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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.

@furgar This just shows that if you are an environmentalist and opposed to nuclear power, you are either stupid or just an agent for communism.

@WashedOutGundamPilot Why do I bring up TV shows and movies in this case? Because unfortunately, too many women base their expectations on these works of fictions. Example: many women moved to large cities in hopes of living the Sex and the City lifestyle. Only to find themselves miserable and alone, because surprise, it was just a TV show and not reflective of reality.

@WashedOutGundamPilot I have yet to meet a woman who had made me feel intimidated by her intelligence. There are women who are higher on the bell curve, but never would that intimidate me.

Too many women are told that they are smart and amazing while never being told the things they need to work on or fix about themselves. Is it any wonder that so many of them have an ego? And it is only getting worse with so many TV shows and movies enforcing that notion.

@Humpleupagus Not only did they shut down the chat, I bet that some glowies were the ones doing the "threats" to the families in the chat, thus giving them the excuse to shut down the chat. Don't put it past them to do that bullshit, you know they absolutely would.

And besides, how is there anything scary about an online threat? Any retard can make all the empty threats in the world, and nothing comes of it. Not talking about doxing, as that can lead to real problems. But "death threats?" Nah.

@Aether @BackupHitter @MechaSilvio @DasSauerkraut Have faith. One day, another profile will mysteriously appear, following all the same people that BackupHitter used to follow. You will see him posting about the insanity that is going on in many western countries, especially Australia.

Not saying it is guaranteed, but I am describing my own experience when this happened before. So don't count him out yet.