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Should be a wild four years.

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Not needing to store you're own set of facts, not needing to form your own arguements has to be turbo creating idiots.

Bro I swear to god you're 100% right. Backup cameras and GPS have changed my life. I am now handicapped without them lol. When I have to open a fucking map it takes me like 10 minutes to even find where the fuck I am.
 
Does anyone reckon there will be riots tonight or will the no kings stuff have killed them off if people see that as a culminating event?
 
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If you go back and read the writing of people who were considered less educated back in the 1700 and 1800s, you'll find that they look like motherfucking geniuses even against many of our so called educated class. I regularly tell my wife, this is Idiocracy, we have fucking arrived.

When someone even knows what you're talking about, which is rare, they can't argue in good faith. The stupidity earlier about Elon not wanting H1B1s because that tweet was SIX MONTHS OLD BRO DONT YOU HAVE ANYTHING NEW when Elon directly told everyone to "fuck their face" ...

Even among self-professed political aware, how many do you think aktually read anything? I was arguing with a dumb ass this week thinking, I'm not even going to bother to link him to the Senate Intelligence Committee report from back then because the dumb ass doesn't even know what the Senate Intelligence Committee is, but he professes to be VERY politically aware because he watches Fox News.
It would make sense for this to be survivorship bias, right? After all, we’re only looking at the things that were preserved (meaning somebody considered them important) from the small percentage of the population that was actually literate. It’s likely that even this sample is relatively upper echelons of society.
 
So what is making people worry about the US getting involved? All I'm seeing in the news (albeit from a fast check) is Israel and Iran firing missiles at each other. Not sure what Israel expected to happen here but they are known for overestimating themselves. I'm not even being cheeky here because I've been out all day. Please spoonfeed me.
I'm pretty sure someone up thread posted a tweet claiming Iran threatened to strike US bases in the middle east. It seems that, as per usual, people are taking a single tweet with a vague/no source and running with it
 
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Not to ratfuck your narrative to hard but high school in 1912 was like becoming a doctor today, thats an exaggeration but not by a ton
The horrifying part is that we're actually not that far removed from schools actually teaching things of value instead of dumbing down everything for the sake of the idiots. My parents had to learn advanced algebra and trigonometry in middle school while today's middle school students can barely multiple and divide
 
I'm pretty sure someone up thread posted a tweet claiming Iran threatened to strike US bases in the middle east. It seems that, as per usual, people are taking a single tweet with a vague/no source and running with it
It happens sometimes and it's pretty upsetting. I stopped going to 4chan so I could get away from Twitter screencap threads.
 
How does "increasing wage" or "lowering the price" or anything else to that respect help a company achieve its targets?
You need to increase wages to attract workers. That's why the most profitable companies (banks, tech companies, law firms) are also the ones with the highest wages
It sounds like some Commie gobbledygook to lay a ton of blame at the feet of corporations
yes because it is.
the constant unending pursuit of growth demanded by short-term investors ultimately forces consumers and suffer the brunt of consequences
Making businesses more efficient is not what causes economic stagnation
The reason why "trickle down" never really happened
I cannot fucking stand these statements. When you lower taxes and reduces regulations on businesses they develop faster and better and they need to put out better products to keep their customers and pay higher wages to attract the best employees. That's it. If you want to see a country that doesn't do that, and instead tax these companies and redistribute tax incomes to the population, just look at France, Italy, Spain etc. These countries fucking suck and produce nothing. Their population is demoralized and doesn't work.

I cannot fucking fathom why these fucking Internet communists can keep making these fucking grand declarations and still get people looking at these fucking walls of text and go "well, it's a lot of words, maybe he's got a point"

Salary in the tech industry have increased by about 300% since the 70's. You can bring back manufacturing jobs all you want but it won't change anything because it will all be automated. "Manufacturing workers" nowadays are highly skilled workers just like everybody else.

In total the tax burden on the American citizen since the 70's has increased by 65% and that's why salaries are stagnating. You know what else is killing the market? The welfare programs.
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Bro I swear to god you're 100% right. Backup cameras and GPS have changed my life. I am now handicapped without them lol. When I have to open a fucking map it takes me like 10 minutes to even find where the fuck I am.
>me in my 1997 designed, 2003 built Chevy Malibu, where slap on spot mirrors I got for 5 bucks is high tech.
Back up cameras are for the weak and add cost.
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