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VolSquatch
Favorite team: | Tennessee |
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Registered on: | 9/6/2023 |
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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by VolSquatch on 5/3/24 at 1:36 pm
[quote]Sounds like you have a lot in common with the Palestine protestors who want to cancel everything Western. Which makes sense, since Russia is allied with Iran and their proxy Hezbollah.
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I feel like both sides throw the baby out with the bathwater. On "our" (since most of us here a...
re: #1 Portal DL Damonic Williams Commits to OU
Posted by VolSquatch on 5/3/24 at 1:02 pm
[quote]He was the only decent looking gal left at the bar at closing time. All the truly hot women had already left and OU is celebrating like they bagged a 10.
They certainly paid him like he was actually elite great job driving the price up baws, we all know OU doesn’t have a lot of cash to go...
re: More funerals attended in the pouring a*s rain, or the sweltering summer heat
Posted by VolSquatch on 5/3/24 at 10:03 am
Thank you for sharing ...
re: April jobs number 175k, well below 240k estimates. Markets rally
Posted by VolSquatch on 5/3/24 at 9:59 am
[quote]While the prospect of paying 7-8% on a home loan seems blasphemous to many. Odds are your parents happily refinanced to get that rate 30 years ago.[/quote]
The problem is that because mortgages were 2-3% for so long, prices inflated to the point that 7-8% for the average house now is a muc...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by VolSquatch on 5/3/24 at 9:49 am
[quote]the structure is the same, and it’s the same classes of people who rule.
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I think the latter part is correct, but its structurally very different.
Our system theoretically allows other classes to rise up, but both the barrier to entry and skepticism from voters keep real chang...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by VolSquatch on 5/3/24 at 7:44 am
[quote]Putin's guiding philosophy is that "Democracy" is a weakness because "the people" have no tolerance for inconvenience and are easily manipulated[/quote]
Thats kind of just common sense though. There isn't a form of government without weakness. His flaw is thinking that because democracy ha...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by VolSquatch on 5/2/24 at 3:59 pm
[quote]They are still.out producing or obtaining more than the west has provided. Plus their enormous stock piles left over from the cold war.[/quote]
The west can FAR out produce Russia if we choose to buckle down and do it. The problem for the US specifically is how defense contracts work... it...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by VolSquatch on 5/2/24 at 3:57 pm
I started in 1980 because thats the year I had good income statistics for.
Per Bankrate the average 1985 mortgage rate was 12.43%, 1980 was 13.74%...
re: Is Nikola Jokic the best passer in NBA history?
Posted by VolSquatch on 5/2/24 at 3:51 pm
[quote]Magic
Nash
Lebron
Jokic
Rondo[/quote]
Great list...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by VolSquatch on 5/2/24 at 3:39 pm
[quote]How much longer does everyone think before Russia gets a break through in the lines?
I think it is getting worse by the day. At some point Ukraine is going to crack. It may not be over run but I think they will give up some big areas.
Ukraine is being smart by reacting to Russian attacks bu...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by VolSquatch on 5/2/24 at 3:28 pm
[quote]People ridicule Zelensky but in my opinion he has out performed Putin, Biden, Johnson, Macron, and all the others.[/quote]
I am shocked that this is your opinion :lol:...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by VolSquatch on 5/2/24 at 1:26 pm
You haven't refuted anything I've posted with any actual evidence. I'm not some economic savant, but I obviously know more than you.
Granted, low bar there....
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by VolSquatch on 5/2/24 at 12:01 pm
[quote]Do you not know what real wages are?
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He doesn't know economics. Hes floundering. And we get to watch it live, only in the Ukraine thread....
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by VolSquatch on 5/2/24 at 8:40 am
[quote]"If Russia decided to go further, we will, in any case, all have to ask ourselves this question" of sending troops, describing his refusal to rule out such a move as a "strategic wake-up call for my counterparts," Macron said.[/quote]
"strategic wake-up call" to me sounds like he is trying...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by VolSquatch on 5/2/24 at 8:31 am
Knowing how that poster consistently provides takes devoid of any nuance or context, I really don't think it is :lol:...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by VolSquatch on 5/2/24 at 8:30 am
They are the ones who tried to pick an argument on a minor point I brought up without actually knowing what they are talking about...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by VolSquatch on 5/2/24 at 8:29 am
Housing costs to income ratio is at record highs
[quote]Housing today has fancier and more costly appliances too.[/quote]
And build quality is lower.
[quote]Apples to oranges once again[/quote]
Housing to income ratio is apples to oranges? :lol:
Real median household income per the ...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by VolSquatch on 5/2/24 at 8:19 am
You just make claims and never offer anything of substance. You're shooting bullshite from the hip and always missing the target.
[link=(https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/home-price-income-ratio-reaches-record-high-0)]LINK[/link]
Home price to income has soared since the 1980s
Wages have go...
re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Posted by VolSquatch on 5/2/24 at 8:02 am
[quote]Is that why a PC with less power than a cell phone was $10k?[/quote]
Now do housing ...
re: Have protests ever changed a mind?
Posted by VolSquatch on 5/2/24 at 7:42 am
50 or even 5,000 people divided up between a bunch of different universities protesting national or global policy won't do anything. 5,000 or even 50 people outside of a local city hall could. ...
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