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@Double_R
The projection is staggering. You repeat Trump's claims uncritically despite the fact that he is the most cartoonishly transparent bullshitter who has ever held public office in this country. His verbal diarrhea of allegations besides being completely vague to the point of meaningless and without evidence is also easily predictable. He repeats the same nonsense so much you can see how bored he is repeating it on his expressionless face in his monotone voice. The sillyness of it reminds me of when one of Vladimir Putin's opponents "fell out of a window", except you're the guy going "wow it's crazy how many people fall out of windows".
Trump had to do what he did to get the American people to re-elect him. The world was shocked America put a convicted criminal in the White House. 38 countries have laws that banned Trump from entering their country.
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@FLRW
When Trump destroys the USA, China will jump to first place.
Remember it’s America that put Trump in the White House for the second time. China will owe it to America for making it jump to first place.
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@whiteflame
His case against the COVID vaccines was and remains overblown, but I'm going to set that aside since that is likely to overtake this conversation if we get into it.
The Kennedys are famous for dying of unnatural causes. RFK condition were from natural causes brain worms. Which is extremely rare but nevertheless natural. We can only hope he completes his term.
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@Best.Korea
Is that how they punished themselves after you were born?Yes. They separated.
And you were left with their blindfolds?
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Isn't this the same guy who wants to hire cheap Indian labour instead of paying Americans? H-1B? What wealth is he creating for Americans then?You are thinking about Vivek. Musk told him to fuck off if he wanted to make India first.
Vivek ditches Doge. He will be trying for governor of Ohio.
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@Best.Korea
You were blindfolded when your parents were having sex?I dont think my parents had sex again after my birth.
Is that how they punished themselves after you were born?
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a good excuse to drain our resources for their luxuries.Already addressed this. Resources are enhanced through innovation, that is: our finite material resources only have a value to "drain" ONLY when innovation is applied. And you do not dispute that innovation is an inexhaustible resource if properly rewarded and justifiably permitted.
Are Trump’s tariffs an innovation?
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@Best.Korea
You still follow your parents advice.My parents are just retards who had their marriage fail within two years and who have IQ of 70. I dont really think they are my parents. I dont really see two 70 IQ retards and abusers producing the smartest person on Earth. It doesnt happen even in science fiction.
You were blindfolded when your parents were having sex?
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@zedvictor4
Hope all goes well.
If your gender is unknown. How will they know what to operate on?
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@Best.Korea
It would be impossible to get an erection without lust in your eyes for the woman you want to have sex with.Just have sex with blindfold.
You still follow your parents advice.
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@Math_Enthusiast
The problem here is that 1.61% of our GDP is being used just to make sure Musk (not billionaires in general, Musk is sucking up this much wealth on his own) is being "properly rewarded" with needless luxury after needless luxury.
Because Tesla and SpaceX are profitable companies. It allows Elon Musk to afford those luxuries. He is not dependent on the government for his paycheque.
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@n8nrgim
you say standard of living has increased, sure, even poor people can have a decent life as long as they can work 40 hours a week, mostly... but that doesn't justify all the things that we could easily bring the costs down on being so out of reach compared to boomer days. you're a smart guy, instead of rationalizing so much, you should be coming up with solutions.
Only Americans are complaining about the rising cost of living and other amenities. Yet immigrants are crossing the border in the thousands without a single complaint.
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@ebuc
Cheers.TradeS, cheers to you too. I think youve misinterpretated some of my comments.Sorry Im busy now, and preparing for 5 hour surgery tommorrow.Cheers Eb
Oh no!! What is the surgery for?
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I almost want to think you are dangerously close to figuring out that leftists use black people as cannon fodder l, but I have a feeling you are so deep in denial that overcoming the thought processes you have as a result of white people telling you what ideology to have is impossible.
White ideology is white supremacy. Trump is the perfect example.
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@zedvictor4
Ah.
What is a tetrahedral shape in 3D?
The tetrahedron is the three-dimensional case of the more general concept of a Euclidean simplex, and may thus also be called a 3-simplex. The tetrahedron is one kind of pyramid, which is a polyhedron with a flat polygon base and triangular faces connecting the base to a common point.
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@Tradesecret
The Protestant position in line with the Bible is that certain behaviours are sinful. Jesus, himself, said that even looking at a lady with lust in your heart, looking at porn for instance, is adultery. Adultery is a sin. It is not just the way you are born, it is the heart itself.
