Today in the Tags
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Monday, August 24, 2026 17:03
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Yeah, that time I think was only once or twice and I managed to ignore that.
You do a good job about keeping me out of it. This is on me. I walked into it. That is not your fault.
I do try to read the article but ignore the headlines.
I know and I figured he would. But I just had to walk into it.
I've heard the "Not in my backyard" thing a good portion of my life and it stinks.
Been there and done that with the "shut up and be a good little Indian". It leaves you wondering and it makes you angry.
It was important and I think we can both let it lay.
Sounds good to me, Brenda.
I'm really glad you took the time to check that article out though and see what I mean. There's just so much of that type of manipulation in the media today that it's hard to trust anything any of them say. Adding AI to everything now is even going to muddy those waters further.
But that's their tactic. Pure emotional manipulation, on full blast every day from every direction all at once. It's easy to get swept up into it and become a cultist like they did with Ted and Second.
If your library has it, I seriously, HIGHLY recommend "Amusing Ourselves to Death", by Neil Postman.
Here's a breif synopsis from Google AI:Quote:
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman argues that television has transformed public discourse, reducing serious subjects like politics, news, and history to mere entertainment through visual imagery, ultimately making citizens passive consumers of trivialized information. Published in 1985, the book critiques how the medium of television, with its emphasis on entertainment, dictates the form and substance of public communication, leading to a decline in rational, complex debate.
Central Thesis:
The book's core argument is that the shift from a print-based culture to a television-based culture has fundamentally altered how we think and engage with information, prioritizing amusement over substance.
Key Idea:
Postman contends that television's format, which favors short, visually stimulating segments, makes it impossible for complex ideas to be discussed meaningfully, turning everything into a form of show business.
Impact:
It's considered a seminal work in media criticism, warning that a society obsessed with entertainment risks losing its capacity for critical thought and civic engagement.
Now... I read the 1985 original version that my local-paper journalist Uncle had in the collection he left behind in my Grandma's basement when I was living there. The version that you will probably find is going to be one of I believe 2 or even 3 updates he's made to it over the years to include modern technology that wasn't available back in 1985.
I read it back when I was probably around 23 years old, and it was because of Postman's book that I went on to read Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, since it was obvious he thought very highly of both of those books. To this day, 1984 is the single scariest thing I've ever read in my life. And 20 years later with the tech available today it is just that much more scary.
Orwell's Animal Farm is probably the 2nd most terrifying read of my life.
In the case of Animal Farm, it goes deep into the lore behind the creation of little real-life monsters like Ted and Second and just how easily they are created and weaponized like they have been.
If you're reading this too, Sigs, I highly recommend you read Amusing Ourselves to Death as well.
And you could be right about Ted, I dunno. Every once in a while he posts something uncharacteristically coherent and well thought out without all the regular punctuation, grammar, spelling and general misuses of the English language, but unlike in the case of Second, I've never been able to catch Ted in the act of ever actually plagiarizing otherNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Yeah, that time I think was only once or twice and I managed to ignore that.
You do a good job about keeping me out of it. This is on me. I walked into it. That is not your fault.
I do try to read the article but ignore the headlines.
I know and I figured he would. But I just had to walk into it.
I've heard the "Not in my backyard" thing a good portion of my life and it stinks.
Been there and done that with the "shut up and be a good little Indian". It leaves you wondering and it makes you angry.
It was important and I think we can both let it lay.
Sounds good to me, Brenda.
I'm really glad you took the time to check that article out though and see what I mean. There's just so much of that type of manipulation in the media today that it's hard to trust anything any of them say. Adding AI to everything now is even going to muddy those waters further.
But that's their tactic. Pure emotional manipulation, on full blast every day from every direction all at once. It's easy to get swept up into it and become a cultist like they did with Ted and Second.
If your library has it, I seriously, HIGHLY recommend "Amusing Ourselves to Death", by Neil Postman.
Here's a breif synopsis from Google AI:Quote:
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman argues that television has transformed public discourse, reducing serious subjects like politics, news, and history to mere entertainment through visual imagery, ultimately making citizens passive consumers of trivialized information. Published in 1985, the book critiques how the medium of television, with its emphasis on entertainment, dictates the form and substance of public communication, leading to a decline in rational, complex debate.
Central Thesis:
The book's core argument is that the shift from a print-based culture to a television-based culture has fundamentally altered how we think and engage with information, prioritizing amusement over substance.
Key Idea:
Postman contends that television's format, which favors short, visually stimulating segments, makes it impossible for complex ideas to be discussed meaningfully, turning everything into a form of show business.
