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Monday, October 31, 2022 7:28 AM
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: OPPS! -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
Monday, October 31, 2022 7:43 AM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: OPPS! -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibusA man is not deceived by others; he deceives himself. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Monday, October 31, 2022 9:25 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: OPPS! -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibusA man is not deceived by others; he deceives himself. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe How does one pretend to read so many books but never learn any lessons? That is a good quote. Learn to apply it to yourself. -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
Monday, October 31, 2022 9:31 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: OPPS! -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibusA man is not deceived by others; he deceives himself. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe How does one pretend to read so many books but never learn any lessons? That is a good quote. Learn to apply it to yourself. -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus6ixStringJack, you proved my point by eliding a few sentences. A man is not deceived by others; he deceives himself. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'm positive that a Trumptard (meaning 6ixStringJack) would misunderstand the quote and conclude that it is Democrats who are deluding themselves. I am not sorry to tell the Trumptards that their misunderstandings of reality are serious handicaps to living long and happily in America and staying in the middle class. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Monday, October 31, 2022 10:46 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: You keep posting that same dumb shit and it has less meaning every time you do. Check yourself before you wreck yourself, buddy. Otherwise the final years of your sad, pathetic, meaningless life are going to be very, very dark.
Monday, October 31, 2022 12:10 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: You keep posting that same dumb shit and it has less meaning every time you do. Check yourself before you wreck yourself, buddy. Otherwise the final years of your sad, pathetic, meaningless life are going to be very, very dark.Are you still smoking, 6ix? Long ago, when I vaguely hoped those who voted for Nixon, Reagan, Bush II, or Trump were not automatons, I would read to my cousins the warnings on the pack of cigarettes they were smoking. Those warnings never stopped any of them. They all died young from precisely what the warnings said would happen to them (with two exceptions - a fatal drunken driving crash and a fatal gunshot.) Bad things happen to careless optimists while realists live long and prosper. Somehow, the careless never learn that. https://goodthinkinc.com/success-do-pessimists-live-longer-a-study-from-the-american-psychological-association-reveals-pessimists-outlive-optimists/ 6ix, here is your warning: Cigarette Labeling and Health Warning Requirements https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/labeling-and-warning-statements-tobacco-products/cigarette-labeling-and-health-warning-requirements 6ix, let me repeat back to you what you wrote: "Otherwise the final years of your sad, pathetic, meaningless life are going to be very, very dark." 6ix, do you really believe you are exempt from the laws of nature? If you do, keep on smoking and never return to work. Nothing bad will happen, at least in the short term. For example, smoker and paid professional blowhard Rush Limbaugh lived to 70, so you also can, although the normal lifespan is 77. The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Thursday, November 3, 2022 9:24 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: How's that diabetes treating you?
Friday, November 4, 2022 7:45 AM
Friday, November 4, 2022 8:35 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: How's that diabetes treating you?The White House @WhiteHouse tweeted: Every single Congressional Republican voted against capping insulin costs at $35 a month for Medicare patients. https://twitter.com/whitehouse/status/1580712335815020547 My East Texas relatives with diabetes will vote for Republicans because they despise "Critical Race Theory" and venerate the Confederacy teaching the inferiority of Blacks, which there are many in East Texas. What Is Critical Race Theory, and Why Is It Under Attack? https://www.edweek.org/leadership/what-is-critical-race-theory-and-why-is-it-under-attack/2021/05 The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Friday, November 4, 2022 9:08 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: This post made me giggle. You are an idiot.
Friday, November 4, 2022 9:14 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: This post made me giggle. You are an idiot.If you had known my Trumptard East Texas cousins, you won't giggle. Exactly like you, they were self-important, confident people who were absolutely certain of their superiority and knowledge. They all died young because of those same deeply held but false beliefs about themselves. I could see death coming for them, but they couldn't because of their psychology, the same as yours.
Sunday, November 6, 2022 9:00 AM
Sunday, November 6, 2022 11:13 AM
Sunday, November 6, 2022 11:29 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Nobody cares. Fuck Jerry Falwell. -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
Sunday, November 6, 2022 11:37 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Nobody cares. Fuck Jerry Falwell. -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibusThe movie shows how Jerry Falwell and his retarded son, Junior, have maneuvered, behind the scenes, GOP appointed Supreme Court Justices to make their religion the national religion and abortion the same as murder. The Falwell family isn't all the way to their ultimate goal, but after 50 years of effort they are asymptotically approaching it.
