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From: nuh-uh@nope.com
On 2025-11-27 23:58, Collectivists_Always_Fail wrote:
> 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.
Straw...
...man.
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