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[QUOTE=NattyBumpo;2563297]I just did. A search of all your posts shows a total of 299 posts in 12 pages. I found no posts with your name on them describing the Medellin punting scene first hand or actual trip reports. .[/QUOTE]Once again this is false, and completely off topic. Though I hope you enjoyed your afternoon reading all of my posts since joining ISG. I'm also pleased to occupy so much space rent between your ears. This says a lot for my on topic posts on this thread.
[QUOTE=PVMonger;2563249]And yet right-wing terrorism is a far greater threat? The only people who [B]don't[/B] believe that are (surprise, surprise) right-wing terrorists and Republicans.[/QUOTE]I agree there are some far right radicals but they are not anti USA, burning flags and terrorizing local businesses. Big difference.
[QUOTE=Canada;2563175]All your description of Antifa is fiction in your twisted mind. The reality is that Antifa is a terrorist group destroying businesses and lives in USA. Burning flags and anti police. That is the reality of Antifa that cities like Portland, Minneapolis, New York and Seattle see every day. You don't acknowledge that in your fantasy life.[/QUOTE]The reality is that Antifa is playing the role of proxy warriors. On behalf of who or for what remains to be seen.
The race-baiting is being done by controlled opposition. The bait was taken resulting in Charlottesville and The Storming of the Capitol.
There you have it. And we are down the rabbit hole.
[QUOTE=NattyBumpo;2563297]I just did. A search of all your posts shows a total of 299 posts in 12 pages. [/QUOTE]As of tonight, you and everyone else I've checked only has 12 pages of posts and about 299 total posts available in search, at least when you start by clicking on the member's handle. Yet you have close to 3000 posts here and were a member well in advance of last year, correct? So was I, though my last searchable post is from December 2020. I have 643 total as is seen in my profile so that's 344 unavailable by your report, pertinent as I haven't been on the ground in Medellin since my last searchable post from last year.
This apparently is a technical decision made by ISG if not a glitch, so you jumped the gun, and are free to apologize to PVMonger and myself. Then you are also welcome to get back on topic if you wish to discuss American politics.
[QUOTE=Vagabundo1;2563233]Xpartan,
I respect and like your posts on the rio mongering thread. [/QUOTE]That's mutual. Your latest post is a masterpiece, BTW, seriously.
[QUOTE]But I must respond with respect to economics.
There is one of the highest GINI indexes in Brazil, as in America. GINI is an index of disparity between wealth, rich and poor.
This is an indication that there is a free market at work.[/QUOTE]But is it?
I didn't know much about GINI, so I looked it up. Turned out, not too many countries have GINI over 50. Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Namibia, Suriname, Zimbabwe in addition, of course, to our beloved Brazil. Are these shining examples of free market? Or are they a perfect example of corruption running amok? Did you see "O mecanismo"?
[QUOTE]8 dollar pussy is a good indication that the market is functioning, as it should. Capitalism in contrast to Marxism is a good thing, it is part of freedom.
The liberal, marxist leaning press is all in favor of the poorest being empowered as much as possible. Thats fine up to a point. [/QUOTE]It never fails to crack me up when people talk Marxism, communism, socialism, as if they have any idea what they're talking about. I STUDIED Marxism (Leninism) and socialist economy. Where did you find "marxist" press in the US? Please don't say WaPo or CNN. Pretty please?
By the way, left-wingers have no idea either (Bernie and his example of Denmark -- fucking hell, what an embarrassment).
There is zero risk of Marxism or socialism ever happening in America. Americans and the West have been vaccinated in the 50-s. There is no socialism in the industrial world. Not in France or Belgium or Sweden or even Denmark. All those countries are free market economies. You're preaching to a choir.
Socialism ain't coming to our shores. Like ever.
[QUOTE]The strength of a democracy, both Amrerica and Brazil is that they could both elect far ends of the spectrum, and change rule peacefully.[/QUOTE]That was the case until November 2020.
It's not the case anymore.
A group of people is adamantly refusing to accept that their guy lost the election despite all evidence, all inspections, all recounts, all court decisions and all the facts.
Sorry to say, senior Vagabundo, but those people come from your political end of the spectrum.
So much for peaceful changes, alas.
Sad!
