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Last week in a podcast, Adam Carolla called this stuff "crate training".

As in, you can't get an adult dog to be subservient and go in the crate when commanded, but if you start them as puppies, they can be conditioned to do whatever you want for the rest of their lives. I thought it was a very good (and frightening) analogy.

FWIW, Lenin and the Bolsheviks totally knew this and totally did it themselves.

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long ago, 2 roads diverged in the animal kingdom.

and cats chose the road less domesticated.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/domestication

and today, that is why dogs have "owners" and cats have "staff."

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Anyone who's had a dog knows they have staff too. It's why we follow behind and pick up their shit.

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One of many advantages of living in the country with dogs, they are free to fertilize the fields. Now if I can only solve the the litter box task (but must say raw food has improved THAT task immensely).

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So did Hitler.

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"Cat" is always the correct answer. ;)

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This is... what am I looking at? What grade is this for? The answer set is essentially gibberish.

Also, why is the third picture the right answer? What's in the syringe? A vaccine? Heroin? Potassium cyanide? Sterilizing agents?

I think I get how these work. Let me try one:

"What is the basis of freedom?"

A) sweet potato

B) 496

C) seizing the means of production

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1st grade. (honestly, these mancubs are WAY behind kittengarten...)

https://twitter.com/Moms4Liberty/status/1442276251885088768?s=20

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I've watched enough cats yawn to know that B) is a pretty important part of health, too.

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Freedom is

A) Step stool

B) Mosquito

C) Slavery

Ignorance is

A) Puppy

B) Wedding Dress

C) Strength

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Actually, this would make a great game or puzzle, i.e., to find ways to justify each of the responses. When I was a test editor, I had to reject one proposed test because there would be too many ways a really creative person could answer each question. I've always wished that instead of rejecting it outright I'd suggested publishing it with a few modifications as a test of creativity. But of course such a test would have to require discursive answers instead of machine-graded bullet sheets, so it would have been too expensive to administer.

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Indeed - "freedom" in particular is contextually superfluid, though the political meaning is pretty solid as it refers to state action.

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A - Because a "sweet potato" or ocarina is a musical instrument that allows one to express oneself or even lead a protest parade.

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YOU'RE a sweet potato.

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I have a kitty who has lived 21 years and counting and he has never once received a COVID vaccine. So I think maybe that purring and chasing mice is a pretty good health routine by itself!

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Wait until CDC/WHO comes for your cats and dogs.

China did it. CCP hates household pets to this day: they "waste resources" and give people positive attachments to things that can't report on them to the police. They still write about how "decadent and American" having a kitten in your apartment is.

Watch the news for when they start backtracking with "new research suggests your family dog may be a COVID vector." Then buy a gun and let me know to save you a seat in Valhalla.

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Oh Fauci & co., tried it. And certainly areas/timeframe allowed where you were restricted to taking doggo out for walkies was unrealistic and for certain breeds it would be outright cruelty.

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Expect them to revisit pets as a plague vector after squeezing all the social engineering they can out of vaccination. It's another way to break bonds and get into our living rooms and further the "superdense urban lifeform with no intellectual or emotional connection to the living world" programming along with our food.

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Ah here it is: https://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/covid-19/pets.html

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They’re already coming for farm animals, working animals and pets because of climate change and animal rights. Seems like people get their ideas about animals from Disney.

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I've said similar in discussions about the vegan/vegetarian ideology. While I may have been a city gal, I received a good education in biology and I guess my parents did well in explaining the life-death cycle of everything in existence. Then when I got to college, my dorm was on the agricultural campus and I got to know a lot of farmers' kids who were there primarily majoring in various agricultural disciplines so as to improve life back home. Oh and I had family who hunted and fished.

Btw, YouTube is doing singe hinky shit with hunting and fishing channels. I follow a camping channel (CrazyQuady) and he mentioned it.

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If true that social media agents are trying to censor the knowledge of fishing and hunting, it will go down as the pinnacle of human stupidity. It will never be surpassed in history.

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I’m glad you spent time with farmer’s children and see what’s going on. What is You Tube doing with those channels?

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I would have circled cat in kindergarten...of course! And my 5 year old self would have written "covid is not a disease". Because at five I was smarter than Fauci for sure.

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In 2005 Organic Consumers & GMWatch folks caught Monsanto PR w false claims about gmo foods planted in workbooks & homework sheets in four states. Hawaii Ground Zero for gmo development was one place... Turns out the "educational publishing" sector & textbook racket have extreme influence. In many cases there's a hierarchy of compromised sources from the industry shills doing funded research to the journalists and journal editors who report. When Daszak's GoF denial was published in Lancet it was a routine use of this same network built on tobacco boys model. GMWatch has decent A-Z list of the industry orgs, fronts and frauds & huge intersection w animal health & vaccines. *sigh* https://www.gmwatch.org/en/myth-makers-a

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I'm not sure I agree about measles. I had it as a kid, as did all my cousins. We got through it and are fine. I guess I'm an old-fashioned, natural immunity type of kitty.

