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"content": "Van Gogh vandalism<br />I think it was interesting - the \"Radical Left\" for decades was very Non-Violent. Oh, a few were and right up to \"Earth First!\" and \"ALF\" the FBI/CIA spent TEN times the $ it ever did on AlQueada even after 9/11. Sadly the Xers that wanted to go \"Fight Club\" got weighed down by old hippies and lectures and promises to turn them in if they thought anything happening was done by them.<br /><br />Come the \"Woke\" they are eager to use violence - but against staged counter protesters or individuals they stalk like an early Simpsons that predicted \"Cancel Culture\" - the \"Homer Badman\" episode.<br /><br />Now they are so ready to use violence when hitting the complaint/flag/DMCA button online like a rat in a skinner box doesn't work. Or to lie such as file false police reports - Japanese cartoons to them are indistinguishable from real child exploitation photos. But the police reports they file, by the thousands, bog down RL LEO's enough a lot of legit exploiter/predators have gone unnoticed for years or have never been caught. On the \"Loli\" note - if it was some Epstein type preying on young girls, would he waste a second making a website with 2D drawings from the Japanese \"Hentai\" market? But it gets more serious when people like Andy Ngo get acid (hidden in milkshakes) thrown in their faces and viciously attacked.<br /><br />Make it clear I say they are NOT Hippies/Yippies - just some NPC movement with the puppet strings pulled by giant companies using the pretense as cover. The ones I've met IRL have had a completely different energy versus all the real Hippies/Leftists I've known.<br /><br />Stupid trash like this - the vandals and NPC Woke has me thinking - IF they were going to risk going to jail and having most \"Professional Jobs\" of 3+ figures barred to them with a criminal record why did they just do dumb flailing pretend destruction? Note the painting is behind glass, you can see the slight parallax even in that Cell-phone video. But there are 100 people and companies who are destroying the Earth and global society, just to make themselves richer. If there are so many people willing to commit crimes because in the fire of idealism they believe they can do an act of violence to make the world better and its worth their own lives - it could be an incredible force for 'good' even as horrific as it is. Like the film \"Wanted\" with Angelina Jolie showing off how she maimed herself with crazy tattoos. Really good till formula kicked in and they had to close it just as they opened it. Or \"Fight Club\" - remember that? IMO the \"Fight Club\" thing is why the elite waited till X-ers got older - they knew if THOSE guys got too pissed they would take direct violent action but do it SMART. Like get a business major, pretend to be a \"Smithers\", put up with a degrading elitist pig then KILL them - say sinking their yacht when it's miles off the coast. Then coasting away with the money or if caught going out with a bang and incriminating files (government helping them commit crimes) being released.<br /><br />Not sure I want to inspire this in the \"Woke\" so I'm just fantasizing the world might be a better place, disclaimer for legal CMA. And the \"Woke\" would be PATHETIC as criminals. \"Pubic Enema #1\" (sic) they got caught near 100% during the BLM riots despite being able to wear MASKS in public. Why? They posted every step of the way, open plans, recorded themselves using real names throwing rocks through windows and put them on \"Social Media\" with their NAME attached to it. Da Fuzz ordered to stand their grounds and let cities burn so they could keep up beating, targeting for fines black people got to scoop up like fish in a barrel the \"Woke\" activists for quick arrest/conviction records.<br /><br />Only \"Advice\" I'd give is if anyone IS going to consider (think ten times, act as if they are watched) direct extralegal action they do NOT let any \"WOke\" in it. Even IF they are committed they likely have a larger Fed Fuzz trail on them than classic 60s activists like Abbie Hoffman because today's tech makes it so much cheaper, will telegraph their moves with social media and if caught will probably want to talk so much they won't even get a benefit ratting everyone else out.<br /><br />Anyways, trying to be in a better mood so I put up some Midjourney generated Van Gogh sunflowers. I love how AI art makes the Woke scream - especially those that post High School sketches offer to charge $140 for a \"Commission\" and give their stupid politics to potential clients...",
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"content": "Conservatives Rally in Defense of Alex Jones, Free Speech After Billion Dollar Verdict <a href=\"https://www.infowars.com/posts/conservatives-rally-in-defense-of-alex-jones-free-speech-after-billion-dollar-verdict/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.infowars.com/posts/conservatives-rally-in-defense-of-alex-jones-free-speech-after-billion-dollar-verdict/</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=SaveInfowars\" title=\"#SaveInfowars\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#SaveInfowars</a> ",
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"content": "<a href=\"https://nypost.com/2022/07/06/georgia-guidestones-destroyed-in-early-morning-bombing/\" target=\"_blank\">https://nypost.com/2022/07/06/georgia-guidestones-destroyed-in-early-morning-bombing/</a><br /><br />Seems some GOOD NEWS! Some brave soul destroyed that Satanist monument to the New World Order - the Georgia Guidestones.<br /><br />Well - actually only blew up but local officials showed the same bravery as the Uvalde cops and demolished the remaining structure advertising our Satanist leader's plan for a population cull. The stories on how it is SWARMED with Fuzz of all levels adds to that there is something really sinister vs some eccentric's art project being destroyed.<br /><br />Note - the first commandment of this thing - they want no more than 500 million humans to live. That means since - google search - 7.753 billion - 7 BILLION, 253 MILLION will be murdered by them. 15% of humanity will be allowed to live...<br /><br />There's real motive for it; The Environment. <br />Humanity in the resources it uses to maintain the 'modern' lifestyle will cause catastrophe to the planet. However our current civilization can last at least a thousand years with zero cuts or near infinite with a few sane cuts - and this is where massive solar/wind/water works come into play. They could make a world that was an \"Ecotopia\" but you could live like 90s Yuppies - just have a few massive generators/systems made by the workers before you injected a 'solution' into them to exterminate them. <br /><br />Even IF you chuck the \"Human caused climate change\" argument there's another reason; Natural resources. Again those are drying up and getting scarce/expensive. Cut humanity down to 15% and we can keep living it high and casually spend $ on researchers to work out how to recycle, make more stuff, generate better energy, etc. <br /><br />It's like almost going bankrupt but you manage to cut a few things and have years or decades left - IF you backstab a LOT of people and leave them out to DIE... Killing most of the passengers on the plane that goes down so the cans of coke and peanuts will last...<br /><br />The thing is - Who decides who LIVES and who DIES?<br /><br />I'd almost be for it -but I can learn from history - Eugenics.<br />Most of the time they talk about WW2 and that German leader with a moustache... That's not the issue. Ahem \"I confess only to Plagiarism! At the behest of Mein Fuhrer I copied - word for word - the United State's Eugenics laws. He wanted Germany to keep up with the Americas and Europe!\" - from the movie and RL - We had \"Eugenics\" but it became classism and racism - ready to sterilize a 3-time Chicken thief but not a 3-time Embezzler. The people in charge were greedy, short-sighted, average intelligence bigots who were the last people to objectively decide anything that important. I fear for humanity if the modern gaggle of Silver-Spoons and upper class WELFARE BUMS make such decisions. We'd have a worse setback than we did with a volcanic plume 100K years ago or the Great Flood 12,000 years ago. <br /><br />I do NOT trust them - for the sake of humanity.<br />They've decided that 3x Chicken Thieves should be sterilized - but NOT 3x Embezzlers. Inbred people needing surgery and constant medication vs healthy people not fully white. Including against IRISH people ahem... I'm sure they'd manage to pick every person and save a few slots for mistresses and boy a--- f-ggots lovers not one of them not a mess of inbreeding, genetic disease, average at best intelligence, craven cowards and the only trait standing out is GREED.<br /><br />Now perhaps this is but a spark of good news in a slide to oblivion. Maybe they'll make other, newer monument perhaps with a giant Baal statue with bronze arms so the fires can burn infants alive...? Or maybe people on the other end who decide things have gone on too far will go after elites, not random people? I guess time will tell.",
