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Do You Dare Even Look? — Forecast 2024
Kunstler.com ^ | 29 Dec, 2023 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 12/30/2023 6:16:37 AM PST by MtnClimber

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To: MtnClimber

Good read. It sums up quite a bit of the madness we live under. 2024 will be a horrible year for everyone who is not independently wealthy.


21 posted on 12/30/2023 7:10:19 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: Nervous Tick

I like to upset leftists by saying that “CE” stands for “Christian Era”.

People that ignore the article because of the use of “CE” are shortchanging themselves.


22 posted on 12/30/2023 7:12:48 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

Thanks for the tip!


23 posted on 12/30/2023 7:25:04 AM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: wildcard_redneck

“People that ignore the article because of the use of “CE” are shortchanging themselves.”

“If I just cover my eyes over nothing I will be fine.”


24 posted on 12/30/2023 7:33:26 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk.


25 posted on 12/30/2023 7:41:25 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: wildcard_redneck

I like to upset leftists by saying that “CE” stands for “Christian Era”.
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Nice... I’m totally going to steal that.


26 posted on 12/30/2023 7:42:58 AM PST by hecticskeptic (Q. What’s the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth? A. About 6 months....)
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>> their own self-disgust, moral failure, peevish discontents, petty hatreds, willful profanations …

exactly


27 posted on 12/30/2023 8:08:52 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: AAABEST

I’m guessing CE was written intentionally because even the usage of AD would seem odd — the usage of either is irrelevant to the span of recent times. With respect to the existence of the Country, it’s not necessary to make the distinction between 2024 BC and 2024 AD. For example, we don’t refer to the birth as 1776 AD.

The usage of CE seems to be a mockery of the term itself.


28 posted on 12/30/2023 8:23:12 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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To: AAABEST

Per Wikipedia: “Kunstler was born in New York City to Jewish parents...”

Let’s ignore anything a Jew has to say if, because of his religious beliefs, he uses ‘CE’ instead of ‘AD’.


29 posted on 12/30/2023 8:34:43 AM PST by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: House Atreides

Thx. Good link to the same topic. I like to see comment to the post and not a bunch of I refuse to be informed because someone used CE vs AD. Mostly the comments have been I refuse to educate myself because is superficial BS so I’m going to show everyone how important I am by holding my breath, turning blue and …. Just stupid reason not to read something that educates band seems to align with most at FR.


30 posted on 12/30/2023 8:54:14 AM PST by wgmalabama (Censored. )
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To: MtnClimber

Still trying to figure out the Texas reference of “peccary testicles and mesquite pods” in the second line.


31 posted on 12/30/2023 9:20:25 AM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Gene Eric

“The usage of CE seems to be a mockery of the term itself.”

Finally—somebody gets Kunstler dark humor.

This thread—omg.

;-)


32 posted on 12/30/2023 9:27:27 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: SaxxonWoods
Yep. There's nothing like ignoring a sinking Titanic to keep it afloat.

"There's no place like home. There's no place like home..."

All of you Dorothys out there are in for some exceedingly unpleasant surprises.

33 posted on 12/30/2023 9:53:21 AM PST by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Deaf Smith
...Historians of the future, flash-frying peccary testicles and mesquite pods over their campfires...

The author is speculating that in a post-Biden America, even the historians might be living rough and trying to survive on anything they can find to eat. Ever see the movie "The Road"? Kinda like that.

34 posted on 12/30/2023 9:59:14 AM PST by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: AAABEST

“I never read a single word after an author uses ‘CE’ to mark time.”

Never heard of it. Just looked it up. What a load of crap, huh?


35 posted on 12/30/2023 10:09:55 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.")
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To: Max in Utah
>>trying to survive on anything they find to eat

Would be a very serious situation if the millions of Texas feral hogs have already been eaten and everyone is fighting for the remaining small populations of peccary.

36 posted on 12/30/2023 1:56:51 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: MtnClimber

My prediction for 2024: starting about a week into November, personal inventories of ammunition will begin a sudden and steep decline but, good news for reloaders, empty brass will begin to increase


37 posted on 12/30/2023 3:13:17 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: MtnClimber

About a third of the way through 2024 and I am not optimistic. It is worse than I thought it would be.


38 posted on 05/13/2024 6:25:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: AAABEST

“Sorry, but I never read a single word after an author uses “CE” to mark time.

Not interested.”

A perfect example, IMHO, of the olde idiom of “throwing the baby out with the bathwater”.

Very valid points worth considering in this article. Any knee-jerk refusal to even read the material is very closed-minded and short-sighted... and in doing so, you are doing yourself a disservice. JS...


39 posted on 05/13/2024 7:50:13 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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