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@Double_R
I said it was the primary reason.
Shortages of products don't devalue the dollar. Oversupply of printed money and lack of confidence does. Whoever told you that it does is feeding you a horseload of misinformation.
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@Double_R
QE has also contributed greatly to inflation. It's the number one source of money surplus right now driving the value of the dollar down. If it was just price increases due to supply ALONE, the dollar value wouldn't be affected at all. It's why inflation is far outpacing the wage gains, because the value of money is dropping faster than the value of labor and scarce commodities. Another driving factor for inflation is the lack of trust in the dollar leading investors (like me) to swap dollars for crypto in an attempt to destroy dollars faster than the fed can print them.
Queue your one line response, probably calling me a 38 percenter or something just as useless.
I just want to make it clear who I hold responsible. It isn't some storybook villain.
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@Double_R
Right because losing your job over an untested drug is equivalent to a 150 dollar fine OK.
Just admit there's a line government can cross. Maybe this isn't it, but it exists.
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@secularmerlin
Steps should be taken to protect the public. If possible these steps should be nonviolent. First responders should perhaps not be armed and trained to see everyone as a potentially dangerous criminal. Us versus them is a terrible attitude to have about the people you are sworn to protect.
So you support voluntary compliance with law authorities? If a rapist doesn't feel like getting arrested it should be a viable option?
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@FLRW
Does England coddle arrest resistors to the extent or near as the USA does?
I know Australia sure as hell doesn't.
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@Athias
A big reason why I don't come on here to really change anyone's mind is because they haven't read the books I read. I've asked before if they read "The Gulag Archipelago" or actually read Orwell. Most have no clue what really happened in Cambodia.
Apparently it's not required reading anymore sadly.
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@secularmerlin
Do you support arrest resistors as a protected class?
Do you support voluntary compliance with the law? For example, if you just spent 45 minutes raping a woman on a train, should it be optional to submit to an arrest when law enforcement shows up?
Or should you resist arrest knowing by doing so you will likely be given a protected status?
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Their arguments exhibit repetition rather than rationalization.
Yep, for example, it's objectively true that the 2020 election was the first of its kind with the sheer volume of mail in ballots, many of which were mailed to voters unsolicited. It's a feature acknowledged by both sides, yet somehow it's supposed to be a disputable fact because a millionaire on TV said so.
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@Athias
I read: books, newspapers, journals, the internets, etc. You name it.
I find the study of human instincts and biology and how it has helped shaped history makes me more prepared for what is to come.
Definitely love reading books.
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@Double_R
since vaccine mandates have been around for a century now,
Lol, pretty sure you didn't have Osha firing people 100 years ago because you refused to take a lightly tested drug. There was a time before the FDA when people could be trusted to choose what to put in their bodies. When "do your own research" didn't label you as a person spreading misinformation against the state and "threatening Democracy"
Such is life in Orwellian times.
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@secularmerlin
I meant authority of the law.
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@Double_R
Because like Thett said, there's a very real possibility people are going to allow the policies that promote inflation due to ignorance and a misplaced trust in DC, and I like to know what I am going to be up against. It's helpful for preppers.
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Arrest resistors don't matter. Period.
Either you support the law or you do not. There is no grey area.
A Lawless nation relies on giving arrest resistors a protected class status. Which is why 20 Walgreens closed in liberal dystopias due to unchecked theft.
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@ILikePie5
Impose vaccine mandates. Who’s the real Nazi now?
No vaccine for delta afaik. 4 days of fever with 2 shots.
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@ebuc
who seek to wreak havoc and chaos on humanity
Just the creatures in DC that masquerade as human.
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@cristo71
rather than an issue himself…
A threat to the DC elites is a threat to "democracy"
That's axiomatic at this point.
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@sadolite
Just like they are told inflation isn't happening. 38 percenters already lost at life the moment they decided DC really cared about them.
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@Double_R
Ok, thanks for your 38 percenter insight.
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@cristo71
Nobody but the 38 percenters are surprised about the current and unobstructed policies promoting inflation.
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@ILikePie5
"Inflation is happening because retail spending is up." "How do you measure retail spending?"
"By the total number of dollars spent in the retail sector, why do you ask?"
"Well, couldn't people just be paying more for the retail products they normally buy, and that's what's pushing the total dollars spent up? For all we know, people could be buying fewer goods and just having to pay more for them."
"That's not what's happening."
-Jen Psaki
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@n8nrgmi
get on the yang gang. stop the fash
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@Double_R
Making it easy for people to vote is not a power grab, that’s what we call democracy.
No but a sudden change in the rules is most certainly a power grab as well as undermining the expectations of a predictably fair election.
At least we know exactly who is to blame for the current mess....the 38 percenters.
