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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle April 9 2025 #185832
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    what i meant was, “humans are corrupt, especially those who have already risen to the ‘top’. thus, any improvements in governmental or monetary policy will not be converted into more productivity or better wages, but will be turned into more buybacks and such trickery in order to fatten the fat.”

    and that’s why the Russian weapons’ programs are just as wasteful as the USA. That’s why every country has the same level of waste and corruption both geographically and throughout history.

    This is why we have no ability to compare one government or economic system to another, they are all exactly the same with the same outcomes despite anything you do, because awww causality doesn’t work!

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 8 2025 #185785
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    “Second part: the Dow is still 50% overvalued at 20k. Buuuuuuut…what if we remove idiotic regulation and drag so that they become twice as functional? As in, Profitable? Twice as valuable? Okay, now we’re nearing par again, and can happen in 4 years.”

    you realize you are talking about humans, right?

    Translation to help understand – the King of Assyria thinks he can order people to death on a whim, order cities destroyed, do essentially any thing small or big monumentally with zero consequences solely on the basis of his birth. This results in oppression.

    But an alliance is coming to overthrow him. Because he is not WORTH that amount. He is severely, severely overvalued even compared to other regional Kings (even if you take exception to Monarchy) with a better grip on reality and their job description.

    It means mene mene tekel upharsin.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 8 2025 #185784
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 8 2025 #185772
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 8 2025 #185767
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    Ukraine Captures Chinese Nationals Fighting For Russia In First Of War
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-captures-chinese-nationals-fighting-russia-first-war

    President Zelensky posted the above video while also explaining, “This definitely requires a response. A response from the United States, Europe, and all those around the world

    Yeah, that WOULD be bad if foreign nationals were joining in on the war. That would be WRONG, sir.

    Elensky said we must respond!

    How about including various NATO special forces into the Ukrainian line of battle? We could give Ukraine detailed intelligence and targeting data in realtime. Add ex-nato mercenaries to Ukrainian forces. Provide training in NATO countries for Ukrainian soldiers.

    And we’ll one-up China and Russia by building a time machine and do our entire retaliation from the start of the war! No, not good enough, from BEFORE the war! Take THAT, China!

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 8 2025 #185761
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    Certain people are sitting on mountains of money they got WITHOUT EXCHANGE OF VALUE FOR VALUE. Now in a position with liquid wealth to do anything, buy anything, essentially like ancient kings — having bought their 8th or 20th home and casting about for what to do, deciding it lies in “delights” others “dare not” indulge in, “making one’s mark” on civilization with luxury beliefs, stuff like that.

    The biggest problem today in the West is that we are not allowed to solve our problems. Because of this.

    The MONEY has to die

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 7 2025 #185699
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 7 2025 #185698
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    Only the snake will leave you alone and just wants to be left alone.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 6 2025 #185662
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    Socialist:

    “Because I had essentially no principles whatsoever, I opened myself to being used and manipulated by all sorts of nefarious political agents.”

    Same awakening I myself experienced as an atheist leftist. There is hope yet.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 6 2025 #185660
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    Sad notavax story to share – just yesterday, conversation with a customer.

    She’s a nurse. Does out-patient care in peoples’ homes.

    She sad she had things “under control” when she was caring for an early 20’s patient who was very ill.

    She had the family quarantined on one side of the house and her patient isolated on the other. she was forcing the entire family to wear masks at all times.

    A family member got the flu. But then again, “instead” it could have been Influenza A…. (charged with the most dreadful concern)

    A family member walked in to the forbidden side of the house to visit their young ill relative — “I was filling out paperwork and eating – so that was OKAY, that’s why I had my mask off!”

    (virii still take a time-out when you eat… or the laws of the universe change when you eat…. or everyone knows how a virus is sporting and does not attack while eating… etc etc) SERIOUSLY in 2025??? It’s deadly so mask up with nazi like ruthlessness EXCEPT eating …of course, of course.

    Family member protested “But I feel fine!” but the nurse successfully shooed them back out.

