Notices by petra (petra@poa.st)

@Dowito @matrix @bronze @monsterislandcolonizer Yes. But it's not forever. Hard times are going to come and good men and good people will come out from it again. We may not live to see them. Cycles can take a very long time. But there is no reason to be sad we were born at this particular moment in history. We had no choice. Be glad you've got to see how wonderful this world can be.

@sickburnbro @boeswilligkeit I've known people who lived through the fall of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe in the late 80s/early 90s. At the end everyone knew the system was rotten and sclerotic. Ruled over by an increasing gerontocracy. We are seeing the same thing with our competency crisis and crisis in leadership, which was also corrupt, but they could rule effectively and had the backing of the people.

But people still had to live their lives. Go to school, get married, raise their family. They had to work in the system because that is all there was at the time.

And everyone I know who lived through that is alarmed at what they see here in the West, because we are repeating the same mistakes. A Russian friend couldn't get over the Canadian government's response to the popular truckers protest during covid ... "You learned from us! But you learned all the wrong things!!" Even Chinese friends see the similarities between our cultural Marxism and their cultural revolution.

You still have to live your life. But you can still be aware. You have to be a sailor watching the storm clouds on the horizon, judging the direction and precautions to take. It's never been any different.

@69poopy96 @TrevorGoodchild @dictatordave @WTFPurpleAlpaca @Obfuskation @jb @pepsi_man @Starprophet1 "2. shit themselves and scream in fear and get killed en masse huddled up"

That's something that surprised me about Israelis. When missiles are flying overhead or a fire is encroaching like recently in the north, their almost universal response is to shout, cry and scream and run about.

Nothing that makes any real sense. A purely hysterical emotional reaction, both the men and the women.

I didn't know this about them. And it's embarrassing to watch.