Is this new, though? As far as I can remember, he's been dropping hugely condescending 'look how well I understand people and society' posts. It's like a slightly more sophisticated version of the 'everyone around me is so stupid' statuses you see on facebook, except Alex makes sure to follow it with some self-deprecation so that it doesn't appear like he's trying to sound smarter than everyone else.

*went to the primary to vote for him

Yep. See, just because Alex was calling everyone in that thread intensely close minded (except Sklansky of course, who sees a full colour range while the rest of you see black and white), it doesn't mean he was being condescending because he self-admittedly can also be closed minded!

To be fair, I caucused for Santorum and certainly don't support him.

It wasn't a 'best of my options' scenario like Alex is describing though.

I wasn't a big supporter. I just made 430 posts in the Ron Paul thread supporting him and went on such tilt rage when someone said something mean about Ron Paul on the internet that I set up a website and an attributed a fake racist article to one of the critics.

Not sure how he ever thought he'd be able to run from that lol

Look, Alex, I kinda want to give you some credit for backing away from Ron Paul. Like, you went hard in the paint for years for him and now it's "...well, at least I didn't give him any money." And that's okay. A lot of people dig in and never reconsider their allegiances. You deserve some credit for walking it back.

But at the same time, the people who told you from day one that your boy Ron was a Neo-Confederate scam artist deserve a little bit of credit from you. Like, a little "oh, I was wrong and you guys were right" is in order, instead we get this passive-aggressive whine routine about how all politards are blind guys stumbling about the truth. Mother****er, you're the blind guy, the rest of us were pointing and shouting in your ear and telling you it was an elephant the whole ****ing time. Learn your place, dude. You don't get to tell us parables who the blind man is.

Ron Paul needs to die quicker so I can dance on his grave in this forum.

What cognitive apparatus are the posters critical of DS posts lacking? What insight does DS bring that those posters miss? You've given yourself an out like you could claim that if DS is unable to explain this to my satisfaction then you can hardly be expected to but if you are determined to claim the emperor is wearing clothes you could at least have a crack at describing them to me.

Sklanski, D.



Which one of you weak willed lily livered liberal pink panty wearing mods is going to be man enough to put him in the title?

Sklansky is a national treasure

By educating kids about returns on capital and other basic financial, marketable, applicable skills, you're just perpetuating the SYSTEM.

I don't know if that should make the cut or not, but kid's education should probably cover fewer things more deeply.

I beg to differ, but meh. I'm all for broad, liberal arts education, but you're going to have an economy with free-ish movement of capital, you best give your kids the fundamental tools they need to make decisions usefully for the economy and for themselves.

Having a capital-reliant economy, and teaching kids the basics only if they can afford a university education (and even then, only in one or two programs), is IMO a much bigger reason for income inequality than THE SYSTEM. Unequal decision-making capability for both organizational and individual participants, means widening results gaps. Put more simply, if only the wealthy are educated in how to make appropriate risk-reward tradeoffs with capital resources, that perpetuates huge inequalities for the marketplace participants (I don't mean just the capital markets - I mean the markets for jobs/wealth/capital/happiness/etc) and perpetuates individual income inequality.

The best way to help the poor is to go to a soup kitchen and teach them how to diversify their portfolios.

Do you think that's the argument being made here?

More than one way to read this, and not sure which one you meant to convey.

I wanted to thank you for this suggestion. I just read through post 350 and I am about to urinate myself. I really want to just plow though this thing, but I am going to try to savor it slowly.

Oh god, someone just made a reference to a thread about the prospect of melting down nickles for their copper value. BFI where have you been all my life?

I'm assuming that all these guys would pass Sklansy's poll IQ test, yes?

Would you or Sklansky pass it tho

The great thing about the silver thread is that it tells a complete story arc of the rise and fall of the silver bubble. You can learn a lot about the psychology of how asset bubbles happen. Plus, silverman makes a guest appearance in Act V, playing the role of the sucker who buys silver all the way down.

So it's basically the BFI equivalent of the Michigan Football thread.

HARBAUGH

Michigan is getting its swagger back this year, mark my words.

Looked at NCAA futures in an attempt to make a joke about this. Saw that UMich was +9000 to win the championship this year despite being 6 point underdogs to +32500 Utah on Thursday. Thinking my analogy may be better than I thought!