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    Salvador Dali The burning giraffe 1937 Dali: “The only difference between immortal Greece and our era is Sigmund Freud who discovered that the human b
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    #166632
    Oroboros
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    “Just in case there was ANY doubt as to why they’re hiding Kamala Harris from the press…

    Is she drunk? Or is this just *her*? “

    This is just Ritual Humiliation of the Sheeple 101

    It’s the Satanist subtle nuanced way of saying, “Eat Shit and Die Pleb”

    It’s also a test for Sheeple People, you know, to thin the herd…..

    Why do I think I’ve seen this movie before….

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    #166633
    Oroboros
    Participant

    First Spontaneous Innocence Reaction

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    Oroboros
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    #166635
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Orwell Warned Us About This

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    #166636
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Degrade and degenerate the population,

    part of Project Depopulation

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    #166637
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Gold crosses $2500. No comment, no questions, no curiosity or care.

    ““Joe Biden” front for a criminal blob government, the many hoaxes and the exorbitant lawfare lawlessness, the gross mismanagement of public affairs, wreckage of institutions, ruined economy, devalued dollar, destruction of households and communities, sexual lunacy and programmed mental illness — this is the party’s legacy. Are none among them even a little bit ashamed of the damage they’ve done to this nation? And maybe wondering about it between one another? Perhaps even anxious to make it stop?” –Kunstler.

    Answer: Nope. They’re looking for more gasoline. “Burn it all”. A monument to perfect hate for everything that IS. …While asking no questions whatsoever about WHY it is.

    “’ but that ‘no American or British nationals were involved.’

    We have no idea who it was. No specifics at all. But we know who it WASN’T, proving a negative with great and perfect certainly. It might be anyone on the planet, but it’s impossible for it to be any independent, rogue actor from a pool of 400 Million souls.

    As Murray said: “that’s just impossible”.

    “The coming economic collapse will not resemble the Great Depression. Yes, we are in a recession – but it will not be reminiscent of the Great Depression that began in 1929.” –Armstrong

    (….Agricultural economy, foreign debts, trade deficit…it can’t be the same if all underlying structure is opposite.)

    “The economic collapse on the horizon will be more reminiscent of the 1970s, when we entered a period of stagflation – inflation rises, but economic growth declines.”

    “Keynesian economics was created at a time when the US had a balanced budget, and the government was not the largest borrower. Emergency rate cuts will do nothing as this is a confidence game. Central banks throughout the world understand that they are helpless. Governments are now the biggest borrower of national debt and in the US we have interest expenditures exceeding $1 trillion. The Fed and central banks in general can do nothing to prevent runaway inflation or curb government spending.”

    What was that about gold rising? And if gold rises enough, it will back the US$ again. (it only needs to be 10:1)

    “Massive Personal Data Breach Revealed
    A hacker group called USDoD successfully broke into the records from the National Public Data system and stole EVERY social security number.”

    Yes, they were getting in trouble for querying 10,000 SS# a WEEK in several states. …As if voters have no idea what their SS# or or whether they’re registered to vote. “And then a miracle happened” now they have all the SS#s in existence to play with! Perhaps with their age and locations? So…expect 400 Million Kamala voters.

    “RFK Removed from NY Ballot”: That’s how you can be sure he’s just a CIA plant. ‘Cause that’ll work n’ stuff and NY breaks the law which shows they’re the core of the Good Guys.

    Gouging: “Gougers are heroes”. No not always of course. A lot of them are like a hotel that was just sitting there, not doing much different, not taking any new risks. Oh well. Because the other half is, I’m not going to drive 500 miles with water and gas for free. “Gouging” is just market-rigging, happens here all the time. A gas station will eventually get pissed off, fed up, and drop prices to wholesale. Then lines go around the block and everyone asks questions. WHY can’t gas be at cost? Then the State and his suppliers (illegally) shut him off, even arrest and close him for NOT making a profit.

