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| Topic | if you had $30k USD roughly what sedan or hatchback would you buy |
| legendary_zell 12/07/19 6:42:29 PM #74 | I have a 2018 Honda Accord and it is freaking amazing. It has a touchscreen display that is mostly software based, rather than relying on car engineers to program UI and apps. It has Android Auto/Apple CarPlay which makes it super easy to navigate, play music, etc all without fiddling with your phone while driving. It's roomy AF on the inside and has a really smooth ride. It has great gas mileage, to the point where I only need to fill up twice a month and I can drive between major cities in Texas without filling up. I did obsessive research before buying it and I haven't been disappointed at all. --- I gotta be righteous, I gotta be me, I gotta be conscious, I gotta be free, I gotta be able, I gotta attack, I gotta be stable, I gotta be black. |
| Topic | 25 years later, R Kelly finally faces charges for underage marriage to Aaliyah |
| legendary_zell 12/06/19 10:56:28 AM #43 | Dark Snake deliberately misunderstanding something and making creepy contrarian arguments that reveal a lack of social awareness and basic human skills? Impossible! --- I gotta be righteous, I gotta be me, I gotta be conscious, I gotta be free, I gotta be able, I gotta attack, I gotta be stable, I gotta be black. |
| Topic | Spotify Wrapped is out for 2019 and the decade |
| legendary_zell 12/05/19 9:30:34 PM #62 | MrK3V posted... I should get premium again. This is one service I'll be paying for the rest of my life. I could cancel TV streaming, move back in with my parents, sell my car, but I'll be stealing copper to pay for my Spotify Premium. --- |
| Topic | What are the biggest social movements in very long-term human history? |
| legendary_zell 12/05/19 9:16:48 PM #17 | Agricultural living vs hunting and gathering. Secularism Forming cities Popular sovereignty Free wage labor Left wing economic movements The emancipation of women --- |
| Topic | Does anyone say that "latinx" shit seriously? |
| legendary_zell 12/04/19 1:33:43 PM #42 | I legitimately don't see why people would be mad about this. It gets the job done. Language changes and it often changes in accordance with values. --- |
| Topic | Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin, on why he lost |
| legendary_zell 12/04/19 1:29:22 PM #11 | This is an air raid siren, not a dogwhistle. He's saying it's illegitimate for the poors and the browns to have their votes count as much as good, hardworking, white (synonyms) "Real Americans". --- |
| Topic | Rep. quits after saying opponents were challenging him because they're Asian |
| legendary_zell 12/03/19 6:25:22 PM #5 | It's funny how nothing these dudes ever say reflects what's in their heart. Is there anything in their hearts then, or are they just hollow? --- |
| Topic | honestly, is it that big a deal Billie Eillish doesn't know who Van Halen is? |
| legendary_zell 12/03/19 9:23:37 AM #33 | What influence does Van Halen have on modern pop, electronic, indie, or even rock music in general? They were a popular act in the 80s, but they have no relevance to today. Just because something was popular in the past doesn't mean they're of elevated importance to anyone outside of that context. It's embarrassing for a black person and a rapper not to know Tupac because he's literally considered one of the goats of the genre Yachty performs in and was active in the decade he was born in. Van Halen were the kings of several decades ago in a very different era of music that hasn't had much effect on the dominant forms of music today, electronic and hip hop. --- |
| Topic | Richard Wolff (socialist) loses capitalism vs socialism debate |
| legendary_zell 12/02/19 1:28:24 AM #34 | Not to defend Communism, but my understanding of the phrase "dictatorship of the proletariat" is that it has nothing to do with dictatorship. It's a term of art. It essentially means majority rule through, or rule of the people as opposed to a rule of the other classes through wealth or nobility (oligarchy, feudalism, monarchy). It's basically a term with bad PR. --- |
| Topic | Customer got scammed into buying a Wow! Computer. |
| legendary_zell 12/01/19 1:28:27 PM #66 | This seems pretty scammy and it's blatantly targeting vulnerable seniors. I do consumer protection stuff so I'm gonna bring this up at work. --- |
| Topic | Interesting article on Obama since leaving office |
| legendary_zell 11/26/19 5:55:03 PM #4 | I'm really not liking this post Presidency Obama. If he really sniped Warren or Sanders like that, he'd be greatly increasing the chance of a second term for Trump and would have to know that. So if he did it, it would put all of his moderate policies in a very different light because he'd be considering all of the destruction that would do better than any type of even potentially transformative presidency. Maybe everyone should have taken him more seriously when he said he would have been considered a moderate Republican in the 80s? --- |
