• Re: Facebook still sucks

    From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Tue Jan 21 07:25:52 2025
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    Did he really double cross the bad guys though? I get the impression
    that he's sucking up to Trump to act as an insider for the rest of the world elite.

    He's publically admitting that the Biden Regime strongarmed him into censoring things. That a double cross to me.


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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to MIKE MILLER on Tue Jan 21 08:56:00 2025
    Yeah, that tracks. *political* extremists, always playing the "woe is me" victim card. Everything is all about them.

    Fixed that for you. I have known too many from the opposite side who act
    in the same manner to believe that only conservatives do so.


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/202 to Mike Miller on Tue Jan 21 10:21:07 2025
    Well, she was able to "like" it after it was over. But still, Facebook's founder, their fact-checkers, and their content moderators are up to no good for the most part.

    So, everything is designed specifically to target & punish you, and
    it's by no means a glitch or an unintended side effect of something
    else??

    When it comes to globalist corporations, it's wise to always assume the worst, but to hope for the best.

    Yeah, that tracks. conservatives, always playing the "woe is me"
    victim card. Everything is all about them.

    And leftists care about others first?

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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/202 to Ron L. on Tue Jan 21 10:29:52 2025
    Did he really double cross the bad guys though? I get the impression that he's sucking up to Trump to act as an insider for the rest of th world elite.

    He's publically admitting that the Biden Regime strongarmed him into censoring things. That a double cross to me.

    I see your point, but Facebook's ridiculous censorship began long before Biden took office.

    Had Zuckerberg said "The world elite pressured me.." then that would be different. When he said "The Biden administration made me do it" that doesn't add up.

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Wed Jan 22 07:14:12 2025
    I see your point, but Facebook's ridiculous censorship began long before Biden took office.

    Had Zuckerberg said "The world elite pressured me.." then that would be different. When he said "The Biden administration made me do it" that doesn't add up.


    But most of these social media companies were Left-leaning for a long time as well. So there was "censorship" by the moderators.

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Wed Jan 22 07:28:41 2025
    Ron L. wrote to Aaron Thomas <=-

    But most of these social media companies were Left-leaning for a long
    time as well. So there was "censorship" by the moderators.

    And I forgot to add that the censorship was about the wierd Left crap, not the scamdemic and the "science" that was pushed on us.

    The real censorship came from the Biden Regime.


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/202 to Ron L. on Wed Jan 22 05:32:14 2025
    I see your point, but Facebook's ridiculous censorship began long bef Biden took office.

    Had Zuckerberg said "The world elite pressured me.." then that would different. When he said "The Biden administration made me do it" that doesn't add up.


    But most of these social media companies were Left-leaning for a long
    time as well. So there was "censorship" by the moderators.

    Yes, so no matter who he tries to blame it on, he's full of it.

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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/202 to Ron L. on Wed Jan 22 05:56:58 2025
    But most of these social media companies were Left-leaning for a long time as well. So there was "censorship" by the moderators.

    And I forgot to add that the censorship was about the wierd Left crap,
    not the scamdemic and the "science" that was pushed on us.

    Doesn't it all stem from the same source? Biden's owner was a proponent of all the above.

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Thu Jan 23 07:42:48 2025
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    And I forgot to add that the censorship was about the wierd Left crap,
    not the scamdemic and the "science" that was pushed on us.

    Doesn't it all stem from the same source? Biden's owner was a proponent
    of all the above.

    Sort of. The Elitists did a good job of programming their minions to do things without any direct communications.

    What I'm trying to do is distinquish between 2 kinds of censorship on Facebook.

    1. The moderator of a group, who has pink hair and pronouns, decides that he doesn't like a topic and squashes any message that he doesn't like.
    2. The Fed (effectively) ordering Facebook to squash all discussion on Ivermectin.

    Type 1 is less censorship and more "the moderator is a whack job". People can move to a different group and say what they want.

    Type 2 is censorship by definition and highly illegal for the gov't to do.


