Yes... one of the reasons why I would, if it was possible, move to United States. Getting the "right" to carry because I think I, damn it, already have that right, but unfortunately live in a country which is unlawfully restricting that. And where the situation has just gotten worse during my lifetime. I do love my country, or at least my nation, but things are not going well here. And sometimes that just makes me feel pretty disappointed with Finnish people in general. Not enough of us are even trying to fight.
Unfortunately I am not so rich I could pay for a permanent visa, and do not belong to any of the groups allowed in. Now I can accept the fact that I am not one of the really desirable types for a legal immigration, not educated enough, not successful etc, even if I would, if I could have moved there, have done my best to become a useful AMERICAN citizen to the best of my ability. And I would have done it only I if could have done it legally, according to your laws.
But being a white and not filthy rich or at least well off European no chance. Sometimes I have joked, with some people I know there, that I should have learned Spanish and flown to Mexico for a holiday, and then crossed over claiming refugee status while pretending to be from some place further south and I might even be a citizen now if I had done that during the 80s or early 90s. Except unfortunately I don't even tan well... okay, hair dye, fake tan and so on and it might have worked. :D
Of course they are. In spite of that "you are watching a movie" idea this is still real life, not a movie. Real life has plots that take decades, or generations, to develop and unfold before you can get to any kind of "happily ever after", and life doesn't stop there either, it just keeps moving. And if you want to be among the winners, that is what you need to prepare for. Never stopping working, never stopping fighting, never stopping watching. You may be able to have some sort of "holidays", some years or decades when it looks like you won, or some years or decades when it looks like there isn't much you can do right now, at least nothing that would have any immediate effect.
But in the latter case you just do what you can, even if seems not to have any real effect.
But in situations like this, when some battles have actually been won, but the war is ongoing - NEVER give up when it's like this, if too many on your side do you are certain to lose. Especially in situations like this you really, really need to do everything you can to keep up that fighting spirit. Do not kick a potential victory to the curb just because we are "not there yet".
Referring to movies, maybe we are getting close to that ending of that Stephen King based movie the Mist, where the main character is preparing to shoot his son and the two other people in the car when their car stops in the middle of the mist that hides monsters and he loses his hope, but right after he does that the mist actually starts to clear and he sees the army vehicles passing by, filled with survivors or refugees?
We may still be surrounded by the mist, and there still are monsters hiding in it, but because of the mist we do not know what everything else might be happening, we have just heard some shooting, and have heard, in the radio, of some wins happening. But right now what a lot of us can do is mainly keeping our spirits up. And waiting.
The movie itself may not be all that good, but I absolutely love this scene, where the old guys who get the old battleship ready to fight the invading aliens seems to not have been actors, but actual Navy veterans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHzbYYlXUrg
if the link doesn't work, that is the "I need to borrow your boat" scene from the movie Battleship. Damn, I even like Rihanna in that clip.
That is what we should be doing here. Even if still we need to maintain that attitude for decades, or the rest of our lives, still keep it up. Don't moan how little things seem to be moving, how slowly they seem to be moving, how overwhelming the enemy may seem at times. Just enjoy the fact that at least finally you are having the chance to actually FIGHT!
(the link seems to be working now)
We are not quite there yet in Finland right now, but carrying anything with an actual blade with you outside your home in inhabited areas is banned. You can still freely carry real knives when camping or hunting, at least. Back in the 80s in Lapland, or any part of the country where you might also camp, hike, or hunt, or work in a farm nearby, nobody paid much attention even when you went to have a lunch in a local restaurant with a puukko hanging on your belt, I remember doing that more than a few times back then, even if also then if you had anything with you in a city it better be hidden in your bag unless you were obviously dressed in some work clothes for those jobs where a knife is a needed tool.