Was this the reason Jesus never married? It would be impossible to get an erection without lust in your eyes for the woman you want to have sex with.
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@FLRW
Tru-dat !
With that attitude you’ll never be a real feminist like Justin Baldoni.
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@Double_R
You probably would have ran for your life like every republican did that day
It was caught on tape all the republicans running to escape the rioters.
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Therefore one plus one seemingly equals four according to the link.
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@Math_Enthusiast
believe that people should be employed to make good investments, and the resulting large quantities of wealth should be controlled by the government and used for public interest.
That is how communism operates. The wealth is controlled and owned by the government chosen by the people.
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@Stephen
Catholic teaching does not offer a concrete, exhaustive list of “wrong actions”The Catholic teaching? What does the god of the bible say on the matter?
Do they teach that on Sunday Schools?
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And the value of finite material resources relies solely on innovation, which is a limitless resource.Example, an acre of farm 100 years ago produced x amount of food. today it produces 100x amount of food. 100 years from now, it could be 1000x
Agriculture is not a natural resource. Land and water are.
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@Math_Enthusiast
So he cannot add 402 billion seconds to his life even though your calculation says it’s possible to convert his billions into years.My calculation says that 12739 years is 402 billion seconds. It also says that you would therefore need 12739 years to reach Elon Musk's net worth if you theoretically made one dollar every second. It does not say that Musk can buy additional seconds to add to his lifespan.
But you said he was ahead by 12739 years. Now you are saying he cannot buy additional seconds to add to his lifespan. Is it because he is already ahead by 12739 years?
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@FLRW
Yes, I have had a lot of Sue's.
Using the same approach?
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innovation is never a limited resource. Ever.
But it has some limitations like it cannot extend a billionaires life.
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@Math_Enthusiast
What is the significance of that 12739 years when he will only live the normal lifespan?12739 years is 402 billion seconds, and Elon Musk's net worth is 402 billion dollars. This isn't about his lifespan.
So he cannot add 402 billion seconds to his life even though your calculation says it’s possible to convert his billions into years.
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@zedvictor4
Because everything is the fault of financially successful people.
Financially successful people show us how it is done. Eg. Build a Tesla or SpaceX.
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@Math_Enthusiast
If you are comparing scale of wealth to scale of time. How much time does Elon Musk have when you compare it to his scale of wealth?Your wording is a little strange, but I'm assuming that you are asking what amount of time corresponds to Musk's quantity of wealth in my chosen scale. The answer to that is 12739 years, which was included in the original post.
What is the significance of that 12739 years when he will only live the normal lifespan?
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@CatholicApologetics
Some facts suggest Paul was gay
The modern concept of homosexuality did not exist in Biblical times. But Spong and others point out that a sexual attraction to men would explain some mysteries about Paul’s life:
* Paul never married, which was unusual for a first-century Jew, but had a series of younger men as companions.
* He sometimes expressed negativity toward women and homosexual exploitation.
* Tormented by self-reproach, he pleaded with God three times in vain to remove an unspecified “thorn in my flesh” that troubled him. Some believe that “thorn” was attraction to other men. God’s answer, according to Paul, was to deny his request with the explanation, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
* Homosexuality might even help explain Paul’s cataclysmic conversion experience. He went from intensely persecuting Christians to becoming the most articulate leader of the very movement that he had tried to destroy. His vision of Christ left him stunned by the revelation that nothing could separate him from God’s love.
“The war going on inside of him is a fairly classic description of what I have come to understand in repressed gay males,” Spong said in a Los Angeles Times interview on Feb. 2, 1991.
For Spong, these contradictions finally made sense when he first encountered the possibility of Paul’s homosexuality in the 1937 book “Saint Paul” by British theologian Arthur Darby Nock.
“I was absolutely floored by how it opened up Paul to me,” he told the LA Times.
Some see a possible romantic relationship between Paul and his “beloved brother” Onesimus in the Epistle to Philemon. There may also be a homoerotic component to Paul’s love for the risen Christ, as explored in “Eros and the Christ: Longing and Envy in Paul’s Christology” by David E. Fredrickson.
Paul also made intriguingly queer male-to-female reference when he said, “I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you” (Galatians 4:19) and “Just as a nursing mother cares for her children, so we cared for you.” (1 Thessalonians 2:7-8).
