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[–]Railway_Pilgrim 819ポイント820ポイント  (54子コメント)

Ok, but you better be actually drunk, not fucking feign drunk just 'cause you dont wanna walk home and you know I can shout a taxi. Some mate you are at times.

So the TPP(A), is just a clusterfuck, really. You can try to get into the details, but they're only there to obscure the fact you're getting fucked. You THINK the USA is dangling a free trade carrot, that isn't actually free trade at all, it's a trophy...a trophy for getting fucked, but it's more than that..the truth is we're all fucked. It breaks down like this:

Imagine you're playing BINGO, and every country has 1 ticket. The USA, China, Germany etc your shitty little country, a few other shitty little countries and a couple of big fat motherfuckers that can't really move, but don't have to do what they're told either. Each country plays all day long against different groups of countries, but most often against the ones near them.

Sometimes your shitty little country gets invited into high-stakes games, but just always gets fucked, because, it's a shitty little fucking country, without guns or anything, and even if you win, you get mugged outside or on the way home, because you're a drunk, unarmed idiot.

So this BINGO game is how your country makes all it's money. It could work, but you're all a bunch of idiot gamblers and you're lazy as fuck. You figure you can win at this, and some other country full of funny looking assholes can work for you instead. So you spend ALL your time playing BINGO. You cock.

The thing is, the guy who owns the RSA you're playing in says he wants more fucking profit from the bingo nights. But actually what he wants is you all to argue all the time, while he runs everything, and gets to make you do whatever he wants. So this cunt calls up the big players, USA, CHINA, etc, y'know, big fucking rich places and says, "Who wants to win every fucking week? I own the building, I own the bingo caller, I own the fucking catering too and I can make anyone win I want. He then lies a little and says it's 'cause he wants a cut of the fucking prize. Actually he doesn't care about the prize because he makes that shit daily.

Now seeing as each fucking country has a fucking corrupt tool to represent it, they already work for him, so they have no fucking problem with the deal. They know all they have to do is put on a show for you plebs. Your job as a citizen is to sit, watch and don't ask fucking questions. Anyway the RSA owner has guys robbing your shitty little apartment while you're here watching anyway, so there's really no where the fuck else to be.

So each big player goes around to all the little players in the break and says, "yo, fucksticks, if you guys wanna be part of the winning team each fucking week, I've got an inside deal with the guy who OWNS this shit yo. All you gotta do, is sign up to the TPPA and I'll sort you out when we win. We'll divide it fair, I promise". Thing is, this TPPA has these cool clauses saying you can't ever complain or vote on anything that effects the bingo nights. Even though that's how you make ALL your fucking money.

So there ends up being 2 or 3 major groups of countries, all rallied around some big country they've got in with, so they can fuck everyone else by rigging the fucking game. Problem is, the guy who owns the RSA, and all the gear you're using, including your chairs etc makes the same deal with everyone anyway, cause he don't give a shit. Hell, he already put each fucking countries leader there in the bingo game anyway, so he don't give a FUCK.

So you sit on the sideline thinking about the TPP, or which ever trade deal's gonna get you some $$ and you all end up fucked anyway, cause there's no deal, there's no country, there's just this stupid fucking bingo game you watch every night at 6pm. Now the BINGO runs daily yo, instead of weekly, telling you just how fucked you are, so you'd better work harder, expect less and blame someone else for it.

All because you didn't wanna work anyway, you wanted to play bingo.

And if it ain't the TPPA it'll be something else. The message is the same, and the message is the whole fucking point. This is a game of fucking distraction and it's all because you have a gambling problem and you wanna fuck everyone, don't you, you drunk asshole.

Maybe you should go watch TV or ask another stupid fucking question. No offense.

[–]Zerotan[S] 344ポイント345ポイント  (3子コメント)

You're a real piece of shit, you know that? I love you, but you're a fucking asshole.

Same time tomorrow?

[–]Railway_Pilgrim 151ポイント152ポイント  (2子コメント)

you got it buddy....where the fuck are me keys?.....

[–]nik-nak333 36ポイント37ポイント  (0子コメント)

Are you telling me you just did all of THAT while drunk?

[–]eshinn 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thought you gambled them yo...

[–]Jefethevol 20ポイント21ポイント  (7子コメント)

What the hell is an RSA?

[–]theyreinmybrain 37ポイント38ポイント  (4子コメント)

If he's an Aussie or a Kiwi its the Returned Services Association, a club for military service men and women. But really it's just a pub with cheaper booze.

[–]TurnPunchKick 22ポイント23ポイント  (2子コメント)

A VFW

[–]Crocodator 15ポイント16ポイント  (1子コメント)

VFW or American Legion for the US. Where you don't actually have to be a vet to drink (FYI).

[–]cbain8509 4ポイント5ポイント  (0子コメント)

So an elks or an assortment of random other animals club

[–]meofherethere 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I believe you mean RSL, Returned Services League. I only know of a RSA as a Responsible Service of Alcohol certificate, the ones needed to legally serve alcohol in a licensed venue.

[–]FuckFacedShitStain 16ポイント17ポイント  (1子コメント)

Returned servicemen association. Its a place for old vets and just old ppl to go and hang out and get drunk and eat and apparently get royally fucked in Global Economic Bingo.

Who knew those crafty old fuckers were up to so much.

