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richwicks
2019 Oct 24, 5:34pm
richwicks
2019 Oct 24, 5:34pm
NoCoupForYou says
For the record, I'm looking forward to the collapse, and rest assured, we will collapse. This shit has hit a pinnacle, and the corruption has hit a pinnacle. Half the nation is ready for civil war, and are SERIOUS about it. 40% of the military voted for Gary Johnson, 40% Trump, 16% Clinton, 4% other - who do you think the rank and file voted for?
It's going to be a hard few years after this happened, but trust me, it will be worth it. Everybody in the old USSR and occupied territories are happy it happened, although some of them have nostalgia - but that's typical, I'm not old enough to falsely believe i had a happy childhood, and loved college. :D
In a head to head fight with Russia, the US is going to lose. Russia is probably the most powerful military on the planet, because they don't F around, they aren't terribly corrupt (I know how crazy that sounds!), and they fight wars to win, not to soak the taxpayer. This is a result of them actually having a not totally corrupt system. Once we go through our little reset, we'll be strong as iron in 20 years - if we can hold it together and not go communist. We really were once the best nation on the planet, I think we can do it again.
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For the record, I'm looking forward to the collapse, and rest assured, we will collapse. This shit has hit a pinnacle, and the corruption has hit a pinnacle. Half the nation is ready for civil war, and are SERIOUS about it. 40% of the military voted for Gary Johnson, 40% Trump, 16% Clinton, 4% other - who do you think the rank and file voted for?
It's going to be a hard few years after this happened, but trust me, it will be worth it. Everybody in the old USSR and occupied territories are happy it happened, although some of them have nostalgia - but that's typical, I'm not old enough to falsely believe i had a happy childhood, and loved college. :D
In a head to head fight with Russia, the US is going to lose. Russia is probably the most powerful military on the planet, because they don't F around, they aren't terribly corrupt (I know how crazy that sounds!), and they fight wars to win, not to soak the taxpayer. This is a result of them actually having a not totally corrupt system. Once we go through our little reset, we'll be strong as iron in 20 years - if we can hold it together and not go communist. We really were once the best nation on the planet, I think we can do it again.
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richwicks
2019 Oct 24, 5:42pm
richwicks
2019 Oct 24, 5:42pm
NuttBoxer says
Trump is not a dictator. He's only president - but that's a step up from what we've had probably since 1992, perhaps 1988 - a puppet. There's lots of puppets in positions of "authority". Trump can say, "I'm pulling out troops from Syria" or "I'm pulling out troops from Afghanistan" - and even though both were started with Executive Orders, he may just be ignored - as he has been ignored, and he's already said that, as official policy.
He might be just blowing smoke up my butthole, but if I only look at results - no new wars yet..
I'm not saying Trump is "good" either, I'm saying he's not entirely shit - I'd say that about Al Gore, George W. Bush, John Kerry, Barak Obama, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Hillary Clinton - they were entirely shit. If Al Gore was president, we would have still gone to war with Iraq but probably it would have been because "Saddam is a bad man we supported under Reagan, and it's our Moral Duty to correct it" - all the dummy democrats would have supported it, all the dummy republicans would have opposed it, and we'd have the exact same identical results.
So a president is good if they continue bombing the shit out of countries we have no business being in?
Trump is not a dictator. He's only president - but that's a step up from what we've had probably since 1992, perhaps 1988 - a puppet. There's lots of puppets in positions of "authority". Trump can say, "I'm pulling out troops from Syria" or "I'm pulling out troops from Afghanistan" - and even though both were started with Executive Orders, he may just be ignored - as he has been ignored, and he's already said that, as official policy.
He might be just blowing smoke up my butthole, but if I only look at results - no new wars yet..
I'm not saying Trump is "good" either, I'm saying he's not entirely shit - I'd say that about Al Gore, George W. Bush, John Kerry, Barak Obama, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Hillary Clinton - they were entirely shit. If Al Gore was president, we would have still gone to war with Iraq but probably it would have been because "Saddam is a bad man we supported under Reagan, and it's our Moral Duty to correct it" - all the dummy democrats would have supported it, all the dummy republicans would have opposed it, and we'd have the exact same identical results.
