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         Hello All, I figured at some point I would have to write this post, but in earnest I was not looking forward to it.  However, there are way too many data points in a row to let it go any longer.  Being under the pandemic house arrest has really brought this to light. 

   I suppose this is offered mostly as honest feedback for the Netflix leadership program directors (they will never see this or care, but here goes anyway) and if we're being completely open, some degree of my own frustration.

   With increasing frequency I am confronted with gay and lesbian content that is just not working not in terms of good story telling.  Hold on now before you smash down ALL CAPS and blister back... hear me out.  Each time I begin a new series on Netflix I can also simultaneously start the count down to LGBT egg timer, for the encounter that will surely come.  I’m so weary of the predictable list of components that stories have now, be it the obligatory lesbian kiss, the gay male knowing embrace or the trans struggle are all part of a sad cookie cutter model, predictable and boring.  These components add nothing to the story line and are so transparently added to stay in line with a broader social agenda of normalizing LGBT behavior.

   Netflix must realize the vast majority of the world is not LGBT and driving this content in such a disproportionate manner has morphed their business into more of a social/political commentary outlet vs. a broad entertainment vehicle for the majority.  The broader LGBT social justice agenda is now the most important aspect of programming and it has ruined so many good plot lines because it is trying way too hard.  There such a desperate frenzy for LGBT acceptance when the vast majority of people (my peers anyway) flat out just don't care? 

   The final straw for me was the series “Dead to Me”.  It was a decent plot line, right up to the gratuitous lesbian encounter which is obviously there only to tick a box.  The incessant drum beat of "all LGBT all the time" is only creating animosity among the vast majority of straight people.  I don’t see it creating any acceptance, if anything it’s the opposite.  This over the top push is only alienating other wise open minded people by endlessly force feeding this issue.  Most people honestly just want to go about their daily lives without having someone else’s lifestyle drama pushed on them, they have their own lives and separate care abouts. 

   Logically if everyone adopted a LGBT lifestyle our population would eventually crash, it goes directly against the normal biology observed in every animal species on the planet, so it’s tough to be sold on the idea that we all have to celebrate it.

   All this does make me wonder about the type of pressure that must exist in the Hollywood bubble.  Netflix is conforming to a minority view, edgy and successful for the moment, but you have to wonder what the long term effect this will have on the majority that have a very different set of values.  I can see this leading to a steady decline in company value and market share as the values of middle America are increasingly ignored?  Perhaps, the numbers are skewed now by having a captive pandemic audience.  I have dumped my stock, perhaps in protest, time will tell.     
 
   Yes I realize this view will bum some people out.  If you dare speak out on this subject even with the goal of just wanting some neutral ground to escape the indoctrination agenda you will be shamed as a hater.  This opens the door for the inevitable on-line mob attack, predictable and disappointing.  No doubt this will be the case with me. “Ya see, we knew it"!  Meh, not really, I’m very much a libertarian and I don’t care all that much how people live.  However, I am sick of hearing the indoctrination spiel.  Isn't it enough for people to live their own lives minding their own business, I’m really tired of being pushed... Largely LGBT issues have always been so God awful boring that I lost all interest a long time ago.

   You could argue that "hey if you don't like it just don't watch it", which is precisely what I'm going to do.  I’m sure Netflix will get along just fine, but will be doing that with out me.  What a shame, once it was such a fine company and now it casts such a long politically correct shadow.  Ugh, I quit...

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« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2020, 06:02:03 pm »

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Re: Indoctrination, Not Very Entertaining – Societal Rust
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2020, 06:48:27 pm »
         Hello All, I figured at some point I would have to write this post, but in earnest I was not looking forward to it.  However, there are way too many data points in a row to let it go any longer.  Being under the pandemic house arrest has really brought this to light. 

   I suppose this is offered mostly as honest feedback for the Netflix leadership program directors (they will never see this or care, but here goes anyway) and if we're being completely open, some degree of my own frustration.

