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Shame Boy posted:Yeah idk I never really noticed I was having trouble concentrating or anything, I was just so used to only being able to get stuff done (either at work or on my hobbies or hell just poo poo around the house that needs doing) like, once or twice a month on "good days" that I thought that's just how everyone was. I was also super duper impulsive and irresponsible, and would chronically forget things when I walked through a doorway (like I know everyone has that happen but for me it happened nearly every time). hey that kinda describes me. but i also have the 'tism somewhat counteract it, and i asked docs this year about it and they said meds have so many side effects i might as well keep on truckin without since i'm not cripplingly add
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Not Very Metal posted:i heard this same story on my way home from work and my eyes nearly rolled out of my head. it was her husband's dealership and she was complaining that all the travel and shopping she was doing before the crash was "too boring." I think it was a “make lemonade out of lemons” segment but the messege felt more like “economic downturns and wealth transfer to banks is good, actually” and did little to discuss why people had to bail out the banks in the first place while being repaid for their bail out contributions by losing their livelihoods I used to npr all the times but it’s getting harder, especially when they have guests from the heritage foundation on their show to discuss welfare reform. Scary! has issued a correction as of 20:03 on Nov 28, 2018 |
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Koch Bros, noted objectivists, are probably not donating money to NPR out of altruism.
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COMRADES posted:Koch Bros, noted objectivists, are probably not donating money to NPR out of altruism. It's getting more and more right-wing. I hate that I ever donated and will never donate again. It'd be better if they folded.
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Scary! posted:I think it was a “make lemonade out of lemons” segment but the messege felt more like “economic downturns and wealth transfer to banks is good, actually” and did little to discuss why people had to bail out the banks in the first place while being repaid for their bail out contributions by losing their livelihoods i took her segment to almost be a plea for sympathy, like "abloo hoo i used to be so stinking rich my biggest problem was inadvertently staying up late at night." also i know i'm ignoring the fact that she raised her son during that time, and that she is making the lost dealership lemon into lemonade (instead of complaining about not being rich anymore), which are good things, but the smarm coming out during that initial part of the interview left a bad taste in my mouth (ears?). also jfc about the heritage foundation and welfare reform, yikes. i usually catch a bit of morning edition and local stories on npr in the morning, then marketplace and maybe a bit of the daily on the way home at night, i had no idea they were up to that kind of poo poo.
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COMRADES posted:Koch Bros, noted objectivists, are probably not donating money to NPR out of altruism. I think I can actually pinpoint what did it (or at least when they stepped up their game): A few years ago morning edition ran a series of stories on the Koch brothers' political tendrils, then it ended and not one week later morning edition was suddenly "Brought to you in part by Koch Industries, did you know Koch Industries employs over 50,000 people nationwide?!"
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It really stood out to me too because the little ad blurb didn't say anything about what they make or what they do or even what some other ads on NPR do of saying "gosh we love donating to charity", it was literally just "WE EMPLOY LOTS OF PEOPLE ISN'T THAT ENOUGH FOR YOU PEONS"
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Sure was great to take my son out of speech therapy because my job changed insurance. Can't believe more countries don't have private health insurance so we can all have fun experiences like that.
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They said they had the dealership segment and a few other stories regarding the downturn online but I couldn’t find them
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gently caress dealerships anyway guaranteed that woman wasn't as bad off as she made out to be slash they cherrypicked the poorest one that lost a dealership and that's what they could come up with. between the licensing laws and the bans on direct sales dealerships are basically little rent-seeking fiefdoms and there's no way at the least they weren't able to write off hundreds of thousands of dollars in business losses against future taxes. Most people don't own a fuckin' business much less a dealership or even a home.
