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  277. IM AN AUTHOR on the collapse of civilisations - I wrote this last week - its just been proven: The balance has been tipped; there is no money left in the working class, they are in debt up to their eyeballs so now it is time for the elites to start eating the middle class. The lower value houses are to go to repossession auction at a bargain price and be gifted to the grandchildren of the Etonians as rental income properties and the smaller farmers are to be bought at bankruptcy auction to enlarge the estates of the landowners and Tory donors. To do this you are hacking into your voter base, but it must be done to keep funnelling money and assets to the top. You can lie to the red wall - that will get you so far. But ultimately "democracy" has to go. You CAN NOT continue to win elections, no matter how twisted the system, when Tory voters are losing houses and farms. So "democracy" has to go - or the system can no longer FEED. And the ONLY purpose of the Tory party is to FEED the system. And the system has one purpose, funnel ever-increasing wealth to the top. Brexit is a vehicle to move assets from the middle class to the elites. They dont care if the economy crashes, they have more money than they can ever spend - they are insulated. A nice BIG CRASH that devalues property and bankrupts farms is GREAT...! They can snap them up. Cos the thing the elites of the UK know is money is meaningless when you have enough of it - CAPITAL ASSETS is what builds and maintains generational wealth. That is why the price of houses and land are so high right now, they are converting cash money into capital assets at a rate never seen in history. So they NEED a crash to bring the price down whilst they snap it all up... The collapse IS THE POINT, its snouts in the trough for the next grotesque gorging of British assets. So they HAVE to go the Tories. Not must go; HAVE TO GO or the UK will never be a democracy again in our lifetimes and the life of the working person will be that of a peasant.
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  916. IM AN AUTHOR on the collapse of civilisations - I wrote this the other day: The balance has been tipped; there is no money left in the working class, they are in debt up to their eyeballs so now it is time for the elites to start eating the middle class. The lower value houses are to go to repossession auction at a bargain price and be gifted to the grandchildren of the Etonians as rental income properties and the smaller farmers are to be bought at bankruptcy auction to enlarge the estates of the landowners and Tory donors. To do this you are hacking into your voter base, but it must be done to keep funnelling money and assets to the top. You can lie to the red wall - that will get you so far. But ultimately "democracy" has to go. You CAN NOT continue to win elections, no matter how twisted the system, when Tory voters are losing houses and farms. So "democracy" has to go - or the system can no longer FEED. And the ONLY purpose of the Tory party is to FEED the system. And the system has one purpose, funnel ever-increasing wealth to the top. Brexit is a vehicle to move assets from the middle class to the elites. They dont care if the economy crashes, they have more money than they can ever spend - they are insulated. A nice BIG CRASH that devalues property and bankrupts farms is GREAT...! They can snap them up. Cos the thing the elites of the UK know is money is meaningless when you have enough of it - CAPITAL ASSETS is what builds and maintains generational wealth. That is why the price of houses and land are so high right now, they are converting cash money into capital assets at a rate never seen in history. So they NEED a crash to bring the price down whilst they snap it all up... The collapse IS THE POINT, its snouts in the trough for the next grotesque gorging of British assets. So they HAVE to go the Tories. Not must go; HAVE TO GO or the UK will never be a democracy again in our lifetimes and the life of the working person will be that of a peasant.
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  1070. I WROTE THIS 2 YEARS AGO - TELL ME ITS WRONG...??? The balance has been tipped; there is no money left in the working class, they are in debt up to their eyeballs so now it is time for the elites to start eating the middle class. The lower value houses are to go to repossession auction at a bargain price and be gifted to the grandchildren of the Etonians as rental income properties and the smaller farmers are to be bought at bankruptcy auction to enlarge the estates of the landowners and Tory donors. To do this you are hacking into your voter base, but it must be done to keep funnelling money and assets to the top. You can lie to the red wall - that will get you so far. But ultimately "democracy" has to go. You CAN NOT continue to win elections, no matter how twisted the system, when Tory voters are losing houses and farms. So "democracy" has to go - or the system can no longer FEED. And the ONLY purpose of the Tory party is to FEED the system. And the system has one purpose, funnel ever-increasing wealth to the top. Brexit is a vehicle to move assets from the middle class to the elites. They dont care if the economy crashes, they have more money than they can ever spend - they are insulated. A nice BIG CRASH that devalues property and bankrupts farms is GREAT...! They can snap them up. Cos the thing the elites of the UK know is money is meaningless when you have enough of it - CAPITAL ASSETS is what builds and maintains generational wealth. That is why the price of houses and land are so high right now, they are converting cash money into capital assets at a rate never seen in history. So they NEED a crash to bring the price down whilst they snap it all up... The collapse IS THE POINT, its snouts in the trough for the next grotesque gorging of British assets. So they HAVE to go the Tories. Not must go; HAVE TO GO or the UK will never be a democracy again in our lifetimes and the life of the working person will be that of a peasant.
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  1130. Here is a list of treaties that the United States has broken or pulled out of since its founding in 1776 Treaty with the Delawares/Treaty of Fort Pitt (1778): The first treaty between the U.S. and an Indigenous nation. The treaty stipulated peace and mutual support against the British, but in 1782, Pennsylvania militiamen murdered almost 100 Lenape citizens at Gnadenhutten . Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784): The Iroquois Confederacy ceded part of New York and Pennsylvania in return for the U.S. protecting tribal lands from further settlement. However, the U.S. did not enforce the treaty terms, and the Iroquois Confederacy's lands continued to shrink . Treaty of Hopewell (1785-86): Three treaties signed by the U.S. and the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Nations promised protection and no future settlement on tribal lands. Despite this, white settlers continued to encroach on treaty territory . Treaty of Canandaigua/Pickering Treaty (1794): The U.S. returned over a million acres of Iroquois land and recognized the sovereignty of the Six Nations. However, the land was eventually lost to U.S. expansion, and the tribes were forced to relocate . Treaty of Greenville (1795): The tribes of the Northwestern Confederacy ceded large tracts of land in the Great Lakes region, but white settlers continued to expand into treaty lands . Treaty with the Sioux (1805): Gen. Zebulon Pike allegedly obtained cession of 100,000 acres of land from Dakota leaders, but the treaty was not officially proclaimed by the president, and the purchase price was adjusted without proper consultation . Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809): The Potawatomi were forced to cede land, and in 1838, the U.S. government enforced their removal through a 660-mile forced march, resulting in many deaths . Fort Laramie Treaty (1851): The treaty defined the territory of the Great Sioux Nation and promised protection from American citizens, but settlers and the U.S. military violated the treaty and invaded Lakota lands . Treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota (1851): The Dakota and Mendota ceded millions of acres of land in exchange for reservations and payment, but they never received either provision, and the U.S. Senate eliminated the reservation provision . Land Cession Treaty with the Ojibwe/Treaty of Washington (1855): The Ojibwe ceded land but retained hunting and fishing rights on ceded territory. However, Minnesota later outlawed hunting and harvesting without a license on off-reservation land, violating the treaty . Medicine Lodge Treaty (1867): The treaty relocated Plains tribes onto reservations, but the U.S. violated the terms by withholding payments, preventing hunting, and reducing reservation sizes . Fort Laramie Treaty (1868): Established the Great Sioux Reservation and protected the Black Hills, but the discovery of gold in 1874 led to the U.S. redrawing the boundaries to allow mining It goes on for page after page after page...!!!
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  1409. IM AN AUTHOR on the collapse of civilisations - I wrote this today: The balance has been tipped; there is no money left in the working class, they are in debt up to their eyeballs so now it is time for the elites to start eating the middle class. The lower value houses are to go to repossession auction at a bargain price and be gifted to the grandchildren of the Etonians as rental income properties and the smaller farmers are to be bought at bankruptcy auction to enlarge the estates of the landowners and Tory donors. To do this you are hacking into your voter base, but it must be done to keep funnelling money and assets to the top. You can lie to the red wall - that will get you so far. But ultimately "democracy" has to go. You CAN NOT continue to win elections, no matter how twisted the system, when Tory voters are losing houses and farms. So "democracy" has to go - or the system can no longer FEED. And the ONLY purpose of the Tory party is to FEED the system. And the system has one purpose, funnel ever-increasing wealth to the top. Brexit is a vehicle to move assets from the middle class to the elites. They dont care if the economy crashes, they have more money than they can ever spend - they are insulated. A nice BIG CRASH that devalues property and bankrupts farms is GREAT...! They can snap them up. Cos the thing the elites of the UK know is money is meaningless when you have enough of it - CAPITAL ASSETS is what builds and maintains generational wealth. That is why the price of houses and land are so high right now, they are converting cash money into capital assets at a rate never seen in history. So they NEED a crash to bring the price down whilst they snap it all up... The collapse IS THE POINT, its snouts in the trough for the next grotesque gorging of British assets. So they HAVE to go the Tories. Not must go; HAVE TO GO or the UK will never be a democracy again in our lifetimes and the life of the working person will be that of a peasant.
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  1542. I wrote this today: The balance has been tipped; there is no money left in the working class, they are in debt up to their eyeballs so now it is time for the elites to start eating the middle class. The lower value houses are to go to repossession auction at a bargain price and be gifted to the grandchildren of the elites as rental income properties and the smaller farmers are to be bought at bankruptcy auction to enlarge the estates of the landowners and Tory donors. To do this you are eating into your voter base, but it must be done to keep funnelling money and assets to the top. You can lie to the red wall - that will get you so far. But ultimately "democracy" has to go. You CAN NOT continue to win elections, no matter how twisted the system, when Tory voters are losing houses and farms. So "democracy" has to go - or the system can no longer FEED. And the ONLY purpose of the Tory party is to feed the system. Brexit is a vehicle to move assets from the middle class to the elites. They dont care if the economy crashes, they have more money than they can ever spend - they are insulated. A nice BIG CRASH that devalues property and bankrupts farms is GREAT...! They can snap them up. Cos the thing the elites of the UK know is money is meaningless when you have enough of it - CAPITAL ASSETS is what builds and maintains generational wealth. That is why the price of these is so high right now... So they NEED a crash to bring the price down whilst they snap it all up... The collapse IS THE POINT, its snouts in the Trough for the next grotesque gorging of British assets. So they HAVE to go. Not must go; HAVE TO GO or the UK will never be a democracy again in our lifetimes and the life of the working person will be that of a peasant.
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  1702. ​ @ThunderRod  - IT IS. It absolutely is. All countries have bad histories, especially my home country of Britain. But the U5A is uniquely BAD. Name me another country literally founded on the SYSTEMATIC genocide of the indigenous people. Name me another country who broke the VERY FIRST international treaty they signed by auctioning off their military help to the highest bidder instead of helping France as they promised? Name me another country that built its entire economy on slavery for 200 years. Name me another country that faught a WAR to keep slavery. Name me another county that was selling weapons to the Nazis and the British but wanted GOLD only as they thought the British would lose the war and the £GBP would be worthless. QUOTE "Many American companies that had dealings with Nazi Germany included Ford Motor Company,Coca-Cola, and IBM. Ford Werke and Ford SAF (Ford's subsidiaries in Germany and France, respectively) produced military vehicles and other equipment for Nazi Germany's war effort" Name me another country that has been at war 96% of its existence? Name me another country that bombed and killed 250,000 innocent Japanese with nuclear bombs JUST to show Stalin you were prepared to kill 250k innocent Russian civilians? Name me another country that after WW2 did NOT transition to a peace time economy? This not transitioning - to ensure global economic hegemony - means the U6A had had to 8om8 70 different countries since WW2 cos the economy would collapse cos its a WAR TIME economy. Its the DENSITY of the atrocities and horrors, the war profiteering, the endless endless 8om8ing for economic reasons, the hundreds of millions of unalive people IN SUCH A SHORT TIME The more you study the history of Am3ric4 the more shocked and horrified you become. Am3ric4 has kept North Korea under stanction for 70 years - why??? Cos the U5A WONT agree NOT to invade - that is ALL they are asking for. That one assurance. No other country comes close to the damage the U5A has inflicted on the world. Am3ric4 IS Kissenger and Kissenger was Am3ric4. Its NOT the people of the U5A - its the politicians and business leaders. They are ALL war criminals.
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  2110. Im an author - I wrote this recently for my next book: LONELINESS ‘Loneliness is not the lack of company in one’s life. It is the lack of meaning in one’s life. People merely distract us from ourselves.’ [Redacted] People distract us from the lack of meaning in our life. They entertain us, they annoy us, they make us laugh, most of all they distract us. They distract us from the emptiness inside of us. The absence of people in life does not make us lonely. The awareness of our own emptiness is what makes us lonely. If we fill that void with meaning, with purpose, with life, we will never be lonely. We can take the company of good people. We can walk away from toxic people, not needing their company, not exposing our happiness to their pollutants in order to not feel alone. When we feel bad about ourselves, when we have low self-esteem, when we have a lack of meaning in our lives, when we don't know who we are; we are desperate to be distracted from ourselves and made feel happy. Even if that ‘happy’ is just not feeling bad about ourselves. Often it’s better to be annoyed by someone else than depressed about ourselves. This is why people getting out of abusive relationships are notorious for jumping straight back into obviously unsuitable relationships. A friend of mine in Utah, America, just told me a story of two friends. Both recently out of abusive relationships, both getting married again to people they have been dating for less than three months. One of them openly admits the partner they are marrying is financially abusive and takes advantage of them. But being taken advantage of financially, and all the misery that brings, is better to a lot of people than sitting alone and feeling empty and without purpose. It is better than feeling ‘lonely’. And it’s a quick fix to find an unsuitable partner. A lot quicker than filling your life with purpose and meaning. With the added advantage you can blame the partner for all the problems and misery in your life. So, as long as you don't actually care about your happiness, it’s a real ‘win - win’. But assuming you do care about your long-term happiness, well it’s probably best to find some meaning in life. People with rich, fulfilling lives, full of meaning and purpose are never lonely, neither do they shun company, but they are equanimous. They can take it or leave it. They can appreciate the benefits, the joy even, of being alone. They can appreciate the beauty of silence.
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  2185.  @deanrogers6028  - I think you got your answer there mate... Let me put some meat on the bones of those comments in case you happen to like the Tories. The British Conservative party is a coalition of different privileged interests with the sole purpose of keeping that privilege for those people… They get in power by offering just enough to just the right people and no more - they are constantly titrating how much they can remove from the people yet stay in power Any action that may seem socialist is NOT, its self-preservation. They have no principles beyond the preservation of their own privilege. So to not lose an election they will throw money at the people; only to increase taxes on them 2 months after the election. Being called out on it would only matter to them if they HAD any principles or morals - they don’t - they know it's a bribe and they had no intention of ever keeping it. Scream about hypocrisy and broken promises all you want - they don’t care - they won the election. It's all about maintaining power in order to maintain privilege, whilst giving away as little as possible. To them, if they lose power its not because their policies were unpopular, they know their real policies are deeply unpopular, it's because they got the calculation of bribes and lies V votes wrong. --§-- In this instance [2021] to goal is to move assets [cos poor people are now utterly stripped dry of everything] from the lower level Tory voters to the higher level. I.e. smaller properties go to larger landlords, smaller farmland goes to the larger land owners, smaller companies go bust and their market share goes to the bigger companies. It is a form of Feudal Capitalism, it eats the bottom and feeds money and more importantly, capital assets to the top. But when the peasants have nothing it eats the next level up, and then the next, and the next until eventually it is eating the middle and upper-middle class as is happening in 2021. SO... Dean, if you are in that lower-level conservative voter bracket. You own your own home, you have a newish car and a decent pension. i.e. you're a rung above the Labour voter with next to nothing - well YOU are the next on the chopping block. A short burst of 10% interest rate to force a few hundred thousand of you to sell your houses at well below current market rate, that will do nicely... The tories have already started bribing the red wall - they are CHEAP to bribe, they have nothing. If they throw a few billion at them they will vote Tory to make up for the ones in the south that lost their home. And if they lose power - so what??? All their mated pucker up rental properties for nothing and Labour will sort out the economy for the Tories to wreck it again in 10 years. Tories are planning the future for their grandkids and their mate's grandkids. YOU - you are collateral damage...
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  2277.  @nrump2161  Very interesting comment. I think we need to be clear that when we are talking about left and right we are technically talking about economics, not social issues. Though these do get brought in by people. Left wing is stated control of many or all industries. Centre is state control of some and regulation of all. Right is state control of none and minimal regulation. On this scale we can see the US Democratic party [which I do love to hate you are right] is right of centre. the British labour party is just left of centre. Her e in Bulgaria our busses are socialised - they are run by the state and you pay a FLAT RATE fair no matter how far you go. You pay 1 fair to go to work even if that is 30 miles and 5 busses. You pay the same as the guy who goes 1 stop. Our electricity is cross-subsidised so wholesale electricity esports have to subsidise domestic supply so when the west was paying MASSIVE electricity bills - ours irnonically went down. We dont have Uber - illegal, and we dont have Amazon cos they regard the high streets as a social benefit. Income tax is a flat rate 10% on EVERYTHING - wages, share dividends anything. You got a company cay - 10% of the value per year tax. So economically Bulgaria is VERY high regulation intervention wiht a lot of state control of industries and services. We literally have a communist party to vote for. Socially its quite conservative with the odd exception of trans people, who just get a total pass. Lots of trans people, guys in dresses get on the bus and no one bats an eye - dont ask me, I have no idea why they are so conservative about most things and then have zero issues with trans people.
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  2360.  @Nickle314  You have a very tiny mind. Thankfully for you and especially for me I can cut and paste my previous answer to a different comment: I'm an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations so the whole AI / climate change / the future of Britain and the world is an area of deep interest to me - but its 35ºC in my living room and its taking a literal effort to think of each word for this sentence... My personal view is that AI and climate change will dominate the next 30 years and we will have to abandon our current concept of living. Companies will have to be taxed at 90% cos they will have no employees and therefore no costs. some form of UBI will be necessary. A total rethink of WHO gets to benefit from technology will be needed - now its ALWAYS the capitalists who get extra profit, but the structures of society are collapsing. This has to change, the worker has to benefit from the increase in productivity not just the capitalist. And then the big one everyone is ignoring - the giant 1000m high elephant in the room is ONLY CHINA CAN FIX GLOBAL WARMING The UK started HS2 in 2008 and has not finished it - in that time China has built enough high speed rail to encircle the globe at the equator. They are the ONLY ones with the industrial capacity and the organisational structures to solve climate change. There WILL come a point where humanity faces a choice - total collapse and techno feudalistic anarcho-capitalist hell with billions of deaths - OR - we ask China to take over the global government and fix the f-king climate. This is why I was doing the degree in ancient Chinese Philosophy - I am writing a book on this. There is no way the structures of the west can allow for the solving of the problem - look at Uxbridge, £12.50 to drive a polluting car and people vote for the Tories...!!! Ask yourself - can THIS system solve a global problem...??? So I see a future where people do degrees cos they want to, not because they have to to get a basic job, as no one will have a basic job. ---§--- There you go - I solved the "£16 trillion socialist pension debt rising at 10% a year" for you. I will remind you of the OP: "OF COURSE ITS ABOUT CRITICAL THINKING that's why the Tories want to limit the amount of it happening - people with functioning brains DONT VOTE TORY" You see - its about critical thinking. They want less of ME and more of YOU...!!! less of ME and more of YOU...!!! less of ME and more of YOU...!!! less of ME and more of YOU...!!!
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  2935.  @markwelch3564  Im not an economist, I'm an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations. So I cant tell you what to do to build the economy but I can tell you that no amount of Labour is going to transform things for at least 8 years and more likely 15. The UK is in a situation called "interconnected cascading systems failure" Everything is broken, everything you need to fix it is broken and everything you do makes the situation worse. ON TOP of which you have Ai - and that is going to radically change the world and work and we have no idea how it will change it so we cant even make a PLAN. The UK relies on banking, legal, insurance, media as major revenue generators and these are the very industries that will be most impacted by AI - will we have 20% unemployment or 35%...??? or 5% We literally DO NOT KNOW. UBI will be a necessity but then you have to jack up corporation tax to 75% to pay for it, so companies will just flee the first countries that introduce it, but if you dont introduce UBI then there is literally NO MONEY in the system for people to buy stuff...!!! The UK is in the worst of all possible positions at the worst of all possible times - this is the economic equivalent of having Boris Johnson in charge when a pandemic hits. Every other country in the west has a basically OK economy, they are not fundamentally BROKEN, so they can take it step by step and see what Ai brings and adapt. But the UK has to make VERY RADICAL CHANGES cos the economy is utterly broken, the entire country is utterly broken, so Labout have to literally GUESS and then invest hundreds of billions of borrowed £££ on an absolute blind guess. If they get it right - the UK simply does not totally collapse into Argentinian levels of chaos. If they get it wrong the UK will make Agentena look like paradise. We have to bet the farm and the mortgage on the farm on a total guess and HOPE...!!!
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  3010. IM AN AUTHOR ON PSYCHOLOGY let me tell you about The Child In The Well Experiment Mencius (fourth century BCE) was a Confucian philosopher. He proposed that all humans were inherently good. They all has “sprouts” of goodness, they just needed nurturing. To demonstrate this he proposed the following. A young child is sat on a well, as you want by it falls screaming down the well. He says EVERYONE would run to help the child, call for help. Recently this was tested. Subjects were taken to a room in a different city and there was a video screen of the space outside and it shows a well with a child on it. The subjects don't know this is a a pre recorded video, they think it is a live feed. As the “experiment” is being set up the child falls screaming down the well. The theory is that 100% of people will react and call the assistant to go help the child. This is not the case. 80% do exactly that, they go nuts and scream for help, run out the room to try and save the child, just what you would expect. 20% do NOTHING. They don't call for help, they don't get up and try to help and a significant proportion don't even register any facial emotions. They just passively watch a child die as if they were watching a commercial for shampoo. Upon further investigation, the vast majority of these that don't react are right to far right wing in their political views. ---§--- The right-wing doesn't HAVE empathy for others in the same way the left does. To then it's IDIOTIC to care about a person who does not share your DNA. The border guard guy who died trying to save immigrants in the river - to THEM that is 100% proof that caring about others is idiotic. And from an evolutionary standpoint -they were the ones that fled and did not defend the village when attacked and wiped out and they survived and the village lived on. They HAD [past tense] and evolutionary role. Today they are just terrible human beings.
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  3846. I write this today: The balance has been tipped; there is no money left in the working class, they are in debt up to their eyeballs so now it is time for the elites to start eating the middle class. The lower value houses are to go to repossession auction at a bargain price and be gifted to the grandchildren of the elites as rental income properties and the smaller farmers are to be bought at bankruptcy auction to enlarge the estates of the landowners and Tory donors. To do this you are eating into your voter base, but it must be done to keep funnelling money and assets to the top. You can lie to the red wall - that will get you so far. But ultimately "democracy" has to go. You CAN NOT continue to win elections, no matter how twisted the system, when Tory voters are losing houses and farms. So "democracy" has to go - or the system can no longer FEED. And the ONLY purpose of the Tory party is to feed the system. Brexit is a vehicle to move assets from the middle class to the elites. They dont care if the economy crashes, they have more money than they can ever spend - they are insulated. A nice BIG CRASH that devalues property and bankrupts farms is GREAT...! They can snap them up. Cos the thing the elites of the UK know is money is meaningless when you have enough of it - CAPITAL ASSETS is what builds and maintains generational wealth. That is why the price of these is so high right now... So they NEED a crash to bring the price down whilst they snap it all up... The collapse IS THE POINT, its snouts in the Trough for the next grotesque gorging of British assets. So they HAVE to go. Not must go; HAVE TO GO or the UK will never be a democracy again in our lifetimes and the life of the working person will be that of a peasant.
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  3847. I WROTE THIS 2 YEARS AGO - TELL ME I'm WRONG…? The balance has been tipped; there is no money left in the working class, they are in debt up to their eyeballs so now it is time for the elites to start eating the middle class. The lower value houses are to go to repossession auction at a bargain price and be gifted to the grandchildren of the Etonians as rental income properties and the smaller farmers are to be bought at bankruptcy auction to enlarge the estates of the landowners and Tory donors. To do this you are hacking into your voter base, but it must be done to keep funnelling money and assets to the top. You can lie to the red wall - that will get you so far. But ultimately "democracy" has to go. You CAN NOT continue to win elections, no matter how twisted the system, when Tory voters are losing houses and farms. So "democracy" has to go - or the system can no longer FEED. And the ONLY purpose of the Tory party is to FEED the system. And the system has one purpose, funnel ever-increasing wealth to the top. Brexit is a vehicle to move assets from the middle class to the elites. They dont care if the economy crashes, they have more money than they can ever spend - they are insulated. A nice BIG CRASH that devalues property and bankrupts farms is GREAT...! They can snap them up. Cos the thing the elites of the UK know is money is meaningless when you have enough of it - CAPITAL ASSETS is what builds and maintains generational wealth. That is why the price of houses and land are so high right now, they are converting cash money into capital assets at a rate never seen in history. So they NEED a crash to bring the price down whilst they snap it all up...
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  3890.  @SugarWeasel1227  - And YOU are losing - America is collapsing. Not theoretically in the future - RIGHT NOW. This is the list of contributing factors to societal collapse: Plague / disease Y Environmental change Y Massive wealth inequality Y Loss of the administrative class Y The government stops governing Y Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Y Loss of faith in the political system Y Economic collapse Y Exposed obvious corruption Y Crumbling infrastructure Y Mismanagement of a crisis Y Societal division Y Loss of belief in the unity of the society Y Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Y Increased isolationism Y Rising internal violence Y Excessive spending on military / arms race Y Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / hyper inflation Y If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. If all happen at the same time, it's guaranteed to be the end. The USSR collapsed with 9 out of the 18. The USA scores 18/18. You are correct - its a ZERO SUM GAME and you just scored a big fat ZERO for future. If you want to know what your future will be in the next 10 years, look at Yugoslavia 1992 - only with WAY more guns. BTW - I'm an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations. This is my job. Be smug all you want, but you are doomed. You have reached a point called "cascading systems failure" its the end and it can't be stopped... sorry and goodbye.
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  4049. IM AN AUTHOR ON PSYCHOLOGY you might want to read this short paragraph - it explains a lot about the right-wing... EDIT - THEY DO NOT HAVE EMPATHY The Child In The Well Experiment Mencius (fourth century BCE) was a Confucian philosopher. He proposed that all humans were inherently good. They all has “sprouts” of goodness, they just needed nurturing. To demonstrate this he proposed the following. A young child is sat on a well, as you want by it falls screaming down the well. He says EVERYONE would run to help the child, call for help. Recently this was tested. Subjects were taken to a room in a different city and there was a video screen of the space outside and it shows a well with a child on it. The subjects don't know this is a a pre recorded video, they think it is a live feed. As the “experiment” is being set up the child falls screaming down the well. The theory is that 100% of people will react and call the assistant to go help the child. This is not the case. 80% do exactly that, they go nuts and scream for help, run out the room to try and save the child, just what you would expect. 20% do NOTHING. They don't call for help, they don't get up and try to help and a significant proportion don't even register any facial emotions. They just passively watch a child die as if they were watching a commercial for shampoo. Upon further investigation, the vast majority of these that don't react are right to far right wing in their political views. ---§--- The right-wing doesn't HAVE empathy for others in the same way the left does. To then it's IDIOTIC to care about a person who does not share your DNA. The border guard guy who died trying to save immigrants in the river - to THEM that is 100% proof that caring about others is idiotic. And from an evolutionary standpoint -they were the ones that fled and did not defend the village when attacked and wiped out and they survived and the village lived on. They HAD [past tense] and evolutionary role. Today they are just terrible human beings.
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  4250. @Elizaveta "Sorry for the rant. It's complicated." No problem - This is kinda what I try to get across to people. You cant say the USSR was good or bad - its complicated. its a massive place and people had very very different experiences. "You meant fly, not drive?" NO - I mean dive LOL. In 2005 I had driven from England across the Sahara to The Gambia in western Africa and in 2006 I was to drive From Kent in England to Tashkent but the friend I was going with had problems and could not make it... "Btw, may I know about works as an author and what's your profession?" My professional career was in business, I owned the largest company distributing Bulgarian and Polish cosmetics in America and the UK. In 2015 I suffered brain damage in a mugging and lost everything, I was homeless for a while, lived in a motel for a while, then I wrote a book about it all, which sold reasonably well, wrote another two books, and I have just finished one called "ADRIFT IN THE SHARK TANK - How to survive in a post-pandemic world" which went to the editor today - it would be on sale next month... Before the pandemic, I was collecting stories from people who lived under communism. I think there should be a record of people's experiences - just for history. I don't think it will sell very well at all - but I think there should be a historical record before everyone dies off and their stories are lost. There are lessons to learn both good and bad from these times. "My parents condemn Lenin for assassinating Tsar and his family. " You see I have never met anyone who said that. these are important perspectives, I believe they should be recorded. Ive just finished 97 hours of lectures on the Russian revolution - the Tsar was not a horrible person, he was not evil, he was just the wrong person at the wrong time. Too weak to lead his country but too strong to let others with more skill run it for him.
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  4728.  @jenalatz3589  - Oh it think you are hurt by them and I think you DO validate yourself by what rando's say on social media or you would not still be bothering me. Ben Carson is a man who thought supporting Trump, a psychopathic malignant narcissist, was a good idea. That immediately annuls anything that man has to say on any subject. And no one is advocating for irresponsible behaviour or diminishing the value of the "nuclear family". I'm saying that telling people in poverty to "make better decisions" is idiotic and pointless; their lives dont allow them to make better decisions, their education from their crappy schools and their broken poverty-stricken families did not give them the tools TO make better decisions. You dont realise how much knowledge and experience you were fortunate to pick up from your family and education that YOU believe is simply a feature of being an adult. To me, a well educated European educated in the "extrapolate first principles" method talking to Americans is like talking to children, and that is not being nasty. Americans are NOT taught critical thinking skills, to me critical thinking is just a function of being grown-up - but it's NOT. You have to learn these things. The same with saving, investing, banking, budgeting, cooking, nutrition, etc etc etc. Things you 100% take for granted as just being part of being an adult, other people lack cos they did not have your parents or go to your school. I grew up in extreme poverty, we ate pigs feet and went to school in black trash bags cos we could not afford coats. I have had a very fortunate life, I have been unbelievably lucky. I could not read or write at 13 and I am a professional author - that's, not me being amazing, that's 1 teacher who taught me to read and write in her own time after school. But I was 48 years old before I saved any money, and I was earning mid-level 6 figures and spending every penny of it... Why? Cos I was stupid? No - cos I grew up in a family where no one saved money, there was no money to save, we ate nettles. The literal concept was totally alien to me. And that is what YOU are failing to understand, these people in poverty - they are NOT YOU. They have a life experience that literally prevents the vast majority of them from even seeing a way out, even contemplating a way out. they cant make better decisions without society INVESTING in them in education and opportunity. And in America, the system is specifically engineered to PREVENT that happening cos you NEED the unwashed sub culture of destitution to keep low level workers terrified of losing their jobs to keep them accepting sh!t wages.
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  4736.  @bjarneesphagen2303  - You have to understand how narcissistic abuse works. It is a psychological abuse. It de natures the person. It removes their identity and their - everything. They become an empty shells. They will even forget what they like, what music they like, even what food they like, what clothes they like. they buy what the narcissist likes them to buy. They are prisoners in a psychological prison. As such they become afraid of strangers, of the outside, of new shops. They are ashamed of their body and how they look - the narcissist constantly tells them how ugly they are how fat they are, they lose all self-confidence, they even lose the concept there is something TO be confident about. this is also why they stop washing - although poor personal hygiene is associated with most mental illnesses. Shoes have several advantages as a gateway back to reality and a normal life. 1) Most women like shoes 2) Shoes are very personal, they have shoes they like and shoes they dont - its a trigger back to their own style 3) Trying on shoes does NOT require undressing - they hate their bodies and they dont want others looking at their body too closely 4) It limits the time in a shop - if you get a panic attack in a shop half way through trying on a new dress - you cant just run out of the shop cos you have the dress on 5) Your shoe size does not change - if you are now a size 14 when you used to be an 8 that is a MASSIVE depressive factor. If you are a 4 in shoes you are a 4, so there is no rish associated with is. Shoes are pretty much the first few new purchases a woman makes after escaping a narcissist. I should just mention men do become victims of female narcissists as well, but very few feel the need to actually vanish, they are at much less risk of physical violence and much greater risk of false accusations being made to the police so vanishing is usually a bad idea for a make victim. I hope this is helpful. EDIT: You mentioned money - the majority of victims of narcissistic abuse are NOT penniless, at least not when the abuse starts - though they make be bankrupt by the abuser. Part of the reason for them being targeted is often they have considerable financial resources. But over the course of 5, 10, 20 years they no longer dear spend any money on themselves - only on the abuser. I work for free because many victims are literally penniless by the end. But this is by no means, everyone.
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  4795. NO CENK - THEY CANT - THEY ARE NOT DECENT PEOPLE sorry, but you are overlaying YOUR humanity onto a group of people that do not have the capacity to feel it. The Child In The Well Experiment proves this... Mencius (fourth century BCE) was a Confucian philosopher. He proposed that all humans were inherently good. They all has “sprouts” of goodness, they just needed nurturing. To demonstrate this he proposed the following. A young child is sat on a well, as you want by it falls screaming down the well. He says EVERYONE would run to help the child, call for help. Recently this was tested. Subjects were taken to a room in a different city and there was a video screen of the space outside and it shows a well with a child on it. The subjects don't know this is a a pre recorded video, they think it is a live feed. As the “experiment” is being set up the child falls screaming down the well. The theory is that 100% of people will react and call the assistant to go help the child. This is not the case. 80% do exactly that, they go nuts and scream for help, run out the room to try and save the child, just what you would expect. 20% do NOTHING. They don't call for help, they don't get up and try to help and a significant proportion don't even register any facial emotions. They just passively watch a child die as if they were watching a commercial for shampoo. Upon further investigation, the vast majority of these that don't react are right to far right wing in their political views.
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  4892. I EXPECTED IT I wrote about it in a book 3 years ago. Im not an economist, but I studied every civilisation collapse since the Bronze Age Collapse and came up with this list of indicators: Plague / disease Yes Environmental change Y Massive wealth inequality Y Loss of the administrative class Y The government stops governing Y Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Y Loss of faith in the political system Y Economic collapse Y Exposed obvious corruption Y Crumbling infrastructure Y Mismanagement of a crisis Y Societal division Y Loss of belief in the unity of the society Y Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Y Increased isolationism Y Rising internal violence Not yet in the UK - Y in the USA Excessive spending on military / arms race Yes - starting Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / inflation Y If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. If all happen at the same time, it's guaranteed to be the end. The USSR collapsed with 9 out of the 18. The UK and the USA tick basically every box, so a collapse was inevitable. We had reached a point called "Interconnected Cascading Systems Failure" Everything was broken and everything you needed to fix it was also broken. Its what ends every civilisation and inflation was always going to be the thing that triggered this collapse. A decade of basically zero interest rates has indebted everyone and everything and jacked up property prices to a point that a small increase in the interest rate would collapse the deck of cards, and there would inevitably BE an event that caused inflation - cos life, to interest rates, would HAVE to be increased at some point and lots of companies and banks would go POP. The UK will never recover from this. No amount of Labour govt will fix the problem, this is truly systemic.
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  5008. @vctjkhme QUOTE "i've found most extremely intelligent people can do this, most profound texts are just wasted space to explain things to less intelligent audiences." Thank you for the compliment LOL. The chapters in my books are one or two pages - here is an example. LONELINESS ‘Loneliness is not the lack of company in one’s life. It is the lack of meaning in one’s life. People merely distract us from ourselves.’ By [redacted] People distract us from the lack of meaning in our life. They entertain us, they annoy us, they make us laugh, most of all they distract us. They distract us from the emptiness inside of us. The absence of people in life does not make us lonely. The awareness of our own emptiness is what makes us lonely. If we fill that void with meaning, with purpose, with life, we will never be lonely. We can take the company of good people. We can walk away from toxic people, not needing their company, not exposing our happiness to their pollutants in order to not feel alone. When we feel bad about ourselves, when we have low self-esteem, when we have a lack of meaning in our lives, when we don't know who we are; we are desperate to be distracted from ourselves and made feel happy. Even if that ‘happy’ is just not feeling bad about ourselves. Often it’s better to be annoyed by someone else than depressed about ourselves. This is why people getting out of abusive relationships are notorious for jumping straight back into obviously unsuitable relationships. A friend of mine in Utah, America, just told me a story of two friends. Both recently out of abusive relationships, both getting married again to people they have been dating for less than three months. One of them openly admits the partner they are marrying is financially abusive and takes advantage of them. But being taken advantage of financially, and all the misery that brings, is better to a lot of people than sitting alone and feeling empty and without purpose. It is better than feeling ‘lonely’. And it’s a quick fix to find an unsuitable partner. A lot quicker than filling your life with purpose and meaning. With the added advantage you can blame the partner for all the problems and misery in your life. So, as long as you don't actually care about your happiness, it’s a real ‘win - win’. But assuming you do care about your long-term happiness, well it’s probably best to find some meaning in life. People with rich, fulfilling lives, full of meaning and purpose are never lonely, neither do they shun company, but they are equanimous. They can take it or leave it. They can appreciate the benefits, the joy even, of being alone. They can appreciate the beauty of silence.
