In article <vere5c$2q4h9$2@dont-email.me>,
recscuba_google@huntzinger.com says...
>
> On 10/17/24 9:51 AM, Skeeter wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Translation: Nailed It.
>
> So what was your career path before CoVid ruined it?
>
>
> -hh

I was already retired. What does that have to do with you being a moron?