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Heather Chapman's avatar

That tune is infectious! And the narrative of rebirth and renewal is self-evidently true. Do not worry. There are green shoots popping up intellectually all over, if you just focus on them. There are so many young people who are rejecting the illogic, the lies, the hypocrisy, and the inhumanity of these tired old ideologies that have been threatening all the pro-human advances our societies have made thus far. They're bright, curious, intellectually humble, and energetic; and they can and have been able to distinguish wisdom from dross . . . like any death cult, the self-defeating and anti-human character of those who are pushing collectivist movements that aim to segregate us from our individual beings, as well as from each other, will burn themselves out.

Here is a gentle and patient conversation with one of those green shoots to help nurture the hope that you so eloquently recommend with your latest thoughts: https://youtu.be/j3nuTSMUK-8

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Benjamin Kostka's avatar

Brittany King is controlled opposition. She’s part of BLM which in no way wants to liberate black people, most of the organizers of BLM are avowed Marxists and worse. Her energy in the video is way off, she’s just angry. I personally don’t see any hope from BLM, just burned out cities and eventual Gulags.

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Heather Chapman's avatar

I do genuinely wonder at individuals who take the time to comment on a person in a video that they obviously have not taken the time to watch. You have made up your mind about Brittany King based on outdated information and are not open to changed minds and changing attitudes, obviously. She, like everyone else, is evolving. You, however, seem unwilling to.

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Benjamin Kostka's avatar

It’s interesting to me that you would intuit all that from a comment from me, if you can get to a point in your life where you realize a video isn’t worth your time why watch it. For the record the host has the same issues. They’re all intellectual with zero emotion.

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Heather Chapman's avatar

If the video isn't "worth your time," why is commenting so negatively about something you haven't watched worth your time?

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Benjamin Kostka's avatar

It’s worth my time to start dialogue, not necessarily with you but perhaps for other people who peruse threads and then do some research into the comments of others. You’re taking it all personally, it’s a place to exchange ideas. That’s my opinion, I’m not forcing it on you.

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Heather Chapman's avatar

Not taking your comments personally (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/projection). Just curious as to how many more illogical statements you were going to make, after your initial demonstration that you think it's reasonable to take seriously the opinions of someone who comments on a video that he/she hasn't taken the time to actually watch and apparently are not aware of how ridiculous a position that is to take.

Would you like to actually respond to my question: If the video isn't "worth your time," why is commenting so negatively about something you haven't watched worth your time?

And for good measure, I'll add another question, which I doubt you'll answer either: Why should someone take your opinion seriously when you admit to being closed to new information (e.g. a video that demonstrates the fact that Brittany King is open to changing her opinions when presented with new information)?

But, if you truly think that turning up your nose to something because it is "all intellectual" is a laudable position to take, I am starting to feel a little guilty at this point in toying with you; so I'll stop here.

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Benjamin Kostka's avatar

You’re on the right track, DARPA is developing mobile CRISPR labs to produce “vaccines” in weeks, really psycho stuff. The answer is to turn internally, heal all your trauma and then become the example you want to be in the world..... Once the madness subsides I’m headed to Ponapei, check out the ancient stone temples and do some Spearfishing. In the mean time I’ll be building gardens and growing food, because there’s no reason to be dependent on the unhinged Animalia in the government and corporate world.

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Simon Baddeley's avatar

A retrospective comment via your 2025 link. At the entrance to shops at Newtown Shopping Centre (a Birmingham location where rag-tag bottom of the pile ruffians - me, 'the toff', included) I recognise Mo and asked him if he was well.

“Simon. I had the covid, you know” (I can't start to transpose his inflexion into text)

“What happened, Mo?”

“On the third day I am feeling so bad I call the ambulance. There’s two Asian blokes and a white lady. She come to the door and whispers 'We can take you to the hospital. You want us to take you?' Meantime she shaking her head, like very quiet, mouthing ‘not a good idea’. I stay in my house. After two more days I am still feeling bad I call the ambulance again. This time the driver waves to me. ‘We are here. We can take you. Do you want to go?’ He’s shaking his head. Discouraging me. OK so I go back to bed, taking honey and ginger and feeling real bad. Two days later I’m not getting any better, I phone again for the ambulance. This time I’m lying behind my front door. They ring my bell. Behind the door I am on my knees. I get it open. The lady nurse cry out ‘Close your door! Now! We’ll come back in 10 minutes’ I wait. Then I hear them knock. I open the door. They all kitted up, like three spacemen I tell you, white boots, plastic trousers, jackets and faces all covered in plastic screens. ‘Now we take you to the hospital’ I said ‘F*ck off’’”

“Blimey”

“The next day I’m OK”

“That’s strange, Mo”

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Benjamin Kostka's avatar

Check out the James McMurtry song, Carlisle’s Haul. It’s pretty raw, with a good message. It’s on all of us to hold the line, for our children’s sake, otherwise they won’t have a place.

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Mary Hudson's avatar

The only one I've been to, which I really liked, was Israel. I'd also love to go to Turkey and Iran. In fact they're on top of my travel wish list. Russia is another one.

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