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Goofyboy

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  1. South Africa is our absolute escape plan. There are areas around Durban that I would move to in a heart beat. Also, my company has an office in SA, so possible work opportunities.
    It’s as far away from Russia and the US and I can get that is somewhere I’ve been.

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  2. Optimism is evaporating except for Fox News audience that doesn’t look at their accounts since they are not reporting anything on how bad the policies are working. 
     
    go to their website and no news about the economy or markets. I heard that they took the ticker off the tv channel. 
     
    covering Pope’s death gives them temporary cover. 
     
    I have the same feeling as February 2020. The market is going to get even worse. 

    Same feeling. I’m increasing our emergency fund and just saving cash for now. Still doing 401k’s, so sorta still investing.
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  3. better than a few of the previous races, at least you can pass here in a few spots.
    Really wonder if Max had just immediately given the spot back he would have ended up winning.

    There is a very good possibility he passes Oscar on the restart.
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  4. Except no one is taught that because the school would be doing a CRT, and that would make white kids and their parents feel bad. So they eliminate teaching real history and DEI for the "good" of America. 

    Yep. There is a great book called White Rage that goes into this push back throughout the history of the US.
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  5. Man, you're so close to getting it.
    It's almost like economic status, not skin color, is the most critical factor in life outcomes, including your pension for violent crime. So being subjugated to the shittiest neighborhoods and the worst schools for generations and having to overcome white favoritism/cronyism/nepotism/etc. in the modern workplace (good thing we're doing away with DEI to get back to our normal practice of hiring mediocre whites) isn't an overnight fix. Crawling out from the hole that our ancestors dug for them takes a little more than "hey, you have basic human rights now and you got a black President; what else do you want?"

    Not to mention every single time black people started to succeed, whites slammed the door on them - see Tulsa for a great example.
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  6. Speaking of ever changing rules - not knowing who’s getting hit with a tariff next makes it really fucking hard to find new suppliers. Right now it’s China - next week who is the president going to be mad at? Keep in mind, it’s not when you order - it’s when your order ships that the tariff is applied. So, we could order today from Turkey and it ships in 6 weeks and boom - that’s when he applies a higher tariff to Turkey.

    I don’t see how anyone can do any business beyond what is on their shelves right now. Even if you put a new “tariff” charge line, you’re not guaranteed anything because your competitors could have ordered a day later and gotten a better tariff rate.

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