She still has some brain matter, although it isn't a lot.
I don't think it's possible to live without any piece of brain.

I'm all for democracy run. If people don't like it, they can only blame themselves.
The only problem is making people see the consequences of what they voted for.

Yes, because it's apparently very expensive. So, who are going to be the janitors, groundskeepers, pest control, handymen, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, stockers, delivery drivers, public transit drivers, garbage collectors, police, security guards, lifeguards, nurses, etc, who all take care of those old people, when young people cannot afford to live there. Do they all need to commute from the next state?
Maybe an economy can survive on just service jobs, from old money paying for it,
but people don't want to drive several hours per day to those jobs. When the service people leave, the old people leave too. They are not taking care of themselves.

Ghostbusters!

No, because cows suck at wild animals and buffalo suck as domestic animals.
Humanity should just learn to live within the means nature sets for us.

Most cows are not 'gene modified' directly, but are just the result of hundreds of years of selective breeding. It made them great milk and meat factories, but they would die off very quickly back in nature. If humans all disappeared one day, all the cows would die off very quickly. For some races, in 90% of the cases, if there is no vet to winch out the calf at birth, both the mother and the calf will die. They are bred that way.

Most people don't like goat milk and goat meat is even less popular, so I don't think society is going to shift away from cows, any day soon.

I'm not agreeing with many people on the left, that we should go back to a pasture with 1 cow per acre, because there are 8 billion people on Earth. What we need to do is find a balance between poisoning nature to death and starving ourselves, which prioritizes animal friendliness. We shouldn't be cruel to animals, but we should accept that it is impossible to live from nature, like we did 10,000 years ago, with 8 billion people.

I want progression and innovation to make society sustainable for the world. I don't want to go back to pre-historic times and I also fight against the denialism against the reality that we are destroying ourselves, by destroying the nature that supports us.

Wealth taxes are not a left-wing policy.
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Neither the left, nor the right, are addressing the real problem.

How about ever having a president like that?
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Probably only going to happen in the movies.

They cut down 10,000 trees, to save a forest.
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There are forests all over the world, planted by people for wood and coal,
that have turned into a "green desert". Nothing lives there, besides trees.

Are you thinking that there is something 'natural' about cows?

The "green movement" hates the BIO-INDUSTRY, not the cows.
It's not the differences between the animals that matters, it's the differences
between how they are living.

Bisons are a wild animal, that lives in harmony with nature. Did you even watch the video? They explained about what Bisons do, to improve nature, all over the video.
The modern cow is an over-engineered animal that ruins nature. It produces 10 times
the amount of milk, and therefore also emits much more waste.

Those Bisons are a few hundred individuals, in an incredibly large area, that has very few nutrients in the soil. Everything they drop and let fly gets absorbed by that area of nature, because it needs it. Cows live at best on a pasture that is saturated by nutrients, and they are living there in populations that are thousands of times denser.

The Netherlands has a problem with cows, because we have way too many of them for such a small country. That creates a massive pollution problem. Austria, for example,
a country famous for their Alp-milk, doesn't have the same problem with pollution from cows, because they have 1/8th the number of cows, in a country twice the size.
At that scale, nature is still able to process it.

You're not wrong, but how are you proposing that "Florida built it's economy on manufacturing"? That's you saying to not let the economy run by the laws of capitalism, ruled by billionaires, who are thinking only in short-term profits, but by it's government taking control. Isn't that against the principles you are always supporting?

It's not just due to tourists staying away, as it looks like,
the state is finding out what happens when young people
are not able to afford living there anymore.

Florida Business Owner FURIOUS After Tourism PLUMMETS
And DESTROYS Her Business
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BREAKING: Florida’s Job Market COLLAPSE in 2025
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$12.5B Paradise MELTDOWN - Florida’s Tourism Industry Is on the Verge of Total Collapse
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Florida Is Facing the Biggest Collapse in U.S. History
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Florida’s Tourism Collapse: Florida’s Economic Disaster Explained in 10 Minutes
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Floridians are hurtling towards economic disaster
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The U.S. Released Hundreds of Bison Into the Desert...
What Happened 10 Years Later Is Shocking
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China Buried Tons of Dead Plants Under the Desert Sand
and 10 Years Later It Changed Everything
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How Refugees are turning the edge of the Sahara green.
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A good example of solving multiple problems at once.

