This is literally a standard opening line followed by “offering you an unique business opportunity” to “become a self-employed entrepreneur” and participate in a MLM scheme.
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If he had a log here he would sell Beachbody…
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By not following the mainstream one is just following a tributary that doesn’t lead to the ocean and trickles out into a dried up lakebed of despair.
@castoli711 I have serious questions for you.
How old are you?
Do you own a home?
Do you have children?
Have you ever paid for a child’s tuition if you have children?
How many years of working in a profession/trade do you have?
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He actually knows it, which is even worse.
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The reason I asked those questions is not to humiliate or insult you or anyone.
What prompted me to ask this is that as of late there has been a streak of very young people on here who have shown no or almost no investment into and no significant or any production in any American system. That, and they own no assets and have no children.
And yet they are going to tell others who are almost to over twice their age who have the aforementioned about what and who we should worry about, where we should allocate our energy, even emotional energy, and how things should be run. In short, they have no skin in the game, no stake in the future, but they’re going to direct us!
Some even tell us what miserable parents we are.
Do you or anyone else have thoughts on this?
So long as people who have no stake in the future are allowed to vote, I’m not voting.
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Cool, I do too. But I also have a job.
My houses are paid for, perhaps I could trade currencies for a living if I wanted to. But it is risky and I have kids and responsabilities so financial security is paramount.
I probably wouln’t have been able to acquire my first rental property as a currency trader, I would have been laughed out of the bank.
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Not my great great great grandkids.
I’m not a bird.
There are only solutions. Problems don’t care who comes up with them. Neither do those affected.
And? They’re dead now.
The most important things they’ll inherit are not wealth but the ability to build their own.
There are many that still won’t adknowledge the holodomors occurance. Under the guise of ‘historical revisionism’.
Revisionism is a real concept. The framework of legitimate historical revisionism entails critically analysing past affairs as to try depict past societies in an accurate light. A past consenus may be derived from limited data.
An example would be the ethnic makeup of vikings. Vikings were initially thought to be Scandinavian, however a plethora of evidence has come to light this that suggests this may not have been the case.
Illegitimate historical revisionism is called historical negationism i.e denial. I consider this a form of pseudointellectualism, as those who propogate the various conspiracies associated with historical negationism can be very convincing provided one isn’t highly educated surrounding the topic at hand.
Many who abide by negationist ideology state they are revisionists. This is irritating aa most under this umbrella won’t adknowledge the existance of high quality evidence disproving their ‘revisionist’ ideology.
Revisionism isn’t valid if 99.9% of the documentation you can find goes against your revised historical archetype.
Why am I bringing this up?
You mention Karl Marx and Stalin. My brother has an aquaintence who is a die hard commie… he is of the belief that the statistics present relating to the holodomor are greatly exaggerated.
Others outright deny it’s existance alltogether. You see the same trend with holocaust ‘revisionism’. The problem is… the atrocities that occured with Stalins regieme and the nazi party have been proven beyond reasonable doubt.
I’m NOT stating castoli is one of these people! I don’t know what political beliefs castoli harbours. I’m guessing they lean left though.
When you see a die hard commie advocating for communism… there’s a chance they’re an advocate because they’re fallen victim to propaganda and therefore don’t see the pitfalls of communism/socialism BECAUSE they don’t believe socialist and communist regiemes led to the creation of gulags, the holodomor, the creation of police states and economic dissaray.
We must also adknowledge that many learn about communism/socialism from fringe groups that will selectively pick and choose what they wish to disclose, thus painting these authoritarian regiemes in a positive light.
When you say “well what about Stalin?” To a communist or a socialist… remember there’s a decent chance they don’t view Stalin in the same light as you or I would.
I know THREE people who have fallen victim to communist/socialist/marxist propaganda. Bringing up Stalin is a moot point, no amount of evidence will change their minds.
