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Voting only gets us so far. Living life does the heavy lifting.

I get to practice compassion at work. It's good practice.

I get to work on gardening and fruit orchards when I'm not at work.

It's good recreation. I need recreating.

How I live is undergoing reconstruction.

Same old manager, though...

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Very true! And gardening is a very happy thing, as is anything done with soul!

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Growing vegetables to eat is a normalizing activity for humans.

(I'm a human.)

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I absolutely LOVE what you just wrote (first time caller, so to speak) - EVERY.SINGLE. WORD and sentiment expressed. It helped to frame things for me. Visiting family right now - and every one of them is a CNN/MSNBC rabid accolyte. They watch the news from separate rooms, run into the living room every two minutes to compare notes and rage against Trump - and have ignored 47 years of Biden atrocities, and the 8 years of Kamala-the-Racist-Kop so, basically, I'm in hell.

But the reminder to not hate them because they've been psy-oped and brain washed - was important.

And you can write your ass off!

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Thank you!! Your kind words mean a lot! And yes, every one of us can make a difference where we are, and we are only responsible for own choices!!

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I just fell through a hyperlink wormhole and found myself here, and I'm glad. To paraphrase the great 20th century philosopher Sir Gibby Haynes: TessaFightsRobots is an avalanche, comin down the mountain... You speak the truth beautifully, which is a rare and valuable thing. Thanks for that.

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Thank you!!! I am so glad it brought you joy!

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The machine society. What Terence McKenna called the "Orwellian Anthill" That is the target of my ire. Not a half awake old man who can't tell his wife from his child anymore.

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The maws of the MSM machine grind louder. My ears are bleeding, but it is sweet song to others in my room. Angry? Not in the least, but at some very deep level, genuinely terrified. And falling alone, save for this and few other thin threads.

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Dig it. They've got "us" (present company excepted, it seems) snookered with elections and pandemics, distracting "us" to the point of forgetting our humanity. Divide and rule is alive and well, and, sadly, the next wave of finger-pointing and blame will almost assuredly arise from the ashes of collapsed dreams that this time, finally, is different.

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Very well said, and thank you!

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FYI

Two Capitalist Parties Compete, Humanity Loses

November 6, 2020 BY Rob Urie

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/11/06/two-capitalist-parties-compete-humanity-loses/

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