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Date: 2022-06-01 02:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-02 03:44 pm (UTC)"Vaush is evil"
Date: 2022-06-02 08:19 pm (UTC)I know Styx states the reason for not debating Vaush is that Vaush only is interested in any kind of debate to raise his own profile, but his profile is relatively high by internet standards as is, and is very influential to young people, so its worth being aware of who's telling the kids that political terrorism is okay and how his worldview works
This video isn't new but it's a rehost for posterity on a different channel
Re: "Vaush is evil"
Date: 2022-06-03 02:04 am (UTC)Odd
Date: 2022-06-03 12:09 am (UTC)On Monday I saw a hawk flying across the sky carrying a very long snake, the snakes shiny belly gleaming in the high noon sun. The next morning, a huge turtle was resting under my front gate, and I mean huge, like 40 lbs huge! Any interpretations come to mind?
SWMBO reports that her boss, fully vaxed/boosted family, relayed that his teenaged daughter fell ill upon her return from Disneyland but tested negative with the free gov test at hand. Feeling much worse later that day her doctor confirmed a positive test result, but oddly, that evening she tested negative at home with a second Gov test.
Things that make you go, hmm.
It's good to live in interesting times. You find out what you're made of.
Gawain
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Date: 2022-06-03 02:10 am (UTC)Re: Odd
Date: 2022-06-03 01:37 pm (UTC)Re: Odd
Date: 2022-06-03 02:34 am (UTC)Tortoises are the best :) I think it must be egg-laying time, because I saw one (just a little guy) this morning on my way to church. In the road of course, but everybody was being careful not to run him over, and I didn't see a carcass on my way back, so I'm pretty sure he made it. She?
My parents have a box turtle that returns to their backyard like clockwork every year to lay eggs-- for maybe a decade now. They are neither of them the sort to have pets or go mushy about animals, so it's funny how much joy and affection they show when they talk about this turtle. It's like they are old friends now. I've never yet seen the thing. Yard must've been too chaotic when we were kids.
Turtles are magic.
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Date: 2022-06-03 01:12 am (UTC)Hi Kimberly,
A few weeks ago in an Ogham reading post I asked about a nature walk I was asked to lead. You said it didn’t seem like the best day for the event, but that I was the right person for it. Well, the organization pushed the walk back by a week a day after the Ogham reading. Why? No idea, they never said.
The walk was an amazing success! Everyone had fun and learned something new.
Just had to share this!
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Date: 2022-06-03 02:11 am (UTC)Comment I made on JMG's Covid Semi-Open Post threads
Date: 2022-06-04 04:54 am (UTC)Dear Manager,
Thank you for taking the time to respond and thank you for directing my comments to your Public Affairs Department. I think Jewel-Osco's management has made the right move by offering mask-wearing as a choice instead of illegally coercing them to take quarantine measures that are most likely ineffective in preventing the transmission of Covid-19. As I mentioned, masks are a form of quarantine and only the IDPH has the authority to enact quarantines.
Though it has been suggested that I do so, I will not be spearheading a Speakeasy Illinois boycott against Jewel-Osco stores in the Chicago area at this time.
Kimberly Steele
As you can probably tell, it's a thinly-veiled threat of a boycott and worse.
Not that anyone wants to travel into the Chicago city limits these days because of how crime-ridden it is, but anyone attending a recital, play, concert, etc. is asked for vaccination papers (one and done won't do, you need to be boosted) and forced to wear a mask. One of my Speakeasy members attended a Broadway in Chicago performance. The vax wasn't required, but ushers went up and down the aisles policing people for "proper" mask usage. The Joffrey Ballet forces all of its performers, staff, and attendees to be shot and boosted at least one time (mutters something about dancers potentially stroking out onstage) and of course the masks aren't optional. The arts, as you would expect, are taking a dive. The Paramount Theater in Aurora now has a pop-up window that says "Masks are no longer required, but are strongly recommended. Proof of vaccination or negative COVID test is no longer required. Masks are still required at Paramount School of the Arts."
I considered working at the Paramount School of the Arts for a time. It seems I dodged a bullet. You can tell how panicked they are about how their vax card/mask requirements have backfired. Nobody wants to sit around in a dirty face diaper to be scolded by a scary-looking masked usher when they are trying to relax and catch some entertainment. It's far more pleasant to stay home and chill, plus the latter activity is free.
Re: Comment I made on JMG's Covid Semi-Open Post threads
Date: 2022-06-04 12:39 pm (UTC)PS Perhaps this might be of interest / possibly useful for you to share:
Stephen Petty, certified health and safety expert, on masks (about 11 minute):
https://rumble.com/vlbs0d-how-much-protection-can-a-mask-provide-mask-vs.-ppe-ep.-05-removed-from-yt.html
PSS I will GO WAY, WAY, WAY OUT OF MY WAY TO ***NOT*** PATRONIZE stores where the managers / owners have taken it upon themselves to impose a mask and/or vaxx mandate on workers and/or customers.
