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Re: Random Thoughts XX (that's 20) 

Post#901 » by KingDavid » Sun Jul 20, 2025 7:31 pm

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To me, anyone who takes things to extreme levels following one sides format have been red pilled. The Left and Right want people to be angry hating everything about the other side instead of looking at individual issues, they really just strengthened their fan base like creating good puppets. Sort of like a cult. I disagree with most of what both sides tell me to believe in. If we cannot have a 3rd party, we should be allowed to vote on all individual bills or proposals instead of allowing one of the 3 branches to make those decisions for us.

...alright, that's two people now saying it's something else, so I'll google it real quick:

When the hell did the definition change?! That's not what it was even 5 years ago.

"The term "red pill" has since been adopted and interpreted in various ways within online communities and social discourse, often with controversial connotations.

Men's Rights Activism and the Manosphere:

In some men's rights and anti-feminist communities, being "red-pilled" signifies believing that societal structures and gender roles are rigged against men, often blaming feminism for what they perceive as male subjugation and disadvantage. These communities may advocate for traditional gender roles and promote views that are critical of or hostile towards women.

Political and Conspiratorial Thinking:

The "red pill" concept has been co-opted by some far-right and white supremacist groups to symbolize an awakening to supposed hidden truths about society, gender, race, and politics that they believe are based on lies. This interpretation often involves believing in conspiracy theories and may overlap with antisemitic and other extremist views.

General Awakening to Truth: More broadly, "taking the red pill" can refer to a personal awakening to a perceived truth or a rejection of commonly accepted narratives in various contexts."

My god...to think that phrase was coined with the (eventual) goal of teaching men to understand intersexual/intergender dynamics especially with women so they don't end up hating women for what they could never be to them (from their own delusions about women in the first place). What in the hell is all that other ****...


LOL. I have heard extreme liberals use the Red Pill term many times. Maybe the RIght wing says it more as I have no clue being I am not a follower. But, you cannot deny when people go over the edge in their anger against the party they disagree with that some media source or politicians speeches are triggering them without them realizing they are being used to fight their battles for them. I agree with many policies by both parties but will never dive in and agree with all of what one side tells me to believe in.

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Re: Random Thoughts XX (that's 20) 

Post#902 » by Tim_Hardawayy » Mon Jul 21, 2025 1:19 am

You guys are overcomplicating the red pill/blue pill thing. Its purely ripped from the matrix, and its used to suggest being blue pilled is accepting surface level narratives and being red pilled is understanding the true nature of the world. From that point, different people depending on their political agenda label different things red pilled or blue pilled, but the general meaning is blue = comfortable lies, red = uncomfortable truths, period.
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Post#903 » by Tony15 » Mon Jul 21, 2025 3:42 am

^Yup. Really makes you wonder why becoming "red-pilled" is considered negative by some. Accepting reality (sometimes harsh) and learning to navigate it pays dividends for your life. Closing your eyes, and plugging your ears only hurts you.

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Post#904 » by HeatFanLifer » Mon Jul 21, 2025 4:47 am

Tim_Hardawayy wrote:You guys are overcomplicating the red pill/blue pill thing. Its purely ripped from the matrix, and its used to suggest being blue pilled is accepting surface level narratives and being red pilled is understanding the true nature of the world. From that point, different people depending on their political agenda label different things red pilled or blue pilled, but the general meaning is blue = comfortable lies, red = uncomfortable truths, period.


I aint misunderstanding the definition of red pill. I talked a fringe issue over with people here and let it go. I am a center of this red pill debate (unfortunately) and I am just saying there’s a level of complexity to the conversation that does not deserve anyones time. Believe me when I say, you are wasting your time discussing this. Nothing productive will occur. Talk about the Druze, Kurds, Alawites, and Christians in Syria being slaughtered daily. Pls.
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Post#905 » by HeatFanLifer » Tue Jul 22, 2025 4:54 am

Trump showing an AI video of Obama getting arrested is only going to trigger Michelle into running. Much the same way Barack triggered Trump into running.
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Post#906 » by Vertical Limit » Tue Jul 22, 2025 2:42 pm

HeatFanLifer wrote:Trump showing an AI video of Obama getting arrested is only going to trigger Michelle into running. Much the same way Barack triggered Trump into running.

I do not think Michelle will ever run. But i will say, im very disturbed by that video. I have never seen that or read that before from a US president.

A president that the majority of his agenda is to get revenge on his political enemies, that’s called Russia.

I dont think the democrats should focus on the presidency.

The first thing they need to do is get back to common sense.. drop the nonsense, dont get sucked into extreme left ****.. youre losing voters when you get sucked in there.. i dont care how much money they got to offer to your campaign.. go back to moderate left center…

If the Obama’s or democrats want to put an end to Trump, they need to campaign starting now for strong democratic candidates for the house and senate.. candidates that perhaps held a cabinet position..