   With increasing frequency I am confronted with gay and lesbian content that is just not working not in terms of good story telling.  Hold on now before you smash down ALL CAPS and blister back... hear me out.

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   You could argue that "hey if you don't like it just don't watch it", which is precisely what I'm going to do.  I’m sure Netflix will get along just fine, but will be doing that with out me.  What a shame, once it was such a fine company and now it casts such a long politically correct shadow.  Ugh, I quit...

Welcome @penumbraline ! What a great first post!  :beer: :seeya:

I will expand upon your premise, as I can utterly agree with every point... But the indoctrination goes far beyond Netflix, and across all social subjects...

As an example, let me describe something a bit more subtle, and broad ranging...
If you have lurked here a bit and have read me at all, you will know by now that I am a bold and unrepentant redneck of the Western cowboy/hillbilly variety, A fundie Christian with stout beliefs, and a rock-ribbed, far right, principled Conservative. But I am also a computer tech, so I have a few internet aliases to necessarily bifurcate my internet life.

One of those aliases is firmly in the Microsoft Realm. When I sojourn into Microsoft's magic kingdom, that alias is what I travel under, and Microsoft Edge is my vehicle. If I fire up Edge, That alias is logged in with MSN as my home page... I go on from there to news, music, Tech Net, my MS email and etc...

Another alias is firmly ensconced in Google... My phone is Droid, and when I access anything from PC having to do with Google's magical realm,  It is done with Chrome, with my Google alias logged in, with much the same behavior as I do with MS, with the exception that my PIM is all found tied to Google for the sake of interoperability with phone and tablet...

Yet a third alias does my actual surfing and normal use with Firefox as the vehicle...

But what I am getting at is this: With the plentiful history in either of the two realms I am legit with, literally decades, you would think their algorithms would have detected my sensibilities and predilections by now. After all, they sell this stuff with the idea of delivering to you the content you want to see, right?

You would think my home page aggregators would be littered with Nascar and fishing and hunting... The newest country songs, RedGreen clips, Hee Haw, FoxNews or OANN... Religious lifestyles, country lifestyles, and etc..

And you would thing the ads would be toward Rib Joints, Chevy pickups, tractors, guns, fishing equipment, farm stores, canoes, campers and the like... You know, stuff I would actually WANT to buy...

But all of that, in all these years, is incidentally returned at best. I don't get CMT. I get Hip Hop. I don't get Chevy 1T 4x4 ads, I get rice-grinder electric car ads... Pajama boys and city lights. Democrat liberal bullcrap all the way.

I have to work at it to get the content I want. Someone less astute and engaged would surely be caught up clicking something that resembles their desires, and in my case, were I to just choose from what is delivered, I would be stuck with CNN and Bart Simpson clips.

And YouTube is even more insidious. Above the fold, right now, I have a line of imposed Covid-10 propaganda, and another line of imposed BLM leaning riot news. And 'ads' or imposed content to educate me on the veracity of claims toward white privilege and racial dichotomy... And what I need to know  to stay safe from the pandemic. 

It is obvious and pathetic.

And further, My youtube use is bifurcated - I watch homesteading and bushcraft stuff most evenings under one alias, and the other for listening to religious lectures when I can...

The homesteading and bushcraft stuff is often censored. of the sub'd channels I watch, about a third have been removed, and many times vids are taken down as offensive...

Both are feeding me stuff I don't want, but the religious stuff is the tell..
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My sub'd channels there have been decimated... of thirty or so subscriptions, ten remain. and those that do remain mostly do not show up on my front page feed - I have to physically go into subscriptions to find them , and often their presentations can't even be found there - But if I go to individual channels manually I can find them.

Instead, I am fed an incessant 'love each other'  Christian pablum. Meaningless, phony, happy banana bullcrap.

YES, I agree with your premise in its entirety - But it goes far deeper and is far more insidious than you let on.

