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Ikigai is a new word and venn diagram for me. Thank you so much for the speech, Yuri. I will attempt to show it to my 1996 born son. He's optimistic that the 3D gaming model printing and painting business he is trying out will be successful in hard times...( your older speech I occasionally try to sneak into messenger to friends). He's also fairly sure his Mom is a tinfoil hat wearing,occasionally correct, but fatalistic weirdo...

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I’m lucky. Neither of my kids will be graduating to these Fascists. They refused the jab and are wearing the same hat their mom is❤️

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Your kids are lucky to have you!

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It’s reciprocal 😁❤️

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Mine isn't lost...I raised him as a Libertarian-however- his gf of yests/new wife is a SJW...so she's done a lot of damage. He sways back and forth,but everytime his mom is right- and forbid! I often am about socioeconomic and medical issues- he admits it.

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Best wishes for your son. Hope he has the fortitude to stand up to his SJW wife, she won't fully respect him until he does. Only then will they have the foundations to build a happy family together.

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I can hope and will send toward him your best wishes. He's going to need them!

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I resemble that weirdo, but I prefer the term "Full Blown Cynic."

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Remind the previous speech you try to sneak into messenger?

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I agree with all the scrumptious advice, except wear sunscreen, that crap is full of toxic chemicals!

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Haha yeah.

Also

Ronald Reagan said a lot of stuff that he himself did the opposite of.

, “Freedom is never more than one generation from extinction”.

As he claimed slimming the government, he grew the corporate public private , aka state corporatism aka Fascist system.

Oh and Venezuela had food shortages because of sanctions (technically an act of war), because before then, the neocons signed up for IMF loans that made the country give up local farming and have to import food, "free market globalism" bullshit.

Oh and England stole Venezuela's gold, like the west recently did to Russia.

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Re: get married and reproduce first off YES, secondly Did you ever read Meg Jay’s book the defining decade: why your 20s matter? I thought it was quite helpful when I was young. I can’t crow too loudly because I indulged in extended adolescence to a degree and didn’t get married til 30 but I bought copies for my younger brothers 10 years ago, alas it didn’t take and now they are 35 and still single miserable manchildren. The crux of the book is your 20s aren’t just a decade long party where your choices don’t matter and you’ll suddenly & magically have the family and career you want when you turn 30 just doing what feels right. The choices you make in your 20s matter.

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Defining Decade is a fantastic book, far better than anything college students read.

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I love you Yuri. Best blog on the entire internet.

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You are too kind. We're just getting started, comrade.

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Don't forget to tell them to go get a job working for a Purdue grad. They obviously received an immensely better education.

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Keep an eye out for UATX (University of Austin). Will write a post about them. Hillsdale and St. John's are solid too.

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Nice one Tovarisch. Now add in a word to the males to stay away from plastic bottled water, get vigorous daily exercise, and try to build up a normal level of testosterone, before it is too late. To the females, it is okay to be a mom...and no, tattoos do not make you edgy.

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This could all be fixed if we just took away everyone's allowances...

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