Comments by "J ay" (@Jay-ho9io) on "The Financial Diet" channel.

  1. No one of any significant rank in the US military thinks you're going to anything other than a sovereign country, either. I've served beside your countries military for nearly 20 years. While I don't think an actual attempt is at all likely (though I am concerned for both Panama and to a lesser extent Mexico) Even if an attempt was made, it would not be successful. It's obscene that the conversation is being had at all, but despite how badly they are generally treated in Canada and by Canadians, your military is more than capable of defending your borders and your sovereignity.
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  2.  @josekaram755  being born someone else's child is far from doing anything smart, hard, well or better. It's luck that's rewarded as character.
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  3. Bailing at the last minute is one of the ultimate passive aggressive low status power move. When someone has very little to no power within a hierarchy or really anywhere else, the ability to go ahead and disrupt somebody else while "reclaiming" time for yourself is a huge flex on a small frame.
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  4.  @lisa9867  speaking ss one Marine to another, you're doing EXACTLY what drives the kids to say "ok Boomer." It's NOT THE EIGHTIES, MARINE. It really ain't. I came out of the Fleet in 2012, out of the uniform last year. We have LCpls NEEDING to draw foodstamps to feed a family of two kids and a spouse Because base housing is not existent, commissaries are by and large shutdown, and housing and food is so goddamn expensive. The overwhelming amount of fast food does not pay $15 an hour. There are in fact very FEW pockets of the US where that's the case. The majority of my citizens in the city I work in, work multiple jobs to make ends. No one suddenly became too good work. It's that in the FOURTY YEARS SINCE the 80s, things have changed, changed for the worse, actually gotten harder, and the work is harder for less money adjusted for inflation.
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  5. I want to tell everyone who's from a different country that posted on this that they were watching, that it means an awful lot to me as an American that you all cared. Like seriously. It's really... it's great. ANY of you are welcome for a beer, barbecue or excessive heat in Atlanta. Thank you, gracias, wado.
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  6. Yeah I'm really having a hard time understanding the kind of indignance and self-righteousness you get from an employer who will tell you to your face they will pay you wages that will not let you make ends meet. "How dare you ask me to pay you something to live on?" Isn't how they want the argument phrase but it sure as hell what they are saying.
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  7. Don't bet on it. Few people feel more entitled than management and owners.
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  8. To acknowledge the complexity of what is often reduced by people like you to a trite sound bite or a matter of fate.
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  9. Law enforcement, fire service, EMS, dispatching, sanitation (pays better than you think, but it's pretty damn dangerous) plumbing, carpentry and most other trades.
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  10. They live for this. I mean, it's not like they got much else.
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  11. The thing is, there's no requirement for you not to take pride in your accomplishments. Pride can exist alongside of acknowledging all the people, things, qualities and situations helped you succeed. Let me say it another way, there is somebody else with all of your advantages or more who didn't do as well as you did in part because of their own choices. And there is nothing about advantages that does not make your efforts easy to have done. Usain Bolt is a more gifted athlete in every way then I ever will be, but that fact does not invalidate the difficulty of my challenges or the difficulty of his. Go ahead and be proud, just be humble about the advantages you had. That's really it. "This was hard work and I was lucky to have the help that I had to be able to achieve it" is a phrase that doesn't lessen the person who accomplished something but acknowledges the advantages they had to get there.
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  12.  @KyleBigler  I will die being fine with it up the food chain.
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  13. And being Indigenous.
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  14. Ok. Stay out. Yeah, there's a racial aspect for wealth and that strongly impacts both your people and mine, but 1. Chelsea has ALWAYS been quick to acknowledge this 2. Heard her team employ, contract with and encompass several people of color, and 3. Good advice and right comments don't suddenly become null if there are from whites.
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  15. Welcome to the United States. Everything can be commodified and it will be.
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  16. Here is a GREAT opportunity for the to explore and educate yourself on the difference between discussion, debate and propaganda. Enjoy.
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  17.  @iheartavocado1158  never replied on this channel except to troll. You showed up here for exactly what you got, attention.
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  18. Speaking as a Warnock caller, I'm sorry in advance. I know. I know it's a pain in the ass. I swear I do. But literally everything I can do to win these two seats is going to get done. Yell at me if it helps. Just for Warnock and Ossoff in. :)
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  19. Yep. Casting the insecurities of the most insecure as actually the goals of the majority is a really effective verbal judo move to keep the narrative focused on conservative ideals.
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  20. To the degree that it is of the United States, it really isn't in the majority of the world.
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  21. ​ @jakeshota4050  "fish don't catch other fish" ... .. . My brother and everyone but Christ, you do understand that the majority of fish are carnivores, yes? Not only do fish catch fish, the majority of things that catch fish, are in fact fish. Also, women aren't fish, but that's a separate conversation
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  22. There is no possible outcome of this that could result in any kind of stress for my marriage. Nope. 😶😬🤣 Cool idea though, y'all. 👍🏽
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  23. You won't be missed and they'll do just fine without you.
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  24. They literally said word for word that that it's not possible for most people.
