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LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:This would have zero problems passing as a parody completely unchanged. lol yeah, for sure- but it also reads as super-real if you've ever worked in an environment where this kinda thing is normal
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yeah those wasteful federal employee welfare queens with their rnb ringtones and new balance sneakers always buying expensive lobster with their free obamaphones - someone very smart who reads the capitalism.txt/.png thread not compensating people for work is bad, not compensating the full value of work is bad, and it is my sincere hope that this shutdown encourages a lot of people to reconsider this whole "wages" bullshit before the murderdrones come to the first world with the same gusto as their middle east deployment.
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Zombiepop posted:My Gf is in this situation since her roomie moved out , she can move to a cheaper apartment, roughly half the size of her current one and save as much as 50€/month! Sometimes it's just not worth moving to a smaller place. I live in a university city so there just aren't any small apartments available for a reasonable price.
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Speedway had a page about all the things they had employees do in miserable weather that was supposed to inspire us or something? *This store manager didn't leave for two days *This crew person slept in their car in the parking lot *This person got a room at the hotel next door gently caress you Speedway.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I live in a university city so there just aren't any small apartments available for a reasonable price. Capitalism!
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Peanut Butler posted:the cost of your lovely Plantronics $50-$75 headset is deducted from your first check, Ha ha funny. Wait what you're serious? What's next, your desk and chair?
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cakesmith handyman posted:Ha ha funny. The hydraulics on my chair started going out fall 2017 and I asked for a new one and was told "soon". By March if you sat down you would go straight down and when standing up the chair would spring upwards. Since a new chair was pushed back because "we're getting remodeled soon" I took it on myself to fix it. Now I have the squeakiest, grindiest chair in the office due to the PVC pipe grinding on the base and rubbing against the part that leans back. But my chair is at a height that doesn't cause me pain after extended use.
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spacetoaster posted:I work with a shitload of federal employees. If you replace "federal employees" with your minority of choice and replace your suburban stereotypes with the stereotypes of the minority of choice, this is the exact same bullshit Reaganites spouted about welfare queens. So 1) I don't believe you and 2) I think you think you're better than these people and you probably aren't.
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Jan 20, 2019 14:44
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cakesmith handyman posted:Wait what you're serious? What's next, your desk and chair? lol yeah at the gov't contractor they said some horseshit about "this allows us to give you good benefits and it's a durable piece of equipment that'll last your whole career here, it'll pay for itself, blah blah" at the shadier one where I sold satellite radio the line was a least more honest, "we have a contract with the manufacturer so you have to buy them" scrooge mcduck, his face indicating capitalism
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spacetoaster posted:I work with a shitload of federal employees. Given that I work in a field where anyone and everyone can google each other's income, it's INSANE to me how many people make as much or more than me, but don't save any money. Sure, you don't know what someone's background and some come from big money and don't need pay whereas I grew up with free school lunches, WIC, etc, so I didn't come from anything resembling having money. But holy poo poo, watching people retire after 20-30+ years of work with no option other than to work until they die makes no loving sense given the benefits and pay. These same folks will then bitch about how kids these days don't make enough money and buy too many video games, etc, despite being in the top quintile of the US pay scales, living in cheap-rear end cost of living locations.
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if you have constant and unceasing propaganda infiltrating every aspect of our lives bombarding people to go out and buy poo poo don't be surprised when people go out and buy poo poo
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spacetoaster posted:I work with a shitload of federal employees. Yeah and you waste your money on internet forums.
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Hey everyone. Guy too stupid to understand why saving money is pointless here, and let me tell you why the poor are lazy,
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comedyblissoption posted:if you have constant and unceasing propaganda infiltrating every aspect of our lives bombarding people to go out and buy poo poo don't be surprised when people go out and buy poo poo it's not just that either. if people stopped doing what the post describes, the global capitalist system would collapse in a couple months tops. they *have* to live outside their means or capitalism fails
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Jan 20, 2019 18:09
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Old rich man voice: If I were Freaky Fridayed into a poor person of color, here’s what I’d do!
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mlmp08 posted:Old rich man voice: If I were Freaky Fridayed into a poor person of color, here’s what I’d do! Use your penis since it's functioning for the first time since the Reagan administration? 
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Use your penis since it's functioning for the first time since the Reagan administration? realistically, probably get beat up when they start using the N-word now that they think they’re the right color to do so as well as reflexively saying “I’ve heard of that” every time a book or article is mentioned.
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Jan 20, 2019 18:23
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Speak for yourself. I know what it’s like being black, I watched the wire.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Speak for yourself. I know what it’s like being black, I watched the wire. I wrote The Wire. Le bloque, c'est moi.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Speak for yourself. I know what it’s like being black, I watched the wire. As an owner of all 4 seasons of The Boondocks on DVD I can say for certain that...
