Comments by "Ralph Bernhard" (@ralphbernhard1757) on "Due Dissidence"
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Start pulling the rug from underneath their feet...
Boycott: Much simpler than trying to remember the long loooong lists of what not to buy, and for whatever specific reasons, is to try and limit what one actually does buy: buy no-name brands from small companies (addresses usually on the labels), buy local foods (farmers markets), buy locally produced or handmade items, otherwise go slightly "over-regional," or buy fair trade wherever possible.
It is not a perfect strategy, but don't get sidelined by the whiners/finger pointers who will invariably ALWAYS show up like clockwork, trying to ridicule or nag with their dumb "...duh but your using a smartphone, but your using oil toooo"-gotcha style distractions. It is not MEANT to be "perfect"...
Methodology: JDI and make it a longterm lifestyle, not just a short-term knee-jerk "trend," because of some or other upsetting event in the news. Just boycott ALL corporations, as far as personally convenient and possible, and always remember that even if only 75% of all the people on the planet only get it right about 75% of the time, on roughly 75% of everything they buy, it will finally make a massive difference for all the causes you also value. Want to bring the boys home? Do you wish to limit military actions to becoming multinational, following the principles of international law only, and independent of any corporate "interests." Do you wish to contribute to end western imperialist actions and meddling all over the world? You wish to contribute a small share to forcing Israel into a negotiated peace process? Do you wish to give small companies a better chance in the dog-eat-dog capitalist world in your country?
Join BDS, because the international cross-border politically influencial rich and powerfull only REALLY start caring when their pockets start hurting.
Regardless of where you live, or how much money you have, just remember this:
- You are not going to achieve change by voting in elections.
- You are not going to achieve change by posting on social media.
- You are not going to achieve change by debating on any plattform, real or virtual.
- You are not going to achieve change by making use your "freedom of speech" in any way.
- You are not going to achieve change by protesting in any possible way which will politically make a difference.
Here is what you can do, easily:
1) Read Smedley-Butler/War is a Racket, a very short book (should be possible in a few hours)
2) realize that after around a 100 years, NOTHING has changed
3) start unravelling the connections between big business and Washington DC, by boycotting "big brands". 👍👋
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@homelander-enjoyer Yes, it was western imperialism which is causing most of the "issues" we are dealing with today, in a loooong list of causal effects, one event of meddling following the other ever since the west "won" (sic.) the region from the Ottoman Empire during WW1.
The creation of "Israel" by the "winners" of a western imperial war (WW1), is another example of such imperialist meddling, equally reverberating all over the world right through to today. Zionism became a tool of the British Empire during WW1. No doubt Hitchens considers the WW1 allies as being "the right side of history", for the same reasoning as stated in the above essay. Even though WW1 was simply one set of "imperialists" squaring off against another set of "imperialists."
After WW2, the hegemon causing problems in the Levant and the ME in general, became Washington DC.
The Cold War and "oil" (interests), geopolitical/grand strategy strategic interests (like military bases, or the control of geographical chokepoints), was the reason for all of the US/collective West's meddling in the ME for more than 100 years...
From a position of POWER, the USA/collective West used and still uses, the age-old strategy of "divide and rule" over ALL these minor powers in the Middle East and therefore the Levant.
The USA/collective West is "classifying" the terrorists they initially created with their own desire to CONTROL and DOMINATE the world, as terrorists...
It's "divide and rule".
Stand up to the hegemon, and one becomes the outgroup.
It's ALWAYS divide and rule if governments defend wrongs against the wishes of most of its inhabitants. For the "dividers", the resulting division is always good. They can rule over the fear, the discord, manage the "finger pointers", and moderate the "pointed at" alike.
The "winners"?
Those who act like the historical "Rome" in the background, pulling the strings of POWER, affording favoratism to chosen ones, for their own aims and goals.
It's how "divide and rule" works...
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@Berlitz81 Stop cheering tools...
Zionism became a tool of the British Empire during WW1.
After WW2, the hegemon causing problems in the Levant and the ME in general, became Washington DC.
The Cold War and "oil" (interests), geopolitical/grand strategy strategic interests (like military bases, or the control of geographical chokepoints), was the reason for all of the US/collective West's meddling in the ME for more than 100 years...
From a position of POWER, the USA/collective West used and still uses, the age-old strategy of "divide and rule" over ALL these minor powers in the Middle East and therefore the Levant.
The USA/collective West is "classifying" the terrorists they initially created with their own desire to CONTROL and DOMINATE the world, as terrorists...
It's "divide and rule".
Stand up to the hegemon, and one becomes the outgroup.
It's ALWAYS divide and rule if governments defend wrongs against the wishes of most of its inhabitants. For the "dividers", the resulting division is always good. They can rule over the fear, the discord, manage the "finger pointers", and moderate the "pointed at" alike.
The "winners"?
Those who act like the historical "Rome" in the background, pulling the strings of POWER, affording favoratism to chosen ones, for their own aims and goals.
It's how "divide and rule" works...
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