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Originally posted by THG:
Poor Jack. He is upset and claims I keep calling him stupid without providing any evidence. That's so funny because it's what he posts that is the evidence. But alas, he is to stupid to figure that out without help.
Can someone here give the moron a hint?
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Every post you reply to anyone is an insult. Every single one.
You must be really frustrated at losing all the time man. Once again, I'll advise that you try to distance yourself from your ideology and try to become an individual with things you enjoy to do and try to improve things in your life that are within your ability to do so.
You wouldn't be such angry little prick all the time.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by SECOND:
The punchline is that you have no rights at a job, 6ixStringJack, even if you are a citizen. That is not how it works in the rest of the world, except for the U.S. and Mexico, which probably explains why you are hostile to Mex-skins -- they are in competition for the kinds of crappy, low pay jobs you work. Is it great to be a worker in the U.S.? Not if you are in the lower 50% of jobs and not compared with the rest of the developed world.
I've got the best job out of anybody here, hands down.
I don't need money. At what they pay me vs. my output, I'm likely the most valuable person in that store, dollar for dollar. I'm certainly far and away the most valuable person in the store at my level at any rate. I call my own schedule and everybody is thrilled when I come back after 8 days off. I'm saving about $6,000 a year. I know it doesn't seem like much to a billionaire like you (lol), but your average American can't even afford to pay for a $500 emergency, and I could cover an additional one of those every month that passes by and I've got more than 50% of my days to do whatever the hell I want to do with them. Even taking time out of my day to banter with chucklefucks like you in the RWED.
Take your high wage / high stress jobs and shove 'em up yer ass.
I'm not hostile to Mexicans. My step-dad is Mexican, and he disagrees with the Leftist's take on immigration. His family did it the right way and he resents people who come in illegally and leech off the system.
You should probably stop talking for other people now, since you have no idea what you're talking about.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:You are fantasizing. This is real. This is no joke:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I've got the best job out of anybody here, hands down.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
What if President Trump did popular stuff on policy? For 6ixStringJack, what if Trump signs a bill to hike the minimum wage to $12 an hour? 6ix's "best job out of anybody here" would be even better!
Up until now, Trump has governed like a very hardline conservative except on trade. But except for authoritarian views on immigration and crime, Trump doesn’t have any personal history of consistency as a conservative. And even during his 2016 campaign, he put forth a much more eclectic, heterodox version of himself than how he’s governed.
Maybe that won’t change no matter what happens in Election 2018. Maybe he’s a true prisoner of the conservative movement. Maybe he’s always harbored Heritage Foundation sympathies and they are just now blooming. But I think a reasonable person should have some humility about his ability to foresee the future and admit that a bipartisan, populist Trump is at least a possibility.
More about Trump’s path to victory in 2020 at www.vox.com/2018/9/26/17905752/trump-2020-strategy
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by SECOND:Quote:You are fantasizing. This is real. This is no joke:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I've got the best job out of anybody here, hands down.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
What if President Trump did popular stuff on policy? For 6ixStringJack, what if Trump signs a bill to hike the minimum wage to $12 an hour? 6ix's "best job out of anybody here" would be even better!
Up until now, Trump has governed like a very hardline conservative except on trade. But except for authoritarian views on immigration and crime, Trump doesn’t have any personal history of consistency as a conservative. And even during his 2016 campaign, he put forth a much more eclectic, heterodox version of himself than how he’s governed.
Maybe that won’t change no matter what happens in Election 2018. Maybe he’s a true prisoner of the conservative movement. Maybe he’s always harbored Heritage Foundation sympathies and they are just now blooming. But I think a reasonable person should have some humility about his ability to foresee the future and admit that a bipartisan, populist Trump is at least a possibility.
More about Trump’s path to victory in 2020 at www.vox.com/2018/9/26/17905752/trump-2020-strategy
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Everything is copacetic here, Second.
I've spent the last two years putting my life back together. I love my job. I get along with everyone I work with. I'm the best at what I do by anywhere from a factor of 2 to a factor of 5, depending on who we're talking about.
Maybe I am fantasizing, but I'm living the fantasy. I don't think I've ever been happier in my life than I am now. Shame I couldn't find what I've found now when I was in my 20's and before I caused myself so much irreversible damage like my teeth that will be replaced soon, but what are you gonna do? Nobody but myself to blame for that, and as they say "youth is wasted on the young".
I genuinely hope everybody here can find what I've found. And money ain't gonna buy it.
It puts a lot of this other bullshit into perspective, and most of the stuff that most people these days are stressing about all the time just ain't worth nothing.
