EffortlessGrace

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

If she calls you a “dickhead” for not buying her a ring and proposing, she’s for the streets.

The Origins of Virtue

by Matt Ridley

I mean, everything? In this economy?

Are investors from the US or our government allowed to buy swathes of real estate in the PRC to the same extent that the CCP or Chinese investors are allowed to?

I’m betting no.

Not if I put that ball gag in.

~Well… actually… hm.~

You chose this, Hasan.

You.

Edit: Down-vote me all you want. He chose his career and how he balances his schedule and public exposure.

Including or excluding the Catholic Church as an organization?

“Treasure” in treasure trove is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Ironically, luddites against space exploration in this era call for the dismantling of a titanic field of science that is both directly and indirectly responsible for the very device from which they shart out their oh-so-learned opinions to the rest of the world.

Ironically, due the nature of the language used in their complaint and its similarity to psychological operations conducted by COINTELPRO, @OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml seems “shallow and politically motivated”.

I’m married to a white woman. I think advocacy for segregation is a flawed and impractical position, but, at the risk of hypocrisy, I understand and commiserate with the foundation behind the argument.

Malcolm X talked about our (I am not of European descent) so-called “white allies” and the Uncle Toms they promulgate.

symbolic

It’s embellished.

In reality, Ezekiel 25:17 is much shorter than the film speech. Here is the KJV translation (the same cadence as the movie monologue):

“And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.”

I agree with your sentiment, but I’m compelled to point out that their “billions” is in the valuation of the preferred shares of the corporations they control. If they were to sell to get their billions in cash, the value of their portfolio that analysts purport they have would plummet to pennies on the dollar and very quickly.

Billionaires take out loans using their appraised assets as collateral when they need a couple tens of hundreds of millions in cash.

These billionaires’ egos literally write checks their bodies can’t cash with tacit approval from the Fed and SEC.

It’s George C. Scott playing General Turgidson.

So, appeasement spiced with a paper tiger’s threat? This “proposal” is insulting.

Gregor Mendel