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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1110 on: November 18, 2020, 07:28:29 PM »
It is really simple economics here, if the cost of servicing your debt goes down then people will be able to afford to have more debt.

Lets pretend the interest rate is 10%, a $100k house will cost you $10k per year in interest payments.

If the interest rate is 5%, a $200k house will cost you $10k per year in interest payments.

The cost of servicing both houses is the same but magically the second example has twice as much debt.
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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1111 on: November 18, 2020, 07:34:42 PM »
  Stupid people finance their recreation.  Stupid people decide to get an expensive 4 year degree instead of looking for a 2  years of technical training to make money.  Stupid people dont pay cash for cars.  Stupid people get credit cards (I would allow for saying stupid people carry a balance on credit cards).  That graph looks like Americans consistently get more and more stupid and careless with their money.  I have a feeling they got fatter under trump too, since it appears getting stupider also makes people get fatter.  Two things Americans damn sure have done since the 50's is waste a shitload of money and get fat.

I don't disagree that people are stupid (on average) - but to rephrase my point using your language...  It appears that people keep getting stupider, but they got stupid *faster* under Bush and Trump. It's still a question of the lesser evil.
  Thats because when they *think* they have more money, they act dumber.  Not rocket science.  That and greedy bankers called it quits to lending just anyone money for a while after almost sending the nation back to 1930.   Lesser evil for me is certainly people spending money they do not have  for degrees they do not get when compared to wanting dudes in the girls locker room and to push critical race theory.  I could even say here, lesser evil is not evil at all.  It is like nature, its neutral.  The tiger is there, and you get the Darwin award if you go yank its tail.  But pushing ideas like critical race theory, or putting dudes in the bathroom with my daughter...well now we are starting to push towards sending people on crusades.  The left needs to check the wind a bit better IMO.
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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1112 on: November 18, 2020, 07:55:51 PM »
Greetings!

You know what? Put some "gender fluid" Trans freak in the bathroom with *my daughter*--and I guarantee you that my response to the Trans freak wouldn't be pretty, nice, or sweet.

I don't care how many of its "rights" I violate, either. The Trans freak is going to have a lot more to worry about than his "rights" being violated.

Oh, is that "escalating violence"? Reee all you want. I make no apologies. These goddamned freaks do not belong anywhere near our women, our daughters, or family!

I would stand rock solid behind any man that felt the same--in or out of a courtroom. I don't give a fuck. There are some things that you know what? Fuck what the cock-sucking society thinks, and fuck what some cucks in government believe. You have to make a stand for what is right, no matter what the cost. Just tell the cuck judge to bring a rope, because you are not backing down, not now, not ever. Let these cuck judges try and judge against people protecting their families. See how fast they see the fucking light when shit gets burned and blood starts flowing in the streets like crazy.

That's right. We know they would shit their fucking pants and change their viewpoints very fast. A rope would be waiting for them right outside their fucking house.

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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1113 on: November 18, 2020, 08:17:22 PM »
Greetings!

You know what? Put some "gender fluid" Trans freak in the bathroom with *my daughter*--and I guarantee you that my response to the Trans freak wouldn't be pretty, nice, or sweet.

Do you guys not have individual toilet stalls in the US?

All women have to cue up side by side at the toilet like the men do?

Honestly thats pretty weird.
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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1114 on: November 18, 2020, 08:19:19 PM »
Greetings!

Ahh, yes. As audits and recounts proceed, it is amazing how thousands of votes for Trump are being found--and cock-sucking Democrat election officials claim, oh, it was just an innocent clerical error.

Lying, corrupt frauds!

Biden's lead in Georgia is disappearing by the hour.

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« Reply #1115 on: November 18, 2020, 08:19:28 PM »
Greetings!

You know what? Put some "gender fluid" Trans freak in the bathroom with *my daughter*--and I guarantee you that my response to the Trans freak wouldn't be pretty, nice, or sweet.

I don't care how many of its "rights" I violate, either. The Trans freak is going to have a lot more to worry about than his "rights" being violated.

