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Um

Disagree

It's both. They're not pretending to be bigots.

Usually a friend or relative of some higher up.

Why are you guys trying to find some logic in this?

Are there any places in Thailand that aren't hot and humid? It's a decent retirement option but I can't stand that kind of weather.

The existence of exceptions does not invalidate a general rule.

they can often get it right

They fail to outperform a broad market index like 85% of the time, and they charge fees for it lol

That's called "timing the market" and it's impossible without insider knowledge.

Historically, what, 4 years or so?

If you pulled all your money out in 2009 you were fucked. But by 2013 things were fine again.

https://fourpillarfreedom.com/heres-how-long-the-stock-market-has-historically-taken-to-recover-from-drops/

If and only if the corporations can maintain control of the government, which has the power to destroy them.

They've had total control for almost a century, so that's fairly stable, but it still would only take a few motivated populists to wrest control.

We're reading different books. Mine is called Equality.

their children’s lives are still left uncertain

Fuck em. A lot of children's lives are uncertain.

It is only a fact that you feel xyz. It does not remotely mean that xyz is true.

Specifically five people.

No, I will not elaborate.

some particularly stupid people treat economic systems as moral systems

ie spreading/stopping communism is a moral good.

“public” schools are private schools

Despite having invented the English language, you Brits are really bad at it

That's the State of Jefferson movement, most likely. Cascadia is about the coastal regions, State of Jefferson is about the inland (right-wing) regions of Washington, Oregon, and Norcal.

That's actually not far off from how things shook out economically in the Civil War. The North had roughly 5x the manpower, firepower, and money of the South. The South was never going to "win" the Civil War, due to that disadvantage. For them, "winning" would have been making the war costly enough to the North that the North gave up.

Calexit is the name of the California secessionist movement that has been around for a few decades.

And we have absolutely no data to suggest that's happening. It's purely hypothetical.