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Dear Hakim,
I think you have saved me.
For a while, I had been thinking about making Vaush part of my daily intake of information.
I viewed half of this video last night and I decided to go over to Vaush's Youtube channel and view some of his content too. Coincidentally, he was hosting a live stream.
I watched him for about 5 minutes and came right back to your channel to finish the rest of this video.
I came back again today to watch your video again. If your representation of Vaush is accurate, then I no longer need to watch him.
Additionally, even though it may not mean very much, and even though it won't change anything, I would like to apologize for what my country has done to you and your country in my name and without my consent.
I pray for good health and safety for you and your family, Hakim.
Sincerely, your brother in humanity,
Matthew
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What Joe doesn't seem to understand is this: The problems he brings up are the result of unregulated Capitalism driven by unfettered Authoritarians and bought into by uneducated simpleton-Libertarians. Capitalists say; "Pay us to help you." Libertarians say; "Help yourself." Both are exploitative and ignorant.
They don't want to be on a big-American or a big-society team. They want to be on the team that includes their own high standard of living, and they don't care if that means other people have a low standard of living, and they don't care about the environment which other people have to dwell in. They certainly don't want to sacrifice anything and they certainly don't believe in equality or egalitarianism. The Capitalist-Authoritarians want to capitalize on the weaknesses of others for profit. In the case of Libertarians, they want the freedom to not concern themselves with the weaknesses, problems, or deficiencies of the plights of others.
All of the solutions to the problems have been monetized and put behind a pay-wall by Capitalists. If you don't have the money to pay the Capitalists for the solutions to your problems, then you're screwed. Then, when you have finally hit rock-bottom, the Capitalists have a place for you in the form of for-profit cages (prisons).
Privatization is a Capitalists dream. Whenever you hear the words 'privatization' or 'Capitalism' or any of a number of other code-words, you need to immediately recognize what that entails. What those words entail is turning the topic at hand into a profit motive.
Homelessness, for example. We could use the government (which is OUR government) to collect taxes (as the Constitution allows) and we could use our government to administer programs to root out homelessness. But since our government has been taken over by Capitalists (as Larry Lessig tried to explain to Joe in a previous podcast) we have been tricked to believe that the government is incapable of solving problems. So we outsource our problems to Capitalists who want a minimum of 30% up to thousands of percentage points in return on their 'investment'. The Capitalists want to get rich from doing the moral and ethical thing.
In reality, there are no strictly Capitalist or Socialist governments in the world -- every country and society has a 'mixed-economy' and each of them has varying degrees of Capitalism and Socialism. In countries with a better mix of Capitalism and Socialism, they have less homelessness, less poverty, less drug abuse, and fewer people in varying positions of desperation.
I can't take credit for this, but I recently read the following:
"We need to take the profit motive out of...
1. Healthcare
2. Prisons
3. Education
Each of these three things directly correlates with...
1. Life
2. Liberty
3. The pursuit of happiness"
I could go on, but it's sad that people, including Joe, don't understand these concepts.
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@North Georgia Yes! Like the conservatives, neoconservatives, liberals, and neoliberals, all claiming to be Christians while promoting anti-Christ policies domestically and internationally:
Voting to exclude and persecute specific people or particular lifestyles, when Christ taught that we are all equal sinners.
Voting to allow children to be mistreated, when Christ taught that it would be better to be dead than to harm His children and that we all need to be like children to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Voting to bring harm to people who have done wrong, when Christ taught us to turn the other cheek, to love our enemies, to pray for those who persecute us, and to do good to those who hate us.
Voting to label certain humans as illegal, when Christ said to welcome the stranger.
Voting to privatize and profitize as many things as possible, thus exploiting weaker people for their labor, thus rendering the weaker people as slaves and keeping them from Christ.
Voting to enslave the masses, when Christ taught that we should treat those who do the manual labor with the same respect that we would show to God.
Voting for proftized wars and violence, when Christ was anti-war and anti-violence.
Voting to take the lives of other people in the name of our country, when Christ taught us to give up our own lives for our friends.
Voting to prop up the for-profit healthcare industries, when Christ healed people for free.
Voting to prop up the for-profit food industries, when Christ fed people for free.
Voting to prop up the profitized and privatized education industries, when Christ taught people for free.
Voting to cage human beings for profit, when Christ taught us to forgive those who have done wrong.
Voting to allow homelessness to persist, when Christ said He was going to prepare a new home for us in Heaven for free.
Voting to allow money-changers to exist, when Christ threw the money-changers out of the temple.
Voting to elevate rich people while degrading and devaluing poor people, when Christ said that the way we treat the least fortunate among us is akin to treating Christ the same way.
Voting to prioritize personal-wealth, when Christ and his disciples had a public community-purse.
Voting to prioritize individualized-wealth, when Christ taught that it would be easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than for a wealthy person to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Voting to promote private-property and the ownership of mansions to store all of the private-property, when Christ taught us to sell our possessions, give the money to the poor, and then take up our crosses and follow Him, and to go into all the world and preach The Gospel.
Voting to keep secrets from the masses, when Christ taught that the truth shall make us free.
I could probably go on...
But yes, never conflate the self-aggrandizing people who call themselves 'Christians' with the actual self-deprecating Christians who desire to practice what Christ preached.
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@gattaca5911 Yes. I would go even farther. In addition to all of the sectors you said, I would say water, food, clothes, shelter, education, healthcare, rehabilitation(incarceration). All of those things correspond with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and shouldn't be operated by private-people for private-profit. They should be public-goods operated as public-services.
No person or group should be able to accumulate enough wealth via those sectors so that they can buy the gov't & end democracy.
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He has explained it in the past, and his reasoning is the same as other good journalists and reporters who have done the same thing.
In order to get on the "list" for campaigns, you generally have to donate to a campaign. Different campaigns have different lists for different levels of support -- for example, wealthy people get one set of emails from a campaign, and working-class people get a different set of emails -- and Thom only donated a small amount, just to get on the list.
Anyway, after you get on a campaign's list, you start getting the solicitation emails. If you're a reporter or journalist, you can report on the craziness contained within the solicitation emails from the worst candidates.
I actually have plenty of critique in regards to Thom, but this isn't some "hill to die on" when it comes to criticizing Thom. What Thom has done, by donating a measly $15 is not only reasonable and logical, but also helpful.
By spending $15 dollars one-time, and by reporting the craziness, the hate, and the lies, all contained in the solicitation emails from worst candidates, Thom makes it so the rest of us don't have to spend the money to learn about the terrible communications from grifting campaigns and grifting candidates to their supporters. All we have to do is watch Thom to learn about it.
Long-story shortened: He donated (once) to start getting campaign emails so he could report on the craziness of the communications and solicitations of the worst candidates.
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If Cenk & Ana weren't such full-throated capitalists(ECONOMIC-RIGHT-WINGERS), they'd be in a better position. Instead, they got rid of their anti-capitalist(ECONOMIC-LEFT-WING) hosts/contributors(like Hasan, who is doing very well), and TYT's ratings & YouTube ad-revenue have suffered for it. Now, Cenk & Ana are claiming poverty.
Working-class-leftists (and many anti-Republicans/anti-Democrats who don't yet realize they are leftists) are done with the pro-capitalism trash. No need for them to watch TYT. They can get the same thing from ABC, CBS, NBC, WashPost, NYT, WSJ, and others.
And the working-class-RWNJs can get their pro-capitalism, pro-fascism, pro-theocracy, and pro-nationalism on OAN, NewsMax, FoxNews, & The Daily Caller/Wire/Mail. No need for those dolts to watch -- they think TYT is "left-wing." 🤣
Leftists (and many anti-Republicans/anti-Democrats) are sick of the monarchists, feudalists, capitalists, and fascists(ECONOMIC-RIGHT-WINGERS).
Leftists (and many anti-Republicans/anti-Democrats) are sick of "classical-liberals"(ECONOMIC-RIGHT-WINGERS) & "fiscal-conservatives"(ECONOMIC-RIGHT-WINGERS).
Not to mention, leftists (and many anti-Republicans/anti-Democrats) are sick of the authoritarian theocrats, nationalists, materialists, racists, sexists, misogynists, and patriarchists(SOCIAL-RIGHT-WINGERS).
Cenk and Ana are ECONOMIC-RIGHT-WINGERS. Leftists are sick of it, and they aren't sticking around to watch TYT become SOCIAL-RIGHT-WINGERS, too.
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@mikedunn9310 How foolish. 'No government' is not the answer.
A revered, uncorrupted government is the answer.
Small-government is not the answer.
Large-government is not the answer.
We don't need a government that is lots smaller than we have now.
We don't need a government that is lots bigger than we have now.
We need a government that is capable of protecting a respectable society from the corruption of unrespectable individuals.
We need an uncorrupted government of a size that is capable of protecting the collectives of respectable people.
We need an uncorrupted government of a size that is capable of protecting the environment in which we all have to live.
The size of our government should be commensurate with the level of corruption and spiteful-disregard which is exhibited by the unrespectable individuals.
The size of our government should be equal to the task of squelching the corrupt individuals who are willing to exploit and extort the collectives of uncorrupted, respectable people, and the natural resources of our collective environment.
That is the answer.
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On a further note, only some corrupt and unrespectable individuals care solely for themselves and their small group of family and friends. Many of the people in my own family are that way. These corrupt individuals, inside and outside of my family, are the exploiters and extortionists, and thus, unrespectable.
But there are plenty of uncorrupt and respectable people who care about others whom they have never met before. I care about you, Mike, and I have no clue who you are. I care about B unangst, Dorothy, Maher, Shawn, Patrick, Gcoffey, and Randy, and I have no clue who they are. I have respect for all human life. I know that if one of us isn't protected, then all of us are less protected. I know that one person's troubles can become another person's problems.
But I can't be everywhere at the same time to protect everyone, and an uncorrupted government -- of, by, and for We, The People -- is capable of protecting the least fortunate among us.
Maybe you've never been apart of the group of people who are considered the least fortunate among us. Perhaps you've been lucky your whole life.
I know this, though; you aren't part of the wealthy class. The corrupted and unrespectable folks in the wealthy class don't spend their time in the comments sections of Youtube videos, they pay other unrespectable people to do that for them. And since you aren't a member of the wealthy class, I know that you could be relegated to the status of 'least fortunate' at any time.
With any combination of family deaths, housing fires, debilitating car accidents, and/or lost jobs within your life and family, you could find yourself in a least-fortunate situation incredibly quickly.
However, there are uncorrupted and respectable individuals within our society who are willing and able to help folks who go through those hardships. An uncorrupted government is the metaphorical-vehicle by which respectable individuals communicate, collaborate, and coordinate our combined resources to help protect the least-fortunate individuals inside of our collective society.
I'm not the most respectable person and I'm far from perfect -- I'm also willing to admit it, unlike the people in my own family -- but perhaps more so than you, it seems.
We need a revered government which is of a size that is capable of protecting uncorrupted and respectable collectives of people from corrupt and unrespectable exploitative individuals -- such as those in my family whom I mentioned before -- and perhaps from you, it seems.
Consider this: Without a functioning government, it would allow individuals who are less-respectable than me to dispose of the seemingly uncooperative folks who say ignorant things like, "We need someone to COMPLETELY dismantle the entire government and never rebuild it."
Try not to be so obtuse.
It could lead to your demise.
I can't be there to protect you.
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Right-wingers... You meant to say, "Building more housing is pointless without getting the right-wingers out of the housing market." Corporations don't do anything on their own, because corporations are NOT people. Corporatism, capitalism, and fascism are right-wing political ideologies that are based on people's addictions to greed, supremacy, and hierarchy. Right-wing political ideologies are practiced and idolized by people who are mentally-ill with addictions to greed, supremacy, and hierarchy.
Edit: And, just like most addicts, those right-wingers who are mentally-ill will never, EVER willingly give up their addictions. They will do ANYTHING to maintain their addictions. They will lie, cheat and steal. They will maim and sabotage. They will murder, and genocide. They've been doing it since the invention of currency.
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@southafricanizationofsociety20 -- For someone who understands the fact that there are better search engines than Google, you've sure missed the point that there are better sources of information than the biased and factually-mixed reporting of the 'Investors' website (https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/investors-business-daily/).
Maybe some of the corporate-Democrat policies haven't been good, but the fearmongering, murderous pro-war, and greed-based policies of the corporate-Republic party have been wreaking havoc across the globe for the better part of a century now. The problem isn't Dems or Repubs alone; the problem is the corruption which is bread from wealth. The problem comes from the oligarchic, plutocratic, and dynastic nature of wealth and the kakistocracy which develops because of those things.
The greedy-investor policies of the pro-corporate, pro-segregationist, pro-resource-hoarding, pro-authoritarianism, pro-murder, pro-corruption, mostly-white-class are the problem.
Greedy, wealthy knaves are the problem, and they rely on greedy poor fools to do the bidding and the work of the greedy, wealthy knaves. Go be a fool or a knave elsewhere, before someone finds you out and further co-opts you into a greater depth of servitude.
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You must not have heard. "Me, me, me, Texas Tea" was too worried about supremacy and superiority to listen.
Women will choose a mate based on whichever perimeters they wish, should they are given the freedom to do so.
Lazy, selfish, and fearful men have been utilizing physical domination, psychological manipulation, spiritual and religious subjugation, and a plethora of other means to repress, suppress, and oppress women for the entirety of recorded history.
If men did not do these terrible things to women, then women would be free to make their own economic choices and, thus, to choose a mate in whichever manner they desired.
As for your question: Where does the kind of man like "me, me, me, Texas Tea" factor in this whole equation?
The answer is simple: Wherever you want to be, so long as it isn't where a woman doesn't want you to be.
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Spoken like someone who has experienced nerves & sadness, but hasn't suffered from anxiety or depression; someone who has had bad experiences, but not suffered from PTSD; someone who can concentrate, but CAN'T stop focusing until a task is done without suffering; someone with experiential quirks, but not suffering with autism; someone who has experience with particularities, but not suffering from OCD.
Basically, what you've exposed is that your experiences have provided you with a shallow comprehension of suffering.
And those shallow-experiences have (a)made you susceptible to a propagandist-indoctrination, which has (b)left you incapable of comprehending and adapting to something as simple as language-development (or buzzwords, as you so eloquently refer), let alone the deep-seeded roots of human-suffering.
Now, I'm not nearly implying that your experiences don't matter. But I am most certainly stating that, in contrast, the suffering of other, living-breathing humans matters equally to your watered-down experiences, if not more-so.
And neither am I implying that all, or even any of the suffering-folks require medication for their afflictions. I just happen to know that it helps some people -- some for a long time, and some for a short time after which they no longer need medication.
So, if you don't need help for or with any of your experiences, good for you (although, I disagree, and could make some suggestions). But there are most certainly people who do need help with their suffering.
And if you don't want to help, whether it's because you're incapable of comprehending or because you're vile, that's fine, too.
But stay out of the way while decent people, who do comprehend, try to help people who are suffering.
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No, Fain should NOT be President. Sean could be great on the NLRB or as the Secretary of Labor, but he would need to receive significant education before obtaining either position.
A person in the Office of the President can only make changes if that person understands how to wield the power of the Executive Branch (and even if they know how to do so, they still may not be able to make any changes).
As such, the Office of the President should be occupied by someone who understands the government & governing (Nixon, Ford, Reagan, & Bush Jr. didn't adequately understand, and Trump REALLY didn't understand, and look where they all got us).
But Fain should NOT be President unless he quits the UAW and commits a SIGNIFICANT amount of time(years) to the study of government & governing. Anything less would be irresponsible on his part -- and unacceptable to intelligent people -- and it would be irresponsible/ignorant on the part of the citizens to vote for him if he didn't commit to such study.
If one has a brain-issue, one doesn't call a proctologist.
If one has a governing-issue, one doesn't call an electrician (Fain's education is as an electrician, not in government and/or governing).
If Fain were elected POTUS without receiving a significant amount of education, he would just get steam-rolled by the people in the orbit of the White House who know how to use the government to delay, deteriorate, diminish, distract, or divert a POTUS's ability to govern.
But Fain would be a great addition to the Administration of a President who knew how to use the Executive Branch of government to govern.
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Krystal, Kyle, & Privilege -- that's the name of the show.
It's evident that the inherent, randomized suffering imposed upon working-class people by right-wing politics hasn't affected Krystal nor Kyle enough in their lives to induce a deeper empathy for those who suffer most.
It's not surprising to me why Krystal & Kyle BOTH hold moderate right-wing political beliefs -- their socioeconomic lifestyles exist because of right-wing politics.
Krystal & Kyle were BOTH lucky in the super-random, supernatural, socioeconomic birthing-lottery -- just like Musk, Bezos, Trump, and lowly Joe Biden, were ALL lucky.
Krystal & Kyle are BOTH lucky to have the socioeconomic lifestyles they have -- and their luck stems not only from the birthing-lottery, but also from the right-wing, lottery-style, socioeconomic political system of capitalism.
The lottery-style socioeconomic-political system, known as capitalism, is imposed by BOTH right-wing American political parties -- moderate right-wing Democrats and extremist right-wing Republicans are BOTH capitalist political parties.
The Democrat AND Republic political-parties are BOTH corrupt, right-wing parties, and, together, they work behind the scenes to form a right-wing uni-party -- that uni-party is bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy right-wingers conservatives.
And why would the wealthy-right-wingers use the Repub and Dem parties to work together behind the scenes? What is the thing that they're trying to conserve?
Answer: They are trying to conserve the right-wing socioeconomic system of neoliberal/neoconservative capitalism.
Because it is through the capitalist system by which the wealthy-right-wingers guarantee the inherency of their elevated socioeconomic status.
And it is the inherent nature of that same capitalist system under which the working-class people are guaranteed to endure varying degrees of suffering.
And, even though I'm not a fan of her, I still have to agree with BJG: I am not afraid of Trump. And nor am I afraid of Joe Biden.
I know that Trump is a right-wing extremist.
I know that Biden is a right-wing moderate.
And I know that the suffering of working-class people will continue to increase under both of them, and under any other candidate that the wealthy-right-wingers use their parties to put forward.
So, I say, bring on the increased suffering for more people. That seems to be the only thing that gets through to the lucky people like Krystal & Kyle: Suffering.
When enough people have finally suffered enough, in real, substantial, and meaningful ways, that is when real, substantial, and meaningful change will occur.
Until more of the lucky working-class(petit-bourgeois) people, like Krystal & Kyle, have suffered, we'll have to continue hearing people like Krystal & Kyle say, "our expectations have been exceeded."
And I'll have to continue to say, "I know people who have suffered enough -- so go f*kc your lucky selves with a wooden-splintered d!ldo."
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European-Jews should have been given land in Europe. But, instead, the right-wing European-Christians gave the willing right-wing European-Jews free weapons&transportation to go invade Palestine (that started in the late 1800s, NOT in 1948, and NOT on October 7, 2023).
And, then, those same right-wing Europeans-Christians forcefully deported other non-right-wing European-Jews, who didn't want to leave Europe, to Palestine.
Then, after the right-wing European-Christians & right-wing European-Jews invaded Palestine and destroyed numerous communities of Palestinian-Muslims, as well as the communities of Palestinian-Jews & Palestinian-Christians, those right-wing Europeans-Christians & right-wing European-Jews incited other right-wing Christians&Jews from around the world to come help further invade, and colonize, Palestine.
Right-wing Christians & right-wing Jews started this over a century ago -- Palestinian Muslims, Christians, & Jews have simply responded to being invaded by right-wing European-Christians & right-wing European-Jews, and colonized by right-wing Christians & right-wing Jews from around the globe -- this did NOT start on October 7, 2023, or in 1948.
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Abortion is just another Social-Issue that the wealthy right-wing minority uses to turn the working-class majority against each other (just like the social-issues of race, gender/sex, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, and nationality), because the wealthy right-wingers know that as long as the working-class is distracted and fighting against each other on social-issues, that same working-class will never be able to address the economic-issues, that are dominated by the wealthy-class minority, with which they maintain their dominance over the working-class majority.
Long story short: Lazy wealthy right-wingers use social issues to distract the laboring working-class, and, meanwhile, those same lazy wealthy right-wingers work together behind the scenes to maintain their lazy-lifestyles and economic-dominance over the working-class. It's been going on for all of recorded history/since the invention of currency; whichever came first.
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My sibling in Christ: Fear not.
This persecution is exactly that which Jesus forewarned us about.
Jesus said, do good to those who hate us.
Jesus said, pray for those who persecute us.
Jesus said, if someone wants your shirt, give them your coat, too.
Jesus said, if someone wants to hit your right side, let them hit your left side, too.
In essence, Jesus was telling us to be non-violent.
When the people in Jesus's hometown wanted Jesus to leave, Jesus left. Jesus didn't stick around and force Himself on anyone.
Then, when Jesus was being arrested, Peter chopped off one of the guard's ears. Jesus told Peter not to do that, and Jesus healed the guard.
When the people wanted Jesus arrested, Jesus allowed the people to arrest Him.
When the people wanted Jesus's life, Jesus allowed the people to it take His life.
When the people wanted Jesus dead, Jesus allowed the people to kill Him.
In practice, Jesus was showing us how to be non-violent, to the very end of our lives.
Jesus knew what His job was, and our job is similar.
Jesus knew that vengeance was not for Him to seek, nor it is for us to seek.
Jesus knew that God would deliver vengeance on behalf of Jesus when God was ready, and we need to remind ourselves that God will deliver vengeance on our behalf when God is ready.
🙏✌🤟✊
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Either Bernie has been co-opted as a knave by the wealthy-class, OR he has put a halt on advancing his pro-working-class activities so that he doesn't end up imprisoned by the wealthy-class as they did to LULA, or worse.
I don't want to believe it's the first one, I'd like to believe it's the second one.
I'd like to think Bernie is just acting, or not acting, out of self-preservation.
Bernie was around toward the end of the Red Scare. He also saw what the wealthy-class did to MLK, Malcolm X, and Fred Hampton.
Bernie also knows what the wealthy-class did to Abe Lincoln and JFK, and he knows what they wanted to do to FDR.
When you mobilize the working-class majority against the mob-rule of the wealthy-class minority, "stuff" happens to you.
But Bernie did say that he didn't want to end up like Ralph Nader.
Nader was slandered and defamed into obscurity by the propaganda produced by the wealthy-class and aired all over the "news" outlets that are owned by the same wealthy-class.
So, maybe Bernie sold-out and has been co-opted by the wealthy-class, like ninety-eight percent of politicians have been. It wouldn't be surprising. It would be likely.
No matter which scenario is the truth, Bernie probably wishes he had a legacy on the level of LULA or any of the previously mentioned people.
One thing seems to be sure, though. America is headed down the road into Fascism. Whether it's on the fast-road with the right-wing Republic-party or the slow-road with the right-wing Democrat-party, it's going to happen.
Both parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class right-wingers
Buckle up.
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@brendag5263 Therapeutic, indeed. Talk-therapy is like giving a person opportunities to practice telling their story. Retro/introspective therapy is when one tries to remember, organize, and edit the events of their life into a story-friendly format. I believe she's had some practice, and thankfully so.
I could never afford therapy, nor do I live where such a thing would go unnoticed without public ridicule (can't afford to get away from where I am either).
But, thanks to the internet and the loving teachers who encouraged me to learn while I was growing up, I learned about therapy on my own, and I've been doing my own therapy for about ten years now.
Now I'll never stop telling the truth about the right-wingers who allowed, aided, and abetted my torture in my youth. And I'll never stop telling the truth about the right-wingers who continue their attempts to torture me in my adulthood.
To anyone reading this: If you are being abused, tell someone. It's the only way to make the abuse stop. You may have to endure additional abuse between the time when you finally tell someone and when some person or entity helps to make the abusers stop. Because the American justice system was created to protect the corrupt abusers who created the American justice system in the first place. And, in some places, those corrupt systems are still firmly intact. But telling someone about being abused, and continuing to tell as many people as you have to, is the only way, short of violence, to stop your abusers.
Disclaimer: I am not a professional nor an expert of any kind. I do not mean to give medical or legal advice of any kind.
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As a Christian, I am much more concerned with wealthy-class, right-wing knaves who worship Mammon, and the working-class, right-wing fools who worship Mammon AND wealthy-class right-wing knaves.
Maybe Sam Smith is akin to a right-wing, working-class fool, or maybe he's more like a wealthy-class, right-wing knave, but I'm much more worried about the shameless, wealthy-class, right-wing knaves who are readily identifiable.
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I'd like to see the 'tale of the tape' on it before I make a bet. JC might have some weight on NM, but NM probably learned some hand-to-hand combat skills at The Citadel. NM looks scrawny, but if NM knows how to grapple better than JC, then NC will have the upper hand on JC, even if NM is lighter than JC.
Of course, this is all nonsense, and, in a civilized society, threatening violence would result in automatic removal from office and a special-election planned for that district.
Mace is as dumb as MarkWayne Mullin from Oklahoma, who tried to incite Sean O'Brien in a Senate Hearing. Mace & Mullin are both puppets, like a bunch of ConfedState Reps & Senators.
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@Honkin_Chonker
YOU'RE adorable. Who's supposed to be watching you and YOUR little shadow?
Whoever is supposed to be keeping an eye on you is failing miserably.
Not only are YOUR writing and grammar terrible, but YOU'RE obviously lacking in comprehensive reading skills as well.
Not to mention, YOUR inability to grasp historical contexts -- from politics to economics, humanitarianism to egoism, and authoritarianism to libertarianism -- is cause for embarrassment.
You don't even understand the definitions of basic words, such as Democrat and Republican, fascism, conservative, liberal, progressive, nor do you recognize how to apply them.
For example, (since you brought her up) Hillary Clinton is a conservative-Democrat/liberal-Republican. In America, the modern-day Democratic party is basically the Republic party from the 1980s. We may have two major parties in America, but they are both economically conservative in practice. Their policies are part of the reason YOU'RE so ignorant. :)
In other (better) 'western' and 'developed' nations, the present-day Democratic-party are considered conservatives, and the present-day Republic-party are considered fascist-authoritarians. In other (better) nations they have multiple political parties, instead of one party with two different names.
Those last two paragraphs may be difficult for you to grasp.
Just think of it this way: 95% of the present-day Republic-party politicians in America are fascists and 75% of the present-day Democratic-party politicians in America are conservatives or fascists. They are both right-wing parties. But while the Dems may seem 'radical' to some, it is the Repubs who are the 'extremists'.
I did it again, using those big words.
In even easier terms, Hillary Clinton is a knave ('knave' means 'fraud'). Just like most of the conservatives in the Republic-party, Hillary is a liar, cheater, and thief. Anything Hillary and the DNC did in 2016, they learned from right-wingers over the past 40 years.
I'm sorry. I went beyond YOUR educational level again.
Hillary Clinton is a Republican, not a Democrat. There.
Now we're finished with that.
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You, on the other hand, come across sounding like YOU'RE a libertarian who has been left alone too long and has gone looney. Or perhaps YOU'RE a little nuisance who has been given a keyboard and insufficient instruction.
If YOU'RE under 18: Report YOUR parents for neglect.
If YOU'RE over 18: Have fun on the deserted island of YOUR mind, looney libertarian.
God bless YOUR little heart :)
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I agree with your sentiment. But it's NOT weird. Cutting the pay of wealthy-addicts is NEVER an option under the pro-wealthy & anti-worker economic systems inherent to right-wing politics. It has been the playbook of wealthy right-wingers since the invention of currency.
In the past, slavery, feudalism, and monarchy were the names for the pro-wealthy and anti-worker economic systems under right-wing politics. And today, capitalism is simply the modern name for the pro-wealthy and anti-worker economic system under right-wing politics.
And, with a new name for the pro-wealthy and anti-worker economic system, the wealthy right-wing addicts also came up with new descriptors to disguise the feudalist-slavery-monarchal nature of capitalism.
(A)Slaves from the past are called prisoners or illegal-aliens in the present.
(B)Serfs from the past are called employees in the present.
(C)Masters, lords, and kings from the past are called supervisors, managers, employers, entrepreneurs, CEOs, investors, and financiers in the present.
(D)Slave patrollers from the past are called police patrollers in the present.
(E)Knights from the past are called soldiers in the present.
There are numerous examples of how the wealthy right-wing addicts have manipulated language for their benefit over time, using propaganda and hyperbole. And just as the wealthy right-wingers have changed their language, so, too, should the working-class.
Again, I agree with your sentiments. But I disagree with the hyperbolic way in which the wealthy-vs-worker dichotomy is discussed.
The working-class needs to be much more direct and sincere in our language -- enough of this under-handed, behind-the-back, or watered-down kind of talk.
The wealthy right-wing addicts will NEVER give up their addictions willingly. And it's time for workers to stop pretending they will.
It's time for the working-class to stop talking and acting like this socioeconomic hierarchy is something new -- this wealthy, right-wing, hierarchical bullsh!te has been going on for millennia.
It's time for workers to stop communicating in hyperbole, like, "it's weird how..." or "it's funny that..."
The minority-rule by the wealthy-class, under which the working-class majority struggles, IS NOT weird -- it is by design.
The socioeconomic subjugation of workers by the wealthy right-wing addicts IS NOT weird -- it is purposeful.
It is NOT weird -- it's normal.
And it will continue to be the norm until working-class people take it more seriously and speak about it more directly.
Because, not only will the wealthy right-wing addicts never, EVER, willingly give up their addictions, but they'll also promote, encourage, and facilitate the sabotage, murder, and genocide of communities, individuals, and entire nations of people.
The wealthy right-wingers have been doing these things for time immemorial.
It is not even slightly weird -- it's f*kcing normal. And it's time that working-class people recognize and remember it.
The wealthy right-wingers aren't going to change their tactics or their desired outcome. But working-class people certainly need to change our tactics.
Again, I agree with your sentiment but completely disagree with your style.
And I find it absurd that your comment is at the top of the comments-section when there are so many other, better comments that should be at the top.
My words aren't meant to discourage anyone -- I don't take my words lightly -- my words are meant to encourage us to do better.
Sorry -- not sorry -- if anyone is offended by these words.
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Robin, you're mixing up Joe Manchin's daughter (she was CEO of an epi-pen manufacturer) and Martin Shkreli who was called the "pharma bro" by the wealthy-class media companies.
Shkreli went to prison (and is now going through the process of being released), but Joe Manchin's daughter walks free. Shkreli wasn't in the in-crowd of the wealthy-class, but Joe Manchin's daughter IS in with the in-crowd of the wealthy-class.
The wealthy-class used Shkreli as a scapegoat to trick working-class people into thinking that corruption doesn't go unpunished. People are too busy, stupid, indoctrinated, or whatever, to realize that in a fair, law and order society, Joe Manchin's daughter deserves the same as Shkreli.
Joe Biden could choose to pursue Joe Manchin's daughter and corrupt Democrats. Joe Biden could also choose to go after corrupt Republicans.
But he won't, because BOTH political parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class in-crowd. That is the main thing that your memory needs to remember.
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Mercer, Adelson, Langone, Hendricks, Uihlein, Schwarzman, Schwab, McMahon, and there are more.
And, since the Democrat party is also a right-wing party: Bloomberg, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Steyer, Moskovitz, Jurvetson, Sussman, and more.
Singer, Simon, Laufer, Marcus, and others.
Remember: right-wing politics are wealthy-class politics.
The Republicrats and Demlicans are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class. The leadership of both parties is members of the wealthy-class.
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I worked with foreign-students from Russia in the mid 2000. The Russian-boys would get their instructions from the American-bosses, and, then, when the American-bosses turned their backs, the Russian-boys would force the Russian-girls to do the work. A bunch of Russian-boys got sent back to Russia because they wouldn't work (much like lots of the American-boys wouldn't work).
Frankly, the US-boys were/are like a lot like the Russian-boys -- and the US is just as much of a sh!tehol as Russia -- because BOTH countries are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics which they maintained via the division & segregation of sexism, genderism, patriarchy, misogyny, and slavery
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@Dixie Rect Get real? It seems that you're the one living in a fantasy.
You've invented a manipulated-outcome by manufacturing an unnecessary false-choice where evenhanded truer-options realistically exist.
In the realm of 'developed' and 'industrialized' nations, America is more akin to a shithole than it is a bidet.
We don't need to go back into the caves to provide a more equitable standard of living for all humans. However, we'll certainly need a less-vain and more-selfless, less-addicted and more-educated, populace.
Equality and equity can't exist so long as the majority of people are rendered mentally-ill with addiction-disorders which comes with striving for and obtaining the dopamine-high associated with money-hoarding, material-acquisition, social-status, and easy-living.
This lifestyle of habitual pizazz-distractions is exactly what keeps humans divided.
While the addicted slave-people within the poor, debtor, and working-classes are continually fighting to out-do and one-up each other, the addictions of the wealthy-master lifestyle are enjoyed by a few suits who make mega wads.
Stop kicking-down at those less fortunate than you.
Start punching-up at those more fortunate than most.
Stop elbowing side-to-side at those who are most like you.
Start reaching down and lifting-up those who are more like you.
We don't need to go back into the caves, but we don't need everyone, or anyone, living in mansions.
We don't need anyone having multiple homes when some people don't have one home.
We can meet somewhere in the middle.
I don't have the worst standard of living, but it's not great either. I'm not the poorest, but I'm not rich either. But I know there are millions, if not billions of people who have it harder than I do.
Despite my struggles and low-standing on the socioeconomic scale, I'm still willing to make sacrifices to my standard of living for those who have it worse than I do.
Some people are just too addicted to their suits and mega wads. They've become too sickened with mental illness. That is what prevents them from making sacrifices for others.
Perhaps that is you.
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Make sure to capitalize the "L" when discussing American Libertarianism. It is a political party and a movement which do not encapsulate the concept of libertarianism.
As a concept, libertarianism is a good thing. It starts with a lowercase- l.
As an American political party, it's just more right-wing (think Republican) extremism. It begins with a capital L.
The Republic-party is bought, bribed, corrupted, and co-opted by the wealthy-class, just like the Democrat-party is. Both parties are right-wing parties, and right-wing politics is wealthy-class politics. Right-wing Libertarians are just a more openly-extreme iteration.
The leadership of the Demlican and Repubocrat parties pay lip service to personal freedom, just like Libertarians do. But the shortsighted Libertarian-brand of individualism would only allow the wealthy-class individuals to more freely use their wealth to continue to oppress, suppress, repress, propagandize, and indoctrinate the working-class Libertarian voters and the rest of the voters in the working-class.
A major similarity between the working-class voters of the two major parties and the working-class voters of the Libertarian Party is that they all vote against their best interests by solidifying the power of the wealthy-class which controls those parties.
Of course, Libertarians also believe they have a right to arm themselves to the teeth and go around Kyle-Rottenhosing anyone they deem worthy, including wealthy people. That is how working-class Libertarians think that they would remedy any of the atrocities committed against them by the wealthy-class or anyone else for that matter.
Working-class Libertarians (right-wingers who support policies that solidify wealthy-class power) think that their individual, unorganized-militia freedoms allow them to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
These right-wing, working-class Libertarians think that individual, unorganized-militia freedoms are the ones they will use to control the undesirable actions of the right-wing, wealthy-class -- the wealthy-class that controls the media and political parties. And the gov't. And the very real, very free, and very organized military.
Riiiiiight. Okaaay. Good luck with that venture. (See January 6, 2021, to see how well that worked out.)
If you want to increase your chances of being maimed or encountering an earlier-than-necessary separation of consciousness from your body, go stand next to a Libertarian.
Know how I know that Libertarians are not... intelligent? Go watch one of the debates between Libertarian candidates. If you're repulsed, good. If you're enthralled, you're not intelligent.
Anyway... Yeah.
Understanding capital-L Libertarianism: good.
Denouncing capital-L Libertarianism: better.
Choosing lower case-l libertarianism: best.
Sorry for the long reply. I understand you may not have needed to hear/read it, but there are plenty who do.
Good day.
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+OrthodoxAnswers -- 'I chose the church and life of Christ.' -- That is an interesting interpretation, sir. Try this next one.
'This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.' (John 15:12) -- Jesus Christ said that. Shall we try another?
'Judge not, that ye be not judged.' (Matthew 7:1) Jesus Christ said that, too.
For you to say that 'The West is degenerate' is to judge the entirety of the west, and your statement is just untrue. Matthew 7:2 goes on to say that those who judge will also be judged. That is all of us, myself included. We will all be judged, we are all guilty of judging others at some point in our lives.
In living a life of Christ, you must also listen to what Christ says. We are all incapable of living the exact life of Christ. He was sinless. We are not. We are all incapable of living lives that are free of the judgment from, and judgment of, others. In a way, what I'm doing right now is judging you. There is no love to be found in the judgment of others, and for my judgment of you, I am sorry.
But it is difficult for me to remain silent when people such as yourself and your Putin, use my faith in an effort to further yourselves, rather than to further God's Kingdom. Maybe that isn't your goal, but Putin's record has been captured throughout the world from multiple angles. He seeks to enrich and uplift himself and not the entirety of humanity. He is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and he thinks we are all sheep, yourself included. Your Putin cares as much about you and your faith as Trump cares about me and my faith.
I pray that you go forth and be fooled no more.
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How old are you? Where do you reside? What are your working experiences and qualifications? These are rhetorical questions. The answers don't really matter.
What matters is that everyone is different.
Everyone advances and progresses differently, especially under the disparate and desperate economic conditions in which we live.
Harriet and her husband were born around the beginning of FDR's New Deal. They were born at a time when the government was acting in the interests of a majority of the people (the poor, debtor, and working-class) instead of acting in the interests of the minority of the people (the seller, financier, and wealthy-class).
Harriet and her husband are nearly 80 years old. Both of their careers have spanned five to six decades each. They are both well past retirement age, and they are both still working, contributing to society. Just because you are unemployed doesn't mean you can't also be a productive member of society.
The first couple of decades of Harriet and her husband's careers were during a time in America when there were relevant labor movements and organizations who worked hard to make economic conditions more equitable. Those labor organizations were comprised of the poor, debtor, and working-class Americans who fought hard, politically, for programs and protections for the majority of Americans.
Harriet and her husband started their careers before the wealthy-class, right-wing, economic-extremists took over the country. The wealthy-extremist minority used their wealth to infiltrate the government and the electoral process so they could deplete, demean, and diminish the protections which were for a majority of Americans.
The wealthy-class have used their wealth to put out propaganda to turn the working-class against each other, and you are proving how well that propaganda works by shooting off disparaging Youtube comments against an 80-year-old woman for having a second home.
You are trying to lay blame for your condition at the feet of an 80-year-old woman, who is a member of the working-class just like you are, just because she has worked within the inequitable economic system to achieve more than you have. What is your next trick going to be? Blaming ethnic minorities, immigrants, and children for your troubles?
Other, better countries have handled this pandemic and the subsequent economic consequences much more sufficiently and soundly than America.
Other, better countries still have strong labor organizations that have prevented the wealthy-class from infiltrating the government.
Other, better countries have poor, debtor, and working-class folks who stand together, rather than elbowing side-to-side at each other and looking for less fortunate people to kick-down at.
I could go on about other, better countries. But all you have to do is watch more of the videos on this channel to learn about America's substandard government and economic policies.
Harriet, her husband, their decades-long careers, and their second home are not your problem. Stop elbowing side-to-side at people who are most like you. Stop kicking-down at people who are less fortunate than you.
Wealthy-class corruption is your problem. Start punching up.
You know, some people believe that it's your own fault and that you're an invaluable person for getting into the position that you're in. Those people are wrong. The kind of people who would look down on you are also victims of wealthy-class propaganda. You are in the position you're in because of the wealthy-class and their corruption.
You know, there are other people who believe that no matter how different you are or what your socioeconomic status is, you're valuable, you're important, and you matter. Harriet and her husband are those kinds of people.
Good luck, and God bless you.
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OPEN YOUR EYES! THERE ARE DR. KINGS ALL AROUND YOU!
Dr. Rev. William Barber, Dr. Rev. Liz Theoharis, Cornell West, Daryl Davis, and James Lawson.
Andrew Young, Charles Evers, Charles Sherrod, Angela Davis, and Nikki Giovanni.
Ibram X. Kendi, Sonia Sanchez, Cornell William Brooks, John Lewis (deceased), and Jennifer Eberhardt.
Frances Crowe, Kelly Lytle Hernández, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Deborah Parker, Dolores Huerta, and Winona Laduke.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Saikat Chakrabarti, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Talib, and Arundhati Roy.
Corey Bush, Nina Turner, Jamaal Bowman, Barbara Lee, and Ben Jealous.
Ralph Nader, Mike Gravel (deceased), Howie Hawkins, Yanis Varufaukis, and Bernie Sanders.
Richard Wolff, Thomas Picketty, Stephanie Kelton, Dylan Ratigan, and Michael Hudson.
Jacqueline Luqman, Marshall "Eddie" Conway, Taya Graham, Stephen Janis, Juan Gonzalez, and Amy Goodman.
Chris Hedges, Danny Sjursen, Mike Prysner, Abby Martin, Media Benjamin, and Justin (Beau of the Fifth Column) King.
Lee Camp, Ben Norton, Aaron Mate, Max Blumenthal, and Anya Parampil.
Kyle Kulinski, Jimmy Dore, Cenk Uyger, Richard (R.J.) Eskow, and Jordan Chariton.
Dr. (Hunter) Patch Adams, José Andrés, and David Graeber (deceased).
Jimmy Carter, Noam Chomsky, Gabor Mate, Johann Hari, and Robert Reich.
AND THERE ARE OTHERS WHO I DON'T KNOW ABOUT!
BUT THEY ARE ALL AROUND YOU!
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He's a walking contradiction.
Some of his contradictory statements are listed below.
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First, he says: 'I want to beat up some fucking commies.'
Then he says: 'We do kind of look aggressive... We're ready to get whomped on...'
Then he says: 'We're not aggressive.'
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First, he says: 'I wasn't political at all.'
Then he says: 'I was listening to (right-wing extremist) Alex Jones.'
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First, he says: 'I wasn't political at all.'
Someone asks him: 'You Mexican boys conservatives?'
He replies: 'Yeah!'
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She asks him: 'What do you say to people who say; "Proud boys are just violent. They just want to murder Antifa."'?
He answers: 'Poor media.'
But previously he said: 'Antifa made me want to join... I just want to beat up some fucking commies.'
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First says: 'I didn't care about left or right.'
Then says: 'So I joined the (right-wing extremists) Proud-Boys.'
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He says: 'So there's a group of men...'
But they call themselves boys and have the mindset of children
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First, he says: 'Fighting Antifa is 10 percent of what the Proud-Boys is about.
Then he says: 'There's 98% of what the media doesn't see about us.'
Sooo, if there's 98% that we don't see, but there is 10% which we do see, doesn't that make 108%?
I know, I'm nitpicking semantics. But who's really the idiot here?
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First, he says: 'I want to beat up some fucking commies.'
Then he says: 'We're God-fearing men'
But the Bible is anti-violence.
The Bible says: (Psalms 55:11) "The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul (God's soul) hates the lover of violence."
The Bible also says: (Proverbs 3:31) "Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways."
Jesus said: (Matthew 5:38-39) "You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you not to resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also."
Jesus also said: (Matthew 26:52) "Put your sword back in its place. For all who live by the sword will die by the sword."
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He says: 'Buy me a beer. You're going to be my friend for the next 30 minutes.'
Then he says: 'We are drinkers. We are brawlers.'
But the Bible is anti-alcohol.
The Bible says: (Proverbs 20:1) 'Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.'
It also says: (Proverbs 23:31-35) 'Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper. Your eyes will see strange things and your mind will utter perversities. You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast: “They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”
It also says: (Ephesians 5:18) 'Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.'
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This kid reminds me of the main characters in the film 'American History X' (played by Edward Norton and Edward Furlong).
I call him a kid because of his child-like demeanor and undeveloped thought process.
He also reminds me of Frank Meeink (https://www.thedailybeast.com/he-was-the-neo-nazi-who-inspired-american-history-x-his-nazi-pals-are-now-cops).
He reminds me of the non-practicing extremists who distort and contort Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, which gives a bad name to decent practicing Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
In the linear progression of ignorance > fear > anger > hate > violence > murder > genocide, as long as a person is one of those things, then the wealthy-class can exploit it to persuade a person to move along to the next level.
This kid is exactly the kind of rube that the wealthy-class loves to mark.
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Dear Hakim,
I think you have saved me.
For a while, I had been thinking about making Vaush part of my daily intake of information.
I viewed half of this video last night and I decided to go over to Vaush's Youtube channel and view some of his content too. Coincidentally, he was hosting a live stream.
I watched him for about 5 minutes and came right back to your channel to finish the rest of this video.
I came back again today to watch your video again. If your representation of Vaush is accurate, then I no longer need to watch him.
Additionally, even though it may not mean very much, and even though it won't change anything, I would like to apologize for what my country has done to you and your country in my name and without my consent.
I pray for good health and safety for you and your family, Hakim.
Sincerely, your brother in humanity,
Matthew
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So very well said, Exodus.
It is incredibly saddening, enraging, amusing, disgusting, stupefying, maddening (choose your own adjectives) to listen to Thom every time he explains in great detail -- citing SCOTUS decisions, Legislation, and Executive Orders, calling out by name the corrupt individuals involved -- this "unraveling" of America.
The corruption that Thom explains was set in motion by the same corrupt, wealthy-class white supremacists who started America in the first place.
Thom has explained this sequence of modern corruption events many times, how America went from a country that he evidently once loved and supported into one that Thom verbally critiques.
Yet, no matter how much Thom critiques the unraveling and calls out the people responsible, he still materially benefits from what America is, was, and has become.
Thom also capitulates and downplays the responsibility of a large group of people responsible for perpetuating the wealthy-class, white supremacist corruption in the present -- namely the Democrat party.
Thom can verbally bash the Republic-party and its wealthy-class leadership, and rightly so. Right-wing politics are the politics of wealthy-class white supremacy. But Thom can't bring himself to criticize the Democrat-party and its wealthy-class leadership.
I find it (insert adjective here) to listen to Thom. He explains the modern-corruption of wealthy-class white supremacy and how it has set its roots in modern-America (starting with the Buckley v. Valeo SCOTUS decision of 1978), but then, day after day, he capitulates to the Democrat-party while bashing the Republic-party.
It seems as though Thom doesn't think that the Democrat-party apparatus has become corrupted and co-opted in the same way that the Republic-party apparatus has.
It's like Thom doesn't see or believe that the same wealthy-class, white supremacist corruption that prompted world empires and European Colonialism is in effect today.
Well, I call bullshite.
I don't believe a person can know all the details that Thom knows, yet not understand how the corruption has infiltrated both major U.S. political parties, both of which govern with right-wing, wealthy-class, white supremacist politics.
Thom knows the who, what, when, where, why, and how regarding corruption. But I'm supposed to believe he doesn't see that it has corrupted both wealthy-class political parties and much of the working-class electorate?
Again, I call bullshite.
I think Thom is a knave on the take. I think Thom knows exactly what the Democrat-party has become, but he tiptoes around it because he benefits from the life he has been afforded by the two-party rule of one group of corrupt, wealthy-class white supremacists.
I don't think Thom is wrong in his historical representation of a large grouping of facts. But I still think, at best, he's a foolish, moderate white liberal who MLK warned us about. And, at worst, he's a knave who helps to perpetuate the systemic injustices that MLK fought against.
Honestly, Exodus, I much prefer your historical representation of a large grouping of facts.
Well done, sir.
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@Scott -- Trump knows as much about negotiating now, as I did 30 years ago.
I'll try to explain...
When I was three years old, and under the charge of my aunt one afternoon, we went to a YMCA track meet which was held at our local fairgrounds. My older cousins were participating, while I was a tiny, amazed spectator.
The local fairgrounds aren't very large, but for a three-year-old, the place seemed huge. At one point, my aunt wanted to bring all of the kids to the bathroom at the same time. The bathrooms weren't very far away, but far enough away so that my impatient, inept aunt didn't want to have to walk the one-tenth of a mile a second time. But I didn't have to use the bathroom then. So we walked back to where we were sitting and we watched the rest of the track meet.
My aunt and many of the other adults in my family live by ignorant adages and foolish practices. For example; "eat now (even if you're not hungry) or don't eat at all" and "go to the bathroom now (even if you don't have to go to the bathroom) or don't go to the bathroom at all." These kinds of methods were selectively-applied constants throughout my childhood. Some kids were held to the standards of these archaic sayings, and some kids were allowed exceptions. I was not an exception.
Upon preparing to leave to go home, I told my aunt that I had to go to the bathroom, but she would not take me. Because I had "chosen" to not go earlier (because I didn't have to go then), I was deprived of the opportunity to perform my duty when the doodie became pressing, and I do mean pressssssing.
I could see the bathrooms. As I said, the fairgrounds are not very large, and they are very flat. But I was too young to go by myself and, since this was the 1980's when abuse and neglect were still widely accepted, no other adult or fellow-child would stand up for me. So, we walked to the car, which was farther away than the bathrooms were, and we all piled in for the 20-minute drive home.
On the ride home, I had to sit on my aunt's lap. Since this was in the 1980s before my state had a seatbelt law, there were two adults and probably six or seven kids crammed into one car. We made the trip to my house, my aunt dropped me off with my mom, and my aunt went home.
Probably 10-minutes later, my mom is standing in front of me while I'm bawling my eyes out, and my mom picks up the phone to call my aunt.
My mom asks my aunt: "Do you know where your nephew is?"
~Silence
My mom: "He's in the bathroom, naked, crying, and the toilet is flooding all over the place!"
~Silence
My mom: "He took off his clothes, tried to flush his underwear down the toilet, and plugged it up! I can see his underwear in the toilet because they won't fit down the pipe!"
What happened was, on the way home from the track meet I couldn't hold my doodie anymore. So I did my duty in my underwear while I was sitting on my aunt's lap (which I'm sure she had to have realized, and then didn't tell my mom when I was dropped off at my house).
On the ride home, I thought (due to prior experiences and abuse) I would be in trouble for having shat in my pants. So, I took matters into my own hands to try and remedy the situation without involving my parents and thus avoiding any sort of unreasonable punishment.
When I got home I went straight to the bathroom. I took off my red shorts -- the 1980s kind, with white stripes down the sides -- I took off my Mickey-Mouse under-roos, and I flushed those bad boys right down the toilet as fast as I could.
I was only three!!
How could I have known what was going to happen!?
As far as I was concerned, every shitty-thing belonged in the toilet!!
Not only did I not know shit about which shitty-things did or didn't belong in the toilet, but I also didn't know shit about negotiating when I had to shit.
The moral of the story?
Trump knows the same thing about negotiating at 70 years old as I knew about negotiating at three years old.
Shit.
(Disclaimer: This is a true story. Don't steal it. I'm poor and I won't be able to do anything about it.)
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I worked at an internationally and historically famous 5-star hotel nestled in a right-wing, rural community. This hotel was owned for decades by a local family. It was, and remains, the largest employer in the county.
That local family had their own deficiencies, but they had a sense of geographical loyalty to the local employees. But the local family sold the hotel to a private equity firm.
That private equity firm subsequently fired many of the local folks who had made the hotel their career. The private equity firm then hired a management company to operate the hotel.
That management company even further decimated the local employees who were trying to make the hotel a career. After depleting the number of local employees, the management company increased the number of foreign student employees.
By firing and replacing the local workers with foreign students, the private equity and management companies decreased the solidarity among the workforce while simultaneously reducing wages and benefits.
The hotel became an increasingly cutthroat place to work. Friendships that had lasted for decades were destroyed by the increasing threat of unemployment, insecurity, and economic desperation.
The last general manager I worked under told me I better start lying for the company. The company used deceptive practices on the website to attract guests, then made up excuses to appease the guests when they arrived and complained. Not to mention a plethora of other terrible things they did to the employees.
But I refused to lie. I told the truth to these guests, many of whom were repeat customers who had been coming to the hotel for years.
Many of the repeat guests knew the local family who had owned the hotel previously. Those long-time guests knew the reasons for the decline in quality and service. But the first-time guests didn't understand the deceptive nature of the private equity and management companies.
So I told the newer guests about the cost-cutting measures which negatively affected guests and employees. I explained how service and quality were no longer a priority.
That general manager I mentioned utilized his friends to pose as irate guests. The general manager and his friends fabricated situations in which his friends would complain to the higher-paid employees.
They made it so that the higher-paid employees would fail. Then the general manager's friends would complain and lie about the employees and provide cause to fire those employees. I was one of them.
A few months before I got fired, I made the egotistical mistake of a young man by telling that general manager, "I was here before you, and I'll be here after you." I was wrong.
However, a few months after I got fired, he got fired when he was caught on video sleeping with an hourly employee who was also the girlfriend of a middle manager.
The middle manager saw his girlfriend's car in the driveway of the house that the general manager was renting. So the middle manager filmed himself with his cell phone camera as he walked into the general manager's house and found his girlfriend sleeping with the general manager.
The middle manager went right to the hotel and to HR. It soon came to light that the general manager was sleeping with multiple female employees who had husbands and boyfriends. That kind of thing doesn't fly around here. The community is too small.
Anyway, I'd like to say it felt good to hear about the general manager's demise, but I found his LinkedIn, and he has merely moved on to ruin other lives.
I've been unemployed for years now, living at the whims of right-wing family members who have made me homeless on many occasions and often threaten to do so again. I'm basically an indentured servant, stuck in rural America without an income or transportation.
Why do I tell this story? Because I am able. Because, as bad as my life is, I know that other people have it worse than I do.
I tell my story for the people who can't tell their own.
Take care of each other.
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A community should be able to initiate the division of a couple/relationship, particularly if/when a couple/relationship becomes toxic to the community, especially for the sake of children.
Under a system like that, my parents could have been divorced for numerous reasons on countless occasions. For examples:
1. After the first of the many times that my mother literally begged my father to hit her. She tried goading him into hitting her for years. He never did hit her though.
But I had to watch her purposefully manipulate him for years, and no kid should have to watch that kind of mind-f*kcing .
2. After the first of many times that my mother tricked me and my siblings into not reporting her to Child Protective Services for abusing us.
She would say things like, "they're just going to come and take you away."
She said it that way on purpose, to make us think it was our fault. Because, as kids, most of us get taught that when bad people do the wrong things, the cops come and take the wrong-doers away.
So, by telling us that "they" were going to "take us away," she tricked us into believing that we were the ones in the wrong.
Then, there was another thing she started doing.
When we would threaten to call CPS on her, she would say the 1-800-number out loud, like she had it memorized. Or, she would write the number on a piece of paper and hand it to us. It was as if she was daring us to call.
Looking back, I don't know if she did that because she believed that we wouldn't call or because she wouldn't have cared if we did call. (It's difficult, and probably futile, to try deciphering the specific and primary motives of consumer-driven socio/psychopathic narcissists.)
But she knew we were more scared of being taken away than we were of her abuse because she had already implanted the fear of "them" taking us away into our minds.
We didn't want to get taken away -- we just wanted the abuse to stop. And we were only scared because we didn't know any better.
Like, sure, for argument's sake, the foster-care system is a gamble. But we didn't know that as young kids in the 1980s.
And, besides, also for the sake of argument, which scenario is actually worse: Staying in an abusive situation or gambling on being moved to a less abusive situation?
Staying in an abusive situation isn't ideal, but neither is gambling. And no kid should have to make that choice.
Anyway. My mother played these manipulative mind-games on us until we stopped threatening to report her abuse. Instead of reporting her, we "learned" to live with the unreasonable and illogical abuse by succumbing to it.
I often wonder what could've been different for me if I would've rolled the dice and made the call to CPS.
Oh, goodness. That was quite a digression from my main point. I'll get back to it and conclude.
Perhaps my parents should have been forced to get a divorce after my mother was provably neglecting me and after she rendered my father into a perception of powerlessness to do anything about it.
You might be asking yourself, "what, why, how?" Well, then, here are your answers.
3. After I almost lost my tongue was two years old.
I was in the garage alone. (WHAT?) Then I climbed up on the four-foot-tall workbench. (WHY?) Then I fell off the bench and slammed my chin onto the concrete floor, nearly biting my tongue in half. (HOW?)
4. Or, the time I ate mothballs.
5. Or, the time I ate rat poisoning.
6 Or, the time I drank ammonia.
7. Or, the time I drank bleach.
8. Or, the time I ate a bottle of children's aspirin. (Which didn't even happen, because I clearly remember pouring the pills down the drain. But I got caught with the empty bottle by my neglectful biatch-mother, so I got treated as if I had eaten the whole bottle).
9. Or, when I was 7 years old, my doctor admonished my mother for allowing me to become obese, at which point my mother stopped using that doctor to prevent the doctor from recording a paper trail of my mother's nutritional-negligence.
10. Or, when my relatives and neighbors started molesting me.
Perhaps my parents should have been forced to get a divorce after one of those instances. Or maybe their divorce should have been required after...
11. ...my mother's first year of doctor-enabled opioid addiction. Maybe that would be a good precursor, indicating that someone would turn into a sh!te-mother and wife.
She's now 40+ years into a doctor-enabled opioid addict. Maybe that's a good clue, explaining why she's still a sh!te-human today.
If you're still asking yourself, "what, why, and how?" The answers are all easy and the same -- because my mother was too busy getting high on opioids to take care of herself and the vulnerable humans she was supposed to protect.
Certainly, there must be something on my list that would incite more than questions, like, what, why, and how"?
Surely, there must be something on my list that would move the better, caring members of the community to seek action, to end my parent's relationship and the misery it brought upon me and others.
There has to be something that will compel the working-class drones into action to protect children.
But, as of today: Nope!
Children are left to suffer without escape.
And these ignorant working-class adults keep pumping out innocent working-class children to continue the suffering. As if there's some magic number of suffering children that, if reached, will make the suffering of working-class adults disappear.
