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Re: Progressive Mental Disease in the US and Elsewhere

Postby EnergyUnlimited » Sun 14 Jul 2019, 03:14:44

And those of you, dohboi alike, who accuse me of being racist, sexist blahblahblah you may listen to one Black guy, what he thinks about progressive utopia:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/camHF7GtD3dI/
Progressivism have exhausted its utility and right now it leads to ruin of ALL, black, white, men, women.
It turns entire western countries into large open air asylums.
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Re: Progressive Mental Disease in the US and Elsewhere

Postby EnergyUnlimited » Sun 14 Jul 2019, 04:05:09

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '
')I spend almost zero time on media or news.
Peakoil.com is one of my rare indulgences. Most of our guests and all of our employees are pretty sane....

The growing pathology of urban society or suburban society is real. But for me its a far away abstraction

You know the saying that you cant really run away, that you have to confront and deal with whatever.... this is a bullshit saying in my book.

You can run away . You can isolate yourself from this shit. And you should.

I did.... It's great. Best decision I ever made.

By the way. I also believed in that star trek utopia...

@Ibon,
You have taken an ivory tower position.
Nice to sit in an armchair surrounded by a dozen of submissive beautiful women while holding a bottle of Martini at hand and watch down hill, how Rome is burning.
As you know I am doing quite comparable things to what you are doing, albeit you are living in more secluded area than me. Mind you, I still live in one of most secluded and sparsely populated areas of Poland.
But there is one issue here:
Our customers are members of those degenerating urban mobs.
Some of them are wealthier than an average urban dweller, others are not but wish to overspend and come to us for a brake.
My concern is that progress of urban decay and perhaps decay of international relations will deprive us of customers at some point and then our future is going to be bleak.
OK, we are over 50, time to go rather sooner than later but our old age might prove to be rather less comfortable than we think.
Are you ready for it?
Means ready to live with an income comparable to or maybe twice higher than average citizen of Panama enjoys?
Are your children ready for it?

@Newfie,
I sometimes read certain "manosphere" forums where these so-called "incels" are contributing an input and you guess what? I often agree with them regardless of having a successful family for a long, long time.
These men have a point.
Feminism have made substantial proportion of our (white) women repugnant.
It is precisely why I have discarded all of them and chosen one from Far East.
I knew from the start that she is a good woman (TM) and I will get away with many things my grandfather used to and I was right. My wife only loves me more as a result. Weird but true.
Women are cruel to a degree - they will only *love* someone if they are not sure about their ability to keep him.
So called "good men", eg reliable, faithful beta males who provide for family and unconditionally love their wives are seen by women as losers and easily thrown under the bus.
This is based on my long term observation and case to case analysis of my friends, those who were defeated and messed up in divorce cases and those who have an upper hand over their vives as I do.
And yes, I do not believe in eqality of men and women.
They are *not* equal, very much like apple and pears or honey and shit are not equal either.
Egalitarianism is utopia and feminism is decadence.
Society which embraced both, means West, goes down the drain as we speak.
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Re: Progressive Mental Disease in the US and Elsewhere

Postby Newfie » Sun 14 Jul 2019, 08:18:57

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'E')xcess population causes mental disorders.

Is it just population?

Or is it perhaps the rate of change, and all the pressures, social and physical, of which growing population is just one, which is causing so many mental "disorders"?

I read Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock" with some alarm in my mid-20's, as I recall.

With each passing decade, the concept/reality seems more alarming and hits home personally.

Maybe that's largely me getting older (I'm 60 now). Maybe that's largely me no longer trying to keep up with each and every change and gadget and competition to have more for having more's sake, or to show off, etc.

Somehow when the present is in many ways, unrecognizable, to a sane person from a few decades ago, it's hard to imagine this trend isn't continuing to accelerate, and I expect the rate of acceleration will accelerate even more (which gives me a headache).


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It’s not “just “ over population, that’s one contributor. It’s a lot of things adding up, you touch in some of them. I have my grandfathers seal gun he used until 1950, it’s a percussion cap. My Mom went to church in a trap skiff or sleigh, never learned to read properly. Dad could remember when the NE Philadelphia row house developments were all farm land, now deep in the urban core. The change they saw was phenomenal. I know exactly what you mean about giving up on chasing new technology.

But also in the USA we have a bifurcated culture, we have a significant portion of the population that lives at a low level. The family structure is gone, high in incarceration rate, drug and alcohol use, the normative social structure is absent so alternative cultures become strong (ghetto culture/gangs). And many of my co-workers wives were afraid to come to the city, we would have to have the Christmas party outside the city for some to participate. Silly but true.

