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applegrove's JournalBeing an adult, male or female means being responsible for those
in your life. I did not mean that they own the people they are responsible to. Just that they owe others care and understanding be it a family member, a co-worker, civil society. It is the opposite of nihilism which is where an incel type, or oligarch, or Proud Boy member, feels no responsibility to others or society.
Well more women vote Democratic. So yeah anything that keeps
millions of women from the polls is bad. But it is bad in its own right not just because many are would be Democratic votes. The Democrats haven't pushed for draconian election laws that, say, make it hard for uneducated white people in rural areas, otherwise known as uneducated rural people, from getting to the polls unless they get a ride in a car that they own. That would be millions of Americans. So no, Democrats would never do that. They are not the same as Republicans.
I never read Mein Kampf. I don't want to. But i found the
stabbed in the back, awful economy/situation people 'find' themselves in, the national decline myth, as a precursor to having their minds taken over, as salient considering the Republicans have been impoverishing the average American for 45 years. When you think of it 1) getting rid of grants for college bound millions of people to loans they could not pay off and 2) destroying any hope of affordable healthcare that will help people avoid bankruptcy are two obvious attacks on the middle class. And every time Democrats tried and fixed these issues, Republicans would undo the fix when they got back into power. There are many more issues the GOP has used to tank the middle class. It was obviously intentional on the part of the GOP. I did not know that it was all layed out in Mein Kampf and part of a process. My mind went 
"those bastards". I wanted to share that moment.
I don't like the idea of AI but thought it important to know how much Project 2025 borrowed from Mein Kampf.
This is a microcosm of Republican plans in Nova Scotia. Share with
all the Nova Scotians you know. This is to totally sinc up Canadian economies to the US one. Alberta already sells oil at rock bottom prices to the US. Sovergn wealth fund there about $45Billion. Norway's Sovergn Wealth fund is well over a trillion. Why? Because the negotiated proper deals with the oil companies and Alberta did not. Be forwarded that when healthcare is privatized and post secondary grants are destroyed so student debt balloons, Canada will be fully sincced with the US and will be easier to pick off. Does Premier Houston know this? Someone should tell him.
Hey Nova Scotia pocket friends, I just wrote a letter to my MLA! I hope you’re doing the same if you love our home. Why does Tim Houston hate Nova Scotia? Here are all the details of his disdain in one place.
— Terra 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸 (@macterra17.bsky.social) 2026-03-05T21:30:04.678Z
I know it is tiring cutting your losses again and again as an American,
but pretend you are John Krakauer and near the summit of Mt. Everest, and fight on another day to convince another non voter to vote.
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1816662-into-thin-air-a-personal-account-of-the-mt-everest-disaster
"When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath.… I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will. After each few metres this too fizzles out in unending tiredness. Then I think nothing. I let myself fall, just lie there. For an indefinite time I remain completely irresolute. Then I make a few steps again."
Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air
Is Trump trying to set a precedent for illegally starting
wars so he can go into Greenland? Canada? Uninterrupted? Which he knows Americans and Congress will not support?
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) pushed back on conservative CNBC host Joe Kernen for calling the Constitution's war powers provisions a "moot point" because President Donald Trump had already ordered attacks on Iran without the permission of Congress.
— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-03-03T19:00:14Z
I wonder if Trump sees this as good or bad? His people
do want "failing" Europe to get rid of immigrants who are of non white descent and that is often tied to the "failing European economies". So will he regret or care if there are supply shocks there or will he actually like it?
European gas prices have surged 50% after Qatar halted liquefied natural gas production following attacks in the Middle East.
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) 2026-03-02T18:23:42.974Z
m.economictimes.com/markets/comm...
U.S. Strikes Used Anthropic Despite Trump Ban
U.S. Strikes Used Anthropic Despite Trump Ban
March 2, 2026 at 11:50 am EST By Taegan Goddard 23 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2026/03/02/u-s-strikes-used-anthropic-despite-trump-ban/
“Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the help of those very same tools,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Commands around the world, including U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropic’s Claude AI tool.”
“The command uses the tool for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios even as tension between the company and Pentagon ratcheted up, the people said, highlighting how embedded the AI tools are in military operations.”
Applegrove: according to an AI expert on CBC Radio's As It Happens, Claude is by far the best AI tool out there for the military so when Trump does trash it and go with something else it will result it more deaths of US military and civilians on the ground. Even with using Anthropic's Claude AI, a girls' school got destroyed in Iran killing over a hundred young girls. I wonder if they are related?
Later:
Jesus. F*cking. Christ.
— Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) 2026-03-02T20:14:24.032Z
Applegrove: Question why were they using an old map? Did AI use it? Or was it human error?
Suspect in Texas bar shooting wore 'Property of Allah' clothing and Iranian flag emblem
Applegrove: it has started again. Obama beat ISIS back (and made a deal with the Saudis to stop funding religious extremism I think) and Trump undoes what was the increasing peace in regards to violent radical islam in the USA. In other news and Iranian boxing club in Toronto, owned by a Iranian dissident, was shot at 17 times. No injuries.
A gunman wearing clothes with an Iranian flag design and declaring “Property of Allah†killed two people and wounded 14 early Sunday at a Texas bar, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. https://to.pbs.org/40Bx06i
— PBS News (@pbsnews.org) 2026-03-02T00:29:01.080964313Z
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603016611
Well done Earl G. Way to put it together.
https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-bell-ca-rvc3&source=android-browser&q=cynical#ebo=0
Earl you are justly empathizing with the Trump regime. They are the cynical ones. Sometimes, quite often these days, you have to go there to the world they inhabit to understand them. It is not as if you can get a straight answer out of them. It is not as if ignoring the threat is an option.
cyn·i·cal
/ˈsinək(ə
l/
adjective
1.
believing that people are motivated purely by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity.
"he was brutally cynical and hardened to every sob story under the sun"
2.
concerned only with one's own interests and typically disregarding accepted or appropriate standards in order to achieve them.
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