mcbruiser3

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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
please feel free to start up a coop then. nothing is stopping you and your friends from doing that. have at it, and good luck. edit: apparently some people don't like this comment because it means you have to help yourself instead of t
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
only fair if you reduce the tax burden dramatically as well. this would not just impact "evil landlords" but most of middle class as well. and who is "we" exactly?
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
I love how some folks complain about paying rent as if they have no choices, as if they're somehow indentured servants or serfs beholden to the landed gentry or something. The truth is you do have choices, even in tough times. Find a w
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
common sense requires no supporting evidence.
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
inherited wealth often disappears by the third generation
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
> Did that money come into their hands completely voluntarily? Yes, if it's in the form of an investment. An investment is a risk, and like it or not, investments are a vital part of any economy. In may cases investments are how sma
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
who lives on $500 a month? and the economy will simply adjust to absorb this increase anyway, so hence my comment about zero benefits. also, for young people at least, "shitty" jobs build character, which seems ever more critical
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
net result being an increase in taxes on many (or at least mid-to-high earners) with zero benefits to society, only a built-in voting block for those who enable this edit: if I wanted upvotes I'd jump on the socialism/communism ba
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
but the entire society DOES reap rewards, in the form of taxes on profit and contribution to the progress of mankind.
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
why do we have to use google? there are other search engines. I just started using bing only because I just started using Windows 10 for the first time and it comes preloaded with edge which defaults to bing. I've hardly noticed a diff
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
totally agree. also not sure people should be going to jail for it (live and let live) but increasing availability by putting into every corner 7/11 is ridiculous. sometimes I think all this is happening to keep the voting public dumb
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
omg tobacco is totally different from psychedelics, come on. and glue? seriously? glue has a practical purpose other than getting high. what are mushrooms good for outside of getting stoned?
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
who gets to decide what's censored? you?
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
I have to say, this article comes off as pretty biased. Gauging the future of VR by comparing it to social / mobile gaming adoption is a false comparison and just makes the author look dumb. First of all, the author mainly writes about
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
what something is seen as is largely shaped by politicians jockeying for power and muckraking journalists whoring their principals for clicks. edit: again with the downvotes? is this not largely true? I think you give most people too much c
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
Yep. Stuff like this gets twisted and distorted and then whipped up by politicians, pundits and "journalists" in order to get votes, viewers and clicks. It's disgusting. edit: downvote? what's to downvote? seriously? don
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
cloudfare CEO refuses to remove ISIS sites: "CEO of CloudFlare, Matthew Prince, said that his company would not be blocking its service to websites listed, as it would mean submitting to "mob rule"." [1] double standard
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
are there any antifa sites being blocked or denied service? don't they incite violence in the name of ideology?
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
since when is breitbart equivalent to hate speech? has anyone here even read it? I have, and it looks like it's just a bunch of news that would be interesting to conservative types. I see no evidence of "hate speech". are you
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
yes, he's actively trying to change the country
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
because... they can't handle being offended? are people really that delicate?
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
um, why is this being downvoted? does anyone seriously want to live in a censored world? seriously? man, we're more doomed than I thought :(
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
because it takes balls to stick up for freedom these days and let's be honest, most people just don't have the balls these days. fear is winning.
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
the difficulty with shades of gray wrt to free speech is that what is intolerable is a matter of opinion and I don't trust ANYONE to make that decision for me. free speech must be absolute, so yes, in this case it is black and white, s
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
you can thank the MSM and social networks (FB) for stoking the fires for the sake of ratings and clicks.
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
> than any other form of redistribution you might think of. and why do we need to do redistribution of any sort? I think that's what Libertarians are opposed to.
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
because humans are emotional creatures and people on both sides are being whipped into a frenzy by the media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckraker
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
considering how hard Zuck is pushing for this, then sure, let him put his money where his mouth is... oh, you want other people to pay for your lefty ideas? I see.
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
a) 2FA or b) use the "forgot my password" option every time
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by mcbruiser3 9y ago
OK, great. Will look for a reply with a link.

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