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This may be of interest to some of you: National Cost of Living Estimates At State, City and County Levels It was last updated in June 2012 and while I'm not sure how accurate it is generally, it's accurate for everywhere I've lived. Grand Theft Autobot posted:According to the Heritage Foundation, the middle class is everyone with a household income between $71k and $613k If you go by the 60s and 70s sense of the term, they're right. We're not a middle class society anymore by that standard.  
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loquacius posted:Remember, according to conservative ideology anything that provides the rich with more money conveniently gives you more freedom somehow! Well, you know what they say: Mo' money, mo' problems.
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Apr 9, 2014 21:06
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Hahaha:quote:During the 2012 presidential election, voters reportedly waited on line for upwards of six hours. That wait alone is enough to deter would-be voters from going to the polls. But now residents in Florida’s most populous county will have another disincentive: they won’t be able to go to the bathroom. Got to do something, I suppose, when the opposition outnumbers your party by tens of millions. This is petty enough maybe it'll register as obvious to average voters. Accretionist fucked around with this message at 11:44 on Apr 11, 2014 |
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That is both the craziest and dumbest argument I've ever seen. Mecca-Benghazi posted:What? I'd guess it was just the unsolicited opining of an unsocialized moron.
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You mean gently caress as in have sex with? What kind of segue did that involve?
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joeburz posted:Why can't conservatism die a horrible, quick death? Because life is poo poo. Propaganda works on humans.
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GetWellGamers posted:It got pretty tiresome after the election though. If you put all the white noise posters on ignore it was this really amazing 'PolySci w/Swears' thing that I haven't seen anywhere else. LF didn't earn a special place in anyone's heart with ~Trolling Superstars~ (except TT and his grade-A creative writing).
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Koalas March posted:I don't think you 'get' LF. I think a non-FYAD LF would be great for the mid-term elections and literally drum up business for the site.
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Has anyone read Picketty's new book Capital in the Twenty-First Century yet? What I'm hearing's good enough I might put it on the top of my pile.BUSH 2112 posted:I disagree, really. The FYAD ruleset (if you will) is what made LF, because a lot of really funny posts were things that old-GBS rules would have disallowed. Maybe not the best descriptor. I associate the joke posts, empty quoting and 'polysci with swears' dynamic and so on with giving hardcore polysci nerds lax standards and a dedicated haunt. I associate the quadruple triple meta irony, mod-stalking and goatseing with 'no no guys, it's an FYAD lite'.
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Gerund posted:The same idea comes up perennially within Washington state, commonly involving dividing the state between the bread-basket east of the cascade range (Yakima, Spokane) and the more industrially developed western side. It tends to die a death every time as soon as people question such bald-faced political arbitrage. Do you recall how other more left-right issues, like income tax or infrastructure funding, play out in that context? Edit: I'm mostly thinking about how much easier it would be to implement state level UHC in a 'West Washington' situation.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:"Tax forms are hard" said the man who was in charge of a major military operation in multiple nations. He's probably into this kind of poo poo: How to Pay No Taxes: 10 Strategies Used by the Rich Two strategies: quote:The Skyscraper Shuffle quote:The Trust Freeze
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Apr 15, 2014 22:26
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ReindeerF posted:US taxes are loving stupid. Okay, Rumsfeld is a dick, but he's not wrong. He's just banging on about it for the wrong reasons. Our tax code is one of the single best anti-government arguments, not because of the amount, but because of how convoluted it is. Don't fall into Grover Norquist's* trap! We can blame this one on his ilk and the corporations, too: The Tax Complexity Lobby quote:You might think that everyone hates tax complexity, but you’d be wrong. * This guy: 
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Apr 16, 2014 00:53
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Joementum posted:Breitbart has uncovered footage even more devastating than that time they found the tape of Obama hugging a Professor: Al Franken using traffic cones to play at having big tits. Making cone tits like some fauntleroy is really going to upset the feudalists. I tried to think of who would care and that's what I came up with.
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Magres posted:Whelp, it's official. Princeton study on how society functions from a policy point of view, and (who would have guessed it?) we're an Oligarchy. I wonder what the political landscape will look like once the American oligarchy really settles in and hits its stride. Post-Soviet Russia? And what should activism look like in an oligarchy?
