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Mar 31, 2023Liked by Jeff Childers

β€œFirst they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.”

Martin Niemoeller

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Mar 31, 2023Β·edited Mar 31, 2023

If the scamdemic has shown us nothing else, it has shown the number of people willing to stand their ground. Some of us stood at the beginning. More came along shortly after, and many more came even later. Some just started standing up. Better late than never.

And for "standing up", I'm not just talking about the virus nonsense. It's also willingness to stand against ideologies and narratives that a person finds repulsive or just flat out wrong, such as gender mutilation of children, grooming, the push towards normalizing pedophilia, a corrupt government on all levels - state, local and federal, everything being "racist" or "homophobic" when it's really not, attacks on religion and spirituality, woke nonsense, teachers who groom, corrupt and bought school boards, colleges that promote socialism/communism, morons believing that guns and not people kill, illegals everywhere and open borders, and calling out those who lie over and over and over - the media, the alphabet agencies of the government, and those who SHOULD be decent human beings but instead lie for their own gain.

I refuse to shut my mouth. That may end my life sooner than nature would have intended, but I won't have one single shred of respect for myself if I don't speak up. The more of us that speak, the better. "They" would have you believe the majority in this country are supporting their agenda. They were and are wrong.

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Finally read the Rod Dreher book, "Live Not by Lies." It was convicting. I am done living by lies. Let's go.

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I encourage everyone to invite likeminded people over and start a book club reading Live Not By Lies. Then decide what skills and resources each of you possesses and begin building social capital. From there read biographies of others who have been in difficult times and you'll be encouraged by how they survived, not to mention gain the mental and spiritual strength of one day you find yourself in prison what a travesty those Jan 6th protesters sitting in solitary for nothing!

If it could happen to them, it can happen to any of us. Watch this RESTRICT Act carefully. It may be from that they are distracting us.

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Yes, the Restrict Act proposed by Mark Warner not Josh Hawley. Reason Mag published an article on it in relation to VPN's, but it is worth a read so you can get a flavor of the scarily boundless reach it would have and how they would happily use it against the people they actually hate... and it ain't the Chinese.

https://reason.com/2023/03/29/could-the-restrict-act-criminalize-the-use-of-vpns/

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Suggestions for how to find "likeminded people" after we've tried talking with friends and acquaintances and found little willingness to peek outside official narratives?

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Sometimes you have to lay out your own thoughts with someone you suspect may share your views (like if you hear them say masks have been and always will be BS). Or just chat and share pieces and see how close you are. You needn't agree 100% (like here - talking to you Horsey! - still like you - you foolish lover of Ukraine government). My husband inserts facts when people are talking nonsense (actual provable facts, not sciency religious cuts stuff) and eventually someone decided to talk to him (about not taking another jab). The other guy gave my husband a book to read and husband passed one to him and passed the other guy's book to another friend... soon enough a quasi book club began and the men talk about the books and other stuff while resting between or after games. Other men listen. Nice.

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Or not even share pieces... be neutral in telling a story that happened to someone you. For example, someone you know that went to the hospital with myocarditis 3 days after the jab... or someone you talked to that said they think Remdesiver killed their dad in the hospital. Watch the reaction. I've begun a network of people who believe in medical freedom. When you meet one, ask if they know anyone else that thinks that way.

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https://ccdfusa.com/

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They're all around. Just ask your Higher Power to link them up with you, be willing to speak your mind to everyone you meet, and you'll find them! Most of us have given up on family and even long-standing friends.

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I have this same problem. I know no one around me who is really like minded. Still trying to find friends for my kid.

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That would be tougher, to find friends for your kid. But for you, is there no visible local protest group, that you could enjoin in its projects? Most of us have become activists in one way or another.

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I don't know where you live but my husband and I along with several friends joined CCDF (County Citizens Defending Freedom) in Jacksonville, FL. They are a nationally formed group that has chapters in several state/counties. You could check their website to see if there is one where you live. CCDF's philosophy is to start making changes in your local government and schoolboard and they give action orders to start making changes.

https://ccdfusa.com/

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I don’t know where you live, but through other β€˜freedom loving’ groups you might find some new β€˜friends’ that think like you do. I live in So CA and we have a great group of people we have put together. I also found a whole new set of friends on some groups I found on Facebook. You don’t need a lot, start small and grow!

Children’s Health Defense has a number of State Chapters that you can join. If that’s not your β€˜cup of tea’ you can use the β€˜comments’ here on Substack to put it out there that you are looking for some like minded people to meet up with in your area.

I β€˜met’ someone on another Substack post this past summer. I could tell there was β€˜something’ there, so shared my email for 5 minutes then deleted it, and he responded. We are now β€˜dating’, though he lives in Idaho and I live in SoCA and it’s not exactly as they say β€˜geographically desirable’, we’ve made it work out over the past 10 months! And he’s not a criminal or a serial psycho! Just an unvaxxed, age appropriate, freedom loving, person...like me. (I β€˜checked’ him out before we met in person, last August.)

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Your long distance love must be very, very special - I applaud your daring spirit.