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  5162.  @ZombieDoggs  - OK a few things: 1) "That proved a huge failure with huge human cost in the 20th Century." NO IT DID NOT. In the USSR the life expectancy went up from 32 in 1945 to 75 in 1975. Capitalism has killed VASTLY more people than communism ever has. Communism did not fail - it was stamped out by the USA in order to prevent it from taking hold there. 2) You talk like this is going to be a choice people have. 3) Im not advocating for communism. Im simply stating fact. The planet is at 130% of extraction and recovery capacity - this is unsustainable and planet-killing. The lack of a profit motive means companies can make quality products that last a lifetime, and this is an absolute necessity for the survival of humanity. I now live in an ex-communist country. The idea that all they made was worthless crap was propaganda. The things they made all had the year of manufacture on them. I have endless things made in the 1960's or 70 that are just fine. I mean ordinary things like a plastic mop bucket or a cheese grater. 4) Capitalism is a giant buy now pay later scheme. Your grandchildren will pay for your retirement. Capitalists want 3% return on their investment. The planet's population will top out between 8.5 and 10 billion in the near future and then decline - capitalism REQUIRES GROWTH. In a declining population, you can NOT have capitalism. 5) Capitalism is a giant funnel funnelling money and power to an ever-tinier number of hyper-rich people, that money comes from somewhere, the poor. But they are empty so its now eating the middle class, the number of people hurting under capitalism is reaching a critical mass and the hyper-rich are doing exactly what the feudal lords did, everything possible to cling onto power, hastening their demise. 6) The one thing you are absolutely correct about is China - I will be going there next year to write a book on China as the global sovereign. There is only one country that can solve the climate emergency and that is China. 7) "I can't see your average person willingly sacrificing their sovereignty to submit to the will of party officials" sovereignty is the luxury of the well fed, no one cares about sovereignty in a food shortage. 8) It is the nature of life to find a way and the only way to live for another 1000 years is a steady-state economic and extraction model that recirculates wealth and does not funnel it to a minority. And that will by definition be some form of communal type model. Personally, I believe there are two likely outcomes. We kill the planet and the global population drops to 0.5 billion. We give sovereignty to China to save us all in the knowledge only they have the power to do so AFTER things get so bad western countries re collapsing into anarchy. Here in Bulgaria its +19ºC today - it should be -19ºC here in December. Sorry for the long post, got carried away on my pet subject.
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  5337.  @Hachizukatenzo  - The problem with FB is that it is the objective of the algorithm to increase your time on FB. SO you have very noble intentions, but your noble intentions are time limited and that is antithetical to FB objectives. So FB is constantly - drip drip drip DRIP DRIP feeding you things to engage you in something, anything to keep you there. And given enough time it will find a subject you are "passionate" about - a subject that you will argue about. And then it hones inn on that, it worked out what triggers you and promotes your comments to people who will agree strongly - to re enforce your opinion and to p[eople who will violently and idiotically disagree - in a way that it knows WILL trigger you into a reaction. None of this is by accident - it is constantly trying to keep you - and everyone else - on there as long as possible as many times a day as possible, cos that is the way they make money - getting adverts in front of your face. This is where it differs from forums, or Reddit, or even youtube - the very core of the business model of FB is to create outrage and to radicalise people. Twitter and Instagram and all those are not healthy - but they are nothing like as twisted and perverted as the core of FB's business model - the CO-FOUNDER has publically warned Zuckerburg that he has to stop this, it is destroying society - but Zuckerburg is a sociopath with a messiah complex and will not listen. FB stands in a league of its own fort evilness. P.S. Only superficial narcissists have moved to IG / TicTok /etc. The really dangerous narcissists use FB as there is way more opportunity for interaction and narcs need interaction to forge a bond with people in order to manipulate them and obtain what we call "narcissistic supply". I literally NEVER get asked to help with a problem with a narcissist on any social media platform except FB. Posting 50,000 pictures of yourself does not hurt other people...
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  5801.  @1979Frankyboy  - It would be easy to explain it away that I have more time and less distraction. But that's NOT IT. Its more like a piece of smoked glass between me and the deeper truths has been removed, I'm not thinking more or for longer - I can just clearly see the obvious, that was neither visible nor obvious previously. EDIT - its quite strange and even slightly shocking. this is an example. LONELINESS ‘Loneliness is not the lack of company in one’s life. It is the lack of meaning in one’s life. People merely distract us from ourselves.’ [redacted] People distract us from the lack of meaning in our life. They entertain us, they annoy us, they make us laugh, most of all they distract us. They distract us from the emptiness inside of us. The absence of people in life does not make us lonely. The awareness of our own emptiness is what makes us lonely. If we fill that void with meaning, with purpose, with life, we will never be lonely. We can take the company of good people. We can walk away from toxic people, not needing their company, not exposing our happiness to their pollutants in order to not feel alone. When we feel bad about ourselves, when we have low self-esteem, when we have a lack of meaning in our lives, when we don't know who we are; we are desperate to be distracted from ourselves and made feel happy. Even if that ‘happy’ is just not feeling bad about ourselves. Often it’s better to be annoyed by someone else than depressed about ourselves. This is why people getting out of abusive relationships are notorious for jumping straight back into obviously unsuitable relationships. A friend of mine in Utah, America, just told me a story of two friends. Both recently out of abusive relationships, both getting married again to people they have been dating for less than three months. One of them openly admits the partner they are marrying is financially abusive and takes advantage of them. But being taken advantage of financially, and all the misery that brings, is better to a lot of people than sitting alone and feeling empty and without purpose. It is better than feeling ‘lonely’. And it’s a quick fix to find an unsuitable partner. A lot quicker than filling your life with purpose and meaning. With the added advantage you can blame the partner for all the problems and misery in your life. So, as long as you don't actually care about your happiness, it’s a real ‘win - win’. But assuming you do care about your long-term happiness, well it’s probably best to find some meaning in life. People with rich, fulfilling lives, full of meaning and purpose are never lonely, neither do they shun company, but they are equanimous. They can take it or leave it. They can appreciate the benefits, the joy even, of being alone. They can appreciate the beauty of silence.
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  5945. LONELINESS by me... ‘Loneliness is not the lack of company in one’s life. It is the lack of meaning in one’s life. People merely distract us from ourselves.’ [redacted] People distract us from the lack of meaning in our life. They entertain us, they annoy us, they make us laugh, most of all they distract us. They distract us from the emptiness inside of us. The absence of people in life does not make us lonely. The awareness of our own emptiness is what makes us lonely. If we fill that void with meaning, with purpose, with life, we will never be lonely. We can take the company of good people. We can walk away from toxic people, not needing their company, not exposing our happiness to their pollutants in order to not feel alone. When we feel bad about ourselves, when we have low self-esteem, when we have a lack of meaning in our lives, when we don't know who we are; we are desperate to be distracted from ourselves and made feel happy. Even if that ‘happy’ is just not feeling bad about ourselves. Often it’s better to be annoyed by someone else than depressed about ourselves. This is why people getting out of abusive relationships are notorious for jumping straight back into obviously unsuitable relationships. A friend of mine in Utah, America, just told me a story of two friends. Both recently out of abusive relationships, both getting married again to people they have been dating for less than three months. One of them openly admits the partner they are marrying is financially abusive and takes advantage of them. But being taken advantage of financially, and all the misery that brings, is better to a lot of people than sitting alone and feeling empty and without purpose. It is better than feeling ‘lonely’. And it’s a quick fix to find an unsuitable partner. A lot quicker than filling your life with purpose and meaning. With the added advantage you can blame the partner for all the problems and misery in your life. So, as long as you don't actually care about your happiness, it’s a real ‘win - win’. But assuming you do care about your long-term happiness, well it’s probably best to find some meaning in life. People with rich, fulfilling lives, full of meaning and purpose are never lonely, neither do they shun company, but they are equanimous. They can take it or leave it. They can appreciate the benefits, the joy even, of being alone. They can appreciate the beauty of silence.
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  6259.  @Hdcrxycloid-o1y  No they do - QUOTE: "Ritual as a response to anxiety Anthropologists have long observed that people across cultures tend to perform more rituals in times of uncertainly. Stressful events such as warfare, environmental threat and material insecurity are often linked with spikes in ritual activity. In a laboratory study in 2015, my colleagues and I found that under conditions of stress people’s behavior tends to become more rigid and repetitive – in other words, more ritualized. The reason behind this propensity lies in our cognitive makeup. Our brain is wired to make predictions about the state of the world. It uses past knowledge to make sense of current situations. But when everything around us is changing, the ability to make predictions is limited. This causes many of us to experience anxiety." ---§--- I have lots and lots more on this - ceremony and ritual is a very deep and fundamental part of the human psychology, we now on a superficial level - as in this paragraph - but we dont know the evolutionary role that led to it. We are even beginning to believe that we were wrong about the birth of civilisation - its now thought that hunter-gatherers gathered together for ceremony and then became sedentary around the areas of the ritual and that led to the planting of crops and NOT the other way around. We are also starting to believe that human bodies developed to contain the bacteria in our stomachs, arms to feed the bacteria, legs to move the arms to the food source and a barin to seek it out. In other words - there is a LOT we don't fully understand about humans.
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  6567. Why people move to the U.S.A. YEAH - I'm an author of the collapse of civilisation and psychology. Let me tell you the reason so many people want to move to the USA - DELUSION. Delusion as to what it is really like, caused by your movie and entertainment industry. People want to get to the HOLLYWOOD version of America, they have no idea it is largely a 3rd world country for 40% of its people. WHY do people not want to move to China, the same reason. Western propaganda about life in China. I know several westerners living in China and they absolutely love it. They especially love the education system and how they look after children. their main complaint - the flashing traffic cameras - their traffic cams have a flash on them and it is incredibly annoying. AND THAT is their biggest complaint. The other reason people want to move to the USA is English language, most people around the world are speaking some English - it makes it simple. Its also the reason people from Africa travel through France to get to the UK - they speak English - it makes life a lot easier. I now live in Bulgaria, an ex-communist country that was part of the USSR. So you are now picturing grey with snow and bread lines. In fact its 300 days of sunshine each year, palm trees, blue sea, endless golden beaches, skiing in the mountains, 115F in summer, amazing food and a huge percentage of the population want to go BACK to communism here cos communism here was very good to people. 85% of people own their own house with NO mortgage, and 65% own a 2nd home in the countryside with NO mortgage. Your idea of the USSR and communism is ENTIRELY based on propaganda [as was mine]. People move to the USA because of propaganda, they don't move to China because of propaganda. Also - the USA is one of the least free countries in the world - it has 97,000 federal laws and an average of another 80,000 state laws. OK - sorry for the long post - hope it cleared some things up for you.
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  6804. THE FUTURE IS COMPLICATED AND THE PAST IS AN EASY SELL The massive advantage the “right wing” “conservative” “keep the status quo” side of the debate has in a declining society is that the past WAS better than the present and the past is really easily defined. We have pictures and videos and memories of the past. So saying “We can go back to the times you personally remember as good times” is a really really easy sell. But time moved forward. You quite literally can not go back to those days, even if you try and recreate it, your starting point is completely different. It’s today. If you assume that 1950 was the high point of America and you try to turn the clock back to 1950. Well 1950 DIDN'T start with the problems of 2022. You cant recreate 1950 without the recent winning of a world war. You cant live in the glory times of the 1950 an “un know” the climate crisis. If you totally engineered society with the jobs and the laws and the TV of 1950, it would not be anything like 1950 because the year that gave America 1950 was 1949 and not 2022. And that's why “conservatism” is such an amazingly easy sell. Its incredibly attractive in a declining society to want to go back. But you literally can not. So you can only move forward. And the future is unknown, ill defined, full of doubt and scary. And that is why “left” politics is incredibly hard to sell and everyone is always fighting and never unified - because the future is at the present still a debate. “We want to go back to how it was in 1950” is super well defined and there is no debate. “We want to go forward to one of many possible futures that we cant agree on” is a much harder sell. When things are collapsing, when you have a faction in society determined to turn the clock back to a past glory days, when you have politicians exploiting peoples fears, a media pumping out bad news to keep you distracted from the thoughts that the status quo might actually be a completely rotten tree and all you have to look forward to is an undefined future of no doubt endless horrors; its normal to have a mental health problem. A mental health problem of some form of other, anxiety, stress, depression, is the normal human reaction to the situation in the world today, especially given that a wall of misinformation and propaganda hitting you ever day.
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  6954.  @Titan500J  - dude - or Dudette - its not a question of not agreeing with me - I don't even live in your country. And its NOT my "opinion" its published GOP policy from the 80's. Here is a snippet of a script I wrote. Why America is full of idiots. In the late 1970's and early 80's computers became a thing and you could process lots of statistical data for the first time. And the political parties did... The data showed the GOP they would be demographic-ed out of existence in a couple of decades. It also showed the GOP that stupid badly educated people - amazingly - voted for them. Voted AGAINST their own interests, as blue-collar workers and for the GOP. So the GOP started to breed their own supporters. They systematically defunded education - in 1976 education was 5.7% of GDP. In 1983 it was 3.4% Some of the specific changes they made were to STOP teaching critical thinking skills, skills that ALLOW people to spot a lie. And it was wildly successful. America now has an uneducated subclass of 35% idiots and it is enough to swing elections. I'm a psychologist and author in Europe. In working on a book "How to survive in a collapsing society". So I have been researching this for months. Its possibly the evilest social engineering / eugenics in history. They knowingly and deliberately engineered poor people with no future and lied to them for 40 years to stay in power and screw over working and middle-class Americans... And it WORKED - that is the unbelievable part to me - IT WORKED...
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  7055.  @Akihito007  - you tell yourself whatever fantasy makes you happy. It is of no concern to me. I don't live in your country, I understand your fear. Your very civilisation is collapsing. It's scary. Im sorry for you. But the sooner you come to terms with reality the easier it will be. This is the list of contributing factors to societal collapse: Plague / disease Y Environmental change Y Massive wealth inequality Y Loss of the administrative class Y The government stops governing Y Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Y Loss of faith in the political system Y Economic collapse Y Exposed obvious corruption Y Crumbling infrastructure Y Mismanagement of a crisis Y Societal division Y Loss of belief in the unity of the society Y Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Y Increased isolationism Y Rising internal violence Y Excessive spending on military / arms race Y Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / hyper inflation Y If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. If all happen at the same time, it's guaranteed to be the end. --§-- BTW - Marxism isn't godless. Marxism had not killed more people bal bla 100 years. Religion has killed more people than any other belief. America is not the best country in the world, it never was. its just a country, good and bad - that's propaganda you are fed to stop you asking why your life sucks. If you want a free copy of my book "How To Cope In A Collapsing Society" contact me on howtocopeinacollapsingsociety @ gmail . com It will help you cope with your current reality.
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  7316. I HAVE BEEN TAILORING men's historical clothing for 2 years now - these are MY top tips. 1) Buy a vintage SINGER STRAIGHT LINE SEWING MACHINE pref 201k if you can but any solid metal - NO ZIG ZAG - NO FEATURES. Get it professionally serviced. The difference between this machine and even a 1980's metal Singer zig zag machine is night and day - it will transform your LIFE. 2) Buy a cheap "disposable" plastic modern machine for button holes [though you can get a button hole attachment for the singer], overlocking, zig zag, decorative stitches etc 3) Buy multiple colours of quality chalk 4) Buy an INCH and a CM tape measure - when drafting you put the NUMBER on your mark - you stretch the tape out and you mark AT THE METAL END i.e 14" to 0" mark at zero 5) Buy either an old heavy vintage steam iron that weighs 1.5kg the Bakelite and metal ones OR just bite the bullet and buy a professional tailors iron 6) Buy / make pressing weights - when you PRESS a seam you then need a heavy metal plate to hold it in place whilst the fabric cools and dries - this is incredibly important 7) Old electric cooker cast iron hot plates make AMAZING pattern weights, look out at the council recycling place for an old hob 8) The "closing seam" is the last seam on a garment to be sewn up - many vintage drafting instructions will mention this but Google has no idea 9) A "scky" is an arm hole 10) Tailoring is a series of separate jobs. Making a jacket is a massive task, but actually, it is about 50 small separate tasks, you don't need to be good at making a jacket. You just need to practice the tasks. So cut out the patter, do the bits you can do. When you get to doing a "welted pocket" - just watch a Youtube video on making a welted pocket and practice 4 or 5 times on scraps of fabric, then do your welted pockets. Move on. DONT BE scared of large projects. 11) there is ALWAYS a great YouTube video telling you exactly how to do each step - even if you THINK you know, watch a video...
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  7401.  @thecursed01  - there is literally so much wrong with your comment I don't even know where to start. In 1917 Russia was a FEUDAL AGRARIAN SOCIETY WITH SERFS* and you are complaining that they had not transformed a medieval country into a modern economy in less than 10 years...,???? Sounds a legit criticism. In not even going to bother rebutting the rest of the stuff cos its academic, communism is not an ALTERNATIVE to capitalism, it was never supposed to be even Marx said this... I wrote this as a draft for an article the other day... COMMUNISM IN 50 YEARS Well like it or hate it you WILL live in some form of communist state in the next 50 years. Capitalism is FUNDAMENTALLY flawed, I dont mean it has its problems. I mean the very basic concept is self cannibalising. Problem No1. Capitalism is a funnel. It funnels wealth from the bottom to the top - it also funnels power from the bottom to the top cos money = power. For capitalism to be stable you have to TAX the top heavily and move the money back down to the bottom JUST to keep the system functioning. Rich powerful people DO NOT like being taxed. And as capitalism INEVITABLY produces rich powerful people who control media and politicians they get their way. This hoovers all the money out of the working class, then you give them credit - they sell their future work, and then they are EMPTY. But for capitalism to continue it NEEDS MONEY - so the middle class are the next to go - and you can see this in the USA and the UK - it is eating the middle class. It also starts to eat the state, private prisons, private education etc etc... Ultimately there is NO MONEY left in the system - that has already happened the FED in America si literally printing money to keep the system working. So capitalism HAS TO COLLAPSE. It is 100% inevitable from the very start of the system. And people predicted this 150 and 200 years ago. Problem 2. Capitalism HAS to GROW to exist. it is NOT a static model. It has to grow by about 3% each year to continue. That is a DOUBLING of the world economy every 27 years. The earth is at 130% of capacity now. WE CAN NOT extract 260% per year of the earth capacity in another 27 years - its not possible to live on that planet. SO. A static zero growth economic model is required, a model that removes the profit motive is required [to long to explain why] is required and due to AI a UBI is required - the only economic model we have that allows the earth to survive and people to eat is a communism based model. It wont be Stalin's Russia, it will be some hybrid modernised version. But YOU WILL LIVE under a communist economic model if you live another 50 years. ---§--- You see - as Marx said, capitalism collapses, it is replaced by socialism that is in turn replaced by advanced communism
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  7522. I WROTE THIS 3 YEARS AGO - TELL ME I'm WRONG…? [only now it has spread globally] The balance has been tipped; there is no money left in the working class, they are in debt up to their eyeballs so now it is time for the elites to start eating the middle class. The lower value houses are to go to repossession auction at a bargain price and be gifted to the grandchildren of the Etonians as rental income properties and the smaller farmers are to be bought at bankruptcy auction to enlarge the estates of the landowners and Tory donors. To do this you are hacking into your voter base, but it must be done to keep funnelling money and assets to the top. You can lie to the red wall - that will get you so far. But ultimately "democracy" has to go. You CAN NOT continue to win elections, no matter how twisted the system, when Tory voters are losing houses and farms. So "democracy" has to go - or the system can no longer FEED. And the ONLY purpose of the Tory party is to FEED the system. And the system has one purpose, funnel ever-increasing wealth to the top. Brexit is a vehicle to move assets from the middle class to the elites. They dont care if the economy crashes, they have more money than they can ever spend - they are insulated. A nice BIG CRASH that devalues property and bankrupts farms is GREAT...! They can snap them up. Cos the thing the elites of the UK know is money is meaningless when you have enough of it - CAPITAL ASSETS is what builds and maintains generational wealth. That is why the price of houses and land are so high right now, they are converting cash money into capital assets at a rate never seen in history. So they NEED a crash to bring the price down whilst they snap it all up... The collapse IS THE POINT, its snouts in the trough for the next grotesque gorging of British assets. So they HAVE to go the Tories. Not must go; HAVE TO GO or the UK will never be a democracy again in our lifetimes and the life of the working person will be that of a peasant.
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  7589.  @TBrl8  no. These are just publicly available statistics that anybody can look up. The general population being in favour of something by 70% or 80% has zero effect on that legislation getting past or not. The top 10% being in favour of something has a 75% chance of it being passed. If you want to change something in America, you have to get the house to vote for it and Senate to vote for it the President to sign it then when it goes into law, you have the legal challenges and it goes through all the multiple different realms of law, and then it goes up to the Supreme Court, you have to win every single one of those battles in order to get legislation passed. In order to stop it, you have to win one of those battles.. A perfect example is student loan forgiveness. Your entire political and legal system is geared up to prevent anything happening that the rich people of the country do not want, and they are 100% successful in stopping legislation they don't like. Trump wants to smash this system in order to be all-powerful and to stay in power, Trump's only way into power is through the poorest 50% of the country voting for him, the people with the least power. There is no way on gods earth, the top 10% of people in America, economically and politically, are going to allow the bottom 50% of people to install a man who will smash up their beautifully constructed system. The system that gives them exactly what they want all the time. I hate Trump - but in many ways he is 100% correct - THE ESTABLISHMENT DONT WANT HIM AND THE ESTABLISHMENT HATE THE WORKING PEOPLE OF AMERICA...!!! Unfortunately, neither Trump nor Berni Sanders are going to be allowed to smash the beautiful system...!!! This is just how America works - it works on MONEY and the money does not want Trump.
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  8107.  @lynnjenkins8732  - When I'm not rage commenting as above I'm an author. I'm writing a book on the collapse of civilisations right now. This is the list of contributing factors to societal collapse: Plague / disease Y Environmental change Y Massive wealth inequality Y Loss of the administrative class Y The government stops governing Y Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Y Loss of faith in the political system Y Economic collapse Y Exposed obvious corruption Y Crumbling infrastructure Y Mismanagement of a crisis Y Societal division Y Loss of belief in the unity of the society Y Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Y Increased isolationism Y Rising internal violence Y Excessive spending on military / arms race Y Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / hyper inflation Y If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. If all happen at the same time, it's guaranteed to be the end. The USSR collapsed with 9 out of the 18. The USA scores 18/18. It is categorically collapsing. Even MIT predict total civilisation collapse by the year 2040 - Quote "Scientists in the 1970s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created a method to determine when the fall of society would take place. That method indicated the fall will be some point near the middle in the 21st century around 2040, and so far, their projections have been on track, new analysis suggests." Where we differ in our opinions is they predict it will be a global collapse. I think the USA collapses it will shock the world into action. Either way - capitalism will not exist in 2050, that much is for certain.
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  8285. I MAKE BESPOKE HISTORICAL SUTE for men 1890 - 1930 - this is my advice to you - BUY SECONDHAND - if a garment is good enough to sell used its QUALITY - then... Buy slightly too big and take it to a local seamstress and have it altered TO FIT. Rich people don't look rich cos their clothes are expensive, they look rich cos their clothes FIT. Do not buy fast fashion PLEASE and do not buy "designer" labels - it is ALL keeping you POOR. Both fast fashion AND designer labels are designed to EXTRACT as much money as possible from you >>> Fast fashion last and average of 7 wears before it is thrown away - so a $15 T Shirt costs you MORE per wear than a Savile Row suit FDesigner Labels sell to middle-class wannabes and they are SO expensive that you hardly ever wear them and the cost per wear is UNBELIEVABLY HIGH And the cost per wear is what you need to be looking at - spend $20 on something second had, spend 30 having it altered to fit perfectly and then wear it 200 times its 25 cents per wear V $2.15 for the Fast Fashion T Shirt and $1.50 for the Savile Row suit [2.5 wears per week for 30 years, $5k price] This is something I care VERY PASSIONATELY about - its destroying the planet, 40% of pollution comes from the clothing industry, and its deliberately designed to make you POOR. They have worked out models of extraction, extraction of MONEY from YOU...! EDIT: NEVER buy trends, just another way to keep you poor. Go for the "Old Money Astheitic" OR whatever YOU love and wear it until it gets holes in it, then repair/patch the holes and wear it till it literally falls apart. TIP - it is had NOT got a repair and you are throwing it away - then either, its lost its shape or colour and it was cheap - learn from this, it was a trend - dont buy trends, it was a mistake purchase - learn from this. Sorry for the long post.
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  8286. I WROTE THIS 2 YEARS AGO - TELL ME I'm WRONG…? The balance has been tipped; there is no money left in the working class, they are in debt up to their eyeballs so now it is time for the elites to start eating the middle class. The lower value houses are to go to repossession auction at a bargain price and be gifted to the grandchildren of the Etonians as rental income properties and the smaller farmers are to be bought at bankruptcy auction to enlarge the estates of the landowners and Tory donors. To do this you are hacking into your voter base, but it must be done to keep funnelling money and assets to the top. You can lie to the red wall - that will get you so far. But ultimately "democracy" has to go. You CAN NOT continue to win elections, no matter how twisted the system, when Tory voters are losing houses and farms. So "democracy" has to go - or the system can no longer FEED. And the ONLY purpose of the Tory party is to FEED the system. And the system has one purpose, funnel ever-increasing wealth to the top. Brexit is a vehicle to move assets from the middle class to the elites. They dont care if the economy crashes, they have more money than they can ever spend - they are insulated. A nice BIG CRASH that devalues property and bankrupts farms is GREAT...! They can snap them up. Cos the thing the elites of the UK know is money is meaningless when you have enough of it - CAPITAL ASSETS is what builds and maintains generational wealth. That is why the price of houses and land are so high right now, they are converting cash money into capital assets at a rate never seen in history. So they NEED a crash to bring the price down whilst they snap it all up...
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  8317. Im an author on psychology. You can tell with great accuracy someone's political leanings from the density of taste buds on their tongue. The right-wing have much higher density so they hate strong flavours "that foreign muck" - and this experiment by the University of Bejing you might like... The Child In The Well Experiment Mencius (fourth century BCE) was a Confucian philosopher. He proposed that all humans were inherently good. They all has “sprouts” of goodness, they just needed nurturing. To demonstrate this he proposed the following. A young child is sat on a well, as you want by it falls screaming down the well. He says EVERYONE would run to help the child, call for help. Recently this was tested. Subjects were taken to a room in a different city and there was a video screen of the space outside and it shows a well with a child on it. The subjects don't know this is a a pre recorded video, they think it is a live feed. As the “experiment” is being set up the child falls screaming down the well. The theory is that 100% of people will react and call the assistant to go help the child. This is not the case. 80% do exactly that, they go nuts and scream for help, run out the room to try and save the child, just what you would expect. 20% do NOTHING. They don't call for help, they don't get up and try to help and a significant proportion don't even register any facial emotions. They just passively watch a child die as if they were watching a commercial for shampoo. Upon further investigation, the vast majority of these that don't react are right to far right wing in their political views. ---§--- The right-wing doesn't HAVE empathy for others in the same way the left does. To then it's IDIOTIC to care about a person who does not share your DNA. The border guard guy who died trying to save immigrants in the river - to THEM that is 100% proof that caring about others is idiotic. And from an evolutionary standpoint -they were the ones that fled and did not defend the village when attacked and wiped out and they survived and the village lived on. They HAD [past tense] and evolutionary role. Today they are just terrible human beings.
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  8410. THE BOOK is called "Restruct" - its on a list of banned books by the Russians - this is the translation of the "OFICIAL" book review I kid you not... Hello my little extremism lovers! I know roughly what you expect to see in this book. And I'm sure you will see it. But I hasten to assure you, in fact, there is nothing of this in it. The entire book is written from start to finish. Any coincidences with real people and events are either accidental or are the fruit of your mind inflamed by extremism. The author does not agree with a single word written in the book. Moreover, he, just in case, deeply condemns her. She apologizes to everyone whom she will certainly offend. Wouldn't recommend anyone to read the book. Especially - to aggressively minded groups of citizens, including minors. I hope you don't go crazy reading it the way the author went crazy writing it. Living for an Idea is stupidity. You have to live for pleasure. In order to earn more money, buy a car, an apartment, a cottage. Marry and raise a son. Please take this into account before reading further. You must also remember that all people are equal. Prison corrects people and makes them better... What else is there? In short, go to your mother and ask her what is good. That's all and remember. Try not to forget while reading. And then get it out of your head. If it doesn't work, take it as a joke. Do not discuss with anyone - this is a dangerous occupation for the nerves. Appetite may be lost and some antisocial desire may appear. Believe me, life will be much easier for you. The less you know - you sleep better, the less you think - you live longer! what is good. That's all and remember. Try not to forget while reading. And then get it out of your head. If it doesn't work, take it as a joke. Do not discuss with anyone - this is a dangerous occupation for the nerves. Appetite may be lost and some antisocial desire may appear. Believe me, life will be much easier for you. The less you know - you sleep better, the less you think - you live longer! what is good. That's all and remember. Try not to forget while reading. And then get it out of your head. If it doesn't work, take it as a joke. Do not discuss with anyone - this is a dangerous occupation for the nerves. Appetite may be lost and some antisocial desire may appear. Believe me, life will be much easier for you. The less you know - you sleep better, the less you think - you live longer!
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  8712. I WROTE ALMOST EXACTLY THIS 3 YEARS AGO: The balance has been tipped; there is no money left in the working class, they are in debt up to their eyeballs so now it is time for the elites to start eating the middle class. The lower value houses are to go to repossession auction at a bargain price and be gifted to the grandchildren of the Etonians as rental income properties and the smaller farmers are to be bought at bankruptcy auction to enlarge the estates of the landowners and Tory donors. To do this you are hacking into your voter base, but it must be done to keep funnelling money and assets to the top. You can lie to the red wall - that will get you so far. But ultimately "democracy" has to go. You CAN NOT continue to win elections, no matter how twisted the system, when Tory voters are losing houses and farms. So "democracy" has to go - or the system can no longer FEED. And the ONLY purpose of the Tory party is to FEED the system. And the system has one purpose, funnel ever-increasing wealth to the top. Brexit is a vehicle to move assets from the middle class to the elites. They dont care if the economy crashes, they have more money than they can ever spend - they are insulated. A nice BIG CRASH that devalues property and bankrupts farms is GREAT...! They can snap them up. Cos the thing the elites of the UK know is money is meaningless when you have enough of it - CAPITAL ASSETS is what builds and maintains generational wealth. That is why the price of houses and land are so high right now, they are converting cash money into capital assets at a rate never seen in history. So they NEED a crash to bring the price down whilst they snap it all up... The collapse IS THE POINT, its snouts in the trough for the next grotesque gorging of British assets. So they HAVE to go the Tories. Not must go; HAVE TO GO or the UK will never be a democracy again in our lifetimes and the life of the working person will be that of a peasant.
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  9249. I AM AN AUTHOR and I have just finished a chapter called "THE UNREASONABLE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROPAGANDA" here is an excerpt: The other way is to literally change the definition of something. Karl Marx was for the abolition of “Private Property”, the definition today of private property is: “Private property is a legal designation for the ownership of property by non-governmental legal entities. Private property is distinguishable from public property, which is owned by a state entity.” So that's everything right? You are not allowed a car, a toothbrush, a watch, a house, a TV, a computer literally everything you own is private property and these dam commies want to take it off you! Only when Marx wrote this all of these things were “Personal Property”. “Private Property” was widely understood by everyone at the time to mean houses for rent, factories, factory machinery, farmland, drug patents, brand names, industrial units, etc. What we now call “Capital Assets”. Karl Marx was not against you owing a toothbrush, but the unreasonable effectiveness of propaganda for 150 years has literally changed the definition for the purposes of demonising communism and Marxism. Now you may not agree with Marx that capital assets should be owned by the public for the public good and not the private wealth accumulation of already rich people. That's fine. But I think we can all agree that not wanting Bezos to own Am-zon warhorses where employees have to pee in bottles and step over the dead bodies of coworkers to keep fulfilling orders, is not the same as wanting to confiscate your toothbrush. It leaves Marxists having to explain ”that's not what he actually meant when he said…” which is a very weak position to be starting a discussion form and it is the exact position the media wanted “the left” to be in when they started redefining Private Property. So even the things we think we know, we are often wrong because the literal definitions of words have been changed by decades of propaganda.
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  9292. IM AN AUTHOR on the collapse of civilisations - I wrote this 3 years ago TELL ME I WAS WRONG...? [Gary is right as well - however bad it is now - its going to get a hell of a lot worse] The balance has been tipped; there is no money left in the working class, they are in debt up to their eyeballs so now it is time for the elites to start eating the middle class. The lower value houses are to go to repossession auction at a bargain price and be gifted to the grandchildren of the Etonians as rental income properties and the smaller farmers are to be bought at bankruptcy auction to enlarge the estates of the landowners and Tory donors. To do this you are hacking into your voter base, but it must be done to keep funnelling money and assets to the top. You can lie to the red wall - that will get you so far. But ultimately "democracy" has to go. You CAN NOT continue to win elections, no matter how twisted the system, when Tory voters are losing houses and farms. So "democracy" has to go - or the system can no longer FEED. And the ONLY purpose of the Tory party is to FEED the system. And the system has one purpose, funnel ever-increasing wealth to the top. Brexit is a vehicle to move assets from the middle class to the elites. They dont care if the economy crashes, they have more money than they can ever spend - they are insulated. A nice BIG CRASH that devalues property and bankrupts farms is GREAT...! They can snap them up. Cos the thing the elites of the UK know is money is meaningless when you have enough of it - CAPITAL ASSETS is what builds and maintains generational wealth. That is why the price of houses and land are so high right now, they are converting cash money into capital assets at a rate never seen in history. So they NEED a crash to bring the price down whilst they snap it all up... The collapse IS THE POINT, its snouts in the trough for the next grotesque gorging of British assets. So they HAVE to go the Tories. Not must go; HAVE TO GO or the UK will never be a democracy again in our lifetimes and the life of the working person will be that of a peasant. ---§--- And this is what the EU Retained Law bill is about - no regulations no workers rights NOTHITHING - all got rid off instantly cos the Tories KNOW they will never get back into power so SMASH THE SYSTEM NOW
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  9306. IF YOU THINK THE RIGHT WIN CARE ABOUT LIFE - READ THIS The Child In The Well Experiment Mencius (fourth century BCE) was a Confucian philosopher. He proposed that all humans were inherently good. They all has “sprouts” of goodness, they just needed nurturing. To demonstrate this he proposed the following. A young child is sat on a well, as you want by it falls screaming down the well. He says EVERYONE would run to help the child, call for help. Recently this was tested. Subjects were taken to a room in a different city and there was a video screen of the space outside and it shows a well with a child on it. The subjects don't know this is a a pre recorded video, they think it is a live feed. As the “experiment” is being set up the child falls screaming down the well. The theory is that 100% of people will react and call the assistant to go help the child. This is not the case. 80% do exactly that, they go nuts and scream for help, run out the room to try and save the child, just what you would expect. 20% do NOTHING. They don't call for help, they don't get up and try to help and a significant proportion don't even register any facial emotions. They just passively watch a child die as if they were watching a commercial for shampoo. Upon further investigation, the vast majority - close to 100% - of these that don't react are right to far right wing in their political views. EDIT: You will need to be able to read Chinese to read the report, search YouTube for the translation.
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  9579.  @tomwensrich9602  - I'm European - we riot all the time. It's why we are significantly more free than you are. Yeah - I know you think you are free but that's PROPAGANDA to stop you thinking and it works. America has 97,000 federal laws and Alabama has an additional 106,000 state laws. OBVIOUSLY, these only apply to poor people in the USA. QUOTE: "Highest ranking in personal freedoms were Sweden (9.45) and the Netherlands (9.28). In 2019, United States has dropped to rank 15 according to The Human Freedom Index. " You rank below nearly every European country - why??? Cos you dong protest and rit to maintain your freedoms. You are morons, you think being able to commit mass killings = freedom cos your education is so poor you can't think past the first semicolon. QUOTE "The GOP defunded education for 40 years for a reason. And it worked..! This is the story of why America is full of idiots. In the late 1970's and early 80's computers became a thing and you could process lots of statistical data for the first time. And the political parties did... The data showed the GOP they would be demographic-ed out of existence in a couple of decades. It also showed the GOP that stupid badly educated people - amazingly - voted for them. Voted AGAINST their own interests, as blue-collar workers and for the GOP. So the GOP started to breed their own supporters. They systematically defunded education - in 1976 education was 5.7% of GDP. In 1983 it was 3.4% Some of the specific changes they made were to STOP teaching critical thinking skills, skills that ALLOW people to spot a lie. And it was wildly successful. America now has an uneducated subclass of 35% idiots and it is enough to swing elections. Its possibly the evilest social engineering / eugenics in history. They knowingly and deliberately engineered poor people with no future and lied to them for 40 years to stay in power and screw over working and middle-class Americans..." This means YOU...!!! You are thick by design, so you cant see the lies and the contradictions so you keep voting for the grifters and the dictators!
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  9798.  @dand4323  - NO your ignorance amazes - like all yanks you are dense AF. You are car-dependent cos of your idiotic zoning laws that mandate care dependant suburbs that are vast and un walkable with no shops. In most United States cities, 75% of land zoned for residential uses is zoned single-family car dependant with NO facilities like shops. Its your own stupidity that forces you to rely on cars. Europe is as big as the USA - we HAVE SPACE, we just dont chose to build endless car dependant places that are horrible to live in. And why are our housed 500 year old - COS WE BUILD THEM PROPERLY - not out of cardboard and sticky back plastic like you guys. You could not even SELL an American house in Europe - no one would buy it and they dont even come close to our quality standards. YOU created this mess where you need a car to simply live life - NOT the country, just cos you have space does not mean you have to build vast single-family housing estates that bankrupt cities cos they cant afford to maintain them. your zoning laws were created in the 1930's to stop toxic industry being placed in residential areas - they have NEVER been updated so you all live in identical houses that are in face a 2 car garage with a house tacked on the back and they are HIDEAOUSLY UGLY. And as a result of your stupidity, the government has to massively subsidise your gas price to make life affordable. This was LITERALLY DESIGNED AND BUILT AMERICAN PROBLEM. As usual - a European knows way more about the situation in America than the American being rude... Worst educated country on earth.
