Lurker > Corrik7

Dancedreamer posted...

That's not why they won't pump more at all btw.

Sure.

Shale won't pump more and Opec won't pump more because Biden has alienated both with policy.

Maniac64 posted...

Cap on profit margins for gas.

For years gas stations have raised rates to match crude prices going up but not lowered them to match when prices go down increasing their margin with every cycle.

It's because they are delayed on raising them for the rise with existing stock so they take a loss and make it on the back end to make up for it. Gasoline generally sells on a very very slim margin of profit. 1 cent isn't out of the norm. Gasoline is a way to bring people into your store to buy over priced stuff at convenience costs. That's where gas stations make their profit.

Peace___Frog posted...

My question for corrik would be:
Given that the Republicans refuse to work with democrats in any capacity, and they all voted against gas price controls and have worked to exacerbate the baby formula shortage, what makes you think they'll work to make your life any better?

Neither party works to help anyone but the rich tbqh.

How can you put a gas price control in? That wouldn't work. Your only angle reprieve comes from getting Saudi Arabia to pump more but they hate Biden.

Mr Lasastryke posted...

if you feel like you have to vote, just vote for a third party. way better than voting for either biden or a republican.

Depends on the candidate but unlikely.

StartTheMachine posted...

what

Weren't you literally the one who made the "America is under attack" topic on January 6th? Now you're saying that's...liberal propaganda?

I am saying your fascist nonsense is propaganda.

StartTheMachine posted...

> thinks it's your civic duty to vote
> is cool voting for fascists who would rather deprive you of that right and overturn elections they lose

pick one

Propaganda

Jakyl25 posted...

You dont HAVE to vote if all the options are equally terrible to you.

Yes I do. It's my civic duty.

Inviso posted...

Now that the round is over and I don't have to hold a post for safety...

Thank you, Corrik! For that clutch save, and for being part of Team Vanille!

Gotta get all the baes. Tifa, Rinoa, Vanille, and Jessie.

Not happy this dude has me saving ff7 juggernauts next round lol.

https://costplusdrugs.com/

Has anyone seen this site from Mark Cuban? (Supposedly)

I think Amazon has been doing this also.

https://www.drugtopics.com/view/the-good-the-bad-and-the-missed-opportunity-of-mark-cuban-cost-plus-drug-company

Article on it

xp1337 posted...

Stepping in here to point out a few things:

The ADL study looks at what it identifies as extremist-related killings and not just mass shootings. The NYT URL might introduce some confusion by having the words "mass shooting" because it goes on to talk about how politicians on the right are increasingly using violent rhetoric with little pushback by leadership. Indeed, the ADL link specifically notes that 15 of the 19 lethal incidents in 2021 only had a single victim.

They also explain how they try to err conservatively on classifying incidents as extremist-related. For instance, it dedicates two paragraphs to explaining why it did not list Sicknick's murder as... well, a murder, for the purposes of this report thanks to the fact that since his cause of death was given as a stroke they can't definitively prove it was a murder by a 1/6 insurrectionist.

For further evidence of how cautious they are in classifying. If you go back to the 2020 report their initial classification of Ahmaud Arbery's murder was that due to lack of information at the time they could not classify it, but note that that designation could change as information comes out. They also do not classify Rittenhouse's killings in the same year.

Chris' point was that they just don't commit the act as often.

The source there is looking for extremism as motive. (Commiting gun violence in the name of politics)

You could argue that source isn't even relevant to Chris' point.

Chris argument as I understand it was.

Say 33% (130 million) of America is independent. 31% (120 million) Republican. 36% (140 million) Democrat.

60% of (72 million) Republicans own guns. 35% of (49 million) democrats own guns.

That the ratio of people who commit gun violence is proportionately higher in the republican pool than the Democrat pool.

That is his argument if I understand it. I tossed random numbers in here so don't take them as legit.

Mr Lasastryke posted...

i read elliot rodger's entire manifesto and he was racist as fuck lol

also, TYT isn't left extremism

It's bias spectrum is considered extremely left. It's the same placement just opposing as say Western Journal is on the right.

Sheep007 posted...

