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From 5/31 to 8/21, I've put a thousand dollars on this credit card debt of roughly $5000. Only about $400 of that thousand has gone toward the actual debt rather than the interest.

I just wanna say this again because it looks so good: guy gets released from four years in prison for something he didn't do. He has nothing but a prison bag and an old chevy van with 240,000 on it
... the one thing the cops didn't illegally keep of his. Works, buys a used truck. Uses a credit card for the first time in his life to have a trans rebuild in said truck, spends $5,000, mechanic breaks truck, and is not legally obligated to fix it (for lack of proof). Guy, who can't advertise properly because of being branded a violent sex offender (to scare off customers), now has to pass up half of what little work he does happen to get because his truck has been immobile for months.

It's really quite elegant from an anarcho-illegalist's point of view if i may say so.

Imagine telling the world that it is wrong and nobody in it believes you. This is what happens when you have the quickening, mates. Most anarcho-illegalists have it. Some things are just no-brainers... like capitalism, a benevolent god, good will, justice, morality, credit cards, private business. But you have to have the quickening to know this. If you have it, these truths will be as sure to you as you are sitting there eating Ritz crackers, and you will be born again.

The question is not "what is the case." That question was answered forever ago. The question is, what shall the anarcho-illegalist DO now that this is the case. What about all the people who are just wandering around honking? Like when you're in a hurry and as you round the corner, there's like twenty canadian geese hobbling across the road. You lay on the horn and they actually start walking slower as if to say f*** you. That's what we're faced with here.

In any case, all philosophical theory should exist for the sole purpose of the aid and development of anarchy and illegalism. When there is nothing left standing, we will know we are done with it.

This is about 3.5 hours of work. Every cent i get for it will be spent on credit card debt interest.

https://youtube.com/shorts/MNWeiNPzWXg? ... NsqmLteC2c

Bonus: in addition, I made a couple hundred less because i don't have my truck to haul away the debris and have to factor in trash truck expenses in my price.

Lol they're like the wonder twins. One capitalist wrecks my truck so i have to lower my prices, and then the other capitalist takes whatever is left.

Seriously, try it some time. Build a deck and then give all the money to mastercard. No I mean GIVE IT to them.... not pay them back something you borrowed from them.

My god... these 19th century reclamationists have no idea. I'm gonna make these clowns look like charity workers.

That guy behind me is the customer. He's a landlord with three rentals in a row. Brand new Denali truck. His tenants (houses behind me) all mexicans with rusted out 2009 Altimas.

Question: which came first... the landlord parasite or the broke-ass working class Altima owner? I don't imagine one would end up with said Altima in a world where there were no landlords, would one? Rent is the reason you can't afford a car payment. Well, that and the artificial increase in the price of a car by the third-party capitalist... the 'middle-man'... which is all he is. Remove Musk from Musk enterprises and you'd never even notice. How's that. Because he doesn't do anything at Musk enterprises but sit around in black sport coats and tennis visor. If he wasn't Musk, he'd be working for Bill Gates for 80,000 a year and you wouldn't know he existed.

Shit that is a good question. How many broke-ass scumbags would exist if there were no landlords or capitalists in the world?

promcast #417, reverse mortgages, expat maritime sex offender tourists, and voluntary incarceration.

https://voca.ro/1cSEWjly8uvX

#418, when capitalists turn real-estate into a market... are YOU paying too much for YOUR house?

https://voca.ro/1koh18HLDPkh

The equity hoax. You're all excited 'cause you're fixin to sell your house and make a nice chunk. Incidentally, that chunk is about the same amount that you unecessarily spent to get the house yourself... so you're really not profiting retroactively speaking. You just spread your ridiculous mortgage payments out over such a long period that you didn't notice how ridiculous they were. When you sell the house, however, you see a huge chunk all of a sudden and, overwhelmed with joy, think you've hit the paydirt. Nah, bruh. You're just getting back what you've spent over the last twenty-thirty years so slowly that you paid no attention to it.

Read: two weeks and a house is ready to be moved into. How then can it cost 400,000 dollars? I thought you could get some 2x4s, a roll of carpet, and a few mexicans for around ten thousand. Where's the other 390,000 dollars? Is there a phantom mexican in there at like 25,000 dollars per hour or something? What am i missing?
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#419, On the cremation process and how to avoid being a suspect for poisoning your own mother.

https://voca.ro/1lbYHRY6c5NS

Watching the fights again. Please take this time to remember this epic event... certainly the greatest moment in heavyweight boxing history. Most of you will already know it. That night when a ferocious left hook changed the world forever. You know who he is. You try to hit em but he won't hold still. You try to back away, and he puts you on the ropes. The green shorts that just.... won't.... stop. When they called Drago's managers, they were like "nah we're good, thanks, though." No... not Sonny Banks. This left hook was perfect. Look at the launch.

And the faces of the ringsiders when the great legend goes down....

https://youtu.be/isLkzN3d7rA?is=XMBdbP8D8AOIeSPG

Ali said the only two dudes that could have caused him serious trouble were Liston and this dude right here. What he does is incredibly risky but fatally effective if it works. Look at the timing. He throws his punch when your punch is three-quarters through. You miss him... but you can't get your guard up when you're in the middle of a punch.

https://youtu.be/d2lJu-sQshE?is=77QkVod2kcWeWsRb

That's crazy that Liston took a dive for the mob. It was so obviously fake. When he gets up to one knee and then teeters and falls back down. I wonder if they even rehearsed that before the fight.

