Tails82
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Post by Tails82 on Jul 3, 2013 6:19:41 GMT -5
Where's the one about Argentina starting conflicts and then getting its butt kicked?
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Tails82
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Post by Tails82 on Jul 13, 2013 11:42:44 GMT -5
261 is good for something now and then
“If unions raise wage rates in a particular occupation or industry, they necessarily make the amount of employment available in that occupation or industry less than it otherwise would be - just as any higher price cuts down the amount purchased. The effect is an increased number of persons seeking other jobs, which forces down wages in other occupations. Since unions have generally been strongest among groups that would have been high-paid anyway, their effect has been to make high-paid workers higher paid at the expense of lower-paid workers. Unions have therefore not only harmed the public at large and workers as a whole by distorting the use of labor; they have also made the incomes of the working class more unequal by reducing the opportunities available to the most disadvantaged workers.” - Milton Friedman
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Post by Chromeo on Jul 13, 2013 12:11:59 GMT -5
'I'd say literally anything to suck the cock of free market capitalism' - Milton Friedman
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Post by Chromeo on Jul 13, 2013 20:10:30 GMT -5
NARRATOR: Meanwhile life continues to worsen for the people of the Niger Delta. At the end of our visit to Port Harcourt, the bulldozers and their police escorts moved in to demolish what was left of this shantytown. Pastor Lekia’s church was one of the first buildings to come crashing down, leaving him and the families he’d been sheltering, homeless.
PASTOR LEKIA: The oil boom has turned into the oil doom! Oil boom has turned, to the oil doom! What next? What can we do!? Look at all these people! They are counting on me. I have no money! I have nothing!
WOMEN WEEPING: I need help... I need help! Look at my two children - nowhere to stay! I need help!
NARRATOR: The children of the oil boom no longer expect help from their governments or the west.
i can't ever stop fighting, even if i can't change anything
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Post by Chromeo on Jul 15, 2013 21:46:40 GMT -5
youtu.be/irb3r4GipTE?t=2m56si wonder what i meant by this post (me? attention seeking? does that sound like something I would do?) i'll never live up to my own standards or amount to shit
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Post by Jordan Ω on Jul 15, 2013 21:47:52 GMT -5
Please don't do that. I care.
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Post by Chromeo on Jul 15, 2013 21:50:48 GMT -5
Don't worry, I could never. I'm too much of a pussy. I just wish there was some way fate could conspire to let me go out like a hero. Die saving someone worth a damn, or someone with a future ahead of them. I don't know. Everything is just so hard.
(my favourite bit about that segment is his voice breaking when he says it the second time, not brave in the face of death/his future turning to shit but pathetic and broken and scared... just like me)
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Post by Jordan Ω on Jul 15, 2013 22:10:33 GMT -5
Don't worry, I could never. I'm too much of a pussy. I just wish there was some way fate could conspire to let me go out like a hero. Die saving someone worth a damn, or someone with a future ahead of them. I don't know. Everything is just so hard. (my favourite bit about that segment is his voice breaking when he says it the second time, not brave in the face of death/his future turning to shit but pathetic and broken and scared... just like me) Thank God for pussies, then I read a book that the main secondary character wanted that. He got mad cancer and ended up being in mutual love with the main character... depressing book. I dunno, you just reminded me of that. Anyway, what you're wishing, I'm pretty sure most people would wish as well. It's easy to die, it's hard to live. What's your therapist gotta say bout all this?
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Post by Chromeo on Jul 16, 2013 6:00:57 GMT -5
'Death gotta be easy, 'cause life is hard It'll leave you physically, mentally and emotionally scarred'
who says rappers can't say anything profound
anyway, I'm kinda over my tantrum now (kinda), I just get into moods sometimes... but it's not like the underlying shit has gone away.
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Tails82
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Post by Tails82 on Jul 16, 2013 7:23:19 GMT -5
Join the army!
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Post by Chromeo on Jul 16, 2013 9:35:57 GMT -5
I said hero, not butcher.
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Post by Jordan Ω on Jul 16, 2013 21:18:15 GMT -5
Ha, like the English army does anything.
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Post by Chromeo on Jul 16, 2013 21:22:30 GMT -5
Um, in case you haven't noticed the UK is always the first one to jump onboard with America's mad conquest plans, one in every four coalition soldiers in Iraq was a Brit, we're one of the only countries that doesn't just work with you out of fear but some misguided sense of brotherhood... unfortunately
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Post by Pyro ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔ on Jul 17, 2013 0:27:07 GMT -5
Join the NZ army, it's superior and does not follow America. lol NZ ships were not allowed at pearl harbour cos we told America to GTFO.
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Post by Chromeo on Jul 17, 2013 4:48:03 GMT -5
I'm not joining any army >_>
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