Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Rules For the rest of the Site also accessible on the sidebar.
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"Hannah Arendt"
What Hannah Arendt saw in Hitler’s Germany, we can see in Trump’s America
https://archive.ph/7Yr6h
...notice the delineation in the title that this is the L.A. Times "interpretation" of what Arendt wrote and not hers.
...she is also recognized for her controversial report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, where she coined the phrase "banality of evil"...
...she was a very influential person, her theories are affecting political thought even today...
" This certainly adds to the quote.."
...her assertions are perfectly aligned as to describing the Dark States machinations ...
...we can't have that, so instead we get this L.A. Times rant obfuscating that fact...
...a la accuse your opponent of the sins you are committing...
"the Times article just proves the point of the quote"
...indeed...
...these nimrods never cease to amaze...
Such is true. Lies hold us in bondage but the truth will set us free.
“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
Marshall McLuhan
Monday Poem...Sarah Anne Loudin Thomas - Sad Streaks and Weepy Meringues
https://www.yourdailypoem.com/
George Benson - Take Five Montreux 1986
https://youtu.be/Tn27IcAapPI?si=7LU4x0FhIkSHYoGl
Debunking A False Narrative: Does Belief In A Pre-Tribulation Rapture Breed ‘Complacency’ In Christians?
https://harbingersdaily.com/debunk-a-false-narrative-does-belief-in-a-pre-tribulation-rapture-breed-complacency-in-christians/
Scientists Engineer Chimeric Bird Flu Virus With Weaponized Traits in Alarming Gain-of-Function Study
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/scientists-engineer-chimeric-bird
The polio vaccine deception: How a tainted medical experiment unleashed cancer, autoimmune disease, and the very epidemic it claimed to stop
https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-05-05-tainted-polio-vaccine-unleashed-cancer-autoimmunity-and-polio.html
Autism -– An Ignored Medical Crisis
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/autism_an_ignored_medical_crisis.html
Worst Of Babylon Bee
The Babylon Bee Has Been Given Access To Trump's To-Do List For His Next 100 Days. Here's What To Expect
https://babylonbee.com/news/trumps-first-100-days-in-office-are-over-heres-what-to-expect-in-the-next-100-days
Trump To Expand Alcatraz By Putting Up Fence Around San Francisco
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-to-expand-alcatraz-by-putting-up-fence-around-san-francisco
Nation Takes Somber 'May The 4th' To Remember Deceased Star Wars Franchise
https://babylonbee.com/news/nation-takes-somber-may-the-4th-to-remember-deceased-star-wars-franchise
Temu Shutdown Devastates Americans Looking To Buy Throw Pillows That Look Like Chicken Legs
https://babylonbee.com/news/temu-shutdown-devastates-americans-looking-to-buy-throw-pillows-that-look-like-chicken-legs
Man Carries Grocery Basket Like Dainty Village Girl Skipping Through Orchard Picking Apples
https://babylonbee.com/news/man-carries-grocery-basket-like-dainty-village-girl-skipping-through-orchard-picking-apples
C. H. Spurgeon's Evening Reading (May 5th)
"He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he." — Proverbs 16:20
Wisdom is man's true strength; and, under its guidance, he best accomplishes the ends of his being. Wisely handling the matter of life gives to man the richest enjoyment, and presents the noblest occupation for his powers; hence by it he finds good in the fullest sense. Without wisdom, man is as the wild ass's colt, running hither and thither, wasting strength which might be profitably employed. Wisdom is the compass by which man is to steer across the trackless waste of life; without it he is a derelict vessel, the sport of winds and waves. A man must be prudent in such a world as this, or he will find no good, but be betrayed into unnumbered ills. The pilgrim will sorely wound his feet among the briers of the wood of life if he do not pick his steps with the utmost caution. He who is in a wilderness infested with robber bands must handle matters wisely if he would journey safely. If, trained by the Great Teacher, we follow where He leads, we shall find good, even while in this dark abode; there are celestial fruits to be gathered this side of Eden's bowers, and songs of paradise to be sung amid the groves of earth. But where shall this wisdom be found? Many have dreamed of it, but have not possessed it. Where shall we learn it? Let us listen to the voice of the Lord, for He hath declared the secret; He hath revealed to the sons of men wherein true wisdom lieth, and we have it in the text, "Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he." The true way to handle a matter wisely is to trust in the Lord. This is the sure clue to the most intricate labyrinths of life, follow it and find eternal bliss. He who trusts in the Lord has a diploma for wisdom granted by inspiration: happy is he now, and happier shall he be above. Lord, in this sweet eventide walk with me in the garden, and teach me the wisdom of faith.
Always appreciate a nod to jazz :) My musical voyage into jazz started with Pink Floyd and Steely Dan back in high school, leading into Return to Forever and Weather Report, and then it only took listening to Miles' Kind of Blue to place me firmly in the heart of jazz. I'm partial to trumpeters with Miles, Lee Morgan, and Freddie Hubbard my favorites. I've been trying to learn to play trumpet for more than 7 years and realize the greats were clearly prodigies! (they all seem to have been good enough to play in jazz bands by they time they were teenagers)
" I've been trying to learn to play trumpet for more than 7 years and realize the greats were clearly prodigies"
https://youtu.be/_BuSr9LSjc0?si=DCov2Hl6kM2OcQto
https://youtu.be/yPcYjiLQgQU?si=gmcHNbqAyyBeJ-x6
https://youtu.be/dJIV-VT1lxo?si=C9dCLhcROC3pZ-SW
I have one or two Chet Baker CDs. He ended up mostly singing because I guess he probably made more money from it.
