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A few days ago, I made a post here that caused an Administrator to contact me via a PM.
The administrator requested that I correct my usage of a symbol that I used in place of a letter to creatively spell a word.
The symbol used in the spelling of the word fully captures the inherent structure of the organization with the presentation of the symbol, rather than a letter, as the symbol is extremely powerful and expresses in one key stoke, what otherwise would require volumes of unnecessary, heretofore, proven behavior of those who have rallied under its banner.
It appears the symbol offended the anonymous individual, who for whatever reasons, lacks the ability to directly confront my convention and usage to argue their point of contention, and would rather remain in the dark. In essence, exercising control over the board and subverting for all intent and purposes, the very act of expression that most here willingly chose to defend with full knowledge and at the risk of their lives.
In the few days that have pass, this incident of censorship has gnawed at my sensibility of free speech. The more this Veteran (me), that signed 3 enlistment contracts to defend and protect the Constitution of these United States and as a free man, I in my whole mind and every inch of my intellectual capacity, would rather fight and lose his place here among those who have done the same and more to serve this Nation, I raise my voice in defiance at those who would censor and hide under the guise of anonymity, using others to do their bidding out of fear of exposure, or as a means of silencing to gather authority they do not deserve, and control what they are incapable of claiming through valid opposition.
That said, it is my opinion and unalienable right to state that the spelling of this word, in this manner, full captures, embodies, and positively identifies the current and inherent state of the D卐M☭CRATic Party. From it’s embrace of ANTIFA, to the corruption of the social norm, in addition to every agency in US Government that has been politicized, from the bogus J6 to open borders and the undermining of the Armed Forces via a corrupted weak and Woke leadership. The D卐M☭CRATic party has proven it is filled with Nazis and communist and is intent on destroying the freedoms that are guarantee through the Constitution of these United States.
Prove me wrong, I’ll wait here for the coward who thinks that their poor choice in censorship would go unanswered, and that I would capitulate by being place in a position of being banned on this site for expressing the truth of what has become of the D卐M☭CRATic party.
Sincerely, and respectfully, I stand my ground.
Dennis M. Foy Sr.
Edit to correct sentence structure.
If you don't think the 'rats are out to destroy this country and our way of life, you simply aren't paying attention. The republicans aren't any better - they'll just bleed you more slowly. In the end, it is all the same: more debt, more illegals, more crime, more destruction of the family, freedom, and religion. Until there is only the State......
From Penn; "Prove me wrong, I’ll wait here for the coward who thinks that their poor choice in censorship would go unanswered, and that I would capitulate by being place me in a position of being banned on this site for expressing the truth of what has become of the D卐M☭CRATic party".
A good recent example is the dem party, or members of, taking Trumps name off the ballot..and HE's the threat to Democracy??? He hasn't even been convicted of anything... LMFOA (not really)...sadly, somehow, people will follow and not stand up to tyranny...
It seems pretty fitting since the overwhelming majority of left-leaning political parties in the USA are far more representative of Staliinesque Communism, European Fascism, or outright Maoism than the Western concept of liberty and freedom. While I cannot find a reference in the APA or MLA writing manuals, I would think either spelling (with or without the symbols) could be considered correct.
The problem is - far too many Americans have been duped into believing what is a "bait and switch" definition of the word "peace" by the current crop of globailst warmongering politicians...
...peace in the classic sense is just that - people being left alone to live their best life on their own terms
...peace to a leftist is the silencing of dissent
YMMV
..sadly, somehow, people will follow and not stand up to tyranny...
This thought often causes me to despair. The decay taking place makes me wonder what the future holds for our republic. The Republican leadership certainly can’t/ won’t take a hard stand. Is it too late to “reach” the electorate, in a meaningful sense, or have we crossed the Rubicon? :(
I sincerely do not believe there is a peaceful way out of this.
It's too late to hope for a peaceful resolution, and too early to start shooting.
Bide your time, prepare yourself, keep your powder dry and hatchet scoured.
Uncertain of how the new year will unfold, I am concerned that the political climate will increase the emotional temperature for those who lack the stamina of patience.
imoo, all that has transpired since 2007 with the placement of Obama as the D卐M☭CRATic party leader has one purpose, and that is as stated by him: to fundamentally change America.
He has for all intent and purpose accomplished a great deal in that regard, as the D卐M☭CRATic party embraced the Maoist successful social revolution of identity political exclusion.
