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saltylopez posted:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323689604578220132665726040.html#project%3DWEALTH0105%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive When did Eric Holder retire?
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Ramadu posted:Seriously, where and how the gently caress do I go to make 230,000 as a single person? Wall St and sell out, respectively.
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Jan 15, 2013 08:33
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Ramadu posted:Seriously, where and how the gently caress do I go to make 230,000 as a single person? I'll let the late Bill Hicks sum it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6D90lJ2RJg
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Jan 15, 2013 09:08
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Ramadu posted:Seriously, where and how the gently caress do I go to make 230,000 as a single person? A small sterile room underneath the NYSE where they use lasers to burn out the part of your brain that feels compassion and then wire you full of warez that link you into the mutual fund overmind. Lachrymal hemorrhaging and alienation from the basic touchstones of humanity are a small price to pay for leveraging power of this potency.
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Jan 15, 2013 09:26
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Seoinin posted:A small sterile room underneath the NYSE where they use lasers to burn out the part of your brain that feels compassion and then wire you full of warez that link you into the mutual fund overmind. This sounds literally like a Francis E Dec rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJLhnts9-oQ
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Jan 15, 2013 09:35
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Spacedad posted:This sounds literally like a Francis E Dec rant: Would you believe that I managed to pick up the phrase "Gangster Computer God" somehow without ever once seeing one of these videos? I think it was an easter egg in the first Myth game. e. although if you read interviews with high-powered traders and hedge managers they come off as being not too far removed from Gibsonian automatons that exist to execute meaningless transactions until the piles of money they've been entrusted with become larger piles of money through sheer financial witchcraft. I saw this one where the guy straight up says something to the effect of "I sleep at my office, I haven't seen my wife in almost a month. I supposedly have a kid I'm neglecting, but christ knows how THAT happened." paranoid randroid fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Jan 15, 2013 |
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Jan 15, 2013 09:48
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Sir Tonk posted:The only reason I think Hannity is an act is from a guy I know from the radio show after mine. He said he's hung out with him and that he's got gay friends and all that. He hasn't seen him in like five years, so maybe we went off the deep end. I heard he has black friends too! It's almost like conservatives intentionally keep minority friends so they can keep pushing policy that is unambiguously harmful to those minority groups but continue deluding themselves into believing that they're not amoral privileged pieces of poo poo.
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Jan 15, 2013 10:13
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It also doesn't matter one bit whether they believe what they say or not because their audiences still believe them and they're taking a huge poo poo all over American political discourse. I mean, even artificial poo poo made to sound, look and feel exactly like natural poo poo is just going to be poo poo in the end.
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Jan 15, 2013 12:22
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saltylopez posted:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323689604578220132665726040.html#project%3DWEALTH0105%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive How come according to republicans I have a luxurious state job, but this woman makes 5X my income and manages to be a struggling single-parent?
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Jan 15, 2013 13:03
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The same way Republicans can tell me to my face that $200,000 just isn't rich anymore and then complain that poor people on welfare have it too easy in the same conversation. It's two repeated talking points and never the two shall meet in their brains.
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Jan 15, 2013 13:16
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I generally pay attention to the writer identity instead of the newspaper/source identity but, even if you leave aside the politics, when the NYT and the WSJ start talking in the 2nd person about finances the readership they care about has really come in focus. I don't know if this is different than it used to be, or if the taboo on talking money has loosened enough that it's just clearer now, or what. Part of it is probably just that New York City is skewing even richer (A.K.A. poor people are being priced out).
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Jan 15, 2013 13:49
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FetusSlapper posted:Wait wait.. I like hamburgers? I like .. air. and liquids.. Could he be a.... hooman? The whiteness, the nothingness... Kind of a stretch for a mighty boosh clip but, you know what, all this politics is really depressing. I had more but it dealt with a poorly thought out idea about farmers who still want to make a living and people who still want to eat, but most farmland is corporate owned, so that kind of failure seems to be serious. Until we see him drink root beer we have no evidence he is hu-man.
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Jan 15, 2013 14:25
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Ramadu posted:Seriously, where and how the gently caress do I go to make 230,000 as a single person? A large meth lab hidden beneath an industrial laundry facility. Alternatively, in an RV.
