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No shame at all in admitting that I don't read propaganda.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Although you say you are not a Republican, all Republicans in Texas say they don't read propaganda written by Democrats. If you did read, that would have been solid proof that you are definitely not a Republican. Then your assertions that you are an "Independent" would be more believable. Essentially, 6ixStringJack, you are wearing a tee shirt that says "Independent" on the front, while the back of the shirt, the part everyone but you can see, says "Republican".

Maybe you should put your shirt on backwards? It won't look any stupider than you look now.

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I suppose your explanation why you spent so much time reading up on Gates inventing 1s and 0s, Flat Earth, algore inventing the Internet, Oswald being Lone Gunman, the falling sky, and Betsy Ross, Susan Anthony, Hamilton & Franklin being the Greatest Presidents give insight to why you're so gullible.

Is that why you refuse to attribute your posts, so 6ix will think what you plagiarized is your original words, and read the drivel you copied?

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NYT editor was caught on hidden camera targeting the President of the USA, and denying any sort of objectivity.

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While talking about being objective at the Times, Dudich replies candidly, "No I'm not, that's why I'm here."

Dudich considers himself an important player at the New York Times, telling the Project Veritas Journalist "my voice is on... my imprint is on every video we do."

Dudich goes on to explain what he might do to target President Trump:

"I'd target his businesses, his dumb fuck of a son, Donald Jr., and Eric...

"Target that. Get people to boycott going to his hotels. Boycott... So a lot of the Trump brands, if you can ruin the Trump brand and you put pressure on his business and you start investigating his business and you start shutting it down, or they're hacking or other things. He cares about his business more than he cares about being President. He would resign. Or he'd lash out and do something incredibly illegal, which he would have to."

When the undercover journalist asks Dudich if he could make sure that the anti-Trump stories make it to the front, he replied, "Oh, we always do."

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So much for the objectivity and sanctity of the "free" (corporate) press!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-10/okeefe-takes-aim-nyt-records-
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Wow yourself, JewelStaiteFan. You didn't read the paper, did you? But you couldn't stop yourself from giving an opinion, could you?

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Exactly right again second. Jack is another one who does this, and not the only one either. To Jacks credit, he at least admits it.

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No shame at all in admitting that I don't read propaganda.

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Although you say you are not a Republican, all Republicans in Texas say they don't read propaganda written by Democrats. If you did read, that would have been solid proof that you are definitely not a Republican. Then your assertions that you are an "Independent" would be more believable. Essentially, 6ixStringJack, you are wearing a tee shirt that says "Independent" on the front, while the back of the shirt, the part everyone but you can see, says "Republican".

Maybe you should put your shirt on backwards? It won't look any stupider than you look now.

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I suppose your explanation why you spent so much time reading up on Gates inventing 1s and 0s, Flat Earth, algore inventing the Internet, Oswald being Lone Gunman, the falling sky, and Betsy Ross, Susan Anthony, Hamilton & Franklin being the Greatest Presidents give insight to why you're so gullible.

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Stormy Daniels? Stage Name for Stephanie Clifford?

Is this your flimsy attempt to deflect, or are you really this dense?
Stormy Daniels is not a Mythological entity, even if she is a resident of your dreams.
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That about sums it up for nearly 100% of American's who can't bring themselves to tune out. None of it matters.

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That about sums it up for nearly 100% of American's who can't bring themselves to tune out. None of it matters.

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You didn't understand the article, did you? Mr. Hagerman can safely tune out Trump only because Mr. Hagerman is tremendously wealthy, which insulates him from Trump's failures. More money equals more personal safety and freedom. More insulation from the foolish American President's troubled life.

Hagerman got wealthy by using his head. The same brains that made him rich made him conclude that: “It’s not like I wanted to just steer away from Trump or shift the conversation. It was like I was a vampire and any photon of Trump would turn me to dust.” Trump is a bad President, to simplify the message being clearly sent in the interview with the successful Ohioan who is now retired.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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I won't ever live a life of luxury, but I don't have to take shit from anyone and that's the most valuable thing in the world in my eyes.

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So many good things I've done in my life since then, and it just keeps improving.

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I had to take shit from everybody, 6ix. You’re smarter than me, younger than me. You could do better than me, but to do better you will need to give a shit and take some shit because America is a hierarchy. I spent 19 years at the same shitty job. Got laid off twice. I didn’t have the good sense to find a better job during those down times. The first full year worked, I made $17,189 in 1978. My best year, with overtime, was $66,622. And it was all to accumulate capital. 6ixStringJack, I wish you the best of luck and hope things go smoother for you than it did for me. And in America, things will, if you use your superior brain, rather than taking life easy, not planning ahead, and resigning yourself to doing only enough to survive. I see that you have already taken my advice before I even gave it:

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My motivation to bust my ass making somebody else money is virtually gone at this point. I see no path for any relatively meaningful upward advancement at any companies today without a college degree.

