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Captainant

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  1. 8 hours ago, Mighty fine said:

    There are two separate youtube channels I follow , Patrick Boyle and Coffeezilla, which have some petty good videos with a lot of investigative background and general commentary on this.

    Coffee has been going buckwild with all the cryptofrauds and conmen and dumb money floating around. He's been great for shining a light into that dark corner of the internet 

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  2. 31 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

    Dark Brandon wins again:

    General Motors Reaches Tentative Agreement With UAW, Potentially Ending 6-Week Strike

    General Motors and the United Auto Workers union have reached a tentative contract agreement that could end a six-week-old strike against Detroit automakers.
    TOM KRISHER and FRANK BAJAK

    Thank god, last time Biden broke a strike in favor of the corporations we had a massive fucking toxic train derailment a couple weeks later

  3. 2 hours ago, Bullneck said:

    (Edit:  @Captainant Interesting that you didn't address the other, more lengthy parts of my post and concentrated on one sentence.  Why?  What do you think will or should become of Hamas?)

    I don't quite get your contradictory statements of wanting "truth and reconciliation", while also advocating for total annihilation. I think Hamas is going to be turned into meat paste, along with the women and children who have been living in an apartheid state in Gaza under Israel. 

    I don't know what should happen. It's a bigger fucking conflict than any of us, and it's older than western society itself. But I do know that Israel running the US antiterrorism playbook isn't going to do dick to reduce terrorism. From observation, it seems to make for more fertile ground for more terrorists. Which seems counterproductive in the long term. 

  4. 4 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

    This will only happen after every member of Hamas is dead.

    Aaaaand this sort of thinking is how you sow the seeds of the next cycle of violence

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  5. 51 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    This would also be a great time to have an honest conversation about how the Palestinians in the levant are incredibly poor and have lousy living conditions….while their leaders have amassed literally billions of dollars in personal wealth and live lives of luxury in Qatar. Instead of improving the lives of Palestinians in Gaza, they’ve been funneling piles of money, intended to fund basics and infrastructure for the people, to themselves. We won’t be talking about that, either.

    I mean shit, we don't even talk about that happening here in the south. Sure, our oligarchs and religious zealot leaders don't live in Qatar, but Florida is working to get up to that level of shitty and inhumane

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  6. 31 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

    They don't I am just trying to see what would the Surl think a ceasefire look like. 

     

    Probably gonna have a whole shitload more dead Palestinians before we get anywhere close to one. I don't think either belligerent wants a cease fire due to internal politics, and everyone but the belligerents are horrified by the body count. It's a real shit sandwich. 

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  7. 48 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

    It's wild how badly wall st is reacting to the negotiations - nothing has fundamentally changed but the stock took like a 12% haircut on the announcement. Class warfare seeing the investor class punish Ford for negotiating with the worker class

  8. 7 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

     

    ill go a step further .....

    cop pulls over a young attractive female with no status or DACA. cop threatens the female with instant arrest and deportation, per his discretion. fuck it, he just rapes her and moves one. what can she do ?   nothing 

    fortunately, hot wheels eliminated rape from the state of Texas, no problems there

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  9. Just now, fattyflattie said:

    Well, I’ve owned decent amounts of most of them when it makes sense. Curious you assume that most of their button pushers aren’t shareholders as well. 

    well I'm sure that much like most false equivalencies that you and incredulity and the rest of the surly IDW love to trade on - I'm sure they are shareholders in some form or another. But they are not in the same fucking galaxy of holdings as any of the investor class that are being enriched by buybacks. These are workers who get a total comp of <$75k/yr - that's probably less than half the annual stock payout for a director or VP at a big3 automaker. 

     

    Just because they're getting slivers of crumbs from the investors doesn't mean they should be happy about it, as much as you'd like them to shut up and know their place

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  10. 32 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    I’m not sure about that.  As someone who requires a 3/4-1ton for real life, I don’t see them being replaced. We’ll just grit our teeth, understand your 100k would probably be 70 without the leaches, vote accordingly, and keep hoping they get theirs. 

    It's really funny that you consider the workers building your truck "leaches" but the shareholders getting billions in stock buybacks for producing nothing aren't leeches driving up the cost of your truck.

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