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"content": "https://nypost.com/2022/07/06/georgia-guidestones-destroyed-in-early-morning-bombing/\n\nSeems some GOOD NEWS! Some brave soul destroyed that Satanist monument to the New World Order - the Georgia Guidestones.\n\nWell - actually only blew up but local officials showed the same bravery as the Uvalde cops and demolished the remaining structure advertising our Satanist leader's plan for a population cull. The stories on how it is SWARMED with Fuzz of all levels adds to that there is something really sinister vs some eccentric's art project being destroyed.\n\nNote - the first commandment of this thing - they want no more than 500 million humans to live. That means since - google search - 7.753 billion - 7 BILLION, 253 MILLION will be murdered by them. 15% of humanity will be allowed to live...\n\nThere's real motive for it; The Environment. \nHumanity in the resources it uses to maintain the 'modern' lifestyle will cause catastrophe to the planet. However our current civilization can last at least a thousand years with zero cuts or near infinite with a few sane cuts - and this is where massive solar/wind/water works come into play. They could make a world that was an \"Ecotopia\" but you could live like 90s Yuppies - just have a few massive generators/systems made by the workers before you injected a 'solution' into them to exterminate them. \n\nEven IF you chuck the \"Human caused climate change\" argument there's another reason; Natural resources. Again those are drying up and getting scarce/expensive. Cut humanity down to 15% and we can keep living it high and casually spend $ on researchers to work out how to recycle, make more stuff, generate better energy, etc. \n\nIt's like almost going bankrupt but you manage to cut a few things and have years or decades left - IF you backstab a LOT of people and leave them out to DIE... Killing most of the passengers on the plane that goes down so the cans of coke and peanuts will last...\n\nThe thing is - Who decides who LIVES and who DIES?\n\nI'd almost be for it -but I can learn from history - Eugenics.\nMost of the time they talk about WW2 and that German leader with a moustache... That's not the issue. Ahem \"I confess only to Plagiarism! At the behest of Mein Fuhrer I copied - word for word - the United State's Eugenics laws. He wanted Germany to keep up with the Americas and Europe!\" - from the movie and RL - We had \"Eugenics\" but it became classism and racism - ready to sterilize a 3-time Chicken thief but not a 3-time Embezzler. The people in charge were greedy, short-sighted, average intelligence bigots who were the last people to objectively decide anything that important. I fear for humanity if the modern gaggle of Silver-Spoons and upper class WELFARE BUMS make such decisions. We'd have a worse setback than we did with a volcanic plume 100K years ago or the Great Flood 12,000 years ago. \n\nI do NOT trust them - for the sake of humanity.\nThey've decided that 3x Chicken Thieves should be sterilized - but NOT 3x Embezzlers. Inbred people needing surgery and constant medication vs healthy people not fully white. Including against IRISH people ahem... I'm sure they'd manage to pick every person and save a few slots for mistresses and boy a--- f-ggots lovers not one of them not a mess of inbreeding, genetic disease, average at best intelligence, craven cowards and the only trait standing out is GREED.\n\nNow perhaps this is but a spark of good news in a slide to oblivion. Maybe they'll make other, newer monument perhaps with a giant Baal statue with bronze arms so the fires can burn infants alive...? Or maybe people on the other end who decide things have gone on too far will go after elites, not random people? I guess time will tell.",
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"content": "<a href=\"https://youtu.be/Z_KWC_4WjGg\" target=\"_blank\">https://youtu.be/Z_KWC_4WjGg</a><br /><br />Doomcock hands Disney their rears!<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4178\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4178</a><br /><br />Again, Disney is getting WEAK - time to ATTACK:<br /><br />Letter to senators, congressmen - also SEC.<br />Polite, concise, to the point.<br />Demand S.4178 reversal of last two Mickey Mouse copyright extensions and no further extension. Also no bailouts or tax breaks, etc. They want to \"GetWOKE, goBROKE\" they can - but corporate Welfare takes 10x what low level welfare ever did. They aren't the Disney of America 1950s, Walt is dead and likely NOT in a freezing tube waiting to be woken up, all that remains is the corporate greed with NONE of the idealism or vision.<br /><br />Just as you don't like whiny debt factory \"Communists\" with striped hair wanting to create Pol-Pot's Cambodia with no idea how they'd die in a second in such a world we should be against \"State Welfare\" of big companies. Look at the empty shelves years after any legit pandemic emergency... That is \"State endorsed monopoly\" just like Post Soviet. A little state manipulation is needed so say food doesn't spike high and low creating famines and economic destruction which yes the 'free market' does. However they've allowed legit \"Free market competition\" to be eliminated in a lot of necessities (Toilet paper, baby formula, tampons...) and allowed a few companies to own most of \"The news media\" leading to this left/right \"Fake News\" show.<br /><br />Disney is a big portion of this behemoth but they make most of their money from things that should be public domain. Enough letters and they won't be able to do a huge bribe to every person at every level of the chain. They could have 1998 though it was rumored they only paid $3 million in bribes to protect a trillion dollar industry. Enough letters each and every one of a thousand officials, elected and in office will demand that much each minimum. All these failboat movies, China not liking them anymore.. (they should NOT have mangled Mulan, they loved 1.0)<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=disney\" title=\"#disney\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#disney</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=doomcock\" title=\"#doomcock\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#doomcock</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=buzzlightyearmovie\" title=\"#buzzlightyearmovie\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#buzzlightyearmovie</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=copyright\" title=\"#copyright\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#copyright</a>",
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"content": "Important - pass this around while referring to S.4178 <br /><a href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4178\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4178</a><br /><br />Again - <br /><br />google your senator, congressmen<br />letter - snail mail<br />polite, concise, to the point<br />support S.4178 and measures such as criminalizing false copyright claims and adding civil penalties and an easy path to legal claims of damages for copyright abuse - to stifle fair use, parody, criticism, free speech by proxy. To also make a false copyright claim criminal with severe penalties and mandatory criminal prosecution if done for extortionary purposes.<br />Sign and date<br /><br />Again we can make <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=starwars\" title=\"#starwars\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#starwars</a> and <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=startrek\" title=\"#startrek\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#startrek</a> public domain inside 15 years. The full character not just first use. And we can have Conan and many others NOW. No more lame generic G-rated and woke-scrubbed weak re-hashes or legacy re-releases with a billion cuts and 'disclaimers'.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=reformcopyright\" title=\"#reformcopyright\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#reformcopyright</a><br /><br />",
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"content": "Important - pass this around while referring to S.4178 \nhttps://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4178\n\nAgain - \n\ngoogle your senator, congressmen\nletter - snail mail\npolite, concise, to the point\nsupport S.4178 and measures such as criminalizing false copyright claims and adding civil penalties and an easy path to legal claims of damages for copyright abuse - to stifle fair use, parody, criticism, free speech by proxy. To also make a false copyright claim criminal with severe penalties and mandatory criminal prosecution if done for extortionary purposes.\nSign and date\n\nAgain we can make #starwars and #startrek public domain inside 15 years. The full character not just first use. And we can have Conan and many others NOW. No more lame generic G-rated and woke-scrubbed weak re-hashes or legacy re-releases with a billion cuts and 'disclaimers'.\n\n#reformcopyright\n\n",
