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jamenta's avatar

OMG, I think I'm crazy.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

Welcome to the club. We accept all kinds of crazies. Pull up a chair and make yourself at home!

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frankly's avatar

Hell my credentials are undeniable. Additionally deriving great joy from things that don't cost money, walking dogs, doing chores and reading, I know how old fashioned, reading books. Crazy!

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jamenta's avatar

Walking is quite good for you frankly. Keep it up brother!

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frankly's avatar

It's funny here, all the pickup trucks so down and stare, wow that guy is walking, how about that! The need a crane to hoist them into the damn thing.

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notBob's avatar

Psshh, reading is so last century !

Just zombie out in front of the news, that will make you well informed!

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frankly's avatar

So crazy and old? It's a bad combo alone. Throw in the immature attitude and no wonder I have to text myself to see if the phone still works.

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bill wolfe's avatar

Still Crazy After All These Years (Paul Simon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5Eoax6I-O4

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Philip Mollica's avatar

I'm all blue checks!

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Rebel2Tyrants's avatar

Well said...

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Mike Hampton's avatar

Thank you for the diagnosis.

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David's avatar

Waging war to defend "freedom", the cornerstone of US policy since 1945.

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dubbydove1@yahoo.com's avatar

Well, look how well it's worked. Everyday in every way, we are freer than ever. Any day now we'll be free to accept Billy Boy Gates as our unelected fuhrer or free to leave his planet.

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frankly's avatar

You never read the agreement sign off on your Microsoft products? Well you are getting caught up, better late than never. snark

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Kevin Hammond CMT's avatar

Way before that. The American Indians, the Philippines

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Mike's avatar

Before that American Indian slaughtered American Indian...

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Mike Hampton's avatar

Love it. Gonna steal it.

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Diego's avatar

I read the first two lines and I thought "uh oh :O "

You had me there for a minute!

Good essay, as usual.

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Shane Pisani's avatar

Me too! In our defence, some of Caitlin's rants are genuine woke delusions. Not this gem.

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Bruce Tracy's avatar

"Rational, realistic people believe we can just ignore those problems and think about more pleasant things."

And, we'll need to see those smiles.

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Toma's avatar

I'm upgrading my tinfoil hat to 16 gage aluminum plate. Padded of course.

Oh my God! Where did she get my picture!? I'm the one one the left. AI has finally kicked in!

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David Avenell's avatar

My tin foil hat is in the panel beaters at the moment

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Toma's avatar

Make sure they add a full face shield so they can't see your face for facial recognition! Including the eyes for retinal scans! It'll make it hard to walk but we must be vigilant.

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frankly's avatar

Hey there is a paint from Germany that when properly applied and installed eliminates all Wi-Fi in the enclosed space. The FCC inquired about how much money had been spent to study the health effects of all these emissions. Safe and effective. Hmm where have I heard that before? Oh yeah zero nada money spent. Maybe give it a PCR test!

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Ted Howard's avatar

Happy to hang out with you on the edge of the insane dominant culture!

Thank you Caitlin!

"It is no measure of health, to be well adjusted in a profoundly sick society."

JR Krishnamurti

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Literally Mussolini's avatar

That monocle in the picture on the right is the cherry on top.

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Penelope Prill's avatar

I am proudly crazy and unrealistic. US government cannot be tweaked or reformed because it is irremedially corrupt. It must be replaced.

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Elohim Nikolaus Heger's avatar

This is absolute genius. Going to post this everywhere.

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George Watts's avatar

I knew I was crazy, just didn't know about the unrealistic part..

Hooray for me! More pronouns.

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LandonT's avatar

Everyone who drives slower than I do is an idiot, everyone who drives faster is a maniac.

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bigfatpop's avatar

I continue to support your work, but the fact that you believe the same pieces of human garbage that are The War Pigs you detest, are somehow telling you the truth about climate change is baffling AF.

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Caitlin Johnstone's avatar

That belief exists solely in your imagination.

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Mike's avatar

It does sound as though you are suggesting you are not in agreement with the anthropomorphic climate change proposal.

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bill wolfe's avatar

Caitlin - you need to clarify this reply (to a comment that should have been ignored).

What belief that lies in his imagination are you referring to? Your reply can be interpreted as agreeing with the commenter. I don't think that's what you meant, but you must clarify.

Are you saying that "climate change" is not real because it is being communicated by war pigs (and other elites and propagandists)?

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Mike's avatar

Seems she's gonna slide on this. Too bad, regardless her answer I would respect her more for it.

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frankly's avatar

Hmm interesting lots of tech links article on Morocco earth quakes.

https://globalsouth.co/2023/09/14/morocco-earthquake-preceded-by-mysterious-blue-lights/

sample; "Naturally, most people – the populace at large – cannot believe that such evil originates from the people pretending running the world, but are plainly killing mankind. There is a natural rejection in every normal acting and thinking human being of the idea that we – humans – have been believing and trusting in our governments, in what we call “our authorities”, while they deceived us all along – maybe for centuries."

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Danielle Ashe's avatar

Despite not following The climate change story, there remains the need for more care of the environment in terms of pollution, and deforestation, poor agricultural practices to mention a few.

