The security state, censorship, and election interference

[oggsmash]

  "student movements"  AKA commies.

Yeah! Fuck the Commie students. The only "Movement" they need is to be crushed under the boots of true patriots.

That's the trick. The government has always justified censorship and spying by saying that it's necessary to protect the country from communists, or anarchists, or Islamists, or some other category. This is how Congress passed and re-authorized the PATRIOT Act and people don't reject the members voting for it because they want safety and security more than they want freedom.

  The people DO need protection from those things...that act however was transparently not for that.   No news flash that the average person is a soft coward who will do anything to avoid hard work, hardship, or responsibility.   The control and propaganda goes back way further than the 70's I would say the 30's it went off the rails.  It had to in order to convince Americans to go die for other people's problems.

[Man at Arms]

I'm so fed up with how the country is, I'm no longer voting.

It doesn't matter.

Let it all burn.

Well, I reckon it's worth one more try; but I do understand your pessimism.  At this point; the political parties involved, are merely rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.  The good ol' USA now runs a publicized Deficit, of 1 Trillion Dollars every 100 Days.  That's 10 Billion Dollars Per Day, and the Rate is Accelerating.....

First Post, by the way.  Hello Everyone!!!

[Grognard GM]

I'm so fed up with how the country is, I'm no longer voting.

It doesn't matter.

Let it all burn.

Well, I reckon it's worth one more try; but I do understand your pessimism.  At this point; the political parties involved, are merely rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.  The good ol' USA now runs a publicized Deficit, of 1 Trillion Dollars every 100 Days.  That's 10 Billion Dollars Per Day, and the Rate is Accelerating.....

First Post, by the way.  Hello Everyone!!!

Welcome, we can always use another fighting man to man the gates.

[Thor's Nads]

I'm so fed up with how the country is, I'm no longer voting.

It doesn't matter.

Let it all burn.

I live in California. My vote hasn't mattered since 1999 when the Democrats took total one party control. Basically the only choices are Radical Leftist Communist or Even More Radical Leftist Communist. The Democrats choose who is on the ballot before anyone can even vote.

[Thor's Nads]

I live in California. My vote hasn't mattered since 1999 when the Democrats took total one party control. Basically the only choices are Radical Leftist Communist or Even More Radical Leftist Communist. The Democrats choose who is on the ballot before anyone can even vote.

I remember when Jerry Brown was re-elected governor of California, at the time I thought he was a terrible left winger too old for the job. I can't believe I miss those days, at least he was one of those old school 60's hippie liberals, nothing like the absolute total communists we have nowadays.

[Grognard GM]

I live in California.

My condolences.

[Thor's Nads]

I live in California.

My condolences.

It's f'kn terrible, and I can't convince my wife to move because we have a "dream home" in one of the nicest areas. It's a sea of rainbow flags and BLM signs.

[Exploderwizard]

I live in California.

My condolences.

It's f'kn terrible, and I can't convince my wife to move because we have a "dream home" in one of the nicest areas. It's a sea of rainbow flags and BLM signs.

I thought you said it was one of the nicest areas?

[Chris24601]

I live in California.

My condolences.

It's f'kn terrible, and I can't convince my wife to move because we have a "dream home" in one of the nicest areas. It's a sea of rainbow flags and BLM signs.

I thought you said it was one of the nicest areas?

Nice is relative.

Virtue signaling flags are nicer looking than shit and needle-covered sidewalks, mile after mile of homeless encampments, boarded up buildings, burned out cars, and fentanyl addicts strewn across the ground.

[SHARK]

Greetings!

Ahh, yes. My neighborhood is a sea of Trump flags, American flags, peppered with various military flags.

Not ONE BLM or rainbow flag in sight.

As for California, man. A man's got to assert leadership over the woman. Safety and security of the home is primary. The fact is, California is increasingly run by Anarcho-Tyrants. These Marxist morons actually champion the criminal class, and see them as heroes fighting against the evil, white patriarchy. Your uber nice home will not be worth anything when it gets raided by homeless zombies, and covered in shit. Or burned to the ground. Or you get attacked, raped, and potentially killed. Homeless people attack, rape, and kill good citizens all the time.

Look what has happened to Costa Mesa, Anaheim, and Huntington Beach. All cities in Southern California. All these cities used to be beautiful, productive, and safe.

Now, they are Liberal fucking shitholes filled with drugs, crime, and homeless people.

All because of the fucking Marxist Liberals. These people are diseased, and need to be cleansed.

So, yes. Get the fuck out of California. The sooner, the better. There are too many brainwashed morons amidst the masses, that eagerly gulp down the Marxist Kool-Aid. Voting won't change a thing. California is fucked, and will continue to get worse--more ridden with crime, more impoverished, more violent, and more overwhelmed with homeless, and illegal immigrants.

I am originally a California native. I have left California, and now live in farm country in Idaho. I live in a small, rural farm town, on the edge of nowhere. My neighbors are all hard working people, church going, law-abiding patriots. Many veterans, as well as police officers that live in my neighborhood. There are three church preachers, grocery store employees, school teachers, plumbers, and post office workers, and more. An absolutely wonderful, clean, safe neighborhood. There is no homeless anywhere. No crime, no thugs, no graffiti. No shit and garbage everywhere.

