All about yourself!

[Grumpier Than Thou]

favorite band- archers of loaf

Woah. You may have mentioned before that you like them, but I always feel like I'm the only person that knows them of anyone I know.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Welcome to the forum!

Thank you, Sam.

...?

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Doesn't seem to be an introductions place so whatever I'll post this here.

Age: 15
Gender: Male
Race/ethnic composition: White
Religion: Atheist
Height: 5'10
Weight: FAT
Location: Long Island, New York
Where you were born: Same
Occupation: Student, searching for a job at the same time
Person you most admire: Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc
Favorite Band: Modest Mouse, Frank Turner, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails, Daft Punk, Jimi Hendrix... loads more.
Favorite Politician: I dunno, Hugo Chavez?
Favorite President: If I had to choose one it'd be Abraham Lincoln or FDR
Favorite Sports team: KC Chiefs, AC Milan
Your other interests: Music, reading, hugging

Oy vey

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Welcome to the forum!

Thank you, Sam.

...?

He thanked me for welcoming him (and that's what the S in SJoyceFla stands for).

How did he know your name though?

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Welcome to the forum!

Thank you, Sam.

...?

He thanked me for welcoming him (and that's what the S in SJoyceFla stands for).

How did he know your name though?

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;u=9074

Ah, I see.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Age:
Gender:
Race/ethnic composition:
Religion: Christian.
Height:
Weight:  
Location:  God's Country.
Where you were born:
Occupation:
Person you most admire:
Favorite Band:
Favorite Politician:
Favorite President:
Favorite Sports team:
Name: My House!

--Whose House?!

What

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Favorite Band: Black Eyed Peas

NO

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Favorite Band: Paramore
Favorite Sports team: RED SOXXXXX

FF

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Age: 16
Gender: Male
Race: White
Religion: Conflicted. Somewhat spiritual, somewhat skeptical. Big fan of Buddhism.
Height: 5'10
Weight: fat
Location: Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Where you were born: Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Occupation: Student, part-time musician
Favourite Band: Enter Shikari
Favourite President: Calvin Coolidge
Favourite Sports Team: New Jersey Devils (NHL), San Francisco 49ers (NFL), Boston Red Sox (MLB), Boston Celtics (NBA)
Other interests: Sleeping, playing video games, writing music.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Race: White

why have I always pictured you as being black

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Favorite Team: I'll root for the New Jersey Devils if they're on.

Favorite Video Games: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

MY MAN

[Grumpier Than Thou]

I also like Axl Rose

First off, welcome to the forum

But please tell me you appreciate his music, not him as a person

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Age: 16
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Cracker
Religion: I don't even know anymore
Political Orientation: See above
Height: 5'9 give or take
Weight: Oh please no
Location: Pennsylvania aka God's blindspot
Where you were born: See above
Occupation: Proffesionally unemployed
Person you most admire: Is Charles Manson an acceptable answer?
Favorite Band(s): Oh please God no
Favorite President: lol
Favorite Sports team: We liek sportz and we dnt care who knowz
Your other interests: Being a cross between a human and a potato

[Grumpier Than Thou]

I figured I'd add my birthday above.

You are a month older than I am.

Touche.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Age: 16

Gender: Male, obviously. I'm an Atlas poster

Race/ethnicity: White as could be

Religion: Catholic

Height: 5'10

Weight: Chubby

Location: Suburban Philadelphia, PA (Montgomery County)

Where you were born: Langhorne, PA

Occupation: Student

Person you most admire: Not really one person in particular, really

Favorite President: I really admire JFK

Political Orientation: Moderate/Recovering right-wing Libertarian

Favorite Musician(s): Enter Shikari, My Chemcial Romance, The Devil Wears Prada, Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, etc.

Favorite Sports team: San Francisco 49ers, New Jersey Devils, Boston Red Sox, Boston Celtics, Indiana Pacers, Oklahoma Sooners (NCAAF), Indiana University (NCAAB)

Favorite Book: Anything by Edgar Allan Poe

Favorite Show: Spongebob

Favorite Movie: The Notebook/The Dark Knight/Ted

Other interests: Writing, sleeping, video games, music, etc.

Favorite person on Atlas: Snowstalker, Scott, Napoleon, Wolfentoad, Maxwell, Sanchez, Jbrase, Clarence

Least Favorite person on Atlas: BRTD

Favorite color: Black/red/white/cobalt blue

Do you live by yourself: Nope, with my parents (unfortunately)

Do you have any siblings? A younger sister

Relationship status? Taken

What year did you join Atlas? December 2010 (wut)

Do you have any nieces, nephews? Nope!

