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Discussions; Public Archive / Re: PS
« Last post by Dale Eastman on April 09, 2024, 06:02:36 AM »
Quote from: 9 April @ 0701
I answered every question you asked.

Please note the date-time tags. they will assist you in reading the quoted words in situ.

Quote from: 4 April @ 0802
𝟘𝟘𝟘𝟙. Please explain exactly how money is not a store of value?

Quote from: 5 April @ 0708
𝟘𝟘𝟘𝟙. Please explain exactly how money is not a store of value?

Quote from: 5 April @ 0708
𝟘𝟘𝟘𝟚 Admit or deny that with those six words you denied that money is a store of value.

Quote from: 5 April @ 0958
𝟘𝟘𝟘𝟙. Please explain exactly how money is not a store of value?

You did finally address question after I asked it the third time.

Quote from: 5 April @ 1507
I didn’t claim money was NOT a “store of value”.

Quote from: 27 March @ 0747
If I stuffed $4000 worth of Federal Reserve Notes in my mattress ten years ago, why are they not worth as much today as when I earned them?

Quote from: 27 March @ 1150
If I stuffed $4000 worth of Federal Reserve Notes in my mattress ten years ago, why are they not worth as much today as when I earned them?

Quote from: 1 April @ 1838
You answered: ➽ That’s called inflation

I acknowledge you gave a partial answer.

I asked you:
Quote from: 2 April @ 1043
What causes this "INFLATION"?

I asked you:
Quote from: 7 April @ 1618
⇉ "𝟘𝟘𝟘𝟛. Admit or Deny that"[...]"Your answer admitted that the value of $4000 worth of Federal Reserve Notes in my mattress LOST value."

I asked you:
Quote from: 7 April @ 1618
⇉ "𝟘𝟘𝟘𝟜. Admit or Deny that"[...] "If my labor value stored in $4000 worth of Federal Reserve Notes in my mattress LOST value, then some of the purchasing power of the value of my labor stored in those FRN's was stolen from me."

I asked you:
Quote from: 7 April @ 1618
⇉ "𝟘𝟘𝟘𝟝. What actions, by whom, took the purchasing power of the value of my labor stored in those FRN's?"

Quote from: 8 April @ 1341
I answered every question you asked.

Quote from: 6 April @ 1620
⇉ "I copy-paste the words of liars, so I can prove their lies by displaying their actual words."

Quote from: 27 March @ 0747
I will be publicly archiving this discussion on my website.

Quote from: 27 March @ 1150
I will be publicly archiving this discussion on my website.

Quote from: 7 April @ 1618
I will be publicly archiving this discussion on my website.
Quote from: 9 April @ 0715
Thanks For proving my point, and displaying absolutely bizarre behavior.
Quote from: 9 April @ 0717
Yeah, this doesn’t scream “psychotic incel serial killer” at all.

I’m not sure your plodding obsessiveness reveals to the world what you think it does.


Quote from: Screencap
Quote from: 27 March @ 0747
⇉ I will be publicly archiving this discussion on my website.

Quote from: 27 March @ 1150
⇉ I will be publicly archiving this discussion on my website.

Quote from: 7 April @ 1618
⇉ I will be publicly archiving this discussion on my website.
Quote from: 9 April @ 0719
“It puts the lotion on its skin, or it gets the hose again”.

Okay there, Buffalo Bill.

You’ve managed to put the creepiness back in Facebook that it was missing.
Quote from: 9 April @ 1304
Quote from: 8 April @ 1341
I’m not sure your plodding obsessiveness reveals to the world what you think it does.

My "plodding obsessiveness reveals to the world" all the questions I have asked you that you have refused to answer.

Thus based on YOUR claim:
Quote from: 8 April @ 1341
I answered every question you asked.

I can honestly and accurately say: "You a LIAR!"

https://www.synapticsparks.info/dialog/index.php?topic=1715.msg17056#msg17056
Quote from: 9 April @ 1304
Dale, huh?

