As a kind of silver bug (I stack a fair amount, but it's definitely the smallest part of my portfolio) that buys regularly, there's a MAJOR shortage of physical gold/silver right now (this market is SUPER manipulated, controlling/suppressing price, largely by being able to sell non-physical "investments" in gold/silver [stocks/ETFs, funds in 401k that give exposure, etc] that are "backed" by gold/silver, but... they really aren't, and there isn't enough physical gold/silver to cover these "gold/silver backed funds."). People are waking up to this and making a mad dash, it seems, to buy physical silver/gold, and we're seeing this play out now. Pretty much EVERY site is low on (or has no) stock, and if they do, prices above spot are INSANE. For instance, on SD bullion right now (which advertises low inventory, high demand, and long shipping times)... to buy 1x1oz silver round (current value is about $25/ounce) would cost about $31 or more. We're looking at, at best, $6 above spot — in the past, I could get rounds for about $1-$2 above spot price (for instance, when silver was around $28/ounce, I paid the same price per round that I'd pay today, with it valued closer to $25). So yes, something is certainly going on. I've been reluctant to buy w/ demand so high that it's forcing physical prices so far above spot, but if my hypothesis is correct (on manipulation and scarcity), the price should continue going up well enough for it to be worth it.
Wish I had better answers, but there's at least some observations that correlate to what many think is currently going on w/ metals.
Very much so. This is just another one of MANY parallels to U.S. today and pre-war Nazi Germany. This is hardly ever taught, was even was scarce learning for my history degrees, and most don't know this, but the Holocaust started — and not targeted at Jews — long before war ever broke out.
During the pre-war years, when Hitler wasn't seen as the evil monster we know him as today (and was actually pretty well-liked in Germany), there were a number of programs, many aimed at euthanasia, but broadly speaking, were aimed at removing essentially any one considered to be a "burden" on society. How did this start? Well... the same way Reagan warned us that socialism/communism and/or fascism would enter the U.S.: through government-run healthcare.
So, part of why Hitler was so well received was that he was finally turning the German economy around. A lot of this was because of the MASSIVE welfare state he ushered in, which included healthcare (coverage, state-run facilities, etc). These facilities, at first, were considered a great thing, as they were seen as how progressives today would see them: hEaLtHcArE is A hUmAn rIgHt! etc. etc.
But what started happening? Well... first it was the extremely sick, the mentally and physically disabled, and those that generally required extensive (and expensive) inpatient treatment at these facilities. They were the first brought in. Then, we have the elderly being brought into state-run facilities as well — also a large economic burden on society. Before long, many of them were being killed — some of them, it was extremely obvious, others... it was more just kind of letting it happen even though they could have been saved (cost-benefit analysis), but tl;dr was they were killing many of their "burdensome" citizens. This part isn't a perfect analogy, but a lot is just basic human nature/financial incentive, and the same reason we saw EVERY death being attributed to Covid (massive payouts/hospitals make way more $$ if it's a covid death).
It wasn't long before, with the facilities already built, and the mechanisms already in place, that they were sending healthy (but burdensome) citizens to these facilities for the same purposes. Those that were "impure," and those that were dissidents/political opposition/threats, etc. Most facilities had furnaces, and stacks of smoke were common. Most remained unaware, but plenty started to realize what was happening, as family/friends disappeared, died under mysterious circumstances, etc., all while a "strange smell" permeated the towns.
Ultimately, it was actually insurance companies and records that uncovered all of this and brought it to a (temporary) halt. But in the end, once the war broke out, this model was brought back, and used as a foundation for the camps and Final Solution. Even today, it's tough to find much on this, but I was fortunate enough to have a decent professor that directed us to the right articles on JSTOR and some good books to learn about this.
This is happening in America today. And not just this, but so much more. Just the general dehumanization of an entire class/group of people, and blaming them for ALL of the country's problems, etc. Dehumanizing them, pushing false narratives, and painting them in such a way that others in the population generally see them as second class citizens — same way nazis saw Jews — and we all know where that leads. The only difference is they flipped the identities, falsely painted an entire group AS nazis, and well... what moral, but uninformed moron with no capacity for critical thought wouldnt want to treat nazis (which, as we know, is just anyone to the right of Marx. Double points if also white, male, and/or straight) as subhuman? This is where we are, right now, at this very moment, and more people need to start taking this seriously (myself included). Just being aware of it (and even being prepared) isn't necessarily enough.
libgen.is has had almost everything I've looked for on it. Even got almost every textbook there. In any case, looks to be on there: https://libgen.is/search.php?req=turner+diaries&lg_topic=libgen&open=0&view=simple&res=25&phrase=1&column=def
You click whichever one you want by choosing one of the "mirrors" on the right. Sometimes one may not work/try the other. When you click that, it should bring you to a page where there's a hyperlink reading "Get" at the top of the page. Clicking that should download it.
