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ZeroGravity

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why would anyone cry over another countries election
Another country's elections can still have consequences on where you live. Living in Canada, my stepfather lost his job in the mid 2000's because of the Bush administration's tariffs on softwood lumber.

We don't live in bubbles. Some reactions may be hyberbolic but there's nothing inherently wrong with caring about what happens in other nations.
 

Sub_Level

wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Another country's elections can still have consequences on where you live. Living in Canada, my stepfather lost his job in the mid 2000's because of the Bush administration's tariffs on softwood lumber.

We don't live in bubbles. Some reactions may be hyberbolic but there's nothing inherently wrong with caring about what happens in other nations.

ALL of their reactions are hyperbolic lol but I agree with your overall point.
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
The amount of people who work hard AND live comfortably is growing smaller by the day. A socialist change is coming. Tired of people celebrating acts of kindness like a fund raiser making enough to pay for cancer treatment and then turning around and acting like being able to pay for treatment should be a luxury. Or applauding those who do not use sick days because work is above all and then being sad when said person dies at an early age. The only checks that will be burning are those with who have the money to burn, while destroying the environment with their industrial machines while they live comfortably. Just because the environment is suffering doesn't mean people 30 and below should have to suffer with it and die young from lack of proper health care and necessities to keep some fat cats owning 10 mansions fully furnished with minimum wage waiting staff.
Rich people aren't to blame.

If someone wants to make a claim at shitty environments, it's everyone's fault for wanting as much cheaply made shit as possible, drinking Starbucks everyday and wasting money on the latest fashion and cell phone upgrades. Rich people want more, just as poor people do too.

I'm pretty sure someone can get by in life with a boxy CRT tv from 1998 if they really wanted to. And if it breaks, just get one for free. People literally give these away. But instead everyone (including you too) go out and buy HD LCD tvs.

"Living comfortably" is subjective. And also depends on the generation. People got by perfectly fine with a shitty car, black and white TVs, a radio, and a fridge and oven. Nobody had microwaves, cell phones, computers, awesome fast cars, and nobody was buying fast food, $5 coffees, or buying $200 shoes and Canada Goose jackets for $800 either.

And people seemed fine and happy. Nobody is stopping someone from living like they time warped to 1960.

As for the people who are 30 and under and supposedly suffering, if all the young people want to change, don't nag us older people for better conditions. We aren;t going to be around forever. We're all going to retire and die at some point, which means the young people will take over the jobs.

In that case, instead of whining, go get a job that changes the world.... science and tech, energy, chemistry etc.... Any job that can create better use of materials. Brush up your math and science skills and skip the history and anthropology classes. If saving trees, and reducing CO2 gas emmissions are that important, memorizing every Shakespeare play isn't going to help. Instead, learn how to modify seeds so trees grow faster or something.

Or have fun being loud at people telling everyone to stop buying stuff and live like Fred Flintstone. Good luck. You'll have a better chance with the above career focus on environmentalism improvements But the thing is most young people are lazy fucks and prefer to whine and sit on their ass on Snapchat.
 
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nush

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"Living comfortably" is subjective. And also depends on the generation. People got by perfectly fine with a shitty car, black and white TVs, a radio, and a fridge and oven. Nobody had microwaves, cell phones, computers, awesome fast cars, and nobody was buying fast food, $5 coffees, or buying $200 shoes and Canada Goose jackets for $800 either.
You just described my childhood.
 

GHG

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Stupid Poor People: Their Own Best Interests Edition



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Well then... So much for helping those in need and being compassionate.

They didn't really care after all.
 

RevengeOfToonces

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They're really nervous at the fact that the Rise of Skywalker will likely turn out to be trainwreck. Even the mainstream media isn't defending it.

Wasn't my favorite Nerd Crew video ever, but they did go in hard on Disney manufacturing headlines to try and dredge up interest, ANY interest, regarding this new movie. Rich will be proven right - the Emperor being brought back from the dead will simultaneously be the dumbest and best thing about it.
 
I thought the far right were supposed to be the ones really uptight about sex stuff, weird how that has shifted over to the far left over the years.

Except when they pimp out their kids as drag queens of course.
No.......everyone loves sex.....it's just your average reeetard is unable to have a proper conversation about sex as they Have probably never had it.
 

Bitmap Frogs

Mr. Community
As for the people who are 30 and under and supposedly suffering, if all the young people want to change, don't nag us older people for better conditions. We aren;t going to be around forever. We're all going to retire and die at some point, which means the young people will take over the jobs.