Re: Comment I made on JMG's Covid Semi-Open Post threads
Date: 2022-06-04 07:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-04 01:45 pm (UTC)They really must have sensed that it wasn't gaining them any traction in the face of economic collapse. It must be why they pivoted so hard to guns, even though their base can't eat gun control any more than they can eat abortion rights.
That said, the 2 publicized shootings both have some suspicious FBI fingerprints, so they were in the works for a while.
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Date: 2022-06-04 06:27 pm (UTC)I'm 35 and have never had sex because I can't afford it. For many years, the financial and emotional needs of one family member or another have gotten in the way of me having space to pursue a partner of my own. Now that some of that burden has finally lightened, I'm establishing myself as self-employed, and the credit card debt I accumulated during the early phase of self-employment and the oppressive taxes on self-employed people are still keeping me from moving out of my mom's house. No one wants to socialize with me because I'm unvaccinated anyway, so I'm not worried about getting pregnant, even though I'm fertile as far as I know.
I think what goes on in Oregon, where I live, is a warped version of the Pareto principle, where 20 percent of the population gets 80 percent of the freedoms that Oregon is known for, and the remaining 80 percent of the population, like me, has to pick up the slack to make it happen.
Over the years, I dutifully voted in favor of drug legalization, abortion rights, and other state laws of that sort because not letting people do what they wanted with their own bodies made you a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad person. However, since then, I declined to apply for a staff job at my biggest freelance client, even though they really wanted me to apply, and the proposed pay was high enough to solve my financial problems, in part because I couldn't trust Oregon not to implement a vaccine mandate for employers whenever the next COVID wave hits, and I didn't want to put either myself or the client in a bad position. As a self-employed person, I've at least been able to slide under the radar in that regard.
Also as a self-employed person, I have to pay a city self-employment tax specifically so that my city can take care of the homeless people that the rest of the country knowingly and intentionally ships here.
The next tax coming down the pike for me is that, if Roe v. Wade falls, Oregon has promised to pay the hotel bills of anyone who has to travel here from another state to get an abortion. I know it's the right thing to do, but they're going to pay that from my taxes, and I'm going to be even less able to afford to have sex than I am now. How sick is it that a 35-year-old incel will have to subsidize the sex life of everyone else in the whole entire country? It's not enough that they're having sex, and I'm not -- I'm going to have to be the one who gets taxed to pay for it!
On top of the financial hit I will take, the sense of victimhood that higher-status females will feel if Roe v. Wade falls is likely to make them feel entitled to take out their rage on lower-status females like me. Prior to becoming self-employed, I had an office job where the various sins of the patriarchy purportedly gave higher-status women the right to regularly bully lower-status women including me, and this viciousness will only increase if Roe v. Wade falls.
Roe v. Wade must be upheld because I as an Oregonian don't want the rest of the country free-riding on the benevolence of Oregon any longer. I want the other states to take care of their own citizens well enough that they don't need to impose on me. That said, I also want the upholding of Roe v. Wade to be used to reinforce personal freedom on other issues such as the freedom to refuse the COVID vaccines -- I would like it made very clear that, if a state can't prohibit abortion, a state can't mandate vaccines either.
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Date: 2022-06-04 07:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-04 08:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-05 09:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-05 05:28 pm (UTC)- Unenforceable non competes
- Friendly business climates for tech
- Mostly not giving a care about how people lived their personal lives
And use these as magnets alongside more affordable land and lower crime to pull in those white collar jobs
But I'm also reasonably sure they will blow this chance because they're too busy being mad at "tech" instead of cultivating it and using.
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Date: 2022-06-06 12:39 am (UTC)They've already invaded Austin, and they bring their warped politics with them.
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Date: 2022-06-06 06:19 am (UTC)Or would you rather work to disentangle technology from politics such that people with skills are able and willing to help you?
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Date: 2022-06-07 10:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-06 04:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-04 07:33 pm (UTC)https://www.bitchute.com/video/Lmnl21vz1FXK/
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Date: 2022-06-05 10:11 am (UTC)There are probably thousands of 'Manchurian candidates' happily (or most likely, unhappily) wandering around without any of us knowing it, completely unaware that they have a pre-programmed killer lurking in their subconscious. Most will probably never be used, but it only takes the odd few here and there to move the ratchet of rights-removal "for the greater good" up a notch.
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Date: 2022-06-05 11:46 pm (UTC)I'm old enough to remember when mass shootings (aside from organized crime and gang violence) were a phenomenon of disgruntled employees and ex-employees. Typically, it was some guy who worked for the postal service or some company with a large office. I don't recall it being a thing among factory workers. But the term used to be "going postal" for a reason. At the time, the prevailing theory was that the postal service hired so many veterans that you always got a few with serious PTSD.
