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HANDS UP OR I’LL TWEET!

The best way to avoid being burned by the magnifying power of social media is to first recognize that you are under the glass.

HANDS UP OR I'LL TWEET!

Are you one of the 173? 

The best way to avoid being burned by the magnifying power of social media is to first recognize that you are under the glass.

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I view all of this muzzling as the 21st century version of the “Jim Crow” Laws.
Then, the government enacted laws to force businesses to not engage in free commerce with a particular set of clientele. This is not to say that there was no racism; clearly there was. But even all but the staunchest of racists were generally more interested in selling their product or service to anyone who could afford it. So out of pure hatred & loathing, laws were enacted that ultimately punished all.
Now, big tech (with the full blessing, if not direction of big government) is enacting “terms of agreement” that, while meant to apply to all users, is clearly being enforced in a highly selective & biased manner. And just like in the “Jim Crow” days, more & more businesses are being “encouraged” not to engage in free commerce with a targeted group, lest they also suffer consequences. So now, airlines are kicking passengers off flights, people are losing their jobs for holding contrary views, banks are refusing to do business with targeted organization & even a former President, a social media site is being de-platformed, and so on.
Once again, Leftists show that they would rather burn the country down and rule over the ash heap, than let people exercise even a modicum of free will. Because power & control is all that matters.

I got my wish!!! You are adding Zo to the lineup!!! Something I’ve been hoping for since PJTV went away. I’m so happy that I’m going to make an extra donation!!!

I bought an Egard watch right away, too. Had a hard time finding one I liked, but I found one and bought it (I did a “build your own”).

I’ve done this several times with different companies. And I’ve also done the opposite.

I stopped buying Gillette products, EVEN THOUGH I THINK THEIR RAZORS ARE SUPERIOR. Same with Levi’s (for decades). Their 501’s are my FAVORITE jeans. Can’t buy ’em anymore.

You’re right. They’re not out to get us with guns (at this point), but they ARE out to get me with my job, and depending on how big my name gets … perhaps even my bank. These things aren’t nothing.

But you’re right. The way to fight it is to push back.

To that end, I watched this video the other day, and I think it’s brilliant – the interviewee talks about how we push back in a way that has a chance to make inroads.

Video: The Dangerous Roots of Cancel Culture and How to Push Back–Interview with Jeff Myers (theepochtimes.com)

I was listning to this at work today and I thought I better share with you how to make a GIF, so you can share your msg efectivley on social media, even Twitter.
I create GIFs on my phone using imgPlay and Post-it note apps
It is so easy.
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See Ayn Rand: The Sanction of the Victim.

“Then I saw what was wrong with the world, I saw what destroyed men and nations, and where the battle for life had to be fought. I saw that the enemy was an inverted morality—and that my sanction was its only power. I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it. Just as the parasites around me were proclaiming their helpless dependence on my mind and were expecting me voluntarily to accept a slavery they had no power to enforce, just as they were counting on my self-immolation to provide them with the means of their plan—so throughout the world and throughout men’s history, in every version and form, from the extortions of loafing relatives to the atrocities of collectivized countries, it is the good, the able, the men of reason, who act as their own destroyers, who transfuse to evil the blood of their virtue and let evil transmit to them the poison of destruction, thus gaining for evil the power of survival, and for their own values—the impotence of death. I saw that there comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win—and that no manner of injury done to him by others can succeed if he chooses to withhold his consent. I saw that I could put an end to your outrages by pronouncing a single word in my mind. I pronounced it. The word was “No.””

Some quotes to ponder with regards to “light”…

“There are two kinds of light — the glow that illuminates and the glare that obscures.” James Thurber, humorist and cartoonist

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” Edith Wharton, writer, playwright, Pulitzer Prize winner

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” Alan Alda

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” Aristotle Onassis

That said, beware …

“A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.”– Paulo Coelho

“Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.” John Quinton, American actor/writer

So true: They get away with this stuff because we are too nice and we let them. Their house of cards is fragile and precarious though, and they know and fear this truth. That’s why they work continually to “paint the windows black” as Bill aptly puts it. Cue the scene in Labyrinth where Sarah turns to the Goblin King with surprise as it finally dawns on her: “You have no power over me!” Let the house of cards fall where it may. Their power is illusion.

