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I swing between "this is so crazy that of course we can fight it" to "the crazy people have so infiltrated the power structure that we're doomed." I think you're right on the why and *hope* you're right on the how.

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I too swing between those two thoughts. In the long term, I think the woke extremist mindset will implode spectacularly.

I see it this way: Their ideology demands adherence to the group and any dissent is regularly excommunicated. Thus, they regularly eject any sort of internal moderating force in the ideology. By definition they will get more extreme. As they get more extreme, it will be (already is) more challenging for them to refill their ranks and their numbers will dwindle.

This process will start slowly, but accelerate dramatically. Therefore, their ideological cult will get smaller and more extreme until it completely falls apart in dramatic fashion. I tend to think they have gotten to the point where the belief system is already so extreme they are net shrinking. It might not be very long until "Woke" is the 4 letter word society-wide that it should be.

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Will it? Isn't that what we've been saying for the last 40 years?

We are getting far enough away that I'm not sure we have a "way back machine" that will be able to remember what it was like to live in a free country.

Because of this, I feel like we need a sense of urgency. We have lost so much time by just wanting to be left alone.

I have never felt so alone and never been so alive in trying to get back to a place where I'm comfortable with just wanting to be left alone.

In my view there's lots of work to be done in order to get back to that place. Woke is just a symptom of control.

What we are fighting against is the government controlling our liberty and autonomy. Woke is just one way to label your rights, etc. as anathema to the collective good.

IMO there's a very long runway for progressively abusive measures to control our lives.

Will the runway run out? Yes. To a cliff. By then it's too late.

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"Will it?" -- My greatest fear...it won't. At least while I'm still alive. --- I'm so glad, the majority of, my relatives who lived through the Depression and WWII are no longer around to see this mess we're in. They would be heart broken.

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They would ridicule us. They would not understand such cowardness.

I know that's how my 94 year old grandmother feels.

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Is it being a coward or simply being lazy?

A lot of what I see is "go along to get along." Is that cowardice or laziness? Or both? IDK. But that describes a number of the liberals that I know.

Conservatives... not so much.

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I agree, most of us were probably just lazy until covid woke us up! NO MORE ,NEVER AGAIN!

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You are correct. Maybe we deserve it.

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I think that all the time about my father and his brothers who fought in the Korea war and loved and believed in their country.

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My cousin that was in Nam. ....But he's a doctor, so maybe he's ok with it.

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Maybe we needed them to be alive in order to put the brakes on. My parents are of the WWII era. My mother spent 2.5 years in a Japanese prison camp in Indonesia, her father died on the Pekan Baru railway. My father was in the bowels of an aircraft carrier at the age of 18, doing his "bit" for our country. I would love to know what they would have thought of all that is going on and whether they would have seen through it all.

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Putting on the brakes. --- Maybe that's why now. Most of them are gone. The ones left are late 90s to 100 and over, so what can they do, besides cry and mourn? I saw a video of a vet from WWII on Utoob. He was crying, because of what "they" have done to us. It was one of the saddest things I've seen.

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"I have never felt so alone and never been so alive in trying to get back to a place where I'm comfortable with just wanting to be left alone."

so true

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We have seen many examples where it hasn't imploded, at least not for a long time. Soviet Union - 70 years - not until a Fourth Turning for them. N. Korea - going on its merry way - boots on necks of it people. China - going on its merry way - boots on necks of it people. Religion based states seem to last millenia. But this is a time of technocratic fascism. yet to see how well it will persist.

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Agree on the historical points.

But, we may be in unchartered territory. Look how fast things happened during Covid.

A new baseline has been established in the US. That's my new viewpoint on how this may or may not play out.

The other thing that is curious and I can not find another example in history; is that, to some extent, the media has captured the "power" centers.

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More to your point, Ryan, is how readily accepted the COVID power grab was. Fully half of the U.S. populace (and even higher in Europe) signed on day one and eagerly narced on their neighbors who might not conform. Remember when Cuomo, Whitmer, Newsome, et al, were encouraging their constituents to report non-compliance? It was the return of the Stazi.

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I agree. What was more shocking to me is only 1-2% of ALL people truly spoke out.

That spooked me.

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All it took was to frighten the people. How easy is that?

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The events may be playing out rapidly, but the lead up to 2020 and Covid has been building since the early 1970s = The club of Rome, Henry Kissinger and his student Klaus Schwab, The Rockefeller Foundation, then Bill Gates once he established his immense fortune. WEF and their young leaders initiatives. We also must not forget Soros. China has been part of the WEF since 2007, at least. This three act play is still ongoing and I am not even sure what act we are witnessing. I think we are watching betrayals between some of the players as they jockey for world dominance.

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Boy that is true. Kissinger was saying it out loud 50 years ago!

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OMG Ryan! I totally agree, I used to think eventually these woke assholes would start eating their own, but now our own government is turning on us too. Our great awakening can't come soon enough! I sure hope I live long enough to see victory! We need and must be victorious if not just for us but our children and grandchildren!

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Yeah, and I don't think we get "back" to a place. I think we get to a new place. The whole idea of wanting to be left alone--which of course sounds great, is what I want too--is also I think in the selfishness/complacency/apathy sections of the Tytler cycle, which seems a pretty good description of why we are where we're at now, and unfortunately a possible indicator of how far we have to go to get to that place of courage and liberty. I too, see a LOT of work to be done, a lot of potential for things to get worse before more people are won over.

But I live in CA and thus with a very dark version of government that will not leave me alone--which I aided and abetted, I guess, by not being more civic-minded from a very young age. I admit--I was selfishly striving to just, you know, live (be left alone), and assuming gov't was kind-of-a-pain-and-a-joke-but-the-best-we-can-do-hey-at-least-we're-not-in-N.Korea-China-or-Uganda.

My skepticism about the center's potential for sanity? Here's one reason why I doubt: The college at which I used to lecture, pre-mandates, was STILL mandatorily masking until last week. I got an outraged letter from my former union (they seem not to realize I'm no longer a dues-payer), who is of course vehemently protesting this mandate rescindment as all kinds of toxic and unfair and harmful and inequitous etc., and of course lobbying for remote teaching and paid leave for those who feel they cannot work around so many virulently naked faces.

I left. All of them in my department stayed. I'm just not feeling any tangible Overton shift.

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Agreed. Look at Mao, Stalin, et al. People in their countries said, "The pendulum will swing back, this is a phase, it will burn out."

People in this country said, "Those crazy college kids will grow out of it."

It didn't. They didn't.

We have to get active with our time and treasure and get the Marxists and Technocrats hands off the levers of power.... or we will be doomed to decades or centuries of increasing pain.

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Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing. Progressive brought forth the death of God and liberation from everything. Denied heaven above we create it here with relative morality. As Kingsnorth wrote, Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks wants sacrifice. This woke anti-Christ wants the opposite of transcendence.

