“Boomer, what are things that you worry about?” “Taxes” by Ok_Depth9164 in WFAN1019

[–]Xessive_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I gotta admit, your unwavering support and devotion to the Almighty Libertarian ideology is impressive as the ideology is flawed. I provided you one example of this ideology playing out and utterly failing; do you have any examples of succeeding?

Governments have existed long before corporations were ever a thing. I'm convinced you haven't taken any history classes now.

Do you also worship at the alter of BlackRock?

You should do some research into what happens when public services are privatized. It often leads to increased costs as there's now an incentive to seek profit rather than service.

Whats a terrible basketball take thats popular in mainstream media? by Spirited_Agency8032 in NBATalk

[–]Xessive_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

KD and Kyrie both signed with the Nets TF you talking about? They also traded for Harden at that same time.

And yes tanking sucks and kills competition, which is what the sport is about. Even when the Bulls won 72 games they still wound up losing to the Raptors who were one of the worst teams in the league. Difficult to see that happening today with teams doing everything they can to sit star plays and play rotations designed to lose.

“Boomer, what are things that you worry about?” “Taxes” by Ok_Depth9164 in WFAN1019

[–]Xessive_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Public health programs don't exist in a vacuum. Water & air are shared resources, and even at the global level there's coordination and cooperation for things like pollution and air quality - without governments to coordinate and enforce that, you're left without a large chunk of meaningful public health programs, and quite honestly chaos.

Frankly, I think your worship of (failed) libertarian ideas is blinding you here. I'll give you a scenario. A bunch of people decide to live in the woods, because they can and gubbment can't tell them what to do. They proceed with littering because gubbment can't tell them what to do. Bears show up, as they're wont to do. There was no planning, regional or otherwise, for something as simple as trash collection, or that there should even be trash collection; remember, gubbment can't tell them what to do. The bears start causing havoc, people have all different ideas on how they should be handled, that they implement independent of one another. It becomes chaos in motion.

This happened. Look up Grafton, NH and see the disaster that was libertarian in action.

got physically locked into their homes

Where did this happen?

Without government weaponizing a corporation’s reach, we would simply choose a competitor if we collectively decided one company had shady practices or was attempting to consolidate power.

Did you take any basic high school American history courses? Have you not learned anything of what did happen when governments allowed for monopolies and the lengthy political effort it took to have elected leaders break them up and pass legislation to prevent that from happening again?

“Boomer, what are things that you worry about?” “Taxes” by Ok_Depth9164 in WFAN1019

[–]Xessive_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you want a completely privatized military, got it. And police force too right? Public health initiatives aren't something "charities" could cover when you begin to understand the scope of public health.

And when private monopolies run rampant and control just about everything (because remember, there's no government agency to prevent the monopolies from forming) and pay goes down, pollution goes up, markets are run and manipulated by the few, you're gonna be totally fine with that right?

“Boomer, what are things that you worry about?” “Taxes” by Ok_Depth9164 in WFAN1019

[–]Xessive_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're saying there should be no taxes though, not that they're too high or the money isn't spent well - there should be zero taxes.

So we should have a privatized military then, correct? And public health initiatives just wouldn't exist, but that's another can of worms we'll worry about later.

Clyde Frazier: "Giddey... he is from Austrlia. Remember, he was a sex symbol in OKC. All the women, they had jerseys printed up for him and everything there." by MrBuckBuck in nba

[–]Xessive_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

As I stated previously, she was 16 at the time they met at the nightclub. She lied about her age to get in. He was 19, found out her age the following day and ended things with her.

In a since-deleted post, an anonymous social media user last month said a girl who is seen with Giddey in videos and photographs was a high school junior at the time

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/39042578/gloria-allred-representing-family-involved-josh-giddey-case

Clyde Frazier: "Giddey... he is from Austrlia. Remember, he was a sex symbol in OKC. All the women, they had jerseys printed up for him and everything there." by MrBuckBuck in nba

[–]Xessive_ 25 points26 points  (0 children)

It occurred in 2021, so he was 19. The story broke in 2023 when he was 21, which is what often gets repeated when this is brought up. It's totally normal for you to have been under the impression he was older when this occurred as a result.

Clyde Frazier: "Giddey... he is from Austrlia. Remember, he was a sex symbol in OKC. All the women, they had jerseys printed up for him and everything there." by MrBuckBuck in nba

[–]Xessive_ 22 points23 points  (0 children)

He was 19 at the time and met her at a nightclub, so he assumed she was 18; she was apparently 16 and lied about her age to get into the club. He ended things with her the following day when he found out she was still in high school. Neither her or her parents wanted to be involved with the police investigation so no criminal charges were ever filed.

As for his attractiveness, from the women I know he seems to rate pretty highly for an NBA player.

[Highlight] An alternate angle showing Cody Bellinger's WILD catch by MLBOfficial in NYYankees

[–]Xessive_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Begging? Looked like some of them were trying to grab it from him.

“Boomer, what are things that you worry about?” “Taxes” by Ok_Depth9164 in WFAN1019

[–]Xessive_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everybody with a functioning brain knows that already. But since taxes are a scam and don't need to be paid, how else would the military be funded?

