another gigantic hoax, or, "let's get into the salt business!!" part ii

So here's another truly terrible, unacceptable argument, that you're going to hear repeatedly.

"Oh, (raising wages, paying for healthcare benefits, giving paid time off) is going to kill jobs.  The job creators won't be able to create more jobs if we do these things!!!  BLEGHHHHHHHH!!!!"

Here's my rough translation into the truth:

"Rich assholes (a.k.a. job creators, m.a.k.a. [more accurately known as] job minimizers) will cut low-paying jobs by the thousands rather than decrease their own ludicrous salaries or accept even a tiny hit to their ample profits."

Yeah, so, ok.  Let's take a nice look here.  So, by forcing you to pay your workers an amount close to what is needed to support a family, the guvmint is taking away your ability to create jobs?  Correct?

If that's true, then what kind of fucking country are we living in, man?  A free one?  No.

Another way to look at it might be, just for fun, maybe you should have less.  And maybe rather than you having millions upon millions of dollars, maybe you should just have millions, and a bunch more people could have a place to live.  Whaddya say?  OH, I know.  You say, I'm going to destroy you.  Well, let's fucking go, man.  I've got your fucking number!

Yeah.  Hey you know Fox News?  Know how they just say one thing, followed by a completely unconnected, and often contradictory thing?  They're not just providing misinformation.  No, they're throwing it at you in such mass and from so many directions that not only are you running on bullshit facts after you absorb it, but also, you can't even tell which issues are important and which ones aren't anymore.  You can't differentiate.  Given the time spent on, and degree of gravity assigned to, shit like Kim Kardashian or Justin Beaver.  As a neutral observer of humanity/the earth, based on coverage time, you wouldn't be able to tell which was more important, that, or genocide in Africa or Russian/ Ukranian conflicts, or universal health care, or anything.  It just makes you give up on understanding anything at all.

And that is why it is more powerful and dangerous than just peddling misinformation and halfheartedly making retractions where deemed absolutely necessary by law.  It goes beyond yellow journalism, I contend, it is more closely akin to brainwashing.  So, enjoy being brainwashed.  Of course, I suppose the same could be said of all media that's presented to us, at all.  But that's not what I'm talking about today.

I'm talking about the titanic lies that Fox News tells - and the unforgivable business of painting billionaires as the source of all things wonderful, and you fucking people should be grateful to them, for giving you jobs and money!  MOTHERFUCKERSSSSS!!!!!!

Doesn't that make tons of sense??  OF COURSE IT DOSE!!!!!!

Hey man, I think women who want to take birth control are just sluts, man.  They want us to pay for them to have sex.  (translation: i never have consensual sex and it's a source of frustration for me)

Those kids want school lunch?  THEIR PARENTS BETTER FUCKING BE ABLE TO PAY UP!!! We can't afford this shit!  With a budget deficit????  FUCK THOSE FUCKING KIDS!!!!!  BREGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bregh.

SO anyway.  This is what you have to win against.  Mind-numbing ubiquitous inaccurate information.

Good luck to you.