The following is a partial Bibilical quote "I am like a Desert Owl of the Wilderness, like an Owl of the Waste Places." So, if the SHTF the Upland Desert will be my refuge. Big brother can't hunt down everyone who says "No" to their lies.

I am not advocating that you suppress yourself but discover a method for being yourself without being observed and attacked. Provoking those who control almost every aspect of your life is not healthy.

Except for the fact that they steal from you every time you do anything, and they rig all "investments" to steal from you, and suppressing yourself is unhealthy.
If everyone went on strike at once it would definitely induce a change, but the scum will never give up power without violence.

Yeah it's fun but not useful for a discussion amongst 10 or 20 people.

I've given some thought to that myself. Aeronca - there are folks who enjoy doing vocal "blogging" on ham radio at different times. Lots of small town locals will listen in for gossip and news.

Somehow, I think "cloaking" would defeat the purpose of free thinking people who are willing to discuss reality in a non-threatening environment. Now, if we were all to physically move somewhere, THAT would need to be cloaked because as "Brandon" reminded everyone not so long ago - the 2nd Amendment doesn't help us against military firepower. head slap Ugh.

I'm not worried about it. Any group that allows people to participate without meeting in person is bound to have both spies and infiltrators in it. I don't post anything I'm not willing to be quizzed about in open court.

I suggest that anyone who wants to form or join a "real Gulch" stick to conventions and libertarian clubs for that purpose -- and beware anyone who proposes major lawbreaking, as that is likely a Fed provocateur.

How could we? A person can type anything. I wanted to see a DSA meeting in person so I just spoke woke and they let me right in. Scary stuff.

That would be awesome. But difficult to run a blog by Ham radio.

I don't care if I piss off the transperson. I don't want to alert the authorities. The investigation might find a laundry list of things they don't like and think justifies my termination.

Could we somehow make this an even tighter closed group without harming new members who would want to join?

Ham radio.

Great post. Somehow we should VET members

I'm not surprised we are spied on. We have to spy on them.

Yes crypto and elimination of cash would be dictatorial control and a crushing defeat for freedom.

Good point.

Good advice. But it's like, don't stick your neck out. That sucks. We have to be paranoid how we behave so we don't piss off the trans-person at the head of the bread line.

The best cloaking device may be Harry Browne's advice in How to Live Free in an Unfree World. Don't draw attention to yourself. Learn to live parallel with the drones and slavers. As the world becomes more enslaved access to commodities other than those you can provide for yourself will become difficult to obtain. Isolate yourself from those who would and can destroy you, if the opportunity is available they will destroy those who would be free. Trust must be earned.

I appreciate that I get directed to interesting articles without having to use google or now DuckDuckGo . I would never find these with all the manipulating of searches going on. Then opening the link in safer environment that supposedly doesn’t track you helps to some extent.
The fact that I don’t get a lot of related articles when I read articles in Google says maybe this is working to some level. There I still get my usual “customized feed” dealing mostly with airplanes
, music and surfing. No “conspiracy” articles AKA spoiler alerts.

I am a little less worried about Google etc snooping around and more worried about the federal government switching to cryptocurrency. If that happens we are completely done as a nation.

in this leftist environment, we SHOULD be pretty much independent. Say the wrong thing and you could lose your job pretty easily.

They already do look.
I noticed our comments are carried on Disqus many years ago, associated with our email accounts.

I deleted my Disqus account after learning this!

Nothing. Trolls show up here periodically to validate it.

We are a sub-set of a sub-set of a sub-set. Too little to deal with.
Besides..digitally oppressing us only proves our points.
Dobrien sums it up nicely.

I will eat 3 boxes of Greek raisins and add to the miasma. I don't know why, but regular raisins don't produce the NG pipeline that Greek ones do.