Lurker > Squall28

Relaxing at home

That dude looks like he's regretting his marriage.

I'm playing it now cause it was free on Epic launcher. I think you're about 75% done. (I checked myself when I was where you were at.)

Only if the pitbull was a landlord

Yeah I can't deal with long cutscenes or dialogue anymore either. I somehow got more impatient as I aged.

When Arya was giving Brianne a hard time during sparring. GTFO with that bullshit.

The cow rings are the worst.

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Real life is depressing enough. Don't need shows to drag down my mood too.

I'm playing through Shadow of the Tomb Raider now, and her plot armor is next level. She puts herself into life or dead situations every second. A single slip, missed jump, or anything of that nature would mean insta-death, and they let you now with the death animations.

She's like a walking Darwin award that's somehow still alive

COVxy posted...

This shit is pretty fucked up, tbh. There are people who need a fuckton of help that society is not providing them, and you are erasing them to feel better about yourself.

Feels like this tbh.

AceMos posted...

im autistic i dont want to be cured

Why not?

Guessing this is a new gimmick.

I've been having sleep maintenance insomnia for ages. I feel you man.

BroodRyu posted...

Yes, if theres no one in the opposing lane. In your scenario there was. This is so blatantly the speeding cars fault.

Yeah even if the car in front of you is stopped, you need to check the other lane before pulling that shit geez

Is this a real topic?

Daisy>>>>Peach though

I forgot how pretty Jessica Alba was. Goddamn.

I legit had a white guy bow to me when I visited relatives in London. I was like wtf, do they do that there all the time to you?

Error1355 posted...

I am entirely failing to see how this (the top tweet) is racist.

Think they're making the stretch to say that Kimmel is saying BTS is super infectious and damaging to the world because they're Asian since there's some context of anti-Asian sentiment with covid. I don't think it's valid though because he compared non-Asian boy bands to the same diseases. It wasn't intended to have an Asian implication imo.

Isn't this just a boy band joke?

Pokemon Go is actually really good now. They improved it a lot from the days where it was just Pidgey everywhere.

Gwynevere posted...

Yeah that's one of the strangest takes I've seen on CE in quite awhile

Using modern definitions of terms like capital and ascribing it to a culture that predates those definitions doesn't seem like the best idea to me. I wouldn't call indigenous people growing food and making clothing "building capital"

You can thank Wings for side-tracking into that bullshit. When I made my initial comment about starting a nation in response to him saying "poverty is created", I was thinking along the lines of needing to raise resources so you have a reasonable starting point. Building factories to make clothes and other needs at good efficiency. Farms to feed people. The starting point is poverty, nothing, and you have to build things to get going. You don't create poverty. It's nonsense. It's like saying you create empty space.

But this guy makes an argument that tribesmen have food and clothes so they are rich. Somehow people who need to hunt animals to eat and skin them for clothes are better off than living in a society where you can do less hours of work and get better quality food, shelter, and clothes.

WingsOfGood posted...

I never said they were wealthy, I said they were rich.

Yeah I'm done here. Can't even comprehend the delusion you have at this point

WingsOfGood posted...

He believes poverty is the natural state of the world.
Yet when you look at how people existed in the natural state, they were able to feed themselves and their families and provide shelter.

They were able to do these things because they WORKED to CREATE it. Without the work, you have nothing. You have poverty. Wealth is the thing that needs to be created.

WingsOfGood posted...

Did you not know the natives believed no one could own the land and shared things made among their tribes?

You are literally looking at what is essentially a socialized government and claiming they easily made capital.
But then you claim that someone would be a problem to new system of government based on socialism.

But no, it is not Capital.

Why are you making it out that being a tribesman is some special pinnacle of wealth? If you grab an average person from a capitalistic country, they'll have much more wealth than them.

And no, they did not "easily" make wealth. They made stuff, but did so at drastically worse efficiency than an industrialized nation. That's why their standard of living is thousands of years old.

What point are you trying to make? Do you not understand Socialism or something?

Value needs to be created.

WingsOfGood posted...

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/capital.asp

They don't create Capital.
They are what is known as self-sufficient. Capital is the opposite of self-sufficiency. It is a dependence on an outside economy.

Here is the part that really presents you a problem.

When they created anything, they owned it and whatever value you might assign to it 100%.

Do you know what "typically" means?

Capital

a stock (see STOCK entry 1 sense 1a) of accumulated goods especially at a specified time and in contrast to income received during a specified periodalso : the value of these accumulated goods

And I see you chose to ignore the point in favor of arguing semantics. The point is you have to work to create value. Either you don't take advantage of economy of scale and work your ass off for a lower quality of life, or you decide to get a job so you can buy these things doing less work than you would have to doing it yourself.

