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WAR ROOM LOUNGE V22: Cult 45

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Jack V Savage said:
When I was a kid, I had a neighbor who stuttered badly and would always "top" stories with highly implausible ones of his own ("you were chased by a dog? That's nothing, let me tell you about when I was chased by a bear."). But that was kind of pathetic. No one bought any of it, and some of us pretended to because we felt sorry for him. So I don't know if it counts. Even if so, I think she still has him beat.
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How did you feel towards this individual Mr. Savage?

Did you want to correct him?
 
senri said:
Right now I am wearing some Scorpio Covert Jeans. Just a casual entity walking among you Mr. S:HRuzhrvrheiasfhgrlarfraye
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Didn't know you had your own brand.


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senri said:
Tell me more about the entity..... We must know....
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Lead said:
I merged it to the immigration thread. There's about 8 race threads and 5 immigration ones one the front page. I'm just going to merge or dump if there's a slight tweak to the topic at this point.
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I get that, but those mega threads are basically unreadable and seem to invite trolling much more than smaller, more-focused ones. With regard to the stupid caravan issue, that's fine. Let the rubes get frothed up and post crazy CTs in a thread that is sequestered from the more-interesting parts of the forum. But it sucks when good stuff gets rolled into it. Maybe there should be a specific caravan megathread, a Soros hate megathread, and a racism megathread that are just permanently up.
 
Jack V Savage said:
I get that, but those mega threads are basically unreadable and seem to invite trolling much more than smaller, more-focused ones. With regard to the stupid caravan issue, that's fine. Let the rubes get frothed up and post crazy CTs in a thread that is sequestered from the more-interesting parts of the forum. But it sucks when good stuff gets rolled into it. Maybe there should be a specific caravan megathread, a Soros hate megathread, and a racism megathread that are just permanently up.
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You might as well combine the Soros and bigotry threads, because that appears to be what all the fuss is about in his case.
 
waiguoren said:
The Gendered Nature of Family Structure and Group-Based Anti-Egalitarianism: A Cross-National Analysis

JIM SIDANIUS
YESILERNIS PERA
Department of Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles


ABSTRACT. Using 4 samples of adolescents from 3 nations (Australia, Sweden, and the United States), the authors explored whether the gendered nature of the family socialization environment affected young people’s level of group-based social egalitarianism. It was hypothesized that the greater the father’s influence in the family, the greater the children’s level of group-based social anti-egalitarianism. The results were consistent with the authors’ expectations. Children from father-headed households had the highest level of group-based social anti-egalitarianism; children from mother-headed households had the lowest level of group-based anti-egalitarianism; and children from dual-parent households were in between. Similarly, children from homes in which the father had the greatest decision-making power tended to exhibit the highest levels of anti-egalitarianism, whereas children from homes in which the mother had the greatest decision-making power displayed the lowest levels of social anti-egalitarianism. Family structure did not interact with either the nationality or gender of the child.
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So precisely what is your takeaway from this? Is this another one of your bullshit posts where someone tried to debate the subject and you just waved your hand and said, I didn't say that, the article did, and shamelessly obfuscate and deflect?

If you were to include some input of your own I wouldn't be so sure you're just a troll and a waste of space on this forum.
 
Can I ask a dumb question about Soros? How did that fucker get so goddamn rich?
 
Gregolian said:
Can I ask a dumb question about Soros? How did that fucker get so goddamn rich?
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Got seed money working in finance. Did some trading/investment stuff, but his big strikes were essentially bets on whether certain currencies were over or undervalued.
 
Quipling said:
Got seed money working in finance. Did some trading/investment stuff, but his big strikes were essentially bets on whether certain currencies were over or undervalued.
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Wish someone would give me seed money then....
 
Gregolian said:
Ggggrrrrrrr.

I need a new career...
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One big advantage of being raised with money is a greater awareness of different paths. I wasn't, and I had no idea about a career in finance until I kind of stumbled onto it. Same with my wife, who makes more than I do in sales. She was an "office manager" for a tech firm during the boom (in SF), and since she was the first one in and was interested in the product, she'd take calls and sometimes make sales. One day the sales EVP called her into his office and told her she was unofficially the top salesperson on the team for the quarter and recommended that she come over and make it official (and get commissions). Just all of a sudden shifted her path, and she was soon making big money (after having moved to the city with no job, no money, no education, and most relevantly for the point, no idea *how* making six-figures-plus could even happen). I think for most people in the bottom half, there could be high aptitude and good work ethic, but no real idea about how one goes about getting a high-paying job (a lot of the smartest kids I went to school with aspired to be teachers, for example, because that was their model of a respectable career).

Ed: I should say that personally, I had models (though I was too lazy to follow them and some required unique skills) and connections. Comments apply more to people like my wife and people I knew growing up.
 
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Jack V Savage said:
One big advantage of being raised with money is a greater awareness of different paths. I wasn't, and I had no idea about a career in finance until I kind of stumbled onto it. Same with my wife, who makes more than I do in sales. She was an "office manager" for a tech firm during the boom (in SF), and since she was the first one in and was interested in the product, she'd take calls and sometimes make sales. One day the sales EVP called her into his office and told her she was unofficially the top salesperson on the team for the quarter and recommended that she come over and make it official (and get commissions). Just all of a sudden shifted her path, and she was soon making big money (after having moved to the city with no job, no money, no education, and most relevantly for the point, no idea *how* making six-figures-plus could even happen). I think for most people in the bottom half, there could be high aptitude and good work ethic, but no real idea about how one goes about getting a high-paying job (a lot of the smartest kids I went to school with aspired to be teachers, for example, because that was their model of a respectable career).
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I think my issue is I am in a career path that was originally created by lawyers and shit so their mistress/wives had a job and as such the pay is still at that shite tier level.

My coworkers are always stunned I work 3 jobs with my other two being a barback and a bartender and I'm like "I don't have a husband or wife's salary to fall back on."

Course I could feel this way because of the housing situation in the northwest being utterly retarded.
 
Jack V Savage said:
One big advantage of being raised with money is a greater awareness of different paths. I wasn't, and I had no idea about a career in finance until I kind of stumbled onto it. Same with my wife, who makes more than I do in sales. She was an "office manager" for a tech firm during the boom (in SF), and since she was the first one in and was interested in the product, she'd take calls and sometimes make sales. One day the sales EVP called her into his office and told her she was unofficially the top salesperson on the team for the quarter and recommended that she come over and make it official (and get commissions). Just all of a sudden shifted her path, and she was soon making big money (after having moved to the city with no job, no money, no education, and most relevantly for the point, no idea *how* making six-figures-plus could even happen). I think for most people in the bottom half, there could be high aptitude and good work ethic, but no real idea about how one goes about getting a high-paying job (a lot of the smartest kids I went to school with aspired to be teachers, for example, because that was their model of a respectable career).
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I see these businesses pop up in my neighborhood all the time. They're terrible restaurants without a concept or an ability to deliver anything special or memorable at all. One of them is literally called ''Pizza or Pasta.'' But the people behind them are still doing it. They're putting their ''skin in the game.'' These are all immigrant owned businesses, as an aside. It seems like immigrants are better at ''keeping it real'' than the natives. I think what it comes down to is that people make good decisions all day long, most days of their lives, and poor people more so (their spending habits tend to be more optimal, since they're actually forced to optimize). They just don't put themselves in a position to get paid for them.

There are very few careers that I can think of where being right = immediately more money. Professional poker player, day trader, small business owner, maybe lawyer, or an agent.
 
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