Board 8 > Freedom, Liberty, Ron Paul - Where all da white refugees at? [dwmf]

(+) Yeah! (+)

Will this survive, or get moderated?
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Do you consider Middle Eastern/West Asian/North African people to be white? If so, that's probably most of them for you.
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Do you consider Middle Eastern/West Asian/North African people to be white? If so, that's probably most of them for you.

No

(except Jesus)
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https://sports.yahoo.com/rafael-nadal-thinks-viewership-determine-mens-womens-tennis-earnings-164449976.html

athlete appeals to basic economics

everyone loses their minds
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Does viewership determine earnings otherwise? I wouldn't assume so but I know nothing about athletes' wages.

Also didn't Greece have refugees pretty recently.
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one person making a tweet with a few emojis = "everyone losing their minds"?
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personal lifez:

I think I'm about to ragequit one of the most highly coveted jobs in the world, lulz
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jesus was a refugee
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SmartMuffin posted...

personal lifez:

I think I'm about to ragequit one of the most highly coveted jobs in the world, lulz

why?
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I hate my boss so much that I've lost all confidence in this company to select and train leadership.
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What's the job?
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SmartMuffin posted...

I hate my boss so much that I've lost all confidence in this company to select and train leadership.

And you think other mega marketing firms are better?

The only solution to this is to spend decades climbing the ladder until you are the shitty boss that everyone hates. Or start your own indie company.
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And you think other mega marketing firms are better?

Nope. My goal is to get lost in a middling corporate bureaucracy where nobody cares enough to be this much of an asshole.
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Trump actually acknowledged in the NK meeting that the military exercises are a big reason for NK's nuclear growth, and there is actual talk of pulling troops from SK. This could have a real chance of sticking now.

But I wonder what will happen when they realize NK will not fully denuclearize and will not give up his oppressive regime. I suppose Trump can tolerate it, and then the next president can go back on it.
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What does your boss do to piss you off, specifically?
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SmartMuffin posted...

I hate my boss so much that I've lost all confidence in this company to select and train leadership.

You have nothing to lose but your chains
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did it

Tried to give two weeks but they were like "nah just leave now" lol

Worst boss I've ever worked for. Oh well.
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What other offers do you have to go to?
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Campaign manager for Cantwell.
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Right now? None.

Got about a years worth of living expenses (at #fakerich standard of living) in a savings account though, and thats without touching my investments or selling my house in Oregon
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Welcome to Team Unemployed.
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CaptainOfCrush posted...

Welcome to Team Unemployed.

God bless me for having a tangible skill to make money without a formal job.
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Instacart delivery here I come
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CaptainOfCrush posted...

Welcome to Team Unemployed.

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SmartMuffin posted...

Right now? None.

You're definitely doing it wrong

Why not get extra paychecks while you find a new job (preferably while at work instead of actually doing your job)?
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TheRock1525 posted...

God bless me for having a tangible skill to make money without a formal job.

I guess I do as well to some extent - freelance tax work earned me some cash Feb-April, but it's not as immediately beneficial as your car skills unless I go all-in on starting my own practice.

foolm0r0n posted...

Why not get extra paychecks while you find a new job (preferably while at work instead of actually doing your job)?

It's true that "the best way to get a job is to have a job" is sound advice, but sometimes, the misery of a person's current job completely overpowers that logic. My gf left her job a couple weeks ago without anything "in the big" even though she has an opportunity she's close to landing. I'm glad she did, because the stress of that job was practically killing her, and the idea of staying there until she DID land something else depressed her even more. It happens to a lot of people.
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CaptainOfCrush posted...

the misery of a person's current job completely overpowers that logic.

Kinda. I think you can turn that misery into joy of squeezing the clowns of their cash until you ditch. Especially in a basic office job like muffin.
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CaptainOfCrush posted...

I guess I do as well to some extent - freelance tax work earned me some cash Feb-April, but it's not as immediately beneficial as your car skills unless I go all-in on starting my own practice.

I fix smashed cars that I buy for cheap then sell for pretty solid profit margins.
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#Dilbertproblems
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https://smbc-comics.com/comic/requiem-for-a-dil

To be fair this does no longer apply to muffin
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Are you sure?