I don't say all these things to get sympathy for me. I don't need it now. But I do say these things to incite empathy for the children who are suffering RIGHT NOW.
I wouldn't change my childhood. My suffering gave me the sense of perception to grasp who is at fault for my suffering. The people at fault are those like J.D. Vance.
And my opening point remains the same:
There should be a system in place whereby the people of a community can initiate the division of a couple/relationship, particularly if/when a couple/relationship becomes toxic to the community, especially for the sake of children.
Until better times, I'll be preaching antinatalism and celibacy.
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Yeah, Jordan is trying, but he doesn't have enough to combat Cenk's gishgallop, obfuscation, dodges & pivots. But even more-so, this channel does a disservice by ignoring, and failing to educate, on the international & historical contexts of politics. If the viewers/voters knew the truth, then they would know that Cenk is a RWer, whether or not he is willing, or smart enough to admit it.
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RW-politics are anti-working-class & pro-wealthy-class politics.
Neo-Cons (mostly Repubs) are RW-extremists & Neo-Libs (mostly Dems) are moderate-RWers.
BOTH Repubs & Dems are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
BOTH Repubs & Dems are traveling down the same path from capitalism to corporatism to cronyism to fascism to slavery.
BOTH Repubs & Dems are anti-republics & anti-democracies.
BOTH Repubs & Dems are pro-authoritarianism & pro-materialism.
BOTH Repubs & Dems are pro-wage-slavery, pro-debt-slavery, & pro-chattel-slavery.
CNN, MSNBC, ABC, & CBS are all moderate-RW, Neo-Liberal outlets.
FoxNews, OAN, NewsMax & NewsNation are all RW-extremist, Neo-Conservative outlets.
TYT is somewhere in between them (yes, TYT is a moderate-RW outlet).
ALL of the above networks are capitalist & corporatist entities.
Capitalism & corporatism are RW-economic systems, just like cronyism, fascism, & slavery.
That's why the back-woods & back-roads of working-class America -- which are inhabited by under-handed, broke-brained, & bent-backed working-class Americans -- are such sh!teholes.
That's why the mansions, real estate, & resorts -- which are owned & visited by the corrupt RW-sh!theads of the corrupt wealthy-class -- are not sh!teholes.
Most working-class Americans have been rendered ignorant by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics, by the terrible education-policies that have been enacted via their corrupted RW-political-parties.
And so, most working-class Americans can't or don't comprehend the political-spectrum/politics in international & historical contexts.
There's your first lesson.
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Long-story short: I realized, at quite a young age (8-9yo), just how terrible my upbringing was, and I knew lots of kids who suffered in "broken" homes/families like mine. I also realized, at a young age, that there was a very high-probability that I would end up continuing the cycle of suffering by unintentionally creating a broken home/family in the future. And I didn't want to do that.
I knew, even at a young age, that I didn't want any other innocent children to suffer through the things that I suffered through as an innocent child. And I certainly knew that I didn't want to inadvertently cause that suffering by unintentionally creating a broken home/family. I became fearfully-ill at the thought of accidentally creating another life that would surely endure suffering in the future.
So, to avoid any accidental-pregnancies, and to avoid causing the future-suffering of my unborn-children, I decided, at a young age, that I wouldn't have a family or procreate. And to spite my scared-sick feelings, I became dedicated to the avoidance of becoming the cause of more human-suffering. And, in pursuit of my decisions of avoidance & dedication, I remained a virgin until my thirties, and I've had sex fewer than a handful of times in my life. (Anyone who says, "sex is a human-necessity," is a liar, or worse.)
As I grew into my teens, alcohol became a big part of my life. Alcohol became the self-medicating replacement for the terrible family I already had. Alcohol became the self-medicating replacement for the family I decided I shouldn't/wouldn't have in the future. And alcohol also became the self-medicating replacement for my friends who disappeared from my life as they pursued families of their own.
Thankfully, though, I've since been liberated from my alcohol-addiction. But I wouldn't go back and change it -- I wouldn't undo the suffering I endured as a child, nor would I undo the suffering I endured throughout my self-medicating addiction that spanned my late-childhood into adulthood -- because those things shaped who I've become.
However, I was fortunate to come away from my suffering & addiction with an increased sympathy & empathy for other people. I say I'm fortunate because, in my experience, most people don't come away from suffering & addiction with greater sympathy & empathy.
Some people who suffer, think that everyone should suffer, and that suffering is a necessity or a virtue. But I'm not one of those people.
Even though I have suffered, and learned from that suffering, I do not hope for the suffering of other people. I hope for the liberation of all the people who are suffering.
And I hope for the liberation of people who are addicted, because suffering, precarity & loneliness are much better experienced in sobriety than intoxication.
Much love to you, @dylannaenzo9737 and to anyone who reads this.
✌🤟✊🙏
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Libertarians -- 🤮-- the American political-party aren't Republican-light. They're Republican-extremists.
They want as few rules and regulations for the wealthy-class masters as possible.
And the working-class Libertarians aspire to be the wealthy-class masters themselves. But if they can't be the wealthy-class masters, they'll settle for acting as the brute-buffers between the wealthy-class masters and the working-class slaves.
American Libertarians are nothing more than the same-old, age-old wealthy-class patriarchal segregationists that have ruled over the working-class masses since the invention of currency.
They promote the 'do-as-I-say not-as-I-do' system of wealthy-class masters over working-class slaves.
For all of the societal problems that could be prevented or solved by a civilized, collectivist government of 'we, the people', Libertarians want the right to solve those societal problems barbarically by a tyranny of 'I, the individual.'
They want the right to murder people in the streets with whom they disagree. They want the most basic of court proceedings, so they can go into court and say, "I was afraid, so I had to gut them in the street,' and then walk out free. For example, murderers Georgie Dummerman and Kyller Rottenhoser.
The wealthy-class Libertarians, and the working-class fools who they have co-opted, don't want democracy and equality. They want autocracy and supremacy.
They don't believe in the rule of law by the working-class majority. They believe in the rule of mobs by the wealthy-class minority. And they will do anything to maintain their economic and societal positions of power.
The working-class dupes will murder their families and friends, and they'll sabotage their own communities if their wealthy-class overlords tell them to. They will elbow side-to-side at the people most like them, and they will kick-down at the least fortunate, all for a few extra crumbs from the masters' tables.
Some people just want to be the daddy-minority, telling the family-majority how to live. And if they can't be the daddy, then they'll find a daddy to tell them how to live. For example, the working-class individuals who sign up to be cops or join the military, knowing they may have to kill their own working-class brothers and sisters.
Good working-class people denounce the military and the police when they leave those institutions. Bad working-class people defend those institutions of imperialism and supremacy and bring the worst qualities of those institutions back into their communities. For example, the working-class insurrectionist-children who did the invasion on January 6, 2021, because their wealthy-class supremacist-daddy told them to.
Personally, I don't condone caging humans. Caging humans is not rehabilitating. Caging humans is confinement, and confinement is torture. Libertarianism is the product of humans who are the products of different kinds of torture. Libertarians are the way they are because they experienced some kind of torture at some point in their lives which made them turn out this way.
Oh, and if you don't think that confinement is torture, lock yourself in your bathroom until you feel tortured. Some people -- the worst kinds of people and the people who are already broken --, can't last a day.
But even though I don't condone caging them, the terrible wealthy-class and working-class Libertarians would let good collectivist-humans rot to death in a cage.
I find it difficult to come up with ways to deprogram them from their learned behaviors of toxic individualism and tainted supremacy, especially knowing that they wouldn't find it difficult to do worse things to better people.
And as much as I may not want to cage the Libertarians, they are exactly what makes good humans believe that caging bad humans is necessary. Whether they are wealthy-class knaves or the co-opted working-class fools, the Libertarian-minority's way of life is exactly why good people collectivize and unionize into majorities to undo the mob-rule of the individualist-minority.
Just because I don't want to cage Libertarians, that doesn't mean I can stop the good people of the working-class collectivist-majority from doing so to protect themselves from the individualist-minority.
However, I do believe in giving choices and chances. So my choices would be as follows: individual-cages or collectivist-contributions.
They can either go to the for-profit cages they were so happy to put other people in, or they can become part of society and contribute the kinds of labor they tried so hard to avoid by creating a corrupt system in which they didn't have to work.
They can choose to contribute their labor toward the creation of necessities, or they can choose to go in the cages which they created.
They can choose to be equals among the working-class majority, or they can choose to continue acting as the wealthy-class minority of individualist supremacists and saboteurs in the cages of their own creation. I would even give them a choice outside of the caged option.
If they don't want to be caged and provided for, they can choose to be dropped off on one of the newly created Libertarian-islands with other like-minded Libertarians. On these Libertarian-islands with other like-minded Libertarians, they will be able to live out the individualist-fantasies of their unilateral wet-dreams.
They can choose to act right, help take care of each other, and be part of the majority of humans who have to work in life, or they can choose the cage or the island. But they can no longer live their lives of economic and social supremacy as a wealthy-class minority living at the expense and off the backs of the egalitarian working-class majority.
But, for now, this is the Libertarian society in which we are stuck; controlled by the trash-can wealthy-class and the garbage-bag working-class dupes who have been co-opted by the wealthy class.
They are the weakest individual links among the lowest common denominator of humans.
I wouldn't leave any children or elderly humans in their care. I wouldn't leave a dead and decomposing goldfish in a bowl in their care.
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I once read someone write it like this: "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness correlate directly with Healthcare, Rehabilitation(Incarceration), and Education -- no one should be making profits from any of those things." Something like that. Personally, I would include food, clothes, shelter(housing), sanitation, and hygiene, too.
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Your argument is great! Let me know if this one is any good, in regards to Emily saying the drugs could be harmful...
In 2017, right-wingers passed and signed "Right to Try" legislation into law. This allows people to try untested/risky/potentially dangerous treatments for medical purposes. To give people the "Right to Try" to improve the quality of their own lives.
But, now? Suddenly? Right-wingers DON'T want to give people the "Right to Try" to try to improve the quality of their own lives???
Suddenly, right-wingers want to go against and/or take back their own law???
No-no-no-no... Right-wingers just want to prevent "*OTHER*" people from having the "Right to Try" to try to improve the quality of their own lives.
Because right-wingers are cruel hypocrites.
The wealthy right-wingers are intelligent, cruel hypocrites.
The working-class right-wingers are ignorant, cruel hypocrites.
If you think it's a good argument, pass it on.
P.S. This is like the right-wing's book-ban laws that are getting the Bible banned.
Or, like the right-wing's parental-rights laws that are being used by the parents of marginalized children.
Again, not all right-wingers are intelligent. Even the ones who write laws can be dumb. But cruelty is one of their main goals.
And another goal is to incite the ignorant working-class right-wingers into sabotorial, violent, and/or murderous action.
That's what wealthy right-wing conservatives, who are trying to conserve their places in the hierarchies of social-status they've created, are going to do.
They don't even care if their hypocritical, right-wing laws stand. They'll just use their wealth to try again.
Or, they'll use their wealth to leave the country when they've finally instigated a civil or larger war involving the U.S.
That's what the wealthy Nazis/Confederates did when the Allies/Union came calling -- the wealthy used their wealth to flee. And wealthy, right-wing Americans have been doing the same, and increasingly so, as of late.
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More right-wing theater for the working-class dupes to consume. Biden and the "reporter" who asked the question are BOTH actors, and BOTH of their roles were written and defined by the wealthy-class. The wealthy-class right-wingers produce the muddy-theater, and the working-class morons eat it up like pigs in a wallow.
Working-class dupes who vote for the right-wing Republic party: "RED mud is better!"
Working-class dupes who vote for the right-wing Democrat party: "BLUE mud is better!"
Wealthy-class right-wingers who own the red-dye, the blue-dye, AND both of the mud-parties: "Here's some more mud, for you working-class dupes!"
Working-class dupes, with red, blue, and purple mud all over their right-wing faces: *Nom-nom-nom
America, and the world, are such right-wing sh!tholes.
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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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Oh, get off your high-horse, you jackass. You've gotten lucky -- nothing more, nothing less. And if it wasn't you in your position, it would be another working-class human who's no-more and no-less worthy of a dignified life than you are.
You're just one of the small number of working-class dupes who has been allowed to get lucky in the rigged, societal lottery-system that has been set up by the corrupt, wealthy-class knaves with their corrupt RW-politics of capitalist-slavery & fascist-slavery.
And those corrupt, wealthy-class knaves don't care whether you're a chattel-slave, like your ancestors were, or a debt-slave or a wage-slave, like my ancestors were. The corrupt wealthy-class will take any kind of slaves they can get. That's all you are to them.
Metaphorically, your self-proclaimed successes in life are the equivalent of having won a rigged coin-toss. But, as evidenced by your delusions of grandeur, you're somehow dumb enough to think that you literally made the rigged-coin land heads-up all by yourself.
And if you're anything like the vile working-class dupes who I know personally (which your writing leads me to believe that you are), then I have no doubt that you would commit vile atrocities against other, decent, innocent working-class humans, if your wealthy-class masters told you to, just so you could maintain your lifestyle-addictions.
All the problems in the world can be traced back, two-fold: (1)to the populace-minority of corrupt, wealthy-class knaves and their corrupt RW-politics, and (2)to the populace-minority of working-class dupes, like you, who support the corrupt, wealthy-class knaves and their corrupt RW-politics.
Your self-exposed ignorance, and the ignorance of the other working-class dupes like you, would be blissfully-adorable if it weren't so abhorrently-deplorable.
You're exactly as dumb as your corrupt wealthy-class masters have designed you to be.
Congratulations... 🥳
...you're a moron. 🙄
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I'm sorry to hear that story, Christian. There should be laws codified as "economic-terrorism laws."
These laws would specifically pertain to people in positions of leadership within society.
The wealthy-class employers, the professional-managerial class, elected officials, public servants, appointed jurists, law enforcement officers, military members, and other persons in positions of leadership within society would be subject to these economic-terrorism laws.
These laws would apply a higher standard to persons who CHOOSE to pursue leadership positions in society -- particularly regarding already-existing crimes.
Leaders who force workers to commit, or leaders who commit against workers, any of the actions that the majority of the population has already deemed unethical, immoral, or unlawful, would face more severe punishments than citizens and workers who are not leaders.
For example, harassment: Any leader who commits harassment against a citizen or worker would receive more severe punishment for committing that crime while acting in their leadership position.
Furthermore, any worker who admittedly or evidently harassed another worker, with knowledge of the harassment going unaddressed by leadership, would be a punishable offense by the leader.
Another example is individual ethics: Forcing workers to do things that go against the worker's ethics and morals would be a punishable offense for leaders.
Of course, personal morals and ethics can reach "gray-areas" for some people. But, I say, if a task requested by a leader isn't immoral or unethical, then that leader should have no problem finding another worker to perform the task willingly.
The current system of minority-rule by society's leaders is absurdly detrimental -- no, antithetical -- to a majority-rule society. It is indisputably undemocratic.
The current system allows leaders to force workers by implying or saying, "Do what we say, when we say, how we say, without hesitation, or you don't get to eat food, drink water, live in a shelter, clothe your body."
At one point, I found this system to be terrifying. Even before I become homeless, I found the system alarming. But I couldn't explain why. As I learned to cope with homelessness, it became less terrifying.
Then I got lucky. I was able to become rehoused, and I began to educate myself about the even-greater terrors inflicted on other people who hadn't been able to cope as I had.
My experiences with being terrified and homeless, coupled with my ability to cope, then supplemented by my knowledge of other humans' inability to cope with the terror, really caused an evolution in how I felt about the mob-rule of the wealthy-class minority.
I realized that the wealthy-class perpetrators of this system were willing to let me die. I have since come to understand that they rely on people like me dying as a form of population control.
I have even further realized that the wealthy-class is willing to manufacture economic desperation from which working-class people are coerced into signing up for militaries to inflict pain and suffering on other working-class people.
I digress...
To me, leaders forcing workers to sacrifice their inner-peace, personal-spirituality, or economic-security under the threat of removing the worker from their source of livelihood is nothing less than committal of economic-terrorism by leaders.
The wealthy-class addicts are nothing less than economic-terrorists.
Because of my willingness to call out the wealthy-class and society's leaders -- I am under no disillusions -- I fully expect to become homeless again, in chains, or in a box.
I hope you never have to suffer under their mob-rule again, Christian.
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YouTube Censors Do all of your full-time employees get to work as much as they need to work, so they can make ends meet?
Do your part-time employees get to work as much as they want to work, so they can supplement the substandard wages they receive from their other jobs?
Or do you lord over your employees and make all of those decisions for them?
Do you employ enough people so that your full-time employees get to take time off from work for personal endeavors, and do you pay those full-time employees for the time off they choose to take?
Do you provide your employees with benefits or perks of any kind, whether it be insurance, employee-ownership or company-stock options, fuel reimbursement, travel-time pay, company parties (which, personally, I hate), reimbursement for college tuition or further training, paid meal breaks or coffee breaks, paid vacation time, paid sick time?
Or do you keep all of your employees just below full-time status to avoid having to offer these incentives?
Do you provide incremental increases on any of those benefits or perks for the employees who remain loyal to your business? If not, perhaps you should consider that you are not operating a business that is worth being loyal to.
Do you perform the same kind of physical labor that you require your employees to perform, proving to them that you don't think that you are above doing the work you require them to perform, further proving that you value them, not just as employees, but as human beings whom you are no more valuable than?
Do you sit in an office all day performing intellectual labor, or do you perform no labor for your company at all and simply collect the monetary surplus that is created by the physical labor your employees perform?
All of these questions are important, but you need not answer them.
What I am most curious about is the following.
How much money do you make per year from the business and how much do your employees make per year, versus how much labor-time you all put into the business?
Are your employees making $15 per hour, 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year, for a total of $31,200 per year before taxes, for performing the manual labor which provides the real value to your company?
Are you making double what they make, or more, for performing less work?
Do you think that you're the only person smart enough to start the kind of business you did?
Do you think that your "grand idea" makes you worth more than other humans?
Do you think that you are the only one taking a risk by starting and owning a business?
Do you think that your employees aren't taking a risk in working for you, while you make more money than they do?
Do you think that your employees aren't taking a risk in trusting you to no screw things up so that they can continue to have work and wages?
Again, these are all questions that I don't need you to answer, but if you want my sympathy or my praise, you don't have it.
The U.S. government is bought and paid for by the corrupt wealthy-class minority. They are little more than labor-exploiting, private-property knaves who scream about individualism, even though they wouldn't be anything without the communities in which they live. They couldn't care less about the working-class people who make up the majority and perform all of the meaningful work in this country.
You seem to be right in tune with that minority of wealthy-class, labor-exploiting, private-property individualists.
You're unique because you're you -- we're all unique -- but none of us is more valuable as a human being than anyone else, even though some people imply otherwise.
The world doesn't need you to be the owner of your businesses. The world needs the people who do the work.
If you went out of business tomorrow, the world would still need workers, and it would still have workers.
There's a difference between a living wage and a slave wage, and $15 per hour isn't a living wage. Not in most of the country, and especially not for a family. We live in a country with plenty of people who are smart enough to understand that.
We live in a country where a majority of the population are making sacrifices to provide necessities -- forget about having any sense of financial or future security, or having time to one's self to refresh, rejuvenate, or reflect.
If you can't sacrifice a little of your above-par lifestyle to help increase the lifestyle of your employees, then maybe it's time you went out of business.
The working-class majority doesn't need you to be their owner. You're the minority who needs the majority to do the work for you.
You would have no success nor profit without communities or workers.
You'd be nothing without them.
The only reason it is so hard to start a business is because of the self-aggrandizing, wealthy-class exceptionalists who have manufactured the system to work that way.
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@JohnT.4321 I see little to no value in placating working-class class-traitors who have fallen prey to the mental-illness of addiction. The addictions of these working-class class-traitors have been delivered by the wealthy-class who are also mentally-ill with addiction.
The wealthy-class maintains all of the addictions they want. But they feed SOME of the addictions to the working-class in hopes of turning some working-class dupes into class-traitors. It works like a charm.
The working-class class-traitors think that if they get enough brown on their noses and boot-polish on their faces, the wealthy-class knaves will let the working-class class-traitors into the club. These working-class addicts are all for the mob-rule of the addicts in the wealthy-class minority.
These are the working-class fools who fall for wealthy-class pyramid schemes. These working-class class-traitors will sell their families, friends, and communities for a few extra crumbs from the masters' tables.
They will commit violence, murder, and genocide against their fellow working-class mates to maintain their addictions, especially if their wealthy-class Trumpian-Reaganite masters tell them to do so.
I mean, come one, that one working-class class-traitor addict-fool said that "class" was a made-up word. It's as if the fool doesn't understand that racism, sexism, genderism, ethnicity, nationality, misogyny and misandry, femininity, and masculinity, along with many other segregationist words, were also made up by the wealthy-class minority to further divide the working-class majority against itself.
I'm non-violent, but the people you're wasting your time communicating with ARE violent. They have no problem forcing all of the wealthy-class white-supremacist structures of violence, which, in turn, forces working-class people into violence.
Greeting these devious class-traitors with gladness for their presence and addressing them as "good people" is as foolish as Bernie Sanders referring to wealthy-class right-winger Joe Biden and wealthy-class right-winger Mitch McConnell as "good friends."
Some, most, or even all, of what you say may be true -- I do agree with the bits of your historical, political, and socioeconomic analysis that I have read. I just don't see the point in reapplying failed-tactics against people who would sooner have you in steel chains, a concrete cage, or a wooden box than ever concede that you MIGHT have a good point somewhere.
But, I guess your efforts make you a better human than I am -- you're definitely a better human than the class-traitors you're trying to teach.
You do you.
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I mean, we kind of have laws against lying. A person can be sued for defamation, slander, and libel. But a person has to be able to afford a lawyer, or afford to be able to be a lawyer in order to have access to those options.
Of course, there are also laws against lying to law enforcement, some government officials and employees. I think there should be much more stringent laws and higher penalties for law enforcement, government officials and employees who lie, though. And cops shouldn't be allowed to lie to "suspects" or "detainees."
Also, candidates on the primary and general election debate stage should have to be sworn under oath by a judge, like a witness in a courtroom, and they should be subject to the same rules of perjury that any citizen would be. If citizens can't lie to government employees, then potential and current government employees shouldn't be allowed to lie to citizens.
Any lie a candidate tells should be able to be brought for adjudication in a court of law, with expert and professional witnesses proving how the candidate has lied, and the candidate proving how they haven't lied. Guilty verdicts should result in no longer being allowed to hold public office or security clearances. They can be "sanitation engineers."
And all court proceedings should be televised because an informed citizenry is a resilient and connected citizenry. And the citizens should know when they're being lied to. They deserve to have it proven to them, and they should be free from worrying about being lied to by the same person in the future.
Something like that.
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Trump knows as much about negotiating now, as I did 30 years ago.
I'll try to explain...
When I was three years old, and under the charge of my aunt one afternoon, we went to a YMCA track meet which was held at our local fairgrounds. My older cousins were participating, while I was a tiny, amazed spectator.
The local fairgrounds aren't very large, but for a three-year-old, the place seemed huge. At one point, my aunt wanted to bring all of the kids to the bathroom at the same time. The bathrooms weren't very far away, but far enough away so that my impatient, inept aunt didn't want to have to walk the one-tenth of a mile a second time. But I didn't have to use the bathroom then. So we walked back to where we were sitting and we watched the rest of the track meet.
My aunt and many of the other adults in my family live by ignorant adages and foolish practices. For example; "eat now (even if you're not hungry) or don't eat at all" and "go to the bathroom now (even if you don't have to go to the bathroom) or don't go to the bathroom at all." These kinds of methods were selectively-applied constants throughout my childhood. Some kids were held to the standards of these archaic sayings, and some kids were allowed exceptions. I was not an exception.
Upon preparing to leave to go home, I told my aunt that I had to go to the bathroom, but she would not take me. Because I had "chosen" to not go earlier (because I didn't have to go then), I was deprived of the opportunity to perform my duty when the doodie became pressing, and I do mean pressssssing.
I could see the bathrooms. As I said, the fairgrounds are not very large, and they are very flat. But I was too young to go by myself and, since this was the 1980's when abuse and neglect were still widely accepted, no other adult or fellow-child would stand up for me. So, we walked to the car, which was farther away than the bathrooms were, and we all piled in for the 20-minute drive home.
On the ride home, I had to sit on my aunt's lap. Since this was in the 1980s before my state had a seatbelt law, there were two adults and probably six or seven kids crammed into one car. We made the trip to my house, my aunt dropped me off with my mom, and my aunt went home.
Probably 10-minutes later, my mom is standing in front of me while I'm bawling my eyes out, and my mom picks up the phone to call my aunt.
My mom asks my aunt: "Do you know where your nephew is?"
~Silence
My mom: "He's in the bathroom, naked, crying, and the toilet is flooding all over the place!"
~Silence
My mom: "He took off his clothes, tried to flush his underwear down the toilet, and plugged it up! I can see his underwear in the toilet because they won't fit down the pipe!"
What happened was, on the way home from the track meet I couldn't hold my doodie anymore. So I did my duty in my underwear while I was sitting on my aunt's lap (which I'm sure she had to have realized, and then didn't tell my mom when I was dropped off at my house).
On the ride home, I thought (due to prior experiences and abuse) I would be in trouble for having shat in my pants. So, I took matters into my own hands to try and remedy the situation without involving my parents and thus avoiding any sort of unreasonable punishment.
When I got home I went straight to the bathroom. I took off my red shorts -- the 1980s kind, with white stripes down the sides -- I took off my Mickey-Mouse under-roos, and I flushed those bad boys right down the toilet as fast as I could.
I was only three!!
How could I have known what was going to happen!?
As far as I was concerned, every shitty-thing belonged in the toilet!!
Not only did I not know shit about which shitty-things did or didn't belong in the toilet, but I also didn't know shit about negotiating when I had to shit.
The moral of the story?
Trump knows the same thing about negotiating at 70 years old as I knew about negotiating at three years old.
Shit.
(Disclaimer: This is a true story. Don't steal it. I'm poor and I won't be able to do anything about it.)
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+StephenSchleis +Gage Acosta -- Yay!
+Breaking House -- Booooo!
Poverty is a byproduct of the manufactured system which we call capitalism.
Poverty is determined, like any other economic or class ranking, by the implementation of a particular economic system.
Poverty as a byproduct is increased, and exponentially so, as the manufactured system is captured and corrupted by those placed in an elevated position within the manufactured system's hierarchy. Whether a person is placed in an elevated position within the economic hierarchy by birthright or by capitalizing on the capturing and corrupting of the manufactured system matters not. The more people on top of the pyramid, the more people needed at the bottom to support those at the top.
If the manufactured system wasn't able to be corrupted, if there were more stringent penalties for the people who seek to capture it, if waste as a positive variable in regards to profit motive, or if we manufactured a less corruptable economic system... If, if, if... Maybe capitalism wouldn't exist as in its current form.
Maybe if our economic system didn't resemble a pyramid scheme, people wouldn't be so upset with it.
If elites weren't so lazy and ignorant, and at ease with being so, we might not need capitalism. Lazy people who didn't want to provide for their own necessities, and enslaved other people to provide their necessities, is where capitalism derives, and why it continues to thrive.
The working class (bottom 90-ish percent of wage earners) has been given the choice to work 8 - 12 hours a day doing work they mostly hate (I read a study recently that said 80% of people are less than happy with their work) so we can buy our necessities, or be destitute. Have a piece of land and pay taxes on it, or don't live.
The elites don't have to worry about such things. Elites have their necessities provided and catered while the poverty-stricken struggle to provide and cater. Elites make money via corrupt capitalism simply due to allowances made by hierarchical birthright or by capturing corruption. With that corrupt money, elites also get to enjoy a life free of struggle.
Capitalism is as old as the Pharaohs, as old as the Asian dynasties, as old as the medieval monarchs and the peasants, as old as the colonist criminals and the natives, as old as the master manipulators and the sold slaves, as old as the employers and the employees. The divide between the capitalist and the citizen is as old as humans cheating other humans, and the creed has always been the same -- do it OUR way or NO way; the elite's way or no way; the corrupt way or no way.
Billions may have been brought out of poverty, but their poverty was manufactured by a manipulated system designed to exploit their minds, to addict them to buy more, to addict them to obtain more. All the while those who have captured and corrupted the manufactured system are manipulating the other facets of the manufactured system to manipulate the billions of people so that they do not care about anything but themselves as individuals. The manufactured system rewards individuals, lures individuals away from the believing they are part of the billions in poverty and into believing that they can purchase their way out of poverty individually, so long as they individually join in the corruption, join the boys club, join the manipulators.
Capitalism works for elites who don't want to work as hard as those at the bottom. Capitalism works to hide and deny those who have been victims of that manufactured system. Capitalism makes it so that people are unable to work and are thus swept into poverty, and capitalism doesn't care, the elites don't care. The elites only need as many slaves as are needed to provide the necessities and additional items that the elites want.
Capitalize all you want. To me, it only means you have a greater need to be moralized.
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RFK is a right-winger. He'll govern like a right-winger, just like Clinton, Obama, and Biden.
*Start Scene
RFK: "I am a Capitalist, in favor of Capitalism!!!"
The wealthy-class: "OooOOOhhh!!! WE are also Capitalists in favor of Capitalism! AND we're anti-working-class!!!"
Capitalism: "WELLLLLL!!! I just happen to be an anti-working-class, right-wing economic ideology that favors the wealthy-class to the detriment of the working-class."
Narrator: "The wealthy-class, right-wing Capitalist, RFK, laughed. 😁
Then the wealthy-class, right-wing Capitalists laughed. 😅
Then Capitalism laughed. 😂
Then they all went out for chocolate milkshakes. 🤣
And they laughed and laughed, as they reminisced about how 150+ million of the Overton-stunted, politically-shallow, historically-ignorant, internationally-shielded, working-class American fools voted for the right-wing, Capitalist Red-team and the right-wing, Capitalist Blue-team in the 2020 POTUS election." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
*End Scene
The pro-working-class American Leftists -- the ones who are the opposite of the Overton-stunted, politically-shallow, historically-ignorant, internationally-shielded, working-class American fools -- who know that the system of Capitalism, and Capitalists are the problem: 🙄
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If you don't like the way that the majority of the people of this country have decided and voted to operate national monetary and fiscal policy, just leave.
If you don't like the way that the majority of the people of this country have decided to tax the currency, just leave.
If you don't like living in a majority-rules system -- if you would rather live under minority-rule and mob-rule -- just leave.
If you don't like equity and equality -- but prefer ignorance, fear, anger, hate, violence, murder, genocide, and addictions to materialism, pillaging, hoarding, manipulation, exploitation, social status, substance abuse, promiscuous pursuits -- just leave.
I don't hate America.
I hate lazy wealthy-class people, and lazy working-class class-traitors, like you.
I don't hate America.
I hate class-traitors who help to uphold the wealthy-class system of inequality and inequity in hopes that someday the wealthy-class will welcome you into their club.
I don't hate America.
I hate that the wealthy-class works to dumb-down the working-class and succeeds.
I don't hate America.
I hate that the wealthy-class
has co-opted the worst & dumbest working-class people, having tricked the worst & dumbest working-class people into blaming their troubles on the better & smarter working-class people.
Instead of blaming the wealthy-class people who are responsible for the system of inequality and inequity under which we all live, the worst & dumbest working-class people blame each other.
I don't hate America.
I hate that the wealthy-class has corrupted EVERYTHING.
I hate that the wealthy-class has corrupted national governments, international markets, and entire groups of working-class humans, including you.
I hate that I have working-class friends and family members, like you, who are so stupid that they would murder their own working-class friends and family, or other working-class humans in foreign countries, if some wealthy-class addict or jarhead addict in a uniform told them to.
I don't hate America -- I don't even hate you -- I pity you.
At the very least, shut the fuk up while better and smarter people try to clean up after you and the rest of the addicts.
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If Jesus showed up tomorrow, preaching His message of anti-hate, anti-violence, anti-wealth, anti-materialism, & anti-vanity -- and, in contrast, His message of pro-love, pro-peace, pro-equality, pro-minimalism, & pro-modesty -- the RWers would crucify Him all over again, just like the RW-Pharisees & RW-Romans did 2000-years ago. 🙄
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Propaganda and indoctrination.
The wealthy-class who kidnapped, bought, and sold Africans, also prevented those working-class Africans from learning. The wealthy-class, which controlled the government, propagandized and indoctrinated that working-class group back then.
The wealthy-class, who did those things to Africans in the past, is the same wealthy-class which has co-opted the government in the present. In doing so, the wealthy-class has championed the defunding, deregulating, and destandardization of public education, thus preventing Americans from learning.
The wealthy-class, which controls the government, has propagandized and indoctrinated the working-class of today.
The wealthy-class knows, and has known for generations, that stupid people make better working-class slaves.
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When enough of the obnoxious, duped, moderate/right-wing, Yt snowflakes in the working-class majority finally realize how easy it is to end up enslaved by the predominantly Yt, wealthy-class minority who own the for-profit slave-cage businesses, then the prison-industrial-complex will finally change into the incarceration/rehabilitation public-service that it always should have been.
In my lifetime, things have only changed for the better when the obnoxious, duped, moderate/right-wing, Yt snowflakes in the working-class majority finally pull their noses out of the 💩-holes of their overlords in the wealthy-class minority.
When enough of the obnoxious, duped, moderate/right-wing, Yt snowflakes in the working-class majority have finally suffered, change will occur.
We're already seeing the tides turn, ever since Jan. 6, 2021 when the obnoxious, duped, moderate/right-wing, Yt snowflakes committed violence and sedition, and were then thrown into cages.
Those obnoxious, duped, moderate/right-wing, Yt snowflakes couldn't complain fast or loud enough, once they actually had to experience the kinds of inhumane and torturous conditions which they were previously happy to subject black&brown people to.
I have to say, as a leftist Yt person who has only ever been f*kced over by other obnoxious, duped, moderate/right-wing, Yt people: If more obnoxious, duped, moderate/right-wing, Yt snowflakes have to suffer in order for empathy to be learned and change to take place, then let those obnoxious, duped, moderate/right-wing, Yt snowflakes suffer.
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"There's great honor in serving our country..."
*clutching chest, craning neck, clenching anus
The greatest of great honors, with the greatest servants, in the greatest country, on the greatest planet, in the greatest solar system, in the greatest galaxy, in the greatest universe, in the greatest dimension. Ever. Period. Full-stop. Period. Period-period.
It is a great honor to prostitute oneself for a corporate, oligarchic kleptocracy -- which is operated by the wealthy-class, who in turn bribes the rich-class to administer the enslavement of the working-class, who all then shit on the poorest-classes all across the country and around the world -- whose main goal is to pillage the lands and hoard the resources of other nations while exploiting those nation's human-labor to commandeer all of that nation's industries -- so that the masters within the wealthy and rich-class minority, with the help of the class-trading crumb-catchers within the working and poor-class majority, can maintain their addictions to materialism, social-status, and easy-living which is expressed as the mental illness known as 'greed' -- all the while preaching against the very things one is servicing into perpetuity.
*from one side, speaking from the mouth
*sips tea, high up with the pinky
Cease THESE regime-change wars. Period.
This commander-in-chief is atrocious. Period.
*sports more flowers, round about the neck
*from the other side, speaks the same mouth
Commence THOSE regime-change wars. Period.
I'll command-and-chief astonishingly. Period.
Yes! 'Tis as noble a pursuit as any other for one to embrace the irony of one's hypocrisy!
*sips more tea
*sports more flowers
*solicits more power
*suppresses more people
/S
In the U.K., they would call her a C-U-Next-Tuesday.
In the U.S., it's simply another day that ends in 'Y' and another politician who starts and ends with 'I'.
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Ah, yes, ol' Bill -- the third right-wing POTUS after Jimmy Carter.
P.S. That's (1)Reagan, (2)Bush Sr., and (3)Clinton, for those who do not yet realize that there is only one major political party in the U.S. -- the wealthy party.
P.P.S. Look at the SCOTUS decisions (listed below) that legalized corruption and bribery while catapulting the advancement of wealthy-class, right-wing extremism.
1. Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
2. First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti (1978)
3. Citizens United v. FEC (2010)
4. McCutcheon v. FEC (2014)
These decisions paved the way for the wealthy-class minority to solidify their lordship over the working-class majority.
These decisions allowed the wealthy-class to take control of both political parties by flooding them with money, thereby forming one political party with two different names.
These decisions legalized certain practices within the U.S. that are illegal in other countries with better people. Meanwhile, better people throughout those other countries look on, laughing in amusement/crying in misery.
The wealthy-class further maintains their lordship in many ways.
One way is by producing pro-corporate, pro-wealth, pro-segregationist propaganda to indoctrinate the working-class to manipulate the way the working-class votes, thus molding electoral outcomes.
The corporate media companies, owned by the wealthy-class, gladly distribute this propaganda via pro-corporate news programs.
The wealthy-class and corporations that fund the Repubocrat/Demlican political party are the same wealthy-class and corporations that buy advertisements on television. Those advertising dollars help keep corporate news channels and local stations afloat.
We're not much better off now than in the days of Company Scrip -- which was eventually done away with after the working-class majority stood up to the wealthy-class minority.
So, now there will need to be a working-class reckoning when it comes to Company Courts.
But I won't hold my breath -- most of the working-class majority remain convinced that there are two political parties and that Bill Clinton was on the left.
Aaahhhhhhhhhahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaawwwwww-wwwaaaaaaahhh-waaaaaahhhhhhh (from laughing to crying).
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The corrupt, right-wing, wealthy-class Brazilians, whom Greenwald repeatedly exposed over the years, probably got sick of him and threatened him to either start saying what they tell him to say, or "suffer the consequences."
Brazil has desperate working-class people who can be pursuaded to become violent goons, just like the US has.
Greenwald has likely been threatened by the same corrupt, right-wing, wealthy-class forces in Brazil as the corrupt, right-wing, wealthy-class forces in American who set Jan. 6 into motion by inciting desperate working-class people into violent goonery.
I mean, it's not uncommon for self-proclaimed "leftists" to switch to the right-wing, but usually it's because of money/bribery (i.e. Candace Owens, Kyrsten Sinema, Dave Rubin). But I think Greenwald has gone right-wing by force.
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A. The video footage is recorded, by The People's Government, with Public-Property.
B. That video footage AND Public-Property belongs to We, The People, & OUR Government.
C. The video footage should be SENT to ALL Local Press Agencies AS SOON AS POSSIBLE after an incident.
D. The video footage should be SUBMITTED to ALL Non-Local Press Agencies UPON REQUEST.
Step 1: Hire someone to work in the IT Department of The People's Government, to work with the IT Departments of Press Agencies,
Step 2: Tax the local rich people to pay the salaries.
Step 3: Consequences for ANYONE & EVERYONE who messes with (1)We, The People's Government, (2)Our Public-Property, and/or (3)The Processes by which We attempt to implement Transparency & Accountability within Our Government, Communities, Families, Societies, and Economies.
Step 4: Amend the above, as We, The People see fit, by a vote, via Democracy.
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No. You're wrong. There are paradigms in politics. And in other, better countries, those paradigms are examined in international and historical contexts. America is, and always has been, a right-wing country, from its inception through today.
There is a left-to-right scale when it comes to economic policy, and there is a left-to-right scale when it comes to social policy.
Left-wing social politics means more freedoms for all individuals -- think, "All People are created equal."
Right-wing social politics means less equitable freedom for certain groups of individuals -- think, "wealthy-class people are better than working-class people."
Left-wing economic politics mean more protections for small businesses and the working-class, and more regulations and taxes on big corporations and the wealthy-class.
Right-wing economic politics means fewer protections for small businesses and the working-class, and fewer regulations and taxes on big corporations and the wealthy-class.
Thom is a member of the wealthy-class. He doesn't want more regulation and taxation on himself. So even if he is slightly left-wing socially, he's absolutely right-wing economically. And just because Thom is slightly left-wing socially, that doesn't mean that American politicians are.
Both American political parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class right-wingers. And Thom adamantly stands up for the leadership of the economically right-wing Democrat party while ignoring the corruption they share with the leadership of the economically right-wing Republic party.
Every POTUS in American history has been a pro-wealthy-class right-winger; Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush x2, Clinton x2, Reagan -- ALL right-wingers. Even FDR. FDR only governed toward the left so that the working-class wouldn't revolt and start lopping off wealthy-class heads in the streets.
Every current member of House and Senate party-leadership are wealthy-class right-wingers, too; Pelosi, McConnell, Schumer, and McCarthy -- ALL wealthy-class millionaires whose campaigns are funded by wealthy-class billionaires. ALL of them are wealthy-class right-wingers.
Ffs, Obama even passed a right-wing healthcare plan that was developed by the right-wing Heritage Foundation for right-winger Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts.
Any voter who has voted for a red or blue POTUS has voted to advance wealthy-class right-wing economic AND social policies.
America doesn't have a social safety net.
It doesn't have universal suffrage.
It doesn't have guaranteed housing or healthcare.
It doesn't have food or water security.
It doesn't have marriage equality.
It doesn't have racial, gender, or religious equity.
And sure, Thom advocates for those social equities. But when Dems and Repubs have controlled all three branches of government, NEITHER party passed laws to solidify those social policies. BOTH parties have kicked the can down the road. Yet, somehow, Thom and you dupes keep checking the Red and Blue boxes on election day.
Again, when it comes to economic policy, Hartmann is a right-winger. He's not the most right-wing, but a right-winger nonetheless. Just because you can't comprehend it, that doesn't mean it isn't so. In the same way that wealthy-class Americans prevented their chattel-slaves from learning in the past, that same wealthy-class has prevented you wage-slaves from learning in the present.
You moronic Americans have allowed yourselves to be governed by TWO economically right-wing political parties. You fall for the theatrics of the wealthy-class right-wingers who are presiding over a political monopoly they've dressed up as a duopoly.
The wealthy-class pumps out the right-wing propaganda on MSNBC, FOX, CNN, and OAN, and you rubes buy the red and blue like you're going to a sportsball game.
While working-class Americans remain duped, the working-class in other, better countries laugh at you because you can't comprehend it. The American Overton-Window is like the windows in the low-rate quarters on a cruise ship.
If you working-class rubes don't wise up and stop voting for imperialist, wealthy-class right-wingers, the other, better countries of the world will get tired of your imperialist crap. Those other, better countries will rise up and do the same thing to America that they did to imperialist Nazi Germany.
And the wealthy-class right-wingers in America will sneak out the back door, leaving you working-class dupes holding the back. Just like the wealthy-class, right-wing Nazis did to the working-class Germans.
Calling Thom a right-winger was forgetful on my part -- I forgot that most working-class Americans don't know the difference between social and economic political spectrums. I overestimated that you would be able to assign the correct spectrum to the context of my writing.
I'm sorry I forgot about your deficiencies and overestimated your intelligence. It won't happen again.
Now, pull your hat up over your eyes so you can see which direction the international contexts of politics are going. And stop running face-first into the future of your demise. Turn sideways so you can look backwrrd to learn from the historical contexts of politics while you slowly proceed forward with caution.
Good luck.
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These working-class right-wing dupes are gonna end up starved, n@ked, and unhoused with all their hate-fueled boycotts.
And I'm here for it... 😊
They're going to end up murdering themselves with contaminated food. 🤢
They don't believe in science & they disregard food-safety protocols. 👨🔬👩🔬
Or, they'll be frozen/burnt to death by the elements without clothes. 🥶🥵
They're too dumb to make their own & too lazy to farm for the material. 😜🩲
Or, they'll end up homeless on the streets. 🛒🛣
Then, their wealthy, right-wing masters will throw them into for-profit cages, because they've criminalized homelessness.
At that point, they'll be so much more hateful and hated, even the most decent people won't want to help them.
Sounds like a good plan for all the right-wingers, from the wealth-class knaves to the working-class fools.
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Dear Hakim,
You have saved me in the past, and I'm glad to see you saving others in the present.
I want to thank you again for saving me from wasting my time analyzing Vaush. I do not doubt that your video(s) on Vaush saved many other folks from wasting precious time as well.
Unfortunately, though, I had to learn about David Pakman the hard way. I am not ashamed to say that I wasted a lot of time viewing his content. Thankfully I haven't wasted any time on Pakman in over a year. Here's to hoping that this video saves many other folks from falling victim to his lure.
Additionally, I wasted a lot of time on Brian Tyler Cohen, but I came to the correct conclusion about him too. He coddles Democrats who are very much like Republicans. His subscriber-count has continued to climb while other creators' subscriber-counts have stagnated. Add to those two things his ties to the entertainment-industrial-complex, and you have a third strike where only one was necessary.
But perhaps other people are stuck in Cohen's rut, similar to Pakman. Maybe you could do a video about Cohen's neolib dip-shittary as well.
Again, thank you for your work.
I pray for good health and safety for you and your family, Hakim.
Sincerely, your brother in humanity,
Matthew
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@pinchebruha405 Even though I understand what you're getting at, no, they shouldn't. See Article 3, Section 3, Clause 1 of The United States Constitution.
Treason is a unique distinction of crime -- having very specific definitions, with very specific actions needing to take place for the crime of treason to have been committed, and very specific punishments -- and it should stay that way.
The wealthy-class have certainly captured and corrupted the government, but they have not declared war on it. They need to maintain the appearance of a government so that they can keep the "monopoly on violence" that the state has. They need to be able to mobilize the government against the working-class people.
Additionally, the Supreme Court is packed full of right-wingers (even some of the "liberal" justices side with the wealthy and corporations). So even if there was a lower court who would hear the testimony of "two or more witnesses" (as required in The Constitution), there are plenty of higher courts, and the SCOTUS, that would reverse and decision by a lower court.
Furthermore, none of the corrupt wealthy people would admit to their corruption in open court (as is required by The Constitution). These people will go to their graves before they give up their cushy standards of living.
Lastly, there are plenty of other descriptions, statutes, laws, crimes, and punishments that have been enacted. Those laws which are already in place should be used and strengthened.
But don't hold your breath.
The best hope for the working-class majority to retake the government from the corruption of the wealthy-class minority is through peaceful and democratic means.
If the working-class majority chooses violence, then the wealthy-class minority will use the government to respond with violence against the working-class.
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I read/saw the report the other day, by someone who went through and analyzed federal-election campaign-funding records for the last 5 or 10 years, something like that, and they found that the split between Repubs and Dems for receiving campaign-funding from the healthcare industry was 55% Repubs and 45% Dems.
Sadly, most of the working-class doesn't know that. Obviously, we won't ever hear a wealthy-class Fascist-disguised-as-a-Republican or a wealthy-class Republican-disguised-as-a-Democrat admit that.
Luckily, though, all of that data is publicly-available (for now).
Thankfully, that data is collected, vetted, interpreted, and redistributed by working-class journalists at independent media outlets that are not beholden to the wealthy-class which owns both of the major American right-wing political parties.
Unfortunately, I can't remember where I saw/read it. I have thousands of links saved, and I even have a pretty good cataloging system, but my dumb-head didn't save that one.
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Remember when Repubocrats canceled Margarine Traitor Greed from all of her committee assignments in the House of Representatives for espousing conspiracy theories -- conspiracy theories which are so outrageous and disparaging to Demlicans that, if the conspiracy theories were true, it would be impossible for Repubocrats not to know about them -- thus, if those conspiracy theories were true, it would mean that the Repubocrats are complicit in the wrong-doings which the conspiracy theories claim?
I do.
The most important thing to remember is that Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same coin -- they could just as easily be called Repubocrats and Demlicans.
They are both economically right-wing and socially-authoritarian political parties.
In any of the other, better developed-nations of the world, they would either be the same political party or members of a coalition.
This "cancel-culture" stuff is nothing but a tool being utilized by the wealthy-class who control both political parties and, thus, the government and the economy.
If anything needs to be canceled, it's the wealthy-class's addiction to greed, hoarding, manipulation, and exploitation, and the Capitalist system which enables them.
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Some people think they have never engaged in wrongdoings, or that their wrongdoings aren't as bad as other people's, or that their wrongdoings are more forgivable than others, or that some people aren't worthy of redemption. Maybe you think these things about yourself and/or other people.
Beau got in trouble in a right-wing state/country, and right-wingers literally go out of their way to pass laws making it harder for working-class people to live. Just for one example, the right-wingers in Beau's state have tried to make it illegal for person-A to help person-B get to a voting booth. So, for all I know, Beau could have been trying to help people and got in trouble for it, just because he lives in a right-wing state/country. And, for me personally, when right-wingers say someone did something "wrong," I take it with a grain of salt until I examine ALL the details myself.
Now, I've read about Beau's legal troubles, but I haven't read all of the court-transcripts, and I wasn't at the court-proceedings, so I don't know ALL the details. And even if I was in the courtroom, I still refuse to take the word of right-wingers in a right-wing state/country as to the wrongdoings of others.
Furthermore, after the Civil War, the right-wingers passed the 13th Amendment which legalized and expanded the scope of chattel-slavery. And since then, those right-wingers have simply moved chattel-slavery from plantations to prisons, thus making the caging of humans into a profit-based enterprise.Those right-wingers don't care about guilt or innocence -- they care about the money/profit that comes from caging humans.
So, without knowing the details of the evidence against Beau, and while also knowing that the details could have easily been fabricated against him (just as evidence has been fabricated against so many others), it's impossible to say whether or not what Beau did is actually wrong and/or malicious.
Whatever it is that Beau supposedly did;
(1)it was a long time ago
(2)he paid his debt to society
(3)he has made notable changes
(4) he is obviously not the kind of person who committed the wrongdoings that he is accused of.
Now, Beau doesn't need me to defend him, and, really, that's not my intent. My intent is to point out the inherent corruption in right-wing politics/governments. And, from what I've read, Beau was accused of doing things similar to what Trump and other tourist-based businesses have done -- so if Beau deserved to be caged, then there are MANY others who deserve to be caged, too. But right-wingers try their best to only cage poor & working-class people.
Also, Rev. Ed doesn't need me to speak for him, and, really, that's not my intent either. My intent is to point out Rev. Ed's disdain for corruption and right-wing politics, and his admiration for Beau -- and I know that Rev. Ed tries his hardest to examine everything through a Christ-centered lens, as do I.
So, for me, as a Christian, I see that Beau exemplifies the teachings of Christ more-so than many self-proclaimed Christian right-wingers do. As a Christian, I'm supposed to love Beau (and the right-wingers too, regardless of their sketchiness). And if Rev. Ed can vouch for Beau, that's good enough for me.
On a side-note, there are most likely areas where even Beau and Rev. Ed may disagree. But I certainly think that there are areas where Rev. Ed would disagree with Ana, despite his agreement with her on the video you mentioned.
In closing:
None of us is pure -- we all sin, even if we don't break the law -- and many of the most-impure sinners are the ones who are controlling society.
But I just hope that you're using your own eyes, ears, and heart to examine a person's sketchiness, and that you're not just taking other people's word for it.
I hope that when a person has changed and is evidently different from the sketchy-person they've been claimed to be, that you'll notice, and that you'll give that person a chance.
I hope that after a troubled-person has paid their debt to society that you'll consider that person as your equal, no more and no less prone to sketchiness and wrongdoings than you are.
Finally, I don't mean to be discouraging -- I sincerely hope that I wrote something that you can find of value.
May The Spirit of peace, love, and solidarity be upon you and those you hold dear. 🙏✌🤟✊
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They -- "the wealthy-class masters" -- are simply strengthening the police-state in preparation for the slide into fascist-slavery.
The 13th Amendment didn't abolish slavery for black people -- it expanded slavery to include all races.
"They" keep reducing funding that would strengthen the community of kids and caring adults. "They" keep increasing the funding to turn schools into military bases and prisons.
"They" are just preparing more kids to go straight from 'schools' with cops into prisons with more cops.
If a kid is lucky, they'll be a slave in a domicile. If a kid is unlucky, they'll be a slave in a cage.
If the wealthy-class masters can get the kids into prisons, then those kids can be turned into slave-laborers for the benefit of the wealthy-class masters.
Again, the 13th Amendment didn't abolish slavery for black people -- it expanded slavery to include working-class people of all races.
I could go on, and maybe I will, but it won't change anything.
The working-class dupes will continue voting for the right-wing, wealthy-class Repubocrats and right-wing, wealthy-class Demlicans.
The working-class dupes will continue to vote for their own oppression and the oppression of their friends, families, and neighbors.
Both parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class.
The wealthy-class property-owners in the present are members of the same wealthy-class property-owners who stole the land and started this wealthy-class-funded sh!tehole country.
Much has changed, but mostly for the worst.
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@72marshflower15 -- In the early 1900s, there were some very organized leftist political parties and labor organizations which were set up by the lower-class majority.
Those organized lower-class leftists groups fought very hard, politically, to push for socially and economically equitable policies. Hence, The New Deal and all of its subsequent programs.
The New Deal had such strong majoritarian support that President Franklin D. Roosevelt got on board with it, even though he was a wealthy-class conservative. FDR, like Lincoln, understood the broad ramifications of an uprising by enslaved and disenfranchised people.
Even though FDR was a member of the wealthy-class minority, his support for the lower-class majority encouraged that lower-class majority to re-elect him three times. After FDR died, the right-wing extremists of the wealthy-class began dismantling the organized leftist parties and the New Deal.
By using their wealth, the wealthy-class implemented propaganda and misinformation campaigns against the lower-class leftist parties and The New Deal programs. Not only that, but they also set about changing the law so that no future President could serve more than two terms in office.
The wealthy-class minority knew that a future President could gain the trust and support of the working-class majority by taking a stand on equity and empathy over manipulation and money. Beyond that, the wealthy-class used their purchased-influence to commence the imprisonment, deportations, disappearances, and murders of countless lower-class leftist human beings.
Since then, we have witnessed the solidification of two economic-extremist and socially-authoritarian political parties, both of which are funded and promoted by the wealthy-class minority to the detriment of the lower-class majority.
Through legalized-bribery of the campaign-finance and election systems, the wealthy-class has seen to the legislative the defunding, deregulating, and destandardizing of education for the lower-class. Thus, the result is a large segment of the population with an inability to think critically about how they have been brainwashed and indoctrinated.
Through the successes of fear, hate, and war-mongering propaganda, the wealthy-class minority has convinced the lower-class majority that they, and their neighbors who are most like them, are the creators of their own problems and that no blame lays with the wealthy-class majority who are at the reins of power.
So, to say that there hasn't been a viable third-party since Lincoln is not entirely true. There were, there have been. In many of the other, better countries throughout the developed world, there are presently a great number of viable and successful leftist political parties who represent lower-class majorities.
However, the greatest threat to those leftist-majority parties throughout the world is the same threat that is faced in America. That threat is the mental illnesses of the narcissistic and psychopathic wealthy-class minority. This mentally-ill minority are addicted to material-acquisition, social-status, easy-living, substance-abuse, resource-hoarding, land-pillaging, labor-profiteering, and the human-exploitation of the lower-class majority.
If history is any indicator of the future (which it is), this mentally-ill minority will do anything to maintain their wealthy-class addictions.
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@flychomperfly Yup, you get a like. A labor-strike is only viable for a small portion of working-class people who don't need a paycheck during the strike. But a consumer-strike would be viable for all working-class people to participate in.
If a working-class person can't get food, clothes, shelter, & transpiration, then they can't participate in the strike.
A labor strike is only reasonable for a couple-few groups of working-class people to participate in:
1. Unionized working-class people who are lucky enough to be in unions that offer direct support, and won't let their union members lose their homes to foreclosure, or vehicles to repossession for the duration of the strike. I don't think this exists in any union, but I could be wrong.
2. Non-unionized working-class people who (a)have their mortgages & vehicles paid off AND (b)have some savings stored up to buy necessities for the duration of the strike.
3. Upper working-class people who have support from family members who are in the wealthy-class, or adjacent to the wealthy-class, who will help their upper working-class family members during a strike. Most of these upper working-class people side with the wealthy-class owners anyway.
Now, a consumer-strike, on the other hand, could be participated in by many more working-class people, and also have desired effects.
But that would entail working-class people to give up some of their addictions. Only buy necessities. Stop purchasing out-of-home entertainment. Stop going out to eat. FFS, stop going out for anything, except necessities.
Working-class people need to stay home, shut up -- pretend it's COVID again if they have to -- and wait for the wealthy-class to panic. And wait for the prices of things to drop.
Sure, a consumer-strike will also have ripple-effects throughout the working-class, but a consumer-strike is much more viable for a much larger percentage of the working-class population to participate in than a labor-strike.
If most lower & middle working-class people stopped working, especially those who are non-unionized, they wouldn't have to worry about purchasing out-of-home entertainment, because most of them would end up without a home.
And a lot of those working-class people are so dumb, they've already been duped into blaming the wrong people for their struggles, and they've already been primed for violence by their RW-masters.
So, for that reason, i'd prefer to mitigate the speed of the ripple-effects as much as possible.
However, it's possible that a labor-strike, a consumption-strike, or a strike of any kind, might cause all the ripple-effects necessary to cause chaos.
The ripple-effects of any strike could end up being the sparks that ignite the tinder-box of socioeconomic political-kindling that the corrupt wealthy-class has built, with their corrupt RW-politics, under the feet and over the heads of working-class people over the last 50-100 years.
So, that would really suck.
I've been under-employed for 3 out of the last 10 years, and unemployed (acting as a quasi/neo indentured-servant) for 7 out of those 10. So, yeah, I would kind of like some things to change (understatement of the decade). But I'm not an accelerationist.
I've been living a "strike" lifestyle for a decade. I even spent some time homeless. So I'm prepared to handle tough times, and worse. But most working-class people are not.