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I was telling my husband about your comment. He said while he was standing in the UPS store he struck up a convo with a man new to the area from CA. By the time they got to the counter they had discussed masking, ivermectin, brave doctors, guns, freedom, the deluded and were bolstered to know each other are out there. That guy was from SoCal. The awake exist everywhere. Get out there and find your peoples Growler! IRL people - you have your onliners. : )

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Join https://corac.co/

CORAC

It is a National group committed to rebuilding our nation through a Christian perspective. Open to all who share the core belief in Faith, Family, Freedom.

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I know--I have only ONE FRIEND who thinks as I do - my family and most other acquaintances and friends think "this is just the way things roll"--they don't really understand WHAT IS AT STAKE!

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I’m so grateful because none of my immediate family members; a brother, his wife, their two adult daughters and their husbands, their two baby daughters, my twin brother and our Mom (who passed away in 2021) got any of The Jabs. Neither did my β€˜partner’ nor any of his adult children and their kids! So I have been fortunate to have a large group of family that didn’t get the Jabs. Also I have large group of 20 plus medical/personal freedom β€˜friends’, that we meet every month and none of them got the Jabs. I know I am an anomaly compared to most people.

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Attend some GOP events, talk to people there. Our county has an election integrity speaker coming to town and we invited the two adjoining counties to join us. We had movie nights Fridays during the winter and showed documentaries about current issues. We put together an Options for Education Symposium and book fair that is coming up for parents who are looking for school alternatives. We hosted a 6-week Biblical Citizenship class, and were successful in getting two churches to do the same.

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Gettin' it DONE Kathy! How great is your town's conservatives and your Christian church! Lucky ducky.

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I'm surrounded by people like that. It's lonely existence but worth it.

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I am too and I live in a relatively Conservative area. But they love them some jabs so... I have been sent to the forest... kicked outside the wall.

Who could not love a person named Leskunque? It would be impossible not to smile. I did.

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Check out CORAC.co. An international grassroots organization that stands for Faith, Family and Freedom. https://corac.co/

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WOW--what a WONDERFUL resource - I am checking out their Sustainable Living section. MANY THANKS, Karmy!!

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A regional approach to connecting and prep, I love it. I was looking at one Region's Communication setup using Signal. I see it is of Catholic perspective, how great is that.

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It WILL happen to each of us. The time for changing minds is long passed. This is about SURVIVAL now. Will we not, finally, stand and fight to preserve Liberty for future generations?

β€œThe roots of the Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the BLOOD of Patriots and Tyrants. It is its natural manure.”

The tyrants are in control of every root and branch of every institution and have weaponized them against the Freedom of the People. And are succeeding in their quest to subjugate the planet.

β€œAnd how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

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β€œWe didn’t love freedom enough…”

This. And our Founding Fathers, together with the β€œregular” people who supported their vision and their cause, truly did.

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Rod Dreher is a great writer and one of the reasons I still clung to my American Conservative subscription although its total readership now is probably about 5,000 people. It was a shame Dreher left TAC early this month.

Live Not By Lies was one of the first books I read in my dealing with dystopia quest, followed by Glenn Greenwald's No Place to Hide, Matt Taibbi's Hate, Inc., along with Camus, Orwell, Huxley and writers in that vein. I highly recommend it.

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Dreher's book The Benedict Option is also good. After reading it, I realized my family had done most of the things he recommended. It's not about running away and hiding; it's about being in the world but not of the world.

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Dreher's book, How Dante Can Save Your Life, is also good.

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Next on my list!

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Rod Dreher put together a study guide for Live Not By Lies. You can probably find it online.

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Oh, good to know. Thanks for this.

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That's such a good idea! Or even fiction. I just finished The Revolution of Marina M. which is, admittedly, ChickLit on one level, but literary on another, and as one identifies with the young protagonist in Russia, during the Revolution, who has such youthful idealism, one experiences what she learns about revolution, human behavior, idealism, and how she survives, while learning the history of the Russian Revolution.(It has some pretty erotic episodes, should anyone want to avoid that) Since the first hominins began grunting and singing and drawing with sticks in the sands of the savannah, we have told stories. Neil Oliver is also great on this, going back and finding patterns in history which our ancestors survived. He got tarred idiotically with one of their now utterly repetitive and boring smears as "anti-semitic," but then, brilliantly, he interviewed the Holocaust survivor who made the film "Never Again is Now Global" which can be seen at Children's Health Defense.

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"We don't live by LIES" was our response when we would get harassed to put on a face diaper. Excellent book, thanks for mentioning!

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Thank you for the book recommendation. I just bought it. We have a small book club of sorts in our neighborhood (we are all Christians). We don't get together, but we read something and pass it along and later informally discuss it.

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Raptor, I found the book very easy to read, yet filled with compelling stories of dissidents who lived under totalitarian regimes and what they did to preserve Truth. It is time very well-spent and not only convicts the reader, but also offers actual ways of living in these times.

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I was telling my husband just now about the book and it called to mind the situation Bonhoeffer in then Germany. He is worth getting to know. He fits in well here in this discussion. If you are interested one book he wrote is The Cost of Discipleship. You needn't be a Christian to appreciate it.

