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  132. I was a teacher for thirty years. I always tried to help students who were being bullied because the administration either turned a blind eye or else sided with the bullies. I remember many of the victims being forced into home study or into a transfer to another school, while the bullies roamed free on our campus. The bullies were often the children of "prominent" (rich) parents and when you met these parents, you realized where the bullies learned their antisocial behavior. I let one girl transfer into my class (and made her my teacher's aide) to get away from bullies in another class--the other teacher actually gave the bullies a hall pass and they came into my classroom while I was teaching and attacked the girl. No consequences for these students. The girl went on home study after that. Parents, do NOT rely on the school administration to protect your kids at any age. Get in their face. Take a lawyer with you to a meeting if you have to. School administrators will NOT protect your kid. Remember this: the state legislatures in most places have taken away administrators' and teachers' ability to discipline students and the result is that our schools are now in chaos. The teachers unions fought hard to keep the disciplinary codes in place, but anti-racist activists insisted that because more students of color were disciplined than white students, the codes (and not the misbehavior of the students) were to blame. Parents needed to pressure the politicians to reinstate these codes of conduct so teaching and administrative staff can control the schools. I retired early because I just couldn't take the stress any more.
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  153. I worked with mainland Chinese students for many years as a teacher in the States. While I appreciated the respect that my Chinese students gave me as a teacher, and their willingness to cooperate and work very hard, I also saw some of the dark side of Chinese culture. Chinese are very nationalistic and with that comes xenophobia. Whenever China has internal troubles, the cultural and political response is to blame foreigners and to pull up the drawbridges (while stocking the moats with crocodiles). China has massive internal dissent among its ethnic minorities, particularly in its Western provinces, as well as burgeoning economic problems due to its now-defunct "one child" policy and its real estate bubble. This is why I think China has been oversold as a rival to the United States: the US as a culture and a country is far more open to outside ideas and influence than China, which makes us more adaptable. Few people aspire to immigrate to China, while millions around the globe still yearn to go to America (yes, even now). China sees that openness and inclusivity as a weakness, but really, it's our not-so-secret superpower. Any country that deals with China eventually comes to the realization that the Chinese hate them and can't be trusted to deal fairly. China's partners around the world are learning this to their lasting sorrow. Really, the only nation on Earth that can defeat the United States is...the USA. And we're doing a pretty good job of it so far by shooting ourselves in the foot and then reloading it. But China? Naw, we can handle China.
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  176. I don't engage in "casual conversation" with women any longer and haven't for years because so many of them immediately assume a defensive posture like I'm trying to sleep with them. Their egos are both boundless and fragile. Example: I like hanging around bookstores and looking at different books because I'm an avid reader. I tried talking with the clerk and she pulled the "I'm sorry, but I have a boyfriend" line. I said "I don't see how that pertains to a conversation about books, but OK." A few weeks later, same store, same clerk, except this time I had my very pretty Japanese girlfriend in tow. Miss I Have a Boyfriend was suddenly very friendly and flirty towards me (so much so that my girlfriend got annoyed) because NOW I was suddenly "desirable". She was that way when I returned to the store without my girl and yes, I said "I'm sorry, but I have a girlfriend." She didn't like that (but tried a few more times). I'd actually broken up with my girlfriend at one point, but I wasn't going to tell the bookstore clerk. Three lessons for you younger men: 1. Don't try to talk to women unless you're genuinely trying to score with them. Because sex is all they have to offer and so they assume 100% of the time that's why you're talking to them; 2. Women say they hate it when men flirt with them but if none of us do it, they will go crazy, because male attention is their oxygen; 3. If a woman says she's annoyed by a man flirting with her, it's because he's not Chad or Tyrone. The woman could be fighting off rabid wolves and still make time to flirt with Chad or Tyrone.
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  232. Personal story that illustrates the 80/20 rule: I was once colleagues with a very attractive divorced mother in her early 30s. Very beautiful, bright, and sweet woman. Every guy on staff wanted to date her but I got in there first. We got along great, her son thought I was super, BUT--she was divorced from a guy who is high on the food chain in Hollywood. Got his pick of gorgeous women to sleep with. She thought she'd put him in check by threatening to divorce him. But that's what he wanted! He took off and left her to raise the kid (with his financial support) while he slept with an endless stream of 22 year old models and actresses. She couldn't handle the rejection and the way he'd turned the tables on her. He hadn't done it out of malice: he simply didn't want to be monogamous. She couldn't get this guy out of her mind and he kept popping up in her conversation again and again. I got sick of it and just walked out of her life. She didn't even notice because she was so focused on him. Her ultimate fate? She ended up being "in rotation" with her ex, his fallback when he was lonely or bored. She knew he was using her, she knew he would never be faithful, but he was a bad boy and an Alpha Male. It was only then, in my early thirties, that I finally realized the truth: women would rather share a "bad boy" than have a "nice guy" all to themselves. This is a fact of life. It is a fact of female psychology and behavior the world over. The sooner we men come to grips with the fact that the vast majority of women don't prefer us, and in fact only have relationships with us out of desperation, the sooner we can begin to stop pursuing women who don't want us. Which is most of them. It was hard to accept at first but over time, it gets better.
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  248. Always looking for additions to this list 10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN 1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos 2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is 3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character) 4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family 5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times 6. She talks about her exes a lot 7. Single mother (especially never married) 8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man") 9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates 10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits) Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit. If we want to add some: 11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends) 12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc) 13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc) 14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out) 15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws. 16. Lives her life by astrology. 17. Talks in an extremely annoying British accent 18. Has been featured on Taylor the Fiend's channel Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do. (Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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  339. I know many, many women of all ages who have no clue how much things cost, how the real world works, how to do any of the things we men are expected to know just to survive day to day. One of them is a feminist in her forties whose acting "career" was two brief appearances in films (less than a minute total). She's never had a job outside of that and dropped out of college when she was 19. She married and divorced a movie studio executive and lives off her divorce settlement and child support for her two sons (driving a Range Rover, living in a nice house her ex-husband bought, shopping exclusively at Whole Foods). She waited until the 10 year mark to file for divorce because her attorney told her she'd get a bigger settlement that way. She told me, without blinking an eye: 1. She doesn't need any man to support her because she's a strong and independent woman; 2. She would never date any man who doesn't earn "at least $500,000 a year". She was recently mulling over being a "kept woman" by a much older man (no idea if she accepted his proposal). She refuses to speak to me because I said "that sounds like prostitution to me". (I'm happy to be incommunicado with her, since she rants constantly about how awful all men are, despite owing everything she has to men). There are younger women who are emulating her. Women use men, but only if WE let them. Why men support women in this way while the women disrespect and disparage us, I don't know. We men need to have self-respect is what it comes down to. I hope this younger generation of men will learn from my generation's mistake: woman have a high bar to clear to prove that they're worthy of our time, our money, and our commitment. 90% of them can't do it.
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  402. I was a teacher for 30 years. Taught in California, and so had students from every possible ethnicity and background. The only time I was ever called a "racist" was by black students, when they weren't getting their way. I've seen white colleagues cower when black students used that word against them. I brushed it off and didn't try to argue with them that I'm NOT a racist--that's the trap they want to lure you into. The father of a black student tried to argue in a meeting that I was a racist. I ignored the charge and instead focused on his son's behavior, which included sexually assaulting several female students by fondling their breasts and groins, and punching the boyfriend of one of the girls who tried to stop him. I also had a black colleague file a charge of racism against me when I joked in a meeting that we should all sign a document being circulated around with an X (the joke being that we're all so highly educated and yet can't write our names). I wasn't even addressing my black colleague, and yet he felt it was a racist remark, insinuating that "black people are illiterate". The dean demanded I apologize to him, I refused, and the administration let the matter drop because, well, the charge was baseless. I've never had students nor colleagues of any other ethnicity call me a racist, even when they were unhappy with my decisions. Outside of the classroom, same thing: it's an intimidation tactic designed to get entitled black people what they want. I don't play that game, and you shouldn't, either.
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  438. I was a teacher for thirty years. Every single one of those thirty years, there was at least one scandal--often multiple ones--of inappropriate behaviour of male or female teachers (about a 60/40 split) with the students. Every single one of those years, school administrators had to remind teachers what the boundaries were between adults and the children in our charge. Sometimes the older kids (teens) wanted to trespass those boundaries, but it's the responsibility of adults to be sensible and just say "no". We are now at a point where paedophiles--oops, "minor attracted persons"--are being normalised, which was always one of the aims of the transgendered movement. After all, if an 11 year old can consent to hormone therapy and choose a gender, which is a life altering decision, can't that same 11 year old consent to equally important decisions, such as sex with an adult? That's the slippery slope of the transgendered movement and they know it. Many (not all) transgendered activists embrace paedophilia, although of course they'll never call it that. These people are perverts, and that's another word they want to banish from the English language: perversion. Because that's what their belief system is, perversion of traditional Western values. It's the same reason the English cops haven't done a damned thing about the grooming gangs that target underaged girls; it's all part of normalising paedophilia. Many of our elites are on board with this because they belong to paedophilia rings (see the Jeffrey Epstein revelations). I can guarantee you that there are sitting MPs who are into appalling sexual perversions, and who wish to make what they do not only legal but widely accepted.
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  480. 10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN 1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos 2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is 3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character) 4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family 5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times 6. She talks about her exes a lot 7. Single mother 8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man") 9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates 10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits) Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit. If we want to add some: 11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends) 12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc) 13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc) 14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out) 15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws. 16. Lives her life by astrology. 17. Talks in an extremely annoying British accent Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do. (Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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  528. I know where Scott Adams lives, because I used to teach there (Pleasanton, California). Very nice, very wealthy town, the last stop on the eastern leg of the BART rail system. Pleasanton used to be an almost all-white town, but Asian and Indian tech workers discovered its low crime, high property values, and excellent public school system, so when I taught there, we underwent a demographic shift. Blacks are less than 2% of Pleasanton's population, while Asians and Indians make up 40%, and Hispanics are about 10%. 20 years ago, Pleasanton was 85% white, and now is only 48%, so that's a big change. But the town is still a very nice place to live with a lot of community pride. I was not raised to be racist and (wait for it) I actually have black friends--and I mean close friends, not acquaintances. I'm sixty years old and the first time I was ever called racist in my entire life was three years ago, after decades of working with colleagues and students of all different races and backgrounds. There are people who are trying to gain power by stirring up the old hatreds when most of us thought we'd put them behind us. It's very disturbing and I think Adams is overreacting, but he always was a bit of an oddball. And no, I don't believe Scott Adams is a racist. The incident that caused me to be called racist? I wouldn't let a black woman get ahead of me in the grocery checkout line because I only had a few items and she had an entire cart full. That's not how it works and I explained that to her. She cussed me out in front of everybody, calling me racial slurs (and also surmising I'm a homosexual, because homophobia and racism often go together) and no one spoke up--and that's the problem. We've been taught that being accused of racism makes you automatically guilty, and now the charge of "racism" has been diluted to mean "I didn't get my way".
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  604. Very few people will read this comment because of its length, but here goes anyway: The same economists who just a few months ago told us: 1. There will be only modest inflation; 2. Inflation will be short-lived; 3. Housing prices are going to go up 20% in 2022 Are now telling us that it'll either be no recession or a brief, mild one. Here's the five biggest problems: 1. Americans have no cash reserves. 61% of Americans can't cover a $1000 emergency in the "richest country on earth". 2. Inflation is mostly supply-side, not demand side. Fed raising interest rates will crush wage growth more than the inflation rate because interest rate rises are meant to fight demand-side inflation. Supply-side inflation caused by material shortages and supply chain disruptions isn't being dealt with by our government. 3. As Michael and Nick pointed out (and also Elon Musk), many badly-run, unprofitable companies have been keeping themselves going with free money. Free money train has been derailed by the Fed and now we may see a lot of companies large and small failing. 4. Housing is in a bubble and when that bursts, it's going to burn a lot of speculators (20% of all houses were bought by investors, aka speculators aka riverboat gamblers) who are going to lose possibly hundreds of billions overnight. 5. Americans not only have no savings, but high debt: the average US household holds debt equal to 129% of its annual gross income. You don't need to be Dave Ramsey to know that ain't good. I think all of these things added together, plus a government run by clueless people who live in a bubble of their own (elderly millionaires), is going to result in a collapse that will be different in some ways from 2008, but actually worse, because there's no clear path to getting out of it. 2022 doesn't look so bad; 2023 looks stormy, indeed.
