Year of Troubles: The Hatchets Come Out for Substack and Simplicius | " A middling platform by the standards of market capitalization and total users can’t possibly be such a ‘dangerous’ bugbear to the elites, can it? ... Do Matt Taibbi, Alex Berenson, Seymour Hersh, and many others ring a bell?"

FThumb · 2024-01-20T00:16:25+00:00

a critical mass of high-profile leftist Substackers immediately leapt to the podium to announce their withdrawals from the platform

"When did this sub.... I'm leaving! Who's with me??"

Almost all of my favorite writers are on substack.

FThumb · 2023-11-08T14:30:21+00:00

I'll be curious where this goes. Watching.

FThumb · 2023-10-13T12:41:25+00:00

We have always been at war with [the negative pole of our bar magnet]. And we will always be at war with [the negative pole of our bar magnet] until it's eliminated!!

FThumb · 2023-10-13T00:38:41+00:00

From "It's not possible" to "Let's see what happens."

FThumb · 2023-10-13T00:36:17+00:00

The US is hoping China invades Taiwan. Or Iran rolls into Syria.

FThumb · 2023-10-13T00:35:20+00:00

So every "crackpot theory" stated about the vax has turned out to be real.

At some point I hope there's a trial. I hope there'll be enough people left by then.

FThumb · 2023-10-08T03:03:52+00:00

I find his statement disappointing but not surprising.

I'm against his statement, and while it disappoints me, I'm also filled with a strange sense that he might actually be a more viable candidate overall because of it, and that his campaign is more real, even as an independent candidate, than I had thought (in spite of my hopes).

FThumb · 2023-10-08T02:58:36+00:00

A pro-Russian candidate

Is this NewSpeak for an "anti-war candidate?"

FThumb · 2023-10-04T12:36:13+00:00

Khanna said that the Democrats need to improve their messaging and sell their agenda to the American people before the election.

"More gas! We need that gas light to burn much brighter!!"

FThumb · 2023-10-01T14:26:15+00:00

This.

FThumb · 2023-09-23T02:41:46+00:00

Pissed at the loss of sovereignty and acquiescence to the WEF.

FThumb · 2023-09-21T15:07:30+00:00

https://twitter.com/nashville_brook/status/1702711251254579580

FThumb · 2023-09-21T15:03:05+00:00

Barbara Streisand has entered the chat.

FThumb · 2023-09-21T15:01:49+00:00

"Who will rid us of this meddlesome...?"

FThumb · 2023-09-16T23:07:23+00:00

I fully agree.

FThumb · 2023-09-16T13:12:14+00:00

Our rulers are ruled by a consultant class that has then convinced they're the experts. And they wine and dine them to convince them of this.

FThumb · 2023-09-15T18:45:21+00:00

It highlights the bad decision making from the start.

She was an insurance policy against impeachment.

FThumb · 2023-09-15T18:43:48+00:00

Good points.

My case for an early exit by Biden helping RFKjr is the belief it would force the media to start talking about a competitive primary. The reason the media is giving for not covering RFK is that there's no Dem primary to report on.

FThumb · 2023-09-15T14:22:20+00:00

Good questions.

Kamala is a non-starter, she's Dan Quayle in a pantsuit.

If Biden leaves too soon, it could help RFKjr, can't have that. It could also galvanize any attack media on (Gavin? Hillary?) too early and give that time to work. Can't have that either.

And Biden won't survive another year, much less to the 2024 election (either via health or impeachment exposure).

The DNC is in a bad spot, and even the depths of media fluffing we're seeing on display aren't going to get them far in this environment.

FThumb · 2023-09-10T13:54:00+00:00

First, eliminate the intelligent people.

FThumb · 2023-09-10T03:43:33+00:00

I feel like the conspiracy theorists have the highest accuracy and crime solving rating.

And no matter how good our track record is, with every new "This was purposeful" event we call out, we're still derided with, "Oh, you're crazy. They'd never go that far!"

FThumb · 2023-09-09T14:03:23+00:00

This kid is only one hangover away from cowering under his bed-sheets wailing, "LEAVE.... BIDEN... ALOOOOOONE!!!"

FThumb · 2023-09-09T13:58:53+00:00

It was a process more than an event.

