In article <ver1fr$2ohqk$1@dont-email.me>,
recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
>
> On 10/16/24 8:27 PM, Skeeter wrote:
> > In article <veph2p$2ejus$1@dont-email.me>,
> > recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
> >>
> >> On 10/16/24 6:10 PM, Skeeter wrote:
> >>> In article <6710329b$1$2385545$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>,
> >>> brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com says...
> >>>>
> >>>> On Oct 16, 2024 at 1:35:02 PM MST, "-hh" wrote <vep81m$28g54$1@dont-email.me>:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 10/15/24 8:05 PM, pothead wrote:
> >>>>>> On 2024-10-15, -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>> On 10/15/24 5:54 PM, pothead wrote:
> >>>>>>>> On 2024-10-15, citizen winston smith <sss@example.de> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>> On 10/15/2024 1:36 PM, -hh wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>> You're now trying to claim that the "what has changed?" is that there's
> >>>>>>>>>> adults now seeking to have genetically normal kids undergo sex change
> >>>>>>>>>> operations.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Were you "in the navy" Huntzy?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> https://youtu.be/nmGuy0jievs
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Cuz you are as gay as a swabbie with no shore leave.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> I'll bet hh volunteered to take other sailors "night in the barrel", if you
> >>>>>>>> get my drift.
> >>>>>>>> Pun intended.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Oh, we certainly do: you know that you're mad because you can't dispute
> >>>>>>> facts on the topic, so you try to "Shoot the Messenger" instead. Lame.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> -hh
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Mad?
> >>>>>> Hardly.
> >>>>>> I stopped getting mad when I was about 12 yo.
> >>>>>> It's a waste of energy.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So if you're denying that it is due to anger, then what *was* your
> >>>>> motivation to sling such a lame Ad Hominem? After all, you did choose
> >>>>> to post, so there must have been a reason. So if its not you being
> >>>>> upset & butthurt again, then just what was your motivation?
> >>>>
> >>>> He seems unaware of his own emotional states... unless you have a signifiant
> >>>> issue pretty much all people experience anger from time to time.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> I prefer to look up from my spreadsheet and observe what the world is is
> >>>>>> saying.
> >>>>>> That's something you seem unable to do.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On the contrary: I find that worldviews are expanded by using objective
> >>>>> data, and helps to reveal my own potential personal biases.
> >>>>
> >>>> Where Pothead makes things up, such as his recent claims that I am somehow
> >>>> responsible for Carroll's flood bot.
> >>>>
> >>>>>> You can spin your numbers all day and night but the fact remains that
> >>>>>> the number 1 issue with voters is the economy/inflation and the polls
> >>>>>> show that people blame Biden/Harris for the mess.
> >>>>>> And that is a fact.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> And people are _never_ deceived? Or make a mountain out of a mole hill?
> >>>>> Case in point:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Initially Biden was trying to convince the people that Bidenomics was working.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So then, just what is the definition of "working" here?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Because if it is real wage increasing to catch up with inflation, we
> >>>>> know that it is already 98% of the way there by one metric, and is 102%
> >>>>> of the way there by another metric.
> >>>>
> >>>> We are still struggling based on Reagan and his absurd trickle down. Trump's
> >>>> work to redistribute money to the very rich did not help. Nor did the
> >>>> pandemic. Nor the war in Ukraine. Or Israel.
> >>>
> >>> I was better off when Trump was in office.
> >>
> >> By what measure?
> >>
> >>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> He and his handlers found out rather quickly that people were not buying
> >>>>>> that message so he stopped promoting it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Or...that was Biden's message and since he's no longer running, Harris
> >>>>> has emphasized different top messaging points.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> The Biden/Harris administration will go down in history as the worst
> >>>>>> administration ever, even topping Jimmy Carter.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> And why was Carter so bad in your eyes? Inflation again, but this time
> >>>>> from Nixon/Ford? Are you old enough to remember the GOP's "WIN" (Whip
> >>>>> Inflation Now) campaign and wage freezes? How did those real wages
> >>>>> catch up?
> >>>>
> >>>> Wages have not come close to keeping close with productivity. Used to be a CEO
> >>>> made 40x the average worker. Now it is several hundred times.
> >>>
> >>> So?
> >>
> >>
> >> The CEO:worker pay ratio shows the increasing wealth concentration at
> >> the top, which is decreasing the prosperity of the US middle class, for
> >> higher CEO pay means less for the rank & file, which is why more middle
> >> class households are failing instead of rising up. It is the inevitable
> >> outcome of the GOP's "Trickle-Down" economics starting from Reagan.
> >>
> >>
> >> -hh
> >
> > I couls afford to do stuff.
>
>
> So what you're saying is that you lost your job due to CoVid?
>
> Or are you saying that you've not gotten raises, either because your
> employer has not been kept up with the national average for wage
> increases, or didn't think you were worth paying more?
>
> Or did you (or spouse) retire, so your income has dropped from that?
>
> Or are you just complaining that you're getting old and can't physically
> go out boozing every weekend? /s
>
> YMMV, but my hourly rate has soared, such that I don't need to work long
> hours anymore.
>
>
> > Crime wasn't as bad.
>
> Interesting claim, because National crime statistics show that most
> crime rates have continued to go down, despite the public's false
> perception that things aren't getting better:
>
> "Using the FBI data, the violent crime rate fell 49% between 1993 and
> 2022, with large decreases in the rates of robbery (-74%), aggravated
> assault (-39%) and murder/nonnegligent manslaughter (-34%)."
>
> <https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-data-says-about-crime-in-the-us/>
>
> TL;DR: half as bad as it used to be.
>
> Thus said, there have been changes in opportunistic nonviolent property
> theft, such as stealing FedEx deliveries, washing checks stolen from the
> mail, etc, but property crime still been trending down over time:
>
> "The FBI data also shows a 59% reduction in the U.S. property crime rate
> between 1993 and 2022, with big declines in the rates of burglary
> (-75%), larceny/theft (-54%) and motor vehicle theft (-53%)."
>
> -Ibid
>
> So what evidence do you have of crime being "worse": is it merely your
> personal perception? Or true for just your highly localized region?
> Because on a National macro level, the claim does not ring true.
>
>
> -hh

Moron.