The UPS driver always leaves packages behind the planter by my door.
Not on the doorstep where they'd be visible.
Behind the planter. Where only someone who lives here would think to look.
Yesterday I saw him arranging it just so, making sure it was completely hidden.
"Porch pirates," he explained with a shrug.
Some people are quietly taking care of everyone.
A romantic evening for a couple of hummingbirds seeking shelter. 🌹
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“There are no Jews in Gaza and barely any Hindus left in Pakistan.
Meanwhile, millions of Muslims live freely in Israel and India.
Yet somehow, Israel and India are the ones labeled "racist."
Make it make sense.”
-Eyal Yakoby
To suggest that these agencies have been captured is to imply that they were ever anything but. We live in dual realities. us, and Just Us. Just Us have been getting away with it for so long that they've taken smelling their own farts to stratospheric levels of absurdity. "Can we get away with this?" yielded to, "He got away with it, damn, did you see that, let's see what else we can do?" to "everyone does it." When someone gets caught and scapegoated, it does nothing to change the underlying s…
The direction of that fork rests solely on We The People. Unfortunately, a significant portion -- maybe even half -- of the The People are completely on board with the status quo. Whether out of pure ignorance, deluded by the propaganda mouthpieces which pass for journalism today, or a willing embrace as they see this is as somehow to their advantage.
Unless enough of The People begin to open their eyes and acknowledge the harsh reality that we are being systematically lied to, the fork to perdition is all but assured.
To your point of “We the People”: they have been anesthetized. They are happily ensconced in their little bubbles, and the media has seduced them into believing that whatever the media doesn’t agree with is a “conspiracy theory”. Anyone who raises such ideas is a tin foil hat adherent who is clearly uninformed/stupid/crazy -- if they would only “educate themselves” more via WaPo, NYT, MSNBC, they wouldn’t be so captured by MAGA.
One of the main things I’m struggling with at the moment is how the…
Maybe they just can't be bothered to muster your level of rage and obsession.
It wasn't an attack. Maybe they just are not concerned with these issues. If they are, not to your degree - and/or not worth getting themselves worked up over.
Trans stuff isn't on my mind.
Thanks for your diagnosis. I’m sure you know everything about me, and all my relationships with others. Ad hominem attacks are always a strong argument.
