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    Quote Originally Posted by wal View Post
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    Putin is another "leader" that wants to conquer the world. Since Biden has dropped the ball somewhat Putin's twin eagles trump the US's single eagle.

    As for me, to answer Mark's question, I was baptized as a baby in the Presbyterian Church, this is on my baptismal certificate, but I belong to no denomination or "sect", what you see is what you get. If you have to put a label on me then I belong to the N.S.B.F (No Silly Bullshit Fraternity) of which Rippetoe is the head guru.



    To be called a "System Pig" is an honor, I accept your assessment, although I would suggest that really I am not that good. You have your tolerances though. You train under the strain of heavy loads to the requirements that Starting Strength imposes on you. If you had no "tolerance" you would have given up ages ago. We all need "tolerance" to withstand the hardship and stress of the training program and more so in this life as we get older. No mate you cannot fuck tolerance, you need it.

    "For when I am weak, then am I strong. (II Corinthians 12:10)
    Wal helped me remember the rest of my story. I had gone to the Russian Orthodox church in DC a few times, and it was exciting for me to see how the Catholics' and Russians' masses actually appeared so similar.....then Sasha put me in my place to remind me who was preaching the Truthъ, and who was spreading blasphemy.

    Anyways this is only relevant cause it got me thinking that if even religious people who share quite a bit in common still balkanize themselves, why would we think that people from vastly different cultures and societies would suddenly meld together. The churches at least are an ideology while your nationality has genetics, self-preservation, and centuries of history binding it to your being. And yet we Millennials soaked up all this multiculturalism propaganda with elation.

    Wal, yngvi (forgive me if I got that wrong) is actually 100% right, and you quite far from the mark, on tolerance: the Russians always scoffed at our cultural "tolerance" and noted that in biology this is a trait you would not willing subject yourself to: the ability to withstand the impact of an undesirable/harmful substances.

    And on the Putin evildoer-porn, I just want help from you all, since I'm probably quite biased: what has the man done that makes him so hated by your average Western citizen? Is it the intolerance to LGBTism? The convenient disappearance of some journalists? (How great would it have been for 2020, election- and covidiot-wise, if certain of OUR journalists had gotten "disappeared"?). The stinginess with approving protest permits? (Who cares1845485 about losing the right to riot downtown, if in exchange you could have an actual border and, bonus, get transgenderism banned from being taught in schools?). So, help me out, in a world where the perfect politician doesn't exist, I'm trying to figure out where Putin's strengths and weaknesses stack up so poorly against the ones of OUR leaders.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Satch12879 View Post
    Yes, yes, the Heterodox all say this.

    They’re wrong.
    I agree, but you have to admit, they got less dead bodies on their name.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jovan Dragisic View Post
    To be honest, this post of yours is not much clearer either. I think you are reading too much into these strange movements in society, by thinking they are the cause, when they are much more likely to be merely the consequence of other events. What is likely behind everything is as always the stealing of money by the government and government connected businesses from the general public.

    Denninger has written a follow up to an article of his that you had questions about: The Fascinating Self-Immolation Of Europe in [Market-Ticker]
    This is fair feedback on my clumsy writing; thanks, Jovan.

    Quickly on Denniger, he's been posting more on that, but I still don't quite get how buying exports in dollars to park our excess credit overseas helped shield us from inflation: couldn't those exporting countries just have bought stuff from us to dump the dollars back into our economy?

    I would love your stealing of money " root cause of the madness" theory to be true, but have you fully considered the point I first raised probably a thousand pages ago, in response to the PC argument? Do Japanese leaders not love money? Their immigration policies do NOT match ours. Do African and Eastern European leaders not love money? LGBT activist policies are conspicuously absent from their cultures. Russia loves money, too, but its covidiot policies were a lot less harsh than Austria's, or even our own America's. ...you get the point. Money doesn't explain these discrepancies in how Madness has been applied to the various tax serfs. But unfortunately a visceral hatred for our nation, and a desire to cut off masculinity and the passing along of family and cultural values, to suffocate the country, do explain a lot of these discrepancies.