Paul is the first man ever described as a “bride of Christ,” according to gay Catholic historian Paul Halsall. Bishop Methodius of Olympus made this gender-nonconforming reference for the first time in the late third century, Halsall writes in “Wedded to Christ: Nuptiality and Gender Reversal in the Lives of Byzantine Male Saints,” a paper for a 1997 Byzantine studies conference.
The modern concept of homosexuality did not exist in Biblical times. But Spong and others point out that a sexual attraction to men would explain some mysteries about Paul’s life:
* Paul never married, which was unusual for a first-century Jew, but had a series of younger men as companions.
* He sometimes expressed negativity toward women and homosexual exploitation.
* Tormented by self-reproach, he pleaded with God three times in vain to remove an unspecified “thorn in my flesh” that troubled him. Some believe that “thorn” was attraction to other men. God’s answer, according to Paul, was to deny his request with the explanation, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
* Homosexuality might even help explain Paul’s cataclysmic conversion experience. He went from intensely persecuting Christians to becoming the most articulate leader of the very movement that he had tried to destroy. His vision of Christ left him stunned by the revelation that nothing could separate him from God’s love.
“The war going on inside of him is a fairly classic description of what I have come to understand in repressed gay males,” Spong said in a Los Angeles Times interview on Feb. 2, 1991.
For Spong, these contradictions finally made sense when he first encountered the possibility of Paul’s homosexuality in the 1937 book “Saint Paul” by British theologian Arthur Darby Nock.
“I was absolutely floored by how it opened up Paul to me,” he told the LA Times.
Some see a possible romantic relationship between Paul and his “beloved brother” Onesimus in the Epistle to Philemon. There may also be a homoerotic component to Paul’s love for the risen Christ, as explored in “Eros and the Christ: Longing and Envy in Paul’s Christology” by David E. Fredrickson.
Paul also made intriguingly queer male-to-female reference when he said, “I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you” (Galatians 4:19) and “Just as a nursing mother cares for her children, so we cared for you.” (1 Thessalonians 2:7-8).
Paul is the first man ever described as a “bride of Christ,” according to gay Catholic historian Paul Halsall. Bishop Methodius of Olympus made this gender-nonconforming reference for the first time in the late third century, Halsall writes in “Wedded to Christ: Nuptiality and Gender Reversal in the Lives of Byzantine Male Saints,” a paper for a 1997 Byzantine studies conference.
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@CatholicApologetics
Catholic teaching does not offer a concrete, exhaustive list of “wrong actions” because the morality of any gesture depends on the intention behind it and the context in which it occurs. The key is the intention and context rather than the specific physical gesture, which is why no definitive list can be provided.
The most astounding finding from the newly discovered lead codices is that Jesus Christ was unambiguously and openly gay. He and his disciples formed a same-sex coterie, bound by feelings of love and mutual support. There are recorded instances of same-sex activity – the "beloved disciple" plays a significant role – and there is affirmation of the joys of friendship and of living and loving together.
A whole new complexion is given to that rather puzzling passage where Jesus exhorts his followers to break family ties: "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." (Luke 14, 26). It seems clear now that this is less a negative repudiation of family and more a positive exhortation to join in affirmation of a gay lifestyle and love.
There is at least one new parable, that of the two young men. There are clear echoes of the relationship between David and Jonathan, for Jesus speaks of one young man having his soul "knit with the soul" of the other, and loving him "as his own soul". Intriguing is evidence that the Catholics might be closer to the truth about the status of Mary, the mother of Jesus, than are the Protestants. She has a much bigger role in the life of Jesus than many hitherto expected, with Jesus frequently returning home and making much of her.
Conversely, there is at least one incident when Jesus quarrels violently with Joseph, who shows great hostility and makes wild claims about "manliness". Before, one might have thought that, given Mary's virginity, Joseph's attitude was reflecting the ambiguities of his status in the family; but now it seems more probable that we have here a classic example of the Freudian triangle: over-possessive mother, hostile father, gay son.
Why have we known so little about all of this before? A newly discovered Pauline epistle, appropriately to the Athenians, suggests a major Platonic influence, particularly of the Republic. The classically educated Paul, who was himself gay, saw that same-sex activity was inimical to the success of Christianity in the highly homophobic societies in which he lived. Hence, same-sex affections and activity were concealed, to be known to and practised by only the leaders in secret – the guardians of Christianity as one might say. Obviously, this is a tradition that has flourished and lasted. It is not by chance that John Henry Newman is being made a saint.
