Episode 339: Brand Management
on July 20, 2016
and modified on July 6, 2018.
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Well, now that these unhelpful idiots are out of the way, maybe Gyno-Star’s team have had the time they need to come up with a solution to getting rid of Swamp Thing’s uglier cousin.
Eat the rich! :p
There’s only one thing that they’re good for…
…other than providing jobs that allow the other 95% to live, eat, and support their families… sure.
It’s a song lyric.
This is a funny idea, though, that the rich “provide jobs.” I prefer to think that working people provide the labor which allows the rich to live, eat and support *their* families.
That’s too one-sided in the other direction.
Less “the rich” as the entrepreneurs that build and create businesses that begin almost entirely through their own vision and dedicated effort, and eventually become large and successful enough to employ those less motivated to build something that wasn’t already there.
It is a symbiotic relationship between employer and employee, certainly. However the employees did not create the business; they simply use it to exchange their time and effort for money.
If there were no employees, the business would still exist; it would just be much smaller. If the business owner had not existed, however, the employees would be collecting welfare.
A certain amount of credit is owed to those who build something out of nothing that others then take advantage of to their mutual benefit.
Now… if you want to talk about the CHILDREN of those hard-working, driven, inspired entrepreneurs who simply took over the large and successful business their parents created, who were born to wealth an privilege without having to earn or create it… AND have squandered and or abused that gift they were given… then we have a target more deserving of our scorn, yes?
You mean like the heir to a property empire who tries to take all the credit for what was essentially left to him by his Daddy? https://www.quora.com/Did-Donald-Trump-inherit-a-lot-of-money-and-then-increase-his-net-worth-at-an-unremarkable-rate
Thanks for the levity.
Mmmm, delicious self-interest. Yum.
If only problems would solve themselves that easily IRL.
Wait….maybe they will.
Mwahahaha!! XD
So, after eating Ted Cruz, you expect the Trumpasaurus to eat Race Bann—I mean, Mike Pence?
I’m down with that.
I’m a racist, something something, Detroit. Hey this comic about a toxic slime blob is literally about me!
Detroit’s a “black city”. *guffaw*
It’s also a poor city. That might have more to do with its (somewhat recent) decline. 😉
Don’t bother reading my posts – they’re basically just racist drivel. Hey I told you to stop reading. Why are you still reading? Fine, it’s your life to waste.
Pointing out that a predominately black city has a high crime rate isn’t racist. Implying that that it’s due to race and disingenuously pretending that you’re not is.
Why did Rebecca’s readers bother to engage me? Suckers! They’re giving me exactly the attention that I want.
Even trying to defend the statement that “black people are criminals” is racist! It’s about the farthest thing from a nuanced comment that you can get, and it doesn’t get any more reductivist!
Also, it’s possible a legacy of slavery is poverty. I know, it seems unlikely that someone who was kidnapped, taken to a foreign land, had kids, then had those kids emancipated, might have grandkids with nary a penny to their name, especially if they faced systemic discrimination post-emancipation. But it’s true nonetheless.
But that nuance gets lost in “Black people are criminals”. I don’t blame you for not seeing it.
The mockery behind these edits is less funny when I don’t know what he originally said.
OMG! I know how they’re going to beat this thing!
It’s weakness is that it’s violently allergic to nuance, right?
They’ll show it the new Ghostbusters movie and it will self-combust with sheer nerdrage over the fact that someone got girl-cooties on its beloved childhood memories.
I figure it’ll probably self-combust at some point, given the direction Trump’s campaign is going. (Fight with the Khans, and you’re gonna lose).
At least, I hope it does. I don’t wanna think about what could happen if The Base’s candidate gets in. *shudder*
They tried it with Trump, and look where it got them.
Not where they wanted to be, that’s what I’ll tell ya.
I swear I saw this in a Judge Dredd comic once.
The lesson, as always: If you insist on reaching across the isle or understanding their point of view, do it from a safe distance.