This imperfect world, these imperfect people — they must be improved. Progress wants to replace us. Will we let it? We are already at the stage of mutilating the minds and bodies of children.

A hell on earth is upon us and so those of us yet holding to a He-ology can only vigil with the good folks while me-ology brings the fire. Once they are consumed by the fire of the 4th turning He will reign once again.

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4 letter word added to the swear list

Soon you will hearing not F you

But Woke You ☕️

Woke goes broke it’s happening everywhere….

The extreme has crossed the line

Lies eventually run out of energy

Bc there’s no substance to nourish

The hollow premise or argument.

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I can hardly wait to use that: Where in the woke have you been? What in the Woke is going on here?

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I thought "Woke U" was where they schooled?

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Do they have a football team? W.U. from the State of Transgenderism. South of the the State of confusion. north of the State Victimhood. East of the State of Hypocrisy. West of the State Planet Me.

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The football team are called the "Wide Receivers".

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They run a western wide spread O and for the D go to the "You're a Racist" Card.

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We have an opportunity on November 8th to stop this madness. Everyone needs to vote for AMERICA FIRST candidates.

Even if you have never voted republican before, we have no choice now. I believe It is the last and only chance we have.

ivoterguide.com offers background on the candidates. Please do your research

However, it is apparent the Republican National Committee is equally beholden to TPTB, as evidenced by Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy’s many failures to push back against the medical and economic tyranny of the past 2.5 years. Plus their support of outrageous Democrat economic plans. They need to be ousted from leadership when the Republicans retake Congress.

Even more telling is the RNC actively blocking political outsiders- “citizen” politicians, ex-military politicians, and those who have a sincere desire to serve the American people and support the constitution.

The current Republican leadership is a barrier to those who sincerely want to support our American way of life.

We owe it to ourselves to know who on our ballots on

November 8 are America first candidates.

People like Kari Lake in Arizona, Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania, and the all important Secretaries of State: Marc Finchem in Nevada, Jim Marchant in Nevada, Kristina Karamo in Michigan.

Also, Moms for Liberty supported candidates for local school boards to take back parental rights and roll back CRT and gender madness in our schools.

We need to be active, knowledgeable, vocal and committed to electing a new breed of leader. ElectbCritical thinkers and patriots. People who love America and our Constitutional Republic.

https://precinctstrategy.com/ Is a guide on how to work at a local level to force change.

And the senators: General Bolduc in New Hampshire, JD Vance in OH, Blake Masters in Arizona, even Dr Mehmet Oz, who is a far better option than Fetterman. Ron Johnson is up for re-election and the Dems are funding his opponent with millions as he is a threat to the vaccine mandates and coverup of vaccine injuries.

We have to vote!! We have to beat the cheat!! The leftist Dems can ONLY win if they cheat. The can not win on their policies; too many eyes have opened. They need to tilt the election as freedom loving Constitutionalist are the 2/3’s majority.

We can not let them!

We need politicians who will stand in the breach and work against the entrenched administrative state; the swamp; the Uni- party; the powers that be; all in cahoots with the WEF and the globalists who seek the destruction of our liberties to roll out their NWO.

We need to up our game as keyboard warriors and become poll watchers, republican party committeemen, walk door to door for America first candidates, contribute to America first candidates, encourage others to vote for America first candidates.

There needs to be a populist uprising like never before on November 8.

Just such an uprising is happening this week in Sweden, in Italy and in Brazil.

The people have had it all around the globe.

My prayer: Please God, guide me and my fellow Americans to have courage, stamina and wisdom on November 8 th. Please guide us to make wise decisions that we may elect the candidates who return us to our God-given inalienable constitutional rights.

And please guide other citizens around the world who are also suffering from growing tyranny. May they also turn out in waves and vote for leaders who are worthy.

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Amen. Let the Red Tsunami begin to flood the country with better leaders who Take America First needs First.

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The only thing a Red Tsunami will do is put fear into government employees that they can lose their jobs. That's it. The leadership will continue on unabated. All shot mandates will continue. Everything will be the same until the Blue Tsunami next time., which will result in everything being the same again. The only benefit to voting is firing people whose only concern is keeping their cushy jobs. As for change in this country trickling down to the plebes - nah.

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Well your ideas and comment live up to your name.....we shall see...me thinks that the wave is just a reflection that people are actually waking up. I disagree i think your attitude is fatalistic..nuthin changes then go and stay the same i really do not care. Me thinks the only way out of open borders, inflation, climate crisis BS vaxxines is by MAGA and it may not be perfect but go ahead vote blue and cry a river nuthin changes the only way things change is when you do then things change ....

disband all 3 letter agencies, build damn wall, punish crime ...suggestion go live in another country then or just keep i aint buying you poor me nuthn changes bet a dollar first thing we need is election integrity VOTE Voter ID VOTE day assess true nature of Publics will...

leadership like the blue cities that have turned into drug infested homeless camps... go blue i do not care A name like Napolean small man disease nuthin changes .....

maybe your right but i aint buying your poor me ..you aint paying attention.... IF we have elections Nov 8th and thats a question.....

cushy jobs .....maybe that might change to....i look at this as 12 years of RED Tsunami in that time

some real changes occur. go ahead and vote for biden ,....every dollar you spend is a vote,,,every decision you make is a vote .......i disagree with you 110% and time will tell come visit in a year and tell me that.

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additionally I started out this whole affair being a democrat.

Then just decided the anti Trump was well I started changing what i watched..

tell me the last 2 years have not been absolutely disastrous...

this reminds me in a home crisis to stay would be nuthn changes..to leave for anything than that was not only difficult but necessary for any self esteem...

biden democrats the blue wef global pradators have brought this fuckery...i am not staying in this house ....

Napolean who you voting for do you agree the last 2 years have been

1. stolen elections

2. Afghanistan

3. closing pipe lines and oil fields

4. Border crisis

5. BS climate change

5. the mandated poisonous vaxxine while people have been isolated gas lit and now dying everywhere at all ages

6. Inflation ....you just say nuthin will change ...well with that attitude vote blue or embrace something that is bigger than any of us .....

for an An America we have lost over the last 20 years ....J 6 ...mostly peaceful riots while blm antifa run amok

and the woke culture is offended at even suggesting that GOD made boys and girls....

dude ...do not get me started .........

cause I have seen what nuthin changes brings Tyrants who abuse their power

ask trudea

ask Newsome

ask Kamala btw where in the F is kamala on the border?

and why the F are we sending billions of $$$$$$$ to Ukraine ...

oh things are always Changing

and Bring on 10,00 changes .....

and play the game nuthin changes ...

I am not playing that poor victim game.....

i left that house long ago.

