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ab's avatar

Fuck you, you can't leave this way!

David Caum's avatar

Bye bye yearly subscription. Enjoyed your posts, but feels like a rug pull.

Ruth Urman's avatar

Wow, and we just met!!!!!

So, lying, cheating and censoring...those are pretty hefty words...so sorry to hear them. Wishing you the best on your new platform...blessings and bliss to you.

Annette kimball's avatar

You provided a lot of laughs & smiles for myself & ALL your fans! Thank you and best luck!

Emily Terrell's avatar

I have an honest question. Pickax looks great. No algorithm, bot blocking, direct monetizing. But my husband is a practical guy and often says “business is here to make money. If they aren’t charging for the product, you are the product.” Obviously that’s true on Substack and every other web everything. How does Pickax keep the lights on?

DoG's avatar

Ad's. There's no removing them, as you scroll around, you'll see them. Which I think is great, since, as you pointed out, the alternative is to be the product.

So far, everything seems on the up & up. I'd be the first to tell you, and leave myself if I find anything.

Emily Terrell's avatar

Thank you.

Freeq O’Nature's avatar

I'll miss you.

DoG's avatar

No you won't - because you'll come on over to pickax man!

I was just looking at my first few posts, which at the time I had like single digit subscribers, and YOU were the one commenting on them. You've been here since day 1 or maybe 2. So - thanks for hanging with me the entire 2+ years now.

So get your butt over to pickax man! Don't make me track you down and drag you over by your ear! :P

Freeq O’Nature's avatar

Lol. Well, if you put it THAT way...

Yet another social media site...sigg

Chelie's avatar

Duke you have done an amazing job on this venture and you have a great heart for humanity & the truth. Happy I could support you here and will do the same on pickax. And Rumble ! Pickax seems to be a great platform so far. See you on the flip side!

DoG's avatar

Gracias - and you've been a great like-minded supporter as well. It takes a village, and you're the 'mom' of my village. :)

Chelie's avatar

Thanks! I take that as a compliment. I get called that a lot.

patrick.net/memes's avatar

Subscribed to your Pickax.

I've also opened an account there and will post my memes there. Will be interesting to see how well that grows.

Sue Kelley's avatar

Following on pick ax. Need my morning fix!

Ken Macko's avatar

Sorry to see this but, as you know, I’ve got your back over at “the Ax”.

PK0014's avatar

I will miss your memes and humor. So sad to see you go. You let “them” win (silence you). Goodbye and good luck.

DoG's avatar

No - I won. They are shedding subs, and lost my 10% of revenue, and certainly did NOT silence me. I'm alive and well at pickax, shouting from the rooftops as per the usual...

Everyone that was following me here, can find me there, many already have.

It's all perspective.

Retired Librarian's avatar

Thanks for the laughs!

Visceral's avatar

I shouldn’t have said “your mom.”

DoG's avatar
Mar 4Edited

That's what your mom said this morning over some bacon & eggs...

Luke's avatar

Thanks for lifting my spirits DoG! SS used to be the only place we could discuss covid. Hmm even this place must not be safe from the IS bots. I have not read the post yet. Making a edumacated guess. 😉

Bruce Cain's avatar

Good luck with Pick Ax. I've been posting there since the beginning, just a few days ago, and I'm not finding much audience or traction. But it is early. Have just been permanently banned from Fascist Book I look forward to a platform that does not censor. This is the series of essays that got me kicked off of Fascist Book on January 6th. I get so tired of this bullshit: accused of violating community standards (e.g., Globalist Standards) and pushing "hate speech." There is nothing in these essays that can be categorized as "hate speech." Even if I had we forget "hate speech" is protected speech under the 1st Amendment. In the real world the 6th Amendment allows citizens to address their accuser. On social media platforms this does not exist. I still don't know who, or what organization, called for my suspension. If I had to guess it was probably some Islamist group like CAIR.

I continue to believe that a "free market" of competing ideas and narratives is vital to sustaining a constitutional republic. George Washington put it perfectly:

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter"

When I looked up the quote, via Google AI, it said Washington never actually said this which kinda misses the point. Such quotes are not important because of who said them. They are important because they often lay out universal truths that we feel deeply in our primordial souls.

Anyway here are the latest essays in the series that got me banned from Fascist Book. Let me know if you detect any hate speech.

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Because we have allowed our national leaders to push this Mass Muslim Immigration, into First World nations, we have now reached a critical point. Cities like London and Paris have become Muslim ghettos where the indigenous populations are feeling unsafe to enter. Muslim enclaves, like Epic City in Texas, are fast becoming parallel segregated Muslim societies unto themselves. Thankfully the world is waking up to the existential threat of Political Islam.

The Urgent Need for Global De-Islamification Part 7

Muslims want a Global Muslim Caliphate Antithetical to our Constitutional Republic

https://brucecain.substack.com/p/the-urgent-need-for-global-de-islamification-7c2

The Urgent Need for Global De-Islamification Part 6

Ending Soft Sharia Laws in Dearborn Michigan and other US Cities

https://brucecain.substack.com/p/the-urgent-need-for-global-de-islamification-e06