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Mar 31, 2023Β·edited Mar 31, 2023

That's an excellent book! Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor, was a martyr--executed by the Nazis just before the prison camp was liberated.

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Added to my list!

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The Emperor's New Clothes story has been playing out for the past several years.

Trump was one of the children who said the emperor was naked.

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Just one more tidbit to add to all this: The Christian school that monster shot up last week (and who deliberately hunted down the pastor's daughter, according to those who watched the body cam video) is Presbyterian. Trump was confirmed Presbyterian as a child.

Don't forget that there is a level to this war above the political.

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Daily Mail reported that the trans killer was in one on one therapy with the Pastor and set out to kill the pastor but killed the Pastor's precious child instead.

Rather than look for political underlying motives to this, I personally believe with firm convislction that this was a command from a demon. These killers all engage in dark and demonic material online, and demonic voices are real to those who entertain their underworld.

It is a common thread on all their online activity. Every time reported by Daily Mail but not MSM. Demonic possession is real. Read the autobiography of Son of Sam, the mass killer of the 1970s. He engaged in it all. He found the light, Christ, in prison.

Lord have mercy on us and the whole world. Lord have mercy and grant strength to the grieving. ✝️ πŸ™ We live in dark times.

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Although I don't know whether possession is a real thing, I certainly am open to the possibility. That being said, that monster that killed those people is 100% responsible for their murders - it does not matter who told her to do what. I'm not sure about this and apologies if I have it wrong, but I believe there was something in the Bible about resist the devil and he will flee from you. If so, she had a choice to resist.

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Mar 31, 2023Β·edited Apr 1, 2023

I don’t think the one saying it was a command from demon was also saying she is not responsible. Just that its the origins. What prompted it. Least thats my view.

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What you say is true, to an extent, but the experts in demonology say that it is sometimes the case that people inadvertently open themselves up to possession and are quite innocent of the process. Robbie Mannheim, the actual boy upon whom the novel, The Exorcist, is based, apparently fell into possession because a beloved aunt got him involved with the Oujia board, and he tried to communicate with her after she died. That case is famous and written up extensively.

So, in this case, we have to consider the possibility that this woman was enticed into transgenderism by her misanthropy, the culture around her and, possibly, her leftist mother, after which it would have been a smooth slide to be opened up by demonic material and/or drugs, which are almost always involved in these kinds of tragedies. That would make her a victim herself in many ways, even though the initial cooperation with evil was a matter of her free will. The Devil has many things he can do to capture souls.

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She definitely had a choice; we all do. But she put herself in satan’s territory (by music, books, associations, etc.) Once she did that I do believe she could’ve been listening to the prompts of satan. Demons are real; those who deny that fact delight him & his minions. Neither should be obsessed about them bc that elevates more than they should be.

Genuine Christians can’t be possessed by satan, but they can be oppressed by him.

I know devote Christians who have confronted demons in people & cast them out. Don’t overrate or underrate them.

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No, any influence, demonic or otherwise, is NOT a defense.

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I read that too, but the source came forward & said he was mistaken. That preacher was not the counselor for this person. Someone else was

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I made a comment to someone yesterday that the pastor’s little girl was hunted down deliberately. I had no idea that the body cam of this demonic entity actually showed that fact. But I knew, in my knowing place, that she was the actual target.

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Apparently she was one of several.

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I was raised in a Presbyterian church; am not worried about Trump & his faith. I do think he’s still a baby Christian.

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Absolutely

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Speak up for morality and The Truth,οΏΌ for the ideals and God-given freedoms of all people possessing fundamental rights including liberty, free speech, freedom of religion, due process of law, and freedom of assembly, our Judeo-Christian values, for without them we are sunk. "Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer."

-Romans 12:12

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I keep that verse on my fridge. Love.

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Thank you. I really needed this dose of positivity today. Thank you

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If we fail to STAND STRONG for our personal/medical freedoms, we will FALL for anything the evil potentates throw our way. PRAY FOR MERCY FROM OUR CREATOR GOD AND STAND STRONG.

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"It's also willingness to stand against ideologies and narratives that a person finds repulsive or just flat out wrong" -that where you find out just what you are made of.

Later Jay

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Meme I saw:

First, they came after the communists and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then, they came after the satanists and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a satanist.

Suddenly, things were much better so they stopped coming after people.

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Pastor Martin NiemΓΆller:

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me

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I hope the folks on this site haven't lost a sense of humor.

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Mar 31, 2023Β·edited Mar 31, 2023

Meme's are not real.

Socialists are.

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Memes spark ideas and the desire for further education thereby waking the Normies. Memes are very useful.οΏΌ And the left can’t Meme.

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The satanists. Haha. Next they will say" they came after the pedophiles". Going after evil is not something to include as a warning AGAINST evil and its encroachment.

Not dissing you at all, just struck me as sort of funny. I do know the original quote and agree with its sentiment.

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Yes. This says it all. We must speak up and speak out about injustice because injustice will not go away on its own.Excellent song too.

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Mar 31, 2023Β·edited Mar 31, 2023

πŸ—¨ If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And being for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? ~~Hillel the Elder [at the junction of eras, BC and AD]

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I’m reading Solzhenitsyn’s β€œThe Gulag” and it is very evident that there was and continues to be one behavior that afflicts human beings. The persistent lack of resistance to evil.