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MisdemeanorRebel
2019 Oct 24, 5:51pm
MisdemeanorRebel
2019 Oct 24, 5:51pm
richwicks says
I definitely do not want a collapse or civil war, and we are far from collapse as the US controls the world reserve currency and sits on Trillions in real estate assets and can lease countless billions, probably trillions in rights to exploit resources like oil, shale oil, nat gas, coal, helium, prime timber, and grazing lands.
Collapses really suck and are far less fun than advertised. If there was a civil war, I expect it would be more a bloodless or relatively bloodless coup and would end in hours, with the Left losing firmly.
The Federal Reserve should be under the direct control of the Government, since the power to coin money is explicitly granted to government in the Constitution. It is hairsplitting to limit this to physical coins and not numbers on a computer screen, for that same reason that claiming Gun Rights only apply to muskets or Freedom of the Press to an actual moving press.
For the record, I'm looking forward to the collapse, and rest assured, we will collapse. This shit has hit a pinnacle, and the corruption has hit a pinnacle. Half the nation is ready for civil war, and are SERIOUS about it. 40% of the military voted for Gary Johnson, 40% Trump, 16% Clinton, 4% other - who do you think the rank and file voted for?
I definitely do not want a collapse or civil war, and we are far from collapse as the US controls the world reserve currency and sits on Trillions in real estate assets and can lease countless billions, probably trillions in rights to exploit resources like oil, shale oil, nat gas, coal, helium, prime timber, and grazing lands.
Collapses really suck and are far less fun than advertised. If there was a civil war, I expect it would be more a bloodless or relatively bloodless coup and would end in hours, with the Left losing firmly.
The Federal Reserve should be under the direct control of the Government, since the power to coin money is explicitly granted to government in the Constitution. It is hairsplitting to limit this to physical coins and not numbers on a computer screen, for that same reason that claiming Gun Rights only apply to muskets or Freedom of the Press to an actual moving press.
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RWSGFY
2019 Oct 24, 6:52pm
RWSGFY
2019 Oct 24, 6:52pm
richwicks says
Obvious Russian troll pushing obvious Russian shit.
For the record, I'm looking forward to the collapse, and rest assured, we will collapse. This shit has hit a pinnacle, and the corruption has hit a pinnacle. Half the nation is ready for civil war, and are SERIOUS about it.
Obvious Russian troll pushing obvious Russian shit.
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richwicks
2019 Oct 24, 8:29pm
richwicks
2019 Oct 24, 8:29pm
Liberal_in_blackface says
yes, anybody that ever criticizes the Great USSA, is Russian Troll. Long live Great America!! Amerika perfekt. They h8 Us 4 Я Freedumb!
If this country isn't fixed, it will collapse. I would guess you are the troll, or you might really believe this bullshit propaganda. I guess Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein are really Rooskies too!!! Russia is in a good place since they got rid of communism although they have PLENTY of problems and corruption. The assholes that run the United States are DESPERATELY trying to impose communism in the United States to try to retain power.
The USSR was run by incompetents but the lower classes REALLY believed in the future, for 70 horrific years. That's not going to happen in the United States, simply because there's a 2nd amendment. There's going to be no red purge here, quite the opposite, and I would like to avoid that, and without reeducation camps.
richwicks saysFor the record, I'm looking forward to the collapse, and rest assured, we will collapse. This shit has hit a pinnacle, and the corruption has hit a pinnacle. Half the nation is ready for civil war, and are SERIOUS about it.
Obvious Russian troll pushing obvious Russian shit.
yes, anybody that ever criticizes the Great USSA, is Russian Troll. Long live Great America!! Amerika perfekt. They h8 Us 4 Я Freedumb!
If this country isn't fixed, it will collapse. I would guess you are the troll, or you might really believe this bullshit propaganda. I guess Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein are really Rooskies too!!! Russia is in a good place since they got rid of communism although they have PLENTY of problems and corruption. The assholes that run the United States are DESPERATELY trying to impose communism in the United States to try to retain power.
The USSR was run by incompetents but the lower classes REALLY believed in the future, for 70 horrific years. That's not going to happen in the United States, simply because there's a 2nd amendment. There's going to be no red purge here, quite the opposite, and I would like to avoid that, and without reeducation camps.
