I cannot <3 this.
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ~~Oscar Wilde.
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I cannot <3 this.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." ~Philip K. Dick
Oh, i believe they are. Even many of those who believe they've escaped the cave are still within it. Dunning-Kruger in spades... Here's another good play on the cave allegory... www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-WW...
Breaking: Dictators Gather in China as Putin and Xi Orchestrate a New Axis of Power open.substack.com/pub/levremem...
...they're allowing themselves to be deluded and manipulated by the system." ~~Noam Chomsky
... our responsibilities, and that the interests of power are served, not the interests of suffering people and not the needs of the American people who would be horrified if they realized the blood that's dripping from their hands because of the way...
"We're dealing with real human beings who are suffering and dying and being tortured and starving, because of policies that we are involved in we as citizens of democratic societies are directly involved in and responsible for. And what the media are doing is ensuring that we do not act on...
He certainly groomed Vance for it.
"I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong" George Washington to Francis Adrian Van der Kemp | Wednesday, May 28, 1788
I did not create these, others did, and a couple of them I expanded upon to, imho, make them more rounded in effect. Nor are they are strict protocols, but open to being adaptable to situations as necessary, so long as the essence of the principle remains.
Since then, I've adopted a couple of other principles: 4. Discipline equals freedom. 5. Remain focused on your determination to do what is right.
When I got clean and sober back in 2022, I adopted 3 principles: 1. Be rigorously authentic, honest, and of service to others. 2. Always do the hard things. 3. Surrender the outcome with humility.
Ever since this cop flag was first shown, every time I see it my first thought is, "fascism."
Knock yourself out.
Lol, look at you, all upset on the intertubes. Geez, John, yer gonna give yourself a heart attack.
TBH, I really much dgaf anymore what people do in this absurd nutburger world. Shit changes, pendulums swing, and what everyone is freaking out on now will be a future footnote that will be long forgotten by all but the most anal of nostalgia freaks, IF such luxuries are possible after the collapse.
As much as I think people like her are moronic dipshits, what they're doing - as abhorrent as it is - I believe can be construed as "freedom of speech," just as burning an American flag is; which in itself is a provocation for the conditioned masses to be horrified & want the heads of the burners.
Nature is extremely adaptive and life is extremely resilient. Life lives, then dies, and what is left is used in many other configurations, a process that has been happening since even before life began on this tiny ball of rock. Life will only die off completely when the sun cinders the planet.
I grow a vegetable garden in my landlord's yard every year. In a SHTF world, would that sustain me (let alone our household) with the caloric intake needed to survive? Hell no.
...to rebuild something from the debris of our civilization that still exists. But will they learn from our mistakes?
...back to their caves as thunder rumbles. Maybe in a few thousand years as the climate again stabilizes and the glacial period that Earth was slowly moving into before we set the climate on fire re-asserts itself, our distant descendants will begin the slow climb out of the morass and begin...
...while, but as things break and can't be fixed and replaced even that will go away. What's left of humanity will devolve. Old knowledge will disappear as books rot away, superstition will rule, our descendants will look upon our dead, eroded cities as the doing of old gods, and retreat back...
...going to be a mess of drawm out suffering and death that may take decades, maybe even a century or more. There will likely be pockets of leftover survivors scratching out a hunter/gatherer/scavenger existence in the northernmost latitudes, some might even still have basic electricity for a...
One geological timescale? A blink of the eye. One a human timescale? The collapse/extinction will be long and drawn out, with some regions riding things out for awhile as others are hit hard. Wars -nuclear and conventional, famine, pestilence, genocide, hyper-max migrations, cannibalism, it's...
What is it? A $50,000 signing bonus with ICE?
Likely. And then they'll all be signing "tell all" book deals.
Mark my words. When Trump finally kicks the bucket and his regime is roundly defeated, utterly destroyed, and their fascist malfeasance is pulled apart and drained like a festering wound, many of these sycophantic ass-kissers will snivel that they never really liked Trump and are glad he's dead.
Mark my words. When Trump finally kicks the bucket and his regime is roundly defeated, utterly destroyed, and their fascist malfeasance is pulled apart and drained like a festering wound, many of these sycophantic ass-kissers will claim that they never liked Trump and are glad he's dead.
My take? They're trying to provoke another civil war so that they can use it to justify their oppression. What they're going to get is a revolution. If these morons knew history, they'd know that the demise of fascists and oppressors is heinously miserable and dishonorable. I say, "So be it."
Actually, the Nazis were very meticulous about keeping records, and the records they kept were used in the Nuremburg Trials to prosecute Nazis.
"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."
The Nazis were so proud of what they were doing that they kept meticulous records of their atrocities. The fascists that we're dealing with must know that what they are doing is wrong, or they wouldn't be deleting their doings to hide them. They live in fear -a weakness- of being held responsible.
The Nazis were so proud of what they were doing that they kept meticulous records of their atrocities. The fascists that we're dealing with must know that what they are doing is wrong, or they wouldn't be deleting their doings to hide them. They live in fear -a weakness- of being held responsible.
For me? After all these many, many years of watching, trying to make folks aware, and seeing a whole lot of talk and not tangible action, the best course of action I see, for my own sanity, is this...
l/u 'activist security culture.' good luck and stay smart. we'll need it.
My fervent hope is that a urinal that drains into Trump's casket is installed above his grave.
Nope.
Switch out Jews, gypsies, the handicapped, the mentally ill, etc. for vagrants, immigrants, LBGT, etc., and yep, they're still Nazis.
What do you do as a doomer that is truly authentic?
Go outside. Do stuff. Do stuff that is hard. Do stuff that you might not be able to finish, but give doing the stuff your best. Learn from the stuff. Do the stuff again. And again. And again. Don't die.
