Start another thread for that, as it is irrelevant here. :P But apparently they were planning to riot if they were gonna win, too.
As for your criticism of me, I'll just say that it's not my job to spoon-feed people so that even the least intelligent could understand it and not take it the wrong way. It'd be a pretty dull thing to do. When it comes to non-technical matters that should be understandable to all, I expect more from people. If it's a specific topic that not everyone would be knowledgeable in, like say, computer stuff, I'd gladly spend more time and effort to clarify it as much as is required. But when it comes to common sense stuff, if they just don't cut it, then too bad for them. I'm not gonna get upset over them getting upset over nothing.
Your still missing his point. Has nothing to do with 'simplifying.' It's about not making offensive comments. Which is exactly what you did in your first post on this thread.
I find it interesting that your actually saying that people aren't understanding your posts, yet I find nothing that doesn't make sense in this thread, other than your conduct; and pretty obvious contradictions.
Actually, you really puzzle me, your acting a bit like a troll, but your failing at being one because your also posting massive multi-paragraph posts.
The first link was an interesting read. But nonetheless, in the end they explain the downsides of having a recession, which are already obvious enough through common sense alone. Like with some nasty medical procedures, you want to avoid it if at all possible, but sometimes there is no other choice. You say "more attention paid to governments" would be the right solution, but people talk about this all the time, with no results. Could you have imagined the government taking a hard look at the mortgage mess, the gambling-like trading banks have been doing, and impose those financial regulations before the recession took place? There's fierce opposition to these seemingly common sense regulations even now--after a recession that should have taught some people a good lesson. As it stands, they can't even raise taxes on the rich, even though everyone knows it's what needs to be done. The list can go on and on.
As for your criticism of me, I'll just say that it's not my job to spoon-feed people so that even the least intelligent could understand it and not take it the wrong way. It'd be a pretty dull thing to do. When it comes to non-technical matters that should be understandable to all, I expect more from people. If it's a specific topic that not everyone would be knowledgeable in, like say, computer stuff, I'd gladly spend more time and effort to clarify it as much as is required. But when it comes to common sense stuff, if they just don't cut it, then too bad for them. I'm not gonna get upset over them getting upset over nothing.
The first link was an interesting read. But nonetheless, in the end they explain the downsides of having a recession, which are already obvious enough through common sense alone. Like with some nasty medical procedures, you want to avoid it if at all possible, but sometimes there is no other choice. You say "more attention paid to governments" would be the right solution, but people talk about this all the time, with no results. Could you have imagined the government taking a hard look at the mortgage mess, the gambling-like trading banks have been doing, and impose those financial regulations before the recession took place? There's fierce opposition to these seemingly common sense regulations even now--after a recession that should have taught some people a good lesson. As it stands, they can't even raise taxes on the rich, even though everyone knows it's what needs to be done. The list can go on and on.
As for your criticism of me, I'll just say that it's not my job to spoon-feed people so that even the least intelligent could understand it and not take it the wrong way. It'd be a pretty dull thing to do. When it comes to non-technical matters that should be understandable to all, I expect more from people. If it's a specific topic that not everyone would be knowledgeable in, like say, computer stuff, I'd gladly spend more time and effort to clarify it as much as is required. But when it comes to common sense stuff, if they just don't cut it, then too bad for them. I'm not gonna get upset over them getting upset over nothing.
My point in posting these articles was that a recession would make recovery in the near future nigh impossible, during which time many households, including those that managed their finances well, could collapse entirely. In addition to being heartless, throwing more recessions at America likely wouldn’t solve the problem as you theorized, and full-on anarchy and chaos might result as a consequence, much more than what is described in the OP’s article. I would think the Occupy Wall Street movement, while tremendously misguided/bereft of guidance, is an indication that people are paying attention. Come election time, the unrest and dissatisfaction in America might bear fruit. While the recession brought more attention to government actions/inaction, hitting people with more recessions while they’re down and also when they’re up doesn’t appeal to me, nor do I think they are necessary.
It’s common sense that if you make an offensive comment, people will be upset. I wasn’t the only person in this thread that was confused as to your intentions, because, well, we're not you. Maybe you have some tunnel vision regarding the connotations contained in your posts, but if you showed your post to an objective observer that knew little to nothing about you, he or she would probably assume that you were bashing Americans as a whole. It’s not your responsibility to “spoon-feed†explanations of your comments to people, but if so many people “pointlessly QQ†about your post, perhaps that’s an indication that you might have erred on your end.
These supposedly sane human beings are fighting, clawing, crawling over each other in order to get hold of what seem to be DVDs and video games.
The boxes at which they are grabbing like lions tearing at a deer carcass say "$10 while supplies last."
Good for you!
Nope. Those people say that stuff due to being stupid, hateful, uncompassionate and uneducated. They also happen to be American, but I guess that's besides the point!
My point (and it's not really my point--there are far more qualified people who've made this judgment) is that a recession can have constructive results, both economically and socially. That housing bubble has finally been burst, there are more financial safeguards and regulations, etc. Studies have also shown that the recession made people happier with their lives, as they focus more on family than whatever mundane crap they've been preoccupied with when "times were good." The divorce rate dropped, too.
But nice try!
Never implied that. :3 But the fact that this kind of crazy stuff happens all around the country on this day--over shopping, does tell you something.
Gotta love it when people pointlessly QQ, without really thinking first. xP
Everyone already knows that a recession means difficult recovery in the near future. You say recessions can't solve problems--yet they have already produced tangible good results in terms of government policy, which wouldn't have happened otherwise...You may argue that a lot of problems would have also been averted has the recession not come. But this is true for the short term only. The longer you keep things afloat using tricks, the harder you screw yourself over when it all inevitably falls apart. Might as well get hit early, when it's less painful, if you're gonna get hit anyway...Besides, according to your very own articles, good things have come from the recession as well.
Even that Occupy Wall Street movement you're so fond of wouldn't be around had the last recession not come.
Subjective stuff. I mean, sure, it wasn't exactly PC, if you choose to see it that way. But either way, the rate of someone getting upset at something so trivial is proportional to their pride and inversely proportional to their intellect. Like that one time when a Chinese girl raged at me and at the author of an engineering article that dealt with China's bad safety record in high speed rail. Some people are just...well, they are what they are. Haha.
Anyway, back on topic:
As expected, the insanity was not limited to that LA store. The usual savagery happened in Texas as well:
[video=youtube;l8_QQPjjj1k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=l8_QQPjjj1k[/video]
(volume is kinda loud)
Glad to hear she survived this, er.. shopping event.
I like how this blogger put it:
xD
Maybe I should have clarified my position: I did not believe that Americans needed several recessions like you said, since it would unnecessarily hurt people while not rectifying the situation. One recession might have a good impact, but not multiple ones.
False, I never said that I was fond of it. I just used it as an example of how people in America are mobilizing and were paying attention to the government, despite doing so in the wrong way.
Well, I would hope you would treat people as you would want to be treated, regardless of whether you are in an anonymous setting or in a professional environment. You said you only meant to disparage the Americans perpetrating the violence, but you certainly didn't show that in your post, so it's not wrong or stupid for someone to speak out against a comment that was false and baseless. Just bad communication on your part. You did said you resented dumb blond stereotypes here: http://mabination.com/threads/37020-The-dumbest-cheater-ever. Of course you would have wanted Cynic to clarify his position because there are plenty of smart blondes that don't deserve to have a "dumb" label attached to them.
Well, it's too bad that a few bad apples are often used as representations of American citizens as a whole.
lol yoorah talked so much **** that AVs started marking this page as suspicious
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Apparently there was a shooting at another store.