The Thriller
Well-Known Member
lolIf gas goes up more than $0.20/gal it will absolutely break me. How could anyone weather such chaotic economic tides?
That’s it, time for fascism!
lolIf gas goes up more than $0.20/gal it will absolutely break me. How could anyone weather such chaotic economic tides?
Is that a lot? We use a different system here. How much is diesel normally over the summer? Where do you live?I'm currently paying around 2.15 a litre for diesel, that will easily go up to 3 dollars a litre if Israel go to war with Iran.
The same people who complain about gas prices are the ones who sit in their trucks at work on their break with the truck running and heater blasting while they play on their phones for over an hour each day.Is that a lot? We use a different system here. How much is diesel normally over the summer? Where do you live?
If possible, I’d encourage as many of my fellow Americans to drive fuel efficient cars. Hybrids are pretty affordable now, usually have great HP (sometimes more than their gas only models), and are fun to drive. The current Toyota Camry gets 40-50 MPG, is the same size as the regular gas only Camry, and will last 10+ years. It’s amazing how much money Americans can save if they don’t waste their money on penis enhancers like a Ford-350 that they drive to the office, church, and the grocery store.
I drive a Camry and I know it costs me about $50-$55 bucks to fill it up once every 1.5-2 weeks. If I had a hybrid, I’d probably be more like every 2-3 weeks. My next car will be a hybrid but my gas only mpg isn’t bad. And paying a few extra bucks over the summer for gas isn’t going to break me. Just go to McDonald’s one fewer time to make up for the price in gas.
...and a guy reliving his high school hall monitor glory days. Thank you former hall monitor! Maybe with your guidance we can beat climate change.Meanwhile our break room has a bunch of desktop computers, a gym, 2 pool tables, 2 foosball tables, a couch, big TV...
Isn't that re-retaliation. Israel hit Iran first.Great Israel has retaliated against Iran
Nobody cares because they all realize it’s a money laundering scam to get tax dollars into private US weapons arms manufacturers and back to corrupt US politicians.I'm reading how Ukraine is getting pounded in the East right now and they are starved for American arms... where is NATO in all of this? Where's neighboring Poland or Romania? Where's France? Where's the UK? Spain? Italy? Finland? Where's Canada? Sweden?
Why is it on one country to supply close to 45% of the entire funding and arms? Keep in mind we just added another 60 billion to this. That 60 billion is far more than any other country has given yet. The total that we've now given is far more than other NATO countries have given combined. Seems to me America is the only country that really cares.View attachment 16307
Everyone cares and everyone knows what the military industrial complex is and that it is making people massively rich. But they also know it is not a scam. It produces the best weapons on the planet that have been battle tested over and over and over again. Not every single thing is a success, especially not right out of the gate, but our MIC produces the best weapons in the world.Nobody cares because they all realize it’s a money laundering scam to get tax dollars into private US weapons arms manufacturers and back to corrupt US politicians.
Yeah, it's a suspicion but I think a lot of people and their friends are getting extremely rich off of this. That includes Republicans like Lindsey Graham. Not only that but Biden frees up tens of billions of dollars to Iran in which in return they are supplying Russia with arms and missiles. Iran who is also helping Hamas. Then we send billions to Israel.Nobody cares because they all realize it’s a money laundering scam to get tax dollars into private US weapons arms manufacturers and back to corrupt US politicians.
Huh? Do you really think that just because some of the weapons aren’t crap that it makes it not a scam? Haha!!! You realize they are also probably supplying troops with literally everything from snacks to toilet paper to laundry service to crayons. I bet Lockheed Martin laundry service is pretty expensive.Everyone cares and everyone knows what the military industrial complex is and that it is making people massively rich. But they also know it is not a scam. It produces the best weapons on the planet that have been battle tested over and over and over again. Not every single thing is a success, especially not right out of the gate, but our MIC produces the best weapons in the world.
You can't complain about all the horrible things our government, largely via our military, do and out the other side of your mouth act like the money spent on weapons is a scam.
What was an actual scam was much of the weapons, supplies and equipment Russia had on paper before the brutal, unjustified and idiotic invasion of Ukraine. So much of what they thought they had plain old didn't exist, was not operational, and or had been sold on the black market by their generals.
It is not a "scam." Maybe this is just a vocabulary problem on your end.Huh? Do you really think that just because some of the weapons aren’t crap that it makes it not a scam? Haha!!! You realize they are also probably supplying troops with literally everything from snacks to toilet paper to laundry service to crayons. I bet Lockheed Martin laundry service is pretty expensive.
Instigating wars all over the world and supplying both sides with weapons is a scam even if they are great weapons dum dum.
That’s not even taking into account how much of that money has gone to corrupt politicians here, there, and everywhere. Do you know what a scam is? Do you know what money laundering is?
War is a racket…
“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.“
Lol… are you serious? Money laundering isnt a scam? Fraud isn’t a scam? Ok sure…It is not a "scam." Maybe this is just a vocabulary problem on your end.
Yeah, a quote from a Major General of the USMC. Is that who you usually take inspiration from? Do you trust what he's saying because you agree with it, or because of his military position?
Biden has the lowest approval rating in history. What an utterly insulting out of touch post. Crazy how people can blatantly lie like this.Democrats see it as helping most working class and rural folks through expanded employment opprtunites and social services.
Vulnerability to influence operations, Mr. Warner said, is not confined to the United States. In Slovakia, for example, Russian information operations influenced views of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
“Slovakia was 80 percent pro-Ukraine,” he said. “Two years later, with massive amounts of Russian misinformation and disinformation, you have a pro-Russian government and 55 percent of Slovaks think America started the war in Ukraine.”
Propaganda to me would be someone saying something is racist and then next second openly supporting that racist for doing the very thing they said was racist. Talking about bad actors, having someone who will completely flip their morals daily, especially on something so important as racism. It shows that racism is ok as long as it suits a persons political agenda. One day racism is important, the next it's swept under the rug. To me that is about as digitally illiterate as possible. A complete self-contradiction. Cowardice.This seems like relevant reporting. This nugget was extremely alarming:
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Americans Are More Vulnerable to Foreign Propaganda, Senator Warns
Senator Mark Warner, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said the United States was more susceptible to Russian influence operations than it was during the 2020 elections.www.nytimes.com
It’s really important to receive news from vetted sources. Bad actors out there are looking to have a malignant influence on American opinions, just as they did in 2016 to help Trump win. and sadly propaganda works on many who don’t know how to be digitally literate.