Apathy
Since High School days, time after MCRD on both coasts, post USMC days under the Clintons, Bush, Oblammy, its been the SOS. That last acronym means Same Old Shit by the way.
I’m tired of it. It ain’t blown up yet and this has been going on for thirty plus years. I hear the same song and dance, year in year out, and no one EVER steps off the porch.
Yes, it has gotten worse since those days, our freedoms are more restricted, surveillance is far more encroaching, and you can pretty much take the bill of rights and use it for TP; our representatives already did in 2002 with the Patriot Act and every iteration since.
But no one ever steps off the porch.
The water is close to that point of heating where only a little more heat is needed to bring on boiling, yet, the frog continues to swim.
How many have pulled their kids out of the propaganda machines and started homeschooling? How many have left the cities behind to establish their freehold in the country? How many are eliminating debts and removing themselves from the stacked deck under house rules economy? How many my age or younger have realized that the Ponzi scheme of Social Security is as vapid as a heroin addicts hallucinations? That cops are more likely to kill you over stupid rules than the banger down the road is?
Yet, no one steps off the porch.
So I say fuck it. I have my hole in the wall, I have removed myself from most of the societal standards, like extraneous debt, boobtube programming, I am working on having my kid and her progeny follow suit, and to hell with the lefties, righties, or whatever is the current fad at othering. Most bitch, many bitch convincingly, but so few actually DO anything about it. This isnt going to change by dropping a name in a box every few years. It isnt going to change by posting rants and screeds online. Its isn’t going to change when it comes to blows either. All that will do is put the winner in power over whatever is left (great axiom thanks to Micheal Z. Williamson. “War doesn’t determine who is right, it determines who is left.”)
No, change has to start behind the tip of your nose, and you, I have to stress this, YOU have to grow that change outward. Start with yourself, change your environment/living standards, then start helping others in your life change to match. You want a better future? Then build your world to make it, don’t count on the ursury of some elected con artist to provide you with anything other than misery.
Dio's Workshop 
Thing is, as you well know… you’re only preaching to the choir though.
However, at least it’s nice to know there are others out in meat space of like mind.
I try my best to get others to think outside the box and change themselves.
Good to know ur still out in the woods Dio…
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April 28, 2018 at 12:11 pm
Yeah, still here and still kicking. FYI, Soffitrat passed on awhile back, and Snake, the guy I was working with in Indy, passed on recently..
The world gets smaller, but,,,,
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April 28, 2018 at 12:14 pm
Yes the rat kicked the bucket!@
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May 3, 2018 at 1:06 pm
Yeah, your slick Willy ass is approved. FOR NOW. Ya ain’t ” Mayor McCheese” and even though you intend that as an insult to a good man who is no longer around,,eell,,that says far more about your character than his.
Everyone, I introduce to You, one William Nye, not the science guy, or at least that was the name he introduced himself as in Texas. I’m am not certain whom he works for, but his actions over several years declare him an (formerly) active plant in the patriot movement of the last few years. Feel free to tag him wherever you may find him.
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May 3, 2018 at 1:17 pm
Sorry to hear of SR passing…I’ve quite often heard you speak of Snake.
I’m still kicking and actually getting stronger, tho likely never will be 100%.
Yes indeed the world is getting smaller
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April 28, 2018 at 3:07 pm
If I was a plant…..you would be in prison!
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May 3, 2018 at 1:48 pm
Spill it. If you have so much on me. You are a hollow shallow pathetic and cowardly POS and I will waste no more time on you. Feel free to rant and let the rest of the world see all that I have seen.
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May 3, 2018 at 2:21 pm
A thief in the night maynard@
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May 3, 2018 at 7:44 pm
Name calling. That’s all you have. Ya’know, I had a gut feeling about you. If I hadn’t gone the route I did, I’d probably been thrown under the bus, the way you did Cavanaugh. How many years did he get to keep you in the clear? Care to share that info with the audience, Herr Nye?
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May 3, 2018 at 8:06 pm
Come to think about it, it has been 30 years and nothing has changed. SSDD.
Amazing though, how one’s perspective changes when you exit the rat race. Three years now in the Rockies, and I’m glad I made the move.
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May 3, 2018 at 3:08 pm
Agreed, had some temptations to moving back north where incomes are higher, then, sit on the porch , watch the sunset, and say ” Fuck! That!”
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May 3, 2018 at 3:13 pm