"Skeeter" <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote in message
news:67113d28$1$3620715$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com...
> 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?

It keeps him from having to admit it?