Age Verification, previously known as California dreamin'

Ain’t nothin’ wrong with killin’ the enemy.

Its only sad when the bad guys win.

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There have been numerous PII data leaks in just the past six months. The people passing these laws have no liability for forcing it.

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So the areas Democrats control are the worst - got it.

Am I surprised by that?

I hate the city, I hate all cities.

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Cities are all edjumacated. Small towns and rural areas are much more politically astute. There has got to be a way to stuff all the small town folk full of the horrible, horrible math without turning them into libtards.

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I just don’t get the desire for big government.

We fear failure, and death so much that we want Government that takes care of us from cradle to grave?

Every City is a Universe 25 experiment in action.

https://archive.is/WCzNJ#selection-1931.247-1931.283

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I’ve been well aware of universe 25 for a long time.

Humans ain’t mice. We’re worse. Much, much worse.

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Yes indeed. So do I.

Man, I’d love to have a beer or two or ten with you.

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Ya know, there is an Iron Maiden album cover that shown Eddie controlling Satan as a string puppet, while Satan controls Man as a string puppet, dancing above a burning world. I will not be a string puppet, if I can help it. Not Eddie, not Satan, not God. I am a free man, FFS! God, at least, cut my strings.

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Until one arrives in the South.

Like I said, I have been to the worst neighborhoods in Chicago to deliver or pick up loads, no problem for me. Truth is, the local criminal aspects avoid the lone older white man. Why is that? Simple. Competing street gangs. they see me as somehow affiliated with another gang. Wipe me out and all kinds of hell is coming down on them from the other gang. Therefore, leave me alone and let me do my job. They know I will be gone and if they do nothing, their perceived danger to themselves will be minimized.

Now contrast this with a small town in Georgia, such as Rome. I go into the mill to deliver an empty trailer for loading later. What do I get? Guns pointed at me by the psychotic security guard with calls for the police to show up to arrest me. So I got back in the truck with trailer in tow, turned around and got out of there. A mile down the road later, call in to the dispatacher, explain what happened, and inform that I am not going back in there until the security guard is hauled away. The trailer ended up at Chattanooga in rough neighborhood where the company had a drop lot with a broken fence and no security gate. So much for the rural South being safe.

Ok USA is not state of mind then , it is a state of deep end madness :wink:

Only certain parts of the country are overflowing with insanity. Specifically, once one gets south of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River. It is only certain parts of the South where they are still stuck in the past emotionally, because of their mandatory indoctrination. For some reason, Florida is not subjected to this insanity. Perhaps it is because the state is overflowing with people who were not born there, but moved there for the high humidity and heat. In the mountains of Appalachia and the Allegheny Plateau, these problems don’t happen. There is a distinct cultural shift from the rest of the south, for the better. They may not trust strangers. But their first action is not to try to kill strangers. It could come from the fact that those people in the mountains did their own hard work for their existence. In much of the South, white landowners used black plantation slaves and later black sharecroppers enslaved to the plantation to do all of the work for the white landowners. They can’t get past the fact that they are not getting their slaves back and this is the fault of everyone who is not from the South.

On the other hand, go to Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, or Texas. Everyone has a gun. Nobody is out with mental problems waving their loaded guns at truck drivers who are only trying to do their jobs. Now I will admit that in Texas, one does have an excellent chance of getting attacked by an angry bull if you go into his pasture. Dealing with bear and moose in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana is to be expected if wandering around where those animals live. But none will be insane with a loaded gun.

I still feel safer in and around Chicago than in the South. Perhaps if southerners tried putting their guns away, getting their heads fixed, and treating people with respect, most of their problems, real and perceived, would go away.

@DD15 Thank you for that replay and i really mean it.
As an total autsider I alvays thought that south is safer then chicago… I guess I was wrong. Like they said do not believe everything you hear on radio or tv. But hey I never been in states so what do i know :slight_smile: Take care Jeff

So wait - are you anti gun?

Now it makes sense.

How long you gonna be angry at the south for doing that? We’re over a hundred years removed from that, now the only sharecroppers are Uncle Sam, stealing our money with taxation.

