are they truly independent? i honestly haven't thought of them
seriously in nearly a generation, pretty much since the f.r.o. and yeti ultimate
days. i know they got royally fucked by schwinn and then went through
even worse shit in the aftermath of the schwinn debacle, but looking at
their site now, i see a few things. first, they make too many different
models. second, it looks like they have a really big staff. third,
they claim to be an independent company. that seems quite unlikely to
me. how do they sell enough yeti's to support the company, and where do
they sell them? is it some weird situation where everybody in the
states thinks they're shit, but they sell them by the bucketload to
places like england, austria, malaysia, and australia as some sort of
hip, american, bullshit, boutique, high-end, high-price product?
weird. i haven't seen a recent yeti since, well, it was one of the
aluminum f.r.o.'s many, many years ago, which i think they still make,
and before that it was a brand-new and very cool ultimate. very weird.
the current 29er on their site looks awful with a cheesy plastic
carbon fucking rear end. that's like so 2001. it also doesn't look
like they do customs. between that, the goofy 29er and the waayyy too
many different suspension frames, i don't see how they're making this
work. i guess nobody asked me.
i'd think about a custom or semi-custom arc or arc 29er if they were
available, though, assuming they were really made in colorado somewhere,
even if that somewhere isn't durango anymore--and assuming you could
get the solid turquoise or turquoise and yellow classic paint.
who wins and who loses if you do away with a state income tax and shift
the burden to highly regressive consumption taxes?
the high-income earners? win. the trust-fund weasels? big win. the
1%? nothing but win. nope, as usual it is the lowest income earners,
the paycheck-to-paycheck families in the bottom half of the income
distribution who lose. evil and stupid have been on the ascendancy in
the united states for two generations, and now evil and stupid are in a
position to completely destroy their own way of life along with everyone
else's, but because they are evil and stupid, they won't even realize
it until they're dead, too.
the more you need propaganda. panetta is full of shit. this has been the party line lie from the united states and the israel for 20 years. this is all just part of our fun little war with iran.
we want to prep our ignorant population for whatever the beneficent
masters decide to do to iran, but anybody who buys that shit deserves
exactly what they get. we like to make enemies out of otherwise helpless nations when they happen to sit on top of our god-given oil and stuff.
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