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Father, Husband, Engineer, ATL. Pedantic AF, probably on spectrum, my mom says I’m a catch
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What follows below is an important explanation of how we got to where we are today vis-a-vis the Fed. This was written by Alan Greenspan in 1966 prior to the US abandoning the gold standard. Please repost. An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue.
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@sentdefender I worked on the Phalanx targeting system briefly at the beginning of my career. It was originally designed to shoot down French Exocet ant-ship missles because the French would sell them to anyone. Some ally. They travel just above the water making them difficult to stop.
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@sabrod123 Neat. One mile is 5280 feet. If the average car is 20’ long including gaps, that’s a whopping 396 cars.
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@jholbo1 @mattyglesias I think rightist possess a level assuredness that the leftist don’t have because they aren’t constantly fighting against human nature and nature in general. The right accepts the world as it is and isn’t constantly trying to reinvent what it is to be human.
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@AGHamilton29 It’s almost as if Iran is pulling the strings. Oh well, let’s give em’ another billion.
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@chrislhayes You don’t give the arsonist credit for putting out the fires they start. Especially when they spend years telling you there is no fire.
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@RebeccaAVelo I can’t explain it logically. If I could, then maybe I could empathize. I hear about “crimes”, but all I see is creative or selective prosecution for which any politician or business person would be far more liable. I’ve come to the conclusion it’s just tribal.
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@hollowearthterf Wait until you meet Gen-X. We turned 30 on our 10th birthday and we’re still gonna be 30 on our 60th.
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@JonahDispatch “Compensate for the failures of the voters themselves”. Do you hear yourself? I would say what’s next, throw the voters in jail for wrongthink, but that’s already happening. How dictatorial of you.
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@MosabHasanYOSEF I think Israel has learned damned if you do and damned if you don’t. So might as well do. I liken it to the kowtowing to the left- they’re going to hate you anyway, nothing will ever be good enough, and it’s all Kabuki theater anyway. Choose not to play the game.
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@CynicalPublius BTW, I just want to say that you are one of my favorite accounts. Really appreciate your military insight.
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@mariedangelo22 @jason_howerton @jimmykimmel So staged misogyny is ok? And blackface, too? Love watching hypocritical modern libs twist themselves into knots trying to justify their untenable positions. Do you even hear yourself?.
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@garykoepnick @RickyDoggin Better man than you’ll ever be and you know it. That’s what bothers you. 🤡.
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@4TaxFairness $250 billion. $250 Frickin’ BILLION!. We’re $35 trillion in debt and you want to take money from the productive. We’re spending over a trillion a year on interest. You think the government can deploy capital better than someone who figured out how to make a billion dollars?.
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@yashar That’s not what you’re little blurb says. Sounds like the democrats are trying to criminalize anything that doesn’t support their positions - basically, anyone calling Kamala a hack and Trump a good guy is guilty. What an absolute joke.
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@drmini141 @POTUS I know right. He’s such a coward trying to pass the buck. How bad does it have to get before independents and suburban women to see the light.
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@hugh_mankind @KanekoaTheGreat Just read BNW for the first time a month ago. I agree with your assessment. We’re reaching a point where society is teaching that there are no differences between the sexes and we’re all on one or more mind altering drugs. Given the drop in birth rates, how long before we’re.
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@peterboghossian Now it’s “Christian Nationalism”. This is the new bogeyman now that their racist and trans gambits are no longer working. Start pushing back now. Lend no credence to this nonsense.
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@nytimes “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.” - Eric Hoffer. We’ve achieved step three.
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@DerekPederson3 It’s been said on here in the past few days, but deserves reiterating - what often passes for intelligence is simply espousing the correct opinions. Orwell would be proud.
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@KonstantinKisin I turned 52 in September. Here’s what I learned so far: All that shit I thought was important in my 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s is not important. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
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@JoyceWhiteVance Joyce, I feel like you need take a step back and ask yourself why you’re so obsessed with Trump. You’re a lawyer so you know this ruling doesn’t even distinguish between official and unofficial acts. That’s properly left to the lower court to define. Think!.
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@mattyglesias They are required to spend a certain percentage of GDP on their military budgets, but almost never do. Semantics my pedantic guy.
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@KanekoaTheGreat Oof. Biden has been in American government since Vietnam and has never met a war he didn’t love. It’s 2024 . Enough of this crap.
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@buccocapital I’m a cancer survivor. I always like to add “so far”. Nobody gets out alive. Cancer treatment gives you a lot of time to think. I was 49 when diagnosed and I still work, and it’s a necessity with a family counting on you. Cancer made me a lot more altruistic and I don’t care.
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@wanyeburkett If you can stab, rape, or murder someone, there’s something seriously wrong with you. Physical violence is not like shoplifting or white collar crime. Crossing that line means more as should the punishment.
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@RepDanGoldman @0liviajulianna Be honest. Would it really make a difference. You aren’t going to listen anyway. It’ll just be deflection. It’s very disheartening to see our elected representatives cheering on censorship and political oppression. Just remember this one thing: the truth always comes out even.
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@Pavel_Asparagus Honestly, a nice deep recession might just be what the doctor ordered to restore focus.