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/202 to Ron L. on Thu Jan 23 17:06:59 2025
    Doesn't it all stem from the same source? Biden's owner was a propone of all the above.

    Sort of. The Elitists did a good job of programming their minions to do things without any direct communications.

    What I'm trying to do is distinquish between 2 kinds of censorship on Facebook.

    1. The moderator of a group, who has pink hair and pronouns, decides
    that he doesn't like a topic and squashes any message that he doesn't like. 2. The Fed (effectively) ordering Facebook to squash all

    It wouldn't surprise me if some pink-haired-mosquito-penis complained about Trump, and then Zuck used that as justification to ban him. Trump offends people who fit into that category, and Zuck is the type of elitist who will bend over frontwards for them.

    Type 2 is censorship by definition and highly illegal for the gov't to
    do.

    It's illegal for the government to do it on their own, but it's probably legal for them to collude with other elitists to get it donw.

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Fri Jan 24 08:43:57 2025
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    It wouldn't surprise me if some pink-haired-mosquito-penis complained about Trump, and then Zuck used that as justification to ban him. Trump offends people who fit into that category, and Zuck is the type of
    elitist who will bend over frontwards for them.

    Zuck simply has no backbone.

    For many companies, the DEI started in the HR dept and slowly grew. The big-wigs in the top floors don't usually interfere with the lower operations of the company - that's what they pay others to do. And great pains are done to keep the upper management from knowing what's going on - unless they get a Woke CEO.

    It's only when those lower operations negatively impact the company that the non-woke upper management start looking at things below them.

    It's illegal for the government to do it on their own, but it's
    probably legal for them to collude with other elitists to get it donw.

    No. If someone in the gov't told Facebook to censor, Facebook is somewhat "off the hook" but that someone in the gov't is in big trouble.

    Probably the most Facebook would get hit for is failing to resist and make that coersion public.


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/202 to Ron L. on Fri Jan 24 08:34:15 2025
    For many companies, the DEI started in the HR dept and slowly grew. The big-wigs in the top floors don't usually interfere with the lower operations of the company - that's what they pay others to do. And
    great pains are done to keep the upper management from knowing what's going on - unless they get a Woke CEO.

    That makes sense. The CEOs and/or owners want what's best for the company, but lower management can care less. Once in a while it's smart for the CEO to crack some skulls.

    It's illegal for the government to do it on their own, but it's probably legal for them to collude with other elitists to get it donw

    No. If someone in the gov't told Facebook to censor, Facebook is
    somewhat "off the hook" but that someone in the gov't is in big trouble.

    Congress should hold them accountable, but you know how that goes.

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Sat Jan 25 13:45:31 2025
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    That makes sense. The CEOs and/or owners want what's best for the
    company, but lower management can care less. Once in a while it's smart for the CEO to crack some skulls.

    Lower management want what's best for them. They don't care about the company because they don't have "skin in the game".

    This was a concept that the Ignorant Elitists can't seem to wrap their tiny brains around. They keep screaming "Why does the owner of the company get such a big salary while the janitor gets such a small one?"

    The owner of the company has the most skin in the game. If the company goes under, he's the one who still has to pay off the loans, etc. The Janitor simply goes off and gets another job.

    This is also why many companies give higher ups stock, and encourage employee stock ownership: The more employees who have an incentive to make the company more successful (because it will make their stock worth more), the better.

    Congress should hold them accountable, but you know how that goes.

    Yes. I highly doubt that we will see anyone (of importance) be held accountable. But, who knows? Russia may extradite Fauci for crimes against humanity.


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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Tue Jan 28 07:09:06 2025
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    It sounds like a Democrat problem, but in reality, it's a NY GOP
    problem. They did this to us. And that's part of why I changed my party affiliation a few days ago. I'm a registered Democrat now.

    Shall I send you a "get well" card for your lobotomy. :)



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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/202 to Ron L. on Tue Jan 28 08:27:24 2025
    It sounds like a Democrat problem, but in reality, it's a NY GOP problem. They did this to us. And that's part of why I changed my par affiliation a few days ago. I'm a registered Democrat now.

