
I woke up this morning to anger and worry in the groups I normally check into before setting my mind to work. (Work today being weird, anyway, since I’m at a conference.)
People were very upset because the left was being the left. In this specific case, they were — after doxxing her — bad-review bombing DataRepublican’s husband’s small business.
Most people’s reactions — and her own — was “that’s not fair. He didn’t do anything to deserve it.”
What is missed in this whole thing is that SHE didn’t do anything to deserve it.
Data Republican is not a hacker, breaking into their systems. In fact as they keep saying, all the information she’s discovered has been public for for decades. (What she’s doing is more attaching the index to the volume so we can read it. But she’s not breaking into their systems or causing damage or any of that.)
All she’s doing to bring on their hatred and attempts at destroying her and everyone linked to her is bringing to light the things they’ve done for years — decades? — in secret with our tax money and the government power with which they were entrusted.
If they can’t stand to admit (even to themselves, perhaps) in public what they’ve been doing all this time, they should ask themselves why they’re doing it.
If they can’t look in the face the theft, murder and evil they’re involved in, perhaps they should repent and stop it?
Yes, they’ve committed theft, embezzlement and even murder, by removing money people needed to keep body and soul together, by giving money to people who are kidnapping children and women to bring them across the border for (literally) fates worse than death, by incentivizing very poor people to enslave themselves to the cartels to come in, only to be enslaved once here by extremely low wages and a net of social dependency. They’ve done many, horrible things. Some of them too horrible for normal human beings to contemplate.
But the operative thing here is that they’ve done it. Exposing them is not an attack, but merely revealing what they’ve done. If they’re so horrified by what they did that they attack the one exposing them, it’s their problem, not hers.
If who they are is so horrible they can’t bear for it to be exposed, I have only one question: have they broken every mirror they own?
Denying reality by attacking someone who exposes the truth? Seems to be typical of leftists lately.
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There’s a word to describe people who attack others for exposing the truth:
EVIL.
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If someone could put together and publish a list of the ones attacked by the assholes, it would be great to encourage the majority, who elected the current president, to make it a point to support them. In the current case, by patronizing the business mentioned.
Wanna really frost their cookies? Show them that their unwarranted attacks increase support for those attacked; an “anti-boycott” if you will. :twisted:
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Exactly so! Fix bayonets!
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ahem
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They declared an economic boycott for Friday the 28th. I bought a bunch of stuff at a convention. And in the spirit of “eff them, hard” was able to move up by a few days a bonus payment to the 28th.
So five figures of dual middle finger salute to the Left’s “boycott”.
Sorry if that is excessive bragging, but the opportunity was just too juicy, and we need to rub their noses in both their defeat, and in “we ain’t playing football your way anymore, Lucy” as we kick ass instead of the withdrawn football.
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Ok. Decaf time. Ok.
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Yeah, if I’d known about the boycott earlier I’d have held off buying the stuff I did over the month until yesterday, to stick a (minor, admittedly) thumb in the idiots’ eyes. As it was I did buy a $60 software package I’ve been looking at (Epubor, for ebook conversion; Calibre doesn’t seem to handle the latest Amazon format, regardless of what the online info says), so that’s something.
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For the life of me I could not understand the purpose of that. Who did they think they were helping? Or harming? Random not buying anything on one particular day doesn’t send a message!
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Doesn’t do anything, but they have to “imagine” that they’re “doing something”. [Frown]
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They seem to be still living in the world (now thankfully deceased) in which their disapproval mattered to anyone but themselves. From what I understand it wasn’t even a fizzle; more of a misfire.🤣🤣🤣
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Let us not imagine that people won’t act like who they are. Let us not imagine that people won’t fight to keep what’s theirs, whether they got it by fair means or foul, whether they deserve to have it taken away (or back) or not.
In short, and using the current vernacular, jerks gonna jerk.
Republica restituendae, et, Hamas delenda est.
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It is almost inevitable that evil cannot bear its own visage, reflected. Rare but true cases are those that revel in their vile deeds, but they happen. I do wonder if it is a vestige left of our common heritage. A faint memory of the culture we used to share, wherein we were taught to work hard, be honest, take care of our selves and our family, and be charitable, courteous, and kind to others as we could.
