Let us not be 'sunshine patriots'

[mystery-ak]

August 17, 2025
Let us not be 'sunshine patriots'
By Eric Utter

Nearly every time I visit a conservative website, such as the Blaze, PJ Media, the Gateway Pundit, American Thinker, SteynOnline, the Daily Caller, etc., etc., my antivirus and firewall protection pops up with the message reading “You have tried to access a dangerous website” and severs my connection.

Yet I have literally never once received that message on any other website, even outlandishly leftist ones such as the Huffington Post, Slate, the Daily Beast, Salon, etc., etc.

Not once.

And this has been the case for months on end. Coincidence? Obviously.

This on top of SEO, shadow-banning, and a myriad of other techniques employed to keep people from seeing the truth.

It is extremely disheartening, to say the least.

And most people, sadly, have no real idea of the staggeringly ubiquitous forces arrayed against us as conservatives. It's not just the Deep State. It's not just redistricting, or mail-in voting, or the fact that virtually every institution is controlled by progressive and leftist morons and would be tyrants: the mainstream media, academia, Hollywood, corporate boardrooms, urban city councils, Big Pharma, Big Tech … and almost every other institution you can think of.

Worse yet, the nearly impenetrable wall put up by these entities is soon to be even further fortified by AI. Taken together, this all may be too tall of a wall to scale, too long of a bridge to cross.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/let_us_not_be_sunshine_patriots.html

[Smokin Joe]

I have already seen this on 'X'. On a few occasions posting verifiable and not really contentious fact, Grok (or whatever) stuck my posts in the "probable spam" wad down at the end. I confronted it and mentioned that it was not posted repetitively, sold nothing, exhorted no one to go to a website, and only provided reference links, not commercial ones.

In other words, my post had none of the characteristics of SPAM.

Then Grok (or whatever) brought up that such posts (true) were perhaps discomforting to the majority of posters.

I replied that if one person in one thousand spoke truth and the rest were wrong, but in agreement, that one was still right and the rest were wrong.

After that I pretty much just quit posting there.

Elon has a bunch of wokies and leftists hiding here, and their programming is affecting the bias of the AI.

[Fishrrman]

I've never used a firewall (at home).
Not in 38 years of using Macs.
Never had any real problems.
I've heard that the PC/Windows world is a little different...

I DO use a VPN for some websites, however.
Such as when visiting z-library.
Makes sense.