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#11 · May 7, 2026, 11:26 pm

Quote from Joe2 on May 7, 2026, 11:26 pm

Quote from Moderator on May 7, 2026, 2:15 pm

@joe2, I just want to clear the air, you posted on a thread that we declared was CLOSED, that is why your(single) post was deleted, however, the entire off-topic thread still remains (including your other posts to it) AND we created a whole new section for people to talk about the things you SEEMED TO WANT TO TALK ABOUT and yet you feel you were mistreated.

Do I have this right?

Your summary is accurate enough just as Hermes' criticisms of posting links is accurate enough. Whether intent behind writing is conscious or subconscious, accuracy is only part of demonstrating adequate good faith.

As we discussed privately, my point is that this is a platform not a publisher. Were I a paid author I might prefer to use your editing skills. The platform carries zero liability for what I write. I have zero incentive to write what the platform requests or avoids. There was zero abusiveness in that deleted post. Zero bad faith.

In last few years, I endured more than my share of false accusations about the bad faith of my writing. So far and usually longer term, evidence of my good faith written words bears out. I have repeatedly requested others, whether bad faith or not, to be left free to write what they will. My only issue is when folk get abusive - ad hominem in particular. We each are free to ignore who we feel is worth avoiding.

The thread you left up is enough to clarify that I take criticisms seriously, especially when they avoid ad hominem. My questioning replies were mischaracterized from the start and eventually to some degree answered. Hopefully all my posts clarify my good faith and accuracy.

I understand your terms of engagement. I thought mine are clear. My presence here is by your grace. And mine. If some topics are too hot, that is fine. I understand and feel for those with less pain tolerance of scary thoughts. When I need to self censor to write, I take it elsewhere. That is a practical matter. I write for myself to clarify myself. I write whether anyone here or elsewhere reads it or not. I am far too familiar with what self censorship does to my clarity.

Considering past deletions for criticizing platform management, this reply is already beyond my comfort zone.

Thank you.

Quote from Moderator on May 7, 2026, 2:15 pm

@joe2, I just want to clear the air, you posted on a thread that we declared was CLOSED, that is why your(single) post was deleted, however, the entire off-topic thread still remains (including your other posts to it) AND we created a whole new section for people to talk about the things you SEEMED TO WANT TO TALK ABOUT and yet you feel you were mistreated.

Do I have this right?

Your summary is accurate enough just as Hermes' criticisms of posting links is accurate enough. Whether intent behind writing is conscious or subconscious, accuracy is only part of demonstrating adequate good faith.

As we discussed privately, my point is that this is a platform not a publisher. Were I a paid author I might prefer to use your editing skills. The platform carries zero liability for what I write. I have zero incentive to write what the platform requests or avoids. There was zero abusiveness in that deleted post. Zero bad faith.

In last few years, I endured more than my share of false accusations about the bad faith of my writing. So far and usually longer term, evidence of my good faith written words bears out. I have repeatedly requested others, whether bad faith or not, to be left free to write what they will. My only issue is when folk get abusive - ad hominem in particular. We each are free to ignore who we feel is worth avoiding.

The thread you left up is enough to clarify that I take criticisms seriously, especially when they avoid ad hominem. My questioning replies were mischaracterized from the start and eventually to some degree answered. Hopefully all my posts clarify my good faith and accuracy.

I understand your terms of engagement. I thought mine are clear. My presence here is by your grace. And mine. If some topics are too hot, that is fine. I understand and feel for those with less pain tolerance of scary thoughts. When I need to self censor to write, I take it elsewhere. That is a practical matter. I write for myself to clarify myself. I write whether anyone here or elsewhere reads it or not. I am far too familiar with what self censorship does to my clarity.

Considering past deletions for criticizing platform management, this reply is already beyond my comfort zone.

Thank you.

#12 · May 8, 2026, 5:55 am

Quote from Joseph on May 6, 2026, 3:18 pm

...Since the Nordstream pipeline was blown up by the U.S. under Biden, Europe is now dependent on the U.S. for its energy, and is in a race to rearm and go to war with Russia, the country which formerly supplied their cheap energy...

All the same plans are pushed forward a notch with each presidency, no matter who is supposedly in charge. I'm reminded of this interview in which George Carlin says he just doesn't care.

And although I take his point, I think he protests too much and that he actually does care. A lot.

We are supposed to care... on this roller coaster ride we got on... and we get depressed when we go into denial about caring, LOL.

But I think we aren't going to vote our way out of these problems. Sigh.

