Texan blonde does science and proves evolution.
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In 1909, the Superior Court of Los Angeles ruled that Lebanese and Syrians
belong to the “white race”. Ever heard of it?
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Google "George Shishim" if you want to know more.

The future of the human race?

Jewish New Yorkers For Zohran Mamdani
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"If Andrew Cuomo thinks that makes me less of a Jew,
that's just one more reason why he's unfit to represent us."

So JUST ONE of these assholes reduced to what you have and EVERYONE gets $730.
Isn't that ridiculous?

Half of American adults have $500 or less in their savings account,
but this ONE asshole has MUCH more than ALL OF THEM COMBINED.
The fact that you think that's normal shows your brainwashing.

Keep lying to yourself, while your country crumbles.

There are too many people on this earth, to all live more than half a mile apart.

There is nothing wrong with any of those actions.
What's wrong is your 'thinking' that those problems apply to all bums.

Your system is very good at crushing people, who do everything right.
There are many people who have no fault at all for getting crushed.
People's lives can also get crushed to rubble, AFTER having kids or pets.
Losing ones job or losing ones health is a big risk of that. No fault of them.
We should have a system who prevents occurrences like that crushing people.
The US didn't have that already, but your political side made it even worse.

There is nothing wrong with people who think we owe each other,
there is something wrong with people who think everyone is on their own.
It isn't logical and it isn't consistent with any religion.

In any case, the majority of people don't agree with you, and they will fight back.
The worse it gets before they succeed at it, the harder your side will fall.

The Dollar Has Its Worst Start to a Year Since 1973

It has continued to slide even as President Trump has backed down from his tariff threats and the U.S. stock market has recovered from its losses.

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Elijah Manley for Congress (Florida's 20th district in the House of Representatives)
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A "Foxhole Radio", except for the big amp.

With Allies Like These, Who Needs Enemies?!
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No, of course, it's Canada who is exploiting your friendship.

Maybe you'd deserve that, if you produced an actual argument. You gotto earn it.

OK, that's consistent with your character, so I believe that.
But, you could try to be efficient. What do you think is wrong?
I could try to answer efficiently too, because reading isn't your thing either.

Yes, you as Americans. You (you) cannot do anything personally.
Still, you personally could accept the truth of it and support change.
There are drugs everywhere, but this problem is only American.

This is not related to capitalism, socialism or conservatism.
That only looks that way, because you have just 2 political parties.
Your Republicans made a choice to support the gun lobby and Democrats did not,
but there is no reason for that. There is also no reason to pick the Republican side
on this issue, just because you prefer them on other issues. Do you have freedom
of thought, or not? Why would you let your ideas be defined by a political party?

[There was a study in which they asked Republican voters how many of a list of 30 Republican policies they support and they asked Democratic voters how many of a list of 30 Democratic policies they support. Both groups of voters support the list of the party they identify with, by an immense majority. This support is so strict, that it is statistically impossible for a free thinking society. This means you're all Hyper-Partisan.]

You are not representing the Republican party, they should represent you.
If their voters change their opinion on this issue, they need to change theirs.
If you are tired of the constant mass murders, you can demand action.
Don't be satisfied with your politicians doing mostly what they want,
instead of what YOU need.

When this would have been an immigrant, Trump would be calling for billions for extra border security, give ICE even more leeway to break the 14th amendment and build even more sadistic prisons. BUT, he was WHITE, so NOTHING will be done to try to prevent it. No calls to get the guns away from even the worst criminal or the most violent lunatics.
Not a dollar extra for mental healthcare. "Free speech" for hateful violent rhetoric.

Every time this happens, you will ask "What is wrong with our country?", you will blame the left for politicizing it, and you will move on, until the next right-wing gun nut kills a bunch of people. You will only get "Thoughts and prayers".

Of course, you will politicize the hell out of it, when an immigrant hurts someone.
Then "One life is too many!". It could be a fully naturalized immigrant, it will be full justification to spend hundreds of billions of dollars and piss on The Constitution.
But you can never even think about reining in the Second Amendment a bit.
It will be the last thing you'll have left of The Constitution.

