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steve said:
Sorry, it’ll be iii) the judge will state that Twitter did not live up to the conditions in the contract and that the deal is null and void.
During the discovery it will come to light that Twitter is hollow and advertising rates will go through the floor along with the stock price. Financially everyone loses, some more than others.

Elon walks away as the peoples hero, having exposed and punished corporate greed and lies. He blew some mad money and got respect in return.
The other platforms realize that the control free speech game is a losing strategy, some sharks play a very aggressive game of “chicken”.
Meanwhile, conservatives take over congress and start turning the tables on watermelon head, pelousy and etc.
Rioting in the streets ensues along with food and fuel shortages. Just in time for the coldest part of winter.

And that’s the good news, I haven’t figured out the bad part yet.
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Alternatively, we could be surprised and for whatever reason the judge might find against Musk. Which would mean he has to pay $1 billion to break the contract (as per the contract wording). BUT, in the process, Twitter stock has cratered, and Musk pays his $1 billion then buys the company anyway for a fraction of the original price (say $10b instead of $44b), saving himself a pile of money and even getting back his $1 billion fine as he's just bought the bank account it's sitting in.

Not saying that will happen, it's just another possibility that comes to mind.
NickF said:
That and I wouldn't be surprised if the whole stunt was somehow arranged with his financing to turn him a tidy profit no matter if the deal went through or not. I believe he set things up to profit no matter which way the chips fell.
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Exactly.

It's probably also set up as a big distraction to keep us all looking over there instead of looking somewhere else.
 
So New York has released a video explaining what to do if there is a nuclear bomb. And I guess whether or not we think this is something that is actually going to happen and that's why they're trying to prepare people could be in the tin foil hat thread. But for now I thought this went here, because I think the advice is laughable.

Step 1: Go inside.
Step 2: Wash yourself off, bag all clothing etc.
Step 3: Wait for information from the authorities that will help you, make sure you're signed up to alerts.


I love how they're assuming all those things are possible.
Step 1, ok, definitely more possible than the others. What they don't mention is not to go home, just go inside the first building you see. Guarantee a bunch of people are going to try to get home.
Step 2, you're assuming there's water available. A nuke just went off, most likely water is not coming into your building right now, and if it is, are you sure it's safe?
Step 3, LOL! Better hope the phone system is still all working, all that internet and everything. And I'm sure the authorities are coming to help you...


Let me put this into perspective after the Canterbury earthquake we experienced 12 years ago, because that's what I know.
The advice from civil defence has always been to have enough water and food to last your family for 3 days, then the authorities will be able to help you if they haven't already. This proved vastly untrue *. For those in the city, the supermarkets opened after 2 days, but only to staff and family of staff, then they opened to customers. There was no power for days, no water to most of the city for weeks. For some areas it was months. There was no sewerage for parts of the city for at least 6 months. The city was in such a bad state that the day after the earthquake the mayor basically told everyone if you don't have to be here then please leave and go visit family or something. There was utter chaos.

For us out in the country, that earthquake didn't affect us a lot, except that the phone systems didn't work for quite a while as they were overloaded. But the previous earthquake affected us more. We had no power for 4 days, no water for 5. Samuel found the water leak for the council and fixed it for them because they weren't going to make it out to us for ages. The supermarkets didn't open for about 4 or 5 days. (I can tell you about a whole story I have from my first trip to a supermarket after the earthquake!) About 3 weeks after the earthquake someone working with a charity came to the door and offered us various donated soaps, shampoos, cleaners etc. That was the only help we got. But we didn't need a lot because we were set up for all of that anyway, we definitely didn't need soap lol, but I did appreciate the generosity. We were set for if we were snowed in for weeks or had a wind storm and lost power for an extended period of time etc.
With no power, that meant no internet or phone. My cellphone didn't work for much of the day, and when it did we were told not to use it except for emergencies.
The only way of knowing what was going on was by radio. We had a radio with batteries that we had going, and sometimes we used the car radio too.

Samuel recently went to a meeting about what would happen if a big earthquake happened here. Believe it or not, but neither of those were big earthquakes according to what is coming from our main fault line any day. They basically said we're on our own. They'll get to us eventually but they have other priorities and they sure as heck aren't going to care about people out on farms or in small towns.

I understand NYC is a huge city and lots of resources will be devoted to it. But you're still talking about a nuke going off. An earthquake is small compared to that. A NUKE for goodness sake. And if someone bombs NYC then that means you're at war which is a whole other thing so that will be the priority.

The moral of the story here is do not rely on authorities. Do not rely on cellphones, internet, power, running water etc.