    She states after this episode, she got very ill. She is certain it was Influenza A despite the test coming back negative, and babbled about Influenza A the way people would babble about Covid 19 in 2020-2021. Faulted the family member for exposing her – breaking the mask and “quarantine” of being on the other side of the house.

    20-something got sick and died while she was away.

    WHAT made this 20 something so ill? What made the Nurse and the 20-something so susceptible?

    She stopped family members from seeing each other for HOW long because of superstitious medieval mask and “quarantine” practices. How lonely was this 20-something’s last days? How heartbreaking for the family?

    Was the nurse and the dead young man notavaxed? I should have faked being pro notavax and said something to draw her out, see if the young man was notavaxed, if she was notavaxed, etc.

    She sounded quite panicked over “Influenza-A” and said she had got herself on oxygen after taking herself to the hospital after feeling sick after someone walked in the room without a mask. It was impossible to tell how much was due to severity of illness and how much was compulsive.

    But people are re-enacting 2020 on even the individual nuclear family level current-day. Fucking hell.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 6 2025 #185658
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    all these people who are so worried about marx,
    haven’t realized they are the marks.

    Just as soon as they get back out of the top 30 things in my life, including being able to browbeat me with the most anti-morality, anti-human, anti-life, anti-reality bullshit superstitious quasi metaphysics bullshit – did I mention bullshit – bullshit I have ever seen.

    It is a codification of cluster-b defense (offense, abuse) strategies into a religion-superstition most retarded “economics” and “culture” ever and it has to GO THE FUCK AWAY.

    Your’e implying people concerned about Leftists are rubes when they JUST NOW took control of the institutions and IMMEDIATELY did what they always do – genocide.

    Is 6 million too little for you? Fails to rise to the level of concern worthy of an NPR listening NYT reading big-brain person? Pshaw pshaw. Fnarfnarfnar. More deaths are coming due to their purity test/notavax. Many millions more injuries.

    guffaw guffaw, such ignorant rednecks alarmed at Leftism. This does not work on us anymore.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 5 2025 #185598
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 5 2025 #185596
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 5 2025 #185595
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 5 2025 #185594
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 4 2025 #185559
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 4 2025 #185541
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    I hope it is not lost on any resident Socialists that unlike AFKTT, I am not repeating the same talking point over and over. Instead, I think of something NEW every day. It’s my 1,000,000,001 Ways Socialists Wear Clown Shoes series. <honk>

    I like things like D&D, Star Wars, Libraries, Having a Job… when socialists ruin these things, I complain about it.

    I figure if someone was ruining your socialism, you’d complain about it. Instead, I get the impression there’s timid socialists and non-timid socialists. The timid ones watch every depredation, every absurdity, and lie limp and flat, waiting for the non-timid socialists to pick them up and carry them into the end zone where they can raise a socialist fist in victory.

    Otherwise, you’d see me as a friend and ally. After all, I’m doing the heavy lifting, complaining about and criticizing the ruination of YOUR favorite thing.

    I can’t completely tell if you’re waiting for ME to pick you up and carry you into one end zone or for non-timid socialists to pick you up and carry you into the OTHER end zone.

    But if it really WERE bothering you, if your Real Socialism were being ruined, there’s a very obvious response we’d be watching for

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    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 4 2025 #185531
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    “I have never known a city or fortress to stand that possessed a postern gate wide enough to admit an ass laden with gold”

    -Philip of Macedon

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 4 2025 #185529
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    Oh, forgot to mention – that Adolescence show – is based on a real knife murder by an illegal immigrant, which they race-swapped onto native born English boys. (because no real world example could be found)

    The UK government is enacting new policies “to fight young white incels” citing this SHOW as a reason!

    Starmer has called it a Documentary “accidentally” MULTIPLE times, including from prepared written speeches! Once in front of Parliment. oopsie.

    It only remains to find the connection to USAID funding.

    Hey UK, counter-suggestion:

    A show about a girl who falsely accuses a boy of rape. You can call it something catchy like “Mattress Girl” and show it in every middle school, right?

    Because injustice and lies are wrong and we don’t like things that are wrong ….right?

