May 18, 2022·edited May 18, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat
Thanks. In the past several months I've been censored, blocked or banned without warning by several non-conformist, fringe, anti-empire / anti-clotshot personalities online, without me having posted any ad hominem, or even being sarcastic.
We're apparently living during a new Fall of Rome... but 'the freedom movement' looks less like the early Christian communities, and more like the People's Front of Judea vs. Judean People's Front.
May 18, 2022·edited May 18, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat
Thanks, Edward - I'll follow you on Telegram and not under my pen name but under my real name. I'm sure you'll easily recognize who that is from the style of my comments. As my wife once told me reading comments under one article "look, this guy writes just like you, but, wait a minute, it is you!" )))
Word of warning, I'm sure you are aware, but Telegram is a troll ridden place, and not just trolls but nasty and stupid people. I'm not sure if you have a person to monitor your comment section to purge the nastiest of trolls, but this needs to be communicated to Substack subscribers not familiar with Telegram, from respectful and overall friendly ambience they could get exposed to a very acidic environment.
I completely agree with the new commenting guidelines. If I disagree with a comment (and I do sometimes), then I will do so respectfully. Please correct me if I am wrong as I believe one needs a cell phone number to join telegram, so that counts me out as I do NOT have a cell phone. I only have a landline home phone in Belarus. I hope in the future, Riley will start a bitchute interview channel and video interview his followers in different countries to get an "on the ground" perspective in that country. I am happy to see Riley's audience get bigger with more platforms.
If anyone else is interested in creating an interview/talk of weekly events with me, please let me know as I am seriously considering starting a bitchute channel with someone or partnering with someone who creates the bitchute channel. I am NOT after control of the channel or content. And I am NOT after money or donations since this bitchute project would be fun for me to video talk with someone unedited on a weekly basis about current events and posting the conversations/interviews with other viewers on a joint bitchute channel.
There are many reasons to frequent a site's comment section. (Can we call it 'peanut gallery'? Pleeeeeease?????) One thing I do with them these days is study how people, many of them well-educated and well-behaved in their 9-5, nonetheless will resort to various forms of aggression (especially Passive Aggression, PA) in what is, after all, merely an idea-sphere of textual ghosts: comments.
When times turn truly hard in the USA, as they soon will, I will remember that these well-educated/well-behaved people are, most of them, prepared to turn overnight into savage jerks at the flick of an ego-switch. Consider the concept of passive-savagery rather than mere PA.
When kindness and courtesy depend on comfortable circumstances, kindness and courtesy (k&c) become merely affordable luxuries, social coffee tables, and are vulnerable to turn away from k&c to crude savagery in a twinkle.
I adore being kind and compassionate, it's about the only true meaning I get from being alive, but have no problem smacking aggressive boors around for my and their mutual well-being. But the trolls that came at me are piffles. What hurts me is how everyone else stands around and watches from the sidelines... such behavior is how creeps like Stalin and FDR acquire and hold power: no one's willing to fight until sides are drawn up and someone's willing to pay them... usually creeps like Stalin and FDR.
Unadulterated personal initiative is, in my experience, so rare among my fellow modern-mediated specie members that they view it (like Zappa said of intelligence) as "a freakish mutation". You might find this old interview with him useful?
On the concept of civility, I will shuttlecock between two quotes by Suzanne Massie, the author who played a large part in getting Reagan and Gorbachev to make nice-nice with each other:
Life is violence beginning with every meal we eat, an act that required some living thing be killed. The insistence on being nice that modern society places on us morphs over time into Eat Shit and Like It. I will quote Miles Davis talking to his dear old friend, Clark Terry, near the end of Miles' life:
"Clark, did you tell anyone to kiss your ass today?"
"Miles, no! Why would I want to do that?"
"Because you can't be happy putting up with all that bullshit." (very indulgently paraphrased from old memory)
Civility is NOT niceness. Civility is actually listening to what another says, interpreting it with the benefit of doubt, and responding in good faith with fidelity to the facts as one understands them.