Chain of Command! Like TNG or hate it…that was one of the best episodes of Anything Ever. Patrick Stewart and David Warner: two masters of their craft.

Bill, if you could update your bitchute page, that would be great. I can only listen to the new podcasts, on your soundcloud feed, because I’m swearing off of youtube, even when it’s on your site, it is still being hosted by youtube.

We had a gizmo that automatically imported YT videos to BitChute. It automagically stopped doing that in August and I can’t persuade it to resume, although it perpetually tells me that it’s in the midst of importing 5 videos.

YT had rejected posts with BC (BitChute) links for some time. Same with Parler and Gab too, I think.
I found I had to upload my vids to BC myself.
Extra time, yes (for the vid to be processed, etc.), but at least the vid got to where it needed to be.
I’ve since dropped my YT channel and haven’t posted on BC, Gab, or Parler in a bit.
Personally, I think DLive has bent the knee and BitChute will soon follow or be cast into the “deplatformed” pile.
All that to say I don’t think it’s your “gizmo”, but YT affecting it.

Hi Bill. After months of enjoying your vids, I finally signed up to help push you to your goal. It’s obvious that we are in a war for freedom and after watching this video, it’s apparent to me that as in all wars since 1776 the American rednecks will have to come to the rescue. We are perhaps the most deplorable of the Deplorables. We are used to being called names so it doesn’t bother us. We could care less what folks we don’t know may think of us. We haven’t trusted the government since LBJ took office. We have no fear of being “canceled”, as most of us don’t twit, and platforms like FB are just an occasional passing interest. We have lost all faith in the credibility of the news media. We were raised by parents who believed in hard work, God and freedom. We are non-reprogrammable. Keep up the great work!

Sorry Bill. the Thug Left is doing what they are doing for two reasons.
a) They can.
b) They know that they have us in a very exposed position. The generations that understand what we are losing is dying off; it is critical that the younger cohorts are never exposed to our losses or given a chance to take up the struggle.
They are somewhat afraid. They realize that they blew their opportunity with Obama; they permitted Trump to be elected, and they are now concerned that if they do not close the noose now they may never have another opportunity to ruin us.
They are not afraid of us; they may be afraid of themselves; that they do not have the will to succeed.

Like James Comey said: “We can never let another like him (DJT) rise up.” Comey was rewarded for his outspoken honesty and patriotism with book deals and plaudits from the shrews on The View. Is this a great system we have, or what?!

Social media can’t hurt you if you don’t participate in or with it. I’ve never understood the allure of it – but, I’ve also never had one single social media account.

I’m not a fan, I’m old school, but it has its uses. I don’t do much at all on Twitter except troll; those idiots are beyond redemption. I have a lot of my relatives on Facebook, so I stay in touch. Mostly I go after people ready to change and lead them to a better social media platform in order to start deprogramming them from the propaganda they’ve been feed 24/7. That being said, it has to be their choice.

Yes, that’s true – I just refer to the common ones like FB, Twitter, etc as social media. If this location becomes like any of those, I’m outa here. But I’m pretty sure it won’t.

Btw – you have some pretty cool art – I like the bugs – but a lot of your stuff is eye catching and interesting🙂

Huzzah! I’m one of the 173! I wish part of your new plans were to bring Alfonzo Rachel into the fold. Of course, I don’t know what he would have to say about that. Still …

Dennis Prager mentioned that a librarian was fired because it was discovered by his employer that he went to some conservative rally. That makes this librarian wonder if social media is a good thing for me. I know Farcebook isn’t. I’m wiping that account tomorrow.

Being a librarian, I think you might have heard of Martin Niemöller (1892–1984). He has a famous quote:

“First, 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 for me.”

Once they, the useful idiots are no longer useful, they will be disposed of. They will enjoy the fruits of their labor, but I wonder if they will ever take responsibility for what they have done.

