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Americans are Challenged...

Posted by $ Abaco 3 years, 8 months ago to Philosophy
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In watching the 4th of July tv celebration (I just caught little snips of it while doing stuff around home) I noticed something. Much of it was about race...one particular race. "OK", I thought. But, I didn't realize the 4th was about that. I guess it is now. And, all the post George Floyd news is also about race. But, there's so many examples of police brutality inflicted upon all kinds of people. See what happened here? This has been turned into the issue of white cops vs a certain race. But...that's not what it is, is it? I just see the enforcement branch of government getting away with brutalizing its citizens. Some dolt with a badge chokes out a guy and nobody interferes. I couldn't just sit there. I'd interfere. Now, an 8-yr old has been shot to death in Atlanta because the mob was so worked up.

I can't help but think a couple things. One - This is what the establishment wants. They don't have to really change as long as the discussion is about race. It's the old, "look at the shiny thing" trick. Statues are being pulled down. As we watched the statue of John Sutter get pulled down on local news my son asked why the people were cheering while standing there. That was an interesting conversation. Two - People seem unwilling and unable to accept that force is a powerful tool that government has taken full ownership of - that the common denominator in all of these stories is government force. I found the comments of Larken Rose very interesting a few years back. Essentially...We let people put on costumes and abuse us. I don't know much about him. But, on this he's dead right. I remember almost having a court bailiff crack my head open because I was reading a newspaper during some court proceedings. I still laugh about that (I wasn't a suspect, I just gave a suspect a ride there). Reading a paper in court seems like something Harpo Marx would do (and I'm a fan). No wonder the perceived offenders are expected to kneel now.

Anyway...There's my Jack Handy deep thought for the day.


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    Posted by CaptainKirk 3 years, 8 months ago
    Scott Adams Predicted that Trump would "Break Reality"...

    The point was that he would pull back the curtain so far, and so fast, that the media would be thrown off from assigning us their opinions.

    When people realized they were so FORMALLY controlled through narrative control (something that's OBVIOUS when you hear about Trumps "Dark and Divisive" speech, echoed by EVERY media and EVERY Democrat. The exact same words! So everyone could use the right phrase to describe the speech... Sad).

    But now we realize that WHENEVER the media AGREED completely... We were being Manipulated. 9/11 (Building 7, Pentagon), Flight TWA 800 (static electricity build up, Yeah Right). Syrian Gas Attacks (with White Helmets, and TONS of ambulances from a hospital 90 minutes away).

    When YouTube removed a channel that PROVED we had Crisis Actors in the USA a few years back, and DELETED the guys videos so he could not get them. I knew we were in trouble.

    But NOTHING has changed except the headlines, and the shiny object we are asked to focus on! Go for a walk, in your own neighborhood, and ask what's different from 10 years ago that you can SEE?
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    • Posted by $ 3 years, 8 months ago
      Ah yes...the crisis actors. I found that really interesting to watch them. I'd laugh out loud.

      Also to your point...Ever notice how you never hear a Trump speech on tv? You only get the critique. When you do find the speech on youtube later you can see it was a very good speech...
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      • Posted by CaptainKirk 3 years, 8 months ago
        Absolutely, my good friend, a Liberal who went independent, pointed out that he now watches Trumps speeches on YouTube, and his SKIN Crawls when the media SUMMARIZES a Trump speech, because he KNOWS they are misrepresenting it!
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  • Posted by Ben_C 3 years, 8 months ago
    Not to justify the behavior but when in the course of human kind has it been any different. And where on planet earth is it any different? This is not to justify abusive behavior but there is always "the rest of the story."
    I agree with blarman - the hidden agenda is becoming more and more obvious each day. BLM wants to end the nuclear family and disrupt society. Continuation of LBJ's Great Society consequences.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 3 years, 8 months ago
    Our nation is descending into anarchy. Carefully orchestrated anarchy but anarchy nonetheless. That's the end game of socialism: to establish a hierarchy of elites with their thugs to do enforcement. It's how every socialist nation has ended up. Follow the money of who funds Antifa and BLM and you'll find the wannabe elites. Ammo up.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 3 years, 8 months ago
      If black lives really mattered to blacks, there would not be an upsurge in them slaughtering each other right now.
      Yesterday I saw a drive-by video of a black arm extending from a car with a gun aimed at another black man crossing a street while holding his little daughter's hand. How cold-blooded heartless and vicious is that? The murder was not shown but the article stated the victim was pronounced dead at the hospital.
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      • Posted by $ blarman 3 years, 8 months ago
        That's how it works with the self-appointed elites and their thugs: those whom they view as a threat to their power are cowed into submission through force. The BLM movement is nothing more than a front for more gang violence and societal upheaval. And it is not suprising to me that it is primarily taking place in the cities run by the elites who are tired of having to be voted into position. They imagine that they can allow lawlessness and that such will only entrench them in power. Thus the rude awakening to such as the Seattle mayor when they showed up at her house...

