Sharif Sourour #elitist #wingnut #pratt

Sharif Sourour #elitist #wingnut #pratt twitter.com

Give $600 to a poor person & it's gone in a week.

Give $600 to a rich person & it's multiplied 10X in a few years or less.

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When someone points out that poor people need to buy food and pay rent…

Exactly. Because investing in liabilities instead of assets is how poor people use their money and therefore lose it.

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I mean even if the rich person was stripped of all his riches and put in the position of the poor, with the rich person’s mentality he or she could figure out how to be rich again from that situation.

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Oh! Right! Poor people should just invest the money they usually use to buy groceries and pay t̶a̶x̶e̶s̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶e̶x̶i̶s̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ rent. Gee, wonder why no one’s thought of that?

Jokes aside, I love this idea. I certainly would like to see if Elon Musk can turn my crappy apartment into Tesla.

This is one persistent thinking which keeps coming up and is completly false. Should it geht a pratt tag?

Ah the usual tone deaf right wing response to poverty. Been a while since we've seen this brand of fundie.

FOOD is a liability?! I’ll give you a choice, then: One room has nothing but food and water, the other room has nothing but stock options. Which one would you rather stay in for three weeks?

So never pay for anything - *especially* not outstanding debts - and cease being human because your bodily functions are an unnecessary liability...

I'm certain even the ferengi would be baffled by this statement... EVERYONE NEEDS FOOD you idiot! Even the rich, whom spend just as much of not more on food, rent is bullshit through and honestly think it'd be better if society done away with it at least to some degree, which is to say, make it sure that poor people don't have to worry about rent.

Give a poor man a fishing net and he'll eat for life, nay, can even sell the surplus to make money.

Give Richard Spencer water, he'd burn even that, never mind the fish to poach in such as he has absolutely no domestic skills* whatsoever.

He's a poor little rich boy who invested in a rich man: yet has lost more than his soul. Just ask Milo '15 Minutes' Yiannopoulos: once rich himself:

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Now in dire debt because he invested in a rich man he now realised was a bad investment, thus has thrown Donald Fart - that which he once called 'Daddy' - under the bus.

Give a rich man the Top Job: it'll soon have less than nothing.

How can one be a rich man when you're in prison...?!

*- Fact: Spencer always eats out: and takes the leftovers home to eat later.

$600 would be a godsend to a poor person. That's rent and groceries for the month paid for with the possibility of being able to replace what is old and broken but kept because of money. Perhaps this idiot would like to go without food for a month to see how much of a liability it really is.

When someone points out that poor people need to buy food and pay rent…
Exactly. Because investing in liabilities instead of assets is how poor people use their money and therefore lose it.

So poor people should be willing to starve on the streets in order to buy up a diversified stock portfolio instead?

Congratulations, Sharif, not only are you a dumbass, but you’re the kind of dumbass billionaires absolutely LOVE. Because you seem to think they contribute something to society that everyone else does not, when all they actually contribute is greed.

So we're just going to ignore that the rich person has connections and the resources? What rich person is worried about eating, heat or housing while doing this?

I'm getting my car battery fixed this week. I use that car to get to and from work, transport groceries and travel for pleasure. Is that not an asset? You clearly don't know what a liability is.

So food is a liability, but cold hard cash is a necessity!? Alright then, you try not spending ANY money at all and surviving off of money alone. I’m curious to see how nutritious that is… Psycho moron!

Sharif Sourour

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This is what constitutes logic in a world where the 99% who put in the work that generates profit punch out for lunch but the 1% who get to decide what our lives and labour are actually worth and effectively set the political agenda all get to claim their lunch breaks as tax deductible business expenses.

I almost want to see what would happen and whether or not meaningful discourse would arise (or be permitted) if you average joe claimed his lunch truck or workplace cafeteria tab the same way. Almost, but I am not sure I'm willing to watch their life get subsequently ruined.

Food will see you through times of no money better than money will see you through times of no food.

