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Peter Mastro's avatar

Everyone who opposes the Orange Urinal Cake is ANTIFA!

#StandProud #StandStrong #antifascist

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Lysa Hulderson's avatar

Ready & waiting!

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Connie Pappas's avatar

Has there been a ban on…

masks in CA?

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debrianna mansini's avatar

Looking forward to it!!!

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aleksanderdenys's avatar

Me too ✋️

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Cathy Mirra's avatar

Sue the bastards

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DebChilde's avatar

Great show AG

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Dr Nurse Dux PSYCH!'s avatar

Listening ... and loving

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DebChilde's avatar

Hi Alison

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Richard Priore's avatar

Anytime my friend

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One Afghan veteran's avatar

Dear official of united state government please don't forget Allies who is still left behind

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D4N's avatar

I promise I'll try to make it Allison; I adore your relevant takeaways. Forgive if this is duplicated; I feel it so relevant, I'm posting wherever I'm allowed to; Not me, I'm not the product here. The truth and lived example needs shared for those who think themselves 'immune' to the whims of a dictatorial state. See and do what you will. ~ D

Pardon if you will a long share; Bs'ing myself or not, I feel it's most relevant and important today, and not just for 'commoners' like me. Doesn't take much imagining to realize the gravity and all inclusiveness of this. So, you think if you're in the ADA or the ABA you're immune ? Think again, and deeply. You're next, right after the Unions, for by any other name you're still 'a rose' that they despise. If you think you may speak freely, you're despised. If you will, please see what I've posted elsewhere, copied and pasted. >> ↓

Yesterday, in the oral form site for LFAA, I offered that later that day, I would relate a personal experience that dovetailed nicely with the overall topic which was “censorship.” Later because I had a previously scheduled activity, that ended up taxing me more than I’d thought, so here it is a bit later. I ‘hope’ you’ll spread it widely at my invitation, as it illustrates by my intentions, to offer a different twist of the crimes inherent in ‘censorship’ and not an intent to derive any personal pity, or any other such. It all just ‘is what it is’ and yet for the moment a useful take and perspective. *** So..

I labored my way up to become a maintenance professional of some repute, all the way up; From the most taxing labor imaginable to what I became over a lifetime and a half at a household - name, Fortune 500 multinational corporation – some 53 years and running, in heavy manufacturing. And I was grateful, fully grateful and perhaps too ‘loyal’ even to this day.

On a holiday weekend eight and a half plus years ago, while all production was down for the holiday and nearly all others were off, including the company medical staff, I was hard at work doing preventive maintenance, troubleshooting faulty operations, and making necessary repairs, modifications, or band-aids as able.

Over the course of this, I nicked, scratched my hands and arms many times – just a near everyday occurrence, that just ‘went with the job’, yet at a particular point I got a ‘poke’ of what turned out to be of a grave type, yet in retrospect, one of the many, duplicative, compensated ‘safety personnel could have and should have long rectified or mitigated – absolutely and without question, wholly the fault of this corporation, it’s professional safety staff of multiple levels; thence a fault with their affiliate organizations, then state and federal protections organizations, and finally state and federal representatives who brushed it all aside; *presumably to ‘save the goose’… I can only speculate, but for sure my life, thence others had no or little worth, “compared to” something.

The next day, an earned day off, I got up with a very sore arm, and the ‘feeling’ like I had the flu or maybe… perhaps worse (?). I bitched a little (dudes are stupid) and later under much protest (delusion moreso; did I mention dudes are stupid ?) I ended up in an ER, thence hospital admitted, having had a seizure as my body went into septic shock in a doctor’s office, as an antibiotic resistant staph infection hit my bloodstream. Via testing it was revealed that my kidney, liver, other organs were going into failure, and likely permanently compromised.

By some seeming ‘miracle’ to some, I survived, yet barely as the survival came at many great costs, leaving me permanently and grievously disabled. Of, as I’ve experienced, the worst of sorts, the ‘invisible’ type of disability; Invisible to most others. I lost nothing obvious; no arms or legs, yet vastly compromised to the n’th degree, continues to snowball and yet to this day as I share it with you all.

