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nerdygaymormon · 5 years ago

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I’m having a really hard time with Institute this semester talking about the eternal family because my current family and my sexuality and don’t know what to do.

Institute anon. To elaborate on my previous ask, my parents are sealed but getting a divorce (not a temple divorce I think?) and I’m ace but don’t really want to get married very much and talking about being queer in the Church is hard no matter what your identity is, I think, especially since so much doctrine revolves around the family and marriage, and it hurts and I don’t want to be there. But I don’t want to lose the Spirit. But I also don’t feel the Spirit when I’m hurting so much.

Still Institute anon 😅 That was like. An overview of what’s so difficult but there are also a lot of more nuanced things in our individual lessons and it’s HARD.

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I’m sorry you’re having a rough time.

I imagine these are some of the things you’re learning in Institute:

* It is not good for man (humans) to be alone.

* Sex drive is a gift from God.

* Law of Chastity is to have no sexual relations except with a person you’re legally married to

* The greatest happiness in life comes from having a spouse, a companion for your life

* This earthly life is when we start an eternal family

* The covenant path is the way to be exalted & live with God

–UNLESS you’re queer, then none of this applies to you. We’re in a class apart. The greatest blessings aren’t for us.

To exclude queer people is to violate the idea that God doesn’t play favorites, that all are alike to God.

I think about Mark 2:27 when Jesus said, “The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.”I think it’s fair to say “Marriage was made for people, not people for marriage.”

Over the millenia, what marriage looks like and the rules & laws that govern it have changed many times. Even just in our modern era, I’ve observed big difference between the marriages of my grandparents, my parents & my siblings as expectations and roles have shifted.

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Given that you’re ace, check out 1 Corinthians 7. It’s a very different lesson about marriage than the one you’ll get in Institute. Being single is the preferred option and marriage is for those who aren’t strong enough to go without sex.

Paul is not into sex & romance. If he were alive today he might describe himself as ace/aro. Paul wishes more people were like him because they’d be free to give more energy and service to God.

But for the people who aren’t blessed with the gift of celibacy, for those people who have sexual desires & needs, Paul encourages marriage. He speaks of it as a secondary choice.

I think it’s interesting in this chapter he never mentions having children as the purpose for sex. Rather sex is something that will bring two people together as they make sure their partner’s needs are met.

Also in this chapter, Paul is adamant that celibacy should NOT be forced on people. To not allow marriage, to require celibacy of people is to drive most of them to fornication (aka, sex outside of marriage). Is there a better argument than Paul’s for why Christians should accept and celebrate same-sex marriage?

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Oh, one more scriptural lesson for ace people.

Jesus’ ministry took place when he was ages 30-33. He was not married. We have no indication He sought romantic relationships. He had very close relationships with men & women. This is the example the Savior set for us.

And when asked about divorce, Jesus gave a lesson on marriage that our modern-day church sets aside.

1) It’s good for a man and a woman to marry

2) An exception to this would be if this person is divorced, in that case they shouldn’t marry (unless they got divorce because their spouse was having sex with someone else). If they marry, they are adulterers and so is the person who marries them.

3) Another exception to this rule about a man marrying a woman–eunuchs. Jesus describes different types of “eunuchs,” and He doesn’t limit it to men who have been castrated, He includes people who choose to not have sex. With that in mind, it very much sounds like Jesus is including gay people and ace/aro folks in His “eunuch” exception to a man-should-marry-a-woman statement

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Even if not explicitly stated, I find that what gets said about marriage & families often has a negative side to it.

For example, on Father’s Day a speaker said that God sends his spirit children to people he trusts the most. While it’s a nice sentiment and made that dad feel good about himself, the message it sends me is, “God doesn’t trust you enough. There’s a lot of idiots out there who have kids, and God trusts them all more than you.”

I know the speaker didn’t consider what his words meant to people who aren’t like him. This happens a lot at church, especially around the topics of marriage & family. Wonderful things are said about people who fit a certain mold, which queer people do not, and so the negative implications of those messages apparently belongs to us.

One thing I’ve learned is to push back against those negative messages. If you’re in a position to raise your hand and vocalize it, great. If you’re not, then at least tell yourself positive messages to replace the ones you’re hearing.

You are not less worthy than others. You’re not wrong or lesser. You are a child of God who is loved dearly and your Heavenly Parents are rooting for you. They trust you and will help you craft a life that is meaningful and full of blessings.

President Nelson recently said that You may know for yourself what is true and what is not. If you’re not feeling the Spirit at Institute when those lessons are presented, that’s a sign. Try asking about your path. If you’re getting an education or working, you can pray for confirmation you’re on the right path.

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Your parents getting divorced really puts a big crack in the “families can be forever” ideal. I often wonder about the Primary kids we have sing about having a mother & father and an eternal family, but they are in a single-parent home, or part-member family. There’s a dissonance there that people who fit the mold don’t stop to think about.

I recognize the church has it’s principles and ideals, and I’m not saying it shouldn’t teach those things, but what about the rest of us who don’t fit into the Family Proclamation?

In the April 2019 General Conference, Elder Anderson recognized there are a LOT of us who don’t “fit neatly inside the Proclamation.” His answer was that perhaps he doesn’t understand their situations, but the Savior does, to turn to Jesus.

The Savior knows you and your situation and offers you love.

Elder Anderson promised that “He (Jesus) will bless you and lift the burdens too heavy to bear alone. He will give you eternal friends and opportunities to serve. More important, He will fill you with the powerful Spirit of the Holy Ghost and shine His heavenly approval upon you.”

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Hypnosis Mic 「Hoodstar」Japanese, Romaji and English Lyric Translation (rough)

So unless I’m really out of the loop in the hypmic fandom, no one’s really put out a full English translation of the most recent song... I had a few free hours and a translator or two at my fingertips so I decided to throw together a rough idea of what they’re saying to tide me over til one of the proper translation accounts gives us a decent version!

Please understand I’m not trying to rival Eng Hypnosis Mic, Hypnosis Mic Translations or any other translators, their work is amazing and I highly anticipate their takes on Hoodstar’s lyrics! Be sure to check theirs out when they finally post them! This is just supposed to be a rough interpretation cuz I’m impatient... ehehe.

Feel free to repost, quote etc. if you feel the need, but credit would be greatly appreciated :)

Note: I used “/” to indicate separate phrases when they’re on the same line (eg. “A crazy troupe / boobytrap”, where “a crazy troupe” and “boobytrap” sound like they should be separate lines).

Buster Bros:

I’m a Hood star

Shine only star

この街で一番のBad boys

kono machi de ichiban no Bad boys

The baddest boys in town

Check yourself そう Success

Check yourself sō Success

Check yourself if you think you have success

その順繰りにぶっ飛ばす

sono junguri ni buttobasu

Cuz we’re gonna blast our way to the top

Ichiro:

ブクロは俺らのHometown

bukuro wa orera no Hometown

‘Bukuro is ma home town

おっとご無体ご法度 Calmdown

otto go mutai gohatto Calmdown

Oops, too impersonal- calm down

Yo 勝手はさせない解ってるはずだぜ

Yo katte wa sasenai wakatteru hazu da ze

Yo, don’t feel like you’re lost

とっぽい奴もじゃないっぽい奴も

to ppoi yatsu mo janai ppoi yatsu mo

The guy you just saw, isn’t like me

Jiro:

“Hey”てか”なぁ”てか知んねえから

“Hey” teka “naa” teka shinnē kara

“Hey” (in English), or rather, “Hey” (in Japanese) so you can understand

カラカラの脳には用は無い話だ

karakara no nō ni wa yō wa nai hanashi da

Dried-up minds have no business speaking to me

Buster Bros 敵に回して

Buster Bros teki ni mawashite

Buster Bros encircle the competition

馬鹿ばら撒いてんのお前のほうじゃね？

baka bara maite n no omae no hō ja ne?

You lot are idiots, aren’t you?

Saburo:

ただただ呆れるアキレス腱さらす

tadatada akireru akiresuken sarasu

I was amazed to lay bare Achilles heel

雑魚共相手の毎日に飽きてる

jakodomo aite no mainichi ni akiteru

I’m tired of being the small fry

万が一にも正気はない

mangaichi ni mo shōki wa nai

In any case, I’m not insane

お前らにまったくもって興味はない

omaera ni mattaku motte kyōmi wa nai

I really don’t have any interest in you

Buster Bros:

Check it out

兎にも角にも行くぜbaby

usagi ni mo kaku ni mo iku ze baby

Bouncing down to the corner baby

Boogie town walking down

ブクロレペゼン

bukurorepezen

Ikebukuro represent

呆けた相手じゃ儲けもんだぜ

boketa aite ja mōke mon da ze

Making winnings from you idiot opponents

よく学んどけ俺らOn the stage

yoku manandoke orera On the stage

Yo we’re learning on the stage

Mad Trigger Crew:

I’m a Hood star

Shine only star

この街で一番のBad boys

kono machi de ichiban no Bad boys

The baddest boys in town

Check yourself そう Success

Check yourself sō Success

Check yourself if you think you have success

その順繰りにぶっ飛ばす

sono junguri ni buttobasu

Cuz we’re gonna blast our way to the top

Samatoki:

混沌と混沌の間で

konton to konton no ma de

In the space between chaos and chaos

本当の感情はコントロール不能なようだ

hontō no kanjō wa kontoro-ru funōna yō da

True feelings take on an uncontrollable form

侠客斯くあるべしなんて

kyōkaku kaku aru beshi nante

What is it that people who survive by their own rules live for

口で言うほど簡単じゃねえよ

kuchi de iu hodo kantan janē yo

It’s easier said than done

Juto:

鈍くさいやつはSacrifice しゃーない

don kusai yatsu wa Sacryficesha - nai

A clumsy deadbeat isn’t a good sacrifice

警視庁内懲戒覚悟で跋扈

Keishichōnai chōkai kakugo de bakko

Us police as prepared to punish the uncontrolled

Never back down 馬鹿ばっかだからな

Never back down baka bakka da kara na

Never back down, that’s all there is to it, stupid

Wackな爆弾処理がmy workだ

Wack na bakudan shori ga my work da

Dealing with wack bombs is my work

Rio:

不条理な連中 boobytrap

A crazy troupe / boobytrap

ハメる足掻くもなく戦慄き泣く

hame ru agaku mo naku wananaki naku

Ensnaring and internal struggle / trembling and crying

毒もないがまるで味気もない

doku mo nai ga marude ajike mo nai

The poison is inside, but it’s tasteless

ドクトリン無くして君の勝利はない

dokutorin naku shite kimi no shōri wa nai

You don’t get victory without doctrine

Mad Trigger Crew:

Check it out

兎にも角にも行くぜbaby

usagi ni mo kaku ni mo iku ze baby

Bouncing down to the corner baby

Boogie town walking down

ヨコハマレペゼン

yokohamarepezen

Yokohama represent

呆けた相手じゃ儲けもんだぜ

boketa aite ja mōke mon da ze

Making winnings from you idiot opponents

よく学んどけ俺らOn the stage

yoku manandoke orera On the stage

Yo we’re learning on the stage

Everyone:

Division Rap Battleで願いを叶えてやるぜ

Division Rap Battle de negai o kanaeteyaru ze

Let’s make wishes come true in this Division Rap Battle

気分はBouncy Don’t stop your music

kibun wa Bouncy Don’t stop your music

Feel the mood Bouncy / Don’t stop your music

扉開ける鍵はライムジャンキーなガキの悪足掻き

obira akeru kagi wa raimujanki- na gaki no waruagaki

The key to unlocking the door is the limelight-seekers’ useless struggle

チープなプライドじゃたちまちに喰われちまうぜ

chi-pu na puraido ja tachimachi ni kuwarechimau ze

Cheap pride will be immediately scorned

流線型描いてくデリバリーフローで切り開くこの茨道

ryūsenkei egaiteku deribari- furo- de kirihiraku kono ibaradō

Streamlined depictions, delivery and flow to cut through these thorns

てか何しに生まれ謳うかをその目その耳で確かめな

teka nani shi ni umare utau ka o sono me sono mimi de tashikame na

Rather, be sure to try and celebrate the eyes and ears we were born with

Fling Posse:

I’m a Hood star

Shine only star

この街で一番のBad boys

kono machi de ichiban no Bad boys

The baddest boys in town

Check yourself そう Success

Check yourself sō Success

Check yourself if you think you have success

その順繰りにぶっ飛ばす

sono junguri ni buttobasu

Cuz we’re gonna blast our way to the top

REMIX!

