One-eyed Fingerless Joe agrees … and would give a thumbs up but he lost that one too.

Was that a threat? … or an invitation?

That is one quality Shitpost … 9/10

We like to think of how backward our ancient ancestors were to praise sun gods, believe the world was flat, that plagues happened because we didn’t sacrifice animals or people or that a saviour is going to some day arrive and end the world.

We live in a global civilization right now that believes in infinite monetary wealth with numbers growing ever higher backed by nothing but belief and trust. There is so much imaginary wealth right now that it is way beyond what can actually exist. The last time I read about it was about ten or 15 years ago … it was an article that estimated that if all debt, all over the world was stopped at the time and everyone just spent time paying everything off, it would take thousands of years to repay everything. Yet in that time, all we’ve done is keep increasing debt and imaginary wealth.

The whole system is built on our belief in the system. The belief that eventually things will be paid off or that finances will be balanced. It is all built on trust and promises.

If at any point, enough people in parts of the world stop believing or trusting this system … it will all come crashing down.

Money is our new religion and we all believe in it and praise it and put all our hopes in it.

It exists because we praise it and worship it.

As soon as we stop believing in our gods of finance … the whole thing will end.

Just like what happened to our ancient ancestors who believed in sun gods, god kings or powerful beings sitting in clouds in the sky.

If they’re firing slugs that can break through industry rated safety glasses … those same slugs can break through your skull.

If they’re using munitions like that … then they’re using lethal rounds and no safety glasses will help.

I saw this during the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York city

We’re in northern Ontario in Canada and I was with my wife and her mother. My mother in law was a great lady, tiny, Irish Canadian completely and with a heart of gold. She had lived through the second world War where she lost her husband, her husband’s brother, three other of her husband’s brothers who were in the war and a long list of friends she saw leave school to take part in the war and some of them not come back, some completely psychologically destroyed and others just surviving life.

She was making chili that morning when we got up. I turned on the TV and couldn’t believe what we were watching. It was like a movie. We watched live the first burning building and then soon after watched the second plane crash on live TV. It was surreal.

My mother in law came in and watched with us for a while. We were glued to the TV and waited for more … all day! My mother in law got up after five minutes and went back to her chili.

We told her this was historic. You can’t miss it.

She said she’s already lived through wars, near wars, threatened nuclear war, end of the world predictions, fall of the Soviet Union and a whole bunch more.

She said she felt bad for everyone but we can’t do anything right now.

She went back to cooking her chili.

lol … I never noticed … just like the 12 year old who installed Limewire on the family computer

Paintballers and airsofters

Great point … wear any paintball gear you might have

And if you are targeted for wearing anything … what would you rather have? Be arrested for wearing gear - or lose your eyesight because you wore no gear.

Just don’t let the 12 year old install LimeWire onto that thing

I’ve worked in construction and building for many years and from time to time I had to get safety training.

Basically, any small object that is moving fast enough is dangerous. It’s not so bad if it hits your skin but it is absolutely dangerous if it flies anywhere on your head and face. You can lose eyes, teeth, hearing even have objects fly into your mouth and the soft parts of your throat and mouth. Remember that your face is basically an airbag to protect your skull - your brain doesn’t care what happens to your face because if anything damages the face or eyes, it will save the brain - so you might survive a shot to the face but does it really matter if you’re blind or maimed in the mouth, nose or ears. In war time, soldiers have been known to blow off the entire face, jaw, nose, eyes and all and still survive.

The world is insane … we have OSHA standards that regulate what can or can’t be done in a work zone to keep people safe from harm and even death

But when it comes to dealing with people in a public protest … all that safety goes out the window as police are allowed to fire small objects at unsafe speeds into people’s bodies and faces! Onto unsuspecting people with no training, knowledge or wherewithal to know that they should at least wear safety glasses.

To add emphasis to this because I really worry about these young people, here’s something I wrote in another thread …

Safety glasses … any time you join a protest these days … wear safety glasses … any kind will do because it will give you a fighting chance at saving your eyesight.

So many protests over the past few years have featured police forces aiming munitions, tear gas and other projectiles at people’s faces on purpose. These projectiles won’t kill you but if they hit your face can severely wound you or destroy your eyes and blind you.

Wounding people as opposed to killing people is also a psychological tool used by security forces. If they hurt, maim or even cause people to bleed … then it has a psychological toll on those who see it. An even greater psychological hit for anyone would be to see a healthy strong, vibrant young 20 year old man losing both his eyes and blinded while everyone witnesses it and tries to help. It might only directly hurt one person but the event would psychologically affect dozens or even a hundred people who see it.