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One more thing to consider when all these people realize getting the mandatory vaxxines are the true reason for their sufferings and death not only will your blue tsunami never happen but the blue party who has mandated promoted prospered

From fraudulent fuckery will be found

Not on a wave but under a wave

Napoleon you put that in your pompous

Pipe and think about that

And while you do that warm the blue

Propaganda press too bc they will and have

Been leading the charge and cover

And btw FJB

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Well said!

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As Ryan asks, really? From George Orwell:

"Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don’tonly want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life. ... Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people ‘I offer you a good time,’ Hitler has said to them ‘I offer you struggle, danger and death,’ and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet."

The harder they make things, Orwell says, the more they attract people to them. Odd, but I've seen it in life.

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My concern at this point is not with the hypnotized populous (except to the extent that there are those I love and care about among them), as I agree that as the left becomes more extreme it is shedding anyone who retains a modicum of sanity, and that doesn't even take into account the fact that they, being so willing to be injected with the deadly spikeshot, will suffer a higher mortality rate. Here in NYC, at least, I'm sensing an on-the-ground shift among many people away from the craziness, or at least a softening of it.

My concern is with the psychopaths and blindly corrupt useful idiots who still hold the levers of power, have no intention of giving them up, and are signaling that there are no lengths to which they won't go, that there are no moral, ethical or even rational boundaries they will recognize. I'm not sure how to deal with them.

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Very well said.

Not to be overly critical (rarely am) of Gato, but there is literally no distinction between the extreme Left and our institutions.

That's my point in regards to the potential for evil.

The institutions foment hate and depravity.

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The last line of defense for a peaceful and rational person is laughter. Satire and laughter are our best tools against those irrational, delusional tyrants.

Laugh at them, it is the strongest tool we rationalists still have.

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Re shedding you may want to invest in some ivermectin 1. 2. Imho the best thing to do is stay calm you realize that these people have no desire to give up their power. And they will have done everything to scare the s h I t out of everyone. Fear and doubt are the enemy as long as they can get under your skin they win. You

Got this far!!! As Emerson would say what is in you is greater than anything out there.

You have to ask in prayer for strength

This to me is a spiritual war. Find people

You can hash this out with. Prepare with

Extra water food best ya can. I don’t know if you’ve ever faced a bully but sometimes

There’s something inside that refuses to be

A victim. Find that self. Me thinks most

People are terrified of confrontation

Just adapt ask practice an attitude that

You are not going to be intimidated.

It’s also good to look away at times not to

Get infected.,do things you love developing a mantra of your choosing mine is I deserve

Better and I am old enough to not give a

F what anyone thinks. This is a time to

Find that divine spark inner Avatar

Focus on anything other than the bullies

They are going to get more desperate

As lies do not hold up.

I study I Ching and have a walking relationship with Christ and I figure

I was born for this fight.

Idk if any of that helps or makes sense

But I’ll be your cheerleader !!!

Don’t be afraid to reach out wolves

Like to isolate people stay connected

Write out reasons to live and write out

How you want this story to go.

Ok god bless you know what’s going on

That’s the biggest step

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I agree woke is unsustainable. Think of the transgender issue, most folks are Ok, you are an adult, it’s your body you can do as you please... But how long is it sustainable to insist that children can determine what irreversible things can be done to their body? Will we, then be Ok with letting children drink alcohol, heroine, Ok, maybe tobacco... Authoritarians are great at picking and choosing what is acceptable in what unacceptable. And of course all of their choices are the best...

Lastly, The Twitter world is not a real perspective on the people that are Americans. Most people are not interested politics and leads to problem that Americans are the Proverbial boiling frog. Just like the good Germans found out; it is going to be too late before they feel the heat.

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Did you see recently that some members of the LGB community don’t approve of transgenderism and are shunning them? And daily you hear that progressives aren’t going far enough to protect Gaia or to end racism. They are beginning to nibble on each other. Instead of eating the rich, they will eat the woke. It will be delicious to watch the false narratives crumble around the left.

It is interesting that children should be allowed to change sexes, smoke weed, shoot heroin, participate in child drag shows but you better NOT smoke tobacco or drink sodas!

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I agree. The hypocrisy is simply mind-numbing.

A note on the LGB thing, though (or what used to be called the "Gay community"). This is a very diverse group, literally encompassing every age, gender (as in the one you are born with), race, ethnicity, national origin, religiosity, income, political alignment, etc. It's far from a collective hive mind. Unfortunately, the very radical fringe has taken control of the narrative and claims to speak for all in it. At the risk of doing the same, there are a good many of us who believe that indoctrinating 5-year olds and encouraging them to choose a different gender -- or none at all -- is obscene and has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the idea of equal rights and a live-and-let-live ethos. I feel for the parents and their children who are being (pardon the pun) dragged into this. It must stop.

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It speaks to the non-stop drive of getting us to think of ourselves as members of a group as opposed to as an individual. It's insidious. I think we have to guard against that. However, it is criminal what is being done to kids because of their vulnerability at that age to crave acceptance from the group. They need to be encouraged to accept themselves for who they are, allowing themselves time to develop even more. Again, it's this abdication of parental responsibility and individual liberty to the authorities and the "experts." Yes. This must stop.

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As far as the group thing goes, it's even more insidious with teenagers where the number of girls especially identifying as some sort of trans or non-gendered has increased something like 4000% in the last 5 years. Often, a single girl in a peer group will start transitioning and several others in that group will follow along. Peer pressure, as we all remember from that age, is unforgiving. Non-acceptance can thrust a fragile young mind into deep depression, even suicide. If lobbing off your breasts at 15 is the price of acceptance, something is very very wrong.

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Even more frightening than any abdication of parental responsibility is the lack of input or even knowledge that responsible parents are allowed under the woke regime. The all mighty teacher's unions are fighting tooth and nail to keep parents completely in the dark. Parents which do protest are dubbed domestic terrorists.

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Everyone's down with self-government. It's so cool. Unless...it's going to require effort or is a lot of work, then...well... can't someone else take care of it?

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Fight back every decision for common sense

They want you to feel helpless

Fear doubt are the enemies lol

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Jennings writes:

You ARE the center and YOU will be fine. Keep the faith and remember this "bad cattitude": "the reluctant warrior who never sought battle but will rise in defense of the right to self-determination and the pursuit of happiness." Together, we will keep cleaning "the muck off the windows." Sooner or later, more and more will come by and peer through them. Keep swinging. You'll gain perfect balance eventually. After all, it comes down to physics, right?

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I am hopeful but wary as well. Hopeful because now more people are speaking out. Hopeful because there are inroads being taken to reverse some people getting banned off twitter, and we are seeing some people holding government and those complicit with government to account. On the other hand, there are still college campuses demanding their students be boosted and vaccinated, many places in the healthcare industry still insist on wearing masks, and there is a lot of uncertainty out there about the direction our country is going.

