I'm nopeful, time to go extrajudicial. Wake me up when they start hanging the traitors. They are and have been a cancer. How long will we refuse to eradicate them? There's no pleasure in watching the outcome that all cancers bring, a slow, debilitating death. Our country is cancer-ridden, and we talk, but do nothing. Wake me up if we sta…
I'm nopeful, time to go extrajudicial. Wake me up when they start hanging the traitors. They are and have been a cancer. How long will we refuse to eradicate them? There's no pleasure in watching the outcome that all cancers bring, a slow, debilitating death. Our country is cancer-ridden, and we talk, but do nothing. Wake me up if we start doing something, the talk is like a lulaby. Time for a nap.
Edit 4/23/25:
So, we're still awaiting information, on the JFK assassination, 62 years after the fact.
Senator Ron Johnson is talking about investigating 9/11, 24 years after the fact.
Fast forward to 2045, and we'll be investigating the Covid "vaccine", 24 years after the fact.
There is no helping us. We are not only cancer-ridden (doctors are baffled!) while researchers like Steven Kirsch has used AI to PROVE the experimental jabs are harmful - more harmful than the so-called "disease." But people continue to "believe." Not only in covid, which I think they secretly love for whatever reasons, none of them good, but other ailments, diseases and disorders such as Autism. Now that RFJ, Jr. said he's going to get to the bottom of that, the parents of even non-functioning autistic children are ANGERED. This is as nuts as the trannie stuff - them believing that if their son picks up a doll they need to cut his genitals off and dress him up like Jon Benet.
It would seem that the PTB introduced something akin to Munchausen by Proxy on a massive basis. Why else would so many people be OK with Mengele-level atrocities aimed at their children?
I actually saw a bumper sticker yesterday claiming that autism is not a disorder it's a gift. This is how these delusional MKUltra victims manage to live with what has been done to their child. I get having a coping mechanism, but to the point where you don't even want a solution for themselves OR OTHER PEOPLE - that exposes their true colors.
Mary, god I loved your comment. You said it so well and eloquently.
I think people in this country have grown accustomed to being a victim and they not only are accustomed to it but they look for it, desire it, and search out opportunities to be a victim. Why? Well, I have a theory. Wanna hear it?
Boredom.
Pure and simple. Boredom. Why? Because in our society of excess and greed we have everything and with a cancer known as credit we can do pretty much anything we want to do. Gone are the days where our hard labors were required to feed ourselves and give us shelter. Gone are the days where we worked our hands raw with blisters making clothing, growing food and providing the essentials of life. Now we have it all at our fingertips.
So, when something like covid comes along all of these bored individuals whose lives really mean nothing of any importance to anyone (including themselves), they glom onto these issues, become a victim and suddenly that becomes their "cause" and their sole reason for existing. Their life's mission.
I have a friend who is a teacher. Teaching is no longer his job, it is his life. He eats, drinks, breathes, craps and sleeps everything about teaching. Not just teaching his students in the classroom, but he is now on the NEA council, goes to conferences everywhere, lobbies legislators for more money and higher teacher pay (and more time off I am sure) and it is his mission to procure tax dollars to continue funding "educators" and the broken system they employ. It's all he cares about from sunrise to sunset. He no longer works as a "teacher" he has become an "educator" and that is his "cause" and is now his sole identity.
If we had to spend more time worrying about our next meal or keeping a roof over our heads we'd be less inclined to worry about our genitals, genders, tattoos, covid, and every other stupid cause people engage in.
CP - you're right, they're all in training for the Victim's Olympics - new events continually being added.
On teachers, yes, many more concerned with adding to their credentials, and gaining prestige, than actually teaching.
Many pursue Master's degrees and Doctorates, a la "Dr. Jill". Using the term "Educator" is the first clue that they are holier than thou.
My father is a retired Juris Doctor but never had the hubris, audacity or self-importance to go by "Dr. Anselmo". Thank goodness, just a first-generation Sicilian legal immigrant, that made everything he had, grinding it out on merit.
Generalizing on teachers - there are many great ones out there who have sacrificed greatly and influenced our lives for the better - we can all remember one or two.
I like what Real Mary Rose said above. Some teachers become activists. At that point they consider themselves more than just a teacher, but an advocate for the long term welfare and mental well being of America's youth. It's the activists that I despise.
It sounds like your friend is an ACTIVIST rather than a teacher. And this is not atypical! I have a friend who is not this active, but she was in education and now she goes to all the Bernie rallies and posts all sorts of idiotic crap on Facebook. They are fully indoctrinated!
I buy somewhat into your boredom theory. Let's face it, starting after WWII modern conveniences made life easier. And if we weren't bored, why do we fill up SO MUCH time with social media, TV, music, movies, etc?
I am trying to replace some of this with sports (playing, not watching). Because that gets me out in life. I don't really use any major social media platforms anymore. They are toxic.
I think it's boredom mixed with programming from said TV. It's been going on for a long time. We've become pretty malleable. Just what the people in charge want.
Nothing proves that more to me than the covid heist, critical race grifting, and the trans agenda.
It's all very crazy. It goes deeper than just boredom. However, I'll grant you it is very much about self-identifying as a victim.
Mary---I guess I am not as nice as you and Cankerpuss because if I had "friends" like you two, I would quite quickly decide to find new friends who are not bat guano crazy.
I cannot stand all the drama of these kinds of people. My wife and I have 250 acres, 25 cows, 2 horses and some large hayfields and.....we have zero time for stupid schiff and crazy people.