It started in 2004 when Kos explicitly fought any efforts toward election transparency, and restricted conversations discussing rather obvious anomalies surrounding electronic voting. It would come out later that Kos was trained CIA.

It accelerated in 2016 when it was clear that our media was involved in a coordinated knee-capping to stop Bernie in the efforts to elevate Hillary.

The global covid power play was the final Blue Pill that cemented my separation from a Red Pilled world.

FThumb · 2023-09-09T13:50:07+00:00

I'll be very curious to hear your take on the video.

I agree a lot of it can be explained by strong winds, and they get the melting points of glass wrong (though the windshield of the Porsche, in the middle of the flames and 12" from the gas tank, didn't even slump), but some parts leave me scratching my head trying to create plausible scenarios that don't involve nefarious actors.

FThumb · 2023-09-09T13:46:31+00:00

Well, in this case it happened much faster.

FThumb · 2023-09-09T01:35:02+00:00

Did you go to that section of the video that showed the fence? Maybe I'm missing something.

And I'm not suggesting this was all due to a DEW. But I am suspicious that TPTB were waiting for the right chance to enhance a natural fire to be sure it was thorough.

FThumb · 2023-09-09T01:29:50+00:00

Beat me to it!

FThumb · 2023-09-09T01:25:42+00:00

FYI - This is the Missouri Vs. Biden 1st Amendment case.

FThumb · 2023-09-08T21:15:19+00:00

It will be interesting to see if Nikki Haley's performance is an anomaly or is confirmed by future polls.

The media hasn't found their angle to slag her campaign yet, but they will.

FThumb · 2023-09-08T21:11:51+00:00

He'll never survive another year. And they know it.

Contingency plans are being made quietly, and it's not Kamala.

FThumb · 2023-09-08T21:11:06+00:00

Isn't that one of the signs?

Of the Apocalypse?

FThumb · 2023-09-08T21:09:39+00:00

is this really the best you can do?

He won't be running in 2024, but they don't want to admit it so there isn't as much time for their next Anointed One to be savaged.

It's going to be a behind the scenes slug-fest between Hillary and Newsome.

FThumb · 2023-09-08T21:07:18+00:00

"Release the aliens!"

FThumb · 2023-09-08T16:27:27+00:00

A million monkeys have entered the chat.

FThumb · 2023-09-08T16:26:49+00:00

Only charred where it was nailed to the post.

FThumb · 2023-09-08T14:37:28+00:00

Maybe a wind eddy surrounded the Banyan tree, but it still seems odd that none of its small branches or leaves, or the ground detritus, ever caught fire.

FThumb · 2023-09-08T14:36:04+00:00

There's a wood cross-runner on the ground, and the nail heads were still protruding from the char where the wood runner was attached to the post.

FThumb · 2023-09-08T14:35:15+00:00

But when you add in metal fencing connecting the nails

In the video image it appeared there was a wood rail on the ground, not metal fencing. And four nails in a box pattern where the wood rails were attached.

FThumb · 2023-09-08T03:16:00+00:00

Could you, shown a pile of identical-looking tires, make only the ones containing steel belts burn? Don't think so either.

Microwaves could do this.

FThumb · 2023-09-08T03:14:19+00:00

I thought there was an image that showed the structures on all three sides of the Banyan tree reduced to ash, as well as the boats in the harbor in front of it. That's all four sides around it, and it wasn't burnt.

FThumb · 2023-09-08T03:12:16+00:00

Do you think that a gale force wind would have made it much worse?

It should have helped the fire spread to the Banyan tree.

FThumb · 2023-09-08T03:09:51+00:00

The metal runners could have heated up the wood at point of contact,

It didn't look like metal runners in the image. Maybe I missed them?

FThumb · 2023-09-07T18:46:34+00:00

Now look at the massive Banyan tree in the video. Structures on all three sides reduced to ashes, as well as boats in the harbor across from it. That's 360 degrees of intense fire surrounding a massive block sized tree that didn't burn, with park benches and ground detritus around it that also didn't burn.

FThumb · 2023-09-07T18:42:27+00:00

Sounds like a perfect set-up to ultimately destroy the land they've been coveting for a very long time.

