The Left Does not Reason

[TheReal_ND]

How widespread is number 2?

Very, unless you are in Europe in a country where it is illegal. Do yourself a favor and give this a shot when you have time. He's using books and testimonies and specifically highlites the passages and shows them to you. It's a very logical well made documentary.

[DrYouth]

Not for me it doesn't. 1 and 2 are fine, and don't need 3. How widespread is number 2? I've never read about the numbers being exaggerated. It's just something I assume because, why should this be the one chapter in human history that didn't get exaggerated to make the loser look worse than he was?

Did you listen to Darryl Coopers Martyrmade review of the origins of Israel?
If you didn't, you should...

But basically it went beyond making the loser look bad... it was about justifying Israel as a homeland for the Jews to the British and the world... especially with the UN decision about partition or joint government of Palestine being so critical.

[TheReal_ND]

Well tbf the Jews in Israel really were almost genocided by the Palestinians. Fair is fair but manipulating the truth for maximum benifit while spreading white guilt and Marxism is unforgivable.

[KerningChameleon]

By the way, that whole "make work dig a ditch and fill it in again" idea? That's not me (just) being a condescending shit, it's actually happening right now to deal with unemployment in Europe:

At 9:30 a.m. on a sunny weekday, the phones at Candelia, a purveyor of sleek office furniture in Lille, France, rang steadily with orders from customers across the country and from Switzerland and Germany. A photocopier clacked rhythmically while more than a dozen workers processed sales, dealt with suppliers and arranged for desks and chairs to be shipped.

Sabine de Buyzer, working in the accounting department, leaned into her computer and scanned a row of numbers. Candelia was doing well. Its revenue that week was outpacing expenses, even counting taxes and salaries. “We have to be profitable,” Ms. de Buyzer said. “Everyone’s working all out to make sure we succeed.”

This was a sentiment any boss would like to hear, but in this case the entire business is fake. So are Candelia’s customers and suppliers, from the companies ordering the furniture to the trucking operators that make deliveries. Even the bank where Candelia gets its loans is not real.

More than 100 Potemkin companies like Candelia are operating today in France, and there are thousands more across Europe. In Seine-St.-Denis, outside Paris, a pet business called Animal Kingdom sells products like dog food and frogs. ArtLim, a company in Limoges, peddles fine porcelain. Prestige Cosmetique in Orleans deals in perfumes. All these companies’ wares are imaginary.

These companies are all part of an elaborate training network that effectively operates as a parallel economic universe. For years, the aim was to train students and unemployed workers looking to make a transition to different industries. Now they are being used to combat the alarming rise in long-term unemployment, one of the most pressing problems to emerge from Europe’s long economic crisis.

In a world of photoshop'd models, lip-syncing celebrities, fake news, and alternative facts... why not fake jobs as well?

[DrYouth]

Well tbf the Jews in Israel really were almost genocided by the Palestinians.

That's a bit of a stretch.
There were a few massacres... but genocided? It never came close to that.
The British had their backs... until the Israelis chased the British out... which was super ballsy.

[LVH2]

I think Charlie did something like this in It's Always Sunny.

[TheReal_ND]

I think Charlie did something like this in It's Always Sunny.

It's a cool uniform man.

[Okeefenokee]

Not for me it doesn't. 1 and 2 are fine, and don't need 3. How widespread is number 2? I've never read about the numbers being exaggerated. It's just something I assume because, why should this be the one chapter in human history that didn't get exaggerated to make the loser look worse than he was?

Did you listen to Darryl Coopers Martyrmade review of the origins of Israel?
If you didn't, you should...

But basically it went beyond making the loser look bad... it was about justifying Israel as a homeland for the Jews to the British and the world... especially with the UN decision about partition or joint government of Palestine being so critical.

I'm not done yet. Getting close to the end of the second to last, but I already figured the numbers were inflated, if that's what he's gonna talk about.

[C-Mag]

Sorry guys, couldn't help myself. Continue discussion.

[jbird4049]

By the way, that whole "make work dig a ditch and fill it in again" idea? That's not me (just) being a condescending shit, it's actually happening right now to deal with unemployment in Europe:

At 9:30 a.m. on a sunny weekday, the phones at Candelia, a purveyor of sleek office furniture in Lille, France, rang steadily with orders from customers across the country and from Switzerland and Germany. A photocopier clacked rhythmically while more than a dozen workers processed sales, dealt with suppliers and arranged for desks and chairs to be shipped.

Sabine de Buyzer, working in the accounting department, leaned into her computer and scanned a row of numbers. Candelia was doing well. Its revenue that week was outpacing expenses, even counting taxes and salaries. “We have to be profitable,” Ms. de Buyzer said. “Everyone’s working all out to make sure we succeed.”

This was a sentiment any boss would like to hear, but in this case the entire business is fake. So are Candelia’s customers and suppliers, from the companies ordering the furniture to the trucking operators that make deliveries. Even the bank where Candelia gets its loans is not real.

More than 100 Potemkin companies like Candelia are operating today in France, and there are thousands more across Europe. In Seine-St.-Denis, outside Paris, a pet business called Animal Kingdom sells products like dog food and frogs. ArtLim, a company in Limoges, peddles fine porcelain. Prestige Cosmetique in Orleans deals in perfumes. All these companies’ wares are imaginary.

These companies are all part of an elaborate training network that effectively operates as a parallel economic universe. For years, the aim was to train students and unemployed workers looking to make a transition to different industries. Now they are being used to combat the alarming rise in long-term unemployment, one of the most pressing problems to emerge from Europe’s long economic crisis.

In a world of photoshop'd models, lip-syncing celebrities, fake news, and alternative facts... why not fake jobs as well?

An indirect comment. We used to quality furniture and clothing in America with jobs that actually paid something. Now we import craptastic stuff that people often cannot buy because they're unemployed, underemployed, or underpaid partly because they don't make the stuff they're not buying. Then it's said that there will never be any jobs ever or they're all unskilled lazy whiners. There seems to be a disconnect here.

Are these fake companies a response to something similar? There must be something that they can make or do. If the employees at the fake companies must run them as if they are real, why not have them do something real?