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  • 9 years ago
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    Level 12

    Rothulfossil is now level 12 with 92,820 XP.

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  • 9 years ago
    Achievement Rothulfossil

    Rock Star

    Followed by 10/10 members! Congratulations Rothulfossil on this achievement!

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  • 9 years ago
    Comment Rothulfossil

    Seconding this. I use mostly my first three fingers to type. My left index finger hits "Y" and my right middle finger hits "U" for some reason, among many other strange positions. Absolutely not what school taught, but school really didn't teach typing much.

  • 9 years ago
    Achievement Rothulfossil

    Media Mogul

    Published 2/2 current event snaps! Congratulations Rothulfossil on this achievement!

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  • 9 years ago
    Current Event Rothulfossil

    Gorbachev Calls For U.S. Demilitarization On Hiroshima's 70th Anniversary

    The former Russian President described the United States as an "insurmountable obstacle on the road to a nuclear-free world" unless we demilitarize.

  • 9 years ago
    Comment Rothulfossil

    And from Buzzfeed, no less. Color me pleasantly surprised!

  • 9 years ago
    Expression Rothulfossil

    Donald Trump had the best policy idea of anyone in last night's debate

    The joke candidate offers a smart idea on health care. The serious ones offer joke ideas.

  • 9 years ago
    Comment Rothulfossil

    No, you are completely ignoring my point. Everyone does not deserve MORE, everyone deserves a BASELINE. We don't get more money until everyone's basic needs are met. When everyone's cup is full, then you can start buying more cups. The employers' cups are full right now and the employees' are not.

    If everyone gets more at a flat, lump sum, it does nothing to change the inequality.

  • 9 years ago
    Comment Rothulfossil

    That's one way to look at it. Another way is to think, "Well, they're not hurting anyone, so more power to them!"

    We still have a pretty damn xenophobic culture. If I take a cinderblock to a Florida beach, rent out a condo for two, and jack off onto it for hours on end, people are going to think I'm weird as hell. But at the end of the day, what am I really hurting here? Myself? I won't get to reproduce this way? Who cares?

    Disclaimer: I'm not a bricksexual.

  • 9 years ago
    Comment Rothulfossil

    No, you're missing the point. There's a baseline that ALL human beings deserve. Food, shelter, clothing, healthcare, education, INTERNET ACCESS, etc. Anything on top of those basic necessities is a luxury. Business owners get all of that plus more. If the business fails, they deserve to lose those luxuries, but not the basic necessities.

    Right now, workers do not get all of those things as a basic, guaranteed necessity. We're talking about bringing the bar up to the bare minimum.

    Put even simpler, everyone deserves $10. Workers get $6. Business owners get $15. You're arguing that if workers get $4 more so that they get $10, then business owners deserve $4 to get $19. That's not how this works.

  • 9 years ago
    Related Link Rothulfossil

    What if your hometown were hit by the Hiroshima atomic bomb?

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  • 9 years ago
    Comment Rothulfossil

    Businesses are not human beings, they are an idea. Businesses are run by human beings. Those human beings deserve the same basic rights as the people working for them. Anything extra is not a basic right. So no, businesses do not deserve more money.

  • 9 years ago
    Comment Rothulfossil

    Why would everyone deserve a living wage?

    Put simply, because everyone is a human being. We have the total wealth to provide for everyone's basic needs, but we don't do it because capitalism. Gotta scrape in every last dime for myself.

  • 9 years ago
    Comment Rothulfossil

    You can click the "submit" button up in the top right corner and simply post your YouTube link through that. Then, you'll select the tribes you want to publish in. (I usually do /t/videos, /t/freelectures, and one more that's particularly relevant.

    If you'd like to resubmit this as a video, feel free, and I'll remove this one with no hard feelings. :)

  • 9 years ago
    Video/Audio Rothulfossil

    Robert Reich: How Unequal Can America Get?

    Robert Reich, a visiting professor at the UC, Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy and former U.S. Secretary of Labor talks about the inequality of income, wealth and opportunity in the United States and asks his audience to speculate on what will happen if these trends continue.

  • 9 years ago
    Comment Rothulfossil

    I'm as much of a lily-livered, bleeding-heart, liberal, egghead communist as the next guy and I'm all for gun control, but I'm totally with the armed man in this case. As explained a couple times in this thread, birdshot is harmless on the way back down. He was justified.

  • 9 years ago
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    Level 11

    Rothulfossil is now level 11 with 74,815 XP.

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  • 9 years ago
    Achievement Rothulfossil

    Chatter Box

    Posted a total of 100/100 comments! Congratulations Rothulfossil on this achievement!

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  • 9 years ago
    Comment Rothulfossil

    Damn straight. The government can say under what physical conditions you're allowed to drive, operate machinery, etc. That's fine. We don't need people driving high any more than we need people driving drunk. But for god's sake, marijuana is not dangerous. It's safer than tobacco and alcohol.

    It's illegal completely as a way to oppress people, specifically minorities. Good documentary for anyone surprised by this claim: The House I Live In. Crazy enlightening, and horrifying.