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Glenn Beck and Goldline: Glenn Beck tells viewers to buy gold from Goldline; Viewer buys gold coins from goldine; viewer "loses 42% of their investment instantly."

Pilebsa 0 points1 point 15 hours ago[-]

My point is, the selection of gold as a standard is arbitrary. It's far from the only rare, stable, stowable substance that could be used. The biggest problem with a currency like gold is that the amount out there is unknown. If there was a fiat currency that was based on a very specific, known quantity that was in existence, a monetary market would be more stable.

Glenn Beck and Goldline: Glenn Beck tells viewers to buy gold from Goldline; Viewer buys gold coins from goldine; viewer "loses 42% of their investment instantly."

Pilebsa 0 points1 point 16 hours ago[-]

My argument is that Gold (and other precious metals/gemstones/etc...) would emerge as a de-facto convenience currency.

There's nothing "convenient" about gold. It's one of the heaviest substances on the planet.

But I would argue that its scarcity ALONE lends it emotional weight and power in the marketplace.

There are plenty of substances more rare than gold that aren't as sought after.

It's arbitrary.

Glenn Beck and Goldline: Glenn Beck tells viewers to buy gold from Goldline; Viewer buys gold coins from goldine; viewer "loses 42% of their investment instantly."

Pilebsa 2 points3 points 1 day ago[-]

You are missing one VERY IMPORTANT aspect: There will ALWAYS be a need for convenience currency...no mater what scenario is playing out.

It may be convenient, but not necessarily a "need" for fiat currency. If society breaks down, the first thing people will do is abandon fiat currency and start directly bartering for what they need. You can look all around the world and see this happening, even today.

Glenn Beck and Goldline: Glenn Beck tells viewers to buy gold from Goldline; Viewer buys gold coins from goldine; viewer "loses 42% of their investment instantly."

Pilebsa 7 points8 points 1 day ago[-]

Gold has been valued by every major civilization across the globe for millennia.

And many of those civilizations would trade a hundred pounds of gold for a few sticks of cinnamon, saffron, shiny beads, salt, water or some shoes.

Glenn Beck and Goldline: Glenn Beck tells viewers to buy gold from Goldline; Viewer buys gold coins from goldine; viewer "loses 42% of their investment instantly."

Pilebsa 0 points1 point 1 day ago[-]

Ron Paul has a lot of good ideas

Like the earth is only 6000 years old and evolution is fake?

Glenn Beck and Goldline: Glenn Beck tells viewers to buy gold from Goldline; Viewer buys gold coins from goldine; viewer "loses 42% of their investment instantly."

Pilebsa 5 points6 points 1 day ago[-]

Gold is arbitrary. It is far from the most valuable element you could have. Its value is loosely based on rarity, which can change at any time, and like diamonds, the gold market is artificially inflated by several large groups who stockpile it.

In ancient times, cinnamon was more valuable than gold. It's all arbitrary.

Glenn Beck and Goldline: Glenn Beck tells viewers to buy gold from Goldline; Viewer buys gold coins from goldine; viewer "loses 42% of their investment instantly."

Pilebsa 4 points5 points 1 day ago[-]

I've done some thought about this and one commodity that will be in demand when all hell breaks loose, that can be stored, is alcohol. It has even more uses than gold.

How religion destroys minds. Consider the future of this six-year old boy.

Pilebsa 0 points1 point 3 days ago[-]

Once he actually leaves the house, he'll probably be fine.

Came here to say the same thing. You can tell the father is projecting his own perspective, pretty heavily upon his kid, and the kid probably will rebel against the narrow-minded upbringing he's had at some point, unless he can continue to live in a little bubble of a world and surround himself with like-minded people.

Visiting next week

Pilebsa 0 points1 point 3 days ago[-]

Excellent. So did you bring your own horn or a mouthpiece? I'm a drummer so there's probably different protocol when you're talking about sitting in on an instrument people put in their mouth.

Faced with leaked top secret documents that her son was killed by friendly fire, mother refuses to accept it. "that's what the Department of Defense told her, and that's what she believes."

Pilebsa 1 point2 points 3 days ago[-]

Coming to terms with the fact that her son died for nothing is too horrible to fathom.

Regardless of who killed him, he didn't die for nothing. He died so a bunch of military defense contractors and oil companies could make a ton of money.