    Wait: so THEY set prices at the low end AND set prices at the high end (gouging)? Yes.

    Doesn’t that mean we have no free markets, all prices are a cartel arrangement and illegal collusion in direct coordination with the government? A: Yes.

    That’s why our system works so well, you have no freedom except to do what you’re told. And you can’t do or try things. Yeah, you might make more profit on hauling some generators out of Alabama, enough to make your quarter or your year. Otherwise you wouldn’t do it. Pricing, etc, is a form of RATIONING. Nobody likes it, but they understand it. The OTHER form of rationing is well known here, but especially highlighted in Socialist systems: it’s not by monetary credit, so what’s the other form? SOCIAL credit. How popular or POWERFUL you are. Then Uncle Joe and his friends can get a generator but you still can’t. PARTY MEMBERS, police, insiders then are the only ones with “Credit” — Social Credit” to get anything done. And you can’t “make credit” to get in their club at all, like you can with money. Nor does it work with others the way money does. So it’s the only system even WORSE than Capitalism, money-rationing.

    I’ll give up your money-rationing as soon as you can prove to me a system that works better in practice. Again, the Least-Bad always works better than the Perfect Theory. BTW, that’s what being a “Conservative” is: we do stuff proven to work. I’m not sold on it, but the fulcrum is, I’m not going to tear down everything that we know works to try something nobody’s ever tried before. …Or in this case, have tried 150 times and killed everyone every time.

    Biden at 270 years.

    See? Now that’s hilarious. If he talked like that we’d know he’s still sharp and capable, funny, engaging, self-effacing. When was this? It seems to be the young Biden, is this the one with or without ear lobes?

    “Both quit their jobs in horror when they realized how many people were being killed by the systems they participated in.”

    And to do what? EVERY job with money is a government-murder job now. It’s the Cantillion Effect. ONLY money off the fountain, to Musk or Raytheon, Health Insurance companies make money. Only monopolies. That happens 100% of the time, every time you corrupt the money. Always.

    But that also means, ancillary, only EVIL people have money. All good people are locked on the outside. That’s why that event leads to certain collapse. Same as the other daily thing: either a meritocracy or a DEI. Idiot inbred sons can never get hired in a meritocracy, so that is the first to go. They then don’t believe in Merit and hate it since it reminds their ego of how lacking they are, so they hire platoons of others who hate merit as well. Then your bombs don’t work, and your planes fall out of the sky. And even illiterate, mouth-breathing Mongols can conquer you since you’re dumber than a Mongolian Peasant.

    “Vice President Humphrey declared that he stood for the “politics of joy” when announcing his run for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination.”

    See what happens when you’re blackmailing and running the campaign managers of the other side…and the candidates themselves are completely politically illiterate. Don’t know a lick of history of any type.

    Carry on good sir! Harris and Walz may not know this, but fixers in the DNC do. Yet they say nothing? Huh.

    ““..there is reliable reporting that the enemy infantry is made up of NATO special forces from the United States, Britain, France, and Poland alongside the NeoNazis of Ukraine..”

    Just repeating that again. AND they have the very best NATO weapons, top autonomous AI drones, all running through NATO satellites and server farms in Langley and Belgium.

    How do we know it’s real? Total media blackout. I hear no details of any specific forces at all. Just “Ukraine is driving deep! Russia on the defensive!” Yeah, what’s happening is, they’re in the equivalent of the Maine Woods and vastly outnumbered with like no men to cover that kind of square miles, and with no supply chain jamming in behind them.

    It’s like 10 miles across the border. Be still my heart. Okay, reality check: WHERE ARE THEY GOING? Archangel? Vladivostok? I guess they couldn’t visualize reality one move ahead? Militarily, what’s their goal here? To conquer and occupy all Russia to the borders of Moscow?

    Do you SEE why no one can take over and conquer Russia yet? You’d need not 400 million men, like the U.S., but 600 million? Otherwise every pocket is a new enclave you haven’t conquered they’re going to shoot you from.

