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lord0fmud posted...

I run a restaurant and have been begging servers to come back. Assistant managers as well. This isn't Subway either, it's a high end steak house where the servers make more than I do some weeks.

All I hear is, "I got that Covid money. I'll com back when that's over". Let that run out.

Yeah you are full of shit because that's not how unemployment insurance works.

Now for the grownups in the room, this will do more damage to the economy than anything else. When you have this many people unemployed the only thing that has been keeping people able to spend (which is how the US economy works, on endless consumer spending) is that extra $600. When that is gone and these people lose upwards of 2/3s of their weekly income, that means nothing is getting bought, which will crash the actual consumer economy. In Missouri the max you can draw on unemployment is 320 bucks. After taxes that's around 230 I believe. You ain't paying rent on that, let alone buying anything to keep the consumer economy going, and a ton of states have an ever lower maximum.

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a-c-a-b posted...

This.

His parents do so much to support and take care of him, and in return he's willing to put their lives at risk just so that he can go to Subway and the mall.

And to try and hangout with girlfriend/chick he's stalking (I still think the jury is out on that one).

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Like all conservative mouth pieces he does this shit from the safety of his studio. Come out into the world and spew your venom there and see what happens.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Was it Hawley who did the obviously-staged "I'm totally a country boy!" ads last time?
It takes a hell of a lot more than standing in front of a vinyl fence to establish "rural cred". Or apparently it didn't.

Yeah Hawley did the whole "shucks i'm just a small town country lawyer type". Mind you that Hawley's dad was a banker, his mom a teacher, he graduated from a private prep school. went to Standford, taught for a year in London, then went to Yale for law school. I'm more fucking country than his ass and I've lived in Saint Louis my whole life. Like get the fuck out of here with that shit.

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Bananana posted...

Ill never understand ces boner for hating on duncanwii

@Duncanwii fuck the bet, play the games how you enjoy them

The dude makes moronic statements. Then when people try to correct gently or politely he rages or screeches. All of us at one time or another have tried to be nice to the guy, he just isn't interested in learning anything. In regards to the Coronavirus and lockdown issues he's outright dangerously selfish and thus deserving of mockery.

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As a Missourian, specifically a Saint Louisan, fuck Josh Hawley and anyone who voted for him or thinks like him. The dude legit said we shouldn't bother to learn history because it happened in the past.

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Balrog0 posted...

It's been used a lot recently with respect to the supreme court ruling on Oklahoma tribal territory. That's because it's still an official legal terminology that the federal government uses, from my understanding

Yeah, the old Bureau of Indian affairs and that whole area being called "Indian Territory" is in the legal documents from that era.

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I generally use the term native but the one guy I work with was basically like "native or indian is fine, if you call me redskin i'll punch you in the dick". Was like "fair nuff".

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I mean, I have him blocked so it doesn't really matter, but I do still have to see the stupid shit he posts when people quote him so it won't break my heart to see him gone.

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Seems like a relatively empty threat since schools that aren't open need less funding. Also ehat happened to the Republican mantra of "muh small gubmint, everything should be up to state and local gubmints"

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onedarksoul posted...

Of course. He is going to destroy Biden in the debates. Thats 5-6 points right there.

Trump isn't going to destroy anyone, they are both going to get up there and babble on, barely able to string together a coherent sentence.

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So the problem here is undoubtedly social media and the internet. Pre internet these clowns ideas were isolated to wherever they were located because the great vast majority of people laugh at people who believe this shit, and rightfully so. The internet and social media give them a way to find each other and then because there are more of them people start to think "hmm if this many people believe it, maybe there is something to it". That's how all this shit gained traction, anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers, pizzagaters, QAnon, and now all this stupid shit.

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ASithLord7 posted...

Fair enough, thanks for the correction. Definitely no surprise from those posters

It's my fault, I tend to not look at names when I read through topics unless it's something egregiously stupid, so I made a presumption that turned out to be incorrect.

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Owning property is not a real job and contributes nothing to society.

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Eh, the usual people you would expect. Mal fet the one time got himself a suspension out of it arguing with me because he tried to imply that Churchill was right. The Admiral, Spooking, and a bunch of the usual shitty low karma alts that disaapear.
But you are correct that of those none of them are posting in this topic. So I apologize for that incorrect part of my statement.

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Balrog0 posted...

Do you think average Joel would defend Churchill the way he defended Stalin?

Probably not, but I've literally had the exact same people attacking joel in this topic make the exact same arguments Joel makes in regards to the weather when it comes to the Bengal famine. So that goes both way. Both where bad, both could have been avoided. The problem is that we condemn Stalin for it because he was a despot and we clap for Churchill because he was the great hero of the war. Which of course ignores the fact that the vast majority of the german military machine died in Russia between 1941 and 44.

TLDR Stalin and Chruchill are both, but history only teaches us that Stalin is bad.

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Not really. Almost every other country has managed to control it. It's the US that ua fucked because it's full of idiots.

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Honestly Fauci should resign and go work for individual states to help them get their outbreaks under control. It's quite clear the admin doesn't want to listen to him.

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PiOverlord posted...

The Olive Garden meme needs to die

Them having overpriced mediocre food that suburbanites think is good Italian food isn't a meme it's a fact.

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chrono625 posted...

its called the Goldbergs.

