Food Shortages are Coming But…

Off Topic Politics & World Issues
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Only if you let it.

It also gives you an opportunity to put forward competing ideas about politics (just like the training forums), which I like to see from the people who are posting in the PWI section for the right reasons. In my opinion PWI needs more genuine lifters who can express themselves in a genuine manner about their thoughts on politics. As long as we all maintain Mr. Rogers and/or Sesame Street levels of conduct, it might even blossom into a space where meaningful understanding can be achieved.

If not, there will at least be spirited disagreements. Let’s get back to the thread topic.

What’s your weapon of choice for wandering your local wasteland in search of resources?

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I have noticed the same for chicken in general in Bulgaria. The chicken breast is the same price and chicken keeps low price.

I am lucky my fiancee is a daughter of a farmer, so we get beef, rabbit and other meat at way under market price from her father.

First time in my life to get fat from eating too much meat.

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I am not worried about Kamala in the election. I am worried about the 25th amendment.
The tide seems to be turning for Joe. Even the MSM admitted the Hunter Biden laptop is true and are reporting things from it. Why? I can’t see any reason why they’d put themselves in the position of eating massive crow, unless it useful to them somehow. Otherwise, they could have just kept the story buried.
I am wondering if they aren’t planning a coup/ 25th amendment on the guy. Then we get Kamala, who is actually somehow worse.
The democrats seem to be abandoning biden in droves, possibly because he’s kryptonite to their re-election chances. Either that, or some of them are finally waking up to the fact that they have royally fucked up the last year and a half, and hopefully it’s going to cost them.

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McConnel being a duplicitous piece of shit, is a far right belief? Don’t democrats hate McConnel too? Are they far right? I have seen that guy squash important legislation and fight against his party too many times to count. I don’t like McConnel for his policy moves.

No I wasn’t. I was inquiring as to how much you have been paying attention to what’s been going on the last year and half, or more. That’s what we were talking about.
I don’t mind opinions I don’t like, so long as they are based on reality and facts.

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I’ll stick with my Mossberg 935 extended tube :+1: good for turning living things into dead things, and dead things into dust

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I’m not in the food industry, but I spec and design electrical components for construction equipment manufacturing. The shortages are horrible and they haven’t gotten better. Half of my team’s job is just trying to get or find replacement parts to keep production running. It costs tons in man hours, increases part costs, all while decreasing quality of the product. It results in fewer, more expensive, less reliable units being produced. That’s wealth destruction that results in everyone having less.

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But it’s wealth destruction that too few understand.

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How can this take place with ongoing emotional blackmail, gaslighting, and ad hominem attacks thrown at people making intellectual arguments, as flawed or plausible as they are? I now consider these forms of lack of self control and/or statements to shut down conversation altogether and/or used when someone has nothing further to say but wants to win or cannot handle the fact that all inhabitants of the world don’t want to think, act, and live in the same way!

Oftentimes these come up out of nowhere! Several times I’ve said things on these boards (not just PWI) and IRL and I’m lead into topics that had nothing to do with what I was talking about and then wonder, “How the hell did this person go there?!”

For example, a man might be discussing women and make an unflattering remark about them, and then, boom, mention of the Middle East, Sharia Law, burqas, etc., etc.

Other examples are, “You sound like Hitler,” “that’s like the Nazis,” “that’s what the Nazis did,” and other mentions of National Socialist Germany.

One can mention a time in the West that he thought was a more peaceful and prosperous time, say 1950’s America, and he must be reminded, “Yes, it was good except for the racism/sexism/segregation/etc.” I once had a talk like that and asked the guy, “why was that the first thing your mind went to? Why are you reminding me of this?” For me, such talk implies the person might be attempting to set someone up, and it creates distrust, and a sort of whiny moral grandstanding.

Oftentimes terms such as racist, incel, bigot, farright, fascist, homophobe, sexist, anti-Semite,and so on are used incorrectly and don’t even fit the person one is talking to and there are sentiments made up for people who don’t even fit them! For example I once said I don’t have a side in the current war; I have a neutral stance for reasons and info I have mulled over in my head and someone said “it seems like you picked a side?”