I heard one RW-extremist political pundit has publicly say that there are some working-class people who are ready to "eat their neighbors." I don't want it to come to that.
But don't get me wrong, I know that mass action is the only way to get out of the RW-extremist sh!tehole that the wealthy-class is driving the working-class into. So, I'm all for a strike of ANY kind.
Perhaps, better yet, do BOTH a labor-strike AND a consumer-strike at the same time.
Do whatever is most effective while taking any, every, and all measures to preserve human-life.
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Sometimes, this channel is hot-garbage playing into the dumpster-fire of right-wing politics...
Thom: 'What happened to the Republican party over the last five decades?'
Guest: "They cooperated with the infiltration of the government by the corrupt wealthy-class. They allowed for the rigging of elections through campaign finance deregulation, which caused the following effects. They failed to utilize anti-trust protections, even though those laws were still valid. Thusly, they enabled the destruction of rural-America, small businesses, and local banks in favor of big-corporate and mega-financial monopolies. Thusly, they facilitated the demise of public information by handing over control of local newspapers, radio, and television stations to multi-national conglomerates. And the Democrats helped!!!'
Thom: 'Do you have hope that the incoming neoliberal/conservative Biden-administration will change that (even though Joe Biden has been in government for five decades, supporting and assisting in the implementation of the aforementioned travesties you explained)?'
Guest: "I do!!!"
GTFOH...
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@Clusterboy It's not corporations that rule. It is the people from the wealthy-class who rule. And, it is not a coincidence that the wealthy-class people who rule, also own corporations. Corporations are the legal-fictions that the wealthy-class has created to shield themselves from transparency and accountability to the working-class people who create the wealth for the wealthy-class.
Right-wing politics are wealthy-class politics, and the individuals who are wealthy-class right-wingers want to privatize/profitize ALL government services.
If private companies that are owned by wealthy-class right-wingers can own the fire and police services, for example, then those wealthy-class right-wingers can jack up the prices and scrape profits off of the working-class.
If working-class families can't afford to pay the fire company or the police company, then those working-class families don't get those services. And if enough working-class families can't afford it, then the wealthy-class no longer has to provide those services. Bye bye fire and police.
Now, you might be asking yourself, "why would the wealthy-class want the working-class to be unable to afford fire and police services?"
The answer is simple. Because being unable to afford fire and police services makes people desperate, and the wealthy-class knows that desperate people do desperate and often violent things.
So, if the working-class people are more desperate and violent, then those working-class people can be thrown into prisons and jails. And the 13th Amendment allows criminals to be used as slave-laborers. And, thus, it is not a coincidence that wealthy-class right-wingers ALSO want to privatize/profitize the prisons and jails.
If the wealthy-class right-wingers have their way, then all roads for the working-class will lead to servitude, either as wage-slaves living in squalor or chattel-slaves living in cages.
And if all working-class people can be reduced to powerless slaves, then those working-class people will have no way to affect changes in society. If the working-class people have no way to affect changes in society, and if everyone outside of the wealthy-class can be controlled as slaves, then the wealthy-class right-wingers won't have to provide any services if they don't want to provide them.
I know that may seem like a lot to digest, but when you finally realize that wealthy-class politics are right-wing politics, and that the wealthy-class right-wingers are trying to maintain and further solidify their power and control over the working-class, then everything starts to make more sense.
The wealthy-class right-wingers from BOTH American political parties want to privatize/profitize the income systems for working-class senior citizens so that those wealthy-class right-wingers will be the ones who get to decide which working-class senior citizens are worthy of an income in old age.
If the wealthy-class get to be the owners of the corporations that administer the income systems for working-class senior citizens, then those wealthy-class right-wingers will get to scrape profits off of the income system for senior citizens until those wealthy-class right-wingers decide to shut the corporations down.
The wealthy-class people are addicted to power. They suffer from the same mental-illnesses as any regular addict. And just like an addict, those wealthy-class right-wingers will NEVER willingly give up their addiction to power.
It is not corporations that rule. Corporations are not people.
It is the class of people with wealth who rule, and they do so purposely and purposefully.
I could go on, but that's a good start.
May The Spirit of Love, Peace, and understanding be upon you and yours, Vernon.
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Right-wing politics are wealthy-class politics. CNN, FOXNews, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and OAN, among others, are all owned and controlled by wealthy-class right-wingers.
Some of the right-wing, wealthy-class news outlets admit to being right-wingers. The other right-wing, wealthy-class news outlets are pretending to be left-leaning.
If you're surprised that a news outlet owned by wealthy-class right-wing extremists would do Fetterman dirty like that, then you're not paying attention or you're a dupe.
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@timothymorano9305 Well, I suppose compelling interest is one of the dopamine-inducing reactions that keep me doing what I do, no matter how small my contributions in the comments section are to the greater-good. Ha :)
I agree with your statement about consumer spending being the best tool we have. Although, I've had less than $20K go through my hands in the past five years. So that probably puts me in the lowest category of participants.
I also agree with your statement about voting being mostly ineffective. Although, I would say it's completely ineffective under the system we're stuck in.
That said: The reason I don't vote is the same reason I struggle when I waste my time writing protest-messages, and the same reason I struggle every time I move to click the "comment," "reply," or "send" buttons.
Those reasons are purely personal and spiritual.
Trust me -- I consider saying nothing every day. But, I'm lonely, and I don't get out much, and like all humans, my flesh is weak, even if my convictions are strong.
Thanks again for your comment and reply, brother.
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@williecatch9 Ha...
Ross said: Maybe we should be more nuanced.
Fact: Being more nuanced would require less laziness.
You, Willie, implied that being more nuanced would be more lazy.
Take Your Meds said they don't think you understand what nuance means.
I tried to explain to you, Willie, how nuance requires a person to be less lazy, because you wrongly claimed being nuanced would be more lazy.
Then you, Willie went on to reply to me, proving that you still don't understand what nuance means.
I'll try again.
Being more lazy would be if I said something un-nuanced, like, "ALL people named Willie are stupid."
Being less lazy would be comprehending and applying the nuances of people named Willie:
1. Not ALL people named Willie are stupid.
2. Only SOME people named Willie are stupid.
3. And SOME people named Willie are geniuses.
So far, no one will be claiming you're the third option.
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Here, in this edition of the comments section, we have a bluewater-identifier, in way over their own head, and forgot their arm-floaties.
The point is, in other, better countries, where they have a true sense of solidarity among the working-class majority, the governments of those countries have handled this much better.
Here is a loose explanation of how some better countries took better care of their people.
1) SHUT DOWN ALL NON-NECESSITIES. (This means the majority of the people have a more cohesive agreement of necessities versus wants.)
2) Utilize the peoples' public-government to pay the people within the working-class majority who don't do necessity-jobs so that those working-class people can continue to obtain necessities. (This means the majority of the people comprehend the differences between 'public non-profit government' functions and 'private for-profit business' functions.)
3) DON'T utilize the private-businesses of the wealthy-class minority to act as the private-middle-man between the working-class majority and the peoples' public-government. (This means the majority of the people understand the inherent greed of for-profit private-employers versus non-profit public-servants.)
4) PUNISH private-businesses and wealthy-class minorities who corrupt and/or sabotage the working-class majority and/or the peoples' public-government.
Oh, yeah...
5) You're a giant set of deepblue clownshoes, drowning in your own yellow-brown water.
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People here are trying to throw you a 🦺
But I suppose the floofy-hair and the pencil in the bum prevent you from being any less like a troll.
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@bluewater454 Almost a great job, btw. You were SO CLOSE to getting it when you mentioned your own luck. That's exactly what Crapitalism is:
The wealthy-class uses their wealth to manufacture "luck" for themselves.
Then, while you're swimming in their toilets, waiting to get a little brown on your nose, you end up with a little bit of luck trickling down all over you. (It's so warm, isn't it? You like that, don't you?)
Then, like an adult-sized brain-child, you pee, poo, and spit all over your family, friends, neighbors, and community.
Whether you're a fool who doesn't understand how your way of life causes the despair of others, or a knave who pretends not to understand, neither is anything to be proud of.
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"I feel like people are consuming suffering, unknowingly/annoyingly." (6:36)
Whether she said unknowingly or annoyingly, she's right.
The people who perform jobs in which necessities are not produced, and who do not produce any necessities of their own, are contributing to the perpetuation of profit-systems. Those people are contributing to the perpetuation of the working-class and slave-class of humans who must produce for the wealthy-class. Those people are contributing to the perpetuation of inequality, hierarchy, and slavery, which exploit working-class and slave-class humans for their labor and lives.
The people who DON'T comprehend the suffering of the working-class and slave-class are ignorant. This includes many people within those classes. They should be informed of the injustices which their habits perpetuate so they may have the choice to change their habits.
The people who DO understand the suffering of the working-class and slave-class, but who don't change their habits, are ignorant in a different way. This includes people from all classes. They should be reformed from their habits which perpetuate injustice.
Some people don't understand. They cannot change. They are unknowing.
Some people do understand. They can change, but they lack the will. They are annoying.
As someone who has done many different kinds of jobs, I would offer the following advice. If you want to change your life, where ever you are able, commit yourself to jobs in which necessities are produced. Commit to doing jobs in which food (think farms and markets, not restaurants and bars), clothes (think sheep, spinning wheels, seamstresses, and tailers, not retail stores and sweatshops), shelter (think housing, not hotels and resorts), education (think common/public institutions, not charter/private institutions), and health/child/eldercare (think non-profits) are the goals.
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I'm sure we'd have a great conversation in person, John. Maybe, someday, when I join a foot-caravan headed for the safety and sanctuary of the Canadian-boarder, we'll get to meet. LOL
Thanks for your responses. :)
Edit* Long P.S. to follow:
I'm a Christian, btw. I don't go to a church building, but I go to church daily by myself in my own home.
So, yes, I agree with you -- following a preacher who preaches for money and social-status is a huge part of the problem.
But if a person can't read The Bible on their own, it's likely because the education system failed them.
And if the education system failed them when it comes to reading, (I believe) it's because of the same reason that church-businesses have failed them when it comes to understanding Christ.
I believe that reason is the inevitably-corrupting power of money, and the wealthy-class business owners have plenty of both money and corruption.
If people are illiterate and uneducated, they are going to have a difficult time comprehending that they're being misled, whether religiously or economically.
Anyway, I presume I'm farther left politically than most people, because of how I have come to interpret Jesus on my own.
Socialism and communism aren't economic-systems that I fear, but capitalism is. And my fear of capitalism goes right along with my fear of theocratic and technocratic authoritarian social-systems.
Just thought I'd throw it out there, that not all Christians are fear, hate, and warmongers. Not that you implied that they are. But I did. LOL.
Thanks again. :)
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Right-wing politics are wealthy-class politics and wealthy-class right-wingers were the politicians in The Confederacy. And, just like the wealthy-class right-wingers who ruled during The Confederacy, the wealthy-class right-wingers who rule today will never willingly give up their addictions, power, and laziness.
It's not surprising that it's been 150+ years and the wealthy-class, right-wing Confederates are still fighting the socioeconomic war for power -- addiction is a perseverent condition.
But, perhaps, the most surprising thing is this: the well-fed descendants of slaves are actively helping the wealthy-class, right-wing Confederates to win the war in the present.
I mean, it is certainly useful to understand the dichotomy between house-slaves and field-slaves -- the house-slaves were used as a tool by the wealthy-class to sow division between the field-slaves and house-slaves.
The wealthy-class owners would give the house-slaves a few extra crumbs, and in exchange, the house-slaves would report the actions of the field-slaves to the wealthy-class owners. And that dynamic is still very much used by the wealthy-class to divide the working-class today.
But there are some house-slaves who have openly joined The Confederacy. And they've done it for a few extra crumbs from the tables of the wealthy-class, right-wing masters.
Candace Ownes, Hershel Walker, Sen. Tim Scott, (uncle)Thomas Sowell, Jessie Lee Peterson, (in)Justice (uncle)Thomas, Kanye, Zirconia and Polyester (that's Diamond and Silk for those who don't get the reference). There are countless others.
And those working-class token-blacks who are helping the wealthy-class, right-wingers to maintain power are no better than the working-class white-dupes who are helping the wealthy-class, right-wingers to maintain their power. Regardless of their race, they are all class-traitors to the working-class.
Wealthy-class right-wingers will never willingly give up their power or addictions, and working-class dupes will continue to idolize and strive to be like the wealthy-class right-wing addicts.
Addiction, power, and laziness are hard drugs.
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The white-supremacist(WS) right-wing(RW) Capitalists, who own and operate plantations, prisons, and jails, are aiders, abettors, and perpetrators of murder, r@pe, and violence in those institutions.
The WS RW Capitalists don't care about chattel-slaves and wage-slaves. The WS RW Capitalists WANT & NEED chattel-slaves and wage-slaves in those institutions.
Plantations, prisons, and jails are just a few of the tools used by WS RW Capitalists to uphold the inequitable world-wide system of Capitalism that is ruled by WS, patriarchal fascists.
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Hmmm, let me see here...
Would I rather live under mob rule, as you call it, where everyone gets some sort of a vote or a voice?
Orrrr...
Would I rather live under the authoritarian systems of minority rule, which have been the predominant systems that have controlled majorities throughout history, where only a select few get a vote or a voice?
Yeah, "F" off with your boot-licking propaganda.
Just because you need to be ruled by a minority, or you want to be one of the minority rulers, that doesn't mean everyone does. Hence, the fall of slave societies. Hence, the fall of feudalism.
Smarter humans don't want to be ruled by the lazy, manipulative, and exploitative wealthy-class minority. Hence the rise of Democracy and Socialism.
The real definition of mob-rule is the following: when the wealthy-class minority has their addictions threatened, they will hire a "mob" -- usually, a mob made up of working-class rubes, dupes, and class-traitors -- to come to your house, your town, your city, your state, or your country, and they will direct that mob to "rule" you.
Mob rule is not whatever nonsense you stated.
You're either the result of wealthy-class propaganda and indoctrination, which makes you a rube or a dupe, or you're paid by the wealthy-class to be here in the comments section, which makes you a class-traitor.
Neither is anything to be proud of.
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These children, with their child-sized brains, may have been coached (and, sure, many of them probably were). But they've been coached to speak adult-sized truths. Unlike the right-wing adults from the working-class, with their child-brains stuck in adult-sized bodies, who have been coached by the wealthy right-wing owners of FoxNews, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, etc.
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The oligarchy is certainly united, and one of their main goals is to divide the citizenry.
As long as the wealthy-class are able, they will utilize their wealth to:
1. Bribe politicians.
2. Corrupt the government.
3. Commandeer the economy.
4. Defund, destandardize, and deregulate public education, to dumb-down the working-class students.
5. Prop up the school-to-prison pipeline and the prison-industrial-complex, to continue the centuries-old institution of slave-labor.
6. Promote the police-state and military-industrial-complex, utilizing the worst and dumbest citizens (class-traitors) within the working-class to supervise and punish the better, smarter, and least-fortunate citizens within the working-class.
7. Collude with politicians, at local, state, and fed levels (I.E. via The American Legislative Exchange Council, and many organizations like it, funded by the Koch billionaires, and many other billionaires like them), to create more laws for working-class people to break, which means a greater chance that someone will break a law, which means more warm bodies to fill the beds of the for-profit prisons, jails, and work camps, which are owned by the wealthy-class oligarchs.
...I could go on.
But yes, I agree with the sentiment of your comment.
Jordan Chariton calls it the United Corporations of America. There's a flag and everything. Ha.
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@bluewater454 You're completely foolish or incredibly knave-ish. Do you not know that mortality means deaths? Do you not understand that being higher on the list is a bad thing?
Being 33 out of 36 means 32 other countries had FEWER infant deaths.
Being 33 out of 36 means that only 3 countries had MORE infant deaths.
That means the US was nearly the WORST. (Right, Galt? Huh? Eh? Who's ""willfully ignorant, functional illiterate"" now? You shite-gibbon. Lol)
The OECD has the information right on their website, in writing, and in picture format for the literately-challenged.
The most recent date they have for the US is from 2018. In 2018, there were 5.7 deaths per 1000 live births. That put the US at 33 out of 43 listed countries -- 32 countries did better, and ten countries did worse.
In the same year, Slovenia and Iceland tied in 2nd and 3rd places with 1.7 deaths per 1000 live births. That means only one country did better, and 40 did worse.
I knew you were dumb. I just didn't think you thought everyone else was as dumb as you are. It seems to be a commonality among wealthy-class knaves and foolish, working-class class-traitors.
Oh yeah, again for you right-wing extremist, one-way pieces of human-excrement, void of morality and compassion:
EVERYONE IS NOT YOU. And thankfully so. I hate clowns.
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It's a kind of journalism; a technique, if you will.
It has a two basic parts:
(A)The interviewer asks questions in a non-confrontational and, sometimes even sympathetic manner. Asking questions in that manner makes the interviewee more comfortable and, thus, more likely to share their true feelings. And the point of journalism is finding and presenting the truth.
(B)The interviewee is now comfortable to tell their version of the "truth" and expose their own flaws.
I know it's irritating, but pushing back too much or too hard will cause many inexperienced people to shutdown, which is not what the interviewer wants in this case.
This interviewer, Michael Shure, does push-back sometimes, but it's based on how intelligent the interviewee is. Smarter people are less likely to shutdown or get violent when they're pushed-back against.
Edit: And the point of this channel is to get clicks from people who (a)already agree with the channel and the interviewer and (b)already know that the interviewee is a moron.
I don't think that TYT expects to convert to many RWers by pointing out their own hypocrisy, selfishness, and barbarism. So there's no need to push back against that stuff when the interviewee exposes it.
But the interviewer does push-back with basic facts to draw out more of a response so the interviewee can expose more of their own "truth" which often goes against facts and the actual truth.
Anyway.
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Really? It makes you sad? All the problems in the world are perpetrated & perpetuated by (a)the corrupt, wealthy-class knaves with their corrupt RW-politics, and (b)the working-class dupes who support the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
The corrupt wealthy-class uses social-politics as a way to distract working-class people from the equally important realm of economic-politics.
As long as the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics are allowed to exist & persist, that same corrupt wealthy-class will continue to try to divide working-class people with social-politics like race, sex, gender, religion, and more.
Because the wealthy-class knows that as long as working-class dupes are fighting with each other over social-politics (race, sex, gender, religion, and more), then the working-class will be too distracted to stop the wealthy-class from enslaving the working-class people via economic-politics.
Vote RW-extremist Repubs, for the fast-open-road from Capitalist-enslavement to Fascist-enslavement.
Vote for the moderate-RW Dems, for the slower, disguised-road from Capitalist-enslavement to Fascist-enslavement.
BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics. And working-class dupes continue to vote for them BOTH.
The US is FILLED with working-class dupes who (a)are incapable of comprehending their own humanity (let alone the humanity of working-class strangers), and (b)continue to vote for RW-extremist Repubs, moderate-RW Dems, and inviable third-parties.
This corruption of economic-politics has likely been going on since the invention of currency, and it's been a staple of the US since Europeans stole the land and committed a gen-o-cider against the rightful owners.
This corruption has LITERALLY been going on your entire life -- it's time to get over being stupefyingly-sad and move it along to being righteously-mad.
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Joe is one of the people who doesn't care until it personally and directly effects his life.
Joe has held a baby. Joe knows many immigrants. And, thus, we have gems from Joe like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYUaotGw4AQ
**Edit** This was the gem I was thinking of: https://youtu.be/jP4R_MtC6vc?t=70
He's probably never been homeless, and probably doesn't have any close friends or family who have become homeless.
But generally speaking, he's just an average Joe.
He's spent most of his life clawing after, sprinting toward, and fighting for self-fulfillment. He was too busy to care.
Now that he's gotten to one level of self-fulfillment, it takes a lot of time to spend all that money. He's too busy to care.
He will be too busy to care until it effects him personally and directly.
But, even then, he might just choose to move away from the issue (like he moved from California to Texas), or he might just write people off and remove them from his life.
It will take a particular set of circumstances for Joe to care, like all the other people who prioritize self-aggrandizement over social-good and ego over altruism.
I'm not perfect, and I don't expect Joe to be. But I've been homeless, though, and I fully expect to be homeless again someday.
I'd rather be myself and poor, than be Joe and rich.
They can keep their money. It would sure be nice to just have the security of a home.
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Dumb&Desperate working-class people make better slaves. The wealthy-class, right-wing, Neo-Confederates (like Sarah Huckleberry-C |_| |\| T F A C E) use their wealth to purposely & purposefully fabricate the economic & social conditions to create as many dumb & desperate slaves as possible. The wealthy-class, right-wing, neo-Confederates all rely on having a steady supply of working-class slaves to do all the labor of maintaining the lazy-addict-lifestyles enjoyed by the wealthy-class.
The dumbest and most violent working-class people become wage-slaves -- security guards, LEOs, & military. The dumb wage-slaves are the modern-day Slave-Patrollers who act as the violent-buffers between the wealthy-class right-wingers and the working-class chattel-slaves.
Wage-slaves don't have to worry about anything -- they will mutilate, maim, and murder the working-class debt-slaves and chattel-slaves to get what they want. And they'll do it all for a few extra crumbs from their wealthy-class right-wing master's table.
The most desparate working-class people become debt-slaves -- managers, supervisors, and the like. These debt-slaves are the modern-day Slave-Drivers who act as the conniving informants and entrappers who report to the wealthy-class, and to the wage-slaves, regarding the activities of chattel-slaves.
Debt-slaves don't have to worry about very much -- they will cheat, lie about, and steal from the working-class chattel-slaves to get what they want. And they'll do it all for a few extra crumbs from their wealthy-class right-wing master's table.
Now, the most desperate AND dumb working-class people become chattel-slaves -- prisoners, inmates, and detainees in cages, as well as the folks who are economically-confined to their communities with no hope of escape. These chattel-slaves are the truest iteration of modern-day slaves.
Chattel-slaves do all of the labor in service of wealthy-class addictions. Chattel-slaves are forced and coerced into producing the addictive-products and providing the addictive-services as demanded and commanded by debt-slaves and wage-slaves. And the debt-slaves and the wage-slaves work at the demands and commands of lazy, parasitic, wealthy-class, right-wing Neo-Confederate-Nazis.
If you want to know how to stop the modern-day, wealthy-class Neo-Confederate-Nazis (like Sarah Huckleberry-C |_| |\| T F A C E), look into how the Union Army dealt with the right-wing Confederates, and how the Allied Army dealt with the right-wing Nazis. That is the only way that the right-wing minority -- the wealthy-class, the wage-slaves, and the debt-slaves -- will give up their addictions, and submit their positions of unmitigated power, exploitation, and manipulation over the working-class chattel-slave majority.
Lucky for the right-wingers -- from the wealthy-class to the wage-slaves, to the debt-slaves -- I'm a non-violent and anti-violence chattel-slave.
Lucky for the chattel-slave army, I make a heck of a Perpetual Stew.
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Just call it what it really is. It's called Corporatism. Corporatism is simply the result of unregulated Capitalism, just like Fascism is the result of unregulated Corporatism. It would be foolish to refer to Fascism as "Crony Corporatism", and it's foolish to refer to Corporatism as "Crony Capitalism". Call it what it really is.
Under ALL of the systems of RW-politics -- such as Monarchism, Feudalism, Mercantilism, Imperialism, Neo-Conservatism & Neo-Liberalism, Republicanism, Capitalism, Corporatism, & Fascism -- the wealthy-class OWNS the working-class as slaves.
It would be more accurate for ALL of the RW-systems of politics to be referred to with the suffix of "slavery" -- like Monarchist-slavery, Capitalist-slavery, or Fascist-slavery.
Thus, it would be more accurate to refer to Corporatism as "Corporatist-slavery" or "unregulated Corporatism" than "crony Capitalism". Even calling it "RW-politics" would be more effective at messaging.
I'm certainly not going to refer to Fascism as "crony Corporatism" & I'm not going to refer to Corporatism as "crony Capitalism".
Educate yourself & call things by their name, instead of making up bigger, longer phrases to make yourself sound smarter.
Corporatism is not called "crony Capitalism" or "pre-Fascism".
Just call it what it really is. Corporatism is called Corporatism.
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His show is supposed to be a reciprocation of the right-wing radio-sphere. He is combating sensationalist theatrics with theatrical sensationalism.
I would argue: SOMETIMES Thom makes good points. But Thom's capitulation to the Democrat-party -- the same Democrat-party that capitulates to right-wing wealthy-class politics of the Republic-party -- is what weakens any of the good points Thom makes.
Of course, political-novices and the "blue-no-matter-who" crowd, who have no sense of class-consciousness, won't understand these complexities.
If one doesn't yet see that the wealthy-class has bought, sold, bribed and controls both Republic and Democrat parties, then one is still politically-asleep. This is why the smarter working-class folks in better countries laugh at America's working-class.
When you come to realize that Thom capitulates to the party that capitulates, then you'll start to question:
Is Thom a fool who doesn't understand that the Democrat-party is the left-leaning arm of the Republic-party?
OR
Is Thom a knave who knows that both parties are corrupt, but he pretends not to know because he benefits from the corruption?
I say the second one.
He doesn't care about the quality of his show, so long as he maintains a certain level of ignorant-viewers, preventing those viewers from realizing that the Democrat-party apparatus IS the Republic-party apparatus, all corrupted and controlled by the wealthy-class.
Thom's a millionaire, and an employer who profits off his employees' labor, by the way. To me, and true leftists, that makes Thom a member of the wealthy-class and, thus, a right-winger by international and historical standards.
Whether a fool or a knave, neither is anything to be proud of.
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@thomaswikstrand8397 Thanks for your reply. I kind of answered my own question as I analyzed it further after sending it.
It comes in waves: First, a lot of B. Then a lot of A facilitated by the wealthy-class. Then a lot of B to expose the A that the wealthy-class facilitated. (I hope that explanation makes sense written that way.)
We have had some recent union-wins here in the states. (If you're unaware of them and wanted to hear about them, I could type something up for you.)
The recent union-wins seem big to many folks, but that's because union-power has been so depleted. (In my opinion, the recent wins have been blown out of proportion.)
I don't think it will be long before the labor-push by the working-class will wane and subside. There is such a low sense of working-class solidarity here. People will sell out their families, friends, neighbors, and communities for a few more crumbs.
But, it makes sense when you consider that the wealthy-class has caused the defunding, deregulating, and destandardization of public common-education, thus, eradicating public common-sense. People can't even comprehend who their oppressors are.
When you combine A, B, and the dumbing-down of the working-class citizens, then add on top of that a manufactured-desperation by the wealthy-class against the working-class, and it becomes pretty clear why the working-class majority elbows from side-to-side and kicks-down.
It's all by design.
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@ericgraf1127 My brother in Christ, I think you've misunderstood me, similar to the way Walkinshaw11 and most Western right-wing Christians have misunderstood God, Christ, Holy Spirit, and The Bible.
I agree with your original post, and I believe God would too. And it's ok if you misunderstood me -- perhaps you are unable to see my long post in retort of Walkinshaw11. Perhaps you're only able to see my short reply to you.
But if you CAN see my long post in retort of Walkinshaw11, and somehow thought that I was in disagreement with you, you could have asked me for clarification.
I don't understand your flippancy toward me, nor your rejection of my comments of support to, and solidarity with you. That's not the kind of brotherly and Christ-like love God calls us to as Christians. So, perhaps you've simply misunderstood me.
But, alas, if you haven't misunderstood me, and you're acting so passive-aggressively toward me because that is your nature, I won't let you discourage me -- I get the same treatment from right-wing Democrat and right-wing Republic party supporters who claim to be Christians.
The only thing I can do for you, and for them, is to pray for you all, as Christ said to do in the book of Matthew, chapter 5, verse 44, and in the book of Luke, chapter 6, verse 28.
May the Holy Spirit of God and Christ, and their presence of Peace, Love, and Solidarity be upon you. ✌🤟✊🙏
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Provide parents with the necessities -- food, clothes, shelter, education, healthcare, rest, and rehabilitation -- so that the parents don't become neglectful and abusive while trying to manage a job to provide the necessities AND raise children.
A person can have a job making profits for the wealthy-class, or they can adequately raise their children to be the best, most thoughtful, and compassionate version of themselves. Doing both is impossible.
Tossing one's children around -- to friends and relatives and strangers -- is a drain on the community and the children. It is nothing less than child neglect. Not to mention the exponential opportunities it creates for people to abuse children. I can't count the number of abused and neglected people I know. I've tried.
If we can print money for wars, we can print money to develop thoughtful, compassionate communities at home by allowing parents to raise the children they create. But that wouldn't serve the wealthy-class and their addict-addled lifestyles.
The wealthy-class literally allows their countrymen to suffer at home while facilitating wars abroad. The wealthy-class manufactures the economic desperation felt by the working-class.
That manufactured desperation causes working-class youngsters to sign up for military service to go and murder strangers in exchange for food, clothes, and shelter. The wealthy-class keeps up this scam to maintain their lifestyles of addiction at the expense of working-class children and their families.
Working-class people trying to be worker-bees AND parents is impossible to do effectively. It is one of the main causes of community and societal breakdown.
Parents get so stressed out trying to work and raise children, they become abusive and/or neglectful parents. It's not anecdotal. It's a fact.
Parents are so exhausted having a job that, when they get home, they don't want to be parents. They want to live the fanciful lives they see on the television programs created by the wealthy-class propagandists.
Working-class people are nothing less than indoctrinated by the propaganda produced by the wealthy-class. The indoctrinating propaganda is perpetrated and perpetuated with a purposeful precision that is no less than demented.
Working-class parents have no personal ideals about parenting because they are rendered so clueless by the propaganda. They do what they see in the media -- the media that is owned by the wealthy-class.
Working-class parents have no sense of class-consciousness and solidarity. They can't even get on the same page to demand a standard of living from the government -- a government that is under the control of the wealthy-class -- let alone demand a standard of parenting.
This inability of working-class parents to organize stems from the educational-stagnation experienced by parents after they leave the education system -- an education system that is constantly under assault by the wealthy-class.
Reading anything outside the realm of work seems pointless to parents who are so busy, burnt out, and dumbed-down. My parents couldn't help me with my homework after the 5th grade. For one, they weren't smart enough.
My dad wouldn't even try to help. He didn't think kids should have homework. He believed homework was a hindrance, preventing the lifestyle he was trying to achieve. He thought kids should have chores and that he couldn't attain the lifestyle he wanted because he didn't have the free-labor of his children.
My mom was college-educated, but her goal for doing so was to maintain her doctor-enabled opioid-addiction through employer-tied health insurance -- no job, no insurance, no drugs. She was a preschool teacher for 30+ years while addicted to opiates. But she was a shite-parent, barely smarter than the preschoolers she taught.
The community loved her. She was drugged-up all day. By nighttime, withdrawals set in, turning her into a piece of human-excrement. She wouldn't/couldn't help with homework. But, she was sure concerned with how my grades would make her look to the community.
They both worked -- they prioritized it over everything, for their own reasons.
They both sucked -- they would tell my siblings and I that we were lucky when we would confront them about their abuse.
My mom even gave us the phone number for CPS. But she told us that the state would just take us away. What a mind-f@ck. We didn't want to get taken away, we just wanted the abuse to stop.
Imagine how many working-class kids are presented with the logic-twisting scenario by working-class parents, turning those kids into illogical adults who are unable to communicate reasonable, personal boundaries and expectations
Now, my parents are near 70-years-old, both still working full time, both hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt each, and both dumb as dumb can be.
Both are unable or unwilling to admit they were abusive and neglectful. And when they are confronted with their shortcomings, they are unapologetic.
These are the kinds of broken families, homes, and communities the wealthy-class wants.
As long as the working-class is broken, it gives the wealthy-class a larger pool of people from which to manipulate and exploit.
I don't tell this story for pity -- it's too late for that. I don't tell it for sympathy -- it would be a waste at this point.
I tell this story to educate, to illuminate, to light a fire under the people who are in a position to help the most vulnerable among us.
I tell my story for the children for whom it is not too late.
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The best thing that the intelligent working-class Cubans ever did was to detain and deport the exceptionalist, Yt-supremacist, parasitic, wealthy-class, right-wing addicts [like the Salazar family], along with the ignorant working-class dupes who supported and tried to be like the exceptionalist, Yt-supremacist, parasitic, wealthy-class, right-wing addicts.
Unfortunately, what was good for the intelligent working-class Cubans has been disastrous for intelligent working-class Americans. The best thing for America would be to send the wealthy-class Salazar family [and the Rubio family] back to Cuba where they can stand trial for terrorism and sabotage against Cuba.
You know, send them back where they came from, just like the exceptionalist, Yt-supremacist, parasitic, wealthy-class and duped-working-class addicts want to do with the better, intelligent working-class people they disagree with.
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Don't despair, @bboldt2 -- It's okay to cry. Just because you cry, that doesn't mean you are not strong. I consider tears to be a sign of strength -- it takes strength to care for others -- and your tears express the depth & strength of your caring. So, do not shun the tears. Welcome the tears as proof of your humble humanity.
Instead, be wary of those who do not cry. Because the absence of their tears is a sign of the absence of their humanity, which has been either (a)taken from them against their Free-Will (these people are victims), or (b)given away of their own Free Will (these people are suspects).
The suspect-people who don't cry, who have given away their humanity, and who take humanity away from others, should be exposed & rehabilitated.
The victimized-people who don't cry, who have had their humanity taken from them, should be welcomed & rehabilitated. But they will also need rehabilitation of a different kind than the suspect-people.
Don't you dare let the suspect-people take away your humanity, @bboldt2, and don't you dare give it away of your own Free-Will. You keep on caring for others, and let those tears flow. You are welcome here. ✌🤟✊🙏
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@AnthonySopran0 The world HASN'T ever been LW -- there have been pockets & projects of LW-political-systems -- but the world, for all of recorded history, since the invention of currency, has been mostly controlled by RW-political-systems.
RW-politics are pro-authoritarian and anti-democratarian.
RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class and anti-working-class.
Capitalism, like all RW-systems, is a system in which a populace-minority, comprised of the wealthy-class, known as employers, act as the authoritarians who rule over the populace-majority, comprised of the working-class, known as employees.
In slavery, the authoritarians are the populace-minority of the wealthy-class, called masters, and the populace-majority of the working-class laborers are called property.
In monarchism the wealthy-class are called royals and the working-class are called subjects.
In feudalism, they're called lords & serfs.
As far as I know, there haven't yet been words created or assigned to designate the wealthy-class & the working-class under Corporatism & fascism. But that matters less than the concept at hand.
RW-political systems are all deceivingly & barbarically maintained by unelected-hierarchists known as the wealthy-class, and they use their wealth to perpetuate their enslavement of the working-class.
The very nature of currency is inherently RW. And when left unmitigated, currency allows a wealthy-class to emerge. And that wealthy-class will ALWAYS wield their wealth to maintain their lifestyle-addictions, and to segregate themselves from the societal-consequences that are fostered by their imposed inequality.
I could go on.
There are hundreds upon thousands of sources. And if you don't want to be a slave anymore, then you're going to have to put down the screens, give up on the sportsball games, stop running the roads, and pick up some books. Lots and lots of books.
Or maybe you don't even want to try comprehending what I've said, because you're one of the working-class dupes who believes that you can become one of the wealthy-class masters. And if that's the case, then nothing I could write would be sufficient to change your heart & mind -- you're either pro-slavery, or anti-slavery. And apathy, concession, & conformity are pro-slavery positions.
So, if you don't want to educate yourself, or, if you want to be one of the masters, then you're likely to end up like the rest of the working-class dupes who wonder why the other, better & smarter working-class people of the world so despise the working-class dupes from the US.
Because that is literally the same path that was taken by the working-class dupes who volunteered to support the corrupt, wealthy-class Confedrate capitalists & the corrupt, wealthy-class Nat-C fascists, with their corrupt RW politics.
The other, better & smarter working-class people of the world hated them, and rightly so.
If you really need a source, go on over Merriam-Webster and check out the definitions for RW-politics, and check out all the hyperlinks therein. Then, you can head on over to the Wiki article for "right wing politics" -- they have a section on economics, under which Capitalism & Corporatism are referenced.
And you may as well check out fascism while you're at it -- they have it labeled as "far right". Because it is a RW-political system, just like Capitalism is.
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Make it a law. Call it, "The Oath of Public Trust Breakers and Deceivers Act". (Haha -- The TOP BAD Act-- I hate it when lawmakers try to be cute with the names of laws, just so they can make an acronym, but that's what I did, and I hate myself for it.😊)
All Elected Representatives, Senators, Public Servants, Government Employees, Law Enforcement, Military, and probably some other folks, are considered as in positions of "Public Trust." They ALL shall take "The Oath of Public Trust."
Breaking "The Oath" shall be considered a felony offense, punishable by X-years. (I'm open to negotiations on that, but simply breaking "The Oath" should be deemed a felony by itself.)
So, yes, making untrue and inaccurate statements to the public citizens should be deemed a violation of The Oath.
But it should also be considered breaking The Oath by committing any other crimes -- such as assault, fraud, DWI, and any others -- while in a position of Public Trust.
And, obviously, anyone in a position of Public Trust who tries to cover up, hide, aid, and abet the violation of The Oath or the commission of any other crimes by any other person in a position of Public Trust does also violate The Oath themselves.
Additionally, any crimes that a person commits while in their position of Public Trust should be punished with penalties that are doubled from those imposed on private-citizens.
For example: if a private-citizen would get a penalty of one year in jail and a ten-thousand dollar fine for an infraction, then the people in positions of Public Trust should get two years and a twenty-thousand dollar fine.
And I would go even further with the law.
Once a person has violated the Oath, they can never again hold a position of Public Trust.
Now, here's where I might lose some folks, if I haven't lost them already.
If a person is found guilty of breaking The Oath and violating the Public Trust, that person shall complete their sentences, and then spend X-number of years on probation, during which time they shall be committed to doing the jobs in the community which are, shall we say, less than desirable. (In agrarian societies, those jobs would be sh!te-shoveler or outhouse-emptiier -- those are very official titles by the way.)
A law like that would stop some, but not all, crooks, cheats, and lairs from even trying to obtain positions of Public Trust, and it would reduce the number of people who ARE in positions of Public Trust from accepting the bribery of crooks, cheats, and liars.
I don't think we solved the world's problems, but it puts some of the problems and their facilitators on notice.
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Jill Stein did an interview in which she wouldn't call Putin a war-criminal. You know who else won't call Putin a war-criminal? The RW-extremist Republicans, that's who. With that being said; BOTH political-parties in the US are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class with their corrupt RW-politics. Jill Stein is a member of the same wealthy-class.
She has had OVER a decade to build-up the party she represents, and she has done next to NOTHING. And if she's done anything, it has been wildly ineffective.
As Robert Reich said of Steve Mnuchin, Stein is either a fool or a knave. But, considering she's a member of the wealthy-class, like Mnuchin is, I'm going to go with the latter.
I wouldn't vote for Stein any sooner than I would vote for a RW-extremist Repub or a moderate-RW Democrat.
And I wouldn't vote for either of those two RW-parties before I voted for a ham sandwich.
And I hate ham sandwiches.
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Dan, do you mean that you SAW 'comments on other lefty channels' by the creators? or do you mean that you READ 'comments on other lefty channels' by their viewers?
If you meant you SAW comments being made by other creators in their videos, I would be interested to know which channels those were so I could compare their reasons for not liking Jimmy with my own reasons for not liking Jimmy.
Don't get me wrong. I like Jimmy because, as of now, I still believe he is an actual leftist. But, I do not like Jimmy because he does a disservice to leftists and right-wing idiots.
Why do I say that Jimmy does a disservice to actual leftists? Good question; let me try to answer.
1) I don't like Jimmy because he often comes across as if he's a right-winger. There are LOTS of videos where Jimmy doesn't clarify that he's a leftist. This leaves the opportunity for right-wing idiots to assume he's a right-winger.
2) I don't like Jimmy because, for as bad as the Democratic Party-leadership is, he doesn't do even a decent job of explaining how bad the Republican Party-leadership is. There are LOTS of videos in which Jimmy doesn't even mention that the Republican Party-leadership is against the working-class just as much as the Democratic Party-leadership, if not more so.
3) I don't like Jimmy because by not clarifying his position, there are lots of right-wing idiots who continue to believe that the Democratic Party-leadership is leftist. But the Democratic Party-leadership is not leftist. By failing to explain that fact, some right-wing idiots come away from Jimmy's videos with attacks that they direct toward leftists without comprehending that the Democratic Party-leadership isn't even leftist. Thus, Jimmy helps to solidify the divisive culture of a two-party duopoly in the minds of right-wing idiots. But what we have is more akin to a one-party monopoly.
4) I don't like Jimmy because by being so direct in his disdain for the positions of the Democratic Party-leadership while being so indirect in his disdain for the similar positions of the Republican Party-leadership, he is essentially propping up a dichotomy in the minds of right-wing idiots when a dichotomy barely exists.
By not being clear about his position, not explaining things well, and not adequately comparing and contrasting Democratic Party-leadership with Republican Party-leadership, some right-wing idiots walk away from Jimmy's videos and still believe that they are on the correct side of history.
Because Jimmy is a high, jag-off, night-club comedian in his garage who is masquerading as someone to be taken seriously -- the same way that Democratic Party-leadership and Republican Party-leadership are masquerading as two seriously different political parties -- he is doing a disservice to the people whom he claims to want to help.
Either way, I'd be interested in you clarifying what you meant when you said you saw "comments on other lefty channels on how much they HATE Jimmy Dore." If you saw leftist content-creators saying this, I would like to know who they are so I can view their content myself.
Thank you in advance.
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Everyone does it in their own time, at different paces. These "breakthroughs" or "epiphanies" happen at various points, in different stages. Don't let yourself be derailed by plateaus or valleys. There will still be bad days, but better days are ahead.
Look forward to the part of the journey when you find that you're no longer feeling negatively about yourself, but, instead, you're feeling righteously-angry at the people who (a)fashioned a system that facilitated your traumas, and (b)are continuing to fashion that system which is afflicting other people with traumas, as much as, and worse than, they afflicted you.
Be well. :)
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Right-wingers may win some battles, but they have lost most of the wars.
The right-wing Roman Empire, the right-wingers in the French Revolution, the American Revolutionary and American Civil Wars, WW1 and WW2, the Russian and Chinese Revolutions (although, right-wingers have retaken both countries via propaganda and soft-power, and right-wing Russia is currently losing another war), the Vietnam War, the Afghanistan-US war(well, both groups were right-wingers, there)... ALL right-wingers -- ALL losers.
The important thing to remember is that right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class and anti-working-class politics. But the wealthy right-wingers are the minority, and the working-class is the majority.
Historically, the wealthy-class minority comes into an area and ruins it by exploiting the working-class majority and pillages the resources. And the wealthy-class gets help from small segments of working-class dupes who volunteer to be class-traitors for a few extra crumbs. But, eventually, the working-class majority gives the boot to the wealthy-class minority and their small segments of working-class dupes.
If Mullin and America keep up their supremacist right-wing ways, they might just find themselves suffering the same inferiorities as their right-wing counterparts throughout history. And I only hope I live long enough to see it.
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Oligarch-puppet lady @ 5:14 says: "We corrupt, wealthy-class oligarchs who control the Dept. of (in)Justice will PRETEND not tolerate the farcical-threats, from the foreign oligarchs we collude with, to the farcical-rights of working-class Americas. We corrupt, wealthy-class oligarchs in America have to say that, 'China's corrupt, wealthy-class oligarchs seek to do the same thing we corrupt, wealthy-class oligarchs are doing in America and on the world-stage.' And, since we American-oligarchs are actually HELPING the Chinese-oligarchs, and since we have to keep the working-class people fooled, we American-oligarchs and Chinese-oligarchs have to pretend to be against each other."
And my working-class @$$ says that the American and Chinese oligarchs are doing a fantastic job of duping the majority of ignorant, working-class voters who support both the right-wing Democrat and right-wing Republic parties, both of which are controlled by wealthy-class, right-wing oligarchs.
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Mike Delfino -- Individuals like you are exactly why we SHOULD have cages for humans, which is difficult for me to say because I don't believe in caging humans as a means of rehabilitation.
But it is my experience that individuals with your mindset are the least capable of restoration.
Unfortunately, though, the worse-humans are in control of the 'who' and 'why' humans end up in cages, and the better-humans are most often the victims of the policies implemented by those worse-humans.
Those worse-humans are the real perpetrators of the breakdown of edifying collective-societies, in the promotion of toxic selfish-individualism.
Those worse-humans formulate the catalysts for dysfunctioning societies, in which better-humans are barely able to exist through inequality, let alone prosper by equality.
Thus, the desperate, better-humans must sometimes commit to drastic measures just to acquire the basic needs of life. Then, when better-humans still come up short, they often resort to self-destructive measures.
Those worse-humans are responsible for the conditions which create destitute groups of better-humans who are powerless to acquire necessities for themselves or to enact meaningful change within their families and communities.
Thus, we have the epidemics of sadness and depression, substance abuse and self-harm, suicide and murder, and crimes against society and humanity. These problems are the results of feelings of personal hopelessness, worthlessness, and uselessness. These feelings are the direct results of the societal conditions which are manufactured by those worse-humans.
Those worse-humans hoard wealth via the currency-systems which were created by worse-humans.
Those worse-humans obtain their wealth via the exploitation-systems which were developed by worse-humans.
Those worse-humans use their wealth and currency to exploit, oppress, and suppress better-humans.
All the while, those worse-humans are pillaging the natural resources and devastating the environment in which we all have to live.
Then, with their wealth, those worse-humans establish propaganda-systems with which they promote fear, anger, hate, violence, and genocide. With these propaganda-systems, those worse-humans turn better-humans against one another and themselves.
Those worse-humans in the wealthy-class have used their exploitation and propaganda to turn you against your poor-class, debtor-class, and working-class brothers and sisters who are better-humans.
Those worse-humans have warped your thinking to the point where you believe that someone committing suicide is the problem when, in fact, nefarious worse-humans are the problem.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
But you're not.
You kick-down at the less-fortunate and elbow side-to-side at those most like you, instead of punching-up at the worse-humans who manipulate and maintain the systems of inequality which belittle you.
You hope that the worse-humans will accept you into their club when, in reality, they have woven you into their web of lies.
You're an unabashed class-traitor and a shill for the worse-humans within the wealthy-class.
For this, some better-humans would say that you deserve the same cages as the worse-humans.
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They are victims of personal traumas, just like the rest of us, and they have addictions to mitigate those traumas, just like the rest of us. Their drugs of choice are materialism, social-status, easy-living, and power. They need rehabilitation.
If we rehabilitate the rich in the same way they promote the 'rehabilitation' of the poor and working-class, then the rich will be spending a lot of time in cages, which will do little to no good. Caging humans is just another form of trauma that leads to further addiction.
Breaking the cycles of trauma>addiction>punishment>trauma>addiction>punishment>trauma could help the rich and poor alike.
Don't allow anyone to become rich and powerful. Then no one can become addicted to it.
Don't tolerate anyone falling to poverty and powerlessness. Then no one can be traumatized by it.
Don't allow private schools. Educate all people equally to ingrain an actual common-sense within society.
Don't allow children to be traumatized by parents, guardians, teachers, or other children. Then they will be less likely to grow up to become substance-addicts who then pass their traumas on to the rest of society and the next generation.
That might be a good start.
Then as a society, we could concentrate on the real bad-apples whom we wouldn't incarcerate but instead try to rehabilitate.
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@jgalt308 No evidence of what?
Oh, also:
1) You wouldn't use an ellipses in that instance.
And,
2) The "( again )" goes inside the period, without spaces.
Like this; "You are DISMISSED (again)."
Or, removing the parenthesis and adding a comma after"dismissed" would also be appropriate.
Like this; "You are DISMISSED, again."
Get out of the basement, and off the deserted-island of your mind, sweetie.
You better be back on the side of the working-class majority, before the uprising against the wealthy-class minority begins, and the working-class finds out you're class-traitor.
The really wealthy people usually do okay when the uprisings happen. But fake wealthy-class people like you? Not so much.
I'm non-violent, but there are plenty of working-class people who aren't.
Mommy, daddy, and I can't protect you forever, hon.
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@jgalt308 -- I just wrote so much, though, without mistakes, unlike you, and with better, consistent formatting.
Are you an example of meritocracy at work?
I would say your writing, alone, is a fine example of how the wealthy-class plan to dumb-down the working-class has been successful.
The same way the wealthy-class kept Tommy and Candy's ancestors dumbed-down on purpose, the wealthy-class has perpetrated the same scheme on you and on countless other working-class traitors, right-wing apologists just like you.
I mean, look at the garbage you produce -- skipping the content of your incoherent ramblings -- the inconsistency of your spelling, grammar, and mechanics.
And calling people dismissed? That's the language of intellectual-dwarfs.
I don't need you to dismiss me, or not, nor would you be able to force me.
If it wasn't such an easy, yet, evidently, fruitless endeavor, and if you weren't so boring, I would engage further just to keep you occupied so you weren't out spewing wealthy-class propaganda to other working-class folks who have been dumbed-down like you.
You're a literal product of the slave-owning wealthy-class, and no matter what, you'll always be their slave.
You're either an actual child or you're an intellectual-child trapped in an adult-sized body.
I just wonder if your parents had any other kids who managed to live.
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If he's violent, then leave him.
If he's not violent now, then it's only a matter of time before he becomes violent.
He's ripe for being talked into violence via the instigating and enabling rhetoric of the wealthy-class, right-wing extremists.
The wealthy-class leadership of the RNC and DNC are both apart of that right-wing extremism.
Right-wing economics is, by practice, supportive of the wealthy-class and detrimental to the lower-classes.
The RNC leadership promotes the extremist right-wing politics of economic and social issues, and the DNC leadership is the paid opposition who pretends to fight back.
The only difference between the leadership of the RNC and DNC is the rhetoric they use. Both parties are pro-war, pro-big business, pro-wealthy, pro-corporate socialism, and pro-voter suppression.
I could go on.
Do yourself and family a favor.
Leave. Him.
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@Krill_all_health_insuranceCEOs Maybe it depends on the kind of loan. But, for some loans, they can garnish Social Security or Pension payments.
My dad is retired and in his late 60s, and they are currently garnishing 20-ish percent of his monthly Social Security and/or pension to pay for it.
My dad took out one student loan, on my behalf, 20 years ago. It was a Parent PLUS loan. When the bills started coming in the mail, my dad discarded the bills because he thought they were junk mail.
Additionally, my dad didn't comprehend what was happening when he took out the loan. My mom talked him into doing it.
I didn't even know he (and my mom) took the loan out on my behalf, because I applied for, and received all of my student loans ($100K worth) in my own name with no co-signers. (Which, in and of itself, is absurd, considering I was making between 7-8 dollars per hour at a part-time job when I applied for them.)
I often wonder if my mom (who is hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt herself) committed some sort of fraud to get the money from the PLUS loan for herself. But without proof, it doesn't really matter.
Anyway, yes, they can and will garnish the fixed incomes of senior citizens, or they will put liens on property.
Capitalism is like a cancer that keeps on growing. That cancer's name is inequality.
Capitalism causes addiction-driven mental illnesses in the wealthy-class knaves who perpetrate it, and in the working-class fools who help the wealthy-class to perpetuate it.
/End rant.
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@animalfarm7467 The world awaits, with bated breath, for the blessed abundance of your impending contributions, Rev. Dr. Animal Farm -- thou definer of righteousness, ye granter of grace -- Professor Boss-man, sir. We're not worthy. 🙌 🙄
List some names for the rest of us to look up, besides your own, and stfu.
Oh, and I don't vote, because the only choices are wealthy-class addicts and working-class class-traitors, both in the form of Conservative right-wing Liberal Republicans, Conservative right-wing Liberal Democrats, and nutcase Libertarians. 🤮
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@animalfarm7467 Come on. It's hard to take you seriously.
First, you imply that you read the definitive rebuke of the American brand of Liberal-Conservativitism/Conservative-Liberalism, to which all post-WW2 POTUS's -- from Truman to Nixon, Reagen to Clinton, and Bush to Trump to Biden -- have adhered.
Second, you claim to agree with the rebuke.
Third, you even took the time to copy and paste the rebuke.
And then, you ask if the author -- whose rebuke of Clinton's Conservative-Liberalism/Liberal-Conservatism you claim to agree with -- is a Clinton-Liberal?
I don't bet that a one-word answer would shut you up.
As for Goodman. She, like King, has extensive archives of the work she's contributed. It shows a childish naivete or lack of critical thinking skills to imply that Goodman hasn't received threats similar to those delivered to King. (I've had my life threatened several times by right-wingers in the past few years, and I'm a nobody. So I'm sure Goodman has too, and from more sources than I.)
Goodman doesn't need me to defend her, and I don't need to justify my accounting of her on my list to you. But, I'll give you a logical progression that might explain why Goodman isn't what you want her to be.
1a) King does his thing.
2a) King gets told by 3-letter agencies.
3a) King DOESN'T obey.
4a) King DOES get rolled for doing his thing.
1b) Amy does her thing.
2b) Amy gets told by 3-letter agencies.
3b) Amy DOES obey.
4b) Amy DOESN'T get rolled and lives on to do as much of her thing as she's able.
5) You (a) celebrate King in his death while you fear your own, and you (b) curse Amy's life while you waste your own.
It seems like a pretty clear case of prioritizing self-preservation, which I find to be a prominent common trait among folks who don't share the same faith, nor level thereof, that King had. I won't fault her for that. Nor will I exclude the high quality of her past work just because I don't know her motives behind the reasoning for her more recent work.
We all have blood on our hands. Some by a commission and some by omission. Some by complacency and apathy, and some by reservation and preservation. There is a song called 'Getting Old' by Satsang. Some of the lyrics go, "But if there's blood on my hands, then can I still preach" -- I say yes.
Even if Goodman isn't what you want her to be, she can still contribute value. Just because she isn't contributing the way you want her to, that doesn't mean that she is no longer valuable.
Frankly, your previous engagements make it seem like you're not interested in any probable reality other than the one you've concocted in your own mind.
Further, you seem like a right-wing troll who repeatedly asks the same question as if you're trying to waste the time of better people who are against your right-wing, American Liberal-Conservative/Conservative-Liberal, authoritarianism.
You seem like the fools and knaves from the Trump Administration whom Liberal-Robert Reich wrote and spoke about some years back.
Either your comprehension skills aren't as lofty as you believe (meaning you're a fool), or your writing/acting skills are terrible (meaning you're a knave).
Whether you're a fool or a knave, Libservative or Conservibral, neither is anything to be proud of.
I never wasted ANY of my time voting for Jeffery Epstein's friends Donald Clinton and Bill Trump, and I won't waste any more of my time on you.
Good day, sir.
(Insert your response here.)
I SAID GOOD DAY.
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A Javid
The substandard humans, at the centers of power who control the iron gates, are going to scape and goat.
Some people can't admit that they just need a daddy, a master, a lord, an employer, or an authoritarian in their lives; to tell them what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. These incapable people aren't smart enough to be equal contributors within workplace settings.
Some people won't admit that they just want to be the daddy, the master, the lord, the employer, or the authoritarian in other people's lives; to tell others what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. These exploitative people aren't trustworthy enough to be equitable contributors within workplace settings.
Authoritarian followers, who think that their time and skills are any more or less valuable than those of other human beings, are the weakest link.
Authoritarians rulers, who think that they are worthy of a better quality of life than any other human being, are the lowest common denominator.
The subservient-slaves, who promulgate, promote, and prop-up authoritarian-masters, are just as problematic as the authoritarians.
Any effort, in word or action, to break up their inequitable, hierarchical relationship will indeed cause them to be hurt. Just like the breaking up of the relationship between an addict and a dealer.
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@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 I don't really like John very much, because he's a RWer (whether or not he's willing, or smart enough, to admit it), and I'm a LWer. So with that out of the way, let me try to educate you, briefly.
In the realm of public-speaking, there are different formats, techniques, and/or approaches to making presentations to an audience. One of those is as follows:
Step 1. Tell the audience a basic-version of the things you're going to tell them.
Step 2. Tell the audience an expanded-version of the things you want to tell them.
Step 3. Tell the audience a brief-recap of the things you've told them.
More succinctly, this mode of presentation can be explained as:
1. Tell them what you're going to tell them.
2. Tell them.
3. Tell them what you've told them.
This mode of presentation involves repeating the parts that the presenter believes are the most important parts.
Now, I'm not positive that John is following that mode of presentation, but it would explain the repetition you're referring to.
In closing:
I never expected to write a comment in defense of John -- in fact, quite the opposite.
I usually comment on most of John's videos, calling him a RWer and explaining to him how he has voted to allow the horrible RW-authoritarianism that he complains about in his videos.
But here we are, and here is my "defense" of John, beyond that which I already wrote above the closing:
A. John uses his channel to expose RW-corruption more effectively than some LW-channels (even if John isn't willing, or smart enough to comprehend, that he's exposing RW-corruption).
B. The RW-corruption that John exposes is better than the wealthy-RWers in the MSM.
C. If you don't like it, no one is forcing you to watch the things you don't like (yet).
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Don't despair, @Kyuslydian -- It's okay to cry. Just because you cry, that doesn't mean you are not strong. I consider tears to be a sign of strength -- it takes strength to care for others -- and your tears express the depth & strength of your caring. So, do not shun the tears. Welcome the tears as proof of your humble humanity.
Instead, be wary of those who do not cry. Because the absence of their tears is a sign of the absence of their humanity, which has been either (a)taken from them against their Free-Will (these people are victims), or (b)given away of their own Free Will (these people are suspects).
The suspect-people who don't cry, who have given away their humanity, and who take humanity away from others, should be exposed & rehabilitated.
