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  • KSirys
  • BrushwithDeathToothpaste
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      BrushwithDeathToothpaste  
    • You forced me into a little insight session. My conclusion is that I am hamstrung more by anger than fear. Now I'm afraid that I'm too angry. I'm off to find some chocolate. Marked Nov 5th on my calendar.

    • 10 months ago
  • Progresshiv
  • BrushwithDeathToothpaste
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  • Hardytoo
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  • scooter3282
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      scooter3282  
    • Excellent as usual, Progresshiv. We live in a time when what we knew of the pioneer spirit is systematically being squashed by the governmental powers that be. When we see municipalities shaking down lemonade stand operators and Girl Scout troops, seemingly benign attempts to achieve financial betterment as some kind of tax cheats, while Corporate America laughs all the way to the bank, we know we are in a battle for our souls let alone physical survival. The current power structure will fight tooth and nail against the establishment of an idealistic cooperative community. They want it all, every red cent from every red blooded working man and woman and if the dollars run out, they will take it as pounds of flesh. I certainly agree with your plan in principal, but we have to do with great care under the radar in many instances. Today's Big Brother does not willingly allow people doing end runs around their control mechanisms. But a resistance we must forge regardless or we will continue to be fodder for the machine.

    • 10 months ago
  • Progresshiv
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      Progresshiv  
    • scooter3282:

      The current powers that be are supposedly-grown men and women who go to work in their pajamas and who quake at the thought of physical labor. They are terrified of us, so they arm themselves with terrible weapons. We must ignore them and go about the business of being human.

    • 10 months ago
  • scooter3282
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      scooter3282  
    • Progresshiv:

      Agreed, Progresshiv. They are the ones who are seeking refuge behind the gates of their gated communities and doing their best not to cross paths with the "riff-raff" as much as possible. But like cornered animals, they are lashing out, that's for sure. If we can cut them out of the loop of "our" lives, we will be all the better for it. We don't have to be a part of the machine. It is scary when we see the crackdowns on attempts to live our lives which don't follow their blueprint, but as you say, we can't give in to their iron-fisted attempts to control our existence.

    • 10 months ago
  • demsbeans527
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      demsbeans527  
    • You are so right. We are going to have to do it whether we want to or not, eventually. Why not show that we can, as we used to do, survive without being consumer-bots. I'm saving the date November 5th. May it extend over the holiday season.

    • 10 months ago
  • Progresshiv
  • Leen61
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  • Leen61
  • jubal
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  • jubal
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  • Misti
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  • GRC54
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      GRC54  
    • You comments are well appreciated my friend. The people need to wake up and really get out of their basements, stop playing video games, and start to live the way we were meant to live.
      The garden is growing food. More than we can eat but will give some to the neighbors as favors are done between us all the time.
      Keep going and never stop.

    • 10 months ago
  • Progresshiv
  • VanessafromDC
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  • kennymotown
  • Progresshiv
  • kennymotown
  • Incredulous
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      Incredulous  
    • Lovely...if I had a Facebook page I would put this up there, it deserves to go viral. So nice to have your voice back on this site Prog....you add so much!

    • 10 months ago
  • Progresshiv
  • VFORVENDETTA
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      VFORVENDETTA  
    • Progresshiv:

      Greetings Progress...

      Good to see you again. while I am in total agreement with your sentiment, I totally disagree with your proposed methodology to achieve, our desperately needed social cohesion.

      What I have learned from human history, is that in the very broadest terms, there exist a group of people who subscribe to one of the most dangerous and genocidal philosophies ever created, Fundamentalism.

      A true Fundamentalist, rarely if ever, renounces their genocidal philosophy and returns to the world of reason, and all of the talking to them in the world will ever change this, if that were the case, we wouldn't be living in the plutocracy as we currently do, with very few true democratic elements remaining, this particularly really got going when that fucking Fascist Reagan was elected in 1980, we have been on the fast slippery slope of corporate totalitarian homogeneity every since, and it will only continue to get worse.