Finally, the most important news is that nothing in the newly discovered codices challenges in any way the essential message of Christianity. Jesus was the messiah; he died on the cross for our sins; and through his death and resurrection made possible our eternal salvation. Our overriding obligation is to love God and we do this by loving our neighbours as ourselves. Christianity will never be the same again. Christianity will go on completely unchanged.
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@zedvictor4
Like a book.
Which can be compared to a goldmine.
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@Math_Enthusiast
I have no idea what that is supposed to mean. This was just a thought experiment comparing scale of wealth to scale of time. I'm not sure what Musk's life span or "adding seconds to wealth" has to do with this.
If you are comparing scale of wealth to scale of time. How much time does Elon Musk have when you compare it to his scale of wealth?
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@Math_Enthusiast
Ten times the money has ten times the buying power.
But Elon Musk did not buy Tesla orSpaceX. He created those companies.
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@Stephen
Red or Golden?Red. High StreetIf I have read you correctly?
What is golden?
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@Best.Korea
It’s called filling occupied space.Sure. Whatever makes you hard.
Filled with bilateral numbers.
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@Math_Enthusiast
- Elon Musk's net worth, 402 billion dollars, in seconds, would be 12739 years. The human era–the period for which humans have been the dominant species on Earth–is estimated at around 12000 years, with the holocene calendar putting us in the year 12025.
How long will Elon Musk live with all those seconds added to his wealth?
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@Savant
Life expectancy has continued to rise.
You have a very positive attitude on life.
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I still love you too you silly faggot, and for addressing me the way you have I order you to wear studded panties for the next week while out and about.
You made one trans happy.
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@n8nrgim
Don't you pay attention to lib talking points or the news? The cost of living is way out of whack. The average house now is 400k, whereas in the 70s it was way less even after inflation. Education costs tens of thousands when before it's a few hundred or thousand, cause they privatized colleges. Healthcare was was less now it's 18% of our gdp, which also isn't competitive with other countries who spend half as much and cover everyone with less wait times and better in general. The minimum wage in the 70s was 15 bucks after inflation and is only 7 and change now. Wages just tread water and have barely gone up after inflation over decades.
That is why they re-elected Trump. Trump said he alone can fix the problem and make America great again.
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@Best.Korea
Got you excited, didn’t it?I was already very excited. My panties are soaked with precum.
It’s called filling occupied space.
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@Math_Enthusiast
The way that I have proposed that we do this also has the nice side effect of potentially making this giant flow of resources even bigger by making investing something you need actual qualifications for while giving the investors the opportunity to invest far more money than they would have been able to otherwise.
What is you economics called?
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@Best.Korea
bilateral testes { external } --ovaries if woman { ergo internal }-- and external penisWell, yes.
Got you excited, didn’t it?
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@Best.Korea
You cant really expect for people to understand your point of view. These are all very rich people who eat a very significant piece of society's cake. You cant expect them to understand those who barely have any cake to eat.
His solution will remove cake from every home.
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@n8nrgim
I personally think we should tax the rich for consumption with their income. the rich borrow money at 1 percent, instead of taking from their investments and incurring a capital gain tax. they escape taxes that way. the rich should pay fifty percent of everything they borrow for personal use, or the highest bracket tax. otherwise the rich will keep escaping paying taxes.
You have been influenced by Al Qaeda.
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@Math_Enthusiast
No, but I can replace an Elon Musk who makes hundreds of billions with an Elon Musk who makes hundreds of thousands.
If you can replace Elon Musk, you can also replace Trump.
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Lol, we aren't. 100 years ago, China was like a flea on our ass. America has let every other nation catch up since we decided to outsource innovation to the government.
Who has the largest army in the world?
Mapped: The World's Largest Armies in 2024
China
China has the largest standing army, with over 2 million active personnel. With increasing defense spending over the last decades, the country also ranks third in the number of tanks and second in the number of aircraft carriers in service.
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@FLRW
Tesla, the most valuable automaker in the world valued at over $1 trillion, did not pay any federal income tax last year.Tesla’s annual financial report, released this morning, shows the company enjoyed $2.3 billion of U.S. income in 2024 on which it reports precisely zero current federal income tax. Over the past three years, the Elon Musk-led company reports $10.8 billion of U.S. income on which its current federal tax was just $48 million. That comes to a three-year federal tax rate of just 0.4 percent – more than 50 times less than the statutory corporate tax rate of 21 percent.
No wonder he looks so happy on stage. No taxes and no alimony payments.
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