $6.8 billion, to commit to a vague “compensation plan” for arena employees). He has thus far been joined by reigning MVP and immigrant legend Giannis Antetokounmpo (Bucks owner Wes Edens, worth $2.5 billion, matched his generous offering, effectively shamed into action by a 25-year-old professional athlete), and has thus far been joined by New Orleans phenom Zion Williamson (Pelicans owner Gayle Benson is worth $3 billion), and Pistons forward Blake Griffin (Pistons owner Tom Gores is worth a whopping $19.5 billion).
I don’t want to minimize the generosity of the players here. A crisis exposes who we really are, and they have shown that they are at least tangentially aware of the people who make what they do possible, and willing to help. But this crisis has also exposed the true faces of their employers and those are, well, being penny-pinching misers despite having more money than they will ever be able to spend.
Last edited by midnightpulp; 03-16-2020 at 08:47 PM.
Governments of many western countries failing. I'm guessing the speed of transmission, plus lack of Chinese transparency, and easy international travel may have contributed. Not to mention the "novel" nature of this virus.
America 1945-1975 was an anomalous period historically.
As the oligarchy/VRWC go organized in the 1970s, in reaction to the 1930s progress and postwar "progress" to degrade the USA to the historical, ancient mean of a few powerful, wealthy men operating, aka Capitalists owning a society to maintain/increase its power and wealth, while Labor power and wealth were crushed.
The old boy on the right can't speak a lick of sign language, he's locking and popping.
Quote me or own up to being a little
Just cos you found an echo chamber, you feel validated.
Stop lashing out. Do you trust the government to take care of you or not?
This thing caught us with our pants down. No doubt.
Thank God Dr. Fauci is still around. I have no doubt he had something to do with Trump's sudden shift.
That man is a national treasure. Fauci, not Trump.
Lashing out, echo chamber...
Call me a defibrillating pile of worthless gristle.
Just use something, ANYTHING, new.
Oatmeal for brains...
That video when Trump looked back at "Tony" and said right Tony?
Fauci lifted his hands in the air with a wtf...
The government "takes care" of all us through laws. "Laws" are a government run program, just like social security or NASA. There is no such thing as small government. Never has been, never will be. The alternative is anarchy. But what will happen in an anarchy is that it will reward a might makes right ethos much more than a society with a participatory republic or democracy.
The best system is a blending of anarchy and government. Anarchy in terms of behavior that doesn't violate the non-aggression principle (to cop a libertarian idea) and government of behavior that does violate that principle, like murder, theft, etc. The liberal/conservative divide comes from disagreement about what is and isn't aggressive, anti-social behavior beyond the obvious. Conservatives feel abortion is murder, while liberals believe it's up to the woman's right to choose. Taxation. Liberals feel a billionaire using his tax breaks to buy back stock while he lays off workers is an anti-social behavior, while conservatives applaud it as clever business. And so on.
You don't get a high bar for assessment when you're besties are the likes of Blake, bruh. Come to terms.
More fake talking points from the forums resident little
We all know what is in his browser porn history...But you do understand it.
China botched the outbreak for sure, what's the lack of transparency you're referring to and how did that contribute to western governments failing?
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