Posts by susansiens@spinster.xyz
(DIR) Post #AaXYSc01lBCoaFIgWu by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-07T21:54:39.808325Z
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@Flick @Morghur This is what the Amish face with their uncontrolled breeding. And why they have to spread all over the countryside.
(DIR) Post #AaXbExuVnYECLcuAWO by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-07T18:55:03.713639Z
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@Sherri_Ingrey @Rogue_Koala And this begins in the home! Maybe a child doesn't want to hug her grandfather -- she has a good reason, he creeps her out at best and god knows what's worst -- and she's told to ignore her feelings and hug him anyhow. I had a massage therapist who hoorahed Ronald Reagan when she was a teenager (!) and then she told me about her grandfather who gave his daughters "massages" every evening before bed (my mother would never have permitted such a thing). No wonder she found a creepy grandfather-type appealing.
(DIR) Post #AaXd7ADkLS6Y7RJFfU by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-07T21:56:08.644224Z
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@FemaleIsNotAFeeling Well, your country murdered their democratically elected leader in 1953 and proceeded to install the Shah, considered at the time the biggest torturer in the world. Things might have gone a little differently if Americans weren't so damn ignorant of what their government is up to.
(DIR) Post #AaXd7BrqDrlrE54mno by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-07T22:03:25.774351Z
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@FemaleIsNotAFeeling Well, I would suggest you think about the countries we are currently pursuing "regime change" in. Why the fuck should Iran be grateful? Support the women's movement in Iran and let Iranians fix their own country. I'm sure the U.S. did not give Iran $6 billion out of the goodness of their rotten hearts.
(DIR) Post #AaXecjTxOSvMPaVboe by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-07T22:01:33.177533Z
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@Cousin_Isobel Good question. Librarians have now become expert at BAIT & SWITCH. Parents and others do not want children exposed to porn, so tell the public that the books they want banned are The Diary of Anne Frank, etc.I wish I could respect librarians, but my experience of them in recent years is that they left their brains in a Sandra Brown novel. Someone on TV was proudly referring to Maine's "public libraries," and I thought, "What public libraries? There is one library, 40+ miles away, in Bangor. All others charge money to get a card, and the privately owned lesbian library in my town flies a pride progress flag."
(DIR) Post #AaZLuEb1FlPPKAd6si by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-08T18:50:11.574838Z
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@Flick @Morghur Their farming practices are better than the USDA practices, but I also know that our local Amish engage in sharp practices so I don't fully trust them. They don't need updates, they need an entire social upheaval. What a miserable life for women and often for children as well.
(DIR) Post #AaZQijNRU45H5Nc5dQ by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-08T19:37:19.598687Z
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AXYCHXPSI4&t=2s
(DIR) Post #AaZXCgrZzioThYNY0m by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-08T19:22:45.014369Z
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@Rogue_Koala @TheWitchBitch So you put the bulbs in the pots outdoors? Do you bury the pots? And what about "pulling them up"? Do you save the bulbs for replanting?
(DIR) Post #AaZY7jvRHWWXhmO4aO by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-08T21:14:28.438544Z
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@LuvGreenTea2019 @AnungIkwe Because as Miranda Yardley says, they are fascists though the term blackshirts comes to mind.Damn that covid shit! No one should be permitted in public with their face covered.
(DIR) Post #AaZYVvqKcjiDcJXAsS by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-08T21:15:23.115693Z
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@ninapaley @Piss_Ant Check out Aldi. Is it made with palm oil?
(DIR) Post #AaZZ0MxKNpWyOSJuGO by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-08T21:10:30.088177Z
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@Rogue_Koala @TheWitchBitch Thanks for all this info! I have to assume you live someplace where it's warmer than here (Zone 4). I plant my tulips though I'm familiar with people taking them up every year, treating them as annuals as you say. So far mine keep coming back; this year I'll put some bulb fertilizer on the little bed they live in.Could I follow your instructions in this "cold" climate? leaving the pots sitting above the ground? I mulch my gardens heavily and the tree leaves conveniently cover most of my dooryard garden except for the creeping thyme. (Dooryard is New England for driveway; both of the house's doors face the dooryard.)
(DIR) Post #AaZZ9cOQMGfisQP8YC by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-08T21:13:28.656015Z
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@stingray Check out the Upton Tea catalogue. I've loved all the teas I've bought from them, including the free samples, none of which could be mistaken for Lipton.
(DIR) Post #AadSHrVe7K7b1tbdMe by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-10T18:28:36.901897Z
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@Flick @Rogue_Koala @TheWitchBitch I wondered about what you suggested, and it would be fun to try. Maine is essentially a swamp if you look at a map, so I would have to say wet cold even though we can have super-dry weather in the winter (you know, a blue blue sky and howling winds coming from the Arctic).The tulips I have in the ground seem to go on and on, but some people around here do treat them as annuals, planting them in the spring and digging them up in the autumn.
(DIR) Post #AadaIGgRJsuUjsMKbg by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-10T18:40:29.301907Z
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@HebrideanHecate @Rogue_Koala C'mon, don't fall for the same crap the Americans said about the Germans, the Germans said about the British, etc, etc. Remember Kuwait? How the Iraqi soldiers were turning off life support to babies in the ICU? Not true, unsurprisingly. The Israelis will say and do ANYTHING. The only Israelis I sympathize with are the resisters who go through bloody hell and dissidents.