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  653. I was a teacher for thirty years and at one time, I taught in the Palm Springs School district. We had so many schools where violence was so bad that teachers were either quitting to go to other districts or transferring to the few schools in our district that weren't plagued with serious violence. I worked in one of the "good" schools, and we had fights several times a day between students--I was also threatened numerous times by parents with serious bodily harm and even murder. And Palm Springs is far, far from the worse school district in California, or indeed, this country. Schools don't exist in isolation: they reflect what's going on in society. The family unit has broken down, the middle class is shrinking, there is no respect for legitimate authority, and the result is chaos. No, it's not wokeness nor CRT nor cellphones nor the teachers unions (which are often toothless, despite what the public believes) that are to blame--it starts with the family. Kids aren't taught respect and discipline at home, so they don't show any at school. Teachers cannot raise children nor give them values; we can only reinforce what's being taught in the home. Turning our schools into prisons isn't going to fix the problem. The problem is outside the schools. When I started teaching, one call home to the parents usually fixed all but the worst discipline problems. Now, the kids call their parents and the parents threaten the teacher with violence and a lawsuit, and sue the school district at the drop of a hat (intimidation by lawyers is what I call it). People seem angrier every year and more and more prone to violence, and the very idea of granting authority or respect to anyone else--a police officer, a teacher--offends them. I don't know how we fix this, but I know that unless we address what's going on outside schools, our schools will continue to be chaotic and dysfunctional.
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  750. 10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN 1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos 2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is 3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character) 4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family 5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times 6. She talks about her exes a lot 7. Single mother 8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man") 9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates 10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits) Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit. If we want to add some: 11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends) 12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc) 13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc) 14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out) 15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws. 16. Lives her life by astrology. 17. Talks in an extremely annoying British accent Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do. (Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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  824. Astrology is a red flag for sure-- 10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN 1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos 2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is 3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character) 4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family 5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times 6. She talks about her exes a lot 7. Single mother 8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man") 9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates 10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits) Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit. If we want to add some: 11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends) 12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc) 13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc) 14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out) 15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws. 16. Lives her life by astrology. 17. Talks in an extremely annoying British accent Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do. (Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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  927. I was a public school teacher for thirty years. School administrators often cover up sexual assaults on campus and pressure the victims and their parents into silence. One of the more egregious cases occurred when I was a high school teacher and the victim was forced to go on home study while her rapist (a popular athlete whose father was close friends with the superintendent) roamed the campus freely. Many teachers were upset by this but no one did anything because they were afraid of retaliation. I pushed the issue forward and got the rapist expelled and his West Point appointment revoked. My "reward" was to be hounded for two years after that, each day a new nightmare, until I finally resigned and took a better job teaching at a college. In my last teaching job, a boy sexually harassed a girl for two years, eventually escalating to sexual assault. The matter was covered up and the boy continued in school, while the girl's parents enrolled her in a private school to get her away from her rapist. Why didn't the boy get punished or even investigated, even though the girls' parents complained and filed multiple police reports? His father was the principal of the school. Daddy Dearest later left the district and went to an even better job with a glowing recommendation, taking his rapist son with him. The only person who ever suffered was the girl herself, who became depressed and suicidal, and was eventually hospitalized with mental issues. The district made a large financial settlement to the girls' parents, but money doesn't make it right. That's how things work in public education, folks. Some teachers fight the system and get punished by losing their careers or being tormented daily by administrators and our colleagues (not to mention parents and board members) because they have a prison yard mentality: "snitches get stitches". Sexual assault traumatizes its victims, so they're reluctant to report and even more reluctant to press the matter, because peers, teachers, and other members of the community shame and blame the victims. I saw this happen with my own niece many years ago, and nothing has changed since then.
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  978. 10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN 1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos 2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is 3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character) 4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family 5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times 6. She talks about her exes a lot 7. Single mother 8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man") 9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates 10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits) Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit. If we want to add some: 11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends) 12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc) 13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc) 14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out) 15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws. 16. Lives her life by astrology. 17. Is a "dating coach" Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do. (Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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  1025. Big institutional investors can tap limitless funds to buy houses--I don't call them "homes" unless they're owned by individuals--and can and will swoop in and increase their holdings during this crisis. It's exactly what happened in 2010-2012, when they went as far as rigging bids in the Bay Area. Unless our government intervenes to secure housing for individuals, which it has shown zero inclination to do, by 2026, the share of houses sold to investors will go from 20% to 50% (and higher in the most desirable areas). This is demonstrably bad, since owning a house is the best route for people to build wealth for retirement. What's more, people owning their own homes provides much-needed social stability. I live in a neighborhood of duplexes that are 100% rentals and the neighborhood is constantly in flux. Nobody knows their neighbors, so nobody looks after one another. I've owned homes in the past where everyone was an owner and knowing that your neighbor is there for the long haul makes it more likely you'll befriend them. People need those social bonds; we're individuals, but we're also tribal animals and being isolated is bad for us. American society is already under severe strain not just from the pandemic but by the wage gap, and shutting people out of owning their homes may be good for investors' profits, but it's harmful for our society overall. And no, I do not want to debate anybody who bleats about the magic of the market or other Ayn Rand BS. That stuff is a fantasy. We have local, state, and federal government agencies for a reason: they're supposed to intervene and manage our society to make it as fair as possible. If you want to live in a country where there's no government, try living in Somalia for a year and then check back with me if you're still alive at the end of it.
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  1045. It's even worse than you know. Three things emerged from this weekend: 1. The FDIC has $128bn, or about 1.27% of the total insured deposits, in its insurance fund. That fund was built up under the assumption that there was a $250k cap on insured deposits. 2. The FDIC and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, without an act of Congress, removed the $250k cap and are now covering deposits with no limit. Roku's $487m deposit in Silicon Valley Bank is 100% covered, for example. The FDIC's $128bn fund could be wiped out with one or two bank failures. 3. US banks have losses of $620bn on long-term bonds they bought when interest rates were low. The Fed has said they will give them par value (100% value) for these bonds. Where is that $620bn coming from? Money printer go brrrrr. The likely results: 1. Depositors and banks now have no need to manage risk, because the FDIC, Treasury, and Fed are going to bail them out, no matter what. This will encourage reckless behavior. 2. FDIC is going to get wiped out before the summer is over, and that means it'll need a quick infusion of cash, perhaps hundreds of billions. Maybe trillions before this is all over. In other words, a bailout and more spending, more money loosed into an inflationary economy. 3. The Fed has just committed, in principle, to injecting up to $620bn into the economy at a time when inflation remains dangerously high. Yellen and Powell have thrown us all to the wolves to rescue a bunch of One Percenters who foolishly deposited tons of money into a badly managed bank. And they didn't hesitate. Think they'd do that for us? Of course they wouldn't. The swiftness with which they acted to make the rich deposits of SVB and Signature Bank 100% whole should frighten everyone, because now the precedent has been set: there are no speed limits. Pedal to the metal, baby.
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  1124. (edited to correct misinformation) I've seen grackles--who are NOT corvids but are in the Icteridae, or blackbird family, which includes orioles and cowbirds.--organize to drive squirrels away from my bird feeders. There were four squirrels and a large grackle cawed four times. FOUR other grackles (same as the number of caws) showed up and they coordinated to harass the squirrels until the squirrels fled. Another time, there were two squirrels and the grackle (I call him Scout, since he always checks out the area before the others come in) cawed--you guessed it--TWICE. TWO other grackles showed up to drive out the squirrels. Not sure if the number of caws correspond to the number of squirrels or number of grackles! These grackles know I'm the one who fills the feeders, so I am not feared. When I go into the yard, they stay put and wait for the food. When other people go into the yard, they take off, since those people don't feed them. In the winter, I had on a ski mask because it was so cold and the grackles did NOT trust me, because they couldn't see my face, even though I was carrying food for them. Those grackles have reproduced and one day, I was sitting on my back patio and an adult brought in younger grackles. They landed around me and explored the area. I was being introduced! "This area is good for food, this human is a friend." Those juvenile grackles will allow me to get closer than their parents did and also don't fly away when I'm in the yard, but they do fly from other humans.
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  1270. Same in the US. My Iraqi neighbors haven't paid a penny in rent in 8 years--all paid by a combination of private charity (which is often funded through government grants) and direct payments from the local and federal governments. The landlord loves the arrangement because he's guaranteed his rent from them no matter what (he has no idea how they're trashing the place, but he won't hear it from me--I complained once and got slapped down for it). Meanwhile, so much of my income goes to rent I have almost nothing left at the end of the month. They have five cars, including a Mercedes and a Maserati, and host big parties weekly (yes, even during Ramadan). Until 10 years ago, it was quite easy to find rental accommodation--there was always a surplus. Now, there's a permanent shortage. Many hotels in my area are booked indefinitely at 100% capacity because they're housing illegal immigrants. Conditions in the countries they fled from are so terrible that they go back there frequently. The Iraqi "refugees" next door go back to Iraq 3-4 times a year for a visit. They're only allowed to bring $10,000 cash into the country each trip, and they do, literally carrying back a bag of cash from their investments and properties in Iraq. The neighbors bitterly complain about how terrible the US is, but you'd have to blast them out of their sinecure with dynamite. They know a good thing when they see it. I started my first paid job at 16 years old and have worked and paid taxes all my life. New arrivals to my country get everything free indefinitely, it seems, without ever having paid into the system. Americans, famous for our patriotism, recently responded to a poll: A record low 38% of us said we were "extremely proud" to be American, down from 70% 20 years ago. Only 30% of Americans believe that hard work pays off in the "American Dream": work hard like I do and end up with nothing, hardly work like my immigrant neighbors and you win the lottery. I can't help feel that this is being deliberately done to Brits and Americans to thoroughly demoralize and displace us. Very well, let the ruling classes try to summon up their new immigrant friends to fight their wars for them. Those people won't lift a finger for a country they view as nothing but a vessel to be drained. And I, a military veteran, won't, either.
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  1296. When I was 39, I dated a 20 year Japanese woman who was cute, very smart, and very, uh, enthusiastic. She was crazy for me and I liked her a lot. One reason she liked me was because as an older guy, I had money and could take her out to nice restaurants and on trips (she was a student and always broke, of course). She was a really good tennis player and helped me improve my game. Despite our cultural differences, we had an amazing lot in common. In fact, I had more in common with her than I did with any woman I've ever been with, including my ex-wife. Especially my ex-wife. I did catch some catty remarks from colleagues and total strangers. The worst were women my own age. They didn't want to date me--and the feeling was mutual--but somehow it was a cardinal sin for me to date a younger woman. Suddenly my personal life was THEIR business. Their bitterness reminded of why I started dating women in their early 20s once I passed the age of 35. Women my own age were just not fun and a lot of them were not only bitter but domineering. I understand why middle-aged post-Wall women get that way: they're desperate to get commitment, they've had their fun, and they want to pressure the men they date into a monogamous, purposeful relationship. That's their problem. As a man, my most successful dating years started after I turned thirty-five, and things didn't cool down until I was in my late fifties, when I finally settled down with a Vietnamese immigrant doctor who is twenty-five years younger than me. Men, look after your physical and financial health. Once you hit your mid-thirties and beyond, IF you've got your life on track, you're going to really love those years.
