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Datamancer 3 points ago +3 / -0

Peace in our time. Instead of ~80 million dead (~3% of the worlds population), we are looking at probably closer to one to two billion dead with 95% dying from starvation and disease. If the GPS systems are taken offline, worldwide shipping will drop, countries dependent on food imports will begin to starve within a month or so. Any country not able to produce the parts required to keep the power on and water flowing will experience depopulation events leading to general collapse. The result will not be a mad-max like scenario, there simply won't be enough people left. Humanity would be lucky to just keep from extinction.

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Datamancer 14 points ago +14 / -0

Grifters gonna grift. From the dachas of the Soviet Union to Bernie Sanders' lakeside house to this there is no simpler path to untold wealth than to label yourself a Marxist and convince people that you care.

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Datamancer 1 point ago +1 / -0

I am going to out cheese Left295....

  1. Prayer and Church. Not just any church, traditional Latin Mass Catholicism. Old school. The oldest.

  2. Volunteer. Animal shelter, VA hospital, doesn't matter. Take yourself out of the center of your universe.

  3. Exercise. Like you mean it. 2-a-days with walking in the morning and lifting in the evening. Curl until you hurl. Can't drink if your biceps cramp when you pick up a glass.

All of these things will give you something to look forward to besides alcohol and provide opportunities to meet other people who aren't spending their time drinking and might connect you with someone you want to marry.

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Datamancer 2 points ago +2 / -0

Depends on which supporters we are talking about, ignorant white liberals or the corporations that make the things the reparations money will be spent on? Reparations will be a working class subsidy for Amazon.

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Datamancer 1 point ago +1 / -0

Until it can't. Sounds flippant, but it is true. How many currencies are backed by a hard assets? Every major currency is based on promises. China is super screwed. Not only are they fiat, but they have to keep the yuan devalued with respect to the dollar in order to maintain their only advantage which is price. They have to be cheaper and the only way to do that is to ensure their money is worth less than our money.

Inflation really impacts the average man on the streets through increases in food and fuel prices. Two areas which very few people can do without and for the poor consume a lot of their disposable income. In China, rising food and fuel prices can lead to social unrest, so my guess is that the government subsidizes it. Which requires creating more currency out of thin air, which you guessed it, leads to more inflation.

Inflation is too many dollars chasing too few goods and services. It is basically a regressive tax, as the poor - who by definition have less income - still need to eat and get to work and end up see a higher percentage of their income taken away without anything to show for it.

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Datamancer 1 point ago +1 / -0

Because God is unconcerned about you getting a vaccine. God is concerned about your soul.

The head are your thoughts, the hand are your works.

Do you belive in God, do you honor Him in your thoughts or are your thoughts filled with pride, anger, lust, envy, greed, avarice, and sloth? Do you love God in your thoughts; do you love your neighbor in your thoughts? Are your thoughts filled with faith?

Do your works reflect a love of God and neighbor or do they only reflect a love of self?

A couple of notes:

  1. Neighbor does not mean the person living next door, it means all of humanity.
  2. Works are works of charity, not works of the law.
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Datamancer 1 point ago +1 / -0

Nice. What is the line about the more you try to control, the more will slip through your fingers

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Datamancer 1 point ago +2 / -1

God does not hide his face from us. Those who have chosen sin hide their face from God.

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Datamancer 3 points ago +3 / -0

Did she say apples and watermelons..... Apples as in apple pie as in Americans and watermelons as in????????

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Datamancer 3 points ago +3 / -0

No, we must shame them until they simply quit voting. They must be reminded, as often as required, that they are too dumb to be allowed to make decisions. That they lack the necessary intellectual rigor to secure liberty. That they are better off just staying home.

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Datamancer 1 point ago +1 / -0

Ask for $100,000 to fight arbitrary and capricious government overreach on gun control.

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Datamancer 4 points ago +4 / -0

Cross examination should be interesting.

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Datamancer 3 points ago +3 / -0

Why do they consider him to be a messiah? What has he done that aligns him with the descriptions of the messiah in the Jewish books? What is he supposed to do?

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