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  25. And there is no world in which the stock market is the end all be all of determining societal health. The stock market has been doing outstandingly while people's suffering has been increasing. The stock market is not the thing that should be given pride of place in being preserved or favored. The stock market is not the economy and economy in and of itself is not the end all be all.
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  26. Many if not most.
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  27. The best response to what you're saying is to point out that post WWII, a significant majority of Germans still felt they hadn't done anything wrong. It was the next generation that adjusted their behavior. There is no world in which these people are going to take responsibility for their actions, votes or anything else.
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  28. "the big portion of Young people who are conservative." There is no such animal, the young trend strongly in the direction of progressivism, to state otherwise is to make clear you're either consciously refusing facts and evidence or bad at math. Pick. And to the question "how far left?" 1950s Eisenhower Republican financial strategy wouldn't be a bad start. And since THAT'S going to be attacked as "leftist" That's pretty obvious that there's no discussion to be had. The conservative parties in the United States have made it clear that power politics is the game they want played. If we win and it is an if, YOUR kind set the rules of engagement, years ago. Now you get to enjoy being on the receiving end.
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  29. ​ @noona514  she's a troll, ignore her. Best of luck. The military definitely makes aspects of an easier as it makes so much else so much harder.
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  30. That's like telling someone from Texas to grasp the fact the rest of the US doesn't care too much about how y'all do it in texas. Like your advice, coming from somebody from Texas or California is like the most hypocritical version of that advice.
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  31. Are they bad at math, or just unsympathetic? It shouldn't be hard to sit somebody down and just walk them through the numbers to wrap their mind around how incredibly expensive it is to be a homeowner anywhere that is not fly over country or so remote you have to pipe daylight into it.
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  32. How does that change the objective statement she makes? And it's also objectively wrong. Her net worth is known and there's no metric by which she's truly wealthy. She may have a great deal more money than you. But there are actual percentages to this and she's not in the top percentages discussed. So. 1. She's not part of the formative aspect of the oligarchy & 2. Whatever her socioeconomic status, her objective statements are still accurate. So you brought nothing to the conversation except a left of the bell curve attempt at discrediting someone. Why?
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  33. You're not sorry. But you are a very poor example of a human being.
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  34.  @myopinions1  objectivity is a non-existent self delusion in individuals, a fuzzy goal in systems and a fine and worthwhile principle to have as a personal goal so long as you can understand that it's beyond your actual ability. No human is objective, nor can be.
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  35. Basically anybody that trot that out immediately rates being blown off, and ideally being blown off as they ask for help after they've been run over by a truck. "Sorry I can't hear you over how good this toast and latte are."
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  36.  @fdm2155  THIS right here.
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  37.  @wafiqessop4034  only insignificant parts of the United States living really is not only a threat to some folks (Brown & otherwise) It's ab often a goddamn cultural wasteland of Red hat wearing unvaccinated folks who think roy moore is a godly man deserving of political power over others. "Rural" isn't -always-that, But there's a significant amount of cultural baggage that cannot be ignored that includes moving away from the safety of a city.
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  38. As if the majority of people who are struggling were doing any of those things. They aren't.
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  39. It doesn't take any more than that to find out that there are nutritionally dense foods that are not meat and are not as expensive. One of the most authoritative statements about somebody's intellect is when they conflate their being obtuse with being clever.
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  40. Hey look another person making perfect the enemy of good. No one's ever watched that movie before...😒
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  41. The thing is only a very small (overwhelmingly white) portion of that generation has generational wealth to transfer. In fact the very dynamic you're talking about is what concentrates generational wealth in one group over time.
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  42.  @rereAL205  YES! DRINKS ON ASHLEY! (kidding.) Seriously, congrats.
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  43.  @YandereDay  now THAT is real talk. On the other end of 16 years in the military, I'm not exactly an active proponent of folks enlisting. For all the benefits the military has given me, after 20 years of war I'm still not certain that the calculus is balanced in the direction of it being a good idea. But the absence of trade training in schools is directly matched by the amount of money available for all throughout the United States. There's really good work out there not being done by trained tradespeople. We should have never cut that out of the education system.
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  44. Bachelor's degrees are an excellent indication of education relative to a high school diploma or a GED, which is basically what they're used for now.
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  45. Could you explain the rationale of transitioning from accounting to one of the most overworked and underpaid jobs in the United States?
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  46. HELL YES.
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  47.  @hank7014  "not to sound like an insane person" You don't. There's no specific kind of Insanity That can be used as an excuse for conscious willful ignorance and lies. So you don't sound crazy. You're dishonest. That's different.
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  48. No other faction of the population has shit the global bed ANYWHERE near as badly. It's a sarcastic call to get them to stop exercising their legal right to ruin more, break more, waste more.
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  49. ​ @starlightwaters1  "They said" A collection of people that have lied at every step of the turn, consistently, loudly and with no actual attempt to even present the appearance of not lying, said a thing. Your argument is that we should assume they're telling the truth this time. Nah. GFY
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  50. Cool. Now what is? Be prepared to defend your point with significant data, and studies. Or else you're just pulling it out of your ass and Fox News.
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