I can't avoid 'em if I want to live in "regular" society and do stuff like work and play pickleball. But if I had my druthers, I'd have a set-up like you, as Cankerpuss says. Although I think I'd select a place in the mountains, and have big Anatolian Shepherd dogs to guard me.
Ron, you have what I dream of having. I waited too long and now land is too expensive. So, I am stuck with my 1/4 acre lot that I garden the hell out of!
This "friend" I referred to was at one time a great friend. At one time we were very similar in our views. Both of us were gun concealing conservatives. When he got into the teaching lifestyle and became an "activist" for public education he became more and more leftist until he is now a big time Biden/Harris supporter and has gone into mourning since Trump won. We have very little contact but I still get his stupid Facebook notices in my email with another rant about evil Trump and what Trump is doing to hurt his precious students.
You should learn about proper anarchy (not the anarchy-as-chaos nonsense 'they' call it) and then have a word with your 'friend' (or whoever). If you manage it well, some people will be interested and not shut down (shut you down-- results will vary of course... makes we wonder now as I write if I should try anarchy out with someone I see who is still wearing a mask...) and sometimes ask, 'How do you know all this?'.
One guy asked me just that after a bit of a convo at a bar (it was on a block where the electricity was not already out), until a young woman, interested in him, showed up and used astrology as an ice-breaker-cum-shoe-horn. Suffice to say I eventually lost him to her and a different, more intimate seating-arrangement to boot, but not before I had a chance to get him to maybe think about what we talked about. Sometimes the seeds we plant take root, sometimes they don't. Don't sweat it. Did Johnny Appleseed sweat it? Sometimes the seedlings die, sometimes they grow into trees that produce fruit. Ok, so sometimes the trees get diseases and the fruit, worms, but that's ok. There are a lot out there. And what is life about, but life?
Get really into anarchism where you're eating, living and breathing it and where it sort of sheds off you and onto others like a virus-- a good virus, though, as in 'viral info', at least to some virus-fertile folks. A good cancer-of-the-State. Maybe in those regards, risk getting kicked out of places sometimes if you think the risk is worth it. But don't be reckless about it. Try to manage it like a bucking bronco. It's a tightrope. Let your anarchy slowly consume the State with a death of a thousand cuts in the people who begin practicing it and leaving the State to whither and die. At least for some.
Anyway, I have an idea for a 'glocal' society that takes back the land, rather like feminists used to say 'take back the night'. Will it be able to? Time will tell. Have women taken back the night? I don't know, but am unsure it's a similar sort of problem anyway.
What do you mean? I can guess, but spell it out, clearly and consisely as if I have no idea and am 10 years old. :D
I was going to respond to Disaffected with this theme, but how about with you, instead, or as well:
It's about Mom Nature and the idea of the State fucking around and finding out-- that acronym that everyone and their penguin is throwing around these days. At your age and wisdom, that's probably all I need to write, right?
Your turn. A Bailey's Irish Cream Eskimo bar is in it for you.
Can you then call yourself an "anarchist" because you don't want anyone telling you what to do? Consider that NO ONE ever wants to be told what to do if contrary to their own desires. The accepted term "anarchist" has an entirely different meaning in general use.
Can you then call all men "rapists" because of their unfettered desire?
Note: I thank you for your kind offer of a Bailey's Eskimo Cream Bar, but any other flavor than the original vanilla is an abomination before God.
Zazzy, I'll testify as a convert of yours. I too had a long-time preconceived notion of anarchy - defining it internally as chaos laden, and possibly violent and destructive.
After your patience and tutelage, I came to see it as, and define anarchy as, simply not being governed. Period. That being my new(er) understanding, I'm down, 100%.
And thanks again for that, Zazzy.
Sorry about the girl and the ice-breaker-cum-shoe-horn, it's like when they start talking astrology, I can't help myself.
Should we discourage such talk in the cafe? Dreamy will surely object, so I'll let you two co-owners hash it out.
"Sorry about the girl and the ice-breaker-cum-shoe-horn..." ~ Ron Anselmo
I was about to leave anyway, but also, in retrospect, it was probably an opportune moment: We don't want to overwater our seeds, nor do so when we're too drunk, do we?
I don't drink all that much and the oversweet dark 'Russian' beer that I said would be better poured over cereal was a bit much. Before I drank my first sip, of course I toasted to Putin.
I am fine with Astrology for those who are fine with it. Using it for ice-breaking, too, is a fair strategy for those it works for or who want it to work for them. Besides, if some wanted to read our palms as an excuse to delicately hold our hands and run their fingers all over them, who would we be to argue against our 'futures', at least at that time?
Here's my point: I needn't be governed - by anyone - I'm capable of self-governing. On a macro level where does that go, as you suggest, given human foible? You know the answer - Law of the Jungle.
Why is that always so disparaged? It works; it's the natural order. Think about it. Absent man, it has always worked just fine. We are the ones who fuck everything up. It's our hubris, not wanting to live as intended.
elysianfield seems to have an unrealistic, 'boxed' counter-ideology about human-nature that he tacks onto anarchy (or any interest in the improvement of the human condition) and that inevitably, logically leads to an impasse, a stalemate.
The point is, it cancels out. Pure mathematics. It's a rationalization to remain stuck. 'We can't do this because we can't.' It's circular reasoning.
My point is that some humans-- and it doesn't have to include those trapped and comfortable in the logic-- may be able to break out of that trap and forge a new way of being, even if as small as a village and a few members to start. That's how we get off this planet. It begins with a shift in the headspace.
