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When I went to university I somehow knew that 99% of my professors were clueless morons without a clue about how the real world worked. They spewed whatever arrogant verbal crap they thought would change the world while I simply nodded my head in agreement in order to get my degrees. Unfortunately it turned out that my education was worthless and the skills my grandmother taught me are how I keep a roof over my head.
Today's SJWs are worse than the idiots I had to deal with 10 years ago. Somehow they think that smoking pot is a career choice and that I should have to sacrifice a large portion of my earnings to pay for their habit/hobby. Now I don't mind helping people that are handicapped or are temporarily down on their luck but everyone else can just F**K OFF! I work for my money and if I have to do rotten jobs to pay my bills then what's stopping them?
Honestly I blame their parents.
Parents today aren't being parents. They don't teach their children anything about how the world works or the difference between right and wrong. Instead these very young adults go to universities where they encounter moronic professors who have spent their entire lives in school. These profs have spent their entire lives as either a student or a teacher and they're absolutely clueless about the world. So today's young adults now bitch and complain about how unfair life is despite that compared to previous generations their living like royalty.
My neighbor tells me that I'm a victim of patriarchy because I have to use coupons and I can't afford to go to a restaurant. I've also been asked by strangers if my child is transgender because of their shirt and socks. (Not old enough to know the difference so I buy what's cheap) I swear that it seems like at least once a month I get surrounded by imbeciles.
My only question is, "When will this insanity stop?"
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It'll stop when the next great war happens and millenials are used as cannon fodder because they can't do anything.
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In America for the most part, colleges (university) is the most liberal, butthurt place that's the breeding ground for SJW and those who think they know better...
I guess just Fuck what people say or think... You are doing what you need to do and people who are so free to judge have no empathy since they have no experience...
Like the old saying (if it's a saying) The ones who talk the most, know the least.
Just pay them no mind... Watch Dukes of Beverly or Hazzard Hillbillies while knitting. These people are so vapid, they'll forget you as soon as you are out of sight.
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(Nov 10, 2019, 16:14 pm)Kotter Wrote: It'll stop when the next great war happens and millenials are used as cannon fodder because they can't do anything.
Unfortunately I'm considered a millennial
(Nov 10, 2019, 16:32 pm)LZA Wrote: In America for the most part, colleges (university) is the most liberal, butthurt place that's the breeding ground for SJW and those who think they know better...
I guess just Fuck what people say or think... You are doing what you need to do and people who are so free to judge have no empathy since they have no experience...
Like the old saying (if it's a saying) The ones who talk the most, know the least.
Just pay them no mind... Watch Dukes of Beverly or Hazzard Hillbillies while knitting. These people are so vapid, they'll forget you as soon as you are out of sight.
I pretty much mind my own business on everything. I'm just angry because I've got a chance to make an extra $5k next year but if I do I'm going to pay more in taxes and the result will be that I'll bring home less money than I do now.
So I can't get ahead because the government is going to take my money to pay for some stupid idiot that doesn't want to work.
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Quote:I pretty much mind my own business on everything. I'm just angry because I've got a chance to make an extra $5k next year but if I do I'm going to pay more in taxes and the result will be that I'll bring home less money than I do now.
So I can't get ahead because the government is going to take my money to pay for some stupid idiot that doesn't want to work.
Are you in the US? If you are, you don't need to worry, that's not how the taxes work, at least federally. I'm not sure if some states do strict brackets like that. But in the US, the graduated income tax means that your entire tax rate does not jump because you jump a bracket. Only what you earn in the new bracket gets taxed at the new bracket rate. Nerdwallet does a pretty good job covering that. https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/taxes/fe...-brackets/
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(Nov 10, 2019, 15:32 pm)soulcity Wrote: My only question is, "When will this insanity stop?"
A: NEVER.
No offense meant, but sounds like it's you who don't know how life is and how the world works. There're the "haves" and the "have nots". People are selfish, contempted, corrupt, bitchy, ... Guess at this point you got the idea.
Conclusion: The moronic professors got a good job and now are just bidding their time in this world without much worry and ado;
you got the worries and I suggest to quit the ado. The youngsters already learned that (learning is hardwired in kids minds, even intuitively), and they behave like shit on a perfect-world logic, but like the optimal way in a real-world math, because there's no winning the system.
Resistence is futile. Worry is pain.
