So you're the source of our pain **Quote:
Originally Posted by Gutter Cobreh
He probably bought some weed with it and when that dried up now he's pissed cause you didn't keep "sharing" the wealth so he could buy more weed.
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So you're the source of our pain **Quote:
Originally Posted by Gutter Cobreh
He probably bought some weed with it and when that dried up now he's pissed cause you didn't keep "sharing" the wealth so he could buy more weed.
So it's all your fault? Dang it man! LolQuote:
Originally Posted by Gutter Cobreh
I guess I was just ahead of the curve with my football predictions because I didn't think the cojomovirus would be that bad. I was wrong on him just like so many of you were wrong here. I bought the hype and had us favorites in 8 of the 12 games. Then based on responses went for 11 wins because of the high volume of 7-8-9-10 wins. Played to be different instead of price is righting a guys passing yards. I see that some are still too thick to understand that. Probably the same group that think Jeopardy gave James H. a fair shake when his run ended.
As for y'all focusing on pot. Glad y'all are so ****ing scared of a plant. Personally i've smoked marijuana single digit times in my life. It's not my cup of tea (neither is cigarettes when feels like a 100X less potent, yet more deadly marijuana). But I don't see any real argument against it and against taxing sales on it. Let them smoke and let that help fund shit. If you aren't happy with your mental state then so be it. Don't operate heavy machinery while on it same as any other drug of that nature. Not a hard concept.
Also lmfao at grabbing one throwaway line at a whole throwaway post mocking archbishop extendedcab.You're incredibly thick if you can't see what I was doing.
Also to make fun of anyone's finances in this economy, go to hell. No that's not a joke. Literally Go. To. Hell. I can't afford to break into the housing market and I've got a "marketable" essential job. I'm helping dig my family out of the hole the healthcare system left after malpractice and the inability to sue due to Katrina destroying the viability of my father's second job and raising prices astronomically to finish building a house, and the housing crash making ultimately selling said unfinished house not able to drag us out of debt and make us bankrupt.
I watched the government fail every step of the way to help protect my family from disaster. I guess we should have been prepared for Katrina to cause a giant spike in contractor prices, the housing market to have an unprecedented crash, and my father's ridiculously rare medical condition to rear its head again, or the doctor to mess up in such a way that it harmed him in a way that was not life threatening in and of itself, but prevented future transplants from being viable and leaving him disabled even after the wound had healed. No lawyer would take the case due to how tough it was to prove and the lack of resources my family had at the time.
So maybe I've just seen the pitfalls of how society treats it's essential workers (a teacher and a healthcare worker) and the ugly reality that capitalism is dog eat dog and too zero sum. My Christian values raised me to care about others and help them. Seems a lot of people don't understand what that actually means.
And for the comment about bezos donating 100 million. Great! Now you tell me who is the more noble man. One with 100 billion who gives out 100 million and now only has 99.9 billion or one with 10 dollars who gives out a penny and only has 9.99 left. Whose donation truly hurt themselves more and was more selfless?
Who reads this shit anymore... a diatribe of idiocy I'm sure. Just make sure you send your extra check of your tax contribution. The govt won't turn it down. ...Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
I got into the first sentence and this came to mind and I just stopped reading it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB-kcDwsWUY
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Originally Posted by dantheman4248
I thought the same thing about the salon owner. He'll come back and say that was sarcasm tho, we should've known that it was meant that way, and we're all idiots cause we didn't realize it was sarcasm cause we stupid old people ... regardless of what Gen we are in as long as it's prior to his Gen.
That includes Jack too ... Gen X is before his time ****
ETA: Granted ... I have empathy for what they gone thru too but don't know the whole story either. Since he's Christian I'm assuming he's read some of the Bible ... wonder if he checked out the Old Testament Book of Job.
It was sarcasm. How both of you didn't get that is on you. You have to be really dense to not understand I was mocking your position of capitalism is good and poor people are poor because it's their fault. Like how you have to be dense to not understand what a copy pasta is and try to pick apart throwaway lines.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawgday166
It was meant to sound a lot like how "woe is me such a sad story" when something similar is why so many people fall into poverty. Not laziness.
Homedawg and Jack must both feel like that salon owner got her justice. She broke the law. Idc she had a sob story.
If you can't see the parallels and how sickening it is to act that way as a human... just hope you don't get hit with bad luck out of your control.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-fr...ry-in-america/
35% of households with a child 18 or under in America are currently food insecure.