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"content": "Sick of all the TRIPE on TV and \"Mainstream\" media channels? The talking heads yapping forever as in a parody of early Simpsons when Soccer came to Springfield?<br /><br />Here's something we can do that's political and makes a difference.<br /><br /><br />We need to end Disney's CopyWRONG.<br />Twice they've extended copyright to protect Mickey Mouse from having done to him what Walt Disney did to the Brother's Grimm. Along the line they've hurt society, our collective unconsciousness by letting a few publishers covet thousands of characters we grew up with in the background and should be able to use now. They've also allowed forms of harassment, blackmail, extortion because it is too easy to sue or threaten to sue over even a false claim of copyright. Furthermore trademark is abused to attempt to extend literary copyright - again the threat of a lawsuit even if obviously false is too likely to cost too much to defend and is not blocked or met with penalty when fake.<br /><br />This is Disney's fault.<br /><br />And I care NOTHING about making my own \"Mickey Mouse\" parody work. Rather I'd love to use some classic Pulp Characters but even ones in the public domain clearly can have an 'estate' that claims to 'trademark' them and uses the threat of a lawsuit to harass a creator or a marketplace owner. Extortion for money based on threat of even false claims cripples YouTubers and other social media users trying to make a few $ in these trying times.<br /><br />We need to get active and to end this.<br /><br />There is a bill - S. 4178 \"The Copyright Clause Restoration Act of 2022\"<br /><a href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4178\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4178</a><br /><br />It will remove the two last extensions of the Copyright clause and clarify some language. We are not just talking \"Steamboat Willie\" for Mickey Mouse. He'll go public domain up to today. I thank the Conan Doyle \"Estate\" for that - they tried (and Failed big time) to claim the \"Character\" of Sherlock Holmes was not \"Perfected\" until sometime mid 1960s. The judge would have rammed a two-by four up their posteriors if he was able to but it was still very expensive getting to that point with no real prosepect save a long lawsuit for damages only to get the funds back. The people feeding off \"Happy Birthday\" also met with a decision against them and face at least two decades of having to pay back those they sued or extorted with legal threat money - all those kids parties ruined - but have declared bankruptcy and ran off.<br /><br />If this bill is pushed through - and yes . it . CAN be we'll have a big public domain and shove it to Disney and the other Media Giants that covet most of pop culture and ensure we get garbage and real writers, good artists, excellent actors are marginalized for fear of having to compete.<br /><br />Here's how we do it:<br /><br />Write - a - LETTER.<br />Snail Mail<br />Polite, concise, to the point<br /><br />Demand S.4178 get support. Be civil. Be polite. Your own words.<br />Simple as:<br />\"I want you to support S.4178 - Disney has had an unfair advantage for too long. I want a 55 year from publication or author's death, whichever is shorter limit. I want the first instance of a character to be the entire character if public domain. I want strong penalties for copyright and trademark abuse. Loser pays for a lawsuit and additional criminal penalties for false claims.\"<br /><br />Sign. Date. Stamp.<br />Google your Senator, congressmen - write them no matter your party affiliation if any.<br /><br />This will work.<br /><br />A letter has power. It is someone who votes and influences at least a dozen others. You don't need to say it they know it. And even the greedy, corrupt ones do so also. This letter is worth $1000 in bribe money. Rather \"Campaign Contributions\" thanks to Citizens United. They will vote for something unpopular, immoral, despicable for a bribe - BUT - if there's huge public attention they'll demand more money. If they don't get enough money they turn on the bribers and hype themselves pretending they care.<br /><br />Normally I'd be pessimistic. Disney normally could counter this - BUT - the lockdown has drained their main resource -the parks. Their ideas are failboat. Live action re-re-makes of classics most hate. And Star Wars under them is only successful by momentum, the sale of legacy products, and by the fantasies and lies their 'social media' teams promote. They won't be able to sustain a constant fire-hose of money.<br /><br />Thus - do this - spread this<br />Support the bill S.4178 to reverse the Mouse's CopyWRONG extensions!<br /><br />Of note - while some might not care if 3rd parties get to write their own Conan stories with or without (without!) the \"REH Estate\" approving this would also make STAR WARS and STAR TREK fully Public Domain inside 15 years!<br /><br />-----<br />I \"Open Source\" this out of fairness since I am arguing for a limit of copyright. Note that I do...NSFW...material so if I am directly cited the Disney puppets will do \"AdHomenim\" - attack the source as if naughty stories somehow discredit someone. That is a fallacy, lots of \"Porn Producers\" - such as Hefner, Guccione and especailly Larry Flynt were very socially active and at least to give \"Literary, social, political' cred to their products pushed journalism that the big papers didn't dare touch. Free speech, exposing corruption, etc. That's for later.<br /><br />But by all means if you like what I say re-write it, use the graphics, your own words. NO need to cite or credit - I want this coming from as many angles as possible.<br /><br />Please - write this - cite this - write the LETTER - Encourage others to do so and I shall SALUTE you!",
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"content": "Sick of all the TRIPE on TV and \"Mainstream\" media channels? The talking heads yapping forever as in a parody of early Simpsons when Soccer came to Springfield?\n\nHere's something we can do that's political and makes a difference.\n\n\nWe need to end Disney's CopyWRONG.\nTwice they've extended copyright to protect Mickey Mouse from having done to him what Walt Disney did to the Brother's Grimm. Along the line they've hurt society, our collective unconsciousness by letting a few publishers covet thousands of characters we grew up with in the background and should be able to use now. They've also allowed forms of harassment, blackmail, extortion because it is too easy to sue or threaten to sue over even a false claim of copyright. Furthermore trademark is abused to attempt to extend literary copyright - again the threat of a lawsuit even if obviously false is too likely to cost too much to defend and is not blocked or met with penalty when fake.\n\nThis is Disney's fault.\n\nAnd I care NOTHING about making my own \"Mickey Mouse\" parody work. Rather I'd love to use some classic Pulp Characters but even ones in the public domain clearly can have an 'estate' that claims to 'trademark' them and uses the threat of a lawsuit to harass a creator or a marketplace owner. Extortion for money based on threat of even false claims cripples YouTubers and other social media users trying to make a few $ in these trying times.\n\nWe need to get active and to end this.\n\nThere is a bill - S. 4178 \"The Copyright Clause Restoration Act of 2022\"\nhttps://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4178\n\nIt will remove the two last extensions of the Copyright clause and clarify some language. We are not just talking \"Steamboat Willie\" for Mickey Mouse. He'll go public domain up to today. I thank the Conan Doyle \"Estate\" for that - they tried (and Failed big time) to claim the \"Character\" of Sherlock Holmes was not \"Perfected\" until sometime mid 1960s. The judge would have rammed a two-by four up their posteriors if he was able to but it was still very expensive getting to that point with no real prosepect save a long lawsuit for damages only to get the funds back. The people feeding off \"Happy Birthday\" also met with a decision against them and face at least two decades of having to pay back those they sued or extorted with legal threat money - all those kids parties ruined - but have declared bankruptcy and ran off.\n\nIf this bill is pushed through - and yes . it . CAN be we'll have a big public domain and shove it to Disney and the other Media Giants that covet most of pop culture and ensure we get garbage and real writers, good artists, excellent actors are marginalized for fear of having to compete.\n\nHere's how we do it:\n\nWrite - a - LETTER.\nSnail Mail\nPolite, concise, to the point\n\nDemand S.4178 get support. Be civil. Be polite. Your own words.\nSimple as:\n\"I want you to support S.4178 - Disney has had an unfair advantage for too long. I want a 55 year from publication or author's death, whichever is shorter limit. I want the first instance of a character to be the entire character if public domain. I want strong penalties for copyright and trademark abuse. Loser pays for a lawsuit and additional criminal penalties for false claims.\"\n\nSign. Date. Stamp.\nGoogle your Senator, congressmen - write them no matter your party affiliation if any.\n\nThis will work.\n\nA letter has power. It is someone who votes and influences at least a dozen others. You don't need to say it they know it. And even the greedy, corrupt ones do so also. This letter is worth $1000 in bribe money. Rather \"Campaign Contributions\" thanks to Citizens United. They will vote for something unpopular, immoral, despicable for a bribe - BUT - if there's huge public attention they'll demand more money. If they don't get enough money they turn on the bribers and hype themselves pretending they care.\n\nNormally I'd be pessimistic. Disney normally could counter this - BUT - the lockdown has drained their main resource -the parks. Their ideas are failboat. Live action re-re-makes of classics most hate. And Star Wars under them is only successful by momentum, the sale of legacy products, and by the fantasies and lies their 'social media' teams promote. They won't be able to sustain a constant fire-hose of money.\n\nThus - do this - spread this\nSupport the bill S.4178 to reverse the Mouse's CopyWRONG extensions!\n\nOf note - while some might not care if 3rd parties get to write their own Conan stories with or without (without!) the \"REH Estate\" approving this would also make STAR WARS and STAR TREK fully Public Domain inside 15 years!\n\n-----\nI \"Open Source\" this out of fairness since I am arguing for a limit of copyright. Note that I do...NSFW...material so if I am directly cited the Disney puppets will do \"AdHomenim\" - attack the source as if naughty stories somehow discredit someone. That is a fallacy, lots of \"Porn Producers\" - such as Hefner, Guccione and especailly Larry Flynt were very socially active and at least to give \"Literary, social, political' cred to their products pushed journalism that the big papers didn't dare touch. Free speech, exposing corruption, etc. That's for later.\n\nBut by all means if you like what I say re-write it, use the graphics, your own words. NO need to cite or credit - I want this coming from as many angles as possible.\n\nPlease - write this - cite this - write the LETTER - Encourage others to do so and I shall SALUTE you!",
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"content": "I was in a real school shooting too.<br /><br />Note my experience was much milder than those kids in Texas or Sandy Hook or....how many before and AFTER!? I bow in sadness to the recent victims however I will speak my MIND on this. Again I was in a similar though thankfully milder incident.<br /><br />This happened Decades past - in the 80s. I was an 80s kid. I'm an \"Xer\" I suppose but like that term as much as I suspect \"Millenials\" like their term. This particular incident only had ONE person dead (the Shooter) and happened way before the modern WWW internet so there's no link I could find if I even wanted to. Take it or leave it. It might be in a local \"Record\" somewhere but I don't think they did paperwork that well.<br /><br />I live in a small city most would consider a tiny town by coastal standards. Midwest. I keep leaving - for Germany, India, etc. and keep coming back.<br /><br />This happened when I went to Junior High. Middle School, Intermediate... Whatever. Keeps younger teenagers from beating up Grade Schoolers in school but protects them from older teenager beating them up and keeps schools from being so big you don't know who is what or where...<br /><br />On that day I was at a Geology or American History (the teacher taught both - great man - ruled school plays!) and I was my usual not too good student self; Head down on desk not in discipline but just so bored I couldn't even daydream. Then there were people screaming and I was being dragged from my desk and I just registered in my brain a bullet just shot overhead from the now breaking window. I've heard a lot about how the brain processes information - this was 2 seconds after it hit but my deliriously bored mind replayed the bullet flying through the window, that doubtless fantasy filling it in. It also replayed the bullet hitting the brick above the door-frame, leaving a blackened pock-mark and going into the ceiling insulation tiles. I also was aware of the small bits of glass flying. At the same \"Time\" I was being dragged from my desk by other kids or a teacher and we were half running half crawling at the same time out of the classroom. About partway out my brain hit all the \"Adrenaline\" switches and I got the hell out of there with everyone else.<br /><br />The bullet did go over my head but due to me being down on my desk I was in no real danger. IF like much of my early and very poor academic career I was being a \"Class Clown\" and standing ON my desk performing to get attention, however...!<br /><br />We were rushed into the school cafeteria which was the other half of the building. This school was a one story affair made of solid brick walls. Since this meant five layers of brick walls at an angle we were safe from anything short of a tank anti-armor shell.<br /><br />The shooting was not some deranged or disparing student - nor some disgruntled former employee - nor some evil madman out to kill. Well close to the latter but we were not his target. Nope. \"Domestic Dispute\". Some man who I think had a history of \"Spousal Abuse\" long before LEOs made money pretending to crack down on it had broken up with his GF / Wife and he'd gone nuts and started shooting. He was mostly shooting in his own home but his home was a more modern particle board + thin sheetrock affair and it was a good hunting rifle capable of taking a deer or moose down from a long distance. Eventually he was randomly shooting outside though so berserk and deranged it was unlikely he was targeting the school or children. Simply by sad coincidence he lived across the street and the bullet that might have blown my head off if I was doing the \"Class Clown\" act went into my classroom.<br /><br />Again this is for personal perspective. Mass shootings happened in the 80s including by kids who were often despairing of bullying at school. My experience was far less horrific than the major ones, before and after but I do have the first taste of it. For myself I feel a sense of guilt of being so 'out of it' but again my being a 'slacker' made sure my life was safe - I was laying low on my desk naturally. Not good for grades but my whole body was under that brick wall so even if he'd shot low enough to hit me it likely would have been absorbed or broken into smaller bits a doctor could have pulled out...<br /><br />The police came very quickly and the man was sane enough to threaten to kill himself and shout this from behind the soft cover of his house. This led to the next phase, an hour or more of long waiting in the Cafeteria - if anyone had to go to the bathroom there was a line to be escorted. Another bit of luck for I'd reviled the teacher for taking my usual can of Soda but if I'd chugged it in class...<br /><br />While this happened word got out and there were tons of panicking parents that like the Ulvade, TX they kept at bay - both from seeing the kids at school to stopping them from shooting the gunman in his house by filling it with bullets. Rural area, EVERYONE is armed really. Even the people who were \"Hippies\" in the 60s had a gun usually. However the difference was the brats were safe in the other side of the building not being killed one by one by one, begging via cell phones (they existed but big and pricey!) to be rescued as they were being shot.<br /><br />To the local Fuzz credit they DID put themselves between the Gunman and the kids and school. I think they even \"Commandeered\" some trucks from local businesses to be an extra layer of barricade. This is illegal but the nearby industrial businesses were GLAD to let their gravel trucks and other big, heavy things be parked in the school lot. Just plain decent - and with the news there they see \"----'s Gravel company!\" big letters in the background. If the gunman had shot out a window or tire it'd be worth it vs paying for a proper ad - but I think they did it 100% decency and public safety.<br /><br />I'm trying to be joking vs insulting to any local \"Fuzz\" if any read this and know me - not hurtful. They did try to talk the guy out. He hadn't hurt anyone. If he'd put his gun down the police would have kept him safe then trip to loony bin and lawyer and probably slap on the wrist compared to the damage and danger he caused. But - well I won't say I could do better but I imagine \"Police Chief Wiggum\" from the Simpsons opening up from its sealed plastic a book of pointers to ask a \"person in crisis\". And so with an hour of talking to him he gave up and shot himself... A tragedy and thank God it wasn't worse.<br /><br />I have other issues with my local police from back then to today - but at that point they reacted very quickly and did their best to avoid worse things and in the process put themselves between the shooter and the kids. A lot of parents shouted at them to let them pick up their kids but they'd be in more danger running out of the building and it would become worse with all the roads blocked off and angry people wanting to start shooting into the house.<br /><br />A world where there's free will bad things will happen to good and even innocent people. If the Columbine kids had not gotten their guns they might have worked on a better Thermal Fuse and the School's PROPANE tank would have been blown up killing far more people. Those who'll give up liberty for the false promise of safety deserve neither and will receive the absence of both.<br /><br />Note I don't hold either a \"Fashionably Radial\" anti-gun stance nor a hyper NRA gun fetishism. The real truth is somewhere between. I certainly CAN and WILL use a GUN to defend myself especially in my house. I am a \"Leftist\", my parents were (still are) \"Hippies\". So what? Both of them, especially my Mom, shoot pretty good. Old school Leftist, I'm quite hated by \"Pronoun People\" but I'm for what I see as right not \"Fashionably Radical\".<br /><br />When this \"Pandemic\" shit started I almost shot a man trying to break into my house.<br />Me and the threat of me using my gun made him run like a bunny, even before he broke my backdoor window. <br /><br />Some might think I should have called the police. My area has near \"Castle Law\" and someone entering the backyard without permission could be shot openly. Even the police announce raids and go in the front door if they have reason lawfully due to this. However he ran off and I probably would get in trouble if I'd chased him (outside property) and shot him running.<br /><br />I'd have only invited trouble calling the police. That was my hunch and it was proven right soon.<br /><br />When I went to the hardware store to replace OTHER windows broken - for a garage full of mostly junk I'd have thanked him to run off with.... Well person after person was literally SCREAMING at the store clerk because so many windows were broken, homes burgled and the police tended to just write them tickets - for \"Broken windows\" with a threat of a fine and lien on the property if not fixed. Sadly no glass or plexiglass in stock now or for the longest time... \"Muh Covid... Sorry but nothing coming in this week. Muh Covid....\" and they just screamed at the clerk. Dumb piece of meat that clerk, Simpsons \"I'm sorry sir...\" with broken voice fodder but still they were rude to the man after talking with Police who made it clear they'd not even attempt to find the robbers. I found pressed board and paint to just cover up the garage windows since while I wanted plexiglass no law forced windows. Then the screamers started fighting for the boards. I'd waited in a line of six screamers \"Socially Distanced\" and was just wanting a cut or two to fit in my car. \"I noticed the glass was gone, I'm going to make do with these...\" - I started saying - \"WHERE did you get those!?\" the screamers shouted - \"Aisle ---- just over there...\" and they were running, grabbing the tiles, almost fighting over them. And I just wanted a cut or two. You'd have thought the clerk would help me for getting the screamers to go elsewhere? Clerk was obviously hired there to keep the floor beneath him from growing tiny legs and walking off, he refused to help me make a few cuts so I could fit it in my car easier. He'd rather stand all day lying to get out of working \"Uh, guy that is ...uh...certified to use the cutter is gone today ... Muh Covid...\" -and since the boards would NOT be in stock with all the broken windows all over I had to lash these to my car (and I don't drive a truck, almost wish I did sometimes) and pray no accident on the way home. Then I cut, painted, fixed the broken gaps. Garage is dark but no one can peer in. Again I'd give 90% of the junk, I'll have to rent a dumpster someday...but the threat to me, my household of a robber getting in I'd defend myself.<br /><br />I think a few sane measures should be in place but more to limit the flow of guns to the criminal market. I don't mean someone is robbed and gun is used in a crime. They should report it then unless there's a real connection beyond no problem. I mean the guns bought by the TRUCKLOAD at a gun show and sold at a high markup to Gangs in big cities or to Drug Cartels in Mexico. Watching a \"Cop Show\" you think the first gun the police find they trace back to buyer #1, right? WRONG. That - \"One Man's Opinion\" is why the \"Lobby\" is so militant - the manufacturers probably rely on the criminal market and more laws will start at registrations and full tracking of guns and ammo so these will be traced much easier. It's not the \"Lone Nut\" they care about but rather the Gangs, Organized Crime and Drug Cartels - and these guys will just get guns internationally (Korea, China...) and they'd simply go out of business. Legit \"Law abidin' \" Gun Nuts have a couple of guns and they can hand these down to their grandchildren. My own gun was owned by my late Grandfather and works as good today as back then...<br /><br />However the NRA/Gun fetishism? It's a false confidence being sold. Do ANY of these \"Gun Nuts\" really think their toy guns will give more than academic resistance in the case of a USA turning despotic or some foreign force coming in? They'd help with Guerrilla style ambushes but also guarantee being a target of overwhelming force. Look at WACO for instance: Sure they held off the ATF for a while but then they kept them isolated and burned them alive when it was clear they weren't going to surrender. An earlier incident not talked about is the \"MOVE\" compound. A bunch of radicals holed up in a city brownstone who were willing to use guns to chase out the officers that harassed them because they were a nuisance. City BOMBED the building and most burned to death. In case of a \"WTSHTF\" moment having a pile of guns and screaming \"NRA!\" on YouTube and IRL just means they send the Death Squads to make sure you are either dead or in the FEMA camp being lined up for a \"De-Lousing\" shower and getting you there means nothing if it costs one \"Agent\" or a hundred of them. It's a false sense of security.",
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"content": "I was in a real school shooting too.\n\nNote my experience was much milder than those kids in Texas or Sandy Hook or....how many before and AFTER!? I bow in sadness to the recent victims however I will speak my MIND on this. Again I was in a similar though thankfully milder incident.\n\nThis happened Decades past - in the 80s. I was an 80s kid. I'm an \"Xer\" I suppose but like that term as much as I suspect \"Millenials\" like their term. This particular incident only had ONE person dead (the Shooter) and happened way before the modern WWW internet so there's no link I could find if I even wanted to. Take it or leave it. It might be in a local \"Record\" somewhere but I don't think they did paperwork that well.\n\nI live in a small city most would consider a tiny town by coastal standards. Midwest. I keep leaving - for Germany, India, etc. and keep coming back.\n\nThis happened when I went to Junior High. Middle School, Intermediate... Whatever. Keeps younger teenagers from beating up Grade Schoolers in school but protects them from older teenager beating them up and keeps schools from being so big you don't know who is what or where...\n\nOn that day I was at a Geology or American History (the teacher taught both - great man - ruled school plays!) and I was my usual not too good student self; Head down on desk not in discipline but just so bored I couldn't even daydream. Then there were people screaming and I was being dragged from my desk and I just registered in my brain a bullet just shot overhead from the now breaking window. I've heard a lot about how the brain processes information - this was 2 seconds after it hit but my deliriously bored mind replayed the bullet flying through the window, that doubtless fantasy filling it in. It also replayed the bullet hitting the brick above the door-frame, leaving a blackened pock-mark and going into the ceiling insulation tiles. I also was aware of the small bits of glass flying. At the same \"Time\" I was being dragged from my desk by other kids or a teacher and we were half running half crawling at the same time out of the classroom. About partway out my brain hit all the \"Adrenaline\" switches and I got the hell out of there with everyone else.\n\nThe bullet did go over my head but due to me being down on my desk I was in no real danger. IF like much of my early and very poor academic career I was being a \"Class Clown\" and standing ON my desk performing to get attention, however...!\n\nWe were rushed into the school cafeteria which was the other half of the building. This school was a one story affair made of solid brick walls. Since this meant five layers of brick walls at an angle we were safe from anything short of a tank anti-armor shell.\n\nThe shooting was not some deranged or disparing student - nor some disgruntled former employee - nor some evil madman out to kill. Well close to the latter but we were not his target. Nope. \"Domestic Dispute\". Some man who I think had a history of \"Spousal Abuse\" long before LEOs made money pretending to crack down on it had broken up with his GF / Wife and he'd gone nuts and started shooting. He was mostly shooting in his own home but his home was a more modern particle board + thin sheetrock affair and it was a good hunting rifle capable of taking a deer or moose down from a long distance. Eventually he was randomly shooting outside though so berserk and deranged it was unlikely he was targeting the school or children. Simply by sad coincidence he lived across the street and the bullet that might have blown my head off if I was doing the \"Class Clown\" act went into my classroom.\n\nAgain this is for personal perspective. Mass shootings happened in the 80s including by kids who were often despairing of bullying at school. My experience was far less horrific than the major ones, before and after but I do have the first taste of it. For myself I feel a sense of guilt of being so 'out of it' but again my being a 'slacker' made sure my life was safe - I was laying low on my desk naturally. Not good for grades but my whole body was under that brick wall so even if he'd shot low enough to hit me it likely would have been absorbed or broken into smaller bits a doctor could have pulled out...