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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Nope. I wouldn't have a single friend I could ask for a business loan. Guess I need to pull myself up by my bootstraps.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Well you better like their sauce because, as was said above, you only get one choice there too.

Kind of feels like this classic SNL sketch... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puJePACBoIo

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago

I don't think there is any way Erdoğan would be on board with this idea.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

I wonder if France could do anything about things like this that didn't violate human rights?

No?

Cool. Cool cool cool.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

Yeah but it's literally one thing. Chicken fingers. They better be damn good chicken fingers. And I find that hard to imagine.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

It's not a conspiracy theory when it's said right out in the open.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpdt7omPoa0

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I stand by my banana-hatred despite the fact that I spent EIGHT DOLLARS on a food truck banana split for my daughter at a festival today. And she didn't even eat half of it.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

As I said above:

No, it’s a sign of greedy people wanting to keep a population ignorant.

An ignorant population is a compliant population. That's why so many other nations have ruined their education system and replaced it with propaganda.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You do know those doctors and lawyers paying back their student loans can be Republicans, right? Do you think they believe they've failed to pull themselves up by their bootstraps enough?

I'm in Indiana. I'm surrounded by Republicans. My wife has Republican relatives who are in these situations and in successful careers. This is not how they think. School vouchers are about their idea that public schools are atheist liberal institutions which will teach children to be transgender and worship Satan.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

This is the school- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcopal_School_of_Baton_Rouge

Current tuition is $20,000 a year for high school- and he went in high school- and I doubt (accounting for inflation) that it was so much more affordable when he was a kid that poor kids could go.

But who knows? Maybe he got a scholarship. Considering he got loans from friends according to the article, I doubt it.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Except that "the unworthy" are doctors and lawyers. Including Republican doctors and lawyers. Who will be paying back student loans their whole life. So maybe there's more to it than that.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (7 children)

Yeah, I looked at the menu and it seemed surprisingly limited, especially for a fast food chain.

Here it is:

That's their entire menu.

Culver's: We have all food ever created for sale right now on our 80-page menu. Have fun at our drive-through.

Raising Cane's: Fuck you, you have five options and all of them are chicken fingers.

 
 

Of all the people on the internet pretending to be geniuses, none are more aggravating than the Weinstein brothers. You have Bret, a fake biologist who tells everyone he deserves a Nobel prize for no reason, and really just spreads misinformation about biomedical topics on the internet which get people killed. Then you have Eric, a fake physicist who tells everyone he deserves a Nobel prize for no reason, and really just spreads anti-establishment tripe all over the internet that degrades public perception of academia and the scientific community. Basically, these guys are gigantic assholes. But they've managed to convince so many people that they're brilliant renegades who have been shunned by the establishment, because their truth is just too hot to handle. How are they able to do this, and can their fans be shown what massive frauds they really are? Let's take a crack at it!

 
 
 

The 90-hour weeks part?
The fact that he was doing it for a fossil fuel company?
The fact that he's worth fucking $9.5 billion?

Also, not in the headline, but-

The fact that he did it back in the 90s when you could actually successfully open a small business and make money from it as if it's relevant today?

The business is a franchise called Raising Caine's Chicken, which I've never had, but if you go by Yelp reviews, it's either the best restaurant that has ever existed or pretty mediocre.

Also, Wikipedia says very little about his early life, but apparently his parents could afford to send him to a private catholic school, so he didn't exactly grow up improverished.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Graves_(entrepreneur)

 
 

It wouldn't hurt to bring this up the next time someone tells you Trump is an anti-war candidate.

 
 
 

Here's the aired version, unfortunately in low quality. It's still pretty funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0v5TIbTG9Q

 

Jared Kushner just flagrantly violating the Logan Act multiple times. Will anything come of it? Doubtful.

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