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2020 was the year the tyrants first overreached!

In Venice, California, the demons had the nerve to “close” the beach. They even filled the local skatepark with sand.

It wasn’t too long before surfers liberated the beach en masse, and a spontaneous gathering of citizens (I was one!) shoveled out the skatepark by hand. The tyrants lost decisively and they never attempted anything like that kind of local oppression again.

If closing the beach was overreach -- how much more overreach is it to try to murder the world?

As Patton said at the opening of the Battle of the Bulge: they’ve really stuck their hand in the meat grinder this time.

Turn the crank. Happy new year!

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LOL how funny that you bring up the firework bans of the covid years - you'll see why tomorrow!

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My father is a Vietnam vet (served 2 tours as river rat, and those economical little fiberglass boats were death traps that took a lot of his friends. He still sees their faces, and sees and smells their intestines, and their severed limbs.) He lives with 100% disability from PTSI; in my adolescence he aimed his weapon and/or he actually shot at me enough (it only takes a couple times in your life) in the middle of a flashback and thinking I was Viet Cong, that I learned to “hold it” until morning. Yet as grateful as I am for that useful life skill, I am a markedly messed up individual now, for that and for a fantastic variety --a pleasant buffet, really--of other reasons.

His take on fireworks: they torment him, and yet he would have it no other way. He says he has flashbacks anyway, with or without them, but he wants Americans to stay gritty, salty and defiant, else he fought for nothing. He knows he fought for nothing anyway. But he loves a defiant spirit wherever he sees one. That’s one thing he believes is worth fighting to keep--once you lose that, everything else is essentially lost because it’s now all so easy to take from you. He remembers he loved fireworks before the war, and he blames the communists who used women and children as human shields for his troubles; not the fireworks.

Doubtlessly all vets don’t share my father’s sentiment (e.g. my guitar instructor, a marine who served in ‘Nam about the same time, loves the concept of fireworks but hates the sound and the resultant memories). But they all deserve to have their voices heard. They earned it.

I personally hate the sound of fireworks--I think I “channel”, for lack of a better term, someone else’s reaction to the sound (maybe my dad’s--I was born after his wartime experience, so his memory-chemicals are a part of my own genetic material). But the colors and lights bring my spirit to life; it moves something deep in my being, something nebulous yet more real than my physical body is--something from the past and *from the future (not “in” the future; “from” it, strangely). It’s like a vitamin-B shot of hope, in the arm for a lot of us, somehow: For some of us, when we see the fireworks, it’s like a momentary portal opening up, with a very brief opportunity: Your spirit speaks softly to you--just loud enough you can hear it if you want to, and just softly enough you can ignore it if you don’t: “There’s more to you than just this life...you’re made of so much more.” An impartation of *defiant hope that is the ultimate antidote against the poison against the masses of this weaponized zeitgeist of futility.

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Happy New Year to you all! Malignant and Company, you have all brightened up my year with laughter, camaraderie and hope for resisting tyranny. Cheers to more of that in 2023.

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Never give up, Never surrender!

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Jan 1, 2023·edited Jan 1, 2023Liked by Malignant

We humans need outlets for our tribal instincts which sports covers very well. The urge to blow things up also appears strong LOL. I think fireworks are a great vent for that urge as they are colorful and mostly harmless.

Rather than ban it, embrace it. Pick a nice long stretch of shoreline where nothing will catch fire and tell everyone "bring it". Safety first and enjoy the "kaboom". As you can tell by my avatar I'm a big fan of "kabooms".

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I may be headed with scorn:

Although I wouldn't pass a law saying you shouldn't...I really, really hate yall that pop off fireworks and various explosions.

For the need to hear loud Booms!!! Countless animals are lost in terror and sensitive veterans endure flash backs.

Can't yll settle on pyrotechnics that are beautiful, but don't torture others?

There. I said it.

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Here's to doing your part to ensure it goes out with a BANG!

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needed this bit of comforting smile today. thanks.

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The same night, one year ago, the people of Naples lit it up in the Italian flavor of that defiant spirit when the mayor cited COVID to announce a ban on fireworks for a second straight New Year’s Eve. This was the response from citizens: https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1477349404365393920?s=20&t=UQeMtuZg49hlR6p2Q8YU2A

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Jan 1, 2023Liked by Malignant

For the fireworks... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_lSDQy03LY

For the vertical lifters... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GErwmiqK_I

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How very refreshing.

Will not bow.

Will not comply.

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Two Forces are Colliding, Tyranny & Liberty. Know Your Enemy, Comrades. FYI:

https://rumble.com/v1ybcxo-the-great-reset-the-surveillance-state-explained-including.html

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Jan 2, 2023Liked by Malignant

Love those fireworks, made me smile. They banned private purchase of fireworks here a long time ago. I love the defiance. Ours petered out a long time ago and I’m not just talking about the fireworks.

Happy New Year.

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WHAT an AWESOME memory, Malignant! Good to know there’s still some malignant defiants out there.

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