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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        I would agree with the bot idea, but there is a sort of mania to their posts that you only see in strange internet humans. Or, at least, that I’ve only seen in strange internet humans. I also guess I’d ask what the purpose of building a bot that posts like this even would be!

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        I am starting to suspect that Sparrow is a bot.

        Dehumanizing me, Stephen Alfred Gutknecht, as a machine. How common a message on Lemmy and Reddit in 2025. Everyone you disagree with is a machine bot. [email protected] bullshit society.

        while appending quotes from random shit.

        Yha, everything you can’t comprehend or grasp about context is “random”. You sound like you need hard-core learning of media ecology. I teach it over on [email protected] community. I suggest you study and learn some humanism too.

        They never actually answer questions in a normal way

        What questions do you have that are asked in a detailed and specific way and not just a insult loaded question? I also have covered most of the questions, but people here are just wanting personalized conversations instead of actually reading the books and reference from other authors and teachers I keep citing.

         

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        “There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong. I don’t think we have to look too far to see that. I’m sure that most of you would agree with me in making that assertion. And when we stop to analyze the cause of our world’s ills, many things come to mind. We begin to wonder if it is due to the fact that we don’t know enough. But it can’t be that. Because in terms of accumulated knowledge we know more today than men have known in any period of human history. We have the facts at our disposal. We know more about mathematics, about science, about social science, and philosophy than we’ve ever known in any period of the world’s history. So it can’t be because we don’t know enough. And then we wonder if it is due to the fact that our scientific genius lags behind. That is, if we have not made enough progress scientifically. Well then, it can’t be that. For our scientific progress over the past years has been amazing. Man through his scientific genius has been able to dwarf distance and place time in chains, so that today it’s possible to eat breakfast in New York City and supper in London, England. Back in about 1753 it took a letter three days to go from New York City to Washington, and today you can go from here to China in less time than that. It can’t be because man is stagnant in his scientific progress. Man’s scientific genius has been amazing. I think we have to look much deeper than that if we are to find the real cause of man’s problems and the real cause of the world’s ills today. If we are to really find it I think we will have to look in the hearts and souls of men.”

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      Oh man, what is happening in your head lol

      I’ve been writing about it here, do you have a literacy problem? Or all yous an do is “LOL” at serious and sincere people, thinking everything in life is just entertainment and mockery. The Hell I’m living under in April 2025 in United States of America where people are inside 5,000 alternate reality patterns and mass dehumanizing everyone they disagree with amused and mocking constantly.

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          I might have a literacy problem, but you sure do write like a nutcase

          Yha, “love all people in the world” and “do not dehumanize people using social machines because they don’t communicate like you do” must seem insane to you.

          You know what drives me crazy and puts me in the hospital? People with values like you: Donald Trump on Twitter, Donald Trump on Truth Social, Donald Trump on Fox News HDTV, Elon Musk on Twitter media machines, people on media machines who think the most important use of a media system is to hate upon human people they don’t like. Like you are doing with Lemmy right here and right now.

          The past 48 or so hours, RFK Jr has massive media machine power and is punching down as hard as he can on people with autism, just to dehumanize and attack people because they communicate differently than he does. That’s the Hell I am living in.

           

          REPEATING from the message you replied to: The Hell I’m living under in April 2025 in United States of America where people are inside 5,000 alternate reality patterns and mass dehumanizing everyone they disagree with amused and mocking constantly.

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      Oh man, what is happening in your head lol

      I’ve been writing about it here, do you have a literacy problem? Or all yous an do is “LOL” at serious and sincere people, thinking everything in life is just entertainment and mockery. The Hell I’m living under in April 2025 in United States of America where people are inside 5,000 alternate reality patterns and mass dehumanizing everyone they agree with amused and mocking constantly.