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Accretionist posted:It's getting more and more right-wing. I hate that I ever donated and will never donate again. It'd be better if they folded. It's heavily based on where the programming comes from tbh. American Public Media is super duper right-leaning and has been forever, and they make shows like Marketplace that are basically capitalist propaganda. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is somewhat better but still skews center-right. Shows by local NPR stations or independents are a mixed bag of course, and sometimes this is hilariously clear - for a while my old NPR station went right from Marketplace Morning Report to fuckin' Democracy Now playing rabble-rousing organized labor folk songs and talking about how evil the USA is, it was quite the whiplash.
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Shame Boy posted:It's heavily based on where the programming comes from tbh. American Public Media is super duper right-leaning and has been forever, and they make shows like Marketplace that are basically capitalist propaganda. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is somewhat better but still skews center-right. This is really what boggles my mind when I hear people talking about "buuhhhh cultural marxism the left wing is insidiously using our media to push socialism" like what dude stop listening to weirdos on YouTube and flip across the channels sometime it is anti-worker anti-labor as gently caress. Even our "public" radio is, as you say, right leaning for the most part especially on national airwaves.
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Moridin920 posted:gently caress dealerships anyway I think my concern was mostly the shoddy reporting and framing of the issue
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pushpins posted:Sure was great to take my son out of speech therapy because my job changed insurance. Can't believe more countries don't have private health insurance so we can all have fun experiences like that. Wow that sucks dude, did this just happen? Do you know how much it would cost without insurance? I'd donate to a gofundme or something to help get your kid, y'know, proper loving basic medical care for an easily correctable issue that gets harder to fix the longer it's left untreated. Moridin920 posted:This is really what boggles my mind when I hear people talking about "buuhhhh cultural marxism the left wing is insidiously using our media to push socialism" like what dude stop listening to weirdos on YouTube and flip across the channels sometime it is anti-worker anti-labor as gently caress. Even our "public" radio is, as you say, right leaning for the most part especially on national airwaves. Yeah I don't think anyone complaining about "liberal bias" in the media has ever actually heard a genuinely left-biased news broadcast so they just assume it's "anything that's not fox news" or "anything that thinks gays deserve human rights" or w/e Like I loving wish there was a left-bias in the media, maybe it could make the greater public aware of just how hard they're all being hosed and that there are solutions to problems that aren't just "ignore them" or "blame mexicans"
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Shame Boy posted:It really stood out to me too because the little ad blurb didn't say anything about what they make or what they do or even what some other ads on NPR do of saying "gosh we love donating to charity", it was literally just "WE EMPLOY LOTS OF PEOPLE ISN'T THAT ENOUGH FOR YOU PEONS" Job Creators
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Accretionist posted:I like to think I can get through to people sometimes. You can, sometimes. But not those kind of people.
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Here's the biggest bowl of poo poo Americans love to eat for some reason:quote:No poor man ever gave me a job. Have you ever been hired by a poor person? quote:Don’t knock the rich. When was the last time you were hired by somebody poor? quote:Here’s something to think about : Don’t knock the rich. When were you ever hired by a poor person? quote:I don’t knock the rich. I never got a job from a poor person! quote:One other thing that really bothers me—and I don’t know how to put this in a better way—I never got a job from a poor person. I have always gotten a job from someone who had some money. quote:It happened off camera, so none of us saw it, but Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich couldn’t hold back his Harvard chuckle when a young man on “Nightline” said: “I’m poor, so you know, if Clinton taxes the rich it doesn’t hurt me any. But one thing you’ve got to remember is that the poor man never gave anybody a job. You’ve got to take care of people that can start businesses and run businesses and help those survive and be strong.” quote:People say capital gains is for the rich, but I’ve never been hired by a poor man. quote:Not long ago a New Jersey painter was quoted in The Washington Post as saying: “You’re looking at a poor man who thinks the capital gains tax [cut] is the best thing that could happen to this country. People say capital gains are for the rich, but I’ve never been hired by a poor man.” quote:As for the state’s fiscal crisis, it’s Arnold and Arnold alone who wisely said: “Don’t knock the rich. When’s the last time you were hired by somebody poor?” quote:But as a Pittsburg pipefitter said of the same cut in capital gains taxes advanced by President Reagan 20 years ago, “It may be a tax cut for the rich but I ain’t never been hired by a poor man.” quote:… Mr. Pence said. “I’m mindful of what a pipe fitter once said to President Reagan: ‘I’ve never been hired by a poor man.'” unless they don't, in which case they probably need more tax cuts
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Taintrunner posted:where the hell did you get those from poor people who think they are middle class?
