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Should be a wild four years.

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Kermit Jizz said:
Just cut out the middle man and don't give them shit.
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We're nowhere near the point that we can cut off the parasites yet. White women would never let us get rid of their pet nonwhites, and most of our federal budget is, through various means, dedicated to keeping our niggers fat and happy so they don't kill everyone. Until we solve those two problems -- white women having cultural and political power, and the ever-present threat of nigger violence -- we can't stop the gibs. We can just adjust them.

If I had to do my life over, I'd go into medicine and open a free vasectomy clinic in Harlem, Chicago, Detroit, etc. Maybe start up a chain. Planned Parenthood apparently got it's start this way, but again, white women ruin everything.
 
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HTTP Error 404 said:
Yeah, but does it work as well? I hear ivermectin is so potent that it will literally make homosexuals shit their gayness out. (Hence the "oh shit we can't have America taking this en mass" thing. Plus maybe that's why Africans have little love for faggotry, since Africa is mass prescribed the drug. Also, ever seen a gay horse? No, I thought not!)
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For what it's worth, I've knocked out kidney infections with oil of oregano before. It's also apparently more effective on MRSA than a lot of antibiotics. It is murder to drink though.

WelfareNiggerQueen said:
It'd be nice for produce to have seeds back in them. Actual fertile seeds.
I always loved planting random seeds from fruits and see what would happen. The trees will sprout then quickly die because it's hot as shit but all the melons would pull through although a bit smaller and tasting more like a cucumber because my soil is shit.
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Most fruits you'd grow would taste awful, because the fruit we eat is all grafted. I think most Avocados all come from some old woman's tree in her backyard somewhere in California, if memory serves. If you plant fruit seed you end up with tart apples and inedible avocados and lots of other stuff that won't taste right. And that's not even getting into hybrids.
 
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Aidan said:
Trump could make the simple pickup truck possible but I don't remember if the EPA or NHTSA is the main hurdle against that. The car market as a whole is a disaster and at least part of that is all the gizmos that are now standard that a lot of people don't even want.
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I think its the NHTSA.

GunCar Gary said:
one of the biggest fuckeries is CAFE standards. in the 70s during the fuel crisis, the NHTSA was put in charge of implementing Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, which are standards meant to increase the average MPG of cars sold in the US

CAFE standards dictate that if car manufacturers do not meet minimum MPG goals set by CAFE then they will be charged a certain $ per 0.1 MPG they are under the goals per vehicle they manufacture that year. that penalty is not just for the vehicles that fail to meet CAFE standards, but for their entire production line. that's every single car they manufacture, even ones that meet CAFE standards

CAFE standards are determined by the vehicle footprint. so basically, the bigger the car is, the higher MPG it's allowed to have. the graph below shows what the targets have been for the last decade. thanks, in part, to the EV scam, progressives embedded in NHTSA have set these limits to unrealistic standards. the requirements they're asking for impossible for traditional Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) vehicles to meet, especially with the amount of safety equipment that's required to be in every car growing every year (which also happens to be managed by NHTSA)

this is further complicated by the fact that passenger cars and trucks have different standards set, so if a car manufacturer is able to get their vehicle classified as a truck they have a lot more leeway in the MPG limit. this directly led to the development of the SUV, which is a truck wearing a car skin suit. this also directly led to all pickup trucks being huge as fuck because no matter what you do, it is physically impossible for a small box on wheels to meet the MPG requirements. trucks are not meant to be MPG friendly, they are meant to be utilitarian

so, long story short, the reason there are no reasonably sized vehicles left to buy in the modern age is that they either need to be tiny hypermiler cars that can meet the almost impossible MPG targets for smaller cars, or they need to be giant behemoths that are allowed to take physics into account and be allowed to have a low MPG
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Justa Grata Honoria said:
Serious question what percentage of the people have 401k ? Sounds like upper class shit
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Its not upper class shit to plan for retirement and your twilight years. You should start putting money in asap. If you're a parent, do it as soon as a kid is born. The earlier you start, the better and the less you have to put in. You don't have to invest that much earlier on. Its harder when you're 40-50s.
 
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Justa Grata Honoria said:
Serious question what percentage of the people have 401k ? Sounds like upper class shit
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It's fairly common even in working class jobs. I have a family member who drives forklift who has one, for example. IBM has recently lead the charge to get companies to move from 401ks to some "Retirement Benefits Account" bullshit instead, which gives something fucking absurdly low like 2% annual but is FDIC insured, which means IBM doesn't even have to fund the retirement fund and can just let the government pay for it when shit hits the fan and IBM would normally have to pay out. "Lol sorry no money, talk to the feds."