The problem there is that companies replace the old jobs with newer jobs that pay less and since government programs are being choked by the tax reforms to favor the wealthiest the programs that directly or indirectly helped you and your parents and your community are being shut down.

New generations earn less and get less help (directly or indirectly) from government. Meanwhile speculation is driving up the prices of things that you just take for granted like houses and high cost mortgages are choking up new home buyers.

But hey, turns out their real problem is that they waste their money on luxuries buying a new tv instead of picking up a CRT from goodwill =/
 

dionysus

Yaldog
The problem there is that companies replace the old jobs with newer jobs that pay less and since government programs are being choked by the tax reforms to favor the wealthiest the programs that directly or indirectly helped you and your parents and your community are being shut down.

New generations earn less and get less help (directly or indirectly) from government. Meanwhile speculation is driving up the prices of things that you just take for granted like houses and high cost mortgages are choking up new home buyers.

But hey, turns out their real problem is that they waste their money on luxuries buying a new tv instead of picking up a CRT from goodwill =/

How do younger generations get less help from the government? Please compare to government subsidies at the same time during the generation. Also, every statistical measure shows housing is more affordable today than it was in previous generations.

Millennials negative metrics is based on 1 thing. Going to college getting worthless degrees and paying too much for them. All of which you can thank the government for. And if you adjust for the fact the older generations didn't go to college at the rates millennials do, even that starts balancing out. Turns out society doesn't need 50% of the people going to college, so people are just overqualified for the available jobs, or have worthless degrees which is entirely their own fault.
 

Bitmap Frogs

Mr. Community
How do younger generations get less help from the government? Please compare to government subsidies at the same time during the generation. Also, every statistical measure shows housing is more affordable today than it was in previous generations.

It's not about the subsidies. It's about the major flows of money back into the economy through government contracts. Infraestructure spending used to be pegged at 3.7%, right now getting back to that would mean around 33 billion a year.

Here's a chart for house affordability in the USA: https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-income-ratio/
 

dionysus

Yaldog
It's not about the subsidies. It's about the major flows of money back into the economy through government contracts. Infraestructure spending used to be pegged at 3.7%, right now getting back to that would mean around 33 billion a year.

Here's a chart for house affordability in the USA: https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-income-ratio/

That chart is not a good measure of home affordability because it ignores interest rates. When interest rates are low, prices rise and vice versa. The better metric is % of monthly income needed to own a home. This accounts for both home price and interest rate.

A mortgage averaged 15.1% of a median income from 2008 to 2018, which is lower than any quarter going all the way back to 1979.
 

Papa

Banned
That chart is not a good measure of home affordability because it ignores interest rates. When interest rates are low, prices rise and vice versa. The better metric is % of monthly income needed to own a home. This accounts for both home price and interest rate.

A mortgage averaged 15.1% of a median income from 2008 to 2018, which is lower than any quarter going all the way back to 1979.

Is this pre- or post-tax income?
 

dionysus

Yaldog
Is this pre- or post-tax income?

I can't tell. The source is a Zillow dataset. https://www.zillow.com/research/data/

The data manipulation to come up with the 15% was opaque in the article I read. Zillow publishes by region.

There are actually 3 components to housing affordability. Price, interest rate, and tax rate. Tax rate is usually ignored cause it varies across jurisdictions. I once had a home with 5 different property tax authorities. County, city, school district, and 2 water conservation districts.
 
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Teslerum

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I thought the far right were supposed to be the ones really uptight about sex stuff, weird how that has shifted over to the far left over the years.

Except when they pimp out their kids as drag queens of course.

The problem is that this is one of the things that tends to happen when you drift too far in any direction. You make the exact same mistakes and your own perception of superiority masks any moment where you could take a step back.
 

MilkyJoe

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Another country's elections can still have consequences on where you live. Living in Canada, my stepfather lost his job in the mid 2000's because of the Bush administration's tariffs on softwood lumber.

We don't live in bubbles. Some reactions may be hyberbolic but there's nothing inherently wrong with caring about what happens in other nations.

Yeah, but we all know in our heart of hearts it's because this individual is an unstable, mega leftist, penis head.


Ps. How are Reeesetera taking the Hellblade trailer? Got to have slain a few of them. Especially with the Lockhart will hold Scarlett back nonsense. :messenger_smirking:
 
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JORMBO

Darkness no more

REEEE has reached peak insanity.

This is the result of people who started paying attention to politics in 2016 and an irresponsible media that cranks every minor story up to 100 everyday. Throw an internet echo chamber into that after.
 
