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Should be a wild four years.

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Idk man, most people used to be freehold farmers that banded together in outrage over a small amount of taxation
one example of this from my home state of Kentucky was the "black patch" tobacco wars. A large tobacco conglomerate (now called british-american tobacco) cornered the tobacco market and drove down prices which was threatening to put the small Kentucky/Tennessee tobacco farms out of business.

Publicly these farmers formed Planters Protection Association to pool together their crops of Dark fired tobacco (of which KY/TN had and still has the premier crop) to withhold them from the market to negotiate for better prices.

the PPA was not as successful as the farmers wanted so they formed a outlaw posse called the Night riders or The silent brigade. They went around KY and TN burning company crops, destroying warehouses and farm equipment of those farmers who refused to join the PPA. They would also publicly humiliate company officials and farmers by whipping them.

eventually it went to SCOTUS and American Tobacco company (now BAT) was declared a monopoly and forced to separate.
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PTSD has a series of criteria for diagnosis that people don't always fit and a treatment plan that might not work for individual cases. Decent psychiatrists take a "less is more" approach because they don't want to misdiagnose someone who then receives incorrect treatment. It could be that a depression or generalized anxiety diagnosis is more accurate for a given case, but I do not know the ins and outs of the person you're talking about. I'm just giving my armchair opinion.

Also, the abundance of munchies makes it clear why certain people care about special diagnoses.

well I'm not giving an armchair opinion, I'm not talking about an individual and I have no idea why people have such strong opinions they need to express based on ????

there are basically no "decent psychiatrists" and people barely even see actual psychiatrists anymore, they see psychiatric NPs, who have very little experience and usually just didn't want to do regular nursing anymore.

the reason I'm jumping down your throat is your weird need to comment about people needing "special diagnoses." we have a massive institutional crisis in mental health care and overuse of dangerous psychoactive substances. people should never default to blame powerless individuals interacting with this system.
 
* Asks for billionaires
* Shows example
“Well not THOSE billionaires, they’re my friends!”
There isn't a smoke-filled room somewhere with a dozen billionaires sitting around a table directing national affairs. It's more like a million older paper-millionaires who truly believe they are "wealthy" because number has been artificially inflated for half their lives and don't understand the consequences of what they've done. Their brains won't allow them to understand it, they earned those paper gains and the illusion of fake wealth you see.
 
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Under military code of conduct she fucked up, this was some of the email she sent out after Vance visited the Space Force base in Greenland.

"I do not presume to understand current politics, but what I do know is the concerns of the U.S. administration discussed by Vice President Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base”

"I commit that, for as long as I am lucky enough to lead this base, all of our flags will fly proudly -- together”

Sounds like she violated Article 88 of the UCMJ:

Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Homeland Security, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
 
I was prescribed statins when I was about 28. I'm not overweight and my diet isn't liquid cholesterol, but the doctor told me that about 75% of all cholesterol production is unrelated to dietary cholesterol. AKA some people just have naturally higher cholesterol and changing their diet will not affect it much unless they are borderline.
This was my conversation with my doctor: some people just have crazy high cholesterol and a low-dose statin works. Most doctors will give you the lowest effective dose, see what happens, and leave you there so long as you are stable and get the desired results.
well I'm not giving an armchair opinion, I'm not talking about an individual and I have no idea why people have such strong opinions they need to express based on ????

there are basically no "decent psychiatrists" and people barely even see actual psychiatrists anymore, they see psychiatric NPs, who have very little experience and usually just didn't want to do regular nursing anymore.

the reason I'm jumping down your throat is your weird need to comment about people needing "special diagnoses." we have a massive institutional crisis in mental health care and overuse of dangerous psychoactive substances. people should never default to blame powerless individuals interacting with this system.
I don't have a strong opinion, just an opinion. You're the one getting mad about it and, as you say, jumping down my throat. Considering the number of munchies out there, discussed on this site, I don't know why you're surprised by that comment. I understand your point about issues with psychiatrists, mental health, insurance, and so on. I don't discount that, but - respectfully - I think you're taking what I said a little too personally.

If what I said upset you in any way, I'm sorry. Not "tee hee, I'm sowwy UwU (hahaha fucking retard)." I apologize. That was not my intention at all.
 
I think there’s some malice as well. As a kid, my mother had me “diagnosed” with autism so she could get more free money from the state. It wasn’t until my junior year of high school that I was able to get retested and it was determined that I wasn’t autistic. I would bet that if they didn’t cash awards for people with autistic children, the diagnoses would go down

yes, and this is why there is the superficial paradox of why food stamps should not be reduced (ok you can take away soda)

if aid isn't as general as possible and the means testing isn't as basic bitch as possible, you incentivize things like crazy check seeking

we're not getting the randian paradise of no gibs. we have to have smart gibs and that means reducing perverse incentives.
 
Rates need to be increased not lowered. Printing endless cheap or even free money for two decades is why we're in this mess.
It can be increased AFTER the government refinances it's own loans.

I am increasingly suspecting that if the bankers and financiers that were profiting from the hollowing out of the US can't have their slow, managed decline, they will deliberately take measures to crash the economy with no survivors to punish the plebs for getting uppity.
Yes. They would rather burn it down than let anyone else have it. They ABSOLUTELY will intentionally tank the economy if Trump continues to take things away from them, especially since they could do so and it would reset the 2008 crash (which they're at fault for but have delayed for nearly 20 years by money printing) and it would be immediately pinned on Trump.
 
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wpMRAdVgm9cIf I have to see one more fucking normalfag take on tariffs I am going to kill and eat someone.

EDIT: holy shit, this is the Washington post? And they make fucking opinion piece tiktoks? They should have been banned by trump yesterday.
Someone made a reference to a phrase ("short and sweet like the old woman's dance") to me and I looked it up—it was from Lincoln's first speech for political office in the Illinois legislature. Here's the entirety of his speech:

Fellow-Citizens: I presume you all know who I am. I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by many friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. I am in favor of a national bank. I am in favor of the internal improvement system, and a high protective tariff. These are my sentiments and political principles. If elected, I shall be thankful; if not it will be all the same.

Literally Abraham Lincoln—a man whom the left and our political and academic institutions fellate continuously—began his political career with the policy that he favors a high protective tariff. One third of his entire platform is a strong tariff. And now, we have those same institutions pretending that anyone mentioning tariffs as an economic and political strategy is an evil idiot.

You don't hate these people enough.
 
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