| Topic | Rick Perry says Trump is the 'Chosen One' |
| legendary_zell 11/25/19 11:44:02 AM #23 | The commanding heights of the most powerful country, economy, and military in the world are controlled by people who think God is telling them that Donald Trump is a modern day chosen biblical leader. Someone who is objectively a physical manifestation of every deadly sin in one physical form and who doesn't have a single religious bone in his body. This mindset should be fully and utterly disqualifying from being dog catcher, much less a federal official. If some voice in your head is telling you to invade Iraq or treat Trump like a chosen one, you are incapable of leading anyone to do anything. --- |
| Topic | Ta-Nahesi Coates writes a great piece on Colin Kaepernick and cancel culture |
| legendary_zell 11/23/19 6:10:02 PM #13 | ThePrinceFish posted... HylianFox posted...conservatives really are obsessed with Kaepernick, aren't they? If Coates is a joke leftist, I wonder what that makes you? Especially considering that the sounds he vomits into the toilet on his drunkest day have more value than anything you or your ilk have ever posted on this board. It's well known that Kaep, AOC, and Ilhan Omar live rent free in the minds of all of y'all. --- |
| Topic | Ta-Nahesi Coates writes a great piece on Colin Kaepernick and cancel culture |
| legendary_zell 11/23/19 6:06:13 PM #9 | Correct, as he quite often tends to be. People with power have been cancelling those who challenge them, who make them uncomfortable, who's attitudes they don't like, who have gotten uppity. They've been doing it unchecked for centuries. They're still doing it now. Few have a problem with it. Walmart threatens to cancel and blacklist people and whole towns for daring to unionize and it goes by without a peep. But the idea that some rando on Twitter could point out your shitty views and make people like you less is the death of liberty and free thought in our society. --- |
| Topic | Giuliani associate willing to tell Congress Nunes tried to get dirt on Biden |
| legendary_zell 11/22/19 11:05:44 PM #8 | Elected Republicans are fueled entirely by the urge to gaslight and project. They believe the Democrats, liberals, and leftists are constantly manufacturing things and playing dirty tricks because they do it and they can't believe that others are actually not the same form of scum. From Nixon to Reagan to Bush to Trump, you see it over and over again. This is just the latest page in this volume. --- |
| Topic | The Admiral is BANNED |
| legendary_zell 11/22/19 10:52:22 PM #311 | To the people defending him: if you paid any attention, it's 100 percent clear that dude HATED minorities, especially black people. As others said, you could 100 percent predict his opinion on anything even slightly controversial involving a black person or a Muslim or arab. He straight up defended explicit open racial profiling on the grounds that minorities deserve it. Along with many other heinous statements posted in this topic and ones that haven't even been brought up yet. If you're defending him, it's either out of not being aware of his views and posts or because you agree that black man/librul/wamen/mooslem bad. --- |
| Topic | The Admiral is BANNED |
| legendary_zell 11/22/19 5:42:53 PM #26 | I really hope he's not the way he is on here. I really hope he was just a successful troll. --- |
| Topic | Annoying a cop might soon be subject to a $5,000 fine here |
| legendary_zell 11/22/19 5:39:32 PM #28 | Blatantly unconstitutionally vague. Like this is textbook overbroadness and vagueness. Not to mention a violation of the first amendment under a rational reading. --- |
| Topic | American man acquitted of the crime of being a basically decent human being |
| legendary_zell 11/21/19 10:03:52 AM #26 | Never ever outsource your moral reasoning to the law. And never ever decide who deserves basic human empathy based on arbitrary things like which side of an imaginary line you were born on. Otherwise you end up like @coh You give dying people water, period. Laws that say otherwise are state enforced cruelty and are illegitimate. --- |
| Topic | Biden getting his skull bashed in tonight |
| legendary_zell 11/20/19 11:36:11 PM #5 | ElatedVenusaur posted... It probably won't affect his poll numbers, because we live in the dumb, bad universe. This. The worst people in politics are untouchable. Steve King, Trump, Miller, McConnell, etc. Biden of course isn't on their level, but he somehow has that trait. This is the Bad Place. --- |
| Topic | Al Sharpton made over $1 million last year from his charity |
