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Of those who get it (and you still exaggerated). Which is still a tiny portion of the population. I live in a city of 7 million and three people have it. So GTFOH with your 1/5 chances bullshit.

This is despicable. You’re really insinuating that 20% of asthmatics on this planet are going to die this year? Yes, I’m calm, because I think people like you are full of shit. But the fact that you and Jack and all these others are perfectly happy to run around and inspire fear is absolutely disgusting. I don’t block people but don’t bother responding to me.

Calm down. My wife has asthma and thinks this panic is idiotic. You’re not special just because you’re losing your mind.

Oh, sorry, Jack. You pulled another random number out of your butt, so I’ll totally panic now. Seriously, where do you get off telling people they need to panic about this? 5-7 on the alarm scale? WTF is that?

There’s a chance that my office could shut down indefinitely because of this idiotic thing. With pay, of course. If it does, I’m going to rent out a mansion on Lake Como, for cheap. Spoiler alert, everybody: We are all going to die. Sometimes you get those horror movies where most of the people die but those two people you probably didn’t expect actually live. That’s not this one. In this one, everybody dies! So live your lives. Hang out with your friends, with your families, enjoy the small things and the big things, and don’t freak out because the same imbeciles who think Mike Bloomberg can give a million dollars to every American think some virus is the end of the world.

You are free to doubt him. It’d just be dumb. Especially if 15 ST ABs are anywhere in your body of evidence.

Narrator: It is not cause for concern.

Alonso was also awful before 2019, FWIW.

This thread sucks. EE isn’t toast anymore than Engel is an actual worthwhile baseball player.

Let’s see how this goes. Grandal- 24 HR, 82 RBI, .241/.355/.470/.825 Abreu- 33 HR, 107 RBI, .281/.341/.516/.857 Madrigal- 5 HR, 37 RBI, 24 SB, .287/.332/.378/.710 Anderson- 19 HR, 79 RBI, 27 SB, .292/.315/.478/.793 Moncada- 27 HR, 95 RBI, 17 SB, .304/.378/.563/.941 Jimenez- 43 HR, 112 RBI, .294/.356/.555/.911 Robert- 21 HR, 75 RBI, 32 SB, .256/.312/.460/.772 Mazara- 24 HR, 78 RBI, .260/.320/.475/.795 Encarnacion- 31 HR, 97 RBI, .239/.346/.522/.868 Keuchel- 13-9, 3.92, 206.2 IP, 184 K Giolito- 17-8, 3.58, 210 IP, 249 K Gonzalez- 8-7, 3.82, 165 IP, 142 K Cease- 8-10, 4.75, 161.1 IP, 170 K Lopez- 13-11, 4.32, 184.2 IP, 172 K Kopech- 5-8, 4.99, 115 IP, 112 K Robert gets ROY votes but isn’t good enough to win. Moncada gets MVP votes but Eloy gets more. Unfortunately there’s some guy named Mike Trout so it doesn’t matter.

We need to keep James McCann. He might not be as good as he was at the beginning of last year, but he brings leadership and baseball smarts beyond what he does on the field. That makes him a very valuable piece, even off the bench. Remember that run down last year where he covered third and nabbed a guy trying to take an extra base? He's the best backup C in baseball. Keep him.

Knocking down the sale value of my old house wasn’t going to put us at 1995 levels of inflation.

What does this even mean? Do I even want to know? I’m not going to look it up right now, but the economy is doing great. Stocks are up, unemployment is down, wages are up. Quantity and quality is solid. It might not be going well for you, but for most Americans, it is.

So if I sold at the same percentage increase, it would have been a smaller sum of money. Uh...thanks?

People having multiple jobs doesn’t affect the unemployment rate, Alexandria. Guess we can write you off as some sort of autodidactic economist.

Ok Jack, how do you make housing more affordable? I made a nice sum off selling my old house. Only worked because someone wanted to buy it. Actually, multiple people wanted to buy it so one couple fought their way to the top and won. They got their dream house, I got $85K deposited into my bank account. Hello capitalism, everybody wins! Should the government have stepped in and forced me to sell it for less profit because, despite what this couple wanted, Jack Parkman thinks housing should be affordable? Do tell.

Do you want to be like those countries you named or not? Because I don’t make 400K and if you aspire to be Denmark, you are going to tax me heavily. That’s what your ideas cost. Huh? What on earth do you mean by “instead of the rich people paying high taxes, they invest in creating new jobs and raise wages for their employees”? You think rich people invest in new jobs when you taxed everything after 55K at 60%? Are you and I living on the same planet? Trump cut taxes and we’ve seen historically low unemployment. Despite what I may think? No. I watched this with my own eyes. You bloviate about theories and I see them disproven in real time.

Oh, I don’t pay my fair share? Really? You already suggested what you think a fair share is with those countries you named. And it’s not some Bernie lie, “tax Wall Street and tax the yacht owners!” You types are going to tax everybody, me included. So, yes, you want my money and you want my labor for that money to be on your behalf, as well. And am I supposed to fawn over you for going to office hours? I didn’t go to office hours because I read textbooks in my room so I could master material. Maybe that’s where your classmates were. But nooooo, you must have been better and more deserving than them, even though they actually went places in life. So unfair!

This is hilarious. I want my money for my children because I worked for it. You want my money for yourself because you're entitled. E-N-T-I-T-L-E-D. You're as greedy as you believe billionaires to be, but you don't even realize it. Wanting things that you haven't earned is greedy. You don't get a reprieve from that judgment just because you're inept.

Look at this. Top income tax bracket in Denmark is 60% and it kicks in at 55K. Sweden, it's 57% and kicks in 66K, Finland, 49% at 79.5K, Norway 40% at 88K, New Zealand 33% at 47K. Switzerland is a bit of an outlier with 42% affecting income over 213K (I call it an outlier because it's the only top bracket that wouldn't affect me, but it's still more drastic than the USA. Also, these countries all have tiny homogeneous populations (5-10 million) and strict immigration controls, with strong restrictions on who can show up and access welfare benefits. So, anyway, fine, you're free now because the state taxes everyone enormously to pay for your stuff. Congrats. Wanna talk about how my freedom is restricted by this? If my wife and I make 100K a year filing jointly, you just took something like 17K out of my pocket. I worked for four months for no reason just so you could not worry about food. What about my freedom? You wanna know why I could be so calloused towards people like you, well...you'd deprive my children of my labor so you could live in your fantasyland and babble about how great it is that you're finally free. Sorry- screw you, buddy.

Tell me where it exists. Intellectually, please.

Well then, freedom doesn’t exist. Just give up. Welcome your billionaire capitalist overlords, prole!

We should eliminate the money system! Problem solved. Everyone will have time and money won’t exist, so we’ll just act like everyone has it!

The answer is no. And it has zero effect on my freedom. You are entitled. You post a lot about your struggles and your inability to get/keep jobs (but you apparently quit one over political differences, which I’ve never done), but you think you are unfree if you have to work to maintain a lifestyle. That is an entitled attitude. Throw it away.

You are living in fantasyland.