A good question: did Ali know it was rigged? I say no. The bravado is overdone. It looks real... like Ali actually thought he knocked em out.

Yeah I doubt he knew. In the post-fight interview he's bragging about that suspicious phantom punch. Claims any of us would have went down by it. Nah bruh. That jab had nothing behind it. Certainly not enough to send Liston down and rolling around like he's tripping on acid.

What are you talking about? Sonny hated needles! The fuckin' mob got in 'dere, got him drunk and OD'd em on heroin. That's what happened, Tony. Shylock baastads.

@ 1:30... that's what made Ali so pretty. Nobody did shit like that. Hands down, chin out, teasing the opponent to strike. Pure psychological warfare. Lotta suckas fell for that shit, went berserk tryna hit his ass and got they ass knocked out instead. Not Joe, though. Joe don't get tired. That n*gga keeps comin' and eats anything you throw at em.

In any case, blah blah blah about this phantom punch. Ali didn't have it planned and didn't set it up. It was an incidental defensive jab to break Sonny's assault. You also see that Sonny's rolling around doesn't reflect his state before the fall. He WASN'T fatigued... so this phantom punch couldn't have done all that... it wasn't a ringer, I'm tellin' you.

https://youtu.be/rqZlQ3IWX4s?is=dGOEqjOvcTx-U7BG

But nobody knew the ring like Ali. His orientation was always impeccable. He was never where he didn't want to be.

If you shut your eyes and walked backward across the ring would you know when you'd hit the ropes? You could blind fold Ali, spin em around like before a piñata, push him into the ring and he'd know exactly where he was.

If i was your coach, your whole first week of training would be nothing but bouncing around the ring blind folded. You'd get impatient, frustrated, wondering when you get to actually start boxing. You'd curse me... you'd wanna quit... but you'd trust me.

Also look at this. This is critical. Ali's counters. Right... but they're later than the Cobra's (Ezzard) counters. That's the distinction that earns the Cobra his name. He's already thrown his counter... he even steps into your blow. SNAP! He's there! What just happened? You took a swing and now you're seeing pretty lights.

@ 2:55. NO! Foreman was already wasted. You could have blown on em and he woulda fell over (Foreman was a big goofy powerhouse easily tired out). That's why Ali's counter had any substance. I'm tellin' you Liston was in nothing of the shape Foreman was in when he went down. Narrator bro should know this. I'm disappointed.

Marciano and Dempsey are both sayin' the shot was sufficient. Yeah? How much they payin' you guys? f*** outta here.

Id'a fought Marciano and Id'a beat em. Why? Because he's the textbook boxing caricature par excellence. Rocky, the flat nose thug from Broooklyn. A wise guy, huh? Hey Rocky... take this shmuck into the ring, etc.

This is why I would beat him. I would be so enthralled by the absurd purity of the situation that I would be empowered like a comedian who was going to finish his joke at all costs. Rocky has'ta go down. It HAS to happen. The universe wants this irony, and through me, it would make it happen.

@ 1:35. That's why Joe's the GOAT. You don't dare f*** with Ali like that. Only Ali does that shit... or so he thought. Watch Joe point em out: yeah, you mine, son. You already know.

https://youtu.be/jQhFhdmW6Vs?is=B5AmKDg2PWcxZQ5x

promethean75 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 25, 2026 12:10 pm Marciano and Dempsey are both sayin' the shot was sufficient. Yeah? How much they payin' you guys? f*** outta here.

Id'a fought Marciano and Id'a beat em. Why? Because he's the textbook boxing caricature par excellence. Rocky, the flat nose thug from Broooklyn. A wise guy, huh? Hey Rocky... take this shmuck into the ring, etc.

This is why I would beat him. I would be so enthralled by the absurd purity of the situation that I would be empowered like a comedian who was going to finish his joke at all costs. Rocky has'ta go down. It HAS to happen. The universe wants this irony, and through me, it would make it happen.

Floyd Patterson kept calling Ali by his old name, and before they fought Ali got into Floyd’s head with trash talk and that traveled to Floyd’s back, causing it to seize up for the fight, and Ali capitalized with punishment. Public trash talk was rather new to the gentlemanly art of fisticuffs, and the public perception of the stoic warriors. Probably that was because the trash talk the warriors knew was limited to words unmentionable in public at that time ... but now we have evolved to public figures cursing like thugs.

My FIL knew Rocky from the old neighborhood in Brockton. That makes four degrees of separation* between you and Rocky.

Of course Sonny took a dive. A short clip to the right place can knock out a man, but a trained fighter? They keep that chin down which encourages slipping the punch rather than leaning the head back like a kangaroo. One practice is to train holding a tennis ball under your chin, which should be a snap for all the yutes walking around with eyes on phone.

At the time, listening on a transistor radio, the cultural fight was between the establishment and the brash upstart who showed no respect. Not that many people were in Ali's cultural corner. I knew people who were, and it was a revelation that he won. Then when he defied the draft ... that defined a generation, on principle.


*Which as far as we know is a popular trivialization of “spiritual lineage” as a valid concept.