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I'm done.

Posted by $ AJAshinoff 4 years, 5 months ago to Culture
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This nation, the nation I served is not worth my breath anymore. Whether what he says is true or not, this life was needless spent.
Not what I served to protect. I wish I never served.


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  • Posted by $ 4 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah, a small fortune can be made - rigging an election, tracking people via rna strands slipped into the miracle vaccine for a mostly harmless virus and then tracked by cellphone apps and updated cell towers.I'm certain the brown shirts loved the creative opportunities posed by Hitler?

    Just image all the fun and profit one can have developing the IT framework to round people up to go to isolation camps where they can be re-educated all because they refused to be inoculated.

    Jess Smiley (Fallacies of Vision)...and it coming like a freight train and no in position is willing to stop it.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 4 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "But are our lives better? Is our existence any safer? Are we enlightened as a people? "
    I really think the answers are yes. There are obviously huge problems. But things really are good.

    Don't put in 12 hours a day if it's for those people telling you "this is a high-profile career make-or-break project." Money talks; BS walks. Despite all the problems, there are still a lot of fun and lucrative opportunities in the US.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 4 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Mind control from the media and education system. Thank the CIA and operation Paperclip.
    We never won WWII it just shifted to an infiltration of our great land. FUQ you Kissmyassinger and the rest of the NAZI vermin. RIP USA!
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  • Posted by $ Markus_Katabri 4 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ben C you’re in my District. I voted for the Black Guy. Peters is a tax fattened hyena. He will be absolutely ZERO help. Between him and Stabacow.
    I count in life one of my finest moments being getting chewed out by Stabacow’s Chief of Staff. I shut the power off on a conference she was holding. Oh my God the entitled whining I got to listen to. It was either that or let the magic smoke out of the transformer feeding the hotel. These so-called servants truly think they are our betters. If only I hadn’t been working for someone else at the time. I would have enjoyed laying into her. “You do NOT shut the power off on a United States Senator!” Whatever....call my boss and get out of my way.
    Enjoy the Decline
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  • Posted by Abaco 4 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I know...that's my current push with my son..."Don't be there!" He really has taken in by all this political debate and malarkey. But, I'm trying to tell him to not be involved. It ends badly all the time. You'll get mugged by a dozen transexual antifa members just because you're in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 4 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The "Move along. Nothing to see here." is my bitter summary of what has transpired as I listen to Star Wars music. I started out in an The Empire Just Struck mood and have improved dramatically over the last couple of hours. I wonder if Ayn Rand would have liked Star Wars music. When she writes about Halley's Concertos, I think of Star Wars music. I know that Ayn Rand would have objected to the Force!
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  • Posted by $ 4 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sadly, too true, Aside from personal aspirations I don't want to participate anymore. Even my personal aspirations are impacted because I refuse the muzzle, and later I won't take the shot.
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  • Posted by $ 4 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    What goes on after we depart this existence is what matters more as time goes by. Life is fleeting regardless of what anyone believes comes next. Preparing the way for those you sire is ultimately paramount because, again, your life/existence is finite and fleeting.

    The principals penned to parchment by the Founding Fathers are among the most valued. I served for me - the educational opportunities and benefits afforded me...and to see the world a bit. It wasn't until later in life that I sought greater value for the time when I willingly did not live as a free man.
    In my opinion, free will is the apex of existence. The individuals right to determine his own course, his own beliefs, his own thoughts, his own 'enough' in life unimpeded by others. The society each of us is born into takes from that free will to maintain a semblance of order, offering security by adding constraints. That degree is unavoidable if you choose to remain in a society . The minimal government envisioned by the Framers to ensure as much free will as feasible within society is long dead. Now they seek to define each individuals existence by stripping almost all free will. Unacceptable. Intolerable.

    There is a difference between giving up on the world around you and giving up on yourself, no?
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  • Posted by $ 4 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    @Steven-Wells It's appreciated.
    The only sacrifice I made was the temporary willing suspension of my Constitutional rights. Unlike many, and I'd have it no other way but voluntary, I stood up willing to risk my safety and even give my life if called on.Naive? Perhaps, but I did love Reagan and I was wrapped up in the sentiment of the time. Besides it was a good thing for me to do from a selfish standpoint.
    @Rex_Little While I didn't ask for anyone thanks and I don't make more of my peacetime service than what it was (chess game with the Soviets), I do appreciate the tip of the hat even if I didn't serve in a war or skirmish or policing act. I was fortunate.
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  • Posted by starznbarz 4 years, 5 months ago
    Corporate media is entirely responsible for the state of this Republic. They have chosen a side and are very good at hiding information that a large percentage of Americans are too lazy to ask questions about, or trumpeting the communist talking points that provide cover for the rampant corruption in congress. It is my belief they are the ones to focus on, they are using advertising dollars and a myriad of other large corporations they own to attack this Nation. We can do something about that. Remember when the NFL, NBA, etc began their kneeling/ blm tactics? It did not take long for a nationwide boycott to spring up that impacted them very quickly, media is no different, choke off the funding and a very clear message is delivered. It will require organization, and the will to act locally. Boycotts are ugly... they also are very effective. Media must be attacked economically, we cannot make them act differently, but we can damn sure stop rewarding them for it with our money. We will be putting together a public page listing local / national media owned companies and local / national advertisers, along with contact info. Pissed off? Need a project? They provide cover for corrupt politicians and communists, we crimp their wallet and maybe they let a little sunshine out. What, exactly do we have to lose?
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  • Posted by $ pixelate 4 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thank you for sharing your perspective. I am familiar with Molyneux's video. He is spot on.
    Correct. The police are not your friend. Have as little contact with them as possible.
    I agree -- much of the modern day technology simply satiates the needs of the Right Now.
    Things were better 40+ years ago (I was there) in that what you saw - perceived through senses - was much closer to reality. Nowadays, much of what is perceived is a sort of hologram -- fake news, fake science, fake pandemics, fake systemic racism, hell -- even a huge glop of the population thinks (well no, they don't think, they believe) that man never set foot on the moon.

    I hope that you can put those 12 hour days out to pasture and get to your Gulch. The sooner the better. My personal Gulch consists of getting time on the snow (climbing), road trips ... sometimes with minimal planning ... and tuning out from all the spewage that is pushed out to the cattle in terms of MSM.

    Please keep on sharing your perspectives. I think that wisdom is the accumulation of productive perspectives.
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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 4 years, 5 months ago
    My FB Polish-Jewish-Buddhist friend in England posted an very interesting article by one of Hannah Arendt's (German Jew) followers On her experience at the Nuremberg Trial of A. Eichmann Banality of Evil in the Time of Covid. Link to article: https://www.newstatesman.com/science-......
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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 4 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I understand how you feel, I have a son working in the insurance industry who is a sheeple (has been that way since high school) maybe when things get really bad he'll understand his father was correct about the criticism of the govt.
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  • Posted by lrshultis 4 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Were those sacrifices sham sacrifices as in chess where one gives up a more valuable piece for a less valuable piece with the belief that that action will gain a great advantage in the game later? If not they were a giving up of the good for some lesser value as is done in voting for the lesser of the evils rather than voting for the good. I consider Rand's definition of sacrifice to be right and the call for sacrifice by politics and religion to be evil. Do you think that giving up help for your family at the expense of some altruistic goal is moral? It is immoral and in the long run for a country, dangerous.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 4 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A rerun it may be, but you're old enough now that even if you live long enough to see a return to glory for America, you will have a hard time enjoying it. Being in your 80's is not fun.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 4 years, 5 months ago
    The country isn't worth your breath anymore, but now that Bidem is in charge, your breath is now considered a pollutant, and you have been given a muzzle (i.e. a required mask) to keep you quiet.

    Move along. Nothing to see here.
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  • Posted by Steven-Wells 4 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We need to have "White Lives Matter" posted all over the place.
    Will the anti-police rhetoric that's been foaming out of the rabid mouths in Congress add this as illustrative example? I expect not.
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  • Posted by FelixORiley 4 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There are three groups:
    1 Democrat socialist tyrants Since no Democrat bucks the throne, all Democrats are included.
    2 Republican Tories -dedicated to power and the current environment. Rinos
    3 Constitutionalists: loyalists to the backbone. The Constitution.
    4 (Add another if needed)
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  • Posted by FelixORiley 4 years, 5 months ago
    The readers (and comment participants) of this board should know that the "carbon core" principal of the US is actually the principal of the individual. When OP states he had served a nation with a failed philosophy, I too am disappointed. but it is not the US as a current philosophical collective you served, is it not your belief in what it stands for: mankind"s unalienable right to exist? We in the valley of gulch still exist, we are still here. We still think, proceed, work. AJAshinoff, did you serve the corporate US, or did you serve your right to live? And you know your service was righteous. Because we know what the "carbon core" principle of the US is, three entities: You, me and the next guy/gal. John Galt's character placed his life in jeopardy for that same principle. A principle that will never die until the last human gives up on himself.
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  • Posted by term2 4 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If you look up in youtube "nomad capitalist", his mantra is "go where they treat you best". The USA certainly at this point is way down on the list, since we cant even vote or speak our minds.
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  • Posted by term2 4 years, 5 months ago
    I no longer think this country is worth my allegiance any more. This "election" did it for me. I think the 74 million who voted and were not represented should protest and present reasonable demands that Biden should have to live with.
    1) Leave Trumps Immigration policies in place
    2) No new taxes or elimination of Trump's tax cuts
    3) No new regulations or elimination of Trump's regulation cuts.
    4) No national lockdowns
    5) No mail in ballots
    6) No voting without picture ID

    If The politicians wont at least NOT do these things, there will be hell to pay in the future
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  • Posted by $ CBJ 4 years, 5 months ago
    I’m 77 and not ready to throw in the towel at all. For me this is a rerun. My first presidential vote was for Goldwater in 1964. He was our “last hope” and when he lost to Lyndon Johnson in a landslide, the country was “doomed”, it was “all over”. Then the Dems overplayed their hand, Johnson served only one term of his own, and four of the next five presidents were Republicans.

    The playing field has changed, but the game is not over. The Supreme Court is in conservative hands. Election security is now a front-and-center issue, and will likely improve by the next round in 2022. The entertainment Industry and big media are hard left, but that has been largely true since the 1950’s, and their bias is now obvious rather than hidden. Trust in government is at an all-time low. The lockdowns are becoming increasingly unpopular, and are increasingly being blamed on the Dems. Because of those same lockdowns, home schooling is making a big comeback.

    Since the Dems are now running the country, voters will hold them responsible for whatever damage they cause in the next two years. Their margin in both houses of Congress is razor-thin, and can easily be reversed in 2022.

    Although there’s no guarantee that things will get better, I don’t see any reason to abandon the political and ideological battlefield just yet.
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