Ramuda:

惚れた腫れたはプレタポルテ

horeta hareta wa puretaporute

Fall in love with my sunny ready-to-wear

いやいや僕はオートクチュールです

iyaiya boku wa o-tokuchu-ru desu

Ah, ah~ I’m haute couture

コットンキャンディーはmade in 乱数

kotton kyandhi- wa Made in ransū

Cotton candy is made at random

甘くて苦〜いファムファタールだ

amakute ku i fuxamufuxata-ru da

Painfully bittersweet to be a femme fatale

Gentaro:

演じきる背徳的対称

enjikiru haitokuteki taishō

I’ll perform a dishonest symmetry

性悪でnoirなジキルとハイド

seiaku de noir na jikiru to haido

An inconstant noir; Jekyll and Hyde

光の三原色RGB

hikari no sangenshoku RGB

The three primary colours of light: RBG

Ramuda Genrato 残りはBakaだ♪

Ramuda Genrato nokori wa Baka da♪

Ramuda, Gentaro, and Bonehead♪

Dice:

おい誰が馬鹿だそれよりもバカラ

oi dare ga baka da sore yori mo bakara

Oi! Look who’s calling who stupid

馬でも鹿でも猪鹿蝶だ

uma de mo shika de mo Ino shika chō da

A horse, a deer, a hog, a butterfly, meat to be hunted

元手を頂戴 my posse? Okay!

motode o chōdai my posse? Okay!

Loan me some money, my posse? Okay!

倍の倍返し奪い返すぜ兄弟！

bai no baigaeshi ubaikaesu ze kyōdai!

I’ll get double returns, bros!

Fling Posse:

Check it out

兎にも角にも行くぜbaby

usagi ni mo kaku ni mo iku ze baby

Bouncing down to the corner baby

Boogie town walking down

シブヤレペゼン

shibuyarepezen

Shibuya represent

呆けた相手じゃ儲けもんだぜ

boketa aite ja mōke mon da ze

Making winnings from you idiot opponents

よく学んどけ俺らOn the stage

yoku manandoke orera On the stage

Yo we’re learning on the stage

Matenro:

I’m a Hood star

Shine only star

この街で一番のBad boys

kono machi de ichiban no Bad boys

The baddest boys in town

Check yourself そう Success

Check yourself sō Success

Check yourself if you think you have success

その順繰りにぶっ飛ばす

sono junguri ni buttobasu

Cuz we’re gonna blast our way to the top

Jakurai:

甚だおかしな話

hanahada okashina hanashi

An exceedingly odd story

だが中には稀に素晴らしい

daga nakani wa mare ni subarashii

Yet in rare cases it is splendid

Ah クリニカル・インディケーター

Ah kurinikaruindhike-ta-

A clinical indicator

謂わばオリジナル韻辞典だ

iwaba orijinaru in jiten da

Is the original rhyme dictionary, so to speak

Hifumi:

本日のイベンター飲ん兵衛に乾杯

honjitsu no ibenta- nonbē ni kanpai

Let’s have a toast for today’s event

あグイグイグイグイグビグビグビGood!

a guiguiguiguigubigubigubi Good !

Glug-glug-glug-glug-goody-goody-goody-GOOD!

6ozタンブラー気分はヘネシー

6 oz tanbura- kibun wa heneshi-

Tonight’s mood is a 6 oz tumbler of Hennesy

Shot Shot Shot 楽しいっしょ？

Shot Shot Shot tanoshii ssho?

Shot shot shot, have fun together?

Doppo:

しょうがねえな一二三肝臓大切に(´・ω・｀)

shōganē na Hifumi kanzō taisetsu ni (´・ω・｀)

Think about your liver, Hifumi! (´・ω・｀)

治外法権基本は自己責任の街

omega chigaihōken kihon wa jiko sekinin no machi

This crazy city’s all about self-responsibility

ギラッギラなのでもペラッペラな

giraggira na no de mo perappera na

That glitter and irresponsibility

俺みたいなのでも飲み込むShinjuku Town

ore mitaina no demo nomikomu Shinjuku Town

Is similar to how I understand Shinjuku Town

Matenro:

Check it out

兎にも角にも行くぜbaby

usagi ni mo kaku ni mo iku ze baby

Bouncing down to the corner baby

Boogie town walking down

シンジュクレペゼン

shinjukurepezen

Shinjuku represent

呆けた相手じゃ儲けもんだぜ

boketa aite ja mōke mon da ze

Making winnings from you idiot opponents

よく学んどけ俺らOn the stage

yoku manandoke orera On the stage

Yo we’re learning on the stage

Everyone:

Division Rap Battleで願いを叶えてやるぜ

Division Rap Battle de negai o kanaeteyaru ze

Let’s make wishes come true in this Division Rap Battle

気分はBouncy Don’t stop your music

kibun wa Bouncy Don’t stop your music

Feel the mood Bouncy / Don’t stop your music

扉開ける鍵はライムジャンキーなガキの悪足掻き

obira akeru kagi wa raimujanki- na gaki no waruagaki

The key to unlocking the door is the limelight-seekers’ useless struggle

チープなプライドじゃたちまちに喰われちまうぜ

chi-pu na puraido ja tachimachi ni kuwarechimau ze

Cheap pride will be immediately scorned

流線型描いてくデリバリーフローで切り開くこの茨道

ryūsenkei egaiteku deribari- furo- de kirihiraku kono ibaradō

Streamlined depictions, delivery and flow to cut through these thorns

てか何しに生まれ謳うかをその目その耳で確かめな

teka nani shi ni umare utau ka o sono me sono mimi de tashikame na

Rather, be sure to try and celebrate the eyes and ears we were born with

Ichiro:

今やフザけた日常は

imaya Fuzaketa nichijō wa

Right now I’m messin’ with you as usual

Samatoki:

喉潰すか脳ひしゃげるか

nodo tsubusu ka nō hishageru ka

Voices blocked and minds crushed

Ramuda:

You are welcome とはいかないね

You are welcome to wa ikanai ne

You are welcome, to pass on

Jakurai:

沈黙は死に繋がる動因-drive-

chinmoku wa shi ni tsunagaru dōin - drive -

Silence results in death / drive

Jiro:

蝿が群がるあの誇張-Hype-

hae ga muragaru ano kochō - Hype -

A crazy gathering of scrubs / hype

Juto:

耐え難いこのkillingtime-暇潰し

ae gatai kono killingtime - himatsubushi -

This unbearable waste of time / killing time

Gentaro:

哀歓悲喜すべてが凶器

aikan hiki subete ga kyōki

All emotions, joys and sorrows, are lethal weaponry

Hifumi:

I can kick it 喚きなさい

I can kick it wameki nasai

I can kick it, uproaring

Saburo:

小細工じゃ務まらない

kozaiku ja tsutomarana

You’re fit to be tricked

Rio:

スタイルの紛争地

sutairu no funsōchi

The grounds of this style of combat

Dice:

今日は隣人-Neighbor-明日は刃

kyō wa rinjin - Neighbor - ashita wa ha

Today’s the neighbour, tomorrow’s the danger

Doppo:

前のめりな破壊者=Destroyer-

maenomeri na hakaisha Destroyer -

Flinging headlong into destruction / destroyer

Everyone:

Alright

Division Rap Battleで願いを叶えてやるぜ

Division Rap Battle de negai o kanaeteyaru ze

Let’s make wishes come true in this Division Rap Battle

気分はBouncy Don’t stop your music

kibun wa Bouncy Don’t stop your music

Feel the mood Bouncy / Don’t stop your music

ノイズも飼い馴らせばいいのさ

noizu mo kai naraseba ii no sa

Raising noise to tame goodness

チープなプライドじゃたちまちに喰われちまうぜ

chi-pu na puraido ja tachimachi ni kuwarechimau ze

Cheap pride will be immediately scorned

最高のBounty どうなってもいいさ

kuwarechimau ze saikō no Bounty dō natte mo iisa

We can gain the highest bounty with our different calls

こいつ次第さヒプノシスマイク

koitsu shidaisa hipunoshisumaiku

It’s all up to our Hypnosis Mic

壁に書かれた嘘に唾を吐き泣き喚いてちゃ置いてかれんぜ

abe ni kakareta uso ni tsuba o haki naki wameite cha oite karen ze

Spit on the lies written on the wall / Leave behind pitiful howls and cries

点と点を繋げるこのマイクハイエンド連呼する俺らのライム

ten to ten o tsunageru kono maiku haiendo renkosuru orera no raimu

Our superior mics connect points thanks to my rhyme

流線型描いてくデリバリーフローで切り開くこの茨道

ryūsenkei egaiteku deribari- furo- de kirihiraku kono ibaradō

Streamlined depictions, delivery and flow to cut through these thorns

てか何しに生まれ謳うかをその目その耳で確かめな

teka nani shi ni umare utau ka o sono me sono mimi de tashikame na

Rather, be sure to try and celebrate the eyes and ears we were born with

#hypmic #hypnosis mic #hypnosis microphone #hypmictranslations #english hypmic #hoodstar #matenrou #fling posse #buster bros #mad trigger crew

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What Republicans Are Running For President This Year

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What Republicans Are Running For President This Year

The This Sounds Crazy But Hear Me Out Wild Card

GOP Senator Roy Blunt Says 2022 Will Be a Great Election Year for Republicans

Mike Lindell

Donald Trump wasnt the first celebrity businessman without any experience in elective office who got traction in a Republican presidential primary. In 2012, it was former Godfathers Pizza CEO Herman Cain. In 1996 and 2000, it was magazine publisher Steve Forbes. Back in 1940, utility executive Wendell Willkie snagged the GOP nomination.

Today, who is the most famous, politically active Republican businessman? MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell. That may sound crazy, but no crazier than what we experienced in 2016.

Lindell is a leader of the bitter-enders trying to overturn the democratic results of the presidential election. He claims to have spent $1 million on legal work and Stop the Steal rallies to support Trumps delusional cause. On December 19, he tweeted out a call for Trump to impose martial law in these 7 states and get the machines/ballots! though he soon deleted the post.

He became a conservative darling in part because he heavily marketed his pillows on Fox News; in the second quarter of 2020, MyPillow was Fox Newss top advertiser, spending more than double the amount of the second-place company. But now he accuses Fox News, and its early call that Biden won Arizona, of conspiring to defeat Trump

What to watch for in 2021:While Lindell has been thinking about a Minnesota gubernatorial bid, he has managed to visit neighboring Iowa several times in 2020. Lets see which state he campaigns in more in 2021.

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Former Un Ambassador Nikki Haley

Haley gets a lot of buzz, and she has been actively courting attention since leaving the Trump administration almost two years ago. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump even considered pulling her in last summer to replace Vice President Mike Pence on the 2020 ticket to help with Trumps ailing numbers among women a move the husband-wife White House duo fervently denied.);

Haley moves up a notch based on consistent exposure since June, a prime speaking slot at the Republican National Convention on Monday night, and a strong showing of 11 percent support in the most-recent 2024 poll.;

The former South Carolina governor can stake claim to being popular among the world of Washington pundits and professional political types, many of whom were interviewed for this story and spoke very highly of her. But she has also been dinged by some operatives as more of a media creation than a serious contender for 2024.