    Favorite comment so far – in light of Parliment needing to Do Something because of fictional TV shows

    I just watched Godzilla, and i want to know when starmer is going to tackle the kaiju problem? Godzilla should be shown in schools so that children can be made aware of the dangers of giant ancient monsters!

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 4 2025 #185525
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    They’re going to be showing this show as curriculum in UK – sorry, Yoookay – middle schools all over the country.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 4 2025 #185524
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    Adolescence, the Netflix fictional show about “Domestic Incel Terrorists,” which the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom referred to ON CAMERA as a DOCUMENTARY and which has been wildly promoted BY the Yoookay government, which attempts to mentally transfer disrespectful treatment of women, violence towards women, and knife crime, FROM a recently imported group TO 12 year old English boys.

    All part of the Socialist program attempting to give every single boy CPTSD – you know, fucking child abuse.

    You can see the same intent played out in the Gillette commercials. Did a young boy chew a graham cracker into an L shape, point it at someone and say “pew pew”? Well, make sure to call in a swat team to hopefully terrify him and scar him psychologically forever.

    Why? Ask A Socialist. In every interaction, there is an oppressor and the only question is WHO is the privileged oppressor. People are not individuals, they are part of blobs. These blobs share things like guilt, shame, and of course, therefore punishment. Children – provided they have XY chromosomes – are part of Patriarchy-blob, don’t you see? They just need to Do Better and be tormented.

    “Incel” = involuntarily celibate.

    This term was coined for any male expressing dissatisfaction anywhere, as an insult. You are supposed to frame any voiced concern by a male into a picture of a gross, low-status male in their parent’s basement, as super icky one. Whatever words they say or type should therefore be heard as “dog barks by icky male”

    Moreover, “incels” are, legend has it, SUPER misogynistic, violently so, and this has radicalized them into Far Right Extremism — because of how bitter they are at their inability to get laid, you see.

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LTu7HuK4rX4

    For example, Ethan Van Sciver was driven out of the Comic Book industry by socialists, who took it over and ruined it. He released his own books through IndieGoGo, socialists TRIED to cancel him, failed, he made millions that the now totally wokeist comic industry could get no % of.

    Despite having a wife and children and being very happy, socialists screeched everywhere in mad repetition insisted that he was an “incel”

    So the villian in “Adolescence” is an INCEL –

    You would WANT a 12 year old to be celibate, wouldn’t you? No? (well, not female school teachers…)

    And you… assume that TWELVE year olds, being rendered…. uh…. involuntarily celibate, have developed a full blown misogynistic hate for women??!?!? Because of the sexual frustration THEY HAVE YET TO BE CAPABLE OF EXPERIENCING????

    Oh, by the way, turns out the docume– fictional show was funded by the UK government. What a surprise.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 3 2025 #185475
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 3 2025 #185473
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    Remember that Trump meme from a little ways back that went, “They’re not after me. They’re after YOU. I’m just standing in their way.”

    Such bullshit.

    The funding, at least, is drying up. That’s a thing that really happened.

    Think of how the US took on Serbia. Even though Serbia had older AA systems, it was impossible to rush in.

    It was necessary to progressively peel back layers of defense in a specific sequence.

    What if you prosecute someone WITHOUT the massive hundreds of billions in propaganda funding being cut off?

    Remember those wargames that were run for the 2020 elections in which Democrats were happy to wargame how to do US Civil War 2 in case of a Trump victory or Trump refusal to accept cheating?

    Phoenixvoice vs Maxwell Quest — evil? How many are intrinsically evil? How many are mesmerized, serving evil BECAUSE of their decency? “You fucked up, you trusted us!” the institutions they respected and trusted all their lives.

    Theoretically, Trump (the power bloc behind him) is here to save THOSE victims too? Not feed them into a civil war meatgrinder.

    Although maybe there just aren’t as many “organic” duped people as supposed. All that USAID and other funding of astroturf.

    Then what you have left is people who follow because they THINK they are following the majority.

    So you take away the IMAGE of that false majority first.