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  1328. I was a teacher for thirty years. I always tried to help students who were being bullied because the administration either turned a blind eye or else sided with the bullies. I remember many of the victims being forced into home study or into a transfer to another school, while the bullies roamed free on our campus. The bullies were often the children of "prominent" (rich) parents and when you met these parents, you realized where the bullies learned their antisocial behavior. I let one girl transfer into my class (and made her my teacher's aide) to get away from bullies in another class--the other teacher actually gave the bullies a hall pass and they came into my classroom while I was teaching and attacked the girl. No consequences for these students. The girl went on home study after that. Parents, do NOT rely on the school administration to protect your kids at any age. Get in their face. Take a lawyer with you to a meeting if you have to. School administrators will NOT protect your kid. Remember this: the state legislatures in most places have taken away administrators' and teachers' ability to discipline students and the result is that our schools are now in chaos. The teachers unions fought hard to keep the disciplinary codes in place, but anti-racist activists insisted that because more students of color were disciplined than white students, the codes (and not the misbehavior of the students) were to blame. Parents needed to pressure the politicians to reinstate these codes of conduct so teaching and administrative staff can control the schools. I retired early because I just couldn't take the stress any more. When I started my career, students who started fights got suspensions or were expelled; now, they don't get put out of school for even one day.
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  1450. I take the same position, more or less. I grew up in the country where the sheriff's department might come in 45 minutes if you called them, but sometimes the next day, or not at all. So we had to provide for our own defense. We also needed guns to hunt and to shoot coyotes, etc that were trying to kill our livestock. In the city, you might want a gun for protection. But we need a culture of RESPONSIBLE gun ownership and laws that require that responsibility. There are responsible gun owners and the law should emulate what those people already do, plus the restrictions talked about in this video. What I'd do: 1. Government would pay for training courses required for gun ownership, with annual recertification mandatory. Government pays so that poor folks can afford guns, too. Number of weapons per person would be limited to three. 2. No open carry and no concealed carry. Keep your guns under lock and key. 3. Raise the age for all gun ownership to 21. 4. No high capacity magazines or armor piercing bullets sold to the general public. 5. Red flag law so that you can report people who are mentally ill, but they get a hearing to protect their rights. The aim of this isn't to take guns away from people, but to shift the culture towards responsible ownership, which is what all rational people want. As for assault weapons like the AR-15: You don't need them for hunting nor for self-protection, and I'm not going to take anyone seriously who claims they do. I'm done wasting breath on the tiny minority of gun nuts who'd get bazookas and rocket launchers if they could.
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  1632. The US has multiple advantages in international propaganda: 1. English is the de facto international language because of the post-WW2 global dominance of the US and the pre-WW2 global dominance of the British Empire; 2. The US, through Operation Paper Clip, brought in Nazi propaganda experts who taught the CIA, et al, scientifically refined psychological techniques that were "field tested" by the Nazis; 3. There is a lack of organized internal dissent in the United States. With the domestic population effectively pacified, the American Empire is free to focus on its efforts to bend other countries to its will. And those countries that will not be bent will be broken. Nothing we can do about the first two, but we Americans could organize an effective resistance if we'd get up off our asses. I've tried for forty years now and my only successes have been at the local level, and even then, I had to fight against a numbing apathy. Only 1/3 of Americans have passports, so we live in a bubble where we think we're THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH. Unless you're counting projection of military power, we're not. Not even close. On top of that, I've found that many white leftists are too tied into identity politics to organize on the basis of class, and have a mixture of fear and contempt of working class people. There's also racism on the left, where a lot of white leftists think that leadership should naturally fall to THEM because, you know, they're white. We have a lot of work to do and not much time. I've lost hope but maybe the younger generations (who have been screwed royally by the Boomers) can get things going.
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  1663. 10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN 1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos 2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is (facial tattoos = RUN NOW!) 3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character) 4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family 5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times 6. She talks about her exes a lot 7. Single mother 8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man") 9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates 10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits) Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit. If we want to add some: 11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends) 12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc) 13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc) 14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out) 15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws. 16. Lives her life by astrology. 17. Talks in an extremely annoying British or American accent--see Clip #3 today, I think that was English she was speaking? Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do. (Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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  1965. No. Take it from someone who house hunted after the 2008 crash: there is no "new inventory" coming. I looked at over 100 houses with one of the top realtors of the Bay Area. Every single decent house repossessed by banks during the crash was snapped up by all-cash investors who offered $50k-$200k over asking. Those investors conspired to rig auctions; private individuals, like me, who thought this was a chance to get a house, were shut out. It won't be any different this time. We don't need a housing crash. There is no shortage of houses: investors and banks are holding 16 MILLION houses VACANT to make an ARTIFICIAL shortage. If they let the market deflate and inventory grow, their business model, which depends on monopolizing the supply of houses, is over. They aren't going to give it up unless they're forced to. I know this isn't what people want to hear, but the truth is, we need government regulation to get those houses on the market, and to make sure that investors don't snap up houses. 1. Vacancy tax that incentivizes selling houses to private individuals, not to investors 2. A tax on multiple properties (if an investment company or private individual owns multiple properties, the property taxes are reassessed at higher rates) This Ayn Rand "let the market work" stuff is garbage. It's shutting two generations out of decent housing and squeezing millions into deep financial and mental distress. It's tearing apart communities and the fabric of our society. This aggression will not stand, man. Come at me with your "free market" stuff, folks. It doesn't work and if you don't see that by now, you never will.
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  2043. I wouldn't say sellers are "slashing" their listing prices. When you bought the house as an investment 2 years ago, demand double or triple what you paid for it, and then cut your asking price by 10% after sixty days...that's not much progress. Here's an example from the Midwest, using price history from the listing: 2019: Purchased for $80,000 March 2022: Listed for $210,000 June 2022: Price reduced to $195,000 That's with no improvements, either cosmetic or structural. The house needs new windows, a complete bathroom and kitchen remodel, roof is 15 years old...no garage, area is so-so. I would buy the house for what they paid for it, but no more. It's a long way from $195,000 to $80,000. Anybody who pays more than $80,000 and isn't a deep pockets investor is an idiot. You'll have to buy and hold for a decade to recover your investment (but if you're looking to take a loss or stash some cash, it's a "buy"). The seller is apparently heavily indebted with lots of "investment properties" but sellers haven't adjusted to reality yet: people are either getting laid off or afraid of layoffs, inflation is destroying income gains and then some, banks aren't writing new loans, companies are putting an end to remote work, which means Californians who work in tech aren't going to swoop in and rescue property values with their high salaries. And the president can't get up a flight of stairs on his own. No one in Washington is doing anything. Janet Yellen and Jerome Powell have that deer in the headlights look and the president, well, let's just say he might not be a big help here and leave it at that. Will that $195,000 house drop belong six figures? Depends on how long and how deep that recession is. If I were the seller, I'd drop the price to $120,000 for a quick sale and hope some dumb fish takes the bait. But dreams die hard and greedy ones die harder. To answer your question: Yes, I'm fun at parties.
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  2046. I wish a collapse in housing prices was coming, because I'd love to buy a house of my own, but it's not going to happen. Here's why: 1. All-cash investors are going to scoop up any and all decent houses. Quick closing, no contingency issues with financing, they'll even pay over asking. The investors can afford to rent out a house at a loss or sit on a vacant property for years before showing a profit from it. 2. There are millions of houses--the estimate is 16 million but it may be as many as 40 million--vacant in the US. They're deliberately being held off-market to create an artificial shortage. The institutions doing this have literally bet trillions in maintaining that shortage indefinitely, and they sure as hell aren't going to let inflation, recession, or even another Great Depression screw with their business model. The economics of institutional investors who can tap cash reserves of hundred of billions is beyond the comprehension of most of us, and the normal "supply and demand" rules do not apply. 3. If the federal government sees any big investors in trouble, they will rush to bail them out with as much money as it takes. These investors literally can't lose. They cut our elected representatives in on the deal (Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul is a huge player in real estate speculation, to take one prominent example) and in turn, our representatives make sure that they and their patrons' interests are protected. Feel free to argue with me. I wish that none of the above was true, but I can't ignore the evidence in front of me.\ tldr; we're all doomed
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  2061. I'd LOVE to date women close to my own age, but they're all so bitter and damaged after being run through that I've confined my attentions exclusively to women under thirty. It's been easy for me to date younger women because they've been all around me (I'm a semi-retired college professor, now only teaching a few classes). I don't date American women: our college has a high percentage of foreign students, especially young women from countries where women are still feminine-acting and -sounding. For the past decade, we've had a huge influx of Ukrainian women who are very forthright in their approach because they come from a country where they have to compete for eligible men (I never met a Ukrainian woman who didn't want to get married and settle down, and if they're interested, you'll know it!). They also have an open contempt for the attitudes of American women, who publicly disparage their husbands or boyfriends. To answer questions: 1. No, I don't date students in my class. No rule against it at our college but it's against my personal ethical code. 2. Foreign women are more worldly and mature in their mid-20s than American women are at any point in their life. Having to actually struggle in life--emigrating to a foreign country and studying for a university degree in a second language, far from the support of your family--requires character and a strong work ethic. No one hands my students anything and it shows in the way they approach the world. They don't feel entitled to *anything*. 3. Yes, American women generally despise intellectuals while foreign women, especially Russian-speaking Ukrainians, are turned on by them. 4. Yes, I speak Russian, thanks to the US Air Force. It's a long story. MY ADVICE TO YOUNGER MEN: Even if studying full-time isn't for you, enroll in an on-campus course or two at a college that has a lot of foreign students. You'll thank me later.
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  2142. "Good Morning," said Deep Thought at last. "Er..good morning, O Deep Thought" said Loonquawl nervously, "do you have...er, that is..." "An Answer for you?" interrupted Deep Thought majestically. "Yes, I have." The two men shivered with expectancy. Their waiting had not been in vain. "There really is one?" breathed Phouchg. "There really is one," confirmed Deep Thought. "To Everything? To the great Question of Life, the Universe and everything?" "Yes." Both of the men had been trained for this moment, their lives had been a preparation for it, they had been selected at birth as those who would witness the answer, but even so they found themselves gasping and squirming like excited children. "And you're ready to give it to us?" urged Loonsuawl. "I am." "Now?" "Now," said Deep Thought. They both licked their dry lips. "Though I don't think," added Deep Thought. "that you're going to like it." "Doesn't matter!" said Phouchg. "We must know it! Now!" "Now?" inquired Deep Thought. "Yes! Now..." "All right," said the computer, and settled into silence again. The two men fidgeted. The tension was unbearable. "You're really not going to like it," observed Deep Thought. "Tell us!" "All right," said Deep Thought. "The Answer to the Great Question..." "Yes..!" "Of Life, the Universe and Everything..." said Deep Thought. "Yes...!" "Is..." said Deep Thought, and paused. "Yes...!" "Is..." "Yes...!!!...?" "Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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  2417. (Before I start, apologies for a long comment no one will read) People ask "Why haven't home prices collapsed yet?" Three reasons: 1. The recession is just starting. We haven't seen job losses yet--but Target just posted a 90% decline in profits, with many other companies to follow. Companies will stop hiring and/or lay off people, especially after the 2022 Christmas shopping season. 2. The Fed promised to sell off its MBS (mortgage backed securities) but instead is BUYING them. The Fed actually added $8 billion in MBS over last month instead of selling the $17.5 billion they planned. Mortgage lenders set their rates when financial markets open, and then they monitor MBS prices all day (or they pay a service to do this and alert them to significant changes). When MBS prices drop, lenders raise interest rates, and when prices rise, they drop their rates. The Fed is propping up MBS prices and keeping rates from rising. 3. Many sellers are trying to wait this market out. I was negotiating for a house this past week and in the middle of negotiations, my broker informed me that the seller had decided to pull the listing "until he figures things out". Figuring things out = why he can't dictate terms and demand twice what he paid for the house in 2019. How can this be? Ignore all the real estate industry shills (rhymes with "Bamsey") who assure us that home prices are just going to go up. They said the same thing before 2008. The inexorable principle of housing prices is this: when housing prices become disconnected from wages, housing prices will eventually correct back to their true value. A home at the top of the bubble in 2007 that was $250,000 is $475,000 today, while the average income went from $55,000 to $63,000 in that same time period. When people tell you "this isn't 2008", reply: "No, it's a far bigger bubble, much worse" and the coming recession of 2023-25 will be worse than 2008-11.
