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AuntiE wrote:

Youths that showed the initiative to find the most effective way to hand out programs while maintaining the 6’ distance rule!

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The Colin Powell Meme

TexaCan wrote:

Silly man! 😂

“Working” people don’t need food “dropped” to them……they are working and can buy their own food! They are also the ones that are willing to share with those that actually need help……..not those that are just too lazy to work………like progressives! 😈

P.S…………

My remark “like progressives” was meant to be sarcastic……..lazy people come in all political parties and all in all colors!

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The Colin Powell Meme

1ProudAmerican wrote:

"dropping food to working people" ... LOL ...food that other people (mostly Republ-I-CAN-s) grew and donated.

The democratic bomber should also be dropping dead babies!!!!

I see there was three of us that picked up on the “working people” comment! Sorry! I missed your post also!

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The Colin Powell Meme

CarryOn wrote:

Yup. And why would "working people" need food? Oh yeah, if the democrats in government passed policies that created bidinflation and then increased the "working people's" taxes to the point they couldn't afford to buy food with what's left, so that both working people and nonworking people were forced to depend on the government for food .... with the working people paying for all of it ... then that sounds like the democrats' plan.

I’m sorry! You posted 22 seconds faster………I didn’t read fast enough! I’ll just add my comment at the end of yours!

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The Colin Powell Meme

saltwind 78 wrote:

Sew, The only problem I have with the pictorial comment is that the Republican bomber should have a n**i insignia, and the Democratic bomber should be dropping food to working people.

Silly man! 😂

“Working” people don’t need food “dropped” to them……they are working and can buy their own food! They are also the ones that are willing to share with those that actually need help……..not those that are just too lazy to work………like progressives! 😈

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The Specter of One World Government Looms Large

saltwind 78 wrote:

sky, There will never be a world government. No na... (show quote)

We have read the end of the story in the book of Revelation…..…..the end of this age and the beginning of the next one with Jesus Christ on his throne!

The Bible does not use the phrase “one-world government” or “one-world currency” in referring to the end times. It does, however, provide ample evidence to enable us to draw the conclusion that both will exist under the rule of the Antichrist in the last days.

In his apocalyptic vision in the Book of Revelation, the Apostle John sees the “beast,” also called the Antichrist, rising out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns (Revelation 13:1). Combining this vision with Daniel’s similar one (Daniel 7:16-24), we can conclude that some sort of world system will be inaugurated by the beast, the most powerful “horn,” who will defeat the other nine and will begin to wage war against Christians. The ten-nation confederacy is also seen in Daniel’s image of the statue in Daniel 2:41-42, where he pictures the final world government consisting of ten entities represented by the ten toes of the statue. Whoever the ten are and however they come to power, Scripture is clear that the beast will either destroy them or reduce their power to nothing more than figureheads. In the end, they will do his bidding.

John goes on to describe the ruler of this vast empire as having power and great authority, given to him by Satan himself (Revelation 13:2), being followed by and receiving worship from “all the world” (13:3-4), and having authority over “every tribe, people, language and nation” (13:7). From this description, it is logical to assume that this person is the leader of a one-world government which is recognized as sovereign over all other governments. It’s hard to imagine how such diverse systems of government as are in power today would willingly subjugate themselves to a single ruler, and there are many theories on the subject. A logical conclusion is that the disasters and plagues described in Revelation as the seal and trumpet judgments (chapters 6-11) will be so devastating and create such a monumental global crisis that people will embrace anything and anyone who promises to give them relief.

Once entrenched in power, the beast (Antichrist) and the power behind him (Satan) will move to establish absolute control over all peoples of the earth to accomplish their true end, the worship Satan has been seeking ever since being thrown out of heaven (Isaiah 14:12-14). One way they will accomplish this is by controlling all commerce, and this is where the idea of a one-world currency comes in. Revelation 13:16-17 describes some sort of satanic mark which will be required in order to buy and sell. This means anyone who refuses the mark will be unable to buy food, clothing or other necessities of life. No doubt the vast majority of people in the world will succumb to the mark simply to survive. Again, verse 16 makes it clear that this will be a universal system of control where everyone, rich and poor, great and small, will bear the mark on their hand or forehead. There is a great deal of speculation as to how exactly this mark will be affixed, but the technologies that are available right now could accomplish it very easily.

