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Region: Libertatem
Doing well, just enjoying what God has given me
Narland, Auxorii
Thats all we can do. Sometimes it can be hard to be thankful, but the fact alone that we are alive is a blessing.
Narland
Amen to that
Narland, Auxorii
Student loan "forgiveness" is the logical next step from bailing out the banks. Both result in the taxpayer being forced to pay for the mistakes and irresponsibility of others
Miencraft, Narland, Miri Islands
So what do you guys think of Democrats, Charlie Crist and Biden, calling us Pro Trump Republicans and Pro Ron DeSantis, anti, democratic, racist, evil, hateful, Fascist Nazis, which is the same evil thing? It think it's deplorable.
They are communists they are vile and hate the American people and our traditions. We have to fight back and not bend the knee which is what Trump and DeSantis have done
Why would you be mad if the Democrats call you anti- Democratic, racist, evil, hateful, Fascist Nazis? Dont you guys think these things are bad?
lol, I'm not mad, because Trump and us Proud Republican Trump supporters, Ronald Reagan supporters and Ron DeSantis supporters are not anti Democratic, racist, evil, hateful, Fascist Nazis, which is the same evil thing. We are Proud American Patriot Citizens of the USA, Pro USA, Pro America First, Pro MAGA, no matter what they say and think. Just ask me and ask us? They learned these negative terms from the Leftist, Liberal, Democrat, Progressive, Politicians, VIPs and Leftist Media Talking Points. I am not mad, I am lolling, at the Leftist, Liberal, Democrat, Progressive, Politicians, VIPs and Leftist Media, hateful, undemocratic, arrogant, intolerant comments in the Media, for over 4 Years and counting, this is not new, lol.
Not Ron DeSantis and others of course, who are leading in their races. I think the Republican candidates who are loosing in the polls, should use this against the Democrat candidates calling them these negative hateful, undemocratic, intolerant terms, what do they got to loose? Nothing. What do they got to gain? Perhaps a few points with the independents, and it might be enough to win their elections, they got nothing to loose by using it against them. I am not mad, lol again.
Hanging in there. Still grieving the loss close friends. No longer a farmer. Transitioning from rural culture to suburbia. Thinking of returning to church eldership, or devoting some effort to politically active school reform. I would prefer to start another business, but considering this current productivity hating environment, going to wait for an excellent opportunity to serve others.
Life is still good -- hard but good. Friends have been supportive. There is a good fellowship to attend. This is still one of the best countries in the known history of humanity to live and to make life changing decisions. America as a nation conceived in Liberty is worth fighting for.
I hope things are going well for you.
Auxorii
It's a basketful.
Re: Anti-Democratic. Technically anyone who hates mobocracy, mob rule, lynch mob mentality, and thinking that any majority has the mandate to violate the rights the minority to be and let be, is anti-democratic to some extent. So, I don't mind the charge of being anti-democratic. US is not a democracy it is a federal constitutional republic because democracy sucks. Republicanism (rule of law, limited government, maximal self-government, personal responsibility, etc.) is preferable. Democratic elements under the constraints of equal application law with truth, and justice (constitutionality) is the right way.
Re: Racism. The left has cried wolf so persistently that accusations of racism are effectively meaningless for their intentions of keeping minorities in their plantation system. They have to come up with something else to libel and slander Conservatives with. Semi-Fascism must have polled well in the focus groups of groupthink voters.
Re: Evil and Hate. The party founded by Jackson, that:
>Gave us the Trail of Tears by questioning the national loyalty of fellow non-citizen US nationals,
>Devastated the US with a murderous civil war to keep chattel slavery.
>Created the KKK twice as the Democrat Party enforcement arm to terrorize southern Republicans in general and uppity blacks in particular.
>Foisted the the Indian Wars on the West and made life a living hell for the pioneers who wanted to live in peace with the tribal nations.
>That gave us the expulsion of East Asians that devastated the economies of entire western counties.
>That supported the eugenics movement, forced sterilization of minorities, and converted our mental hospitals into experiment labs.
>Was so hateful against a segment of their fellow human beings that not even Nazi Germany would go so far in their concept of corruption of blood.
>Created the Jim Crow laws and fought hard and dirty to keep them in place despite them knowing that it has been unconstitutional.
