Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Guess what I learned today Ya'll.

It's no longer fashionable to be a "global citizen".        Poof. Just.... like.... that. Which was quite a shock to me.

I have been trying to keep to myself because I don't want to have to push back on anyone right now. I don't know why people can't just be normal. Everyone has their own little government conspiracy bubble going on and I think I've had enough of them.  I personally believe that incompetence explains most things. But I digress...

Today a neighbor was telling me she thought what was going on was "they" were trying to take over the government and create a one world government. All of sudden she was concerned "about her rights being taken away".

I'm sure she was talking about Trump because she is one of those pink pussy hat wearers. I took an immediate dislike to her because the first time I met her she described herself as a "global citizen" and used the phrase ugly Americans. By definition those people want the UN to run things. If there was another person in office she would be completely fine with that.

The other thing she is upset with today is that billionaires can buy bunkers. My reply was..... well - you aren't doing too bad yourself. Right? A lot of people could think you were pretty rich living in this neighborhood.

I mean seriously - she's a widower living in a house with a three car garage and she's acting like she's living in a tiny house in the bad part of town. I think I not so subtly told her to check her privilege. The other thing I don't understand about people is why they care what someone else is doing. Just handle your own business.

I don't envy any billionaire living in a bunker. THAT IS NOT LIVING! Fuck that! I of course would choose an island.

Now I'm not fine with what's going on at all. People are going to find out soon enough why socialism doesn't work. While I do NOT think Trump is a socialist - the effects will be the same. You can't print this much money and not have to pay for it later. And it's super irritating that people live the YOLO life and then aren't prepared for anything.

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  1. Capital of Texas RefugeeTuesday, April 21, 2020 4:57:00 PM

    "... 'they' were trying to take over the government and create a one world government."

    T.H.E.Y. live right here in the United States.

    "All of sudden she was concerned 'about her rights being taken away.'"

    Tell her to play "Know Your Rights" by The Clash until she gets it.

    "I took an immediate dislike to her because the first time I met her she described herself as a 'global citizen' and used the phrase ugly Americans."

    Don't worry, I won't be exporting her job, she's too fucking stupid for us to have even considered employing. But if you want a nation of stupid people jobs, keep doing this.

    "... billionaires can buy bunkers ..."

    Actually, if you're not stupid people, you can build your own bunker.

    The "Antipodean Texan" who I occasionally mention is an American that went to Australia and who once had an Arcane Texas survival blog, which you should find if you flip the words around. It's full of crazy-sounding rantings that were meant to hide the true signal which would have been suppressed long before it actually was.

    He did pretty well building "vault" prototypes with a low six figure income.

    "... she's a widower living in a house with a three car garage and she's acting like she's living in a tiny house in the bad part of town ..."

    Do you understand yet why I distrust voting?

    You're not expressing your so-called "political views", you're just competing with your neighbors to offset all of the stupid shit they believe in.

    I prefer System D, the black market, and the counter-economy over the Delusional Fractional Credit System to vote for people I tend to like via economic activity.

    Also, there are Rooftop Voters, such as the infamous Korean Rooftop Voters of Los Angeles. :-)

    "I think I not so subtly told her to check her privilege."

    DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN YOU COULD GO TO THE STORE WITHOUT AN ARMED ESCORT?
    PEPPERIDGE FARM REMEMBERS!

    Yeah, seriously, things are so fucked up now pre-Boogaloo O'Clock.

    "I of course would choose an island."

    Welcome to the People Like Us Club, because I did choose an island.

    I just can't get to it right now, but moving was always going to involve tricky logistics anyway.

    "While I do NOT think Trump is a socialist ..."

    *snorts seltzer water through my nose*

    It's later in the day, because if I'd have read that earlier, I'd have snorted coffee through my nose. This feels refreshingly different, like I just cleaned all of the snot I had lingering in my head for the week. Thanks! :-)

    People say and do different things, and while Trump says a lot of things, he just made possible the biggest Fed Money Printer job in American history, and because he did it in a way where he doesn't just give back taxpayers $1200 of their taxes, he behaves like a socialist wealth redistributor.

    You can believe he isn't a socialist all you like, but he still behaves like one in terms of economics, and ultimately he's still a New York Liberal.

