Comments by "upabittoolate" (@upabittoolate) on "The Real News Network" channel.

  1. Positive? That's ambiguous. But ultimately, business is business and they're fucking with him. He needs to sue.
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  2. It's not relevant. That's just an immutable fact. If you read my initial comment you'd see why yours is moot.
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  3. @Rundstedt1 I got a joke for you. How many libertarians does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Got nothin'? You're partially correct. The answer is "0". Why? They'll let the free market will take care of everything.
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  4. No. They are not. The highest paid teachers are in CN & MI. That quote of $76K is incorrect. It's a simple statistical trick. I can use a mode, a mean or a median & call it the average. I can use a geometric mean & call it an average. I can use top-heavy numbers to bring up the middle when I'm making a quotient for geometric means. I can use the numbers of an hourly teacher or a teacher who's retiring age to protract numbers. And yes, A/C in Chicago is essential. In Chicago, weather can kill you
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  5. To be honest, if my happiness comes down to killing you, then yes. I'm not saying it's fair or humane but damned if it's not true. You know that as well as I do. Like I said, it's punitive violence & it's not exactly wanton. And for what it's worth, 9/11 wasn't exactly wanton either. As for your notion of int'l court, that's more nonsense. This is AMERICA. The UN & "int'l court" is where 3rd world countries voices their gripes; not G-10 countries. Fuck court. You know that as well as I do too.
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  6. @danL1011 Your lemonade market model isn't realistic. You try to simplify things by using a micro-business model but your error was to put it into a vacuum where there's no production cost, overhead OR human resource. Nice fail. Unregualted free markets don't even work by your model because a larger, more powerful business would already be in control of the lemonade market.
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  7. So you're admitting to the fact that you've created an unrealistic model? Dandy. You admit that you're off in some utopia that has no living expenses? Your girls don't eat? They serve lemonade in the nude during daytime then sleep under the starts at night? They don't age? They're not given to injury & sickness like the other 8B people on the planet? THAT'S your model? That's why it doesn't work. In the real world, food, clothing, shelter & relative health ARE relevant. Buffoon.
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  8. I see. Well instead of telling you my own definition, I'll tell you to check out any videos with Jill Stein. For myself, at my highest aspiration, a perfect world is 1 where everyone has a chance to succeed. That means cheaper education with better quality. It means better access to affordable (or free) health care. It also means equal rights for everyone irrespective of race, gender or sexual orientation. But that's me. I say you google it.
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  9. go play some more saxophone. ps, i don't hide ANYWHERE. you can find me if you're looking. are you? if not, stfu
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  10. You are an imbecile.
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  11. If you had to go all the way to college to repeat a Benjamin Disreali quote, you're an intellectual failure. Spare me your shit about Waukegan too. I'm talking about CHICAGO. Fuck Atlanta too. A 29% pay raise is merely a bargaining tactic. Are you sure you went to the Navy & to college?
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  12. judgments? you fucking loser.
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  13. 54% is statistically huge considering the fact that he only need a simple majority to win & considering the fact that the US funneled a lot of money to Chavez's opponent. Also, you have to reflect on the fact that suffrage is kinda new to the citizens there.
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  14. i don't need you to qualify anything for me. not my cool. not universal truth & definitely not intelligence. you're not even in the same dimension as me, let alone my equal. have a good one
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  15. More than that your appreciation for my reply, I appreciate your interest. Wheever you end up politically, it's important that you want to know the answers to the questions. That's important.
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  16. @VampyrMentality You'd be wrong too.
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  17. @danL1011 Awww. How cute. You tried to make a funny. Even cuter, you tried to personally attack me. Loser. Anyway, your lemonade model, much like your model of an unregulated free market model AND your feeble attempt at a personal jab fails when examined in a real-life substrate. As for the mathematical proofs, I'm a HIGH SCHOOL MATH TEACHER you idiot. You can't gauge economic growth without things like the Gini coefficient which, as we know, measures HOUSEHOLD prosperity.
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  18. You guys shelled Obeezy. But he had it coming.
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  19. I don't claim it's a trick. I KNOW it's a trick because I've taught CPS. Also, "... to justify more money..." is kind of a dumb premise considering the job they do. As for being a data analyst, anyone can be anything on youtube. That doesn't change the fact that teachers make about $45K. And yes, in a classroom with 30 kids, A/C is a must. Again, the weather in Chicago can kill ya.
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  20. At what point do students & students' parents get held to account? The last time I looked, they excel in other countries because parents & students are on the same page & share a same agenda. In this country, as made evident by your company, we're quicker to point fingers than we are to ask what the real problem is.
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  21. @Rundstedt1 I probably should've followed your lead. I pointed out the obvious flaws in the lemonade stand argument but all he (she?) did was ignore the most conspicuous flaws then say that things like food, clothing & shelter need not be factored into an economic model. I left the more sophisticated part of the argument alone because I kew it'd take forever for that moron to dig out of the hole he did with that lemonade nonsense.
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  22. If you say, "the evidence is unreliable", I'll entertain you. I understand your skepticism. You're suspicious of the gov't. I get that. But it seems counterintuitive to let that lie fly considering how much of a political football it is. And your next remark will be that there's no difference between progressives & conservatives in Washington. My response is that someone has to elect these guys & given that fact, you must consider how many seats changed hands in the 2010 midterms.
