Re: eggil’s tweet about Big Mac cost to hourly wage ratio.
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In Canada, the cost of a Big Mac in 1980 was $1.80. It was my first part-time job and I made $3.60 per hour, so I could buy 2. The Big Mac was introduced in 1967 in PA at a cost of $.45. It’s unlikely it cost only $.50 thirteen years later. My best estimation is that a Big Mac cost between $1.40 and $1.70 in the US in 1980. Eggil’s facts are a little bit off, but his point is taken nevertheless.
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Why Honest People End Up Trying To Black Pill You
They Are Still Being Influenced By The Godless Shadow Cabal Behind The Fake News
https://briancates.substack.com/p/why-honest-people-end-up-trying-to
BRIAN CATES
One of the biggest questions that circulates around the Trump/MAGA/America First movement is the question of why some people can’t see any progress towards the movement’s goals and end up being depressed and then trying to spread that depression around to others.
The common term for what I’m describing here is ‘blackpilling’, which a bit of a humorous take on the “red pill vs blue pill” theme first introduced by the groundbreaking film “The Matrix”.
While some accounts on social media are just s***-posting trolls out to get a rise out of targets, I’ve discovered many of those blackpilling on the social media webs are real people who are incredibly discouraged, burned out and depressed by what they see as The Enemy’s Inexorable March To Victory.
I wrote this column back in December to point out that looking constantly to enemy propaganda to measure your progress towards your goals is an incredibly bad idea:
https://briancates.substack.com/p/we-dont-need-the-fake-news-to-show
We Don’t Need the Fake News To Show Us The Great Awakening Is Winning
The Purpose Of Enemy Propaganda Is To Make You Think They Are Winning Easily And You Are Losing Badly
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“I’ll believe we’re winning when the FAKE NEWS SHOWS ME THAT WE’RE WINNING!” is an example of a real confusion of thought.
This shows a complete lack of understanding of what the enemy uses its propaganda for. They’ll NEVER show you any progress on our side if they can possibly help it.
And in our present situation we’re in a world where there’s a dedicated group of enemies determined to do their level best to hide from us what God is doing in the world. Every. Single. Day.
So the purpose of this column is to stress the point: that looking to God’s Mortal Enemies to show us evidence of God moving in the world in this Great Awakening in the daily propaganda they create and send out ‘cross the fruited plain is a self-defeating mistake.
And people committing this self-defeating mistake are going to feel and think a whole lot better once they stop doing it.
Black Pillers end up telling me “I don’t SEE it anywhere. I don’t SEE this Great Awakening spreading over the world that we’re always talking about. Where is it?
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yes, don’t think big mac was 50 cents in 1980. prolly morthan a dollar.