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richwicks
2019 Oct 24, 8:39pm
richwicks
2019 Oct 24, 8:39pm
NoCoupForYou says
The world's reserve currency under Bretton Woods was gold, and the US dollar was a "guarantee" of value of $35 = 1 troy ounce of gold. Well, the Federal Reserve made more coupons for gold than actually existed - i.e. they counterfeited, and they were forced to admit their fraud in 1971.
Why did the US dollar go through hyperinflation then? Well, there was the threat, the really serious threat, of the USSR also they US cut a deal with OPEC to only sell oil in dollars and in return the US would keep the DESPOTS that were in power there in power if they only "invested" their profits in US debt. This was the petro-dollar.
In 1991, the USSR did something it wasn't supposed to do - it went bankrupt, and the USSR was no longer a threat. So the US spent 8 years trying to re-create a threat, but the petro-dollar was still in force.
Until 2001 - when Hussein said he was only going to buy and sell oil in Euros, exclusively.
Then Iran opened the Iranian oil Bourse.
Then Russia announced they would sell oil in any currency.
Then Libya proposed the new gold Dinar..
The US dollar is just a piece of paper with a bunch of promises from a nation that routinely violates treaties and promises.
The US tried to recreate a "worldwide threat" with "duh war on terrah!" - that didn't work, so they started tying to recreate the Cold War. They are doing this to protect our corrupt banking system, not for you or me.
NoCoupForYou says
Real estate assets, what like residential, commercial and manufacturing? All those are worthless in a non working economy. Shale oil loses money, coal is apparently banned, sweet crude isn't a major factor in the US anymore, helium I guess.. Timber I suppose, grazing lands maybe. NONE of those will help either coast.
NoCoupForYou says
Dude. We are headed into fucking communism. Ask any communist you know that lived through communism and the collapse, and still is there, if communism is preferable to the collapse. You have no clue. Bunch of fucking cowards have run this nation for 30 years. Boomer generation is the biggest group of pussies ever. That's why we are here. Oh, can't have any minor interruption for a year or so, so let's accept a totalitarian regime. That's what has happened in the last 30 years under the boomer's watch. Today, a 7 year old kid can be ordered to stay with his mentally ill mother that wants to transition him into a girl, in Dallas Texas. But don't rock the boat, you mother fuckers!
NoCoupForYou says
What do you think happened on December 26, 1991 in Moscow? That's the collapse I'm hoping for the other type of collapse is having middle America starve out the east and west coast. Either way, the liberals lose.
NoCoupForYou says
Oh it currently is. Our Federal Reserve IS the government. This is the MAIN reason we've been in war for the last 18 years. To save IT.
The US Federal Reserve just got through LYING to the planet about it's worth and value. We're going back to some sort of commodity standard, and back to bills of credit. Dumb Rothschilds. If you think it's going to be bad in the West, look at Israel - they're TOTALLY fucked. A little nation screwing with everybody they could fuck with, just because they could?
The US now has the oldest fiat monetary system in the world. We are already in uncharted territory and only our military keeps it afloat. China, Russia, and India are just laying back waiting for us to run out of steam. The stupid Federal reserve is DESPERATE to blame the collapse on an outside force, therefore, China and Russia are going to steer WELL clear of having any appearance of being one. Russia is perfectly happy to have a proxy war in Syria, or Venezuela, or anywhere, for the next 3 decades or however long it takes. China is too.
I definitely do not want a collapse or civil war, and we are far from collapse as the US controls the world reserve currency
The world's reserve currency under Bretton Woods was gold, and the US dollar was a "guarantee" of value of $35 = 1 troy ounce of gold. Well, the Federal Reserve made more coupons for gold than actually existed - i.e. they counterfeited, and they were forced to admit their fraud in 1971.
Why did the US dollar go through hyperinflation then? Well, there was the threat, the really serious threat, of the USSR also they US cut a deal with OPEC to only sell oil in dollars and in return the US would keep the DESPOTS that were in power there in power if they only "invested" their profits in US debt. This was the petro-dollar.
In 1991, the USSR did something it wasn't supposed to do - it went bankrupt, and the USSR was no longer a threat. So the US spent 8 years trying to re-create a threat, but the petro-dollar was still in force.
Until 2001 - when Hussein said he was only going to buy and sell oil in Euros, exclusively.