Impact:
It's considered a seminal work in media criticism, warning that a society obsessed with entertainment risks losing its capacity for critical thought and civic engagement.
Now... I read the 1985 original version that my local-paper journalist Uncle had in the collection he left behind in my Grandma's basement when I was living there. The version that you will probably find is going to be one of I believe 2 or even 3 updates he's made to it over the years to include modern technology that wasn't available back in 1985.
I read it back when I was probably around 23 years old, and it was because of Postman's book that I went on to read Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, since it was obvious he thought very highly of both of those books. To this day, 1984 is the single scariest thing I've ever read in my life. And 20 years later with the tech available today it is just that much more scary.
Orwell's Animal Farm is probably the 2nd most terrifying read of my life.
In the case of Animal Farm, it goes deep into the lore behind the creation of little real-life monsters like Ted and Second and just how easily they are created and weaponized like they have been.
If you're reading this too, Sigs, I highly recommend you read Amusing Ourselves to Death as well.
And you could be right about Ted, I dunno. Every once in a while he posts something uncharacteristically coherent and well thought out without all the regular punctuation, grammar, spelling and general misuses of the English language, but unlike in the case of Second, I've never been able to catch Ted in the act of ever actually plagiarizing otherNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Not sure if I believe or not that your government has secret files on aliens or not. I'll explain : I always thought if they did a reporter or someone from the pentagon would find a way to leak the actual information. Documents or pictures and such to the public. There would be denial from the government and the pentagon. But finally they would have to confess and show all their evidence to Congress and the public.
Of course the Canadian government would be dragged into it as your closest ally. It would become what did we know. What was shared between our countries and the like.
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Not sure if I believe or not that your government has secret files on aliens or not. I'll explain : I always thought if they did a reporter or someone from the pentagon would find a way to leak the actual information. Documents or pictures and such to the public. There would be denial from the government and the pentagon. But finally they would have to confess and show all their evidence to Congress and the public.
Of course the Canadian government would be dragged into it as your closest ally. It would become what did we know. What was shared between our countries and the like.
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That's why I won't go near things like Chatgp or whatever the heck it is called. Bad enough Google uses it and you can't turn it off.
Agreed. And what really chaps my ass right now is some of the greatest content creators on YouTube like The Professor of Rock and Rick Beato are being destroyed by the A.I. There are channels that are literally stealing work and reasearch they did, using A.I. voice overs and either A.I. artwork or even fake human beings to deliver it as their own. I believe last that I heard, their viewership have both fallen over 70% now from last year, and they're watching videos using their REAL stuff getting hundreds of thousands of views and getting tons of subscribers who are too fucking dumb to even know that they're not even watching real people anymore. It's so gross.
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Think I have heard those theories before from that book. There's been lots of discussions over the years about what tv is doing with politics and other things.
Yeah... I'm sure it's an age-old thing. Amusing ourselves to death was written in 1985. 1984 was written in 1949. My grandpa would demand that the TV was turned off no matter what we were watching when Grams said dinner was ready. He'd always say "TV will be the ruination of the American Family". I look all around me these days and don't think he was wrong about that.
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I've read "Animal Farm" and didn't like it. I understood it but just not my thing. I've even read "1984" a number of years ago.
Oh... I don't think you were supposed to like Animal Farm. I imagine you've got quite a vivid imagination like I do, and I imagine that you probably did not enjoy that book very much at all.
I didn't like the book, but I loved the book at the same time. Because of the truths that it held. It wasn't just some dark fairy tail with evil characters on a farm. That's real life, baby. It was just the personification of barnyard animals as a means of reflecting the evil of man, and subverting your expectations by making you think it was going to be like Babe or Charolette's Web if you didn't know what you were getting yourself into, especially depending on which cover of the book you had when you read it.
I just looked that up and I find it quite amusing that the 2020 cover says right under the title "A Fairy Story"...
https://www.penguin.co.uk/discover/articles/animal-farm-george-orwell-
75-covers-design-history
I think the covers have been lying about what was inside that book ever since the 2nd printing in 1963, to be honest.
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And that "Amusing Ourselves to Death", I am sure is into its 3 or 4th printing. A lot of books go through that. I'll look the title up on my library's web page for their catalogue.
I think you would find it quite interesting. It is Non-Fiction. I haven't read a whole lot of Non-Fiction books in my life, but I thought quite highly of this one, even in it's 1985 form when I read it around 2003.
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Not sure if I believe or not that your government has secret files on aliens or not. I'll explain : I always thought if they did a reporter or someone from the pentagon would find a way to leak the actual information. Documents or pictures and such to the public. There would be denial from the government and the pentagon. But finally they would have to confess and show all their evidence to Congress and the public.
