The clock is ticking! We have to ban free speech we don't like to save free speech. We have to ban privately owned companies we don't like to save privately owned companies.
I used to have social media (facebook, instagram and snapchat) but now I got rid of all of it --- don't have it, don't want it, don't need it and don't care for it. I was contemplating creating an alt social media to bolster my Substack reach but ultimately decided against it because "popularity" isn't my thing. To be honest, popularity was part of the reason why I made a Substack other than wanting to make a difference in the world some way, somehow; so, yes I am guilty of wanting popularity, but I saw a while back that "popularity" is not the way to go (especially if I would need to stay "connected" to my electronics 24/7/365).
As far as Tik-Tok, people have made entire careers and businesses off this platform and aside from the nonsense you can find on Tik-Tok (and every other social media platform), search hard enough and I'm sure you can find videos of people doing truly beautiful things and being their best versions of themselves.
So as you said in your article, this nonsense about foreign influence is more bullshit than bullshit itself and, to me, this is really about the "powers-that-(shouldn't)-be" trying to further control any avenues people might use to build themselves and their careers, or destroy them completely if they can't 100% control them.
More power is not going to fix problems and these companies have section 230 protection, like the telecom companies. It's not their business to censor or moderate content. We got laws against harassment, violent threats, sexual abuse etc.
There's one thing that you may not realize though. They keep on promoting that "military age" shit about immigrants.
No, that's the normal immigrant demographic for decades, they come to work and send money home.
Thanks Rob (c137). Yeah, the immigration thing is a whole other rabbit hole. Now, when I was a kid on the farm we really did have seasonal immigrants. They came, they worked the fields, and then they went home. They didn't get any kind of welfare, a cell phone, food stamps, Medicaid, free college, and free housing like many of them do now. This is a complicated issue. Personally, if we didn't offer *any* social welfare of any kind to "migrants" I would be all for it. But, until they get rid of that benefit it's kind of hard for me to be on the side of literal millions of people flooding in. Again, it's a tough situation. I totally get your point.
They're definitely ramping up, overblowing the 'fighting age' fear porn, but, I think there are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the young, male immigrants. We've already seen instances of violence from theses young scholars...Laken Riley and the beatings of police officers in NYC come to mind. Not many folks seem to be speaking of another issue....the ''military service for citizenship'' proposal that one US Senator (Durbin?) recently spoke of. The US military, all branches, keep falling farther and farther behind on recruitment numbers. American kids don't want to sign up anymore and, personally, I don't blame them. ''War is a Racket,'' and the kids are finally realizing it. So, it seems as though it's a great idea to bring in all of these migrant ''military aged men'' and then bribe them with citizenship if they volunteer to be cannon fodder. I'm wondering how well that'll work. I mean, first of all do theses guys really care about citizenship? They're getting freebies already, and soon they'll have work permits (at the expense of American workers...see Tyson Foods). Some of them will certainly enlist, but I predict most will say fuck that shit.
Another thought on the military recruitment issue. Back in the day, think Vietnam war, a primary method of recruitment (aside from regular enlistment and the draft) was to offer convicted criminals an alternative to traditional prison sentencing i.e. enlist in the Army or Marines! Many of them accepted that offer, and I can opine from personal experience that those guys were generally not the greatest ''soldiers.'' I'd bet that today the same program will be offered, with similar results.
China and Russia are already superpowers. The West is part of the Globalists' territory already under their belts, or, they think it is. Whether China and Russia are part of this conspiracy remains to be seen -- by me, anyway. But do I "trust" any govt? Hell, no.
I agree this banning of TikTok is a slippery slope. The excuses that the clapping congress of seals make are all BS. Why TikTok?? Simple...pressure from the Israeli lobby that owns our gov't officials. TikTok users are exposing the ugly, evil side of the Israelis' occupation and the current genocide. Heck, the IDF (world's most moral military?) troops are blasting TikTok videos of themselves committing war crimes on a regular basis....they don't even try to hide it anymore. The sentiment on TikTok is overwhelmingly favoring the Palestinians and calling for a permanent ceasefire. TikTok doesn't censor this, and that scares the shit out of the ADL, AIPAC, SPLC and the rest, as well as the Israeli gov't. All of them have gotten a free ride by controlling the narrative on MSM and to a large extent on alternative and social media. Now, TikTok is obliterating that facade. When do Congress members act so much in unison, and with such unusual haste? In Biden's recent SOTU address, Republican speaker of the house, Evangelical Mike Johnson, sat down for the entire speech. Except once... when it came to supporting Israel, when he stood and clapped like the rest of the Israel-firsters. That's all you need to know.