She must have done this to make money showing it off.
And honestly, I would love to see.

It must have its downsides though.
How long would it take her every day to get those pants on?

The real ones aren't cheap. Are you using them professionally?

It's just me who called it "safety mode", because I had no idea what it's called. When I Google "open loop mode", it provides options that sound very close to what is happening, so it looks like you're correct. Next time it happens, I'll connect the dongle and look for "open loop mode". It has been months, so I need to be patient.

If you could debunk it, you would.

If you love getting screwed over, over and over, so Trump can repay the wealthy
for his win/steal. Trump only wanted to be president, so he could get out of jail
and continue enriching themself, on the tax-payer's credit.

Why does that look beautiful to you? YOU won't ever see a cent of those cuts.
It's literally socialism for the wealthy, reverse-RobinHood. You ain't wealthy!
You might be richer than most of your friends here, but this will hurt you too.

It's all worth it for you, as long as he hurts the brown people, isn't it?

Here’s the latest on Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” and what it means for Medicare:

"Automatic 4% annual Medicare cuts starting in 2026 — driven by the statutory “PAYGO” rule, which enforces across-the-board reductions in response to the massive deficit increase.

Roughly $490 billion–$500 billion in cuts over the 2026–2034 period to Medicare spending.

The House Budget Committee also notes up to $535 billion in cumulative Medicare cuts during 2026–2034 ($45 billion in 2026 rising to $75 billion in 2034)"


The "massive deficit increase" is because of the big tax-cuts for the wealthy.
All the cuts are delayed, so you won't notice much, until Democrats are back in office.
Then Republicans can blame Democrats for your complete collapse of Medicare.

Exactly how they blamed Democrats for the high inflation that Trump caused by adding $8 trillion to your debt, which also all ended up in the pockets of the wealthy, eventually.

[When you pay companies to keep paying wages, that's a handout to the employers, not
the employees. When you pay people to be able to afford food and rent, that's a handout
to supermarkets and landlords, not to people. I remind you that it was a GLOBAL crisis
and that it's not an option to leave most working people without income, food and housing.
That would be a complete collapse of the country. You can chose to put that bill on the wealthy, or you can chose to compensate all the employers, supermarkets and landlords with tax-dollars. Trump of course chose the latter and that resulted in high inflation, which mostly hurt the working class. The working class is also the main tax-payer, so you're paying for it TWICE, to compensate for the debt. And now the working class is getting fucked over a THIRD time, because Trump promised the wealthy people more massive
tax-cults, so they would help him win/steal the election, which YOU have to pay for.]

Cool!

Yes, an OBD-II bluetooth dongle, connecting to your phone, with a diagnosis program running on it. I use the Android app 'inCarDoc'. It provides live data
and data about the errors that show up as a light on the dashboard.

When I'm not using my car enough, the battery goes low. When I then start the engine, sometimes it doesn't have enough power for ignition. That can cause a small explosion, which has an effect on the EGR-valve, which produces an error. Unless I want to drive around with a red engine light all the time, I have to get it reset or reset it myself.

When the battery power is low, sometimes I also get warning lights for the Lane Assist and the Stability Control, during startup. Those are all computer systems,
that don't work correctly, during that one second that they are all checked.
The system then puts itself on safety mode, which means no acceleration.
Restarting the engine solves it, but it leaves a Christmas tree of warning lights.

It's all nothing to worry about, but it's an annoying result of my limited car usage. Buying a new battery every year would probably solve it, or change my car to a plug-in, but a $10 dongle is cheaper.

Or, if you don't own a 'handheld' and need to visit your dealer to get a diagnosis
of your car readings.

This was 14 years ago, but it sounds like it was performed yesterday.
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Was he a comedian or a damn prophet?

