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by floor2 6y ago
The irony of complaining about "racist <racial slur>" is amazing. If you actually went and talked to these people instead of declaring they're evil, stupid and vile from far away, you might find they're actually de
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by floor2 6y ago
George Soros and BLM? The funny thing is that "whipping the liberal mob into a frenzy" is a literal thing that happened this year that resulted in riots, looting, civil unrest and a full on "autonomous zone" in Seattle.
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by floor2 6y ago
Wow, this is the craziest thing I've read in a while. I've seen people on the right accuse the left of shutting down debate by calling things 'offensive', but I didn't think it'd reached such an extreme as to j
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by floor2 6y ago
20 years ago a "six figure salary" meant you were rich, and was exclusively the domain of corporate executives, wall street traders, doctors and lawyers. 10 years ago a "six figure salary" included developers at FAANG co
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by floor2 6y ago
One thing worth remembering - thousands of current "Bay area tech workers" grew up in other parts of the country, and moved to silicon valley primarily for job opportunities, but may not otherwise share in the religious, political
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by floor2 6y ago
I really wish people would stop using ridiculous hyperbole like "hoarding" when describing "a middle-class person saving for a future emergency or retirement". For starters, in the modern economy, the notion of "hoa
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by floor2 6y ago
The rules are made by representatives for the benefit of the voting block that elected them. Some laws favor the rich, many laws favor whatever special-interest group a politician is beholden to (whether that's a union, an ethnic group
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by floor2 6y ago
This comment shows the same strange (to me) bias that I see so often now, of using "corporate" as a scary or negative thing. Would a think tank sponsored by a religious organization be inherently better than one with corporate spo
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by floor2 6y ago
This didn't answer the question at all. People understand renters who lost their jobs can't pay their rent. The problem is, you can't just say "so don't pay rent" and magically make that OK. That rent money in
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by floor2 6y ago
Spreading dangerous misinformation is not helpful, and you are trying to convince them of something- namely that this air pollution is no big deal. PM2.5 pollution, even at levels far lower than being seen now, is associated with literally
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by floor2 6y ago
Maybe your lack of understanding is because you're arguing against an imaginary straw man? A group forming a collective and negotiating as such fits perfectly fine with free market ideals. This exists in many forms that all manner of l
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by floor2 6y ago
In America today, the concept of "a regular person that just happens not to be racist" is a right-wing stance. The current dominant cultural/political/academic stance would suggest that all people are inherently racist a
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by floor2 6y ago
Does it? The major tax overhaul a couple years ago capped the property tax deduction at a low enough level (while increasing the standard exemption) that, at least in high-property tax jurisdictions, there is no benefit to being a homeowner
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by floor2 6y ago
Important correction - the significant political power in the US comes from the prison guards union, not a "private prisons lobby". The prison guards union is an incredibly powerful lobbying force, which has successfully increased
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by floor2 6y ago
The focus on "for profit" prisons is such a disappointing distraction. The prison guard union is one of the most powerful lobbyist groups in California (and significant in the US as a whole) and has all the same perverse incentive
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by floor2 6y ago
1) This isn't even true in general. Aside from optional things like cosmetic surgery which you need to pay for out of pocket, the people on the taxpayer-subsidized obamacare bronze-level packages have access to the same doctors, facili
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by floor2 6y ago
You're misunderstanding options vs shares here. He was only given 100,000 shares ($5 million/year). The options only give him the right to purchase shares at today's price in the future. If the stock goes up substantially, he
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by floor2 6y ago
Because, contrary to the constant anti-America sentiments shared across social media, the US remains one of the best places to live in the world. You're not going to see a massive influx of doctors leaving Switzerland, Germany or the U
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by floor2 6y ago
> increased government intervention is not Seems like a weird, pedantic half-truth. It's like "I'm not a racist, but ..." except for government. "I don't want increased government intervention... except for
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by floor2 6y ago
Why focus on vaccines if your fear is government conspiracy? Couldn't these same nefarious people be putting 'substances' into the water you drink, the food you eat, the air you breathe, the pills you take, the clothes you we
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by floor2 7y ago
Even at most cynical, it would be "When times are good, you take profit while also paying payroll tax, income tax, property tax, unemployment taxes, social security taxes, medicare taxes and when times are bad, some of your employees u