Of course the Canadian government would be dragged into it as your closest ally. It would become what did we know. What was shared between our countries and the like.
I don't believe any of it. Not saying it isn't true and that it wouldn't actually explain a lot, but if Aliens had taken over our society and run it all into the ground by taking over all the political positions over the last 100 years, Trump is either already one of them and just playing by a script and we're all being taken for a ride, or he's not going to be able to take them all down by himself and he's on borrowed time. And I'd probably rather not know that truth anyhow. Some truths are best left unknown, and that's a can of worms I would like to keep closed until after I'm gone, if possible.
The statistical probability that we would ever be visited by an alien race with technology advanced enough to reach us is so low it might as well be negative. For so many reasons. Among them is the possibility that we are alone in the universe. But even if there were other humanoid type species out there, they'd almost certainly have to fight the same instinctual needs that we could never outgrow on pace with the technological advancments and how fast they accellerate, and they'd be just as prone to one day nuke the planet or bring about some other doomsday scenario as we are long before they ever figured out how to bend time and space and travel the distance necessary to even find new life without generations of people living and dying on those ships before they got from A to B.
Any time anybody brings up Aliens they show us grainy ass Bigfoot footage and want us to swallow that while anyone with half a brain knows that literally everything records in at least 1080p these days if not 4k or higher. If they ever gave us a video in high quality, it would never pass the sniff test when the Internet Autists got their hands on it and ripped it all apart to show us how it was faked. We've never seen a video that even a novice video creator like me couldn't make on my crappy computer, so nobody could ever possibly prove that they are real or not real. It's all just more distraction from reality.
THE SHOW MUST GO ON!!!
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Perfect timing, Shoe. Perfect timing.
Cult Of The CryBullies | Why People Hate "The Left"
SAY THE LINE!!! SAY THE LINE!!! SAY THE LINE!!! SAY THE LINE!!!
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I don't believe any of our leaders are aliens. I do believe that we aren't alone in the universe. The universe is too big for there not to be another planet in the "goldielocks" zone and not have life on it. Just depends what kind of life.
SETI is always picking up distant signals but we just sure what they are. Most like just background noise.
At least you've never had a President that has held seances in the Oval Office. We had one of our longest serving Prime Ministers who used to hold seances in the Prime Minister's office on Parliament hill and in his home. This was William Lyon Mackenzie King. He would try to contact historical figures, family members specifically his late mother and grandfather and one of his dogs.
None of that was known by the public when he was in office. Only came out after his death.
Bigfoot is a well known legend up here in BC. It mostly comes from First Nations. Like the Thunder bird and such.
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Today in the Tags (2-13-2026):
6ixStringJack: Loser
second: Why does Trump make nonsensical announcements? For example: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump "Working with the fantastic Governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there. It's on the way!!! President DJT." Based on reports as of February 22, 2026, both U.S. Navy hospital ships, the USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy, are currently in the shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, for scheduled maintenance, confirming that they are not deployed or immediately available. [go to link]
6ixStringJack: Loser.
second: 6ixStringJoker will misunderstand the story about Trump sending a hospital ship to Greenland. I will clarify: 1) Trump says the ship is on the way. 2) The ship is not on the way, but is staying in the shipyard, regardless of what Trump says. 3) Greenland and Denmark told Trump to shove his ship up his fat ass. Also, Greenland is not for sale and Trump better not try to steal it, either. [go to link]
6ixStringJack: Loser.
second: Trump is confused and claims a US hospital ship is headed to Greenland but there is no ship. What caused Trump’s befuddlement? Denmark's arctic command forces evacuated a crew member of a U.S. submarine off the coast of Greenland for urgent medical treatment. The crew member was evacuated to Nuuk — the capital of the vast, ice-covered territory — and transferred to a hospital in the city. The crew member was retrieved by a Danish helicopter. Trump is a fat idiot with a loud mouth. [go to link]
THG: Trump is getting killed in the polls
second: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told a preposterous story demonizing immigrants in high-profile public remarks alongside President Donald Trump and on Fox News last summer, about a cannibal who ate other people and then, on his Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flight, began to eat himself. At the time, The Intercept was unable to substantiate any part of the tale. Now, three officials from federal law enforcement agencies — including Noem’s own Department of Homeland Security — with knowledge of the allegations say the entire story was fabricated. “It is completely false,” said one senior law enforcement official. [go to link]
second: Trump boasts that the US has 'the greatest economy actually ever.' Human nature suggests that's exactly the wrong message to send to voters. When a president talks like that 37 weeks before the mid-term elections, it means one thing: The economy is the No. 1 issue, and it’s a problem for the incumbent party because a large number of voters don’t believe the economy is doing well at all. [go to link]
THG: Polls [go to link]
THG: More Polls [go to link]
6ixStringJack: Losers.
