@BuzzPatterson@CajunVetX that made me laugh out loud. I pulled into Pattaya on ABE once upon a time. I was the Admin Queen and was there 2 days early. Very different town after your 5000 closest friends arrive.
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Why are so many women sooo angry? They won. They got everything they wanted. Men have never been doing this badly, and women have never been doing this well. They make more, they have the majority of jobs, they are the majority of college graduates, (UCLA undergrad is 60% female), they make more money, have much lower rates of suicide, addiction, and alcoholism, and live longer. They won: they took over all men-only spaces, they took over the Boy Scouts, they ended men’s bathrooms, they can fly fighter planes and be in combat. Marriage is optional, divorce is no-fault, they win 99% of the custody battles, they can control fertility at will, and they can’t get drafted. We are all living in the female future they promised.
I initially held Jason Arday entirely responsible for his plagiarism, lies and exaggerations, and I still do, but he was just another fabulist, faker, and fibber, and in my profession of studying these con artists he doesn't stand out from others.
It is white progressives with no moral compass and no sense of agency or personal responsibility who have made him into a martyr.
Shame on all of you.
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She almost went speechless mid-sentence. One photo of Afghan women in the 60s wrecked her entire argument about "progress" — and what she says next about hijabs, rights, and freedom will have you rethinking everything you thought you knew. What if everything you were told about "modernization" was a lie?
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Telling children their bodies are wrong, putting them on powerful drugs, and surgically altering healthy organs in the name of becoming their “true selves” is not compassion or affirming. It is abuse.
"Why do prices keep going up?"
I'd be happy to explain why prices keep going up...Inflationary monetary policy.
"Why do we have inflationary monetary policy?"
Well, there are a lot of reasons, but the primary one is that politicians really like to spend money, because it's an easy way to buy votes. The problem is politicians don't make money, so they have to get it through one of 3 primary ways...
1. They can tax...which is how they get most of it, but there is a point where taxation has diminishing returns because taxing someone too much leads to a lack of productivity or avoidance strategies.
2. They can borrow...which is one of their favorites because it allows them to kick the can down the road when it comes to actually paying for things; the problem is that at some point the government's credit isn't very good, and people don't want to voluntarily loan them money anymore.
3. They can print it...which is what we have been doing for a long time now. It's especially damaging because when the government prints a bunch of money to spend, it doesn't immediately cause all the prices to go up, so when the government spends the money, they are getting close to the full value of the dollar at the time that it is spent...it is only after the new paper dollars have started to circulate without a corresponding increase in supply that more dollars are competing over the same amount of goods and services and thus the prices go up, because the value of each dollar has gone down through money printing ie. "inflationary monetary policy."
Eventually the inflation gets so bad that they have to stop printing and spending, but that only decreases inflation; it doesn't end it, so prices don't go down to where they were; they simply stop increasing at the previous rate.
"Well, why don't they fix it?"
Because it would cause the economy to significantly, albeit temporarily, tank, and then whatever party was not in charge would blame the party that was in charge, and the citizens suffering the most from inflationary monetary policy would punish the party that stopped the inflationary monetary policy.
"So what's the answer?"
Well...the American people could start getting a lot more educated and concerned about the dangers of fiat currency combined with an ever-expanding welfare state and economic central planning, or the system can keep going until it reaches a critical mass, collapses, and we go through a lot more pain than would have otherwise been required...
@brad_polumbo I clicked through to the comments to see if anyone actually had an answer. No. Just snarky comments. What compels someone to take the time to respond to a reasonable, specific question with nonsense? Just stay silent if you can't contribute.
This is of course all a lie.
Leftists do not, in fact, typically reason in consequentialist fashion.
If they did, they would be willing to discuss such things as what the harms and benefits of e.g. their radical ideas about racial equality, demographic replacement, etc., are. Or the harms and benefits of rejecting sex in favor of gender identity.
Instead, everything on the Left is framed, in fact, as deontological absolutes:
"Trans women are women", "no human is illegal," "borders are illegitimate", "all racial disparities or inequities are illegitimate," etc.
The Left is famously the side that DOES NOT BELIEVE that there are always trade-offs.
Hence it is FALSE that Leftists typically reason in terms of trade-offs.
And they certainly do not in terms of abortion. Leftists believe that women have AN ABSOLUTE RIGHT to abortion. To them, it has nothing to do with a greater or lesser evil.
And when they do try to use the language of lesser evil, they are very bad at it. Hence the typical pro-abortion move: "this child might have a difficult life; therefore it is better to murder it."
Conservative brain can be interesting. They start with a deontological premise, that you must always do good, abortion is murder and therefore evil, you cannot have an abortion.
They assume liberals use the same moral framework, except in reverse. They think we think that murder
The Canadian government is reportedly considering legal action against citizens who spread “misinformation.”
Which means government officials may soon get to define the truth, enforce the definition, and punish the people who fail the test.
That is quite a job description.
The big picture on the economy: everyone wants to call it an "affordability crisis," when really, it’s inflation.
If your wages haven't kept pace, your purchasing power has been quietly eaten away. And the reason is simple: Washington keeps printing money to cover a $2 trillion deficit it refuses to close. We're devaluing the dollar every single day to pay for spending we never dared to cut. @Varneyco
Novembre 2023. Le PDG de Disney retire ses pubs de X pour faire plaisir à la meute. Elon Musk, en direct, devant le monde entier : « Go fuck yourself. »
Tout le monde a cru à un coup de sang. C'était un tipping point.
Ce jour-là, Musk a dit tout haut ce que personne n'osait formuler : vous ne m'achèterez pas. Ni avec votre argent publicitaire, ni avec votre chantage moral, ni avec vos campagnes de presse. Le boycott était censé le mettre à genoux. Il a préféré perdre des milliards plutôt que de céder un centimètre sur la liberté d'expression.
Pendant des décennies, le jeu était simple : signaler la vertu en public, faire le mal en privé. Financer des ONG « bienfaisantes » qui détruisent les cultures qu'elles prétendent sauver. Financer des médias qui mentent à longueur de journée, qui ont couvert les grooming gangs pendant des années par lâcheté idéologique, qui ont préparé le terrain culturel où un prof comme Samuel Paty pouvait être décapité pour avoir enseigné la liberté d'expression. Acheter la compassion du peuple avec du greenwashing, pendant qu'en privé, vous n'en avez absolument rien à foutre.
Musk a capté ça il y a des années. Et il a décidé de tout casser.
Résultat, trois ans plus tard, jour pour jour ou presque : SpaceX entre en bourse, plus grosse IPO de l'histoire de l'humanité, et Elon Musk devient le premier trillionnaire de tous les temps.
Never bet against Elon.
Le message à tous les milliardaires de cette planète est limpide. Ceux qui financent la manipulation de masse pour asseoir leur pouvoir, ceux qui achètent les médias, les ONG, les institutions : votre modèle vient de mourir en direct. L'homme que vous avez essayé d'étrangler financièrement vaut maintenant plus que vous tous.
Le « new world order » que les globalistes avaient planifié vient d'avoir lieu. Sauf qu'il n'est pas le leur.
Le nouvel ordre mondial, c'est Elon Musk qui le construit. Et il repose sur une seule chose : la recherche de la vérité. Pas le signal de vertu. Pas la compassion achetée. Pas les mensonges institutionnalisés. La vérité, la création de valeur réelle, et des fusées qui décollent pendant que vos empires de papier s'effondrent.
Go fuck yourself, en effet.
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