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Apr 16, 2014 19:21
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mcmagic posted:Old racist Cliven Bundy thinks that the reason people are calling him a racist is that he said the word "negro" and not that he said the only thing "negros" were good for was picking cotton and that they would be better off as slaves. There really needs to be a word for the opposite of overthinking something.
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Apr 25, 2014 15:30
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The proposed language use also seems more in line with tried and true propaganda techniques like propping up and constantly reinforcing/reactivating the same concept. The War on Terror as opposed to terrorists. The looming menace of big-C Communism as opposed to communists. Do it right, and you enter into the voluminous pantheon of ideas which are reinforced merely by being discussed even when you're presenting disconfirming information.
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Apr 25, 2014 16:38
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Tight Booty Shorts posted:It's extremely easy to move out of the US. Quit being pussies and just do it. Not to nicer countries. 
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May 1, 2014 02:58
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Quite a development: Seattle Announces $15 Minimum Wage, Highest In The U.S.quote:Seattle will raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour over the coming years under a deal brokered by Mayor Ed Murray and blessed by labor and business groups alike, city leaders announced Thursday afternoon.
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May 2, 2014 06:55
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Talking about Benghazi gives them a pass for not talking about other things, too. Can't overlook that.
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All I care about is that the longer they go on about Benghazi, the larger the cost-figures available for attack ads get.
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Amergin posted:This isn't "the police just leave right-wing protesters alone," I'm sorry but that just sounds petty. It's a sentiment with precedent. The intelligence community pissed off Congress during the 70s, so Congress aired out the intelligence communities dirty laundry. Not only is this how we learned about hilarious stuff like completely retarded mind-control experiments,* but it's also how we found out about the feds and intelligence community's domestic operations against political and civil rights group. Operations wherein the threshold for when they'd start up against the left was substantially lower than for the right. Edit: IIRC, they'd go after targets as benign as women's advocacy groups. Contrastingly, if you were on the right, their threshold hovered around the KKK and militias. Which is to say, they'd pick appropriate right wing targets, and would pick inappropriate left wing targets pursuant to strong institutional biases. And to the extent that institutional culture typically has serious inertia, I'd expect those same biases today. * Which pretty well exemplify the kind of goofy poo poo which festers behind closed doors. Accretionist fucked around with this message at 22:56 on May 5, 2014 |
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May 5, 2014 22:48
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Amergin posted:Did I say I was fiscally conservative? Your beliefs being right wing antigovernment ad-copy is what's confusing everyone. Accretionist fucked around with this message at 21:04 on May 6, 2014 |
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May 6, 2014 20:31
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Alternate Hypothesis: Inequality is rising because the rich are coming back!
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Edit: Double-posted waiting for the first to show.
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Jackson Taus posted:Plenty of soldiers come home with psychological, not physical, wounds and are really hosed up when they get back, and they need care just as much as the guys who lost a leg if they're going to function in society and lead a normal-ish life after the service. Seriously, I had a buddy come back from an uneventful tour where he just spent the entire year dealing with nightly mortar strikes. While home on leave, the CHU next to his got hit and some people he knew died. He was a surly mother fucker when he got back. After seeing a shrink for about a year he's back on the level. If he wasn't able to get straightened out, he'd probably have settled into his rut and been a crazy rear end in a top hat of an alcoholic for the rest of his life.
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May 6, 2014 23:00
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Amergin posted:Did you read the quoted message I responded to? It said "rich" not "0.01%". We're presupposing* rich enough to relocate internationally at-will and maintain quality of life in a less developed context. I say less developed because the US has the cushiest tax situation of the highly developed world. Edit: * Otherwise, such a person would take the hit and have already moved.
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Amergin posted:...ultra-liberal browbeating... Not really. There's nothing about being right wing that obligates you to have crappy positions, and they're piling on you because you've got crappy positions.
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Axetrain posted:The reason welfare programs even exist in the first place is because charity wasn't cutting it. The wealthy and the businesses they own don't give anywhere near the amount required to provide a decent safety net. And just to preempt it, please don't try to sell me a line about how they totally would if it wasn't for some crushing tax burden (that lower then its ever been in modern America). Not to mention that shifts in economic health simultaneously either increase demand for charity while reducing charitable donations or decrease demand while increasing donations. The public sector does not have this problem.
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