Carrying firearms was however already prohibited, although I think there was still possible to get an actual carry permit for some sort of jobs, private investigators and such were the last "civilian" group who could get that. Now only hunters during the hunting season while hunting can have a loaded gun with them, apart from police, and the other exception is some types of shooting ranges, but getting the permits to those, and owning any kind of firearms, is from hard to pretty much impossible, and needs hell of a lot of jumping through hoops. And everything is registered. If this country ever got occupied by an enemy, like Russia, getting any kind of resistance movement going might be impossible, at least through any civilian groups. I don't know if our military has any plans for that. Hopefully.
Well, at least they aren't very diligent when it comes to checking anything. I had a small folding knife in my bag a few years ago when I needed to visit the local police station for something, had forgotten it there, and they had that whole you walking through metal detector gate while your bag got x-rayed going at the door, and either the woman checking my bag didn't notice that knife, or she just pretended not to notice... I only remembered that it was there several hours later.
As said, I think the most likely alternative is that he is not a Finn, even the name he uses hints most strongly towards that (pretty close to Chuckna which seems to be, or at least has been used as "Russian ethnic slur towards Finns and Estonians").
But people can be weird. Edgelords, trolls, Ano Turtiainen... whatever.
Yep, I think that is at least a very strong possibility (although I suppose he might also be an actual Finn who has gotten so badly disappointed by Finns and Finland and the way we have been bending to these "liberal" ideas that he hates Finland because of that) but since there seem to be people here who do take him seriously I figured it would be good to comment to him with a bit more factual information at least sometimes.
And I do feel sympathy towards those of my people who have lost faith in us as a nation because I am disappointed with us. Especially the way most people I know better really do still seem to think that our legacy media would still be at least sort of reliable source of news and information. I try, and keep on trying, to get them to at least do such basic background checking as is easy these days, like with some Trump bashing, when something he said is taken out of context but it is possible to find something like a video of the whole speech or interview online, but I know that most times they will not bother.
I suppose that a lot of time it is simply kind of basic human nature thing - it's easier, keeps them feeling safer, if they don't look, and can keep on pretending that the world is safe, than possibly finding out that it's not. So they prefer to be ignorant maybe precisely because they suspect I might actually be right, and this world around them is NOT as safe and secure as it looks. It's a very human thing to do.
Yes, Mody is Nigerian, I missed the bit where she says it clearly in this video. She doesn't always mention her country in her videos, just that she is an African, not somebody with African ethnic roots who has lived all or most of her life elsewhere and possibly from a family whose ancestors left Africa many generations ago.
In a later part of the video she talks how when the British Empire was fighting to end slavery, many African nations, or at least their kings, were fighting to oppose that, to keep slavery, especially to keep the practice of being able to sell other Africans to buyers from other parts of the world, especially to the trans-Atlantic trade, because they were getting huge profits from it.
Come on, this still is more of a very vocal minority suppressing a silent majority, there was also an article, I think that was even in one of those "evening" crap newspapers, where it is mentioned that at least in the case of those old Christian songs and customs about 80 % of Finns want them to stay as part of our culture.
The main problem with Finns doesn't really seem to be that we hate our own country, it is that our culture has taught us to bend to what we are told by the people who rule us. Weak spines in that way. And to trust the people who rule us as well as the legacy medias, so naive in many ways. I doubt our voting system, for example, has been in any way clean or reliable for at least many decades. And when some opposing group seems to gain ground, like "Finns Party", well, that political party looked promising for a while, but now, in practice, when they finally got some power... well, just controlled opposition, looks like.
So that silent majority is not doing anything, just grumble to each other sometimes and sulk. Even if they fundamentally may disagree with what is going on.
The political part perhaps, but not the culture part, not to the extents it needs to be done in order to make it something that can last.
This video by Nick Freitas explains what I am trying to get at better than I do. Politics is the end result, it all starts taking over the minds of enough people first, and the institutions, and the culture, the stories we tell to each other. And because it is impossible to get rid ALL of the people involved with that.
