It’s a sad thing that to appreciate this burn some part of your brain has to know what a Dave Rubin is
The problem with communism was more the politics than the economics though. The economics obviously aren’t great, but the real flaw is putting all the resources of society under the direction of the political system.
Can’t really cast the first stone here.
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Wow really sucks about Cuban. I recently watched a Q&A with Cuban on youtube where he was pretty reasonable. He advocated for higher minimum wage. I think the problem with a lot of the more liberal billionaires is they want to improve the situation for average people but they want that to happen without being milked in the process.
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He wasn’t saying he didn’t want to be taxed, he said this:
Despite this, Cuban said he’s OK with this kind of singling out.
“If you would’ve told me when I was broke and sleeping on the floor that a few years later someone’s going to pick on me for being worth billions of dollars, I would’ve said ‘bring it on.’”
I’m not clear on what he actually is saying, though. The article quotes him in a way that makes it hard to tell.
Features, not bugs.
Several days ago on twitter he was complaining about how billionaires would have to realize gains to pay for the wealth tax. How if someone was worth 2 billion, they’d end up paying 130 million in taxes “at a 100% rate”. I’m pretty sure these numbers don’t add up, but that’s kinda the point. The idea of a wealth tax has him so riled up that he goes straight into alarmism.
Valvoline seems to have a weird business model these days - get you in and out fast, for a fair price, and don’t try to upsell the crap out of you with stuff that doesn’t actually exist like “SUV oil”. I’m looking at you Jiffy Lube.
Clearly a target for private equity buyout and run the company into the ground.
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Game, Blouses.
I’m a little less shocked.
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, addressing the pending NBA vote to oust racist Los Angeles Clippers boss Donald Sterling, confessed that he himself is so “prejudiced” that he would cross the street to avoid “a black kid in a hoodie at night.”
The outspoken hoops executive dropped his racially charged bomb just two days after the NBA formally began the process to boot Sterling, who was caught on tape telling an ex-girlfriend not to bring black friends to Clippers games.
“If I see a black kid in a hoodie at night on the same side of the street, I’m probably going to walk to the other side of the street,” Cuban said at the GrowCo business conference in Dallas on Wednesday.
As if to balance that stunning statement, Cuban said a white person looking like a skinhead would also force him to the other side of the road.
“If I see a white guy with a shaved head and lots of tattoos, I’m going back to the other side of the street,” the basketball team owner and star of the ABC business reality show “Shark Tank” continued.
“If I see anybody that looks threatening, and I try not to, but part of me takes into account race and gender and image,” he said. “I’m prejudiced. Other than for safety issues, I try to always catch my prejudices and be very self-aware.”
I use Valvoline instant oil change, but it’s expensive and I’m not sure it’s a great deal. Jiffy Lube was $29.95 and I had no problem telling them to fuck off with the Johnson Rod fluid, but I’m paying like $70 at Valvoline and feel like I was upsold without actually getting anything for it.
Jiffy Lube was like that too the last time I went in 2006 or something. They had a guy whose only job was literally to separate people out from the herd and try to upsell them.
Now it’s $51 and they barely try to upsell anything. They suggested transmission fluid but that’s reasonable at certain mileages. I can live with that.
Maybe my Valvoline is a low performing store staffed by lazies. The only upsell I’ve ever gotten was wiper blades, which I generally need every six months, and lights when they’re not working. They’re not trying to sell me undercoating or anything.
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Welp another seven days in Twittmo for telling @pastorlocke that I was praying for both him and Trump to contract ass cancer
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