sinewav wrote: ↑Wed Sep 03, 2025 10:57 pm
I hate to keep pointing out that you are totally brainwashed by a class of people who absolutely despise you and want you as ignorant and distracted as possible, but
you are totally brainwashed by a class of people who absolutely despise you and want you as ignorant and distracted as possible.
A lot of people are brainwashed, I am Not one of them. I'm different in so many ways from the idiots. Most people are just puppets and report and see exactly what the media feeds them, good or bad and don't question it. Most people go through life living paycheck to paycheck until they die or maybe are lucky to live past 65 then retire and deal with living paycheck to paycheck on social security. People fall for the republicans and put all their ties and values with them, or Democrats and put all their values with what they are. Most people don't realize how trapped them are to the economy and the decisions that the politicians make consequences. I'll admit in the past I've been naive to politics, mainly hated it, and voted libertarian, because yes I don't want government to control me. But over the past few years I've been paying more attention to the economy learning more on it, always wanted a lean budget, but did not fully understand it. and even though Trump promised, we did not get it, and that's where Elon's feud with Trump started. No it's not the Ev tax credit cuts that Trump and the media try to spell out, it's the overspending period. I know it hurts your brain that a billionaire with an EV company is OK with tax credits going away, but Tesla is in a very strong position and does not need them. they are in a transition period from an EV company to a ride-sharing company, credits are going to go away and they'll be expanding their fleet, using the cars to generate income. You've made claims in the past that he's just a puppet and doesn't actually do anything important, yet where are the other companies landing boosters over 30 times? even if he didn't do actual engineering at the companies, he knows how to lead a team of people to do those things, if he didn't they would just run away and work for another company, yet somehow he can maintain a team of the top talent. is the top talent all brainwashed?
Back to Republicans and democrats both being evil, both of them are backed by greedy industries, I said unions and oil, but I realized since then I was dumb, the democrats are more backed by the health care industry. They support whatever actions enrich them the most, what happens when you have a bunch of broken brainwashed people, more medical expenses, more profits for healthcare. every major cause of theirs has increased the need for individuals on health care, specifically counselling, if they can control the counsellors they can control the people to support the democrats, this leading to more and more sessions. (I've not looked up that number, but I suspect counselling sessions have increase over the last decade or so.) But basically they each try to outspend the other anymore, sure nothing is wrong with national debt as you've said, it's just a number, it doesn't really matter, but it actually does effect everyone.
Every time the government spends money, and creates more debt, inflation goes up. with all the money Biden was spending inflation kept rising and none of the idiots in the media wanted to point out that they spent way too much money, and that was causing the longer and higher inflation. making our money more and more worthless, to the point were we've had to remove the penny. So yes, it's just a number, but it's directly tied to our buying power, and cash sitting around is loosing value, cash in banks, loosing buying power. there is only 1 way to beat this loss of purchasing power, or at least the best way to is investing it, but there are a lot of rules around that too, that makes it very hard to do, and a lot of emotions come into play when putting money in the stock market. and this programmed mindset that companies or people are bad, is a thing that keeps people away from the stock market. and many will put some money in and then see it loose value in a week or for month and never trust it again. In 2018 Elon made a promise to Tesla shareholders that he would deliver on transforming Tesla into one of the most profitable companies on the planet, and delivered early, then an activist judge picked up a case from someone with a measly 9 share and struck down down the payment we promised to him, for doing what he promised and what we agreed on, though still held up in courts, Tesla just outlines a new compensation plan, which costs a lot, but forces Tesla to enter into the next big phase of growth into humanoid robots and ultimately substitutable abundance for all. Despite all the hate and stuff towards Tesla and Elon in 2018-2019 I took him up on his word and heavily invested in Tesla, I did not have a lot of money then, but somehow as Elon transformed the company into the leader in EV's, my wealth also grew much faster than anywhere else. and trust me I was down on most of my investment until late 2019, I'm not the one to fear being down in the stock market, as I am literally being driven around by the technology that they produce and see it improving week after week. and because of doing that, I'll retire and enjoy life well before I am 60, probably much sooner with this new compensation plan.
So please explain to me how I am brainwashed? You guys are the ones brainwashed thinking If i side with Trump I side with everything he's doing, which could not be further from the truth.
Z-Man wrote: ↑Wed Sep 03, 2025 7:06 am
Oh, victim blaming (or rather its side dish, perpetrator justification) and moving the goal post in one sentence.
Apparently the couple ended up getting arrested that reported her.
But seriously if criminal activity is so high, that a 12 year old girl(any race, I really don't care) feels a need to carry weapons, something is wrong with that area, enforcing laws is obviously not happening. In the case of all the rapes of kids across the Europe, is some cultural shift happening, and people don't want their kids to be safe from predators any more? Or are the laws being bent to protect predators because "they didn't know better, or it's acceptable with their religion?" For most immigrants i could care less about, they are working, being productive, like the Mexican that runs the Wendy's by me, pretty sure she's a migrant, but she honestly does a great job and I would not want her deported. but again those robbing the nations inflating our budget, and committing major crimes, and claiming ignorance more religion should be deported as their values don't match that of the society. There are not a lot of laws i agree with, but protecting children is something I can agree with.
Edit: was to add a much needed f in a word
