Taking the time to remind myself of all my reasons for joy, gratitude and hope.
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Taking the time to remind myself of all my reasons for joy, gratitude and hope.
I could say more, but it would be a lot of swearing.
YouTube is secretly using AI to edit people's videos • Skin is being smoothed or sharpened • Features like ears are being altered • YouTube confirmed there's an 'experiment' on Shorts to 'unblur' and 'improve' clarity • There's currently no way to opt out (via BBC)
Everyone participates in society. Whether they like it or not, whether they want to improve it or not. There is no such thing as independent autonomy from society. An intelligent person would recognize that.
I am perfectly prepared to discuss various topics and subjects. But I don't argue. And certainly Not from a place of ego, thinking I've already won the argument and therefore every other perspective on the topic is inevitablely stupid.
Ha. I could unpack that in a heartbeat. First by pointing out that philosophies grow and change based on context, independent of their origins. But you're not actually interested in discussing the topic itself in various contexts. You just want to feel superior for debunking the origin.
I've done a ten year study of the Paradox of Tolerance, evaluating it from every possible angle. Reply to the Paradox if you choose, but don't make the mistake of assuming I don't understand what I post!!
Regardless of the source... Read the headline. www.foxnews.com/politics/nat...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I've said it before and I'll say it again, You can't have a Civil War when only one side has an Army. You don't get war. You get, Occupation!!!!
Shut Down!!! ✊️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I'm vividly reminded of all the illegal things they've already gotten away with...
Specifically All 55 Million Resident Visas, whether for work or education or family ties. This doesn't not include the nearly 300 Million greencard holders or foriegn born citizens. However, it is a big leap in that direction.
www.news9.com/story/68a770...
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Trump Admin announces review of All Foriegn Visas for Deportation!! You read that right! All 55 Million Legal Residents!!! Regardless of origin or duration. www.usnews.com/news/politic...
A kid could speak out and go home to find their parents got kidnapped by ICE. But we knew it was never about the children...
No kings. Thanks
Funny because the paint you use on metal isn't heat conductive... 🤦♀️
40 years!! Time flies! youtu.be/T_WSXXPQYeY?...
Hysterical things Not on my Bingo card for 2025...
Nicole Collier sues!!! www.huffpost.com/entry/nicole...
Oh!! That's deep!!! And sooooo... right on. ☝️
I appreciate her protesting at the expense of her personal liberty. But we need to remember this isn't a voluntary sit-in!! They have taken her liberty by force, as effectively as if they'd incarcerated her and specifically because she wouldn't sign away her liberty voluntarily!
I appreciate her protesting at the expense of her personal liberty. But we need to remember this isn't a voluntary sit-in!! They have taken her liberty by force, as effectively as if they'd incarcerated her and specifically because she wouldn't sign away her liberty voluntarily!
We don't have to look to Germany for a dark history to repeat itself. We have it all right here. Massacre, genocide, racial hate, religious zealots, military violence, authoritarianism, patriarchy, eugenics. It's all right here. 🇺🇲 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MO...
It's instinctive, coded in our DNA from when right or wrong, good or bad, true or false, meant life or death against enemies, disease dangers and mammoths. 🦣 Our society has just evolved different enemies, diseases, dangers and mammoths faster than we've evolved forethought.
Someone once told me, "When you know enough about what you don't want to know what you do want, then we'll talk!" Changed my life.
A difficulty I know people wrestle with... considering community and the social platform vs privacy and security. Wondering when to leave or boycott and balancing that with the 'it's already too late' or perhaps lack of a viable alternative. It's part and partial to a censorious reality.
It's the 'get back' that's a problem. Revenge and suffering perpetuate themselves. It's hypocritical to want peace and prosperity at the cost of becoming what you hate. It can't be done that way. Purge yes, hold to account, yes. Perpetuate suffering, No. They will want 'get back', and it cycles.
Today, I'm making homemade fruit syrups: blackberry, prickly pear, strawberry lemonade, etc... My sister got these Hella nifty pump jars.. Gonna have a fruity mead soda bar in my kitchen!!! 🍑🍋🍒🍻
Just tapped my fist keg of homemade mead, made with the honey from my sister's bees. 🍯 And it's good! 😋
If they agree there was no agreement, is that an agreement? Or is it enough to agree not to agree there was no agreement?
Subway sandwich guy has been released on his own recognizance. His attorney argued the felony charge was excessive, and the judge agreed. Oh, and he’s a USAF veteran. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
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So does everything else the Israeli admin are doing... Netanyahu is a war criminal. What we really need is for the UN to have enforcement bodies. But we don't... and that's a rabbit hole.