Have you ever been attracted to someone of the same sex? Sure

If you could pick your own nationality, what nationality would you pick? English!

[Grumpier Than Thou]

I figured I'd add my birthday above.

You are a month older than I am.

Touche.

Cool, exactly a month?

Nah, I'm September 14th

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Favorite Musician(s): Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, One Direction

HP

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Ah, defending the liberty of the businesses exploiting their employees and the liberty of oppressing minorities and poor people.

I suppose this isn't the place to argue this, but you need to put more faith in the markets, my friend.

Right, so the top 10% of Americans can control 100% of the wealth as opposed to the 80% they control now.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Ah, defending the liberty of the businesses exploiting their employees and the liberty of oppressing minorities and poor people.

I suppose this isn't the place to argue this, but you need to put more faith in the markets, my friend.

Right, so the top 10% of Americans can control 100% of the wealth as opposed to the 80% they control now.

Government and political structure has a lot more to do with the wealthy having so much money than the markets do. Absent bailouts, insider deals, subsidies, etc the people would have a lot more power. Adam Smith knew what he was talking about. Are you sure you're a libertarian?

I'm 100% sure I'm not a Libertarian and I'm wearing the avatar for ornamental purposes.

What you fail to realize is that long before Government was the "big, evil, awful" thing that Libertarians view it as, markets were making people richer than would ever be necessary. Tell me, how would the free market resolve wealth inequality? The answer is, it doesn't.

Libertarians like to believe that the free market is the answer to all of America's (and the world's) problems, when in fact it caused most of those problems in the first place. It was the free market that created wealth inequality, and encouraged/encourages it in modern society. The first "rich" people--the ones that made more money than others when America was first becoming an industrial nation--did not hold that much more wealth than say the "poorer" Americans. What happened was, the industrialization expanded and corporations were born.

Corporations exist to ensure that a sort of oligarchical system be upheld throughout the monetary system. Meaning, the CEOs of the biggest companies are ensured a lot more money than the lower classes (about 350-400 times as much money, to be exact) for doing quantities less work. They deliver a cheap, but "okay enough" product onto the market, and consumerism ensures that it is eaten up without questioning exactly what it is or how it was made.

The problem is that such a small amount of people control such a disturbingly large portion of the wealth in this country (and world) and will only end up controlling more. Is Government doing anything to stop it? Not really, and certainly not as much as we should be doing. But that's because corporations have the power of Government. We need leaders that will not be afraid to stand up to corporations and strip them of their power. The voice needs to be returned to the average citizen, and the wealth with it.

I'm not talking about full-fledged socialism, I'm talking about equality. Where the poor aren't as poor and the rich aren't as rich. No one in this world could possibly need a billion dollars for their own use. They just invest it so they can make more money that they won't spend.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Famous: Stephen Harper

cue Hashemite

[Grumpier Than Thou]

We have a new angus.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

What's funny? Did I use too many adjectives?

[Grumpier Than Thou]

To be honest, free market should work.
But, we don't have free market now, we only have cartels and oligopolies which plot together to give us the cheapest product possible, at the highest price possible and with the shortest lifetime possible.

To be honest, a genuine free market with some forms of domestic socialism would probably be ideal.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

updaaaaaaaaaate

Age: 17
Gender: male
Race/ethnicity: german/english/irish/italian
Religion: i dont even know
Height: 5'10''
Weight: fat
Location: suburbs, pa (montco)
Where you were born: langhorne, pa
Occupation: student
Person you most admire: mike hranica from the devil wears prada
Favorite President: JFK
Political Orientation: socialist/really progressive/super utopianist
Favorite Musician(s): enter shikari, the devil wears prada, my chemical romance, fall out boy, chunk! no, captain chunk!, suicide silence, chelsea grin, panic! at the disco, adept, the wonder years, la dispute, man overboard, the story so far, batten down the hatches, a day to remember, etc.
Favorite Sports teams: new jersey devils, san francisco 49ers, boston red sox, boston celtics
Favorite Book: the catcher in the rye
Favorite Show: ugly americans (rip)
Favorite Movie: ted
Other interests: writing songs, sleeping, briefly relaxing, battling teenage hormones, feminism, etc.
Favorite color: black
Do you have any siblings? younger sister
Relationship status? super complicated right now
What year did you join Atlas? december 2010 (throwback)
Do you have any nieces, nephews? no
Have you ever been attracted to someone of the same sex? yes
If you could pick your own nationality, what nationality would you pick? english or finnish

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Yeah Vegetaboi sure made up a good character