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SECOND

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 3:15 AM

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“He who saves his country does not violate any laws.” - Trump
“The good of the state stands above the law.” - Hitler

Nice quote second, says it all.

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Trump adopts view of legal impunity invoked by neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Behring Breivik

In his 1500-page manifesto, “A European Declaration of Independence,” Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian terrorist who murdered 77 people on July 22, 2011, in the section headed “Because our survival depends on it,” writes, “He who saves his country, violates no law,” which has been attributed (without evidence) to Napoleon.

Donald Trump has now emphatically made the same declaration.

Much more at https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/02/16/trump-adopts-view-of-legal
-impunity-invoked-by-neo-nazi-terrorist-anders-behring-breivik/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, February 18, 2025 3:37 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck off, stupid.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

50501 Organizers Launch 'Not My Presidents Day' Nationwide Day of Action

https://www.newsweek.com/50501-movement-organizaers-not-my-presidenti-
day-protests-2029529

Dear Americans who do not wish to become Nazis

https://imgur.com/gallery/dear-americans-who-do-not-wish-to-become-naz
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Dear Americans,

On this 17th of February, your People have organised a nationwide protest.

Your country’s democracy is being torn apart while you threaten our own democracies around the world, even threatening to invade us, your own allies.

We are at a critical fork in history, much like the world was in the 1930’s. You are the only ones with the collective power to make sure your own country stays on the right side of it.

You need to drop whatever you’re doing and show up today. And every day after that, until you have won back your freedom and your democracy.

You won’t change anything with your endless “Punch a Nazi/Luigi/Guillotine” memes.
It’s time to grow a collective spine. The same collective spine populations around the world have shown against dictators.

Get out there. Stand up.

Do not become the Free World’s Enemy. Do not allow your leaders to make Nazis out of you all.

Show us you are still our friends.

I beg you.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

SIGNYM

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 3:40 AM

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SIX: So I'm confused when you say "our culture". I don't feel I share culture with anyone whom I've never met, let alone spent any real time with.

SIGNY: Also part of the stereotype: Nobody can tell you anything.

SIX: Fuck your stereotype.
Here's a stereotype for you. That's a "man" thing.
It's also very much a woman thing too.

Not in other cultures. Here, it's celebrated. Elsewhere, not so much.

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SIX: P.S. I've run into plenty of people who are far different than me. Doesn't matter what color they are

Do you think I'm talking about COLOR????

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SIX: I generally go out of my way to be nowhere within their vicinity if I find them to be unpalatable. I don't go on Twitter and bitch about every time some idiot pisses me off. There's plenty of room for me and the rest of the idiots.

Oh, that's another celebrated stereotype: "The Loner".

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SIX: And just because men and women in other countries have most of their individuality beaten out of them, doesn't mean they like it.

Bc, IN YOUR OPINION, people are all BASICALLY LIKE YOU.

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SIX: I don't believe that outside of advanced brainwashing techniques that we aren't privy to, there isn't any way to truly beat out the individuality out of any person.

This reminds me of a sociology course that a coworker attended. The teacher said something like "We think were all infivuduals, but I can tell you with 90% accuracy what you all have in your wallets" and proved it by making them take out their wallets and listing what was inside.

People are mostly social creatures and just want to get along at a fundamental level. Would you fart at table at your friend's house? Show up unwashed and stinky? Be rude to your friends? Piss off your doctor?
If you want to see truly unsocialized people, check out schizophrenics and feral people.

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SIX: I'm not so far removed from a person who wakes every morning to do slave labor for somebody else under an oppressive government. By that I mean I have enough life experience, abuse, trauma and adversity in my life where I can empathize with anyone in that situation. These people are not without their individuality, even if most of their lives they've been stripped of their dignity.

Quite frankly, you sound like Second right now, Sigs.

I think you're missing the point.

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SIX: You don't know me. And I'm certainly nowhere near the same fucking ballpark as whatever your California-born Midwestern Stereotype in your head is telling you that I am.