Incompetence always seems to only harm those at the bottom of the food chain.

FThumb · 2023-09-07T18:39:13+00:00

Nope, it was definitely a DEW. Definitely. Had to be. Probably from space, because the technology exists; so of course we'd certainly use it on ourselves.

No need to be a dick.

We have the technology, and have since the 80's. And we have a very long history of not giving a fuck about how many innocent civilians are killed in the name of acquiring land and power, up to and including the entire covid mess. Are you really unaware of any of this? Is it that unthinkable that those who control our leaders would do something like this, considering their history of doing anything necessary to gain wealth and control without regard for lives and well-being?

FThumb · 2023-09-07T18:33:37+00:00

It was a wood fence, with the runners attached by four nails where it crossed the post. It clearly burned only where the cross-runners were nailed on. I the image i the video you can still see the nails where the post if charred.

Couldn't that part have happened before power was cut?

Yes it could.

FThumb · 2023-09-07T18:30:59+00:00

"Then I asked if she's told anyone else about this." "No, absolutely not. I don't want people to look poorly on me."

FThumb · 2023-09-07T18:29:48+00:00

They're the pinnacle of drug dealers.

FThumb · 2023-09-07T14:06:29+00:00

This doesn't end well.

FThumb · 2023-09-07T14:03:41+00:00

Right?

FThumb · 2023-09-07T14:02:57+00:00

"Burns around the staples" sounds like something more electrical than fire related....

Agreed. But the power had been cut to the area.

FThumb · 2023-09-07T14:02:16+00:00

I had 50 feet of fence with burns around the staples in the posts when a power line fell on them during a thunderstorm.

I thought more about this as it relates to the fence burning from the nails inside. Plausable, except the power in Lahana had been cut.

FThumb · 2023-09-07T14:01:06+00:00

This other shit is deliberately poisoning the well

So the local authorities did everything they could to allow as many deaths as possible, but they wouldn't go that far?

I no longer believe the gov is beyond any of this. It's war being played by a new set of rules, and our ability to believe they would do this still has a long way to catch up.

How many decades has it taken to even start to believe our bureaucratic establishment would assassinate our own president? 9-11 is in hindsight an obvious inside job. TPTB never cared how many innocent lives would be lost in any of their wars, be it our own citizens or those of other countries. They didn't care how many lives ended or destroyed with the covid play. But it's unthinkable that they would use technology we know they have to further their land and power grab ambitions, and to suggest as much is poisoning a well they long ago poisoned? As if our ignoring this aspect of the big picture will move us any closer to the truth behind what's happening?

And how many wild ass claims were made after, but you were THERE and knew bullshit was being spread?

I was there, and it was less about wild ass claims being made as it was what wasn't being reported. Bullshit by omission. The riots weren't spontaneous or organic. It was another early version of J6, where professional instigators lit the proverbial match and then fanned the flames for the cameras.

FThumb · 2023-09-07T13:49:41+00:00

There was a wind from behind, and the rear bumper looked untouched, but it also likely fed the fire that engulfed the rest.

Which is why I discounted the images of half burned cars. What remains suspicious are homes reduced to ash while the trees surrounding them retained their needles and small branches. Or the blue umbrellas fully intact next to the charred remains of the building. Or the intact and unmarked wood landing adjacent to the burned shell of the mobile home.

FThumb · 2023-09-06T23:47:05+00:00

Did you watch the video? It's no longer conjecture if our gov has DEWs. And it's long past conjecture if our gov would ever sacrifice its own citizens for the gains of the powerful.

There's too many odd loose threads, up to and including the fact that the Chief of Police was the same guy who oversaw the Vegas mass shooting.

FThumb · 2023-09-06T23:44:00+00:00

Did you take the time to watch the video?

FThumb · 2023-09-06T22:04:06+00:00

For every piece of "evidence" I've seen so far, I've seen identical things in my own house

Steel belted tires reduced to ash next to poly-corded tires intact? Fence posts that burned from the nails out? Jeeps with melted hoods? Entirely incinerated homes next to trees with intact needles and small branches?

Watch the video and get back to me if any of those things are normal in a fire.

FThumb · 2023-09-06T21:27:20+00:00

And nails inside fence posts.