Those who are left behind after the Rapture of the Church will be faced with an excruciating choice—accept the mark of the beast in order to survive or face starvation and horrific persecution by the Antichrist and his followers. But those who come to Christ during this time, those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life (Revelation 13:8), will choose to endure, even to martyrdom. From gotquestions.com

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The Economy

Sew_What wrote:

You commented....you instantly failed the IQ test.

How’s your home remodeling going?

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The story of Carol and Karen: Two experimental Facebook accounts show how the company helped divide America

Canuckus Deploracus wrote:

Sounds like ignorant people got s**mmed...

How's your we chat account?

How’s your WeChat acct…..

https://www.monmouth.edu/magazine/the-dark-side-of-wechat/

One such service is WeChat, a smartphone app that boasts “over 1.1 billion users”.1 Released by the state-sponsored company Tencent in 2011, it started out as a simple messaging app. However, hand in hand with its popularity, WeChat quickly grew into a “mega-platform,” boasting a massive number of practical features.2 The list of uses includes public social media, ordering food delivery, Uber/Lyft-like functionality, sending money to friends, making doctor’s appointments, paying bills, communicating in the business world, and even using government services.3 As its monopoly continues to expand, the app has become indispensable in Chinese citizens’ lives. Though it may sound like an exaggeration to someone who has not used the app before, “leaving WeChat means leaving [social] life in China,” not to mention missing out on the convenience of all of its other functions.4

Beyond its surface-level ease and accessibility, however, is a darker side, a side strictly monitored and regulated by the CCP: censorship. As cybersecurity journalist Patrick O’Neill detailed in a 2019 MIT Technology Review article, Beijing heavily pressures Tencent to implement effective real-time censorship of not only text, but also images posted to WeChat users’ Moments (analogous to Facebook’s timeline) and even in group chats and one-on-one conversations. In particular, it is the social dimension of WeChat that has allowed technology to become a powerful weapon in tightening censorship and state control in China.

Censorship has had a long and unfortunate history in China. Two millennia of emperors, wars, revolutions, and bloodshed after Qin Shi Huang, General Secretary Xi Jinping sits at the head of the CCP. Under his leadership, both traditional and newer internet media are being tightly regulated in order to avoid “potential subversion of authority,” going as far as jailing dissenting “journalists, bloggers, and activists.”5 With the emergence of WeChat, the CCP has a new medium, with cooperative developers, through which it can maintain its stranglehold on the availability of information. WeChat defines its mission as seeking to “improve the quality of life through internet value-added services,” but in reality, its work is to “reflect the party’s will, safeguard the party’s authority, and safeguard the party’s unity.”6,7 This is legally echoed in WeChat’s privacy policy, which offers no protection against government surveillance.8

WeChat’s model fits political theorist Langdon Winner’s outline of an authoritarian technology: It is “system centered” and “immensely powerful,” a technology that leads society toward authoritarianism.9 This is made evident by WeChat’s unprecedented rise and the ways that it censors information. As mentioned, WeChat is indispensable in today’s China. However, it has not become a backbone of Chinese lifestyle simply because of its usefulness; as long as it continues to align with the CCP’s values, it will receive plenty of help from the government. On top of granting subsidies to Tencent, Beijing has globally banned or heavily handicapped virtually all of WeChat’s foreign competitors, making it the only logical choice for practical use.10

This rise from service platform to infrastructure has allowed WeChat to become an easy one-stop shop for a large portion of the government’s censorship, fulfilling its role as an authoritarian technology. As the publishing platform of virtually all media outlets in China, as well as the newsfeed provider of most citizens, information flow can be strictly controlled with ease, effectively making WeChat a propaganda machine of the state. This is accomplished by Tencent’s censorship algorithms, ever-improving due to stress from Beijing such as monitoring by government agencies in “special operations.”11 Beyond simply blacklisting words and phrases, the real-time censorship technologies have even been improved to recognize images, and any text that may be contained in those pictures, using a self-reinforcing machine-learning approach to generate dynamic blacklists.12

Tencent and WeChat’s role in this topic of unease is its implementation of a system nicknamed the “Deadbeat Map.” This disturbing application will display the full name, court case number, reason they are deemed untrustworthy, and even partial home addresses of anyone with low social credit scores within a user’s 500-meter radius, with a radar changing colors as the density of “deadbeats” increases or decreases.24 This massive infringement of personal privacy by Western standards aims to enhance the repercussions of the social credit system by shaming the “deadbeats” and encouraging others to “treat those people as subhuman,” effectively making Chinese society a “virtual prison.”25 Without the support of WeChat as a medium, consequences of a low social credit score would obviously still be felt in citizens’ daily lives, but not in the same dimension as being publicly exposed and shunned by everyone within 500 meters.

