hypnotoad72's Comments (4853)

“Yup. Corporate personhood.”

“I love one-liner fortune cookie drivel like that.

Real life will never be as simple as something as that.”

“Very very true.

Today's retirees never bothered to look around. I hate to say it.

They think people don't need Bachelor's degrees to get a job (though they will lament people with degrees being out of work...)

The system is a in spiral.

Not much anybody can do about it.

There may be a greater future ahead, anyway.

Either way, we do not know.”

“A good way to get back at corporations who build things cheaply so they fall apart more quickly...

but that doesn't help them in the mid- or long-term.

But that's about it.”

“Seconded.”

“If I wouldn't be disqualified (precongenital (preexisting :-p ) health condition combined with a chiropractor who made a mistake and as such I'm stuck the rest of my life in chronic pain and other issues but I digress, I would enlist. They could do with a few tactical experts and, unlike most Americans as claimed by the corporate sect, I am quite willing to learn and help.”

“Provide links and reasons, please. Don't be a parrot.

Indeed, what did Bush Sr destroy to cause the 1993 WTC attacks?
(how does it feel?)”

“Trickle-down was a SCAM to begin with. It took the better part of three decades, but people are seeing it to be true.

A true scam.”

“If bankers can say "Capping our wages eliminates our interest to work in this industry", the same rule applies to every other field too.

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/2009/02/04/with-500-000-salary-cap-all-the-best-bankers-will-walk/

Mind you, if the best ones swindled the most people (many of which are losing their jobs to offshoring and such and therefore shouldn't have to be held responsible for any loans they took), then let the banking system go to H*ll where it belongs.”

“Not really - many Americans worked d*mn hard to get through education and other costs to get where they are. Then they're told to train their own replacements.”

“http://www.google.com/search?q=Americans+train+replacements

'nuff said.”

“The stock market is gambling.

Unless one is in the top 1%, more people are going to lose.”

“Time will tell, but it's incontrovertibly accurate that the republicans are out of touch with this country.”

“Seconded. People should look up "B12 deficiency meat" in their favored search engine.

I've a vegetarian friend and she has developed problems due to B12 deficiency.”

“So that really wasn't Santa Claus who said that? Oh dear...”

“Indeed, depending on the issue, each and every one of us falls into that situation. Inevitable...”

“It's not as much the deed as the action.

Plenty of non-religious are equally selfish and dismissal of their fellow countrymen too.”

“Films are more about fancy effects and the pulling of emotional drawstrings. Some people like intellectual and conceptual depth, too.

Not just the trolling of modern day concerns thrust onto a large screen. Escapism is supposed to draw people away from real life. Not remind people of it.”

“I read enough of what the movie is about.

Yes, yes, white people with technology are bad.

It's ironic that a white guy used technology to say that - and profit from it.

It's like the music group that cries over capitalism and sells their newest CD and hopes everybody buys it -- and puts out one or two tracks on the less efficient *record* LP too!

Amongst other incidents, but now I digress.”

“That sounds kinky. :-D

/ducksforcover”

“It's obviously satire.

But some people take piracy seriously.

Unlike Microsoft:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/07/23/100134488/
(toward the bottom of page 1, they freely admit they condone and encourage piracy)”

“Offshoring, American workers training their replacements, wage freezes, wage cuts, and a lot of other things are the problem.

You can thank Reagan and Bush for the sheer majority of the national debt as well. (not all of it, obviously, but don't be naive.)”

“Others are right. We pay into social security. It is not socialized. It is our money going into it to begin with.”

“And what if the doctor makes a choice and harms you - deliberately or accidentally?

A chiropractor accidentally hurt me, requiring spinal surgery. I can't do some things I used to.

Get off your high horse.”

“Along with my previous response (still in moderation, but I'll include the edited highlights), which probably answers your answers to the questions I'm going to ask you:

What sort of country do you want to live in? What standards should be set? Would you apply the same standards to yourself?

This is America, land of the free... in a free market...

Now, keep in mind: people work hard. They study hard. They do what it takes. We do our part. But employers see us as overpaid organic machinery and even have their workers train their foreign replacements before the jobs are offshored (google it). Some even take out insurance policies on their workers and hope the workers die so they can cash in (google it). Never mind the bailouts, government subsidy (welfare to the wealthy), and everything else taxpayers freely give them.

Then come advertisers for these same companies, who treat us as walking wallets.

Now if you want to make sarky comments about free, it's best if both sides are included.”