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drilldo squirt
Aug 18, 2006

a beautiful, soft meat sack
Clapping Larry
I'm not a fan of N socialists, it's the one kind I don't like.

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Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Lucky Greedo posted:

This is happening at an weirdly accelerated rate where I live, in an area affected by Hurricane Michael. All the poor black people and trailer trash who used to work low-end service jobs here just left, because so much local housing was actually physically lost that rents are now impossible for anyone to afford on 8-10 bux an hour. Every hotel and apartment complex for 100 miles is occupied by FEMA refugees or oblivious, chudly vacationers, and there's just nowhere for people to go. Those of us who are still able to live and work where I do keep telling management they need to offer higher wages right now, and as they fail and fail to do so it's been really funny watching my coworkers gently caress off en masse to, for example, McD's, which is offering 14/hr in my neighborhood, whilst HR grows increasingly harrassed and hunted-looking and whines about how "these people" just don't want to work.

It's taken them about four months, but they're finally listening, and wages are finally rising-- probably because the store manager has had to clean up barf, get shopping carts from the parking lot in the FL sun, and run cash registers herself day-to-day because there's barely anyone left beneath her left to do it. It's been stressful, but oh, these dumb fuckers hath sown the wind, and when I come in to see that my fake as gently caress corporate overlord's had to respond to yet another four-alarm colon explosion in the women's bathroom while I was out, I really do savor the whirlwind.

Lmao that rules

Especially in retail, they'll never value the job you do but maybe they will value not having to do it

I'm sure the free market will get around to building affordable housing eventually

BiggerBoat
Sep 26, 2007

Don't you tell me my business again.
Weird IQ derail.

Pretty sure the dude who posted that was saying that his mom thinks he's dumb because she measures intelligence in dollars and he was just trying to say "no, I'm not an idiot. See my IQ score" and that she was an idiot for thinking that way.

He wasn't bragging or anything.

Augus
Mar 9, 2015


drilldo squirt posted:

I'm not a fan of N socialists, it's the one kind I don't like.

what about P socialists

An Apple A Gay
Oct 21, 2008

please use psychedelic

raminasi
Jan 25, 2005

a last drink with no ice

BiggerBoat posted:

Weird IQ derail.

Pretty sure the dude who posted that was saying that his mom thinks he's dumb because she measures intelligence in dollars and he was just trying to say "no, I'm not an idiot. See my IQ score" and that she was an idiot for thinking that way.

He wasn't bragging or anything.

Yeah it was just funny to see him argue against her stupid, useless metric of intelligence by providing an alternative, equally stupid, equally useless one.

An Apple A Gay
Oct 21, 2008

Hallucinogenic implies the experience isn't real, and my poster, the mooninites are drat real

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe
Satan rules

Elephant Ambush
Nov 13, 2012

...We sholde spenden more time together. What sayest thou?
Nap Ghost

ElGroucho posted:

Satan rules

This page is only half a Satan though

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

everything was true lmao

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

I love peeps
Nap Ghost
Prime factoruzatuon of satan is 2 3 3 37

CodfishCartographer
Feb 23, 2010

Gadus Maprocephalus

Pillbug

Elephant Ambush posted:

This page is only half a Satan though

ha sat

UnfortunateSexFart
May 18, 2008

𒃻 𒌓𒁉𒋫 𒆷𒁀𒅅𒆷
𒆠𒂖 𒌉 𒌫 𒁮𒈠𒈾𒅗 𒂉 𒉡𒌒𒂉𒊑


chitoryu12 posted:

My dad renounced his US citizenship to become Canadian. Not because he was left wing (he had a Confederate flag in his library despite being a rich kid from New Jersey and liked to go gay bashing at bars), but because he really wanted to just live in a cabin in New Brunswick shooting deer and drinking beer until he died of liver failure.

It's caused ongoing problems for me because my parents had a messy divorce (surprise, he was an abusive alcoholic) and she didn't know the correct process to report my birth in Canada to the embassy. So I'm an American citizen because I was born in Canada to two American citizens, but I have no real paperwork to prove it. He never told anyone he renounced his US citizenship after my birth, which meant our initial plea for me to get a US passport failed because we "lied on the forms". And obviously the government isn't processing very quickly now.