Other than your absolute, stalkerish obsession, what are you trying to make clear here?
Quote from: 9 April @ 1316
That you are provably a LIAR.
Quote from: 9 April @ 1318
Dale, I didn’t lie about anything.

Seek help.
Quote from: 9 April @ 1332
Dale, I didn’t lie about anything.

BULLSHIT!

https://www.synapticsparks.info/dialog/index.php?topic=1715.msg17056#msg17056
Quote from: 9 April @ 1336
Dale, you haven’t shown anything. If you think I “lied”, you’re either showing your lack of comprehension or your lack of knowledge of economics.

But above both possibilities, you’re demonstrating an emotional makeup that’s wrapped a little too tightly for social media.

It’s embarrassing to watch.
Quote from: 9 April @ 1337
In the spirit of me getting creeped out by this obsessive behavior, I’m going to put an end to this - whatever weirdness it is.

Have a nice day.
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Local Log / 7 April 2024
« Last post by Dale Eastman on April 07, 2024, 01:19:39 PM »
Way too many of you are delusional fools. You believe un-truths as truths because you are not smart enough to think about and analyze what you have just had presented to you.

Unlike most of you, I do think about and analyze what has been presented to me.

A specific example was provided during my incarceration in DAY JAIL, Also known as public school. The specific example is these words:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

Deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
Many of you will recognize those words from the text of The U.S. Declaration of Independence.

Larken Rose eloquently observed:

There are two basic ways in which people can interact: by mutual agreement, or by one
person using threats or violence to force his will upon another.

The first can be labeled “consent”– both sides willingly and voluntarily agreeing to what is to be done. The second can be labeled “governing” – one person controlling another. Since these two – consent and governing – are opposites, the concept of “consent of the governed” is a contradiction. If there is mutual consent, it is not “government”; if there is governing, there is no consent.


In order for a person to consent (agree to something), don't they need to be given a choice?

Slave-masters and slave-owners are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the enslaved.

When were the slaves given a choice to consent to their enslavement?
When were you given a choice to consent to being governed?
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Discussions; Public Archive / Re: PS
« Last post by Dale Eastman on April 07, 2024, 10:31:05 AM »
Quote from: 7 April @ 1618
https://www.synapticsparks.info/dialog/index.php?topic=1715.msg17051#msg17051

I told you that I will be publicly archiving this discussion on my website. I often peruse such saved discussions to remind myself of missed points, be the points deliberately ignored or simply overlooked. In re-reading the discussion I'm reminded that a question I asked was not adequately answered. To your credit you didn't ignore the question.

I asked: ⇉ If I stuffed $4000 worth of Federal Reserve Notes in my mattress ten years ago, why are they not worth as much today as when I earned them?

You answered: ➽ That’s called inflation

Your answer admitted that the value of $4000 worth of Federal Reserve Notes in my mattress LOST value.
𝟘𝟘𝟘𝟛. Admit or Deny that is what your answer admitted.

If my labor value stored in $4000 worth of Federal Reserve Notes in my mattress LOST value, then some of the purchasing power of the value of my labor stored in those FRN's was stolen from me.
𝟘𝟘𝟘𝟜. Admit or Deny that is what your answer admitted.

I admitted and then asked: ⇉ My error in not being specific enough with my question. What causes this "INFLATION"?
 In reviewing my question I realize I needed to be more specific with my question.

𝟘𝟘𝟘𝟝. What actions, by whom, took the purchasing power of the value of my labor stored in those FRN's?
Quote from: 8 April @ 1327
Dale, I get it.

You’re super full of yourself.
Quote from: 8 April @ 1341
I answered every question you asked.

Your response has been to claim I didn’t, using odd symbols and claiming you’re screenshotting and posting this somewhere else, as if that’s some sort of dark warning.

I couldn’t care less.

The problem is that you know nothing about the subject.

When I give answers, you don’t know enough to recognize that they *are* answers.

You don’t know enough to know that there aren’t economic facts, there are economic theories.

There are theories of inflation, some of which I think are nonsense (including what you apparently subscribe to, but don’t realize is just one of many theories).