[–]Railway_Pilgrim 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

this guy gets it. While you're at it, get all these swamp rats off my god-damn lawn

[–]poekicker 38ポイント39ポイント  (25子コメント)

Jesus Mary and Joseph, I am drunk, where is tl;dr?

[–]JulietJulietLima 245ポイント246ポイント  (23子コメント)

TL;DR The economy is a game. The game is rigged. You are fucked.

Edit: With 1% of the work the parent reply put in I currently have almost 25% of the upvotes. The upvote economy is also fucked.

Edit: up to 30% while I typed that last edit.

Edit: Getting close to 40%. I love Reddit.

[–]meofherethere 49ポイント50ポイント  (5子コメント)

“That's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful.”

― Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars

[–]JulietJulietLima 7ポイント8ポイント  (4子コメント)

Great author and great series. Have yourself a martian upvote.

[–]ikoniq93 2ポイント3ポイント  (3子コメント)

Martian upvote? Sounds kinky.

[–]JulietJulietLima 3ポイント4ポイント  (2子コメント)

Nah, it's just red, blue, or green depending on the time.

[–]ikoniq93 7ポイント8ポイント  (1子コメント)

So it's Mass Effect 3?

[–]JulietJulietLima 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

That's not a disappointment I needed to be reminded of.

You may have a very begrudging upvote.

[–]polarity30 12ポイント13ポイント  (1子コメント)

Possibly the best tl;dr I've ever read

[–]JulietJulietLima 8ポイント9ポイント  (0子コメント)

Thank you. Nice to put all that higher education I'm still paying off to work.

[–]arnie3 0ポイント1ポイント  (10子コメント)

And this is why I want to go live on a fucking island somewhere in some shithole till I die from some shit. At least I wont bothet with this shit all my life.

[–]JulietJulietLima 16ポイント17ポイント  (8子コメント)

Instead, maybe do something about it. Contact your representative and tell them to support the Healthy Climate and Family Security Act of 2015 which would provide everyone with a Social Security number an equal share of the revenue raised by making the air we all breathe more expensive to pollute, or in other words, a 'cap and dividend' universal partial basic income. You can also sign this petition to the President and Congress for a basic income for all, or donate your time or money to Basic Income Action, a non-profit organization founded to transform basic income from idea to reality.

Change the rules to the fucked up game.

[–]arnie3 2ポイント3ポイント  (6子コメント)

If you really think we ordinary people have a voice, I have nothing else to say. This is not capitalisam anymore, it's corporatism. Democracy is a sham.

[–]JulietJulietLima 27ポイント28ポイント  (5子コメント)

So the best choice is to give up? Sorry, not doing that. I have a daughter who deserves a real future. Your apathy doesn't make anything better. Even if signing a petition and contacting my elected representatives doesn't help either, at least I'm trying.

Go to your island and "die of some shit." I'll be over here doing my best to make it better.

[–]exitpursuedbyagolden 5ポイント6ポイント  (4子コメント)

I've given up. By which I mean I refuse to think globally. I try to affect the world by being kind to animals, treating everybody with respect and decency, and basically thinking on as small and local scale as possible. I'm not at all interested or participatory in America's legislative agenda.

[–]JulietJulietLima 0ポイント1ポイント  (3子コメント)

Actually, I think that's fine, too. It's certainly better than dying alone on an island in a protest so apathetic that it doesn't count. At least you want to take a position making things good locally. We don't need good behavior legislated for us, by which I mean rational human beings. Sociopathic corporations need a push, though.

Edit: Please at least vote for the least offensive candidate our broken political system can excrete. It doesn't take much time and millenials need to have at least that much participation to undue some of the worst decisions foisted upon us in the last 20 years.

[–]InterloperKO 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

You had me at

Contact your representative

[–]f0k4ppl3 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Until one of the big fuckers decides they need your island to add to their collection of private islands or for one of their companies to test some shit on or fuck, why not just setup a good game of man hunting for trophy.

[–]wardrich 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

The only winning move is to not play, but the problem is that not playing is not an option.

[–]kloudykat 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I want a refund on my upvote! Why don't you whine about your boyfriend and go drink some poison or something!

[–]OpusCrocus 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Just realized I could have named my kid "Jesus Marion Joseph" as a lark.

[–]citricacidx 20ポイント21ポイント  (0子コメント)

Your job as a citizen is to sit, watch and don't ask fucking questions.

Truer words have not been spoken.

[–]alphasquid 2ポイント3ポイント  (4子コメント)

So, in this metaphor, who does the RSA represent?

[–]NightTheBear 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

Large corporations/industries

[–]Solsometimes 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Really Shitty Australians apparently.

[–]coolnameguy 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Banks. They have all the money and control where it flows.

[–]tehbored 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Moneyed interests of all types. Banks, corporations, individual billionaires, etc. Basically whoever buys the most lobbyists, lawyers, and economists.

[–]wishiwascooltoo 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

So who is the owner of the game in your analogy? The one making deals with the big players?

[–]iamamammalama 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

Who's the real world equivalent of the RSA owner?

[–]coolnameguy 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

The people who own the large banks that governments put all of their money into.

[–]cwc2k1 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

This is where I insert

BERNIE SANDERS FOR PRESIDENT 2016!

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[–]mastigia 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

You should shoot this over to /r/conspiracy, they could use some levity from time to time.

[–]ArbiterOfTruth -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's always clear who has more anger than actual economics education.