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« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2020, 06:33:33 am »
Well, @roamer_1 , I'll see your indoctrination and raise you one. When the Bundy Ranch Standoff was in the news, the BUreau of Land Management got screened suddenly by another group with the same initials. A search, then, for BLM, didn't bring up a Federal Land agency. While the information may be out there somewhere, carried on alternate servers and not simply sent down the memory hole of corrupted directories, it isn't easy to find and a host of shiny objects are thrown across the path to distract the unsuspecting.

As for 'entertainment', I, too, weary of gratuitous faggotry, unnecessary to a plot line, as predictable as the checkbox scenes in cheap porn.

 Fear the Walking Dead was a show that intrigued me. In the start of that zombie apocalypse, the first to overcome normalcy bias was the junkie son who really knew no normal, but was in tune with the feel of the street, a survival mechanism he'd developed.
The series ended for me with an unnecessary homosexual kiss, definitely unnecessary to the plot line for any who understood the concept of brotherhood as those who have shared and triumphed over hardship know it.
I haven't watched it since, nor will I.

Sad to say, many promising story lines have met the same fate, some even to such in their ads, before I ever watched one episode.
It can't be that the 1-2% of society is simply trying to entertain the vast majority which is at best indifferent to it's overtures, a marketing ploy proved fatally flawed outside the concentrated enclaves of those who identify with those behaviours with a few advertisements which hit the mainstream with disastrous results.
No, it is instead not just the constant drumbeat of tolerance, but instead the incessant cacophony of a bad garage band that thinks they should have a lock on the Grammy Awards. More annoying than a telemarketer, the answer, "No. No thanks, not interested" just doesn't seem to get through.
Of course, I utilize that ever present recourse of changing the channel, something becoming more difficult to find sanctuary in, and more frequently, simply turn the damned thing off and dust off a book, a refuge since before Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451, and until that, too, like so many other horror stories becomes reality.

To be clear, I don't hate anyone, but that doesn't mean there aren't things which I not only don't find entertaining, but which I feel have no business flickering across my living room. Click. Invitation revoked.

Unfortunately, the Social Bowdllerists of the 21st century are beginning the systematic elimination of highly worthy entertainment (well, they started with cartoons and have progressed), and soon that will be Gone With the Wind, as lost to future generations as that Jim fellow Mr. Twain wrote so succinctly about, describing his social standing, morality, work ethic, and even appearance in a single appellative. With that, too, will be lost any but the thinnest caricature of the people and their history and even the concept that times change,

Despite insisting humans formed by evolution over hundreds of millions of years, their cultural context will exist only in the here and now, a snap chat version of their history, deleted after a few minutes, no screenshots allowed.

I once wondered how great empires of the past, which seemed so well organized, so well designed, ceased to exist. I could understand those lost to cataclysm, to famine, or even disease which wiped out so much of the population they broke down. I could understand how political chicanery, corruption, or multigenrational ignorance could lead to vulnerabilities such that the rising young lions of adjacent empires might achieve conquest. But now, even without those forces at the fore, I understand even more strongly that for a society to flourish it must retain ties to the best of its roots, and if it forgets them, it is doomed to wither and collapse, a victim of its self ignorance and festering corruption.

In human history, which seems to happen in cycles, it appears it's that time again, sadly, when in the paroxysms of human endeavor, the books are burned, the wheel turns and is either dug from the ashes or reinvented, and humanity returns to its more primal roots for a while to sort out who may scratch together the next enlightenment. Perhaps there will be a return in that Dark Age to the very Creator God who helped humanity flourish, or perhaps that final act will be over and the curtain fall on Creation as the harvest is concluded and the wheat separated from the chaff.

It's sad that despite the obvious and dubious rewards of ignoring the advice given in Scriptures which have survived for thousands of years, a user's manual for humanity, people still fail to follow that advice and reap those rewards they so richly deserve.

@penumbraline Good first post!
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« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2020, 07:08:57 am »
Hoo boy, @Smokin Joe ... That's a great post. Too dang late now to reply for real, but it's a comin'.



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« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2020, 07:53:59 am »
Outstanding first post @penumbraline .  Welcome to TBR.

