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scoobdog

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  1. But, it's not just drug use with the occasional head injury. Drug use is notoriously capable of disguising other psychological conditions, so you can't help but worry that CTE is a bigger factor in these deaths even though pro wrestling is supposed to be choreographed enough to reduce that danger.
  2. I will say this... I totally see her boss changing her bonus to stock options so he can keep her happy while he bleeds the company dry and sends it to bankruptcy.
  3. They're missing out on that super friendly call from Netanyahu.
  4. Bro... you can't fuck a murderer to death when he's in prison. What's even the point?
  5. That is so hot.
  6. How many arab hostages is Israel rescuing again?
  7. It's alarming, to say the least.
  8. That isn't what she's implementing. Granted, it's debatable whether you will survive on whatever retirement package you have, but she won't be targeting 401ks, government bonds or any other retirement account that, in fact, constitutes a realized gain. Your idea of wealth building is way different than someone who's on the cover of Fortune 500. What she's targeting is stock options - you know, the thing that Elon Musk used to artificially inflate his net worth. He and his ilk use those options to hide their wealth from taxes by not cashing them in while using them as to bolster their wealth and influence. Musk used his artificially inflated wealth in the form of Tesla stock options to purchase Twitter, and we all know how spectacularly bad that was. He likely would not have done that if he was forced to pay taxes on stock options he would not ordinarily have had to pay taxes on until he sold them.
  9. Trump plans to get rid of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit. Guess that means you're losing that $100 bonus anyway.
  10. When was the last time your company "made a profit" though? Honestly, your paltry bonus has no effect on the country's tax intake, especially when you get one maybe once in five years. Your boss, who unsurprisingly is the one that determines whether you made a profit or whether all of that extra money coming in is going to undefined overhead, gets a bonus every year because his bonuses aren't performance based. You can bet that your boss is very very happy that you support Trump, though,
  11. How are people struggling more?
  12. No, it isn’t. You mean Trump? Hitler.
  13. That’s because Hitler was charming and liked animals. Otherwise, Trump = Hitler.
  14. Yes, because this country is somehow so much worse than it was when Biden took office.
  15. Will you murder the murderer with sex?
  16. FIRST!
  17. If only you were this forceful with your dates.
  18. He’s been bitching about having his free speech suppressed for years, just like the pasty, doughy white bastard that he is.
  19. I haven’t heard that, and it wouldn’t make sense for him to do it.
  20. Perhaps another tease for those who are curious. Our team events will feature some interesting group activities. Maybe you’ve seen the posts with my ugly mug asking for votes. Naturally the goal isn’t too embarrass anyone, but we do encourage good natured banter. Everyone gets access to one of two exclusive clubs where you can hang out and chat with your new teammates.
  21. Same here. I regret I didn’t have the chance to get to know him. My conodolences.
  22. Seriously, I think Distrorted's reasoning is no different than Nabs - he'e more interested in razing the entire political establishment and building it back in an ideal image he hasn't actually formulated yet. There are few key markers that indicate this: (1) the fact he goes after liberals more aggressively than conservatives, (2) his shared belief in the main stream media conspiracy complex, and (3) his insistence that the masses on both sides are "brainwashed." He's not particularly unique in being frustrated that the current system doesn't have the implements to alter human behavior, and, like most such malcontents, he conveniently forgets that the idiosyncratic devices that have given a comparative minority outsized power are invaluable when the majority harbors problematic behavior. The government we have right now is specifically designed to compensate for populism; the evidence of that is the very people who are in a position to exploit the system have repeatedly sought to undermine it and overturn it when those exploits fail. Most people would agree that having a system like that isn't just a sign of weakness, but a tacit admission that human beings are fallible. Where Distorted might differ from the rest of us is that he lacks empathy. While we can calculate the risk of government collapse to include the millions of underserved and underrepresented people, he can not. For him, there is no down side to voting for a candidate that has no chance of winning because, like with conservatives that embrace a demagog Trump, the people who suffer most from a collapse are just numbers. It's been a huge problem with Democrats for years, negotiating a coexistence between a party that includes a lot of disparate and disagreeing voices while still creating a unified platform to enact effective and comparatively harmless legislation. He might say it's pointless to bash Republicans because everyone does it, but he really chooses to back Democrats more because they listen to people that disagree with him and expect him to sacrifice for the greater good. It's goes hand-in-hand with the idea that major news outlets are conspiring to suppress voices, and it all leads to the idea that its easier to digest a world where opinions don't matter as much as achieving the one objectively true goal.
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