meatball402

meatball402 t1_j4uvitc wrote

Reply to comment by Fryceratops in Whoever abandoned their three-foot live alligator in Neptune Township, Monmouth County officials would like a word with you by rollotomasi07071

They wanted to kill it.

People who get these exotic animals as pets love em when they're small, but at this point the gator was eating whole chickens each day.

They probably became a danger to the owner (which is why they aren't good pets), who got rid of it.

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meatball402 t1_j20xel6 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Legal weed customers continued spending millions on cannabis taxes in the third quarter as more dispensaries began recreational marijuana sales: New Jersey collected more than $7.7 million in taxes on cannabis purchases from July through September by rollotomasi07071

>Comparing a dispensary to your local liquor is not a good analogy that many lawmakers are using. The demand for recreational weed is massive compared to the guy who wants a 6-pack.

There's so many differences, and they are all imposed by legislature.

Theres no chance they would allow more than one dispensary in most towns, where there are 3 to 4 liquor stores in any given town (at least, there's usually more. A lot more)

There's fewer restrictions on homebrewing alcohol, which can literally kill you if done incorrectly.

People will come out against a dispensary before they come out against another liquor store.

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meatball402 t1_j0ych2t wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in On this date in 1787, the great state of New Jersey became the 3rd state to ratify the Constitution. Fun fact: States are given two senators in the US Senate thanks to William Patterson’s New Jersey Plan, where less populous states opposed giving control of the government to more populous states by rollotomasi07071

All you've done is stick words in my mouth and accuse me of things I've not said or done. I've never said I was better than them, or I knew more. You're not interested in debate. You want to attack me for holding crazy views like "whichever view has more votes, wins".

Take care

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meatball402 t1_j0xfwkb wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in On this date in 1787, the great state of New Jersey became the 3rd state to ratify the Constitution. Fun fact: States are given two senators in the US Senate thanks to William Patterson’s New Jersey Plan, where less populous states opposed giving control of the government to more populous states by rollotomasi07071

>Having an insult for rural Americans instead of a solution says a lot.

They insult me with their continued support of anti democratic processes so their views get priority over the majority. You straight up want to dictate to the majority with the senate.

People would respect you more if you were honest and said you wanted to get rid of democracy.

>Mostly that you think you’re better than them,

I never said I was better than them. Stop projecting.

>and yet you still cant present a solution.

Get rid of the senate. How's that for a solution.

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meatball402 t1_j0vemf6 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in On this date in 1787, the great state of New Jersey became the 3rd state to ratify the Constitution. Fun fact: States are given two senators in the US Senate thanks to William Patterson’s New Jersey Plan, where less populous states opposed giving control of the government to more populous states by rollotomasi07071

>Because otherwise those 576,851 would essentially have no representation at all and their interests would be ignored entirely. >

So your solution is to represent them at the expense of the (much) larger majority? How is that democratic?

>EDIT: Someone tell me a better system that also accounts for the needs of rural Americans. Otherwise your complaints are meaningless.

The rural Americans view is "they should be the only ones with represemtation", so there is no solution. Sorry, but your views are not the majoirty. That's called democracy.

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meatball402 t1_j0bntca wrote

Reply to Rail workers air their frustrations with rallies, vote by glawgii

By forcing them back to work to avoid a disruption to the economy, Biden only guaranteed a slower and more permanent destruction of the rail industry and damage the economy exactly as he tried to avoid.

People don't work under these conditions, so they'll quit, and retire. The rail companies won't fill the slots that opened up, and the slow bleed will continue, until there aren't enough people to run the industry, making the whole thing implode.

But a few people became fabulously wealthy, so it's all worth it.

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meatball402 t1_iy3gdg8 wrote

Reply to comment by JizzyTurds in minium wage increase by MissMilkerss

> The problem is people feel entitled to make more when they do nothing to further themselves, minimum wage isn’t meant to be able to afford a nice place and buy nice things.

If they're just making enough to get by, they don't have time or money to further themselves.

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meatball402 t1_iwputsa wrote

Reply to Saw a holiday themed message sign on Rt. 15 south, just past the Quick Chek in Lake Hopatcong by dericn

I want to collect these sign like Pokémon lol

Do you think they have a dedicated person writing these in the main office, bouncing them off Co-workers?

I'm imaging a bunch of people in an office, bouncing these off each other.

"Hey, how about 'cluck cluck, buckle up'"?

"Nah, that's no good. It's Thanksgiving, chickens go cluck! Turkeys go "gobble"....hmmm...how about 'Gobble Gobble, lay off the throttle'"?

"That's GOLD!"

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