#13 · May 9, 2026, 6:38 pm

Quote from Joseph on May 9, 2026, 6:38 pm

Quote from Joe2 on May 7, 2026, 9:56 am

Thank you for posting @joseph-6

I figured you would be gone from here by now - I see I wasn't really wrong. You pot stirrer, you! I really like your comment about self censoring doing harm to a man's clarity. It is probably why I can express myself best (unhindered) when I am in my cups. I'm putting your comment under my hat and I'm going to make the choice to share the painful truth even while sober.

I hear you on the war possibly being fake, but with real results. I take that to mean that the leaders of China and Russia are of the class of creature who have no nation and are in the club which George Carlin spoke about. If that is the case, then they will do the war thing until the last Russian/Chinese, is fed into the wood chipper, then off they go into the sunset with their bags of money and connections. (the woodchipper comment is inspired by Brian Berletic's latest, which I recommend sincerely).

I really wonder if that's the case (I hope it is not, but wishing doesn't make it so). Why for example build up China through NAFTA if the goal has been to "contain" China since at least 1965. Was it short term greed, or simply setting up a good enemy for a great cull? All I know is that I've taken the real black pill, and this country is not the one I was taught to love through, primarily, Hollywood. Independence Day comes top of mind when I reflect on what good I see in my country. Then I come back down to earth, where it's profit over purpose, and God help you if you are in a tight spot without a friend, because as I've said before, it's murder out there (for $ of course, what else).

I probably won't be going on the Calcium Connection. I am now a man who buys beef at food lion either store brand or better yet old store brand (manager special). I'm not quite a trash compactor - I keep tomatoes and heavy spices to a minimum, and I avoid like the plague all foods with Vit A palmitate. Gone are the days where I turned my nose up at food proffered. For the past few days I've had nothing but chips and sandwiches, the occasional eggs. Easy stuff. I am doing lots of manual labor with the change of season and feeling great to have good books to read and new sources of learning.

@lil chick Most don't want to know this stuff, and most really aren't bothered by it. I can't even post on my libertarian car guy site without everyone and their mother accusing me of being "hasbara". The friggin jew thing is incessant. The psyop is so incredibly successful that I don't have one person in my life not captured/captivated by it. At best they are indifferent. Still and all, when your country disrupts energy flows to the ENTIRE PLANET it doesn't exactly inspire patriotism. The same country that is fighting terrorists. The irony is so incredibly thick.

I'm glad you're still here - to end on a positive note - a Bee Gees song sans music (not just hilarious, but telling). Enjoy!

https://old.bitchute.com/video/otpK9vFXW1Py/

(edit to add: I clicked through on the poster of the above video and it is the definition of that .. incessance I was speaking of. Anyone else physically sick of that, or is it only me? I asked myself today whether the alt right or the left was worse and I think it's like asking whether you'd rather be eaten by a tiger shark or a great white. A Hobson's choice is what we're given in the fully controlled information space in the West).

(last edit to final add: At this point I'm convinced that Joe2 hit it out of the park with his conviction that movement covers many sins. Because you're burning off the dross/poison? I couldn't say, but the manual laborers I know are as healthy as horses, and they eat whatever they like.)

Quote from Joe2 on May 7, 2026, 9:56 am

Thank you for posting @joseph-6

I figured you would be gone from here by now - I see I wasn't really wrong. You pot stirrer, you! I really like your comment about self censoring doing harm to a man's clarity. It is probably why I can express myself best (unhindered) when I am in my cups. I'm putting your comment under my hat and I'm going to make the choice to share the painful truth even while sober.

I hear you on the war possibly being fake, but with real results. I take that to mean that the leaders of China and Russia are of the class of creature who have no nation and are in the club which George Carlin spoke about. If that is the case, then they will do the war thing until the last Russian/Chinese, is fed into the wood chipper, then off they go into the sunset with their bags of money and connections. (the woodchipper comment is inspired by Brian Berletic's latest, which I recommend sincerely).

I really wonder if that's the case (I hope it is not, but wishing doesn't make it so). Why for example build up China through NAFTA if the goal has been to "contain" China since at least 1965. Was it short term greed, or simply setting up a good enemy for a great cull? All I know is that I've taken the real black pill, and this country is not the one I was taught to love through, primarily, Hollywood. Independence Day comes top of mind when I reflect on what good I see in my country. Then I come back down to earth, where it's profit over purpose, and God help you if you are in a tight spot without a friend, because as I've said before, it's murder out there (for $ of course, what else).

I probably won't be going on the Calcium Connection. I am now a man who buys beef at food lion either store brand or better yet old store brand (manager special). I'm not quite a trash compactor - I keep tomatoes and heavy spices to a minimum, and I avoid like the plague all foods with Vit A palmitate. Gone are the days where I turned my nose up at food proffered. For the past few days I've had nothing but chips and sandwiches, the occasional eggs. Easy stuff. I am doing lots of manual labor with the change of season and feeling great to have good books to read and new sources of learning.

