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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| No, I think it was my high school reunion (Longmeadow, MA - otherwise colloquially known as "Little Israel". I was one of the Gentile sexually over-sexed/repressed). |
There were times when I thought Western Mass might make me a little homicidal too. |
It ain't getting any better.
edit: I joke too much. This is a actually a beautiful part of the world that has been temporarily over-run by wack-jobs. |
That area has lots of commuters to Hartford and NYC, yeah? Are they the wack-jobs? |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 12:37 am Post subject: |
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| Yep, and bags under the eyes, and wrinkles, and that really thin, breastless asian body type, and glasses. |
Oh talk dirty Fox. Are they overbearing and nosy too? |
Actually I think they're quite nice. Just totally unattractive. That's part of why their plight is so sad. It's not like they're bad people, they were just sold on a lifestyle by people who as you point out don't really have their best interests at heart. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 12:39 am Post subject: |
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| mises wrote: |
| caniff wrote: |
| northway wrote: |
| caniff wrote: |
| No, I think it was my high school reunion (Longmeadow, MA - otherwise colloquially known as "Little Israel". I was one of the Gentile sexually over-sexed/repressed). |
There were times when I thought Western Mass might make me a little homicidal too. |
It ain't getting any better.
edit: I joke too much. This is a actually a beautiful part of the world that has been temporarily over-run by wack-jobs. |
That area has lots of commuters to Hartford and NYC, yeah? Are they the wack-jobs? |
Don't get me started (okay, I'll try).
You're right: I-91 is the gang activity/drug route that goes up the Eastern Seaboard all the way up to Burlington, Vermont (and past).
Burlington, Vermont has a gang problem. Who would've figured.
Then you get historical where Western MA was a manufacturing center in the U.S. during the late 1800 - early 1900's. Many, many firsts in American manufacturing happened here (I won't bore you, but it's somewhat impressive if you're interested).
We still have Colt Firearms, I believe (I'm not sure that counts as weapon production could here be considered a cottage industry - Springfield is usually a Top-10 Homicide City).
Anyway, this a city that's waiting for the worm to turn.
Wack-jobs? Maybe I was too critical. For all of Massachusetts problems, we could be doing worse - you don't have to look to far to suddenly feel better about yourself. |
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recessiontime
Joined: 21 Jun 2010
Location: Got avatar privileges nyahahaha
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 12:51 am Post subject: |
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| Fox wrote: |
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| Yep, and bags under the eyes, and wrinkles, and that really thin, breastless asian body type, and glasses. |
Oh talk dirty Fox. Are they overbearing and nosy too? |
Actually I think they're quite nice. Just totally unattractive. That's part of why their plight is so sad. It's not like they're bad people, they were just sold on a lifestyle by people who as you point out don't really have their best interests at heart. |
Kind of reminds me of that movie, "my big fat Greek wedding". Very uplifting romantic comedy which my family and I enjoyed watching together.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS1aFVVOJmg&feature=related |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| but it's far too late now |
Women are a rapidly depreciating asset in terms of the marriage market. From 18 on they should be thinking "maximum husband possible before my boobs sag". Feminists don't tell women this, and that leads me to believe that feminists don't have the best interests of regular women in mind. No, human rights law is not right for you. Human creation is. It worked for thousands of years.
Am I sexist? |
No. You're an Asian mother. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:18 am Post subject: |
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| but it's far too late now |
Women are a rapidly depreciating asset in terms of the marriage market. From 18 on they should be thinking "maximum husband possible before my boobs sag". Feminists don't tell women this, and that leads me to believe that feminists don't have the best interests of regular women in mind. No, human rights law is not right for you. Human creation is. It worked for thousands of years.
Am I sexist? |
No. You're an Asian mother. |
From the previous generation, maybe. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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| but it's far too late now |
Women are a rapidly depreciating asset in terms of the marriage market. From 18 on they should be thinking "maximum husband possible before my boobs sag". Feminists don't tell women this, and that leads me to believe that feminists don't have the best interests of regular women in mind. No, human rights law is not right for you. Human creation is. It worked for thousands of years.
