During HitlerPig 1.0, Erdogan came to America for a meeting with HitlerPig. As he was coming out, there were protesters to meet him. Erdogan ordered his security team to assault the protesters, and they viciously beat numerous peaceful protesters. HitlerPig said and did nothing about it. He allowed a foreign security force to come to America and severely assault people for exercising their 1st Amendment rights.

Youre mom probably wondered why her mouse started working smoother.

I always keep an old toothbrush in my pencil cup for cleaning the mouse contacts. I dont use a mouse, I’ve always used a track ball, and now and then you have to pop out the ball and clean the accumulated crud out of the contacts.

Israel was busy, so HitlerPig said “I got this.”

Also, a foreign threat tends to gather the citizens together. Our post-9/11 unity allowed them to create the Homeland Security Gestapo.

My first presidential election was in 1980. I have voted in every election since, and I have NEVER voted for a candidate I liked. The best I could ever hope for was the lesser of two evils, and sometimes the difference wasn’t so wide.

But that wasn’t the case in 2024, where the difference between the two sides was far wider than I have ever experienced. I am very distressed at the situation in Haza, and I did not support Biden’s weak, cowardly approach at all, but I also knew that Trump’s approach was going to be far, far worse. And Harris’ approach was an an unknown, since she refused to say anything that signalled any difference in policy from Biden.

But all of it is just blathering because that didnt make any difference in this election. It was totally rigged, and we ALL know it.

I caught that the instant he said it. So they are planning another round of Market Manipulation in a month or two, got it.

We’ve already had 3 rounds, in less than 90 days. It seemed like his 90 day pause on this last round was a bit longer because he wanted to let it cool down, but I knew he wouldn’t be able to resist the lure of dirty money at the expense of the poors.

I’m happy for the heads up. Unfortunately, I dont have the kind of money required to take full advantage of this, but at least Ill know to hang on.

I think it helped shape me into a an adventurous, curious person, because that was what motivated me as a kid. Other Free Range kids might have gone out to play sports, or to look for trouble, etc., but i was just exploring.

There was another direct influence on my life: Once, i headed to a nearby “woods,” to watch animals, and bumped into some friends. One jumped over a small creek to greet me, and stepped right onto an underground bee hive. They all poured out of that hive like water, and came directly for me. The first stung my lip, then neary eye. They got in my hair, up my t-shirt, stuck in my socks etc.

I jumped on my bike and started racing toward home, hoping to outrun them, but they were the kind of bees that don’t lose their stingers, so the ones stuck in my clothes kept stinging me. By the time i got home i had at least 30 stings.

I’m okay now, but i was really afraid of bees for many years. Gardening helped me learn to lose my fear.

Overall, i think it made me a person who isn’t afraid of the world, and i know i can navigate any situation that comes up.

Bullying a bully is not bullying.

It’s the combination of that, and lots and lots of practice.

We use to draw all the time as kids, and then we stopped, and thats why our adult drawings look like kid’s drawings - that’s the last time we drew anything.

Civilians don’t understand how many times an artist will draw the same things over and over, before they start to get good at it. They don’t really question repetition for musicians, so why would they for art? Nobody picks up their artistic tools (pencils or a musical instrument) and starts creating like a pro, it takes lots of “rehearsal.”

The musician takes years to train their ears, and an artist requires years to train their eyes. Then it takes years to train your hands to perfect your technique in response to that ear or that eye.

Books or courses may guide you, but ultimately, it’s sheer repetition that makes the progress possible.

Back in the 60s, i was a Free-Range kid. On on a nice non-school day, I would go out after breakfast on my bike, and be gone all day, without any money, a watch, ID, cell phone (didn’t exist back then), anything, and I’d be gone all day. The only rule was to be home by 5 pm.

Nobody knew where I was, who I was speaking to, or anything. If i bumped into friends, I’d hang out for a while, but if I needed to know the time, I’d ask some stranger. If I was thirsty, I’d knock on a random door and ask for a glass of water. Once, I stopped at the end of a driveway to watch some guy doing woodworking in his open garage. He saw me watching and this stranger invited me into garage, and showed me his tools, and what he was building. Turned out he was a decent guy, and I probably reminded him of his grandson, but what if he wasn’t? My primary fear was running into the Robolotto boys, but as long as I didn’t see one of them, I was happy.

This was routine for years, and it was the same for my friends. I started doing this when I was about 7 years old.

Ah, sorry for the misunderstanding. The problem was that I mistook “this comment” to mean mine, when you were referring to your own. If you had said “my comment is dumb,” it would have been clear.

Thats the story everywhere. I just came over from Reddit, and I miss the active guitar forums. I checked the acoustic guitar forum, and the ladtnpost was 3.7 years ago.

Subbed tonthe Civil War forum, thanks for the tip.

The question is asked about comms that need “pumping up,” and I suggest one that is enormous in other forums, but neglected on Lemmy, which is what OP was looking for. So offering EXACTLY what OP is asking for is “kinda dumb?”

What would be acceptable to you?

Anything about guitars. The most popular one has several days between posts, orhers have months or even years between posts.

It’s probably the only thing I miss about Reddit.

Of course it is. His two primary characteristics are that he is a Traitor, and breath-takingingly Corrupt.

Why are they rebooting “Minority Report?” The Tom Cruise version was excellent, we don’t need a new one.

They can try to avoid politics, but politics isn’t going avoid them.

They are frightened because as immigrants, you are among the most vulnerable. HitlerPig is not respecting any laws, especially immigration laws. He’s even trying to invalidate Birthright Citizenship, which is in the Constituion, and a concept that nearly every government in the world respects.

If he won’t even respect the citizenship of someone who was born in America, he isn’t going to respect the rights of ANYONE born somwhere else, no matter what their legal status is, given by some other president.

I have close friend who came here from Venezuela, got her green card, then became a citizen in 2024. She feels safe, because she’s a citizen now, but i don’t trust these MAGA Traitors to respect that.

He has been especially vocal about hating Venezuelans. I think its because we have granted special status to Venezuelans, but HitlerPig respects Maduro because he was able to turn his thriving successful country into a starving dictatorship, which is HitlerPig’s greatest ambition.

Record companies are just big corporate conflomerates, who dont want to make waves, and they control the artists’ output.

Any Resistance Music is going to come from truly independent artists, and we should do everything we can to promote them.

They were probably going to quit over personal morality anyway, so good for them for using their exit for positive. At least they can leave with their self-respect and dignity intact, and the respect of their co-workers and the world. Somewhere there is a moral employer who will appreciate them.