Don't get me wrong, there are certainly deadbeats; people who are useless by choice. However, I think they are much more rare than you think. Most people who are not lifting their weight are without hope, because society has treated them like garbage. They were born without chances and the system keeps them down. Those are not deadbeats, those are victims of a brutal system. Still, I even want to help the deadbeats, because that's less damaging than let them turn to crime or mental illness. It's not a waste of money to keep them reasonably comfortable, I'm paying for my safety and clear conscience, that I, as a member of society, did my best for them.
If they fail in life, I don't want to have any blame for that.

Then there are lots of people who are just not smart and completely lacking of talent. Look at how stupid the average person is and then realize that 50% is stupider than them. About a quarter is not capable of surviving this modern world. Do we just give up on them? I say that would be a waste of potential. They can pull their weight,
if we help them a bit. It's for our own benefit as much as theirs.

I don't think it's unfortunate that a contributor like me is not getting the same as someone who under-performs. The whole intent is to help the ones who need it.
I don't need anything anymore, but society helped me get to where I am.
Save it for the people who need it, so we help them contribute too. Also, I was lucky so far, but everyone is at risk of their luck running out. When it does, I want society to help me out, just as I want to help out everyone who is shit out of luck now.

Don't think this is all sympathy for poor people. It's mostly selfish. I want to live
in a nice world. You are just extras. I want you to be cheerful in my movie of life, because I don't like dramas.

They have always told me that a woman should be barefoot and pregnant,
at home, in the kitchen. Now they want them to work? I don't think so.

That effect of Covid was very short-lived. There is no government assistance anymore. However, there is still a remaining labor shortage. There are about 1.7 million missing workers. Some of them just died. Another big group is suffering from long covid. "Reduced Workforce Participation: An estimated 2 to 4 million working-age Americans have been unable to work due to long COVID, either temporarily or permanently."

Some young people stayed in school longer. When they started an education, it takes several years to finish it. There are indeed women who do not return to their job, because they are mothers now. Personally, I think that mothers and fathers need to share the working life, but I don't think both should work a full-time job. Parents should be able to provide for their children with at maximum 60 hrs/week total.

Hell yes!

But even if you didn't work for 37+ years, those programs serve a need.
Americans are the hardest working people on the planet.
Cut your fellow Americans some slack.

Phart posted this link:

10 Worst Assets That Keep You Poor (Avoid These!)
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I liked it, a lot.

But it provided me with a whole different perspective than it did for phart.

Are you also realizing how much capitalism critique is contained in this video?
It's all a guide for protecting yourself against greedy assholes, trying to screw you.

I think that voting for Trump is also capitalism critique. Many people voted for Trump, because they are tired of how capitalism has fucked them over for the last decades.
Trump promised something different. He's a lying fuck, who doesn't give a damn about you, but Americans are easily fooled. That's because most of you are indoctrinated to believe fairy-tales from a 2000 year old book. If you believe that, you believe everything.
That's the whole reason for why the wealthy fund religion.

Trump has completely abandoned the idea of free global trade, one of the basic principles of capitalism. That's capitalism critique.

Also, your whole anti-immigrant rhetoric is based on the idea that the "filthy brown people" are coming for your jobs. That's also capitalism critique. If you hadn't deregulated capitalism, so they wouldn't be able to pick cheap immigrants over you, that would not be your concern. (unless you just hate brown people, of course)

I agree, but I'm not the one claiming that people are taking unfair advantage of food stamps or other "freebies". People like phart and you are always claiming that people are abusing the system, but of course that NEVER applies to YOURSELF!

It's only all the OTHERS who are dirty profiteers, but you and your friends deserve it, because you were working hard all your life, or you had a lot of bad luck, or whatever. It's always OK for you, but all the others are lazy fucks.

I'm trying to change your thinking on that. Your government is not of the habit of giving "freebies". Take what they offer, because you either are ENTITLED to it or you NEED it, just like EVERYONE ELSE. Don't throw away Medicaid and Social Security for the LIE that some people are abusing it. You're fucking the 99+% of people who don't.
Don't be a TOOL for the wealthy who don't grant you these basics of modern civilization, so they can have even more money.

