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"If you take the blue pill, you will wake up tomorrow and the world will be as it ever was. If you take the red pill... you find out how deep the rabbit hole really goes." "No thank you, Dude. I'm high on LIFE!" *slaps pills away, skateboards out of there*
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My Imaginary GF posted:same timezone. I'm in bed, watching Fog of War for the first time ever. McNamera is an inspiration. such a good documentary, it's my favorite. he's such an interesting character.
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Dec 13, 2014 13:10
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The great state of Michigan is at the vanguard of a new civil liberties initiative aimed at freeing doctors from the shackles of Big Government telling them whom to treat. 
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Dec 13, 2014 14:07
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Berke Negri posted:I'd probably vote for Condi. She's gay, bro.
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Dec 13, 2014 14:34
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ReidRansom posted:She's gay, bro. Well she's gay if she can't have her husbandAHEM KOFF KOFF Dubya
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Dec 13, 2014 15:16
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My Imaginary GF posted:McNamera is an inspiration. Explains everything about you. 
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Dec 13, 2014 16:08
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so yesterday my dad was telling me about an internship he had at HP back in the 80s where he had a co-worker from Sweden whose family had to pay above 100% of their income "due to the socialist tax system" no idea if this is STDH or not, would probably need a Swede to verify
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Dec 13, 2014 16:48
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:so yesterday my dad was telling me about an internship he had at HP back in the 80s where he had a co-worker from Sweden whose family had to pay above 100% of their income "due to the socialist tax system" While the trickery of the Swedish snow slavs knows no bounds, a lot of people in Europe, and probably North America, pay more than 100 percent taxes on their income for values of income meaning "Money I have left over after I spent it all." (Also, tax rate discussions are utterly meaningless without taking into account possible alternative revenue streams for social security systems and similiar state projects that might be covered by tax revenue in country A and alternative revenue streams in country B. In the same vein, what part of your gross income is actually taxable might be quite different between countries.) Randler fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Dec 13, 2014 |
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Dec 13, 2014 16:55
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:so yesterday my dad was telling me about an internship he had at HP back in the 80s where he had a co-worker from Sweden whose family had to pay above 100% of their income "due to the socialist tax system" Dad's crazy on this one. I'm sure one of our Swedes can verify.
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Dec 13, 2014 17:02
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do any of the swedes post in here or do they stay in their own thread to argue about immigration
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Dec 13, 2014 17:03
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p sure they're all trying to keep the nils contained in scandipol e. that kind of tax bullshit isn't new, though, Norway's current minister of finance went to the US to whine about Norway's "70%" tax rate someone crunched the numbers on that and found that it was theoretically possible to pay that much, if you were impossibly rich, super lovely with money and only bought hard liquor e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBgfK9NQmKw ugh V. Illych L. fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Dec 13, 2014 |
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Dec 13, 2014 17:05
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gently caress i get angry angry about frp
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Dec 13, 2014 17:10
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dear europe, please contain your idiots and stop letting them come over here to make things worse. we already took all your insane 17th century calvinist dissenting sects, please stop hurting us like this. yours, the usa
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Dec 13, 2014 17:12
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V. Illych L. posted:someone crunched the numbers on that and found that it was theoretically possible to pay that much, if you were impossibly rich, super lovely with money and only bought hard liquor If you're allowed to mix taxes on earnings with taxes on consumption to determinate a tax rate, sky's probably the limit.
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Dec 13, 2014 17:16
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^^as i recall it, some relatively respected institution came out and presented their maths on this, and it was accepted - one would have to do those things to have 70% of one's income "disappear" in taxes and fees. this woman's favourite book is atlas shrugged and she's finance minister in my country the norwegian election thread was called "last stand of social democracy" for a reason, the only reason her party and the Conservatives aren't in a pure majority coalition is because they somehow managed to run the worst election i've seen in my adult life, for which i am profoundly grateful - now they're dependent on the liberals and the christian democrats
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Dec 13, 2014 17:17
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norway never had me fooled. i always knew it was a bad country too.
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Dec 13, 2014 17:21
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i propose we lure more scandinavian posters to the thread by making a big show of our lightly fortified monasteries
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Dec 13, 2014 17:22
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at least half the scandinavian posters are weird as heck though. really obsessed with ww2, like creepy obsessed. that's my experience, at least.
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Dec 13, 2014 17:24
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R. Mute posted:at least half the scandinavian posters are weird as heck though. really obsessed with ww2, like creepy obsessed. that's my experience, at least. Of course the Belgian goes "Guys, this war is dumb." after being taken out in the first round.
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Dec 13, 2014 17:26
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R. Mute posted:at least half the scandinavian posters are weird as heck though. really obsessed with ww2, like creepy obsessed. that's my experience, at least. at least for norway, it's sort of the turning point from a tiny, poor shithole in the middle of nowhere to a tiny place with a decent standard of living and solid social institutions in the middle of nowhere the norway of today was built in the fifties, mostly
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Dec 13, 2014 17:29
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we got taken seriously by real countries!!! we matter guys!
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Dec 13, 2014 17:29
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Ælla of Northumbria took Norway pretty seriously, eventually.
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Dec 13, 2014 17:32
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V. Illych L. posted:we got taken seriously by real countries!!! we matter guys! It's probably helped that you only had to look good compared to other oil-selling countries which is a much easier treshold to being taken seriously.