    Back to what IS happening, Ukraine is Winnin’ that PR war! They’re Signaling like Crazy! …Since they have no military objective – the major town they’re all agog about is a village of 3,000 – they are just grabbing a FLAG – you know, like ISIS – and a t-shirt with Che on it, and maniacally racing up a country road in the Maine woods to the next town SMALLER than Sumy. Get out, climb on the Post Office, take a pic, get back in the truck and run.

    Hell, — I – can do that. I can drive up maybe even to the Capitol Police Station, climb the flagpole and hang the “Whatsamatta U” flag on it before they can shoot me. They’ll probably stand there and watch. That’s not the point.

    Realizing this, Russia has turned to setting up ambush on every tiny one-lane road in the area, with tiny teams, sitting drinking tea, waiting for them. Then either on the out, or the retreat back in, shooting them to h—l and blasting all their trucks one by one.

    WHAT THE LIVING H—L ARE YOU DOING?????

    And even Ukraine commentators are saying the same thing. So you tried the nuke plant. Fine. You needed it by the 11th, fine. (Bond default). But YOU’RE STALLED. Call a victory “We proved Russian can’t do this to us, we can get back at them” and RETREAT IMMEDIATELY.

    Nope.

    Well there’s nothing I can add here. Please, please, please, for the love of Mary and the Saints, keep doing whatever it is you think you’re doing. Send all the hardest Nazis into Russia to be surrounded and lose as fast as you can.

    And for Russia + Optics, here we have “Battle of the Kursk” with German Leopard tanks with the Iron Cross and U.S Abrams, British Challenger tanks crossing the border. …But Russia’s a-gonna say “No hard feelings, pal, weren’t no Germany or Britain attacking us.”

    What was it that Joe guys said, “Tanks and F16s, that’s called World War Three, Jack”? Not in Ukraine, disputed – we all understand that – but in BELGOROD?

    Right, well, carry on. Russia is now the most powerful military in the world, and rising faster than we did in 1950.

    Boy I sure hope I’m right and we had a quid pro quo about handing Ukr to Putin on a silver platter, because if our guys didn’t they’re going to be pissed and drop a tsunami-bomb on the whole East Coast.

    Since we can’t “Price gouge” it’ll never be repaired.

    “• Scott Ritter: Biden Administration Declaring War on Journalism (Sp.)

    “If we don’t look out something might happen.” Yeah, I remember this in the Bush administration, About Oct 11, White House Press reporters stood up and said, “What the h—l is going on around here?” White House security bopped him on the head, grabbed him by the arms and dragged him out on the floor. “Any one else have any stupid questions?” That was never widely reported. Gee, I wonder why.

    Anyway that leaves Bush x2, Obama x2, and Trump. Obama wiretapped the entire AP and arrested more whistleblowers than all previous Presidents combined.

    Do we LOOK like we’re in a mood to stop talking, stop complaining, and stop reporting? There are 5,000 comments online leveling full Naval broadsides on the establishment PER SECOND. Boy, they’re sure winning. Pissing off everyone in America so they wake up and start asking questions sure settled things down here and showed us who’s who.

    “• A BRICS Trio Is Staring Down Israel (Pepe Escobar)

    Yesterday: steaming all ships and subs to Iran at top speed. Subs that have 250 cruise missiles. You mean to put them in range to be sunk without defense? And Iran has the S300 and S400, so as Russia showed, they will shoot down 90% of all missiles, if they get out of the sub at all (note UK). So, Iran will sink every ship in the U.S. Navy and leave Israel defenseless for the price of 25 cruise missiles they’re hardened for?

    Sold. You f—ks.

    What else is going on there? The counterweight to Iran – Saudi Arabia – is now their ALLY. So we’re going to get that there Iran, by gum!

