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The guy who posted it is a comedian, it's not real.

When they walked out it was the end of the panel.

I just recently read about them and thought ot was weird. I mean, it can't be just one crazy guy. Like a cult of crazy leaving cryptic note everywhere.

These have been floating around for a few years. Seems to have picked up momentum in the last couple of years. Didn't think it had gotten that much traction - a little surprised to see them mentioned here.

AFAIK, no one's ever had a definitive answer of where they originated. They appear to be kind of a "mess", but also full of on the nose conspiracy stuff.

Probably nothing amazing if you're already familiar with the conspiracies.

At my cabin in the Poconos I was hiking and found one pinned to a tree. They are very weird little notes. Reminds me of the Toynbee Tiles. I hadn't heard of it and I googled some of the words and got a news article with a few photos: https://www.pahomepage.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/91/2024/01/IMG_4621-1.jpg?resize=2048,1341

It's the same note, apparently they are all the same. They're finding them all over now from NYC to Atlanta. Everywhere from gas station candy bars to pinned to trees on the top of mountains at the end of a five hour hard hike.

No idea what it actually means, but it's kind of hard to read. It reminds me of my schizophrenic cousins notebooks I found after he killed himself. Just the way it's written kind of stream of conscious.

Another POV

It may not be a case of support, just a case of looking at facts.

Here in England, Israel is demonised, yet if you look at the facts without the media brainwashing, you may change your mind.

Israel is sold to the British as being a apartheid regime, I have been there and know it is a lie, 1.5 million Arabs live in Israel, how many Jews live in Gaza?

Even the major road signs are in Arabic as well as Hebrew and English.

Arabs are free to speak Arabic freely in Israel. If anyone in Gaza is heard speaking Hebrew, they would be tortured and killed for being an Israeli spy.

The people of Gaza are ruled by a terrorist organisation who would become redundant if there was a peace with Israel, Israel on the other hand has peace deals with Egypt, despite being attacked on a number of occasions from the Egyptian side, and it has peace with Jordan, and is now in dialogue with Saudi arabia.

Now let’s look at Israel's main enemies, Hamas and Hezbollah, both terrorist organisations, the Assad regime, we all know what they stand for and Iran where they hang people for being homosexual.

It is not a case of taking sides, it is a case of hoping the Palestinian's can be free of Hamas and that the demonization of Israel stops, with those two things in place hopefully the standard of living and safety of all involved will rise and lead to peace.

Here is one answer I found:

It is way more complicated than right or wrong, as most of the answers noted.

Let me tell you my own story, as an Arabic teenager of 15 yo, and an otaku (anime fan) :

Being born to an Arabic muslim family, I was raised on ideas like : israelis should be killed / israelis are our enemies who stole our countries and killed our people / we should retrieve Palestine / israelis are racist beasts whose only aim is to kill us / those who want peace are just some traitors who will be killed by israelis themselves one day…

I, naturally, didn’t rethink about any sentence twice. I stayed hating israelis for a long time, until just some months ago, when 4 things happened in a very short time, and made me more open-minded.

The first thing, was when I was, just for fun, watching some videos on youtube, comparing the same clip of anime in many languages dubs. Eventually, one of them was in Hebrew. This made me surprised twice. First, probably of knowing that israeli kids do watch tv too, do play too, do amuse themselves too. But the second surprise, was of me being surprised. I mean, they are humans too, right? They have innocent kids too, right? Why was I surprised then? Probably because the stereotype we held seemed to be false. What if we were misunderstanding all along? Then, two months ago, the Palestinian autistic Ayyad Al-Hallaq was killed by some israeli Police. This almost made me rehold the old stereotype, but just as the article approached its end, I was shocked to hear that israelis demonstrated against this action. Yes dude, one person’s sin isn’t a race’s. If some people in Israel hate the entire Palestinian people, just as some of us do, it doesn’t mean every single is, just as some of us wish for peace. The same day (a weird coincidence, I know), and just as I was still thinking about this, I watched the first episode of the anime Code Geass : Lelouch of the Rebellion. The very first episode changed my whole percepective. For those who haven’t watched it, I’ll sum up the settings (with almost no spoilers) : the anime happened 7 years after the imaginary empire Holy Britannia ‘s invasion of Japan, occupied it, changed it’s name, destroyed its lands, killed a lot of its innocent civilians, sent the rest of them to ghettos and made them second-class citizens. Purely evil, no doubt. However, at the anime time, britannian civilisations in Japan are living their normal lives, attending schools, and going to work. Japanese people however, are enduring racism and discrimation. There are three groups of people here, each wanting peace, and decent living. Each of them holding their own percepective of nationality. Each of them think they are right : Japanese who want to retrieve their country by force. They want a decent living and a revenge for their killed families. They want to achieve peace by retreiving Japan. They are right for wanting a decent living, but they are false for killing innocent citizens. Other groups see them as terrorists, but they see themselves as victims . Britannis who want to eliminate japanese for seeing them all as terrorists. They want to live without worries and revenge for their killed families. They want to achieve peace by eliminating Japan. They are right for wanting a peaceful life, but they are false for killing (or discriminating) innocent citiznes. Other groups see them as racists, but they see themselves as victims. Open-minded from both groups, who want both groups to live together. They want to live in coexistence with neither of the groups suffering. They want to forget about the past and live their present. They don’t want to revenge from people for individual mistakes. They are right, but their aim is almost impossible with most of people being closed-minded. Other groups see them as traitors, but they see themselves as humanitarians. Finally, to confirm my point of view, I searched on Quora and red a lot of answers from both groups and yeah, most of them hold a false stereotype regarding the other group. Except for the open-minded of course, who look from both percepectives. So, to sum it up, it’s not a matter of good and bad, heroes and evils. It’s a matter of closed-minded thinking they are doing right. Of misunderstanding, mistrusting people who are still crying over yesterday. Of stereotype and racism. Of false upbringing in short. The people who are really right and could solve the conflict without a genocide should be :