SmartMuffin posted...

My goal is to get lost in a middling corporate bureaucracy where nobody cares enough to be this much of an asshole.

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Trump is getting great PR from this North Korea thing.

The media used to say "Trump is just like Hitler!"

But now they say "Trump is sucking up to Kim Jong Un, who is just like Hitler!"
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https://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/People-kicking-these-food-delivery-robots-is-an-12980712.php

1. One of the great advantages of robots over humans is that they do not feel pain, and therefore, kicking them is a morally neutral act.

2. Nobody tell this author about murder, genocide, etc.
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http://takimag.com/article/blood_simple_steve_sailer/print#axzz5IJNMfkRd

I'm halfway through the book right now, Sailer might actually be underselling things here. The book makes her out to be both incompetent AND vindictive, and the list of people she was able to swindle is incredible.

They simply wanted to believe it was true so much. They wanted to believe in the existence of a young, female, Steve Jobs almost as much as they wanted to believe in gang-rape as fraternity initiation. But wanting something doesn't make it real - no matter how cute and photogenic you are and how many 40-year old Indian millionaires you sleep with.
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the whole "steve jobs was a genius who owed 100% of his success to being so amazing" narrative is also bullshit, though.
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well he was a white male so clearly all of his achievements were due to him taking credit for the hard work of minority womenz
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It was clearly taking credit for the hard work of introverted white males, the most oppressed group in human history
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A female Enron is still quite impressive though
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foolm0r0n posted...

A female Enron is still quite impressive though

This is a lot worse than Enron. Enron actually had a product. A stupid one, but a product nonetheless. Theranos had fucking nothing. And as far as I can tell a much worse corporate culture.

MSM doesn't care as much about this story because Theranos wasn't public, so the only people who lost money on it were rich silicon valley private equity investors.
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http://babylonbee.com/news/gay-man-bravely-comes-out-as-fan-of-chick-fil-a/

surprisingly good analogy
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lmao that's actually pretty solid
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SmartMuffin posted...

This is a lot worse than Enron. Enron actually had a product. A stupid one, but a product nonetheless. Theranos had fucking nothing. And as far as I can tell a much worse corporate culture.

MSM doesn't care as much about this story because Theranos wasn't public, so the only people who lost money on it were rich silicon valley private equity investors.

Wow that IS way better than Enron. Business schools should study her.
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/thresholds-of-violence

Old but still good!
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I hate gladwell's writing so much

But he doesn't try to invent some new pseudo-scientific BS in this article so it's fine
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An interesting view on the political pendulum from David Friedman:

This is close to my Rice Christian theory of political cycles. If the right is politically dominant, there are self-interested reasons for being on the right, so the average ideological quality of the right goes down. Only people who really believe in the left will be on the left, so their quality goes up. In addition, people on the left have lots of opportunities to hone their arguments against the right, people on the right fewer the other way, and people on the left who are not good at defending their position find their situation uncomfortable and drop out.

The result is a world where the intellectual quality and ideological purity of the left are higher than of the right, which eventually makes public views swing left, at which point the process reverses.
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That is not consistent with the decreasing ideological purity across the board. The political cycle is more like a tide that rises and lowers, steadily eroding everything it touches. The "losing" side doesn't cope by strengthening ideology and improving their arguments - instead they further compromise ideology and take on increasingly impulsive and emotional arguments to try to take back dominance. And when it works, that weakened ideology crystallizes as the new normal.

Ideological purity and intellectual arguments ALWAYS require massive and intentional effort and energy inserted into the system. It never shows up naturally or memetically. That's why strong ideologies are always counterculture. If you try to find comfort in the backswing of the pendulum like this guy, you will inevitably get dragged out to sea and drown.
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I just got followed on twitter by a porn star calling herself the "Crypto Girl Next Door."

Muffin, your new favorite performer!
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There's a video called "Shelby blackmails crypto currency thief"

I'm buying this and sending it your way.
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very smart marketing

most camgirls have such shitty understanding of basic business practices, the ones who really get it can make a killing pretty easily imho
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There's this one porn vid that's filmed in the style of those nerdy libertarian roadside handheld videos where they are defending themselves against cops and asserting their rights and such, it's soooo damn good
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