The difference between you and Donald Trump are 1) he genuinely believes he’s outstanding, 2) he’s the most powerful man in the world, and 3) he’s funny. You couldn’t have everybody going around showing the same lack of respect although that’s part of the point. Taking liberties to feel like a somebody the internet is full of this.
At work I take after Henry Ford. You can have your central heating installed by any plan you like so long as it’s mine. Turning down work if the customer wants what I consider a careless and foolish use of resources. And my shopping can only be described as professional. I often get asked if I’m German or Jewish.
But apart from the broken families, the impulsive people, the envy, the greed, the dishonesty, the laziness, the waste, the something for nothing and all the emotion involved gambling brings nothing but blessings to our people.
And I also believe it makes a society more like women. I do what I feels like.
Which isn’t so bad for woman because everything they do is somehow more minor in a way. In opposition to I do what i feels like men were traditionally raised with a duty to X, Y and Z. Gambling defeats manhood and stability of nature.
A dishonest practice that promotes the wrong kind of honesty. The kind of honesty that can’t leave without saying a bad word but would sell its own mum. Gambling plays a part in placing everybody else beneath consideration including your own mum. It destroys families.
Jesus hates gambling. Half of America gambles on the stock market and this might be a reason for obesity, immodesty and coveting thy neighbours wife. Gamblers want something for nothing and thats not just greed, it’s envy. Gambling is just taking away somebody else’s possessions - or them taking away yours - as the chancing devil decides. It’s not work.
In the era of reward people on benefits are seen like you. Could he work.. couldn’t he work? We don’t really know but we can afford not to find out.
But in the era of consequence it changes because that man pulling your pint sleeps under a bridge at night. Somebody like you finds themselves slaving away on an Australian plantation so the Australian can keep on surfing and hitting the shops with a credit card mountain. For a variety of reasons Australia, Canada, Ireland... you will keep that feeling of the 1990s for a little longer than the rest of us.
What happens in the era of consequence is that merit doesn’t get rewarded. You do the biggest things man has ever done for character building reasons.
But when you see great people starving this leads to altruism. The generation of underpaid work builds the welfare state to redress the balance, but this same state creates a generation of overpaid work which leads to selfishness and the dismantling of said state which takes you back to the beginning.
Suffice it to say you’re a generation behind in Ireland with at least ten years more funny money on a spoon before your own Brexit and Trump.
In ten or twenty years time the 21st century is going to bite hard in Ireland which will be the beginning of hard times. There are chapters in history that are all reward and other chapters that are all consequence, we have no choice but to face fate but at the same time we can take comfort from the fact that nobody does depression like the baby boomers. The luckiest generation don’t feel lucky.
If times were that bad surely things would be more heroic. And honest.
Honest in an important way. Not honest in that small way of swearing at anybody because they’re feelings don’t matter, I mean honest in an important way. To tell the truth when it matters, in the good old days they didn’t mostly avoid swearing because they were all charlatans but because they experienced so much sorrow in their own life that they refused to invent any more of them.
And the media. We are witness to so much tragedy and drama that people respond like people believe people respond to tragedy and drama however in reality there’s only a 50% chance of this outcome. Entertainment drama isn’t a spur to do the right thing in the same way that a dead hero is...
It’s like the greatest generation. Arguably the unluckiest generation in the history of mankind, but trying tell them that. Western society is seriously struggling because there are no longer any old people who appreciate what they’ve had. All people born after 1940(in America),1950(in Britain)and 1970(in Ireland)are similar in attitude and outlook.
If the American looks 70+ years into his past, the Brit 60+ years into his past, and the Irish 40+ years they would soon find nothing at all to feel envious about.
There’s always somebody in a worse situation than you. And if you’re the unluckiest man living in Ireland today think about history. The only reason we can’t say thank god we live in these times is because we never had it so good before.
But for Ireland this isn’t even that true. If any place still stands tall under neoliberalism it will be Ireland because Dublin is the heart of the swamp. Through pity or affection the Irish have been chosen as the worlds remedials, corporations pay 10 billion in taxes to you instead of 100 billion in taxes to us and that 10 billion provides work and benefits for Paddy.
The special forces are a Band of brothers the whole world over thats what my mate in the SAS tells me. Everything being given assures that this kind of thing never happens. They’re too professional.
If you declare your love early on it’ll get things off to a flying start.. safe in the knowledge you don’t really mean it. It was just a compliment the truth is you could take or leave it.
That leadership role isn’t necessarily a good thing for America. The advantage being above a smashed world indebted to you was creating a temporary position for Homer Simpson, but with enough Homer Simpson there will soon not be any Homers at all. Being the global leader is an inheritance you don’t want, there is such a thing as too much unearned income it can leave you bankrupt.
A culty heavily armed place, more people you wouldn’t have an honest conversation with. Through America we got to see all the warping effects freedom and technology would have, it’s the capitalist guinea pig.
Gotta say handsome might get more chances and take them - not necessarily for the better outcome - where beauty is an insurance against distress. She’s bound to end up in the middle somewhere in every sense, but a handsome man can still die in a ditch which might not necessarily be a bad thing. It’s happened throughout history.
What handsome normally says to people is “my father was an alpha male”. And a jawline only becomes inspirational when it comes as a complete package; stand up tall, shoulders back, rush nowhere because the world waits for you etc..
And I would say beauty is more arousing and disarming, adored just for being what it is. Not to sound like a homo but beauty creates more of a problem in women not developing their personalities.
To deregulate and get a little dirty. Less pollution of the world under Trump but more localised filth which is the irony for climate change activists and the Trumpsters. Overall there’s less pollution but more in the west, Trump reduces the global threat of climate change by increasing the rate of national eyesores. You bring the filth home at a reduced rate compared to the disgraceful scenes and poisonous smog we find in China and other lands.
Ideally we use him to defeat two things: corporatism and telescopic philanthropy. Not that it would be that black and white but I want an economy where state is state, business is business and the population is patriotic. And by patriotism I don’t mean flag-waving, I mean leaving the country better than you found it.
I'm hoping it brings a new normal. That ten years from now we see a more articulate and moral version of Trump because relations with China and the scheme to meet Asia in the middle really are tantamount to suicide.
He represents the worst part of our nature but our better half is pie in the sky. Through Trump you'll avoid any and every ill-fated effort to do the right thing where the liberals today wish to see you martyred yourself for the sake of it. He's atheist, material and completely unspiritual but Trump might be, because of the liberals, necessary to survive on earth.
And I also contend that there's a millennial quarter who could give the greatest generation a run for their money. A new savviness, level-headedness and staying power. The silliness and decadence begot the fall of 2008 buy this deterioration is creating people who tear themselves from nothing. No inheritance but debt is the spur to do better.
Anyway what I would say that EU or not Britain is closer to America. Conditions for life and rates of youth unemployment in Britain closer to America and leagues away from France.
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RE: Fair or unfair?
Applauding yourself for shooting a fish in a barrel.. American girls are cheap and easy, we know the score.