No, that is what YOUR head is telling you what I mean. What I mean is ...

The loner.
The rebel.
The rugged individualist.
The plainspoken man.
The person clever enough to do all of the above.

Those are some of our culturally-celebrated stereotypes portrayed over and over again in movies and TV by white men. Little relevance to people of many other cultures, who probably wonder why anyone would make a movie out of such characters.

People ARE NOT basically like you, SIX. Most of them aren't anywhere near as oppositional as you, and most aren't as smart as you.

"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
Me neither.

*****

Back on topic.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

SECOND

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 3:51 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Fuck off, stupid.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

I know life is hard for Trumptards. I'm around them, watching how poorly they handle life's contingencies. If Trump continues on this path, he will make life even harder for them than when Biden was President.

Can Trump Tank the Biden Economy? Here Are Eight Ways

By Dean Baker | Feb 16, 2025

https://cepr.net/publications/can-trump-tank-the-biden-economy-here-ar
e-eight-ways/

President Biden handed off the best economy to an incoming president since at least the 2001 handoff from Clinton to Bush II. In his last quarter in office, GDP grew at a 2.3 percent annual rate (final demand, which excludes inventory fluctuations, grew at a 3.2 percent rate). That brought the average growth rate for Biden’s presidency to 3.2 percent, the highest since Clinton’s second term.

The unemployment rate fell to 4.0 percent in January, keeping it in the narrow band between 4.0 percent and 4.3 percent it has been in since last May. For Biden’s whole term the unemployment rate averaged 4.1 percent, the lowest since Johnson’s last term, more than half a century ago.

Inflation is still slightly above the Fed’s 2.0 percent target, but it shows no clear trend. It’s worth noting in this respect that below 2.0 percent inflation rates were largely a post-Great Recession story. Prior to the Great Recession, inflation generally ran somewhat about 2.0 percent. Inflation, as measured by the CPI, was 3.4 percent in 2000, the last year of the Clinton administration.

In addition, productivity growth has been unexpectedly fast, running at close to a 2.0 percent rate in the last year. And these productivity gains are being passed on in rising real wages, with workers across the wage ladder getting their share of productivity growth.

This translates into an extraordinarily good economic picture, but we know that Donald Trump has big plans for the economy. Given his bold pronouncements coming daily, or even hourly, he has many possible routes for ending the boom we have been seeing.

Here are my eight favorite economy wreckers, in no particular order:

1 Stock market crash,

2 Mass deportation,

3 Tariffs run wild,

4 Pandemic wipe out,

5 Global warming disasters,

6 Splurge of spending cuts,

7 Debt limit crisis,

8 Messing with economic data.

My views on the likelihood of the dangers changes by the hour, or even the minute, as some new craziness spews out of Donald Trump or Elon Musk’s mouth or social media feed. Rather than making an arbitrary, as of this minute, ordering, I’m just going to say that these are equally likely. I’ll quickly go through each in turn.

More at https://cepr.net/publications/can-trump-tank-the-biden-economy-here-ar
e-eight-ways/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

SIGNYM

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 4:17 AM

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"This Might Be The Biggest Fraud In History"

However, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), tasked with streamlining the federal bureaucracy, returned very excited to his social media platform around midnight, unveiling what "might be the biggest fraud in history."

Musk posted a spreadsheet of Social Security Administration data showing "numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!"

IDK what that means. What are the possible entries?

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The data shows that 20.789 million Americans are collecting social security benefits over the age of 100. Drilling down into the age buckets, benefits are still being paid out to folks over 140!

"Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security," Musk emphasized.

One X user pointed out that 2023 data showed the US population at around 334.9 million. However, Musk's data (likely from DOGE's 'Big Balls' analyst) shows 394 million names in the Social Security Administration database.

Musk responded: "Yes, there are FAR more "eligible" social security numbers than there are citizens in the USA. This might be the biggest fraud in history."

