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  • imbecile3

    DOLLAR GENERAL CLAIMS IT’S A DISCOUNT STORE. IT’S NOT.
    We investigated how they charge more for less.

    https://perfectunion.us/dollar-g…

    • It's expensive being poorPhanLo
    • Your fault if you shop at Dollar Generalnb
    • Where is our beloved and patron saint of the people, Captain America when you need him?utopian
    • How is it "their fault" if the shop at the only store in the town? Dollar General intentionally builds and clusters multiple stores in low-income areas.utopian
    • nb likes to blame the victim instead of readingimbecile
    • True. I did not read the YouTube videonb
    • This store costs more and you refer to the shoppers as “victims”? Luuuulznb
    • All the grocery stores in my neighborhood are expensive. Whole Foods is the cheapest. Am I a victim? I had no ideanb
    • The article also says that DG is building stores where no one else will. So I guess these people are victims of being able to buy groceries nearbynb
    • one lady has the time to sue over a quarter of a dollar, the other records the narration on the toilet.sted
    • in europe you they have to give you the product at the advertised price.sted
    • you do a lot of guessing. you must be used to being wrong a lotimbecile
    • Why doesn’t someone in this town open a grocery store that offers cheap prices and high wages and get all the market sharenb
    • No one is stopping them from having a local grocer to compete with DGnb
    • No shit, nb. You can be this dense. It’s not like the town can just open a grocery store ffs. Or “somebody” for that stupid ass matter.monospaced
    • https://www.youtube.…imbecile
  • PhanLo2

    • famine is a political choiceIanbolton
    • Bobby Hill experiencing ego deathnb
  • _niko3

    I think I need captain capitalism to explain this to me

    https://www.bbc.com/news/busines…

    Bezos sells 4 billion worth of shares but will pay no taxes since Florida law (where he resides) doesn't charge taxes on investment earnings OVER 250k?

    so rich cunts make the laws to help other rich cunts out and poor cunts who are hurt the most get screwed again?

    • VELCOM,
      TO ZOMBO.COM
      Nairn
    • Still pays fed taxes, thoughGnash
    • see the post below...PhanLo
    • He still pays a Capital Gains Tax. With Florida's small bureaucracy that goes a long way.hotroddy
    • never mind, there is no capital gains tax in florida. Which is why every tom dick and harry is moving there. $$$$$hotroddy
    • Miami is the Monte Carlo on this side of the pond.hotroddy
    • and he pays federal capital gains.hotroddy
    • lolfadein11
    • this is why we cant have nice thingsautoflavour
  • nb6

    Wendy’s CEO announces that Wendy’s will NOT be introducing Surge Pricing and AI-enabled menu dynamics.

    This announcement comes one day after Wendy’s CEO reported to shareholders that Wendy’s will be introducing Surge Pricing and AI-enabled menu dynamics.

    • The market regulates itself.palimpsest
    • LOL. The place is already trash, might as well bankrupt it with this dumb move.Krassy
    • Idiotic ideaYakuZoku
    • Isn’t this basically happy-hour?Gnash
    • Appease the shareholders, backtrack to the public, but set it up for everyone. It's inevitable. Everything does this - Uber, Airbnb, hotels, etc.formed
    • Seems like a good idea as long the prices are much cheaper on less busy hours (I like matinees and happy hours, personally).formed
  • NBQ002

    'Rich Dad, Poor Dad's' Robert Kiyosaki Says He's $1.2 Billion In Debt Because 'If I Go Bust, The Bank Goes Bust. Not My Problem'

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/r…

    • Execution is the only wayPhanLo
    • I have heard people use this same logic for having like 15k owing in their credit cardnb
  • sausages0

    Kellogg's CEO on marketing cereal as dinner for poor people. What a cunt.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-n…

  • utopian3

    Study finds Chlormequat in Cheerios and Quaker products.
    What to know about the pesticide!


    Four out of five Americans likely have a lesser-known pesticide in their bodies thanks to the consumption of certain foods, according to a new study.