The process where one is or is not made whole in the social good, and the social good is defined by those who control social perception/opinion, through the subconscious conduit of self-worth and acceptance in the social order, that is disseminated within the social consciousness of society, through in group identity inclusion or exclusion.
The current mode of validation is via MSM and all that it entails, and is best example by the Gobbles reincarnate Mark Zuckerberg, ubiquitous FB and Instagram ability to influence and drive the discourse that defines social acceptance.
It is not by accident that we find ourselves in a defensive argument, when colloquially in social terms, all that you have identified with has been deemed divisive or unworthy. The concepts of social values that hold conservative viewpoints regarding nationhood, family, religion, merit, equalness in law, in addition to the mirror image of self-worth that is reflected in the social order that is foundational in social underpinnings of any society.
Society is culture. It is the history of its populaces. For the United States the social construct has been inclusion, under the Heralded banner of - bring us your tired, your poor your huddled masses, yearning to be free – has been inverted, used as a weapon to separate the goodness that is inherently Christian American, the foundation of the republic, as xenophobic, racial, emanating from a white supremacy that originated in its founding in 1492.
Attacking the social construction of any society is an act of undermining legitimacy, whereby the social: political, religious, and norms are validated or disenfranchise.
The social conflict engineered currently is racially based, rooted in the emancipation of slavery that has engulfed this nation since its founding. A civil war and much of the legal proceeding since Plessy vs Ferguson, separate but equal, which was exceptionally unequal, ending with Brown in 1954, is presented today, not as social progression, moving the whole of society into the future, but as a continuation of the prejudicial nation founded on a belief system that is white and Christian.
Regardless of its merits, the conflict/argument attacking the social construction of America has nothing to do with justice or rightfulness. The argument finds its footing in the emotionally charged atmosphere of racial equity.
Equity, socially and economically, is the socialist points of departure that validate the radical contention to burn it all down.
A nation founded by White Christians, that designed a social order based on merit and God given abilities, each to his own, with a constitution written by, and adopted by, White Christians, who also were slave owners is the bedrock divergence employed to silence all decent as an indefensible augment confronting social equality, or a socialist based society.
Understanding the social manipulation for a just society is the same argument employed in Just War Theory that forces capsulation due to inherent guilt established in the founding that justifies the attack To Overcome By Any Means
Jus ad bellum (moral justifications for going to war) requires that the cause for war is just; the right authority makes the decision; the decision is made with the right intention of bringing about peace; the war is a last resort; the overall evil of the war does not outweigh the good.
Deplorable, Conservative, White, Christian, MAGA, are the identity verb political language Obama employed and the D卐M☭CRATic Party embraced, are Maoist in origin. Formed to isolate and brand those who are anti-inclusive to a just/equal society as racist. Thus, creating identity politics that invalidated the social good achieved through the civil rights movement and MLK.Jr., and regarding any black American who held those principles as an Uncle Tom!
The socialist technique to alter society can only be achieve and be understood generationally.
Generational control can only be achieved through educational indoctrination.
Educational indoctrination is the D卐M☭CRATic Parties only concern, all other distraction are orchestrated to deflect attention away from the control of the education system, which is now designed to contest the social good/justice rooted in America’s racist past. In effect, silencing all decent and affording/controlling the educational system, the socialist future ensured, this is the bedrock principle that the D卐M☭CRATic Party has been focused on since the 1950’s.
Now actualized, we see the fruits of the D卐M☭CRATic agenda in the uninformed protest that support transgenderism, antisemitism, and non-gender birth identity, that found an audience in the cuddled masses of a merit based middle America. A Populace that arguably, has known no hardship since the depression of the 1930’s, regardless of the WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and the current WWOT, America has prospered. While doing so, the D卐M☭CRATic party has not lost its focus on controlling the educational system.
Porn in school libraries, trans bathrooms, racial tensions via CRT, are all designed to distract attention away from the core indoctrination, one that highlights those racist/sexual distraction as illustration of an unjust society, made whole through the concept of a socialist based system of equality.
Oh, I almost forgot: Happy New Year, love and kisses, Penn.
Penn
You are spot on. I cannot agree more.
Who ever was but hurt and could not engage in an intellectual interaction with your post is a coward because they could not support their point and chose to use the D卐M☭CRATic party communists way to shut you down.
You’re not getting banned from my perspective.
GratefulCitizen
01-01-2024, 14:49
We no longer live in a world where most people are influenced by calm reflection upon observable facts analyzed with logic.
Modern communication technology, limited attention spans, and the feminization of the culture have rendered this method ineffective.