Leaving the job was hard, but putting family first was more important. And I think now its about taking it a year at a time, she said earlier this year during a meeting of the Federalist Society.

William Henry Harrison Vs Martin Van Buren

Aware that Van Burens problems gave them a good chance for victory, the Whigs rejected the candidacy of Henry Clay, their most prominent leader, because of his support for the unpopular Second Bank of the United States. Instead, stealing a page from the Democratic emphasis on Andrew Jacksons military exploits, they chose William Henry Harrison, a hero of early Indian wars and the War of 1812. The Whig vice-presidential nominee was John Tyler, a onetime Democrat who had broken with Jackson over his veto of the bill rechartering the Second Bank.

Studiously avoiding divisive issues like the Bank and internal improvements, the Whigs depicted Harrison as living in a log cabin and drinking hard cider. They used slogans like Tippecanoe and Tyler too, and Van, Van, Van/Van is a used-up man, to stir voters. Harrison won by a popular vote of 1,275,612 to 1,130,033, and an electoral margin of 234 to 60. But the victory proved to be a hollow one because Harrison died one month after his inauguration. Tyler, his successor, would not accept Whig economic doctrine, and the change in presidential politics had little effect on presidential policy.

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Im Running For President Because Its Time For New Leadership Because Its Time For New Energy And Its Time For A New Commitment To Make Sure That The Opportunities Getting Out There Being Able To Hear Peoples Concerns Address Them With New Ideas Has Been An Extraordinary Experience He Said

Biden thought hard about running in 2016, but he decided against it, being so soon after his son beaus death and. Running for president of the united states is an. But there is so much more to it. Joe biden opposed president reagans peace through strength that led to the fall of the berlin wall. And speaking of brand image i read the program of warren recently, and was tempted to give her a french honorary citizenship as she is trying to import.

Eight Republican 2024 Candidates Speak In Texas Next Week But Not Trump

WASHINGTON, April 30 A Republican Party event in Texas next week will hear from eight potential candidates for the partys presidential nomination in 2024, without former President Donald Trump, a source involved in the planning said on Friday.

The May 7 event at a hotel in Austin is being co-hosted by U.S. Senator John Cornyn and Texas Governor Greg Abbott, to thank donors who helped fund a voter registration drive and get-out-the-vote efforts in the state.

High-profile Republican politicians who are considering whether to seek the partys nomination in 2024 are expected to speak to the crowd of about 200 donors.

They include former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and U.S. senators Marco Rubio, Tim Scott and Rick Scott, the source said.

The event comes as Republicans wrestle with whether to try to move past Trump in the next election cycle or fall in line behind him. Trump told Fox Business Networks Maria Bartiromo on Thursday that he was 100% considering another run after losing in 2020 to Democrat Joe Biden.

Trump was not invited to Texas, the source said. Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley was invited but was unable to attend, the source said.

Many Republican insiders doubt Trump will follow through on his musings about running for president in 2024, leaving a void that other party leaders will seek to fill.

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Notable Candidates Include Individuals Who Have Qualified To Appear On Enough State There Were 21 Candidates On The Ballot Each In Vermont And Colorado

Bush said in retrospect that the divisiveness of the primary challenge might have cost bush reelection. There are several people running for the republican nomination, but given the current president is a republican, he is the only one that matters. Notable candidates include individuals who have qualified to appear on enough state there were 21 candidates on the ballot each in vermont and colorado. While the republican and democratic nominees will be on the ballot in all states, independents must meet an array why is he running for president? Former congressmen joe walsh announces republican presidential primary challenge.

But it can be repaired by someone who can lead, and i ran for president to win and make a difference in our great country, swalwell photo: Since the current president is democrat, we already know who the democrat running for president will be . The only other person running worth mentioning is bill weld, former governor of massachusetts, who was the libertarian nominee for vp back in 2016. Other republicans have made it quite clear they dont see a path to the nomination for anyone but trump in 2020. I think that as a republican party, we have lost our way. mark sanford.

Lincoln Chafeewho Is He

The failson scion of a Rhode Island Republican family, Chafee served in the Senate as a Republican ; as governor, as an independent and then a Democrat ; and then ran for president as a Democrat in 2016.

Is he running? No. He filed papers to run for the Libertarian Party nomination on January 5, but dropped out on April 7.

Why did he want to run?

Who wanted him to run?

Could he have won the nomination? Given that he dropped his bid even without any serious rivals in the race, apparently not.

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Abortion Rights Drinking Age Drugs And More

At present, Weld is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Self-described as strongly pro-choice when it comes to abortion rights, he is also said to believe that drug use should not be considered a criminal offense. He feels the drinking age should be lowered but has not stated at what age it should be set.;

When it comes to matters of the military, Weld also draws a conservative line. He feels that America should withdraw its troops from foreign engagements and that the countrys efforts and resources should be refocused on domestic issues, in order to prosper.;According to Aljhazeera.com, Weld previously supported bans on assault weapons in the US.

Sen Elizabeth Warren D

Colorado’s only Republican governor elected within last 50 years says presidential race is over

After establishing a presidential exploratory committee just before New Year’s Day 2019, Warren officially joined the race in February with an event in Massachusetts.

“This is the fight of our lives,” the senator said. “The fight to build an America where dreams are possible, an America that works for everyone. I am in that fight all the way.”

The progressive candidate who ran against corruption and pumped out more than 50 policy proposals during her campaign, suspended her run after a lackluster finish in all four early voting states and on Super Tuesday — where she even came up short in her home state. Her best finish was in Iowa, where she came in third.

“I will not be running for president in 2020. But I guarantee I will stay in the fight for the hard-working folks across the country who’ve got the short end of the stick, over and over,” she told reporters at a media availability in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 5.

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Cancellation Of State Caucuses Or Primaries

The Washington Examiner reported on December 19, 2018, that the South Carolina Republican Party had not ruled out forgoing a primary contest to protect Trump from any primary challengers. Party chairman Drew McKissick stated, “Considering the fact that the entire party supports the president, we’ll end up doing what’s in the president’s best interest.” On January 24, another Washington Examiner report indicated that the Kansas Republican Party was “likely” to scrap its presidential caucus to “save resources”.

In August 2019, the Associated Press reported that the Nevada Republican Party was also contemplating canceling their caucuses, with the state party spokesman, Keith Schipper, saying it “isn’t about any kind of conspiracy theory about protecting the president;… He’s going to be the nominee;… This is about protecting resources to make sure that the president wins in Nevada and that Republicans up and down the ballot win in 2020.”

Kansas, Nevada and South Carolina’s state committees officially voted on September 7, 2019, to cancel their caucus and primary. The Arizona state Republican Party indicated two days later that it will not hold a primary. These four were joined by the Alaska state Republican party on September 21, when its central committee announced they would not hold a presidential primary.

Virginia Republicans decided to allocate delegates at the state convention.

Dwight D Eisenhower: Campaigns And Elections

The Campaign and Election of 1952:

During an extraordinary military career, Dwight D. Eisenhower had done some things that few, if any, Americans had ever experienced. But he had not done something that was extremely commonhe had never voted. Yet in 1948, many Americans hoped that the general would cast his first ballotfor himself as President. Even Harry S. Truman tried to interest Eisenhower in a run for the presidency. As the election year of 1948 approached, Truman, who became President when Franklin D. Roosevelt died in 1945, seemed to have little chance of winning a full term of his own. In a private meeting, Truman proposed that he and Eisenhower run together on the Democratic ticket, with Eisenhower as the presidential candidate and Truman in second position. Eisenhower rejected this astonishing offer and probably thought that he would never again have to consider the possibility of a run for the White House. He also spurned requests from prominent Republicans that he seek the GOP nomination for President.

Campaign Difficulties

“There was a time when I thought he would make a good President… That was my mistake.”

President Harry Truman, 1952

The Campaign and Election of 1956

The President Prevails

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Presidential Campaign And 2011 Hints At Presidential Run

In 2000, Trump for nomination as the Reform Party candidate for the but withdrew from the race in February 2000. A July 1999 poll matching him against likely Republican nominee and likely Democratic nominee showed Trump with seven percent support.

In 2011, Trump against President Barack Obama in , making his first speaking appearance at the in February 2011 and giving speeches in early primary states. In May 2011, he announced he would not run, and he endorsed in February 2012. Trump’s presidential ambitions were generally not taken seriously at the time.

Trump As A Stalking Horse

Of course, there was plenty of speculation during the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination that Trump was trying to sabotage the GOP candidates by saying outrageous things and making a mockery of the process in a bid to help Hillary Clinton win the election.

“Donald Trump is trolling the GOP,” political reporter Jonathan Allen wrote. Trump also threatened to run for president as an independent, a move many believed would siphon votes from the Republican nominee as other, similar candidates have done in the past.

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Former Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo

If the 2024 election turns into a foreign policy debate, the 57-year-old Pompeo is in a strong position with his background as former secretary of state and CIA director.

During Pompeos recent speech at the Westside Conservative Club in Urbandale, Iowa, he gave a preview of some of the lines that might end up in his presidential stump speech. He said hes spent more time with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un than any other American, including basketball star Dennis Rodman, and talked about the threat he sees from China. His mention of the U.S. moving its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem during his tenure was met with applause.

Before serving in Trumps Cabinet, Pompeo blasted then-candidate Trump as an authoritarian. Pompeo made the remarks the day of the Kansas caucus in 2016, quoting Trump saying that if he told a soldier to commit a war crime, they would go and do it. Pompeo said the U.S. had spent 7½ years with an authoritarian president who ignored the Constitution, referencing former President Barack Obama, and we dont need four more years of that.

Pompeo served three full terms representing Kansas in the U.S. House before joining the Trump administration. He and his wife, Susan, have one child. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy and Harvard Law and served in the U.S. Army.

Donald J Trump Vs Hillary R Clinton

The 2016 election was unconventional in its level of divisiveness. Former first lady, New York Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first woman to be nominated by a major party in a U.S. presidential election. Donald Trump, a New York real estate baron and reality TV star, was quick to mock fellow Republicans running for the nomination as well as his democratic opponent.

In what many political analysts considered a stunning upset, Trump, with his populist, nationalist campaign, lost the popular vote, but won the Electoral College, becoming the nations 45th president.

Popular Vote: 65,853,516 to 62,984,825 . Electoral College: 306 to 232 .

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Former South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg

Buttigieg first made a national name for himself with a bid for Democratic National Committee chair in 2017. He was the youngest candidate in the 2020 race, and could have become the first gay man to be elected president.

While he trailed many of his opponents in name recognition early on, Buttigieg argued that he could represent a generational shift in government, and speaks frequently of issues that will affect younger Americans, such as tax reform, gun control and climate change.

“I get the audacity of somebody like me talking about running for this office, but frankly it’s a leap for anybody,” Buttigieg said on ABC’s “This Week” in February. “And yet all of the people who had that job have been mortals who just bring their experience to the table. My experience is that of guiding a city through transformation, and I think a mayor at any level has the kind of executive frontline government experience and, by the way, problem-solving experience that we need more in Washington right now.”

Late on March 1, following the South Carolina primary and ahead of Super Tuesday, he said “the path has narrowed to a close” and announced that he was suspending his 2020 presidential campaign.

Trump Remains 2024 Candidate Of Choice For Most Republicans Poll Shows

How GOP retirements are making the 2022 midterm elections a Trump referendum

59% of Republican voters said they wanted Trump to play prominent role in party, but tens of thousands left after Capitol riot

If the 2024 Republican presidential primary were held today, Donald Trump would be the clear favorite to win big. That was the message from a Politico-Morning Consult poll released on Tuesday, three days after Trumps acquittal in his second impeachment trial, on a charge of inciting the insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January.

Among Republican voters, 59% said they wanted Trump to play a prominent role in their party, up a whopping 18 points from the last such poll, taken in the aftermath of the Capitol riot. A slightly lower number, 54%, said they would back Trump in the primary.