THG: 6IXSTRINGJACK we're beating up Liberal fascists and Muslims. Not just here, but all over the world.
6ixStringJack: Yes we are.
THG: Does your girlfriend Brenda go with you on these excursions?
6ixStringJack: Awwwwwww... Poor baby. You are a salty little dog, aren't you Screen Bitch? Almost as salty as you are racist.
second: Fun fact I just noticed: The U.S. had less total job growth over the 12 months of 2025 as during an average *month* during the Biden administration. 181k net jobs added over the entire course of 2025, versus average of 329k each month from 2021-2024. [go to link]/
6ixStringJack: Easy stat to bastardize when you shut down half the world economy and put over 20% of American workers out of jobs and called them non-essential, then you hired only 6% white men when you brought all the jobs back, gave all the jobs away that were lost to minorities and women, then added a few million government jobs on top of it. More fake news, Second. You are retarded.
6ixStringJack: And you didn't "just notice" shit. I guaranty you that I can find whatever lefty shit-rag who made that headline for you to parrot off like the mindless dopamine addicted z
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second: Trump voter’s husband was detained by ICE: ‘I thought they’d focus on criminals.’ The arrest
forced Sandra to reconsider assumptions she had long held about immigration enforcement.
“To think we were MAGA!,” Sandra proclaimed. The couple even attended a Trump rally in Las Vegas in
2020. Sandra voted for President Trump three times, believing enforcement would focus on people
with criminal records — not individuals like her husband. Asked what she would say to him now,
she paused. “You said you were going after the worst of the worst, but instead you ruined our
life,” she said.
https://www.nj.com/mosaic/2026/02/this-nj-trump-voters-husband-was-det
ained-by-ice-i-thought-theyd-focus-on-criminals.html
6ixStringJack: Loser.
6ixStringJack: Loser.
6ixStringJack: Fake story. Nobody cares about your bullshit, loser. You are a loser, loser, loser.
You are a loser.
6ixStringJack: Here's his gofundme, faggot:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-sandra-and-latifs-fight-for-justice
-and-freedom
I know you brag about being a billionaire yet you don't donate any money here. Go give this scammer
some of your money. He's been here illegally for decades already. You can keep funding his unemployed
ass until he's deported back to Morocco. I'm sure his wife, who never voted a single time for
Trump, would be thrilled to move with him to Morocco too.
6ixStringJack: I guess they must rent, huh? Or maybe they're both using fake names too. There is no
records of either a Sandra or a Abdellatif Hafraoui having ever paid property taxes in Bayonne
(Hudson Co.), NJ here:
https://taxrecords-nj.com/pub/cgi/prc6.cgi?district=0901&ms_user=c
tb09
Maybe they're exempt? Maybe they've been scamming too? FEC records search shows that Sandra
Hafraoui was "Retired" in 2016 when she was only 43 years old. (And don't you fucking dare try
to tell me there are two people named Sandra in NJ with that last name).
https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?data_type=
processed&contributor_name=Latif+Hafraoui&contributor_name=Sandra+Hafraoui&two_year_transaction_period=2020&two_year_transaction_period=2016&two_year_transaction_period=2024
(Your article says she's 53 today, and that donation was 10 years ago in 2016).
6ixStringJack: $16 to Trump in 2016, but never again after that despite having voted for Trump
3 times and flying out to Vegas on vacation to support Trump in 2020. I guess $16 for two unemployed
professional government scammers was a small price to pay for insurance if shit ever hit the
fan, huh? Especially when the taxpayers of NJ were paying for it! Boy you're so smart!!!!
6ixStringJack: Neither of them work or pay property taxes. But they've got money to fly all around
and go on vacation whenever they want. Must be nice, huh?
6ixStringJack: Oh... and Dipshit, Dumbfuck, DEI-hire Ande Richards of NJ.com. You should be
fired. WTF are you thinking posting their first and last names and the county and city they live in,
in this political climate. I know you're too fucking dumb to realize that I could find out exactly
where your stupid fucking ass is through property tax records with what little I know about you too,
but you unwittingly put people out there to get doxxed when you do irresponsible and dumbfuck
Democrat shit like this, retard.
6ixStringJack: Either these two people don't actually exist at all, those are completely
fucking fake names meaning that you broke federal laws showing fake paperwork while attempting
to pass it on as legitimate news, or they're scammers through and through. Period.
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