    “And Trump says God saved him to help “Save The World”

    Sorry, threw up in my mouth a little. Is he planning on DOING anything? He has declassified documents, planning on sharing them? His docs can go to State AGs, planning on arresting anyone? Piss off. He’s not taking the country back. We are. As well it should be.

    “The company provides such minimum customer service that it has been difficult even to reach a robot.”

    Yet we need to fire all call center worker and managers. We will never hire one again, so help me God. Nor any space rocket engineers.

    “I believe, is that in order to boost the company’s profits and thus the “performance bonuses” of the executives and board”

    Nope. Look at that chart above of costs vs profits. It’s not “Capitalism”, they are not doing it “For the money”. If only!! In my experience this is strict #AntiMeritocracy, and they are blowing a billion dollars out the back door in sheer waste and incompetence. Sure they’re taking bonuses, but any moron with a high school diploma could make obvious common-sense changes that would save them millions and give them BOTH a fully-staffed call center with hundreds of local jobs AND double their performance bonuses. I guarantee. I don’t remember the last place I saw where this wasn’t true.

    JB, you can cut costs and double service in their Call Center in 12 months and MAKE money doing, it, no?

    Why isn’t he allowed? Well go ahead and repost your screed on the “Purpose of Middle Managers is to PREVENT fixing, PREVENT change.” Prevent Truth.

    It’s simple: this is a meritocracy. You’re Fired. It’ll be fixed in a year. The people fired will have a gut-check and take things seriously. They may brush up their skills and focus on solutions in their next job.

    PCR can solve this easily already I bet. Download Knoppix on a boot usb Stick (Or some other secure OS), boot to it, and tether to his smartphone as they almost all do this now. Then he can run a VPN to pop up in any nation he wishes, even on a Library computer.

    When he unplugs it, it all vanishes and no one is the wiser. This isn’t cutting edge, both have been around for a decade.

    “It wasn’t possible for the wonderful analog cars I had to waste a person’s time like this”

    This is more the point. 1 BILLION hours of valuable American time chasing this stuff for NO REASON AT ALL. At $100/hr billable. I know a guy, car won’t pass emissions. So? Car is totaled. Computer won’t even trip a code, says nothing, not even a wrong thing. Does it run? Runs great! No functional problem whatsoever! “Computer says No.” Government will pull you over and shoot you on behalf of the Car companies if you drive it. Buy a new one at $50 Grand. CEO McCheatum said to tell Senator Blowhard “Hi.”

    …That new car — 2024 off the lot — ALSO won’t pass emissions or other computer checks, as PCR demonstrates. ITS computer will also break in 6 weeks with no known fix. Actually I can NOT believe they don’t have a hack to shut off the d—n air signal. Like toss 4 fake tire-sensors in the glove box and forget about it. Does anyone know how to do this? I mean, I’m not against buying a one-time Android reader and high-pro computer tuning program. Why? Because of these f—ks I’ll need it for the next car, and the rest of my life, too, spending $300/year in time turning off all the bulls—t I would pay them not to turn on. …But that’s “Capitalism”. When you piss off the customer so much they’d rather ride a horse and think about tracking you down at your beach home to discuss. …Since you’re hiding behind a call center with no operators.

    …And you wonder why Americans swear so much. I got things to do.

    “corporations to shift the cost of customer relations to the customer.”

    Yes, I always feel I should back-bill them for $50/hr and see if they’ll pay it. If everybody did that, there’d be so much mail in accounting they’d get the message. But this really comes down to one thing: NO COMPETITION. If you had a car company, one that pissed you off and wasted your time, and one that build simple, solid cars and didn’t, which would you buy? Well GM pays Congress to put all those guys out of business, and has for 100 years. Welcome to hell, sucker. “Capitalism” is when there is No Competition, no bankruptcy (GM), no cause or effect, no “Or Else.” Indication of an #AntiMeritocracy, so that Idiot Sons of Idiot sons don’t go broke for being morons, but establish to rob people instead.

