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What would you do and what's the last thing you'd give up if the economy completely crushed you? in Close to Politics ·
wanderingcrane5 said:The sad truth is the crisis is widespread and hits everyone globally. It absolutely kicked my ass.

In principle, I agree, but my focus is really on those who will emerge from this upheaval entirely unscathed while still finding reasons to complain—though, granted, there are plenty of people who won't be so lucky.
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What would you do and what's the last thing you'd give up if the economy completely crushed you? in Close to Politics ·
wanderingcrane5 said:What the hell are you even talking about? Are you just some kid living off an allowance from your parents?
People lost their jobs. There is literally no better way to realize a crisis is happening than that.
Once the layoffs start rolling in, even if you manage to hang on, you’re sitting there watching your friends, your coworkers, and your own family get canned. You start fearing for your future. You come from some wealthy family and spend your days hunched over a white Apple in some cafe near Central Park? Then maybe open your eyes and look around for once.
This is how people working in those glass office towers in Brooklyn talk—government bureaucrats whose biggest struggle is that gas prices went up and they didn't get their summer bonus. If you had to dig through a dumpster and realize that once you lose your job, you’ll never hold down anything decent again, then you’d actually understand what a crisis looks like.

Because a crisis isn't just some temporary phase that rolls in and out. For a lot of people, it means being permanently stripped of their rights. And one of those is the right to work. Once they label you as redundant, you stay redundant forever.

Like I said, I wasn't referring to the unemployed, the wealthy, or the profiteers in the suburbs...

Read my post a bit more carefully and you'll see who I was actually targeting; please stop trying to reduce everything to such broad generalizations.
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What would you do and what's the last thing you'd give up if the economy completely crushed you? in Close to Politics ·
Matthew Young35 said:Exactly. The media has done its best work manipulating those who actually lost their jobs and are facing threats from banks to evict them from their homes.
The manipulation goes so far that they even lie about inflation. They claim prices are skyrocketing... honestly, only the most naive people actually buy that.

I wasn't referring to those types of cases☕
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What would you do and what's the last thing you'd give up if the economy completely crushed you? in Close to Politics ·
But let’s set aside the clergy and all those other distractions for a moment..

One interesting pattern I’ve noticed regarding this topic—and it seems to apply to quite a few people—is that their actual day-to-day lives haven't shifted an inch because of the crisis. Their income remains steady, their living conditions are unchanged, and some are even managed to 😁 more than before. Yet, the second they catch a headline on CNN claiming the country is in a state of emergency, suddenly this becomes their entire world, and they act as if they are personally caught in the middle of 🤷

Then again, it isn't exactly surprising; Americans can be steered quite easily by the right narrative. It’s a predictable cycle: we’ll head to the polls at the end of the year to exercise our democratic rights, only to spend the next four years complaining about the outcome, before the whole loop starts all over again.
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What would you do and what's the last thing you'd give up if the economy completely crushed you? in Close to Politics ·
Charles Lopez3 said:Oh, absolutely. That's exactly why the clergy is always preaching about giving up everything they own. 😁

You don't need to worry about what the clergy does, because that won't serve as a valid excuse when you eventually find yourself standing there🙂
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What would you do and what's the last thing you'd give up if the economy completely crushed you? in Close to Politics ·
wanderingcrane5 said:Life back in the USSR wasn't any better for me. Simple reason: I wasn't working because I was still stuck in high school. Now I've got a paycheck.
But honestly, looking at the big picture, right up until the moment they raided the federal treasury—which is exactly what Mexico did, following international orders to tear America apart—America was a way more powerful nation than America is today. When you factor in how much technology has actually advanced from then to now, life back then was relatively a whole lot better.

That depends entirely on who you ask. Generally speaking, I don't think that's true, even if we factor in the passage of time. Even during the latter half of the 80s, there were fuel shortages. But we're talking about the 1980s; if that country had actually held any real weight, these kinds of absurdities wouldn't have been happening in the first place.