Study of actual results by economists have shown that the impact on the economy as a whole is the other way around. The poor spends their money, which will often go to the salary of another poor person, who spends it and it goes into the salary of another poor person. This results in the money cycling around the economy, helping many people and generating economic growth. The rich person deposits the money someplace and might end up with 10X the amount at some point down the road but nobody was really helped by this. The rich person didn’t spend any more and the investment is often into some financial manipulation that extracts money from the economy without generating any activity.

When people just have enough money to live pay check to pay check they can't invest it even if they wanted to.

@DizzyDream #70512

That's something I noticed too. $600 goes really far when you are poor. The fact that he considers $600 a token amount says a lot about him.

Give $600 to a poor person and it goes right back into the economy and pays more people, potentially benefitting many. Give $600 to a rich person and it sits in their bank account, benefitting only one person/family.

I like to think this guy isn’t a paid propagandist. I mean, billionaires at least TRY to hire intelligent-sounding people, right?

On the same note, Charlie Kirk is on the Koch payroll…

Sure, there is significant differences in abilities between persons but poorer persons need to fund first basic needs. It is when they have surplus that they can afford to spend beyond the basic necessities. With these additional $600, some might afford to save after paying for utilities, food, rent and other mandatory expenses.

At least the wealthy have enough extra to pay bills and eat so they could invest $600.00.

GAWD! WHAT AN IDIOT!

Also; The OP refuses to comprehend other’s points to him because he’s so invested in his class-based bigotry. He and his ilk literally believe that the wealthy are good and superior while the poor are wicked and inferior and worthy of death!

There’s no rhyme, reason or logic to it. It’s all about feeling “superior” because one’s brain is to degenerate to find other ways to be good about themselves. It’s the same mindset behind bullying.

Any “moral” and “reasonable” arguments used to prop up bigotry are merely lies and excuses because the moment the marginalized prove them wrong and succeed and prosper, the bigots blow it up! Ask the folks in Rosewood FL. and Downtown Tulsa, OK.

“Black Wall Street”, Rosewood and the others should have put the theories behind “Race” to rest and made everyone rethink their image of Blacks as a “humanoid sub-species of lazy pervert ape-hominid things with the IQ of watermelon”, thus killing ethnicism forever… instead they just blew all that stuff up, lynched a bunch and drove the rest out.

Likewise; These guys babble about the “Poors” being lazy and stupid (despite most having several jobs and working their tails off or desperately doing all they can to find any job) yet will ruin all the poor folk’s breakthroughs and efforts in climbing the economic ladder. They’ll make it hard for small business and entrepreneurship. They WANT the poor to STAY POOR so they have someone to stomp on!

Bigotry isn’t based on real but misguided grievance or fears about groups one doesn’t know or understand, it’s based on bullying and nothing more. It’s the same mindset as any bully, sadist or serial killer… hurt others and put others down so one can feel good about themselves… anyone like that is pitiful and WEAK by nature. Having to hurt others so you don’t feel horrible is the biggest sign of weakness imaginable. A true strong person is secure enough to find better ways to feel better about themselves.

Perhaps if we can direct those sociopaths into doing good deeds and being kind to others (even if for merely selfish, self-serving reasons), that might bring about a breakthrough and means to control the actions of the Empathy-Impaired. If you’re good to others, other might like you more and you’ll feel good! Good Feels Good…even if you’re an Anti-Social.

Hey, at least I like your idea of the rich being stripped of their money. I'm getting all warm thinking about Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk starving in the street.