Washington, NY, NJ and California are already talking about redrawing their maps.. but they need to get strong candidates in that people can get behind.
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Post#907 » by HeatFanLifer » Tue Jul 22, 2025 2:56 pm

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HeatFanLifer wrote:Trump showing an AI video of Obama getting arrested is only going to trigger Michelle into running. Much the same way Barack triggered Trump into running.

I do not think Michelle will ever run. But i will say, im very disturbed by that video. I have never seen that or read that before from a US president.

A president that the majority of his agenda is to get revenge on his political enemies, that’s called Russia.

I dont think the democrats should focus on the presidency.

The first thing they need to do is get back to common sense.. drop the nonsense, dont get sucked into extreme left ****.. youre losing voters when you get sucked in there.. i dont care how much money they got to offer to your campaign.. go back to moderate left center…

If the Obama’s or democrats want to put an end to Trump, they need to campaign starting now for strong democratic candidates for the house and senate.. candidates that perhaps held a cabinet position..

Washington, NY, NJ and California are already talking about redrawing their maps.. but they need to get strong candidates in that people can get behind.


Yeah I am not liking the socialist turn the left is taking, but the national socialist turn the right is taking is surprising too. The right just won an election “bigly” and there’s elements going “you know what we need to do now? Celebrate Hitler and implement his ideas again.” Trump is not one of those national socialists, but he is not doing enough to shift the Overton window back to more moderate positions.
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Post#908 » by Vertical Limit » Tue Jul 22, 2025 3:49 pm

One message the democrats need to be aware of as they enter their campaigns going to midterms, the majority of democrat voters do not care for LGBTQ or trans ****. Maybe Los Angelas/San Francisco care for them, but you can put them in the back of the line, they dont need a platform in your campaign. And you will still win california in a landslide..

They got a lot of things going for them for momentum and its only been 7 months.. businesses have suffered, some even going bankrupt due to with the tarrifs, due to losing their workforce/cheap labor because of deportations. They say oh but we can start picking apples and other vegetables, fruits using automation… yea that sounds great if your farm is del monte (just filed bakruptcy), goya, iberia, etc..

99% of farmers dont have millions of dollars to invest on giant robots to do the jobs.

There is a lot of anger 7 months in with epstein, with iran, with israel, about medicaid, about their retirement, about abortion.

Dont let the ball roll past you between your legs like Hillary did in 2016.. focus on real issues that people care about. You are getting the slowest pitch ever, you can kick this **** out of the **** park..
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Post#909 » by HeatFanLifer » Wed Jul 23, 2025 4:40 am

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Just watch the facial expressions of Tucker these last 5 seconds of the video. I don’t approve of the tweet above, but I hear/read things even if I don’t agree with it. These mannerisms are not well.
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Post#910 » by Shewasfly » Wed Jul 23, 2025 6:45 pm

https://www.threads.com/@lauraharlanmt/post/DMdTEMVSaWP

Trump now threatening Kimmel and Fallon next. Any media personality that expresses dislike for him and his administration will be met with these threats. But something something "this is fine, it doesn't mean anything when the executive powers in a country are relentlessly attacking free speech".

I'm sure some meandering, long winded defense of this is being written up as we speak.
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Post#911 » by Shewasfly » Wed Jul 23, 2025 6:47 pm

But let's not let any of that distract us from the Epstein files and the fact that Trump and the Republicans are preventing the release of them. Party of pedophiles and their protectors.
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Post#912 » by Vertical Limit » Wed Jul 23, 2025 7:22 pm

Shewasfly wrote:But let's not let any of that distract us from the Epstein files and the fact that Trump and the Republicans are preventing the release of them. Party of pedophiles and their protectors.

Oh Epstein is not over and Maga ran their campaign on that so we independents and the democratic voters want that delivered. Dont care whos in the files, they all need to be shamed and punished.

The sad part is, there is a lot of Trump voters who have come out and said we dont care if Trump is on the files, or if he touched little boys and girls, his work is bigger than that. :crazy: :noway:

Michael Johnson thinks by closing congress till september everyone will have forgotten about the files. By doing this, he will have 6 weeks to have private zoom meetings with his group of christian/Catholic group of house republicans and convince them all, with crosses hanging down their necks, to play ball about pedophilia from the elites that includes republicans, princes, democrats, and hollywood celebrities, and israel.

