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Jun 17, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Well-done! This is the leap that so many need to make but find themselves unable. Love it!

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Jun 17, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Very nice edit. My first exposure to Substack was El Gato Malo. I am seriously addicted now & spend two to three hours a day reading Substack posts. As a retired engineer & former Math teacher, I am also addicted to checking out linked articles, studies, etc. People still ask me what I am doing to keep busy in retirement. I usually step up onto my soapbox and explain to them, SUBSTACK RULZ.

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I am willing to accept that politics and government are necessary evils, but I think people way over estimate how necessary while way under estimating how evil.

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No entiendes al gato malo, querida senora...

Following his posts, you must know already he is maniacally precise and very specific.

Should we stop accepting everything, we would become just like our enemies, who do not accept any ideas or solutions coming from those outside their group, and not even theirs, for they keep contradicting themselves, all the time.

I will always accept a cool breeze in a hot summer day, my daughter's love and some tasty single malt, poured slowly on one single cube of ice ツ

So, perhaps a second correction may be needed, and I shall leave that to you.

Just my 2 cents ...

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Jun 18, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

When I come across a really great substack that I want to send to my normie sister (who's triple-jabbed and who is a grammarian), I cringe when I come across a bunch of misspellings or grammatical errors. (THE most common one lately appears to be "mislead" instead of "misled".) So sometimes I ask for the most egregious errors to be corrected so that I can forward it along to a rellie (that's what we call "relatives" here in Godzone) without her immediately discounting it as "poorly written" and thus a reflection on the writer's perspicacity (yes, she would use that word). LOL.

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😹👍

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Jun 17, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

I stopped voting in 2012 because I hate government so much, I saw no value in supporting the bs system. I really despise government and people who tell me that to vote and it's important and blah blah blah. I'm very pleased to have found substack (and Russel Band) and other like minded people.

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Jun 17, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

we're about to live through a Renaissance for anarchism

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As a formerly tragic rule-follower, I'm new to this way of thinking; but I'm definitely leaning in. ;)

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Grammar Nazi

to serve and correct

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I had to stop with the bad cat when they cut of comments and became paid. Like being locked out of the coffeeshop, when I had been allowed previously. If I ever start a Substack (waiting for T O P A L to be gone, shill danger man still recommending jabs on Substack) I will not start free and then change to subs. As for not accepting government, well, I am looking at sueing the city of Portland for the jab ads on the busses billboards. They want me to pay an Arts tax, and much more, but if I had followed their 'advice' , I very well could be dead or damaged. Screw the City of Portland OR. until they WAKE.

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Yes

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Perrrrfect!!

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Gosh dammit my coffee isn't even ready yet. I'm sooo late to this morning's party, again. Monica! can't you please give me fair warning the night before you post so I can set my alarm accordingly. And then what, Jim? she asks. Well, maybe if I'm on time to these gatherings I could at least sit and sip my fresh brewed java and read and enjoy to the fullest each response as they drop (note: in my cup its more like piping hot hummingbird water. Don't ask me for the recipe, you'd be appalled.)

ok. Here goes... I'm no expert on tribalism, but I have studied it and participated in it a little. Doc. Here's the reality. Yep, They are incredibly evil - the ones we know about are called Boomers (the titanium cylinders in the oceans, not the post ww2 type humans). According to the net there's 14 of them in operation. If your tribe is a big expanse of land somewhere in the world and you lead it off the international rez you run the risk of dealing with the Boomers parked off your shores, or sitting somewhere within range of their intercontinental ammo. On the farther end of the scale of human intercourse, say you want to build a house, or, rebuild your house that got burned up in a forest fire, you gotta ask permission from the local, county, and state planning departments to do so. In some places if you don't ask permission, get Their approval, and you build it anyway, They have a group of armed, badged thugs who will come knocking at your new door, or even while you are poring mud into the forms, and They Will Enforce The Law on your ass. Frickin sodomites. They are.

Question - is this end-to-end tyrannical, psycho imposition on my right to live as a Free Man, as I was born to be, truly necessary evils?

I say, Hell no. I come from a long line of rugged individualists who didn't need to, nor ask anyone's permission for how to sow, reap, sell their crops, let alone where, when, how to build house and barn, and raise a family. In fact I've built a bunch of houses with a minimum of, or no permission thank you. And I personally know of tons of good humans who can't speak English, have no degrees or licenses, who can build really good stuff, and who I would gladly form a crew of anytime, anywhere, to build all manner of fine structures without needing to ask frickin permission.

My point - Yes. Do not accept! and, I might add, don't ask permission for anything, from anyone who are known evil frickin' parasites, sodomites, murdering sobs, bureaucrat mafia thugs. I can hear the responses already... "Good luck with that m.o., Jim !"

So. Here's the dealeo. They, sobs, are really good at divide and conquer. Proved that long ago with the how they dealt with the "Injun Problem". (note: yep. I admit it. The Old Tribes' territories got conquered and then became the newly minted fresh New World virgin homesteading available acres that my ancestors came from Sweden to till and sow and build a new life on.) Further note: I do not condone genocide no matter what mantra/manifest destiny is being touted. I'm no historian, but its probably true that someone's freedom has pretty much always been at the cost of someone else giving up there's at the tip and edge of a sword and the barrel of a Gatling gun. The Native cultures that were lost back then were human with all manner of human flaws, but there were some of those Nations that were really incredible and all of humankind woulda been better served had they continued to thrive. They had so much wisdom and knowledge we could all have learned from.

Recently I had this very same conversation with a good friend who is Native. I told her, I try to tell her all the time, we are All, all of us, no matter what race or creed, in deep shit trouble. I admit to her and anyone else that cares, Yes, back in the day of her people's dominance there was a bunch of Scoundrels, later called Robber Barons, who wanted all the natural resources and the Natives were in the frickin' way so They commenced to wipe her ancestors out, nothing personal, yeah right. It happened and it was brutal and ugly beyond imagination. And, the Natives back then that were left alive were split down the middle and forced onto the reservations and stripped of everything they held dear, right down to their very souls.

Today Their playbook is the same, but its now aimed at putting all of us on Their New Reservations. Well, those few of us who are left anyway after Their New Genocidal plan is complete.

Please, please! I pleaded with my Native friend, ya gotta understand what's at stake in our world today. If we keep acquiescing to this evil we will all be obliterated this time. Not just some of us, They want all of us out of Their way this time around.

Forgive me for this rant, and for being a bit redundant in driving home my points. The reality is that The Machine hates Humankind. I pray that anyone who is feeding the Beast, who's continuing to rationalize their high paying jobs of resetting the codes of the Boomers ammo and Its secret wanderings, and everyone else who works for, and or condones the 'necessary evil', would wake the hell up, and quick. We gotta start asking how do we value Life?! And I pray that somehow They are not allowing 'The Kid Sniffer' access to the Big Red Button. God Bless us all.

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Rare break in Gato’s judgement!

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Where two humans are gathered together, there will be a government. You can’t get away from it in this world unless you live alone in a cabin in the woods. What you can do is try to minimize its damage, reach, and potential for evil.

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