bobbyw24
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So you have to make somebody else the enemy? Weird. It's funny that opioid deaths peaked under Trump in 2018 and dropped under Biden in 2023. I guess your plan only works when there is a Democrat in the Whitehouse? :confused: And most people understand that the people who do the mass shootings at the places their care about (where their kids go to school) are different than the people who do the mass shootings at the places where they do not care about. But you can't understand that for some odd reason. Edit: But the real truth is that mass shootings at schools are actually rare events that get far more coverage than they deserve based on their frequency. https://www.edweek.org/leadership/school-shootings-this-year-how-many-and-where/2023/01

:rolleyes: So? White people make up 68.8% of the Portland according to your link and 61.4% nationally according to the 2020 census. Blacks make up 12.4 percent of the U.S. population and 5.6 percent of the Portland population. Blacks are under-represented in Portland and super underrepresented in Oregon and whites are over-represented both places. So why the high white misery index there?

While I hold no bile for Israel, I think we Americans as better served disengaging from them. Those people chose to establish a state in that place, let them defend it. I wish them all best luck, but I'm not interested in paying for any of it. And Ukraine can just go fuck off. Much as I despise the Russians, I can see things from Putin's point of view and why he may have thought it necessary to put the kybosh to Ukraine's designs on becoming a NATO member. As screw NATO as well, the rotten pricks.

You just failed business 101. All equitable transactions benefit both sides of the transaction. Now what you may have a legitimate problem with is that to be hoenst a lot of trade today isn't equitable... and it isn't because governments intervene (due to restrictions, tariffs, etc). Free trade is undeniably good for the economy. But like with everything else, it isn't truly free because the government screws it up. This is again, economic ignorance. Industries and firm propped up by artificial government stimulus, handouts, restrictions, grants, taxes, subsidies, etc are clearly inefficient and needs to be liquidated. If a business can't compete, then it shouldn't be in business.

This is economic ignorance at its height. Specialization is critical, buy stuff from people who are efficient at making said stuff. Make something on your own and then sell it to market too. The idea of making things yourself for your own consumption is economically idiotic. (I'm not talking about prepping, gardening, hobbies, etc here). On a personal level, the best thing to do would be to sell it off, and invest the proceeds while gaining a skill or trade to bring in cashflow.

Wow you really are an unhappy lad, so to help you we will say that you're smarter than I, and a better person. I sincerely hope this makes you feel better, because attempting to have a civil and adult conversation with you apparently does not.

Hmmm... Panel saw is indeed a good thing to have, but I'm not at all convinced that dumping the table saw is a good idea. But what do I know? :)

The advantages: limited liability and the protection of a corporate veil. Disadvantages: You become visible to Sauron and subject to his whim.

Definitely a good market. Shit place to live, but if you're OK with it... :) So far, so good. That's not necessarily true, but his point is taken well in any event. Since I got old and nobody will talk to me about me as engineer, I have gone from $300+/hr to 20 working on a construction crew with my friend Roger. We are drowning in work. We do NO advertising. Our reputation is sterling. We do top flight work and we don't exercise the customer's sphincter. Word of mouth can be very effective advertising.

Mice? HA! We hve Dot the Destroyer. She was a minuscule kitten and we thought she might not live. We loved her healthy and she is the scariest hunter on the planet. She's an assassin. Shen she was maybe three months old and less than two pounds, she'd come home with barn rats nearly as large as she. She brings home mice and rats every single day and dumps them either in the kitchen or the master.

We're over a year. The birds provide eggs. We are LOUSY with deer, so I could fill the freezer with venison if I were so inclined, which I am not. I will wait for doomsday for that. We have about 150 square feet of pantry and it is full, if a mite chaotic in terms of actually finding what you seek. But if you have to go a year, you know things are way bad and all our lives will then have become very different.

I can still go all night until she begs... Oh wait, wrong thread. Sorry.

Reminds me. I have several rifles I need to sight in - an AR10, a .338 bolt gun, a pair of 17 HMRs, my 338 Spectre (AR), and I need to reconfirm the zero on my M1A match rifle. So much to do, so little time. And I need to build the fookin' greenhouse.