IBM was, if you remember, the company that pushed for moving from Pensions to 401ks in the first place, which fucked over the middle class (but made the line go up for the boomers, so it was an unambiguous moral good in the boomercractic worldview). Them trying to push from 401ks to RBAs is just a new way to fuck over the poors and keep that line moving up. It must always go up. Until the boomers are all dead then we can all enjoy holding that bag, suckers, lol.
 
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AspieNextDoor said:
Great, you mongoloids stopped having discussions about Captain Planet and now you discuss how much goyslop do you eat.
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Instead of Captain Planet, have some Planet Cook.
Learn how to make some yeti foot burgers from this BBC children's show (make sure you paid your TV license first).
AspieNextDoor said:
Nobody has a 6 months of food supplies stockpiled
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I could survive for 6 months on just my stockpile of maple syrup—alone.
Many people have stockpiles of food, and not just "preppers" hoarding MREs. Many, many rural families have a cellar and "chest freezer" full of food (where else will you store half-a-cow). Traditional religious communities almost all do this (Mormons, Amish, etc). Here is a typical Amish cellar:
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You are aware food is seasonal right? You either store it yourself or pay somebody else to store it. Food doesn't originated from grocery stores.
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Iz Dis U?

The US average annual inflation rate for food from 1968-2024 was 4%. But, there are random years with large spikes. 2% food price inflation is a "good year"; only Trump managed to consistently stay below that. This doesn't take into account food quality and "inflation" calculations are always somewhat bullshit.
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It is odd to think about, but longterm stored food is an "investment" that matures at 2-10% annually.

The biggest monetary benefit is buying at the cheapest prices. This results in anywhere from a 20-90% discount.

The quality of food is also much higher. There are also efficiencies from not needing to shop as frequently, and having ingredients readily available. It also allows prioritizing shopping trips to locations with the best fresh food offerings (which are generally not big box stores).

Humans must eat food. If you know your family of 4 are going to eat 100lbs of rice in a year, why would you choose to buy at randomly higher prices? No other investment will produce above 10% annual gains other than risky investments.
 
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UnidentifiedFlyingOrchid said:
Humans must eat food. If you know your family of 4 are going to eat 100lbs of rice in a year, why would you choose to buy at randomly higher prices? No other investment will produce above 10% annual gains other than risky investments
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Not everyone has space to store a significant amount of food.
 
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Aidan said:
Most white collar people do as far as I know. Many don't even know it.
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It's a pretty typical benefit to a full-time job. A lot of corporations offer matching funds if you invest in your 401k which is great if you expect the company to last until your retirement and you never change jobs. If you change jobs, you can roll the money over into a private 401k, but most people need the money at job-change time and eat the penalty to get the cash.

In California, they've come up with a new scheme to snatch people's money with a program called Calsavers, in which money is taken off the top of every person's check and deposited in a government administered retirement account. I'm just counting the days until the state starts using Calsavers as equity when taking out loans, or dipping into the Calsavers fund, or they lose it all on bad investments. It's only a matter of time.

A lot of the people who have Calsavers accounts are low income and don't understand how they work. They think the 10% withdrawal penalty is the only liability they have. Wait until they get the tax bill for the rest of it. Calsavers withdrawals are rolled into the person's gross income when tax time comes around. The 10% they pay at withdrawal is a penalty fee; it doesn't lower their tax liability at all, it's just gone. I know several people who have been treating Calsavers like a personal savings account who are about to get a rude awakening.
 
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Trump is trying to crash the stock market at least 20%, causing a flight into treasuries, this will cause the fed to slash interest rates so he can refinance the debt to near 0% and cause a deflationary spiral which will lower the cost of everything.

He also intends to use tariffs as an incentive for companies to build in the US to avoid having to pay them. The Tariffs and the resulting global trade war will also force American Farmers to sell more of their goods in the US (due to retaliatory trade measures by other countries) which will directly lower the price of groceries in the US.

More than 94% of all stock is owned by just 8% of the US population. Trump is literally taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor.

This is why Trump is playing a game of Hokey Pokey with Tariffs. One day he has 25% Tariffs on Mexico and the next he doesn't. This is to cause extreme volatility in the markets and a desperate need and demand to flee towards treasury bonds which are much more stable but offer much lower potential return.

This is also why eggs are cheaper now than they were under Joe Biden.
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This theory is sound, imho. But I'm on KF.
 
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