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2024-07-25 at 9:49 PM UTC in I found MIke Meyers secret incel forum
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2024-07-25 at 9:46 PM UTC in I found MIke Meyers secret incel forum
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2024-07-25 at 9:10 PM UTC in I found MIke Meyers secret incel forum
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2024-07-25 at 8:52 PM UTC in I found MIke Meyers secret incel forumYeah but the one in the middle gives the best head
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2024-07-25 at 7:32 PM UTC in I found MIke Meyers secret incel forum
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2024-07-25 at 7:29 PM UTC in I found MIke Meyers secret incel forum
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2024-07-25 at 7:19 PM UTC in I found MIke Meyers secret incel forumI actually like the discussion there. Weird to think I'm actually not allowed to join.😭
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2024-07-25 at 6:45 PM UTC in Word of the dayGobshite - Gobshite is a vulgar slang term for a mean, despicable person, especially someone who brags a lot. Gobshite can also mean a stupid or incompetent person.
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2024-07-25 at 6:41 PM UTC in Totse Book Club: Hillbilly Eulogy by JD VanceActually there's an audiobook and a movie, might just watch the movie instead, reading is hella gay.
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2024-07-25 at 6:36 PM UTC in Totse Book Club: Hillbilly Eulogy by JD VanceNote: I fucked up the title, it's elegy, not eulogy. Elegy is a type of tragic poem, eulogy is where you say nice things about the deceased at a funeral. I think eulogy sounds better.
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and the Republican Vice Presidential candidate for the 2024 election, an incisive account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class.
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist
"A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal
"Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class.
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility.
But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance’s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history.
A deeply moving memoir with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
Link:
https://pomf2.lain.la/f/0uwyuzly.epub
You will need an ebook reader to read, Calibre is the most popular open source one, Kindle also works, you can easily add epub files to your amazon account.
https://calibre-ebook.com/
https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle/email -
2024-07-25 at 5:37 PM UTC in Project 2025
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Here is the full text of Project 2025, 920 pages. Please show where it calls for a constitutional amendment to restrict voting is printed by citing which page it appears on.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24088042-project-2025s-mandate-for-leadership-the-conservative-promise
That can't be real, where's the bit about the rape camps and the breeding cages? -
2024-07-25 at 5:25 PM UTC in Stonks falling again
Originally posted by Kingoftoes This is assuming that a large enough portion of the population in a given nation is made up of Entrepreneurs, only a few of which will be competent at all in the long-term, and even fewer will generate enough profit to expand their business beyond a single metropolitan/geographic area/region.
Landlords and franchisees tend to be smaller businesspeople who have an advantage over big corporate outfits due to the level of careful micromanagement involved. Big corporations are inherently inefficient and only exist where the technostructure is required - eg. heavy industry, financial services, high tech platforms.People do buy a lot of assets right now, I'm viewing this web page on one right now. A problem with that is that many consumers either do not have enough knowledge to make investments that are profitable long-term, or invest in assets that are almost guaranteed to depreciate (cars, clothing, electronics, even luxury brands of all 3 of these types of goods depreciate often).
When I said asset I meant to say long term income generating assets.This is an anecdote, but out of every person I've talked to that is my age about investing (I'll say 20 people as a lowball), only 4 or 5 of them knew what I was talking about when I said I have a Roth IRA or money in Index Funds, and only 1 or 2 of these people also had money invested into assets, whether shares in a business or commodities.
Most people don't even have the good sense to stay out of debt or live within their means.Lower standards of living? How far back do we have to go? Pre-internet? That hurts businesses big time, especially some of the biggest businesses in the US (Amazon, Google, Apple). Do you mean a decrease in consumerism?
