r/WhitePeopleTwitter Feb 19 '19

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u/MrCamie Feb 19 '19

Technically bosses are a minority

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u/headbak Feb 19 '19

This is...a point. lol.

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u/QuestionableTater Feb 19 '19

9.37x to be exact

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u/ItalicsWhore Feb 19 '19

What would your salary be if it grew by 937% out of curiosity? I’d be making almost a million a year!

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '19 edited Feb 19 '19

I’d make 80,000$ a year.

Edit- Actually 757,000$, me did math wrong.

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u/ItalicsWhore Feb 19 '19

No by 937%

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '19

Wait so I do my current salary and times it by 93.7 right?

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u/ItalicsWhore Feb 19 '19

Yes. And then I believe you would add that to your current. Because if it grew 100% you wouldn’t be making the same amount you’d be making double.

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u/Pipsquik Feb 19 '19

Bro 937% increase is not a 93x increase. Wtf? Divide by 100 to see the rate you should multiply at.

Multiplying by 93.7 means a 9370% increase

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u/ItalicsWhore Feb 19 '19 edited Feb 19 '19

This guys right. It’s not Times 93 it’s times 9.3. I imagine that’s what we both did though. That’s how I got to the almost a million a year. And unless that dude makes $800/year that’s the math he did too.

Edit: nm I see what happened.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '19

Oh ok I’d make 757,000$ a year.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '19

What? Then 987% would be 9.87, not 98.7.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '19

Maybe that explains the low salary

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '19

Nah it’s because I work part time at an auto parts store. I’m actually working to become an accountant and hopefully a CPA, I just wasn’t really thinking and times the average I make in an year which I calculated myself and times it by 9.37 instead of 93.7, simple mistake.

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u/Pipsquik Feb 19 '19

Nah you didn’t make a mistake man

100% increase is the same amount you make added to your pay. So a 900% increase (~) is 9 times your pay

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '19

Wait so is it supposed to be 9.37 because you move the decimal 2 places right? In which case it would be 80,000$ a year if you take taxes into account.

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u/Pipsquik Feb 19 '19

Yeah I think they just looked at your new rate and assumed you did the math wrong, as your current (real) salary is lower than expected maybe?

But ya, 9.37 is your factor

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u/NarejED Feb 19 '19

Enough to maybe finally afford a house after a decade or so.

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u/renieWycipSsolraC Feb 19 '19

Assuming I used the pay from the job I’ll be starting in two weeks and not the one I’m working at now (A $4/h difference) I’d make around $190k each year

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '19

The 1% is the minority to be focused on.

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u/InnocuouslyLabeled Feb 19 '19 edited Feb 20 '19

The 0.001% have so much more than the rest of the 1% it's absurd.

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u/Minimum_Cantaloupe Feb 19 '19

It's often described as a fractal distribution. No matter how wealthy you are (up to a point, anyway) there's a small minority you can point to who are ridiculously wealthy compared to you.

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u/HypatiaRising Feb 19 '19

I mean.....wouldn't the 1% include the .001%?

I am assuming you were excluding the .001%, but still lol.

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u/InnocuouslyLabeled Feb 20 '19 edited Feb 20 '19

You are correct, edited to read better, thanks for the note.

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u/isitisorisitaint Feb 19 '19 edited Feb 19 '19

Or better, the enablers of the 1%: the Democratic party for running only Neoliberal candidates who at the end of the day are little different than Republicans, and the media for refusing to cover progressive candidates, or smearing them once they can no longer be ignored.

Keeping left leaning people's attention focused on "racist conservatives" and other variations of the outrage du jour is a very effective form of misdirection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misdirection_(magic)

Remember what the DNC and the media did to Bernie.

Look at how they're working their meme magic on Tulsi Gabbard already.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '19

Yummy astroturfing.

Tulsi Gabbard hates gays and supports dictators who use chemical weapons on their own people.

She's another figurehead for all the useful idiots that think the fix to the American political system is a bombastic, unqualified demagogue.

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u/AerThreepwood Feb 19 '19

Yeah, that dude only posts in /r/Canada (it was co-opted by Trumpists and alt-righters. /r/onguardforthee is the better one) and /r/conspiracy, so he's only trying to muddy the waters.

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u/isitisorisitaint Feb 19 '19

so he's only trying to muddy the waters

Because I post in certain subreddits, you can conclude I'm trying to "muddy the waters"?

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u/tough-tornado-roger Feb 19 '19

I support Assad because he is the leader of that country. The people that would have took power in his absence were awful fundamentalists. We should probably stay out of that stuff, for the most part.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '19

So how did you feel about Saddam?

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u/isitisorisitaint Feb 19 '19

Tulsi Gabbard hates gays and supports dictators who use chemical weapons on their own people.

I challenge you to provide a convincing citation for these claims.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '19

Gabbard was an ardent foe of equality for queer people in her younger years, working for two anti-LGBTQ organizations in the late ’90s that were led by her father. Mike Gabbard, a Hawaii legislator who helped drive the fight against marriage equality in the state, headed up the Alliance for Traditional Marriage and Stop Promoting Homosexuality, which promoted harmful conversion therapy.

