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TheScott2K posted:Jeff Bridges ever since sleep tapes seeing his name makes me drowsy, in the best possible way. Agent Burt Macklin fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Mar 20, 2018 |
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my bony fealty posted:Yeah I suppose it is impossible to be that wealthy without being an active part of the problem. I'd take him and his pizza over Papa John's! if the billionaires were just shitheads constrained by proper regulations that were enforced, it would not be an ideal or perfect system, but good lord it would be a lot better.
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Mar 20, 2018 16:12
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Katt posted:Or he fights Django in a fist brawl instead of just force smashing him and arresting him. I would play The Django Unleashed
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Mar 20, 2018 16:13
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Waroduce posted:xpost So I knew Mercer was batshit insane, I just didn't know how much. This guy believes that the Guilded Age was the height of human progress 
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Mar 20, 2018 16:13
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Vladimir Putin posted:Bill Gates is probably OK Bill Gates unleashing mosquitos on a crowd of rich fucks is still my favorite thing.
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Mar 20, 2018 16:13
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Vladimir Putin posted:Bill Gates is probably OK No.
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Mar 20, 2018 16:14
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TheScott2K posted:A fresh Little Caesars pizza is good chain pizza. They make the dough in store! I'm never going to recognize your posts now because the old title was so loving gigantic
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Koalas March posted:Bill Gates unleashing mosquitos on a crowd of rich fucks is still my favorite thing. Bill Gates probably does some stuff that people in this thread don’t agree with but his overall work and philanthropy I think set a good example and is admirable.
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Mar 20, 2018 16:14
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Ularg posted:I can't believe this is a real article. I mean I can, but gently caress dude. That Kurt Schlichter article isn't really surprising when you remember he wrote several articles/books about how awesome it would be to kill his fellow citizens in blue states. Of course they are the real fascists, yes siree.
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Mar 20, 2018 16:15
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Party Plane Jones posted:I'm never going to recognize your posts now because the old title was so loving gigantic I do like 90% of my forumsing in the Awful app so I was always sort of surprised at how big the old one was any time I used a desktop browser. It was kind of a lame big red title, honestly. I've given much worse. They're supposed to hurt feelings.
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Mar 20, 2018 16:16
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Neurolimal posted:She's kind of an rear end in a top hat, too. She was pretty much all-in against Corbyn and after he did amazingly well pretended nothing happened and started tweeting about people insulting conservative female ministers as being sexist. She’s a Blair-loving neoliberal. (Gasp!) Hogwarts is probably a place where students learned to be advocates for free trade and lovers of the World Bank. Think Eton, but for wizards.
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Mar 20, 2018 16:17
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Bill Gates did his part to delay Apple imposing all of their bullshit onto computing for a good 20 years and for that I'm thankful.
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Vladimir Putin posted:Bill Gates probably does some stuff that people in this thread don’t agree with but his overall work and philanthropy I think set a good example and is admirable. Bill Gates made all his money in some extremely suspect ways -- see, e.g., the netflix/microsoft lawsuit, etc. In a purely utilitarian calculus his actions might be justifiable given his philanthropy, but it'd be a very "ends justify the means" kind of math.
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Mar 20, 2018 16:19
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Hobnob posted:Nobody wants to talk about Trump's weird rear end-anomalies. Drone posted:The real reason Trump doesn't like to take stairs is because of his persistent hemorrhoids. 
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Mar 20, 2018 16:21
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Bill Gates is only defensible if you think he did enough actual work by himself to justify his immense wealth compared to anybody who works or has worked for Microsoft EDIT: This applies to any capitalist
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Mar 20, 2018 16:22
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Vladimir Putin posted:Bill Gates probably does some stuff that people in this thread don’t agree with but his overall work and philanthropy I think set a good example and is admirable. Eh, I think his charity work is admirable and he wants to actually improve education, but he and his wife have completely bought into the Pearson view of education as entirely data and testing based, so as a teacher I'm not always his biggest fan. I feel it's also because he is misguided on the subject, and not an evil rear end in a top hat. On the plus side a large part of the good stuff of common core is because he helped push it.
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Mar 20, 2018 16:23
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All Capitalists Are Bad, but Gates isn't getting the Bezos treatment from me when the guillotines come out.
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Mar 20, 2018 16:24
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twice burned ice posted:Illinois goons, don't forget to vote today! Just did. I mean, I lost the sample ballot the Democratic Party sent out in the shuffle and I didn't bother to research any of the candidates beforehand so I just voted at random for like the five actual choices out of seventeen there were, but I still voted!  Except Plitzner, I deliberately voted for him out of spite since the Illinois thread seems to hate his guts.