    Published in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology on Thursday, the study found that 80% of tested Americans had the chemical chlormequat in their systems, a plant regulating agent that is currently not approved for use on edible crops in the U.S.

    Imported foods treated with chlormequat are allowed to enter the country, however. According to a brief published alongside the study by the advocacy organization Environmental Working Group (EWG), the findings "ring alarm bells," as the chemical is thought to be harmful and was found in common oat and wheat-based products, including Cheerios and Quaker Oats.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/n…

  • i_monk3

    Erik Prince Calls for U.S. to Colonize Africa and Latin America

    https://theintercept.com/2024/02…

    • America spent a lot of time and money destabilising Latin America. Weird how it never worked outPhanLo
    • America spent a lot of time stabilizing the Caribeean and South America. It was Castro and the Russians who destabilized it into the shithole it is now.hotroddy
    • lol, imaginei_monk
    • Who does love and could not agree more with a certified war criminal?utopian
    • I'd bet hotknobby would like to get colonizedpango
    • utopian level trolling pangshotroddy
    • no i'm serious. you don't want to get colonized?pango
    • @phan What? It totally worked. Cuba and Brazil were the only failures. America installed dictators all over Central and South America.garbage
    • ^hehe yep. Mad stuff like the Bay of Pigs. That glowing jesus attack idea was comedy.PhanLo
    • dipshits don't realize USA left a void in south america. Being replaced by Iran, Russia and China. There are more authoritarian govt's today as a resulthotroddy
    • BRIC nations are making Garbage poorer as he cheers as they try to replace the dollar.hotroddy
    • I'm honestly confused as how you're able to not just be wrong about some things, but everything. You have never made a salient point.garbage
    • Everything BRIC is something we absolutely wrecked on purpose, and we will do it again. Have you ever even been to America? It's what we do.garbage
    • Been that way since the Ford administration, ffs. China is completely entangled with us, they're not making any power moves without the US.garbage
    • Russia is just Russia (lol), and India is doing its best to pretend it isn't the biggest 3rd world nation on the planet.garbage
    • hotknobby should get colonized. he loves that shit.pango
    • ^ lol, I wonder what flag is printed on his ball gag.garbage
  • PhanLo2

    • UK is feckoed, but as he says his winning bets were on the US becoming increasingly unequal to the point of middle and lower class earners living miserably.PhanLo
  • utopian1

    Billionaire owners have built dozens of new stadiums and arenas, often with hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funding. State and local governments spent $33 billion in public funds to build stadiums in North America between 1970 and 2020, with the median public contribution covering 73% of costs, a study published last year found. As part of teams’ agreements with cities and states, they have been handed the rights to transform the land around these ballparks into offices, apartment buildings, hotels and shopping malls.

    • It's just like giving corps tax breaks to move their factories/offices into town - if they don't, they'll go elsewhere. Sucks.formed
    • Here in Denver the Rockies stadium definitely took downtown from a wasteland to a lovely downtown.formed
    • Now w homelessness/migrant... (largest in the country), downtown is on the verge of collapse again. It's sad anyway you look at it.formed
  • nb2

    https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-…

    The WSJ is reporting that Sam Altman is looking to raise $5 to $7 trillion to manufacture chips for Open AI.

    Seven. Trillion. Dollars.

    Just to build the chips.

    • Maybe he should do a kickstarter and ask for $888 from every person on earth.colab
    • he should talk to china. china is currently *trying to surpass taiwan in term of chip manufacture. but US is blocking chip development going to china.pango
    • $7T is equal to 40% of the entire GDP of China. lolnb
  • utopian4

