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[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=ltsdd][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=Blogstar]What would Freud say about Yo Mama Jokes.? I think he would say it’s impossible that they are ever merely just for fun. What would Shakespeare say about them?

This is actually a serious question, Freud was very good on the topic of humor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humor_in_Freud.

http://usesofhumor.blogspot.com/2008/10/freud-gets-serious-about-jokes.html%5B/quote%5D

Yes. Seemingly fun inocuous interaction is of course very serious business.[/quote]

Innocuous according to whom? To the one that’s dishing it (most definitely) or to the one at the receiving end (very unlikely). The jokes bothered the kid enough for him to tell his dad about it so you can’t dismiss it as harmless. It did have a negative affect on the other kid and he could have reacted in a physical, violent way.[/quote]

Inocuous according to a reasonable middle school male hoping to be accepted by normal male peers so he can have normal relationships with other grown men

Not Inocuous to a little bitch.

More likely than not, son was trying extend friendship in a,peer group. Now the kid is likely to not get such an invitation from those kids at least.[/quote]

You’re talking about a middle schooler. Which could very well be a 10 or 11 year-old 6th grader, no? You think it’s perfectly fine for kids at that age to speak and behave in such a way? You think it’s better if the other kid took exception to the jokes and popped him in the face, instead?

It’s usually harmless and fun…until someone got hurt or killed because of it.

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[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=Blogstar]What would Freud say about Yo Mama Jokes.? I think he would say it’s impossible that they are ever merely just for fun. What would Shakespeare say about them?

This is actually a serious question, Freud was very good on the topic of humor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humor_in_Freud.

http://usesofhumor.blogspot.com/2008/10/freud-gets-serious-about-jokes.html%5B/quote%5D

Yes. Seemingly fun inocuous interaction is of course very serious business.[/quote]

Innocuous according to whom? To the one that’s dishing it (most definitely) or to the one at the receiving end (very unlikely). The jokes bothered the kid enough for him to tell his dad about it so you can’t dismiss it as harmless. It did have a negative affect on the other kid and he could have reacted in a physical, violent way.

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Is it true?
Is it kind?
Is it necessary?

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[quote=zk][quote=Blogstar]I wouldn’t want my kids to hang out as an equal with kids who think that is a fine way to talk. Clearly it’s the “logic” of his peers that it’s cool. Your son is probably trying to measure up to this little cliques lousy idea of etiquette.

I tell my kids that they can be around anyone in the right measure, but don’t take on their ways. Like a track team it’s inevitable that some of your team members are going to act like jerks often, so you aren’t necessarily going to isolate , but you don’t have to jump into the stupidity with both feet either. Stand your ground.

Sounds like your son is experimenting, so he is kind in one set of circumstances, good, and rude or extremely rude in another, tell him to be better than that.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

+1. It’s a bit strange that the other kid (being a middle schooler) would tell that to his dad. That being said, I would not dismiss your kid’s as being just horsing around. He either thinks he’s cool or he’s trying to assert himself in the group there. That could be a good thing or could lead to being a complete bully if left unchecked either by you or by his peers.

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[quote=scaredyclassic]im less concerned with inequality. in equality by itself seems neither bad nor good, since it doesn’t in itself describe the conditions of the lower end.

I am more concerned with the endgame. capitalism, does it necessarily end in the desctruction of our souls, our planet, our society?[/quote]

Taoism & Buddhism could be the answer for your concerns. Marxism, definitely no.

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[quote=CA renter][quote=ltsdd][quote=FlyerInHi]
Russia, China, Vietnam now do have billionaires and ownership in a capitalist sense. But that’s capitalism, not communism.[/quote]

Isn’t that enough proof there that marxism is shit?[/quote]

No, it’s proof that corruption is shit. Those countries are not truly socialist countries. They are/were under the control of a dictatorial regime…that’s the complete opposite of socialism.

Any type of economic system will fail if corruption becomes rampant. But there is only one system that can reasonably contain corruption and that’s socialism. With capitalism, wealth and power are concentrated. When wealth and power are concentrated, corruption will be endemic, whether it’s a capitalist system or a “communist” system.