@lil chick Most don't want to know this stuff, and most really aren't bothered by it. I can't even post on my libertarian car guy site without everyone and their mother accusing me of being "hasbara". The friggin jew thing is incessant. The psyop is so incredibly successful that I don't have one person in my life not captured/captivated by it. At best they are indifferent. Still and all, when your country disrupts energy flows to the ENTIRE PLANET it doesn't exactly inspire patriotism. The same country that is fighting terrorists. The irony is so incredibly thick.

I'm glad you're still here - to end on a positive note - a Bee Gees song sans music (not just hilarious, but telling). Enjoy!

https://old.bitchute.com/video/otpK9vFXW1Py/

(edit to add: I clicked through on the poster of the above video and it is the definition of that .. incessance I was speaking of. Anyone else physically sick of that, or is it only me? I asked myself today whether the alt right or the left was worse and I think it's like asking whether you'd rather be eaten by a tiger shark or a great white. A Hobson's choice is what we're given in the fully controlled information space in the West).

(last edit to final add: At this point I'm convinced that Joe2 hit it out of the park with his conviction that movement covers many sins. Because you're burning off the dross/poison? I couldn't say, but the manual laborers I know are as healthy as horses, and they eat whatever they like.)

#14 · May 10, 2026, 3:02 am

That was really funny, thanks Joseph!

#15 · May 22, 2026, 9:24 am

Quote from Joseph on May 22, 2026, 9:24 am
Update to the thread - in the immediate future "tank bottoms" will be a thing. Reported by economist Jeff Currie at the beginning of this May, and went "viral" via substack writer/researcher Mark Shryock via this article a few days later: Eight weeks to empty shelves, sixty days to famine - https://markashryock.substack.com/p/eight-weeks-to-empty-shelves-sixty

Brian Berletic's latest sums it up nicely in 25 minutes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYmSopkgIwE - but leaves this little part out, in a comment on the above video, lest we all forget:

“It’s how they’re facilitating the new global order, 193 countries signed up to it, the reasonable sounding UN sustainable development goals. Agenda 2030,
You can sign up to the UN and read it all, when you click on the headline for reduction of carbon energy …( cos they say it’s not sustainable and must phase out)… you open 200 pages of the reasons why. But they just can’t shut it off or there’ll be global uprisings and collapses everywhere, it must be managed the collapse controlled, so they have the 2 fake wars in the most energy dense regions. ppl have died but they’re all in on it, yes, Iran Putin Xi etc are all signed up to it, which is where most ppl suddenly reject the idea that they’re all in it together and then they get confused again about why it’s all happening. So even Brian’s analysis is not complete, I’m sure he’s aware of it but it’s so unbelievable that he can’t go there. By 2030 probably most of us will be either dead or in a very desperate situation. The only way to reach those goals is to strangle energy supplies, which collapses modern industry and food production, and nothing facilitates change faster than war, especially a fake war where it can all play out as theatre, nord stream gets blown up, sanctions reduce europes energy ( economic suicide) blow up oil facilities, start a 2nd war, get Iran to blow up the gulf , real or not, that’s shits off energy, block the straits, blow up refineries and pipelines around the world, release strategic reserves to cushion the blow, reserves that cannot be replenished and means come this winter it looks bad.”

As night follows day, the response:
"stop being delusional. These are not fake wars. You really don't get it."
and he replies:
"Ppl are being killed and infrastructure is being damaged, as part of a coordinated take down of the whole global system, to meet the agenda that 193 countries signed up to. You have no idea what you’re taking about, you are in a delusional denial, possibly as a knee-jerk at the realisation of the unfolding horrors coming out r way, Please don’t bug me again with your denial assertions, do some research, put away your entrenched world view and get ready to have to have a new way of living if you survive what’s coming."

I believe there is an intelligent creator of the universe, but I also believe that, like our dear leaders, it couldn't care less about us.

I have a shallow well, bucket, pulley, 7 years of firewood, some rice and honey squirreled away, fruit trees, nut trees, but I think that in the long run it isn't going to do me any good. For a while I was asking God to send me a female companion for the time that's coming. Now I think that would only make it more impossible.

Obviously, feel free to laugh and call all of this kooky conspiracy and etc. That reaction means it wasn't written for you. I hope that commenter is wrong but I can feel in my gut (or is it heart?) that it's the truth.

