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I rarely post just lurk.

America as you know it is done. It reminds me of the months before my parents got divorced. As one of the podcasters I listen to put it there are three groups left in America. Those left defending the wall, the Visigoths and those trapped between them trying to flee into the city. It will be slaughter.

FR has been a great place but you can’t see the seething hatred festering in antifa and their ilk.

There is a serious disconnect between what justice and the “law” effectively do. It is evident at this point that we are returning to a place where the law of the land applies only to those who allow it to apply to them. Rittenhouse as a case in point.

CWII is coming. It may only be a few short months but the world will shudder at its effects.

People fail to recognize that the current problem of needing a debt jubilee is a result of the government mandate (black robed legislatures) of credentialing.

The current “higher education” system is simply a credentialing system from the supreme court case of Griggs VS Duke Power in 1971. Without the ability of a private business to offer a general aptitude test to winnow candidates something has to represent the first line of job screening. In this case the “near” mandatory Bachelors degree requirement fills the bill everywhere. All a job-screener has to do is put that minimum requirement and then automated job systems will never let you apply.

It stings personally as I got to 100+ semester hours towards a degree in electrical engineering and computer science and then ran out of money ( In short: Parents divorced when I was 12, Public housing level poverty, claimed by my father on his taxes and no longer eligible for Pell grant). It took years to pay off the loans with nothing to show for it.

The overall problem is that the successful boomers are trapped in a dilemma. They have fostered a gross credentialing system on their grandchildren which requires a degree or certification for nearly all decently paying jobs. Internships are for the wealthy as those that will help build a resume are surprisingly often “unpaid”. If millennial’s in mass are allowed to default all those beautiful retirement accounts are going to crash.

The appropriate fix to the system would be to allow Aptitude/IQ tests but that will be deemed “racist”. The very “compassion” that we are supposed to have has created a system of “equality” where someone is going to have to take substantial losses eventually. I support the effort to wipe out the debt. I also support the effort to abolish the national level department of education and its abusive spending.

Someone is going to eventually have to deal with the consequences.

I rarely post usually just lurk but recent world events have stirred my slumber a little. The interesting thing about the replies to this thread is that they are reveling over something once beautiful destroyed. It’s like you took a mace to a beautiful model and then glorified over the broken and horribly scarred body in glee.

The shambling corpse BSoA has become today prevents me from sending my children there. It’s a cascading forward effect where the young are prevented from socializing from others that are like minded presenting a community front later in life. Simply put there will be no one left to even speak for the Jews.

The better question is are we even free to speak the words against corruption lest we face financial destruction through murderous ostracization at work or social media? Where are the organizations that will guarantee me a job and religious freedom?

Scattered and alone the last vestiges of freedom were picked off with sniper fire.

Sadness.

I rarely post mostly just lurk daily. I’m on the leading edge of millennials so most of the people I have worked with and my cousins are in that group.

As a starter let me ask you two questions:

Would you deny your children (grandchildren) any inheritance (assuming they are socialist) and instead pass it onto someone (even if they aren’t a blood relative) that believes in the free market? Yes? No? Why not?

Would you finance families that believe in the free market to have additional children? Yes? No? Why not?

The ostracisation needed for a civil society is now considered a worse sin than murder. Just think about the long term consequences. Think of millennials as the result of answering both those questions as no. If you refuse to choose moral stability then don’t be surprised by the results.

There are 5 distinct problems with millennials that lead them to Mr. Sanders. They exist, they are the root causes but taking the time to understand them might happen to one in a million that is my age.

1. Griggs versus Duke Power Company 401 US 424 (1971)

This court case essentially outlawed IQ based aptitude testing for jobs. It made the only arbitrator of “skill” any group that offers a “degree”. The result is a college structure that holds keys (degrees) which can be priced at any rate. They are not regulated by the free market in any meaningful sense and this court case makes them essentially the only neutral party which government protects from legal action in the realm of proficiency judgement. Currently colleges function much like a guild. The ability to take a chance on a gifted individual (IQ or aptitude test) is essentially illegal. This means for most millennials that a “degree” is mandatory. The accompanying debt also becomes mandatory. The current system reminds me of guilds (college) protected by a monarch (government).

College/Certifications aren’t voluntary anymore. Try getting a decent job without one. Not happening.

2. Mandatory Spending

The levels of mandatory spending required of millennials are factors greater than previous generations. Last year working for a major company I made 26K. Of that I paid 5k in taxes and FICA. With Obamacare in place my company paid an additional 12.8k on their side for my health insurance. So my total compensation of 37.8K I got to take home 21k. A little over 54%. Factor in local tax (sales, property, fees, mandatory insurance) and maybe I get 50% of every dollar that could be paid to me.

Think of it as the frog in the pot. If you look at my parent’s generation car/health insurance wasn’t mandatory. Those that complain generally had enough time to gain a strong financial base where there was less mandatory spending. Millennials with the mandatory student debt immediately lose 50% of their gross income. They are like frogs thrown in a boiling pot.

