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Unread postby AgentR11 » Wed 03 Sep 2025, 22:23:50

There's a difference between collapse, and civil wars. Civil wars are just the natural expression of humans doing what humans do to reorganize themselves from time to time. None of those that you mention is collapse. They are examples of civil disturbance. We even had a civil war here in this country, and it drastically reorganized the playing field; but... people for the most part were still able to buy bread. NOT collapse.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Unread postby Armageddon » Wed 03 Sep 2025, 22:25:00

This collapse isn’t a single event. It’s a slow descend at first, then it speeds up, then it hits hard.

We are in the speeding up phase.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Unread postby Armageddon » Wed 03 Sep 2025, 22:41:16

Most can’t afford a house these days
70% of Americans don’t have $1000
40% of Americans can’t afford a $400 expense
Buy now, pay later loans are skyrocketing
Credit card, home and auto loan delinquencies are near 2008 levels

Their next step? Lower rates, print trillions more, QE to infinity and keep devaluing the dollar further so more people can’t afford to live.

Yes, this is the crash.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Unread postby Armageddon » Thu 04 Sep 2025, 09:35:16

https://x.com/myhiddenvalue/status/1963 ... aq1VBSCqtg


This is the norm, not the exception.

Yes, this is the collapse. It’s in progress.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Unread postby AdamB » Thu 04 Sep 2025, 11:22:45

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'T')his collapse isn’t a single event. It’s a slow descend at first, then it speeds up, then it hits hard.
We are in the speeding up phase.


Who gives a shit what you say collapse is....UNTIL YOU WRITE DOWN THE DEFINITION YOU ARE FOLLOWING.

You stating something as though it is fact, without even your DEFINITION of the word, is useless. It is what people do who can't even be bothered with dictionaries, facts, history and accepted information. It is for people doing make believe. Like they can't deny evolution because they might not even have read the definition to know what THAT is, or how it has been demonstrated, and simply say silly shit like "it can't be true because whales are too big". Might work fine in backwoods Missouri, 2nd only to West Virgina in the land of rural in-breeding, and is certainly what the idiot peak oilers did...and look what happened to them. They all skulked away rather than face how slack jawed silly they were.

Define collapse, and then we can discuss what YOU think it is, as compared to the standard definition which YOU MIGHT NOT EVEN HAVE EVER READ BEFORE. It isn't HARD Armie, you can ready obviously. So education in Missouri doesn't have a good repution for learning and thinking maybe, but you aren't required to stay ignorant forever are you? I certainly have no clue as to your educational level in some backwater state, where folks act all religious and pious and populate their interstates with non-stop signs for booze and strip clubs with LIVE GIRLS. Never understood that either, make up your minds already, do you prefer religious based zealotry or being a centrally located sex-stop for truckers moving along the interstates.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Unread postby AdamB » Thu 04 Sep 2025, 11:27:55

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'M')ost can’t afford a house these days
70% of Americans don’t have $1000
40% of Americans can’t afford a $400 expense
Buy now, pay later loans are skyrocketing
Credit card, home and auto loan delinquencies are near 2008 levels


Thank you for decribing things that haven't been collapse in the past....so there is no expectation they are now.

In research, the "Definition of Terms" section clarifies the specific meanings of key concepts, variables, and jargon used in a study to ensure consistent understanding between the researcher and the reader, preventing misinterpretation and enhancing the study's clarity and validity


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', '
')Yes, this is the crash.

Who knows. I'm betting you can't define "crash" any better than you have "collapse".

Go ask your father in law to help out. Seeing as how he created the generational wealth you benefit from (and you are so shallow you conflate money with brains even in coinvicted felons), he must have at least a couple more trillion neurons than are available to you.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Unread postby AdamB » Thu 04 Sep 2025, 11:34:02

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'h')ttps://x.com/myhiddenvalue/status/1963473410295517458?s=61&t=QfCuETEHW9VFaq1VBSCqtg


twitter shit!

yes! When one cannot think for themselves...find ANOTHER herd to put words in your mouth.

I don't have a twitter account. It is a place where you can find any answer you WANT....which is why...wait for it....THOSE WHO CAN'T THINK FOR THEMSELVES LOVE IT AS A REFERENCE. Pick and choose your horseshit..."EVOLTION IS A SCAM.....WHALES BE ALL BIGGLY!!!!"....and someone will agree with you. Dear God please tell us you haven't screwed up your children and grandchildren with this kind of mindless horseshit and they are running around as mini-me's of you?