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  9973.  @edi9892  - well the problem with Marx's solution is the USA was psychopathically obsessed with ensuring they didn't work under any circumstances whatsoever... Communism has never failed, it has always been destroyed. In 1945 the life expectancy in Russia was 35 in 1985 it was 75. The fastest rise in life expectancy in history. In 1915 Russia was a FUDAL society with 90% of people living as literal peasants, in 1960's it beat the USA to put a satellite into orbit. In the recent elections here in Bulgaria the communist party got 25% of the vote and got the vast majority of the vote of the people who actually remember communism. 85% of people here own their own home with no mortgage - cos evil communism. And 65% own a second home in the countryside for the weekends - no mortgage... Communism, like everything, is much more complex than can be summed up in a soundbite or western propaganda. Im an author on the collapse of civilisations, I wrote this a few weeks ago: COMMUNISM IN 50 YEARS Well like it or hate it you WILL live in some form of communist state in the next 50 years. Capitalism is FUNDAMENTALLY flawed, I dont mean it has its problems. I mean the very basic concept is self canabalising. Problem No1. Capitalism is a funnel. It funnels wealth from the bottom to the top - it also funnels power from the bottom to the top cos money = power. For capitalism to be stable you have to TAX the top heavily and move the money back down to the bottom JUST to keep the system functioning. Rich powerful people DO NOT like being taxed. And as capitalism INEVITABLY produces rich powerful people who control media and politicians they get their way. This hoovers all the money out of the working class, then you give them credit - they sell their future work, and then they are EMPTY. But for capitalism to continue it NEEDS MONEY - so the middle class are the next to go - and you can see this in the USA and the UK - it is eating the middle class. It also starts to eat the state, private prisons, private education etc etc... Ultimately there is NO MONEY left in the system - that has already happened the FED in America si literally printing money to keep the system working. So capitalism HAS TO COLLAPSE. It is 100% inevitable from the very start of the system. And people predicted this 150 and 200 years ago. Problem 2. Capitalism HAS to GROW to exist. it is NOT a static model. It has to grow by about 3% each year to continue. That is a DOUBLING of the world economy every 27 years. The earth is at 130% of capacity now. WE CAN NOT extract 260% per year of the earth capacity in another 27 years - its not possible to live on that planet. SO. A static zero growth economic model is required, a model that removes the profit motive is required [to long to explain why] is required and due to AI a UBI is required - the only economic model we have that allows the earth to survive and people to eat is a communism based model. It wont be Stalin's Russia, it will be some hybrid modernised version. But YOU WILL LIVE under a communist economic model if you live another 50 years. ---§--- Sorry for the long post.
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  10043.  @vectoraerialimaging774  - OK for the sake of people who genuinely DONT KNOW. Let me explain a few things as quickly as possible... 1) China is not a dum6 country, it it snot run by dum6 politicians like the UK and the U5A for example 2) China knows it has a demographic issue but 3) Chine KNOW THAT INFINITE GROWTH ON A FINITE PLANET IS FICTION so 4) Unlike the U5A and the UK etc they are planning for the REAL world, if you rely on infinite [and unsustainable] growth the decline of population is a 5) DEATH SPIRAL - but this would mean the UK having a population of 300 million in 2100 - can you see the problem 6) China is moving to a STEADY STATE economy - a no growth economy - now I knot know where they will cap growth 7) the economy IS NOT in the toilet - the economy is transitioning to supply its internal market of 400 - 800 million people and is preparing for a steady state no growth economy why all this BECAUSE UNLIKE THE U5A AND THE UK CHINA LIVES IN THE REAL WORLD They have to adapt to climate change, they have to adapt to internal supply, they have to feed 1.4 billion people, they have to adapt to a steady state economy cos infinite growth is IMPOSSIBLE. YOU are judging China's economy by WESTERN - TOTALLY BROKEN UNSUSTAINABLE FANTASY ECONOMIC STANDARDS. You are expecting China to do what Am3ric4 would - but doing what Am3ric4 is doing is unsustainable and utterly id!otic they only do it cos they have to win an election every 4 years. it is a recipe for catastrophic failure. The criterion by which you are judging them is COMPLETELY BOGUS. its a Western model that measures western ideals - ideals that are collapsing in the west. EG "while they are the most indebted nation in the history of the world". NO China is not in debt at all - they ahve vast amounts of $USD and the bit you are missing - they have TWO currencies. An internal one and an external one - they can print and infinite amount of money and it NOT affect their internal currency value - or their external currency value. - china runs on Modern Economic Theory - national debt is fictional as long as you can control inflation - if you have 2 currencies you CAN control inflation. The main thing to take away from this VERY LONG POST is you CAN NOT look at china and say "OH this is bad and this is good" cos YOU DO NOT possess the analytical structures to make that judgement - China is more like an alien planet than an analogue of the west. EDIT - Im not being insulting here - virtually NO ONE in the west understands China, you can not understand China's policy making without a detailed knowledge of ancient Chinese philosophy. They do things VERY differently - they live in a different version of reality ot the west, one where they intend being around in 1000 years...!!
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  10438.  @Vivivofi  - YES. Sorry. But dont stress too much - its what civilisations do. This is the list of contributing factors to societal collapse: Plague / disease Yes Environmental change Y Massive wealth inequality Y Loss of the administrative class Y The government stops governing Y Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Y Loss of faith in the political system Y Economic collapse Y Exposed obvious corruption Y Crumbling infrastructure Y Mismanagement of a crisis Y Societal division Y Loss of belief in the unity of the society Y Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Y Increased isolationism Y Rising internal violence Y Excessive spending on military / arms race Yes Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / inflation Y If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. If all happen at the same time, it's guaranteed to be the end. The USSR collapsed with 9 out of the 18. America scores 18/18. And you have reached "cascading interconnected systems failure" - everything is broken and everything you need to fix it is also broken. My home country, the UK scores 17/18 The only question left is can you MANAGE the collapse? Will it be like the end of the British Empire - or Yugoslavia 1992. If you subscribe to me my new book "ADRIFT IN THE SHARK TANK - how to cope in a post-pandemic world" will be published shortly and it is specifically on how to cope with the collapse, because most people instinctively know its happening and this is in large part why so many people are not coping at the moment. A recent survey showed that 70% of Americans have a diagnosable mental health problem. Im hoping to do my bit to help this.
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  10853.  @landonhoward2971  - QUOTE "If there was actual scientific evidence backed by peer reviewed studies that showed that wearing masks all the time, everywhere, greatly prevented the spread of coronavirus then there would be a good argument for asking people to do so. " There are - there are dozens of them. But even if it were questionable. Why not just wear the damn mask? Why act like a 6 year old that has been told they cant have an ice cream? Where I live there are many people who said "Does this work? Does this do anything?" but they still wore the mask cos is a tiny tiny TINY thing to do that MAY save some lives and allow society to get back to normal quicker. No one wet their pants about "freedom" - they just did it cos IT MIGHT HELP. At least you are not denying the virus exists, that a bonus I suppose. Let me tell you something. If a government and media is banging on about "freedom" all the time its cos they are taking away your freedoms, and NOT by making you wear a mask - by legislation to spy on you and restrict your voting rights and stop you protesting ETC. Americans talk about freedom cos they live in a society with very restricted freedoms - people that live in truly free societies don't bang on endlessly about it. The same goes for "greatest country on earth" - by no metric whatsoever is the USA the greatest country on earth, but banging on about it stops people noticing the severe decline. Your OP said "You’ve been lied to and manipulated" and 100% YOU HAVE. But its not the damn mask issue, its the "Patriot Act", its the TPP, Its the Trickle down economics, this mask shit and the other culture wars are just idiotic destractions. You want to start a revolution in your country I am 100% BEHIND YOU. But moaning about mask mandates if stopping you from seeing the REAL destruction to your country. BOTH your political parties have sold you out. The GOP way more than the Dems - but they both have. For the love of God put this mask zeal into something useful - try and save your damn country. Cos it IS collapsing.
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  10872.  @billthecook4357  - Well as a European it would be my natural reaction to call you crazy for the guns, but you live in a country with 400 million guns, if things get bad they will likely get REALLY bad. I'm about to publish a book called "ADRIFT IN THE SHARK TANK - how to cope in a post-pandemic world" - its not a preppers guide, its a psychological manual, but this is a section you might relate to: So your number ONE top priority in life is to clear any debt you have and to never take any more debt on unless it is to start a business or buy a house. Do absolutely everything humanly possible to clear every penny of debt you have, I mean go to extreme lengths. Go around your house and put a little sticker on everything you have not used for the last 12 months - you don't need it, put it on eBay and sell it. Even if you only get $5 for an item - that's $10, $20 even $50 over the lifetime of that debt you are clearing off. Cos $5 can be the difference in a payment happening or a payment “bouncing” and then you will be hit with late fees. Stop buying ANYTHING that is not food, a necessity for your children, an absolute necessity for life and pay off those debts in the order of most horrifically expensive. PayDay loans first. Credit cards second. Car finance third. Bank loans fourth. Mortgage fith. ---§--- This is another section and the one that 99.95 of people fall foul of. REALITY LAG ‘I haven't learned how to confront a problem by avoiding it.’ Brian Spellman People’s admission and acceptance of the reality of any given bad situation is always rolling six months to one year behind reality. This is largely why small businesses go bust, people ignore the red flags for way too long. This is how people end up trapped in an abusive relationship - because they make excuses for the first year and ignore people ignore the red flags. This is how people wind up in a dictatorship, because people ignore the red flags... ...When the universe sends you a hurricane warning via the weather service, it’s probably a good time to board up your house and evacuate. That way you have the best chance of surviving and your property surviving. That's not being pessimistic or unambitious. That's just being sensible, heading the warnings and preparing. But when the universe sends us a warning that things are not that great with our small business, or our relationship, or our finances, the vast majority of us say, ‘It will be OK’, ‘it will work its self out’, ‘we’ve had hard times before…’ Toxic Positivity has trained us to ignore reality for fear of being ‘negative’ and ‘pessimistic’ when in reality all we would be is prepared. We seek out motivational material to overcome any temporary lag in our relentless and socially approved of positivity. And we deny the reality of our situation.
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  10921.  @Rose-hx9vk  NO - wrong again. Im 52 years old. I have travelled in 53 countries, lived on 23 continents, I'm an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations - and NO I dont care about your personal property. "Research Cuba" - I've interviewed over 1000 people who lived under communism in the ex-soviet union - I am LITERALLY typing this IN the ex-Soviet Union. I speak Russian and Bulgarian дори мога да чета и пиша на български. And the schools under communism were FANTASTIC, so shut up with that BS for starters. Many of the people I interviewed had 2, 3 even 4 university degrees. AND NO they do NOT thank the USA for bankrupting the USDSR they hate you for it - you destroyed their lives. OH - the USA is collapsing - you have entered "cascading systems failure" and there is no way out... This is the list of contributing factors to societal collapse: Plague / disease Y Environmental change Y Massive wealth inequality Y Loss of the administrative class Y The government stops governing Y Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Y Loss of faith in the political system Y Economic collapse Y Exposed obvious corruption Y Crumbling infrastructure Y Mismanagement of a crisis Y Societal division Y Loss of belief in the unity of the society Y Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Y Increased isolationism Y Rising internal violence Y Excessive spending on military / arms race Y Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / hyper inflation Y If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. If all happen at the same time, it's guaranteed to be the end. The USSR collapsed with 9 out of the 18. America scores 18/18. And you have reached "cascading interconnected systems failure" - everything is broken and everything you need to fix it is also broken. The only question left is can you MANAGE the collapse? Will it be like the end of the British Empire - or Yugoslavia 1992 with way more guns. ---§--- Capitalism is inherently self-cannibalising - you won't like it, but Marx pointed this out 150 years ago. Just cos you dont like Marx does not mean he was wrong, and sadly for the west, he was right. Capitalism is a funnel that steadily moves wealth to the top. When it has emptied out the working class it starts on the middle class. unless you heavily tax the top and spend the money at the bottom the system LITERALLY runs out of money to function - and this is the USA 2022 with the Fed printing money to keep the system functioning. Americans voted for tax cuts for 40 years and that has allowed the money to be vacuumed up by the top 1% - 3 people have the same wealth as the bottom 50% - the SYSTEM DOES NOT HAVE THE MONEY TO CONTINUE FUNCTIONING. The solution for each president "print money" and kick the can down the road till after the next election when its not my problem. - so no, I'm not young, I'm old and this is my job, analysing how civilisations collapse and how people contribute to that and react to it. my next book "how to cope in a collapsing society" will be out this year - you should keep an eye out for it.
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  10952.  @yehldyehld  - They don't. I know it would seem logical - but that is not the way it works. Lets assume a house costs the landlord £400 a month in everything. And the average person in the area has a disposable income of £3000 a month - what will the rent be? £400? £600? or £1800? Its going to be £1800. We both know the landlord is NOT going to rent it out at a ratio of the cost. Its what the market will sustain. So the government legislate that food must be decent and the mass-manufactured crap we eat now and the average disposable income goes down to £2000 as the cost of food goes up? People leave for cheaper houses and the landlord is left with an empty property until he drops it to £1000 Lets assume the price of food does not change - and the interest rated drops and the landlord is now paying £250 a month - does he reduce the rent by £150 NO. Lets assume the interest rate goes up and he has to pay £550 does he put the rent up - of course, he is a parasite so he puts it up to £2000 and the person moves out and he cant fill th property until he drops it and absorbs the £150 cost. LANDLORDS ARE THE SPONGE THAT MOPS UP ALL THE SPAIR CASH IN SOCIETY The costs the landlord has to bear have NOTHING to do with the rent charged its the amount of available cash in an area and that is governed among other things by the cheap industrialised food and plastic crap from China. This is why landlords are the single most parasitic thing in society - they literally prevent standards of living rising. If wages go up - they suck up the extra immediatly.
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  11049.  @realhorrorshow8547 ALLOW ME TO EXPAND Britain is utterly bankrupt and in freefall collapse and no amount of Labour will fix it. Labour are complicit in not talking about it as they know they will be in power in a few months and THEY will have the problem. The Tories have hollowed out the Uk like the Oligarchs hollowed out the Russian army. To give you an idea - YOU NEED TO SPEND £293 BILLION ON NEW SHCOOLD NOW...!!! And thats just schools - you have not built or maintained anything since 1975. The total bill for things that NEED replacing in the next 10 years is over £1.5 Trillion and you are arguing about £28 billion for green stuff as if that wil make any difference to anything. You have been living by selling off the things you had, the companies, the utilities, the council houses, the victorian schools and hospitals, the school playing fields - and now you have NOTHING LEFT except the broken sh!t no one wants to buy and NEEDS maintaining or replacing - 38% of the UK public buildings are PAST their usable live and 3.3% more go past that every year cos you only build 30 year life buildings. 300 Council homes evacuated in Aberdeen - this will be a WEEKLY thing over the next 10 years as unusable buildings start to collapse. This is the UK's 1991 USSR moment. NOTHING Labour can do can save you. The UK is a completely broken basket case in the middle in freefall collapse and you are arguing about protestors - why? WHY? Cos both parties know there will be food riots in the future - protests on a scale you have never seen - THATS WHY THE PROTEST BANS ARE GOING THROUGH AND WHY LABOUR ARE NOT OPPOSING THEM...!!! Labour want the protest bans JUST as much as Sunak cos they are going to be VERY handy when there are 2 million in London demanding food...!!! You have 10 to 15 years of continued collapse and increasing hardship before things start to improve. Im an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations - this is my job.
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  11059. QUOTE from a 1991 report "When reporters recently tracked down Thomas' sister, Emma Mae Martin, living in a beat-up frame house in Pin Point, Ga., they didn't find a story of welfare dependency. Instead, they found a story of hard work by three generations of a family struggling like most other families do, just to make ends meet. Martin was deserted by her husband in 1973, just as her father had disappeared 25 years earlier. She worked two minimum-wage jobs while her brother attended law school, but stopped working to take care of an elderly aunt who had suffered a stroke. That led to four or five years on welfare, trying to make it on $169 a month. That's over. She now works as a cook at the same hospital where her mother is a nurse's assistant. What about her children, who Thomas said were being indoctrinated into welfare dependency? As it turns out, Mark, 22, works as a carpenter. Christine, 20, recently was laid off from a bakery. Leola, 15, is still a student. And the eldest, Clarence, served aboard the battleship Wisconsin during Operation Desert Storm. There may be true stories to be found of welfare cheats. Emma Mae Martin is not one of them. In fact, her story sounds more like the story of a mom who did what you're supposed to do: Finish school, work hard, take care of your family and raise your kids to do the same. Martin feels no bitterness toward her brother. As for his conservatism, she laughed heartily to a Los Angeles Times reporter: ``That's just Clarence. He had his opinions. Whatever he said had to go, just like my grandfather.'"
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  11122.  @ladylaurus8493  " I occasionally hand out hot soup/chili and hot chocolate during the cold winter days " OH this is so nice of you - THANK YOU! I wrote this on another comment: Kinds under shcool age get food delivered to the door every day, kids get free school meals, schools are small and distributed so kids can all walk to school, the 3 age groups are next to each other so the older kids can walk the younger ones to school, there is a ratio of 1 child psychologist to every 300 kids in a school, kids learn to drive in little electric cars on proper road layouts from 5yr so they are good citizens on the road when they get a car, many schools have dorms for the kids to sta couple of nights a week to give the parents a break, almost every apartment block has a playground within 50 yards for the kids and they are in good condition, the old people look after the kids after work, no one uses child care here. OH and you get 2 years parental leave from work when you have a kid. And teachers are among the highest-paid in society. I dont have children - but my life is improved every day by the way they treat kids here - they worked out [under communism] if you abuse kids you get a messed up society in 30 years... ---§--- This is in ex communist Bulgaria - say what you want about the communists, they were brilliant at city planning and they created little villages in the city and these villages bring up the children. My "village" is about 10 apartment blocks with fields and playgrounds and a little high street with busy shops. I know every child and every dog in my "village" and 500 yards away in the next village, I know no one LOL.
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  11149.  @scurra1163  - Well IM the author on psychology and the collapse of civilisation that has spent 12 years collecting people's stories of life under communism for a book and you are a shouty rando on the internet... So who should we trust here??? OK - So lets say you - shouty person - could buy a house for $25,000, have a job for life that paid you $75,000 index-linked, a good union and a pension that paid you 75% of your final salary, your university cost you $5,000, great medical insurance and you had a new car you bought cash every 2 years and only one of you had to work so the other person could look after your kids - ARE YOU TELLING ME that this would be a bad life??? cos THAT is what these people are remembering, you can accuse them of not remembering the bad stuff and sure they gloss over that. But what they are NOT misremembering is that THEIR LIVES WERE VASTLY BETTER TO YOUR LIFE. And that is why you are an angry shouty person on the internet. You are not angry cos they are misrepresenting the past - you are angry they are RIGHT in many ways - your life is sh!t working an uber style contract and no hope of buying a house. My friend in America started as an intern at a company 33 years ago. She is now on $225k, she HAS a 75% pension and she just downsized her house that she bought 30 years ago for $1.1 million - now you cant hate her cos she is massively left wing and goes out every winter handing out coats and gloves she has bought to every homeless person in her city. YOU are angry cos that life is not available to you. YOU want them to be misremembering - cos that just means they are id!ots and you can write them off and that makes YOU feel better about how you have been totally and utterly shafted by neoliberalism in America.
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  11248. CASHING OUT BEFORE THE CRASH thats whats happening - Sell now at the top of the market, which induces a crashand then buy more properties in the middle of the property crisis. I wrote this about it 3 years ago: The balance has been tipped; there is no money left in the working class, they are in debt up to their eyeballs so now it is time for the elites to start eating the middle class. The lower value houses are to go to repossession auction at a bargain price and be gifted to the grandchildren of the Etonians as rental income properties and the smaller farmers are to be bought at bankruptcy auction to enlarge the estates of the landowners and Tory donors. To do this you are hacking into your voter base, but it must be done to keep funnelling money and assets to the top. You can lie to the red wall - that will get you so far. But ultimately "democracy" has to go. You CAN NOT continue to win elections, no matter how twisted the system, when Tory voters are losing houses and farms. So "democracy" has to go - or the system can no longer FEED. And the ONLY purpose of the Tory party is to FEED the system. And the system has one purpose, funnel ever-increasing wealth to the top. Brexit is a vehicle to move assets from the middle class to the elites. They dont care if the economy crashes, they have more money than they can ever spend - they are insulated. A nice BIG CRASH that devalues property and bankrupts farms is GREAT...! They can snap them up. Cos the thing the elites of the UK know is money is meaningless when you have enough of it - CAPITAL ASSETS is what builds and maintains generational wealth. That is why the price of houses and land are so high right now, they are converting cash money into capital assets at a rate never seen in history. So they NEED a crash to bring the price down whilst they snap it all up... The collapse IS THE POINT, its snouts in the trough for the next grotesque gorging of British assets. So they HAVE to go the Tories. Not must go; HAVE TO GO or the UK will never be a democracy again in our lifetimes and the life of the working person will be that of a peasant.
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  11464.  @SaintGerbilUK  "The US Budget used to be in Billions and under Trump it was 1-2 Trillion now under Biden its 20-30 Trillion." You LITERALLY have no idea what you even mean - the US "budget" is $6.27 Trillion for 2023. YOU MEAN "the US national debt which is $31 Trillion. BUT under Trump it was $27 Trillion NOT $1 $2 trillion How can you not know this - I am an English guy in Bulgaria and I have a vastly better knowledge of YOUR country's financial structure than you do...??? Let me explain to you: QUOTE "The GOP defunded education for 40 years for a reason. And it worked..! In the late 1970's and early 80's computers became a thing and you could process lots of statistical data for the first time. And the political parties did... The data showed the GOP they would be demographic-ed out of existence in a couple of decades. It also showed the GOP that stupid badly educated people - amazingly - voted for them. Voted AGAINST their own interests, as blue-collar workers and for the GOP. So the GOP started to breed their own supporters. They systematically defunded education - in 1976 education was 5.7% of GDP. In 1983 it was 3.4% Some of the specific changes they made were to STOP teaching critical thinking skills, skills that ALLOW people to spot a lie. And it was wildly successful. America now has an uneducated subclass of 35% idiots and it is enough to swing elections" THIS is why. And this is WHY you vote Republican because they stole your education from you so you would not work these things out. What caused inflation - mostly global supply chain issues, then price gouging by poorly regulated US corporations [republicand fault mostly but not entierly] and then NOT TAXING the rich to take BACK the money spent also added to inflation and the reason they dont do that is the GOP sold the country to the corporations with the citizens United decision. THAT is why you have inflation and more importantly why putting up interest rates will do NOTHING to bring them down. STOP VOTING REPUBLICAN - THEY ARE LYING TO YOU EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK
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  11504.  @nathanfleming1051  - Thats why items are $99 on Amazon and $75 on the company's own website as the OP comments. The big issue is they are not upfront about the costs, they hide as many as possible. E.G. I had 7,000 tubes of fluoride toothpaste in an Amazon warehouse in America that went out of date. It was an error. They DONT return ship from an Amazon warehouse internationally, Fine just dispose of it - there was a "picking fee" for each item as if it would be sold, then there was a disposal fee and because it contained fluoride it was a hazardous material so it had to be disposed of "safely" - it cost me $35,000 to throw away 7,000 tubes of toothpaste it would have, in reality, cost them $300 to ship to me and I could have had disposed of locally for $500 There are endless things like this that they never mention, but you HAVE to pay as part of the business. Then there is the storage fee - its free for the first year, but then its like $1 an item per month or something [can't remember the exact number] and they WONT return internationally - so you have a $35 face cream costing you $12 a year as its not selling. And they DONT tell you which items it is - its just your "stock holding cost" so it just goes up and up and up as you accumulate unsold stock. so lets say its on the shelf for 3 years -= 2 you pay $12 for = $24 Then they charge you $5 to throw it away It cost you $15 Shipping it to them cost you $1 Thats $45 you just lost BUT AMAZON made $29 even though you never even sold the thing. If you had sold it for $35 they would have taken say 40% = $14 Can you see why they do this stuff...??? So you get $21 of the $35 - it costs you 15 +1 to ship it to Amazon = $16 you made $5 But the 1 that didnt sell lost you $45 so you have to sell 9 just to get back to ZERO profit - so on 10 $35 face creams you just made $0 And we were selling between 250k and 500k items a year, so imagine the complexity of the maths you have to do. This is why you have to be REALLY good at probability and statistics, the only way you can make money on Amazon is to be really good at probability, like a bookie or a casino. sorry for the long rant - 10 years of my life spent worrying 24/7 about this crap. I am so pleased to be free of it.
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  11520. Here is a list of treaties that the United States has broken or pulled out of since its founding in 1776: Treaties with Indigenous Nations Treaty with the Delawares/Treaty of Fort Pitt (1778): The first treaty between the U.S. and an Indigenous nation. The treaty stipulated peace and mutual support against the British, but in 1782, Pennsylvania militiamen murdered almost 100 Lenape citizens at Gnadenhutten . Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784): The Iroquois Confederacy ceded part of New York and Pennsylvania in return for the U.S. protecting tribal lands from further settlement. However, the U.S. did not enforce the treaty terms, and the Iroquois Confederacy's lands continued to shrink . Treaty of Hopewell (1785-86): Three treaties signed by the U.S. and the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Nations promised protection and no future settlement on tribal lands. Despite this, white settlers continued to encroach on treaty territory . Treaty of Canandaigua/Pickering Treaty (1794): The U.S. returned over a million acres of Iroquois land and recognized the sovereignty of the Six Nations. However, the land was eventually lost to U.S. expansion, and the tribes were forced to relocate . Treaty of Greenville (1795): The tribes of the Northwestern Confederacy ceded large tracts of land in the Great Lakes region, but white settlers continued to expand into treaty lands . Treaty with the Sioux (1805): Gen. Zebulon Pike allegedly obtained cession of 100,000 acres of land from Dakota leaders, but the treaty was not officially proclaimed by the president, and the purchase price was adjusted without proper consultation . Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809): The Potawatomi were forced to cede land, and in 1838, the U.S. government enforced their removal through a 660-mile forced march, resulting in many deaths . Fort Laramie Treaty (1851): The treaty defined the territory of the Great Sioux Nation and promised protection from American citizens, but settlers and the U.S. military violated the treaty and invaded Lakota lands . Treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota (1851): The Dakota and Mendota ceded millions of acres of land in exchange for reservations and payment, but they never received either provision, and the U.S. Senate eliminated the reservation provision . Land Cession Treaty with the Ojibwe/Treaty of Washington (1855): The Ojibwe ceded land but retained hunting and fishing rights on ceded territory. However, Minnesota later outlawed hunting and harvesting without a license on off-reservation land, violating the treaty . Medicine Lodge Treaty (1867): The treaty relocated Plains tribes onto reservations, but the U.S. violated the terms by withholding payments, preventing hunting, and reducing reservation sizes . Fort Laramie Treaty (1868): Established the Great Sioux Reservation and protected the Black Hills, but the discovery of gold in 1874 led to the U.S. redrawing the boundaries to allow mining It goes on for page after page after page...!!!
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  11849.  @elyssay3157  - Ok I am going to send you a link to a study in a separate comment cos YouTube often deletes messages with outside links thinking they are spam and I don't want to have to re-type this. If you cont get it just Google "Frontiers in Psychology Facebook study". The problem with these studies is they tend to focus on ONE specific question and the answer to any Facebook related question is "yes it makes you more miserable" or similar. The issue is the combined effect - it makes everyone more miserable the longer you are on it and the more "friends" you have on there, but combine that with external stresses [they have to eliminate or account for these in studies for obvious reasons] and it is a multiplying effect. My job - it is on the whole incredibly rewarding. I work for free [my income comes from the books I have written] so it would have to be pretty rewarding to do it for free. Ill be honest - you get numb to the horror. I have clients that have been set on fire, I have clients that have been turned into drug addicts, beaten if they want to stop the drugs, clients who have been systematically tortured, raped, cut, abused, you name it. But its like the green numbers in the matrix movie. Its background, its their story but it does not affect me [I cant let it] and it does not actually affect their recovery very much. There is little difference between coming to terms with the psychological effects of any of the things I have just mentioned. Abuse is abuse, trauma is trauma, and the human mind deals with them all in remarkably similar ways.
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  11909.  @jingbot1071  - You have to be prepared to suffer. Your healthcare is tied to your job FOR A REASON...!!! Its to keep you subjugated and slaving cos you dare not strike or quit. The reason America is the place you quite rightly describe as is people are not prepared to suffer in order to get a better life. The AVERAGE American has had it so easy for so long the idea of discomfort, let alone suffering, is utterly unthinkable to them. Im English - Im 51 - when I grew up as a kid there were still bombed out houses dotted around - people remembered the families that were killed in them in WW2. You see - if a German bomb killed the entire family - who would rebuild the house??? The whole of Europe knew starvation and death on a nightly basis in WW2 and in the 30 years after. In Eastern Europe, they knew starvation and incredibly suffering after the fall of communism just 20 years ago. So for us, we know hardship and we know we can suffer it. Its why we have more national strikes, more riots, more protests. I had a Mercedes CL500, all the lights and windows were smashed in an anti-corruption riot last year. Yeah, its s bummer - but Id rather lose my Mercedes [I gave it away in the end] and I use the bus than allow a corrupt government to continue. How many Americans would willingly sacrifice their Merceded CL500 in a riot? And I'm NOT unusual here. You have to be prepared to personally sacrifice things to bring about change, and not enough Americans are prepared to lose even a few days pay. Every country gets the leaders it deserves.
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  12117. IM AN AUTHOR on psychology and the collapse of civilisations living in Eastern Europe - the short answer is ITS COMPLICATED Russia did not invade cos Putin fantasises about re-uniting Russia. Or cos Putin is mad. Or cos of NATO expansion,. Or cos etc. etc. Its ALL of these to a greater or lesser degree. The one thing missed out of this is the west backing Putin into a corner with the obsessive media hype and forcing him to invade EARLY. This was NOT planned for March, the west brought this forwards to happen when the EU did not need the gas as much and the ground in Ukraine would be liquid mud. [everyone in eastern Europe knows you cant even walk on the fields after the winter frost thaws] I think the scale of the invasion was increased by a somewhat irrational Putin in response to the west backing him into a corner with the hype about war. Also - Putin has "steroid head" - a big round shiny head on a match stick think body - this is a sign of late-stage cancer treatment. Both cancer and the steroid treatment used can cause irrational decision making and paranoia i.e. 40 feet long tables. It is my belief that Putin was planning a limited incursion in Nov 2022 when the world had got used to the troops being on the border. I think the west talked him into acting in the knowledge that he WAS going to do something so better he do it in March Mud with little need in EU for Russian gas. An isolated Putin, possibly on steroids and possibly fighting cancer, knowing he is being manipulated, overreacts and launches a full scale invasion...
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  12221.  @T1tusCr0w  This is a translation from Chinese - the experiment was done by the Bejing University: The Child In The Well Experiment Mencius (fourth century BCE) was a Confucian philosopher. He proposed that all humans were inherently good. They all has “sprouts” of goodness, they just needed nurturing. To demonstrate this he proposed the following. A young child is sat on a well, as you want by it falls screaming down the well. He says EVERYONE would run to help the child, call for help. Recently this was tested. Subjects were taken to a room in a different city and there was a video screen of the space outside and it shows a well with a child on it. The subjects don't know this is a a pre recorded video, they think it is a live feed. As the “experiment” is being set up the child falls screaming down the well. The theory is that 100% of people will react and call the assistant to go help the child. This is not the case. 80% do exactly that, they go nuts and scream for help, run out the room to try and save the child, just what you would expect. 20% do NOTHING. They don't call for help, they don't get up and try to help and a significant proportion don't even register any facial emotions. They just passively watch a child die as if they were watching a commercial for shampoo. Upon further investigation, the vast majority of these that don't react are right to far right wing in their political views. ---§--- These are the tories, these are the business leaders [mostly], these are the right wing. We make the mistake of thinking they are essentially like us but the worst version of ourselves. NO. They are a different species - with no morals or cares for anyone who is not their blood relative - or in the case of their partner, their property. The only reason tory MP's dont eat a live baby on stage is it would not get them elected. IF it would get them elected they would eat one nightly. They have NO MORALS.
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  12522. This was my comment: I MAKE €5k BESPOKE HISTORICAL SUTE for men 1890 - 1930 - this is my advice to you - BUY SECONDHAND - if a garment is good enough to sell used its QUALITY - then... Buy slightly too big and take it to a local seamstress and have it altered TO FIT. Rich people don't look rich cos their clothes are expensive, they look rich cos their clothes FIT. Do not buy fast fashion PLEASE and do not buy "designer" labels - it is ALL keeping you POOR. Both fast fashion AND designer labels are designed to EXTRACT as much money as possible from you. Fast fashion last and average of 7 wears before it is thrown away - so a $15 T Shirt costs you MORE per wear than a Savile Row suit Designer Labels sell to middle-class wannabes and they are SO expensive that you hardly ever wear them and the cost per wear is UNBELIEVABLY HIGH And the cost per wear is what you need to be looking at - spend $20 on something second had, spend $30 having it altered to fit perfectly and then wear it 200 times its 25 cents per wear V $2.15 for the Fast Fashion T Shirt and $1.50 for the Savile Row suit [2.5 wears per week for 30 years, $5k price] This is something I care VERY PASSIONATELY about - its destroying the planet, 40% of pollution in developing nations comes from the clothing industry, and its deliberately designed to make you POOR. They have worked out models of extraction, extraction of MONEY from YOU...! NEVER buy trends, just another way to keep you poor. Go for the "Old Money Astheitic" OR whatever YOU love and wear it until it gets holes in it, then repair/patch the holes and wear it till it literally falls apart. TIP - it is had NOT got a repair and you are throwing it away - then either, its lost its shape or colour and it was cheap - learn from this, it was a trend - dont buy trends, it was a mistake purchase - learn from this. Sorry for the long post.
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  12871.  @terryshrk  - IM an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations, as such I assure you that I think about America every day. Here let me help out your propagandised brain: These are the 18 indicators of a collapsing civilisation. Plague / disease Yes Environmental change Yes Massive wealth inequality Yes Loss of the administrative class Yes The government stops governing Yes Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Yes Loss of faith in the political system Yes Economic collapse Yes Exposed obvious corruption Yes Crumbling infrastructure Yes Mismanagement of a crisis Yes Societal division Yes Loss of belief in the unity of the society Yes Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Yes Increased isolationism Yes Rising internal violence Yes Excessive spending on military / arms race Yes Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / inflation Yes If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. If all happen at the same time, it's guaranteed to be the end. The USSR collapsed with 9 out of the 18. America scores 18/18. And you have reached "cascading interconnected systems failure" - everything is broken and everything you need to fix it is also broken. ---§--- Oh and nice of you to notice the migrant, yes the migrants America caused by their failed imperial adventures in the Middle East, yes we are deeply deeply grateful for the catastrophic mess you caused there. It cost you $8 trillion, but you just walked away, the people of the Middle East are left clearing up your mess and we Europeans are left looking after the refugees you created. ---§--- Yes, I do think about America every day, my main preoccupation is the only question that really matters. How do you MANAGE the collapse? Will it be like the end of the British Empire - or Yugoslavia 1992 with way more guns. Half a billion guns... How does a county of 330 million people with half a billion guns manage the collapse of its empire, society and economy...???
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  13216.  @ALB2574  Im an author - I made this note recently: WOKE I recently traced the etymology of the word "woke" for a book I'm writing. "Woke" was first used to describe people "awake" to the fact there is a systemic privilege in society and its systems for one group over another. As this included say "Eton/Ivy League boys getting all the top jobs and govt positions" this was a very dangerous concept for the right wing. So they did what they always do - they adopted the word and redefined it to mean something else - as they did with "private property" in the context of Marx. To be "woke" was a terrible sin and it meant you believed all sorts of crazy nonsense that almost no one actually believed but you can always find a blue haired nutter to go on TV and say dumb stuff and "PROOF the WOKE are all evil nut jobs and can we stop talking about this distorted privilege in society cos that might appeal to a LOT of people who are not us cos we ARE the rich white male privileged ones in question" Almost NO ONE is actually "woke" in the way it is portrayed in the media - its NOT A THING - it was a very dangerous idea that they wanted to stamp out ASAP. In the same way "private property" does not mean the communists are coming for your toothbrush - thats personal property. And at the time everyone knew this. But the media owners adopted the words and redefined it and created a scare that the commies were after your toothbrush. Its amazing what you can DO when you OWN the media - this is WHY they own the media!!! You have been had by people who want you to hate the left and stop thinking about why you are poor...
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  13503.  @Titan500J  - Well credit to you - and I mean that. Only one time in 1000 does someone say "I stand corrected" and that sets you apart from a hell of a lot of people. "would you want Sean Hannity CNN, MSNBC to balance what there saying" NO - I would want news channels to be funded by cooperatives OR the shares only owned by SMALL ordinary investors. You are not allowed to own more than say - 50 shares of any media outlet. Who are the real kings in this world??? The people that own the media - the PEOPLE of America did not elect Trump - Rupert Murdoch elected Trump and that is horrifically toxic and dangerous. If you want to know HOW dangerous - watch Sky News Australia. You think US media is bad - they called Greta Thunberg a child abuser the other week!!! They said that today's youth has NOTHING to worry about with the climate at all, its all a con... NOW you might argue about the REASONS for climate change in America but I don't think anyone is saying it is not happening... Lets remember that Australia USED to have a "Great Barrier Reef" no longer, and half the country was on fire last year. The whole of western civilisation is screwed, everything is owned by the billionaires - the Kings - the media, the politicians of all parties, the corporations, and almost ALL the money - there is no money LEFT in the US economy, it is sat in the bank accounts of billionaires. Why do you think Bezos's $500 million yacht has sails - which prevent helicopters landing so it needs a support yacht...??? You think that is to be environmentally friendly?? NO - its so that it can run indefinitely without refuelling if and when the USA erupts in revolution against the rich and its too dangerous to dock for fuel. Superyachts are SOLD as safe refuges from the revolution - that is literally IN THE SALES LITERATURE as the main selling point. And sales of superyachts are through the roof... There is no such thing as right wing or left wing - there are rich and poor. Everything else is just a distraction from the pitchforks and the revolution. But collapse is coming to the USA, and as horrible as it is, its NEEDED. And its needed in my own home country of the UK - they are about 5 to 10 years behind the USA in collapsing... Sorry for the long post.