LoL, no, they tend to keep the useful idiots; they are useful as their name implies. It’s those of us who are aware that they fear; we can’t be controlled, or we would be useful idiots. Yes, Facebook is dangerous. I use it to stay in contact with my older relatives; they still think they’re on MySpace, LOL.

I think its significant that they want to disarm the National Guard & Marine units they have called in to defend the capital and the military’s said NO. The left are projecting all manner of things onto the right and are clearly terrified that Trump will do something but its not his style to do anything that might be seen as lawless. Part of me wonders if Biden & Harris may chicken out at the last minute. Or perhaps Roberts decides he can’t follow though. Or is that just too easy an escape from the problem.

I just hope the Trump supporters stay home and watch reruns of their favorite TV shows or tapes of their favorite Super Bowls.

It is too late to stop the Clown Show that will be happening on the 20th.

Roberts will die behind that Bench or retire from it, and praise will be heaped on him by the sort of Establishment Moron whose praise is worth less than what they flush down the toilet after a BM.

We can clean out ALL of the current members of the House and Senate one at a time. They are like the generation that had to die in the Sinai Desert and not reach the Holy Land. I wonder if there is even one Moses-like person among them (there are such people but at this time I don’t care who they are they get the looky-loo and that’s all).

Mitch will go later, and should go bereft of friends, and surrounded by the enemies we should prefer to his friends right now.

I am hoping that I can get an illegal download of that new Disney+ show Wandavision, so my brother and I have something non-political to watch on the 20th. Even if it is crap, it won’t be as crappy as what everyone might think I should watch because it is “historic”.

It will be “historic”, but in all the wrong ways.

A report I had the only had three or four protesters showed up, all of whom lived locally. Giant message to the left; we have self control!

Cool!

I just wish we’d had Laura Branigan (and Donna Summers) for a while longer.

Sorry for the Pun.

I’ve been watching a lot of music videos to distract myself so the jukebox in my head is still on.

BILL, they know what we’re doing. What we’re up to and what our next move MIGHT be through a group/tool called Palantir. Palantir scrubs every inch of the internet and its AI categorizes and connects the dots between every word, every sentence coming from every person on the internet. Its recording my typing right now. And you can buy that information and everything it relates to, and every possible meaning it “COULD” mean, for a price. It can tell you which Red Light will be the next to be run through. It can be used to know when and where a Riot will break out. YES, it no doubt told DC an attack on the Capitol would occur and when. Look them up. They are on YouTube as well. Thats probably the best place to get more info. I bought Stock in them when they first came out, UNTIL I realized what I was supporting. Then dropped them like a rock.
This IS your Minority Report.
Palantir

Wow! Superb and inspiring. When I signed up to your site, I actually panicked when my full, real name appeared, not because I was afraid as much from the conditioning of social media, but because of the fear borne of a lifetime of living amid the filth of politics the Chicago Way. The old reflex kicked in – thinking about being able to afford to fix the window after the brick has been thrown through it, or replacing the lawn doused with gasoline. Then I thought back and recalled that I’ve experienced and overcome this fear before; in 2016 I knocked on doors in my 85% Democrat district and succeeded in getting enough signatures on my petitions to place my name on the 2016 Illinois GOP primary ballot to run as a delegate to nominate Ted Cruz for President. Now you may think I’m overreacting – it can’t be THAT bad, but does your neighbor proudly display full-sized cutout figures of Obama and Biden in her front windows? For the LAST FIVE YEARS? And, for the past 9 months, wearing MASKS? Where I live, a bumper sticker for a GOP candidate guarantees your car will be keyed. A yard sign will be stolen. But despite all that, you know what? Nothing happened. I’m still here, windows intact. As for the lawn . . . well, I wish I could blame some party hack, but that one’s on me. Point is, Mr. Whittle is right. That’s not to say there will be no negative consequences, but at the same time there are great like-minded people who will support and admire you for your stance. And unlike our founders, no one’s coming after us with nooses, but even if they were, which side do you want to be on – the guys with the nooses or the ones standing in the breach striving to stop them?

