Quote from: RE on Apr 29, 2024, 11:45 AMRight on cue.

https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2024/04/29/beware-a-shrinking-population/

Opinion: Beware of a falling population

RE

It figures the Mormon news source would think so.  From the article:

QuoteAs I've written before, capitalism relies on steady growth to maximize outputs and increase markets through competition. If the nation begins contracting, paying off the national debt becomes much harder. Social Security would struggle to continue, as a lack of young workers makes it hard to fund benefits for a large population of retirees. Funding a strong military, and keeping it stocked with plenty of young soldiers, becomes a challenge that threatens U.S. influence abroad.

There are a lot of them (more all the time) and it does not serve me to insult them.  There have to be a few good ones among this bat shit crazy cult that went mainstream almost two hundred years ago.  In consideration of them I'll be kind.

Prophecy is big to them.  Mormons embrace all sorts of bat shit crazy nonsense.  Mormons are all about capitalism and patriarchy and their woo-woo understanding of reality makes it impossible for them to understand exploitation.  Mormon scripture simultaneously denounces slavery and abolitionism both.  Teaching that it is not right for men to be in bondage to each other.  But that one should not interfere with the enslavement of others.  Hee-Haw patriarchy, and any exploitive system can't exist without that loophole.

Mormons don't follow the teachings of Christ.  As I understand them to be, and I do understand them.  Their founders rewrote the teachings of Christ to suit their private agendas.

If you hear a voice in your head Mormons believe god is talking to you.  God talked to all their founders.  Some will even be Ok with you saying you saw an angel walk through a wall.  They are all about the apocalypse, as many social pyramids are.  It absolves everyone of responsibility when everyone believes in the end of the world.  It lets you do what you want in the present moment.  It was part of gods' plan for your ass to be kicked.  Deal with it from their point of view.

Mormons are great preppers though!  They also own the Flying J, which is a great truckstop with a great buffet.  If it wasn't for Mormons, who would wear all those styles from the 1950s?

RE

This from a hater I'll not name:

QuoteIt has been observed that a clear majority of the pro-Hamas activists are young women — which makes sense considering that they are the largest demographic evincing mental illness on America's social landscape these days.

A comment more about the metal state of the author than about young women for sure.  The author further shows himself to be a failed human experiment with this:

QuoteThey are marching in support of a sect that specializes in the rape, mutilation, and murder of young women like themselves, or at least treats them as chattels, hidden under black bag-like garments.

Quite the deluded point of view.  The black bag-like garments is correctly descriptive, giving the brain fart an air of unearned respectability. 

Even among young horny Moslem men, the number of rapists who get their jollies with mutilation and murder is below 1%.  Way below.

I find it hard to believe young Palestinian men are thinking about raping American women as they catch their Z's at night between apartment building explosions.  The idea that students might be protesting the murder of innocent civilians by American weapons has no purchase in the authors mind.  In his mind the students have no minds.  He imagines that the outside forces of George Soros are funding page agitators to  masquerade as students. 

It takes a total prick to put out this bullshit.  Knowing damn well George Soros don't play that way.

* I remind myself that watching a man decline from the corrosive effects of hate is not something I should enjoy.  Then I remember this man is really making his money as a paid government propagandist who runs a honey trap, not as an author.  Then I don't give a shit.  He is on the bean feed.  His crime is ongoing.  I suspect the man, who is now a cold war anachronism, attracts few new victims.  But once on the bean feed that does not matter.  Billions have to be spent.  It is in the budget.  Once hooked up, you stay hooked up.


But liars for the mainstream have nothing to fear despite what Cornel and Cenk will say.

Quote from: RE on Apr 29, 2024, 06:25 PMMormons are great preppers though!  They also own the Flying J, which is a great truckstop with a great buffet.  If it wasn't for Mormons, who would wear all those styles from the 1950s?

RE

Prepping is an exclusionary mindset that does not support community.  It can be overdone.  Pointing out that Mormons are great preppers makes my point.  They have an attitude that they are chosen ones.

My boy don't play that way.  Everybody is on the team.  There are no chosen ones.

  All dogs eat, and save as many as you can.

Everywhere I turn today, the stench of right wing neo-liberal bullshit greets me.

QuoteMy show on The Real News has been canceled because of my critiques of the Democratic Party and Joe Biden  <-- Chris Hedges

I was just informed by Max Alvarez, the Editor-in-Chief at The Real News, that they will no longer run my show. The reason for the cancellation, he said, is that my critiques of Biden, especially for the genocide in Gaza, jeopardizes his nonprofit status. My last show with Dennis Kucinich, who is running as an independent for Congress in Ohio, was removed from the site.

I will resurrect the show on an independent platform, although it may take me a few weeks to get this set up.

I am not going to try and figure out how running a show with Dennis Kucinich, who is running outside the duopoly fucks up nonprofit status.  I have better things to do.  The iron heel comes down.

QuoteIf it wasn't for Mormons, who would wear all those styles from the 1950s?

A remnant shall survive.

QuoteWe could be in Palestine
Overrun by the Chinese line

Quote from: K-Dog on May 03, 2024, 11:33 AMPrepping is an exclusionary mindset that does not support community.  It can be overdone.  Pointing out that Mormons are great preppers makes my point.  They have an attitude that they are chosen ones.

I was being sarcastic.

RE

Quote from: RE on May 03, 2024, 12:48 PM

Quote from: K-Dog on May 03, 2024, 11:33 AMPrepping is an exclusionary mindset that does not support community.  It can be overdone.  Pointing out that Mormons are great preppers makes my point.  They have an attitude that they are chosen ones.

I was being sarcastic.

RE

No problem.  Sarcasm gets conversations started.  You certainly get the down side of Prepping but how many people new to collapse gravitate to prepping in exclusion to everything else.  It happens to a lot of people.  There is an illusion to prepping that makes people think they are part of something.

But what are preppers part of?  Everybody who preps, preps alone.  Watching you tube videos on how top do prepping is not community.  You tube algorithms have identified me as a doomer, so I get all sorts of prepper adds pushed at me.

Quote

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Plus, the VNSH holster pulls the holster close to your body so it makes the holster "vanish" while you wear it.

I would pay real money never to see an add for the VNSH again.

You have to be a doomer a while to realize prepping is a dead end.  You and I are here to save people time and help them avoid dead ends.  People start by thinking that silver will be worth something after collapse.  Will it.  How the fuck should I know?  America has not collapsed before.  When it does everyone will be in for a few surprises.  If you survive long enough, the only certainty will be that your ideas about what collapse would bring were wrong.

Is all prepping wrong, no.  Turning it into a lifestyle is.  I will not live my life being afraid of my own shadow, living in a paranoid delusion.

Prepping is like having money in a savings account.  Everybody should have minimum of 6 months worth of bills you can pay even if you lost your job and couldn't get UE checks.  Everybody should have enough preps so if the supermarket shelves go empty due to some disaster, you have enough food and fuel etc to go for a few months.  It's an insurance policy.

You can go overboard of course.  But I'm OK with 2 years worth of freeze dried food.

RE

Quote from: RE on May 03, 2024, 02:57 PMPrepping is like having money in a savings account.  Everybody should have minimum of 6 months worth of bills you can pay even if you lost your job and couldn't get UE checks.  Everybody should have enough preps so if the supermarket shelves go empty due to some disaster, you have enough food and fuel etc to go for a few months.  It's an insurance policy.

You can go overboard of course.  But I'm OK with 2 years worth of freeze dried food.

RE

That's reasonable.  Comparing it to a bank account makes sense.  What you withdraw from when the banks are gone.