Cherish the tiny bit of social safety net that you still have in your godforsaken country. It's important for people's survival. It helps them maximize their potential. Bums in boxes are useless. Also, it might be you in that box, or someone you care about.
Don't assume you are safe, just because you worked hard all your life.

How different your tune is, than when you just voted for Trump. People were suffering from the high inflation and they couldn't buy groceries, remember. Now that Trump is crushing all those people to pulp, you're back to not giving a fuck. Very strange!

There are actually good tips in there.

However, I don't agree with the idea with Warren Buffet as example, of billionaires who don't spend money on new cars, expensive clothes, multiple houses, etc. Why would a billionaire not spend? Is it just about owning more and more money and assets? Why?
You can't take your money into the grave with you. Is he being a 'good capitalist' that way? He's just making money with money, which is useless when you reach a certain point, where you and all your heirs can never spend it all. That's just an addiction of money
and a lack of imagination. The idiot retired at age 95! He wasted his whole life working.
I don't envy people like that, I feel sorry for them.

1. Nope, never bought a new car yet. I hate new car smell. The dealer sprayed it in my car, during the last service/MOT-inspection. It's weeks ago and it is still bothering me.

2. We were lured, with the promise of nice prizes, into the den of time share sellers,
on the Greek island Rhodes. After a tour of one of their hotels, the salesman told me the program, something like 5 weeks of vacation, for Ђ4000,-, excluding the flights.
I thought for 5 seconds and just said "No, that deal sucks!". Then HE was even accusing ME of wasting HIS time. I told him "not my problem", asked him for my prize and left.
The prize was some useless vacation discount voucher. No way, will I ever be even tempted to get into something like that.

3. I buy brand clothes sometimes, but only brands that deliver value for money. I wear a lot of PME Legend. I buy clothes that look and feel good and I spend more on 100% cotton, because micro-plastics are so damaging to the environment. Of course a coat is often made of plastics, because cotton would soak up the rain like a sponge. I use my coats for years. The price varies a lot. One summer coat costed about $50, but I paid $300, on sale, for a good winter coat. It's not an investment, I'm paying for comfort. I'm not paying (a lot) for status.

4. I do spend some money monthly on the state's lottery. I know it's incredibly unlikely that I ever win a big prize, but the video called it a "tax on hope". That hope is worth the money for me. For many people, it's the ONLY hope they have to ever escape their pitiful existence. I am lucky, I don't have a pitiful existence, I have wealth that is unattainable for many young people these days, and I'm pretty good at investing. Still, that "tax on hope"
is worth it for me. First of all, it's the state's lottery. Part of my money goes to prizes, part goes to charities and part goes to the government, which makes it a tax literally. I don't mind paying taxes, when the government uses it well, which they mostly do. The state is the sole shareholder, so I'm not further enriching some private owner.
Second, it encourages big dreams and motivates me to accumulate some wealth.
Still, I'm not postponing living, like Warren Buffet. I'm living for now too. I'm prioritizing a job that I like, instead of a job that makes more money. I'm working for 40 hrs/week and never even have to think of work outside of those hours. I work to live, I don't live to work.
DON'T try apps like Acorns or Robinhood, they are designed to make you gamble away your money, while their owners become wealthy from your sub-optimal decisions.
Use traditional trading platforms and don't think you can be a day-trader.

5. I never buy anything, except my house, on a loan. I did have student loans once, but those have long been paid off. I have a credit card, but any purchase on it is immediately deducted from my bank account.

6. I studied for 10 years, but in The Netherlands education is much more affordable. Without that education, I would not have been able to climb up to my current job.
Like I said under 5, my student loans have long been paid off. A country that makes education that expensive is hurting it's own competition strength. Education is not just an investment in your own future, it's also an investment for the country. Every dollar spent on education by the state, provides it with a $10 return in economic benefit over time.

7. I don't own a boat. The idea is to spend money on things that make you happy and more comfortable, not things to show your wealth, just to make you look important. I grew up in The Netherlands, where showing your wealth is considered to be vulgar. Our culture is defined by the proverb "Doe maar gewoon, dan doe je al gek genoeg.", which means "Just act normal, then you're already acting crazy enough.".