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Evil is disguised as good. If we saw evil as evil we would not succumb. Satan knows what he is doing.

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Evil can be disguised as good as we've seen with the Plandemic. There is evil that is pure and simply evil. The evil indoctrination of our children. The evil depicted in a POTUS that took an oath to preserve and protect the country. God knows the outcome; the point is that WE must understand we have been given the good sense and instincts and should use them wisely.

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What got me into Gulag was Jeff's mention of Witness by Whittaker Chambers. Chambers says people know things are not right, man is looking for answers, man looks around, sees the mess and decides the only thing that will fix it is to blow it up. That's why he and every communist he knew became communist. They're willing to die for their cause. Our government, schools, Hollywood, courts, etc., have all been overtaken with people who want our end. People who were committed to the end ran communist Russia and look at all the death and destruction that followed. We seem to have fallen down the same hole, only we're just at the beginning.

Chambers also says this struggle comes down to: is God God or is man god? And man has decided he's god. Resistance should start with some inward reflection and subsequent housecleaning. If we don't do that we're finished.

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Agree. All of us from our early childhood were told we could do this, we could do that. Achieve, achieve. And when we did, we thought we did it on our own. What we have forgotten is that everything we have is because He gave it to us. He gave us wisdom and discernment; He gave us strength. We need to use it.

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You should read Gulag Archipelago.

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I read One Day in the Life of Ivan D.

Not sure I'm up to Gulag.

Rand's Atlas Shrugged is good, condensed version would be better. (Eastern Euros like to write LONG books.)

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I've read Atlas several times and have loved it. I'd go live in Galt's Gulch in a heartbeat.

Witness by Whittaker Chambers is more hopeful than Gulag. I feel like it really gives an explanation to how we got to such insanity. It also talks about the cure, which we desperately need.

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Still, there is some irony to President Lock'em All Up getting indicted.

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It's not irony.

It's corruption.

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Not mutually exclusive propositions: can cohabitate peacefully side by side just perfectly 😏

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The 2020 and 2022 rigged and stolen elections (it’s the machines!):

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-2020-american-coup

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/david-rockefeller-illuminati

J6: what THEY don't want YOU to know

The fake riot was mason-planned, incited and guided by FBI agents, who broke into the Capitol !!!

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/j6-what-you-need-to-know

Are we crazy to accept demo-crazy?

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/democracy-democrazy

It sucks! We need to improve democracy… how about REAL democracy?

https://scientificprogress.substack.com/p/reinventing-democracy

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Mar 31, 2023Liked by Jeff Childers

Hey, Jeff, please do that! Essay that story on how the democrat machine has been working since the civil war. I’d love it!

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all in favor say "aye"

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Aye

And any books or articles on the history πŸ‘

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Aye.

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Aye!

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Aye. And, I was thinking Jeff would make a good VP for DeSantis.

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AYE!

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Aye!

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Aye!

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Aye!!

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Yes, please!

And a little list of "blockbuster examples" would be fun, too! (Would love to see how much I bought into the "breaking the rules to stop the evil people is a moral achievement" narrative.)

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Me too!

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Ditto. Yes please, Jeff.

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Start with the part of the Constitution that says no state shall become part or party with any "confederacy"...

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Yes! My brain is going to be buzzing all day about that. Like how communism didn’t die with the wall coming down, it just morphed. This is an angle that I hadn’t thought a ton about, but I obviously should have!

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Socialism is an evil that has persisted for centuries.

Socialism/communism/fascism all control the lives, liberty and property of individuals.

The evil begins in the human heart to control other people.

In The Law, Bastiat calls this 'positive' law. These are laws passed by the legislators to force people to live in a way the legislator thinks is best. How many people have wanted to force others to live a certain way?

The USA vigorously started down the socialist path in the early 1900s. It was called 'progressivism'.

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Yes, I would absolutely read that essay

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Aye!

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I would too 😊

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Aye.

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Democrats in the Antebellum South were one thing. Democrats today are quite another. I think Vladimir Illych would be at home with them.

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Yes, please do! I’d love to read it.

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I would like to see that too!

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Aye-Aye Captain!!

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Yes please that would be fantastic!

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Mar 31, 2023Liked by Jeff Childers

Weak men create hard times

Hard times create strong men

Strong men create good times

Good times create weak men

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We could use some hard men right now.

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Ones that don't have the Ukraine, Pride, and BLM flags in their bio.

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Or the tranny flag. This is our real problem now. Eunuchs are being created even as we speak. The lefties should be happy. No more β€œtoxic masculinity.”

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Our problem is we give them too much attention.

They deserve none.

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You nailed it! Ignore these idiots and they only have their little group to share their nonsense with. I think one reason they started coming after kids was for attention, or it could be they are flat out evil.

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. . . or both!

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The power of suggestion !

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Doing nothing is how they have been appointed to very high positions in government, the better to crush non-compliars.

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I did not day "do nothing."

Not giving them attention is an act. A very effective act.

