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Joined February 2011
“One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.” — Paulo Coelho
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I didn't need to read this first thing in the morning, at work no less.
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The Kobeissi Letter
@KobeissiLetterOct 14
While CPI inflation up to 3.7%, inflation is much higher in many crucial categories: 1. Fuel Oil Inflation: +74.2% 2. Gasoline Inflation: +34.2% 3. Airline Fares Inflation: +22.4% 4. Car Repair Inflation: +5.8% 5. Hospital Services Inflation: +5.6% 6. Utility Gas Inflation: +5.0% 7. Electricity Inflation: +4.4% 8. Fruits and Vegetables Inflation: +3.7% This marks the 67th-straight month with US CPI inflation above the Fed's 2% target. After 5+ years of persistent inflation, the top 1% of US households are now worth ~14 TIMES the bottom 50%. Affordability is still getting worse.
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Not an ounce of irony detected. The socialist & communist regimes that governed under the hammer and sickle (☭) have a death toll that far exceeds that of the Nazis by tens of millions. Yet somehow people are oblivious to its evils. The only reason these self-proclaimed communists, marxists, & socialists, who are unironically, suddenly worried about centralized government control, is because it’s not their side currently in power. They’re no better than the scum that’s in there now. Communism, Socialism, Marxism, Fascism, Democracy, and even Populism, are all political theories that prioritize the collective over individual liberty. In these systems, the needs, goals, or ideology of the group are placed above personal freedom, often requiring individuals to subordinate their rights, choices, and autonomy to the state or to an abstract “greater good.” Individual liberty is essential because it protects human dignity, moral agency, and accountability. When people are free to think, speak, work, associate, and dissent, they can pursue their own values and take responsibility for their successes and failures. Liberty allows innovation, cultural progress, and peaceful disagreement to flourish, while limiting the concentration of power that historically leads to abuse. Societies that erode individual liberty in favor of collectivist control tend to justify coercion as necessity. Once personal rights are conditional on serving the collective, dissent becomes disloyalty, conformity becomes virtue, and power consolidates in the hands of those who claim to speak for everyone. History shows that when individual liberty is diminished, oppression is rarely far behind.
The United States government can literally murder you and then falsely call you a “domestic terrorist” while your body is still lying in the snow. None of us are free. We live under a dictatorship of capital and nothing short of revolution will liberate us.
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This might have been our last SEC game of the trip because we’re planning to head west now. We’ll try to catch some games out there too, but probably nothing quite as crazy as the SEC. And if this really was our last SEC game, what a way to end it!
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Vietnam and Afghanistan ended in defeat. Iraq was sold with justifications that proved completely false. World War 1's cause was stupid, its impact was catastrophic and its peace deal only set the stage for World War 2. All of them, for America, were complete wars of choice (save Afghanistan; but even there decades of nation-building could have been skipped). World War 2 began as a war of aggression by a revisionist totalitarian power that incorporated industrial genocide into its war strategy. The war ended in total American victory and inaugurated an entire lifetime of unprecedented middle class prosperity and American political, economic, scientific, and cultural dominance. Instead of leaving behind enemies plotting revenge, America transformed its two primary foes into prosperous, free allies. That's all a tremendous amount of good to argue against, and it's a noticeable pattern that people who decide to do so repeatedly end up making arguments for the good faith and positive intentions of Adolf Hitler, a historical figure conspicuous for lacking such traits. Hopefully that helps explain the "weird" fact that people get more exercised about World War 2 -- people are able to tell the difference between criticisms of dumb wars we lost and well-justified wars that we won decisively, and suspect the intentions of people who choose to bash the second.
It’s so strange that you can oppose WWl, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran or pretty much any war from this century or the last as a complete disaster that never should have been fought and it’s a complete safe position. In fact, it seems almost no one can even attempt to offer a rationale for any of them. But, it is radioactive to even question the wisdom of fighting the Second World War. On its face, that’s just weird.
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Claiming Britain paid too high a price to resist Nazi domination of Europe is an astonishingly entitled reading of history. The cost was absolutely immense, but so were the stakes. National independence and the survival of all the countries that were already, or on the verge of being conquered. After France fell, Hitler sought to bring Britain to terms and not only threatened, but ordered preparation for an invasion. Britain prevented Germany from securing the air superiority needed to attempt it. The threat to British independence was real. It’s easy to dismiss that sacrifice when you’ve inherited the freedom it helped preserve.
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs
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Sunset skies afire tonight in #NYC on the eve of the Nor'easter. #NewYork #NewYorkCity #sunset
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Replying to @OUFball218
Anyone blaming Arbuckle has a lower IQ than a retarded cockroach.
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Me and my co hosts @UnsubscribeCast got the opportunity to sit down with Hall of Fame Sniper Ed Eaton. Ed gave me permission to cover his story. This is the first Fat Electrician ever made on someone still alive. @DonutOperator @TheAKGuy @Eli_Doubletap youtu.be/S0aRKYjzyuc
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For a $400k mortgage, at 3.5%, a family paid around $1796/month. At 7.45%, that’s around $2783/month— almost an extra $1,000.
unusual_whales
@unusual_whalesSep 25
BREAKING: 30-year fixed mortgage rate jumps has hit 7.45%, per CNBC
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fatass
Honky Chonk Beardonkadonk⁣⁣
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No idea why Americans hate AI. Just totally baffling.
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Christianity will be a better place when these guys finally convert to Islam and stop dragging the name of Christ through the mud for the sake of their evil fantasies.
If you think women should be able to vote, have jobs, live alone, or have unsupervised access to one another, that is because "you have normalcy bias for insane world": "You're living in an insane asylum and you think it's the normal world." peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch…
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"What the fuck is that"
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Conservatives Liberals 🤝 Mitch McConnell has no idea what’s going on
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“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
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USSR: -Starts WW2 by invading Poland WITH the nazis. avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_cen… -Gets blindsided by obvious nazi betrayal. -Forces young men into combat with no weapons, they die by the millions because communism incapable of mass production, and devalues human life. -American steps in with lend lease providing: $11.3 Billion ($200 Billion Today) Assets ~400,000 jeeps & trucks ~14,000 airplanes ~8,000 tractors ~13,000 tanks ~350 Locomotives ~1,640 Train Cars ~500,000 tons rails ~1.5 million blankets ~15 million pairs of army boots ~107,000 tons of cotton ~2.7 million tons of petrol products (5.9 Billion Pounds) ~4.5 million tons of food (9.9 Billion Pounds) ~guns ~ammunition ~explosives ~copper ~steel ~aluminum ~medicine ~field radios ~radar tools ~and other items "The most important things in this war are machines. The United States ... is a country of machines. Without the use of those machines, through Lend-Lease, we would lose this war." - Stalin -Survives WW2 -Eventually collapses under the cultural weight of blue jeans and Metallica. Fast forward 80 years: “Omg communism is the best look. They killed the most nazi” - some “communist” living in America tweeting from a fucking iPhone
80% of the Nazi death toll in this picture was thanks to the Red Army. But the movies sure do love to portray the Americans who joined the war late as the saviors lmao.
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