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  2579. 10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN 1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos 2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is (facial tattoos = RUN NOW!) 3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character) 4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family 5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times 6. She talks about her exes a lot 7. Single mother 8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man") 9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates 10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits) Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit. If we want to add some: 11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends) 12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc) 13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc) 14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out) 15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws. 16. Lives her life by astrology. 17. Talks in an extremely annoying British or American accent Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do. (Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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  2645. I've owned four houses in my life, currently looking for #5. Here's my experiences FWIW in a long comment even I wouldn't read: House #1: Built by the owner, a locksmith, back when manly men did such things, in 1948. Solid as a rock, plumbing, electrical, roof, HVAC, everything, maintained with love and care. I was so lucky that I had a great realtor who put me in that house. House #2: A "charming" 1920s era house that my then-wife and I decided to renovate. A nightmare and a money pit. That house put a strain on our relationship because something was ALWAYS wrong with it. I'd come home from work and spend every night and every weekend working on the house. I dreaded going home. Eventually moved out and rented it to a couple who accidentally burned it down with candles from a Satanic mass (they were OK--I guess Satan looked after them). House #3: A house built in the early 1950s, designed by a GM engineer to be passive solar. Like house #1, solid as a rock, virtually maintenance-free, everything was quality from the foundation to the roof. House #4: The house I bought in California, built in the 1990s. Former rental, shoddy workmanship top to bottom, something always going wrong, eventually sold it before the 2008 crash for a huge profit that I didn't deserve but I cashed the check anyway. House #5: A house can be badly built in any era, but any house built pre-WW2 is going to have quirks and problems, so I won't go back before 1950. A pre-war house is great IF you have the budget to renovate and maintain it AND if it's in GREAT shape when you buy it. I see so many older houses that would've been great buys had they had someone to love them. #1 issue is the foundation: people don't keep water away from their foundations by grading the landscape and using diverter hoses on their gutters (and I've seen a lot of houses that don't HAVE gutters, which is a huge red flag.). My advice? Stay away from any house that hasn't been maintained, unless you're doing a total down-to-the-studs renovation. For every issue you spot with a neglected house, five more are lurking under the surface. My oldest niece's husband, a contractor, has done well for himself buying neglected older houses and totally renovating them. He can do so cost-effectively, and just bought a house in Florida to do the same. But that's him. Most of us don't have that skill level and should look for houses that have been cared for by their owners. I'd stay away from former rentals--they're cared for about as well as rental cars. Just remember this: you aren't as smart as you think you are, especially when it comes to buying a house. I've bought four and made mistakes with two (well, house #4 was a lucky mistake, because I'm still spending the money I made from the sale--Cali real estate is a casino), and I'm a cautious person who does his homework and due diligence. With all due respect, DON'T rely entirely on realtors--they're all optimists who have trouble seeing downsides. Get multiple opinions on buying a house, not just the inspector but specialized inspections (plumbing, HVAC, roof, foundation). Yeah, all of that is expensive, but it's more expensive to buy a money pit, right?
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  2847. I taught for thirty years in public schools at every level (elementary, middle, high school, as well as college) and I can confirm that covering up sexual harassment and sexual assault by students and by staff members is the way our schools do business. This is a rare example of accountability for administrators failure to discharge their legal (and moral) duty to protect students. But this is not how it usually goes: the school administration and the perpetrators usually intimidate the victims and their families into silence. In almost all of the cases that I've seen, if the offender is a teacher or administrator, he or she is allowed to resign and take a job elsewhere; in the case of students, it's the VICTIM who has to transfer to another school or district or go on at-home study, NOT the offender. Our wonderful politicians in California changed the education code so that it's now virtually impossible to suspend or expel students, no matter the offense, but the problem precedes that: it's caused by bullying administrators who identify with the perpetrators, not the victims (guess why), by a "code of silence" in schools, by cowardly politicians on school boards, and bad parents who threaten to sue the school district if their darling is suspended, expelled, or disciplined in any way. If you're like me and try to stand up for students who are being sexually harassed or assaulted (by other students or by staff members), you find yourself ostracized and harassed. Don't believe me about California schools? SB 419, is a bill by Senator Nancy Skinner which banned school suspensions as a result of “willful defiance” or “defiance disruption,” a catchall category undefined in the California Education Code. This law took effect on July 1, 2020, and expanded the ban against defiance/disruption to more grades. And that, folks, and not COVID, was the straw that broke my camel's back. It's why I retired last year. Teachers aren't in charge of our schools now; it's the badly-behaved kids and their enabling, bullying parents. Who suffers the most? The well-behaved kids who just want to go to school and get an education. By the way, I know a lot of people hate teachers' unions, but the CTA (California Teachers Association) fought against these changes that make disciplining students impossible, and now it's unleashing chaos in California public schools. Coming soon to a school district near you, because California always leads the way in insanity.
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  2874. My questions are (genuinely looking for answers) 1. How did it become acceptable to demonize white people? My answer: white feminists are at the root of it. At my work, it was always the white women who were excited about Black History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, etc. My black and hispanic colleagues were not interested. 2. Who does the demonization of white people serve? My answer: It's used primarily to silence white men and is being used on a younger generation of men to think that being white and male is inherently bad. What I can't work out is why our ruling class in the States, the UK, and Western Europe would encourage this view, since almost all of them are white males. There must be some gain to them, or they wouldn't allow it--my best guess is that they don't feel the "white males are always bad" rule can ever be truly applied to them, since their wealth and power insulates them from it, but that it's a useful cudgel against the white working class (who are still far and away the majority in the UK, Europe, and the USA). I would also guess that white feminists can use the "white is bad" to show that they are the "good ones" (willing to wear the hair shirt) while white men are the "bad ones", and thereby gain the upper hand. A personal story: I recently retired, but in my last job, the teaching staff were upset that I was hired (despite having far and away the best credentials and potential for the job according to the hiring committee) because I didn't tick enough diversity boxes. They wanted a woman who was either a member of a religious or ethnic minority (or both). They hired such a woman for another job at the same time and she didn't last the year, because she wasn't very well-qualified for the position and didn't take the effort to learn how to fulfill even the basics of her job. I was very successful and exceeded expectations, rebuilding a department that had fallen apart under my predecessor and rejuvenating it. Despite this, I was told on more than one occasion: "You only got this job because you're an older white man." All of my years of experience and going from success to success were devalued simply because of two characteristics I didn't choose (being male and being white). This is the opposite of the colorblind society Dr. King dreamed of, where a person is judged not by race, but by character.
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  3174. Similar thing for Yosemite National Park in California. Black people are 13% of California's population but only 2% of the park's visitors. It was pointed out that no one is stopping black people from visiting Yosemite, and that it's a NATIONAL park that attracts people from all over the country (and the world--one meets many Europeans and Asians there). But of course there had to be a diversity commission to find out why so few black people visited Yosemite. It turns out the answer was that most black folks prefer to spend money being pampered on a holiday (nice hotel room, fancy restaurants, etc) rather than roughing it in the great outdoors. But of course the "official" reason black people have this preference is because so many white people at Yosemite make them feel uncomfortable just by being so numerous--sounds as if black people need to get past their racist attitudes towards whites and enjoy the natural splendor of California. I don't know what black people think we're going to do to them. Microaggressions aplenty, perhaps? As an aside, if any of you are traveling to the US and truly enjoy natural beauty, I highly recommend Yosemite National Park. You will not regret visiting and you'll always remember it. The US doesn't have the history, art, and architecture of the Old World, but we compensate with some jaw-dropping natural beauty that is well-preserved thanks to the foresight of men like Teddy Roosevelt (yes, a heterosexual dead white male, and therefore the devil). Cheers.
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  3199. Remember when Lincoln banned the Democratic Party during our civil war? Oh wait, he didn't. And stood for re-election in 1864, when many of Lincoln's supporters counseled him to suspend elections until the war was won. Lincoln's statement: November 10, 1864: In Response to a Serenade It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its own existence in great emergencies. On this point the present rebellion brought our republic to a severe test; and a presidential election occurring in regular course during the rebellion added not a little to the strain. If the loyal people, united, were put to the utmost of their strength by the rebellion, must they not fail when divided, and partially paralized (sic), by a political war among themselves? But the election was a necessity. We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us. The strife of the election is but human-nature practically applied to the facts of the case. What has occurred in this case, must ever recur in similar cases. Human-nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; as bad and good. Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be revenged. But the election, along with its incidental, and undesirable strife, has done good too. It has demonstrated that a people's government can sustain a national election, in the midst of a great civil war. Until now it has not been known to the world that this was a possibility. It shows that, even among candidates of the same party, he who is most devoted to the Union, and most opposed to treason, can receive most of the people's votes. It shows also, to the extent yet known, that we have more men now, than we had when the war began. Gold is good in its place; but living, brave, patriotic men, are better than gold.
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  3207. Most Americans are bad with money and worse at math, but are also perpetual optimists. If you understand this, it all makes sense. Story of my neighbors: the husband just got laid off, the wife is still working, so even with unemployment benefits, their household income has been reduced by a significant amount. They just bought a new 75 inch flatscreen tv. Because it was "on sale" and they're "saving money". They put their old 65 inch on the curb (still working) and some scavengers came and collected it (there's a good side hustle, collecting other people's castoffs). Oh, and the husband is sure he'll find a job "after the benefits run out". Going to take a long vacation until then! Saw it, wanted it, bought it, it's on the credit card, how will we pay it off? Who knows? My neighbors are NOT a unique case--I'd say most people are like that. Hell, people bought entire houses on impulse, what's a $1100 flatscreen tv or a $45,000 car compared to that? I'm no financial genius and not rich, but I never carry credit card debt, drive a well-maintained car that I paid off years ago with 0% financing and another one I inherited from my dad, and have cash on hand for emergencies. And my television is over a decade old, but it works just fine, so why get another one? I have no financial worries because I've always lived below my means. The materialism of Americans is one of the biggest problems in our society: it's the source of a lot of stress, and part of it (not all of it) self-inflicted.
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  3221. Psychological studies prove (most guys stop reading at the mention of that phrase!) that having a Plan B makes you much less committed to a Plan A, and so Plan A is much less likely to succeed. This is why so women are failing at relationships: they ALL have a Plan B guy. Instead of giving everything they've got to their current relationship, they hold back, thinking "if this doesn't work, I'll just go to my backup guy." Since they ALWAYS have a backup guy, they NEVER invest fully in their current relationship. They lurch from failure to failure, blaming men, never realizing that their true enemy is...themselves. This happened in my own marriage. My wife, as it turns out, had a close male friend (she did not cheat with him) who she considered her Plan B guy. As soon as we hit a financial rough patch, she pulled the cord on that parachute. 15 years of marriage meant nothing. She didn't say "well, I promised to stick this out for richer or for poorer" because she had a Plan B. Our society removed the stigma of women having a long queue of lovers and of divorce, and this is what we get: women who can't commit because there's always another guy to run to. And yes, a year after the divorce, my wife asked me to take her back because her new Prince Charming wasn't so charming: "I didn't know what I had with you." I hung up on her because I had two dates that day and had to get ready. My ex-wife assumed I was just sitting in my house, waiting for her to come back when she was tired of her new thrilling adventure. The arrogance makes my teeth hurt.
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  3385. Here we go again. For your self-education, gentlemen: 10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN 1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos 2. Tattoos and piercings the more she has, the crazier she is (facial tattoos = RUN NOW!) 3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character) 4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family 5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times 6. She talks about her exes a lot 7. Single mother 8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man") 9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates 10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits) Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit. If we want to add some: 11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends) 12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc) 13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc) 14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out) 15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws. 16. Lives her life by astrology. 17. Talks in an extremely annoying British or American accent Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do. (Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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  3401. What we have here is what I call the Boomer Problem (I'm a Boomer, so don't accuse me of undue generational prejudice): Boomers have all the money in our society and are using it to buy up the houses as investments. If they can't sell them, they'll rent them. Great idea, except what happens when there's a severe, long recession, which is certainly coming sooner rather than later, and you can't get tenants with stable incomes who can afford those high rents? The whole plan falls apart like a $2 bicycle. In my experience, Boomer landlords will let their properties go to rot and ruin before lowering the sales or rental price. I rented from a fellow Boomer in Los Angeles and he let the place go vacant for six months rather than lower the rent a penny. I got him to do a 10% reduction because he figured he'd just raise it up later, and had already lost six months of rent at that point. Turns out the landlord was so greedy he did zero maintenance on the property and allowed the roof to get structural rot until it collapsed. A wise landlord maintains his assets, but most of them are idiots. Most landlords and house flippers are very poor business people (I'm renting right now from a smart landlord who is an example of how to do it right). A good landlord treasures stable tenants and works hard to keep them happy and in place. A good house flipper takes a decent profit but doesn't expect to get rich quick overnight. I know this from my own experience as a landlord AND house flipper in the past. All of these poor business practices have been tolerated by a distorted housing market and historically abnormally low interest rates. And the $2 bicycle is about to be ridden by a 500 lbs gorilla. Guess what's gonna happen to that bike.
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  3508. I was a teacher for 30 years and I hate to admit it, since I'm "on the left", but our schools are absolutely indoctrinating students in political ideology and doctrines. One of the biggest problems is that the vast majority of teachers are "woke" middle class white women, who insist on pursuing this indoctrination over the objection of the students, the students' parents, and their own colleagues. Schools aren't there to educate children, they're there to babysit them and to keep rowdy teens off the streets. Social control, in other words. A school regiments children's behavior so that they learn routines and how to take orders. Any education that happens is coincidental and beside the point. When I was at the beginning of my career teaching English, I had a class called The Unteachables because every one of them had been transferred into "remedial English" for failing "regular English". Average reading score of these 8th graders was 3rd grade. I was given the most boring standardized textbook to teach them and they hated it. I'm a former newspaper reporter, so I started bringing newspapers to class and had them read the articles and learn how to write "newspaper style", with eye-catching headlines, pyramid structure, declarative sentences. We made our own classroom newspaper and the kids loved it because they could write on any subject they wanted. Every one of the Unteachables tested at grade level in the middle of the second semester. Administration found out and gave me an ultimatum: teach from the text or they wouldn't renew my contract for next year. I quit.
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  3604. The anti-racism movement has unleashed utter chaos in the States in two ways: One, immigrants have swamped the cities and states bordering Mexico, overwhelming the local authorities. The federal government's response has been "don't be so racist" when locals objected to being overrun by illegal immigrants. Many of these locals are not white, they are of Hispanic origin, but they or their parents came to this country legally, and they don't want to be associated with the illegal immigrants. Two, crime is soaring in many of our cities as prosecutors now refuse to charge for even serious offenses. There is no impediment to people looting stores, and they do so in broad daylight with absolutely no intervention by citizens or police. All of this is the consequence of misreading the crime statistics: the anti-racist mob saw that black people were being arrested in higher proportion than whites and decided that was a consequence of racist laws and racist prosecutors and police. In fact, the higher arrest rate was a consequence of a higher rate of criminality among black people, which is rising and unchecked. People who have the means to do so are fleeing our cities (and I mean law-abiding people of all races) rather than suffer anarchy and the constant threat of violence and theft. I live in a big city in the Midwest where this is happening. The city used to have one of the lowest crime rates in the country; now, under an anti-racist mayor, it has a soaring murder, burglary, and vehicle theft rate, and 30% of the police force have resigned. I'm moving to a small town soon where such nonsense is not tolerated. If someone steals from a shop in that small town, the police will actually arrest them and the thief will be convicted and go to jail. Imagine that!
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  3990. Wow, is this timely--a house that went under contract last month before I could make an offer came back onto the market today with a 17% price reduction--putting in an offer tomorrow and hoping the seller will accept. If so, by this time next month, I'll be a home owner again! The house is a mid-century single story with a covered front and back porch, two car garage, full basement, partially finished, and a hardened bomb shelter (hey, it was built during the Cold War). It has the original 1950s era kitchen appliances and they all work. What happened: a woman who just retired bought the house without having it inspected or checking out the town it's in. Didn't like the town's small size and felt overwhelmed by some of the house's repair issues (which I know I can handle). Now she's re-selling after closing on it just three weeks ago and hoping to break even. Never even moved in. I can't believe she didn't have an inspection done (but she says she's selling because she moved to this small town from the big city and is having culture shock, which I won't have, since I grew up in the country). Use your head as well as your heart when buying a house, you guys. The Big Six for an inspection: 1. Roof (general inspection) 2. Foundation (general inspection) 3. Plumbing (general inspection) 4. Termite/rodent infestation (specialized inspection) 5. HVAC (general inspection) 6. Electrical (general inspection) I might add a seventh, check for insulation in the attic, but insulation isn't that expensive to add, so not a dealbreaker. #3 and #6 are tricky to check and even a really good inspector can't catch everything, so you inspect what you can and hope for the best. I always have the house inspector use a fiber optic camera to inspect the sewer line from the house to the street, because that's the house owner's responsibility, and it can be messy and expensive to replace. Even a bad foundation isn't a dealbreaker IF the house is priced right and you're willing to do the work.
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  4219. Ironically, Andrew undermines his anti-tax rant that he recently unleashed on California not long ago with this video. I speak as a resident of California for 23 years, most of the time in working class neighborhoods. If Los Angeles is starting to resemble Rio de Janeiro, with masses of poor people and a few very rich people who have to live behind security walls and private armies of security guards, then that proves that even rich people are worse off in a country that has massive socioeconomic inequality. A tax on the rich that is used to benefit the poor would help address that inequality. Instead of working to change our society for the better, Andrew's "solution" is to give up your citizenship and move...well, where? As inequality grows even in the Scandinavian countries, is any place safe? There's no place to run and no place to hide unless you're one of the ultra-wealthy, like Musk or Bezos, who truly can afford to isolate themselves from society. I, for one, don't want to live in that kind of society, based on fear of one's fellow man, no matter if I was in the top or the bottom. There's some not-so-subtle racism in the dire warnings about crime, either. By the way, I see Scandinavians in the comments claiming that crime is skyrocketing in their countries. Really? The crime rate in the USA is 87% higher than in Norway. The Gini coefficient measures social inequality--the higher the number, the more unequal a society is. Every society with a high Gini has a high crime rate, while almost every societ with a lower Gini has a lower crime rate. The United States has a Gini coefficient of 41.1. In 2015, the top 1% of earners in the United States averaged 40 times more income than the bottom 90%. In the U.S., poverty is a growing issue, where an estimated 12.3-17.8 percent below the poverty level. Norway's Gini coefficient? 27.6
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  4347. 10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN 1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos 2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is (facial tattoos = RUN NOW!) 3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character) 4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family 5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times 6. She talks about her exes a lot 7. Single mother 8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man") 9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates 10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits) Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit. If we want to add some: 11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends) 12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc) 13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc) 14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out) 15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws. 16. Lives her life by astrology or believes in "manifestation" (willing things into being without effort) 17. Talks in an extremely annoying British accent Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do. (Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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  4445. Another Long Comment No One Will Read: I ran into this issue as a teacher. My female colleagues would not discipline students for misbehavior, but instead would insist on talking with them to try to understand why the student was not following the rules, etc. This was not only ineffective but often counterproductive. Example: There were two girls lingering in the hallway after the last bell rang. A female colleague started arguing with them, giving them a long explanation as to why it was important for them to attend class on time, etcetera, etcetera. The girls were all too happy to waste time arguing back, since it meant they still didn't have to go to class. After witnessing a couple of minutes of this, I stepped in and said "pardon me" to my colleague. To the girls I said "Go to class. NOW." And without another word, the girls went into their classroom. My female colleague looked at me with astonishment. "How did you get them to do that?" "They don't need a long explanation," I said, "just simple directions. Have a nice day!" Disciplinary codes in American schools have been softened to the point of total ineffectiveness, again under the guidance of female leadership. The problem, according to the women, is that misbehaving students are just misunderstood and consequences such as detention or suspension will just make the students feel badly about themselves. The result is chaos, and female teachers are turning to male administrators and colleagues to bring students back into compliance--but they've taken away our tools to do so. I retired early from teaching after my last principal, an old school male principal in his seventies, retired and was replaced by a "woke" thirtysomething woman (who had only one year of administrative experience but was promoted over men who had 15-20 years experience) who said that instead of the old disciplinary code, we'd have "restorative justice circles", which misbehaving students consider a joke. Her administration is famously indecisive; everything is discussed endlessly but nothing is ever decided upon because making a decision upsets some people who didn't get their way, and no one must ever be upset. Women have their place in teaching, a vital place, because they employ an empathetic communication that is sorely needed, but they should not be in charge of deciding who gets disciplined and how. They simply cannot do it.
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  4590. "Woke" activists are now vandalizing statues of our greatest president, Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator and savior of the Republic, because he ordered the execution of 38 Sioux warriors who had massacred civilians--they were not executed for participating in battles but for rape, pillage, and murder. Originally, 303 Sioux were sentenced to die, but Lincoln reviewed the trial transcripts of all 303 men (yes, all of them!) and granted clemency to all but 38, over the strenuous objections of many US senators who howled for revenge. By the standards of his time, Lincoln was an enlightened and fair-minded man who didn't allow hysteria, cries for revenge, nor racial prejudice to influence his decisions. There was literally no one advocating to spare the lives of any of the captured Sioux warriors; but Lincoln, ever the scrupulous man of the law, could not bear to see injustice done. Lincoln, lacking the perfection of one of God's angels, is a villain in the eyes of the woke. The woke activists are children who only see black and white, good and bad, with no shades of gray. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington both owned slaves, but without them, there'd be no Republic. Lincoln lived in hard times and did hard things that he thought necessary. Oddly enough, none of the woke activists seem upset that one of Lincoln's generals, William Tecumseh Sherman, burned the city of Atlanta to the ground in what would now be considered a war crime--but that crime was against white people, so that's alright.
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  4915. I lived in downtown Oakland from 2011-2015 (9th Street). Crime even then was out of control. I lived two blocks away from police HQ aka "the cop shop" (I could see it from our building's rooftop garden) and it was nearly impossible to get cops to respond to any kind of a call, especially an active shooting. I chose that neighborhood because I could walk to the 12th Street BART station or to the Oakland ferry and be at my job in SF in about 15-20 minutes. Couple of three things, as my friend Phil Leotardo would say: 1. It used to be that you avoided certain places at certain times of the day and you'd usually be OK. But even by 2015, that rule was breaking down. I don't scare easily, but Oakland has some very scary psychopaths roaming the streets in broad daylight. You don't want to know what happens after dark. Every night, I could go up to the roof and listen to the sounds of gunfire throughout the city. Every single night. 2. I was nearly shot twice as an innocent bystander. In the last incident, in 2015, I was grazed by a fragment of stucco knocked loose by a bullet as two gangs were exchanging gunfire outside the 12th Street station. Cops did not respond until 45 minutes after all suspects had left the area, even though HQ was 3 blocks from the scene. Oakland cops have basically been "on strike" since Occupy Oakland and the department is totally dysfunctional: they once had four interim chiefs IN ONE YEAR who all had to resign because of one scandal or another. Many Oakland cops are busy running their own drug/prostitution rings, which is the only reason anyone joins the force nowadays. 3. The people running Oakland, including former CA governor Jerry Brown, live up in the hills, far from the consequences of their stupid policies. They don't care about the chaos they've unleashed on the ordinary citizens of Oakland. Oakland needs to be taken over by an outside entity because it's incapable of proper self-governance. I don't say that lightly, but every mayor and city council is worse than the last. Several council members have active gang affiliations and have gang members as donors and political organizers. It doesn't get worse than this. My friend Phil Leotardo also has another saying: No more of this, Butchie. No more of this.