8. I pay around $40/month for life insurance, for both of us. When one of us dies, the other gets just enough money to be able to stay in our house. Insurance in general is much more expensive in the US than in Europe. The example calculations are bullshit. Insurance is not an investment, it's risk remediation. It's to protect your significant other, when you fall away, so they don't suffer financial disaster, besides the loss of you.

9. My current phone is the first one in many years that I bought new. The previous 4 were all cast-offs from my girlfriend. She is a heavy phone user and I only used phones for WhatsApp. Every time her battery-life declined too much, I just did a fresh install, with minimum apps, increasing the battery-life to days. But, I've been using the phone more,
so I bough myself a new one, with a good camera. And I have a subscription for 12 GB data. I don't even use a separate camera on my vacations anymore. I do have a PC and gaming hobby. I spend about $400 per year on it. For a main hobby, I think that's fine.
I fix things only as long as I think they are still worth fixing. However, when I buy things, one of my major criteria for the product is build quality and reliability. I buy quality appliances that last long. I don't buy French or Italian cars, because something always breaks on them. I own my third Japanese car, because usually they last at least 15 years, before their maintenance costs turn not cost-effective. Car parts are very expensive.
At some point in a car's lifespan, the parts become more expensive than their practical value and the functional value of the car. I must admit it's a luxury consideration, because not everyone has the money to replace a car, when that time comes. I can, but always make sure that I can, for when the need arises.

10. We aren't married, but it was only for a small part a financial decision. There was always some family struggle in my girlfriend's family. That would have meant that not everyone would or could be there. It would also have put a damper on the festivities.
That wasn't worth it to me. We did have a big party, when we were together for 25 years. Otherwise, we have a cohabitation contract and wills together. I also think that the whole promising to be faithful to each other and to stay together is bullshit. About 36% to 40% of marriages don't last. Why would people even promise something that they don't know if they truly want to keep? I'm not doing that and I'm not expecting that. We are not each other's property. We are lucky to have each other, but when that changes, some old promise won't change anything. My love and loyalty is my gift, not my obligation.
I don't expect anything different in return.

What was very telling, is that during this video, I got several adverts for ways to become financially independent, if I would follow their seminar or get into their investment program. All people who are trying to do exactly what the video warns about. I'm sure that many people even are attracted to those things, at such a time. Then they can help those people become financially independent, while they probably loose a lot of money themselves. Why do people get lured into crypto? Because rich people advertise for it, while they have a investment system trading hundreds of thousands of dollars, pump-and-dumping crypto's, and taking all the money from the small fish. It's a scam.

Oh sure, they intentionally went to live in an apartment where the landlord tripled their rent, so they could go bankrupt and live in a nice box, or they intentionally had an accident, so their medical bills bankrupted them, so they could live in a nice box, or they intentionally picked a demon wife, who divorced them, took all their money,
so they could live in a nice box.

The only ones who love 'illegal' immigrants are the Trump voting 'criminal' employers
who exploit them.



Business owner who voted for Trump says ICE detained a third of his employees
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If he is a criminal, for hiring 'illegals', as your Assistant Secretary Dept. of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin said, why is he not in jail awaiting trial right now. He is clearly facilitating 'illegals'.

Like dgraff?

Yeah, war crimes are fun, aren't they.

Do you still trust every word Elon says, or only when he tells you what you want to hear?

It's probably not the price of the filter, but the labor to exchange it. If your Buick is designed like this one, you can probably save money by buying a cabin filter for it online and exchanging it yourself.
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I have no idea what my dealer charges me to exchange the cabin filter. I just bring in my car in the morning, drive back the rental car, work until they call me in the afternoon, and go pick up the car again. It's expensive, between $400 and $700 every year, but I'm not interested anymore in doing car work myself. I only fill up the windshield washer fluid, exchange the battery in they keys and investigate/reset errors in the OBD II car diagnostics system. I have a $10 bluetooth dongle that saves me trips to the dealer.