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@Double_R
America is held hostage right now by the stubborn 38 percenters that are told to think the country is doing just fine under President Brandon, and they obey without a second thought like good troops.
Since when did Democrats become such entrenched establishment shills? Didn't they rage against the machine historically instead of working on behalf of the machine?
Sad days. Seems like anyone's morals can be bought by the elites these days. Even Democrats.
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@ILikePie5
What the Democrats did in 2020 was the equivalent of insider trading. They set up a ground game targeting mail in ballots way before the rules were changed and put in place. It's not fraudulent or illegal, it's just what you expect with blatant power grabs.
Now, let's go Brandon.
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@ILikePie5
Play stupid games with police, win stupid prizes.
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@ILikePie5
I am currently on day 2 of Delta Covid and I took 2 Moderna shots.
To say DC/Fauci/Pharma is boldly lying and doesn't give a shit about you is an understatement.
Imagine if Trump was allowed to tariff industry back to America BEFORE Covid hit without the usual interference from big monopoly lobbies in DC?
As always, the biggest problem with Trump was that he wasn't a politician, so he didn't understand why it was necessary to fire Fauci and ignore the crony union bosses. I heard recently a big part of the labor shortages in California ports are regulations prohibiting independent truckers from pulling up to the ports as that would harm the union monopolies. So the entire country gets to suffer so that a labor monopoly can corner the market in California. Great.
Perhaps the next to follow will have the balls Trump had by addressing 3rd rail politics and also the political wisdom to fuck the people in DC that don't care about the rest of America.
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You mean like the poor would under the regime Trump wants?
Your worst orangemanbad story is reality under Pres Brandon.
Theatre come to life as requested.
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@secularmerlin
In fact I posit to you that if food shelter and education were free.
"The First Law of Thermodynamics", translated into plain English is "There is no such thing as a free lunch".
"Conservation of energy" is a basic law of physics that cannot be violated.
There is no such thing as free anything in the natural world of physical laws.
Industrialization made the world wealthy not capitalism.
In the real world, machines and tools that produce products often require a substantial investment of resources. Investments are capital.
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@ILikePie5
This is one of the biggest problems with my generation. Emotions over facts.
The official party line is that bread lines and shortages are supposed to make you feel good.
More importantly, you are obligated to feel good about it.
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@zedvictor4
Voting has become as commonplace as replying to spam mail. No thought required.
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There's evidence of fraud but not enough to change the outcome of the election.
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@bmdrocks21
- a fat guy runs from cops and collapses and dies of a heart attack-a man charges cops with a knife and gets tasered. He dies of cardiac arrest
Suicide by cop is trending.
Wonder just how many suicides by cop are mislabeled?
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@ILikePie5
“THE MULTITUDES remained plunged in ignorance… and their leaders, seeking their votes, did not dare to undeceive them.”
-Winston Churchill
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@ILikePie5
After all. Orangemanbad is all fun and games until you can't get the food you want.
Then it moves from the realm of theatre to the realm of reality. The era of mean tweets and under 2 dollars gasoline doesn't seem as bad all of a sudden.
Can't wait for Winter! Maybe CNN has some solutions? Surely their paid experts care enough to help the little people.
Surely!
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@ILikePie5
I think election fraud is the least of the fabricated reasons for shifting blame and personal responsibility.
Every pissed Biden voter needs some kind of scapegoat in the middle of this economic disaster, and Orangemanbad probably isn't going to cut it.
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@ILikePie5
angry terrorist parents about to walk away from the blue.
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let's go Brandon!
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@bmdrocks21
Why can't the USA be as nationally protective as Canada?
What's so wrong about the USA where 38% of its citizens think it shouldn't exist as a nation?
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Adjusted for population, Canada rejects more bullshit "obamaphone" asylum claims than America.
Why can't the USA be as nationalistic as Canada?
Honest question here.
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@FLRW
They can be paid to stay at home like the rest of the Americans.
Let's go Brandon!
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The far left is on the verge of impeaching Biden for reinstating the remain in Mexico facist policy.
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@Intelligence_06
You could solve any problem by eliminating the problems' means of spreading, but we probably don't want that when we think in a humanitarian way.
That didn't actually work for Pol Pot.
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@n8nrgmi
Just abolish all colleges and make all learning centers on the job training centers. For people that don't want education to get a job, the library and internet is free.
Problem solved.
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@Intelligence_06
I find it interesting that the only validity that can be given to math is the narrow snapshot of time in which objects are observed.
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Ironically, Biden may actually may unite the country to stand together against a common threat...Joe Biden.
He may end up being the great unifier after all.
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@949havoc
The ministry of misinformation will ensure freedom for the right people.
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