A Conversation With a Home "Owner"

Sadly enough, I am not making any of this up. I wonder how many years into this speculative mess we will need to be in order to have these fools admit they were wrong. If society and government had spent four years propping up the internet stock bubble and catering to the "feelings" of the fools who purchased zero profit company shares at $250 IPOs imagine where we would be now. Capitalism's most important attribute is allowance of failure. Buying the most overvalued asset in the last few hundred years with borrowed money is certainly a failure. Let the housing crash happen and quit worrying about the one way feelings of these fools.

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[LCLand]

Hilarious! Love it

[PTR91K]

@LCLand

Thanks!

[triindiglo]

If you don't believe that people can be this stupid, you haven't interacted with a lot of people. This is not a straw-man, it really happens.

The most terrifying thing is not that we have a problem, or what this problem might cause. It is people like this that blindly REFUSE to admit what can be clearly (by logic and mathematics) demonstrated to be true that we should all be terrified of. These people would argue that the sky is orange and believe it, just so they could be "right."

[PTR91K]

@triindiglo

Thanks for the comment. I think the largest problem of this entire mess is the inability to publicly discuss what the real root issues of this financial crises are, due to the intense feelings involved. A politician who comes out and blames the responsible parties risks a serious chance of recall or not being reelected.

There are politicians speaking the truth, such as Ron Paul, but he called the housing bubble back in 2001 (not a typo). People don't want to listen.

[somerandomguy1983]

@PTR91K thanks for the video. Please ignore the 'sexist' troll comments; I didn't take your video to be sexist at all. Some people see only what they want, as indicated by their blog contents.

[PTR91K]

@oliviahoang :) Sexism is indeed alive and well. Check college admittance by sex. Check baseless accusations of rape and who gets their life destroyed. Check who gets custody in divorce. Check what sex initiates most divorces. The tide has swung, and although I always respect passion - you are a few years too late for the party. Any prejudice is cured by eliminating prejudice, not enhancing it. Respect people for their individual attributes and nothing else. The choice of genders was random.

[PTR91K]

@oliviahoang There is no doubt media is extremely sexist. Follow the money. Advertisements on "the view" or similar will be heavily biased towards women, advertisements on late night hunting programs will be biased towards showing girls in bikinis and beer getting women. Television is a baser media though, and not representative of all society. Forget the philosophers, base your world view on the people you actually come across - my experience 70%+ are good. If that isn't the case - move. :)

[oliviahoang]

@PTR91K :

"the purest form of slavery is that contained within yourself" --> because I saw some potential flaw in your video, I'm somehow inflicting myself with mental slavery? Please. Sexism is real and alive. Your video may or may not have any sexism underlying it, and there are feminists who go overboard. However, that doesn't mean that people who identify and call out sexism is undergoing some kind of internal slavery.

[oliviahoang]

@PTR91K : I don't go around looking for sexism, but it doesn't take much to see it in the media. "most people are good" --> this blanket statement is just that: a blanket statement. People's inherent "goodness" have been debated for centuries by people much smarter than you or me, so your statement is not a definitive fact. Most people are also selfish since that is human nature.

[PTR91K]

@oliviahoang Actually does reflect comments in real life. The majority in one conversation, with one person. As for choosing genders, Xtranormal did that. First video I made, set up that way when I started. If you look for sexism everywhere you will find it. Don't let the people who are actually sexist trap you in that world view. Most people are good, the bad know the mental tricks to create ongoing mental frustration - the purest form of slavery is that contained within yourself.