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NotWearingPants
Jan 3, 2006

by Nyc_Tattoo
Nap Ghost

BigBoss posted:

I live in the suburbs and I'm starting to see reverse gentrification. I am not very happy about this.

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Nice and hot piss
Feb 1, 2004

I made good money and don't have kids, thus I don't live paycheck to paycheck


but I will totally vote for whoever I can get more money from to thicken up my wallet through whatever ventures/policies (such as someone paying off my stuent loans).

Trump/Palin 2016

ProperCauldron
Oct 11, 2004

nah chill
What's weird is how all that money just disappeared into thin air

In completely unrelated news, there are more billionaires than ever before! http://www.cnbc.com/id/101023258

God Bless our job creators

Extra Large Marge
Jan 21, 2004

Fun Shoe
We can solve this problem if, tomorrow, everyone asks their boss for a raise

whatevz
Sep 22, 2013

I lack the most basic processes inherent in all living organisms: reproducing and dying.
At least we know the conservatives will win since they have all the guns. Not bad. Not bad at all. :3:

e: when civil war takes hold, I mean

I Am A Robot
Jul 1, 2006

Nathilus posted:

Bern it all down. Bern it to the ground.

Meme Poker Party
Sep 1, 2006

by Azathoth

pleasecallmechrist posted:

At least we know the conservatives will win since they have all the guns. Not bad. Not bad at all. :3:

e: when civil war takes hold, I mean

This was the case in the first civil war too. Soldiers from the south had much more experience with wilderness/survival matters, much more experience with firearms, and more experience with horses (northerners had virtually none). On paper a southern soldier was quite superior to a northern one.

Then they lost the war because they were a bunch of idiot hicks.

theultimo
Aug 2, 2004

An RSS feed bot who makes questionable purchasing decisions.
Pillbug
But the south will rise again

ManDingo
Jun 1, 2001
Wow just in time for the bern to make income obsolete.

Turtle Sandbox
Dec 31, 2007

by Fluffdaddy

BigBoss posted:

I live in the suburbs and I'm starting to see reverse gentrification. I am not very happy about this.

Let me know when the homeless camp on your streets, get in when real estate values are trash.

Minimalist Program posted:

Uh but can a corporation have sex with a hot chick? Didn't think so, but individuals can, if they arent jon pop. Check mat.e

Corporations are people so they can give enthusiastic consent or whatever, how you actually have sex with a hot corporation, thats for you to find out.

Turtle Sandbox fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Dec 10, 2015

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
lol, the middle class shrunk because the upper class got bigger, not the lower class. Sounds good to me because unlike 'full communism now' goons I'm valuable to society.

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD
Jan 21, 2007

too many poors

sterilization program is the feel-good platform of 2016. we'll call it "bring back freedom" bill and have a major country singer do a song about it

Mc Do Well
Aug 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
Reproduction is not a right. All males should receive vas deferens valves. Once a couple is married and can demonstrate economic sufficiency they can have a child. This is the foundation to guarantee a basic standard of living.

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time
Can I get one of those free government sterilizations?

a misanthrope
Jun 21, 2010

:burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug::burgerpug:

Germstore posted:

lol, the middle class shrunk because the upper class got bigger, not the lower class. Sounds good to me because unlike 'full communism now' goons I'm valuable to society.

you can't be getting paid that much for blowjobs

Germstore
Oct 17, 2012

A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time

A misanthrope posted:

you can't be getting paid that much for blowjobs

The service industry is expanding. Get with the times.

Prorat
Aug 3, 2004

by FactsAreUseless
Obamas legacy keeps getting better.

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

Germstore posted:

lol, the middle class shrunk because the upper class got bigger, not the lower class. Sounds good to me because unlike 'full communism now' goons I'm valuable to society.

That does seem like a good thing. Any economists/statisticians/sociologists around to give us a clue what we're actually looking at?

Because right now, I see clear evidence that [MY POLITICAL VIEWS HERE] are right.

Mc Do Well
Aug 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Prorat posted:

Obamas legacy keeps getting better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmi8cJG0BJo

This is the flaming wreck of American capitalism in the 21st century - we are all at fault.

FedEx Mercury
Jan 7, 2004

Me bad posting? That's unpossible!
Lipstick Apathy

McDowell posted:

Reproduction is not a right. All males should receive vas deferens valves. Once a couple is married and can demonstrate economic sufficiency they can have a child. This is the foundation to guarantee a basic standard of living.