Monday, November 7, 2022 6:15 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: The movie is fucking dumb. Organized religion is fucking dumb. Right-wing 80's religious Republicans and their censorship over Satanic Panic were fucking dumb. Left-wing 20's religious Democrats and their censorship over Woke Religion are fucking dumb. You need to step outside of your fucking dumb Democrat echo chamber and recognize your party for what it is, otherwise there's no reason for anybody to have a discussion with you on any topic. There's only one party. It's the party of money and we're all fucked. -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
Monday, November 7, 2022 9:17 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: The movie is fucking dumb. Organized religion is fucking dumb. Right-wing 80's religious Republicans and their censorship over Satanic Panic were fucking dumb. Left-wing 20's religious Democrats and their censorship over Woke Religion are fucking dumb. You need to step outside of your fucking dumb Democrat echo chamber and recognize your party for what it is, otherwise there's no reason for anybody to have a discussion with you on any topic. There's only one party. It's the party of money and we're all fucked. -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibusThe United States is a center-right country. Liberal are 25%. Conservatives are well ahead at 36%. But centrists are the biggest group at 37%. For a centralist, it's always safer to vote for a conservative — even an extreme one, since they'll just keep things extremely the same. You can always change your mind later, after all. But if some extreme liberal manages to pass Medicare for All, you're stuck with it forever. Democrats need to moderate if they want to win over centrist voters. And like it or not, there are things centrist voters don't like about liberals: • They think we're too lax on crime. • They think we're constantly making up stupid new rules. • They think we want to let in too many illegal immigrants. • They think we want to spend money endlessly and drive up the debt. • They were appalled by the looting and rioting during the BLM protests of 2020 and think Democrats should have denounced it more vigorously. • They think wokeness is ridiculous. They want us to stop talking like academics from another galaxy. • They do not like being called racist. Now, if Democrats end up doing poorly on Tuesday, the real reason is that the party in power always does poorly in midterm elections. But the secondary reason will indeed be that Democrats have spent the past few years moving to the left and allowing folks like Bernie and Elizabeth and Alexandria and Katie to become the best known faces of the party—all the while convincing centrists that good ol' Joe Biden is little more than a captive of these progressive do-gooders. That's OK with me. In this household we all love Katie (Porter) and would vote for her multiple times if we could. But I'm not a centrist. I think Medicare for All is a great idea and I'm not opposed to funding social programs with higher tax rates on the rich. Democrats already have my vote. But my center-right friends? They're kind of scared of us these days, and that's enough to keep them voting for Republicans even though they agree that Republicans have gone nuts. How hard is this to understand? https://jabberwocking.com/seth-masket-is-bored-of-threadbare-political-narratives-he-shouldnt-be/ The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Monday, November 7, 2022 9:29 AM
Monday, November 7, 2022 9:46 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: P.S. And on Wednesday look forward to articles from all the Lefty news sites proclaiming "Why oh why did the Latinos abandon us?" without ever even accidentally stumbling their way into figuring the answer to that question out. My guess is that they won't even bring up the fact that a higher percentage of black people are going to vote not-Democrat tomorrow than in any previous election too. They're going to ignore that one all together. Blame those white soccer moms. That's exactly what they're going to do. See where it gets them. -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
Quote:It is becoming clearer and clearer that Democrats have seriously erred by lumping Hispanics in with “people of color” and assuming they embraced a litany of liberal causes around race and other issues that are dear to the hearts of Democratic activists. This was a flawed assumption. In reality, Hispanic voters are overwhelmingly an upwardly mobile, patriotic population with practical and down to earth concerns focused on jobs, the economy, health care, effective schools and public safety. ... As the Democrats sift through the wreckage of what seems likely to be a very poor election for them, they may want to cast around for a new theory of the case on how to grow their coalition. It should start by discarding the notion that Hispanics can be usefully thought of as people of color. They are instead normie voters through and through. That is the beginning of wisdom—and future electoral success.
