ronl2k
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- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 1 day ago:
I think you described those comedy videos inaccurately. The fun of those vids is seeing someone use only their face to pass judgement on stupid behavior. And the behavior clips they’re observing are mercifully short. Such videos aren’t nearly as popular as you’re implying them to be. The vast majority of reaction videos are enjoyed for their commentary.
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 1 day ago:
I’m talking about videos where a useless pile of flesh takes up half the screen, nodding along, or laughing while saying nothing at all.
Such videos almost always consist of a watchful observer offering their opinion of the behavior going on in the video clip. Their opinions are what creates their fans.
- Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person 2 weeks ago:
I’ve met many people that have killed people. I didn’t think that was all that unusual.
Same here. While no one in my family has ever owned a gun, I can think of at least 3 people I’ve met who have killed someone. One was by a nice woman and was clearly in self-defense.
- Comment on Is this real life? 3 weeks ago:
If he was cremated, he’s black now.
You’ve obviously never seen cremated remains.
- Comment on Is this real life? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve always assumed that posts that began with “as a black man” were posted by a non-black person. Trying too hard, and invading their own Internet privacy at the same time.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
but that necessarily means that other people are now paying for their Social Security.
Who is “their?” Currently Social Security is designed for workers to pay for their own retirement.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
Social Security was designed to have winners and losers in the contributions game. My mom died at 64, and my dad died at 59. They both contributed to Social Security during their entire working lives without collecting a cent from it. That’s the way it goes.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
retirees started receiving benefits even if they never paid into the system, which was paid for by the current workers who were paying into the system.
The vast majority of current boomers have fully paid for their own Social Security pension.
Social Security is also not a pension.
That’s a distinction without a difference.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
boomers between years 1946 and 1964, which have actually paid more than they’ll get in benefits.
So boomers 79 and younger are fully paying their own way. According to Google, the average US longevity is 78.4 years. I don’t see an unfairness problem. Google also states that only about 4-5% of the U.S. population is 80 and older. You also assume those over 80 have paid nothing toward their pension.
I don’t think we should universally hate boomers just because the economic situation they were in happened to favor them in some ways
Again, most boomers pay their own way. And many seniors are living below the poverty line. And speaking of being favored, male boomers were required to risk their lives for their country. Current US males can take that risk optionally. Do you have any idea of how many young men had their lives cut short during WW2 and Vietnam?
there are just fewer workers paying in to the system than there are people taking money out, and that number only grows as people get older
Obviously false. Most seniors have already fully paid for their pension. If everybody is paying their own way, what difference does it make whether there are fewer workers? You falsely assume that current workers are paying for current seniors.
it’s not looking like we’ll be any better as we grow older
Whatever happens to you, it won’t be because of the boomers who are paying their own way.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
They could not afford to survive off only what they put in.
That’s why many senior citizens live below the poverty line.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
The money the Boomers paid into the system went to paying benefits for the previous generations.
False. The pension is fully vested by the workers receiving the pension, based on the taxes that they contributed. In fact, many elderly would be better off if the amount they contributed were invested in a hedge fund instead of Social Security.
- Comment on YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers 3 weeks ago:
Don’t like it? You can go back to US propaganda sites.
I don’t see the benefit of replacing US propaganda with anti-US propaganda.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
No need for the unnecessary hostility. It’s obvious that plenty of young people are voting for your rich politicians too. US politicians can’t win with only 28% of the vote. And US elderly make up a substantial portion of those below the poverty line, and they don’t all vote alike anyway.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
we’re still paying money into social security that we will never receive
You don’t know that you won’t receive Social Security. That’s just pointless scaremongering. In any case, vote for legislators who will manage Social Security better instead of blaming everything on boomers.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 3 weeks ago:
Wait till those he sold it to find out that the membership numbers are full of people who have been permabanned and won’t ever see their ads.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 3 weeks ago:
I’m convinced that Trump is a big-time troll.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
Current boomers have paid for 100% of their Social Security pension from payroll deductions from their working years. Social Security pensions are not dependent on young taxpayers.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
Boomers are only 28% of the US voting population. Try again.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
boomers are a chunk of the reason that the rich and powerful continue to be able to grasp and maintain power.
Boomers are only 28% of the US voters. Explain why their chunk is more responsible and the younger 72%.
- Comment on Amazing 5 weeks ago:
I’m neutral on the Metric System.
The US uses metric for military specs, automotive repair parts, US science specs, medicine/pharmacy, jewelry and most grocery products. The US dollar is also metric.
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 5 weeks ago:
Your anonymous country works exactly the same way. That’s why you didn’t mention it.
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 5 weeks ago:
If we don’t have a government, Russia or China will give us one.
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 5 weeks ago:
Why do all those MAGAs in the pic look like Andrew Tate?
- Comment on SipsTea 1 month ago:
Oh sweet summer child, stay innocent
Too late for that. He already sees his hookup 304s as wife material.
- Comment on Interesting observation 1 month ago:
If I came on you and said I could “straighten” you out with my penis, that’s a threat (at least it is in my book).
How odd that one paragraph later you’re criticizing others for not being able to recognize a joke.
- Comment on I would give my life savings for something that eradicates them from my apartment 😌 2 months ago:
Spiders eat bedbugs, so that’s nice.
Cockroaches eat bedbugs too. But I don’t think spiders or roaches can eat them fast enough to outdo their reproductive rate.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 2 months ago:
Anyone starving was a matter of policy.
Couldn’t some of those over-taxed Irish have chosen to fish or hunt instead of depending on one crop?
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 2 months ago:
There’s a reason why fringe parties tend to remain on the fringe.
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 2 months ago:
The Chromium browser code is open source.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 2 months ago:
Mods who have a history of frequent ban overturns…
Reddit mods don’t even have to answer your request for an appeal. So their bans are never overturned.