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Robert Lawrence Gioia's avatar

Decisions are made by looking at the facts the pros and cons of the outcomes. Nowadays I find it very hard to get straight facts. Voting is the same way except you also have to predict. I still haven't seen one Democrat that is willing to say what they want to achieve except for the NYC mayor election. There is no doubt that election was driven by the younger generation. It's great to see the younger generation lead, because I still have trouble operating a cell phone, and find it hard to navigate to the truth whereas the young generation is tech superior can dig for truth and I'm through with TV.

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Kaija Reiss's avatar

I am rephrasing a Native American saying here to apply to USA DEMOCRACY NOW:

”We do not entirely inherit it from our ancestors, we borrow it from our CHILDREN”.

A little clumsy statement but when thinking about the future of the next generations it does make sense.

We need to listen to them. Like they did in NYC.

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Megan Cekic's avatar

The youth of today cannot tell what is real from fake, what is false or what is true. The youth of yesterdays had the national enquirer and we all knew that was fake news. No way there’s an alligator woman walking around. But kids of today never knew of the national enquirer as fake news for entertainment purposes only. They think everything they see read or hear is the truth. When it is not always the case. Usually it’s far from the truth. U can’t trust the children of today to make that decision as to what is the truth or not. They honestly don’t know. They’ve never been taught that there’s a difference. They don’t know that the media is just there for entertainment purposes only. Lies sell because they r made to be juicy. The truth is boring. Lies sell.

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Robert Lawrence Gioia's avatar

I was always told to believe nothing what you hear and half of what you see. With AI nowadays it's believe nothing at all.

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AJAX Lane's avatar

The youth??? Are you kidding? Its the middle aged people who can't be bothered to actually try and look up anything, believing in what they are told by politicans is the truth. They remain in an age where police,priests teachers, lawyers, politicians were thought to be 'honourable'. They aren't anymore. Or perhaps they never were, it was just those jobs came with kudos in the community so their motives and actions were never questioned. I think young people ate more clues than you think.

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Paige's avatar

Have you ever heard of teenage rebellion. Just look back at all the young people who went against the system in the Vietnam. That was all the young people who went against authority.

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Thomas Gilligan's avatar

“I used her, she used me, but neither one cared - We were gettin’ our share” from Bob Seger’s Night Moves (1976, Bicentennial Year). Indeed a most splendid era of fortune to those who avoided Nam, and now better than 85% if asset wealth are owned by those 65 and older here - so little reason to feed one’s head and rock the boat. Cheers.

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Anna Smyth's avatar

I have seen and heard several. They are all women. And Bernie. But here we are horizontal. And not in a good way. Hahahahahaha. 😜

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Paige's avatar

I love the humor you have. It definitely helps me to deal with this whole situation.

I agree we haven’t heard what any Democrat is going to do. I don’t understand why people don’t think young people are more capable of taking care of the problems we face in society now.

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Deb Vorp's avatar

Dude, they cheated. They always do, at least when they win.

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Anthony's avatar

Terrifying. And pathetic. Let this show you how cowardly the enemy is.

One man speaking truth, and how much power, money, violence, force and effort did they invest in silencing him?

They prove their guilt by the extreme response.

They prove their weakness by extraordinary overcompensation.

When we call the lie out and stop serving it collectively it loses power.

Not looking is complicity at this point. Great article, thank you.

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Emma Muhleman's avatar

“Not looking is complicity at this point” indeed. If you *see fraud* (or more nefarious workings) and don’t *say fraud*, then you are a fraud.

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Emma Muhleman's avatar

“Not looking

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Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

A member of my family was a suffragette! They did brutalize the woman for sure and certain! She quit Mary Washington College! Now it’s the University of Mary Washington ! Those fought for all of us women to have to the right to vote! I cherish that and hold it dear in my heart!

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Mary  McCabe's avatar

Are you responding to ? I don’t care what you think. I responded to someone’s nasty post to me in which among other things, she called me a bitch. At least research before you respond. The poster was actually the one who thought she was better. I came to Substack so I could speak out without getting attacked by maga trolls. I guess there is no place safe

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Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

Freedom of Speech always counts!

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Mary  McCabe's avatar

All I can say is misogyny and 🐷 Oink

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Milret2@gmail.com's avatar

Fights like these benefit only Rust. Arguments can be made with much less vitriol and may be much more worthy, in my opinion.

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

Wise

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

Sounds like you're angry at someone and wanted to burn the world today. Nothing personal, but will have to ban you if you just keep flaming.

