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- Sat Mar 12, 2016 9:45 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism
- Replies: 78
- Views: 27839
Re: The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism
All that is fine other than the "lower" part. What is the criterion for "higher" and "lower"? I can't speak for PS, but I'm guessing "higher" and "lower" was meant in the economic sense, e.g. forgoing an area of "high-status" BMW 7-series ...
- Sat Mar 12, 2016 9:13 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism
- Replies: 78
- Views: 27839
Re: The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism
Slowly I'm coming to realize that I'm basically a class traitor. I am naturally a member of this elite class, and I happily benefit from the economic opportunities it affords me, but I don't like living in the kinds of societies it creates--fast-paced, exhausting, stratified, expensive, obsessed wi...
- Wed Mar 09, 2016 10:51 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Big Surprise [not] - Hillary odds on favorite to win in 2016
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13234
Re: Big Surprise [not] - Hillary odds on favorite to win in 2016
But she does have the blessing of the mass media. Their "votes" count for a lot. Have you noticed that every published photo of Trump tries to make him look as bad as possible? It's obvious the media doesn't like him, and that may even be quite understandable, but I'm thoroughly disgust...
- Sun Mar 06, 2016 5:13 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism
- Replies: 78
- Views: 27839
Re: The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism
The multiculturalism boat has sailed. We decided to be a multicultural society before there even was a United States of America, when the first African slaves were brought to this continent. American multiculturalism continued when the federal government failed to commit complete and total genocide...
- Sun Mar 06, 2016 10:22 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism
- Replies: 78
- Views: 27839
Re: The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism
But however we got here, we have a multi-ethnic society, and I think you have to tailor solutions to that reality. I don't see how you can possibly talk about transforming a multi-ethnic society into an all-white society without the discussion turning dark pretty quickly. America has not yet "...
- Sun Mar 06, 2016 10:07 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism
- Replies: 78
- Views: 27839
Re: The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism
One of the things that made it so great was the diversity of cultures there, and the ability to experience them easily. You could go down to Chinatown for dim sum lunch, or to Little Italy for late night coffee, the Ukrainian area on the east side, etc. The above arrangement sounds more like Apart...
- Sat Mar 05, 2016 9:49 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism
- Replies: 78
- Views: 27839
Re: The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism
These Americans want a kind of freedom—a freedom to hate. They want the freedom to use words like “nigger,” “kike,” “spic,” “chink,” “raghead” and “fag.” They want the freedom to idealize violence and the gun culture. They want the freedom to have enemies, to physically assault Muslims, undocumente...
- Sat Mar 05, 2016 8:58 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism
- Replies: 78
- Views: 27839
Re: The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism
Last paragraph, with which I agree wholeheartedly. There is only one way left to blunt the yearning for fascism coalescing around Trump. It is to build, as fast as possible, movements or parties that declare war on corporate power, engage in sustained acts of civil disobedience and seek to reintegr...
- Thu Feb 11, 2016 11:19 am
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3693
- Views: 1778260
Re: The GOLD scream room
If only GTU had held out for a few more months the fund would likely be selling at a premium now, invalidating Sprott's under-performance claim. What a shame.
- Thu Jan 28, 2016 6:43 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Taxes and Trump
- Replies: 77
- Views: 20106
Re: Taxes and Trump
Sorry if that all seems complicated. When you try to talk about the flaws of our current tax-code and the benefits of one going forward, you essentially need to say WHY the current complications need to go rather than talking about "a few brackets" and getting rid of "some deduction...
- Wed Jan 27, 2016 2:11 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Taxes and Trump
- Replies: 77
- Views: 20106
Re: Taxes and Trump
Sorry if that all seems complicated. When you try to talk about the flaws of our current tax-code and the benefits of one going forward, you essentially need to say WHY the current complications need to go rather than talking about "a few brackets" and getting rid of "some deduction...
- Wed Jan 13, 2016 3:14 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: BP for VP?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4485
Re: BP for VP?
You might look into PEO as well. Been around since 1929 and currently trades at a 16% discount. The discount, however, has been persistent and a decade ago stood at ~8%, but a sudden reversal of fortunes in the energy sector could cause it to narrow. Fees, at 0.63%, are good for a CEF but a middl...
- Thu Jan 07, 2016 2:24 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: Sprott Intends to Make Exchange Offers for Central GoldTrust and Silver Bullion
- Replies: 192
- Views: 99578
Re: Sprott Intends to Make Exchange Offers for Central GoldTrust and Silver Bullion
Still holding GTU as I'm not sure how long it will take Sprott to assimilate Gold Trust. The discount has narrowed from when I bought in at ~9% (it's now 1.5% last I'd checked) so I'm already ahead, but it is possible we could see a premium given the recent worries in foreign markets. While a prem...