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Lunacy update: I had a follow-up visit with a neurologist after a three-day hospital stay after a lacunar infarct (Vax injury? I'll never know.) who wore an N95 mask the entire time during my visit with just the two of us in an examination room. I didn't wear a mask and asked him to remove his. He declined. I found later out that we may have been "observed" during the visit. The experience made me conclude that I'm glad I am no longer practicing and what remains of the the medical community has been captured.

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How do you feel about making an assumption that you are in a private examining room in a private consultation talking about private matters, not having it revealed to you that you are being observed in some way (camera? microphone? two-way mirror? what?) and then finding out afterwards that someone was listening in or watching you, like some kind of sick voyeur?

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I am assuming that any and all "private" conversations are not.

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The Techno Age and Digital Age differences are subtle, aren't they? Not sure how HIPPA is enforced with those potential intrusions but... Suffice it to say, I'll be looked Ng for cameras more often in hospital settings here on out.

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My nonwoke friend got upset her dr. wasn’t masked. She wears them to restaurants until the food comes. Most Covidians I know are not full woke—they don’t see the connection. They’re over 50 and scared of Covid but don’t particularly like the race and gender stuff (even if they’re gay/nonwhite). They don’t seem to notice how large a role the Biden Administration plays in promoting both Covidianism and Wokeness.

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The troika of Birx-FaUci-Redfield did a bang-up job of scaring the bejesus out of the population. They failed during HIV to do so but this time...well, perfect storm time, I guess.

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Most of my life, I have been scaring myself, so I understood fear since overall I have been marinating in it for decades. Plus, I was already primed not to believe the government/media narrative. They told me for four years that the mean orange man who said unsophisticated things on Twitter was a dictator, and yet one of the ways to know there is a mean orange dictator is that the person saying such a thing would get deplatformed. Censorship is one of the policies of tyranny.

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our UK govt scared the bejeesus outta me and several friends i met later over hiv in the 80s. I think we were psychologically scarred for decades!

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Our US government played the "we gotta have a vaccine!!" game, shoved an ineffective and expensive therapeutic (AZT--as bad as Remdesivir and Paxlovid for Covid) down the throats of those infected with AZT, and generally lied to us like they did in the Covid pandemic. Guess who was involved? Birx, FaUci, and, to a lesser extent back then, Redfield.

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I haven't noticed an age range in regards to those who adhere to the Covid restrictions and regulations. I've seen people over 50 who do, but equally I've seen twenty, thirty, and forty years olds who have. While not all who believe the Covid narrative are not woke, most if not all the woke have bought into the Covid narrative. The intersection recently discussed between Covid and Wokism is the pretense or concept of caring unselfishly for the marginalized.

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Here's another anecdote, for what it's worth-- I've been able to talk to C0VIDians about other issues, and they don't get angry. Things like prepping, food shortages and even CBDC. That being said, these are C0VIDians, not people who are woke.

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I think that's a big part of it, being observed. He never demanded you wear a mask, and that too is an indicator. The sad thing about masking is aside from behavioral cues, it is hard to tell the true believer from the "go along to get alonger".

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IMO the two people in your last sentence are the same.

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He'd have had to sacrifice himself (his job, his career, his ability to provide for his family) for your values. Very few people will sacrifice their families for an ideal, even if it will be worse in the long run. I have compassion for his dilemma. It's not helpful to "other" people who may actually agree with you.

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Masking is modern day phrenology with the ability to be exploited symbolically like the star of David.

Have you ever thought that it could be possible, in a twist of circumstances, that you may have to wear a mask while they don't? You know...when they're finally "pure" enough...

Reject pseudoscience now. Or live with it and it's potential for really bad things.

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🙌

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That's one of the reasons I reject masking, because the assumption is that we are all dirty plague-spreading rats, that our mere existence is dangerous. It's no way to go through life, in constant indictment of others, and it also lacks any reasonable view of reality and precedent.

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So, in essence, what you're saying, is WE should go ahead and sacrifice OUR families, OUR lives, OUR finances, OUR jobs, OUR security, so THEY can have everything we can't, because THEY have no balls, literally or figuratively.

YOU are part of the problem.

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You got to choose too, Bandit.

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That's a strange definition of 'choice' you have.

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But nobody has compassion for our choices.

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Observed can mean a variety of things.

There could simply be the "perception of being observed." I was at a place where I was alone in a room with a specialist making a cast of my leg. He wore a mask and gloves, and I doubt there were cameras inside the room. But here's the thing, he doesn't know me that well, maybe he worried that if he removed his mask I might report him. Or as well, he is never sure he will be left undisturbed. Suppose an assistant or other specialist comes to check and ask for his help and he is not wearing a mask, then what?

The problem is that the pervasiveness of mask wearing in the healthcare system is self-perpetuating. It will keep on going and going until we disrupt it. I should have said something, and left it up to him to remove the mask or wear it. I think it's enough for them to know which side I am on, though my lack of a mask should be enough of a clue.

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I asked if he could remove the mask while speaking with me (heavy accent; difficult to understand...I had a stroke ten weeks prior which complicated things) but his demeanor indicated that he "couldn't" while he looked over his shoulder and glanced at the ceiling a couple of times while answering which was really weird. Coupled with what I was told by a colleague later, my conjecture may have gotten the best of me. Who knows? I shouldn't have mocked him for his decision to keep on the mask but, with limited time, I wasn't going to waste the follow-up with extraneous back-and-forth.

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As far as I know, cameras are not permitted in patient rooms, probably his demeanor indicated he was being watched by colleagues, superiors, etc.The problem with the pandemic is that a great deal of it is "perception" of being watched. Anytime you see someone masked you wonder if they are a believer, or someone who felt compelled to comply.

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As a healthcare provider (albeit retired) with a pharmacy license in Michigan, I can attest to the fact that a narrative was in play at the outset of this pandemic. All licensees received a veiled threat from the director of the Licensing and Regulatory Agency about prescribing HCQ "off label" (which occurs routinely). Pharmacies, group practices, and hospitals were complicit. May be I'm just paranoid but you be the judge:

March 24, 2020

TO: Licensed Prescribers & Dispensers

RE: Reminder of Appropriate Prescribing and Dispensing

Dear Licensed Prescribers and Dispensers:

The Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs has received multiple allegations of

Michigan physicians inappropriately prescribing hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine to

themselves, family, friends, and/or coworkers without a legitimate medical purpose.

Prescribing hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine without further proof of efficacy for treating

COVID-19 or with the intent to stockpile the drug may create a shortage for patients with lupus,

rheumatoid arthritis, or other ailments for which chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are proven

treatments. Reports of this conduct will be evaluated and may be further investigated for

administrative action. Prescribing any kind of prescription must also be associated with medical

documentation showing proof of the medical necessity and medical condition for which the

patient is being treated. Again, these are drugs that have not been proven scientifically or

medically to treat COVID-19.

