Graham: Kirk, G*dd*mn that was fun to read. Strictly, I think esteem and respect have overlapping meanings, but my dad always found them sufficiently different concepts that for him, and how he put it to me, was that a person should strive for self-respect and the self-respect of others, both mostly to be earned with little otherwise due, even from oneself, whereas esteem could only be directed at another, and only if they earned it from you. ‘Self-esteem’ ;, meant to him an unearned version...
Kirk: Looking over how these studies were constructed, I think they have about as much correlation to reality as anything else the fuzzy-studies people in the humanities have managed to come up with. Also, that like the same BS they tried with “self-esteem” ;, back in the day, attempts to induce “resilience” in their test subjects is also not going to work. The problem with all this crap, and crap is exactly what it is, is that you simply cannot do the experiments and studies that...
Neovictorian: I read some studies that resilience must have a fairly large genetic component.
Harry Jones: Positive construal can be taught, but who will teach it? The trouble with growing up in a dysfunctional family is there are no handy positive role models. The good news is a smart kid can learn things without being taught. You learn the hard way, by trial and error. An awkward kid in a bad family seems like he’s cursed twice over, but his awkwardness may simply be experimentation, a desperate search for the right formula.
Kirk: I’ll be over here in the corner, ambivalent as I can be. The Marines have been on a bit of an “out of lane” tangent since WWII, in that they’ve been playing way out of their league in terms of role and mission. The Marines are not, and should not be a small, bitched-up Army, no matter how badly the Army itself is cocking up its assigned role. The Marines have a bit of a problem, in that they do not envisage themselves as being for anything other than the traditional...
Kentucky Headhunter: What Bob said, only more so. It just seems like an extremely stupid plan.
Bob Sykes: This sounds like a very light infantry force, equipped and trained like parachute regiments or SOCOM, little firepower and little mobility (mostly foot). The units would depend on the Army for artillery and armored support and for transport of all kinds. Such units would be easily overrun by regular infantry. It has been clear for quite some time that amphibious assaults against a major power like Russia, China, India or even Pakistan, Brazil, and maybe Iran were literally impossible and...
Sam J.: “… https://pbs.twimg.com/me dia/EUUMZtrX0AETq7c?form at=jpg I’ll even tell you how it’s possible: debt is money == money is debt…” If you look at the derivatives and then the amount of money available to purchase the derivatives you see fairly quickly there’s not enough. They can not be backed by real money. So most all the derivatives are just fanciful debt instruments with no backing at all. One big Jewified scam. I don’t think they can resist. Just one more...
Sam J.: I want to stress that this link I provided http://www.philadelphiaf ed.org/publications/econ omic-education/ben-frank lin-and-paper-money-econ omy.pdf is an excellent paper based on a lecture given by Professor Farley Grubb on March 30, 2006, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. It’s very good and not too long.
Sam J.: Harry Jones says,”…Remem ber where that money came from in the first place… A U.S. government printing press…” That’s not true. The government can not, in the present system, print any money without incurring debt to a private banking entity, the FED, equal to the principal plus interest. In turn the private banking entity, FED, conjures money from thin air and gives us nothing in return. A side effect of this is that the FED’s friends get first pass a funds...
CVLR: I’m sitting over here chuckling softly to myself. Look, we both know that Kirk is a smart dude, and we both know that you’re smarter than Kirk, and probably substantially more analytical, so you’re not going to step on your own dick like he would if he met me in the field of battle. But come on. You have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. If you have the money printer, you literally-not-figurative ly own the economy. It is your creature. He who has the money makes...
Harry Jones: No, he doesn’t get to say what the economy is. If push comes to shove, we can all go to barter or precious metals and cut the feds out of the process entirely. The economy will bounce back when it sees fit. Always has, always will. Federal monetary policy is nothing more than a large nuisance.
CVLR: Most of those question marks were supposed to be long s’s. s/?/ſ/gc
CVLR: Harry, Do you really want to talk about where money comes from? Because it really is free, nigga. You might think I’m kidding, but I’m not even kidding. Let us put this matter aside. I think we can all agree that the opinion of the Federal Reserve, the entity that prints infinity free money for the economy, is authoritative on the subject of just who constitutes the economy. Here is Neel Kashkari, the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, India, speaking about the...
Harry Jones: We are all the economy, but that’s beside the point. There’s no such thing as free money. Anyone who thinks otherwise doesn’t understand how things work.
CVLR: Peter: “Bat cheese mongers have been totally immune to the virus.” What?
CVLR: Cheers, Sam, from a knower of what’s what to a fellow knower of what’s what. Harry, your comment doesn’t make any sense. The government isn’t going to give you any free money unless you’re “the economy”. If the money printer transferred value from the international bankers and the multinational corporations (the economy) to dirt peasants such as yourself (not the economy), it would never, ever be made to go brrrr. In fact, it would probably be unplugged, disassembled, put onto rockets, and launched...
Peter Whitaker: Bat cheese mongers have been totally immune to the virus.
Harry Jones: Remember where that money came from in the first place… A U.S. government printing press. On second thought, remember where the value represented by that money came from in the first place. I’ll gladly take whatever the government offers me back, the government having already taken it from me in the first place. And so will anyone else who is sensible.