- Sun Jan 03, 2016 10:22 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Democratic discomfort on the taxes that would actually fund their ideas
- Replies: 30
- Views: 12271
Re: Democratic discomfort on the taxes that would actually fund their ideas
The other day the wife and I were calculating alternative allowances in the IRS's W4 worksheet. Like many others, after a certain point I stood back astonished at how ridiculous the entire federal income tax system is. "Allowances", "Annual Gross Income", "Marriage Status&...
- Fri Dec 11, 2015 12:39 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Citizen's Dividend a reality in Finland
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12515
Re: Citizen's Dividend a reality in Finland
That's moving the discussion from a citizen's dividend to immigration policies. A country could decide to implement the first while maintaining strict immigration standards - Denmark is very good to citizens and it's very hard to immigrate there. The two are intrinsically linked. The meaning of ci...
- Fri Dec 11, 2015 10:42 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Citizen's Dividend a reality in Finland
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12515
Re: Citizen's Dividend a reality in Finland
Why don't you think it would happen? I'm not necessarily in disagreement, but I'm curious why some folks are so positive that model would be rejected by either citizens or agents of the state would reject a model like that. A life-boat is only so big. Most of the world's ~7 billion people live ou...
- Thu Dec 03, 2015 12:49 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Elementary OS, Freya (Linux): tried it?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12903
- Fri Nov 27, 2015 8:53 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Microagressions and the rise of Victimhood culture
- Replies: 29
- Views: 9116
Re: Microagressions and the rise of Victimhood culture
In every respect in every fucking way, we are better off on every measurement than 10, 20, 50, 100, 1000, 10000 years ago. Ironically, the dogmatic temporal-parochialism underlying progressivism is itself founded on an act of faith. Were there less ICBMs a hundred years ago? Was there more open, ...
- Thu Nov 26, 2015 11:19 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Microagressions and the rise of Victimhood culture
- Replies: 29
- Views: 9116
Re: Microagressions and the rise of Victimhood culture
A highly relevant comment: It would also be fruitful to examine whether the subjects students are studying correlates with their enthusiasm for this kind of activism. My hypothesis would be that students are far more likely to sign on to this kind of social status-seeking hysteria when they begin t...
- Tue Nov 24, 2015 3:55 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Does no one care that Turkey shot down a Russian plane today?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2983
Re: Does no one care that Turkey shot down a Russian plane today?
The gold market seemed to.Topic: Does no one care that Turkey shot down a Russian plane today?
- Mon Nov 23, 2015 9:10 am
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Are you buying, holding, or selling the PP?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 29651
Re: Are you buying, holding, or selling the PP?
[The biggest problem I have with the PP is the same reason I don't short the S&P 500 or bet the "don't pass" line in craps -- simply I want to be an optimist. For the PP to outperform the S&P500, bad things have to happen to the world. I understand that may be inevitable, but I ...
- Fri Nov 20, 2015 1:46 pm
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Duke it out - Dividend style
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11919
Re: Duke it out - Dividend style
Actually the dividend is like that housing you invested in saying here we can't rent the living room so here is the money back you paid for the living room portion. In effect those dollars they give you are dollars you had the day before the adjustment , they are just giving you back your own mone...
- Fri Nov 20, 2015 11:04 am
- Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Duke it out - Dividend style
- Replies: 24
- Views: 11919
Re: Duke it out - Dividend style
Ben Graham used dividends as a sort of window into a company's quality. From "Intelligent Investor": 4. Dividend Record . One of the most persuasive tests of high quality is an uninterrupted record of dividend payments going back over many years. We think that a record of continuous div...
- Tue Nov 17, 2015 2:07 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Armageddon In Paris
- Replies: 72
- Views: 25943
Re: Armageddon In Paris
Colored and subjective personal observations follow: The Near East Muslims I've encountered possessed no familiarity with chivalry. None. Not even a shred. The authoritative medieval textbook on chivalry, "Romance of the Rose", apparently did not spread its influence to this people. Ra...
- Mon Nov 16, 2015 8:01 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: 11/14/15 Dem debate
- Replies: 42
- Views: 11539
Re: 11/14/15 Dem debate
I dunno PS. My track record of picking winners goes way back. I'm the Mathjak of presidential predictions! Hillary is a shoe-in. Trump will repel too many people. Eventually one of the others will emerge as the tallest midget. It's probably no coincidence that in presidential election years I s...