Legit I felt like I was taking psychic damage reading that shit.
Doubledee
joined 3 years ago
I've been dutifully putting money and time into brand loyalty regardless of how the product or the CEO perform, why am I not making money?!
To be fair I've had moderate success with the Dispensationalists in my life pointing out that it comes almost entirely from this one group 150 years ago. A lot of them don't know that and assume this is just the normal way everyone thought about it forever. It can give people pause and make them reconsider why they think this obscure thing is the only way to see it.
Ymmv though.
The movement owes a lot to the Darbyites, an obscure movement from the 19th century that gained an astonishing amount of influence over Protestant views of eschatology, a fancy way of saying "theology of how the world ends." Dispensationalists systematized their interpretation of how God works in history and came up with an inflexible literal view of prophetic literature, obsessing over making each part of Revelations correlate to a real world person, country, or organization. The Left Behind books, as someone else mentioned, are a great window into this ideology.
The book of Revelations says some stuff about things happening to "Israel" and a specific symbolically loaded number of Israelites being saved from judgement. Christian Zionists interpret these texts literally, meaning they see Israel the modern nation as the subject of this book, and 144,000 Jewish people will thus be saved from a literal apocalyptic war.
This article goes into the theological movement and has helpful links to relevant people and related topics. It's a good place to start I think.
Solved itself to some degree, they can't sell me service apparently. Guess I live in a monopolized zone.
Turns out they can't even serve my address so it's irrelevant. Saves me having to waste time on a bunch of phone calls I guess.
Yeah, I'm normally assertive about that sort of thing, I actually thought I caught what he was doing during the call but when I challenged him on it he said it was just part of getting internet service. And since there was nothing in front of me and no way for me to just order what I wanted myself I had no way to double check.
Which is part of why I'm reluctant to call again, they'll just keep talking around this stuff and I have nothing solid to point them back to.
It's amazing how libertarians have declined. I am in the same circles with some self described small government libertarians and inevitably when I try to use their supposed commitments to point out, say, censorship through banning social media platforms or beating up people for expressing their views on campus, they never agree that the governent is too big or going too far.
It is completely personal, government should let me be a tyrant over my kids because they're mine, my speech is important because it's mine. That sort of thing. Genuinely depressing to try arguing with.
Still love the truck though!
I'm sorry, friend. I notice your contribution to the hexbear community (partially because of your very distinct profile image), I upbear your comments quite a bit and would like you to know you've improved my life with your thoughts. It's not much, I know, but I'd feel bad if I never told you.
Your situation sounds very hard. I hope you give yourself credit for how much you're doing, and how capably you're handling it with tools that you clearly understand and use well to take care of yourself. It's easy to feel like things like that don't matter, but you're doing a lot.
Apologies if I've overstepped in any way. I'm rooting for you, at any rate.
In the bold section of your quote he's saying that in the case of these capitalists in their hypothetical crisis they MUST sell their commodities because they NEED money right now, they can't wait to dispose of their commodities according to the original plan, which would have realized all of their money capital plus the new portion. He's making an observation about the reality of capitalist production being a continuous cycle, one in which your accumulation is premised on making the productive part of your business keep growing, not just supplying the same amount each cycle. Every capitalist competing in the market wants to make as many things as they possibly can to outcompete the others through economies of scale. That pressure only works in one direction, they're not even considering an abstract demand as a factor.
Unless I misunderstand, I am open to correction by a smarter comrade.
It's hard out here, cars are so expensive and the used market is nuts. Sorry comrade.