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Crono99 posted...

Why are they firing doctors in the middle of a pandemic?

A lot of stupid managers out there

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It's sad how people are turning charity donations into class warfare bullshit. If you're too cheap to donate, just say it. Don't put it on other people.

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Squall trying to act like licking boots is reasonable lmfao

What boots did I lick? I said Elon's wealth is tied to the overvaluation of his companies (fact), and went on to criticize said companies.

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au_gold posted...

Squall28 has already embarrassed himself plenty ITT, but obligatory:

https://twitter.com/baronvonstewson/status/1430187098695479300?s=21

*Ignores facts*
*Regurgitates memes*

Yeah you sure showed me. It's scary how many of you cover your ears to reason and then slurp this stuff on loop. It's self-brainwashing at this point

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Damn_Underscore posted...

I meant in general. In other words, that really isn't an excuse for them.

And also a lot of people only read headlines of any given article so what the headline says is very important.

If they wrote an article with headline, "Asian mayor wins. KKK members are angry."

Would you assume that NPR is mad that an Asian person won or you take them at their word that the KKK is mad?


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Damn_Underscore posted...

So should they post articles with racist views that "others" have?

It's not even a racist article. I just skimmed through it, and it talks about Boston's history for black people and how much a black mayor will mean to them. An Asian woman doesn't necessarily represent them. "Person of color" doesn't really do it justice.

I do think it's sad that Asian accomplishment is getting swept under the rug again though.


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Tbf, they're saying "others" view it as a disappointment, not them.

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The amount of speculation in the market is ridiculous right now.

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These days it means freedom to be a dumbass, not freedom from oppression.

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Krojen posted...

You've said Tesla was overvalued since 2019 when it was priced for bankruptcy in spite of it being in position to be one of the largest companies in the world. You don't post facts, you post whatever wealthy boomers on daytime TV tell you.

Don't act like Tesla has made it. It's valuation right now is still speculation. Come back and gloat when Tesla sells more cars than every other major automaker combined or whatever it's current valuation says it is worth now.

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CyricZ posted...

Ooo how handy I get to reuse this:

That is how I act but

You guys just lose your s*** because it doesn't fit your narratives, and you're neck deep in tribalism

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Will_VIIII posted...

You're an admitted trump supporter so that's not true or accurate at all

I voted for Biden. What are you talking about?

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WingsOfGood posted...

This literally Squall28 right now

Lol I don't like Elon at all and think his companies are overvalued to hell. The difference between me and you is I know his money is from his companies crazy valuations from the stock market. It's not some class warfare bullshit.

You literally never post anything of value to any discussion. Be quiet.

I post facts, and I'm a voice of reason on this board. You guys just lose your shit because it doesn't fit your narratives, and you're neck deep in tribalism.

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WingsOfGood posted...

You don't have to.

Ah yes, the "no u" response. Perfectly encapsulates how much you think about things before take your anti-capitalism news drip as facts

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EmbraceOfDeath posted...

Imagine spending your time posting such stupid things.

Imagine not knowing how the world works, then spending your time calling people stupid.

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WingsOfGood posted...

Do you browse gamefaqs all day looking for my threads to post in?

You realize you're spamming the front page right?

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Do you just browse Reddit all day looking for ways to be upset about the rich?

And if you want to be upset about Elon's wealth, take it up with all the people who are paying a massive premium for his stock.

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One of classmates went to an academic competition in Princeton. He told me a student from China came, and decimated them. When they asked how about she fared against other students in her class, she said she was the worst one.

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No one has answered how they're going to set Mjolnir on top of Thanos. This topic is as good as "why didn't they just stab Thanos in the heart." The problem isn't the finisher, it's getting to the point where you can reach it.

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AzNDarkSamurai posted...

Lets be honest here. (at least in mine) high school doesnt teach you anything about how the world works

It doesnt teach you financial advice, budgeting, how to build your career, how to make connections, how to be good at PR, etc.

A lot of what I listed is very important in the real world

Financial advice, budgetting, career, etc isn't all there is to the world.

Chemistry and physics tell us how our physical world works. Algebra lets us conceptualize how to compute things when we have unknown variables, and goes a long way in helping people develop number sense. Finance is just math, and personal finance can be learned in one semester. The foundation you get from building a good mathematical base will serve you much better in life. The problem is people don't really put in the effort to learn, and just try to blow by school.