Not yet, but they will, sooner than later.
Do understand that folks that actually USE trucks for their purposes,
are a tiny minority of truck users.

A study by Strategic Vision found that nearly 90 % of truck buyers said they never use their truck for business towing, mobile-office or worksites.
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Another summary shows:

Only about 7 % of pickup-truck owners frequently use their trucks to tow.
About 28 % frequently haul personal items; 47 % do so occasionally.
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According to a report by the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA), only about 28 % of pickup owners say they see their truck as a “true work vehicle”.
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One statistic cited by an automotive-facts site: “Only 15 % of truck owners use their pickup trucks for work.”
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I don't own an electric car myself, because they don't provide me what I need for the price I am willing to pay. However, looking at the fast pace development of EV's, I'm confident that they will, when my current car has reached the end of it's economic repair lifetime.

President Donald Trump hosts The Great Gatsby-inspired Halloween party, amid government shutdown
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If you don't understand what a big middle finger he is giving you, the average American, then you have to read up on the meaning of the novel. Trump doing this is very much
a self own, which he obviously doesn't understand. It is still completely tone-deaf to hold such a party, when the government shutdown has furloughed many hundreds of thousands government employees, and makes many work without getting paid. It was held just hours before millions of Americans lost their federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits due to a government shutdown.

Maybe Trump saw the movie, and saw Leonardo DiCaprio playing a character who had a dream and won. This is how he sees himself, a winner of the American dream.
(of course he isn't, his father was, and he is just a nepo-baby)
Trump clearly likes the spectacle of the Roaring Twenties, the glittering parties, the jazz, and the dizzying wealth. He is turning the White House in a tacky display of opulence,
just like his homes. This is his ideal, and he doesn't understand how the story, which the movie doesn't do justice much, makes it out to be a hollow and tragic existence.
He doesn't understand how the novel was intended as a social critique, exposing the harm the wealthy inflict on society. Through the characters and events of the novel, it illustrates how wealth leads to moral decay, carelessness, and ultimately, tragic consequences.
The character amassed his fortune during the Prohibition era through an association with the notorious gambler and mobster Meyer Wolfsheim. His main enterprise involved bootlegging, primarily by operating a chain of drugstores as fronts to illegally sell alcohol over the counter. The parties are heavily related to the use of alcohol during Prohibition.

It would be even worse, if Trump does understand the meaning of the movie. It means that he knows what role he is playing in the world. It's a possibility, because he has been talking about not going to heaven. However, then he must also understand the image he is leaving with this party. Since he cares a lot about how he is remembered (he wants a Nobel Peace Prize and his face on Mount Rushmore), I don't think he is capable of the self-mockery.

To be clear, I didn't read the novel, I just saw the movie, understood the idea behind it, and found people on YouTube talking about it. When I heard that Trump had a Great Gatsby party, I first thought that people who criticized him for it, called it that. I thought that was very appropriate. I just found out that Trump himself INTENDED the reference to The Great Gatsby, because he called it "A little party never killed nobody", which is the title of the song by Fergie, which was made for the movie. My reaction was of deep contempt. It's not his worst act of disrespect to the American people, by a long shot, but it might be one that gets recognized as it, by most Americans. So, I'm here talking about it, to hear about it from you. How do you like your president holding a lavish party, with wealthy people, that he himself referenced to The Great Gatsby, (now) knowing the meaning of it?

Has anyone heard of Ismo Leikola? He's one of the most popular upcoming comedians,
right now, and he is from Finland. He cracks me up.