I personally feel very Philadlephia has become a hostile place for the visitor. No place to park or pee. The sounds are an assault to the ear. In certain neighborhoods I can’t understand the language, even if it’s nominally English. Sometimes the words and grammar are mangled and sometimes thought concepts are alien to me, even in places where I used to be a member.

Frankly I’ve had it with the USA. It needs to clean up its act. I’m still attached because of family and finances but I find I do not miss the drama queen aspect. Our hunting cabin is an exception, and I’m sure there are other places as well. Just gotta stay out of the sub/urban rot.

I’ve isolated myself in a somewhat similar manner to Ibon but still different. We spend a lot of time with rather serious sailors. They are by and large a resourceful crowd who actively manage their lives. The immediate differences are they are generally fit, good natured, educated. They have taken personal responsibility for their life. I probably over generalize but still I’m on to something.
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Re: Progressive Mental Disease in the US and Elsewhere

Postby Ibon » Sun 14 Jul 2019, 08:56:30

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '
')Are you ready for it?
Means ready to live with an income comparable to or maybe twice higher than average citizen of Panama enjoys?
Are your children ready for it?


When I posted about isolating yourself from the decadence I meant this both physically and psychologically. Physically removing yourself as in being in a remote location but also physically
choosing to entertain myself with "old school" pursuits like doing taxonomy on insects or reading classic literature or walks in the woods. Psychology removing yourself by not identifying with the consensus reality of the masses.

In regards to our dependency on the status quo,just like you, yes we financially depend on the tourists who come stay with us. If this dries up we cannot survive here on just agricultural pursuits. Our lives would become very difficult and perhaps even psychologically very challenging to be in an extreme remote location without the social life that we have entertaining tourists.

So the ability to maintain this ivory tower position is very tenuous indeed. I am fully aware of that.
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Re: Progressive Mental Disease in the US and Elsewhere

Postby EnergyUnlimited » Sun 14 Jul 2019, 11:07:07

Here you have another short film from Western Europe:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/M1z4GScK584z/
Patients are running asylum.
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Re: Progressive Mental Disease in the US and Elsewhere

Postby Ibon » Sun 14 Jul 2019, 11:30:05

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', 'H')ere you have another short film from Western Europe:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/M1z4GScK584z/
Patients are running asylum.


When I mentioned to ASG70 about how you can filter and refine a narrative until it concentrates like maple syrup this perhaps is good advice for you also.

It is easy to see a trend, recognize it in society at large, and then reinforce this trend by finding information on the internet that supports it. This tends to concentrate the focus to the point that the problem in your mind might end up growing much larger than the problem really is.

I suspect this happens with Dohboi for example in how fragile he considers the biodiversity of the planet by searching daily on the internet on the latest climate change imbalances. This singiular focus tends to concentrate the narrative.....

Maple syrup is delilcious. These narratives we search out on the internet about our climate or our decaying civilization can get you drunk on pessimism.

I have no interest in indulging in this. It is toxic and I prefer to isolate myself.....

Call me ignorant. Ignorance is bliss..... I take that as a valid survival strategy.

When there is no solution anyway why focus on crap???
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Re: Progressive Mental Disease in the US and Elsewhere

Postby EnergyUnlimited » Sun 14 Jul 2019, 12:11:54

@Ibon,
Well, this forum is about doom...
What you have written as quoted below is interesting:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '
')When there is no solution anyway why focus on crap???

My kids are now looking for vives... what to advise them?
I have already told my older son:
Your future wife should be faithful, beautiful, obedient and capable to walk 30 miles in a single day.

I agree, there are better things to do than becoming "custodian of collapse".
I am not a pessimist in my private, everyday life.
That is because my (perhaps unfounded) believes are that I can cope, regardless what is thrown on me and my family.
It is just an odd afternoon, when I like to sit down in my own ivory tower, switch on computer and look what new sh*t have been dropped out there.
Yes, there is no solution, so I take all of that as a kind of entertainment.
Anyway, do we *really* need this civillization? Is there anything to miss?
Maybe a future will be better without it?
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Re: Progressive Mental Disease in the US and Elsewhere

Postby jedrider » Sun 14 Jul 2019, 13:07:31

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', 'H')ere you have another short film from Western Europe:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/M1z4GScK584z/
Patients are running asylum.


Hard to watch a video clip with stupid background music that wants to drive your brain into hibernation to save itself.

