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Turn whatever pain life throws at you into opportunities to gain wealth. There are three types of wealth: financial (money); philosophical (wisdom); and friendship (relationships). Pain is guaranteed in life. No pain, no gain. However, suffering is optional.
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Inflation
Inflation and food shortages are good for most Americans who are painfully overweight. About 80% of Americans are overweight. About 90% of Americans would like to lose some weight.
High food prices can help us eat less. Fat is energy stored for future use. Can't stand the pain of being a little hungry? Gender up. No pain, no gain.
Trump Love
Trump lovers will continue loving him like ants love sugar. Beating Trump's appeal is emotional. Trump knows how to navigate the fear of white rage and the greed of white supremacy. The world keeps changing. Millions of Americans are in pain and confused. Trump's simplicity works like Christian faith. Everything gets easier when you believe. Russians also believe Putin. Nazis believed Hitler.
Trump's appeal is an emotional call to the heart and soul of whiteness. Whiteness is the belief that everything anglo and western European is superior to everything else in the world. Trump's appeal is first and foremost about whiteness and white supremacy. We all know that well.
Run a quick thought experiment. Imagine a black African Trump. Imagine a black African with a strong Nigerian accent saying the stupid things that Trump says. How many Americans would believe a black African Trump? How many Americans would be in the cult of a black African Trump?
MAGA is all about white rage and white supremacy. Trump can say or tweet whatever, even covfefe, and his whiteness believers will follow him. Look at what Trump incited a white supremacist mob to do at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021. Outraged white supremacists, confused and pained by the diverse changes in our society, would do anything to stop the changing times. They are afraid of losing the unfair socio economic privileges gained after centuries of racism. They would rather end democracy and make Trump their MAGA King than deal with the pain of progress and social change.
Ukraine
Not helping Ukraine is helping Putin make Russia "great" again. Not helping Ukraine is wanting to end liberal democracy around the world. Conservatives who do not want to save lives in Ukraine are not "pro-life", but are rather pro-Putin. It is not a coincidence that they also want to make America "great" again, and that would rather have Trump as a Putin dictator than having a democratically elected president.
The war in Ukraine is the perfect battlefield to defend democracy from autocracy. Putin communists and Chinese communists are on the side of autocracy. Liberals, moderates, and centrists are on the side of democracy. Far right extremists are on the side of Putin and China.
We are still living in a free country so you are free to choose your side. So long as we remain a democracy, you will have the right to choose. If we become an autocracy, say goodbye to your freedom of choice.
Abortion is right
Abortion is self defense no questions asked. Allowing women to end unwanted pregnancies will save their lives, and will save America. It's better to kill unwanted unborn creatures before they turn into monsters. If you are religious, you will not object to returning those little "angels" back to heaven to their loving father, before their Earthy mothers make them suffer and turn them into demons spreading more suffering in our country and the world.
Save America. Abortion is a right right protected by the political left. Read more in various posts below. It's your body. It's our Nation. Do what is right for you. If you are not ready to be a mother, and do not want your own creature, society is not ready for your unwanted offspring either. Send it back to heaven. God will be alright.
Will less abortions make America black and end our democracy?
Stock Market
Buy, buy, buy. Prices are going down because institutional investors are hedging their fortunes ahead of an anticipated recession. This is great news for individual investors. The price of becoming an owner of the stock market is going down. You can buy more companies for less.
Diversify and spread the risk. Do not put all your eggs in one basket. Buy shares in thousands of different companies in different countries around the world. Go for exchange traded funds (ETFs) that track major index funds such as the S&P500 (top 500 publicly traded companies in the U.S.), the Wilshire 4500 (top 4,500 that are not in the S&P500), the MSCI EAFE (top European, Australasian, and Far East), MSIC Emerging Markets Index (top in developing countries).
Enjoy
In life, pain is guaranteed and suffering is optional. Suffer as much as you want, but only if you enjoy it. If you don't enjoy suffering and want to make it stop, simply update the cultural software running in your primate brain.
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