theneverfox

Only if you're incredibly insecure about yourself.

Bullshit. This is hardwired into our brains. False accusations hurt, but only when you can't imagine yourself doing what you're accused of.

If someone doesn't bristle at being treated like a wild animal, that's a huge red flag. They're not confident, either they're manipulative or they could see themselves warranting the protection. They're probably not an immediate threat, but that is what a future abuser looks like

And what good is having a friend next to you as opposed to nearby? That's not safer... What, do you think they're going to grab someone out of the coffee shop and run?

There's lots of normal reasons to have someone you know nearby. You can get dropped off and picked up, have a friend in the area doing things. If you have bad vibes, stay in the damn coffee shop and have your friend come in and get a drink.

You can go somewhere you know a worker. You can get to know a place and spend time with the staff so you have a safe ground.

I've had someone introduce me to their co-workers before walking to a cafe a few doors down, that was a positive experience, because it was very friendly and I could feel I just passed a bunch of vibe checks... I didn't even consider that there was a handful of people who saw my face and had eyes on the car I drove up in nearby until much later

That's about as safe as you could ever be, and it wasn't offensive at all, because it was natural and affirmative. It feels good when people notice I'm a good person, and I think having a community is cool.

At the end of the day, no one is ever truly safe, but having community around is how you make yourself safer.

And I really do mean the manipulator thing, if someone doesn't react at all to an implication like that, that's a red flag... Honest people get angry at accusations, guilty ones get calm, manipulators use that information

Both. He wants violence on others, but wants you to be part of the in group doing it

It's an act of love and hatred. I don't respect it, because I know the hatred will be turned on me soon enough, but you do have to try to understand it

Because it's the only growth area. Speculators need to speculate. There's money to be made on a bubble on the way up, and tons on the way down, as long as you time it right

Sure, the danger is real and that people need to protect themselves

It's also incredibly offensive to do it directly.

The polite thing to do is make being safe a matter of course. It's very normal to meet in public, it's normal to do checkup texts, it's fine to do a group activity if it's a group activity. We've spent decades normalizing subtle ways to do this

There's a degree of social hygiene necessary, or society falls apart.

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Because they took the money. If you take the money, the path is inevitable

When you take on investors, you just invited in someone who looks at your company like a farmer does to their crops. They want you to grow as much as possible, but they don't actually care if you live or die - you're one of many using up resources

If your growth slows, they're going to demand more. They might demand you make cuts, they might push you to take loans and expand, they might try to sell to someone else. If your value isn't increasing faster than other possible investments, they lose imaginary money to opportunity cost

And by virtue of being an investor, they have plenty of money and want to gamble with it. A total loss probably wouldn't impact their lifestyle, they want invest in Apple at the ground floor and become a billionaire

You can start a company through loans, risk your house and build up slowly, and walk away clear. And people do.

But then they want to retire... And there's this neat trick you can do if you want to own a small business... You can make it buy itself. You can take out a loan to pay out the previous owner, say 5 years of profit, and make the business take on the loan. But now, just to break even, you've got to beat what you paid for it plus interest over the term. And both business and individuals can do this

So in short? The reason is debt. A small business can make you upper middle class, a large one could make your entire family insanely wealthy for centuries.

But once you take the money, the business has to grow, or it'll be harvested

Leftists with pragmatism have relabeled. We're progressives now

What do we want? Change for the better. What's our end goal? Don't worry about it, you'll scare and confuse the masses

Focus on simple and clear messaging and fixing the problems everyone is having - healthcare, housing, inequality. Focus on simple solutions that can be understood in a single sentence

I don't know about you, but when someone even implies I might be a terrible person I get extremely offended

Because the government doesn't have a bank account, they have tens of thousands of them all with different rules, and they don't spend the same money they taxed

Money is just numbers at this point, and so Congress comes up with numbers to fund everything they want to do, they come up with formulas to tax various things, and the two sets of numbers have no real relationship to each other

Vance can't even get over the couch allegations.

There's no way he gets people to risk their future backing him the way Trump does. He's way more evil and literate, but he's not charismatic or competent

He's way more coherent, but honestly that's probably a weakness

Look closer. He's not sharing or offering. He's just throwing it at people. He hit one of them in the head

He's very self satisfied and sure he has the answers, but stunted as a person. He has the simplest shape missing, and he thinks everyone is just this one realization away from being him in his improved form

McDonald's is the most clear cut example, although that's ongoing

There's been countless little companies that sent themselves into death spirals with a price hike, but when they're big their remains are pounced on, or they experience a slow decline before collapsing to a failed pivot