The victimized-people who don't cry, who have had their humanity taken from them, should be welcomed & rehabilitated. But they will also need rehabilitation of a different kind than the suspect-people.
Don't you dare let the suspect-people take away your humanity, @Kyuslydian, and don't you dare give it away of your own Free-Will.
You keep on caring for others, and let those tears flow.
You are welcome here. ✌🤟✊🙏
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@paulwellman1030 Adorable... If you would, please, explain for the group, what are the defining characteristics of a "sheeple" as you so eloquently label them?
I believe Joe Biden is a right winger, and he has the senatorial voting record to prove it, and I think he should be held accountable for the 1994 crime bill, which disproportionately targeted racial-minorities and the economically-disadvantaged.
I believe Julian Assange and Reality Winner should be freed, and the records of other whistle-blowers should be expunged.
So again, kindly, pray tell us, what are the defining characteristics of a these "sheeple" you keep on about.
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@thedeepratter2454
No, That's not true.
What freedom do you want? To be able to exploit other humans for their labor, so you can then procreate lucky-offspring to pass your exploitative ways on to?
What prospering do you want? To have more trinkets and gadgets than other people, so you can trick them into creating more trinkets and gadgets for you and your pollutant lucky-offspring?
Riiight. Your brand of prosperous-freedom sounds tremendous. The best freedom. The strongest freedom. No one has ever come up with better freedom. Believe you, right?
In slavery, feudalism, and capitalism: A minority of lucky and exploitative people have the security of everything they need, and much of what they want, because the majority of the people do all the work.
In slavery, feudalism, and capitalism: A majority of people don't have the security of everything they need, and little to nothing of what they want, because a minority of lucky exploiters steal the access of the labor-benefits. These access labor benefits which are created on the backs of the majority are called profits. Even though the majority create profits, the minority keeps those profits. That is theft by the minority of the majority. Just like in American-slavery, the majority-blacks did all the manual labor and production while the minority-whites did no manual labor or production.
Under capitalism, a minority of lucky-exploiters have everything they need, while the majority of people struggle to achieve everything they need. Then, the lucky minority of exploiters take all of the excess labor benefits (profits) away from the majority who created them. Then the lucky-exploiters use the profits to manipulate the majority of people into creating the things that the minority wants. The majority of people who are struggling to achieve their own necessities have no choice but to work for the lucky-exploiters. The lucky-exploiters also use the profits to infiltrate every aspect of human life. The minority of lucky-exploiters infiltrate the government and make laws to benefit the wealthy-class, and laws to degrade the working-class. The lucky, wealthy-class exploiters create Ponzi-like schemes, such as the stock market, hedge funds, and private equity firms which they use to further solidify their roles as masters, owners, and oppressors of the working-class.
Masters exploit the slaves.
Lords exploit the serfs.
Employers exploit the employees.
Wealthy exploit the poor.
Non-workers exploit the workers.
Socialism doesn't agree with any of that kind of inequality-driven tyranny.
In better countries, the working-class majority have realized their power and they have banded together against the lucky, exploitive, rapacious, lazy, mentally-ill minority of non-working, wealthy-class masters, lords, and employers.
One half-way decent thing the wealthy exploiters have done is, they have made a place for people who don't want to abide by their system. They call it a prison.
In better countries, where the egalitarian-workers have banded together to defeat the totalitarian-owners, they have put those totalitarian-owners into those prisons.
If you don't like equality -- if you think you have a right to live a better life than any other person, while most people do all the work and you do less or no work -- there are countries where you can go.
Make sure you go to the right country though, lest you end up in a better country where they put the lazy minority-exploiters and their ignorant-henchmen into cages.
Slavery is little-different than capitalism. There are a few lucky and exploitative owners and employers who do no production-work and create no value. Those people are mentally ill due to their addictions to materialism, social-status, easy-living, and power. Then there are many unlucky and exploited slaves and employees who do all of the production-work and create all of the value. Some of these slave-workers are enamored by the addictions of their owner-employers and will do anything to become exploiters too.
Every group of working-class slaves has their class-traitors who will turn against their fellow-slaves for a few extra crumbs. News flash; the wealthy-class don't hang out in the comments section on Youtube. They pay working-class slaves to do it for them. Maybe that's you.
The wealthy need the workers, or the wealthy would have to become the workers.
The workers don't need the wealthy, because the workers would still produce food clothes and shelter without the wealthy exploiting and lording over them.
The lucky exploiters in the wealthy-class would have nothing without workers to exploit.
What's saddest is that you have more in common with the exploited working-class than you do with the wealthy-class who exploit your labor and your ignorance. I just wonder if you're an ignorant or a sympathetic Uncle-Tom.
Slavery is unfair exploitation for many people and unmatched prosperity for a few people.
Feudalism is exploitation for the many and prosperity for the few.
Capitalism is exploitation for the many and prosperity for the few.
Socialism is equality for all.
If you don't like it -- if you don't like democracy and community -- if you don't want to be a part of the group, I am sure you have gone through some past-traumas which would explain it.
If you don't want to be a member of an egalitarian social group, then I'm sure that there is a cage somewhere with your name on it.
I, personally, don't believe in caging humans. I believe there are better ways to deal with your kind. But I know there are compatriots within my ideological-ranks who believe in caging humans, and worse. Just like there are people within your ideological-ranks who believe in doing terrible things to humans who fight against exploitation.
Hopefully, for you and any of your innocent-aged procreated-polluters, it never comes to that.
The only society which will prosper "forever" is based on the freedom of all people to not be exploited by others -- a society based on equality of outputs performed, on equality of opportunities provided, and on equality of outcomes produced.
I and most of the working-class people across the country and around the world are already passed the brand of 'prosperous-freedom' which you promote. The ruse is up.
Nice try, though.
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@loljk9443 I really don't mean to be rude, either.
But take a little time, think about your situation.
Think about how you get the things you need versus the things you want.
Now think about how you could end up losing the ways to acquire the things you need and want.
Think about the different kinds of things you LIKE that you need.
Now think about having to settle for things you didn't like, but that you still needed.
Remember, these are only thought exercises.
Think about all of the different things in life -- the different kinds of toothpaste, paper towels, canned soups, candies, potatoes (there are dozens), places to live, jobs to do, clothes, writing utensils...
Now let's move on from material possessions.
Think about the negative experiences in life -- think about the worst things you can imagine.
Think about the possible reactions to the worst things you can imagine. Think about the possible choices and remedies.
Now, realize that not everyone has the same access to necessities, choices, actions, and remedies.
There are literally billions, if not trillions of different combinations of needs and wants, experiences, and tragedies.
If you can think up a person, that person likely exists somewhere.
Here's a combination of things to think about:
A 68-year-old opiate addict of 40+ years, working as a school teacher for the past 40 years; hoards of junk filling their basement, but can't build a fire in the fireplace; doesn't use salt but likes pepper, doesn't like parsley but like basil leaves; grew up living in a house with parents and grandparents, but was abused by their uncle; competed in baking competitions at the county fair growing up, goes on vacation every year; cheated on their spouse; has $100,000 in credit card debt, 100,000 dollars in student loan debt; trades up for a newer car every few years; goes out to eat every weekend, buys $5 coffees every day instead of $1 coffees at home; has a $100/month phone bill when a $45 plan is available; complains about their quality of life; sits in their car, in parking lots, scrolling Facebook instead of going home; has zero savings in the bank, but lives in a $200,00 home on 10 acres of land; don't know how to plunge a toilet or turn off the water-main in the house, and has never seen 8 of the ten acres they live on.
The person I described above is just a few misfortunes or a couple of bad decisions away from being homeless, living in their car, with a cell phone, watching Youtube videos.
The wealthy-class has made it nearly impossible to live without a phone or an email address -- having a phone is damn near a necessity if you want to make money in this bullshite society.
You've just been programmed -- by wealthy-class propaganda and indoctrination through the media -- to believe that it doesn't or shouldn't exist, or that the people who end up like that somehow deserve it, or if a person is living in their car, they shouldn't have a cell phone.
Damn near any combination of person you can think of, exists somewhere. People living in their cars, or in the woods, with cell phones is NOT uncommon.
Again, I really don't mean to be rude, either. But get your head out... Just use your head.
There are MILLIONS of people who are suffering. BILLIONS of people live below the median standard of living.
I hope you never have to live in desperation. But, in my experience, living in desperation is the best way to open people's eyes.
Good Luck to you. ✌
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Vote for wealthy-class, right-wing Republicans for the fast-road to fascism.
Vote for wealthy-class, right-wing Democrats for the slow-road to fascism.
Both parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class right-wingers.
The anti-working-class, right-wing SCOTUS decisions over the last 50 years -- decisions that legalized bribes by calling them "donations," claimed that corporate legal-entities are "people," and money is "speech" -- are cases that have allowed BOTH political parties to become corrupted by wealthy-class right-wingers.
Educate yourself about working-class versus wealthy-class politics.
Right-wing politics are wealthy-class politics.
Wealthy-class politics are capitalist politics.
Capitalist politics are corporatist politics.
Corporatist politics are fascist politics.
Fascist politics are authoritarian politics.
Authoritarian politics are minority-rule politics.
Minority-rule (mob-rule) politics are right-wing politics.
Both the Repubocrats and the Demlicans are right-wing political parties. The leadership of both parties are members of the wealthy-class. Pelosi, McCarthy, Schumer, McConnell, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden are ALL are members of the wealthy-class. All are members of the right-wing.
In contrast:
Left-wing politics are working-class politics.
Working-class politics are collectivist politics.
Collectivist politics are community politics.
Community politics are cooperative politics.
Cooperative politics are democratized politics.
Democratized politics are majority-rule politics.
Majority-rule politics are left-wing politics.
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I own a business.
I raised my prices last year, but I didn't need to.
I didn't incur any additional costs last year.
I didn't increase my standard of living, unlike the J Galt-class-traitors within the working-class who try to live their own versions of the wealthy-class "good life" by using credit cards.
In fact, my business costs went down, my unit-sales and my profits went up, and I managed to reduce my personal cost of living.
I still raised my prices anyway.
Do you know why? Because of all the J Galts, of course.
Because greedy people like J Galt did.
Because addicted people like J Galt will pay.
Because ignorant people like J Galt don't understand they're being ripped off.
I didn't give any raises either. Do you know why?
Because goofs like J Galt don't understand when they're being duped.
Because the low self-worth J Galts don't know what equality or equity looks like.
Because sadomasochists like J Galt love to see other people suffering, especially more than the J Galts recognize their own suffering.
Just increase the working day by 30-minutes, and then a period of time later -- a month, a quarter, whatever it takes to quell the J Galts -- give the J Galts two additional 5-minute coffee/smoke breaks. They will love you.
For the next exploitation -- excuse me -- for the next practice, you have to make sure all the J Galts are cross-trained. You fire the highest-paid J Galt you have and then give all the other J Galts a "promotion" (in title only). They will love you.
Then, with the money you saved from firing the most senior J Galt, you hire a couple of junior J Galts for less than what you paid the senior J Galt, and then you pocket the difference.
Use one of the junior J Galts you hired to fill the position of the lowest J Galt who got promoted, and tell him he'll get to be cross-trained. He'll love you.
Use the other junior-J Galt you hired to act as an "assistant" to the now-senior J Galts. Tell junior J that he'll learn so much watching the senior J's. They'll love you.
Of course, I told everyone that if they didn't like it, they could be replaced, or I could just shut the business down and leave. The J Galts were sad, so I went to Dunkin's last night before they closed and got a bunch of day-old free donuts and threw them on the bench between the J Galt-lockers. They all love me.
The J Galts couldn't afford the equipment, nor do the J Galts know who I use for suppliers, and most of the J Galts are alcoholics with no functional definition of what the word means, so they couldn't take over the business anyway.
I offered the J Galts some options one time, just to see how they reacted -- like watching rats in a cage. They finally agree to vote (what a novel idea), and they were like a bunch of kids in a candy store when they saw how democracy worked.
The Galts didn't pick the best quality, nor the most economical option, so I just did what I wanted. They were sad. So I went to the local pizza shop after work and traded the J Galt-manager $25 worth of CBD Hemp for $50 worth of pizzas. The J Galt-manager even came down and delivered it the next day at lunchtime. All the J Galts love me.
All the J Galts vote for Repubocrats and Demlicans. There's one J Galt who claims to be a "Libertarian" but he's basically the same breed as the other J Galts. He didn't even know there was a Libertarian he could've voted for. Pretty sure he got beaten by his parental-J Galts when he was a kid-J Galt. All the other J Galts give him a hard time.
Ho-hum, J Galts gonna J Galt.
I'm just bored of these J Galts. The J Galts who work for me are REALLY a bunch of J Galts, if you know what I mean. Hahahahaha! I want to get as far away from these J Galt's as possible.
Besides, there are so many J Galts out there who have been more greatly impacted by the manufactured-desperation that has been created and imposed by people like me, why shouldn't I take advantage of it? I'll be able to make more money, which I don't need, by cutting my labor costs on a bunch of other J Galts.
I've lived around TONS of J Galts -- J Galts are the worst. Of course, people like me have fashioned the system so that J Galts become that way.
I can't wait for more desperate J Galts to be wild'n'out so we can throw more of them into the for-profit J Galt-prisons being built -- note to self: check private prison stocks.
Once there are more desperate-J Galts in J Galt-prison, I'll be able to contract J Galt-prison-labor -- via the governments that me and my wealthy-class, right-wing extremist friends have corrupted -- at 25% of my average labor costs.
When it comes to J Galts, one J Galt is as good as any J Galt, and even better is J Galt-desperation behind J Galt-bars.
No more pizza and donuts for these J Galt'ing J Galt'ers.
After "work" I'll be able to go straight home and check my J Galt profits while drinking a high-quality, low-labor cost J-Galt beverage, as J Galt-sportsball games play on my J Galt projector.
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If you made it this far, and you find yourself confused, I apologize. The only thing you need to know is this: don't be like the J Galt who posted above.
You're all capable of being better than that.
Together, we're capable of much more.
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Lower-class kids currently go to defunded and depressed public schools. Those kids are cultivated to be subservient citizens who become good-soldiers and obedient-workers. If they're unlucky, they become subjugated-prisoners.
Wealthy-class kids currently go to over-funded and deregulated private schools. Those kids are coddled to be oppressive citizens who become wealth-hoarders, resource-pillagers, labor-manipulators, and human-exploiters. If they're "lucky," they become unmitigated and unrepentant demanding-sociopaths.
Disclaimer: I understand that my explanation is a broadly-brushed verbal-painting that isn't representative of the entire educational-canvas, nor every education-institution. But it's representative of most of them.
If there were no public schools, there would simply be a new dichotomy. There would be lower-class private schools and wealthy-class private schools.
The lower-class and wealthy-class kids would still learn the same things they learned when there were public schools. But with only private schools, there wouldn't be adequate oversight, transparency, or accountability.
No matter what the lower-class people do to strive for equity and equality, the wealthy-class people will do everything in their power to combat it.
The wealthy-class will propagandize populations by fearmongering and hatemongering, they will overthrow governments, sabotage infrastructure, destroy communities, murder individuals, genocide ethnicities, and enslave the survivors.
The wealthy-class will do anything to maintain their addictions to fabricated social-status, an easy standard of living, and substance abuse.
The wealthy-class are nothing more than individuals who are lying, cheating, stealing, and murdering to maintain their addictions, and private schools aid in their lifestyle.
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I remember back when I regurgitated the vomitous talking-points and infotainment-slogans that are developed by wealthy-class, corporatist-establishment think-tanks.
Imagine being so ignorant that you didn't know that neoliberalism is akin to conservatism, or that both are ideologies being supported by the wealthy-establishment.
I remember back when I was a young-pawn who bought into the partisan-team political-game mentality promulgated by propagandists.
Imagine being blind to your own hypocrisy in telling someone to hold politicians accountable while being a part of a group that doesn't hold theirs accountable and supports them with blind fervor and belligerent fury.
I remember back when I didn't understand politics in historical and international contexts.
Imagine being the laughingstock of the developed world -- where Republicans and Democrats would either be the same political party or part of a coalition government and could just as easily be called Republicrats and Demlicans -- while being too oblivious to know you're the object of amusement.
I remember back when I was numb as nails and dumb as dirt, tricked into choosing between an ideological-monopoly masquerading as a political-duopoly.
Imagine supporting the candidates and narratives of the RNC or DNC, which are both propelled and promoted by the wealthy-class corporatist-establishment.
I remember back when I was a foolish duped-tool, being used by knave class-traitors and master slave-drivers.
Imagine thinking that the wealthy-class leadership of the RNC and DNC has the same economic-interests or societal-objectives as the poor, debtor, and working folks within the lower-class.
If you believe that, you might as well have joined Jonestown, Heaven's Gate, the Confederate Army, Oath Keepers, Boogaloo Proud Boys, Three Percenters, Nazis, KKK, or NXIVM.
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Jesse makes a statement at 11:20 that can't be more greatly understated and underestimated in American culture.
"Once you see it, you can't unsee it."
Once you see that the wealthy-class, and the folks within the working-class who have been indoctrinated by wealthy-class propaganda, are responsible for society's ills, you can't unsee it.
Once you see that Republic and Democrat leadership are all part of the same political party, the wealthy-class party, you can't unsee it.
Once you see that Republic and Democrat voters are all voting against their own best interests, you can't unsee it.
Once you see that the wealthy-class uses race, religion, sex, gender, and a plethora of other ways to divide the working-class, you can't unsee it.
Once you see that the wealthy-class is populated by nothing more than addicts who will do anything to maintain their addictions, you can't unsee it.
Once you see that there ain't no war but the class war, you can't unsee it.
Once you see the links between the 13th Amendment and for-profit prisons and the wealthy-class who own the prisons, and how they will do anything to put working-class humans in cages, you can't unsee it.
Once you see the links between the military-industrial-complex and the wealthy-class who owns the manufacturing and contracting companies, and how the wealthy-class owners will send working-class humans to murder other working-class humans, you can't un-see it.
I could go on, but I'll (try to) shorten it up here.
The wealthy-class will do anything to uphold the monetary system to profitize every aspect of human life. By hoarding money, the wealthy-class can maintain their addictions to supremacy and superiority through repression, suppression, and oppression.
The wealthy-class will do anything to preserve the systems from which they benefit. They will stop at nothing to continue their addictions to money-hoarding, material-acquisition, land-pillaging, human-manipulation, labor-exploitation, social-status, substance-abuse, promiscuous-pursuits, social-status, and overall easy standard of living.
Adam Corolla is nothing more than a working-class pawn who was given a few extra crumbs by the wealthy-class. Those extra crumbs purchased Adam's services as a class-traitor to the working-class to benefit the wealthy-class.
Once you see that the wealthy-class and the class-traitors of the working-class are the parasites, you can't unsee it.
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Why? Because, the populace-minority of the wealthy-class/right-wingers, who have corrupted the gov't, have used their corrupt wealth&power to ruin public-education, thus rendering the populace-majority of working-class people too ignorant to comprehend social-versus-economic politics, and subtle-differences versus major-similarities.
Subtle-differences:
Right-wing-extremist Repubs want to turn working-class people into detainees, chattel-slaves/debt-slaves, & corpses.
Moderate-right-wing Dems want to turn working-class people into employees, debt-slaves/wage-slaves, & customers.
MAJOR-Similarity:
The Repub AND Dem parties are BOTH bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class/right-wingers. The wealthy-class uses BOTH parties to (1)collude to the benefit of the populace-minority of the wealthy-class/right-wingers and (2)to collude to the detriment of the populace-majority of the working-class.
Vote wealthy, right-wing-extremist Repubs for the fast, open-road to fascism.
Vote wealthy, moderate-right-wing Dems for the slow, disguised road to fascism.
Continuing the ruse:
Then, in the event that the working-class begins to catch-on to the theatrics, the wealthy-class has the two parties flip-flop their positions on some social-policies, thus confusing/pacifying the Red-versus-Blue dupes from the working-class. Meanwhile, the wealthy-class continues to use both political parties to further their right-wing economic-policies.
Conclusion:
The Working-class American dupes continue to vote for BOTH right-wing (pro-wealthy-class & anti-working-class) political parties, because America's working-class is too dumb to comprehend what they're doing.
The smarter, better people of the working-class world are going to have to save/liberate the ignorant American working-class from the wealthy Repub & Dem right-wingers/fascists.
Just like the smarter, better people of the working-class world had to save/liberate the ignorant German working-class from the wealthy Nazi right-wingers/fascists.
Just like the smarter, better people of the working-class world had to save/liberate the ignorant Confederate working-class/slaves from the wealthy Confederate right-wingers/fascists.
It's going to get a lot worse before it gets any better.
Buckle up.
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Democracy in the workplace is probably a point of contention between left-wing Wolff and right-wing Hartmann.
Hartmann has owned and operated many businesses across the country (including the show-business he is hosting right now). Hartmann became wealthy by selling those other businesses out from under his old employees. Hartmann wouldn't have been able to do that to his past employees if they had democracy in the workplace. So, it's likely that Hartmann doesn't believe in democracy in the workplace, or Wolff would probably mention the concept.
At best, Hartmann is a moderate right-wing fool. He understands the monetary value that Wolff's presence brings to the show and is happy to keep the profits. And while Hartmann claims to hate right-wing neoliberalism, he is NOT capable of seeing how greatly he benefits from it and how much his benefits result in other people's suffering.
At worst, Hartmann is an extremist right-wing knave (like most business owners). He does this show as a propagandist grift, just like other right-wingers. And while Hartmann claims to hate right-wing neoliberalism, he truly loves it because he really IS capable of seeing how greatly he benefits from right-wing neoliberalism and he actually DOES understand how much his benefits result in other people's suffering, but he pretends not to know.
Whatever Hartmann is, it seems as if Wolff is not allowed to say whatever he wants to say on this show, and only comes on this show to do the best he can with what he's got.
Whether Hartmann is a fool or a knave, there's no way to be sure, and nothing can be done to stop him. But I only watch Hartmann's show to see how the white, wealthy-class, moderate right-winger thinks.
Of course, if Hartmann saw this comment, he would refute it, or he would remain silent and use it as an idea to try to extract some future value out of Wolff by having Wolff discuss democracy in the workplace in the future.
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@Traveller
"One can only hope that Trump's supporters are more loyal to this nation than to a traitor."
Think of it from the 'fools and knaves' perspective.
Knaves are elitist, wealthy-class fraudsters. They are traitors, not just to the country and to the people, but to the civility and equality as well.
Fools are the most ignorant and most easily persuadable among us. They are perfect puppets for the knaves.
The knaves are only in this country to make the greatest amounts of money and profits, under the least amount of regulation possible. The knaves are loyal to the corrupted-ideals of this nation. These corrupted-ideals allow the elitist, wealthy-class knaves to make massive amounts of money and profits off the backs and at the expense of the working-class and the poor-class.
The knaves would sell their own mothers and Donald Trump in order to increase their own wealth and keep up their easy standards of living. The same way that Donald Trump would sell his own mother in order to increase his own wealth and keep up his easy standard of living.
The fools, on the other hand, have been duped by the knaves like Donald Trump, but the fools are too stupid to see it. The fools have been tricked and co-opted by the knaves to blame the weakest among us. The fools have been tricked into blaming their own neighbors and fellow citizens who are in the same working middle-class and poor-class as they are. The knaves have gotten the fools to blame immigrants, minorities, and anyone who doesn't look like them. The knaves have gotten the fools to blame anyone who doesn't think in the same faulty ways in which the fools think.
The fools have also been duped into blaming a specific portion of the news media, rather than blaming the corrupt, wealthy-class, elitist knaves who produce, own, and operate a majority of the news media.
In this order, the fools blame:
(1) The poor, the weak, or anyone different than themselves
(2) The news-media journalists and the talking-head pundits whom the knaves have told the fools to blame.
(3) The government (which is supposed to be 'of the people, by the people, and for the people' -- which was bought and corrupted by the wealthy-knaves a long time ago).
The fools are unable to blame the wealthy-class knaves who are responsible for this unequal system whereby the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The fools are simply too ignorant to direct blame in the correct direction.
The knaves -- the most abhorrent people in the country -- such as Donald Trump and the people in his elitist economic class are surely a force to be reckoned with. But they will remain non-violent toward the majority of the citizenry as long as the economic and political systems are upheld in their favor. But when they feel their grasp slipping, they will likely incite violence here while fleeing to the next best country to produce profits and hoard money at the expense of the working-class and the poor-class.
The fools -- the most ignorant people in the country -- are also a force to be reckoned with. They are simply dumb enough to place blame, and take out their ignorant-angst, on the wrong people. They will take their economic-fueled aggressions out on anyone the knaves tell them to.
Elitist-knaves like Donald Trump might sell their own mothers and neighbors, but ignorant-fools will kill their own mothers and neighbors.
If you're afraid of predictable slavery, then elitist-knave traitors should be your greatest worry.
If you're afraid of unpredictable death, then ignorant-fool traitors should be your greatest worry.
This is just my opinion, based on my non-expert understanding of history, economics, politics, psychology, and sociology.
I hope I'm wrong.
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👏. 👏. 👏. Brava2Brava!!!
P.S. Personally -- in my unsolicited opinion 😉 -- I think they know exactly what they're doing. It's all on purpose, and purposeful. Here's what I find interesting, though...
In the political-realm, TYT (Cenk & Ana specifically) has complained about Dem-politicians acting like diet-Repubs, because, when push comes to shove, the RW-voters just pick the Repub-politician anyway. And, then, the Dem-politicians act confused/angry when they lose. And TYT calls them out for that.
But, now, TYT (led by Cenk & Ana) is doing the same thing in the media realm.
They are taking a diet-RW approach, and the Repub-voters are sticking with their regular-RW channels & shows instead of coming to TYT. But the Dem-voters are leaving TYT. And, now, TYT is groveling, which I suppose is better than if they were acting confused/angry.
But, when I said it's "interesting," I meant that it's seriously thought-provoking. Here's how.
So, personally, I believe that the Repub&Dem political parties are both bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class. The wealthy-RW-billionaire capitalists fund the campaigns of wealthy-RW-millionaire capitalists to get the millionaires elected to the Repub&Dem parties. And TYT calls that out, too.
But what TYT doesn't call out is the fact that those wealthy-RW-billionaire capitalists and their wealthy-RW-millionaire capitalists-turned-politicians all work together behind the scenes to rig the economic-politics in favor of the wealthy-class capitalists, Then, at the same time, those wealthy billionaires & millionaires use propaganda & theatrics to distract the working-class with social-politics/culture-wars.
So, that leads us back to the question: Why is TYT acting in a diet-RW manner, when they frequently call out other politicians for doing the same thing?
Could it be that TYT is:
(A)really so stupid that they don't understand that their subscribers are tanking because of TYT's RW-swing?
OR
(B)just a bunch of hypocrites, and they have some ulterior motive in play?
What kind of ulterior motive?
Well, I've got two examples:
(1)Perhaps TYT is just pretending to try to get more/new subscribers, and they don't really care because they have prepared soft-landings for themselves elsewhere if/when TYT goes out of business. But, in an effort to pad their resume`s, they have to pretend to get new subscribers so they can look like "hard-workers" who "went down with the ship" or some such nonsense.
(2)Perhaps TYT is REALLY trying to get more/new subscribers, because they're trying to make the TYT-business LOOK stronger, because they're hoping to (a)attract investors or (b)sell it.
Whatever it is, I won't be surprised, and I don't care very much. I stopped caring when they started advocating to put the least-fortunate people in society into prison-cages and institution-chambers against their will.
I am, and have been, among the least-fortunate people in society. I know what it's like to be desperate, and I'm just lucky that I never did anything drastic, and that I wasn't broken mentally, because of it. The last thing I ever needed was a cage/chamber. So, as far as I'm concerned they can take their comfortably-cushy, blissfully-ignorant existences and choke on them.
I don't hope they suffer. I just hope their hearts, minds, and souls are changed. Unfortunately for them, me, and everyone else, that change usually comes through suffering.
Personally, I don't even watch the show anymore -- I click through the video to see the story-headlines and which sources they cite in the segment.
And, obviously, I read the comments. Again, Bravo/Brava on your comment. 😊
But this is just my unsolicited opinion. 😉
✌🤟✊🙏
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Modeling... Advertising... What a bunch of right-wing, neolib-conservative garbage, just like all the other non-necessity and for-profit industries. They're all top-down poison. From the lazy, wealthy-class lifestyle-addicts who consume the profits like parasites, to the lazy, working-class, lifestyle-addicts who consume the compliments like parasites.
These lazy, parasitic people should be laboring over the production and procurement of their own life-sustaining necessities, instead of making slaves out of other people who do all the labor for them.
And just as bad as the parasitic, wealthy&working-class lifestyle-addicts who are involved in modeling/advertising, are the working-class lifestyle-addicts who aren't involved in modeling/advertising -- like the ones here in the comments -- who prop up and promote the parasitic, lifestyle-addicts who are.
This world is such a sh!tehole, all because of the lazy, parasitic, neolib-conservative right-wingers -- from the wealthy-class right-wing lifestyle-addicts to the working-class right-wing lifestyle-addicts.
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Spoken like a couple of knave-trolls working for the masters of economic-manipulation within the slave-owner class.
Or, you could be a couple of fool-pawns, working for the masters of economic-manipulation within the slave-owner class without realizing it, all while thinking you have a chance of making it out of the slave-worker class.
I suppose it's more likely that you're a couple of fellows who don't comprehend economic-policy in a historical sense, let alone a modern one.
Just two regular old joe's who don't have the slightest inkling as to how the economics in this country has been drastically manipulated against them over the last 40-80-230 years -- more so than any 'harm' a student-loan-forgiveness plan could ever cause you.
/S
I have an idea. Let's do it your way. Instead of moving forward with new 'scary' ideas, let's just go backward - like, maybe back to when America was great, or something.
Let's just let the right-wing authoritarians within the Republic/Democrat one-party system keep knuckle-dragging us to the right, so the rest of the developed world can have a nice laugh.
In fact, let's go back even farther to when the world was greater -- straight back into monarchism/feudalism. Let the wealthy-class decide what's best for you.
Bring back Droit du seigneur!!!
/S
Poor, sad, sorry, ignoramuses -- Lord, help them -- they know not what they do.
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Diane Ravitch and Jonathan Kozol are a couple of authors who have written on this subject. I'm sure there are other valid authors on this topic, and I would be happy to know of them if you have any suggestions.
My brief, non-professional point of view is as follows:
Lower-class kids go to defunded and destandardized public schools. Those kids are cultivated to become good-soldiers and obedient-workers, and, if they're unlucky, subservient prison-slaves.
Wealthy-class kids go to over-funded and deregulated private schools. Those kids are coddled to become human-manipulators and labor-exploiters, and, if they're lucky, demanding-sociopaths.
(Disclaimer: I understand that my explanation is a broadly-brushed verbal-painting that isn't representative of the entire educational-canvas nor every education-institution. Just most of them.)
This dual education-structure is a means to continue the division between people -- to maintain the hierarchical systems of class and caste -- in which the wealthy-class minority continues to rule and reign over the working-class majority.
By separating and segregating citizens, it serves to keep the working-class majority in constant competition against each other -- elbowing side-to-side at the people who they have the most in common with, kicking down at the least-fortunate in society -- fighting for the falling crumbs from the master's tables.
Many people in American society want to gripe about the lack of "common sense" within society, but I find that most of those people don't seem to have an explanation for how to achieve or maintain common sense.
I would argue that a basis for common sense can be found in the pursuit of common goals. Those common goals should be achieved by the utilization of common knowledge. That common knowledge should be obtained by a common education. That common education should be taught by common teachers who teach common lessons, learned by common children who attend common schools.
But again, I'm no professional.
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Logic, reason, cognitive dissonance, The Dunning-Kruger Effect, The Four Stages of Competence, The Paradox of Tolerance, equity, equality, oppression, repression, and suppression, micro/macroeconomics, propaganda, indoctrination, social/psychological conditioning.
All of those things are understood by the wealthy right-wingers who own the Repub & Dem parties. And those wealthy right-wing Repubs & Dems remain in power because the working-class Repub & Dem right-wingers do not understand those things.
Ignorant working-class fools were the reason why wealthy Confederate & Nazi right-wingers were able to remain in power. And that's why wealthy right-wingers don't want an intelligent working-class -- because ignorant working-class fools will vote against their own interests, and they won't even be able to comprehend it.
Ignorant working-class fools will be the reason the U.S. sh!thole will fall. Just like ignorant working-class fools were the reason the Confederate and Nazi sh!tholes fell. I just hope I live long enough to see it.
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@patriciafarrow9586 Yeah, I don't disagree with you -- as long as union members are organized well.
And as long as union-leadership is rooted in the defense of the working-class majority and not the promotion of the wealthy-class minority.
And as long as union-leadership isn't addicted to the socially authoritarian, ego-driven addictions of, and suffering from the same mental illnesses as, the corrupt wealthy-class -- such as social-status, easy-living, money-hoarding, resource-pillaging, material-acquisition, human-manipulation, and labor-exploitation.
The only way to make sure that union-leadership remains uncorrupted is for union-membership to be very well educated regarding the corruption of the wealthy-class and how the wealthy-class have infiltrated every branch of government, corrupting the legislators, the executors, the judiciary, and the overall political and electoral processes.
Due to that infiltration and corruption, the wealthy-class has succeeded in persuading lawmakers to reduce public-education funding, standards, and regulation, thus resulting in the dumbing-down of the working-class citizens.
Coupling together the dumbing-down of the citizens with the propaganda that is spread via the media companies, which are owned by the wealthy-class, and you have a recipe for working-class subjugation, which is exactly what we have.
So, needless to say, there is a lot of work to be done in the undoing of authoritarianism, the addictions, the mental illnesses, the corruption, and the propaganda of the wealthy-class, and the ill-education of the working-class.
But it is honorable work to look out for our less-fortunate neighbors.
While people like Clare are busy shilling for the mob-mentality and minority-rule of the wealthy-class, I'm happy to be the opposition.
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@kianh1903 A few reasons. But money was the driving factor, as with any decision made by Capitalists in Capitalism.
The family-owners were at retirement age, and the next generation didn't want to inherit the hotel. So the family-owners took a giant cash payment from the highest bidder. That highest bid was from the private equity company headquartered two thousand miles away.
Then the family-owners took that money and used it to enrich the rest of their family at the expense of the loyal workers and communities.
That big cash payment allowed the family-owner's children and grandchildren to buy up lots of land and start multiple businesses in the area.
Having that stack of cash allowed the family-owners to buy up or out-compete other struggling businesses in the area.
My county is large in land area at 19000 square miles. Depending on which route you take, it takes two to two and a half to get from the southern border to the northern border.
But the county is small in population at 30,000 people. The population has decreased in six out of the last eight decades. More people were living in this county in 1910 than there are now. But, this is the nature of Capitalists and Capitalism.
Capitalists and Capitalism will ravage communities, break up families, end friendships, stall progress, ruin people's hopes and scatter their dreams into the wind if the Capitalists can make a buck. Not to mention the violence, murder, and genocide that Capitalists are willing to impose
It's amusing and terrifying to listen to ignorant working-class locals discuss with amazement the decline in population and opportunities in the county as they muse over how it could have happened. But the answers are simple.
First, the red-scare happened, and then Reaganism happened. Those two periods were followed by the market recessions of 2000 (tech-bubble), 2008 (housing-bubble), and 2020(pandemic-bubble). These things could have been prevented.
If the world wasn't corrupted and controlled by the addicts in the wealthy-class minority, and if they didn't have the help of the addicts in the working-class majority who are trying to become like the addicts in the wealthy-class minority, this world could be a much better place.
My county and so many others are full of suffering people for the same simple reasons: Because working-class fools and wealthy-class knaves run municipalities like businesses made up of dollars instead of running them like communities made up of humans.
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I think it's cute, hilarious, disgusting, that he is "concerned" that this could happen to him, a combat veteran, here in his own country, when his own country sent him to commit the same atrocities against innocent working-class people abroad.
Sure, he's a victim in this case. But his choices in life put him into a position where he helped to create thousand, if not millions, of victims abroad.
Like, bro, you literally committed the acts you're now complaining about. You're either a fool who is too stupid to see the correlation between the tears you're crying and the tears you've caused, or you're a knave who pretends not to see the correlation because you don't care about the victims you created.
Boo-effing-hoo, bud. Welcome to the right-wing, wealthy-class, capitalist-imperialism you live under and helped to perpetuate.
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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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Yup. TYT taking money from corrupt rich people, w/ their corrupt RW-politics, is part of what has ruined TYT. Besides that, Cenk is a self-proclaimed Capitalist, and Capitalism is a RW-system, just like Monarchism, Feudalism, Corporatism & Fascism. All of the RW-political-systems are just systems of slavery with different names, and Cenk wants the moderate-RW politics of Capitalist-slavery, but not the RW-extremist politics of Fascist-slavery.
I've been watching TYT for over a decade. Cenk used to be center-left, advocating for social-democracy and/or democratic-socialism, but he dragged the audience to the center-right, advocating for capitalism. Capitalism is an authoritarian system that is antithetical to democratism/democracy, just like Monarchism, Feudalism, Corporatism, & Fascism are.
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@Randy R Randelson -- You're right. It's a weird world. But, I think your skepticism isn't just warranted. It's reasonable!
I would like not to be skeptical. But, knowing what I know about socio-economic politics in historical and international contexts, I'm well beyond skeptical.
According to Wikipedia (a right-wing source, like most American "news" sources), the ownership of Vice Media is as follows:
Shane Smith (20%)
The Walt Disney Company (16%)
A&E Networks (20%)
TPG Capital (44%)
Soros Fund Management (10%)
James Murdoch (minority stake)
That entire list of owners are members of the wealthy-class.
Wealthy-class politics are right-wing politics. (That statement isn't my opinion. It is the internationally accepted way in which economics and sociology professionals discuss socio-economic politics; I.E., right-wing politics are wealthy-class politics, and left-wing politics are working-class politics.)
That entire list of wealthy-class owners benefits from right-wing economic politics/policies.
This video was about the Proud Boys -- a right-wing organization founded by right-winger Gavin McInnes.
The guest in the video, Tess, works for Vice Media -- a right-wing organization also founded by right-winger Gavin.McInnes.
The outlet Tess works for, Vice Media, is now owned by wealthy-class right-wingers, and, thus, Tess is paid by wealthy-class right-wingers.
And, while Tess may not be corrupt herself, the wealthy-class people who pay her are.
Those wealthy-class people -- the ones who pay Tess -- get to decide what kind of stories are researched and written, and they decide which get printed as articles.
Tess wouldn't have been able to write the right-wing expose` without the consent of the right-wingers who pay her. Now, if that isn't suspect...
Moving on...
Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, a right-winger, has been outed as a gov't informant who was given a good deal of freedom to act in the best interests of right-wing politics -- and let's not forget, right-wing politics are wealthy-class politics.
Internationally and historically speaking, both U.S. political parties are right-wing political parties. In other, better countries -- where they have actual freedom of political-choice -- American Libertarians, Republicans, and Democrats would all be right-wing political parties. They would either be one big-tent political party or member-parties of a coalition.
Thus, it does not & would not matter which party Tarrio is or was part of. His actions have been to the benefit of the wealthy-class right-wingers and a detriment to the working-class.
One of the reasons that the working-class in other, better countries laugh at the working-class in the U.S. is because the U.S. is governed by two right-wing parties, both of which are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class.
The working-class majority in other, better countries -- where they understand working-class solidarity and real left-wing politics -- wonder how the American working-class majority could become so stupid as to allow themselves to be governed by two right-wing parties controlled by the wealthy-class minority.
Perhaps you're correct; Vice Media now is different than Vice Media back then. But the right-wingers who control it are the same now as they've always been.
I wish I were smarter so I could better explain what I know.
But, I'm not worried. Because realizing the intertwined corruption of both American political parties, the media, corporations, and the wealthy-class is like watching a film or reading a book in the crime-genre.
Once you see the criminals, you can't unsee them.
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Three people are sitting at a table with three plates. Person-0 has an empty plate, Person-1 has a plate with one cookie, and Person-X has a plate with a dozen cookies. Person-X leans over to Person-1 and whispers, "be careful, or Person-0 is going to take your cookie." Then, Person-1 gets up and throws Person-0 out the window. Meanwhile, as person Person-1 does their worst to Person-0, Person-X steals the cookie of Person-1 and sneaks out the backdoor. Then, Person-0 gets a fancy wooden-box, Person-X goes back to their mansion, and Person-1 goes back to work.
Or something like that.
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Remember when Repubocrats canceled Margarine Traitor Greed from all of her committee assignments in the House of Representatives for espousing conspiracy theories -- conspiracy theories which are so outrageous and disparaging to Demlicans that, if the conspiracy theories were true, it would be impossible for Repubocrats not to know about them -- thus, if those conspiracy theories were true, it would mean that the Repubocrats are complicit in the wrong-doings which the conspiracy theories claim?
I do.
The most important thing to remember is that Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same coin -- they could just as easily be called Repubocrats and Demlicans.
They are both economically right-wing and socially-authoritarian political parties.
In any of the other, better developed-nations of the world, they would either be the same political party or members of a coalition.
This "cancel-culture" stuff is nothing but a tool being utilized by the wealthy-class who control both political parties and, thus, the government and the economy.
If anything needs to be canceled, it's the wealthy-class's addiction to greed, hoarding, manipulation, and exploitation, and the Capitalist system which enables them.
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Haaaaaahahahahaha.... Bill and Hillary... lol... That's good stuff.
I mean, yeah, they are terrible humans. But they're not any worse than any of the other extremist narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths within the wealthy-class.
The right-wing, wealthy-class extremists sold the future of the working-class long before right-wing Bill and right-wing Hillary ever even met.
Imagine being so dumb that you don't comprehend politics enough to know that Bill, Hillary, and Barrack are right-wingers just like Ron, George, George, and Donny-tiny-hands.
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@themeanie. *Most(all) billionaires are economically-liberal(right-wing). SOME billioaires are socially-liberal(left-wing).
FTFY. 😃
There are two realms of politics: social-politics & economic-politics.
And there are two realms of political-liberalism: social-liberalism & economic-liberalism.
Social-liberalism = left-wing social-politics = social-equality.
Economic-liberalism = right-wing economic politics = economic-inequality.
Right-wing economic(&social) politics are pro-wealthy-class politics.
Right-wing economic(&social) politics are anti-working-class politics.
Wealthy-right-wingers = pro-autocracy.
Wealthy-right-wingers = anti-democracy.
BOTH major American political parties(and many of the minor parties) are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-right-wingers. So when a working-class dupe votes for one of the candidates that is propped-up by the right-wing-extremists at the RNC or the moderate-right-wingers at the DNC, that working-class dupe is voting against their own working-class interests.
The working-class members of the United Auto Workers Union are learning this through their Labor Union/Organizing efforts. They've spent their working-class lives being duped into voting for right-wing-extremist Repubs and moderate-right-wing Dems. And, now, they realize that they have nothing to show for it.
If those working-class dupes are smart enough to comprehend some of what I've written, then so are you.
If you're just a fool who doesn't know the truth about the inherent-corruption of right-wing politics, then you can learn and become a better person.
But if you're a knave who is pretending not to know the truth about the inherent-corruption of right-wing politics, then it's only a matter of time before other, better working-class humans around you realize that you're a class-traitor.
Whether you're a trained-fool or a traitorous-knave, neither is anything of which to be proud. One is excusable, the other isn't. (Right-wingers are fairly open about what they want to do to traitors. Hopefully, for a traitor's sake, left-wing politics will continue to be the politics of forgiveness.)
To be a billionaire is to be an economic-right-winger, whether a nefarious wealthy-class knave admits it or not, and whether a foolish working-class dupe realizes it or not.
Disclaimer:
I am non-violent and anti-violence -- I am not a threat to anyone.
I am a non-voter -- I wouldn't vote for a right-wing-extremist-red or a moderate-right-wing-blue if my life immediately depended on it.
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I've lived forty years in northwestern New England, about 1000-feet above sea level, at the base of a 3500-foot tall mountain. The north, east, and south are flanked by 4000 to 5000-foot tall mountains. To the west are the Connecticut River and the Green Mountains.
There is a stream/brook that runs through my property, fed by two other streams/brooks, a natural spring, and snowmelt.
Thirty years ago, the stream running through my property was deep enough to soak your whole body in during the summer, and the water ran fast enough to prevent slime from accumulating on the rocks. It had fish and other aquatic life in it. Now there are none visible.
For the last four years, it has dried up before the end of each summer, sometimes as early as June, which means the two streams/brooks that feed it dry up along with it, and I assume my dried-up stream means that the natural spring is dry too, which is probably the worst part.
We don't get enough snowpack in the higher elevations anymore to last into the summer like it used to. The frequency of mid-winter melting events has increased.
My dad worked for the State Dept of Transportation for thirty-plus years, plowing roads and whatnot, on-call 24/7/365. The amount of overtime he worked during the winter over that thirty-plus years was a trend-line downward.
The swamps on and around my property are dried out. A beaver dam on another part of my property dried up too. They used to be full of cattails and other vegetation. Now they're tinder beds.
The oldest and biggest coniferous trees on my property are dead, and the next sizes down are visibly dying. The youngest trees still look okay. But the middle-aged ones that are dead and dying shouldn't be.
We used to have wildflowers, along with wild raspberry and blackberry bushes: all dead. The wild blueberries are holding on, but the crop yield and berry sizes are much smaller.
The dried-out swamps and streams caused the insect and pest population to decline, which caused certain bird species to leave the area. The birds that still frequent my feeders are fewer in flock-size and species.
That's just what I've noticed.
Anyone in Alaska or Canada feel like adopting? I'm house trained.
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@grittybunny Another interesting FDR question is: What would have happened to the US if the attempt on FDR's life would have been successful, and they swore in his running-mate, John Nance Garner?
Garner wasn't particularly in favor of The New Deal. Garner was a southern Dem from Texas, who was a 'fiscal conservative' and opposed 'debt pending'. Roosevelt got Garner on board with the plan, but they eventually had too many disagreements, and Roosevelt replaced him.
If FDR would have died sooner, and Garner would have taken his place, there is a good chance that Garner wouldn't have pushed for The New Deal. And without The New Deal, the US wouldn't have made it through the Great Depression in the way that it did.
The New Deal (a)provided a social safety net for the most vulnerable people, and it (b)gave a job to anyone and everyone who wanted a job but couldn't find one, and it (c)provided rights for the working-class to stop some of the exploitation by the wealthy-class.
But around the same time that the US got FDR and The New Deal, Germany was getting the opposite. So, if the US would have gotten John Nance Garner & his 'fiscal conservatism' instead of FDR & The New Deal, the US may well have gotten Fascism, right along with Germany, a hundred years ago instead of now.
So, again, the question is: What would have happened to the US if the attempt on FDR's life would have been successful, and they swore in his running-mate, John Nance Garner?
The Lindberg question is also interesting.
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Ignorant white people all tilted in the comments.
I'm non-violent. But I understand what hundreds of years of societal and institutional oppression can do, and has done to people.
This oppression-dynamic isn't specific to whites over blacks. This labor-exploitation of the working-class by the wealthy-class has been going on since the beginning of printed-money -- literally thousands of years. This exploitation of the working-class for their labor, by the wealthy-class owners, has only been exacerbated by Capitalism. It seems like this working-class white lady thought; "Today, I'm going to flex like a wealthy-class Capitalist." It's too bad that someone from the working-class had to remind her what class she belongs to.
I believe the saying goes like this: "Don't start no shit, won't be no shit." But wealthy-class whites already started that shit, and that shit is continued by whites of all classes to this day. So the saying should now be: "Don't keep oppressing, won't be no uprising." Unfortunately, there is a large portion of the white population who won't admit or are too stupid to know the history of this country. The history is this: wealthy-class white people started some shit back in the day, and the oppression associated with that shit is still alive today.
It's all well and good to say; "BUT I AM NOT RACIST!!!" But as history shows, complacency is as bad as complicity. So if you're only mad at the black man for causing physical harm, and not mad at the white woman who intended to do as much psychological and emotional harm as she possibly could by using the "N" word, then you need to pick a "C" word and assign it to yourself.
If you think that psychological harm and emotional harm is excusable, and physical harm is inexcusable, then I hope you don't have access to any children or old people who can't stand up for themselves under psychological and emotional oppression.
The man and the woman are both in the wrong. Failure to admit anything short of that is an expression of your bias or ignorance.
Furthermore, nobody should be going to Popeye's anyway. The place shouldn't even exist. If the garbage-barrel company didn't exist then this particular incident of racism wouldn't have happened. Not to mention, the trash-bag products they sell can barely be considered food.
Just like the plantations in the past, and just like every other modern-day corporation, Popeye's is just a front-business for a modern-day Ponzi scheme. Its sole purpose is to exploit the poor-class workers, while the wealthy-class owners do next to nothing as they collect the profits from exploiting the poor-class for their labor.
It is possible to be white and not a complete "C" word at the same time.
I'm white.
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Vickie, don't pay attention to the ^children^
Authoritarianism -- now and throughout history -- has been a construct of the wealthy-class.
Wealthy-class politics -- now and throughout history -- is always discussed as right-wing politics.
This is why the rest of the working-class people in the other, better countries throughout the developed world are either laughing in amusement or crying in terror: they wonder how working-class Americans could be so ignorant as to allow themselves to be governed by TWO wealthy-class right-wing parties.
Ignorant traitors to the working-class, like Hugh, are why the working-class people in the other, better countries throughout the developed world are laughing in amazement and crying in mourning for the American-experiment.
Hugh, and the duped rubes like Hugh, have been dumbed-down and tricked into thinking that the Democrats and Repubs are very different -- and there is a difference between the leadership of the parties and the voters who subscribe to leadership's facade of a two-party duopoly which a really single-party monopoly -- but the leadership of both parties are members of the wealthy-class.
Do you really think Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Pete Boot-edge-edge, and Kamala Harris are NOT working-class leftists? They are wealthy-class right-wingers who have track records of harming working-class people.
The Republic-party apparatus is (presently) the dominant wealthy-class party. Republicans champion the policies which benefit the wealthy-class, and in turn, those wealthy-class people donate to their campaigns and political action committees.
The Democrat-party apparatus is (presently) the pretend working-class party. Democrats pretend to champion the working class. But since the same wealthy-class which funds the Republican's campaigns also funds the Democrat's campaigns.
The funds for these campaigns are essentially legalized-bribery. In other countries, campaign funding is much more regulated, in an effort to keep elections fair instead of influenced by bribes from the wealthy-class.
The American campaign-finance system allows the wealthy-class to turn the Democrat-party apparatus into a paid-opposition party, meaning that Democrat-party leadership only pretends to fight against the wealthy-class Republicans. When, in reality, the leadership of the Democrat-party apparatus is actually on the side of the wealthy-class because the Democrat-party leadership is also wealthy themselves.
Dumbed-down Hugh and the working-class people like him are akin to other working-class traitors throughout history who helped to sabotage the working-class at the behest of the wealthy-class. They are akin to the Brown Shirts and Nazi soldiers who went along with the wealthy-class to get along with the wealthy-class.
P.S. Try to think of it this way.
The working-class is the majority of the population.
The wealthy-class is the minority of the population.
Democracies are the political systems that favor majority-rule, and, ideally, in a better democracy, more people would be allowed to vote on more things, instead of just representatives and certain government officials.
Republics are the political systems that favor minority-rule, and historically, in Republics, fewer people are allowed to vote on fewer things, because representatives vote for most everything, even if those representatives are elected by a majority.
Democracies are difficult to corrupt because the wealthy-class can't bribe all the voters.
Republics are easy to corrupt because the wealthy-class only has to bribe the representatives and a few stupid members of the working-class, such as Hugh.
Democracies benefit the working-class majority.
Republics benefit the wealthy-class minority.
America is NOT a working-class democracy of majority-rule.
America is a wealthy-class republic of minority-mob-rule.
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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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@need-to-know- There are different kinds of working-class class-traitors: dumb-victim fools and knowing-suspect knaves.
The fools believe that they can be accepted into the wealthy-class if they just do as their told.
The knaves know they will never be in the wealthy-class, but they do what they're told anyway, in hopes that they won't get knocked down any rungs on the socio-economic ladder.
Whether fools or knaves, both are dangerous. Both groups will do whatever the wealthy-class tells them to do, even if it means going against their own working-class families, friends, and neighbors.
These will be the people who will do the bidding of the wealthy-class when they bring America to its metaphorical-knees. Which, historically and internationally speaking, is probably where most of America, particularly the wealthy-class and their committed servants, belongs.
Unfortunately, when this planned-sabotage happens, the wealthy-class will sneak out the back door, leaving the working-class holding the proverbial-bag of economic and societal hardships, the brunt of which will be felt by the better people at the hands of the fools and knaves.
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@reddoggie554 Just being unlike their shite-parents would be a good enough start to win them over.
Additionally, by utilizing the countless structures in place to support the caged working-class victims of the wealthy-class and their propaganda. If you don't know what those structures are, I'm not surprised, and I wouldn't trust you to do what's right by Lucy and Charlie in passing along the info.
But two of the ways I advocate for victims like Charlie and Lucy are, by speaking out against caging indoctrinated humans and by speaking up in favor of caging the indoctrinating humans.
In a better world, Lucy and Charlie would be out of the cages, and into a pro-worker, pro-democracy, pro-equality, pro-equity education program.
In a better world, you and their mother (who are responsible for Charlie and Lucy and their uselessness) would go into cages, and into a pro-worker, pro-democracy, pro-equality, pro-equity education program.
Even though I don't believe in caging humans as a form of rehabilitation, we would have to find out just how brainwashed you are, and whether or not you're likely to sabotage the working-class majority for your masters in the wealthy-class minority.
So perhaps a choice: either you and mom can get in the cages and prove yourselves worthy to the working-class majority, or you can get dumped on a deserted-island where you'll be free to live out your individualist-Libertarian fantasies.
Both options are better than what right-wing extremists want to do, and have done to non-violent leftists in the past.
Don't worry, you'll be fine -- White-American right-wing exceptionalist-power -- right? Huh? Eh?
Yeeeaaah.
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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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It is NOT the extent of your power.
If you are willing to concede and believe it is the extent of your power, you're in the wrong line of work and need to get out of the way.
You could further involve the Teachers' Unions to set up a multi-pronged approach for teachers to report students and their abusive and/or neglectful families to multiple local and state agencies.
You could have clear records and paper trails of the reports to multiple agencies.
A different approach could look like this:
1. The teacher(s) make report(s) to school administration AND to the Teachers Union.
(At this point, you cannot control what the administration does.
But the Teachers Union is a union of teachers. At this point, the teachers CAN control what the Teachers Union does.
If the Teachers Union does nothing, then it's time for good teachers to expand their thinking and improve their tactics to counter the bad teachers and their union who enable the abuse, neglect, and violence.)
2. Establish a paper trail of data: The Teachers Union will use attorneys to make reports to multiple local and state agencies based on the teacher(s) reports. The attorneys MUST document and preserve ALL the reports FROM the teachers, TO the local and state agencies, in order to establish the paper trail of data for the sake of accountability.
3. Wait for local and state agencies to act.
4a. Local and state agencies do something to intervene. Violence deterred. Go to step 5a.
OR
4b. Local and state agencies do nothing and violence occurs. Go to step 5b.
5a. Good. Done. Next case.
5b. Use the paper trail of data to do a plethora of things to hold people accountable.
1) Use the paper trail of data to prove to the citizen-voters that the local and state agencies did nothing to intervene after the reports were made by the teachers and Teachers Union.
2) Use the paper trail of data to aid the affected families and teachers of the victims as they sue the school district, the town/city, the county, the state, corporations, businesses, and anyone else who can be held liable.
3) Use the paper trail of data for future candidates to use in their electoral campaigns to oust the enablers in elected-offices at local, state, and federal levels.
End plan.
If all of this is already happening, that's great.
Do more.
I could probably go on, and I'm in no way a professional nor an expert on policy, law, or education. But I don't suspect you are either.
Based on your claims that you have gone to "the extent of your power," I wouldn't call you a professional teacher or even an amateur problem solver.
To say it another way: For you, or anyone in your position, to say that you have gone to the "extent of your power," is absurd.
If your retort is, "bUt We OnLy SiGnEd Up To Be TeAcHeRsSsSsS," then it's time for you to re-evaluate your calling in life.
These horrific situations, over which you claim to have no additional power, are the horrors that come with teaching in right-wing, sh!tehole countries that are controlled by wealthy-class, sh!tehead right-wingers.
If you can't adapt to meet the demands, then I beg you, quit your job. Sign up for government assistance based on your mental incapacity and deficiency. And get out of the way so other, better people might have an opportunity to show us the extent of what working-class power might look like.
My mom is in education. She's an ignorant, erratic, nearly-useless C@NT who's stupefied by anything new or difficult.
Don't be like my mom.
The kids deserve better.
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@starr234 You had me right up until the "the acidic nature" of my response. If that's what you took away from my comments, I think you're confusing the cogent character of my comments with the conviction of your own conscience.
I know the barriers to change are many. This country was started by wealthy-class right-wingers and built off the backs of enslaved working-class humans. Those tortured humans didn't give up, and neither have their descendants. Neither should the rest of the working-class.
The wealthy-class right-wingers who funded the exploration and theft of this land are still in control today. But that doesn't mean settling is the only way. We must adapt, even if within the bounds of anonymity.
There is a national Teachers Union. Get together a group of the good teachers around you and organize, collectivize, and strategize on communicating with those folks at the national level.
Go to Walmart and buy the cheapest burner flip-phones and pre-paid plans with cash. Start making anonymous reports to the National Teachers Union, the US Dept of Education, and some of the national three-letter law enforcement agencies.