Evil sees virtue as an opportunity for corruption. It is corrupted good that incites the righteous anger. A man should be able to care for and help another, yes. But not at the expense of a third party. Our largess in charity should be a voluntary act. When the left tries to “help” women, or other cultures (“minorities,” etc), they do it always with Other People’s Money. The data on charitable giving reflects this.
The left, I think, also realizes or rather attempts to convince itself that it is the lesser of two evils. Notice how the attacks on those a smidge to the left of Stalin have grown wilder and the characterizations more heinous? Perhaps on some level, somewhere there is a realization there that they are the bad guys, so they have to make the other guy (us) worse so they can be the misunderstood heroes.
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It’s things like this that convince religious folk that Satan is real.
Was it Milton who said, “The devil cannot bear to be mocked”? Paradise Lost was not one of the books I had to study in college…
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Or non-religious people. I had a religious upbringing but couldn’t figure out faith and didn’t fit well in any organized church, so I left. I’ve been agnostic for most of my life. But slowly, over the past couple of years, I started to steel-man the idea that there is a dark force purposefully driving the large-scale evils and monolithic hatred of humanity itself that we’re seeing. And then somewhere in the process…I don’t know how…I actually found faith in God. So I guess I have to thank the “progressive” leftist vampires for one thing, at least.
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Not quite “ditto for me”, but very close.
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When I personify the enemy it is often a consortium of alien developers who want the Earth for some reason but have to rid it of sapient life first. They are not allowed to just exterminate us but they can whisper in our ears and lead us to exterminate ourselves.
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Great.
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The belief in the existence of G-d was, for me, early, because I see the good/evil thing and what I call the “tool marks of the Divine” on the universe. But i then spent decades on “check my work” in a process like yours. Its a longish trek then through the Bible to John 3:16, “Jesus is Lord”, and then back through the bible to “go to church”, which I eventually found helpful.
Partly because mule stubborn and partly because “the easy way is always mined” so….
(grin)
Ever see the Pink Panther episode, where he and a rival are architects, building the same house? All his tools are mod-strange and he is building ultra-mod in pink-prints. Rival building ultra-trad in blueprints. After much conflict and hijinks, Panther dyes the pink prints blue, swaps them for the ultra-trad plans, and Rival goes on and builds
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Ultra-Mod home for Pink Panther. Who triumphantly runs into his home!
And the Ultra-mod false front falls down, revealing the house is really Ultra-Trad.
Poeple think they are building their own world, or somehow manipulating the Architect’s plans. The reality is we are being given what should be, not necessarily what we think we want. We frustrate ourselves immensely trying to oppose reality, instead of joyfully and dutifully seeking our role in it.
Sometimes, come back around to the beginning, our role challenges.
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I think it was Thomas More though I cannot recall the source. The sentiment was repeated by C.S. Lewis in The Screwtape Letters.
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It was Thomas More, as well as similarly Luther (“The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn”)
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Which is why I suspect that when those “atheists” put up a statue of Lucifer up some time ago, the response shouldn’t have been to smash it. Someone should have used their own freedom of speech to put up a statue of the archangel Michael looming behind the Lucifer statue. Like that meme of that pro wrestler the Undertaker looming behind some other wrestler.
Chances are the “atheists” would’ve smashed the Michael statue.
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The satanic statue was a Christmas display at the Iowa State capitol building.
They expected to be turned down so they could sue, and had nothing planned when they were given the permit.
Then got laughed at for weeks because the local radio was making fun of them for saying they’re a church, and that they’re not, and also shut up you’re dumdums.
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With a bar of soap on the floor in front of the devil. I am not a believer but I will make fun of those for whom atheism is a terminal goal.
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The line was quoted in Letters.
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Same thing happening here:
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/02/27/ny-times-prints-names-photos-of-doge-team-in-gross-attempt-at-journalism-n2186098
“Sam Adams’ Tar and Feather Facials. Yes, we do on-site.”