    Baldwin: the only thing that’s important is that he’s gay and had gay books. While saying it’s not because he’s gay and it’s a gay book. Because that’s the first and only thing we said because it’s not important at all. I could care less, that’s why I mentioned it. And did I mention he’s also Black? I said that ’cause it also doesn’t matter.

    “This flower is called “Queen of the Night.” It blossoms only at night and only one night a year.”

    Poor flower needs some bees. If it’s that rare, don’t waste.

    Swimming alone: Just you, me, a $1,000 dollar drone with $500 of fins and gear. Seen and the unseen.

    “In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
    – Benjamin Franklin, noted English traitor

    Maybe the British will start hanging paintings of our founding fathers.

    #166638
    Oroboros
    Participant

    • A BRICS Trio Is Staring Down Israel

    Hang Netanyahu and his cabinet by their necks until dead.

    That will good a long way towards West Asian peace

    The End

    #166639
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Meanwhile, back the the Real Duh’merica life death continues…..

    Skill Based Matchmaking

    Brought to You as Part of Project Depopulation©

    Sheeple bein’ Sheeple

    What can I say…

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    #166640
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I’m old enough to actually remember highway billboards with this as the message all over the country.

    Gotta have been a Psy-op

    “Progress is Our Most Important Product”

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    #166641
    Oroboros
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    Sprinkle in a little Totalitarian Rule and Pesto!

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    #166642
    Oroboros
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    #166643
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Death of Common Sense

    Brought to you and sponsored by Project Depopulation©

    Duh’merica, ya make me proud……

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    #166644
    oxymoron
    Participant

    WhatsamatterU?

    Shaddupayouface

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    Oroboros
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    Oroboros
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    #166647
    Oroboros
    Participant

    @oxymoron

    Had to dust off my old college sweatshirt

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    #166648
    Oroboros
    Participant

    • Harris Unveils Plan To Fix Last 4 Years Of Economic Destruction

    The Sky is the Limit!

    To Infinity and Beyond!

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    #166650
    zerosum
    Participant

    RIM, are you sugesting that not everyone thinks the same way?
    Neoplatonical, interpretation, a useful label, the process of contemplating, of dreaming, of thinking

    Neoplatonists believed human perfection and happiness were attainable in this world, without awaiting an afterlife.
    Perfection and happiness—seen as synonymous—could be achieved through philosophical contemplation.
    All people return to the One, from which they emanated.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatonism#:~:text=Neoplatonists%20believed%20human%20perfection%20and,One%2C%20from%20which%20they%20emanated.
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    A way of thinking – Example #1

    Biden’s incriminating admission of U.S. involvement in offensive on Russia

    August 16, 2024
    This is as close to World War Three as it can get.
    One senses that only the calm discipline and strategic prudence of the Russian leadership are preventing the moment from escalating to a global catastrophe.

    https ://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/08/16/biden-incriminating-admission-of-us-involvement-in-offensive-on-russia/

    It is breathtaking what is going on with the offensive into the Kursk and Belgorod regions of the Russian Federation.
    This is as close to World War Three taking place as it can get, if not already happening.

    The symbolism of today’s events in Kursk and Belgorod is horrifying.
    Here we have Ukrainian militants who glorify the Third Reich wearing Nazi helmets while they terrorize Russian civilians.
    Video footage shows deliberate shelling of civilian homes and apartment blocks in what can only be described as a scorched earth campaign.
    Up to 200,000 civilians have been evacuated from the Kursk and Belgorod regions.

    The invasion force is equipped with NATO tanks and armored vehicles. (and from Canada)
    This is an incredible echo of history whereby German, British, and American tanks are marauding on Russian soil and terrorizing towns and villages.
    Furthermore, there is reliable reporting that the enemy infantry is made up of NATO special forces from the United States, Britain, France, and Poland alongside the NeoNazis of Ukraine.

