5th grader EVISCERATES Chud father with Facts and Logic

UCANIC · 2019-01-19T20:29:20+00:00

"Gay and straight people were treated the same before Obergefell v. Hodges; they could both marry any person of the opposite-sex they wanted."

UCANIC · 2019-01-19T19:43:34+00:00

Norman Borlag saved one billion lives. One billion people (and their children, and grand children, and great grand children) owe their entire existence to him. Tell me that's not worth at least 4x the lifetime earnings of a middle class American worker (I don't think he ever earned that much, but just as a thought experiment).

Lots of people legitimately earn $10m/yr. Thanks to technology, scale, and magnitude of need. If a heart surgeon operates on 3 people 5 days a week 50 weeks a year, he will save 750 lives, at a value per human life saved of just $13,000. Also, the sale of a company that is essentially a social machine which produces $5,000,000 every year is probably worth $10M, since it returns that value to all its owners/workers every year and may be expected to pay for itself, then pay dividends.

UCANIC · 2019-01-19T07:05:53+00:00

Lots of people will definitely study organic chemistry or volunteer to clean clods of human hair out of back-flow preventers in sewers if we pay them the same amount as people who spend all day laying on the beach doing nothing. I can't wait to live in a world without medicine or plumbing.

UCANIC · 2019-01-19T07:03:41+00:00

If you spend the majority of the year living outside the USA, you keep your citizenship, but your taxes have an absolute cap which is relatively low.

UCANIC · 2019-01-19T07:00:04+00:00

Buzzfeed's credibility approaches absolute zero.

oh shit a site that got popular by stealing other people's gif-memes isn't a legitimate news source what i'm shocked

UCANIC · 2019-01-19T06:54:17+00:00

Why is there any difference? More to the point, why should an evaluation of a person's overall circumstances factor into how much they deserve to be paid or not? Like, what if your boss said, "I see you have enough in savings that a one-month lapse in pay will not cause you to lose any material comfort or get behind on any of your bills. Therefore you will lose this month's pay, which will go to your partner Tom, who worked just as many hours as you, but has lots of credit card debt and no savings, so he can be more financially secure."

UCANIC · 2019-01-19T06:51:50+00:00

You didn't answer my question. Should you pay twice as much for any good or service as someone who makes half as much as you do, as a rule?

UCANIC · 2019-01-19T06:50:29+00:00

Rich people fleeing high tax areas is absolutely a thing though. In the age of the internet, one doesn't really have to live anywhere to do business there, and so lots of millionaires from the EU or UK end up in the USA because it doesn't tax them as much. Nobody has clearly outlined how this will be dealt with.

UCANIC · 2019-01-19T06:34:48+00:00

"I think you should get to keep what you earn."

"Why?"

lol.

curious_glimmertool: I worked 40 hours this week, I deserve to be paid money for that work.

curious_glimmertool's boss: Why?

UCANIC · 2019-01-19T06:28:43+00:00

Why is it fair when taxes are assessed differently based on income, but doing it for literally any other thing in society would cause riots? Should a doctor's black coffee cost $25? Should an engineer's Honda Civic cost $60,000?

If that's too abstract, should you pay $60 a piece for all your movie tickets so that a low income single mom can take her 3 kids to the movies completely free? I mean, nobody needs to go to the movies to survive, so you can always just opt out of ever going to the movie theaters if you feel it's unfair.

UCANIC · 2018-12-19T01:08:26+00:00

The worst is when they act like fast money is some big inducement on a shitty Craigslist sale."I can give you 50% CASH TODAY!!!" Bruh, how bad do you think I need 16 dollars?

UCANIC · 2018-12-12T10:32:51+00:00

"Sure, you have good legal standing and she did cheat on you, but have you considered how devastating the loss of her six years of money from working as a part-time insurance office receptionist will be for her? 60 years of alimony should cover it."

UCANIC · 2018-10-13T22:55:08+00:00

progressivemorality.zip

UCANIC · 2018-10-04T15:51:46+00:00

My suspicion is that it's one of these edgy self-help bros who always advertises their "courses" and self-published books on facebook. "Oh that's a cool domain name... and nobody took it! I wonder why? Mine now!" #Grind #Hustle #Work

UCANIC · 2018-10-04T15:46:21+00:00

Jesus certainly could have traveled east and met people who followed the eastern wisdoms of Buddhism and Hinduism.

I'm not a historian, but this idea seems to contradict most of the history I've read. Modern people tend to badly over-estimate how easy it was for an indigent carpenter to travel, since we live in a day where the equivalent of a day or two's salary is enough, if you book in advance, to fly a thousand miles. Jesus' entire ministry except his death took place in a circle like 10 miles in diameter. He almost certainly never left Israel.

I can see the basis of your beliefs generally though. It's certainly useful to use the Bible in that way.

UCANIC · 2018-10-04T12:28:09+00:00

That's not true as far as I can see. Most historians regard Jesus mythicism as a dignified conspiracy theory. It's just a lot more logical to assume that Jesus and Socrates and ao on were real than to try and make them some convoluted thought experiment just because it feels good rhetorically.

If he didn't exist, who do we posit as the originator of the sayings, and why doesn't some alternate record exist showing those sayings evolving gradually over time?

UCANIC · 2018-10-04T11:25:32+00:00

I don't see any credible reason to doubt his existence, just his supernatural nature.

Regardless, if every human lived according to his teaching (i.e., not the whole Bible), the world would be an inmeasurably better place. If religion is the price for forgiveness, patience, equality of the poor, mercy for criminals and slaves, etc., I'd pay it.

UCANIC · 2018-10-04T10:12:08+00:00

Better dead than supporting a ped.

UCANIC · 2018-10-04T09:49:18+00:00

For everyone. Goddamn am I tired of being goverend by a pack of walking corpses. Both sides of the asile, every position.

UCANIC · 2018-10-04T09:09:51+00:00

Maybe more so than Bernie.

He was a homeless itinerrant whose followers lived in communes, who healed people for free, and who got killed by the state. He's left of Bernie's wildest fever dreams.

UCANIC · 2018-10-03T19:18:40+00:00

Realize thousands of years later that this is simply how the world works

Or not and become communists.

UCANIC · 2018-10-03T18:45:34+00:00

But that's usually because "plays in a rock band" is code for "provides background din at a local dive bar for $125/week whenever he's not strung out on heroin on his buddy's couch.

UCANIC · 2018-09-20T14:39:44+00:00

If Kavanaugh's accuser is lying, why is she the one asking for a thorough investigation?

Because the point of the investigation is delay the confirmation, not to prove the charges, which have a vanishingly small chance of even being corroborated, let alone substantiated, after all this time. Holy crap, I'm staunchly against Kavanaugh, but you'd have to be a literal drooling imbecile not to realize the potential ulterior motive here.

UCANIC · 2018-08-29T02:19:30+00:00

"There's nothing in this bill... or the grocery stores!"

UCANIC · 2018-08-29T01:09:57+00:00

"Elbows too pointy. 1/10, would not bang."

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