I do hope you find whatever it is you're looking for. You probably don't even have a clue what that is. I know that I didn't.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Here is a clue. I am looking for a Firefly story, among other things. River Tam is the secret troubleshooter (take that literally, not figuratively) for the Elon Musk of the 'Verse with a plan to resettle 10 million people on Earth. River is being paid nothing, and she might get everyone on Serenity killed, and she won't be asking their permission for endangering them, but she isn't stopping until she is either dead (death is not a permanent condition in SF) or she is traveling on the last starship leaving for Earth with everyone she loves. She's exactly the kind of violent, energetic person I admire, with a strong purpose and a practical plan, but she is not the unfocused, meandering River Tam we know from the comic books, TV or movie. Happiness is not one of her goals, or she would be taking life easy like 6ixStringJack.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I do hope you find whatever it is you're looking for. You probably don't even have a clue what that is. I know that I didn't.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by SECOND:Quote:Here is a clue. I am looking for a Firefly story, among other things. River Tam is the secret troubleshooter (take that literally, not figuratively) for the Elon Musk of the 'Verse with a plan to resettle 10 million people on Earth. River is being paid nothing, and she might get everyone on Serenity killed, and she won't be asking their permission for endangering them, but she isn't stopping until she is either dead (death is not a permanent condition in SF) or she is traveling on the last starship leaving for Earth with everyone she loves. She's exactly the kind of violent, energetic person I admire, with a strong purpose and a practical plan, but she is not the unfocused, meandering River Tam we know from the comic books, TV or movie. Happiness is not one of her goals, or she would be taking life easy like 6ixStringJack.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I do hope you find whatever it is you're looking for. You probably don't even have a clue what that is. I know that I didn't.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
I wish you luck. Keep shooting for the stars then. Just don't let it make you miserable along the way.
Taking it easy works for me. I got 4 more nights of working my ass off, then I'm going to have 8 days to do whatever I feel like doing. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:There actually is a political question built into the backstory for Firefly. How did the governments of China and America get the billion surviving humans off the Earth and to the 'Verse? I don't think those governments succeeded. Oh, they might have gotten billions of human embryos to the 'Verse, but probably only thousands of full grown people. There wasn't enough profit to move everybody on Earth.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I wish you luck. Keep shooting for the stars then. Just don't let it make you miserable along the way.
Taking it easy works for me. I got 4 more nights of working my ass off, then I'm going to have 8 days to do whatever I feel like doing. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The Alliance does not want it known that their greatest triumph wasn't as great as the legend because the structure of the Alliance in both the 21st and 26th Centuries has not changed much. Politics was motivated by profit and greed in 21st Century and, in the 'Verse, it still is. Since there is no profit to sending an expedition back to Earth, the Alliance has not done it. That is why America does not have Moon base, unlike in the movie 2001 made 50 years ago. No profit in sending people long distances. And the farther you go, be it light hours to Mars or light years to another star, the less believable an eventual profit becomes. It will take a totally different kind of government than has ever been created by real politicians to move millions of people to another star. An Alliance between China and America can't do it. The organization of those two governments is too conventional, which explains why those governments cannot do more ordinary things that are far easier than going to the stars.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:Yes, they do. Yes, there were.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Illegal aliens don't have Constitutional rights. There were no violations.
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Originally posted by SECOND:
There actually is a political question built into the backstory for Firefly. How did the governments of China and America get the billion surviving humans off the Earth and to the 'Verse? I don't think those governments succeeded. Oh, they might have gotten billions of human embryos to the 'Verse, but probably only thousands of full grown people. There wasn't enough profit to move everybody on Earth.
The Alliance does not want it known that their greatest triumph wasn't as great as the legend because the structure of the Alliance in both the 21st and 26th Centuries has not changed much. Politics was motivated by profit and greed in 21st Century and, in the 'Verse, it still is. Since there is no profit to sending an expedition back to Earth, the Alliance has not done it. That is why America does not have Moon base, unlike in the movie 2001 made 50 years ago. No profit in sending people long distances. And the farther you go, be it light hours to Mars or light years to another star, the less believable an eventual profit becomes. It will take a totally different kind of government than has ever been created by real politicians to move millions of people to another star. An Alliance between China and America can't do it. The organization of those two governments is too conventional, which explains why those governments cannot do more ordinary things that are far easier than going to the stars.
I can't argue any of that.
I'll take it a step further though and say that this is also another problem with the overpopulation of the planet, as is often the case with many of our problems today. I know that didn't happen overnight, and we probably never had a Government that was capable of reaching for the stars in the history of man, but with the current situation I just don't see how we could ever have one that would.
When people talk about the "conspiracy theory" Agenda 21 (or Agenda 2030), I kind of find myself believing that this is actually a thing. Any of the details are probably much different than anything this theory suggests, but I can't imagine that the leaders of our Governments haven't realized that this is a problem that is only going to grow if something isn't done about it.
Do I find it scary? Yeah... a little maybe. But I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. I don't think the means are going to be anything violent, and certainly not genocide. I think for the large part it's going to be voluntary, even if people are unaware they're volunteering. I've talked before in here about how my own child was aborted many years ago without my say so. I was devistated at the time and I kept that to myself for years and it tore me up. Finally talking about it here and real life was probably one of the best things I've ever done, even though I really spiraled out of control with my addictions immediately afterward. But just like I've come to terms with the fact that I'm going to lose my teeth, I've made peace with this. I probably never will see her again in my life, but I don't hate her anymore. I had to stop hating myself before I could let go of that hatred though.
But back on topic, I'm still young enough to father children if I cared to. Short of the teeth needing to be replaced, I'm pretty damn healthy and I'm looking great again, especially for my age. I just don't have any interest at this point in my life of even finding companionship, let alone raising kids. I know quite a lot of people my age who have never had kids. Of the ones that do, they only have one. Many of them came from families with 2 or 3 siblings, and their parents came from families with 4 to 6.
Without any real Biblical ties these days, at least in America, there really isn't any reason to have a lot of kids, or any at all. Certainly not with the cost of living and raising children being what it is. I think this is a trend that w
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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