Full agreement.  I am a pretty old guy, and can remember say 40 or 50 years ago, this was what was considered a disgusting perverted lifestyle.  Now it is considered mainstream.  However, back then, I had more of a libertarian streak to me, and pretty much felt that it was live and let live.  So I pretty much was of the opinion what went on in people's bedroom was their own business.

Now this perversion is being force fed to us 24/7, and I resent the hell out it. 
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« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2020, 10:29:31 am »
Outstanding first post @penumbraline .  Welcome to TBR.

Full agreement.  I am a pretty old guy, and can remember say 40 or 50 years ago, this was what was considered a disgusting perverted lifestyle.  Now it is considered mainstream.  However, back then, I had more of a libertarian streak to me, and pretty much felt that it was live and let live.  So I pretty much was of the opinion what went on in people's bedroom was their own business.

Now this perversion is being force fed to us 24/7, and I resent the hell out it.
I was raised to treat most everyone with respect until they earned otherwise.
I am sick of being told what a chauvinistic, misogynistic, racist, sexist, homophobic, islamophobic, privileged person I am by people who don't know what color my eyes are or even my middle initial.
I know I am not alone.
At some point, the average person's 'give a damn' will break, and they will say "I'm a what? Well, you ain't seen nothing yet!" and then all Hell will break loose.
Those who have sown the wind will reap the whirlwind.
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« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2020, 12:35:47 pm »
I submit that the $200 Million deal Barack and Michelle Obama obtained from Netflix has EVERYTHING to do with the tsunami of gay and lesbian lifestyle being injected into virtually all their storylines.  I stress "storylines" and not plotlines.

As the guy sitting at the card table in the park 'meme'...prove me wrong.

The evidence is staggering. 

Please explain to me why OZARK included a closet gay FBI agent humping a redneck.  Let's start with that...

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« Reply #8 on: June 19, 2020, 01:00:27 pm »
I don’t think conservatives want two Americas; but if Leftist cannot force us onto our knees and if they keep this assault up on our values, they’ll get just that.

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« Reply #9 on: June 19, 2020, 03:26:40 pm »
While the information may be out there somewhere, carried on alternate servers and not simply sent down the memory hole of corrupted directories, it isn't easy to find and a host of shiny objects are thrown across the path to distract the unsuspecting.

Yes, I have experienced the same thing... One of my deep dives in internet research lasted over years. It was religious in nature, and I had assembled a vast data trail in links to prove my position... Later challenged on that position, I whipped out my paper, nearly a book, and was stunned at that time to find out that almost every one of the hyperlinks I had used for reference were busted. These were college level papers containing real data, and I took some time to try to rebuild those referenced links... It didn't take long to find out the info was not redirected, it was mostly just gone. Gone. How do college level theses published on college sites disappear? But they did, in almost every case.
The memory hole is real.

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As for 'entertainment', I, too, weary of gratuitous faggotry, unnecessary to a plot line, as predictable as the checkbox scenes in cheap porn.

 Fear the Walking Dead was a show that intrigued me. In the start of that zombie apocalypse, the first to overcome normalcy bias was the junkie son who really knew no normal, but was in tune with the feel of the street, a survival mechanism he'd developed.
The series ended for me with an unnecessary homosexual kiss, definitely unnecessary to the plot line for any who understood the concept of brotherhood as those who have shared and triumphed over hardship know it.
I haven't watched it since, nor will I.


I get that. But I will take the opportunity to look back a ways to when hetero sex was symbolized in symphonic crescendos and pictures of crashing waves... Nowadays we tolerate gratuitous hetero sex like it's alright and part of the furniture... Because it is. A decade from now we will not even be phased by full frontal nudity and full on sex scenes of every variety... That's why they are doing what they do with gratuitous homo displays... Because they have already done it with gratuitous hetero scenes... And it worked.
 
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Sad to say, many promising story lines have met the same fate, some even to such in their ads, before I ever watched one episode.
It can't be that the 1-2% of society is simply trying to entertain the vast majority which is at best indifferent to it's overtures, a marketing ploy proved fatally flawed outside the concentrated enclaves of those who identify with those behaviours with a few advertisements which hit the mainstream with disastrous results.