    In short and shocking terms: NATO has invaded Russia with a terror campaign replicating Nazi Germany.
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    A way of thinking – Example #2

    • Scott Ritter: Russia Obliterates NATO Fighters, Weaponry (Sp.)
    https ://sputnikglobe.com/20240816/scott-ritter-russia-obliterates-nato-fighters-weaponry-as-ukraine-mounts-desperate-attack-in-kursk-1119786940.html

    The Kiev regime would “threaten Russia and the world with a nuclear catastrophe if Russia wouldn’t come to the negotiating table, (admit defeat by Kiev)”
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    A way of thinking – Example #3

    • So What Really Happened In Kursk? (Pepe Escobar)
    https ://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/08/16/so-what-really-happened-in-kursk/

    Was the Russian Ministry of Defense caught napping?
    Or did they see it coming and profited to set up a deadly trap for Kiev?
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    A way of thinking – Example #4

    • The No Prisoners, End of the Road Election (Kunstler)
    https ://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-no-prisoners-end-of-the-road-election/

    It’s fun to muse on the torrent of panicked, deranged texting between Democratic Convention delegates as a runaway train of malignant fates, bad choices, insane policies, delusional ideas, and feral emotion drives them to nominate a moron for president. The confusion and self-doubt must be epic. Are we really gonna do this? Is this really happening? You must imagine this is the same state of mind as, say, a car-full of drunken bridesmaids fishtailing down the highway at 70mph toward a telephone pole. The mis-plays and subterfuges that brought them to this pass cannot be undone: the insult of letting “Joe Biden” front for a criminal blob government, the many hoaxes and the exorbitant lawfare lawlessness, the gross mismanagement of public affairs, wreckage of institutions, ruined economy, devalued dollar, destruction of households and communities, sexual lunacy and programmed mental illness — this is the party’s legacy.”

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    A way of thinking – Example #5
    • A BRICS Trio Is Staring Down Israel (Pepe Escobar)
    https://thecradle.co/articles/how-a-brics-trio-is-staring-down-israel

    Iran, Russia, and China are quietly coordinating a full-spectrum effort to support Palestine diplomatically and militarily.
    Pepe Escobar
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    #166651
    zerosum
    Participant

    Firing 50 Rockets towards Israel – Hezbollah Responds to Killing of Syrian Children, Civilians

    Firing 50 Rockets towards Israel – Hezbollah Responds to Killing of Syrian Children, Civilians
    August 17, 2024

    #166652
    zerosum
    Participant

    More news
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/08/ukraine-sitrep-kursk-attack-derailed-partitial-ceasefire-deal.html#comments

    August 17, 2024
    Ukraine SitRep: Kursk Attack Derailed Partial Ceasefire Deal

    #166653
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Price Gouging

    In the video, the students have been clearly propagandized to have a viewpoint that is in opposition the viewpoint often expressed by news and, more recently, Kamala Harris. Real life is more nuanced.

    The generator situation — what the man did, driving in generators to sell at double retail — was moral. The man deserved to be compensated for his costs and time. (To skirt laws about price gouging he could have sold them “at cost” with a delivery charge.) If a store possessing generators in the location of the hurricane doubled their prices — and not due to increased costs, but just because people would buy them at the higher price, the morality becomes more murky. “Price gouging” generally — not in the face of an emergency — is more likely to occur in a monopoly/oligopoly situation, and often involves government regulation. For example, the Boston Tea Party because tea was an important commodity and the British Crown had granted a monopoly to the East India Company and placed a high tax on tea. Also, prescription drugs and the patent system leads to Big Pharma to price gouging.

    The debate is mischaracterized when it is seen as black and white, “to price gouge or not to price gouge.” The students are being led to a black and white view that is different from the black and white view of the current MSM. Try educating students to THINK, not to parrot.

    #166654
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Price Gouging

    In the video, the students have been clearly propagandized to have a viewpoint that is in opposition the viewpoint often expressed by news and, more recently, Kamala Harris. Real life is more nuanced.