In a true socialist system, the hierarchy is relatively flat, and those who have are in more powerful positions are accountable to the masses. This helps prevent the power/wealth inequality that drives corruption and better ensures the well-being of the majority of the population.[/quote]

You are contradicting yourself here. If socialism is one system that can reasonably contain corruption, as you claimed, then please explain why it hasn’t been able to do so in the aforementioned “socialist” countries? And why is corruption appears to be worse in those “socialist” countries than it is in the non-socialist countries?

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[quote=FlyerInHi]
Russia, China, Vietnam now do have billionaires and ownership in a capitalist sense. But that’s capitalism, not communism.[/quote]

Isn’t that enough proof there that marxism is shit?

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[quote=CA renter]
Marx correctly pointed out that unbridled capitalism ends in only one way: a relatively small group of very wealthy and powerful men at the top will own essentially everything, and everyone else must spend their entire lives working for these owners because the only “capital” they own is their labor, which has to be exchanged on a perpetual basis for life’s basic necessities.
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For a second, I thought you were talking about China, Vietnam, North Korea, etc…

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[quote=CA renter]It was pretty clear in this video that she was putting up a fight and resisting arrest. [/quote]

Try having someone pressing their knees on your head, neck or chest and let me know if your instinct is to “resist” or not.

And watch the video again. Didn’t see much of a resistance there until after the second cop showed up. The video panned away but I am pretty sure the action of the second cop is the main reason why “she was putting up a fight” – on her belly, btw.

The second cop that showed up and charging in like rambo made what looked like a routine arrest into a worse situation.

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[quote=spdrun]Sit on cash or buy other property, and wait for the mugs who bought at peak to be burnt.[/quote]

+1….and if you’re not adverse to risk and truly want to short that sub-market, try shorting REITs.

https://www.motifinvesting.com/motifs/san-francisco-bay-area-reit-G7vfjdpu

Personally, I don’t have the stomach to be on the short side. However, I am aggressively building up cash for that next blue-light special.

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spend less time on piggington

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[quote=utcsox][quote=flu][quote=scaredyclassic]i was kinda thinking id buy a vw diesel stationwagon as my next car. just looked cool. are used ones illegal now? can I get a screaming deal at a dealer?

is VW stock a buy?[/quote]

There will probably be an ecu reprogram that will fix the problem at the cost of lower gas mileage or lower HP/tq… So, the cars will be functionally fine and compliant …But I think there will be a lot of inventory, because I think there will be a lot of ticked of former owners demanding a refund….

Worse though, might be a decision from auto car companies to abandon diesel in the U.S.[/quote]

Is it really a fix if the gas mileage per gallon and performance (HP/Torque) both get worse? If the original car performance is BMW-like and after “the fix”, it drives like a Toyota Prius with gas mileage of a truck. I will not be a happy camper. I[/quote]

If that’s the “fix”, then I could see either a riot or a massive class-action lawsuit from the current owners. Heck, as it stands, I think there’ll be a massive class-action lawsuit, regardless fix or no fix.

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[quote=FlyerInHi]
As far to clinging to culture, I wonder what people mean by that. People eat burritos, quesadillas and tacos? Seems like good imports because those dishes have become comfort food for Americans. I kinda like the great choices of food compared to 30 years ago.
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Mexican culture really sucks when I go to Roberto’s or Alberto’s. On the other hand Mexican culture is really out of this world when I visit Las Cuatros Milpas or Lucha Libre. Similarly, can’t stand Japanese culture at Tajima – it’s just awful. But Ramen Yamadaya, now that’s a different story.

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[quote=ocrenter][quote=Hatfield][quote=spdrun]And buying a company that has given the big FUCK YOU to US government standards makes my heart go pitty-pat.[/quote]

Seriously? Having grown up in Orange County in the 70s, I remember very well the eye-blistering smog. So thank God for the CARB, the EPA, and the Clean Air Act.

And by the way, it wasn’t just US standards. They also violated European standards.[/quote]

Clearly they did not violate Chinese standards. No need to say FXCK YOU to Chinese government standards, which makes a lot of people’s lungs go pitty-pat for a totally different reason.

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Years from now, when historians study this period of “growth” in China they’ll realize that it’s more or less a Great Leap BACKWARD part 2. Seems like they have learned nothing from that disastrous great leap forward in the ’50s that essentially set the country back to the confucius era.

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Now we all know the secrets to the vaunted German engineering.

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