Illegals get fake papers created for them, including fake SSNs. They're paying into the system, but will probably not collect benefits. Most likely this represents a net inflow to SSN.

Still, it should be cleaned up.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 4:32 AM

I wonder if Second has even realized that he's allowed himself to be propagandized so much that he's actively sitting on the sidelines and cheering for America to lose the game.

Fucking idiot.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 4:56 AM

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SIX: So I'm confused when you say "our culture". I don't feel I share culture with anyone whom I've never met, let alone spent any real time with.

SIGNY: Also part of the stereotype: Nobody can tell you anything.

SIX: Fuck your stereotype.
Here's a stereotype for you. That's a "man" thing.
It's also very much a woman thing too.

Not in other cultures. Here, it's celebrated. Elsewhere, not so much.

What does that matter? You're going to believe what some media from other countries says the people believe about individualism? Or you're going to believe some Muslim woman you knew personally who had decades of her diseased religion beaten into her physically, emotionally and spiritually all of her life? That Muslim woman who is a survivor of and currently still in the everyday process of abuse? If you really got to TRULY know her, and you got her to talk to you about things she dare not speak to anyone for fear of what happened to her in the past happening again, you would realize that up until that very instant you never really knew her at all.

People are people. They aren't Borg. Anybody who is telling you that they do not think of themselves as an individual is either lying to you or they have suffered a lifetime of abuse.

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SIX: P.S. I've run into plenty of people who are far different than me. Doesn't matter what color they are
Do you think I'm talking about COLOR????

That was probably more for the benefits of the idiots reading this than it was for you.

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SIX: I generally go out of my way to be nowhere within their vicinity if I find them to be unpalatable. I don't go on Twitter and bitch about every time some idiot pisses me off. There's plenty of room for me and the rest of the idiots.
Oh, that's another celebrated stereotype: "The Loner".

Oh yeah? How celebrated is it really?

Most white male loners, even the heroes and anti-heroes (or more often than not the white males who invented these characters), end up with a self-inflicted bullet wound to the head or some other equally dramatic exit off the stage, on their own terms.

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SIX: And just because men and women in other countries have most of their individuality beaten out of them, doesn't mean they like it.
Bc, IN YOUR OPINION, people are all BASICALLY LIKE YOU.

This has nothing to do with me. This is a debate over spirituality that has been going on for thousands of years before you started throwing your stereotypes at me this morning.

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SIX: I don't believe that outside of advanced brainwashing techniques that we aren't privy to, there isn't any way to truly beat out the individuality out of any person.
This reminds me of a sociology course that a coworker attended. The teacher said something like "We think were all infivuduals, but I can tell you with 90% accuracy what you all have in your wallets" and proved it by making them take out their wallets and listing what was inside.

Wow! Impressive. Nostradamus levels of intuition on that one! How profound!

Are you fucking kidding me here?

THIS RIGHT HERE IS AN EXACT EXAMPLE OF HOW THE LIBERALS HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHING THE INDIVIDUALITY RIGHT OUT OF PEOPLE IN COLLEGES.

So the fuck what? If you want to live in a society, you're going to carry around money, and a photo ID which is most likely a driver's license if you want to drive a car in a society as well as a student ID that comes with the life of debt and wage slavery that it represents.

What else you got, Socrates? What else am I carrying in my pockets?

No. Actually... I don't have a cell phone. I haven't carried one of those around since 2014.

Get fucked.

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SIGNYM

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 5:16 AM

I didn't say you IDENTIFY AS, but that's how you behave. Consistently and predictably. In a post somewhere up there, you even said you are always "against the power". Even to the point of being against what you were previously for. That's being oppositional.

I've pointed it out to you time and again. "Nobody ever died of Covid" but the vaccine, which is a subset of viral proteins, kills? That's not fact or logic. That just comes from you absofuckinglutely hating being told what to do.