Michigan pharmacists may see an increased volume of prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine

and chloroquine and should take special care to evaluate the prescriptions’ legitimacy. Pursuant

to Michigan Administrative Code, R 338.490(2), a pharmacist shall not fill a prescription if the

pharmacist believes the prescription will be used for other than legitimate medical purposes or if

the prescription could cause harm to a patient.

It is also important to be mindful that licensed health professionals are required to report

inappropriate prescribing practices. LARA appreciates all licensed health professionals for their

service and cooperation in assuring compliance in acting responsibly while continuing to provide

the best possible care for Michigan’s citizens during this unprecedented and very challenging

time.

To stay up to date on the latest information regarding the COVID-19 pandemic please go to

www.michigan.gov/Coronavirus and the CDC site at www.CDC.gov.

Sincerely,

Deb Gagliardi, Director

Bureau of Professional Licensing

Forrest Pasanski, Director

Enforcement Division

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Conjecture on my part but weird stuff all around. The possibility of being "observed" was suggested by a colleague of the neurologist. The neurologist wasn't as forthcoming as I would have liked. It was the neurologist who made the suggestion that I would have to complete the VAERS document (possible vax injury resulting in a lacunar infarct) instead of the neurologist. I did not confront the neurologist nor do I have plans to do so. These healthcare porviders are under numerous constraints.

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Places still demanding vax/boost/mask….

What the WOKE ???

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...in health care settings. WTW?? (Health care needs quotes nowadays.)

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“Health care” settings are insane.

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You would think, under normal circumstances, that health care settings would be the first places to abandon measures that do not make sense, but think about it, they are beholden to insurance companies, and by proxy, the government. So it's no wonder they are still operating as if it's March of 2020.

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Yes. Oh what a tangled web we have woven. Kinda sneaks up on most of us, doesn’t it?

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Yes. Recently, here in Texas they sent out their professionally trained black pajama army to “guard” against extremists that might dare to interfere in an all age drag show. An obvious enticement and trap, yes, trap, beyond pushing against a string it’s rubbing the faces in the mud of Moloch for anyone still holding to (1) the preciousness of childhood innocence, and (2) the gall to chest-out with NO!

I remarked to a coworker that fighting for the NPC is counterproductive. It felt weak to say, and as if I could discard so many to the misery being brought. I really don’t know if the center can be swayed into a silent majority of self determination or if the fate of the 4th turning must be endured for rebirth to occur?

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I read in my Bible studt some time ago...Impose Truth on every situation. We must just stand ON Truth God Dignity Innocence of children...It seems no It is very apparent Evil is confrontational now...Ever see a Super Bowl Half time ?

These people are evil

arrogant

unrepenting

attempting to normalize deviant decadent behavior

They are targeting children

The weak minded

We of Courage, Faith, God...Impose Truth

These people are from the Father of all lies I guess we ought to not expect much from satan's

minion who just seem soooooo sooo in your grill

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The outrage online when I remark that parents allowed their children to be destroyed, and that two parents or the equivalent are sufficient to socialize a toddler into normal speech, and if their normal toddler now needs speech therapy they're entirely to blame.

This is the immensity of the problem right now. Complete utter morons who've abdicated every basic function to The State.

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Indeed.

I dared to point out that I haven't taken any of the shots and never got COVID despite being exposed to it, so I'm literally immune to it, and some true believer Redditor from my city bugged out and claimed I was making it up and "spitting in the face of science."

This person literally would not entertain even the mere possibility that naturally acquired immunity could achieve the same goal of "stopping the spread" as artificially induced "immunity."

It was wild to behold someone deny something that was so obvious and uncontroversial until 2021. Of course, this person also went and either blocked me or deleted their comments in the thread before I could even read them, which is also typical behavior, though it baffles me how it's the modus operandi of so many people.

They can't take the heat yet still insist on trying to run the fucking kitchen.

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I would temper your "never got Covid" comment to say "never had symptoms".

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Technically, you are both right: "Covid" is the illness expressed after an encounter with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Virologists know that everyone will have an encounter with the virus. Zero Covid lives in the mind of politicians and the experts who they worship.

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Oh, you are a believer in the "asymptomatic" nonsense? It's nonsense even if you accept the whole idea of the magical virus.

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https://duckduckgo.com/?va=j&t=hb&q=can+covid+infections+be+asymptomatic&ia=web

Magically, people disagree. A better question is, can a person accept that?

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Of course, one can accept that people disagree. At the same time, that doesn't mean anyone has to pretend that certain ideas aren't ill-informed and wrong, even silly. I mean, after all, that is what disagreeing is all about.

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Just to be clear: you accept the fact that there are numerous articles in and out of government, in and out of the US, that support the claim that asymptomatic infections by a virus (not just SARS-CoV-2--of which there are numerous studies regarding asymptomatic infection) occur routinely in virology so you aren't willing to "pretend that certain ideas aren't ill-informed and wrong, even silly", correct? Your first post may have led some on this thread to believe otherwise (guilty as charged here). I'm simply trying to clarify your position on the existence of an asymptomatic viral infection by way of the SARS-CoV-2--which, from a strictly virological standpoint, is a generally accepted reality. You are free to disagree with that assertion but it is rather well-supported throughout the literature.

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Oh for heaven’s sake.

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Yep. I'm having an absurd amount of trouble dealing with the burgeoning amount of cognitive dissonance out there. Social media: the playground of imbeciles. Bad Cattitude helps calm me.

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"Woking kitchen"

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I love that you're doing this...it makes me chuckle

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It's not that social media has changed people. It's let them be exposed in nanoseconds and they find that intolerable. In the olden days you could say "I never said that" and you couldn't prove they did. Now idiocy or cruelty has its more or less permanent record.

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The social media age is like getting to live through a perpetually reoccurring conformity experiment: Person A lies and tricks you in order to deceive, manipulate and control; Person B tries to helpfully explain how you've been deceived and why Person A should not be trusted.

And every day we get the same result: 9 out 10 humans will do everything they can to ignore and discredit Person B, up to including harming them, personally, physically or otherwise. People will do just about anything to save face and not admit their credulity, and are also terrified of changing an opinion until the rest of their peer group does the same.

Twain said it more simply: "How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!"

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This is the history of the world, but on warp-speed.

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I've never gotten the shots either, never wear a mask unless I'm forced to, and haven't really changed my life much (of course, I'm retired, so I was already pretty much a shut-in). I know other people who've had covid, but don't know if I ever got it. If I did, it was asymptomatic.

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Different subject altogether:?Is that a cameo of Alexander Solzhenitsen

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It is.

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I read his magnum opus when I was 14 or 15. He is one of the greatest of that generation.

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That is so true. Reminds me of when my son was in Kindergarten. He could read and had a good vocabulary for his 5 year old age. Many of the moms asked me what program(s) I used to achieve that. None. We always talked with him, back and forth with kid books, and read stories to him every night at bedtime.