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Probably your friends had enough money to rent in Amsterdam.
Everything is great in my country, for people who have enough money.
It just takes more and more money, every year, to beat the onslaught.
Too many people, who were lucky to do that, don't realize that they did.
Still, they feel the problems around them, and are misplacing blame.
They are thinking: "Our country is great, why are you complaining?
I made it, so why don't you? Go get an education and get a job!"

They don't see that people with a higher education than them,
will never be able to reach the same living standard as they did.
And the only reason is that they are just 10-20 years younger.
That's the difference, only 10-20 years.

The problem is that both the young people who are living it,
and the older people who saw it develop, don't understand it.
It requires some knowledge of politics and economics, and they don't bother.
They only listen to some loudmouth who blames immigration.
They don't want to know the cause of it, just want to stop it.
And then they think people like me LIKE immigration. WHY would I?

I think we NEED to help desperate people, but I DON'T like it.
I want to improve the world, so there are LESS desperate people.
I prefer to help desperate people, without helping them directly.
I want to improve the system, so they can help themselves.
Other people just want to close their eyes for their existence.
They don't understand that it's a sure way to let the world go to shit,
so you'll end up yourself as one of those desperate people.
It's only a matter of time, before the people who beat the onslaught,
also don't manage to beat it anymore.

It is really hard to have to live with such ignorant people.
Mostly, because it's very difficult to SOLVE the very problems
that they are angry about, even immigration, when there are
too many people who don't understand, that you need to understand
the CAUSE of a problem, if you want to FIX a problem.

What's the common root cause of most of those problems, you ask?
Mostly; exploitation and authoritarianism, the very ideals many support.

Emergent Self-Awareness in Vegetables: A Concerning Development

Earlier this month, researchers at the University of Helsinki reported what appears to be
the first case of sentient plant matter: a bell pepper exhibiting facial expressions consistent with fear. Subsequent tests showed measurable electrical activity when the specimen was approached with a knife.

Within days, similar phenomena were observed in other produce, particularly root vegetables and leafy greens. One cabbage was recorded rotating itself slowly away
from sunlight, “as if attempting concealment,” according to the study.

The implications are profound. Ethical committees worldwide are now debating whether harvesting vegetables constitutes harm, effectively rendering veganism, long considered the most ethical dietary choice, a moral paradox.

As of today, no safe, guilt-free food source has been identified. Experts recommend consuming only minerals “until further notice.”

The statement you quoted is partially true but also contains elements of unverified claims and sensationalism that should be treated with caution. Here’s a breakdown of what is known and what is not fully substantiated:

✅ What is true

1. The feed additive Bovaer (active ingredient 3-nitrooxypropanol, 3-NOP) is being used in Denmark in dairy cattle feed as part of efforts to reduce methane emissions.

2. Denmark has put in place policies to reduce methane emissions from dairy farming — including subsidies/confidence for feed additives — as part of its climate / agricultural emissions strategy.

3. There are reports from Danish farmers of animal health problems (e.g., reduced milk output, cows „sluggish“, some rumen-failure, some culls) after the introduction of Bovaer in some herds.

4. The manufacturer (DSM‑Firmenich) and Danish authorities have acknowledged and are investigating the reports of problems (though they do not conclude causation yet).

⚠️ What is not (yet) clearly proven

1. While farmers report cows “collapsing” and being euthanized, I did not locate independent, peer-reviewed or official veterinary data that confirms widespread collapses/euthanization directly caused by the additive. The media reports and farmer complaints are there, but causality is not established.

2. The claim that the policy “after Jan. 1 2025” mandated the additive in “large dairy farms” and that cows “started giving less milk, collapsing and in some instances getting so ill that they need to be euthanized” is a strong version of the claim and appears to be more sensational than the evidence currently supports. For example:

- The requirement noted in ­Agriland: “Since January 1, 2025, all conventional dairy farmers in Denmark with more than 50 cows are required to reduce methane emissions by either adjusting feed (increasing fat) or adding Bovaer for 80 days a year.”

- The phrase “collapsing cows” appears in certain farmer-complaint articles and blogs,
but not in official statistical data indicating a systemic collapse across Danish dairy herds.

