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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you've told stories about yourself melting down under adversity. I'd believe you are not a frail snowflake if you hadn't told them. You need to build a false internet facade for yourself, making you look braver, tougher, smarter, less beaten down by life than you really are. You can start building the strength illusion by ignoring accusations of being a snowflake. For example, every time Trump says "No Collusion!" I know he knows he colluded. When he says "Believe Me" I know he knows he told a lie.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hey Sigs....
This is getting too funny.
I've been mislabled as a snowflake by the right and left fringes now, twice in one week.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
lol
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Is this like, whenever second posts something, we all know it is pure lies?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:lol
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you've told stories about yourself melting down under adversity. I'd believe you are not a frail snowflake if you hadn't told them. You need to build a false internet facade for yourself, making you look braver, tougher, smarter, less beaten down by life than you really are. You can start building the strength illusion by ignoring accusations of being a snowflake. For example, every time Trump says "No Collusion!" I know he knows he colluded. When he says "Believe Me" I know he knows he told a lie.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hey Sigs....
This is getting too funny.
I've been mislabled as a snowflake by the right and left fringes now, twice in one week.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:This continues to resonate as the most brainless concept possible.
Originally posted by second:Quote:The zero-sum game that should be played is the one where the wealthy lose to everyone poorer.
Originally posted by 1kiki:Quote:It's not true that one group will prosper only if other groups prosper, which is the only argument in favor of identity politics.
White trash think that dividing money equally with people they despise will mean far less money for white trash. But the white trash of America will never get the money they think they deserve unless Mexicans, niggers, queers and women also get a much bigger share of the wealth.
That argument is the fallacy of identity politics. Through it we are being played by identity politics into an unstated zero-sum game. The notion is that it's OK to be pitted against each other for survival, as long as the fight is FAIR. But it doesn't matter how FAIRLY we are judged in the arena. There will be the winners at the expense of the losers. If some groups rise it will be because other groups fall. It's still the same zero-sum game.
Democrats - or some new party that rises up out of the ashes - need to specifically reject the notion that people being FAIRLY pitted against each other for survival is the end goal.
The end goal should be to raise us all up. Together.
Remove the resources and effectiveness of the most successful, so that the least successful will get a few more dollars to spend on lottery. Genius.
Essentially, replace any CEO with the average McDonald's or Walmart employee. Then wonder why the previously successful company falls to pieces and insolvency. Best. Idea. Ever.
Of course, anybody with a brain understands second is, yet again, pushing Communism/Socialism as the Ultimate Utopia we all know it is.
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Quote:Unlike you, SECOND understands that wealth is nearly always acquired through an unearned, undeserved fluke of external circumstances - having wealthy parents for example, or owning land that turns out to have resources buried underground. America is not a meritocracy. That's a fact you need to grasp if you want to live in reality.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
This continues to resonate as the most brainless concept possible.
Remove the resources and effectiveness of the most successful, so that the least successful will get a few more dollars to spend on lottery. Genius.
Essentially, replace any CEO with the average McDonald's or Walmart employee. Then wonder why the previously successful company falls to pieces and insolvency. Best. Idea. Ever.
Of course, anybody with a brain understands second is, yet again, pushing Communism/Socialism as the Ultimate Utopia we all know it is.
But SECOND'S imagination is limited by his fears of poverty; and your imagination is limited by your blind ideology. You both assume that to lift everyone up, the wealthy must be made POOR. Instead, they need to be made SUFFICIENT and SECURE, as does everyone else. And their living needs to come from their work - their productive input to society; and not from family, or from control over the levers of power.
So anyway ... anyone up for a rational, fact-based, and civil discussion about the topic?
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Is this like, whenever second posts something, we all know it is pure lies?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you've told stories about yourself melting down under adversity. I'd believe you are not a frail snowflake if you hadn't told them. You need to build a false internet facade for yourself, making you look braver, tougher, smarter, less beaten down by life than you really are. You can start building the strength illusion by ignoring accusations of being a snowflake. For example, every time Trump says "No Collusion!" I know he knows he colluded. When he says "Believe Me" I know he knows he told a lie.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hey Sigs....
This is getting too funny.
I've been mislabled as a snowflake by the right and left fringes now, twice in one week.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
lol
Do Right, Be Right. :)
It does seem to be an admittance of how he lives his own life online. Particularly this part.
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You need to build a false internet facade for yourself, making you look braver, tougher, smarter, less beaten down by life than you really are.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 1kiki:...Instead, they need to be made SUFFICIENT and SECURE, as does everyone else. And their living needs to come from their work - their productive input to society; and not from family, or from control over the levers of power.
Good post.
I mostly agree. The only differens being that earning money by working iz a consept that's dayz are numbered.
Assuming the current mess eventually gets scrapped, I think the only peepl who will be paid in the future beyond the normal standard credit will be athletes and artists.
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Quote:WTF?
Originally posted by 1kiki:
You both assume that to lift everyone up, the wealthy must be made POOR.
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"Remove the resources and effectiveness of the most successful" (who you mistakenly assume are the 'most capable') and, as you imagine, replace them "with the average McDonald's or Walmart employee".
In other words, make the formerly rich into the poor.
BTW, you aren't rich. The REALLY rich, the people Janet Yellen and Hillary Clinton care about, don't ever worry about it all being taken away or lost.
So anyway ... anyone up for a rational, fact-based, and civil discussion about the topic?
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Quote:That was me pointing out the stupidity of second's concept.
Originally posted by 1kiki:
"Remove the resources and effectiveness of the most successful" (who you mistakenly assume are the 'most capable') and, as you imagine, replace them "with the average McDonald's or Walmart employee".
In other words, make the formerly rich into the poor.
BTW, you aren't rich. The REALLY rich, the people Janet Yellen and Hillary Clinton care about, don't ever worry about it all being taken away or lost.
So anyway ... anyone up for a rational, fact-based, and civil discussion about the topic?
The "genius" was sarcasm.
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It's the assumptions you two make I have a problem with. Whether you agree it'll work or not, both you SECOND assume that to make poor people better off, rich people need to be made poor. You claim SECOND sees it as a viable solution while you think it'll fail.
Neither of you seem to understand that there's a different way to get there, that doesn't involve anyone being poor.
So anyway ... anyone up for a rational, fact-based, and civil discussion about the topic?
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