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Mary  McCabe's avatar

Troll Hunter is BSM

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Mary  McCabe's avatar

What an incredible lack of taste class and originality you display in your desperate attempt to be different and advante garde, to seem like you stand out from the crowd?

Do you feel better now that you put another human being down and tried to degrade her. Did it make you feel big and better than me? You’re a small person but maybe being an asshole to me made you feel better. Enjoy

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Mary  McCabe's avatar

You have absolutely no idea what’s going on. Troll hunter? You are the troll. That poster your defending was a nasty and attacked me and Deb. You should find out what’s going on before you open your mouth.

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Mary  McCabe's avatar

You’re gone. And don’t ever treat me like I am maga. I am not and never will fit that bill. But you with your evil vile self could definitely be one of them. Apparently, I hit a nerve of truth.

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Mary  McCabe's avatar

Wow you have a real problem. You take your anger out on strangers. You call them nasty vile names . You need help, seriously.

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Deborah Adam's avatar

Your posts indicate to me that you believe you are superior to others.

Not a good look. Nobody knows everything despite what you may believe. Your criticism doesn’t override the truth and it shows. Maybe a more kind approach would be helpful.

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Mary  McCabe's avatar

Troll Hunter IS Blue Sky Maiden. Block it!

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Mary  McCabe's avatar

Nasty person. I looked at her posts. They are word salad’s

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

I will ban them, this isn't acceptable discussion. Sorry Mary

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Mary  McCabe's avatar

Thank you. I misunderstood

Deborah. So sorry about that part.

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Deborah Adam's avatar

Who’s a nasty person Mary?

You don’t know me and neither does the commentator above.

Three women, two of which like to criticize, the old 72 year old who’s more than capable of accomplishing anything a 50 yr old can do! But I don’t brag about it. Don’t read my posts.

Your maiden friend can’t take any criticism. What happened to a group of kind and caring women telling the truth while critically thinking?

Her first post was self indulgent.

If not, I would have never commented. Lesson learned.

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

I think she was talking about the person who agitated you. She is on your side.

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Mary  McCabe's avatar

There’s a misunderstanding. She is by no means my friend. She attacked me, I replied to her and thought that your reply was to me. If not I’m sorry for the misunderstanding

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Deborah Adam's avatar

Guess you went back and read my posts. I have never encountered anybody as rude, hateful and disrespectful as you.

I’m not crying. I’m fine.

You’re one of those people who thinks she knows everything.

I get it. Whatever gets you through the night.

My comment wasn’t to your liking? Sad. Maybe next time don’t shoot your mouth off!

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

I will ban them, this isn't acceptable discussion. Sorry Deb

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Christina Gurchinoff's avatar

Hope Jordie has eyes in back of his head! He keeps his ears open. That’s clear. I imagine he has a lot of people worrying about him. The good news is he’s good at what he does, it’s a skill any of the villains might be able to use at some point so he’s worth more alive than dead. Plus he’s got a lot of eyes on him. Good ones and bad ones. Could be in a lot worse conundrum. Pretty smart dude. Played his cards right.

Good story, Ethan.

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Nancy's avatar

Time is running out fast and every day brings more horror and control. United WE Stand. Millions of us banded together is a force they can not defeat

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Marc Miller's avatar

Who does your graphics? Eye catching for sure.

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

Thanks — I build all the graphics myself.

It’s a weird hybrid process: I feed a large language model extremely specific visual instructions that match the tone of each piece — color palettes, thematic anchors, architectural motifs, anime-coded elements, emotional cues, even the “physics” of the scene.

Then I use those outputs as precision prompts inside CGDreamAI, following a kind of iterative pipeline I’ve built over time.

The LLM helps me generate the conceptual blueprint, and CGDreamAI does the rendering.

Most of what makes the images pop is the way I structure the input —

I’m basically teaching the model my visual vocabulary so each header and thumbnail feels like part of the same narrative universe.

Kind of like storyboarding a world, one article at a time.

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Marc Miller's avatar

It shows a coherent theme. Well done.