Also be aware: Some of the articles you quoted (and similar ones) come from outlets with strongly charged language (“cows drop like flies,” etc). These may amplify or interpret anecdotal reports without full vetting.

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Feeding cows "processed food" has been going on for a long time, with the goal
of maximizing profits. Your mental image of cows grazing in the pasture is obsolete.
31% of cows in The Netherlands never comes outside, the rest only (a small) part
of the year.



When they are inside, they are eating processed feed. Most farmers have their own production pasture or grain field to grow ingredients for the feed, but almost all of them
add large scale produced feed and additives.

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Agrifirm
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The animal feed industry in The Netherlands has an estimated annual revenue of approximately $16.5 Billion.

Cows are milk and meat factories and don't get treated as animals that can suffer.
It's your side of politics that created that, and it's NOT your side of politics that is
aiming to make farming less cruel to animals. You celebrate 'profit over people',
so why would you care that profit hurts animals?

Feed additives like Bovaer are an alternative for reducing cattle.
Denying the reality of climate change is not helping anyone.
At least in Denmark they are trying a compromise. You better hope it works,
or you can say goodbye to milk and beef altogether.

And they are friends with the scientists? Explain how it works.

Suffered from WHAT?
The same things they are still suffering from?
You just replaced one demented old fool for a worse one.
This old demented fool is destroying people's healthcare and social security.
Americans will suffer and die much more because of him.

Do you not understand that you are describing YOUR reality, not ours?
"Not knowing where you might be living in 4 months" Not in my country.
Our renting system might be broken, but not like that.
We still have laws to protect people from that.

It's also not a choice for most people. There is no IF you rent.
When you are not rich enough, you rent, or you live in a tent.

There is nothing to ignore, because you don't have any arguments,
besides simplistic thinking as "A enemy of a free country".

It's just a stupid straw-man, not an actual argument.

I am a socialist. What am I ignoring?

What freedom are you giving up, if you replace the wealthy people who exploit you with public funding from the bottom up?

The facts say that he won ONE time and cheated himself to victory the last time.
He should be in prison for his treason, the second time.

I know you believe bullshit. There is nothing I can do about that.

True, about 70% of Dutch people own their own home. That means the other 30%
are renting their home.

As I told you before, The Netherlands HAD a very good system of public housing. The social rental sector was massive, reaching over 40% of the total housing stock by 1990. In cities like Amsterdam, this share was even higher. Most social housing was owned and managed by "woningcorporaties" (Non-Profit Housing Associations), which operated under a strict regulatory framework and were heavily dependent on government financial support. These housing associations were created after the war, to build a large number of affordable homes to address post-war housing shortages.

My girlfriend and I lived in one of those social houses for 9 years. The rent was $380/month. It enabled us to improve ourselves, save up a lot of money, and buy a house.

Many people cannot afford to buy a house. Also a lot of people never wanted to.
Many people will regret not buying a house when we did, because the rent has at least doubled and the price of owner-occupied houses almost doubled in less than 20 years, because the right-wing parties privatized the housing market.

We would never be able to buy our house anymore, if we tried today. We have an income between 1.5x and 2x the median. We would be able to get a mortgage of up to about Ђ375,000 ($432,776). There are still houses being sold at that price, but not a lot and not ours. The mortgage would be Ђ1700/month ($1962), which would be Ђ1264 ($1459) after tax returns, if we started today. Those tax returns decline to 0 in 30 years.

However, because we bought that house in 2008/2009, and paid off a lot, our mortgage payments are now $473/month, and we still get $189 mortgage interest deduction.
That means that the $284/month we pay now is less than our rent back then.

Canada was expecting their resistance to hurt Canadians.
They don't want to be your cuck, because that would hurt more.

Not completely true; renting used to be just as good and more affordable. Some people still benefit from that, if they have rented the same house for decades, but for new people it's very expensive. The waiting lists for social housing are very long and the public sector is even more expensive.