Also, they often have various formats (mobi, epub, pdf, etc) — depending on how you prefer to read it, you can use a free program called "calibre" which can convert any kind of text/e-book from one format to another (so I'm often converting pdf to mobi so I can send it to my kindle).
A lot of them do - my former employer outsourced for HR/used a company that was also essentially the HR department for a number of other companies.
They get hired to basically just handle submitting paperwork, like for enrolling in health insurance, short term disability, etc. But since the job can be done working like 10 hours a week max, they end up inventing other shit to do. Our company always just had our CFO handle that stuff, but we've grown and he needed help, so now we have an HR person... just met her... felt like I was in one of my critical theory heavy liberal arts elective classes. I'm a bit worried tbh
Dude the only "straight" shit now is all incest porn. Like, obviously (for most) they just give titles like thaat even though it's unrelated actors, but why tf is every video titled "brother _____ sister," or "mommy teaches son a lesson," etc etc? It's clearly social engineering. It never was like that until the past few years and I'm led to believe it's intentional
booze and my body just never agreed. Which would have been a good thing if it hadn't led me to experiment far too much with other substances my body didn't react as poorly too.
In any case, I still did plenty of drinking my senior year and in college, and I kind of just always bypassed that "sloshed, out of it, telling the truth," phase. I'd basically go from lightly buzzed, jolly, and fun, straight to laying down outside in a pile of snow telling everyone "I need h2oooooooooooooo." I met my dad's second wife after I got the drunkest, and sickest, I ever got in high school (almost 15 years ago now)... I went to go to sleep around 2am at my friend's house, never fell asleep, thought 5 minutes had passed, and all of a sudden it was 7am and I was sooooooooo sick. Started panicking and driving back to my dad's (the cooler parent), knowing he was at work, so I could just vomit in and sleep in his bathroom. Ended up yakking all over myself while driving there, right as I was driving past a cop so I couldn't pull over or go out the window.... just had to take the hit. Walked in, and was not expecting a stranger in his bed — as I'm covered in my own puke lol. Was just like "oh... uh.... hey. I'm [my dad's name's] son. Hungover... going sleep now, nice to meet you." Never talked about it again lol, but that was about how most of my nights drinking went. Nowadays, I might drink a glass of wine with dinner once or twice a year.
My friend on the other hand... whew. Basically alcoholic, still today. But definitely hits the "overly truthful," phase a lot. Another senior year flashback: just before iphones, he had a palm pilot or w/e the closest thing was to an expensive smart phone. We went to a party kind of in the hood, where we really didn't know anyone outside of our group of about 5 or 6. He lost his phone. Thought someone stole it. Again... bad part of town... very diverse... upon losing his phone and thinking it was stolen, he screamed "which one of you n****[hard R]* stole my phone!" Fight broke out, had to have my friend's back obviously even though I was like "oh wtf, thanks dude, now we're the racist white kids starting fights," lol
Now I'm just addicted to coffee. And this wall of text is the result of the caffeine. Whoops.
I will sponsor one donut-addict, purchasing them 1 donut of their choosing each day for the next year, to not get the vaccine.
Rubin's fine, because he doesn't advertise himself as the face of conservatism or hide from what he is: a liberal. Rubin is just a liberal that actually saw what was happening on "his side" and coming from the left, and, like any rational person, reacted with a simple "what the fuck?" It's even put him on a mission against big tech where he's actually at least trying to do something about big tech censorship and cancel culture. He's gained appeal with the right, simply for pointing out the absurdities on the left, so that alone has led many to this conclusion about him, but it's an unfair application, as, again, he is not artificial or trying to come across as some kind of traditionally ideological conservative. Same with Tim Pool. These are admitted liberals. They've just maintained some logic and capacity for critical thinking, which means they'll often denounce certain things/ideas that make them appeal, and appear to some, as conservative/right wing. In any case, I'll take what I can get from people like them, whereas Shapiro is far more deserving of criticism for espousing his beliefs as if they are the true and only tenets of conservatism
Idno if you heard, but his wife's a doctor
No, she actually understands policy, and has proven that she actually read the bill, and understands policy (and the unintended [or secretly intended] consequences of weasel-words and/or ambiguous language) and thus, rightfully so, sent the bill back. Now media pundits and those w/ special interests are using this to push a false narrative to smear Noem to those who don't understand policy. Read her thread on it, and how/why she did it, and/or read an article that actually has accurate analysis on this - as someone that both researches/works in public policy, and also works in higher-ed, she is 100% right, and the bill needs to be revised in order to successfully deliver the intent/outcomes it's claiming to deliver
Yeah I think she's that woman married to that guy with a radio show that's about being married to a doctor.