Nah. It's not so simple... It is evil... spiritual darkness descending... powers and principalities in high places... And it's been going on for a long time. What was it that deToqueville said? "America is great because it is good. When it ceases to be good, it will cease being great." ... Something like that. We too easily forget this war is spiritual.

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No, it is instead not just the constant drumbeat of tolerance, but instead the incessant cacophony of a bad garage band that thinks they should have a lock on the Grammy Awards.

Oh man! you called that one right on the money!

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Of course, I utilize that ever present recourse of changing the channel, something becoming more difficult to find sanctuary in, and more frequently, simply turn the damned thing off and dust off a book, a refuge since before Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451, and until that, too, like so many other horror stories becomes reality.

I have done similar... I got away from cable for that reason, and gained so much back... Now I mainly go to youtube and watch stuff that folks like me make, and see how much their Fine and Pleasant Misery (an obscure Patrick F McManus ref  :laugh:) matches my own. Far more gratifying than anything Whorywood (hey, don't look at me, that's how the Japs say it) ever made. I have no desire to change the channel anymore, because I have no desire to have the channel anymore. I would not go back to cable if it were free.

Now, I DO have Netflix. It costs me something like 70 bucks a year (shared family plan)... And my own sensibilities are offended much like the OP... I too have seen the gratuitous faggotry (Ozark is a perfect example), and have selected otherwise... But more so, the ol' 57 Channels and Nothing On" is governing my distaste of Netflix. There is less and less there to interest me. I must have watched Longmire 50 times by now, because after a long sojourn through the lists, There just ain't nothing else. So now and then a movie, every once in a blue moon, an excellent series (Blue Bloods as an instance) but more and more, the only thing I use it for is for watching the occultic crap in main stream social manipulation as a matter of research (hence btw, my exact knowledge of what lies behind this stuff).

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I once wondered how great empires of the past, which seemed so well organized, so well designed, ceased to exist. [...] But now, even without those forces at the fore, I understand even more strongly that for a society to flourish it must retain ties to the best of its roots, and if it forgets them, it is doomed to wither and collapse, a victim of its self ignorance and festering corruption.

That is absolutely true. The first half of my life, I couldn't dream  of how America could ever fail. But I see it now so very clearly.

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In human history, which seems to happen in cycles, it appears it's that time again, sadly, when in the paroxysms of human endeavor, the books are burned, the wheel turns and is either dug from the ashes or reinvented, and humanity returns to its more primal roots for a while to sort out who may scratch together the next enlightenment. Perhaps there will be a return in that Dark Age to the very Creator God who helped humanity flourish, or perhaps that final act will be over and the curtain fall on Creation as the harvest is concluded and the wheat separated from the chaff.

It's sad that despite the obvious and dubious rewards of ignoring the advice given in Scriptures which have survived for thousands of years, a user's manual for humanity, people still fail to follow that advice and reap those rewards they so richly deserve.


... And there it is. Them that don't know history are doomed to repeat it... And more to the point: Dispose of Torah at your peril. Nations fall to decadence more than any other thing.

A superb post @Smokin Joe . Thank you.

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« Reply #10 on: June 19, 2020, 03:28:40 pm »
Please explain to me why OZARK included a closet gay FBI agent humping a redneck.  Let's start with that...


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« Reply #11 on: June 19, 2020, 03:32:25 pm »
I saw something along these lines as recently as the 10 pm local newscast last evening.

Channel 11 (KHOU) had a segment on the origins of Juneteenth celebrations. During that segment, the anchor (Len Cannon) announced that Abe Lincoln's emancipation proclamation had pronounced that ALL slaves were now free.

And THAT Ladies and gentlemen is how history gets rewritten. One little bite at a time.