That's because right-wing governments fucked up our social housing.
Since just 2010, wages climbed by 8%, while social rent house prizes climbed by 22%.
However, many of the social rent houses have been sold.
Many of them were bought up by private renters, which are MUCH more expensive.

The average rental price in the private sector varies, but in the fourth quarter of 2024
it was around Ђ1730 ($1997) per month, or Ђ18.01 ($20,79) per square meter.

That, combined with far too few houses having been built, exploded the prices.
The price of an average home was Ђ239,530 ($276,365) in 2010.
The price of an average home is around Ђ486,000 ($560,681) in 2025.
(They didn't become bigger. What they mostly build now is apartments)

I saw it coming, so I bought my house in 2008/2009, at Ђ265,000 bare ($305,710).
Neighbors are selling their house for Ђ475,000 ($547,970), but we are expecting
that people will overbid that.

There are private clinics in Canada too.

"Approximately 80,000 visits to U.S. health care facilities by Canadians occur each year, but most are for emergency care, not elective procedures." A lot of them are "snowbirds", Canadians, who migrate from the colder northern regions of North America to warmer southern destinations during the winter months. Millions of Canadians vacation or spend winters in the U.S.. Accidents and illnesses happen, and the nearest hospital is often the only immediate option. Their Canadian provincial insurance covers very little (sometimes only a fraction of the actual cost), so these travelers rely heavily on private travel insurance.

That means they are not crossing the border for YOUR healthcare, they are IN your country when they need healthcare and then are stuck with yours.

However, in some border areas, the nearest U.S. hospital is geographically closer than the nearest Canadian one. For genuine emergencies, people go to the closest facility.

A small, wealthy minority may travel for a non-emergency procedure to access specific cutting-edge treatments, particular specialists, or bypass Canadian wait times. However, this number is a small fraction of the 80,000 visits.

So, there is only a small bit of truth to your claim. I have told you before that American healthcare is ONLY good for VERY RICH people.

[In 2024, the Dutch government paid $118 Billion for healthcare related expenses.
It goes to:
- The Long-term Care Act (Wlz - Wet langdurige zorg): Care for vulnerable elderly people and people with a chronic illness or disability is largely paid from general funds.
- Youth Act and Social Support Act (Wmo - Wet maatschappelijke ondersteuning): This care falls under the responsibility of municipalities, but is funded by the national government via the Municipalities Fund, which also comes from tax money.
- Healthcare allowance (Zorgtoeslag): The government pays a healthcare allowance to people with a low income to help them pay the nominal premium for healthcare insurance, which is an indirect contribution from taxes to the healthcare system.
- Income-related contribution (IAB - Inkomensafhankelijke bijdrage): Although this is called a "contribution", it is paid by employers or benefit agencies and flows via the Health Insurance Fund (Zvf) back into healthcare, which is a form of collective financing via a levy.]

ALL other care is paid for by our health insurances. My monthly premium is $194,11.
If I have an emergency, I pay NOTHING, it's all covered by my insurance. For all non-emergency care, I pay at maximum $444 in a year. My premium includes a small supplemental insurance package, which costs me less than $100/year, but pays me $173 for part of my chiropractor costs.
Your situation would cost our insurance $6,470. Our hospitals are more affordable, but provide a better quality of service than yours. However, that is considered a medical necessity. The base insurance covers it, and it will cost the patient $444. If they need anything else that is covered by the base insurance, it would be fully covered.

We don't get our health insurance from our employer, we pay for it ourselves.
We don't lose our insurance when we lose our job. Employers cannot use health insurance as a negotiation tactic, when we negotiate wages and other benefits.

The US does have lower taxes, but we get lots of tax returns, if we have a low income. And higher income people often own their home, which allows them to deduct their mortgage rent.

Don't forget that the US government also pays for healthcare with tax-dollars.

In one post you are proposing that climate change action is a waste of money and bad investments, but here you are saying that the whole goal of them are making money.
That doesn't compute, you cannot make money with bad investments.