>Fought against the Reconstruction Amendments, and every single Civil Rights act until 1968 and only switched because
>>>>>it included provisions that unconstitutionally ceded to the Federal government the right of citizens to own their own homes,
>>>>>use it to create an agency to put minorities in housing projects,
>>>>>legally manipulate the housing market, and control its financing, and eventually
>>>>>rule that people have to live where government tells them to. (among other things).
>Bribed citizens targeting the poor and minorities by offering private stipends from the the public largess under fraudulence that it is general welfare for the purpose of creating a permanent underclass beholden to Democrat votes.
>A plethora of unconstitutional unaccountable and undemocratic bureaucracies through the "Rational Administrative State." I include RINO Republicans in this as well.
>Gave us the New Left destruction of our institutions from being public civil service organizations to statist run, controlled, and operated agencies unbeholden to the People.
>Gave us Progressive Modern Education, Common Core, CRT, Woke, EGT, Leading From Behind, Fundamental Transformation, the 1619 Project, instant criminal recidivism, the 2020 Summer of Burning Love, over 500 Riots, and calling for dead cops, bloodshed and approbating by silence the shooting children to disrupt the nuclear family because certain lives matter, and if you disagree such that all lives matter equally (the very meaning of "not racist"), you are the racist.
>Gave us the Woke Left and the deconstruction of American Classical Liberalism for Cultural Marxism. I am done.
What all these have in common is that the Democrat party historically stays relevant by questioning the very humanity of some segment of our fellow human beings. It wantonly uses stolen valor, gaslights, projects, and willingly exploits the soft tyranny of low expectations. It doesn't believe in the brotherhood of man, except when the concept can be exploited for political gain; nor does it believe in objective equality, or the inalienable rights of the individual. It is illiberal at its core, and looks for any Hegelian dialectic to exploit. I think Christians in general and white single males in particular will be their new whipping boy to maintain their bigotry and prejudice in its maintenance of power into the 21st century.
They have to demonize in order to gain votes. The cannot run on their ideas, because their ideas are Statism, top down authoritarianism, centralized planned economy, forced big government "Socialism," that are failures or can't "not fail." They have to suppress those who have other ideas that just might work without themselves and their power structure. They have been on the wrong side of history regarding human nature for 200 years.
Re: Biden's charge of Semi-Fascism. That is too stoopid an epitaph to warrant a reply.
Americans have to rise to the challenge and be willing to restore us back to being a free country.
Auxorii, Greater Miami Shores 3
I think you answered your own question
They arent anti-Democratic, anti-Evil??
Were you making some point on grammer?
Yes
Narland
What does one say to a grammarnazi?
"There, Their, They're"
Miami Jai-Alai 3
I answered your questions. I know you are not a Leftist Democrat, you are a Libertarian. So How would you feel and what would you say to us, if we said you are an anti democratic, evil, hateful, racist, Fascist Nazi, which is the same evil thing? How would you feel and what would you say to us, if we said your Politics, are anti democratic, evil, hateful, racist, Fascist and Nazi, which is the same evil thing? Don't you think those are bad things to call you and your Politics?
I would, probably, just agree. Thatd be hilarious.
Miami Jai-Alai 3
oh, you mean that if we were to say you are an anti democratic, evil, hateful, racist, Fascist Nazi, which is the same evil thing, you would agree with it? oh, you mean if we were to say your Politics, are anti democratic, evil, hateful, racist, Fascist and Nazi, which is the same evil thing, you would agree with it? I see, good to know.
Yeah, I also hate women, and dont believe women should be able to do anything, and that saying the G word should be illegal for teachers. The poor suck too.
Unironically dont care much for democracy
The reduction of sovereignty, authority, and right to quantity is ridiculous and evil.
Miencraft
Also, an aside, there are some differences between fascism (which is more of a category), and Nazism (which is a particular, and can, to some extent, exist apart from fascism).
Kind of like the difference between having a tied bundle of obnoxious beat sticks, and having a particularly obnoxious beat stick.
lol, Your comment has nothing to do with my post above, but you previously answered my questions, just like I expected, lol. I don't have a problem with women in business and politics. I am strong supporter of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain, The Iron Lady and Baroness. Republican Governor Kristi Noem, of South Dakota. There will be a Lady President of the USA in the future, I hope she is a Republican.
