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Post by worlder on Oct 9, 2011 22:10:02 GMT -5
Some people, many of whom also belong to the 99%, are mocking these people, often picking on minor spelling errors (ad hominem style) or mocking them for being "only 40k in debt" as if that was so easy to overcome. I don't want to go on VeryDemotivational anymore... And some "people" are advocating violence against the protesters: freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2788370/posts?page=22#22Beware the nice ones. Despite the right sometimes showing up with many guns in hand... But they never use them. The left show up with nothing but their signs and banners. Yet they will literally "fight for their rights" with whatever they could find. Imagine what would happen if we packed heat.
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Post by RavynousHunter on Oct 9, 2011 22:16:54 GMT -5
It'd basically be a modernized recreation of Lu Bu's betraying Dong Zhuo.
(I only say that because your sigpic, worlder, makes me think of Lu Bu saying "VERMIN!" every time I see it.)
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Post by Vene on Oct 9, 2011 22:19:22 GMT -5
Ahh, yes, "libtard." Good to see your education's been put to good use. Hmm...unemployment in the UK seems to be around 4% - 6% on average (eyeballing it) while in the USA it's around 9% or a little over. Also, college tuition in the UK is around £3,000 pounds ($4,675.82 USD [€3,476.66 EUR]) on average where-as the average in the USA is anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 dollars (£3,207.70 to £6,415.56 GBP [€3,717.13 to €7,434.82 EUR]). And when minimum wage here in the USA is still sitting at $7.25 (£4.65 GBP [€5.39 EUR]) an hour as opposed to the UK's £6.08 ($9.47 USD [€7.046 EUR]), you'll see why I am less than impressed with your "Suck it up" attitude. For more fun, look at the US and look at Britain. And I really think this chart shows exactly what the 99%ers are protesting.
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Post by worlder on Oct 9, 2011 22:24:37 GMT -5
Ahh, yes, "libtard." Good to see your education's been put to good use. Hmm...unemployment in the UK seems to be around 4% - 6% on average (eyeballing it) while in the USA it's around 9% or a little over. Also, college tuition in the UK is around £3,000 pounds ($4,675.82 USD [€3,476.66 EUR]) on average where-as the average in the USA is anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 dollars (£3,207.70 to £6,415.56 GBP [€3,717.13 to €7,434.82 EUR]). And when minimum wage here in the USA is still sitting at $7.25 (£4.65 GBP [€5.39 EUR]) an hour as opposed to the UK's £6.08 ($9.47 USD [€7.046 EUR]), you'll see why I am less than impressed with your "Suck it up" attitude. For more fun, look at the US and look at Britain. And I really think this chart shows exactly what the 99%ers are protesting. Huh who made that? Also what's the source of data?
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Post by Aqualung on Oct 9, 2011 22:37:17 GMT -5
Ahh, yes, "libtard." Good to see your education's been put to good use. Hmm...unemployment in the UK seems to be around 4% - 6% on average (eyeballing it) while in the USA it's around 9% or a little over. Also, college tuition in the UK is around £3,000 pounds ($4,675.82 USD [€3,476.66 EUR]) on average where-as the average in the USA is anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 dollars (£3,207.70 to £6,415.56 GBP [€3,717.13 to €7,434.82 EUR]). And when minimum wage here in the USA is still sitting at $7.25 (£4.65 GBP [€5.39 EUR]) an hour as opposed to the UK's £6.08 ($9.47 USD [€7.046 EUR]), you'll see why I am less than impressed with your "Suck it up" attitude. For more fun, look at the US and look at Britain. And I really think this chart shows exactly what the 99%ers are protesting. Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn. That's just.....Daaaaaamn.
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Post by RavynousHunter on Oct 9, 2011 22:41:08 GMT -5
Occupy Venezuela!
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Post by Vene on Oct 9, 2011 22:43:49 GMT -5
For more fun, look at the US and look at Britain. And I really think this chart shows exactly what the 99%ers are protesting. Huh who made that? Also what's the source of data? Page 8
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Post by Aqualung on Oct 9, 2011 23:01:33 GMT -5
And if you're making minimum wage or working very part time it's even higher. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
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Post by ironbite on Oct 10, 2011 0:15:45 GMT -5
Well I'm moving to Japan to get a job.
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Post by Damen on Oct 10, 2011 0:31:28 GMT -5
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Post by Thejebusfire on Oct 10, 2011 0:42:09 GMT -5
Holy shit! Why wasn't I born in Japan?
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Post by Art Vandelay on Oct 10, 2011 0:51:18 GMT -5
Holy shit! Why wasn't I born in Japan? On the bright side. Unlike the Japs, Americans don't get raped by seafood on a daily basis. Scientific fact, that.
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Post by Damen on Oct 10, 2011 0:59:51 GMT -5
But that's just how they say "Hello." Be tolerant of other cultures, thou bigot!
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Post by Mantorok on Oct 10, 2011 1:04:47 GMT -5
Australia's minimum wage is higher. AUD15.51 (USD15.25) per hour or AUD18.77 (USD18.45) per hour for casual employees.
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Post by ltfred on Oct 10, 2011 2:14:26 GMT -5
back when upward mobility was still possible in this country.) This idea of upward mobility being lessened/gone is fairly nonsensical tbh a fully measurable and demonstable economic trend sine 1980. The idea that upward mobility 'doesn't matter' or 'hasn't been changing' is just false, for the same reason that blaming the unemployed for being lazy is silly: mobility and unemployment are rates, not choices. "By international standards, the United States has an unusually low level of intergenerational mobility… Among high-income countries for which comparable estimates are available, only the United Kingdom had a lower rate of mobility than the United States" www.americanprogress.org/issues/2006/04/b1579981.htmlIn a high-mobility country like Sweden, the hardest working get the best jobs. This is what low mobility means: if two equally hard-working people, one rich and one poor, compete for a job, the rich person almost always gets it. In the US, the rich person always gets it. In a very low-mobility society like the US and UK, poor people cannot get rich-people jobs, because they cannot afford to go to university to get through the hoops deliberately placed in their path. Class discrimination is like race discrimination- if you mke a superhuman effort, the odd person might make a good wage. But it's still unjust, because there's a double standard- if you're poor your standard for success is much higher than if you're rich, which is not acceptable. It's also inefficient, because over-privilaged wealthy can happily fail upwards in their protected industries without being forced tto properly compete for spots. And it's criminally evil because it leaves a huge population of people who, through no fault of their own, are not supermen to unemployment.
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