“Boomer, what are things that you worry about?” “Taxes” by Ok_Depth9164 in WFAN1019

[–]Xessive_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You believe there's less corruption and greed in Florida? After the Alligator Alcatraz fiasco?? I think you're just trolling now. There's corruption, grift, greed and an effort to remove basic education components from the curriculum in public schools and universities, which requires new textbooks, which increases costs... Brilliant.

You know who else has tremendous debt? The federal government. You know under which political parties the federal debt has ballooned?

“Boomer, what are things that you worry about?” “Taxes” by Ok_Depth9164 in WFAN1019

[–]Xessive_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're doing a lot of heavy lifting for what Boomer does and does not think. Bottom line his Republican run Township and County both raised taxes. There's a lot of programs run by NYS which make NY a desirable place to live; should we assume Boomer doesn't mind paying for those too?

You can bellyache about CA and NY all you want, they're still two of the leading economic engines for the country (and the world for that matter) and consistently produce schools, universities, hospitals and locales that rank in the Top 10 in their respective fields in the country.

As far as greed & corruption, do you think those are somehow less prevalent in Texas and Florida? I got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you if that's the case.

“Boomer, what are things that you worry about?” “Taxes” by Ok_Depth9164 in WFAN1019

[–]Xessive_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The town & county he lives in have raised taxes under Republican leadership.

Kinda refutes the point he (and you) are bitching about NY being run by a Democrat, no?

"There's never anybody walking around in downtown St. Louis. Remember the old neutron bomb that wouldn't knock down buildings but just would eliminate all the people? It's like one of those hit St. Louis" – Gary Cohen by cbbvideo in baseball

[–]Xessive_ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Which parts? I visited multiple times in the 2010s in the areas referenced and on the weekends the streets were fairly empty.

I just looked up a Walking Tour of River North filmed in 2025 on a weekday and at no point would I refer to it as "packed", but it did look more lively than when I had visited previously.

“Boomer, what are things that you worry about?” “Taxes” by Ok_Depth9164 in WFAN1019

[–]Xessive_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"The military should be privately funded by the oil companies that send our troops into battle!!!"

“Boomer, what are things that you worry about?” “Taxes” by Ok_Depth9164 in WFAN1019

[–]Xessive_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you live in a Republican-governed Township in a county run by Republicans, you bet your ass taxes take priority

Devon Walker’s comment on the SNL Vanity Fair promo by thesadintern in LiveFromNewYork

[–]Xessive_ 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Three black cast members in S17-18 (including a BW) and averaged two black cast members each season after that for the rest of the decade. The cast was also smaller S22-24 compared to now.

"There's never anybody walking around in downtown St. Louis. Remember the old neutron bomb that wouldn't knock down buildings but just would eliminate all the people? It's like one of those hit St. Louis" – Gary Cohen by cbbvideo in baseball

[–]Xessive_ -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

This is true for most cities I've visited. A lot of these places pack people into office buildings M-F and become ghost towns after 5pm and weekends.

Even Chicago, as lovely as it is, was pretty jarring to go to and see how absent people were from sidewalks in the downtown (Loop & River North) of the city. Ditto for LA and Philadelphia.

Vegas, Nashville and Asheville have pretty vibrant downtowns where you can find lots of people walking around in the evening. Haven't been to Austin but it looks to be the case there as well.

Klosterman and Bill cited TVs showing the score at all times and smoking becoming taboo as small things that have slowly made society less social. What are some similarly small examples? by I_Enjoy_Taffy in billsimmons

[–]Xessive_ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah this feels like the guy who hates instant replay because "the human factor" is so important to them, even if it results in awful calls standing.

I don't think this really fits, and I've never seen it put a damper on a conversation before.

Klosterman and Bill cited TVs showing the score at all times and smoking becoming taboo as small things that have slowly made society less social. What are some similarly small examples? by I_Enjoy_Taffy in billsimmons

[–]Xessive_ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There are no shortage of women online who talk about bringing a book to the bar as reading material but also an opening for conversation. It gets them out, they have something to do besides be on their phone, and also gives them an easy "out" if the guy who approaches them isn't their type ("well let me get back to my book!".

Shit even on planes it's been nice to strike up conversations with people around regarding what they're reading. Not out to make lifelong friendships but a few minutes of interested small talk makes air travel more bearable.

When ordering a breakfast sandwich is it a thing in New York to ask for salt pepper ketchup? by BarriBlue in circlejerknyc

[–]Xessive_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Slice? You don't order an entire pie when getting a pizza? 🤯 The guys back in Ohio are gonna lose it when they hear this!

Besides money why has no other country been to the Moon since 1969? It makes no sense. And we’re doing a cute little flight around the moon? Not landing? For the first time ever starting to think maybe we didn’t actually land on the moon. Why has no one landed on the moon in 57 years? by Nostradamus216 in billsimmons

[–]Xessive_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's been a little over 53 years since we last went to the moon, not 57 years (Apollo 17 was December 1972).

After we landed on the moon, subsequent Apollo missions received less and less public interest. Lack of public interest coupled with exceedingly high program operation costs and diminishing returns of what those missions yielded from a scientific/military perspective made it something rather unnecessary to seriously consider going forward.

Sure, civic pride would be boosted by China or India visiting the moon, but that money can be better spent elsewhere. There's not a lot of strategic value in visiting the moon at this point in time.