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WelperHelper99 said:
Dave's advice does work... if you are a person that should never have used a credit card in the first place. Some people need that lesson. Most people don't. Most people are not 200k in debt from bullshit purchases.
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Dave Ramsey has made a media empire off of financial counseling, a good portion of his advice is common sense and I think it's fair to say lots of people listen to his show solely to hear about personal finance train wrecks.
 
milkcat25 said:
These moments are actually the largest reason why I have shifted so heavily towards the Republicans this election cycle. Its much less about policy and much more about this.... loss of humanity and basic decency. Openly hoping to see the president's head blown off, excited to see Charlie Kirk bleed out, making fun of a widow? Nope. Call it copium, but I still think the midterms will be closer than people think. I think more and more people are (much like me) completely against Democrats not coming out in unison with Republicans against this violence.
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You need to understand that the vast majority of Americans are mocking Charlie Kirk's death and are in full support of dragging his wife's name through the mud.

The reason I harp on this as much as I do is because TPUSA is (was) pretty much MAGA's last remaining avenue for youth outreach, and is now on its way out. Most young people just unironically see the insane tranny communists as more fun to be around and think the right are every bit the fragile snowflakes that they accused the left of being all those years ago. Expect the Democrats to see a much higher turnout in November, especially among the 18-29 age bracket.
 
Breadbassket said:
Dave Ramsey has made a media empire off of financial counseling, a good portion of his advice is common sense and I think it's fair to say lots of people listen to his show solely to hear about personal finance train wrecks.
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I mean it's how Caleb Hammer makes his money. People love listening to retards share their sob stories that are just inconceivable to most people, and have a guy tell them to stop being retarded. You need a financial degree tho to make this work.
 
Breadbassket said:
Dave Ramsey has made a media empire off of financial counseling, a good portion of his advice is common sense and I think it's fair to say lots of people listen to his show solely to hear about personal finance train wrecks.
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I think you are probably right. His show used to be on a local station and I would listen if I was in the car when it was on. I always found the people calling who followed his advice and it helped them unfuck their financial situation really nice and wholesome.

It is common sense but a lot of people are never taught about money or how to handle it.
 
Hey guys, Reddit has a whole thread today full of @Fatpacks types telling everyone how every industry is on fire from agriculture to the film industry, to logistics even the supply of gloves! Can’t get enough retarded dooming? Head on in now!

jajangmien 4381 points 5 hours ago
Ambulance industry because of gloves. The supply is still steadily flowing but all of the major glove vendors have put gloves on allocations to limit how many a company can buy within a month period.
If the war drags on between the US and Iran, the supply of raw materials to Malaysia for glove manufacturing will continue to get worse. I hope we don't approach COVID levels of glove shortages.

[–]Kaesebrot1234 1915 points 8 hours ago

The Logistics and Trucking Industry.
A close friend in the industry describes it as a "slow-motion train wreck" that the general public is ignoring completely.
There is amassive driver shortage. The workforce is aging out, and nobody wants to do the job anymore because the margins are too thin to offer competitive pay.
Between the fallout from the pandemic and the escalating tensions in the Middle East (specifically Trump attacking iran), shipping costs and insurance premiums have skyrocketed.
If the trucks stop for even 48 hours, grocery stores go empty and hospitals run out of supplies
Many mid-sized firms are one bad month away from bankruptcy. If this sector actually collapses, society basically hits a standstill because everything you own or eat was once on a truck.

TroXMas 642 points 9 hours ago

Biotech industry has seen waves of layoffs and company closures. The covid money that caused the industry to expand has dried up and investors dont want to wait years for a potential treatment to just fail. Even if successful, there will be no returns for at least several years as these treatments take years to pass through the red tape from the FDA.

Pair that with the Trump administration pulling government funding out of science and we're here with the industry in the worst state its ever been in.

speadskater 2881 points 9 hours ago*

Agriculture. The Ukrainian war created crazy pot ash prices, now sulfur and urea are going through the roof. The US South and South East are in a mega drought and the North is extremely wet. Farmers this year have given up their crops, haven't planted them yet, or are farming for crop insurance. Fertilizer isn't being bought and when it is it's too expensive. Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, and Virginia are all in a terrible place.

Edit: To clarify. Urea and sulfur prices are going up as a result of the Iranian conflict.

Ok_Outcome_6213 11.2k points 9 hours ago

I work in retirement savings and pensions. The number of people cashing out their pensions, including people who are at retirement age, just to be able to afford to live, is staggering.

hbarSquared 1595 points 8 hours ago

The Florida citrus industry. Output has dropped 90% over the last 20 years, and the last of the trees are dying off. They dumped tanker trucks of glysophate into the groves, and while it killed the weeds, it weakened the trees enough to let an invasive parasite take hold.
 
Fatpacks said:
You need to understand that the vast majority of Americans are mocking Charlie Kirk's death and are in full support of dragging his wife's name through the mud.

The reason I harp on this as much as I do is because TPUSA is (was) pretty much MAGA's last remaining avenue for youth outreach, and is now on its way out. Most young people just unironically see the insane tranny communists as more fun to be around and think the right are every bit the fragile snowflakes that they accused the left of being all those years ago. Expect the Democrats to see a much higher turnout in November, especially among the 18-29 age bracket.
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Who cares? Young people have always been democratic and they don't vote.
 
Fatpacks said:
You need to understand that the vast majority of Americans are mocking Charlie Kirk's death and are in full support of dragging his wife's name through the mud.

The reason I harp on this as much as I do is because TPUSA is (was) pretty much MAGA's last remaining avenue for youth outreach, and is now on its way out. Most young people just unironically see the insane tranny communists as more fun to be around and think the right are every bit the fragile snowflakes that they accused the left of being all those years ago. Expect the Democrats to see a much higher turnout in November, especially among the 18-29 age bracket.
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Do you have a single fact to back that up?
 
The Ugly One said:
My brain still thinks of my PS3 as "next gen." It's 20 years old.
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I mean that was the last generational leap that felt like it meant anything. Neither graphical fidelity nor gameplay seems to have meaningful improved since then. Instead it’s all flowed together or in the latter case, gone to shit as games as a service has corrupted the industry.
 
Breadbassket said:
Dave Ramsey has made a media empire off of financial counseling, a good portion of his advice is common sense and I think it's fair to say lots of people listen to his show solely to hear about personal finance train wrecks.
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I recall Kim Kommando would occasionally explain when some esoteric online shit would come up like "yes this _is_ a thing that _can_ be used by very experienced people but if you're getting computer advice from talk radio that's probably way beyond your pay grade and it will only lead to misfortune for you"
 
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