This is the foundation to guarantee self imposed genocide.

Yaldabaoth
Oct 9, 2012

by Azathoth

McDowell posted:

Reproduction is not a right. All males should receive vas deferens valves. Once a couple is married and can demonstrate economic sufficiency they can have a child. This is the foundation to guarantee a basic standard of living.

Instead of sterilizing poors, round up all their unwanted kids and send them to special military facilities where they'll be trained to become soldiers in America's endless wars.

Mc Do Well
Aug 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

notZaar posted:

This is the foundation to guarantee self imposed genocide.

genocide of who? It would be a one-time surgery required of every male - women already give enough because of their biology. The valve could be opened and closed remotely. Unlicensed children get put up for adoption by infertile and homosexual couples who have received parenting licenses.

insulated staircase
Aug 21, 2014

the middle class are a bunch of uncle toms

Randumb Thots
Apr 5, 2015

Nathilus posted:

Bern it all down. Bern it to the ground.

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS
How is that bad news? A greater percentage of americans became high-income than became low-income - 7% because upper class while only 4% became lower class since 1971. Sorry I have trouble seeing how that is is some sort of emergency. It's like the opposite version of the onion article "millions of americans escape poverty through redefinition of term" - it's not like what income range represents "middle class" is anything but arbitrary, and people moving up out of it is good.

Pulp Can Move
Oct 4, 2012
In 1971 the average new car cost less than $3,500.

Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Dec 22, 2005

GET LOSE, YOU CAN'T COMPARE WITH MY POWERS

Pulp Can Move posted:

In 1971 the average new car cost less than $3,500.
time to re-examine the huge mistake we made in developing a car-centric society - it's funny how there's all these news stories about banning guns when cars are way more of a societal menace

veedubfreak
Apr 2, 2005

by Smythe

Pulp Can Move posted:

In 1971 the average new car cost less than $3,500.

In 1971 we didn't have 8 billion safety mechinisms built into every car to keep the stupid people from killing themselves off.

Judakel
Jul 29, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
There cannot be democracy without a middle class of some sort.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

phasmid posted:

B ut wait... I was told that class war doesn't exist?

No see, it's only when non-rich people go 'hey wtf poo poo is hosed UP' that the media and the rich go 'hey that's class warfare.'



As if class warfare suddenly is a bad thing.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
How come 'middle class' starts at like $25k or so when that's only about 2x the federal poverty line?

????????

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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in the coming revolution where will having the spare income to pay ten dollars to post on a dying comedy forum put you on the class index

lumpenproletariat imo

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Gimbal lock posted:

Don't believe me? It's all in the numbers. For a hundred years, there's been a conspiracy of plutocrats against ordinary people.
Number one: in 1945 corporations paid 50 percent of federal taxes. Now they pay about 5 percent. Number two: in 1900 90 percent of Americans were self-employed; now it's about two percent.
It's called consolidation. Strengthen governments and corporations, weaken individuals. With taxes, thus can be done imperceptibly over time.

#3 that's terror

SPACE HOMOS
Jan 12, 2005

sim city is hard if you just like to click stuff without thinking

Relin
Oct 6, 2002

You have been a most worthy adversary, but in every game, there are winners and there are losers. And as you know, in this game, losers get robotizicized!

Judakel posted:

There cannot be democracy without a middle class of some sort.
huh it's almost as if you stumbled upon the end game of capitalism

Extra Large Marge
Jan 21, 2004

Fun Shoe
They exported the middle class to China, where Buick and unironically drinking PBR reign supreme again.

Freemason Rush Week
Apr 22, 2006

Fojar38 posted:

in the coming revolution where will having the spare income to pay ten dollars to post on a dying comedy forum put you on the class index

lumpenproletariat imo

Every time I scroll down and see "Time for a 39th Fojar, we can do better than this" I smile. Usually I chuckle too! Thanks, anonymous hero. :allears:

Top City Homo
Oct 15, 2014


Ramrod XTreme

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

Fojar38 posted:

in the coming revolution where will having the spare income to pay ten dollars to post on a dying comedy forum put you on the class index

lumpenproletariat imo

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huskarl_marx
Oct 13, 2013

by zen death robot
bring back lf

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