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"Exactly! Only morons would fall for that. You've analyzed them correctly again. Since you're not in the swamp junk truck business, you wouldn't know this - but the best customers are from New York, Boston, and, of course, Washington, DC. I'm just practicing free market capitalism. Got a problem with that?

The only problem is the dummies falling into a pre-set trap. You do realize once they figure out you sold them a pile of junk, the geographic location & the ones who lied to them only serves to reinforce the existing image of the deceitful redneck types?

How can you then squawk when labeled such?

"I'm also illustrating a principle you might not have picked up on. As long as you act like a character from "Deliverance", they'll believe everything you say. Act like the stereotypical insults you and modernman mechanically parrot here are true - and you can string 'em along for as long as you like, about anything"

I would not even speak with anyone acting or speaking like some debauched character from "Deliverance" I also doubt 'moderman' or most normal people would. Forget-about it! lol You must be taking total dimwits just off the boat. Give me a break.

"Not only will they believe it all, the higher you shovel it, the more eagerly they'll lap it up. Just like now."

Even if I may not like someone I do not believe being a deliberately deceitful and dishonest. Those rats are on the corner with their five card Monty cons. What one dishes out someday is dished right back.

"Nothing at all - unless you intentionally become totally dependent for every need, and consider that a virtue and mark of superiority.

"totally dependent for every need.." in terms of what food, clothing, transportation, medical? How is a "mark of superiority" - I am not following you at this point.

"Yes, I'd trade that penthouse in a New York minute.

That's pretty quick on those closing costs! You have to be kidding? For a swamp? I am not buying it.

"In a real swamp (as opposed to a picture of a pond) someone with minimal resourcefulness and ability at self reliance can meet basic needs quite easily, without even working hard.

It looked like a creepy looking swamp to me, not a pond. Ponds are for swimming, maybe fishing, canoing, boating, picnics, kids playing - not being eating by prehistoric monsters! One's "basic needs" may not be the same as another man's.

"In that penthouse you are totally dependent on the efforts - and goodwill - of hundreds of "dirty" people for everything in your life."

What 'dirty' people? What "efforts", whose "goodwill"? That's crazy talk. The hicks way up in Upstate or Maine, N.H. etc, some of them do look on the dirty side, but most likely they are in farming or tradesmen. There is a crabby old bag now that you mention it, she is a 'dirty' *&^%% lol

Seriously, I do not comprehend the line of thinking presented as in this comment and the stuff about dumping the penthouse for what?

"Consider then, who is ultimately free, and who is ultimately the slave." Whom? Which people, where?

"The only problem is the dummies falling into a pre-set trap. You do realize once they figure out you sold them a pile of junk, the geographic location & the ones who lied to them only serves to reinforce the existing image of the deceitful redneck types?

Wrong again. To these people, these rusted out piles of junk are treasures to be coveted. They covet old swamp junk trucks so much that they bid each other up just to what to them is a treasure. When they get back, the word gets around about what a great low coat deal they got from me, and send more customers my way. I even get repeats. South Carolina gets rid of unsightly scrap metal, and money comes into the local economy. I use that money to create jobs by hiring people to scour the swamps for old abandoned trucks to bring in. Everybody wins. Everybody is helped. It's just patriotic capitalism. And you've still got a problem with it?

"How can you then squawk when labeled such?"

I didn't squawk. I defy you to find anyplace I complained about it. You can't, because you're just plain wrong. So either admit you're wrong right now - or produce such a reference. Failure to produce such, or failure to answer at all will be seen for what it is - admission that you've been caught again in devious rhetorical trickery. So go ahead, post your evidence NOW! Go ahead, for once in your life be a straightforward man. It's in you, isn't it?

"Even if I may not like someone I do not believe being a deliberately deceitful and dishonest. Those rats are on the corner with their five card Monty cons. What one dishes out someday is dished right back."

Oh, I like my customers. I'm very honest with my customers. I take a picture of the burned and rusted out hulk of a swamp truck and place an ad. I say right up front that the engine and transmission are seized up, the rubber is rotted, the axle is cracked, the frame is bent, the seats are gone, and the body is mostly powdery rust and barely fit for scrap metal. They know exactly what they're getting and they still want to buy. Where's the deceit there? The Deliverance accent is just to make them be more willing customers. That's advertising. And advertising is just business as usual, just part and parcel with capitalism. And you've still got a problem with that?

"totally dependent for every need.." in terms of what food, clothing, transportation, medical? How is a "mark of superiority"

Yes. Those things are good examples. Ask modernman how being dependent is a mark of superiority. It's his premise, and the mark he applied to himself. Just read upthread.

"That's pretty quick on those closing costs! You have to be kidding? For a swamp? I am not buying it."

Well, you bought all that stuff about the swamp junk trucks, didn't you! Guess I pressed my luck on the swamp thing. BTW, I hope you remember that it was you who originated this swamp junk stuff. When you made that comment based on your ignorant stereotypes, I decided not to contradict you on it - since you obviously know everything, right? Remember how I said that feeding the customers' stereotypes turns them into willing customers? Yep, it sure does. Yep.

"It looked like a creepy looking swamp to me, not a pond. Ponds are for swimming, maybe fishing, canoing, boating, picnics, kids playing - not being eating by prehistoric monsters! "

Don't be afraid. I know it's terror producing simply because a swamp is a natural places, but really, try to work on not being afraid of the natural, OK? And ya know, I don't think I'll hold it against you that you don't know the basics.

Prehistoric....... monsters....... Ohhhhhhh Kay.... Didn't anyone ever tell you that there aren't any prehistoric monsters in the swamps? Or anywhere else? Really now, you've got to stop taking those horror movies so seriously!

"One's "basic needs" may not be the same as another man's."

Food, clothing, shelter is what you need to stay alive. In a natural disaster anything else may be nice, but not mandatory. All right, I'll acknowledge that there are a few people like modernman who probably couldn't survive without toenail polish and caviar enemas, but fortunately they're rare. Might just be one.

"Seriously, I do not comprehend the line of thinking presented"

Well duh! We figured that out long before you told us, and you've amply demonstrated that inability many times. Clue: don't for one moment assume that you were more than incidental to anything that's been said here.

Would you like your bedtime story now?