Just remember … those sort of tyrants must use one hand to hold the noose, and we each have two for the rifles — our aim is better. However, I do sympathize with your disarmed plight in Chicago having been raised in Western Canada.
Welcome to the party.

Hey, thanks for understanding my misery. Hope you managed a successful escape; that thought is comforting to one stuck behind the blue iron curtain.

By the way, overnight I’ve changed my point of view somewhat. I’m no longer believing IF they come with the nooses, I’m pretty convinced WHEN they come with the nooses is a more reasonable assumption. Steels my conviction as to the proper side with which to stand all the more.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places (Ephesians 6:12) … The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me? The Lord is on my side as my helper; I shall look in triumph on those who hate me (Psalm 118:6-7) … Words as true today as they were 1900 years ago.

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing. For the last two days when I’ve randomly opened my Bible, it opened to Psalm 108 (Just did it again, in fact. How about that?). These last four verses sure seem pertinent:
10 Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?
11 Have you not rejected us, O God? You do not go out, O God, with our armies.
12 Oh grant us help against the foe, for vain is the salvation of man!
13 With God we shall do valiantly, it is he who will tread down our foes.
The footnote for verse 10 says, “here, Edom is more generally a foe of God’s people.” Imagine that.

True. Paul Harvey was a similar situation. No one can replace people that big. But no one knew when Limbaugh came along he would become bigger than Harvey. That can happen again.

Bill,
I suggest that many of the tyrants (leftists) of the world are not afraid of the Truth. Rather they hate the Truth, because it is to them like garlic to a vampire — it kills the basis of their existence (a.k.a. ideology). Their ideology is rooted in the idiotic notion that they may bend all aspects of the universe to their collective will, including the thoughts of those they choose to subjugate.
We too often project our own fears upon the enemies of liberty. Zealots do not fear — they destroy the infidels as they define them.

That only occurs when using old, flawed Pentium chips. It’s a flaw. Remember that. 😉

I got that. It’s still a flaw — whether we’re discussing the Thought Police or Pentium.

True, and I remember the old Pentiums. I started out back in the days of the 8080 and Z80’s. I later picked up a Zenith Data Systems HP120 with a 286 and 256 KB of ram. I ordered the 256KB extension module giving me an incredible for times half a MB of memory. This HP z420 workstation I’m working on right now has 64 GB of ram and an 8-core Xeon 2670 CPU. My, how times have changed.

My, how times have changed.

Yup. Now people can spout-off online at gigabit-or-greater data transfer rates with their cellular phones in contrast to my first Hayes 1200 baud modem connected to a KayPro 1 portable PC containing TWO 5.25-inch, single-sided floppy drives (one containing the OS).

LoL, yeah, my old Zenith had the dual 5.25 floppy drives and I had the Hayes 9600 in the heyday To this day I still use DOS and .bat files. I don’t miss the days of getting drivers to work in Win 3.11, I hated that OS.

Win 3.11 … oh yeah that one sucked. I remember needing to reinstall Win 3.11 and MS Office from 3.5-inch floppies (more than 40 disks if I recall correctly) weekly to keep it all working for data analysis in 1991-ish. The stupid software would regularly become corrupted to the point that MS Excel’s Visual Basic would stop functioning — it was easier to rebuild the stack from bare metal than debug the problems.
That said, Win 95 was less stable, and I managed to avoid Win ME completely.

No thank you. May I suggest using some shrink wrap to create 25 nostalgic coffee table coasters?

This song’s 20 years old and Weird Al’s still got more RAM than me…
It’s all about the Pentiums!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos
“What y’all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers
Wastin’ time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin’ at Hewlett Packard?
Workin’ at a desk with a dumb little placard?
Yeah, payin’ the bills with my mad programming skills
Defraggin’ my hard drive for thrills
I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM
I never feed trolls and I don’t read spam
Installed a T1 line in my house”

I often think about one of my psychology professors in undergrad school who in class one day said, “there are a few people not here today, so let’s do a little experiment. During our next class I am going to mention the name of a person (he gave us the name), and when I do, I want everyone here to stand and enthusiastically applaud. Take note of who isn’t here today, and watch their reaction when we do this.”

