an even more frightening perspective

[Deleted User 863]

Where do I send the rent check?

I'll save this. It'll be useful in the future. Frequently.

[Overlander]

Where do I send the rent check?

I'll save this. It'll be useful in the future. Frequently.

Your lack of original thoughts is showing again

[Deleted User 863]

Sick burn!

[KUTradition]

maybe this should go in the embarrassed billionaire thread, but Yvon Chouinard doin big things (though, not all that new for him)

[Overlander]

maybe this should go in the embarrassed billionaire thread, but Yvon Chouinard doin big things (though, not all that new for him)

My personal hero

[KUTradition]

maybe this should go in the embarrassed billionaire thread, but Yvon Chouinard doin big things (though, not all that new for him)

My personal hero

should be Ousie’s too

“Hopefully this will influence a new form of capitalism that doesn’t end up with a few rich people and a bunch of poor people,” Chouinard, 83, told the Times. “We are going to give away the maximum amount of money to people who are actively working on saving this planet.”

In a sea of corporate greenwashing, Patagonia has long been an outlier. When Chouinard started the company almost 50 years ago, he and his wife were among the first to use organic cotton and provide on-site child care to employees. Per the Times, the company has used its sales to support environmental activists for decades and famously sued the Trump administration in 2018 to protect two national monuments in Utah. Chouinard’s decision to give away Patagonia was partly motivated by his inclusion on the Forbes billionaires list, a moniker that, he told the Times, “really, really pissed me off,” adding, “I don’t have $1 billion in the bank … I don’t drive Lexuses.” (He still reportedly drives Subarus.) Chouinard thought about leaving the company to his children, but they apparently don’t like the billionaire moniker either: “It was important to them that they were not seen as the financial beneficiaries,” Ryan Gellert, Patagonia’s chief executive, told the Times. “They really embody this notion that every billionaire is a policy failure.” (Maybe someone call the Kardashians?)

[ousdahl]

if it's "a new form of capitalism that doesn’t end up with a few rich people and a bunch of poor people,” then how is that even capitalism any more?

[KUTradition]

if it's "a new form of capitalism that doesn’t end up with a few rich people and a bunch of poor people,” then how is that even capitalism any more?

https://www.patagonia.com/ownership/?ut ... _new_owner

[twocoach]

Interesting article with more details on the water issues in Jackson, MS.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/j ... cna1259819

The systemic impacts of racism may never cease to be felt in a community like that. I am glad I was not born to parents who happened to live somewhere where this was not only the norm, but the law. I would have fled at the first opportunity.

Read the above article and then go read the article about Brett Favre's latest scheme join a different group of wealthy white southerners and rip off state funds meant to serve mostly poor black communities.

But some still do not believe in systemic racism...

[ousdahl]

“They got money for war, but can’t feed the poor”


- Qupac Shakur

[TDub]

If Pac wouldve lived he would've been an amazing uniter of people. I believe he would've led with action and not just words.

I dont think the government killed him.....but I do think the government was wary of his potential as a revolutionary leader.

If he would've grown old enough to edge away from the thuglife street game (which, weren't necessarily his thing either, at least initially)....I think he would've had a huge impact...in some shape or form. He was a very intelligent and well read young man.

[ousdahl]

[KUTradition]

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-envir ... water/amp/

[randylahey]

If Pac wouldve lived he would've been an amazing uniter of people. I believe he would've led with action and not just words.

I dont think the government killed him.....but I do think the government was wary of his potential as a revolutionary leader.

If he would've grown old enough to edge away from the thuglife street game (which, weren't necessarily his thing either, at least initially)....I think he would've had a huge impact...in some shape or form. He was a very intelligent and well read young man.

There is nothing shadier than the US government. They for sure killed him

[Cascadia]

lol, I didn’t think it could dumber than tdubs take. Thanks randy.

[TDub]

Tupac didnt have influence or revolutionary ideas?

ok...

[TDub]

sometimes all you see is the name of the poster...then you immediately say they're dumb and take the other side.....even if it makes you look like even more of a douchebag than normal. Its a fun game.



The sky is blue......ready.....go!

[ousdahl]

sometimes all you see is the name of the poster...then you immediately say they're dumb and take the other side.....even if it makes you look like even more of a douchebag than normal. Its a fun game.



The sky is blue......ready.....go!

the sky is yellow and the sun is blue!
the wind's in the willows playing tea for two!
She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes!
There ain't nothing wrong with the way she moves!

for real though, I think we can all be prone to taking the "other side" when it comes to poster dynamics.

I wish we could all get along. Not that this place ever wasn't a dumpster fire, but it would just be more fun without so much beef

unless it's in the QT thread

[jhawks99]

sometimes all you see is the name of the poster...then you immediately say they're dumb and take the other side.....even if it makes you look like even more of a douchebag than normal. Its a fun game.



The sky is blue......ready.....go!

the sky is yellow and the sun is blue!
the wind's in the willows playing tea for two!
She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes!
There ain't nothing wrong with the way she moves!

Uhm, I don't think that's right.

[ousdahl]

oh come on 99.

I ain't always right, but I've never been wrong.