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smartbaum 1 point ago +1 / -0

This is generally true and I'm in favor of the policy, it goes back to Alexander Hamilton. But I don't think the auto industry is a good test case. The new era of illogical engineering in auto manufacturers is borderline criminal how they are developing within the paradigm of planned obsolescence. They are making them practically disposable with the inability to afford repairs.

Uncle Tony's Garage digs into this problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmto6kYTaZo

As consumers more and more catch on to this industry wide scam, they will be intentional in seeking out used vehicles that are at least affordably restorable, and also ignoring overall cost if foreign manufacturers are still prioritizing solid reliable vehicles with engineering intelligence and quality parts.

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smartbaum 1 point ago +1 / -0

He's a funny guy. He's branded himself as the #1 advocate of the Rebellious F-U nature of hard rock n roll, but putting super smiley shiny happy faces on it at the same time like he's kissing butt of the corporate and media establishment he pretends to favor rebelling against.

Club member. If he was British he'd be knighted by now.

I don't ever watch him talk, but the one time I did, even his speech inducting Rush into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame was pretty lame.

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smartbaum 1 point ago +1 / -0

Don't ask someone like him about who should be incarcerated. Hawley's a self proclaimed Christian Nationalist, and many many CNs in that crowd have the eventual post-republic goal of installing a "Christian Caesar" with Unitary Executive power and some form of authority over the spiritual well being of the nation. This will include enforcing penal laws against public blasphemy, heresy, and violating the Sabbath (Sunday sabbath) among other things.

So perhaps, if you are outspoken about your own tradition or faith that doesn't line up with the CNs, if you practice other religion or exercise free speech in certain ways, play football on Sunday, etc, well sorry according to that crowd you might be the one getting chained up. Or worse. Because Mosaic penal codes.

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smartbaum 5 points ago +6 / -1

Before cheering on the remotely activated "human deactivator" among the general public, think about the broader implications of how governments identify and handle those in the population they deem a threat to safety.

Anti Maskers

Anti Covid clot shotters

Anti Lockdown

Anti Censorship of their definition of "Disinformation"

Anti "Renewables" Compliance

If you like the idea of civilian spaces being treated as the battlefield, then good luck when your behaviors, beliefs, or speech make you a state target. A state with the tech to target however they deem fit.

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smartbaum 2 points ago +2 / -0

I surmise that some backroom deal included the stipulation for a relatively graceful and dignified exit, after Biden would be used these years to expose the level of MSM corruption and shadow government operations to the mainstream public. He agreed to be a meat puppet for 3.5 years, but the exit would actually allow for some amends and garner some sympathy.

Not a bad plan imho. But just a theory.

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smartbaum 3 points ago +3 / -0

Precision still matters because inaccuracies are used to shut down discussion of the meaning behind anomalous items of information. Through an indirect connection via Ukraine activities, we can link Routh to Crooks about as closely as linking Hunter Biden or Zelensky to Crooks. It doesn't really illuminate much.

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smartbaum 1 point ago +1 / -0

So what. Her followers are habitual consumers not intentional thinkers. If they did not already see a Kamala endorsement coming from TS, they're not really paying attention at all are they.

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smartbaum 7 points ago +7 / -0

That's not the point. Someone is deliberately putting out fake news to get people making imaginary connections and wasting time with BS theories.

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smartbaum 2 points ago +2 / -0

more likely scenario this individual transitioned early in life.

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smartbaum 3 points ago +3 / -0

Not a fan of entertaining this line of thinking, even if motives are noble. There are too many entities out there with the will and the agency to ride a very fine line between happenstance crises and exploiting, reframing, or even manufacturing crises.

It sounds like a form of historic pragmatism, like what was utilized in the Project for the New American Century from the 1990s. In their thinking, a "new Pearl Harbor" must occur on U.S. soil to kick Americans out of complacency and initiate them into the new paradigm of American global hegemony over against competing and hostile interests abroad. Which then magically happened in the new century.

This all goes back to the justification of thinking behind Operation Northwoods. JFK died, in part, for opposing such evil thought experiments.

Communists and fascists both have used this kind of mass psychology to great effect over the years.

People who are not "awake" don't need something extraordinary. They need encouragement and argumentation to utilize common sense and experience of what's already around them, to question question question, and hopefully come to new personal breakthroughs.

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smartbaum 4 points ago +4 / -0

They created a strangely messianic vibe. He caged the wild beast (RINOs), has a whip and is headed for the temple surrounded by dark clouds, where the money changers are chugging along.

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smartbaum 2 points ago +2 / -0

Quick Thinking = Don't drive around at night in border town MX in the first place. For reasons like this, not to mention much more likely to get into any kind of collision at night. Tijuana is a border town you pass through in the day time to get to better destinations, unless you're going to a cheap dentist or vet in town.

These are low level goons who pull crap like this, not the "cartels" per se. Just like the mafia, the cartels run more of the legit businesses, the restaurants, the amenities, etc. and they want American tourists to get there, have a good time and spend their money. It's local scammers and thieves who don't care about Mexico's reputation to gringos.

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smartbaum 1 point ago +1 / -0

Not true, this doesn't happen very often. I cross several times a year with my family, as do tens of thousands of other Arizonans and Californians.

Just don't cross at night, scammers and bad hombres can be active on stretches of roads.

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smartbaum 2 points ago +2 / -0

Ok I can't believe this is still a thing, but if you are taking the highly specific numerology in the book of Revelation as literal sums like you're reading accounting books, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

The apocalyptic literary genre has to be read on its own terms and not our own fancy theories and assumptions about how WE use numbers in certain contexts now.

Sheesh.

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smartbaum 2 points ago +2 / -0

Cartels hire local U.S. citizen teenagers with a significant amount of cash (for a teen) to pick up / drop off illegals at various designated locations. They also do decoy runs to deliberately get BP on their tail while the real smugglers drive in a different direction with illegals.

Because the teens face criminal consequences for their assisting with transporting illegals, if BP is on their tail, they will usually end up in a high speed chase because they're dumb enough to think they can get away at that point. So of course they speed through red lights and zig zag down Arizona highways which are a bit dangerous already. Plenty of serious collisions have resulted.

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smartbaum 3 points ago +3 / -0

My neck of the woods. Wonder if he knows about the jump driver high speed chases/collisions locals get to experience on the highways once in a while.

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smartbaum -1 points ago +2 / -3

Now he's a shitcoiner? Well, he'll learn his lesson at some point. Everything goes to zero against Bitcoin.

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smartbaum 3 points ago +3 / -0

Absolutely.

Would there be much disappointment on the day of his return, revealing in human form a short-ish, flat nosed, dark skinned Palestinian phenotype with none of the Northern European photogenic, chiseled Chad vibe?

"He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

"He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem."

Isaiah 53:2-3

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smartbaum 2 points ago +2 / -0

The opposite. Owens is, imho, making deliberately asinine arguments at just the right time, after being re-platformed and making legit points about Palestinian genocide, when her words have maximal reach, then immediately goes full retard "just asking questions", so that for normies any criticisms of Israel / Zionists / etc will be associated with the Hitler / Nazi rehab, blue eyes fallacies, la la land crap.

It's a predictable strategy, so she's likely a Zionist asset, tbh.

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