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  5013. I wish a collapse in housing prices was coming, because I'd love to buy a house of my own, but it's not going to happen. Here's why: 1. All-cash investors are going to scoop up any and all decent houses. Quick closing, no contingency issues with financing, they'll even pay over asking. The investors can afford to rent out a house at a loss or sit on a vacant property for years before showing a profit from it. 2. There are millions of houses--the estimate is 16 million but it may be as many as 40 million--vacant in the US. They're deliberately being held off-market to create an artificial shortage. The institutions doing this have literally bet trillions in maintaining that shortage indefinitely, and they sure as hell aren't going to let inflation, recession, or even another Great Depression screw with their business model. The economics of institutional investors who can tap cash reserves of hundred of billions is beyond the comprehension of most of us, and the normal "supply and demand" rules do not apply. 3. If the federal government sees any big investors in trouble, they will rush to bail them out with as much money as it takes. These investors literally can't lose. They cut our elected representatives in on the deal (Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul is a huge player in real estate speculation, to take one prominent example) and in turn, our representatives make sure that they and their patrons' interests are protected. Feel free to argue with me. I wish that none of the above was true, but I can't ignore the evidence in front of me.\ tldr; we're all doomed
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  5115. Clearance rates of all crimes have plummeted as cops become far less ineffective at their jobs. This is happening while police budgets soar (the LAPD takes 50% of the LA city budget, for example). NYPD's budget for 2023 is $10.8 billion. Studies have shown that police have been effective in one thing: alienating the communities the police. Citizen trust in the police has plummeted the same as clearance rates for crimes. That's because the police rely on citizen cooperation to prevent and solve crimes, which is a principle Robert Peel, the founder of London's modern police, called "policing by consent". “Policing by consent” indicates that the legitimacy of policing in the eyes of the public is based upon a general consensus of support that follows from transparency about their powers, their integrity in exercising those powers and their accountability for doing so. The rising lawlessness is partly from lax prosecution but also has a great deal to do with the high-handedness and arrogance of police forces. How many cops in Uvalde, Texas have been fired? The police chief and one officer out of the hundreds of cops who stood by while kids were killed. The Uvalde cops harassed parents who complained about police inaction on the day of the massacre. Cops are accountable to NO ONE, protect only themselves, so the public doesn't trust them and doesn't work with them. I used to consider it my duty to work with cops, even if I didn't like them, because I wanted a safe community. After experiencing police abusing their authority and/or witnessing them failing to protect people, I no longer trust the police and won't cooperate with them. Years ago, I was attacked and beaten by four men on the subway in San Francisco. Got one broken rib, two cracked ribs, and a concussion from the attack. Bystanders called 911. The police never responded. When I complained about the lack of police response, a lieutenant told me "Next time, make a citizen's arrest", laughed, and hung up on me. That was in 2012, well before any "defund the police" calls. I haven't called the cops since. Police have to work to regain the trust of citizens and so far, they have shown little inclination to do that. Nothing is going to get better until policing changes.
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  5182. Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg are both the children of college professors, raised in highly educated households by left-leaning parents. (Both of Pete's and both of Kamala's parents were college professors and respected in their fields.) And both of them appear to be rather dim and inarticulate, as well as personally awkward. What went wrong? I'm a retired college professor myself, so I spoke with one of my former colleagues, a psychologist, to solve this mystery. According to him, Kamala and Pete are what you get when you have very privileged children who've always been told they're special and have never had to really compete for anything. Everything's been handed to them on a silver platter. Neither Kamala nor Pete have ever had to earn any of their achievements, despite overwhelming evidence that they're bad at whatever they lay their hands to. Kamala was bad at all of her former jobs (San Francisco DA, California Attorney General, California senator), got zero votes in 2020, had to drop out before Iowa. Didn't matter, she was handed the vice presidency, with which she's done nothing. Pete was a disaster as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, earning the unfortunate nickname of "Pothole Pete". Got more votes than Kamala in 2020 (26 delegates), but had to drop out after placing 4th in the South Carolina primary. Didn't matter, was appointed Transportation Secretary, where's he proceeded to be ineffective or AWOL on the supply chain crisis, the American Airlines holiday meltdown, and now the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
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  5367.  @jlvandat69  Putin is no master military strategist and if this war is about generalship, with NATO planning Ukraine's moves, Ukraine has the advantage. Problem is, Ukraine no longer has offensive capability as this point, so superior generalship doesn't mean squat if you don't have the materiel and manpower in the field. If you're asking about the politics of this, the Western Europeans, citizens of parliamentary democracies who are accustomed to material comforts, are facing a very hungry, very cold winter, while the Russian civilian population is not. The Russian people are not enthusiastic about this war, and were even less supportive of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, but Russia is an authoritarian state and Putin has no credible challengers. I marched against the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan (as a civilian ofc) along with millions of others, but Bush Junior ordered the invasions, anyway, and that was in a so-called democracy. Putin has reserves he hasn't tapped yet, which is what Ritter was alluding to. Putin can outmatch the Ukrainian forces 5:1 with what he has now. That's why the US and NATO have to choose an eventual Russian victory or a dramatic escalation that will be NATO fighting Russian troops directly. The third option, negotiation, has been sidelined by all parties to the conflict. Will this conflict endure in a "meatgrinder"? Absolutely. Putin isn't looking for a knockout punch. He has definite goals and sanctions are not harming the Russian economy, so, once again quoting Ritter, he's in "the catbird's seat" (sitting pretty). Putin doesn't want to capture and try to hold more territory during the winter. The ground in that region doesn't freeze hard; it turns to mud. Ask the Wehrmacht. Ask Napoleon's Grand Armee.
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  5434. Former Air Force intelligence analyst here, specializing in SALT II compliance during the 1980s. If you came here to read a snappy slogan and not an analysis of the military situation, keep scrolling. Putin cannot afford to lose in Ukraine. His regime won't survive a defeat. Ukraine has no offensive capability at this point; many of the arms and supplies NATO is delivering to Ukraine are simply vanishing into thin air and its forces are badly-trained and badly-led. Ukraine's recent tactical victory was masterminded by NATO generals, not its own, and was a Pyrrhic victory that destroyed Ukraine's remaining offensive capacity. The Russian generals aren't any better, but they have the manpower and resources to overwhelm Ukraine in the field. Russia can still attack at this point; Ukraine cannot. The ONLY way to deny Putin ultimate victory is for NATO forces to become DIRECTLY involved. That's called "World War Three" because at that point, Putin would commit everything he's got and might even call upon the Chinese and North Koreans for support. Putin isn't Saddam Hussein nor any of the Third World pushovers the US is used to fighting: Russians will fight to the last man against what they'd perceive as a foreign invasion. Look at what the Russians did in World War Two and you get the idea. No, I don't want to argue with any of you who read Sun Tzu or play Call of Duty with your buddies. I've studied Russia and spent 64 weeks learning the Russian language and culture. If you think Ukraine can push Russian forces out without direct support from NATO, you obviously don't know what you're talking about. We're being lied to about the state of Ukraine's military. Biden and his Secretaries of State and Defense are both openly talking about NATO countries sending in air support (not yet ground troops). This is the most danger the world has been in since the Cuban Missile Crisis--one wrong move and this is going to slide sideways into Hell REAL fast. The solution is political, but every time I listen to "leaders" in Europe and the US, they're doubling down, making a necessary rapprochement harder and harder.
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  5457. I just walked away from a house after having it inspected by multiple experts, including a whole house, termite, foundation, and roofing inspection. The person who'd purchased the house before me did not have any of this done, to her lasting regret. She's going to take a huge loss on the sale. Foundation: Solid Roof: Needs a new roof on the house and detached garage Sewer line: Collapsed, needs to be replaced from the house to the street Termites: Active infestation Electrical: Breaker box needs replacing HVAC: Needs a new furnace and central air Driveway: Needs to be resurfaced because it's crumbling Total cost of work: $35,000-$40,000 I was willing to do the work to rehab the house but walked away for three reasons: 1. Active termite infestation, which had gone on at least one year--the likelihood of structural damage in such a case is high and I couldn't get a structural engineer to inspect because they're scheduled months in advance in my area 2. Woman living in the house has four dogs that she keeps inside all the time and they urinate/defecate on the hardwood floors (she has some "issues") 3. The seller's agent is a lying so-and-so and I just couldn't deal with him--most buyers' agents in the area refuse to show any houses he lists and after dealing with him, I know why--he tricked this not-all-mentally-there lady into buying this house when he knew damned well it had massive, multiple problems DO NOT WAIVE INSPECTION. Always have these items inspected: 1. Whole house inspection, including a radon test, mold test, and sewer scope 2. Followup inspection of roof by expert if indicated in the whole house inspection 3. Always have the foundation inspected by an expert, even if the whole house inspector says it's ok 4. Termite inspection THE SELLER'S DISCLOSURE IS MOSTLY WORTHLESS and should be categorized as fiction. Yeah yeah yeah, you can sue them if you can prove they lied on the disclosure form--good luck with that. DO NOT BE AFRAID TO WALK AWAY OR RENEGOTIATE THE PRICE. Had it not been for the active termite infestation, I might have gone through with the deal if we could've renegotiated the price. The house is now under contract to a different buyer who is a professional investor/contractor who can rehab it. I hope he does a good job; it's basically a nice house that was badly neglected.
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  5566. And here's more: http://prospect.org/article/50-million-potential-first-true-silicon-valley-candidate Excerpt: "Despite his strategic messaging shift, there’s no doubt that Khanna is still the Valley’s golden boy. He has pulled in nearly $3.5 million, with 99 percent of that coming from big donors, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. His top contributors are employed by tech giants like Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, as well as Salesforce, Facebook, and Oracle, along with several top tech law firms and venture capital outlets. Meanwhile, most of Honda’s money has come from labor unions and liberal PACs. After Khanna announced last year that he was challenging Honda again, the incumbent went on the offensive, attacking Khanna for his past support from controversial donors like Thiel, Marc Leder (who hosted Mitt Romney’s infamous “47 percent” fundraiser), and Texas energy investor (formerly of Enron) John Arnold, who poured hundreds of thousands into a supportive super PAC." By the way, it didn't long for the DNC to co-opt the "Justice Democrats", did it? The ones who were going to "reform the party from within". ALL progressives in the Democratic Party get quickly neutralized or co--opted by the Democratic Party establishment. That's why I'm DONE with the Democrats. I thought Jimmy was, too, but now he's doing a 180 and supporting the Democrats because they've changed! Yeah, same reason abused spouses go back to their batterers: "He's really changed this time!" Yeah, right.
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  5679. I know no one will read my comment because of its length but here goes anyway: Cops shave their heads military style, wear military-style uniforms, tote military-type weapons, always go with military-style body armor, wear Oakleys (in Texas, $350 Stetsons plus Oakleys) because they look badass and swagger around like they're Special Forces,. Except Special Forces troops would've stormed into that school immediately and taken out the shooter. People need to wake up to the true nature of US police: when they're beating an unarmed man or harassing a citizen who drove over the speed limit, they're tough guys. When faced with even one person who can shoot back at them, their bravado crumbles and they cower. That's what bullies do. We've recruited bullies by design to our law enforcement, given them nearly unlimited power over us (literally the power of life and death), made excuses for them a million times rather than held them accountable, and then act surprised when they don't do their job and don't take responsibility for their failures. Either defund the police or reform the police. No excuses and no compromises. Either the cops work for us or we get rid of them. I don't want to hear: 1. "The Supreme Court says cops have no legal duty to protect us." Pass a federal licensing law that says they do. Remove the cops' qualified immunity that removes almost all of their accountability and replace it with a civilian review board that governs the police. Cops have proven they won't police themselves, so we need to do it. Problem solved. 2. "Gun control won't work". It does in every country except the US. Federal ban on assault weapons NOW. Problem solved. 3. "This is a mental health issue, not a gun control issue." It's both. Fund a national healthcare system that includes robust mental health services. Problem solved. If you don't want to do any of the above, then the next mass shooting is blood on YOUR hands. YOU looked at the mass murder of little kids and said "nothing can change, this is fine". There's a mass shooting every day in the US on average. Every day. Either we just accept this as normal or we make our best effort to stop it. Maybe our isn't good enough, but I want to say we tried. We're not even trying.
