Current Events > "People should be severely punished for being very successful."

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What do you think of the topic title? Obviously, this is a common left-wing political argument, in, but not limited to, America.

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You've confused right wing caricatures of left wing arguments for the left wing argument itself.
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No it isn't.
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imagine spending nearly two decades of your life on a website and never making a single good post in all that time

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"Paying taxes proportional to one's wealth is severe punishment." - Sunhawk

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I see this all the time from the regressive left on facebook. People that actually think the rich should be taxed 99% of the income, or billionaires shouldnt exist. These are the same people who are 30 and living rent free with their parents and dont get jobs because they have "anxiety".

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Frolex posted...

imagine spending nearly two decades of your life on a website and never making a single good post in all that time

Who could you possibly be referring to, friend?


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SH_expert44 posted...

I see this all the time from the regressive left on facebook. People that actually think the rich should be taxed 99% of the income, or billionaires shouldnt exist. These are the same people who are 30 and living rent free with their parents and dont get jobs because they have "anxiety".

Immense wealth disparity and complete political/economic corruption is fine so long as you insult the people who suffer from it first


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"Showing mercy to poor people is a severe punishment to rich people!"

Frolex posted...

imagine spending nearly two decades of your life on a website and never making a single good post in all that time

LMAO

Frolex posted...

imagine spending nearly two decades of your life on a website and never making a single good post in all that time

It would be pretty fucking awful to live TCs life

I've made plenty of good posts, since making this account. Come to think of it, I've had about a dozen 500 post topics, so I can't be a bad poster.

Thoughts, Conflict?


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Sunhawk posted...

Come to think of it, I've had about a dozen 500 post topics

With 20 of your own posts and 480 laughing at you

Sunhawk posted...

I've made plenty of good posts, since making this account. Come to think of it, I've had about a dozen 500 post topics, so I can't be a bad poster.

500 post topics is not a good metric for whether someone is a good poster

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What is a good metric (if an objective metric exists on message boards, for measuring if a poster is good or bad)?

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Conflict posted...

One good metric for being a tolerable poster is not being a creeptastic fuck who obsesses with other people's personal & sex lives

And trying to project an air on intellectualism while in fact displaying difficulty with even basic reading skills like understanding subtext.

Antifar posted...

You've confused right wing caricatures of left wing arguments for the left wing argument itself.

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"Yeah, I still make millions of dollars and will die comfortably, having been able to do everything a person would want to do in life. But have you considered how unfair it is for me to pay a higher percentage of taxes? Surely you have empathy, millions of Americans at or one emergency away from the poverty line."

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Keep in mind that this is the guy who was complaining that his town was being SJW for building a handicap ramp

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Why shouldnt I get to vote on what you keep? Just because its the fruit of your labor?

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Like the 'snowflake college' topic, dis one brought out the outrage crowd real good XD

FoldingProjects posted...

Like the 'snowflake college' topic, dis one brought out the outrage crowd real good XD

how many alts do you have

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Let's say you make 5 million a year and you get taxed a total of 2 million. Are you still broke?

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Frolex posted...

imagine spending nearly two decades of your life on a website and never making a single good post in all that time

Jeeeez. You ruined TCs whole career.
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What career? Snu is unemployed

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Alpha218 posted...

What career? Snu is unemployed

He's a novelist

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Crono99 posted...

Posters are a lot like human beings.

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Veggeta_MAX posted...

Let's say you make 5 million a year and you get taxed a total of 2 million. Are you still broke?

It still sucks ass that you lose so much.

You still need a lot of money to make that much as well so overall you don't get much profit.

Alpha218 posted...

What career? Snu is unemployed

Frolex got him a job and then immediately fired him!
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Antifar posted...

You've confused right wing caricatures of left wing arguments for the left wing argument itself.

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Sunhawk posted...

What is a good metric (if an objective metric exists on message boards, for measuring if a poster is good or bad)?

I made a 500 topic on the Pokemon Diamond board by pretending to be a mom complaining about the inappropriately phallic nature of Electivire's cords.

So we can definitely rule out it being 500 topics.

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Compsognathus posted...

I made a 500 topic on the Pokemon Diamond board by pretending to be a mom complaining about the inappropriately phallic nature of Electivire's cords.

So we can definitely rule out it being 500 topics.

How could a mod shitpost?

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EndOfDiscOne posted...

How could a mod shitpost?

This was literally like 2006. I wasn't born a mod.

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If yall think Im 100% serious posting all the time idk what to say

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Compsognathus posted...

I made a 500 topic on the Pokemon Diamond board by pretending to be a mom complaining about the inappropriately phallic nature of Electivire's cords.

So we can definitely rule out it being 500 topics.

Link?

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ThePrincessLuna posted...

It still sucks ass that you lose so much.

You still need a lot of money to make that much as well so overall you don't get much profit.

Here's the thing: people who are wealthy profit from our infrastructure. The rest of us just use them. So they should pay proportionately more as they benefit more.

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Alpha218 posted...

Keep in mind that this is the guy who was complaining that his town was being SJW for building a handicap ramp

omgwtflol
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bbq

Isnt most of the wealth in our country inherited? Does getting a check from daddy count as successful?

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BeyondWalls posted...

Isnt most of the wealth in our country inherited? Does getting a check from daddy count as successful?

"I had a small million dollar loan to start with and look at me now!"

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Antifar posted...

You've confused right wing caricatures of left wing arguments for the left wing argument itself.

What's the difference?

hockeybub89 posted...

"Yeah, I still make millions of dollars and will die comfortably, having been able to do everything a person would want to do in life. But have you considered how unfair it is for me to pay a higher percentage of taxes? Surely you have empathy, millions of Americans at or one emergency away from the poverty line."

Can tell if ..... nah. This has to be satire lol

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Annihilated posted...

What's the difference?

the right-wing caricature of the argument ir disingenuous and stupid, while the actual left-wing argument is not

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Antifar posted...

right wing caricatures of left wing arguments for the left wing argument itself.

No? Nobody controlled the Democratic debate BUT Democrats. The "poorest" Democrat is Buttigieg.

BeyondWalls posted...

Isnt most of the wealth in our country inherited? Does getting a check from daddy count as successful?

Whats wrong with inheritance?

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Sunhawk posted...

Obviously, this is a common left-wing political argument

If you're a dumbo who wants to portray your political opposites in the most cartoonishly negative light possible.
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Testa-Rossa posted...

No? Nobody controlled the Democratic debate BUT Democrats. The "poorest" Democrat is Buttigieg.

SocksForWok999 posted...

Whats wrong with inheritance?

who are your mains

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