It's not linear. Like right now housing is expensive and energy is super-cheap, but that wasn't always the case. And technology and medical science advances, and culture changes, but we're not about to go back to any period of time on those thing. I mean just generally people trying to live with less money. Stuff being more expensive, wages being lower, people you meet on the street being a little shittier and ruder and more insane with each passing year.Mass immigration doesn't always make a difference and can theoretically be detrimental in the short run if you have an influx of unskilled laborers flooding to a nation like the US (hypothetical example) that is increasingly nudging it's way towards becoming an "information economy" and where a large portion of unskilled jobs are no longer in manufacturing. Instead they are in the service sector. Which is great, but you can't exactly export a lot of services, but you sure as hell can export manufactured goods. I'm no Mercantilist, but I like the idea (and results) of not running a trade deficit and working exports/imports to the most profitable outcome as far as international comparative advantage is concerned.
Mass immigration is bad for native workers who compete against the immigrants, but if you need tomatoes picked it's a good thing.Good thing mass immigration will kill nationalism though.
Yeah, cos brown people countries like Brazil aren't chauvinistic and nationalistic or anything. Even look at America, you have Mexicans, Indians and Blacks going around like turbo-patriots. Dumbass flag worship is going no where, unfortunately. -
2024-07-25 at 2:41 PM UTC in 5000 rockets hit Israel
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2024-07-25 at 1:52 PM UTC in Military Genius Zelensky wants Ukrainians to throw molotovs at Russian tanksI hope the Ukrainian border police never go through my phone or I'm never getting in there ever again.
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2024-07-25 at 1:44 PM UTC in Military Genius Zelensky wants Ukrainians to throw molotovs at Russian tanks
Couple of days ago, an infamous Western Ukrainian nationalist Irina Farion was shot in the head in daylight in the city of Lvov. She was known for her vicious hatred of everything Russians, which was out of balance even for the most insane Ukrainian nationalist. For example, she encouraged bulling of russian-speaking kids in kindergartens. And now she is dead. Of course, Russia is blamed for killing such an important "patriot".
The Ukrainian authorities claim to know the perpetrator. It is this 19 year old kid pictured below. Earlier this day, something resembling a manifesto was posted on a telegram, although, it is not clear, whether the suspect has any connection to this document. There he claims to be a part of a white racialist "National Socialist" group which stands "against the brother war". Irina Farion is labeled as an enemy of Ukraine, as she had sown hatred between different groups of Ukrainan peoples. The author of manifesto claims that he wants to murder everyone who sold out "Ukraine after the Maidan".
I know Irina's sort, an evil slavic nutjob. They actually do seem to have a sort of demonic energy going on. They will destroy anything they get near, and pretend to be NS, but they are only interested in the ideology as an excuse to destroy. Kid seems to have had the right idea, pity they'll no doubt kill him. -
2024-07-25 at 1:36 PM UTC in Military Genius Zelensky wants Ukrainians to throw molotovs at Russian tanks
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2024-07-25 at 1:34 PM UTC in 👽 I have received a message from the aliens 🛸Are these the bad aliens or the good aliens?
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2024-07-25 at 1:26 PM UTC in Kamala is the only choice Dems have if they boot Biden
LMAO Joe actually called Kamala a DEI hire. -
2024-07-25 at 12:58 PM UTC in Stonks falling againThe solution to 2008 was what we have now, mass immigration, lower standards of living, and transitioning to an economy where the underclass are basically encouraged to borrow and rent instead of save and own. We never really got serious about living within our means or sustainably. The idea of juicing the economy with long-cons was just too tempting.
When interest rates are low enough, as they used to be in the US and still are in Japan and Europe, you can encourage a form of capitalism where people continually borrow money to buy assets, then work those assets to the bone in order to repay the debt, which can be rolled-over for a very long long period of time.
The plan actually was that interest rates would stay low everywhere forever, and asset prices would continue to increase forever, and immigration would increase forever. Inflation fucked that up. It's not just that grocery prices increase, the real problem is due to the way the accounting long term debt works when either inflation or interest rates go high the banks who are sitting on government and corporate bonds start accruing massive paper losses. -
2024-07-25 at 12:45 PM UTC in Random image thread