You may not want to screenshot this stuff.

It’s going to look like a cave person telling a modern person that his flashlight is sorcery, and telling the modern person “I’m writing this down on my cave wall, so everyone knows how little you understand about sorcery”.
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Discussions; Public Archive / Re: PS
« Last post by Dale Eastman on April 06, 2024, 06:34:45 AM »
Quote from: 6 April @ 0732
5 April @ 1506
Saying that money happens to be a store of value doesn’t mean that’s the definition of it.

Your statement of your opinion is noted.

5 April @ 1507
I didn’t claim money was NOT a “store of value”.

You made this claim by very strong implication. I will cede the truth of your claim that you didn't directly claim money was NOT a “store of value”.

You didn't bother to make this claim until after I challenged your implication THREE times. I did so: 4 April @ 0802; 5 April @ 0708; & 5 April @ 0958. I copy-pasted YOUR words in context where you implied this claim On 4 April @ 0802 & 5 April @ 0708 . Do I need to repeat this a third time?

5 April @ 1506
I’ve [...] given a definition of money which is unique to money.

I'll be back in a moment. I'm checking that claim for validity.

Not including this post, the word "money" has been used 70 times in this discussion.

27 March @ 1150 I posted the 28th, 29th, & 30th use of the word:
𝟙. What is "MONEY"?
𝟚. I REJECT this claim. "MONEY" has NOT been defined and agreed to.
𝟛. I don't. "MONEY" has NOT been defined and agreed to.

I did find three of your uses of the word that almost could pass as partial definitions of the word.

27 March @ 0810
money ALWAYS enters the system as [...] accounting entries on a bank’s books.

Didn't define the word.

2 April @ 2011
We use money as a medium to arbitrate the differences in the values of those different goods and services.

Didn't define the word either.

3 April @ 0835
Money is a tax credit which can be used to settle tax debts and all other lawful debts.

Didn't define the word either.

One can use water to wash a car. ⇇ Listing its use does not define what water is.
Quote from: 6 April @ 0847
Dale, money *is* a tax credit.

*of a type* which can be used to settle tax debts and all lawful debts.

That describes what money *is*

* tax credit
* legal tender

Boom.
Quote from: 6 April @ 0849
Objects which “store value” are called “durable goods”.
Quote from: 6 April @ 0850
Functionally, the terms “money” and “currency” are interchangeable.
Quote from: 6 April @ 0852
Money, by the way, is whatever a monetarily sovereign government defines it to be.
It doesn’t matter what you think money SHOULD be.

Thats what money is.
Quote from: 6 April @ 0906
Maybe things would go better if, rather than going on three day misunderstandings of what I said, you spent less time trying to tell me what I said, and more time trying to understand what I said, and asking what I meant if you think I haven’t been clear.

The most unproductive thing in life is putting words in other’s mouths. It just gets nothing done.

But yeah, screenshot that stuff so everyone knows, forever, how you got it wrong because you want me to have said something other than what I did.
Quote from: From another discussion thread 3 April @ 1451
I know math is very hard for the left but since Mar-A-Lago is three times the size of the most expensive listing in Palm Beach..
Quote from: So I replied 6 April @ 0809
Lefties? Doesn't that translate to closet Marxists?
Quote from: 6 April @ 0948
You wouldn’t know what Marxism is if you had a mouthful.

Nobody of any importance in the US is a Marxist.

But nice try at bringing back red scare McCarthyism.
Quote from: 6 April @ 1301
I acknowledge that you opined and posted your opinion.

Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur This is a fancy way to say, in Latin Your opinion means nothing my opinion cancels yours
Quote from: 6 April @ 1353
Dale, it’s not my opinion.