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Plague Doctor

Gold Member

REEEE has reached peak insanity.

Bravo on the ones calling this out in the thread.

I expect their bans soon or this being used as part of "history of..." in their future bans.
 

Schattenjäger

Gabriel Knight

REEEE has reached peak insanity.
the peak keeps climbing every day
 

spons

Member
What's with the reverse dog-piling as of late? Instead of bullying someone into suicide like they did (and they fucking did and every time I get a chance to mention that I will), they pile onto each other to agree with each other, like in that XBSEX thread.

"XBSEX is a bad name", cue 50 other people agreeing.
 
What's with the reverse dog-piling as of late? Instead of bullying someone into suicide like they did (and they fucking did and every time I get a chance to mention that I will), they pile onto each other to agree with each other, like in that XBSEX thread.

"XBSEX is a bad name", cue 50 other people agreeing.
Well, don't let anyone give you the false impression that they're an echo-chamber bent on enforcing their ideas on each other and on the world at large. I mean, that would make them the cult / NPCs / zealots / true believers than this thread paints them to be...
 

elektrokats

Banned
People have no idea how middle/conservative Canada really is.

We just barely escaped putting a our own idiot in charge with our last election and there is no sign that it's ever going to stop. The future of Canada is not going to be a safe haven for the Left despite what some seem to think.
 
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StreetsofBeige

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The problem there is that companies replace the old jobs with newer jobs that pay less and since government programs are being choked by the tax reforms to favor the wealthiest the programs that directly or indirectly helped you and your parents and your community are being shut down.

New generations earn less and get less help (directly or indirectly) from government. Meanwhile speculation is driving up the prices of things that you just take for granted like houses and high cost mortgages are choking up new home buyers.

But hey, turns out their real problem is that they waste their money on luxuries buying a new tv instead of picking up a CRT from goodwill =/
That's BS.

Unemployment is lowest in 50 years. Wages are up. There have never been more social assistance programs.

Home prices appreciate over time no doubt (aside from dead towns), but mortgage rates are also stupidly low at around 3-4%. You can get ones in the high 2% range in Canada, which is probably similar to the US. At one time about 5 years ago, my variable mortgage rate was 1.95%.

The typical mortgage someone's parents (or grandparents had) from 1970 to 1990 was somewhere in the 10-15% range. Ya, about 4x the rate someone is paying now. Even a shitty $80,000 mortgage was big interest, that's why it still took people 25-30 years to pay off a small mortgage. When someone's annual salary is lower back then, combined with a double digit mortgage rate, you're screwed.

There's also choice in where you live. People seem to always gravitate to the big cities where prices go up the most. If you can't afford it, move to a small town. It will not have as many fancy jobs, but the cost of living will be probably half that.

In Toronto, a shitty row home built 70 years ago in the core is $1M+. A decent condo downtown can be $1M too. Move 30 minutes to the outskirts of the city and a townhouse is probably $700k. Move an hour away to Kitchener or Cambridge and you can get a modest home with a driveway, garage and a backyard for probably $500k. $1M+ will get you a humongous home.

All comes down to what people what. And Millenealls are greedy fucks who seem to want it all.........

1. Great job
2. Great pay
3. Great home downtown or where the action is.............
4. But somehow........... the home is dirt cheap to buy complaining "well, my parents bought a home 40 years ago for $100k. Why can't I get one for $100k in 2019?"
 
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Papa

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Yeah, but we all know in our heart of hearts it's because this individual is an unstable, mega leftist, penis head.


Ps. How are Reeesetera taking the Hellblade trailer? Got to have slain a few of them. Especially with the Lockhart will hold Scarlett back nonsense. :messenger_smirking:

I believe the term they came up with is dildohead
 

#Phonepunk#

Banned

Of course they love this and want it elsewhere. lot of jokes about the dumb idea of free speech. What a dumb idea! You’d have to be an idiot to care about freedom of speech! /s
 
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JordanN

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Of course they love this and want it elsewhere. lot of jokes about the dumb idea of free speech. What a dumb idea! You’d have to be an idiot to care about freedom of speech! /s
Lol, "hate speech".

Fuck Trudeau. Shouldn't he arrest himself for literally dressing up as one?

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Plague Doctor

Gold Member

Of course they love this and want it elsewhere. lot of jokes about the dumb idea of free speech. What a dumb idea! You’d have to be an idiot to care about freedom of speech! /s

I would have never seen this coming from a group of people (Era) that want violent riots and revolutions to the results of a democratic election. Never seen this coming. This is a plot twist.
 
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