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Originally Posted by onwebcam
Actions match my beliefs? What the hell are you talking about? Defeatist? No I will always come out on top. All I have ever done is open the eyes of stupid people like yourself.
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Originally Posted by onwebcam
Because I understand the ramifications of what has happened here it doesn't really matter what I do to prepare for it other than explain to others what is going on so when the time comes it can be dealt with. You see it doesn't matter how much money you have if you're paying $10 for a loaf of bread. Eventually all of your money is going to be gone.
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What the hell am I talking abou...Oh.. Yeah.. That..
Sounds like positive thinking to me.. What are you coming out on top of again? The zombie hordes after your cache of bread?
You cetainly have opened my eyes, but more in a "I just saw a guy put a gherkin into a cat's asshole" kinda way.
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Originally Posted by onwebcam
Sure I could go and stock up on several years worth of food. Sure I could put a bunch of money in gold silver etc. But why should I have to do that? I didn't do anything wrong. I'm just your average guy trying to get by just like everyone else. And just like anyone else when someone fucks with my lively hood I'm going to get pissed. If you can't look around and see that things are fucked up then you have your blinders on. If you cant see that pumping shit loads of money into a system where prices are already high will make them go higher then you have your blinders on.
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This is your beliefs.. You have some serious cognitive dissonance going on you silly sausage. Ok rampant inflation.. so whats a hedge against inflation.. ooooohhh no wah wah.. some big players manipulate the market you can't possibly make a profit... That is probably one of the more ridiculous things i've ever heard. Everything is going to cost more except the things there are tangible limits on.. lol... You can't have it both ways. Well with cognitive dissonance you can..
OF COURSE the big players have the muscle to have a substantitive difference to the price of a commodity. I'm not going to waste any time going on about how that doesn't make a long term difference because of physical realities or that short term manipulation doesn't matter because you can trade in and out of it because it's not going to stop you from thinking that there are half a dozen people sitting on a chart of exactly what the price of gold is going to be for the next 10 years
but even if that were the case oh master of all secret conspiracy knowledge... wouldn't that mean you'd know what they were up to and could place your bets alongside them while they're trying to bankrupt the saudi's.. destroy the US middle class.. or whatever else their nefarious scheme is and were in the perfect place to make zillions of dollars while the "sheep" like me who managed to stay out of prison and off the streets kept their blinders on?
That's what I mean by not investing in your worldview. You're quick to point out what "THEY" are doing, why "THEY" are doing it, and how you've come to open everyone's eyes but I don't see you doing anything about it except not putting your money where your mouth is and saying nothing matters because all our money will be gone. If I thought people were fucking with my business and a dozen shady overlords were conspiring to make me poor and that I knew what they were trying to do and how because I read it on infowars I would stick it to them by making sure I wasn't a casuality and investing.
Personally I wouldn't invest in gold. I'm not a doomer gold bug, I'm just trying to put my arguments in perpective. Even though you believe oil prices are all a conspiracy and I assume there are zillions of barrels in Gull Island (even though there is no possible way for this to make a substantial difference to US consumption) or whatever.. At least the advice I gave in that thread 6 months ago would actually be providing tangible benefits for anyone that followed it.. whereas as you just said it didn't matter what we did we were all going to end up with no money.
If anything.. all these conspiracy theories could be a conspiracy to stop people like you from feeling like they could help themselves because all the markets are manipulated.. It's almost funny because it seems like Alex Jones and Lindsay Williams are maniuplating you out of money. I'm further ahead right now than I was before the crash because I do my own research into the scientific, mathematical and geopolitical realities.. not what a goon who builds reactionary tall tales from less extraordinary but non-mainstream truths or an ex-chaplain tells me. My portfolio tells me it's my eyes that are open. That there is a grain of truth in most things you'll find on conspiracy sites but that people take the ball and run, way, way way too far with it. The fact that there was money raining from the sky and you didn't want to pick it up makes me think there is something wrong with yours. Not because money is all important.. but because it's an objective measuring stick of predictions.
Anyways I think I've got a better handle on it now. It seems you're more angry because you don't feel in control and like people are screwing with your business and your "freedom" and you accept pretty much any theory that fits into that paradigm.