It's instinctive, coded in our DNA from when right or wrong, good or bad, true or false, meant life or death against enemies, disease dangers and mammoths. 🦣 Our society has just evolved different enemies, diseases, dangers and mammoths faster than we've evolved forethought.
The US deploys nearly 4000 troops along with Europe and El Salvador what is now being called the largest 'drug war' since the 1980s. www.riotimesonline.com/u-s-military...
The US deploys nearly 4000 troops along with Europe and El Salvador what is now being called the largest 'drug war' since the 1980s. www.riotimesonline.com/u-s-military...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Update Regarding troops sent to Caribbean: Aug 15,2025 www.npr.org/2025/08/15/n...
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This whole thread!
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BREAKING: Hurricane Erin — the first of the 2025 Atlantic season — is now churning toward the northern Leeward Islands with 75 mph winds. Heavy rain, dangerous surf, and life-threatening rip currents are on the way. Puerto Rico & U.S. Virgin Islands on alert. 🌀🌊 #HurricaneErin
The Right to Bear Sandwiches Shall Not be Infringed!!
We won't go back to the Status Quomo!! 🗽
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This is not to say, give up or give in, by all means keep fighting. Governors, mayors, Representatives, Lawyers, Judges, and you. Keep fighting. But plan your underground, offline, irl, resistance for the long and bumpy road ahead.
Of course blue states and leaders like Newsom want to appear strong, united, fearless and determined. But it's a mask too. They're participating in the propaganda by failing to admit to the public that not only is it a lost cause, we lost it months ago. 6/
Of course the Fascists want to mask themselves in Law and Democracy by gerrymandering more seats. But only so that they can wear that mask. Underneath it, they've already dismantled Democracy and the Fascism is already here. 5/
It's a sad reality that the gerrymandering propaganda is meant to make us believe hasn't happened yet. It's publicity. 4/
This admin owns all of the enforcement bodies. They have no intention of honoring any free and fair election. They're not honoring them now. They're not honoring mayors, governors, judges or representatives and they haven't been for months. 3/
If these Nazis can and will: deny our elected representatives the ability to exercise their sworn duties, threaten them, detain them, charge them, issue warrants against them, and even prosecute them. How is gerrymandering going to change that? 2/
Here's my thing... cause I have a hangup. Gerrymandering is only whitewashing the reality. It's a Democratic mask pulled over Fascism. And it's all for show! Think for a moment, how gerrymandering and or elections in competition with Fascists are going to make a lick of difference... 1/
I hope you're right!! With all my heart!
How do you foresee the military response? Mass desertion? Incarceration? How many service members and how many superiors or units do forsee refusing? And the consequences? Have you considered who and how service members could subvert the active military from within?? Do you see that happening?
youtu.be/TwPLqGkYnBA?...
I know the military inside and out from multiple perspectives over 40+ years. Grunts won't go against their training to Obey Unconditionally unless or until they start killing Americans outright, probably not even then and it wouldn't be the first time.
I plan my resistance around my own death daily. Otherwise there's no point. I am only part of what must endure without me.
I can't divulge my plans online, nor can anyone who actually foresees their necessity. I can only advise, you forsee their necessity, and take whatever large or small actions you can now in preparation. I post resistance tips on a regular. 🌿
That's why they removed all the moral leadership from the armed forces months ago... How many Bingo boxes do you need? Or are you just making the board bigger? I'm guilty of adding boxes to a bingo board that was full months ago.
I lived for a year in a militarized, authoritarian, religious nation!!! I know what it looks like. It looks like this. And it only gets worse. Plan your Resistance around that.
There will be No Civil War!! You can't have a Civil War when only one side has an Army! You don't get War. You get Occupation!!! We are now living in an Occupied Nation!!! Organize your Resistance around That!!! ☝️
Deliberate. Not desperate. The US fell the day they sent the National Guard to LA. It fell again when the courts failed to resend the order. It fell again with Alligator Auschwitz... We are No Longer a functioning Democracy!! We have Gestapo with a budget the size of the Russian Military!!!
Don't kid yourself. It's not pessimistic to admit facts. Just make your resistance plans around the facts, not in delusional detail of them.
Exactly!! Right on!! 💚 I started ordering heirloom variety seed, to encourage the diversity of species and so I can grow stuff unavailable at the store. And it's fun to have purple spotted and zibra-striped beans!! 💜🌿
And meanwhile, P2025 moves forward, DC has fallen, and we just sent Military to the Caribbean. But don't let me distract you by the corruption of the courts, the unconstitutional orders, the mishandling of enforcement bodies, concentration camps, and fascist censorship...
