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Solid Log said:
My Dad taught me the stock market growing up.
I read books about Economics on my own.
I know a guy who does all the charts and graphs.
The main thing he looks at is the quantity of money in circulation.
During Covid Lockdown, the WHOLE WORLD starting printing tons of money.
Your stocks would be worthless without this inflation.
You were supposed to invest in the stock market to keep up with inflation.
Most of the trading is done by robots.
All the robots do is pump this currency into the markets.
No one knows what happens when there is Worldwide inflation, with tons of debt.

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GenesisCorrupted said:
Not like these servers have too much on them at the moment.
I would’ve never pegged you as being a political discourser.

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I'd say I'm probably not, I'm generally bad at it.

Not really talking about these servers, just servers in general. I find it's too easy to dehumanize the people, or oversimplify their arguments, when you're behind the veil of the interwebs. I say that from experience, having been subjected to it, and been guilty of doing it to other people in the past.

It seems like face-to-face conversation yields better results. It's harder to disconnect the conversation being had from the humans engaging in it when you are looking them in the eye. It's also easier to realize that most working-class Americans want what they believe is best for the country and its citizens, but through different circumstances, experiences, and trusted sources of information, have arrived at different conclusions on how to achieve that common goal. Sure, there are always some wackos on either side that everyone can point to and say "you see, they're all crazy/stupid/evil" but that's generally not how the common voter feels.

All that said, I've yet to change any minds in a fundamental way using either tactic. If anything, the only functionally positive effect I've managed (or at least, I think I have) is to convince people that the voters have more in common than they think, and hopefully that helps to chill out the level of polarization a little. Maybe that's all wishful thinking on my part.

Anyway, yea the last few years I've tried to steer clear of overtly political conversation online. Every once in a while I get dragged into a social issue shit-flinging, but I'm also getting tired of those too. Hopefully I can eventually get back to a living situation where I can start legally growing cannabis again, and just focus on that instead of everything else online.

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GenesisCorrupted said:
I really want federal legalization.
There’s still states where you can get sent to jail for a joint how ridiculous is that?

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Stoneth said:
What Is laughable is that you think only one race crossed the border. Puts a smile on my face.

Now you sound like Harris of old. But now she's stealing Trumps agendaS saying build the wall and no tax on tips.
Good evening fella. And no one has done prison time for any of those 34 fellonies ever. In fact other than Trump all those charged before him were reduced to Mis doe's.

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