As I said, I'm no professional. But if you think you are, then it's time to come up with something better than my suggestions.
If you can't bring yourself to do more than what you're doing, fine, I get it. But don't stop me or others from wanting better for our children than what they're getting. I won't apologize for making suggestions.
You'll have to excuse me even further, though. Because I NEVER called "teachers' horrible nor lazy -- if those are the shoes you saw fitting in your mind while reading my comments, then lace 'em up and wear 'em.
I know for a fact that teachers can do better. I had teachers who went above and beyond for me when members of my own family wouldn't and/or couldn't.
If it weren't for the incredible teachers who loved me harder and better than my own family, I would probably be in a medical situation hooked up to tubes and wires, confined to steel and concrete cages, or deep under the dirt in a wooden box.
I'm thankful for what you can do for the children in your care, even if you can't do more.
But, I don't think any of us are doing all we can do. Not even me
I'm sorry if I hurt you, though I'm not sorry for communicating, even if it does hurt.
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A country with a sovereign-currency has a theoretically-unlimited amount of money. Iran has a sovereign-currency, just like the US does. And, so, Iran is "getting" their money from the same place that the US, or any other country with a sovereign-currency, is "getting" their money: They're "making" it.
Not only are they "making" it by "printing" it on paper the old fashioned way, but they are also "making" by "creating" it digitally with strokes on a keyboard.
Then, in the US for example, the wealthy right-wing Repubs and Dems who control the gov't deposit that money into the accounts of the wealthy right-wingers who own businesses that get government contracts. I imagine Iran is similar in this regard.
I'll list a brief, simplified example of the steps below:
1. Gov't Officials in a country with sovereign-currency pass a law that says "gov't needs X-product." (X-product can be toilet paper, toilet bowls, boom-sticks, boom-flyers, or whatever.)
2. Wealthy right-wingers say to the Gov't Officials, "we own companies that can produce X-product, and we'll do it for Y-amount of sovereign-currency."
3. Gov't Officials and wealthy right-wingers enter into a contract.
4. Wealthy right-wingers use their companies to produce X-product.
5. Gov't Officials use money printers and/or computers to pay Y-amount of sovereign-currency to wealthy right-wingers.
6. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Processes similar to this go on, ALL the time, in EVERY country with a sovereign-currency.
In the US, the bulk of the created-money/sovereign-currency goes to producing products for the Military-Industrial-Complex, because the wealthy right-wingers in that economic sector have bribed the most politicians. Then, in exchange for the bribes, those bribed-politicians pass even more laws that say "gov't needs more of X-product for the military."
A country with a sovereign-currency, like the US, could just as easily create an unlimited amount of money/currency for other things. Like ending homelessness. Or providing education for every human within its borders. Or funding healthcare for all human from birth to 20-years-old and from 50-years-old until death. Or rehabilitating criminals and the mentally-ill. Or building housing for an unlimited number of immigrants.
However, the US gov't is corrupt, just like most gov'ts with soveriegn-currencies. And if the US gov't WASN'T corrupted by the populace-minority that is comprised by right-wingers from the wealthy-class, then a lot more positive things could be done for the populace-majority that is comprised of working-class families and communities.
I hope this answers your question. Feel free to inquire further. ✌🤟✊🙏
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@PoliticalEconomy101 -- Clare claims to be an older person, of retirement age (or so she has stated in other threads).
If this is true, then she has been subjected to decades of the propaganda that has been produced and promoted by the wealthy-class minority of beneficiaries who have pillaged and plundered this country, and other countries, off the backs of the working-class majority.
I can't decipher, though, if Claire is a fool or a knave -- does she really not comprehend the exploitation and manipulation that is prompted and perpetuated by the wealthy-class under Capitalism, or does she connivingly pretend to not comprehend the exploitation and manipulation because of the benefits she obtains from it?
Prof. Wolff, who is well beyond the legal retirement age, has also lived through the same propaganda, but the differences between Wolff and Claire are vast.
Firstly, I would say Wolff has critical thinking skills that Claire does not have. If Claire has fallen victim to the propaganda, then she is a fool who lacks critical thinking skills. If Claire is a knave, then she lacks the critical thinking skills that would be necessary for her to realize how poorly she fulfills the role of a shill.
Secondly, Wolff has an altruistic character while Clair's character is one of egotism. Wolff and Claire have both lived decent standards of living under Capitalism. Claire has been vocal about her above-average standard of living (in other threads), and we can witness Wolff's in his videos.
But Claire blames working-class individuals, who have little-to-no power to change their lot in life, for their own troubles and problems. Wolff, on the other hand, speaks the truth about the wealthy-class Capitalists who have the power to alter the system which produces the troubles and problems in other people's lives.
At best, Claire is class-traitor who has been duped by the wealthy-class into elbowing side-to-side at the people in society who she has the most in common with, while kicking down at the least-fortunate.
At worst, Claire is a trash-bag, garbage-can human who understands the lucky-card she has drawn in the rigged hierarchical card-game of life -- a rigged system from which she benefits -- and she doesn't want to give up anything to bring about a higher standard of living for others who weren't so lucky.
Neither scenario is anything to be proud of.
Good luck getting through to her, and props to your for trying.
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@wuguay5526 Nah. History has all the evidence to prove that corrupt, European-white knaves from the wealthy-class, with their corrupt RW-politics, have been the causes of the problems in the world for the past millennia. Time to give another race the reins -- they can't do much worse than white-RWers have done.
And ignorant, scared, angry, hateful, violent, murderous, and genocidal working-class dupes, like you, from all races, have helped the corrupt, wealthy-class to solidify their corrupt RW-politics.
Working-class dupes, like you, are no better than the working-class dupes who volunteered for the ConfedrateArmy in the past, to help solidify the power of the corrupt wealthy-class EurpoeanConfeds & their corrupt RW-politics.
Working-class dupes, like you, are no better than the working-class dupes who volunteered for the N@ziArmy in the past, to help solidify the power of the corrupt wealthy-class EurpoeanNatCs & their corrupt RW-politics.
Working-class dupes, like you, volunteer for the Z!on!stArmy, in the present, to help solidify the power of the corrupt, wealthy-class EuropeanZ!on!sts & their corrupt RW-politics.
Working-class dupes, like you, of all races, volunteer for the USArmy, to help solidify the power of the corrupt wealthy-class EurpoeansAmericans & their corrupt RW-politics.
For the better part of a millennia, working-class dupes, like you, -- and particularly working-class, white-Europeans -- have supported the corrupt wealthy-class Europeans and their corrupt RW-politics.
Working-class dupes, like you, are just as much to blame for the atrocities of your wealthy-RW European masters as they are.
Time to give another race/color the chance to become just as sh!tty as you and yours have been in the past, and currently are in the present.
Nice try, though. Really, just a stunning effort on your part to try & paint me as that which you hate, as if I were the reflection you see in the mirror.
Honestly, congratulations...🏆
...you're a moron.🥳
FOH🙄
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Yup. TYT taking money from corrupt rich people, w/ their corrupt RW-politics, is part of what has ruined TYT. Besides that, Cenk is a self-proclaimed Capitalist, and Capitalism is a RW-system, just like Monarchism, Feudalism, Corporatism & Fascism. All of the RW-political-systems are just systems of slavery with different names, and Cenk wants the moderate-RW politics of Capitalist-slavery, but not the RW-extremist politics of Fascist-slavery.
I've been watching TYT for over a decade. Cenk used to be center-left, advocating for social-democracy and/or democratic-socialism, but he dragged the audience to the center-right, advocating for capitalism. Capitalism is an authoritarian system that is antithetical to democratism/democracy.
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In short; we already have "term limits" -- "elections" is what they are called.
But we would certainly be better served by aligning our election and campaign finance laws with the rest of the developed countries in the world.
In other, better countries, American versions of elections, campaigns, and governing would result in prison for many candidates and politicians.
In some of the lesser-developed countries, they even have elections that are more secure than America. Some of those lesser-developed countries also have a greater level of democracy by allowing more people, or all people, within the borders to vote.
Also, we could create laws against lobbying and the revolving door, both of which are utilized by the minority-class of wealthy-employers as a means to repress, suppress and oppress the majority-class of poor-employees.
A recent candidate from West Virginia, named Richard Ojeda, proposed the use of body-cams for lobbyists and legislators. I would be down with that, it would make it easier to decide which politicians needed to have their terms limited in the next election.
The implementation of "term-limits" legislation, without adequate anti-corruption legislation, would most definitely work in the favor of the minority wealthy-class to the detriment of the majority working-class.
Imagine if Bernie Sanders would have only gotten a limited amount of time in office, instead of the four decades he's had. In the last 10 years, Bernie has exposed a great deal of the corrupt policies and practices which have perpetuated the infiltration of government by the wealthy-class, resulting in exasperated inequality and the defeatism of the working-class.
Without Bernie's longevity, the current position of the Overton-window, and the nature of public discourse, would not likely encapsulate the condition of the employee-class majority and the suffering which we are enduring at the hands of the employer-class majority.
That being said; could Bernie do better? Yes. In fact, in some of the other, better democracies, Bernie would be considered a moderate.
But, without the political-clout that Bernie has accumulated throughout 38 years in elected office, it's possible, and likely, that none of the current elected-representatives, who are now following Bernie's lead, would have had the ability nor the platform to step up and start speaking truth to power, exposing the wealthy-class corruption which has co-opted the American government, as Bernie has.
But, because politics in America has been dragged so far to the political right-wing by the wealthy and the employer-class, Bernie is labeled a "radical-leftist" by American political standards. However, in an international and historical context, Bernie would be considered a moderate, and possibly slightly right-leaning.
If the American employee-class majority wants to have a chance against the employer-class minority -- if the majority wants to catch back up with the rest of the developed world -- America needs another 38 years of Bernie Sanders-style of rhetoric to combat the last 100+ years of right-wing extremist rhetoric.
It's going to take more than one Bernie Sanders to drag this country back from the inequity and inequality which has been entrenched by right-wing extremist policies and practices that have been promoted by the wealthy employer-class minority.
I guess that wasn't short, but term limits are not the answer.
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The Democrat-Party AND Republic-Party are both bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class. The economic goals of the leadership in both parties are the same economic goals as the wealthy-class campaign donors. When you learn to accept that, you'll start to see why the Democrat-party appears so useless and feckless.
The Repubs are fashioned to be the dominant party the Dems are fashioned to be the theatrical opposition.
When the wealthy-class Repubs are in power, they always move the country and policies toward the political right-wing, which is a benefit to the wealthy-class and a detriment to the working-class. Because right-wing politics are wealthy-class politics.
Then, when the wealthy-class Dems are in power, they always stop the country and polices from moving toward the political left-wing, which is a benefit to the wealthy-class and a detriment to the working-class. Because left-wing politics are working-class politics.
The leadership of both American political parties is made up of wealthy-class millionaires who are selected by wealthy-class billionaires. They are all right-wingers. From McConnell to Schumer and McCarthy to Pelosi, they are all right-wingers. Reagan, Bush Sr. & Jr., Bill & Hillary Clinton, Obama, Trump, Biden, are all wealthy-class right-wingers.
But working-class Americans are ignorant. They've been made ignorant on purpose by the wealthy-class. Which is why you think the Democrats just don't know how to play tough. The Democrats are playing tough, but they are playing WITH the wealthy-class Republicans and THEY are playing against YOU.
Biden is acting the way he is acting because he's paid by wealthy-class right-wingers to act this way. Biden benefits from the same wealthy-class, right-wing politics as the wealthy-class right-wingers. Because Biden IS a wealthy-class right-winger.
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You've been living under oligarchy your entire life. You are NOT living under "oligarchy headed toward fascism" -- you're living in Corporatism headed toward Fascism. Oligarchy is a characteristic of MANY political-systems, such as Monarchism, Feudalism,, Capitalism, Republicanism, Corporatism, AND Fascism.
Furthermore, most, if not all, of recorded-history has taken place under oligarchic political-systems.
And if you must use the word oligarchy to satiate some unnecessary-desire, you would say you're living in a "Corporatist-oligarchy headed toward a Fascist-oligarchy."
But adding the word oligarchy to the actual name of the political-system is redundant, since both systems are oligarchic in nature.
It is just as maddening to watch the indecent working-class dupes in MAGA as it is to watch the decent working-class dupes who are NOT part of MAGA, as both the dupes & the non-dupes try to stumble through the defining characteristics of the socioeconomic & political hurdles (such as oligarchy) that have existed for millennia.
Like, put down the entertainment and pick up the education. Literally -- STOP with the entertainment -- you have decades upon centuries upon millennia of knowledge to catch up on, because your education has been stifled, and you have been stupefied, by oligarchs.
Your sentiments are in the right place, but your rhetoric is, just, not helpful or useful.
Oh, how I long for the days when ignorant people weren't so proud to prove it publicly in exchange for the dopamine-hits that come from getting "likes".
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Bernie did rethink things. And he decided to give up on the working-class. Bernie has family, and he's more concerned with what could happen to his family after he dies.
Bernie knows what the right-wingers have done to working-class leftists through history.
Bernie sees the rhyming-nature of that history coming back around.
Bernie lived through the "Red Scare" and "McCarthyism."
Bernie doesn't want those kinds of things to happen to his family after he dies.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that there are too many foolish, working-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many knavish, wealthy-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many right-wing addicts with mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Berne knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts will willingly give up their addictions.
Bernie knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts can cure their own mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that, in order to maintain their addictive lifestyles, the mentally ill working-class fools will do whatever the mentally ill wealthy-class knaves tell them to do; just like they did during the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie has now entered the phase known as, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
Bernie is MORE concerned with the quality of life his family will have when he dies.
Bernie is LESS concerned with the quality of life for the working-class.
Bernie is ONLY concerned with his own family-unit minority
Bernie is NOT concerned about the working-class majority.
Bernie is the perfect example of why any effective leader(s) on the left-wing will have to be someone(s) without family -- it's too easy for the wealthy-class right-wingers to corrupt left-wingers who have families, and Bernie is a prime example.
Bernie has exchanged his working-class principles to secure a wealthy-class standard of living for his family after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the anti-wealthy-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given up on the pro-working-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the anti-working-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the pro-wealthy-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given up.
It's only surprising/upsetting if one doesn't know the facts, or rhyming-nature, of history.
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If Jesus showed up tomorrow, preaching His message of anti-hate, anti-violence, anti-wealth, anti-materialism, & anti-vanity, and, in contrast, His message of pro-love, pro-peace, pro-equality, pro-minimalism, & pro-modesty, the RWers would crucify Him all over again, just like the RW-Pharisees & RW-Romans did 2000-years ago. 🙄
The Republic-party & Democrat-party politicians from the wealthy-class, who claim to believe in God/Christ, are akin to the lazy, parasitic money-changers from the wealthy-class, whom Jesus drove out of the Temple because they were ripping off people from the working-class.
Currently, those RW "Christian" politicians from the wealthy-class are in stage-one of FAFO. If they really believe in God/Christ, they better start contemplating what stage-two might look like when they meet Them.
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I come to Thom's videos for a neoliberal perspective, which is a moderate conservative perspective. Aside from Richard Wolff's working-class point of view, neoliberal-conservatism is the best you can expect from Thom's show.
Thom, and many of his guests, still toot the horn of the Democrat party, which has become the left-leaning arm of the Republic party.
Thom, and many of his guests, seem to believe that meaningful "reform" can happen through the Democrat party, even though the Democrat party is corrupted by the funding from the same wealthy-class which funds the Republic party.
Just as the wealthy-class promoting Republic party cannot rid itself of the many racist, misogynist, compassionless, nihilistic, supremacist voters, many Democrat party voters cannot rid themselves of the wealthy-class promoting Democrat party. They are married to it, acting as if the relationship were to end it would reflect poorly on themselves within society. They tow the party-line because of how they feel they will be perceived, rather than ending the relationship for the toxicity it breeds in their lives.
There is no viable leftist, employee-labor, or lower-class political party in America. There are two economically right-wing, socially-authoritarian, anti-small business, pro-corporate, anti-worker, pro-employers, anti-poor, pro-wealthy-class, extremist political parties.
Lastly, these short-form interviews do a disservice to the American citizens who are duped into wasting their time by following Thom. Especially when those citizens could be following much more substantive channels and better pundits.
My advice, for what little worth it may have, is to stop wasting your time here. But it seems like you may already realize that.
Good day.
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@SclountDraxxer -- I don't 100% agree with you, but it's accurate enough to where I won't offer resistance (wink wink), beyond this amendment to your analogy:
I think the citizen-voters built the gun, and they built the gun with the materials they had access to.
The Republicans and Democrats both controlled the access points to the materials that were available to the citizen-voters.
Then, the Republican-leadership steered the car while the Democrat-leadership pushed the gas pedal.
Then the Republican-leadership held the gun while the Democrat-leadership pulled the trigger.
The jury of citizen-voters were lied to. The judges, prosecutors, and defense lawyers, comprised of political-party leadership, all committed the crime.
If both parties' leadership were a car full of minorities or poor people, they would be spending the better part of a life-sentence in the for-profit, prison-industrial-complex being exploited for their labor.
Both parties are complicit.
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@adamwhittaker9620 The caller has a point which he is unable to make succinctly and coherently.
Living under all of the oppressive policies of economic austerity -- policies which are currently propped up and perpetuated by the leadership of both political parties, as both parties are funded by the same class of wealthy owners, financiers, and investors -- it is not surprising that a layman wouldn't be able to adequately and directly identify the sources of their oppression.
The fact that the caller is unable to do this is completely understandable when you come to realize that no average person who works 40-80 hours per week while consuming corporate media can do this.
Considering Thom understands all of the details regarding the SCOTUS decisions of Buckley v. Valeo of 1976, First National Bank of Boston v. Belotti of 1978, McConnell v. FEC of 2003, Citizens United v. FEC of 2010, and McCutcheon v. FEC of 2014, it is baffling to me how Thom is unable to see that the Democrats have simply taken advantage of the legalized-bribery that was advanced by right-wing, economically-Capitalist politics.
Thom's Democratic party of the past is now simply the Democrat party, and Thom wants his party back. Too bad, so sad. That party is gone, and Thom is too old to move on. The Democrat Party of the last 50 years has gotten into bed with the Republic Party of the last 100+ years.
The leadership of the Democrats has become a paid-opposition: The Democrat leadership acts like they are opposing economically-Capitalist austerity-politics of the right-wing, and the wealthy-class continues to fund the political campaigns of the Democrat party's leadership.
It sounds like the caller is trying to blame Democrats AND Republicans. It sounds like Thom, as per usual, only wants to blame Republicans. The positive things Thom claims about Democrats are from a bygone era. Now, most Democrats are merely the left-leaning arm of the Republic party.
Both parties are pro-war to the extent that they both vote to allocate more than half of public spending on the Military-Industrial Complex.
Both parties are pro-caging of humans, then exploiting those humans for their labor, rather than spending public dollars to uplift the downtrodden communities where crimes of necessity are most likely to occur.
Both parties are pro-wealthy and anti-poor, legislating in favor of the wealthy and legislating against the poor to the extent of throwing poor people into the afore-mentioned cages.
Both parties are pro-big businesses and anti-small businesses, legislating in favor of big businesses, knowing full-well that smaller businesses are unable to take advantage of the benefits which are legislatively designed to help big businesses.
Both parties have voted to bail out industries that should have been allowed to fail and make way for newer, better businesses. In fact, after the bailouts which benefited auto manufacturers and big banks, the legislators from both parties passed laws that gave powers to the Federal Reserve and the Dept. of the Treasury to simply "bailout" any corporation or industry without going through Congress. This was a favor to corporations and big businesses, and another nail in the coffin of accountability and transparency in governing.
Both parties have voted to defund and destandardize public schools and deregulate private schools, sabotaging public schools in favor of private schools. The wealthy-class wants to dumb-down the citizens, because the wealthy know that stupid people make better slaves. While upper-class kids go to over-funded private schools, where they are coddled to become resource-hoarders, labor-manipulators, human-exploiters, and demanding-sociopaths, lower-class kids go to defunded and destandardized public schools where they are cultivated to become self-deprecating good-soldiers, obedient-slaves, and, if unlucky, subservient-prisoners.
The rest of the developed world's citizens are laughing, wondering how a country so rich in resources and wealth can also be so rich in morons.
The rest of the developed world's citizens are baffled at how America can be so full of idiots who have been reduced to choosing between two economically right-wing and socially-authoritarian political parties -- in any of the other, better countries in the world, the Republic and Democrat parties would be the same political party or members of a coalition government.
I could go on.
Now, to answer your question.
The rural American has but a few reasons to vote for candidates within the Republic party; they lie better, they cheat better, they pillage better, they fearmonger and hatemonger better, they supremacist better, they blame the sorrows and doldrums of rural-America on anyone but the rural-Americans, they project better, and they the repel empathy, sympathy, pity, and remorse better. It is for these reasons that a majority of rural Americans choose not to vote for Democrats -- that, and Democrats are paid to be a weak opposition.
Ultimately, what Republicans do better than Democrats to earn the votes of rural people is, they play on the fears of a soon-to-be white minority -- a white minority who are fearful that the coming-majority will treat the white people in the same manner that white people have treated others in the minority position.
It took a long time for chattel-slaves in America to gain a modicum of freedom and, in many ways, they are still not free. Some of the descendants of that slavery are still unable to explain all of the intricacies of that enslavement and how its effects remain today.
It may take a long time for American debt and wage-slaves to gain a modicum of freedom, or to even see how they are not free. Some of those who are presently living under this bondage are unable to see it, and some who see it are unable to explain it.
What Thom is doing isn't helping, and this is supposed to be his job.
The caller is trying.
Frankly, what you're trying to do isn't immediately clear. You're not making your point very succinctly and coherently, either.
Maybe you're too busy wage-slaving, just like the caller.
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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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"This shit is unreal. Wtf..."
I know this sounds cliche, but the worst has yet to come.
If the cyclical, repetitive and rhyming nature of history are any indicators of the future -- which they are -- then we have only just begun.
The wealthy-class has been planning forever, conspiring on how to utilize their resources to create the worst conditions imaginable for the working-class.
The wealthy-class minority will continue their economic mob-rule over the working-class majority.
The wealthy-class will never give up their addictions, and they will do whatever they can to compel the working-class into producing those addictions.
The depths of imposed-despair that can be manufactured by the wealthy-class, coupled with the displays of impoverished-derangement that can be committed by the working-class, have barely scratched the surface.
The working-class will 'act out' as oppressed and desperate people and animals do.
The misplaced rage of the more vicious members of the working-class aimed against the more vulnerable members of the working-class is nowhere near the extent it can reach.
Rather than rising up against the conniving wealthy-class oppressors, the co-opted dupes of the working-class will turn against their working-class mates.
The wealthy-class will use their wealth to purchase the services of working-class dupes to act as buffers between their working-class mates and the wealthy-class masters.
That means more working-class cops patrolling other working-class humans confined in crumbling communities.
It means more torturous working-class guards enslaving other working-class humans in concrete cages.
It means more working-class soldiers conscripted into conquest against other working-class soldiers.
All of these things -- policing, prisons, perturbation, and pugnacity --
are done at the behest and to the benefit of the wealthy-class overlords.
More ignorance.
More fear.
More anger.
More hate.
More sabotage.
More violence.
More death.
More genocide.
I don't say this to discourage you, but to warn you, prepare you, and, if at all possible, encourage you.
These things have happened before -- history holds the keys to the knowledge of the future -- and they are happening again.
Much love and peace to you and yours in these difficult times.
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@Tylerrl1664 To me, Ana has already proven, with her materialistic world-view, that there IS a price for which she can be bought -- just like most working-class western right-wingers.
Ana doesn't want to struggle, or even perform the kinds of manual-labor that are required to produce life-sustaining necessities -- just like most working-class western right-wingers.
In those regards, Ana is on the same level as Clarence (uncle)Thomas or Klandace Owens, and the Kardashians -- just like most working-class western right-wingers.
Ana, (uncle)Thomas, Klandace, and the Kardashians will do/say anything to maintain their parasitic social-status and easy-living arrangements, all while performing as little manual-labor as possible -- just like many working-class western right-wingers.
And, more than likely, just like you.
And, by the way: I said "Mini-Kardashian" -- because, obviously, Ana isn't that parasitically-wealthy. It is not Ana's income/wealth which likens her to the Kardashians.
However, it IS Ana's materialistic world-view, accompanied by her desire for social-status and easy-living, along with her unwillingness to perform necessitous manual-labor, which puts her on par with the Kardashians.
Thus, even though Ana will never achieve the levels of wealth, social-status, or easy-living as the Kardashians, it is her self-aggrandized attitude, her wastefully-polluting materialism, and her unwillingness to perform manual-labor which earns her place in rhetorical-company of the Kardashians.
Reading-comprehension & nuance, young one -- those things will take you far, and make you a far more valuable human than Ana, (uncle)Thomas, Klandace, and the Kardashians.
Good day.
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@funTimesInTheSun I agree with, basically, all of that, and I would probably add more to the list. Also, if you didn't see my original-reply in this thread, I wrote:
"Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness correlate directly with Healthcare, Rehabilitation ("Corrections"), & Education. NONE of those things should EVER be privatized and/or profitized."
And, again, I would probably add more to the list we've come up with.
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@funTimesInTheSun I've been flirting with this idea: all raw-necessities (food, clothes, & shelter) should, at the very least, have a government option. But, at best, the government would have a monopoly on providing those necessities at a consistent price. For example...
I think that fruit & vegetables should be strictly regulated. I think that the cost of an apple should be the same no matter where a person is located. And no one should get to accumulate unlimited-wealthy by selling apples.
However, if people want to take the apples and turn them into apple-pie, and try to sell those apple pies, then I'm open to that (for now).
But no one person or group gets to have a monopoly on apple pies, and no one gets to accumulate unlimited-wealth by making apple pies, either.
If someone creates a kind of apple-pie, and most people like that kind of apple-pie, then the person who created that kind of apple-pie doesn't then get to withhold apple-pies from other people, and they don't get to use apple-pies as a stepping-stone to social and/or governmental control.
If most people like that kind of apple-pie, then the person who created it can get an award, or something.
I know that's not perfectly written or fully thought through, but it's better than what w have now...
Like, the creators of the frozen apple-pies (which are mass-produced and sold at the grocery store) should not be millionaires or billionaires. I'm just not voting for, or participating in, that kind of illogical economic-supremacy.
Anyway...
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The wealthy right-wingers have been funding anti-education movements since the beginning of recorded history. Wealthy right-wing Repubs&Dems have always sought to prevent their chattel-slaves, debt-slaves, and wage-slaves from being educated. The wealthy right-wing Repubs&Dems know that stupid people make for better slaves.
In addition to the anti-education efforts wealthy right-wingers' via "Reaganism," there were also anti-education movements by wealthy right-wingers after FDR died as well -- see "Red Scare" and "McCarthyism."
Addiction is a powerful force. And every country in the world has lazy, wealthy, right-wing addicts, as well as duped working-class addicts who are striving to become lazy, wealthy addicts.
The right-wing addicts, in both the wealthy-class and working-class, will NEVER willingly give up their addictions. Just like the wealthy-class and working-class German Nazis and Confederate Slavers wouldn't give up there addictions.
The American and Western right-wing addicts will eventually be dealt with, just like the right-wing addicts from Nazi-Germany and the Confederate-South.
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I knew that places like East Wind and Twin Oaks existed -- I've imagined creating and/or living in such a place, and I'm no genius, so I figured that someone(s) had already arranged such a community -- I just wasn't sure how to go about seeking out such places.
I just spent the last hour reading over East Wind's website -- much of the time holding back tears so that my reading wouldn't become impeded -- imagining how life could be different as I read. I cry often when thinking about the world in many contexts. But these tears felt different. They felt new.
I felt such happiness for the people who live at East Wind. However, most of my thought-provoked tears usually come from sadness and mourning for the least-fortunate people in the world who are generally the least-fortunate because of the lifestyles of the most-fortunate people.
Then, as I was reading, I noticed that my feelings of happiness for the East Wind community were, slowly, at first, and then more rapidly, creeping towards my more-common feelings of sadness and mourning.
I began to experience my normal-state of skepticism and cynicism, and then sadness and mourning. I couldn't help but think about what could happen to East Wind if, somehow, they were to draw the attention and, then inevitably, the ire of the most-fortunate people who perpetrate and perpetuate the misfortune of the least-fortunate people.
I couldn't help but imagine the good people of East Wind (whom I view as very fortunate even though most people would disagree) being forcibly-removed from their current living situation. I couldn't stop thinking about them having to return to the doldrums of "regular" society, rife with a randomized-misfortune that is perpetrated and perpetuated by the most-fortunate people.
That said (skepticism for long-term viability aside), I would consider it an honor to be a part of, and a privilege just to visit, such a community if only I could. And if I could, I most certainly would.
Thank you for bringing them to my attention.
Good day.
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It's been awhile since I cried. I'm not saying it's abnormal for me to cry -- quite the contrary -- it's just been longer than normal since the last time I cried. But listening to Bernie & Lex got me choked up. Sure, I've heard Bernie's talking points a thousand times, but when he & Lex went back & forth about how money has removed mental & emotional burdens, and provided a sense of stability & security, I lost it. But it didn't last long...
I can't help but weep for those who are worse off than I am, and I've spent a lot of time doing it. For me, crying is an outlet for the energy that is generated by my desire to help people when I can't help. I wish I could do more to help, but I can't, so I cry.
And I've seen some terrible stuff -- I think most of us have, whether IRL or in the media -- but, personally, I've experienced some of the best of humanity through homelessness.
Human suffering isn't a monolith -- good & bad things happen to people whether they have homes or not -- but my life was, is, and will continue to be riddled with suffering. I've come to accept it, and I think I deal with it pretty well.
I mean, despite my own troubles, I feel like I have experienced the feelings that Bernie & Lex expressed regarding how money removed mental & emotional burdens and provided a sense of stability & security. But I'm poor.
I've never held more than a few thousand dollars in my life, I have over 100k in debt, and I've been underemployed for 20 years & unemployed for 7 years. Yet, somehow, I've felt unburdened & secure. In fact, I think I have felt least-burdened & most-secure during some of my most destitute & desperate times.
And as much as I would like to feel unburdened & secure WITH a place to live, I'm not willing to sell my soul just so I can sh!te more comfortably, but souls seem to be the currency of choice in this system.
My soul might be broken, but it can't be bought. Though I would give it away if it meant no one else had to suffer after I was gone.
Perhaps I'm crying less-frequently because I'm too righteously-angry to cry.
Maybe my crying doesn't last as long because I'm so oppressively-stuck
Or, perhaps, maybe, it's because I'm just too stiflingly-exhausted.
May you all be well. ✌🤟✊🙏
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Hi, Jess. I'm not sure if your question is rhetorical, but I'll answer as if you're looking for an answer.
We don't get a say because we live in a Republic.
We DO NOT live in a Democracy.
Merriam Webster says a "Republic" is: a country that is governed by elected representatives and by an elected leader (such as a president) rather than by a king or queen.
Another definition MW gives for "Republic" is: a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law.
So, SOME citizens get to vote to elect representatives. But not every citizen gets to vote for their representative. Lots of citizens are prevented from voting.
Then, those elected representatives vote in place of the citizens. But the representatives aren't required to vote the way the majority of citizens want them to. Nor are those representatives required to tell the truth to the citizens.
That's a good amount of detail to consider.
If we lived in a Direct Democracy with Universal Suffrage, ALL humans would be able to have a direct-vote on more of the issues we care about, instead of having a small group of citizens electing representatives to vote on our behalf.
All that said, I believe in Direct Democracy with Universal Suffrage.
That said, the amount of money that representatives make is not outlandish.
Is it higher than the United States average salary? Yes
Is that salary alone enough to make them wealthy? No
Also, some non-elected civil servants work for the government who receive higher salaries than elected representatives.
The government is complex, probably more so than it needs to be.
But the pay scale isn't the only thing that doesn't make sense, nor the thing that makes the least sense.
Keep asking questions.
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@thinkharder9332 Well, there's all the evidence I need. But I get it. It's hard to say or learn anything new with your tongue lapping at the boots and your nose buried in the buttcracks of wealthy-class right-wingers.
When you clean the polish polish of your tongue and the brown off your nose, you can also look up; Prosecutorial misconduct, False confession, Falsified evidence, Malicious prosecution, Prosecutorial corruption, Retaliatory prosecution
Selective prosecution, Subornation of perjury.
Carry on, you wayward working-class class-traitor. All you had to say was, "derp".
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@thinkharder9332 It's just sad how you can bring up a decent point but can't see the contradictions in the want of your actions and how those actions coincide with and benefit the authoritarian rule of the wealthy-class economic-minority and the right-wing social-minority.
Legality =\= to morality, and just because something is currently deemed legally "victimless," that doesn't make it morally so.
Towns, counties, and states are not islands unto themselves. They shouldn't have free-reign to do whatever they want, and they certainly shouldn't be able to unilaterally decide what is and isn't "victimless."
A majority of people in America and the world, as proven through multiple forms of public input over decades, want MORE gun-control. Not less gun control. And your desire to have unmitigated, unregulated weaponry shouldn't trump other people's' desire to be free from the terror of the unmitigated, unregulated access to that weaponry.
More guns = more gun deaths and victims.
Less gun regulation = more gun deaths and victims.
More guns and less regulation = more gun deaths and victims, and crime in general.
This isn't debatable. There are numerous places where data bear out these truths.
It is the populace-majority of people (the mostly non-violent working-class) who should decide what gun regulations should be, and what constitutes victim/victimless crime. Not the populace-minority of people (the wealthy-class right-wingers and the fraction of working-class right-wing dupes who have been co-opted by the wealthy-class, both of which groups resort to violence on a whim).
"BuT tHe GoV't iS cOmiNg tO gEt MeEeEeE/UsSsSs aNd i/We nEeD tO sToP tHeMmMm!!!!1!!!" 😱
Riiight, of course they are, hon. The working-class people of other, better countries, with much stricter gun-control and, in many cases, no firearms whatsoever, have figured out how to combat an over-bearing gov't. If you American dupes can't figure it out, then maybe the sh!tehole country shouldn't exist.
Maybe smarter, better people should come in and take care of the economic and social victims of your wealthy-class right-wing hellscape. Just like better people had to go in and save the Germans and southern Americans from the right-wing wealthy-class Nazis and Confederates, and from the working-class dupes who helped to support the right-wing wealthy-class Nazis and Confederates.
Better people have been saving working-class victims from wealthy-class right-wingers and from the co-opted working-class dupes who help the wealthy-class, for centuries. The demise of America's wealthy-class right-wingers, and of the working-class dupes they've co-opted, won't be anything new.
The majority of the working-class in the developed world looks at you working-class right-wing American morons and laughs. You've allowed yourselves to be governed by TWO right-wing wealthy-class political parties. 150-million of you voted between two right-wingers in the last POTUS election, and most of those 150-million want MORE gun-regulations. Not fewer.
And while those wealthy-class right-wingers from BOTH political parties work together behind the scenes to solidify their power over the working-class, you working-class right-wing dupes help the wealthy-class to solidify their power by acting as their terrorism-arm, threatening your working-class friends, families, neighbors, and communities with the prospect of violence.
So, the only reasonable questions to be asked by the innocent communities and humans surrounding you, is; which of those innocent communities will you sabotage first, and which of your innocent friends, families members, and neighbors will you murder first, when your wealthy-class right-wing overlords tell you to?
You are exactly the kind of ignorant, working-class mark the wealthy-class aims for: the weakest link among the lowest common denominator of human; the kind of right-wing dupe that is willing to believe in whatever boogeyman the wealthy-class right-wing overlords sell you; the kind of working-class dupe that is willing to murder other working-class humans, just because a wealthy-class right-winger tells you to.
Live your life in unreasonable-fear and unprovoked-violence elsewhere. You'll find no harbor, nor weak willed concessions, here.
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@thinkharder9332 "To be clear..." LOL. The only thing clear is that you're a simpleton.
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class/anti-working-class politics.
Violence and propaganda are the tools used by the wealthy-class right-wing minority, and the sect of working-class dupes they've co-opted, whose politics are unpopular with the working-class majority.
Left-wing politics are pro-working-class/anti-wealthy-class politics.
Violence only becomes a tool of the left-wing working-class majority when they get sick and tired of the provocation by the right-wing wealthy-class owners, and the co-opted sect of working-class dupes who vote against their own interests.
Voting for Repubs AND/OR Dems is voting for right-wing wealthy-class politics and against left-wing working-class politics
Wealthy-class politics keep dupes like you stupid on purpose.
Just like the wealthy-class right-wingers prevented their chattel-slaves from learning in the past, those same wealthy-class right-wingers have ruined public education to prevent wage-slaves, like you, from learning in the present.
Stupid working-class rubes, like you, are easier to indoctrinate with propaganda, and to convince that guns will keep them safe.
Stupid working-class rubes, like you, are easier to convince to murder other innocent working-class people.
If the wealthy-class can make a working-class person ignorant, the wealthy-class can make the working-class person afraid.
If they can keep you afraid, they can make you angry.
If they can make you angry, they can convince you to hate.
If they can convince you to hate, they can dupe you into committing sabotage, violence, r@pe, pillage, murder, genocide.
And you, with your guns, are somewhere on the spectrum:
Ignorance>fear>anger>hate>sabotage>violence>r@pe>pillage>murder>genocide.
I'm not ignorant, so I'm not afraid of you or your wealthy-class overlords, nor do I buy into the right-wing propaganda your wealthy-class masters have created for you to regurgitate.
I'm not afraid of you, so I don't have to be angry at you, nor do I blame you for succumbing to the ignorance imposed upon you by your wealthy-class masters.
I'm not angry at you, because you're a moron, so I don't have to hate you for what you've been fashioned into by wealthy-class right-wingers and their corrupt, supremacist politics.
I don't hate you, because I know you're intellectually inferior, and your intellectual inferiority is why you've been so easily turned into a drone for the wealthy-class.
And since I know you're intellectually inferior, and a victim because of it, I pity you.
You're not very many steps shy of committing violence against innocent working-class people at the behest of your wealthy-class masters,
And because I pity you, even though you're clearly on your way committing violence and sabotage against other innocent members of the working-class, I still wouldn't retaliate against you with violence.
Because I'm non-violent, and I know that beating dupes like you, and the wealthy-class minority you protect, can be achieved through civility and solidarity with the working-class majority.
But, unlike me, the majority of otherwise-decent working-class people are not non-violent in the face of violent provocation and sabotage.
And when those otherwise-decent people of the working-class majority get sick and tired of you working-class right-wing dupes and your wealthy-class right-wing overlords, you will rue the day.
The working-class majority will rain down on you with the same fury that has been seen throughout history:
Like the pro-working-class Union soldiers reigned over the pro-wealthy-class, anti-working-class, racist, theocratic, Confederate enslavers.
Like the pro-working-class Allied soldiers reigned over the pro-wealthy-class, anti-working-class, racist, theocratic, Nazi genociders.
But you morons don't believe in history; you believe in wealthy-class right-wing fairytales.
Despite history, you'll still do whatever you're told to do when the wealthy-class makes you desperate enough. You'll murder people you've known your whole life, and strangers.
And when the working-class left-wing gets sick and tired of you, you'll be better off holding a teddy bear. Because a toy will be a more effective tool in trying to convince the fed-up working-class left-wingers to spare your life after you've provoked them to retaliate against your right-wing violence and propaganda.
Speaking of teddybears: For the sake of the innocent, I hope you haven't produced any crotchfruit who will have to suffer indignities due to the provocation and ignorance of their sperm-and-egg donors.
And if you have procreated, hopefully your offspring don't decide to post-birth abort themselves when they realize the faults of their sperm-and-egg donors.
You're boring -- this boring -- you working-class right-wing dupes are long past boring.
You can't even keep up with the written conversation. I write much, due to much thought and consideration. You write little, due to the opposite.
Not to mention, your formatting is ridiculous, like you learned it at a slave-patrollers union meeting for duped working-class boot-lickers and brown-nosers.
I've addressed everything you've written, and some things you haven't.
Oh yeah, since, apparently, you weren't smart enough to pick up on it in my previous posts: I don't think billionaires or a wealthy-class should exist.
If this world wasn't controlled by a violent, corrupt, wealthy-class, right-wing minority, with the help of a violent, corrupt, minority of working-class dupes, like you -- you, who are willing to commit violence against your own working-class mates; you, who do the bidding of the wealthy-class, right-wingers -- then the working-class majority would have voted the wealthy-class right-wing knaves and the working-class right-wing dupes off the island a long time ago.
You're dismissed.
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The American version of Libertarianism is as you both have pointed out. It is a group/ideology which is financed by the wealthy-class, right-wing, authoritarian capitalists.
The wealthy-class, right-wing, authoritarian capitalists work COLLECTIVELY to champion INDIVIDUALISM, and they use the Libertarian-Party apparatus to capture the minds of ignorant working-class people who are incapable of comprehending who their real oppressors are.
The wealthy-class, right-wing, authoritarian capitalists who fund the Libertarian Party are the same wealthy-class, right-wing, authoritarian capitalists who fund the Republic and Democrat parties.
These political-party apparatuses are used to delude the working-class voters while the wealthy-class leaders work behind the scenes to perpetuate the rule of the wealthy-class and the subjugation of the working-class.
While the working-class voters are busy arguing over Red versus Blue versus whatever-the-fck color Libertarians use, the wealthy-class team-owners are at work coming up with new ways to continue the oppressive hierarchies of sl@v ery/ feudalism /capitalism.
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Two, simple, anti-capitalist solutions to capitalist-driven problems:
(1)Tax the parasitic, individualist, sociopathic&psychopathic wealthy-class/right-wing lifestyle-addicts, or (2)print the money, as only a government can do, and pay for childcare that way. Absolutely ZERO debt/profit should be involved in certain things, such as childcare, healthcare, education, incarceration/rehabilitation.
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Well, presuming that your inquiry is honest, I'll try to answer it for you. "Why is everything so partisan in the us?" Answer: Because the US political system is a sham, a farce, a theater, and worse. The US has legalized bribery, and bribery is illegal in other, better western countries.
The US has two major political parties. Both of those parties are bought and owned by the wealthy-class right-wingers who have bribed the politicians. Those wealthy-class right-wingers have used their wealth to purchase politicians and infiltrate the government.
Those same wealthy-class right-wingers also use their wealth to create propaganda. Those wealthy-class right-wingers use the media corporations they own to pump that propaganda into the eyes and ears of the working-class.
The right-wing propaganda says that the Republicans are the right-wing party, and Democrats are the left-wing party. But it is a lie. Both American political parties are right-wing political parties. The wealthy-class knows this, but the working-class doesn't.
The propaganda is designed to drive a wedge between working-class Republicans and working-class Democrats, and it works, which is why you see everything as hyper-partisan. But the working-class is too ignorant to see the ruse.
So, while the working-class people fight against each other over the red-team versus blue-team fiasco, the wealthy-class right-wingers are working together behind the scenes to maintain their addictions and the power they have over the working-class.
America's working-class is leaps and bounds behind the other, better western countries, because in those other, better western countries, they actually have multiple political parties, and some of those parties are actually left-wing.
Between the bribery, the propaganda, and the corruption by the wealthy-class, the US is barely a country. If the US didn't have nukes, it would be another tin-pot dictatorship. Kind of like what countries turn into after the US gets involved in them.
Again, to answer your question: Everything in the US seems hyper-partisan due to the purposeful designs of corrupt, wealthy-class right-wingers who are trying to maintain their power and addictions.
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@ianperfitt -- Well said. I agree with you.
I was being a bit sarcastic, which I suppose didn't come across as sarcasm.
They want us elbowing side-to-side, or worse, at the people who are most like us, and with whom we have the most in common.
They want us kicking down, or worse, at the people who are the least fortunate, and whom we are more probable to end up like.
They, absolutely, do not want us directing our collective energy toward them -- the perpetrators and perpetuators of a system whereby a few people have so much while so many people have so little -- because they know if we can unite, then their grift will be finished.
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That mother-talk, about primary caregivers withdrawing their love, is some real talk. Like most disparities, I think it can be explained by class and socioeconomic status.
The people within the lower-class -- the poor, debtor, and working classes -- are the disproportionate perpetrators and victims of this kind of alienating rationale.
The primary caregivers and providers within the lower-class become economically-relieved if they can self-justify the writing-off and alienation of their children and families. With that economic relief comes emotional and mental relief, even though varying degrees of guilt might be felt by the caregivers and providers as a result of the forced-alienation.
In contrast, the wealthy-class can remain economically-sound whether their children and family members remain in their lives or not. And for those of us who are aware of the rationale of the folks within the wealthy-class, we know that they are not apt to be moved by guilt or emotions anyway.
In some regards, I'm sorry Jimmy grew up that way. I don't wish that kind of childhood on anyone. But in some ways, I'm not sorry.
When I tell people in my life, who had no bearing on my upbringing, the truths about my childhood, they often apologize. I always tell them that I'm not sorry.
I tell them that it was my experiences that turned me into the man I am today -- as someone with the ability to admit my imperfections.
I tell them that I feel lucky to have come to peaceful terms with how I was raised and all the negative experiences I had to endure -- as someone who is striving to become even more compassionate and empathetic as I move forward.
When I've confronted my abusive parents, who did bear the responsibility for my upbringing, with how their abuse negatively impacted my life, they've never apologized. My mother has shown remorse in the past, but it never lasted long. Her 40-year, doctor-enabled opioid addiction always caused her to revert to victim-blaming. To an extent, my parents are like the wealthy-class folks who aren't moved by guilt or emotions, even though my parents are debtor-class at best.
I'm not proud of how my parents have reacted to my interpretations of their effect on my life. I'm not always proud of how I react to some things in life. I'm not always proud of how Jimmy reacts to some things in politics.
But, I'm not sorry that Jimmy has become able to tell the powerful truths of his story, and I'm not sorry that he has become a speaker of truth to power.
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Good questions. I'll try to answer, under the assumption that your questions are genuine, and not trolling, in nature.
Why don't people create cooperatives? Well, they do.
But if you were to ask, "Why don't people create cooperatives more so than LLC's, Sole Proprietorship, Partnerships, or Corporations?", then that would be a better question. So I'll try to answer that.
Cooperatives involve "cooperation." Cooperation, in America, has been propagandized as inferior for the entirety of its existence. In contrast, "individualism" has been propagandized as superior.
Of course, America isn't unique. Many places propagandize in favor of individualism and against cooperation/collectivism.
However, in most of the places where the propaganda favors individualism, the media is owned by a small group of wealthy people, such as the owners of corporations and big businesses, as well as hedge-fund managers, bank executives, and stockbrokers.
The wealthy people use their wealth to purchase the media companies, then the wealthy people use those media companies to pump out the propaganda of individualism over the airwaves.
The wealthy people, especially in America, have also co-opted the government through campaign finance and electoral systems. Much of America's campaign finance and electoral practices are illegal in other, better countries.
The wealthy people use their wealth to fund the campaigns of politicians through donations. In exchange, the politicians fashion the laws in the way the wealthy donors tell them to.
Of course, this legalized bribery used to be illegal in America. But, over time, the wealthy people infiltrated the government, little by little.
Now, the bribery has been written into legislation by the Legislative Branch, signed into law by the Executive Branch, and upheld by the Supreme Court in the Judicial Branch, because the wealthy people have finagled their way into the wallets and pocketbooks of all of the government social circles.
(Several Supreme Court decisions have solidified this power-grab by the wealthy people. If you're interested, I could lay them out for you in a response, if you wish.)
Again, I'll remind you; other, better countries have outlawed these corrupt campaign and electoral practices. Some places use America as an example of how NOT to do campaign finance and electoral politics.
In these other better countries, they have systems that are more fair and inclusive, where the wealthy-class minority doesn't hold more power than the working-class majority. But, of course, no country is perfect.
However, in these other, better countries, where the systems are fairer, worker cooperatives are more prevalent. You can just go to Wikipedia (which isn't my favorite source for information), and type in; "List of worker cooperatives", "List of cooperative federations", and "List of cooperatives".
Anyway, just as the corruption has been imposed on the American government by the wealthy class, the politicians have helped the wealthy class to solidify that corruption into the economy.
The wealthy class doesn't want competition of any kind, whether it be a cooperative, an LLC, or another corporation. So, they have made laws and practices which have made it more difficult to start a business of any kind, whether it be a cooperative, an LLC, or a corporation.
They have designed policies and procedures which impose economic hardship on the masses of people, thus making it more difficult for the average person, or group of people, to acquire enough capital to open a business.
But some people still start businesses, if they are lucky enough to acquire the capital and if they are daring enough to take the risk. But the risk is greater for the singular person or the small group of people.
If a single person or a small group of people fail, they can lose everything, and everything they have could end up in the hands of corrupt wealthy bankers or financiers who fashioned the system to work this way.
But if a large corporation that is owned by corrupt wealthy people fails, then the corrupted politicians use the government apparatus to bail out the wealthy people.
So in that sense, the corrupt wealthy people and the corrupted politicians are collectivists who help each other, even though they claim to be individualists who champion individualism. Of course, this makes them hypocrites of the highest organized order and the lowest human value.
This leads to your second question: "Why do people prefer to be employees rather than team up to create cooperatives?"
The answer is three-fold, and maybe more.
1. They don't know that they have another choice, but they don't necessarily prefer to be employees. There are plenty of humans, now and throughout history, who have been the victims of circumstances that they didn't know they didn't have to endure.
2. They don't know about cooperatives in idea nor practice, because they have been conditioned by opposition propaganda. The wealthy owners of this country, now and throughout history, have been using their wealth to solidify their positions of power through indoctrinating propaganda.
3. They don't have the means to create a cooperative, even if they know about them. Furthermore, in this system of faux-individualism that has been manufactured by wealthy-class people, if a working-class person is lucky enough to achieve any manner of wealth, the last thing that many of those indoctrinated people want to do with that newly-acquired wealth is to share it.
I hope this helps.
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@Nikos10 Lobbying is only a small portion of the legalized bribery.
In better, fairer countries, lobbying is illegal. In better, fairer countries, lobbying is regulated. In some places lobbying is heavily regulated, in other places, it is lightly regulated.
But, at the very least, in better, fairer countries, lobbying is regulated to balance the power that the wealthy-class minority has over the working-class majority.
In some countries, and even some states, where lobbying is not allowed, or where lobbying is regulated, the balance of power is with the working-class majority, instead of with the wealthy-class minority.
But lobbying is just one piece of the puzzle. In America, the following issues make up a larger portion of the puzzle.
1.The nature of the way campaigns are financed: In America, campaigns are mostly funded privately, with wealthy people contributing the most to a candidate or an incumbent. They can also create private groups, where they can use as much money as they want to create and pump out propaganda. This gives wealthy people an unfair advantage.
They can use their wealth, which is created off the backs of working-class people, to promote lies and fallacies to influence elections. They use the wealth, that is created off the backs of working-class people, to propagandize the working-class people. Without workers, there would be less wealth created for the wealthy-class to exploit. Thus, without the working-class, at the very least, there would be fewer wealthy people exploiting humans for their labor.
2.The way elections are operated: Voting practices and requirements are not the same in all places. Thus, the system is made to be easier for wealthy-class people to vote, and, thus, it is more difficult for some, and impossible for others, within the working-class.
Anecdotally, I have had jobs where I've been unable to vote, and, thus, numerous other people at those jobs were unable to vote as well. Myself, and the people I know, aren't unique in this regard.
Wealthy people can afford to take the day off from work if need be. Most working-class people can't.
Wealthy people can decide not to go to work. Many working-class people will get fired for not going to work.
In some places, you need a specific form of ID to vote. Some working-class people can't afford to buy an ID. The system is designed to exclude those working-class people from having a voice in electoral politics.
In some places, you need to have an address to get an ID. Some working-class people don't have an address to be allowed to get an ID. The system is designed to exclude those working-class people from having a voice in electoral politics.
In some places, not having an address can cause a person to become arrested and convicted of victimless crimes that have been manufactured by wealthy people who control different levels of government. And data shows that once a person becomes involved in the criminal justice system, they are exponentially more likely to remain in its grasp. The system is designed that way.
Read the 13th Amendment. There is free labor to be had if they can make criminals out of people. So, the wealthy-class uses their wealth to donate/bribe politicians through campaigns, then the politicians make the laws the way the wealthy people tell them to. The laws that are made disproportionately benefit the wealth-class to the detriment of the working-class.
If you've never been so unlucky, then good for you. But that doesn't mean that the unlucky people should be excluded., and they are indeed excluded.
3.Voting day is not a national holiday in America, and you don't hear any propaganda promoting a national voting holiday in the media that is owned by wealthy people, because the wealthy-class minority doesn't want the working-class majority to vote.
In other, better countries, voting is more than a right. It is a requirement. If you don't vote, you pay a fine. These practices -- voting as a requirement, and not voting having consequences -- are practices that have been agreed upon and made into law by the will of the majority.
In America, since we are ruled by the corruption of the wealthy-class minority, we do not have a national voting holiday, nor a voting requirement, nor non-voting consequences. Because if we did, the power structure would favor the working-class majority instead of the mob-rule of the wealthy-class minority.
In the places where Universal Suffrage is the law of the land, the working-class majority have a sense of solidarity, and that solidarity has been depleted in America by the propaganda and policies that are put forth by the wealthy-class.
I could go on.
However, I am doubtful that my words are going to change your mind.
As someone who has worked in all kinds of businesses -- I've worked for myself as a subcontractor, I've worked for medium-sized, family-owned businesses, and I've worked for multinational corporations -- I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly.
As someone with formal (capitalist) economics (indoctrination) training, I've seen how what is taught to the working-class is contradicted in practice by the wealthy-class.
I could, quite literally, write pages refuting your last six sentences, explaining how they are products of your own propagandized-indoctrination. But I'm not a writer, nor a teacher, and some people aren't good readers or learners.
I mean, I explained how the American campaign finance and electoral systems brought about the legalized-bribery in my first post, and you seemed to overlook the campaign finance and electoral systems to mention only lobbying. Maybe I wrote the explanation poorly, or maybe you read it badly.
Either way, I've found that, for some people, particularly the kinds of people with your points of view, this medium isn't an adequate way for them to learn. Nor, for some, is it the best way to teach.
But, I'll leave you with this.
You have much more in common with the majority of the population of humans on this planet who have to work every day for their necessities, while simultaneously creating wealth for the minority to extract from the labor of that majority.
You have much less in common with the minority of the population of humans on this planet who have worked very little, if at all, and who never have to work a day again in their lives, because they have so rapaciously manipulated humans and exploited their labor and lands that they have created little bubbles for themselves and the minority.
I hope you realize that you're part of the working-class majority and, no matter how hard you stan and repeat the propaganda of the wealthy-class minority, they are never going to let you into their club.
They want you for two purposes:
One, to be a shill for them, helping to solidify their grasp on corruption and power.
Two, to become a hired hand, willing to impose violence on your fellow citizens who stand up to their corruption and power.
I hope you choose to be used for neither.
God Bless.
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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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I just want her to be smarter -- and that want isn't only for Leeja. There are MANY "creators" whose viewership-stats act as evidence to prove the success of the perpetual plot by the populace-minority($$$) to dumb-down the populace-majority($).
I fully expect this comment to be "sense-or-ed". But if it isn't, and if you have questions, you can feel free to reach out to me and I'll be glad to respond.
Edit: Well it looks like my comment wasn't "sense-or-ed", so I decided to add the following, to possibly save someone(s) the time/trouble of responding:
I think Leeja is "smart" -- she graduated law school, so she obviously has the capacity to learn, remember, & recollect information -- but that isn't all that is required to teach.
That being said, I find her presentation-style to be more entertainingly-editorial than edifyingly-educational, and I prefer the latter to the former.
But to each their own; I still watch, and even follow. You know, to see how other people live, so to speak.
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Republican and Democratic party leadership; the same coin, but different sides. They have the same corporate and tribal wealthy-class agenda, but with differing levels of subtlety.
Republican and Democratic party membership; same coin, and mostly the same side. They have the same communal and familial lower-class agenda, but with varying levels of ignorance.
The only real difference is that some of the most ignorant folks in the lower-class have been fooled into believing that they are only temporarily-displaced members of the wealthy-class. They are ignorant enough to believe that if they do the bidding, and obey the orders of the wealthy-class, then someday the wealthy-class will allow them into their club.
The wealthy-class political leadership loves these ignorant lower-class conservatives. These wealthy-class intellectual-brutes build their fortunes and empires on the backs of lower-class ignorant-brawns.
As has been the case throughout history, the wealthy-class uses their money as a means to relegate the lower-class into positions of ignorance.
An example of this is; the deprivation of education, which was imposed by the wealthy-class white-Americans on the lower-class Africans during the time of more-direct slavery.
Another example is; the defunding and destabilization of public education, which has been imposed by wealthy-class white-Americans on the lower-class since the creation of the New Deal right up until the present.
The lower-class whites have never been equal with the wealthy-class whites when it comes to the accessibility of high-quality education. The lower-class whites are closer to blacks when it comes to socioeconomic class-status than they have ever been to wealthy-class whites. This was true during slavery and it is still true in the present.
The lesser-educated lower-class, which consists of all races, make up the societal-majority. The better-educated wealthy-class, which consists disproportionately of whites, make up the societal minority.
But because of the manipulative abilities of those who are better educated over those who are under-educated -- because of the power which can be bought through the manipulation of money and information -- the wealthy-class minority maintains their power over the lower-class majority.
The wealthy-class uses its wealth to influence public policy in their favor. They use their influence over public policy to arrange that public policy in a way that manipulates the mass of people into masses of influenced-ignorance.