That opposition, which IMHO is on the far end of the bell curve, is part of what makes you, you, and not somebody else. That's what makes others different from you. It's also something that makes it possible for you to be manipulated. All someone has to do is tell you on authority, with threats, what to do and you'll pull in the opposite direction, whether it makes sense or not. IMHO.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA

SECOND

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 5:50 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I wonder if Second has even realized that he's allowed himself to be propagandized so much that he's actively sitting on the sidelines and cheering for America to lose the game.

Fucking idiot.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

When Einstein left Germany in December of 1932, he didn’t have to be a genius to know where the country was headed because the head of Germany was telling the world his plans. Most Germans didn't see a problem with the vague outlines of the master plan. By August 1939, Einstein wrote President Roosevelt a request to nuke Germany. Most Americans don't see a problem with the vague and foggy outline of Trump's master plan, but a letter similar to Einstein's will be written about the USA if Trump does not stop what he told the world about his plans.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240801-it-was-the-one-great-mist
ake-in-my-life-the-letter-from-einstein-that-ushered-in-the-age-of-the-atomic-bomb

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 6:53 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I didn't say you IDENTIFY AS, but that's how you behave. Consistently and predictably. In a post somewhere up there, you even said you are always "against the power". Even to the point of being against what you were previously for. That's being oppositional.

No. That is not what I said. I never once said that I was against anything that I was previously for. If everything that I was for is carried out by the Trump Administration, that's great.

My concern now comes with the fact that unlike last time, my guy is in there and he ACTUALLY has power, when he had near-zero power 8 years ago relative to now.

That is concerning to me for a WIDE variety of reasons, and my biggest question is what the fuck happened to all that pushback from the side that had been crushing every one of us just months ago.

I'm not an idiot and I'm not going to sit back now and feel like I actually won anything. This has all been far too easy after the election. They're throwing us an Orgy of things we've wanted to see for decades, when we've been taught that nothing ever changes, and all of the campaign promises made are forgotten about after the election takes place.

Now I'm supposed to believe that one man, Donald Trump, is strong enough to take all of them on at one time and that they've fallen before him? Not a chance.

He's being allowed to do what he's doing either because it's what they've wanted all along, or they aren't concerned about what he's doing. Either one of those scenarios is far more troubling than anything I'd imagined before the election.

If he starts really doing things that they don't want him to be doing and he doesn't back down, they will resort to removing him from the equation. Maybe they've already made up their mind to do that and they're just letting enough time pass between the election and the attempt on his life leading up to it so all that isn't so fresh in everyone's minds when they do it. They would know, even though most people forget things after 3 or 4 weeks, something like this would take a little while more to forget about.

I personally have zero regret for my vote, and I am not against anything I was previously for.

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I've pointed it out to you time and again. "Nobody ever died of Covid" but the vaccine, which is a subset of viral proteins, kills? That's not fact or logic. That just comes from you absofuckinglutely hating being told what to do.

That DOES come from facts and logic. The papers are out there for everyone to read all about it. Whether or not you choose to educate yourself or stick your head in the ground is your choice.

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That opposition, which IMHO is on the far end of the bell curve, is part of what makes you, you, and not somebody else. That's what makes others different from you. It's also something that makes it possible for you to be manipulated. All someone has to do is tell you on authority, with threats, what to do and you'll pull in the opposite direction, whether it makes sense or not. IMHO.

And all of that didn't just happen overnight in a vacuum.

It happened here, in some random town in America over the course of nearly half a century. The same random town in America that had plenty of otherwise very similar people who ended up entirely different from one another.

Thank you for proving my point for me.

Also, I would think that me expressing my trepidation about everything that is going on right now would prove how difficult it would be to manipulate me. Anything I see online and any people I talk to are over the moon about all of this shit.

I'm the one that's going to start being accused of being a Liberal one day if I keep shitting on everyone's parade and I don't just let them enjoy this after all they've been through.

I think it would take a very long time before anybo