We must adapt to the battlefield realities of the current information war.
Hearts and minds are the prize.
My suggestion:
Whatever the left does or attempts to do, frame it as a sign of their weakness and desperation.
When it comes to persuasion, facts don’t matter.
Emotions rule.
All actions, inactions, speech, and/or silence on their part should be argued as evidence of their impending failure.
Disregard any arguments to the contrary, and say such arguments are further evidence that they are losing.
The left will eat their own, given enough time and frustration.
While under the influence of fear, people will support whomever they believe is the strongest.
The best defense is a good offense.
I think it all boils down to...Divide and Conquer.
Why are there so many factious groups in the US?
The hard wood we once were is being splintered away.
GratefulCitizen
01-02-2024, 12:16
I think it all boils down to...Divide and Conquer.
Why are there so many factious groups in the US?
The hard wood we once were is being splintered away.
This warrants some exploration.
What are the simplest, most basic ideas that bind the nation together?
What makes, out of many, one?
I propose it is this: the idea that government exists to protect the rights and freedoms of the individual rather than the collective.
Specifically, the sovereignty of the individual to exercise authority over their own mind, person, and property is paramount.
However, no man is an island, so carefully crafted boundaries on that sovereignty must be established.
Without these, the inevitable result is anarchy.
To this end, any boundary circumscribed around these rights and freedoms must be thoroughly examined for intended and unintended consequences.
If it cannot be conclusively determined that such infringements, considering all effects, tend to ensure and expand overall rights and freedoms, then such infringements should not be tolerated.
Now that my thesis is established, how might such a binding tie be undermined?
One word: tribalism.
It matters not whether the tribe in question once served or even currently serves the core idea of individual liberty.
Loyalty cannot be given to a tribe over the pursuit of a more perfect union serving that liberty.
Demagogues of all stripes will use the righteous passions and good intentions of the people to elevate themselves to positions of authority.
They may even have, at one time, legitimately held to those ideals, but power tends to corrupt, and even group power can corrupt itself into mob rule.
I believe the path to freedom starts from within each individual.
-First, we examine ourselves to determine if we are prioritizing our tribe or our ideals.
-Next, we examine ourselves to determine if we are demonizing the others (and their tribe) for not holding to our same ideals, i.e. being from a different tribe.
-Finally, we must be very careful to focus on criticizing ideas that are antithetical to liberty, and less swift to directly criticize the individuals and groups proposing those antithetical ideas, as this just hardens their in-group resolve and promotes more tribalism.
Those are my thoughts.
I welcome expansion and/or criticism.
This warrants some exploration.
I have been exploring this problem for quite some time and it has long been my observation that censorship is always the go-to solution for squashing dissenting ideas.
I’m not talking about the kind of censorship that punishes a pop singer for flashing a titty during the halftime show of a fooseball game – I’m talking about the kind of censorship that prevents you from saying that 2+2=4.
It is my misguided and biased opinion that this increasingly hysterical drive to censor uncomfortable speech is the fact that there is no existing pride in the concept of an “America Diaspora” – in fact, it has become my opinion that at least 81 million votes would immediately be counted in opposition to the existence of an American Diaspora if such a thing existed because the opposition must be censored – or at least taken off the next ballot – whatever works!
What in the ACTUAL fuck are you talking About Box?
Well, I’m so glad you asked…
… any such pride in an “American Identity” that you might find in a global diaspora of ‘Proud Americans’ is zealously portrayed by pop culture as inherently racist and xenophobic. 81 million votes were counted in support of a guy that repeatedly declares our nation as inherently racist and xenophobic and that those who would embrace the concept of a true American Diaspora are the root of what is wrong with our country.
What are the simplest, most basic ideas that bind the nation together?
What makes, out of many, one?
I can answer both of those questions with two words:
Made.In.America.
In other words, a nations population is bound together by a people who share a common identity; it could be a religious identity, a cultural identity, or even a geographical identity.
Wait, neither of those are two-word answers; what I meant was:
Pride in a common identity.
Fuck…
...still not two words, but you know what I mean.
Now that my thesis is established, how might such a binding tie be undermined?
One word: tribalism.
Tribalism is a good place to start – but depending on the context, it is the celebration of SELECTIVE tribalism that is doing the most damage to a dying American culture. If we the people, of the United States of America, prescribed to the collective pursuit of forming a more perfect union, establishing justice, and ensuring domestic tranquility, American tribalism would be the glue that bound us all together. We the people could be scattered across the globe, far away from these 50 states we call home; if we shared a common identity, our bonds with our countrymen (and countrywomen) would be unbreakable.
