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Quote:Remember what you posted? It was from yesterday:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Meanwhile, in reality...
Day 195 of 2020.
360,000 babies are born worldwide every day.
360,000 x 195 = 70,200,000 new lives so far this year.
Supposed Global COVID deaths by the liars keeping track = 571,840
*yawn* and/or who really gives a shit at this point?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=63726&mid=11047
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From administrative incompetence while handling a pandemic, Trump personally killed thousands of Americans and 6ixStringJack/nobody cares.
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:Remember what you posted? It was from yesterday:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Meanwhile, in reality...
Day 195 of 2020.
360,000 babies are born worldwide every day.
360,000 x 195 = 70,200,000 new lives so far this year.
Supposed Global COVID deaths by the liars keeping track = 571,840
*yawn* and/or who really gives a shit at this point?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=63726&mid=11047
10#1104710
From administrative incompetence while handling a pandemic, Trump personally killed thousands of Americans and 6ixStringJack/nobody cares.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Exactly second. When Jack speaks for the world or even just America when he says nobody cares, he is wrong. No one can speak for everyone else. It is factual that he doesn't care about the dead and dying however, because he repeatedly says so.
So, that we can believe. Which is why he trolls everybody and everything. He’s just a pissed off loser. A dry and angry drunk.
T
Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.
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Quote:He is not the only American defending Trump, but he is unique at fireflyfans.net because I think you could develop reasons for 6ix’s behavior, if you were a psychologist, by looking at what he finds excellent in art and politics.
Originally posted by THG:
Exactly second. When Jack speaks for the world or even just America when he says nobody cares, he is wrong. No one can speak for everyone else. It is factual that he doesn't care about the dead and dying however, because he repeatedly says so.
So, that we can believe. Which is why he trolls everybody and everything. He’s just a pissed off loser. A dry and angry drunk.
6ixStringJack found the Joker movie extremely praiseworthy, commenting many times about the director and the movie.
6ix sympathizes with the Joker’s and Trump’s troubled lives. Since I see the Joker and Trump as the villains in their respective movies, I have zero sympathy for them.
Most Hollywood movies kill the villain in the last act, but 6ix doesn’t like typical Hollywood movies. He did like Joker, where the villain danced away in the final act, leaving footprints of his victim’s blood. Trump will be leaving bloody footprints, too, when he goes dancing out the door in 6 months or 4.5 years.
6ixStringJack praising Joker:
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=63299&mid=10838
27#1083827
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=36&tid=63327&mid=10857
85#1085785
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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America and other Western Countries Have a Resentment Epidemic
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/09/18/the-west-has-a-resentment-epidemi
c-populism/
Across the West, the main trigger of populism has been the growing inequality — and hostility — between urban and rural regions.
Resentment is difficult to measure, for it always expresses itself indirectly. It is easier to target the objects of resentment for perceived or imagined moral failings than because they are wealthier or more fortunate in life. Resentment is a conflict in search of a cause—a cause that populists readily provide.
Why Now?
Thinking in terms of the new regional class divide solves one of the perennial mysteries of the populist wave in Europe and the U.S.: Why is the disruption happening now, rather than a decade ago, at the height of the global financial crisis? The answer emerges very quickly when looking at how different regions have recovered—or not recovered—in the decade since.
While the crisis proved only a temporary setback for cosmopolitan cities such as London, Amsterdam, and New York—whose financial sectors were bailed out by government largesse—blighted ex-industrial regions continue to struggle under the burden of austerity. In the decade from 2008 to 2016, while GDP per capita rose over 13 percent for California and New York, it rose on average less than 3 percent across other U.S. states. It is a pattern found across Europe, from the Netherlands to Sweden to Denmark, Italy, Ireland, and Greece. Wealthy, cosmopolitan cities surge ahead, and the periphery gets left further and further behind.
Over the past 10 years, it has been this combination of rising urban wealth with government neglect for peripheral regions that has fueled populist resentment by combining material hardship with a sense of injustice. While prosperous cities were bailed out, poorer regions have been subject to death by a thousand cuts as government belt-tightening has slashed local budgets and starved regions of capital investment.
In the United States, 2009, then-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner made the rescue of the banking system the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s economic legacy, while both Treasury and Congress conspired to starve states of the funds required for necessary public investment. From 2008 to 2016, government investment as a percentage of GDP in the United States sunk to its lowest level since records began in 1947, as infrastructure budgets that had once connected the country with highways, airports, and bridges were slashed. It should be no surprise that when Trump promised to stop spending money overseas and to start rebuilding U.S. infrastructure, he found support in Democratic heartlands, in places with potholed roads and crumbling bridges, where Republicans had never found support before.
Viewing contemporary politics as a clash between the cosmopolitan center and the regional periphery solves another of the mysteries of the populist wave: Why did populists sweep to power across Central and Eastern Europe, despite two decades of robust economic growth?
