All of your points are valid and need to be shared. This is one place I love to be apart of to hear new ideas.
I would just like to point out one very small point that I learned a long time ago. When you are dealing with that one person who is making your day seem so horrible I want you to think about this! You don’t know what happened earlier in their day that has made them seem so mean to you. If we just take the time to think about this you cannot only turn their day around, but your day too. This has worked for me. Instead of creating division I have then created an ally. One small step forward can change the world. You can change the world. Instead of being divided we come together and this gets passed onto the next person and the next. Try not to sweat the small stuff that we. Like your car breaking down you have already created an ally who will help you just because you have been kind to them when their day was horrible or seemed too much to handle. It’s a small start, but it creates the biggest change.
My personal experience is when I was working for a bank. Some customers were just awful so I thought. They were just having a bad day, or something happened just before they came to see me. Well yes they were upset or even screaming at me. It really wasn’t me that they were upset with. I just asked them what happened earlier that made them so upset and it wasn’t me that they were angry with. I listened to what happened and they started to apologize. I said no need to apologize to me, because I didn’t do anything but listen. That’s how I gained allies. Every single time I saw them afterwards they would smile so big and ask me about my day and I’d do the same. When I decided to go back to college and leave the bank they threw me a party. I certainly didn’t expect anything from them and they had become part of my family. So why not start small and end up standing together.
Thank you for reading my words. Have an amazing day today and tomorrow and the next day too.
When we realize we don’t get to choose how others act or what they say or think and that’s a relief! We don’t need to do all that. I’m in charge of me. That’s it. - life gets easier.
Some days are hard and sometimes it just gets to all of us. Of course it’s our job to take charge of what we do. Lending an ear can just make the day so much better. Kinda of a course correct reminder. It really can’t hurt you or me.
For instance you wake up late, your shower doesn’t work, your car won’t start, you miss the bus that you were going to take instead. That’s all before you have even got to work finally. It’s probably better to have stayed in bed, but you have to pay your bills. Now would you be grouchy?! Dam I sure would be and not meaning to take it out on someone else, but hey I’m human. Then instead of the person who I see next asks about my day and what happened that disarms me and wow someone really cares about me. Then I feel better (well a bit bad about my behavior) and I then spread that same kindness the person showed me. That’s how we make connections instead of just more people being divided. A very small step, but it tells the person that you care about them.
All of us on here are going to agree about everything. The one thing we do here is speak with intention to each other. If you were having a horrible day I doubt you would be here right now. At least I hope we are thinking about what we say and don’t have bad intentions. If I’m wrong for assuming this please let me know. I’m happy to discuss anything with you or anyone else.
I’m sorry I just can’t go into mental health. The doctors given out pills like candy and I’ve been injured by them. I’ve seen so many other people who have been injured or dead from the handing out drugs. I’ve been to the looney bin in and out for most of my 40’s I’m not going to lose any more of my life for Psychiatrist who think they know my body better than I d. If they had asked me one simple question about the last medication I was given I wouldn’t have lost so many years of my life. I’ve seen way too many people lose time or even death to psychiatrists. One friend had a brain tumor which he beat twice before. You would think that they would look into the entire medical history and files but they don’t.
As far as video content, I don't have suggestions, just my observations to the only things I've found and seen that work on a low production budget:
(1) Selfie talking videos with a catchy first 3 seconds, by which I mean first 5 words matter most. In the words of the nomenclature here, system loves the operators and characters inside the system and it has trained the people to attach to personalities as well.
Just as a prominent examples right now:
NAZI = Nick Fuentes (forget that he's also a Newsome and Stalin fan, it doesn't matter).
Russia = Putin (forget the people of various ethnicities, forget the oligarch, forget the church, definitely forget the conscript soldiers).
MAGA = Trump.
MAGA Opposition = Newsome or AOC or Sanders or Pritzker --- anyone that can alternatively be built up, nicknamed, pilloried, discredited through scandal, or... swapped out as the system figurehead in the future, etc.
American society has equated principles and concepts (whether good or bad) with their most identifiable personalities divorced of any objective meaning of the underlying thought.
(2) emotionally triggering video content, mostly repackaged from other sources. I haven't explored using this hardly at all, but I have included some examples of politicians or personalities saying things that are poignant examples of what I'd call glitches or freudian slips in the narrative.
These are effective for messaging, but not for longevity and survivability. i.e., destroy or sideline the personality, you destroy the channel, messenger, and waste the audience.
(3) My attempt an alternative: I created @resistancerabbit to be a symbol that could be apart from me, but combined production issues and algorithm effectiveness I've dropped it. I still think a harmless looking, lovable creature that's deceptively dangerous is ONE way to go though.
(4) Idea from the system's playbook: As the X/Twitter reveal showed and the Chorus expose and Israeli FARA registrations showed, and Truth Social itself -- the online political universe is far from organic. I don't like the idea of command and control messaging, but thematics and language are important, and a running collection of independent minds and social content operators sharing a language and tracking weak points and inflection moments to hit could be useful.
That way, it's not about a Commonsense Rebel channel, it's about a Rebel army. Rogers Rules of Ranging and the tactics of Mosby's Rangers are still relevant today without the gunpowder, lead, and swords.
All of your points are valid and need to be shared. This is one place I love to be apart of to hear new ideas.
