Oh look, a dangling carrot.

I will continue to support and vote for anyone that promises this (with a real plan), but I have given up hope on aging in this country with access to healthcare. I have accepted that I will get by with what I can afford and die before I need to. But not before suffering and watching everyone I love suffer more than they need to. All so that these healthcare execs and politicians can buy…more than they need to.

It’s because a long time ago those in power realized they can literally create more of those politically slow people on purpose, by starving them of education and feeding them nonstop propaganda about never looking behind the curtain.

Now they have a dumb, submissive electorate that can’t stop electing them even if they wanted to. We’re trapped, and we’ll have to gnaw our own leg off to get out.

I mean all I literally tried to say was “it’s a little bit millennials vs. boomers”, which you seemed to take as a direct challenge, and had to “well acccccctually” argue against, for some reason. I actually never disagreed with your overall point, I only “straw manned” when it was clear you’d dug your heels in and weren’t reading the actual point of my comments and needed everything in black and white. You really weren’t presenting your argument with much wiggle room at all.

Okay dude, Millennials are no better than boomers, got it. Everyone is the same in every generation…only once you achieve $500k per year do you become hateful and evil

Money is the only thing that corrupts, and the evidence I see of younger people voting differently than older people, and younger people next to me in the protests means nothing. The kind loving boomer neighbors of mine are probably also in that crowd of protestors somewhere, I just missed every single one of them when I looked…

You’re not wrong that it’s rich vs poor first and foremost. But you’re lying to yourself if you think boomers aren’t actively harming younger generations, and that younger generations are totally fine with it.

Okay yes let’s unpack it, please

What percentage of “the people who have a vested interest in making sure the poor fight each other” do you think are boomers, and what percentage are millennials? And of those millennials, what percentage of them are acting on behalf of, and/or dependent on a mega powerful boomer?

And to be fair I said a little bit.

It’s a little bit boomers vs. millennials, based on the boomers and the millennials I have encountered

It would 1000% be written by grok

75 is when you’re done being a junior contributor, another decade and Chuck will be ready to think about running for president

Yes, it’s a natural part of their life cycle

It’s a charade, they’ll endorse him and vote for him again. This is all about optics and they’ve been given permission to do this. They’ll ensnare a bunch of “reasonable” Republicans that are unhappy with trump and tease them with a few Romney types, then drop the charade and say “we know it sucks but we need to circle the wagons around Trump to defeat SoCiAlIsM”

It’s just corralling people back into the right pasture

Cool, let’s fuckin make them do that bullshit then.

I’m tired of going “well if we fight back, they’ll just fight back”. Like yeah, they are actively fighting us. We are in a fight. We’re being punched in the face. If we punch them, they will punch us. If we don’t punch them, they will still punch us.

I’m tired of being punched. I want to punch.

The ‘extra’ money comes from jacking up the prices in other items in the same store, like candy and sodas. And from not spending as much money on other stuff like marketing and bonuses.

There are two sides to the profit equation: expenses and revenue.

In order for a store to make more profit, they can either increase their revenue (by raising prices, for example), or they can decrease their expenses (by laying people off, buying from cheaper suppliers, or paying executives less, for example).

So these stores are lowering prices on some items. And making it up by some combination of RAISING prices on other items, and LOWERING their costs in other areas like marketing, executive bonuses, etc.

Hope that helps.

Time to switch to a CD

I think it’s about the trolling, not truly wanting Obama back in the seat.

“all in favor of appointing this pile of burning wreckage to a critical government position say aye”

“And the ayes have it with a unanimous vote. Great work everyone, please remember to unfurrow your brow by tomorrow or it might get stuck like that.”