(DIR) Post #Aadj7UT4d1dttP2jA0 by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-10T21:09:43.883814Z
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@Rogue_Koala @HebrideanHecate What do you think people do who are desperate? When they live in what is termed "the world's largest open-air prison"? When the Israelis regularly shut off water, power, access to food, and bulldoze their homes for more of their stinking fundamentalist settlers? They become what Westerners such as yourself like to call terrorists. Did you object when Israelis were seen cheering using Palestinian children for target practice? The Israelis have been targeting civilians forever, killing 750,000 Palestinians between '47 and '49. Do you object when your country bombs civilians? No, that's okay? How about when your troops murder Afghan civilians? No, that's okay?I have no respect for people who eat up all the garbage the BBC and the Guardian can spew, then wonder why people buy into transgenderism. Quote from Consortium News reader:"The propaganda on the bbc is breathtaking. As usual pictures of women & kids are being used for emotional reasons. That’s fair enough but I never see this when the IDF deliberately shoot kids or bomb innocent civilians."I feel the same way about Israel sympathizers as I do Ukraine sympathizers. Why in hell aren't you there fighting the good fight?
(DIR) Post #AadljviBz6kRIgZVQm by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-10T21:36:50.003981Z
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@LadyMont @HebrideanHecate As a Christian I met years ago queried, Why do people ask why a Muslim young man wants to strap a bomb to his body? I never hear them ask why a Christian or Jewish young man gets into a jet to bomb civilians. THEIR culture of violence? What about YOUR and MY cultures of violence? Who tried to kill off all indigenous peoples wherever they went? Who transported Africans across the ocean to slavery? Who killed 9 million people in death camps? Who has engaged in continuous war since WWII? Who bombed Korea back to the stone age? Oh, it was the Muslims that did it, not CHRISTIANS.
(DIR) Post #AadmjBNcLSzlYi9hei by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-10T18:47:44.120516Z
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@polarisera @Sherri_Ingrey Can you explain this to me? Vultures are wonderful creatures who clean up the dead bodies of this world. I've been lucky enough to see turkey vultures here in Maine. They look like large black chickens with bald heads! (Their heads are bald so they don't get feathers contaminated by eating carrion.)
(DIR) Post #Aadnitqzbhpp9lKBcm by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-10T21:32:15.712759Z
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Remember when watching this man that he has been cancelled (but it's okay if it's someone saying something YOU don't like):https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=103&v=G12Z0td-Nqo&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fjimmydore.com%2F&source_ve_path=MzY4NDIsMjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo
(DIR) Post #AadnsrK3sAhKCafc5w by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-10T21:27:17.535718Z
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And here's a quote from the Chris Hedges's article I posted:"How can you trap 2.3 million people in Gaza, half of whom are unemployed, in one of the most densely populated spots on the planet for 16 years, reduce the lives of its residents, half of whom are children, to a subsistence level, deprive them of basic medical supplies, food, water and electricity, use attack aircraft, artillery, mechanized units, missiles, naval guns and infantry units to randomly slaughter unarmed civilians and not expect a violent response?"He continues: "I was a close friend of Alina Margolis-Edelman who was part of the armed resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in World War II. Her husband, Marek Edelman, was the deputy commander of the uprising and the only leader to survive the war."The Nazis had sealed 400,000 Polish Jews inside the Warsaw Ghetto. The trapped Jews died in the thousands, from starvation, disease and indiscriminate violence. When the Nazis began to transport the remaining Jews to the extermination camps the resistance fighters fought back. None expected to survive."Edelman, after the war, condemned Zionism as a racist ideology used to justify the theft of Palestinian land. He sided with the Palestinians, supported their armed resistance and met frequently with Palestinians leaders. He thundered against Israel’s appropriation of the Holocaust to justify its repression of the Palestinian people."While Israel dined out on the mythology of the ghetto uprising, it treated the only surviving leader of the uprising, who refused to leave Poland, as a pariah. Edelman understood that the lesson of the Holocaust and the ghetto uprising was not that Jews are morally superior or eternal victims. History, Edelman said, belongs to everyone. The oppressed, including the Palestinians, had a right to fight for equality, dignity and liberty." 'To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors,' Edelman said."
(DIR) Post #Aado4puCy0UlHZHxS4 by susansiens@spinster.xyz
2023-10-10T21:18:35.947142Z
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@HebrideanHecate @AnungIkwe And what do you think the Israelis would do to you? You do realize women are second-class citizens there, right? That it's a theocracy in which rabbis run the family courts? That women have to give up their seats on public transport to men? That men can divorce their wives anytime they want but a woman has to get a rabbi's permission?All I can figure with all this sympathy with Israelis is that you Westerners see them as fellow Westerners, so they're okay no matter what they do. No, they're religious fanatics with crazy fundamentalist settlers regularly attacking Palestinians and having absolutely gargantuan families. Stop believing crap PR! That's what I discovered the Jewish mob does here in the States, they make sure the media never mentions their existence though they have played a profound part in supporting Israel and corrupting that society and the American one as well.