    Things are happening. Don’t give up hope quite yet. It’s important to disbelieve this stuff, absolutely, but it’s important to believe in it just a little bit too.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 3 2025 #185460
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    ““I think it’s not entirely in good faith to claim that the US is being abused, even where US goods don’t have the same access to other markets, because the system itself has been very beneficial to the United States.”

    If “The United States” is defined as Not US Citizens

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    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 3 2025 #185459
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    ““I think it’s not entirely in good faith to claim that the US is being abused, even where US goods don’t have the same access to other markets, because the system itself has been very beneficial to the United States.”

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    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 3 2025 #185449
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    The Jungle is a great example of what Socialists ought to be doing. The worst thing about current year socialism is the obsession with tactics and ruthlessness. I try persistently pinging the network, hitting on all the ports from frontal cortex to brain stem, nobody home but Tactics.

    If Socialists were to turn their priorities on their heads – to pledge sticking to socialist means at the expense of any ends, they would advance their cause and meet with success.

    Crusading against government waste and corruption alongside ANYONE else willing to help would, you would think, be job#1 for Socialists because The State is going to be their main mechanism, allowing it or making it to be wasteful or corrupt dooms their values.

    Or continually crusading for free speech for everyone ESPECIALLY once they have the upper hand would be job #1 for Socialists because if your plan is to concentrate a lot of resources into The State, unless free speech for ALL is maintained, it will quickly become tyranny and Not Real Socialism.

    And of course crusading for food safety – or showing people working hard as possible and getting nowhere, falling behind – makes sense. Americans hate bullies, sympathize with underdogs, like hard workers, hate cheaters. You can see in The Jungle or Grapes of Wrath who the underdogs and who the cheaters are – stop the cheating!

    It is maddening seeing Socialists with all these specific things to DO in front of them, seeming to notice them, and stating “Ergo, rEvOlUtIoN!!!” and walking right past

    Someday hopefully the Socialists realize they should NOT be sacrificing absolutely everything in Machiavellian fashion for a revolution which in turn achieves the selling points of Socialism (surely it should BENEFIT us, otherwise, why fight for it? For it NOT benefiting us but being “right”?), but instead, do all the good things and IF all those good things are achieved, retrospectively, say that that was the revolution if you will.

    Socialism needs its own Karl Marx.

    CAPITALISM has its Karl Marx, someone working the problem, musing “Hmm, does Capitalism hold the seeds of its own destruction?”

    Surely what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. Is 150 years too soon for someone to muse “Hmm, does Socialism hold the seeds of its own destruction?” What’s so special that it must go unquestioned, unexamined?

    Maybe Socialism should be a monkish, priestly, crusading, jedi-like order that pledges only good means to the exclusion of all concerns of ends. Since ruthlessly working towards ends for the past 150 years seems to lead to “That wasn’t real socialism”

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 3 2025 #185444
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    T-Rex Saves The Day

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 3 2025 #185443
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    I just had a super relevant thought regarding Gaza/Israel and domestic US politics. I haven’t seen this anywhere before, but it’s pretty obvious once you consider it.

    In the 60’s, you had things that were VERY American like the Peace movement and the Integration movement. A continuation of previous US values, very predictable.

    But then the Left attached modern art, modern architecture, drug culture, free love, moral relatavism, anti western civ, etc TO these very American movements and re-branded it The Movement. Meatsuited them.

    Did their best to “capture the energy” of these totally reasonable, morally just issues. But with version 1.0 Frankfurt School academic marxism goals in mind – Criticize/corrode, get us to Year Zero.

    I think you can tell Boomers who think it is still 1973 are at the top of CURRENT cutting-edge socialist efforts, because they decided to “Do That Vietnam Thing Again”

    What did we see with Gaza protests? Almost instantly meatsuited by socialists. CULTURAL warriors pushing into the crowd, making the crowd THEMSELVES, right? People walking around interviewing protesters find that the answer to the Gaza situation is… moar Socialism.

    Whatever mysterious blob it is behind all the capture of institutions – INCLUDING corporations – in the US – and blasting everyone with cutting-edge socialist dogma, it decided to capture the current peace movement for Gaza.

