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From: MeanDog@stonewall.Dash
On 28 Nov 2025 04:15:32 GMT, Brock McNuggets
wrote:
>On Nov 27, 2025 at 6:49:33?PM MST, "chrisv" wrote
>:
>
>> Alan wrote:
>>
>>> You think this is an important metric?
>>
>> It was just an example. I know you're an Apple fanboi, but get over
>> it. Even many "poor" people in this country live easy lives and has
>> luxuries that they dont need. Anyone who is willing to get off their
>> asses and works has the ability to live a decent life. Only an
>> unreasonable dipshit denies it.
>
>Your “example” wasn’t really an example so much as a broad swipe at anyone
>you’ve decided is lazy, which isn’t an argument. And tossing in “Apple fanboi”
>doesn’t make the point any stronger.
>
>The idea that “anyone who works can live a decent life” just doesn’t match
>current economic data. Wages at the bottom haven’t kept pace with housing,
>medical costs, childcare, or transportation for decades. Plenty of people work
>full time and still struggle. Pointing that out isn’t “unreasonable” — it’s
>basic reality.
>
>If you want to talk policy or economics, great. But pretending that structural
>issues don’t exist, and that anyone struggling is just lazy, doesn’t get us
>any closer to an honest discussion.
On the one hand, lefties argue that "po fokes" just don't have
opportunity to get ahead. On the other hand they argue that many
illegal immigrants who arrived here with nothing but the clothes on
their backs and are now paying taxes and contributing the economy.
__
People who engage in activities they call "civil disobedience
are doing the exact opposite of disobedience. They are trying
to make other people obey their demands.
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