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Chris Liss 3 months ago
This whole under 110 charade is retarded.
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Chris Liss 3 months ago
Trump's FBI/DOJ are finally going after the mafia. I hope they get all of them, especially the big bosses. Comey is the first "made" guy to get got. Let's see who squeals once they realize they're no longer protected.
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Chris Liss 3 months ago
PARADOX OF TOLERANCE The topic that’s been on my mind of late is the idea that after Charlie Kirk’s assassination we need to find a way “come together,” “heal the divide” or “tone down the rhetoric.” I think that kind of therapy-speak will only perpetuate the divide and paper over the central issue: that too many regular people who know better are unwilling to uphold basic standards required for a functioning civilization. I am not talking about the cultists justifying (or even celebrating) Kirk’s murder because he expressed views with which they didn’t agree. The people who during summer of George Floyd thought it was okay to burn down cities for “racial justice.” I don’t believe those people can be reached, and I genuinely feel sorry for them living with so much hate and delusion. I fear many of them will never make it back. I am talking about the average person, the one who in private expressed misgivings about disfiguring minors, committing them to a life of pharmaceutical interventions before they were old enough to drive, but said nothing. The person who didn’t necessarily want the covid shot, but felt he had to take it for his job and travel and said nothing. The person who saw colleagues being shunned and cancelled simply for dissenting and went along with it — even to this day, paling around with the most ardent advocates for coercion and cancellation while treading carefully with their once-cancelled friends. I am talking about the non-brainwashed person, the one who knew in his gut things had gotten out of hand, but refused to stand up for himself or his family. There are basic standards in a civilized society — things like medical treatments of any kind always being voluntary, established after WWII via the Nuremberg Code. Things like free speech, the right to express dissenting views. Like protecting the innocence of children, not exposing them to the perversions du jour of adults working out kinks and fetishes peculiar to their particular psychologies. I believe for healing to take place, we need to return to these basic standards like civil discourse, wherein those who disagree with you are not “nazis” or “fascists” whose murder is justifiable but actual humans who simply don’t see the world as you do. If we don’t re-establish these basic norms, there is no “coming together,” no possibility of healing. The paradox of tolerance is you cannot tolerate the intolerant lest tolerance be lost forever. And that’s exactly what you are doing by enabling these derangements, hoping it’ll all pass without affecting you, nice, reputable, decent person you believe yourself to be. It’s not a question of forgiveness or judgment. Whether I personally in my heart of hearts forgive a violent drug addict from a broken home is irrelevant. It’s about upholding standards for yourself and those with whom you interact. Just as you wouldn’t spend time with a person who hated and was openly cruel to black people, why are you spending time with one who wanted to put pharmaceutically non-compliant people in camps? And I don’t mean the (rare) person who got caught up in a mania, admitted his error and expressed genuine contrition, but the unrepentant, those who would double-down in a heartbeat as soon as it were to their social and professional advantage to do so. You still tolerate the intolerant, and you say nothing. You still tread carefully around them, sure not to offend or upset, even though they would turn on you and your family just as quickly if you ran afoul of the next edict du jour. What’s lacking isn’t compassion and kindness but courage. The courage to stand up for what’s right, the courage to do so even if it’s not in your social and professional interest, the courage to be disliked. I can’t tell anyone what to do — every situation is individual, and the appropriate response is always case by case. But generally speaking, the problem I see is not mostly with the far too large minority of people who have irretrievably lost their minds this last decade, but with the majority who enable them.
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Chris Liss 3 months ago
Going to be annoying and post my long-form piece in a regular note because no one reads them in long form. Next post. Not my fault if you attention-span-deficient retards have no interest in clicking and only read if something already captures your attention!
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Chris Liss 3 months ago
The issue is not forgiveness but basic standards. It doesn’t matter whether you personally forgive the deranged. What matters is whether you hold people to a standard of decency and civil behavior. I don’t care to judge or forgive some guy who has a drug problem or a deranged leftist who cheered Charlie Kirk’s murder. It’s irrelevant to me. What is relevant is to interact only with people who have basic morals and ethics, decline to spend time with people who look the other way or tacitly support it to the greatest extent practicable.