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(Nov 10, 2019, 20:54 pm)Headbanger Wrote: Are you in the US? If you are, you don't need to worry, that's not how the taxes work, at least federally. I'm not sure if some states do strict brackets like that. But in the US, the graduated income tax means that your entire tax rate does not jump because you jump a bracket. Only what you earn in the new bracket gets taxed at the new bracket rate. Nerdwallet does a pretty good job covering that. https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/taxes/fe...-brackets/
Again I've got no head for numbers therefore someone else does my taxes. So I don't know if it's state or federal taxes but I've been told to keep my earnings where they are until I'm sure I'll get more than $10k.
(Nov 11, 2019, 06:37 am)dueda Wrote: A: NEVER.
No offense meant, but sounds like it's you who don't know how life is and how the world works. There're the "haves" and the "have nots". People are selfish, contempted, corrupt, bitchy, ... Guess at this point you got the idea.
Conclusion: The moronic professors got a good job and now are just bidding their time in this world without much worry and ado;
you got the worries and I suggest to quit the ado. The youngsters already learned that (learning is hardwired in kids minds, even intuitively), and they behave like shit on a perfect-world logic, but like the optimal way in a real-world math, because there's no winning the system.
Resistence is futile. Worry is pain.
It just seems that there was a lot less insanity 10 years ago. I can't afford to pay for private school for my child and I certainly won't my kid to a public one. Therefore, I'm going to have to be responsible for their education and I just don't know how I'm going to find the time.
Henceforth the underlying reason for my rant.
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How does the saying go..."If you can do,if you can't teach"
There lies the difference between education and ignorance. There is nothing common like sense.
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(Nov 11, 2019, 13:21 pm)soulcity Wrote: (Nov 10, 2019, 20:54 pm)Headbanger Wrote: Are you in the US? If you are, you don't need to worry, that's not how the taxes work, at least federally. I'm not sure if some states do strict brackets like that. But in the US, the graduated income tax means that your entire tax rate does not jump because you jump a bracket. Only what you earn in the new bracket gets taxed at the new bracket rate. Nerdwallet does a pretty good job covering that. https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/taxes/fe...-brackets/
Again I've got no head for numbers therefore someone else does my taxes. So I don't know if it's state or federal taxes but I've been told to keep my earnings where they are until I'm sure I'll get more than $10k.
Fair enough. I know there are a number of other tax benefits that can get abruptly cut off at different points as well, maybe that's why.
Here's an idea to get you closer to that $10k: I sell blood plasma, and on average I get about $70-80/week (for this month, I am getting $90/week) doing it. I go in twice a week (can't donate more than twice a week and doing less loses money). Each time takes about an hour and a half to two hours from the time I walk in the door to the time I get out. They set up a separate debit card type thing to pay you through. The first time you'd have to do a medical screening at no cost to make sure its safe for you to donate plasma. I mean, its not perfect by any means, but if you can arrange a free babysitter for that time, in pretty good health, and aren't afraid of needles, its something to consider. At $70/week, that's roughly $3,640/ year; at $80/week, its just over $4k/year. And there's no obligation to continue. If you just stop showing up one day, there's nothing held against you, you can show up years later and get back in without too much hassle.
Just something to think about.
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The hippies learned to question: Everything.
Unfortunately the drugs emerging on the scene back then gave them all the wrong answers.
Due largely to the prodding that pushed them away from politics and into passivity. John Lennon prevailed over (young) Lyndon Larouche. Tom Hayden was sabotaged in his efforts.
The neolibs, on destroying industry, forced us into a service economy, where education is presided over by richly paid administrators whose primary job is make sure their 'scholars' question *nothing*. People are neither taught, nor encouraged to think. Only to follow. Like lemmings over a cliff if thats what the masters want. The SJWs are nothing but a product of a political faction that sees nihilism and decadence as a means to to keep the populace too divided and stupid to create a sound labor based movement. The biggest joke of all is what is called 'Socialism' these days. And bears zero resemblance to the original meaning of the term.
And drugs:
Originally the pot that drove the hippie movement had enough natural antipsychotics in it to keep the folks pretty mellow, if useless.
The current vareities are mainly THC concentrates, which has the propensity to make people stark raving psychotic, if useless.
The ultimate aim is to create a servile servant class, with the remainder of the 'deploralbes' living at a bare subsistence level on government stipends that can be cut off at any signs of unacceptable behaviour. AI and robotics will largely replace most of the current service jobs, and nearly all of the local remaining manufacturing sector. There is already an auto factory that requires a staff of *5*. Think on that.
Years ago I had s sociology course where I was taught that society has 3 classes.
1. The class that follows the wrong god. And does not know it.
2. The class that follows the right god. And knows it.
3. God
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