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It’s time to DOGE the doxxers. Give each and every one a digital colonoscopy and release the results for the world to see.
Let every eye see them for the monsters they are…and act accordingly.
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You can’t shame the left, they have no soul, so they have no shame.
Do it anyway, just know it will not work on them, those that give them money and support them though that’s another story.
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Who said anything about shaming them…?
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I think the term needed here is “mock.”
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I think the single most aggravating trait of the vile progs is their whining when the tables are turned, and what they have done to others is turned on them: doxxing people they disagree with, and then sobbing and moaning when they are themselves doxxed, threatened, and called out.
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Recall that some proportion of them are indeed mentally disturbed; sociopaths alone make up something like 2-3% of the population and it’d be ridiculous to think there aren’t at least that many on the left.
And the thing with people in the Cluster B group of illnesses is that other people aren’t real. What happens to them doesn’t matter. Or at least, it only matters as much as it affects the disturbed person’s life. If they t-bone you in a car crash the thing that matters most to them is that now they have to disrupt their schedule to show up in court, when it was obviously your fault for driving where they wanted to be.
So doing to them what they’ve done to you? How dare you! You’re just a toy; they’re real people. Toys aren’t supposed to bite back!
DARVO. Deny, Accuse, Reverse Victim and Offender. The tactic of all abusers, everywhere.
Top that off with decades of progressives trumpeting that disagreeing with them isn’t stupid, it’s Evil – well.
Yeah. They avoid mirrors very well.
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I have some sociopathic tendencies. Depending on the situation, I check the mirror pretty frequently, and don’t let my mind go in certain directions. Monsters lurk there, monsters I know too well.
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There are times when I’m glad that I’m not actually a dragon. [Sad]
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FLAME ON!
FLAME OFF!
FLAME ON!
FLAME OFF!
THE FLAMER!
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*Thumbs up* As a Doctor once said, good men don’t need rules….
I know I need rules. And yes, dwelling on certain things is Bad. So, try not to. Along the lines of chocolate and caffeine being health foods… for everyone else….
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Loki: lectures Hulk. Dull beast! How dare you! I am a god!
Hulk: -epic- flail-smash.
“Humph. Puny ‘god’.”
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From soon-to-be-released “The Secret Empire”
Coming out of the ‘ambulance’, Lucky John felt pretty good, and old habits of thought remained. “What’s in it for me?” he demanded. “I don’t see where me talking to you gets me anything good.”
“It might save you from the mother of all beatings,” said Brunhilde, flexing her fingers ominously. “I can pound the living crap out of you then stuff you in that ambulance for repairs. I can keep doing it every twenty minutes, all day long. I’m a killer robot. I don’t get tired, and I know what you did, Johnny boy.”
“Hey!” objected Lucky John. “You said no beatings!” He pointed at Charlotte.
“Is it not amazing the way men with no honor whatsoever are so quick to demand it of others?” asked Charlotte.
“Verily,” agreed Nammu Chen. “It is a great constant of human life. I have seen men such as this bleat in surprise when double-crossed since I was born.”
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I recall a quote along the lines of “A savage is somebody who laughs when he hurts you, and howls with outrage when you hurt him back.”
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“The definition of the true savage is that he laughs when he hurts you; and howls when you hurt him. ” G. K. Chesterton
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11605/11605-h/11605-h.htm
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The Left violates their opponents, sometimes by disclosing private information.
DOGE is a correct response. The Left, by their revelations, signal their fear we will reveal their secrets. Thus audit the bastards and publish the malfeasance.
Who let the DOGE out?
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Lefties are not big on introspection, or thought of any kind in my experience. And not the sharpest knives in the drawer, either.
Where your Leftie truly shines is their ability to fit in with their herd and baa the party line in unison with all the other useful idiots. Party line is we hate this guy, they hate him. Party line changes at 10:39am on a Friday to “we LOVE this guy!” then by 10:45am they love him. They’ll spend the six minutes testing the winds to be sure it isn’t a test of loyalty or a mistake.
Common sense, common decency, logic, actual observable facts, none of these things matter to them. At all. Watching them defend their disgraceful corruption these last few weeks has proved that beyond any shadow of doubt.