I wonder if I could get a successful show talking about having a brother that's a doctor? Or a father that's a pharmacist? Or a wife that's a nanny? Seems like a successful model
Depends where you live. My state gave me the option when I went to renew last year (but they made sure to plaster all over the document reasons why you're a moron [state's views, not mine] if you don't opt for the Real ID. I didn't/got the normal one. If I can't fly, then I can't fly, fuck them
Having lived all over both RI and NH, there's no way that aspect is true. If RI replaced NH I'd buy it, but NH is overwhelmingly conservative and libertarian so long as you get out of manchester, the few college towns, and the couple towns bordering MA that are basically MA. But living in NH is basically the "south of the north," and most people are gun toting rednecks, we fish, switch between 4 wheelers and snow mobiles, chop our own wood to heat our homes, etc. But none of the conservatives would ever answer polls or give out their political affiliation so I can see how someone trying to collect data would determine it's mostly liberals when it's not
I agree — In fact, I think for 2 or 3 months, white men should do absolutely nothing so everyone can watch society completely fall apart, and then maybe they'll at least somewhat understand how retarded they are.
I think she should also apply this logic to hollywood/entertainment on the whole. For instance, Hamilton, the play. Not allowed, by her logic.
I've had some weird, albeit enlightening, experiences about the state of Christianity in this country right now. I specifically remember about 7 or 8 years ago, I was in a treatment program, and we all went to a church for Easter service. We were a younger (18-35) male house, so they took us to one of those "trendy/edgy trying to be cool" churches, and it just seemed so... phony, fake, not what Christianity is, etc., and just trying to appeal to a younger generation (particularly, those who never aligned w/ religion, eventually fell on hard times, and are now vulnerable and looking to anything to improve things). It was in a bad area, we walked into a big warehouse type deal, where an Easter Bunny (in costume) was roaming around upstairs, while younger member's of the church, with fake ear-to-ear smiles were directing us where to go (downstairs) for the Easter sermon... which was... led by a "young and cool" pastor, backed by a "cool" (shitty) rock band behind him, as he "spread the good word," intertwined with personal stories about his wife, his past life and struggles, addiction, etc. It basically seemed like... if, once I was clean a few years, if I wanted to start a church, and was more concerned with my image, cool video productions to play during service, and being part of band that got to play every sunday because my real band couldn't get anywhere. I'm sure it helped a lot of the kids, but it seemed as though there was no shame over their lack of Christianity, despite claiming to be a Christian church, and just said/did whatever the hell they wanted.
Now, in my area, most churches are either like this, or just a traditional Catholic church (which, with are current pope... I'd be reluctant to go to equally as the trendy new churches). An old co-worker/good friend eventually got back into religion with his wife, and are part of one of these aforementioned churches. I've never been, so I won't speak ill, but it sounded a lot like the one I went to that Easter. He likes it because the pastor was around his age, and "used to be just like me! Into posthardcore music, partying, etc, so I really identify!" blah blah. It's a major turn-off to me, but w/e
This was a point that took me almost 5 years to get across to my father (a boomer). He's a good one. Smart, contributing member of society, good career/family, American values, conservative, loves Trump, freedom, apple pie, and all good things American. But he couldn't hear anything negative about his generation from me without putting up shields, as if I was attacking him. I'd always even preface it with "It wasn't people like you and I'm not blaming you specifically, but your generation inherited essentially a golden age and turned it into a steaming pile of shit to hand off to us." He's finally starting to get it and agrees with me now. It started with one of his own comments, when we were talking about the 60s and the hippies, and he himself made a negative comment about "look what they've become/what hypocrites," or something to that extent, and I was finally able to get through to him from there
Asian Americans, totally. But... get accepted to, and go to, a graduate program at an Ivy League, and encounter all the Chinese international students, and then get back to me. Holllllllyyyyyyyy crappppp. Many are plenty nice, but hearing them and their thoughts, it's quite clear they are, at the very least, CCP sympathetic (and financed BY them), and at worst, literally working for the CCP to infiltrate our institutions. One I know talked about his "great philanthropic work in Africa for the CCP," before coming to my school, where they "brought running water to a small village." Maybe even he thought that's all they were there for, but the reality is, he was part of a CCP mission to colonize Africa, and set up bases to control the regions and resources (particularly mining/rare earth materials, etc). He also said something crazy about being "better to live in a liberal authoritarian government like china than in a conservative democracy like America."
