Last week, Tracy and Dale McMullen sold their vacation home in Buckeye, Arizona, a property they owned for five years. The Alberta residents, who usually spend four to five months in Arizona a year, said they are not planning to come back.

“We decided to sell the property after the current POTUS took office,” said Dale, referring to U.S. President Donald Trump, who was inaugurated for the second time in January.

“It was time to leave. We felt we could not trust what he might do next to us as individuals and to our country. We no longer felt welcome nor safe.”

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/many-canadian-snowbirds-in-us-looking-to-pack-up-and-fly-north-for-good/

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    Whatever you take, take less.

    You want me to die, I’m already on my deathbed, so stop taking my medication and food and die. Got your message. A death-wish response.

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        why would you stoop that low?

        What do you mean? You think I’m a liar? I am on my fucking deathbed and have been. I can barely eat any more. You think this is just a message on Lemmy and not factual reality? I’m not stooping low for your sake, I was here as I have been openly stating. RFK Jr is mass dehumanizing me for my autism just today. I have Hyper Empathy and I can’t take the constant “anti-goodness abounds” and mass dehumanization gong on in USA any more, I have already been hospitalized over a dozen times.

        People just don’t get the title meaning of “Diary of Anne Frank”, and take everything as insincere.

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          Is this you?

          https://www.gutknechtautism.org/experience-lots

          I got the title, and I liked the post. Your comments on the other hand were outlandish and way too open to interpretation.

          Just say it directly, it’s the Internet.

          If you didn’t lie about your health, I would like to apolgise for implying you lied.

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            Is this you? https://www.gutknechtautism.org/experience-lots

            Yes

            Your comments on the other hand were outlandish

            You are fucking PUNCHING DOWN on me!!!

            QUOTE, GIVE ME A PRECISE QUOTE what is so fucking “outlandish”? Tell me why my expressions are wrong and please quote EXACTLY what you are referencing. Don’t just point to 5,000 pages I’ve publish and say every word is outlandish.

            way too open to interpretation.

            WHAT, PLEASE BE SPECIFIC AND PRECISE. I have NO IDEA what your brain thinks and does not understand!

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              I thought I was pretty precise in my first reply to you, that you took for someone else’s.

              There’s a lot of advantages in blaming…" sounds like a conspiracy theory itself.

              Do you suggest that blaming russia, Facebook or murdoch is only done because it’s advantagous to some?

              You speak in riddles, giving way too much room for interpretation. You expect us do to research, instead of just saying what you want to say and then backing it up with a source. You make a disambiguos statement and post some seemingly random quotes and less random articles. But the work you put on us to understand you is immense, so people like me react defensive, especially on the Internet where the times of assuming good faith are long over.

              I’m sorry for putting you down, I don’t do it often but I got ahead of myself. I felt attacked by your replies and went into defensive mode. You did as well and we escalated instead of really trying to understand each other. .

              We’re very similar.

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                I thought I was pretty precise in my first reply to you, that you took for someone else’s.

                There’s a lot of advantages in blaming…" sounds like a conspiracy theory itself.

                I thought I already responded to this, you want to go over it from the top? Personally I thought I made it clear that this seems like a tactic to use thought-terminating cliche phrases. “sounds like a conspiracy theory”

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                You speak in riddles

                No, I do not, the WHOLE WORLD does not understand and communicate with each other. I created an entire Lemmy community on that topic, “Tower of Babel metaphor”. [email protected]

                I’m not TRYING to conceal or make anything difficult, it already is difficult. Russia and Cambridge Analytica released 5,000 patterns of anti-reality, and nobody is on the same page!

                In fact, I created ANOTHER Lemmy community on the problem: [email protected] about the fragmentation of people’s understanding and comprehension, how we need to sort out priorities in the aftermath of the loss to the Russian Hybrid Warfare / Hearts and Minds warfare - and get on the same page!

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                You speak in riddles, giving way too much room for interpretation.

                I have created an exhaustive web of topics for you to learn what I’m referencing, I’ve been publishing it since December 16, 2009! My ideas are not simplistic, trivial, minor, small, concerned with fitting into Twitter-thinking and meme-speaking, Fox News language and communication systems.

