Post-pandemic changes

[amadeus]

Are you ready to accept your laissez faire fantasies have never ever been anything but laughable?

This beer is tasty, dude or dudette or non-binary dudonomical orientation.

 

[Cloud_Strife]

I’m just Joe Average, sitting here with my beer. I never promised my ideas would be good.

I don't think the Joe Average American has the resources or ability to move halfway around the world, nice little get out clause at the end though, I'm sure you are far away enough to not suffer the impacts of your own ideology though, but we'll see in the end.

 

[amadeus]

I don't think the Joe Average American has the resources or ability to move halfway around the world, nice little get out clause at the end though

I tried to be polite before in the other thread but WOW are you insufferable. I worked hard to get where I am and I don’t owe you an explanation!

 

[Cloud_Strife]

I tried to be polite before in the other thread but WOW are you insufferable. I worked hard to get where I am and I don’t owe you an explanation!

My friend, you've mistaken me for someone who believes in decorum and politeness for the sake of it, I'm not going to be polite to someone whose ideology i view as being repugnant and as a cause of some of the problems the "average American" suffers, you might I however won't.

 

[Estebonrober]

I tried to be polite before in the other thread but WOW are you insufferable. I worked hard to get where I am and I don’t owe you an explanation!

Millions of people work really hard and get nowhere, whether it be discrimination, sickness, a few choice bad decisions, life. So no you don't owe anyone an explanation, but I'm in a country where it basically takes 20 years of perfection to get out of the poverty trap, so I wouldn't expect politeness anymore from working class people.

This is not meant as a personal attack just that the tone is going to get notably worse as the economic shock wave works around and around.

 

[Ajidica]

I'm confused - why are people mad at Amadeus for living in Japan?

 

[amadeus]

I'm confused - why are people mad at Amadeus for living in Japan?

Apparently I can only be working class in my own country.

 

[Estebonrober]

I'm confused - why are people mad at Amadeus for living in Japan?

I'm not I'm pretty sure I made that clear, but well the tenor of discussion is going to be frayed for quite some time here in america where our federal government decided to spend up to 5 trillion on corporations and 250 billion on humans.

 

[Hrothbern]

I'm not I'm pretty sure I made that clear, but well the tenor of discussion is going to be frayed for quite some time here in america where our federal government decided to spend up to 5 trillion on corporations and 250 billion on humans.

The difference with Europe and the EU-countries regarding that ratio is indeed staggering big.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I wonder if the pregnant women will get an extra $500 for their fetus or if the GOP is tacitly admitting that fetuses are not children? Who am I kidding, of course they aren't going to get money for their unborn child.

 

[amadeus]

I wonder if the pregnant women will get an extra $500 for their fetus or if the GOP is tacitly admitting that fetuses are not children? Who am I kidding, of course they aren't going to get money for their unborn child.

Now that raises an interesting question! Because the way it works to my understanding is that the funds are distributed based on dependents as counted by the IRS. Is an unborn baby a dependent?

I hope no one finds this to be offensive, but having a baby living inside the mother’s body... in what sense does that not meet the criteria for “dependent” in the most literal sense of the word?

 

[JPetroski]

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I wonder if the pregnant women will get an extra $500 for their fetus or if the GOP is tacitly admitting that fetuses are not children? Who am I kidding, of course they aren't going to get money for their unborn child.

It's based on your tax return, which I imagine is the fastest way to get it out to people, so, "no," and nice try.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

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It's based on your tax return, which I imagine is the fastest way to get it out to people, so, "no," and nice try.

'Nice try' ?
The GOP is moving to restrict abortions due to the virus. Pointing out their hypocrisy is pretty low effort on my part.

There is no logistical reason they can't pay mothers for their unborn child. Sure, it won't show up in IRS records, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to set up a registry to get people money if they wanted to. But they don't want to, which is the issue I'm pointing out.
@amadeus I don't know if it counts as a dependent. It does for the purposes of getting on food stamps - I think.

 

[JPetroski]

Pretty sure 96 senators just came up with what seemed like the quickest way to get this ball rolling and went with it.

 

[Estebonrober]

Pretty sure 96 senators just came up with what seemed like the quickest way to get this ball rolling and went with it.

Pretty sure the ratio I pointed out should be considered a crime against humanity. 5 Trillion to 250 billion.

 

[JPetroski]

Pretty sure the ratio I pointed out should be considered a crime against humanity. 5 Trillion to 250 billion.

Fine, but it's a bipartisan one!

 

[bernie14]

I'm confused - why are people mad at Amadeus for living in Japan?

Usually a combo of envy and self loathing

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Pretty sure 96 senators just came up with what seemed like the quickest way to get this ball rolling and went with it.

You know it is very easy to put language in a bill to the effect of:
Someone [some agency] figure out this one part about fetuses.

 

[Estebonrober]

Fine, but it's a bipartisan one!

This is true, democrats due not lack for corruption, they just don't measure up to the GOP on that field.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

People wouldn't hate corporations half as much if they weren't very good at accomplishing what they set out to do. They can do this, and they will.

LOL...the only person on the planet other than you that is even pretending they are interested in doing this is Dingbat Donny. Cars aren't 3d printed. You don't get to just "load in a new program" and turn a vehicle assembly line moving two ton mostly metal automobiles through an assembly process into on injection molder making plastic casings to fill with electronics and a pump. Dingbat Donny might actually be so out of touch with reality that he is stuck at "well, it's a machine and they make machines," but I don't believe that you are and I know that I'm not.