You're fired!

Occupations come and go. When was the last time you've seen a bumboat trader, a switchboard operator or a bowling alley pinsetter? Other professions that we consider part of every day life will go too. It's prophesied that in a few decades computer software will be so sophisticated that no more bookkeepers are required. Around the same time you will have trouble finding someone who states 'assembly line' as workplace. It's only natural that jobs come and go. In thirty years people will be working in jobs you and I could not have imagined. Do you think your grandparents would have figured that by today millions would find employment as 'Data-analist' or 'App developer'?

With that said: in the past two months (...) 36 million Americans filled out forms in the hope of receiving unemployment benefits. On top of those already enemployed. People have been fired from bars, clubs, restaurants and retail jobs. (Movie)Theatres have been shut and self-employed entertainers (musicians, magicians, ballet dancers, you name it) are out of work. And thus out of income.

Even though the first coronavirus-wave is far from over and a second one could do even more damage because there are signs the virus is evolving, employees are urged to go back to work, placing them for the dilemma: 'Stay home, get fired and die from hunger or go back to work for less than I would get from social security and risk dying from COVID-19?'

The virus is affecting the workforce worldwide and some governments start to realise people who don't have money can't help the economy to stay afloat.

Perhaps it's time to look into an old idea: (Universal) Basic Income. Before you shout: 'But that's a cummunist idea! It's much too expensive!' 'It will make people lazy!', watch this video:

Here's a quote I found on the interwebs:

If quantum physicists are right and this is in fact a simulation, then a basic income makes sense. Even "The Sims" starts every player out with a modest home, simple furniture and a few simoleons in the bank.

Same with monopoly: everyone starts off with $1500 plus $200 whenever you pass go. The game would be a lot less fun if one player started out with negative -$500 and another player started out with a small loan of a million dollars from their father...

UBI is neither 'left' or 'right' but simply realistic.

Tell me: what would you do if you wouldn't have to work for money to survive?

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Strong women

All over the world women are setting an example: how to state 'No, enough is enough!' without raising their voices, without using physical force, without agression. But look in their eyes and know to don't mess with them. Unless you don't mind to get hurt. A lot. You don't need to be a Rosa Parks or Greta Thunberg and start a revolution. You can protest without an organisation or your parents behind you for support. And unarmed. Now, there's some real power. 'Yeah, I want to make a statement but I lack the means and am all by myself. So, what can I do?' This: 

REUTERS/Carlos Vera https://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/14/americas/chile-girl-protest-photo/index.html

REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/black-lives-matter-going-global-after-dallas-recent-shootings-it-matters-more-ever-1570197

Olga Lozina, pictured by Maxim Shipenkov / EPA https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/krishrach/these-are-the-iconic-images-from-the-anti-corruption

Yekatarina Zaspa, still from a video via REUTERS https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24985001

Dave Killen / Oregon Live https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/07/the-story-behind-the-surreal-photos-of-portland-protester-naked-athena.html

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Why is it so hard to spell right?

Especially for Americans it seems very hard to spell words like they should be spelled. Is it the education system? The lack of interest in their own language? As far as I can tell more than a few of the differences between 'proper' English and American English are attributed to a Mr. Webster (yes, the one from the dictionary) who thought there would be justice in 'coming free from their English suppressors' (the Tea Party people were considered the rioters at the time. And they weren't even people of colour!) and give the proud new nation it's very own language. By stealing almost every single word from the English and simplify them to fit better with the average IQ from the zealots, criminals and other idiots who now populated the land they stole from the native Americans by slaughtering them.

Also: it doesn't help if the President of your country can't spell.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48212456

https://people.com/politics/president-trump-spelling-mistakes-typos-words/

(There's a fun read on this one)

'The grammar is weak in this one'

I guess the reason why the national spelling bee is such a big thing in the USA because people are in awe of all those kids who can actually spell. 'They must be really, really smart!' Or perhaps they simply paid attention in class.

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Equilibrium (a poem)

Just by looking at her

he could feel the effort it took

to make it seem undemanding.

Every part of her beautiful body,

from her slender fingers to her toes

in the shadows,

was aiding in the act.

Was she helping the tree

or was the tree helping her

find the right balance

between love for movement

and staying firmly grounded?

He might never obtain the knowledge

but knew it didn't matter

for as long as she moved

his body and soul

would be in equilibrium.

Trouble reading? Click the PicVoice below:

(Featuring Laila Izabel)

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Yeah. Let's arm teachers! We need more guns in schools!

There have been more than a few incidents where a gun was found in a school. The gun was often in hands of (or left by) a teacher: https://giffords.org/blog/2020/03/every-incident-of-mishandled-guns-in-schools-blog/

Here are some pros and cons:

For police officers it's really, really stressful to deal with a high school shooting. And they are well trained and experienced:

Even a gun safety class can be extremely dangerous!

It's hard to imagine what an actual school shooting is like. These teachers had a taste:

And should kids really be traumatized because of all these 'active shooter' drills they are made to undergo?Who wants America to be populated by people who believe a shooting can take place anywhere and anytime?

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Perhaps it's time to not address the consequences but the cause of school shootings. You know, try and develop a cure for the cold instead of focusing on developing better Kleenex.

One final argument against arming teachers: if trained secret service people can't prevent a president from getting shot, how will a teacher protect a child?

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The circle is completed (a short story)

The end was near and they both knew it. 