Lest you think this may have been handle wrongly on my part, let me assure you, and with proof to back it up that I yet reserve, it was not.

From my hospital bed full of hyper fear, pain and suffering my first thought executed at that moment when I wasn’t being poked or rushed off for other tests, I sent a message to the company superiors to let them know I ‘probably’ wouldn’t be on the job the next day, and my findings from my troubleshooting faulty operations, what needed done, etc. I told the whole tale, the experience and the results thus far as I trembled awaiting more ‘news’ of my condition. Further as this all went along I reported to safety ‘and’ medical personnel, and even unbelievably unheard of, to the site manager himself – to his face on a subsequent opportunity, telling him, all the while smiling as pleasantly as I could manage, “You guys nearly killed me.” Before that opportunity, I had already notified not only safety and medical personnel, I reached out to the Union’s safety personnel, hoping surely at least they would take it seriously, which they did not either, which infuriated me enough to call and demand that OSHA come in to inspect, take samples at the places I indicated because they nearly killed me and the condition had gone unaddressed, potentially and ‘did’ eventually injure others who were threatened into silence, yet to this day still looms. Guess what ? An inspector did come in, but walked straight by operations I had identified, took no samples, but went straight to the plant’s management ‘records’ to prove he’d been there, I assume to justify his paycheck (I knew when they were coming and had them watched by many) ***Note* : By this time in tfg’s first term he has thoroughly brow beaten and threatened the jobs and existence of all federal agencies, including OSHA. *** I also notified the state Bureau of Workers Compensation to no avail either.

I scarcely existed to this day on first SS disability, then SS alone to support my crumbling life and household responsibilities which I hold deeply and dearest.

At some subsequent point I was offered my pension earned as of injury plus an insulting incentive – “if” I would sign a two page front and back, NDA. I was furious at such insult and struck through every signature line. Result: No pension, no comical incentive for now 53 years service; yes compensated, but trust me, I never signed up for any of what I’ve gotten. My life, spouse, household suffer grievously, yet there’s inherent another lesson or so in this recounting. *Lol, ironically (as some of you ‘know’ me) I do retain two clocks for ‘service milestones’ that are only accurate twice per day…. I look at them daily, not to learn the time of day, but other ironies. I also learned subsequently, the names of at least two others injured at a similar operation that were gravely threatened into silence. This too I shared with their ‘pet’ union… crickets….

What’s obviously illustrated for some to see is “censorship” and of the most grave consequences in natures. I could ‘draw’ more obvious pictures, but suffice to state with certainty that censorship can be and is also mortally dangerous and harmful. My life ended, save my brain, memory and experiences, and consequences I share with my friends and otherwise herein. I have contemplated sharing this even more widely – even around the globe for sake of ‘lessons earned.’ I have to admit, this overall still grateful human finds it ‘difficult’ to share the name of said corporation and others, as it was never an intent or care – even at great personal cost, to cast any aspersions, fault and blame relative to the many awesome folks I worked with and about, or harm in any manner, as I am grateful for all of it, save the greed and unconscionable absence of human conscience of a few, yet too many defending the legal creature of corporatization of industry and government of America, as some sacred golden goose. It shouldn’t have to be this way and could be far different given sufficient human humane will and deliberate consensus, and equal blood, sweat and tears. A corporate charter, and a Delaware incorporation if they’re extra lucky, especially in my case, is a proven license to lie, cheat, steal, maim and Kill, with little or no consequence, and continue to do so evermore, at least until we tolerate it no more.

Aside from proof / evidence I retained and gained, many as well pointing to governmental failures, local, state, and federal. I own as well a good number of other experiences, that might bring you to the same conclusions I and others have, that illustrate with little doubt that commercial interests must be a great part of the OiD’s maga coalition leadership ranks. This particular item just happened to be illustrative of two immense failings within our current system and past; Corporate legal immunity, NDA’s as well, are convincingly illustrative of charges I’ve made before wherein I stated here and elsewhere, “You only get as much ‘justice’ in our country as you can afford. *Hoping this didn’t get to long and ‘bury the lead’ as they say, this marks a good spot to conclude. ~D

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