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There’s a reason Stalin is revered in modern Russia while Lenin and actual commies get the short shrift (and a bullet or an ice pick) - Stalin behaved as a Russian Tsar would, and very few of his actions were driven by ideology, unlike Lenin’s.
If you’d put Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s place, he would have behaved in a very similar fashion, despite never having heard of Marx.
Lenin was a communist (and that’s only because as an impoverished nobleman he viscerally hated peasants, communism was his revenge), Stalin was a Red Tsar.
You can put a Russian Tsar on religious icons and worship his as saint, even if his official title was due to political expediencies “comrade general secretary”
The white uniformed figure on the icon is Stalin, Christ’s representative on Earth. And yes, these are actual Russian Orthodox icons.
Don’t get me wrong, communism is/was one of scourges of mankind, and is ironic that the same mass murderer is worshipped by simultaneously by dumb commies in the West and Russian ultranationalist religious fanatics.
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Yes like down playing the genocide of native Americans OR the negative effects of slavery.
When you see a die hard capitalist advocating for capitalism… there’s a chance they’re an advocate because they’ve fallen victim to propaganda. Bingo!
I’m acquainted with most on this forum who’ve fallen victim to “free-market” propaganda in service to the elite.
N/o, but your childrens children may. Are you against this? If so, make it part of the will that your lazy descendants don’t get anything that may be from you.
Not funny!
What right-wing solutions have been proven to be correct? Trickle-down economics?
Well if they were wouldn’t their descendants be better off or would they still be permanently stuck in the ghetto?
But material things passed on weren’t even an option. Shouldn’t they’ve had a choice? And you act as if there are no barriers(systematic racism)in America. Redlining is a good example. Keep people from acquiring their own home which tends to be the greatest form of wealth for the middle or lower classes.
Then you really have no idea what you are doing. Get help.
When you pay cash you don’t need a bank OR you could use a private lender.
If you could you would. It is only risky for those who don’t know what they are doing.
And those pictures are the descendants of African American slaves?
You are completely lost and totally insulting!
They do, which is why some will protest. Look at what is currently happening in France. They see that something is seriously wrong and disagree with it.
Age does not make one infallible.
Good, because you have been indoctrinated. And Presidential politics are a ruse. Both parties have the similar/same bosses. They do not represent the public they represent those who donate to their campaigns and lobby them.
If one follows the mainstream, you are just following the corporate line.
By following the mainstream one is guaranteed to be in service of the oligarchy. Great job! You’re just a good little soldier for the ruling class.
Yes this is what I’ve doe on this forum several times.
Do you still have to be somewhere for a certain period of time?
Most men lead lives of quite desperation.
Yeah, it’s called truth.
And your mooching off the success of “the ruling class” making money the way you do. At least I produce something tangible. Your the first guy the rest of us would boot off “Survivor”.
Again, not a big deal. It’s a schedule - I work with it, not against it. I am able to freely move time around if i need to for whatever reason I choose. That’s the advantage of having an education and not having to work meaningless jobs of being a bartender where you absolutely have to be there.
That’s a good one. You should do a stand up routine.
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No one is downplaying the genicide of Native Americans.
Back in the days of “pillage and conquer” genocide was unfortunately commonplace.
No one is downplaying slavery either. Slavery still occurs today, purportedly the practice is as popular as ever. Slavery is historically endemic… it’s disgusting
If you are referring to advocacy for unregulated, corporate monopolisation that winds up pushing all ‘mom and pop’ businesses out… the kind of capitolism that facilitates HUGE wealth gaps and the creation of predatory billionaires… i’d agree with you
Very few advocate for that kind of capitolism even if that is the dynamic that has eventuated en masse.
The difference is… capitolism doesn’t =/= political radicalism, terrorism, police states and genocide.
Communism and socialism have unanimously been associated with both. Give me one communist country (past 100 years) that has a track record of upholding basic human rights to a degree that is remotely comparable with western countries.
Give me ONE economically prosperous socialist country (don’t say Norway… they aren’t socialist…)
Give me a socialist country that isn’t a police state…
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