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[–] Adminstrater 0 points 64 points (+64|-0) ago 

Math is hard, guys. Especially for socialists that don't use it.

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[–] bb22 0 points 24 points (+24|-0) ago 

That’s hardly an exaggeration. Socialist universities don’t require economics courses to graduate anymore. Every idiot who votes should be able to pass a basic economics quiz.

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[–] chirogonemd 1 point 29 points (+30|-1) ago  (edited ago)

Meanwhile, $1.1 trillion dollars is spent on a total of 126 welfare programs in the US annually. Of course, that includes social security and medicaid, which people who have paid in deserve to collect. But the point is: how many people are receiving free money out of this tax pool who have not done a fucking thing all year long but "muh dick". So Bloomberg's $500 million spread evenly across the population would have netted us each about $1.20 after tax, and that would have been just wonderful, but the nearly $7,000 (on average) that is being taken from every member of the labor force yearly (for welfare) doesn't move their needle? Now imagine that someone 25 years old is making $50k at their first salaried job. Great. Imagine that instead of the aforementioned average tax going to welfare programs, this person started to invest that amount into something low risk like a CD, at 3.8% until retirement 40 years later. That's almost $700k more for their retirement.

But they don't get that opportunity, it's stolen to feed people who won't do a fucking productive thing for this person or society at large. Devote some of that money to higher risk instruments and you'd be looking at even more. When you think about the value being taken from you every year, it should wake people up. Basically, you are being forced to earn - since the growth of the welfare state - two retirements. Granted, $700,000 probably isn't enough to sustain a retirement for someone who is going to live past 80 years old with a >$50k per year lifestyle, but it's a big chunk of change. More important is what it's being taken for: to support people who hate you, and to help scum fuck politicians purchase elections, indirectly using your labor, so that they can call you a scum fuck for being the provider, and encourage the welfare recipients to hate you more. But the hungry black and mexican kids!

This is why democracy is a destructive form of government, and only becomes slightly less so when it's "representative". If most people only grasped how tragic the basis of knowledge was from which most votes are cast. We're in such a fucked position. The world is more complex than most voters are able to deal with (that is, for their vote to carry meaning that impacts the situation positively), but the powers that be also benefit greatly from making the world seem far more complex than it is. Then, when they can make stupid people feel hopeless about getting less stupid, those people will default to authorities, and acronyms after names like PhD.

As far as I'm concerned, the biggest weakness we have as a people right now is not the forced diversity, or this or that vice, it's that we've lost a useful middle. A class of independent people who think for themselves and have the common sense to do it, moreover that they feel entitled to think for themselves. People of past times just had a much stronger skepticism, they were disagreeable toward government, and they came by it naturally. It was a memory preserved from history. Nowadays, people look at you cockeyed for questioning anything coming down the main line, as if to tell you that the average person cannot think for themselves - that they mustn't.

They project their helplessness onto everyone and call you a "conspiracy theorist" for your skepticism, because your skepticism exposes something in them that is threatening, something which makes them sick: that "mom and dad" don't have it "all figured out". Your skepticism triggers the thought of the real human predicament, of responsibility, and these people can't stand it. What follows is that your free thinking must be instability, a lack of "chill", or fear.

As far as the tweet goes, I understand the humor is the math error. But the premise is also so fucking ignorant. You cannot pay people for their votes, i.e. buy an election. But if they'd only look at what welfare is, they'd realize elections are being bought, with your fucking money. This is the crux of the issue. Think about this for just a moment, if you would. These people are complaining that Bloomberg could have spent all of his own (and his investor's) money to buy the election from them, but far more money is being taken from the people every year so the DNC can buy the elections. We even pay for their failures; we even pay for them to bring in more of the people who will demand welfare; we pay for the democrats to make promises to people that we'll pay. I've worked myself into a pitchfork fucking frenzy now. Fuck.

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[–] GrizzlyDark 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

u racist nigger math is sexist

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[–] Rellik88 5 points 21 points (+26|-5) ago 

If everyone was a millionaire then no one is. The price of everything would skyrocket overnight. That million sure is cool when a bottle of water is a $100.

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[–] SparklingWiggle 1 point 18 points (+19|-1) ago 

The math in the tweet doesn't work. That's the point. Each person would get about a buck fifty.

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[–] bb22 1 point 15 points (+16|-1) ago 

Kind of actually disproves their entire idea of wealth redistribution. It would wipe out both the wealthy and not actually help the poor at all.

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[–] prairie 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Even if it were it wouldn't make everyone rich. See; helicopter money. Money is just a way of allocating limited resources. There isn't enough of everything that people would buy if they had $1M.

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[–] Civil_Warrior 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Math be raysis!!!

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[–] 1anddone 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Giving everyone a buck fifty would have been a better campaign move than the garbage he spent it on

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[–] BalfourYourFace 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

Yeah but everyone wouldn't be a millionaire, they could go to other countries. Exactly what China does with their millionaires in the US.

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[–] Deflo56 1 point 16 points (+17|-1) ago 

Must be a climate scientist. Lol

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[–] FridayJones 0 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago 

That's how a couple hundred thousand wartime casualties are exaggerated into six million.

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[–] lord_nougat 0 points 12 points (+12|-0) ago 

msnpc and nytimes also "reported" this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZkouut-9RQ

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[–] Fronkenstein 0 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago 

Bernie bro logic with bernie bro math

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[–] Civil_Warrior 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Everything's free bro...

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[–] Revelations2_9 5 points -2 points (+3|-5) ago  (edited ago)

Fake and Gay, GTFO

Edit: @TestForScience gave some back up for it.

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[–] Chimaira92 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

2 different twitter accounts repeating the same shit how is OPs fake?

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[–] Revelations2_9 3 points -3 points (+0|-3) ago  (edited ago)

Seeing that OP's image conveniently cut out the date, it is only reasonable to assume the one I posted is the origin of the text. So for this bernie Tweet to be real, one of his staffers would have to had to been following the girl who originally posted it and thought it was so good they nearly copy pasted it to bernie's account very soon after it was originally tweeted, or he/she would have seen the massive onslaught of tweets laughing at it.

Extremely unlikely is an understatement. Doesn't take much thought.

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[–] TwoNiggersandaHonky 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Maybe they shouldn't put fluoride in the water.

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