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Agreed.

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Meanwhile, Dan Penny has the book thrown at him.

Also, money is not a victim - people are. SBF had far fewer victims than all those armed robbers did (I doubt you'd have to go back nearly a hundred years before you matched and exceeded his score) - and I'm pretty sure not nearly as many of SBF's victims were (physically) injured or killed, or even just threatened to be injured or killed. Many of them may have been victimized as much by their own greed as by SBF. Between the set of {Sam Bankman-Fried} and the set of {armed robbers} , one is a significantly greater and more present danger to many more of a much wider variety of people than the other. Especially if you count asset-seizing feds and LEOs as "armed robbers", per acptulsa's graphic.

Not for a second.

And for people that claim to be deep, critical thinkers I find it difficult to understand that those critical thinkers cannot comprehend that all I am doing here is identifying the foot soldiers and countering the narrative of the people we agree are really pulling the strings.

Oh if only that were the case. This goes so much deeper...

Yes, you can. Until enough of them do you harm, or say they intend to do you harm, when you realize, you don't have to pick up every snake in the desert to know a rattler will hurt you.

https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1707219085136666634 1707219085136666634 TikTok is utter poison nevertheless.

If your plumber deliberately booby trapped your plumbing in order to hurt you and rob you, yes, you should. And hating politicians is already an established fact. More than a couple of times.

I'd argue that I'm being critical of the common mantra that the elite use wedge issues to divide and conquer a populace that would otherwise be at relative peace. If anything, you're using a common talking point that needs to be recalibrated. My assertion is that while the elite are indeed using these people as proxies (to use your term), the so-called proxies still retain agency, since many of them aren't merely dupes but willful perpetrators with their own agendas. I contend that it wouldn't be like Lord of the Rings, wherein the destruction of Sauron results in the entire orc army disbanding and going into hiding for centuries. In other words, I don't believe that removing the elite the equation would solve the problem. It would surely improve the problem greatly, but their foot soldiers would still remain since they didn't need the goading of the elite to hate us. Also, it doesn't really matter what I want, even if the rank-and-file were mere proxies. If people are gunning for me, I have to defend myself regardless of what I want or believe.

"Media A" isn't telling people to be scared of angry white people but to ridicule and hate them. People who are truly fearful wouldn't ridicule that which they fear, at least not so openly.

Hey, if you want to be a proxy for a side in this culture war instead of going after the true enemy...I thought we were critical thinkers.

I think that it's a little more complex than that, since plenty of the so-called "useful idiots" aren't necessarily dupes but willful participants. The left is mostly a coalition of elite villains, pampered government employees, well-to-do people who can afford luxury beliefs (i.e. they can withstand cost of living increases that hurt others so that they can feel good about supporting pet social justice issues), axe-grinders (SJWs that crusade on one or a combination of issues such as race, sexuality, gender, immigration, etc.), and poor people dependent on government (this is obviously a generalization). I often hear people proclaim how stupid the left is, but that doesn't really jive with reality since, for example, they dominate the legal, medical, and education fields. While people with above-average intelligence may not always have good judgment or developed critical thinking ability, I think that the real issue is that many of them are just bad people. If they are promoting such insanity and they aren't stupid, what are they? If they are indeed bad people, then they don't simply disappear when the true manipulators are removed from the equation.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1707052943743045914 1707052943743045914

‘Pointless Screaming Match’: Politicos Rip Chaos-Packed GOP Primary Debate

Your answer is wrong and based on nothing more than feelings and "I wish it was so". The horribly lopsided crime statistics show an utterly different story. Rational black men will tell you do not get yourself surrounded by a crowd of angry black folks.

No, but I have two crazy ass cousins, one who raised a queeer son, the other in enabling her transqueeer daughter to run around thinking she is a man. That killed that whole branch of the family tree. I've been hesitant in the past to "gloat" over the demise of our enemies. Bad karma and all that. But if one morning I were to read that any of those fuckers were found swinging from a short rope in a high tree, I'd smile and salute.

All? So, no easement has ever been removed? Ever? Nothing like a few insults to one's intelligence with one's coffee.

How convenient for you. My brother is sane enough, but sisters tend to be nuts. What am I supposed to do with a sister? You, I assume, have no sisters. See, that's the problem. I don't know if the problem is that it's true, or that we assume it's true and make it true. But if people start turning up dead with names like Fauci, Gates, Soros and Schwab, our lives will become much better with a quickness. And when I say "our", I'm talking about people of both genders and every color.

well, penn gave us a retard so somebody has to dess him

Yes, it's called "cognitive dissonance", the mental pain caused by trying to hold two contradictory points in your mind, while at the same time believing both to be true.

Being a proxy for the one pointing the gun in a war here, is just so Ukrainian, congrats.

Sorry you see it that way. I could make the same claim against those that think a monetary collapse is right around the corner, or that the mRNA shots are deadly poison. The invasion and destruction of white, western civilization is a big deal to me. Everything "we" claim to hold dear, individual liberty, the rights of man, free markets and free enterprise and rule of law and all the rest springs from that civilization. All those things will be gone when the civilization is gone.

Arrogant of conservatives who see how fear was used to give all liberals AIDS, but assume all the fears the machine is working to stir up in them are more justified than fear of covid was. And to assume they couldn't possibly fall for "remedies" which are just as self-destructive.

I should hope so...I'm being as clear as I can be.

This thread reeks of bed-wetting fear, sorry but that's how I see it.

They are already being culled, and they consider those who refuse to be culled with them insane. Their arrogance blinds them to their own self-destruction. Yes, there are some brains behind this psyop. It has turned pride into the deadliest of the deadly sins. History is full of all the warning signs they could possibly need. Cognitive dissonance will kill you.