Creating unity through discourse. Lifting the veil of ideological fallacy. Will only DM for deprogramming and potential projects.
Victor Necatrix Systematis
Jim Varney’s impressions were absolutely insane.
In this Davy Worrell sketch clip from "Hey Vern, It's My Family Album" (1983), he plays three different characters talking to each other, and changes his voice, face, posture and entire personality for each one.
It’s less like watching one actor and more like watching Jim’s entire cast escape at once. 🤣🎭
......Yet while general inflation was brought under control, the relative costs of certain essential services continued to climb far faster than the broader consumer price index. Healthcare spending accelerated due to the expansion of third-party insurance, technological advances, demographic aging, and reduced patient price sensitivity. Housing costs rose amid growing regulatory constraints on supply through zoning and land-use rules, combined with demographic demand pressures. Higher education tuition increased under the influence of expanding federal student aid, slow productivity growth in labor-intensive services, and rising administrative expenses. These sector-specific dynamics, rooted in policy choices and structural features that intensified after 1973, explain much of the divergence between overall inflation and the steep increases in the prices of healthcare, housing, and college education observed over the subsequent half-century.
In sum, 1973 stands as the critical inflection point where prior demand-driven inflation met a severe energy supply shock, producing stagflation and a new monetary regime. The eventual success of tight monetary policy restored overall price stability, but lasting structural factors ensured that the costs of key services would continue their rapid ascent long afterward.
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**1973 as a Turning Point in American Inflation and Costs**
The year 1973 marks a pivotal moment in the economic history of the United States, serving as a clear dividing line in the trajectory of inflation and the rising costs of goods and services. Positioned in the midst of what economists later termed the Great Inflation—a period spanning roughly the mid-1960s to the early 1980s—it crystallized pressures that had been building for years and unleashed forces that would shape prices for decades afterward.
In the years leading up to 1973, inflation had already begun its climb from the low, stable rates of the early 1960s. A combination of expansive fiscal policy and relatively accommodative monetary conditions fueled demand. Massive spending on the Vietnam War alongside ambitious domestic programs of the Great Society, including the establishment of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, increased federal outlays without fully offsetting revenue measures. By the late 1960s, year-over-year inflation had risen into the 5–6 percent range. The decisive policy shift came in August 1971 with the Nixon Shock. President Richard Nixon suspended the dollar’s convertibility into gold, effectively dismantling the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates that had anchored the postwar monetary order. Temporary wage and price controls were imposed to suppress measured inflation, but underlying pressures continued to accumulate, and the move removed an important external discipline on U.S. monetary policy. Food price volatility from poor harvests and large international grain deals added further strain.
The events of 1973 transformed these simmering pressures into a full-blown crisis. In October, following the Yom Kippur War and American support for Israel, Arab members of OPEC imposed an oil embargo and production cuts. Crude oil prices roughly quadrupled within months, soaring from under three dollars to more than eleven dollars per barrel. This supply shock rapidly raised energy, transportation, and production costs throughout the economy. Consumer price inflation accelerated from about 6 percent in 1973 into double digits the following year. Simultaneously, the economy entered a deep recession, producing the unusual and painful combination known as stagflation—high inflation alongside stagnant growth and rising unemployment. The final collapse of fixed exchange rates into floating currencies completed the monetary regime shift.
In the years that followed, a second oil shock tied to the 1979 Iranian Revolution again roughly doubled oil prices and helped push inflation above 13 percent by 1980. Earlier Federal Reserve policy had often prioritized employment concerns and proved insufficiently restrictive. The turning point in the fight against inflation came with Paul Volcker’s appointment as Federal Reserve Chair in 1979. Aggressive interest-rate increases, with the federal funds rate peaking near 20 percent, triggered severe recessions in 1980 and 1981–82 but successfully broke the inflationary spiral and re-anchored expectations. By the mid-1980s, overall inflation had subsided into the 3–4 percent range, ushering in a long period of relative price stability......
Healthcare spending per person
1973: $441
2026: $15,474
Home Price
1973: $35,500
2026: $475,400
Rent
1973: $133
2026: $2,017
Public College Tuition/Fees
1973: $514
2026: $11,950
Has your income kept up with these rising prices? Probably not. That's why so many are struggling.
This is how Lebanon went from a prosperous Christian country to a ruined one under Islamist control.
Pay close attention.
