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The Nastier Nate posted:Maybe the first few seasons at best. King of the Hill would be a better example but they are more on the side of middle class. Naw man, Squidbillies is the best example
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Office Pig posted:why do you do this to us Just a reminder things could be much more frustratingly stupid
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The Muppets On PCP posted:medicare extra: lisa needs braces Does medicare extra even cover dental plan?
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Bilirubin posted:Naw man, Squidbillies is the best example squidbillies is way too real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkKdUFJnW9o
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The Muppets On PCP posted:medicare extra: lisa needs braces Homer is literally a labor hero who stages a successful workers' strike in that episode, but no please tell me how the Simpsons are petty bourg because they ate a lobster once I've checked, they own a refrigerator too
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Mar 28, 2018 19:57
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Depending which Springfield they are in they could even get lobster for cheap(er than most other regions can)
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Pinchy the lobster was in season 10, which is a Bad Season (meaning after season 8) He is one (1) lobster; there are five (5) Simpsons, four of whom did not receive a lobster Homer purchasing this lobster was a major plot point for the episode in question, indicating that the purchase of lobster is not a regular occurrence for the Simpson family and in fact had probably never happened before based on Homer's attitude toward Pinchy The current market rate for a 1.25-pound live lobster is $17.49 (in 2018 dollars) In conclusion, Pinchy the lobster does not ipso facto make the Simpsons upper-middle class, QED
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Look, we have just been through this. There is no "middle class". There are exactly two and only two classes: the Jets and the Sharks. Homer is a Jet and Marge is from a Shark neighborhood and that's why their extended families routinely have dancefight wars.
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Ytlaya posted:This is why they're always so big on adding the "and you can keep your current plan!" provision; it's something that's gonna be demanded by the main supporters of things like "Medicare Extra," and literally every person these folks know probably lives a similar life where they have access to good plans through their employers. I'm on a low-deductible low-copay plan through FEHB and yeah, both the copay and the taking time off of work enter into not seeking care.
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loquacius posted:Homer is literally a labor hero who stages a successful workers' strike in that episode, but no please tell me how the Simpsons are petty bourg because they ate a lobster once Holy poo poo dude, it was mostly a joke post about the Grimes episode. I should have added *sniff sniff* before the lobster part to make it more obvious.
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The Muppets On PCP posted:squidbillies is way too real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtELmz-MVvU
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Also, how does the unpaid space communist military fit into Marx's dialectic of class? I'm trying to decide if Ben and Jake Sisko count as working class or not. (Rom and Nog ABSOLUTELY do.)
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loquacius posted:Homer is literally a labor hero who stages a successful workers' strike in that episode, but no please tell me how the Simpsons are petty bourg because they ate a lobster once oh i was just making a joke about two separate topics in the thread i don't have any strong opinion on the simpsons beyond when it started going to poo poo
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loquacius posted:Pinchy the lobster was in season 10, which is a Bad Season (meaning after season 8) frank grimes episode is the real lobster reference, but i like this post anyway
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WampaLord posted:Holy poo poo dude, it was mostly a joke post about the Grimes episode. I'm not actually mad, I'm just online Simpsons mad 
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people think it's just a goofy cartoon but it's approx. 5% exaggeration of southern appalachia and piedmont
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:I'm on a low-deductible low-copay plan through FEHB and yeah, both the copay and the taking time off of work enter into not seeking care. Yeah, I forgot the issue of taking time off work; I'm actually exceptionally privileged in that regard, because my work is very lax and it's easy for me to take off for things like that with short notice (though it's kinda in exchange for the considerably lower compensation of working at a public university lol).
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loquacius posted:Pinchy the lobster was in season 10, which is a Bad Season (meaning after season 8) it is outrageous to me that you are talking about pinchy the lobster when it is clearly a reference to homer's enemy turn in your badge and gun, your simpsons credentials are revoked
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Concerned Citizen posted:it is outrageous to me that you are talking about pinchy the lobster when it is clearly a reference to homer's enemy HOW DARE YOU DEFEND FAMILY GUY YOU LANYARD
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There are obviously some episodes, particularly in the real early seasons where the family is a victim of class struggles and the working class roots of the family are thoughtfully explored. But the vast majority of Simpsons episodes, even if you stop at season 10, throw all that out the window to fit the wacky adventure of the week so Homer can become an astronaut, snow plower, proffesional boxer, manage a musician or whatever.