And, everyone believes in guns. Everyone owns guns. Gun stores are full of huge selections of guns that you cannot even see anywhere in gun stores in California. That is because Idaho believes in the Constitution, and the Marxist Tyrants in California do not believe in the Constitution. Idaho has laws within our state Constitution that embraces the 2nd Amendment as core, and shall not be violated in any way. Conceal carry? No special permits needed, or special authority from the fucking state. Every man is allowed by law to go about armed, open or concealed, anywhere in the state. Except a courthouse. *Laughing* Maybe a few other places. Nonetheless, freedom is the rule, and being armed is encouraged and expected of everyone.

Once you get out of California, you can really see the Communism, and the tyranny there. You are in kind of a weird bubble living there. You begin to gradually believe that all that corruption, all that tyranny, all of that chaos, is *normal*

Outside of California, in a RED MAGA State, it is not. It isn't normal, and it is evil tyranny and Marxism. It is corruption, chaos, and depravity.

In a red Maga state, you really see what normal is. You get to experience genuine safety, patriotism, unity, and freedom.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

[Grognard GM]

I live in California.

My condolences.

It's f'kn terrible, and I can't convince my wife to move because we have a "dream home" in one of the nicest areas. It's a sea of rainbow flags and BLM signs.

Top tip, 'for fun' start shopping for houses with her online, in places you'd like to move to. Don't pressure her at all, just make it a thing to look at pictures with her, casually comment on how much bang for the buck the new places have. With luck she'll convince herself.

Fingers crossed for you.

[GeekyBugle]

I live in California.

My condolences.

It's f'kn terrible, and I can't convince my wife to move because we have a "dream home" in one of the nicest areas. It's a sea of rainbow flags and BLM signs.

Top tip, 'for fun' start shopping for houses with her online, in places you'd like to move to. Don't pressure her at all, just make it a thing to look at pictures with her, casually comment on how much bang for the buck the new places have. With luck she'll convince herself.

Fingers crossed for you.

Fun fact: A friend told me about a property in the town/county he lives in, with two trailers converted into a home and a huge ass land with a river...

Don't remember the exact price but it was cheaper than buying a tiny appartment here in México City...

If I had the money I would have bought it in an instant.

[jhkim]

In a red Maga state, you really see what normal is. You get to experience genuine safety, patriotism, unity, and freedom.

This is a false generalization. It's true that Idaho has lower crime rates than California, but California has less violent crime than Texas, and much less than the most lethal crime states (Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas) - all of which are red states. Here's a map of homicide rates, for example:



There's no simple relation to politics of the state. For example, my sister lives in blue state Maine, for example, which has even lower murder rate than Idaho.

As for California, man. A man's got to assert leadership over the woman. Safety and security of the home is primary. The fact is, California is increasingly run by Anarcho-Tyrants. These Marxist morons actually champion the criminal class, and see them as heroes fighting against the evil, white patriarchy. Your uber nice home will not be worth anything when it gets raided by homeless zombies, and covered in shit. Or burned to the ground. Or you get attacked, raped, and potentially killed. Homeless people attack, rape, and kill good citizens all the time.

Look what has happened to Costa Mesa, Anaheim, and Huntington Beach. All cities in Southern California. All these cities used to be beautiful, productive, and safe.

Now, they are Liberal fucking shitholes filled with drugs, crime, and homeless people.

Here's the stats for violent crime in Huntington Beach.


Source: https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend

What years are you saying was the stark transformation of it into a dangerous shithole of crime? It looks to me like pretty steady back-and-forth over the last 25 years.

[oggsmash]

   Looks like an over 25 percent increase over time to me... that mysteriously flattens in 2020 after all the less policing propaganda and cops doing a whole lot of "quiet quitting" to ride toward pensions started.

[SHARK]

In a red Maga state, you really see what normal is. You get to experience genuine safety, patriotism, unity, and freedom.

This is a false generalization. It's true that Idaho has lower crime rates than California, but California has less violent crime than Texas, and much less than the most lethal crime states (Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas) - all of which are red states. Here's a map of homicide rates, for example:



There's no simple relation to politics of the state. For example, my sister lives in blue state Maine, for example, which has even lower murder rate than Idaho.

As for California, man. A man's got to assert leadership over the woman. Safety and security of the home is primary. The fact is, California is increasingly run by Anarcho-Tyrants. These Marxist morons actually champion the criminal class, and see them as heroes fighting against the evil, white patriarchy. Your uber nice home will not be worth anything when it gets raided by homeless zombies, and covered in shit. Or burned to the ground. Or you get attacked, raped, and potentially killed. Homeless people attack, rape, and kill good citizens all the time.

Look what has happened to Costa Mesa, Anaheim, and Huntington Beach. All cities in Southern California. All these cities used to be beautiful, productive, and safe.

Now, they are Liberal fucking shitholes filled with drugs, crime, and homeless people.

Here's the stats for violent crime in Huntington Beach.


Source: https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend

What years are you saying was the stark transformation of it into a dangerous shithole of crime? It looks to me like pretty steady back-and-forth over the last 25 years.

Greetings!

Sorry, Jhkim. Your stats, your graphs, whatever, are all fucking wrong.

I am a native Californian. I lived most of my life in Southern California, for the best part of 30 years. I have LIVED in Huntington Beach, Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Orange, Norwalk. I lived and worked in these cities for YEARS. I know the freeways. I know the neighborhoods. I know the people. I know the work environment. I know all about the local areas, what areas are good, what areas are bad--and what areas and cities have CHANGED. HOW they have changed, and WHY.

Just like many other Californians that have worked, lived, and owned property. They and myself have seen everything go to fucking shit, increasingly, over the past 20 years and more.

Stop smoking that crack man, and drinking your fucking Liberal Kool-Aid.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK