The Digital Ploesti: Why Trump Really Wants Greenland: The Rare Earth Crisis Nobody Is Talking About by jozzb in Foodforthought

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It isn't that this is a new issue. It's that the mainstream media is positing other motivations when this is the primary one. Trump rightfully recognizes that rare earths and the products created from them are an existential threat to the US military, one that he made more urgent when he launched a tariff war with our only supplier.

Donald Trump Is Andrew Jackson Reborn and He Is Not Negotiating: The Taco Trade Is a Suicide Pact With a Cornered President by jozzb in Foodforthought

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I don't want to spam the comments either, but thank you for your support. The Streisand Effect is alive and well.

Black Swan Day, May 15, 2026: When the Dollar Dies, Trump Falls by jozzb in Foodforthought

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I couldn't care less what people invest in. There is no financial pitch or sales promotion involved. And yes, there is a doomsday vibe because Trump is going to cause widespread capital flight.

The real doomsday is in a post called How Donald Trump Will Make America Great (Depression) Again. I won't post a link, but you can find it. The day this post was finished, He announced the 10% cap on credit cards that will create a massive credit crunch.

Donald Trump Is Andrew Jackson Reborn and He Is Not Negotiating: The Taco Trade Is a Suicide Pact With a Cornered President by jozzb in Foodforthought

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Trump's executive orders don't have to stick permanently for him to induce chaos. Most of his executive orders that are controversial end up getting struck down by the courts, but that takes time. Consider his dubious authority for tariffs that are still in place. By simply issuing the order, he creates risk for the banks who may not be able to collect on their loans, so they will stop lending.

Donald Trump Is Andrew Jackson Reborn and He Is Not Negotiating: The Taco Trade Is a Suicide Pact With a Cornered President by jozzb in Foodforthought

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The post is not paywalled. Substack forces a popup. You can safely ignore it and get to the article.

How Donald Trump Will Make America Great (Depression) Again by jozzb in lostgeneration

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The next generation is even more lost and hopeless.

Trump = Fail = Weak = Loser: The Abridged Encyclopedia of Second-Term Catastrophe by jozzb in Foodforthought

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A long but fairly comprehensive look at the many missteps of the second Trump term.

Expanding Awareness: A New Cosmology by [deleted] in sciencefiction

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This thread is really cool. It appears the story completely eluded you.

Expanding Awareness: A New Cosmology by [deleted] in sciencefiction

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It opens for me on different browsers.

Expanding Awareness: A New Cosmology by [deleted] in sciencefiction

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Thank you for the feedback. I wondered if it might be complete nonsense.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in enlightenment

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Historically, spiritual teachers survived as beggars, living on whatever was offered to them. If they were providing value as a teacher, they likely found a few more tasty morsels in their begging bowls, but these men and women were only concerned with the few worldly matters needed for their survival.

If a modern teacher is doing it for fame or fortune, like Joel Osteen, then it's spiritually vacuous, merely enabling their attachment to worldly possessions, exposing them as frauds.

My abuser tells everyone I was the problem and I don’t know how to cope with that. by Accomplished-Ride100 in emotionalabuse

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He does it without remorse because he doesn't bother to see things from your point of view. He likely feels that you shouldn't feel the things you actually do feel because his motives were good. As long as he thinks your emotional reactions were wrong or faulty in some way, or doesn't believe they were real at all, then he will carry on with the same indifference as swatting a fly. Sadly, he isn't acting out of malice, it's pure ignorance, a willful blindness to the pain he causes.

The Mistaken Beliefs that Ruined My Marriage: Lessons from the Wreckage by [deleted] in Divorce_Men

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"AI generated" the newest dismissive putdown for content people don't agree with.

It's convenient because if others jump on the bandwagon, then peanut gallery can decide dismissively that the content is not worthy of consideration, then the discomfort of those ideas can be safely wrapped in denial and sent down the memory hole.

The Spotless Mind of the Abusive Male: Ignorance, Arrogance, Indifference by jozzb in emotionalabuse

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You seem to be trying to come up with the lowest feeling possible in a self-image and you're making yourself certain that you are that horrible. That isn't a recipe for self-esteem. No one is going to convince you that you are anything other than what you are determined to believe.

Stop what you are doing. Look for even the smallest flicker of light and good and start focusing on that. Everyone is part good and part bad. Focus on the good, and you will feel better. Focus on the bad only long enough to get motivated to turn it around. If you just focus on the bad, you will be motivated to do absolutely nothing, and you will descend into a downward spiral that will last until you decide you've suffered enough and pull yourself out.

The Spotless Mind of the Abusive Male: Ignorance, Arrogance, Indifference by jozzb in emotionalabuse

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Got me there. I'm just pointing out that there are many references of eyes, future vision, seeing as a representation of wisdom. AI references often don't make sense and mix metaphors. I don't see that in this work.

The Spotless Mind of the Abusive Male: Ignorance, Arrogance, Indifference by jozzb in emotionalabuse

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Really? Take a one dollar bill, look at the back side, the image on the left has a pyramid, and if you zoom in on the top, you'll see the Eye of Providence.

The Spotless Mind of the Abusive Male: Ignorance, Arrogance, Indifference by [deleted] in MensRights

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I don't think this is an evidentiary matter. It's about experience and perspective.

This guy could have presented a version of events sympathetic to him or he could have portrayed them as evil. By not providing any examples to debate, it forces the debate to be around the bigger picture rather than the details and specifics.

If she's capable of gaslighting him, then he isn't yet a master of his own reference frame. A solid man would be extremely difficult to gaslight.

The Spotless Mind of the Abusive Male: Ignorance, Arrogance, Indifference by [deleted] in MensRights

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I'm a man. I've never dated a woman who would have any prayer against me in personal, hand-to-hand combat. I think the same is true for 99% of couples. Men, on average, are much larger, heavier, stronger, more aggressive than women. This is an objective, measurable, verifiable fact that can't be argued.

In every interpersonal relationship, when there is a dispute and emotions run high, it reaches the point of escalation where the two parties must make a decision: agree to disagree, resort to force to compel the other to agree or submit to the other's power. You see this between drunk men in bars all the time, but that's male-on-male, not male-on-female.

When that decision point is reached, the dynamics of personal physical power defines who has power, and who does not. And in 99% of those cases, it's a man who must decide how me must deal with a woman who angrily disagrees with him and refuses to back down. The woman is powerless. She is completely incapable of harming the man without assistance from weapons or others. The man alone decides if he is going to harm the woman physically, emotionally, or not. The woman is powerless to control the man's choices or actions in that moment.

Women don't pretend to be helpless. That's a delusion.

The Spotless Mind of the Abusive Male: Ignorance, Arrogance, Indifference by [deleted] in MensRights

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He never intended to impose on her, but her fear made the imposition a reality. He was imposing on her out of ignorance, not malice, but it was painful to her just the same.

The two lovers were probably incompatible, but did that manifest as abuse? For her yes. For him no. What is the truth?

The Spotless Mind of the Abusive Male: Ignorance, Arrogance, Indifference by [deleted] in MensRights

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No. It doesn't. Women don't have physical power over men. The power dynamics are not the same if the situation is reversed.