In the News II

Pick up some good Redwing boots.

I prefer the steel toes.

Make sure you have plenty of land (with water) and heirloom seed.

Mason jars and flint for fire.

Not sure if we need to be underground yet (check Zuck).

https://nypost.com/2023/12/14/real-estate/mark-zuckerbergs-100m-hawaii-compound-has-huge-underground-bunker/

I'd expect a sequence of secession.

Like WA, OR, and CA before the others.


They control the wealth.

They likely purchased most of the interior farmland already.


I'd guess it could be mostly about food.

Here's a three part series about food scarcity during the Civil War.

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Hangry: Hunger in the Civil War

July 17, 2019
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“As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again!”

Scarlett O’Hara’s famous declaration from Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind is one of the most well-known lines from the story and movie. It’s a powerful moment in which Scarlett refuses to be swept along by the tide of events any longer—instead, she will fight to survive, no matter what it takes.

While modern audiences recognize Gone With the Wind’s problematic portrayal of history, this line points to a very real and understudied experience of the Civil War: just as hunger plays a large role in Gone with the Wind, it also was a constant presence in the Civil War itself. But was hunger a tipping point for real people of the Civil War as it was for Scarlett O’Hara? How hungry were people who experienced the Civil War?
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https://emergingcivilwar.com/2019/07/17/hangry-hunger-in-the-civil-war/

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The Democrats didn't want blacks to own guns.

Ring a bell?

Why didn't they want them (us) to defend themselves?

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A Brief History of Socialist Support for Gun Rights

JULY 6, 2016
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For blacks in the 19th century South, as we know, the nightmare scenario that had haunted President Wilson was very much a reality. As Historian David Kopel has noted, in the 1800s, “gun control laws were exclusively a Southern phenomenon.” The only people allowed guns in the antebellum South were whites. Blacks found with weapons were often executed on the spot. After the Civil War, nervous whites—Democrats, all—feared freed slaves’ having access to guns and made weapons bans part of their punitive Black Codes. So determined were they in this endeavor that when the federal occupying authorities deemed the Black Codes illegal, gun control for blacks was enforced after hours by the Ku Klux Klan.

Given this history, it is understandable that some of the firmest proponents of gun ownership in the 20th century were black Americans. “Article number two of the constitutional amendments,” Malcolm X argued, “provides you and me the right to own a rifle or a shotgun.” Even such proponents of nonviolence as Martin Luther King, Jr. purchased a firearm and installed armed guards around his house (one visitor likened it to an armory). The cornerstone of the self-styled Maoist group the Black Panthers rather worshiped guns.
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https://lawliberty.org/a-brief-history-of-socialist-support-for-gun-rights/

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We REALLY need to give DG his own corner. Dude spends pages and pages just talking to himself.

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We REALLY need to give DG his own corner. Dude spends pages and pages just talking to himself.

I really don't see the problem, even if that were true, if it's only a few threads in any given day.

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I really don't see the problem, even if that were true, if it's only a few threads in any given day.

I actually have complained to Mike about even having to read those., "you blocked someone" message. Why do we even have to read them? We could just go to a page and unblock someone page when we finally want to read something. 

Just more seconds of my life wasted doing something unnecessary, as opposed to choosing how to waste my time which is much better.

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I actually have complained to Mike about even having to read those., "you blocked someone" message. Why do we even have to read them? We could just go to a page and unblock someone page when we finally want to read something. 

Just more seconds of my life wasted doing something unnecessary, as opposed to choosing how to waste my time which is much better.

I don't know why that message exists; I'd probably get rid of it if I had the technical capacity to do so.

i don't think I have ever blocked a Leftie unless they were obviously trolling

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i don't think I have ever blocked a Leftie unless they were obviously trolling

Be hard for me to respond so much to political threads if I blocked anyone for them.

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We have plenty of oil, plenty of food, and computer parts are just wants. I look at it as if we didn't need it 100 years ago we don't need it now. Need is survival, wants are for comfort.

You would not survive without computers. Not as you know it.

You have some kinds of food, but seasonal food would disappear. No more citrus in winter for example.

You would not like such a life.

No, I would not like it but I would survive if I chose to. Yes, all of our lives would change from what we know now but for future generations it will all be normal.