      Whether you know this or not, it is the inability and or outright refusal of the left to accept the fact that evil does exist, and I am not talking about evil in a spiritual sense, I'm simply talking about people-fundamentalist-who have a goal and agenda, and for those that are truly conservative, they wouldn't give a second thought to killing everyone who is not like them if they could get away with it, remember, just like the Nazis, conservatives have a particular hatred for liberals and intellectuals, and as soon as the time presents itself, they will have absolutely no compunction whatsoever of putting people like you or I in concentration camps, this is why when we Americans, and the coalition of military forces from around the world stormed the beaches of Normandy, we did not come there to "talk" to them, but to put a bullet in their fucking brain, ignore history at your own peril.

    • 10 months ago
  • Progresshiv
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      Progresshiv  
    • VFORVENDETTA:

      I understand your points, and I agree that people who have abandoned reason do not often renounce idiocy. Since we cannot outgun those who seek to destroy our culture, we must starve them by refusing to take part in their commerce. This can and must be done, unless you relish the thought of an uncontrollable revolution that kills thousands and contains no guarantee that the new boss will be better than the old boss.

      Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts.

    • 10 months ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • What you suggest is a return to the true America. An America where we take care of each other. It once was that way. Matter of fact growing up where I did in our neighborhood we all knew each other, helped each other, cared for each other. My block was a family. We all sat out together in the summer and I enjoyed playing with all the kids on the block when we actually went outside to play and to be in nature. When we had hardships we supported each other. We shared what we grew and asked nothing for it but that those we gave it to enjoyed it. I remember my mother needing a mastectomy because she had breast cancer. There was not a night we did without dinner. The women on my block made sure we were taken care of until my mom came home. That was devastating for me, especially since I only had her for a few years after that. I grew up fast. But we had friends who got us through that and I will never forget it. And political party never overrode our desire to be human beings first. That is the spirit that seems to have been lost along the way in this country to a large extent over these past few decades. How I long for that again. I miss the America I grew up in.That's why I talk about CSAs and local food so much. This is all part of taking it back. Thanks for posting this. And props for mentioning FDR. A man who did understand that human spirit at its core.

    • 10 months ago
  • Progresshiv
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      Progresshiv  
    • JanforGore:

      You and I grew up in the same country, which was a place where people really did care for each other, in spite of the country's flaws. I remember playing baseball with my friends- we had to improvise the bases in a vacant lot, pick teams (without interference from our folks), get along, and have fun. Having ground-level connections with my pals taught me the true meaning of the word, "community."

      Isolating ourselves behind denial, suspicion, and hatred does not strengthen our land. Such behavior is inherently unpatriotic and will lead us nowhere. I would rather quickly die in a terrorist attack than live for a long time in a climate of fear and suspicion.

      America is people.

    • 10 months ago
  • noxidereus
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  • bailey78
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  • bailey78
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      bailey78  
    • Progresshiv:

      I have five hens and a rooster to part with. You can start your own chicken ranch. just let me know who needs them if you can't use them let others know.I will ship them out asap.

    • 42 years ago
  • Progresshiv
  • notsure
  • bailey78
  • ampersand
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      ampersand  
    • Progresshiv,
      I've loved the your wit and humor in countless previous comments, but I can say now that I'm even far more impressed with your serious side.

      Your direct and sensible eloquence is one of the major building blocks of the new world we are all now called on to create.

      This is a path many of us began years ago.
      Now, out of the common experience of pain and necessity, we have reached the tipping point in understanding that how unsustainable and toxic the system we've labored under is.

      When something doesn't work, if one is at all sane, you put it aside, or re-fashion it. This endless series of disasters, and the long list of crimes revealed, is, at it's core, a great opportunity.

      Welcome to a new world being born.

    • 10 months ago
  • Progresshiv
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