Always remember, in the Kingdom of Lies the Truth is treason, and the truthful man a traitor. Every hand will turn against him.
So now that we’ve got them on the back foot, it is time to hammer their big powerful political machine into scrap.
In this case, maybe a little campaign could be mounted to find all these review bombers and doxx the f- out of them. And expose whoever is paying them.
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“We have always been at war with Eastasia.”
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Right? War is the ultimate scam. 4 years of Ukraine war comes to a shuddering halt as #TheDonald utters those immortal words: “You’re FIRED!”
It’s a beautiful thing.
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Not stopped yet. He hasn’t convinced either the Ukrainians or the Russians to quit.
Its not over yet.
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It’s not over but it can’t continue for much longer, The funding for the Ukraine was ~70% US next largest single donor was UK at about 3.5% (i.e. 1/20th of what the US provided). Ukraine will quickly run out of money and materiel (and likely manpower). Russians are so desperate for manpower they imported North Koreans in large quantities. Their losses have made the conscript russian troops look elite units. Unfortunately the Europeans are fairly dependent on Russia for Oil and Gas so Russia continues to get funding. Someone is going to break soon. I fear it will be the Ukrainians they were at a massive numerical disadvantage to start and although they’ve gotten some licks in on Russia (including a minor invasion of Russian soil) it’s probably not enough. If Zelensky had settled for the status quo of 2014 (crappy as that was) maybe with some other losses they could wait 10 to 15 years. But no the ex comedian had to be the hero because he was being celebrated all over including by parts of the Biden Admin (mostly I suspect as a money laundering target). If nearly 3/4 of your military funding is coming from one source it would behoove you to dress appropriately and at least in public toe the line. Trump will negotiate, but try to push him in the public sphere and you will get nowhere fast.
If they’d taken the somewhat crappy deal and waited within 10 years Russia will slide into a seriously third world country. Putin is holding it together mostly by terror and main force. But right now they’re on the verge of pushback from the Russian people. If Putin kicks the bucket or is deposed (or perhaps both) russia is going to make the fall of Yugoslavia look pretty. I suspect all the outlying folks are tired of having their sons taken to fight a war that they really don’t give a rats patootie about while the Nomenklatura in Moscow and St. Pete avoid the draft. And if there is that chaos you can bet China will come swooping in to “help” and get themselves large quantities of resources they do not have.
To the devil with both Putin and Zelensky. These prideful idiots are ruining their people and their nations for their own self images.
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Settled for 2014? Someone forgot that Putin tried to grab all of Ukraine. His attack 3 years ago was an attempted coup de main to size the capital, the government, thus the whole of Ukraine.
epic fail
Lost the war by day 3, when the supposed Red Juggernaut turned out to be mostly fiction, with nonexistent maintenance, botched logistics, and some maniac deciding they didn’t need to keep one highway lane open for repair/recovery vehicles and return traffic. When vehicles died there was no quick way to get recovery vehicles to them, nor lanes to go-around, nor routes to the rear for recovery vehicles, thus the whole wretched mess just ground to a crawl.
Day 3. Lost war.
The attempted salvage of the campaign was lost by week three, when the Russians failed to learn anything and sought to grind away in the usual Russian manner, forgetting that it only works when your logistics and waves actually happen.
lost war. Again.
Now he us playing “attrition war” with folks that inflicted 10 to 1 or better casualties, and have (so far) rather much better foreign support, from folks higly unlikely to outright BF them.
Russia has squandered a whole generation of breeder men, with their prewar birthrate at about 1.4 or less, possibly much less.
And Ukraine are the folks that survived the Holdemoor, and were the Red Army steamroller troops.
And -technicly-, they are a nuclear power if they really want to be. They have plenty of plutonium that could be weaponized. And they have -tons- of high level persistent radwaste and missiles that can reach Moscow, given a bit of shenanigans. Even if intercepted, some of it will still drift to target.
If the Ukies decide to take their tormentors with them, we could have a mess thst will persist for centuries.