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frankly's avatar

Simple for me, we waste too much. When the Davos crowd start sharing chartered jets it will just be a publicity stunt. Rockefeller giving a dime to the son of a union leader he just had knee capped.

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jamenta's avatar

What I find a bit disingenuous is yes, over the last few years we are now seeing some of what we were told regarding Covid-19 consisted of the usual dose of propaganda, and the pharmaceuticals did indeed cover up a great deal about their hastily manufactured drug making huge profits from those drugs (although many different drugs were produced worldwide, not just here in the good old robber baron USA.) But we didn't know that when Covid-19 magically found its way out of the Wuhan labs in China and was exposed to the human race. These truths only came out later. Nobody really knew what the fuck we had on our hands at the time.

Also a bit disingenuous is the fact that worldwide millions DID die from Covid-19. It was not not some giant fucking conspiracy - all those medical deaths reported WORLDWIDE related to Covid-19. And not everyone was on board on doing absolutely FUCKING NOTHING ABOUT IT like so many of the conspiracy wingnut assholes insisted at the time - i.e. just let people die. Morally I rejected that proposition then and I reject it today. Sure, you will have shitheads who will deny Covid-19 actually killed millions of people, will argue Covid-19 was just a bad case of the flu - the same shitheads who will probably tell you Polio was a tame, loving disease and we should have done nothing about it as well.

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Danielle Ashe's avatar

Can I suggest you explore how the diagnosis is made and what counted as a 'case', this information puts a whole different perspective on what has happened the last few years, and to be honest for decades prior.

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jamenta's avatar

Yeah I know - it was just a bad flu. Sorry, not buying it at all.

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Danielle Ashe's avatar

Nope far more to it than that. Look further.

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jamenta's avatar

No, not going down the rabbit hole here. Because this has been one of the political agendas by the deep state and oligarchs to split the left. And IT HAS SUCCEEDED. I've already written too much.

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Thomas was lost's avatar

Totally true, on the nail. Good prose like this lifts you out of the gloom 🙏🏻

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Jo Waller's avatar

If only it were that simple. Did you see the interview on Democracy Now with Naomi Klein about her book 'Doppelgänger' where she talks about how she is often confused with Naomi Wolfe?

We are living in mirror world where the narrative of the crazy people, who rightly point out, for example, the sponsorship by Pfizer of media outlets during the 'pandemic', the censorship of dissent and who rightly distrust big Pharma and tech has now been flipped by the right wing and these 'crazy' people have now actually become crazy. The right wing promotes theories of big government control over us by Jews using fake climate change has resulted in anti-semitism, homophobia conspiracies and support for big oil, animal ag and Jordon Peterson.

The problem with the left wing as I see it, is that there is no room for any lefty liberals like me, who questioned the 'pandemic' measures such as lockdowns and masks on scientific, not political grounds. Amy Goodman and Naomi Klein also bandied the pejorative term 'anti-vaxxer' around. Seems the parents of vaccine injured children, ignored by the doctors, also find no listening ear or support in the left. Nor is there a place on the left for those who support complete personal bodily autonomy or oppose mandates coercing workers and students etc into brand new (if you dispute the term experimental) medical procedures. Klein has spoken out against regulatory capture in health care but has swallowed the recommendations of the CDC, which benefit pharma to the tune of $billions and who also have no liability) wholesale and thinks they could have gone further by vaccinating the whole world before rich westerners got their 4th booster.

With hindsight we know that politicians were not afraid of 'covid', we know that many measures were enforced on political not scientific grounds and 2m rules etc were abitary. We know the cronyism and corruption were immense. But still the left clings to belief that those dissenting were part of the conspiracy culture. Klein says that we should all agree whether covid was just a cold or a bioweapon. This is unfair, those dissenting do not have to agree on anything, though covid is neither a cold nor a bioweapon (a conspiracy theory put about to keep the narrative going). Covid is just a collection of common and ubiquitous symptoms and a non-specific PCR technique (never validated against a physical entity and the putative entity never shown to cause disease). Covid is a phantom.

The left itself in its failure to acknowledge dissent on covid on scientific grounds, and also on whether, for example, gender 'affirming' surgery and drugs are always a good idea in young children and not perhaps child abuse and marketing by pharma has itself driven 'crazy' people, pointing out government corruption, further to the right and into the clutches of what Klein calls the far right, so that now they are actually crazy anti-semitic, homophobes and climate deniers controlled by fascists.

I agree with Klein that this is what has happened, though she doesn't acknowledge the lefts' culpability in it.

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bill wolfe's avatar

Hey man, it's Naomi Wolf - don't confuse her with us real Wolfe's!

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Jo Waller's avatar

oops sorry 😊

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Jo Waller's avatar

Caitlin you inspired a post, further expanding my comment https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/mirror-world-a-story-of-two-naomis

thank you

Jo

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

I've been called "crazy" for thinking the world could be a better place for ALL humankind. I've been called crazy because I believe that we are all made in God's image and are, therefore, all equals and equally worthy of life, liberty and happiness.

I guess I'd rather go down in history as a "crazy person" than a soulless ghoul who ignores the suffering of their fellow humans and the degradation of our natural world. "Rational" people (as Caitlin puts it) have a lot to answer for.

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David Avenell's avatar

But chances are, they never will.

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Woodee J's avatar

Priceless!

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