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  1. 2 minutes ago, Bojack said:

    You've been holding at -70 or worse for several days now. Anyone that wanted to could've finished your sorry ass off. Not to mention, it's at least your fifth sock. You're treated pretty gently considering what a loathsome, disingenuous piece of shit you are. 

    Loathsome and disingenuous? The same meme/premise was met with 7 pos reps and humorous applause (just 10 posts or so after the last cactusflintheas post so had he wanted to be disingenuously, as you say, offended he could have been), on the lol thread. 

    My only error appears to being the opposite of disingenuous, which is being serious and starting a conversation about that seriousness, in a room where a few very intolerant and ignorant people (just a few bad apples) can’t help but to pity themselves and get angry all the dang time and go on deep neg witch hunts. 

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  2. 9 hours ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

    I just came in this thread to see if that Meerkat dude was banned yet.  I see he is only at -92 if I’m reading that correctly.  I’m very disappointed in all of you for not doing your part to ban him so he can come back again as some other animal and smoking device.  

    Now pardon me while I go start a thread about defunding the fire departments around the country.  I mean if you are dumb enough to to let your house catch on fire then you deserve to lose everything, right?

    70 or 80 of those negs were from Cactusflinthead and going deep into posting history, which is ironic considering he’s complaining about GRU doing the same to him 🤷‍♂️ 

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  3. 5 minutes ago, Genco said:

    So the only source for this entire "crisis" remains Elon the reliable narrator?

    I guess so-- Tim Cook is prudently staying above this particular fray.

    As someone mentioned on the last page, I can imagine him being a gracious host to Elon, walking him around the estate and then pausing at some point out of earshot of sycophants and hanger-ons and EA's and dropping the nice guy routine as he whispers menacingly, "Cut out the wise guy B.S. or I will crush you. I will destroy you. This is your last warning." Then he quickly smiles again and signals for someone to come bring out the Avenue Foch 2017 because, as the weather has turned unseasonably delightful, let's have lunch out on the veranda shall we?

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  4. Apple has resumed buying ad space on twitter. Tim Apple crisis averted. Like I said, just look at Qatar if you have any naivety left about corporations being whores for the business gain versus caring much about political pov's. 

    https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-restart-advertising-twitter-platfomer-reporter-2022-12-04/

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  5. 7 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

    You can confiscate the wealth of the top .1% and it's not enough to fund the government for more than a year or two.  The middle class is the engine that keeps the lights on.

    I guess that is the source of the frustration. Atlas cannot shrug.

    Also, did you know the $600 threshold is relatively new?

    The $600 threshold was introduced in the Inflation Reduction Act back in 2021 Before this year, the threshold was at least 200 transactions that totaled over $20,000

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  6. 2 minutes ago, Foosters said:

    So basically you're looking for a political party that hurts the rich and the poor but leaves people like you alone?

    Good luck.

    You want to co-charter one with me?

    Also I should change the title to "Defend the IRS" based on the sentiment of the community here. I really misread the room.

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  7. 2 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

    Fucking surly ads trying to sell me his outfit from today. 
     

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    You been searching or streaming the movie Hancock?

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  8. I've come around to hate the billionaires and want to tax them to death. That's growth for me.

    But I've also not seen enough to leave the middle class alone. We are like soil that's been overworked and lack nitrogen. Give us a cycle or two to get healthy before you rip us up with your thrashers again and take our first fruits and give them away. 

    I guess I should have focused more on the lamentation of the middle class then a focus on the IRS but that tweet is what stirred in me these feelings. I can see that I'm alone on this board of feeling this way, which of course means that I'm wrong.

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  9. 3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Wait, I'm supposed to report cash payments?  WTF?  Why didn't someone tell me I had to report all kinds of income?  I thought Venmo was same as cash?

    Oh, it is?

    The point is that now, ostensibly, there are hounds who are going to ensure that you pay and report that petty cash payment so the government can get it's net $28 proceeds. Resources and money that could be going instead to harassing the wealthy. 

    Congrats Middle Class-- we played ourselves.

     

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  10. 8 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    You are getting closer when you can look at yourself, a homeless person, Donald Trump and Joe Biden and realize that Trump and Biden have a lot more in common with each other than they do with either you or the homeless person, and that you have a lot more in common with the homeless person than you do with Donald Trump or Joe Biden.

    Everyone on this website save maybe the Chicago guy who was bought out by the PE firm and got his Rolls Royce stolen in Chicago is closer to a homeless person than a Trump or Biden. Heck, half of us are a year or two without income and we would be homeless, so I agree.

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  11. Which party or economic philosophy prescribes taxing the rich a lot and the poor on government hand outs only, but leaving the middle class mostly alone? I want to join that club.

    It's not the GQP

    It's not the Dems

    Maybe it's The Forward Party.

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  12. 1 minute ago, The Royal We said:

    Are a significant number of "poor middle class blokes" out there playing in poker games where they can win (or lose) $600 all the time?

    Facts don't care about your feelings.  Or somesuch.