| legendary_zell 11/18/19 11:10:05 PM #7 | I literally only hear about Sharpton from certain types of conservatives. Liberals and leftists do not spare even a single thought on him. But others view him as the emperor of the blacks for some reason. --- |
| Topic | About to see Princess Mononoke for the first time in theaters. |
| legendary_zell 11/18/19 10:45:36 PM #6 | |
| Topic | Chickfila goes woke; makes stance and will not donate to Salvation Army/FCA |
| legendary_zell 11/18/19 4:23:07 PM #50 | Should I not care about direct donations of thousands/millions to anti-gay causes because the money comes from a chicken restaurant? What work is that doing to make it something that I shouldn't care about? Would it be okay to care if it was a weapons manufacturer or a suit maker? --- |
| Topic | Obummer wants a moderate candidate in 2020. |
| legendary_zell 11/17/19 11:20:31 AM #46 | BilalPowell posted... Obama only seems centrist compared to Bernie. He was far left at the time. Compare him to Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. What far left thing did he do or even advocate at the time? This seems like revisionist history to me. --- |
| Topic | Obummer wants a moderate candidate in 2020. |
| legendary_zell 11/16/19 7:02:40 PM #26 | Any future moderate candidate will be less talented and less intelligent than Obama, will be less inspiring, will have less black support etc so it stands to reason that they will get even less done than him. Pete, Klobuchar, Harris etc couldn't hold Obama's jock and will be up against an even more deranged Republican Party that proved to itself that obstruction works. Obama was the best version of Obama we're going to get and it didn't work. We need something different, not to double down on his approach when it's proven insufficient. --- |
| Topic | My manager keeps misgendering one of my coworkers |
| legendary_zell 11/15/19 4:23:06 PM #105 | Sir Will posted... legendary_zell posted...Judging based on your absurd statement that the world isn't transphobic, you may just be fundamentally bad at perceiving reality accurately. People are ostracized, harassed, disowned, fired, attacked, and even killed for being transphobic every day in the US and around the world. Lol, yeah, you're right. I meant Trans people. And also sorry @XXmiznatorXX. You're still wrong overall but you didn't do what that whole post was about. --- |
| Topic | My manager keeps misgendering one of my coworkers |
| legendary_zell 11/15/19 3:58:01 PM #98 | @XXmiznatorXX How do you manage to be deeply, thoroughly wrong on each and every issue and sub issue? Is it due to your reading skills? Judging based on your absurd statement that the world isn't transphobic, you may just be fundamentally bad at perceiving reality accurately. People are ostracized, harassed, disowned, fired, attacked, and even killed for being transphobic every day in the US and around the world. --- |
| Topic | My manager keeps misgendering one of my coworkers |
| legendary_zell 11/15/19 3:43:49 PM #89 | Y'all are abusing the F out of language. Reporting blatant discrimination is not virtue signaling or white knighting. It's being a decent person and may even be required by law. This conservative/regressive strategy of demonizing anyone who dares to identify and act on unjustice is bs and TC shouldn't fall for it. There could be negative consequences for reporting discrimination, but that just proves that the boss and the whole organization is criminal, not that TC would ever be wrong for reporting discrimination. --- |
| Topic | Why do people still think people in Africa are poor and starving? |
| legendary_zell 11/15/19 12:46:14 PM #18 | Because there are still major problems. And also because western media largely doesn't care about or mention modern Africa. African history was damn near never mentioned throughout my entire education from elementary to post graduate. No modern images of Africa are shown in the media beyond starving children and war maybe people being kidnapped by Boko Haram. It is the part of the planet that's talked about the least, other than Antarctica. Most people have never seen an African Nightclub, library, apartment building, etc depicted in any form of media so they lack any tools for imagining Africans or African life in a complex way. All they can think of is huts, famines, lions, and warlords. --- |
| Topic | Roger Stone convicted |
| legendary_zell 11/15/19 12:30:13 PM #9 | Nothing to see here, please disperse.gif This guy Trump surrounded himself with multiple felons and crooks and that's because he's a crook himself. Anyone who can't see that is fundamentally blind. Period. --- |
| Topic | Ben Shapiro fans. literally nothing else needs to be said |
| legendary_zell 11/13/19 5:44:07 PM #35 | The exact quote is "Israelis like to build. Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage" Certainly seems like a fair and balanced statement from a fair and balanced individual. --- |
