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Re: Political Discussions
Because I'm telling everyone here right now as someone who actively participates as faculty at a higher learning institution that the number one enemy of socialism or communism or oppression of any sort is a well-rounded and complete education. Anyone who is allergic to college because of blue hairs is already a sheeple.
The last time I was in a classroom was last Tuesday.
Itsfine
Re: Political Discussions
@Vision said:
@ShawnOL said:
Our government right there.we were complacent too long and now the socialists are deeply entrenched and they're teaching kids socialism is good.
Where? Who? What? The price of tinfoil just went through the roof! What does any of that even mean? Where are they teaching them this stuff. Please say schools, please, please say schools. When’s the last time you were in class room? 1978? This is just pure insanity.
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edz
Re: Political Discussions
@OutdoorsSmoke_21191 said:
All governments campaign for change. “Change” …supposedly aligns with their constituents values and beliefs, ‘some’, values and beliefs, not all.In my lifetime, the only change I’ve seen, from either side, is more government entrenchment, more spending and more taxes.
With the advent of the internet and social media more and more exploitation of capitalism, corporate greed, truth and moral decay, me/myself/I first pervasive individual attitudes, egregious indoctrination, geopolitical manipulation and overreach…I could go on and on.
I know I’m painting a bleak and depressing picture here but this seems to be our current reality. I choose not to live my day to day life in that echo chamber. I have faith it will, someday, get better.
Ain’t it great, this country is still the best option to live, strive and express all your freedoms on a daily basis over one’s lifetime.
I don't think you're painting a bleak picture, brother. For millennia, those in power have consolidated it and have kept it by controlling information . That's why it was illegal to assemble, illegal to worship, illegal to have an independent press, and even illegal to be in your homes undisturbed in colonial America.
That's why we have the Bill of Rights that we have. No quartering soldiers. Free press. Right to assembly. The founding fathers found these essential in ensuring freedom.
So then the question becomes How does one consolidate power and ensure that they keep it in a society where information is literally in your pocket, free, and easy to get?
We arrest protesters. We send national guards into peaceful cities. We increase the federal police presence everywhere, through ice, through national guard, through FBI, through a means necessary. We storm the capital and shìt on the speaker's desk and then pardon all of the stormers after they are convicted. We groom the public to accept lying in falsehoods by stating obvious mistruths that are easily disproven so that later we can flood the press and the information gatherers and the AI that uses the informational databases with complete Fabrications of Truth that cannot be so easily disproven, creating a quagmire of known information that is neither true nor untrue. We fear-monger to have those who are assembling and integrating into everyday life parrot these fears through Demagoguery telling tall tales of kindergarteners that are cutting off their clíts at the behest of the socialist teachers. We shut down the federal government and defund the life-saving aid to the poor.
I'm not saying the end times are coming or that they're here, but I'm not not saying it either.
Either way, it's fine.
Itsfine
Re: Pipe / Tobacco Deals
P&C still has some Sutliff bulk for sale, just ordered 8 oz Virginia Folded Flake. Just posting because this may be the end of the line.
Re: Political Discussions
@Vision said:
@ShawnOL said:
Our government right there.we were complacent too long and now the socialists are deeply entrenched and they're teaching kids socialism is good.
Where? Who? What? The price of tinfoil just went through the roof! What does any of that even mean? Where are they teaching them this stuff. Please say schools, please, please say schools. When’s the last time you were in class room? 1978? This is just pure insanity.
Lol...Shawn is right, and Pete just proved it!
Re: Political Discussions
You're giving him what he wants. As an expert level troll yourself, I thought you knew this. 😂 😂 😆
Itsfine
Re: Baseball Thread
Don't know if any of y'all have been watching the Series. I don't always, but this year has been something to see. I've seen all of it that I could stay awake for, nodded off at the 12th inning in the 3rd game. I'm never much of a sports nut, but baseball tradition runs pretty deep in the family. At any rate, tied up at 6 games, last game tonight.