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Mar 20, 2018 16:25
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Bill Gates made all his money in some extremely suspect ways -- see, e.g., the netflix/microsoft lawsuit, etc. I had not heard of the netflix/microsoft lawsuit, but some googling suggests you might be talking about paul allen (not gates, not microsoft) doing some patent trolling? The real knock on Gates and how he made his wealth is exploiting Windows' monopoly power. Pablo Nergigante posted:Bill Gates is only defensible if you think he did enough actual work by himself to justify his immense wealth compared to anybody who works or has worked for Microsoft iirc basically everyone who worked at microsoft in the early days is hilariously, stupendously wealthy from gates on down to the secretaries and the guy who did some art in the building and got paid in stock.
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Mar 20, 2018 16:26
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Katt posted:I am *this* close to reading the whole thing again. I kind of liked it. I really liked the magic system. You really got a feeling for how the magic worked and why and when they could do it. More importantly when they couldn't do it. Them's fightin' words. If I want to read about strict arbitrary magic rules, I'll play DND; I prefer magic in my fantasy novels to be inscrutable and, well, magical. Not fantasy superpowers that need a full mana bar or whatever. Let's take solace in the fact that that one great avenue of nerd escapism, the fantasy and sci-fi story, has likely never been soiled by any of the Trumps reading a book.
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evilweasel posted:I had not heard of the netflix/microsoft lawsuit, but some googling suggests you might be talking about paul allen (not gates, not microsoft) doing some patent trolling? Paul Allen gets the 'tine.
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Mar 20, 2018 16:27
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yea bill gates made his money in a lovely way, but he's helped millions of people and by the time he dies will probably be the greatest philanthropist in history, so...
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Bill Gates is only defensible if you think he did enough actual work by himself to justify his immense wealth compared to anybody who works or has worked for Microsoft You seem really mad that someone might have more money than you, or anyone else.
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and if we're talking about piece of poo poo tech guys, what about larry ellison? famous for taking a dangerous, expensive sport, and making it TOO dangerous and expensive for the other rich people?
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Mar 20, 2018 16:29
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Verranicus posted:You seem really mad that someone might have more money than you, or anyone else. Profit is theft.
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Mar 20, 2018 16:29
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Verranicus posted:You seem really mad that someone might have more money than you, or anyone else. Lol
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Mar 20, 2018 16:29
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Fred Rogers worked within the capitalist system without attempting to overthrow it; ergo, he deserves the guilliotine as much as anyone else
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Mar 20, 2018 16:30
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TheScott2K posted:All Capitalists Are Bad, but Gates isn't getting the Bezos treatment from me when the guillotines come out. New fresh blade for Bill. It's the least we can do. Bezos. Just skip the blade. Drop the wood frame repeatedly until the job is done.
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On the one hand, it's cool that he uses his ridiculous fortune for good things. On the other hand, he shouldn't have a ridiculous fortune like that in the first place, it's a symptom of a broken system. So I approve of what he does, but not of his existence. He should just be comfortably well-off, and "stopping people dying of malaria" should be a problem for humanity's government to solve.
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Mar 20, 2018 16:30
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Bill Gates also initiated the creation of XBox so that is another plus.
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evilweasel posted:I had not heard of the netflix/microsoft lawsuit, but some googling suggests you might be talking about paul allen (not gates, not microsoft) doing some patent trolling? The real knock on Gates and how he made his wealth is exploiting Windows' monopoly power. Sorry yeah I'm at about 65% function today due to allergies -- like an idiot I meant Netscape, not Netflix. Which as you say was basically "Microsoft exploits windows monopoly power to push out competitors, the legal battle."
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Verranicus posted:I am a centrist. Verranicus posted:Democrats shouldn't eat each other. Verranicus posted:I'm not racist. Verranicus do you think Bill Gates has done 91 billion dollars worth of work in his lifetime.
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skeleton warrior posted:Fred Rogers worked within the capitalist system without attempting to overthrow it; ergo, he deserves the guilliotine as much as anyone else Fred Rodgers pushed the idea that everyone is individually "special" rather than part of our glorious communist machine, fukkin capitalist pig
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Opinions on billionaires and fantasy books hot and fresh.
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Rich people all suck chat sure is fun to read Surely, this is the best possible thread for these discussions
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skeleton warrior posted:Fred Rogers worked within the capitalist system without attempting to overthrow it; ergo, he deserves the guilliotine as much as anyone else 
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Vladimir Putin posted:Bill Gates also initiated the creation of XBox so that is another plus.  America's Console
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my bony fealty posted:Them's fightin' words. If I want to read about strict arbitrary magic rules, I'll play DND; I prefer magic in my fantasy novels to be inscrutable and, well, magical. Not fantasy superpowers that need a full mana bar or whatever. I just made some magic elf biscuits so my mana bar is a bit low and I'll have to concede to a truce for now.
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It’s really wild to think how many billions are being used to prop up the stock market right now. It’s all smoke and mirrors.
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