I am a Joe Rogan point on the spectrum.
Again, I highly respect your posts, which are insightful, up to and including the latest.
That said, I think you perhaps mis categorize me as being at one end.
Politics in America -- and in much of the world, to include Israel -- is a 48 - 48 - and 4 split.
In America, it is 48 democrat, 48 republican, and 4 in the middle, which I would submit to you is the Hillbilly elegy demographic, which was the swing vote in 2016, and the swing vote again in 2020. Hillbilly elegy is a wildly successful book, now a Netflix special for the ADD among us.
Joe Rogan is a -- indeed, the most successful -- podcaster, now on Spotify for a tidy 100 m. He famously moved from CA to TX, for reasons I entirely associate myself with, to use the language of the senate. Joe Rogan is on record as: Supporting Tulsi Gabbard because she is a veteran, among other reasons; for saying he would not vote for Biden because he has dementia; and for voting in fact for Joe Jorgenson, the libertarian candidate -- the 4%. That is pretty much where my politics are. As the saying goes, I voted with my feet, and voted in almost exactly the same way as Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan likes to interview Jocko Willink, who in turn has interviewed James Webb ([URL]jameswebb.com[/URL]), a former Presidential Candidate in 2016.
At the risk of being a political chameleon, I am a Joe Rogan dude. I like country music, but one of my favorite Garth Brooks songs is "We Shall Be Free".
This ain't comin' from no prophet.
Just an ordinary man.
When I close my eyes I see, the way this world shall be.
When we all walk hand in hand.
When the last child cries for a crust of bread.
When the last man dies for just words that he said.
When there's shelter over the poorest head.
We shall be free.
When the last thing we notice is the color of skin.
And the first thing we look for is the beauty within.
When the skies and the oceans are clean again.
Then we shall be free.
We shall be free.
We shall be free.
Stand straight, walk proud.
'Cause we shall be free.
When we're free to love anyone we choose.
When this world's big enough for all different views.
When we all can worship from our own kind of pew.
Then we shall be free, yeah.
But, in contrast to most stereotypes of country music fans, I am a Garth Brooks liberal and agree with much of what Brooks -- one of the most successful poets in America, arguably -- writes in the above lyrics.
I see myself as a Christian -- albeit a terrible sinner. But I believe in the God of Spinoza, which you can also google, as did Einstein.
When Einstein gave lectures at USA Universities, the recurring question that students asked him most was:
- Do you believe in God?
And he always answered:
- I believe in the God of Spinoza.
Baruch de Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher considered one of the great rationalists of 17th century philosophy, along with Descartes.
(Spinoza) : God would say:
Stop praying.
What I want you to do is go out into the world and enjoy your life. I want you to sing, have fun and enjoy everything I've made for you.
Stop going into those dark, cold temples that you built yourself and saying they are my house. My house is in the mountains, in the woods, rivers, lakes, beaches. That's where I live and there I express my love for you.
Stop blaming me for your miserable life; I never told you there was anything wrong with you or that you were a sinner, or that your sexuality was a bad thing. Sex is a gift I have given you and with which you can express your love, your ecstasy, your joy. So don't blame me for everything they made you believe.
Stop reading alleged sacred scriptures that have nothing to do with me. If you can't read me in a sunrise, in a landscape, in the look of your friends, in your son's eyes. ➤ you will find me in no book!
Stop asking me "will you tell me how to do my job?" Stop being so scared of me. I do not judge you or criticize you, nor get angry, or bothered. I am pure love.
Stop asking for forgiveness, there's nothing to forgive. If I made you. I filled you with passions, limitations, pleasures, feelings, needs, inconsistencies. Free will. How can I blame you if you respond to something I put in you? How can I punish you for being the way you are, if I'm the one who made you? Do you think I could create a place to burn all my children who behave badly for the rest of eternity? What kind of god would do that?
Respect your peers and don't do what you don't want for yourself. All I ask is that you pay attention in your life, that alertness is your guide.
My beloved, this life is not a test, not a step on the way, not a rehearsal, nor a prelude to paradise. This life is the only thing here and now and it is all you need.
I have set you absolutely free, no prizes or punishments, no sins or virtues, no one carries a marker, no one keeps a record.