FThumb · 2023-09-06T21:26:47+00:00

Years ago I lost a Porsche to an engine fire. When the flames reached the gas tank, it didn't explode (because the tank was full), but it did turn the car into a ball of fire so intense you couldn't see the car through the flames. Burned this way for 15-20 minutes, with a fire crew standing by waiting for the fuel to be exhausted. The tires exploded, but the rims remained intact. The front hood, at the center of the fire-ball, was cut with giant fire-crew sheers so they could douse the tank and smoking wreckage. Meaning, even in that intense, sustained heat, no metal parts anywhere melted and had to be cut away.

In the linked video, entire vehicles, to the rims, had melted. That's not a normal fire.

FThumb · 2023-09-06T21:20:35+00:00

And it seems this is why the burned area on the island of Maui is being blocked off from public access.

And at the end of the video, the speaker makes note of the fact that all the clean-up crews are driving off-the-lot new vehicles. A fleet of them. This doesn't sound like a typical civilian clean up operation.

FThumb · 2023-09-04T01:11:30+00:00

By design. TPTB don't want people to be able to organize so easily.

FThumb · 2023-09-04T01:07:36+00:00

It's at least half.

FThumb · 2023-08-22T13:19:07+00:00

As a start, you might want to edit this new info into the body of the original post.

FThumb · 2023-08-15T02:56:05+00:00

Or 'saving' the public any money.

FThumb · 2023-08-15T02:55:41+00:00

In addition, the country would have saved $105 billion in COVID-19 hospitalization expenses alone.

That 'savings' is someone else's profits. And those profits buy a lot of political cover. Which is why we never see the savings.

FThumb · 2023-08-07T04:23:50+00:00

Just because they shut down the polling station and returned at midnight to roll suitcases of ballots out from under the tables, ballots that were 98% for one candidate with only the presidential race filled in with perfectly filled ovals and no fold creases from the return envelopes... uhh.... you can't prove anything, conspiricist!!

FThumb · 2023-08-07T00:17:11+00:00

His campaign should hire you!

FThumb · 2023-08-05T03:00:31+00:00

Shame and Scandal in the Family! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlqbt1PQ1ek

FThumb · 2023-08-05T02:54:19+00:00

I'm a match...

FThumb · 2023-08-05T02:51:51+00:00

TL;DR - Waaaaaaaaa [deep breath] aaaaaaaaaaahh!!11!!

That's it. That's the story.

FThumb · 2023-08-04T14:58:24+00:00

if you’re gonna spam me

There's that word again. You keep commenting, and I keep replying. And I'm spamming?

FThumb · 2023-08-04T14:57:38+00:00

How could I have known you escalate reports to the admin?

How could we have known that a report that deserved escalation would end up snaring your later report?

You provide zero warning anywhere on your subreddit.

WARNING: ADMINS UNPREDICTABLE

You betrayed the trust of your users.

We're the Wild West. We only provide an open forum. You have to trust admins at your own risk.

FThumb · 2023-08-04T14:53:34+00:00

So he's not grabbing the Third Rail with both hands?

FThumb · 2023-08-04T02:51:57+00:00

Wow.

That's it. Just... wow.

FThumb · 2023-08-04T02:49:04+00:00

You know they handle reports indiscriminately, you knew the risk, and yet you did it anyway.

That makes you liable.

Says the person who made the initial report.

FThumb · 2023-08-03T20:44:58+00:00

So my pointing out that you're pushing the DBAD rule = my breaking the DBAD rule?

FThumb · 2023-08-03T20:44:08+00:00

Submitting a legitimate report on your subreddit?

If it was legitimate why did it get you suspended from Reddit? And what part of "We made the report abuse prior to your adding the spam report" are you not getting?

FThumb · 2023-08-03T15:30:21+00:00

The billionaires like their Blade Runner style sci Fi books.

Those who fail to learn from history, think sci-fi is fiction.

FThumb · 2023-08-03T15:24:13+00:00

When they can't touch the real news.

FThumb · 2023-08-03T15:22:52+00:00

Hypocrite.

DBAD has always been our One Rule.

FThumb · 2023-08-03T15:21:55+00:00

My spam report was legitimate. Your own mods have already admitted that.

Was it? Did they?

