So what’s a better word for “ruling class”? “Globalists”?

I’m faulting you for saying something that is objectively correct is only correct for “a communist.” The truth is the truth, whether you’re too reactionary to refer to the economic class that rules the “ruling class” or not.

To anyone who hasn’t been brainwashed into fear and reaction by certain words they associate with the most evil buzzword of all - “communism”

He ain't wrong though.

Not that guy. The other guy.

I like that dude in the background who looks like he's casually leaning up against the wall with his feet crossed, checking it out 20 feet away. Dude's hardcore.

People are alarmed by the whole winter. People's aren't complaining that it was cold over the weekend; people are saying the swings are the alarming thing. That's what this whole post is about, including the person whose comment you're responding to. If you're not trying to obfuscate (it means to make obscure) the point of that comment, which you are now saying you agree with, I'm not sure why you took a few words out of their overall context to object to.

Ok, but no one is arguing we've never seen such temps before. The argument is the extreme swings is new.

OK. In that case, you're taking one portion of one sentence out of it's context to object to it, in an effort to obfuscate the real point and defend your argument: that the weather is normal and not alarming. The problem you say, and i quote verbatim, is "we've all just gone soft."

You're wrong. We haven't "all just gone soft." The weather we're experiencing is not normal and is alarming.

The full sentence is: "Winter weather will be both unseasonably warm and frigid, as opposed to just cold. The time of consistent winter weather has passed."

As the comment you're responding to says:

>That big polar vortex was being pushed around by warm air. So once it passed, there's just warm air behind it.
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>This unfortunately will be how it goes. Winter weather will be both unseasonably warm and frigid, as opposed to just cold. The time of consistent winter weather has passed.

>Yes, some people are saying both things.

You can't say something is both abnormal and normal at the same time. I'm not sure which people you think are saying both things, but they are wrong and make no sense.

>The original post didn't take a stance.

The original post asks if they were hallucinating the cold over the last weekend, since it's so warm today. That means the original poster is taking the stance that this isn't normal, since people wonder if they are hallucinating when they observe something that doesn't seem like it could be real.

>You're just as wrong as I am, buddy

Again, hope all that helps.

Do you really not understand the alarming part isn't that it was cold for a few days, but rather the extreme temperature swings?

There are two contending observations. Some people are observing that the extreme temperature swing we're seeing in the past 7 days is alarming.

And others (including you), are observing "no they're not; we've always had cold days in the winter. This is expected and normal," which obfuscates the point of the first observation. No one is saying it's alarming that it was very cold for a few days. We're saying it's alarming it was -20 one day and 45 two days later.

Was it in the 40s on the week before and after? Because that's what this conversation is about.

This thread isn't about how there was a long stretch of cold. This wasn't a long stretch. It was a couple of days of -20 degrees, sandwiched between these disturbing, so-called 'winter' days of 40+. That's what's alarming, unexpected and not normal. Hope that helps.

So you think scummy people can't make it in today's restaurant business. That's cute. I think I'll pass on continuing with the many other reasons you're wrong. But thanks for the conversation.

There are many flaws in your logic, but the germaine one here is you can run a restaurant that rips off its customers, employees and/or does other shady practices. Your restaurant might have good profit margins, and you can still be clueless about what it takes to run a good restaurant.

you're not one for logic then.

You said we have to choose between overpaid food or underpaid workers. That's bullshit. Find a better choice.

So you think because restaurants often fail, the guy you're responding to is probably lying about the boss of the restaurant he works at making a lot of money and not having a clue?

No. I'm saying the problem of soaring food prices and underpaid workers in the food industry isn't specific to Vermont pizza joints. I'm also saying, therefore, your point that we can either can have overpriced food or underpaid workers - whether in reference to pizza joints in Vermont or anywhere else - is a shitty one that obfuscates the real problem with the economy.

that sounds delicious. but that would be a particular name to give a pizza with certain toppings, not a 'style' of pizza.

So you're saying either food is affordable, or people who work in the food industry can't be paid a living wage. We can't have both. Meanwhile, the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans own 36 percent of the nation's wealth, and the wealthiest 10% own 75 percent of it.

buzzy internet food-speak

Imagine you hated, say, I don't know, say.... golf. It could be anything, but let's say, golf.

Someone told you it was a great pastime, way to get exercise, get out into nature, and a fun sport. Told you how much you'd love it. Convinced you to buy a set of expensive golf clubs, get a membership to an expensive fancy golf club.

But then you tried it, and you hated it. You it found boring, overpriced, stupid. The people there, you find pompous, vapid and aristocratic. So now, you're pissed; you spent all that money and time getting involved in something you realize you hate. So, do you move on with your life and focus on things you do enjoy? Do you let the people who enjoy golf alone, to enjoy what they like? No. Not you.

Instead, you start a reddit account, and troll r/golf. You use your account for the primary purpose to find any opportunity to tell to the people there -- people who congregate there to talk about golf, because you know, they are into golf, and they like it -- how stupid their pastime is. How terrible golf is. When you get called out on your negativity, you dishonestly say "I'm just sharing my experience. Some people are just offended by the truth."

It's called shitting on something. It's not altruistic. You're not helping anyone avoid deception. It's toxic, bitter and negative. You've been obsessed with Vermont for almost year. I hope you get over it, and find a more productive hobby, for your own sake.