Niceness is a form of self-restraint based on social coercion. It is a pale imitation of the real thing: genuine kindness. fwiw, I personally despise "niceness": it concels so much meanness.
As for Miles Davis and how Clark Terry fits into all this geopolitical stuff:
The amount of hand-wringing despair the alternet consumes is staggering. TPTB, supposedly, is somewhere between Emperor Palpatine and Yahweh in its virtual omnipotence. If one disagrees with this, a thousand people will tell you (generally with sneering, condescending "incivility") how naive and foolish and misguided and stupid and, hey, maybe even chickenshit, one must be for not bowing to the almighty power of TPTB and surrendering to the inevitable. "Resistance is futile" is the effective if unintended message (which is imo is a major part of why we spend so much time carping online and pouncing on anyone who isn't properly "nice").
The result is rather like Miss Manners refereeing a debate between the Judean People's Front and the People's Front of Judea.
Yeah, there are hard times coming, arguably the worst humanity has seen, and we're up against it. But, to quote Han Solo, "Never tell me the odds, kid."
Edward, what do you think of these two characters, Matt Ehret and Joaquin Flores? Paid propaganda shills? Matt is certainly more intellectual, and makes interesting points once in a while, but that Flores guy is a total disaster. Looks like he is a side operation of your former employer, RT, since they have been (unjustly) banned from everywhere, including Telegram. If you have an opinion on them, please share.
Thanks. In the past several months I've been censored, blocked or banned without warning by several non-conformist, fringe, anti-empire / anti-clotshot personalities online, without me having posted any ad hominem, or even being sarcastic.
We're apparently living during a new Fall of Rome... but 'the freedom movement' looks less like the early Christian communities, and more like the People's Front of Judea vs. Judean People's Front.
Thanks, Edward - I'll follow you on Telegram and not under my pen name but under my real name. I'm sure you'll easily recognize who that is from the style of my comments. As my wife once told me reading comments under one article "look, this guy writes just like you, but, wait a minute, it is you!" )))
Word of warning, I'm sure you are aware, but Telegram is a troll ridden place, and not just trolls but nasty and stupid people. I'm not sure if you have a person to monitor your comment section to purge the nastiest of trolls, but this needs to be communicated to Substack subscribers not familiar with Telegram, from respectful and overall friendly ambience they could get exposed to a very acidic environment.
Can't wait to explore this resource! Thanks 👍!
I completely agree with the new commenting guidelines. If I disagree with a comment (and I do sometimes), then I will do so respectfully. Please correct me if I am wrong as I believe one needs a cell phone number to join telegram, so that counts me out as I do NOT have a cell phone. I only have a landline home phone in Belarus. I hope in the future, Riley will start a bitchute interview channel and video interview his followers in different countries to get an "on the ground" perspective in that country. I am happy to see Riley's audience get bigger with more platforms.
If anyone else is interested in creating an interview/talk of weekly events with me, please let me know as I am seriously considering starting a bitchute channel with someone or partnering with someone who creates the bitchute channel. I am NOT after control of the channel or content. And I am NOT after money or donations since this bitchute project would be fun for me to video talk with someone unedited on a weekly basis about current events and posting the conversations/interviews with other viewers on a joint bitchute channel.
There are many reasons to frequent a site's comment section. (Can we call it 'peanut gallery'? Pleeeeeease?????) One thing I do with them these days is study how people, many of them well-educated and well-behaved in their 9-5, nonetheless will resort to various forms of aggression (especially Passive Aggression, PA) in what is, after all, merely an idea-sphere of textual ghosts: comments.
When times turn truly hard in the USA, as they soon will, I will remember that these well-educated/well-behaved people are, most of them, prepared to turn overnight into savage jerks at the flick of an ego-switch. Consider the concept of passive-savagery rather than mere PA.