Watching the tragedy unfolding at our borders and one (I, for instance) has to ask oneself why we would want to admit these people in the first place?

Well, we took a lot of resources from all of their countries. We told them that it would be good for them to be integrated into our global civilization.

I don't think that we are justified in reneging on our promises just because we installed poor regimes in their countries so that we could rape their resources. Also, climate change, that we are largely responsible for, is also causing a significant part of this mass migration.

Just saying, that we are ALL immigrants to this mostly empty (for us), but populated (with indigenous people), continent to begin with.
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Re: Progressive Mental Disease in the US and Elsewhere

Postby asg70 » Sun 14 Jul 2019, 13:12:14

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '
')You can run away . You can isolate yourself from this shit. And you should.


Other than where you are I think there are very few places left on the planet that are isolated enough to feel like a real oasis thanks to globalization and the internet. Ideas travel everywhere in an instant. Culture becomes homogenized.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')we installed poor regimes in their countries so that we could rape their resources.


Note the language of collective guilt, reparations, and wealth-redistribution. That won't play well with lifeboat-ethics. The first world is sort of entering into a guilt-ridden slow-suicide.

BOLD PREDICTIONS
-Billions are on the verge of starvation as the lockdown continues. (yoshua, 5/20/20)

HALL OF SHAME:
-Short welched on a bet and should be shunned.
-Frequent-flyers should not cry crocodile-tears over climate-change.
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Re: Progressive Mental Disease in the US and Elsewhere

Postby Ibon » Sun 14 Jul 2019, 13:25:13

In every small town there is invariably this person, often female and a widow, who stands behind her curtain looking out on the street scanning the horizon for trouble. Her radar is fine tuned, her fingers on the phone dial ready to call the police at an instant. She is a watchdog.

Are many of us here on this site in exactly this role as we scan the digital horizon every day reinforcing our dreary narratives???
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Re: Progressive Mental Disease in the US and Elsewhere

Postby jedrider » Sun 14 Jul 2019, 13:46:11

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', 'I')n every small town there is invariably this person, often female and a widow, who stands behind her curtain looking out on the street scanning the horizon for trouble. Her radar is fine tuned, her fingers on the phone dial ready to call the police at an instant. She is a watchdog.

Are many of us here on this site in exactly this role as we scan the digital horizon every day reinforcing our dreary narratives???


Fear is a very destructive emotion. It short-circuits all rational thought.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('asg70', 'N')ote the language of collective guilt, reparations, and wealth-redistribution. That won't play well with lifeboat-ethics. The first world is sort of entering into a guilt-ridden slow-suicide.


Guilt is another destructive emotion (maybe not as extreme as fear). It's also often counterproductive.

Unfortunately, these primal emotions is all the propagandists and media have to work with.
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Re: Progressive Mental Disease in the US and Elsewhere

Postby Ibon » Sun 14 Jul 2019, 13:49:37

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '@')Ibon,
Well, this forum is about doom...
What you have written as quoted below is interesting:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '
')When there is no solution anyway why focus on crap???

My kids are now looking for vives... what to advise them?
I have already told my older son:
Your future wife should be faithful, beautiful, obedient and capable to walk 30 miles in a single day.

I agree, there are better things to do than becoming "custodian of collapse".
I am not a pessimist in my private, everyday life.
That is because my (perhaps unfounded) believes are that I can cope, regardless what is thrown on me and my family.
It is just an odd afternoon, when I like to sit down in my own ivory tower, switch on computer and look what new sh*t have been dropped out there.
Yes, there is no solution, so I take all of that as a kind of entertainment.
Anyway, do we *really* need this civillization? Is there anything to miss?
Maybe a future will be better without it?


Good advice for your son. I would only add that he should also be obedient to his wife. It makes for a much more harmonious marriage. Also if she can walk 30 miles in a day she should also be able to carry the firewood!

Joking aside, I have shared this in the past and it is very very relevant to dealing with this progressive mental disease.

Years ago I used to rally against suburban consuming Americans. I was disdainful and critical and I used to view them with contempt. I was arrogant but also very consequent. And then one day I realized that I should not complain nor try to wake them up. This realization happened one night when I was camped deep in Everglades National Park in South Florida. I was alone with millions of acres of sawgrass around me, the sounds of frogs and alligators, the stars blazing in the southern and western skyline. East was this orange glow of far off Dade, Borward and Palm Beach counties where 8 million people lived in their collective air conditioned enclaves, clustered tight and secure. It was at that moment that I suddenly became grateful that all these people where exactly as they were, grateful for the values they had which kept them in their little myopic air conditioned consuming matrix. Their presence and lifestyles simply meant that the wide open spaces I was enjoying was left pristine.