Tens of thousands of Republicans left the party after the Capitol insurrection, and a majority of Americans have told other pollsters they would like to see Trump banished from politics.

Though the 45th president will be 78 by election day 2024, he will be able to run again if he chooses, having escaped being barred from office after a 57-43 Senate vote to convict with seven Republican defections but 10 votes short of the majority needed.

Mike Pences life was threatened by Trump supporters at the Capitol, as the vice-president presided over the ratification of electoral college results confirming Trumps defeat by Joe Biden. He placed second in the Politico-Morning Consult poll, with 12%.

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modernsocialist · 6 years ago

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Multiculturalism as the Social Hegemony of Liberal Capitalism and How Capitalism Co-opted the Left

The Liberal Left is made up of a diverse range of people united by a simple desire to improve society and make the world a better place for us all to live. Though an easy target for the right-wing press, this is far better than being apathetic, resistant to change, or worse, hating those that are different. A fairly large portion of these people define themselves as being anti-capitalist or socialist. Yet while these people have good intentions, many are unfortunately blind to the trap that capitalism has ensnared them in. Marx understood, and was truly impressed by, the strength of capitalism including its ability to adapt to changes in society.

An example of this adaptability can be found in the period when ex-Soviet Bloc countries, such as Poland and the Czech Republic, started acceding to the European Union. British business interests saw an opportunity to introduce masses of cheap labour and lobbied the Blair government to allow early entry to the British labour market for their citizens. This was simply because business wanted a larger labour force to help depress wages and also because what for us were poorly-paid jobs, to East Europeans were seen as tickets to riches for their families back home. (One pertinent point - the stereotypical ‘Polish plumber’ was a good worker because he appreciated the relatively high wages. This shows that decent wages do pay for themselves through improved productivity.)

So, while individuals, or small groups of the like-minded, may be racist, liberal capitalism as a system is colour-blind. In the free market any route to profit is the right route. Upton Sinclair’s classic novel ‘The Jungle’ depicts a good example of this. The reader follows the story of a Lithuanian immigrant headed for the meat-packing hell of early 20th Century Chicago. Racism rears its ugly head many times throughout but capitalists need labour and there is a steady flow of immigrants to provide it – much of it to replace those who are killed or have had their health ruined by their work. The bosses don’t turn down the potential to extract profit from a person’s labour just because they are from the ‘wrong’ background; particularly not in the raw, unadulterated free-market liberal capitalism that held sway there. The similarities to today’s zero-hour, ‘self-employed’, gig labour market are also evident in the casual, unreliable nature of the work available.

This can now lead us to an understanding of the main reason why liberal capitalism hasn’t just adapted to the demands of I.D. politics and the multiculturalists but has woven them as a major panel into the tapestry of its cultural hegemony, alongside consumerism and its cousin, ‘aspiration’, the Tory codeword for individualist greed. Since the richest nations are those with least internal problems and a society at war with itself is not a stable platform for extracting profit, an ideology has had to be promoted to temper resentment aimed at immigrants. This is much like the American society that had been primed with the myth of the ‘melting pot’ - though the multicultural ideology has been replacing it due to its supposed even broader inclusiveness within consumer capitalism, but also because it sinks even deeper social roots. (The recent right-wing populist reaction to globalisation in the US that lead to Trump’s victory points to a need for new tactics and strategy on the left.)

Another point to keep in mind is that those who identify themselves as socialist or anti-capitalist and sign up to the doctrine of multiculturalism normally state that they do so because they believe in ‘tolerance’, even though it doesn’t actually mean to happily enjoy other experiences. Rather, to be tolerant is to accept the rights of others to live and think differently, even when you find some aspect or other of this to be distasteful - much like the famous dictum of Voltaire’s biographer Evelyn Beatrice Hall, that is often misattributed to Voltaire himself, about defending to the death another’s right to say something, even if one utterly disapproves of it.

Of course, oneself has the freedom to disagree openly about aspects of an immigrants’ culture in a free society but such criticism always carries the danger of seeming to carry the whiff, real or perceived, of racism or bigotry. This is where we have to tread extremely lightly and make sure any criticisms we do make are coolly and rationally argued, for progressive reasons, and do not provide any ammunition for racists and the far-right. While this is not the place for discussing forced marriages, parallel legal systems or genital mutilation, one outcome of multiculturalism in Britain is worth noting as a logical outcome of this ideology since it is not something that either Socialists or secularists in the past would have wanted to see happening. (Maybe it was easy to attack Roman Catholic or C of E schools but they now feel uncomfortable in criticising Muslim schools because they fear any accusation of racism or Islamophobia.) As I’ve always argued, multiculturalism is ultimately divisive and the growing number of faith schools is a glaring example of this. This multiculturalism-friendly policy, which is opposed in general by those on the left, is actually being promoted by the Tories, defenders of free-market liberal capitalism. The free-market wing of the Tories support this policy for reasons of social division, as I’ve explained in previous essays, while the conservative wing of the party like the idea of more religious schools teaching traditional moral values. (The two Tory tendencies may fit together well with this policy, yet it also hints at the internal contradictions of capitalism to be more fully revealed in the future, as the social hegemony that helped keep stability for profits creates even deeper divisions in the future that may be a lot harder to overcome.)

If what I posit is true and multiculturalism is a divisive ideology in the long run, those on the left should not support it and instead find another way to unite working people. For Socialists the answer is obvious. They should go out and promote the raising of class-consciousness. Identification along religious or ethnic lines offers little chance of help and much chance of hindrance in organising unified action towards socio-economic ends. Finally, I should note two different strands of considering multiculturalism among progressives that roughly follows the split of liberal left and socialist.

The first group proclaim their love of immigration and the alluring cultural supplements that come with it, but this is served with a dose of self-righteousness and an attitude to immigrants that can sometimes comes across as patronising. This is a group of people who, subconsciously or not, are diminishing the status of immigrants to mere actors who arrive to provide ‘colour’ and a ‘touch of the exotic’ to the lives of the proudly (smugly?) cosmopolitan natives. I do not tell a lie when I say that these have been given to me in all seriousness as among the primary reasons why multiculturalism is a good thing! (Surely I don’t want to deprive these people of access to the latest delicious ethnic cuisines, do I?) Much of this can be put down to a lack of understanding because the ideology of multiculturalism is not just simply another name for diversity or anti-racism. But this vain group has no interest in challenging the economic system and obviously includes people who would vote Tory, at least by the time they get into their thirties.

On the other hand, the instinct to help those who are too weak or otherwise unable to help themselves has always been part of what makes one a progressive. But a large number of anti-capitalists hold the belief that since some injustice has been checked by the spread of multicultural ideas, multiculturalist ideology itself can be used to attack the major problems of inequality in society. The road to the radical reorganisation of society, though, requires a revolutionary shake-up of the economic system, the root of nearly all systemic inequality, which multiculturalism cannot provide as it offers barely any economic analysis of difference of outcome beyond noting a developing lumpenproletarian ‘white working class’ or the difficulties of black youth in the inner cities. The one big problem that could be helped but not put to rest is the misogyny of many men; a fact that we are highly attentive to nowadays. While still an issue of power, it is not, in the main, economic power. This would require more progress in cultural and personal areas that others have far more expertise about so I leave it there, a basic explanation of the corrosive nature of misogyny surely unnecessary for the reader.

I have usually argued about why I see multiculturalism as divisive in its own way and also the problems that arise for radical grassroots organisation due to this. What I have tried to show here, though, is that multiculturalism is a cultural ideology picked up and evolved by Liberal Capitalism to keep economies stable and thus more profitable. The belief among those on the left that multiculturalism or ID politics in general can fully and truly reduce inequality is not just wrong-headed – it is actually obscuring the importance of revolutionary economic change and its role in providing true social justice. Of course, for capitalists, the multicultural hegemony behind this social system is working just as it should - for the benefit of the high economy and the tiny oligarchical elite it supports.

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The phobia of Islamophobia

Lol so I just had someone tell me that it is Islamophobic to tell Muslims that they aren’t being banned from entering the US and to not use the word “Islam” in tags.

It reminds me of those groups like the Interfaith Center, who demands films and television to edit and remove the words “Islamist,” “Islamic,” and ��jihad”, even from documentaries such The Rise of Al Qaeda - referencing the 9/11 hijackers and their motives. They don’t want the public to think that Islamism or jihad had anything to do with Al Qaeda or the 9/11 attacks, because that would be “Islamophobia.”

Everybody seems so afraid of this word. From the police who are scared to investigate Muslim human trafficking and child abuse rings in the UK, being afraid to make public the mass sexual and violent attacks committed by Muslim refugees across Europe, being afraid to report their fellow officers who expressed radical Muslim beliefs or the teachers being afraid to alert authorities when their Muslim students show warning signs of becoming radicalized. What we are dealing with is not Islamophobia, but Islamophobia-phobia.

As author Ali Rizvi says: “As a brown-skinned person with a Muslim name, I can get away with a lot more than you’d think. I can publicly parade my wife or daughters around in head-to-toe burqas and be excused out of “respect” for my culture and/or religion, thanks to the racism of lowered expectations. I can re-define “racism” as something non-whites can never harbor against whites, and cite colonialism and imperialism as justification for my prejudice. And in an increasingly effective move that’s fast become something of an epidemic, I can shame you into silence for criticizing my ideas simply by calling you bigoted or Islamophobic.”

For decades, Muslims around the world have rightly complained about the Israeli government labeling even legitimate criticism of its policies “anti-Semitic,” effectively shielding itself from accountability. Today, Muslim organizations like CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) have borrowed a page from their playbook with the “Islamophobia” label - and taken it even further.

In addition to calling out prejudice against Muslims (a people), the term “Islamophobia” seeks to shield Islam itself (an ideology) from criticism. It’s as if every time you said smoking was a filthy habit, you were perceived to be calling all smokers filthy, horrible people. Human beings have rights and are entitled to respect. But when did we start extending those rights to ideas, books, and beliefs? You’d think the difference would be clear, but it isn’t. The ploy has worked over and over again, and now everyone seems petrified of being tagged with this label.

The phobia of being called “Islamophobic” has been on the rise for some time and it has become much more rampant, powerful, and dangerous than Islamophobia itself. Not long ago, a white American man successfully convinced the Massachusetts liberal arts school Brandeis University that he was being victimized and oppressed by a black African woman from Somalia - a woman who underwent genital mutilation at age five and travels with armed security at risk of being assassinated. That is the power of this term.

The man, Ibrahim Hooper, is a Muslim convert and a founding member and spokesman for CAIR. The woman, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is an unapologetic activist for the rights of girls and women and a harsh, no-holds-barred critic of the religious ideologies (particularly the Islamic ideology in Muslim-majority countries that she experienced first-hand) that perpetuate and maintain their abuse. Having abandoned the Islamic faith of her parents and taken a stance against it, she is guilty of apostasy, a crime that is punishable by death according to most Islamic scholars, not to mention the holy text itself.

Hirsi Ali was also involved with the award-winning documentary, Honor Diaries, which explores violence against women in honor-based societies, including female genital mutilation (FGM), honor killings, domestic violence, and forced marriage. Despite featuring the voices of several practicing Muslim women, the film was deemed “Islamophobic” by - you guessed it - the poor folks at CAIR. Again, they felt they were the real victims, wanting their own voices heard while silencing those of the victims of FGM and honor killing in the film. Astonishingly, this ludicrous argument was enough to convince both the University of Illinois and the University of Michigan to cancel their screenings of the film which leads to even more deafness and blindness of a very serious human rights issue.

Progressive Muslim Maajid Nawaz tweeted a cartoon with the caption: “This Jesus & Mo cartoon is not offensive & I’m sure God is greater than to feel threatened by it.”