“The Eastern Europe Dead Zone”
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I remember when the right understood that “just lie back and let him have his way with you; you don’t want him to have to kill you” was not only an inappropriate response, but that anyone who seriously proposed it was the scum of the earth, and in a civilized society would be invited out back by the men for some education.
And yet, here we are.
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Reminds me of when Comey got fired. One of the late night hosts announced it to his audience, expecting the audience to support Comey because Trump had fired him. But the audience was still on “Comey is bad because he investigated the laptop right before the election, and cost Hillary the election.” So they cheered the firing.
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Most human beings dislike having to think about things that don’t interest them. Most human beings dislike changes that disrupt their comfortable daily routines. The major difference between the Sinister and the Dexter is that the Dexter believe in keeping what they earn and fair exchange, whereas the Sinister believe in parasitism.
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Hi! And help, please.
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Got a new phone. Lost lawdog’s website, please put up url for me. Many Thanks!!😁🇺🇸
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He lost his website and moved to substack: https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/
A lot of free content, some for paid.
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Thelawdogfiles.substack.com
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Raconteurpress.com
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Drowning in the stream of conscious…
The title of the essay unearthed (sorry) a song line that even the search engines avoid:
“How come I can’t see you in my mirror?” Ah, from Life in the Foodchain by Tonio K. The hit (sorry again) song from that one is H.A.T.R.E.D. . I am not going to quote lyrics on that one.
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Re murder, funding anything in Gaza goes directly to the pockets of actual Baby-beheading murderers, as do any funds sent to UNWRA. Not a few bad actors, not an anomaly. And well known for many years.
Congressional testimony the other day stated $2m in US funds provided to them after Oct 7 specifically enabled Ham-Ass to survive until the cease fire.
And it’s not just the Gazan murders: USAID funded Al-Shabaab, which is basically Murder, Inc., and Hez-bollocks, and terror groups in Syria, and so on for a long laundry list of people-who-murder-as-a-career.
Of course USAID apologists can’t look in a mirror.
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I thought it was Heznobollocks these days? So many tragic pager malfunctions…
Canada is still funding them, of course. And the King of England is handing out dates (the fruit) for Ramadan, if one can believe such a thing.
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Because of course the Trudopes are….
Would one tiny little truck attack on Parliament Hill be too much to ask?
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The last time trucks attacked Parliament Hill, the bounce house and inflatable hot-tub almost brought down the government!
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“Th- they have bouncy castles! And barbecues! What other horrors are they harboring? Declare a State Of Emergency, NOW!! This is WAR!!!“
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Holy Carp, it’s Ramadan? (Checks web ). Yep, it’s Ramadan. Weird. I hadn’t noticed any iftar tents going up. Might yet be too chilly for outside dining in Minnesota . . .
Here’s praying that nothing goes – kinetic – either way over the next month.
Odd question: Why is the Minnesota Council of Churches cooperating with various masjids (mosques) to provide sunset meals?
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Two Words
Stockholm Syndrome
or perhaps Three
Utter fricking idiocy
And I didn’t say fricking…
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“Why is the Minnesota Council of Churches cooperating with various masjids (mosques) to provide sunset meals?”
I’m going to guess payola. Outside of Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota is very conservative. The people who go to those churches are probably not too excited about it.
I will guess a back-trace of money for the “Minnesota Council of Churches” will lead to US-AID/other alphabet-soup government departments through a few NGO cutouts. That seems to be how they do it.
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Hoping for civility became a fruitless endeavor. Doxing, like stealing horses, sometimes requires a hanging to remind people of the damage that is done by their actions.
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Yes, this 100% is what needs to happen. Doxing the Doxers is not the correct way to dispatch a war. The correct way is to discover who did the Doxing and then try them for attempted murder individually, as well as any groups they are in for conspiracy to commit murder.
Considering how much data is logged by the ISPs and Phone providers, I’m astounded that we seldom see the doxer’s being prosecuted.
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“I’m astounded that we seldom see the doxer’s being prosecuted.”
It is a little too much to believe that random, spiteful idiots on the interwebz can successfully hide from the ISPs, the phone company -and- the NSA/FBI/whathaveyou.
