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Re: President Trump 2.0
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I understand Liz Truss gifted him her infamous calculator on her last fawning trip over. 
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Do I care what you think
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Re: President Trump 2.0
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You would be mistaken - I was confused, and as a (lapsed) Catholic, I had never heard of the RC Church (or indeed any religion) described this way before…
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You mean it's never been seen as a con .
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Re: President Trump 2.0
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You mean it's never been seen as a con .
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Ponzi scheme…
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Yesterday, 11:52
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Re: President Trump 2.0
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Originally Posted by Hugh
Ponzi scheme…
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I think you’re being more pedantic than me! The Pontiff sits at the top of the money tree; it all ends up under his autocratic control. That’a fairly Ponzi.
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Re: President Trump 2.0
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
I doubt that I've confused you! I suppose you're trying to be literal about the meaning of a Ponzi scheme.
In this case, the Pope (and/or his predecessors) is/are the "first investor" and the subscribing flock are the existing/renewable flock. Then there is whatever the Catholic church invests in so as to grow its riches.
Generally, peops know what I mean.
The CoE is another such Ponzi scheme - perhaps even more so.
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No, I think he’s just assumed that English words have a natural meaning and that you wouldn’t be daft enough to invent different definitions that only you know anything about.
A Ponzi scheme is a Ponzi scheme. The word means what it means. Your only get-out here is to claim you were using it as a metaphor but in that case, the thing you’re referring to has still got to be demonstrably similar in some way or else the metaphor doesn’t work.
Thus far, it doesn’t work.
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Today, 02:27
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Can you guys believe how many people he is threatening???
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Today, 03:22
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RIP Tigger - 13 years?!
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Re: President Trump 2.0
And now he wants to bring back firing squads. Okay, why? Lethal injection is far more dignified, painless and certain. Dead is dead - he might as well bring back hanging. Or the electric chair. Or crucifixion (wouldn't that bother Leo!). Or burning at the stake. Or tossing offenders out of the new (illegally-obtained, or at least unconstitutionally) Air Force One.
He's leaving a right old mess for his successor to sort out (assuming there will be one, if he doesn't pull a coup and become the dictator he obviously wants to be).
Plus he tried to nuke Iran. If they don't have nukes yet, they're likely to develop them - and use them - out of fear. Precedent: the Manhattan Project. It was driven, though they don't want to admit this, by fear of the Axis powers. In fact Germany wasn't as far along in its research as they feared.
Did he ever see Threads? Or The Day After? Or By Dawn's Early Light, even?
Broadwave to all would-be warmongers (got a bit of a Firefly fixation goin' on ATM): no-one wins even a conventional war. BUT NO-ONE CAN WIN A NUCLEAR WAR! IT IS IMPOSSIBLE!
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