I don't know if PTSD was ever the reason for those. Nobody shoots up post offices anymore, either. Why is that? Do they hire fewer veterans now? Or did they change something about their facilities or their hiring/firing practices? Nobody goes to the post office anymore?
Somewhere along the line, the PTSD theory fell out of favor because a lot of shooters weren't veterans.
I don't know if the government has something to do with all that. I wouldn't rule it out, but having read extensive accounts of things like Waco, Ruby Ridge, and other incompetent operations by three-letter agencies, I hesitate to put it all at their door. They're too sloppy, and too dumb, IMO. But hey, maybe it's just that the sloppy ops are the only ones we actually hear about, after they go spectacularly wrong.
I think it's worth looking at what postal facilities, large corporate offices, and schools, all have in common. And I think it's treating human beings like cattle. It's the victory of machine over humanity. In how many of these environments to the denizens deal, day in and day out, with problems that are unsolvable because the whole environment is designed for some abstract sorting and processing task, without accounting for the humans doing the work, or being processed? I think these institutions break people. A lot of people. We are very lucky that it is a vanishingly small minority that breaks violently, but I think for every denizen or ex-denizen of these places who cracks and lashes out violently, the ones who instead crack their health, their minds, their emotional well-being, and their family lives, are legion.
Again: the surprising thing is that it doesn't happen more.
I'd hesitate to say that it's all some plot by the alphabet agencies. Because they're incompetent. But at the same time... I'd bet every large, faceless institution has at least a few broken young men inside who could be prodded over the edge without a whole lot of effort. I think the idea that some agency spends years cultivating these monsters is pretty far-fetched. But I'm willing to contemplate a world where, when a bit of mediagenic violence (as opposed to gang violence, which is barely reported at all) is convenient, it's not hard to find an emotionally-broken guy with a helluva lot of built-up resentment and get him wound up enough to act on it. And there are fingerprints on some of these events that suggest it.
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Date: 2022-06-06 09:27 am (UTC)That's a very fair point. From my vantage point across the sea, I too have often wondered how there aren't more mass shootings, or is it just that the media only promotes the big or politically useful ones?
From everything that I've seen about American schools, they seem to be set up to pit the children against each other as much as possible and generally just break their will. From the little bits of US corporate culture that migrate over, the workplace seems to be set up similarly.
What you may or may not know is that the British are actually a fundamentally lazy people. Not in a "don't want to work" kind of way (though there are a lot of those too), but a "don't want to work any harder than is strictly necessary" kind of way, which I think comes from centuries of toiling under aristocrats, where your work output was unrelated to your rewards. Whereas America was founded by groups of self-made men and women, proudly making a home for themselves in the 'wilderness' (or at least so goes the creation myth), but your output and rewards were directly proportional to your input. As a result, here most things have a slightly half-hearted feel about them - our corona measures were never as crazy as the former 'colonies' (US, Australia, NZ, Canada) and at school, very few people care about sports teams, being an 'honor student' or proms (we have all three, but they're far more understated affairs).
And at work, despite a company having a goal like "giving our best!", you can be damn sure that 95% of employees will be doing the bare minimum necessary not to get sacked, and clocking off at 5pm, unless they want to get promoted and/or hate their wife.
I'm not trying to push the UK as some kind of paradise - it's not, it's the decrepit, ramshackle shell of the former heartland of an empire, which somehow manages to get by on nostalgia, financial grift, passive aggression, powerful friends, a bizarre sense of humour (which can be contorted to virtually anything being a 'joke', up to and including a prime minister) and a very hefty dose of luck.
Oh, and a final note - from what I've read, MKUltra-ing doesn't necessarily take years - it only takes a few weeks, particularly if you only have a very simple and specific program in mind (eg. Shoot up a school) and most of the pre-programming has already been done for you by childhood trauma and mass media.
I would be surprised if there is not a small army of pre-programmed counter-revolutionaries on standby in case of boogaloo.
Interestingly, from what I've also read, the programming is either forgotten/discarded by the brain or fails to 'take' past about age 30 though, so it seems the brain has its own self-defence mechanisms against brainwashing, and explains why cult members are always either young, or one of the ones actually doing the brainwashing (and so have willingly accepted the ideology).
Article from Seattle Times
Date: 2022-06-07 07:02 pm (UTC)https://archive.ph/sBl5q
Headline : "Amid a COVID surge, WA hospital leaders wonder why fewer people seem to care"
Let me fix that for them
"After two years of warning, Chicken Little wonders why fewer people seem to believe the sky is falling"
Re: Article from Seattle Times
Date: 2022-06-08 03:41 am (UTC)