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@bpodgursky @mattyglesias They got screwed by not being very good at banking. They screwed themselves.
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@stillgray I’m afraid this is what it’s going to take - even in the US. Our government has sided with the immigrants over the citizens.
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@DeaconBlues0 My advice to Republicans is to stay away from this issue. It’s a net negative. We know that no man would be shamed this way. And most importantly, women know it.
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@GadSaad Doubt someone from Arkansas would do any such thing. NY or California, sure. I actually find this post narrow and offensive. Southerners aren’t anything like this. Have you ever been to the south? Did you experience anything like this? Do tell.
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@TRHLofficial Why is my feed not full of women dressed like slutty reindeer? Instead, I’ve got Bill Krystol tweeting about Die Hard. What am I doing wrong, here?.
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@JStein_WaPo How much larger would it have been had those been legal immigrants paying taxes and social security and not mooching off public services. Why do liberals love lawbreakers so much. Tools all.
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@BridgetPhetasy My mother was 43 when I was born. She raised me by herself. What truly sucks is that she only met one of my four kids. She was in hospice before my daughter turned one - cancer. Don’t wait. This is them together for the one and only time.
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@ChrisCuster18 @sentdefender Well, they do have that blue -haired, non-binary Ivy League sophomore trust fund kid. 🏳️🌈⚧️.
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@Noahpinion Every city has a heat dome. How much have those cities grown since 1960. How much more pavement, buildings? How many fewer trees?. Again, democrats do not understand complex systems.
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@RealKidPoker @TulsiGabbard @elonmusk @RobertKennedyJr Solid. All they’ve asked today is how they can reach men - white men in particular. How about just being authentic. And if your policy is rejected, accept the answer and don’t attack the audience. It’s not misogyny, fascism, or whatever else. Chances are, it’s just logic.
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@JonahDispatch Yeah, that’s a bit much. I grew up on a hog farm and it’s not for the squeamish (there’s a reason I became an engineer). I had uncles who were pretty ruthless when it came to predators, but the pets were treated differently. My aunt even saved quite a few of the runts.
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@GenFlynn There’s screwing over your constituents and then there’s really screwing over your constituents. This is the latter if Republicans lose the house before November. But it looks like the fix is in.
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@SamsonCorwell @FromKulak If I’m not free to do with it as I wish, then do I truly own it? No, I just have the privilege of paying taxes on it and being fined if I don’t mow the grass often enough. Or, let’s say the government decides I need a few illegal immigrant roommates. Or, they decide to tax me.
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@GeauxGabrielle You have no idea what you’re talking about. A population implosion would be devastating for the economy. Not enough workers, no demand, deflation, tax receipts plummeting. Seriously, what’s this rosey scenario you see on the other side? Would love to hear it.
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@neeratanden They didn’t witness healthy male/female relationships and only have an anecdotal understanding. I wouldn’t call this a win.
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@mitchellvii We lost our first child to miscarriage. I can't speak for abortion, but we still think about that little girl. Who might she have been.
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@SawyerMerritt If cramer hates it, then you know it’s a buy. This guy is a walking, talking contra-indicator.
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@bennyjohnson They have literally bet the farm on this. I never in my life thought I would see something like this. What in the hell is going on with these democrats? It can’t just be about Trump, can it?.
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@JonahDispatch Dude we have the texts between Meadows and Don Jr. Nothing about this was coordinated. They wanted it to stop just like everyone else did. It was a protest that escalated. And there’s substantial circumstantial evidence it may have been provoked. Are u mad at the right people?.
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@matt_vanswol I heard the CEO of HP on CNBC (damn that’s a lot of acronyms) yesterday morning basically saying that if you buy their printers, they will no longer work with aftermarket ink rendering them useless. Feels regressive in the absence of a clear competitive advantage.
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@YasMohammedxx I grew up in the heavily integrated deep south. My high school was like 60/40 white / black and pretty much nothing else. We grew up up, studied, and played sports together. We had a couple of Jewish kids (fraternal twins) in high school. Literally no one cared. As a young.
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@grimcity @MattBinder That the people she’s attempting to raise money for would likely rape her and toss her off a building for being gay. Not hard.
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@nycsouthpaw And then they yelled: “this is MAGA country” while munching on a Subway sandwich.
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@MrPrudentialist It’s not just the younger generation. I’m at peak career, making more money than ever, pretty high up, and I can’t wait to leave this crap behind. A lot of my Gen-X co-workers feel the same way. The boomers prefer to leave feet first with a toe tag. They still think this.
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@wanyeburkett According to the Minnesota Twins Studies the last time I looked, which was forever ago, we’re about 70% Nature and 30% Nurture. These were identical twins raised apart and then measured on various traits. The same should hold in the general population.
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@sweatystartup Our DJ, a “friend” of my fiancé’s, ghosted us the day of the wedding. She didn’t panic and called around until she found someone who happened to be available. They turned out to be awesome. That’s how she is - she solves the problem, no panic. That’s pretty much both of us.
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@townhallcom What exactly is a hard right border policy? Is that like having a border policy?.
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@RachelBitecofer @MikeTurnerOH If Iran becomes a nuclear power, it is because they chose to do so and the Biden and Obama administrations did nothing to stop them. Democrats are absolute morons.
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