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The Rank is but the Guinea stowp,
The Man's the gowd, for a' that
All a king is is the richest goat farmer in goat town who passes his goats down the family line.
It means literally nothing else.
then the price of it will drop abruptly, and someone's balance sheet will be wiped out, you get a 1997-style financial crisis, and the economy will contract by the extent to which the capital was badly invested. but, as I said, the world is more Keynesian than Austrian, and malinvestment effects are completely dominated by the primary forces of "how much capital do you have to begin with?"
but like, look beyond the insanity bubbling there and there is sort of a point
money does not equal power everywhere, and a useful definition of the elite are those with power.
Not the kings and what-have-yous, those... well, there's not enough of them in any country for them to count as a group.
But like, the people below them.
Back when nobility mattered, but not so long back that nobody but the nobility got rich, it was very much the case that the nobility was still the elite and held most of the power, even though they may not have been all that rich.
Censorship is bad mmmkay?
So what if you don't agree with him, just enjoy the access we have to someone that different.
Imagine what it must be like to grow up thinking that way.
Then do the scary thing and wonder if your own assumptions/beliefs/etc are any better.
also car-based nav systems are universally terrible right?
well, yeah. That's the point here.
EDIT: But like, if you got super rich and moved there and was like what's up you'd probably find yourself being one of the few rich people who weren't in the elite.
Crazy's in the eye of the beholder, throwing around labels like that just gets people more entrenched in their positions. I know I've been called it more than a few times, and am thought of that way by kosh or w/e, but I still like to try and have civil conversations with the people that don't start talking about wanting to see people they disagree with over the price of tea in china be tortured, gelded and muted so that their audacity of having an opposing view point could go further.
There's definitely a point you just quit engaging, but just let the posters choose that, until they start making threats/arguing in circles. I mean, we all have those few posters we just don't bother replying or reading, and I'm sure I'm a high hit rate for that filter around these parts.
no. wrong. Censorship by the GOVERNMENT is bad.
It's a goddamn birth right (lol see what I did there) in private settings
THE KING OF GALLOWAY COMMANDS IT
So we're in agreement, then, because this is basically what I've been trying to suggest will probably happen at some point?
The reason this is significant for China is their current political climate basically has their fingers in their ears at the possibility of such a thing happening, anyone suggesting such up the chain is told to be quiet because PRC will grow #1 forever. I can't begin to predict the specifics though, if I had to guess either a shift further towards authoritarianism or towards democracy (given China's attitudes, likely the former)
Is there a particular poster who makes you actually laugh out loud at the things they post because the content seems so absurd to you that it becomes comedic?
Confirmed lineage traced to Charlemagne.
Bow before me.
well, it's more like the goat farmer who can make people kill other goat farmers if they don't give him one of their goats, and then stopped goat farming and just did that instead
As a lounge upon my throne as the Grand Chief of the Americas.
that's exactly it
every poor hispanic in new mexico claims to have a direct ancestral line to castillian nobility
but only the ones who get wealthy have the resources or influence to really fete each other for their "lineage"
Scotland was never part of Charlemagne's empire.
*blows raspberry
*looks lasciviously at a sheep
so that plus time means that most of us are descended from a king
Weak bitch settings. Don't "protect" others from some shit you can't handle or skip over.
(That sounds overly hostile but I have a hot mug of tea resting over my junk and so I gotta type fast then move it, sip, put if back, you know how if is.)
anyway it's not enough to be descended from someone
you need to have inherited them
being descended from a king doesn't mean jack shit if you didn't inherit his kingdom
Garmin pulls in about half as much revenue (and growing) from sports products as it does automotive sat navs these days. Hence:
Plus, you know, stuff like primae noctis.
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That latter has been my perspective, might be different now days but most in car sat navs I've seen are from like, the mid-late 2000s. They might be good today, but like, with modern cell phones who needs em'
The former is also probably true, I got one for my grandma for christmas because I used to have to show her how to use the sat-nav in her car every time I visited her and she doesn't have a cell phone or computers or anything. She says it's WAY better than the one that came with her car (a late 2000s clk) and is actually up to date which is nice.
regardless of what the party does to stave off a housing crash it will happen, it is only a question of when
exactly
either you inherited a kingdom or you didn't
the "royalty" aspect is nothing but shabby pageantry and hokum
at least in every country that isn't a third-world shithole
god wills it
so I ain't bowing for shit
Consensus, apparently.
more date trees, goats, and rifles than the next asshole
the ones I've seen are all like
okay let me take 15 minutes to use these knobs to laboriously spell out the place we want to go
instead of just pressing a button on your phone and being like, siri find the nearest taco bell
being the ones in power and everything?
you say that, but this sword, bag of gold, and army i have hanging out with me says bow before zod