Then Iran opened the Iranian oil Bourse.
Then Russia announced they would sell oil in any currency.
Then Libya proposed the new gold Dinar..
The US dollar is just a piece of paper with a bunch of promises from a nation that routinely violates treaties and promises.
The US tried to recreate a "worldwide threat" with "duh war on terrah!" - that didn't work, so they started tying to recreate the Cold War. They are doing this to protect our corrupt banking system, not for you or me.
NoCoupForYou says
and sits on Trillions in real estate assets and can lease countless billions, probably trillions in rights to exploit resources like oil, shale oil, nat gas, coal, helium, prime timber, and grazing lands.
Real estate assets, what like residential, commercial and manufacturing? All those are worthless in a non working economy. Shale oil loses money, coal is apparently banned, sweet crude isn't a major factor in the US anymore, helium I guess.. Timber I suppose, grazing lands maybe. NONE of those will help either coast.
NoCoupForYou says
Collapses really suck and are far less fun than advertised.
Dude. We are headed into fucking communism. Ask any communist you know that lived through communism and the collapse, and still is there, if communism is preferable to the collapse. You have no clue. Bunch of fucking cowards have run this nation for 30 years. Boomer generation is the biggest group of pussies ever. That's why we are here. Oh, can't have any minor interruption for a year or so, so let's accept a totalitarian regime. That's what has happened in the last 30 years under the boomer's watch. Today, a 7 year old kid can be ordered to stay with his mentally ill mother that wants to transition him into a girl, in Dallas Texas. But don't rock the boat, you mother fuckers!
NoCoupForYou says
If there was a civil war, I expect it would be more a bloodless or relatively bloodless coup and would end in hours, with the Left losing firmly.
What do you think happened on December 26, 1991 in Moscow? That's the collapse I'm hoping for the other type of collapse is having middle America starve out the east and west coast. Either way, the liberals lose.
NoCoupForYou says
The Federal Reserve should be under the direct control of the Government
Oh it currently is. Our Federal Reserve IS the government. This is the MAIN reason we've been in war for the last 18 years. To save IT.
The US Federal Reserve just got through LYING to the planet about it's worth and value. We're going back to some sort of commodity standard, and back to bills of credit. Dumb Rothschilds. If you think it's going to be bad in the West, look at Israel - they're TOTALLY fucked. A little nation screwing with everybody they could fuck with, just because they could?
The US now has the oldest fiat monetary system in the world. We are already in uncharted territory and only our military keeps it afloat. China, Russia, and India are just laying back waiting for us to run out of steam. The stupid Federal reserve is DESPERATE to blame the collapse on an outside force, therefore, China and Russia are going to steer WELL clear of having any appearance of being one. Russia is perfectly happy to have a proxy war in Syria, or Venezuela, or anywhere, for the next 3 decades or however long it takes. China is too.
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NDrLoR
2019 Oct 24, 9:08pm
NDrLoR
2019 Oct 24, 9:08pm
richwicks says
Boomer generationThe poorest stewards of the legacy they received than any other generation bar none. It was under the Boomers that CEO remuneration went from 40% time the rank and file to something like 400% today. Jeff Skilling, born in 1953, is a perfect microcosm of Boomer mentality--entitlement, narcissism run amok. He actually thought all he had to do was talk the stock up without doing anything worth while to keep Enron afloat and was astounded when everything came down. He was surrounded by like-minded people--Enron's collapse was a ten year preview of what the 21st century would produce.
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richwicks
2019 Oct 24, 9:19pm
richwicks
2019 Oct 24, 9:19pm
NDrLoR says
Yep. My parents were from the Silent Generation and I'm from X. When my mother and her sister were visiting once, my aunt (boomer generation) decided to take a poke at me when I complained about Moffett airforce base having a private golf course, RIGHT NEXT to the Shoreline Gulf Course. She actually told me "what's wrong with that? You told me HP had a private park called Little Basin next to the public park Big Basin.
I had to explain to her the difference between having a gun put to my head to pay for one golf course, and buying a semi-decent computer because it's an adequate machine for my work and that I would have gone to Compaq or built my own if it wasn't the best value for the price. They are the first generation to literally have no conception of free market economics.