What? Im pretty sure women are only supposed to function as baby factories in a moral society... Like the poor, their only real value in a libertarian society comes from producing cheap goods for the wealthy.
Well, that is not the Conservative Republican, Nationalist view, those are your unique Libertarian views.
Nope. Must not be conservatives then.
oh, you listen to the Leftist, Liberal, Democrat, Progressive Politicians, VIPs and Leftist Media, that explains it.
Nope. Fake News.
Auxorii
oh, I am happy you call the leftist media, Fake News. So you must call the right wing media, True News.
Knock knock?
Who's there?
To.
To Who?
No, to whom.
Auxorii, The United States Of Patriots, Miami Jai-Alai 3
Only that which is right.
Miami Jai-Alai 3
Right is Right, lol.
Its relative.
Auxorii
Come dude, The Right Is Always Right, lol.
Meet my Nation - Right Land Nation - Motto - The Right Is Always Right.
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=right_land_nation
Sometimes a right is three lefts like a former roommate when dealing with an overwhelming onslaught of traffic.
So Biden gives a White House policy address speech to the American people with Hitleresque scenery, and US marines standing at attention in the background. He states that it is now the policy of the Executive branch that anyone who does not agree with the majoritarian consensus is an extremist. Apparently political disagreement is now a threat to Democracy. But only 80% of Democrats (at this time) do not want Biden as president and 76% of all Americans think that this country is on the wrong track. The Biden Admin is a parody of itself and seriously deranged.
Miami Jai-Alai 3
Both sides are asinine.
Auxorii
He is targetting Trump supporters now, but all sides that aren't their side is in the crosshairs including Independents, Libertarians, and Constitutionalists that run afoul of their narrative and agenda.
Miami Jai-Alai 3, Manzonia
Its the same both ways. Its just that one side has the power, and is close to losing it.
I think this is a desperate attempt by the Uniparty to keep the dividing line between the Establishmentarians and the Deep state supporters over the disestablishment in both parties, instead of having one major ruling class Establishment Party, and one major Disestablishment Party. They fear the GOP Disestablishmentarians will form a controlling plurality and use Trump to root out the Deep State. This will permanently destroy their +100 year stranglehold on national politics, and hopefully return to a more constitutionally administered government.
Miami Jai-Alai 3
Doubt.
I do not agree with Ben Shapiro on every issue, but his analysis of the Biden's Evil Dictator speech calling half of the US enemies of Democracy on 01 September 2022. [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7jgQctp8rU[/url] is very astute. I recommend everyone listen to this episode (Episode 1567) and discuss Biden's historic unAmerican precedence with their friends, family and their public officials. Authoritarianism / Totalitarianism has no place in the US.
The United States Of Patriots, Miami Jai-Alai 3
Biden Administration's pageantry last night makes me wonder when they joined the Norsefire Party. The antics of the Beltway Ruling Elite remind me the of the problem child that is maliciously acting out in a pathetic attempt to provoke his parents to anger so he can have a reason to say he is abused. They are losing and are desperate to provoke middle America to do something lawless so as to place blame upon them for a thinly veiled excuse to go full totalitarian. They truly do not understand that American Conservatism is based on Lawfulness (Liberty in Law). When provoked American Conservatives will use every Lawful means to rid ourselves of lawlessness. Tyranny (Authoritarianism) is lawlessness.
Miami Jai-Alai 3
Trump's speech in Wilkes, Pennsylvania was great -- hope, and encouragement. Please watch it. It was so different from the Sith Lord speech by Biden the other night.
Any thoughts about the subject matters of the speeches?
Miami Jai-Alai 3
Dementia Joe must have been told the speech was polling horribly because by the next day his tune had changed
Narland, Miami Jai-Alai 3
Add Leftist Democrats, Biden, Charlie Crist, New York's Governor, Kathy Hochul and others to the list.
Yeah, after calling us proud, Mega, Republican Trump supporters a threat to democracy, racist, evil, Fascist, Nazis, which is the same evil thing, now he says he did not say so, he does not consider us so, lol, what a liar, if Trump had addressed the nation while in office, and made those comments about the Leftist Democrats, the Leftist Democrats would be screaming impeachment and much worse. Biden's comments could incite violence against Republican Trump supporters, I condemn the speech as hateful, undemocratic, arrogant, intolerant, shameful and despicable, but their hate for President Trump and us in not new, it has been there for over 4 years and counting anyway, I know it, you know it and we all know it from personal experiences for over 4 years and counting. Viva Trump, Viva Ronald Reagan, the original Make America Great Again President of the USA and Viva Ron DeSantis, Forever. GMS Alberto with Pride and Honor. We are Pro Democracy, Pro MAGA, Pro USA, Pro America, First, Conservative, Republicans, Nationalists and Libertarians, American Patriot Citizens of the USA, with Pride and Honor.
