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WrenP-Complete posted:Does that say "internet web memes?" Of course! Internet web memes are a new trend among the youths on the Information Superhighway! After the success of "Hash-Tag Feel the Johnson" in his primary bid, the Johnson campaign is hoping to continue using memes to generate excitement and Here are some suggestions on new memes. I'm sure they would love to hear your feedback! -Harlem Shake up Washington this November! Vote Johnson! -I hope people Pokemon Go to the polls!* -I can has raw milk? Vote Libertarian! -All your base are belong to US Government bureaucrats! Move ZIG for Johnson!** *Indicates something actually said by one of the candidates **Indicates a meme older than some of the people voting this November
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Goon Danton posted:-All your base are belong to US Government bureaucrats! Move ZIG for Johnson!** Holy poo poo I must've been 6 when my dad showed me the swf because I saw the phrase in a Sally Forth comic Anyway, - Oh poo poo, here come dat private prison! - Health insurance across state lines, above the poverty line, and on fleek! - Get drunk! Buy a gun!  Stinky_Pete fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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<picture of a guy in a star wars shirt smoking a blunt and cleaning out a gun> it me GunnerJ fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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Stinky_Pete posted:Holy poo poo I must've been 6 when my dad showed me the swf Also holy poo poo, I'm old.
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Jesus Christ that will be more than my yearly salary until I'm 28 Please destroy capitalism
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:Jesus Christ that will be more than my yearly salary until I'm 28 I'm older than that and it's still more than what I make a year by about half. It's roughly what I made in the previous two years combined. It's more than I made in the three years prior to my moving to another country; again, combined. In the almost decade since I've graduated college, I have yet to have a job that approaches that as an annual salary. Capitalism where your success in a field is based as much on nepotism as it is on knowledge can die in a fire. Life post-recession has been awesome, and it's doubly great not being able to afford getting a master's degree or going for a different career path.
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:Jesus Christ that will be more than my yearly salary until I'm 28
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theshim posted:we can conclude from this that the free market has determined that memes are more valuable than you I never knew you could scam people quite this blatantly. I thought you had to at least put up a little pretense. Who What Now fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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YF19pilot posted:I'm older than that and it's still more than what I make a year by about half. It's roughly what I made in the previous two years combined. It's more than I made in the three years prior to my moving to another country; again, combined. In the almost decade since I've graduated college, I have yet to have a job that approaches that as an annual salary. Capitalism where your success in a field is based as much on nepotism as it is on knowledge can die in a fire. do you really only make 15k a year? that's insanely low, what terrible job do you have?
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Ron Paul trots down a street in San Francisco by a bunch of homeless people and shouts, "LEARN TO MEME!" also, I'm sorry to hear that YF19pilot what happened to unions 
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Sloppy Milkshake posted:do you really only make 15k a year? that's insanely low, what terrible job do you have? That's basically what full time on minimum wage gets you. But if we just got rid of the minimum wage, we could help out that poor black teenager who really wants to work for $5/hour but the drat state won't let him!
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shamelessly stolen from twitter but ron and rand paul went to town riding on a brony stuck a sign into the ground and wrote on it "whites only"
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Who What Now posted:I never knew you could scam people quote this blatantly. I thought you had to at least put up a little pretense. 
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theshim posted:I've read this like ten times and I still don't understand what you are saying Took me a minute too. Who What Now posted:I never knew you could scam people quite this blatantly. I thought you had to at least put up a little pretense.
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theshim posted:I've read this like ten times and I still don't understand what you are saying Sorry, posting too fast at work. I'm saying that spending $30k on dank internet memes is almost certainly a lie and that money went straight into Johnson's (the the PAC owner's) pocket. I thought that if you were going to trick people into donating you would need to put in a little more effort to hide your expenditures and at least pretend you spent that money on real stuff.
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Stinky_Pete posted:Ron Paul trots down a street in San Francisco by a bunch of homeless people and shouts, "LEARN TO MEME!" Republicans. You know, right to work laws, at will employment, propaganda, etc. The rich hated them so they spent money to make them go away.
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Stinky_Pete posted:what happened to unions Neo-liberalism and right to work laws
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Who What Now posted:That meter is awful sing it to the tune of yankee doodle, friend
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:sing it to the tune of yankee doodle, friend Yeah, I got that. Still doesn't seem right.
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Stinky_Pete posted:what happened to unions Don't cry for unions, they died a long time ago.
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inkblot posted:Don't cry for unions, they died a long time ago. Unions are not dead, but the coma is lasting way too long
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YF19pilot posted:I'm older than that and it's still more than what I make a year by about half. It's roughly what I made in the previous two years combined. It's more than I made in the three years prior to my moving to another country; again, combined. In the almost decade since I've graduated college, I have yet to have a job that approaches that as an annual salary. Capitalism where your success in a field is based as much on nepotism as it is on knowledge can die in a fire. Holy gently caress. I bitched about making $20 an hour and found that to be a pain in the rear end to live on as a young single dude. How in the bloody blue blazes can you get by on that little? I still find it absolutely horrifying that I make more than about 2/3 of households in the US and I'm not even making 6 figures. Income inequality in this country is seriously out of control and we need a much higher minimum wage a decade ago.
