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@borzoi Just think about what would happen if you took away their luxuriois lifestyle. What would they be? Probably nothing, as they never learned how to build themselves up. Such is the case with many descendents who were not the original creators of wealth. They pride themselves as better than you, even if they have no real accomplishments to even remotely justify this.

They see other whites as peasants below them. Even though they are really no better themselves.

@borzoi I will add this point: these people live in a bubble. They have not grown up in a household where their parents told them they could not afford something. They have no had hardship with finances, but luxury. One who has only experienced that sort of life on easy mode has no idea what it means to have to work for something. Therefore, they do not appreciate the hard work others before them have done towards making civilization.

@RupertvonRipp @pyrate @DavidMartinArt @monsterislandcolonizer @Tactical @WashedOutGundamPilot There is a balance that should be considered. Saying "you're on your own" without providing any sort of help is just heartless, but you certainly don't want to give them too much "help" to the point where they have no sense of work ethic or understanding of money.

There is a reason many rich people create trust funds for their children. It's because they failed to instill work ethic and real skills.

Unfortunately, with a mixed economy that is neither purely free market nor purely communist, we are always stuck fighting over how far we attempt each of these opposing plans. Obviously a pure communist approach will fail, but in theory should fail quickly enough, which gives people a chance to realize it won't work. The split the baby approach gives commies enough plausible deniability to just blame capitalism for the failings of their plans. You know this because we see them do it every time.

A less political example is the goal of reaching a million dollars in net worth. One approach is to go all in on a get rich quick scheme. This will most likely not work and just make you poor. But if it does work once, you will reach the goal.

The slow and steady approach is far more likely to succeed, but it is slow. Not only that, but the very implementation of that plan simply cannot work alongside a get rich quick scheme, as you are unable to make such risks.

For example, those who want to have a more free market system as a means to attain prosperity are going to be at odds with those who want to have an expansive welfare system to attempt to reach that same goal. You cannot just agree to try and reach the same goal if you are going in opposite directions in your prescriptions to fix the issues.

Apply this principle to other end goals, and you should see that attempting solutions that clash with each other will just not work.

"We want to achieve the same goal," is not a good basis for establishing common ground. This is a mistake I see when opposing political sides try to find unity. It is not the end goals that are in contention, but rather the means to those goals that lead to fighting.

Who would argue against a society where everyone is well off enough not to struggle financially? No one, really. But different attempts to reach that goal often conflict with one another.

@WashedOutGundamPilot @KonataWagner Sounds like a great way to not only not get the job, but get escorted off the premises.

I thankfully had the good sense to go into a field of study where companies would be fighting for my attention to hire me. I have had some calls saying they wanted to interview me without me saying a word to them, but I would turn them down due to having a great job already. Got hired before finishing my last semester.

Not sure if that will still be happening to others.

@BarbaraPit @Humpleupagus Exactly my point. The only reason I can think of to throw them overboard is if they were already dead and just taking up space. Otherwise you are losing potential money.

Not sure what the profit margins were for selling slaves, but I don't think they could afford to throw out so many of them like that.

@furgar You just don't get it, do you? You see, Kyle Rittenhouse doing self defense was BAD, because his targets were leftists. But this guy's murder was okay, because his target was on the right. Once you understand that you can do what you want as long as they are the correct targets, you too can be a good useful idiot for the globohomo world order!

@Humpleupagus @cowanon 😲

@Humpleupagus Just why would those who are looking to sell Africans as slaves bother going all the way to Africa just to throw them out of the ship? Seems like a waste of money and effort to me.

@Aether This is the perfect pod person, Klaus Schwab's idea of the ideal citizen. So afraid of the world outside the city that he will never want to leave. There he can be controlled and monitored far more easily.

A few days late and unfortunately a paywall again, but here it is. If I was Taiwan, I would not be feeling so confident with the mixed messaging going on.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-us-forces-will-defend-taiwan-from-invasion-by-communist-china_4739793.html

@Heil_Honkler @Bro-Drillard "But I am too old to be able to serve in the military!" I could see that line being dropped. Which I would argue they are too old to hold office either.

And as for not being fit enough even if they are young enough? Well they should not have any business in those decisions either if they are not even able to put their own ass on the line.

@WashedOutGundamPilot The dog also has no idea what the words even mean. Sure, they can understand that they are supposed to sit when you say "sit," but that is not them understanding language but rather just responding to a prompt that has become a recognized pattern. The word itself is not meaningful to the dog.

For anyone who wants marriage and family in their future, I have some advice:

Don't marry wrong. If that means not marrying at all, so be it.

It is indeed better to not marry at all than to make the wrong choice on who to marry. I will never tell any man that they have an obligation to get married, because in spite of the fact that I am married myself, I understand that my path is not one that can or should be prescribed to all other men.