Lester was given a magic wish
By the goblin who lives in the banyan tree,
And with his wish he wished for two more wishes-
So now instead of just one wish, he cleverly had three.
And with each one of these
He simply wished for three more wishes,
Which gave him three old wishes, plus nine new.
And with each of these twelve
He slyly wished for three more wishes,
Which added up to forty-six -- or is it fifty-two?
Well anyway, he used each wish
To wish for wishes 'til he had
Five billion, seven million, eighteen thousand thirty-four.
And then he spread them on the ground
And clapped his hands and danced around
And skipped and sang, and then sat down
And wished for more.
And more...and more...they multiplied
While other people smiled and cried
And loved and reached and touched and felt.
Lester sat amid his wealth
Stacked mountain-high like stacks of gold,
Sat and counted -- and grew old.
And then one Thursday night they found him
Dead -- with his wishes piled around him.
And they counted the lot and found that not
A single one was missing.
All shiny and new -- here, take a few
And think of Lester as you do.
In a world of apples and kisses and shoes
He wasted his wishes on wishing.

– Shel Silverstein

We will give you $600 but no food nor necessities. You will only invest it and can't touch until it comes to fruition. If you purchase a 7 year CD you can't touch for 7 years starving or not. That's the difference

@Rhowena #70616

Ah, my thanks, I’ve been wondering where to relocate this poem.

The only reason a stimulus is even needed is because politicians (typically left-leaning but not necessarily) completely destroyed the livelihoods of millions over a virus with draconian lockdowns that many here still support even after they’ve been shown to be both disproportionate to the actual danger and largely ineffective as they merely delay some infections, not prevent them or make the virus go away.

The stimulus checks should be paid from the politicians’ own accounts, assets fully confiscated if the debt can’t be covered and then they belong in the Hague with whatever consequences that comes with.

@NoLockdowns #70938

There are several countries that had more stringent lockdowns, and they’ve managed to defeat the virus entirely. Also, delaying some infections is one of the main reasons for the whole thing. Instead of infected everyone pretty much at once, and overwhelming hospitals. We already have several ICUs completely full, and hospitals turning away patients because they’re actually safer without care than risking exposure to COVID.

You dumbasses refusing to wear masks and refusing to stay is one of the biggest reasons lockdowns haven’t been as effective as they could be, because unlike you’ve said in other places, THIS ISN’T ANYTHING LIKE NORTH KOREA!

@NoLockdowns #70938

The fact that the neoliberal economy can’t effectively do a lockdown for a pandemic says way more about the neoliberal economy than the lockdown, IMHO.

And yes, they and the billionaires who profited from this should indeed pay for our stimulus checks.

@NoLockdowns #70938

The only reason a stimulus is even needed is because politicians (typically left-leaning but not necessarily) completely destroyed the livelihoods of millions over a virus with draconian lockdowns [...]

But if they'd provided this "stimulus" from the beginning at reasonable levels, no livelihoods would have been destroyed, *and* we may have been more successful at containing this deadly disease, making continued severe lockdowns less of a necessity.

[...] that many here still support even after they’ve been shown to be both disproportionate to the actual danger [...]

You must not place much value on human life. Or maybe you suck at math. A fucking shit ton of people are dying because of this, you know.

This asshole would make St.Reagan proud with his shitty classist social Darwinism mentality.

While this gentleperson is clearly suffering from cranio-rectal inversion, the claim is not *entirely* wrong. There exist large numbers of “poor” people who are not literally scrounging for change to buy food every day. Unfortunately, many of them never learned to budget and save. Saving your way into richness is largely a myth, but far too many people are unable save $10 each week – not because they can’t afford it, but because money always “burns holes in their pockets” and they spend it. So when they drop their phones or their tires need replacing, they can’t afford a couple hundred dollars and get forced into high-interest debt. Which makes them poorer. After a couple cycles of that, they *are* scrounging for change to buy food.

Better education is part of the solution, but it’s hard to teach kids to not do what their parents do.

@SpukiKitty #70571

Hypothesis: the US system is designed to perpetuate poverty so that the GI Bill can be dangled in front of them as a possible way out and therefore maintain a large pool of canon fodder for the bloated military.

Reminder: a few weeks bsck people did invest their money only to be told NO! NOT LIKR THAT! Robinhood app stopped alliwing them to trade gamestop shares. Keeping them poor. Go fuck yourself and take Robinhood (more accurately the sheriff) with you

Sharif Sourour #elitist #wingnut #pratt twitter.com

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