Anonymous wrote:I guess I'm curious how would you have prepared your children for the nuclear carnage of the Truman era?

...The witch hunts of the Eisenhower era?
...The brutal and multiple assassinations of elected leaders and the threat of nuclear apocalypse in the Kennedy era?
...The bloody quagmire of the LBJ era?
...The undermining of public trust in the Nixon era?
...The utter malaise of the Carter era?
...The pure greed of the Reagan era?

I could go on.

What is it exactly that you expect from this imperfect country, and what exactly makes you special in this particular period of American upheaval? Nothing. raise your kids accordingly, and with a strong compass, and life will go on.

Well the undermining of public trust for Nixon ended with him leaving office. God willing we will have the same result with this undermining of the public trust.

Anonymous wrote:I guess I'm curious how would you have prepared your children for the nuclear carnage of the Truman era?

...The witch hunts of the Eisenhower era?
...The brutal and multiple assassinations of elected leaders and the threat of nuclear apocalypse in the Kennedy era?
...The bloody quagmire of the LBJ era?
...The undermining of public trust in the Nixon era?
...The utter malaise of the Carter era?
...The pure greed of the Reagan era?

I could go on.

What is it exactly that you expect from this imperfect country, and what exactly makes you special in this particular period of American upheaval? Nothing. raise your kids accordingly, and with a strong compass, and life will go on.

If you don't see the unique threat Trump poses to the American way of life you are beyond help.

I guess I'm curious how would you have prepared your children for the nuclear carnage of the Truman era?

...The witch hunts of the Eisenhower era?
...The brutal and multiple assassinations of elected leaders and the threat of nuclear apocalypse in the Kennedy era?
...The bloody quagmire of the LBJ era?
...The undermining of public trust in the Nixon era?
...The utter malaise of the Carter era?
...The pure greed of the Reagan era?

I could go on.

What is it exactly that you expect from this imperfect country, and what exactly makes you special in this particular period of American upheaval? Nothing. raise your kids accordingly, and with a strong compass, and life will go on.

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Anonymous wrote:Since this is a parenting site I figured that we should discuss the best ways to prepare our children for the Oligarchy?

Should we plan to flee? Should we teach them more about world history and economics? Should we set up accounts that they can access overseas?

I obviously have no idea so help me out here!

Some of you have lost your damn minds.

Yep. Astounding that democrats are opposed to saving money, getting rid of waste and fraud, ensuring women compete in women’s sports, and working toward world peace.

Please get back to me when your SS/Medicare accounts are zeroed out and your relatives have been evicted from a nursing home because Medicaid LTC was also zeroed out.

We are in the 1%, but damn if I subscribe to this “sin of empathy” nonsense. I’ve spent good chunks of my life in urban areas in developing countries around the world. I have ZERO interest in living in cement block compound ringed at the top with broken glass and razor wire. If you want to live in a failed state, then, please, go do so.

It's like they didn't hear the stories of relatives who were around in the US pre 1940s, not to mention failed states / developing countries.

Living in a rural house, with a pump in the kitchen for water, no electricity, growing all their own food, never ever taking a vacation, using an outhouse, no public utilities. They traded with neighbors for different types of food. Son had a potentially treatable cancer, but in Oklahoma you just died from it as a teenager.

My grandparents who lived in a larger urban area lived in one room in their parents house,with their two kids (one of my parents) and it took all the money from all the grandparents, all aunts and uncles, to pay for all their combined bills for the one house. If you were lucky and smart, sometimes the parents allowed you to stay inside school and graduate from high school, instead of going to work or getting married after you finished 8th grade. All my ancestors were white, btw, in case any facists are wondering.

Based on what I learned from my grandparents, the skills that may prove useful are:

Growing your own food, as much as you can, so you won't starve.

Learning how to repair your clothing and linens, so you don't have to buy more. Clothing is also fabric and can be recycled into many things.

Learn to stay healthy and fit without spending much money: garden, go for walks, do body weight exercises.

Learning how to take care of your possessions, so you don't buy more.

Budgeting for every expense and calculating how much of your time it will cost to buy that new thing.

Learning how to stay away from advertising and how it affects you emotionally, so you are not driven to buy more stuff. Teach them to buy items that will last longer in many cases.

Emphasizing learning or trades, because no one can take away that knowledge in your head, even though everything else can be taken away or lost due to economic collapse.

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Anonymous wrote:Since this is a parenting site I figured that we should discuss the best ways to prepare our children for the Oligarchy?

Should we plan to flee? Should we teach them more about world history and economics? Should we set up accounts that they can access overseas?

I obviously have no idea so help me out here!

Some of you have lost your damn minds.

Yep. Astounding that democrats are opposed to saving money, getting rid of waste and fraud, ensuring women compete in women’s sports, and working toward world peace.

