BarneyPiccolo

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 hour ago

He should have had all those traitors rounded up on Day One, and held at Guantanamo for their roles on Jan 6, and as National Security threats in general.

Instead, he appointed the weakest Republican in existence as AG, who dithered and slow-walked the investigation, and gave the MAGA traitors a 2 year head start on the election.

The Democrats are as responsible and complicit in the MAGA rise to power as the Republicans themselves.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 hours ago

Exactly. Call it Alligator Auschwitz.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Probably the best thing we can do to prevent it from happening again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

If you're going to be self-employed, at least be a good boss to yourself. It doesn't make sense to treat yourself like the worst boss you've ever had.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (4 children)

They say that, but MAGAs are cowards at their core. Let's see if they will actually fire on elected officials who are simply doing their jobs. I doubt they will.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Go to work for ICE, and be the worst worker in the history of America. Then you earned your money gumming up the works of an evil organization, and you can feel good about taking their money to hurt them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I've been self-employed for about 30 years, which puts you rubbing elbows with other self-employed business people.

I have learned that while MOST people want to run a friendly, moral, legal business, and would never cross the line, there are a plenty of amoral businesspeople who don't have any problems crossing the line.

Furthermore, they are well-aware that many businesspeople won't cross the line, so that makes their willingness to act illegally or immorally their personal competitive edge, and they absolutely look at it that way.

They watch for decent, moral businesses, and they target them in various ways, either as a competitor, a supplier, a contractor, etc.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago (3 children)

That's not "Passive" income, if you have to attract 50-60 people per day, pretend to interview them, while subliminally encouraging them to use the vending machine. That's called a full-time job, and probably illegal, too.

And that isn't $300/day profit, he has to pay for those items in his machine. The profit is probably no more than 50%, so $150/day. For an 8 hour day, that's $18.75 an hour. That's a lot of work for not that much money. It certainly isn't "Passive."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I found Animals to be the most difficult to get into, but once it clicked, it became one of my favorites. It's a great album, but The Wall still beats it, in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Most people have missed it. I have seen anyone in the media report on this or ask anyone in the administration about it. It should be one of the biggest stories in America.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I'm old, too, and going back and filling in gaps in my music knowledge base, and listening to a lot of stuff I've been meaning to for decades.

However, I have also realized that my favorites have solidified, after decades of listening and deciding. Pink Floyd, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Who, Yes, Led Zep, and a few others have fought their way to the front of the pack.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The Wall is not only my favorite Pink Floyd album, it's my favorite album of all time.

I was a music history major when it came out, and I studied it like it was a Beethoven symphony. I became convinced that it was a 20th century music masterpiece along the lines of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue or Porgy & Bess, Bernstein's West Side Story, Rogers & Hammerstein's South Pacific or Sound of Music, The Beatles Sgt Pepper or Abby Road, etc.

Almost 50 years later, and my opinion still stands.

BTW, Paradoxically, DSOTM is probably the greatest album of all time, from an artistic and influential point of view. I just think The Wall is a masterpiece.

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