Civil Unrest & Protests

AD1184

Celestial
Well, we can't allow liberty to suffer, because once dictatorship takes hold it is impossible to get rid off. Good examples are China and North Korea where grip on power is passed on from one generation to the next. So much so, that 60% of directors of all companies in Russia are former Communist party members or their descendants! It would be very stupid idea to sleep walk into dictatorship because whatever short term imperative. Once you are in consolidated dictatorship social mobility goes straight down to zero, zilch, nada. Just ask North Korean or Chinese factory worker.

With aid of modern surveillance technology any dictatorship can be cemented forever. Great example is North Korea, where number of people escaping across the border fell from few thousands per year to less then 60 per year. In China it takes 2 seconds after a person walks into high street for that person to be identified by AI, based on facial characteristics and gait. During WW2 SS employed only 11,000 people and was able to hold a grip on millions of people across whole of the Europe. 90% of SS stuff worked in administration maintaining primitive database based on paperwork. Modern technology would multiply power of a such secret police not less then 100 times.

Liberty must be preserved at all costs, because liberty guaranties social mobility for both you and your children in future. So, its much better to use good old media manipulation, gaslighting and brainwashing, which works equally well, but doesn't have that big impact on a freedoms.

Multiculturalism is waste of time, because cultural differences are trivial. People from all cultures all eat, sleep, work, take care of their families and have a bit of fun on the side. Cultural differences are pure vapourware and boil down to banalities, like weather one should hold a spoon in a left or right hand.
What you want does not matter: you are not in charge. And, no matter whom you vote for, the left are in charge in every way that matters. We have had several years of an ostensibly "right-wing" Conservative government and yet the left wing reform of Britain's civil service, its institutions, the courts and academia has advanced unabated.
 
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Dejan Corovic

As above, so bellow
What you want does not matter: you are not in charge. And, no matter whom you vote for, the left are in charge in every way that matters. We have had several years of an ostensibly "right-wing" Conservative government and yet the left wing reform of Britain's civil service, its institutions, the courts and academia has advanced unabated.

That's beside the point, nobody here has any power to change things, We are just discussing our opinions.

The biggest eye opener of my life was that democracy and socialism, to which I was born, work in the same way. Censorship, brainwashing, corruption, cronyism. Nothing is really different.
 
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nivek

As Above So Below

The one-sided world of civil disobedience

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But there’s one particular type of protest that has reemerged in recent years that’s achieving quite the opposite of positive change: screeching radical Leftists intentionally shutting down major roadways.

In the last month alone, anti-Israel protesters have blocked the Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn’s Williamsburg Bridge, San Francisco’s Bay Bridge, the Boston University Bridge, the 110 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles, Interstate 76 in Philadelphia, and streets in downtown Boston, holding up traffic for hours as activists called for ceasefire and intifada simultaneously — the Palestinian equivalent of announcing that you’re joining Weight Watchers while you order at a McDonald’s drive-thru.

Of course, the deliberate blockage of crucial roadways isn’t just limited to pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas crowds. Environmental groups have repeatedly blocked roadways to demand action on climate change, ignoring the obvious irony of increased carbon emissions generated by cars stuck in man-made traffic. Roads have also been blocked on multiple occasions as part of Black Lives Matter protests, let alone riots. And who can forget the Canadian trucker protests in 2022 against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions, which brought downtown Ottawa to a standstill?

While the First Amendment guarantees the right to free speech and assembly, there are limits that allow local and state governments to restrict the time, place, and manner of protest while also enforcing existing laws surrounding the blocking of or obstructing traffic.


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J Randall Murphy

Trying To Stay Awake
People keep trying to pretend that the issues associated with the COVID pandemic are all over and that everyone should just move on — but it ain't over, and those who woke-up to the globalist big-pharma corruption and the reality that the vax has injured and killed millions of people worldwide are still fighting behind the scenes in the courts and on whatever platforms will allow it. I was censored on the last platform I spoke out on and ultimately quit a fairly popular weekly radio show/podcast ( The Paracast ) in protest of the owner's stance on vax mandates. I hope things are different here.
 
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Shadowprophet

Truthiness
People keep trying to pretend that the issues associated with the COVID pandemic are all over and that everyone should just move on — but it ain't over, and those who woke-up to the globalist big-pharma corruption and the reality that the vax has injured and killed millions of people worldwide are still fighting behind the scenes in the courts and on whatever platforms will allow it. I was censored on the last platform I spoke out on and ultimately quit a fairly popular weekly podcast ( The Paracast ) in protest of the owner's stance on vax mandates. I hope things are different here.
hey, welcome to the forums, everyone is welcome here,,
I have some advice for anyone new here who would accept it..

pretty much anything flies as long as you are respectful of others. A lot of us are seasoned conversationalists and intellectuals. so, my advice to anyone new here is always to respect the other guy's opinions, even if they disagree or misalign with your own. if you can do this, you will thrive here.
 

