This is probably the lowest effort glowing I have seen yet.
Literally all we know at this point is it's a recording of Dorsey.
I read it as he's advocating that Republicans, and by extension we here, use what she's trying to do to rein in the MSM. Not saying it would ever work, but that's just my take on it.
It's the Amendment which transitioned to direct election of Senators. Before that, the State Legislatures chose their senators for six year terms.
It's because they were lied to, and were stupid. Terry Goodkind summed it up pretty well in his first novel, *Wizard's First Rule:"
People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.
And, by the way, the eponymous "Wizard's First Rule" is, in fact, "People are stupid."
Don't think we're any different. We're stupid as well. Look at how the last few months have gone for us. We believed lie after lie because we wanted those lies to be true, and now that things look bleak, we've turned the pessimism up to eleven based on a few stories. Everything is going to fall apart, we are going to instantly, and without a chance to react, become a communist state. The stories we base that off of don't really support it, but we have ignored the truth (we can always work to stop it) to further the lie because we are afraid the lie might be the truth.
People are stupid. It's a wise thing to be the first rule of anything, because nobody, even the most intelligent among us, are immune to stupidity. Shit, I know that and I know all about Goodkind's "rule," and I'm still stupid sometimes. Take my advice, and keep the above quote in mind. It won't stop you from being stupid, trust me, but you will be stupid far less often.
And I'm frightened many won't believe us even if it is true. We were, short years ago, looking at shadows on the wall of the cave. Many of us ready for the change had turned around in the past to see the fire casting those shadows, but turned back to the wall of the cave, and the shadows, because the fire hurt our eyes.
Trump dragged us into the sun, and forced us to stay there, as painful as it was, until our eyes adjusted. The unfortunate truth is that, if this is the end of our time in the sun, our eyes have finished adjusting. When we try to return to the cave to convince everyone of what we saw ("be real about what we see," as you said) we will find ourselves just as blind as when we first left. And those still in the cave, who were against us this whole time, can only conclude that leaving the cave is harmful, and they shouldn't follow in our footsteps.
It terrifies me, but I'm beginning to think Plato was right. Not everybody is ready, or even meant to, leave the cave. In either case, all we can do is go on knowing we have seen the light, and maybe some others are ready to do the same.
I'd actually respect him (not like him, mind you, but respect him as an enemy) more if he went all the way and invoked the 25th. I mean, fuck, if you're going to ram it in someone's ass you may as well go balls deep and not cuck yourself halfway. Instead, he cucked himself. So instead of being a despicable traitor, he's a spineless traitor who didn't even have the guts to go all in.
Except it's not. Entrapment is a scenario in which a police officer compels you to do something you would not have normally done was it not for his/her actions. In other words, drug stings aren't entrapment because it can be assumed the buyer would have bought drugs from an actual drug dealer. Same goes for this instance.
This is the best breakdown of entrapment I have ever seen, and definitely worth a read.
The reason I personally don't think anybody should fall for this armed protest shit is that nothing like what we think would happen is ever planned. The colonists prepared for, but didn't plan to fight the Battles of Lexington and Concord when they occurred. It happened because people were fed up, and they reacted to something.
Nobody just announces, "hey, we're playing Minecraft next week." People just show up and play. The armed protest things sounds like a trap meant to play on certain people's desire to play Minecraft at the wrong time.
I don't read historical fiction. The books I read primarily fall into two categories:
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Fantasy
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Historical nonfiction (primarily on Medieval Europe, but I'll often delve into Antiquity, or read something more modern)
Occasionally I'll read something else. I've read all of Jane Austen, for example, and all of Dumas and Hemingway. But I prefer fantasy and real history.
Spartans were definitely epic in their pithiness. When Alexander the Great's daddy, Philip II of Macedon, invaded Southern Greece he sent a message to Sparta asking if he should come as friend or foe. The Spartan response was:
Neither
At which point, an annoyed Philip sent this:
You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city.
The Spartan response:
If
Philip didn't try to conquer Sparta. Neither did Alexander the Great, and Alexander arguably wouldn't have had much trouble doing so. I think he was scared.
Hahahaha! I live in Colorado, so I can legally answer both questions should a true Glowie ask! Go to a gun store for a gun, and within a few miles there's almost certain to be a pot shop.
I only use their shit at work. Since I work in IT, there's no possible way to avoid it (Amazon in particular) without changing careers, and I can't afford that. If someone wants to give me a job outside IT that pays around what I make now, I'd be happy to consider it. But I need to eat.
Phones seem to be the hangup for most people. For those looking to use Android without Goole's involvement, I'll leave this here: LineageOS. Note that I take no responsibility if you install that wrong and brick your phone. I'm just letting you know it exists.
Here comes quasi-martial law. Governors will cite the 6th and activate their National Guards. I say "quasi" because they don't really have enough to do anything outside the vicinity of their capitols. But local police will probably increase their presence everywhere as well.
I'd love to be wrong, but that's my prediction.
Resposting previous comment on this post:
You've never seen Animal House? May want to watch the clip OP posted.
Also, Animal House is one of the funniest movies ever made. Highly recommend.
You've never seen Animal House? May want to watch the clip OP posted.
Also, Animal House is one of the funniest movies ever made. Highly recommend.
Good thing I rarely communicate with anyone anyways! Business as usual!
The one most often theorized for scenarios like this one is a blackout of Internet and maybe cell service (Oh God, kids will have to learn what it meant to grow up in the 90's!). There isn't much in the way of hard evidence the government can disrupt cell service, but there is quite a bit of evidence suggesting they can kill Internet services at will.
The WEA system (Wireless Emergency Alerts) has always been the fallback in case cell service/internet is disrupted, as it goes over a separate service. 911 is the same. Even if your phone isn't activated you can still call 911.
True preppers would also say a literal blackout could happen. As in, power grids offline. While I can see cutting Internet and cell service as a viable strategy, I don't think anyone up top (apart from the loons in California) is insane enough to cut power to the American public.
I think when you step back and look objectively, many left-leaning folk are decent people, and well-intentioned. I'd go so far as to say a lot of them are patriots in their own right who just hold different views on certain issues. It's easy to look at the people in power, or the far-leftists screaming the loudest, and forget the quiet ones exist.
I know people on the left who are scratching their heads right now as well. What remains to be seen is what they do with this new information.
Hey, look, I found a pic of OP!
and military tactics were basically “stand in a straight line X number of yards away from each other and fire”
This was true of pitched battles, and even many skirmishes of the day, but the lion's share of the influential battles of the Revolutionary War were fought on the American side using guerrilla tactics. It was the only way the war ever could have been won, and it is something everyone should study up on in case we all have to play Minecraft in the future. Effective guerrilla tactics have been, and likely always will be, the bane of an organized military.
Fucking kek. I needed that.
Let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows EXACTLY what he's doing. Barack Obama is undertaking a systematic effort to change this country, to make America more like the rest of the world.
That's why he passed Obamacare and the stimulus and Dodd-Frank and the deal with Iran. It is a systematic effort to change America. When I'm president of the United States, we are going to re-embrace all the things that made America the greatest nation in the world and we are going to leave our children with what they deserve: the single greatest nation in the history of the world.
I agree we can't vote our way out, but we can still win.
Have you ever seen the movie Master and Commander? I won't spoil anything big in case you haven't, because I believe it's one of the greatest movies ever made, but in essence the plot hinges on a British warship, the HMS Surprise, going up against a much newer and state-of-the-art French privateer frigate, the Acheron. The Acheron has a far thicker hull, is far faster, and has twice the cannons the Surprise has. In order to defeat the Acheron, the Captain of the Surprise eventually realizes he has to change the rules by which his ship engages their enemy.
As long as we go on bound by the current rules, we will lose. We need to change the rules in our favor in order to have any hope of victory.
This is some next-fucking-level bullshit. I write fantasy novels with literal magic, and I think those stories are more down-to-earth and realistic than this. In fact, I think whoever came up with this should write a novel about it. Hell, I'd read it since fantasy is my favorite genre.