Comments by "Matthew Ingerson" (@matthewingerson) on "Status Coup News"
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Dear Jordan/Team,
Perhaps you could/should start asking more questions through the lens of class-consciousness & shame -- specifically when you're talking to the working-class employees of these wretched-corporations, like the guy at the Norfolk-Southern office.
Specifically, I mean that you could/should start asking the working-class employees(slaves) how they feel about their wealthy-class owners(masters). For example, you could ask questions like the following:
1. How can you, as a member of the working-class, sleep at night, knowing that your employers, who are members of the wealthy-class, have turned you into an accomplice to the criminal-harm that has been committed against other, innocent working-class people?
2. How can you sleep at night, knowing that you are (a)partially-responsible for the initial-harm that was committed in the past, and (b)directly-responsible for the continued-harm that is still being committed in the present?
3. How can you sleep at night, knowing that your actions, right now, are directly-contributing to (a)the continued criminal-harm of other, innocent working-class people?
4. How can you sleep at night, knowing that your actions, right now, are helping to generate more profits for the corporation's owners, and that those owners are going to use the profits that you helped to generate, to shield themselves from any accountability?
5. How can you sleep at night knowing that your corporate owners, who are members of the wealthy-class, don't care about the lives of your fellow working-class mates who are innocent?
Those questions could certainly be improved upon, but they can serve as a rough-draft.
And asking those kinds of shame-inducing questions can absolutely be change-inducing as well.
These working-class people (like the guy at the Norfolk-Southern office) willingly choose/volunteer to work for these wretched corporations, and these kinds of questions can make them reconsider their choice to volunteer their labor to the wretched-corporations that are owned by the immoral knaves of the wealthy-class.
I admit that questions like the ones I've proposed won't change the hearts & minds of all working-class people, but they WILL change some.
Thank you Jordan (and all of you who work with Jordan), for your service.
Sincerely,
P.S. More Steve Grumbine & Richard Wolff, please!
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The Libertarian Party is backed by the same billionaire donors, from the same corrupt wealthy-class, with the same corrupt RW-politics, as the Repub & Dem Parties. FFS, the Libertarian party was started by the billionaire, RW-extremist Kock brothers, and they are the ones who funded the whole Citizens United debacle.
The working-class dupes at the state & local levels, who have fallen for the Libertarian Party ruse that was concocted by the wealthy-class, have ruined the municipalities where they have infiltrated, just like the wealthy-class ruins all of the place they go on the national & international levels.
The Libertarian Party is not "libertarian" in concept, just like the Republican & Democratic Parties are neither republican nor democratic in concept. They are all authoritarian in concept, and they are all bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt, wealthy-class authoritarians and their corrupt RW-politics.
And working-class dupes in the US are too ignorant to comprehend it, so they continue to vote for their own oppression.
And voting for the Libertarian Party is just more of the same.
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I'm sorry, I don't mean to be snide, but what in the actual f@kc are you talking about? You never thought you'd see this?? Where did you get your education??? This has been going on FOREVER.
Corporations are the modern-day version of plantations, and cops are the modern-day version of slave-patrols.
A long time ago, cops served the wealthy-class capitalists who owned humans and plantations.
Now, cops serve the wealthy-class capitalists who own property and corporations.
Cops do the same thing now that slave-patrols did in the past. They go around instilling fear and delivering violence to the working-class citizens on behalf of the wealthy-class owners.
The 13th Amendment didn't end slavery. The 13th Amendment expanded slavery to include anyone in the working-class who could be convicted of a crime.
The job of cops isn't to protect the working-class. Their job is to expand the population of slaves by turning working-class people into criminals.
Since Chris Smalls won't shut up and work for his Amazon-masters, those Amazon-masters want to make Chris into a criminal-slave on a prison-plantation.
This division between the wealthy-class and the working-class has been going on ever since the invention of money.
The people who invented money became the wealthy-class. They use the money to maintain power and privilege over the working-class.
The wealthy-class uses the money, power, and privilege to turn the workers against each other. They give some workers more money than they give other workers.
By giving some workers more money than other workers, that extra money convinces the workers with more money to believe they were better than the workers who get less money.
The wealthy-class uses the money to buy the services of higher-paid workers to keep the lower-paid workers living in fear of destitution and poverty.
Cops get paid a little bit more than average members of the working-class. And with those few extra crumbs from the master's table, cops inflict all sorts of injustice on the lower-paid members of the working-class.
