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@JoseVir14552113 @EatDaBugs You can plan for obvious moves the enemy will make when attacked. They didn’t. Soldiers are dead and injured because of it. They jumped too quickly without a real plan and you give them a pass. Tell that too the families.

@EatDaBugs I got to side with Hegseth on this one. War is HELL on Earth. By its own nature, war will go SIDEWAYS when you least expect it. The only thing you can count on in a war is its unpredictability. Those who adapt better to the uncertainty of war are called strategists. We lack them.

🚨HOLY CRAP. SecDef Pete Hegseth gets CORNERED over the Iranian drone strike that killed 6 US soldiers at Port Shuaiba, after survivors went on record calling his Pentagon spin a LIE. Rep. Pat Ryan reading the survivors' OWN words back to him: "I would put it in the NONE category from a drone defense capability. NONE." "Painting a picture that one squeaked through is a FALSEHOOD." "The building's protection was about as weak as one gets." The base was UNDER 100 miles from Iran. Internal analysis said it was INDEFENSIBLE. Officers on the ground BEGGED for more force protection. They didn't get it. 6 dead. 30+ wounded. HEGSETH'S response? "Of course, that's the CONSEQUENCE OF CONFLICT." RYAN: "Those soldiers told the truth. Those soldiers are BRAVER than you are." "You need to RESIGN. Immediately." The war machine sends kids to die on indefensible bases, then the political class hides behind a podium and calls the survivors liars. Audit the Pentagon. End the forever wars. 🦍🟧

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@KarlanJudd @ronrule What is the correct differential? Is that a formula or finger in the wind? If the business is losing money for some months of the year, does everyone take a pay cut?

When my son got one of his first jobs with a manufacturing company, he complained how he was “doing all the work” making parts that sold for hundreds of dollars a piece while only making $20 an hour. “It’s unfair to the workers!” he said. “You sound like a liberal.” I said. He made a classic mistake I see people make over and over. They only look at the hard cost of goods and final sale price. They don’t understand anything in between. I pointed out that the company he worked for only makes an 8% profit. Their total profit on that $400 part was really only about $32. “There’s no way.” he said. “The bar stock only costs about $8.” To him, his argument was logical. Every day his hands turned $8 worth of aluminum bars into thousands of dollars of product, but he only got about $160 of that. That seemed unfair. I asked him “What about all of the other people in the company? The ones who aren’t making the parts.” He hadn’t thought about that. I explained that every hand along that product’s journey from creation to the customer is another person who has to get paid. The engineers who designed and tested it, long before you made it. The person who packed it in a box. The person who made the manuals that go with it. The person who answers the phone when a customer has a problem later. The people who order the materials and maintain the machines and sweep the floors and clean the toilets after you leave. The accountants and lawyers and insurance companies who keep the business organized, compliant, and protected if the part you made fails. All of those people are paid for from those parts you made. And all of them get their paychecks whether the parts are sold right away or not. On top of that, there’s the cost of the facility itself. The building, heating and cooling it, and every piece of equipment inside it. All of those costs are paid before the owner makes one cent. “At the end of the day, you’re actually making more money from every unit you make than he is.“ He understood it after that. Running a business is the hardest way to make money. Roughly 90% of entrepreneurs will fail. Don’t get me wrong, the reward can be great if you’re one of the 10% that makes it, but that results in a confirmation bias. You only see the winners. You never heard about the 90% that failed before they made it. You see the guy in the big office who looks like he doesn’t work as hard as you, but you never saw what it took to get there. You never saw the times he went without a paycheck so he could make payroll. You never felt the stress of being denied necessary capital, or losing an important customer, or under-bidding on a contract and losing money on every unit. You’ve never felt the repercussions of making the wrong call. If you mess up, one customer is marginally inconvenienced, and you can fix it with another $8 part. If HE messes up, you and everyone else have no job. You can be the guy on top if you’re willing to take the risks they took and do the work they did to get there. Or you can do your part and collect your paycheck while someone else worries about that stuff. And that’s OK too, because the world needs both. The beauty of capitalism is that you get to choose which one you want to be.

@cowboii12345 @ronrule Well thank you.

@ronrule @KarlanJudd without owners close etc their would be NO buisness they spend THEIR money to start these businesses why shouldn't they be rewarded ..your asinine

@LukeErb00 @womblivesmatter @ronrule My dues does do not go to political campaigns. True I don’t like the way they endorse candidates. Without being specific I’m certain I make more than almost any non unionized teacher.

