2023 LC Thread - It was predetermined that I would change the thread title (Part 1)

rofl his wikipedia page has 650 words in the subheading of

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Oklahoma is the explanation.

Pretty much anyone with basic Medicare who isn’t poor also gets a supplementary plan.

So this little kid goes up to his black friend’s house and asked if monkey could come out and play.

It seems fashionable on the left to ignore what’s happening in San Francisco but guys, it’s bad!

https://twitter.com/sfstandard/status/1653460583428046853?s=46&t=XGja5BtSraUljl_WWUrIUg

I was thinking more like this

All this (plus a bunch of other complicated scams) means that Advantage enrollees receive something like 10 to 25 percent less in health care spending, but the program costs the government about 3 percent more per person than traditional Medicare. This absurd situation is actually getting worse. One recent study found that Advantage plans cost the government $106 billion in overspending from 2010 to 2019, and nearly a third of that came in just the last two years. The price tag is predicted to balloon to $600 billion over the next nine years

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Yeah, one of the worst things on the current left is the “shoplifting is good,” fuck those companies type stuff.

This doesn’t mean we should be shooting people stealing or whatever, just that we should as a society both address the underlying issues of the people who need to steal and actually arrest those that do it daily for profit.

I saw a dude running out of Portland’s downtown Nordstrom Rack with an armful of clothes a couple weeks ago. Didn’t see anyone from the store even watching him run away.

A B&M retailer closing??? Suddenly everyone assumes bigcorps are 100% forthright and honest.

https://twitter.com/markasaurus/status/1653501210882899968

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https://twitter.com/laura_waxee/status/1653534674118135808

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“Analysts predict companies like Kohl’s and Nordstrom will be “under pressure” in the first half of 2023.”

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Nordstrom also laid off a bunch of their tech staff last week.

No, don’t accept corporate messaging as gospel. Nordstrom is closing stores where there aren’t headlines about shoplifting, too.

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Is there supposed to be some downside to them closing Nordstrom’s anyways? Like is that hurting San Fran somehow?

We’re supposed to believe that SF is a hellscape of lawless impoverished shoplifters instead of a hellscape of overpriced rents, and also that this has nothing to do with online shopping.

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OK boomer

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“First they came for the Nordstroms. Then they came for the Nordstrom Racks.”

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https://www.axios.com/local/san-francisco/2023/03/07/shoplifting-deterrent-sales-retail-theft#:~:text=State%20of%20play%3A%20Large%20metro,Federation’s%202022%20National%20Retail%20Security

Lol at arguing the bay isn’t a nimby hellscape populated by the world’s biggest assholes, and the underclass that steals from them.

Shadows and dust, Maximus!