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Amy G's avatar

We spent the weekend back in PA for the wedding of my husband's son and the eldest of our combined 7 children. 6 more to go!!!! Lol

Going to be pricey lol

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Yay!

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Rikard's avatar

Ok-ay.

The founder of Swedish free speech forum (our only one) Flashback Jan Axelsson is being charged with violating the law regulating electronic message boards. Flashback has been around for close to 20 years now, and authorities have tried to shut them down, demonize them and do whatever they can do close them.

Its rules are quite simple, and are in compliance with swedish laws. Also, the site employs ca 100 paid moderators to look through the comment sections when accusation of rules violations come in (and it's not unusual for FB to have up to 750 000 comments total in one day).

The prosecutor is alleging Axelsson's violation is him not supervising, moderating and reporting to the police clear cases of "hate crimes" from posters. We'll see how it plays out. Last time they went after free speech forums it was the Pirate Bay trial, where they had to change the law during the prosecutorial process, and during the case actually being handled by the courts, to get convictions.

What else? A couple of shootings involving AKs, and a couple of bombs going off, though the media off course refurse to use that word, instead calling it (translated): "explodings".

You'd think our media'd been trained by Madeleine Albright, mrs "collateral damages" herself.

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Arne's avatar

Notes on cats here: https://lesliebienen.substack.com/p/why-do-we-apologize-to-our-pets

"Much of the feline brain is devoted to detecting motion and visual stimuli—not so much to verbal interpretation skills."

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Owain Glyndŵr's avatar

"Trump Outlines '9 Steps' He'll Use to 'Drain the Swamp'"

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/trump-wisconsin-rally/2024/09/07/id/1179471/

What ya wanna bet they'll try to spear him at the debate (unless Komrad Kamala suddenly has covid).

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Julie Clarke's avatar

It is so funny that a person thinks by putting a non binary check box, that means the State accepts them as they are, They need to accept themselves as they are and get on with it, stop trying to make everyone else get involved. So Needy.

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veggie warrior's avatar

Hey Screamer, since this is an open thread, I've decided to include the entire chat, as an illustration of 'discourse' these days, where two adults can't carry on even an online conversation without a 'woke' out of proportion response occurring. And this from a distant relative that I've not actually seen in more than a decade. Here goes:

Posted on FB: Meme of daily school shootings with pic of teacher below asking for pronouns.

My response: Woke is sick.

HIM: What do you mean by "woke is sick?"

ME: I mean that I do not agree with the whole pronoun thing, the grooming of kids to change sex, the allowing of biological xy men to participate in sports. So, when a math teacher wants pronouns, but schools seem to ignore school violence facilitated by the pharmaceutical industry, I'm not too impressed.

HIM: Oh ok! That's a lot all at once haha. What don't you agree with the "pronoun thing"?

Do you have proof of the "grooming of children to change sex"? I haven't ever heard of a single case of that. If you are referencing the dismantling of patriarchal gender norms then I think you are mistaken as to what folks want to accomplish there.

Our culture teaches and forces gender norms onto children even before kindergarten starts.

Are you saying that folks with XY chromosomes should not participate in sports?

How is the pharmaceutical industry facilitating school shooting and not gun lobbyists and a lack of common sense gun laws? Math teachers have had pronouns since the beginning of this country. I'm very curious to hear your thoughts.

ME: I don't really want to argue to explain my position. Males have sports. Who says they can't compete? If someone changes sex using drugs/surgery/hormones, then they must find somewhere else to compete--not the sex they are transitioning into. That is my belief. As far as the pharmaceutical industry, the trans movement is a gold mine for them. I'm sorry but there is so much distance between your beliefs and mine. To me, vaccines are poison, the Covid-19 shot a bioweapon. Time has shown this to be true. Very tiny example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcY22t9NjFo&t=5s

If you only read mainstream news, you are missing so much.

ME: What do you mean by 'math teachers have had pronouns since the beginning of this country?" 1776? The pronouns I'm talking about are 'they' 'them' etc. that make no sense.

HIM: I wasn't trying to argue, I just wanted to have a healthy discussion .Thank you for the link, I'll check this out!