I know. The records broken nowadays are in the future going to be looked upon as the good ol' days of cooler temperatures. We're so very screwed.
Trump like the Goldmember villain from Austin Powers, but with a far worse sense of aesthetics.
Trump like the Goldmember villain from Austin Powers, but with a far worse sense of aesthetics.
It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump behind closed doors to launch an assault on mail-in voting in elections administered by the states, and Trump immediately set about mobilizing federal power to do it… but that is literally Trump’s account of what happened.
I've been paying attention to "The Event" since the early 80's, and I've noticed that even despite the record global heating we've experienced the last decade or so, this year seems far more brutal. That said, here in S. California, this year we've had one the mildest summers that I can remember.
If there's a movie thats ending should parallel reality, it's the recent movie, Civil War.
Someone should buy a few hundred copies of Howard Zinn's book, "A People's History of the United States," and stand out in front of the store and give one to each person or family who visits.
My big question is this: Where are all the generals and other military officers who served during Trump's 1st regime and spoke out against him during or shortly after he left office, and have now faded into obscurity? Why, when our nation needs their voices the most, are they silent?
My big question is this: Where are all the generals and other military officers who served during Trump's 1st regime and spoke out against him during or shortly after he left office, and have now faded into obscurity? Why, when our nation needs their voices the most, are they silent?
My big question is this: Where are all the generals and other military officers who served during Trump's 1st regime and spoke out against him during or shortly after he left office, and have now faded into obscurity? Why, when our nation needs their voices the most, are they silent?
Lol, let's not go that far.
Jeez, that even scares me.
In my Los Angeles suburb city there's a group of kids who have figured out how to soup up their throttle bikes so that they can go about 60 mph. They don't wear helmets, ride the wrong way on streets, ride on the sidewalk, it's crazy. They started doing this when the cops cracked down on minibikes.
I've also got a couple of Jalapeño plants, a Habanero too, but the peppers aren't ripe yet. There also others, a tabasco pepper, Anaheim peppers, a couple of Black Cobras, and a few others. All my tomato plants are giving up while the peppers are thriving.
Ghost pepper in the machine. I have a ghost pepper plant in my garden, and this is the second it has produced.
"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination." ~~Edward Abbey
We have to face the fact that people who are adamant in their acceptance of "right-wing" propaganda and tropes are delusional and mentally ill, either by genetics and/or conditioning.
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: We're from the government and we're here to help." Reagan is rolling in his grave.
They'd look fantastic covered in rotten eggs and tomatoes.
MAGA is going to eat this up!
MAGA will eat this up!
The vindictive POS is literally taking revenge on the citizens of DC.
MAGA will just eat this up!
That vindictive POS is literally taking revenge on the citizens of DC.
Yeah, thr longer we wait the more entrenched they get. And most people are either ignorant or -if they know, apathetic.
Well, if SHTF you won't go hungry for a while.
To those so inclined to start stepping up: Look up the relationship between above-ground and underground activism, especially pertaining to "security culture." Remember rules 1 and 2 of Fight Club. ESPECIALLY on the internet. The chair is against the door.
Birds of a feather and all that, ya know?
After the shitshow we saw in Helsinki during Trump's 1st term when Trump basically gave Putin the keys to the kingdom along with a BJ? Yeah, welcome to round 2.
After the shitshow we saw in Helsinki during Trump's 1st term when Trump basically gave Putin the keys to the kingdom along with a BJ? Yeah, welcome to round 2.
#Tyranny #Oppression @theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social @dcombes.bsky.social @journeyled1.bsky.social @bluthrunthru.bsky.social @mersyme.bsky.social @everesther.bsky.social @ltwlauren.bsky.social @abbarsha.bsky.social @psychopete.bsky.social @boxdonkey17.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/oneveter...
calling the military occupation of major cities a distraction from the Epstein files means allowing the Epstein files to be a distraction from the military occupation of major cities learn to walk and chew gum at the same time, or get the fuck out of the way
Via @petermanseau.bsky.social: “How the world now sees America: Display at Trinity College Dublin of words discouraged by US federal agencies in 2025.” (Tuned up the pic so you can see the words better)
"Here we are again, my friend, to experience the bitter scalding end; and we're the only ones who can perceive it." ~~Bad Religion
"If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it." ~~Michel de Montaigne
"Who the hell gold-leafed my house last night?," a DC resident was heard asking...
Yeah, they have a thing for their insecure asshole god using "flawed vessels."
That's cool. Did you make that?
...what we have to deal with: a long list at both home and abroad. I can suggest solutions all day long, and high among them is learning from the past - both good and bad aspects of it - and not living in it or internalizing it to the point of hatred and derision born from "ongoing pain and harm."
Ever read Howard Zinn's A people's History of the United States? I'm under no illusion that America has committed great and heinous travesties upon people and nations around the world, and doing it under the guise of spreading democracy and freedom. What we have now, at this point in time, is...
My grandmother’s family was murdered in the chambers of Auschwitz. She survived and told me never let it get that far. Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in hiding. Stand up for others. Never cave in fear of the Nazis or the holocaust will happen again.
It's not just one man. He's just the face of it. They have been carefully moving the pieces into place to enact the fascist take over of America for DECADES now. It's all finally come to together and they are consolidating their grip on power daily.
Panem et circenses.
And if weren't for them, you wouldn't have "this nation."
And nobody opposed to this will do anything beyond talk talk talk and complain and throw an ineffectual protest. The Christofascists and technofascists know this and they're rolling right over us. They know we're pussies and we won't do a damned thing to stop them beyond making noise.
You'll never guess who is *actually* paying for the tariffs.
