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- Mon Dec 26, 2022 6:47 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1173
- Views: 1080019
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Would it be wrong to say Chomsky is a kinder, gentler Marxist? That’s been my impression. I’m sure it’s more complicated, but that’s my 10,000 foot view of him. I just can’t take that seriously but I’m sure he is able to make some good logical points about it. Whenever I’ve been exposed to his idea...
- Mon Dec 26, 2022 6:43 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: DIY Real Estate
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5689
Re: DIY Real Estate
I keep reading that large investment companies are buying single family homes in bulk so the companies can become large landlords and rake in the rental money. Is this true? Is this something new that wasn't happening on this scale until recently for some reason? What changed to make this more attr...
- Mon Dec 26, 2022 6:37 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: DIY Real Estate
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5689
Re: DIY Real Estate
These properties have not been touched. In fact, they don't even look like they've been lived in by the seller. Just a rough estimate from the widespread markets I've looked at I would say around 20 percent of properties have a purchase and resale date within a year of one another with price increa...
- Mon Dec 26, 2022 4:50 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: DIY Real Estate
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5689
Re: DIY Real Estate
There are very weird things happening in the residential real estate market these days. Honestly I can't make any sense of it...especially given the interest rate environment and long term demographics of our country. I don't see the attraction. I occasionally browse through listings in oddball pla...
- Mon Dec 26, 2022 4:41 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: The Weakness of Xi JinPing
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1075
Re: The Weakness of Xi JinPing
You should be able to use this link.
- Mon Dec 26, 2022 3:46 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1173
- Views: 1080019
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
I know he was a big hero for the left side of the political spectrum in the past, but he seems to have become seriously demented in his old age. It's just objectively sad, IMO; all of my grandparents were the same right before they died.
- Mon Dec 26, 2022 3:39 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: West Provokes Russia to Protect Russians in Ukraine
- Replies: 99
- Views: 215542
Re: West Provokes Russia to Protect Russians in Ukraine
One opinion on what might have happened if NATO hadn’t helped Ukraine https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/zelensky-congress-speech-us-ukraine-support/672547/ Yes, and the Atlantic is a credible, non-biased publication. That might be, sarcasm noted. But the article author Anne Applebau...
- Sat Dec 24, 2022 11:23 am
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: DIY Real Estate
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5689
Re: DIY Real Estate
It probably would not have been too difficult to end up with 10 houses over about a 10 to 15 year period, that were cheap and generated around 120 to 150k+ in cash flow per year. Well, if you could have bought 10 houses that cash flowed $1,000/mo in today's dollars, that could have been a smart pla...
- Fri Dec 23, 2022 10:03 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: West Provokes Russia to Protect Russians in Ukraine
- Replies: 99
- Views: 215542
Re: West Provokes Russia to Protect Russians in Ukraine
From my experience here’s where there is a problem with the military. We stay WAY too long when things are obviously not going well and the cost benefit analysis of military action has swung to the absolute loss side of the ledger. A weird dynamic occurs…all militaries hate to lose. It’s the ultima...
- Fri Dec 23, 2022 9:50 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: West Provokes Russia to Protect Russians in Ukraine
- Replies: 99
- Views: 215542
Re: West Provokes Russia to Protect Russians in Ukraine
Defending "Russian's" within Ukraine were "Russian's" installed by Russia. Migration, force educators to only speak Russian and instate Russian states of minds, then rebel and seize. As with so much (shit... almost all) violence in the modern era, borders and populations need to...
- Wed Dec 21, 2022 5:28 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: West Provokes Russia to Protect Russians in Ukraine
- Replies: 99
- Views: 215542
Re: West Provokes Russia to Protect Russians in Ukraine
Boris Johnson is telling us Americans that we should spend our money to buy ATACMs and a fuckload of air defense equipment for Ukraine, in addition to the BILLIONS we've already given them, and that other countries should contribute their aircraft. Most of it (speculative) to be manned by conscripts...
- Wed Dec 21, 2022 4:45 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: The Twitter Files
- Replies: 163
- Views: 72574
Re: The Twitter Files
Great timing, that guy was one of the authors of the Intercept story I just linked to a few posts ago.