No, probably not. Would there be any money returned to a retirees fund,
if they invested in General Motors and then GM goes belly up,
when they have not been investing in electric cars, and then everyone
will start buying electric cars, because they became superior cars?

A retirees' fund can be held liable for wrong investments, particularly if the fund's fiduciaries have acted imprudently or breached their duties. Under laws like the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) in the United States, fund managers and fiduciaries must act solely in the interest of participants and beneficiaries, and carry out their duties with the care, skill, and diligence of
a "prudent person". Do you have evidence that these were wrong investments,
other than the fact that they lost money?

Maybe the CETF manager is a crook. If CalPERS had no reason to suspect that,
they are not liable for the loss.

I just told you that it's a loss of 0.06% of its total value.
Do you instead investments, at all? The principle is to spread the risk over many investments, because some will lose money. Their overal return is ~14.3%.
That's very good for a retirees fund.

Tomorrow? Best of luck to you.
I hope you can report a vast improvement of your quality of life, very soon.

That's you being treated like a criminal, before a court finds you guilty.
We have been talking about 'Due Process' before.

The principle that a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law is a fundamental concept in the U.S. criminal justice system. While not explicitly stated word-for-word, it stems from the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

The Fifth Amendment requires due process from the federal government, while the Fourteenth Amendment extends this requirement to state and local governments. The Supreme Court has interpreted "due process" to mean the government must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, establishing the presumption of innocence. The burden of proof is on the prosecution, and the defendant does not have to prove their innocence.

The relevant portion of the Fifth Amendment states that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment, applicable to state and local governments, states in its relevant part that no State shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.

Thanks. I try to be logical, as much as possible, except for some presuppositions (fundamental, foundational beliefs). Those presuppositions are not supernatural, but I cannot prove them to be objective truths or facts. Everyone has them.
The most basic one is accepting that reality is true. We all could be brains in
a vat or code on some computer. It's impossible to disprove those things, but
I presuppose that they are not, or it's impossible to have any opinions or goals
in the world we find ourselves in, at all.

Sad to hear that your circle is shrinking. Do you think any of my proposals are viable?

The problem with asset forfeiture is that it happens in most cases BEFORE the crime has been proven in court. Cops take advantage of it, by taking stuff from suspects, that they don't even have to return after the suspects has been found NOT GUILTY.

This article from 2017, that claims that Attorney General Jeff Sessions returned to a practice of aggressively pursuing asset forfeiture cases.
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Many instances involve no conviction. For example: “In turn, 77 percent of those [federal cash] seizures were accomplished through a process that does not require either an arrest or a conviction.”
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December 12, 2024, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced the Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration (FAIR) Act to reform civil forfeiture laws and protect Americans’ rights from government abuse. If it had passed, it would have overhauled the federal civil forfeiture regime. The FAIR Act would raise the burden of proof for forfeitures, end the “equitable sharing” program, redirect forfeiture proceeds, provide more due-process protections, etc.
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Don't point to liberals without evidence. We are not doing politics here. This topic is about facts, evidence and logical argumentation. If you are just making political claims without any factual support, I will just delete it.

Jeff Sessions is a Republican, who used this "gravy train of easy money".

I support a very simple principle; People are not punished for a crime, until a judge finds them guilty. If there is a risk that a suspect will flee or commit other crimes,
they should await trial in jail. I see no reason to make their freedom until that time dependent on how much money they have.
If there is a suspicion of criminal proceeds, there is a good case for seizure of the assets, but those should be secured until a judge decides if these are indeed criminal proceeds or not. If there is no good case for the assets being criminal proceeds,
they should be returned in full. Stealing is wrong, so the government should not steal.

Your whole legal system is riddled with questionable laws related to money being drained from people under the guise of a cause. Read about your bond system
and asset forfeiture. You support those systems.

Why do you accept ideas from him, that you reject from anyone else?

Cankles McTacotits – Anti-Trump Irish Drinking Song
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That's how you interpret my words, with a brain full of shit.