You don't have to continue reinforcing the hoebunkle level of education in Missouri Armie....you've done that just fine for 2 decades during which you always pretended collapse was happening.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Unread postby Armageddon » Thu 04 Sep 2025, 12:05:54

I’ve never touched a penny of his money or my wife’s trust and I’m still a 10%er. Do I benefit off having a condo in Naples, a million dollar house and a 150 acre farm? Sure, but I can’t help he has hundreds of millions. Sure, life is good. But things are about to change drastically. I convinced him 5-6 years ago to buy some gold. He buys 3 monster boxes of gold buffalos when gold was $1200 per oz. He just told my wife he doesn’t need it and just added it to her trust.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Unread postby Armageddon » Thu 04 Sep 2025, 12:46:18

We just posted the worst August jobs number since 2009.

1,494 jobs. 85,979 layoffs.

Without the excuse of a financial crisis.

We are cratering
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Unread postby AgentR11 » Thu 04 Sep 2025, 13:48:33

I wonder how much is AI eating into tech hiring. It bangs out documents, code, schedules, illustrations at a staggering $500 / month per subscription. Its fast, efficient, as good as your basic entry level code monkey. Draws better art than half the marketing departments out there. One person just driving a slew of agents, constantly crafting the digital world with minimal human resource expenditure... aka jobs.

I wouldn't call it cratering though. For some its a very unfortunate realignment, but it happens from time to time, especially at the bleeding edge of technology.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Unread postby Armageddon » Thu 04 Sep 2025, 14:09:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'I') wonder how much is AI eating into tech hiring. It bangs out documents, code, schedules, illustrations at a staggering $500 / month per subscription. Its fast, efficient, as good as your basic entry level code monkey. Draws better art than half the marketing departments out there. One person just driving a slew of agents, constantly crafting the digital world with minimal human resource expenditure... aka jobs.

I wouldn't call it cratering though. For some its a very unfortunate realignment, but it happens from time to time, especially at the bleeding edge of technology.



What’s cratering is, people are broke. They’ve ran up their CC’s and can’t afford to make the payment. CC, auto, home delinquencies are skyrocketing. And now it’s starting to hit the middle / upper class.


"US consumers with the highest credit scores are starting to fall behind in their debt payments," per Reuters.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Unread postby AdamB » Thu 04 Sep 2025, 15:57:11

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'I')’ve never touched a penny of his money or my wife’s trust and I’m still a 10%er.

Of course you haven't. But you've laid claim to a villa in Naples, did you do that on your own? Because once upon a time, on this website, you spoke of buying some cheap cage because you needed it, but you weren't exactly rolling in the dough. Tough circle to square, that one.

And you've already revealed that any old convicted felon/sexual assault specialist is just jim dandy fine with you as long as they have money.

In any case, who gives a shit? Money isn't the value of someone's opinion on a topic....everyone's opinion here is equally valid to that person expressing it, regardless of their net worth, but opinions are NOT equal in terms of the intelligence, personal and or professional related experience, related expertise and or scientific qualifications when it comes to comparing those opinions.

So when someone is so blindingly ignorant that they can't even DEFINE what they are talking about? Well...that is what is telling, not your past, or current, financial situation.

But good for you having a sugar momma! Hey, wouldn't all us guys like one? And it is good for your quality of life, in terms of food and shelter and brisket and whatnot.

But it doesn't put a single extra neuron in your brain, or allow you to think yourself out of a wet paper bag.

Now...you've had days, are you still so mentally challenged that you haven't come up with ANYTHING for a definition of collapse? Hell....CHEAT! You do know what a "dictionary" is don't you? Or are those banned in Missouri because they like their citizens as uninformed as possible?
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Unread postby AdamB » Thu 04 Sep 2025, 16:00:20

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'W')e just posted the worst August jobs number since 2009.

Sounds bad. Good thing jobs numbers aren't definitive when it comes to collapse. Not that YOU would know, because you don't know the definition of the word.

Interesting quandary....how EXACTLY can you pretend ANYTHING is sign of collapse....when you can't even define it?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', '
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A new word! Can you define this one, or did you just make it up because the other one was so tough you couldn't figure it out?

I mean Christ on a Crutch, don't you have a CHILD who can read to you from the dictionary, these definitions, so you can write it down here?
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Unread postby AdamB » Thu 04 Sep 2025, 16:08:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'I') wonder how much is AI eating into tech hiring. It bangs out documents, code, schedules, illustrations at a staggering $500 / month per subscription. Its fast, efficient, as good as your basic entry level code monkey.

I tried it once. It didn't work getting me some old obsolete code for shit. (VBA). But there are folks who do use it around the office in Python and SAS and SQL and whatnot, and have had good experiences with it.