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Jan 15, 2013 14:51
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Why do all these right-wing radio personalities havethree and four hour blocks of time for their shows? Is it just the value of reinforcement of ideas? Also, is anyone talking about how there are now inconsistencies in the Sandy Hook story? My co-worker who listens to Rush is now talking about how a rifle was left in a vehicle and some other crap.
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Jan 15, 2013 19:48
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Eulogistics posted:Also, is anyone talking about how there are now inconsistencies in the Sandy Hook story? My co-worker who listens to Rush is now talking about how a rifle was left in a vehicle and some other crap. I heard something like this a couple weeks ago when I was casually driving around in Cleveland. It was just a regular rush-hour humor show but someone apparently e-mailed them about how Sandy Hook was a conspiracy created by Obama to take away ARE GUNS and how the shootings were done by 2 black ops members or some insane poo poo. I listened to it for about 5 minutes before I shut it off, since one of the people who ran the show apparently believed it and it got really disgusting really fast. Maybe its trying to give nods to that?
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Jan 15, 2013 19:55
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Business Gorillas posted:I heard something like this a couple weeks ago when I was casually driving around in Cleveland. It was just a regular rush-hour humor show but someone apparently e-mailed them about how Sandy Hook was a conspiracy created by Obama to take away ARE GUNS and how the shootings were done by 2 black ops members or some insane poo poo. I listened to it for about 5 minutes before I shut it off, since one of the people who ran the show apparently believed it and it got really disgusting really fast. Original media reports, along with identifying the wrong brother as the shooter, reported that he had two pistols on his person and the ar15 was in his car. A lot of the reports were co fused and contradictory as the story developed and every media outlet was trying to be the first to break the news
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Jan 15, 2013 20:00
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Cordyceps Headache posted:My parents, both on the edge of retirement and as far advanced in their careers as a biochemist and a engineer working on telecommunications designs, maker a combined income of 160,000$ Canadian (which means more now than it used to, admittedly). And we've always considered ourselves pretty drat privileged as a family. Who is this hypothetical single person with 230,000$ in yearly income. And loving 180,000$ in retirement? Who the gently caress makes that? Jesus. People who work in certain areas in finance.
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Jan 15, 2013 20:11
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watt par posted:People who work in certain areas in finance. Also pretty much all graduates from one of a few tier 1 colleges that run an MBA degree heavily stocked by a legacy admission program. Like, almost immediately out of college
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Jan 15, 2013 20:21
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Eulogistics posted:Why do all these right-wing radio personalities havethree and four hour blocks of time for their shows? Is it just the value of reinforcement of ideas? Because it allows flexibility for radio stations and listeners alike. It's also just pretty typical for the talk radio format, you put hosts or groups of hosts on air for 4 hours each, generally give each hour a major topic so you cover 4 main topics a show, and rotate them out for the next daypart.
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Install Gentoo posted:Because it allows flexibility for radio stations and listeners alike. It's also just pretty typical for the talk radio format, you put hosts or groups of hosts on air for 4 hours each, generally give each hour a major topic so you cover 4 main topics a show, and rotate them out for the next daypart. quote:Arbitron, the leading audience measurement ratings service in the United States, divides a weekday into five dayparts: morning drive time (6–10am), midday (10am–3pm), afternoon drive (3–7pm), evenings (7:00pm–Midnight), and overnight (Midnight–6am).
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Jan 15, 2013 20:35
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saltylopez posted:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323689604578220132665726040.html#project%3DWEALTH0105%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive I hate the WSJ so much. None of those people should have a loving sad face. they all earn more than 90% of this country. loving eat the rich.
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Jan 15, 2013 20:41
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Sword of Chomsky posted:I hate the WSJ so much. That graphic is stunningly out of touch. Are those really typical Wall Street Journal readers? Is *that* their median demographic?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:That graphic is stunningly out of touch. Are those really typical Wall Street Journal readers? Is *that* their median demographic? From 2007: http://www.talkingbiznews.com/1/the-demographics-behind-wall-street-journal-readers/ quote:Mayerowitz wrote, “Each day more than 2 million people pick up a copy of The Wall Street Journal or read it online, more than any other newspaper in the country, except USA Today, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
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Jan 15, 2013 20:55
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:That graphic is stunningly out of touch. Are those really typical Wall Street Journal readers? Is *that* their median demographic? It's a newspaper for assholes, by assholes.