    Shall I send you a "get well" card for your lobotomy. :)

    Ha! No, send one to the sheeple who think that "The NY GOP is doing everything they can to find candidates."

    (I hope they get well soon!)

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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to AARON THOMAS on Tue Jan 28 12:27:00 2025
    It sounds like a Democrat problem, but in reality, it's a NY GOP
    problem. They did this to us. And that's part of why I changed my party affiliation a few days ago. I'm a registered Democrat now.

    Although no longer true, back when I registered (R), the thought process
    was you should really register D because the D's ran everything in this
    state and you'd actually have a voice that way... at least in the primaries.

    If you didn't like who won the primary, you could vote R in the Fall which,
    in some areas, was like voting third-party.

    Amazing how things have changed over the past 35 years.


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/202 to Mike Powell on Tue Jan 28 14:06:12 2025
    It sounds like a Democrat problem, but in reality, it's a NY GOP problem. They did this to us. And that's part of why I changed my par affiliation a few days ago. I'm a registered Democrat now.

    Although no longer true, back when I registered (R), the thought process was you should really register D because the D's ran everything in this state and you'd actually have a voice that way... at least in the primaries.

    Is KY one of the states where registered Democrat voters can vote in Republican primaries?

    My state is not one of them. And I don't plan on voting in any Democrat primaries either, but this is how I protest against the NY GOP for them being so corrupt.

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Wed Jan 29 07:03:40 2025
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    Shall I send you a "get well" card for your lobotomy. :)

    Ha! No, send one to the sheeple who think that "The NY GOP is doing everything they can to find candidates."

    I'd call the zoo. There are too many RINOs on the loose in NY.

    (I hope they get well soon!)

    That will only happen if they get caught by the men in white. And they are too busy rounding up the sex offenders.


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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to AARON THOMAS on Wed Jan 29 09:53:00 2025
    Although no longer true, back when I registered (R), the thought process was you should really register D because the D's ran everything in this state and you'd actually have a voice that way... at least in the primaries.

    Is KY one of the states where registered Democrat voters can vote in Republica
    primaries?

    NO, thank goodness! There was a push several years ago to allow Independents to vote in one primary or the other but that also seems to have died over
    the years, thankfully.

    My state is not one of them. And I don't plan on voting in any Democrat primaries either, but this is how I protest against the NY GOP for them being so corrupt.

    If I were changing my registration, I would be doing so in order to vote in
    the primaries. The GOP is not going to really notice your protest, but
    voting in a D primary might allow you to support a more moderate-leaning candidate and would be more likely to elicit change.


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/202 to Mike Powell on Wed Jan 29 08:35:41 2025
    My state is not one of them. And I don't plan on voting in any Democrat primaries either, but this is how I protest against the NY GOP for them so corrupt.

    If I were changing my registration, I would be doing so in order to vote in the primaries. The GOP is not going to really notice your protest,
    but voting in a D primary might allow you to support a more moderate-leaning candidate and would be more likely to elicit change.

    A less harmful Democrat (for an election in my state) sounds great.

    We'll see. It depends on what kind of crap the DNC has to offer. But as you know, they are like robots, and they're programmed to do what they're told, and they all have the same agenda.

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Thu Jan 30 08:04:15 2025
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Mike Powell <=-

    We'll see. It depends on what kind of crap the DNC has to offer. But as you know, they are like robots, and they're programmed to do what
    they're told, and they all have the same agenda.

    But remember that any Democrat with brains became a Republican a while ago.

    So the Democrat party only has a bunch of useless bots to put forward as candidates.


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Ron L. on Thu Jan 30 17:07:20 2025
    We'll see. It depends on what kind of crap the DNC has to offer. But you know, they are like robots, and they're programmed to do what they're told, and they all have the same agenda.

    But remember that any Democrat with brains became a Republican a while ago.