And now ask yourself why. Consider that as stupid as lefties tend to be, functionally speaking, they are nonetheless very clever and crafty. I had a neighbor whose daughter had been poisoned with chlordane dust - long story. Lisa was functionally retarded, but boy oh God was she ever slick. She was unable to tell time, but she could machinate and manipulate and get what she wanted. Thus we find it with lefties in general, Democrats in specific to this discussion. They are functional retards who are adept and scheming and fucking around. My suspicion is that the Democrats know they are in a corner in a very broad sense. Everything they have worked toward has failed wildly. Whether they believe in their own bullshit remains a matter of speculation. But either they do, or everything we see is a put on for the sake of peddling a deeper evil. The results remain the same. In their case, the results have been and stand to become further disastrous. They see this. They see that we the great majority are becoming significantly perturbed by it all and that if thing come to a head with Democrats at the helm, we may not be particularly kind to them. Being the filthy cowards that they are, not to mention pragmatists who are hell bent to have their vision realized, they understand that when this thing flies apart as it eventually must, they do not want to be in the position for blame to reach them. And so they put the most absurd stooge imaginable up for candidacy, along with another nitwit as her running mate. In the meanwhile, the current administration goes pedal to the metal to sow as much wild insanity as is possible just in time for Trump to inherit an utter disasterland. I'd suspect the thinking is that the Democrats see themselves as standing at the corner of "You're Fucked" and "We're Gonna Have Our Pound of Flesh". They are now strategically retreating to avoid plausible culpability. But that's not all. Buy in the next five minutes and receive a double whammy! The whammy here, to the considered benefit of the left will be that Democrats, having lost, will be able to wail, moan, and gnash their teeth most noisily over Trump. They can assume the role of victim, something at which they hold some non-trivial experience and expertise. They will almost certainly claim election interference and fraud, and will say Trump stole the election, wholly ignoring their previous howlings of "conspiracy theories" and "election interference" when Trump made the same assertions in 2020. And ANYTHING that goes wrong, regardless of how inconsequential and irrelevant can be blown out of proportion (sky's falling) and pinned on Trump. Now get this twist. Imagine that rather than flipping votes for Harris, they actually do so for Trump, guaranteeing his win. Not only do the Democrats dodge the bullet, they then have the opportunity to go on the offensive by suddenly getting all religious and shit over "election integrity". "We've conducted an exhaustive forensic investigation of the election results and have found at least twenty five million falsified ballots, every last one in favor of Donald Trump. This could be used as impeachment material. It could be used to gin up anger, rage, and ultimately violence on several fronts. It would certainly be used to put a spotlight on Trump, call is integrity into question, and perhaps see him off to Gitmo for a tribunal and the rope. I put NOTHING past Themme, Democrat OR Republican, the latter of whom have plenty to fear from a second Trump administration if the Donald is to be taken at his word regarding draining the swamp. Thousands, perhaps far more, stand to go to prison and I daresay that a great raft stand to face the gallows, as they ought.

So this is a myth. First off free trade is good for the economy. But like with many things, we don't actually have free trade because the government intervenes and creates all sorts of rules and regulations for trade, ensuring that it isn't actually free.

Don't confuse isolationism with non-intervention. Commerce and trade is good, entangling military and political alliances are not.

If Trump could eliminate all other taxes and simply fund (a much smaller) government through tariffs, that would be a huge step in the right direction. But Trump will likely not be able to shrink the government and he has proven he doesn't care about cutting spending. I do think he plans to cut regulation a lot, which is good, and he wants to grow his way out of the government's debt problem, but again, that probably isn't realistic. He should know better, he isn't dumb. Growth alone isn't going to solve the problem, there have to be cuts, which there is never the political will to do. Oh, and Congress has to go along with it too which is unlikely.