| Topic | Ben Shapiro fans. literally nothing else needs to be said |
| legendary_zell 11/13/19 5:42:16 PM #31 | I have no idea why they'd choose that as an example of how fair Shapiro is. Shapiro is openly bigoted towards Arabs. He's said that's Arabs love you live in open sewage. Either these guys don't know that and are embarrassingly ignorant or they're there because it's a safe space for bigotry. --- |
| Topic | Official Trump Impeachment hearings topic! |
| legendary_zell 11/13/19 11:39:34 AM #57 | Blue_Inigo posted... Is this hearing juicy? Yes, Taylor indicated that Trump said he doesn't care about Ukraine, he only cases about investigating Biden. --- |
| Topic | Millennials have now killed Milk |
| legendary_zell 11/12/19 3:16:51 PM #80 | |
| Topic | Stephen Miller emailed Breitbart editors to cover more white nationalist shit |
| legendary_zell 11/12/19 2:02:56 PM #16 | But we just criticize him because Orange Man Bad and the media/Soros told us to. --- |
| Topic | i wonder how many " wifes boyfriend " relationships there are |
| legendary_zell 11/08/19 5:46:15 PM #24 | I don't understand why some people get so bent out of shape about it. I know a few couples who date around and everyone involved seems to have a good time. Everyone gets laid twice as much or more. It seems to be related to certain views on masculinity and ownership of women. --- |
| Topic | Does the existence of multi billionaires make sense? |
| legendary_zell 11/08/19 5:40:29 PM #26 | konokonohamaru posted... The economic system wasn't "designed to create billionaires." I didn't say that it was designed to create billionaires. I don't think most people had any type of input on what type of system we have or have seriously thought about it. The vast majority of people throughout human history have lived within whatever system happened to be in place without really considering alternatives. But it seems pretty clear that the system is producing strange outcomes. If the system was truly designed to only be focused on non interference and not with how people actually live and how things are distributed, it's a failure. If it's assumed that unencumbered private transactions would lead to a rational distribution, that assumption is failing too. --- |
| Topic | Does the existence of multi billionaires make sense? |
| legendary_zell 11/08/19 5:15:32 PM #18 | To answer several of the posts after the ones I just quoted: I understand the mechanisms that allow them to gain that much wealth. The question is whether it makes sense as a measure of value or as a matter of societal functioning. Or even economic efficiency if that's all that matters. Some people don't have enough and that leads to crime, poor health, poor economic productivity, you name is. Meanwhile, each additional billion for Bezos does little to help him or society, it just concentrates more power in his hands and creates a positive feedback loop. He's getting this money due to some strange definition of "value" that didn't exist until recently. It just seems like if you were creating a system from scratch, no one would create this system except multi millionaires and Bezos and friends, almost no matter what principles you're starting from. That's what I mean when I say it doesn't make sense. --- |
| Topic | Does the existence of multi billionaires make sense? |
| legendary_zell 11/08/19 5:05:51 PM #9 | Jiek_Fafn posted... It makes perfect sense. It's not automatic that us all being consumers would lead to Bezos having that much. We could have a system where all that value was given back to workers or taxed or invested in the community. This distribution is the result of conscious choices. What's on us is accepting this distribution. We could have a system where he keeps 130 million instead of 130 billion and still have Amazon. averagejoel posted... everything you mentioned, tc, is an inherent function of capitalism I don't think this is true. This level of disparity can be greatly reduced even under a fully capitalist framework. That can be done through social stigma against hoarding, taxation, encouraging worker dividends etc. It's been done before and it is done in other places. That doesn't mean those other systems are justifiable either though, maybe all capitalism is fundamentally unjust, maybe it's the most just system we can achieve, I don't know. --- |
| Topic | Does the existence of multi billionaires make sense? |