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My son was raised with me not doing so myself and not allowing others to use " babytalk" to or around him.

He said his first word in his 4th month " Hey!"...and by 2 had a vocabulary ( because I'm voracious reader and wished to warp him that way 🤣) that stunned other parents.

By the time he was 6, we were having 'contests' regarding who could read Harry Potter books fastest.

Yep... we now have gregarious discussions. He's 26 on the 28th of this month.

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I was amazed at what motherhood brought out in me. I was making up songs for the baby from the start. My kid was a little bit slow to talk but I saw he understood everything I said, so if, say, he wanted something and couldn't quite tell me what, I'd tell him to say "eh" when I got to the right one i.e. "Do you want milk?" Silent. "Do you want juice?" "Eh!" He loved the game element of it and other than his first word being "Tiger" (the cat's name) instead of "mama," it all proceeded just fine afterwards...

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I too made up a song for my son!...( ok...it think it was really for my own sanity. He was born with a heart defect, so could only nurse enough to keep him sleeping 2 hours at a time...until he had surgery at 9 months. )

I'd rock him after nursing and sing the song over and over.

25+ years later...I still remember it.

Yeah, I'd have preferred " Momma"...but as both me and his dad would always be saying " Hey there!" " Hey, what do you need ?" " Hey, Quilan!" " Hey, look what you got going on!"etc... I can't really blame him 😂🤣

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I'm so glad everyone got through that awful and terrifying time OK.

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Thank you...it's amazing what we will endure for our children.

( it makes me seethe when I see what those who will vax their kids because they fear...what exactly? They might carry an illness? Protect That prison if you fear...don't destroy your children so you can virtue signal harder!)

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I read to my kid every night starting when he was a few months old, and sometimes I was so tired I couldn't see straight. Worked full time out of the house after the three-months' maternity leave was over. Poor baby trained himself to wait up for me because I didn't get to bed until like midnight sometimes. (The then-husband worked nights to be home for the baby during the day so I had no help in the evenings.)

Every second of lost sleep was worth it. You don't invest, you don't get yields.

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Absolutely!

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My belief, from the people I have known, is that talking TO children (not at) and taking time to read to them nightly, is not a priority to the majority of parents today.

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I do believe you're right. Sad it's the kids that get hurt and are easier to manipulate when the enter the system.

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Of course you're going to get outrage. Did you miss the point of EGM's article? A parent will do ANYthing to preserve his (but usually her) sense that they have done the "best" for their children. Throw them on the defensive with "you allowed your children to be destroyed" and they'll double down to defend their own actions, or inactions. What was your purpose here?

Depersonalize the subject, the opposite of Rules for Radicals rule 13. You cannot change their past and shaming them for it accomplishes nothing. You want them on your side and not reinforcing the other side. That's the spirit of this post.

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*They* betrayed their children. They abandoned what their instincts told them so they could be good members of the party, of the social set, not invite the disapproval of their peers.

My only purpose at this stage in life is to be truthful. One cannot fix a problem or treat an illness without naming it first. Parental abdication allowed this.

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Of course they did. They also vote and they outnumber us. They're likely to back police cracking down on us so long as they remain part of the cult.

EGM talked about how people will further radicalize themselves to avoid the truth that contradicts their worldview. I want all those parents who harmed their children to see that they were misled. I want them to direct their anger against the people who misled them. I want THEM to admit they harmed their children, when they can admit it, like Igor Chudov wrote about the childhood vaccines he now regrets giving his children.

Telling them now makes me feel better about myself for not being fooled, and pushes them further into supporting the vaxx cult. I have no problem with kidnapping children brainwashed into a cult to reprogram them, but it's illegal and morally justifiable maybe only for parents who are willing to go to prison to free their children. Better we use methods like the Chinese interrogators during the Korean War to reprogram them to our side (Cialdini, Influence, the Psychology of Persuasion), using the same cognitive dissonance abused by the Chinese for their Maoist ends.

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The easiest way to achieve this is to tell these parents that they were lied to and abused by government officials who KNEW better from the start. While they were just trying to do the best for their children, according to the "official guidance", it was actively harming their children in the most formative time of their lives.

BOOM.

Heads will roll in the streets.

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That's the idea. As the evidence piles up you give people an out to switch. Once they do, you reinforce the switch and the questioning of malign expertise.

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I think shaming these ineffective, sheep-like parents on social media might make other people (including other parents whose kids are grown) side against them. Everyone would like to believe that THEY would have risen to the occasion and would have protected their young children from government overreach. Othering another adult into the "sheep" category will place those on the fence firmly in the "non-sheep" group. That's a win and more likely than changing the trajectory of parents who were dumb enough not to talk to their own babies.

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I have no interest in reprogramming anyone.

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Fair enough. We will need people with unswerving commitment to truth. Glad to know you're out there.

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One engaged adult is enough to teach a toddler normal speech. They are dysfunctional parents, 100%.

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Remember Jaycee Dugard (kidnapped at 11 and impregnated twice and raising her daughters in captivity)? She managed to socialize and educate her daughters as best as possible, while imprisoned in a shed.

Dysfunctional don't touch it.

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Its much worse than you think. These injections have the potential to do as described below, and even if everybody DID NOT get the death shot, but a only a saline shot, the fact that ANYONE got the death poisons... well, this is what it means for them AND their offspring:

8. Back to the ovaries. v(D)j recombination is used by immune cells, but the proteins involved – BRCA1 and 53BP1 – are used in every cell for routine DNA repair. BRCA1 zips up double-stranded breaks in DNA. 53BP1 acts as a goalpost, directing where DNA repair occurs. Both of these proteins are named after their involvement in cancer research. If either of these proteins are not present, such as in the case of people who do not have working copies of genes to create these proteins, the risk of cancer increases exponentially with age.

9. Not only will those who received the vaccines have an increased risk of every type of cancer, but women will start to enter menopause earlier and start giving birth to children with more birth defects. Women only have so many eggs, and their exposure to these vaccines and suppression of BRCA1 and 53BP1 means these eggs [sic] cells can no longer engage in routine DNA repair from everyday exposure to oxidative stress. These eggs will either die prematurely, or result in a viable pregnancy but with damaged offspring.

10. Line 1 retrotransposons can and will transcribe the vaccine mRNA to somatic cells. The egg cells. This means that children born to vaccinated mothers will produce the covid spike protein every day of their lives. Their expression of BRCA1 and 53BP1 will be inhibited from the day of their birth until they die. v(D)j recombination will be inhibited from the day of their birth until the day they die. Not only are they likely to get cancer early and often, but they will be immune compromised and unlikely to be able to mount successful adaptive immune responses to common pathogens. They will be sickly and short lived.

