I suspect the last decade of dealing with Trump and Xi hasn’t been the easiest time of his life. Just look at before and after pics of normal US presidents. That job ages them a decade in 4 years

It’s just fancy/finicky tomatoes, when you get down to it. Lol. The “skill” is owning a moisture and pH meter, and reading the soil/ hydroponic pH a couple times a day. I’ve all but automated the process at this point, at least from clone to bud stages. Getting clones to root, and trimming the buds is basically all I have to monitor any more, but that did take like 3 years of tweaking to setup.

Oh, and I grow indoors. My grow rooms could easily be used as electronics clean rooms without much modification. I set them up that way to keep out insects. Specifically spider mites. Needless to say, I can also control the temperature, humidity, and lighting of those rooms.

I currently grow weed, train dogs, and build custom computers. The last one has become all but impossible though. Dunno what you’d call me.

Install the app “5 calls.” It is free and has no ads. It provides you with the direct phone number for all your representatives and senators as well as curated topics and scripts. You can also set up a weekly reminder to call them and be a pain

Speak for yourself. I’ve voted in every election I’m eligible for since I turned 18 in '98. That was a midterm election. Still voted.

I consider voting to be the most patriotic thing anyone can do, followed closely by paying taxes.

I’m hoping for the horrible snowball chance in hell that they misplaced them by deporting them illegally, or just literally losing them en route somewhere.

I realize that’s not fucking likely, but I live closest to their Otay Mesa facility, and am wondering why an older veteran than I hasn’t taken a killdozer to that particular concentration camp.

Nah, you’re probably correct on your assessment about having the stubbornness needed. I was just mainly arguing that logic won’t work with people that didn’t logic themselves into their beliefs on the first place.

And that’s just what they are telling us. There is no federal law that enforces local and state law enforcement to divulge the amount of times they fire their weapons, much less how many people die in custody.

ICE may have already killed thousands last year. There are over 1,000 people that no one can account for that were supposed to be in Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers cannot find them. ICE claims not to know their whereabouts.

As I thought. Your methods have resulted in 0 positive results.

My methods have resulted in the better part of 2 dozen positive results. Not a great percentage, but better than 0. Emotions work much better than logic with these people, despite my objections to that.

The definition of insanity is trying the same failed methods over and over expecting different results.

How many have you successfully reached? I’ve been deprogramming them for decades. I know of at least 6 people that I successfully deradicalized this way in the last 2 decades, and as many as 18 over the last 4.

For one person that isn’t exactly nothing. These people all exist in The Bible Belt, aka Trump Country, and I have lived in California for the last decade.

I doubt it. I’m a US citizen and speak the US version of English. I understood your meaning, but it sounds like you think he will ever realize he did something wrong.

This man, by his own admission, took his daughter into his bedroom to “try to reconcile with her,” and somehow in the next 15 minutes his pistol, which was in his bedroom not a common room of his, presumably ranch/rambler style home, appeared in his hand. At some point the Glock handgun that he owned “went off,” on its own accord, as he claims he didn’t have his finger on the trigger. If this gun were not a Glock, I might believe that. Glocks don’t have hair triggers. You have to squeeze with your entire hand to pull the trigger on a Glock, and they don’t go off accidentally.

Beyond all of that, no responsible gun owner has their guns loaded at all times. I grew up all over but spent a lot of time in IN, KY, PA, and OH. I met a LOT of militia members thanks to my friend’s parents. These people keep guns. They also may have some ammo. The guns and the ammo aren’t laying around combined, they aren’t even in the same safe.

This man knowingly committed premeditated murder on his daughter by even touching his gun while he was inebriated. The fact that he got away with it is just an indication of how broken our punishment system is.

He’s NEVER going to “snap out” of it. He is in the worst echo chamber there is to claim he was justified.

Edit: I’m a US citizen, a Life Scout, the son and grandson of multiple US Veterans, and US Navy Veteran, myself. I’m familiar with my guns. Heck, I own a small arsenal, but it is in Indiana in my parent’s land, and I live in California. I would need a serious reason to go dig up Matrix levels of weaponry. My crossbows are more than I need, and unlikely to be misused, as most people wouldn’t be able to even cock the bow or load the bolt.

They don’t see themselves as a cult. You calling them a cult just allows them to ignore everything else you have to say. You have to meet them with their own doublespeak if you want to break the cultish brainwashing, and force them to question themselves.

Antagonistic conversion will only entrench their beliefs. The way you have to deradicalize them is to earnestly question things until they can no longer deny the hypocrisy and doublethink/ doublespeak.

Remember who you were when you were 2 years old, and “why” was the greatest question in the world, but force them to provide receipts. Make them explain the joke that you “innocently” don’t understand. Make them say the quiet parts out loud, because you “don’t understand.” Either they will deradicalize themselves, or they will stop talking to you permanently.

“Why is that funny?,” and “You aren’t being the neighbor that Fred Rogers knew you could be,” are effectively a social chemical (gas) weapon and a social nuclear weapon, respectively, when deployed correctly in the US. They must be deployed with an innocent and loving tone.

Follow this up with, “No. I need to understand, you’re supposed to teach me to be a good person. Explain this please.” Or something similar, and you can literally watch people deprogramming themselves.

“The Dragon is a bad thing! The Dragon ate my grandma!” Resonates with everyone, even those that haven’t heard it yet.

Way the fuck more than 2. You may not have seen the other ≈500 or so, because those deaths weren’t caught on camera, but since ICE was founded in 2003, around 500 people have died in ICE custody. In the last year that has skyrocketed to around or over 60 people dying in a single year (2025). Previously the high point, even under the first Drumpf administration was only around 30-32 people in a year.

In 2025 60 people died in ICE custody. In 2026 they have gunned down, directly murdering in public as opposed to in custody, 2 people before they took them into custody, THAT WE KNOW OF.

Who the fuck knows what they are doing outside of camera range. That’s like 99% of US territory, though admittedly ≈80% of the population lives in the scanscapes of the cities and towns.

Osama Bin Laden

,again…

I don’t remember the lore well enough. I seem to recall having a hate boner for Smoke Jaguar. I don’t remember why. What did house Kurita do?

Edit: oh and to ensure they are proper battlemechs, they have to be able to walk and jump! None of the continuous track BS that they used at the so-called “first battlemech fight,” a few years ago.

They tried damn hard to steal the ones they lost as well, and know that because of the last year they may not get voted for, for another couple decades. They know they can’t win, so they are abandoning democracy.

Could just be assuming Ru Paul with The Matrix levels of weaponry.

"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth’s final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. Commissioner Pravin Lal, ‘U.N. Declaration of Rights’ "

Well damn, I need to update the pic I guess. I didn’t make it, just saved it some months ago