    Who knows how much of our history books were LyingMedia'ed by the victors, but maybe our American forefathers REALLY WERE the first to break free from worldwide serfdom! And the limited tax serfdom systems we allowed here weren't enough to keep TPTB happy, and so they've slowly been dissolving our freedoms from within, until serfdom once again dominates the world without those pesky Americans in the way.

    Anyone else got better explanations for these discrepancies?

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    Quote Originally Posted by IlPrincipeBrutto View Post
    FTFY.

    There have been plenty of societies that have run without money, so money certainly is not needed to have a functioning society.
    Imho, it's when society becomes subservient to money, rather than the other way round, that you get into trouble, as I think any society based on neo-liberal values amply proves.
    What was in place until 1971 was not just the gold convertibility some value so much; capital controls were also essential to the post-WWII prosperity, and those were gradually removed starting from early 70s as well. Re-introducing one but not the other won't solve much; just look what happens in the Eurozone.

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    I don't think I suggested reintroducing a gold standard, I just noticed by looking at that website how much just started going wrong after 1971, economically and socially. And I think society is a painting of the money being used. The one in use for the past 50 years incentives corruption, is centralized, inflationary and currencies are constantly at war with each other. It's money created by criminals, for criminals, and we are just getting the crumbs.


    I don't know what societies you are talking about but they were probably either very very small, or ancient, or both.
    Money is probably the oldest technology invented by humans, it's a natural process of evolution. You just can't have billions of people who are completely autonomous and living off of barter (also a form of money anyway). Plus, it's a useless discussion, it's already been this way for thousands of years, it's not gonna change unless an actual nuclear war happens and we go back to like 30,000 people.

    Quote Originally Posted by GioFerrante View Post
    I think I understand your line of thinking, but I'd disagree by calling this "intolerance". I'd be hard-pressed to call "standing up for yourself" as intolerance. It's more that we were compliant/complacent in the face of radicals that seek to change the system. I think what both sides need is more tolerance, not less, so people aren't trying eradicate each other's thoughts at every turn.
    Yes, I meant today's meaning of "intolerant".
    Standing up for yourself means standing up for the State, corporate media, big tech and big pharma nowadays, which basically means, there is no "self", you are a product, a walking puppet. How can you be tolerant of a puppet? The two sides are "regular people", with their natural flaws and attributes, and "fucking lunatics" who have sold their soul and their mental clarity for short term entertainment (not the good kind), drugs (also not the good kind) and the illusion of both freedom and power. And I do agree that they are radicals, meaning that it's not the majority of people, but they are the ones in charge because of how well they can manipulate the majority, escape the law, hide from the public, silence the opposition and all of that

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    Quote Originally Posted by IlPrincipeBrutto View Post
    What was in place until 1971 was not just the gold convertibility some value so much; capital controls were also essential to the post-WWII prosperity, and those were gradually removed starting from early 70s as well. Re-introducing one but not the other won't solve much; just look what happens in the Eurozone.

    IPB
    I am constantly amazed at how something so dysfunctional as the the Eurozone is able to persist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nicholas Laureys View Post
    And on the Putin evildoer-porn, I just want help from you all, since I'm probably quite biased: what has the man done that makes him so hated by your average Western citizen? Is it the intolerance to LGBTism? The convenient disappearance of some journalists? (How great would it have been for 2020, election- and covidiot-wise, if certain of OUR journalists had gotten "disappeared"?). The stinginess with approving protest permits? (Who cares1845485 about losing the right to riot downtown, if in exchange you could have an actual border and, bonus, get transgenderism banned from being taught in schools?). So, help me out, in a world where the perfect politician doesn't exist, I'm trying to figure out where Putin's strengths and weaknesses stack up so poorly against the ones of OUR leaders.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nicholas Laureys View Post
    Wal helped me remember the rest of my story. I had gone to the Russian Orthodox church in DC a few times, and it was exciting for me to see how the Catholics' and Russians' masses actually appeared so similar.....then Sasha put me in my place to remind me who was preaching the TruthÑŠ, and who was spreading blasphemy.

    Anyways this is only relevant cause it got me thinking that if even religious people who share quite a bit in common still balkanize themselves, why would we think that people from vastly different cultures and societies would suddenly meld together. The churches at least are an ideology while your nationality has genetics, self-preservation, and centuries of history binding it to your being. And yet we Millennials soaked up all this multiculturalism propaganda with elation.

