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You can Handcraft Babies? I thought that was masturbation.

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I mean, what's actually wrong with Etsy is that most of the listings now are just drop-shipped mass-produced crap masquerading as small businesses, and it's hard to find the actual small businesses making what you want to buy. But sure, please explain more about how among people with too much money, zero percent like pizza and 100% like hurting children and just pretend to like pizza. Those numbers seem wrong to me, but then I'm not an internet genius.

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Selling the kid on Etsy might seem like a viable option, once Idaho has forced you to give birth:

"Idaho Banned Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births."

https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-banned-abortion-support-pregnancies-families

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Dec 18, 2023·edited Dec 18, 2023

All you have to do is navigate to Great Awakening dot win and you will see that these kinds of beliefs aren't "out there" - THEY ARE THE BELIEFS OF THE GOP BASE. Oh, yeah - the QAnon Cretins ARE the GOP base, and don't you forget it.

If you still need convincing, search the QAnon Cretin site for all the times PAB has referenced them, promoted them, and outright messaged them. Is he one of them? I don't know but I do know this - PAB sees the QAnon Cretins as vitally important to his electoral success.

Why is that?

BECAUSE THEY ARE THE BASE OF THE GOP. Believe otherwise at your own peril.

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Serious question. Why does brain damage and/or mental illness turn people into Nazi conspiracy theorists, rather than making them Left-wing and woke? This is the same question as: why do people who hear voices never hear voices saying *nice* things?

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Brain damage/drug aftershocks tends to turn Lefties into believers in woo-woo magic crystal spirituality in my observation. Magic alien hybrid babies on the astral plane.

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I can say that it doesn't always, but that the poitical views one starts with, even if they are 'mild' ones, tend to be the ones that get exaggerated when the mental illness appears.

So those that are liberal and progressive also may have their beliefs exaggerated, but since those seem to be beliefs about decency, respect for all people no matter their ethnicity or gender, etc., they tend not ro be noticed as much. So when someone is going around saying ''I love you all so much'' or ''you are great people'' it is not seen as a threat, cause it generally is not.

I've seen a few of these people in my lifetime and I get that they have problems (and hope they have some help) but they are not hurting anybody.

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And of course, no True Believer would ever question the fact she has a grudge against Etsy as her possible motivation for this extraordinary revelation...

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Part of the requirement having a "conservative" brain, is hallucinating sex abuse everywhere.

Except in your own home of course.

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I see crazy-high priced stuff on ebay once in a while. A belt buckle for $17,000 or some such.

I used to assume it was a typo, or a big currency conversion mistake.

Now I know better: The item includes a sex-trafficked KID!

Makes total sense now. Thanks for clearing this up for me.

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Way back, when Amazon sold books, the occasional volume would skyrocket in price (often to six figures) when dueling bots got into a best-price battle. (A penny above the highest price was considered a good idea by some.)

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I remember back in the day, bootleg concerts used to be sold on eBay by advertising the jewel case, and saying you're throwing in a CD for free.

Maybe that's where these current idiots got their wacky idea from.

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I thought it was drugs. Man was I surprised when some kid came to the door.

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I read this crazy stuff and I think "How can people believe anything this

insane?"

Then I think about Sunday School and Catechism and the rest of that.

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Dec 17, 2023·edited Dec 17, 2023

the transubstantiation always baffles me. like its 202X and you believe that a matzo and grape juice turns into a piece of your god in your mouth and that that is a good thing to do..and I'm the crazy person for believing in scientific method?

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One weird trick to cannibalize your Lord and Savior.

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Anyway, why I really came here was to post this article about Tibetan Buddhists entering a momentary void of consciousness while hooked up to EEG spectral analysis.

I think it's interesting bc this more than anything else can answer the question of what consciousness is in a mechanical, objective sense. By seeing what happens when you turn it off, you better understand what it is.

https://neurosciencenews.com/consciousness-meditation-neuroscience-25376/

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Is PIZZA really recognized by govt law enforcement as a pedo code?

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"cheese pizza" was used for "child porn" on 4chan back in the days when it was a place you could away with that. The channers seem to think everybody is like that.

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Any Canadian lawyers or bankers about? I have a situation where a minor child under 16 fell for a Nigerian Prince scam. Kid’s parents are getting the runaround from one of the Big Four banks about reporting the fraud. The bank’s fraud claims line is claiming the minor child has to be the one claiming fraud, but everything online says minors cannot enter into a contract so the account holders are actually the parents anyway.(As Co-signers.) they’ve been to three different bank branches and heard three different conflicting versions of how to report this, but the fraud claims line is now claiming the minor child needs to report it and the parents cannot unless they have power of attorney? Which…the kid can’t sign any contract, the parents make their medical, educational, and legal decisions..so this is batshit, right? Like, the kid would make a statement but the parents are the decision makers for a non mature minor as long as they are the guardians? Halp! I haven’t gotten any help from Google because that just brings up articles on how to teach your kids to bank written by the banks themselves. None of us grown ups can figure this out. I mean, other than Canadian banks being generally part of the Evil Empire.(Just trust me on that one, Americans!)

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A minor child had an account (that he could send money from), without a parent's name as co-owner? Must be a Canadian thing.

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No there was a parent co-signed but the bank seems to be disregarding that and treating the kid like an adult no matter how many times they’ve been shown a birth certificate.

We don’t even understand how the BANK didn’t pick up the deposit as fake and flag it. A child on a youth account who’s never deposited more than $100 birthday money suddenly gets $1000 and no one at the bank questions this??

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Rich uncle, it's his birthday ... I wouldn't expect that to get flagged. Especially since it's a deposit.

The mystery to me is why the co-signing parent, who's a co-owner of the account, can't file the paperwork.

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Ah, that’s easy to answer. Because the bank’s fraud line KEPT HANGING UP. Three people visited three different bank branches and got three conflicting pieces of advice, and then two different people phoned four times apiece to report it and not ONE piece of advice matched. AND! AND! The bank hung up six of the 8 times. Not after providing advice either, just hung up, no warning.

In short, it’s like they all had zero clue what to do, and they panicked when they were called on it.

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Reddit has a Canadian legal advice sub you could ask. There are usually Canadians in the main legal advice sub too. If they can't help they can direct you to someone who can.

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Thanks for the advice! The family members finally gave up. I did get to Reddit at the Canadian financial advice subreddit and it was just people with similar miserable stories about Canadian banks sucking at helping people. The family decided not to pursue it. Not worth it. The subreddit’s consensus was that a person had better be prepared to spend 7-8 HOURS ON HOLD. And on eastern Canada time, and family is in the west, so basically get up at 5 am to be on hold ALL DAY. That far exceeded the value of lost funds versus the amount of wages lost to pursue it. Which…is the point for the bank. I don’t know if you’re Canuck or Yank or Other, but if you’re not Canuck, this right here, this is why Canadians hate Canadian banks and why when the US let Canadian banks in I said to Priince Albert “Are they insane?” Canadian banks learned to be evil centuries ago and the poor Yanks had no clue what they’d done to themselves.

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I've been busy this weekend and not following the ews much but what is up with John Fetterman lately? He says he's not a progressive and he wants to limit immigration? I wonder what his wife thinks about that.

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Immigration does need to be limited, though. But yeah, Dems need to hang together the way the Bad Guys do.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSH9ryRzHQ4

Santa Claus and his Old Lady

Goodnight everyone.

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There are children… in pizza boxes… they’re for sale… ETSY!

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