For starters, it would probably mean getting rid of over 90 % of current teachers, from kindergarten to universities, and replacing them, and that just is not going to happen. Especially not since a lot of those people on the university level, at least when their subject is something else than something which directly involves ideological parts, really do know they main subject well enough that we'd lose a lot of information we need, even if they may be pretty thoroughly brainwashed when it comes to subjects outside of their specialty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esb-0wCKztY
(or "The Meme War Destroying the Left" named video on Nick Freitas's channel if you can't get there using that as a link, or if it doesn't show as a link, or my copy of it isn't right since copy and paste for those doesn't seem to work anymore, at least for me, so I just wrote it and may have made mistakes)
The main thing is anyway: a lot of those people who have grown up with the brainwashing, and assimilated that type of thinking into their world view, are never going to give it up completely. And most of them aren't those people who are out there demonstrating or attacking the ICE agents or doing anything that type of active that would justify kicking them out of their jobs if they happen to be teachers or anything. But they are going to keep on teaching those ideas, in schools, to their own children, etc. They may not even realize they are doing it, advocating for something, because that thinking is too deeply carved into their worldview.
And THAT is the part that will take time to get rid of. And the way to do that is by replacing the stories we tell each other as a society. Our culture. If we manage that this current revolution, if we now manage to win in the politics etc. may become something lasting, if not, it may end up as the somewhat similar looking change during the early 80s, when it looked for a while as if the tide maybe had changed. And then the whole thing just evaporated and we went back to running to the other direction as a society.
The enemy, black hats, leftists, cabal, whatever you want to call them, worked for decades and generations to take over and get where they got. Do you really think all that could be wiped out in a few months, or few years, or few decades? Are you so much weaker than the enemy is? Give up when it all doesn't go as in a movie where the heroes just kill a couple of bad guys or put their leader to jail and suddenly all is well again?
No, no, and no. Unless you are willing to do it the hard way - win some, lose some, two steps back, two steps forward, win this battle, lose that battle... hell, we ARE winning right now, goddamn keep FIGHTING! If you don't it has all been for nothing!
And the ultimate winners, if we will not give up, will probably only be maybe our grandchildren. Or maybe great grandchildren. But if we don't give up it will still be a bit better for our children, and even we WILL see some of it too, with luck.
Because the big battle is changing the culture back to something functional. Not the politics, the whole damn culture. And that WILL take at least a couple of generations before it's even mostly done.
There is this: what would be one of the best ways to hide something real you want to stay hidden?
That might be one version of the"purloined letter": keeping it in totally in the open where everybody can see it, but add enough "fruit loops" to the idea, make it sound utterly ridiculous, so that most people just dismiss the whole thing as that and never bother to look twice, and make fun of everybody who tries to actually study the subject.
Not saying that I think this is the case with any of these subjects. I have tried to look into a lot of them to the extent reading books, some actual studies the few people who seem to have that sort of scientific background that they might be taken a bit more seriously have done, and whatever you can find on the net, can get you, and while I think there is enough to merit studying them (or would be, for people who are able to do it better than some armchair researcher like me is able to) I still have reached no actual conclusions.
Part of the problem with them being that we still don't understand (or seem to) the universe well enough to figure out what might cause anything like what some of those phenomena seem to be doing, so it's still all mostly just statistics - which can be made to lie easily enough - or anecdotal.
But still, that - the idea that the decades all of those subjects have been the butt of jokes might be because somebodies, maybe the BHs, have wanted them to be - is a though that sometimes troubles me. Because it might mean that the government, or some other group, like that often talked about cabal, would actually truly KNOW something, they just want to keep it all hidden. And if they are doing that, it might not be for any good purpose.
So, about Wilcock: maybe he was "fruit loops". Maybe he wasn't. Maybe he was something in-between, maybe somebody who had found something real, but then fed lots that wasn't in order to obfuscate the subject and make him sound ridiculous. Maybe he killed himself because he found out he was the last version. Maybe he killed himself for some other, more "normal" reason. Maybe he had found out something important and real, and was made to kill himself before he could tell about it.