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The attention given to those minority individuals confused by sexuality and perversions is what creates more...It is the power of suggestion...it is a very strong thing for the weak minded godless generations.

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Toxic masculinity triggered something in me. Flags, symbols, slogans, memes mean nothing to me. (I’m not disagreeing with anything in your comment. I’m just moved to speak) the most toxic masculinity example is the WH bumble butt masquerading as a leader! Stepping back from the emotional push around the proxy war, what does the Ukraine winning look like? It should come from negotiations for peace. But he’s too toxic to see that. Russia is a nuclear power. Ukraine is not. UN will call upon our nukes to retaliate if it comes to that. This is scary …

And second most toxic men are the ones dressing up like hookers claiming to be women but in reality erasing women as a category altogether!

It’s cultural appropriation at its worst! If they don’t stop, I want to go to one of their story hours with brown makeup on my face, a red dot on my forehead, a feather in my hair wearing a kimono, and a soccer ball in my panties singing a song from a cartoon I saw many years ago, β€œYou’re nothing but a nothing!” You’re not a thing at all!

Sorry to rant, but I needed that. πŸ€—

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Would love to watch that cartoon!

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And people who don’t share comically false websites as facts that state trump is still really the president?

Well there goes you.

I have a Ukraine flag up on my

Desk.

Deal with it 😁

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A Ukraine flag on your desk? CNN and Biden would be proud of your compliance.

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Thank you for taking this on.

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However it isn’t worth BFM’s time. I find it’s best to ignore rather than engage. No β€œlikes” No comments.

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What is he taking on?

He consistently picks winners like fuaci πŸ˜‰

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Mar 31, 2023Β·edited Mar 31, 2023

I made a reply to this when I was meaning to reply to Benjamin. I fixed the reply to add his name. Sorry if I made it sound like it was directed to you - it was not. Correct: CNN (and the whole media) and Biden love anyone who agrees with them. The rest are "dangerous".

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That’s why I refused the clot shot. Refused to wear a mask. Didnt social distance. Laughed at the fed gov rules for Covid Becuase they were a joke.

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It’s been there since 2019.

By the way, how are your Russian friends doing?

Not so well, lost another 7k men charging bakhmut

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Mar 31, 2023Β·edited Mar 31, 2023

Dear Benjamin β€”

You say…..

β€œI have a Ukraine Flag up on my Desk β€” deal with it”

β€œBy the way, how are your Russian friends doing?”

Really? Sounds like Arrogance & Stupidity all in one package…how β€œefficient” of you.

Fast forward to 36 minutes in…you might learn what’s really going on…then again, considering how β€œefficient” you are….hmmm?

https://rumble.com/v29wgqo-this-is-war-bidens-nord-stream-attack-back-fires-as-putin-demands-un-meetin.html

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Mar 31, 2023Β·edited Mar 31, 2023

Benjamin, I've noticed you reply a lot to Jeff's posts, as do I. You seem to either not like or want to challenge the number of opinions by other commenters. That's definitely your right and I support anyone speaking their mind, but I'm confused why you are on here with so many you appear to disagree with. I personally steer clear of places I feel like I don't fit in on. (I am not suggesting you should do the same.) Do you believe the majority of us are thinking wrong? Do you believe we've been brainwashed or that we are doing our best to come to our own conclusions about things? What am I missing here? I have no interest in picking a fight, it just seems you think a lot of us are wrong in our thinking. Can you please explain why?

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From what I can tell Benji lurks here, and then after currying a little favor by agreeing with hot-button items, he strikes when the Ukraine topic is breached. Right on Cue....EverySingleTime. Petty insults, repetitive bullet points and an extremist perspective. IMO he is placed here to re-direct the narrative. Here are some types:

https://mashable.com/article/types-of-online-trolls

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Right, the DoD/intelligence complex is intent on controlling the thoughts and speech of Americans. So we are going to have these ppl on this forum too. Their purpose is not to convince but to distract and divert. Most of all, to cause division. This is called "divide and conquer" on a national scale.

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I noticed that too. It’s hard to keep up with all the comments and sometimes I’m so busy that I don’t read any unfortunately but for the most part I see he pops up right on schedule when the subject of Ukraine is brought up. I didn’t see him the other day though, when ChatGPT showed a better understanding of the nature of the conflict and the details that most of the people are not aware of. I see his perspective as one sided, not different from the msm narrative we hear

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Are you replying to Benjamin?

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Yes, sorry. I should have made that clear. Edited it.

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It’s not that he has an opposing viewpoint-that’s okay. It’s that he’s mean. Every single comment; mean.

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Facts are sometimes hard to deal with.

I can be abrasive. But hey, they love trump for that, right?

I was absolutely stubborn and refusing to budge on getting a Covid shot.

I am very passionate and ungiving on things I believe in.

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Actually BeNNjamiNN, because we are in America( yes, God Bless it) and we still have some rights, he can say what he wants. And, you, hard man, can say β€œ deal with it”.

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He can. Doesnt mean he’s right.

I remember a couple people here saying Russia was going to steamroll Ukraine in the winter of 2023. Well, that didnt happen.