I've got plans for some personal projects I'm working on at the moment however. Just working for somebody else while I'm putting a lot of the pieces together. ;)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Does working class support for President Trump prove shallow when a Democrat makes a populist economic argument? The panel digs into the results of Pennsylvania's special election.

www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/pennsylvania-race-shows-working-class-
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My motivation to bust my ass making somebody else money is virtually gone at this point. I see no path for any relatively meaningful upward advancement at any companies today without a college degree.

I've got plans for some personal projects I'm working on at the moment however. Just working for somebody else while I'm putting a lot of the pieces together. ;)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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6ix, ask why is Finland happier than Indiana? It might go all the way back to WWII. If the Finns didn’t stick together, they’d all die together. www.history.com/news/ask-history/what-was-the-winter-war That’s certainly not an attitude found in America, where it is every man for himself, every state for itself, winner take all. At least that is the Texas I live in, which can be a brutal land to the losers, and wonderful beyond my greediest dreams to the winners.

Why is Finland happier than the US?
www.pri.org/stories/2018-03-14/why-finland-happier-us-0

"I've joked with the other Americans that we are living the American dream here in Finland," said Brianna Owens, who moved from the United States and is now a teacher in Espoo, Finland's second biggest city with a population of around 280,000.

"I think everything in this society is set up for people to be successful, starting with university and transportation that works really well," Owens told Reuters.

Finland rose from fifth place last year to oust Norway from the top spot. The 2018 Top-10, as ever dominated by the Nordics, is: Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden and Australia.

The United States came in at 18th, down from 14th place last year. Britain was 19th and the United Arab Emirates 20th.

One chapter of the 170-page report is dedicated to emerging health problems such as obesity, depression and the opioid crisis, particularly in the United States where the prevalence of all three has grown faster than in most other countries.

While US income per capita has increased markedly over the last half century, happiness has been hit by weakened social support networks, a perceived rise in corruption in government and business and declining confidence in public institutions.

"We obviously have a social crisis in the United States: more inequality, less trust, less confidence in government," the head of the SDSN, Professor Jeffrey Sachs of New York's Columbia University, told Reuters as the report was launched at the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

"It's pretty stark right now. The signs are not good for the US It is getting richer and richer but not getting happier."

Asked how the current political situation in the United States could affect future happiness reports, Sachs said:

"Time will tell, but I would say that in general that when confidence in government is low, when perceptions of corruption are high, inequality is high and health conditions are worsening ... that is not conducive to good feelings."

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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I plan to have a good amount stored away to give my niece and my brother when I'm gone. Other than that, everyone else is on their own.

Nobody has ever done anything for me in my life that wasn't some trivial, one off thing. I wasted my kindness and put myself out there for people who didn't deserve it.

I've got no fucks left to give. The rest of my life I'm living for me, and as long as I'm not putting anybody else while doing it then there's nothing wrong with that.


Great for Finland. Glad they've got it figured out. Hope the Muslims don't come in and destroy it all for them in the long run.

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I plan to have a good amount stored away to give my niece and my brother when I'm gone. Other than that, everyone else is on their own.

Nobody has ever done anything for me in my life that wasn't some trivial, one off thing. I wasted my kindness and put myself out there for people who didn't deserve it.

I've got no fucks left to give. The rest of my life I'm living for me, and as long as I'm not putting anybody else while doing it then there's nothing wrong with that.


Great for Finland. Glad they've got it figured out. Hope the Muslims don't come in and destroy it all for them in the long run.

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6ix, there is much about your response that is very, very Republican and not at all Finnish. In Finland the rich feel obligated to look after the poor. The government tax collector ensures that the “feeling” becomes more than just a feeling. American tax collection does not work like that, at all. In America, 6ix (who is not rich) feels the obligation to sacrifice for his poor family. It is definitely the poor looking after the poorer, while the American rich need not sacrifice anything and can go about their business of growing ever wealthy. Personally, that is great for me, but not so great for 6ix.

That last comment by 6ix was ultra-Republican: “Hope the Muslims don't come in and destroy it all for [the Finns] in the long run." Try googling the question: Why are Republicans always whining and complaining about Muslims, niggers, and Mexicans? Is it something in the GOP DNA that makes Republicans like that? http://time.com/4535292/donald-trump-black-slaves/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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My motivation to bust my ass making somebody else money is virtually gone at this point. I see no path for any relatively meaningful upward advancement at any companies today without a college degree.