I am pro-Second Amendment. Southerns are pro-Second Amendment so long as only southerns are allowed to show up to a gun fight with loaded guns and anyone else is disarmed. You seem to forget or fail to comprehend that the FMCSA prohibits truck drivers from carrying weapons, unless those weapons are the load and all the proper regulations are followed. This is exactly the same as alcohol. Truck drivers are not allowed to have alcohol. Not even unopened bottles or cans in the cab or sidebox. Only alcohol that is allowed is the load. You might want to check in with the regulations governing interstate commerce first before assuming.

Apparently you have no problem with showing up to a gun fight so long as you are the only one with all the guns and ammunition. Yes, this is how southern indoctrination ends. Now I see why you hate America and the Constitution so much. You want laws, but only when they are to your advantage. Keep in mind, you are always free to secede yourself. Just as Rosie O’Donnell did. Nobody is holding you here. You just don’t get to take the real estate along with.

Until southerners keep bringing it up every time anyone from up north shows up for business or vacation purposes and then using it for grounds to threaten those people who are there on business or vacation. It has been over 150 years. I must assume southerners are trying to keep it up into infinity, based on their past performances and first hand experiences with getting loaded guns pointed at me a distances that can be measured with a dip stick. In addition, I must assume this has never happened to you because as I stated previously, southerners don’t believe in fair fights, based on past performances. And when field is leveled, they run away.

Don’t worry. Now that I am retired I have no intention of traveling to any state that has in the past allowed local ultra-low IQ law enforcement officers to point guns at me at point blank range because I am not a southerner and refused to take responsibility for something I don’t own and something I didn’t do.

Dude stop with the straw men. None of what you’re saying is true or even relevant.

Right now we have a MASSIVE overreach of Government, too many F*CKING wars, and people over taxed at every point in their life.

Sales tax, income tax, property tax, gas tax,

Is this really what you, yourself want?

The actions of Lincoln ended any chance of secession. The anti-federalists were 100% right in the overreaches of Government we see today on all levels. The Constitution is a meaningless document that has done NOTHING to stop Federal overreach.

We’re also getting WAY off topic from the OP.

We have a busy body Federal Government and State Governments trying to impose their morality on us. California, Illinois, Colorado, and New York are not southern Belles.

So according to you, nobody ever pointed guns at me point blank in the South. I imagined all of it. Got it. I will keep that in mind the next time you get hit with an ice storm. You imagined that. Just like the last time.

Oh. Wait. That is how the South operates when they get an ice storm every year. They pretend it doesn’t exist. That would explain all of your ditch fillers that I always had to laugh at as I did 60 mph. I could do that because I understood the distiguishing characteristics of ice.

Sales tax is local and/or state, not federal. There is no federal tax. Despite what you were taught inside indoctrination camp.

Income tax is federal and state. At the state level I paid $119 for last year. In “high tax” Illinois. What did you pay? Illinois doesn’t impose much tax on retired people. Federal tax was 10% of my income.

Property tax is state and local, or just plain local in Illinois. There is no federal property taxes.

The fuel tax is the only one that can be federal, state, and possibly local. Do you believe the roads are maintained for free? Based on all the detours I had to make in the South vs the rest of the country, I believe you do.

And you are still screaming about Lincoln. Yet you want me to stop holding southerners accountable for their actions of declaring war against the country. Double standard much?

And yes, morality does have to be imposed on southerners, as I have pointed out with their concept of what is fair in a gun fight.

As for way off topic, you were the one who wants to leave the country. Yes, I pointed out how you can do that. Do you need directions to the nearest international airport? Trouble is, I doubt any country will let you stay.

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Which country would you say I go to?

Every single one of them is controlled by the WEF.

Looks like Flathub has a PR open to implement Age Verification.

I wish you two would stop fighting. Sure, the rural South can be dangerous for folk with Illinois plates. Sure, the North can be a bunch of sanctimonious jerks.

Thank your lucky stars you’re not in Canada, where we’d MAiD either or both of ya for free.

I thank my lucky stars that Canadian leadership spends all of my tax money virtue-signalling, jet-setting about, and giving their cronies sinecures, instead of spending it on more cops.

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I’m fine with that - I was trying to get the convo back on topic.

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