My Guy Gary

[like-the-brightest-star]

Just your daily reminder that the two-party system blows:

Here in Ohio, we’re voting for our state auditor today. Now, we have 3 choices here:

1. A current state representative who is a law school grad with 8 years of state senate experience under his belt. As far as I can tell, no experience in finances or auditing.

2. Another law school grad with 5 years of congressional experience under his belt. Hasn’t been anywhere near politics for the past 7 years. Again, no easily visible experience in finances/auditing.

3. A 32-year accounting and auditing veteran who also worked as an adjunct professor after getting his masters(in finance). In addition to being totally qualified, also seems like a nice guy: does a lot of community services, tutoring, and coaching in his spare time.

Seems like a total wash, right? Candidate 3 seems astronomically more qualified than Candidates 1 & 2. Here’s the problem though: Candidates 1 & 2 are Republican and Democrat respectively. “Who cares? Candidate 3 still seems infinitely more qualified than either of them: he’s definitely going to win right?” Yeah… none of our local news groups are even talking about Candidate 3- or his credentials- because he’s 3rd party.

All of this isn’t even touching on all the discussions we could have about qualified candidates of any party being ignored because of their party affiliation: plenty of moderate candidates- with excellent credentials- that aren’t going to win because they aren’t “hard-line” enough to get their party’s support.

[commonprose]

[bubbathegreat-1]

[shitpost-senpai]

It was actually a supermarket that ended the rein of the USSR. On a trip to america, Yeltsin had a stop off at a texas supermarket, He couldn’t believe his eyes.

He even questioned “and this is for anyone? You can just come up and buy it? This isn’t just for politicians or anything?” Even when he was at johnson space center, seeing the latest in our space technology, his mind was still on that supermarket. 

After he resigned from politics and wrote his memoirs, he still couldn’t think about anything but that damn supermarket.

Look at this dork

They gave him a free sample and he nearly shat his pants

[shitpost-senpai]

@redbloodedamerica

relevant to today’s discourse.

[michaelamimi]

Bringing this back because “not just for politicians?” Should be a wake up call for anyone thinking the communism is the answer to our shitty economy.

[blitzkriegfritz]

In the end. The ultimate goal of communism is just to create a superior class of rulers that can rule with infinite power and control those who are under their thumb, telling them that capitalism is to blame for their actual misery. It is the intend of Socialism to create the problems they claim to solve, just to stay relevant, just to stay in power.

[sundryetcetera-deactivated20220]

I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily the goal, but it is the natural consequence of economic centralization. Governments with absolute power are a very common theme in history. You can go all the way back to Emperor Shi Huangdi of the Qin Dynasty, and very clearly see the same consequences of extreme centralization in societies like Ancient Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Sparta, Persia, Rome, and so many more. Slave states, theocracies, absolute monarchies and oligarchies all contributed their poisonous lineages to the economic ignorance and sheer lust for power that we see in modern autocracies, and their ideas are appealing enough that they can overturn any free society given enough time and lack of resistance. Unfortunately the urge to control is the rule, not the exception of the vast majority of human societies, the world we know today is the real (but far more preferable) anomaly, but if we want to keep it that way we absolutely MUST continue to be vigilant and confront every philosophy that holds the collective above the individual.

[abs-gabs]

SOMEONE FINALLY SAID IT

[deathtasteslikechicken]

So if a teenager is at school for roughly 8 hours, and they are doing homework for 6+ hours, and they need AT LEAST 9 HOURS OF SLEEP FOR THEIR DEVELOPING BRAINS, then they may have 0-1 hours for other activities like eating, bathing, exercise, socializing (which is actually incredibly important for emotional, mental, and physical health, as well as the development of skills vital to their future career and having healthy romantic relationships among other things), religious activities, hobbies, extra curriculars, medical care of any kind, chores (also a skill/habit development thing and required by many parents), relaxation, and family time?  Not to mention that your parents may or may not pressure you to get a job, or you might need to get one for economic reasons.

[elusivebovine]

I will never not reblog this

[lele-exe-has-stoppedworking]

“…but teenagers have no reason to be stressed.”

[12345678909876543218-deactivate]

hey did you know anxiety levels in high school teens are actually as high as they were in insane asylum patients in the 1950’s? :)

[punkisdecedied]

HOW TO WRITE A CONVINCING ESSAY

[guerrillawar]

New York is being strangled but the tides are turning.

[whittneydoll]

🛑✋🏻 this blog is not a safe space for neocons or neocon apologists ✋🏻🛑

[onetruelibertarian]

[olderandhumbler]

I can tell you as a corporate lawyer I’ve seen this again and again. The big banks want a stranglehold on American finance, and they are absolutely wedded to the left because the more centralized control the less competition there is. Small businesses can’t afford $1600 an hour lawyers to help them thread the regulatory needle. Those consumer regulations? They don’t have a damned thing to do with consumers. We are all just service providers to the ultra-wealthy.

[lakeside-conservative]

My simplified way to present this is “The purpose of regulations is to protect the big business from the small.”

[hell0-there-lady]

[just-shower-thoughts]

If humans had the ability to fly, then there would definitely be laws placed to keep us from flying, and some countries would ban that all together

[stankyleg-deactivated2918973]

A person who can befriend people of any political ideology is someone to avoid.

[stankyleg-deactivated2918973]

And they’re so smug about it too. That just means you stand for nothing. That’s nothing to be proud of.

[gender-neutral-testes-deac]

Nah this is actually a bad post.

[surfcommiesmustdie-deactivated2]

this is a very bad post jesus christ

[the-rising-sun-chronicle]

Fuck you its a great post.

[trilllizard666]

long as they’re not genuine murderous political extremists or people that actively work to cause human suffering as the end goal what’s the fucking issue with making friends of a variety of political stripes?

do you really stand for your political positions and supposedly dearest ideals if you won’t make the effort to actually change people’s minds about things?

it doesn’t mean you don’t stand for anything, it means that you’re not someone that literally only ever hangs with or talks to people that agree with them or concerns themselves with APPEARING to agree with them

op on some cult shit

DO NOT TALK OR ASSOCIATE WITH THE HERETICAL NONBELIEVERS

[shareyourworldwide]

Different ideas might make you think, can’t have that.

[spycopoth-a]

I’m laughing at all the people who immediately assume that if we’re willing to be friends with people who have different opinions were OBVIOUSLY gonna befriend nazi’s

But no, apparently were immediately latching on to an extreme here.

[shareyourworldwide]

Hypothetically, what IF you befriended a Nazi? Would that really be bad or could perhaps there be a possibility of that person starting to understand your point of view and perhaps change their own mind about their own ideology?

Worth thinking about imo.

[lastsonlost]

Reminds me of Daryl Davis who has been friending people out of the KKK for years. His current number is somewhere around 200 and Counting.

[uppityamy]

That one tripped me out ^ you go guy, change people’s minds

[lastsonlost]

But let that’s again. He changed 200 lives most likely more now and we’re talking people with the most extreme of opinions. Meanwhile most people on this website can’t discuss pizza toppings of all turning into World War 3.

[triggeredmedia]

Carrying a knife will get you 4 years. Not USING one. CARRYING one. 

[timotaychalamet]

anyway NO ONE should be a billionaire…..NO ONE should be allowed to hoard THAT much money when whole countries starve to death. If you think I’m bitter that’s fine but it’s the truth, I don’t make the rules

[libertybill]

Oh my god they actually think people have billions sitting in an account somewhere and that wealth isnt a valuation of assets for example, businesses which are sources of income for most everyone else.

[beyondthesleep]

[guerrillawar]

[curioustoo]

Face it, you can’t survive without government telling you how you MUST live your life.

[redbloodedamerica]

[nonyayo]

President Paul 2024

[pryathis]

maitreya76 runningrepublican

#onegraphchallenge

[liberallogic101]

This is just gold

[entropic-dissonance]

He relies on people with zero understanding of the economy or actual documented statistics and preys on them with emotionally charged buzzwords.

[liberallogic101]

That’s also the entire democrat stance

[libertarian--princess-deactivat]

Every time this comes across my dash I gain an additional five years of life.

[crashoutcannibal]

The ultimate Bernie Sander’s burn post.

[alexb1812]

Please show this all Bernie Supporters