  • PhanLo3

    L O L
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    • The buffalo bills draw a lot water around here Lebowski. Children and families don’t draw shit! Stay outta Buffalo Lebowski!nb
    • It's call Corporate Welfare or Capitalism...deal with it!utopian
    • the city is hoping it will lead to fewer missed field goals.hotroddy
    • ^ I love that the following sentence is entirely true:garbage
    • Tyler Bass got so many death threats for that missed FG that he cut off all social media, and in response a local cat rescue started a donation campaign..garbage
    • ..in his name, and they raised over $100k in days. Football's weird y'all.garbage
    • Toronto's SkyDome cost $570 million in 1989 dollars and was largely funded by public money...colab
    • ...in 2004, Rogers Communications purchased it for $25 million.colab
    • Adjusted for inflation to todays dollars, it was constructed for $1.4 Billion and sold for $40.5 Million.colab
    • most of that 800 million will be going to NYPD pigs.face_melter
    • @garbage vincent gallo's fucked-up film buffalo 66 comes to mindhotroddy
  • Salarrue1

    Capitalism new level unlocked : wholesome gentrification reality tv

    • Tear down house: straight to the landfill and the ocean. Where environmentalism and capitalism conjoin!utopian
    • lolsrhadden
  • utopian0

    "That dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement."

    – James Truslow Adams

    • Is that "income" or "net-worth"? These conclusions always seem to be so biased, making the real point moot.formed
  • neverscared3

    Oxfam predicts first trillionaire within a decade

    https://www.theguardian.com/ineq…

    • we did it .. .a trillionaire... hip hip hurray..neverscared
    • If there's a gofundme I can donate a bit of money to help them get there, post the link.PhanLo
    • Trillion is the new billion.NBQ00
    • Yes but someone will be employed to bleach their sheriff's badge, so it's a good thing.MrT
  • PhanLo10

    • Come on Mark. Give us some of your money so we don't have to fix things.robthelad
    • Why don't the 650K+ Americans build their own app and become filthy rich, Bernie?NBQ00
    • Let's be clear. Zuckerberg didn't build Facebook singlehandedly did he? Bezos didn't do Amazon all by himself.SlashPeckham
    • I was being sarcasticNBQ00
    • rob wasn’tmonospaced
    • Well why didn’t you do anything about it Bernienb
    • Of course Bernie but what do propose to do about it, The forced redistribution of wealth? Retrospective taxation?
      It's all posturing and virtue signalling...
      Morning_star
    • ...all mouth, no trousers.Morning_star
    • Even if Zuckerberg had built Facebook single-handed, all his wealth comes from exploiting others.i_monk
    • 95% for the 1% .. even that woul be to less... https://wwd.com/wp-c…neverscared
    • BASED ON THEIR WEALTH GROWTH, 26 TOP BILLIONAIRES PAID AN AVERAGE INCOME TAX RATE OF JUST 4.8% OVER 6 RECENT YEARSneverscared
    • https://americansfor…neverscared
    • i guess its gonna trickle down.... not into his fresh designed bunker though...neverscared
    • On December 22, 2017, President Donald Trump signed into law the so-called Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), a $1.9 trillion tax bill favoring corporations and wealneverscared
    • thy Americans.....neverscared
    • biden should invert it... i guess not.neverscared
    • What solution do you propose?Morning_star
    • Yeah but how else can people with micropenises get laid on this world?_niko
    • guys is it gay to fix things with money?doesnotexist
    • how many jobs did the $100 million create? Architects, handymen, landscapers, dozens of third party contractors, etchotroddy
    • Bernie wants Zuck to send the money to bureaucracies so they can distribute 'more effectively'. Worked so well with the homeless, and highspeed railhotroddy
    • Captain America to The Rescueutopian
    • Here come the nazis to complain about rich peopleHayoth
    • hotroddy that is a false equivalency.doesnotexist
    • How? Fucking tax the cunt properly.

      It worked 60 years ago.
      Nairn
    • How much? Who? Where's the threshold? Is it retrospective? Does this tax regulation exist in all states? In all countries? Is it just personal or business too?Morning_star
    • Is it on earnings, dividends, existing stock, income, growth.

      My point is that the wealthy are subject to all the same tax laws as everyone else. If they're...
      Morning_star
    • ...rinsed in the US they'll move to the UK or the Camen Islands or Switzerland. The benefit to the US of having Zuck, Bezos etc base themselves in the US far..Morning_star
    • ...outweighs the negative impact if the fucked off to another country and took their business with them.Morning_star
    • I don't understand the obsession of some to defend these sociopaths... They are not your friends and they don't give a shit about you!OBBTKN
    • I'd imagine that 99.9999% of this planet doesn't give a shit. You think Bernie cares? I don't understand the shallow bleating fucks that point at a problem andMorning_star
    • ...offer no practical solution. Virtue signalling cretins.Morning_star
    • I feel you're just being contrarian.