The result? Vicious death threats. A petition signed by tens of thousands to have him removed from his candidacy. Targeting by Western liberal apologists. Admonishments from his own moderate Muslim counterparts. Tweets such as, “Have spoken to someone in Pakistan. They will have a surprise for him on his next visit. He is used to surprises in Pak.” The most tragic aspect of all this is what Alishba Zarmeen has coined the “Greenwald Syndrome” - the phenomenon of Western liberals, in a supposed show of tolerance, embracing an apologist stance in favor of the intolerant.

After being publicly accused by Glenn Greenwald of “spouting and promoting Islamophobia,” Sam Harris responded with these words, which should be read by everyone:

“Needless to say, there are people who hate Arabs, Somalis, and other immigrants from predominantly Muslim societies for racist reasons. But if you can’t distinguish that sort of blind bigotry from a hatred and concern for dangerous, divisive, and irrational ideas - like a belief in martyrdom, or a notion of male ‘honor’ that entails the virtual enslavement of women and girls - you are doing real harm to our public conversation. Everything I have ever said about Islam refers to the content and consequences of its doctrine. And, again, I have always emphasized that its primary victims are innocent Muslims - especially women and girls. There is no such thing as ‘Islamophobia.’ This is a term of propaganda designed to protect Islam from the forces of secularism by conflating all criticism of it with racism and xenophobia. And it is doing its job, because people like you have been taken in by it.”

The fear of being called Islamophobic once led many prominent Westerners to abandon their own values when they abandoned Salman Rushdie. It led Yale to publish a book about the Danish Muhammad cartoon controversy, but without the cartoons. It led Comedy Central to censor their shows for fear of offending Muslims, even though the show irreverently lambastes virtually every other religion on a regular basis, unhindered and it has led to countless people being attacked, doxxed, threatened, silenced and their careers ruined, all for having a different opinion.

This epidemic continues today except now people aren’t taking “Islamophobia” as serious anymore and with good reason so Muslims have begun to create hoax hate-crimes against themselves to try and bring some credibility back to keep non-Mulsims in check.

Remember the 18-year-old Muslim girl who was assaulted and called a terrorist on the subway by Trump supporters and they tried to rip her hijab off and all of the social justice warriors had a complete meltdown? It was a lie that she made up to cover her parents finding out she was out fucking a Christian dude and getting drunk. It gets funnier, her Muslim father has forced her to shave her head completely for bringing shame on the family and she was arrested for making false accusations.

Remember the Muslim student who was robbed, beaten and had her hijab ripped off and stolen by Trump supporters? It was a lie. She is now being charged for filing a false report.

Remember when those white supremacist, anti-Muslim Trump supporters burned down the mosque in Houston? It was a lie. While the mosque did get burned down, it was done by a black Muslim who had attended the mosque for years.

Remember the Ohio student who was racially abused and assaulted by Trump supporters? It was a lie. She made it up the day after the election and after she made a post that she wants all Trump supporters to die of AIDS.

Remember the Michigan Muslim student who was harassed and threatened to be burned alive by the Trump supporter if she didn’t remove her hijab? It was a lie. Surveillance cameras show that she wasn’t even in the location where she claimed the attack took place.

Remember the Muslim woman who had her hijab ripped and forced off by police when they took her in for questioning? It was another lie.

Remember the Muslim kid who was beaten up on the school bus by five white kids and it forced the family to leave the country? Yes, another fucking lie.

Remember the student who had her face slashed and was called a terrorist in Lower Manhattan? Yet another lie.

These anti-Islamic hate-crimes even reached the UK with an 18-year-old Muslim student from Birmingham being punched in the face for wearing a hijab. It was a lie. She’s been charged for lying to the police.

These are just some of the false claims made within the past year alone and they received nation-wide coverage and left-wing outrage and hysteria, all pushing the agenda that America is a racist, Islamophobic hellhole and nobody except white people are safe.

This is an effective deterrent. This is exactly how terrorism works. This is how perfectly intelligent, well-read writers, commentators, and broadcasters become silenced by the Islamophobia smear fear - and rationalize themselves into becoming unaware victims of it.

When you’re unable to introduce Islamic-style blasphemy Sharia laws in a secular, Western society, you have to find alternative ways to silence those who offend you, right?

And that’s where the “Islamophobia” smear comes in - the ultimate, lazy substitute for a non-existent counter-argument. Don’t fall for it.

#islam #islamophobia #muslim #muslim ban #SJW #anti sjw #anti social justice warriors #social justice #social justice warrior #Trump #Donald Trump #feminism #feminist #anti feminism

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How To Test Yourself For Tmj Wonderful Tricks

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When?

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The next piece in the ‘why’ of my apostasy can be best understood in the ‘when’.

The moment and the reasons that compel one to walk away from their God and their church are revelatory.

The unveiling of my reasons is not unlike the unveiling of an oppressed woman, it happens a piece at a time.

While Mormon’s do not require their women to wear a veil at all times like certain other religions, there are ceremonies within the faith (such as the ordinances performed in Mormon temples) that require the woman to be veiled.

Don’t be too surprised here, misogyny is where we are headed.

How did I even get to the point of decision, let alone the action of leaving?

Truthfully, it takes something apocalyptic to shake loose someone from such firm foundations--someone like me.

Remember I was born into a multi-generational Mormon family

into a town settled by Mormon pioneers

in a state founded and maintained by Mormons.

I participated in all the religious rituals; made the promises with God time and again as I repeated the ordinances of the church. Repetition creates muscle memory, and I was well conditioned.

I said the prayers, sang the songs, and read the scriptures.

Then I taught others to do the same,

from my fellow brothers and sisters in the faith

to my very own children.

Every piece of my life was dictated and outlined in detail, constructed for me.

All I had to do was step into the space created for me and comply.

Not only did I comply, I decorated. I made that place my home, my world, embellished in the trappings of this powerful religious driven culture. Secure in the assurance that if I was faithful in adhering to the thousand rules, my world was solid, safe, and even eternal.

Until it wasn’t.

My world was that of the nuclear Mormon family: complete with the happy temple marriage, motherhood of at least four children, traditional homemaker, and woman of modest demure agreeability. This rose-colored veil blinded me to the doomsday clock that wound down at the end of a quarter of a century.

Kaboom! My husband left me.

The atoms of my world were suddenly split and the fallout was like nothing I’d ever dreamed.

Like the confusion that ensues after a disaster of epic proportions, I didn’t realize that with the dismantling tidal wave that destroyed my marriage, over the course of twelve months the rest of my paradigms would slowly crumble away.

Or in other words, I didn’t know I was going to lose my God and my faith.

For nine months I mourned the loss of my marriage and husband and tried to cope with being alone, as I had never been alone before in my entire life.

I turned to God and my church for support. The structure of the church, at first glance, held me afloat. But underneath it all the crumbling progressed, revealing itself bit by bit.

The first bit of rubble I noticed was the pariah pile.

The divine role of a woman established by God and translated by Mormon men is, as I said, that of a dutiful wife and committed mother. I had worked as hard as I could for twenty five years and then some to try and be that woman, from the time I was nineteen years old.

Quite suddenly I found myself, at the age of forty six, thrust outside that role, standing alone weeping, usually quite literally. And the members of my particular ward and stake (geographical entities within the church) were confused at what to do with me. They looked at me with both shame and pity. I was the embodiment of their greatest fears, the end of an eternal marriage and a shattered family. I was the grotesque casualty that no one wants to look at; the war veteran with his face blown off. My spiritual face was deformed and my inability to hide my emotional trauma made everyone extremely uncomfortable. Mormons are taught to hide their ‘bad’ feelings and pretend that everything is ‘okay’. It taps into the ‘God’s will’ thing. As a Mormon you have no right to be unhappy or criticize your situation as it is ‘God’s will’ and He wouldn’t give you anything you couldn't handle anyway. Everything happens for a reason, right?

The impact of my fall from marital grace drew a myriad of responses: everything from ambivalence to passive-aggression to aggression-aggression.

I was ignored. I was fed the catch-phrases that I indicated above; platitudes about the mysterious reasons God had for my pain, told to pray and have faith, and even given advice that was tied to my perceived faults.

“Have you tried meeting with the Bishop? Maybe he could help you both resolve your issues.”

“Do you know about LDS counseling services? I’m sure they could help you save your marriage.”

“Have you asked for a priesthood blessing? I’m sure if you did Heavenly Father would help you know how to work things out with him.”

“Don’t you know how bad this is going to be on your kids? You should work it out for them.”

And maybe the most brutal,

“What did YOU DO that made him want to leave?”

I was asked that question by a multiple of members from my church, men and women, even my own mother.

I don’t remember anyone asking me if I was okay.

And if anyone did show any kind of concern, it was followed by one of the types of comments already mentioned, nullifying any authenticity in their initial response.

I no longer felt supported, I felt cast out. I stood in the place of my church membership, surrounded by people and doctrine that were supposed to follow Christ--who by all definition lifted and helped both the sinner and the saint--alone and even shunned.

I began to sit in the foyer during sacrament meetings and hide in the bathroom so I didn’t have to talk to anyone. My calling (current job in the church) was the Primary pianist. So during the other meeting times I hid behind the piano, playing religious songs for children, and always disappeared before any adults could talk to me.

In my untethered state, both the ostracization and isolation caused me to start to drift.

The second pile of rubble came in the form of interior sabotage.

I had been meeting regularly with my bishop, seeking his advice and support. He was a kind man and I believed he was trying to help me. He listened to me with sympathy, told me to pray. Prayed with me and blessed me on more than one occasion.

He seemed to believe me.

Until he didn’t.

And the ambush blindsided me.

When I was called into his office after church meetings one Sunday, twelve weeks after my husband had left, I thought it was no more than a check in.

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Planting Bitcoin Part Two: Seasons

Dan Held is the founder of crypto portfolio service Picks & Shovels. He previously founded data service ZeroBlock, which sold to Blockchain, and served as VP of product at ChangeTip.

This exclusive opinion piece is part of CoinDesk’s “Bitcoin at 10: The Satoshi White Paper” series.

“The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve.” — Satoshi Nakamoto

Introduction

In my last article, “Species,” I covered why Satoshi’s design of Bitcoin’s genetic code made it the best species of money ever created.

Satoshi had begun creating Bitcoin’s genetic code in 2007, but had waited for the right moment to plan the seed, the right moment in which the world would understand and embrace what he had created. In this article, I will dive into the moment in which Satoshi precisely chose to plant the Bitcoin seed.

(To enjoy this article in its fullest, I recommend playing this song then continue reading. If you like this music, please follow my playlist on Spotify.)

Central Banks

From the founding of the Bank of England, central banks have been used as a means for states to fund their policies without risking the popular ire caused by direct taxation.

When the capital provided by central banks is misallocated by either the state or in a market distorted by artificially low interest rates, an inevitable collapse occurs.

The central bank is the root of these periodic market dislocations.

“I believe the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies” — Henry Paulson (US Treasury Secretary during the 2008 financial crisis and former Goldman Sachs CEO)

With the recent market dislocation, investors were bailed out. Unfortunately, you cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.

Prior to the 20th century, ordinary people could always flee to gold to save themselves from the effects of the failed, inflationist, policies of the central bank. This ended across much of the world in the 20th century as gold was outlawed. — Vijay Boyapati

“In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.” — Alan Greenspan (Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve)

Early 2007

Satoshi Nakamoto, after years and years of research, starts coding up Bitcoin.

2008 Financial Crisis

“The problem had grown so big that the end was bound to be cataclysmic and have big social and political consequences” — Michael Lewis (Big Short)

January

Fed tries to stop the housing bust

The Federal Market Open Committee began lowering the fed funds rate (to 3.0%). There were 57 percent more foreclosures than 12 months earlier

February

Bush signs tax rebate as home sales continue to plummet

February 13: President Bush signed a tax rebate bill to help the struggling housing market. The bill increased limits for FHA loans and allowed Freddie Mac to repurchase jumbo loans.