@KarlanJudd @womblivesmatter @ronrule And your union donates how much of the money they take from you to the Democrat party? Besides the fact that if unions were so good as one of the biggest unions in the country being the teachers unions you should be quite well paid well, yet I doubt you would make that claim.

@CriticalMa555 @ronrule I truly don’t know. But I do know we’ve been gaming the system for those at the top for decades now and the buying power of the middle class is falling apart and isn’t sustainable.

@LukeErb00 @womblivesmatter @ronrule Unions exist to give more leverage to people so that they can stop a company from taking advantage of them and giving them the lowest wage and lowest package of benefits possible. And as a dedicated teacher who helps young minds daily, my union makes doing that possible.

@KarlanJudd @womblivesmatter @ronrule Unions get people paid more yes, which then raises the price of the product to consumers. Unions exist to take more money from workers just for the right to work in that field then give it to politicians to campaign on giving more money to people that dont work at all. Extortion

@Shadow__Pro @ronrule @Dan_is_SuperBug This is a dishonest take on what a hedge fund manager does. But sure ok. You can out talk me on units and quantities and finance for sure, but you and I both know a hedge fund mangers job is to make money for him/herself in the most cut throat way possible. As with a CEO.

@KarlanJudd @ronrule @Dan_is_SuperBug quantitativley you are wrong, full stop. a hedge fund manager allocates capital at scale (likey a portion from the janitors pension) so that both the businesses get funding to hire MOAR janitors AND the janitor can have a satisfactory retirement.

@womblivesmatter @ronrule Plenty of big money dudes enabled that man even though they knew he was a pediphile because he gave them access. Corruption at its finest.

@womblivesmatter @ronrule Their salaries are outrageous because they have leverage. And they band together to get better deals. Unionization is good. Collective power. Fuck the ridiculous claims that businesses can’t afford it while their owners have luxury yachts and visit Epstein Island lol

@Se7enball @ronrule @Dan_is_SuperBug So the lobbyists making $$$$$ are just making sure everything is fair? 🤣🤣 They buy so much from the govt they pretty much write the bills at this point. Our economy worked better when the rich were taxed at 90%. Reagan started giving to the rich and putting the country in debt.

@KarlanJudd @ronrule @Dan_is_SuperBug It's the foundational premise of our system of government. Pretty successful so far; when it hasn't been it's because of improper government interference

@ronrule @Se7enball @Dan_is_SuperBug Nanny nanny boo boo to you as well.

@KarlanJudd @Se7enball @Dan_is_SuperBug If it’s so easy, go start a business.

@Se7enball @ronrule @Dan_is_SuperBug 🤣🤣🤣 when has that ever been the case?

@KarlanJudd @ronrule @Dan_is_SuperBug Better, but you're also misattributing the problem. The government is not supposed to have power worth buying.

@Se7enball @ronrule @Dan_is_SuperBug What’s the track record for countries where the super rich become a ruling class with power over govt decision making?

@KarlanJudd @ronrule @Dan_is_SuperBug What's the track record for countries that arrange their economies around what they consider "most valuable to society"?

@ronrule @Dan_is_SuperBug Haha that’s the biggest BS I’ve heard in a while. It’s a cycle of leverage plain and simple. A janitor offers more value to society than a hedge fund manager without a doubt.

@KarlanJudd @Dan_is_SuperBug It’s a cycle of value.

@Lina_rays1ya Talked, negotiated, led, protected, spoke with grace, intellectually acted. So many more.

Can you name one thing Obama did better than Trump? What say you?

@ronrule @Dan_is_SuperBug Not a true comparison. Take all the executives and pool their pay like you did the laborers. They have more leverage so they negotiate higher pay. It’s a dirty cycle of greed.

Those numbers are only big due to scale — it doesn’t translate well into more worker pay. Here’s an easy example. The Walmart CEO’s salary is $1.5M a year, plus ~$20M in ISO’s (stock). Walmart employs 2.1 million people. The workers individually only make around $30k. But collectively they make $63 billion a year, which is about 63,000 times what the CEO makes. If the CEO gave his entire salary to the workers, each worker would only get an extra 71 cents a YEAR. If the CEO gave his entire salary AND stock package to the workers, each worker would only get an extra $10.23 a year. The problem isn’t executive pay. It never has been. The problem is that most workers don’t understand how expensive it is to run a business.

@ronrule Over the past 50 years the income gap has grown to an absurd level. Yes I am gay. If you’re obsessed with that check own your feelings lol. The income gap is not good for a shrinking middle class. When you can’t support a family on a skilled income the economy has a problem.

@ronrule Yes and I suppose the CEO only makes $21/hour. The income differential between skilled labor and management is unconscionable in this country.

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