When kindness and courtesy depend on comfortable circumstances, kindness and courtesy (k&c) become merely affordable luxuries, social coffee tables, and are vulnerable to turn away from k&c to crude savagery in a twinkle.
I adore being kind and compassionate, it's about the only true meaning I get from being alive, but have no problem smacking aggressive boors around for my and their mutual well-being. But the trolls that came at me are piffles. What hurts me is how everyone else stands around and watches from the sidelines... such behavior is how creeps like Stalin and FDR acquire and hold power: no one's willing to fight until sides are drawn up and someone's willing to pay them... usually creeps like Stalin and FDR.
Unadulterated personal initiative is, in my experience, so rare among my fellow modern-mediated specie members that they view it (like Zappa said of intelligence) as "a freakish mutation". You might find this old interview with him useful?
https://www.afka.net/Articles/1988-10_Bob_Marshall_Interview.htm
Congrats Riley, wish you the best.
On the concept of civility, I will shuttlecock between two quotes by Suzanne Massie, the author who played a large part in getting Reagan and Gorbachev to make nice-nice with each other:
http://www.quotehd.com/imagequotes/authors23/tmb/suzanne-massie-quote-evil-is-near-sometimes-late-at-night-the-air-grow.jpg
"Be Nice"
Life is violence beginning with every meal we eat, an act that required some living thing be killed. The insistence on being nice that modern society places on us morphs over time into Eat Shit and Like It. I will quote Miles Davis talking to his dear old friend, Clark Terry, near the end of Miles' life:
"Clark, did you tell anyone to kiss your ass today?"
"Miles, no! Why would I want to do that?"
"Because you can't be happy putting up with all that bullshit." (very indulgently paraphrased from old memory)
Civility is NOT niceness. Civility is actually listening to what another says, interpreting it with the benefit of doubt, and responding in good faith with fidelity to the facts as one understands them.
Niceness is a form of self-restraint based on social coercion. It is a pale imitation of the real thing: genuine kindness. fwiw, I personally despise "niceness": it concels so much meanness.
As for Miles Davis and how Clark Terry fits into all this geopolitical stuff:
https://youtu.be/is-xo1YFFMo?t=25
http://www.quotehd.com/imagequotes/authors23/tmb/suzanne-massie-quote-accept-accept-that-i-have-won-whispers-the-devil.jpg
"We're Doomed!"
The amount of hand-wringing despair the alternet consumes is staggering. TPTB, supposedly, is somewhere between Emperor Palpatine and Yahweh in its virtual omnipotence. If one disagrees with this, a thousand people will tell you (generally with sneering, condescending "incivility") how naive and foolish and misguided and stupid and, hey, maybe even chickenshit, one must be for not bowing to the almighty power of TPTB and surrendering to the inevitable. "Resistance is futile" is the effective if unintended message (which is imo is a major part of why we spend so much time carping online and pouncing on anyone who isn't properly "nice").
The result is rather like Miss Manners refereeing a debate between the Judean People's Front and the People's Front of Judea.
Yeah, there are hard times coming, arguably the worst humanity has seen, and we're up against it. But, to quote Han Solo, "Never tell me the odds, kid."
Your secret messenger channel has gotten totally weird and dominated by a few users. I dislike it. Let’s hope the new one is an improvement.
As with anything, people only follow or choose a few to "consume"; so there is no need to be concerned about having a channel.
What you have on Telegram is fine - reactions. People can unleash their comments here on Sub.
Edward, what do you think of these two characters, Matt Ehret and Joaquin Flores? Paid propaganda shills? Matt is certainly more intellectual, and makes interesting points once in a while, but that Flores guy is a total disaster. Looks like he is a side operation of your former employer, RT, since they have been (unjustly) banned from everywhere, including Telegram. If you have an opinion on them, please share.
https://rumble.com/v14zyi1-geopolitical-update-with-matt-ehret-and-joaquin-flores.html