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  5878. I paid $2,400 a month for a one bedroom in Beverly Hills, but I could walk to work in five minutes and Beverly Hills fire and police protection (as well as other city services) are world class. I never had to worry about my safety and the stress of LA traffic was mostly lifted from me, so it was worth it. Would I rather have bought? Not possible except somewhere two hours from work, and I saw what those commutes did to my colleagues. My assistant had to make that drive every day and some days, she'd break down crying from the stress of a traffic jam (I helped her get a job closer to her home). I did that when I was her age and it sucks even more now, because the law of LA traffic is that it gets worse every year no matter what anyone does or doesn't do. Rents are relative to location and salary. I earned the most money I ever made in my life and living in Beverly Hills has a premium. For most folks, rents are too high for their location, which is why we need the government to build multi-family housing because if the free market was going to fix this, it would've been fixed by now. People have to have a decent place to live, and if that means the government has to help, then they should do it for the good of our society. No, I don't want to hear anybody's Ayn Rand bullshit about how all government is evil. You have to have some government in your life or civilization doesn't exist. If government can't help provide one of the basics of life--shelter--then it's pretty much useless.
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  5961. I was married for 15 years. My wife was a spendthrift who kept us in constant debt and stressed me out. She cooked me maybe 3 or 4 meals in 15 years and expected me to move heaven and earth for her. And I did, because I was raised as a "happy wife, happy life" simp. My wife deserted and divorced me to get piped by Chad. Turns out that after the thrill wore off, Chad turned out to be a selfish pig who treated her like dirt and just used her for sex. A year after the divorce, my ex called and asked if we could get back together. I hung up on her. After all, I had three girlfriends to juggle, a new car to buy, and a new house to move into. I'm now retired early, living in a paid-for cottage in a Mayberry-type small town, with my health intact and all the money for my wants and needs. In between the divorce and now, I've been with lots of women, most wonderful, some awful, and now have a girlfriend 25 years younger than me. We're never getting married and we're never living together, and she knows that. My ex, after divorcing husbands #2 and #3 to find "something better", is living in a rented room in someone's house, and will have to work until she dies. No, I don't hate her. I do feel sorry for her. She went to a feminist therapist when we were married who encouraged my ex to divorce me and "explore new horizons". All of my ex's problems were my fault, you see. Erase me from the equation and she'd be in paradise. Adam and Eve were in paradise. It wasn't good enough for Eve, as the story goes. I wish my ex's life had turned out better. I hoped that it would. But she's not my responsibility anymore. I know lots of stories like mine: men thrive after divorce and women don't. Men can be on their own, because we know we are from the time we're boys. No one is riding to our rescue if we fall off our white horse. Women always have a savior--until they don't. Then they're lost.
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  6103. The US has been made into a bubble economy. That's not good. If you subtract the equity extraction from the housing bubble, average economic growth during the Bush years (2001-2009) was about 1% annually. Same thing now: without inflated housing values, our economy is pretty much flat. And we've yet to reckon with the losses of 190 banks, which are at least $2 trillion and may be as high as $7 trillion. You KNOW the feds are going to bail the banks out when push comes to shove, same as 2008. And no, they don't care what we think about it. This country is not run by anyone we elect. There's things the government could do to spur economic growth: ban stock buybacks, which was the rule before 1982. Corporations, instead of buying their own stock to boost its price, would invest the money in research and personnel, which result in lasting productivity gains. Incentivize repatriation of manufacturing jobs to the US from overseas. (If there's one thing the pandemic taught us, it's that we need our own manufacturing base.) End speculation in real estate by limiting most single family home purchases to owner occupants. Quit favoring big banks over small banks; community banks are the primary lenders to small businesses. Stop corporate price gouging with an excess profits tax that would recapture the higher corporate profits that are contributing to inflation. Restrain federal government spending, which is defeating all of the Fed's efforts to tighten the money supply. Quit relying on the manipulation of interest rates to "manage" our economy: interest rates are a very blunt instrument and the poorest tool in the kit to guide an economy to prosperity.
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  6179. Two elements omitted from this analysis of the trans movement: 1. The intersection of feminism and transgenderism. White feminists are the #1 supporters of transgenderism. Both promote the idea that "women and men are the same" in temperament and even in physical and intellectual capacity, when evolution did not design us that way. Transgenderism takes this to its logical conclusion, asserting that since men and women are "the same", why can't a man be a woman and a woman be a man? 2. The transgendered ideology arose as more and more economic and political power has been concentrated into fewer and fewer hands; the people promoting transgenderism are not ordinary folk but the ultra-rich, who have an outsized voice in human affairs. Transgenderism has also taken hold as the traditional institutions of the nuclear family and the church have been destroyed by feminism and by the ultra-rich capitalists. The chief proponents of feminism in the West have always been, and remain, wealthy white women, because feminism is their ideology and primarily benefits them. It's no surprise that the chief proponents of transgenderism in the West are ultra-rich men; looking back, this was an entirely predictable outcome. Ultra-rich men got knocked down a rung by ultra-rich women because of feminism, and their answer is transgenderism, which puts them "back on top" by devaluing what it means to be a woman. Being a woman is nothing special, according to them--ANYONE can say "I'm a woman" and et voila! they are! Feminism began with laudable goals, chiefly that women should have a voice in our political and economic life, but as with all -isms, it kept going until it twisted itself into something unrecognizable from its original goals. We went from "women should have more independence and be treated fairly" to "women are the same as men". Look at surveys of women taken fifty years ago and today--women today have far more independence and rights than those in 1972, but the women in 1972 reported far higher levels of happiness in their lives.
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  6270. I no longer practice law in California but I'll answer about the "misappropriation of construction funds" charge: does not apply to this case. Relevant statute is California Code, Penal Code - PEN § 484b: "Any person who receives money for the purpose of obtaining or paying for services, labor, materials or equipment and willfully fails to apply such money for such purpose by either willfully failing to complete the improvements for which funds were provided or willfully failing to pay for services, labor, materials or equipment provided incident to such construction, and wrongfully diverts the funds to a use other than that for which the funds were received, shall be guilty of a public offense and shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 , or by both that fine and that imprisonment if the amount diverted is in excess of two thousand three hundred fifty dollars ($2,350).  If the amount diverted is less than or equal to two thousand three hundred fifty dollars ($2,350), the person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor." The communication between the customer and shop owner appears to have made it clear that the customer was still going to receive his Batmobile, but later than originally promised because the customer missed an installment payment. A classic case of misappropriation is paying for work that's not under way and the contractor hasn't bought the supplies, etc, to start the project. That charge will never stick in court, but I guess when a rich guy in San Mateo County throws a tantrum, the law is perverted by craven DAs and cops to assuage his hurt feelings. It's disgusting.
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  6289. I can explain the "insanity" that Chomsky referenced. The neocons lied to get us into Iraq and Afghanistan. This has been proven. Obama declined to prosecute for war crimes (such as mass torture of Iraqis), which means the neocons got away with it. One reason Obama didn't prosecute was because he agreed with them, but even if he hadn't, the prosecution would've included former President George W. Bush and former vice-president Dick Cheney. Obama certainly wouldn't want to set the precedent that such high officials could be criminally prosecuted. The neocon influence has persisted in the US foreign policy establishment, and the neocons (like John Bolton) are indeed psychopathic. I see their influence in trying to start wars simultaneously with Russia and China, and now alienating Saudi Arabia, which is the de facto leader of OPEC. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and USAid Director Samantha Power are both neocon-influenced, and those two are key in this push for major wars. Jake Sullivan, Biden's National Security Advisor, is also a neocon-influenced member of Biden's foreign policy team. Neocons LOVE interventionism and believe in American global military supremacy. The neocons hate Donald Trump with all their black hearts, because Trump is an anti-interventionist politician who scolded the Europeans for not spending more on their military defense. The GOP neocons are the Never Trumpers who jumped party lines to support Biden in 2020. So who should you vote for in 2024? Any candidate who is anti-interventionist. I don't know of any Democrats who are, and very few Republicans. Just know that the Deep State is going to target any politician who advocates for anti-interventionism.
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  6590. The chick with the neck tattoo has more red flags than a Chinese Communist party meeting. 10 RED FLAGS FOR WOMEN 1. She has a TikTok and/or Instagram and it's almost entirely filled with selfie videos/photos 2. Tattoos, the more she has, the crazier she is (facial/neck tattoos = RUN NOW!) 3. Over 30 and never been married (prior marriage gives you further grounds for investigation into her character) 4. Deadbeat or absent father in her family 5. Mother has been married and divorced multiple times 6. She talks about her exes a lot 7. Single mother 8. Tries to shame you if you don't bow to her will (you're not a "real man") 9. Pushes constantly for expensive gifts, vacations, dinner dates 10. Has lots of guys around who are "just friends" (with benefits) Any one of these red flags is cause for concern. If she has three or more, run, do not walk, to the nearest exit. If we want to add some: 11. Has female friends who are “party animals” or are otherwise promiscuous (women are easily influenced by their worst-behaved friends) 12. Lots of piercings, especially facial (nose ring, etc) 13. Hair that is not a natural color (purple, blue, orange, etc) 14. Frequent use of profanity (three F-words and she’s out) 15. Fingernails (real or fake) that are like claws. 16. Lives her life by astrology. 17. Talks in an extremely annoying British or American accent Print out this checklist and take it on a date. When you get to the third strike, put the list back in your pocket, get up, and leave without a word. No explanation necessary. If she asks, just say “You know what you did!” the way women do. (Note: This list disqualifies 95% of women)
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  6661. I expect Netflix will be taken over by another company or hedge fund etc in the coming year, and many more deals will be cancelled. Reed Hastings shoveled money to the Obamas as a legal bribe, and what has he gotten for his money? Can anybody name one show they've produced? If so, how successful was it? Meghan and Harry's $135 million dollar content deal with Netflix was always ridiculous. Meghan is a C-list actress and Harry is a British royal, not the brightest people God ever put on the Earth. If you're going to spend $135 million, spend it on talented, creative people who could actually make something folks want to watch. Nobody knows how much the Obamas got paid for their Netflix production deal, but my Hollywood sources say it's at least $300 million, and the Obamas get paid whether their shows get produced or not. Reed Hastings sure screwed over the workers at Netflix by throwing money at Barry and Michelle. Here's a sample of one of the shows the Obamas are producing: “Listen to Your Vegetables & Eat Your Parents,” a half-hour series for preschoolers that will “take young children and their families around the globe on an adventure that tells us the story of our food.” $300 million for a glorified Sesame Street episode? I'm canceling my Netflix at the end of this billing cycle, by the way. I have three streaming services: HBOMax, Amazon Prime, and Netflix. The first two have shows I actually want to watch, with HBO far and away the winner. Netflix runs a distant third. I originally signed up for Netflix to get DVDs, and Hastings foolishly disinvested resources in that part of the business. DVD rentals enabled Netflix to provide content for which it can't afford or get digital licenses and was very popular, but Barry, Harry, Michelle, and Meghan gotta get paid somehow.
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  6817. Sounds like whoever wrote this affordable housing bill was watching your channel and reading the comments! Even if you're against government intervention on principle, remember: affordable housing is the basis for a stable, prosperous society. People who are always moving and are always under financial strain are stressed, unhappy people who don't have an emotional investment in our society. Incentives, rather than price controls, allows the market to work within limits. We have all kinds of limits on capitalism: OSHA health and safety regulations, speed limits on roads, hygiene standards for restaurants, child labor laws, pollution regulations, etc. Libertarians will tell you that we don't need any of those, but none of us would really want to live in a society where anyone could do anything they wanted without limits. I haven't read this bill in Florida, but from your summary, it seems the main thrust of it is to make housing more affordable for families and individuals, not to fatten up investors, and that's going to be a good thing for the people of Florida. If you have a nice house that you can afford, you'll stay there, your neighbors will stay there, and you'll build a stable community. I grew up in a neighborhood like that in Kansas, and I still keep in touch with people I knew as a kid because we were all part of a real community. That's what this country needs. By the way, are you the real Michael? Because I wasn't aware that he owns any long sleeve shirts. Just seems wrong.