Open-minded and accepting the other’s view; Not egoistists, and thinking of others as humans; Non-fanatics and ready to change their prospect once they know it’s false; Living their day and ready to forget about the past; Not racists nor hating and seeing the faults as individual; Bold and ready to be treated as traitor and take risks in sake of humanity (not my strong point); Trsuting the other side (with some carefulness of course); Very very very patient. In short, the first step is opening minds, and thinking more objectively, by lutting yourself in the other’s shoes.

Edit : there’s one crucial point I forgot to mention, the Complot Theory and the Paranoia :

In our country, most of the people think that Israel, USA, Europeans, … are working against us. Those who think opposedly are seen as either naive, or a part of the complot. And I mean it, unless you use the internet to check that foreign have their own issues to worry about, you’ll be always caught in these beliefs. Man, even some - especially religious heads - think tech were invented to fight our minds. They’re not lying, they were just raised among some propaganda and didn’t find the actual motivation to quit their cocoons (even I would have been the same, have I not slowly discovered the world from the other’s point of view)

So, I don’t know well about the israels, but in general, the first step in achieving piece is through living in the present, and, again, opening minds through listening to each other while letting guard down.

And while I’m in it, the solution I deem the best is the one-state solution, a free secular state - mostly with a different name - were both people live together, and where propaganda, hate and racism is prohibited. Where people are seen as separated persons, rather than a race or a cult.

This was adorable, and it came from CBS even. ❤️

I've always had the theory that Trump saying "China will invade Taiwan shortly after the Olympics" was a misdirect, to distract the cabal from Ukraine which did happen shortly after the Olympics. Kind of like how "Hilary will be arrested on October XX" misdirected their resources away from Saudi Arabia, where the purge happened right after.

Should be interesting. When I went to Texas the merchandise was cool. But unlike woke phone companies they used real pistols.

we don’t call 911 🔫

I sure wouldn't bet against the Texans.

Michael Baxter's real name is Michael Tuffin, who takes in a considerable amount of $$$ through donations for his incredibly detailed "stories." He is a one-man band for the entire website. The disclaimer can be found on his website under "About Us", not sure who "Us" is since it is a lone venture ( he doesn't have to split the donation money. Disclaimer: "Information on this website is for informational and educational and entertainment purposes. This website contains humor, parody, and satire. We have included this disclaimer for our protection, on the advice on legal counsel."

I return in mail in what ever box I can find. I mark out the logo on the box. I doubt the return department notices ot cares. As many pics as I take I’d never find the photo of box🤦🏻‍♀️

When you first posted this, I wasn’t sure what you were talking about, but now, seeing the replies, I get it 😂🤣

I grew up in Southern California, and I’ve been living in Arizona for the last 25 years. 🤪

Yes Also insulate if you can or have not. Though its only R2-R4 it makes a difference.

Got like 5 going since Sunday

You can try searching newspaper archives. Not that they can't be modified, but I think they modify search before they actually go full minitrue (that's "Ministry of Truth" from the book 1984). I remember reading about him in newspapers back when they were a thing in the Clinton years.

And I thought Brave was one of the better browsers. Seems not.

I’m not surprised the feds or anyone that’s got the power can erase you and create a new identity. It’s getting harder to take things at face value. Would be interesting to find out more. I don’t have a clue where to dig. Someone like a hacker or dark web expert can probably find something.

Interesting.

This is why I stick to One Piece and Naruto. No funny business.

Not surprised by this. Sadly, nothing is an accident when it comes to shows, and even the best shows will have a little bit of agenda just to stay afloat, so you can imagine successful shows.

But once you are aware of the agenda and keep it in the front of your mind constantly, its still possible to enjoy some shows (especially if they are made by otherwise talented people) unless the agenda becomes explicit or key to the main plot.

I have noticed that a lot of Japanese drama these days are blatantly woke - trans, lgbt etc shoved straight into the main plot. Very tragic. Hopefully just a temporary phenomenon.

15 last night and 25 this morning here in jersey. Glad I got the wood burning stove

It was 6 when I took the dogs out last night, this morning its11, supposed to get up to 17 and then drop to 2 or below tonight. 72 indoors, back bedrooms about 67.Normal January.

59/39 Tampa. 36 low on Sat. Winter

48-69 Phx

Winter here on our Greek island. Right now at 6.30 am Wednesday it's 11°C outside with a maximum of 19°C forecast for noon. Mostly sunny, so we should have hot water today. I can have a bath at last! I'm putting a load of clothes in the washing machine, too. They will dry outside.