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  13588. SIMPLE [I'm an author in this field] - the political class of America sh!t on the working people of America for 40 years, they allowed corporations to sh!t on the working people of America for 40 years. They lied and lied and lied until there was no truth to working people - maybe there was for the educated and the middle class - but not to the working guy driving an uber cos his job get sent to China. THEN you had Obama - Obama was the PERSONIFICATION OF HOPE AND PROMISE - and he did absolutely NOTHING. Obama smashed the last vestige of hope for the future through normal political means. TRUMP IS PAYBACK They dont vote for Trump cos they think their lives will get better, they vote for Trump cos he makes YOUR lives worse. You mocked them, you despised them, you had great lives whilst their turned to sh!t, whilst their freinds and family died of opiate addiction, whilst they went without medical treatment cos they could not afford it. They hate you because even now YOU DONT KNOW THIS you dont know why they voted for Trump and you hate them for doing it. Trump hates the liberal elites cos they never made him part of the crowd, he was always the tacky outsider and the MAGA crowd can feel that hate and it resonates with their hate. TRUMP IS PAYBACK for 40 years of America sh!tting on the working people. Im my home country - BREXIT is payback for Britain sh!tting on the working people for 40 years. In France, it is riots and a likely LaPenn victory at the next election. I hope this helps explain a few things. EDIT: Yes most Trump voters are stup!d - but it is wrong to think they vote for Trump BECAUSE they are stupid. This is just a middle class get out of jail free card that allows you to NOT have to address the issues that caused this. Ironically - Biden is actually doing that - he is investing in the red stated and he is insisting that the workers on gove contracts get good wages, he is putting up billboards saying "Biden made this scheme happen'
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  13628.  @archvaldor  - IGNORE my previous comment. Its 100% true, but ignore it. But really pay attention to this one! I know for you, a person of principle, voting for Starmer or a Blair type is like eating dog sh!t. But in a world full of literal fascists, sometimes you have to eat dog Sh!t. When the Tories win - people die. It is as simple as that. If we had had a competent government in covid 100,000 people would still be alive. If we had a competent government for 13 years another 250,000 people, the excess deaths of austerity, would still be alive. 350,000 people died cos Labour did not win. THAT is why you eat dog sh!t. Young moralistic - very admirable - people look for the good in the world, they demand the good in the world happen. But in doing so they allow the BAD in the world TO happen. In a first past-the-post-voting system you do NOT vote for the good thing you WANT to happen, you vote to stop the bad thing from happening And the reason bad things keep happening is cynical old Boomers 100% know this and to them the bad thing is lower house prices and immigrants, so they show up 90% at elections and they vote. People like you, very admirable people with vision and hope, you stay at home angry at the system that didnt give you something to vote for. But you know what? Thats a self-fulfilling prophesy - Young people don't vote old people do so WHO do the parties target with their policies...??? BOOMERS and GEN X who vote. Starmer is more successful than Corbyn cos he targets people who are LIKELY TO VOTE. Corbyn was a terrible terrible leader cos he motivated the Boomers to vote against him in record numbers, but he didnt motivate enough young people to vote FOR HIM. the worst of all possible combinations. Corbyn lost cos Millenials and Gen Z didn't turn out for him, and a lot of you won't turn out for Starmer cos you don't want to eat dog sh!t. I can not STAND Starmer - I don't even live in the Uk, I live in Bulgarian and my previous UK home is in David Dvises veery safe constituency - but I have set up a proxy vote, it has taken me hours and hours to sort out - but I have done it, I have gone to great lengths just to EAT DOG SH!T to try and help you guys...!!! So go out on election day and eat some f-king dog sh!t cos people will die and democracy will die if you dont... OK
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  13665.  @elizabethstanley7137  - NO he was an international laughing stock. We all started watching US news cos it was HYSTERICAL, that how I know CNN exists. And he IS a life long criminal - however, you DO have the right to be upset. The weak and pathetic Democrats were NOT going to charge him with his crimes cos he is a rich elite and in your country, the rich DONT get prosecuted they are above the law. IF he had not announced a 2nd run he would not have been charged WITH HIS CRIMES. This is why they have all come at once. So lets be 100% clear: He is one of the worst presidents you have ever had - an international laughing stock He is a criminal - a life long criminal He would NOT have been charged if he had just shut up and gone away cos he is rich in Am3ric4 and you dont have justice for rich people The prosecutions are NOT political The LACK of prosecution WAS political - let the rich elite guy get away with his crimes The TIMING is 100% political EVERYONE in Am3ric4 has the right to be upset over this - but this is the country you created for yourselves by making money your God and worshipping rich people. A cable car in Turkey had an accident and injured a lot of people 2 days ago - they IMMEDIATELY arrested the directors and owners of the company to stand trial - would that EVER happen in the US in 100 million years....??? YOU built this country YOU don't get to complain about the application of justice when it goes against your team - it goes against team poor and in favour of team rich 100% of the time...!!!
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  13910. Im an author on psychology and the are in many ways another species: The Child In The Well Experiment Mencius (fourth century BCE) was a Confucian philosopher. He proposed that all humans were inherently good. They all has “sprouts” of goodness, they just needed nurturing. To demonstrate this he proposed the following. A young child is sat on a well, as you want by it falls screaming down the well. He says EVERYONE would run to help the child, call for help. Recently this was tested. Subjects were taken to a room in a different city and there was a video screen of the space outside and it shows a well with a child on it. The subjects don't know this is a a pre recorded video, they think it is a live feed. As the “experiment” is being set up the child falls screaming down the well. The theory is that 100% of people will react and call the assistant to go help the child. This is not the case. 80% do exactly that, they go nuts and scream for help, run out the room to try and save the child, just what you would expect. 20% do NOTHING. They don't call for help, they don't get up and try to help and a significant proportion don't even register any facial emotions. They just passively watch a child die as if they were watching a commercial for shampoo. Upon further investigation, the vast majority of these that don't react are right to far right wing in their political views. And this was conducted in China - a very social society, in America its likely a higher % ---§--- The right-wing doesn't HAVE empathy for others in the same way the left does. To then it's IDIOTIC to care about a person who does not share your DNA. They had an evolutionary role - they ran away when the village was attacked and 1 in 5 times they would be the only survivor. They stole and hoarded food for themselves in a famine and 1 in 5 times they would be the only survivor. But in a modern society of abundance, they are extremely badly suited, essentially they are just horrible people. But its not their fault. They are another species.
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  14307. LILLY THE PINK IS BRILLIANT...!!! We'll drink a drink, a drink To Lily the Pink, the Pink, the Pink The savior of the human race For she invented medicinal compound Most efficacious in every case Mr. Freers had sticky out ears And it made him awful shy And so they gave him medicinal compound And now he's learning how to fly Robert Tony was known to be bony He would never eat his meal And so they gave him medicinal compound Now they move him round on wheels We'll drink a drink, a drink To Lily the Pink, the Pink, the pink The savior of the human race For she invented medicinal compound Most efficacious in every case Old Ebenezer thought he was Julius Caesar And so they put him in a home Where they gave him medicinal compound And now he's emperor of Rome Johnny Hammer had a terrible st-st-st-st-stammer He could hardly s-s-say a word And so they gave him medicinal compound Now's he's seen, but never heard We'll drink a drink, a drink To Lily the Pink, the Pink, the Pink The savior of the human race For she invented medicinal compound Most efficacious in every case Aunty Milly ran willy-nilly When her legs they did recede And so they rubbed on medicinal compound Now they call her Milly Pede Jennifer Eccles had terrible freckles And the boys all called her names But she changed medicinal compound Now he joins in all the games We'll drink a drink, a drink To Lily the Pink, the Pink, the Pink The savior of the human race For she invented medicinal compound Most efficacious in every case Lily the Pink, she turned to drink She filled up with paraffin inside And despite her medicinal compound Sadly pickled Lily died Up to heaven her soul ascended All the church bells they did ring She took with her medicinal compound Hark the herald angels sing We'll drink a drink, a drink To Lily the Pink, the Pink, the Pink The savior of the human race For she invented medicinal compound Most efficacious in every case
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  14397.  @DimitarBerberu  "It's not bad but still not intelligent." NO it has literally ZERO "intelligence" - I asked it why 2+2 does not =4 and it said "because it does not 2+4=4" " if we are happy with such simplistic explanations." Trump won an election with "Make America Grat Again" and Boris johnson with "Get Brexit done" - most people are more than happy with incredibly simplistic explanations. I was just surprised that it gave me a genuine attempt - you can also fiddle with the settings to force it to be more creative if you up the "Presence Penalty" 100% it is western biased - but the world is western biased, and yes that is a problem. My sister - a PhD in nutrition 1994 but no longer in that field - was impressed that it pulled up info from trials that were reported on and shelved, so in some ways its less biased. On another channel I watched a girl who designed chips say that the SI had designed a 15% faster more compact chip for AI than the humans could - we are the the very bottom of the S curve of AI - if a chat bot can produce this - IMAGINE what real AI can do in 10 years. Im not worried about Chat GPT or real AI - my worry are the politicians who have literally ZERO capacity to meet this challenge - we need to stop talking about balloons and none gender bathrooms and start working out how to implement UBI and how to roll it out - the discussion as to "do we need ubi" is over. Every western country will have 25% to 30% unemployment in 10 years. "Hard to change the Status Quo of the not-so-intelligent rich/powerful" I love this line LOL
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  14584. i wrote this about 2 years ago COMMUNISM IN 50 YEARS Well like it or hate it you WILL live in some form of communist state in the next 50 years. Capitalism is FUNDAMENTALLY flawed, I dont mean it has its problems. I mean the very basic concept is self cannibalising. Problem No1. Capitalism is a funnel. It funnels wealth from the bottom to the top - it also funnels power from the bottom to the top cos money = power. For capitalism to be stable you have to TAX the top heavily and move the money back down to the bottom JUST to keep the system functioning. Rich powerful people DO NOT like being taxed. And as capitalism INEVITABLY produces rich powerful people who control media and politicians they get their way. This hoovers all the money out of the working class, then you give them credit - they sell their future work, and then they are EMPTY. But for capitalism to continue it NEEDS MONEY - so the middle class are the next to go - and you can see this in the USA and the UK - it is eating the middle class. It also starts to eat the state, private prisons, private education etc etc... Ultimately there is NO MONEY left in the system - that has already happened the FED in America si literally printing money to keep the system working. So capitalism HAS TO COLLAPSE. It is 100% inevitable from the very start of the system. And people predicted this 150 and 200 years ago. Problem 2. Capitalism HAS to GROW to exist. it is NOT a static model. It has to grow by about 3% each year to continue. That is a DOUBLING of the world economy every 27 years. The earth is at 130% of capacity now. WE CAN NOT extract 260% per year of the earth capacity in another 27 years - its not possible to live on that planet. SO. A static zero growth economic model is required, a model that removes the profit motive is required [to long to explain why] is required and due to AI a UBI is required - the only economic model we have that allows the earth to survive and people to eat is a communism based model. It wont be Stalin's Russia, it will be some hybrid modernised version. But YOU WILL LIVE under a communist economic model if you live another 50 years.
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  14616. THAT IS EXACTLY THE POINT...!!! Im an author in Europe, I have been researching this for a book. Quick summary for you. The GOP defunded education for 40 years for a reason. And it worked..! This is the story of why America is full of idiots. In the late 1970's and early 80's computers became a thing and you could process lots of statistical data for the first time. And the political parties did... The data showed the GOP they would be demographic-ed out of existence in a couple of decades. It also showed the GOP that stupid badly educated people - amazingly - voted for them. Voted AGAINST their own interests, as blue-collar workers and for the GOP. So the GOP started to breed their own supporters. They systematically defunded education - in 1976 education was 5.7% of GDP. In 1983 it was 3.4% Some of the specific changes they made were to STOP teaching critical thinking skills, skills that ALLOW people to spot a lie. And it was wildly successful. America now has an uneducated subclass of 35% idiots and it is enough to swing elections. I'm a psychologist and author in Europe. In working on a book "How to survive in a collapsing society" or similar title. So I have been researching this for months. Its possibly the evilest social engineering / eugenics in history. They knowingly and deliberately engineered poor people with no future and lied to them for 40 years to stay in power and fuck over working and middle-class Americans... And it WORKED - that is the unbelievable part to me - IT WORKED...
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  14801.  @SK-vw3in  Yeah - you're one of these uneducated sub-class bred by Reagan's cuts to education aren't you? "Every single level of government is by design, & it's the best to ensure... Its be the design of the ruling class to ensure they stay the ruling class. Why else would you have an "electoral college" HAHAHAHAH the dumbest idea in history - unless you are the ruling class "This is the reason US is able to maintain its no 1 status" No dude the USA obtained its global status as No1 cos it was a war profiteer in 2 world wars and then was the ONLY country not to be totally destroyed by WW2. The USSR gave it a good run for its money but ultimately lost, the only thing that has kept the USA at No1 is momentum and that momentum has run out. Nothing "clever" or "by design" kept the USA at No1. In 1980 the G7 represented 75% of global GDP - its now 28% BRICS is now 33% "gen z is the most - tarded generation". Gen Z is the most politically astute and politically educated generation in history, they are hyper-globally connected and you cant lie to them cos they just ask their friend in that country what the truth is - you don't like them cos your propaganda is not working on them. 1% of Gen Z support the conservatives in the Uk and 26% support Trump. You can live in the fantasy bubble of your choice, but this is my job. I'm an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations. BTW - America is collapsing - so get used to it. You will NOT see a Trump presidency. He will slip and drown in his pool before they allow that. Who? The same people who helped Epstine hang himself. Cry all you want, bang your fists on the table, say how unfair it is that your fascist criminal cant be president - but that is the truth of it. The families that took out KFK and Epstine are not going to allow Mango Mussolini to damage their wealth and status.
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  14935.  @kiwinewz2042  - You are looking at it in a VERY western way the "ownership"., They dont see it as a sacred asset as we westerners do. its a home, you have a right to a home. And over here they are so cheap they are not this lifetime achievement. So yes the "ownership" was a result of the fall of the USSR, correct. they dont see that as a positive on the whole. The idea that the average person in the USSR thanks the west for destroying the USSR is a western propaganda myth. It leads to literal starvation and vast amounts of crime. they had 20 years of almost totally unreported in the west abject poverty and violence. The average person does not see the transfer of the house they lived in to them by a piece of paper as making up for that. Yes many families here have multiple houses they dont use. I live in a "commie block" the old soviet apartment blocks - why WAY better than you would ever think, all my neighbours disappear ion a weekend and Im alone cos they all have 2nd houses in the villages... So how do you compare a person living on $500 a month here with no mortgage and a 2nd home in the countryside with an average worker in the USA. The very structure of society is so different that a direct comparison is not possible. I dont have a car for example. Cos the public transport is so good and so cheap, how do you compare that to an American family that NEEDS 2 cars just to live...??? Businesses have busses that pick up their workers - YOU don't DRIVE to work, its the employer's job to get you to work... Its such a different culture it takes 10 years to even start to understand it properly.
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  14995.  @drscopeify  - Well you identify a very very interesting point, which is "life goes on" Almost no one in a collapse knows they are IN A COLLAPSE, the collapse of the USSR is an exception. "Collapse" is a thing we attribute retrospectively to a period, and my book is actually not about the collapse its self, its about coping with it and not being depressed by the news. If you stopped watching the news, you would likely hardly even notice except the prices going up a bit too fast. YES economise, civilisations, countries go through cycles. You might like the book "the Fourth Turning' which goes into this in great detail. Countries go through an 80 to 100 year cycle of rebirth, growth, stagnation and collapse. A long human lifetime, a "Saeculum". The UK and the USA are in the collapse phase, but they won't vanish of the surface of the earth. America will have to consign its self to being No3 in the world, behind China and India - its just simple maths 1.4 billion people trumps 330 million, end of story. The UK will likely break apart and we will have to patch things up with the EU and life will be rough for the next 20 years or so, but England, NI, Scotland and Wales will still be there and they will reinvent themselves and the cycle will start again. But I do think that the domination of western civilisation is coming to an end. But even if China becomes "Gloabal Sovereign" as there is a possibility - life for the average person will change little... "COVID which is why central banks over reacted " The central banks didnt over react, the problem is governments DID NOT tax that extra money back OUT of the system when it reached its way inevitably to the top 1%. The UK injected £700 billion - they never took it back, that £700 billion is NOW in the bank accounts of the very wealthy - £14,000 per person, so if YOU dont have £14,000 extra some other person has your £14,000 and they are using it to buy houses and stocks and gold and arm land and this is what is f-king up the economy.
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  15010.  @fredforsythe8310  - that sounds very much like lightly coded racism TBH. I live in Bulgaria and YES it is keeping its culture but its not because it does not have immigrants or minorities. Of the 6 million people there are 700k Muslims. There are 750k Roma. 200k other immigrants. And currently 100K Ukranian refugees. So that's 1.75 million out of 6 million = 30%. In Britain its 18%. Bulgaria keeps its culture because it does NOT allow modernization to be Aemricanisation, it does not allow it to be globalization. It does not do things because they are cheap or efficient, it does them because thats the way Bulgaria does them. Places dont lose their culture and nationality because of immigrants, they lose them because of globalisation and cost-cutting. It was cheaper to pull out the red phone boxes in the UK cos the stainless and glass ones were cheaper to maintain - THAT is a loss of culture. There are no longer "Bobbies on the beat" in helmets cos its cheaper to have CCTV. The riots in Paris are largely a function of 2 things. 1) migration for the middle east and Africa as a result of American wars over there and 2) the French authorities closed down the police stations in the areas with immigrants to save money. The riots were not caused by the immigrants. They are the end result of 20 years of very bad decisions by Western powers. I totally agee that the west is losing all identity - but its not cos of a few brown people in boats. Only 8% of Britain is developed - 40% of Britain belongs to private estates and you dont even know it cos the roads dont go through them, but the people that own these estates are the ones demanding tax cuts and "efficiency savings" that means you have lost the bobbies on the beat, the police stations, the red phone boxes, the NHS, the character of Britain - and they own the newspapers and media and they tell its because of immigrants... Im an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations and I can tell you "immigrants" is never the reason for a collapse, its always "wealth inequality".
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  15119.  @DistrictWitch  - The world has never moved on from Kings and Princes. Only we now call them "Billionaires". The kings disliked having their heads chopped off every couple of hundred years so they dropped the title and let the serfs play a game they called "democracy". The serfs get to choose between 2 essentially identical "parties" who both do the bidding of the kings and the good part is the "politicians" get all the blame whilst the kings have a nice quiet life. I live in Bulgaria now, an ex-communist country. Its really interesting to see the structure of a society that was [however imperfectly] designed and build for the benefit of the people who live in it. Its too long a discussion to have here - but my city is filled with thousands of fruit trees that provide [I worked it out cos I am sad] about £15,000,000 of FREE FRUIT every year for the people of this city. You don't do that in a western city cos that's £15 mill NOT going into the hands of shop keepers and the economy. Its hundreds of things like this that you simply never consider that you are getting screwed for. Schools - there are 8 schools within walking distance [15 minutes] of my apartment. Who benefits from gigantic centralised schools with 3,000 kids? The kids? NO. The parents NO. But its cheaper so you can give lower taxes to the rich... Where I live - a house / apartment listing gives you the minutes walk to schools, doctors, council office, hospital, playground, etc cos THAT is a factor here. It not in the UK cos its 30 minute DRIVE. Inevitably the green spaces will get built on. The fruit trees will get cut down. The schools will be merged - cos the country is "modernising" which is a euphemism for "getting screwed over by rich capitalists" A recent survey here 45% of people wanted to go back to communism. Another very long debate - but communism was nothing like we were told in the west. Both way better and way worse. But mostly very different to how we imagine it.
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  15218.  @vignetteorleans1631  they are forced bit by bit into tiny and tiny areas of the country, the areas are surrounded by barbed wire and walls. They're not allowed out of them. They're not allowed to have free-trade in or out of the areas. They have no rights of citizens. They are in giant concentration camps basically. There is 50% unemployment in Gaza, the only option for jobs is to work is essentially a slaves for the rich Israelis, they settleр communities, is a euphemism for Israelis, who can legally steal Palestinian houses, they bulldoze them, and build giant rich villas with swimming pools next two families living without water looking through the Barbwire fence at the house they used to live in. Over the last 10 years, 6880, Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli defence force, 50% of those are in the 20 years old. They just take pot shots at the children running about in the streets, and if the children dare throw a stone at the IDF, they are arrested taken and tortured thrown in prison for months and may be murdered. .Israel is not to blame for this, Palestine is not to blame for this, Britain start of this. And for 70 years America has been responsible for continuing this. America's vetoed 38 UN resolutions to intercede and restore peace in the area, but the far right Zionist Christian right wing nutters in America, will not allow any American politician to get elected if they don't pathologically support Israel, because they need Israel to exist for the end of day is prophecy. Where all the people of that region and Faith are killed, except 147 I think, and all the Christians ascend to heaven, or some of the weird made up mythological bullsh!т.
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  15324.  @edi9892  - Very unusually you have spotted THE genuine and almost always overlooked problem with communism. Centralisation allows dictators to come to power very easily. That IS a very genuine problem. Take Bulgaria and Romania - Bulgaria was by all accounts pretty damn good under communism. Next door in Romania with Ceausescu it was a living hell. A couple of points I will raise. Motivation / productivity. We take it as a given that these are "good" in the west and the higher the better - why? Who benefits? I'm not saying that productivity so low you cant supply peoples needs is acceptable, but this massive over abundance of everything - it only benefits the bosses and the shareholders and people have to be cajoled into buying the stuff. So you make things crap so they break so people buy more. I have many communist-era items in my house cos they just last for EVER. They almost never break and if they do they are reparable. Im NOT saying communism was great. What I am saying is the world needs to move away from a profit-driven economy cos the planet can no longer sustain this. We need to work out a "steady state" sustainable economic model. We cant keep making crap that breaks in 12 months and goes to land fill. We cant keep making the top 1% of people insanely wealthy. These will eventually become necessities for the survival of the human race, not just moral and philosophical questions people like me and you discuss. My opinion is not that "communism is better" my opinion is that communism is necessary for human life to continue on a finite planet - and if someone comes up with a better idea GREAT. In not an ideologue. Everything I believe is just based on practicality and rationality.
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  15325.  @edi9892  " The problem is that some companies are now more powerful than entire countries!" This is why I dont believe the problem will be resolved. "even if it could solve problems within the country, the rest of the world will overpower it or contain it." I believe it will be a global solution. "Probably, we'll head into a huge crash and it's not states that survive, but companies. " I totally agree. My "communism for everyone" is not born out of utopian thinking - but pessimism... Capitalism CAN NOT solve climate change and that will be the big crunch that the entire planet will have to deal with. Capitalism REQUIRES endless growth to exist and we have reached the capacity of the planet. Even if we solve the energy issues capitalism still requires we consume ever more plastic crap. For capitalism to SOLVE the problem it would have to destroy its self. I think there is a serious legitimate possibility the human race hands government over to AI. I think 2 billion dead people and a totally collapsed global economy from climate change and the human race may well hand it all over to AI in a hail mary attempt to save humanity. You have identified the exact problems with capitalism - it will always create mega-corporations and billionaires with more wealth and power than countries. And they will NOT dismantle themselves, so the global problems will be marketed and propagandised out of peoples minds until vast tracts of the globe are uninhabitable. If the human race / organised society is to still be a thing in 100 years; a radically different "steady state" economy and population will be required. The only answer I have is some form of communism, maybe AI can come up with a better plan - but thats all I got... BTW - yeah, nice not to be screamed at and called a communist moron LOL
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  15883. MESSAGE FROM AN AUTHOR IN EUROPE the very FIRST thing you have to do as a nation is STOP LYING TO YOURSELVES Stop lying about who you are as a people, who you are as a nation, and what your global standing is - In China the day after your election the biggest news story was a woman getting knocked over by a pig...!!! Your badly educated people are getting poorer they do not trust institutions and they DO NOT want more of the same with tweaks to policy. You are a collapsing empire deep in the doo doo, expansion and dominance can no longer keep making people's lives better and you gave the billionaires total control. Outside the English language US obsessed elitest western media the rest of the world bearly mentions you from one month to the next. You are truly isolated as a result of stealing Russian money and G4z4 and the billionaires need more money so they intend extracting it from YOU...!!! They are locked out of the rest of the world so they are coming for your money like never before...!!! Why do you think they all backed Trump...???? Your only hope is to get real - this is NOT a 4 year and its over problem - this is a 20 to 30 year struggle to rescue your country and it will require hard work, dedication, and a radical populist left-wing agenda that is very simple "WE WILL TAKE MONEY OFF THE RICH AND GIVE IT TO THE POOR" Above all - STOP LYING TO YOURSELVES - you are not special you are an ex empire the world has left behind. "Am3ric4n Exceptionalism" will not magically make everything better - hard graft and sacrifice will...!!! Good Luck
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  15999. IM AN AUTHOR on psychology and the collapse of civilisations living in Eastern Europe - the short answer is ITS COMPLICATED Russia did not invade cos Putin fantasises about re-uniting Russia. Or cos Putin is mad. Or cos of NATO expansion,. Or cos etc. etc. Its ALL of these including natural reasourses, to a greater or lesser degree factor into the decision. The one thing missed out of this is the west backing Putin into a corner with the obsessive media hype and forcing him to invade EARLY. This was NOT planned for March, the west brought this forwards to happen when the EU did not need the gas as much and the ground in Ukraine would be liquid mud. [everyone in eastern Europe knows you cant even walk on the fields after the winter frost thaws] I think the scale of the invasion was increased by a somewhat irrational Putin in response to the west backing him into a corner with the hype about war. Also - Putin has "steroid head" - a big round shiny head on a match stick think body - this is a sign of late-stage cancer treatment. Both cancer and the steroid treatment used can cause irrational decision making and paranoia i.e. 40 feet long tables. It is my belief that Putin was planning a limited incursion in Nov 2022 when the world had got used to the troops being on the border. I think the west talked him into acting in the knowledge that he WAS going to do something so better he do it in March Mud with little need in EU for Russian gas. An isolated Putin, possibly on steroids and possibly fighting cancer, knowing he is being manipulated, overreacts and launches a full scale invasion...
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  16078. ​ @lemdixon01  - "How do you think that a gender studies degree is in any way on the whole useful for society" You have literally never googled what a degree in gender studies entails or what use it is have you...?? What you think is "It contains the words gender, I hate transgender people, therefore I hate people who do gender studies" as confirmed by your bigoted idea they would likely be on hormone treatment. Let me give you an example, in the military, you have male and female pilots - you NEED to know if they process information differently in stressful situations THATS GENDER STUDIES. People with gender studies degrees work in the aviation industry on designing flight control user interfaces. White men in their 30' to 50's kill themselves as the highest rate of any section of society by a frightening margin, finding out why so we can stop it - THATS GENDER STUDIES These dead men - 30,000 a year - they are usually right wing. You might have an old degree in electronics - but you are a bigot and it clouds your view of the world. ALL EDUCATION HAS APPLICATION. You are just too bigoted to see it. EDIT: You literally made a 17 minute video on "Conspiracy Genderless Future". You also made multiple comments that it was an FBI agent pretending to be a Trump supporter in the plane. Im telling you now as a decent human being and someone who has to put people back together after psychological trauma - you need to stop going down this rabbit hole of conspiracy and hatred. I will tell you where this all ends. It ends with your family disowning you, you losing your job for being a weirdo, it possibly ends with you being arrested for doing something dodgy - the police and the FBI don't LIKE people with electronic knowledge and crackpot ideas, this usually has bad endings. You are heading down a very bad rabbit hole that never ends well for anyone who goes down it. There is not great conspiracy - its "systems evolution" - tens of millions of vested interests all pushing in the same direction - the evolution of global systems. I'm being nice to you now, cos your channel throws up like 20 massive red flags. If you keep going down this path, you will die regretting it.
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  16262.  @mbak7801  Im an author on psychology and the collapse of civilizations - this is how much this grifter knows - America is collapsing and there is nothing you can do to stop it. America has reached a point called "Interconnected Cascading Systems Failure" - or everything is broken and everything you need to fix it is also broken. These are the 18 indicators of a collapsing civilisation. Plague / disease Yes Environmental change Yes Massive wealth inequality Yes Loss of the administrative class Yes The government stops governing Yes Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Yes Loss of faith in the political system Yes Economic collapse Yes Exposed obvious corruption Yes Crumbling infrastructure Yes Mismanagement of a crisis Yes Societal division Yes Loss of belief in the unity of the society Yes Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Yes Increased isolationism Yes Rising internal violence Yes Excessive spending on military / arms race Yes Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / inflation Yes If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. If all happen at the same time, it's guaranteed to be the end. The USSR collapsed with 9 out of the 18. America scores 18/18. And you have reached "cascading interconnected systems failure" - everything is broken and everything you need to fix it is also broken. ---§--- If you want to know Americas future think of Yugoslavia in 1992 only with way more guns. The guy is a colossal grifter, I think he is paid to spread misinformation about China and Russia as I dont believe it is possible to be THAT WRONG accidentally. There is a massive "copium" industry online telling Americans that "its OK - we are not collapsing - we are still No1"
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  16289.  @larrygerry985  Yeah - its a conversation I would like to have, I'm an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations so the whole AI / climate change / the future of Britain and the world is an area of deep interest to me - but its 35ºC in my living room and its taking a literal effort to think of each word for this sentence... My personal view is that AI and climate change will dominate the next 30 years and we will have to abandon our current concept of living. Companies will have to be taxed at 90% cos they will have no employees and therefore no costs. some form of UBI will be necessary. A total rethink of WHO gets to benefit from technology will be needed - not its ALWAYS the capitalists who get extra profit, but the structures of society are collapsing. And then the big one everyone is ignoring - the giant 1000m high elephant in the room is ONLY CHINA CAN FIX GLOBAL WARMING The UK started HS2 in 2008 and has not finished it - in that time China has built enough high speed rail to encircle the globe at the equator. They are the ONLY ones with the industrial capacity and the organisational structures to solve climate change. There WILL come a point where humanity faces a choice - total collapse and techno feudalistic anarcho-capitalist hell with billions of deaths - OR - we ask China to take over the global government and fix the f-king climate. This is why I was doing the degree - I am writing a book on this. There is no way the structures of the west can allow for the solving of the problem - look at Uxbridge, £12.50 to drive a polluting car and people vote for the tories...!!! Ask yourself - can THIS system solve a global problem...??? So I see a future where people do degrees cos they want to, not because they have to to get a basic job, as no one will have a basic job.
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  16425. CHANGE STARTS WITH YOU YOU REJECT THE PREMISE THAT GUNS ARE IN ANY WAY SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE You excommunicate anyone you know who has a gun. As a SOCIETY and an individual, you say "I WILL NOT BEa FRIEDS with anyone who has a gun" because You cant have a gun, claim to be a “responsible gun owner” and not be complicit in the deaths of these children In the same way you cant own a blood diamond and not be complicit in child slavery. You cant own Nike sneakers made in a sweatshop in Indonesia and not be complicit in exploitation. If you are not actively fighting against an injustice as huge as the mass killing of children in America with guns, you are complicit in the killings. If you have a gun and claim to be a “responsible gun owner” you are NORMALISING the existence of guns in people's hands in America and that allows the situation to continue. And because it is SO normalised to you in America, you don't see this. Guns are an antisocial dangerous f-uk you to society and owning one [except for hunting] is an a-hole thing to do. Guns are like fascism. If you are not actively fighting fascism you are complicit in letting it take over the country. When a problem reaches a certain magnitude - passivity becomes participation in the problem. YOUR GOVERNMENT will do nothing - YOU have to. You have to start change at a personal level and say GUNS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE - FULL STOP As a nation you are the abused trauma bonded victims of the right wing and the gun lobby and like all victims - the abuser has NORMALISED THE ABUSE you have to say I WILL NO LONGER ACCEPT THIS AS NORMAL cos owning a gun is NOT f-king normal - it is deeply antisocial and dangerous.
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  16520.  @williamgechtman9287  - I think that is basically exactly what I said. ICE cars will become a thing for enthusiasts that like, appreciate and want them and are willing to put up with, even enjoy the downsides. ICE cars will never go away and i would be against any legislation that banned them for enthusiasts. And BTW - big misconception - Lithium mining is just about the most environmentally friendly mining as lithium is water-soluble, they pump hot water into boreholes and suck it back up and then electrolysis the lithium out of it. The used car batteries currently get used in grid storage systems, if they lose 30% of their charge capacity that's an issue for the car driver but not for grid storage companies. HOWEVER, the new Tesla 4680 cells have a life span of 1 million miles. Entire recycling industries are already set up WAITING for the influx of used batteries, its anticipated to be a hugely profitable industry - the problem is there are no unwanted 2nd hand batteries yet - trust me NO ONE is throwing lithium in a landfill - its a valuable metal. Cobalt is the element everyone freaks out about cos its basically only available in terrible places in the world where they use children to mine it - but the majority of batteries now contain either NO cobalt or trace amounts. You only need cobalt for high power things like Mod S Plaid, for your daily driver you can use iron instead of cobalt. Let me be clear- im NOT anti people having a hobby, if you want to drive and MGB or a E type or a R-34 or a Charger I fully understand and totally support that - Id quite like to own and drive one of them. But for day to day use I want an electric car. I love the styling of the old bakelite 1920's telephones - but I want an iPhone for day to day usage... What I most like about the electric cars is the form factor of the power train means that we can now have AMAZING looking cars again - Check out the Nobe 3 wheeler, the Aptera 3 wheeler - they are AMAZING... Yes - I want a 3 wheeler - why? cos its quirky
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  16625.  @suggadeg  - Printing money has not been the collapse of every currency in history cos the printing press was not invented until 1436. God you people are intensely thick, and arrogant - I assume you are American. Only Americans have that uniques combination of extreme stupidity and arrogant confidence that they actually know what they are talking about cos cos cos - yeah I abbreviate things - get over it, get a life. Yes, I regularly use cos in books, people want to read real words, its 2022 not 1922, language evolves. Ill help your tiny brain out here - This is the list of contributing factors to societal collapse: Plague / disease Y Environmental change Y Massive wealth inequality Y Loss of the administrative class Y The government stops governing Y Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Y Loss of faith in the political system Y Economic collapse Y Exposed obvious corruption Y Crumbling infrastructure Y Mismanagement of a crisis Y Societal division Y Loss of belief in the unity of the society Y Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Y Increased isolationism Y Rising internal violence Y Excessive spending on military / arms race Y Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / hyper inflation Y If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. If all happen at the same time, it's guaranteed to be the end. The USSR collapsed with 9 out of the 18. America scores 18/18. And you have reached "cascading interconnected systems failure" - everything is broken and everything you need to fix it is also broken. The only question left is can you MANAGE the collapse? Will it be like the end of the British Empire - or Yugoslavia 1992 with way more guns. Enjoy your collapse.
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  16646.  @CJM6  Not "self disciplined" selfish. not " independent of society" uncaring of society. I know you don't possess the neurons in your brain to perceive the world as others do and you see yourselves as good people, but you're not. Its literally been proven in experiments and f-MRI scans. Let me help, though your nature is to dismiss this because it does not comport with your view of the world so it MUST be wrong. The Child In The Well Experiment Mencius (fourth century BCE) was a Confucian philosopher. He proposed that all humans were inherently good. They all has “sprouts” of goodness, they just needed nurturing. To demonstrate this he proposed the following. A young child is sat on a well, as you want by it falls screaming down the well. He says EVERYONE would run to help the child, call for help. Recently this was tested. Subjects were taken to a room in a different city and there was a video screen of the space outside and it shows a well with a child on it. The subjects don't know this is a a pre recorded video, they think it is a live feed. As the “experiment” is being set up the child falls screaming down the well. The theory is that 100% of people will react and call the assistant to go help the child. This is not the case. 80% do exactly that, they go nuts and scream for help, run out the room to try and save the child, just what you would expect. 20% do NOTHING. They don't call for help, they don't get up and try to help and a significant proportion don't even register any facial emotions. They just passively watch a child die as if they were watching a commercial for shampoo. Upon further investigation, the vast majority of these that don't react are right to far right wing in their political views. ~~~~~~~~~~~ These are your people, these are the "responsible" "self disciplined" people, you dont miss the job interview cos a kid fell down a well - that would be irresponsible. And from an evolutionary standpoint - YOU were the ones that fled and did not defend the village when attacked [ independent of society REMEMBER] and wiped out and YOU survived and the village lived on. YOU HAD [past tense] and evolutionary role. Today YOU are just terrible human beings. independent of society independent of society independent of society independent of society independent of society To you its a virtue, actually its one of the worst things a human being can be... Please dont tell me the thing you are going to tell me, I dont expect you to take a single word in, your brian is not made that way.
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  16704.  @maxfastest  - I was born into a very impoverished family in the UK. We went to school in trash bags too poor to afford coats. I bought into all the BS that being a success was the only thing in life that mattered and if I achieved that I would be happy. In 2014 I was worth €6 million - but I wasn't happy and I was working 15 hours a day, I naturally assumed it was because I was not rich ENOUGH Then in that year I was mugged for my Rolex Daytona watch and suffered brain damage. 18 months later I was bankrupt and homeless. I got things together enough to get a small - completely empty apartment - 1 has 1 chair, 1 coffee table, a computer and my dog. 1 knife, 1 fork, 1 plate. At first I felt incredibly ashamed and embarrassed by my poverty, but as time end by I started to ENJOY the emptiness, enjoy the simplicity, I mean I was broke as hell, but I didnt hate it any longer. Things got a little easier when I published a book about my experiences and about $600 a month started to come in, this is in Bulgaria, so its more than $600 would buy you in the USA but bot not a lot. A shop assistant would earn that part time... I would never have given up the money because my brain was incapable of even entertaining the possibility that money was not the solution. I bought a Mercedes CL500 and it kept me happy for 3 months before I wanted a Bentley and then I was miserable for 6 months cos the Mercedes was not a Bentley - If I only had a Bentley I would be happy... Our minds are programmed from birth to believe that if we only had the next thing "we would be happy". Once you have your basic needs, no amount of "stuff" is going to make you happy once the novelty wears off - if a $140,000 Mercedes only makes you happy for 3 months - you are screwed... EDIT: The mistake poor people make is assuming they will get the same or more joy from buying an expensive thing as a rich person as they do now with anything as a poor person. The joy a poor person experiences at getting - say a new iPhone is immeasurable. And let them have their bit of joy. But a rich person can afford pretty much anything so nothing has meaning. Ferrari has worked this out - they won't just sell you a Ferrari new. You have to PROVE you are an enthusiast to buy one, you have to have owned a few 2nd hand Ferraris before they will sell you a new one. A rich person gets 1/10th the joy from a $140k Mercedes as a poor person gets from a new iPhone. In reality its like buying an apple to a rich person - so being rich is almost poitless.