    Just because he amuses the shit out of people because of what he gets away with on Twitter doesn't mean this is anywhere near good government. It's just political bread and circuses for an empire that can't afford to maintain its infrastructure.

    "And it's super irritating that people live the YOLO life and then aren't prepared for anything."

    OH OH OH
    CHECK THIS SHIT OUT ...
    YOU MEAN THAT R/K THEORY MAY HAVE MERIT?

    Careful, some of those r/K theory people hunt rabbits. :-)

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  2. Tex - I do wish Cleve would open up the Vault again. It was an interesting place.

    BunnyGoat

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  3. "People say and do different things, and while Trump says a lot of things, he just made possible the biggest Fed Money Printer job in American history, and because he did it in a way where he doesn't just give back taxpayers $1200 of their taxes, he behaves like a socialist wealth redistributor.",

    Oh... I'm not getting any of my money back. I'm not happy about it. But then.... I'm pretty used to get shafted by the YOLO masses. In the recession I was the ~last~ person to get refinanced. And you know why? Not because I had bad credit. It was because I put 20% down on my place when that was RARE. So I had to wait until I had 20% equity according to the bank before they would even talk to me about refi'ing. They refinanced every deadbeat on the planet. I'm still sooooo bitter.

    I mean... if these companies actually had earnings rather than debt - maybe they could weather this situation. But why make profit when you can just walk away? It's sub-prime for companies. That's someone else mess to clean up. They reap the benefits even when there is not profit and the losses get passed on to the taxpayer.

    Trump at least tried to reduce the balance sheet. But people in their overspending ways couldn't handle it and fucked everything up. Interest rates can't be this low forever.


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  4. Capital of Texas RefugeeWednesday, April 22, 2020 5:25:00 PM

    BG: "I do wish Cleve would open up the Vault again ..."

    Deep within the crazy-sounding rantings, there was this one amazing moment where it was as if he flipped three quarters of a board full of go stones ...

    He didn't see more of the picture because there's a necessary economic and social involvement element to be exposed to more of it, but it was amazing that he was able to see it all much like Finch's moment in "V for Vendetta" from where he was.

    For a long while, the fact that he did this remained largely ignored ... until some Internet drive-by shooter types pushed the knowledge of its existence farther up the Food Chain of Evil.

    There are people who have paid tens of thousands of dollars to attempt an Internet Mind Wipe and got worse results than what he got for free, and for him it happened so quickly that it was very obvious that he didn't call a napalm strike in on himself.

    While I could tell you exactly what it was, if I were to do that here, we could pretty much count on this comment disappearing like one did a few days ago. And at the worst, this blog of Snarkie's would disappear, through no fault of her own.

    As for me personally, I'm tired of giving these goons further funding.

    That's why I found a few small places where people might be glad to have me around.

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  5. Capital of Texas RefugeeWednesday, April 22, 2020 5:32:00 PM

    "Trump at least tried to reduce the balance sheet ..."

    Repeat after me: Calvin Coolidge was the Greatest American President.

    Deep down, you know it's true. :-)

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  6. Capital of Texas RefugeeThursday, April 23, 2020 6:02:00 PM

    "By 1929, after Coolidge's series of tax rate reductions had cut the tax rate to 24 percent on those making over $100,000, the federal government collected more than a billion dollars in income taxes ..."

    Also: "Coolidge opposed [the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Act], declaring that agriculture must stand 'on an independent business basis,' and said that 'government control cannot be divorced from political control.'"

    Basically, Calvin Coolidge is the closest thing that the Republicans have had in terms of having an advocate for smaller government with lower taxes and less regulation in office, including the current occupant of the Presidency.

    So from a Republican and an anarcho-capitalist point of view, Calvin Coolidge is the Best American President Evar. :-)

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  7. Oh. Okay. Lets circle back to this "we could pretty much count on this comment disappearing like one did a few days ago".

    What are you talking about? I'm too apathetic to delete posts.

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  8. Capital of Texas RefugeeThursday, April 23, 2020 9:55:00 PM

    Snarkie: You didn't delete a comment a few days ago ... Blogger did, and it was obvious by the timing.

    That's why I had a subsequent "snort" reaction to the comment going away.

    It was live for a few minutes and then it magically disappeared, which probably means there's something partly automated with a following touch-up paint job applied by the usual types.