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Dirk the Average posted:Holy gently caress. I bitched about making $20 an hour and found that to be a pain in the rear end to live on as a young single dude. How in the bloody blue blazes can you get by on that little? https://youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM Something from 2012, and data suggests this is now out of date 
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Dirk the Average posted:Holy gently caress. I bitched about making $20 an hour and found that to be a pain in the rear end to live on as a young single dude. How in the bloody blue blazes can you get by on that little? I would do some awful things to good people for $20 an hour. I made the most I've ever made as a civilian last year, ~15k USD last year (in France so it's a bit easier but not much) but since my fiancée couldn't get a work permit it had to cover the both of us. One year we only brought in about 6k to live on, so after paying rent we only had about $150 to spend on food and necessities like toilet paper and toothpaste. I just moved back to the States for a Fed job which starts next year and even though I'm working two jobs at the moment I doubt I'll clear $15k this year either. "I bitched about making $20 an hour and found that to be a pain in the rear end to live on" is such a bizarre statement to me, I know intellectually it's not really much money but emotionally it's like that Wall Street Journal image about the plight of a poor family getting taxes raised on their meager 500k income. And most of my immediate family has been living on incomes like that their entire lives!
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Dirk the Average posted:Holy gently caress. I bitched about making $20 an hour and found that to be a pain in the rear end to live on as a young single dude. How in the bloody blue blazes can you get by on that little? Interesting, I was happy with the $18/hr I got at my summer internship and now I can't imagine living like I did then, but even then it just had to support my high-functioning alcoholic lifestyle. I have no clue how someone raises a family on less. Also, no idea how anyone lives in the Bay on less than like 70k
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Soviet Commubot posted:I would do some awful things to good people for $20 an hour. I made the most I've ever made as a civilian last year, ~15k USD last year (in France so it's a bit easier but not much) but since my fiancée couldn't get a work permit it had to cover the both of us. One year we only brought in about 6k to live on, so after paying rent we only had about $150 to spend on food and necessities like toilet paper and toothpaste. I just moved back to the States for a Fed job which starts next year and even though I'm working two jobs at the moment I doubt I'll clear $15k this year either. $20 an hour at full time is about $40,000 per year. For some perspective, $50,000 is considered solidly middle-class for a multi-person household.
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Dirk the Average posted:Holy gently caress. I bitched about making $20 an hour and found that to be a pain in the rear end to live on as a young single dude. How in the bloody blue blazes can you get by on that little? We pay the contract attorneys at my company about 23 dollars an hour. And as an attorney you are not required to be paid time and a half for overtime under federal law, so they get that rate regardless of how many hours they work.
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Dirk the Average posted:Income inequality in this country is seriously out of control and we need a much higher minimum wage a decade ago. What we need is a maximum wage. 
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I used to dream about going to another country myself, having lived in a fair few as a child, but there's no real escape anymore. The country where I was born, Canada, isn't really better off than the US and has a much higher cost of living while where I grew up, the UK, is a miserable mire of racism and hatred with a jacked-up cost of living, pathetic wages, and a once-proud but dying NHS. Even with an EU (for now) passport, you can't find decent work on the continent. It's really depressing to realise that there's nowhere to go to escape the nightmarish capitalist dystopia that is the world, and it's only going to get worse. The only upside is that it takes the sting out of dying. Soviet Commubot posted:I would do some awful things to good people for $20 an hour. I made the most I've ever made as a civilian last year, ~15k USD last year (in France so it's a bit easier but not much) but since my fiancée couldn't get a work permit it had to cover the both of us. One year we only brought in about 6k to live on, so after paying rent we only had about $150 to spend on food and necessities like toilet paper and toothpaste. I just moved back to the States for a Fed job which starts next year and even though I'm working two jobs at the moment I doubt I'll clear $15k this year either. Part of me is sad that you ended up leaving France, C-bot, but if you're happier that way then so be it. Did you meet your fiancée there or in the states?
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What the hell field are you in that you can't beat minimum wage with, given you mention a master's, I can only assume is at least a bachelor's degree? poo poo, every fast food joint and Starbucks out here is starting people at $10, and that's in the rear end end of the Midwest not someplace expensive like the Bay or Seattle.
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Liquid Communism posted:What the hell field are you in that you can't beat minimum wage with, given you mention a master's, I can only assume is at least a bachelor's degree? poo poo, every fast food joint and Starbucks out here is starting people at $10, and that's in the rear end end of the Midwest not someplace expensive like the Bay or Seattle. Yeah, surely any bachelor's degree is a stepping stone to at least a sales position?
