The point that I was making to criticize OgNasty was a bit broader, since he was proclaiming that almost all hate, violence and crime was coming from the left.

Surely in the Kirk shooting case there seems to be fairly strong evidence that the shooting was motivated by political differences of opinion, and so yeah, if the bullets are engraved then it becomes less ambiguous that the political motivations were intended to be known.

I think that the kinds of facts that I was suggesting OgNasty to be leaving out relates to evidence of hate, violence and/or crime that comes from right wing rather than left wing ideology.  From my perspective OgNasty is so obvious in his own ways of seeing the world and presenting the issue that there is hardly any need to counter it, except just to point out that he is making outrageous claims and failing/refusing to provide evidence for his outrageous claims (or to to rebutt the counter-evidence).


Your lucky break Phil. 

Now do the exercise of having had bought bitcoin with the money that you had used to buy that copper.  Where would you be?

Did you remember to subtract your costs from your profits?  Cost of storage and moving that stuff around? and the liquidity?  Buying it yourself and then finding sellers. 

Sure, maybe you are doing a service to the copper market, but still.  I bet bitcoin would have had been better, and I think that you had already given the dates that you got the copper  (was it 2022 that you got the copper?  or is that just my imagination?).. but I am a bit lazy to research back into your earlier posts on the topic..


I suppose in the end if you feel better about what you are doing and how you are "not affected" then that is the main thing. You could have had done worse by staying in the dollar, but instead you got into copper, but not bitcoin.

I see opportunity costs in your explanation of your choices, but apparently, you felt that you needed to have a more tangible diversification away from the dollar and also away from bitcoin.


Many of us get played, and we are not always aware of how much we are being played.  It takes a long time to build up critical thinking skills, and sure some folks have better foundations than others, yet even the critical thinkers can sometimes get sucked into a bit of a trap.  I know that I have been tricked a lot of times in my life, and it is not easy, even if we might realize that we are being tricked.. there are also certain modern conveniences that many of us do not want to give up, including but not limited to yours truly.


Surely it is good to work on your learning and your ability to learn, and surely there are criticisms of what some schools are teaching, so sometimes it can seem challenging to break through and to become a life long learner, whether through school or through other ways.

On a personal level, I am thinking that I would have not been able to achieve certain kinds of critical thinking skills (to the extent that I have them) and even job (income) prospects if I had not ended up going to school (including higher education). 

By the way, when I first graduated from high school, I thought that I really did not like school and/or the authority figures of teachers, and because of that, I had initially considered that college was not for me, so it took me a few years of trying forms of self-learning and really going a bit all over the place, before I honed on college course work as being a way to help me to be able to better help myself.  There could have had been some short-cuts, but higher learning really was not considered to be a practical route (at least in the earliest of my years and my upbringing).  Blame my parents... hahahahahaha