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How is knowing how the world works useless?

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I don't see anything about Namek other than DBZ.

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Depends what you do there. My area will go to shit pretty quick if I leave.

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ButteryMales posted...

https://youtu.be/iHrZRJR4igQ

Arthur has some real gems.

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CyricZ posted...

Anyway, to answer the topic, it's not a terribly simple thing to "label" someone as a conservative, "legit" or otherwise. By their very nature, conservatives tend to speak out less.

And never trust someone when they tell you what political leaning they are. In my experience 90% of the time their posting style belies what they say they identify as.

So you are saying people can't self identify what they are....lmao

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When was Thanos laying on the ground, ready to be topped by mjolnir?

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We don't really know until they retire. Don't even know if millennials are a flop yet

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The figure they came upon seems very suspect considering how long certain tasks like cooking took back then. It's like they chose to omit certain things. Like perhaps we're more interdependent as a society now, and things that we have to used to have to do ourselves can be bought for a few bucks.

If you control for standard of living, I'm sure you can meet the same living standards of a peasant with much less hours of labor.

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Shablagoo posted...

Wealth alone isn't everything. The distribution of it matters, and the quality of life for the average citizen also matters.

I'm not sure about this new report (I think in terms of nominal wealth, USA still has more), but check Credit Suisses 2021 report for some information on wealth distribution:

https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/about-us/research/publications/global-wealth-databook-2021.pdf

Check page 136 of the report.

In 2020, China's bottom 30 percent probably owns a larger proportion of the country's wealth than pretty much any country out there (not having a lot of debt helps).

China's bottom 40 percent owns a higher proportion of the country's wealth than any of the five-eyes nations and Japan.

USA 1 percent owns 35.3 percent of the country's wealth. That is a higher proportion than what its bottom 90 percent owns (24.2 percent).

Chinas 1 percent owns 30.6 percent of the country's wealth. While that is not great, its bottom 90 percent still owns more of the wealth (39.9 percent) than the top 1 percent.

I suspect it has more to do with the culture around money than some sort of government policy. I'm of Chinese heritage myself, and the way my parents and my aunts and uncles treat money is drastically different from what you see in the States. Like you got people here complaining about how broke they are, and then paying double price for uber eats. If you set aside 10% of your salary for savings, you are considered good.

Meanwhile, my parents treat saving money as a min-max problem. It wasn't save 10%. It was save everything you possibly can. "No we gotta save money" was practically the family mantra.

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What do you think of this from the article?

In both countries -- the worlds biggest economies -- more than two-thirds of the wealth is held by the richest 10% of households, and their share has been increasing, the report said.

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Rising costs of things have me spooked. It seems like we're trending to a point where the average family can't afford a house, healthcare, and other things that were once affordable.

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Zikten posted...

They better produce her soon or China will have to explain some things

Too much money. Nobody gonna do shit

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Wait did boosters get approved? I thought it was just for at risk people.

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looks like cases are starting to resurge...

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feels much higher than 6%

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Nah she was great. Didn't need fake Mandarin tho

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWh5388AEHw&ab_channel=PlayStation

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I think it'd be a whole lot more manageable to fix Earth than to build Mars up from scratch.

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shockthemonkey posted...

Its ok, maybe one day youll accidentally make an intelligent post

It's funny how your sense of mental superiority comes from your political beliefs and not any sense of ability, academic or otherwise.

Guess you have to grasp on to something to make you feel better about yourself.


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Garioshi posted...

I have you tagged as "social darwinist" so you can shut the fuck up

I remember. It's because I quoted Richard Feynman, and you lost your shit.

I'll summarize it again because it's the truth.

Countries become successful because they make technological advances that let them use their resources better.

Oh nooo the blasphemy!!!! How dare he say that the oppression

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ScazarMeltex posted...

Yes and if your traditions are couched in racism and sexism and the belief that certain groups are weaker and less intelligent than yours you will stop at nothing to keep them that way. Because you want to continue your traditions and you fear change.

hence has its own problems

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shockthemonkey posted...

The irony of saying stop trying to demonize people in defense of an ideology that thrives on demonizing and othering people who are already marginalized

"It's ok for me to do if they do it."

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