You are absolutely free to create in your life. Heaven or hell.
I can't tell you if there's anything after this life but I can give you a tip. Live as if there is not. As if this is your only chance to enjoy, to love, to exist.
So, if there's nothing after, then you will have enjoyed the opportunity I gave you. And if there is, rest assured that I won't ask if you behaved right or wrong, I'll ask. Did you like it? Did you have fun? What did you enjoy the most? What did you learn?.
Stop believing in me; believing is assuming, guessing, imagining. I don't want you to believe in me, I want you to believe in you. I want you to feel me in you when you kiss your beloved, when you tuck in your little girl, when you caress your dog, when you bathe in the sea.
Stop praising me, what kind of egomaniac God do you think I am?
I'm bored being praised. I'm tired of being thanked. Feeling grateful? Prove it by taking care of yourself, your health, your relationships, the world. Express your joy! That's the way to praise me.
Stop complicating things and repeating as a parakeet what you've been taught about me.
What do you need more miracles for? So many explanations?
The only thing for sure is that you are here, that you are alive, that this world is full of wonders.
- Spinoza.
My view is that Joe Rogan would agree with both the Country Music of Garth Brooks and the God of Spinoza as Einstein saw it.
Now, as to Marxism, I can cite several sources which argue that there is a marxist attack on American institutions including the military. There is a book by a US Air Force LtCol Lohmeir, see.
[URL]https://www.foxnews.com/media/outsted-space-force-playbook-marxism-tucker-carlson-today[/URL]
On this same intellectual thread, there is a letter by 100+ retired American generals and admirals making the same argument.
So, while the likelihood of Marxism succeeding in taking over America is perhaps slim, what we only really need to see is enough of a victory by the marxists for America to lose the reserve currency status of the US Dollar (see eichengreen, exorbitant privilege).
There is an excellent review of the eichengreen book on [URL]economist.com[/URL] which I commend to we few, we happy few mongers.
Which brings me back to our common topic, mongering.
My view as a economist, such that I am, is to agree with [URL]economist.com[/URL] on the subject of mongering, P4 P, etc. You can find the [URL]economist.com[/URL] argument in favor of prostitution. I don't need to link to it.
So, my argument that Brazil is a great country because it has porn star quality hot dogfartnetwork wefuckblackgirlsdotcom quality negras and latinas at the price point of 8 USD for 10 minutes, just enough to shower it, wrap it, and bust a nut in a bent over bunda is within that context. It is illegal in puritanical (the opposite of the god of Spinoza) America. It may be legal in parts of Euroland, but at a higher price point. It can be had in 'merica, but for Ana Foxxx, it is like 1000 USD, and for a shitty, controlled experience, or for similarly inflated prices.
So, I conclude: I am a Joe Rogan middle 4 % swing voter in terms of my view of this topic, American politics.
[QUOTE=Xpartan;2563408]Sorry to say, senior Vagabundo, but those people come from your political end of the spectrum.
So much for peaceful changes, alas.
Sad![/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=NattyBumpo;2563131]Hey Paulie,
Thanks for taking what I said out of context and distorting my point intentionally. But that is what you do. You & PVMonger.
I have gone back and skimmed through your last 200 out of 294 total posts and guess what? Just like with PVMonger's posts, there is not 1 post written by you about girls, picking up girls, or shagging girls. Not one! 98% of your posts are political and argumentative whether posted in this thread or the Colombia thread or the FKK Club thread. Approximately 2% of your posts are non-political, but this small number of posts are always comments about another member's contribution and nothing original in nature and most importantly nothing of value to anyone.[/QUOTE]Hi Natty,
Do not expect any intelligence from any of these liberal idiots. They all stupidly voted for the Clintons, Obama and now Biden so anything they say about anything is suspect at best and more than likely completely twisted like all the fake news they feed their feeble minds with. Mark my words they are turning the USA into a shithole and that is why I am leaving USA for good to live in the Philippines upper class with my gorgeous, busty, intelligent fiancé'. Cheers, mate.
[QUOTE=Canada;2563326]I agree there are some far right radicals but they are not anti USA, burning flags and terrorizing local businesses. Big difference.[/QUOTE]Guess what? Flag burning is constitutionally protected free speech as defined by the First Amendment to the Constitution.