March

Fed begins bailouts

March 14: The Federal Reserve held its first emergency weekend meeting in 30 years.

March 17: The Federal Reserve announced it would guarantee Bear Stearns‘ bad loans.

March 18: The Federal Open Market Committee lowered the fed funds rate by 0.75 percent to 2.25 percent. It had halved the interest rate in six months. That same day, federal regulators agreed to let Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac take on another $200 billion in subprime mortgage debt.

April — June

The Fed buys more toxic bank debt

June 2: The Fed auctions totaled $1.2 trillion. In June, the Federal Reserve lent $225 billion through its Term Auction Facility.

July

IndyMac bank fails

July 11: The Office of Thrift Supervision closed IndyMac Bank. Los Angeles police warned angry IndyMac depositors to remain calm while they waited in line to withdraw funds from the failed bank.

July 23: Secretary Paulson made the Sunday talk show rounds. He explained the need for a bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two agencies themselves held or guaranteed more than half of the $12 trillion of the nation’s mortgages.

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September

Global panic

September 7: Treasury nationalizes Fannie and Freddie and will run the two until they are strong enough to return to independent management. The Fannie and Freddie bailout initially cost taxpayers $187 billion.

September 15: Lehman Brothers files for chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history with over $600B in assets. The bankruptcy triggered a one-day drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average of 4.5%, the largest decline since the September 11, 2001 attacks. Later that day, Bank of America officially announced it would purchase struggling Merrill Lynch for $50 billion.

“It’s terrible. Death. Like a massive earthquake.” — Kirsty McCluskey a Lehman trader in London

September 16: Fed buys AIG for $85 Billion. The company had insured trillions of dollars of mortgages throughout the world. If it had fallen, so would the global banking system. On that same day, the Reserve Primary Fund “broke the buck.” It didn’t have enough cash on hand to pay out all the redemptions that were occurring.

“I asked my wife to please go to the ATM and take as much cash as she could. When she asked why, I said it was because I didn’t know whether there was a chance that banks might not open.” — Mohamed El-Erian (One of the most powerful economists/leaders in finance)

September 17: Economy on the brink of collapse. Panic spreads. Investors withdrew a record $144.5 billion from their money market accounts. During a typical week, only about $7 billion is withdrawn. If it had continued, businesses couldn’t get money to fund their day-to-day operations. In just a few weeks, shippers wouldn’t have had the cash to deliver food to grocery stores.

October

Bailouts

October 3: The bank bailout bill allowed Treasury to buy shares of troubled banks. It was the fastest way to inject capital into the frozen financial system. Despite this, global stock markets continue to collapse.

“Just as our politics are falling apart, our portfolios are falling apart, too.” — Ben Hunt

October 7: The Federal Reserve agreed to issue short-term loads for businesses that couldn’t get them elsewhere, to the tune of $1.7 Trillion.

October 13: Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson sits down with 9 major bank CEOs. The total bailout package looks more like $2.25 trillion, well more than the original $700 billion available.

“September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression” — Ben Bernanke

October 14: The governments of the EU, Japan, and the United States again took unprecedented coordinated action. The EU committed to spending $1.8 trillion to guarantee bank financing, buy shares to prevent banks from failing, and take any other steps needed to get banks to lend to each other again. This was after the UK committed $88 billion to purchase shares in failing banks and $438 billion to guarantee loans. In a show of solidarity, the Bank of Japan agreed to lend unlimited dollars.

October 21 — Fed lends $540 Billion to bail out money market funds which are continuing to meet a barrage of redemptions.

“People feel like nothing in the country is working — the president, Congress, corporations.” (October 15, 2008) Reuters

October 31: Satoshi publishes the Bitcoin whitepaper

Walking on the street in a city Satoshi looks around and notices a businesswoman on her blackberry, hailing a cab. He passes a newspaper stand and sees Miley Cyrus’ (known as Hannah Montana) controversial photos in Vanity Fair, she’s 15.

George Bush’s approval rating is at a record low of 21%, Congress is at 10% — just above its all-time low. Lehman Brothers had just collapsed a month prior.

“Is now the time? Is the world ready?” Satoshi thought to himself. He had spent the last few years coding up Bitcoin then writing the whitepaper. He had patiently waited to release it to the world, but the moment had to be right… there was only one shot at this. “Is the whitepaper easy enough to read? I want to make sure this resonates with the cypherpunks, I’m hoping cash will be most understandable to the other members on the mailing list who have previously created e-currencies.”

“When the moment is ripe, a fanatic leader galvanizes the ripe population and pushes it to a point of no return. The leader translates the ideals published by the “men of words [cypherpunks]” into doctrines [whitepaper] promising sudden and spectacular change.” — Eric Hoffer, author of “The True Believer” (via Tony Sheng)

He returned to his home and reviewed the whitepaper for any glaring mistakes the 47th time, he couldn’t find any. He leaned back and stared at the wall. He realized this was the moment, it was time to plant the seed. He popped open his e-mail client, checked the draft e-mail to the cryptographer (cypherpunk) e-mailing list and pressed send. There was no going back.

“Indeed, Bitcoin rose like a phoenix from the ashes of the 2008 global financial catastrophe — a catastrophe that was precipitated by the policies of central banks like the Federal Reserve.” — Vijay Boyapati

With the 2008 financial crisis, trust had been lost in a world that ran on trust.

Bitcoin was launched in a time of absolute necessity, Satoshi planted the seed at precisely the right moment.

Part 3… “Soil”

In Part 3, I will cover Satoshi’s distribution strategy – or the soil in which he planted the seed: the Cypherpunks community. Part 3 of this article will be published in the next few days and linked from Twitter via Tweet storm (follow me).

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benrossart · 6 years ago

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How To Find A Financial Advisor You Can Trust

1. Is The Financial Advisor Already Doing Exactly What He Advises You To Do? The advisor must have a successful track record practicing exactly what he preaches. Nothing less will suffice. What that means is:

Don’t get your investment advice from someone who built his wealth through marketing investment advice instead of actual investing. This holds true for many big-name financial gurus, money managers, brokers, and advisors.

Don’t get your investment advice from someone whose primary function is to sell investment products (stocks, bonds, mutual funds, etc.) because it’s an inherent conflict of interest that biases the advice you receive. This is especially true for most stock brokers and financial planners. Instead, separate the investment planning function from the investment product sales function. Pay for each separately.

Don’t get your financial advice from academics with lots of fascinating theories but little real world experience. Real world practicalities differ from theoretical academic assumptions.

Don’t get your financial advice from authors and writers who are paid to write, not invest. Their skills and experience are for writing – not investing.

Don’t get your stock investment advice from someone who built his wealth in real estate or business because success in one field doesn’t necessarily equate to success in a related, but different, field. The critical issues to success in each field are subtly but significantly different.

And last but not least, never accept financial advice from anyone who isn’t already financially successful because they lack one necessary qualification: proven results. That includes your Uncle Bill, parents, friends, coworkers, and anyone else you know who has an opinion (doesn’t everyone?), but no results proving the quality of that opinion.

In short, only learn from those experts who have “walked the talk” before you and can speak from personal experience with integrity.

There are many self-proclaimed gurus out there, but few have gotten muddy in the trenches at the school of hard knocks and emerged with enviable results and valuable lessons to share.

You’re better served moving on to someone who can speak from actual experience doing exactly what they’re advising you to do.

2. Is The Financial Advisor Still “Walking the Talk”, Or Is He “Marketing the Talk?”

When I became a real estate investor, I sought out experts to teach me a wide variety of investment strategies, including foreclosures and tax lien investing. What I learned surprised me.

Many of the big name gurus no longer practiced what they preached. They did the tax lien or foreclosure business years earlier, and switched to selling instructional courses about their experience once market conditions changed.

The fact was they no longer invested according to what they were teaching.

“Walking the talk” means doing the same thing with their own time and money that they recommend you do. If they recommend you invest a certain way, then it should be good enough for their portfolio as well. If not, then why?

Always act cautiously when someone is pitching an investment if their money isn’t at risk exactly like yours will be.

The fact that my tax lien and foreclosure teachers weren’t investing in tax liens or foreclosures at the time was important information. It raised a red flag and motivated greater due diligence. After a little more digging, I learned the reasons why, and it saved me a lot of wasted time and money.

Anytime someone is selling you an investment or educating you on an investment strategy, find out what they’re doing with their own money. You should be concerned whenever someone isn’t investing using their own advice.

The one exception to this rule would be when the advisor’s financial goals and needs are so different from the student’s that different strategies for each party are appropriate.

3. Will The Advisor Show You Actual Proof That His Financial Advice Works?

If your advisor is a successful investor, then they should have verifiable results to back it up. If they won’t show you proof, then you should wonder what they’re trying to hide.

For example, I have an extensive list of client testimonials for my coaching services, newsletter, and educational products providing independent testimony to their results and value.

In addition, I provide references of past and present clients to those prospective students who are seriously considering a coaching and mentoring relationship and want to verify the service quality.

The real proof, however, is in my actual financial results. I have more than $1 dollar in liquid net worth for every dollar I have ever earned in my lifetime as verified by Social Security Administration documentation.

Very few people can pass this test. Do you have more money sitting in investment accounts than you’ve earned over your lifetime?

The only way your liquid net worth can exceed your lifetime earnings (placing a zero value on your home and business assets) is if you inherited a lot of money or you’re good at managing your personal finances and investments.

4. What’s The Financial Advisor’s Background, Education, Training, Skills, and Experience? Not all financial advice is created equal.

A hedge fund manager who has completed many years of independent research with twenty years of real time trading experience will provide advice from a higher quality experience base than a business school graduate trained in product sales by a brokerage firm.

Learn from the best and accept nothing less.

The sad reality is many financial advisors are trained by their parent company to tow the party line. Few financial advisors have completed any independent research to provide a basis for forming their own investment opinions.

Their knowledge is often limited to official policy, traditional practices, and company dogma. The result is they speak the company doctrine as if it were true because that’s all they know.

They aren’t bad people: they just don’t know enough to know what they don’t know. The net effect is you get bad financial advice.

Related: Why you need a wealth plan, not a financial plan.

You can’t understand a person’s financial advice until you know the shoes they’re standing in. Their experience and training color their advice.

There are several levels of knowledge in the financial advice business, and the unfortunate reality is the bulk of retail financial advice comes from the ground floor level. You want top floor financial advice.

5. Has The Financial Advice Been Tested Through Multiple Market Cycles?

Building and preserving wealth requires a full-cycle perspective.

You must not only make money during rising markets, but you must also preserve that wealth and control losses during declining markets. Anything less is only half of an investment strategy.

Beware of the “one-hit wonder” that gets lucky by investing in the right place at the right time and then goes on to write books about his financial expertise. Don’t be misled.

Just because someone loaded up on technology stocks or real estate before a bull market handed him sudden wealth doesn’t mean he knows anything about how to preserve that wealth during the next down cycle, or how to grow it through different market cycles in the future.

If you’re not clear on the importance of this point, then check out the legal and financial history behind people claiming to be financial experts. The internet makes the process of uncovering dirt on anyone remarkably easy.

You might be surprised to find out which “experts” have a history of bankruptcy, financial, and legal problems (their names aren’t listed here to avoid legal hassles).

They might be masters at marketing and leverage who ride high on the wave of their latest endeavor, but their checkered history shows an inability to manage risk and preserve that success through a full market cycle.

Just because someone is famous doesn’t make them immune from this rule.

Make sure the financial advice you receive has been tested through inflations, deflations, bull markets, bear markets, nuclear melt-downs, Presidential assassination attempts, and anything else you can imagine. Murphy’s Law is “law” for a reason.

Anything that can go wrong will – and at the worst possible time – so make sure your financial advice can manage risk for the worst outcome and profit under all reasonable assumptions.

6. Are You Being Told The Negative Along With The Positive?

There’s no perfect investment strategy. Anyone claiming to have one is either self-deceived, or a liar.