Goldbergs has a Wonder Years feel to it, but The Wonder Years was a relatively serious show with jokes in it. Goldbergs is all jokes with the occasional bit of serious narration to it.

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Lol no. Trump is a symptom of the party pandering to people like him for decades, he just showed up and took the mask off.

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@Caution999 Do you remember the topic where people were trashing Reagan and you tried to defend him by bringing up his signing of the bill that gave victims of the Japanese internment camps reparations? Do you remember when people informed you that Reagan opposed the bill and only signed after being harassed into it by his own party? Do you remember that you then disappeared from the topic despite multiple people @ing you?

Assume that sort of thing is going to happen in literally every topic you are in because everytime you open your mouth nothing but uninformed garbage comes out. Assume it will happen and just go away. I'd hate to see you get angry and "accidentally" go on a white replacement rant again.

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I just want to know who in the hell considers Krippendorf's tribe a classic.

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Patty_Fleur posted...

I watch CNN all the time and as much as he has messed up, it does seem like they use the virus to bash him at every opportunity.

I'm really at a loss at what CNN like people want. Like they want online school for an entire year and no one to work? What the hell are they expecting? Other countries are doing school.

Other countries competently managed their outbreaks.

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About tree fiddy.

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Trump told me everything was safe, what are they worried about?

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Yes.

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TheGoldenEel posted...

I bought into a stock at $5 that is now worth over $104

problem is, when I originally bought the stock I only had like $400 spare. So I made a bunch of money from that and have since bought more shares

but it really sticks with me how true it is that you need to have money to make money, and how misleading a booming stock market really is to the average person

This is why rich people talk in terms of percentage rather than raw numbers.

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When trump is gone from the white house I want the name of every person and company that got money to be released to the public. That way we know exactly who benefitted from this sham.

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Would still cost less than the business loans that just disappeared into the ether and did nothing to stop companies from reducing their staff. It would actually benefit the economy instead going into the pockets of C-Suite executives.

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BlueTigerLion posted...

I'm starting to wonder if this is happening more. Or we just have cameras with us 24/7 so more of these situations are being recorded.

This has always been happening. Cops just don't get that everyone has cameras now.

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Should be legal to drop these fucks if they do that shit when they arrest you

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Trump meltdown incoming. What happens if he refuses to release them though? He could order the IRS to not give them up.

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Stop trying to have discussion in good faith a disingenuous bootlicker.

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Federal government should get our taxpayer money back.

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Squall28 posted...

If someone keeps trying to defund you, you ain't helping them. Not saying he's right to ignore, just speaking facts

It's almost like protecting people was never what the cops were interested in doing.

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Marxism as written isfounded on the ideas of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality, and decolonization. The fact that you don't seem to know or understand this tells me that you should probably shut the fuck up on the subject until you spend some time reading.

Most of the important black organizations and leaders during the civil rights movement were socialists or communists. Same with the leaders and organizations during the labor movement, you know, the ones that gave you the 40 hour work week, OT pay, the end of child labor, safety regulations (though OSHA didn't happen till the radium dial company killed a ton of women with radiation), and a ton of the other things workers take for granted now.

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At least none of the usual suspects have come in here to try and defend this shit. So fucked, both the murder and the cover up.

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Not gonna happen here. Fucking over poor people is basically a hobby for the US government.

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He's also a fucking idiot. Black people may not want to vote democrat, but their alternative is a party that barely considers them human beings. It's the same with LGBTQ people. If I had to choose to vote for the people who don't care about me beyond getting my vote and thus throw me a bone once in awhile or people who think I'm less of a person because of the color of my skin or who I fuck and are actively trying to take my rights away, I think my choice is pretry clear. It's a shitty choice to be sure, but I know which I would pick.

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https://tinyurl.com/y7gxeca5
The TLDR is this. The cops arrested a dude. He died in their custody. No real information was given about the cause of death. 6 months later video shows up (that is missing part of the audio, possibly due to tampering), it shows Lurrys (the dead man) nose held shut while in handcuffs for 1 minute and 38 seconds, while a police baton is in his mouth in the back seat of a squad car. The cop who leaked to the media that the tape existed gets fired. The cops who murdered the guy still have a job.

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I really, really, really, want to see the people who work for ICE get what they deserve.

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Consciousness posted...

I think he's probably a GameFAQs user

I'd say he was probably caution, but this guy is actually successful.

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UnfairRepresent posted...

I honestly don't think they were.

There's a difference between actively wishing death on people and not caring if they die.

"AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."
Jerry Falwell
Mind you that Falwell is one of the chief conservative evangelicals responsible for Reagan's re-election.

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Cops in Saint Louis will occasionally sit on the Jefferson Barracks bridge and bust people coming back from Illinois.

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Zach Braff and Donald Faison have been doing a podcast called Fake Doctors, Real Friends. They basically rewatch episodes of the show and tell stories about the filming, and all sorts of shit about their lives. It's fairly entertaining.
So far they've gone all the way through season one and are a few episodes into season two.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-fake-doctors-real-friends-60367049/

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@Caution999 see what happens when you open your mouth without doing even the slightest bit of research? Stick to racism, at least you are good at that.

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He commented when the majority of people decided to give a fuck. Which was when white middle class subarbanites started getting it. Before that it was mostly homosexual men and drug addicts that got it.

Same with the opioid/heroin crisis. It had been going on for years, but no one really seemed to give two shits until middle class suburban teenagers started to overdose.

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