Monday, November 7, 2022 11:08 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Thank you for posting another COPE article full of lies from a Far-Leftist retard on "jabberwocking". What's wrong dude? MotherGoose go to far right-wing for you? Or did they disappear? I don't see you posting their dumb shit anymore these days. This dumb jagoff Seth isn't going to learn any lessons tomorrow. He's bullet pointed a good deal of them, but he supports at least some of them and the rest he's not taking seriously. As for "centrists", he's just changing a definition to suit his dumb article. Even according to NY Magazine and NYT just this week, swing voters make up as little as 3% of the electorate. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/swing-voters-are-angry-alienated-and-very-powerful.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/opinion/swing-voters-midterms.html If you were actually to see 37% of the electorate turn on you, every single race tomorrow would result in a Republican win. It will be more than 3% tomorrow, but nowhere near 37%. Yet. Keep doing what you're doing though and wonder why things aren't working out for you next time either. Fix your fucking party or watch it die. -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
Tuesday, November 8, 2022 6:59 AM
Tuesday, November 8, 2022 11:07 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: It is a catastrophe that Liberal America has done such a poor job of protecting the nation against the extraordinary force that has been taking over the Republican Party (over the past several decades). And a compelling case can be made that the failure (of Liberal America its political arm, the Democratic Party) to better protect the nation has been substantially due to the inability of a largely secular liberal culture to perceive what it was up against, and thus to fight it appropriately. Not seeing what it was up against, the Democrats failed to see that the usual American political battle over issues and interests had become something more fundamental, to a degree unprecedented in American history comprehensible in terms of “the Battle Between Good and Evil.” How could it be? There’s no such thing! The blindness of the Democrats to the rise of “a Force of Evil” demonstrates not only the perceptiveness of that bit of baseball wisdom that says, “You can’t hit what you can’t see.” But it also shows that “You can’t see what you have no conceptual way of including in your picture of reality.” (FDR – a liberal at a time when the old worldview held greater sway — seemed to understand Evil in the old way, and that helped him defeat Evil in World War II. Barack Obama, apparently lacking much of a concept of “Evil,” didn’t see it when it was coming at him. And as a result, ended up barricaded in the White House with his Presidency substantially stripped of its powers, except for the issuance of executive orders. (And while this exceptionally decent and best-intentioned man was President, his failure to recognize the reality of a “Force of Evil” enabled such a Force to gain in power. Indeed, that failure inadvertently opened the door for what previous generations of Americans would have regarded as unthinkable to happen: i.e. for a human monster like Donald Trump to become President of the United States, and from there to “spread a pattern of brokenness” across multiple dimensions of American civilization and the wider world.) (In this, Obama was emblematic of a widespread and long-standing inability in the Democratic Party of these times: even as the other side was being taken over by “a coherent Force that consistently makes things worse,” the Democrats continued to talk about their “friends across the aisle,” and sought to conduct “politics as usual.” And a compelling case can be made that a major reason for this was that there was no concept in their minds — no word in their language – for the kind of Force that had taken over the Republican Party.) https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/09/the-discernible-reality-of-a-force-of-evil.html The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Tuesday, November 8, 2022 2:21 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: For supposedly not subscribing to any religion, you people sure sound like cultists. Kool-Aid's served. Drink up! -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
Tuesday, November 8, 2022 4:07 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: For supposedly not subscribing to any religion, you people sure sound like cultists. Kool-Aid's served. Drink up! -------------------------------------------------- Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibusKool-Aid must be a reference to the Reverend Jim Jones from the Jonestown Massacre. Jones, the maximum leader, got his people to drink the poisoned Kool-Aid and die for Jones. The Democrats never been the kind to elevate a Jim Jones who they loyally serve unto death. On the other hand, the GOP has Trump, who fits the Jim Jones template. Trump voters are well suited for the next Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, aka "Jonestown", aka "MAGA". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
Wednesday, November 9, 2022 7:06 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Wrong. You absolutely do follow a Leftist, Marxist dogma. And the rest of the country is rejecting it. Full stop. You're fucking done, idiot. You should have called out dudes with mental illnesses dressed up like Disney Princesses letting 6 year old girls rub up on their junk while Antifa stood guard outside while you had the chance. Woke is dead. Green is dead. The Democrat agenda is dead. You might want to move out of My country tomorrow because you ain't going to like it here anymore. Either that, or drink the fucking Kool-Aid already.
Wednesday, November 9, 2022 9:55 AM
Thursday, November 10, 2022 7:14 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: I'm fine dude. I can only imagine the meltdown you and Ted would be going through right now had the election turned the way it was predicted to. I'll be out working on my porch. Nothing is any different today than it was yesterday.