WingsOfGood posted...

How did I miss this post?

Weird that every time I make a post about these social programs like universal healthcare, unions, paying employees more, taxing billionaires (who avoid paying tax atm)
Squall28 is always one of the first to post and is adamantly against implementing such programs and rants against them....

Why would he now....pretend to be for them...?

I've always have been for GOOD social programs. The stuff you share is usually nonsense.

WingsOfGood posted...

Correct. So where in that did they raise Capital? Seems you agree with me they were rich. How then, could they be? Without raising Capital?
hmm

They raised capital by WORKING to create things. At some point , society understood economy of scale and learned it was beneficial to have designated people do different things. Much rather pay $3 for a hamburger then to go hunt a buffalo, grow wheat, and cook all on your own. If you thinking having to do all those things on your own makes you rich, I don't know what to tell you

If having food and clothes is all we need to be rich, then I guess America is fine and dandy then. Most of us are rich by your definition.

WingsOfGood posted...

Incorrect. The natives did not live in poverty. They had clothing, food, shelter and a rich culture.

What creates poverty is when the food is owned by a Capitalist and not shared because they want profits. And this happens when public lands become owned and you cannot hunt or scavenge on them.

The natives had to work to create clothing, food, shelter, and culture. You don't just magically have those things. They had to CREATE them. Hence, you have to create wealth.

WingsOfGood posted...

This CREATES poverty

That's not how the world works. Poverty is the natural state of the world. Say you guys want to start a new country from scratch with your desired systems. You know what you are going to need to do? Raise capital. Value and wealth is the thing that needs to be created

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Do you seriously think I'm throwing out a real percentage?

I think you're throwing an estimate based on your perception.

He obliterated.

TheOtherMike posted...

Your response was Indisputably bad faith. Telling someone what they believe or why they believe it is antithetical to good-faith discussion as it shuts down your opponent's agency and voice. You are effectively telling them that you don't care about their reasons because you have preemptively decided what you believe about them, ironically doing exactly what you accused them of - making a preemptive judgment and assuming the worst as a result. You're projecting.
And then coming back and calling your assessment "factual" is just blatant trolling. No one's falling for it.

They haven't listed reasons. The topic is a percent TC pulled out of his ass. It's a perception based question. I explained why his perception sees it as 90%.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

The fact that you're putting athletic ability on the same plane as being filthy rich is already a bad faith argument dude lmao

I've said nothing about athletic ability.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Pretty silly counter-argument to make in a topic about most capitalist arguments being in bad faith.

Just because you don't like the factual answer, doesn't mean it's bad faith. You asked why, I told you why. The fact that you assume it was bad faith already proves my answer is correct.

So how you do an interview is you deflect every question.

ZeldaMutant posted...

The Nordic countries are slowly dismantling their own social programs to increase private profits. And installing programs like healthcare is impossible in countries like the US because it would reduce the profits of health insurers. The Nordic welfare state is as good as capitalism can get, but it won't last forever and it's not possible in every country.

What country should we aspire to be like then?

IMNOTRAGED posted...

What countries? What programs?

Most functioning countries have varying amounts of them. Welfare, universal healthcare, public transportation, financial aid scholarships, etc.

And for reference, even the Nordic countries most of you are so fond of have capitalism as a base. It's the most hands free, and the most proven to work. It just needs some extra social programs to bring the people in the bottom up which countries are already working on doing.

Because you already made up your mind and will just assume the worst about the opposing side

Sometimes resources are limited so it's either you benefit or you lose.

WingsOfGood posted...

I didn't say to buy at 104. I said if you bought at $80, you made some money.

Odd that you have to lie about what I say?
Very very odd.

Your post has "please FOMO buy" written all over it.

electrochica posted...

Mine is a keycard with my full name that clips on to use elevators/open doors

All my jobs had this. You need it to get in the building

Timmyjinkle posted...

I work 90 hour weeks, for a barely living wage - and I'm proud of it! HARD WORK MADE THIS COUNTRY GREAT!
Lackadaisical Worker rights also help people to work, if they're lazy and try and work 40 hour weeks, they're gone! It's what made this great country.

I can feel the butthurt through the screen.

Did anyone listen to TC and buy at $104?

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WingsOfGood posted...

Likely someone does, but that is beside the point. You see them on the road yes?

My point is your preaching to the choir.

Does anyone on this board even support F150s? It's an asshole car.