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1. Friends Of Earth!

Indeed You Are Perceiving Many Issues That Seem To Be Backwards And Upside Down To Your Way Of Thinking Logically!  You Have Never Observed Such Bizarre Behavior.

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We Are Indeed Dancing In Light Together For The Grand March Of Unity. Many Friends Are On The Ground And Watching From Crafts As The Planet Takes A Stand For Truth And Freedom!

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1. Beloved Friends!

We Speak Words Of Peace And Unity Continually, But Do You Realize We Could Soon Be Cut Off From Communication On This Forum For Speaking Truth?  Indeed, We Honor The Planet And The Free Will As An Incarnated Soul Arriving To Explore Life In Many Ways!

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1. Beloved Ones!

We Have Important Matters To Discuss With You!  If You Believe This Is A Joke, You Should Leave Now. We Do Not Joke When It Comes To This Planet. AKATU Will Lighten Things To Cheer You. What We Share Now Will Inform You.

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1. Precious Beloved Ones!  From The Infinity Of Love, I Call To You! As You Deal Endlessly With The Challenges Of The Density Of Planet Earth, I Ask Within What I Have To Offer In These Moments.

2. Please Understand That All Of My Family Has Incarnated To Earth In Many Waking Dreams. I Have Been There Many Times. As I Sit In The Ethers Of Timelessness, I Am Consciousness Clothed In Flesh, Just As You Are!

3. I Have Been Royalty, I Have Lived In Poverty, I Have Been The Hunter And The Hunted.

When You Complete This Dream, You Will Know Me. You Will Remember Our Dreams Together!  You Will Understand The Heartbreak Of Loss And The Deep Lessons Of Your Soul.

4. You Will Meet Children, Parents, Friends And Family That Have Remained With You Throughout All Dreaming.

We Call This A Waking Dream Because It Is Simply A Density Where You Are Focused In Consciousness On Now.

5. In This Dimension Of Location, You Are Only Able To Remember This Dream. When You Sleep In Your Bed, You Enter Another Level Of Consciousness That Seems Very Real. You Dream. Upon Awakening, You Realize It Was All A Dream.

#AYA

1. Precious Friends Of My Heart!

I Wrap You In The Softness And Eternal Power Of Love! As A Goddess Created In Elohim, I Have Mastered The Frequency To Reach Through The Ethers Of All Dreams Concerning My Family Of Light!

1/People I know on the Right tend to be obsessed with the idea of "crimethink", taboos, and the (supposedly) oppressive, omnipresent enforcement of liberal cultural norms.

Why?

My new theory: A lot of it is guilt.

2/It's true that in some circles - the media, universities, many big corporations - liberal norms *are* enforced to some degree, and the enforcement has probably gotten stronger in recent years.

But I don't think this explains all of the Right's obsession.

3/The stereotype is that people on the Right tend to be more threat-sensitive. That would help explain the perception that liberal norm-enforcers are lurking everywhere, ready to pounce and anathematize anyone who makes a misstep.

But I don't think that's all of it either.

4/And of course, it's always fun - whether you're on the Right or the Left, or playing a video game, or whatever - to style yourself as the brave iconoclastic rebel fighting against the oppressive forces of blah blah blah.

But I don't think this is all of it, either.

5/The reason I think it's more than these things is that even *in private*, people on the Right express their "crimethink" ideas very gingerly and hesitantly.

I get the sense that they're not just afraid of external censure, but have also internalized liberal norms.

A thread on how absurd the UK is on transgender issues and how the UK got so transphobic

In 2015 Parliament held an inquiry looking into the state of Transgender equality. Trans people of all stripes outlined many different problems across many, many different areas.

As a result Parliament created a list of recommendations including legal recognition for non binary people, gender recognition act reform, allowing 16 year olds to change their legal gender and reform of NHS gender identity services.

The government under Theresa May ignored everything that was recommended except for Gender recognition act reform. This act came into law in 2003 and gave trans men and women (but not non-binary people) the ability to legally change their gender on their birth certificates.

The process at that time to change your birth certificate under the GRA was to make an application to a panel of cisgender people who would decide if you were sufficiently trans based on your payslips, photo ID and bank statements. You would not get the option to speak to them.

(Also this process cost £140 which is just a tax on being trans)

Thread: Rush Limbaugh and the conservative Id

On the day of his passing, it's worth doing a brief retrospective on how Rush Limbaugh's personal life almost perfectly paralleled American conservatism...

One thing that's not commonly known about Rush Limbaugh is that he began his career in sports, doing sales for the Kansas City Royals baseball team. That's significant because much of the tribalism and dumbed-down rhetoric in American TV news directly came from sports media.

Television journalism in its earliest days was a fantastic product with real investigative reporting, no filibustering live interviews, and no soundbites. This began changing in the 1970s when ABC Sports president Roone Arledge was put in charge of ABC News.

Limbaugh tried to be a conventional FM deejay but kept getting fired because his personality was too abrasive. After working with the Royals, he began a small political talk show for a Sacremento station. The Reagan repeal of the Fairness Doctrine made his show possible.

Rush Limbaugh's Sacramento show started in 1984 (he replaced Morton Downey Jr) and after 5 years, he was picked up by ABC Radio which was trying to copy some of the sensationalism that ABC News television had started. It was a perfect fit.

Yesterday I refused unsafe work. This is how it went.

#onted #onpoli #osstf

1st, to the haters. Since when is it "normal" to go to work scared for your health, your life, and your family's lives? It is our right not be scared at work and our employer (in my case, the gov) needs to put measures in place so we aren't afraid. That is law, not just words.

There were 2 steps to the refusal. Refusing to work to my employer, and refusing to work to the Ministry. If my concerns were addressed in Step 1 - to my employer, there is not need to go to the Ministry. We went to the Ministry.

Involved in my refusal were my administration team, a Health and Safety Inspector from my employer, a Health and Safety Inspector from my union, and later in Step 2, a Ministry of Labour Inspector.

I first stated my specific concerns to my adm. They were so supportive in doing everything in their power to address my concerns. I want to thank them for that. They took my concerns seriously. My concerns were all tied to the increased contagiousness of the new variants: