I am with you on that one (needing civilization, I am not as tough as I used to be), Sam-I-Am. That is a big reason I stepped in around 3 years ago when I came to the realization that the friendly and welcoming site I had followed and posted occasionally on for some years, was now a toxic cesspool of insults and memes. I thought removing personal insults was the cure. It sure took a fight. I have been pleased to see me and others here (Thank you all so much, I could not have done it alone.) were able to make a difference. I know we did because there are many unfamiliar names I am seeing posting now when before many were afraid to say anything without getting insulted for sharing an opinion, or people actually posting that they were leaving because of the toxicity. The success here actually does give me hope for the country at large. If we can get both sides talking respectfully to each other (not at each other) at more places than just a coin website we can still save the United States.

That is all right, Dazed and Coinfused. Remember that happened to me once before when we were discussing stocks. I was not going to redo it after all the time I had spent on the first one, and they do not tell you what the reason is for the review. I do not know if you noticed, but I pretty much answered my own question to you when I pumped out a long post of my own in reply to Jeffrey Schwartz on another thread.

D & C,

I feel for you…your country as you see it is falling apart & you feel useless to stop it. You are worrying, & obsessing on large issues you have no control over. My best advice is to talk to a professional LPC & find out why you issue very long, stream of consciousness manifestos online here & probably elsewhere that have nothing to do with a coin news website. I am guilty of falling for it because I am a “caretaker” or “Jewish mother” type of guy. But, I don’t have all the answers either. I have benefited greatly from white privilege all my life & I try to give back as much as I can. I am a proud, gay, Jewish, Democrat & an avid Numismatist. I wish you Peace, Love, Unity & Respect (PLUR).

NUMISDUDETX

Jeff Legan-

Re: “How else can we remain the United States?”; my opinion is that it isn’t very likely, long term. Nationally, we seem to more divided than at any other time since 1860. Given how well that turned out, I fear for the future of the U.S. and the world. Without a strong America, many other democracies around the world seem likely to fail. I’d really hate to see the Balkanization of the U.S. lead to three strongman world powers- America, Russia & China.

I’m old enough to really need civilization, so I fear that which threatens it.

The victims are the ones that rely on subscriptions and Influences to tell them how to think and to parrot out of context or censored information and blindly follow. Those unable to think for themselves and indoctrinated. They will be quickly round up and become the batteries for the matrix. And agent Smith didn’t even explain the reason for the censorship. That’s when they’ll strip you of the innocent until proven guilty right and try and execute you for nothing.

I replied. Showed waiting approval. Apparently 1st amendment freedom of speech (nothing errant, nothing derogatory, nothing personal) is trumped by the freedom of the press. Shame really. As I believe the reply was longer than my original post. Not the first time.

Only issue with metal. It’s metal.

And besides, Kaiser, they’ll only buy more at lower prices. Buy low, sell high!

Just curious, Dazed and Coinfused. How long did it take you to type this one out? It would have taken me probably 10 hours or more to put together this volume of material. Anything I would say that is not opinion and is fact checkable and I am not 100% sure I am correct, I would verify with some searches on the internet before posting. I do not always agree with your posts, but this one for example, would probably take me a full day or more to verify/respond point by point, and give my own opinion to your opinions. Most people have a few voluminous speeches to post here before they get them out of their system, I figured you would have gotten these out of your system by now. Not a criticism, more like amazement. It is your business how long your posts are, if anyone feels they are too long, they do not have to bother reading them. That is why I am curious as to how long this took you. I have posted some pretty long ones myself. I probably have come close to the length of this one before (and I think it did take me around 10 hours), but doubt I have ever matched or exceeded it. Not sure how and why Seth’s routine post about the price of gold triggered your first purely political post here (the rest are obviously because Seth responded to your first one), but anyone who knows my stand would know I do not care about that, I feel we should be able to talk about anything we want here. How else can we remain the United States? I just want everyone here to remain polite about it, and refrain from insulting each other. I do not always read every one of your posts (I admit I have only skimmed a good number of them), but as far as I know, you have done a good job of leaving personal insults out of them. I mostly do not care about occasional insults directed towards Biden or Trump or any other politicians (you certainly do this. I think they can handle it. Don’t want to ever be insulted? Making sure you stay out of politics would be a great start) unless they are factually incorrect insults, in which case I may weigh in. This post took me around 45 minutes mainly because I re-read my pre-posts many times to make sure it is coherent, I didn’t drop any words, etc. And many times, even after all that, a minute after I post it I notice I still missed something, or transposed words, etc.

I’d literally have to become a Democrat and take $100k. Lord knows honest living ain’t propped up my bank account to those levels. Maybe because I paid my bills and paid off student loans and spent thousands getting my wife here legally and even more getting her citizenship and paying for classes to improve her English. Not to mention paying for permits to repair and fix my house, buying materials instead of stealing them from other jobsites, and paying taxes and car insurance. Getting a honest job that pays $15 bucks an hour installing ductwork even with 12 years experience instead of selling drugs and dodging taxes, or robbing luxury stores and selling on eBay. Dang shame they’ll have to pay taxes if they make more than $600 a year now. Oh right, black market, just like black wall street. Members only club.