...the alt-right rallied around his manifesto because it aligned with their beliefs. He was literally against interracial marriage and wanted women to be enslaved. I think throwing around left-right like it means anything here is reductive when it's mostly social "issues" rather than economic issues that motivated him, but arguing that he's left wing is bizarre to me regardless.

It might seem weird to you, but shitty people can be on any part of the spectrum. Bigots and pieces of shit don't just hang out in one area of the spectrum. If you are going to contribute every person who is hateful as being on the right, then yeah sure, you have created your skew yourself.

It's like that liberal who threw bacon at Islamic churches and everyone was like this makes her on the right, when she was clearly a liberal. Sometimes liberals don't align 100% to all your beliefs and can be just shitty people. Being a racist isn't a right ideology or a left one. It's a piece of shit ideology.

Vcharon and pjbasis saving cloud or trying to was lame. Embrace the chaos.

Wow moogles same time posted with inviso. Moogles who you want tomorrow also.

Sorry mewtwo I missed yours. I'll get you tomorrow 2 saves who you want tomorrow

Hope
Balthier

Ok if anyone wants my votes say so now before u drop them.

Let's have Cloud follow Zack to death.

Ulti don't save any big names.

Okay almost time. Who is left. Can we slay someone of note today?

Dancedreamer posted...

You do realize that he's an alt-right figure, who many on the alt-right celebrate, right? Like... it's pretty documented that his beliefs were extreme right in nature, and that he was very interested in Nazis (which is a far-right ideology). Most of his espoused beliefs are echoed by the alt-right too. Particularly hate for interracial couples.

but he followed the young turks!

Yeah, he followed them on youtube? And? That doesn't mean he agreed with them. Nothing suggests that he agreed with them. Just that he was subscribed to them. You can subscribe to youtube channels you don't agree with. It doesn't even mean you're a fan. There is such a thing as hate-following.

He followed the left, but because he was also an incel and falls into "manosphere" people lop him in with the right. The fact the alt-right rallied around his actions and manifesto is irrelevant.

At 7pm my votes are mercenary. Tell me then who to vote if this is ongoing. First person to request at 7pm.

Wait I thought Rinoa was safe... I must be blind

xp1337 posted...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/briefing/right-wing-mass-shootings.html

https://www.adl.org/resources/report/murder-and-extremism-united-states-2021#exploring-the-numbers

The Anti-Defamation League studied 450 murders committed by political extremists over the last decade (2012-2021, so this year's mass shootings not included).

Right-wing extremism consisted of 75% (73% of which, or 55% overall, was motivated by White Supremacy)
Domestic Islamist Extremism was next at 20%
Left-wing extremism (including black nationalists and anarchists) at 4%

See that likely lists someone like Eliot Rodgers as on the right, despite he was a follower of the Young Turks which is left extremism.

Thanks for the source. Which leads to my point after. This leaves out gun violence that is not mass shooting and that would typically lean left if demographics hold strong.

His point was leftists tend to not commit gun violence as much as others even if they have guns. Questionable and I would love to see a source on that.

Are we discussing violence here or just mass shootings? Do you want to root out just mass shootings but all gun violence under 3 dead in a single event is okay?

red13n posted...

Disney cuts through local governments like a knife through butter most of the time. And dissolving their special status is going to give them more power over the local government.

Not when it is bankrupting the community around them and is taxpayer money. It's why their special status will remain.

Apparently the new Kojima game is Overdose. Horror game. And it's the Xbox Cloud game he is developing. We expect yo hear more Sunday at Xbox conference.

red13n posted...

Red tape doesn't stop Disney.

It can if you get fined for not having permits. Right now, they issue their own permits. If you have to go through the government, you have a ton of time and money lost.

masterplum posted...

Desantis Vetoing the new Tampa Bay Rays practice facility because they approved gun control was my favorite.

What an idiot

To be fair, he was likely already vetoing it. It was stated it was likely a cut before that happened.

red13n posted...

For those mostly unaware, with the way Disney World has grown, no longer having to manage their own emergency services among other things and reaping the benefits of being in a tax pool with the rest of the surrounding area would do nothing but give them more money in pocket at this point. And the rest of the area, which becomes increasingly reliant on Disney paying whatever share they can mingle out of it(As they'd be considered less of an entity than they actually are) would basically become more like Anaheim, forced to grovel at their feet for scraps(You can look at the recent Anaheim corruption scandal to see how this goes).