I've got plans for some personal projects I'm working on at the moment however. Just working for somebody else while I'm putting a lot of the pieces together. ;)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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6ix, ask why is Finland happier than Indiana? It might go all the way back to WWII. If the Finns didn’t stick together, they’d all die together. www.history.com/news/ask-history/what-was-the-winter-war That’s certainly not an attitude found in America, where it is every man for himself, every state for itself, winner take all. At least that is the Texas I live in, which can be a brutal land to the losers, and wonderful beyond my greediest dreams to the winners.

Why is Finland happier than the US?
www.pri.org/stories/2018-03-14/why-finland-happier-us-0

"I've joked with the other Americans that we are living the American dream here in Finland," said Brianna Owens, who moved from the United States and is now a teacher in Espoo, Finland's second biggest city with a population of around 280,000.

"I think everything in this society is set up for people to be successful, starting with university and transportation that works really well," Owens told Reuters.

Finland rose from fifth place last year to oust Norway from the top spot. The 2018 Top-10, as ever dominated by the Nordics, is: Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden and Australia.

The United States came in at 18th, down from 14th place last year. Britain was 19th and the United Arab Emirates 20th.

One chapter of the 170-page report is dedicated to emerging health problems such as obesity, depression and the opioid crisis, particularly in the United States where the prevalence of all three has grown faster than in most other countries.

While US income per capita has increased markedly over the last half century, happiness has been hit by weakened social support networks, a perceived rise in corruption in government and business and declining confidence in public institutions.

"We obviously have a social crisis in the United States: more inequality, less trust, less confidence in government," the head of the SDSN, Professor Jeffrey Sachs of New York's Columbia University, told Reuters as the report was launched at the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

"It's pretty stark right now. The signs are not good for the US It is getting richer and richer but not getting happier."

Asked how the current political situation in the United States could affect future happiness reports, Sachs said:

"Time will tell, but I would say that in general that when confidence in government is low, when perceptions of corruption are high, inequality is high and health conditions are worsening ... that is not conducive to good feelings."

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Does working class support for President Trump prove shallow when a Democrat makes a populist economic argument? The panel digs into the results of Pennsylvania's special election.

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Voters May Be Wising Up
www.nytimes.com/2018/03/15/opinion/pennsylvania-election-voters.html

There’s no mystery about the Republican agenda. For at least the past 40 years, the G.O.P.’s central policy goal has been upward redistribution of income: lower taxes for the wealthy, big cuts in programs that help the poor and the middle class. We’ve seen that agenda at work in the policies of every Republican president from Reagan to Trump, every budget proposal from party stars like Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House.

This policy agenda is, however, deeply unpopular. Only small minorities of voters favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations; even smaller minorities favor cuts in major social programs. So how does the G.O.P. stay politically competitive? The answer is that the party has mastered the tactics of bait and switch: pretending to stand for one thing, then doing something quite different in office.

But if special elections in the Trump era are any indication, voters are wising up. Rick Saccone, the Republican candidate in a deep-red Pennsylvania congressional district that Trump won by almost 20 points, tried not one, not two, but three different bait-and-switch strategies. And on Tuesday he still seems to have suffered a hair-thin defeat.

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nytimes? This is where you fail.
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JewelStaiteFan, you are no different from Trump. He speaks often of "The Failing New York Times". You and he are using lies as tools. I have found all Republican Texans do the same as you and Trump, at least the ones that are worth my effort to check their truthfulness. They are always the Failing Republican voters. You guys have a perverted relationship with the truth, meaning you won't speak it when you think a lie is more useful.

As a businessman, Trump often fabricated or exaggerated to sell a narrative or advance his interests. In his memoir, “The Art of the Deal,” he called it “truthful hyperbole” or “innocent exaggeration.”

He would call reporters and pretend to be a publicity agent for himself named John Barron or John Miller. He claimed to earn $1 million from a speech when it was $400,000. He claimed to be worth $3.5 billion when seeking a bank loan, four times what the bank eventually found. When trying to lure investors to a hotel project, he had bulldozers dig on one side of the site and dump the dirt on the other to give the impression that the project was making progress.

“He’s a salesman and that’s not about telling the truth, that’s not the DNA about being a salesman,” said Gwenda Blair, the author of “The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a President,” a biography of his family. “The DNA of being a salesman is telling people what they want to hear. And he’s got it.”

Trump continued his practice as president. The Washington Post’s fact-checker documented 2,140 false or misleading claims in Trump’s first year in office, a rate of nearly six a day.

A Quinnipiac University poll in January showed that only 35 percent of Americans consider him honest, while 60 percent do not.

Republicans express concern. Amanda Carpenter, a former aide to GOP Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and former Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, has a new book coming out in May called “Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us.” On the cover is an illustration of Trump with a Pinocchio nose.