11. When the medical community cannot hide this anymore, it’s all over. The ramp up in deaths, cancer, and the pending MASS vaccine induced AIDS epidemic is being swept under the rug for now.

12. Eventually, there will be no more hiding it. The attempts to cover things up as long as possible was anticipated since doctors and academics are arrogant, self-righteous psychopaths who could be expected to protect their reputations regardless of the cost. This will simply result in even more anger.

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I’m just not optimistic anyone who’s not awake already will ever wake up.

There is always a way for humans going through cognitive dissonance to explain away whatever is inconvenient to them.

People staked their entire identities on this psyop. To admit they killed themselves *would* kill them just much as the shots will.

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Like so many, I just want to be left alone. I realized that was no longer possible when they came for our children.

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In 1984 the children come for you. 

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I will never forget a Vietnamese friend told me how the Viet Con taught the children how to tell on their parents. I know it is an old commie trick, but when told from personal experience it stayed with me.

I also remember this: Jesus said: Mark 9:42 NKJV

"But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea.

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So, that's what's going to cause the rise in sea level. All the people with mill stones thrown into the sea.

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HOPE SO!

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You and me both! It would be worth the loss of a few feet of shore.

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LOL! Love it. ~They all have this premonition of the sea rising and keep thinking it is the evil “fossil fuels” that are going to cause it. But nooo, they are the cause. :)

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Hence Greta “How Dare You” Thunberg.

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Just like in Mao’s Cultural Revolution. The children turned on their elders/families.

I heard somebody who knows something about the topic say that Xi was orphaned at that time, when he was 5 years old. Apparently he found a way to survive for a few years as I recall. And he remains a great admirer of Mao, it’s been said by those who pay close attention that he is attempting to emulate Mao. BTW, Mao’s legacy is alive and well in the West.

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Another example of the "... reluctant warrior who never sought battle but will rise in defense of the right to self-determination and the pursuit of happiness."

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Well, technically, they asked you to surrender them. They did target them with wicked messaging, but they never dragged children out of homes to vaxx them. Parents did that.

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While the Sesame Street commercials promoting the vaxx made me sick to my stomach, my greater concern is the never ending propaganda in public schools that support the destruction of the family and the sexualization of children.

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As Malcolm X wrote: only a fool lets his enemies educate his children. A lot of parents are realizing they've been fools. Here's hoping they end public education for their kids, not mend it.

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THIS

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Please keep up the effort, you are making a difference for more than you know. Thanks!

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What I find most valuable is how el gato mato explains not only what is happening, but also "how and why."

The why has always been important to me, and the bad cat being able to explain the why so concisely is so valuable.

Lots of people have takes on current events. I believe few do as well as explaining the how and why, as does the bad cat. Am I alone in this, or do other think the same?

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You have written a number of masterful pieces over the past two years, on the nature of natural rights, on the education system and on liberty in general, quite apart from the outstanding statistically literate (numerate?) COVID pantomime deconstruction pieces. This pair of essays belongs up there with your best and it resonates deeply with me. Thank you for your service!

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The honest truth is that a good portion of humanity is EASILY [and I mean EASILY 'all caps'] brainwashed/conditioned/manipulated. The best PAVLOV technique isn't a bell, it's FEAR. Fear is the sucker punch right into our primordial survival mode.

When you're born with a brain that isn't like the aforementioned, if you were the kid who always questioned everything and stubbornly had their own way of 'thinking' and original ideas, looking at our current skull-f_ck is pure insanity. We look around and wonder why everyone isn't seeing what we are seeing?! It's as if the majority have been scooped up and switched on auto-pilot.

When your vote is in question, when your doctors and hospitals are money whores, when your institutions of learning become idiotic pedophile grooming centers, when your media is 99.9% propaganda, when your politicians are digital 'deep fake' puppets for unimaginable evil...Houston...we have a problemmo.

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Belonging is stronger than fear. I wasn't afraid of the virus after about April, 2020, but I was thrilled about the vaxxes when they first came out. When it was obvious that I did not qualify in January, 2020, it was forbidden fruit and more attractive. I decided to wait, and I'm grateful to the human Guinea pigs who sacrificed their health and sometimes lives to show that this was not something to take.

Machiavelli said it was better to be loved than feared, but that a Prince could not make people love him but he could make them fear him. If you COULD make yourself loved, it's stronger.

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My 'black sheep' status throughout my life exempted me from trying to 'belong'. Funnily, all of my victories throughout life have been because I went against the grain and refused to be a follower.

Love is important. I love my creator. I love humanity when it shines bright and even when it epically fails but somehow rises above.

Humanity has amnesia as to our origins but archeological remnants give us clues from all over planet earth. We are still infants in the grand scheme of things.

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True. I read all your post. Couldn't have said it better myself.

Keep it up!

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Aww. Thank you, sweet Ryan. I hope you and wifey and kiddos are doing good.

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I am convinced a large % of people prefer to not think critically about anything. It is too hard, have been told they are not smart enough, much easier to follow along, etc. So they run mostly on emotions, follow the headlines, question nothing. I see it in my own family, and you basically can not argue with them, facts can be ignored due to one preferred pet cat idea, preferred theme, or party.

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Yep. The brick wall isn't worth the bloodied head after a few pointless poundings.

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Two things:

(1) I don't think that what you're seeing is a "red" shift. Communism is a vast improvement over what they really want, which is global feudalism. They want a serf class and they want the serfs to chain themselves, in the name of saving the planet, social justice, what have you. White people are the obvious target because they invented the system that pulled the world out of feudalism and monarchy and have this idea well engrained that all people are actually equal. So obviously you're going to target them and spin everything about them, including and most especially their ideas about natural rights and equality, as "dangerous" and "damaging" and an "existential threat" to society's well being.

(2) We need to stop thinking 'left" and "right." Nancy Pelosi and AOC are as antithetical to true liberalism as they are to conservatism or libertarianism. They want to be in good with the overlords when the machine finally manifests itself. They are not really ideological. They are above all self-serving and soulless.

And I know I'll get push back here, and that's fine, but the only way out of this situation is to stop fighting over "left" and "right" and who gets what label and understand that across the spectrum, we all are seeing the same thing. The spectrum is a hologram the overlords are letting us play with with while they put their structure in place to enslave us all.

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You are right. It is we the people they fear and need to control. serfs were tied to the land. slave were owned by other humans. In the west, slavery actually ended when the owner class learned they did not need to house and feed them, but pay them a little money and have them pay for their own upkeep = wage slavery. Our federal bank system and tax everything schemes made the people and their own states subject to the wage slavery enforcement. I have been an independent - not republican or democrat most all my life because 1. i just did not fit well into their parties 2. I do not want any party to be able to take my vote for granted. 3. I like people and see at the basic level we are all pretty much the same. I think the best song that fits the topic we are discussing is Tom MacDonald's The System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OshNahVo9-c

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Dude that is the sh*t. Thanks.

