Of course I don't think you are so reasonable, you are much more right
wing than most of the people I know. You are pretty temperate about
talking about things though, you don't fly in a rage and spout slogans
like much of your ilk, and you are always ready to submit the issue to
the good offices of wiki. Well this is after all the forum for
reasonable discussion among reasonable people. You would think there
would be more than two of us reasonable people, but so it goes.
There was one of those obviously false billboards on fb yesterday. I
call them billboards because they have like a photo, or maybe some fancy
background, or sometimes they are made to look like they are
typewritten by one of those old timey typewriters where like the inside
of the 'o' is greyed a little, and they include some kind of message
(usually political or inspirational) written over the photo, on the
assumption I guess, that the background somehow supports the message.
Right wingers and left wingers see them and then share them on their
page so they get passed around throughout the internet. My feelings,
and I am sure I have expressed them before, is if you can't say whatever
you have to say in your own words don't post one of those damn
billboards
Anyway this particular billboard was clearly false (something about a
school shooting being averted by an armed guard and the media not
covering it). Fat chance the media would not be covering that so i went
to Snopes and sure enough it turned out that the shooter did shoot
somebody and that the armed guard had no role in apprehending the
killer) Here it is:
http://www.snopes.com/arapahoe-school-shooting-stopped-armed-sro/ So I
posted it to this guy's page and usually I am completely ignored or told
to go fuck myself, but in this case the guy actually apologized for not
checking it and offered to take it down. On my part I don't not say
"You damn well better you fucking asshole," but merely said something
about discussions on both sides in these troubled times and we had best
make sure that what we were arguing about was truthful. So that's some
kind of progress isn't it?
I think the more money I am being paid the more I value my job and will
work harder at it because I want to keep it. I think you are right
though pay is probably mostly determined about the least money the
employer can get away with paying. And with unemployment remaining high
for some time to come you know if there wasn't a minimum wage they
would be paying like five bucks an hour and people would have to take
it.
I'm too lazy now to look up exactly where the minimum wage comes from,
but dollars to donuts it was unions, like the five day week and the
eight hour day. We would have never had them without unions.
There is a case before the supremes right now where some teachers don't
want to pay their union dues, because they say they disapprove of the
union's political activity, which may be true but dollars to donuts
again, they just want to freeload in accepting the job benefits that the
union dues payers worked to get them. Indications are that the unions
will lose this case, people will be able to freeload and the unions will
be poorer and weaker, easy prey for the republican steamrollers to roll
right over.
You were still a libertarian during the Bush regime? I thought you
turned against them because they weren't sufficiently hawkish on
jihadis, but wasn't Rand's pop dovish way before that?
I'm with you on insurance, and I am sure you know that Obama wanted the
single payer but the republicans wouldn't let him have it. The
republicans have this weird theory where if we have all these different
insurance companies they will be competing with each other like in the
free market and the consumer will be able to pick the best one. Which
is all garbage because hey all have to make a profit and medical costs
are more or less fixed. But now they all seem to be consolidating and I
have this weird theory that when they all combine into one, it will be
so obvious that they are merely taking a cut on transactions and
providing no services, maybe then we will rise up and toss them under
the bus.
The thing about you gun nuts rushing to the gun store whenever Obama
coughs, and let's face it he hasn't mentioned gun control until just
lately and you have been running to gun stores since he was elected.
Well not you I don't think. You have been trying to get a new stock for
Old Betsy, but i don't think you have bought any lately.
Aren't these guys rushing to the gun stores guys who already have three
or four, so now they will have five or six? So maybe they can fire with
both hands and hook one to each foot somehow so the toe is on the
trigger, and they could probably pull another trigger with their tongue,
and maybe they could stick their dicks through the the trigger hole in
the sixth ones so that when they get the hard on from seeing the
jackbooted feds busting down their doors to take away their guns, that
one will fire too. A little graphic, but I was on a roll and couldn't
pause for good taste.
Weren't we going to discuss the women's movement? That last paragraph I
am afraid is not fit for refined young ladies so the subject will have
to wait for tomorrow morning.
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