3. Inflation + Labor Expansion + Capital Accumulation

Nixon decoupled the dollar from gold in August 1971. The resulting inflation in the past 55 years is staggering. I look at it as a simple function of gold. Even as a scarce resource the climb of gold from
$35 to $1239 (as high as 1800, bottom at 350) a troy ounce is frightening. This means the dollars real buying power currently is about 3% of that in 1971. There is a secondary chilling effect that with such high inflation, only individuals in “good” jobs have enough free wages to participate meaningfully in government.

The sexual revolution in the long term has also devastated “real wages”. I don’t begrudge anyone that wants to enter the labor force but the sheer number of women (in western countries) in the labor pool degrades the minimum wage you need to pay. The devaluation of mothering and raising children has reached a point where many on the leading edge of millennials will never breed. If you look at the original Labor Day protests to stop seventy-two hour work weeks are they any different than two people working forty each?

The ability for millennials (with a giant bag of student debt) to start a business (other than internet based) is fundamentally nil. Without a solid capital accumulation method you delay entrepreneurship reducing overall economic activity. Then you slap massive taxation and regulation on it. Good luck.

4. Replacement Rate > 2.1

The real effect is the combination of high mandatory spending, high inflation, and student debt is that semi-intelligent people don’t have children. They understand that they can’t afford another mouth to feed. I know several 110+ IQ people that aren’t going to have children (either economically or for selfish reasons). I didn’t have children until I felt economically stable myself.

The end effect is that when our generation, thirty years from now, needs high intelligence professional services the will probably be so premium priced they will be unaffordable.

5. Public Education

Public schools at this point provide little more than compliance indoctrination. This indoctrination has one additional critical component in that “education” is administered with brute force destroying the natural curiosity of the general population. Will millennials pick up a single historic document? Will they be terrified of political or religious discussions at work? Can they argue without getting furious? Public education has become most adept at this particular feature, curiosity destruction, because with the availability of knowledge from explosive internet growth during the last twenty years the common man now poses a grave threat to the oligarchs.

They inherently feel something is wrong with the system of government. The curiosity to understand it has been beaten out of most millennials. So when Mr. Sanders offers first aid remedies to deep economic wounds they listen and support.

Closing:
For the tiny fraction, of my generation, who are informed can we even discuss it? Will I get fired? What happens if I oppose LBQT in general because I think it’s a net economic negative? What happens if I prefer slavery over capital punishment? What if I think there should be mandatory abortion for unwed mothers?

We are on the path to soft tyranny, civil discussion is dead, and in truth I would have rather been playing video games then writing this reply.

Carter.

Being one of the few “youngsters” that actually pay attention to politics a mass exit will not fix what is wrong. The only real solution is an exit from the financial system supporting terrible morals. This is essentially impossible as local government in many instances is at odds with individual rights, mostly limiting the ability to ostracize terrible life choices under the threat of losing your business.

Until the producers decide to pick up their toys and stop playing in the rigged game nothing will change. Being young it makes me sad the mess I will be raising my children in.

I am a BBY worker at the bottom end of the merch food chain but the first statement strikes me as odd.

1. A GM should know better than to disclose “confidential” information.
2. Anyone that has visited a BBY for a few years would already see the contracting media footprint. Digital media is growing strong right now and only certain government regulation will kill it. (I suggest reading the recent Canadian internet pricing changes.)
3. State sales taxes on internet sales make any deal savy shopper order it. On this read about the Californian law changes and Amazon’s reaction.

It is also possible the store you were in has been designated as a test store for a new project.

And yes I am probably the only line level employee that reads FR.

When I look at the whole thing I'm immensely glad it's all available on the internet. It's much like the first century church and the belief that the return would happen then. I think that with the internet that shortly every person will have the opportunity to at least read about Christianity.

I don't think he's disappointed he also gave them free will though some seem to run amuck.

That's kinda like digging through marriage records and making a google map posting with little flags for where all those who have had same sex unions live so you can go have a little talk with them about their choices...

Just saying.

The real issue that’s supports all of this is the concept of equal protection. It’s so skewed at that point attempting to “boycott” homosexuals is effectively illegal. It makes me very sad.

Proverbs 29:2
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked bearth rule, the people mourn.

If they get a bail out I hope someone brings up the point that it will effectively be “Taxation Without Representation”. My tax dollars going to people that I can’t vote on...

The tribe is getting restless.

Common sense ftw. Now if those people that voted No would have showed up to the polls during the normal elections. Just Imagine.

Under the current system if you don’t have parents that are willing to take out 50k in loans or are minority it’s near impossible to get an engineering degree. There’s no way you can work 40 hours a week and take a full time engineering class load and do well. You might struggle and make it through but does anyone really wanna hire a engineer that graduated with a 2.2 GPA?