Epstein files is not going to “kill itself”, it’s here to stay until evidence that isnt redacted is public information.

by the way, to the cult… what has he done so far? He announces big numbers all the time, i have not seen a damn change anywhere in the country.. so, are the voters “winning” yet or is this winning been only for his friends.. he announced 16 trillion in investment today.. 16 trillion..
more than half of the United States GDP. If that number was real, which it isnt, we should be able to travel from Miami to NY and watch a heat game at MSG by just walking through a teleportation portal in biscayne blvd..
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Post#913 » by Shewasfly » Wed Jul 23, 2025 8:06 pm

Vertical Limit wrote:
Shewasfly wrote:But let's not let any of that distract us from the Epstein files and the fact that Trump and the Republicans are preventing the release of them. Party of pedophiles and their protectors.

Oh Epstein is not over and Maga ran their campaign on that so we independents and the democratic voters want that delivered. Dont care whos in the files, they all need to be shamed and punished.

The sad part is, there is a lot of Trump voters who have come out and said we dont care if Trump is on the files, or if he touched little boys and girls, his work is bigger than that. :crazy: :noway:

Michael Johnson thinks by closing congress till september everyone will have forgotten about the files. By doing this, he will have 6 weeks to have private zoom meetings with his group of christian/Catholic group of house republicans and convince them all, with crosses hanging down their necks, to play ball about pedophilia from the elites that includes republicans, princes, democrats, and hollywood celebrities, and israel.

Epstein files is not going to “kill itself”, it’s here to stay until evidence that isnt redacted is public information.


Idk. I wouldn't underestimate the ADHD of the American people. I've been fooled before, thinking "ok, THIS is definitely not something that we will stand for". And lo and behold, everyone just eventually moves on to the next headline.

But I will do my part and always divert these fools back to Trump, our current sitting president and his actions, when they try to distract to talking about Biden. Or Obama or Kamala. Or Hillary. Same with the Epstein files. No amount of ridiculous behavior, including that horrible AI video of a fake Obama arrest will "shock" me into letting it die. We're talking about a cabal of child abusers. CHILDREN!!! What type of monsters would gloss over that for political allegiances? These people are soulless.
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Post#914 » by Vertical Limit » Thu Jul 24, 2025 1:59 pm

House democrats successfully passed a motion to subpoena the full epstein files. Things are about to get ugly
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Post#915 » by Johnny Fontane » Thu Jul 24, 2025 2:14 pm

Vertical Limit wrote:House democrats successfully passed a motion to subpoena the full epstein files. Things are about to get ugly


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Post#916 » by Shewasfly » Thu Jul 24, 2025 3:05 pm

Johnny Fontane wrote:
Vertical Limit wrote:House democrats successfully passed a motion to subpoena the full epstein files. Things are about to get ugly


Good.

I fear that they have had enough time to alter and edit whatever was in them. After the backlash, I think it became clear to the admin they were going to eventually have to release SOMETHING.

There's already been lots of conspiracy theory videos online about how the surveillance from prison during Epstein's alleged suicide was clearly doctored.
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Post#917 » by Bishop45 » Thu Jul 24, 2025 3:22 pm

People hoping that something might come out of this Epstein stuff-- don't, there will always be a justification

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Post#918 » by HeatFanLifer » Thu Jul 24, 2025 3:49 pm

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Don’t agree with the post that Democrats are evil, but we have a major problem where children were brought to this country and are being exploited as we speak. The fact that 65k calls from children went unanswered has me in a rage. I can’t be this angry all the time, but holy f this makes my blood boil. This is from under-oath testimony.
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Post#919 » by Vertical Limit » Thu Jul 24, 2025 5:07 pm

If for whatever reason it shows that Trump has been banging little boys or girls, there will always be the option to resign and get a pardon from Vance.

Im sure Vance has privately been preparing for what may be his seat, sooner rather than 2028. He will not abandon maga though, and a pardon will be immediately done to be on the good side of maga, should that happen. After the pardon they can continue on with the “this is all a witch hunt” angle
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Post#920 » by HeatFanLifer » Thu Jul 24, 2025 5:30 pm

Vertical Limit wrote:If for whatever reason it shows that Trump has been banging little boys or girls, there will always be the option to resign and get a pardon from Vance.

Im sure Vance has privately been preparing for what may be his seat, sooner rather than 2028. He will not abandon maga though, and a pardon will be immediately done to be on the good side of maga, should that happen. After the pardon they can continue on with the “this is all a witch hunt” angle


Have you considered the possibility that Trump is one of the most vetted people in the world and if he was actually doing this sick **** it would have been exposed a long time ago? Why not bring it up in 2016? 2020? 2024? Why now when he has no election to win is this story being pushed?

I have heard a lot of speculation why all evidence regarding Epstein has not come out yet, but it’s only speculation. Pam Bondi needs to tell the American people what’s going on in a press conference. If Trump’s name is in some evidence, let’s see what the evidence is.
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