Leading to the consideration that they’re probably hooked up. Arms-length employees, as it were. Like #Pantifa. They never get arrested either.
I was remaking the other day that saying “the CIA did it and US-AID paid for it” out loud makes me sound like my tinfoil hat is on too tight. But that’s the literal fact of what’s happening. Hundreds of -Billions- of dollars.
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They’ve gotten away with it for so long simply because good people find it unfathomable that anyone could be that audaciously evil.
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Recalling some incidents (several years ago) of lawfare and Swatting. Unfortunately, it’s not too hard for the perp to swat somebody several miles away. (One was cross-country…) Unfortunately, it was hard to prove and to get the wheels of justice rolling.
Really doesn’t help when local “justice” doesn’t want to help Deplorables. Or worse.
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The proper response to someone who tries to murder you is not a trial and imprisonment. It’s summary execution. i.e. self-defense.
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Since it’s violence by delayed remote control, sadly, the direct approach is harder to ethically achieve. So unless we want to descend into a boog, we need to leverage the violence of the state. Honestly, cracking knuckles, if the state would do its job and prosecute these aggressively and in a timely manner (side rant on the right of a speedy trial should mean the state can’t take a long time to assemble the case, making the trials take years). If someone is pointing a gun at me I reserve the right to end that threat as violently as necessary. But when someone has the state point a legion of guns at you, it’s better to not reach for the immediate death of those “officers of the state” as it will also mean your own.
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General John Stark had something to say abou that.
“Live free or die, death is not the worst of evils.”
That said, you only have one life. Don’t waste it on the small stuff.
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Yep 100% we have only one life, we should spend it carefully for maximum effect.
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c4c
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Like Chaya Reychik – literally all she does is signal boost the crazies who are putting up their social media posts and saying “Um… guys?”
And they hate her for it.
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“How dare you repeat what we publicly posted?”
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I’ve been worried about her since I first came across what she was doing. People will kill for a dollar, never mind the billions (trillions) at stake and never mind the power dynamics. She’s a very brave woman and I hope her contribution is remembered since she deserves well of the republic.
I really like how she’s asking for subscriptions at $3 per rather than a few large donors who would, one way or another, impose an obligation.
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Pretty sure she saw what was happening, looked at her kids, and went “OH HELL NO”
This is a labour of conscience for her.
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She’s the only subscription I have on X.
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Same here.
People who stand up deserve my support.
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When I get back home I’ll figure out how to subscribe.
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Found out that, apparently, the meat packing industry employees a lot of illegals. Because they’ve refined their process down to pretty much guaranteed repetitive stress injury for maximum efficiency.
So they import a wave of illegals, burn through them in a few years until word gets back that ‘here there be crippling’ and that group stops coming, then they move on to a different import group, and start the cycle over again.
It’s not ‘jobs Americans won’t do’ it’s jobs that are illegal in America. So they bring in people not under the aegis of the law, and destroy them.
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Certain food processors in the town where I used to live in Minnesota began importing Sudanese laborers when they found there are things Mexicans won’t put up with.
Leading to the town becoming ground zero for a wide variety of African diseases and parasites never previously seen in N. America.
Funny how the Big Food companies never got a bill from the hospital for all those crazy ailments.
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My thought about vampires and mirrors… it may be that, like the vampire, they are incapable of seeing their own reflection – they look in the mirror and see… nothing.
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I like the “Vampires of Venice” episode of Dr. Who take on this (Modern Who S5 E6). It’s not that they aren’t reflected, it’s that what is reflected is so horrific that our mind just blanks out the image and pretends it isn’t there, kind of a reverse of his psychic paper that always shows what you suggest you are holding to the person.
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Oh, they have mirrors aplenty to preen in and admire themselves.
And a portrait in the attic. I’m told it was beautiful, once.
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As I understand it this is actually the “breath on the mirror” thing – not that they don’t reflect in a mirror, but being undead they can’t be detected by the “mirror” test.
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That would make sense for the origin, I thought this originated from Bram Stoker’s Dracula with the vampire not appearing in a shaving mirror.