Her explanation is that Trump’s supporters do not see deception, they see a commitment to winning.

“Donald Trump’s lies and fabrications don’t horrify America,” says the publisher’s summary of her book. “They enthrall us.” It is a widespread and serious character defect of Republicans.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/politics/trump-truth-lies.htm
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I don't know if other people get the little task bar that shows what's loading up when a page comes up. I've noticed because - I dunno. Just curious. One of the links in the list when clicking on web-pages here is google-analytics.com And what IS google analytics you might ask? Here, let them tell you, in their own words ...

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Edward Snowden: Facebook Is A Surveillance Company Rebranded As "Social Media"


https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-19/facebook-tumbles-over-system
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Yeah... That's one of the unfortunate things about fff.net. It is possible to easily search everything that has ever been posted here through Google because there are permissions to do so. Some other forums I frequent will not allow any Google searches. This may or may not be based in part off of the location of the forum, globally. I dunno.

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Yeah... That's one of the unfortunate things about fff.net. It is possible to easily search everything that has ever been posted here through Google because there are permissions to do so. Some other forums I frequent will not allow any Google searches. This may or may not be based in part off of the location of the forum, globally. I dunno.

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6ix, have you ever tried clicking on your own link? http://fireflyfans.net/mthreaduser.aspx?u=20928

Your alter ego, 6ixStringJoker, has his own link: www.fireflyfans.net/mthreaduser.aspx?u=51570

The CIA doesn't need Google or Facebook to follow the twists and turns of 6ixStringJack and Joker. And what would the CIA find, anyway, about Al-Qaeda's leadership and your secret plans?

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Trump planned yesterday to get tough on the opioid epidemic. There’s a scene in “The Death of Stalin” — the latest feature film from British political satirist Armando Iannucci — where prisoners at one of the Soviet Union’s myriad of prison camps are being lined up and killed. A guard walks from person to person, executing them with a gunshot to the head. Suddenly, a Soviet soldier runs up to the executioner and tells him that the killings have suddenly been called off — orders straight from the top.

The prisoner who was next in line to die looks to his left, pondering the bodies he’s been spared from joining by inexplicable good luck. It’s both horrifying and comical, and reveals the utterly arbitrary way in which the Soviet Union moved people into and out of an out-group worthy of murdering. Which reminds me: Trump wants the death penalty for opioid dealers. https://qz.com/1230401

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/17/the-hilarious-terrifying-british-d
eath-of-stalin-shows-how-american-comedys-gone-wrong/


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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I'm only on board with it if that goes for Big Pharma and Doctors too.

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Lt. Col. Ralph Peters is a warmonger’s warmonger. As such, he fits in perfectly as a commentator on Fox News. But he’s finally decided he’s had enough and has decided to leave the network. Here’s his email explaining his resignation: www.buzzfeed.com/tomnamako/ralph-peters

Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am ashamed. In my view, Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration. When prime-time hosts—who have never served our country in any capacity—dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller—all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of “deep-state” machinations—I cannot be part of the same organization, even at a remove. To me, Fox News is now wittingly harming our system of government for profit.

As a Russia analyst for many years, it also has appalled me that hosts who made their reputations as super-patriots and who, justifiably, savaged President Obama for his duplicitous folly with Putin, now advance Putin’s agenda by making light of Russian penetration of our elections and the Trump campaign. Despite increasingly pathetic denials, it turns out that the “nothing-burger” has been covered with Russian dressing all along. And by the way: As an intelligence professional, I can tell you that the Steele dossier rings true—that’s how the Russians do things. The result is that we have an American president who is terrified of his counterpart in Moscow.

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I've never been on social media, not even professional social media like LinkedIn. I have no interest in over-sharing the minutia of my life, and an actual antipathy to viewing other people's over-sharing. I've been extremely suspicious of social media's hidden objectives, like I have been of Microsoft (and what an unfortunate phallic reference), and telecoms in general as well. And if I could completely divorce myself from Google and Amazon, I'd do that too. I also have a stupid phone, as my small gesture of resistance to the surveillance state. Unfortunately, to be truly free of snooping, you either have to be a complete Luddite (hello Amish country!), or a tech-genius ahead of the NSA. And, sadly, I'm neither.

In some way, large or small, everyone with a cell phone or inet connection participates in the cesspool.

ETA - and what a brilliant technical achievement is the inet! It had the capability to transform human society. But alas, human society is made of humans. And humans, once programmed by their early family and society, are loathe to change. Even more, vested human structures will not willingly give up power. The inet was born as a beautiful, transformative brilliance. And just look at it today.

So anyway ... anyone up for a rational, fact-based, and civil discussion about the topic?

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