If I Was President - Stream of Consciousness EP 245

[@crazybassbro]

As someone who used to work retail i was told by management to never chase a theif because i could get stabbed or shot and they dont want to be held responsible.

[@knotknight514]

Yea that’s the actual reason why you don't see cashiers fight back. Which, I do understand that position ngl

[@Ruby_Eve]

​@knotknight514 plus, if it's something like Walmart or target I ain't sticking my neck out for them if I'm not getting paid better

[@SoSoSophieVT]

Retail worker here: The reason we're not allowed to clock thieves is a safety reason. These corporations would rather steal their product (which they don't lose money from usually, and if they do it's barely anything) than having the thief retaliate and hurt the employee, which can be more detrimental in the long run. It would also set a bad president since now you have a system where employees can instigate and escalate confrontations and cover their asses by saying "They were trying to steal." it's a system ripe for abuse.

[@Xynbra]

All I got out of this is that I'd vote for you

[@thegreyinitiate3680]

My lease renewed back in September, and a new company had taken ownership of the building during the year since I initially signed it. They called me and said my rent was going to be going up by $200 when the lease renewed. I asked them why, because while they had improved the building itself, they hadn’t done anything to my apartment specifically. They said because of the improvements to the building that they had done, plus the new roof that they were going to put on, and the repaving the massive canyon at the end of the driveway, its going to cause the rent to increase. I was like “so your reasoning is that you’re preemptively raising my rent for things that you haven’t even done yet? Do you understand how wrong that sounds?” The property manager kinda looked at me awkwardly and didn’t really have a response. So I said “look, I’ve seen the newly renovated units you’ve done down the hall, and I know how much you’re charging per month for those. I saw the listing. It’s only $100 more a month than what you’re going to increase mine to. So why don’t you just increase it to that new rate, and redo my kitchen and bathroom to match those new units? That way I’m at least getting something for the increase.” They agreed. I still haven’t seen any of those renovations happen in my apartment yet, but they assure me it’s happening soon. Time will tell I guess.

[@TheLimpgraveGankers]

Your opinions on the brian thompson situation in the next SoC?

[@LuisisMid]

You have my vote

[@Brelicity]

I love all these policies.

[@dynastyzero2636]

I'd make all store prices show the after tax price, and make it to where we dont have to do taxes to get our returns the IRS already know what we owe or what they owe. these are just annoying things that other governments due for their quality of life. OR Just tax imported goods and leave our citizens alone.

[@Ruby_Eve]

Totally reasonable, don't other nations just show you what the item costs?

[@kaimcdragonfist4803]

@@Ruby_EveSouth Korea does. It also uses a VAT tax which apparently makes the tax rate higher but heck if I noticed the difference when I lived there

[@sammyondayoutube]

Yeah, it’s like that in the UK. some phone contracts don’t include VAT, but they’re pretty much obsolete now

[@antifinal1]

Just noticed you sound like Punished Regular Pat 💀 love you bro!

[@zeosummers3984]

punished regular pat? i know of regular pat.

[@reeko169]

Always thought the same

[@AZIONG651]

Shit he's got my vote.

[@catalant4161]

Like all of yours. I'd aim to prevent corporations from buying up housing or at least put a cap on the # of houses they can take. Not an exact order but I'd raise the punishments for animal abuse in hopes it would be taken more seriously. Would completely overhaul copyright law to make a lick of God damn sense in the modern age. I'd make importation/private keeping of cites protected animals legal so long as they are a non-natural occuring color morph, ie albinos because we know they almost certainly aren't wild and would never survive in the wild anyways. I would make castle doctrine/stand your ground laws federally legal I'd provide tax cuts for self employment and small businesses. I'd make it so senators have term limits. I'd make scientific papers more accessible and provide a small public service to have them broken down into more common language so it's easier for people to understand and easier for people to understand science broadly instead of having it kept behind either pay walls, or incredibly dense language that the average person can't consume. I'd also probably ban or somehow regulate social media use in children Anyways those are my thoughts, love the video

[@superrazor7617]

TIME TO ROAST THE GAME AWARDS AGAIN

[@michaelgarner4423]

I believe in all your policies But unfortunately Nintendo is too powerful to take down in that regard Sunburned Albino 2028

[@knotknight514]

On your point about censorship idk about you but leggings are sexy, so I won't complain about that But yea I mostly agree

[@lugnut1827]

Albino 2028

[@flabchunky3068]

Why are you not president

[@Ruby_Eve]

Pretty sure he isn't old enough. Think he's still in his 20s and you need to be at least 35 to run and I'm certain he doesn't wanna do that shit

[@johnstewart1502]

Halfway through you moved from America to global dictator. Technically America could enforce whatever rules we wanted on the world, but we’d have to make the mother of all omelets. And ignoring the fact that emulators are legal everything Nintendo does falls under Japanese law mostly. Sometimes they are sued or sue using our court system, but if you did get that to work you’d destroy copyright as well as patent protections on a global scale. People focus on the gaming aspect, but car companies all the way to defense contractors have code they patent and keep secret. We should not destroy modern society because people are mad Nintendo doesn’t like being robbed.

[@nuclearsynapse5319]

Patent law really doesn't make sense in the modern age, it needs serious revision. But you are right, these are the idealistic ramblings of a man who is (justifiably) dissatisfied with Nintendo's behavior

[@jkitty542]

Alright so every state has a threshold where shoplifting becomes a felony. In Pennsylvania it's 1000, in Nevada it's 1200, in California it's $950. The reason it's so high is because punishments are supposed to be proportional to crimes, and if someone is shoplifting below that amount, they're likely doing it for survival, and above that amount they're likely doing it to sell that shit and make profit, which of course warrants a higher punishment. Now the reason why so many cities like San Fransisco aren't actively prosecuting retail theft is because they just can't. These cities are so overwhelmed with crime they just don't have the amount of police, judges, money, and resources to prosecute every crime that goes on, so they focus on the biggest crimes like violence, hard drug trafficking, gang activity, while putting less effort on the less harmful crimes like retail theft. Obviously, it is not good for a society where people are just walking into Rite Aid, grabbing as much as they can carry, and walking out, but the solution to people doing this isn't passing a law cracking down on the problem and believing that will magically fix the issue. The solution is to institute long term measures that reduce the reasons why people commit crimes in the first place, specifically by fighting poverty, strengthening public education, getting lead out of people's houses, things like that. Then when crime gets low enough to the point where the justice system is no longer overwhelmed, then start prosecuting petty retail theft again.

[@superrazor7617]

I think i like you more as the game awards roast guy,than you as a person ugh

[@nuclearsynapse5319]

womp womp

[@SunburnedAlbino]

you're in luck

[@superrazor7617]

@@SunburnedAlbino YAY 😃