If a person is ignorant enough, then that person can be easily influenced and persuaded into further denigrating, debilitating, or destructive states of mind and action. Those states of mind and action often progress as follows: Ignorance, fear, anger, hate, violence, murder, and genocide. Each level relies on the previous level.
If a person can be rendered ignorant, then a person can be broken mentally, emotionally, and physically.
If a person is ignorant then they can be fooled into being afraid of other people.
If a person is afraid enough, then they can be coerced into anger toward the people whom they have been fooled into fearing.
If a person is angry enough, then they can be compelled to hate the people whom they have been coerced into anger toward.
If a person is hateful enough, then they can be provoked into violence against the people whom they have been compelled to hate.
If a person is violent enough, then they can be forced into murdering the people whom they have been provoked into violence toward.
If a person is murderous enough -- broken enough -- then they will have no problem committing genocide upon the people whom they are ignorant and fearful of, angry at, hateful toward, and violent against.
Because of this progression of digression, the wealthy-class has been enslaving the lower-class in various ways throughout all of history.
The wealthy-class Republican leadership imposes ignorance upon the lower-class to control them, while the wealthy-class Democratic leadership provides a faux-opposition. Then, every few generations, the parties switch sides and change roles right under the noses of the ignorant lower-class.
For example, in the past, the Republicans have espoused 'liberal' ideology and the Democrats have espoused 'conservative' ideology. But both parties have always been most dedicated to the sustainment of the wealthy-class, white-patriarchal hierarchy.
But the more-ignorant 'conservative' members of the lower-class majority are always the easily compliant aggressors, while the less-ignorant "liberal" members are passively resistant victims.
Lower-class conservatives are ignorant enough to scroll Facebook for memes, but they aren't smart enough to search for meaning.
Lower-class conservatives are ignorant enough to search Facebook for memes, but they aren't smart enough to research for meaning.
Lower-class conservatives are ignorant enough to repeat and regurgitate, but they aren't smart enough to be discreet and separate.
Lower-class conservatives are ignorant enough to say the intended quiet parts aloud, but not smart enough to realize it makes them appear less-endowed.
Lower-class conservatives are ignorant enough to follow, but they're so far behind that they think they're leading.
The intelligent, wealthy-class political leadership love these ignorant, lower-class conservatives because they are so ignorant that they can be convinced turn against the people who are most like them.
The wealthy-class, with a few memes, can convince ignorant-conservatives into kicking down at the least-fortunate and elbowing side-to-side at those who are most akin to themselves, rather than punching up at the wealthy-class who are the perpetrators of the misinformation which divides us and the perpetrators of the inequality which oppresses us.
Combine all of that with the following facts:
1. The wealthy-class of both political parties have been dragging the Overton window to the right-wing for the last one hundred years, and drastically so over the last 50 years, essentially turning Democratic leadership into Republicans and Republican leadership into fascists.
2. In any of the other developed countries -- countries where there are multiple political parties on the political left and right -- where the citizens have actual freedom of political choice, those countries would have Republicans in Democrats either in the same political party or part of a coalition government.
3. In some of those other developed countries, the disparities in the U.S. election system -- from the campaign finance laws to the voter suppression tactics -- would have the wealthy-class leadership imprisoned.
4. The similarities between present-day America, the empires of old, and the Third Reich -- coupled with the discontent which America has sewn around the world -- are too numerous to count.
Anyone with a comprehension of socioeconomic politics in international and historical contexts has got to be able to see that this America-aggression is bound to come to a head sooner than later.
My only fear is that, much like other countries which have become the brunt of international retaliation, the ignorant lower-class of all proclaimed political persuasions within America will be the ones left holding the metaphorical bag while the intelligent wealthy-class sneak out the proverbial backdoor.
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That's RW-politics. And all RW-political-systems are just slavery with different names, whether it be the RW-system of Monarchism, Feudalism, Republicanism, Capitalism, Corporatism, or Fascism. Now, the question is; which RW-political-system do the operators of MorePerfectUnion want? Because they don't do a very good job of calling out the RW-systems of Republicanism, Capitalism, Corporatism, and/or Fascism by name.
At best, the operators of MorePerfectUnion are fools who are doing a disservice, by calling out corruption and exposing the problems & suffering caused by said corruption, but NOT calling out the name(s) of the RW-system(s) by which the corruption, problems & suffering are enabled to persist.
At worst, the operators of MorePerfectUnion are knaves who are purposely and purposefully NOT calling out the names of the RW-systems, because they benefit from the corruption that stems from their RW-sysytem of choice.
Whether ths operators of MorePerfectUnion are fools or knaves, neither is anything of which to be proud.
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@creeperkingdom3190 Your writing (in)abilities show all that needs to be revealed about your (in)abilities to comprehend socioeconomic politics in historical and international contexts.
You are a victim of the substandard education and indoctrinating propaganda that has been swindled by the wealthy-class right-wingers who have corrupted our government, economy, and all sectors of society.
In the same way that the wealthy-class prevented the slaves from learning in the past, the wealthy-class has prevented you from learning in the present.
The slaves of old eventually figured it out and rose up against the wealthy-class, right-wing masters. I don't have the same hope for you.
You are clearly a few comments shy of a mental-health evaluation and a red-flag law. My only wonder is which of your friends, family members, or neighbors you'll murder first when your wealthy-class, right-wing masters tell you to.
Your level of ignorance gives me fear for the better humans who are stuck with you, without opportunity for escape.
You, and those like you, are the reasons that the class-conscious members of the working class in the other, better countries of the world laugh in disbelief of, and weep in despair for, America.
You are the weakest link among the lowest common denominators of humans.
P.S. I used to be just like you -- young, dumb, and a waste of chum -- blaming the working-class people around me for all of the world's trouble.
Then I realized that the working-class people around me had no power to control the world's resources, so they couldn't possibly be responsible for creating the inequitable, anti-egalitarian society under which we have been forced to live.
So, I began to educate myself. You can too.
Educate yourself about working-class versus wealthy-class politics.
Right-wing politics are wealthy-class politics.
Wealthy-class politics are capitalist politics.
Capitalist politics are corporatist politics.
Corporatist politics are fascist politics.
Fascist politics are authoritarian politics.
Authoritarian politics are minority-rule politics.
Minority-rule (mob-rule) politics are right-wing politics.
In contrast:
Left-wing politics are working-class politics.
Working-class politics are collectivist politics.
Collectivist politics are community politics.
Community politics are cooperative politics.
Cooperative politics are democratized politics.
Democratized politics are majority-rule politics.
Majority-rule politics are left-wing politics.
Both the Repubocrats and the Demlicans are right-wing political parties. The leadership of both parties is members of the wealthy-class. Pelosi, McCarthy, Schumer, McConnell, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden are ALL are members of the wealthy-class. All are members of the right-wing.
They are millionaires who are funded by billionaires through an intricate system of legalized-bribery (campaign contributions, the revolving-door), and a corrupted system of electoral-selection. In other, better countries, the American system of campaigns and elections is illegal.
The working-class left is not now, nor has it ever been in charge in America. The closest thing to it was back in the 1920s and 1930s when there were socialist and communist working-class political parties in the U.S., along with massive working-class participation in labor unions.
It's not too late for you to change before you do something you can't take back.
Good day.
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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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TYT taking money from corrupt rich people, w/ their corrupt RW-politics, is part of what has ruined TYT. Besides that, Cenk is a self-proclaimed Capitalist, and Capitalism is a RW-system, just like Monarchism, Feudalism, Corporatism & Fascism. All of the RW-political-systems are just systems of slavery with different names, and Cenk wants the moderate-RW politics of Capitalist-slavery, but not the RW-extremist politics of Fascist-slavery.
I've been watching TYT for over a decade. Cenk used to be center-left, advocating for policies of social-democracy and/or democratic-socialism, but he dragged the audience to the center-right, advocating for Capitalism. Capitalism is an authoritarian system that is antithetical to democratism/democracy.
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RFK is a RWer economically. Again, RFK is an economic RWer.
RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class politics.
RW-politics are anti-working-class politics.
RFK is a millionaire in the wealthy-class.
His campaign-donors are billionaires in the wealthy-class.
They are all capitalists and Capitalism is a RW-economic system.
RW-politics are anti-working-class politics.
RFK will fold to the demands of the wealthy-class.
Just like Biden, Trump, & Obama folded.
Just like Bush JR&SR, Bill & Hillary folded.
Just like Reagan, Carter, Nixon, and Ford all folded.
Just like most of Congress & Judiciary have folded.
And don't get me wrong; this domination of a populace-majority of working-class people by a populace-minority of wealthy-class people is nothing new -- the wealthy-class has been striving to, and succeeding at, dominating the working-class for millennia.
The wealthy-class has been doing it since the invention of currency; pharaohs, Mongols, Romans, Ottomans, Turks, Brits, Confederates, "Germans," Americans -- they've all done it.
But in our particular era, we'll talk about since FDR died.
FDR was a wealthy-class capitalist, too.
But he wasn't a complete dirt-bag.
He was absolutely concerned with self-preservation, as he saw the greed in the pro-wealthy-class policies of the "Roaring" 1920s were leading to trouble.
The working-class was so angry, they were rising up against the wealthy-class.
This has happened throughout history, and FDR knew it was happening then.
So, FDR implemented some pro-working-class policies to bring the working-class to heel.
But those pro-working-class policies weren't made permanent.
And the wealthy-class has been breaking those policies, and the government, ever since FDR died.
In the 1940s there was WW2.
In the 1950s & 60s, there was the Korean War, McCarthyism, The Red Scare.
In the 60s & 70s, there was The Cold War, Vietnam, and the Space Race.
In the 1980s & 90s, there were constant Central American and Southeast Asian invasions.
All of those situations were manufactured & fabricated by the wealthy-class to incite the working-class into a state of fear and submission, confusion and delusion.
The wealthy-class has used their ownership of the Military Industrial Complex to grow their wealth.
And with that wealth they have put military manufacturing plants in every congressional district.
And the wealthy-class owners then contribute to the campaigns of legislators.
Then, those legislators pass more laws to benefit the owners of military manufacturers.
It's blatant bribery & corruption, and RFK is not against that.
And with that wealth, the wealthy-class-RWers have not only taken over the legislature, they have taken over the judiciary.
Their most recent escalation really begun to ramp up starting in the 1970s with a series of SCOTUS cases.
The SCOTUS decisions in the following cases, all gave disproportionate benefit to the populace-minority of wealthy-class-RWers, and gave disproportionate detriment to the populace-majority of the working-class.
Buckley v. Valeo(1976)
First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti (1978)
McConnell V. Federal Election Commission (2003)
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)
McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission (2014)
They are pro-wealthy-class, pro-authoritarian and pro-oligarchic decisions.
They are anti-working-class, anti-republic and anti-democracy decisions.
The Republican-party leadership supports the decision because they are an anti-republican, pro-authoritarian and pro-oligarchic political party.
The Democrat-party leadership supports the decision because they are ALSO an anti-democratic, pro-authoritarian and pro-oligarchic political party.
RFK isn't against any of that -- he's a millionaire who benefits from it.
His campaign is being funded by RW-authoritarian billionaire oligarchs from the wealthy-class.
And it's all because of RW-laws passed by RW-Repub & RW-Dem millionaires.
And all because of cases brought by wealthy-RWers to the wealthy-RW-SCOTUS.
And some of those people may have been elected, but many of them weren't.
RW-politics are the politics of unelected-hierarchies.
Most of the wealthy-class are unelected landowners & shareholders.
They rely on evolving their RW-economic systems to further entrench themselves into government, to further control & delude the working-class.
The greed of the wealthy-class is an addiction that is never satiated.
So they must adapt as their addiction grows.
We've seen this current adaptation a few times in history, already.
Capitalism > Corporatism > Fascism.
The wealthy-class used the legislature to manufacture the "fiduciary responsibility" to justify infinite profit-growth (on a finite planet) at the sake of everything else.
They created the rule in the system without a majority of people voting for it, and the unelected judiciary has decided it's the law.
As the wealthy-class grows their addiction for profits, they need more "help" from the government to maintain their profit-addiction.
So they take over government, evolving Capitalism into Corporatism, and Corporatism into Fascism.
As they take over government, they break it for working-class, and build it to benefit themselves. Basically forming a system of slavery like the Confederacy and the Third Reich, both of which were founded and funded by wealthy-class-RWers.
RFK isn't against that.
RFK is a member of the wealthy-class.
RFK benefits from RW-economic politics.
RFK is a RWer
Vote RW-extremist Repubs&Libertarians, for the fast, open-road to fascism.
Vote moderate-RW Dems&NoLabels, for the slower, disguised-road to fascism.
They were all bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class-RWers.
Just like RFK.
Good day, sir.
...I SAID GOOD DAY! 🎩🧥🍫
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Wealthy-class right-wingers have bought and bribed both American political parties. They own and control both parties. This kid is not equipped to comprehend or deal with that.
The right-wing Democrat party will do the same thing to this kid that the right-wing Republic party did to Madison Cawthorn.
Maybe they won't do him as dirty as they did Cawthorn, but there are plenty of ways for wealthy-class right-wingers to get what they want.
They could do the same thing to this kid as they have done to "The Squad" -- silence him. Or they could do the same thing they have done to Kyrsten Sinema -- bribe him. Those are adults, and they have succumbed to corruption.
But even if the wealthy-class right-wingers who control both parties weren't as corrupt as they are, I still wouldn't want this kid, or any kid, controlling anything. We don't need kid-brains. We need adult-brains.
And considering the 100-year assault on education by the wealthy-class right-wingers and how successful that assault has been at dumbing-down Americans, I would prefer the voting age be increased to the age when neurological and psychological experts say the human brain is at peak development -- 25-years-old.
No children with underdeveloped brains should be allowed in positions of control over other people's lives -- no cops, teachers, managers, or military should be under 25 years old.
Pre-developed brains have plenty of work to do in observing, learning, and helping to carry out the democratic will of the people with developed-brains who have already observed, learned, and helped.
Of all the supposed adult-brains who are currently elected to Republic or Democrat parties, I wouldn't follow any of them into ankle-deep water (maybe Bernie). But I'm certainly not going to follow any child-brains either, no matter how well rehearsed their speeches are.
Long story short: I don't want any of the addict-brains from the wealthy-class minority, nor any of the vulnerable undeveloped-brains from the working-class majority, to run for any of the public-offices that dictate the policies which control our lives.
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Piers & Destiny are BOTH liberals from the wealthy-class. But the term "liberalism" has different meanings, depending on the context. Economic-liberalism and social-liberalism are not the same thing. It's very important for working-class people to understand this.
1a. Social-liberalism is the ABSENCE of an imposed social-hierarchy.
1b.Economic-liberalism is the PRESENCE of an imposed economic-hierarchy.
2a. Social-liberalism is a LW-ideology, based on a social-system that PROVIDES FREEDOM FROM OPPRESSION by others based on social-hierarchy.
2b.Economic-liberalism is a RW-ideology, based on an economic-system that ALLOWS FREEDOM TO OPPRESS others based on economic-hierarchy.
3a. Social-liberalism implies the freedom for ALL people to be free FROM the hierarchical-oppression of other people based on inborn, unchosen, and immutable social-characteristics. Such as race, sex, gender, ethnicity, nationality, physiology, physicality, and abilities/disabilities.
3b. Economic-liberalism implies the freedom for SOME people to be free TO commit hierarchical-oppression against others based upon inherited, unearned, and exploitative economic-positions. Such as wealth, property, possessions, status, caste, manipulation, and intelligence/ignorance. Pro-oppression and anti-inequality are RW-ideologies.
4a. Economic & Social equality are LW-ideologies.
4b. Economic & Social oppression are RW-idologies.
The RW-idealology of economic-liberalism has different economic-systems under its umbrella, each containing varying degrees of hierarchy, and each involving the wealthy-class enslaving the working-class. Some of those systems include: monarchism, feudalism, capitalism, and fascism.
Within economic-liberalism, there are two underlying terms: Classical-liberalism & Neo-liberalism.
5a. Classical-liberalism refers to the RW-economic system of Capitalism as it existed in the past, BEFORE the implementation of The New Deal.
5b. Neo-liberalism refers to the RW-economic system of Capitalism as it exists in the present, AFTER the implementation of New Deal.
6a. The New Deal was a LW-response by the working-class to DECONSTRUCT the oppressive & inequitable RW-hierarchies that were imposed by the wealthy-class under Classical-liberal Capitalism.
6b. And Neo-liberal Capitalism has been the RW-response by the wealthy-class, in which they have tried to undo The New Deal policies and RECONSTRUCT the oppressive & inequitable hierarchies that existed prior to The New Deal.
To make a long-story short:
1. Piers AND Destiny are BOTH economic-liberals (oppressive hierarchists).
2. Piers AND Destiny are BOTH neo-liberals (alive, now, after The New Deal).
3. Piers AND Destiny are BOTH capitalists (the prominent economic-system now).
4. Piers AND Destiny are BOTH neo-liberal capitalists.
And that brings us to the term "Conservative" as it relates to the broader socioeconomic-political landscape. In the realm of politics, "conservative" just means to "maintain" the current social and/or economic political-structures.
And, so, in that vein, Peirs AND Destiny are BOTH Conservatives:
1. Piers AND Destiny are BOTH trying to conserve economic-liberalism.
2. Piers AND Destiny are BOTH trying to conserve neo-liberalism.
3. Piers AND Destiny are BOTH trying to conserve Capitalism.
Piers AND Destiny are BOTH trying to conserve the oppressive & hierarchical RW-economic-system of Neo-Liberal Capitalism.
All that being said, as it relates to the broader political-landscape:
7a. BOTH the Repub&Dem parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
7b. The Democrat-party is a moderate-RW economic party, and they are ALSO conservatives who are trying to conserve the oppressive & hierarchical economic-system of Neo-Liberal Capitalism.
7c. And, the Republc-party is a RW-extremist economic party. They would be okay with conserving the oppressive & hierarchical economic-system of Neo-Liberal Capitalism, but they really want to go further.
7d. But, the Republic-party would prefer to advance the oppressive & hierarchical economic-structures by implementing the system of Fascism. So, they aren't really conservatives.
Vote for the wealthy, RW-extremist Repubs, for the fast, open-road from RW-Capitalism to RW-Fascism, for the continued enslavement of the working-class by the wealthy-class.
Vote for the wealthy, moderate-RW Dems, for the slower, disguised-road from RW-Capitalism to RW-Fascism, for the continued enslavement of the working-class by the wealthy-class..
The corrupt wealthy-class will take whichever politically oppressive & hierarchical RW-system they can get, whether it be monarchism, feudalism, capitalism, or fascism.
But ALL RW-political-systems involve the corrupt wealthy-class enslaving the working-class.
And the corrupt wealthy-class will take whichever kinds of working-class slaves they can get, whether they be chattel-slaves, debt-slaves, or wage-slaves.
Piers AND Destiny, along with Biden AND Trump, are ALL members of the corrupt wealthy-class and they ALL promote corrupt RW-politics.
If you made it this far, I'm thankful for your attention.
✌🤟✊🙏
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Bernie has family. He's more concerned with what could happen to them after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows what the right-wingers have done to working-class leftists through history.
Bernie sees the rhyming-nature of that history coming back around.
Bernie lived through the "Red Scare" and "McCarthyism."
Bernie doesn't want those kinds of things to happen to his family after he dies.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that there are too many foolish, working-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many knavish, wealthy-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many right-wing addicts with mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Berne knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts will willingly give up their addictions.
Bernie knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts can cure their own mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that, in order to maintain their addictive lifestyles, the mentally ill working-class fools will do whatever the mentally ill wealthy-class knaves tell them to do; just like they did during the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie has now entered the phase known as, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
Bernie is MORE concerned with the quality of life his family will have when he dies.
Bernie is LESS concerned with the quality of life for the working-class.
Bernie is ONLY concerned with his own family-unit minority
Bernie is NOT concerned about the working-class majority.
Bernie is the perfect example of why any effective leader(s) on the left-wing will have to be someone(s) without family -- it's too easy for the wealthy-class right-wingers to corrupt left-wingers who have families, and Bernie is a prime example.
Bernie has exchanged his working-class principles to secure a wealthy-class standard of living for his family after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the anti-wealthy-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given up on the pro-working-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the anti-working-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the pro-wealthy-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given up.
It's only surprising/upsetting if one doesn't know the facts, or rhyming-nature, of history.
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@karlerikpaulsson88 You don't seem to grasp that it is all an act, and that Biden and Manchin have the same goals. All of these scenarios and votes are decided behind the scenes away from the public eye.
Just because you can't grasp it doesn't mean it isn't so. Just because they don't say it out loud in public doesn't mean it isn't true.
From an outsiders perspective, it's easy to see why America is such a sh!tehole -- it's because working-class Americans are morons who have been duped by wealthy-class right-wingers like Biden, Trump, Manchin, McConnell, Schumer, McCarthy, and Pelosi.
They are all wealthy-class right-wingers and they are putting on an act. Working-class Americans, and some foreigners, react like you're watching real-life instead of a Broadway play.
Furthermore, Biden doesn't "still need Manchin to vote for Ketanji Brown-Jackson..." SHE'S ALREADY BEEN CONFIRMED. WAKE UP!
As for other nominees, Biden and Manchin will agree on any and all nominations, even if they don't say they agree, or even if they disagree, in public.
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Some stupid people don't realize that they already have a mild or moderate broken leg. So they go out and mess around on the broken leg and end up with a severely broken leg, or they break their other leg.
Sometimes the stupid people need to end up immobile before they realize something is broken. But unfortunate people have no choice but to walk on a broken leg, even though they know it's already broken.
Some selfish people don't care that other unfortunate people have mild or moderate broken legs. So the selfish people let the unfortunate people suffer and limp around on a bad leg, and then unfortunate people end up with more severely broken legs, or they end up with two broken legs.
The unfortunate people are unfortunate whether they have two broken legs or no broken legs, and the selfish people don't care. Sometimes, selfish people need to end up with a couple of broken legs AND become part of the unfortunate before they start to care about other people.
I, for one, can't wait for more of the stupid people to realize they are also selfish people and to become part of the unfortunate people.
When you care more about broad equity than singular superiority, it becomes easier to care less if things get worse for selfish people.
When you care more about what comes after this "life" than you do about this life, it becomes easier to care less about what you can accumulate and more about what you can give to others in this life
For some people, this life can't get any worse. They don't see "the end" as anything but a sweet release.
I, for one, say bring on the broken legs.
Something like that.
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Not trying to be an ass, but it took only ten seconds to look it up, and that's with my substandard internet-service. Even though I already knew what "NHS" stands for, I decided to search anyway, just to see how long it would take. You could have chosen to use your time wisely and just look it up, but you decided to waste your time writing a paragraph-complaint, instead. And, now, I'm not even going to tell you what NHS stands for, because you've made it obvious that you'll benefit from the research process. Here's my free, unsolicited advice: less talkie-talk and typie-type, and more listie-listen and readie-read. Again, not trying to be an asshole.
P.S. Just because you say something like, "Not trying to be an ass," that doesn't automatically make you seem like you're not an ass.
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@earwicker7 This didn't start as a "bigger-book" contest (what a childish endeavor you're turning this into), it started with @gregbutler's factual claim that, '...in the 1970's the MAJORITY of Americans were much more autodidactically educated and at a significantly higher level than people are today.'
Furthermore, back then, educational expectations & standards were more equally applied & held in high esteem. Of course, that all changed (in it's most-recent iteration) starting in the 1980s, with the support of BOTH corrupt right[wrong] polit-parties.
Since the 1980s, education expectations & standards have been segregated by socioeconomic-class (kind of like it was in a past iteration known as the Confedrate-south).
If you can't comprehend that more TV and video games has equated to [a]less reading and [b]more-ignorant citiznes, then you're the kind of product that the right[wrong] polit-parties have been striving to turn citizens into.
And if you think I'm going to waste my time writing out the titles of the thousands of non-fiction books I have in my possession, just to placate you and your child-brained, "bigger-book" contest, then you are EXACTLY the kind of product that the right[wrong] polit-parties have been striving to turn you into.
More time spent on TV and video games has resulted in less time spent reading, which has resulted in dumber citizens and more-ignorant society. Now, stop-moving the goal-posts, child. You're just wrong.
Take the "L" and move on.
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Bernie has family. He's more concerned with what could happen to them after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows what the right-wingers have done to working-class leftists through history.
Bernie sees the rhyming-nature of that history coming back around.
Bernie lived through the "Red Scare" and "McCarthyism."
Bernie doesn't want those kinds of things to happen to his family after he dies.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that there are too many foolish, working-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many knavish, wealthy-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many right-wing addicts with mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Berne knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts will willingly give up their addictions.
Bernie knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts can cure their own mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that, in order to maintain their addictive lifestyles, the mentally ill working-class fools will do whatever the mentally ill wealthy-class knaves tell them to do; just like they did during the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie has now entered the phase known as, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
Bernie is MORE concerned with the quality of life his family will have when he dies.
Bernie is LESS concerned with the quality of life for the working-class.
Bernie is ONLY concerned with his own family-unit minority
Bernie is NOT concerned about the working-class majority.
Bernie is the perfect example of why any effective leader(s) on the left-wing will have to be someone(s) without family -- it's too easy for the wealthy-class right-wingers to corrupt left-wingers who have families, and Bernie is a prime example.
Bernie has exchanged his working-class principles to secure a wealthy-class standard of living for his family after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the anti-wealthy-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given up on the pro-working-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the anti-working-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the pro-wealthy-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given up.
It's only surprising/upsetting if one doesn't know the facts, or rhyming-nature, of history.
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No, Fain should NOT be President. Hopefully he's smart enough to know that -- it seems like he's smart enough to know that, unlike many working-class Americans. Fain COULD be good on the NLRB, or as the Secretary of Labor, but he would need to receive significant education before obtaining either of those two positions, let alone the Presidency.
A person in the Office of the President can ONLY make meaningful changes if that person understands how to wield the power of the Executive Branch (and even if a person knows how to do so, they still may not be able to make any changes, depending on the caliber of their opposition at the time).
As such, the Office of the President should be occupied by someone who understands the government & governing (Nixon, Ford, Reagan, & Bush Jr. didn't even fully understand, and Trump REALLY didn't understand, and look where they all got us).
So, Fain should NOT be President unless he quits the UAW and commits a significant amount of time(years) to the study of government & governing. Anything less would be irresponsible on his part -- and unacceptable to intelligent people -- and it would be irresponsible/ignorant on the part of the citizens to vote for him if he didn't commit to such study.
If one has a neurological-issue, one doesn't call a proctologist -- we don't need poopy-fingers meddling around in the central-nervous-system of government where they aren't qualified.
And, by the same token, if one has a governing-issue, one doesn't call an electrician -- Fain's education is as an electrician, not in government and/or governing.
If Fain were to be elected POTUS, without receiving a significant amount of education, he would just get steam-rolled by the nefarious wealthy-class people who are already in the orbit of the White House, who know how to use the government to delay, deteriorate, diminish, distract, or divert a POTUS's ability to govern.
That's what happened to Obama -- he got steam-rolled by nefarious wealthy-class people -- and Obama was smarter than Fain when it comes to government & governing. And the same steamrolling happened to Trump, but on a different level(he just laid down for the wealthy-class).
Fain wouldn't likely be a good POTUS, but he COULD be a great addition to the Administration of a President who knew how to use the Executive Branch of government to govern.
I understand the enthusiasm -- I really do, and I want to be enthusiastic, too. But I don't vote for either of the evil candidates that are propped up by the wealthy Repub&Dem RW-uniparty, and won't vote for a capable-electrician to be an incapable-POTUS.
Edit: Would I be impressed & hopeful if Fain was elected POTUS? I would. But that doesn't mean I'd vote for him.
As a member of the working-class, and of the precariat, I see nearly zero-chance that Fain as POTUS could improve my life or the lives of the working-class in-general.
Fain is just no match for the constant & consistent assault by the wealthy-corrupt Repubs&Dems, with their corrupt RW-politics -- their current-assault has been ongoing since FDR died, and it's been in overdrive since the RW SCOTUS decision In the Buckley v. Valeo case from 1976.
And the wealthy-class/RWers won't stop their assault on the working-class until they are brought to heel and liberated from their addictions.
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@andynonymous2164 "Governing" a labor-union is to governing a country as operating a lemonade stand is to operating a multinational corporation. I've run a lemonade stand, and I've worked for multinational corporations (and, I've been involved in local government) -- they are BARELY comparable.
We don't need non-politicians in government -- we need non-corrupt politicians in government. Easier said than done, sure. But working-class people need to start training uncorrupted children, and protecting those children from corruption, to prepare those children to become the adults who take-over of government in the name of the populace-majority of the working-class, to drive-out the populace-minority of the wealthy-class.
And as it stands, now, it wouldn't matter how many union-members decided to vote for Fain, because even if he were to get elected, he does NOT know the government or how to wield its power.
There are literally 50-100 years worth of anti-working-class legislation in place that one would have to comprehend.
And even if an intelligent POTUS does comprehend that legislation, they may not be able to do ANYTHING to combat that legislation -- ESPECIALLY with a congress that is dominated by corrupt, wealthy-class millionaires who are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the corrupt, wealthy-class billionaires who own BOTH of the Repub & Dem party-apparatuses AND the media-industrial-complex with which they would run unlimited anti-Fain propaganda, just like they run anti-working-class propaganda.
In addition to the anti-working-class propaganda, the wealthy-class owners of the media-industrial-complex would run unlimited advertising for the opposite party that Fain decided to run in.
If Fain ran as a Repub, then they would prop up the Dem, and if he ran as Dem, they would prop up the Repub -- and if he ran as an Independent, they would do him dirty like they did Bernie. And the working-class dupes who fall for the fabricated "red-versus-blue" theatrics would eat it up like pigs in a wallow, just like they always do.
And all of that goes without saying anything of the corrupted SCOTUS who would block anything that an inadequate Fain-administration could muster.
Fain being the president of a labor-union in a single-industry is more akin to being the president of the student-counsel in a high-school than it is to being the president of a country' government.
And, in the same way that neither Oprah, The Rock, nor McConaughey know how to govern a country, NEITHER does Fain.
But the same thing would happen to them that would happen to Fain:
He. Would. Get. Steamrolled. (Although Oprah, The Rock, and McConaughey would lay down more easily for the wealthy-class, because they are members of the wealthy-class.)
I'm not trying to sell you on anything -- I'm not a wealthy-class knave.
I'm just telling you how ignorant and shortsighted you are -- you can take the critique or not.
I couldn't care much less how you take it -- I've got enough to to worry about.
And all my worries, as a member of the precariat, are because of corrupt, wealthy-RWers and their corrupt RW-politics -- and no amount of voting for RW-extremist Repubs or moderate-RW Dems has made it any better.
I've been homeless in the past, and I fully expect to be homeless again, quite literally any day. And THEY have already increased their criminalization of homelessness.
So, I've already begun to mentally-prepare myself to be put into a camp or a cage -- Repubs & Dems aren't going to prevent that.
And neither is Fain.
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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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TYT has ALWAYS supported this anti-corruption message/policy. And supporting good & decent majoritarian messages/policies does NOT require supporting bad & indecent people who mostly support minoritarian messaged/policies. So, if you're suggesting that we should support the message AND the messenger, then I have to wonder if your comment is coming from the position of a fool or a knave.
Gaetz is a knave who is acting like he agrees with the anti-corruption position of the working-class majority. He is acting like doesn't support corruption, even though he has actively supported, and absolutely benefitted from, corruption.
Gaetz is an unashamed member of the wealthy-class minority, and the wealthy-class is pro-corruption. Corruption is how he and they stay wealthy. And wealth is how he/they remain the minoritarian-rulers of society.
Right-wing politics are anti-working-class politics.
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class politics.
I DO NOT support the anti-working-class and anti-majority-rule inherent in right-wing politics. Gaetz does.
I DO support the pro-working-class & pro-majority-rule inherent in left-wing politics. Gaetz does not.
I won't vote for the lesser of two evils -- I won't vote for any evils. I won't vote for any evil right-wing Repubocrats or evil right-wing Demlicans. Both parties, including Gaetz, are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by evil right-wingers from the wealthy-class. They want to enslave the working-class while doing as little labor as humanly possible, just like the evil, right-wing Confederates and evil, right-wing Nazis.
Gaetz and most American politicians, and their campaign donors are evil, wealthy right-wingers. They are evil liars, thieves, and cheaters who initiate, incite, instigate, and inspire the worst working-class fools into committing evil violence, murder, and genocide.
Gaetz, and the rest of the wealthy-right-wingers deserve punishment, not praise, for their culpability in international war crimes, and for their aiding and abetting of international and domestic terrorists.
There are hundreds-to-thousands of evil, wealthy, right-wing knaves in positions of power in the U.S.
There are thousands-to-millions of evil, yet not-so-wealthy, right-wing knaves in positions that support the wealthy, right-wing knaves in the U.S.
And there are millions and millions of working-class fools who vote to uphold the evil, wealthy, right-wing knaves.
If wealthy right-wingers, like Gaetz, were treated in the same way that they've treated other working-class people, across the country and around the world, then those wealthy right-wingers would all be in torturous, for-profit concrete cages, or in wooden boxes.
At the very least, in a fair world, the corrupt and violent right-wing knaves from the wealthy-class, along with the corrupt and violent working-class fools who voted for them, would all be in a place where they can be monitored.
Again, Gaetz is simply a knave. He is acting like he cares about corruption, when, in reality, he has been an accomplice to, and beneficiary of, the corruption. And he has the voting & financial records to prove it.
And, so, if your original comment is a suggestion that TYT, and I, should support the message AND the messenger, then I have to disagree.
And, again, if that is indeed what you are suggesting, then I have to wonder whether you're a knave, like Matt Gaetz, or as a fool who doesn't know any better.
Whether a fool or a knave, neither is anything of which to be proud.
And, if, by chance, I've misunderstood your comment, then, first, let me apologize.
But, second, let this be a number of lessons for you:
1. Write better or write nothing.
2. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
3. Don't waste your/other people's time.
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@rememberruff I'm sorry -- you can't possibly expect to be taken seriously with writing like that. It's nearly unreadable -- missing punctuation, poor sentence structure, no formatting. In fact, I've read elementary schoolers' writing that is better than that. At the very least, learn how to use Shfit+Enter.
As for the politics of it all -- you can barely string together coherent sentences -- you can't possibly begin to comprehend politics in America, let alone the international and historical contexts of politics which have, and do, impact America.
I mean, I LITERALLY addressed your inquiries in my first response. So, either you didn't read what I wrote, or you read it and didn't comprehend it, which would make sense, because people who can't write well tend not to be able to read well.
So, I'll try again.
RIGHT-WINGERS ARE LIARS.
WEALTHY PEOPLE ARE LIARS!
MATT GAETZ IS A WEALTHY RIGHT-WING LIAR!
TRUMP IS A WEALTHY RIGHT-WING LIAR!
REPUBLIC POLITICIANS ARE WEALTHY RIGHT-WING LIARS!
MOST DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS ARE RIGHT-WING LIARS!
REPUB AND DEM POLITICIANS ARE FUNDED BY WEALTHY RIGHT-WING LIARS.
RIGHT-WINGERS ARE LIARS.
And Sanders isn't a right-winger.
So Sanders doesn't want or need corrupt, corporate money, because he doesn't vote with corporations. And he doesn't vote with corporations because he knows that they are owned by corrupt, wealthy right-wingers. And he also knows that the world's problems are perpetuated because of wealthy right-wingers and their right-winger politics. Sanders isn't running some ruse.
Sanders is genuine about being anti-corruption, anti-wealthy, anti-corporate-money, and anti-right-wing.
Trump and Gaetz are NOT genuine, because they ARE right-wingers who vote for and with corporations and the wealthy.
Gaetz doesn't need corporate money to win his district, but his Repub colleagues DO need corporate money to win their districts. Gaetz's district is DEEP RED, and has been for a LONG time. ANY Repub would win that district without corporate money.
But Gaetz VOTES WITH AND FOR corporations anyway. So the wealthy-right-wingers in Congressional Leadership, and the wealthy-right-wing Campaign Donors who own corporations, ALLOW Gaetz to speak out against corruption to trick working-class MORONS.
And, then, the working-class MORONS believe that right-wingers are against corruption, just because corrupt Matt Getz says so, even though right-wingers are doing corruption in plain-sight.
THEY'RE RUNNING A RUSE!!!
Trump doesn't need corporate money to run a campaign, but he gets it anyway. He also grifts millions of dollars by lying to working-class MORONS who wouldn't know a lie if it crawled up their urethra. So, Trump speaks against wealthy-right-wing corruption, while doing wealthy-right-wing corruption in plain-sight, and working-class MORONS donate money to him.
But working-class MORONS can't even comprehend what corruption is. They don't even recognize Trump, Gaetz, and the right-wing's corruption, even though right-wingers are doing the corruption in plain-sight. Those working-class MORONS believe Trump's lies, AND then they give him money to lie to them.
THEY'RE RUNNING A RUSE!!!
Actions speak louder than words. And Gaetz, Trump, AND Biden have all acted -- they have ALL VOTED with the wealthy, for corporations, in favor of right-wing corruption.
They VOTED. They ACTED. And ACTIONS speak louder than words.
JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE SAYS THEY AREN'T CORRUPT, THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT F*KCIN' TRUE. THEY HAVE VOTED FOR CORRUPTION, AND IT'S ON RECORD. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THEY FUCKIN' SAY!
THEY'RE RUNNING A RUSE!!!
AND IT'S WORKING ON YOU!!!
You can work with those evil scumbags if you want to. But that would just be another point of proof, like your writing, that you're a F*KCIN' MORON.
Again, I'm sorry.
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@Independent365 Of course Capitalism is a RW-system -- RW-systems ALL entail a populace-minority (commonly known as the wealthy-class) dominating, subjugating, and ruling over a populace-majority (commonly known as the working-class) -- just like slavery.
Below, I'll list some of the vocabulary & nomenclature, for you to learn, using the following formula:
RW-System Title = Wealthy-Class Label vs. Working-Class Label.
Slavery = Masters vs. Slaves
Monarchism = Royals vs. Subjects
Feudalism = Lords vs. Serfs
Capitalism = Employers vs. Employees
In the following RW-systems, the labels for the Wealthy & Workers are either [a]not yet developed/common, or [b]unknown to me:
Corporatism = CEOs & Executives vs. Workers
Fascism = Dictators vs. Workers
Oligarchy = Wealthy vs. Workers
Empire = In the Roman Empire, the Wealthy-Class were called Patricians and the Working-Class were known as Plebeians.
Plutocracy = Wealthy vs. Workers
Aristocracy = Wealthy vs. Workers
Mercantilism = Wealthy vs. Workers (I believe they had specific titles, but I don't recall at the moment).
Here are some other RW-systems in which a minority rules over the majority, but the minority is not necessarily comprised of the wealthy-class:
Republicanism (In the case of the US and most of the Republics in the world today, they operate under Capitalism, Corporatism, & Fascism -- thus, they are controlled by the Wealthy-class)
Kakistocracy
Nepotism
Caste (The Wealthy-Class in India ruled/rules over the Working-Class)
Apartheid (In the past, the Wealthy-Class Europeans ruled over Working-Class South Africans -- in the present, the Wealthy-Class European-Israelis rule over the Working-Class Palestinians)
So, again, of course Capitalism is a RW-system.
There's your free lesson for the day, without a single insult to your intelligence, or lack thereof 😊
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The Nashville shooter was prompted by the same things that prompted the citizens/soldiers of the Union & Allied countries/militaries.
They were all prompted by:
(1)The ignorant bigotry and preemptive violence which were perpetrated and perpetuated by lazy, knavish, white-supremacist, wealthy-right-wing, Confederate & Nazi genocidal enslavers.
(2) The ignorant bigotry and preemptive violence which were perpetrated and perpetuated by the working-class dupes who supported the lazy, knavish, white-supremacist, wealthy-right-wing, Confederate & Nazi genocidal enslavers.
(3) The ignorant bigotry and preemptive violence which were perpetrated and perpetuated by lazy, knavish, white-supremacist, genocidal enslavers who are primarily cisgendered heterosexual males from the wealthy-class and the working-class.
The Nashville shooter, along with the Allied & Union citizen-soldiers, acted in self-defense from and vengeance against numbers 1, 2, and 3 above.
The Nashville shooter and the Allied & Union citizen-soldiers were working toward the construction of a better world, free of the bigotry, violence, enslavement, and genocide that has been perpetrated and perpetuated by lazy, knavish, white-supremacist, cis-gendered, heterosexual, male right-wingers from the wealthy-class, and free of the working-class dupes who support the wealthy-class right-wing.
I'm sorry that the working-class dupes in your life failed to demand a proper education for you, and foolishly gave you over to the propagandist indoctrination which was fed to them by the lazy, knavish, white-supremacist, genocidal, enslaving, wealthy right-wingers.
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Yup. Their MO is to hate their neighbors until their neighbors convert. And if the neighbors don't convert fast enough, then force the neighbors into labor until they convert. And if their neighbors still don't convert fast enough, and if they don't accept their forced labor, then make the neighbors un@l!ve. That is the way of (the anti)Christ(s).
All snide remarks aside: I'm a Christian, and I don't want my religion, your religion, or ANY religion, taught in schools with my dollars, your dollars, or anyone else's dollars.
My God doesn't need me to force Him upon you, in order for Him to carry out His will.
And if anyone says that their God told them to force said God upon you, then run for your freaking lives.
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@dannywindham3295 -- Correct.
The directive for the government to spend money comes from Congress, and the Executive Branch carries out that directive.
The money, which the Legislature directs the Executive to spend, doesn't have to come directly, nor strictly, from taxation. The money, which the Legislature directs the Executive to spend, can be newly-printed.
In our ever-increasing state of technocracy, the money can be created, and then digitally deposited into bank accounts, by a few strokes of a keyboard.
The first part has been this way for centuries, the second part for scores, and the last part for decades.
As for the original comment; sure, trees do have something to do with all of this. But the people who usually spout the kind of foolishness in the original comment are the kinds of people who have no problems with deregulating the capitalists who utilize trees for profit-making endeavors, nor do they tend to care about science, logic, reason, the less-fortunate in society -- I could go on, but you get the idea.
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@dannywindham3295 -- Sir, I don't mean to be snide, but I agreed with you. I mean, I literally wrote "correct" in regards to what you said.
Maybe you didn't accurately read what I wrote, or maybe I didn't communicate it well, but some of the things I wrote are basic tenets of MMT. I'll reiterate those things below.
1. Government expenditures do not need to come from taxation -- not directly, nor explicitly.
2. The physical money used for government expenditures can be printed by the Dept. of Treasury or released into circulation by the Federal Reserve.
3. The electronic money used for government expenditures can be created by simply increasing the amount of money in government bank accounts by using a keyboard at the Federal Reserve or the Dept. of Treasury.
3a. The electronically-created money can be electronically transferred from government bank accounts directly into the bank accounts of businesses or citizens, which immediately puts the money from government expenditures into the economy.
Disclosure: I am not an expert in economics, but I did study economics extensively at University.
Lastly, my advice to anyone else who reads this would be the following: Go to the Youtube search bar and search for lectures and interviews by Stephanie Kelton for more, better information on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT).
Also, I would recommend searching for interviews and lectures by Michael Hudson for more information on restorative economics, economic equality, and economic justice.
Good day to all.
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I come to Thom's videos for a neoliberal perspective, which is a moderate conservative perspective. Aside from Richard Wolff's working-class point of view, neoliberal-conservatism is the best you can expect from Thom's show.
Thom, and many of his guests, still toot the horn of the Democrat party, which has become the left-leaning arm of the Republic party.
Thom, and many of his guests, seem to believe that meaningful "reform" can happen through the Democrat party, even though the Democrat party is corrupted by the funding from the same wealthy-class which funds the Republic party.
Just as the wealthy-class promoting Republic party cannot rid itself of the many racist, misogynist, compassionless, nihilistic, supremacist voters, many Democrat party voters cannot rid themselves of the wealthy-class promoting Democrat party. They are married to it, acting as if the relationship were to end it would reflect poorly on themselves within society. They tow the party-line because of how they feel they will be perceived, rather than ending the relationship for the toxicity it breeds in their lives.
There is no viable leftist, employee-labor, or lower-class political party in America. There are two economically right-wing, socially-authoritarian, anti-small business, pro-corporate, anti-worker, pro-employers, anti-poor, pro-wealthy-class, extremist political parties.
Lastly, these short-form interviews do a disservice to the American citizens who are duped into wasting their time by following Thom. Especially when those citizens could be following much more substantive channels and better pundits.
Thom is as equally as bad at messaging as the Democrat party leadership, but the Democrat party leadership is paid to be bad at it. They are paid-opposition, funded by the wealthy-class. The question is, rhetorically, if Thom is bad at it on accident, or on purpose.
My advice, for what little worth it may have, is to stop wasting your time here.
Good day.
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@ThomasPaineintheArse 'Coercion.'
Oooh! You mean 'regulation.' 💡
You working-class dupes -- the ones who support the farther right-wing party of America's wealthy-class controlled, political-monopoly masquerading as a duopoly -- conflate reasonable protective-regulation as evil-coercion.
You've been coerced by unregulated wealthy-class propaganda.
That propaganda has rendered you too ignorant to comprehend how deregulation disproportionately benefits the wealthy-class minority who tout individualism to the detriment of the working-class majority and working-class communities.
While you duped, working-class fools repeat the wealthy-class propaganda of individualism, that same wealthy-class is working in unison behind closed doors to keep you stupid, on purpose.
The wealthy-class has built systems to dupe fools like you into acting as the buffer between the wealthy-class conspirators and the more intelligent working-class people who have figured out the wealthy-class ruse.
The wealthy-class is working together to maintain the deregulated mob-rule of their wealthy economic-minority. Meanwhile, you working-class dupes vote against your own best interest while spewing the wealthy-class propagandist lines of 'coercion' and 'individualism.'
Your rhetoric alone, mixed with your threats of violence, murder, and genocide, are all detriments to the democratic-rule of the working-class economic-majority.
The worst of you working-class dupes want no regulations at all, no government at all, so that when your fee-fees get hurt, there will be no laws to prevent you from retaliating however you wish.
You simply want to eliminate regulations in exchange for your freedom to murder people with whom you disagree.
Rather than enact regulations to prevent a corporation owned by wealthy-class individuals from harming a community, you want the freedom for the wealthy-class individual-owners of the corporation to do whatever they want.
Rather than prevent wealthy-class owners from harming working-class communities, you want the freedom for the duped-individualists within the working-class communities to storm the corporation, drag the working-class people who work for the wealthy-class corporation into the street, and murder them.
The dumbest of you want to order mega-large-giant-soda-penis-replacement, and if you don't get it, the working-class soda-clerk gets one between the eyes.
Rather than having regulations to prevent obesity and its resource-draining outcomes on the community, you want the freedom to put undue stress on the community and drain its resources. You want the freedom to storm the offices of medical-professionals who want to prevent obesity.
Granted, the worst medical-professionals are members and supporters of the wealthy-class who love the deregulation of the food industry.
The wealthy-class loves obesity and the profits they make from it off the fat-backs of a duped working-class.
The wealthy-class sugar-lobby and other shite-food producers love that deregulation and the coercion it allows them to perpetrate on working-class communities, all because of a bunch of duped working-class rubes.
I could go on.
But you're a moron.
You want nothing less than to replace democratically-decided 'protective guiding-regulation' with mob-rule 'selective coercive-deregulation'
Your stupidity does nothing less than regress into the depths of the caves once inhabited by Denisovans and neanderthals. 🐒
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Schultz's willingness to oppress working-class people (like Nazis did), is as disgusting as the African-Americans who are willing to oppress working-class people in their communities (like slave-patrollers did).
Schultz is a descendant of the oppressed, working-class, Jewish victims of the enslavement and genocide perpetrated against them by Nazis. People like Schultz enslaved and murdered his ancestors.
African-American LEOs are the descendants of the oppressed, working-class, African victims of enslavement and genocide perpetrated against them by Confederate, American and European slave-patrollers. People like African-American LEOs enslaved and murdered their ancestors.
The phrase, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," comes to mind.
Schultz is a perfect example of the phrase, "If you can't beat the Nazis, join the Nazis."
African-American LEOs are perfect examples of the phrase, "If you can't beat the slave-patrollers, then join the slave-patrollers."
If I was a proponent of hyperbole, I might say something like:
"The murdered ancestors of Schultz and African-American LEOs are rolling over so fast in their graves, I'm surprised the Earth hasn't spun off its own axis and flung itself out of orbit."
But I'm not hyperbolic -- hyperbole is part of the propagandist tool-chest used by wealthy-class right-wingers -- and I'm not a wealthy-class right-winger.
So, instead, I'll say something like:
"Schultz acts like he's trying to help the Nazis win the war, over a hundred years later. And African-American LEOs act like they're trying to help the Confederates win the war, over 150 years later.
But one thing is certain, and that is that both Schultz and African-American LEOs are acting to help right-wing Conservatives to conserve their white-supremacist power under the inequitable system of Capitalism.
F*kc 'em all.
And f*kc anyone who disagrees."
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You joined YouTube less than a week ago -- you're either a fool or a knave. Cenk CONSTANTLY professes his atheism AND his Muslim-upbringing at the same time. Why does he do that? Easy answer: Because people like you exist.
Sometimes he mentions his atheism first and his Muslim-background second, and sometimes he mentions them in reverse order, depending on which is most pertinent to the story/issue to which he is bringing his POV. But, regardless of story/issue, he ALMOST ALWAYS mentions his atheist-present & Muslim-past at the same time, NEARLY every time.
You're either [a]a fool and you don't know what you're talking about, or you're [b]a knave telling lies. And, whether you're a fool or a knave, neither is anything of which to be proud.
Maybe you should go back to doing whatever you were doing before Oct 29, 2024, when you decided it was a good idea to join YouTube and expose your foolish/knavish character in public.
🙄
Edit: Disclaimer: My retort was meant to be an exposure of Tobias, and not a defense of Cenk. I am NOT a Cenk-defender, because Cenk is a moderate-RWer, and I will never defend RW-politics or anyone who promotes RW-politics.
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The current prevalent zeitgeist, which has existed among many peoples throughout most, if not all, of human history, seems to be one of anti-intellectualism, amorality/immorality, and mono-culturalism. Ron is evidently against that zeitgeist, which is, I presume, the reason why people watch him. It seems like you're against some of that, too. People might actually watch/listen to you -- maybe even me -- don't let me discourage you.
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The same reason that working-class dupes volunteer to be cops/soldiers, who then brutalize other working-class citizens: because they're fools who have little-to-nothing to offer a civilized, meritocratic society. So, they volunteer to be vile&violent cops, soldiers, and managers who, knowingly or unknowingly, do the bidding of the vile&violent wealthy right-wingers.
The working-class dupes who volunteer to be vile&violent cops, soldiers, and managers have allegiance to one thing: a paycheck. And the vile&violent wealthy right-wingers, who have corrupted the government, make sure that duped working-class cops, soldiers, and managers get a few extra crumbs in their paychecks than the non-vile&non-violent working-class people.
And by "extra crumbs" I mean "more money than other jobs with allegiance experience and capability requirements."
At every job I ever had as an hourly-wage employee, my direct supervisors/low-level managers made 1.5x to 5x what I was making. And that extra money was/is enough to make desperate working-class people act vile&violently toward innocent working-class people.
I could go on...
Just because a person is a manager, cop, or soldier, that doesn't mean they should be respected or emulated, and it certainly doesn't mean they should have their jobs.
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@alexricky87 "Most people," especially most American "liberals," are right-wingers. Also, my original comment isn't some sort of science-fiction. Parthenogenesis: Look it up.
As for "liberals" -- there are different categories when it comes to politics, for example, "economic politics" and "social politics."
There a right-wing economic politics and right-wing social politics.
And in contrast...
There are left-wing economic politics and left-wing social-politics.
And the word "liberalism" is used now, and has been used throughout history, to describe economic politics AND social politics.
There is the phrase "economic liberalism."
AND
There is the phrase "social-liberalism."
The word, "liberalism," as an adjective, does not mean the same thing when it is used to describe our economic policies versus social policies.
"Liberalism," as applied to economic policies, basically means, "leave the market alone" and "let the market do what the market does." (Which is absurd, because the market is intangible and not a living being -- the market is made up by the people who interact with each other. But that's another story for another day.)
Right-wingers want this kind of economic liberalism. Right-wingers want the liberal-freedom to use "the market" as freely as they can, to exploit and manipulate people, and to hoard and pillage resources.
Left-wingers don't want that kind of economic liberalism. Left-wingers want regulations on the market to keep it fair for everyone, and right-wingers don't want economic fairness.
ECONOMIC LIBERALISM IS BAD.
And in contrast...
"Liberalism," as applied to social policies, basically means, "leave the people alone" and "let the people live the way that the people live."
Left-wingers want this kind of social-liberalism. Left-wingers want all people, of all religions, races, sexes, genders, and cultures, to live how they want to live, without exploiting others or being exploited themselves, without manipulating others or being manipulated themselves, and without hoarding or pillaging.
Right-wingers don't want that kind of social liberalism. Right-wingers want to put regulations on people's personal religions, races, sexes, genders, and cultures. Right-wingers want the freedom to manipulate and exploit certain groups of people, while simultaneously hoarding and pillaging from those certain groups of people.
Right-wingers don't want social fairness, just like they don't want economic fairness.
SOCIAL LIBERALISM IS GOOD.
But therein lies the trick: social liberalism versus economic liberalism.
The conservative right-wingers in the wealthy-class are trying to conserve the right-wing economic ideology of "economic liberalism." They do NOT want the left-wing social ideology of "social liberalism."
The wealthy-class conservative right-wingers use social politics as a wedge to divide the working-class.
The wealthy-class conservative right-wingers use social politics as a tool to scare the dumbest working-class right-wingers.
Then, the wealthy-class conservative right-wingers turn those dumb working-class right-wingers into culture-war soldiers, and, eventually, literal-war soldiers. (And those dumb working-class right-wingers have been falling for the ruse since the invention of currency. But that's a story for another day.)
The working-class American fools are too dumb to even comprehend the right-wing ideology of "economic liberalism" versus the left-wing social ideology of "social liberalism." And the wealthy-class American knaves rely on the ignorance of the working-class American fools.
The working-class American fools believe whatever the right-wing Red Party and right-wing Blue party tells them to believe. As was proven by the 150 million working-class American fools voted for right-winger Biden and right-winger Trump in the last election.
And, so, if the working-class right-wing American fools (which apparently includes you) can't comprehend something as factually concrete as parthenogenesis, then it's not at all surprising to me that the right-wingers (which apparently includes you) can't comprehend the nuance of economic-versus-social political concepts of "liberalism," and how they affect your lives.
My point is this:
F*kc the right-wingers -- From the American Red-team right-wingers to the American Blue-team right-wingers
From the wealthy-class right-wing knaves to the working-class right-wing fools -- F*kc ALL the right-wingers.
Neither my original comment, nor my reply here, are anything but factual. And any idiotic right-winger who disagrees, including you, can go "parthenogenesize" themself. (That was a jokey way of saying "go f*kc yourself.")
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I'm a Christian. Most Christians suck. I dated a Muslim. Most Muslim's suck.
Most of the Christians & Muslims who I know in my personal life, want to create an authoritarian world, dominated by the most vile&violent authoritarians of their religions, all at the expense of other religions and atheists.
It's already bad enough that the wealthy right-wing Muslims and the wealthy right-wing Christians have teamed up with the wealthy right-wing atheists, behind the scenes, to create an authoritarian world, dominated by the most vile&violent wealthy right-wingers, all in the name of Mammon, and at the expense of anti-right-wing/anti-Mammon Christians, Muslims, and atheists.
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Oohh...😊 Not nearly enough of them.🙄
They keep voting for two parties that espouse the same RW-economic-politics.
Vote RW-extremist Repubs, for the fast open-road from capitalism to fascism.
Vote moderate-RW Dems, for the slower disguised-road from capitalism to fascism.
Both the Repub&Dem parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by corrupt wealthy-class-RWers and their corrupt RW-politics.
Working-class Americans will sleep on each other before they put the wealthy-class to bed.
Just like the wealthy-class lifestyle addicts, most working-class Americans are too addicted to their own lifestyles.
Most working-class Americans won't make any sort of material-sacrifices to their own quality of life in order to help increase the quality of life for the least-fortunate members of the working-class.
America has gotten too big for its breeches/britches -- just like the Romans, the Confederates, the NatCs, and so many others did in the past -- and it's all because of (a)the corrupt wealthy-class addicts and their corrupt RW-politics, and (b)the working-class dupes, drones, and deniers who aid and abet the wealthy-class addicts.
I could go on.
But, to answer your question:
Some have woken up, but it won't be enough to ward off the demise of their country as they know it.
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This is why the voting-age should be periodically adjusted, to account for the deficiencies of a generation that have been bred by wealthy-class, right-wing, fascist extremists and the propaganda they produce to confuse child-brains.
Those child-brains have obviously never heard, or they are incapable of comprehending, the history of the Republic-party over the past 100 years.
I say raise the voting age to 25 for the foreseeable future -- the average age when the consensus of medical professionals agree that the nervous system and the brain are mostly finished developing.
That will give the adults in the room/communities some time to remove the wealthy-class, right-wing, fascist extremists from their addictions and positions of power, without being hampered by the electoral-sabotage committed by child-brains who have been duped into becoming soldiers by and for those wealthy-class, right-wing, fascist extremists.
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Your statement is exactly the kind of evidence needed to justify why undeveloped child-brains shouldn't be able to run for the elected-offices which create the policies affecting people's lives.