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  7249. There've been riots in Sweden in the past week because a political activist burned the Koran. Try burning a pile of Bibles or the Torah and you won't see Christians or Jews rioting, although of course they'd be upset. Europeans took Muslims into their society without any plan to integrate them, naively believing that Muslim immigrants would see the innate superiority of Western mores and values and would adopt them. Politicians whose greatest fear was not their own constituents but rather being labeled a racist for insisting on a cultural identity and common set of values exacerbated what was always going to be a difficult situation. Why doesn't the United States have a problem on this scale? We're a nation of immigrants and absorb each new wave over time. The waves crest and fall, and there's always strains when immigration is high, but somehow we manage. I've taught immigrants English for a great deal of my thirty year teaching career, and one question they ask again and again is "How do I know when I'm an American?" I tell them the definition is always changing, which is the key: our national identity isn't as fixed as those of many older societies. We're also a geographically bigger country (the UK would easily fit inside Texas with ample room to spare), so we can absorb huge numbers of people more readily. I have Muslim neighbors from Iraq (currently observing Ramadan), and at the beginning, the wife and daughters wore the hijab. Last year, the daughters stopped wearing it because they want to be more Americanized. Now, the wife has stopped wearing her hijab, as well, because she is interviewing for jobs and doesn't want to the hijab to put anyone off. No one told the women to do this, and no one ever would have forced them. We let them figure it out for themselves: you can wear the hijab as long as you want if you're willing to be less integrated. My own mother's parents came from Germany, speaking German and reading a German language newspaper. Now none of my mother's side of the family have a German accent or speak more than a few words of the language. Over time, immigrants choose to integrate into the larger culture (changing it some as they do so) IF politicians don't incentivize them staying separate. European politicians thought they'd be noble and enlightened by incentivizing the Muslim immigrants to remain apart and to basically have their own society within Europe, and in the process, did neither the native Europeans nor the new arrivals any favors. If you took the 1-2 minutes to read this comment, thanks.
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  7264. Former USAF intelligence officer here. I anticipate with a high probability that the next propaganda round in Western media will be a "debate" about boots on the ground of NATO troops in the Ukrainian-Russian conflict. "Debate" because it's actually already been decided, and the Rubicon was crossed when Biden ordered NS1 and NS2 pipelines torpedoed. There is no other definition for this coming conflict except WW3. The danger to Taiwan during this time will be particularly acute, because if Xi is going to invade that island, he'll never have a better opportunity than when the US is tied down in Ukraine. The idea is to introduce a small force of not less than five and no more than ten battalions (5,000-10,000 soldiers) at the beginning, most of them European rather than American, then claim unfounded Russian attacks on that "defensive" force to bolster US and EU public support for an inevitable mass mobilization. Once again, this appears to have been decided as early as January-February of 2022. Weather in that region is a huge factor in deciding when to muster the full NATO ground forces: both winter and spring present different challenges, so the really big confrontation has been deferred until the summer of 2023. The US in particular has a long history of easing into big wars by starting with a smaller force, such as it did in Korea and Vietnam. NATO planners have discussed whether or not Putin would actually use tactical nukes, and have decided it's a bluff. All our futures will depend on them being right.
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  7391. I'm a retired college professor. My comment is longer than most of you may have the patience to read, so I don't blame you if you skip it. I had 33 students enrolled in my research skills class. I checked their records and 21 had already taken the class with a colleague of mine (lesbian feminist activist colleague). I asked them why they were repeating the class. "She (my colleague) didn't teach us anything. She just went on and on about the white patriarchy and how it created bias in research. We just wanted to learn how to cite sources." I created a booklet (both print and online) that showed the students how to do basic research and cite their sources step-by-step, with lots of visual aids because 90% of the students spoke English as a second language. Everyone left my class prepared to do research in other classes. I have my own views on politics and society, but I don't bring them into the classroom if they have nothing to do with the subject. It's a waste of the students' time and money and disrespectful to them because the students are a captive audience. By the way, students rated professors anonymously at our college. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest, I scored a 4.9. My colleague got a 2.4. I retired after being hounded all the time for being a straight white male and being openly discriminated against. My colleague with the 2.4 rating is now a vice chancellor who gets triple the salary she had as a classroom teacher and wields a great deal of influence at the college. And so it goes.
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  7447. China's rise has been aided and abetted by the American and European ruling classes, aka "the elite". Here's how to put China in a corner: 1. Bring manufacturing jobs back home. Repatriation of these jobs will take years but it can be done. America needs to have a manufacturing base as part of our national security and for the well-being of our people. 2. Remind the other Asian nations that they all hate the Chinese, and with good reason: the Chinese have always exploited and oppressed them whenever and wherever they could. If China has to constantly feud and fight with nations in its backyard, it'll keep it from mischief elsewhere. 3. Stop threatening China militarily. We can't carry out a credible threat without destroying ourselves in the process, so stop wasting resources doing this. The Chinese, like Americans, are very nationalistic and threatening China only strengthens Xi. 4. Bide our time. Due to its One Child policy, the Chinese are facing a demographic crisis, with not only a declining population but a rapidly aging one. The US is open to immigration and immigrants are younger people of child-bearing age; the Chinese cannot and will not allow mass immigration. Time is on our side if we play it smart. People talk as if China has already won this game. No, the game's not over yet, but we need to be smarter about it, and we need to stop listening to our traitorous ruling class, who will sell out America to fatten their own wallets. We need patriots leading our nation who will put America first.
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  7532. This isn't complicated. Jimmy Dore explained it recently in one of his Youtube shows: Jimmy wants the Youtube shows to sell tickets to his live performances. To do that, Dore wants the biggest audience possible. Like any good performer, he looks at the metrics of different shows. The shows where Dore gets angry, rants, and ignores facts contrary to his narrative get the biggest audience. So those are the shows he does. People who've been watching him for a long time see that he briefly tried to be "serious" and organize for "Force the Vote" and The People's Party, but that proved unpopular and doesn't sell tickets to his live performances. So he's largely abandoned that. Jimmy Dore is a businessman. He's in this to make money. He's making more money than he ever could have as just a standup comedian, where he was moderately successful at best. He never hit the "big time"--but now his Youtube channel has made him rich. Jimmy won't kill the goose that laid the golden egg and cross Youtube, despite his frequent complaints. Stop looking to a self-described "jagoff comedian in his garage" for insightful political analysis or leadership on any issues. That's not why Dore is here. He's here for himself. Just understand this is his business model, be entertained, and end it there. Dore does sometimes have interesting, thoughtful guests, such as Max Blumenthal and Glenn Greenwald, but I noticed that such guests are becoming less and less frequent because, again, Dore doesn't get a lot of views for those "serious" programs. Rants = views and views = money. If you understand that Dore is an entertainer who wants to make money, and that politics is just a way to do that, then you understand him very well. By the way, I used to be a defender/supporter and found him funny. But Dore shifted and hasn't made a secret of why he did that. The worst part of it is that he's not even that funny; he's become increasingly an angry man who yells at the camera and has lost his comedic detachment. Where this will take him, I don't know. Certainly the American public have always rewarded mediocrity, and Dore has cast himself in this role. I think eventually his audience will dwindle but never entirely disappear. Dore has already sidelined himself and there's no coming back from the path he's taken. And so it goes.
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  7554. What’s he that wishes so? My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin: If we are mark’d to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if men my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England: God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour As one man more, methinks, would share from me For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more! Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man’s company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian:’ Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars. And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.’ Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot, But he’ll remember with advantages What feats he did that day: then shall our names. Familiar in his mouth as household words Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d. This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remember’d; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day. From Henry V, Act IV, Scene III
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  8434. LAPD simply don't respond to most calls. It's not that they're overwhelmed nor underfunded (LAPD gets 50% of LA's huge city budget). They just don't care. I lived in Los Angeles for 23 years and it's ALWAYS been like this. LAPD answers to no one and serves only itself. Has nothing to do with "defund the police" and it happened under Dick Riordan, too, who was a Republican mayor. We had a gunman holding patrons hostage at the library where I worked in 1999--when Riordan the Republican was mayor--and the LAPD didn't show up for two hours despite half a dozen frantic 911 calls, by which time I'd negotiated for the man to abandon his gun and leave the premises. The LAPD lieutenant who arrived screamed abuse at me for "letting the man go" rather than praising me for convincing him to disarm and flee before the cops arrived. We had senior citizens and children's story hour in the library at this time. The lieutenant actually drew his gun and waved it around while he threw a tantrum. I was more frightened of him than of the gunman, who was frightened but eventually calmed down. The LAPD needs oversight and deep-rooted reform. Its political power is such that it answers to no one. I did get a citation from the city librarian and from Mayor Riordan himself for handling the gunman. I was supposed to receive the citation personally from the mayor but refused, since he was busy trying to bust our union. I would've been tempted to tell him off to his face, too, which wouldn't have been a good career move.
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  8578. They didn't study lockdowns in Asia (Vietnam, Taiwan, mainland China, etc), which had much lower COVID mortality rates than in Europe or the US. Were lockdowns different there? Yes, they were REAL lockdowns, with people sheltering in place with government support. The US did lockdowns the absolute wrong way, state by state, city by city, industry by industry. Europe's story is somewhere in-between Asia and the US. In the US, we can't even get people to wear masks in public without throwing adult tantrums. In Asia, everyone wears them without complaint during the cold and flu season and now during this pandemic. Kim is exhibiting confirmation bias: a single study says that lockdowns weren't effective in lowering COVID mortality, but that's ONE study. If that same single study claimed lockdowns WERE effective, would she now be saying "I was wrong"? Don't think so. Common sense tells us that real lockdowns, in which huge groups of people drastically reduce their social contact, works to drastically lower transmission and hence rates of infection. NUMEROUS studies also say that a REAL lockdown (not the half-hearted ones in the US and Europe) WORK but only for a limited time--they aren't an effective long-term strategy. Masking compliance, universal testing, and vaccination are the way to go long-term. I Googled "lockdowns effective preventing spread of COVID-19" and found that many studies confirm they DO work in the initial stages of a pandemic. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01009-0 "Reuters contacted two experts, Dr. Elizabeth Stuart, Associate Dean for Education at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ( here ) and Dr. Stuart Ray, infectious disease expert with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine ( here ) . Both confirmed that lockdowns do reduce transmission of the SARS-Cov-2 and highlighted that a more “targeted” or “proportional” approach of restrictions can mitigate the risk of infection, while balancing other concerns about the economy and mental health." (source: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-lockdowns/fact-check-studies-show-covid-19-lockdowns-have-saved-lives-idUSKBN2842WS) But of course Kim Iversen always believed, without proof, that lockdowns were ineffective and now she's grabbing onto a single study as her life raft. By the way, Kim hasn't been mingling in public during the pandemic--she's been, uh, in lockdown, doing her job with little to no public contact. So do as she says, and not as she does.
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  11949. I don't have a problem with reparations for black folks. Not for slavery, even, but for historical injustices which have occurred in our lifetimes. Black veterans, for example, were excluded from the GI Bill after World War Two. I taught with a woman who had to drink from the "colored" water fountain. The War on Drugs has really been a war on black and brown people. All in our lifetimes or in our parents' lifetimes. What I do have a problem with is a rich white man (or anyone) lecturing ME as if I was part of the problem. I'm white. I'm also poor. I worked my whole life as a teacher and never made much money. Black folks can't get any reparations out of me because I don't have any money. Guys like Jon Stewart are the ones who own five houses and have multimillion dollar investment portfolios. Go talk to THOSE white folks. And rich black people, because they exist, too. Advocates like Stewart are the worst enemy of black people, because they make it solely a racial justice issue. It's also a class issue and class is the one thing we must NEVER talk about in America. Dr. King was murdered because of the Poor People's Campaign, which brought together black, brown, and white folks of the same class (poor, working class) to demand their due. If you said we're going to address socioeconomic inequality and that means eliminating poverty in this country for everyone, regardless of race, you'd have something that many people can support. But a policy based on All White People Are Bad? Naw, that ain't happening.
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