Cops are the primary class-traitors among the working-class.
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Making paper at home -- the processes, the ingredients -- is vastly different from making paper in an industrial paper mill. Just like the industrial canned-foods sold at the grocery store are vastly different from the canned-foods I make at home.
I've made paper without a problem, too, on a small scale. But I've also worked in an industrial paper mill (for a day, and all I can say is, "f*kc that"). The ways and means for small versus industrial paper making are different, and can be vastly so.
But, even if your paper-making process and chemicals on a small-scale were similar to those of an industrial-scale paper mill, they are making exponentially more. And by "more," I literally mean more of everything.
Just like the industrial processes and chemicals that are used when it comes to canning foods, the industrial processes and chemicals used for making exponentially-scaled amounts of paper also produces an exponentially-scaled amount of byproducts. More paper equals more pollutants, carcinogens, hazardous waste, non-hazardous garbage, etc...
So the personal, small-scale and industrial, exponential-scale aren't really comparable so much as they are contrastable -- not only when it comes to the potential quantity and quality of the final, usable product, but also when it comes to the potential toxicity and severity of the resulting, harmful byproducts.
I suppose it would be like comparing the outcomes of drinking a shot of vodka versus a handle of Everclear. Or, like stubbing your toe versus getting hit by a train.
I'm not trying to be dramatic -- I'm just saying. They are entirely different scales of process and chemicals with entirely different scales of outcome and consequences.
On another note, I also have two uncles who worked in the same paper mill -- one on the production floor and one in the business office. They were in the same building, but only one had extensive health problems, and only one of them is still alive. I'll let you guess which one is which.
One uncle dead, one still alive; both right-wing pieces of sh!t who would've licked their owner's boots, or climbed to the top of the stacks and breathed in the smoke until they were dead, if the owner told them to. Okay, okay, that was dramatic. But f*kc 'em both anyway.
And f*kc anyone who thinks it's ok to subject people -- workers or citizens -- to this kind of poison.
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You have to be a complete moron to think that your vote actually matters for women. You're going to get Project2025, whether you like it or not. You only get to decide the speed at which you get it, and you BARELY even get to decide that. Vote RW-extremist Repubs for quickly. Vote moderate-RW Dems for slowly. The US is a capitalist-fascist state, and no amount of voting will fix the corruption that is inherent to the systems of RW-politics.
The moderate-RW Dems could have codified "women's rights" into law, on multiple occasions -- most recently during the 111th Congressional-session, from 2009-2011, when Obama was in office and the Dems held both chambers of Congress AND the SCOTUS. But they didn't do it.
The RW-extremist Repubs could have criminalized "women's rights" by law, on multiple occasions -- most recently during the 115th Congressional-session, from 2017-2019, when Trump was in office and the Repubs controlled both chambers of Congress AND the SCOTUS. But they didn't do it.
And why did neither of the parties use their positions of power to do something that BOTH of their constituents wanted? Two answers:
1. Because BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
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2. Because, as long as working-class dupes (like you) are distracted by the sports-team facade of red vs. blue politics (like you are), then you'll continue fighting with with other working-class dupes over social-politics, and your distraction is what allows the corrupt wealthy-class to further entrench their corrupt RW-economic-politics, to increase their wealth, and, thus, their control over the distracted working-class.
Vote for the RW-extremist Repubs, for the fast, open-road from Capitalism to Fascism. The party is owned by the wealthy-class, and they want more wealth, and more control over the working-class, and they don't want to wait. They are funded by conniving-knaves from the wealthy-class, who are barely smart enough to play the short-game of political-checkers. The RW-extremist Repubs will implement Project2025 quickly, and you'll know it's coming because they'll announce it from the roof-tops.
Vote for the moderate-RW Dems for, the slower, disguised-road from Capitalism to Fascism. The party is owned by the wealthy-class, and they want more wealth, and more control over the working-class, but they are willing to wait for it. They are funded by conniving-knaves from the wealthy-class, who are playing the long-game of political-chess. The moderate-RW Dems will implement Project2025 more slowly, and you won't realize it's happening, because they won't put a label on it.
And, really, the corrupt wealthy-class has been working on objectives & legislation like Project2025 since the invention of currency, and working-class dupes (like you) have either (a)been too intellectually ill-equipped to stop them, or (b)outright supported them, like you have publicly announced that you're going to vote for Harris, who is their current plant in the moderate-RW Dem party).