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  16879. MESSAGE FROM AN AUTHOR IN EUROPE the very FIRST thing you have to do as a nation is STOP LYING TO YOURSELVES Stop lying about who you are as a people, who you are as a nation, and what your global standing is - In China the day after your election the biggest news story was a woman getting knocked over by a pig...!!! Your badly educated people are getting poorer they do not trust institutions and they DO NOT want more of the same with tweaks to policy. You are a collapsing empire deep in the doo doo, expansion and dominance can no longer keep making people's lives better and you gave the billionaires total control. Outside the English language US obsessed elitest western media the rest of the world bearly mentions you from one month to the next. You are truly isolated as a result of stealing Russian money and G4z4 and the billionaires need more money so they intend extracting it from YOU...!!! They are locked out of the rest of the world so they are coming for your money like never before...!!! Why do you think they all backed Trump...???? Your only hope is to get real - this is NOT a 4 year and its over problem - this is a 20 to 30 year struggle to rescue your country and it will require hard work, dedication, and a radical populist left-wing agenda that is very simple "WE WILL TAKE MONEY OFF THE RICH AND GIVE IT TO THE POOR" Above all - STOP LYING TO YOURSELVES - you are not special you are an ex empire the world has left behind. "Am3ric4n Exceptionalism" will not magically make everything better - hard graft and sacrifice will...!!! Good Luck
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  16936.  @charlotteinnocent8752  - Well my next book is on how to cope with the collapse of civilisation from a psychological perspective. It has forced me to research and think very deeply about the world and how it is constructed today. Writing it has actually radicalised me significantly. But this was a note I made a few months ago... COMMUNISM IN 50 YEARS Well like it or hate it you WILL live in some form of communist state in the next 50 years. Capitalism is FUNDAMENTALLY flawed, I dont mean it has its problems. I mean the very basic concept is self cannibalising. Problem No1. Capitalism is a funnel. It funnels wealth from the bottom to the top - it also funnels power from the bottom to the top cos money = power. For capitalism to be stable you have to TAX the top heavily and move the money back down to the bottom JUST to keep the system functioning. Rich powerful people DO NOT like being taxed. And as capitalism INEVITABLY produces rich powerful people who control media and politicians they get their way. This hoovers all the money out of the working class, then you give them credit - they sell their future work, and then they are EMPTY. But for capitalism to continue it NEEDS MONEY - so the middle class are the next to go - and you can see this in the USA and the UK - it is eating the middle class. It also starts to eat the state, private prisons, private education etc etc... Ultimately there is NO MONEY left in the system - that has already happened the FED in America si literally printing money to keep the system working. So capitalism HAS TO COLLAPSE. It is 100% inevitable from the very start of the system. And people predicted this 150 and 200 years ago. Problem 2. Capitalism HAS to GROW to exist. it is NOT a static model. It has to grow by about 3% each year to continue. That is a DOUBLING of the world economy every 27 years. The earth is at 130% of capacity now. WE CAN NOT extract 260% per year of the earth capacity in another 27 years - its not possible to live on that planet. SO. A static zero growth economic model is required, a model that removes the profit motive is required [to long to explain why] is required and due to AI a UBI is required - the only economic model we have that allows the earth to survive and people to eat is a communism based model. It wont be Stalin's Russia, it will be some hybrid modernised version. But YOU WILL LIVE under a communist economic model if you live another 50 years. ---§--- Problem No1 means that the capitalist system will always end up with a pathetically weak party paid to lose and an evil party paid to give tax cuts to the rich - both parties are paid to give the plebs the impression they live in a democracy. Give capitalism enough time and it will achieve this state. Its like the clumping of matter in the early universe eventually leading to planets and intelligent life - its the inexorable path a structure will take.
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  17103.  @jimmccullough1937  - Ill pay attention to what I want. Jack sh!t you can do about it. "We have guns here. So what" so 40,000 of you die each year. 40,000 of your fellow Americans - but "so what" hey, you dont care, they are not you - right? "A small percentage fall into the wrong hands and make news." 324 mass shooting this year alone in the USA. 40,000 dead last year - a small percentage "You can't control Crazy" you LITERALLY can control crazy, its not a "crazy" problem - its a broken collapsing society problem. This is the list of contributing factors to societal collapse: Plague / disease Yes Environmental change Y Massive wealth inequality Y Loss of the administrative class Y The government stops governing Y Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Y Loss of faith in the political system Y Economic collapse Y Exposed obvious corruption Y Crumbling infrastructure Y Mismanagement of a crisis Y Societal division Y Loss of belief in the unity of the society Y Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Y Increased isolationism Y Rising internal violence Y Excessive spending on military / arms race Y Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / inflation Y If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. If all happen at the same time, it's guaranteed to be the end. The USSR collapsed with 9 out of the 18. America scores 18/18. And you have reached "cascading interconnected systems failure" - everything is broken and everything you need to fix it is also broken. The only question left is can you MANAGE the collapse? Will it be like the end of the British Empire - or Yugoslavia 1992 with way more guns. ---§--- Suck it up buttercup - the empire is over, this is what collapse looks like. " the minute you are threatened by another European neighbor, here comes all the scary Americans" - 75 years ago dude, you have not won a war for 75 years, you have LOST every war since the 2nd world war.
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  17146.  @maxlin7208  - Im an author on the collapse of civilisations - if you live in America you should be the one worried: These are the 18 indicators of a collapsing civilisation. Plague / disease Yes Environmental change Yes Massive wealth inequality Yes Loss of the administrative class Yes The government stops governing Yes Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Yes Loss of faith in the political system Yes Economic collapse Yes Exposed obvious corruption Yes Crumbling infrastructure Yes Mismanagement of a crisis Yes Societal division Yes Loss of belief in the unity of the society Yes Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Yes Increased isolationism Yes Rising internal violence Yes Excessive spending on military / arms race Yes Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / inflation Yes If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. If all happen at the same time, it's guaranteed to be the end. The USSR collapsed with 9 out of the 18. America scores 18/18. And you have reached "cascading interconnected systems failure" - everything is broken and everything you need to fix it is also broken. The only question left is can you MANAGE the collapse? Will it be like the end of the British Empire - or Yugoslavia 1992 with way more guns. ---§--- " European companies are moving to the U.S." This is a fantasy ---§--- You live in an ugly collapsing sh!t hole with half a billion guns. BTW - Im very sorry about your bad education, that's sucks.
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  17175.  @henryr2954  - 1, 2 and 3 are ALL political decisions by the tory party. People didn't obsess about houses in the Uk until Thatcher told them to, cos people in rented accommodation strike a lot more easily than those with mortgages. "Liberalise the markets, more free trade to drive down the cost of goods and ease the cost of living" You cant. Its hit the end. You can undo Brexit - thats it. Low wages have been subsidised by cheap[er and cheaper consumer goods and industrialised food for 150 years. Food is not literally poisonous to health and everything is made in the cheapest country on earth in mega factories. The problem the USA and the UK face is ITS COME TO AN END - capitalism is over. There is NO WHERE CHEAPER to move production to, there are no more efficiencies of scale to be had. Its the END. China is switching to supplying its internal market of 1.4 billion - its no longer willing to be the west b***ch "invest more in skills and technology..." Thats a 25 year strategy of educating people and the UK does not have the money "invest in left-behind areas by improving broadband connectivity and speeds " I live in Bulgaria - I have 500Mbps fibre optic internet for £8 a month. You can get 150Mbps anywhere in the country... The UK is so fart behind its embarrassing. " skilled migrants with postgraduate degrees who can bring their knowledge and skills to the UK, "They are already open under the point scheme - no one wants to go to the UK - the world knows its collapsing and isolated, its a death sentence for your career. "cut red tape and unnecessary business regulations to make operating a business" diverging from EU standards COSTS money not saves it - this is a Brexit falacy. "create a strong social safety net for people who are transition between jobs or who want to leave their job to find better employment." 100% agree - tories want you to starve instead. "What we need is a pragmatic discussion about how we can change things for the better, not just a continuation of the age-old fight between left and right." I TOTALLY AGREE - the problem is the first thing people have to accept is ITS OVER - CAPITALISM IS OVER - THE WORLD AND THE UK NEED A STEADY STATE ECONOMIC MODEL The two most obviously capitalist countries on earth - the UK and the USA are BOTH collapsing and there is no saving them in their current form. Even if you could save capitalism, capitalims cant solve the climate crisis. Capitalism has to grow profits at 3% per year roughly to exist. It CANT any longer. thats partly why house prices are so high - money is going into property to rent instead of making things cos there is NO MONEY in making anything any longer... There will be some form of comune - ism - not USSR style communism. Some form of static state communal living. Probably similar to what China is heading toward now, a highly regulated free market with a zero growth model. But there will be horrific times ahead before the rich give up on the idea of infinite growth...
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  17262.  @billthecook4357  Bill - I listen to so much total bullsh!t from people on YouTube comments, honestly no one has got closer to the truth of the situation than you have. I get to spend 8 hours a day for 3 years thinking about this and calling it work, I understand that most people can't have an in-depth understanding, they have not got the time. But it does distress me how wide of the mark the vast majority of people are. Here is another chapter, but you know it already, sorry its a bit long. IS CIVILISATION COLLAPSING? ‘Whether we like it or not, change comes. And the greater the resistance, the greater the pain.’ Alan Watts YES, civilisation is collapsing. At least in the U.S.A. and the UK, and in the west more generally. That is a bit depressing. Not the best way to start a book. But I'm not trying to make you happy. I'm trying to give you the tools to cope with what is happening. And denying the reality of what is happening is, as we have discussed, NOT a coping strategy! Denying the reality of what is happening is what gets most people into most of the serious trouble in their lives: not opening that stack of overdue bills because it’s just too depressing to face, not calling the car finance company when you can’t make a payment because you just can’t face it. So, we have to first acknowledge the reality we are living in. And that reality is: Life in the U.S.A. and the UK will never be the same again. Everyone will have to cope with a new reality. A reality of life in a declining country. And this happens. The Roman Empire collapsed. The USSR collapsed. The British Empire collapsed. And people lived through it. And so will you! Will you have to adapt? YES. But that is largely the point of this book. Change is not in its self a ‘bad thing’, it’s just ‘a thing’. It’s only bad when you cannot cope with it. And the first way people fail to cope with change is by denying it’s happening until it is too late and requires drastic upheaval in their lives. The classic example is the failing small business. First it’s a ‘bad week’, then it’s a ‘bad month’, then it’s a ‘bad patch’, then it’s a ‘bit worrying’, then it’s a ‘maybe we need to do more marketing’, then it’s ‘we have to think about cutting down spending’, then it’s ‘we really need to cut down on our spending’, and then it’s ‘we need to take drastic action!’ Then it’s bankruptcy a year or 18 months after the first red flags that something was wrong. Over 25 years in business, I have watched this happen to people’s businesses time after time, even my own in the early days. Until I learned the lesson. Everyone says the same, ‘we didn't act quick enough’, ‘we thought we were doing enough’, ‘we thought we had cut our spending down to nothing - but we were still spending hand over fist on things we did not need…!’ Humans deny realities they do not like. They bury their head in the sand and hope for the best. When they should be preparing for the new reality. Accepting the reality of your situation allows you to prepare for it physically, prepare for it financially, prepare for it mentally, and prepare for it emotionally. So, let's have a look at the situation in the U.S.A. today from an historical perspective. Why do civilisations collapse? Looking at all the historical analysis I can find and watching a lot of YouTube videos (when you are an author, watching YouTube videos counts as work), listening to podcasts and reading books, I have come up with this list of contributing factors to societal collapse: Plague / disease Environmental change Massive wealth inequality Loss of the administrative class The government stops governing Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Loss of faith in the political system Economic collapse Exposed obvious corruption Crumbling infrastructure Mismanagement of a crisis Societal division Loss of belief in the unity of the society Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Increased isolationism Rising internal violence Excessive spending on military / arms race Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / hyper inflation If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. As I write this in May 2022, we can safely tick most, if not all, of these boxes for the U.S.A. and the UK. If you live outside the U.S.A. and the UK, don't think you are getting off Scott free. Take a look at the list again. Most western countries tick off a good number of the collapse criterion. I doubt many people would argue the U.S.A. is in a more perilous position right now, but everyone has a right to be worried about the future at the moment. You are not being paranoid. You have reason to worry. Just because you are not living in the U.S.A. or the UK does not mean this book is irrelevant to you. This book is relevant to you if you are worried about your future. Your society may not collapse, the U.S.A. may not collapse, I may be completely wrong. It only matters if you FEEL like the society around you is collapsing and you are having difficulty with that. Because at the end of the day, the universe is nothing but your perception of it and the feelings that engenders in you. If you feel like the world is collapsing around you and you cannot cope - your world is collapsing. And that is all that counts. ---§--- Change is not the problem, its people's inability to cope with the change that is the problem. Clinging onto a past that no longer exists...
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  17309. @YTCensors - If you step back from the Western perspective and look at the Earth from outer space over the last 3000 years - its a Chinese planet We ignore China cos we are westerners - but 1400 years ago the Chinese were printing books of building regulations and we in the west were living in mud and stick huts Even when the Romans were making a good go of it - the biggest civilisation on earth was the Chinese. Its only since the industrial revolution they got left behind and now they have used our western need for consumer goods to build their economy and now they are turning inward to supply their middle class of 800 million. My next book is a fictional work about the globe being run by China except for America which has become the "United Corporations of America" where slavery is legal again and Britain where they decided to live permanently in 1930 with steam trains and compulsory cricket on Sundays. But its inspired by the fact the world will likely become Chinese. So what? 80% of Chinese people like living there, for the average person it will make little difference except the roads and trains will be better. The rich and powerful always try to scare you sh!tless - for me and yo life would not be appreciably differnet under Chinese rule. BTW - you can learn to read Chinese without having to speak Chinese 鱼 that means fish - you dont need to know the world, yo can just read it as fish. 廁 that means toilet 男人 that means male person the great advantage to this is you can speak any language on earth and still READ Chinese - this is a massive bonus if you are to rule the world...
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  17361.  @newsbender "The UK to start recovering?" you mean - it will, but its a long time off - I wrote this the other day: 38% of all public buildings are past end of life with 3% more every year - thats £1.5 Trillion over the next 10 years - budget £0 Roads - in my sister's tiny North Yorkshire council area they audited the roads - £1.1 Billion to repair them. 636 "councils" in the UK so that’s £700 Billion THEN you have sewage systems - 1 sewer in London cost £5 billion - so what £250 billion Electricity - MOD - Trains - that's going to be £1 trillion This lot comes to about £4 trillion JUST TO REPAIR THE BROKEN STUFF - not to build anything new, not to build any social housing, not to pay for a green transition or an AI revolution making 30% of people redundant, not to sort the NHS ---!--- There will come a point, and not just in the Uk, the U5A as well, where the need for things to WORK outweighs the need to give companies and billionaires tax cuts - not even billionaires want to live in a broken society where nothing functions. People think Am3ric4 is ahead of the UK now, they have overtaken the Uk - this is NOT true. its simply that the path we are all following leads down the hill of collapse and the UK is STILL ahead, the US is 30 years behind on the collapse. BUT reality will have to be faced - Ireland has worked out that they CANT actually have a functioning society and charge global corporations 10% Tax to move there... A reckoning is coming, a realignment of taxation back to the 1950's levens is coming and then recovery can start. If people don't have any money - they cant BUY things.
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  17394.  @Rose-hx9vk  - Exactly - I did not say "all republicans are bad people" - Not ALL republicans are bad people. But the Republican party has a near-monopoly on truly bad people. Its self selecting. And its NOT just the Republican party. The right-wing party in any country has a near-monopoly of terrible people. There is even an experiment that proves this. The Child In The Well Experiment Mencius (fourth century BCE) was a Confucian philosopher. He proposed that all humans were inherently good. They all has “sprouts” of goodness, they just needed nurturing. To demonstrate this he proposed the following. A young child is sat on a well, as you want by it falls screaming down the well. He says EVERYONE would run to help the child, call for help. Recently this was tested. Subjects were taken to a room in a different city and there was a video screen of the space outside and it shows a well with a child on it. The subjects don't know this is a a pre recorded video, they think it is a live feed. As the “experiment” is being set up the child falls screaming down the well. The theory is that 100% of people will react and call the assistant to go help the child. This is not the case. 80% do exactly that, they go nuts and scream for help, run out the room to try and save the child, just what you would expect. 20% do NOTHING. They don't call for help, they don't get up and try to help and a significant proportion don't even register any facial emotions. They just passively watch a child die as if they were watching a commercial for shampoo. Upon further investigation, the vast majority - close to 90% - of these that don't react are right wing to far right wing in their political views. ---§--- A sociopath, a narcissist, a psychopath is hardly likely to be drawn to the "let's be nice to everyone" party are they???
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  17396.  @Rose-hx9vk  - No you have been extremely polite, exemplary. If I am a little short and snappy please forgive me. I am 250 miles south west of Odessa - the scene of some of the worst fighting in Ukraine; life is incredibly stressful here at the moment. NO high taxes are not the answer, they are PART of the answer - but you actually mentioned the answer in your reply. EDUCATION. Almost ALL problems in society can be solved with education. And if you want to rob a society you first have to make it dumb. I wrote this a few weeks ago: In the late 1970's and early 80's computers became a thing and you could process lots of statistical data for the first time. And the political parties did... The data showed the GOP they would be demographic-ed out of existence in a couple of decades. It also showed the GOP that stupid badly educated people - amazingly - voted for them. Voted AGAINST their own interests, as blue-collar workers and for the GOP. So the GOP started to breed their own supporters. They systematically defunded education - in 1976 education was 5.7% of GDP. In 1983 it was 3.4% Some of the specific changes they made were to STOP teaching critical thinking skills, skills that ALLOW people to spot a lie. And it was wildly successful. America now has an uneducated subclass of 35% idiots and it is enough to swing elections. BTW - I dont blame the Republicans. Its the GOP's job to move towards fascism and the Democrat's job to move towards socialism and its each other's job to stop it from happening. The Democrats totally sold out the working people of America and allowed the GOP to move so far to the right they have essentially lost their minds. Its the Democrats that failed America and allowed this to happen by being pathetically weak sellouts. ---§--- I am - for want of a better phrase - a communist. I arrived in Bulgaria a foaming at the mouth capitalist and made millions of dollars selling Bulgarian cosmetics to people in America. But I was not happy, what is the point of a system that takes the money needed to live from thousands and gives it ot a few who dont need it and it does not even make them happy... I suffered brain damage in a mugging and lost everything - I was homeless for a while and learned to live on next to nothing, I was way happier than I was when rich. I realised what people need is rich fulfilling lives not rich with money lives. It was the fruit trees that made me a communist - everyone in my city gets 4 months of limitless FREE FRUIT cos there are thousands of fruit trees. Why - free fruit for the people and I thought OH MY GOD, you can actually design and build a society FOR THE PEOPLE... You dont have to build it for profit, there IS a different way to do it. So Im not a "Tanki" I don't want Soviet era communism, but I want a society that is built for THE PEOPLE, and one that does not rely on endless growth that the planet can not sustain - that would be good. Sorry for the long posts.
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  17397.  @Rose-hx9vk  - The Russian army is so totally hollowed out by corruption that it is utterly collapsing. One of the most visible examples are the tires on the truck, they are a Chinese FAKE version of a Michelin tire and they are no more than a movie prop. They will last a maximum of a month on the road and an hour off-road before they explode. There are videos of trucks driving along with the 4 back tires ALL blown out. Apparently, the Chinese fake version costs $500 and the original Michelin version $15,000 - the $14,500 difference paid for some oligarchs yacht. For the first time today, I had a tiny hope that Russia might just straight up LOSE the war. Tomorrow I am taking about 6 big bags of clothes and blankets to the Red Cross for the refugees that are starting to arrive in our city now. Education - my education was based on critical thinking. We had to work everything out from first principles. At the beginning of the pandemic, I started a university degree on Ancient Chinese Philosophy. It was entirely geared around you passing the exam at the end of each week NOT on understanding or learning about philosophy. AT the end of the first year I had passed the exams but I knew nothing so I gave up - I was not interested in a certificate, I w3anted to UNDERSTAND Chinese philosophy and that is not what the course was about. Communism - when you talk to people who lived under communism, its not so much an extreme political ideology as we see it in the west. Its a different way of structuring society. Where I live in Bulgaria, most people want to go back to communism who lived under it. In Romania next door it was a living hell. Communism wasn't a monoblock like we think of it, it was very varied. some places were really really good and others were like prison camps. We were only told the prison camp version. Emotionally Weak - hahahha - people see the fight and the courage of the Ukrainians and they are shocked, Im not. We had 100% mask compliance here, no one complained, no one protested, no one got their feelings hurt, no one has a months-long tantrum and I am sure it was the same in Ukraine. People in the west have had so little REAL to complain about for so long [as a society] that they fixate on the tiny things like having to wear a mask. Its the end of the world. After the USSR collapsed people starved to death in Eastern Europe - that was only 30 years ago. My friend Gia was sex trafficked by the Mafia in 2005, she escaped. No one here complained about having to wear a mask.
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  17542.  @DJWeiWei  OK - quick answers as I have to go out "And a totalitarian state that suppresses free thought can never compete with the academic institutions of free nations." - er China - You have to remember that we see the world very much through western industrialised eyes. The world has always been a Chinese world until the industrial revolution. 1000 years before America was a thing - the Chinese were publishing books of building codes. If you look at our history it goes really old stuff, industrial revolution, empires, us today. If you looked from space it would go China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China China industrial revolution empires, us today, China. And its always been authoritarian. But knowledge is part of their religion whereas profit is our religion. "6 and one half dozen of the other." Id agree a damaged tree falls down in a gale - but it WAS the gale that blew it down. "Also growth does not require population growth" Id argue that its a vicious spiral and not a one way street. But "growth" might now need population growth but our specific form of buy now pay later capitalism very much does. "Capitalism is looked as one thing" I TOTALLY AGREE. I wote this a few months ago: "the problem is the UK is collapsing and NO ONE has a way of stopping it. The reason they dont have a way of stopping it is because its unstoppable. This is why they are trying ever more desperate options. Hyper-individualism has removed collective power from the people and the vast transfer of wealth to the top has destroyed the system. The top is only interested in protecting its wealth. The bottom has no collective power. Everyone knows the system is utterly broken and no one has any idea what will replace it. So it lurches from one crisis to the next. Im a Labour supporter but it wont be any different under labour, just less vicious. Systems evolution has created a block of hyper-rich at the top that the entire system protects. They own the media, the internet access, the housing stock, the farms, the banks, everything. All with the purpose of protecting their wealth. Its not a conspiracy - its systems evolution - all systems eventually organise to protect and replicate. The evolution of capitalism has reached its "population explosion of rabbets in a field" point. collapse is not only inevitable, unavoidable - its happening now." "we don't have to make it only serve the rich as we tend to do IMHO." I 100% AGREE - but I would argue that capitalism TENDS towards this as the people with money accumulate more money and therefore more power and they use that to acquire more money an power. I would argue that if you run a computer simulation of capitalism 999/1000 it end up here. Karm Marx identified the problem 150 years ago and the way of stopping it - ABOLISH INHERITANCE. when you die all your wealth goes to the government and is distributed each year among the population. The fun bit is - the average person who would object would be WAY better off. If you have a £400k house you are leaving to your 2 kids - they would get something like £500k each over their life under this system. Passing massive generational wealth to your kids is what allows capitalism to collapse - the 1/1000 where it doesn't is where they abolish inheritance. OK - not so short, as I say this is my pet subject...
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  17830.  @tomnorton7910  This is a sample unedited chapter: LONELINESS ‘Loneliness is not the lack of company in one’s life. It is the lack of meaning in one’s life. People merely distract us from ourselves.’ [redacted] People distract us from the lack of meaning in our life. They entertain us, they annoy us, they make us laugh, most of all they distract us. They distract us from the emptiness inside of us. The absence of people in life does not make us lonely. The awareness of our own emptiness is what makes us lonely. If we fill that void with meaning, with purpose, with life, we will never be lonely. We can take the company of good people. We can walk away from toxic people, not needing their company, not exposing our happiness to their pollutants in order to not feel alone. When we feel bad about ourselves, when we have low self-esteem, when we have a lack of meaning in our lives, when we don't know who we are; we are desperate to be distracted from ourselves and made feel happy. Even if that ‘happy’ is just not feeling bad about ourselves. Often it’s better to be annoyed by someone else than depressed about ourselves. This is why people getting out of abusive relationships are notorious for jumping straight back into obviously unsuitable relationships. A friend of mine in Utah, America, just told me a story of two friends. Both recently out of abusive relationships, both getting married again to people they have been dating for less than three months. One of them openly admits the partner they are marrying is financially abusive and takes advantage of them. But being taken advantage of financially, and all the misery that brings, is better to a lot of people than sitting alone and feeling empty and without purpose. It is better than feeling ‘lonely’. And it’s a quick fix to find an unsuitable partner. A lot quicker than filling your life with purpose and meaning. With the added advantage you can blame the partner for all the problems and misery in your life. So, as long as you don't actually care about your happiness, it’s a real ‘win - win’. But assuming you do care about your long-term happiness, well it’s probably best to find some meaning in life. People with rich, fulfilling lives, full of meaning and purpose are never lonely, neither do they shun company, but they are equanimous. They can take it or leave it. They can appreciate the benefits, the joy even, of being alone. They can appreciate the beauty of silence.
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  17839.  @nbandpinportugal  - well it will come from the top down. When the billionaires wake up to the fact all the cities will be on fire and their mansions in ashes and the police won't do a thing about it cos they AGREE... [yeah dumb mistake by the tories to cut the police - thatcher was not that stupid] The billionaires who run the show will introduce reforms and throw some beans out to stop it - if they have any sense. Macron in France has just nationalised the energy companies to ensure affordable energy this winter to stop the riots BUT - I dont think that will happen. Revolutions happen when three things come together 1) the ruling class get so hideously out of touch their every action is unwittingly cruel and self-serving, meaning the conditions of the working person are simply hideously deprived with NO HOPE of ever improving - Brexit, NI increase, Cost of living crisis 2) a new generation arrives that does not have the deference of the previous ones, has access to modern communication systems that the ruling class simply does not understand how to use - Gen Z 3) A massive - usually global event - a world war or a pandemic the elite in this country don't posses the neurological pathways necessary to UNDERSTAND how bad its getting for 10 million people. You can sit them down and TELL them in words of one syllable and they will think "it cant be that bad, he is exaggerating". In the same way a narcissist does not possess the neurological pathways to feel empathy, the British elites don't possess the neurological pathways to understand extreme widespread poverty, so they won't believe anything needs doing. So the cities will burn, and the police wont stop it. And when the police don't stop it - the elites utterly sh!t themselves cos THAT is a coup in the making, you have lost control.
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  17840.  @mac23806  - You dont have to be a sheep to love the Apple ecosystem. I dont have to do ANYTHING for all m,y devices to be completely in synch with each other. I can start an article on my iMac and then work on it on my iPod on the train to an appointment, then take pictures wiht my phone, insert them on my iPad into the article, get back home and finish it off on my computer and then listen to it on my iPhone as I walk my dog - AND I DONT HAVE TO DO ANYTHING to make all of that happen. I never have to know where a document is, its always just there when I need it, on whatever device I want it. I can go into the time machine and pull up an article I deleted 2 years ago, copy the bit I want and insert it into my current document. You are not a SHEEP for wanting an ecosystem that JUST WORKS and you dont need to know anything about computers to make it work. I have not pressed Ctrl Alt Del or screamed at a computer in 30 years since I switched to Apple. BUT the price you pay for that is becoming unacceptable for many people. Paying $3k for a computer is a price we have elected to pay for the astonishing level of convenience and seamless interconnectedness, but the inability to have it repaired or even upgraded is pushing many to reconsider, but then we look at how sh!t the alternatives are i.e. NO ECOSYSTERN at all and a million apps and programs that DONT talk to each other unless you force them and we realise "I can spend the rest of my life screaming at my electronics, OR I can put up with Applers abuse" Apple don't get away with the abuse cos their users are sheep - they get away with the abuse cos the alternatives are unbelevably sh!t
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  17857.  @scurra1163  - Yeah nice try but you just scream insecurity and bitter resentment in every syllable you write. I got your motivation correct and you and I know it. "'now you cant hate her cos she is massively left wing ' This one get's me. Why would I even remotely care? " cos if I had not clarified that you would have gone on a 1000-word rant about it - yes you are THAT transparent - I literally put in a pre-emptive block on that cos I didn't want to read it. "The 'good old days' is almost always BS, no matter whose ideology is being discussed." and your evidence for this is...??? OH, your opinion, sorry thats not a valid argument. "and as the generation that built the current system might have regrets at screwing it up, doesn't mean there recollections were correct. Just because the current system is corrupt or ineffective(and largely their generation's fault)" oh look scream insecurity and bitter resentment in every syllable "You also make MASSIVE leaps of logic in your thoughts on my motivation" - yes I do - but Im right though, aren't I? You have no secure job, no prospects of buying a decent house, having kids will be a massive stretch is not an impossibility, university will bankrupt you - and you know what? EDIT: I don't think you are aware of just how astonishingly transparent you are. YOU ARE 100% RIGHT TO BE P!SSED you got totally screwed over and lied to and it is completely unfair. But don't tell me I don't know what I am doing or talking about. Cos you and me both know I do, and that's why you are so shouty cos truth hurts. The bottom line is - on the whole LIFE WAS BETTER for the people who say life was better in the good old days. BECAUSE life in the USA was better for young people of their demographic in the 1950's 60's and 70's. It just wasn't better for everyone, and thats the bit they forget. Anyone involved in the war effort that was white - they got an interest-free mortgage on a new house, you are going to remember that very fondly - but ONLY if you were white... They are NOT excessively romanticising their lives - they are just missing their massive privilege...
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  17862.  @ArrowBast  - Yeah thats cos the right-wing government cut 40,000 [which is a lot for a tiny island] police and blocked pay rises for the rest of them so their pay has gone down as well. BUT - its the same as the "immigrant crisis". These things are massively overstated BY the right-wing media to get people to KEEP voting for the right-wing "tough on crime - nasty to immigrants party" when the moderate uptick in these problems is 100% down to the politics of the right-wing government. They also cut 30% of the courts so no one gets sentenced for anything. Its the worst for women - only 0.79% of all R and serious S/A cases even get charged and they won't release the level that actually get convicted. Because it is SO LOW women don't bother reporting it so essentially R/pe is legal in the UK. Its the same thing that happens with any right-wing government - they break stuff and then tell you THEY are the only ones who can fix it. Inflation has been close to 15% and wages have not gone up in 10 years for most people - OF COURSE, STREET CRIME IS A PROBLEM. Kids are fainting in classrooms cos they are literally starving. Nurses are going to food banks - hospitals are opening food banks IN THE HOSPITAL for their nurses to get food. I was on a long holiday / research trip here in Bulgaria when the Conservative government got elected - I never went home, I knew exactly what would happen. The same thing that happens to every country when a far right government gets in - it collapses. The one advantage the USA has is a president can only do 2 terms - so you elect the right wing GOP - they smash everything to pieces with a hammer and then the Dems [who I hate BTW] try to put it back together and then after 8 years they are out of power. In the UK they can go on for 12, 15, 18 years and its only in the last 5 can they REALLY smash the place to pieces.
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  17863.  @mitotakjde9763  - Im not speaking for your country - only for Bulgaria. Where 75% of people over 65 voted communist in the last election that is just the official statistic. " life was to steal everything you saw" Im sorry for this terribly poor reflection on your country - here in Bulgaria the doors still have the old "locks" on them from the communist time. It is a piece of 3mm thick wire bent into an L shape that you turned to stop the door from being opened. People specifically talk about the low crime of the socialist period. "The communist party here has 2% support only" Yeah in Bulgaria it ranges from 21% to 26% [Edit - there was a snap election Oct 2022 when the BSP got 8.98% of the vote, this mostly reflects an effort to get the corrupt GERB party out of power, or maybe the old socialist voters are just dying off...?] "Most post soviet countries would love to have the option of cutting Russia out of Eurasia and placing them to the other end of the world so they don't have to interact with them ever again.. " I agree - no one I talk to wants to be part of Russia's sphere of influence again - but socialism is not Russia " would literally rather shoot myself in the head than to live under communism.." I have really bad news for you - capitalism is collapsing and it will in the next 50 years be replaced by some modern form of communism. Are you from Romania by any chance, they seen to have had the worst time under communism? EDIT" I dont doubt what you say BTW - the one thing I have learned about communism is it was incredibly varied, just like capitalism. In some places, it was very good and people liked it, in others is was a horror show. If you ask a homeless person on the streets of America with no money for insulin what he tinks of capitalism you will get a tory similar to the one you tell. If you ask a business owner with a nice house you will get a very very different story.
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  17867.  @lamaahruloma4270  - You are one of the few people who has replied with a reasonably accurate description of what I have learned from hundreds of interviews. The control, the paranoia and the lack of freedom were the things that people hated most - as far as I can tell. The lack of shiny consumer goods is not something people tend to mention, thats a thing we in the west obsessed about cos we had them and that is how WE measured success. People miss the lack of stress and worry, the knowledge they would have a job and a house next month no matter what. They also miss the community and feeling that everyone was connected and part of the same - everyone hated the government, you and your neighbour hated the government. Now you and you neighbour have different political views and hate each other... There is a LOT of solace to be gained from having a united enemy you all hate. As a westerner I came here expecting people to universally hate it, I believe the propaganda of the west, never even knew it was propaganda, I thought it was truth. I was incredibly surprised to find people with happy stories and many fond memories. I was even more shocked to find many people wishing to return to socialism - not to the USSR, they are not [not all anyway] Tankies - but many of them dont like democracy they feel it has turned neighbour against neighbour and pushed the job of making decisions onto them. The variety and complexity is what caused me to start recording these stories - you have to be careful. There is no point in getting a story from an ex-party member, its not going to be a tru reflection of life under communism. Equally, people who wanted to flee cos they hated it, their stories are unreliable. You need the stories of the vast majority - those who just lived from day to day. And that is the point most people miss. The vast majority complained about communism in the same way that most Americans complain about their government, its what people do, but they didn't hate it enough to ever think of leaving. The other thing people in the west get wrong is it was NOT a monolith - it was very varied from country to country and even town to town and job to job. Saying "what was life like under communism" is an unanswerable question - what is life like under capitalism? Depends who you are, who your family is, what city you live in and what country... QUOTE "you can get a better house in communism, but you must give something in exchange" Yes I think the going rate is about $1 million in the west...
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  17870.  @SonicPhonic  - I absolutely cold not agree more. Personally, I think life under the USSR's communism would be absolutely horrible. I am not an advocate for Stalin in any way shape or form. Im just playing devil's advocate an pointing out to people that the idea we were fed in the west that life was universally hellish and everyone wanted to leave is simply not true, that was propaganda. I was astonished when I arrived in 2009 from the Uk as a foaming-at-the-mouth business-owning capitalist to find that NO, a lot of people liked communism and wanted to return to it as an economic model. [NO they dont want to return to 1975, they are not idiots, they want to return to a socialist economic model but in 2023] There is absolutely NO doubt the 40 to 50 million killed by Mao were actually killed BY Mao, he was offered help by the USSR to feed them and turned it down, he is responsible. Very personally responsible, but Im not entirely sure the communist economic SYSTEM was directly responsible, he made very very very bad decisions... We dont blame Hitlers genocide on Capitalism do we? YET capitalism - specifically greedy American bankers and the Wall St collapse of 1929 is what brought Hitler to power, he ran on a platform of "the establishment sold you out to the American [J] Bankers and you lost your savings and the communists are coming to take your house off you - vote for me! It was very very specifically capitalism that created Hitler and we don't blame capitalism for the holocaust. Quarter of a billion people have died under "capitalist" famines yet we dont label them "Capitalist famines" its just a Famine - there is one in Africa now, no one is calling out the world bank [capitalist] for killing people yet we blame the Soviet famines on communism. Im not a Tanki - if "Stalin 2.0" came to power here I would leave immediately. But we need, as a species, to move on from capitalism to a more sustainable and equitable, fairer economic model. What Aron Bastani calls "Fully Automated Luxury Communism"
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  18046. IM AN AUTHOR on psychology and the collapse of civilisations living in Eastern Europe - the short answer is ITS COMPLICATED Russia did not invade cos Putin fantasises about re-uniting Russia. Or cos Putin is mad. Or cos of NATO expansion,. Or cos etc. etc. Its ALL of these to a greater or lesser degree. The one thing missed out of this is the west backing Putin into a corner with the obsessive media hype and forcing him to invade EARLY. This was NOT planned for March, the west brought this forwards to happen when the EU did not need the gas as much and the ground in Ukraine would be liquid mud. [everyone in eastern Europe knows you cant even walk on the fields after the winter frost thaws] I think the scale of the invasion was increased by a somewhat irrational Putin in response to the west backing him into a corner with the hype about war. Also - Putin has "steroid head" - a big round shiny head on a match stick think body - this is a sign of late-stage cancer treatment. Both cancer and the steroid treatment used can cause irrational decision making and paranoia i.e. 40 feet long tables. It is my belief that Putin was planning a limited incursion in Nov 2022 when the world had got used to the troops being on the border. I think the west talked him into acting in the knowledge that he WAS going to do something so better he do it in March Mud with little need in EU for Russian gas. An isolated Putin, possibly on steroids and possibly fighting cancer, knowing he is being manipulated, overreacts and launches a full scale invasion...