At the end of this video the lady says "You've got this." It's a fairly useless and pointless thing to say to most people. There was something that people were saying after the earthquakes. "Get through" as in "you'll get through this, we'll get through this". That was a govt thing and part of their symbology, but it became something that people used frequently. It wasn't about the govt or what they were doing, it was about neighbours, friends, and family helping each other. We'll get through this together. And that is how you survive any disaster, being prepared and helping each other, not relying on the govt who probably can't even contact you.

*Our capitol city, Wellington, is built in the stupidest place imaginable, right on top of a fault line and surrounded by mountains. When it goes, they've done simulations that show that the best case scenario is that they'll be able to get into the city after one week. Better hope that 3 days of food can stretch huh?

Sorry for the long waffle, I just think this is one of the stupidest and shall I say - optimistic - videos I've ever seen. Optimism does not help you prepare for anything.

 
Since I’m trying to preserve all the IQ points I still have I think I’ll pass on watching it.
 
We borrow from FEMA and the LDS on preparedness and we keep a year's worth of dry goods on hand, we have a spring for drinking water, we've got plenty of diesel for the generator because we always have diesel for the tractors and etc. And sometimes we've had bad enough snow that we're stuck for a week or so but it's never a big deal. The recent floods didn't affect us much but they did cause problems for some of the stores in Cody.

I've learned that the biggest thing to do when making disaster preparations is to decide if you can stay where you are or if you will have to leave. You can't have 40 bags of rice or flour and suddenly have to transport them.

If you live in the USA a scary and true book to read is this one:


It's scary because the worst people in the Katrina Hurricane disaster were the police who stole supplies, stole bottled water, stole people's boats, and were basically big bullies. And the police were stealing from a hospital.

So if you have to get away from where you live and you bring supplies with you then part of the risk is the police will take your supplies away from you. Meaning that if you can't stay where you are then you should plan on where you will go, you should plan to avoid the main roads, and you should plan on having backup supplies just in case yours get stolen from you by the police/authorities.
 
"The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of men who wanted to be left alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves & those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over.



The moment the men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people's door, & they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy... but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the men who just wanted to be left alone."



-A. Solzhenitsyn
 
It occurred to me today, something about a shift in culture I've witnessed.

It used to be the criticism (rightly in most ways) that secularism "sold sex" and sexualized everything, and people behaved licentiously.

And of course, those who pursued that lifestyle of "casual sex" both paid for it in personal pain and caused innumerable problems from STDs to broken homes.

But it seems now we've moved to a post sex culture. Younger people don't know the rules and are dating less. We have endless new "identity" groups.

So ultimately, the goals had nothing to do with "liberating" anyone and actually was about assimilating everyone into what is in actually a sexless and grey existence. Far removed from the colorful and pleasurable plan given to us in Eden by a divine and loving Creator.
 
CountrySquire said:
It occurred to me today, something about a shift in culture I've witnessed.

It used to be the criticism (rightly in most ways) that secularism "sold sex" and sexualized everything, and people behaved licentiously.

And of course, those who pursued that lifestyle of "casual sex" both paid for it in personal pain and caused innumerable problems from STDs to broken homes.

But it seems now we've moved to a post sex culture. Younger people don't know the rules and are dating less. We have endless new "identity" groups.

So ultimately, the goals had nothing to do with "liberating" anyone and actually was about assimilating everyone into what is in actually a sexless and grey existence. Far removed from the colorful and pleasurable plan given to us in Eden by a divine and loving Creator.
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Whatever is opposite the Kingdom of Heaven.
 
CountrySquire said:
It occurred to me today, something about a shift in culture I've witnessed.

It used to be the criticism (rightly in most ways) that secularism "sold sex" and sexualized everything, and people behaved licentiously.

And of course, those who pursued that lifestyle of "casual sex" both paid for it in personal pain and caused innumerable problems from STDs to broken homes.

But it seems now we've moved to a post sex culture. Younger people don't know the rules and are dating less. We have endless new "identity" groups.

So ultimately, the goals had nothing to do with "liberating" anyone and actually was about assimilating everyone into what is in actually a sexless and grey existence. Far removed from the colorful and pleasurable plan given to us in Eden by a divine and loving Creator.
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I don't know how long you've been around, but I've written about this before, because it's something I witnessed first-hand: to begin with, the destruction of our culture for the purpose of replacing our system with one of their supposedly-superior choosing has been in the background of the real, written, actual DemocRAT Party platform since the 1960s. However, what you're talking about (sexless, gray existence, etc.) didn't begin to be implemented until the mid-1980s, as an outgrowth of the AIDS hoax. Prior to that, Republicans were known for supposedly wanting government out of everything but the bedroom, and DemocRATs were known for supposedly wanting government into everything but the bedroom, but in the 1980s, Fauci and Company brought the Sexual Revolution crashing down on everyone's heads as he (entirely disingenuously) blamed 'AIDS' on a mild virus and falsely claimed it was transmitted sexually (in actuality, 'AIDS' is just a name for one's immune system being shut down, mostly through rampant drug use, to the point that any opportunistic disease will take over).