BTW I never have worked for HP, but I've hiked Little Basin. Going onto Moffett gets me arrested. Technically, Moffett belongs to me, Little Basin doesn't. Boomers drive me crazy, they really are just infuriating. An expensive house was 3 times their yearly salary, a cheap house for generation Z is 11 times their yearly salary. Oh, the Millennials are LAZY I'm told... I think they know they fucked over the other generations, and this is their bizarre self defense of it. We have a hell of a mess to clean up after those assholes finally downsize into a grave.
The poorest stewards of the legacy they received than any other generation bar none.
Yep. My parents were from the Silent Generation and I'm from X. When my mother and her sister were visiting once, my aunt (boomer generation) decided to take a poke at me when I complained about Moffett airforce base having a private golf course, RIGHT NEXT to the Shoreline Gulf Course. She actually told me "what's wrong with that? You told me HP had a private park called Little Basin next to the public park Big Basin.
I had to explain to her the difference between having a gun put to my head to pay for one golf course, and buying a semi-decent computer because it's an adequate machine for my work and that I would have gone to Compaq or built my own if it wasn't the best value for the price. They are the first generation to literally have no conception of free market economics.
BTW I never have worked for HP, but I've hiked Little Basin. Going onto Moffett gets me arrested. Technically, Moffett belongs to me, Little Basin doesn't. Boomers drive me crazy, they really are just infuriating. An expensive house was 3 times their yearly salary, a cheap house for generation Z is 11 times their yearly salary. Oh, the Millennials are LAZY I'm told... I think they know they fucked over the other generations, and this is their bizarre self defense of it. We have a hell of a mess to clean up after those assholes finally downsize into a grave.
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clambo
2019 Oct 24, 9:25pm
NDLoR, I'm a boomer and I don't know any CEOs but I know some guys who studied, worked and did OK even though the economy sucked; some got sent to VietNam to get shot at.
Greedy CEOs must include Elon Musk and Neumann who aren't boomers and aren't Americans; OK, how about that asshole female who made up that fraud Theranos as an example?
Want a phony boomer? how about Warren that liar gaming the affirmative action system to enrich herself.
Greedy CEOs must include Elon Musk and Neumann who aren't boomers and aren't Americans; OK, how about that asshole female who made up that fraud Theranos as an example?
Want a phony boomer? how about Warren that liar gaming the affirmative action system to enrich herself.
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richwicks
2019 Oct 24, 9:52pm
richwicks
2019 Oct 24, 9:52pm
clambo says
These are called sociopaths.
Musk drives me crazy because I'm a competent engineer, and Musk proposes ridiculous bullshit. He's a great marketer, and that's it.
Neumann was running a scam, I would bet there are plenty of people at Softbank cleaning up with kickbacks.
Elizabeth Holmes is a patsy and a sociopath. If you actually want to solve that swindle, you have to look at who profited from it.
I'm talking about people like Jamie Dimon who created the CDO fraud, or Christine Lagarde who has destroyed entire nations, bitched about Greeks not paying their taxes, when she doesn't pay taxes, or our entire fucking government that won't do basic shit like enforce the law. The government has never been this corrupt. Who runs it now? Decades ago McCarthy was asked by a reporter "have you no shame?" - well, today the answer is "Absolutely not, what, are you a Russian troll??" How could a generation that went to war in Vietnam over the KNOWN FALSE FLAG EVENT of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, make that government look honest and forthright in comparison?
The boomer generation had the most warning, but it falls upon every other generation to try to prevent the corruption, point it out, and eliminate it.
Julian Assange is X. He's going to die. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is running a 100 million dollar fraud charity and apparently is selling classified material to the highest bidder and using her fraud charity to accept payment but if you believe that, you're a Russian bot.
clambo says
I knew somebody with Gulf War syndrome. Bet he's dead by now. It appears that was caused by tainted vaccinations for an experimental anti-anthrax vaccination.
clambo says
I used to respect her - I saw her grilling banking execs in the early part of this decade. I agree, total phony. Name a boomer in congress that isn't a phony. Rand Paul barely qualifies.
Greedy CEOs must include Elon Musk and Neumann who aren't boomers and aren't Americans; OK, how about that asshole female who made up that fraud Theranos as an example?
These are called sociopaths.