Happy Labor Day to those who celebrate it. Happy Labor Day to those who don't. May those who cannot afford to take take Labor Day off have a good day even more so. May those who use Labor Day as an excuse to enslave people with Socialism learn the benefit of hard work and allowing everyone to keep the fruit of one's own labor.
Kumquat Cove, Auxorii, Miami Jai-Alai 3
Anyone know how to stop someone from consuming news 24/7 it seems like every waking moment my dad spends not at work is him watching Fox and getting angry at the TV. It's certainly not healthy and he got angry with me for confronting him about it
Rateria
this might help -- https://www.wikihow.com/Curb-Your-Addiction-to-News#:~:text=Instead%20of%20cussing,%20the%20goal%20can%20be%20news,go%20an%20entire%20day%20without%20watching%20the%20news.
Be winsome, and focus on his health and emotional state. Keep reminding him that this is not good for him to be this way. It may take some time. Take him out somewhere that might start focusing his attention on something else.
If he has the Fox Nation app ask him to concentrate on the humorous shows and the documentaries. If you can get him to stay away from it for a week or more, it should show him how much of a better mood he is in. Maybe make a bet, or challenge that he will accept?
Rateria
Post self-deleted by Narland.
I would also recommend going into the back yard and snipping the cable, but that would be illegal, so don't do it.
I am part of the TV addict generation. What cured some associates and I, were being outside the US for over a decade. Coming back to the States and watching media dumbed down to the lowest common denominator was shocking. I limit my TV to one series (The Orville this year), and not more than 4 hours of news shows a week (alternate between the Fox shows and always Mark Levin on Sundays) not including breaking news and documentaries. I will even watch CNN/MSNBC/CNBC to get a feel for their perspectives.
Rateria
I dunno what it is with old people... its like giving alcohol to a primitive tribe... but its like all they have to do all day is watch the news and get pissed.
Narland, Rateria
Im pretty sure that my grandfather doesnt even listen to music in his car. The truck radio is literally always set to the news, at full volume.
Narland, Rateria
As we all know the Leftist Democrats, the FBI and the DOJ, will eventually have President Trump arrested and indicted on Trumped UP charges, not because President Trump has done anything wrong, he hasn't, its because they hate him for over 4 Years and counting and are trying to get him on anything, Trumped UP Pun intended. I also think this could be one of the reasons Biden addressed the nation with that anti democratic, hateful, divisive, anti Trump, anti MAGA, Anti Republicans speech, calling us a threat to democracy and the nation, which we are not, I think the two incidents could be related, as one of the reasons for that speech.
It's definitely trending in that direction. Ironically they may actually unintentionally help Trump if they try to charge him as the vast majority of people would not want to see a Biden DOJ prosecute political opponents
Narland
People are now old enough to drink who were born after 9/11
Narland
When I was a kid in the 60s there was one TV set in the house (if the house even had TV). Both sides of the family had a one-eyed monster. Family members would drive over to the grandparents to watch TV together as a family. One side watched maybe 3 hours of prime-time tv series and a Mystery Movie of the week always after dinner. They would then discuss what they had just watched, the parts they liked, and the parts they didn't. Even my 5 year old self was asked what i thought. The other side would watch tv here and there, but almost always as a family, and they too would discuss the shows afterward also. One of the constant themes was, what is the right way do respond to X situation presented in the story, and why. By the end of the 1970s there was a TV in every room thanks to Madman Muntz, and the family part of watching TV disappeared.
It's quite possible. Trump poked the DC Swamp Monster, and it is fighting back. They (the swamp creatures) are real time examples of power corrupting and absolute power corrupting absolutely.
Miami Jai-Alai 3
The only time I want to see government officials and public servants (as well as government contractors) prosecuted is for deprivation of rights under color of authority, misprisions of felony, and for violating actual statutes of material crimes. I want them duly prosecuted impartially, without mercy, and given the jail sentences they deserve. I do not care what it is, or whose party the perps belong too. I am cynical so that would probably be 90% of the Federal government. But even 1,000 prosecutions a year would be a good start.
