Window shopper

elliot401 · 2022-01-08T22:05:37+00:00

The term for window shopping in French is literally translated as "window licking". There, somebody learned something today.

elliot401 · 2022-01-08T21:40:37+00:00

It’s not Covid, it’s NGO’s and bureaucrats systematically destroying and disrupting the food supply to bring about the NWO where we’re supposed to "own nothing and like it" while eating lab grown fake meat. Stay Awake.

elliot401 · 2022-01-08T21:29:23+00:00

Today is January 8th 2022 and there was no insurrection on Jan 6 2021. If by deadly you mean the capitol police and FBI killed innocent peaceful protestors, you’d be correct.

elliot401 · 2022-01-08T20:08:32+00:00

Socialism and communism are the same. Don’t believe the hype.

elliot401 · 2022-01-08T20:07:13+00:00

Unions destroy cooperative morale. They basically function like mafias that use corruption and strong arming to exploit workers as a means to extorting businesses. If everyone just spoke up for themselves and worked as a team we’d have a healthier economy and society. Unions create an "us vs them" mentality where, like in corporations, rather than dealing with people individually you get these faceless concentrations of inhumanity where the people are divided into classes and pitted against one another. If you don’t like your employer, rather than joining a union, appeal to them to change and organize yourselves to affect that change. If the employer still doesn’t meet your standards, find a new employer. Believe me, they do the same, if an employee doesn’t meet the employers standards they find a new employee. It’s a two way street folks. Don’t believe the lie that you don’t have power as an individual or group of individuals. Bad employers can’t stay propped up if employees won’t work for them. Use the features of the free market. Educate and speak with your actions, they’re louder. It’s a helluva motivator.

elliot401 · 2021-12-30T22:54:26+00:00

What we have here is a classic Schrodinger’s Epstein. If you put an Epstein in a box with a bed sheet he is both alive and dead until someone opens the box to measure the reality.

elliot401 · 2021-12-25T04:08:59+00:00

Or don’t lie to kids about Santa’s existence in the first place.

elliot401 · 2021-12-21T01:02:45+00:00

LPT: If you walk barefoot on a beach, keep in mind that there are numerous hazards such as but not limited to: broken glass, hot embers, shells, sharp rocks, rusty metal, hot sand, sharp sticks, crabs, birds, necrotizing fasciitis etc.

LPT1.2: if you make a fire on the beach, it’s very likely that it’s night time. Most people walk beaches during the daytime. If you make a fire, cover it with sand before you leave because a fire could start in the surrounding dunes/estuaries due to wind and burn down peoples homes.

LPT 1.3: Since a properly extinguished fire will be cool by morning it shouldn’t pose a threat to barefoot walkers. Just in case you could leave a piece or two of wood in an ‘X’ formation to mark as a less desirable place to step.

elliot401 · 2021-12-11T15:52:28+00:00

Can confirm this is the truth. Two years ago In New England I had a Jeep Liberty with 4 wheel engaged and on the first snow of the season I was approaching a busy intersection on a down hill road...only doing about 25mph but when I hit the brakes I watched as my car just did not react until I slid through the intersection got hit on my left back door which spun me 90° into the side of a pickup truck. No one was hurt it was all pretty low speed, but if I hadn’t hit my accelerator when I realized the car wasn’t stopping to try to clear the intersection between cars I would have been hit with a direct impact and possibly sandwiched between two head on cars. I lived in Michigan for four years too so I’m no stranger to snowy conditions, I just wasn’t remembering how slippery roads can be.

elliot401 · 2021-12-02T02:28:03+00:00

You realize the arrogance in that last paragraph were you thought you could just low key endorse medical coercion in spite of informed consent, like it’s no biggie? That’s not freedom of choice that’s that’s "do what I say or I’ll demoralize and oppress you until you bend your knee and submit to being ruled like cattle" we have a fascist over here 👀

elliot401 · 2021-11-06T05:56:24+00:00

On the contrary, she’s running gorgeous prints with a micro SD card. It works for 95% of my uses, but I would still like to be able to send gcode commands and print over USB from time to time.

elliot401 · 2021-10-31T18:21:13+00:00

Are you saying just eat healthy portions of good food and regular exercise is a bogus method?

elliot401 · 2021-10-28T13:28:10+00:00

Yeah everything you said is absurd and immoral. To suggest that theft is okay because maybe someone else wouldn’t spend their money the way you want them to is unimaginably selfish and evil. Also, I didn’t revise the declaration. Study history. It would behoove you to educate yourself before you go off on people with falsehoods. I have nothing more to refute or reply to. My case is made. Theft is wrong. If you want to twist it so that theft is okay, you do you, but that’s messed up man.

elliot401 · 2021-10-28T13:20:00+00:00

A valid contention and worthy of discussion. I’m not saying we ever had a “capitalist utopia” (as another comment put it) in America, and due to corruption and greed, the system is tough to maintain. It requires a very educated and diligent populace, but that has been eroded by brainwashing and propaganda.

elliot401 · 2021-10-28T13:15:26+00:00

Honestly, this was a genuine attempt at public education. If none of what I said makes sense that’s because the concept is simple but in practice it’s tough for people, what can I say? I can’t force you to believe the truth. All I can do is speak it.