Musk drives me crazy because I'm a competent engineer, and Musk proposes ridiculous bullshit. He's a great marketer, and that's it.
Neumann was running a scam, I would bet there are plenty of people at Softbank cleaning up with kickbacks.
Elizabeth Holmes is a patsy and a sociopath. If you actually want to solve that swindle, you have to look at who profited from it.
I'm talking about people like Jamie Dimon who created the CDO fraud, or Christine Lagarde who has destroyed entire nations, bitched about Greeks not paying their taxes, when she doesn't pay taxes, or our entire fucking government that won't do basic shit like enforce the law. The government has never been this corrupt. Who runs it now? Decades ago McCarthy was asked by a reporter "have you no shame?" - well, today the answer is "Absolutely not, what, are you a Russian troll??" How could a generation that went to war in Vietnam over the KNOWN FALSE FLAG EVENT of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, make that government look honest and forthright in comparison?
The boomer generation had the most warning, but it falls upon every other generation to try to prevent the corruption, point it out, and eliminate it.
Julian Assange is X. He's going to die. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is running a 100 million dollar fraud charity and apparently is selling classified material to the highest bidder and using her fraud charity to accept payment but if you believe that, you're a Russian bot.
clambo says
some got sent to VietNam to get shot at.
I knew somebody with Gulf War syndrome. Bet he's dead by now. It appears that was caused by tainted vaccinations for an experimental anti-anthrax vaccination.
clambo says
Want a phony boomer? how about Warren that liar gaming the affirmative action system to enrich herself.
I used to respect her - I saw her grilling banking execs in the early part of this decade. I agree, total phony. Name a boomer in congress that isn't a phony. Rand Paul barely qualifies.
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MisdemeanorRebel
2019 Oct 25, 12:03pm
MisdemeanorRebel
2019 Oct 25, 12:03pm
richwicks says
Other than creating the first reusable rocket, capturing as almost as many launches as national competitors like China, and making Arianespace totally uneconomic, even with their $20-30M EU Subsidy per launch. And, if Spaceship is performs anywhere near advertised, giving ULA (MIC cost plus) a tremendous kick in the ass and making them look ridiculous.
And selling Teslas like crazy.
And being behind Paypal.
Musk drives me crazy because I'm a competent engineer, and Musk proposes ridiculous bullshit. He's a great marketer, and that's it.
Other than creating the first reusable rocket, capturing as almost as many launches as national competitors like China, and making Arianespace totally uneconomic, even with their $20-30M EU Subsidy per launch. And, if Spaceship is performs anywhere near advertised, giving ULA (MIC cost plus) a tremendous kick in the ass and making them look ridiculous.
And selling Teslas like crazy.
And being behind Paypal.
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rocketjoe79
2019 Oct 25, 12:22pm
rocketjoe79
2019 Oct 25, 12:22pm
Wait - I thought Execs who made a profit AND actually accomplished things were good for the Economy? I put Musk clearly in that small group of visionaries. All these people are a bit off - Steve Jobs, Edison, etc. but they GET SHIT DONE.
Musk is driven to get us off planet - and everything he does is toward that objective: Paypal, to make cash to start SpaceX. Then, SpaceX to Get to MArs. Tesla is a vehicle to make money to fund his space efforts. Starlink will make Musk a Shedload of Money - to fund his goal toward a Mars Community. He's laser focused. I wish I could invest directly in SpaceX right now, but it's only for the super-rich types. Sad.
Musk is driven to get us off planet - and everything he does is toward that objective: Paypal, to make cash to start SpaceX. Then, SpaceX to Get to MArs. Tesla is a vehicle to make money to fund his space efforts. Starlink will make Musk a Shedload of Money - to fund his goal toward a Mars Community. He's laser focused. I wish I could invest directly in SpaceX right now, but it's only for the super-rich types. Sad.
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Shaman
2019 Oct 25, 12:43pm
Shaman
2019 Oct 25, 12:43pm
rocketjoe79 says
A publically traded space corporation would be problematic since the investment and payoff might be years or even a decade apart. Also stock prices and boards change, sometimes overnight, and at the whims of public perception and confidence. All a space company needs is a PR disaster followed by a boycott and a public demand to shut it down while it’s got 100 astronauts on their way to mine a near Earth asteroid. Instead of mission control, astronauts would soon be talking to government regulators demanding they turn around, come home, and help repay billions in “stolen” revenue to shareholders. Nevermind that all of that is impossible.
