Kraut Dawg

re: The Law by Frédéric Bastiat

Posted by Kraut Dawg on 6/23/26 at 11:57 am to LSUnKaty

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Do you dispute the idea that someone has the right to dispose of their own stuff however they see fit?

That guy is disputing that we even have the right to ownership. Which is to say that our labor isn't ours, it's someone else's. In other words, this person is trying to play coy instead of just admitting that he is advocating for communism.

Straight from the Communist Manifesto:
"In this sense, the theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property."

This guy thinks he's Marx by inadequately twisting around his belief. Says "ownership is a made up concept."

Ownership is a real, & instinctual concept. Try to take a piece of meat away from a lion (male or female, only two genders) & see whether or not "ownership is a made up concept." The lion killed the zebra, effectively owning the meat.

re: Has any county changed as much as Clayton County, GA

Posted by Kraut Dawg on 6/23/26 at 11:48 am to yaboidarrell

There was a guy here who used to talk about how he lived on Lake Spivey. I would remind him that it was Clayton County, to which he said he lived on the Henry County side. Like that matters, there is NOTHING redeeming about that entire area.

It's crime-ridden. It's run down. It's just a dump. Anyone who lives there or adjacent to there is out of their mind.

re: The Law by Frédéric Bastiat

Posted by Kraut Dawg on 6/22/26 at 12:46 pm to 4cubbies

That you're not a philosopher? You're correct there.

re: The Law by Frédéric Bastiat

Posted by Kraut Dawg on 6/22/26 at 12:40 pm to 4cubbies

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Something can be made up and also real.

You are not a philosopher.

re: The Law by Frédéric Bastiat

Posted by Kraut Dawg on 6/22/26 at 11:55 am to 4cubbies

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Well yeah. Toddlers have a concept of possession. Possession isn’t perpetual though. Ownership is a made up concept.

Yet, you're quoting The Law?

Plunder Violates Ownership
“When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it-w/o his consent & w/o compensation, & whether by force or by fraud-to anyone who does not own it, then I say that property is violated; that an act of plunder is committed.”

What is Plunder?
"That a man may live & satisfy his wants by seizing & consuming the products of the labor of others. This is the origin of plunder."

These concepts aren't made up. You're wrong. They're real. But why don't people like you don't like that. And why? Because “The proper purpose of the law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work.”

But that isn't what the law does any longer. “As soon as the plundered classes gain political power, they establish a system of reprisals against other classes. They do not abolish legal plunder.”

re: Are there other websites/forums you read regularly for finance?

Posted by Kraut Dawg on 6/20/26 at 10:13 pm to HailToTheChiz

I use FINVIZ but need to get better on how to navigate it.

Money Talk

re: Post a pic of something from your childhood that doesn't exist anymore

Posted by Kraut Dawg on 6/20/26 at 2:59 am to Hangover Haven

re: Unfortunately, this store clerk didn’t know about “BOUNDARIES” described by Crocket

Posted by Kraut Dawg on 6/14/26 at 8:57 am to Timeoday

I think the MSM is trying to promote a type of behavior that does two things. One, is tells these animals that their behavior is acceptable & they will continue to live under the thumb & be useful idiots. And second, it's meant to have White people hesitant to defend themselves.

re: SPCX IPO

Posted by Kraut Dawg on 6/14/26 at 4:18 am to Shamoan

My Schwab order of 150 shares at opening for $150.15 netted nothing. I'm a little disappointed, but whatever. Maybe it dips when the newness wears off & I'll buy then. If not, I'll own it via an ETF at the going rate.

I believe that the "data centers in space" thing is real & SPCX is going to get the stuff there & it'll be run on Anthropic (IPO this fall). Falcon launches are now common & uneventful. This isn't about going to Mars first, it's about information & is why Musk bought Twitter, not because of some political vendetta. And Anthropic can process it all.

Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong, but I'm putting my money where my mouth is. Just my opinion.

Money Talk

re: Give me some must-sees for a driving vacation out of Munich.