They're rude, entitled, they cheat (openly, and admit it's part of their culture), they get in arguments with professors and yell at them for the D on their paper because they can barely write/speak english, they cut in line constantly and then play "cultural ignorance." They also run hilariously, flailing their arms maniacally (seriously — ALL of them run this way for some reason) on their way to class [which isn't particularly bad, but it's hilarious). They drive like shit, they park in my wife and I's parking spot in our complex, or park behind our cars/block us in. They're loud, they sleep 10-14 to a 2 bedroom condo (which smells, despite leaving their windows open all winter, thus making my condo freezing and smelly), and I'm afraid they might want to eat my cats. They also ask for rides everywhere even though they don't know me at all. To name a few things on a much longer list.
tl;dr - love (generally speaking) Americans that are Asian. But there are so many Chinese — sympathetic to, or part of, the CCP - that are in America, in our institutions, and they are our enemy. On the campus, it's easy to identify, but off campus, it can be hard to identify which of the two you've encountered
Yeah, mine does offer a ton of stuff, but they also, out of nowhere (and without my consent) randomly starting drawing a $5 fee each month for my "better checking account." I called and was like "wtf is this?" and they gave me a sales pitch about what it did/was, and how I could opt-out but I'd lose the "advantages" of my "better checking account" as opposed to their "standard" one. I signed up for their standard (free) one... which somehow became their "better" one. Again, I could cancel, but I'd lose things like being able to access the app to check my balance, transfer funds, deposit checks directly through the app, etc, which are all things I use, and why I went with them in the first place (as it was their free/standard account when I joined). Kind of shitty of them, but I don't feel like closing my account with them and having to go through all the b/s with changing all my autipayments everywhere and things like that.
Yeah I've been done with banks for 10 years now/have been using a local credit union... but even that, I'm starting to remove funds from. I keep enough in there for a couple months rent (+bills, food, etc), and the rest I've been diversifying in various ways (I keep another month or so of survival+emergency money in cash stashed away somewhere secure - the rest gets converted completely out of USD/Fiat currency — which is where most of my net worth now sits — into various vessels for growth, store of value, etc. This literally ranges from everything from silver/gold, stocks, crypto, etc., to ammo, firearms, emergency food and supplies and things that would be good for barter if the left has their way w/ this country)
For the religious, I guess take solace in knowing we are about to get the Sodom and Gomorrah treatment thanks to what the left has done to this country. Or maybe even another Great Flood. I guess it's time to either start building that ark, or at least start walking away [and make sure you don't look back].
Faith is good, and I'd like to see Christianity make a return in this country. But right now, [rational and logical] man (plural) taking action is the only hope there is. You may find personal salvation and serenity in God and Jesus Christ, but it won't salvage what's left of America
Maybe I should just read the article for the context, but wtf is a "cocoa butter anti-masker"?
Sorry, not trusting an unknown website with an article that's so strewn with grammatical errors that a copyeditor would have to rewrite the whole thing.
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They're going to literally have to kill tens of millions of American citizens if they actually wish to take our guns. I'm not saying they won't... I'm just saying... "from my cold, dead hands," is something most gun-owners genuinely mean, because they know the alternative is worse than death, and something worth fighting for. Ultimately, U.S. govt successfully taking our guns, while possible, would amount to a mass murder worse than any government/country has ever committed, because it's the only way to accomplish it
Lol, this reminds me of gym class back in high school, there was always this 1 girl that would try super hard, so we'd all be playing like, ultimate frisbee, or flag football or something, and all the girls would choose to just chill on the track or something, but this one girl would always pick a contact sport with us guys, and we'd be... somewhat competitive, but mostly just having fun, while this girl would be trying soooooo hard, basically tackling and shouldering the guys to try and show how tough she was. We started calling her "ice box" because she reminded us of "ice box Becky," from the movie Little Giants lol. Someone had to eventually tell her to chill tf out or one of the guys was gonna eventually stop pulling punches and push it from 3 to 10