ME: Every school shooting the shooter has been under the influence of psychotropic medication.

HIM: That's interesting, where did you get this information? Can you share so I can enlighten myself?

Have you asked a non-binary person what using they/them pronouns means to them? It doesn't have to make sense to you to be a valid feeling.

ME: I know people who use them. I pretty much ignore it. Whatever floats your boat, but not for me.

HIM: It doesn't ever have to be for you to be valid. That's not the point. The reason I identify and prefer they/them pronouns, personally, is I don't align with the typical man gender norms and I feel people automatically put me in a "box" and make assumptions about my entire personality. Simply because they persieve me as a man. I'd rather just be me. And using they/them helps with that.

ME: Right, but when those people call me a TERF for my views, I find their views intolerant.

HIM: Are you a trans exclusionary feminist?

ME: No, I had to look up the term when a friend called me that. Regarding school shootings, what you are going to find is that the official word will always be to prove that psychotropic medicines HAVE NO IMPACT. This is because every single university in the US is funded by big pharma. Here is a great example: https://www.columbiapsychiatry.org/news/mass-shootings-and-mental-illness

ME: As for the pronouns, if it makes you feel good, go for it. Good luck filling out forms internationally for choice of sex, lol!

HIM: It's been great! Maryland has introduced a non-binary selection for our licenses! Wonderful progress for excepting folks as who they are. And sex and gender are also two different things

ME: You are actually stereotyping the 'typical male' by saying you don't relate. There is no typical male. I think you should own your maieness and accept that there are many types of males.

HIM: I said man, not male. I address my "maleness" with my doctor

ME: You should read some Jennifer Bilek if you want to know what's really going on in your little 'modern' world. Signing off, nephew....

AND I SIGNED OUT

HIM: Oh, are you just going to leave it at that? Ok. Please send me the links to site your sources when you can!

This sounds a little demeaning, I hope you didn't mean it that way.

HIM: I don't appreciate the hostility here. I think I need some space. I hope you can find some time to heal what injury has caused you to lash out at me.

FOLLOWED BY BEING BLOCKED FROM CONTACTING HIM EVEN THOUGH HE ASKED FOR SOURCES

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Owain Glyndŵr's avatar

I'd give him a WIDE space.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

YIKES

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Bill Heath's avatar

Does anyone else understand Kamala's appeal?

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Julie Clarke's avatar

its all media hype, she has no appeal.

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DanBC's avatar

The Demarxists strategy is three fold.

1. Avoid interviews.

2. Make any claim you want as you won’t be held to account for your lies.

3. SHE’s NOT BAD ORANGE HITLER!!!

It’s a pretty weak strategy and it’s all they have, as with any failed administration, there’s no track record of success in any area of their responsibility. So, all they have to go on is “you think we’re bad? The other guy is Hitler dontcha know?”

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John O'Neill's avatar

Madness of modernism believing like Walz and Harris (also Mao/Stalin) that Truth can be suppressed. Truth /knowledge is an eternal storehouse rediscovered over and over.

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Rosemary B's avatar

I ran into a confusing blog yesterday, I was called a conspiracy theorist and I think

called ignorant. https://kertlenseigne.substack.com I do not know how I got there. Clicked on someone elses bio list of blogs they follow. Gosh, I fell into a hole. Luckily I climbed out with ease.

still. wacky people amongst us.

Happy Sunday everyone

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Crixcyon's avatar

A nice little community that will likely grow into a monster. But it will have to be void of most of modern living conveniences lest it becomes "institutionalized" and controlled. Perhaps, that would keep it smaller. Not many want to give up their digital prisons and government giveaways.

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BertPE's avatar

On starting a community, see “Small is Beautiful” by E. F. Schumaker. On taxing unrealized capital gains, it is a perfectly legitimate revenue function if the government’s goal is to destroy the middle class and ultimately the nation they work to support.

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Julie Clarke's avatar

It is the goal. I am convinced that Uber Rich people are trying to destroy California in order to buy it all up and have their very own Disneyland without all of those pesky middle class people causing all the damn traffic getting to work.