    So the Democrat party only has a bunch of useless bots to put forward as candidates.

    Yea, they are all on the same payroll. The only way to fix a state like mine is to bulldoze it. Or maybe some tough love from a kick ass president like Trump could set these reptilians straight.

    How did it feel when you found out that Trump won your state? I bet you were proud! It's a clear F U to Gretchie from the voters!

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Fri Jan 31 07:19:57 2025
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    Yea, they are all on the same payroll. The only way to fix a state like mine is to bulldoze it. Or maybe some tough love from a kick ass
    president like Trump could set these reptilians straight.

    "Tough love" is certainly the correct term. It's going to be politically incorrect to tell union workers that they have to actually work if they want to get paid. And all those welfare paracites to get off their rear ends and work.
    And all the local politicans who will have to stop the graft.

    How did it feel when you found out that Trump won your state? I bet you were proud! It's a clear F U to Gretchie from the voters!

    It was a hollow victory. Trump won, but an Elitist was elected as senator.

    It does show that we don't actually elect anyone in our state. It's all decided by someone else and the votes are created to support that. Just like California.


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Ron L. on Fri Jan 31 07:25:46 2025
    Yea, they are all on the same payroll. The only way to fix a state li mine is to bulldoze it. Or maybe some tough love from a kick ass president like Trump could set these reptilians straight.

    "Tough love" is certainly the correct term. It's going to be politically incorrect to tell union workers that they have to actually work if they want to get paid. And all those welfare paracites to get off their rear ends and work. And all the local politicans who will have to stop the graft.

    Those are good ideas, but we need more extreme measures. Something like no more funding whatsoever, for anything. They can't live with their heat lamps turned off.

    How did it feel when you found out that Trump won your state? I bet y were proud! It's a clear F U to Gretchie from the voters!

    It was a hollow victory. Trump won, but an Elitist was elected as senator.

    4 years of one guy doing good things, and 6 years of some other guy doing bad things :(

    It does show that we don't actually elect anyone in our state. It's all decided by someone else and the votes are created to support that. Just like California.

    The people who actually realize the harm that Biden did, and voted for Trump, would they actually still vote for Democrats in other races?

    Maybe there's a significant population of people who are only 1/2 woken up, and they think that Biden was just one bad apple.

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Tue Feb 4 07:07:30 2025
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    There are parents who pay attention to their kids, and there are
    parents who don't. My kids know that all their teachers are Democrats.
    But I've taught them "Just because your teachers are brainwashed by the reptilians, it doesn't mean that they are wrong about algebra or vocabulary."

    I thought the same thing until I learned about "New Math". At this point, if the teacher has pronouns, colored hair, etc. then that teacher is completely incompetent to teach the subject - unless the subject is learning how to handle a delusional person.

    My kids caught on to Martin Luther King, his dream, and equality, long before all this ridiculous "equity" and "infinite genders" crap came along. They know that only dumb kids get brainwashed.

    Good.

    That makes sense, but now days it also makes sense to keep a majority.

    Why? We didn't need to keep a majority for a long time. Career politicians have always been a problem.

    My guess is that any reason to keep a majority is related to the gov't being too big (i.e. we don't need that dept) and/or the gov't sticking its nose into an area where it shouldn't be.

    That probably wasn't important in the old days, but the Democrats have
    a strong alliance with incredibly loyal puppets. We need to have the equivalent or they will crush us.

    Oh, yes. This won't change overnight, that's for sure. But we create disinsentives to being a puppet.


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Ron L. on Tue Feb 4 09:05:54 2025
    But I've taught them "Just because your teachers are brainwashed by t reptilians, it doesn't mean that they are wrong about algebra or vocabulary."

    I thought the same thing until I learned about "New Math". At this
    point, if the teacher has pronouns, colored hair, etc. then that teacher is completely incompetent to teach the subject - unless the subject is learning how to handle a delusional person.

    Lefty logic never adds up. My kids have a smart survival instinct where they can adapt to their environment. They are quiet about their knowledge of leftism while at school, but then they come home and tell me everything.