Go along... ??? He doesn't have to go along. He doesn't even have to know about. Dude doesn't even read his own executive orders!!! Congress decamped so that world leaders could decide what to do, who takes the fall and who falls out a window. It's too obvious for words.
Sounds is like your making excuses for the way things are. Stop. Make paths towards something better instead.
That's Engineered!!!! It's part of the wrong. And the wrong is bigger than that. Duh, it's nuanced. I'm not here for nuanced. I'm here to change people's perspectives on what's Right!!! I don't care the reasons for the wrong!! I care that we make it Right! And that starts by changing biases.
You're pointing towards the economy and social issues which affect people's ability to live and afford to live where they choose or where they work. That's one of many deplorable issues which contributes to people going unhoused! But it isn't an argument.
Isn't it amazing how much abundance we can share, if we share. If we each only grew one thing... Learn how to can or dry next, and we can share all year. 🍅🥬🥕
I have as much experience as you do, probably more. But it doesn't matter. The primary points remain. You can make whatever arguments you like. There's more than enough housing. And biases discrimination against the unhoused when up to 60% of them are employed.
It's so if they 'Off' him they can say it was natural causes. Right now, he's their biggest liability when it comes to the international trafficking of young girls!!!
What can you do? Rent a room. Grow food. Boycott corporations. Boycott plastics. Stock up. Be kind. Learn first-aid. Keep a journal and/or library. Help a neighbor. Make Art. Thrift. Upcycle. Be a good Listener. Join or start a club. Set boundaries. Conserve. Stop buying sh*t you don't need.
Google is free. Yes. I've searched and verified it. Now it's your turn. Fact check it without my help. It's called due diligence and learning. I do my due diligence by fact checking before I speak.
Just like we share the responsibility for changing it. 🌱
And by each other! No shit. We've decided what is and is not: appropriate, socially acceptable, successful, acceptable, reasonable or unreasonable, reason for judgment, what is and is not: legal, criminal, moral, righteous, discrimination, abuse... NORMAL!!!! We did This. We share the blame.
It's the abundance of Simple Solutions that's truly Astounding! The little acts which each of us, regardless of ability or money, can implement to transform our daily lives and thereby, reality. Each act also an act of Resistance... And it's not hard!!! Lazy, complacent, complaining... 💔
The reality is... We can survive and thrive together through almost any worst case scenario, if we collaborate to do so. But most people won't. 💔 And that's not being pessimistic. We're already watching it in real time.
I'm not actually optimistic. Experience has taught me to assume the worst case scenario and plan for that. You can always hope for better.
Three really obvious answers: He doesn't care. He doesn't care. He doesn't care.
His ego is so inflated, he just might.
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For those who can't read between the lines... This is an unveiled threat of War and international conflict with potential to occupy foriegn soil!! www.latintimes.com/us-deploys-a...
Um... wtf ... is this!?!? Currently Seeking more source info.
It's a statement of fact. A fact many don't know when forming their perceptions and judgements regarding unhoused persons. We generalize them as disabled or dysfunctional, when that isn't the larger reality. Another fact, there 28+ empty houses for every homeless person in America.
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
Social Security is economically and financially more complicated than that. We refer to is as a benifit because it's a governmently overseen system with a mountain of paperwork to qualify for. *Despite the fact that we fund it. But basically, yes, of course they intend to steal it.
#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1935: FDR signs the Social Security Act into law, creating a much-needed safety net for seniors, families headed by single mothers, needy children and other at-risk groups. Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor, was the driving force behind the law. /1
What can you do? Rent a room. Grow food. Boycott corporations. Boycott plastics. Stock up. Be kind. Learn first-aid. Keep a journal and/or library. Help a neighbor. Make Art. Thrift. Upcycle. Be a good Listener. Join or start a club. Set boundaries. Stop buying sh*t you don't need.
We don't need to invest a dime in "affordable housing". We already have more than enough housing!!! Let that sink in!! When up to 60% of unhoused persons are actively employed!! Let that sink in.
It is estimated that there are between 28-45 empty homes for every unhoused person in America!!! Up to 60% of unhoused persons are actively employed!!
Start talking with family and friends about what you might be willing to do to help house, care and provide for those you love. Start saving or rearranging: circumstances, finances, furniture, etc. Stock up. It's better to fight while having a backup plan, than to fight and lose without one.
They can't deliver the Epstein Files without compromising hundreds if not thousands of international businessmen, financiers, celebrities and oligarchs. Why do you think they're so panicked? Why do you think congress decamped? Why do you think the press released a medical diagnosis for Trump?
Up to 60% of unhoused persons are actively employed.