That's all it takes for a new species to evolve, is to break free of the impasses. A sociocultural mutation. A different way of being, of doing, of thinking.
elysianfield, God bless his little heart, doesn't have to come with us if he doesn't want to. That's part of the beauty of anarchy. It is not mandatory, impositional, coercive.
So he is free to remain in his headspace WRT anarchy or any other interest in the improvment of the human condition, even if just one's own. Just one's own is a start. Baby steps.
Let me remind that we are a land-dwelling species. Sort of spacefaring even. We had to get past the impasse that was the land and out of the ocean. And yet here we are. We left the elysianfish, along with our fins, behind.
We have arms and legs now and bigger brains. What's next?
Everyone going solo on their phones all day whether on social media or gaming etc. are living solitary lives. Look at the effect porn has had on relationships! Gone are the days of a sleazy laser disc that was stored high in the closet for occasional “use”!
Back in the 1950’s and 60’s when I was growing up my parents had set nights to go bowling or play cards with friends. Lots of talking went on then! (We used to listen in on the steps). Church activities pulled people together socially and lots of interactions happened there as well.
The iPhone has changed all that. You can now sit alone on a park bench and continue bingeing the latest “White Lotus”! Back in the day one or two programs might be watched in an evening on the TV plus the news.
It seems to me that TPTB want us to be isolated and easily propagandized (lied to). So far they are winning.
This feels right, like maybe "my suffering gives my life meaning" kind of thing. I don't get it, but I'm also from the "life's not fair, get over it and fight" camp. Old school, before being a victim was cool.
Back in my church attending days I had an autistic boy in my Sunday School youth class. I was the teacher. It was horrific. The kid would jump up and grab my bag, throw the contents everywhere. If I was able to defend my bag the kid would torment the other children. He'd get up and start licking the windows or the chalk board. When he would sit on the chair he'd constantly shout "HEY!" at me until I answered and then just blankly stare me. I finally quit not being able to take it anymore.
We should be celebrating this? My big ass. What that boy needed was a good solid whooping behind the woodshed, in my opinion.
That sounds absolutely horrible. I would not have been able to put up with that. And yeah, the parents are just like "deal with it" to teachers. Say what? How is that fair?
And then they defend autism and call it a "gift." Ugh.
CP my wife's a teacher at a Catholic school and every classroom has one if not two out of 20 who are artistic to some degree.I asked one day how can their be so many we never had kids like that to the degree we have today.She just said they didn't know how to classify them back then...We didn't have kids act like they would get there butt beat.I have yet to own a cell phone and I am 64 years old and proud of it I just do not need that much communication life is complicated enough lets go simple some and like you my 1/2 acre gives fruits trees and fruit bushes.
I have seen some autistic children who clearly have something wrong with them in their heads. I have seen others who really are just naughty children that need a good whooping.
You've no clue. The WEF will amalgamate Greenland, Canada and USA into the Club of Rome's long-planned Region 1 - North American Union (NAU) and their transition from corporatocracy to technocracy will make all idiots irrelevant.
As I understand it, there are varying levels of autism. From genius-savant to constant self-harm.
On one level, I can see how dealing with these children can be a lesson for the parents that may, in the end, be somehow positive. However, I don't think that "celebrating" is a word that should be used.
Many are in love with their own virtue. They cannot admit that their actions either harmed themselves or their loved ones. Instead, they will rationalize away because they "did what was right" and they are "good people."
As for "autism is a gift" well, there are autistic savants, and perhaps their autistic child has taught them patience or... IDK, something else.
I guess so but I would expect those with autism are much more likely.
My daughter underwent extensive academic and psychological testing. She struggled and well underperformed on about 80% of the testing but has a few off the charts capabilities involving geometric/spatial mathematics and had the highest score the clinician ever recorded on a repetitive hand-eye reaction speed test. I have also noticed her uncanny ability to deeply engage with others socially by mirroring their specific mannerisms and speech patterns to an exactness that I have never seen in others. (you don't realize that she is doing it with you until you see her completely mirror code-switch when interacting with others).
Overall my wife seems obsessed with trying to fix and/or cure my daughter but I honestly just accept her as she is and try to direct her towards her strengths and interests.
Don't forget, Elon Musk (autism level 1/asberger's) is arguably one of the most productive and successful people ever.
That is super interesting and cool, but I don't think we're talking about people like Musk or your daughter. We're talking about people damaged by vaccines who now are dependent on someone for life to take care of their needs. Some of these people are non-verbal, such as my best friend's brother, who was put in a home away from his siblings years ago. They are fighting to get him back as he is now in his 50's.
There are people who can't even feed themselves.
I don't know what your obviously high-functioning daughter has to do with the discussion, but it's nice that you accept her as-is. Would you even have to "accept" her, though, if she wasn't autistic? It would be a given.
Would you rather she hadn't been brain damaged? Or would you get a bumpersticker that says Autism is a Blessing?
You're absolutely right. It is our madness! We need actually elite elites to provide a vanguard to shift the country's consciousness and self image as the guys at Contra Mundum argue for with Jonathan Bowden's speech.
Hey Zazzy, you kill me! And I apologize for leaving you hanging sometimes, it's not intentional, but discourteous just the same, so I'm sorry.
We usually connect very late at night - I remember going from about 3:00am to daylight one night, and sometimes when we catch up, I have to call it a night.
How's the woodworking/carpentry going? Sounds like you're liking it?