    My high schooler said: "My social studies teacher said that Trump is a white supremacist but I know Trump better than she does."

    My elementary schooler said: "I don't eat the snacks that my teacher gives us because SHE'S A DEMOCRAT." (LOL I wouldn't eat that stuff either!)

    That makes sense, but now days it also makes sense to keep a majority

    Why? We didn't need to keep a majority for a long time. Career politicians have always been a problem.

    My guess is that any reason to keep a majority is related to the gov't being too big (i.e. we don't need that dept) and/or the gov't sticking
    its nose into an area where it shouldn't be.

    You're right that the govt is too big. It's like a very disorderly rat colony. And we can't count on them for much of anything, but less Democrats means less opposition to the chosen one's agenda.

    That probably wasn't important in the old days, but the Democrats hav a strong alliance with incredibly loyal puppets. We need to have the equivalent or they will crush us.

    Oh, yes. This won't change overnight, that's for sure. But we create disinsentives to being a puppet.

    I don't understand that. To me it seems like we need constitutional puppets. People who will let the constitution do the thinking for them.

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Wed Feb 5 07:55:41 2025
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    Lefty logic never adds up.

    It never does. The double standards and doublespeak shows that.

    My kids have a smart survival instinct where
    they can adapt to their environment. They are quiet about their
    knowledge of leftism while at school, but then they come home and tell
    me everything.

    Sadly, similar to old Communist Russia.

    My elementary schooler said: "I don't eat the snacks that my teacher
    gives us because SHE'S A DEMOCRAT." (LOL I wouldn't eat that stuff either!)

    It's probably laced with sex-change drugs, going by what I see on Libs of TikTok.

    You're right that the govt is too big. It's like a very disorderly rat colony. And we can't count on them for much of anything, but less Democrats means less opposition to the chosen one's agenda.

    It's not just the Democrats.

    I've said it before: The problem isn't Democrats, Leftists, etc. The problem is an Elite class that seeks to dominate the rest of us. And it does that by infiltrating a trusted institution and turning it into a mask for them.

    Today, it's the Democrat party that was destroyed by them. The churches aren't far behind. The colleges/universities are done for. The medical industry has taken a huge credibility hit. And the Republican party has its RINOs.

    We need to be guarded with any group, at any time. We need to recognize the signs of infiltration. We need to create rules that prohibit that.

    Eric S. Raymond was lamenting on X about this. He said that when he had the platform to speak, he should have instituted rules making free speech absolute.
    That would have hamstrung the Elitists when they came and infiltrated some Open Source projects.

    I don't understand that. To me it seems like we need constitutional puppets. People who will let the constitution do the thinking for them.

    We need people who will work with the Constitution and not try to subvert it.

    I don't want puppets who let others do their thinking. I want people who can think for themselves and ask "Is this Constitutional?" before they introduce a new rule/law.


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Ron L. on Wed Feb 5 14:02:18 2025
    You're right that the govt is too big. It's like a very disorderly ra colony. And we can't count on them for much of anything, but less Democrats means less opposition to the chosen one's agenda.

    It's not just the Democrats.

    I've said it before: The problem isn't Democrats, Leftists, etc. The problem is an Elite class that seeks to dominate the rest of us. And it does that by infiltrating a trusted institution and turning it into a
    mask for them.

    I know, and I realize that the Republican party is infected. But the majority of Republicans are voting in our favor on things. And when they falter, so does their support (Notice how former Rep Marcus Molinaro is gone.)

    When Democrats have a majority in congress, they use it to hurt us. At least when Republicans have the majority they just sit there and do nothing (for the most part.)

    Today, it's the Democrat party that was destroyed by them. The churches aren't far behind. The colleges/universities are done for. The medical industry has taken a huge credibility hit. And the Republican party has its RINOs.

    The Roman Catholic Church comes to mind. The current pope is a globalist tyrant, and Catholic Charities is teaching illegal migrants how to evade law enforcement (they call it "helping immigrants.")