Friday, November 11, 2022 7:51 PM
JAYNEZTOWN
Sunday, November 13, 2022 2:38 PM
Quote:Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN: Your Democratic Votes and at least some got counts and it wasn't a complete shitshow like Arizona
Sunday, November 13, 2022 2:52 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Why independent voters broke for Democrats in the midterms
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: All you do is post propaganda dude. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.6ix, it was just last week that you predicted the Democratic Party is dead. Mail in fraud is a thing that needs to be taken care of. Have you stopped to ask yourself just how in the hell the Republicans won the popular vote in the mid-terms? That hasn't happened once before in my life. All it takes is a bunch of harvested, unsolicited mail-in fraud ballots in swing states to win. You guys have done it twice now. The funny thing is that you never do it in states like California and New York because you should always win those and look what happened there. A few surprises, huh? My predictions are sound. You guys keep cheating and you'll get that Civil War you keep talking about. Fuck around and find out. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.6ix, you are insane.
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: All you do is post propaganda dude. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.6ix, it was just last week that you predicted the Democratic Party is dead. Mail in fraud is a thing that needs to be taken care of. Have you stopped to ask yourself just how in the hell the Republicans won the popular vote in the mid-terms? That hasn't happened once before in my life. All it takes is a bunch of harvested, unsolicited mail-in fraud ballots in swing states to win. You guys have done it twice now. The funny thing is that you never do it in states like California and New York because you should always win those and look what happened there. A few surprises, huh? My predictions are sound. You guys keep cheating and you'll get that Civil War you keep talking about. Fuck around and find out. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: All you do is post propaganda dude. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.6ix, it was just last week that you predicted the Democratic Party is dead.
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: All you do is post propaganda dude. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Wednesday, November 16, 2022 7:30 AM
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 7:58 AM
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 8:02 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Nobody Cares About Biden’s Energy Policy. Great! The president’s plan shows that a carrots-not-sticks climate strategy is a winner.
Quote:By Paul Krugman
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 8:36 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: In the history of America, you'd be hard pressed to find somebody who was worse at their job than Paul Krugman.
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 9:27 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: In the history of America, you'd be hard pressed to find somebody who was worse at their job than Paul Krugman.What’s the point of reinventing banks, only worse? by Paul Krugman The 2008 white paper that started the cryptocurrency movement, published under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, was titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” That is, the whole idea was that electronic tokens whose validity was established with techniques borrowed from cryptography would make it possible for people to bypass financial institutions. If you wanted to transfer funds to someone else, you could simply send them a number — a key — with no need to trust Citigroup or Santander to record the transaction. It has never been clear exactly why anyone other than criminals would want to do this. Although crypto advocates often talk about the 2008 financial crisis as a motivation for their work, that crisis never impaired the payments system — the ability of individuals to transfer funds via banks. Still, the idea of a monetary system that wouldn’t require trust in financial institutions was interesting and arguably worth trying. After 14 years, however, cryptocurrencies have made almost no inroads into the traditional role of money. They’re too awkward to use for ordinary transactions. Their values are too unstable. In fact, relatively few investors can even be bothered to hold their crypto keys themselves — too much risk of losing them by, say, putting them on a hard drive that ends up in a landfill. Instead, cryptocurrencies are largely purchased through exchanges like Coinbase and, yes, FTX, which take your money and hold crypto tokens in your name. These exchanges are — wait for it — financial institutions, whose ability to attract investors depends on — wait for it again — those investors’ trust. In other words, the crypto ecosystem has basically evolved into exactly what it was supposed to replace: a system of financial intermediaries whose ability to operate depends on their perceived trustworthiness. In which case, what is the point? Why should an industry that at best has simply reinvented conventional banking have any fundamental value? Furthermore, trust in conventional financial institutions rests in part on validation by Uncle Sam: The government supervises banks, regulates the risks they can take and guarantees many deposits, while crypto operates largely without oversight. So investors must rely on the honesty and competence of entrepreneurs; when they offer exceptionally good deals, investors must believe not just in their competence but in their genius. How has that been working out? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/opinion/crypto-banks-regulation-ftx.html The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 10:06 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Even a broken clock is right twice per day. Hopefully Krugman remembers he wrote this when Biden tries turning USD into Cryptocurrency. I mean, he's already started that process, but I don't see Krugman mentioning that here.