Into this breach, two major and powerful groups linked hands from that point forward, one from the Left (anti-heterosexual feminists) and one from the Right (fundamentalist Christians). I was a practicing psychotherapist at the time and a big-time liberal, and I promise you this very much anti-sexual Marriage Made In Hell swept through the therapy world leaving what it had previously been unrecognizable, all in less than 2 year's time. By 1988, we were pressured like made from every quarter to hound out witches of any deviant sexual type. All of a sudden, anything but missionary sex between married couples was fair game for condemnation. Resistance certainly existed, but you were instructed to keep it discreet. Our culture has never recovered. Way too much demonization has occurred in both directions. In these forums, we probably most focus on how straight sex has been overshadowed by weird stuff, but in the other directions, the Right abdicated its responsibility by allowing the creation of sex offender registries that not only make all sex offenders be required to be shamed in their communities after serving their time, but even the 80% or so of them who were men under 22 having consensual sex with girls less than 2 years younger than the legal barrier (and when I say consensual, that means the girls didn't file the complaints) are lumped in with middle-aged men who rape their elementary-school-age sons as sex offenders for the rest of their lives. Once we gave these control freaks that kind of power, #MeToo and all the rest simply became inevitable.
 
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And then the following may be exaggerating a few things, but even without that this would be disturbing and only indicates that things have gotten progressively worse since I last worked with Georgia's child and protective services people in 1993. One thing I've never forgotten I learned directly from a Georgia supervisor for the Department of Family and Children's Services back in the 1970s: when a child is taken into child protective services, the child on average is placed in three homes before being returned to his or her biological parents; one out of four foster placements are ended because the foster parents are found to be sexually or physically abusing the foster child (more often sexually than physically); combining these statistics means that, once a child enters the CPS systems, that child has a 75% chance of being abused by the foster adults caring for that child, and in many cases children are removed pending a lengthy investigation because of suspicion of abuse on the part of their natural parents, suspicion frequently based on a solitary report from a cranky neighbor or someone with a vendetta against the parents.

These statistics weren't just true for Georgia; I had two child clients in Pennsylvania in 1988 who were permanently removed from their parents and placed in foster care where they were horribly sexually abused. When this was eventually discovered, it turned out the people making the original report of horrific sexual and physical abuse against the natural parents were best friends with the eventual foster parents and conspired with them to get the children.

No matter what, do whatever you can to keep these people out of your lives:

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One of the most infuriating things about the CPS systems is that they are majority staffed by unmarried women without children, at least a fourth of which identify as lesbians. On many occasions dealing with these people on behalf of my child clients, the social workers referred to natural parents disparagingly using terms like 'breeders' or 'irresponsible sex fiends,' justifying their removal of children as if they were being saved even if the reports were false. [I had similar experiences working with women's shelters. Many of us are familiar with above-board NONgovernmental, NONliberal women's shelters, but the vast majority are part of the governmental or non-profit associations and are more concerned with promoting what is now called social justice than in improving the lives of their clients.]

The longer I live, the more I wonder why nothing is ever done to correct any of the above.
 
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Keith Martin said:
the Right abdicated its responsibility by allowing the creation of sex offender registries that not only make all sex offenders be required to be shamed in their communities after serving their time, but even the 80% or so of them who were men under 22 having consensual sex with girls less than 2 years younger than the legal barrier (and when I say consensual, that means the girls didn't file the complaints) are lumped in with middle-aged men who rape their elementary-school-age sons as sex offenders for the rest of their lives.
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That is a terrible injustice, and I've seen it play out in the life of another man just recently over here - a consensual mistake when very young having legal effects decades later. Thankyou for pointing out the timeframe of when this sort of thing began, it's just been a fact for my entire adult life so I never really understood how it had come about. Nor saw the bigger picture you joined the dots on in that post.
 
Keith Martin said:
(CPS workers) at least a fourth of which identify as lesbians.
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True. When my family had problems the social workers were always aggressive, masculine, lesbian dykes. I always felt like they hated me for looking like a girl instead of looking like their preferred victims. I won't go into detail about the hassles we had but I will say that it was so sweet in September 2008 when the CPS and sheriff's dept. showed up for an unannounced welfare check and I got to tell them, "F*** off. I'm eighteen and I don't have to do this anymore."

The sheriff's deputy checked my ID and said he was done and he had to tell the CPS dyke she had to leave. They can't let go once they have you in their system.
 
I really didn't know where to put this so it's going in this thread. I saw this and I laughed and laughed. Then I showed Samuel and we laughed and laughed together.
Warning, the language and descriptions in this video are not for children.
 
Lawd ha Mucy!!!!!
 
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