Seems like someone who knows what to DO with code comes in real handy, AI doesn't appear to "think" quite yet. But some have hope.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', '
')Draws better art than half the marketing departments out there. One person just driving a slew of agents, constantly crafting the digital world with minimal human resource expenditure... aka jobs. I wouldn't call it cratering though. For some its a very unfortunate realignment, but it happens from time to time, especially at the bleeding edge of technology.


"Cratering", for those of us familiar with the meaning of it, does seem a bit of a stretch. The boy got laid off a month or so ago, he had a couple interviews last week, one today, a couple second interviews already scheduled for next week. Not little local yokel stuff either, big national/international groups. But it is job hunting, and the convcted felon and sexual assault specialists have never been known for knowing much about running an economy. Hell, the same felon gave the US the Greatest Recession Since The Great Depression last time, maybe he'll go for full blown depression this time?
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Unread postby AdamB » Thu 04 Sep 2025, 16:17:15

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', '
')What’s cratering is, people are broke.

Some are. Some aren't. You aren't. I'm not. My neighbors are doing fine, as is my mother. I know because I pay her bills.

"Broke" might be all you sit in shit-kicker-holler while your sugar momma flaunts daddy's largess around the neighborhood, but that is just where you live. Folks look like they are starving in Naples? Oh wait...you haven't defined collapse, so we don't even know if you are talking about just the US or the world. Sorry.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', '
')They’ve ran up their CC’s and can’t afford to make the payment.

Maybe. Maybe they got sick and your favorite convicted felon removed their health care. Or maybe they picked vegetables in the fields in California and when all their friends and neighbors were deported for being US citizens of 20 years who made a mistake in their paperwork, they lost their job as well?

Or maybe they are hoe bunkle shit kicker stupid and don't have their own sugar-momma?

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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Unread postby theluckycountry » Thu 04 Sep 2025, 18:39:12

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', 'h')ttps://x.com/myhiddenvalue/status/1963473410295517458?s=61&t=QfCuETEHW9VFaq1VBSCqtg.


Well that was quite a rant! Sure the economy is stuffed but it's the basic capitalistic system that stuffs it, not the prior generation or two who just happened to live through the good part of the cycle. They lose all credibility when they rave on like that, the Gen-Y millennials did the same thing, blamed the Boomers, and now I guess they are to blame in the eyes of GenZ :roll:

That young girl would be wise to leverage her good looks now while she still has them because one day she won't and by then she'll be living in a hellscape no doubt.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Unread postby theluckycountry » Thu 04 Sep 2025, 18:50:54

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'I') wonder how much is AI eating into tech hiring.

All AI is doing is eating into bullshit jobs, jobs that would have gone away in the years ahead anyway. It can't replace electricity generation or fertilizer or asphalt to pave roads, it's useless to humanity. So a bunch of coders, graphic artists and call center workers go into homeless camps, they were heading there anyway, so what? And any energy savings to society AI might have made by eliminating them is offset by the vast electricity and water it consumes. Just another BS techie solution to a problem that never existed. About as useful to society as computer games.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Unread postby theluckycountry » Fri 05 Sep 2025, 04:11:56

GOLD SURGES as U.S. Debt Explodes by $550B in 30 Days
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')old just surpassed U.S. Treasuries in central bank holdings for the first time in nearly 30 years. Meanwhile, the U.S. added $550 billion in new debt in a single month. That’s not a warning—it's an obituary for dollar hegemony.
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged) Pt. 2

Unread postby AdamB » Fri 05 Sep 2025, 10:13:32

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Armageddon', '&')quot;Half of workers are at breaking point," per FORTUNE

We are getting close to the breaking point. 70% of the people don’t have $1000 and inflation keeps rising….much more than the 2.7% they are lying about.


And you calculated inflation yourself how, exactly? Because they tell us how they do it, regardless of whether or not you like professionals doing it as explained, and I can just imagine how someone in Missouri might decide to calculate it. First I suppose you've got to find a Missourian who passed GAZINTAS in 3rd grade. Oh, you don't remember how difficult that class was? It went like this.

4 GAZINTAS 8 2 times. 5 GAZINTAS 25 5 times. Etc etc. Assuming you can remember back that far of course.

When did the religious teachings get into your public schools and teach you that whales disprove evolution. Or did you come up with that one all by yourself?
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Re: THE Silver & Gold Thread (merged)

Unread postby Armageddon » Fri 05 Sep 2025, 10:56:17

Is it possible that Adam believe his own nonsense? Or is it parody acct?
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