...and we would cherish others opinions instead of trying to silence them
For shit sakes – our local, state, and federal politicians as well as our major media outlets and academic elitists worship at the altar of identity – as long as you don’t identify as an unapologetic and “unhyphenated American” – because proud Americans are racist and xenophobic…
…yet they don’t mind appropriating a little culture, grabbing some kente cloth, and then kneeling in support of rapists, murderers, drug addicts, and rioters if it gives them a few extra minutes of media coverage.
...and if you say otherwise in the public square while the wrong agency is monitoring, prepare to be censored and put in social media time out until you are reeducated.
We have an abundance of “identity” to embrace; you can identify as a race, a religion, a nationality, an orientation, or for that matter we are even allowing people to identify as a lack of orientation – as long as you use a hyphen. You can be a gay-American or a transgendered-bisexual-lesbian-American or a Muslim-American or you can just skip that entire “American” thing and just be a transgendered person of color…
…how fucking vague is that ?!?!?!
…but it sure as fuck is a legitimate identity to embrace in 2024 America.
It doesn’t matter as long as you remember the hyphen. Forget the hyphen and BAM – you are a transphobic sexist homophobic racist – and quite possibly irredeemably so - because the idea of an ‘American diaspora’ is downright repugnant.
…the Jewish diaspora is spread across every country on the planet. They share a common identity regardless of whether they live in Israel, France, Ukraine, Brazil, Australia, or the USA. They are proud to be Jewish and don’t mind if people know.
…Armenians were literally subjected to genocide but that didn’t dissuade the Armenian diaspora from proudly embracing who they are.
…the Irish diaspora can be spotted around the globe in their places of worship, proudly embracing their Pub heritage
…the Indian, Chinese, and Mexican diaspora are the largest in the world and leftists will quickly accuse you of being a bigot or a cultural appropriator if you put soy sauce in your curried chicken burrito.
…the Palestinian diaspora is proud of their violent terrorist heritage and so are an increasing number of Amerikan democrats.
…but if you embrace being a proud American, those same democrats will call you a racist and a xenophobe.
Demagogues of all stripes will use the righteous passions and good intentions of the people to elevate themselves to positions of authority.
I must say, demagoguery is my favorite brand of goguery – the art of exploiting people’s emotions for personal gain instead of winning them over with facts and logic – it’s just awesome.
They may even have, at one time, legitimately held to those ideals, but power tends to corrupt, and even group power can corrupt itself into mob rule.
The fine art of demagoguery is what has allowed our nation’s government, military, industrial, and academic leaders to manipulate that ‘group power’ into a mob rule that embraces the corruption and even shifts social norms to demand acceptance and celebration!!!
-It’s how they use “intersectionality” to bludgeon common sense over the head. It’s how the left has convinced dope smoking hippy lesbian atheists to protest in support of the Hamastinians.
-The American right doesn’t like atheists.
-The American right doesn’t like lesbians
-The American right certainly doesn’t like dope smoking hippies; so let’s support the terrorists from Hamasastine because the American right hates terrorists too – it doesn’t matter that the Hamastinians will rape torture and murder us – as long as we are protesting against a conservative cause.
Demagoguery, mob rule, censorship, and the shifting of social norms is why we now have minor attracted persons and not degenerate pedophiles. Meanwhile, democrats will butt fuck each other in the senate chamber, post that shit on the internet, and then boldly continue to squander the public trust right in your face – as long as it keeps them in power.
But call that shit out - and prepare to be censored.
I just hope that SF guys as a ‘diaspora’ never succumb to that sweet sweet sound of squashing your oppositions free speech; if we ever undertake the task of silencing our nations true protectors of freedom to protect someone’s feelings, then we are all surely lost.
Just my two cents – I could be wrong.
Biden/Harris in 24, 28, and 32
Lets finish the job !!
sfshooter
01-03-2024, 00:09
We have an abundance of “identity” to embrace; you can identify as a race, a religion, a nationality, an orientation, or for that matter we are even allowing people to identify as a lack of orientation – as long as you use a hyphen. You can be a gay-American or a transgendered-bisexual-lesbian-American or a Muslim-American or you can just skip that entire “American” thing and just be a transgendered person of color…
…how fucking vague is that ?!?!?!
…but it sure as fuck is a legitimate identity to embrace in 2024 America.