It’s a definition, not of how money SHOULD work, but how it is.
Quote from: 6 April @ 1400
You are confusing your threads.
To quote your own words right back at you:
5 April @ 1507
Pay attention, please.
Quote from: 6 April @ 1440
Oh ffs

It’s really hard to tell what thread you’re commenting on, because most of your comments are snarky nonsense that have nothing to do with the topic.
Quote from: 6 April @ 1617
Because YOU are confused, I put your OFF-TOPIC words in the public archive of our OTHER discussion.
https://www.synapticsparks.info/dialog/index.php?topic=1715.msg17742#new

Quote from: 6 April @ 1620
6 April @ 0906
The most unproductive thing in life is putting words in other’s mouths.
5 April @ 1506
According to you, that makes a house money.

Like how you attempted to put those words in my mouth?
POT-KETTLE-BLACK.

6 April @ 0906
But yeah, screenshot that stuff so everyone knows, forever, how you got it wrong because you want me to have said something other than what I did.

You have errantly called my "Copy-Pasting" a "screenshot" FOUR times already in this discussion. Yet you presume to educate me regarding the meanings of words, phrases, and terms.

I copy-paste the words of liars, so I can prove their lies by displaying their actual words.
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Discussions; Public Archive / Re: PS
« Last post by Dale Eastman on April 04, 2024, 07:03:09 AM »
Quote from: 4 April @ 0802
ME:
The proper and correct definition of MONEY is something that is a measure and store of value.
YOU:
Dale, that’s not a “correct” definition.

Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
I don't belong to your church.
I do not share your religious beliefs.

𝟘𝟘𝟘𝟙. Please explain exactly how money is not a store of value?
Quote from: 4 April @ 2058
Dale, your question is irrelevant.

Houses are a store of value.

They’re not money.

That isn’t the definition of money.

You sure spend a lot of words to end up asking a question which is either wholly irrelevant or based on a false premise.

Maybe if you cut out all the preliminary throat clearing and just got to the point right away, it would be possible to actually have a discussion.

Sadly, I’m not sure your apparently pointlessly argumentative temperament would allow that.
Quote from: 5 April @ 0708
Your 77 word response did not address the question asked.

ME:
The proper and correct definition of MONEY is something that is a measure and store of value.
YOU:
Dale, that’s not a “correct” definition.

𝟘𝟘𝟘𝟚 Admit or deny that with those six words you denied that money is a store of value.

The question you refuse to answer still stands unanswered.
𝟘𝟘𝟘𝟙. Please explain exactly how money is not a store of value?
Quote from: 5 April @ 0742
Dale, I answered your question about the definition of money days ago.

Since you’re so fond of filling space with words, and screenshotting, I’ll let you go back and find it.

I answered your question about “store of value”, also. Thats not a definition of money. Many things “store value”. That doesn’t make them money.

I also answered, like a week ago, WHY “store of value” is a bad definition of money. A store of value is “better” if it appreciates in value. We do NOT want money to do that.

I explained why we don’t want that last week. Since you screenshot everything, you can go back and look that answer up.

This is all stuff I answered days or weeks ago, and you’re back again, ponderously asking the same questions.

Your obsession with repeating other’s words and displaying screenshots really does keep you from following what others say.
Quote from: 5 April @ 0958
Your 177 word response DID NOT address the very SPECIFIC question asked.

ME:
The proper and correct definition of MONEY is something that is a measure and store of value.
YOU:
Dale, that’s not a “correct” definition.

𝟘𝟘𝟘𝟚 Admit or deny that with those six words you denied that money is a store of value.
𝟘𝟘𝟘𝟚 Is a very simple question to answer. That you claimed money is not a store of value is plainly evident regardless of your refusal to admit that you denied money is a store of value.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/burden-of-proof
The burden of proof lies with someone who is making a claim, and is not upon anyone else to disprove. The inability, or disinclination, to disprove a claim does not render that claim valid, nor give it any credence whatsoever.

The question you refuse to answer still stands unanswered.
𝟘𝟘𝟘𝟙. Please explain exactly how money is not a store of value?
Quote from: 5 April @ 1506
Dale, your logical fallacy is non sequitur.

Saying that money happens to be a store of value doesn’t mean that’s the definition of it.

“A house is a store of value”.