I see your two young trumpeters and raise you one pianist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FzXJVWtt3M
"He ended up mostly singing because I guess he probably made more money from it."
The following summer, already having reached a low point in his career, Baker was beaten up, probably while attempting to buy drugs,[21] after performing at The Trident in Sausalito. In the film Let's Get Lost, Baker said an acquaintance attempted to rob him, but backed off, only to return the next night with a group of men who chased him. He entered a car and was surrounded. Instead of rescuing him, the people inside the car pushed him back out onto the street, where the chase continued. He received cuts and several of his teeth were knocked out. This incident has been often misdated or otherwise said to be exaggerated partly because of his own unreliable testimony on the matter.[1][9]
Regardless, the 1966 incident did lead to his teeth eventually deteriorating. By late 1968 or early 1969, he needed dentures.[8] This ruined his embouchure, and he struggled to relearn how to play the trumpet and flugelhorn
Early on May 13, 1988, Baker was found dead on the street below his room in Hotel Prins Hendrik, Amsterdam, with serious wounds to his head, apparently having fallen from the second-story window.[33] Heroin and cocaine were found in his room and in his body. No evidence of a struggle was found, and the death was ruled an accident.[34] According to another account, he inadvertently locked himself out of his room and fell while attempting to cross from the balcony of the vacant room adjacent to his own.[35] A plaque was placed outside the hotel in his memory.[36]
Baker is buried at the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California,[37] next to his father.
...copied/pasted Wikipedia...
Suburbs mostly exist so the wealthy and middle class people with families can get away from Diversity and the urban poor but still remain close enough to major cities to commute to work in a reasonable timeframe.
Most arguments about this are ultimately just dancing around this fact.
I commuted to Manhattan from a suburb because I wanted my family to experience small town living. The thought of living in some apartment building in a big city is disgusting to me, especially with a family.
24 Organic Eggs for $8.50 @ Costco this week.
Last week it was almost $13
Make Eggs Great Again!
I bought a quart of organic Greek yogurt today and it was over $8!
<non-rant>
On occasion, I have visited the Daily Chat to drop a rant, when feeling frustrated about things here at the GAW.
More often than not, I end up feeling embarrassed the next day, thinking, really? Couldn't you have been a little less dramatic? And in communicating with frogs, couldn't you simply be a bit more .... relaxed? Less critical?
As shy as I am to admit it, I can't deny that my emotional engagement with the information war is .... tangible. I don't think that's wrong; if we didn't feel anything, would we be able to pursue our goals, act on our impulses with passion? With dedication? Or with effort?
We care because we feel, and the capacity to feel is both precious and critical to being the best that we can be. Our capacity to feel is God-given, our heart being the very seat of our emotions. And if God is a God of love, there can be no doubt, He feels. He feels more keenly than any of us. He laments, sorrows, rejoices and yes, I think even gets excited. Would that my heart and His are synchronized...
But as limited (that is, spiritually dysfunctional) human beings, we have the very real challenge of learning to manage and navigate our emotions, not to be slaves to them, or to allow them to be exploited, even while we attempt to be as sincere and truthful in our feelings as we can.
Balance is an important characteristic of the original creation. Storms will occur, but afterwards, something else comes. Quietude, calmness. Both are part and parcel of this created world.
With a hat tip to the frogs who end up here and put up with my rants, I say thank you. My prayer is to be able to return in kind the generosity that I receive from so many here. (no, not you, shills!)
With this, I shall close my <non-rant>.
God bless the world.
I have a feeling you and I are similar in our temperaments...
Thanks for articulating your burden. I needed the fresh perspective.
And thanks to my wife for putting up with my rants. Lol. 👍
wwg1wga
A quote I read on youtube today. Relevant to many Anons and Digital Warriors: "I've never met an intelligent person who wasn't troubled." It comes with the burden of thought. The more you think, the deeper you go. Lots of beauty to unlock. But also a lot of pain.
Someone who "knows" and isn't troubled is usually called a Psychopath
Do we give God time or does He give us time?
A Song: https://youtu.be/Hm2xUl243lc?feature=shared
Been here a long time, forgive me for not knowing, but could anyone clue me in on the [ ] bracket stuff next to usernames?
It's an uncommon title for notable users. Mostly mods, but a handful of others who have made extraordinary contributions have them as well.
Are there any threads explaining them? On some of my posts I have an [S]. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't something negative.
Do we trust Laura Loomer or Pam Bondi more? I always liked LL cause she fought hard but she is saying some crazy stuff about Bondi and the Epstein Files.
Is anyone else unable to access Gab.com? Since 2 days ago, it's been accusing me of using a VPN even though I am not using one. I'm in Japan, but that's never mattered before.
It’s so wild to wrap your head around language….
Like a “tree” why do I know it’s a tree and why did the person who taught me?
A whole dictionary of so many words and languages and we all just agreed when?
I guess it goes back to like cavemen just being like “tree… TREE! TREE!”
At some point we as animal species just agreed that HEAD NOD UP YES!
FOOD EAT HUNT WITH ME YES
It’s almost like the words thoughts gestures somehow go beyond our creation even. Like there’s this hidden language in the air and the shapes and arches of the character have meaning and impact.