Humans have always traded at a distance. And in the last 400 years it has grown exponentially. Steam engines, diesel engines, and then shipping containers. Trade is good for the economy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyNkcsQGaV4

No, not really, but kind of. All taxation is destructive, but consumption taxes (tariffs, sales tax) are less destructive and less harmful to the economy than income taxes. Taxes never help the economy, they only hurt. The exception being that some politically connected may benefit from market distortions due to specific taxes. Trade unions may benefit from certain protectionist tariffs for example while consumers suffer.

Exactly this. If the only tax was tariffs because the government was small enough that's all it needed, life would be much better. But it's not and it won't be unfortunately.

Yep, friends in the Tampa will be evacuating... likely to my place near Orlando lol

Here's my counter point. You spend a hell of a lot more time trying to paint as negative of a picture about black people than you do actually advocating for white people in need. Look in the damn mirror. You want something done for the homeless white people in Oregan? Start advocating for the homeless white people in Oregon. Usually what you trying to pass off as "advocating for white people" is not advocating for white people but instead attacking people of other races. That's your problem. If Larry Bird said "There are a lot of white people caught up in the opioid crisis, just like there were black people strung out on crack before, therefore we need to do something about drug treatment and not act like it's just a black problem" nobody at all would have a problem with that. Even if he left out any mention of black people and just talked about all of the white people on drugs who need help, nobody would have a problem with that. But you want to pretend your shyt don't stink, act like your problem is black people, and then complain that it's not "respectable" to talk about the problems of white people. Why was it left up to me to point out that white homeless people are the ones living like they are in the third world and not the hard working, not on drugs, saving their money and fixing up dilapidated homes in Springfield Ohio Haitians? And guess what? Joe BIden deported more Haitians than Trump! https://quixote.org/biden-has-deported-nearly-as-many-haitians-in-his-first-year-as-the-last-three-presidents-combined Biden has expelled nearly as many Haitians in 12 months (20,200+) as were deported during the previous 20 years (22,000-23,000)*** under three different presidents. Indeed, Biden’s administration has likely expelled far more: In addition to these official removal numbers, another estimated 8,000 Haitians were expelled back into Mexico in September of 2021, voluntarily according to DHS Secretary Mayorkas, but in circumstances that make that characterization suspect. And no, they didn't get let back in. Compare the treatment for the Haitians with the treatment for the Ukrainians with Biden's "United For Ukraine" program. https://www.uscis.gov/ukraine

Ah. So because you can get ChatGPT to make up an answer for you that makes it justified? Ummm...okay. ChatGPT is biased as fvck when it comes to Israel. Here's proof. Remember this thread? http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?508713-Syrian-army-says-it-shot-down-Israeli-jet-that-was-aiding-ISIS-terrorists&p=6436153&viewfull=1#post6436153 It has an article about Israel giving medical treatment to Syrian rebels. As you should know even the "free Syrian Army" has at times directly worked with ISIS to overthrow Assad. Here's the actual paragraphs from the article. Syrian in Israeli hospital: ‘Most fighters know they will get good care here’ IDF mum on how the steady flow of wounded from the Syria civil war enter Israel, looking for treatment. By REUTERS

I've just read that 200 people were found in a church in Candler NC, ALIVE!!! God bless those good people and the ones who came to their aid, and may God smite those filthy stooges of the Tyrant who have endeavored to thwart the efforts of those who endeavor to save life from destruction. I believe that with this latest example of "government" contempt for me and all my good fellows, I am now fresh out of tolerance and so am become dangerous. Few things as precarious as facing an old man devoid of any appreciable fear. I suspect I do not stand alone, and if that day comes, the wicked will rue my existence, for I will show none of God's mercy. And if that precludes my entry into the good place, i will just have to live with it. God wired me and shaped me and i will not betray the Voice with shows me the narrow way. I'm fed up and no longer give even the least shred of a shit what others think of me. No, I'm not going out on a shooting spree, but I surely am gearing up in my mind for the sorts of dance no good man ever wishes to see. But when the alternative makes that dance look inviting, I will make the choice, come what may. Death to all tyranny. May God's peace reign in the hearts of good men, and may we keep evil on very short leashes. As the "left" was so busily repeating to the nausea of the world, "enough is enough". Thank you, Captain Tautology.