"Hey Zazzy, you kill me! And I apologize for leaving you hanging sometimes, it's not intentional, but discourteous just the same, so I'm sorry." ~ Ron
Ron, if you're like me, I seem to go more by my whims and the seasons, than the days/nights or, worse yet, the artificiality of the human time-devices, so don't beat yourself up about it, at least with me.
Flog yourself, if you must, with someone who may have a harder time understanding that sort of thing and who orient their lives as if they're always going for a critical job interview.
I will be late for my own funeral, or forget about it altogether, but won't aplologize to my maker. If I hear you doing so, I may subtly, briefly wince, but try to pretend I didn't hear that as I while away my time on an extra-fluffy cloud with an angel or two. I may even lean forward and whisper to the angels about you, something like, "He may join us, maybe late, maybe early, or maybe never and that's ok.". The angels will nod in understanding.
"How's the woodworking/carpentry going? Sounds like you're liking it?" ~ Ron
Are you kidding? I'm still purchasing stuff, and learning the whats and whys before possible purchase, on my own leisure (lots of You Tube videos).
They seem a bit cavalier over here, incidentally, about Forstner drill bits, and so I'm waiting for an order to be shipped in. While I have my chisels, drill bits are also where the rubber meets the road.
My eyesight is fine, but I still have to zoom in with many emojis, which you can do too if you're uncertain.
On my Apple Mac, it's pressing the command key and, while holding it down, then zooming-in by pressing the + (plus) key one or more times. You can zoom out again with the command key and the - (minus) key or reset it to the original size with command and 0 (zero) keys.
If recalled, Windows is the same thing, only using the ctrl or somesuch key (in place of Apple's command key) and the +, - or 0 keys.
Linux key combos are the same as Windows I think, unless you're running Linux on a Mac, in which case, you likely know all this anyway.
Off to look at/for a square-hole chisel attachment for an electric hand drll...
The Luigi Mangione fan club was a bit surprising to see. It may indicate that there are more than a few other Luigis out there waiting for the right opportunity to deal with those criminal traitors?
And......the conservatives tend to have much better things to do than going to protests to try to help people who are in our country illegally and are committing an untold number of crimes----most of which are not reported.
To me one of the biggest differences is that Conservatives typically are employed and have plenty to keep them busy and they generally do not want to get in other peoples face and tell them what to think and what to do whereas crazy libs/marxists love to tell others what to do and then feel good about themselves because they are MAKING others listen to them and defend themselves.
That is my experience as well. Currently, the people I enjoy being around are all conservatives. I spent Easter with a family I adore yesterday. I have zero interest in dealing with liberals at all any more. My tolerance gets lower every day. But would I go so far as to do something to their cars? That's madness! But they would do that without a second thought because they consider themselves morally superior.
I go out with a group of ladies every month for dinner. Guess who will bring up politics? Not the conservatives, not the Christians, only the liberals. And it's always an insult. They don't even realize that we all are not liberal! They assume we have the same moral "standards". They are so self-centered that they can't even see other people don't share their insanity.
It really is amazing to behold. One of them brags about being part of a CIA family, so of course I'd never share anything about myself to her.
Agent - probably so, although, I'd prefer that the targets know they are targets. They deserve the thought, in my opinion. Also, again, in my opinion, Mangione took the path of a coward, shooting him in the back. I think it's more meaningful that people see what they have coming, and from whom, even if only for a brief second. It inflicts a well-deserved, lasting psychic trauma, as they have done collectively to others. It makes payback a forever bitch.
Actually, the videos of it that I saw showed that the 1st shot in the back was to disable him, then he shot him point blank in the face for the kill shot.
Some articles said that was a common 'hit man' technique.
I'm nopeful, time to go extrajudicial. Wake me up when they start hanging the traitors. They are and have been a cancer. How long will we refuse to eradicate them? There's no pleasure in watching the outcome that all cancers bring, a slow, debilitating death. Our country is cancer-ridden, and we talk, but do nothing. Wake me up if we start doing something, the talk is like a lulaby. Time for a nap.
Edit 4/23/25:
So, we're still awaiting information, on the JFK assassination, 62 years after the fact.
Senator Ron Johnson is talking about investigating 9/11, 24 years after the fact.
Fast forward to 2045, and we'll be investigating the Covid "vaccine", 24 years after the fact.
Anybody else see how this works?
There is no helping us. We are not only cancer-ridden (doctors are baffled!) while researchers like Steven Kirsch has used AI to PROVE the experimental jabs are harmful - more harmful than the so-called "disease." But people continue to "believe." Not only in covid, which I think they secretly love for whatever reasons, none of them good, but other ailments, diseases and disorders such as Autism. Now that RFJ, Jr. said he's going to get to the bottom of that, the parents of even non-functioning autistic children are ANGERED. This is as nuts as the trannie stuff - them believing that if their son picks up a doll they need to cut his genitals off and dress him up like Jon Benet.
It would seem that the PTB introduced something akin to Munchausen by Proxy on a massive basis. Why else would so many people be OK with Mengele-level atrocities aimed at their children?
I actually saw a bumper sticker yesterday claiming that autism is not a disorder it's a gift. This is how these delusional MKUltra victims manage to live with what has been done to their child. I get having a coping mechanism, but to the point where you don't even want a solution for themselves OR OTHER PEOPLE - that exposes their true colors.
Mary, god I loved your comment. You said it so well and eloquently.