Instead of commemorating 9/11 the Mayor of Boise had the audacity to hold a gay/trans celebration weekend with a bring your children to the drag show event. Apparently she thought the narcissism over one's sexual peccadilloes was so overshadowed by other more newsworthy events during the month of June that they didn't get their time in the sun. Thankfully, the exposing children to lewd and lascivious conduct part was cancelled. Children are not sexual playthings.
I do not care what a person's sexual jollies are (as long as it is safe, lawful, and involves consenting adults). I do not care what it is, and I do not want to hear or see it unless I go looking for it. Sexuality belongs in the bedroom, in private clubs, or Gutfield's dungeon, not shoved down everyone's throat, IMNSHO.
Growing up, there was a period of my life which was somewhat similar to this. In my case, from the age of 7-13 (I think I have the years right) most of my fathers family (my younger brother, my dads siblings, grandma and grandpa, and then a few of friends of my father and his siblings) lived in the same house, or on the property. We had other tvs, with at least two of them hooked up to cable, but at least every night everybody would eat dinner in the living room and wed all watch TV on the giant (heavy) cube with what must have been 3-inch thick glass on the one side. Although, most of the time there was a lot of actual side conversation taking place, and my brother, cousins, I would usually end up throwing our toys down in the center of everybody.
PS, I think that TV might still be over in one of the bedrooms of that house. TV was probably from the 90s and got regular use in the living room up until maybe 2012, possibly 2014. Cant remember. Still worked last time I saw it.
Narland
The TV family as described by Bradbury. The banning of books in the novel was accepted by society since they were replaced by mindless entertainment
Narland
There was a short story where an older teenager would go for a walk every evening when everyone else in the neighborhood was mesmerized by the vid screen. A robot patrol car happened by and queried the walker. Its programming registered the walker as a sociopath (obviously because he would rather walk than mindlessly sit in the house with his family). He was ordered into the patrol car and driven to an automated police station for processing.
Because his family didn't want to be disturbed by one of the best parts of the vidscreen program the picked up the receiver without answering and left it off the hook (iirc). The automated police station processed him as indigent and a sociopath. He was ushered off to holding. Since he had used his one phone call, he needed to wait for his family to call the police that he was missing. But they never did.
Is that a Bradbury it sounds similar to his style and I would love to read it sometime
Well, the Discord is riled up, and the Regional Message Board remains peaceful. Cant have that.
Auxorii, Nova Xander
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance. But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The untransacted destiny of the American people is to subdue the continent to rush over this vast field to the Pacific Ocean to animate the many hundred millions of its people, and to cheer them upward to set the principle of self-government at work to agitate these herculean masses to establish a new order in human affairs to set free the enslaved to regenerate superannuated nations to change darkness into light to stir up the sleep of a hundred centuries to teach old nations a new civilization to confirm the destiny of the human race to carry the career of mankind to its culminating point to cause stagnant people to be re-born to perfect science to emblazon history with the conquest of peace to shed a new and resplendent glory upon mankind to unite the world in one social family to dissolve the spell of tyranny and exalt charity to absolve the curse that weighs down humanity, and to shed blessings round the world!
Divine task! immortal mission! Let us tread fast and joyfully the open trail before us! Let every American heart open wide for patriotism to glow undimmed, and confide with religious faith in the sublime and prodigious destiny of his well-loved country.
~ William Gilpin
Narland, Suzi Island
There is a vague recollection of a black and white sketch picture with the story so it could have been in a pulp magazine. Iirc it was very Bradbury.
Some of those stories were hit and miss. One that I remember was star trek operatic with a form of prime directive (but written in the 1950s). The starman had to figure out how to help the native population only using the tools and tech level that they already possessed to defeat competing native lifeforms or face certain extinction. That part was pretty good.
It was great all the way up to the point where instead of directing societal pathos in common sense appeal to nature and natural law, the starman becomes a moral idiot and plunders the priceless relics of the natives so they wouldn't worship him as a god after he leaves. Ugly Americans in spaaaaaaaaaace! O well. In spite of the ending it was a good story.