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  18130.  @kollyoenchev5587  Thank you - a couple of points you mention I would like to comment on. I ONLY know Bulgarian people - I dont associate with Brits over here въпреки че българският ми е много лош. I don't know ANYONE on minimum wage, I also don't know anyone with a mortgage, so most people have OK lives. They are definitely nothing like as stressed about money as my friends in the UK. BUT I live in Burgas which is quite cosmopolitan, so this is not necessarily representative of the whole country. "In conclusion - I think we are moving forward the right way." I absolutely agree - I think Bulgaria is doing a very good job of modernising without AMERICANISING and I think ths is a very good thing. The UK tried to be a carbon copy of America and it has worked out very badly for them. I think the best thing Bulgaria does is look after the children and young families. Again I can not speak nationally, but in Burgas kids under school age get food delivered to the door every day, kids get free school meals, schools are small and distributed so kids can all walk to school, the 3 age groups are next to each other so the older kids can walk the younger ones to school, there is a ratio of 1 child psychologist to every 300 kids in a school, kids learn to drive in little electric cars on proper road layouts from 5yr so they are good citizens on the road when they get a car, many schools have dorms for the kids to sta couple of nights a week to give the parents a break, almost every apartment block has a playground within 50 yards for the kids and they are in good condition, the old people look after the kids after work, no one uses child care here, leaving your kid in storage with a stranger whilst yo work is essentially considered child abuse here. OH and you get [nearly] 2 years parental leave from work when you have a kid and university is very affordable. Bulgaria seems to realise that children LITERALLY are the future and not an impediment to you working 60 hours a week - as they are seen in the USA and the UK
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  18229.  Jing Bot  - OK - being serious cos you do sound kinda serious. Most Bulgarians under 35 speak very good English. My rent is $150 a month for an apartment on the strip of land between the sea and the inland lakes so I have unbelievable views, I do Tai Che on my balcony every morning as the sun rises over the sea. A mean at a good restaurant is $30 a mean at an ordinary place is $6 but the food at the average place is very good. There is no fast food really - life here is slow, you sit down to eat. A coffee is $0.90. A beer in a bar is $1.00 ish. In the big cities like Burgas public transport is amazing. I gave my car away a few weeks ago cos I had not used it in such a long time. The people are generally slim and very attractive but the pandemic has taken it tole unfortunately LOL They are very friendly and there is a deep sense of society and community here, children are societies responsibility not the parents, the grandmothers look after the kids if the parents both work. It is a very outdoor society, everyone is outdoors all the time even in winter people drink outside bars. The old Soviet era apartment blocks look terrible but they are AMAZING, that's what I live in. they are like a sensory deprivation tank - its silence inside them the walls are 12" thick solid concrete. There is good skiing 150 miles away in the winter. Paragliding and wind surfing kite surfing every day at 4.00pm as the wind changes and there is a great steady wind for 3 hours. The cities are 40% green space and parks. Thats a quick summary - hope it is helpful :-D P.S. I traveled in 53 countries before picking this one to live in.
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  18262.  @mcarpenter2917  Yes but you will have to dig for it. "Andrew D. Huberman is an American neuroscientist and associate professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School" has a podcast, he has several that tackle ADHD and in one of them he cited the paper that has this research in it. "suspect the massive increase of cases is just a medicalization of childhood" this is definitely a factor. there is a huge amount of evidence that behavioural problems and mental health problems expend to fill the diagnosis created for them in the DSM-5. Personally, I hate the DSM-5 with a passion - I believe it to be a tool of the American pharma industry to prescribe expensive drugs and nothing more... In the 1800 ADHD did not exist - why? 1) there was no diagnosis for it for starters 2) a kid with lots of energy was given a hammer and told to bang out horse shoes for a few hours, they were lauded as a great worker 3) almost all mental health problems are actually a "inability to fit in with desired socially expected behaviour" so ADHD was NOT a thing before you expected kids to sit at a desk all day in school, as soon as you did - you had "ADHD" . Interestingly - here in Bulgaria the kids do exercises in the sun outside every morning before class, to work off some of that energy and allow them to sit still... So I would argue, as would Huberman, that ADHD in kids is not really a "thing". HOWEVER, my comment was "You are 700% MORE likely to have ADHD as an adult if you are a gamer in your teens" the inability to concentrate and have a decent attention span as an adult is a genuine problem in modern society. Is it an illness - in my opinion no, its a dopamine receptor downregulation problem. This is why gaming is so problematic, its FREE unearned dopamine...
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  18263.  @andrewillsley6595  - I'm literally an author on psychology writing a book called "The Dopamine Paradox" EDIT - copied form my other answer: In the 1800 ADHD did not exist - why? 1) there was no diagnosis for it for starters 2) a kid with lots of energy was given a hammer and told to bang out horse shoes for a few hours, they were lauded as a great worker 3) almost all mental health problems are actually a "inability to fit in with desired socially expected behaviour" so ADHD was NOT a thing before you expected kids to sit at a desk all day in school, as soon as you did - you had "ADHD" . Interestingly - here in Bulgaria the kids do exercises in the sun outside every morning before class, to work off some of that energy and allow them to sit still... So I would argue, as would Huberman, that ADHD in kids is not really a "thing". HOWEVER, my comment was "You are 700% MORE likely to have ADHD as an adult if you are a gamer in your teens" the inability to concentrate and have a decent attention span as an adult is a genuine problem in modern society. Is it an illness - in my opinion no, its a dopamine receptor downregulation problem. This is why gaming is so problematic, its FREE unearned dopamine... ---§--- And there is your problem - its FREE UNEARNED DOPAMINE. It is downregulating the dopamine receptors and this is the core of "ADHD" in kids. It keep them calm cos the hyperactivity if self-medicating with dopamine, give them computer games and they get dopamine so they stay still. The same reason as giving them amphetamine makes them sit still.
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  18267.  @andrewillsley6595  - Im sorry - you can think i am rude as hell if you want - But I just don't have time to go through hundreds of pages of handwritten notes to find the reference to a single study. I'm not writing a book about gaming, its a tiny side note. but lets be clear - I never said computer gaming causes ADHD. What causes ADHD is having a dopamine regulation/sensitivity problem. ADHD is a behaviour. That behaviour is a dopamine-seeking behaviour. For whatever reason, the brain has either a lack of dopamine OR an insensitivity to dopamine. Almost always the latter. The running around, the jumping from one thing to the next, the arguing, the thrill-seeking, the doom scrolling, the playing games - all of these are dopamine-providing activities. If you give that person dopamine they will calm down, cos they have the dopamine they need. You can administer this dopamine by giving them the precursor - Levodopa, by giving them amphetamine like Ritalin, or by letting them play Call of Duty. So - computer games do NOT cause ADHD, but what they do is they re-enforce this dopamine downregulation cycle. The more dopamine you have, the less sensitive to dopp[amine your brain becomes, the more you need dopamine. And they are a very strong re-enforcer of this vicious cycle. "The dopamine Paradox" is the more you have ADHD, the worse the problem, the less likely you are to be able to control the problem. Cos the way you control ADHD most effectively is TO LIVE A VERY BORING LIFE. You need to reset your dopamine receptors. Im not writing a book on the science of the neurological system, Im writing a behavioural handbook to managing ADHD in adults. QUOTE: (that would only work if they were not hyper to begin with and then you gave them computer games- after a perod of time on games- they then became hyper) - they literally do, and that period of time is over months and years the free [or none traditionally obtained] dopamine downregulates the receptors and makes them more hyper on the long timescale. Thats the point. The easiest way to "cure" ADHD is to lock someone in a cabin in the woods for 2 months with no electronics or anything - not even electric light. They get up when the sun comes up, they are bored all day long and they go to bed when the sun goes down. A tiny number this will not help - and they have a dopamine PRODUCTION problem, but this is very rare. OK - I have to work now. Bye.
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  18328. IM AN AUTHOR ON PSYCHOLOGY - there is an experiment to test this. "The Child In The Well Experiment" Mencius (fourth century BCE) was a Confucian philosopher. He proposed that all humans were inherently good. They all has “sprouts” of goodness, they just needed nurturing. To demonstrate this he proposed the following. A young child is sat on a well, as you want by it falls screaming down the well. He says EVERYONE would run to help the child, call for help. Recently this was tested. Subjects were taken to a room in a different city and there was a video screen of the space outside and it shows a well with a child on it. The subjects don't know this is a a pre recorded video, they think it is a live feed. As the “experiment” is being set up the child falls screaming down the well. The theory is that 100% of people will react and call the assistant to go help the child. This is not the case. 80% do exactly that, they go nuts and scream for help, run out the room to try and save the child, just what you would expect. 20% do NOTHING. They don't call for help, they don't get up and try to help and a significant proportion don't even register any facial emotions. They just passively watch a child die as if they were watching a commercial for shampoo. Upon further investigation, the vast majority of these that don't react are right to far right wing in their political views. --§--- The right-wing doesn't HAVE empathy for others in the same way the left does. To then it's IDIOTIC to care about a person who does not share your DNA. The border guard guy who died trying to save immigrants in the river - to THEM that is 100% proof that caring about others is idiotic. And from an evolutionary standpoint -they were the ones that fled and did not defend the village when attacked and wiped out and they survived and the village lived on. They HAD [past tense] and evolutionary role. Today they are just terrible human beings.
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  18336. CHANGE STARTS WITH YOU YOU REJECT THE PREMISE THAT GUNS ARE IN ANY WAY SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE You excommunicate anyone you know who has a gun. As a SOCIETY and an individual, you say "I WILL NOT BEa FRIEDS with anyone who has a gun" because You cant have a gun, claim to be a “responsible gun owner” and not be complicit in the deaths of these children In the same way you cant own a blood diamond and not be complicit in child slavery. You cant own Nike sneakers made in a sweatshop in Indonesia and not be complicit in exploitation. If you are not actively fighting against an injustice as huge as the mass killing of children in America with guns, you are complicit in the killings. If you have a gun and claim to be a “responsible gun owner” you are NORMALISING the existence of guns in people's hands in America and that allows the situation to continue. And because it is SO normalised to you in America, you don't see this. Guns are an antisocial dangerous f-uk you to society and owning one [except for hunting] is an a-hole thing to do. Guns are like fascism. If you are not actively fighting fascism you are complicit in letting it take over the country. When a problem reaches a certain magnitude - passivity becomes participation in the problem. YOUR GOVERNMENT will do nothing - YOU have to. You have to start change at a personal level and say GUNS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE - FULL STOP As a nation you are the abused trauma bonded victims of the right wing and the gun lobby and like all victims - the abuser has NORMALISED THE ABUSE you have to say I WILL NO LONGER ACCEPT THIS AS NORMAL cos owning a gun is NOT f-king normal - it is deeply antisocial and dangerous.
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  18369.  @thenathanimal2909  - please stop believing this rubbish. Its propaganda to make you feel better about living in a horrible time. NO the only time that was objectively much worse was the industrial revolution until about 1950. "Capitalism has it's flaws, but it has done incredible things to move forward quality of life for humans." NO IT HAS NOT. "Most humans were subsistence farmers/hunter gatherers," YES THEY WERE and they were happier and healthier than you are. Even medieval peasants have a vastly better life than most people are led to believe. A medieval peasant worked about 1400 hours a year edit a modern American works 1800, and their welfare was ultimately the responsibility of the lord of the manor. The "family unit" was an invention of the industrial revolution to make the FAMILY responsible for its own sick, elderly and children, prior to that the village looked ofter them with the lord of the manor having ultimate responsibility. Industrialists were very keen NOT to take on this burden. Capitalism has moved forward technology but not happiness, and people are less healthy than they were at any time except the middle of the industrial revolution. NO people did not die at 35 in history - this is bad science reported wrongly. The only unequivocally brilliant thing about the modern world is medicine, but even then the medicine in the USSR was astonishingly good - the life expectancy in the USSR went from 38 in 1945 to 77 in 1970. "But Americans have a higher standard of living". NO they have more consumer goods, this does not = a higher quality of life. Yo may have guessed, I'm an author in this field.
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  18416.  @joonzville  This is a section of a chapter of my latest book, its aimed at disaffected desperate men in America, who tend to be right-wing and conservative and not read books so its has sold terribly. Which I knew it would, but the suicide rates are so horrific I had to make an effort. The problem is, you cant address the fundamental problems and NOT sound like a "leftie". [it is specifically written in an unintellectual manner] "HE’S NOT A LEFTIE - HE’S A VERY NAUGHTY BOY! I'm very conscious that I might come across like a raging ‘leftie’ and that may put people off me and this book, deny them the help this book may offer them and politics is not my agenda here, so I want to address this issue head on. If you are a hard-core right-wing Trump supporter, I don't care. You are a human being who wants the same as I do – a half decent life, the ability to feel safe and secure, be able to look after your family and provide for them, earn a decent living, save a bit of money, and not struggle every damn day of your life. You are no different to me, or to any person reading this book, it's what all humans want. I don't believe in ‘left’ or ‘right’, these are labels put on people and ideas to ‘other’ and to ‘divide’. I'm not a ‘leftie’, I'm a person who has experienced a hell of a lot in life from extreme poverty and homelessness to literal millions £$€, and I’ve had the time to deeply reflect on it and this leads me to certain conclusions and insights that OTHER PEOPLE may have labelled as ‘left’. And this is how academia gets labelled as ‘Leftist’. In the same way it’s almost impossible to spend three years writing a book and not come up with something profound, it’s almost impossible to spend a life in academic study and thought and not arrive at a perspective that people have labelled ‘left wing’, unless financial interests induce you to lie about it. The reason being, that the capitalist status quo wants one thing, the continuation of the status quo in all its inequitable and destructive murderous horror (we call this right wing) and everyone who has the time to think deeply enough to get past the propaganda, realises the same self-evident truths. Believing that a system so obviously broken, as this one, needs replacing with a better, more equitable, more inclusive system, is NOT ‘left wing’: it’s HUMANITARIAN! I'm not ‘left wing’, academia is not ‘left win’, it’s just that given enough time and thought about the problems of society, everyone ends up coalescing around roughly the same ideas. These ideas are dangerous to the status quo so they are labelled, and demonised."
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  18449.  @Ajs_1988  " the UK will be fine". NO you wont be - you are in what is called "Sigmoid Collapse" and you have another 10 to 15 years - you are in the USSR / Russia 1994 moment of your collapse and you have a long way to go. I'm an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations - the UK is in the worst of all possible worlds. You have entered Interconnected Cascading System Failure" - everything is broken and everything you need to fix it is also broken. You can not even begin to drag yourselves out of this, you cant invest cos the Tories spaffed your entire available national debt up the wall. Literally, NOTHING works, your roads are crumbling, you cant build a railway, you have sh!t in your rivers, you don't even own your utilities, you make nothing, you rely on the finance industry which is A) leaving and B) what got you into this sh!t in the first place - it will just devour you cos it is predatory by its very nature. Im British, my pension is in the UK, but I am buying gold every month cos I do not expect to have ANYTHING from the UK when I reach 65 in 10 years. The UK's best option are to join BRICS+ and get BRICS Development fund money but the USA will probably block that and IMF money is a death sentence to countries, its just America buying up your natural resources on the chap and the UK has none except the NHS - so an IMF bailout will be in exchange for selling the NHS to American companies. THAT is your future - sorry - if you can get out GET OUT and definitely if you have kids get them out of the UK. 'the UK will be fine. We always are .. remember". you always had something to sell - council houses, industries, north sea oil, ALL GONE.
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  18483.  @izzywizzy685  - OK - Ill try and be quick cos I have things to do. The politicians of both side sin the USA are terribly lying scumbag neoliberal corporate shills - both sides serve the corporate masters. They play a game where they pretend to oppose each other and offer "different" options for the voters but in reality the only difference is one side hates trans people and one side does not THATS IT. They both love corporations and donors and they hate workers. TRUMP hates poor people and he hates workers but he ket telling the truth at the WRONG time. "i love the badly educated" YES WEALL DO said the politicians BUT DONT SAY THAT. The "drain the swamp" stuff was total BS, he put betsy devos in charge of schools - a woman who hated public schools and a coal lobbyist in charge of the EPA. But he kept saying the QUIET part out loud. He kept letting the cat out of the bag on the corruption BOTH sides are involved with. The rule in Washington is you DONT accuse the other side of the corruption YOU are doing. Its an unwritten rule that they all abide with - but TRUMP kept doing it. He was too dumb to keep his mouth shut. You dont accuse Nancy of insider trading cos all the GOP are insider trading. And the media rely on the SAME donors for advertising so they never call it out - they cant report on dodgy donations from XYZ if XYZ spends $500mill on advertising. He kept letting the cat out of the bag cos he is dumb and they HATED him for that. They want Trump but with 20 more IQ points who will know when to shut up and not rock the gravy boat.
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  18562.  @ritcha02  - I have honestly never thought about that. The answer is probably yes. This was my other comment: I WROTE THIS 2 YEARS AGO - TELL ME I'm WRONG…? The balance has been tipped; there is no money left in the working class, they are in debt up to their eyeballs so now it is time for the elites to start eating the middle class. The lower value houses are to go to repossession auction at a bargain price and be gifted to the grandchildren of the Etonians as rental income properties and the smaller farmers are to be bought at bankruptcy auction to enlarge the estates of the landowners and Tory donors. To do this you are hacking into your voter base, but it must be done to keep funnelling money and assets to the top. You can lie to the red wall - that will get you so far. But ultimately "democracy" has to go. You CAN NOT continue to win elections, no matter how twisted the system, when Tory voters are losing houses and farms. So "democracy" has to go - or the system can no longer FEED. And the ONLY purpose of the Tory party is to FEED the system. And the system has one purpose, funnel ever-increasing wealth to the top. Brexit is a vehicle to move assets from the middle class to the elites. They dont care if the economy crashes, they have more money than they can ever spend - they are insulated. A nice BIG CRASH that devalues property and bankrupts farms is GREAT...! They can snap them up. Cos the thing the elites of the UK know is money is meaningless when you have enough of it - CAPITAL ASSETS is what builds and maintains generational wealth. That is why the price of houses and land are so high right now, they are converting cash money into capital assets at a rate never seen in history. So they NEED a crash to bring the price down whilst they snap it all up... ---§--- Yea - wealthy people understand that £££ means nothing, it can de go in 5 years with hyper inflation - its meaningless. So yeah I would say the dividing line are those with significant capital asset wealth that generates the money they live on.
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  18658. THE THUMBNAIL IS AS IMPORTANT AS THE VIDEO The thumbnail is what gets people's eyes to stop moving as they are scanning recommendations. They also need to be of a consistent theme so I can see an "economicshelp" video and DONT put your logo where the run time box is - many do. The title is what gets people to click on the video - it does NOT have to make grammatical sense and it is front weighted. So YOU TUBE EARNINGS - WORTH IT? will have a higher keyword rating than "How Much Do You Earn From" both are 5 words but you have effectively wasted your first 5 words. The title is what gets people to click on the video and YES sadly clickbait does work YES use up all available words in the title - they are all search terms then copy and paste the title as line 1 of your description followed by the full script for the video. Videos should start in a consistent friendly manner that makes people feel they have arrived in a familiar place and settled down - Beau of the Fith Colum has this absolutely nailed down "Well howdy there internet people - its Beau again" - Ive literally read comments from people saying just hearing his familiar intro helped them through a very difficult patch in their life. This is what you want to aim for in the first 10 seconds - the feeling you just sat down in the comfy chair by the fire [you can do it with hype to drive interest but thats not your style] Be aware of the comments NEVER care about the comments - don't let them drive you too much and definitely don't listen to the haters. The guy who said he could not hear you probably had the volume turned down on his laptop... If 50% of comments say they cant hear you - then do something about it. FYI - this info is based on a study I did in 2017 for a client on how the YouTube algorithm worked at the time - it may have changed now. Hope this is helpful - on a personal basis - I really appreciate your content.
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  18711.  @pincermovement72  "The agreement was that Germany..." Thats nonsense - its how it worked out for sure, but it was not pre-agreed. "London and the south east did well the rest of the country withered on the vine . " Thats absolutely 100% correct. "We need to return to a state where everyone benefits not just some toffs in London ." which is NOT going to happen cos money = power so the power is in London and they dont want less money. The Resolution Foundation just released an AMAZING report on the 4th Dec - I absolutely suggest you look it up and read the summary. Here are the 10 key findings: A Stagnation Nation in 10 key facts 1. Low growth: Real wages grew by 33 per cent a decade from 1970 to 2007, but have flatlined since, costing the average worker £10,700 per year in lost wage growth. 2. High inequality: Income inequality in the UK is higher than any other large European country. 3. The toxic combination: Low growth and high inequality means typical households in Britain are 9 per cent poorer than their French counterparts, while our low-income families are 27 per cent poorer. 4. Stalled progress: 9 million young workers have never worked in an economy with sustained average wage rises, and millennials are half as likely to own a home, and twice as likely to rent privately, as their parents’ generation. 5. Talent wasted: Almost a third of young people in the UK are not undertaking any education by age 18 – compared to just one in five in France and Germany. wwwwwwwwwwwwwww 6. Gaping gaps: Income per person in the richest local authority – Kensington and Chelsea (£52,500) – was over four times that of the poorest – Nottingham (£11,700) – in 2019. 7. Bad work: Half of shift workers in Britain receive less than a week’s notice of their working hours or schedules. 8. Flaky firms: UK companies have invested 20 per cent less than those in the US, France and Germany since 2005, placing Britain in the bottom 10 per cent of OECD countries, and costing the economy 4 per cent of GDP. 9. Taxes up: Having averaged 33 per cent of GDP in the first two decades of this century, the tax take is now on course to rise over 4 percentage points by 2027-28: equivalent to £4,200 per household.x 10. The wrong track: Six in ten Britons think the country is heading in the wrong direction, with far fewer – just one in six – thinking it is on the right track. And these are their recommendations - sadly they wont be implemented cos it involves taxing the rich and the wealthy and investing in places other than London on a VAST scale, we might get £3 billion for M<anchaster but they are talking about hundreds of billions Ending Stagnation in 10 key steps 1. A services superpower: Britain must build on its strengths as the second biggest services exporter in the world, behind only the US, while protecting the place of its high value manufacturing in European supply chains. 2. Our second cities are too big to fail: Our cities should be centres for Britain’s thriving high-value service industries. But instead, all England’s biggest cities outside London have productivity levels below the national average. 3. Investing in our future, not living off our past: Public investment in the average OECD country is nearly 50 per cent higher than in the UK. Tackling this legacy, alongside the net zero transition, requires public investment to rise to 3 per cent of GDP. 4. Pressure from above and below: British managers too rarely invest for the long-term. Pressure for change should come from more engaged owners – a smaller number of far larger pensions funds – and from workers on boards. 5. Good work in every town: Despite the success of the minimum wage, a good work agenda cannot be a one-trick pony. Statutory Sick Pay can leave the ill on just £44 a week, while 900,000 workers miss out on paid holiday. 6. Steering change: Hospitality represents a higher share of consumption in the UK than anywhere else in Europe, because it is relatively cheap. Better pay for low earners in hospitality, paid for by higher prices that most affect better off households, will create a more equal UK. 7. Recoupling everyone to rising prosperity: Benefit levels have not kept pace with prices: cuts since 2010 have reduced the incomes of the poor by almost £3,000 a year. Shared prosperity means benefits rising with wages. 8. Better, not just higher, taxes: A rising tax burden should not just fall on earnings, but should be shouldered by other sources of income and wealth. Wealth has risen from three to over seven times national income since the 1980s. 9. Resilient public and private finances: Higher growth and higher taxes are needed to raise investment, rescue public services, and repair public finances. Higher investment should be funded by higher savings at home, not borrowing from abroad. 10. Exploiting catch-up potential: If the UK matched the average income and inequality of Australia, Canada, France, Germany and the Netherlands, the typical household would be £8,300 better off.
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  19197.  @johnnyroadcrew3841  - I wrote this 3 years ago - "Well like it or hate it you WILL live in some form of communist state in the next 50 years. Capitalism is FUNDAMENTALLY flawed, I dont mean it has its problems. I mean the very basic concept is self cannibalising. Problem No1. Capitalism is a funnel. It funnels wealth from the bottom to the top - it also funnels power from the bottom to the top cos money = power. For capitalism to be stable you have to TAX the top heavily and move the money back down to the bottom JUST to keep the system functioning. Rich powerful people DO NOT like being taxed. And as capitalism INEVITABLY produces rich powerful people who control media and politicians they get their way. This hoovers all the money out of the working class, then you give them credit - they sell their future work, and then they are EMPTY. But for capitalism to continue it NEEDS MONEY - so the middle class are the next to go - and you can see this in the USA and the UK - it is eating the middle class. It also starts to eat the state, private prisons, private education etc etc... Ultimately there is NO MONEY left in the system - that has already happened the FED in America si literally printing money to keep the system working. So capitalism HAS TO COLLAPSE. It is 100% inevitable from the very start of the system. And people predicted this 150 and 200 years ago. Problem 2. Capitalism HAS to GROW to exist. it is NOT a static model. It has to grow by about 3% each year to continue. That is a DOUBLING of the world economy every 27 years. The earth is at 130% of capacity now. WE CAN NOT extract 260% per year of the earth capacity in another 27 years - its not possible to live on that planet. SO. A static zero growth economic model is required, a model that removes the profit motive is required [to long to explain why] is required and due to AI a UBI is required - the only economic model we have that allows the earth to survive and people to eat is a communism based model. It wont be Stalin's Russia, it will be some hybrid modernised version. But YOU WILL LIVE under a communist economic model if you live another 50 years. " ---§--- And Aron Bastani did a TED Talk last week about "Fully automated luxury communism" - which takes this concept further.
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  19318.  @mattd1755  - I moved to Bulgaria as a millionaire business owner 12 years ago. I'm now a communist. Why? Because I saw how ordinary people in Bulgaria have a MUCH better life than in the UK where I am from. You are lucky and you live in Canada, which surprises me, if you lived in the USA and were in the 40% of people who can not afford the medical treatment you might think differently. Here in Bulgaria the vast majority of people who remember communism voted to return to communism in the recent election. Im not saying communism is perfect either - next door in Romania it was a living hell. My main reason for being a communist is environmental - we have to stop making things just for profit cos the planet is well past the point where it can sustain it. The other is, I dont want to be rich in a country with millions of desperately miserable poor people. Once you have 4 cars and 4 houses and you have eaten everything on the menu at every 5* restaurant in the city - life gets pretty meaningless. Capitalism made me incredibly rich, a kid who went to school in black trash bags cos we could not afford coats - I am THE poster boy for capitlaism. But the point is - it left a HELL of a lot of my classmate's behind... Maybe 10 of us "made it" out of a school of 2500 kids. Its the utterly miserable life the 1500 who "failed" have now that bothers me. The only thing they failed at was being born to a poor family in a crappy town in the poorest part of the UK. I will admit - If I had NOT become a millionaire and seen how shallow and unjust it really is - I would not have changed, if I were still trying to make it - id still believe in capitalism...
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  19319.  @apfeltpunkt2053  - QUOTE " It was until ca. 2005 that as a German you couldn't visit other countries without being commented as being from Nazi-Land somehow and it has still been the conception we (yes, I'm german) would be an agressive nation. I'm a bit surprised that now it feels like internationally everyone is like: "finally, Germany! We always told you to get a strong military!" This is so true. If Germany had armed up to 2% or 3% of GDP in 2000 the world would have had a seizure... QUOTE "Your idea of freedom is more of a folklore" You only have to keep banging on about freedom if you are trying to convince someone they have it - Like Boris Johnson banging on about "world beating" and "leading the world" to distract from doing NOTHING QUOTE " Your political system gave the world a senile president following a crazy stupid senile president. The US is dishonest to itself. If you want to stay as relevant as today in this world you better don't implode from the inside." this si the subject of my next book "How to cope in a collapsing society" and the USA is collapsing. This is the list of contributing factors to societal collapse: Plague / disease Y Environmental change Y Massive wealth inequality Y Loss of the administrative class Y The government stops governing Y Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Y Loss of faith in the political system Y Economic collapse Y Exposed obvious corruption Y Crumbling infrastructure Y Mismanagement of a crisis Y Societal division Y Loss of belief in the unity of the society Y Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Y Increased isolationism Y Rising internal violence Y Excessive spending on military / arms race Y Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / hyper inflation Y If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. If all happen at the same time, it's guaranteed to be the end. The USSR collapsed with 9 out of the 18. America scores 18/18. And you have reached "cascading interconnected systems failure" - everything is broken and everything you need to fix it is also broken.
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  19734.  @acetorres8787  - Dude, you cant even string a sentence together and you have edited the comment "No one writes like especially in a nonprofessional environment". The other thing dumb people do is make idiotic claims cos they assume other people know as little as they do. YOU do not spend your day with nuclear engineers if you are in the accounts department. You want to know how I know??? Cos MY FATHER was an engineer at Hartlepool nuclear power station in the UK. You want to know how many "accountants" he met - ZERO. You know why - two reasons. 1) You don't keep the accountants in a nuclear power station for safety reasons, they are in an administration building miles away. 2) they have NOTHING in common and NOTHING to talk to each other about. And I can assure you that if I handed my father a bit of papery with 125 x 75 on it as the size of something he would clip me round the ear and say "what 125 carrots by 75 cucumbers" cos that was LITERALLY what he used to say to me. Engineers at nuclear power plants are THE MOST OBSESSIVE people about recording things accurately - I can 100% guarantee you that every engineer in a nuclear power plant has a written log of the tire pressures on their car, the amount of oil they have put in it and the brand. BECAUSE being OCD to a level of slightly autistic with it is a MANDATORY prerequisite of being an engineer at a nuclear site. They ONLY employ totally obsessive people. I'm sorry mate - you have failed in this BS in every single way possible. I mean this is so funny and I don't want to mock you, so just give up. The game is up, you were unfortunate enough to bump into the exact wrong person to BS on YT comments. Cut your losses. Dont embarrass yourself any longer. Read some books, work hard, get a decent job, stop using emojis like a 6 year old.
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  19783. ​ @FromAllowed2Aloud  - Please stop giving badly targeted unqualified psychological assessments and advice to people on the internet. Again, please print out this entire conversation - all of it and take it to your therapist and ask for their advice. I made a crass fat joke and you have dedicated 12 long paragraphs to Psudo psychological analysis and bad advice. If you want to have a go at me for the fat joke - FEEL FREE, I have no issue with that. But stop trying to psycho analyse people and give unsolicited advice - you are patently not qualified. You have wasted literally hours of your time writing this nonsense. I won't tell you to get help as I'm sure you already have help, now use that help, take them this bizarre conversation, show them, accept the help they offer and please LEAVE ME ALONE. Our conversation is over. I will consider any further lecture harassment and report them as such. EDIT: The hysterical part of this is, you have a video on your playlist that I wrote the script for. Now stop using your pop psychology knowledge gained from YouTube videos and Facebook to wrongly diagnose people on the internet. You think you are clever and insightful, you are not, you are dangerously ill-informed and while you are an irritation to me, there are vulnerable people out there who will be traumatised by your relentless hounding and psychological badgering. You have no idea if I am a suicidal teenager or a 70-year-old millionaire. Other people's minds are not your toy to play with while you grope your way through the field of amateur psychology.
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  20165. BESPOKE TAILOR HERE this is what you do - BUY SECOND HAND - it is self-selecting for quality. IF a garment is good enough to be sold after being worn and washed several times - its quality. literally everyone I know, every client I have buys second hand. 2nd thing - get ALL your clothes altered to fit you perfectly be a local seamstress, they exist you just have to find them. Rich people don't look rich cos their clothes are expensive - they look rich cos their clothes FIT. BTW - its way easier to make a too large fit than a too small fit so buy oversised 3rd thing - NATURAL FIBERS - wool, linen, silk, cotton, and I would include viscose / rayon. Two reasons - synthetic fibres are PLASTIC you are wrapping your body in PLASTIC and it leaches hormone-mimicking chemicals into your body which is BAD. But it is not as durable, it does not breathe with your body, its just bad. 4th thing - buys style not fashion - fashion changes, style is eternal. I have 50 year old jackets that get compliments every time I wear them. 5th thing - REPAIR YOUR CLOTHES - or get your seamstress to repair them - if they are altering your clothes to fit there will be a little extra fabric in the seams they have taken in - this can be used for repairs...!!! 6th thing - You. want to get to a point where your annual spending on clothes is NILL - you have everything, its well maintained, its quality so when you come to buy a new pair of trousers you CAN spend $800 having them made by a tailor cos that's the only thing you are buying this year. Or $500 on a nad knitted sweater, or $1,100 on a Rick Owens peace you love. Hope this was helpful PLEASE STOP buying fast fashion. PLEASE.
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  20249. LONELINESS by me ‘Loneliness is not the lack of company in one’s life. It is the lack of meaning in one’s life. People merely distract us from ourselves.’ [redacted] People distract us from the lack of meaning in our life. They entertain us, they annoy us, they make us laugh, most of all they distract us. They distract us from the emptiness inside of us. The absence of people in life does not make us lonely. The awareness of our own emptiness is what makes us lonely. If we fill that void with meaning, with purpose, with life, we will never be lonely. We can take the company of good people. We can walk away from toxic people, not needing their company, not exposing our happiness to their pollutants in order to not feel alone. When we feel bad about ourselves, when we have low self-esteem, when we have a lack of meaning in our lives, when we don't know who we are; we are desperate to be distracted from ourselves and made feel happy. Even if that ‘happy’ is just not feeling bad about ourselves. Often it’s better to be annoyed by someone else than depressed about ourselves. This is why people getting out of abusive relationships are notorious for jumping straight back into obviously unsuitable relationships. A friend of mine in Utah, America, just told me a story of two friends. Both recently out of abusive relationships, both getting married again to people they have been dating for less than three months. One of them openly admits the partner they are marrying is financially abusive and takes advantage of them. But being taken advantage of financially, and all the misery that brings, is better to a lot of people than sitting alone and feeling empty and without purpose. It is better than feeling ‘lonely’. And it’s a quick fix to find an unsuitable partner. A lot quicker than filling your life with purpose and meaning. With the added advantage you can blame the partner for all the problems and misery in your life. So, as long as you don't actually care about your happiness, it’s a real ‘win - win’. But assuming you do care about your long-term happiness, well it’s probably best to find some meaning in life. People with rich, fulfilling lives, full of meaning and purpose are never lonely, neither do they shun company, but they are equanimous. They can take it or leave it. They can appreciate the benefits, the joy even, of being alone. They can appreciate the beauty of silence.
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  20320.  @Skarry  In 2014 I was worth €6 million, it took me from 18 y/o to 44 y/o to get there. I came from a very VERY poor family in the north of England. I started many businesses and eventually one worked well and I was rich. But it didn't magically solve all my problems - and thats the deal right??? You work yourself to death to become a "success" and life is magic and wonderful and just like the movies - only it wasn't. It was just as sh!t as before except with different problems and if anything - more arguments. But what do yo udo - you have spent 25 years of your life getting here you cant just turn around and say "this was a mistake" so you assume you must not be rich ENOUGH... THATS the problem. In July 2014 I suffered brain damage in a mugging, I lost everything, the company went bankrupt and I became homeless. It was the best thing that ever happened to me. I now live a very tiny minimalist life in a little apartment by the sea in Bulgaria and for the first time in my life I an HAPPY and SATISFIED. "I went from a successful entrepreneur to hoping for a new version of success." "Success" in the form we see it is a pre-installed thing you come with as a child in a capitalist country - its the U2 album of the iPhone of life. Its there, its sh!t and its really hard to remove. As you have worked out - that version wont makes you happy, it has to be YOUR idea of success. Learn to live on less than you earn, thats the secret to happiness - cos there is always some more pointlessly expensive thing to crave after... Good luck my friend - sounds like you are nearly there...!!!
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  20370.  @chrism7969  Most of the people I know or have spoken to are Chinese, but they are not in business. They are either academics or just workers/artisans. I suppose like all countries - experiences may vary. My next book is to be an ironic look at the UK taken to its natural conclusion. Its called 1930 as a working title. The UK has voted to leave the modern world and indeed time - it will live forever in 1930 with steam trains and compulsery cricket on Sundays. The population is divided into the descendants of those who owned rental property in 2020 and through a logical extension of the system now own ALL property and the rest of society who are born into serfdom of a 200 year rental contract. Meanwhile, America has become "The United Corporations Of America" where slavery is legal again in the anarco-capitalist hell hole and the rest of the world is run by China where everything works perfectly, they have solved climate change and nuclear fusion, cities are perfect, no one wants for anything BUT every minute of your day is controlled by the system. It tells you when to walk, where to go, what to eat, it organises meetings with your friends, tells you when to go to the gym, everything. Its all done for maximum health and happiness - but you have zero say in your life. The book is MOSTLY about the UK the rest is background. But the basic concept is what is freedom - each of the three societies thinks they have freedom. Brexit style freedom, for the UK, capitalist freedom for America and freedom from work and worry for the rest of the Chinese world.
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  20394.  @Above-Ground  - Well - it hurt your feelings. Go read some books on history. America and Australia were genetic dumping grounds for Europe - mostly Great Britain for 200+ years. I'm British - it's not like we come out of the story smelling of roses...!!! And equally 50% of our population has trouble accepting the fact we did terrible things and we are not a world power any longer - hence Brexit. WE stole £45 Trillion in wealth from India alone. None of that changes the facts. America was founded by religious nutters we didnt want in our society cos they were endlessly causing problems. Then we shipped off all the criminals as slave labour, although they usually had to do 7 years as a slave and then be freed, but they were not allowed back. Then all the overly optimistic people went to America for the gold rush's. Then all the greedy people not content with life in Europe went "to make their fortune" in America. Then a million Starving Irish - who WERE starving cos Britain refused to help, even though we could - again not exactly a good look for ME, but its the horrible truth. These are just the facts of America's founding and gene pool. Oh and millions of black slaves who were genetically selected by the trip to America and their living conditions to be the biggest, the strongest, the healthiest, etc people in the country... You literally selectively bred them for this purpose -and WE sold you the slaves - again not a good look for the British. NO ONE comes out of this looking good. But its not bigotry, its not trolling, its HISTORY.