                Just on Lemmy Alone:

                [email protected] - Brain Damage caused by Mass Mind

                [email protected] - People not understanding even the slightest most superficial differences in languages and communications.

                [email protected] - How the United States of America and NATO have lost an information warfare of language and memes that started in late 2012, “Operation Matthew 4:19”

                [email protected] Teaching about the Medium of Lemmy, HDTV, electric media systems, how people don’t understand or comprehend ideas - Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman, etc.

                [email protected] Specifically about media ecology and education topics of Neil Postman.

                I could go on and on, that’s my point. You jump into the middle of my raw expressions in “Diary of Anne Frank” and you start throwing questions at me and expect me to know your background and understanding on massively complex problems of this Russian Hybrid Warfare and the compete self-destruction of the United States of America society!

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                  and expect me to know your background and understanding on massively complex problems

                  See, that’s how I felt seeing your post, reading the comments, replying, and only then discovering your background.

                  I usually don’t stalk people before replying to them on an open forum.

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                    See, that’s how I felt seeing your post

                    That’s part of my whole point, people are so conditioned to view media systems in only the way they expect they can’t even grasp why someone title their post “Diary of Anne Frank”

                    People are so enslaved by the electric media systems, that’s our very crisis - now world wide - in April 2025.

                    How do we escape MASS PSYCHOSIS, all the postings over on [email protected]

                    My posting title also says “anti-goodness abounds”, I can not escape this, many people are unable to escape it. Many people don’t even understand we are in a technology-driven mass dehumanization event. They are so engaged in the total mockery amused by it that they can’t even imagine humor and absurd comedy surreal entertainment is the very basis of Russian hybrid warfare.

                     

                    1. “Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture’s being drained by laughter?”― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985. [email protected]

                    2. “In the twenty-first century the techniques of the political technologists have become centralized and systematized, coordinated out of the office of the presidential administration, where Surkov would sit behind a desk on which were phones bearing the names of all the “independent” party leaders, calling and directing them at any moment, day or night. The brilliance of this new type of authoritarianism is that instead of simply oppressing opposition, as had been the case with twentieth-century strains, it climbs inside all ideologies and movements, exploiting and rendering them absurd. One moment Surkov would fund civic forums and human rights NGOs, the next he would quietly support nationalist movements that accuse the NGOs of being tools of the West. With a flourish he sponsored lavish arts festivals for the most provocative modern artists in Moscow, then supported Orthodox fundamentalists, dressed all in black and carrying crosses, who in turn attacked the modern art exhibitions. The Kremlin’s idea is to own all forms of political discourse, to not let any independent movements develop outside of its walls. Its Moscow can feel like an oligarchy in the morning and a democracy in the afternoon, a monarchy for dinner and a totalitarian state by bedtime.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, 2014

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                I felt attacked by your replies and went into defensive mode.

                This is my fucking personal deathbed diary, and YOU are the one criticizing ME!

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                  I already apologised, and if I would’ve known, I would’ve shown more tact.

                  Dont forget that you mistook me for someone else and I got your whole anger calling me fixiated and spamming replies, while I just tried to clarify things between you and them.

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                    Dont forget that you mistook me

                    Forget? I don’t even know what you are referencing, I maybe don’t even understand at all to “forget”.

                    Where? Links? You expect me to keep up with 5 media platforms and dozens of people at the same time, and don’t provide any links or citations, etc. I’m doing my best here, but you act like people don’t get confused in media environments.

                    I got your whole anger calling me fixiated and spamming replies, while I just tried to clarify things between you and them.

                    How am I supposed to know it isn’t “alt accounts” in the middle of people giving me insincere and trivializing responses? are you aware of hybrid warfare methods? My very posting title says “anti-goodness abounds”

                    I’m sorry if I got confused on people, but my pain and suffering is extremely authentic. If the World Wide Web wasn’t the very source of all the problems in the White House / population, I wouldn’t be here at all. I’m trying my very hardest and doing my very best, which is horrifically bad, I am a loser and a failure.