War Room Lounge v57: We Sher Love Dogs

[spin]

I'm glad that slavery thread was around just long enough to add to my ignore list

 

[Gandhi]

Yeah, liberalism puts cultural evolution on steroids (or something that works much better than steroids). Like the difference between trying to improve your bowling technique and using this:

My son is going to love this video!!!!

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

Has anyone had garlic ice cream btw? Just curious.

Made some once from a basic vanilla recipe. I love both ice cream and garlic and a friend was curious. Let's just say that it eventually got eaten. And bets were hedged with a far more successful ginger vanilla.

 

[Cuauhtemoc]

I'm a liberal myself so I agree about the overall benefits in general, but I think in most times and places, the replacement wouldn't be rapid enough to save anyone. In the book referenced in that piece, Henrich brings up examples of European explorers who get lost. We're talking about well-organized units of well-trained, fit men who have been exposed to liberalism. In all cases, they either hook up with natives and are saved or starve to death (and usually resort to cannibalism on the way out the door). In one case in Australia, even after finding tools and getting instructions on food preparation, they missed a key step and died. Even the most primitive-seeming cultures have developed processes that no one could figure out on their own under the gun in one lifetime.

In the end the natives got conquered by the scientific (liberal) Europeans though.

 

[Islam Imamate]

The money laundering part makes zero sense

I have said this before though

I missed it, how exactly?

 

[JDragon]

 

[tonni]

@hillelslovak87 needs an intervention. His signatures are too much and there needs to be a limit. I'm almost putting him on ignore.

 

[tonni]

 

[tonni]

I'm a liberal myself so I agree about the overall benefits in general, but I think in most times and places, the replacement wouldn't be rapid enough to save anyone. In the book referenced in that piece, Henrich brings up examples of European explorers who get lost. We're talking about well-organized units of well-trained, fit men who have been exposed to liberalism. In all cases, they either hook up with natives and are saved or starve to death (and usually resort to cannibalism on the way out the door). In one case in Australia, even after finding tools and getting instructions on food preparation, they missed a key step and died. Even the most primitive-seeming cultures have developed processes that no one could figure out on their own under the gun in one lifetime.

Tribal people have AMAZING memories. This is a side-effect (or a necessity) of having an oral culture and thus being illiterate. It means they have to memorize a lot of information and they often have excellent mnemonic techniques to do so.

The territory of the Hopi indians, for example, is rather inhospitable by Western standards but the Hopi had over a hundred (it's top of my head) different kinds of edible plants etc. In the desert. They knew the location, the name, how to harvest it etc...

There is a kind of arrogance coming out of ignorance when it comes to tribal knowledge and it gets waved away much too often by accusations of romanticizing these tribal people. I think the underlying process is dehumanization, since indigenous peoples worldwide are still under siege by industrialization, logging and farming.

Did you know that over 80% of earths most biodiverse places lie in indigenous or tribal territories?

https://www.survivalinternational.org/conservation

They're also responsible for in between 80% and 90% of global cultural diversity.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255585922_Indigenous_Peoples_and_Biodiversity

 

[Gandhi]

I missed it, how exactly?

The whole money laundering angle makes no sense at all. You launder money by inflating revenues not expenses. As in a cash based arcade machine or yes the strip bar (that made sense).

Otherwise the IRS be like, where did you get that cash to pay for these expenses? Fake deductions are the first thing the IRS goes after, not reporting too much income, which is what launderers want to do, report income.

As as a premise it is just fundamentally flawed/broken. He is doing the opposite of what he needs to do.

Say he has 8 million dollars he needs cleaned.

The cartel needs to buy businesses for a low amount on paper (but pay real cash under the hood) or start new businesses with cash but not declare the expenses. They then need to show a super high profit, a fake one, for tax purposes.

So if the strip club only brings in a $100k per year in reality, they say it brought in $300k and pay taxes on that higher amount. Sounds crazy right? But that leaves $200k of fake profit which they can allocate to dirty money. They can now spend $200k of drug money and when the IRS says "how did you make that money and where did u report it?", the dealer can say "we had a pretty good titty year". The IRS says thanks for the tax and moves on.

Buying business for cash and using them to create fake income both do the same thing, the create reportable income streams and hide dirty income. The IRS loves to review people's assets, houses, cars, and say "how you get that" and you need to say how you made it and show you paid Uncle Sam .

Now if they say the titty bar made $1 million, the IRS might say " no way that bar could do that, and checks for money laundering," so it has to be feasible.

Now look at the Ozarks, he is faking renovation expenses at a restaurant and building a church. He is creating tax deductions with no fake revenue, or for the church (a charity), no revenue at all. How can the cartel spend dirty money as income and say it's clean by pointing to these businesses.

As an aside the casino makes way more sense, once it is built (not this whole construction phase that's dumb again). Very easy to inflate gambling profits.

My prediction is that once the casino is built they shift focus on the correct side of the income statement and just figure most people won't notice.

 

[Sketch]

@hillelslovak87 needs an intervention. His signatures are too much and there needs to be a limit. I'm almost putting him on ignore.

Blame me, I was the first person he quoted in his hall of fame.

 

[PolishHeadlock2]

 

[tonni]

I wonder how many Trump supporters online don't even like Trump, they just defend him to get a rile out of people. It's probably one of the easiest cheapest ways to troll ever.

 

[tonni]

Anyone here ever had a carnival stand? My parents used to sell cotton candy at the carnival, shit sold like crazy and it cost so little to make. Some of my best memories come from hanging around that stand.

 

[Rational Poster]

Anyone here ever had a carnival stand? My parents used to sell cotton candy at the carnival, shit sold like crazy and it cost so little to make. Some of my best memories come from hanging around that stand.

Is this your journal now?

 

[tonni]

Fucking zoos

 

[tonni]

Is this your journal now?

 

[JDragon]

Anyone here ever had a carnival stand? My parents used to sell cotton candy at the carnival, shit sold like crazy and it cost so little to make. Some of my best memories come from hanging around that stand.

You must be big into Eurodance

 

[Gregolian]

I want pancakes and like a pound of bacon.

I know it's bad for me but I don't care.

 

[Jack V Savage]

In the end the natives got conquered by the scientific (liberal) Europeans though.

Yeah, again, liberalism works, but the success is not on an individual level. It's about plugging into a deep and thorough body of knowledge in addition to learning methods of thinking and using acquired mental tools. Whether we're talking about liberalism or about smaller societies, collective intelligence is much greater than individual intelligence.