Get that: I said I don’t have a side and someone replies, “you picked a side.”

If someone is attempting intellectual argumentation against X activity, media, policy, constructs, etc., using popular shock terms, which I now consider slurs if used incorrectly, is uncalled for, and again, I believe shows lack of self control. It is jarring to the person and is an attempt to make him appear hateful, unreasonable, and nuts! And someone using unrelated subjects (eg, Sharia Law and NS Germany) for shock effect and to be presented as extreme and moral grandstanding is is silly too!

What do you think?

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I rely on logistics and manufacturing to provide my services to clients as well. We’re consistently just getting by in terms of receiving shipments of our products in a timely manner and in the proper quantities. These products are used in medical procedures, so it really blows when we get stuck waiting on things.

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I know you didn’t ask me Brick, but I think a lot of folks are generally unhappy, and scoring “gotcha” points help them get through their day.

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I think that is what it might be.

I stopped freely posting in PWI because of some people chomping at the bit to use whatever popular politically-correct term for people who say things they don’t like and often in conjunction with totally ignoring what the person is presenting, even with backed up historical examples, personal experience and observation, and statistics. Or they fail to realize, “maybe this guy and I simply don’t want to live and think the same way, so the manly, grown-up thing to do is that we don’t live or associate or speak with one another and call it a day, rather than spew names and insults.”

I remember years ago on here i stated I believed a certain historical incident preceding WWII actually occurred, and then someone brought up Stormfront and said it didn’t happen, to which I think I replied, “Excuse me, I’m Jewish and I don’t visit Stormfront.”

Another time I was called a misogynist by a poster who routinely heckled me for over two years even though I don’t hate women, have a daughter, a wife I love and care for, a mother I call near daily, nearly all female co-workers (who would describe me as cooperative, respectful, and well-mannered), and other women family members I routinely spend time with. Despite being an average/ordinary man, I’ve been asked out by women (why would they do that if I was hateful towards them?). How would I tolerate or willingly do all this if I was hateful?

So this is literally making crap up about people!

This sort of behavior is irritating and in some cases it is simply damn insulting to tell another man what he does and thinks when there is no evidence supporting it.

How is someone supposed to trust others and engage in intellectual debate considering this is so pervasive?

@twojarslave

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I don’t think any trust is required. You just need to put your thoughts out there. Responding to anyone is optional, and it isn’t too difficult to spot the people who don’t contribute to the quality of the discussion.

You can also choose, as I sometimes have, to tell people to fuck off. I also like to use humor and sarcasm to illustrate particularly absurd positions.

A good PWI post is like porn. You know it when you see it.

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I get it. Thank you.

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That’s because the idiots among us see so clearly all issues. Astoundingly, their views align with most of Washington and the mainstream media 100-percent of the time. They don’t have to think about things, so everything is very black-and-white to them.

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Twojar said it better than I could have. I don’t post in this subforum a ton, because, it’s generally a cesspool. An entertaining one at least, and lately the discussions haven’t been too abrasive, but that’ll change at a moments notice. At that point I’ll do the Homer Simpson gif once again.

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I think the ship of intellectual debate had already sailed if someone immediately resorts to ad hominem attacks. Accordingly, I think the best manner of contribution that could be applied is ignoring those who refuse to have a fair discussion. As a PWI regular, I truly wish we had more members participate in these discussions as they are important and often educational. If nothing else, it at least forces people to confront the fact that not everyone believes in the same things they do; and at most, it allows people to re-evaluate long-held moral positions/beliefs.

PWI has made me a far more rational person tbh, but this is all n=1

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I think Aldi has a lot of decent stuff. I mostly shop there too.
Also, they have Skyr and Quark, which is my favourite source of protein.

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I would totally shop at Aldi’s if we had one. Not for everything, but for a lot of stuff.

Unfortunately, due to Biden administration policies, we’ve had an Aldi’s shortage in my area for decades now.

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Quark ??

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Yeah, the fundamental building block of all matter?

Place is fucking loaded with them bro

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