With tears in her eyes the nurse reached for a fresh diaper from the cabinet 

to change the elderly woman's diaper one last time.

'Come a bit closer, little girl.'

She was in her late forties and smiled because she was called 'little girl'.

The patient pointed at her name tag on her lab coat and said:

'In Kindergarten there was a girl in my group with your name, have I ever told you that?'

'I know, miss. That was me.'

'It's allright my dear. 

Once I changed your diaper, now you're changing mine. 

The circle is completed.'

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The Tinfoil Hat conspiracy

As soon as Sars-CoV-19 (COVID-19 aka 'the Coronavirus) was officially labeled a pandemic, producers of aluminium foil threw their prices through the roof because they simply knew millions of people actually believe a three minute clip they saw on Facebook rather than to read an actual scientific report. As a matter of fact: they only believe scientists are not part of the global conspiracy when the scientists finds a shred of evidence one of their favourite conspiracy theories just might have a piece of truth hidden in it somewhere.

In all other cases the scientist is simply a member of the Illuminati. Or the Illuminati (Lizard people, Bilderberg group, Elvis and TuPac, directed by Bill Gates and George Soros) control the mind of that scientist. Whatever their favourite conspiracy host most recently stated on his private videochannel after YouTube kicked him of theirs for spreading lifethreatening lies.

So yeah, the price of aluminium foil (Americans spell 'aluminum'. People in other countries had English in school.) rocketed

because people started spreading 'Quick, spread this video tutorial far and wide before the government takes away our right to protect ourselves!' d.i.y. videos on how to create your own tinfoil hat. And I wish I was joking.

But here's the twist: tinfoil hats actually work! Yes, covering your entire head (Skull, face, neck, back of your head, eyes, nose, mouth and ears) wíll - with absolute certainty prevent evil doers from reading your thoughts and/or controlling your brainwaves. Because you'd be dead.

The following clips show experiments not performed by actual scientists (who, as everyone knows are indoctrinated at leftist universities sponsored by Soros) and were never shown in MSM. That automatically means the statements made are 100% true. Just a shame the websites don't have the word 'truth' in them. Otherwise we'd be 110% certain!

(Ssst...something can never be over a 100%. Mathematically impossible. But please dont't take my word for it. Just try by holding your breath until you are 100% dead and then hold your breath a bit longer until you reach 110% of being that much dead. Than let me know what happened so I can tell the world you proved scientists were wrong for millenia and it really ís possible to go over the 100% mark. You would really be helping! To increase the average IQ of humankind.)

Here's a clip from a guy who bought a $40 tin foil hat: https://newsvideo.su/tech/video/158288 and tests it with his everyday logic and some equipment to measure radiation.

This one answers the question: does aluminium foil block brainscans? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqAX8n38EdI

And here's just a fun clip. Enjoy!



Bottomline: if there really is a conspiracy, it's to make people so stupid (ask why your government (wherever you are in the world) puts a lot more money in war machines than in education) they buy aluminium foil,  $40 beanies or 'anti-corona spray' for $30 not realising they just bought a $5 dollar little spray container with alcohol. And just five minutes earlier they themselves claimed the Coronavirus doesn't even exist but is just a figment of our imagination, planted in our brains by the government to take away our free will and other nice stuff. Like finding interesting ways to die, letting others know we really áre as stupid as they think we are.

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Addicted to her (a poem)

How could it be that he - as a poet - was lost for words he had used so often? 

Words that time and again had the desired effect?

He couldn't think straight and in hindsight it became clear why: 

he had been intoxicated by her scent en hypnotised by the fierce lifeforce 

she projected on him through her eyes.

In her proximity his coherent thoughts crawled out of sight 

into the corner of his brain he used to reserve for the little secrets he kept as a child.

Only when she left his field of view the fog in his head retreated. 

Slowly. Ever so slowly. But it felt good. Very good. Almost too good; 

if he wasn't careful she could act as a drug.

But oh God, how much he longed for getting addicted to her!

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Erasing history

'Okay, maybe the guy was a slave owner and a racist but he's also a proud symbol of our heritage

and by removing his statues we erase history!'

What if we could ask Robert E. Lee himself about his thoughts on the matter?

It's your lucky day! Because he actually did share his thoughts on the matter:

Same thing goes for people like Columbus who told - upon arrival in 'India' - 

the native people (...) he was the first person to set foot on their land:

But yes, many people don't seem to know an ancient monument was desecrated

 and replaced by a symbol of supression and supremacy:

(What do your children's history books state on Mount Rushmore?)

But okay, let's assume the premise is true and by toppling statues history is erased:

How do you know about Adolf Hitler? 

After all: in the whole of Germany there is nu public statue of him. 

And because statues of Saddam Hussein (click) disappeared so did the memory of him?

Really?

How do you know who won the war on Independence?

Do you get your information from Facebook or from history books?

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What did the soldiers and civilians in the US/Afghan war die for?

Was Mike Prysner right when he stated the Afghan war was a complete and total lie? But if 'the enemy' was not women and children hiding in caves who then wás the enemy?

Did the soldiers really fight for 'God, country, honour and 'the American Way?' or to simply have a job, some education and a free funeral?



The war in Afghanistan cost over 115,000 deaths and over a trillion dollars (click). Where did all that money go to?

It looks like the Iraq war veteran was on to something because years later Trevor Noah shares this data with the world:

Could having no plan have been the plan?

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