Stay off identifiable social media.

99.9% of the problems stem from there.

Grey man is cancel culture to the max.

You are not free to say what you think or feel.

Exactly where they want you, silenced.

Geez guys!  You know how long I lasted on the DU?  One day.  The net is not real life, never has been and anything you post out here, anything, can be seen by others and used against you.  

I've been on the net well since before there was a net.  What I can tell you is don't put anything out there, you wouldn't mind being seen in your local newspaper.  Its happened to me, more than once.  

Now for a little about me to address the current political climate.  I'm not the type guy who will say anything to anyone I won't to their face.  In fact, I just quit riding with a guy who after five years of motorcycles started trolling me on the net but, oh no, not to my face.  You see I got this hard learned rule.  Don't hang with chickenshits.  They'll get you in trouble every time and nothing scares me more than a chickenshit with a gun.  Its not my job nor is it wise to try to educate idiots.  In fact, its an impossible task that only leads to real problems and I damn sure don't want to hurt someone and go to jail because they're an idiot.  

Now this said, I am who I am, worked hard all my life, served my country,  paid taxes, married and lived (still am) with one girl, and raised a family, if I'm the type person they are after, well its that time if you know what I mean.  

Years ago when I was a student, I was fascinated by the NAZI concentration camps and death camps.  Just how could a people come to that and how could a people allow such a thing to happen?  Now I could go into socialism and how the war on Jews was really about wealth redistribution but ultimately the bottom line was it happened because the people, out of whatever reason, kept their mouths shut.  I thought back then, this couldn't happen here because we are a nation of Nathan Hales.  Well here we are fellas, the cancel culture, which is no more than intimidate us to keep us, the people, inline, to shut us up.

Yes its sad, a bunch of folks out there are into the old saying "I wasn't so I didn't then when they came for me"  but like I have posted, there isn't anything I can do about idiots except say one time "Its this way".  

I was a soldier once an anti-war protestor that joined and volunteered and now I'm just days away from being 67, retired, my body a wreck, but I can tell you this.  I won't be walking silently into the cattle car.  

Did you see during the DC demonstration the four or five police officers that cleared the inauguration bench?  It was quite remarkable.  They simply told them "Not safe move along" and not a blow was thrown. Believe what you see not what you hear on TV.  At least half the shit that happened during the Vietnam War, I read accounts now and I was there and know its BS.  The pinheads on TV think they are in charge. They never have been in charge of this country, not the British and not congress or the media now.  Those elected pinheads with a 11% approval rating are not our country.  They're our government a necessary evil.  The people are our country, always have been.  

Yes, we're in for hard times.  It was the same shit during the Vietnam War.  Its just time to Nathan Hale up again.  Like before, there's too damn many of us.  

Read an interesting news story the other day.  TN, my state, is the number one state in the US right now for dropped off U-Hauls.  Now read between the lines?  TN is a conservative state, no income tax, low cost of living, balanced budget amendment state, gun rights, no mail out ballots to dead people, and no overbearing Covid regulations and what ones we had the politicians are in court.  People are doing something.  Those with the means are leaving those blue hells fast as they can.  They're uprooting their lives, leaving family and friends.  The least we can do is when someone is pissing down our backs and telling us its raining is say "No its not".

Tj

It's incredibly difficult to maintain your anonymity on-line.

It's not something you buy. It's not something you do once and forget about it. It's not even a daily chore.

It's every waking moment of everyday.

The best thing you can do is cut the Internet completely. If you can't do that drop all social media - all social media including here. If you can't do that never post photographs, or any personally identifiable information - no names, no birthdays, no past places lived, no schools attended, nothing about your past or present.

I just have a made up avatar that I play - it's a sheet of paper with all my "life" on it. Parent's names, birthdays, birth city, brothers and sisters names, schools I went to, children, jobs, places I've visited all 110% made up. The sheet of paper keeps me consistent with the lies so that they're believable. Enter that nonsense into every non-official site that begs for a bio.  Be that person on-line. I'm not a former professional golfer in the southern Atlantic conference, I'm a retired sailor. I wasn't born in Georgia but Wisconsin. My birthday isn't in December it's in August.

Read Brian Krebs to see how he's able to discover the real names of Russian hackers for an eye opener. Krebs is not law enforcement and only asks the ISPs for the information he uses along with public postings. The Russian hackers in return send him a package of heroin and called the FBI.

Mike