I think people in this country have grown accustomed to being a victim and they not only are accustomed to it but they look for it, desire it, and search out opportunities to be a victim. Why? Well, I have a theory. Wanna hear it?
Boredom.
Pure and simple. Boredom. Why? Because in our society of excess and greed we have everything and with a cancer known as credit we can do pretty much anything we want to do. Gone are the days where our hard labors were required to feed ourselves and give us shelter. Gone are the days where we worked our hands raw with blisters making clothing, growing food and providing the essentials of life. Now we have it all at our fingertips.
So, when something like covid comes along all of these bored individuals whose lives really mean nothing of any importance to anyone (including themselves), they glom onto these issues, become a victim and suddenly that becomes their "cause" and their sole reason for existing. Their life's mission.
I have a friend who is a teacher. Teaching is no longer his job, it is his life. He eats, drinks, breathes, craps and sleeps everything about teaching. Not just teaching his students in the classroom, but he is now on the NEA council, goes to conferences everywhere, lobbies legislators for more money and higher teacher pay (and more time off I am sure) and it is his mission to procure tax dollars to continue funding "educators" and the broken system they employ. It's all he cares about from sunrise to sunset. He no longer works as a "teacher" he has become an "educator" and that is his "cause" and is now his sole identity.
If we had to spend more time worrying about our next meal or keeping a roof over our heads we'd be less inclined to worry about our genitals, genders, tattoos, covid, and every other stupid cause people engage in.
CP - you're right, they're all in training for the Victim's Olympics - new events continually being added.
On teachers, yes, many more concerned with adding to their credentials, and gaining prestige, than actually teaching.
Many pursue Master's degrees and Doctorates, a la "Dr. Jill". Using the term "Educator" is the first clue that they are holier than thou.
My father is a retired Juris Doctor but never had the hubris, audacity or self-importance to go by "Dr. Anselmo". Thank goodness, just a first-generation Sicilian legal immigrant, that made everything he had, grinding it out on merit.
Generalizing on teachers - there are many great ones out there who have sacrificed greatly and influenced our lives for the better - we can all remember one or two.
I like what Real Mary Rose said above. Some teachers become activists. At that point they consider themselves more than just a teacher, but an advocate for the long term welfare and mental well being of America's youth. It's the activists that I despise.
Agree, Mary brought her "A Game", she's right on the money today.
Activist of any kind at this point they all seem very leftist in nature.
The many great ones have retired or been forced out by miserable conditions. I have 2 in my family.
Please give them my regards, my thanks and my respect - there is no more noble calling than teaching, but at the same time, no more thankless task.
Well said Cankerpuss and thank you!
It sounds like your friend is an ACTIVIST rather than a teacher. And this is not atypical! I have a friend who is not this active, but she was in education and now she goes to all the Bernie rallies and posts all sorts of idiotic crap on Facebook. They are fully indoctrinated!
I buy somewhat into your boredom theory. Let's face it, starting after WWII modern conveniences made life easier. And if we weren't bored, why do we fill up SO MUCH time with social media, TV, music, movies, etc?
I am trying to replace some of this with sports (playing, not watching). Because that gets me out in life. I don't really use any major social media platforms anymore. They are toxic.
I think it's boredom mixed with programming from said TV. It's been going on for a long time. We've become pretty malleable. Just what the people in charge want.
Nothing proves that more to me than the covid heist, critical race grifting, and the trans agenda.
It's all very crazy. It goes deeper than just boredom. However, I'll grant you it is very much about self-identifying as a victim.
Mary---I guess I am not as nice as you and Cankerpuss because if I had "friends" like you two, I would quite quickly decide to find new friends who are not bat guano crazy.
I cannot stand all the drama of these kinds of people. My wife and I have 250 acres, 25 cows, 2 horses and some large hayfields and.....we have zero time for stupid schiff and crazy people.
Good Luck.
I can't avoid 'em if I want to live in "regular" society and do stuff like work and play pickleball. But if I had my druthers, I'd have a set-up like you, as Cankerpuss says. Although I think I'd select a place in the mountains, and have big Anatolian Shepherd dogs to guard me.
Ron, you have what I dream of having. I waited too long and now land is too expensive. So, I am stuck with my 1/4 acre lot that I garden the hell out of!
This "friend" I referred to was at one time a great friend. At one time we were very similar in our views. Both of us were gun concealing conservatives. When he got into the teaching lifestyle and became an "activist" for public education he became more and more leftist until he is now a big time Biden/Harris supporter and has gone into mourning since Trump won. We have very little contact but I still get his stupid Facebook notices in my email with another rant about evil Trump and what Trump is doing to hurt his precious students.
You should learn about proper anarchy (not the anarchy-as-chaos nonsense 'they' call it) and then have a word with your 'friend' (or whoever). If you manage it well, some people will be interested and not shut down (shut you down-- results will vary of course... makes we wonder now as I write if I should try anarchy out with someone I see who is still wearing a mask...) and sometimes ask, 'How do you know all this?'.
One guy asked me just that after a bit of a convo at a bar (it was on a block where the electricity was not already out), until a young woman, interested in him, showed up and used astrology as an ice-breaker-cum-shoe-horn. Suffice to say I eventually lost him to her and a different, more intimate seating-arrangement to boot, but not before I had a chance to get him to maybe think about what we talked about. Sometimes the seeds we plant take root, sometimes they don't. Don't sweat it. Did Johnny Appleseed sweat it? Sometimes the seedlings die, sometimes they grow into trees that produce fruit. Ok, so sometimes the trees get diseases and the fruit, worms, but that's ok. There are a lot out there. And what is life about, but life?