Interesting. Not sure why he couldn't shoot American deer but whatever.

My brother, who works in immigration, looked into if we could get US citizenship and discovered it might be easier after our dad is dead, strangely. He renounced before we were born.

I have no interest personally, especially since the US is one of two countries that double charges income tax on overseas earnings.

Eat This Glob
Jan 14, 2008

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Who will wipe this blood off us? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent?

yeah if i finally convince my wife that we should move to the maritimes and become Canadian citizens we are gonna have to drop our us citizenship because gently caress that lol

Danaru
Jun 5, 2012

何 ??

UnfortunateSexFart posted:

I have no interest personally, especially since the US is one of two countries that double charges income tax on overseas earnings.

Wait what the gently caress?

gbut
Mar 28, 2008

😤I put the UN🇺🇳 in 🎊FUN🎉


UnfortunateSexFart posted:

the US is one of two countries that double charges income tax on overseas earnings.

I don't think that's the case. You are only liable for difference if paying taxes to a country that has a bilateral tax agreement with the US, which is most of the world. IANACPA thought, so a grain of salt and all that.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



Danaru posted:

Wait what the gently caress?

if you aren't rich you're taxed quite heavily in the US

Eat This Glob
Jan 14, 2008

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Who will wipe this blood off us? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent?

Danaru posted:

Wait what the gently caress?

Yeah you have to file an American tax return if you're a citizen even if you earned no income in the u.s.

for a backwards, tax avoiding nation, we sure so love fleecing people who dont have the money for "creative" accountants

Halloween Jack
Sep 12, 2003
I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!
Foreign nationals are now getting taxed like crazy; when we pay honoraria to guest speakers, we have to either pay them more on the front end to account for the 30% tax rate, or work out a deal where we're like, instead of an honorarium how about you stay an extra day on our dime.

Augus
Mar 9, 2015


wrong trump thread

An insane mind
Aug 11, 2018

Epic High Five posted:

if you aren't rich you're taxed quite heavily in the US

I propose seizing the means of production and 'rising up' against our corporate overlords.

jobson groeth
May 17, 2018

by FactsAreUseless

raminasi posted:

Yeah it was just funny to see him argue against her stupid, useless metric of intelligence by providing an alternative, equally stupid, equally useless one.

OP didn't say they thought the metrics were a good indicator themselves either. They said they were repeatedly forced to take IQ tests by the same person calling them stupid for being as rich as them. At no point did the OP make it sound like they thought it was a good thing and instead it shows that their mother will force what ever stupid metric upon them that is needed to score points on OP at that particular instant.

BiggerBoat
Sep 26, 2007

Don't you tell me my business again.

raminasi posted:

Yeah it was just funny to see him argue against her stupid, useless metric of intelligence by providing an alternative, equally stupid, equally useless one.

I get what you're saying but that's not how I took it. I supposed he could have used his GPA , SAT numbers or online trivia scores. I dunno. Maybe the mom is right and the poster is dumb as poo poo but I have more of a bug up my rear end about people equating intelligence with their bank statement than I do with folks citing what I consider to be more comparable measures. Which I think was all he was trying to say.

I'm broke as poo poo and maybe not the sharpest knife in the drawer sometimes but I'm smarter than my manager who makes more money than me. The manager who said that "Donald Trump is one the best things to ever happen to this country" and who advised me to read Jordan Peterson books. gently caress, I'll easily assert that I'm smarter than our current president.

eNeMeE
Nov 26, 2012

Augus posted:

what about P socialists

Only accept complete socialists

Militant Lesbian
Oct 3, 2002

BiggerBoat posted:

I get what you're saying but that's not how I took it. I supposed he could have used his GPA , SAT numbers or online trivia scores. I dunno. Maybe the mom is right and the poster is dumb as poo poo but I have more of a bug up my rear end about people equating intelligence with their bank statement than I do with folks citing what I consider to be more comparable measures. Which I think was all he was trying to say.