This “experiment” was carried out during our next meeting, and it was funny- then once I thought about it, a bit creepy – to see those who had no idea what was going on stand and applaud with the rest of us.

I thought about this old memory again as I watched today’s episode of MB2A.

Maybe I am a weird dude, but I don’t stand up and applaud unless I have just witnessed a barvura peformance.

I am genuinely uncomfortable with the automati standing ovation every performer gets.

I saw a magician (he was taking business classes to be better able to manage his own career) stumble in the middle of his act and recover gracefully. I gave him a standing ovation.

You would not have stood up and applauded in my class because you aren’t influenced by the actions of the mob. Sad to say, the five students who were not in on the prank all followed our lead… although they were clearly confused.

I also have to admit that I never took up smoking because I was downright Prickly at the time I saw everyone else doing so.

And pretty much gave up drinking because back in college I realized I was getting drunk to be able to find people interesting who I found boring when I was sober.

The blonde lady midget who played pool at my favorite dive was only so much fun.

I was in a class one time where we were looking at x-rays. The topic of the moment was the use of grids to filter out scattered radiation and produce a sharper image.
Everyone in the class (of six or seven people) said they thought the image with the grid was clearer. I had been looking very closely, particularly at areas where the edge was perpendicular to the grid lines, and I couldn’t see any improvement.
And I said so. (I had heard about similar “which is longer” experiments in a psychology class.)
Then I pointed out that there was a large air gap between the object being x-rayed and the film, and that was probably enough to eliminate most of the scattered radiation, and the grid was adding very little if anything to the process.
The teacher called that a “beautiful observation”.

HR Departments are also in on it. Here is a great example of their revenge on Trump Supporters… This is an actual post on LinkedIn. They don’t don’t even hide it anymore…

It is too early for the blowback against this.

Any employer who wants loyal employees who happen to be good (sorry, but just being a Trump employee does not mean you would not have got fired later on anyhow) should hire these people.

Some might just do that, and be rewarded.

LinkedIn has sadly fallen prey to the Politicization of Everything. It was the next domino in line for the Long March I guess. My connections feed is peppered with lefty political posts these days — something I very rarely saw before this past year or so. You might think people would feel uneasy about making political pronouncements on a professional networking site, but evidently many on the left feel smugly comfortable that it’s their opponents and not they who will be censured. Too bad unwoke.hr disappeared. I’d love to know whether there’s any chance of them returning. “Mr. Reagan” of YouTube fame said he was involved with the site but hasn’t mentioned it lately AFAICT. It was a timely idea well executed that’s sorely needed now.

Excellent! Your tactic is much more considerate than mine, but I am old enough that I don’t remember ever tolerating the stupid spewed from the mouths of idiots and morons. Thus, my response is terse.

Often attributed to Twain, but Quote Investigator can find no proof (I like the anonymous one about carrying on the debate with yourself):
“The Bible contains a thematically related passage in Proverbs 26:4 and 26:5:

Do not answer a fool according to his folly,

Or you will also be like him.

Answer a fool as his folly deserves,

That he not be wise in his own eyes.

“Statements that were closer to the modern template emerged in the 1800s. Here is a sampling with dates which shows the variation in phrasing and the evolution over time. All of the earliest citations were anonymous.

1878: Don’t argue with a fool, or the listener will say there is a pair of you.

1878: Don’t argue with a fool or listeners will think there are two of you.

1896: Arguing with a fool shows that there are two.

1930: When you argue with a fool, he’s doing the same thing.

1930: When you argue with a fool be sure he isn’t similarly occupied.

1937 Never argue with a fool. But if you must, the safest way is to carry on the debate with yourself.

1938: Never argue with a fool in public lest the public not know which is which…”

There’s more – if you’re interested, here’s the link:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/02/19/fool/

Nah . . . really serious was researching during the days of card catalogs (does that date me or what?). I find typing in a few keystrokes to satisfy my curiosity amusing.

I think the DNC and Bidens new motto should be “Never Let The Truth Stand In The Way Of A Good Story”

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