    Wal, yngvi (forgive me if I got that wrong) is actually 100% right, and you quite far from the mark, on tolerance: the Russians always scoffed at our cultural "tolerance" and noted that in biology this is a trait you would not willing subject yourself to: the ability to withstand the impact of an undesirable/harmful substances.

    And on the Putin evildoer-porn, I just want help from you all, since I'm probably quite biased: what has the man done that makes him so hated by your average Western citizen? Is it the intolerance to LGBTism? The convenient disappearance of some journalists? (How great would it have been for 2020, election- and covidiot-wise, if certain of OUR journalists had gotten "disappeared"?). The stinginess with approving protest permits? (Who cares1845485 about losing the right to riot downtown, if in exchange you could have an actual border and, bonus, get transgenderism banned from being taught in schools?). So, help me out, in a world where the perfect politician doesn't exist, I'm trying to figure out where Putin's strengths and weaknesses stack up so poorly against the ones of OUR leaders.
    Nicholas. You're asking real questions. That will not be tolerated in today's victim mentality totalitarian world.

    Quote Originally Posted by francesco.decaro View Post
    I don't think I suggested reintroducing a gold standard, I just noticed by looking at that website how much just started going wrong after 1971, economically and socially. And I think society is a painting of the money being used. The one in use for the past 50 years incentives corruption, is centralized, inflationary and currencies are constantly at war with each other. It's money created by criminals, for criminals, and we are just getting the crumbs.


    I don't know what societies you are talking about but they were probably either very very small, or ancient, or both.
    Money is probably the oldest technology invented by humans, it's a natural process of evolution. You just can't have billions of people who are completely autonomous and living off of barter (also a form of money anyway). Plus, it's a useless discussion, it's already been this way for thousands of years, it's not gonna change unless an actual nuclear war happens and we go back to like 30,000 people.



    Yes, I meant today's meaning of "intolerant".
    Standing up for yourself means standing up for the State, corporate media, big tech and big pharma nowadays, which basically means, there is no "self", you are a product, a walking puppet. How can you be tolerant of a puppet? The two sides are "regular people", with their natural flaws and attributes, and "fucking lunatics" who have sold their soul and their mental clarity for short term entertainment (not the good kind), drugs (also not the good kind) and the illusion of both freedom and power. And I do agree that they are radicals, meaning that it's not the majority of people, but they are the ones in charge because of how well they can manipulate the majority, escape the law, hide from the public, silence the opposition and all of that
    To be fair, LBJ set up the path for destruction of our country by enacting laws that made it easy to dissolve the nuclear family... 1971 just finished us off for good, but that's been the Fed's plan since 1913. Think about it. These are some manipulating, coniving, and very patient pieces of shit at work here.

    You only pull this kind of shit on the world unless you know you've already won.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
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    The fact that they are pushing it so hard is what scares me the fucking most. Anyone with sense will say that war is bad, people displaced and dying is bad. But just what the fuck are they playing at by pushing the agenda so hard? Just trying to make an excuse for why the economy is going to shit that is not due to their policy?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jovan Dragisic View Post
    I am constantly amazed at how something so dysfunctional as the the Eurozone is able to persist.
    Yes, but look how Putin's aggression is pulling the Euronzone into order and bringing nations such as Finland under the umbrella of NATO, now Putin has the NATO border on his door step. What a blunder. If Ukraine wins or loses, Russia is stuffed. What happened under the old Soviet system? Stalin's purge removed all his top men from the Red Army and affected the Winter war with Finland in 39 and the German onslaught in early WW2. Putin has not learnt from the history of his own country. They just cannot win a war.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    What this leads to:
    Rumble posted emails it received from the media demanding they implement censorship.

    1/2 Here are emails we received from the @globeandmail, demanding to know why we aren't dutifully copying YouTube's censorship. It is now common that we receive pressure from journalists demanding that we censor more. See the next tweet for Rumble's response:
    https://twitter.com/rumblevideo/stat...43132187201541

    And isn't it amusing that they're freaking about about Elon Musk buying up Twitter complaining that billionaires shouldn't get to decide speech policy despite that being exactly what we have now?

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