    UNFORTUNATELY, the adversary on the other side of the table was fucking ISRAEL, so in taking up the peace movement, they took up Israel, AIPAC, Mossad, etc as enemies. That comes as a package.

    So the Left losing the 2024 election may have been precisely because their Boomer controllers/leaders thought it was 1973 and wanted to Do That Vietnam Thing Again, thinking somehow Israel was what, ineffectual? ..wouldn’t care??? A horrible miscalculation.

    You can imagine the GenX advisor in some back room somewhere TRYING to dissuade them, trapped between effusive Boomers and Millenials, now rolling their eyes after saying, post-election “See? Tried to warn you that it isn’t fucking 1973 and Gaza isn’t fucking Vietnam” only to have the Millenials and Boomers announce they weren’t marxist enough, we’re going with AOC and Hogg now…. GenX socialist sighing, taking a zanex for their headache.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 3 2025 #185439
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    Ghandi in India is the ultimate template for nonviolence.

    It worked because the British empire – at a cultural level – was moral. You show all the individual people what is being done in their name and it is INTOLERABLE. You just have to make sure they are shown, because they are already decent enough for this to be effective.

    If the British empire did NOT have decency at that individual level, there’d be an apathetic reaction, or perhaps “we need to send more troops, more tanks, hey don’t we have some chemical weapons stocks still left over from the world wars?”

    You have to have a populace that does not want their resources used this way AND sufficient integration to affect leadership. Certainly, in no sense, was the British public being TAUGHT morality when Ghandi succeeded. He REACHED moral people in a country that was not too far gone.

    The US has lost that integration. Or just barely not lost it. Trump has come along barely in time, but with the US so weak that it appears the best thing he could do is make a deal with Israel to at least not have enemies 360 degrees around him, have some safety he can put his back up against while fighting against forces that are QUITE significant enough without ALSO dealing with the AIPAC machine, Mossad, parts of the US institutions captured by Israel, etc. (I of course mean by “Trump” whatever coalition is behind him) There is no way to integrate the remaining moral sense of the common people into the government without doing the very things he is doing. NO other meaningful course-change of policy is possible anyway until this is achieved.

    Give me a magic lamp and yes, I will wish for perfection. I don’t like it, but I also do not know of a better plan than this. Hopefully we up the bluster and bombastic “help” – like, really ham it up, overdo it – while somehow not quite getting into a war with Iran, not quite clearing Gaza, not quite defeating Yemen. Be that worker that you see all day rushing back and forth stacking paper authoritatively, sharpening pencils, etc and turns out to have done almost nothing all day. Massive cruise missile strike on Syria? Yessir Israel, hard at work sir.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 2 2025 #185407
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    “your side”

    transcend the box they’ve given you.

    Well, that’s the thing to transcend, this spell of superiority that Leftists have cast over Western Civilization for 50 years, leading to failure and suffering.

    We’re transcending NOW- you do NOT have special access to reality and are not better after all.

    If everyone “awakening” and “transcending” into Leftist thought could have been deported instantly to Europe as they did so, our architecture, art, sculpture, literature, music, education, industry, government, communities, families, entertainments, hobbies, institutions, practically everything would be better today.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 2 2025 #185397
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    “…due to the modification-degradation of American education by adherents to continental European socialism, relativism, postmodernism, deconstructionism, etc. “

    wowsers, i thought it was the fruit loops..

    hahaha, you think people are not aware of the effect of Continental European Leftists on our educational system as well as our other institutions?

    this does not work anymore, what you are doing there. maybe it could be used to cow fellow coeds in a college dorm bull session in 1978 but now it just makes your large polyester lapels show.

    We do not care anymore if NPR reading, NY Times reading leftists will think us boorish or ignorant, considering all the revelations about USAID etc – they’re the OPPOSITE of intellectuals now, so trying to use that sort of shorthand makes your side look dumber, more gullible, less aware.

    You assholes SENT us this stuff, so it is hilarious watching you complain when we mock it.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 2 2025 #185396
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    oh, you may mock whomever. it bears no weight in my mind.

    hahaha, it seemed to affect you repeatedly just upthread.