Posted by Kraut Dawg on 6/7/26 at 1:23 am to Slippy

A few things I've not seen mentioned,

South of Salzburg there's the Eisreisenwelt Ice Cave & Hohenwerfen Castle that is on the way up the mountain.

You asked about Garmisch, there's Partnach Gorge & Zugspitze. Tons of other things too.

In Berchtesgaden you can go to the Salt Mine or Kehlsteinhaus / Eagle's Nest.

Nurnberg's an easy drive from Munich. Munster Ulm is about an hour away. Hundreds of things to do in that area.

Travel Board

re: Europe is experiencing a heat wave. Still has not widely adopted A/C

Posted by Kraut Dawg on 5/26/26 at 11:35 am to S

For a subset of the European population they do not buy A/C units because of their environmental beliefs. That is absolutely true for some.

Another is the price of electricity is outrageous. When I left last year I was paying 33 cents per kwh & those units use a lot of it. They're so loud inside your house. They also have the 6" wide exhaust hose that you have to buy a skirt to go around the window.

I had three in my house and my neighbors thought I was crazy. Didn't care.

But also, and this is anecdotal, I knew MANY Germans who wouldn't turn on fans because they believed that even they used too much electricity. For the price, but again, the environment too.

re: Georgia election question

Posted by Kraut Dawg on 5/9/26 at 12:29 am to Bronco11

Georgia was infiltrated by escaping northerners in the 2000s who have since reproduced. South metro Atlanta used to be rural & Republican. Look at their county gov't today. The traffic. It isn't White Republicans sitting in traffic to park their Altima in the driveway of their cheaply built 2400 sqft house.

I recall some person on this site a few years ago bragging about how nice it was where he lived on a little lake in Henry County. It isn't 1989 any longer, these people are a virus & they're spreading. Probably by design.

The Democrat density in metro Atlanta is real. Then every medium sized city is heavy Democrat too. Savannah, Albany, Macon, Columbus, Athens.

re: Two U.S. Soldiers Missing in Africa During a Large Field Training Exercise

Posted by Kraut Dawg on 5/3/26 at 10:41 am to RFK

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I am unclear as to why we would be partnering with Morocco.

Seems like a pattern.

This exercise has gone on for years. We have bases & work operations with nations who have access to strategic chokepoints all over the world. Think Morocco, Djibouti, UAE, Qatar, Oman, Greece. We do joint exercises with all of these.

re: Trump is setting up the withdrawal of US presence in Europe.

Posted by Kraut Dawg on 5/2/26 at 11:15 pm to Ailsa

Unfortunately, if we're going to remain the police of the Middle East, we're going to have to have some presence in Europe for logistics. I think we lost significant C2 in Bahrain & UAE. That comm structure is always fragile.

The navy has access to Rota, 6th fleet in Naples & Sig, AF at Ramstein. If you look at a US facility map, we're protecting European/Asian shipping lanes from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea.

If these weak Europeans want to let their countries become infiltrated with these third world Islamic mammals, then why are we protecting their economies from the violent behavior of these Muslims by ensuring shipping lanes to/from Asia?

re: How is being transgender different than imagining that you're a dog?

Posted by Kraut Dawg on 5/2/26 at 8:13 am to UFFan

I was in a Zoom meeting this week and there is a woman who cuts her hair like a man. On video, not paying close attention, could pass off as a small statured man.

A vendor on the call continually addressed her as "sir."

It was awkward, but completely innocent. The looks on some people's faces. To this woman's credit, she didn't say anything.

re: Florida teacher fired for twerking, grabbing student and saying she’s a prostitute

Posted by Kraut Dawg on 5/1/26 at 12:37 pm to carhartt

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a “million-dollar prostitute”

A million bucks ain't what it used to be.

re: Do we have a Karen’s forum?

Posted by Kraut Dawg on 4/28/26 at 9:35 pm to Demps

I've rented from Avis at Hartsfield and they'd given me a car with a crack all across the windshield. I didn't act like that & they gave me another car.