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Chris Liss 3 months ago
People think the problem is polarization and toning down the rhetoric, but the real problem is regular people with common sense enabling things that should never be enabled, tolerating the intolerable and intolerant. Child sex changes, men in women's sports, coerced injections, assassination of people with whom you disagree. It's the silent majority who wants to be above it all, not speaking out when it's time to say something. You're never going to get through to the cultists. They don't care when they're dead wrong (like when they said that douchebag Jimmy Kimmel's suspension was censorship!) They'll just move on to screaming about the next outrage, memory-holing what happened entirely, one day to the next. It's up to regular people to ditch those lunatics, to let them know they are not on board with an insane and destruction agenda of crime, degradation of living conditions, undermining of family life and protection of the innocence of children. But mostly they haven't. They are STILL more likely to be chummy with those who wanted to coerce the jab, than those who paid a price for speaking out, still tolerate all the derangements of the hateful woke over people who wanted to be left alone. This is the key issue -- the incentives were warped for so long, and each non-brainwashed person is part of getting them back on course. I feel sorry for the cultists -- they've destroyed themselves, become hateful, delusional shells, have no idea about anything in reality. But my annoyance is starting to grow with people who know better, who weren't brainwashed, but they just decided to take the "above it all" tack to avoid rocking the boat. Dude the boat is already rocked af, and it's time to put your weight on the side of stability, basic common sense and your own values.
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Chris Liss 3 months ago
Propagandist posing as comedian Jimmy Kimmel is getting his show back, turns out no one forced ABC to shitcan him. All the ululations over Hitler’s fascist regime were fake as usual, already memory-holed. Onto the next outrage!
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Chris Liss 3 months ago
Let me translate: we are bankrupt, we know the crisis is coming, we know the money isn’t real, we need to keep the delusion going. For your own good. View quoted note →
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Chris Liss 3 months ago
If you’re into doom, this is one of the best cases I’ve seen made for it. Maybe the scientific basis for the Book of Revelation. Do not watch if you are on the edge. (Actually maybe it’ll give you a sense of peace as there’s not much you can do about it.)
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Chris Liss 3 months ago
The most retarded thing I've seen is people pretending Jimmy Kimmel was some kind of free thinking dissident, speaking truth to power who was silenced. He was paid millions to lie, demonize and ridicule innocent people who didn't want to be injected with pharma conglomerate poison! He was the lowest form of "comedian", one who punched down and mocked actual dissenters on behalf of the regime. His firing was not only long overdue, but the mildest of rebukes. Alex Jones was sued into oblivion, Donald Trump deplatformed and shot, Charlie Kirk murdered. Kimmel is free to podcast, post on social media, advocate for withholding life-saving medical treatment from the unvaccinated from the street corner. The millions he received for doing regime-approved propaganda on publicly-owned airwaves is not being clawed back. Sorry, I know it’s a lot of posts on Kimmel. But he is one of the public figures I MOST despised, and that’s saying a lot in my case. I need to just post through the schadenfreuede.
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Chris Liss 3 months ago
Funny thing is he didn’t even get fired for his opinions. He was *broadcasting* lies over the public airwaves at the behest of pharma and the globalist regime. He was an apparatchik, an operative, a propagandist, not a comedian with dissident opinions. View quoted note →
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Chris Liss 3 months ago
Running is spiritual warfare. If done correctly, i.e., with focus on the discomfort rather than escape into wishing it were over with, it re-wires your mind. The key IMO is to ask little of yourself, say two miles 11-12 min pace for me, maybe longer and/or faster for younger people/people with slighter builds. It’s uncomfortable because it’s running, but it’s not hard. The goal is a constant tolerable pain level you can face and don’t need to turn away from. The ache in your foot, the sore back, tight chest, weak knee, tight hamstring, whatever. It’s unpleasant, but low-level, something the mind badly wants to stop, but the body doesn’t mind that much. You are not injured, just a little uncomfortable. And because the ask is modest, you don’t need to fight it. You can suffer through it completely because you know it’s tolerable, no matter how much the mind wants to be anywhere else but in the body. Bonus if you have your shirt off and are getting paid in photons. Double bonus if you stretch for five minutes afterwards while leaning on a tree (earthing.) That tree near the track has become a good friend of mine. (Even though I think “climate change” is a scam, and the “green agenda” a scourge, I am a tree hugger at heart.)
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Chris Liss 3 months ago
going to the track in a bit to burn off some bad karma