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Dec 13, 2014 17:33
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V. Illych L. posted:at least for norway, it's sort of the turning point from a tiny, poor shithole in the middle of nowhere to a tiny place with a decent standard of living and solid social institutions in the middle of nowhere
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Dec 13, 2014 17:33
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randler what are your opinions on erwin rommel?
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Dec 13, 2014 17:34
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R. Mute posted:randler what are your opinions on erwin rommel? There is a reason we still name Bundeswehr barracks after him.
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Dec 13, 2014 17:37
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Randler posted:There is a reason we still name Bundeswehr barracks after him. because denazification wasn't through enough?
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Dec 13, 2014 17:38
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Raskolnikov38 posted:because denazification wasn't through enough? 
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Dec 13, 2014 17:44
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R. Mute posted:that's true for like half of europe, though. but when i run into scandinavian posters they're always a bit too obsessed with tanks and planes and mainly german ones at that. the type of person who likes talking about rommel yeah i dunno about that i guess you've just been unlucky with your scandinavians or you've run into too many swedes, i guess, those guys are some serious nazis
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Dec 13, 2014 17:45
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I remember reading this enormous .txt file on GameFAQs once that detailed every facet of Final Fantasy VI, all editions, including every item, every monster, a detailed strategy for each, and a whole host of bad jokes. It was the most autistic thing I had ever seen, and I wondered how a person could have this much time on their hands, and it turns out the guy who wrote it was from Norway and living off of government stipend. Because of that, I've always assumed everyone in Norway is just dicking around all the time.
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Dec 13, 2014 17:46
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Randler posted:It's probably helped that you only had to look good compared to other oil-selling countries which is a much easier treshold to being taken seriously. norway as a petrostate is a narrative that's seriously overestimated imo, it's helpful but norway was a pretty cool place before we had any notion that there was oil in the north sea
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Dec 13, 2014 17:46
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V. Illych L. posted:yeah i dunno about that i guess you've just been unlucky with your scandinavians
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Dec 13, 2014 17:48
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should probably give the danes some props, too, they are generally the least lovely scandinavians mind you i am literally listening to east german military chorus singing ernst busch right now, so ymmv
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Dec 13, 2014 17:50
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Wolfsheim posted:I remember reading this enormous .txt file on GameFAQs once that detailed every facet of Final Fantasy VI, all editions, including every item, every monster, a detailed strategy for each, and a whole host of bad jokes. It was the most autistic thing I had ever seen, and I wondered how a person could have this much time on their hands, and it turns out the guy who wrote it was from Norway and living off of government stipend. Fun fact: A poo poo-ton of the waiters and low/mid-level IT people and other worker bees in Norway are now Swedes. The idea of Sweden as Norway's Mexico is bizarre and cracked me up when I first heard about it, but I guess when you slowly sell off all your industry this is what happens.
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ReindeerF posted:A Swedish goon and I have a theory that Norwegians are just issued ATM cards that they can wander around the world with, withdrawing as much money as they want anytime they want. If you meet Norwegians abroad this makes a lot of sense. its not our fault that everything is so cheap everywhere else  a couple of years ago there was a news segment about poor working conditions for swedes working (i want to say illegally, but i can't remember) in a banana peeling plant. i am not even kidding
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Dec 13, 2014 18:21
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Randler posted:While the trickery of the Swedish snow slavs knows no bounds, a lot of people in Europe, and probably North America, pay more than 100 percent taxes on their income for values of income meaning "Money I have left over after I spent it all." You still haven't forgiven them for Gustavus Adolphus's intervention on the Protestant side during the Thirty Years War, have you?
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Dec 13, 2014 18:31
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V. Illych L. posted:its not our fault that everything is so cheap everywhere else  Other than being mean and Nazilich, what other stereotypes do Norwegians have about Swedes?
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Dec 13, 2014 18:32
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There isn't a general religious news thread, so I didn't know where the post this, but GRACE has finally finished it's investigation into Bob Jones Universities handling of sexual assault counseling and released the report to the general public and whoo boy it's a doozey: http://netgrace.org/wp-content/uploads/Final-Report.pdf
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i'm not the best to ask about this, being from the west and relatively far from sweden we have all the "brother peoples" jokes, where you have the norwegian and the swede and the dane and everyone who's not a norwegian is a complete moron, but those are basically universal, then you have the stereotype that swedes are decadent, have no taste, and tend towards the flamboyant basically remnants of a piously protestant peasant culture's inferiority complexes towards its more well-to-do neighbour like, sweden had feudalism and poo poo, the norwegian nobility wished they had feudalism, but all they got was plague e. swedes: also weak and effeminate e2. really the best way to understand norwegian attitudes towards anything is to have an image of a relatively poor guy who was really nice and helpful and everything who suddenly got rich and now has no idea what to do, so he starts behaving in this weird voodoo-wealthy way, trying his very best to act like rich people are supposed to but just not quite getting what rich people are supposed to act like so he just spends money on vulgar poo poo and hires the guy he used to look up to and now thinks he's cool while knowing that there's something he's missing and now he's compensating for it and soon it will have completely corrupted him and he will be insufferable V. Illych L. fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Dec 13, 2014 |
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V. Illych L. posted:its not our fault that everything is so cheap everywhere else So how long till Norwegian media begins to depict Swedish unskilled laborers as swarthy, uncultured people whose only goal is to take Norwegian jobs?
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