Comments by "alex carter" (@alexcarter8807) on "Second Thought" channel.

  1. That's what really alienated King with the ruling class. He started talking not about Black or White but about class and economic justice.
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  2. This. I would fail "the marshmallow test" every time as a kid. And I've tested a fair number of standard deviations above the average in IQ and am good at planning and saving now. But when I was a malnourished kid I'd have crammed that marshmallow in my mouth right away, 100% of the time. Why? Because not only was I hungry, but adults were not very trustworthy or predicable, and I'd been fooled by their lies before. The usual adult lies like, "Stick around home because Dad's coming by with some money so we can buy food". I learned how much of a lie that one was most of the time, and learned to blow off the chance to see my dad in favor of taking my pole and going fishing so I'd KNOW I'd get something to eat. Once I was out on my own and able to earn my own money and procure my own food, live in my own place, that part of my brain magically developed right away and I was able to save and strategize and plan, because I no longer had to worry about my food, my money, etc being taken away from me.
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  3. It's like they want a Revolution.
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  4. I just wish I'd known to get the fuck out when I was young.
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  5. Lenin did not think he would see revolution in his lifetime. He honestly thought that as bad as things were in Czarist Russia, it was still off in the future. Then suddenly it happened. Sometimes history moves pretty fast.
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  6. It may be a solid plan. We've got a big Revolution coming and it may be helpful to "toughen up" by getting used to live like soldiers in the field.
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  7.  @thejasperandjenkinsinterne97  Short-term homeless are human. Long-term homeless are zombies and we all know what to do with zombies.
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  8. What's funnier still is how the Venn diagram of Trump followers and anti-vaxers is pretty much a circle so .... they're "replacing" themselves.
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  9. This is exactly the explanation. The US is hyper-individualistic. Kids are kicked out of the house by age 18, to "sink or swim" as the popular American expression puts it. If you ever wonder why Americans so often put their parents into horrific "care homes" where they die of neglect and bedsores, this is the reason. "Family" means almost nothing in the US. You are on your own.
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  10. You're not missing anything.
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  11.  @EranHertz  Considering how the oceans will rise and this will be a water planet, it might be the octopus people.
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  12. Because capitalism. We haven't had our socialist revolution yet. It may come in a matter of months.
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  13. Lucky you! I wish I'd known to escape the US for Europe when I was in my 20s.
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  14. tRump has to show W. Bush that he really knows how to ruin an economy.
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  15. Hey I voted for him this last primary, it took me 6 hours to vote! They do not make it easy for the non-elite to vote in the USA.
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  16. Mao had the right idea about the landlords.
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  17. BTW folks guillotines are not that hard to build. Even the blade can be easily made from a car leaf spring.
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  18. Take some landlords with you.
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  19. Doomers buy stuff. I call it Buyvivalism/Sellvivalism.
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  20. the Trump fanatics actually smeared shit on the walls - read that again smeared shit on the walls to show how much they love their country. Literal shitbirds.
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  21. That "Carlos Piccata" guy says he's been in combat? Well, he's too young to have served anywhere but in Iraq or, probably, in Afghanistan. In which case, he got run off with his tail between his legs by old guys and little kids wearing pajamas and using Russian castoff weapons held together with baling wire. And, no, your kids are not "starving" if they didn't get their 2-liter of sugary soda pop that day.
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  22. The American Dream isn't riches but this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms
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  23. It's coming.
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  24. This one is GOOD. A person should not have to be a hot-shot coder or a workaholic with a PhD working 60-hour weeks, etc to live decently. People used to raise families and be find being bank tellers or mailmen or any sort of thing.
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  25. Being a pickpocket is a job to some ... Making snuff films is a job to some ... Being a serial killer is a job to some ... Being a pedo is a job to some .... Counterfeiting is a job to some ...
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  26. As the saying goes: If capitalism is so great, how come it has to be bailed out by socialism every 10 or so years?
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  27. I think the upcoming election will show it's not. It took me 6 hours to vote in the last one and I'll take however long it takes this coming one. But I may not be allowed to vote at all, along with millions of others.
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  28. More like walled off like S. Africa.
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  29. Hyper-individualism vs. 1000's of years of civilized history and Confucianism. The West is self-destructing while Asia is rising.
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  30. I got mine for poppin' Nazis.
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  31. Yep, go out and shoot a few landlords, it'll make you feel better.
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  32. Nope we're Plankton. Think about it. Krabs is a skinflint but he runs the Krusty Krab fairly well. Meanwhile the Chum Bucket barely stays open and Plankton's only friend is his syncophant alarm system who can't leave w/o pulling her plug out.
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  33. I'm in Silicon Valley and gross $20k a year. I send about $2k to the IRS each year, which is fine with me because almost all of it is going into social programs like Social Security and Medicare. I feel for the college scam, paid my debt off, and yeah, made less than the average HS dropout.
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  34. Woops typo I send about $3k to the IRS each year...
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  35. All we need to do is choose which 5%. Kill off the top 5% and we'll be getting somewhere.
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  36. This all reminds me strongly of the panic over marijuana for years and years from the 1930s until quite recently. So shrill was the fearmongering over "the Devil's lettuce" that it just made people more curious about it. I think the same thing is going to happen or is already happening with Socialism because recently the US, the sort of figurehead for capitalism, has been falling on its face so badly.
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  37. It's been down, down, down since about 1975.
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  38. In the US life expectancy is going down. The 2020 census data is in and the percentage of "white" people in the US is way down (I think a lot of that is it's now possible to say you're of mixed race if you're of mixed-race so a lot of us who just got chalked up as "white" are now more accurately describing ourselves) and according to most "white" people this is a bad thing. I'm in "Silicon Valley" and, well, it's pretty damn dystopic. A lot of dystopic things keep happening, and adding them up over the years is pretty depressing. For one thing, my income is leveled off at about $17k and that's about all I'll ever make from here on out. I'm trained in electronics, and right now have work because I help a friend sell "electronic surplus" that is, electronic stuff made in the past, in better times. I see all kinds of stores, big and small, closing. Mom'n'pop places to Fry's Electronics which was a big thing in this area. We no longer have a working light rail system because a Nazi shot the entire crew who maintain the high voltage lines the light rail trains run on. Our passenger train system is running fewer trains and I'm not sure about our buses except I read just yesterday that there's a lack of drivers - died of covid or what, I don't know. It's like distances are getting longer - I mentioned to a guy here in San Jose that I'd visited Mountain View and he didn't know where Mountain View is (it's the next city after Sunnyvale as you go up the peninsula toward San Francisco). I play a musical instrument, one that doesn't require electricity which is good because I'm not sure how much longer electricity will be a thing, plus it makes things a lot simpler. I play on the street; I'm a street musician/busker. As such I keep track of what other buskers are around, and there used to be many of them. Now, there's one other besides me, a fellow I've been friends with for years who plays saxophone and I've not seen him for a couple of weeks - I'm a bit worried about him. I've actually been making decent money doing this but it's eerie having a city of 1 million all to myself as its sole busker. I'm hoping to get a few started in this "career" because I plan to leave in a few years myself. I'm not even seeing as many street bums as there used to be. I dunno if they've died off or been shipped off somewhere. I never thought I'd miss bums/beggars but it's kind of eerie seeing so few now.
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