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  1. Jacob E Mack

    Jacob E Mack Well-Known Member

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    Hello all! My name is Jacob Mack, I am 41 years old, and I have a passion for domestic and global politics, economics, finance, and foreign policymaking. Some of my subscriptions and reading material are: Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy The Economist, Barron's, Forbes, WSJ, NY Times, Financial Times, The Meritocracy Trap and a host of academic journals. For leftists I am too rightist, for rightists, I am too leftist :) I consider myself centrist or slightly left of center and I tend to vote Democrat, but I am not a fan of the current President or Bernie if that gives you an idea. I have a B.S. in Psychology, and an MBA International Business and I am working on a PhD BA-Finance. I enjoy in-depth conversations and cordial, but robust debate.
     
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    Sallyally Well-Known Member Donor

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    Welcome. Your flexible outlook will be appreciated here.
     
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    Welcome sir. It will be nice to interact with someone who actually reads credible info. Cheers
     
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    Welcome.
     
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    Welcome :) although I doubt Ill be able to keep up with your more educated conversation :(
     
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    Welcome! We're glad to have you and look forward to reading your thoughts.
     
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    Education can be useful, but this does not mean we cannot have equally intelligent conversations.
     
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    Thank you Adfundum!
     
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    Welcome Jacob :)
     
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    That is so egalitarian of you. Welcome.

    PS - Most people here are fairminded and behave in line with the rules.
     
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    I very much look forward to your contributions....Welcome.
     
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    dated someone that made the same claim...

    turned out she wasn't virgin nor happy with anything
     
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    lol
     
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    Welcome Jacob!
     
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    Greetings and welcome.

    Politics becomes far less complicated once one realizes and acknowledges that all parties involved are equally flawed.
     
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    Welcome to the forum, jump right in and mix it up :)
     
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    Welcome.
     
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    Same for me. I sympathize with liberalism. I'm a simple guy who likes or dislikes something and who doesn't follow ideologies.

    BTW, you're welcome here. :)
     
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    Pretty much the same here, more or less a centrist.
     
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    May centrists are blessed! :)
     
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    With loud criticism from both sides.
     
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    And yet if it were not for the existence and criticism of the extremists on both sides of the political divide, those in the middle would eventually expand to fill those voids and become the extremists themselves.
     
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    It's more likely that extremists change sides. Centrists are more stable. :)
     
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