Get really into anarchism where you're eating, living and breathing it and where it sort of sheds off you and onto others like a virus-- a good virus, though, as in 'viral info', at least to some virus-fertile folks. A good cancer-of-the-State. Maybe in those regards, risk getting kicked out of places sometimes if you think the risk is worth it. But don't be reckless about it. Try to manage it like a bucking bronco. It's a tightrope. Let your anarchy slowly consume the State with a death of a thousand cuts in the people who begin practicing it and leaving the State to whither and die. At least for some.
Anyway, I have an idea for a 'glocal' society that takes back the land, rather like feminists used to say 'take back the night'. Will it be able to? Time will tell. Have women taken back the night? I don't know, but am unsure it's a similar sort of problem anyway.
Goddamn it, Zaz,
Eating, breathing and living at the sufferance of the biggest asshole on the block.
You have no idea.
Who's the asshole? Trump?
What do you mean? I can guess, but spell it out, clearly and consisely as if I have no idea and am 10 years old. :D
I was going to respond to Disaffected with this theme, but how about with you, instead, or as well:
It's about Mom Nature and the idea of the State fucking around and finding out-- that acronym that everyone and their penguin is throwing around these days. At your age and wisdom, that's probably all I need to write, right?
Your turn. A Bailey's Irish Cream Eskimo bar is in it for you.
Zaz,
Can you then call yourself an "anarchist" because you don't want anyone telling you what to do? Consider that NO ONE ever wants to be told what to do if contrary to their own desires. The accepted term "anarchist" has an entirely different meaning in general use.
Can you then call all men "rapists" because of their unfettered desire?
Note: I thank you for your kind offer of a Bailey's Eskimo Cream Bar, but any other flavor than the original vanilla is an abomination before God.
Zazzy, I'll testify as a convert of yours. I too had a long-time preconceived notion of anarchy - defining it internally as chaos laden, and possibly violent and destructive.
After your patience and tutelage, I came to see it as, and define anarchy as, simply not being governed. Period. That being my new(er) understanding, I'm down, 100%.
And thanks again for that, Zazzy.
Sorry about the girl and the ice-breaker-cum-shoe-horn, it's like when they start talking astrology, I can't help myself.
Should we discourage such talk in the cafe? Dreamy will surely object, so I'll let you two co-owners hash it out.
"Sorry about the girl and the ice-breaker-cum-shoe-horn..." ~ Ron Anselmo
I was about to leave anyway, but also, in retrospect, it was probably an opportune moment: We don't want to overwater our seeds, nor do so when we're too drunk, do we?
I don't drink all that much and the oversweet dark 'Russian' beer that I said would be better poured over cereal was a bit much. Before I drank my first sip, of course I toasted to Putin.
I am fine with Astrology for those who are fine with it. Using it for ice-breaking, too, is a fair strategy for those it works for or who want it to work for them. Besides, if some wanted to read our palms as an excuse to delicately hold our hands and run their fingers all over them, who would we be to argue against our 'futures', at least at that time?
Ron, Jesus! Why not another fairy tale completely devoid of human foible? No more wars! No more disease! Next year Wakanda!
But that's precisely what you're saying as well-- as an inverse.
It's still as unrealistic an ideology as what you critique here. Just mirror it and take a look for yourself.
Anarchists-- not your imaginary inverted versions of them-- are all too aware that no one's perfect, but that's not the point, nor their points.
See also:
kunstler.com/p/the-great-consternation/comment/111903017
E - I always respect your opinions.
Here's my point: I needn't be governed - by anyone - I'm capable of self-governing. On a macro level where does that go, as you suggest, given human foible? You know the answer - Law of the Jungle.
Why is that always so disparaged? It works; it's the natural order. Think about it. Absent man, it has always worked just fine. We are the ones who fuck everything up. It's our hubris, not wanting to live as intended.
elysianfield seems to have an unrealistic, 'boxed' counter-ideology about human-nature that he tacks onto anarchy (or any interest in the improvement of the human condition) and that inevitably, logically leads to an impasse, a stalemate.
The point is, it cancels out. Pure mathematics. It's a rationalization to remain stuck. 'We can't do this because we can't.' It's circular reasoning.
My point is that some humans-- and it doesn't have to include those trapped and comfortable in the logic-- may be able to break out of that trap and forge a new way of being, even if as small as a village and a few members to start. That's how we get off this planet. It begins with a shift in the headspace.
That's all it takes for a new species to evolve, is to break free of the impasses. A sociocultural mutation. A different way of being, of doing, of thinking.
elysianfield, God bless his little heart, doesn't have to come with us if he doesn't want to. That's part of the beauty of anarchy. It is not mandatory, impositional, coercive.
So he is free to remain in his headspace WRT anarchy or any other interest in the improvment of the human condition, even if just one's own. Just one's own is a start. Baby steps.
Let me remind that we are a land-dwelling species. Sort of spacefaring even. We had to get past the impasse that was the land and out of the ocean. And yet here we are. We left the elysianfish, along with our fins, behind.
We have arms and legs now and bigger brains. What's next?
Everyone going solo on their phones all day whether on social media or gaming etc. are living solitary lives. Look at the effect porn has had on relationships! Gone are the days of a sleazy laser disc that was stored high in the closet for occasional “use”!
Back in the 1950’s and 60’s when I was growing up my parents had set nights to go bowling or play cards with friends. Lots of talking went on then! (We used to listen in on the steps). Church activities pulled people together socially and lots of interactions happened there as well.