    You kinda paraphrased a mid 20th century Socialist who scoffed at the United States “they just make movie stars and razor blades”

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 2 2025 #185374
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    “Americans aren’t making fun of Charlemagne or GK Chesterton or Shakespeare or Galileo or John Locke.”

    not to insult, but most americans (and my less than humble compatriots here) have not a clue as to the above.

    …due to the modification-degradation of American education by adherents to continental European socialism, relativism, postmodernism, deconstructionism, etc.

    The Europeans swallowed that coolaid even MORE and are now paying the price, which Americans are mocking, which you objected to, which is funny.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 2 2025 #185373
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    One way to think of it was, Thomas Beckett preferred an internationalist organization to a nationalist one.

    Did he resist, passive-aggressively, the power of that internationalist organization or only the nationalist one? Any protests on record against Papal or Bishopric or other use of power by the universal ie internationalist side?

    It’s interesting that Henry II’s outburst seems to be more incredulity that no stochastic terrorism has spontaneously occurred against his opponent as opposed to an order to his underlings. Like when that child was screamingly televised as “The Smiling Face Of Racism” while people on Twitter asked, won’t someone shoot up the religious high school he attends.

    Globalists are internationalists. DEI is socialism. Globalists love DEI. Globalists are Inter-Nationalist Socialists. All the corporations and HR depts they control preach cutting edge socialism.

    Who is fighting power again? Who is throwing the ring into Mt Doom rather than taking it up or saying “That ought to be me”?

    “I thought Fangorn was dangerous.

    ‘Dangerous!’ cried Gandalf. ‘And so am I, very dangerous: more dangerous than anything you will ever meet, unless you are brought alive before the seat of the Dark Lord. And Aragorn is dangerous, and Legolas is dangerous. You are beset with dangers, Gimli son of Glóin; for you are dangerous yourself, in your own fashion. Certainly the forest of Fangorn is perilous — not least to those that are too ready with their axes; and Fangorn himself, he is perilous too; yet he is wise and kindly nonetheless.”

    If Gollum forcbly grabs Frodo’s hand and bites off the ring to stop Frodo from exercising power to throw The Ring into Mt Doom, then surely Gollum is “blocking power”

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 2 2025 #185361
    jb-hb
    Participant

    Just got a flurry of work emails with new required DEI “trainings” yesterday. Too busy working to see to them yet. But the HR Ladies have plenty of time for it, no doubt. While producing nothing except negative production

    I thought peak socialist abuse was being browbeaten with multiple mandatory Ibrahim X Kendri half-day “trainings” back in 2020, Trainings in which he promoted academic marxism for 4 hours straight. At least there were so many people in the training that I could turn off my camera and mute my mic so my reactions wouldn’t be monitored.

    The current employer’s DEI is WORSE if that is imaginable. They’ve become WAY more comfortable in “educating” on the weirder aspects of current year marxism. Stupid abstruse metaphysical garbage telling me I am just an animal using (misusing, abusing) words from psychology.

    Forcing me to say that the most general categories that apply to me are those things which make me unique in a total mindfuckery exercise.

    Telling me I must be an Ally – say and do everything for THEIR purposes – but no, actually, Ally is not enough, you must have a sort of permanent mystical spiritual experience in which you lose all personal boundaries and belong obsequiously effusively to The Movement. This relates to fucking insurance HOW? Also, it sounds a lot like successfully psychologically breaking a torture victim. Like a marxist read 1984, read the part about Winston breaking, and said “Yeah, being an Ally is not enough, we need this.”

    This is all shit that happened just a few MONTHS ago.

    Unlike the previous corporate training, you cannot turn off your camera nor MUTE! So I am in this “training” constantly on camera in a small class where my face starts to hurt and twitch I am concealing my internal reactions to rather insane and extreme demands, insult and evil, for survival, maintaining a pleasant mild expression for an hour or two straight.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 2 2025 #185360
    jb-hb
    Participant

    i love how americans make fun of europeans.

    i.e., their ancestors.

    “grandpa was such a dolt!”

