• lemmyman@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Kids need to use their bootstraps. I grew up on welfare, nobody gave me any handouts.

    (Yes that was a real comment from a dumb fuck relative on Facebook)

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    9 days ago

    A convicted felon who inherited hundreds of millions of dollars from his father, so he shouldn’t even need the money in the first place.

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    9 days ago

    Well if those kids wanted some free money, they shouldn’t have broken Supply Side Jesus’s first commandment “Thou shalt not be poor”.

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      The illusion of the world being a meritocracy also plays a role i would imagine, “why should i have to pay just because they got parents too lazy to work”, meanwhile the parents in question work 3 jobs and still don’t make enough to pay rent

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    But there’s no profit in giving money to needy school kids. There’s profit in propping the candidate that’s gonna cut your taxes.
    There’s probably a Rule of Acquisition for this.

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      Billionaires aren’t the only ones giving money. There’s a lot of dirt-broke dumbasses donating their last 5 bucks to a billionaire’s legal fees.

      As for rules of acquisition…

      treat your friends like family. Exploit them.

      once you have it, never give their money back.

      the bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.

      every man has his price

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        The broke dumbasses do it for sport.
        And those definitely are Rules of Acquisition, if slightly reworded, but I don’t find them relevant to the situation. Perhaps the following rules are a better fit from the protective of the “donors”:

        #33. Never hurts to suck up to the boss.
        #34. War is good for business.
        #285. No good deed ever goes unpunished.

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    9 days ago

    If we only cut taxes on corporations and billionaires even more, they would be able to create more jobs to help the lazy parents of the poor kid.

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    Ugh, can we pleeeeease stop it with the “convicted felon” phrase.

    There isn’t anyone else I know with a longer list of legitimate shit to call, almost all of it scandalousn or at least uncommon enough for a news bite.

    Being a convicted felon is so not though. Lets stop piling on this, wayyyyyyy to many people defined by that don’t need any more challenges to be seen as something else.

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        9 days ago

        Hey, that still fits the character limit of shitter.

        And, if it catches on quick enough that Elon SIMPs and makes that too long I think fraudster might be the best one.

        I heard so many people uncomfortable with with his pre 2016 scandals rationalize and defend voting for him because “great businessman fix money problems”…’ if any reference to Trump could damn him enough it’d the fact that he sucks at business. Like reallllly sucks at it, even the American business tradition of cheating and lying to get his money.

        Not to mention everything else he says stands for being fraudulent.