Oh, is that "escalating violence"? Reee all you want. I make no apologies. These goddamned freaks do not belong anywhere near our women, our daughters, or family!

I would stand rock solid behind any man that felt the same--in or out of a courtroom. I don't give a fuck. There are some things that you know what? Fuck what the cock-sucking society thinks, and fuck what some cucks in government believe. You have to make a stand for what is right, no matter what the cost. Just tell the cuck judge to bring a rope, because you are not backing down, not now, not ever. Let these cuck judges try and judge against people protecting their families. See how fast they see the fucking light when shit gets burned and blood starts flowing in the streets like crazy.

That's right. We know they would shit their fucking pants and change their viewpoints very fast. A rope would be waiting for them right outside their fucking house.

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What a little bitch. You're all talk, asshole.

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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1116 on: November 18, 2020, 08:21:55 PM »
Greetings!

You know what? Put some "gender fluid" Trans freak in the bathroom with *my daughter*--and I guarantee you that my response to the Trans freak wouldn't be pretty, nice, or sweet.

Do you guys not have individual toilet stalls in the US?

All women have to cue up side by side at the toilet like the men do?

Honestly thats pretty weird.

Greetings!

Yeah, Shasarak, it is weird. But there's people here that want to allow trans people to use women's bathrooms. The stupid train never ends with these people.

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« Reply #1117 on: November 18, 2020, 08:28:56 PM »
Greetings!

You know what? Put some "gender fluid" Trans freak in the bathroom with *my daughter*--and I guarantee you that my response to the Trans freak wouldn't be pretty, nice, or sweet.

I don't care how many of its "rights" I violate, either. The Trans freak is going to have a lot more to worry about than his "rights" being violated.

Oh, is that "escalating violence"? Reee all you want. I make no apologies. These goddamned freaks do not belong anywhere near our women, our daughters, or family!

I would stand rock solid behind any man that felt the same--in or out of a courtroom. I don't give a fuck. There are some things that you know what? Fuck what the cock-sucking society thinks, and fuck what some cucks in government believe. You have to make a stand for what is right, no matter what the cost. Just tell the cuck judge to bring a rope, because you are not backing down, not now, not ever. Let these cuck judges try and judge against people protecting their families. See how fast they see the fucking light when shit gets burned and blood starts flowing in the streets like crazy.

That's right. We know they would shit their fucking pants and change their viewpoints very fast. A rope would be waiting for them right outside their fucking house.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK
What a little bitch. You're all talk, asshole.

Greetings!

HAHAHAHA! You are a fucking moron, HappyDaze. You have no fucking clue, and you don't know me at all.

I have been in numerous situations where I have put my money where my mouth is, jackass. What the fuck do you know, pussy?

I'm stating my opinion in the above commentary. I think that having trans freaks into women's bathrooms is fucking wrong.

I also know a whole lot of men that would stand up very fast if some freak was threatening or otherwise violating their wife, their girlfriend, or their daughter for example. That's just fucking normal, you moron.

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« Reply #1118 on: November 18, 2020, 08:31:07 PM »
But I am quite willing to listen to the non-crazy conservatives.

The cucks on their knees will be happy to have somebody to talk to!

As for me, I couldn't give a shit about leftists "listening" or "discussing" because I do not seek any common ground nor any future where involving compromise nor any civility whatsoever.

Happy to listen to the non-crazy conservatives; you're clearly one of the crazy ones.

(This thread's actually been less of the crazy than I expected. But a few posters are on a tear...)

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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1119 on: November 18, 2020, 08:41:21 PM »
Greetings!

Officer Brandon Tatum discusses current politics on the Tatum Report program.

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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1120 on: November 18, 2020, 08:43:22 PM »
There is and was ongoing fraud.

 In several places it was rigged.

First false or stolen election in my lifetime.

