01-06-2017, 02:16 PM
(01-06-2017, 01:00 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(01-06-2017, 12:28 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(01-05-2017, 09:09 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(01-05-2017, 08:49 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(01-05-2017, 01:45 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Hopefully some of the dummies who use the internet to buy useless shit, watch teevee / porn, endlessly text each other, etc ... will read the following advice:
1) If you can't afford to buy the phone, then you can't have that type of phone. Go get an old one and do a pay it forward plan.
2) Diet soda = death.
3) Sugar = even quicker death.
4) Most TV is poisonous to your mind.
5) Always ask, how can I not drive there? What are the alternatives to firing up the motor vehicle?
6) If you can't afford at least a 20% down payment, you have no business trying to buy property. And you better be able to pay off any mortgage you get into in 15, ideally 10 years. Otherwise, rent, and rent as low COL as you can stand.
7) If you can't afford to buy a home, support a spouse 100% for at least 5 years, pre-fund college through grad school, and several other enablers, then you have no business pumping out even one bambino. Say fuck it to all the peer pressure and go child free by choice.
8) If you think you have no time to make your own meals, and think fast food / other pre-made is quicker, then you are missing a key point about all the time you will lose to illness, and all the time you will need to make more money to pay for convenience.
9) Speaking of time ... you spend so much time texting. Imagine what else you could do with that time. Now for the dark side of connectivity. The Man steals your time when you let him snap your electronic leash taught. Obviously, don't get fired, but at least consider this point, and how you will renegotiate the boundaries between your life and your employer(s) over the long run. Think about codependency and the techniques to conquer it.
10) Learn how to grow food. Even a few plants in pots in a small apartment.
Thanks for your time.
How in the world does someone who gives all that sensible advice end up supporting the party of entitlement?
Maybe you'll eventually accept the fact that there are people besides Dems who deem Trump a traitor and a Quisling. "SomeGuy" had a really great link on another thread that laid out the real political landscape. The truth is, real conservatives despise National Bolsheviks / National Socialists / fill in the blank with other suitably terrible populist bilge.
Opposing Trump I can see. Supporting Clinton and the Democrats, not so much.
For the mission of stopping Trump I had no other choice. Some things are more important than partisanship. But you can't deal with that because you are a Boomer. So doctrinaire.
So were you pushing hard for Cruz during the primary?