J Randall Murphy

Trying To Stay Awake
hey, welcome to the forums, everyone is welcome here,,
I have some advice for anyone new here who would accept it..

pretty much anything flies as long as you are respectful of others. A lot of us are seasoned conversationalists and intellectuals. so, my advice to anyone new here is always to respect the other guy's opinions, even if they disagree or misalign with your own. if you can do this, you will thrive here.
Respect is earned — not bestowed, and what earns my respect is the ability to get to the bottom of contentious issues in a fair minded manner using the process of critical thinking.

Apart from that, not every opinion or person deserves respect. I don't respect hypocrites, child molesters, or animal cruelty. More on the topic of this thread, those who pushed for lockdowns and vax mandates under threat of fines, arrests, or job loss are unethical coercive dirtbags who don't deserve respect. The only thing they deserve is to be held accountable for the lives and livelihoods they ruined — and I hope they get what's coming to them. Unfortunately we know that most of them will just walk away Scott free, and never be held liable.
 
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Shadowprophet

Truthiness
Respect is earned — not bestowed, and what earns my respect is the ability to get to the bottom of contentious issues in a fair minded manner using the process of critical thinking.

Apart from that, not every opinion or person deserves respect. I don't respect hypocrites, child molesters or animal cruelty. More on the topic of this thread, those who pushed for lockdowns and vax mandates under threat of fines, arrests, or job loss are unethical coercive dirtbags who don't deserve respect. The only thing they deserve is to be held accountable for the lives and livelihoods they ruined — and I hope they get what's coming to them. Unfortunately we know that most of them will just walk away Scott free, and never be held liable.
ahh, The list, you won't find any hypocrites here, they don't tend to last long, really not just in forums,, they just don't do well at life,
The CMS, No, we don't have a protocol for that because it has never been brought up here, I'd assume, if there was someone of that nature here, they would hopefully be intelligent enough to know they would be exposed and turned into authorities, I can fundamentally promise no animals were harmed in the making of these message boards and, There have been five deaths in my family in the last three years. all of cancer. all were vaxed. make of that what one will, correlation or fact. it is simple truth... Welcome to the forums.
 

J Randall Murphy

Trying To Stay Awake
ahh, The list, you won't find any hypocrites here, they don't tend to last long, really not just in forums,, they just don't do well at life,
The CMS, No, we don't have a protocol for that because it has never been brought up here, I'd assume, if there was someone of that nature here, they would hopefully be intelligent enough to know they would be exposed and turned into authorities, I can fundamentally promise no animals were harmed in the making of these message boards and, There have been five deaths in my family in the last three years. all of cancer. all were vaxed. make of that what one will, correlation or fact. it is simple truth... We.come to the forums.

Hey I forgot to mention — and please forgive me — but thanks for the welcome Smile22

 

nivek

As Above So Below
People keep trying to pretend that the issues associated with the COVID pandemic are all over and that everyone should just move on — but it ain't over, and those who woke-up to the globalist big-pharma corruption and the reality that the vax has injured and killed millions of people worldwide are still fighting behind the scenes in the courts and on whatever platforms will allow it. I was censored on the last platform I spoke out on and ultimately quit a fairly popular weekly radio show/podcast ( The Paracast ) in protest of the owner's stance on vax mandates. I hope things are different here.

Welcome to AE!...

The covid vaccines have done more harm than good IMO, I would even go as far as to say that the vaccines did little to help get us past the worst of the pandemic, covid's mutations did that...

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The shadow

The shadow knows!
Hey I forgot to mention — and please forgive me — but thanks for the welcome Smile22

Hey welcome! You are most welcome here! You will find no censorship here. Your views are welcome to stimulate healthy debate. I may disagree with your stand but I respect your opinion. Thank you for your respectful and informative post.
 

J Randall Murphy

Trying To Stay Awake
Here's a little reminder of what we're up against. Some of it may sound a little "out there" — but it's really not. It's what's coming, and some of it is already here.

 

The shadow

The shadow knows!
Welcome to AE!...

The covid vaccines have done more harm than good IMO, I would even go as far as to say that the vaccines did little to help get us past the worst of the pandemic, covid's mutations did that...

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I agree. I hated ppl losing their jobs over vax mandates and mask mandates. Our civil liberty's were eroded and the constitution was stepped on. In the name of safety .
 

Rick Hunter

Celestial
I see anything that even smells like protest and I'm making an immediate U-turn. I have intentionally avoided big cities at times when things were heating up and will continue to do so. Likewise, I never go to political events. I agree with the right to protest, but it does attract people who are up to no good. Things get out of hand and now nobody knows who is good or bad so everybody is fighting. So, I exercise my own right to not be there!
 
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