        These are the dangers of hubris to the self-styled elitists. They create and encourage the very monsters they think they can control. Be vigilant, because I don't believe this can continue without coming to a very violent head...
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    • Posted by UncleAlbert 3 years, 8 months ago
      If you could find some ammo, these days. My nephew works in a gun store in Georgia, saw him this weekend and he reports there is no ammo available and they are completely out of stock on all kinds of guns presently.
      Wondering if this is due to Odumbo's policy for allowing the DHS and others to billions of bullets way back when.
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      • Posted by $ blarman 3 years, 8 months ago
        Could be that. Could also be the fact that under Obama the EPA shut down the only remaining lead ore smelter in the United States. Kind of hard to make bullets without the main ingredient...
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  • Posted by teri-amborn 3 years, 8 months ago
    I remember then candidate Obama calling for a "private police force just as well-armed and well-funded as the police and military are..."

    Perhaps that's what we're watching with BLM ?
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    • Posted by $ blarman 3 years, 8 months ago
      Mussolini had his black shirts. Hitler had his brown shirts and later the SS. Stalin had the KGB. Mao has his version of the secret police as has every other socialist dictator. And BLM and Antifa both are far too well-funded and organized not to be someone's hit squad...
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      • Posted by BCRinFremont 3 years, 8 months ago
        I vaguely remember Obama the Hopeless and his gang of idiots trying to set up a private security force for themselves.
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        • Posted by $ blarman 3 years, 8 months ago
          Oh, yes. It was quite entertaining watching them twist themselves in pretzels trying to explain that it really wasn't setting up a private security force made answerable only to the President equipped with military weapons but just a small, independent police force...
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 3 years, 8 months ago
    I hadn't heard that John Sutter's statue came down. I guess we shouldn't be surprised ... Sigh.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 3 years, 8 months ago
      If those pathetic pinheads will pull down the stature of black abolitionist Frederick Douglas, they will pull down anything.
      Wannabe commies are out to erase American history. Me dino anticipates book burnings next.
      Methinks only the take-over of a Marxist government could make all of our historical videos ndisappear. Bet that has happened to varying extents in places like China and North Korea.
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  • Posted by Katrina41 3 years, 8 months ago
    This whole situation has had its timetable changed. The puppeteers are shocked that people aren't falling like dominos for their scam, so now they have to make things REALLY terrifying. So many news feeds, so many FB posts, so many opinion outlets are threatening those of the wrong color with physical consequences. It has to be done before elections, because they know the polls are stacked and Trump can win. The anarchy clock is ticking...
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  • Posted by Deckerron 3 years, 8 months ago
    You're exactly right to observe whether "This is what the establishment wants." In my perception, OF COURSE IT IS, the last several months have been an orchestrated series of unfortunate incidents that the truth thereof will not be fully understood until we are cleaning up the aftermath. The sad reality of the matter is that there are so many "useful idiots" being "played" into these orchestrated events that will suffer the consequenses of their involvement in that aftermath and those consequenses will cause them grief for long after the passion of their involvement has subsided.
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