According to you, that makes a house money.

That’s illogical.

I’ve pointed this out, AND given a definition of money which is unique to money.
Quote from: 5 April @ 1507
And I didn’t claim money was NOT a “store of value”.

I said that’s not the definition of it.

Pay attention, please.
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Local Log / 3 April 2024
« Last post by Dale Eastman on April 03, 2024, 10:10:27 AM »
Way too many of you are delusional fools. You believe un-truths as truths because you are not smart enough to think about and analyze what you have just had presented to you.

Unlike most of you, I do think about and analyze what has been presented to me.

A specific example was provided during my incarceration in DAY JAIL, Also known as public school. The specific example is these words:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

Many of you will recognize those words from the text of The U.S. Declaration of Independence.

That "all men are created equal" is a set of words presenting a concept to think about and analyze.
What, exactly, was created equal? The penis sizes of men?
Did the patriarchy that wrote this self-evident truth intend to exclude women?

Perhaps a better understanding is: all HUmans are created equal.
What, exactly, was created equal? Perhaps that no human was created owning or having a right to own another human?

Another thing to think about and analyze: Those unalienable Rights, Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

The Right-to-Life includes a Right-to-Defend-your-Life. To quote a science fiction character, "When somebody tries to kill you, you try and kill 'em right back."

I'm sure the concept presented in the prior sentence will upset some of you delusional fools. (I have thought about and analyzed why this is happening. I'll explain later.)

The Right-to-Liberty is not that hard to comprehend. The best working definition of Liberty was written long ago by some old guy.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

I have had cowardly delusional fools argue against Liberty-Freedom because without law & government some people will just kill your family and rape your dog.

There have been governments since time immemorial. There have been laws against murder since time immemorial. There have been murders since time immemorial. What does this say about government and its anti-murder law? Laws against murder don't matter to those who don't murder. Laws against murder don't matter to murderers.

What, exactly, is this "pursuit of Happiness"? Wouldn't it be "unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others" that makes a human happy?

Repeating my quote of a science fiction character, "When somebody tries to kill you, you try and kill 'em right back." Government claims only it has a right to use force. Therefore government claims you don't have a right to try and kill 'em right back, When somebody tries to kill you.

Government laws against defending and protecting your life and your Right-to-Life is government violating its reason for existing. Those laws exist. Perhaps later I will present them to you. Then you will have evidence proving government violates its reason for existing.

Government deliberately lies to you. If you believe cops-police have any duty to protect you, You swallowed the lie.

No Duty To Protect

The dictionary definition claims that the purpose of the police is crime prevention, and to maintain peace, safety, and order. This dictionary definition does not account for what the law and the courts have to say on this matter.

South v. Maryland

Pottle is a person who asked Sheriff South for protection. The Sheriff did not provide the protection. The original lower court case was a suit for damages done to Pottle because the Sheriff did not provide specifically requested assistance and protection.
Quote from: The Supreme Court in South v. Maryland, 59 U.S. 396 (1855)

Where, in an action upon a sheriff's bond, the declaration did not charge the sheriff with a breach of his duty in the execution of any writ or process in which the real plaintiff was personally interested, but with a neglect or refusal to preserve the public peace, in consequence of which the plaintiff suffered great wrong and injury from the unlawful violence of a mob, the declaration did not set forth a sufficient cause of action against the sheriff and his sureties.
[...]
The breach alleged is, in substance,
"that while Pottle was engaged about his lawful business, certain evil-disposed persons came about him, hindered and prevented him, threatened his life, with force of arms demanded of him a large sum of money, and imprisoned and detained him for the space of four days, and until he paid them the sum of $2,500 for his enlargement."

