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Just think about your typical American. They go to work on a regular basis, get food from their grocery store, and do a variety of things with their free time, be it spend it with friends/family or on some hobbies. This means most people have some sense of normalcy in their lives.

When it comes to a civil war, it is a point of no return, where normal no longer exists. Most people still have their comforts and routines that they would not wish to deviate from in favor of major chaos.

Any talk about civil war in the US should not be considered seriously until we get to a point where actual suffering and hardship is taking place. Even with our economy being a dumpster fire (despite the propaganda insisting otherwise), things are really no where near bad enough.

When we have actual issues like food shortages, energy shortages, and any other shortages, then we have real potential for people to actually be ready for some sort of action.

Another analogy I can think of is complaining about someone who is giving general fitness and diet advice to fat people because "They will never become a professional athlete with that advice!"

If you are a fatass who just needs to learn how to eat less and exercise, the least of your worries is being one of the greatest athletes in the world.

"Look how much Michael Phelps eats in a day! Clearly eating a lot is not always bad!"

Again, you are talking to fatasses, not people on Phelp's level.

And airline miles being a positive example for "credit card debt is not always bad" is retarded. Hey Joshua, if you are spending money with your credit card so that you can get "free airline miles," you are an idiot. Don't give me this "you are spending the money anyways." Usually, you are spending more than you normally would under the justification of getting something for "free." When you have a lot of debt, you need to cut spending. Which means credit card spending is going to be bad always.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu1lKvzDtNU

Another example of the same thing. "Not all debt is bad debt!" Yes, that is true. But the people that need Dave Ramsey are clearly incapable to dealing with ANY debt. You should not be trying to get into making money on rental properties if you cannot handle your credit card debt. Getting into rental properties comes with many risks, which the people who need Dave Ramsey cannot afford, as they already are in a hole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp2vZR1esng

Videos like this piss me off. Of course Dave Ramsey's advice is not going to "get you rich." The people he is working with are those who are so far in a financial hole that they need a simple, foolproof plan to get them out. Dave Ramsey has that plan.

You should not be worried about trying out for the Major Leagues in baseball when you cannot even hit the ball off a tee. So stop huffing about his advice not making you rich, it is not supposed to do that.

I have to wonder if those actually in charge of the Biden admin are doing a sloppy job of covering up his obvious mental decline or if they are deliberately setting him up so that they can eject him so that they can get a puppet that is not going to fumble his words every time he/she speaks publicly.

Hard to know for sure, as they have been holding on to Biden as puppet-in-chief for longer than I expected.

I get why some people for various and even justified reasons would not want to carry out actions that would be considered too extreme or violent. But if you would never be able to do that, at the very least just don't even bring it up or try to cope with "we'll vote 'em out" when voting is not going to fix anything. Just admit that it is unfixable, at the very least.

And even if Trump somehow were to win, do you really think it will fix everything?

Was listening to the local area's BoomerCon radio station this morning, and one of the hosts was responding to a comment. That comment was something about how "We don't have the conviction to do what needs to be done to take this country back" with a strong implication that it would not be something peaceful.

As you can expect, the host said in response that "We will stop them, because we are going to vote out the bad politicians."

Yeah, just what you would expect.

Come on, @Tfmonkey, get your movie references right. "Well, we're waiting!" Is from Caddy Shack, not one of those overrated Adam Sandler movies.

Sheesh, I expect more professionalism from a talking chimp. Not this level of sloppiness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0YIJQ1jgEI

This is not to say that being less car dependency would not bring some improvements overall, but rather we should not be foolish enough to think that city planning is going to magically make things better. Especially when all the countries with "good public transportation" just so happen to be in countries with the most ethnically homogenous populations with a higher average IQ.

America is not that, by any means, and it will only get worse.