smaugtheunpretentious
SmaugTheUnpretentious
smaugtheunpretentious

“I don’t want to “Eat the Rich” or whatever crusade thing, I just want them to pay fair taxes.”

He looks like an ass to everyone other than his fans and the morons on this very site who will tell you that we can’t look at his personal life because he’s wealthy and an innovator and therefore he’s the driving lifeblood of the American way of life.  So there’s a sizable chunk of the population that will cheerlead

Nah, take a look at that article published alongside this one about the worst CEOs in automotive history and then read the linked article about Ford. Dude was posting anti-Semitic screeds in his own newspaper, getting blasted by rivals in other publications, publishing rejoinders in his own newspaper, rinse and

It seems like wealth and the genuine merit of a lot of rich people’s contributions to society blinds them to the fact that other aspects of their personalities or their lives may be less meritorious. But they seem to think that everything they do and think is great, otherwise how could they have gotten so rich and

“You don’t pay taxes on the increase in your home value”

Damn that linked article on Ford is pretty eye-opening, I knew the dude was an anti-Semite, but had no idea he’d gone so far

I annoy several of my friends by relating to them how Fantasy Football is D&D

Haha!

“AdBlue is a diesel exhaust fluid that dissolves”

Why don’t they just start manufacturing gasoline too since their vehicles need it to run?

Yeah but why don’t you guys just like...get more chips?

Lol this is always my thought when we’re talking about the big OEMs

“I see that, as usual, you’re ignoring the point. Something can be illegal, but without an enforcement mechanism, that’s meaningless.”

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-unveils-new-push-to-combat-retail-theft-16479556.php

Nah

“it’s been going on for decades,”

Ah, I’m not familiar with that show! I just googled it, it looks cool

Yeah, ya know, no system is perfect. Things change when there’s enough social pressure to push for change, like the shoplifting. All of the hookers and crack-dealers were pushed out of Times Square in the 80s in NYC when it became a big enough of an image problem for the city and surrounding businesses. My city’s

New Mexico, side salad....lol wut?

It’s a good thing theft isn’t legalized then, isn’t it?