Business, Economics, and Taxes 2: That's Why We Fight to Take the Means Back

[Proud2baLaker]

My understanding is that ~70% of the US refinery capacity is specifically designed to handle the Heavy Sour Crude. So even if we did drill more and get more Light Sweet, it will just go overseas as it already does

 

[Proud2baLaker]

My understanding is that ~70% of the US refinery capacity is specifically designed to handle the Heavy Sour Crude. So even if we did drill more and get more Light Sweet, it will just go overseas as it already does

 

[ScoobyDoo]

@wahusk.bsky.social

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bsky.app

Call from NE Iowa MAGAt relative:
Rel: We need to borrow money?
Me: Haven’t heard from you in a long time.
Rel: So?
Me: Why?
Rel: To save the farm.
Me: How’s that?
Rel: Going broke: tariffs, price of fuel, loss of markets
Me: But you got rid of immigrants/trans, right?
Rel: (Hung up)

 

[aparch]

My understanding is that ~70% of the US refinery capacity is specifically designed to handle the Heavy Sour Crude. So even if we did drill more and get more Light Sweet, it will just go overseas as it already does

I may have mis-remembered on my earlier long rant and I believe you are correct.

 

[French Rage]

These people don't want everything. They just feel and want to see everyone else not get any. They are miserable shits is what they are.

Actually there's a lot in this snippet. It's become less of "how do we use our wealth as a nation to help all of the different groups in different ways, and maybe my group won't get the most help (because it frankly doesn't need the most help), but it still gets some help" to "make sure other people are hurt worse than me". It's less about do I get ahead at all, and more about do others get left behind even more.

 

[rufus]

@wahusk.bsky.social

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bsky.app

Call from NE Iowa MAGAt relative:
Rel: We need to borrow money?
Me: Haven’t heard from you in a long time.
Rel: So?
Me: Why?
Rel: To save the farm.
Me: How’s that?
Rel: Going broke: tariffs, price of fuel, loss of markets
Me: But you got rid of immigrants/trans, right?
Rel: (Hung up)

That's perfect.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Like Kepler said, its everywhere where "land doesnt vote" thinks the land actually votes.

IMO, its the perception of being screwed by "big government" or "minorities" or "insert boogeyman here." And I saw it while growing up and nothing has changed since I moved away.

For the UP exactly, its seeing their pittance in tax money "used down state, and not for us," for roads, or infrastructure, or whatnot. "Why does Grand Rapids get their fourth interstste project in three years, meanwhile this 10 mile stretch of highway hasn't been touched since the Raegan Administration?"

Oh, I don't know, why would four highways that have average vehicle counts in the low hundred thousands per day deserve more maintenance than a stretch of highway that has average vehicle counts in the high dozens per day?

"Why won't the mines come back?" Because they extracted the easy to get minerals and left town. Oh, and because you voted to rip the railroad tracks out as soon as the mines closed. Then whined when passenger rail funding was made available because you wanted the increase in visitors, but you didn't want to give up the vastly underused snowmobile grade.

"Why are all the young people leaving town and not raising their young kids in this school district?" Maybe because you decided that a $0.03 increase on your property tax shouldn't go to the district still using 1996 textbooks because 'those fucking homos wearing cat ears who shit in litterboxes instead of learning,' you heard about on Fox News. Which isn't happening. Especially in the school district that needed to have a recent retiree personally fund the upgrade of the computers in the accounting/business class suite.


I was told upon graduating high school that I "wasn't the right gender, right orientation, or right color" for scholarships to college. I made do. I earned my degree. And then I moved chasing work after graduation and I personally saw whole neighborhoods of inner city youth with a fraction of ability I had, despite these "handouts."

I had a car to get from my house to college and hour and a half away. I had a side job to afford gas to go around town. I was able to work for campus in a department related to my field. There were people my age in the city with none of those mobility options. Or just opportunities. And they live in a city with millions.

I was from a town that when the three neighboring municipalities combined to save resources (like police, volunteer fire department, and water/sewer services) we were *lucky* if there was 2000 people.

These people don't want everything. They just feel and want to see everyone else not get any. They are miserable shits is what they are.


(Ope, there goes my campaign if I ever move home and want to make changes.)

Congrats, this is your "malaise speech".