I would just like to point out one very small point that I learned a long time ago. When you are dealing with that one person who is making your day seem so horrible I want you to think about this! You don’t know what happened earlier in their day that has made them seem so mean to you. If we just take the time to think about this you cannot only turn their day around, but your day too. This has worked for me. Instead of creating division I have then created an ally. One small step forward can change the world. You can change the world. Instead of being divided we come together and this gets passed onto the next person and the next. Try not to sweat the small stuff that we. Like your car breaking down you have already created an ally who will help you just because you have been kind to them when their day was horrible or seemed too much to handle. It’s a small start, but it creates the biggest change.
My personal experience is when I was working for a bank. Some customers were just awful so I thought. They were just having a bad day, or something happened just before they came to see me. Well yes they were upset or even screaming at me. It really wasn’t me that they were upset with. I just asked them what happened earlier that made them so upset and it wasn’t me that they were angry with. I listened to what happened and they started to apologize. I said no need to apologize to me, because I didn’t do anything but listen. That’s how I gained allies. Every single time I saw them afterwards they would smile so big and ask me about my day and I’d do the same. When I decided to go back to college and leave the bank they threw me a party. I certainly didn’t expect anything from them and they had become part of my family. So why not start small and end up standing together.
Thank you for reading my words. Have an amazing day today and tomorrow and the next day too.
When we realize we don’t get to choose how others act or what they say or think and that’s a relief! We don’t need to do all that. I’m in charge of me. That’s it. - life gets easier.
Some days are hard and sometimes it just gets to all of us. Of course it’s our job to take charge of what we do. Lending an ear can just make the day so much better. Kinda of a course correct reminder. It really can’t hurt you or me.
For instance you wake up late, your shower doesn’t work, your car won’t start, you miss the bus that you were going to take instead. That’s all before you have even got to work finally. It’s probably better to have stayed in bed, but you have to pay your bills. Now would you be grouchy?! Dam I sure would be and not meaning to take it out on someone else, but hey I’m human. Then instead of the person who I see next asks about my day and what happened that disarms me and wow someone really cares about me. Then I feel better (well a bit bad about my behavior) and I then spread that same kindness the person showed me. That’s how we make connections instead of just more people being divided. A very small step, but it tells the person that you care about them.
All of us on here are going to agree about everything. The one thing we do here is speak with intention to each other. If you were having a horrible day I doubt you would be here right now. At least I hope we are thinking about what we say and don’t have bad intentions. If I’m wrong for assuming this please let me know. I’m happy to discuss anything with you or anyone else.
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I’m sorry I just can’t go into mental health. The doctors given out pills like candy and I’ve been injured by them. I’ve seen so many other people who have been injured or dead from the handing out drugs. I’ve been to the looney bin in and out for most of my 40’s I’m not going to lose any more of my life for Psychiatrist who think they know my body better than I d. If they had asked me one simple question about the last medication I was given I wouldn’t have lost so many years of my life. I’ve seen way too many people lose time or even death to psychiatrists. One friend had a brain tumor which he beat twice before. You would think that they would look into the entire medical history and files but they don’t.
Today was a good day. Thankful to have one of those now and then.
Omg landlords…Working on it.
Thanks for all your encouragement with details. Much appreciated.
Ready to ditch the shame and get real about recovery, mental health, and all the messy in-between?
No sugarcoating. No perfection. Just the truth—plus a few dark jokes and a lot of hope.
Subscribe to “Progress is Progress” on Substack for gritty stories, hard-earned wisdom, and a community that actually gets it.
It’s free, it’s real, and it’s for anyone who’s tired of pretending.
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As far as video content, I don't have suggestions, just my observations to the only things I've found and seen that work on a low production budget:
(1) Selfie talking videos with a catchy first 3 seconds, by which I mean first 5 words matter most. In the words of the nomenclature here, system loves the operators and characters inside the system and it has trained the people to attach to personalities as well.
Just as a prominent examples right now:
NAZI = Nick Fuentes (forget that he's also a Newsome and Stalin fan, it doesn't matter).
Russia = Putin (forget the people of various ethnicities, forget the oligarch, forget the church, definitely forget the conscript soldiers).
MAGA = Trump.
MAGA Opposition = Newsome or AOC or Sanders or Pritzker --- anyone that can alternatively be built up, nicknamed, pilloried, discredited through scandal, or... swapped out as the system figurehead in the future, etc.
American society has equated principles and concepts (whether good or bad) with their most identifiable personalities divorced of any objective meaning of the underlying thought.
(2) emotionally triggering video content, mostly repackaged from other sources. I haven't explored using this hardly at all, but I have included some examples of politicians or personalities saying things that are poignant examples of what I'd call glitches or freudian slips in the narrative.
These are effective for messaging, but not for longevity and survivability. i.e., destroy or sideline the personality, you destroy the channel, messenger, and waste the audience.
(3) My attempt an alternative: I created @resistancerabbit to be a symbol that could be apart from me, but combined production issues and algorithm effectiveness I've dropped it. I still think a harmless looking, lovable creature that's deceptively dangerous is ONE way to go though.
(4) Idea from the system's playbook: As the X/Twitter reveal showed and the Chorus expose and Israeli FARA registrations showed, and Truth Social itself -- the online political universe is far from organic. I don't like the idea of command and control messaging, but thematics and language are important, and a running collection of independent minds and social content operators sharing a language and tracking weak points and inflection moments to hit could be useful.
That way, it's not about a Commonsense Rebel channel, it's about a Rebel army. Rogers Rules of Ranging and the tactics of Mosby's Rangers are still relevant today without the gunpowder, lead, and swords.
You just described the blueprint for the Phalanx. We aren't building a channel; we're building the Rangers. Let's write the Rules of Ranging together.