    I hear you, but also at the end of the day, it's not facts that win or lose the hearts and minds of men, it's how we are made to feel. 

    People don't remember what you said, they remember how you made them feel.

    It's simultaneously our greatest strength and weakness that we were created to be exceptionally feeling and emotional beings.

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  13. WOW!. Kanye gonna break the internet.

    Elmo gonna be mad, he's like "what do i have to do to stay on top of the mindshare in this attention based economy made up of idiots!"

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  14. 16 hours ago, Brew said:

    I’m sure they do, the City still sucks to travel in. People live everywhere for a reason, they find ways to deal with the negatives or they move on to a place that offers more positives. Atlanta is the premier southern city, but if I can go anywhere I want in the country it’s not on the list.

    I have a partner that lives in Braselton, buddies all over the North side, and am in/through Atlanta 10-12 times a year. You better really like traffic is and was my original point. Other large cities have traffic but it dissipates at times, Atlanta is never ending traffic from the Stockbridge split, past Marietta and either direction East/West. Couple that with living on the North side but having to fly out of the south side and it makes it worse. People I know on the extreme North side will fly out of Chattanooga just to avoid having to go South.

    On the other end, I know people who during the pandemic moved out of Atlanta and rented out their places to buy in Chattanooga for cheaper TN land and beauty and commute into Sandy Springs or North Atlanta for meetings a few times a month when meetings or business demands it.

  15. 13 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

    do you like the office?  brooklyn nine-nine?  the good place?

    No, no, kinda.

    I binged The Good Place recently and thought it was funny until it wasn't (Jason was consistently the worst throughout the entire run). The best part hands down was my mans Brent Norwalk. MVP of the entire thing, wish he would have gotten introduced much earlier.

    I am wearing this exact outfit actually:

     

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  16. Just now, Hornius Emeritus said:


    So ... DON'T defund the IRS?

    Defund the part of the IRS that is harassing venmo and cash app transactions. Fund the part who is going after Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger.

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  17. 10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Take away a lot of the shit that government - made up of and run by your fellow Americans, real people who work for a living, not a sinister cabal manufactured in a diabolical lab - provides, and you and yours would shit your pants screaming about it.  You wouldn't have interstate highways to drive on to go to DC to bitch about it.  Be careful flying there, no FAA means you aren't going to have the safest air travel system in the world.  And if the plane crashes, good luck suing the airline now that we have no more courts.  Etc. etc. etc. the "taxation is theft" trope is the dumbest fucking position out there, and that's saying a lot.

    In an ideal world we could get a fair accounting of what the minimum to run basic services (aka all the basics you like to point to like highways and FAA and firehouses and cop stations, etc.) and everyone is mandated to pay those taxes. From there we can see where all our money is going otherwise and run the data analysis on the outcomes and impact and ROI and get a real feel for the waste, abuse and fraud. 

    And I could not care less if a business is bloated and wasteful as long as I'm not having to fund it via a compulsory deduction out of my biweekly labors, so that analogy is garbage for me.

    I agree with you that the middle class is being squeezed and it's a bad thing.

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  18. 4 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    The pain being felt by the middle class is not being inflicted by the IRS.  It’s being inflicted by corporations and the ultra wealthy being able to essentially buy governmental policy that allows them to pocket obscene wealth that used to be more uniformly distributed through society. 

    The optics of "Give me billions of dollars more in your tax dollars to beef up the IRS to go after the billionaires and help the middle class" as the pitch and then "hey, if you got more than $600 via venmo in your poker games and fantasy football and side hustles because it's hard out here for a playa, well, give the government our cut and we have the enforcers out looking" just don't FEEL good. 

    I get that it's always been the case, but it makes me emotionally FEEL something in a way that I don't like, because I'm feeling like I'm already a poor middle class bloke who just keeps having to pay more and more taxes. So I guess my logical beef is in having to pay more taxes generally, but my emotional and irrational beef is how it feels. If that makes sense.

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  19. 7 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

    there were only 6 episodes in season 1 and they were not very good.  they retooled the show for season 2 and it was completely different and awesome and hilarious.

    adam scott, who was part of the upswing, came along in season 2, episode 23, the 2nd to last episode of that season.  the show was good in season 2 but got great in 3-4-5.

    if you really watched ~30 episodes of this show and didn't like it, i don't know what else to do.  there's no accounting for taste. 

    Yea I guess it was around 30 episodes then-- I binged it for a while, like I said, around 6-7 years ago I guess now? I had mono and had nothing else to do is what I recall about that time. Watched it and a bunch of other series. 

    Quirky isn't funny to me it's affectation, it's superficial and put-on emotion, and it's largely inauthentic and it's eaten up by a certain caliber of personality, I guess. It's why every project Zooey Deschanel does is so cringe to me; no accounting for tastes indeed.

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  20. 1 minute ago, henrygandorf said:

    have you tried, and i know this is a big ask, but actually watching the show?  

    Yes. I watched the first 5 or 6 episodes of season 1, back around...2015? 2016?... up until the douchebag brother from Step Brothers entered scene.

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