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Adrienne  Frost's avatar

There is an underlying thread of “handling” any dissent from a citizen who brings up uncomfortable facts. It’s discouraged, shadow banned, repressed and if that doesn’t work money is employed to litigate and annihilate the inconvenient truth. The truer the statement the uglier the campaign is to discredit, dismiss or erase a truth sayer. It’s legacy systemic retribution to what used to be investigative journalism. The media is being gobbled up by billionaires who shape the narrative that is “how” they wish to frame any and all information. The truth has no place in this new world. Factions are moved on social media platforms to keep everyone talking about exactly what the powerful want us talking about. Meanwhile the truth gets spun to serve as outrage to benefit whomever or whatever is moving the agenda forward. We get glimpses of the real agenda here and there in the crumbs of truth that slip through the censoring and the bullying and the lies and propaganda but it’s like trying to put a puzzle together without actually understanding what the whole picture actually is right? It’s maddening and yet there are still human beings who refuse to bow down. There are still people on the front lines digging their heels in and grinding away to make sure that the facts are known. The fourth estate is infiltrated and they know it, it’s up to each of us to support and defend independent journalism because it’s all we have left. Soon when AI takes control of each and every aspect of information and public opinion is “group think” we will have to disconnect from the internet, discard our phones and and air gap our networks to truly protect truth. It’s more insidious than any dystopian novel and it’s right on the verge of becoming.

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Richard Bertoldo's avatar

I never thought I would read an article on Substack so close to home. The former Mayor of Queanbeyan NSW should be in jail. His Deputy Mayor along with him.

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

I spend a lot of time consuming independent media on YouTube my entire life. FriendlyJordies has been on my radar for years.

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Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

Thank you for the article! The press has all the gears. Funny they use to be the mechanism to the world!

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AJAX Lane's avatar

So Kangaroo Court, write about Jordan's connection to Rudd, because Rudd had taken some heat over money going into a foundation he was part of,from Epstein. Was Shanks trying to protect himself by giving cover to Rudd, because Barilaro was under Morrison. Shanks also was exposing Duttons dealings with underworld crooks too. Last I heard Shanks was trying to sue Kangaroo Court. I don't thinks he's whiter than the driven snow either.

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Ethan Faulkner's avatar

I get why people bring up these personality webs — it’s the only layer most of us are allowed to see.

But The Three Arms of the Ghost isn’t about whether Shanks, Rudd, Barilaro, or Dutton covered for each other.

That’s the surface-level drama the system uses to keep people chasing individuals instead of noticing the machinery behind them.

In my model:

• The Political Arm explains why factions protect their own, even sloppily.

• The Financial Arm explains why foundations, donors, and “charity networks” get muddy.

• The Intelligence Arm explains why information warfare and selective leaks look coordinated even when they’re just each arm protecting its own interests.

Your example might reflect some of that — or it might just be noise created by overlapping incentives.

But the key point of the schematic is this:

Epstein-type networks don’t survive because Person X protects Person Y.

They survive because the structure has multiple fail-safes that activate automatically, regardless of who’s involved.

That’s why my work focuses on the system, not the personalities.

Once you understand the architecture, the individual actors make a lot more sense — and a lot less mystery.

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AJAX Lane's avatar

Does this include people like the Greens and Independents such as Pocock and Haines, or another way to exclude them??? We should've had a minority gov in Aus. But the ALNP joined with Advance Australia to smear the Greens, or are they part of the system, which means they pretend to be left ?

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FDD's avatar

There is no peace without justice and no justice without truth. 💔

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Tom C's avatar

In Donald Trump's America, it is punishment by process. A corrupt DoJ obtains fraudulent indictments, ham sandwiches nailed to the wall, forcing the indicted to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on attorneys, until the courts -- so far -- toss the indictments.

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Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

Angus King was Governor of Maine defeating! Susan Collins! The discourse that happened where some lady threatened her family with an envelope of a so called drug! It happened twice! This very wrong, I condemn any kind of threat to anyone in government including Representative Jefferies! Freak show in the Whitehouse! Hope it will end when the people of this country vote like they did this past November! Something inside of me says it will go to the democrats big time! Just a gut feeling so to speak! Goodnight

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Steven Work's avatar

Here is a write-up of the corp-gov coordinated gutting of the single-income politically powerful middle class and the strangulation of a nation and the sterilization of a population;

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"Multiverse Journal - Index Number 2223:, 14th July 2025, State's Organized Planned Disempowerment of the American Citizen" https://stevenwork.substack.com/p/multiverse-journal-index-number-2223

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Anna Smyth's avatar

Thank you.

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Linda Roberta Hibbs's avatar

Definitely like this! Several women were calling! I heard one of these calls! Speaker Johnson lied his face off! Shame on him! Her children had bad illnesses! Life threatening ones and her husband a soldier was off guarding the streets somewhere in America! It hurts me deeply inside when it comes to children!

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Jason's avatar

The State’s arm doesn’t need to win. It only needs to make you bleed time and money until the truth forgets it was ever alive.

🎯

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