\n\nThe police came very quickly and the man was sane enough to threaten to kill himself and shout this from behind the soft cover of his house. This led to the next phase, an hour or more of long waiting in the Cafeteria - if anyone had to go to the bathroom there was a line to be escorted. Another bit of luck for I'd reviled the teacher for taking my usual can of Soda but if I'd chugged it in class...\n\nWhile this happened word got out and there were tons of panicking parents that like the Ulvade, TX they kept at bay - both from seeing the kids at school to stopping them from shooting the gunman in his house by filling it with bullets. Rural area, EVERYONE is armed really. Even the people who were \"Hippies\" in the 60s had a gun usually. However the difference was the brats were safe in the other side of the building not being killed one by one by one, begging via cell phones (they existed but big and pricey!) to be rescued as they were being shot.\n\nTo the local Fuzz credit they DID put themselves between the Gunman and the kids and school. I think they even \"Commandeered\" some trucks from local businesses to be an extra layer of barricade. This is illegal but the nearby industrial businesses were GLAD to let their gravel trucks and other big, heavy things be parked in the school lot. Just plain decent - and with the news there they see \"----'s Gravel company!\" big letters in the background. If the gunman had shot out a window or tire it'd be worth it vs paying for a proper ad - but I think they did it 100% decency and public safety.\n\nI'm trying to be joking vs insulting to any local \"Fuzz\" if any read this and know me - not hurtful. They did try to talk the guy out. He hadn't hurt anyone. If he'd put his gun down the police would have kept him safe then trip to loony bin and lawyer and probably slap on the wrist compared to the damage and danger he caused. But - well I won't say I could do better but I imagine \"Police Chief Wiggum\" from the Simpsons opening up from its sealed plastic a book of pointers to ask a \"person in crisis\". And so with an hour of talking to him he gave up and shot himself... A tragedy and thank God it wasn't worse.\n\nI have other issues with my local police from back then to today - but at that point they reacted very quickly and did their best to avoid worse things and in the process put themselves between the shooter and the kids. A lot of parents shouted at them to let them pick up their kids but they'd be in more danger running out of the building and it would become worse with all the roads blocked off and angry people wanting to start shooting into the house.\n\nA world where there's free will bad things will happen to good and even innocent people. If the Columbine kids had not gotten their guns they might have worked on a better Thermal Fuse and the School's PROPANE tank would have been blown up killing far more people. Those who'll give up liberty for the false promise of safety deserve neither and will receive the absence of both.\n\nNote I don't hold either a \"Fashionably Radial\" anti-gun stance nor a hyper NRA gun fetishism. The real truth is somewhere between. I certainly CAN and WILL use a GUN to defend myself especially in my house. I am a \"Leftist\", my parents were (still are) \"Hippies\". So what? Both of them, especially my Mom, shoot pretty good. Old school Leftist, I'm quite hated by \"Pronoun People\" but I'm for what I see as right not \"Fashionably Radical\".\n\nWhen this \"Pandemic\" shit started I almost shot a man trying to break into my house.\nMe and the threat of me using my gun made him run like a bunny, even before he broke my backdoor window. \n\nSome might think I should have called the police. My area has near \"Castle Law\" and someone entering the backyard without permission could be shot openly. Even the police announce raids and go in the front door if they have reason lawfully due to this. However he ran off and I probably would get in trouble if I'd chased him (outside property) and shot him running.\n\nI'd have only invited trouble calling the police. That was my hunch and it was proven right soon.\n\nWhen I went to the hardware store to replace OTHER windows broken - for a garage full of mostly junk I'd have thanked him to run off with.... Well person after person was literally SCREAMING at the store clerk because so many windows were broken, homes burgled and the police tended to just write them tickets - for \"Broken windows\" with a threat of a fine and lien on the property if not fixed. Sadly no glass or plexiglass in stock now or for the longest time... \"Muh Covid... Sorry but nothing coming in this week. Muh Covid....\" and they just screamed at the clerk. Dumb piece of meat that clerk, Simpsons \"I'm sorry sir...\" with broken voice fodder but still they were rude to the man after talking with Police who made it clear they'd not even attempt to find the robbers. I found pressed board and paint to just cover up the garage windows since while I wanted plexiglass no law forced windows. Then the screamers started fighting for the boards. I'd waited in a line of six screamers \"Socially Distanced\" and was just wanting a cut or two to fit in my car. \"I noticed the glass was gone, I'm going to make do with these...\" - I started saying - \"WHERE did you get those!?\" the screamers shouted - \"Aisle ---- just over there...\" and they were running, grabbing the tiles, almost fighting over them. And I just wanted a cut or two. You'd have thought the clerk would help me for getting the screamers to go elsewhere? Clerk was obviously hired there to keep the floor beneath him from growing tiny legs and walking off, he refused to help me make a few cuts so I could fit it in my car easier. He'd rather stand all day lying to get out of working \"Uh, guy that is ...uh...certified to use the cutter is gone today ... Muh Covid...\" -and since the boards would NOT be in stock with all the broken windows all over I had to lash these to my car (and I don't drive a truck, almost wish I did sometimes) and pray no accident on the way home. Then I cut, painted, fixed the broken gaps. Garage is dark but no one can peer in. Again I'd give 90% of the junk, I'll have to rent a dumpster someday...but the threat to me, my household of a robber getting in I'd defend myself.\n\nI think a few sane measures should be in place but more to limit the flow of guns to the criminal market. I don't mean someone is robbed and gun is used in a crime. They should report it then unless there's a real connection beyond no problem. I mean the guns bought by the TRUCKLOAD at a gun show and sold at a high markup to Gangs in big cities or to Drug Cartels in Mexico. Watching a \"Cop Show\" you think the first gun the police find they trace back to buyer #1, right? WRONG. That - \"One Man's Opinion\" is why the \"Lobby\" is so militant - the manufacturers probably rely on the criminal market and more laws will start at registrations and full tracking of guns and ammo so these will be traced much easier. It's not the \"Lone Nut\" they care about but rather the Gangs, Organized Crime and Drug Cartels - and these guys will just get guns internationally (Korea, China...) and they'd simply go out of business. Legit \"Law abidin' \" Gun Nuts have a couple of guns and they can hand these down to their grandchildren. My own gun was owned by my late Grandfather and works as good today as back then...\n\nHowever the NRA/Gun fetishism? It's a false confidence being sold. Do ANY of these \"Gun Nuts\" really think their toy guns will give more than academic resistance in the case of a USA turning despotic or some foreign force coming in? They'd help with Guerrilla style ambushes but also guarantee being a target of overwhelming force. 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"content": "Finally. Ordered ~ 2 years ago - just got.<br /><br />I'm a big fan of Lone Sloane and Phillipe Druillet's artworks. What got me into Heavy Metal Magazine yes even above the T&A. Druillet is a real crazy train to hitch on but one I've not regretted.<br /><br />I'm posting this because \"Titancomics\" the printer is getting serious slander - all these negative reviews attacking the quality of the books and translations.<br /><br />First - the quality you don't see these days. Most stuff - even by \"Major publishers\" is printed by cheapest bidder you know where and is essentially a laserjet print with glue from a glue gun at the back edge. TitanComics have saddle stitched middles of larger folios, arranged to hold the pages for best grip but maximum flexibility. You can open these flat without damaging the pages or cracking the spine. The pages are rich offset press color holding the standards BandeDessines or European Comics require.<br /><br />I now have ALL the classic Druillet. Even waiting a while for this one my only choice till recent was a FRENCH copy for $300. Even if I'd splurged on that I'd still have ordered this one!<br /><br />Finally the translations. I am no expert in foreign languages and frankly do prefer (for Lone Sloane especially Sallambo) the Heavy Metal crude direct English by Demuth. It was truly \"Dark Gothic Poetry\" in brutal declarative language. AND - back in the day everyone hated it with the passion the \"Prequel Haters\" spewed venom on Jar Jar. When later presses translated it - same smart a---ed \"Hipsters\" spewed fashionable venom on the new ones too. I like the story and the art - of course not being in English originally is that there will be some slight loss - this current one is excellent, nothing unforgivable.<br /><br />So again - I vouch for TitanComics and their Druillet printings. Excellent quality, cheap price that's amazing for said quality... (Exterminator-17 by Bilal+Donnet!!!)<br />Just - when pre-ordering - be VERY forgiving a wait time...!",