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Who said he was β€œright”? Who says you are β€œright”? Opening one’s mind to the opinions of others is good. It could even cause a change of mind. If one wears certainty as a badge, however, this can be challenging, even frightening. Give it a try and see. Cheers.

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Of course you do.

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And…?

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What are your preferred pronouns?

For now the I will use for you will be twit/twat

A question, twit/twat.

Is this how you get your jollies, twit/twat?

Gosh. Aren’t you special.

I see you swimming in the cesspool, going round and round and I think......that one is just........special . πŸ˜‰

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Or their preferred pronouns!!

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This is the greatest country on earth and I want it to stay that way.

We don’t get that way by abandoning people and violating civil rights.

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And women too. I know some hard ass gals like moms going after the indoctrinators and resisting hard and truth warriors. πŸ˜πŸ‘πŸ»

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Lol. Yes ma’am!!! Behind every good man is a great woman! When I posted that I’m Inferring women tooπŸ’œ

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Yes. We need you too!

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Gee, thanks!

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They will be created by what’s about to happen.

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Tytler’s Cycle can confirm. Playing out before our eyes.

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? Looked it upβ€”a cycle company. But I’m intrigued now.

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Mar 31, 2023Β·edited Mar 31, 2023

Basically, Tytler's Cycle suggests that democracies go through the following phases: 1) Bondage; 2) Great Courage (breaking free from bondage); 3) Liberty; 4) Abundance; 5) Complacency; 6) Apathy; 7) Dependency; 8) BONDAGE - again, thus starting the cycle over.

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πŸ’―

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Lol, try Polybius, in ca 100 BC:

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/6*.html

Also, Strauss & Howe expanded on the 'American cycle of history' idea in both Generations and The Fourth Turning. We're well into the fourth turning.

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Very interesting! Thanks for sharing the link.

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Thanks!. I love substack!!

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wait a minute...is this a double entendre? :-D

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We are somewhere between good times and weak men.

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These aren’t even hard times yet.

Things are slightly more expensive. Nothing terrible yet.

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Thanks for the uplifting message today. I've been only mildly following the drama between Trump and DeSantis as the 2024 seems meaningless until honest elections are allowed. I'm figuring a demoncrat will be installed.

It was fun to see Elon Musk pass up Obama as the most followed person on twitter this week. Elon does a lot of bold stuff (like opening up the source code) and a lot of us enjoy that positive energy.

I'm glad the QAnon Shaman has been sprung but I would like to see money go to the legal team of the other hundreds of dudes still in the Deep State Dungeon.

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"I'm glad the QAnon Shaman has been sprung but I would like to see money go to the legal team of the other hundreds of dudes still in the Deep State Dungeon."

⬆️⬆️⬆️

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I’d also like to see the officers who gave him a private tour and then stood by and said nothing when he was arrested be identified and interviewed. Why do they get special treatment and no accountability? Officer privilege?

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Chansley's original lawyer, Al Watkins, was more interested getting a plea deal than actually defending his client. I suspect Watkins never bothered to try identify, much less interview, the officers who "provided the guided tour" to Chansley.

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Exactly what I was thinking. Who are those guys??

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Mar 31, 2023Β·edited Mar 31, 2023

I agree. I would rather see some of the other people being prosecuted helped. Something doesn’t ring quite right with the Shaman. Why is a β€œgentle” man dressed in such a way to definitively attract attention? Why did he sit in solitary confinement and nothing is heard? And why has there been no attempt to find the police officers who escorted him? If I were an unjustly treated citizen, that would be my first question. Surely someone else saw him being escorted around, why did no one else speak out?

I hope he is all the things we believe now, but something doesn’t quite add up.

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Im glad to see the man out of jail too, But i wouldn't Multiply him. The video looked to me like he was part of the "act".

His jail time and release is in the script.

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While he was certainly used by the propaganda machine, I don't think it was knowing and intentional on his part.

I personally know a couple people who met him prior to J6 and they believe he is legit and not a provocateur.

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Mar 31, 2023Β·edited Mar 31, 2023

I agree with Linda. I think the guy was some type of plant and I’m not trusting him. Why would I trust someone whose lifestyle prior to J6 was that of an β€œEco-warrior?” I think he’s a paid protestor and they used him as an example. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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He was DEFIINITELY part of the act. Who knows if he's really been in jail?

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Yup

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Not trusting musk...he's into deep A/I and EV's which suggests he thinks global warming is real.

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He's calling for a stop in AI development, been consistent on this for years.

One does t have to believe in global warming to recognize a business opportunity.

I don't trust any of these oligarchs, but Musk seems to be waking up, at least. Time will tell.

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I don’t trust him either. But he might be useful.

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Ah, yes! He could be OUR useful idiot!

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That made me πŸ˜πŸ˜†

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That’s a good way to look at him.

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Electric cars are a big innovation. See Will Prowse on youtube for a right wing type of guy who uses his own solar grid to keep his Tesla running totally free.

I don't doubt Elon is grifting. Just pointing out the tech is cool and doesn't have to be for lefty/negative purposes.