That’s why they’re keeping this private.
wish I could invest directly in SpaceX right now, but it's only for the super-rich types. Sad.
A publically traded space corporation would be problematic since the investment and payoff might be years or even a decade apart. Also stock prices and boards change, sometimes overnight, and at the whims of public perception and confidence. All a space company needs is a PR disaster followed by a boycott and a public demand to shut it down while it’s got 100 astronauts on their way to mine a near Earth asteroid. Instead of mission control, astronauts would soon be talking to government regulators demanding they turn around, come home, and help repay billions in “stolen” revenue to shareholders. Nevermind that all of that is impossible.
That’s why they’re keeping this private.
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Bd6r
2019 Oct 25, 12:53pm
Bd6r
2019 Oct 25, 12:53pm
richwicks says
Anyone telling that Russia is not really corrupt, or that Russian military with its reliance on 1980's Soviet developments is stronger than US military, is a Russian troll.
Russians who live in USA and glorify Russia from distance are, as a minimum, hypocrites and perhaps should not have been given citizenship of the country they loathe.
yes, anybody that ever criticizes the Great USSA, is Russian Troll.
Anyone telling that Russia is not really corrupt, or that Russian military with its reliance on 1980's Soviet developments is stronger than US military, is a Russian troll.
Russians who live in USA and glorify Russia from distance are, as a minimum, hypocrites and perhaps should not have been given citizenship of the country they loathe.
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Shaman
2019 Oct 25, 12:58pm
Shaman
2019 Oct 25, 12:58pm
Yah but what richwicks is saying is that the Left calls everyone a Russian troll who dares to express a non-Leftoid position. Most of the time these opinions have nothing at all to do with Russia, yet the idiots on forums just call them Ivan and inquire how many rubles per word they make. It’s ridiculous, but it’s the shape of Leftist reaction to conservative free speech.
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Bd6r
2019 Oct 25, 1:16pm
Bd6r
2019 Oct 25, 1:16pm
Quigley says
That is similar to Ms Cankles calling everyone she dislikes a Russian asset, at which point no one is a Russian asset other than Ms Cankles.
However, I have seen plenty Russians here in US glorifying Mother Russia and its leader Putler the Great and blabbering how bad US is, while preferring to live in the decadent, spoiled, and corrupt US of A. That is highly annoying - don't like here, go back to fucking Russia. Suitcase, Airport, Russia!
Left calls everyone a Russian troll
That is similar to Ms Cankles calling everyone she dislikes a Russian asset, at which point no one is a Russian asset other than Ms Cankles.
However, I have seen plenty Russians here in US glorifying Mother Russia and its leader Putler the Great and blabbering how bad US is, while preferring to live in the decadent, spoiled, and corrupt US of A. That is highly annoying - don't like here, go back to fucking Russia. Suitcase, Airport, Russia!
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richwicks
2019 Oct 25, 1:29pm
richwicks
2019 Oct 25, 1:29pm
6rdB says
Yeah, who did that in this thread? Quote them...
Strawmen are easy to create and destroy, aren't they?
Anyone telling that Russia is not really corrupt, or that Russian military with its reliance on 1980's Soviet developments is stronger than US military, is a Russian troll.
Yeah, who did that in this thread? Quote them...
Strawmen are easy to create and destroy, aren't they?
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Bd6r
2019 Oct 25, 1:33pm
Bd6r
2019 Oct 25, 1:33pm
richwicks says
In a head to head fight with Russia, the US is going to lose. Russia is probably the most powerful military on the planet, because they don't F around, they aren't terribly corrupt (I know how crazy that sounds!), and they fight wars to win, not to soak the taxpayer. This is a result of them actually having a not totally corrupt system.
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Onvacation
2024 Mar 27, 1:07pm
Onvacation
2024 Mar 27, 1:07pm
Trump gets done in 3 1/2 months what the government could not do in 6 years.
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richwicks
2024 Mar 27, 1:51pm
richwicks
2024 Mar 27, 1:51pm
Onvacation says
@Onvacation: You want this link:
original link
I don't understand why when you post bitchute videos, it ALWAYS omits the "original link".
