I understand you typically post more from a position of cynicism, but wishing anything like that to happen is not logical, because, even though it seems like it could play into our hands, the reality is any big operation is just going to be bad for us, as long as we are the primary target.
Thanks a ton u/clemaneuverers
u/clemaneuverers could you sticky this? This is some seriously detailed breakdown of the GELATIN / E-TEAM 9/11 evidence.
These aren't logic mistakes.
Also, I understand the use of such adverbs, in those circumstances, to be hyperbolic rhetoric, more so, than precise declarations of proportion, etc.
For example "everybody loves John", is most likely a form of rhetoric, designed to indicate that John was generally liked, rather than a declaration that everybody, all people, literally love John.
Hyperbole has inflationary effects on adjectives and language in general. For example, if you walked into a room and started to give a speech about John and started with, "people generally liked John", in 1850 that might have worked just fine. But, in 2023, because of the language conflagration that is the Internet, it's more likely that you would start such a Speech with "literally everyone loved John".
I have, for a long time, largely agreed with your notion that deflation is next (as you know, we sold our house partly because of this; we didn't wanna be geographically stuck, permanently, if the price plummeted).
However, in the longer-term (3-5 years), I think that there is the potential for Peter Schiff's predicted scenario to start playing out. He says "we're not Japan; we're Argentina", implying that we will go through waves of increasing inflation at the same time as we go through waves of economic downturn (aka, stagflation).
When you think about the current government debt situation, it's hard to imagine that austerity and tax increases will be enough to buy our way out of it (+$100k per US citizen, not even counting the fact that most people don't work or pay taxes).
I hope austerity and deflation are the route we take, because, even though it will break the economy, at least we won't be using some kind of gay digital panopticon currency. Outside of some kind of "great reset" scenario (a.k.a. here's your new digital rainbow dollar, we're starting over, globally), the only realistic way to continue the debt cycle is more waves of "transitory" inflation, via QE, etc.
Global war will catalyze the direction.
Sorry for the super late reply; I should have specified, I mean that I saved your post via the save button here, under "predictions". I don't bookmark / save posts outside of here, aside from using archive.is in the case of a really important post.
Don't delete your dang posts! I just saved this post in my predictions folder so that I can show people when something happens. I know you often delete your posts, but please leave the completely innocuous posts, like this. Predictions that come true are one of the most effective red pills.
I work contract, too, and also for similar reasons - also, the loneliness of being a "gun-for-hire" contractor is always preferable to the standard induction into some kind of "family" of homos and liberal idiots, each of whom, while being paid 30-50% less, is marinated in accolades, titles, and every other manner of garnishment, every few months.
It's been tough, btw, for the past year or so, getting the same dollars out of these tech companies. I've had to put a lot more effort.
EDIT: in my other comment I said "higher up in school". I actually said "higher up in skill" and my piece of trash phone heard "school" - a noteworthy mistake, especially given that I didn't get beyond 1 cash-paid semester in college.
Fucking 100% agree. The panel interview shit is such a stupid waste of time, especially when you are higher up in skill, so then you're being interviewed by a bunch of idiots who don't even know enough to interview you, which just makes it awkward. Fucking tech companies are scum.
It sucks. It's hard to admit that all of these people are all disgusting monsters (not that I got excited about RFK to begin with).
There are none, at least at the national level, that are good. The last politician / public figure that I can think of that may have actually just been good was Ron Paul. I don't even know that he was for sure good; maybe he was just playing the role that he was told to play.
Dude, that is some good advice. I've often worried about the prospect of buying something somewhere else and then the government just confiscated or some bullshit happens where it's not ours anymore. But it never occurred to me that there is the framework, as an abstraction, to check whether or not a country is likely to do such things. I haven't really done the research pertaining the legalities of Argentina, other than the gun ownership question, which, hilariously, you can technically own a tank in Argentina. You have to apply to get a gun, but it's easy. Sucks compared to here, but better than no rights at all. In so many aspects, the prospect of moving to such a place is horrible compared to being in the US, but as a last resort backup plan, it's ideal in some ways.
Also, I'm gonna have to check out Whitney Webb now. I've heard of the name and I'm sure I've probably watched some of her videos, linked from here, at some point, but I don't really recall any specific things.
Exactly. There's a couple that my wife knows well that owns a whole bunch of houses that they bought so cheap from a long time ago, I'm talking like less than $50,000 for houses that are now worth $250,000+, and for them it's like this huge financial Boone, but all of the other people that I know who have gotten into this are exactly how you described, over-leveraged and soon to be completely unprofitable. I think I may have mentioned this already when we met the lady a couple months ago, but one of the Airbnb rentals that we were considering staying in for a couple months; she was desperate to have a stay, to the point of offering to rent it for almost half the price that it was listed for. We were talking to her about how she got into this and she said that she purchased her first house using money that her mom gave her, and then she took out a line of credit against that house when it got some equity and purchased the next one and then she ended up in a situation where she had like four houses I think and ended up having to sell two of them to stay afloat and now I'm guessing she is going to be selling another, since it wasn't rented for at least two months in a row.
Which is why it wouldn't happen. If it's human-caused, it's most likely caused by TPTB, which means A) not our friends, and B) not for our benefit.
They all result in more power centralization. I can't think of a single large scale destabilization event that resulted in fewer laws and/or conferred rights or benefits to us.
If everything remained stable for so long, people would not feel the need to have Guberment's foot on their neck.