Some of you will interpret this as we need to "reopen the economy" as your solution. You don't want to face the ugly reality that this is something capitalism has allowed to happen. You don't want to think about what happens if we reopen and bodies pile up even higher because the same experts you have ridiculed along the way could be wrong about the two different strands, could be wrong that you can't recatch it, could be wrong that this won't mutate when exposed to an astronomical amount of hosts. Somehow they are infallible in that area of expertise but completely wrong with their models.
I posit solutions to prevent this to happen in both times of crises and normal times. And i'm the big bad communist. Guess I should go to Russia where they care about kids. Lord knows Christians don't care about them. That was obvious by how much covering up went into the Catholic Priests scandal.
If you don't like who I'm grouping you in with and think that I'm ridiculous for that, maybe (and just hear me out on this one ok) maybe don't ally with them?
Nvm
Shirley you mean someone else. I am 55 years old.*****Quote:
Originally Posted by dawgday166
You're right, but you don'tn realize why. Outside of capitalism, the majority of people are legitimately food insecure, as in it's likely that they will miss meals even with relatively prudent planning. Now, we actually have to make up weird definitions to make things sound worse than they are. We don't talk about people not having enough food to eat, we have to lump those in with people who have a reduced variety or desirability of diet but that never actually have to experience hunger to generate a bigger number.Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
Yes, we could find out there are different, more deadly strains, and we also could find out there is a new pandemic already underway that we just haven't identified yet. But you can't really make policy on possibilities like that. You can try to prepare, but you don't crush your economy because there is the potential for an as yet unidentified calamity lurking around the corner. The way you deal with those potential issues is through things like making sure you have robust systems for the necessities of modern life and hope they are robust enough to survive the potential threats, whether it be pandemic, large solar flare, severe weather or geological activities, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
You posit ideas, not solutions. Some of them would probably be good. Some of them seem on their face to be unworkable.Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
Our disagreement is on whether what we have is "working". We have a lot of problems and a lot of them are self inflicted and could be made better by better policy (some of them probably require better culture that a democratic gov't can't do much to influence). But the real difference is you are comparing the real life version of a reasonably free market system with a moderately corrupt government to your fictional, idealized version of a less free market system without a corrupt government, when for the most part, experience tells us that compared to more autocratic governments, more liberal (in the little "l" sense, not the bastardized opposite of literal meaning sense) societies and government tend to either tamp down the corruption or be wealthy enough to handle it better. And they certainly tend to provide better conditions for their people, although there is a lot dependent on culture (hence Singapore managing a level of government control that swedes can't, swede's handling more government control than Venezuela or even the US can, etc).Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
So it's capitalism's fault? Should we model after NoKo, Venezuela, or another socialist/communist country where most of the country is starving?Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
Here's what I wonder about. We start school and football, and there's an outbreak in a dorm or on a football team. What then? Do they shut it all down again?
I don't think the outbreak is going to go away until we have vaccine or everyone has been immune to it. It is with us and we are going to have to learn to live with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg2003
Canada / Sweden / a lot of europe has its head on right about some things. But everyone always jumps to the extreme dictators.Quote:
Originally Posted by starkvegasdawg
We're slowly headed towards being a replica of current Russia. Putin showed Trump the playbook and he's just asking madden his way through it.
It's amazing to sit there and watch your country crumble before your eyes and not want change. If you're in Gen X, you gotta ask yourself, is 3/4 of the republican presidents in your life time having an economic crisis a coincidence or something more?
This is America. Supposedly the greatest nation in the world. Yet I can't seem to find anything we seem to be the greatest at anymore. But it's blasphemy to even speak that way or suggest change.
I think so too. SARS wasn't as contagious, but this virus figured out a way to make itself a lot sneakier with asymptotic carriers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack Lambert
Did the virus figure that out? Or did it have some help from scientists in a Wuhan lab?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawg2003
It's obviously the 5G towersQuote:
Originally Posted by confucius say
Those 5G towers are Made in China.Quote:
Originally Posted by hacker
I told you the other day you're starting to develop a sense of humor! Good stuff!Quote:
Originally Posted by hacker
3 more death certificates changed to COVID today in MS. SMH
Yeah, Going to be more and more of it too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
It is because you are barking up the wrong tree. You don't understand what made America great in the first place so you spew forth communistic ideas (government is the answer) hoping some secular part of it will stick. You are trying to change America into the hell hole millions of people around the world are fleeing.Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
To understand what made America great YOU need a good foundation in the Bible, the US Constitution, the Federalist Papers, letters from our American Founders and even the works of Tocqueville and others. Go to wallbuilders.com and read the book Original Intent, it is an eye opener! The mainstream press and American education in the past 40 years will not tell you that - they like revisionist history instead.