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 12:49 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Even a broken clock is right twice per day. Hopefully Krugman remembers he wrote this when Biden tries turning USD into Cryptocurrency. I mean, he's already started that process, but I don't see Krugman mentioning that here.Krugman didn't mention "that process" because the dollar is NOT being turned slowly or secretly into cryptocurrency. Do you realize how much electricity crypto wastes a year to accomplish nothing? Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, currently consumes an estimated 150 terawatt-hours of electricity annually — more than the entire country of Argentina, population 45 million. Producing that energy emits some 65 megatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually — comparable to the emissions of Greece. https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/05/04/cryptocurrency-energy/ The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 1:14 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Even a broken clock is right twice per day. Hopefully Krugman remembers he wrote this when Biden tries turning USD into Cryptocurrency. I mean, he's already started that process, but I don't see Krugman mentioning that here.Krugman didn't mention "that process" because the dollar is NOT being turned slowly or secretly into cryptocurrency. Do you realize how much electricity crypto wastes a year to accomplish nothing? Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, currently consumes an estimated 150 terawatt-hours of electricity annually — more than the entire country of Argentina, population 45 million. Producing that energy emits some 65 megatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually — comparable to the emissions of Greece. https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/05/04/cryptocurrency-energy/ The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Another good story ruined by a press release. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/03/09/executive-order-on-ensuring-responsible-development-of-digital-assets/ Archive: https://archive.ph/G7aAo Forward that on to the Krugman for me, will you? Maybe you should CC Greta Thunberg on that too... assuming she's still alive. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 1:33 PM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Even a broken clock is right twice per day. Hopefully Krugman remembers he wrote this when Biden tries turning USD into Cryptocurrency. I mean, he's already started that process, but I don't see Krugman mentioning that here.Krugman didn't mention "that process" because the dollar is NOT being turned slowly or secretly into cryptocurrency. Do you realize how much electricity crypto wastes a year to accomplish nothing? Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, currently consumes an estimated 150 terawatt-hours of electricity annually — more than the entire country of Argentina, population 45 million. Producing that energy emits some 65 megatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually — comparable to the emissions of Greece. https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/05/04/cryptocurrency-energy/ The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two Another good story ruined by a press release. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/03/09/executive-order-on-ensuring-responsible-development-of-digital-assets/ Archive: https://archive.ph/G7aAo Forward that on to the Krugman for me, will you? Maybe you should CC Greta Thunberg on that too... assuming she's still alive. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.The Federal government wants to start regulating gambling on cryptocurrency as it regulates internet betting. Did the Federal Reserve Bank become the nation's bookie? No. Neither will it be in the cryptocurrency business. In the 1990s, when the World Wide Web was growing rapidly in popularity, online gambling appeared to represent an end-run around government control and prohibition. Confronted with this blatant challenge to American policies, the Department of Justice and Congress explored the applicability of current law and the desirability of new regulation for online gambling. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/gambling The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 1:58 PM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Wednesday, November 23, 2022 7:57 PM
Thursday, November 24, 2022 12:40 AM
Thursday, November 24, 2022 11:06 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: And the two dumb Democrat shits left on this board either have nothing to say about it or scream TRUMP!!!! -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: It's even more than that though. We in America are beneficiaries to the fact that the REAL PTB based their whole empire off of the USD. Now unless they have a particular gripe against the US that they find so irredeemably egregious that they have no choice but to switch currency, think of the logistics involved in that. TPTB wouldn't want to make a move so drastic and with such unpredictable results unless they knew full well that they had complete control over the outcome from the get go. And as you've illustrated above, any attempt at middle-management "leaders" trying to do so on their own ends up with their cities being turned to rubble. People the world round can say all they want about the weakness of the US Military, but all that is is talk. Our military dwarfs the rest of the world's military and gets larger and larger cash infusions nearly every single year, and despite that fact it does practically nothing but "exist". Incidentally... Screw NATO. If it weren't for the fact that it would trigger WWIII, the US Military could invade Russia today and turn Moscow to rubble by the end of the weekend if it were directed to. But TPTB have no interest in owning a world that is on fire. Also incidentally... I believe this to be the big push against Russia right now when China clearly is the world's largest power guilty of the most egregious crimes against humanity and its own citizenry. Russia is a threat to nobody. But Russia also isn't easily bought off by TPTB like the US Government or fully on board with enslaving its people like China is. Maybe this is the big push toward digital currency? Maybe this is why we currently have a white house press release hinting at the US switching toward a digital currency instead of cash? If TPTB created digital currency and weened the world off of the USD and all other international currencies over the course of say, a few decades, they'd have complete control over it, and in turn practically over everyone on the planet. Nobody would be able to fight against it. Every single transaction you ever make will be logged. Do you like eating food? Well then, hop in the machine, Cog, and give thanks to your overlord for allowing you this opportunity. If you ever step out of line you will starve to death. Anybody found guilty of trying to feed, clothe or house somebody cut off from the digital currency will be found guilty of treason. Hell... they could even make your currency have an expiration date so whatever you don't spend at the end of the month is lost and you can never save for a better future, both ensuring the "consumerism" economy chugs along until the sun explodes and essentially enslaving you to the whims of the system from the moment you're born until the day you die. That's the only outcome I'm concerned about. Worrying about China and the Middle East making their own little currency to fight the Big Bad Dollar is cute. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote: Fauci pleads with Americans to get COVID shot in final White House briefing Fuck you Fauci. You're going to prison. You'd better go back to hiding.