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Shame Boy posted:Wow that sucks dude, did this just happen? Do you know how much it would cost without insurance? I'd donate to a gofundme or something to help get your kid, y'know, proper loving basic medical care for an easily correctable issue that gets harder to fix the longer it's left untreated. No this was a few months ago. He's getting speech therapy through his school now. Funny enough my wife got a new job that offered my old insurance so I'm back on it under her name.
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Shame Boy posted:I mean I have legit ADD (diagnosed separately by both a very skilled psychologist and a psychiatrist that I trust the opinions of, without me even thinking I had it first) and I loving wish the meds for it were at all easy to get. Its pretty hosed up you feel you have to be super defensive about saying you have a mental health issue, with a "no no, really I really do, I'm not just a faker". This isn't a knock on you, just the state of mental health care in our world, where you have to puff up the legitimacy of your bipolar, autism, ADD, etc diagnosis to not seem like one of those people.
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Who the gently caress has been hired by a rich person? I don't think the Subway supervisor on my college campus was a secret millionaire or anyone in HR at a call center is pulling six figures. Do these morons think someone in the Walton family is checking their resume before they get a cashier job?
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Dead Beef posted:Here's the biggest bowl of poo poo Americans love to eat for some reason: dont insult the king, he provides the land by which we live
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pushpins posted:Who the gently caress has been hired by a rich person? I don't think the Subway supervisor on my college campus was a secret millionaire or anyone in HR at a call center is pulling six figures. Do these morons think someone in the Walton family is checking their resume before they get a cashier job? they have no concept whatsoever of how rich the truly wealthy are because they completely lack class consciousness
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Dead Beef posted:Here's the biggest bowl of poo poo Americans love to eat for some reason: So the takeaway message is we need to turn more poor people into rich people so they can give the remaining poor people jobs?
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Dead Beef posted:Here's the biggest bowl of poo poo Americans love to eat for some reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDvfbvuJtS8 Blessed are the fornicates May we bend down to be their whores Blessed are the rich May we labor, deliver them more
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comedyblissoption posted:actually the only solution to any of these problems is dissolution of economic or political hierarchy and a recognition of labor-value as a fundamental economic input to create goods and services. yah sure a nationalized bank probably makes sense under an actually democratic society, but a nationalized bank is going to still mainly be a tool of capitalists in a capitalist society yeah unfortunately trying to open the "full communism now" anti-hierarchy stateless vision of qualitative revolutionary change ala Murray Bookchin and others is something that I totally disagree with but is really not something that interests people without an unhealthy and useless interest in the minutiae of political science. like, I'm still trying to explain why deflationary currency is different then regular state-issued money but its like a loving brick wall. the liberal worldview is so unbelievably monolithic that it can't really be properly addressed except one tiny part at a time, like trying to convince people to question the most obviously inconsistent parts of capitalism's attempts to deal with problems it creates, like banking pushpins posted:Who the gently caress has been hired by a rich person? I don't think the Subway supervisor on my college campus was a secret millionaire or anyone in HR at a call center is pulling six figures. Do these morons think someone in the Walton family is checking their resume before they get a cashier job? a recent Chapo episode they talked about how the running joke that most vociferous conservatives own some kind of incredibly stupid luxury business like wainscotting trim repair or boat waxing or something generally characterized by being a service used by only a very small and comparatively wealthy portion of even the US, much less the world, population. your post made me think about that because its absolutely true for most conservatives I know in real life who are often contractors and are thus often (mostly even) directly contracted by individuals with money to burn in the housing market for the better part of their business. this gives them an incredibly hosed up and distorted perspective on the nature of contracts, consent, and wealth, and because they're usually pieces of poo poo, they don't empathize enough with their own employees to see how that dynamic breaks down immediately beneath the owner-client level. they just extend this dumbass logic to all business in the same way many people talk about the national debt like a household budget because inaccurate extrapolations of personal anecdotes are basically the core tenet of modern conservatism
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Dead Beef posted:Here's the biggest bowl of poo poo Americans love to eat for some reason: What's the bite sized media-friendly response to that phrase?