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  20534.  @markbetschart1363  - I would not go so far as expert LOL. But the direction we are going is not a good one... This is the list of contributing factors to societal collapse: Plague / disease Yes Environmental change Y Massive wealth inequality Y Loss of the administrative class Y The government stops governing Y Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Y Loss of faith in the political system Y Economic collapse Y Exposed obvious corruption Y Crumbling infrastructure Y Mismanagement of a crisis Y Societal division Y Loss of belief in the unity of the society Y Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Y Increased isolationism Y Rising internal violence Not yet in UK. yes in the USA Excessive spending on military / arms race Yes - starting in the UK Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / inflation Y If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. If all happen at the same time, it's guaranteed to be the end. The USSR collapsed with 9 out of the 18. America scores 18/18. And you have reached "cascading interconnected systems failure" - everything is broken and everything you need to fix it is also broken. The UK scores 17/18 ---§--- That said - its what civilisations/empires do. they rise they dominate they collapse. For the average person in them, life changed remarkably little. Its mostly a psychological change. The people with local community networks are the ones that survive best. A good channel to watch is "Beau of the Fith Column"
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  20535.  @markbetschart1363  - Well I also wrote this: GEN Z America and the UK will collapse; I am sorry to say. But they will be rebuilt and in a better and more equitable and more sustainable way. Im an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations. Gen Z are an astonishing generation; they are more creative than even the 60's generation. They are more organised than any generation in history. They have no more love of technology than they do a paintbrush or a wrench, they have little interest in consumerism. They know its THEIR literal future on the line and they are prepared to fight. They have grown up in terror of their own futures and they WILL leave a better one for their kids. The world Gen Z build will be an amazing one. How do Beau and I stay positive - we have a circular view of time, not a linear one. Civilisations, societies, empires, cities, towns, and humans live in cycles. they don't END. They transition to another time, collapse is followed by rebuilding and prosperity. I now live in Bulgaria - an ex communist country. The communist era was NOT the bad time. The collapse at the end of communism was the bad time 1995 to 2005, it was hell on earth here. Not its super positive, people are happy, its still very poor - but $$$ really dont make happiness, its attitude and that feeling you get living in a vibrant society. sure being broke is harder than being wealthy. But being depressed is a choice, it really is. So you have a national collapse, a national malaise, a depression, but its transitional and it will be re built. One of the things that the ex communist countries are working very hard at doing is NOT replicating the mistakes the west has made. and that is what Gen Z will do they will rebuild, they will move AWAY from the mistakes of the est AND they will look at the ex communist countries and avoid the mistakes THEY made. Its really all just circles within circles of time. The Blue Oyster Cult sang a song about it All our times have come Here but now they're gone Seasons don't fear the reaper Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain We can be like they are Come on, baby (don't fear the reaper) Baby, take my hand (don't fear the reaper) We'll be able to fly (don't fear the reaper) Baby, I'm your man Circles of time - no need to fear the reaper...
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  20536.  @markbetschart1363  - YES I think it is a huge factor - and I think we will act too late. But I do think we will act. I think there is a significant chance that we will hand the job of world government over to Ai. I'm not joking. We will call it AI ADVISORY ROLE or something, but when we are staring down the barrel of extinction the need to survive will kick and and we will start to take radical action. This is another thing I wrote. COMMUNISM IN 50 YEARS Well like it or hate it you WILL live in some form of communist state in the next 50 years. Capitalism is FUNDAMENTALLY flawed, I dont mean it has its problems. I mean the very basic concept is self cannibalising. Problem No1. Capitalism is a funnel. It funnels wealth from the bottom to the top - it also funnels power from the bottom to the top cos money = power. For capitalism to be stable you have to TAX the top heavily and move the money back down to the bottom JUST to keep the system functioning. Rich powerful people DO NOT like being taxed. And as capitalism INEVITABLY produces rich powerful people who control media and politicians they get their way. This hoovers all the money out of the working class, then you give them credit - they sell their future work, and then they are EMPTY. But for capitalism to continue it NEEDS MONEY - so the middle class are the next to go - and you can see this in the USA and the UK - it is eating the middle class. It also starts to eat the state, private prisons, private education etc etc... Ultimately there is NO MONEY left in the system - that has already happened the FED in America si literally printing money to keep the system working. So capitalism HAS TO COLLAPSE. It is 100% inevitable from the very start of the system. And people predicted this 150 and 200 years ago. Problem 2. Capitalism HAS to GROW to exist. it is NOT a static model. It has to grow by about 3% each year to continue. That is a DOUBLING of the world economy every 27 years. The earth is at 130% of capacity now. WE CAN NOT extract 260% per year of the earth capacity in another 27 years - its not possible to live on that planet. SO. A static zero growth economic model is required, a model that removes the profit motive is required [to long to explain why] is required and due to AI a UBI is required - the only economic model we have that allows the earth to survive and people to eat is a communism based model. It wont be Stalin's Russia, it will be some hybrid modernised version. But YOU WILL LIVE under a communist economic model if you live another 50 years. I was listening to a very clever few people on a podcast this morning - they were discussing "Climate Reparations" and ""lifestyle reduction" for western countries and whichever way you analyse this - we either die off as a species or we do these things. Its only hard cos we are taught that MONEY = HAPPINESS well if thats the case why are so many people in western countries so unbelievably depressed??? Who tells you that MONEY = HAPPINESS - the capitalists, the 1% who are addicted to money and power. Being poor makes you miserable but being rich does not make you happy - I know. I was worth $6 million in 2015 and I was deeply unhappy [I suffered brain damage in a mugging and lost everything - best thing that ever happened to me]. We HAVE to build an enlightened world or we all die - and the basic instinct of life is to live at all costs. In 2015 with brain damage and my company bankrupt I tried to kill myself. I hanged myself and as soon as I kicked the ladder away and I was swinging on that rope I wanted to live like never before. A literal basic instinct to live. I managed to get a foot on the ladder and I lived - you may have noticed... 100% of people who jump of buildings hit the floor regretful - I can guarantee you this. Life wants to live so faced wiht extinction we will change society - but I have reasonable confidence that by then, Gen Z will be in charge. Gen Z are the most powerful generation in history cos they are the FIRST totally interconnected generation and they can grant or withhold their votes en masse and that voting block is big enough to win any election for any party. Once they work this out they have the power - and they will work it out, cos they are very clever very organised people... Just look at how they trolled that Trump rally - imagine that in a national scale at a presidential election...
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  20621.  @Go-Meta  I did bail at that point. Capitalism does not have ANY values. It is a machine for the extraction of value and the movement of that value to the owners of capital. The vast majority of the unintended horrific consequences of capitalism are an accidental byproduct of the astonishing efficiency of the joint stock company and were NOT intended. Socialism IS a system with values as it is a system designed to be equitable. Democracy is a system with values as it is designed to be - democratic. They both started with values and built a system. Capitalism started with an objective NOT a value. Move value from India to Britain in a way that did not keep ending cos people got rich and retired. My objection is to the assignment of VALUES to capitalise full stop. It has no more values than a robot on a Toyota production line. it does a job and it does it UNBELEVABLY efficiently. "20th century does not suggest that collectivist states will inevitably take better care of their environment..." This was true - but not now. Because the infinite greed machine has continued its infinite extraction and it will continue until we stop it. Capitalism HAS to extract or collapse and we have reached that collapse point. THE PLANET CAN NO LONGER SUPPORT THE INFINITE GREED MACHINE Yours is a capitalist channel, what you really mean [I suspect] is yours is a desperate attempt to stop capitalism destroying the planet, society and itself - cos we both know that is what is happening...!!! The only difference is - I see this as absolutely inevitable because it is THE literal fundamental purpose of capitalism - THE INFINITE GREED MACHINE It will never stop and it will destroy all who try to stop it.
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  20729.  @marcosolo6491  HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAAHHHAHHAHAHAHAHHHAHHAH. oh dude thanks for the laugh I needed that. I'm an author on the collapse of civilisations, I have a pretty detailed understanding of macro economics - let me give you an example of the difference between you and I. "A washing machine used to cost two months' salary, now it's two days." "What's WRONG with that?" It means its manufactured in a foreign country with incredibly low wages. Which means its not manufactured in the USA which means the skilled workers who would have made it earning $120k a year work in fast food earning $30k a year, and it has a depressing action on the entire wage system of the USA. It means that people on very very low wages can afford a washing machine. It means that they can scrape by and it means there is a reserve army of people on $30k who will be very happy to take your job on $40k so THAT suppresses your wage and YOU will be very happy to take the job of the guy on $50k so that suppresses HIS wages... So that thing that you think is GOOD the dirt cheap washing machine is suppressing the wages of every person in America. Even in every unrelated field. Allowing the bottom of society to scrape by with cheap goods suppresses everyone except the top 10%. Its why the wealth inequality is skyrocketing. As long as they can give you the basics needed to get through life - just - they can keep pocketing the extra profit that is the difference between the US productivity and the supresed wages. CHEAP GOOD MANUFACTURED ABROAD ARE CANCER TO THE WORKING PEOPLE OF A COUNTRY ___ "The average wage in America should be about $120k, if it were house prices would not be a problem." The housing prices would just skyrocket to compensate unless you fixed the problem of house scarcity. There IS NO HOUSE SCARCITY in America. According to the Census Bureau, there were approximately 15.1 million vacant homes nationwide in 2022 15.1 MILLION empty houses. There is a house exclusion and lockout problem. The people with the capital are manipulating the housing market, taking houses off the market to force up prices. This was allowed to happen cos houses outpaced wages which meant that only people/companies with capital could afford them, instead of people earning enough to buy them to live in - it became a self-fulfilling prophesy that made the divide wider and wider and more and more profitable. THERE IS NO HOUSING SHORTAGE IN AMERICA - THERE IS A WAGE CRISIS To use a phrase someone once said " You have zero understanding of economics."
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  20850.  @slactweak  I'm sorry they are categorically NOT educated in critical thinking. I talk to people all over the world. The difference between the conversation with the average American and a European or Asian is night and day. Americans score a 2 out of 10 on critical thinking Europeans 7/10 Asians 9/10 and its obvious in this conversation. You literally go on to describe the inability to do critical thinking. "Getting them to think in those terms can't be done because the only people they truly trust are the people from their communities. " That is a literal definition of a lack of critical thinking, and your description of it in defence of their ability to do critical thinking is in its self a lack of critical thinking. And I'm not being deliberately rude here, but your average European or Asian of equal intelligence to you would NOT put this forward as an argument. This is a classical "Americans argument" - sounds good on the surface but does not stand up to deeper scrutiny. You see, critical thinking allows you to say "I was brought up to believe this and all my neighbours believe this - but does that make it true?? NO, what makes it true, facts and logic. OK, so let me apply facts and logic to this argument and arrive at a conclusion. If that conclusion is the same as my friends and family believe then they were correct. If it is different then I am going to believe what the facts and logic tell me and DISREGARD all my friends and family" So reflecting the views of your environment is de facto proof of a lack of critical thinking skills.
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  20871.  @HJ-ll8iq  - OK - Ill bite 0- you correctly identify the issues but you have the reasoning 180 degrees askew because you read Western media. BTW - I cant believe you dont know who PZ is cos this is like it was lifted from one of his scripts. "Apple and other multinational corporations can't exploit dirt cheap labor in China like they used to". CORRECVT but not for the reason you say. "China now has a significant size middle class and they are now a middle income country but that's kind of a problem for them. " correct but not for the reason you say " China is no longer able to clock double digit GPD growth rate like they used to. " Correct but not for teh reason you say. CHINA - and this is not hard to find, they literally published this in their last 5 year plan - are moving from supplying the world to supplying their internal market of 400 million middle class, they are NOT going to be the words sweatshop any longer. This is a PLANNED move not an unintended consiquence. CHINA is migrating to a "steady state" zero growth economy because they know, more than any other country - having 1.4 Billion people - that infinite growth is IMPOSSIBLE. China is not "suffering" these "problems" China has made decisions about its 30 year future and is taking the actions needed. YOU are looking at China from a totally Western perspective and you simply CAN NOT do that. Unless yo know ancient Chinese philosophy you cant understand Chinese politics. A Westerner looking at China and trying to understand its decisions - you may as well be trying to understand a cephalopod's decision making. China is NOT the west you can NOT judge it by western [completely broken] metrics. China is a 3,000-year-old country that intends to be around in another 3,000 years. Am3ric4 has to fight to stop its government and economy from shutting down every year with the debt ceiling....!!
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  20990.  @frog6054  - Ill certainly try. I am an author on this subject, here are some short chapters from my next book, I hope they help. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A ‘BAD THING’ ‘Reality is created in our mind, we change our mind and we change our reality.’ Plato I want you to understand this very deep truth. Life does not dole out good or bad things to you. The things that happen to you are neither good or bad, they are just EVENTS. It is YOU that decides to attach a label and an emotion to them. ‘I was evicted from my apartment and lost everything….’ OR ‘I was given a clean slate to start again in life with none of the trappings that reminded me of the abuse from my ex….’ Both are true, true for me. It actually happened to me – I was evicted from my apartment because my landlord bribed a judge to get a ruling in the two weeks I was in hospital. That sort of thing happens here in Bulgaria. But only one of these perspectives allowed me to rebuild myself after severe narcissistic abuse, to learn to live an incredibly minimalistic and spiritual life free of material trappings. Only one allowed me to move on to a new and incredibly happy life. Only one was exactly the gift I needed form the universe to save me from my very materialistic self. There is no such thing as a bad experience - only the wrong perspective! So, the U.S.A. is in decline, your society is in decline, life will be different. Possibly very different, but how you choose to interpret that is entirely up to you! The emotions you attach to that, they are entirely up to you. The emotions you attach to each news story, they are up to you. The labels you give to each event in your life, they are up to you. I am equanimous about all events now, nothing phases me. They are just events. I have brain damage and forget many things. I forget the coffee pot and boil it dry; I clean it and have a shiny clean coffee pot fifteen minutes later. I take joy in the shiny coffee pot and never give a second’s thought to the burnt remains I had to scrape out. ---§--- READ PHILOSOPHY & QUOTATIONS ‘I haven't learned how to confront a problem by avoiding it.’ Brian Spellman I grew up thinking philosophy was stupid. I thought it was a pointless thing that people with brains too big, parents too rich and egos too inflated told themselves was a ‘profession’. This is one of the things I was most wrong about in life, the other one is YouTube. Philosophy is one of the highest achievements of humanity, one of the most important disciplines we have, it is the window into the core of the human experience. ‘Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days’ worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.’ Ryōkan Just reading philosophy, even if you don't understand all if it or even agree with it, will lower your stress levels and calm you. ‘All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.’ Blaise Pascal Philosophy is the S Class Mercedes of the soul. In an S Class Mercedes, your heart beats an average of 6 bpm slower than any other car. For where other cars strive to be exiting, or luxurious, or the ultimate driving experience, Mercedes invest all their effort into making the S Class relaxing to drive. And being German, they achieve this. With infinite precision. You don't have to understand the S Class to be calmed by it, you don't even have to like the S Class to be calmed by it, you just have to experience the S Class to be calmed and soothed by it. And philosophy is the same. We have actually used philosophy already in this book, at the very beginning. We used the Stoic Philosophy of, ‘what is the worst that can happen?’ We assumed the worst that could happen was that society would collapse and it would collapse quickly, and now we are working on coping with that. Once we have all the tools in place, we will cope with that, easily. And actually, that worst case is really quite unlikely to happen, possibly only a ten percent chance, but we are prepared for it, should it happen. And that is straight out of Marcus Aurelius Meditations On Stoicism. It is called Amor fati, a Latin phrase that may be translated as ‘love of fate’ or ‘love of one's fate’. It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary. And believe it or not, a very significant proportion of what is in this book has its foundations in philosophy. Everything I have learned through 35 years of having life kick the shit out of me could have been learned as a 15-year-old by reading philosophy. Only it took 35 years of having the shit kicked out of me by life to think that reading philosophy might be a good idea…and there is the rub. Philosophy is not for namby pamby liberal elites on university campuses. It is for everyone. I mean everyone. My uncle is a rough a**ed farmer from the North Yorkshire Moors in England. He has read more philosophy than I likely ever will. It is what he credits with saving him from blowing his brains out with the shotgun when coping with a wife who spends three times what the farm earns, and a son who can’t plough a straight furrow because he got in a 4.00am drunk (as he does most days of the week), and regularly puts the tractor through a dry stone wall because he fell asleep again. The philosophical works I especially recommend are: Tao Ta Ching - Taoism Which can be summed up as ‘Meh, why bother?’ Marcus Aurelius Meditations - Stoicism Which can be summed up as ‘Meh, why care?’ I would defiantly get the new translation of Marcus Aurelius Meditations On Stoicism: ISBN-13: 978-0812968255 ISBN-10: 9780812968255 And the Tao Ta Ching - Taoism is available in app form and these can be quite good as they have several translations. Yes, translations make a difference especially as the Tao Ta Ching was written in Chinese and many concepts do not directly translate. But this is a good thing, each translation will give you a different insight into the work. Alternatively, you can listen to them on audiobook FREE by searching for these videos on YouTube. By the way, I always suggest YouTube because it is universally FREE to everyone. I know it is not as convenient as a podcast or a streaming service sometimes, but they are not usually available FREE world wide - YouTube is. ---§--- And I would defiantly search YouTube for the audiobook of Marcus Aurelius "Marcus Aurelius - Meditations - (Audiobook)" the channel is "Vox Stoica" I hope this is of help to you. :-D
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  21149. @73151cb - HI. WOW a philosophy teacher. I'm not a scientist - as you probably guessed I was joking. I am in fact an author and I just wrote this in my new book "How To Cope In A Collapsing Society" about philosophy - forgive the lack of formatting: READ PHILOSOPHY & QUOTATIONS ‘I haven't learned how to confront a problem by avoiding it.’ Brian Spellman I grew up thinking philosophy was stupid. I thought it was a pointless thing that people with brains too big, parents too rich and egos too inflated told themselves was a ‘profession’. This is one of the things I was most wrong about in life, the other one is YouTube. Philosophy is one of the highest achievements of humanity, one of the most important disciplines we have, it is the window into the core of the human experience. ‘Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days’ worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.’ Ryōkan Just reading philosophy, even if you don't understand all if it or even agree with it, will lower your stress levels and calm you. ‘All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.’ Blaise Pascal Philosophy is the S Class Mercedes of the soul. In an S Class Mercedes, your heart beats an average of 6 bpm slower than any other car. For where other cars strive to be exiting, or luxurious, or the ultimate driving experience, Mercedes invest all their effort into making the S Class relaxing to drive. And being German, they achieve this. With infinite precision. You don't have to understand the S Class to be calmed by it, you don't even have to like the S Class to be calmed by it, you just have to experience the S Class to be calmed and soothed by it. And philosophy is the same. Everything I have learned through 35 years of having life kick the shit out of me could have been learned as a 15-year-old by reading philosophy. Only it took 35 years of having the shit kicked out of me by life to think that reading philosophy might be a good idea…and there is the rub. Philosophy is not for namby pamby liberal elites on university campuses. It is for everyone. I mean everyone. My uncle is a rough a**ed farmer from the North Yorkshire Moors in England. He has read more philosophy than I likely ever will. It is what he credits with saving him from blowing his brains out with the shotgun when coping with a wife who spends three times what the farm earns, and a son who can’t plough a straight furrow because he got in a 4.00am drunk (as he does most days of the week), and regularly puts the tractor through a dry stone wall because he fell asleep again.
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  21337.  @Vessekx  "You’re really caught up in the error of pretending that describing". NO I AM NOT - fuk people are amazingly thick on this comments section. This channel must attract a certain "type" of person. Language CREATES your perception of reality - how many of you lot watched the movie "Arrival" and had absolutely NO f-uking idea about the central core theme of the movie??? "different terminology that someone else somehow changes what it is that you’re describing." NO it does not change the THING - it changes YOUR perception of the thing. Google "Study sheds light on a classic visual illusion" YOU are making the mistake of thinking that you SEE what is there - YOU DO NOT SEE WHAT IS THERE - you see what your brain THINKS is there - if your brain is trained by repetition of shadow and light to see dark grey when there is not dark grey, why would your brain not be trained to see green/blue instead of blue/blue if the LANGUAGE you use every day trains your brain so see green blue. Your brain IS NOT a polaroid camera taking an accurate representation - your brain is like a digital camera where the electronic signals have to be processed by the CPU - your brain. So you SEE what your brain has been PROGRAMED by repetition to see. I am genuinely astonished by the incredibly low level of intelligence, knowledge, and ability to do basic research shown in this thread. Anyone in this thread who had disagreed with me without doing 10 minutes of research on line to find out first, REALLY needs to question who they are trusting for their information - cos this channel LIES A LOT about history and especially social attitudes across history! This channel has an agenda, its not a nice one and people on here are blindly following him... And that's why I have mentioned this and similar hypotheses on many videos - but its ONLY this one I get endless arguments on!!! This channel's followers are VERY cult-like in their behavior.
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  21408.  @papachis9535  "Interest rates went up from 6% to 16%". on your £20k mortguage...? " The mortgage was crippling and I survived on Pot Noodles". YOU HAD A MORTGAGE - YOU COUL;D AFFORD A HOUSE this is typical boomer thinking, I had it slightly tough so kids to day are axiomatically better off. THEY CANT GET A MORTGUAGE - they dont have the LUXURY of eating pot noodles to pay the mortgage cos a mortgage is completely unaffordable. Your house was what? 2.5 X your salary 3X. Its now 9 to 15 X Im 53, so Im between both of you - I know that you guys had it easer than we did, and the kids today have it MUCH MUCH harder. Now does that mean that everyone had it easy - obviously not. My father was an engineer at a power station and they were going to buy that £2,500 house and then he got injured at work, we moved into a little rented house next to my grandparents so they could help look after the kids and one thing led to another my father's injury stopped him ever getting back to work - 15 years of a legal battle to get compensation - I went to school in black trash bags too poor to afford coats. We never moded out of that rented house and my inheritance will be £0.00p. YES people had hard times. That house, the Mount it was called sold last year for £1.2 million. But for ONE accident my family would have been GIFTED BY FORTUNE £1,997,500 pure profit. YOU as a boomer generation had it the easiest of ANY generation in history - that is an objective fact. BOOMERS DID NOT WORK HARD FOR THEIR WEALTH - THEY WORKED HARD FOR THEIR LIVING - this is not the same thing. "Sometimes you have to walk in a mans shoes to understand his mind and experience." I guarantee you that 95% of Gen Z today would LOVE to walk in your shoes - would yu walk in theirs? Earning £25k and a house costing £300k??? £2,250 a month on rent. 3 yers salary = a DEPOSIT...???
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  21529.  @sobeit1927  I have edited my comment as re reading it I had not made it clear - [per capita as it were]. Not in absolute terms, but per vehicle it is 18X more likely to be a petrol car than an EV,. Now we have to caveat this, America doesn't have an MOT or a technical test, their cars are absolute junk. So I'm sure the figure will be much closer to one-to-one in the EU. "We do seem to be experiencing a lot of EV fires". I would argue EV fires are just making the news because fossil fuel companies pay for the news in advertisements and therefore call the tune. But EV fires are way more devastating when they happen, and we need to develop ways of dealing with them and ways of preventing them I don't deny that at all.. "regardless of what started the fire , EV’s surely burned out of control". The Swedish Fire Brigade have developed a blanket that you just two men pull over the car leave it for 24 hours, and it smothers the Fire - the idea they create their own. Oxygen is a little bit of a misnomer QUOTE: The lithium mixed oxides lithium cobalt oxide (LCO), lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide (NMC) and lithium nickel cobalt aluminum oxide (NCA), which are frequently used as cathode material, can release oxygen because of internal structural rearrangements.\ But we are moving away from cobalt oxide batteries because it's expensive and unethically mined *I suspect you too are buying into propaganda only from pro EV sources*. NO I am an author, I only work from primary sources, government statistics, et cetera et cetera. I'm the sad guy that actually checked the citations, goes to the original document and read the original document.
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  22045.  @leehorrocks5253  - I should write a short book about my story. Ill summarise. My mate thought it would be funny to send the 1kg of amino acids [we had gone halves on the tub] in the post to me wrapped like a brick of coke from a Miami Vice movie. The post office were suspicious so they called the cops, the cops xrayed the package and it was powder but they NEVER tested it, just assumed it was coke. So like your mate - 6am they did a sting operation wiht a fake postal worker, smashed down the door like a swat team and 20 officers [unarmed - no guns] burst in. They handcuffed me to a chair naked. They searched the house whilst calling me s(um. took me off to the police station and charged me with drug trafficking. The appointed lawyer was amazing. She said TELL THEM NOTHIG, so not speak a word cos they are not here to help you, if they cant get you on this - they will keep talking to you until they get you on something else. I got home, they had emptied the house of everything worth more than about £100 as "proceeds of crime" so I had no TV, no microwave, no computer NOTHING, 3 months later they had to admit it was amino acids - BUT they had "found" half a tablet of something down the back of the sofa, this was total BS as the sofa was brand new - it had arrived the Tuesday, this was the Saturday. This, according ot the solicitor, was so I could not sue them for wrongful arrest. They cautioned me for this. AMYWAY my big mistake was laughing at them as they handed me all my stuff back - this made them even ore angry - these guys 100% thought they were getting a promotion out f this "bust" After that I was pulled by the police every time I left the house, they pulled every friend that came to visit and did them for a cracked light or a worn tire, in the end my friends stopped visiting as they didn't want the agro. It was a big factor in my decision to leave the UK, not the only one, but a big one.
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  22173.  @raymondwebb4179  - Well actually I think it is... I wrote this 2 years ago... The balance has been tipped; there is no money left in the working class, they are in debt up to their eyeballs so now it is time for the elites to start eating the middle class. The lower value houses are to go to repossession auction at a bargain price and be gifted to the grandchildren of the Etonians as rental income properties and the smaller farmers are to be bought at bankruptcy auction to enlarge the estates of the landowners and Tory donors. To do this you are hacking into your voter base, but it must be done to keep funnelling money and assets to the top. You can lie to the red wall - that will get you so far. But ultimately "democracy" has to go. You CAN NOT continue to win elections, no matter how twisted the system, when Tory voters are losing houses and farms. So "democracy" has to go - or the system can no longer FEED. And the ONLY purpose of the Tory party is to FEED the system. And the system has one purpose, funnel ever-increasing wealth to the top. Brexit is a vehicle to move assets from the middle class to the elites. They dont care if the economy crashes, they have more money than they can ever spend - they are insulated. A nice BIG CRASH that devalues property and bankrupts farms is GREAT...! They can snap them up. Cos the thing the elites of the UK know is money is meaningless when you have enough of it - CAPITAL ASSETS is what builds and maintains generational wealth. That is why the price of houses and land are so high right now, they are converting cash money into capital assets at a rate never seen in history. So they NEED a crash to bring the price down whilst they snap it all up... ---§--- I dont think any of this is an accident.
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  22235. CHANGE STARTS WITH YOU YOU REJECT THE PREMISE THAT GUNS ARE IN ANY WAY SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE You excommunicate anyone you know who has a gun. As a SOCIETY and an individual, you say "I WILL NOT BEa FRIEDS with anyone who has a gun" because You cant have a gun, claim to be a “responsible gun owner” and not be complicit in the deaths of these children In the same way you cant own a blood diamond and not be complicit in child slavery. You cant own Nike sneakers made in a sweatshop in Indonesia and not be complicit in exploitation. If you are not actively fighting against an injustice as huge as the mass killing of children in America with guns, you are complicit in the killings. If you have a gun and claim to be a “responsible gun owner” you are NORMALISING the existence of guns in people's hands in America and that allows the situation to continue. And because it is SO normalised to you in America, you don't see this. Guns are an antisocial dangerous f-uk you to society and owning one [except for hunting] is an a-hole thing to do. Guns are like fascism. If you are not actively fighting fascism you are complicit in letting it take over the country. When a problem reaches a certain magnitude - passivity becomes participation in the problem. YOUR GOVERNMENT will do nothing - YOU have to. You have to start change at a personal level and say GUNS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE - FULL STOP As a nation you are the abused trauma bonded victims of the right wing and the gun lobby and like all victims - the abuser has NORMALISED THE ABUSE you have to say I WILL NO LONGER ACCEPT THIS AS NORMAL cos owning a gun is NOT f-king normal - it is deeply antisocial and dangerous.
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  22406.  @thejupiter2  - YES - Bring on communism. I LIVE in an ex-communist country in an ex-communist apartment block. You know how much my heating bill is £ZERO cos it was built with passive heating and cooling cos thats good for the people. If you have kids under school age they deliver hot fresh food to your door every morning. In the recent general election 75% of people alive under communism voted for the communist party. And the reason I want to ban reality TV, large lottery wins and casinos in deprived areas is because I am an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations and I KNOW how unbelievably abusive and predatory these things are. if you ONLY hope of a decent life is winning the lottery - YES COMMUNISM - NO TO THE LOTTERY. "deprived areas are too stupid and irresponsible to decide for themselves how to live their miserable lives." Sadly YES. Its not their fault, if they were educated well and had a better environment and didnt have the terrible stressors that being poor places on you then they would be less susceptible to making terrible life choices. But they dont, and giving them the lie that they can improve their lives through gambling is simply ABUSE. EDIT: How do I know poor people living in a terrible environment make sh!t decision - I USED TO BE a poor person living in sh!t conditions and I used to deal with it in one of the classic ways - alcohol. Thankfully for me there had been a lot of gambling addiction in my family so I knew what level of destruction THAT caused, seeling my uncle in hospital after the loan sharks attacked him with shovels. "That should be the preserve of the rich and middle classes only" - and this I have only just seen - it shows a catastrophic lack of understanding. Its NOT about denying poor people pleasure dumb dumb. Its about preventing companies from predating on their wretched situation for profit. Selling them the lie that gambling, that appearing on reality TV, that a bottler of whisky can solve their problems. These things DONT WORK on middle class and wealthy people cos THEY ARE NOT POOR AND DESPERATE - that WHY they build casinos in economically deprived areas cos middle-class people dont go to casinos cos they are not broke and desperate. DOH. Your inability to identify the problem and take it as elites wanting to deny poor people pleasure is kinda proof of your earlier statement "deprived areas are too stupid and irresponsible to decide for themselves how to live their miserable lives." When what we really want is for there to BE NO POOR people and to stop companies from predating on the ones we have until we abolish poverty. BTW - China - communist country 0.6% proveryt rate - UK capitlaist country 22% poverty rate in 2021, set to be 50% in 2023
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  22437.  @KrytoRift  "Man, it's not an invention." the concept of "Individual Responsibility" is literally an invention of the industrial revolution. It was not even a concept before then. Also - just for interest - the idea of the "family unit" simply did not exist before the industrial revolution. Society looked after the family as it does where I live now, your children are not YOUR responsibility, they are EVERYONE's responsibility. If you read Winston Churchill's diaries you will find they are all about "duty" in 1890 to 1940, only when you get into the 50's does he start talking about personal responsibility. Before Darwin, there was not even the theological framework for "personal responsibility" to exist in, cos we were ALL Gods creatures. "If I own myself I'm also responsible for my own actions." Again - not really - the idea of free will is pretty murky on many levels from the quantum to the evolutionary biological. Mostly we act on evolutionary biological impulses and then retrospectively justify the action with a logical justification. If you use F-MRI scans - people choose options BEFORE their brain has engaged the higher logic processes. In the amygdala and brain stem. When you question them they have a fully worked out justification, but we can see that they CHOSE the option and THEN thought of the reason they chose it. Humans are communal spiritual creatures who behave on impulse, you don't own yourself, you can not survive by your self if left alone in the wilderness you die. You are part of a communal organism, behaving in a way moulded by millennia of evolution to keep that organism alive.
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  22455. I started talking to American for a book I am writing. TURNS OUT, the image the USA projects to the rest of the world is entirely propaganda. Its a divided nation split into the wealthy and the incredibly poor of which there are 35%. The educated and the idiots of which there are 35%. Those that live in reality and those in delusion of which there are 35%. Those that believe in democracy and those that believe in essentially white supremacy of which there are 35%. The problem is, 35% is enough to swing elections under their gerrymandered, voter suppressed, 2 senators per state idiotic election system that was specifically designed to keep white land-owners in charge. If Biden can not get Munchkin and Cinnamon bun to end the also utterly idiotic "filibuster" where the party that LOST gets to decide what happens, then the GQP will steal the 2022 and 2024 elections and then America is a dictatorship. The fate of the USA - democracy or dictatorship - is in the hands of possibly the two weakest senators in history - Munchkin and Cinnamon bun. This means the power dynamic of the entire globe rests on these two spinless corporate democrats. So YES it is extremely worrying to watch. And everyone IS watching - Bojo in the UK is enacting identical voter suppression. Here in Bulgaria they have copied the US political donations model and scraped the state funding of elections. They always said "when America watched a cold - the world sneezes" - well more like "When America catches fascist dictatorship - the world gives a nazi salute"
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  22626. I wrote this 3 years ago - see what you think: THE HIJACKED PURPOSE OF BREXIT The balance has been tipped; there is no money left in the working class, they are in debt up to their eyeballs so now it is time for the elites to start eating the middle class. The lower value houses are to go to repossession auction at a bargain price and be gifted to the grandchildren of the Etonians as rental income properties and the smaller farmers are to be bought at bankruptcy auction to enlarge the estates of the landowners and Tory donors. To do this you are hacking into your voter base, but it must be done to keep funnelling money and assets to the top. You can lie to the red wall - that will get you so far. But ultimately "democracy" has to go. You CAN NOT continue to win elections, no matter how twisted the system, when Tory voters are losing houses and farms. So "democracy" has to go - or the system can no longer FEED. And the ONLY purpose of the Tory party is to FEED the system. And the system has one purpose, funnel ever-increasing wealth to the top. Brexit is a vehicle to move assets from the middle class to the elites. They dont care if the economy crashes, they have more money than they can ever spend - they are insulated. A nice BIG CRASH that devalues property and bankrupts farms is GREAT...! They can snap them up. Cos the thing the elites of the UK know is money is meaningless when you have enough of it - CAPITAL ASSETS is what builds and maintains generational wealth. That is why the price of houses and land are so high right now, they are converting cash money into capital assets at a rate never seen in history. So they NEED a crash to bring the price down whilst they snap it all up... The collapse IS THE POINT, its snouts in the trough for the next grotesque gorging of British assets. So they HAVE to go the Tories. Not must go; HAVE TO GO or the UK will never be a democracy again in our lifetimes and the life of the working person will be that of a peasant.
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  22630.  @drbassface  - I wrote this about Brexit a while ago: THE HIJACKED PURPOSE OF BREXIT The balance has been tipped; there is no money left in the working class, they are in debt up to their eyeballs so now it is time for the elites to start eating the middle class. The lower value houses are to go to repossession auction at a bargain price and be gifted to the grandchildren of the Etonians as rental income properties and the smaller farmers are to be bought at bankruptcy auction to enlarge the estates of the landowners and Tory donors. To do this you are hacking into your voter base, but it must be done to keep funnelling money and assets to the top. You can lie to the red wall - that will get you so far. But ultimately "democracy" has to go. You CAN NOT continue to win elections, no matter how twisted the system, when Tory voters are losing houses and farms. So "democracy" has to go - or the system can no longer FEED. And the ONLY purpose of the Tory party is to FEED the system. And the system has one purpose, funnel ever-increasing wealth to the top. Brexit is a vehicle to move assets from the middle class to the elites. They dont care if the economy crashes, they have more money than they can ever spend - they are insulated. A nice BIG CRASH that devalues property and bankrupts farms is GREAT...! They can snap them up. Cos the thing the elites of the UK know is money is meaningless when you have enough of it - CAPITAL ASSETS is what builds and maintains generational wealth. That is why the price of houses and land are so high right now, they are converting cash money into capital assets at a rate never seen in history. So they NEED a crash to bring the price down whilst they snap it all up... The collapse IS THE POINT, its snouts in the trough for the next grotesque gorging of British assets. So they HAVE to go the Tories. Not must go; HAVE TO GO or the UK will never be a democracy again in our lifetimes and the life of the working person will be that of a peasant.
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  22906.  @totalwater9431  - Ok - Ill read your comment and take the issues one at a time. "questioning far-left talking points (like transgenderism) " - I live in Europe and I am LITERALLY a communist - "transgenderism" IS NOT a far left talking point - we never discuss it, the far left are interested in the working person taking over control of the means of production "how out of touch with reality you are." Im an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations and my last book was specifically aimed at white working-class American men to help stop the epidemic of suicide and deaths of despair - how "in touch" do you want me to be??? "equivocate 'not privileging far-left talking points'" there are NOT far left talking points, these are middle class neoliberal American 1st world talking points AND American right win culture war talking points. NOTHING to do with far left - you literally DONT HAVE a far left in America. You dont know what far left is. "Elon has an excellent opportunity to make Twitter popular again" - Twitter has 450 million monthly active users. It is already popular. What yo mean is 5 million right wing Americans have stopped using it cos it wont let them be nasty about minorities and incite violence... YOU are not the world. The American right wig are NOT the world. Twitter is global and Elon Musk is not going to p!ss $44 billion down the drain to make a few million right wing Americans happy. NOW - stop big "right wing" cos its destroying your life - they are not going to solve your problems, they are liars and grifters. If you dont like the liberal elites - neither do I. But unlike you I don't think arguing about the gender of a potato is going to change my life. And neither are the right wing Grifters in America. Join a union, join a workers party, join a cooperative and shut up about "far left" cos it does not exist in America, thats why it collapsing.
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  23015.  @andrewrao634  - This is the UK as an example: "Since April 2006, judicial appointments have been the responsibility of an independent Judicial Appointments Commission. Before this appointments were made on the recommendation of the Lord Chancellor, who was a Government Minister. The Lord Chancellor’s Department made its own enquiries as to the most eligible candidates. It was considered that the appointment process was open to the criticism that a member of the government should not have the sole responsibility for appointing judges. It was also considered that judges were appointed in the image of existing judges rather than solely on merit from a pool of widely drawn eligible candidates. Despite the criticisms levelled at it the former method of appointment in fact worked rather well. Candidates were selected on merit, there was no question of any political consideration being involved, and the Lord Chancellor usually acted on the advice of the senior judiciary, who were in a position to identify able practitioners. Selection was, however as critics pointed out, from a rather narrow pool and this did nothing for the diversity of the judiciary. It was considered that, while judges should be appointed on merit, if we are to have a judiciary that has the confidence of citizens, it must fairly reflect all sections of society that are in a position to provide candidates of the requisite ability. The new system of selection seeks to encourage such candidates to come forward. All appointments are made by open competition. The Commission recommends candidates to the Lord Chancellor, who has a very limited power of veto. The Commission also has a specific statutory duty to “encourage diversity in the range of persons available for selection for appointments”. In this way it seeks to widen the pool of candidates who are then appointed on merit. There are judges on the Judicial Appointments Commission, but they are not in the majority, do not act in a representative capacity, and the Commission is chaired by a layperson." ---§--- Even under the old system, the Lord Chancellors' role was largely symbolic. Germany has a slightly more American system in that the appointments are by politicians, but the candidates are selected by an independent judicial body so Kavanagh would never be put forward in Germany. The Politicians get to choose from a selection of qualified vetted sane none alcoholics with no record of sexual assault.