So you probably have the origin, and then an author amended that to not appearing in a mirror and away we go…
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As to mirrors – why no vamps with long beards? They can’t all have Renfields to shave them. By feel? I did that once, during a supervised-walk-in-the-woods-with-backpack-and-rifle, and I recall indifferent results.
And hair styling – how do they not all have bed hair? (Coffin-hair?)
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Very good points! Have you read the Monster Hunter series by Larry Correia? His Vampires are truly ugly, but have a magical ability to project beauty instead. But if something breaks the spell you see the true horror behind the spell. I kind of like that approach.
As far as shaving blind, I’ve been shaving blind with a modern cartridge razor for over twenty years, which came in handy once I started shaving my whole head as a compromise with good old male pattern baldness. But if I use a double sided safety razor I need to go back to the mirror.
I know a lot of preference towards shaving originated during WW I due to gas masks. But I wonder if the other element was upper class people who had servants who could shave them, typically shaving just strategic portions of their beards and mustaches. Then the middle class learned to do for themselves the same way.
Shrug? I find it fun to ponder the origins of trends…
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Yep, I have read the MHI books – I am the proud owner of one of the original self published editions of Monster Hunter International which came with an embroidered patch, which I ordered online from him before he signed with Baen.
A glamour power could explain much, and Nosferatu was bald, but a vampire with coffin-hair would be more realistic.
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Doxx all the rich liberals paying for it. Expose their funding, put their families at risk, see how long it continues after that.
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We’ve been normalizing nastiness and boorishness for the past 60 years to the point that it’s a cluster of festering boils on our society. It’s gonna take nearly as long to lance all those dopers, revolutionary wannabees, doxxers, scolds, and grifters.
So let’s be not afraid, and don’t let yourselves be discouraged, intimidated, or shouted down. Ask ’em “What work did you do, what money OF YOUR OWN did you contribute, that made life better for your neighborhood or community? If the answer is NO, then STFU!”
Oh, and, budget willing, subscribe to Data Republican (small-r). She was DOGE before there was a DOGE.
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Once upon a time, I did actual debates. On stage. (Junior High, so it wasn’t like I was going to change the world.)
My teacher once told me, and I remember this, “If you have nothing to argue about except your opponent, you need to go back to first principals and review your fundamentals.”
If the only way you can go after what I’m doing is to attack my character-and out of context, mind you-your argument has some serious problems. And when the best way for you to deal with me is to try and get me killed via a SWAT team as the weapon, what the crucified f(YAY!)k is wrong with you?
And I think this might be Trump’s greatest victory. He’s showing exactly how crazy these people are. In public, in ways that they can’t spin as NOT being crazy or stupid and/or both.
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Do we know his business?
Unfortunately doxxing would likely be protected under free speech laws. The initial reveal of private information likely couldn’t be prosecuted unless there were specific threats attached.
Any crackdown on hate speech would likely backfire spectacularly. So the best way to solve doxxing is to support those being doxxed, with money if possible. That’s the only form of pushback the left seems to understand.
More laws aren’t the answer. We need people not to be afraid of these idiots.We need people willing to push back and reassert the social pressure that used to keep the idiots in check.
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So lefty whores, hows that boycott working out for you?
Bwahahahaha, I laugh at your feeble excuses for action.
Oh by the way, Speaker H. Jefferies, they are setting you up to be the reason the democrats are failing. You are the person of color problem, you are the face of DIE, you will be cast aside for a white person because they knew you would fail, planned for your failure, set you up to fail. Why? Because the true power behind the Democrat party has always been racist. To them, you like Rep. Clyburn, are just another ‘Porch negro’ for them to use and cast aside at their convenience.
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Our March Book is The Return of the King
Spoiler free here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/23063153-march-2025—-the-return-of-the-king—-no-spoilers
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Spoilers allowed here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/23063155-march-2025—-the-return-of-the-king—-spoiler-allowed
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Uhhh…spoilers? On a book that’s older than most of us and has been read by a billion or more people?
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Even if everyone on earth has read it, there are still babies born every day ignorant of it.
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