Update to the thread - in the immediate future "tank bottoms" will be a thing. Reported by economist Jeff Currie at the beginning of this May, and went "viral" via substack writer/researcher Mark Shryock via this article a few days later: Eight weeks to empty shelves, sixty days to famine - https://markashryock.substack.com/p/eight-weeks-to-empty-shelves-sixty

Brian Berletic's latest sums it up nicely in 25 minutes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYmSopkgIwE - but leaves this little part out, in a comment on the above video, lest we all forget:

“It’s how they’re facilitating the new global order, 193 countries signed up to it, the reasonable sounding UN sustainable development goals. Agenda 2030,
You can sign up to the UN and read it all, when you click on the headline for reduction of carbon energy …( cos they say it’s not sustainable and must phase out)… you open 200 pages of the reasons why. But they just can’t shut it off or there’ll be global uprisings and collapses everywhere, it must be managed the collapse controlled, so they have the 2 fake wars in the most energy dense regions. ppl have died but they’re all in on it, yes, Iran Putin Xi etc are all signed up to it, which is where most ppl suddenly reject the idea that they’re all in it together and then they get confused again about why it’s all happening. So even Brian’s analysis is not complete, I’m sure he’s aware of it but it’s so unbelievable that he can’t go there. By 2030 probably most of us will be either dead or in a very desperate situation. The only way to reach those goals is to strangle energy supplies, which collapses modern industry and food production, and nothing facilitates change faster than war, especially a fake war where it can all play out as theatre, nord stream gets blown up, sanctions reduce europes energy ( economic suicide) blow up oil facilities, start a 2nd war, get Iran to blow up the gulf , real or not, that’s shits off energy, block the straits, blow up refineries and pipelines around the world, release strategic reserves to cushion the blow, reserves that cannot be replenished and means come this winter it looks bad.”

As night follows day, the response:
"stop being delusional. These are not fake wars. You really don't get it."
and he replies:
"Ppl are being killed and infrastructure is being damaged, as part of a coordinated take down of the whole global system, to meet the agenda that 193 countries signed up to. You have no idea what you’re taking about, you are in a delusional denial, possibly as a knee-jerk at the realisation of the unfolding horrors coming out r way, Please don’t bug me again with your denial assertions, do some research, put away your entrenched world view and get ready to have to have a new way of living if you survive what’s coming."

I believe there is an intelligent creator of the universe, but I also believe that, like our dear leaders, it couldn't care less about us.

I have a shallow well, bucket, pulley, 7 years of firewood, some rice and honey squirreled away, fruit trees, nut trees, but I think that in the long run it isn't going to do me any good. For a while I was asking God to send me a female companion for the time that's coming. Now I think that would only make it more impossible.

Obviously, feel free to laugh and call all of this kooky conspiracy and etc. That reaction means it wasn't written for you. I hope that commenter is wrong but I can feel in my gut (or is it heart?) that it's the truth.

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#16 · May 22, 2026, 6:35 pm

If this happens, I will say a little prayer for you, Joseph, because you tried to warn us. Things do happen, even major resets happen. I've studied my family tree and major resets happened to many of my ancestors. No one knows the time and place. All we can do is love one another and try to do our best and I believe we are always in the palm of God's hand. Because of your warning I will be a bit better at keeping a small back-log of supplies. I've gotten kind of lazy with my jadedness and with age.

Hubs wants a garden this year, maybe I won't ignore it as much as I had planned to, LOL. Low-VA people can grow russet potatoes, they keep well in a cool cellar. I bought a nice little food dryer a few years back...Dried peeled asian pears are low-VA and taste like candy. Dried peeled zucchini is easily added to soups and fine for snacks.

Another important thing is to be fit. I will work on that too.

You know what I sometimes wonder? Why are there so many channels telling people to get rid of their stuff and go minimalist? Will the hoarders have the last laugh?

Hard times make tough people...I'm always kind of amazed by how resourceful people can be when they try. And they can even be altruistic. I look forward to seeing things like that if TSHTF.

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#17 · May 23, 2026, 6:39 pm

Update to the thread
If I came off as harsh on my last post, that is because it is how I felt. Searching for the truth has been likened to peeling back layers of an onion. There are many layers and each subsequent layer stings more.
Berletic's analysis did not sting; the concept of multipolarity gave me hope that there was push back to the rampaging hegemon on display. I forgot that the mask was removed during Covid.
They are all in this together. The only leaders to resist Covid measures, to my memory, were a few of the small African countries and their leaders were killed in short order - Tanzania's Magafuli being the most memorable.
I remember Alan Watt always saying that China would take over as the world's policeman after the United States had exhausted itself - which it appears to be in the process of doing. I haven't been able to find where he picked up that piece of information yet.
I am still peeling - I have found a few sources today which seem to be fantastic for understanding this next layer:
https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.com/p/multipolarity-as-world-government
https://davidahughes.net/a-guide-to-identifying-camp-2/
They're on probation while I read and continue peeling.
I don't feel hopeless today, as I did just yesterday. I'm planting trees again.
This peeling business is obviously not for everyone.. but I wanted to share for the ones still searching - if someone has found the next layer I"m all ears.

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