Please get back to me when your SS/Medicare accounts are zeroed out and your relatives have been evicted from a nursing home because Medicaid LTC was also zeroed out.

We are in the 1%, but damn if I subscribe to this “sin of empathy” nonsense. I’ve spent good chunks of my life in urban areas in developing countries around the world. I have ZERO interest in living in cement block compound ringed at the top with broken glass and razor wire. If you want to live in a failed state, then, please, go do so.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL I love watching the meltdown of people without a brain.
Hell yes Lady , flee the country. It’s the only way to save yourself from common sense LOL

Well, who is the brainiac that is saying that birth rates did not decrease during the Great depression or during the Holocaust?

Um, the point was that the era we’re living in is extremely peaceful and comfortable compared to those eras and literally any era in human history. Do you just have no sense of self awareness or no knowledge of history?

Yeah does it have anything to do with the pursuit of knowledge science, technology and how much progress we've made since then? And now we vote in someone who intends to blow all that up and we're supposed to think we're in the greatest of times.

Elon Musk is literally one of the greatest force for technological change in our lifetimes. He’s running the government according to people like you. Care to square how illogical your point is?

Elon Musk is a nepo baby who co-created one good idea back in the 90s and has been riding on other people's coattails ever since. Ask any Tesla or SpaceX engineer and they'll tell you the companies thrive despite his "leadership," not because of it. There are entire teams at his companies dedicated to cleaning up his messes because he comes in completely ignorant of the projects, demands nonsensical changes, and leaves, congratulating himself all the way for "fixing" the thing he just broke.

Just look at his signature projects - "Full Self Driving" that will never come to fruition simply because Musk insisted on using cameras instead of the industry-standard LIDAR. The Cybertruck that costs twice as much as promised and is riddled with manufacturing defects. Completely tanking Twitter. Everything he personally oversees is garbage. He's an utter moron completely convinced of his own superiority.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL I love watching the meltdown of people without a brain.
Hell yes Lady , flee the country. It’s the only way to save yourself from common sense LOL

Well, who is the brainiac that is saying that birth rates did not decrease during the Great depression or during the Holocaust?

Um, the point was that the era we’re living in is extremely peaceful and comfortable compared to those eras and literally any era in human history. Do you just have no sense of self awareness or no knowledge of history?

I get your point but shouldn’t we also learn from history so it doesn’t repeat itself?

Create a victory garden
Learn food preservation techniques
Learn how to repair things
Take a stop the bleed course and basic first aid
Stop buying stuff you don't need

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Anonymous wrote:To the woman who has decided not to have children in light of the past two weeks, I urge you to get some mental health support. Things might feel out of control at the moment, but you are planning to alter the course of your life, deprive yourself of having children (that you want, apparently) and wallow in self-pity for the rest of your life because Donald Trump was elected president?

Of all the unhinged things I have read on this thread, this takes the cake. And it's emblematic of the insidious victim mentality of the left. Don't let four years of a president you don't agree with waste your one, precious opportunity to have children. Eggs expire, you know? Can you imagine looking back on your life and realizing you didn't have CHILDREN because of some blip on the political radar?

NP. It’s actually a very informed decision. Climate change and the continued destruction of the environment aren’t just a blip to anyone educated on such matters.

People didn’t stop having children when the Holocoast, Black Death, or Great Depression was happening. You are a uniquely narcissistic and spoiled person with no ability to see outside of yourself and realize that people alive today have it better than anyone in human history. Get over yourself. SMH.

So you're equating this time to the Holocaust, the Black death, the Great depression and you're shrugging your shoulders and saying get over it.

Um, no. I’m saying that we are spoiled as hell and you would have a panic attack if you were dropped anywhere in the world in 1942 or 1918, let alone sometime in the 1400s. You can have someone deliver food from any restaurant you want with an app, have a supercomputer on your phone, and live a very prosperous, peaceful life compared to literally anytime else in human history. Get over yourselves with all the kvetching about how bad you have it and how bad the world is. Read a book about World War I and imagine if you had to run into Gatling gun fire from a rat infested trench or else get shot by your superiors. Get some historical context and have some appreciation for how good you have it and stop whining. Christ!!!

How ironic is this post when the entire slogan of mega is going backwards in time to a place where we were supposedly great in the past. What year was it?

1984

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Anonymous wrote:LOL I love watching the meltdown of people without a brain.
Hell yes Lady , flee the country. It’s the only way to save yourself from common sense LOL

Well, who is the brainiac that is saying that birth rates did not decrease during the Great depression or during the Holocaust?

Um, the point was that the era we’re living in is extremely peaceful and comfortable compared to those eras and literally any era in human history. Do you just have no sense of self awareness or no knowledge of history?

Yeah does it have anything to do with the pursuit of knowledge science, technology and how much progress we've made since then? And now we vote in someone who intends to blow all that up and we're supposed to think we're in the greatest of times.