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  23289.  @Alltime2050  - NOW WE ARE IN 100% ABSOLUTE TOTAL AGREEMENT "What passes for conservatism today is an ancient way of processing thought that helped our species survive..." ABSOLUTELY and its even deeper than that - everything about them is designed for survival in a very primitive dangerous environment - here is an example from Bejing University: The Child In The Well Experiment Mencius (fourth century BCE) was a Confucian philosopher. He proposed that all humans were inherently good. They all has “sprouts” of goodness, they just needed nurturing. To demonstrate this he proposed the following. A young child is sat on a well, as you want by it falls screaming down the well. He says EVERYONE would run to help the child, call for help. Recently this was tested. Subjects were taken to a room in a different city and there was a video screen of the space outside and it shows a well with a child on it. The subjects don't know this is a a pre recorded video, they think it is a live feed. As the “experiment” is being set up the child falls screaming down the well. The theory is that 100% of people will react and call the assistant to go help the child. This is not the case. 80% do exactly that, they go nuts and scream for help, run out the room to try and save the child, just what you would expect. 20% do NOTHING. They don't call for help, they don't get up and try to help and a significant proportion don't even register any facial emotions. They just passively watch a child die as if they were watching a commercial for shampoo. Upon further investigation, the vast majority of these that don't react are right to far right wing in their political views. ---§--- These are the conservatives and from an anthropological evolutionary stand point they were useful - they were the ones that ran away when the village got attacked and wiped out 1 in 5 times. they were the ones that stole and hoarded food in the famine so THEY survived. Evolution had a PURPOSE for conservative right wing sociopaths, but technology and human advancement have surpassed the usefulness of the right-wing. In modern advanced societies they are just HORRIBLE people who don't fit in - and they KNOW they don't fit in and they KNOW we all dislike them and they have no morals so they turn to violence.
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  23290.  @Alltime2050  "Unfortunately, they think their system of belief is the glue holding civilization together. " YEP - I totally agree "Conservatism might very well have once been a useful tool for human survival but now, it's the greatest threat to the survival of our species in human history." YEP - totally agree... I wrote this earleir to a guy asking about life in an ex-communist country - it may be interesting in light of this conversation: I am English LOL. I live in Bulgaria, have done for 14 years. I know a lot of people in Romania. These two countries are really interesting for the study of communism cos they are the polar opposite - Bulgaria had it very good under communism, on the whole. Romania had the worst of it with the dictator Nicholi Chaushesku. My friend used to get a pigs ear at Christmas to chew on as a treat... Before Covis I was compiling a book of stories of ordinary people's lives under communism - we only ever hear about the people who left of the people who were persecuted. You never hear the story of Ivan who worked in a radio factory and had 3 kids, a Trabant, a house with no mortgage, food and great health service. The main thing to know about communism is it was DIFFERENT to the story we are told in the west. We concentrate on the lack of shiny consumer goods, bt thats not the society they were creating, thats the society WE were creating. Its like judging a fish by the length of its legs. They were genuinely trying to create a society where everyone had what they needed and it was sustainable environmentally and economically. They were NOT trying to build a consumer society cos they KNEW that was unsustainable cos Karl Marx showed that 150 years ago. The Bulgarian word for stress is стрес - "stress" - they didn't HAVE a word for stress until capitalism so they just used the English word - that tells you a lot I feel. In the last general election, 75% of people over 65 years old voted for the communist party. Even my friend's in Romania do kind of miss the communist times, everyone was incredibly poor but EVERYONE was incredibly poor and they looked after each other and they miss that... They like the luxuries of the now western life, but they don't like the inequality of the social isolation and stress it brings. Bulgaria and Romania have the lowest levels of mental health problems in the EU - I firmly believe this is a hang over from the communist days - the way society is structured here is very family / child centric. NOT work or consumer goods centric. The GOOD father is the one who is home ASAP and in the par playing with his kids. The neglectful father is the one working late to pay for the new BMW whilst his kid is with child care. I hope this gives you a small insight. ---§---
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  23624.  @invisalats841  - Now you have fleshed it out that changed the complexion totally. Just for the record, the initial answer did sound super sociopathic. This one, extremely well thought through and entirely reasonable. I like the point you made that even the solution [few and far between as they are] are really just number crunching exercises to minimise a statistic, and not a genuine attempt to solve a problem. I think i said in my first comment that almost ANY solution in society can be solved with education. And it can, if you trace any problem back to its core - bad education is at the heart of it. But its a 20 to 30 year solution and an election cycle is 4 years. I live in Bulgaria now. The driving here when I arrived 15 years ago was worse than that in Africa. It was unbelievably bad. They painted proper road layouts on the playgrounds of every school and the kids learned to drive from 5 year old. They have little electric cars and they have to give way and park up and let people cross - so by the time they get a licence at 18 here they have been driving for 15 years. They also upped the fines for BAD driving to a LOT of money. And the difference is utterly astonishing. the driving now here is so polite and sensible. The problem I see is very few in the USA would want to pay more in taxes to fund driving lessons at school for other peoples kids, the fact that is has made MY life better even as a person wiht no kids, that has stopped being a thing in the USA as far as I can see. The idea that a government program COULD be good for society - I think it has broken down. I watched a guy talking about Elon Musk that he should pay taxes or not?? People in the comments were saying Elon should NOT pay taxes cos the government will either waste it or give it out in corrupt contracts to their friends - lots of people said this. THE SOLUTION was not to pay taxes. People have gotten past the idea that the government SHOULD use the money for good, they have just given up on that.
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  23706.  @juan_martinez524  - OK - I have to put you both right cos I recently traced the etymology of the word "woke" for a book I'm writing. "Woke" was first used to describe people "awake" to the fact there is a systemic privilege in society and its systems for one group over another. As this included say "Eton boys getting all the top jobs and govt positions" this was a very dangerous concept for the right wing. So they did what they always do - they adopted the word and redefined it to mean something else - as they did with "private property" in the context of Marx. To be "woke" was a terrible sin and it meant you believed all sorts of crazy nonsense that almost no one actually believed but you can always find a blue haired nutter to go on TV and say dumb stuff and "PROOF the WOKE are all evil nut jobs and can we stop talking about this distorted privilege in society cos that might appeal to a LOT of people who are not us cos we ARE the rich white male privileged ones in question" Almost NO ONE is actually "woke" in the way it is portrayed in the media - its NOT A THING - it was a very dangerous idea that they wanted to stamp out ASAP. In the same way "private property" does not mean the communists are coming for your toothbrush - thats personal property. And at the time everyone knew this. But the media owners adopted the words and redefined it and created a scare that the commies were after your toothbrush. Its amazing what you can DO when you OWN the media - this is WHY they own the media!!! You have been had by people who want you to hate the left and stop thinking about why you are poor...
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  24164.  @Soleilune1995  - MY BAD. I'm forgetting "occupy Wallstreet" - that was good. And I 100% agree that Millennials in both their action and inaction lead to the hyper activist tendencies of Gen Z. Gen Z are a product of the world they are growing up in. Their frustration with the inaction of their Millennial parents is partly what drives them. And Im not in any way letting my generation off the hook. We thought it was a good idea to give our kids everything we never had and to teach them the world was a fair place where you get what you work for. "Participation trophies" and all that - BOY did we mess that up. Every generation is a product of their time - the Boomers just LUCKED OUT totally, endless subsidised housing, massive rise in living standards, one person working in a household, long careers with great pensions. My friend is a young boomer - she is on $175k a year and will retire at 63 on 75% of her salary INDEX LINKED for the rest of her life after 40 years at the same company. $130k a year and it goes up with inflation - so at 6% thats $138k next year. That just DOES NOT HAPPEN to anyone today. That is fantasy land - no wonder Boomers are the way they are - they got EVERYTHING they ever wanted [not individually, as a generation]. So we end up at a position of the world needs saving and Gen Z look set save it - just like the silent generation did in 1940. If you read the book "The Fourth Turning" you will see these things are not coincidences. the things that shape the world shape the generation that saves civilisation... Fingers crossed - and sorry for the long post. MERRY CHRISTAMS.
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  24304. THE BOOK is called "Restruct" - its on a list of banned books by the Russians - this is the translation of the "OFICIAL" book review I kid you not... Hello my little extremism lovers! I know roughly what you expect to see in this book. And I'm sure you will see it. But I hasten to assure you, in fact, there is nothing of this in it. The entire book is written from start to finish. Any coincidences with real people and events are either accidental or are the fruit of your mind inflamed by extremism. The author does not agree with a single word written in the book. Moreover, he, just in case, deeply condemns her. She apologizes to everyone whom she will certainly offend. Wouldn't recommend anyone to read the book. Especially - to aggressively minded groups of citizens, including minors. I hope you don't go crazy reading it the way the author went crazy writing it. Living for an Idea is stupidity. You have to live for pleasure. In order to earn more money, buy a car, an apartment, a cottage. Marry and raise a son. Please take this into account before reading further. You must also remember that all people are equal. Prison corrects people and makes them better... What else is there? In short, go to your mother and ask her what is good. That's all and remember. Try not to forget while reading. And then get it out of your head. If it doesn't work, take it as a joke. Do not discuss with anyone - this is a dangerous occupation for the nerves. Appetite may be lost and some antisocial desire may appear. Believe me, life will be much easier for you. The less you know - you sleep better, the less you think - you live longer! what is good. That's all and remember. Try not to forget while reading. And then get it out of your head. If it doesn't work, take it as a joke. Do not discuss with anyone - this is a dangerous occupation for the nerves. Appetite may be lost and some antisocial desire may appear. Believe me, life will be much easier for you. The less you know - you sleep better, the less you think - you live longer! what is good. That's all and remember. Try not to forget while reading. And then get it out of your head. If it doesn't work, take it as a joke. Do not discuss with anyone - this is a dangerous occupation for the nerves. Appetite may be lost and some antisocial desire may appear. Believe me, life will be much easier for you. The less you know - you sleep better, the less you think - you live longer!
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  24530.  @scottv8410  - " edits to the analogy but i thinks it's a bad idea to only rely on the government to tell you what's safe or auto mechanics to sell you the right tires. You would probably be better off to take responsibility to know something about these things for yourself so you make educated decisions." What ROT. You might have time to learn about tyre compounds and make judgements on what is the correct level to change them at but 2 things: 1) WHAT IF YOU ARE WRONG? What if you are wrong and you kill someone? 2) I have a life to live, I don't NOT have time to research tire compounds and wear rates and safe limits And the other thing - 70% of people simply are not CAPABLE of doing the research or understanding the data. For example. I happen to be an author and I have researched tires and what most people get wrong about tire tread depth is tires are water pumps. The move X litres of water per second from the centre of the tire to the outside and when the volume of water passed through per second is greater than the pumping capacity you get aquaplaning due to the build-up of pressure in front of the tire. Some tires get around this by having a centre and maybe two more water channels, this reduces the distance the water has to be pumped - they act like water tanks in the tyre. So the depth of tread that is acceptable depends entirely on the tread pattern and knowledge of fluid dynamics. The government set a legal limit regardless, if you leave it up to people every tire would have a different legal limit and the average person is totally incapable of doing the research. BTW - I'm European, we don't fetishise personal responsibility.
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  24714. You 100% will lose another generation to pointless wars - sorry. The US economy never transitioned to a peace time economy after WW2, so the economy collapses if its not bombing people. 70 different countries the USA has bombed wince WW2. I think its 20 months total you have not been at war since WW2. I live in Eastern Europe - there is no way on Gods earth you will ever convince me America did not push Putin into invading Ukraine by saying he WAS definitely going to - therefore making it impossible for him not to or he looks like he is cuked by the USA. Why??? Cos "March Mud" you cant even walk on the fields here in March cos the frost of winter goes and the fields turn to liquid mud. NO ONDE invades in March... America's support of Israel at the UN is why we now have this situation in Gaza and WHO PROFITS...??? Who makes the bombs killin' Palestinian kids - AMERICA...!!! Trillions and trillions of $$$ are pumped into the US economy every war and that is what keeps it afloat - 70% of your economy is consumer spending - how is that sustainable? NO value is added. You buy plastic sh!t from China and cal it an economy... NO - WAR is what fuels the US economy and has done for 80 years. So you WILL lose a few thousand more young Americans - BUT THE WOLRD WILL LOSE MILLIONS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE to American-made bombs, and the world is getting sick of it and moving away from America. BRICS is not a trading block - BRICS is a financial system to alow countries to tell the USA to get lost.
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  24860. PLEASE GOD LET THIS BE THE BEGINNING OF THE END...!!! I wrote this today: The balance has been tipped; there is no money left in the working class, they are in debt up to their eyeballs so now it is time for the elites to start eating the middle class. The lower value houses are to go to repossession auction at a bargain price and be gifted to the grandchildren of the elites as rental income properties and the smaller farmers are to be bought at bankruptcy auction to enlarge the estates of the landowners and Tory donors. To do this you are eating into your voter base, but it must be done to keep funnelling money and assets to the top. You can lie to the red wall - that will get you so far. But ultimately "democracy" has to go. You CAN NOT continue to win elections, no matter how twisted the system, when Tory voters are losing houses and farms. So "democracy" has to go - or the system can no longer FEED. And the ONLY purpose of the Tory party is to feed the system. Brexit is a vehicle to move assets from the middle class to the elites. They dont care if the economy crashes, they have more money than they can ever spend - they are insulated. A nice BIG CRASH that devalues property and bankrupts farms is GREAT...! They can snap them up. Cos the thing the elites of the UK know is money is meaningless when you have enough of it - CAPITAL ASSETS is what builds and maintains generational wealth. That is why the price of these is so high right now... So they NEED a crash to bring the price down whilst they snap it all up... The collapse IS THE POINT, its snouts in the Trough for the next grotesque gorging of British assets. So they HAVE to go. Not must go; HAVE TO GO or the UK will never be a democracy again in our lifetimes and the life of the working person will be that of a peasant.
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  25123.  @nightowl7459  - American exports are not plunging, Turkish exports are not plunging - it's Brexit you dumb dumb. Turky has a leader that has screwed up the economy in a different way and America hs printed $12trillion of new money - DIFFERENT PROBLEMS Your problem is Brexit - the reason its blamed on Brexit is cos its BREXIT. One day you will have to face up to the reality YOU MADE A MASSIVE - GALACTIC - UNIMAGINABLY STUPID - CATASTROPHIC MISTAKE. One day. I don't care - I don't live in your collapsing sh!t hole of a dump and the Irish and the Scots are getting out ASAP. I wrote this the other month - its dedicated to you. IM ENGLISH - England deserves to be alone, forsaken by the other parts of the union. Alone in its pathetic racist future in the 1950's or whenever it is they fantasise about, ruled over by posh toffs from Eton in the way that makes them feel secure and that all is well with the world. Slaving 20 hours a day down the Bitcoin Mine if they are lucky and thanking the Indian mine owner for the privilege... England has NEVER gotten over the loss of the empire, it seeps through our veins, only lanced by emigration and not to an enclave of Little England in Spain. It is utterly tragic to observe from afar. The desperation to still feel part of something special is as obvious to outsiders as a fresh dog sh!t in your living room, and about as appealing... Its a desperation so strong they voted for Brexit - economic doom but the chance to feel like the big boy again for a few fleeting moments before they die. Like a drug addict committing suicide with a known overdose, unable to face the reality of the world they inhabit - but determined to go out on one last high…
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  25327.  @gerrydonohoe3931  - Its 19 months I think since I had Covid, the physical affect long term are bad, it just goes on and on and on - but the psychological effects are equally as - worrying is the best way to put it. I did too much yoga last week and I am back with severe flue like symptoms, but I was in tears today over the 18 year old girl who wone the tennis. I DONT CARE about tennis, not in any way what so ever. Yesterday I has "swirly vision" kinda like kaleidoscope spots in my vision. And the worst is - and a lot of people have this - you constantly BLAME yourself for not being able to do physical tasks, telling yourself you are just being pathetic and you need to pull yourself together and get on with it, so you do - and then you are in bed for a week. The "brain fog" was very bad for 6 to 9 months - but it has got better. Im taking paracetamol today for the flue like symptoms - I write the time down I have taken them so I don't overdose, cos I could easily forget - that's how bad it is when its got a LOT better. MY opinion - this is a blood disease that passes freely through the blood-brain barrier and as the brain is a immune response free zone [cant remember the correct name] the covid hides out in your brain to re emerge if you stress yourself AND I think it causes the guilt trip to GET you to stress yourself. there are parasites and viruses in fish that cause them to swim to the surface to get eaten by birds in order to distribute the pathogen more widely... I think its similar with COVID.
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  25334. I can explain it to you: The GOP defunded education for 40 years for a reason. And it worked..! This is the story of why America is full of idiots. In the late 1970's and early 80's computers became a thing and you could process lots of statistical data for the first time. And the political parties did... The data showed the GOP they would be demographic-ed out of existence in a couple of decades. It also showed the GOP that stupid badly educated people - amazingly - voted for them. Voted AGAINST their own interests, as blue-collar workers and for the GOP. So the GOP started to breed their own supporters. They systematically defunded education - in 1976 education was 5.7% of GDP. In 1983 it was 3.4% Some of the specific changes they made were to STOP teaching critical thinking skills, skills that ALLOW people to spot a lie. And it was wildly successful. America now has an uneducated subclass of 35% idiots and it is enough to swing elections. ---!--- It was wildly successful. Add to that the fact the Democrats totally sold out the working people of America and you get TRUMP. The Dems think they vote for Trump BECAUSE they are stupid, actually, they vote for Trump because the Dems totally sold them out, they cant tell Trump is a con artist because they are stupid. To them, voting for Trump is a logical thing to do. He promises to make their lives better and the Dems ignore them and pander to the elites and the corporations. Its not a stupid thing to do to vote to make your life better - its a stupid thing to believe that Trump WILL make your life better. This is why his popularity is inversely proportional to education level.
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  25582.  @tBagley43  - The USA wont be around in 40 to 50 years. This is the list of contributing factors to societal collapse: Plague / disease Yes Environmental change Y Massive wealth inequality Y Loss of the administrative class Y The government stops governing Y Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Y Loss of faith in the political system Y Economic collapse Y Exposed obvious corruption Y Crumbling infrastructure Y Mismanagement of a crisis Y Societal division Y Loss of belief in the unity of the society Y Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Y Increased isolationism Y Rising internal violence Y Excessive spending on military / arms race Yes Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / inflation Y If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. If all happen at the same time, it's guaranteed to be the end. The USSR collapsed with 9 out of the 18. America scores 18/18. And you have reached "cascading interconnected systems failure" - everything is broken and everything you need to fix it is also broken. The only question left is can you MANAGE the collapse? Will it be like the end of the British Empire - or Yugoslavia 1992 with way more guns. The way you avoid the majority of the bloodshed is devolution into three parts. Western America. Eastern America and Confederate America. No one will trade with Confederate America as it will be an oppressive Christian Fascist dictatorship, so that will collapse into a 3rd world sh!t hole super quick - anyway, getting ahead of myself there.
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  25851.  @jamescooke7243  - You are both absolutely correct and slightly wrong. Politics - fundamentally makes no one happy, lets face it - it is the literally study of what is wrong with the world according to your beliefs. But that aside people do not choose their politics based on rational assessment. Your core disposition as a human being dictates your political beliefs. And your core disposition as a human being is governed by your physical brain makeup and your childhood. If you do an MRI on someone's brain you can predict with astonishing accuracy their political beliefs. If you count the taste receptor density on someone's tongue, you can tell with astonishing accuracy their political beliefs. The right wing have 20% to 30% higher density and overall number so they don't like strong flavours [I don't like eating that foreign muck]. The disgust reflex is incredibly strong in the right wing, in fact disgust is what drives most of their beliefs - this is why you will hear words like dirty, diseases, filthy, nasty, parasites, scum used all the time - adjectives that encapsulate the feeling of disgust. And no, I don't have any papers on this, this is not my field - I deal with recovery from narcissistic abuse. But there are many papers and studies out there on this, this is where I get my information - its just a passing interest for me. But in summary - the core motivations of the right wing are pretty much all negatives, they are motivated by stopping bad things happen. Whereas the left wing are motivated by making good things happen - as a generalization. Oh and also - the right wing commits suicide a lot more than the left. But this is likely cos they need to live up to a macho self sufficient image and therefore cant ask for help. They also have more guns so its way easier.
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  26016.  @Lee0568  - HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA yeah until the Australian / NZ trade deals start to happen and then they will not be able to even think of competing and will go bankrupt. Inheriting a farm is not the same as inheriting intelligence and many farmers are thick AF. My cousin is about to inherit £25 million of farm land and he is literally the thickest person I know. On the other hand, my sister has a PhD and wrote the pig and poultry legislation for the EU, which is why the pig industry is now collapsing since we left the EU - cos it was cleverly written to ensure the UK industry benefited to the max... IM AN AUTHOR on psychology and the collapse of civilisations - I wrote this the other day: The balance has been tipped; there is no money left in the working class, they are in debt up to their eyeballs so now it is time for the elites to start eating the middle class. The lower value houses are to go to repossession auction at a bargain price and be gifted to the grandchildren of the Etonians as rental income properties and the smaller farmers are to be bought at bankruptcy auction to enlarge the estates of the landowners and Tory donors. To do this you are hacking into your voter base, but it must be done to keep funnelling money and assets to the top. You can lie to the red wall - that will get you so far. But ultimately "democracy" has to go. You CAN NOT continue to win elections, no matter how twisted the system, when Tory voters are losing houses and farms. So "democracy" has to go - or the system can no longer FEED. And the ONLY purpose of the Tory party is to FEED the system. And the system has one purpose, funnel ever-increasing wealth to the top. Brexit is a vehicle to move assets from the middle class to the elites. They dont care if the economy crashes, they have more money than they can ever spend - they are insulated. A nice BIG CRASH that devalues property and bankrupts farms is GREAT...! They can snap them up. Cos the thing the elites of the UK know is money is meaningless when you have enough of it - CAPITAL ASSETS is what builds and maintains generational wealth. That is why the price of houses and land are so high right now, they are converting cash money into capital assets at a rate never seen in history. So they NEED a crash to bring the price down whilst they snap it all up... ---§--- This is the purpose of Brexit and the purpose of the Australia trade deal - devalue capital assets for the rich to buy them cheap, and they have their eyes on the FARM LAND...
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  26171.  @ramirorodriguez9671  - I 100% agree. I commented this to a guy who said he could not understand HOW Trump got elected: Im an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations living in Europe. There is absolutely NO mystery why Trump was elected. The working people of America were TOTALLY betrayed by both the GOP and the Dems for 40 years, their jobs sent overseas, their towns abandoned to opium and rust. Berni Sanders was very clearly the winner of the primary and the corporate POS Dems chated and served up HRC and 50 million forgotten Americans who had got their hopes up for change though F-UK YOU. Trump lied to them, but at least he did not IGNORE THEM. He spoke to the working class, HE SPOKE TO THEM, literally, he went and talked to them, it was lies but ti was ATTENTION for the first time in 40 years someone was paying them attention. There is no mystery at all. 100,000 people in the heart of America died of opium overdoses last year, is it on the news every night "the Opium debate"? like the "Gun debate" NO - cos their lives DONT MATTER to anyone. Trump supporters are the loneliest people in America BEFORE they became Trump supporters. The life expectancy of a white male in the Missippie Delta is lower than that of a male in Bangladesh - the poorest part of the Indian subcontinent. As a country, you have utterly abandoned these people to literally die. The fact "will always be the most perplexing question to me [how Trump got elected]" for you shows that you have NEVER considered their plight. The fact you have never considered their plight IS WHY TRUMP WON.
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  26196.  @guywhoplaysdndsometimes5643  - It was not a full degree - just the first year. I decided to do it when lockdown started. I thought it would be fascinating and it wasn't. It was very much intended JUST to get you through the first year of a degree - each weak was basically learning the set of facts you needed to pass the exam at the end of the week. I cant learn that way. I passed the exams but I cant remember a thing cos it was just "this guy said this in 275BC" and "this other guy disagreed in 230BC". I have visited most of the WW1 battlefields actually. Some of them several times, that was very interesting. I was actually under Vimmy ridge in the mine workings they used to dig under each other's trenches when the planes hit the world trade towers on 9/11. Rittenhouse. I'm European so it's inconceivable that a guy that went out with a gun and shot 3 people can be anything other than totally guilty. They would be alive if he did not have a gun. End of the story for a European. Equally, I dont think he intended to go out and kill people - I think he is just an idiot teenager who thought it would be cool to go play vigilante, and he shit himself when things got real, cos he had a gun people died. Is he guilty - in my mind 100%, but he is also the victim of an idiotic culture of guns. You have 300+ million guns everything always ends up with people getting killed. In Europe, if a 17 year old gos out to pay hero he might get a kicking and a few bruises, or the other guy gets a kicking. The chances of people getting killed are next to zero. If he gets let off then your society is totally screwed cos everyone at every protest will be carrying a gun. It's obvious that kill someone with a gun and you go free, be the victim and it's your fault. The thing is - I just dont see you guys ever stopping the escalation. Ive travelled in the grim parts of Africa, on a morning there are dead bodies in the road of the rival militias killings in the night. I 100% believe this is what the USA will be like in 5 to 10 years..
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  26305.  @davidabrinton  As an author on psychology let me explain, this is what the right wing simply don't get. They do not possess the right connections in the brain necessary to understand this and that is just factual not me being nasty. I know that you are going to think I am lying - because YOU would be lying if you said it, so you cant accept that I am not lying. "NO WE DONT HATE YOU - we want the best for you, we want good things to happen for everyone, even the people who fight against us and vote for the con artists and the psychopaths because they prey on your inbuilt fear to get you to vote for them! We want you to have good jobs with protections, we want you to have free healthcare, to not be worried about your bills or unemployment and YES we get very angry with you - because you are so easy to manipulate into voting for psychopaths who literally TAKE all of this away from you and me and everyone." Now I know you dont believe that that is true, cos you dont want that for us and you cant believe that we would truly want that for you - but our brains are different, quite literally we have different brains. Evolutionarily it was advantageous to have a group of people who would steal the last of the food as the village starved - and survive the famine. It was advantageous to have people who would run away and abandon the village when it was attacked, and survive. It was advantageous to have people who would leave their tired and exhausted fellow hunters behind to get eaten, and survive. The genes of the village lived on and the village rebuilt - and that is YOU. We are the ones who tendered the sick, fetched in the harvest, shared the food equally in a famine, and stayed and fought as a group. 75% of the time we got through - 25% of the time we got wiped out and you survived - that's why there is about 25% right-wing in any civilisation. NO WE DONT HATE YOU, we feed you when you are sick, we carry you to safety, even though we know you would not do it for us, cos we are just built that way.
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  26373.  @uncomfortabletruth5915  - Ill level with you. I'm an author in Europe writing a book on how to survive the collapse of American civilisation. I have studied every civilisation collapse since the Bronze Age collapse and I agree with you. Its going to be very bad. BUT... I learned a lesson a few weeks ago. I said this and gave my reasoning and a woman replied to me asking me to stop. She was already suicidal and did not need me making it worse and this shook me hard. I thought yeah. Its one thing to tell the truth [as I see it] in a book that someone is buying. It's very different to be giving unsolicited authoritative declarations of doom to people who never asked for it. So now I keep my comments amateurish and ultimately positive... I think Biden will fail to pass his agenda and the USA will collapse hard. There will be a long period of stagnation, a "dark ages". IF Biden can pass his agenda - it won't stop the collapse, but it will make it more of a cyclical depression than a true civilisation collapse. But its bad... This is the list of contributing factors to societal collapse: Plague / disease Y Environmental change Y Massive wealth inequality Y Loss of the administrative class Y The government stops governing Y Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Y Loss of faith in the political system Y Economic collapse Y Exposed obvious corruption Y Crumbling infrastructure Y Mismanagement of a crisis Y Societal division Y Loss of belief in the unity of the society Y Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Y Increased isolationism Y Rising internal violence Y Excessive spending on military / arms race Y Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / hyper inflation Y If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. Sorry for the long post.
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  26500.  @LagrangePoint901  - Yeah - fat people in America are fat cos of the unbelievably VAST quantities of sugar in every single food product. Your bread has sugar in it. Your fries have sugar on them. Lets be clear here is am NOT blaming anyone in America for being fat, your diet is utterly appalling and its the only diet available. What I am saying is in normalising fat people nad being fat you are doing the work of the food companies. Coke spend billions telling people they are fat cos they don't exercise enough. The entire "low fat" move of the last 30 years was paid for and promoted by food companies to make you think you are fat cos of fat. NO - humans do not get fat from eating fat. they get fat from eating sugar cos that is how mammals survive winter - they eat fruit etc with sugar and store it as fat over winter. You can argue what I am doing is stereotyping all fat people - well what you are doing if the work of the food companies that are selling you sugar instead of food. Why? Cos sugar is addictive and sugar suppressed the cessation reflex and keeps you eating more... Who do you think pays for all the "body positivity" advertising in America??? Why do you think your Govt does nothing about the vast amount of sugar in your diet? Cos there is no money in healthy people, fat people eat more, they go the gym to get slim, they use for profit hospitals, etc etc etc. Obesity is a multi billion $ business in America If you moved 100 fat people from America to Europe 75 of them would be normal-sized in 5 years - why? COS OUR FOOD is way way more regulated re sugar than yours.
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  26641.  @dixgun  - I honestly dont know what Putin's strategy is. You DONT invade Ukraine in March - Over here we have very hard winters and "March Mud" the frost denatures the ground and it turns to liquid mud, you don't even walk your dog on it...!!! This is something everyone knows, its no mystery. So why did he do it...? It was the single dumbest thing he could have done as they could only travel by road, so they would be picked off - as they were. Its so dumb I have to think something is affecting his mental state. Xi is Chinese and the Chinese take a generational view of things, so he will definitely be looking to the situation in 30 years and not benefiting in the next 30 months. Im writing a book actually the concept you may like - post climate catastrophe China takes over the world except for the USA and the UK. The UK decides to cut off from the rest of the world and live permanently in 1930 with steam trains and white picket fences and compulsory cricket on Sundays. You are either a tenant [peasent] or Landlord class. The USA is actually the United Corporations Of America as an anarcho-capitalist hell hole with slavery. And the rest of the world under China is incredibly well run and everyone is happy, but everything you do every moment of the day counts towards your Social Credit Score. You just have to be a good person, that's all. But every aspect of your life is monitored and controlled, the steps you do, the calories you eat, the time you spend on social media etc etc. Its basically takes the three systems/ideologies to their logical conclusion - the idea is to discuss "what is freedom" America you are free to do anything in the pursuit of profit Britain is free from any interference from the rest of the world The Chinese world is free from hunger and worry Yet none of them are "free"
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  26689.  @russellharrell2747  Hi - well obviously nothing like what they make in the US. But you would have to look at quality of life/standard of living. I looked up paramedics' salaries for you and its about 2,400 leva a month to 4,100 leva a month - which is $1,350 to $2,300 [this is probably out of date, its probably gone up 20%] But my rent on a 1 bedroomed beachside apartment is 300 leva a month. 1,000 leva a month will get you a 4-bedroomed luxury villa with a pool. and this is an expensive city. Remember that you dont have to pay for medical, you get 2 years off if you have a kid, school meals are free, the tax is 10% flat rate, my weeks shopping for 1 person is 70 leva and I eat high quality locally grown food. We also have amazing public transport so you dont need to run a car [cars] its $16 a month flat rate for unlimited usage, everywhere is walkable or bikeable. I live a very modest life but very good life on 1,400 leva a month. Its nothing like as materialistic here, so you have your housing costs, utility bills, food, eating out, entertainment - beer is 2 leva [$1] coffee 1.5 leva [80 cents], clothing and that's about it. Where you would really look out is if you can have a consultancy or teaching income from the US online - so if you could do courses or something that brought in $1k a month cos that is going to ass 1800 leva to your salary for maybe 5 hours work. Its also a much MUCH slower pace of life. When I first moved here from the Uk I used to say its not a different country - its a different planet.
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  26701. This was my comment - I think you will approve: BESPOKE TAILOR HERE this is what you do - BUY SECOND HAND - it is self-selecting for quality. IF a garment is good enough to be sold after being worn and washed several times - its quality. literally everyone I know, every client I have buys second hand. 2nd thing - get ALL your clothes altered to fit you perfectly be a local seamstress they exist you just have to find them. Rich people don't look rich cos their clothes are expensive - they look rich cos their clothes FIT. BTW - its way easier to make a too large fit than a too small fit so buy oversised 3rd thing - NATURAL FIBERS - wool, linen, silk, cotton, and I would include viscose / rayon. Two reasons - synthetic fibres are PLASTIC you are wrapping your body in PLASTIC and it leaches hormone-mimicking chemicals into your body which is BAD. But it is not as durable, it does not breathe with your body, its just bad. 4th thing - buys style not fashion - fashion changes, style is eternal. I have 50 year old jackets that get compliments every time I wear them. 5th thing - REPAIR YOUR CLOTHES - or get your seamstress to repair them - if they are altering your clothes to fit there will be a little extra fabric in the seams they have taken in - this can be used for repairs...!!! 6th thing - You. want to get to a point where your annual spending on clothes is NILL - you have everything, its well maintained, its quality so when you come to buy a new pair of trousers you CAN spend $800 having them made by a tailor cos that's the only thing you are buying this year. Or $500 on a nad knitted sweater, or $1,100 on a Rick Owens peace you love. Hope this was helpful PLEASE STOP buying fast fashion. PLEASE.
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  26758. CHANGE STARTS WITH YOU YOU REJECT THE PREMISE THAT GUNS ARE IN ANY WAY SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE You excommunicate anyone you know who has a gun. As a SOCIETY and an individual, you say "I WILL NOT BEa FRIEDS with anyone who has a gun" because You cant have a gun, claim to be a “responsible gun owner” and not be complicit in the deaths of these children In the same way you cant own a blood diamond and not be complicit in child slavery. You cant own Nike sneakers made in a sweatshop in Indonesia and not be complicit in exploitation. If you are not actively fighting against an injustice as huge as the mass killing of children in America with guns, you are complicit in the killings. If you have a gun and claim to be a “responsible gun owner” you are NORMALISING the existence of guns in people's hands in America and that allows the situation to continue. And because it is SO normalised to you in America, you don't see this. Guns are an antisocial dangerous f-uk you to society and owning one [except for hunting] is an a-hole thing to do. Guns are like fascism. If you are not actively fighting fascism you are complicit in letting it take over the country. When a problem reaches a certain magnitude - passivity becomes participation in the problem. YOUR GOVERNMENT will do nothing - YOU have to. You have to start change at a personal level and say GUNS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE - FULL STOP As a nation you are the abused trauma bonded victims of the right wing and the gun lobby and like all victims - the abuser has NORMALISED THE ABUSE you have to say I WILL NO LONGER ACCEPT THIS AS NORMAL cos owning a gun is NOT f-king normal - it is deeply antisocial and dangerous.
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  26906.  @Obalexgarcia  - OH no. You are doomed and there is no way out of it... This is the list of contributing factors to societal collapse: Plague / disease Y Environmental change Y Massive wealth inequality Y Loss of the administrative class Y The government stops governing Y Attack from the outside - now includes cyber attack Y Loss of faith in the political system Y Economic collapse Y Exposed obvious corruption Y Crumbling infrastructure Y Mismanagement of a crisis Y Societal division Y Loss of belief in the unity of the society Y Restriction of international trade / loss of trade agreements Y Increased isolationism Y Rising internal violence Y Excessive spending on military / arms race Y Inability to maintain the currency - hoarding / devaluation / hyper inflation Y If a majority of things on the list happen to a civilisation simultaneously, it is invariably the end for that civilisation. If all happen at the same time, it's guaranteed to be the end. The USSR collapsed with 9 out of the 18. America scores 18/18. And you have reached "cascading interconnected systems failure" - everything is broken and everything you need to fix it is also broken There is no way back from this, you are mid collapse, its not a thing thats going to happen. Its happening right now, you are not "good", you are utterly screwed. My next book "How to cope in A Collapsing Society" will be out this year. The only question left is can you MANAGE the collapse? Will it be like the end of the British Empire - or Yugoslavia 1992 with way more guns.
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  26949.  @Terrordragonfly  " it doesn't matter who wins" If it didnt matter who wins - they would not spend over a billion $USD trying to win. It matters, what matters MORE is them making sure a progressive does NOT win and they will spend unlimited billion of $ to do that. Including convincing people their vote does not count. "The influence common peoples opinion have on public policies in the United States is negligible." This is because they have successfully "convinced people their vote does not count." If votes did not matter they would NOT be trying to ban Tic Tok - Gen Z are hyper-progressive and NEITHER party wants that. 16 million new Gen Z voters every election cycle - 32 million since 2016. Meanwhile, Boomers die off at a similar rate - so 32 million fewer establishment Boomers - that's a net transfer of 64 million voters from neoliberal to progressive and its STARTING to affect elections. The GOP are most terrified by this, but the Dems cant take it for granted cos Gen Z are the first hyper-connected generation in history and THEY can as a generation soon field their OWN presidential candidate - 2028 you will have 48 million MORE Gen Z and 48 million FEWER Boomers - that a near 100 million swing @ 75% progressive and THAT is enough to start winning elections, this is why they WILL ban Tic Tok. Politics in the USA is going to change very rapidly over the next 10 years, cos Gen Z act as a group - they are a hyper-connected participation generation, they decide en masse on what they are going to do - remember when they trolled Trump with 1.3 million ticket requests for his rally and then didnt turn up??? The corporate hold over US politics relies on people being disillusioned enough not to vote, and those that are to be split 50/50 over trivial issues like the logo on a beer can. Once you introduce Gen Z into that - it all goes t!ts up.
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