Visiting next week

Pilebsa 0 points1 point 4 days ago[-]

If you don't know anybody, it's not easy to sit in. That being said if you wander around Bourbon street and offer some of the working bands some money, they might let you sit in.

Visiting New Orleans now...in July...and I wish I would've thought to...

Pilebsa 0 points1 point 4 days ago[-]

You can get used to the heat. During Katrina I lived out of my house for more than a month with no A/C. The first week is hell, then you acclimate.

"It took nearly a decade of failed economic policies to create this mess, and it will take years to fully repair the damage," Obama said

Pilebsa -1 points0 points 4 days ago[-]

False Equivalency.

There's a difference between being the architect of a plan, and going along with it. Clinton signed a HUGE BILL where that provision was nestled inside. This is the way they do things now. They stick all kinds of items inside larger bills that would be very unpopular (and in some cases almost impossible) to VETO.

EVERYONE, including us who bought 500K houses with 34K salaries.

Another fallacy... next you'll be talking about "welfare queens with Cadillacs"

My TimeWarnerCable Technician/Installer stole my TV, what can I do about this?

Pilebsa 0 points1 point 6 days ago[-]

Consider it foreplay.

This is the first of many times you'll be screwed over by TimeWarnerCable.

I had a ghost pepper last night, it is wreaking havoc on me.

Pilebsa 0 points1 point 6 days ago[-]

It was sugar mixed with water.

What is a Catholic religious order doing with over $33 Billion in assets - $33 Billion? Are there no more poor in the world to feed and cloth?

Pilebsa 2 points3 points 6 days ago[-]

What's scary is this is just a tiny subsidiary of the Vatican. Can you imagine how much the main church has?

"It took nearly a decade of failed economic policies to create this mess, and it will take years to fully repair the damage," Obama said

Pilebsa 4 points5 points 6 days ago[-]

For those who want details here you go. In short, A provision of the Financial Services Modernization Act of 2000, authored by Phil Gram and 2 other republicans, rolled back regulations on banks that allowed them to create the Ponzi Scheme called "Default Credit Swaps" that led to the primary insolvency.

I had a ghost pepper last night, it is wreaking havoc on me.

Pilebsa 0 points1 point 6 days ago[-]

Sugar supposedly neutralizes the capsicum. The idea behind Scoville units was to see how much sugar one could ingest to make the heat subside.

LEAKED video exposes Israeli Premier Netanyahu’s contempt for USA and intention to deceive Palestinians. "I deceived US to destroy Oslo accords"

Pilebsa 7 points8 points 6 days ago[-]

We support Israel because there's a $6 Billion dollar annual kickback scheme in place whereby America gives loads of money to Israel, which then has to spend the money on select American contractors, the contractors then heavily fund America's most powerful lobbyist group, AIPAC, whose main job is to ensure America keeps giving tons of money to Israel.

"GodBlock is a web filter that blocks religious content. It is targeted at parents and schools who wish to protect their kids from the often violent, sexual, and psychologically harmful material in many holy texts."

Pilebsa [S] 1 point2 points 9 days ago[-]

I'm not sure what you're talking about, but generally-speaking, shame is a very powerful force to communicate information and influence others.

I am against censorship, but I can also appreciate a campaign to turn the tables on the religious institutions who feel reality has a bad influence on their adherents. You appear to be under the assumption that unreasonable people can be logically reasoned with.

Bill Maher's "Religulous" the full movie is now viewable online

Pilebsa [S] 0 points1 point 9 days ago[-]

You don't know much about AIPAC do you?

"GodBlock is a web filter that blocks religious content. It is targeted at parents and schools who wish to protect their kids from the often violent, sexual, and psychologically harmful material in many holy texts."

Pilebsa [S] 0 points1 point 9 days ago[-]

I agree. I kind of think the whole site is more tongue-in-cheek humor than a legitimate business venture.

"GodBlock is a web filter that blocks religious content. It is targeted at parents and schools who wish to protect their kids from the often violent, sexual, and psychologically harmful material in many holy texts."

Pilebsa [S] 0 points1 point 9 days ago[-]

So would you make an argument that it's perfectly reasonable for young children to be able to view porn? Should that not be censored as well?

Why does Rachel Maddow ruin a perfectly valid point with misleading bar graphs?

Pilebsa 3 points4 points 10 days ago[-]

Thanks for the clarification. I'll fix that on the page

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