Yes, most can do it in 15 minutes, unless your car is designed like a Lincoln, in which case it's not just 4 screws, but an hour's work for a skilled mechanic, for which they charge you $200,-. If your car is a Toyota, there are no screws at all. In my car, there are no screws either, but a plastic cover that clicks into place, although it's a bit tricky.
Did you watch the video?

Lincoln VS Toyota design:
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He is NOT acting in the best interest of America, he is acting in HIS best interest, always.

In any case, you already have many kings; they all shared Trump's stage at his inauguration. They all have more money than my king and much more influence on your government. They are also immune from the law, when they brake the law.
They are no king by title, but they rule over you like no king in Europe did in at least
a century.

The Grifter Tier List of Professor Dave.
"Who is the Biggest Scumbag I've Debunked?"
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Funny stuff!

Shame that Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro aren't on there.
Still 2 of the most famous and skilled grifters in the world.

If even Candace Owens gets it, why don't most of you?
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What's wrong with that, is that it's turning people into garbage.
They are a useless burden to society. It's your fault for creating them.

I'm not a lefty/socialist out of compassion alone, but because it's better for ALL OF US.
It maximizes people's potential, so they contribute to society.
Bums in cardboard boxes don't contribute anything. Well, maybe diseases.

Hear it from the two most extreme right-wingers in the world:
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Why do you think that is even related to this?
You don't need social housing, you can afford to buy.
So do I, but I still think people who are not as lucky,
deserve to live in a decent home as well.

I was actually investigating if there is something similar for motorbikes as we did with sports-cars. So far, I have not found one that provides this to people who don't have a driver's license for motor-bikes. If I find something, I'm probably going to do it.

We are a member of the state's lottery, so I do spend money on a ridiculously low chance to win a lot of money. I know it doesn't make sense mathematically, but it provides me some inspiration and motivation. As long as I don't win a lot of money,
I'm trying to make it the old fashioned way and the more modern way, which is investing in stocks. I'm not getting rich from it yet, but I made about $11,500 with it. That's a good return on my time investment, because I don't spend a lot of time on it.

Thanks.
Driving a skateboard requires real skill. I can't do it.

How Socialists Solved The Housing Crisis
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If you don't like socialism, provide a link to a video called:
"How Capitalists Solved The Housing Crisis"

There are many Europeans who like cars and like to drive fast. We might use public transport and bikes more, but those are practical considerations. It's much easier to not have a car in my country, but I would just feel incredibly limited, if I wouldn't have a car. However, if we go to our city center for a movie, we often use the bikes, because parking in the city center costs $4/hour. We just had a week in Paris, but except for 1 time, we left the car in a Park & Ride and used the train and subway the whole day. It's impossible to do what we did by car. There's just no parking spaces available near the Sacrй-Cњur, the Louvre, the Notre-Dame, the Eiffel tower, the Arc de Triomphe, etc.

I only got my driver's license at age 21, but I have driven cars in Germany, Greece, Belgium, France, Italy, Denmark and the UK. Those are challenging experiences that made me a far superior driver than the average American, I'm sure. Most Americans cannot even drive a car with a manual transmission.

Last year, I got a track day on our circuit Zandvoort, for my birthday. I raced a Porsche, Lamborghini, Ferrari and Alpine, together with my best friend. We both drove 5 laps with each car, behind a pace car. The driving pace was challenging at first, but I got used to it quickly. There are always several groups of race cars on the track at the time, that drive about the same speed, because too much overtaking would be dangerous.
The maximum speed that I drove that day was around 130 mph on the straight. I'm sure we could have reached 155, if the pace car allowed it. It was a lot of fun, but I would love to be allowed to go flat out. However, that would be an even more expensive racing package. That day already cost Ђ955 ($1.119,40). It's not that I couldn't afford to do this more often, but their are more important goals that I want to save money for.

I said it was ChatGPT, didn't I?
You don't have to be a sex addict, to be on this site.