Brigitte Gabriel:
“As Christians, we opened our doors to Muslims and welcomed them into our country. We wanted to be inclusive and even made them part of the government. But because they had several wives and many children, Muslims became the majority. Once they were the majority, they thought they could do whatever they wanted and began massacring the Christians who had welcomed them.”
History is repeating itself across the West.
Today, once again, my wife and I are preaching the Gospel together. Please keep us in your prayers as we share the Good News of Jesus Christ. May God protect us, open hearts to His Word, and bring many souls to salvation. All glory to God! ✝️🙏
I remember the first time I ever heard someone laugh at the resurrection of Christ.
Kindergarden field trip, I sat next to my friend who is Arab. Which, at the time, who the fuck is thinking about such a thing right? Certainly not me.
He asked me if I was religious. I said yeah I'm christian, and explained that we believed in Christ and his death and resurrection. ( Not knowing any theology ) Just what my little brain had been told so far.
My friend said, people don't come back from the dead, and laughed while he said it.
I did not get offended I just said "huh, interesting"
And we left it at that, and I was thinking, yeah that's logical. But I did what I always do and I wait for more information, without making a conclusion.
Strange to me that now as an adult that this issue is becoming more and more prevelant in our country.
I haven't thought about that interaction in a long long time.
Police pull over to arrest Florida man—for blocking Flock camera on public sidewalk.
He sat holding a 12-foot pool skimmer with sign taped on top.
Today all camera saw was sign:
"Down With Flock Cameras."
A witness offered to help:
"What's your name? I'll come bail you out!"
Carl Gunn, age 77, told a local reporter that 2 police cruisers had already stopped by to interrogate him for at least 15 minutes.
"I have a constitutional right to my privacy," he said.
"I’m a law-abiding citizen, and I don’t need anyone sticking their nose in my business... And if they do, I’m going to chop it off."
Flock cameras create an interconnected network that logs the movements of nearly every vehicle—without warrants.
Enabling broad surveillance that can be shared across agencies and used far beyond solving specific crimes.
Incident occurred in the Coquina Key neighborhood of St. Pete, Florida.
He doesn't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.
🚨BREAKING Glasgow Scotland. Patriots chase off ANTIFA thugs who dared to try and crash the 'Unite the Clans' anti immigration rally
Well done to our bold Scottish brethren, the Blood of Wallace is still strong in Scots. FREEDOM!
@boobooball03@hijabecuore I didn't call it a cult. I said it uses kuffar in the same way a cult does.
A religion can have cult like features without actually being one.
It's not like you guys have apostacy laws or anything like that right?
@Ihunanya_chi Thou shalt not take the lords name in variety.
I am a firm believer that you address God as appropriately as possible in your native tongue.
Come to God as you are with a sincere heart, that is enough.
I once sat In a park with an older black man, definitely looked younger than he was as we all know, black don't crack.
He had his five grand children with him, all boys. They were not loud, played with each other and not other children. And his oldest grandson came up and whispered something in his ear.
He then stood up and walked over to a nearby white women and her young boy.
"Ma'am, you may use that language in your home, but your son is not going to use that language out here." He said these words calmly and assertively.
The women, began responding by yelling.
"Where do you think he heard it from? He goes to a majority black school and I have been trying to get him to stop for months."
The black man looked at her and said.
"I understand"
The white women was so upset she left the park with her son.
The black man walked back and sat next to me.
I was suspended in this place.
I could see both of their sides.
So as we sat together I began with a question.
"What has to happen so that our kids don't have to grow up like this?"
His response was something I didn't expect. Not that I had any expectations to begin with.
"It's too broken to fix, it's been this way too long. You know, it's always the government. People keep to themselves, keep with their family, their people. Back when they integrated the schools, you think we wanted to go to some white school? No sir, but the government forced us all together and started all these problems, like they always been doing."
This interaction was interesting to me to say the least, here we have a clash of two generations, one that had withstood the test of time, and the other whos test is just beginning.
One who has settled into their way of life, one who is still becoming.
And then me. In the middle. Watching both sides with a heart for each of their experiences.
The man held himself well. The female had the control of a novice but her words were true.
What do you think? How can we improve things so that our children can all live peacefully and united? Or is the black man correct? Is it to late , too broken to salvage?
And, has the government ever really helped societal cohesion? Because from my perspective, it has only made it worse, decade after decade.