BarneyPiccolo

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fetus yeetus⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The picture would be more accurate if she was firing the baby out of her hooha like ping balls at a Thai sex show.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
How easy or violent it has to be is entirely up to them. If they want violence, we can oblige them, but they’ll still lose their money, and their family may not survive it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Valid concepts. I like to speculate on the future Utopian Socialist America, too, if we can make it happen.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You can get that woodchipper on Amazon.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Valid.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, heading towards just taking it all, and leaving them destitute, and if they don’t like it, they can think about it in prison, if they’re lucky to survive that long.

They enjoy their wealth at the pleasure of the Citizens, and those who don’t handle their wealth responsibly, will have it removed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
That’s not a good argument, most of them ARE born into it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Let’s make this Sociopathic Oligarch understand that his…sort…are the only group left for which BULLYING is totally allowed, and strongly encouraged.

Fuck these loser snowflakes, all the money in the world, and they’re whining because we aren’t nice enough to them, poor people get all the breaks, it’s just not fair.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
He’s really not going like “Eat The Rich.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I literally gave you a link to the Wiki about it. It’s a real thing. Anyone who has owned a business with investors and a board is familiar with Shareholder Primacy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The government will have to take a major role in that. Reconfiguring the entire direction of the business environment cannot be left to the easily manipulated vagaries of the American consumer. It has to be much more deliberate than that, with targeted laws and vigorous enforcement.

In the future, we must make it uncomfortable to be super wealthy, like needing permission to spend their money on a second yacht. If the commission determines that’s an unreasonable request, the money will be confiscated, and steered to Social programs. Obviously that’s too much money for them to handle responsibly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We dunking on England again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I have an unknown eating disorder, in which it seems impossible to eat anything without dripping it on my shirt. I suspect a lot of others have this disorder as well. It’s a secret American tragedy, hidden in shame.

I actually keep a hand towel in my car (I’ve got dozens of them for my job) and I take it in when I’m eating at Chipotle or something. It embarrasses the shit out of my son, but I always point out that I’d rather look dumb for an hour in a restaurant, than have to look stupid everywhere I go, because I’m wearing my lunch on my shirt.

When we finish, I always show him my “bib,” so I can demonstrate all the drips that would have been on my shirt. He thinks I’m pathetic, but that’s normal.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not that hard. All an “Ethical” CEO would have to do is reduce the profits to 25%, and invest the rest into employee pay and benefits. Then market the shit out of that.

That CEO would be an American Hero, and his company would boom, lifting the share price, and keeping the stockholders happy.

But he wouldn’t have multiple yachts, including one he has to sell, because it was “too big.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You missed my point. The solution isn’t to let them continue to be bad, until someone goes into competition and beat them with a more moral business model. The moral model can’t succeed when they are competing with someone who is exploiting and manipulating the system.

The solution is to create a business environment where the moral business succeeds, while the immoral business struggles, and eventually decides to follow the rules in order to succeed, or close.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
They should be forced to Unionize.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The problem isn’t Amazon, which employer millions of people and provides services that people obviously love. In fact, many cottage businesses have found success on Amazon, as well as many authors being able to publish their books with the permission of the publishing industry, and much more. Why should we get rid of all that? None of that is the problem.

The problem is profit. If Amazon employees made double or triple their salaries, treated them respectfully, and had great benefits, nobody would complain about them. They’d probably be lauded as a great company.

What’s causing it is Bezos’ untreated OCD, which manifests as uncontrolled compulsive financial hoarding. He sucks so much profit out of the business, that it severely hurts the employees, and the company’s corporate image. If he could figure out how to live below his means, he’d find out that he really doesn’t need enough money for a million lifetimes, he could share that money with his employees, make his customers more comfortable buying from Amazon, and they’d make even more money than they were.

Or America could do what they do with uncontrolled hoarders whose collections start to have a negative affect on those around them - we get them mental help, and give all those cats to new families. That’s what we should do with Bezos. Comfine him a mental hospital until his mania for profit subsides, and give all his neglected money to people who will appreciate it. Or nationalize Amazon, and run it as a government held non-profit, with the proceeds going to fund social programs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We dunking on England again⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Fish and Chips is one of the great culinary masterpieces, and so perfectly, elegantly simple, like Italian Red Sauce. I’ll give the Brits full credit on that one.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We dunking on England again⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Beans are a staple side dish of BBQ, one of my very favorite foods, and it is often served with white bread, so we understand what it is. There’s just no reason to put the two together.

Besides, I know that with that first bite, a generous glob of beans is going to drool down the front of my shirt, and piss me off.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We dunking on England again⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah it’s the bread and pasta combo that’s gross, not the Spaghetti-Os, or that horrifying “sauce.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We dunking on England again⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
We Americans have to put up with a lot of justifiable criticism about a lot of American things, but my English dudes, THIS? Even Americans know better.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We dunking on England again⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
NO! It’s not just baked beans from a can, you heathen!

It’s on toast.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We dunking on England again⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Giggity
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your grammar lesson for today⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
That is something up with which I will not put.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your grammar lesson for today⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It ain’t the heat, it’s the humidity.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your grammar lesson for today⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Handy
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your grammar lesson for today⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
So…vexxing?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your grammar lesson for today⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Send this list to Trump. His vocabulary is about 200 words.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relatable⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I meant to sharpen my sword! Now I’ll just be beating people to death all day.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
We don’t need to outlaw the stock market or loans, we just need to change the priorities. Right now, the Board of Directors of a public corporation are obligated by law to make the entire corporate mission to serve the stock price. If they don’t, they can be sued by the stock holders, and they will sue. So they don’t have a choice but to keep doing ANYTHING that makes the stock price go up.

That was decided in Dodge vs Ford , and Shareholder Primacy has been the law ever since. Reforming Walk Street, and regulating profits, would start with limiting Shareholder Primacy.