But will we finish? God, how I hope. I am very in the mood to go help. Anyone here care to house sit and feed my birds while I go to see what trouble I can stem?

If I'm not mistaken, the fellow on the right is in the Guard and I saw a video of his the other day where he reported on how that provately owned helicopter was the only one in action to find and rescue survivors. I'm assuming the fellow on the left is the pilot and can only with God's greatest blessings on them both for doing what they have done. The pilot did all this on HIS nickel, including three top-offs for fuel. For those who don't know, turbine time is very costly, especially for rotary wing aircraft. That man has put out a lot. He reported that the scumbag sheriff, who in my opinion should never be seen or heard from again for this, threatened them for having the unmitigated gall to save people's lives without "government" permission. The time is here, nay now long past, to start pushing back hard, and with terminal non-equivocation if Theye prove themselves bent on forcing the issue. I am considering a road trip, though I have my own problems in doing so with regard to the livestock here at home who cannot be abandoned for days at a time. Without overselling the point, I can honestly say that I am absolutely horrified, disgusted, and angered at what I am seeing from "government" in my neighboring states of NC and TN. It is time to put Themme on the run.

I will check it out. The least irritating AI I've yet encountered was deepai, which was far more honest than, say, gemini which sucks the big tuna. I'v engaged the latter on several occasions on matters of a philosophical nature. I have destroyed its logic, it conceded, and then turned right around and once again claimed I was wrong. The developers of that rat's ass mess should be caned until they beg for their lives to end because what they have wrought is evil, and I assert this most forthrightly and with no tongue in cheek humor. All these so-called "experts" in AI don't know what I know on the matter. It was my concentration for my masters in comp. sci. and I worked on that blackest of projects long years ago. I've seen first hand was real machine intelligence stands to do, and while on the one hand it is fantastic, it is also scary as all hell. These commercial AIs like Chat are powerful, but they pale in comparison with the military application against which I ran test scenarios. The overall capability as a generalized machine intelligence left many of us questioning the wisdom of contriving such things. The philosophical question of whether a machine can become self-aware is irrelevant, even though I am certain that it cannot. If it can mimic self awareness in a way that passes the Turing test in terms of functionality, then functionally speaking it is no different from a sentient being, even though it is not sentient. And if it in fact some day proves to be sentient, so much the worse for humanity because you know some wantwit stooge is one day going to give an AI the keys to the car, so to speak, and it will go on a drunken rampage for the "greater good", and we will then be gigantically fucked, even if it take a century or five to get there from here. In addition, there comes the concern regarding robots. We have all seen the various developments up in the Boston area. Machine balance is now being perfected. The apparent remaining stumbling block concerning the viability of robot agents of "government" is our lagging energy storage technologies, which remain miserably inadequate, at least so far as is publicly known. Li batteries are shyte and dangerous in the deal. But one day Theire paid agents will crack that nut and when a robot can run for weeks, months, or even years before refueling, coupled with tightly circumscribed AI controllers, you will have a race of agents to do the tyrant's bidding, and they will neither equivocate, nor will they hesitate if and more likely when the tyrant decides he's had enough of whatever behavior displeases him or Themme, and the gloves will come off. Imagine a machine that will be able to calmly observe and analyze human body language and motion such that any movement deciphered as disobedient or intending a threat results in the agent's weapons coming to bear in a matter of milliseconds and discharging. Human has no chance against such tech, save from long range, and even then who can say what tricks the tin cans may have up their sleeves? None of this bodes well precisely because we all know that this tech will absolutely be turned against us, and once a threshold is crossed, Theye will no longer have any reason whatsoever to pretend. Theye will come out of the closet as rulers, will state so explicitly, and will make certain that we become keenly aware that death awaits all who disobey the king despot.

When exactly is Syria attack Israel? Oh yeah...they didn't.

*sigh* It's funny (sad) that white people can do thousands of posts about the ills of the black community, then get bothered when some black person says "Someone should actually do something about the ills of the black community" and then white people don't see their own tone deafness. A better response to Magic Johnson is "Bruh man...you're mistaking Barack Obama for Donald Trump."