| legendary_zell 11/08/19 4:46:29 PM #1 | I'd argue that it doesn't. This topic was inspired by Bloomberg and Bill Gates recent statements and actions and a reddit post tbh. The post calculated that even if you worked full time, making 2k an hour, with no expenses at all, since the birth of Jesus Christ, that would be 8.4 billion. Gates, Bloomberg, Bezos, all of them are worth several times that. For the average American worker working full time with no expenses, it would take 10x longer than homo sapiens have even existed to amass what Bezos has. By what rational metric does this make sense? How can one human being work that much harder than another? What kind of idea or innovation could possibly justify that disparity? And when a society that gave individuals the ability to amass that much wealth could solve a lot of social ills by taking a fraction of it, why should then not do that? It seems like our society's system of compensation and valuation is fundamentally broken when something like this can happen. There are people on this planet dying in the dirt for lack of money while this is going on. There are people in America freezing in the cold and suffering from treatable medical conditions for lack of money while this goes on. Seems bad to me. --- |
| Topic | A restaurant manager gets 10 years in prison for beating and torturing a black |
| legendary_zell 11/08/19 3:21:52 PM #27 | Enslavement, human trafficking, wage theft etc. How is this only a ten year offense? This guy stole another person's life. You can get 20 for money laundering or wire fraud, there has to be more for this. --- |
| Topic | Bloomberg is running |
| legendary_zell 11/07/19 5:56:05 PM #3 | Intro2Logic posted... OK Bloomberg May he get the Howard Schultz treatment. --- |
| Topic | Australia's prime minister pledges to ban climate boycotts |
| legendary_zell 11/06/19 6:14:17 PM #15 | Blatant viewpoint based violation of free speech against people literally trying to preserve the planet. Hard to get much more evil without going directly into murder and slavery. --- |
| Topic | Is Elizabeth Warren a progressive? |
| legendary_zell 11/06/19 4:57:04 PM #4 | If Warren isn't a progressive, there's like 8 progressives in higher office throughout the entire US and progressives are a tiny proportion of the American public. Is progressive being used as a synonym for socialist here? --- |
| Topic | Well Deadspin's probably dead now |
| legendary_zell 11/05/19 3:22:36 PM #89 | Wow, what an all-around disaster. Venture Capitalism is pure pathology that kills all that it touches. --- |
| Topic | Kevin O'Leary says Trump has '100 percent' chance of getting reelected in 2020 |
| legendary_zell 11/01/19 10:01:32 AM #15 | Why are conservatives allowed to say that parts of America with huge numbers of Americans aren't "real America"? They disparage whole cities and whole states like Massachusetts and California and encourage people to hate and disregard people from there. They sneer at basically the entire West and East coast and every major city. Meanwhile, their heads explode if they hear a coastal elite talk about "flyover country" or The South. They don't get reprimanded about condescending to a huge portion of the country. The double standard is insane. You hear actual politicians talking about disregarding the votes of cities and California to give themselves an imaginary permanent majority. Can you imagine if AOC talked about disregarding Texas votes? --- |
| Topic | Peter Cook critcized by many for posting pics of his new 21 y.o. fiance', |
| legendary_zell 10/30/19 10:06:41 PM #19 | 21 is young as hell to get married to someone who is also a twentysomething, much less someone 3x your age. She's not even college graduation age yet. She's probably still telling high school anecdotes at that age. I'm still in my 20s and 21 year olds are already too immature. He has a daughter that's the same age which should prove to him just how young she is because she's the same age and experience level as the newborn infant he once took care of. It's fundamentally creepy on his part and bad judgment on her part. But to each their own. --- |
| Topic | Wait, this is Dave Rubin? |
| legendary_zell 10/30/19 10:09:22 AM #18 | He's perfect for those who deeply feel that only the problems of white dudes matter and everything else is just whining or people pretending to be woke. --- |
| Topic | Dying laughing at this Trump clip |
| legendary_zell 10/29/19 7:41:09 PM #17 | PatrickMahomes posted... This Time And y'all call others NPCs? This is prime Morrowind NPC behavior. You're a disgrace to your namesake. --- |
| Topic | Bed Bath and Beyond pulls controversial 'blackface' pumpkins from shelves |
| legendary_zell 10/29/19 7:37:27 PM #46 | Dyinglegacy posted... legendary_zell posted...This has never made sense. You don't have to do that. No one is forcing anyone to do that. It doesn't even make sense. If it's silly and it's not racism then ignore it, don't blind yourself to the entire concept. To do that requires not taking racism seriously and not understanding history or current society. Racism still affects people's lives dramatically on a daily basis so focus on that. If that's not people's response, then society failed them and the people who will be casually ignored. --- |
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