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cant cook creole bream posted:As someone from another country, who can't relate to the struggles of poor American minorities, the idea that a kid is unsupervised, selling candy in a subway during a loving pandemic, is absolutely insane to me. If it's actually a basic mean of survival that makes it even worse.
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cant cook creole bream posted:As someone from another country, who can't relate to the struggles of poor American minorities, the idea that a kid is unsupervised, selling candy in a subway during a loving pandemic, is absolutely insane to me. If it's actually a basic mean of survival that makes it even worse. agreed with the second part tho
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cant cook creole bream posted:As someone from another country, who can't relate to the struggles of poor American minorities, the idea that a kid is unsupervised, selling candy in a subway during a loving pandemic, is absolutely insane to me. If it's actually a basic mean of survival that makes it even worse. Well see, providing shelter and basic needs as well as social programs to help the downtrodden, and that sounds dangerously like socialism. And socialism is bad because some assholes east of Europe liked it and thus it should never be implemented again
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Apr 12, 2020 18:21
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In which a bunch of goons discover that street kids are a thing
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Apr 12, 2020 18:23
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Herstory Begins Now posted:In which a bunch of goons discover that street kids are a thing Wow people having to live day by day dollar by dollar to hustle and to feed oneself is a huge surprise
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Apr 12, 2020 18:26
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Madkal posted:Now that the death toll has surpassed H1N1 we can expect that talking point to go away, right? No one except deflecting MAGAChuds even spouted that talking point. The death toll was 12,469 from April 10th, 2009 to April 12th, 2010, i.e twelve months. Coronavirus matched that in less than two months.
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Apr 12, 2020 18:28
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lol. of course they did. why does that stupid shithead keep thinking that miller is gonna end up being decent. loving tapper is such a loving moron.
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Apr 12, 2020 18:31
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Young Freud posted:No one except deflecting MAGAChuds even spouted that talking point. The death toll was 12,469 from April 10th, 2009 to April 12th, 2010, i.e twelve months. Coronavirus matched that in less than two months. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1238288908431036423?s=19
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Apr 12, 2020 18:37
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:Everything else is bad, parents have no agency, got it. Life is too hard, people can't talk about two bad things at once.
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Apr 12, 2020 18:38
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1249370410422095872 loving lol. happy easter.
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cant cook creole bream posted:As someone from another country, who can't relate to the struggles of poor American minorities, the idea that a kid is unsupervised, selling candy in a subway during a loving pandemic, is absolutely insane to me. If it's actually a basic mean of survival that makes it even worse. Sort of. America is a marketing gimmick. America is the pitchman, the huckster. It has always been this way and Donald Trump is the symbol of it. When we look at "Give me your poor, your huddle masses yearning to be free" we think it is meant as a great nation helping those who need it and giving them opportunity but to the people in power it means "I need a cheap exploitable labor force who can't fight me." Americans are a tax farm to fund the military so Clinton and Wall Street can go do war for resources in the middle east. The few times socio-economic progress was made, Theodore Roosevelt busting conglomerates and FDR doing the New Deal (which in part was because he was left with little option), America became a super power, went to the moon, and created a middle class that created a mega economy. Of which the last 40 years has been spent eroding it to return to a second gilded age. Even worse, amongst the majority of Americans there is a certain self loathing where they hate their neighbor, do not want to have their lives improved, and cannot look in the mirror to admit it and prefer to be told lies about who they are and what exists because they prefer the cognitive dissonance. It helps them feel okay about themselves and sleep at night OR even worse, they really just don't give a poo poo at all. Depends on your assumption about other people I guess. I also think this is why so many need to have their ego stroked rather than do the right thing because it is right and just and good for people.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1249370410422095872 lol "big roll"
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the average american can't remember things getting better in a real, lasting way, and those who can only have it as a vague childhood memory. in those circumstances its natural people are more worried about things getting worse, or things getting better for everyone but them, than the idea of things getting better for them.
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Apr 12, 2020 18:53
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I haven't found a nice clean chart for H1N1 during that period, but apparently the CDC had an estimated 3,900-6,100 H1N1 attributable deaths in the first 6 months, which would likely, given the exponential increase, be something like 15-18 deaths in two months.
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Apr 12, 2020 18:58
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From a few pages back butLumpy posted:This is exactly what I said. They hate it because their donors are not making money off of it. You're incorrect that it's government money though. There is 0 cash in budgets for the USPS. We're fully self-funded. Whoolighams posted:CCA or OTL? We've had a stacked list of Sunday workers here in OH that's full of both for the first time I've seen (non-December). CCA for hopefully not too much longer. Carriers in my office have been dropping off the OTL and hours are still down. Sunday's grown though, even with an Amazon hub in our city.
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Apr 12, 2020 19:00
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I just got through my first pay period as a PSE. I'd really like for that job to stick.
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The reason these politicians want to privatize everything is 1. they're the donors who fund them and 2. the Oligarchs become the gateholders to power which is why the Republicans for the last 40 years have been about privatization because they were shut out of a lot of things otherwise.
