I'm am feeling pretty hard for the teachers/grad students who are getting their funding cut off because of this. I can't even imagine how insanely destructive that is to someone's life.
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I'm am feeling pretty hard for the teachers/grad students who are getting their funding cut off because of this. I can't even imagine how insanely destructive that is to someone's life.
On all this, I agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Plus, I'm tired of people acting like helping your families, communities, personal causes, etc. first is hypocritical or selfish. I'd rather everyone do a lot of small 'selfish' good than just hand over money that gets its majority siphoned off by bureaucracy, but hey, we can all lazily pat ourselves on the back for 'doing something' in the least involved way.
How involved it is shouldn't matter, how much it helps should.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hero
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No one says that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hero
The issue is that most people use that as an excuse. They say that stuff, then they never do it. They go home after work and goof off. And they spend their money on boats. Or a bigger truck.
"helping your families, communities, personal causes, etc. first" often never happens.
All this shit isn't even hard. People are tired of 1/3 of their check being taken. I literally could buy a car every year for what I pay in tax. People get tired of that. Because we're all entitled. We never think about all the shit that money pays for that we like. Because the government hasn't gotten with the times and become transparent. They don't do new stuff. They need to let us know what we get for our money because we don't consider it anymore.
All this stuff about wasting money on science, research, aid to brown people are just excuses. A rationale for just not wanting to pay taxes.
And it's a fundamental misunderstanding of government. As if they would write a rebate check on our taxes if they just stopped "wasting" our money.
I'm not. I want a citizen uprising so bad. It's one of the reasons I've always been against banning guns - we're going to need them. Maybe they don't do shit against the military but at least we tried.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
Exactly - if people do things locally like that, they're more likely to do it globally because they grew up with it. Plus, it's direct action and if people do things themselves it discourages charity donations. Effectively all charity foundations are corrupt. (Yeah, I know.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hero
I'd really like to know whether this is true. I know it feels right, because anecdotes, but still.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
I see.
Yoshi didn't leave because he doesn't love us; he left because his work was done. You're all Yoshi now.
Is that in re to what I said? If so, I can't speak for the others but I'm curious to know why.
lol, "Donald Joffrey Trump"
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...-idUSKBN1590KJ
half a week into trumps term and china's already got the pass-agg trolling out