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"content": "Finally. Ordered ~ 2 years ago - just got.\n\nI'm a big fan of Lone Sloane and Phillipe Druillet's artworks. What got me into Heavy Metal Magazine yes even above the T&A. Druillet is a real crazy train to hitch on but one I've not regretted.\n\nI'm posting this because \"Titancomics\" the printer is getting serious slander - all these negative reviews attacking the quality of the books and translations.\n\nFirst - the quality you don't see these days. Most stuff - even by \"Major publishers\" is printed by cheapest bidder you know where and is essentially a laserjet print with glue from a glue gun at the back edge. TitanComics have saddle stitched middles of larger folios, arranged to hold the pages for best grip but maximum flexibility. You can open these flat without damaging the pages or cracking the spine. The pages are rich offset press color holding the standards BandeDessines or European Comics require.\n\nI now have ALL the classic Druillet. Even waiting a while for this one my only choice till recent was a FRENCH copy for $300. Even if I'd splurged on that I'd still have ordered this one!\n\nFinally the translations. I am no expert in foreign languages and frankly do prefer (for Lone Sloane especially Sallambo) the Heavy Metal crude direct English by Demuth. It was truly \"Dark Gothic Poetry\" in brutal declarative language. AND - back in the day everyone hated it with the passion the \"Prequel Haters\" spewed venom on Jar Jar. When later presses translated it - same smart a---ed \"Hipsters\" spewed fashionable venom on the new ones too. I like the story and the art - of course not being in English originally is that there will be some slight loss - this current one is excellent, nothing unforgivable.\n\nSo again - I vouch for TitanComics and their Druillet printings. Excellent quality, cheap price that's amazing for said quality... (Exterminator-17 by Bilal+Donnet!!!)\nJust - when pre-ordering - be VERY forgiving a wait time...!",
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"content": "What the 'Gate' is:<br />Short form:<br /><br />Gamergate - Comicsgate - RPGGate - MovieGate<br /><br />What Gamer-Gate and the other \"Gate\" movement is:<br /><br />1 - We want to have our choice of media. It doesn't matter how tame or how harsh, how political or how neutral, how general audience or niche or how heartwarming to how batshit insane.<br />2 - As you do not need to EAT games, comics, TTRPGs and/or Movies we are for the LEAST regulation by state and seller possible.<br />3 - Since you are not needing these to eat you are not forced to BUY. The only censorship respected is an individual's choice to buy or not buy.<br />4 - While an individual should have absolute power to buy or not buy, any store, any host or other authority should think TEN times before 'banning' or 'deplatforming' or otherwise interfering with one's ability to buy or sell by purely ideological issues or their ability to communicate. The market should be open to all in exchange for the smallest of percentage of sales or fees or advertising exposure.<br />5 - As these entertainment and hobby medias are not products that we require to eat or otherwise a necessary resource for bodily survival (such as heat, electricity, drinking water, food) there should be massive competition in the marketplace since it is a luxury sundry. This is for creators who should be respected only the most obvious \"Copyright\" issues and it should be for sellers, for owners of marketplaces that they have many others like them in a field. #4 is easier to enforce with many sellers, many hosts for anything 'controversial' (versus truly 'criminal') is hard to deplatform so an entity that excludes it is only costing themselves money for little real outcome. More likely then that something truly 'toxic' becomes a strange tiny niche versus a 'controversy'.<br />6 - We want the ability to report open and freely about our media of choice - The cause of the \"Gate\" movement started with Videogames where clearly poor games were given extremely positive ratings by 'journalists'. These same people turned hostile and claimed threats, sexism and a lot of other obviously false actions when they were clearly trying to save their shallow reputations. Other industries were found to be infected by paid ratings, corrupt monopolistic companies and ideological fools - all acting in contempt of their customer base and doing their best to fight a 'free market'. Any problems that are real - such as non-functioning software should be reported and heard, only clear falsehood needs be stifled and clear opinion labelled.<br /><br />What the \"Gate\" movement is NOT besides NOT a \"Hate\" movement.<br /><br />1 - Sexist. We do NOT care if you are a woman or any other sexuality. We care if you make a good game, a good comic, a good TTRPG... What your body type or genitals are or are not should matter the least in this field.<br />2 - Racist. Again we don't care the color of your skin. Since when did that mean you could code better or write a better story, draw a better picture...?<br />3 - Ideologicaly biased. Ideology is an issue but the movmenet is opposition not counter bias. There is an ideological problem but many \"Gate\" -ers are Left as well as \"Right\" and many don't care save being sick of their favorite characters or items disrupted. There is issues with much of the 'media' currently being influenced by an extermist 'left' that seems a half-baked parody of the last century's ideological movements - and thus there is a bias inherent against the \"Right\". This is quite demonstrable. However the \"Gate\" movement is not trying to turn it \"Right Versus Left\". With apologies if it was Vox Day sneering \"Don't like my politics?...\" as DeConnick did a while back it'd be the same problem but reversed. The \"Story\" needs to be first and how you express it in media. By all means politics can be part of a product, but that can limit it to a \"Niche\".<br />4 - Violent or criminal. We do not support direct violence against the people in charge of ruining our favorite pastitimes and hobbies even as disgusting as they are and deliberately inciteful. We do not support threats, violence, stalking, doxxing, whatever else they claim. We expose them for the ideological and incompetent and untalented FOOLS they are and ask for counter-change and if that is not requested we simply do not buy said products and support or create alternative.<br />5 - Repeat, we are NOT violent and/or Criminal. We believe that many of the claims of such action are complete fabrication. Imagine: Would you hire a \"Darknet Hitman\" on someone, somehow missing the 95% chance of it being a con-person or Fed Fuzz, and then warn your target by email? And your target is looking out the window in fear? Why not SWAT them? A SimCard + Burner Phone + (not going into more detail) would be FAR cheaper and less risky? The answer is (Our argument opinion) that they were lying - but it is far easier and safer to fake an email claiming a \"Darknet hitman\" is on the way versus a real SWATting call that could result in a lot of property damage and even death - or be more quickly debunked as the police in their town could be checked with to see if there was a SWAT attempt made whereas again an \"Email of a ----Darknet...\" whatever is not instantly provable or disprovable.<br />6 - Guilty by Association. We are not \"De-bunked\" or \"Discredited\" if you can find a criminal, a sexist, racist, whatever in the \"Gate\" movement. Any group large enough by force of statistical averages will get some really evil characters. When we find criminals, perverts, racists in the \"Woke\" movement (or whatever they are called that moment) the first thing out of their soy drooling hateful mouths is against \"Guilt by Association\" if hiding from or banning the arguer isn't an option. The law is there to deal with any real criminals wheras indidivudals can decide if someone's ideology or biases makes them unappealing despite their talent. On the latter let me argue that if you \"Cancel\" some product (game, book, movie) etc. because the major player is guilty of \"WrongThink\" you will end up with NOTHING. Nothing worth pursuing. I have a Hypothesis shared by many that there is some cruel \"Rule\" that true transcendant creatives have some kind of horrible flaw - and that is part of their 'inner pain' that forces them to push themselves far enough to make truly great works.<br /><br /><br />In short:<br />We want our games (and other media) - we want to be able to buy, play, make, sell them with the least possible interference - we want to be able to talk about them so if there's a problem we can communicate - If you are disliking a product, don't buy it, chase something else or make your own - we are all for you having your choice, your ideas, your 'niche' - we'll argue for your freedom and help - but do NOT interfere with ours.<br /><br />That alone debunks the \"Right V Left\" issue. Might be more \"Alt-Right\" in the \"Gate\" but above this is functionally as \"Liberal\" in the truest sense of the word as you can get - but it is also as \"Free Market\" as possible.",