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  23. of course they're human beings. you never would hear me deny that. i asked if that's the president-elect's fault? aren't you putting the cart before the horse? incidentally, he was opposed to the war that filled the stockade in the 1st place. why scapegoat him? why not be smart & hold him accountable to his campaign promise instead?
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  24. Cool story, bro. facepalm.
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  25. Gary Johnson isn't a progressive.
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  26. You're joking. Right?
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  27. Yes, real progressives should vote for Obama. We can't afford to have Romney in office.
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  28. Horseshit. If he'd've been dead in '01, the Bush administration would've been spiking that football in every speech for 7yrs.
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  29. If only we could find a way to either make the democrats be liberal OR help the progressive movements gain momentum. I know we don't have any Koch Brother money like the Tea Party but there must be a way.
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  30. I'm facepalming because you think you're saying something relevant.
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  31. "Heal" isn't the word but it does make some of us feel better. It's more an emotional than a rational thing.
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  32. so instead of answering some very simple question that are substantive, you've resorted to a roundabout ad hominem. we're done here idiot
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  33. caving? how, because he made monies available for education? because he's giving people tax cuts? you guys are quick to call system when your guys aren't in power
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  34. Are those little girls buying their own water, lemons & sugar? Does it pay them enough to feed, cloth & shelter themselves? Do they get health care, PTO or retirement? Your model is useless. I make excuses? No. Your model isn't realistic AND you're moving the goalposts. There IS no general assertion 'cause people tryna make out here in REAL life; not your lemonade conundrums. Here on Planet EARTH, those little girls couldn't even ENTER an unregulated market much less survive in it.
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  35. What I'm saying is that your folksy little idea about the girls' unregulated market isn't real. They aren't even paying taxes. There's no assumptions to be made here. You're presenting a postulate that only works on paper; ain't that's barely working as it is. You can't even apply microeconomic theory here. It's NOT limited to a neighborhood. But lemme ask you again. Have they paid taxes yet? Do they pay rent? In your libertarian paradise, can they even function when a stand opens next door?
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  36. Ralph Nader is a big-time progressive too. Maybe even peep Rocky Anderson if you have the time. Basically, the Occupy Movement was a bunch of progressive, college grads who were protesting the money hoarders.
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  37. a kid? i'm a grown man with my OWN kids. you can't really be that obtuse
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  38. wow, the dude hasn't even been inagurated yet
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  39. in typical youtube fashion, you'll go on a tangent instead of addressing original themata. i'll simply ask you how your life has gotten worse since obama's election. i'll simply ask YOU if YOUR taxes went up. i'll wait for my answers
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  40. The correct amount is NOT $75K. Like I said, it's stat gymnastics. Go to an actual school & ask a teacher how much they make. They'll be candid. It's Chicago. Please use real numbers. And if you're telling me that a person shouldn't choose health over a chosen profession, you're an idiot.
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  41. no, i don't smoke or drink. sure kids aren't getting jobsm but that's not an educational failure, that's economic failure; our jobs are being exported. how on earth could oyur analysis be so shallow?
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  42. Give up? You never engaged reality. Life IS relevant. Simply put, an unrelated free market doesn't address real life concerns. You keep moving the goalposts by talking about abstractions while I'm dealing with concretes here in the realm of the living. No, you don't get to "break things down to the bare essence" because, like you said, there's too many nuances & abstractions that are requisite in applying any pratical outlook to an economic model. Making money is great. But you gotta eat.
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  43. @Rundstedt1 I think it amounts to uneducated people listening to neo-conservative bullshit that appeals to their own selfishness. This isn't to say that the gov't is responsible for everything. I'm a self-confessed socialist. However, I understand the need for some capitalism. Either way, a lemonade stand is not a good, theoretical model. It's nonsense. He's really trying to convince us otherwise.
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  44. Like I said, you can go to any elementary school, middle school or high school & you'll seldom find a teacher making $76K. I know because I taught at Bowen & Gage. You fail.
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  45. no, you sidestepped it. you almost eluded it flat out. but thanks for qualifying my original point. later for you. moron
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  46. Governor Walker, fuck you. Fuck you very, very much.
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  47. I could be piss-drunk & lobotomized & still not look as stupid as you. YOU are invalid.
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  48. Bear in mind, I'm not mitigating or qualifying the violence. I'm merely trying to offer some context for it. I don't speak for American lust but damned if I don't know what American lust is going to say in a given situation. I, for 1, got my fill of guns when I served in the USAF. And for what it's worth, I don't think there's anything implicitly wrong with being a killer. Hell, bushido is all about making killing into an art-based philosophy. They ever try to pull Shinto under its umbrella.
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  49. Why should I have to leave? It's called OSHA, my friend. Who said anything about leeching tax dollars? Teachers are working a job just like anyone else. Stop repeating neo-con talking points. Also, I never said it was okay for anyone to use stat gymnastics. I simply said that eh figures were parsed. But I guess you can't analyze basic data like what I actually said as opposed to what you want to use as a strawman. As for my ethics, they aren't in question here. Your comment is.
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  50. so this "accountability" is a windmill you're chasing then because it doesn't affect you. idiot
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