The answer is that there’s been growth for some—but not for others. In the Czech Republic, for example, GDP per capita in Prague grew by over $20,000 from 2001 to 2016—almost as much as the total GDP per capita for the country overall. In 2013, Milos Zeman swept into the Czech presidency on a populist platform that won him widespread support in every region except for Prague. He repeated the same feat again last year.
Breaking the Cycle
As long as regional inequality persists, the populist pressure is very unlikely to abate. As soon as one threat recedes—the possibility of a Le Pen presidency, for example—another one comes to replace it, such as the yellow vest protests. While Trump has—at best—only a 50 percent chance of winning the next U.S. presidential election, the sheer resilience of his support across the U.S. heartland—with a solid 40 percent of American voters consistently approving his performance in office—suggests that
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:He is not the only American defending Trump, but he is unique at fireflyfans.net because I think you could develop reasons for 6ix’s behavior, if you were a psychologist, by looking at what he finds excellent in art and politics.
Originally posted by THG:
Exactly second. When Jack speaks for the world or even just America when he says nobody cares, he is wrong. No one can speak for everyone else. It is factual that he doesn't care about the dead and dying however, because he repeatedly says so.
So, that we can believe. Which is why he trolls everybody and everything. He’s just a pissed off loser. A dry and angry drunk.
6ixStringJack found the Joker movie extremely praiseworthy, commenting many times about the director and the movie.
6ix sympathizes with the Joker’s and Trump’s troubled lives. Since I see the Joker and Trump as the villains in their respective movies, I have zero sympathy for them.
Most Hollywood movies kill the villain in the last act, but 6ix doesn’t like typical Hollywood movies. He did like Joker, where the villain danced away in the final act, leaving footprints of his victim’s blood. Trump will be leaving bloody footprints, too, when he goes dancing out the door in 6 months or 4.5 years.
6ixStringJack praising Joker:
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=63299&mid=10838
27#1083827
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=36&tid=63327&mid=10857
85#1085785
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Joker was an excellent movie.
But you keep attributing praise that I didn't give the movie to my belief that this true statement is true.
I'm not the psychopath here. You are. I'm not the one who goes around telling everybody to kill their bosses and steal all their shit. You are. I'm not the one advocating the murder of our President. You are.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Remember what you posted? It was from yesterday:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nobody cares.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Meanwhile, in reality...
Day 195 of 2020.
360,000 babies are born worldwide every day.
360,000 x 195 = 70,200,000 new lives so far this year.
Supposed Global COVID deaths by the liars keeping track = 571,840
*yawn* and/or who really gives a shit at this point?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=63726&mid=11047
10#1104710
From administrative incompetence while handling a pandemic, Trump personally killed thousands of Americans and 6ixStringJack/nobody cares.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
I don't forget what I posted yesterday. You do.
That being said, what the fuck is your point?
The numbers are fluffed and can't be relied upon, and Trump isn't responsible for those deaths.
You can say otherwise a million times but it won't make either statement true.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:You know you've called me a liar hundreds of times. Same with the M$M. And same with just about everyone at fff.net. You ought not believe anything. Just give up, 6ix, and withdraw from an evil world full of liars. Continue living in peace, harmony and isolation within your own home, safely knowing you are the only completely truthful and trustworthy person you know. But be sure to vote for Trump! Trust Trump! He is the only one who fix can it.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Joker was an excellent movie.
But you keep attributing praise that I didn't give the movie to my belief that this true statement is true.
I'm not the psychopath here. You are. I'm not the one who goes around telling everybody to kill their bosses and steal all their shit. You are. I'm not the one advocating the murder of our President. You are.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Trump "I Alone Can Fix it"
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 know you've called me a liar hundreds of times. Same with the M$M. And same with just about everyone at fff.net. You ought not believe anything. Just give up, 6ix, and withdraw from an evil world full of liars. Continue living in peace, harmony and isolation within your own home, safely knowing you are the only completely truthful and trustworthy person you know. But be sure to vote for Trump! Trust Trump! He is the only one who fix can it.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm not the psychopath here. You are.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
T
Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.
Trump "I Alone Can Fix it"
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America’s student loan crisis
According to the nonprofit organization Student Debt Crisis, our collective student debt as a nation is currently at $1,740 billion. Education, the theoretical equalizer, has turned into yet another way that deep inequality remains entrenched in our country—as well as a partisan flashpoint. After Bernie Sanders dropped out of the presidential race, Joe Biden announced a proposal for expanded student loan forgiveness in a bid to reel in Sanders supporters. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump vetoed a major student loan forgiveness bill in May, dealing a blow to students who seek debt cancellation because they say colleges defrauded them. As we head into an election amid a massive economic downturn in a global pandemic, the stakes of this debate have never been higher.
More at https://slate.com/business/2020/07/debt-nation-the-faces-of-americas-s
tudent-loan-crisis.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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The real question is, are we still lying to the kids in High School today that they should go into lifelong college debt?
I bet we are.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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