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The most non-working class thing the Simpsons displays is that Homer keeps getting his powerplant job back after quitting/being fired/losing it/dying/etc. It's also the most unrealistic thing but at least he has basically a guarantee based on fate and plot to get his job back.
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The Nastier Nate posted:There are obviously some episodes, particularly in the real early seasons where the family is a victim of class struggles and the working class roots of the family are thoughtfully explored. But the vast majority of Simpsons episodes, even if you stop at season 10, throw all that out the window to fit the wacky adventure of the week so Homer can become an astronaut, snow plower, proffesional boxer, manage a musician or whatever. those bourgeois snow plowers
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Obligatory Simpsons video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqFNbCcyFkk
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punk rebel ecks posted:My co-workers (who tend to be older and white) can't stop going off how much they like their premium insurance plans and how much they dislike Medicaid. They even rank hospitals. Like saying Kaiser Permanente is the worst one ever. hey at least your area has a kaiser hospital. before they built one in Modesto everyone with their insurance had to be carted hours away to the nearest one unless they were bleeding out or else the claims got denied
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:ssssuuuuUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKKK gently caress that, Forced Medicare For All you have no choice, you WILL see doctors for free, gently caress you
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if you ever attempt to pay a doctor government agents will show up at your door and slap you right in the loving mouth
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Did my brain make this up or did they seriously try to make "Time Kaine is your cool step-dad" a thing during the election?
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The Nastier Nate posted:I'm trying to think of successful network tv shows that depicted a working class family in my lifetime and I've come up with 3:
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ThndrShk2k posted:The most non-working class thing the Simpsons displays is that Homer keeps getting his powerplant job back after quitting/being fired/losing it/dying/etc.
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Guy Goodbody posted:Did my brain make this up or did they seriously try to make "Time Kaine is your cool step-dad" a thing during the election? sounds familiar enough but i couldn't tell you for certain which is weird because he's just so memorable
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FactsAreUseless posted:Bob's Burgers is very explicitly about a working-class family. It's also the best one.
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FactsAreUseless posted:You think that's bad, nobody in that family ever gets any older. Bart had a birthday once. The well episode was one of the all-time best. AstheWorldWorlds posted:It's also the best one. Malcolm in the Middle was great too.
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https://medium.com/@candiceaiston/twitter-is-a-cesspool-of-white-male-toxicity-and-im-done-with-it-85d5d55ca140 Candice Aiston, she of "replaced her own face with Hillary's face in her avi" fame, quits twitter with a loving War and Peace essay to go out on numerous incredible self-owns in here* *not that you should read the whole thing, but worth a skim to where she insists an asian person is white for 30 loving tweets. She included this in her own "i'm not owned, i'm not owned" essay emdash has issued a correction as of 22:10 on Mar 28, 2018 |
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Much Apu About Nothing aired in 1996; this is $565.07 in 2017 dollars (the most up-to-date I could find) just doin the needful It's after taxes though, dunno about his gross pay emdash posted:https://medium.com/@candiceaiston/twitter-is-a-cesspool-of-white-male-toxicity-and-im-done-with-it-85d5d55ca140 I thought she got banned Well anyway, I'm not reading this but I'd appreciate some highlights pls and TIA
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Homer keeps his family fed by feeding the Russians information on the nuclear power plant
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loquacius posted:Much Apu About Nothing aired in 1996; this is $565.07 in 2017 dollars (the most up-to-date I could find) well it has the taxes right there so you can add the numbers together to get the gross number
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loquacius posted:
she's suspended with a pending appeal, yeah, but the point of her screed is to indicate she won't be back even if the appeal is successful another highlight: she willingly admits to having blocked 5,000 people, one at a time. "never used a blocking app"
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wait the taxes are right there on the check and I'm dumb ok that's $479.60 gross per week, $24,939.20 per year. $38,908.65 in 2017 dollars, before taxes. Simpsons poor as poo poo y'all
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emdash posted:another highlight: she willingly admits to having blocked 5,000 people, one at a time. "never used a blocking app" *extremely normal person voice*
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