Trump, Bush, Reagan, Johnson & McConnell = RW-extremists = the fast, open-road from theocratic-Capitalism to theocratic-Fascism.
Harris, Biden, Obama, Pelosi & Schumer = moderate-RWers = the slow & disguised-road from secular-Capitalism to secular-Fascism.
The US is a RW-sh!tehole that was designed by, of, and for the corrupt knaves from the wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
The US remains a RW-sh!tehole because of the corrupt dupes from the working-class, like you, who continue to vote for the inherent corruption of the corrupt wealthy-class and their corrupt RW-politics.
American working-class dupes, like you, claim to dislike & distrust the corrupt wealthy-class, but you keep voting for their corrupt RW-politics, while you strive to become members of the corrupt wealthy-class, yourselves.
It really is a disgusting country, teeming with corrupt & vile RWers, from the wealthy-class AND the working-class
I just hope I live long enough to watch the country cease to exist.
I would be embarrassed and ashamed to be dumb enough to vote for either of the RW-political parties in the US. And, somehow, you seem proud of your ignorance.
Congratulations...🥳
...you're a moron. 😒
P.S. Those "2 WHITE men" who you're referring to in the video; they realize and comprehend what I've written above -- they comprehend the difference between social-politics & economic-politics.
Those "2 WHITE men" comprehend the way that the wealthy-class uses social-politics to distract & divide working-class people (like you), so that while you and the other working-class dupes are fighting each other over social-politics, the wealthy-class can work together, through BOTH of the political parties that they've corrupted, to advance their corrupt-RW economic-politics to increase their wealth & power at the expense of the most vulnerable people in the working-class. It seems like you don't comprehend that.
You'd be doing yourself, your daughters, and other working-class people a favor if you would (a)stop falling for the social-politics trap of identity-politics that is pushed by the RW-extremist Repubs & moderate-RW Dems, and (b)listen to those "2 WHITE men" a little more closely. They spent a lot of the video talking about the economic-politics that effect ALL working-class people, while you're stuck in the social-politics trap of identity-politics as it pertains to gender/sex & race.
You need to understand that if the wealthy-class gains enough control over economic-politics (and they already have an indescribable amount of control), they'll just use their wealth to corrupt the remainder of the un-corrupted aspects of the political-system, to more fully enslave the working-class.
The more control that the wealthy-class has over economic-politics, the more it becomes like a slave-system, and the less that social-politics will even matter.
And, just like the RW-extremist Repubs, the moderate-RW Dems are helping the wealthy-class to increase their control over economic-politics and, thus, their enslavement of the working-class.
And you are helping them by supporting the moderate-RWer Harris.
Your ignorance would be blissfully-adorable if the ramifications of your voting weren't so abhorrantly-deplorable. And you're not alone. There are millions of American-dupes just like you.
In the last POTUS election, 75-million working-class dupes voted for the wealthy RW-extremist Repub (Trump), and 80-million working-class dupes voted for the wealthy moderate-RW Dem (Biden).
And you want to complain about those "2 WHITE men" in the video, who are spitting facts...
...SMDH
You're pathetic.
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Look up and watch the most recent interview of Thomas Frank by RJ Eskow on The Zero Hour, and you'll get an idea as to why "lefties" recoil and fall in line when they enter "The Big Show" that is controlled by wealthy-class, right-wing, authoritarians.
When anyone to the left of the wealthy-class makes it to The Big Show, they are exposed to the fragility of society.
From now on, they will be reminded about the fragility that was displayed in the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and how close some of them came to being made public examples of.
They are educated about what has happened to leftists in the past in this country -- the assassination of character, the imprisonment of bodies, the deportation of citizens, the disappearance of humans, and the forced separation of souls from their consciousness.
Then, they are asked if they want to become the first/next victim(s) of the fragility, if and when the wealthy-class decides to fabricate and allow the collapse of the systems that have been infiltrated and corrupted by the wealthy-class.
For most people, self-preservation of life, even though it benefits the wealthy-class minority, is paramount to self-sacrifice for liberty, even if it would benefit the working-class majority.
The reason these self-proclaimed leftists seem so feckless and ignorant is that they are preventing the demise of themselves and their families.
At the same time, they are avoiding the kind of collapse that is imposed upon foreign countries by the US when those foreign countries democratically elect actual leftist governments.