With its willingness to provide users’ information, it is no surprise that Tencent’s WeChat scored dead last in Amnesty International’s ranking of messaging app privacy, achieving a grand total of zero out of one hundred points.26 With the role of media under President Xi Jinping’s reign to be supporting “the party’s unilateral rule, and nothing less,” WeChat has demonstrated its commitment to this philosophy from end to end, helping the CCP move quickly from its role of spectator to authority in today’s information age.27 Without resorting to brute force that would attract the attention of countries around the world, China has ensnared its people in a digital vice grip, filtering and manipulating this grasp as the CCP pleases. By downloading WeChat and clicking on the happy little icon, all that the Chinese citizens wanted was modern convenience. The price: wh**ever limited social and political freedom they had left, engulfed by the abyss of one of today’s most ambitious and successful authoritarian censors.

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The story of Carol and Karen: Two experimental Facebook accounts show how the company helped divide America

rumitoid wrote:

In 2019, two users joined Facebook. Both had simil... (show quote)

I don’t think any of us can dispute that the internet has changed the world. We can talk to people from all over the world! We have access to information at the tip of our fingers, but there is a dark side to this. It also opens us up to manipulation through disinformation through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tic-Tock! Then comes the problem of discerning what is true and what is false. We are hit from all sides through both political parties pushing their agenda, advertising, etc. etc. etc.! We have a problem that is getting worse……propaganda from outside of America. Fighting between ourselves benefit inside and outside forces that are constantly attempting to manipulate how we think and how we live…….WE the people stand in their way! This is one example, CHINA! And there are many more! Trouble is coming….both from forces inside and outside of our country!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_China

Main article: 50 Cent Party

The Chinese government regularly uses f**e social media accounts and posts to attempt to shape online dialogue and steer discussions away from sensitive topics.[63] This is done by specially trained internet users who comment on blogs, public forums, or wikis, to shift the debate in favor of the CCP and influence public opinion.[60] They are sometime called the "50-cent party" – named so because they are allegedly paid 50 Chinese cents for each comment supporting the CCP they make,[64] though some speculate that they are probably not paid anything for the posts, instead being required to do so as a part of their official Party duties.[63]

An internal government document released by the BBC outlines the requirements for those employed as online posters, which include having "relatively good political and professional qualities, and have a pioneering and enterprising spirit", being able to react quickly, etc.[64]

It is believed that such government-sponsored Internet commentators have now become widespread and their numbers could be in the tens of thousands;[64] Bandurski suggests the number may be up to 280,000[60] while The Guardian puts the estimate as 300,000.[65] According to The Guardian, the growth in popularity of such astroturfing owes to the ease with which web 2.0 technologies such as Twitter, Wikipedia and YouTube can be employed to sway public opinion. The BBC reports that special centres have been set up to train China's 'army of internet spin doctors'.[64] Data analysis of social media activity and leaked government emails by a team led by Gary King at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Science showed that the Chinese government generates over 440 million posts every year through such accounts.[66][63]

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Hey, Christians....

1ProudAmerican wrote:

She's usually in her litter box but comes here to unload some when it's full. I wonder if she uses the one on her "ship"???? Probably just hangs her back side over the edge and lets it rip.

Oh my goodness! She has certainly been a very busy kitty today!

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Hey, Christians....

Sew_What wrote:

No they haven't.

I have a joke for you!………..How many Kitty kitty’s can you get on one thread? 😂😂😂😂😂

One or two or three? 🤷🏻‍♀️

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The lost 10 tribes of Israel

Sew_What wrote:

Who cares?

Still seeking attention, I see! 😉

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Is December 25th one of your favorite days? It was for these people too.

Sew_What wrote:

I plan on visiting the oracle of Dionysus this year, wine is great this year from California due to the smoke from the fires.....

Do you really think you’re fooling anyone? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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The Economy

Sew_What wrote:

https://www.mauldineconomics.com/frontlinethoughts/when-tools-stop-working

I don't care about your comments....just read real news instead of f**e stuff.

No thanks!

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John Deere

woodguru wrote:

I want government to regulate (dictate if you will) where the profits go...not to CEO's

Then move to a different country!