It's your own side that claims that Charlie Kirk feared Netanyahu.
Since the murder, one weird claim after another has been surfacing.
The constant redressing, the constant assembly and disassembly of the rifle, the messages that don't sound like a young adult who was fully engaged in gamer culture, but confirm every move in the FBI story. It's exactly what you expect from a corrupt and incompetent FBI, which is what it turned into under Kash Patel.
He has shown the world what a bad liar he is, when he claimed that there is no credible information that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked women and under@ge girls
to anyone other than himself. Really? What about the island and all those flights?
Prince Andrew lost his royal style, titles, and honours, including the title of "prince" and "His Royal Highness", because of Epstein's trafficking. Maybe Patel thinks that YOU are stupid enough to believe him, but the rest of the world doesn't have shit in their heads.

It's also several people on your own side who have expressed public criticism
or even outrage over the interaction between Erika Kirk and J.D. Vance.
If this happened between liberals, you would not shut up about it for years.

She said on camera: “No one will ever replace Charlie, but I do see some similarities of my husband in JD, Vice President JD Vance,”. Note how she put "but" in that sentence. She is definitely thinking about replacing Charlie, there.

Before that even happened there was already talk about Usha wanting a divorce.

They are raising their profit margins to ridiculous numbers, without those taxes,
so you don't have any argument for your policies. They don't work.

No, just like all individual working class people, I cannot afford that. That is only
an option for the owner class, which is roughly 1% to 2% of the population.
They have that 'passive income' through exploitation, which makes it harder
for the bottom 60% of the population to retire at all.

Do you know how I can afford to own and rent out houses?
By working together with (lots of) other working class people.
Better yet, ALL of them. That's called 'public funding'.
You keep showing that you don't understand the concept.
Why is this so difficult for you?

All your arguments boil down to the idea that there are no alternatives for funding 'things', other than those wealthy people who exploit people. There are! It can be the government, it can be well regulated, profit restricted retirement funds and it can be publicly funded non-profit investment funds. It works very well, all over the world.
We had them, only a few decades ago, until our right-wing destroyed them, which resulted in the price of housing skyrocketing.

I told you this many times, but you keep ignoring reality.

They have beaten Margin of Victory records that date back to the 60s.

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You are confirming how they outsmart you. When I say that "you wouldn't know what hit you", I'm not saying that they will attack YOU. You are just one of the rubes, there are millions of you. Charlie Kirk was just one of the foot soldiers, there are thousands like him.

When you want to kill a snake, you cut off the head.
Sure, the tail will flop around aimlessly for a while, but it will die soon.
That's you, 'not knowing what hit you'.

That's why it's stupid to think that there is a mastermind behind Charlie Kirk's murder, unless it's right-wingers or Netanyahu. Charlie Kirk was a grifter for your cause, but he was having second thoughts about the genocide, mostly because
the young people he caters to don't like it. There is even a record of Charlie saying that he was afraid of getting killed for his defiance against Netanyahu and Trump.

Here is Netanyahu, feeling the need to reject the idea, in his own paper.
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That's a strong confirmation of my claim.

Anyone with a brain understands that killing Charlie Kirk would not help liberals and lefties. It removed ONE voice in thousands, and that voice was starting to diverge from the rest. Someone who is NOT diverging will fill his shoes.
It might be his widow, who is has been grifting off his death, before he was even in the ground. It's a sickening display, even for me, who really didn't like Charlie Kirk, but at least admired some of his skills. He was a goldmine for analysis of truth twisting and debating tricks. I miss him a lot more than Trump misses him.

Here is the grieving widow, dressed like a couch, to woo her new love:


Bye Usha!

I just proved your claim wrong, about CalPERS losing money for their retirees,
because they are investing in “climate solutions”.

Using my facts to disprove the theories? Your theories? You don't have any.

There are thousands of scientists trying to prove climate science wrong.
That's how science works. Instead of proving it wrong, they end up confirming it,
with every attempt. None of your articles that are trying to debunk the science
of climate change are actually doing science. They are just doing propaganda.