FThumb · 2023-08-03T15:21:31+00:00

You escalated to the admin, even though you knew it would put your own users at risk for site-wide suspension.

You make a lot of [incorrect] assumption.

No one on your mod team has attempted to argue otherwise, because it’s indefensible.

Is there any point in here where you take any personal responsibility?

FThumb · 2023-08-03T01:43:08+00:00

AND ABUSING CAPS LOCK DOESN’T MAKE YOU RIGHT.

IT DOESN'T MAKE US WRONG, EITHER.

FThumb · 2023-08-03T01:40:12+00:00

So this would appear to be a contradiction, wouldn’t it?

No, it wouldn't, because if you didn't make the report, none of this would have happened. The report abuse had already been filed before you made the spam report.

FThumb · 2023-08-03T01:38:10+00:00

dumbass.

I'm pretty sure we have a shell here, too.

FThumb · 2023-08-02T21:10:26+00:00

FThumb already said here that you never use the Ignore Reports button.

Your pedantry is getting tiresome. When I said "never" I didn't mean it in the literal never ever, I meant it in the colloquial "we used to use it now and then but stopped using it altogether some time ago.

At what point do you start listening to what we've been trying to say to you without twisting everything to support your victim-hood?

Once more, for the hard of hearing in the back of the room: WE ESCALATED A BOGUS REPORT BEFORE YOUR SPAM REPORT WAS LOGGED AND ADMINS GOT THERE AFTER YOUR SPAM REPORT WAS MADE AND SWEPT YOU UP IN THEIR OVERREACTION. THIS IS NOT ON OUR MODS.

FThumb · 2023-08-02T21:04:26+00:00

Most mods won't take the time to continually check the mod reports, and most of us don't use New Reddit.

FThumb · 2023-08-02T20:56:31+00:00

because you don’t know how to use the Ignore button after you approve an item the first time.

As has been told to you already, we leave them so the full mod team can see them.

FThumb · 2023-08-02T20:54:25+00:00

That’s why we escalate reports to the admin every time we get a bad report!

Do you see the problem now?

Yes, I do. You can't accept that we don't escalate "every time," or even most times, and that you're own actions in reporting a post started it all.

FThumb · 2023-08-02T20:53:00+00:00

CTH was engaged in brigading

Unlike subs like NoMoreSandersSpam, or TopMinds, or SubredditDrama, or a dozen others that existed solely for the purposes of instigating brigades?

and ignoring calls for violence

This is applied in one direction. Plenty of subs get away with this, it all depends on the target.

They weren’t removed because they got some trolling bad reports.

They were removed because they were targeted by coordinated troll campaigns.

FThumb · 2023-08-02T15:12:41+00:00

You've been a mod for how long, and you still don't understand the irrationality and inconsistency of admin actions?

FThumb · 2023-08-02T15:11:10+00:00

Then use the Ignore Button on the initial report so each item can only generate one report!

No, because (1) then no other mods will see the report, and (2) it looks to admins as if we're just ignoring all the thousands of reports we get.

You don’t dig your heels in and ignore when you get your own users site-wide suspended especially when the solution is so simple.

We still haven't actually established that this is what got you site-wide banned. Especially so considering the report was apparently reported prior to receiving your report.

Your beef is with admins. We're just an easy scapegoat.

FThumb · 2023-08-02T15:08:37+00:00

No wonder your sub is constantly on their radar.

So, is it your contention that our sub getting literally thousands of reports on the majority of our posts isn't putting us on admins radar, but beginning to report report abuse on a small fraction of these is getting us on admin's radar?

Seriously?

FThumb · 2023-08-02T02:45:31+00:00

Reddit is not going to remove the sub because you received specious reports.

ChapoTrapHouse has entered the chat.

FThumb · 2023-08-02T02:44:47+00:00

your eagerness to escalate reports to the admin is incongruous.

You have no idea how reporting has been weaponized against us. None. Zero. Prior to the protests, we'd see reports on a clear majority of posts.

FThumb · 2023-08-02T02:43:06+00:00

Seriously, what makes you think the admin wouldn’t love to see your sub banned, your users suspended, as they did to TD and ChapoTrapHouse?

They would, and they would use abused reporting to justify it.

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