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well said Mickey, too many folks like their mental chains instead of observing basic facts......

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Thank you, Deb...much appreciated. We certainly don't have to always agree but wow, how I wish more of us would listen without derailing!

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in recent days I decided that we have a splendid choice who to vote for. 2 dementing old men and one dissident, who does not seem as clean as he pretends. From the reps in the debate, we know Haley is a WEF member. Ramaswamy is one from the same swamp as the other stinking rich buggers. May be we need a Lech Walesa? Mickey for president !

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I’m voting Mickey Z for president and Jon Rappaport as his vice president. 😉 Now that’s a combination for Free Thinkers!

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we can easily fill all the govt seats with a good grab of people - drs Yeadon, Midwestern, Kory, Spartacus, Sasha, and so many more ! Half of the substack would save the country for sure! I am going to write in !

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The late F.David Peat was a younger contemporary of the theoretical physicist Davis Bohm. I can’t think of a better explanation of the place we find ourselves in….

https://fdavidpeat.com/bibliography/essays/gentleglobal.htm

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Thank you, Orange...I will try to read that link later today!

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Thank you, FRS...I will try to read that link later today!

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Unfortunate effect of this is people (and rodents) staying away from certain topics – as touching those, far from pleasing everyone, they can't even please anyone.

If my memory serves me right, in 200+ strips Rat has only once mentioned Ukraine and has never mentioned Israel.

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Thanks, Rat... does this approach please YOU?

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No, but then I'm just a small rodent, and there are so many baseboards to gnaw on.

Sometimes my gnawing emerges more abstract than it could be – but whoever has ears will hear anyway.

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This is very well said. I remember when Bush was launching the forever wars post 9/11. He had this statement "You're either with us or you're with the terrorists." Now I was against those wars and not because of any special sympathy for "the terrorists" as much as just for humanity in general. I tried to explain that they benefitted no one except a few at the very top and our government at a bare minimum had allowed the September 11 attacks to happen if not actively facilitating them. I got shouted down everywhere. I remember one guy who knew from my Internet forum that I had grown up in Ohio said in response to my peacemongering "Well if you hate America that much why don't you just leave?" At the time I happened to be in Thailand and told him as much in the chat room. I could see the ... in the group chatroom going on for what felt like forever as he furiously recalculated his response to me. Finally it became something about how didn't Thailand have a lot of Muslims? "I'm Buddhist." I tried to explain. But but but once I get abducted by my new jihadi lover I'll come crying to the USA for help! On and on it went. At what point do we accept that all people are capable of atrocities but in our current broken system we have incentivized war for those at the top?

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Right back at ya, Amy: VERY WELL-SAID!

I feel your pain and can relate to that particular scenario. Bush said the quiet part out loud and too many people lined up to virtue signal.

I've also heard this: "Well if you hate America that much why don't you just leave?" My typical response is that if I left, I'd be putting myself at risk of being on the other side of U.S. foreign policy!

Indeed, I wish we'd accept that all people are capable of atrocities because (I trust) the eventual progression is the realization that all people are capable of compassionate miracles, too.

Thank you, Amy! 🙏

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You are correct about the other side of the blowback too. My boyfriend at the time was also born and bred as American as apple pie from Michigan. But in Thailand due to a lot of harsh looks he began claiming he was Canadian if anyone asked where he was from. I told anyone who asked that I was from Ohio. It was surprising how few outsiders knew where that was in the world!

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I like that strategy! "Ohio" sounds quite benign compared to 'Murica.

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I remember Thais especially trying to figure out what country Ohio was. It's an odd country, perhaps an island nationality off of the coast of Greece, or somehwere near Uzbekistan, situated appropriately close to the country of Georgia. Or maybe it's in South America?

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I detest false dichotomies. They go on to create strawmen; huge umbrella-labels that end up not really describing anyone they're applied to.

I kniw that more than once I've been described as a Q-follower (how's that again?) or a Trump supporter, which is an impossibility. So I will settle with "fringe minority with unacceptable views". I guess that's as close as we get right now. And there's no room for argument

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Amen to every single word of that, Jaye. May our views become more widely acceptable with each passing day. 🙏

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I agree there’s usually more than one truth, people have different perspectives and opinions as it should be. Where the Powers that Shouldn’t Be win is when those differences create division, as in “you don’t agree with me so you HATE me”. Um, I don’t hate you, I just don’t agree with your interesting point of view. Trying to be the LOVE to fill the gap. ❤️

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Amen, Mary! 🙏 💕

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So well said, as always, and in a non-attacking way, as always. Your non-violent truth-telling is what got me to be a paid subscriber (also your boots-on-the ground work to help homeless women). Someone I used to know said, "It seems people are only interested in their own outrage, " while not realizing she was also describing herself. And me, as well, but I am becoming more aware of that. I am trying to remain reachable and teachable, because I have had my head twisted around in a number of unexpected ways the past few years, so I need to remain open to ideas and viewpoints I have not considered yet, or deemed worthy of consideration. And I love what you say here: "Indeed, I wish we'd accept that all people are capable of atrocities because (I trust) the eventual progression is the realization that all people are capable of compassionate miracles, too." This is my wish too. Thank you, Mickey!

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Thank YOU, Karen...for your kind words, curious mind, and for being a subscriber! 🙏 💕

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All well and good till you tossed an accusation at Hamas. There can be no doubt that ‘israel’ is a terror state; and believing their lies, including about Hamas, is worse than foolish. The world did a big fat nothing thru a century, at least, of zionist terrorism; and only Hamas has had the guts to take them on. And unlike Israhell, they do not target civilians, schools, hospitals, churches, and certainly dont pick off schoolyard children with rifles from rooftops, for sport. Believing zio lies, and taking a middle-of-the-road position on an ongoing atrocious genocide is IMMORAL!

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Please tell me this is satire... since you essentially proved the point of the post.

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Debate and even honest open discussion is about as rare these days as common sense. It seems the masses are so (brainwashedly) divided they think you automatically must choose a side. Sad.

(And yes that’s a word cuz I just said it)

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I love adverbs!

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