Lurker > averagejoel

goddammit. communism is not about equal distribution of wealth, and the idea that it is is a completely idiotic strawman argument.

it's about having societal mechanisms in place to ensure that everyone has their needs met, and to prevent accumulation of wealth

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because the advice they give is only useful for people who are already well-off

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PIITB415 posted...

No, that's not the reason. Most people are just incredibly bad with finances

if everyone were good with finances, there wouldn't be less poverty. there would just be more poor people who are good with finances lol

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PIITB415 posted...

I genuinely don't understand how people are broke past a certain age. Assuming they haven't had a life changing/financially crippling issue it's on them.

the system requires that some people be broke

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are most millennials actually too lazy to cook? is the percentage significantly different than it is for older generations?

I expect the gender divide is smaller for millennials, but aside from that there probably isn't much difference

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CommonJoe posted...

13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution:

lol

the entire US was built by slaves. and a ton of the economy is still built on slavery

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short answer:

society is set up to get everyone to hate black people. it was set up this way intentionally, and at the individual level, it takes conscious effort to unlearn these ideas -- ideas which many people aren't even aware that they have in the first place

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CommonJoe posted...

Also our economy wasnt as propped up on slave labor like the USSR was.

what

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Annihilated posted...

It takes weeks not only for the virus to manifest but also to propagate its spread.

and the spike did not start "weeks" after the protests started

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the spikes in the US are unconnected to the protests. they're outdoors and pretty much everyone is wearing masks

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Sunhawk posted...

I didn't think the attachments were very well balanced. I mean, you had the hover nosel, the turbo nosel, and the rocket nosel, and the hover nosel was much more useful than the others. I mean, I used the hover nosel all the time.

they weren't meant to be well balanced

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joe40001 posted...

You could be really depressed. That makes libido go to 0 as well.

asexuality is an orientation. it is independent of libido

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I notice that SSJCAT stopped responding after my last post. interesting.

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powerful people facing consequences for their actions is not a bad thing

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SSJCAT posted...

people still saying this is really dumb. yes, biden is just another greasy, old ass politician with very questionable past decisions. but hes at least trying.

I'm entirely unconvinced that he is trying

trump has no chance. even trumps own side is turning against him. most people realize biden isnt the ideal choice, but most also realize hes 1000x better than trump

this is pretty much exactly what people were saying about Clinton in 2016

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honestly I'd be fine with any of those except the neo nazi. "manager" is a distant second

the hardcore feminist might be annoying but I could probably get her more into socialist lit via Angela Davis and Rosa Luxembourg

edit: I'm also not sure I believe in intelligence as a concept, so "stupid" without additional qualifiers is not super meaningful to me

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he could very well get re-elected if the dems don't get their shit together. Biden being the candidate does not bode well

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ultimately, casting decisions are made by humans. humans have biases.

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Gamerguymass posted...

Which has nothing to do with the present day situation.

objectively, 100% incorrect

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Gamerguymass posted...

Saying someone shouldn't be allowed to voice a character because of the color of their skin is racist. When people complained that a black chick was playing Ariel, a white charater, they were called racist. And that is live action where you see an actual person. So saying someone shouldn't be able to use just their voice with a character based on the color of their skin certainly is.

the key difference here is that white people have historically not been denied such opportunities for their race

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hello

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killing racists does not meaningfully change the system of racism

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MFBKBass5 posted...

wait really? I havent used the block feature at all on here yet actually

yep. they can't see your posts or post in your topics if you block them.

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MFBKBass5 posted...

shut up and stop making shit up

you do know that if you block people, they can't post in your topics anymore, right?

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I was hoping the first reply would be "moms are the best"

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if we defund the police, how will a known domestic abuser make four hundred thousand dollars and commit the largest mass shooting in the country's history?????

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https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-nova-scotia-shooter-case-has-hallmarks-of-an-undercover-operation/

The withdrawal of $475,000 in cash by the man who killed 22 Nova Scotians in April matches the method the RCMP uses to send money to confidential informants and agents, sources say.

Gabriel Wortman, who is responsible for the largest mass killing in Canadian history, withdrew the money from a Brinks depot in Dartmouth, N.S., on March 30, stashing a carryall filled with hundred-dollar bills in the trunk of his car.

According to a source close to the police investigation the money came from CIBC Intria, a subsidiary of the chartered bank that handles currency transactions.

Sources in both banking and the RCMP say the transaction is consistent with how the RCMP funnels money to its confidential informants and agents, and is not an option available to private banking customers.

The RCMP has repeatedly said that it had no special relationship with Wortman. RCMP Supt. Darren Campbell reiterated that statement during an interview with the Toronto Star published online, and in its print newspaper on Sunday, saying: The gunman had no special relationship with the RCMP whatsoever. Campbell told the Star: The investigation has not uncovered any relationship between the gunman and the RCMP outside of an estranged familial relationship and two retired RCMP members.

According to the Star story: Campbell said the reason for Wortmans large cash withdrawal, which he confirmed was hundreds of thousands of dollars, was not fully known, however, there are indications that near the time of the withdrawal the gunman believed that due to the worldwide pandemic, that his financial assets were safer under his control.'

Campbell declined to be interviewed by Macleans on Friday, prior to this storys publication online, and again on Tuesday.

Court documents show Wortman owned a New Brunswick-registered company called Berkshire-Broman, the legal owner of two of his vehicles (including one of his police replica cars). Whatever the purpose of that company, there is no public evidence that it would have been able to move large quantities of cash. Wortman also ran his own denturist business and there is no reason to believe it also would require him to handle large amounts of cash.