And yes, right-wing-wingnuts are anti-USA because they are against "all men are created equal". How do I know this? Because there are no blacks, browns, yellows, reds, Jews, Muslims etc. That belong. And as much as you and virtually every other Republican would like to deny it, non-white and non-protestant people are Americans.
[QUOTE=Xpartan;2563408]A group of people is adamantly refusing to accept that their guy lost the election despite all evidence, all inspections, all recounts, all court decisions and all the facts.
Sorry to say, senior Vagabundo, but those people come from your political end of the spectrum.
So much for peaceful changes, alas.
Sad![/QUOTE]What "facts" are you talking about Xpartan? The head of Fulton County elections is a hack who previously kicked out Republican observers four years before his stint in Fulton County. He kicked out a Republican judge before!
Now he goes to Fulton County. There is a fucking video of a woman telling everyone to go home and people are on the video putting tarps over the ballot boxes. Four people stay behind. Republican observers leave the vote counting area. These four pull out ballot boxes and run ballots through the machine.
The Republican observers go to a centralized station. They see the area where they left still has votes being counted. They go back to that station and 2 hours has passed.
None of this is disputed.
Given the speed with which the machines counted the votes, it is possible that the ballots ran during that time frame could have given Biden Georgia.
When a Republican observer objected to questionable ballots from a long term facility that went 55 to 1 for Biden, she was rebuffed and no recount or vote verification was implemented. After filing a complaint, she was fired.
Were the four people who hung around Fulton County deposed? Fuck no!
A judge said those people who filed suit against Fulton County did not have standing to file suit and any potential issues with the election should have been addressed before hand. That is a judge punting not declaring no fraud occurred.
So what were those vote totals? You do not know, and I do not know. The difference between us is I care about the integrity of the election, and you do not give a fuck which means you are completely compromised, lying, POS Democratic douche.
Here you go lying about an "inspection". What were the vote totals when those four vote counters ran ballots through the machine without Republican observers? You don't know, and I don't know. So quit with your fucking lying bullshit. Recounting potentially fraudulent ballots does not mean an election was fair.
[QUOTE=DCups;2563504]Hi Natty,
Do not expect any intelligence from any of these liberal idiots. They all stupidly voted for the Clintons, Obama and now Biden so anything they say about anything is suspect at best and more than likely completely twisted like all the fake news they feed their feeble minds with. Mark my words they are turning the USA into a shithole and that is why I am leaving USA for good to live in the Philippines upper class with my gorgeous, busty, intelligent fianc'. Cheers, mate.[/QUOTE]DCups, I totally agree with you. The radical Woke are destroying the USA and I can't believe how fast the takeover is occurring. But before these fools took over high tech, the corporate media, the education system, the streets of our major cities and poor demented Joe Biden; I thought retiring in southern Thailand, Cambodia, or the PI would be just fine, but if this Leftwing coup is successful and they cement their control over everyone, everything including the Supreme Court and the Constitution, we can kiss good bye all our freedom and I think we will all need to get different passports fast / change citizenship because being just a resident expat in some friendly foreign country will not be enough to live free if you are an American citizen. For example, a leftwing controlled fascist IRS will come after our assets no matter where we reside as long as we are American citizens. A left wing-controlled judiciary and police force will come after us for sex crimes (fucking young local girls for money). We will all be political refugees.
So, my top 2 friendly, welcoming, refuge safe countries are Australia and Costa Rica, but both countries require a 4-year residency before citizenship is granted. That is why this next election in 2022 is critical. If we do not take back the House and keep the Senate, we will lose our country forever. The situation is that serious.
[QUOTE=Elvis2008;2563579]What "facts" are you talking about Xpartan? The head of Fulton County elections is a hack who previously kicked out Republican observers four years before his stint in Fulton County. He kicked out a Republican judge before!..[/QUOTE]What so you suppose the percentage of persons on this forum who are conspiratorial thinkers vs. The general population? In my normal life, I don't run into very little of this, but maybe that's because of the zipcode I live in.
[URL]https://youtu.be/S0tFgPG26vA[/URL]
This explains exactly the middle of the spectrum where I'm with joe Rogan.