    We’re making fun of Europeans for thinking their own grandpa was a dolt. Americans aren’t making fun of Charlemagne or GK Chesterton or Shakespeare or Galileo or John Locke.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle April 2 2025 #185358
    jb-hb
    Participant

    20 years in prison

    Sadly, yes. These are people who believe abandoning common sense, common decency, and our common civility is a cheat code for #winning.

    These are the same people who will tell you Socialism is the bestast evar system (just not based on historical performance, that is…) and believe the current year and 1800’s belief that they are special. That they have access to reality while others do not. They have access to truth and others do not.

    That honesty, common sense, common decency, and civility are themselves part of the FAKE universe while the have access to the real one.

    This is their opiate – or really two inextricably intertwined opiates.

    The first, of course, being this illusory superiority. The easiest test to detect it is to see if they want power or want to destroy power. Galadriel is tempted and says “I will remain Galadriel and fade into the West” while Saruman adopts the rainbow and wants the ring for himself.

    The second is the high they get from disobeying decency and common sense. It is, in a sense, the same high that ancient kings would get, for whom there was no magna carta, who could simply order a person killed on a whim or anything else. Sneering superiority, going around doing things they should not do, thinking of lesser beings as – in their superstition – not conscious and controlled, trapped, by their sense of rightness, not like us superior beings.

    20 year jail sentences, counter-cancellations, etc, sadly must happen until they LAY DOWN THEIR WEAPONS and rejoin civil society. But to lay down one’s weapons is to give up a powerful addictive opiate along with one’s worldview and internal sense of higher status. (because equity amirite?)

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 28 2025 #185075
    jb-hb
    Participant

    well, it’s a smoke obscured, wild swinging barfight today, so s’allright. Fog of war etc. I salute you all.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 28 2025 #185073
    jb-hb
    Participant

    I think D Benton said the bit about creativity

    You frame insurance as socialist vs. non-socialist

    Sort of.

    I’m pointing out that Socialists don’t really want to share.

    And also that force, compulsion, non-voluntary action, is implicit in their desires.

    Because – as I described in some detail, along with an educational video, collective sharing has existed and does exist right now. And voluntary collective sharing does not appear to be on the Socialist menu.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle March 28 2025 #185070
    jb-hb
    Participant

    The best insurance that you can get is a bunch of neighbors who care about you enough that when your barn burns or your crop fails they will gather together to rebuild your barn or feed your family.

    Indeed! This is risk management!

    Managing risk – packaged with purple hair, to help Socialists be able to hear what is being said https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RGN4tcHKzo

    an easy mnemonic to remember the basics – STARR

    S – Share – you can SHARE the risk with friends, family, socialists etc
    T – Transfer – you can transfer the risk to someone else (like an insurance company)
    A – Avoid – you can avoid the risk
    R – Retain – you can retain the risk for yourself
    R – Reduce – you can reduce the chances of a risk

    More information packaged in an appearance to hopefully make the information digestible to a socialist

    Stock vs Mutual companies:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQXrwEX7KZo

    those darned kids is a Socialist, so he doesn’t understand that he can:

    Retain the risk
    Share the risk
    Avoid the risk

    He can’t understand that he needs someone else to AGREE to him transferring the risk to them. He thinks he can forcibly, without consent, transfer his risk onto others. To make it fair.

    He doesn’t understand that collective insurance ALREADY EXISTS. He can join a Mutual insurance company right now! He could FORM a mutual insurance company right now! You working the problem bro, now that you know there is a solution?

    There’s tons of mutual insurance companies currently in existence, all of which he condemns as evil and “making money off the misfortune of others”

    Dude, just retain the risk! Handle it yourself! Then you won’t be oppressed by anyone!

    Or agree with some other socialists that you will share the risk amongst yourselves! Show us socialism working!

    No, you object to existence itself. You object to costs BEING.

    The costs should just go away somewhere. Or you would be using a mutual insurance company and not be complaining.

    But a socialist doesn’t need to know how things work, they just need to know things are evil and say so.

    Or this is special pleading. You know there are losses and costs, but YOU should be the exception.

    Or you’re doing cloward-piven – your demands are knowingly for the destruction of the institutions and the “system”

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