    We need to be guarded with any group, at any time. We need to recognize the signs of infiltration. We need to create rules that prohibit that.

    Legal rules? The only way to fight all this infiltration is to start building our own infrastructure (our own churches, information systems, schools, labor unions, radio stations, etc.) We need to build a coalition of like minded "experts" in all those fields. It's the only way. And the government ain't gonna help us, not even Trump.

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Thu Feb 6 07:58:44 2025
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    When Democrats have a majority in congress, they use it to hurt us. At least when Republicans have the majority they just sit there and do nothing (for the most part.)

    But that's the "Republican Way". They believe that the gov't should stay out of people's lives, so they "do nothing". And that's the way it should be.

    We need to stop thinking that the opposite of "Democrat" is "Republican" because it's not.

    The Roman Catholic Church comes to mind. The current pope is a
    globalist tyrant, and Catholic Charities is teaching illegal migrants
    how to evade law enforcement (they call it "helping immigrants.")

    I recognized the Church has a bunch of elitists decades ago and stopped giving them any of my time (or money). Now it's just gotten blatent.

    Legal rules? The only way to fight all this infiltration is to start building our own infrastructure (our own churches, information systems, schools, labor unions, radio stations, etc.) We need to build a
    coalition of like minded "experts" in all those fields. It's the only
    way. And the government ain't gonna help us, not even Trump.

    But those institutions will get infiltrated over time too.

    When I looked up "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty", I found this:

    This concept is frequently expressed as "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," though it is not originally attributed to Thomas Jefferson, as is commonly believed. The phrase can be traced back to an Irish statesman, John Philpot Curran, who in 1790 said, "The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Ron L. on Thu Feb 6 07:08:24 2025
    We need to stop thinking that the opposite of "Democrat" is "Republican" because it's not.

    You, me, the other guys in the echo, we already know that. But the sheeple haven't figured it out yet. Their Republican votes aren't really hurting us, but their trust in the party sure is.

    I recognized the Church has a bunch of elitists decades ago and stopped giving them any of my time (or money). Now it's just gotten blatent.

    They still serve 1 good purpose: they teach kids about Jesus. I just need to get out of the Roman Catholic church and probably into the Orthodox Catholic church instead (they are not affiliated with Catholic Charities.)

    This concept is frequently expressed as "eternal vigilance is the price
    of liberty," though it is not originally attributed to Thomas Jefferson, as is commonly believed. The phrase can be traced back to an Irish statesman, John Philpot Curran, who in 1790 said, "The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which
    condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."

    It's true. And being vigilant is what I do all day every day. But I'm a slave to the left due to their association with all these institutions. I don't see any other way to fight them but by building new institutions. I try to wake people up but I don't get out nearly enough.

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Fri Feb 7 07:27:48 2025
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    They still serve 1 good purpose: they teach kids about Jesus.

    It depends. They usually teach a very warped sense of Jesus. But the upside is that many people actually live their lives according to what Jesus taught, so they can serve as good role models. But too many others are "do as I say, not as I do."

    I just
    need to get out of the Roman Catholic church and probably into the Orthodox Catholic church instead (they are not affiliated with Catholic Charities.)

    All churches are suspect. I recently went to a service at a very large church near by and, I swear, I thought I was at some sort of variety show. It was the biggest joke of a "service" that I ever saw.

    It's true. And being vigilant is what I do all day every day. But I'm a slave to the left due to their association with all these institutions.

    I think you missed my point: Yes, we need to build new institutions. But we also need to build in vigilance to prevent the Elitists from infiltrating them and wrecking them just like they did to the old institutions.


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Ron L. on Fri Feb 7 08:24:28 2025
    All churches are suspect. I recently went to a service at a very large church near by and, I swear, I thought I was at some sort of variety
    show. It was the biggest joke of a "service" that I ever saw.

