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Jm_

Jm_

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syadasti said:
Bad businesses like most LBS killed themselves, not online shopping:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/amazon-did-kill-retail-industry-alberto-brea
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I've been saying for years, the only constant to business is change and if you don't change, you'll die, because someone will always come along and do what you do cheaper, faster, better, etc. It's got to be an active process where you constantly bring something new to the table, whether it's shop rides and community activities or being involved with trail building and advocacy.

Just like that "millennials killed BWW" story. No, they didn't, because BWW didn't have an end-game. You built an entire business around chicken wings, placed the chain next to 20 other restaurants in strip-malls and figured that your place is going to get endless business to keep going. After a while, the chicken wings are distributed, people have experienced them, other places figure out how to make these and simply add them to their menus, and your business model collapses. Not because of millennials, because you stupidly thought you could keep a business entirely based on chicken wings going indefinitely.
 
syadasti

syadasti

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Apr 15, 2002
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Strong supporter of the second amendment shot - karma:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/14/532894023/gunman-opens-fire-as-members-of-congress-practice-baseball

From Scalise's website: A strong supporter of the Second Amendment, Scalise has sponsored and cosponsored legislation protecting citizens' right to keep and bear arms. In the 112th Congress, Scalise introduced H.R. 58, the Firearms Interstate Commerce Reform Act, which improves law-abiding citizens' ability to purchase firearms. The bills Scalise has recently cosponsored include H.R.645, a bill to restore Second Amendment rights in the District of Columbia and the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011, H.R.822, which would ensure national reciprocity for concealed carry permit holders. Congressman Scalise's pro-gun stance has earned him an A+ rating from the National Rifle Association. A member of the Congressional Second Amendment Task Force, Congressman Steve Scalise will continue fighting to protect every citizen's Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
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stoney

stoney

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Jul 26, 2006
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syadasti said:
Strong supporter of the second amendment shot - karma:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/14/532894023/gunman-opens-fire-as-members-of-congress-practice-baseball
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Discussing this with one of my staunch (R) coworkers (who is shifting my way the more we talk). Without knowing why this guy did it it's all speculation, but odds are that once you take away everything from a person (life saving healthcare,etc) that person will be willing to take the same (life) away from those who have taken it from them.
 
stoney

stoney

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Paul Ryan: An attack on one of us, is an attack on all of us.

No shit Sherlock. When you push people to the wall, they push back harder.
 
syadasti

syadasti

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stevew said:
good reason not to believe on politics.
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Being all over the map is normal for crazy people:

A deep look at the Facebook page of the man who allegedly killed two at the Hollywood MAX stop on Friday reveals shifting political views that often contradicted themselves, though they maintained certain themes throughout, like hating circumcision and Hillary Clinton.

According to Shane Burley, Portland author of the upcoming book "Fascism Today," that fuzziness is a hallmark of extremism.

"Defined ideological contradictions are pretty normal with white nationalists," Burley said over the phone Tuesday.
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stevew

stevew

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stoney said:
Paul Ryan: An attack on one of us, is an attack on all of us.

No shit Sherlock. When you push people to the wall, they push back harder.
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maybe he should have shot debbie wasserman schultz instead...
 
syadasti

syadasti

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stevew said:
i think this guy just hated republicans though....
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I haven't seen anything other than a screenshot of his facebook page and someone else said he was a "nationalist socialist" too. Same thing with the Portland guy who turned out to also like Trump, white supremacy, and other items which are nothing like an average democrat or republican.
 
Nick

Nick

My name is Nick
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where the trails are
He made comments about Trump being a traitor, and the Republican party being like the Taliban, and he did drive halfway across the country to shoot some strangers, so ....
 
syadasti

syadasti

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Nick said:
He made comments about Trump being a traitor, and the Republican party being like the Taliban, and he did drive halfway across the country to shoot some strangers, so ....
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Right, Rand Paul encouraged this a year ago:
Rand Paul said:
Why do we have a Second Amendment? It's not to shoot deer. It's to shoot at the government when it becomes tyrannical!
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See also the GOP's record of not stripping away gun rights from the mentally ill or those on the terrorist watch list.
 
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Westy

Westy

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jonKranked said:
i think the most likely outcome in light of this fact is that he pulls his own plug in disgust once he's semi-conscious
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Dude, he is a republican. He will double down his stance and claim it was god's punishment for not promoting guns or repressing gays enough.
 
Pesqueeb

Pesqueeb

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Riding the baggage carousel.
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