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That's funny right there, I don't care who you are.

"Most of them voted for Trump precisely because he promised The Wall to stop illegal immigration. Period. End of story. That was the one, inviolable blood oath that he made with his supporters, that could never, ever be broken."

Yeah, that and bringing back coal jobs and making great deals and making America great again...

Professor Tiger wrote:

Saint wrote:Case in point, go in the Piggly wiggly here and the guys in charge are all slouchy, paunchy white guys. Pretty much total losers except they're white. All other employees - butcher, checkout folks, security, produce - are brown. Now maybe those white guys know more about running a grocery store than any brown applicants but if I was doing the hiring, I wouldn't hire someone as slovenly or by outward appearances as dumb as those knuckleheads, even if it is at fucking Piggly Wiggly. It's like 1957 in there

You went to Piggly Wiggly? What were you thinking? You should have gone to Whole Foods. You would have been served by a young, bespectacled, vaped, tattoo'd, gaged, skinny-jean'ed, man-bunned, alto, androgynous scarecrow. Much more sustainable.

Dude, they ain't no Whole Foods in this town. I wouldn't shop there anyway. Waaaay overpriced.

eCat wrote:

Saint wrote:Case in point, go in the Piggly wiggly here and the guys in charge are all slouchy, paunchy white guys. Pretty much total losers except they're white. All other employees - butcher, checkout folks, security, produce - are brown. Now maybe those white guys know more about running a grocery store than any brown applicants but if I was doing the hiring, I wouldn't hire someone as slovenly or by outward appearances as dumb as those knuckleheads, even if it is at fucking Piggly Wiggly. It's like 1957 in there

I'd agree that the line between the qualifications of the butcher and the assistant manager at piggly wiggly is pretty slim, but then again, its also probably $6K a year difference in pay.
And who would you hire for piggly wiggly management positions? Is there a big pool of highly educated polished labor willing to work 50 hours a week including nights and weekends dealing with rural Americans for $31K a year?

That's my point. There are some brighter young minority kids (or even older ones) who would be happy for that opportunity but the Pig (and maybe other stores but especially PW) always goes for the paunchy, balding white guys with bad teeth and clip on ties to run their stores.

Look on the bright side, that means there's an opportunity for you...

The good news is that it looks like Hillary is going to be the best hope for the neoliberals to regain power in 2020 and that's probably not going to happen. The bad news, aside from the fact that we're not done looking at her soulless and personality-less skank ass on TV, is that there are plenty of other groups out there looking to accomplish the exact same goals. When your society is designed to allow for unfettered greed and unlimited accumulation of wealth and power, you pretty much get what you deserve. In the end all we are is bigger, smarter (only by a little) and slightly less hairy apes doing what has come naturally for 4 billion years, competing for resources. What in god's name did anyone expect would happen with a system like this?

That "soulless and personality-less skank ass" has been a voracious participant in "unfettered greed and unlimited accumulation of wealth and power" her entire adult life.

You sound like a Bernie kinda guy. I like Bernie. At least he is real.

"In the end all we are is bigger, smarter (only by a little) and slightly less hairy apes doing what has come naturally for 4 billion years, competing for resources. What in god's name did anyone expect would happen with a system like this?"

Kinda hard to argue with 4 billion years of results...

from the St. Louis Police Department

If you look, you'll see a statistic that jumps off the page at you

I'm not sure what to make of it, but I can certainly see why there is civil unrest in that city.

http://www.slmpd.org/images/Homicide_St ... ebsite.pdf

Which statistic are you referring to? Out of 144 "instruments used" in all the homicides, 137 of them were firearms?

hedge wrote:Which statistic are you referring to? Out of 144 "instruments used" in all the homicides, 137 of them were firearms?

note, the racial aspect of it.

7 days inside the heroin problem in Cincinnati. This is not an uplifting story.

https://longreads.com/2017/09/12/180-ov ... -one-week/

No one wants to read an uplifting heroin story it seems...

Cletus wrote:7 days inside the heroin problem in Cincinnati. This is not an uplifting story.

https://longreads.com/2017/09/12/180-ov ... -one-week/

its horrible around here and has been for about 5 years. Heroin replaced Meth in spades

I like Bernie because he's the only major candidate that used the language Americans need to hear as far as changing government to work for everyone, not just the rich. Capitalism by its very nature creates highly polarized wealth disparities and requires systematic wealth redistribution, especially in tough times, to keep the little guy from going under and becoming nothing more than a commodity and a wage slave. He has done an incredible job of waking up millions of Americans to this basic fact. He's more or less just a New Deal Democrat from years past but is considered a radical lefty today due to how far out on the right wing the middle has shifted (labelling himself a Democratic socialist was definitely not wise imo considering the anti-socialism propaganda that is pervasive in our system). Having said that, his foreign policy is not all that progressive. He voted in favor of all kinds of military expenditures, voted in favor of all the pro-Israel appropriations bills, and worst of all, ultimately steered the "for the people" revolution into the hands of an establishment and therefore counter-revolution party. This is unacceptable.

Hillary sez Bernie was reason #27 why she didn't win the election. Right behind sexism and ahead of global warming on that list. Which is really funny since she colluded with the DNC to rig the primaries against him.

Bernie thinks he's Santa clause.

...and folks like tree believe it.

With the goal of eventually doing away with the Constitution, you must first discredit its framers.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/36871/