CalPERS committed about US $468.4 million to its “Clean Energy & Technology Fund (CETF)” launched in 2007.
As of March 31, 2025, the remaining value of that fund (cash out + remaining investment value) was reported at about US $138.0 million, meaning a decline of approximately 71 % relative to the original commitment.
The fund paid at least US $22 million in fees/costs to private-equity managers despite the large loss.
CalPERS acknowledges the investment is from 2007 and asserts that this pre-dated its more current private-equity strategy and that they have since diversified and reduced fees.
The figure is derived from commitment vs remaining value (and cash out) in a private-equity context: private-equity valuations are less transparent and more illiquid than public-market assets. So the “71% loss” is based on CalPERS-reported values and not an immediately liquid market sale of all assets.

The loss is large in absolute terms (≈US $330 million), but relative to the entire CalPERS portfolio it is a small share.
CalPERS) currently manages approximately US $556.2 billion in assets under management. That means the loss is 0.06% of its total value.

CalPERS has made major commitments to “climate solution” investments: In 2024 they reported commitments exceeding US $53 billion in climate-focused investments (including infrastructure, energy transition, etc.).
Their overall latest annual return (for year ended June 2025) was ~11.6%.
Their private equity allocation (which may include climate/energy transition investments) reported ~14.3% return for that year.

That means that you are just parroting biassed information, to satisfy your own bias.

Why oh why would investments in clean energy drop in the US,
when you have a president who wants to destroy it?

Instead of investing in green energy, Trump is now trying to steal the oil of Venezuela.
If we are talking about bullshit, you are the one supporting it.

Alternative energy isn't bullshit, it's the cheapest least polluting energy.
It's California now, that is suffering from your ignorance, but soon it will be your whole country. You cannot win in global competition, by dragging your feet in innovation.
If you keep waging war and stealing shit, the rest of the world will shun you.
That will be the end of your empire, because global trade made you what you are.

When I bought my solar panels, they cost me about $6000.
I still made my money back in 3.5 years, because of high energy prices.
Now they are making me free electricity, every day, for the next 20-30 years.
That same amount of power on my roof would cost me about half of that today.
Explain what's bullshit about that.

How many threats and harassment do you think the OG Greta receives?

Throw yourself on your fainting couch for getting some hate back.
My side should stop being tolerant towards intolerance.

The side that you think is brainwashed, has science, facts and logic on its side.
Your side has nothing besides conspiracy theories and projection.

Is there ANY actual scientific argument against climate change in there?

The kind of arguments that you are pushing are flat earth level arguments.

Obama wouldn't waste his time or money on Charlie Kirk.
The fact that all your favorite politicians are still alive,
is evidence that Obama isn't doing what you think.

When liberals start killing, you wouldn't know what hit you,
because they outsmart you 10 to 1.

I think leopoldij is curious about more things, because he demonstrates knowledge on many subjects. That doesn't just happen.

I hear the loss of trust in humanity in everything you say. You will not learn to trust people again, while staying away from everyone, as much as you can.
There are lots of good people everywhere. It's worth the risk to try to meet them.
Just understand that people don't like you, if you show them that you don't like them. Approach people in a friendly, open manor and most of them respond friendly and openly.

I became active in politics, as much for self improvement as for improving the world around me. I have always been an introvert, but my job taught me to deal with it. The challenges of political activities have taught me more. I will never become an extrovert, but I can put myself in a more extrovert state of mind.

Maybe you could find some Rotary Club, Lions Club, Community garden, hunting/fishing club, local hiking or survival group. There is a movement growing of Men’s sheds, spaces where men do woodworking or repair projects together. There are also clubs where people tinker with old computers. Most of those places are not ideal to meet women, but it starts with meeting people. You need to be around people to start trusting them again. Social circles are better places to find reliable women, because the 'bitches' get kicked out of social circles. If you try to find a woman on the internet, it could be one of those 'bitches', who is looking for another man to scam or abuse.