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01-24-2014 , 11:09 PM

#76

yeSpiff

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Well I give myself the right to write whatever I want.
How about you? You must be one of those republicans that
thinks that the god that keep spinning the earth and lets capitalist make cars,
give you rights.

Last edited by yeSpiff; 01-24-2014 at 11:12 PM. Reason: jup lol

01-24-2014 , 11:48 PM

#77

zikzak

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You guys gotta cut Tien some slack. He's stuck in some sort of perpetual feedback loop where CAPITAlISM is vaguely defined as everything that is correct, and any and all critiques of capitalism are directly equivalent to advocating for bread lines and gulags. The concept of nuance is lost on him, and anybody daring to question the status quo is immediately characterized as an enormous straw man.

He's not necessarily a bad person. He just needs some guidance.

01-25-2014 , 01:37 AM

#78

Oroku$aki

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tien

The saddest thing is the aggregate accumulation of everything you have ever read from my troll posts has done more to educate your 3rd grade understanding of the world than any barrel scraping trash you ever read. If you were to erase all the useless wrong information that you scraped from the toilets of the internet and replaced it with just my twoplustwo posting history your world and social understanding would ****ing magnify multi fold.

Do you literally walk around in public and take a giant dump everywhere you go? If not, why the **** do you do it on twoplustwo in every single topic thread.

Who the **** gave you the right to literally walk around and defecate your garbage understanding of the world all over the place?

Like Jack said, nobody gives it to you, you have to take it.

01-25-2014 , 01:39 AM

#79

Oroku$aki

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Quote:

Originally Posted by yeSpiff

How is that?

voting for/agreeing with policy that's
against their actual interests?

See Mississippi.

01-25-2014 , 01:55 AM

#80

Trolly McTrollson

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tien

Who the **** gave you the right to literally walk around and defecate your garbage understanding of the world all over the place?

More importantly, why do dog owners think they can let their dogs poop all over public parks without cleaning up? But oh no, yr Trolly takes just one little poop in the park and everyone goes nuts! Dogs have all the luck, yo.

01-25-2014 , 01:56 AM

#81

ikestoys

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Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

Tien's far closer to correct than the ****bags you're hand waving along.

01-25-2014 , 08:31 AM

#82

Deuces McKracken

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ikestoys

tien is right, deuces is wrong. shocker

Ikes why do you even come into this thread? You have almost nothing to say on the topic. Yet it concerns you? You just feel the need to pop in and fart "go capitalism yay" because people are talking about wealth inequality? GTFO ohio state fan

01-25-2014 , 09:59 AM

#83

Tien

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Originally Posted by zikzak

I dont even disagree with ur negative views of capitalism. But just because deuces is theoretically on ur side doesnt mean you should rush to the defense of twoplustwo biggest ****** when he decides to take one of his regular ****s in public.

01-25-2014 , 10:08 AM

#84

Tien

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Originally Posted by yeSpiff

Im cool with you. Ur just young and need more time to accumulate knowledge.

and no im not republican, im a cannuckian.

01-25-2014 , 02:45 PM

#85

omnishakira

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wow shocking

we def need the state to help us solve this inequality

01-25-2014 , 04:09 PM

#86

Shoe

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Anyone with a positive net worth has more wealth than approximately the bottom 25% of Americans combined. That doesn't mean all of the bottom 25% is poor either, they could have good jobs but still under student loan debt, mortgages, etc... I'm not sure how the percentage changes across the world but would think it would be fairly close.

01-25-2014 , 07:53 PM

#87

Trolly McTrollson

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The "but poors are better off, despite inequality" is entirely true, but irrelevant. The sans-culottes of the French Revolution were probably much better off than they were in the middle ages, or living in mud huts in antiquity, but that somehow didn't make them feel much better about their society. If people believe they're getting a grossly unfair slice, they're going to fight back, regardless of how big the overall pie is.

01-25-2014 , 08:18 PM

#88

Peter Porker

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Not if they have Firefly DvDs.

01-25-2014 , 08:21 PM

#89

Peter Porker

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Estimated retail: $30

Actual worth: $5,000,000,000

Hurray capitalism!

01-25-2014 , 08:53 PM

#90

ikestoys

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

lol what? The poors are better off is irrelevant? That's some **** posting dude. Whether or not someone who is poor is living an acceptable life is far more important than the gap between them and the rich.

01-25-2014 , 08:55 PM

#91

yeSpiff

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Who need entertainment when you got American politikksing.

Why politics at all? is it not to limit the inherently evil?

01-25-2014 , 08:59 PM

#92

cornball2012

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Just think what these numbers will be in 30 - 40 years after the population of Africa doubles.

01-25-2014 , 09:22 PM

#93

wil318466

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ikestoys

How do you know if you're living an acceptable life? Why aren't the poor in America dancing in the streets compared to the poor in India living in trash piles?

01-25-2014 , 09:40 PM

#94

Peter Porker

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Quote:

Originally Posted by wil318466

How do you know if you're living an acceptable life? Why aren't the poor in America dancing in the streets compared to the poor in India living in trash piles?

Flash mobbing?

01-25-2014 , 09:46 PM

#95

zikzak

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Originally Posted by ikestoys

Have you identified some sort of absolute well being scale?

Of course it's relative. It always is. It's also pretty arrogant to decide what an acceptable life is for other people, especially those in a lower class than you.

Last edited by zikzak; 01-25-2014 at 09:46 PM. Reason: let them eat cake, amirite?

01-25-2014 , 09:46 PM

#96

Trolly McTrollson

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Originally Posted by ikestoys

That's some ****ty reading, dude. You can troll better than that.

01-25-2014 , 09:57 PM

#97

Peter Porker

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Quote:

Originally Posted by zikzak

I have.

$10,000 in income = 1,000,000 Porkers
$100,000 in income = 1,100,000 Porkers
$1,000,000 in income = 1,200,000 Porkers
$1,000,000,000 in income = 1,500,000 Porkers

So, while a billion seems like a lot more than $10,000 in dollars, when you look at it in Porkers, it's really only 50% more. And Porkers is a much better measure of quality of life and happiness.

01-25-2014 , 09:59 PM

#98

Peter Porker

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Firefly DvDs are worth about 5,000,000 Porkers.

01-25-2014 , 10:01 PM

#99

Oroku$aki

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

The "but poors are better off, despite inequality" is entirely true, but irrelevant. The sans-culottes of the French Revolution were probably much better off than they were in the middle ages, or living in mud huts in antiquity, but that somehow didn't make them feel much better about their society. If people believe they're getting a grossly unfair slice, they're going to fight back, regardless of how big the overall pie is.

Sounds about right. It's been shown that certain primates are content with a potato when their neighbour in the next cage gets one too, but become furious when they see their neighbour is being given grapes while they're still being given potatoes.