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Jan 15, 2013 20:57
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prefect posted:From 2007: http://www.talkingbiznews.com/1/the-demographics-behind-wall-street-journal-readers/ http://www.btobonline.com/article/2...ccording-to-mri (edit: not that $135k/year is poverty, obviously)
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pangstrom posted:The median is $135,740 (even a few mega-rich folks will skew an average, and a lot of mega-rich folks read the WSJ) Jesus H. Christ. Eat the rich, indeed.
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Jan 15, 2013 21:02
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:That graphic is stunningly out of touch. Are those really typical Wall Street Journal readers? Is *that* their median demographic? Out of touch assholes and college students who were forced into a subscription for class exercises and don't understand how the world works definitely are their primary demographic.
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Jan 15, 2013 21:02
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It's a 1%er graphic. With respect to their specified groups, the single person, single parent, and married couple are all in the top 1% of earners in that group. I don't have retiree-specific income bracket information, but given that the top quintile for couples over 65, including those still in the workforce, is gonna start at around 120k, I wouldn't be surprised if they make the cut too. I suspect the two single women depicted would also be at least pushing the top tenth of one percent of their group if we include gender.
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Jan 15, 2013 21:09
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Jesus, I was just thinking how my mid five-figures salary is awesome compared to my friends. We are all truly peons before the Money Gods.
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Jan 15, 2013 21:23
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Good Citizen posted:Out of touch assholes and college students who were forced into a subscription for class exercises and don't understand how the world works definitely are their primary demographic. Anecodotally can confirm this. Someone I know has access to Wall Street J subscription of a (R) Senator from a Southern State that he interned with some ways back despite knowing absolutely zero stuff about politics because connections
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Jan 15, 2013 21:31
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We need some kind of ultimatum: hey aristocrats, we're gonna soak you or eat you. Your pick.
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Jan 15, 2013 21:32
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They just want to know why don't the poor have cake?
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saltylopez posted:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323689604578220132665726040.html#project%3DWEALTH0105%26articleTabs%3Dinteractive Holy poo poo. The looks on their faces in these remind of those famous Dorothy Lange pictures. 
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What a poor, sad soul. What's her income like $120k/year? She really needs to work harder so those kids don't starve to death.
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MaxxBot posted:What a poor, sad soul. What's her income like $120k/year? She really needs to work harder so those kids don't starve to death. If only she knew to bootstrap.
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Jan 15, 2013 22:38
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Good Citizen posted:Also pretty much all graduates from one of a few tier 1 colleges that run an MBA degree heavily stocked by a legacy admission program. Like, almost immediately out of college Like I said, certain areas of finance.
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/glenn-beck-sees-civil-war-brewing-america http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beck-provides-more-insights-obamas-looming-civil-war Glen Beck, walking in the footsteps of greats like MLK and Gandhi (whom he claims to stand in solidarity with), wants conservatives to engage in nonviolent resistance to Obama's coming gun confiscation, to fill up the nations jails rather than give in to violence. You see, for 4 years now, Obama has been systematically trying to provoke conservative into doing something  crazy in the hopes of provoking a violent response, that he will use to turn people against the right by smearing them as violent racist nutjobs. I look forward to reading Glen's masterpiece of civil-rights rhetoric, Letters from Obama's secret CIA blacksite below D.C.
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Good Citizen posted:Also pretty much all graduates from one of a few tier 1 colleges that run an MBA degree heavily stocked by a legacy admission program. Like, almost immediately out of college Some business-related honor societies also toss a free year or two subscription.
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Cordyceps Headache posted:http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/glenn-beck-sees-civil-war-brewing-america Wouldn't this just result in mass disenfranchisement of republican voters?
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Terex posted:Wouldn't this just result in mass disenfranchisement of republican voters? Glenn Beck plays the long con 
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