You don’t understand an investment until you know all the ways you can lose money with it.

If the person offering you financial advice isn’t forthcoming with all the potential problems (so you can make a fully informed decision), then you aren’t getting the whole picture. You need to know the risks as well as the potential rewards. Settle for nothing less.

Similarly, if your investment advisor isn’t forthcoming with his mistakes and losing experiences, then they’re either inexperienced or dishonest.

I have made more investment mistakes than I have room to share with you here, and I’ve also made enough good decisions to have done very well over time.

Every investor makes mistakes, and every financial strategy has an Achilles heel. Learn them, or risk being blindsided.

7. Does The Financial Advice Over-Simplify An Inherently Complex Subject?

Buy and hold is one of the simplest investment strategies available. You can explain how to do it in just a few paragraphs.

Yet, it would take an entire book to fully understand the risk versus reward implications of this strategy in your portfolio today.

Highly trained financial experts using identical data to prove their points can’t agree on even the most simplistic financial advice such as buy and hold, let alone more complex financial issues.

Be wary of financial advice that’s reduced to clever sound bites or appears to be cut and dry. If it’s that obvious and simple, then it’s probably wrong or incomplete.

Most financial issues, when deeply understood, are subtle shades of gray. They require a depth of understanding that leads to a well-considered decision.

When you encounter financial advice that makes the investment process sound easy, just assume it’s a sales technique.

Salespeople know the average investor is averse to complexity and wants his financial decisions handed to him, neatly packaged, on a silver platter. For that reason, they simplify the analysis to make the decision easy for the client so they can get the sale.

Building wealth isn’t easy, and investing properly isn’t simple. If it was, more people would succeed at both. However, they don’t, and the statistics prove it.

No matter what the gurus tell you, building wealth takes persistent work, well-developed plans, diligent follow-through, and involves risk.

I know financial advice like this won’t maximize my sales, but it gets results for those who are willing to follow it.

8. Is The Financial Advice Driven By Facts or Opinion?

Never confuse facts with opinions in the financial advice you receive.

Opinions are useless clutter that complicate investment decisions. Facts are what matter.

Most financial advice blends the two together, and your job is to extract the few facts from the myriad of opinions so you can disregard the rest.

Examples of opinions include:

A forecast for the economy What price levels a stock is expected to go to What a company is expected to earn What industries should grow the best Ignore all such nonsense because it requires an accurate forecast for the future, and forecasts have conclusively proven to be unreliable through multiple independent studies.

“To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.” – Unknown

Facts worth knowing include current valuations and what those valuations imply about expected returns based on historical precedent.

Other facts include what’s happening now or what has happened in the past, as contrasted with opinions about what’s expected to happen in the future.

Facts are true and knowable right now and include hard data and numbers. Opinions result from the interpretation of those facts.

9. Is The Financial Advice A Complete Strategy Or Just A Half-Truth?

What good is a buy recommendation without clear criteria for when to sell? What good are sell criteria without a clear strategy for reinvestment?

Beware of any advisor providing a buy recommendation without simultaneously providing clear criteria that would invalidate that same advice and force a sell. Quality investment advice provides a complete process of buying, selling, and reinvesting.

Even more important is that all buy, sell, and hold recommendations are based on thorough historical research indicating a positive mathematical expectation.

10. Is Risk Management A Primary Focus, Or An After-Thought?

Risk management is what separates professional investors from amateurs.

It’s how your investment portfolio can earn consistent returns through a wide variety of market conditions. For that reason, I would never trust a financial advisor whose first concern wasn’t managing risk and preserving capital.

Unfortunately, most financial advice focuses on making money – the offensive half of investing – because that’s what sells best.

Risk management teaches you the defensive half of the investment game by showing you how to control investment losses when adversity strikes.

A complete financial strategy requires both halves of the investment equation to earn consistent returns with a favorable risk to reward ratio. Anything less is a dangerous half-truth. Get best retirement planning package details by clicking on Roswell GA financial advisor.

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mylifeatwar · 6 years ago

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Book 2, Chapter 1, Page 28

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Hello Everyone,

Here we get to see some action from the folks over at IFS. As we see more of each of our three Free Market Security Companies I think they’ll become easier to distinguish, both visually and tactically.

‘Immediate Force Solutions: Because executive problems require executive solutions.’

Thanks for reading!

– Luther out

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PlaintextMan - Somebody set up them the bomb!

Grudgesettler - IFS is striking back. Had to double check to make sure, but they were the ones that went off the radar, while Sumner got whooped. Left wondering if they tried a conventional defense first, and swapped tactics after a) it became apparent what they were doing wasn’t going to work, and b) they knew Mega Fun Foods was going to keep paying them. Looking forward to seeing more of our beloved mercs once again. I miss the shark folk.

CaptEndo - These people have never heard of mechanized warfare or full spectrum integration have they? Joint arms tactics? The Dhuvalians seem to be stuck in the equivalent of Napoleonic tactics and philosophy, from their uniforms to the close order foot marching of columns of infantry ( not even motorized transport!) to the noble dominated Cavalry equivalent of the LIMB forces. A US heavy expeditionary force from our world would likely clean their clock in spite of their technology.

nweismuller - It’s true, they appear to have very poor combined-arms doctrine. And I’ve observed before that their primary infantry weapon seems to be very poorly-designed for being able to *aim* when firing at the enemy. Now, this overspecialisation as anti-LIMB prybars, essentially, might be understandable if they think of infantry opposition in terms of big Napoleonic formations, where poor firing accuracy is less of a drawback… this actually suddenly explains that bit of kit they use.

CaptEndo - Made the same observation, though a heads up or holosight could make a polearm shaped firearm viable. Not especially effective or efficient, but useable. Of course, too much realism would automatically interfere in any mecha based story. Ground pressure alone would make them practically unusable.

CaptEndo - Also their use of wheeled armored vehicles with almost a tricycle configuration. Vey limited off road mobility makes them effectively very slow targets with little tactical utility. Useful for occupations and peacetime or low intensity warfare, perhaps. Just like Strikers and MRAPs. They have their usefulness, so long as you aren’t in a hot war.

nweismuller - A HUD might make it more effective, but we’ve seen that Dhuvalian infantry have nothing over their eyes. I think we’re just going to have to accept that the firing accuracy of Dhuvalian infantry is going to be comically poor.

Matti - “Unconventional tactics”? To me that looks like infantry ambush straight from the BOOK! Hey Dhuvalians, use some recon platoons with minesweepers, hey!

folti - They can be unconventional for the Dhuvalians. If their previous conflict(s) were with similarly equipped foes, following a similar, more restricted doctrine*, they are mentally unprepared for tactics that are standard issue today. Remember, depending on the doctrine of the day and the available technology, tactical ambushes were either undoable (Napoleonic line infantry are nothing but an uncontrollable armed rabble outside of formation, in formation it’s too slow and unflexible to do it), limited to very specific units (light cav, like hussars, but they might be of limited use) or simply standard issue warfare (like steppe nomads and other highly mobile forces, like plains Indians in America). * looks like, it’s centered around man-to-man combat by LIMBS of the nobility, where all the other kind of troops are only there for secure the battlefield and capture/rescue pilots of downed limbs. That’d explain why infantry have an oversized can opener for individual weapon. Heck I wouldn’t be surprised, that ransoming the downed pilots, like it was the standard practice in the medieval period for knights and nobility is their biggest goal in combat, not working together to win the battle as a well oiled warmachine, like the mercenary armies and later professional armies that replaced them historically. Also why they want to send an on Duke back to the battlefield in his personal LIMB… There is lots of historical parallell hiding here, if you look at it …

SteelRaven - Dhuvalian’s military seem to have become complacent, thinking they could simple chase the mercenaries off ‘their’ land and not prepared for a real fight after one major ‘shock and awe’ like offensive. While the Dhuvalian Limb pilots may have all the confidence in the world, I’m sure the infantry and light armor personnel must be scared as hell right now.

folti - Probably. Skills and combat readiness atrophying over time due to lack of training and funding is not a new phenomenon. Outside of their LIMB pilots who are part of the feudal nobility.

Iarei - Whenever you hear someone object – Those cowards fight with “X” ! Remember; it’s about as frequently true that those cowards WIN with “X”.

PlaintextMan - A valuable lesson I learned from a number of strategy games: If you’re not fighting dirty enough, you’re not winning!

Hornet - There is no “X” until one side gets it’s hands tied in bureaucratic cow pies...

CaptEndo - Until the side with the greater committable resources adapts to the “X” strategy or tactic. If they cannot divert enough resources to the conflict, then adapting to the news tactical reality may not be enough. But if they can, then the underdogs still lose. Reference the US Army and the Indian Wars, all the way back to the early colonies and he development of the Ranger concept. Both adaptation and superior resources defeats unconventional warfare pretty reliably.

Plaintext - I notice the chain of starts hung across the Crown Prince’s chest. One of them is dark; I wonder whether those represent the principalities of Dhuvalia, with that one being a former/destroyed principality.

Darkkismeth - For those, who think that IFS strikes back: Nope. SS got their ass kicked, not the IFS. The SS troops are the old security guys with old LIMBS and grey uniforms, best to look at like the corp. security or even police force to keep the law up.

Grudgesettler - Your paragraph doesn’t make much sense. IFS is the one attacking in the comic; the author’s commentary makes that perfectly clear. And the only mention of Sumner was mine, and I clearly said “they got whooped.” Now, what I reckon you were going for with this was that IFS wasn’t the one struck, ergo they can’t be the one striking back. That, I’ll grant you, is an assumption on my part. Made an educated guess that IFS would have started with a conventional defense as opposed to immediately engaging in guerrilla warfare. It seems doubtful that Mega-Fun Foods would be willing to initially to put up with the necessary property damage such a defense would entail.

#comic #webcomic #infantry #ambush #military sci-fi

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shortfatuglyman-blog · 7 years ago

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#Banks: The Biggest Thieves in History

When they start talking about the huge amounts of money we owe I can’t really get my head around it. I mean, you can’t quite grasp the concept of a trillion can you? Britain owes over one trillion pounds while America owes over seventeen trillion dollars. A trillion is a one with twelve zeros after it. A trillion seconds is over thirty one thousand years or, how about: a trillion stacked pennies would reach 870,000 miles high. Come on! An easier way for me is when they talk about Britain owing £30,000 per head. It’s a tiny bit more difficult to work out the amounts for America because no one knows how many people are in that country and anyway America already owed trillions and trillions of dollars before the banks got on the bandwagon…Got to get me some of that!

£30,000? That seems a mite more acceptable, most of us could see the possibility of paying that off in the next ten or twenty years, stick it on the end of your mortgage and you will hardly notice it! But, when you think about it a bit more closely it is more worrying. Take a man with a wife, who doesn’t work, and who has three kids, that means they owe more like £150,000! And what about the parents? Do we add them into the equation? After all they are unlikely to be still earning.

No one ever seems to ask the obvious question when these absurd amounts are discussed: who do we owe it to? Or, to be more grammatically correct: to whom do we owe it? If you ask that question at a dinner party say, in America, you get the immediate answer: China. Well hey ho, I think that is rather splendid of China to lend America all that money in the first place, I know they are rich, but seriously? The same question in Britain gets another just as confident answer: the Arabs (or more likely: the bloody Arabs). That is invariably given by people who haven’t been to the Middle East in the last couple of years. And to keep your confidence I’ve asked that question a dozen times on both sides of the Atlantic and I have been in the Middle East twice in the last three years.

So who do we owe it to? (Screw grammar). The answer’s easy: we owe it to ourselves. Well, we owe it to a small number of people living in our countries…yes we do!