That South, the sheriff, being present, the plaintiff, Pottle, applied to him for protection and requested him to keep the peace of the State of Maryland, he, the said sheriff, having power and authority so to do. That the sheriff neglected and refused to protect and defend the plaintiff and to keep the peace, wherefore, it is charged, "the sheriff did not well and truly execute and perform the duties required of him by the laws of said state," and thereby the said writing obligatory became forfeited and action accrued to the plaintiff.
[...]
The declaration in the case before us is clearly not within the principles of these decisions. It alleges no special individual right, privileges, or franchise in the plaintiff from the enjoyment of which he has been restrained or hindered by the malicious act of the sheriff, nor does it charge him with any misfeasance or nonfeasance in his ministerial capacity in the execution of any process in which the plaintiff was concerned. Consequently we are of opinion that the declaration sets forth no sufficient cause of action.

Read @ Justia

In common speech no sufficient cause of action means the suit for damages caused by the sheriff failing to protect the plaintiff is dismissed for lack of standing.

The court listed the Sheriff's legal duties in the full text. (Available at the Justia link.) The Plaintiff did not have standing to sue the Sheriff because the Sheriff did not have a legal duty to protect the Plaintiff.

There are other Supreme Court cases affirming that government, through its police offices and police officers have no duty to protect. This is directly in contradiction of government's claim that its purpose is to "to secure these rights,", specifically, the rights to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.".
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Discussions; Public Archive / TG
« Last post by Dale Eastman on April 03, 2024, 05:20:12 AM »
Quote from: 2 April @ 1506
...Lol! When you were born and your parents signed your birth certificate, you became the property of the State, YOU are a Slave! Reminder..
ANYTHING you register, you give ownership to Government!
Quote from: 2 April @ 1637
When you were born and your parents signed your birth certificate, you became the property of the State,

Evidence? Quote the law making this so.
Quote from: 2 April @ 1653
I asked a very specific question about your posted and unsupported opinion.
Quote from: 2 April @ 1823
Dale Eastman...well, usually an adult, will see things that he regarded as something out of the " Norm " of what he has been told to believe, and will take it upon himself to research for him or herself to find out if it's true or not. This particular research will take deep research as those the voting cults vote into power have already changed what was thought of as prior knowledge. While you all were arguing over bullcrap that those who rule distracted you with, they commenced to rewriting history and creating more lies...for example: growing up and while in school, we were told that the Wright Brothers invented the Air Plane...NOW if you Google it, this is what you'll find...and is precisely why YOU must do the research if you really wish to know the truth as the majority of truth is either censored or erased! Here...take a look at whom they now say invented the Air Plane, not to mention many other inventions that we were " Schooled " on!
Quote from: 3 April @ 0638

When you were born and your parents signed your birth certificate, you became the property of the State,

You posted an unsupported opinion WITHOUT proof.

Your logical fallacy is burden of proof
You said that the burden of proof lies not with the person making the claim, but with someone else to disprove.

The burden of proof lies with someone who is making a claim, and is not upon anyone else to disprove. The inability, or disinclination, to disprove a claim does not render that claim valid, nor give it any credence whatsoever. However it is important to note that we can never be certain of anything, and so we must assign value to any claim based on the available evidence, and to dismiss something on the basis that it hasn't been proven beyond all doubt is also fallacious reasoning.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/burden-of-proof
Quote from: 3 April @ 0756
Dale Eastman ..Seems like you are asleep and aren't paying attention to what's going around you ...go find a post where your brain capacity can function at its sheep status!
Quote from: 3 April @ 0824
The bloviating opinion spewer indicates that logical thinking is NOT within his skill set. ✔
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Discussions; Public Archive / Re: PS
« Last post by Dale Eastman on April 03, 2024, 04:42:11 AM »
Quote from: 2 April @ 2011
Dale, what should it be?

Every good, and hour of labor, has some value (which we call utility).

We use money as a medium to arbitrate the differences in the values of those different goods and services.

So the dollar is worth a dollar. It’s a unit of measurement.

Your question is like asking “how long is a foot?” It’s a foot. Twelve inches.

Is it as long as a rock? Depends on the rock. It’s what we use to measure the length of other things.

A dollar is what we use to measure the utility of other things.
Quote from: 2 April @ 2013
There is only one thing which has a price which does not vary: taxes.