    I used to think that church is good because you can get a large quantity of people praying for common goals, but in reality church goers don't all have the same goals, and besides, it only takes one person's prayer to trigger a response from God.

    It's true. And being vigilant is what I do all day every day. But I'm slave to the left due to their association with all these institution

    I think you missed my point: Yes, we need to build new institutions.
    But we also need to build in vigilance to prevent the Elitists from infiltrating them and wrecking them just like they did to the old institutions.

    We need some federal legislation. We "scored" a federal court win when a judge ruled against Google in an antitrust case last year, but it's been 7 months since the ruling and Google is still the default search engine on phones, Chrome is still the default browser, and Android is still the default OS.

    The problem with that probably lies in the fact that Google has enough money to pay congress to stay quiet.

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Sat Feb 8 08:32:21 2025
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    I think you missed my point: Yes, we need to build new institutions.
    But we also need to build in vigilance to prevent the Elitists from infiltrating them and wrecking them just like they did to the old institutions.

    We need some federal legislation.

    We already had that with the old institutions. Remember that Elitists don't believe laws apply to them, so they just ignore them. So to use the law 1) someone must bring suit and 2) we need to get a judge that isn't in the Elitist's pocket.

    We "scored" a federal court win when
    a judge ruled against Google in an antitrust case last year, but it's
    been 7 months since the ruling and Google is still the default search engine on phones, Chrome is still the default browser, and Android is still the default OS.

    But most of those decisions are made by the phone company, who makes the Android build for the phone. So not much of a win. Google simply doesn't bundle Chrome into Android anymore, but then the phone companies put it back in their builds.

    The problem with that probably lies in the fact that Google has enough money to pay congress to stay quiet.

    Well, that's changing. As more and more people opt for alternatives, Google product range decreases. And others are actively poisoning Google's data.


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Ron L. on Sat Feb 8 13:09:34 2025
    We "scored" a federal court win when
    a judge ruled against Google in an antitrust case last year, but it's been 7 months since the ruling and Google is still the default search engine on phones, Chrome is still the default browser, and Android is still the default OS.

    But most of those decisions are made by the phone company, who makes the Android build for the phone. So not much of a win. Google simply
    doesn't bundle Chrome into Android anymore, but then the phone companies put it back in their builds.

    I understand. It sounds like Google can pass the blame to the phone companies, but the phone companies can pass the blame to the manufacturers, and the manufacturers can can pass the blame on "the phones need an OS in order to
    function." My assumption is that there's no blaming anybody but ourselves until we start manufacturing our own phones.

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Tue Feb 11 07:24:06 2025
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    Most smartphone users don't think about the fact that apps communicate with databases around the world. Websites can do it too, but with apps
    it becomes even more difficult to control (China probably loves apps.)

    Most smartphone users today don't think about it. But people are waking up. There will always be ignorant users, but that's their problem.

    For me it's not worth the trouble to obtain a custom device. I rarely
    use mine, and I hardly take it with me anywhere.

    Which is why people tolerate this right now. They want the benefits, so they put up with the drawbacks.

    Now, if a company were to provide a device with the benefits but no (or at least fewer) drawbacks, that would drive the market toward more a more secure device.


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Ron L. on Tue Feb 11 14:43:20 2025
    For me it's not worth the trouble to obtain a custom device. I rarely use mine, and I hardly take it with me anywhere.

    Which is why people tolerate this right now. They want the benefits, so they put up with the drawbacks.

    Now, if a company were to provide a device with the benefits but no (or
    at least fewer) drawbacks, that would drive the market toward more a
    more secure device.

    That sounds like it could catch on. Even people who don't understand or care about privacy concerns would potentially want to switch to "the device that's more private."

    Anything that takes power away from Google/Apple would be a good cause.

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Wed Feb 12 07:25:45 2025
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    That sounds like it could catch on. Even people who don't understand or care about privacy concerns would potentially want to switch to "the device that's more private."

    Anything that takes power away from Google/Apple would be a good cause.

    But it takes effort too because more private also means "less convienent".


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