      *shrug*
      Nairn
    • it's not a false equivalency. the moment you grow the gov't is the moment you're doomed.hotroddy
    • How so? Since we are playing devil's advocate, tell me. You mean we should cut our defense spending? Agreed, smaller govt, it's fucking ridiculous.formed
    • Or because healthcare is so great private? And please spare us the regurgitated 'people will have to wait in line' lies.formed
    • Or maybe education? 'Cause private colleges are clearly helping and affordable. No?formed
    • Or maybe infrastructure is something we should cut back? 'Cause it's so great now, right?formed
    • You cut 'govt' and it simply goes to the same people as 'private' with ridiculous price tags. But hey, that's 'less govt', right? *YAWN*formed
    • It's always gone on. These cunts make money disseminating cunty truths so everyone stays angry on their cunty platforms and generates more money.MrT
    • But someone was employed to fit each one of Zuck's 85 toilets in his new panic room, so everything's fine!MrT
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  • PhanLo9

    • Who would stick around if they were stood up??formed
    • Are there no restaurants under socialism or does everyone eat from a communal pig trough?hotroddy
    • yespango
    • Captain America to the Rescue.utopian
    • "I may be a restaurant, but the only reservation I want tonight is in your heart."kingsteven
    • I sleep well at night knowing hotroddy is such an awful piece of human shit he has no chance of reproducing and will die alone like a fucking loser.monospaced
    • And that level of absolute stupidity will not reenter the gene pool.monospaced
    • I was too thinkin about u I hope you bought your kids a Christmas tree. Navigating life with a deranged father must be challenging enough for your poor kids.hotroddy
    • still better than hotknobby who might just sacrifice his kids for the economy. like pinochet.pango
    • I imagine it's better to be the hero of stupid than the hero of incompetence

      hotdoddy
      neverscared
    • Yes I bought a Christmas tree and we covered it in lights and the kids loved it. We had a fire and hot chocolate too. So derangedmonospaced
    • How is your takeaway from this 'durr, no restaurants in socialism???'?i_monk
    • then what is it? there are no dating apps in socialism? or people don't get scammed in socialism? durr, which is it?hotroddy
    • oh I get it, the shallow misconception that once socialism is implemented it will miraculously eradicate greed from society. LOLZhotroddy
    • does it hurt you to be this stuoid? like, do you get a headache trying to think and then you just shit blurt out “socialism” like some retard?monospaced
    • I mean, we get you’re so low on the ranks of human beings you have no concept of dating, but I’m really trying to wrap my head around how you’re so cluelessmonospaced
    • mono one day we'll have a substantial argument but so far your exchanges have revolved around accusations of stupidity, racism, etc.hotroddy
    • i know it can be challenging to apply the same critical thinking skills you skillfully apply for religion (sarcasm) ..hotroddy
    • It seems that the American educational system has failed youhotroddy
    • lol, wowmonospaced
    • do you really think you’re being a critical thinker here? Omg that’s hilarious , but what do I know, I only have one advanced degree from a top university.monospaced
    • You still need to explain what you even mean before you can start talking about educations. So far you’re the one who looks like the dimwit.monospaced
    • then instead of having one of your classic temper tantrums, you should realize the absurdity of blaming capitalism on this chick.hotroddy
    • lol hotknobby. the great defender of capitalism.pango
    • it was a joke until Mono got offended and started spewing his trademark psychotic rants.hotroddy
    • It's just a prank, bro.palimpsest
    • There’s no way this story is truenb
    • @nb - of course not, but just look at the 'interaction', so it clearly 'worked'.formed
    • "I'm not stood up. Just no one is joining me for dinner tonight. I'll have the ice cream."robthelad