@Onvacation: You want this link:
original link
I don't understand why when you post bitchute videos, it ALWAYS omits the "original link".
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AmericanKulak
2024 Apr 14, 6:59pm
AmericanKulak
2024 Apr 14, 6:59pm
Trump stops wars because he understands Peace Through Strength and Proportionality and the Fallacy of the Excluded Middle.
He won't occupy Iraq with hundreds of thousands of US Troops in the name of International Law.
But he also won't give Ayatollahs $6B of the Persian People's money as a bribe, knowing they will fund more mischief with it.
He won't occupy Iraq with hundreds of thousands of US Troops in the name of International Law.
But he also won't give Ayatollahs $6B of the Persian People's money as a bribe, knowing they will fund more mischief with it.
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AmericanKulak
2024 Apr 14, 7:06pm
AmericanKulak
2024 Apr 14, 7:06pm
MisdemeanorRebel says
Thanks Elon, for massively improving free speech on Twitter, standing up against Woke, the Wide Open Border, and Munchausen's Child Mutilation by Proxy.
richwicks says
Musk drives me crazy because I'm a competent engineer, and Musk proposes ridiculous bullshit. He's a great marketer, and that's it.
Thanks Elon, for massively improving free speech on Twitter, standing up against Woke, the Wide Open Border, and Munchausen's Child Mutilation by Proxy.
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fdhfoiehfeoi
2024 Apr 15, 10:52am
fdhfoiehfeoi
2024 Apr 15, 10:52am
There fixed it(assuming he's elected)..
FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says
FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says
Trump stopped wars
Biden: (Helps Israel commit genocide)
Trump: You know what’s wrong with Biden? He's not pro-Israel enough
“He’s totally abandoned Israel... He is not supporting Israel... Any Jewish person that votes for a Democrat or votes for Biden should have their head examined.” pic.twitter.com/VARZzj2h5o— Decensored News (@decensorednews) April 10, 2024
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AmericanKulak
2024 Apr 15, 11:35am
AmericanKulak
2024 Apr 15, 11:35am
Bd6r says
The Saker is the most obvious example of this.
Although I heard he's not really Russian in terms of growing up or living there, he had one parent was Russian but he spent almost all his early life in Switzerland and the West where he and his parents worked for NGOs and Saker himself for the International Red Cross . He has only spent a few years in Russia his whole life, including childhood, and he's a Middle Aged man that's been living in Tampa for a decade. He also has a temper and an condescending attitude towards Serbians, that they should shut up and listen and obey their Russian master, which is why the whistleblower came out.
But he puts himself forth as an expert in everything Russia, domestic or international.
There's also a little Russian ultranat ring of Pepe Escobar, "Israel Shamir", South Front, and a few other 'independent journalists&apos and websites; whose back history and funding is shrouded in mystery. One contact I had says that Israel Shamir was never a member of Israeli Intelligence and in fact never was so much as a draftee in the IDF due to his age/health problems.
However, I have seen plenty Russians here in US glorifying Mother Russia and its leader Putler the Great and blabbering how bad US is, while preferring to live in the decadent, spoiled, and corrupt US of A. That is highly annoying - don't like here, go back to fucking Russia. Suitcase, Airport, Russia!
The Saker is the most obvious example of this.
Although I heard he's not really Russian in terms of growing up or living there, he had one parent was Russian but he spent almost all his early life in Switzerland and the West where he and his parents worked for NGOs and Saker himself for the International Red Cross . He has only spent a few years in Russia his whole life, including childhood, and he's a Middle Aged man that's been living in Tampa for a decade. He also has a temper and an condescending attitude towards Serbians, that they should shut up and listen and obey their Russian master, which is why the whistleblower came out.
But he puts himself forth as an expert in everything Russia, domestic or international.
There's also a little Russian ultranat ring of Pepe Escobar, "Israel Shamir", South Front, and a few other 'independent journalists&apos and websites; whose back history and funding is shrouded in mystery. One contact I had says that Israel Shamir was never a member of Israeli Intelligence and in fact never was so much as a draftee in the IDF due to his age/health problems.
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Left will naturally be now pro war because TDS is strong.