Ran outta kale chips, eh?

Yes i think this helps ISIS.

And lol none came form those countries so lets ban people from those countries. Makes sense in trumpland i guess.

Sounds like he's a pretty ****ing ****ty President.

Of course I can take it I've been doing it for a couple years now. I've defeated so many people I can't even remember half of them. Go look up my arguments from a couple years ago. Most of those people aren't around anymore. And I've beaten them all for money (I'm pretty sure there is not one person on 2+2 that has a positive history with me in terms of betting on political stuff). Don't believe me, ask them yourself.

I'll outlast this latest group too. You think you or jalfrezi or goofy are going to beat me? Not going to happen, son. The best you'll get is me just getting tired of posting here.

I should care about someone that said I shouldn't be allowed on the planet? No sir, not in the least. I said in a previous post that he should be allowed to exist. That should be enough to differentiate myself from him. Me: I want to fight for justice for all people and Wil doesn't think people like me should be allowed to exist. Wil: He is a complete douchbag, but I think he should be able to exist nonetheless. There's a difference there, and I am definitely the decent human of the two.

Beat you in what? Being right? Of course lots of people beat you in that.

In bets? I don't follow the prop bets. You may have an advantage here because you're betting against people who care about these things a lot more than you do.

From the bubble kids. MAGA...

I don't know, I do.

Microbet, I respect your opinion. I still honestly like wil and will probably continue defending him but i'll think about what you said.

My problem with the $15 minimum wage is this: I think there really are jobs that are profitable when workers are paid $7.25 or $10/hour, but not $15. Most of those jobs will disappear if the minimum wage is increased. And we already have a better solution. We can instead focus on broadening and increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit - a program that has a similar effect as an increase in the minimum wage on low-income workers, but without the potential job losses. Furthermore, this is a policy that was supported by both Obama and Paul Ryan (nominally at least).

Here's one way to think about it. As of 2012, McDonald's has 1.9M employees, the second most in the world. Its market cap is 125B. The three largest US companies (Apple, Alphabet, & Microsoft) have a combined market cap of 1.8T and around 300K employees. An increase in the minimum wage has a huge impact on McDonald's, but very little on these tech firms. Wouldn't it be better to share the cost of this wage increase broadly through taxation rather than putting it all on companies like McDonald's?

Sure, I agree they would likely pursue automation regardless, I think we are just talking about the rate at which they pursue it.

Before I go to bed let it be known that I predicted this weeks ago.

This was significantly before any of you morons thought his ban had a snowball's chance in hell of winning. Of course he would win, only an idiot would think it couldn't, and I offered money on it back when it was laughable by the left. As then and now, no one is willing to put money on it because you all know you'll lose.

Except well named, who may get a few beers from me.

That's what we're calling wins?

Clearly something is wrong with wil. He says he is near the top 2%. He also said he moved his investment accounts to cash in bfi. So he either doesn't have non qualified accounts (he isn't as rich as he says) or he is dumb and took an unnecessary capital gains hit. Either way lol wil

I mean wil posted his household income many times to brag. its ~250k. pretty solidly in the middle class and not even close to rich or wealthy.

I do think trumps policies are going to hurt him a lot.

Aren't you guys even reading? Wil just wins all the time.

since obama was almost as bad of a president as bush, and since obamas 2 defining foreign policy acts are

a) winning a nobel prize for peace while continuing to dropping thousands of bombs the on middle east every month

b) issue red lines you are completely unwilling to follow up on

imma go and say trump is obviously doing better than obama on foreign affairs so far.

You keep bringing this up. Why? You've mentioned this ~100x more than anyone else in this forum and I'm pretty sure the bathroom issue is only a tiny part of why people here don't like you.

Lol, wil, no one here thinks you are like the pinnacle of human evil or something. We think you are a rare conservative who actually posts his views instead of this doing dumb trolling a la mongo dip****.

You are framing the issue incorrectly. We don't want you to pay for me, we want everyone to pay for everyone a la public schooling and roads and all of the other **** that the government does.

Also, the masses don't have to convince the people at the top that they should pay, they only need convince each other that the people at the top should pay. The top, by definition, doesn't have the numbers to stop it.

Finally, the paragraph above is an argument for why you should want to pay. Even if you literally don't care about anyone but yourself, there's a limit to how much you can **** over the poor before they will rise up and kill you.

I'm not sure what you want us to do instead. wil is like the only conservative who posts any content. Of course we all respond to him.

Also it's hard to harass someone on an internet forum with voluntary participation. If he felt harassed he just wouldn't post here.

corvette24 doesn't represent the left. Your problem seems to be that you are fighting against a caricature of the left that doesn't actually exist. For what it's worth corvette's posting here is pretty terrible.

I applaud you for trying to communicate with the cracked out, but corvette looks finished.

In a 401k, Roth, and/or IRA? Nah.

Cool now go out and convince the rest of humanity.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...rcent-map.html

A household income of $250,000 would put him in the 97th percentile (granted this is five years old but it should still be pretty close). I don't think that is solidly in the middle class.

My god, your stupidity is breathtaking. Like, either a) is bad or b) is bad but not both, idiot.

wil is like a dumb, broken robot. Not only has this still not happened, we've already been over that it hasn't happened!

This is a good point and I agree with you.

+1 to OP's post.