The iPhone has changed all that. You can now sit alone on a park bench and continue bingeing the latest “White Lotus”! Back in the day one or two programs might be watched in an evening on the TV plus the news.
It seems to me that TPTB want us to be isolated and easily propagandized (lied to). So far they are winning.
This feels right, like maybe "my suffering gives my life meaning" kind of thing. I don't get it, but I'm also from the "life's not fair, get over it and fight" camp. Old school, before being a victim was cool.
Yes, that's the latest mantra circulating around the Marxists, that autism is to be celebrated. I'll bet those suffering from it don't agree.
Back in my church attending days I had an autistic boy in my Sunday School youth class. I was the teacher. It was horrific. The kid would jump up and grab my bag, throw the contents everywhere. If I was able to defend my bag the kid would torment the other children. He'd get up and start licking the windows or the chalk board. When he would sit on the chair he'd constantly shout "HEY!" at me until I answered and then just blankly stare me. I finally quit not being able to take it anymore.
We should be celebrating this? My big ass. What that boy needed was a good solid whooping behind the woodshed, in my opinion.
That sounds absolutely horrible. I would not have been able to put up with that. And yeah, the parents are just like "deal with it" to teachers. Say what? How is that fair?
And then they defend autism and call it a "gift." Ugh.
CP my wife's a teacher at a Catholic school and every classroom has one if not two out of 20 who are artistic to some degree.I asked one day how can their be so many we never had kids like that to the degree we have today.She just said they didn't know how to classify them back then...We didn't have kids act like they would get there butt beat.I have yet to own a cell phone and I am 64 years old and proud of it I just do not need that much communication life is complicated enough lets go simple some and like you my 1/2 acre gives fruits trees and fruit bushes.
I have seen some autistic children who clearly have something wrong with them in their heads. I have seen others who really are just naughty children that need a good whooping.
Those suffering the most from autism are the duped parents of the damaged child.
Big Pharma is Luciferian.
Got some proof of that?
Or is anything driven by profit motive considered Luciferian by you?
Do all the drug companies have a statue of Baphomet in the lobby with a Black mass going on in the chapel at midnight?
Yes.
Strawmen notwithstanding, the world is ran by the Rothschilds and the Rothschilds are Luciferian.
Please do try and keep up, Ben.
You saying something does not make it so.
As far as keeping up with what your anti-Trump anti-America bullshit?
No thanks.
Rave on lunatic.
Where is the American invasion force set to take over Canadia?
Huh? Trump clearly stated that the US's annexing of Canada would be an economic (not military) conquest. Please do try and keep up.
Not happening no one wants Canada to many idiots.
You've no clue. The WEF will amalgamate Greenland, Canada and USA into the Club of Rome's long-planned Region 1 - North American Union (NAU) and their transition from corporatocracy to technocracy will make all idiots irrelevant.
Again prove it.
As I understand it, there are varying levels of autism. From genius-savant to constant self-harm.
On one level, I can see how dealing with these children can be a lesson for the parents that may, in the end, be somehow positive. However, I don't think that "celebrating" is a word that should be used.
Yes, a lot of variation from what I know...
Oh I had one autistic (high functioning) young lady call me "ableist" for agreeing that RFKjr should be trying to find the cause. LOL!
Is there anything they don't have a perjorative for?
There's an "ist" for every occasion and everyone who wants to be oppressed.
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Many are in love with their own virtue. They cannot admit that their actions either harmed themselves or their loved ones. Instead, they will rationalize away because they "did what was right" and they are "good people."
As for "autism is a gift" well, there are autistic savants, and perhaps their autistic child has taught them patience or... IDK, something else.
Neither bad nor good, it is what it is. My daughter is autism level 1 and we have a mental connection we refer to as bluetooth.
Some autistic kids may be telepathic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qlppHc3-gg
Some people without autism may be telepathic, too!
Thanks for sharing.
I guess so but I would expect those with autism are much more likely.
My daughter underwent extensive academic and psychological testing. She struggled and well underperformed on about 80% of the testing but has a few off the charts capabilities involving geometric/spatial mathematics and had the highest score the clinician ever recorded on a repetitive hand-eye reaction speed test. I have also noticed her uncanny ability to deeply engage with others socially by mirroring their specific mannerisms and speech patterns to an exactness that I have never seen in others. (you don't realize that she is doing it with you until you see her completely mirror code-switch when interacting with others).
Overall my wife seems obsessed with trying to fix and/or cure my daughter but I honestly just accept her as she is and try to direct her towards her strengths and interests.
Don't forget, Elon Musk (autism level 1/asberger's) is arguably one of the most productive and successful people ever.
That is super interesting and cool, but I don't think we're talking about people like Musk or your daughter. We're talking about people damaged by vaccines who now are dependent on someone for life to take care of their needs. Some of these people are non-verbal, such as my best friend's brother, who was put in a home away from his siblings years ago. They are fighting to get him back as he is now in his 50's.
There are people who can't even feed themselves.
I don't know what your obviously high-functioning daughter has to do with the discussion, but it's nice that you accept her as-is. Would you even have to "accept" her, though, if she wasn't autistic? It would be a given.
Would you rather she hadn't been brain damaged? Or would you get a bumpersticker that says Autism is a Blessing?
P.S. I don't think Musk is a genius as others do.
OMG, well said!
Thank you!