I don't think I've been without a cat or two for more than a few months at a time. Cats are the answer to everything.

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Agreed. Believe we just dated ourselves as older than our esteemed cat friend. Of my five siblings, only the one born in the 1960's had measles vaccine only. The rest of us went through all the childhood illnesses.

We're all still kicking around in our 60's and 70's.

Wouldn't be surprised, as in our current infectious agents, it is the metabolically unwell that are most susceptible to complications and death.

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Same here. Had measles, mumps, chickenpox as a child, got over all of them, and grew up with natural immunity, as did most of my friends.

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i'm not sure i see the equivalence here. sure, clearly, most people survived these diseases, but also, nearly everyone got them.

measles is perhaps the most contagious virus in human history. the R0 on it is around 18.

now, it's rare to find anyone with a case.

how is that not an argument that the vaccine has prevented the spread of disease?

the fact that recovered immunity stops re-infection (and it clearly does) seems sort of beside the point.

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Indoctrination...not education.

Truthfully, this pandemic response has made be rethink vaccines and other medical interventions.

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Illich's revenge on the society that ignored him.

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To be fair, "go to bed and get some proper sleep" could also be a broadly correct answer.

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What one should also learn in homeschool kittengarten

~ The State and its monopoly on "legal" violence

~ The State is capricious, arbitrary, predatory, and is an outdated form of social structure that needs to end.

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I was once an editor in a major publisher's mental ability test division, and I cringed when I saw this question. The question is framed badly, and either none of the responses or all of the responses could logically be defended as correct because of the nature of the question. Ugh. As a reviewing editor, I would have rejected the question and possibly the whole test.

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When I was a kid I always found that more than one of the responses on these kinds of tests would fit. I made a game of it- I tried to find an argument for each choice (almost always successful) Then I'd choose the one with the most attractive picture. I doubt I ever scored very well but I had fun making arguments for each picture. In this case here, I'd have certainly chosen the cat regardless of the question, but I doubt I'd have found an argument for their "correct answer" - namely the shot. The picture of the kid yawning would make sense, as another commenter here said - get a good night's sleep!

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My Mother took me & siblings to chickenpox party & I did same with my kids.

Despite having had each virus, we also all got MMR vaxd ... back when it was done with attenuated virus grown in egg whites. Because of natural immunity none of us ever had reaction to vax.

This man made virus (not even slightest doubt) and it's rushed, mRNA, EUA vax are different animals & I am avoiding both with help of IVM.

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Cats are therapeutic. Cats are always the right answer.

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For measles, I’d rather do a high dose of high quality emulsified vitamin a, as well as c, d, and zinc, herbs like Chinese Skullcap, elder, ginger, isatis, licorice, kudzu, and black cohosh. And keep up with our usual b vitamins, and other supplements as well as a nutrient-dense diet including broths and ferments, sunlight, exercise and movement. But that’s what I’d rather do for any illness, and experience has shown our family that the amount we need to use the medical system (some might say overwhelm the medical system) gives that same system a lot less power over us.

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"For centuries the measles virus has maintained a remarkably stable ecological relationship with man. The clinical disease is a characteristic syndrome of notable constancy and only moderate severity. Complication are infrequent, and, with adequate medical care, fatality is rare. Susceptibility to the disease after the waning of maternal immunity is universal; immunity following recovery is solid and lifelong in duration."

- First paragraph of the CDC's *own proposal* to launch the first measles eradication campaign in 1967. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC1919891/

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*A campaign which failed entirely and is still failing to this day!

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Paul Saladino and Robb Wolf had a recent conversation on Covid and our esteemed cat is featured reference. The video is on rumble.com for those interested.

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can you please post a specific link?

always curious to see where cats wind up.

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Here it is http://bitly.ws/gLWx

Paul and Robb would both love to talk with you!

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I know! And I think our author is a woman, based on the hand holding that paper. Not that gender is anything but a social construct, of course.

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while that's certainly impressive sleuthing miss susanna, the picture comes from here and that is not our paw.

https://twitter.com/Moms4Liberty/status/1442276251885088768?s=20

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I don't know, Gato. I have seen it said many times, especially by Twitter bluechecks who are purveyors of all knowledge and truth, that Republicans are very good at pouncing... and seizing.

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They are going to want to censor you again. I trust you have plan A, B, C......Z. Stay on air.

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This is the best you can do when the governor of NY State claims that the covid vaccines are from GOD ad she implores us all to be her Apostles in carrying forth this message ???????

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When she uttered that statement, I was hoping for a bolt of lightning at that moment to find her...

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You need to read the other article he posted.

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I did, right after that one. Such great info, but so depressing...

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Cat!

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purrfect

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♥️ for Top Cat 👍😀❗

"HEY TC!"

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I highly recommend reading Rudyard Kipling's "The Cat Who Walked Alone."

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