Yes and no. Disney would benefit financially but they would accrue red tape and need permits which would screw up a lot of their projects. Either way, they will retain their special status. It's not going away. Just a PR stunt.

The worst part is Disney tried to fall in line on the subject. Then all their workers were going to have a huge walkout, so they did the bare minimum to keep them satisfied to not do that. And then DeSantis went silly.

DeSantis is a goofball.

I don't been know what to do next election, because there really isn't a chance in hell I can vote for Biden again... but Trump and DeSantis are likely one or the other gonna be the republican nominee.

I might have to hold my nose and vote R next election I don't even know at this point.

DoomTheGyarados posted...

I hope this is right but now you have people turning on huge businesses in favor if culture war issues. Disney has funded so much of Republicans bullshit but they tried to fuck with their money over culture war stuff.

The times they are a changin

It's just a show. He isn't doing actually anything to Disney. They just have to reapply for their special status before it lapses next year.

But he got his brownie points with his idiots on the right to try and slingshot his presidential run.

Jessie
Vanille

Says June 9th. Title says June 8th!

DoomTheGyarados posted...

leftists who do mass shootings and plenty of lefties already own guns.

Source needed. And don't toss out the if they are bigots they can't be on the left routine like was used for the incel who was a Young Turks fanboy and shot people up as justification for them being on the right.

And just because they aren't classified as mass shootings, gun violence predominantly is centered in cities which tend to swing strongly Left.

Gun violence is an issue period and trying to politicize your argument is frankly dumb, Chris.

Jakyl25 posted...

Whats funny about that incredibly quick response to the Kavanaugh threat is that the existing security measures worked as intended!

He called the police on himself I am pretty sure?

Suprak the Stud posted...

Dang check out this sweet turn around time on legislation when attempted gun violence occurs.

https://twitter.com/cnnpolitics/status/1534602932460695552?s=21&t=Io7AeJjq_CjUYMxWfB9muQ

Surely that means well see something in response to Uvalde any day now.

Are you reading that wrong?

That bill was introduced when the abortion stuff leaked like a month ago. The article says it stalled in the House.

Tar Heels for life.

Suprak the Stud posted...

I swear this is not intentional but...

NO ROUND TODAY OR LIKELY TOMORROW. I have to travel and I likely will not have a computer on hand that I can use to easily check times/provide quick end of day updates. We will resume our saving on Friday.

Sorry again for the delays. Thank you all for being understanding!

Talk shit, get hit. Now look at your SaveMy. A box of scraps.

It's retirement season. Tuitt retired also.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Congrats dude. Shoulda been a Boilermaker , but your reasons for choosing Cinci make sense.

If things fall through, I will go there.

Cincy's Catalyst system for a computer database is kinda archaic. = /

Burn Doom's champions.

PerfectChaosZ posted...

yesh I often LARP into government facilities where you arent allowed to trespass and steal things with jail as a consequence because LARPing is illegal

You shouldn't do that. You will learn to not LARP one of these days.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Uh no, Im thinking more along the lines of mob akin to Charlottesville or Jan 6th, except we have to kill lgbt people/liberals/wokes because theyre grooming kids.

There have been multiple recent demonstrations from conservatives proudly identifying as fascist in the past 2 weeks, we are moving measurably closer to scary shit like that.

So LARPing scares you? They often LARP to your place of residence?

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

In your reality, is it possible to disarm the psycho republicans: yes or no?

How often do these Psycho Republicans come to your house to murder your family? Do they announce their arrival beforehand so you can prepare? Or do you keep your gun loaded in an accessible area for easy usage?

Thanks. I am going to get their Cyber Security Certificate and probably a few other certificates while I do the schooling also.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

No I fucking did not lmao.

I literally said I live in MAGA country and want them because Id rather have them than not when the people weve both identified as psycho and dangerous have them.

I also said theyre fun, but I also said if I could snap my fingers to make them disappear entirely I would.

But I live in a country where thats never happening.

You wanna try again?

Guns are fun, eh?

Or at least I was accepted to the University of Cincinnati for an IT Master's Program.

Almost saved Zack earlier but gave a bro a Freya bone instead

Freya