Couple your ignorant statement with all of the other evidence presented by the Madison-Cawthorn's of the world and a strong case is made as to why people shouldn't be able to hold elected-office until at least 25 years old, and probably shouldn't be until 30-years-old.
As a 19-year-old yourself, your job should be to keep your body as healthy as possible to promote healthy brain development, thus increasing your learning capacity. Thus enriching your abilities to observe, report, reflect, reason, and react, not only in local contexts but international contexts, not only in present contexts but historical contexts, as well.
No substance consumption or abuse.
No owning high-powered or high-capacity firearms.
No operating vehicles over a given size.
And probably a plethora of other restrictions that could be set to preserve human-life and mitigate natural-resources.
This means no holding positions of power or authority over anyone.
No making decisions that affect the lives of the more-vulnerable and least-fortunate.
This means no holding national-offices before 30 years old, after the brain has reached its stage of peak development.
If local municipalities want to entrust their communities to the under-developed child-brains, then that could be decided by the adult-brains in a given municipality.
But, if the larger-constituencies at the state or federal level have to come in and save local municipalities because the adult-brains let the child-brains screw everything up, then those local municipalities shall revert to the standard of adult-brains being responsible for holding positions of elected-office.
I'm not ageist, nor am I ableist, racist, or sexist -- I have zero problem electing people younger or more disabled than I am, nor people of a different race, sex, or gender than I.
But I absolutely DO have a problem being governed by underdeveloped child-brains.
This country has been screwed up since its inception, and it is because of the underdeveloped child-brains of wealthy-class addicts who funded the exploration, raping, pillaging, and genocide on this land.
The wealthy-class addicts who funded these atrocities in the past are the same wealthy-class who control America in the present.
The corrupt wealthy-class that has controlled governments throughout history is the same wealthy-class that controls America in the present.
The working-class people of America and the world are already screwed up enough, and it is because of the child-brains.
The child-brained addicts of the wealthy-class minority have co-opted the child-brained, working-class dupes into voting for two right-wing political parties that are both bought, owned, funded, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class.
Whether a person is 19-years old or 100-year-old, anyone in the working-class who claims loyalty to either of those two wealthy-class political parties is a dupe who enables the oppression of themselves, their friends, families, neighbors, and communities.
At 19, you're less likely and able to comprehend these things.
At 19, you're more susceptible to being duped and co-opted into assisting the wealthy-class.
I'm not voting for that.
At 19, the best thing you can do, if you're really interested in the policies that affect people's lives, is to educate yourself on the international and historical contexts of socioeconomic struggle, oppression, and liberation.
It is going to take a LONG time to undo the propagandist-indoctrination of the working-class that has been perpetuated by the wealthy-class.
It is going to take a LONG time to sober up the working-class people who strive to be like the wealthy-class addicts.
It is going to take a LONG time to teach and ingrain the class-consciousness and working-class solidarity that exists in other, better parts of the world.
Your job is to learn about these things.
But for the love of majority-rule and democracy, STOP blaming your fellow working-class mates from the previous generation who have been rendered incapable of noticing their own oppression and unable to identify the wealthy-class causes of that oppression.
Your working-class mates are under the control of the same wealthy-class addicts and addictions as you are.
STOP kicking-down and elbowing side-to-side at the working-class people who are most like you.
START punching up.
There are COUNTLESS working-class champions from previous generations who are already punching up, and have been doing so since before you were a couple of gametes.
Just because you don't know about those champions from previous generations who are already punching up, that doesn't equate to everything being left up to your generation.
You not knowing about those champions from previous generations who are already punching up makes you ignorant
The ignorance that accompanies your child-brain is why you shouldn't be able to hold elected-office.
But I love that you care.
I'm getting to be an old man.
I know what happens to the working-class when they have no class-consciousness or class-solidarity.
It's happening in America right before our eyes, with the most modern case-study beginning in the Roaring 1920s right up until today.
I know about the Red-Scare and Red-Lining. I'm getting to the point where I won't be able to run from future iterations of those things. History doesn't repeat itself (that's physically impossible), but history rhymes, and is cyclical.
If something isn't done to stop the wealthy-class, America is destined for similar fates to The Roman Empire and The Third Reich. But before those wealthy-class debacles were defeated, the working-class suffered, and the most-vulnerable and least-fortunate suffered the most.
I'm not voting for anyone who doesn't understand these things.
I would rather vote for no one and accept my fate than vote for the ignorant or the impressionable who can be co-opted into sealing my fate.
As I said, I love that you care. But so do I care. You're not alone.
I care about you and about other strangers too -- particularly the most-vulnerable and the least-fortunate.
I promise, my intent isn't to discourse but to encourage and edify you.
If you made it this far, I commend you.
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I cry for every working-class dupe who has been tricked into volunteering to commit atrocities against other working-class strangers abroad, all for the benefit of the corrupt, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics.
Soldiers&cops serve a couple-few purposes:
1. Serve the interests of the wealthy-class.
2. Protect the property wealthy-class.
3. Generate profits for the wealthy-class.
4. Regulate, subjugate, brutalize, & terrorize other working-class people.
I cry that the wealthy-class is intentionally, purposely & purposefully trying to create more working-class dupes who will be dumb enough to volunteer to commit more atrocities against more working-class strangers.
If working-class dupes weren't so ignorant, then the wealthy-class knaves wouldn't make another penny in profit from war.
And if there weren't so many working-class dupes, then maybe the smarter working-class people could do something about the corrupt, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics.
But, noOOOoo.
There are too many working-class dupes who suffer from the same lifestyle-addictions, sociopathy, psychopathy, & narcissistim as the wealthy-class knaves, and those working-class dupes act as the human-buffers between the wealthy-class knaves & the smarter working-class people.
The world could be a better place if it weren't for [a]the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics, and [b]the indecent, working-class dupes who support he indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics.
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Capitalism IS corruption, just like ALL systems of RW-politics. Monarchism, Feudalism, Mercantilism, Republicanism, Corporatism, Fascism, Slavery, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Kleptocracy, Kakistocracy -- ALL of RW-politics are systematized corruption.
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@adrianalicea6704 The only thing that working-class right-wingers hate about tech-companies is that the tech-companies are owned by the wealthy-class (which is composed of right-wingers, but working-class right-wingers are too dumb to comprehend that).
The only thing that working-class right-wingers hate about the wealthy-class is that they aren't in the wealthy-class, too.
The only thing wealthy-right-wingers hate about tech-companies is that they don't control enough tech, or enough companies, or a big enough company to control all tech.
The only thing wealthy-right-wingers hate about working-class right-wingers is that the working-class right-wingers are TOO dumb to follow directions as specifically as the wealthy right-wing masters would like to give them.
But that's okay if the working-class right-wingers are stupid; the wealthy-right-wingers just produce more indoctrinating-propaganda, utilizing dog-whistles that are more obvious, and the working-class dupes come running to be commanded by their wealthy-right-wing masters.
Edit: Working-class right-wingers may claim to hate tech-companies, but, really, they hate that they aren't in charge of it. And wealthy-class right-wingers don't hate tech-companies at all -- after all, tech-companies help make wealthy-right-wingers even more wealthy.
And, despite their child-like cries against tech-companies and the wealthy-class, the duped working-class right-wingers are the single largest demographic of enablers who assist the wealthy-right-wingers in maintaining control over the environment and humanity.
The working-class right-wing dupes help to perpetuate the very right-wing-capitalist system which creates the maladies they claim to despise.
Working-class right-wingers are stupid.
Wealthy-class right-wingers need/want them to stay stupid.
Because the wealthy-class knows that stupid working-class people make better slaves.
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The whole American $ystem is corrupted by incestuously nepotistic right-winger$ from the wealthy-cla$$. Krystal and Kyle are BOTH part of the wealthy-cla$$ and, thus, are BOTH right-wingers. Hence, their unwillingness to truthfully and adequately explain the $ystem-corruption for their listeners and viewers.
Right-wing politics = Anti-working-class politics.
Right-wing politics = Pro-wealthy-class politics
Media businesses (Fox, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, PBS & YouTube) are ALL OWNED by wealthy right-wing stockholders.
Politicians (Repubs and Dems) are BRIBED by the SAME wealthy right-wing stockholders who also fund the campaigns of politicians.
Then, those bribed politicians pass laws to benefit the wealthy right-wing minority of business-stockholders and campaign-funders, all at the expense of the working-class majority.
Meanwhile, in this video, Krystal & Kyle (BOTH of whom are wealthy right-wingers), are complaining about ONE wealthy right-winger (Biden), instead of explaining the whole corrupt $ystem in detail for their listeners and viewers.
Krystal sold-out to the right-wing when they embarrassed her by leaking her college photos. And she sold-out even further when she teamed up with right-wing extremist, Saagar 'The saggy-brained Clown' Enjeti. Take notice of how she has toned down her critical rhetoric of corrupt, wealthy right-wingers.
Kyle sold-out to the right-wing when he allowed his subscriber-number dictate the context of his content. And he sold out even further when he succumbed to his mommy-issues and got into bed with right-wing Krystal. Take notice of how Kyle's show has devolved into a soap-opera/gossip-column, rather than the critical, educationally-informative program it once was.
F*kc 'em -- both right-wing Krystal and right-wing Kyle.
F*kc ALL the right-wingers -- the right-wing extremist Repubs and the right-wing moderate Dems.
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@ProSocial Pessimist Harriet, who is well beyond the legal retirement age, has also lived through the same propaganda, but the differences between Harriet and Claire are vast.
Firstly, I would say Harriet has critical thinking skills that Claire does not have. If Claire has fallen victim to the propaganda, then she is a fool who lacks critical thinking skills. If Claire is a knave, then she lacks the critical thinking skills that would be necessary for her to realize how poorly she fulfills the role of a shill, thus making her a fraud.
Secondly, Harriet has an altruistic character while Clair's character is one of egotism. Harriet and Claire have both lived decent standards of living under Capitalism. Claire has been vocal about her above-average standard of living (in other threads), and we can witness Harriet's in some of her videos.
But Claire blames working-class individuals, who have little-to-no power to change their lot in life, for their own troubles and problems. Harriet, on the other hand, speaks the truth about the wealthy-class Capitalists who have the power to alter the system which produces the troubles and problems in other people's lives.
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Right-wing politics are wealthy-class politics, and right-wingers will commit torture, and worse, to maintain their wealthy-class addictions.
Obama governed like a wealthy-class right-winger, just like Pelosi, McConnell, Schumer, McCarthy, Biden, Trump, Bush x2, Clinton x2, and Reagan. They are/were all wealthy-class right-wingers.
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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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Right-wing politics are anti-working-class politics and pro-wealthy-class politics. And corporations are owned by wealthy-class right-wingers. And BOTH American political parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class right-wingers.
The point of the Libertarian party, and the subsequent Tea Party, was to mobilize the right-wing extremist Republicans from the working-class toward anti-working-class/pro-wealthy-class causes.
And the point of the No Labels party is to mobilize the right-wing moderate Democrats in the working-class toward the same anti-working-class/pro-wealthy-class causes.
The wealthy-class right-wingers founded and funded the Libertarian and Tea Parties as a way to trick working-class dupes into voting against their own self-interests.
The wealthy-class right-wingers founded and funded the No Labels Party as a way to trick working-class dupes into voting against their own self-interests.
Not to mention the way the wealthy-class right-wingers have corrupted the Green Party and the DSA, or the way they demonized and murdered non-right-wingers with McCarthyism and The Red Scare.
This new affinity for multi-party politics, as opposed to the normal duopoly-party politics, is just another way that the wealthy-class right-wingers are using their wealth to expand their grasp on power.
Profits don't only go toward an elevated standard of living for the wealthy-class, right-wing owners. Profits also go toward manipulating politics and people, in an effort to maintain the systems of greed that increase profits for wealthy-class right-wingers.
Greed is a mental illness, associated with addiction. And wealthy-class right-wingers will NEVER seek help for their mental illness. And they will NEVER willingly give up their addictions. EVER.
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@Window4503 Sooo, by speaking specifically, directly, and literally, while encouraging others to do the same, you're saying that I'M the one who is mincing words? ...🤨... ...🤔...
That's some blissfully-ignorant or abhorrently-deplorable thinking you've got there. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
With that kind of talk, I can't tell if you're a center-right-wing lib-servative, like the ones who run this channel, or a moderate-right-wing conserva-lib like the ones who run CNN, MSNBC, and FauxNews.
Don't worry, you haven't sunken too far into the right-wing indoctrination(yet) -- I can tell that you're not(yet) a right-wing-extremist regressive-con like the ones who run OAN, NewsMax, and PragerU.
Working-class people need to stop speaking/writing in the style of the right-wing-propagandists.
STOP using hyperbole, misdirection, or vagueness, or vagary.
START using conciseness, directness, specificity, and reality.
Take the title of this video, for example: "Legal Weed Is Being Ruined By Corporate Greed"
Legal weed is NOT being ruined by corporate greed -- that's hyperbolic, at best.
A majority of the citizens decide they wanted something.
And, now, that something is being ruined by a minority of citizens.
The working-class majority made a decision.
And, now, the wealthy-class is going against the decision.
Weed was legalized by a vote of a majority-population of the citizens.
And, now, a minority-population of citizens are trying to exploit the majority-population of citizens.
Now, those might not be a useful video titles, but I could think of a dozen better titles that are more truthful and accurate than the title they decided on.
Working-class dupes like you don't even comprehend what I'm saying, which you made evident with your comment.
Working-class dupes, like you, have been so dumbed-down by right-wing tactics, you don't even realize that you expose your ignorance when you try to communicate.
I soundly and roundly reject your comment.
Go have intercourse with yourself.
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@Window4503 Sooo, by speaking specifically, directly, and literally, while encouraging others to do the same, you're contention is that I'M the one who is mincing words? ...🤨... ...🤔...
That's some blissfully-ignorant or abhorrently-deplorable thinking you've got there. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
With that kind of talk, I can't tell if you're a center-right-wing lib-servative, like the ones who run this channel, or a moderate-right-wing conserva-lib like the ones who run CNN, MSNBC, and FauxNews.
Don't worry, you haven't sunken too far into the right-wing indoctrination(yet) -- I can tell that you're not(yet) a right-wing-extremist regress-servitive like the ones who run OAN, NewsMax, and PragerU.
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You need to stop voting for RWers. Stop voting for the RW-extremist Repubs & moderate-RW Dems. BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics. They created this system, and you working-class dupes continue voting for them.
And voting for the RW-extremist Libertarians or the moderate-RW Greens isn't going to work. BOTH of those parties are ALSO bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the SAME corrupt wealthy-class & the SAME corrupt RW-politics as the RW-extremist Repubs & moderate-RW Dems.
You working-class dupes are so ignorant, you're convinced that writing a comment against something is as useful as your vote, which is what enabled the thing that you're commenting against...
...Complete morons, just like the corrupt wealthy-class designed you to be, with their corrupt RW-politics.
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Schultz's willingness to oppress working-class people (like Nazis did), is as disgusting as the African-Americans who are willing to oppress working-class people in their communities (like slave-patrollers did).
Schultz is a descendant of the oppressed, working-class, Jewish victims of the enslavement and genocide perpetrated against them by Nazis. People like Schultz enslaved and murdered his ancestors.
African-American LEOs are the descendants of the oppressed, working-class, African victims of enslavement and genocide perpetrated against them by Confederate, American and European slave-patrollers. People like African-American LEOs enslaved and murdered their ancestors.
The phrase, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," comes to mind.
Schultz is a perfect example of the phrase, "If you can't beat the Nazis, join the Nazis."
African-American LEOs are perfect examples of the phrase, "If you can't beat the slave-patrollers, then join the slave-patrollers."
If I was a proponent of hyperbole, I might say something like:
"The murdered ancestors of Schultz and African-American LEOs are rolling over so fast in their graves, I'm surprised the Earth hasn't spun off its own axis and flung itself out of orbit."
But I'm not hyperbolic -- hyperbole is part of the propagandist tool-chest used by wealthy-class right-wingers -- and I'm not a wealthy-class right-winger.
So, instead, I'll say something like:
"Schultz acts like he's trying to help the Nazis win the war, over a hundred years later. And African-American LEOs act like they're trying to help the Confederates win the war, over 150 years later.
But one thing is certain, and that is that both Schultz and African-American LEOs are acting to help right-wing Conservatives to conserve their white-supremacist power under the inequitable system of Capitalism.
F*kc 'em all.
And f*kc anyone who disagrees."
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These working-class dupes fell for the RW-propaganda of the wealthy-class that says, "sMaLL gOvErNmEnT gOOd!!!"🤪 These working-class dupes are now living the truthful-consequences of the faux-truth they voted for.
Also, I would bet that most anyone in NC, who is "living in a tent" related to the hurricane, is doing it (a)by choice, and/or (b)for clout, to (c)fuel the misplaced-outrage.
But even if these working-class dupes ARE living in tents against their will, it is important to remember, again, that they voted for their own suffering.
I've had to live in a tent against my will. BUT, I didn't vote for it.
My suffering, and the suffering of MILLIONS of people was caused by (a)the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics, and by (b)the working-class dupes who voted for the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
I have sympathy & empathy for the working-class dupes who are suffering, but most of them voted for their own suffering, and they voted for the suffering of countless other innocent working-class people.
But, just because I have sympathy & empathy for the ignorant, working-class dupes who voted for their own suffering, that doesn't mean I'm going to coddle their ignorance.
Perhaps these working-class dupes, who voted for the "tough love" espoused by RW-politics, need to experience the "tough love" which they have repeatedly voted for.
Keep voting for RW-extremist Repubs & moderate-RW Dems, and this is what you're going to get. BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
Call the wealthy-class knaves. I'm sure they'll help. 🤣
Bunch of working-class dupes in the US. Helpless & hopeless morons. 🙄
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@lynnr9297 That's basically the point -- "what is happening to these poor people could happen to any of us in the future." These dumb poor people are just reaping the consequences of their votes.
MOST of THESE dumb poor people voted for suffering. But THESE dumb poor people did not think they were voting for the suffering of people who look like them -- they thought they were voting for the suffering of OTHER poor people who do NOT look like them.
And, now, the smarter poor people are trying to explain to the dumb poor people that it's ALWAYS a dumb idea to vote for ANYONE'S suffering, because all poor people are susceptible to suffering at the hands of the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
These dumb poor people don't comprehend the Paradox of Tolerance, and smart poor people are giving the dumb poor people their first lesson.
It's not pretty, but it's not surprising. In fact, it's entirely predictable.
And, the next step is, the wealthy-RWers convincing these dumb poor people that their suffering is being caused by other, smarter, innocent poor people, when, in reality, it is the wealthy-class who are the cause of the suffering.
This isn't a new plot-line. This act has been played out by the wealthy-class, repeatedly, for centuries-upon-millennia.
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You sure do use a lot of hyperbole, Lee. By saying that there was "nothing to Russia-gate," you're being just as hyperbolic as the morons who call Russia a "communist" country, when, in reality, it's a capitalist RW-sh!tehole, just like the US, China, and most European Christian and Middle Eastern Muslim countries.
Your hyperbole is akin to that which is utilized by the RW-extremist Repubs, the moderate-RW Dems, and the RW-media outlets, all of which are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
You've been slowly, but consistently, losing my viewership. Not that you'd care about the opinion of an anti-capitalist like me.
After all, it's American&Russian capitalists who have given you the low-labor & high-standard lifestyle that you enjoy. And that's not hyperbole. Must be nice. 🙄
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Thom still believes that the values of the old "Democratic" party are prioritized by the leadership of the party in the present.
It's either that or Thom is in on the act and he's playing dumb.
Thom fully understands the SCOTUS decisions, from over the past 70 years, which have allowed the wealthy-class capitalists to corrupt the campaign finance and election systems while consequently co-opting the politicians to do the bidding of that wealthy-class.
He's talked about those SCOTUS decisions repeatedly throughout the years (even though he only mentions a specific set of decisions while ignoring others). Yet, somehow, he only calls out the corruption of the Republic-party.
So, it's one of a few possible things.
One: Thom sincerely believes that the current capitalist-leadership of the Democrat-party is the same as the leadership, with the same ideals,as when Thom was growing up (in the 60s and 70s). And, so, Thom says the ignorant-sounding things he says at times.
Two: Thom knows that the capitalists who fund the Republic-party are the same capitalists who fund the Democrat-party. He knows that the Democrat-party is nothing more than a paid-opposition whose main goal is to seem as though they are fighting against the Republic-party. But, Thom pretends not to know.
Three: The first two sentences from number two above, but instead of pretending not to know that both parties are corrupt and working in tandem, what we are seeing is Thom treading lightly. Rather than blatantly calling out the mutual corruption of both parties, he merely presents it. Maybe he does this to maintain access to Democrat-party politicians. Maybe he does it to coddle potential or current viewers. Maybe he does it to placate capitalist Youtube executives.
Whether it's one, two, or three, my retort is; "BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! BOOOOOO!!! GET OFF THE STAGE!!!"
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@amc6090 In the past, the right-wing Nazis and Confederates were cured of their ignorance and hate by the introduction of increased levels of lead into their 'diets,' provided by the better people of the world. It seems like you're crying out to be cured.
That increased lead was the only way the better working-class people of the world could cure the worst working-class dupes, who volunteered to be soldiers for the wealthy-class right-wing Nazis and Confederates who owned plantations, concentration camps, land, and businesses.
(And, on a side note: If past is any indicator of the future -- which, it is -- it seems as though the better working-class people of the world are gearing up for a repeat on the worst working-class dupes who have volunteered to be soldiers for the wealthy-class right-wing Repubocrats and Demlicans who own prisons, detention centers, property and corporations. But, that's another story for another day.)
Anyhow, those working-class dupes, in the past, volunteered to be soldiers for the wealthy-class, right-wing Nazi and Confederate overlords, and they just did whatever their wealthy-class right-wing overlords told them to do. Just like you and those pigs in the video do whatever your wealthy-class, right-wing Repubocrat and Demlican overlords tell you to do.
Those duped working-class Nazi and Confederate soldiers followed the wealthy-class, right-wing, Nazi and Confederate overlords like child-brains stuck in adult-sized bodies, just like you and those pigs in the video. And, meanwhile, the wealthy-class right-wing overlords snuck out the back door and left the duped, working-class soldiers holding the metaphorical bag. Just like those dumb pigs in the video are being left holding the bag. Just like your dumb@$$ is holding the bag to support the murderous pigs.
The wealthy-class right-wing Repubocrats and Demlicas are already fleeing the U.S., just like the wealthy-class right-wing Nazis and Confederates fled Germany and the southern U.S.. Meanwhile, you and your band of blubbering buffoons are too dumb to even comprehend it. You wouldn't even know how to look up such information. Because you're a blubbering buffoon, just like your wealthy-class right-wing masters made you, just like they want you.
The wealthy-class right-wing Confederates prevented the working-class chattel-slaves from learning in the past, just like the wealthy-class right-wing Repupocrats and Demlicans have prevented working-class wage-slaves, like you, from learning in the present.
LBJ was talking about idiots like you when he spoke about giving idiots someone to look down on. You've been indoctrinated to believe that just because you're a wage-slave, that makes you better than chattel-slaves.
And why do wealthy-class right-wingers want to keep you uneducated? The answer is simple: Because stupid people make better slaves. And here you are, proving it, acting like a good little slave, spouting the talking points of your wealthy-class right-wing owners.
And, indeed, the suffering of the families of the duped, working-class Nazi and Confederate soldiers, was real suffering. The families suffered because of the actions of ignorant, working-class dupes, like you, who volunteered to murder and sabotage other working-class humans at the behest of your wealthy-class right-wing masters. Just like the pigs in the video murdered another working-class human.
I really do hope that you don't have any more-intelligent, yet vulnerable and innocent family members. And if you do, I hope they don't have to suffer the consequences of your ignorance, like the more-intelligent, yet vulnerable and innocent family members of the duped, working-class Nazi, Confederate, Repubocrat and Demlican soldiers have had to suffer.
And I do understand that it's possible, in order to become such dolts, you have also been manipulated and exploited by the wealthy-class right-wingers. But there are plenty of other working-class people who have gone through the same manipulation and exploitation as you, but, somehow, not all of us are like you.
Not all working-class people are volatile. Not all working-class people will murder someone because a rich person on TV tells us to. It's a small percentage of working-class people who have become animalistic in nature.
It's almost as if the worst working-class dupes, like you and the pigs, may have already ingested plenty of lead. Maybe you don't need more lead. Maybe just some galvanized chain link fence, razor wire, and/or steel bars will do. Maybe you could become useful, after all.
(On another side note: I don't jive with caging humans -- or animals. Caging humans is torture, and I don't jive with torture. I'm down with putting in the work of rehabilitating. Unless you, and people like you, don't want to become rehabilitated, equitable members of society. In that case, you and your blubbering buffoons, with supremacist-fallacies and inferiority-complexes, can be dropped onto a remote island where you can all live out the individualism-fantasies of your unilateral wet-dreams. Personally, I'd volunteer to be dropped onto a remote island, but only if I were actually alone. I don't want others to work for me, or even with me, if they don't want to. Unlike you and your right-wing masters -- you all love forcing "others" to do things for you that they don't want to do. ...And, I digress...)
Or, perhaps your brain-deficiencies have been caused by the excess of methane-gas and boot-polish you've ingested while sniffing the bumholes and licking the boots of your wealthy-class, right-wing overlords. And, perhaps, you're so addicted to it, you would rather have some hot lead, rather than give up your addictions. I mean, your wealthy-class right-wing masters will never willingly give up their addictions, so why would you give up yours? You're a good little follower, as you've proven here with your words.
Either way, whether your deficiencies are caused by lead, fecal, or polish poisoning, you're the weakest link among the lowest common denominator of humans.
Presuming you have family, and presuming your family members aren't as putrid and vile as you are, I hope they are relieved from the presence of your ignorance, and I hope their relief comes before they are forced to suffer because of it.
And, since I'm not a scumsucking parasite -- unlike you, the pigs, and the wealthy-class -- I even hope that you get wise before you have to suffer because of your own ignorance. Because, as a right-winger, whether you vote for right-wing Repubocrats or right-wing Demlicans or any other U.S. political party, you're already voting for your own working-class suffering.
I'm not violent. I'm anti-violence. I don't condone or promote violence. In fact, I'll die before I willingly commit violence.
But there are other people in the working-class who are violent. You are one of the worst, most intolerant of them.
And the better, more-tolerant people of the working-class see you. They know you. They will teach you what the paradox of tolerance means, just like they taught your Confederate and Nazi ancestors.
And, when those better, more-tolerant, working-class people come for you, simply follow your own advice:
Don't argue.
Just comply.
Stop resisting.
May you all be forgiven; for you know not what you do.
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Tell this "friend" that they will definitely need to get a lawyer. "Friend" needs to start keeping track of any/all of their mother-in-law's: (1)mental-lapses, (2)behavior that creates a danger/hazard to others (3)behavior that causes damage/destruction to the property. There needs to be a reason(s) to start the process of conservatorship and/or committal.
Under onservatorship, you -- I mean "friend" -- would be able to take control of mother-in-law's finances, including any pension or social-security payments, or any other forms of income.
Of course, if "friend" decides to go this route, they my need a separate lawyer if their spouse decides to commence divorce proceedings.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I just happen to know a "friend" in a similar situation. 😉 But my "friend" can't afford a lawyer.
Disclaimer 2: I believe that the elderly, the youth, and all other physically&mentally challenged&vulnerable people should be taken care of, to the highest levels of respect & dignity.
But I do NOT think that those challenged&vulnerable people should be allowed to run roughshod over the planet, ruining things and endangering themselves or others.
That being said: I would gladly vote to raise taxes on the people who can afford it the most, and I would even pay more in taxes myself, in order to make the quality of life better for those challenged&vulnerable people.
But I would NOT vote to put challenged&vulnerable people into chains or cages, or any kind of permanent confinement. I don't even agree with the way the prison-system is operated.
And I especially do NOT agree with the ways in which mental institutions, nursing homes, and prisons all resemble each other. Nor do I agree with those places being privatized corporate entities for the profits of the corrupt wealthy-class people.
We, as working-class humans, could do better. But there are too many corrupt, wealthy-class people preventing us from doing so. Because of their own mental-illnesses, the corrupt wealthy-class chooses to put their profits & lifestyle-addictions over the dignity & lifestyle-conditions of working-class people.
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That's RW-politics and its inherent corruption -- they investigate themselves, and that is how their corrupt RW-politics are able to persist and permeate all of society.
All of the biggest problems in the world, and most of the smaller problems, are perpetrated & perpetuated by (a)the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics, and by (b)the indecent, working-class dupes who support the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics.
In regards to this video, in the US, they have the RW-extremist Repubs & the moderate-RW Dems, BOTH of which parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics, but the working-class dupes in the US continue to vote for BOTH of the corrupt RW-political-parties.
The RW-sh!tehole known as the US is going to need an intervention by other, better & smarter working-class people, very much like the RW-Confedrate & RW-N@z! sh!teholes needed an intervention by other, better & smarter working-class people. I just hope I live long enough to see it.
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A community should be able to initiate the division of a couple/relationship, particularly if/when a couple/relationship becomes toxic to the community, especially for the sake of children.
Under a system like that, my parents could have been divorced for numerous reasons on countless occasions. For examples:
1. After the first of the many times that my mother literally begged my father to hit her. She tried goading him into hitting her for years. He never did hit her though.
But I had to watch her purposefully manipulate him for years, and no kid should have to watch that kind of mind-f*kcing .
2. After the first of many times that my mother tricked me and my siblings into not reporting her to Child Protective Services for abusing us.
She would say things like, "they're just going to come and take you away."
She said it that way on purpose, to make us think it was our fault. Because, as kids, most of us get taught that when bad people do the wrong things, the cops come and take the wrong-doers away.
So, by telling us that "they" were going to "take us away," she tricked us into believing that we were the ones in the wrong.
Then, there was another thing she started doing.
When we would threaten to call CPS on her, she would say the 1-800-number out loud, like she had it memorized. Or, she would write the number on a piece of paper and hand it to us. It was as if she was daring us to call.
Looking back, I don't know if she did that because she believed that we wouldn't call or because she wouldn't have cared if we did call. (It's difficult, and probably futile, to try deciphering the specific and primary motives of consumer-driven socio/psychopathic narcissists.)
But she knew we were more scared of being taken away than we were of her abuse because she had already implanted the fear of "them" taking us away into our minds.
We didn't want to get taken away -- we just wanted the abuse to stop. And we were only scared because we didn't know any better.
Like, sure, for argument's sake, the foster-care system is a gamble. But we didn't know that as young kids in the 1980s.
And, besides, also for the sake of argument, which scenario is actually worse: Staying in an abusive situation or gambling on being moved to a less abusive situation?
Staying in an abusive situation isn't ideal, but neither is gambling. And no kid should have to make that choice.
Anyway. My mother played these manipulative mind-games on us until we stopped threatening to report her abuse. Instead of reporting her, we "learned" to live with the unreasonable and illogical abuse by succumbing to it.
I often wonder what could've been different for me if I would've rolled the dice and made the call to CPS.
Oh, goodness. That was quite a digression from my main point. I'll get back to it and conclude.
Perhaps my parents should have been forced to get a divorce after my mother was provably neglecting me and after she rendered my father into a perception of powerlessness to do anything about it.
You might be asking yourself, "what, why, how?" Well, then, here are your answers.
3. After I almost lost my tongue was two years old.
I was in the garage alone. (WHAT?) Then I climbed up on the four-foot-tall workbench. (WHY?) Then I fell off the bench and slammed my chin onto the concrete floor, nearly biting my tongue in half. (HOW?)
4. Or, the time I ate mothballs.
5. Or, the time I ate rat poisoning.
6 Or, the time I drank ammonia.
7. Or, the time I drank bleach.
8. Or, the time I ate a bottle of children's aspirin. (Which didn't even happen, because I clearly remember pouring the pills down the drain. But I got caught with the empty bottle by my neglectful biatch-mother, so I got treated as if I had eaten the whole bottle).
9. Or, when I was 7 years old, my doctor admonished my mother for allowing me to become obese, at which point my mother stopped using that doctor to prevent the doctor from recording a paper trail of my mother's nutritional-negligence.
10. Or, when my relatives and neighbors started molesting me.
Perhaps my parents should have been forced to get a divorce after one of those instances. Or maybe their divorce should have been required after...
11. ...my mother's first year of doctor-enabled opioid addiction. Maybe that would be a good precursor, indicating that someone would turn into a sh!te-mother and wife.
She's now 40+ years into a doctor-enabled opioid addict. Maybe that's a good clue, explaining why she's still a sh!te-human today.
If you're still asking yourself, "what, why, and how?" The answers are all easy and the same -- because my mother was too busy getting high on opioids to take care of herself and the vulnerable humans she was supposed to protect.
Certainly, there must be something on my list that would incite more than questions, like, what, why, and how"?
Surely, there must be something on my list that would move the better, caring members of the community to seek action, to end my parent's relationship and the misery it brought upon me and others.
There has to be something that will compel the working-class drones into action to protect children.
But, as of today: Nope!
Children are left to suffer without escape.
And these ignorant working-class adults keep pumping out innocent working-class children to continue the suffering. As if there's some magic number of suffering children that, if reached, will make the suffering of working-class adults disappear.
I don't say all these things to get sympathy for me. I don't need it now. But I do say these things to incite empathy for the children who are suffering RIGHT NOW.
I wouldn't change my childhood. My suffering gave me the sense of perception to grasp who is at fault for my suffering. The people at fault are those like J.D. Vance.
And my opening point remains the same:
There should be a system in place whereby the people of a community can initiate the division of a couple/relationship, particularly if/when a couple/relationship becomes toxic to the community, especially for the sake of children.
Until better times, I'll be preaching antinatalism and celibacy.
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@TheEclecticSinger I did not forget. A popular-advocate does not an effective-servant make. A comedian does not a statesman make. A proctologist is NOT a neurologist.
I've said the same thing about many of these people who haven't studied politics, government, and the intricacies that make up the few safeguards left on the modicum of government that still remains to protect the working-class from the wealthy-class.
Without an adequate understanding of The Office of the Presidency and The Executive Branch, the president is a puppet at best and road-cone to be steamrolled at worst.
Trump is exactly that, and they got barely anything done in his first term.
Executively, the ignorant staff he hired deregulated the wealthy-class, and broke safeguards that protected the working-class. They did as much harm as they could with the little knowledge they had, but it was a slop show.
Judicially, he nominated judges that were selected by the wealthy-class owners of The Heritage Foundation.
Legislatively, he signed tax cuts for the wealthy-class & COVID stuff. But the legislature confirmed the judges selected by the wealthy-class owners of the Heritage Foundation.
His term in office was a giveaway to the wealthy-class.
He got steamrolled by smarter members of the wealthy-class in his first term, and the only reason his second term will be worse is because he has found the most vile members of the wealthy-class and let them in the backdoor.
Jon Stewart will NOT be able to do anything but go along to get along.
We don't need another celebrity.
We need someone who already has a working & practical comprehension of the entrenched corruption of wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
We need someone with the knowledge to wield the power of The Constitution to combat the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
We need someone who understands how to re-institute the working-class protections that were removed by the previous wealthy-class administration.
Maybe two or three people in the world have all the makings of a working-class President who is capable of meaningfully combating the wealthy-class.
The real choices are INCREDIBLY slim.
Jon Stewart is NOT it.
Grow up. Wise up.
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Authoritarianism = gov't by Minority-rule = Right-wing politics
Democracy = gov't by Majority-rule = Left-wing politics
Right-wing politics = Pro-wealthy-class, pro-autocracy, pro-minority-rule.
Right-wing politics = Anti-working-class, anti-democracy, anti-majority-rule.
The working-class = the majority.
The wealthy-class = the minority.
YOU are a member of the working-class majority. But...
YOU'RE acting as a mouthpiece for the wealthy-class minority.
THAT makes you one of two things for speculation, and one thing for certain.
For speculation, you're either one of the two following things:
1. A fool;
(A) you don't comprehend the international & historical contexts of left-wing versus right-wing politics;
(B) you don't understand the inherent corruption in right-wing politics;
(C) you have no idea what you're saying or doing;
(D) any inkling of the ramifications thereof.
OR
2. A knave; a fraud. a liar, a deceiver, a pretender...
Perhaps you PRETEND not to understand a, b, c, and d from up above. Perhaps you DO know, but you PRETEND not to know.
And why would you PRETEND to be stupid? The easy answer is because you benefit from it.
You know, I don't think you're entirely foolish. In fact, maybe you DO indeed comprehend some of a, b, c, and d up above.
Maybe you understand some of the contrasts between left-right politics -- maybe not in historical and international contexts -- to some degree.
But there isn't much to gain by pretending you don't know those things. So, what else might you be pretending that you don't know?
Perhaps, with you, it is that you comprehend the corruption of right-wing politics. But why would you pretend not to comprehend that?
The easy answer is that you benefit from the corruption. That's what it is with many working-class dupes who shill for the wealthy-class and right-wing politics.
Perhaps you've been lucky enough to devise a way to benefit from the corruption of right-wing politics, and that's why you pretend not to comprehend the corruption therein.
Perhaps you comprehend the corruption, and you comprehend how you benefit from the corruption, and you don't want to give up the corruption.
So you stick with the right-wing political apparatus. And it is through that right-wing apparatus by which corrupt people like you perpetuate your authoritarian, minority-rule of corruption.
And let's just say that you DO indeed comprehend any of that, and let's just that, at the same time, you're simultaneously pretending that you DON'T comprehend any of it, then that would make you a knave.
BUT, whether you're an unknowing-fool or a knowing-knave, neither of those things is anything to be proud of.
That would make you exactly the kind of uneducated slave whom the wealthy right-wing owners would want you to be.
And no matter how shiny you lick their boots, and no matter how deep you can get the brown on your nose, they will never let you into their club.
To believe otherwise would make you the kind of working-class mark whom the wealthy-class aims for.
Because they will use you and anyone they can to satisfy their addictions, and they will never willingly give up their addictions, no matter how many working-class lives it costs.
And when you spew their corrupt right-wing vitriol, it makes it seem like you might be just like them -- that you'll use anyone else's suffering to satisfy your own addictions.
That wouldn't be anything to be proud of either.
But, if that's what you want to be like, then whether you're a fool or a knave, you're a saboteur AND a class-traitor.
Congratulations @ItsAllCulturalMarxism
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Dear Jordan, a lot of working-class people, here in the comments, don't seem to know the history of the Red Scare & McCarthyism. Countless progressives, leftists, socialists, communists and their families were kidnapped, deported, imprisoned, maimed, and/or murdered by right-wingers/regressives. That being said, I see that particular history is beginning to repeat itself(Trump has threatened it publicly). And, personally, I think the progressive legislators were privately warned/threatened by some right-wing/regressive legislators, because those progressive legislators all seemed to have capitulated/toned-down their rhetoric at around the same time period.
I could be wrong, but I'd be interested in what an economist/historian (like Richard Wolff or Steve Grumbine, or anyone with a sense of class-consciousness), has to say about my hypothesis, which is: progressive legislators have been warned/threatened/forced by regressive legislators to shut-up and fall-in-line out of fear for self-preservation and safety for their loved ones.
Anyway, thank you for your service, Jordan.
✌🤟✊🙏
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It will have to be someone who doesn't have any family -- having a family makes a leader more-easily corruptible by the wealthy-class right-wingers. Bernie has family, and he's been corrupted by the wealthy-class right-wingers. Bernie has given up on the working-class. And so will any other leader with a family to worry about.
Bernie is now more concerned with what could happen to his family after he dies.
Bernie knows what the right-wingers have done to working-class leftists through history.
Bernie sees the rhyming-nature of that history coming back around.
Bernie lived through the "Red Scare" and "McCarthyism."
Bernie doesn't want those kinds of things to happen to his family after he dies.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that there are too many foolish, working-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many knavish, wealthy-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many right-wing addicts with mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Berne knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts will willingly give up their addictions.
Bernie knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts can cure their own mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that, in order to maintain their addictive lifestyles, the mentally ill working-class fools will do whatever the mentally ill wealthy-class knaves tell them to do; just like they did during the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie has now entered the phase known as, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
Bernie is MORE concerned with the quality of life his family will have when he dies.
Bernie is LESS concerned with the quality of life for the working-class.
Bernie is ONLY concerned with his own family-unit minority
Bernie is NOT concerned about the working-class majority.
Bernie is the perfect example of why any effective leader(s) on the left-wing will have to be someone(s) without family -- it's too easy for the wealthy-class right-wingers to corrupt left-wingers who have families, and Bernie is a prime example.
Bernie has exchanged his working-class principles to secure a wealthy-class standard of living for his family after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the anti-wealthy-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given up on the pro-working-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the anti-working-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the pro-wealthy-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given up.
It's only surprising/upsetting if one doesn't know the facts, or rhyming-nature, of history.
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Vote RW-extremist Trump&Repubs, for the fast, open-road to fascism.
Vote moderate-RW Biden&Dems, for the slow, disguised-road to fascism.
Vote moderate-RW RFK, for the slower, more-disguised-road to fascism.
RW-politics are anti-working-class politics.
RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class-politics.
Trump, Biden, and RFK are ALL members of the wealthy-class, and, thus, ALL of them are RWers.
No thanks. 🤮
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Right-wing politics should have been criminalized after the right-wing French monarchs were dispatched. And again after the right-wing Confederates were destroyed. And again after the right-wing Nazis were defeated.
But, nooOOOooo... 🙄
When lazy, parasitic, wealthy right-wingers come into an area, they exploit the land and the working-class people.
Then, when those wealthy right-wing exploiters are finally confronted by the exploited working-class, the wealthy right-wingers use their wealth to turn the working-class people against each other.
The wealthy right-wingers use their wealth to create propaganda to take the attention off of themselves -- they use propaganda to trick the dumbest members of the working-class into blaming other working-class people for their troubles.
Then, when the dumbest members of the working-class have fallen for the wealthy right-wing propaganda, the wealthy right-wingers use their wealth to employ those dumbest members of the working-class as brainless militants and bombastic mercenaries.
The wealthy right-wingers use their wealth to elevate a few working-class morons, which tricks the unelevated working-class morons into mimicking the few working-class dupes who have been elevated.
The wealthy right-wingers give incentives to the working-class dupes to be as vile as possible.
Some of the working-class dupes only require a few extra crumbs to be vile humans. And some of the working-class dupes will do it for badges and stickers on a clownish uniform.
But then, when the smarter members of the working-class throughout the world get sick and tired of the vile right-wing oppression, they rise up against the vile right-wing oppressor.
And every time the right-wingers of a given place decide to engage in violent movements, those right-wing movements get trounced by the smarter members of the working-class.
However, no matter how many times right-wing movements are beaten, the wealthy right-wingers live on. Because every time the right-wingers are beaten, the right-wingers from the wealthy-class sneak out the backdoor to leave the right-wingers from the working-class holding the metaphorical bag.
Even though right-wing politics are the politics of the wealthy-class minority, those right-wing politics still persist. And their persistence is due to the parasitic and predatory lifestyles that unearned-wealth provides to undeserving-human.
Wealthy, white, right-wing Confederates moved north, and left the working-class Confederates to suffer.
Wealthy, white, right-wing Nazis moved all over the globe, and left the working-class Nazis to suffer.
Wealthy, right-wing Zionists & Islamists are all over the globe, and they're responsible for the suffering of working-class Jews and Palestinians.
Wealthy, white, right-wing Americans are moving out of America, taking their businesses and corporations with them. And they've implanted those businesses and corporations all over the globe, bringing suffering to the working-class people in those places, and leaving the American working-class in ruins.
Wealthy right-wingers just keep moving from place to place, exploiting the land and the working-class people, inciting the working-class dupes into violence in those places, and then leaving those places in ruins.
Abolish right-wing politics.
Abolish the wealthy-class.
Abolish the lazy, parasitic, wealthy right-wingers.
Abolish the working-class dupes who aid and abet wealthy right-wingers.
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@Walkinshaw11 You're cherry picking scripture to justify the political means of your authoritarian ends.
But since you want to talk about scripture. Let's talk about Genesis, chapter 2, verse 7:
"Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being."
Humans aren't living beings until they take their first breath.
And you can't kill something that is not living.
God doesn't need you, nor I, nor any gamete, zygote, embryo, or fetus in order to carry out His will.
God is going to do His will regardless of what happens to you, me, or any gametes, zygotes, embryos, or fetuses.
Furthermore, since you want to talk about Christ:
Jesus said to love everyone, even people you think are sinning.
Jesus said to be non-violent, even if someone has been violent toward you.
Additionally -- as witnessed through the dignified example set by Christ -- don't fight back when it's time to die.
So that disqualifies most right-wingers.
You can live a non-violent life, like Christ did. Or not.
You can live a non-authoritarian life, like Christ did. Or not.
You can live a non-wealthy, possessionless life, like Christ did. Or not.
You can live a non-right-wing life, like Christ did. Or not.
You can worship God, or you can worship mammon. Not both.
You can worship God, or you can worship authoritarian right-wing politics/politicians. Not both.
And God has given you the free-will to make those decisions.
Just like God has given free-will to women.
And whether those women choose to have abortions or not, it's not your job to judge them. Your job is to love them.
Or, at the very least, to mind your own business.
It's easier to love people when you're not so busy judging them.
It's easier to comprehend The Bible, in communion with Christ, through the Holy Spirit, when your allegiance is to God, and not to right-wing authoritarian politics/politicians.
It's easier to have relationships with God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit when you're not so busy worrying about what other people are doing.
God, via the non-violent and non-authoritarian examples and commands of Christ, with the Holy Spirit to help us, has given us three distinct jobs (and maybe more, but three for sure):
1. Love God.
2. Love your neighbors.
3. Make disciples.
We've all got work to do. And that includes you.
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@MrJunglebear1 I agree with you, George. However, I stole that numbering system quote from someone else, so I just left it the way it was written by the person who I stole it from. :)
But, yes, that list could be much longer. It should include food and water, and infrastructure.
When I was a kid, my parents were neglectful on one hand and abusive on the other. I ingested multiple poisons on multiple occasions (rat poison, mothballs, ammonia), and my parents didn't bring me to the doctor. They brought me to the neighbor who was a nurse.
So, not only were my parents negligent in not looking after me and allowing me to ingest poisons, but they were also negligent in denying me adequate medical treatment after the fact. (Depending on what you believe in, it's only by luck or by grace that I'm even alive today.)
I believe house calls are still in practice in some places. Within the past few years, I saw a video on YouTube where they followed a doctor who was making house calls. I believe it was out of France.
I believe that house calls are a beneficial practice. If my repeated poisonings would have been documented by a medical professional, maybe I could have gotten taken away from my sh!tty family.
Even though I now realize that going into foster care would have been a gamble, that doesn't negate the fact that I was born into a losing casino.
When I was a kid, I longed for something different. And, even though now, as an adult, I've come to terms with my childhood situation, I still sometimes wish I could have rolled the dice.
Could foster care have been worse than my natural family? Sure. It's a definite possibility. But my natural family was f*kcing atrocious. And there are millions of kids growing up now, just like I grew up, without a voice and no help on the way. I know they wish they could roll the dice, too.
I don't tell that part of my story to besmirch medical professionals (even though my neighbor-nurse was also negligent by not reporting my parents to the authorities). But, I tell that story to agree with you. It would serve society much better if medical professionals made house calls.
Perhaps we, as a society, could help kids who are stuck in terrible situations. Maybe, if doctors made house calls, more children could be saved.
Perhaps if doctors were making house calls, then maybe my parents would have called a doctor to come and tend to me.
But my parents, like many other parents, were/are morons. So, maybe, because of the abundance of ignorance in society, house calls by medical professionals wouldn't have any positive residual effects on the lives of our most vulnerable youth.
Many working-class Americans are ashamed and paranoid. They don't want people coming into their homes to witness their economic hardships and desperation because they are ashamed. And they are paranoid that other people will see their economic hardships and desperation and use it to shame them even further.
The forces of shame and paranoia are as negative as the forces of abuse and negligence. But those forces of paranoia and shame are purposely imposed on the working-class by the wealthy-class.
The imposed economic hardships serve to induce the subsequent mental conditions, such as paranoia, that come with economic desperation. Paranoid working-class Americans want to keep their desperation private, along with the associated shame that comes with it.
America's infatuation with privacy is as manufactured as the economic hardships. The wealthy-class manufactures pro-privacy propaganda, just like they manufacture economic desperation. And it is wealthy-class propaganda that has created a societal deification of "privacy."
Now, some people might ask, "Why would the wealthy-class want to deify privacy? What purpose does it serve them?" And the answer is simple: The wealthy-class, and people in positions of power, want their corruption to be kept private, just like my parents wanted to keep their corrupt neglect and abuse private.
So, propaganda is developed to trick the working-class into making "privacy" an idol. Abusive working-class parents who are in power over their children, exploitative wealthy-class employers who are in power over their employees, and countless other people who seek positions of power over others, all love the idol of privacy.
All of my wealthy-class employers have loved the privacy. My working-class family idolized privacy. My working-class neighbor-nurse idolized privacy.
Privacy, and the people who worship it, have almost gotten me killed on multiple occasions. The idolized concept of privacy and those who worship it allow abuse to continue. And that same privacy also helps to get abusers off the hook for their abuse.
I don't believe in the idolization of privacy any more than I believe in the idolization of "parent's rights." To me, "parent's rights" are in the same category as "state's rights." The nefarious people who glorify and idolize state's rights and parent's rights are the same kind of people who glorify and idolize privacy.
These nefarious people want to have the right to treat other vulnerable people, including children and the elderly, in any terrible way they want to treat them, and they want to keep their terrible treatment of other people private.
The whole of society needs a reboot, at the very least. And, unfortunately, the wealthy-class right-wingers have control over when and how that will happen.
But, I firmly believe that, due to the generations of indoctrination and propaganda, the working-class is not mentally or psychologically equipped to combat the wealthy-class right-wingers nor the power that the wealthy-class has at their disposal.
So, I have become an advocate for antinatalism: for those of us who truly value consent; for those of us who truly value the souls that are being forced into life without being able to give their consent.
And, I have become an advocate for unlimited abortions: for those who can't keep their legs closed to participate in antinatalism; for those who are forced into fornication and pregnancy.
The working-class majority of people have endured hardship, desperation, shame, and pain ever since the invention of monetary currencies by the lazy parasites who would become the wealthy-class minority.
I think we should all do whatever we can to prevent potential-humans from being forced into living in this right-wing hellscape that is maintained by addicts who make up the wealthy-class minority.
I think we should all do our part to "breed out" the parasitic human-race from existence.
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I'm sorry, George. I've digressed, and then digressed some more. I'll wrap it up.
Even though I love where your head is at, and even though I would do any(non-violent)thing that I could to make the world a more equitable place, I just don't have any hope for life in this world.
I'm putting all my eggs and chickens in the basket of the next life in the next world.
May The Spirit of Peace be upon you and yours, George. :)
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Say neoliberalism all you want. Just don't forget to tell people that neoliberalism, like liberalism, is a right-wing economic ideology. Wealthy-class Repubs and Dems are both trying to conserve the economic system of neoliberal capitalism.
Pelosi, McConnell, McCarthy, Schumer, Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush x2, Clinton x2, and Reagan are/were all neoliberal right-wingers.
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Say neoliberalism all you want. Just don't forget to tell people that neoliberalism, like liberalism, is a right-wing economic ideology. Wealthy-class Repubs and Dems are both trying to conserve the economic system of neoliberal capitalism.
Pelosi, McConnell, McCarthy, Schumer, Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush x2, Clinton x2, and Reagan are/were all neoliberal right-wingers.
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Bernie has family. He's more concerned with what could happen to them after he dies.
Saying he's been blindsided lets him off the hook as some kind of simpleton,. Bernie has knowingly, willingly given up on the working-class
Bernie knows what the right-wingers have done to working-class leftists through history.
Bernie sees the rhyming-nature of that history coming back around.
Bernie lived through the "Red Scare" and "McCarthyism."
Bernie doesn't want those kinds of things to happen to his family after he dies.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that there are too many foolish, working-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many knavish, wealthy-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many right-wing addicts with mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Berne knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts will willingly give up their addictions.
Bernie knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts can cure their own mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that, in order to maintain their addictive lifestyles, the mentally ill working-class fools will do whatever the mentally ill wealthy-class knaves tell them to do; just like they did during the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie has now entered the phase known as, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
Bernie is MORE concerned with the quality of life his family will have when he dies.
Bernie is LESS concerned with the quality of life for the working-class.
Bernie is ONLY concerned with his own family-unit minority
Bernie is NOT concerned about the working-class majority.
Bernie is the perfect example of why any effective leader(s) on the left-wing will have to be someone(s) without family -- it's too easy for the wealthy-class right-wingers to corrupt left-wingers who have families, and Bernie is a prime example.
Bernie has exchanged his working-class principles to secure a wealthy-class standard of living for his family after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the anti-wealthy-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given up on the pro-working-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the anti-working-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the pro-wealthy-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given up.
It's only surprising/upsetting if one doesn't know the facts, or rhyming-nature, of history.
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@roseromans8497 People voted for the things they're complaining about. In this case:
[1]the working-class citizens voted for the candidates/politicians who enable the working-class cops to act this way;
[2]those politicians don't vote for laws to stop the cops from treating the working-class citizens this way;
[3]those same citizens vote for, and politicians nominate & confirm, the judges side with the cops who act this way.
The politicians of both parties, and the judges who are nominated and confirmed by the politicians of both parties, are all bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the rich people who own corporations. And the cops are their paramilitary force who act that way.
Those rich people don't want us selling things on our front lawns -- those rich people want to be the only sellers. So those rich people fund the campaigns of the candidates who will allow the paramilitary-cops to act that way.
And many citizens don't want their neighbors selling things in their own front yards. So those citizens vote for politicians who will allow paramilitary-cops to act that way.
And, in some cases, like the case in this video, when a citizen sees their neighbor selling things in their own front yard, they will call the paramilitary-cops in hopes that they will show up and act the way they did in this video.
People voted for this. And in the US, they've been voting for this for a long, LONG time.
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@roseromans8497 Yeah, I didn't vote for any of this corrupt stuff, because I was lucky enough to realize the corrupt-ruse at a young age. But anyone who has voted for Rs or Ds, has also voted for this stuff, whether they were smart enough to realize it or not.
The corruption has gotten worse and worse right under their noses, and they have kept voting for it. Both parties supported it, and people kept voting for them.
Plenty of people have been talking, writing, photographing, recording, speaking, preaching, shouting, protesting, exposing, revealing, screaming, and even self-immolating about the corruption for decades. And the voters just wont listen.
Not much I can do but point it out. .
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Clare claims to be an older person, of retirement age (or so she has stated in other threads).
If this is true, then she has been subjected to decades of the propaganda that has been produced and promoted by the wealthy-class minority of beneficiaries who have pillaged and plundered this country, and other countries, off the backs of the working-class majority.
I can't decipher, though, if Claire is a fool or a knave -- does she really not comprehend the exploitation and manipulation that is prompted and perpetuated by the wealthy-class under Capitalism, or does she connivingly pretend to not comprehend the exploitation and manipulation because of the benefits she obtains from it?
Prof. Wolff, who is well beyond the legal retirement age, has also lived through the same propaganda, but the differences between Wolff and Claire are vast.
Firstly, I would say Wolff has critical thinking skills that Claire does not have. If Claire has fallen victim to the propaganda, then she is a fool who lacks critical thinking skills. If Claire is a knave, then she lacks the critical thinking skills that would be necessary for her to realize how poorly she fulfills the role of a shill.
Secondly, Wolff has an altruistic character while Clair's character is one of egotism. Wolff and Claire have both lived decent standards of living under Capitalism. Claire has been vocal about her above-average standard of living (in other threads), and we can witness Wolff's in his videos.
But Claire blames working-class individuals, who have little-to-no power to change their lot in life, for their own troubles and problems. Wolff, on the other hand, speaks the truth about the wealthy-class Capitalists who have the power to alter the system which produces the troubles and problems in other people's lives.
Wolff speaks about changing the system, bringing more individuals into a collective position of power over the direction of society, to make outcomes more equitable.
Claire speaks about perpetuating the system, separating individuals by how much they can extract from the rest of society, to continue inequality and inequity..
At best, Claire is class-traitor who has been duped by the wealthy-class into elbowing side-to-side at the people in society who she has the most in common with, while kicking down at the least-fortunate.
At worst, Claire is a trash-bag, garbage-can human who understands the lucky-card she has drawn in the rigged hierarchical card-game of life -- a rigged system from which she benefits -- and she doesn't want to give up anything to bring about a higher standard of living for others who weren't so lucky.
Neither scenario is anything to be proud of.
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@clarestucki5151 What is the link to your Youtube channel so that we may visit and view your opinions and thoughts?
What media outlets -- channels, stations, programs, and publications -- are reaching out to you on a daily basis, asking for your opinions and thoughts?
What are your credentials, and where can they be inspected for verification?
Who are your mentors, instructors, and teachers, and how may they be contacted for reference?
Where, and by whom, are your works of expertise published, and where may those works be retrieved for review?
By whom are you currently employed, and how may they be contacted to inquire as to the quality of the services you provide?
What are you doing to quell the inequities of opportunity and outcome available to the least-fortunate, and how are you striving to battle the lack of necessities accessible by those most in need within the local, national, and global communities? Additionally, how may your efforts be provably qualified?
Those are all rhetorical questions.
Everything that one needs to know about you can be deciphered from your paragraphs of privileged propaganda, and by going here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN-59eGnvyKSabaWVwUi6OQ
STFU & GTFO.