Oh, born after 2000? (And every other election since forever, according to some.)  :P

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« Reply #1121 on: November 18, 2020, 08:45:21 PM »
In the gaming forum in the Thirty Sword Lesbian thread

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I expect that my decision to avoid the gaming forum may have been such.  ;D

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Re: 2020 Election Commentary
« Reply #1122 on: November 18, 2020, 08:52:44 PM »
You know what? Put some "gender fluid" Trans freak in the bathroom with *my daughter*--and I guarantee you that my response to the Trans freak wouldn't be pretty, nice, or sweet.

I don't care how many of its "rights" I violate, either. The Trans freak is going to have a lot more to worry about than his "rights" being violated.

Oh, is that "escalating violence"? Reee all you want. I make no apologies. These goddamned freaks do not belong anywhere near our women, our daughters, or family!

This is getting hugely off-topic, but I will do my damndest to beat the shit out of you if you lay a finger on a kid in my house - or any other kid - just for going to the goddamn bathroom. Living in the Bay Area, I know a bunch of kids who identify as non-binary or gender fluid. This includes the family who live in the other half of my duplex, whose kid I watched grow from a baby to an awesome high school senior now. I chatted with them recently about their going to Korea next semester for study abroad, which they're excited about. It baffles and enrages me that someone would come and beat them up just for going to the bathroom. The same goes for the children of all my other family, friends, and community members.

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« Reply #1123 on: November 18, 2020, 08:58:58 PM »
You know what? Put some "gender fluid" Trans freak in the bathroom with *my daughter*--and I guarantee you that my response to the Trans freak wouldn't be pretty, nice, or sweet.

I don't care how many of its "rights" I violate, either. The Trans freak is going to have a lot more to worry about than his "rights" being violated.

Oh, is that "escalating violence"? Reee all you want. I make no apologies. These goddamned freaks do not belong anywhere near our women, our daughters, or family!

This is getting hugely off-topic, but I will do my damndest to beat the shit out of you if you lay a finger on a kid in my house - or any other kid - just for going to the goddamn bathroom. Living in the Bay Area, I know a bunch of kids who identify as non-binary or gender fluid. This includes the family who live in the other half of my duplex, whose kid I watched grow from a baby to an awesome high school senior now. I chatted with them recently about their going to Korea next semester for study abroad, which they're excited about. It baffles and enrages me that someone would come and beat them up just for going to the bathroom. The same goes for the children of all my other family, friends, and community members.

Greetings!

*Shrugg* Think whatever you want, Jhkim. I don't think it is right for a man get up in a fucking dress to be in a women's bathroom with women--or young girls.

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« Reply #1124 on: November 18, 2020, 08:59:34 PM »
When people on this forum dare say they didn't vote for Trump, knowing they are outnumbered 10 to 1, calling them trolls makes it even harder. I've never trolled here once, but people here have accused me of it purely based on my disagreeing. And damn dude, you know how hard it is to "address criticism" when every post of yours gets a massive number of long detailed responses? No, you don't, at least not here. Because you outnumber the "opposition" ten to one. Cut people some fucking slack when you know you have them so outnumbered.

Oh please unlike other posters here your called a troll and disingenuous because you go out of your way to do both. Not because your disagree with others. In the gaming forum in the Thirty Sword Lesbian thread you knew full well how some posters felt about the rpg. Then came into the thread pretending to be both naive and clueless about it. Even when you knew full well how some of use felt about the rpg. So if your going to pretend to be naive and stupid on purpose then expect to be called both a troll and disingenuous on this board and others. Espcially if you can't be bothered to actual read the thread in question.

So stop with the martyr and victim complex because your not fooling anyone here.

No man, you're so surrounded by people who think exactly like you do on those kinds of topics you cannot even imagine that I don't assume people think like that. I was not trolling. I was giving you my honest opinion, but my opinion was so far from your bubble you cannot imagine it was honest because you don't see opinions like those in your life these days.

Then you are, at best, an inconsiderate poster who jumps into a discussion not more than a few days old and doesn't bother to find out what people already have said, and starts thrashing strawmen.

Guilty.

Welcome to Internet message boards? You think people are "considerate" here?