HogsLife said:

Why would kid admit to it and why would his dad turn him in?

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748rpilot said:

All those words, to simply prove my point.

Your generation is incapable of confronting the idea that you may have, through no fault or accomplishment of your own, been recipients of good fortune.

Your post also displays a complete lack of ability to think beyond your own personal, anecdotal experience. Or, as my southern grandmother would say, "you can't see past the end of your nose."

I also notice that you rather conveniently decided not to address any of the verifiable, quantifiable financial data from my first post.

And in closing, I'll leave you with the irony of you stating you have no interest in showing me your dick, and then going on to do exactly that.

They did teach you about metaphors in the Golden days, did they not?

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Defiantly_Not_Bender said:

• After the assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, a conspiracy theory circulated that a private jet (registered N888KG) left Provo Airport shortly after the shooting.
• The owner of the plane, Derek Maxfield, has made a statement. He says the flight was pre-scheduled, had only two pilots at first, then later carried seven others on the return.
• The reported timings: the jet departed Provo at about 1:11 p.m. local time.
• Around 1:43 p.m., while approaching northern Arizona, the plane’s ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast, a real-time tracking system) signal was disabled or “turned off,” then later reappeared.

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Defiantly_Not_Bender said:

I bring receipts




I ran the numbers. I used U.S. federal minimum wages (1968 and today) and current spot gold to compute how many troy ounces a full-time minimum-wage worker could buy per week in 1968 vs today, and then calculated the annual income today that would be required to match 1968’s gold-buying power.








Key source numbers I used

• Federal minimum wage (effective Feb 1, 1968): $1.60 / hr.
• Federal minimum wage today (federal floor, still in effect in 2025): $7.25 / hr.
• Spot gold price (used for “today”): $3,648.25 per troy ounce (spot; source sampled Sept 2025).
• Historical 1968 gold market prices: after the London gold-pool stresses 1968 saw market prices above the $35 official parity; daily fixes cluster around ~$38–$40/oz for much of 1968 (I used $38.50/oz as a representative 1968 market average).

Calculations (step-by-step)








Assumptions: full-time = 40 hours/week, 52 weeks/year. Gold measured in troy ounces.





1968 (using $1.60/hr and $38.50/oz):

• Weekly earnings = $1.60 × 40 = $64.00.
• Ounces of gold/week = $64.00 ÷ $38.50 ≈ 1.6623 oz/week.

Today (federal minimum $7.25/hr and spot gold $3,648.25/oz):

• Weekly earnings = $7.25 × 40 = $290.00.
• Ounces of gold/week = $290.00 ÷ $3,648.25 ≈ 0.07949 oz/week.

Relative buying power:

• 1968 oz/week ÷ 2025 oz/week ≈ 1.6623 ÷ 0.07949 ≈ 20.9.
  So a minimum-wage worker in 1968 could buy ~21× more gold per week than a federal minimum-wage worker can buy today (using the numbers above).

How large would yearly income


today


need to be to match 1968’s gold-buying power?








Take the 1968 annual gold quantity (1.6623 oz/week × 52 weeks = 86.44 oz/year). At today’s spot price:

• Required annual income today = 86.44 oz × $3,648.25/oz ≈ $315,370 per year.

Equivalently, you’d need about $6,065 per week (which ×52 ≈ $315,370) to buy the same gold annually a 1968 minimum-wage earner could.​

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Maggot said:

I agree, but those seeds are still young and very tender, too much rain they drown, to much sun they burn. Likewise, not bieng strongly grounded, if theyre assauted too much by the media stirring up fear, or survival, those young seeds could be uprooted. The darkness knows that, thats why I wont be surprised by something major soon, to turn the attention once again. The attention span of the public is only as long as the media allows it to be. I'm old and set in my faith, I have little to lose, so they cant fuck with me too much. With a hearty
"Fuck You" I'd rather die than kneel. Those youngsters have their whole lives in front of them, and a lot to lose. I hope I'm wrong, we'll know soon enough.

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Terry Cross said:

I'm starting to agree about the scale.

I think by far the most influential characteristic of this movement will be the nominal age of his followers.

As I've mentioned here previously (because I'm old, forgetful and repeat things) his fans and followers are so young, the changes they can bring into society and family structure is an order of magnitude larger than if his fan base was 30 -60yrs old.

Think about it like this.
Basic physics dictate that even a slight lateral nudge on a moving object will change the direction that object travels. Even if no other forces nudge the object again, it will continue on the altered path and the further the object travels from the initial position where the nudge occured, the further away from the original path it deviates.

These youth have been nudged and they are just beginning their movement in life. Hell, some of them had no path at all. No mentor and no positive roll models, no direction. Charlie gave them all of that and more including an introduction to Christ.

All colors, all ages, boys, girls and even those confused. All social, income and even political leanings were embraced. He led by example and gave them a previously invisible path.

Just imagine where they might be in 50yrs versus if they had not been influenced by Charlie. They were already awakening but his murder Wednesday shook them to their core. It burned into their hearts just how serious the game is, how evil others can be and what is at stake.

So given the circumstances, I would agree that it will have far more widespread consequences than even 9/11.

The seeds have been planted.

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OldSalty2 said:

I don't think that rifle was down the pant leg. Still flex in the knee and I think the limp is fake. My bet is whatever rifle was used, it was placed before-hand or was in a backpack, which means the mauser is not the weapon that was used. Iffin you going to go through with this would you risk sneaking around a campus with a scoped mauser in broad daylight?

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Dead Eye Dick said:

I believe I am going to rebarreled one of my 6GT’s to Creedmoor and build it as a light rifle, mimicking, a Sportsman division, but since I’m no trophy winner and never will be again, I’ll just enter open. That is unless they create a class for 75 year olds and older who are blond, live in North Louisiana, are naturally good looking and were born in the month of October. Even then, I’d probably finish second in a one man class.

In a way, once upon a time something similar actually happened. The judge of a horse show had to literally run for his life. At the end of the Stake Class to determine the champion of the horse show, he judged them carefully, decided none of them were worthy of being the champion. The highest award he gave was for third place. There was some MAD folks that night.

Midnight Sun, the champion of champions of the Tennessee Walking Horse. Showing the natural running walk of the TWH before they began the soring and padded shoes and all other sorts of aritifical aids to make the “big lick”.

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Our Little Champion S Fashion’s Flirt could hit this lick and won many classes as a flat shot Plantation Pleasure horse. Never had to worry about taking her through inspection, she was never sored.

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Around 1990, plantation pleasure became very popular and the trainers starting soring plantation horses. Watching them,, they looked for all the world like the cartoon dog Goofy “walking’’ around the area. It was not long till we decided that it was time foe us to get out of the show horse business. Flirt was only 7 years old when she got her retirement. Won more blue ribbons than all of our other horses combined. She was the terror of four states. In her younger days, she even made the tie in the National Futurity.

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6.5SH said:

That's pretty wild, the AI generated stuff is getting more and more natural sounding.

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Maggot said:

I am absolutely astounded by the world wide celebraton of Charlie Kirk. The love and coming together of people is more than we'd see for Trump himself. I remember 9/11 and this is at least of that scope. @Terry Cross , I hope this Prove (s) Me Wrong.

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Rob01 said:

What issues are they causing? They don’t look too bad. Do you use a bronze brush when cleaning after a soak with a good bore solvent?

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