One of the saddest stories I ever saw was the story of 20 year old Gustavo Gatica in 2019 who was part of a protest against the government in Chile. Police were actively shooting at protesters’ faces on purpose blinding many people in one eye. Gustavo was hit in both eyes and was rendered completely blind.

https://www.amnestyusa.org/gustavo-gatica/

It’s one of the saddest and most infuriating images I’ve seen in a long time … no matter where you are and you want to join a protest … wear safety glasses and save your eyes. Police might not try to aim for your face but if they do, they’ll just make the excuse that you shouldn’t have been there in the first place and blame you for your injuries.

I’ll keep repeating this because I think it’s important

Wear safety glasses

Not sunglasses, or shades or prescription glasses

Wear actual industrial rated workers safety glasses.

If you get those shots in your face, you’re going to lose an eye or both eyes. Safety glasses are designed for this kind of stuff and they actually work. It will stop those projectiles from damaging your eyes.

Cops all over the world are known to purposefully shoot people’s faces and heads. After the fact they will just argue that it didn’t happen, it was accidental, it was chaotic, it was dangerous, etc, etc … it won’t matter after the fact if you lose an eye or end up completely blind.

Wear safety glasses, they’re easy to find and easy to use.

I’ll keep repeating this because I think it’s important

Wear safety glasses

Not sunglasses, or shades or prescription glasses

Wear actual industrial rated workers safety glasses.

If you get those shots in your face, you’re going to lose an eye or both eyes. Safety glasses are designed for this kind of stuff and they actually work. It will stop those projectiles from damaging your eyes.

Cops all over the world are known to purposefully shoot people’s faces and heads. After the fact they will just argue that it didn’t happen, it was accidental, it was chaotic, it was dangerous, etc, etc … it won’t matter after the fact if you lose an eye or end up completely blind.

Wear safety glasses, they’re easy to find and easy to use.

I’m sure she won all or most of her competitions by default

… and instead of reputable journalists and independent organizations printing our news for us on the television … ANYONE with a pulse and a grade ten level of writing skill can publish anything for anyone to read … and the evolution after that will be that ANYONE with access to a computer can use Artificial Intelligence to publish an entire feature news story out of thin air promoting whatever idea, theory, belief or information they want regardless if it is true or not and no one will be able to tell the difference.

From the people I know in Native Canada, there is a lot of hostility against most of Canada and there will be for the foreseeable future … because we have a lifetime of grievances against everything the government does to make us not trust anyone. Then there is the whole criminal Indigenous fraud and forgery that has been growing over the past few years (it isn’t Pretendians, it isn’t pretending … it’s outright forgery and criminal behaviour when what you are doing is basically creating an identity for financial or political gain by taking advantage of others). There is also the growing fraudulent Metis movement, especially in Ontario where people with a small percentage of Native blood are claiming left and right that they have rights to everything just like First Nation people when they have no basis for any claim. There is a real identified and historically documented Metis community in the prairie provinces … but none in Ontario, especially in northern Ontario.

This is all on top of what the government constantly holds back from our communities and then blames us for not having anything and not doing anything.

The best way to ally with First Nations … is to first identify us as ‘First Nation’ … it’s become political because the word ‘Indigenous’ has been co-opted by so many groups to encompass everyone and anyone (especially the Metis community) who wants to identify as First Nation.

Another way to support First Nations is to support and campaign for political parties that actually support First Nations and minority groups … like the NDP … less so the Liberals … but definitely not the Conservatives.

The time to support First Nations is at the election booth … it almost doesn’t matter how you support First Nations after events like Bill 5 happen … you can support them, join protests and share their grievances but that is almost too little too late … we all have to stop these things from developing in the first place by not electing conservative right wing nut jobs into power.

Expect first nation protests everywhere and often in the next few years.

Like one chief in the north here said … Chief Jennifer Constant in Mattagami FN near Timmins … the government has put all resource development at risk because FNs won’t stand for this. There has been years of negotiation and relationship building with FNs and industry, now all that good will is drying up. Now any company that wants to go anywhere near FN lands will have entire communities protesting, blocking and fighting them at every turn. Their projects all just got more expensive because they pissed off the people who live on the land.

Reminds me of a terrible factoid I read a long time ago … they feed young calves they raise for veal a steady diet of cow’s milk mixed with liquefied rendered cow blood and other bio fluids.

We might not have the matrix or dystopian futures yet … but we sure are on our way to building one.

I’m guessing you also enjoy your whipped cream …