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AgentF posted:What's the bite sized media-friendly response to that phrase? "Bernie 2016"
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my favorite Job Creator was mitt romney
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AgentF posted:What's the bite sized media-friendly response to that phrase? cyka blyat
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AgentF posted:What's the bite sized media-friendly response to that phrase? I may be a poor man but I’ll pay you a dollar to suck my cock
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AgentF posted:What's the bite sized media-friendly response to that phrase?
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Frog Act posted:a recent Chapo episode they talked about how the running joke that most vociferous conservatives own some kind of incredibly stupid luxury business like wainscotting trim repair or boat waxing or something generally characterized by being a service used by only a very small and comparatively wealthy portion of even the US, much less the world, population. your post made me think about that because its absolutely true for most conservatives I know in real life who are often contractors and are thus often (mostly even) directly contracted by individuals with money to burn in the housing market for the better part of their business. this gives them an incredibly hosed up and distorted perspective on the nature of contracts, consent, and wealth, and because they're usually pieces of poo poo, they don't empathize enough with their own employees to see how that dynamic breaks down immediately beneath the owner-client level. they just extend this dumbass logic to all business in the same way many people talk about the national debt like a household budget because inaccurate extrapolations of personal anecdotes are basically the core tenet of modern conservatism i was on a board of review for a kid going for eagle scout a while back, and he mentioned he wanted to run a construction business (his uncle's a landlord). we got to talking about leadership and i asked him "okay so in scouts everyone's more or less there because they wanna be, everyone's democratically elected, there's an implicit assumption that even if you're a kid getting bossed around by your patrol leader eventually you'll get elected to a position once you're experienced. how do you plan on leading people when they only reason they don't tell you to gently caress off and walk off the site is because they'll starve to death?" the question had literally never occurred to him
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StashAugustine posted:i was on a board of review for a kid going for eagle scout a while back, and he mentioned he wanted to run a construction business (his uncle's a landlord). we got to talking about leadership and i asked him "okay so in scouts everyone's more or less there because they wanna be, everyone's democratically elected, there's an implicit assumption that even if you're a kid getting bossed around by your patrol leader eventually you'll get elected to a position once you're experienced. how do you plan on leading people when they only reason they don't tell you to gently caress off and walk off the site is because they'll starve to death?" the question had literally never occurred to him did the other board members stand up and clap?
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Moridin920 posted:This is really what boggles my mind when I hear people talking about "buuhhhh cultural marxism the left wing is insidiously using our media to push socialism" like what dude stop listening to weirdos on YouTube and flip across the channels sometime it is anti-worker anti-labor as gently caress. Even our "public" radio is, as you say, right leaning for the most part especially on national airwaves.
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pushpins posted:Who the gently caress has been hired by a rich person? I don't think the Subway supervisor on my college campus was a secret millionaire or anyone in HR at a call center is pulling six figures. Do these morons think someone in the Walton family is checking their resume before they get a cashier job?
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Scary! posted:The other day I was listening to NPRs marketplace money and they had a story where a woman lost her dealership due to the 2008 crash. She thought it was ok and she’s happier now because she works 2 jobs to support herself and her kid, and the positive framing is that now she’s tired at the end of the day and can sleep easier Nice Polite Republicans
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