Am I sexist? |
No. You're an Asian mother. |
I've been on a dating tear for the past year or so. It is interesting to see the difference between a 28 yr old and a 32 yr old. At some point between those two ages, a lot of women seem to start to hum a different tune. Good ol' biology! |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| In my opinion we need to think more like recent (monied) immigrants. Instead of dropping 140k on a Bachelor/JD combo, buy a Subway franchise or car wash. Then buy another, and another. There is ample opportunity - even in this terrible economy - to create a living through business ownership. I guess there are no TV shows about happy and successful owners of a neighborhood car wash. |
We need a heuristic-based (...euphemism for 'privatized') education system to nurture an abundance of specialists in diverse fields. We should also abolish corporation tax to bring in a crapload of foreign investment. By no means least, those who don't produce anything, save anything, invest anything or have any assets for their children to inherit shouldn't have the moral right to demand higher taxes from those who do (the phenomenon otherwise known as 'progressive' and 'fair', but which might be better described as 'parasitism'). Perhaps we should introduce a one-vote-per-$100,000-paid-in-taxes system.
Nothing pleases me more than to witness the collapsing edifice of European parasitism as austerity sweeps the continent. My only regret is that it's not far-reaching enough. It's truly remarkable what's occurred to this once great continent; it's now the norm to use Windows with ghusto, yet simultaneously begrudge Bill Gates his profits.
Bourgeois-leftist morality can be summed up in four simple words: "you scratch my back".
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Women are a rapidly depreciating asset in terms of the marriage market. From 18 on they should be thinking "maximum husband possible before my boobs sag". Feminists don't tell women this, and that leads me to believe that feminists don't have the best interests of regular women in mind. No, human rights law is not right for you. Human creation is. It worked for thousands of years.
Am I sexist? |
You're right, so it doesn't matter what ___ist you are.
I bet that if we abolished all state education, meaning huge losses for universities, feminists would cease to have a stage upon which to proliferate their laughable ideas. Perhaps we should declare feminists enemies of the state while we're at it, similar to how Poland has anti-communist laws (very sensibly, too, I might add) |
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rollo
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: China
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| The saddest part of this Europe now spends a smaller percentage of GDP on Universities than the U.K. the U.S and China and Japan. The next generation simply will not be able to compete. Amazing the change in such a short time. |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| It's going to require immense political will to wean Europeans off the wealth that state arrogation provides for them. |
Right. Of course, the problem is always too much public spending and too much government regulation. Why should public money be spent on the public?
Let's privatize healthcare, cut welfare, and deregulate everything - especially the financial sector, right? Then everything will be great. |
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UknowsI
Joined: 16 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Welfare is good in moderation. I think everyone understands that too much welfare will go overboard. Some countries like Greece seems to have pulled it too far, while other countries such as Germany seems to have been able to balance it better. I think welfare is great as long as it doesn't go to the point where it makes a lot of people stop working or doing meaningless work. |
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visitorq
Joined: 11 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Privateer wrote: |
| Sergio Stefanuto wrote: |
| It's going to require immense political will to wean Europeans off the wealth that state arrogation provides for them. |
Right. Of course, the problem is always too much public spending and too much government regulation. Why should public money be spent on the public?
Let's privatize healthcare, cut welfare, and deregulate everything - especially the financial sector, right? Then everything will be great. |
Actually, if the financial sector were deregulated, then yes everything would improve drastically. But evidently you don't understand how central banking works, even as a basic concept. In the first place, legal tender laws are regulation. So are massive, unaccountable, selective bailouts with taxpayer money. |
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AsiaESLbound
Joined: 07 Jan 2010
Location: Truck Stop Missouri
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| Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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That article speaks volumnes for exactly how it is in America. I can relate squarely with the Southern Europeans though Europe might be a tougher cookie to crack. It's like home where you are set up if you are born into money and have a tough uphill battle if you aren't. It's the classic story of the widening gap between the, "have," and, "have nots." It's not the first cycle of this conundrum in the history of the world.