    The generator situation — what the man did, driving in generators to sell at double retail — was moral. The man deserved to be compensated for his costs and time. (To skirt laws about price gouging he could have sold them “at cost” with a delivery charge.) If a store possessing generators in the location of the hurricane doubled their prices — and not due to increased costs, but just because people would buy them at the higher price, the morality becomes more murky. “Price gouging” generally — not in the face of an emergency — is more likely to occur in a monopoly/oligopoly situation, and often involves government regulation. For example, the Boston Tea Party because tea was an important commodity and the British Crown had granted a monopoly to the East India Company and placed a high tax on tea. Also, prescription drugs and the patent system leads to Big Pharma to price gouging.

    The debate is mischaracterized when it is seen as black and white, “to price gouge or not to price gouge.” The students are being led to a black and white view that is different from the black and white view of the current MSM. Try educating students to THINK, not to parrot.

    enemy infantry is made up of NATO special forces from the United States, Britain, France, and Poland alongside the NeoNazis of Ukraine

    We’ve really got to get these loonies out of office, disempowering the cabal behind them, before Putin loses his cool.

    #166655
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    I’ve never been all that fond of Trump, however…
    Sometimes it is the need of the people and the exigencies of the situation that creates the leader, as much as the inner integrity of the individual.

    I hope that Trump surrounds himself with a better team for a second term as President. With the right team and a desire to do right for the American people, he could accomplish many good things in a second presidential term

    #166656
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Cardinal Takeaway after a long life is that not only is no one perfect, no one even vaguely has a zip code in the neighborhood of perfect.

    RFK jr’s support for IsRealHell is awful.

    But his opposition to Covid and the Clotshot and the Medical Mafia in general is good.

    Never forget what those phucking monsters did during the Plandemic.

    I’d stuff the whole lot of them in a woodchipper if I got the chance.

    You’re NEVER going to get more in life than HALF-A-LOAF.

    Period.

    Anyone thinking different is delusional and immature.

    Half-a-loaf politicians are the best you can hope for.

    Grab them while you can.

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    Oroboros
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    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

    What a bunch of Maroons!

    #166660
    Oroboros
    Participant

    And Closer to Home

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    #166661
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Rape by Another Name

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    Oroboros
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    #166663
    Oroboros
    Participant

    “Climate Change”

    Don’t Believe Your Lyin’ Eyes

    OMG!

    The Humanity!

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    #166664

    Politicization; financialization-
    Where do we go from here?
    Obsolescence, non-tumescence-
    I think I’ll grab a beer.

    #166665
    zerosum
    Participant

    LOOK AT A MAP.

    Iran and the middle east is under siege by the USA naval war ships.

    #166666
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The bad guys psychologically project ONTO us good people the same sort of evil intentions that they themselves harbor towards us. In other words, the bad guys think that we would do to them what they want to do to us, if we had the upper hand. That sort of “double reverse” illogical thinking is how the bad guys justify doing bad stuff to us in the first place.

    Talk to any career criminal and they will tell you that everybody is basically self-serving, deceitful and criminal, but that most of those chumps are just too “weak” to do what they really want to do (and WOULD do if they were strong enough to take the upper hand.)

    When the Capstone Cabal says that they want to “preserve our democracy” what they sincerely mean, OF COURSE, is preservation of the “democracy” that their inner circle of elitist owners and managers have among each other.

    The other thing they hang their hat on as an unspoken but OBVIOUS pretentious arrogance is that their ownership, leadership, judgmental and managerial “skills” are preeminently more important than the work, loyalty, honesty and material provision skills of mere workers. There is LESS than zero respect for such underlings, who are barely tolerated, at best, and overtly reviled as sub-human at worst.

    Chumps are viewed as prey who deserve what they get due to their “inferiority”. It really is just as simple as that. “Winning isn’t for everyone”, as they like to say.

