It bothers them that they don't have control of us. They have control, anger, and narcissism issues. They're not satisfied with what they have, what they have control over, etc. They want more.
Our migrating from traditional social media to sites like this, Parler, Gab, etc., is similar in concept to our ancestors leaving Europe for the New World. My great (10 times) grandfather was one of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut. Also Farmington, Connecticut.
He was among a Puritan congregation that escaped the inevitable fate facing those who bucked the desires of the Church of England.
Once they get by the army of Pedes hitting the F5 key in new, they plant articles then screen capture them and say, "Aha! racist extremists!" Too many people fail to find out for themselves what this or other sites are about.
When I posted a Gab meme, showing a Pepe Noah's Ark, I described the scripture and religious posts that I've found there. This is to help counterbalance the false narrative.
Not too many critical thinkers calling these propagandists (you were nice with calling them "journalists") out. We're outnumbered. Too many were indoctrinated in school rather than educated. They would agree with the propagandist and get the target group banned. Then when they get banned, they're like "WTF?"
I recommend reading the book Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America. If you could understand the book, 2020 and this year will make better sense. It's not the CCP, but also the Democratic Party. I call "COVID 19" the CCP Virus or CCP Pandemic.
anrandysavage: Nope! stopped reading right there
You don't have a fifth grader's reading endurance, got it. I'm still going to respond to you. You may not read it, but my blog audience will. Our exchange is getting posted.
Venezuela, where I was born and still have family, bad. Cuba, bad. Zimbabwe, bad. Soviet Union, bad. China under Mao, bad. Sweden, Denmark, Norway, good.
This is the socialist report card as it currently stands. Never mind that Venezuela, Cuba, Zimbabwe, the Soviet Union, Mao's China were once good! Once they go bad, they stay bad and are quickly forgotten. Lost down the memory hole. But those Nordic paradises, they never let you down.
Whenever Bernie, The Squad, and the growing horde of Democratic Socialists ever get cornered, there's always, "Like Denmark..." to come to the rescue. "No, no, we don't want anything like what's going on in Venezuela, Denmark is what we have in mind!"
Except, they don't. And it's time we all figure this out before it is too late. Here's what you need to know about Scandinavian countries. They are capitalist in wealth creation and socialist in wealth distribution. They have low corporate taxes, around 20%, no higher than in America.
Unlike America, neither Norway, nor Sweden, nor Denmark, has a government set minimum wage. Most make it very easy to start a new business. Most have private health care and education options. Yes, the Nordic countries have an expansive welfare state, but everyone pays into the system. Rich, middle class, and poor.
Nobody escapes the tax man because nobody escapes the 25% value added tax. The sales tax, a tax on what you buy, is regressive. Meaning, it falls much more heavily, percentage of income wise, on the poor and on the middle class than it does on the rich.
This concept is a complete non starter for American socialists, who want only the rich to pay more! Even though America's tax system is already steeply progressive. The rich, the top 10 percent, pay about 70% of all income taxes. But for the socialists, it never seems to be enough.
So, if the American left has rejected the Scandinavian model, which model is it embracing? Where, were do the leading figures of the American left, from Sean Penn to Michael Moore and Bill Ayers go when they want to praise socialism? Here's a hint: When was the last time you saw Bernie in Copenhagen?
First, it was the Soviet Union. Then it was Cuba. Then it was Venezuela. Venezuelan socialism, like current American socialism, is based on sowing social division. The left in Venezuela divided the country not merely between the rich and the poor, but white and black or brown-between Europeans, Africans, and indigenous people. Hugo Chavez made much of his black and Indian roots.
Venezuelan socialists were bringing down statues of Columbus long before American leftists did. Once you establish the villain class, taking away their wealth is not hard to do. Whatever Chavez and now his successor Nicolas Maduro wanted, they took -- or, if you care about moral clarity, they stole-always, like the French and Russian Revolutions, in the name of "equality."
It didn't start out that way, of course. It never does. Chavez portrayed himself as a moderate in his early presidential campaigns. Expropriations came later. What Chavez and Maduro achieved at the end of a gun, the American Left would achieve through extremely high taxation on income, wealth, and inheritance.
But we shouldn't leave guns out of the discussion. In 2010, Venezuelan socialists started a campaign to disarm law-abiding citizens under the guise of stopping gun violence. They called it "Desarma la violencia". When citizens, now unarmed, began to protest the corruption and tyranny of the socialist government, Chavez and then Maduro unleashed a group of criminal thugs-the collectivos -- to terrorize them. Their specific targets included small business owners, entrepreneurs, farmers, and clergy. There are no colectivos or Antifa in Scandinavia.
Venezuela is now a cautionary tale. All the people you see on the news rummaging through garbage cans or standing in line to get food, toilet paper, and gas-those are the ordinary citizens. The country's leaders aren't missing any meals. The socialist elite, the so-called Chavistas, eat in fine restaurants and go on European vacations. Miraculously, it always works out that way.
The American Left keeps telling us they want to take us to Stockholm, but its policies point in the direction of Caracas. My birth country was once prosperous and free, but socialism destroyed it. Take heed America.
I'm Debbie D'Souza for Prager University.
I'm Generation X and I didn't get it. But again, I wasn't much into TV shows. I do remember Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill from when I was in my 20s. The bottom panel, not familiar with. Chances are I'd be wrong if I tried to guess.
Someone mentioned dial up on this thread. When I grew up, we didn't have that stuff. When I finally got dial up (AOL) in 96-97, I thought it was awesome.
aynrandysavage: You really don't learn do you? stopped at the first comma this time.
Wrong. You're the one that doesn't learn. Since you can't figure something simple out, let me spell it out for you. Let "X" be the nonsense that you spew. Let "Y" be my destroying your response. Result? "If X, then Y ad infinitum".
