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JawboneOfAnAss said:
Marty, you should take your family to Prague here on vacation. I think Hebrew is the 4th most spoken language in the city.
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Will have to wait until the spring unfortunately, we'll be working hard the next few months

Plus need some time to oppress the palestinians some more you know
 
a-mart said:
Yeah, no clue whatsoever
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“I think targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night. Not just those who pose an immediate threat,” Ben-Gvir

“There are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people,” Ben-Gvir

"human animals," - Gallant.
 
Ulf Murphy said:
“I think targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night. Not just those who pose an immediate threat,” Ben-Gvir

“There are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people,” Ben-Gvir

"human animals," - Gallant.
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Wow, Ben-Gvir said something really proved your point there lmao. Why don't you provide what little kids are taught and say ("massacre the Jews" for example) or the actual Hamas and their civilian helpers filming themselves massacring everyone they see including babies and raping girls?

It's been established you have no idea what's going on so why do you even try anymore? quote and believe what you want that's not gonna change who and what we're dealing with here and invaded your beloved Ireland as well
 
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a-mart said:
Wow, Ben-Gvir said something really proved your point there lmao. Why don't you provide what little kids are taught and say ("massacre the Jews" for example) or the actual Hamas and their civilian helpers filming themselves massacring everyone they see including babies and raping girls?

It's been established you have no idea what's going on so why do you even try anymore? quote and believe what you want that's not gonna change who and what we're dealing with here and invaded your beloved Ireland as well
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Quoting Ben Gvir about Israel is like quoting Jake Paul about boxing.
 
Ulf Murphy said:
Funny that Luke Bryan wore a Free Palestine shirt for all of his concerts in Foxboro 2 weeks ago and that little massage loving douche chose the money from night 2 over being a morally upstanding Jew and cancelling him too. If he were not a hypocrite, then Bryan would not have gotten his second day. Any comment on that?
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False; check your facts, sir.
 
Brick said:
False; check your facts, sir.
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Pretty sure it was Zach Bryan, not Luke Bryan...



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Zach Bryan wears ‘Free Palestine’ shirt at Gillette Stadium concert, weeks after Ed Sheeran tour uproar

Last month, Macklemore said he was removed from Sheeran’s tour at the behest of Gillette Stadium owner Robert Kraft after the rapper spoke out in support of Palestinians earlier in the tour.
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Country singer Zach Bryan wore a “Free Palestine” T-shirt during his concert at Gillette Stadium near Boston on Friday night, weeks after stadium owner Robert Kraft was accused of pressuring Ed Sheeran to drop his opening act over pro-Palestinian remarks.


Videos across social media showed Bryan, 30, wearing a black cutoff T-shirt with “Free Palestine” in white letters during his tour stop at the stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Kraft, who owns the New England Patriots, is a staunch supporter of Israel.

Last month, rapper Macklemore said he was removed from Sheeran’s tour at Kraft’s behest after he spoke out in support of Palestinians at the tour’s shows in New Jersey.

Kraft did not immediately return a request for comment. He has said he did not want to stifle support for Palestinians but to ensure a “welcoming environment” at Gillette Stadium for Sheeran’s tour.

Sheeran’s other opening acts — Aaron Rowe, Lukas Graham, Finneas and his house band, Beoga — withdrew from the tour in protest after Macklemore’s removal.

Sheeran apologized for how he handled the matter in his first show since news broke of Macklemore’s removal.

"I’ve never wanted to be an activist musician,” Sheeran said, “but this has put me in the middle of an important and passionate argument about freedom of speech and the most complex political issue on the planet.”

Last week, Macklemore announced a Free Palestine Tour for this fall. Gillette Stadium will not be one of its stops.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a flashpoint in pop culture for decades.

Israel’s war in Gaza has killed more than 70,000 people there, according to local health authorities. It followed the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel, in which more than 1,200 people were killed.

Differences over the war have permeated everything from local political contests to the Costume Institute exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Bryan is best known for his songs “Something in the Orange,” “I Remember Everything” featuring Kacey Musgraves and “Pink Skies.” The Grammy-winning artist served in the Navy for several years while continuing to write and record music.

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bconcrete said:
I like percentages.

The top 1% of earners pay roughly 35-40% of all income taxes.

The bottom 50% of earners pay less than 1% of all income taxes.
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bconcrete said:
I like percentages: part two.

1% of all hourly paid workers make the federal minimum wage. That equates to ~850,000 people.

43% of those making the federal minimum wage are 25 or under.
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That number is playing a bit with stats as that looks only at $7.25, the Federally mandated minimum wage. It also includes tipped employees that make less than $7.25 an hour but tips are not counted.