Since this nation was founded on the belief of God and Jesus Christ, our "values" are based on something ABSOLUTE and objective. This is necessary in order for our "values" to have any enduring strength and binding force. The laws of God in the Bible, and specifically the Ten Commandments, have been the bedrock of western civilization for 2,000 years. Judeo-Christian concepts of justice and legitimate authority shaped the English Common Law and later the American Declaration of Independence, with its recognition of inalienable rights bestowed upon men by their Creator.
These Biblical foundations of authority, based upon the righteous character of a Holy God, are morally superior to the depravity practiced by all pagan cultures, both ancient and modern. But these foundations have been abandoned in our day by our education systems and even at our highest level of government.
As you know (hopefully anyway), the Supreme Court expelled God from the public schools in 1962 and 1963, when they ruled that prayer and Bible reading in school had become unconstitutional. Today the moral precepts of the Ten Commandments can no longer hang on the walls of our children's public classrooms. Yet many people can't understand why the generation that reached adulthood in the '60s and '70s turned out so rootless and rebellious.
You want to know how to make America great again? Turn back to God, instill biblical principles in our children - must be taught in our schools and live moral lives. One of our founding fathers, John Adams (letters also referenced in the book Original Intent - see above) said " Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
"Canada, Sweden, and a lot of Europe"...though, yes, they have more social programs and safety nets than US, their economies are all still very much capitalistic.Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
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Originally Posted by Extendedcab
A M E N D!
Hack and I have message board bonded.Quote:
Originally Posted by Commercecomet24
Well I've been pigeon-holed as the resident Marxist when I made a point about Heaven being the very definition of communism. That's the ideal perfection. I've also stated that that clearly isn't achievable.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeardoMSU
And just by the very mention of anting to go towards the socialistic policies these countries have, I'm a comrade. Even though America has more in common with Russia than with Canada at this point.
There are flaws with every form of government. But the first step to solving a problem is admitting it. And some on here can't.
ED bringing people together since 2013!Quote:
Originally Posted by confucius say
quoting you this time to drive home the copy pasta point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Extendedcab
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Originally Posted by dantheman4248
Point to me where anyone has claimed the way it is now is perfect.
Are you running a 12 step program or something?
Some would have you believe it used to be perfect and want to pull backwards in that direction.Quote:
Originally Posted by StateDawg44
Stop trying to play everything so black and white searching for a gotcha. Makes you out to be an agent against forward thinking.
This is unhinged. IF we're becoming anything, we're slowly becoming something like UK/France/Italy. We are growing the state a ton, have a birth rate below replacement rate, are creating teh same weird mix of increasing tolerance for things unless they violate pc sensibilities, in which case we are becoming much less tolerant, and are creating liabilities that we aren't going to meet. THe big difference is that we are not taxing our poor and middle class as much and we are mostly still very strong on 1st amendment and 2nd amendment, even while our population becomes less respectful of the ideals of free speech and free exercise. If we could get Canada to adopt free speech and free exercise while we adopted their fiscal responsibility, both countries would get a lot better.Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
We are still the greatest nation in the world. There are a lot of good countries though, and many of them do some things as good or better than the US. Some of them just offer different alternatives that aren't better but may be more attractive or less depending on your preferences.Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
Your ignorance is overwhelming!! The only point you are driving home is your are totally ignorant of the Bible and what God requires of mankind! Don't try to lecture me, you are way out of your realm of knowledge. See Ephesians 4:14: " Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming." You have no foundation to base your arguments other than your own desires. Mine is based on the unwavering word of God!! See my previous post - again.Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
Nobody said the US form of government was PERFECT, but is sure is a hell of a lot better than any other from of government on the world!! See my previous post - again!!Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
You?re right about one thing: when God is in charge, things tend to go a lot less sideways.Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
You need to post more. I'm enjoying reading your insights. Rational thinking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnson85
Just took antibody test. Should have results by Wednesday
How much was the cost and how did you go about getting it? If you don't mine sharing.Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7