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Electric cars arrived the first ackshoolly, well-nigh two centuries ago, well before their gas cousins 😝

caranddriver.com/features/g15378765/worth-the-watt-a-brief-history-of-the-electric-car-1830-to-present/

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You nailed it. He’s probably just another one who can consider β€˜a single item in the brain’ useful today, considered a loser tomorrow. Promoted always because of who he is related to, or one of the myriad genders/melanin saturated colors available.

We are beginning to see just what effect this has on society, as those hired as engineers in the transportation industry fail to design and manufacture anything near β€˜safe’. And as those in the designing of bridges, commercial buildings fail to design anything that can stand, as they cannot β€˜do the math’ . And can you imagine how much worse the world of medicine will be when these imbeciles are accepted to medical schools and become pediatricians, surgeons.?

The lawyers that are coming out of law schools now are proving the point. They are utterly without learning. They are idiots with letters after their names (I point you to the most recent judicial appointments.......they are illiterates).

Because of the β€˜two ns bennjaminnnnnnns’ of our world, our society is spiraling out of control faster than anyone expected.

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We used to watch Will way back when he was parked in a big RV on the streets of Silicon Valley in the Bay Area

He sure knew his solar!

When we acquired some solar on our rig first off we pulled up Will and some of his YT videos

Didn’t know he has a Tesla now πŸ€”

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90% of people's opposition to EVs is based on ignorance - they still think of EVs as though its 1998 and the GM EV1 is the top of the line, and that all its downsides are still common

Charging really is fast, batteries last longer than gas engines(if its large enough capacity and has active thermal management), winter is no bar to travel (my last winter trip was 630 miles driving in 1 day, only 15m longer than gas and we could have gone 200 more miles if needed) and no they aren't a high fire risk

Purchase price is the one real downside

If we didn't have a travel trailer I wouldn't have a gas vehicle at all. When the CT comes out it may very well be able to do the distance on a road trip, but since we didn't put down a deposit early enough its gonna be 5+ years before we could even get one.

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No Dave, I object to the mining for battery components by children, the pollution from the strip mining, the FACT that they must be charged with the same power plants the west is hell bent on closing, and the question of safe disposal when the batteries reach end of life. But it's cool because it's "somewhere else."

Charging is not "really fast" when you're on the road and waiting in line for the one charger that works, charging still takes a long time and is more frequent than gas. And guess how much that replacement battery will set you back?

This tech is not ready for prime time, and I resent my taxes supporting rich people's expensive toys and undoubtedly making some of them richer for building this crap we don't need.

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There's lots of places to get raw materials, not just in Africa. Australia, Norway, US, Canada. Its the legacy automakers that choose Africa as their source.

You don't dispose, you recycle. Recycling is not impossible now, its just the facilities haven't been built due to no present need for such things at scale today. You'll start to need that in about 10 years.

Yes charging is fast. I can quite assure you my two most common road trips are extended in their duration vs when we did them in gas by 5-15m. And some of that is just how much bathrooming, and how long it took for food service.

Not concerned about replacement cost of the battery because it should outlast a gas engine. Honestly, after 300k do you really think its worth a whole new pack? Refurbs if anything.

I oppose subsidies as well. Subsidies have slowed the development down because most mfgs have chased the subsidy instead of pursuing consumer desires. Subsidies encourage short range EVs over gas replacement EVs.

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Perhaps I am ignorant, perhaps not, but I want nothing to do with EVs. I just went from OH to NJ, stopping no more than 15 minutes tops (each way) to put gas in the car. I got stuck in Philly traffic both ways and in snow on the way back. I could just imagine my EV dying on the freeway in the cold or downtown Philly, where there were people going up to cars and knocking on windows. I ran a red light to get away from an aggressive person. Also, I don't want to add hours to my trip to charge the thing - 10 hours on the road is enough. I can also picture it dying on the road if I ever had to evacuate. I can carry a gas can in the car. I can't carry an EV charger.

Then there's the issue that I need electricity to charge it, the same electricity that is generated by the fossil fuels the left yells about, plus the mining and pollution YYR mentioned. Last summer, power companies in CA shut off power to people simply because the grid couldn't handle it, or so they say. The PUCO is Ohio is investigating why AEP chose to randomly shut off power to part of Columbus for days last summer in a heat wave. Most have smart meters (I don't) that can be turned off remotely and lunatics in government who would be crazy enough to turn off power of anyone who will not comply. How do you charge your car? Obviously this has not happened yet, but I've seen plenty of crap over the past three years I thought I never would. I believe Teslas can be turned off remotely. Any company that has the ability to do that is dangerous.

Both my cars are bought and paid for in full. Both work. I see no point in shelling out 60 grand for a new EV plus another 25 grand WHEN the battery dies in a few years. I can buy a lot of gas for 85 grand and a used gas car for a lot less than that.

Until someone makes an EV with the equivalent of an alternator that charges the battery as the car runs, until the price becomes reasonable, until mining for lithium becomes child-labor free, until there is a solid recycling plan, and until I am convinced no one can turn off the car remotely, this will be a solid pass from me.

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Mar 31, 2023Β·edited Mar 31, 2023

You didn't say where in OH or NJ, but if I may provide an estimate based on a couple cities at the far edges of each state.