The US government issues the dollar, and it has the power to tax dollars.

So a dollar is always of the exact value (utility, actually) to satisfy one dollar of tax obligation.

That’s not a specious answer.

That’s fundamental to understanding how money works.
Quote from: 3 April @ 0734
I often have my wife read over my shoulder as a reality check. Her comment on this discussion was that you are just not "getting it".

I conclude that I have failed to communicate in a manner that you can understand.

ME:
⇉ What is the value of "one dollar"?
YOU:
Dale, what should it be?

Not what it is.
⛒ ⛒ ⛒ ⛒ ⛒ ⛒ ⛒ ⛒ ⛒ ⛒
Quoting Voltaire: "If you wish to converse with me, define your terms."

There are words, phrases, or terms being used in this discussion that have NOT been defined.
Undefined words, phrases, or terms allow equivocation.
Equivocation interferes with communication.

27 March @ 1150 I asked:
⇉ "What is "MONEY"?"
Quote from: 3 April @ 0822
Dale, you’re not being sincere.

You didn’t ask me what money is, or if you did it was on a thread about Ukraine or abortion, or buried in a wall of sarcasm surrounded by little pointy bullshit symbols.

Had you asked the fucking question, I would have been happy to answer.

I’m out.

If you want to drop the condescension (which is ironic, because it’s clear you know less than nothing about the subject), let me know.

But it’s impossible to discuss anything who bloviates with walls of text to say absolutely nothing.

Suffice it to say that I have answered every question, and you’ve responded with nastiness and immaturity.

Out.
Quote from: 3 April @ 0835
And I’ll part with a simple answer to the question you whine that you asked *DAYYYYS AGO* *SIIIIGHHH*, but never did.

Money is a tax credit which can be used to settle tax debts and all other lawful debts.

All you had to do to get an answer was stop acting like some sort of drama dude with special inside information as a result of being aware of a conspiracy theory which was nonsense from the day Griffin decided he could make more money hawking books about it than he could hawking fake cancer treatments to people dying of cancer.
Quote from: 3 April @ 0839
I've been publicly archiving our discussion on my website since March 26, 2024, 01:56:06 PM
https://www.synapticsparks.info/dialog/index.php?topic=1715.0
Your failure to follow this discussion is on you.
Quote from: 3 April @ 1422
Dale, and?
Quote from: 3 April @ 1423
“My failure to follow”?

lololol!!
Quote from: 3 April @ 1425
You’re not engaging in any discussion. You’re playing juvenile games.
Quote from: 3 April @ 1536
You’re not engaging in any discussion. You’re playing juvenile games.

The archived discussion indicates you were looking in the mirror when you wrote that.

The proper and correct definition of MONEY is something that is a measure and store of value.

Liars in banking and government don't want that definition to be used. It lays bare their BS.
Quote from: 3 April @ 1536
Dale, that’s not a “correct” definition.

It’s an ideological definition, and I already explained why that definition is both incorrect and harmful.

But you’ve spent so much time prancing around and not answering discussion points that you don’t even know what the hell is going on.
Quote from: 3 April @ 1550
Dale, you’re arguing that you want money to be a specific thing, then saying that what you want should be the definition.

Argument by definition isn’t argument at all, it’s a logical fallacy called tautology.

You said you had questions.

You clearly don’t.

You believe whatever the hell you want, no matter how illogical or specious.

I already pointed out just how factually wrong the one source you identified as is.

No answer from you.

You’re just reiterating nonsense by people who can’t even get their facts straight.
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Discussions; Public Archive / Re: PS
« Last post by Dale Eastman on April 02, 2024, 08:10:39 AM »
Quote from: 2 April @ 1043
YOU:
Why don’t you post an OP on the subject?
ME:
What the fuck do you think this is?
YOU:
Dale, never saw it. I wasn’t tagged.
ME:
You were, but Fecalbook being Fecalbook, So looking at it now, the tag is missing.
YOU:
Dale, never wait to check that stuff before taking the opportunity to insult people.

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𝟙. Please explain the insult you claim I made.