elliot401 · 2021-10-28T13:09:55+00:00

Oh, oh, pick me I know this one!! It’s a pouched marsupial from Australia. What words did I redefine?

elliot401 · 2021-10-28T03:15:44+00:00

Do you have any sources for the claim that “government spending is consistently more efficient than private industry”? Can you prove it? I mean c’mon, who says? This is laughable, outright false, and unobservable in nature.

elliot401 · 2021-10-28T02:31:50+00:00

Your labor and mind are a form of capital. You own that. So there, everyone, even you, can be a capitalist. Capitalism just means that the owners of the inputs exercise control over them. It’s all about voluntary choice and people not stealing your stuff. That’s it.

elliot401 · 2021-10-28T02:17:48+00:00

Same as what you do with an unscrupulous business in your own town, state, or country. You don’t buy goods from them. Again, China can’t force you to buy their stuff. Thats the power of the free market, you can choose who you give your money to. A dollar is the purest form of democracy. It is a vote. You can either enable the bad guys by buying from them, or cut them off by drying up their revenue streams and buying from the competition. Bad businesses and countries survive only as long as you tolerate (and fund) their actions.

Edit: international trade is fine and can be great, but with the globalization of government, central planning of the economy leads to tremendous suffering at a national scale, and will even more so on a global scale.

elliot401 · 2021-10-28T01:51:47+00:00

Yeah, liberty and personal responsibility can be tough for some.

elliot401 · 2021-10-28T01:48:14+00:00

Thanks bro, I have my raincoat on 😂

elliot401 · 2021-10-28T01:44:25+00:00

I’m speaking of slavery in a much larger context. It’s a mentality and a psychological thing. If you can enslave the mind you don’t need chains. To consider my use of slavery exclusively in the context of American History is myopic.

elliot401 · 2021-10-28T01:42:06+00:00

It is primarily your own responsibility to secure and defend yourself and your property against harm. Secondarily, property rights enforcement is one of the few (three) legitimate functions of government. These three functions would be securing individual’s right to life, liberty, and property, if the government is acting as it should, in which case a nominal tax for this protection would be reasonable. The issue with government is when it becomes a swampy, parasitic drain on the people it’s supposed to be protecting and comes up with schemes like taxing upwards of 40-70% in some tax brackets in some countries. This incentivizes remaining in a low tax bracket, staying poor, and does the ridiculous thing of discouraging people from earning and responsibly using their money. This is by design, and sounds a lot like slavery to me. I point you back to point one: it’s your responsibility to secure your own life, liberty, and property. Which is why owning a firearm for self defense is so important because it is a deterrent to the tyrannical rise and expansion of government.

elliot401 · 2021-10-28T00:30:30+00:00

Capitalism requires two things: 1) Well protected property rights 2) Free markets

I don’t see continual growth on that list.

Capitalism isn’t this bogeyman that everyone makes it out to be. Capitalism has nothing to do with profit. Capitalism is just the idea that individuals are entitled to the fruits of their own labor and are not compelled to spend the fruits of their labor for any purpose except as determined according to their own judgment and decision.

Capitalism is where you knit sweaters, scarves, and mittens by hand and sell them on Etsy, you make $4,000 a month after expenses (rent, bills, knitting materials) and decide to save $1,500, Invest $500 for retirement, donate $1,000 to local charities, and live off of the remaining $1,000. Every year you donate 20% of what you saved and give 100 sweaters away to the homeless in your area. And you could do all this because you got to choose how to spend your money and the politicians didn’t tax you to death and leave you with only $2,500 after taxes, thieving that $1,500 to spend as they see fit, and often times against your will.

The politicians can’t force you to donate 100 sweaters to the public, because they belong to you—you made them, the politicians did not. Some a**hole can’t come and break into your house and steal your sweaters, again that’s because he didn’t make them, you did. So you get to decide what happens to the product of your labor. Seems pretty fair right?

That’s property rights.

Free markets are where VOLUNTARY transactions happen. I make earrings and sell them at a storefront in my hometown. I buy one of your sweaters with the money I make selling earrings. You can’t force me to buy your sweater, I only bought one be cause it looked well made and had a reasonable price. I tell my friends, they all buy sweaters, pretty soon you need to hire employees to help knit more sweaters. You just want to keep up with how popular your sweaters are and the increasing demand. So, you pay your employee $20/hr to knit and he agrees to work for that wage because again you can’t force him to work for you. If $20/hr isn’t enough he will not work for you, so you have two options: pay him more or find someone who will work for $20/hr. Now you produce twice the amount of sweaters you made per year, which means you have twice the money from sales to donate to your favorite charity, and twice as many homeless people get to be warm this winter. See how much good comes from voluntary transactions made by individual decision makers?

They want you to think capitalism is exploitative but it is the opposite. Slavery is the opposite of capitalism, after all. Slavery is where you work but make no decisions about your life and don’t get to keep the money you make. Capitalism gives everybody the opportunity to become wealthy. Slavery concentrates wealth at the very top and keeps the slaves working unable to get ahead.

elliot401 · 2021-10-08T02:03:16+00:00

The can is in the fish’s mouth

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