Quote: Fauci pleads with Americans to get COVID shot in final White House briefing
Thursday, November 24, 2022 11:29 AM
Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: And the two dumb Democrat shits left on this board either have nothing to say about it or scream TRUMP!!!! -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.You are not the only crazy person I know, but you are the most articulate. Today you wrote: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: It's even more than that though. We in America are beneficiaries to the fact that the REAL PTB based their whole empire off of the USD. Now unless they have a particular gripe against the US that they find so irredeemably egregious that they have no choice but to switch currency, think of the logistics involved in that. TPTB wouldn't want to make a move so drastic and with such unpredictable results unless they knew full well that they had complete control over the outcome from the get go. And as you've illustrated above, any attempt at middle-management "leaders" trying to do so on their own ends up with their cities being turned to rubble. People the world round can say all they want about the weakness of the US Military, but all that is is talk. Our military dwarfs the rest of the world's military and gets larger and larger cash infusions nearly every single year, and despite that fact it does practically nothing but "exist". Incidentally... Screw NATO. If it weren't for the fact that it would trigger WWIII, the US Military could invade Russia today and turn Moscow to rubble by the end of the weekend if it were directed to. But TPTB have no interest in owning a world that is on fire. Also incidentally... I believe this to be the big push against Russia right now when China clearly is the world's largest power guilty of the most egregious crimes against humanity and its own citizenry. Russia is a threat to nobody. But Russia also isn't easily bought off by TPTB like the US Government or fully on board with enslaving its people like China is. Maybe this is the big push toward digital currency? Maybe this is why we currently have a white house press release hinting at the US switching toward a digital currency instead of cash? If TPTB created digital currency and weened the world off of the USD and all other international currencies over the course of say, a few decades, they'd have complete control over it, and in turn practically over everyone on the planet. Nobody would be able to fight against it. Every single transaction you ever make will be logged. Do you like eating food? Well then, hop in the machine, Cog, and give thanks to your overlord for allowing you this opportunity. If you ever step out of line you will starve to death. Anybody found guilty of trying to feed, clothe or house somebody cut off from the digital currency will be found guilty of treason. Hell... they could even make your currency have an expiration date so whatever you don't spend at the end of the month is lost and you can never save for a better future, both ensuring the "consumerism" economy chugs along until the sun explodes and essentially enslaving you to the whims of the system from the moment you're born until the day you die. That's the only outcome I'm concerned about. Worrying about China and the Middle East making their own little currency to fight the Big Bad Dollar is cute. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it. http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=61834&mid=1165371#1165371 6ix, if you believe what you wrote, it is time for you to sell your house for gold and vanish before the government takes everything from you with taxes.
Thursday, November 24, 2022 12:06 PM
Thursday, November 24, 2022 5:01 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Quote:Originally posted by second: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: And the two dumb Democrat shits left on this board either have nothing to say about it or scream TRUMP!!!! -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.You are not the only crazy person I know, but you are the most articulate. Today you wrote: Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: It's even more than that though. We in America are beneficiaries to the fact that the REAL PTB based their whole empire off of the USD. Now unless they have a particular gripe against the US that they find so irredeemably egregious that they have no choice but to switch currency, think of the logistics involved in that. TPTB wouldn't want to make a move so drastic and with such unpredictable results unless they knew full well that they had complete control over the outcome from the get go. And as you've illustrated above, any attempt at middle-management "leaders" trying to do so on their own ends up with their cities being turned to rubble. People the world round can say all they want about the weakness of the US Military, but all that is is talk. Our military dwarfs the rest of the world's military and gets larger and larger cash infusions nearly every single year, and despite that fact it does practically nothing but "exist". Incidentally... Screw NATO. If it weren't for the fact that it would trigger WWIII, the US Military could invade Russia today and turn Moscow to rubble by the end of the weekend if it were directed to. But TPTB have no interest in owning a world that is on fire. Also incidentally... I believe this to be the big push against Russia right now when China clearly is the world's largest power guilty of the most egregious crimes against humanity and its own citizenry. Russia is a threat to nobody. But Russia also isn't easily bought off by TPTB like the US Government or fully on board with enslaving its people like China is. Maybe this is the big push toward digital currency? Maybe this is why we currently have a white house press release hinting at the US switching toward a digital currency instead of cash? If TPTB created digital currency and weened the world off of the USD and all other international currencies over the course of say, a few decades, they'd have complete control over it, and in turn practically over everyone on the planet. Nobody would be able to fight against it. Every single transaction you ever make will be logged. Do you like eating food? Well then, hop in the machine, Cog, and give thanks to your overlord for allowing you this opportunity. If you ever step out of line you will starve to death. Anybody found guilty of trying to feed, clothe or house somebody cut off from the digital currency will be found guilty of treason. Hell... they could even make your currency have an expiration date so whatever you don't spend at the end of the month is lost and you can never save for a better future, both ensuring the "consumerism" economy chugs along until the sun explodes and essentially enslaving you to the whims of the system from the moment you're born until the day you die. That's the only outcome I'm concerned about. Worrying about China and the Middle East making their own little currency to fight the Big Bad Dollar is cute. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it. http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=61834&mid=1165371#1165371 6ix, if you believe what you wrote, it is time for you to sell your house for gold and vanish before the government takes everything from you with taxes. Taxes? Why wait for that? It's already taking everything everybody owns through inflation and market manipulation. Besides? Where would I go? And you want to talk insanity? How about we talk about the belief that Gold is going to be worth anything if the economy as we know it didn't exist anymore. Would you invent an app that could convert your gold bars into cryptocurrency when you make a payment? I can't imagine that you'd find that in the App Store or on Google Play. And I wouldn't expect anybody to be very keen on trading 1's and 0's from their own digital wallet for a slice off of your gold bar when they'd be risking their own livelihood by lying about what a purchase was in an attempt to hide the fact they just gave crypto to somebody who was either cut off from the system or never signed up for it in the first place. Especially not when they'd have to take the same risk spending the gold anywhere, and with somebody else who would be willing to share the same risk. By that time, gold is all but contraband, if it hasn't already outright been deemed contraband once again like it had been in the US when the Gold Reserve Act was enacted in 1934. And all of that is not even taking into consideration the life one would have to live in order to hoard gold and ensure nobody else stole it or just killed you for it. Even if a black market was somehow to be established that would allow for you to exchange gold for goods and services outside of the all-seeing eye of the Cryptofasists, now you're a target of all of the criminals. The criminals at the top running the entire new world of finance, the enemies of the state who just want to operate their lives outside of the Cryptofascism and the REAL hardened criminals who would skin their mother alive for a nickel. Yeah... Good luck with that. The sad truth is, if TPTB want to convert the world currency to Cryptofascism, there's not a damn thing any one of us can do about it. The even sadder truth is that when that world inevitably comes to be our reality, submitting your free will and living inside the confines of Cryptofascism will be a better life than any alternative. Rat's in a cage. -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
Thursday, November 24, 2022 11:56 PM
Quote:Originally posted by SIGNYM: I read this and agree with you, except that you find in ALL tightly regulated markets... whether rationed, highly taxed, or monitored... a thriving black (and gray) market.
Quote:The real problems with gold are that It's far too valuable to be used for everyday purchases. Silver is much better suited, and
Quote:You can't pay taxes with it, except in Texas where, IIRC, it's considered legal tender The purity of coupons and bars is always suspect. Unless you buy official gold or silver coins, which are considered legal tender
Tuesday, November 29, 2022 11:40 AM
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022 11:57 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: So did you guys hear about the Super Villain convention in NYC tomorrow? -------------------------------------------------- Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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