𝟚. You were tagged in the original thread where our discussion started:
29 March @ 1101;
30 March @ 0919;
30 March @ 1237;
30 March @ 1840.

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If I stuffed $4000 worth of Federal Reserve Notes in my mattress ten years ago, why are they not worth as much today as when I earned them?

That’s called inflation,

I know what the decrease in the value Of the "FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES" a.k.a. "LEGAL TENDER" is called. My error in not being specific enough with my question. What causes this "INFLATION"?

None of your following 260 words address this topic.

Since we have to choose between inflation and deflation, we choose inflation, for obvious reasons.

Who, specifically, is this "WE"? Who, exactly, are you presuming to speak for? Am I included in this "WE"?
Reminder, I did warn you that I am a pedantic asshole. Especially when it come to claims on the internet.

the value of a dollar

Is this a dollar like what you are referring to?


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Dale, not sure what your point is.
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We all know what a federal reserve not[e] is.

It’s a US dollar, in cash.
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Dale, not sure what your point is.

I will accept the blame for my apparent lack of clarity

We all know what a federal reserve not[e] is.

Who, specifically, is this "WE"? Who, exactly, are you presuming to speak for? Am I included in this "WE"?
Reminder, I did warn you that I am a pedantic asshole. Especially when it come to claims on the internet.

Further comment is held and reserved because I'm re-asking a question you missed:

What is the value of this "bill"?


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Dale, the value of that bill is one dollar.
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You’re obviously trying to head somewhere, and I’m pretty sure I know where you’re trying to go.

I’ve been to this rodeo 100 times before.

You’re asking the wrong questions.
Quote from: 2 April @ 1421
Here, I’ll offer a conclusionary teaser:

The US can never go bankrupt, never needs to borrow money, and only borrows money as a policy choice in order to manage inflation and interest rates.

The US, with its current monetary system, can never become Greece, or the Weimar Republic, or Zimbabwe.

However, the policies of people like Ron Paul, Peter Schiff, and others who think like they do, could easily turn us into any of those.
Quote from: 2 April @ 1441
You’re asking the wrong questions.

Your errant opinion is noted.

I ask questions to get answers. Your unwillingness/refusal to answer my questions says a great deal to me regarding your implied expertise in banking.

Dale, the value of that bill is one dollar.

What is the value of "one dollar"?
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Discussions; Public Archive / Re: PS
« Last post by Dale Eastman on April 01, 2024, 05:44:58 PM »
Quote from: 1 April @ 1838
//If I stuffed $4000 worth of Federal Reserve Notes in my mattress ten years ago, why are they not worth as much today as when I earned them?//

That’s called inflation, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s federal reserve notes or deposit account balances.

Some inflation is a desirable thing, as long as it’s moderate and stable.

There is no such thing as money which will never vary in value.

If money appreciates in value, then it reduces the value of every good and service, and of labor, over time.

So if money appreciated in value, here’s an example of what would happen:

If deflation were 6%, then the value of a dollar would double in ten years.

Let’s say you buy a house for $100,000. In 12 years it would be worth only $50,000.

But your mortgage on the house is for a fixed percentage rate. Let’s say that it takes you a week of labor, now, to pay your mortgage. In 12 years, it would take you two weeks to pay that mortgage every month, because you have to pay the same number of dollars every month, but the value of the dollars has doubled.

The bank is making out like a bandit, and your mortgage payment goes up, in real terms, every month.

With deflation (an appreciating dollar), you have to pay back your loan with dollars that are more valuable than the dollars you borrowed.

With inflation, you are paying your loan back with dollars that are worth less than the dollars you borrowed.

Inflation encourages investment.

Under deflation, hoarding cash is the best investment, which discourages investment in everything else.
This is why deflation is associated with depressions, and inflation is associated with growing economies.

Since we have to choose between inflation and deflation, we choose inflation, for obvious reasons.
Quote from: 1 April @ 1839
Dale, never wait to check that stuff before taking the opportunity to insult people.
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