The Western World encourages the novel principal that inherited money is a good idea. Okay if it’s you inheriting your parents’ house but consider: great swathes of Britain (80%) are owned by a bunch of idiots whose great-great-great-grandfathers sent the king some soldiers to fight Cromwell. Okay, you voted for it so you must want it. The deal was that these people with huge amounts of money invested it in businesses. The millionaires on Dragon’s Den are doing exactly what they should be doing: investing in burgeoning businesses, helping them grow, creating employment and adding to our balance of payments. They receive profits on their investments in good years but risk losing their money in bad years. This system worked well. It gave us the Industrial Revolution.

Then a gang of crooks, sorry, I mean I mean a group of financial whiz-kids in the city, created Hedge Funds. These are closed investment groups (you can’t join one matey!) which are basically unregulated and exist solely to make rich people richer. It occurred to said whiz-kids that the rich investors would be much more secure by investing in mortgages. The thing is with a mortgage that the bank makes most of its money in the first year with all the extra bits you have to pay for: arrangement fees, transfer fees and all the other ploys they dream up to take your money. After that the banks’ money is tied up for thirty or forty years. If they could sell the loan on they would have that money again to offer to some other poor sod desperate to house his family.

What the hedge funds did was to buy up great bunches of mortgages…your mortgage might well be owned by someone in Sweden or Australia, or even your next door neighbour, you won’t know it of course because he or she will hide behind an official sounding name. Everybody’s happy: the poor sod has got his house, the bank has got its money back and the investors have a long term safe investment for their capital because property is the safest investment. Sad about those new businesses though isn’t it? They suddenly found no one was left to lend them money to help them grow. And the youngsters who were going to work in those businesses, sad about them too. Still never mind, everybody else is happy!

The next problem came when they literally ran out of mortgages to buy up. Easy, the investors and banks came up with another little plot: just take the controls off mortgages…and hey, yes: we can charge extra for that as well! Hurrah!!!

I worked at an Estate Agents in the late Sixties. In those days a man could borrow up to three times his yearly salary, three and a half times if his wife worked. I’m sure that is changed now with the different status of women in work. It was annoying but it stopped people over borrowing, not letting them get carried away by the idea of owning a house that was too expensive for them. In 2007 I was working in Iraq and my wife and I came back to Scotland for a holiday and while we were there we had a look around a holiday cottage. When I told the agent that we would have difficulty proving our salaries he grinned and promised us that he could get us a mortgage within twenty four hours just on the strength of a verbal declaration of our earnings…it was slightly more expensive of course.

So house buying in Britain and America went through the roof, so of course did house prices, but that was all to the good: everyone had a house and everyone was making money.

Everybody knows what happened next. It seemed the whiz-kids weren’t quite such whizzes after all: the whole damned edifice came crashing down. The bankers had over extended themselves, the investors had lost their money. Fair enough, like the Dragon’s Den entrepreneurs they had gambled and lost.

Only they hadn’t because the thing is the banks and the super-rich own the politicians. They finance the political parties and ex politicians and civil servants infest the banking Boards of Directors. Immediately President Bush was rushed onto television saying that it is essential for the economy that the banks are protected. Gordon Brown is dancing to the same tune: of course we have to protect the banks. Not for the banks, not for the super-rich, but for us! All is lost if we don’t bail them out, they can’t be expected to pay their own debts! Good Heavens, banks exist to make profits not to pay debts! We have to cough up, it’s all our responsibility. Faced with an array of politicians all preaching the same doctrine we fall for it, nobody questions it. And I would like you to bear in mind at this point that the entire front bench of the Labour (!) party, let alone the Conservative party, were millionaires in these days. I expect the same applies now but I really cannot be bothered to check it will only depress me more.

The Bank of England responded to the crisis by a process they called quantitative easing. Funny thing, my spell checker didn’t recognise the word, it couldn’t mean that they made it up surely? It means printing more money than the country is worth. This incidentally is the primary cause of inflation, without the overprinting of money inflation simply cannot happen. This will all come out in the economy of the country sometime in the future, we’re not sure just where but you can bet it won’t be out of the bankers’ pockets.

How much did they print? 350 billion! This is not a loan or a gift, it is a tax and you will have to pay it back. Where did it go? To the old age pensioners to heat their houses? What about (my choice) to the young marrieds to pay for child care? Or, how about to first time home buyers as a deposit? Any of these would have stimulated the economy. But the super-rich can’t go letting ordinary people get given money. No, no, don’t be silly, ordinary people have to earn their money! So instead the Bank of England gave it to the banks and they sat on it and refused to lend it on because it was too risky in our volatile economy. That same volatile economy they had created. The government tried to put pressure on the banks to lend more but they can’t do that can they? The slave can’t put pressure on the slave owner.

Americans had it even worse, their pensions aren’t protected in the ways ours are. My mother-in-law had been working as a legal secretary in Minnesota, all her life, over forty years, and paying into a fund for all of that time. Every damned week for forty years she put her money into that scheme. She was sixty five, tired, ill and about to retire when the banks came along and said that the money had disappeared and they took her pension just like that! When I say took, I actually mean stole. They stole it just like a mugger taking your wallet in a back alley. She later told me that she would now have to work until she was eighty seven and she would lose her house even then. Bear in mind that Americans don’t have our social system to fall back on.

What a brilliant plan it was. Think of it, the rich investors never lost a penny. The banks did even better, they got rid of having to pay that annoying interest on accounts, sorry, they still pay a generous one percent…and the government rewarded them with a 350 billion pound bonus on top.

The greatest war criminals are usually reckoned to be the Nazis, they raped a continent. But at least they had the courage to do it with guns, the bankers raped the world and hid beneath their desks while doing it. But, I hear you protest, think of the millions of people the Nazis killed? Yeah, but gentle reader, how many millions of people are going to die in the third world because of reduced aid? Think of the millions who will no longer be able to afford the inflated prices of life giving drugs. Think of the kids who will die of cholera because they can’t buy chlorine tablets. Think of the wars that will be fought over the limited availability of resources.

The super-rich and the bankers who took part in this plot have the morals of a whore and all the viciousness of a street thug, without the bravery of either. The Mafia is a church group compared to them, the Kray Twins were saints.

Let me leave you with one more statistic: if every person who possessed more than 50 million pounds in the country was made to hand over a third of it then it would pay off the financial loss twice over! But that’s not going to happen is it? It would only leave them with about 30 million to play with…so instead you’re going to pay it!

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Trinity Sunday

Today wasn’t the first time I’ve tried to teach younger ones about the Trinity. We use our Celtic Knots, shamrocks, clover, or fidget spinners because one of the great questions the Church has wrestled with over the years is how is God three-in-one. Why do we stop at three? Why not four, or a million? I mean, can we count God?

My hope today isn’t to tell you one way to believe or another, but to guide you along in your own belief.

The church has answered that question by saying that the short answer to whether we can count God is, “yes.” In Matthew 28:19, it spells out this baptismal formula of Father-Son-Spirit or Parent-Child-Spirit that explains to us how God is in God’s very self. Even though this passage in Matthew 28 is one of the few times the Father-Son-Spirit is named, it does feel like the Trinity is on every page of scripture. It’s who God is, how God acts, and how we understand who we are.

Of course, that doesn’t stop people from disagreeing with the notion of Trinity. As if settling something ever really made it settled. That’s true now and long ago. We have Unitarians who assert that God is one and even in the encounter with Islam, as some assumed we were worshipping three gods rather than one, the proclamation came out that there is no God but God.

From early in the Church’s history some of the most divisive language the church has ever created came about because of disagreements about the Trinity. It was THE most divisive issue, and THE issue of their day. Maybe that’s why we as a church only set aside one Sunday a year to talk about the Trinity.

The early church would assign names to the doctrines they didn’t like and then excommunicate them. So you’ve got names like Modalism, where God was really one but took on various modes for a while – God acted like a Parent at times, then a son, the a spirit. We could call it the cosplay dress-up heresy. God dressed up like a parent when God wanted to. And God wasn’t really human in Jesus, but just pretended to be for a while.

All of those early heresies wrestled with what are we to do about Jesus? How could God be human and still be Divine?

One of my favorite heresies was called Arianism. It implied that Jesus wasn’t always God but was created – was made – when everything else was made and was adopted by God. Interesting, right? It makes a little bit of sense. So much sense that the Church called everybody together in a big council in a place called Nicea, It was the first ever General Conference of the Church. The primary purpose wasn’t to create a Bible, they didn’t do that at all, but it was a special Conference called to condemn Arianism. To do that, they what we know as the Nicene Creed:

We believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, begotten from the Father before all ages, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made;

Later it also said “We believe in the Holy Spirit”… but clearly that was just an afterthought. The real focus was Jesus and making sure people didn’t think he was any less God or human. Did you catch that “begotten, not made” and “begotten… before all ages”? That was because of Arianism.

Of course, that wasn’t the end of it. For centuries, there were wars, with those outside the cities and along the north coast of Africa being the primary ones on whom those wars were waged. For centuries, those ideas popped up again with names like Sabellianism, Apollinarianism, and Anomeanism. Don’t sound just awful? [Check out more of the early “heresies” of the church at http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/kwhthd_ancntheresies_july05.asp]

Eventually, the Church figured out that Councils and wars aren’t the best way to settle this. So we turned to symbols like Celtic Knots, shamrocks and clover, and yeah, I think even fidget spinners. All of them were less invasive ways to explain a holy mystery that a creed and a council can barely begin to approach. None of them are perfect, but isn’t language itself kind of an analogy, unable to capture the whole of who God is? But we try.

So each analogy tries to tell us of the essence of the one who is constantly creating, but not far off. That parent God. Not just any parent, but a helicopter parent who hovers over, ready at any moment to shout down – “you’re my beloved child in whom I am well pleased.” Like any creative parent, that part of God has more craft items stored up than you could ever use, constantly waiting to re-make us and mold all things new. And God isn’t done with us yet.

Because that God sees the injustice and yes what we can call the sin and the messiness of this life, and God says – I’ve got to do something. And so God the Son comes to us in Jesus. Because God is concerned about the issues we face as humanity and as a whole earth. Through the son, God brought and is bringing salvation – a permanent justice for all creation.

And God is with us in the Spirit… the one who helps us breathe when our breath gets taken away by unexpected news; that comforter who stays with us through the long dark nights; and the one who sustains us when we wake up tired from marching to Selma or Springfield demanding justice. That’s the Spirit.

Why those conversations about Arianism and the whole bit of heresies was important is because the Church ended up saying that from the beginning, God has been about creating, redeeming, and sustaining. It wasn’t an afterthought. It is the very nature of God.

Creator, Redeemer, Sustainer. Parent-Son-Spirit. One is in the other, each is distinct and yet One.

I have only imperfect analogies to offer. But I will say this, God is concerned with what we face as humanity. Do you believe that? Do you believe that God is concerned with hunger? With those who discriminate based on race, class, or gender? Do you believe that God is concerned with the way we use this earth?

None of those are mutually exclusive. Like that early church, our United Methodist Church is calling its own council of Nicea in 2019. I pray the goal is bigger than determining who is the heretic and who is the true Christian. I pray that it shapes our understanding of God and how we work together.

I’ve got another analogy for you. We know how imperfect they are, but I hope this is helpful.

Let’s take an issue like Climate Change. That may be your issue, the issue your most passionate about or it may not resonate at all. Over here is someone who’s concerned about food justice, feeding hungry people. At some point, these two can find a connection. They can pull against each other, but that struggle can also make them stronger. They come back together, and eventually, they are drawn so close that they join up arm in arm.

Your issue might not be either of these, maybe your issue is being pro-life, racial justice, education, or any of the other issues. There are overlaps between each of these, intersections. And each person stretches us. They stretch and stretch and those stretches make us stronger. And they pull us back together. Until we aren’t just one person on one issue, but a movement of intersections coming together and marching. It’s how change comes. It’s how we grow. Not by being alone or belittling the pain another feels, but by seeing where we overlap.

That’s where we find the Trinity. Let’s find where my pain touches yours. And that’s where we’ll find God.

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