If Wortman was an RCMP informant or agent, it could explain why the force appeared not to take action on complaints about his illegal guns and his assault on his common-law wife.A Mountie familiar with the techniques used by the force in undercover operations, but not with the details of the investigation into the shooting, says Wortman could not have collected his own money from Brinks as a private citizen.

Theres no way a civilian can just make an arrangement like that, he said in an interview.

He added that Wortmans transaction is consistent with the Mounties experience in how the RCMP pays its assets. Ive worked a number of CI cases over the years and thats how things go. All the payments are made in cash. To me that transaction alone proves he has a secret relationship with the force.

A second Mountie, who does not know the first one but who has also been involved in CI operations, also believes that Wortmans ability to withdraw a large sum of money from Brinks is an indication that Wortman had a link with the police. Thats tradecraft, the Mountie said, explaining that by going through CIBC Intria, the RCMP could avoid typical banking scrutiny, as there are no holds placed on the money.

Thats what we do when we need flash money for a buy. We dont keep stashes of money around the office. When we suddenly need a large sum of money to make a buy or something, thats the route we take. I think [with the Brinks transaction] youve proved with that single fact that he had a relationship with the police. He was either a CI or an agent.

there's more in the article.

this is... a real doozy


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DrizztLink posted...

Huh.

I would have expected them to just get triggered by motion rather than needing to recognize color.

I believe it shines a light down and gets activated by the light being reflected back. if someone's skin is too dark, it can absorb too much of the light for the sensor to notice it

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shockthemonkey posted...

What other professions can you even attempt to say I dont care enough to learn how to do my job for non-white people?

whoever designed the technology for automatic sinks/hand dryers/paper towel dispensers/soap dispensers

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Echo Chamber. Snowflake a reasonably close second

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I certainly hope that your matches aren't related to you

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if I'm remembering correctly, people in britain only had three seasons. summer went from the vernal equinox until the autumnal equinox

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P4wn4g3 posted...

Ah yes, pointing out the obvious fact that a social trend was sparked from this last decade isn't actually a talking point among you sjw types, in fact it's much better just to stifle all conversation about it. Anything pointing to the alternative must be nazism at work. Well reasoned.

you mean the trend of... society becoming slightly less openly hostile towards trans people?

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General_Secura posted...

Are statues not a form of art?

not all art belongs in a museum. to use a completely random example: art that was made during the civil rights movement, explicitly for the purpose of glorifying confederate leaders and intimidating black people, should probably not be on display anywhere unless it it properly contextualized. and even then, it's not necessary to have these statues in large numbers

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the protests are not responsible for the increased numbers in FL

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Anteaterking posted...

???

from the Harry Potter wiki

Skeeter was described as having blonde hair set in elaborate curls that contrasted oddly with her heavy-jawed face. She wore jewelled spectacles studded with rhinestones, and had thick fingers ending in two-inch nails, painted crimson. Her blonde curls were curiously rigid, suggesting it was styled with the magical equivalent of hairspray. In addition, she had pencilled-on eyebrows and three gold teeth, as well as large, masculine hands. Her bright scarlet painted fingernails and toenails were usually likened to claws or talons.

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P4wn4g3 posted...

What?
The trans fad didn't even exist when she wrote the books lol

what fad?

trans people absolutely existed when she was writing the books

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Antifar posted...

She did have the whole goblins controlling the banks thing, which raised some eyebrows, lol.

that and the slaves that want to be enslaved. then of course only one person brings it up at all and it's treated like a joke.

and Rita Skeeter is trans coded

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Bullet_Wing posted...

Dude, Lovecraft literally wrote a poem called "On the Creation of N******" about beasts that were lesser than man.

... or so some claim!

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watch 03 first. Brotherhood rushes through the first bit, assuming that you've already seen 03

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posting this again so it's on this page

averagejoel posted...

the statues weren't constructed to educate people. they were constructed to glorify their subjects

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g980 posted...

You just described how giving people money could cover food and essential services

no. I said that providing those services directly would actually solve some problems in a way that giving people money cannot.

If anything it will be more effective because people can spend it proportionate to what they need, and with less of it being diverted to administrative costs

with UBI, the money is largely ending up in the hands of people who own those essential services (housing, grocery stores, etc). they're unnecessary for those services, so the most efficient option is to take them out of the equation entirely and just have the services provided via public rather than private means

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Kolibri X posted...

The majority of America are not racist. It's the media that paints Americans as racist. When will you learn this?

this post suggests that you have a flawed, simplistic way of thinking about racism

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I highly doubt that my mom has ever taken a nude photo

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Annihilated posted...

It's not because of time spent at work, we've been working 40 hour work weeks for about a hundred years at least.

before that it was more than 40, and before capitalism it was significantly less than 40

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MrToothHasYou posted...

I would softly support it as long it isn't implemented in the way that, for example, Andrew Yang sought (i.e. UBI wholly replacing entitlements and social welfare nets), but I mostly see it as a band-aid

this is a good take

but unfortunately there is no possibility of UBI being implemented in any other way. the push for UBI is coming from a neoliberal direction. they'll likely use it as an opportunity to cut other social programs too.

another way of thinking about it: giving $1000 each to four tenants is effectively giving $4000 to their landlord. providing housing (and food, and other essential services) directly would solve this problem in a way that giving people money cannot

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