This morning I messaged Mr. Cannon advising him of his error and have received no response. For some odd reason, I doubt that I ever will.
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« Reply #12 on: June 19, 2020, 03:36:05 pm »
I was raised to treat most everyone with respect until they earned otherwise.
I am sick of being told what a chauvinistic, misogynistic, racist, sexist, homophobic, islamophobic, privileged person I am by people who don't know what color my eyes are or even my middle initial.
I know I am not alone.
At some point, the average person's 'give a damn' will break, and they will say "I'm a what? Well, you ain't seen nothing yet!" and then all Hell will break loose.
Those who have sown the wind will reap the whirlwind.

I have no idea why I chose today to do it but I posted this to my FB timeline this morning:

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What is privilege?

•Privilege is wearing $200 sneakers when you’ve never had a job.
•Privilege is wearing $300 Beats headphones while living on public assistance.
•Privilege is having a Smartphone with a Data plan which you receive no bill for.
•Privilege is living in public subsidized housing where you don’t have a utility bill.
Where rising property taxes, rents and energy costs have absolutely no effect on the amount of food you can put on your table.
•Privilege is having free health insurance for you and your family that's paid for by working people who can't afford health insurance for their families.
•Privilege is having multiple national organizations promoting and protecting your race that's subsidized by federal tax dollars.
•Privilege is having access to a national college fund that supports only your race.
•Privilege is having a television network that supports only your race.
•Privilege is the ability to go march against, and protest against anything that triggers you, without worrying about calling out off work and the consequences that accompany such.
•Privilege is having as many children as you want, regardless of your employment status, and be able to send them off to daycare or school you don’t pay for.
•Privilege is having most of your life paid for by the people who DO HAVE TO DEAL WITH RISING TAXES AND COSTS!...you know, us so called “PRIVILEGED” the ones who pay while you TAKE TAKE TAKE!

I’d rather you said thanks and go on your way!!!
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« Reply #13 on: June 19, 2020, 03:39:51 pm »
Outstanding first post @penumbraline .  Welcome to TBR.

Full agreement.  I am a pretty old guy, and can remember say 40 or 50 years ago, this was what was considered a disgusting perverted lifestyle.  Now it is considered mainstream.  However, back then, I had more of a libertarian streak to me, and pretty much felt that it was live and let live.  So I pretty much was of the opinion what went on in people's bedroom was their own business.

Now this perversion is being force fed to us 24/7, and I resent the hell out it.

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« Reply #14 on: June 19, 2020, 03:42:30 pm »
I have no idea why I chose today to do it but I posted this to my FB timeline this morning:

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Re: Indoctrination, Not Very Entertaining – Societal Rust
« Reply #15 on: June 19, 2020, 03:48:27 pm »
I saw something along these lines as recently as the 10 pm local newscast last evening.

Channel 11 (KHOU) had a segment on the origins of Juneteenth celebrations. During that segment, the anchor (Len Cannon) announced that Abe Lincoln's emancipation proclamation had pronounced that ALL slaves were now free.

And THAT Ladies and gentlemen is how history gets rewritten. One little bite at a time.

This morning I messaged Mr. Cannon advising him of his error and have received no response. For some odd reason, I doubt that I ever will.
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You would think that before someone got on TV in front of several million people that they would at least take the time to read the document they are talking about...

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Re: Indoctrination, Not Very Entertaining – Societal Rust
« Reply #16 on: June 19, 2020, 03:51:30 pm »
@Bigun
You would think that before someone got on TV in front of several million people that they would at least take the time to read the document they are talking about...

I think he actually knows what it really says and doesn't like it @EdinVA.

Edit to add the text just in case anyone here is wondering about what it really says.

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"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.

"That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be, in good faith, represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States."

Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit:

Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth[)], and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.

And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.

And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.

And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh.

By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.

« Last Edit: June 19, 2020, 04:00:28 pm by Bigun »
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Re: Indoctrination, Not Very Entertaining – Societal Rust
« Reply #17 on: June 19, 2020, 07:05:13 pm »
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JUST got done saying the same thing. Well, not exactly that way, but...

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LOL!   Great post, BTW..to which you refer.

At 74, I don't have the time to type paragraphs.   :shrug:
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