30 states have a higher minimum, so that number excludes too many people, including tipped employees in those states who now make over $7.25 an hour by mandate, and honestly is not a relevant number in today's economy.

43.7% of the US workforce (58.3m people) make $15 an hour or less. A much more relevant number when you want to have an inequality discussion. What is interesting about that number is that it is up almost 150% over the last 3 years. It was only 31% in 2022 as the post-covid economy and shortage of workers forced wages up. But it took only 3 years to force it back to the highest number it has been since 2014, but today's $15/hr was worth $21.35 an hour in 2014, almost a 50% loss of purchasing power over 12 years.
 
Ulf Murphy said:
That number is playing a bit with stats as that looks only at $7.25, the Federally mandated minimum wage. It also includes tipped employees that make less than $7.25 an hour but tips are not counted.

30 states have a higher minimum, so that number excludes too many people, including tipped employees in those states who now make over $7.25 an hour by mandate, and honestly is not a relevant number in today's economy.

43.7% of the US workforce (58.3m people) make $15 an hour or less. A much more relevant number when you want to have an inequality discussion. What is interesting about that number is that it is up almost 150% over the last 3 years. It was only 31% in 2022 as the post-covid economy and shortage of workers forced wages up. But it took only 3 years to force it back to the highest number it has been since 2014, but today's $15/hr was worth $21.35 an hour in 2014, almost a 50% loss of purchasing power over 12 years.
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It's not juking the numbers when Dumbass Bernie LITERALLY QUOTES $7.25 in his damn tweet. It is a direct response. He wants to cite $7.25, there is less than 1% of workers making $7.25, therefore it's a bad point by him. Per usual.

And your 43.7% is much more a juking of the numbers, because there are MANY states that don't have that dumbass $15/hr floor. So it's a completely arbitrary stake in the road. $15/hr in Portland is quite different than $15/hr in Little Rock, so your inequality discussion needs to find a number of actual relevance, because that ain't it at all. Might a recommend a number that is the median income, per state, and go off that instead of this asinine $15/hr socialistic talking point that does nothing.

As to the rest of your point, geez it's almost like increasing the "minimum" wage doesn't do anything at all to increase standard of living, and that you'll see costs rise as well. Like opponents of that $15/hr idiocy, and anyone with basic economic literacy, has been saying since this was first proposed years ago. Truly shocking.
 
bconcrete said:
As to the rest of your point, geez it's almost like increasing the "minimum" wage doesn't do anything at all to increase standard of living, and that you'll see costs rise as well. Like opponents of that $15/hr idiocy, and anyone with basic economic literacy, has been saying since this was first proposed years ago.
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I completely agree with that. All it did here was move rents to match. Can't buy a house in my area with the predominant wage anymore, and you can track the increases in rent directly to the increase in the wage going form $10 to $15 since Covid.

Does it not shock you that 43.7% of workers in the US make $15/hr or less? It did me, which is why I posted it. Could you live off $15/hr?
 
Ulf Murphy said:
Does it not shock you that 43.7% of workers in the US make $15/hr or less? It did me, which is why I posted it. Could you live off $15/hr?
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No, it doesn't. Because it's a completely arbitrary number picked specifically for that reason, and I'd be very interested in how they came up with that distinction, because I think there's some real funky math going on behind the scenes.

Is it net take home? Is it gross? Because it does not stand up to scrutiny or further research. The median household income is $87,460. If we assume two adults working in the household and average that out with your typical hours per week/per year, you come down to a median income of ~$21 an hour per working adult. Far cry from $15. And data I found for 2026, from a variety of sources, puts the number anywhere from 9% to 20% on the high end, with most landing in the 10-15% range. So that 43.7% seems quite fuckified.

And your question is moot. I don't NEED to live off $15/hr because I have dedicated substantial time and resources throughout my life to acquire skills that employers value at far more than $15/hr. Which is how the labor market works, you make yourself more valuable, the more money you can command. The more replaceable your skills, the less you make.

Which is the essence of why this minimum wage thing is so stupid in the first place. The minimum wage is meant for the minimum. Minimum skills, minimum effort, minimum qualifications, minimum pay.
 
bconcrete said:
The median household income is $87,460. If we assume two adults working in the household and average that out with your typical hours per week/per year, you come down to a median income of ~$21 an hour per working adult.
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The calculation includes all households, which includes anyone working in the household over the age of 15, so household can be more than 4 wage earners. And digging into "median household income" you are right that location means a lot when looking at this and "$15/hr" means something completely different based upon location. Pretty sure that the arbitrary $15/hr was created when the "Fight for $15" happened all those years ago and it was based upon either the amount needed to live without public assistance in either NYC or LA.

You or I could live off $15/hr in Mississippi if we had to. We couldn't live in Seattle or NYC.
 
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