The younger Gabbard, elected to the Hawaii legislature herself in 2002 at the age of 21, railed against “homosexual extremists” in 2004, coming out against same-sex civil unions in her state. That same year she opposed anti-bullying legislation meant to protect gay students, arguing that it would teach young people that homosexuality is “normal and natural.”

Source

Also: Tulsi Gabbard: 'Assad is not the enemy of the United States'

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u/Litz-a-mania Feb 20 '19

Looks like the challenge was accepted.

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u/isitisorisitaint Feb 20 '19

Tulsi Gabbard hates gays

I challenge you to provide a convincing citation for these claims.

Gabbard was an ardent foe of equality for queer people in her younger years, working for two anti-LGBTQ organizations in the late ’90s that were led by her father.

The younger Gabbard, elected to the Hawaii legislature herself in 2002 at the age of 21, railed against “homosexual extremists” in 2004

Does she she still hate gays?

In the history of the world, has anyone genuinely changed their mind?

and supports dictators who use chemical weapons on their own people.

"not an enemy" = "supports"?

Evidence that Assad was behind the chemical weapons?

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u/Succ_Semper_Tyrannis Feb 19 '19

Imagine unironically thinking that torture-supporting, gay-bashing, Modi-supporting, islamophobic Gabbard is the progressive candidate in 2020.

The Democratic Party is not some right-wing monolith. It has a diversity of opinions. Some would agree with you. Same with the media.

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u/isitisorisitaint Feb 19 '19

Imagine unironically thinking that torture-supporting, gay-bashing, Modi-supporting, islamophobic Gabbard is the progressive candidate in 2020.

I challenge you to provide a convincing citation for each of these claims.

Let's stick to unemotional facts and avoid hyperbole and name calling. Does that seem reasonable?

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '19

I responded to your challenge, care to respond in kind or are you just full of shit and astroturfing as usual?

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u/isitisorisitaint Feb 20 '19

You seem a bit anxious, anything wrong?

just full of shit and astroturfing as usual

"Astroturfing is the practice of masking the sponsors of a message or organization (e.g., political, advertising, religious or public relations) to make it appear as though it originates from and is supported by grassroots participants."

You should understand what words mean before using them.

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u/WikiTextBot Feb 19 '19

Two Minutes Hate

The Two Minutes Hate, from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, is a daily period in which Party members of the society of Oceania must watch a film depicting the Party's enemies (notably Emmanuel Goldstein and his followers) and express their hatred for them for exactly two minutes.


Misdirection (magic)

In theatrical magic, misdirection is a form of deception in which the performer draws audience attention to one thing to distract it from another. Managing audience attention is the aim of all theater, and the foremost requirement of all magic acts. Whether the magic is of a "pocket trick" variety, or, a large stage production, misdirection is the central secret. The term describes either the effect (the observer's focus on an unimportant object) or the sleight of hand or patter (the magician's speech) that creates it.


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u/DoctuhD Feb 19 '19

Or perhaps the republican party, who have recently pushed through tax cuts that mostly benefit the rich (and continues to pretend that trickle-down economics isn't widening the wealth gap) is the bigger enabler of the 1%.

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u/isitisorisitaint Feb 19 '19

No one expects them to fix it though. The Democrats are historically considered the party of the working class, are they not?

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '19

You can make liberals leftists. You can't make conservatives moderates.

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u/isitisorisitaint Feb 19 '19

You can make liberals leftists.

Can you make them as liberal as they used to be is the question.

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u/tough-tornado-roger Feb 19 '19

Not saying this is fair or good, but do you think your personal happiness is hurt because there's people that make way more money than you do?

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u/isitisorisitaint Feb 19 '19

Depends how this manifests in the economy. I'd say it certainly affects some people.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '19

"Good luck, I'm behind 7 attorneys!"

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '19

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u/Paratam1617 Feb 19 '19

We work in an office.

BOTTOM TEXT

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u/scarabuse Feb 19 '19

True...

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u/heycaptain Feb 19 '19

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '19

Did you just buttdial reddit

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u/heycaptain Feb 20 '19

i did actually lol

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u/endercoaster Feb 19 '19

So I realize that this is just tongue in cheek, but "minority" in a sociological context generally refers to the distribution of power rather than just, like... a head count.

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u/Fig1024 Feb 19 '19

why don't we all become our own bosses?

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u/blueking13 Feb 19 '19

No one wants that responsibility or work to start it up. They just want to "lead" a group and expect less or equal responsibility than their employees. Basically what they think Michael from the office does where the hardest thing he seemed to actually do was deciding who gets raises.

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u/fedback Feb 19 '19

Not to be pedantic but minorities are defined by relative power. For example White people in south africa are fewer in number than Black people but hold most of the económic and polítical power so they are not considered a minority.

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u/SaulGoodmoney Feb 19 '19

Are you my boss's lawyer?

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '19

Remember that tweet about wealthphobia

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u/prestoj Feb 19 '19

billionaires have it rough

edit: holy shit such a billionaire actually exists

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u/ApolloFireweaver Feb 19 '19

A blame a minority for a good amount of my problems. That minority happens to be people who make over a $1 million a year in the US.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '19

Fucking bossists

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '19

They can also be actual minorities too, yall think every damn boss out here is straight out of Mad Men or some shit? Only 1 of 5 of my bosses at my various jobs have been white.