Elon Musk is literally one of the greatest force for technological change in our lifetimes. He’s running the government according to people like you. Care to square how illogical your point is?

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Anonymous wrote:To the woman who has decided not to have children in light of the past two weeks, I urge you to get some mental health support. Things might feel out of control at the moment, but you are planning to alter the course of your life, deprive yourself of having children (that you want, apparently) and wallow in self-pity for the rest of your life because Donald Trump was elected president?

Of all the unhinged things I have read on this thread, this takes the cake. And it's emblematic of the insidious victim mentality of the left. Don't let four years of a president you don't agree with waste your one, precious opportunity to have children. Eggs expire, you know? Can you imagine looking back on your life and realizing you didn't have CHILDREN because of some blip on the political radar?

NP. It’s actually a very informed decision. Climate change and the continued destruction of the environment aren’t just a blip to anyone educated on such matters.

People didn’t stop having children when the Holocoast, Black Death, or Great Depression was happening. You are a uniquely narcissistic and spoiled person with no ability to see outside of yourself and realize that people alive today have it better than anyone in human history. Get over yourself. SMH.

Have as many kids as you want. Other people will do the same. Just stay out of it unless it's your own decision.

That isn’t the point. The point is that people have no context of human history and are incredibly spoiled. The men who post on this forum would literally soil themselves the second they were dropped in a trench in World War I. People today are just incredibly soft and spoiled and don’t know how good they have it. Read some history or at least watch some historical documentaries. The level of kvetching and on here is insane.

Birthrights decrease for good reason in difficult times. But you have as many kids as you want. Call me crazy for suggesting you vax them because you might want to look up some historical documentaries about polio and smallpox.

These are not difficult times! Get over yourself and read a book about any other time in human history and thank God you live in the here and now.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL I love watching the meltdown of people without a brain.
Hell yes Lady , flee the country. It’s the only way to save yourself from common sense LOL

Well, who is the brainiac that is saying that birth rates did not decrease during the Great depression or during the Holocaust?

Um, the point was that the era we’re living in is extremely peaceful and comfortable compared to those eras and literally any era in human history. Do you just have no sense of self awareness or no knowledge of history?

Yeah does it have anything to do with the pursuit of knowledge science, technology and how much progress we've made since then? And now we vote in someone who intends to blow all that up and we're supposed to think we're in the greatest of times.

Anonymous wrote:Since this is a parenting site I figured that we should discuss the best ways to prepare our children for the Oligarchy?

Should we plan to flee? Should we teach them more about world history and economics? Should we set up accounts that they can access overseas?

I obviously have no idea so help me out here!

Whatever you do, do it for the chitlins.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL I love watching the meltdown of people without a brain.
Hell yes Lady , flee the country. It’s the only way to save yourself from common sense LOL

Well, who is the brainiac that is saying that birth rates did not decrease during the Great depression or during the Holocaust?

Um, the point was that the era we’re living in is extremely peaceful and comfortable compared to those eras and literally any era in human history. Do you just have no sense of self awareness or no knowledge of history?

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Anonymous wrote:To the woman who has decided not to have children in light of the past two weeks, I urge you to get some mental health support. Things might feel out of control at the moment, but you are planning to alter the course of your life, deprive yourself of having children (that you want, apparently) and wallow in self-pity for the rest of your life because Donald Trump was elected president?

Of all the unhinged things I have read on this thread, this takes the cake. And it's emblematic of the insidious victim mentality of the left. Don't let four years of a president you don't agree with waste your one, precious opportunity to have children. Eggs expire, you know? Can you imagine looking back on your life and realizing you didn't have CHILDREN because of some blip on the political radar?

NP. It’s actually a very informed decision. Climate change and the continued destruction of the environment aren’t just a blip to anyone educated on such matters.

People didn’t stop having children when the Holocoast, Black Death, or Great Depression was happening. You are a uniquely narcissistic and spoiled person with no ability to see outside of yourself and realize that people alive today have it better than anyone in human history. Get over yourself. SMH.

So you're equating this time to the Holocaust, the Black death, the Great depression and you're shrugging your shoulders and saying get over it.

Um, no. I’m saying that we are spoiled as hell and you would have a panic attack if you were dropped anywhere in the world in 1942 or 1918, let alone sometime in the 1400s. You can have someone deliver food from any restaurant you want with an app, have a supercomputer on your phone, and live a very prosperous, peaceful life compared to literally anytime else in human history. Get over yourselves with all the kvetching about how bad you have it and how bad the world is. Read a book about World War I and imagine if you had to run into Gatling gun fire from a rat infested trench or else get shot by your superiors. Get some historical context and have some appreciation for how good you have it and stop whining. Christ!!!

How ironic is this post when the entire slogan of mega is going backwards in time to a place where we were supposedly great in the past. What year was it?