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LeeMajors posted:They are going to kill the post office and I don’t even know what the gently caress is going to happen after that. It won't happen. Letting the USPS go under would destroy so many small businesses, and it would devastate a ton of much larger retail companies that rely on those cheaper shipping rates. Paying for FedEx/UPS shipping for all items would turbofuck online retail in general, which is extremely bad in a situation where people will probably be reluctant to take too many trips into stores for years to come. edit- I don't live in anything even remotely approaching a rural area and USPS last-mile covers at least a third of the online packages that come here Paradoxish fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Apr 12, 2020 |
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Robviously posted:CCA for hopefully not too much longer. Carriers in my office have been dropping off the OTL and hours are still down. Sunday's grown though, even with an Amazon hub in our city. Same about Amazon, we had one open late last year but still get plenty of their crap. Godspeed on conversion! Star Man posted:I just got through my first pay period as a PSE. I'd really like for that job to stick. Isn't it nice to have good pay and representation for a decent job? I didn't know what to make of it. I have a fair amount of chuds at our station. Old slow fucks that do nothing but complain about the union they don't pay into that gives them a decent setup, hands them grievance settlements, and without they'd be dropped on their rear end. As late as last week one was making a big show of hugging another in the morning and some dipshit tried pulling out the "just the flu" earlier this week. It'd be nice if they had to deal with the fallout of the politics they support but the decent people were spared.
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Paradoxish posted:It won't happen. Letting the USPS go under would destroy so many small businesses, and it would devastate a ton of much larger retail companies that rely on those cheaper shipping rates. Paying for FedEx/UPS shipping for all items would turbofuck online retail in general, which is extremely bad in a situation where people will probably be reluctant to take too many trips into stores for years to come. Yeah, private capital is on our side in this. Too much of the country, too much business, and too much money is riding on the post office and Congress will be collectively leant upon to rescue it.
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haveblue posted:Yeah, private capital is on our side in this. Too much of the country, too much business, and too much money is riding on the post office and Congress will be collectively leant upon to rescue it. It's really loving hilarious how much Americans love to complain about socialism while the US economy is practically state-run already. More than a third of US GDP is just direct spending from the federal, state, and local governments, and that's literally just direct spending. Every single person in this country is effectively paid at least in part through tax dollars, it's just a question of how many degrees of separation removed from it you are.
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PeterCat posted:No, apparently there was a really real church that existed from the time of Jesus till Christianity became the official Roman religion. The real church then was underground till the Reformation. It's more because of the worship of Mary and the Saints tbh. Also because they don't like the Latin mass or any of the traditions. There's also the main thing of taxes to Rome that really sparked the Reformation It's honestly surprisingly more in-depth a disagreement than you would think. The main thing though now is that Papists worship the Pope, aka Satan A lot of brown people are catholic as well, soooo TulliusCicero fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Apr 12, 2020 |
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PhazonLink posted:Peter also means rock. And Satans name is Lucifer which also means rock. i don't know if i'm missing the sarcasm here, but no it doesn't, except in the way that venus is technically a rocky planet
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Apr 12, 2020 21:06
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I hate that the stimulus checks are being referred to as Trump checks
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Gaunab posted:I hate that the stimulus checks are being referred to as Trump checks My friends and I call them our Romney Bux.
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Gaunab posted:I hate that the stimulus checks are being referred to as Trump checks Yeah, they should be called T-Bills! 
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:Where did I mention the cops? I was questioning why parents would let their child out DURING A loving PANDEMIC. Some people need money to eat, not everyone has had everything in life just handed to them
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Call em Kushner Checks.
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VitalSigns posted:Some people need money to eat, not everyone has had everything in life just handed to them Are there no workhouses?
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cant cook creole bream posted:As someone from another country, who can't relate to the struggles of poor American minorities, the idea that a kid is unsupervised, selling candy in a subway during a loving pandemic, is absolutely insane to me. If it's actually a basic mean of survival that makes it even worse. I encountered it overseas quite a lot, Eastern Europe eg., Latvia and Lithuania and also several Asian countries.
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Arglebargle III posted:Real talk, has anyone else been able to find toilet paper? Going on week 5 with no resupply. Jump in shower, poo poo in hand, throw in toilet. Done. So simple.
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TulliusCicero posted:It's more because of the worship of Mary and the Saints tbh. Also because they don't like the Latin mass or any of the traditions. There's also the main thing of taxes to Rome that really sparked the Reformation Except Catholics don't worship the saints or Mary. Venerate? Yes. Worship? No. It's bigotry and willful ignorance wrapped up in theological terms.
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PeterCat posted:Except Catholics don't worship the saints or Mary. Venerate, yes, worship? No. Also Latin masses haven't been a thing in like 40 years.
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Corona Cash is the obvious name for them and any time they're not referred to by this is a clear failure on your part.
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TulliusCicero posted:It's more because of the worship of Mary and the Saints tbh. Also because they don't like the Latin mass or any of the traditions. There's also the main thing of taxes to Rome that really sparked the Reformation Good thing Roman Catholics don't do those two things, nor have they in the past! In depth my rear end.
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Dietrich posted:Also Latin masses haven't been a thing in like 40 years. The American "Christians" also tend to get pissed when you point out to them that only God can decide if someone is going to hell and that they are usurping God's authority if they tell someone else they are going to hell.
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PeterCat posted:Except Catholics don't worship the saints or Mary. Venerate? Yes. Worship? No. I was raised Catholic. I know these things. The Evangelicals I at one point was exposed to for an extended period of time who told me these things did not. PeterCat posted:The American "Christians" also tend to get pissed when you point out to them that only God can decide if someone is going to hell and that they are usurping God's authority if they tell someone else they are going to hell. This is very true
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