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Liquid Communism posted:What the hell field are you in that you can't beat minimum wage with, given you mention a master's, I can only assume is at least a bachelor's degree? poo poo, every fast food joint and Starbucks out here is starting people at $10, and that's in the rear end end of the Midwest not someplace expensive like the Bay or Seattle. Depends on where you go but some places just positively refuse to pay good wages at all, ever. In these parts it's just plain surreal to see hiring signs up literally everywhere but only offering $9/hour with zero hope of actually getting 40 hours a week. They won't budge either and people aren't exactly jumping at the opportunity to move to this decaying wreck of a city to work for that. Parking is a nightmare, the mass transit sucks, and despite abandoned buildings everywhere the rent is still too high.
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Liquid Communism posted:What the hell field are you in that you can't beat minimum wage with, given you mention a master's, I can only assume is at least a bachelor's degree? poo poo, every fast food joint and Starbucks out here is starting people at $10, and that's in the rear end end of the Midwest not someplace expensive like the Bay or Seattle. Around where I live (mid-Michigan) fast food is hiring for the high $8s to low $9s, and I can guarantee you won't find much better in most other entry-level fields.
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Sloppy Milkshake posted:do you really only make 15k a year? that's insanely low, what terrible job do you have? Ah, gently caress sorry. The phrasing of what I said was a little odd. I made just under $20k last year, and am on target for $20k this year. Next year will probably be around $22k with my new raise. I get paid roughly $20/hr, but only work part time, so the pay is similar to a full-time job at $10/hr. I mean, poo poo is still pretty low in the grand scheme of things. If I got married and had a kid, I'd be below the poverty line again. For about 5 of the last 8 years my annual income was about $10~12,000/year, thanks to having to bounce from one part-time job to another. Any full time work I could get never lasted long enough to really make a dent in things (either temp work or the company itself folded). Where I live now, $20k/year is comfortable living. There's a National Health Service, so I'm covered for insurance. Though I still gripe at the costs of things I want, but can't afford. I'm not living in depression, but I am a bit salty about how things up until now have worked out. Right now I'm in a position/job that at least has some growth potential to it, unlike basically every job I've had before now. Liquid Communism posted:What the hell field are you in that you can't beat minimum wage with, given you mention a master's, I can only assume is at least a bachelor's degree? poo poo, every fast food joint and Starbucks out here is starting people at $10, and that's in the rear end end of the Midwest not someplace expensive like the Bay or Seattle. Bachelor's. The field of study I went into got very tight and very competitive very quickly right as I graduated, and I had neither the experience or connections needed to get in. Something to be said about not just building connections, but building good connections. Getting a good job is just as much about nepotism, but it's worthless if your connections won't work for you. So, I had to do the millennial thing of living with my parents working part-time job after part-time job. And where I was (also Midwest), $10/hr would've really been nice, but nobody offered that as a starting pay, and it was impossible to get full-time work ("Oh, you have a degree? Well, we don't want to invest our money in training you full time, but you can work part-time at a lower pay," someone actually told me in an interview). Not all was bad; I did have a job that paid $14.50/hr. It was a temp job that didn't even last a full 3 months, and was cut short due to low work volume. Though you mention "rear end end of the Midwest"; I was in Ohio.
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Soviet Commubot posted:I would do some awful things to good people for $20 an hour. I made the most I've ever made as a civilian last year, ~15k USD last year (in France so it's a bit easier but not much) but since my fiancée couldn't get a work permit it had to cover the both of us. One year we only brought in about 6k to live on, so after paying rent we only had about $150 to spend on food and necessities like toilet paper and toothpaste. I just moved back to the States for a Fed job which starts next year and even though I'm working two jobs at the moment I doubt I'll clear $15k this year either. If you get the chance, try to get a job as a technician somewhere in a medical company (or other industrial company; my only experience is medical). Generally speaking, there's not much education required, and if you're former military, they'll be happy to hire you (there are tax breaks and incentives to do so!). You won't make as much as an engineer, but you get decent pay and benefits. I was bitching about my pay because I was working as a temp and not able to use my degree. Now I make roughly double what I was making with full benefits and a nice 401k. It really shouldn't be that tough to make good money in this country. How the hell are people so opposed to minimum wage increases? It's maddening. It's not a perfect solution, and I'm in favor of more drastic things like mincome, but it should be politically viable to reward people for hard work!
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Dirk the Average posted:If you get the chance, try to get a job as a technician somewhere in a medical company (or other industrial company; my only experience is medical). Generally speaking, there's not much education required, and if you're former military, they'll be happy to hire you (there are tax breaks and incentives to do so!). You won't make as much as an engineer, but you get decent pay and benefits. Doesn't it basically boil down to idiots not wanting fast-food workers to be paid the same as *insert more respected job here*, along with simplistic/inaccurate arguments about how it will ruin businesses and result in less jobs?
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BreakAtmo posted:Doesn't it basically boil down to idiots not wanting fast-food workers to be paid the same as *insert more respected job here*, along with simplistic/inaccurate arguments about how it will ruin businesses and result in less jobs? An increasingly common argument against the $15 minimum wage is that fast food restaurants would replace all their workers with robots.
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Curvature of Earth posted:An increasingly common argument against the $15 minimum wage is that fast food restaurants would replace all their workers with robots. It's going to be pretty funny when we fail to pass a minimum wage increase and all of the fast food workers are replaced with robots anyway
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