This realization should be relevant to all of you who are witnessing this progressive decay, for in every way that you represent an alternative, you have a wide open space to persevere and adapt while the rest of humanity sleeps in ignorance. Do not view them with disdain or even be overly critical. Be grateful that they are exactly as they are, stuck in their matrix, lost.

Shhhhh.... don't wake them up...... there is a lot of room out there to move about, you really do not want them to fully awaken.

I am all for more opiates in our society.
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Re: Progressive Mental Disease in the US and Elsewhere

Postby dissident » Sun 14 Jul 2019, 14:19:47

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', 'N')ew outbursts of mental disease on the West:
US: peoples are spitting to their food or licking it and then putting it back on supermarket shelf.
UK: Man who challenged armed terrorist (and probably saved lives in the process) is now on terrorist watch for doing so.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/WgheGP_RZGQ/


Note how these hard data points are ignored in this thread. People too busy spewing their ideologies.

The first indicates the nihilism and primitivism of the millenials. These are the same sort of slime that pretend to be "journalists" while spitting on the integrity of their profession and engaging in primitive mob behaviour (calling for violence against those with moderate opposing views, calling for 1984 style censorship, ...). AOC is a sample of this slime in the form of a politician. Shameless liar and blood libeler who appears to be the new face of the "mainstream" D. party.

The UK is living up to Orwell's worries. Eric Blair was not writing about the USSR. He was writing about the UK. Winston Smith is the quintessential Brit and not someone from the USSR. Jefferson said that the price of freedom was eternal vigilance and he was right. People got smug and assumed that their precious "system" would function forever like some Clock of God. Instead, the first generation of under-educated, nihilist morons, weaned on cultural Trotskyism, have derailed the train.

Things are evolving fast and in a very bad direction. I am afraid we are seeing a phase transition in the west due to the mediocrity of the millenials. This transition is the culmination of many processed including the loopy "left" agenda in educational institutions.
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Re: Progressive Mental Disease in the US and Elsewhere

Postby jedrider » Sun 14 Jul 2019, 17:41:30

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', 'T')he first indicates the nihilism and primitivism of the millenials.


That's completely RIDICULOUS, blaming our woes on the millenials!

Look at it as a Petri dish that we have served the millenials on. They are growing up in OUR world that WE have created.

Better to examine the shortcomings in the world that WE have created than futilely criticizing the (fewer in number) millenials IMO.
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Re: Progressive Mental Disease in the US and Elsewhere

Postby asg70 » Sun 14 Jul 2019, 21:46:12

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '
')Years ago I used to rally against suburban consuming Americans.


You sound like you started out a lot like PStarr.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '
')don't wake them up...... there is a lot of room out there to move about, you really do not want them to fully awaken.


IMHO, the reason why trying to shame people into hating BAU doesn't work is that it assumes that everyone will somehow have an epiphany and realize that the BAU lifestyle sucks. This flies in the face of "different strokes for different folks". Humans are nothing if not adaptable. You have humans living in many different places and different ways. Inuit in igloos living on seal blubber to ascetic monks to stockbrokers living in penthouses in NYC. What you do when you attack a lifestyle is you're projecting YOUR preference for a certain way of life onto others. There is no one-size-fits-all way of living. Those who adhere to this idea aren't so much activists as wannabe dictators.

All I can do is express my own disconnects, but my disconnects aren't the same as your disconnects. Even if both of us shake our head at some aspects of BAU we'll both not see eye to eye in other ways in which we've chosen to live our lives.

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-Billions are on the verge of starvation as the lockdown continues. (yoshua, 5/20/20)

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-Short welched on a bet and should be shunned.
-Frequent-flyers should not cry crocodile-tears over climate-change.
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Re: Progressive Mental Disease in the US and Elsewhere

Postby EnergyUnlimited » Mon 15 Jul 2019, 02:02:51

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jedrider', 'T')hat's completely RIDICULOUS, blaming our woes on the millenials!
...
Better to examine the shortcomings in the world that WE have created than futilely criticizing the (fewer in number) millenials IMO.

Western mindset:
If somebody is a degenerado then there must be someone else to blame for it.
Our degenerado can now feel *entitled* to be degenerado secured in knowledge that it is not his fault.
This contributes to overall society wide mental disease.

Mind you, social media (major contributor to decadence) are designed by millenials and for millenials + Gen Z.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') don't think that we are justified in reneging on our promises just because we installed poor regimes in their countries so that we could rape their resources. Also, climate change, that we are largely responsible for, is also causing a significant part of this mass migration.