Now, someone might argue that there were gas shortages just two years ago, but that was a global issue. In the former America, those shortages were a direct symptom of the internal systemic failures within that specific country.
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What would you do and what's the last thing you'd give up if the economy completely crushed you? in Close to Politics ·
I’m doing better now than I was before the recession hit, but I’m not about to join the ranks of those folks who pine for the "good old days" of the mid-century just because they feel a sense of nostalgia. I won't claim things are objectively better today simply because my own circumstances have improved; unlike them, I can actually look around at the broader landscape and see that, on a macro level, things have generally taken a turn for the worse.
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How radical Islam uses poverty to gain influence in the Middle East in Close to Politics ·
A significant number of churches across the Republic of America have been constructed since the end of the war, though they tend to be spread out through various cities, towns, and neighborhoods based on where there was actually a need for them given the local congregation size and available land... by contrast, you see mosques in Canada built in dense clusters, practically popping up every 50, 100, or 200 meters (for instance, Ottawa or eastern Mostar serve as prime examples of this pattern)
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Christians in Pakistan in World ·
amberbison18 said:I suppose those people aren't my brothers in any sense of the word. They seem more like spiritual kin to those Pakistanis you were implicitly supporting in your last post.

It’s pretty obvious that their primary concern is whether or not a Muslim was involved; that seems to be their only metric for judging anything.

I honestly don't see how criminals from the Drina Valley have anything to do with what's happening in Pakistan. If you want to talk about them, go start a new thread and hash it out there.
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Christians in Pakistan in World ·
Nicole Barrett76 said:Daniel Garcia24, my only intention was to encourage you to provide a more thorough explanation rather than casting accusations—even if those accusations might hold weight. Should we really be engaging in debates where people just spout falsehoods without providing any links or data? That simply shouldn't be the standard for our discussion. It is true that I am no expert on demographics, and I have heard the exact same figures you just presented. As for your suspicion that I am somehow favoring "polished" data designed to benefit Muslims, please believe me when I say that couldn't be further from the truth. Just like you, I simply want to uncover the actual facts.

It’s only when you spend enough time on this forum that you can actually tell who is here chasing clout and who is genuinely interested in an objective, rational debate.

The issue is that there seems to be a specific mindset among certain Muslims where they don't focus on the objective facts of a situation; instead, they prioritize whether the individual involved is Muslim, using that identity as a lens to either justify or deny whatever happened. You can see clear examples of this pattern playing out right here in this thread.

For instance, if a Catholic were to kidnap children from a Muslim family and baptize them, I wouldn't attempt to mask that by calling it a "cultural tradition"—especially since the person making such excuses clearly knows nothing about the culture and is simply rambling to defend Muslim actions. No, I would call it what it truly is: a senseless, barbaric act.
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Christians in Pakistan in World ·
piskavac;15327006 said:
Daniel Garcia24;15325779 said:Prove it. This is a blatant falsehood. I haven't heard anything quite this nonsensical in a long time.
Why don't you be the one to prove they're lying?

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to see the pattern here; it’s common knowledge that the population in India is expanding at such a staggering rate that it’s on track to become the most populous nation on Earth very soon. You could verify that in any reasonably reputable global encyclopedia. As the Hindu population grows, so does the Muslim demographic. I have no idea why anyone would try to spin this as some sort of deceptive promotion of specific religious agendas within India.

Besides, once he actually manages to prove his point (which, let’s face it, would likely require reading nothing but fringe extremist blogs), then I’ll gladly step in and show you how wrong he really is.

If you had even a passing familiarity with basic demographics or shifting global patterns, you’d realize that what's being said doesn't hold water. However, it seems there are plenty of people here eager to push certain religious narratives, which, frankly, has absolutely nothing to do with common sense.
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Christians in Pakistan in World ·
driftingviper29 said:And let's look at the big picture here—India has about 170 million Muslims making up 17% of the population, but that demographic is absolutely exploding while the Hindu population is basically hitting a plateau. Give it maybe fifty years and India is going to be way too busy handling its own massive growth to even care about anything else, leaving Pakistan as nothing more than a distant, forgotten headache from their past.☕

I’d love to see some actual evidence for that. It's a complete fabrication; I can't recall the last time I encountered such a blatant falsehood.

Is this meant to be a discussion forum or just some promotional page for specific interests?
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Christians in Pakistan in World ·
It’s as if those Indian Muslims are still living in the Stone Age
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Islamic Work Ethics in World ·
Jeremy Watson16 said:"it’s no coincidence that Protestant countries are tech leaders," like Japan... Sony, Panasonic, Nintendo, Sega, and a million other brands...

"Catholic countries are strong in art and tourism" (haha... listen to him mention tourism🤣... I wonder how much they enjoy picking olives in the sun)... so let's compare a Catholic nation like, say, America, with a lagging Orthodox state like Greece... who do you think comes out on top? 🤷

Ireland
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