I don't care if you can't read beyond a few words, I'm going to hammer you, and keep hammering you, until you do get it.
Too long didn't read? I have every intention of rebutting you.
aynrandysavage: Absolutely not. The moment you start to ramble I skip the entire paragraph.
Then you don't have a leg to stand on commenting on anything that I said, asking me any questions, etc. The fact that you would insist on taking me out of context, and on refusing to read a fact based, reasoned, logical argument destroying both your argument and intent, indicates that you have control, anger, and excessive ego issues.
Your actions also indicate that you have a tendency to rush into things without thinking about what you are doing... Or even doing any research. Just rush in via exercise of poor judgment. Need I say more? You keep revealing more of your psychological profile the more you respond to me.
Re: "The liberal tears are going to come in like a tidal wave."
That's an idiom.
How's that going for you? [REPEAT POINT]
Again:
"Those who cheered the election theft are going to be in for a rude awakening. THAT is when the rest of the above projection will kick in. When the left wakes up, and the effects of their decisions comes back to bite them in the rear end, they will be streaming liberal tears." - thebesig
What I have in bold is another idiom. Do I need to explain to you what an idiom is? These are two differently expressed idioms that talk about something out of the norm.
Read everything that I say in context. The meaning and intent remains the same from my original post to my rebuttal to you. Do continue to expose your apparent psychological profile to me.
My projection still stands. People are still arguing over the election, with our side accurately calling out fraud, and the left arguing that it was honest. This is going to continue for the duration of the next four to eight, or more, years.
Just as I argued in favor of the Iraq War through the duration of the Bush years, and beyond.
Look at the post that you responded to, and read it carefully. Notice what is enclosed in quotes, and what isn't enclosed in quotes. "Legitimate" is quoted above where-areas "Biden" isn't.
Why did I do this?
I've been a history buff for 41 years, and a news junkie for 38 years. Back in the '80s, I predicted that the United States was going to fight a war in Central America and in Iraq, and I also predicted that the Soviet Union was going to disintegrate. I mentioned the wars in a paper that I did in high school, and when I ran into the teacher for that class years later, she told me that she wished that she made a photocopy of that paper.
Panama and the Gulf War had already occurred, and the collapse of the Soviet Union was around the corner (I didn't include that in the paper as I projected that to occur in the 21st Century and not the 20th.
Back in the 1990s, and 2000/2001, I predicted today's level of connectivity to the Internet (still unimaginable at the time). A computer, that did everything, that was the size of your pocket was still in the realm of science fiction back then.
After my first Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment, I predicted what would happen in Iraq if my argument regarding that war were implemented, and if the leftist's arguments were implemented. Every single last of the scenarios that I predicted ended up happening.
When I make a projection, I do it for the long term more than the short term.
By the time I posted the above, I had already gathered enough information to know that the election theft had a shot of being certified and a fraudulent president being seated in the White House.
In fact, around the same time I made the above post, I posted a response to an article on Town Hall saying that if Biden were fraudulently seated in the White House, it's game over.
Herein lies my projection. I've tracked what happened in Venezuela, regarding their elections, over these past years, and researched it outside the news. A part of the system that they used there early this century was used here in 2020, and in January (Georgia). Dominion voting was designed to give the government the election result that it wanted.
What had happened in the US, with BLM/Antifa, voting, etc., already happened in Venezuela and for the same purpose. History is being repeated here that had already occurred in other countries where liberties were curtailed, with Venezuela being the most recent and a very close parallel.
Those who cheered the election theft are going to be in for a rude awakening. THAT is when the rest of the above projection will kick in. When the left wakes up, and the effects of their decisions comes back to bite them in the rear end, they will be streaming liberal tears.
Everything that I said above still holds. I have debated online against the left for over 17 years, and that history has gone in cycles, predictable cycles, when it comes to topics and what would be argued over the long term. I've debated people face to face a lot longer than that, starting in the '80s.
Reading comprehension, it's a drug.
Getting a pension, healthcare, GI Bill, etc., for doing something that the majority of the American public won't do is not communism. If you don't do your end, you don't get those benefits... Which contradicts one of the arguments of socialism/communism regarding getting paid according to your needs and working according to your abilities.
Those who would have to call Beijing Biden "Commander in Chief" will continue to serve until the end of their contracts. However, I anticipate that many of them would retire as soon as they are eligible to retire, and those whose enlistment contract ends will not re-enlist, depending on how close to 20 years they are... Then they'd bear and grin it until they could retire.
Expect the political correctness to ramp up in the military under a Biden Regime. Also, many of the real leaders will get purged and be replaced by Biden yes men, just as what happened during the Obama Presidency. The military will accelerate towards being "cucked" as it did under Clinton and Obama.
One of the things that make communism fail is the existence of successful capitalistic countries. I remember, back in the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan implemented policies designed to collapse the Soviet Union economically. He rejected the the "standoff" policies of his predecessors and went straight confrontational without going hot.
He knew that if we flexed our muscles militarily, via buildup, the Soviet Union's economy will not be able to keep up. He predicted accurately. When there are strong stable capitalist successful countries adjacent to the communist countries, bringing about their failure has a lot of resource backing.
If this global "reset" occurs, we are facing a massive cluster f*k. as Ronald Reagan argued, we would be stepping off into a new dark age.
What he is talking about above? That is not a just talking about the United States. This is intended to be nearly simultaneously a global movement. The end state is not just Marxism, but global governance. Guess who would be in the drivers seat? The Chinese Communist Party.
We know that it doesn't exist, we know what this site is about. We advocate peaceful protests and demonstrations. However, just as the High Priest and Pharisees made things up about Jesus, leftist elitists are doing the same against this site and others like it... Just as they did President Trump and others like him.