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Pooky posted:As an owner of all 4 seasons of The Boondocks on DVD I can say for certain that... That's how I know you're a fake. It was poo poo without Aaron McGruder. Wait, poo poo, that part wasn't ironic.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:That's how I know you're a fake. It was poo poo without Aaron McGruder. Such a massive drop in quality it was insane
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spankmeister posted:Ah yes and this anecdotal evidence of course holds true for all federal employees. Yes. Every single one of them, without exception.
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spacetoaster posted:Yes. Every single one of them, without exception. The underlying premise of the whole argument is flawed because "if everyone just stopped living outside their means" then the consumer economy would collapse and we'd be in Great Depression II. Moridin920 has issued a correction as of 22:31 on Jan 20, 2019 |
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Moridin920 posted:The underlying premise of the whole argument is flawed because "if everyone just stopped living outside their means" then the consumer economy would collapse and we'd be in Great Depression II. Aren't we just putting off the inevitable? I was really angry when obama bailed out the corporations with our money (and then they still foreclosed on millions of americans) because I figured we were just kicking the can down the road.
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spacetoaster posted:Aren't we just putting off the inevitable? Yeah pretty much
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spacetoaster posted:I work with a shitload of federal employees. My dad's a federal employee and my mom was a state employee until she retired and they both drive old lovely cars my dad kept running long after they should have fallen apart and live in a house they got cheap in a foreclosure and have already paid the mortgage off years ago and my dad gripes over spending $10 for anything you "don't really need" Shame Boy has issued a correction as of 22:45 on Jan 20, 2019 |
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spacetoaster posted:Aren't we just putting off the inevitable? We all know the real reason this upset you was his skin color. 
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Shame Boy posted:My dad's a federal employee and my mom was a state employee until she retired and they both drive old lovely cars my dad kept running long after they should have fallen apart and live in a house they got cheap in a foreclosure and have already paid the mortgage off on years ago and my dad gripes over spending $10 for anything you "don't really need" The difference between them, and the dudes in my office, is probably impulse control. Or maybe priorities? Do your parents have hobbies? Because when you talk to the guys I was posting about it's just them telling you about the things they've bought.
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spacetoaster posted:The difference between them, and the dudes in my office, is probably impulse control. Or maybe priorities? Yeah my dad meticulously repairs old 60's VW's to better-than-factory condition with either new old stock parts or parts that he makes or modifies himself because he's insane, and my mom makes her own jewelry and fancy cards and stuff. I guess they're busy doing fun things they enjoy instead of buying dumb poo poo?
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When Australia investigated the big banks last year and asked why one had hired some guy with previous shady financial dealings to do the top job, the answer was that it was pretty much impossible to find someone for a high end financial position who hadn't done anything shady.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:could be wrong but i'm p sure it's so they can map their space math to earth math. They might use isomorphic anticalculus or some poo poo that's effectively the same thing but a totally incompatible system. With the right charts and poo poo you can make a translation map so that the rest of the message makes sense? lol they put in 3 color images
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Moridin920 posted:Yeah pretty much we shouldve never ended the rationing and public works systems from the depression Shame Boy posted:Yeah my dad meticulously repairs old 60's VW's to better-than-factory condition with either new old stock parts or parts that he makes or modifies himself because he's insane, and my mom makes her own jewelry and fancy cards and stuff. I guess they're busy doing fun things they enjoy instead of buying dumb poo poo? i guess kids these days should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps then instead of being the consumers our society conditioned them to be since they were born
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got any sevens posted:i guess kids these days should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps then instead of being the consumers our society conditioned them to be since they were born What exactly is your point, are you arguing that overconsumption is a good thing? Or do you think that I'm somehow blaming young people for overconsuming? Or did you miss the part where I'm responding to someone who was stereotyping federal workers as people who mindlessly overconsume by providing a counterexample?
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"federal workers" spans like, your postpeep all the way to bob mueller. it'll span the whole human range from insane fecklessness to inhuman will
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Shame Boy posted:Yeah my dad meticulously repairs old 60's VW's to better-than-factory condition with either new old stock parts or parts that he makes or modifies himself because he's insane, and my mom makes her own jewelry and fancy cards and stuff. I guess they're busy doing fun things they enjoy instead of buying dumb poo poo? your parents sound cool as heck they can live on my post capitalism gay commune if they enjoy the taste of lentils
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Lots of people in the world are bad with money. Bad with money ranges from using your rent savings to go on a bender at the club to buying a tiny house for your tiny horse. The commonality is that whether or not you are bad with money, the vast majority of people are living paycheck to paycheck, and not getting paid for your labor is very illegal and literally every furloughed worker should have put their hands in their pockets when the checks stopped coming. That is, of course, an ideal world where every worker has class consciousness and the organization to all agree on a collective action. We don't live in that world. We live in a world where the POTUS serves hamburders and resort workers are given letters threatening their jobs if they don't risk their lives to come to work. 
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T-man posted:your parents sound cool as heck they can live on my post capitalism gay commune if they enjoy the taste of lentils This is why people are afraid of communism. loving lentils man.
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