The Discord is always riled up
Auxorii, Nova Xander, Miami Jai-Alai 3
I see you called me, GMS. Biden should be investigated for letting in illegal immigrants illegally, busing and flying them to Republican Red States and impeached for practicing open borders illegal immigration.
Hey Auxorii, would you like to roleplay with me?
Here is the task Im giving our American community members on the NS of Libertatem:
How would you describe America to a European who didnt know much about America?
:3
Nova Xander
America is a place where you can be anything and find anything - whereas a lot of places (such as Ireland) are so focused on how we present ourselves in public - our image - its exactly the opposite in America. Youre encouraged to be an individual and stick out.
This is something every cousin of mine says when they visit me in the States.
Miencraft, Narland
pats cat
A lot of Europeans criticize Americans for not traveling overseas as much (whether that's accurate is debatable) but they fail to realize that America is a super diverse country whose various cultures and landscapes can take a lifetime to completely explore and experience
Miencraft, Narland, Auxorii, The United States Of Patriots, Nova Xander, Anarchlandia
That fact that I hear this a lot is just hilarious.
The biggest culture shock will probably be that there is no prescribed and delineated national ethno-exclusivity. Nobody cares if your a german, frenchman, italian, or pole beyond ancillary infatuation.
Most Americans are "blissfully" unaware that they have a culture. Cultural appropriation is a prerogative. If it works, incorporate it.
Most care that you are not here to hurt people and mess with their stuff.
The expectation of "work hard, keep your nose clean and keep it out of other people's business" is still mostly true. But we are currently engaged in a cultural civil war wherein a bunch of Neo-Marxists within our ruling elite think they are starting Phase IV of revolutionary activity, and the rest of America who just want to be left alone but are loosing the once prevailing culture of liberty and equality.
To most Americans Nazis and Fascists are considered just as Left-Wing as Communists, other Socialists and Big Government advocates (Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism). Unlike most of Europe, the political wings are based on the tension between Big Government Socialism on the Left, and Limited Government Constitutionalism on the Right. In the US, Lawless Neo-Marxism is on the far left and Lawful Anarcho-Individualism is on the far Right. The Western European scale puts International Socialists (Communists) on the Far Left, and National Socialists (Nazis and Fascists) on the Far Right with other types of Socialism occupying the middle of the spectrum. In most of Europe anyone who isn't Socialist gets dumped into an amorphous Centre Right slot.
Most who consider themselves Liberal are usually illiberal to a great extent and many people who consider themselves Conservative are conserving a form of Liberalism.
On the right, self-determination is king. On the left, victimhood is king.
Thanks to Congress in the 1970s, Hamburgers don't have to have hamburger in it to be called a hamburger. All-Beef Patty is a trademark that can have up to 60% non meat (such as soy) filler. Special sauce isn't.
We drive on parkways and park in driveways.
Nova Xander, Anarchlandia
God made seasons the right length. Half the year is relatively mild (spring and autumn) A quarter of the year is cold and a quarter is hot so everyone has a season they can enjoy
Narland
Speak for yourself. Half the year is freezing, and half the year is hot, with only a few weeks of mild weather.
Centrista Radical lol Centrism
america is what europe would be like if it was all one country
I THINK N-DAY SUCKS
Miencraft, Nosam Republic
Its amazing how people can be convinced to be afraid of the weather when its called climate change.
Also if Europe went to one language, forcefully drove all authoritarian chuckleheads out, converted the remaining 3/4 of the the country to denominational Christianity and divided everybody up between those who love liberty (right wing) and those who love government (left wing).
I am probably not going to be able to participate in Global Instant Sunshine Day.
I said this last year but at least it's not obligatory like that other stupid day
Miencraft
Mark dice sells a shirt that shows the four seasons with the caption "climate change"
Narland
Libertatem sucks
All news channels are covering Hurricane Ian as if hurricanes all of a sudden sprung up out of nowhere. It's not like the American Indian Tribes and pre-industrial settlers didn't experience and learn to deal with them or die. So many people have moved to FL recently it will be hard to assess the damages. From 100,000 to 10 million in 70 years (iirc). Hurricane proof homes and infrastructure are a must in a place like that. Those who move to Florida take a risk.
Our prayers go out to those on the East Coast for their safety and for a quick recovery.
