BarneyPiccolo
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- Comment on Enshittiflation 16 minutes ago:
In 1974, Congress re-wrote the tax code, and baked in Trickle Down Economics, and the permanent financial landscape improved greatly for the wealthy. The rest of us were dealing with high inflation (Remember Ford’s WIN buttons - Whip Inflation Now?), gas lines caused by the OPEC oil embargo, interest rates over 20%, etc., and didn’t recognize what was happening.
So when Reagan came along and pushed Trickle Down Economics, it was already in place, and ramping up, he was just introducing it, and selling it to the American people, and it became standard dogma for a long time.
The result has been a decades long re-distribution of wealth to the upper incomes, at the direct detriment of the working and middle-class.
That’s why it appears to start before Reagan - because it did.
New York Mag: nymag.com/…/rand-study-how-high-is-inequality-us.…
Fast Money: fastcompany.com/…/we-were-shocked-rand-study-unco…
- Comment on Are there any good protest songs from the past few years? 3 hours ago:
I’m liking him.
Back in the Vietnam days, it took a while for protest songs to get written, recorded, released, sold, and finally listened to by the target audience. That could take months.
But today, a songwriter can compose a response to an atrocity that day, and instantly release it on numerous platforms, and be part of the actual conversation.
Now we just need more good protest songwriters.
- Comment on NASA scientists says astronauts should not masturbate in space 14 hours ago:
Semen from various astropervs just floating around in the capsule sticking to peoples’ faces, getting in their hair, etc.
- Comment on A little added bass to that song 1 day ago:
That naming thing with a lower case “e” is so Noughties. That’s as out as “i.”
- Comment on A little added bass to that song 1 day ago:
Electronic DNA.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Don’t admit that, just take your accolades, and stroll away.
- Comment on great entertainment 1 day ago:
Conservative men think the clitoris is a hoax.
- Comment on 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 2 days ago:
Who? They all go by nicknames, usually related to their dick size, like Tiny, or Donkey Dick.
- Comment on 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 2 days ago:
The a Federal Minimum Wage has been raised twice since 1997, the last time in 2009, for a total of $2.10. It currently stands at $7.25 an hour.
20 states are still at the Federal Minimum Wage, or LESS, with some at $5.15, and Oklahoma as low as $2.
- Comment on this fat fuck getting McDonald's door dash at work 2 days ago:
Valid. They could have spent hours prepping him, only for him to go out there and immediately go off script.
- Comment on this fat fuck getting McDonald's door dash at work 3 days ago:
He asked if she voted for him, and she said maybe (that’s a no), he asked her about trans in sports, and she refused to answer, he said it was an honor to meet her because he was waiting for her to say it, but she didn’t, and he has no filter, so he blurted it out himself, and when all that was over, a reporter asked him about that post as Jesus, and he hummana-hummanaed through a ridiculous rationalization that he was supposed to be a doctor helping people because that’s what he does, Help People, by bombing them into the stone age.
They set up this whole PR stunt, finding this woman who needed the tax breaks to take care of her husband with cancer (without understanding that it really shines a light on their non-existent health care system more than No Tax On Tips) and flying her in from several states away, and yet they didn’t even bother to do the simplest briefing of Trump, or rehearse his patter in front of the media. After all that, they let him go out there and just wing it.
MAGA is virtuosically incompetent.
- Comment on this fat fuck getting McDonald's door dash at work 3 days ago:
I watched my Dad decline for years before the doctor would finally diagnose it as dementia. He had already forgotten the names, and even the faces, if everyone he knew before the doctor finally said he had some form of dementia. Duh!
They won’t believe he has dementia until he turns to Vance, or Rubio, or Hegseth, and says “Who are you?”
- Comment on this fat fuck getting McDonald's door dash at work 3 days ago:
The next president will be like an Egyptian Pharaoh, and tear his name off of everything.
- Comment on this fat fuck getting McDonald's door dash at work 3 days ago:
Some rich hump entertaining himself by waving a hundo in front of some old poor person trying to make ends meet for her cancer-stricken husband.
“Watch how excited they get over the price of a cigar! I bet she’d dance if I told her to, but I can’t do that with the media watching.”
- Comment on this fat fuck getting McDonald's door dash at work 3 days ago:
She was fully checked out before she ever got that close. She wasn’t even from the area, she was flown in from several states away. The entire thing was tightly engineered.
And it still went off the rails. You can always count on MAGA to be virtuosically incompetent.
- Comment on type shit 3 days ago:
Yeah, men aren’t allowed to talk about it. If we do, we’re questioning doctors, so we look stupid, and we’re questioning women, who all (in my experience) say they prefer it, so we look sexist. We’re never going to win with that opposition. That’s why it’s not even a topic of discussion. It’s been decided for us, and we didn’t get a vote.
- Comment on type shit 3 days ago:
What is this “soap” you speak of?
- Comment on type shit 3 days ago:
Jeez, if you make masturbation MORE pleasurable, teenage boys will never get anything done. It would single-handedly (pun not intended, but I’ll take it) crash the gaming industry.
- Comment on Just leave it on the porch bro 3 days ago:
Doctors delivering Door Dash, now? MAGA has really wrecked this country.
- Comment on average red state university 3 days ago:
No, you prove that you’re right.
- Comment on How do I actually find a job that isn't retail? 3 days ago:
Temporary agencies was always how my wife always found work. She had old school office training in high school, so she could always get a temp job, and sooner later she’d find one that would last a few months, and eventually they’d just want her to stay on permanently. It never failed to get her job somewhere.
- Comment on Intellectual Debate 3 days ago:
Unfortunately, we would probably get stuck with the first one, which wouldn’t be much of an evolutionary improvement.
- Comment on Intellectual Debate 3 days ago:
Yeah, what’s going on inside there?
- Comment on Intellectual Debate 3 days ago:
I’m glad you two monsters found each other. I hope your kids grow up to love giraffes.
- Comment on Intellectual Debate 3 days ago:
No Pants is one of the advantages of being a giraffe. It’s one of the first rules.
- Comment on Live fearlessly 3 days ago:
Like the captions under those generic photos you see in corporate conference rooms. Which ones? Who knows, they all look the same.
- Comment on Lying cables 4 days ago:
Years ago, I was building out a retail shop, and hired a guy to help me do the drywall, and he turned out to be semi-homeless. He did a good job, got paid, and we parted.
A few months later, he called me because he had a big spool of copper wire, and wondered if I wanted to buy it. I had no use for a spool of copper wire, so I declined the offer, but I appreciated having first dibs.
- Comment on question for the culture 4 days ago:
It’s hard to reach orgasm if the phone is ringing constantly. He can’t keep you from cheating, but he can keep you from enjoying it.
- Comment on Amazon laid off 30,000 workers while CEO Andy Jassy got a 30% pay bump 4 days ago:
They also hired a new CFO for $28 million.
- Comment on Where can I get cursed like that? Asking for a friend. 4 days ago:
This was porn in the days before photography