This is very tangential, but *stay away from Chinese fish*! I once made the mistake of buying "Pacific" salmon (i.e. from China) instead of "Atlantic" salmon (i.e. from the USA). My joints ached for a week, and I got headaches out of nowhere. They try to sneak it in, so read labels carefully.
Obviously the logical thing to do would be to ban all salmon, right?
Oh man... it's so frustrating. You can hardly pick up a package of any kind of frozen fish and not see "farm raised in China" on the package. Those fish are loaded with antibiotics and gawd knows what.
You can get Pacific salmon that's not from Chiiiina. I've gotten it from Chile (?), I think. (It's been over 7 months since I bought any, so I'm not positive.) But I KNOW it wasn't from China.
That's weird, to me... Because Atlantic salmon is FARMED, and Pacific is generally NOT.
Sure you are mixing them up? And anyway, how do you know it was the salmon? Aching joints are yet ANOTHER symptom of radiation (EMF) poisoning. Got cell towers near you? Got WiFi? Smart phone? Keep it to science, not guessing, so saith the dog.
I also can sense changes like that as well Fat Rabbit Iron. I'm pretty consistent with my diet and so I am almost always able to pin-point the "thing" that caused a change in the way my body works. A lot of us have lost the ability to "listen" to our bodies.
Don't misunderstand, I'm not talking about what your sensitivity is. I'm talking about drawing conclusions without proof... It's an assumption, I'd say. Perhaps it's correct, and it seems logical, yes, but... that's not really a hard fact. That's all I'm saying. Those kinds of conclusions can get us into a lot of unnecessary complications.
Well, this is what the onslaught of TYRANNY looks like. It's been planned and enacted for decades. If we continue to think that our Constitution will save us, then we'd better get off our "smart" (addiction) phones and DO SOMETHING. Just talking, or not even talking, but WRITING about stuff on SS is not gonna cut it.
People are cowards until someone else jumps up and gets the ball rolling... Who will that be? It would be good to have some kind of PLAN... for ACTION...
I used to have social media (facebook, instagram and snapchat) but now I got rid of all of it --- don't have it, don't want it, don't need it and don't care for it. I was contemplating creating an alt social media to bolster my Substack reach but ultimately decided against it because "popularity" isn't my thing. To be honest, popularity was part of the reason why I made a Substack other than wanting to make a difference in the world some way, somehow; so, yes I am guilty of wanting popularity, but I saw a while back that "popularity" is not the way to go (especially if I would need to stay "connected" to my electronics 24/7/365).
As far as Tik-Tok, people have made entire careers and businesses off this platform and aside from the nonsense you can find on Tik-Tok (and every other social media platform), search hard enough and I'm sure you can find videos of people doing truly beautiful things and being their best versions of themselves.
So as you said in your article, this nonsense about foreign influence is more bullshit than bullshit itself and, to me, this is really about the "powers-that-(shouldn't)-be" trying to further control any avenues people might use to build themselves and their careers, or destroy them completely if they can't 100% control them.
Right on.
Spot on, as always, Daniel! Thanks for stopping by!
Great article as usual.
More power is not going to fix problems and these companies have section 230 protection, like the telecom companies. It's not their business to censor or moderate content. We got laws against harassment, violent threats, sexual abuse etc.
There's one thing that you may not realize though. They keep on promoting that "military age" shit about immigrants.
No, that's the normal immigrant demographic for decades, they come to work and send money home.
This fighting age shit is pure fear porn.
Thanks Rob (c137). Yeah, the immigration thing is a whole other rabbit hole. Now, when I was a kid on the farm we really did have seasonal immigrants. They came, they worked the fields, and then they went home. They didn't get any kind of welfare, a cell phone, food stamps, Medicaid, free college, and free housing like many of them do now. This is a complicated issue. Personally, if we didn't offer *any* social welfare of any kind to "migrants" I would be all for it. But, until they get rid of that benefit it's kind of hard for me to be on the side of literal millions of people flooding in. Again, it's a tough situation. I totally get your point.
They're definitely ramping up, overblowing the 'fighting age' fear porn, but, I think there are legitimate reasons to be concerned about the young, male immigrants. We've already seen instances of violence from theses young scholars...Laken Riley and the beatings of police officers in NYC come to mind. Not many folks seem to be speaking of another issue....the ''military service for citizenship'' proposal that one US Senator (Durbin?) recently spoke of. The US military, all branches, keep falling farther and farther behind on recruitment numbers. American kids don't want to sign up anymore and, personally, I don't blame them. ''War is a Racket,'' and the kids are finally realizing it. So, it seems as though it's a great idea to bring in all of these migrant ''military aged men'' and then bribe them with citizenship if they volunteer to be cannon fodder. I'm wondering how well that'll work. I mean, first of all do theses guys really care about citizenship? They're getting freebies already, and soon they'll have work permits (at the expense of American workers...see Tyson Foods). Some of them will certainly enlist, but I predict most will say fuck that shit.