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"content": "What the 'Gate' is:\nShort form:\n\nGamergate - Comicsgate - RPGGate - MovieGate\n\nWhat Gamer-Gate and the other \"Gate\" movement is:\n\n1 - We want to have our choice of media. It doesn't matter how tame or how harsh, how political or how neutral, how general audience or niche or how heartwarming to how batshit insane.\n2 - As you do not need to EAT games, comics, TTRPGs and/or Movies we are for the LEAST regulation by state and seller possible.\n3 - Since you are not needing these to eat you are not forced to BUY. The only censorship respected is an individual's choice to buy or not buy.\n4 - While an individual should have absolute power to buy or not buy, any store, any host or other authority should think TEN times before 'banning' or 'deplatforming' or otherwise interfering with one's ability to buy or sell by purely ideological issues or their ability to communicate. The market should be open to all in exchange for the smallest of percentage of sales or fees or advertising exposure.\n5 - As these entertainment and hobby medias are not products that we require to eat or otherwise a necessary resource for bodily survival (such as heat, electricity, drinking water, food) there should be massive competition in the marketplace since it is a luxury sundry. This is for creators who should be respected only the most obvious \"Copyright\" issues and it should be for sellers, for owners of marketplaces that they have many others like them in a field. #4 is easier to enforce with many sellers, many hosts for anything 'controversial' (versus truly 'criminal') is hard to deplatform so an entity that excludes it is only costing themselves money for little real outcome. More likely then that something truly 'toxic' becomes a strange tiny niche versus a 'controversy'.\n6 - We want the ability to report open and freely about our media of choice - The cause of the \"Gate\" movement started with Videogames where clearly poor games were given extremely positive ratings by 'journalists'. These same people turned hostile and claimed threats, sexism and a lot of other obviously false actions when they were clearly trying to save their shallow reputations. Other industries were found to be infected by paid ratings, corrupt monopolistic companies and ideological fools - all acting in contempt of their customer base and doing their best to fight a 'free market'. Any problems that are real - such as non-functioning software should be reported and heard, only clear falsehood needs be stifled and clear opinion labelled.\n\nWhat the \"Gate\" movement is NOT besides NOT a \"Hate\" movement.\n\n1 - Sexist. We do NOT care if you are a woman or any other sexuality. We care if you make a good game, a good comic, a good TTRPG... What your body type or genitals are or are not should matter the least in this field.\n2 - Racist. Again we don't care the color of your skin. Since when did that mean you could code better or write a better story, draw a better picture...?\n3 - Ideologicaly biased. Ideology is an issue but the movmenet is opposition not counter bias. There is an ideological problem but many \"Gate\" -ers are Left as well as \"Right\" and many don't care save being sick of their favorite characters or items disrupted. There is issues with much of the 'media' currently being influenced by an extermist 'left' that seems a half-baked parody of the last century's ideological movements - and thus there is a bias inherent against the \"Right\". This is quite demonstrable. However the \"Gate\" movement is not trying to turn it \"Right Versus Left\". With apologies if it was Vox Day sneering \"Don't like my politics?...\" as DeConnick did a while back it'd be the same problem but reversed. The \"Story\" needs to be first and how you express it in media. By all means politics can be part of a product, but that can limit it to a \"Niche\".\n4 - Violent or criminal. We do not support direct violence against the people in charge of ruining our favorite pastitimes and hobbies even as disgusting as they are and deliberately inciteful. We do not support threats, violence, stalking, doxxing, whatever else they claim. We expose them for the ideological and incompetent and untalented FOOLS they are and ask for counter-change and if that is not requested we simply do not buy said products and support or create alternative.\n5 - Repeat, we are NOT violent and/or Criminal. We believe that many of the claims of such action are complete fabrication. Imagine: Would you hire a \"Darknet Hitman\" on someone, somehow missing the 95% chance of it being a con-person or Fed Fuzz, and then warn your target by email? And your target is looking out the window in fear? Why not SWAT them? A SimCard + Burner Phone + (not going into more detail) would be FAR cheaper and less risky? The answer is (Our argument opinion) that they were lying - but it is far easier and safer to fake an email claiming a \"Darknet hitman\" is on the way versus a real SWATting call that could result in a lot of property damage and even death - or be more quickly debunked as the police in their town could be checked with to see if there was a SWAT attempt made whereas again an \"Email of a ----Darknet...\" whatever is not instantly provable or disprovable.\n6 - Guilty by Association. We are not \"De-bunked\" or \"Discredited\" if you can find a criminal, a sexist, racist, whatever in the \"Gate\" movement. Any group large enough by force of statistical averages will get some really evil characters. When we find criminals, perverts, racists in the \"Woke\" movement (or whatever they are called that moment) the first thing out of their soy drooling hateful mouths is against \"Guilt by Association\" if hiding from or banning the arguer isn't an option. The law is there to deal with any real criminals wheras indidivudals can decide if someone's ideology or biases makes them unappealing despite their talent. On the latter let me argue that if you \"Cancel\" some product (game, book, movie) etc. because the major player is guilty of \"WrongThink\" you will end up with NOTHING. Nothing worth pursuing. I have a Hypothesis shared by many that there is some cruel \"Rule\" that true transcendant creatives have some kind of horrible flaw - and that is part of their 'inner pain' that forces them to push themselves far enough to make truly great works.\n\n\nIn short:\nWe want our games (and other media) - we want to be able to buy, play, make, sell them with the least possible interference - we want to be able to talk about them so if there's a problem we can communicate - If you are disliking a product, don't buy it, chase something else or make your own - we are all for you having your choice, your ideas, your 'niche' - we'll argue for your freedom and help - but do NOT interfere with ours.\n\nThat alone debunks the \"Right V Left\" issue. Might be more \"Alt-Right\" in the \"Gate\" but above this is functionally as \"Liberal\" in the truest sense of the word as you can get - but it is also as \"Free Market\" as possible.",
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"content": "Hey - are you sick of the upcoming so-called Live Action Cowboy BeBop and how some ugly flat chested \"Actress\" insulted the fans and talked like she was trying to play Naga from Slayers? How you know it'll be a trashy flop and ensure it's NEVER made into a legit \"Alita\" style movie though it should be?\n\nThis is the first TL/DR part of what you can do.\n\nLong and short:\n\nDo NOT watch it. Don't even CLICK it if subscribed to Netflix.\nSpread the word NOT to click it.\n\nIF someone is \"on the fence\" give them the argument that even clicking it will support it (% of Netflix revenue) and they should wait 2 weeks and try a few trusted reviews. NOT \"news\" sites - these are bought out. People they trust to review - in my case Doomcock, ClownfishTV and a few others. They've been totally right on MOTU: Revelation and even SW: Last Jedi on how they sucked with specifics.\n---BTW - the creator of BeBop rejected and disavowed from this trash - spread that to people on the fence. The creative guy behind this doesn't even want his NAME on it it's CRAP. Why should they spend an evening trying to watch a dumpy, ugly, ex SPANKING video 'actress' that's sub I.N.S.E.X. beauty requirements and spits upon fans butcher Faye's character?\n\nThis will help crush the people doing the movie and help end 're-make' culture . \"one man's opinion\" they are doing a \"pump and Dump\" - they deliberately made a FLOP crud turd of a movie, likely keeping much of the money provided. They want to run and file insurance reports, government bailouts, collect margin bets and NOT pay Sunrise a penny of royalties.\n\nMy upcoming essay is longer with more ideas - but \"Don't Click\" is the easiest and simplest to spread. Spread it - ok to spread the graphic.",
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