I think I disagree w/ most of what you have to say, but you’re right, the facts that a) he was drunk (or at least intoxicated) and b) he “never swore to [it] nor was [he] ever asked if [the] statement was true and accurate” are both relevant and, at least to a large degree, reduce the significance and trustworthiness…

Either you didn’t read the article you referenced, or you’ll willfully lying your ass off and hoping you’ll fool people - which is clearly a ploy plenty have found success using, sure, but this isn’t Fox News or Brietbart; there are a lot less rubes here.

40 minutes? You know damn well that’s far too generous; try a minute and a half.

“It’s great to be in Ho Chi Minh at this gathering of Juggalos!”

I wish more people talked about this. The fact that a “currency” was designed to require massive computation on computers - thus electricity, meaning using energy that could otherwise be conserved or spent on something necessary like lighting or heating homes or powering subways or cars or... idk, almost literally…

do you have any idea how unfocused and incoherent your rant sounds (and is)? You can collect roadkill, blend it up, and put it on a hamburger bun, but that doesn’t make it a hamburger.

There’s plenty of financial illiteracy in America, no question.

I get that, but there’s a lot of Americans who don’t have a 401k or a pension.

I’ll admit that the phrase “mostly stock owners are the rich...” is vague in the sense that there’s two ways to interpret it. Let’s say there are 1,000 shares of XYZ corp. 900 of them are owned by Warren Buffett, and the remaining 100 shares are owned by 100 different people who are all middle class. You interpreted…

That may be true, but I think it’s beside the point. You can follow my discussion w/ WhatTheAardvark for the argument(s) I’m making.

you went so far as to distinguish between investors and money which made it seem like you might understand that even though the wealthy might have more money in the market there are far more middle class investors. That’s an obvious statement. It shouldn’t be contentious to anyone... Literally half of the population…

Again:

Whether “the overwhelming majority of investors are middle class” is true or not is a moot point; the amount invested by the middle class vs. the wealthy is the point. If 83 rich people own 90% or 95% of the stock in a company (or all companies), it hardly matters if thousands - or millions - of middle class people…

There’s plenty of the middle class who don’t own stock, or very little. Mostly stock owners are the rich and the filthy rich.

whether it is malignant or benign

I’m a white guy (btw, is this something I should always disclose here?) and I’m tempted to just see who black women are supporting and just going with that for my vote in 2018, 2020, etc. I feel like it’s a foolproof plan; can’t think of any drawbacks.

The hell are you talking about? Radiohead doesn’t sound anything like U2, and never has.

And she even plays an SG! *swoons*

it’s not just you, it’s everyone afaik. always happens to me when i’ve been on a page for awhile; it’s a pain, but refreshing the page seems to fix the bug.

Yeah, and it’s really hard to tell how often people lie to pollsters. It probably depends on a lot of factors, including: how they’re polled (automated robo-calls vs. real people, may depend on how sympathetic the respondent believes the poller would be based on their tone or “accent”), what organization is doing the…