- Wed Dec 21, 2022 11:25 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: The Twitter Files
- Replies: 163
- Views: 72574
Re: The Twitter Files
I don't know how many noticed it, but The Intercept put out somewhat of a prelude to the Twitter Files back in October, which put together a lot of the "conspiracy theories" and rumors that had been swirling around for years beforehand. I usually lump it all under the umbrella of "inf...
- Wed Dec 21, 2022 5:49 am
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3693
- Views: 1781243
- Wed Dec 21, 2022 5:35 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1173
- Views: 1080019
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
TWO Christmases, an underrated benefit of national divorce.
- Tue Dec 20, 2022 5:55 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1173
- Views: 1080019
- Tue Dec 20, 2022 5:22 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
- Replies: 2304
- Views: 1438621
Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Not sure how much China news is on most people's radar these days. My wife's family in the Northeast of China are dealing with covid now. Her younger sister & her boyfriend are getting over it. Mom (age 76) who lives in the same little apartment and smokes & drinks is fine (could be the hig...
- Tue Dec 20, 2022 5:07 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1173
- Views: 1080019
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
Anybody have any thoughts on this? Should the US government support the Kiev group trying to re-occupy Crimea (which I think is 90% ethnic Russian or something) and bring it back under Kiev's control? In for a penny, in for a pound they say. Russia will never, ever, surrender Crimea so is everyone ...
- Tue Dec 20, 2022 4:15 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: West Provokes Russia to Protect Russians in Ukraine
- Replies: 99
- Views: 215542
Re: West Provokes Russia to Protect Russians in Ukraine
I have a question for you. I enjoy listening to The Duran podcast. Are you familiar with it? If so, do you think they are paid off by the Russians? Even if they are, they make a whole lot more sense to me than the simplistic pablum fed to the masses. I used to think they weren't, but I'm starting t...
- Mon Dec 19, 2022 4:57 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Died Suddenly
- Replies: 85
- Views: 7055
Re: Died Suddenly
And that's why I'm no longer a Libertarian in the traditional sense. Citizens of other countries don't have any right to come to mine unless they're invited. Interesting points. When you say "invited" do you mean an approval at the end of an application process? If a country has an immigr...
- Sun Dec 18, 2022 1:04 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Non-ESG ETFs
- Replies: 53
- Views: 47977
Re: Non-ESG ETFs
It looks like things are actually moving in the right direction on the voting rights front. Vanguard just announced a pilot program that allows retail investors to have proper voting power with their shares. https://www.etfstream.com/news/vanguard-to-pilot-voting-rights-for-retail-investors-in-chal...
- Sun Dec 18, 2022 12:23 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Died Suddenly
- Replies: 85
- Views: 7055
Re: Died Suddenly
And this is coming from a Libertarian who believes that if people want to move somewhere, work and build a life then the fact that they have crossed some sort of imaginary line in the sand should not prevent them from doing so. But we should not ignore the cultural changes that will occur. I'm of t...
- Wed Nov 30, 2022 7:17 am
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: Time to buy more physical gold
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4021
Re: Time to buy more physical gold
The last place I bought from was bgasc.com, which was totally fine. It looks like boldpreciousmetals.com has a little sale going on Krugerrands right now with a few left (their Maple Leafs are cheaper than bgasc if you are set on those).
- Tue Nov 22, 2022 6:37 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1173
- Views: 1080019
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
polonium or novichok. Putin is ex kgb so no doubt he's ruthless. Whether this assassination actually was Putin it or if the guy was a foreign agent..... poisoning story on its face is stupid. I'm pretty sure if Putin wanted you dead, you'd be dead, not wandering around Europe claiming that you had ...
- Tue Nov 22, 2022 6:33 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Putin Invades Ukraine II
- Replies: 1173
- Views: 1080019
Re: Putin Invades Ukraine II
3. The US attempted no diplomacy and gave zero consideration to Russian security concerns or the people in the Donbass. I actually don't disagree with anything you said. But to clarify, I meant that US diplomacy failed to reel in the Ukrainian government from going after the Donbassians (?). I thin...