You are a goddamn crazy person. Touch grass, and get help.
Aw, isn't that cute. You felt so strongly about this that you decided to do your part and downdoot my prior several posts. Aren't you just precious.
spez: Holy shit! All of them! You sir, are not simply a clown, you are the entire motherfucking circus.
Go outside. Not even fooling; back away from that keyboard--it is not doing you any favors.
dopplespez: I moved my children to Florida, you neanderthal fuck. We don't need to do shit except work on our own communities. You keep expecting us to come save you. We won't. Dig yourself out of your own mess, if you have the guts for it.
(you don't)
Yo! I used to sell those computers, working for Circuit City. $400 dollars off, with a 4-year AOL/Compuserve subscription. If you bought the lowest-level eMachines, you could get a new (pretty bad, but still) desktop for $99. Thing is, we did the rebate at the store, not mail-in. So, I mean, wow. Computer for a hundred bucks.
This made it hard to actually make money selling computers, since you made next-to-nothing unless you were selling $1k+ machines plus printer plus printer cable plus paper etc etc. Then came the extended warranties, and it all went to shit anyway.
Cool tool, thank you.
So the story of gas in America (averagely) is that it started to climb a little from low $2.00 in December of 2020. It hits $3 around March, then staggers from 3 to about $3.20 throughout 2020. Come January 2021, it rises troublingly to around $3.60 by February, and has been a nightmare cliff wall up ever since.
From this, I feel comfortable saying OP's story is basically junk. His narrative is that gas was 3+ during some significant portion of the Trump Presidency (untrue), and that corona lowered gas prices (REMARKABLY untrue).
Nah, this is all what it looks like on its face. As Democrats asserted themselves (as they did from March 2020), and then accelerating with their dominance, gas prices can be safely said to be firmly correlated with those motherfuckers.
On point, at least.
Are you kidding? It's the more into the system the more grim the world is. Outside is the Sun, stars in the night sky, meadows full of flowers, the whole shebang. I drive by the same herd of deer everyday, who seem to wait for me to go by before bounding over the fences on either side of the road. I see what seem to be the same 2 wild bunnies every time I come home at dusk. Most days, an armadillo. There are dragonflies, and Japanese beetles, and field mice. My family has a "lizard count" at dinner. Every day the sky is a different color, with different cloud configurations.
Inside the system is nothing but the grey flatness of twitter, facebook, instagram, tik-tok. It's training your face to accept everything with the same non-expression. Blow air out your nose at the funniest thing you've ever seen. Update your profile background like a man of the 50's would've watered his lawn. But for nobody. Just to keep your head above water. Just to keep the anxiety at a simmer rather than a boil.
I'd have to see it broken down, region over time then. $3.25 is massively higher than anything I ever saw, and at the time, I lived in a Northeastern Blue State as well.
Other point stands firm: It's not possible to blame "corona" for gas prices being what they were for 3 years before most people ever heard the term.
You are incredibly uninteresting to talk to.
Purity testing is purity testing. You end up throwing out your best allies, because they have actual first-hand experience with your enemies.
This kind of shit is why Koretzky had a hard time treating you like anything other than ignorant yahoos.
People only went remote en masse in March of 2020; it couldn't possibly explain gas prices for the bulk of the Trump Presidency. That, and though I've not seen hard data, it seems to me a relatively small number of desk-surfers went remote compared to the center-mass of people who actually work for a living, and were never offered the option because it's hard to dig holes or do hot tar roofing remotely. I don't know when in that time period you paid over $3, but it sounds like someone sold you a bridge, rather than this being an accurate remembrance of an actual gas price any time between 2017 and 2021.
For that amount of money, I assume the job is literally to not do anything. Occupy a seat and don't get in anyone's way, I mean.
Okay, but what I'm trying to do here is clean up your process of recognizing who exactly is "involved in the wef." When I see someone point to YGL on a resume, or having been in the same room as Klaus Schwab at some point, and going on to consider that person indelibly compromised, it's an eye-roll.
I'm fine with us walking away from it each thinking the other's view on the subject is dumb as hell. But in reality, one of our perspectives is dumb as hell.
Kid, I pre-date KiA prime on plebbit. I just don't often bother even registering on these fly-by-night forums, because I think in years rather than days, and frankly most of the conversation is stupid and boring. This is probably due to the aggregate you.
Hey, I'm not your buddy here, buddy. I love America, but there's something currently occupying it that I don't love even a little, and would like to see fail. If it has to fail throwing itself against China or Russia, then I hope that's what shall be. I think the people of America would be fine, and would be better off without this weird and evil international apparatus.
My purpose here was to add perspective where it's lacking. Apparently nobody else here has been to, or had a family member in, some metropolitan b-school program, because if they had they'd know this, so I thought I'd chime in.
It sounds outlandish I guess if you're not personally acquainted with it, so it's met how it's met, so so be it. You can't force somebody to take you at your word, or to accept something they're disinclined to.
Okay. I mean, yes, I did, several times. Because if you're attending a b-school in a major City, as I was, this is a thing you're encouraged to do. If you're planning on going for Goldman Sachs, or Vanguard, or McKinsey, Deloitte, Booz Allen, etc etc., this is part of the "soft skills" program that you're supposed to be developing. It's utterly garden variety, and every year thousands--maybe tens of thousands--of grad students do the exact same thing. Just because you've not been party to it, doesn't make it exotic.
Maybe I wasn't invited to the "important or relevant" conversations; This is my point. Assuredly, because the bulk of the conversations aren't important or relevant.
I'm not sure why this is hard to get across, it comes back to the same premise: Just because someone at some point was recognized by these entities, does not make them an agent of these agencies. You should look to what else they've done and are doing. That YGL on the resume is nigh-meaningless: The most obvious actual meaning is that this person was at some point in the top 5% of their business class. I've got YGL on my Christmas card list, so I estimate that for every alumni ruling Russia or in the Senate, 99 are managing a small gas provider in upstate New York.
Yes, it does. Openly stated, although it's kind of funny you take it as a gotcha.
The point was, most of this thing, and the overwhelming preponderance of the people who've ever had the tag attached to their name in some way, are no more nefarious than volunteers for Kiwanis, or Lion's Club, or somesuch. Sometimes people get their panties in a bunch over the Masons, when in reality, 99.9% of it is old men raising small amounts of money to buy winter boots for kids. Maybe there are Masons in blood-sketched basements making sacrifices to Moloch, but if a thing is what it does most often (which it is), this would be a stupid way to think about the thing that is Masons.
You should read slower, or better.
You should realize: The YGL and even the WEF are not nearly as (uniformly) nefarious as alt-media people like to think. Sure, the Davos set is shady as hell, but outside of that, it's like a 4H club for graduate students, especially business schools. The World Economic Council is like this too. Spooky in theory, really dull in practice.
I've been to WEF conferences. Not very interesting. Wear a 3-piece suit and eat a 5-course meal in the mid-morning while listening to some TED talk about currency. Impress an important person with your impeccable manners and ability to carry on trite conversation while waving a glass of champagne around, and get recognized for YGL, which is an up-jumped merit badge.
No doubt some matriculates of these things go on to do bigger and darker things. But just because you at some point got tagged by these enterprises--like an endangered penguin--doesn't mean you're a functioning agent of the NWO.
Put it this way: It's unlikely that Putin's YGL affiliation what made him interesting. But as a potent dude, it wasn't unlikely from him to have picked up that affiliation along the way.
As an American? None at all. It's beyond obvious at this point that there is a sick, fat, Lovecraftian tentacle-monster sitting atop what used to be the United States, pulling levers as it will, and it cares not a whit for the people of America.
I'll sign in just to say that I don't consider myself a psycho, and I want it to go hot as soon as possible. I have kids, and I do not want them to be the ones who find themselves both new to adulthood and new to the conflict. I especially do not want them to find themselves in this conflict with the current crop of millennials as the reigning custodians, the stewards, the guardians in charge. I fear this outcome more than anything. GenX is the last generation that retains the memory of how things were, and how things could've been, before a handful of gut-punches sent Christendom into what might be a fatal tailspin. Whether or not it survives might depend on conflict becoming neighborhood-to-neighborhood, City vs. Suburb/Rural, before GenX isn't around to at least remind the younger combatants that a good, decent, peace is possible.
XP was my OS of choice. I'm chugging along with 7.1, but it's harder and harder to keep it going, as support continues to drop off.
I'm sure those super-discounted computers probably exacerbated Eternal September. And I have a feeling people probably weren't so happy 2 years into a 4-year dial-up internet subscription.