Comments by "Aaron Okeanos" (@AaronOkeanos) on "Rebel HQ" channel.

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  20. Fear is only the first step what GOP and Fox actually aiming at is anger. Fear in too large doses is paralizing so the plan is to convert it into anger. Anger is problematic. Anger is a primal emotion and as such controled by the oldest part of the brain where instinct is. The problem with anger is it is transferable and humans have a hard time focusing anger on more than one target and limiting a justified amount of anger as everybody probably noticed already when you were more angry at a person than deserved. So Fox and Right-Wing media try to nurture and groom this anger. 1) Maintain the anger so it is not lost or diminishes/disappear -- This is why Fox always finds something to be angry about. It is also the reason why so many "invented" things to be angry about exist because they have to maintain the anger-level. 2) Grow the anger -- If possible the anger is made stronger by giving people more things to be angry about and make the existing anger worse. 3) Direct the anger -- Since humans cannot focus anger on more than one target and tend to put all anger into one target not just a little right-wing media gives the anger targets. Democrats, trans, immigrants, moslems, Biden ... whatever they political need in the moment. As a side-effect this works like a lightning rod for the anger the media don't want the anger at ... GOP, bad policies, foolish behaviour, corporate rule, corruption, legal bribery, cost of living caused by greedy policies, housing issues, climate change etc. and instead ALL the anger is pushed at the selected target. It's genius ... but diabolitical. Hard to defend against and hard to see/realize this manipulation.
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  49. The argument with the intrest rates increase to make borrowing money more expensive is valid. Normally this reduces investment however something new come up. It is true that tons of money have been borrowed to invest. But the investment no longer goes into real economy it goes directly back into the financial markets to make more money with this money. For example with stock buybacks or investments in hedge funds, etc. And there is something else which causes a problem. Owners of large amounts of stocks did go to banks to create loans using their stocks as safety. They borrowed against their stock papers so to speak for almosth nothing. This does not count as "realizing gains" (= income which would be subject to taxes) quite the opposit you could even use this to reduce your taxes (!!!) even basically stealing tax money to make you even richer. THIS is really creating money out of nothing. And since this money goes back into the financial market not the real economy the problem only gets worse. This is why they needed to make this strange step which seems counter-intuitive. And the worst is: They need to do even more of that. Much more to stop the speculation on the financial market because a huge bubble is forming there which is making 1929 a picknick. The problem is: The Intrest-Rate effects the Financial Market AND the real economy. We need a new tool. And we need to redefine what "income" is and apply progressive income tax accordingly. And we need to start taxing Financial Transactions - immediatly!
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