Another thought on the military recruitment issue. Back in the day, think Vietnam war, a primary method of recruitment (aside from regular enlistment and the draft) was to offer convicted criminals an alternative to traditional prison sentencing i.e. enlist in the Army or Marines! Many of them accepted that offer, and I can opine from personal experience that those guys were generally not the greatest ''soldiers.'' I'd bet that today the same program will be offered, with similar results.
Canada is in similar circumstances. I'll bet Russia and China will be the next superpowers. The West is done for unless there are drastic changes.
I agree Anna. They just do whatever they want anymore. Regardless of what the population thinks... Thanks for commenting! :)
China and Russia are already superpowers. The West is part of the Globalists' territory already under their belts, or, they think it is. Whether China and Russia are part of this conspiracy remains to be seen -- by me, anyway. But do I "trust" any govt? Hell, no.
I agree this banning of TikTok is a slippery slope. The excuses that the clapping congress of seals make are all BS. Why TikTok?? Simple...pressure from the Israeli lobby that owns our gov't officials. TikTok users are exposing the ugly, evil side of the Israelis' occupation and the current genocide. Heck, the IDF (world's most moral military?) troops are blasting TikTok videos of themselves committing war crimes on a regular basis....they don't even try to hide it anymore. The sentiment on TikTok is overwhelmingly favoring the Palestinians and calling for a permanent ceasefire. TikTok doesn't censor this, and that scares the shit out of the ADL, AIPAC, SPLC and the rest, as well as the Israeli gov't. All of them have gotten a free ride by controlling the narrative on MSM and to a large extent on alternative and social media. Now, TikTok is obliterating that facade. When do Congress members act so much in unison, and with such unusual haste? In Biden's recent SOTU address, Republican speaker of the house, Evangelical Mike Johnson, sat down for the entire speech. Except once... when it came to supporting Israel, when he stood and clapped like the rest of the Israel-firsters. That's all you need to know.
Brilliant observation serafino bueti!
This is very tangential, but *stay away from Chinese fish*! I once made the mistake of buying "Pacific" salmon (i.e. from China) instead of "Atlantic" salmon (i.e. from the USA). My joints ached for a week, and I got headaches out of nowhere. They try to sneak it in, so read labels carefully.
Obviously the logical thing to do would be to ban all salmon, right?
Oh man... it's so frustrating. You can hardly pick up a package of any kind of frozen fish and not see "farm raised in China" on the package. Those fish are loaded with antibiotics and gawd knows what.
You can get Pacific salmon that's not from Chiiiina. I've gotten it from Chile (?), I think. (It's been over 7 months since I bought any, so I'm not positive.) But I KNOW it wasn't from China.
Pacific means peaceful.
That's weird, to me... Because Atlantic salmon is FARMED, and Pacific is generally NOT.
Sure you are mixing them up? And anyway, how do you know it was the salmon? Aching joints are yet ANOTHER symptom of radiation (EMF) poisoning. Got cell towers near you? Got WiFi? Smart phone? Keep it to science, not guessing, so saith the dog.
I always buy wild caught. I also eat the exact same thing every day, so I'm pretty sensitive to these types of changes.
I also can sense changes like that as well Fat Rabbit Iron. I'm pretty consistent with my diet and so I am almost always able to pin-point the "thing" that caused a change in the way my body works. A lot of us have lost the ability to "listen" to our bodies.
Every time I listen, my body screams at me!
Don't misunderstand, I'm not talking about what your sensitivity is. I'm talking about drawing conclusions without proof... It's an assumption, I'd say. Perhaps it's correct, and it seems logical, yes, but... that's not really a hard fact. That's all I'm saying. Those kinds of conclusions can get us into a lot of unnecessary complications.
This mindset is trickling down to community groups and clubs where communication must be via the gatekeeper to keep you safe. For privacy you know.
I'm fighting futilely this right now.
Well, this is what the onslaught of TYRANNY looks like. It's been planned and enacted for decades. If we continue to think that our Constitution will save us, then we'd better get off our "smart" (addiction) phones and DO SOMETHING. Just talking, or not even talking, but WRITING about stuff on SS is not gonna cut it.
People are cowards until someone else jumps up and gets the ball rolling... Who will that be? It would be good to have some kind of PLAN... for ACTION...