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Yes, been contributing for over a decade now.

Progressives erased our history on purpose. Ergo, by unerasing it we do ourselves a huge favor.

I can go big, or I can go home.

If you would like to team up on this let me know, I’ll send you a message. Thanks!

I normally put my own solo audiobooks in the General forum, but our FRiend rlmorel put in a great deal of work to complete this. Hopefully this can be considered a proper use of one of the “activism” or “announcements” sidebars. This was no small task and it was completed furiously fast for its size.

My comments:

https://progressingamerica.blogspot.com/2022/09/new-audiobook-release-history-of-fabian.html

I don’t understand how they are using the word “now”.

Is this author 20 years old?

Do they promise to repeal Obamacare?

"Following the basic rule that all legislation is named the opposite of its actual result, I bet that the real effect of this is to make Linux and other open source software too expensive to use and thus come back to Windows."

That was my thought as well.

Microsoft and Apple are both hardcore woke companies, as well as Adobe, Google, and many others. It benefits left wing government to keep people paying money into these - what are essentially - laundering machines for left wing corporate goals. It is in the left's best interests to keep these companies funded.

I spent some time trying to convince most of the conservatives within my reach that switching was a benefit for us.

Of course, nobody listened. Well, now, here's the legislation to lock us out.

We simply don't have a lot of activists in our midst. Nobody was going to switch, and it doesn't matter how woke these companies are. Apple could've come out plain as day and said "kill whitey" and nobody was going to move.

Woke was not motivating enough, in and of itself.

https://www.conservapedia.com/Stuart_Chase

This is actually a really old false narrative, but its not true as it's resting on extremely tenuous bits of information. The Empire and later British historians have been trying to claim that they invented transatlantic abolitionism for over two centuries, but even Benjamin Franklin had to nicely swat down the claim. (source: Papers of Frankl.) The legend goes that Granville Sharp is the first in line for abolitionism and Wilberforce and Clarkson pick it up from there. Then, eventually, America. Sharp is a great read, he did great things, he was a great man, but he got a lot of his ideas from the colonies and he openly wrote that. The timeline matters.

It gets me in a lot of trouble when I say it, but the facts are in. By not letting the colonies pass the laws that they wanted, the Empire forced slavery on the United States. I don't care who it offends, I'll say it every time. The Empire forced slavery on the United States. They should not have negatived those colonial laws and they do deserve criticism for it.

Dunmore's, Philipsburg, and also the Somersett case have all achieved legendary status based purely on revisionist history. Franklin, (again) ironically enough, also swats down the perch that Somersett is usually placed on.(Source: Papers of Frankl.)

The colonies had abolitionism first. That's wholly American. Our obstructed laws and the timeline also prove it.

Abolitionism, We did that before Britain. Americans were on the right side. America is the shining city on the hill. Always will be. America deserves the credit. And the documentation proves it.

The revisionism that exists right here, we're looking right at it. This right here is a big part of how the racial narrative that fuels the progressives and their despicable 1619 Project can easily be de-railed. They want the world to think that there was no abolitionism in the 13 colonies/United States until the U.S. followed Britain's lead in the 1830s. Bovine excrement.

America had abolitionism first and the 1619ists can go stuff it. It is a malfunction to give the Empire credit for what the Colonists/Americans were doing. If that makes me an apologist for the U.S.A. Good.

Because of the Empire's actions, white America and Black America actually have common cause, but because progressives control history they've erased it all and the progressives have weaponized that erasure to tear us apart.

"Never even play the game."

I think this is cowardly. Why surrender, especially since this is a topic we can win?

The only challenge we have is we need to pit the reparationist forces against each other. Knowing that the math points to England and not the U.S. is the key to creating an internecene fight between them.

“England already paid reparations.”

I agree.

It is true that they ran the show for centuries in the 1600s/1700s, but fast forward to 1808 and they’re using their entire navy to get rid of it.

Navies aren’t cheap. Britain is paid in full.

Please do not propagandize me and insert words I did not agree to.

Repealing section 230 will not lead to a shutdown of Free Republic. There is a lot of fearmongering out there and most of it was put out there by the likes of Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Heck, Zuckerberg even went to congress and begged for an increase in regulations.

Had Zuckerberg gotten his way and received an increase of regulations - THAT is what would've shut down Free Republic.

“There were hundreds upon hundreds of posts on FR extolling the virtues of repealing Section 230.”

Two years ago, I supported repealing Section 230. (people can check my posting history if it suits them.)

I still support repealing Section 230. I will always support repealing Section 230.

Section 230 is the real problem. Facebook(Twitter, etc) is just a symptom. We should fight colds, not coughs.

It isn’t easy to identify, because it’s been being done since the progressive era in 1900.

The very existence of the IRS(among others) is a testament to it all.

Media bias is worth +30 points by itself. She can afford to lose 10. She’s still +20.

"I’m afraid we’re going to have to fight our way out of this mess."

Most of our guys don't want to be involved in the fight though, sadly.

"I have a job" and "wait until the next election, then you'll see" are two phrases that are thrown around WAY too often.

We're a long way away from 2010, sadly. Our guys used to not wait. Got a problem? Now. Take it to the streets! Now. Right now. Not later, now. Not later, not "I have a job". Right now. We're going to go deal with this issue like real Americans, and we're gonna do it right now. No more waiting. We're gonna do this using the model the Founding Fathers provided for us.

I miss the good ol' days. I miss the fight so badly. We need to fight, and we don't have anybody to actually take to the field.

I really miss Andrew Breitbart. :-(