Ok. I haven't heard about Steven Kirsch...Any other researchers? All I know is, everyone I know is fine, both the vaxed, and the not vaxed...
You're absolutely right. It is our madness! We need actually elite elites to provide a vanguard to shift the country's consciousness and self image as the guys at Contra Mundum argue for with Jonathan Bowden's speech.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1RWkBmIE9ez9kw0z2kYfPz?si=BYcNTyyeT6KNHnjcNWV58g
https://jonathanbowden.org/speeches/vanguardism/
Nopeful? Are you coining a new term here, Ron?
Dis - hopefully, but probably nopefully.
LOL! Nice retort!
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Mary, I'm a step above legally blind, help me out?
It's a party-hat with a pompom. You have to put it on. There's a little elastic band that goes under your chin.
Hey Zazzy, you kill me! And I apologize for leaving you hanging sometimes, it's not intentional, but discourteous just the same, so I'm sorry.
We usually connect very late at night - I remember going from about 3:00am to daylight one night, and sometimes when we catch up, I have to call it a night.
How's the woodworking/carpentry going? Sounds like you're liking it?
"Hey Zazzy, you kill me! And I apologize for leaving you hanging sometimes, it's not intentional, but discourteous just the same, so I'm sorry." ~ Ron
Ron, if you're like me, I seem to go more by my whims and the seasons, than the days/nights or, worse yet, the artificiality of the human time-devices, so don't beat yourself up about it, at least with me.
Flog yourself, if you must, with someone who may have a harder time understanding that sort of thing and who orient their lives as if they're always going for a critical job interview.
I will be late for my own funeral, or forget about it altogether, but won't aplologize to my maker. If I hear you doing so, I may subtly, briefly wince, but try to pretend I didn't hear that as I while away my time on an extra-fluffy cloud with an angel or two. I may even lean forward and whisper to the angels about you, something like, "He may join us, maybe late, maybe early, or maybe never and that's ok.". The angels will nod in understanding.
"How's the woodworking/carpentry going? Sounds like you're liking it?" ~ Ron
Are you kidding? I'm still purchasing stuff, and learning the whats and whys before possible purchase, on my own leisure (lots of You Tube videos).
They seem a bit cavalier over here, incidentally, about Forstner drill bits, and so I'm waiting for an order to be shipped in. While I have my chisels, drill bits are also where the rubber meets the road.
It's a bottle of champagne!
They should offer a crisp chardonnay emoji.
Only 🍷is available. Shoot.
Well it's a start.
Why thank you Mary, very sweet of you.
My eyesight is fine, but I still have to zoom in with many emojis, which you can do too if you're uncertain.
On my Apple Mac, it's pressing the command key and, while holding it down, then zooming-in by pressing the + (plus) key one or more times. You can zoom out again with the command key and the - (minus) key or reset it to the original size with command and 0 (zero) keys.
If recalled, Windows is the same thing, only using the ctrl or somesuch key (in place of Apple's command key) and the +, - or 0 keys.
Linux key combos are the same as Windows I think, unless you're running Linux on a Mac, in which case, you likely know all this anyway.
Off to look at/for a square-hole chisel attachment for an electric hand drll...
youtube.com/results?search_query=chisel+drill+attachment
'Wait, what? A drill that can drill square holes? What will they think of next...'
The Luigi Mangione fan club was a bit surprising to see. It may indicate that there are more than a few other Luigis out there waiting for the right opportunity to deal with those criminal traitors?
And yet, the most common narrative is that terrorists come from "the right."
"The right" have not been keying Teslas, setting Tesla dealerships on fire, burning down cities, assassinating folks... etc.
And......the conservatives tend to have much better things to do than going to protests to try to help people who are in our country illegally and are committing an untold number of crimes----most of which are not reported.
To me one of the biggest differences is that Conservatives typically are employed and have plenty to keep them busy and they generally do not want to get in other peoples face and tell them what to think and what to do whereas crazy libs/marxists love to tell others what to do and then feel good about themselves because they are MAKING others listen to them and defend themselves.
That is my experience as well. Currently, the people I enjoy being around are all conservatives. I spent Easter with a family I adore yesterday. I have zero interest in dealing with liberals at all any more. My tolerance gets lower every day. But would I go so far as to do something to their cars? That's madness! But they would do that without a second thought because they consider themselves morally superior.
I go out with a group of ladies every month for dinner. Guess who will bring up politics? Not the conservatives, not the Christians, only the liberals. And it's always an insult. They don't even realize that we all are not liberal! They assume we have the same moral "standards". They are so self-centered that they can't even see other people don't share their insanity.
It really is amazing to behold. One of them brags about being part of a CIA family, so of course I'd never share anything about myself to her.
No, we are too busy working and taking care of families.
Agent - probably so, although, I'd prefer that the targets know they are targets. They deserve the thought, in my opinion. Also, again, in my opinion, Mangione took the path of a coward, shooting him in the back. I think it's more meaningful that people see what they have coming, and from whom, even if only for a brief second. It inflicts a well-deserved, lasting psychic trauma, as they have done collectively to others. It makes payback a forever bitch.
A coward? Dishonorable? Every bit as honorable as a drone strike.
There's some truth in your words, E.
Actually, the videos of it that I saw showed that the 1st shot in the back was to disable him, then he shot him point blank in the face for the kill shot.
Some articles said that was a common 'hit man' technique.
One wonders how he was trained for that...
I think you've gone and done it and created a new word. I see others on this comment platform begin to use "nopeful".👍
Let me know!