So now we have no other choice than commit suicide together.
Who have taught you all of that?
AOC?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', 'I') am all for more opiates in our society.
.
Perhaps you are right.
All what this society need is a terminal care after all.
As we have agreed, there is no solution (cure).

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', 'N')ote how these hard data points are ignored in this thread. People too busy spewing their ideologies.

At one point you have called this phenomenon "ideological possession"... and you are right.
Regarding "phase transition to insanity", yes evident everywhere around.
Funny thing though is that I was never considering *decay to idiocracy* as a credible threat.
I was so unimaginative...
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Re: Progressive Mental Disease in the US and Elsewhere

Postby Newfie » Mon 15 Jul 2019, 05:46:01

Deconstructing the past is useful in trying to figure out a better way forward. When you try to redress the past then you tend to just dig yourself in. Forgive yourself and others for the past, learn and be wary of similar mistakes, try to do better in the future.

Or as Churchill said:

When going through hell, keep going!
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Re: Progressive Mental Disease in the US and Elsewhere

Postby Outcast_Searcher » Mon 15 Jul 2019, 15:47:55

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('asg70', ' ') What you do when you attack a lifestyle is you're projecting YOUR preference for a certain way of life onto others. There is no one-size-fits-all way of living. Those who adhere to this idea aren't so much activists as wannabe dictators.

All I can do is express my own disconnects, but my disconnects aren't the same as your disconnects. Even if both of us shake our head at some aspects of BAU we'll both not see eye to eye in other ways in which we've chosen to live our lives.

Or, people often see their chosen lifestyle as "better", partly as an adaptation mechanism, both physically and emotionally.

It doesn't have to get as strong as "attacking" other lifestyles. Many people just are thankful their lives are more like their own than many lifestyles they see, for example.

I saw some examples of this watching "Life Below Zero" on Netflix (a documentary about living beyond the road network in Alaska and Canada, near or above the Arctic circle).

A number of the folks/families in the documentary claimed they would never want to give up their freedom to live as they do, for anything. Quite a few acknowledged their lifestyles might well get them killed when they are unlucky or slow down.

...

Now, I, who hate the cold and don't like danger or even getting lost (modern NAV systems are a fantastic thing, IMO), can't imagine WANTING to live in the arctic beyond the roads and struggle to survive each day all winter -- 9 or so months of it. Any more than I can imagine WANTING to climb a big, dangerous mountain into near-death conditions because "it's fun to test yourself".

This has NOTHING to do with attacking, IMO, just observation of self and others and how different people are, and the choices they make.

...

My only issue re the risky choices is that when problems arise, all too often people then expect "society" to clean up the mess. I noticed that, supposedly, re "Life Below Zero", almost no one has medical insurance. If they get hurt, they "deal with it themselves".

OK then. And when the time comes, and they are medevaced to some hospital with a life-threatening illness or injury, and society pays the bill, that's fine, with medical insurance a mandatory thing?

Actions have consequences. Something all too conveniently forgotten by most folks, IMO. But I don't see that as something fixable without a lot of consequences.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.
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Re: Progressive Mental Disease in the US and Elsewhere

Postby jedrider » Mon 15 Jul 2019, 20:54:04

Worshipping the Electronic Image - A Diseased State of the Mind
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/worshipping-the-electronic-image-2/

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')t is a mistake to see what is happening as cultural regression. It is worse than that. Oral cultures prized memorization and cultivated the high art of rhetoric. Leaders, playwrights and poets in oral cultures did not speak to their publics in Trump’s crude vernacular. More ominous than the president’s impoverished vocabulary is that he cannot string together sentences that make sense. This replicates not only the shoddy vocabulary of television, but more importantly the incoherence of television. Trump is able to communicate with tens of millions of Americans, also raised in front of screens, because they too have been linguistically and intellectually mutated by digital images. They lack the ability to detect lies or think rationally. They are part of our post-truth culture.
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Re: Progressive Mental Disease in the US and Elsewhere

Postby EnergyUnlimited » Tue 16 Jul 2019, 03:17:37

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jedrider', '[')b]Worshipping the Electronic Image - A Diseased State of the Mind

Trump is an intelligent, though manipulative person.
But he has to communicate with morons and that is best done in their own language.
So we get what can be seen.
He cannot say too much anyway because Twitter would ban him. :-D

America have become a really strange place, where a freedom of speech needs to be imposed by presidential decree.
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