Cincinnati to Atlantic City is 630 miles

In seasonal March weather, Model 3 LR AWD, my preferred route planner estimates 58 minutes of charging over 4 charging stops (7, 12, 28, and 11 minutes).

Gas or electric I fully expect on a 630 mile drive to have 1hr of stopping minimum, and closer to 90 minutes actually..

"Remote shutoff" is actually impossible to prevent a user from disrupting.

Remove the modem and 'remote shutoff' becomes impossible. If its soldered in place so it couldn't be removed you'd need to cut the antenna, solder on a resister (dummy load) and then wrap it in foil for good measure.

Tesla's do not need a connection to operate, they only need it for convenience.

While I don't presently have a means to generate electricity at home, generating electricity at home is a whole lot easier than refining gasoline - which they of course plan to shut off.

If an EV could have an alternator that charged the battery as the car runs it would never need charging ever. That would be a perpetual motion machine which of course defies the laws of physics and so is impossible.

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Last summer 2022 my x and his fiancΓ© who live in the Bay Area were trying to charge their EV

But CA was doing their rolling black out routine and some of the grid just went down.

So they were stuck. Their a few miles out of town so no bus near by or Ubers.

I asked if they had some kind of powerful generator to possibly hook up to.

I had seen a meme last summer where someone had strapped a big generator to the back of their EV and drove around LA

In the end I believe they took a few days off and waited it out.

Not sure what happens to all those EV’s when CA shuts down each summer with those rolling blackouts

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I appreciate the reply, but I have neither the expertise nor desire to modify things like antennas, etc. I am not capable nor comfortable messing around with things I can't afford to fix if I make a mistake. Mechanics is not my thing. The car should just have an "off" switch for tracking rather than someone messing with it just to get privacy. My old car has no GPS and no tracking and I like that.

I also don't have the means nor the money to generate electricity at home. Even if it existed, it's not feasible for many. Passing through Philly I noticed the unbelievably dense housing units and crowding. How would those who lived in those huge buildings generate their own power? They could not. And, I mentioned before, AEP randomly shut off power for days in a heat wave last summer in Columbus, Ohio. They're under investigation for it. I don't need to be stranded at home due to my power being off. I need to get to work reliably so I can continue to eat and live indoors.

The stoppage of refining oil means no petroleum products, which means no plastics. Right now the system is not in place to completely recycle and reuse all plastics, so for the short term, refined oil is here to stay. Virtually every industry depends on it in some way, including the medical industry. I'm not going to worry about not having gasoline. If we get to that point, I have a feeling there will be one hell of a mess on everyone's hands. No diesel means no food delivery, no medicine, no replacement parts/things to fix your home coming to a Home Depot, no nothing. How many of us are fully self sufficient? I'd say the Amish in northern Ohio come close, but the rest of us aren't.

Columbus to OCNJ, by the way.

I'm glad you're comfortable with EVs and can afford one. I'm not comfortable and see no rational reason whatsoever to spend an insane amount of money (read: go into debt for at least 60K) on something that will need a new battery in a few years (another 25K), especially when I own two fully paid for cars. Buying something I can't afford and don't need or want is is pure insanity, not to mention it means I would have terrible money handling skills. I'll still pass. Call me ignorant if you want, but at least I won't be in debt.

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Curious Dave, do you have a financial connection to the electric vehicle industry?

You start off by saying those that still prefer ICE vehicles are ignorant dolts (good way to win the audience over). You then make the laughable claim that charging is fast, fast compared to what? Not compared to filling my tank at the gas station. You then brush aside real concerns regarding loss of range and torque in cold weather (that have been amply documented).

You ignore the fact that these cars are being totaled in minor accidents as no one really understands how to assess battery damage. You ignore the environmental damage from the required rare earth element mining. You also ignore the fact that the power grid cannot support a wholesale switch to electric cars and will likely cost hundreds of billions to upgrade it, assuming it can even be done.

If you like electric cars that's great, knock yourself out. But don't come on here calling the rest of us stupid for not sharing your infatuation.

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Just a vehicle owner who wants to make sure that the freedom and benefits of the existence of personal transportation doesn't end any time soon.

Have to set the precedent that long-range, and private ownership is the way its gonna be, not 'rent a commuter-box if your social credit allows'

I did not say that ICE vehicle owners are ignorant dolts. I said 90% of people's opposition to EVs is based on ignorance. That is not an insult. That is a statement of fact. If you do not know of something, but you make claims on it, you are making claims in ignorance.

The most frequent and notorious example of what I'm talking about being "you have to swap the battery every 5 years for $20k"

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Ask peeps stuck in traffic jam during bad snowstorm 😝 Just a li'l detail, not even touching on the whole plain enormous 'sustainable' scam Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

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They were comfortable the entire duration and drove away - it takes 1-2% per hour to keep the cabin at 60F

As I said, myths and ignorance

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As I echo, myths and ignorance on your [amazingly gullible] part πŸ˜‡πŸ€­

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You don’t have to trust people to appreciate certain actions they take.

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I believe he thinks people should be chipped. If that is the case, I won't trust him at all. It's a big Hell No for chips in my body, other than potato chips!

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