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Oct 29, 2022·edited Oct 29, 2022

Never give up, never surrender.

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Keep writing, Josh! Your ability to inform and educate on complex topics is very underrated.

And keep fighting. Thousands of people out here are with you, educating others, one by one. Yes, it feels like preaching to dozed-off churchgoers, but the message starts with one so awake.

When smokers became society’s pariahs, and everyone thought “yes, tax *their* inalienable rights; it’s not me, what do I care!”…Now, cigarettes are $10/pack and where is the tabulation for all of the tax money “needed for future health care of smokers”?

That’s correct: there IS no tabulation, no safety net..only black-holed money.

Most people so interested KNOW what has been needed for ~35 years now, but there were too many funny TV shows on at the time, and we were made to believe that a strong manufacturing base in OUR country wasn’t necessary, we’ll just spend half the money on disposable, plastic VCRs from overseas. And, why do we need to make computers here, anyway?!

Just give all that R&D away and watch those prices drop. Because, that’s all YOU, as good Americans should care about, your dollars!

Now that our century-old, tried and true Economic principles have been thoroughly abandoned and the populace brainwashed, we move onto Freedom of Speech and Expression.

We laid the groundwork via the unchecked piracy of Music and other forms of Art during The Internet’s infancy. Once again, the vision-less general public rationalized such behavior as “victimless crime”, perhaps the most embarrassing concoction of irrational, two-word contradiction, EVER.

From this (and other) examples of “me first” thinking and undisciplined thought, we arrive at the “empowerment” of the mindless, and watch as it spreads to every corner of The Internet (which is not hard to label as a “mistake”, given the absolute corruption of BASIC, common-sense morality and unleashing of mental illness it has entailed and showcased).

Those who would desire ultimate control devised the concept of “Social Media”, which falsely feeds the desire of most human beings: to be noticed. This, in itself, creates a new strain of the very old (yet mostly hidden) cancer named “unwarranted self-importance”, custom-made for mentally-ill groups such as the Pornsick Genderspecials, for example.

Mix in a few cups of simultaneous racial elevation AND, in order to “make things right”, “marginalization”, plus a TON of hand-wringing by the “guilty” ethnicity (supported by Madison Avenue and major cable news), and suddenly, the amount of room for Free Speech and civilized debate is almost wholly diminished in what seems to be an instant.

And here we are.

Principles, Ladies and Gentlemen, and defenders of the very real things called “Inalienable Rights”, these are the things we must present DAILY, even to those who seem to be asleep during the speech.

Be consistent in your daily actions and never forget that it’s what you do when nobody is looking that matters most.

(TL;DR - start from the top)

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The conversation of ISP’s staying out of site censorship, is heating up again. To require ISP’s to act as common carriers, could really help. This is a thoughtful write-up, thank you.

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Oct 30, 2022·edited Oct 30, 2022

Don't give up Josh...

These struggles will only make you and the site stronger than ever

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Funny to read this now. Either way, I guess it will be good to know if it ends here.

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Fight on.

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See you soon.

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host the website via IPFS+ENS, should make the domain and content resistant(immune?) to censorship and ddos

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This sidewalk never ends, Null. We'll figure this out.

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You are being censored because you bring people ruin. Whiny baby.

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Hey man enjoy Candice's spare room.

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