    That mental illness described above is as serious as a heart attack because the “leadership” carried out and enforced by that type of self-aggrandizing spiritually deficient miscreant is to just to heap up and pile on more and more of the same.

    They are FAKE. They create NOTHING of value (quite the contrary), and yet they have perfected the art of PRETENDING to be the virtuous kind of person that they are pretending to be. Indeed, many of them are MASTERS of fakery, right down to the fine details of looking and talking EXACTLY like the real thing. What sets them apart and exposes them as fake is that the consequence of their governance is ALWAYS the worsening of the condition that they SAY they are trying to fix. Every time. No exceptions.

    That’s how they infiltrate and take over (and PERVERT) every good thing that they can get their hands on. Every time. No exceptions.

    Want to identify bad guys? It’s easy. Just find the top guys in the chain of command over any institution that has been perverted and “inverted” in that manner. That’s your guy, and ABOVE him (or her) in that chain there is someone else just like them.

    The institutionalized organizational structure of the perverted/inverted institution acts almost like an “AI” to filter out the good and let only the evil pass through to higher levels of authoritative control over others.

    Using the United States as an example, the entire structure has been doing this for so long that only the most evil can make it to the top. Real troublemakers are only allowed to dabble in certain “safe” reforms or delivery of real justice. If such foolish heroes try to punch upwards they are canceled or killed. Every time. No exceptions.

    They can not be persuaded to actually agree to actually stop being predatory criminals. They can only be stopped by being STOPPED because, as Putin observed, such pathological liars are NOT AGREEMENT CAPABLE and can never be trusted to stick to any agreement.

    Hanging them all would be a good first step, but don’t be foolish enough to think that you can use THEM to do it. “THEM” guys are on the other side of the great divide, so if you’re foolish enough to think that you can use THEM to police or reform THEM then THEM guys will be more than happy to make bank loans (and sell weapons) to BOTH sides of the fake revolution that only they will ever be allowed to win. Good luck with that.

    #166667
    zerosum
    Participant

    Above my pay grade.
    https://russiancouncil.ru/en/analytics-and-comments/analytics/russia-and-north-korea-ready-to-cooperate-in-a-big-way/
    Russia and North Korea Ready to Cooperate in a Big Way
    July 1, 2024
    Article 4 that made waves in the Western media: “In the event that one of the Parties is subjected to an armed attack by an individual country or several countries and thus finds itself in a state of war, the other Party shall immediately provide military and other assistance with all means in its possession in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter and in accordance with the laws of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation.” Such wording de facto implies a military alliance, although the Russian leadership shuns this term, emphasizing that the treaty is not directed against third countries.

    #166668
    John Day
    Participant

    Supreme Court strikes down Biden-Harris Title IX change that some argued would allow men in women’s sports
    The Biden administration claimed the rule wouldn’t permit biological men to compete in women’s sports, but many experts disagreed
    https://www.foxnews.com/sports/scotus-strikes-down-biden-harris-title-ix-change-some-argued-would-let-men-womens-sports

    #166671
    zerosum
    Participant

    Interesting times.
    1. Governments, No way to increase income and no way to cut costs either.
    That is, no way to cut costs without either losing face (like by sending free-loading Ukrainians back to Ukraine) or inciting riots (like by axing childcare).

    2. The people, same problem.
    They have to borrow money from the banks.
    They are debt slaves.

    #166672
    zerosum
    Participant

    Latest from Tel Al-Hawa – Palestinian Resistance Blows up Israeli Military Vehicles, Clashes with IDF fighters
    Saturday, August 17, 2024

    Latest from Tel Al-Hawa – Palestinian Resistance Blows up Israeli Military Vehicles, Clashes with Soldiers

    #166673
    zerosum
    Participant

    Of course … It will be in the same category as “Fake laptop”

    New Video Appears to Show DC Police Units Planting a J6 Pipe Bomb


    New Video Appears to Show DC Police Units Planting a J6 Pipe Bomb
    August 16, 2024
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