I'm broke as poo poo and maybe not the sharpest knife in the drawer sometimes but I'm smarter than my manager who makes more money than me. The manager who said that "Donald Trump is one the best things to ever happen to this country" and who advised me to read Jordan Peterson books. gently caress, I'll easily assert that I'm smarter than our current president.

Hi I have a 145 IQ, Im also a high school dropout who works in a warehouse making only slightly better than minimum wage. IQ means nothing for your success or future prospects, HTH.

Then again, my wife has a degree and makes the same as I do, but with $25k in student loan debt, so you could also say a college education doesnt really predict your future success either.

Amazing Zimmo
Jan 27, 2006

That's quite a load you got in them diapers
https://twitter.com/Charles15201183/status/1117798764457156613

https://twitter.com/StevehicksHicks/status/1118614207732252672

pseudanonymous
Aug 30, 2008

When you make the second entry and the debits and credits balance, and you blow them to hell.

HotCanadianChick posted:

Hi I have a 145 IQ, Im also a high school dropout who works in a warehouse making only slightly better than minimum wage. IQ means nothing for your success or future prospects, HTH.

Then again, my wife has a degree and makes the same as I do, but with $25k in student loan debt, so you could also say a college education doesnt really predict your future success either.

They're both actually statistically highly significant in determining wealth outcomes in life. That doesn't mean any one particular person's anecdotal experience will match up with statistical outcomes.

Rodatose
Jul 8, 2008

corn, corn, corn
My IQ is 240. My intelligence is why I am the sole Obama-Paul-Trump-Inslee voter in this nation.

hallebarrysoetoro
Jun 14, 2003
my iq is jerking off sadly on the internet

Brother Entropy
Dec 27, 2009

hallebarrysoetoro posted:

my iq is jerking off sadly on the internet

always nice to meet a fellow mensa member

Duscat
Jan 4, 2009
Fun Shoe
i'm all of you extremely smart dudes still not posting Trump voters realizing that they're going to die under Trump here

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011


Feel that economic anxiety

Militant Lesbian
Oct 3, 2002

hallebarrysoetoro posted:

my iq is jerking off sadly on the internet into a sock


...on the internet!

red19fire
May 26, 2010

Oh yeah, I got a $782 tax credit this year. MAGA chads keep getting owned on the bigly wet boy's tax reform, it's really incredible.

Shipon
Nov 7, 2005

Duscat posted:

i'm all of you extremely smart dudes still not posting Trump voters realizing that they're going to die under Trump here

i did my part but i'm also extremely dumb so

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Eat This Glob posted:

yeah if i finally convince my wife that we should move to the maritimes and become Canadian citizens we are gonna have to drop our us citizenship because gently caress that lol

Do it, bring money and have Canadian babies!

BiggerBoat
Sep 26, 2007

Don't you tell me my business again.
Watching this dumb rear end talking about Bernie's taxes when he himself refuses to release his returns is really something. And no, Donald. I did not "make a killing" year.

hallebarrysoetoro
Jun 14, 2003

red19fire posted:

Oh yeah, I got a $782 tax credit this year. MAGA chads keep getting owned on the bigly wet boy's tax reform, it's really incredible.

i personally love how the tax law was written to gently caress over blue states but instead just hosed over the entire country

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



hallebarrysoetoro posted:

i personally love how the tax law was written to gently caress over blue states but instead just hosed over the entire country

hey now that's not true, it only hosed over anybody who works for a living, which just happens to be ALMOST the entire country

if you own things for a living, well it actually was fantastic for you

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JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


Epic High Five posted:

hey now that's not true, it only hosed over anybody who works for a living, which just happens to be ALMOST the entire country

if you own things for a living, well it actually was fantastic for you
I haven't seen ANY articles about how the tax change affected poor people, but heard lots of anecdotes

I was convinced I was gonna get screwed (living in NYC, freelancer, MFJ) but, surprise, all the rhetoric about hurting the libs was bullshit and I paid 20% of what I did last year

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