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Well that's a disturbing video, but not wrong. In fact, it's spot on.

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I think Tom MacDonald reaches more young people than all of us with our substacks, websites and podcasts do. I am too old to enjoy much rap, but I really like Tom. He and Nova are independent artists not owing anything to the record labels and music industry, yet many of their videos and songs top charts. Worth a dive into songs like: Fake Woke, Clown World, Names, People So Stupid, and Cancelled.

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Wow.

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A house divided against itself cannot stand. I think Abe said something like that regarding slavery, but it fits this situation we find ourselves in now.

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Over the past two plus years, I've often thought of that scene in the abbey in the Sound of Music when Rolf betrays the girl he loves and her family to be a part of the collective. Don't be a Rolf.

I've always struggled to discern if they really believe what they are saying. Does Brandon really believe MAGA republicans are a threat to the country or just that they are threat to his power? When he walked back his comments the next day, did he forget or is he gaslighting the American people?

I remember having an argument with my youngest brother (who I'm pretty sure isn't speaking to me) about Fauci. He insisted that Fauci had never advised against masks. I sent the video of the interview, which I doubt he watched.

IMO, they are trying to drive the opposition (election and pandemic) to act out. We are in very dangerous waters right now. I find the sudden accusations flying all around about "controlled opposition" to be very suspicious as well.

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A thought about MAGA Republicans. Almost all Republicans voted for Trump, which by default, makes them ‘MAGA’ according to Biden logic (if there is any left there). Using the MAGA qualifier is not a walk-back, nor saying that Trump supporters are not in that group. Then who is? Not a good scene at all.

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This is simply a way to extend the 'threat' beyond Trump. If Trump doesn't run and DeSantis is the nominee, the 'dangerous MAGA Republicans' will support him, therefore slandering DeSantis will be acceptable as well.

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Regarding part 1, at an individual level, I think Budziszewski got it right in the article "The Revenge of Conscience" (https://www.firstthings.com/article/1998/06/the-revenge-of-conscience) when he said that everyone has THE natural laws written on their heart and the behavior we are seeing today is natural laws conflicting with their own conscience; ie guilt. This conflict has a weird way of working it self out in individual and then group behavior, and that weird way is what we are seeing today. (You will note that the article was published in 1998 and was actually written a while before that.) One of the ways this coalesces into group behavior is... wait for it... Mass Formation Psychosis. Dr. Desmet provides the dynamics of the group process flow in his new book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism. He writes on substack. I don't think Dr. Desmet is necessarily discovering something new. It's as old as the Bible- probably as old as language- and most religions understand the mechanism as the way evil works... read C. S. Lewis's comments on my substack: https://aletheiatheyounger.substack.com/p/this-era-was-foretold. Your articles are helpful to those who are of your generation, which is a couple of generations after mine. Dr. Desmet implores the 5% that haven't drunk the kool-aid to lead the way. For him you are the only hope. (In the US it is more like 40% (-the Maga Trump terrorists).) The 5% are those like you, Dr. Naomi Wolf, Dr. Robert Malone, and Alex Berenson, among many others that have moved from left of center to the right, more or less, to lead the charge, since you have the credability of having been where the serfs are and you have the skill to stand up to the oligarchs.

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"reluctantly, many of us went to battle because we simply could not abide what we were seeing.

but it’s not my identity and i never want it to be.

it’s what i am doing because it needs to be done i (and i suspect many others) would be glad to have it over and done with as well.

this is not a basis for sense of self that most pushing back crave. it’s a chore that needs doing, an augean stables that needs mucking out."

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Amen. I didn't want to spend two years looking up official data that counteracted the official narrative, BUT NOBODY IN THE MEDIA WAS DOING IT. Now here we are, gaining trust while the mainstream media hemorrhages it. (If they had enough trust left to hemorrhage.)

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and now, as so many have seen their trust abused and lose faith in top down structures, comes the opportunity to dismantle this edifice and replace it with one more conducive to liberty and human flourishing.

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O c'mon, they're not even trying anymore!

For those of you in Toronto Canada, on page A21 of today's paper, the Star has a banner ad for itself that reads:

"It is what it is until it isn't. Truth we need for the world we want."

The optimistic part of my hopes there is a copy writer someone with a wicked subversive streak.

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Very well said. It's disturbing to see our fellow independent spirits trying to differentiate themselves by playing the middle, accusing both sides as overreacting or having an extreme position. If I break into your house and attack you and you fight back, are we equally deranged, just a couple of extremist trying to kill each other?

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Well stated articulated. Peaceful till pushed

I am right there with you defiant and clear headed to know what it used to be like.

Mask pfffft fuck you

Social distance what kind of double speak

Who you talking to?

They mock us I mock back

Don’t tread on me tyranny

Follow science is fact

Their greater good ain’t for me

Try to type pedophile

Or

Even God

Predictive index makes you type out the whole

Word

That’s how insane these people are

Total control

Take your mind body heart soul.

But they have awakened sleeping giants

I was happy to leave politics to them

911

Too big too fail

Kovid

Trains off the rail

So as a kid born 1955 have seen many things

But I am definitely defiant for the normal

Before these WEF pedophiles who say drive

Electric cars own nothing it’s all for the lowering of carbon emissions you eat bugs

While we dine on steaks and fly Lear jets

Afraid that’s just not acceptable.

Why not you eat bugs wait to charge your

Electric cars while you’re in the bread lines

Waiting for another job because you did not

Get the shot you gaslit us to get.

They have crossed the line.

Time to terrorize the terrorist …

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If the bug eaters will be able to afford the electric cars, Big Borther will have the keys. Be good and Big Brother will let you 1/2 charge your car today...

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I promise to be good...can i more bugs please .....1/2 is better than nothin. Could be worse I could have an ICE and well ya know those gas engines are just not nice to the earth. ha Thanks for the laugh.....

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The cricket ration has gone up to 25 grams!

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Could be worse. Might Be better than K rations...any chocolate covered ants?

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Plenty, but you lack the correct district designation. :(

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Woke You...woke woke woke this woking bureaurocracy woke woke woke ...

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Centrism is to politics what the closet is for gays.

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Said anywhere else but on Substack and...well, you know the rest of the story.

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I think my current position regarding freedom, individual liberty and individual responsibility is very close to my original (pre-pandemic) position. However, my opinion of government and bureaucracy (that was never high) is now strongly negative. When they said something I used to think, “are they right or are they wrong?”. Now I think, “how are they lying to me this time?” I used to think, “a smaller government would be a better government, but it ain’t so bad.” Now I want to see the size and authority of government drastically reduced. They’ve made a complete hash of public health, healthcare, insurance, education and the economy. Time to get the G out of everything that we can.

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I couldn't agree more. If I could tap the like button a thousand times, i would on your comment.

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