I've met young women who thought just by having an onlyfans they would make money.
They made an account, posted a couple of pictures, and assumed they would get rich. They really though that was all it took.
After a month or so they didn't understand why the money wasn't pouring in.
I don't even know where to pin the blame. The failure of public education to not get these women to understand supply and demand? The lack of understanding that if you are going to be a whore you need to be consistent and realize it takes effort and is a full time job? The fact that there are enough broken young men to pay for shitty iPhone pictures that there is just enough women making enough money for this to be aspirational?
That's the thing. I don't think many, if anyone, actually considers him Chief Executive. I know people who voted for Biden who are completely silent about it now. When I ask about their views on him as a leader I just get dead air. A variation of "Actually Kamala is in charge" (even more horrifying) or "his staff know what to do"
So why does he say things that don't mesh with policy? Why is there an entire staff that can just say "Oh, he didn't mean that"? Why is there continued support to hold the man as some holy person who can't be wrong?
The latter instance you mentioned isn't just brazen, it seems absolutely intentional to me.
Things like this, his recent red lighting speech, and his comments on it after and walking them back show that his staffers/handlers do make an attempt to keep him in the loop on whatever they are planning.
Which is horrifying. I think pretty much everyone here knows that ole Joe isn't all there. I'd bet a large portion of the general public knows this. Yet his staffers don't, don't care, or fully understand his condition yet keep giving him important information. It would be easy enough to keep feeding him whatever cocktail of drugs he is on and trot him out from time to time, have him read from a script, and move him back to Delaware or where ever. So why does he go off-script? What is he being told and then told to tell? We already know his "briefings" are controlled events so why would anyone provide him actual information when the narrative doesn't back that up? Knowing his state, why risk it?
My only guess is that these staffers, his handlers, are True Believers of the State. "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State." They are willing to Weekend at Bernie's the guy around but also truly believe he is head of The Party and therefor infallible.
Which, if I am even a bit right, is horrifying.
Can the average person machine some parts for an older car, no. Can the average person crank out a car sized battery and some silicon? Hell no.
Almost every mid sized town in the US has multiple mechanics and some sort of machine shop.
When the Mad Max future comes those who have a car are going to be rolling in '87 Civics.
A lifetime of allowing myself to be the other woman, taken for granted or treated like a doormat under the false pretense of being “empowered” came to a head one night with the arrival of a text message from an on-again, off-again lover.
“Goodnight baby I love you,” it said. Quickly followed by, “Wrong person.”
Absolute Chad move.
Same. A board needs some lore, too.
I think we are just small enough that we don't have many outsiders. There is haterjuice around but that's just a trollfag, a nihilist.
I don't use the .win "network" ? I'm not sure if there is a front page or popular landing. Maybe we attract some tourists; from what Imp has said some people follow him from another .win place.
Either way Fuck rule 1: I have Christchurch full vid, manifesto, New York Idiot "manifesto" Also https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/15IqxTJgmL/x/c/4Ob7OTMNfGa
That's the rub. I download and archive stuff like this all the time but this particular dump, by its very nature, is something I am hesitant to touch.
I guess I'll just keep an eye on /pol/ for a while and see what turns up.
But the biggest and main problem causing Sri Lanka’s fall was its ban on chemical fertilizers in April 2021. Over 90% of Sri Lanka’s farmers had used chemical fertilizers and, after the ban, 85% experienced crop losses. After the fertilizer ban, rice production fell 20% and prices skyrocketed 50 percent in just six months. Sri Lanka had to import $450 million worth of rice despite having been self-sufficient in the grain just months earlier. The price of carrots and tomatoes rose five-fold. Tea, the nation’s main export, also suffered, thereby undermining the nation’s foreign currency and ability to purchase products from abroad.
Links included in the above text
https://economynext.com/sri-lanka-seeks-rice-bailout-from-china-after-fertilizer-ban-89819/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/world/asia/sri-lanka-organic-farming-fertilizer.html
Even the NYT calls environmentalism bullshit bullshit "Then came Sri Lanka’s sudden, and disastrous, turn toward organic farming"
We'd have the Gulf of Mexico, though. There are established port cities along that coast. Florida sits pretty much at sea level, shouldn't be hard to build a canal through it. And Jacksonville is a port city and it's on the Atlantic.
ultimately the blue states will be forced to accept defeat
You are way too optimistic or don't understand leftist ideology. One of the core tenets of leftist thought is "We are not wrong, we were never wrong, and will never be wrong"
They seek complete dominance. A large island could rise up out in the Pacific, half the size of the US, and all politically right type of people move there, leaving the entire US to the leftists. Do you think they would be ok with that? How long do you think it would take for them to send a plane or a ship out and demand to be let in? And if they were let in, how long until they start working to destroy it? To them, all wrongthink must be destroyed; they will never let you rest.
It is a philosophy of perpetual war, or as they like to frame it, revolution. Eternal revolution. That's why they are constantly at war with each other. You could be the most correct rightthinker today and find yourself against the wall tomorrow.
Divorce is not an option. Why would I want to share a county with people who can do nothing but destroy?
Taken from a related post somewhere:
These 'intelligent, stunning and brave' women could have done so many things.
they could have made a legal or moral argument for their position
they could have taken a more reasonable position like: let the states decide
they could do research and try to present hard evidence to support their position
since they claim to play an important role in the economy they could try strike at work or boycotting
What do they do instead? Threw a childish tantrum and try to withdraw access to their holes. Again, so many options on the table and yet this is what women chose to do. Never forget this.
Yeah, save that shit for ransacking a convenient store or when you are on top of an ambulance in the middle or a riot.