Who knows.
Hm. Any chance he might still do something like run for president, if he first managed to do what Trump did, become so well known beforehand that he wouldn't have to use all that much towards that goal - making sure everybody at least knew who he was - but could concentrate on spreading just what he will do as a president?
He is still young enough that he could use a decade or two just for that, becoming a well known and familiar to most social influencer or something, before going back to politics while aiming for that goal. I have been listening to him quite a bit during last years, and he sounds like somebody who might make a great president for your country. But right now, and if he stayed in local politics, he probably isn't all that well known in the eyes of your general public. He'd need a wider visibility, or hell of a lot of backing from some ultra rich people for a very aggressive ad campaign, to have a real chance now. Unless one of your next Republican presidents maybe picked him as his VP, or gave him some other prominent place in his administration so he could get that visibility he would really need.
If that is true, it's great!
I guess I will still wait for more verification before I celebrate more, but yes, even if I am not an American, the problem for all the rest of us is that yours is one of the last ones standing, wounded as your country may have become. If you fall that will presumably mean the new Dark Ages will start. Even if you win your country back it doesn't necessarily mean things would improve in any European countries, at least not fast enough for me to see it as I am not exactly young anymore, but that will at least keep the hope alive.
But I still can't fully believe that is going to happen. I remember the 1980s too well. When you chose Reagan for a while then it looked as if the tide might have actually turned. But then all started to go downhill again.
Okay, I don't want to blackpill or anything, I'm just not yet able to go full on into optimism, not quite yet.
And those big flags. If you assume they just stopped to get that photo right after getting out of the helicopter and seconds before the medical staff took the pilot you'd assume it would be just the men and the pilot. Maybe use photoshop to put the text and the flags into the picture later, but a well arranged picture with several big flags and two men holding the text while the men around the pilot seem to be in a nicely thought out formation to make the picture as photogenic as possible?
Seems like something that would take too much time to bother with it at a moment like that, when, as you said, the priority should be to get the injured pilot transferred to somewhere where he can get the medical and other attention he needs as fast as possible?
Yep. Just looks wrong. Unless we assume that the guy wrapped in the flag is not the pilot but somebody just pretending to be him so they could take a publicity photo, which I suppose might just be possible, although even with that the photo would need to be rather heavily edited with photoshop or similar program to make it look that neat. So AI looks like the most likely alternative.
Yes.
They say what they say in order to sound like "rebels" since they like the image that they are the brave people standing against some powerful enemy. And besides that, most of them are probably just basically trolling. It sounds controversial so hey, let's irritate those MAGA folks...
There are pedos who have those urges but have had enough self-restraint to not act on them. If they confess to having those and ask for help, and there are no hints that they have ever acted on them, what would you do with them?
Keeping their mouths shut in fear of being judged harshly for something they presumably can't help - having those desires and urges - even if they have not acted on those desires can presumably expose them to things they find hard to deal with, like maybe friends etc leaving them alone with their children or even trying to get them do something like act as a babysitter, so it would be better if they could confess and then be helped at least to keep their distance from children, the same way you might help an alcoholic to not be exposed to alcohol.
And then there are those who have acted on them. With them I'd probably kept the sentence depending on how badly. One who never talked or confessed and kept on doing it, harsh sentences seem quite appropriate, but milder ones if he confessed, had managed to stop doing anything worse than maybe watching that type of porn, and started looking for help when he could not stop in spite of trying.
Because to some extent giving them nothing but harsh judgement can make them worse as a group and a problem when they feel they dare never talk about it to anybody, which can cause them to hide something they maybe can't really fight alone and they escalate to where they start harming children in real life instead of "just" imagining doing it.