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For a long time, NC & R-state voters have voted for the regressive RW-ideals of "small-government", "individualism", and "bootstraps". BOTH parties in the US are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics. And the working-class dupes in the US, and particularly in R-states, continue to vote for BOTH corrupt, wealthy-RW parties. They, and apparently you, have voted for their own suffering.
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Don't be fooled by the whining of the lazy wealthy-class and those who aspire to be such. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Just because Jonathan is right about this, that doesn't also make him right about the wealthy-class right-wing extremist ideology he champions.
The world doesn't need another authoritarian, right-wing extremist party that believes in mob-rule by the wealthy-class minority, comprised of land-holders, property-owners, slave-masters, feudal-lords, and manager-CEOs.
We already have that. We've had that for thousands of years. American Libertarians are no different than what the working-class has dealt with for millennia.
America already has one right-wing extremist party that is bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class. America already has a party that champions selective-suffrage as dictated by the wealthy-class minority.
It's called the Repubocrat party.
Oops! Sorry.
It's called the Demlican party.
Whoopsie-daisy! Sorry, again.
It's called the Drempubolicancrat party... the Redempublicocratican party...
You get the idea.
American Libertarians are barely different from the current American monopoly-party that is masquerading as a duopoly. American Libertarians are just another iteration of the wealthy-class ruling over the working-class.
American Libertarians want the ruling-power to be concentrated in the hands of whoever can be the best liars, cheaters, thieves, connivers, manipulators, exploiters, and knaves. They just want the right to use open violence against the liars, cheaters, thieves, connivers, manipulators, exploiters, and knaves they disagree with.
The wealthy-class leaders of the American Libertarians want the right to do whatever they can with the power they can muster. And they are willing to perform whatever mental-gymnastics are necessary to dupe and trick anyone in the working-class into helping them exert that ruling-power.
The wealthy-class, right-wing extremist, American Libertarians will live the cushy-lifestyles of kings, lords, and owners, and they will do the same thing the current American ruling party does. The wealthy-class corruptors will co-opt the worst of the working-class dupes to maintain their economic minority-rule over the working-class.
The wealthy-class, right-wing extremist, American Libertarians will enlist the most violent and feeble-minded members of the working-class as their military and paramilitary forces. The wealthy-class will convince the working-class to commit violence against their fellow working-class mates.
The wealthy-class right-wing extremists already have working-class guerilla-forces spread across the country. They are even open with their identities, and they're honest about their biases. If you don't already know, then you need to educate yourself about them.
They are working-class, right-wing extremists who have committed their allegiance to the wealthy-class right-wing extremists who control the current ruling political party AND the American Libertarian Party.
I will name a few here: The Proud(biatch)Boys, The Oath(breaker)Keepers, The Boogaloo(will-murder-you)Boys, and the 3(brain-cell)Percenters. These working-class groups are funded and backed by the wealthy-class.
These working-class groups have publically shown their willingness to act as the violent-buffers between their wealthy-class masters and the better humans in the working-class. Examples are the conspiracy to kidnap and murder the Governor of Michigan and the insurrection, sedition, and coup attempt of January 6, 2021.
These violent, working-class, Libertarian dupes have been convinced to elbow from side-to-side at the working-class people with whom they have the most in common. They have been persuaded to kick-down at the least fortunate. They are dumb enough to fight for crumbs from the tables of the wealthy-class masters.
Those same violent, working-class, Libertarian dupes will sabotage the communities of working-class strangers. They will end the lives of their working-class friends, families, and neighbors. And they'll do it all for the verbal-promise of a few extra crumbs from the tables of their wealthy-class, Libertarian masters.
People like Jonathan Howe want to become the next wealthy-class millionaires chosen by the wealthy-class billionaires. If elected, Jonathan would be nothing more than the next McConnell, Schumer, McCarthy, Pelosi, Reagan, Bush(x2), Clinton(x2), Obama, Trump, and Biden.
Jonathan and others aspire to the same addictions as the wealthy-class billionaires (see Joe Manchin as an example). But, if they only get to be millionaires, they'll settle for the addictions they can afford as millionaires (see Kyrsten Sinema as an example).
They'll do the bidding of the wealthy-class as long as they don't have to contribute any working-class labor. They want to reap the benefits from the necessities produced and the communities maintained by the labor of the working-class, but they don't want to commit and labor to the production of those necessities or maintenance of those communities themselves.
Don't be fooled by the whining of the lazy wealthy-class and those who aspire to be such. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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