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Gen Chang's avatar

Perfect timing to write about civil asset forfeiture! As a new movie just released on Netflix deals with that very subject. Good flic, reminiscent of Reacher, movies or series. Name: "Rebel Ridge" Legalized theft is what it boils down to.

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Arne's avatar

I saw this this week: "Nebraska Supreme Court rules homeowner must receive just compensation after falling prey to home equity theft"

https://pacificlegal.org/nebraska-supreme-court-rules-homeowner-must-receive-just-compensation-after-falling-prey-to-home-equity-theft/

There are a few similar articles linked from that page.

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

I'm no lawyer, but I did some research on estate planning. There could have been a way to place the house in a trust and also get medicaid to pay for at least some of the healthcare needed for the wife. I imagine that the Kevin did not have sufficient money to hire a lawyer, but it could have been a way to avoid at least some of this nastiness.

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Integrity and Karma's avatar

My dream for almost 30 years has been that community...I have so much of it " mapped " out in my head.

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Patti F's avatar

I'm currently reading the Going Home series by A. American (it's about an emp that hits the US). A small section of his neighborhood does just this.

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suannee's avatar

I just went to an event in Los Alamos. I met a lab scientist (from South Africa) who was very proud of the stripes in the skies. I asked him if he had had the shots. Yes. He's an epidemiologist and something something else. Two Ph.D.s. He proceeded to tell me how the shots were necessary and everything mainstream was good. Implied I was an idiot. I told him I didn't care how many PhDs he had. I didn't want someone telling me what to think and what to do. HE was offended. Dear me. Talk about hubris. He also told me how Trump was evil. I said ooh, orange man bad. What he say bad. Then I went to a wine taste and had fun with the wine reps some of whom I've known for 40 years.

There's no hope with a billions plus operation like the lab poisoning people and being proud of it.

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Andy's avatar

I took my dog to an obedience class when she was a pup. They gave us a certificate, suitable for framing, for having passed her obedience class. I call it her PhD.

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suannee's avatar

good one.

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Integrity and Karma's avatar

I had a Collie. Had I brought her to classes, she'd have earned thst PhD. Instead, she used her mind to train me . She was the kindest master ever.

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

On twitter, they just call you an idiot, no implying at all.

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suannee's avatar

I was suspended from Twitter several years ago. I have no idea what I might have said because I wasn't as outspoken then. So I can't be directly insulted on twitter. They tell me I can be reinstated. Meh.

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Patti F's avatar

I just created a new account. It's a different world since Elon took it over.

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la chevalerie vit's avatar

No account there for me

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Gen Chang's avatar

Twitter/X is much different since Elon took it over. I never lost my account, largely because I stopped going there when they purged all those accounts of conservatives. Spent a great deal of that time on Telegram. And now that owner is being persecuted! SMDH.

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suannee's avatar

I know it's different but I already spend more time than I should on sub stacks and (yeah, i know) Facebook.

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Integrity and Karma's avatar

I sownd very little time on Fakebook...it allows me to keep in touch with family, friends ,and myvfed overwatch team...

* waves* hey dudes!!

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Rosemary B's avatar

you are on bookface? there is nothing there for me!!!

Is it just family and friends?

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suannee's avatar

Integrity and Karma and Rosemary B

There is a very active, outspoken anti-geoengineering and anti-covid community there. We occasionally get "fact checked" but it's so lame, it's actually funny. I also post what I call public service announcements that I know some of my "friends" will never see on main stream sources. I have posted a few of Sim Com's and el gato malo's sub stack posts. Not many people comment on them, but I know at least some of them see them. I have converted a few to awareness of the stripes in the sky.

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Gen Chang's avatar

Understood.

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veggie warrior's avatar

It's the being offended that takes the cake. A nephew was offended last night because I noted that people with xy chromosomes are males and he, therefore. is a male.

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ProfessorTom's avatar

Tell him if he wants to be such a bitch about it, you’ll cut his dick and balls off for free.

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veggie warrior's avatar

He cut off any contact with me, just like that. Expanded version of the discourse above.

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suannee's avatar

Uh oh.

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CindyArizona's avatar

Spent the weekend working on my new ranch in NE AZ and didn’t have the time or desire to even think about politics! What a

nice break. Hard labor in the sunshine is good for the soul.

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