It's worse than alcoholism or other substance abuse problems, but a recovering alcoholic or somebody who has those tendencies but has managed to stay away from even starting can be an otherwise mostly normal and useful member of society, but a habitual drunk is likely to destroy not only his own life but often several lives around him, or potentially even kill people because of his problem, so it makes sense to help those alcoholics who can be helped, and the first step in that IS that they are willing to confess and admit they have that problem.
So I think it would make sense if we allowed enough leeway to pedos that they'd dare do the same thing, at least if they haven't acted on it yet. Help them to live a life in which they do not get constantly tempted to act on it because they could do things like stay away from children without that destroying the rest of their lives.
At least when we are talking about those pedos who actually have those urges. Seems to nowhere near all people who sexually abuse children even are specifically and mainly attracted to children. Many are simply bad people who will sexually use a child if a child is what they can get at, but are equally likely to abuse the elderly, a drunk, well, anything available when they get the chance and the urge to have sex.
Those latter types need no mercy because even if they have a problem with their obsession with sex they should be able to satisfy that need by doing it only with other adults who are willing participants.
How much might possession in the first place be something that can happen when a person thinks he is not strong enough alone and needs the help of somebody more educated, or with "closer" connection to God to help if an evil spirit starts to pursue him, instead of having the faith that no matter what his personal weaknesses he has all the protection he needs when he believes that he has it if he just asks God for His help, and is able to believe that that help is always granted if asked? Kind of learned helplessness that can happen when a system is organized like most churches are, when there are these leaders who supposedly are the ultimate authority you'd always need to listen to?
Well, that link is to politifact, but their article seems to be accurate enough. That "Finnish court rules sex with children is permitted" seems to be based on a single legal ruling before the year 2019, in which a rapist managed to keep a lower sentence when an appeal to increase his jail time was ruled against because it could not be proven that he had used actual violence towards the child (seems to have been "just" grooming, not physical force), back at that time "an aggravated rape charge only applied to cases where violence was involved. In its dismissal, the court determined that the case had not been established that the sexual intercourse "had taken place through violence or that the child had been in a state of fear or other helplessness."
And that led to backlash big enough that the law was changed. Finland still has ridiculously low sentences for raping anybody of any age, at least as long as said rape does not cause "other" physical harm, but the sentences are at least a bit higher these days, and harder for a rapist to squirm out of when there is more proof and it's not just about the woman claiming rape and the man that it had been consensual, or no solid proof that there even was anything sexual happening at all, although of course in those cases it's more likely the woman will be believed which can cause other types of miscarried justice.
But children are the best protected group, or children and teenagers under 16.
The other half of Chukna's title is more accurate, we are where Christians are no longer really allowed to act on their conscience and the rules of the religion when said rules of religion are in conflict with where our legal rulings have gone. This news came out yesterday, 26th of March.
"After a seven-year legal battle, the infamous “Bible tweet” prosecution of Finnish parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen concluded with a mixed verdict from the Supreme Court on Thursday. The court unanimously acquitted the former minister of the interior for her 2019 tweet quoting Scripture but convicted Räsänen for “hate speech” under the “war crimes and crimes against humanity” section of the Finnish criminal code for a 2004 booklet she co-authored for her church with Bishop Juhana Pohjola, who was also found guilty.
Räsänen has been ordered to pay a fine of €1,800; the bishop has been fined €1,100, and the foundation that published the booklet has been fined €5,000. Räsänen was previously acquitted unanimously by two lower courts on all charges.
In the 3-2 split decision, the Court stated that although the booklet did not incite hatred or violence and was “not particularly serious,” the accused were nonetheless criminally liable for having "made available to the public and kept available to the public opinions that insult homosexuals as a group on the basis of their sexual orientation.” In a stunning move of book-burning-style censorship, the Court ordered that the booklet—which was parsed line by line—be “removed from public access and destroyed."
That part of multiplanet civilization being much safer than a single planet one is a valid point, whatever else one might think of his talk. Right now all our eggs are in one basket, and that is never the best idea. Unless you assume there already are some "hidden" human colonies somewhere else. But I would not count on that.