Kumquat Cove
This would be good time to start plans to abolish FEMA and the DHS. Get the government out of the way so the citizens can actually help each other unhindered and unmolested from needless powerplays and political misfeasance if not outright malfeasance by unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats. Call and encourage your local, state, and federal elected officials to start paring down the bloat.
Vote 2022
Anarchlandia
God did a good job with this world. Even with the universe spiraling down in entropy and sin, it's a beautiful place to be. If the human race can restrain itself from despotism, maybe we can get off this orb and travel to distant stellar systems. The optimist in me hopes for Star Trek TOS and the pessimist in me bristles that it might be more like "A Canticle for Leibowitz" or the 3262 segment of the Babylon 5 episode, "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" with Brother Michael and Brother Alwyn except because of the dark side of the human soul, the knowledge bearers of common sense will be nearly hunted to extinctions (in similar vein by the legendary Nimrod) by stark raving mad worshipers of the vengeful Earthmother and her consort the dreaded All-Marx. As an aside, that would make for a good dystopian sci-fi.
Some parts of the world at or near the tropics have two seasons -- dry and wet. Dry tends to be hot and smotheringly humid with no rain, and wet tends to be smotheringly hot with torrents of very warm to (relatively) cold rain. It can be so humid that electric clothes dryers are an exercise in futility. But some people love it like that.
And then there's the Arctic/Antarctic where the sun shines six months out of the year and it's night for the other six. Watching the sun spiral around the sky crossing all four cardinal points (for someone who grew up along the 45th parallel) can be quite an experience. But the auroras are some of the most beautiful natural phenomena next to St. Elmo's Fire seen. Some people like that as well.
I like the high desert plateaus where its just cold enough in late summer to keep one thinking about how to survive the winter. It is just hot enough in late winter to think about how to survive the summer. And far enough away from cities that one does not become too jaded by their decadence.
That's just like an opinion man
Auxorii, The United States Of Patriots, Anarchlandia
My uncle who just moved down there made it through. It was a bad storm but Floridaians are resilient and will recover
Narland, Kumquat Cove
Google is marking GOP correspondence (even to other GOP Members) as spam right before the election. A March North Carolina State University study exposed that Gmail marked 67.6 percent of right-leaning candidates emails as spam and just 8.2 percent of left-leaning candidates emails as spam. Putting an end to corporatism and return to free enterprise capitalism would fix that.
Anarchlandia
Some friends and their neighborhood a bit north of Orlando got badly flooded. A couple of church affiliates here out west are sending supplies and eventually a wrecking crew. For a State that is supposed to love Freedom, it seems Florida and its counties have despotic permit processes hindering capable civilians from helping to rebuild their neighborhoods. According to a Mennonite neighbor the process is a nightmare. Legalizing freedom would fix that.
Kumquat Cove
Prayers for your friends that they recover quickly. I hoping this crisis shows Americans even more the kind of leader DeSantis is and what Biden and his handlers lack
Narland, Kumquat Cove
I live on the Atlantic coast. And yes you need a permit for everything. Some of it was due to the aftermath of hurricane Andrew. I suspect after Ian building codes will get even stricter. Anyone who builds a home using wood frame is down right crazy. Those things shake even during a mild hurricane. ( my neighbors house was rockin during Irma, and it was barely a CAT 1 here ).Concrete bloc is the only way to go.
And we were ok with Ian, a few downed branches and trees but thats it
No one f's with a Biden apparently but a Biden sure f's the country
Narland, Anarchlandia
I am glad to hear to hear that you made it through with just that. Now you have some some firewood for winter. ;) I was in Ft. Lauderdale for about a year during the Miami Vice era. For an Idahoan it was hot and humid all year round.
It only makes sense to build for where one lives. Hurricanes in FL, earthquakes in CA, arsonistic rioters in Democrat held cities, etc. I am a big fan of building 250 -500 year foundations no matter for what weather and how long one intends the structure to last.
I am an old fart, and am told that not even construction unions teach how to build houses for the centuries any more. They all default to the lowest common denominator of minimal government standards. It creates an incestuous relationship of builders, banks and bureaucrats feeding off of each other at the expense of safe and affordable housing for the buyers. It would be nice to return back to factoring in scales like 100, 200, and 500 years like before WW2. But that is a battle for the next generation to win if they can return to free markets.
Kumquat Cove
Biden Administration will unfortunately go down as the worst Presidency in US history.
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