    Apparently the Left-Approved Fascists don't like being pointed at.

    WHO KNEW? :-)

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  9. Oooh. Let's do it again. What did you say?

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  10. Capital of Texas RefugeeSunday, April 26, 2020 5:20:00 PM

    "Oooh. Let's do it again."

    No.

    But I'll tell you a story instead.

    You may remember a while back that I talked about a certain arrangement where I was on the books of another company as a contracted employee.

    The company I sold used them as a body rental agency front, and so that's why I still personally have shitty credit relative to what I really have: it was absolutely necessary to look like I wasn't going to be a threat or a cat's paw for unconventional negotiations.

    It was done because the people I was dealing with have a habit I learned about later of taking CEOs and other important people hostage if they're not getting paid by their bosses.

    You go do a factory tour and then your KRE insurance people are having to negotiate a pay-out and extraction.

    Not my way to go, not at all.

    KRE = Kidnap, Ransom, and Extortion, BTW.

    I knew this was working because I could go to a certain country and I didn't even once get any "special offers". No hookers in my hotel room waiting for me to agree to a compromising situation, not even free shit from the hotel in consideration for the amount of money that we were paying them.

    But every room was under surveillance because most of it was built into every tourist hotel from the start. Their people might throw you an obligatory bone, setting up some obvious surveillance that you can pick up with an RF emissions detector, but generally you had to deal with closed-circuit and totally integrated surveillance.

    Shining a laser array around looking for cameras wasn't going to do all that much, in other words, unless you got really, really lucky.

    What I'd set up for myself and a few of the key engineers didn't extend to all of the employees we'd sent over, and that was a mistake.

    The thing is this: we were never really sure whether the botched KRE attempt was something arranged by the company being visited, a regional power broker, the state actor where the visit was taking place, or a completely different regional power broker or state actor who just wanted to stir up some shit.

    So we compartmented things a bit better, sending over people who looked like we wouldn't even pay a hundred bucks to have them back, and that worked.

    But we also had to keep up appearances.

    I'd regularly make calls to "the CEO" of my body shop company, telling him about stuff going on in that place. This was a service we paid for that would let us deflect attention from the people in-country, especially when it was actually me with boots on the ground.

    That's a lot of stuff to deal with just to have a supply chain located in a certain country, you're thinking, and you're right, except when this all started, they really were the only game to play for the numbers that we thought we were going to need.

    Now there are fewer units sold at a higher price point with better cost of goods sold, and the company gets paid support contracts signed that mean that we can replace failing hardware proactively instead of fucking around with replacements under tight time constraints and duress. This differs a lot from the commodity hardware and software model that we thought we'd eventually have.

    The Cannonball Run of supplies a while back was meant to keep the support contracts intact instead of trying to get new customers.

    This was another reason for simplifying things to where we don't have to deal with people whose employees think their first recourse to getting paid is to snatch our people and hold them hostage.

    Some of the suppliers were decent people, and maybe in different conditions, the company might get back to dealing with them again, but now that I'm soon going to be getting paid out and essentially fired, it's not my call to make.

    What does this long-assed story have to do with this situation?

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  11. Capital of Texas RefugeeSunday, April 26, 2020 5:20:00 PM

    I'll repeat: we still don't know who targeted us.

    Our antipodean Texan that we're talking about, he still doesn't know either.

    It's not obvious whether this was the action of a state actor, a regional actor, some SJWs working as a hive mind, or a highly sophisticated multi-company embedded group whose operations consist of exposure suppression and influence arbitrage.

    But it is absolutely clear that with as many hands as were involved that he did not call a napalm strike in on himself.

    So ... no, let's not do it again.

    I think our antipodean Texan couldn't resist busting the balls T.H.E.Y. have, and I sure as hell can't from time to time. As with our antipodean Texan, doing such a thing is literally a part of my being.

    But that's no reason to make things awful for other people, meaning you and the other people who show up to comment here.

    Besides, awareness is rising.

    The Ides of October look especially interesting.

    And as with what DJ Trump very interestingly calls "The Invisible Enemy" ... T.H.E.Y. don't like being pointed at.

    Because that totally wasn't about the coronavirus, was it?

    You always know when you're above the target because you're taking flak from it. :-)

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