I don't blame the problem on E.U., but blame it on how the global economy in Western countries swayed to the trend of outsourcing to cut costs and then cutting costs more by creating an environment of stagnant wages and part time jobs. The old voters and leadership are eating the young to middle age generations future by selling them out to China through outsourcing all in the name of increasing their own retirements.
When those countries state coffers run dry, all social programs go the wayside and then extreme tragedies like famine, suffering disease without health care, and chronic homelessness becomes a grim reality for what were considered prosperous advanced nations. You will have 40 to 50 year old smart educated people on the street. Watch the tragedy unfold as we go into another decade of complete BS.
How does Germany, Holland, Denmark, and Sweden do what they do? They are rock solid. |
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visitorq
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| Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:13 am Post subject: |
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| extreme tragedies like famine, suffering disease without health care, and chronic homelessness becomes a grim reality for what were considered prosperous advanced nations. You will have 40 to 50 year old smart educated people on the street. Watch the tragedy unfold as we go into another decade of complete BS. |
Nah, there won't be a famine - they've got plenty of Monsanto corn for you and your family to eat. And for all the out-of-work people losing their livelihood and homes, or for those who find themselves in debt, it'll become increasingly easy to find employment in the prison system; perhaps as a guard if you're really lucky, or else as an inmate producing goods for UNICOR et al. With wages as low as 12 cents an hour we'll finally be able to compete with China. Our leaders have everything figured out. The future looks bright. |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK
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| Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:18 am Post subject: |
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| Right. Of course, the problem is always too much public spending and too much government regulation. Why should public money be spent on the public? |
I reject even the mere possibility that the purpose of the welfare state is to do good on behalf of the needy. Oh no. It is naked self-interest dressed up as socialist altruism. The real purpose is to provide government jobs for bourgeois leftists.
The typical bourgeois-leftist parasite: relatively wealthy parents (both of whom having rather high-paying government jobs - senior civil servants, perhaps, or teachers in state schools), state-educated, state-indoctrinated, anti-American, anti-Israel, logs onto Facebook (using a laptop manufactured in China by people on $6,000 per annum) to denounce the evils of consumerism and "exploitation", liberal arts grad, no real skills for which anyone would voluntarily surrender their money.
As far as I'm concerned, all government jobs - save for those in the name of the most rudimentary law & order - are immediately rescindable. Their sole purpose is to provide the bourgeois leftist parasite with an income. One might as well get them to build gigantic pyramids in the countryside, for all the good their jobs do. The state might as well employ people to drop litter for a living, because that will provide work for cleaners and thereby stimulate the economy! Not only do their jobs bring nothing; they subtract very much, since their salaries are paid for via the bounty of production (20-30% of gdp if we're lucky), which would otherwise be put to genuine use if it were not confiscated.
If we remove state arrogation (from the very people the bourgeois leftist despises most of all - the rich) from the equation, the bourgeois leftist is nothing but a savage. Utilitarian ideology appeals to the weak individual whose only means of survival rests on his acquiescence to the collective. To understand the motivations of the bourgeois leftist parasite, one must view the world through his eyes: that is, through the prism of impotence. How do the powerless survive? By repressing their individuality in exchange for the security of the collective, by vilifying those with power to legitimize the thievery of the weak.
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| Let's privatize healthcare, cut welfare, and deregulate everything - especially the financial sector, right? Then everything will be great. |
Want healthcare and education? Pay for your own, as if simply purchasing a laptop. Want others to have it? By all means pay for them yourself, as if purchasing a gift. But don't expect me to pay for them, because if so, I shall open a Swiss bank account and become a tax avoider. Indeed, tax avoidance, in the face of such pernicious parasitism, is virtuous.
May the welfare state collapse and never shall parasitism be held up as virtue again. May there never again be a government to incur huge debts, to prop up monopolies, to prohibit harmless drugs, to spend profligately, to wipe out savings, to promote welfare dependency, to create artificial jobs, to bailout feckless companies etc |
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