This morning's post via twitter:
Pay attention... 🍁👇 pic.twitter.com/jYdlAw6TFd
— 🍁Antonio Tweets 📣 (@AntonioTweets2) October 31, 2022
A quick search on Gulagle © found this article from 2020:
More from twitter:
Remember, there have been some other slippery slopes....
The illusion of freedom. Exactly right.
ReplyDeleteI have said it before on this blog. We are doomed. Not this year, and probably not next year. But soon in relative terms. We give the right to vote to people who pay no taxes but are allowed to vote themselves free everything at the expense of the providers (us). This will continue to snowball. The corrupt politicians will solidify their power with this voting block that is constantly being replenished via illegal immigration and the upward creepage of the lowest economic class. Yes, we should have a win in November that will temporarily stop the madness. The next leftist wave will take more of our taxes/freedom, and we will continue to have small wins to slightly reverse the trend. It will never be enough to move the needle far enough to the right. In the end, our freedom graph will look like a sinusoidal wave that is constantly moving down to zero. The only real fix is a change to our laws/constitution regarding who is allowed to vote (taxpayers) and that will never happen. Change my mind...
ReplyDeleteI've been saying for long enough that my family considers it a cliche but-"No representation without taxation!" Ya need to have skin in the game to play.
DeleteZappa said it best. Bob we are not doomed when the time is right business will be taken care of, ie; when there is nothing left to loose.
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Camel's nose under the tent flap.
ReplyDeleteI hope you can tolerate camel fleas...
Ref the video on Canada....Canada is ruled by a socialist government. There is no freedom. Only socialism. Canadians are raised from birth to accept government rule. It is what it is.
ReplyDeleteThere is no where to run or hide. I live in Alberta, Canada. This is by far the most independant province but even here the 2 major cities have been very 'progressive'. I do not belive my neighbors will fight. Sad.
DeleteThis is just making a target rich environment richer. Keep going. We'll deal with this when the time comes. This is what these cry baby's are up to now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Azf8BhP2o
ReplyDeleteThis what passes for "young man" these days. Welcome to adulthood pussy. I'll be looking for you.
Nemo
This is part why I disassociate from and denigrate those persons who say, 'I don't care the lifestyle you choose, just don't bring it around me.' Because you encourage their deviancy. You may not be out their waving banners and celebrating their 'bravery', but you passively encourage them.
ReplyDeleteBecause they never keep it hidden. Because you give the degenerates an inch they take a mile. And demand more, and more.
Too bad there aren't any real investigative journalists left in the regime media. It's entirely been taken over.
ReplyDeleteWish that I could post the video to my facebook page. Couldn't find it on youtube.
ReplyDeleteI can create a YouTube video. Email me if you want.
DeleteIrish.
This concept has been festering for quite a while. Corporate types have been working on this at least since 2002, probably earlier, but that's about when I first started hearing about Digital Identity, and also "Federated Identity" which is a description for sharing authentication credentials across multiple companies. That was all a precursor to the things we see now, with "Sign on with your Facebook account" as an example where login credentials are shared across platforms. And just yesterday I read this article at ArsTechnica:
ReplyDeletehttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/massive-pandemic-relief-fraud-has-congress-eyeing-digital-ids/
Somewhat related to that is the recently announced real-world implementation of Passkeys, which is passwordless login mechanism. I need to read up on this more, but from what I've read so far, it's an online authentication mechanism which dispenses with both usernames and passwords, and can be used across multiple platforms. So, if I understand it, I could use the same digital credential to log on to both Facebook and my bank - as if I'd ever do that. (No, I'm not on Facebook.)
This new world is coming at us. It's a world where it's expected that people will use their phones as the central aspect of many activities. And, China's model is going to start being implemented more widely. Those of us who don't buy into the huge encroachment of digital spying on our lives will be left out, more and more.
The notion of truly verifying online identity seems quite vexing to me, and I have mixed feelings about it, since I sure as hell don't want someone impersonating me on the US Gov's SSA website.
"Corporate types have been working on this at least since 2002"
DeleteA "universal ID" law was passed by us.gov in Oct2001 as part of a law under the moniker "The Patriot Act" The law requires that all adult citizens have a verified ID by 2020, after several deadline extensions. I think the original compliance date was either 2012 or 2015. My state was one of the ones that forced the date extensions. That's the precursor. The anything but Patriot Act.
Nemo
See what happens when you get to be older and forgetful? But I wasn't really thinking along the lines of the Real ID stuff. My head is apparently stuck in the track of corporate / computing / data mining / internet issues, since I used to work in IT. TIA sticks in my head a lot more than Real ID. In many ways, the corporate stuff is more insidious than the government.
DeleteI also meant to say something about how your phone number and/or e-mail address are being used now as universal identifiers.
Now I have Bob Seger's "I'm Not a Number" going through my head.
To get an insight into what's coming, read the book by Ira Levin, 'This Perfect World'.
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