[QUOTE=Vagabundo1;2563464]I am a Joe Rogan point on the spectrum.
Again, I highly respect your posts, which are insightful, up to and including the latest.
That said, I think you perhaps mis categorize me as being at one end.
Politics in America -- and in much of the world, to include Israel -- is a 48 - 48 - and 4 split.
In America, it is 48 democrat, 48 republican, and 4 in the middle, which I would submit to you is the Hillbilly elegy demographic, which was the swing vote in 2016, and the swing vote again in 2020. Hillbilly elegy is a wildly successful book, now a Netflix special for the ADD among us.
Joe Rogan is a -- indeed, the most successful -- podcaster, now on Spotify for a tidy 100 m. He famously moved from CA to TX, for reasons I entirely associate myself with, to use the language of the senate. Joe Rogan is on record as: Supporting Tulsi Gabbard because she is a veteran, among other reasons; for saying he would not vote for Biden because he has dementia; and for voting in fact for Joe Jorgenson, the libertarian candidate -- the 4%.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=DCups;2563504]Hi Natty,
Do not expect any intelligence from any of these liberal idiots. They all stupidly voted for the Clintons, Obama and now Biden so anything they say about anything is suspect at best and more than likely completely twisted like all the fake news they feed their feeble minds with. Mark my words they are turning the USA into a shithole and that is why I am leaving USA for good to live in the Philippines upper class with my gorgeous, busty, intelligent fianc'. Cheers, mate.[/QUOTE]I live a fun and comfortable retired life in Thailand. Been here since 2012. You just named two of the four presidents during my working life whose policies produced the positive economic expansion, jobs creation, stock market gains and property value appreciation that helped make this life for me possible starting at a relatively young age (for retirement); Clinton and Obama. That and being lucky enough to have smart adult relatives who got us out of a losing Red state when I was a kid and into California where, thankfully, I bought property.
The other two presidents during my working life whose economic policies I credit with contributing significantly to my happy retirement were LBJ and Carter. All Dems. I guess my strong recommendation to any American worker wanting a happy, financially comfortable retirement is vote Democrat and buy in California.
The Republican presidents in between were not worth shit in that regard since voting for and betting on Great USA Recessions/Depressions, deep and serious stock and housing market crashes, massive job losses and whatever other "Once in 100 Years Disaster!" Republicans invariable manage to find, embrace and develope at every opportunity is not my style. In fact, their policies contributed nothing but drag and loss to my situation. I would be way, way ahead on that count had they never been elected.
Biden has not been president long enough for me to see if or how his policies will effect my financial life. But it is certain he will be a far more positive influence than Trump was. Lol. Major understatement there.
BTW, Biden does not have dementia. Zero evidence of it. What you are hearing in his occasional verbal bobbles is his way of overcoming a tendency to stutter, a lifelong affliction. When he hits a word in a sentence that he instantly identifies as a potential stutter trigger he just as instantly replaces it with a perfectly acceptable alternate word or words and continues on with the meaning and message of that sentence. He is actually quite brilliant at it considering the kind of specialized grammar his chosen vocation requires.
That is not something anyone with dementia could do. I mean, it isn't like he gets stuck in a mental and verbal dead end trying to say ordinary words like "origins" or "anonymous" and can't stop saying "oranges, oranges" and "anominous, anominous" instead, among many others, the way Trump does.
Covfefe!
[QUOTE=Vagabundo1;2563116]And Lula was better?
This is the wrong site for politics probably.
But yeah at least in Brazil Bolsanaro can be a normal guy, tell ugly women they are ugly and he wouldn't have sex with them, and laugh it off.
The point of American politics is you have to look at ugly women and like it.[/QUOTE]As the old saying goes, politics is showbiz for ugly people.
[QUOTE=PVMonger;2563249]And yet right-wing terrorism is a far greater threat? The only people who [B]don't[/B] believe that are (surprise, surprise) right-wing terrorists and Republicans.[/QUOTE]Dude,
How many cities did "right-wing terrorists" burn and loot last year? Did "right-wing terrorists" set up armed autonomous zones from which police were banned and in which fascism was the law? Nope. That was all far-left antifa communists. Try and look at reality, rather than fake news agenda.