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So you’re saying that everyone who does not succeed has failed because they had a flat tire? Do you have a cite for that?
I thought not.
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Just for shits and giggles, I looked at your last 500 posts. 500 posts ago was February 10 for you, and that was 28 days ago. So that’s 17.8 posts a day. Even if you average three minutes to read a thread and compose and type a post, that’s an hour a day, every day for the past month. And some days, you posted a hell of a lot more: February 11, for example, you made 53 posts. And, yes, that was a work day. All but six of those posts were made from 9-5.
Sorry, I don’t think someone who spends hours a day on a message board is doing a good job. Just me, though. And I think most employers would agree with me. You don’t work hard, you’re lucky to work in an office that looks the other way, frankly. Seeing the likes of you trumpet the values of “hard work” is base hypocrisy.
Makes them tougher and work harder donchaknow…
By this time most of the fights to change discriminatory laws or corporations were done, of course it is easy to assume that the giants you are standing on to make your self sufficient act of today be possible can be ignored.
And you were dismissive of people who run to the government a plead for protection from the meanies.
The implication being what they should do is suck it up, use it to give themselves strength and work harder. If they fail it is their fault and no less than they deserve and crying foul just proves how weak they are.
Of course, you are almost certainly a beneficiary of liberal gringo helping hands. If left to the likes of the Tea Party I am willing to bet your dad would have never made it to the US (at least not legally) and you would not have been allowed to attend schools and by extension a university to become a successful lawyer.
You’d be lucky to be a migrant farm hand at this point.
By supporting the right you are pulling the ladder up behind you. Future people will not have the chance to achieve what your dad and his family did because the republicans will prevent it if they can.
Of course. Helps the old ego out if your success is all your own. And you generally do have to be swinging at the time the opportunity comes by. It is of course poor logic to assume that failure is completely the fault of those that don’t make it to the next rung up.
The real world is musical chairs in a pyramid. You have to be in play to win, but a number of factors dictate success. They include fast reactions, keeping your eyes open and an open chair being near when the music stops.
Of course, that assumes that everyone is playing by the rules. The person playing the music doesn’t have a preference. People don’t knock other people aside when going for the chair etc etc. It also assumes every has an equal start.
None of these assumptions are correct of course.
Nicely stated.
Another genius…
During a speech on Wednesday, Wisconsin’s Secretary of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection referred to the protests in the Capitol as a “holocaust in a horror story.” Speaking about the freshmen legislators in Wisconsin, Secretary Ben Brancel said, “They came to town with a lot of ideas and a lot of concepts they could really work on and then they got stuck in the middle of a holocaust in a horror story that was going on in town…as far as people using the building all night long and some shenanigans.”
After his remarks, Brancel told a reporter that holocaust was “a bad word.” “It should have been total confusion in the Capitol,” he said. “It was not an appropriate word to use in the context of which I used it, and I better go back to English school.”
Beyond the obvious… English school?
Good for you. Ambition, talent, and determination, all rock solid American values. What about the rest? What about the people who are not so gifted as yourself. What happened to the guy who was just as ambitious and hard-working as yourself, but not as smart? What happened to him?
You’re smart. I know that, you know that. So am I, you may have noticed. I didn’t earn smart, as best I can tell. How about you? I tend towards the morality that says “To those to whom much is given, much is expected”. You defend the one that says “Yeee-haw, if you got it, flaunt it, git in there and grab it with both hands”.
But smart isn’t a virtue, smart is a characteristic, no more a virtue than being tall. To debase such a gift in order to construct elaborate rationales to defend the indefensible…well, one could do better, don’t you think?
Only rats win rat races.
And thus do the goalposts continue their journey ever onward, seeking new lands and new horizons …
Sure. All by yourself. And let’s assume that you’re totally right about that. Is there only one method allowed? Discrimination doesn’t exist?
You think that the way you view the world is the way everybody else should view it. You get enraged …“That’s sexist” you simper, as if it’s witty-----when people dare to point out that your life is not their life. In fact, your story doesn’t arouse sympathy. Apparently you decided that…yes, that ladder was yours and no one else’s.
Very few people are Horatio Alger. Some people are grateful and humble for those who help them and care for them and teach them. Some people recognize that others are different and that one size—which is oh-so-conveniently modeled on Bricker----doesn’t fit all.
You hold yourself up as the rule and the example. It’s an act of astounding arrogance and overweening compassionlessness.
Hey, wait a minute, how come he doesn’t have to be white? Shit, he’s a lawyer and a Republican, how white can you get?
Compromise? Walker made it clear from day one, he would not compromise. Besides if they want to take away the collective bargaining ,how do you compromise? That is a take it or leave it. After the right is gone it is gone. How do you get a compromise out of that?
It’s a Republican compromise, where they get 100% of what they want and you…well, you don’t exist, peon.
“Except every other November, when you have to vote for the Republicans because otherwise GAYSGUNSGODWILDATHEISTSANDMUSLIMSSODOMIZINGYOURCHILDRENAND BURNINGYOURCHURCHESOHMYGODSAVEUSGOP!”
It doesn’t even have to be that bad. They just prop the “we look out for the working man” bullshit, and as soon as they’re elected, they strip a lot of working men and women of things like their right to collectively bargain, and then call them whiners … until the next election when they’ll be looking out for them again.
And people fall for it every fucking time.
Lube or no lube.
Hmm, well, let’s see what American workers are getting for Mass Transit Reimbursement.
Well, it depends. Take my own case, for instance. I’ve been working for 16 years without being layed off, even though I’ve lived through at least four company mergers or acquisitions, and more downsizings than I can count.
How did I suvive all that? Well, one thing of course is that I am a competent, worthwhile employee, and all of my supervisors have known that. So that’s not luck, that’s my own doing.
But also, every time there has been a layoff I happened to be working on one of the few projects that were deemed “company critical” right at that moment, so my entire team would be spared, for the most part. Now that I do consider pure luck. Other people at the company that were just as smart and just as productive as me were let go because the whole project they were working on was cancelled.
Far-off lands report seeing the goalposts wandering ever onward, heedless of what lay behind, brave travellers into the mist.