It doesn’t matter as long as you remember the hyphen. Forget the hyphen and BAM – you are a transphobic sexist homophobic racist – and quite possibly irredeemably so - because the idea of an ‘American diaspora’ is downright repugnant.
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Well Box, you describe the hyphen issue quite will. I will also present to those present, John Wayne's thoughts on the "hyphen":
https://vimeo.com/109471487
I would like to add also that those who like and support the idea of the continuing destruction of the Republic are found in all groups of people. Even on SF veterans chat boards it appears.
Roguish Lawyer
01-03-2024, 07:37
Well Box, you describe the hyphen issue quite will. I will also present to those present, John Wayne's thoughts on the "hyphen":
https://vimeo.com/109471487
I would like to add also that those who like and support the idea of the continuing destruction of the Republic are found in all groups of people. Even on SF veterans chat boards it appears.
That was awesome. Thanks for sharing!
Well Box, you describe the hyphen issue quite will. I will also present to those present, John Wayne's thoughts on the "hyphen":
I’m a big John Wayne fan and somehow I missed that one. That was great! Thanks for sharing.
bblhead672
01-03-2024, 19:14
I will also present to those present, John Wayne's thoughts on the "hyphen":
https://vimeo.com/109471487
America, Why I Love Her (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America,_Why_I_Love_Her)
I never heard that before, so had to look it up. From John Wayne’s album “America, Why I Love Her,” released in 1973. It consists of patriotic poems written by actor John Mitchum, the brother of Robert Mitchum.
During a recent visit to the John Wayne Experience Museum in Ft. Worth I asked my wife “l wonder what John Wayne would say about the state of the country today?”
This thread contains much wisdom and insight, had to read it all multiple times.
Truth is the enemy of those who are fighting to destroy this country.
Box, truly a great statement that bode's well for the whole board in the early light of the New Year.
But, the absolute stunner in the entire post was this little ditty:
the Indian, Chinese, and Mexican diaspora are the largest in the world and leftists will quickly accuse you of being a bigot or a cultural appropriator is you put soy sauce or your curried chicken burrito.
Assimilating while jump through hoops!
That wonderful intellect must harbor little patience, or hours of internal pleasure laughing through the day.
Scimitar
01-05-2024, 22:29
A few days ago, I made a post here that caused an Administrator to contact me via a PM.
If I may cautiously throw in my $0.02 worth - I think there's an important element we might be missing here.
Firstly, I couldn't agree with Penn more regarding free speech. And it deeply concerns me that a PS.com site admin felt the need to correct Penn for a very wrong reason.
However, I think it may be important to discuss what might be a good reason we do reframe from using this specific "WW2 German symbol"; even if we are using it for a good reason, (i.e. reasons other than a love for the movement the symbol represents).
Here's my argument...
Whether we like it or not, many of the readers, members, and contributors on PS.com first found PS.com via a search engine search.
And, in turn, future readers, members, and contributors will likely continue to be firstly introduced to PS.com, and the immense value it contains, by a search engine search.
There is a very real risk that PS.com might be "de-ranked" on search engines if the search engines sees such a symbol being used, even only a few times.
In turn, PS.com, and the immense value it can bring individuals inside the Special Forces community and outside alike, could be lost to many.
Now, don't get me wrong, with Googles "natural language processing" AI, which has been in used since 2019, Google can likely reasonably accurately tell whether the symbol is being used for good or for bad.
However, Google isn't going to take the risk to be seen, even by accident, to be supporting neo-nazi propaganda in any way, and so Google will almost certainly have a blanket ban of ranking pages that use the symbol, and a website will likely risk be de-ranked entirely if found using the symbol even just a few times.
Do with this info what you will, but I thought it important to at least see this from a deferent angle.
S.
To be clear, are you stating that the importance of information found here on PS.Com is of such value to the public good, that self-censoring for that reason alone should warrant the discontinued use of this symbol, that expresses in its use, a parties inherent ethos, that have
been demonstrated publicly, and are easily exampled by the use and support of ANTIFA and the bias one-party membership makeup of the J6 Committee, regardless of truth, that site ranking and value rendered could be lost and that is of more importance than a descripted symbolization of free speech use to emphases what the D卐M☭CRATic party embraces?
Is that correct?
If that is correct, then I heartily disagree. Those who seek this
relationship and knowledge will find it, others who stumble upon us. meh
This thread should be closed. The point of contention has been presented, stated, supported and opposed fairly, any further discussion adds little to no value for anyone here.