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That's my point. Yet look at the political climate - people obviously are judging. By storming the capitol, shooting politicians and pundits...Trump and his squad have turned the temperature up, Kirk was a part of that. That much is plain as day, but some people I suppose would choose to remain willfully ignorant to that. Maybe it overlaps with religion and bible quotes, I don't know. As much as cubs and I disagree on issues, I can at least respect that he doesn't pretend Trump and those in his slipstream are something other than sharks.

Castanza, I'll simply not debate whether certain parts of the bible are relevant to "Christians". That's between you and you. I will say that if one can't read between the lines of Kirk quoting a passage about stoning gays in response to another quote about loving your neighbor, what else can be said? Like I told Sweet, interpret it as you will. I didn't say that nor did I even imply it... I think it's all hypocrisy...and I'll repeat my point: I think it's sad that Trump has whipped up this political frenzy to the point that right wing protestors are caught up in treasonous riots and dying. And left wing protestors are looting and burning businesses and shooting pundits, and this thread has thousands of comments...I find it embarrassing that so many Americans think Donald Trump and his little family of dumbasses are worth any of this. Kirk contributed to this frenzy, and he chose to hide behind plausible deniability to his own demise. Well, if you play stupid games, you may win stupid prizes... Find the shooter and prosecute him like any other criminal, same with the Jan 6 rioters, same with the George Floyd riot looters. Is that what Trump is doing? Or is he pardoning one group while manhunting for the other group?

I have more sympathy for her getting caught up in the violence and misery that Trump has inflicted on his supporters and this country. I mean he literally whipped up such a frenzy that his supporters refused to accept an election loss, broke into Congress, and ultimately died because of it. All while he sat back and watched it happen. And instead of trying to calm the waters for the good of the country, he continues to incite such division that now people on the opposite political spectrum are shooting his goon lieutenants. Does Trump have no shame? I know the answer and you do too. But at least I don't hide behind the kind of nonsense that disgraces an officer by reducing defending his country to "he died of natural causes".

Here's a photo of just another Patriot who is definitely not armed with a stun gun after non-violently breaking into a Senator's office: https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/01/05/gettyimages-1230454190-edit_custom-9af43b52e31f5156228783034468ee0b43b0eefb.jpg?s=2600&c=85&f=webp Thankfully he was pardoned by Trump for his unarmed and nonviolent expression of political disagreement.

A cop who was attacked and maced, then had 2 strokes and died. Natural causes? Yeah, the same way Charlie Kirk died of blood loss. When a treasonous political mob raids the US capitol and then are all pardoned. What message does that send? When someone says, "The bible says we should all love one another" and Kirk disputes that with "No the bible says stone gays". What message does that send? I think I can infer meaning here. If you can't, or don't want to, that is your prerogative.

Sure cubs, I'm the phony. Those poor Patriots were just trying to MAGA. They were the victims. And they all deserve blanket pardons, every one of them. To Eldad's point: the political hypocrisy.

Oh its absurd on both sides, I am with you there. Same with the "before I grace you with my discource, you must publicly condemn* the deaths that I don't like, but ignore the other deaths that I don't care about!". It's politics - hypocrisy all around of course. And it just gets worse when the stakes are raised and there's blood on the pulpit, unfortunately.

Maybe Trump will pardon Kirk's shooter the same way he pardoned the PATRIOTS that stormed the White House on Jan 6, leading to the deaths of multiple people. God's perfect law: Stoning gay people to death -Charlie Kirk You can interpret that however you want, Sweet.

Here I was thinking Trump made a single mistake mocking a disabled person. Thanks for correcting me that Trump regularly mocks disabled people.

Today? This was a decade ago. Any sense of political decorum is out the window as long as this guy is in power:

It's a state's rights issue!

I mean he was kind of asking for it with that short skirt and low cut bra he was wearing, right?

"He didn't say to stone gay people, he just said that God's law to stone gay people is totally righteous!" Yes this is just a totally reasonable person who was simply misinterpreted by the damn liberal media! Oooookay If you want to run around in circles to defend this guy that is your prerogative.

No, it was Charlie Kirk himself Somethimg something, don't meet your heroes...

Here's some telltale signs of an evil person: [Some asshole - name redacted] believed that gay people should be stoned to death, that the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a “huge mistake,” that we should legally be allowed to whip foreigners in the U.S., that Muslims only move here to destroy the country, that American Jews encourage anti-whiteness, that men should physically attack transgender people, that all women should submit to their husbands, and that Black professionals “steal” their jobs from more qualified white people.

For me it was always freedom and relieving a burden of needing to work, needing to live in a high-income area. Then once the investment account grew to the point where I could retire and never think about the harsh realities of life, I don't really know what to do with the money. I feel like quitting my job won't really change my life for the better, it will just make me a little more bored in the middle of the day. I travel as much as my girlfriend wants, but that's her passion and not really mine. I was debating getting a place in Chile to ski year round but that just seems excessive. Plus most of my friends are still working so it would be a more solo adventure, not as fun. I think Munger or Buffett was right when they said that ultimately the money doesn't change your lifestyle.

What's really wild is people are only now just realizing little Donny-boy is a rapist and pedophile! Here's some advice I read, I think it was in the bible: When travelling for Mar-a-lago, pack your expedited depreciation schedule, but leave your daughter at home!

All part of Zucky's $600B AI spend. That's how much Trumpy wants him to spend, right? 700B? 800? How about a zillion!

I think google or microsoft will be the big AI winners - transitioning enterprise clients to a full solution suite: cloud, LLMs, and the surrounding services for data, privacy, & cybersecurity. The real cherry on top is access to enterprise data to train their models. If they can manage to anonymize and encrypt that data and convince enterprises to allow them training access (or just do it anyways), I think that is what propels this technology to long-term commercialization.

Did I mention we can walk and chew gum, all at the same time? Building a strong western hemisphere is a top priority. And we are doing that, of course. But let's not forget our friends and enemies across the Atlantic. Why have friends and enemies, you say? Seems complicated...and you're right! Let's just have enemies. So we'll abandon support for almost all of our longstanding European allies, lob a bunch of threats and tariffs at them, and damage any chance of productive partnership as a united front against China and Russia.

Yeah we really need to strengthen our hemisphere. A great start would be building a huge wall between us and our neighbors to the south, and then let's spend 150B to pay a bunch of proud-boys wannabes to abduct millions of our southern neighbors from their homes and ship them to prisons in totally random countries. But we're America - we can walk and chew gum. So while we're at it, let's piss off our neighbors to the north with a barrage of threats, tariffs, and a lies about drug smuggling. As the coup de grace let's try a little light espionage - maybe our spies could do a totally crap job of covertly fomenting independence movements with our "good friends" in Greenland. Surely this will build a strong western hemisphere.

Well, that sounds ridiculous and I'd be livid as well. In the workplace I really don't see any of the nonsense like you describe. Perhaps HR takes care of it, I don't know. But I work in a math heavy industry, it is currently dominated by Asians and Indians. Second largest groups would be Russians and Americans.

Yeah I totally agree.

It's better. If we're throwing merit out the window, I'd rather opportunity go to the poor versus the rich, all else equal. Well you're half right. Skill is simply not a good predictor of success. Grit, conscientiousness, and social connection are the three best predictors of success. Talent is largely irrelevant. So if there's something you want to pass on to your children, "grit" is the trait.

Yeah that's a reasonable take. Honestly I'd be ok with it, because like you say whatever we do, the wealthy aren't going to really lose.