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@johnpglackin345 If Jesus showed up tomorrow, preaching his progressive message of anti-wealth, anti-violence, and anti-selfishness, you working-class dupes would help the conservative, wealthy-class authoritarians, with their corrupt RW-politics, to crucify Jesus all over again.
Jesus wouldn't join the conservative, wealthy-class Pharisees & Sadducees, nor would he join the conservative, wealthy-class Romans, nor did he support their corrupt, RW-politics.
And if Jesus was here today, and you tried to force him to join the conservative, RW-extremist, wealthy-class Repubs, or the conservative, moderate-RW, wealthy-class Dems, I bet Jesus would tell you to get that cross ready for Him, again.
You'll learn the hard way, in this life or the next. Just like the working-class dupes who (a)supported the conservative, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics, by (b)volunteering to be Confedrate & Nat-C soldiers.
Christ warned us about the conservative wealthy-class, & their corrupt RW-politics, in the Bible. And I'm doing His work by warning you, now.
You're on the wrong path.
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@nicholasholden1896 It would be better to have a transparent and accountable government, creating and regulating jobs that are needed, than it would be to have your unaccountable and non-transparent, right-wing, wealthy-class overlords creating jobs that aren't needed.
But, it was right-wing wealthy-class overlords who created the sh!tehole of American government, and the same brand of right-wing wealthy-class overlords still control that sh!tehole government today.
Working-class dupes like you, with brown-noses and blackened-tongues from sniffing wealthy-class butt'oles and licking wealthy-class boots, are the biggest part of the problems.
My greatest fears are for those of your friends, family members, and neighbors whom you will murder first when you wealthy-class overlords command you to.
You are the weakest link among the lowest common denominator of humans.
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Capitalism, Corporatism, & Fascism = minority-rule, authoritarianism, tyranny, and inequality.
Socialism, majority-rule, democratism, liberty, and equality.
I'll take the latter, every time.
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RW-politics are anti-working-class politics.
RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class politics.
ALL of US-politics, and MOST of international politics, are RW-politics.
Racism, sexism, misogyny, ethnocentrism, and theocracy are ALL systems of RW-politics.
Monarchism, Feudalism, Capitalism, Republicanism, Corporatism, & Fascism are ALL systems of RW-politics.
ALL systems of RW-politics involve the wealthy-class enslaving the working-class.
ALL systems of RW-politics eventually regress into the worst aspects of slavery.
All of RW-politics, and ALL of the people who vote for RWers, are pro-slavery.
Vote for the RW-extremist Repubs, for the fast, open-road to the wealthy-class enslaving the working-class.
Vote for the moderate-RW Dems, for the slower, disguised-road to the wealthy-class enslaving the working-class.
Vote for the RW-extremist Lolbertarians and the moderate-RW Greens for more of the same.
Only two political parties have been in control for my entire life (and for the last 100 years for that matter), and NEITHER of those two parties have solved ANY of the major problems that are faced by working-class people. In fact, quite the opposite.
BOTH parties have ALLOWED & ENABLED the wealthy-class to CAUSE the problems for the working-class.
ALL of US-politics and ALL of its political-parties, are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the indecent, wealthy-class knaves and their corrupt RW-politics of enslavement.
Furthermore, ALL of the biggest problems in the world, and MOST of the smaller problems, are caused by [a]the indecent, wealthy-class knaves & their corrupt RW-politics, and by [b]the indecent, working-class dupes, like you, who support the indecent, wealthy-class knaves & their corrupt RW-politics.
You've been so busy conforming to the indoctrination of the RW-propaganda that has been produced by your wealthy-class masters, you wouldn't even know LW-politics if its policies freed you from your own enslavement
Now, that's the most education you've gotten in decades, and your wealthy-class masters don't want you to learn -- just like they didn't want their slaves to learn during the Confederacy -- because they knew/know that stupid people make better slaves.
And, alas, your wealthy-RW masters have lifestyle-addictions that need to be satiated, and you can't be contributing to their production if you're wasting your time writing nonsense -- besides, your wealthy-class masters write more effective propaganda than you, anyway -- so get back to work, you dupe.
And don't forget to cast a RW-vote for your own RW-enslavement this RW-election season!
Oh, btw, congratulations...🥳
...you're an indecent, working-class moron. 😒
Just like your indecent, wealthy-class masters designed you to be, with their corrupt RW-politics.🙄
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That's RW-politics. And all RW-political-systems are just slavery with different names, whether it be the RW-system of Monarchism, Feudalism, Republicanism, Capitalism, Corporatism, or Fascism. Now, the question is; which RW-political-system do the operators of MorePerfectUnion want? Because they don't do a very good job of calling out the RW-systems of Republicanism, Capitalism, Corporatism, and/or Fascism by name.
At best, the operators of MorePerfectUnion are fools who are doing a disservice, by calling out corruption and exposing the problems & suffering caused by said corruption, but NOT calling out the name(s) of the RW-system(s) by which the corruption, problems & suffering are enabled to persist.
At worst, the operators of MorePerfectUnion are knaves who are purposely and purposefully NOT calling out the names of the RW-systems, because they benefit from the corruption that stems from their RW-sysytem of choice.
Whether ths operators of MorePerfectUnion are fools or knaves, neither is anything of which to be proud.
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@paulpollard9453 Hey Paul, I posted 3 replies in this comment-thread. In my first reply, I directly address "common sense" -- are you unable to see it? Just curious. (I'll post all 3 of my replies from above, just in case you can't them all.)
1. If people really want a society with "common sense," they'll agree that everyone in a society has to be educated "in common" -- common-schools with common-goals, common-requirements, and common-standards.
2. Undo the right-wing farce known as "No Child Left Behind" -- it has turned diplomas and graduations into participation-trophies. Failures shouldn't be allowed to pass. If a person doesn't comprehend the material, they stay until they do.
3. Undo the right-wing farce known as privatized schools. Private schools are how the wealthy-class maintains dominance and class-segregation -- they groom their wealthy-class kids to become manipulators, exploiters, and parasites (owners, investors, executives). Public schools for the working-class kids are then drained of resources -- working-class kids are groomed to become chattel-slaves(prisoners), debt-slaves(laborers), wage-slaves(supervisors), slave-patrollers(cops), or slave-k!llers(soldiers). Equality of opportunity in society starts with equality of education.
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The Democrat-party is a moderate-RW party.
The Republic-party is a RW-extremist party.
RW-politics are anti-working-class politics & pro-wealthy-class politics.
Vote for the RW-extremist Repubs, for the fast, open-road to the wealthy-class enslaving the working-class.
Vote for the moderate-RW Dems, for the slower, disguised-road to the wealthy-class enslaving the working-class.
BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the indecent, wealthy-class knaves & their corrupt RW-politics. And indecent, working-class dupes, like you, continue to vote for BOTH of the RW-parties.
Now, you be a good, little working-class dupe and get back to work -- your wealthy-class masters have addictions that need satisfying.
And don't forget to vote! 😃
🙄
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@ArmenianBishop While you're at it, look up the books by former military Major Danny Sjursen. He is a modern-day comparison to Smedly Butler. He was also a professor at West Point, and there are numerous interviews with him that you can search on YouTube.
Also, the books: "The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War" by Steven Kinzer and "The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the Cia, and the Rise of America's Secret Government" by David Talbot are worth reading.
America is nothing more than stolen-land turned into monarchistic-corporations run by right-wing, wealth-class, nepotistic gangster-addicts.
As for your voting record, I think it only proves your difficulties choosing between the right-wing Republic-party and the right-wing Democrat-party. Both parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the right-wing wealthy-class.
In America, because the Overton-window is an Overton-peephole, the citizens have been indoctrinated by wealthy-class propaganda to believe that liberalism and conservatism are very different. But in the better countries with better democracies, where there are actual working-class leftist political parties, liberalism is a right-wing ideology.
In those better countries, Reagen, Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama, Trump, Biden, McConnel, and Pelosi would all be in the same political party or parties to a coalition government. FFS, even the Canadian and UK right-wing political-parties are to the political-left of all the people listed above.
If you voted for the Libertarian right-wing extremists in 2020, that would only further prove your delusion. But, if by chance you voted for the centrist, slightly more working-class Green-party, maybe you're on the road toward recovery.
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@joshuaholmes7818 Part 1: Your claim that "Right vs. Left is so irrelevant..." is a prime example of American anti-intellectualism. There is, indeed, a difference between Right-wing and Left-wing politics. And RFKJr won't speak any truth about it.
1a.
Right-wing economic politics: Pro-wealthy-class minority-rule & Anti-working-class majority-rule.
Left-wing economic politics: Pro-working-class majority-rule & Anti-wealthy-class minority-rule.
1b.
Right-wing economic politics: A minority population of large-business owners rules the economy.
Left-wing economic politics: A majority population of small businesses rules the economy
1c.
Right-wing economic politics: Privatization of the economy, based on profits for the few people in the wealthy-class minority.
Left-wing economic politics: Nationalization of the economy, based on the needs of all people.
2a.
Right-wing social politics: Pro-hierarchy & Anti-equality
Left-wing social politics: Anti-hierarchy & Pro-equality.
2b.
Right-wing social politics: Autocracy.
Left-wing social politics: Democracy
3a.
Right-wing electoral politics: Pro-financial-corruption
Left-wing electoral politics: Anti-financial-corruption
3b.
America's right-wing electoral politics are evidenced by the pro-wealthy-class & anti-working-class leadership of BOTH the Republican AND Democratic Parties in America,
America's left-wing electoral politics are evidenced by... Well, there are no pro-working-class & anti-wealthy-class political parties in America.
And RFKJr won't explain that.
I could go on.
You said: "Most politicians on both sides accept millions in corporate money..."
Right. They do. Because most American politicians, on both sides, are wealthy-class right-wingers.
Both major American political parties, and most-to-all of the minor American political parties, are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class right-wingers.
MANY, and probably MOST, of the wealthy-class right-wing billionaires contribute to the campaigns of BOTH wealthy-right-wing millionaire Repubs and wealthy-right-wing millionaire Dems.
RFK won't expose that.
The Tea Party and Libertarian Party were started, and are funded, by wealthy-class right-wingers. Same for the "Freedom" Caucus[what a joke].
The Green Party was infiltrated by wealthy-class right-wingers [Jill Stein & company].
The DSA has also been infiltrated by wealthy-class right-wingers.
The Forward[regressive] Party is funded by and composed of wealthy-class right-wingers.
The Justice Democrats have been stifled by the wealthy-class right-wingers in the Dem party.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus is made up of MOSTLY wealthy-class right-wingers.
And RFKJr won't tell the truth about that.
But, still, here you are -- "LeFt vS. RiGhT iS sO iRrelEvAnT..." -- saying things that only a fool or a knave would say. And it's only less relevant to working-class Americans because there is no left-wing political power in America.
And the better, smarter working-class people of the world laugh at working-class Americans because working-class Americans are too stupid, and addicted, to comprehend it.
FFS...
The exploration of the American landscape was funded by wealthy-class, right-wing Europeans.
The theft of the American landscape from, and the genocide of, the Native rightful-owners was funded and perpetuated by wealthy-class, right-wing Europeans.
The writers of America's "founding" documents were wealthy-class, right-wing Europeans.
America IS NOW and has ALWAYS been an economically and socially right-wing country.
America IS NOT now and has NEVER been a Democracy. America has NEVER had a Universal-Suffrage. America is BARELY a Republic.
BOTH political parties have engaged in the negation of Democracy via voter suppression, gerrymandering, and campaign/electoral corruption.
BOTH political parties have been in a position to change those things, and BOTH parties NEVER have.
And RFKJr won't tell those truths.
Wealthy-class right-wing Repubs, Dems, & Kennedys have been in political power for many decades of my life, and NONE of them have eradicated poverty OR corruption. Because the only way the wealthy-class right-wing hierarchy continues is via corruption. And they depend on poverty to scare morons (like you, maybe?) from stepping out of line.
If you're really concerned with the financial corruption in American politics then these SCOTUS cases will help you:
1. Buckley [right-winger] v. Valeo (1976)
2. First National Bank of Boston [right-wingers] v. Belotti (1978)
3. McConnell [right-winger] v. FEC (2003)
4. Citizens United [right-wingers] v FEC (2010)
5. McCutcheon [right-winger] v. FEV (2013)
The decisions in those cases explain how the wealthy-class right-wingers legalized corruption in the U.S.
RFKJr won't say jack about those cases.
There is a seemingly working-class left-wing group of people -- Wolf-PAC -- who have been actively working in individual states for over a decade now, trying to provoke a Constitutional Amendment.
Wolf-PAC has received bipartisan support from BOTH right-wing political parties at the state-level, and they have made much progress over the past decade. But they receive NO support from the right-wing political parties at the national-level where corruption is most deeply rooted.
If you want to help, then Wolf-PAC is probably the best place to direct your efforts.
RFKJr won't share that.
To be continued...
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@joshuaholmes7818 Part 2: I could go on. But I'll try to wrap it up here.
The sooner you learn that you're making the same mistake that millions of working-class fools have made before you, the sooner you can make a decision:
A. Stop aiding and abetting the wealthy-class, right-wing minority, with whom you have very little in common, in their conquest for world domination via minority-rule and right-wing politics.
OR
B. Continue aiding and abetting the wealthy-class, right-wing minority in their conquest for world domination via minority-rule and right-wing politics, to the detriment of the working-class people with whom you have the most in common.
Choice "B" requires you to continue on your current path; verbally and textually fellating wealthy-class right-wingers -- like RFK, who are never going to let working-class fools, like you, into "the club" of the wealthy-class -- during which time you'll remain oblivious, wondering why your station in life remains stagnant and the wealthy-class keep getting wealthier.
Choice "A" requires actual work.
To comprehend right-wing versus left-wing politics, you'll need to learn:
1. Economic politics versus Social politics.
2. Autocracy versus Democracy.
3. Minority-rule versus Majority-rule
4. Social-authoritarianism versus Social-freedom
5. Nepotism versus Meritocracy
6. Work versus Labor
7. Wants versus Necessities.
8. Hyperbole versus Nuance.
9. Propaganda versus Information
10. Opinions versus Facts
11. Class consciousness.
12. Power structures.
13. The context of international & historical politics.
RFK doesn't want people to know those things.
Those topics will be difficult to study in America, due to the infections of anti-intellectualism, anti-internationalism, and anti-history.
And it's obvious that you're a victim of the wealthy-class, right-wing propaganda of American-exceptionalism, so you're going to have a long road of learning ahead of you.
There are many more topics to study (learning is a lifelong process), but that list is a good start.
And that's ok. You're not alone. There are LITERALLY tens-of-millions of duped American fools, just like you. For example:
In the last American election for POTUS, 150+ million American fools voted for wealthy-class right-winger Trump and wealthy-class right-winger Biden. And a little more than half of those 150+ million fools (like you) thought they were voting for a left-wing candidate (Biden is a right-winger).
RFKJr certainly won't share that with his followers.
Politics, like most things, has been studied for centuries.
The politics & policies of tribes, communities, kingdoms, nations, and empires have been recorded, saved, stored, lost & found, transcribed & re-transcribed, compiled, studied, examined, sorted, and exposed by intelligent people for centuries.
From those centuries of political scholarship, a scale of politics has been solidified to help intelligent people discuss and comprehend politics in historical and international contexts.
And just because there are working-class Americans with child-brains stuck in adult-sized bodies, with six-month-old YouTube accounts, whose shallow-knowledge renders them incapable of comprehending the depths of which they are unaware, doesn't mean it isn't so.
You won't hear about any of that from RFKJr.
Because he doesn't want to end up like his father and uncle.
So, instead, he has capitulated to the wealthy-class right-wingers who "did in" his father and uncle.
He isn't "the only candidate" saying jack about anything -- he's a broken right-wing record on a wealthy-class record player.
And his attempts at preaching "populism" are as transparent as Trump's, and working-class American fools are falling for it, just like the working-class American fools who fell for Trump.
And, now, just like the rest of the wealthy-class right-wingers, RFKJr relies on your ignorance to maintain his position in the economic/social hierarchies.
He, and they, LOVE hearing working-class American fools say ignorant things, like: "LeFt vS. RiGhT iS sO iRrelEvAnT..."
He and the other wealthy-class right-wingers are mentally-ill addicts, addicted to greed and so much more.
They would sooner sabotage your working-class family, friends, neighbors, and community, or murder the lot of you than give up their addictions.
Better yet, they would rather convince working-class fools, like you, to do it to yourselves so they don't have to.
And, in fact, they HAVE already convinced working-class fools, like you, to do it to yourselves so they don't have to.
Wealthy-class right-wingers have been doing this all throughout history, and they will NEVER stop.
Just like all of the wealthy-class right-wingers throughout history, he, and they, will NEVER, EVER willingly give up their addictions. Just like the right-wing Nazis and right-wing Confederates wouldn't.
RFKJr won't tell the truth about anything I've written, because he benefits from working-class fools, like you, believing lies.
But you think it's irrelevant.
Good luck with that.
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@joshuaholmes7818 It seems we agree on the state of American politics (the first five or six sentences of your response). I apologize for any incorrect correlation or accusation I levied against you. It seems I miscalculated your grasp on the situation.
Now -- in contrast to you being a "single issue voter" -- I'm a NON-VOTER.
Yes, you read that correctly: I do not vote. I'm probably done voting in this life.
My reasons are my own -- they're spiritually and morally rooted -- and most people don't agree with me. And that's ok.
Moving on; I agree with your sentiment on the merger of state and corporate power.
But I don't blame "the merger" in and of itself -- a merger isn't a tangible object, it is not a living thing, just like a corporation isn't a living thing.
I blame the corrupt people who are pushing the corrupt merger -- they are very tangible, and very much alive. And, as far as my brain can tell, this corrupt merger has been going on since the beginning of America.
Capitalism is a right-wing economic ideology. And America's founders, by my estimation, were Capitalists.
Corruption is baked into the Capitalist system. Wealthy right-wing Capitalists have indoctrinated most people with the idea that competition is virtuous. But there is no virtue in participating in a corrupted competition.
The wealthy-class has invaded every facet of life with competition. And competition, like Capitalism, necessitates winners and losers.
The founders were certainly some of the winners of their time. And they were only able to win so big because other people lost so much.
And, from what I know about history, there is no amount of voting that will undo the right-wing corruption of wealthy-class addicts and their armies of working-class addicts.
In fact, historically, there seems to be only one thing that has relieved right-wing addicts from their corruption and addictions.
But, alas, I am non-violent and anti-violence.
So I won't be putting on a Union or Allied uniform to participate in the modern-day advance against right-wing extremism.
My refusal to participate in violence is concurrent with my refusal to participate in voting.
I won't do it.
Not if it's legislated.
Not if I'm conscripted.
Not if I'm forced.
Not at all.
Wrapping up now.
You said: "I'll support a candidate who is talking about addressing financial corruption in any capacity..."
That seems principled. I would encourage you to stick with that.
You asked: "...because I don't see any other candidate saying anything like that. Are there any?"
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Well, Williamson has talked about that. And so has Bernie Sanders and AOC. But so has Matt Gaetz and MTG. (So, you know, grain-of-salt, and whatnot.)
You said: "If so, point me in that direction..."
If I knew of a candidate who was actively speaking out against the merger of corporate-state corruption, AND if I knew that such a candidate was successfully persuading working-class people away from the right-wing political parties, I would point you in their direction. BUT...
I would also suggest that you stand at least 100-yards away from that candidate. For your own safety, if you catch my drift.
You asked: "Are there any presidential candidates that you support?"
Jokingly, I support the sweet release of my own end.
But, seriously? No. There are no candidates I support.
Bernie was the closest, but I didn't vote for him.
As far as I can tell, Bernie has capitulated to the right-wing. Bernie lived through the first "Red-Scare" and McCarthyism. I presume he's decided that he doesn't want himself or his family to be victims of the next one.
So, I am even less inclined to vote for him than I was in 2016/2020. And even then, I wasn't very inclined.
I guess I'm not much help. :)
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That's called "accelerationism" -- voting for the fast-road to fascism by electing the right-wing Republic-party, instead of voting for the slow-road to fascism by electing the right-wing Democrat-party.
But, the more that power is centralized into the hands of the wealthy-class minority under fascism, the sooner the working-class majority will have their rights taken away.
And, the faster that power is centralized into the hands of the wealthy-class minority under fascism, the more difficult it will be for the working-class majority to reclaim their rights.
(See the wealthy-class NotZ-fascists and the subsequent war in which working-class people had to fight and die to reclaim their rights.)
Most people have fallen for the illusion that the "dems" need to "sort their sh!te out," when, in reality, the wealthy-class owners and leadership of the Democrat-party have their sh!te perfectly sorted. They are working cooperatively behind the scenes with the wealthy-class owners and leadership of the Republic-party.
(Look up the video on the "Ratchet Effect" by Second Thought for a more comprehensive explanation of how Dems and Repubs work together to keep the country moving in a right-wing direction.)
Both parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class right-wingers. You can be sure that right-wing Fascism is the goal of the wealthy-class, right-wing owners and leadership of both parties.
Understanding these things is like figuring out which character is the killer in a murder-mystery before finishing the book/movie: Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
I understand that accelerationism is a political-strategy. But to use your vote to enable the implementation of that strategy, in hopes of instigating change, is to ensure that already-suffering people will suffer more.
I could go on, but I've already wasted enough of your time. So, I'll end with this:
Vote (or don't vote) however you want. But you better believe that your vote is directly related to your culpability in the speed of expansion of human suffering.
If you choose to vote for Republicans, I hope that the impending expansion of suffering won't bring about new or greater suffering for you or the people you care about most.
Good day, and best of luck to you in the upcoming, seemingly-unavoidable, slide into full-blown, wealthy-class fascism.
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@zwicker5585 I can see how I may have misunderstood OP's comment, but I think there are much bigger problems, here. Such as:
(1)OP can't, didn't, and/or doesn't write more clearly, and probably won't ever learn to.
(2)OP hasn't set the record straight, because they are either [a]unwilling to respond, or [b]incapable of learning how to respond (that's like knowing how to get mail while being incapable of sending mail, or knowing how to take a phone-call but not being able to use the same phone to call anyone else).
But I'm not just going to take-back or delete my comment without contextual-clarification. There are a couple-few indecent, working-class dupes who have outed themselves by spewing RW-propaganda, and that compelled some decent working-class people to write retorts to the RW-propagandists.
In fact, I'll double-down on my comment with the following: Vulnerable, decent & intelligent working-class people need to avoid, and get away from, the indecent & ignorant working-class dupes who support the indecent & intelligent wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics.
I appreciate you pointing out the possibility that I misunderstood OPs comment, but my reply-comment still stands. But I'll go back and edit it, a little.
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I've been watching this channel for about eight years, and Cenk has ALWAYS claimed to be a Capitalist. And Capitalism is a RW-economic system. Cenk is just another moderate-RW Conservative who uses progressive language. Just like many Repubs & Dem politicians.
Also, look up the RW-extremist owner/founder of P0lym@rket. They are Cenk's newest billionaire-fascist sponsors. And ever since they became a sponsor, Cenk's rhetoric has moved even more to the RW, such as starting to refer to DT as "President."
Cenk, and Ana for matter, are the "white moderates" who MLKJr warned about in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
Edit: The founder of P0lym@rket may not be a billionaire -- but he's backed by billionaire crypto-fascists like PeterThiel. And Thiel is in cahoots with JDVance.
So, let's recap the connection between moderate-RW Cenk and RW-extremist fascists...
Cenk is sponsored by P0lymarket.
P0lymarket is financed by the fascist PeterThiel.
PeterThiel is a friend and donor to the fascist JDVance.
Cenk is a moderate-RW Capitalist who has gotten into bed with RW-extremist fascists. And that's not surprising to anyone who understands that RW-politics are the politics of wealthy-class greed & working-class ensl@vement.
Capitalism leads to Corporatism, Corporatism leads to Cronyism, and Cronyism leads to Fascism. And ALL of those systems disproportionately benefit the wealthy-class, to the disproportionate detriment of the working-class.
Which reminds me: Cenk is also a union-buster -- he tried to stop his employees from unionizing for better treatment.
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If the shortsighted, wealthy-class, right-wing-extremist, American colonizers hadn't armed the Israelis, Palestinians, and entire region to the teeth, then those wealthy-class, right-wing-extremist, American colonizers could have taken over all of the Middle East by now.
I mean, the wealthy-class, right-wing-extremist, American colonizers are definitely planning to take it over, but they could have done it decades ago if the parasitic, wealthy-class, right-wing addicts weren't such morons.
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@rameneater1437 Your statement is exactly the kind of evidence needed to justify why undeveloped child-brains shouldn't be able to run for the elected-offices which create the policies affecting people's lives.
STOP blaming your working-class mates of other generations. They are under the same control of the wealthy-class as you are.
Couple your ignorant statement with all of the other evidence presented by the Madison-Cawthorn's of the world and a strong case is made as to why people shouldn't be able to hold elected-office until at least 25 years old, and probably shouldn't be until 30-years-old.
As a 19-year-old yourself, your job should be to keep your body as healthy as possible to promote healthy brain development, thus increasing your learning capacity. Thus enriching your abilities to observe, report, reflect, reason, and react, not only in local contexts but international contexts, not only in present contexts but historical contexts, as well.
No substance consumption or abuse.
No owning high-powered or high-capacity firearms.
No operating vehicles over a given size.
And probably a plethora of other restrictions that could be set to preserve human-life and mitigate natural-resources.
This means no holding positions of power or authority over anyone.
No making decisions that affect the lives of the more-vulnerable and least-fortunate.
This means no holding national-offices before 30 years old, after the brain has reached its stage of peak development.
If local municipalities want to entrust their communities to the under-developed child-brains, then that could be decided by the adult-brains in a given municipality.
But, if the larger-constituencies at the state or federal level have to come in and save local municipalities because the adult-brains let the child-brains screw everything up, then those local municipalities shall revert to the standard of adult-brains being responsible for holding positions of elected-office.
I'm not ageist, nor am I ableist, racist, or sexist -- I have zero problem electing people younger or more disabled than I am, nor people of a different race, sex, or gender than I.
But I absolutely DO have a problem being governed by underdeveloped child-brains.
This country has been screwed up since its inception, and it is because of the underdeveloped child-brains of wealthy-class addicts who funded the exploration, raping, pillaging, and genocide on this land.
The wealthy-class addicts who funded these atrocities in the past are the same wealthy-class who control America in the present.
The corrupt wealthy-class that has controlled governments throughout history is the same wealthy-class that controls America in the present.
The working-class people of America and the world are already screwed up enough, and it is because of the child-brains.
The child-brained addicts of the wealthy-class minority have co-opted the child-brained, working-class dupes into voting for two right-wing political parties that are both bought, owned, funded, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class.
Whether a person is 19-years old or 100-year-old, anyone in the working-class who claims loyalty to either of those two wealthy-class political parties is a dupe who enables the oppression of themselves, their friends, families, neighbors, and communities.
At your age, you're less likely and able to comprehend these things.
At your age, you're more susceptible to being duped and co-opted into assisting the wealthy-class.
I'm not voting for that.
At your age, the best thing you can do, if you're really interested in the policies that affect people's lives, is to educate yourself on the international and historical contexts of socioeconomic struggle, oppression, and liberation.
It is going to take a LONG time to undo the propagandist-indoctrination of the working-class that has been perpetuated by the wealthy-class.
It is going to take a LONG time to sober up the working-class people who strive to be like the wealthy-class addicts.
It is going to take a LONG time to teach and ingrain the class-consciousness and working-class solidarity that exists in other, better parts of the world.
Your job is to learn about these things.
But for the love of majority-rule and democracy, STOP blaming your fellow working-class mates from the previous generation who have been rendered incapable of noticing their own oppression and unable to identify the wealthy-class causes of that oppression.
STOP blaming your working-class mates of other generations. Your working-class mates are under the same control of the same wealthy-class addicts and addictions as you are.
STOP kicking-down and elbowing side-to-side at the working-class people who are most like you.
START punching up.
There are COUNTLESS working-class champions from previous generations who are already punching up, and have been doing so since before you were a couple of gametes.
Just because you don't know about those champions from previous generations who are already punching up, that doesn't equate to everything being left up to your generation.
You not knowing about those champions from previous generations who are already punching up makes you ignorant
The ignorance that accompanies your child-brain is why you shouldn't be able to hold elected-office.
But I love that you care.
I'm getting to be an old man.
I know what happens to the working-class when they have no class-consciousness or class-solidarity.
It's happening in America right before our eyes, with the most modern case-study beginning in the Roaring 1920s right up until today.
I know about the Red-Scare and Red-Lining. I'm getting to the point where I won't be able to run from future iterations of those things. History doesn't repeat itself (that's physically impossible), but history rhymes, and is cyclical.
If something isn't done to stop the wealthy-class, America is destined for similar fates to The Roman Empire and The Third Reich. But before those wealthy-class debacles were defeated, the working-class suffered, and the most-vulnerable and least-fortunate suffered the most.
I'm not voting for anyone who doesn't understand these things.
I would rather vote for no one and accept my fate than vote for the ignorant or the impressionable who can be co-opted into sealing my fate.
As I said, I love that you care. But so do I care. You're not alone.
I care about you and about other strangers too -- particularly the most-vulnerable and the least-fortunate.
I promise, my intent isn't to discourse but to encourage and edify you.
If you made it this far, I commend you.
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"They" will kill, maim, sabotage, and/or cage as many working-class humans as it takes to maintain their addictions.
You might ask, who "they" are...
"They" are the wealthy-class addicts. They will use their wealth to fabricate pretexts for wars, manufacture false-scarcity, produce propaganda to put on the "news" outlets they own, and numerous other tactics to distract the working-class.
"They" also refers to the working-class class-traitors who are addicts, too, striving to become members of the club of wealthy-class addicts. They will volunteer to fight in the fabricated wars, fear the manufactured scarcity, and fall for the propaganda. They are the working-class dupes co-opted by the wealthy-class. They will murder whomever their wealthy-class masters tell them to.
"They" -- the wealthy-class and the working-class class-traitors-- will never willingly give up their addictions, no matter how many working-class people they have to die.
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@TheRogueEmpire Huh... In my life, the pro-lynching folks are the opposite of commies. Maybe I've misunderstood you, or perhaps you've miscommunicated.
And just for the sake of clarification for any wandering readers:
A "commie" is a communist, and a "cappie" would be a capitalist.
Communism is the opposite of capitalism.
Communism is on the left and capitalism on the right.
Communism is a democratic system of majority-rule, and capitalism is an autocratic system of minority-rule or mob-rule.
That being said:
The only people I've ever known to defend slavery/lynching with the "States' Rights" argument, have been authoritarian capitalist right-wingers. Not democratic communist left-wingers. Coincidentally, or not, all the "States' Rights" racists I know are capitalists -- the opposite of communists
The only people I've ever known to defend child abuse with the "Parental Rights" argument, have been authoritarian capitalist right-wingers. Not democratic communist left-wingers. Coincidentally, or not, the only "Parental Rights" child-abusers I know are capitalists -- the opposite of communists.
The only people I've ever known to defend unfettered exploitation and manipulation with the "Privacy Rights" argument, have been authoritarian capitalist right-wingers. Not communist left-wingers.
The only people who have ever abused and neglected me are authoritarian capitalist right-wingers.
The only people who have ever tortured and excluded me are authoritarian capitalist right-wingers.
The only people who have ever enslaved and disenfranchised me are authoritarian capitalist right-wingers.
The only people who have ever molested and r@p*d me are authoritarian capitalist right-wingers.
The only people who have ever starved and poisoned me are authoritarian capitalist right-wingers.
The only people who have ever slandered and defamed me are authoritarian capitalist right-wingers.
And those authoritarian capitalist right-wingers did all those things to me in private (except for the disenfranchisement, slander, and defamation -- that was all done in public).
Democratic communist left wingers have never done anything to me.
In fact, I don't think it's a coincidence, at all, that the only "groomers," "welfare-queens," and "thugs" I've ever known have all been straight, wh!te, cis-gendered, right-wing, authoritarian capitalists. The opposite of left-wing communists.
All of the worst, most vile, most heinous, infantile-brained adults who I know, are all authoritarian capitalist right-wingers. Not communist left wingers.
All of the walking-talking-breathing pieces of human-excrement who I know -- those whose mouths could win thespian awards for acting like ten-pound diapers trying to contain a hundred-pounds of sh!te -- are all authoritarian capitalist right-wingers. Not communist left wingers.
So, maybe you made a mistake when you said "these commies will string you up," or, perhaps, I've just misunderstood you.
Or, maybe, your mouth has a full ten-pound load and you're trying to win an award.
I'm not sure which, and I almost don't care.
The most important thing for any wandering readers to realize is this:
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class politics.
Right-wing politics are anti-working-class politics.
And one of the ways that the wealthy-class right-wingers maintained chattel-slavery and capitalism in the past was through privacy -- by keeping their atrocities private.
And one of the ways the wealthy-class right-wingers maintain wage-slavery and capitalism in the present is through privacy -- by keeping their atrocities private.
The wealthy-class right-wingers want to maintain unfettered privacy so they can privately continue the human-manipulation and labor-exploitation that is necessary for capitalism to exist and persist.
The wealthy-class, right-wing, capitalist addicts are responsible for the world's problems.
And the only thing as bad as a wealthy-class right-winger is class-traitor.
A class traitor is a working-class fool who votes for, and spews the propaganda of, wealthy-class right-wingers.
A class traitor is a working-class fool who suffers from the same addictions as the wealthy-class right-wingers, although in smaller doses.
A class-traitor is a working-class fool who won't sacrifice their standard of living (just like the wealthy-class right-wingers won't), even if their sacrifice would help others with lower standards of living.
A working-class class-traitor is no better than an authoritarian wealthy-class right-winger.
Neither is anything to be proud of.
Good day.
**Edit**
To TheRogueEmpire:
If I've misunderstood your reply, then I do apologize. If you amend your reply to include more context, to make more sense, then I'll delete my retort seen above.
However, if I haven't misunderstood you, and you're just another foolish, working-class, right-wing tool, you can go have intercourse with a hobbit's pickle slicer and then jump in a pool of salt.
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@JuggaloNY It's been a series of SCOTUS decisions that put inequitable power into the hands of the wealthy-class-RWers and basically turned the entire working-class into a state of permanent slavery. I'll list the cases below:
Buckley v. Valeo (1976): This decision ruled that the government putting limitations on election expenditures by individual-citizens is unconstitutional -- so the government can no longer limit how much money an individual can spend on elections. So, now, the wealthy-class-RWers can spend as much money as they want, to produce as much propaganda as they want, for electoral purposes. Basically, the Court ruled that "money is speech" (and there are no laws against telling lies). So, now, the wealthy-class-RWers can use as much of their money as they want to promote lies on TV, on the internet, and in publications, and no one can stop them.
First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti (1978): This decision basically ruled that everything about the Buckley v. Valeo decision that applied to individual-citizens now also applies to private-corporations, too. So, now, not only can the individual wealthy-class-RW citizens use their own personal money to engage in unlimited deception in campaigns & elections, but, the same wealthy-class-RWers who own & control the businesses & corporations in the country, can also use the money that belongs to the business-entity to produce deceptive-propaganda as well. This decision basically gave free-speech/money-is-speech rights to business & corporate entities.
McConnell V. Federal Election Commission (2003): This is a case with lots of "moving-parts." But the wealthy-class-RWers came out on top again. It's worth understanding the decision(s) in this case, because it shaped how we've gotten to where we are. And, where we are, is right on the cusp of fascism.
McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission (2014): The decision in this case expanded on the rulings in the Buckley & First National Bank of Boston. The decisions in those previous cases allowed unlimited money to be spent on propaganda regarding policies and elections. But the decision in McCutcheon ruled that limitations directly to the campaigns of candidates were also unconstitutional. It basically expanded on the idea that money is speech, and that the government passing laws to limit wealthy-class-RW people from spending their money on bribing candidates who are running for electoral offices, is a violation of the First Amendment.
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010): One of the most consequential cases/decisions in US history, and absolutely important to know. It expanded on most/all of the unfair rulings/decisions on the cases above. Solidified the power of the wealthy-class in society. To use an analogy: if the previous cases & decisions paved the roadway for fascism, the decision in this case paved the runway for fascism. Or, rather, it built the rocketship to fascism.
The decisions in all of these cases disproportionately benefited the populace-minority made up of wealthy-class-RWers, and they disproportionately burdened the populace-majority made up of working-class people.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and those SCOTUS cases and their decisions did more than just what I've written. And I may not have even adequately described the things I tried to describe. But you can definitely find plenty of information on the cases above.
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@jean-dd5lu If you think that the RW-extremist Repubs AREN'T corrupt, but the moderate-RW Dems ARE the ONLY ones who are corrupt, then you're just as ignorant as you've been designed to be, by the corrupt wealthy-class with their corrupt RW-politics.
BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed & controlled by the same corrupt wealthy-class.
And you're over here talking about the degree to which the other party is more corrupt, as if the party-owners & party-leaders aren't all advocates for the inherently corrupt, RW-economic systems of Capitalism, Corporatism, & Fascism.
They're all in on the ruse together, and you working-class dupes in the US continue to vote for BOTH of those corrupt, RW-political parties.
It's really quite amazing, the lack of general education and self/situational awareness.
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Yup. The corrupt, moderate-RW Dems were given permission by their corrupt, wealthy-RW donors, to give away a moderate amount of student-loan forgiveness, in hopes that it would act as a pacifier to lull the working-class dupes back to sleep-walking, producing & consuming. Faiz Shakir (like Stephen Miller) could easily be an offspring of Joseph Goebbels & Eva Braun. Because, as long as RW-channels like this continue to prop up Capitalism -- instead of exposing the inherent corruption in, and calling for the abolition of, Capitalism -- then a regression back into Fascism will be their eventual result.
Vote for the wealthy, RW-extremist Repubs, for the fast, open-road from corrupt-Capitalist enslavement to corrupt-Fascist enslavement.
Vote for the wealthy, moderate-RW Dems, for the slower, disguised-road from corrupt-Capitalist enslavement to corrupt-Fascist enslavement.
BOTH political parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class and their corrupt RW-politics.
All RW-political systems are systems of enslavement.
The moderate-RW Dems want to maintain Capitalism, to maintain a moderate amount of slavery.
The RW-extremist Dems want to regress into Fascism, to bring about a greater amount of slavery.
Faiz, and his moderate-RW Capitalist cronies at More Same-Old Union, want you to vote for their moderate-RW Dem slavery.
They, and this channel, are disgusting.
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Adorable. You people think Democrat-party leadership cares if you don't support them over a social agenda. They don't care.
If you don't support the Democrat-party, that will make it easier for the Republic-party to win, thus making it easier to push through the pro-wealthy-class and anti-working-class economic agenda on which the Republic&Democrat party-leadership both agree.
Both parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class.
Of course, the American sh!tehole was funded and founded by the wealthy-class, but in this most recent iteration of wealthy-class corruption and control, the Repubs have been owned for a century, and the Dems have been owned by the same wealthy-class since the Buckley v. Valeo SCOTUS ruling in 1976.
You've been living under the rule of two pro-wealthy-class, anti-working-class parties for nearly 40 years. If either party "goes down" there is still the other party to do the economic bidding of the wealthy-class.
I could go on, but it's as futile trying to explain the historical and international contexts of politics to right-wing Democrat-liberals as it is trying to explain it to right-wing Republican-liberals, neither of whom understand that liberalism is a right-wing political ideology.
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I can't tell if you're an floundering-fool or a knowing-knave, but I'll answer anyway...
Because a state is nothing without the individuals who wield the power of the state for evil, just like corporations are nothing without the evil wealthy individuals who lead them. And, in America, like all other right-wing states, the state IS corrupted by evil, wealthy right-wing individuals.
Your question is like asking, "WhY dO yOu bLaMe ThE iNdiViDuAL fOr bEaTiNg tHe aNiMaL WiTh ThE sTiCk wHeN iT iS tHe FoReSt tHaT pRovIdEs ThE sTicK???
Without an individual, a stick is just a stick.
Without individuals, a state is nonexistent.
But with an evil person, the stick and the state become weapons for misery.
It isn't the state that is evil because it is the state.
It is the people who are evil who use the state for evil.
People ARE to blame for evil -- NOT the state.
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In a word: Nothing. Nothing happened to "your" democracy.
The U.S. is NOT now, nor has it EVER been a democracy. FFS, the U.S, sh!thole is barely even a republic.
At best, the U.S. was an oligarchy; a feudalist&capitalist police-state, with meaningless selective-suffrage, while chattel-slaves, debt-slaves, and wage-slaves from the working-class lived under the minority-rule of wealthy-class right-wingers.
At worst, the U.S. has been a kakistocracy; a nepotistic&plutocratic military-state, with meaningless theatrical-suffrage, while chattel-slaves, debt-slaves, and wage-slaves from the working-class live under the minority-rule of wealthy-class right-wingers.
This "democracy" you speak of has NEVER existed in the U.S. shthole.
You've been indoctrinated with lies by the wealthy right-wing propagandists who own the media companies -- ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and FOX are ALL owned by wealthy right-wingers.
And those wealthy right-wingers who own the propagandist & indoctrinating media corporations are the same wealthy right-wingers who fund the moderate right-wing DNC and the extremist right-wing RNC.
Those same wealthy right-wingers also fund the facade-fringe parties: the ultra-right-wing extremist "Libertarian" party, and the center-right DSA party.
The Libertarian party is actually anti-libertarian in concept, and they are even more extremist than the Repub party.
And the center-right DSA party is basically of the same ideology as the 1930s-1980s Democrats, and they are not really DemSoc at all.
And wealthy right-wingers "donate" to the leading campaigns of the candidates in ALL of the parties. But those wealthy right-wingers aren't simply "donating" to those campaigns -- they are INVESTING in the politicians, and in other, better countries, those donation-investments are called bribes.
Those wealthy right-wingers aren't donating to/investing in the candidates because they believe in democracy.
Those wealthy right-wingers are investing in/bribing the candidates because they believe in autocracy.
And it is this unregulated system of campaign-finance that allows the wealthy right-wingers to continue their corrupt system of minority-rule.
And minority-rule is autocracy -- NOT democracy.
It is not only the right-wing Repubs, right-wing Dems, right-wing Libertarians, and right-wing DSAs that are corrupted by wealthy right-wingers. It is the ENTIRETY of the U.S. sh!thole that is corrupted by wealthy right-wingers.
ALL of the U.S. -- and 98% of the seats of political power throughout the world -- are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the same group of right-wingers from the wealthy-class minority.
And the wealthy right-wing minority absolutely DOES NOT "govern" the world via the majority-rule of democracy -- they "dictate" the world via the minority-rule of autocracy. The U.S. has ALWAYS operated this way.
Sorry -- that I have to be the one to let you know the ignorance you're spewing -- not sorry.
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Anyone not advocating for a decrease in GDPs and Consumption is just a RWer, whether they realize they are or not. The Green Party is NOT advocating for a decrease in decrease in GDPs and Consumption, because it's a RW-shill operation.
The Green party is just like the Libertarian Party, the Tea Party, and the Freedom Caucus. They are ALL bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics. Just like the RW-extremist Repub party and the moderate-RW Dem party.
Working-class people need to stop voting for, and stop striving to be like, wealthy-RWers.
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@ernststravoblofeld Right? It's like, "Vote center-right blue for the slow road to fascism, or vote right-wing red for the fast road to fascism."
I say, F*kc No to both. I'm not voting for any of the evils.
Nancy's underdeveloped, lesser-of-two-evils, line of thinking is why America is a wealthy-class right-winger's hellscape-paradise.
She can go get... Well, you get the idea.
Edit: Both the Repubocrat and Demlican parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class right-wingers. If a person doesn't comprehend that, it's just another indicator of underdevelopment.
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The thing(s) that lukeolson5177 and indricotherium4802 are hypothesizing about have already been extensively studied and solidified, by experts in academia, with words like indoctrination, hegemony, sadism, masochism, superiority-complex, sociopathy, psychopathy, sabotage, genocide, group-think, tribalism, and cognitive dissonance.
This is why education is so important -- these two are wasting time, stumbling over concepts that should be understood before a person is allowed to graduate high school.
It's not the fault of lukeolson5177 and indricotherium4802 that they don't know these concepts already, but it sure is disheartening to watch them struggle to identify these concepts that have already been thoroughly explained.
E for effort -- or some such hyperbole -- I guess.
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Exactly, if the working-class dupes in the US are going to continue electing wealthy-RW celebrities, it's just going to make it easier for the wealthy-class to sell the US to the wealthy-RWers in Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, and Oman. John Stewert should stay in his lane, just like Trump, Reagan, Schwarzenegger, Allred, Tuberville, and so many others should have.
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Wealthy-class RWers caused that. It's NOT the fault of the working-class Teamsters; it IS the fault of the corrupt authoritarians from the wealthy-class, with their corrupt RW-politics. And you're too ignorant to comprehend the facts.
All the biggest problems in the world, and most of the smaller problems, are caused by (a)the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics, and by (b)the indecent, working-class dupes who support the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics.
That is what wealthy-class authoritarians, with the help of working-class dupes (like you) are who caused the problems with the Teamster's pension-fund.
The wealthy-RWers connived & lied. They took the money out of the Teamsters pension-fund and moved it FROM a safe, savings-account system, TO a risky stock-market, ponzi-sceme system. The wealthy-RW stockholders made out like bandits, and the working-class laborers suffered.
And working-class dupes, like you, supported the wealthy-RWers.
The wealthy-RWers have been very successful at decimating education for working-class people. The wealthy-class has rendered so many working-class dupes, like you, into a condition of such ignorance, that you are incapable of comprehending the truth.
You're so ignorant, you have been led to blame other working-class people for things they had no control over.
If I were as dumb as you, I would wonder what else you're capable of doing to innocent working-class people -- but I'm not as dumb as you -- I already know exactly what you'll do when your wealthy-RW masters tell you to.
You'll do ANYTHING that you're told to do, like a good, little working-class dupe. You're just like the working-class dupes who volunteered to be soldiers in the RW-Confedrate & RW-Nat-C militaries, both of which were funded by the wealthy-RWers.
So, congratulations...🥳
...you're exactly as dumb as the wealthy-class has designed you to be, with their corrupt, RW-politics.🙄
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Schultz's willingness to oppress working-class people (like Nazis did), is as disgusting as the African-Americans who are willing to oppress working-class people in their communities (like slave-patrollers did).
Schultz is a descendant of the oppressed, working-class, Jewish victims of the enslavement and genocide perpetrated against them by Nazis. People like Schultz enslaved and murdered his ancestors.
African-American LEOs are the descendants of the oppressed, working-class, African victims of enslavement and genocide perpetrated against them by Confederate, American and European slave-patrollers. People like African-American LEOs enslaved and murdered their ancestors.
The phrase, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," comes to mind.
Schultz is a perfect example of the phrase, "If you can't beat the Nazis, join the Nazis."
African-American LEOs are perfect examples of the phrase, "If you can't beat the slave-patrollers, then join the slave-patrollers."
If I was a proponent of hyperbole, I might say something like:
"The murdered ancestors of Schultz and African-American LEOs are rolling over so fast in their graves, I'm surprised the Earth hasn't spun off its own axis and flung itself out of orbit."
But I'm not hyperbolic -- hyperbole is part of the propagandist tool-chest used by wealthy-class right-wingers -- and I'm not a wealthy-class right-winger.
So, instead, I'll say something like:
"Schultz acts like he's trying to help the Nazis win the war, over a hundred years later. And African-American LEOs act like they're trying to help the Confederates win the war, over 150 years later.
But one thing is certain, and that is that both Schultz and African-American LEOs are acting to help right-wing Conservatives to conserve their white-supremacist power under the inequitable system of Capitalism.
F*kc 'em all.
And f*kc anyone who disagrees."
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+Breaking House - I think you confuse the manufactured state of poverty with the minimalism of simple living.
If you think that the Native American populations -- the murdered owners of this country that colonialism set about suppressing and have since been oppressing and imprisoning -- were living in poverty, you are a fool.
If you think that the tribal people of the present world -- the societies of present-day whose lives are driven by necessities that are obtained by self-labor rather than being driven by necessities and luxuries which are obtained through the labor of others -- are living in poverty, you are a fool.
They were living more simple and more environmentally conservative lives. Sure some natives were also tyrannical in their nature, but they were foolish, egotists by comparison, to the more passive and altruistic natives. The egotist natives are the ones who earned the entire group the label of 'savages' as given by the equally savage, equally egotist, foolish colonists.
Hierarchy exists among fools and animals. Humans are certainly comparable to animals, but it's obvious that we are very different. Humans have the ability to choose ego or altruism, animalism or humanism.
Choosing ego will certainly cause one to digress into an animal-like state and the more humans that choose ego over altruism, the more our society will digress into pack behavior and gang mentality.
Egotists who progress too far into an animal-like state cannot maintain a human pack or a human gang and are thus seen as LESS animalistic than the egotists who can maintain the human pack or gang, which is exactly how other egotists implement an animalistic hierarchy amongst themselves. But all the altruists see are a bunch of poor, sad fools.
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@johnpglackin345 ⬅ This is what fools and knaves sound like.
John is either a fool or a knave.
John is either:
A) A working-class fool who really believes the wealthy-class, right-wing, propagandist lies he's spewing, and he's doing the work of the wealthy-class for free because he's been duped...
OR
B) A working-class knave who gets paid by the wealthy-class to knowingly spread propagandist lies; he's pretending to believe the lies in hopes of turning more working-class fools into dupes who will then spread the propagandist lies for free.
But, whether working-class John is an unpaid fool or a paid knave, he's a class-traitor doing the bidding of the wealthy-class.
Whether he's a fool or a knave, neither is anything to be proud of nor aspire to be.
And while we do need to know who the fools and knaves are in our personal lives, it doesn't matter who John is because he's not in our lives directly. The important thing that matters is to realize and remember that John's right-wing, wealthy-class propaganda is nonsense.
If the majority of good people vote for governments, societies, and communities to be based on mandatory charity through taxation and democracy, then it should be so.
I think the good majority of working-class people are tired of living under the mob-rule of the wealthy-class, right-wing minority, and the duped class-traitors from the working-class who have been co-opted to do the bidding of the wealthy-class right-wingers.
I think the good majority of working-class people are tired of the wealthy-class, right-wing kakistocracy always acting like the sh!tt!est kids on the playground, constantly whining about having to do the right thing.
I think the good majority of working-class people are done waiting for the wealthy-class, right-wing overlords to command and incite the dumbest members of the working-class to sabotage their own working-class communities and murder their own working-class friends and families.
Forced Charity, Democracy, Humility, and The Paradox of Tolerance may soon introduce themselves to the right-wing, wealthy-class knaves and working-class fools. Just like they introduced themselves to the right-wing, wealthy-class knaves and working-class fools in 1945 Germany.
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Moronic wage-slaves, like you, are already addicted to the privatized screens provided to you by the wealthy-class right-wing masters. Wage-slaves, like you, read exactly what the wealthy-class right-wing owners allow you to read, just like the wealthy-class right-wing owners decided what the chattel-slaves were allowed to read the past.
You seem no better than the duped, working-class, chattel-house-slaves from the past who would report the actions of the working-class chattel-field-slaves to the wealthy-class, right-wing owners. The chattel-house-slaves didn't want to become chattel-field-slaves, so the house-slaves turned against, and sabotaged, the field-slaves. You seem like just another class-traitor.
You're addicted to reading the privatized propaganda that the wealthy-class right-wing owners have pumped into your brain, like a womb that produces garbage-thoughts and slave-actions. You're addicted to the lifestyle the wealthy-class right-wingers have allowed you to have, while others suffer for you to have that lifestyle.
The wealthy-class right-wing masters know that you're exactly what they want you to be. They know you're a good, little, house-slave class traitor. They know you'll do anything for a few extra crumbs from their tables. They know you'll sabotage your own working-class friends, family members, and communities if they offer you enough crumbs. But the better, more intelligent working-class people see you, and recognize you for the saboteur you are.
The better, more intelligent working-class people also know that print media isn't dead, but it's suffering. And they know it's suffering is because of working-class, right-wing fools like you: You, who support wealthy-class right-wing knaves. You, who spew the propaganda produced by wealthy-class right-wing knaves. You, who say ignorant things like, "🤪GoOd HuMaNs, LiKe RaLpH, aRe OuT oF tOuCh!!!🤪" But the better, more intelligent working-class people don't think you're a good, little house-slave.
The better, more intelligent working-class people know that you're the weakest link among the lowest common denominator of humans.
P.S If you're an American who votes, you vote for pro-wealthy-class/anti-working-class right-wing politics, whether you comprehend it or not. Ralph Nader has been one of the FEW choices America has ever had that wasn't pro-wealthy-class/anti-working-class right-wing.
America is a sh!tehole because you've allowed yourselves to be governed by TWO pro-wealthy-class/anti-working-class, right-wing political parties. Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush x2, Clinton x2, Regan, Pelosi, McConnell, McCarthy, Schumer, Reed, Ryan, etc, are/were ALL wealthy-class right-wingers.
The best thing that could happen to America is the same thing that happened to Nazi Germany, the Confederate South, and every other right-wing extremist government in history. F*kc 'em.
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That's RW-politics. RWers will murder working-class people. Cops & soldiers are NOT designed to protect working-class people -- they ARE designed to (1)protect the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics, and (2)control working-class people like chattel-slaves. So, working-class people need to STOP a couple of things:
(1)STOP admitting to having mental-illnesses. Having a mental-illness is NOT like a badge of honor and working-class people should NOT act like they are. Announcing one's mental-illness to the world is like putting a bullseye on yourself. And the cops WILL gladly aim for that bullseye if they get the chance.
(2)STOP calling the cops on your working-class family members. Cops do NOT wear badges of honor, and they do NOT care about working-class people or their mental-illnesses. Calling the cops and telling them that your family member has a mental-illness is like putting a bullseye on your family member. And the cops WILL gladly aim for that bullseye if they get the chance.
The corrupt wealthy-class does NOT care about human-life, and neither do the cops & soldiers who protect the wealthy-class. They only care about themselves & the social-circles they can control like authoritarians.
The corrupt wealthy-class does NOT see working-class people as humans, and neither do the cops & soldiers. They see working-class people as property to be controlled by authoritarians.
The do NOT see working-class people with mental-illnesses as humans who need to be helped, they see them as wild-animals that need to be euthanized. And you better believe that the cops & soldiers WILL euthanize any of the working-class people whom the wealthy-class tells them to euthanize.
So, I'll say it again:
Working-class people need to STOP calling the cops, because cops are NOT here to help working-class people.
Cops & soldiers ARE designed to protect the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
The wealthy-class WILL direct their cops & soldiers to murder working-class people in order to control them like property.
They have proven it, repeatedly, all throughout history.
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RW-politics are rich-people politics. All the major problems in the world, and most of the smaller problems, are caused by (a)the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics, and by (b)the ignorant, working-class dupes who support the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics.
If there weren't so many ignorant, working-class dupes (particularly the dupes who volunteer to be cops&soldiers) acting as the human-buffers between the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians and the smarter, better members of the working-class, then those smarter, better members of the working-class would be able to do something about the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics.
Here's a pro-tip for the ignorant, working-class dupes in the US: the RW-extremist Repub party & the moderate-RW Dem party are BOTH bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics.
If you vote for either the RW-extremist Repubs OR the moderate-RW Dems, then you're voting for the wealthy-class to continue enslaving the working-class.
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Any decent, equitable society can and should do much better than that. Abolishing the privatization and profitization of prisons is a start. But it's not nearly enough.
Also, abolish the privatization and profitization of institutions that are directly related to:
- Healthcare (LIFE).
- Prisons (LIBERTY).
- Education (PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS).
Furthermore, abolish the privatization and profitization of public-utility infrastructures that are directly related to:
- Electricity.
- Water.
- Sewage and plumbing.
- Trash removal and storage.
- Recycling and upcycling.
- Communication methods (from telephone and internet to written documentation -- for example, the United States Postal Service).
- Shipping and receiving (from packages and parcels to palleted lots -- for example, FedEx, UPS, trucking, and railroad freight).
And, then, abolish the privatization/profitization of any other segments of infrastructure and industry -- all of which should be designated as public-utilities, public-property, or public-goods -- all of which should be decided by We The People via votes of direct-democracy.
Personally, in my opinion, I would vote to abolish the privatization and profitization of natural-resource-commodities and raw-material-cash-crops related to food, clothes, and shelter by designating them as public-utilities, public-property, or public-goods.
And, yes, my first lines were bait -- "No. Any decent, equitable society..." -- attempting to get people to read further. And I hope the lure was taken.
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@garyjones3142 -- Ha, you sweet summer child, you.
If you don't like the way that the majority of the people of this country have decided and voted to operate national monetary and fiscal policy, just leave.
If you don't like the way that the majority of the people of this country have decided to tax the currency, just leave.
If you don't like living in a majority-rules system -- if you would rather live under minority-rule and mob-rule -- just leave.
If you don't like equity and equality -- but prefer ignorance, fear, anger, hate, violence, murder, genocide, and addictions to materialism, pillaging, hoarding, manipulation, exploitation, social status, substance abuse, promiscuous pursuits -- just leave.
I don't hate America.
I hate lazy wealthy-class people, and lazy working-class class-traitors, like you.
I don't hate America.
I hate class-traitors who help to uphold the wealthy-class system of inequality and inequity in hopes that someday the wealthy-class will welcome you into their club.
I don't hate America.
I hate that the wealthy-class works to dumb-down the working-class and succeeds.
I don't hate America.
I hate that the wealthy-class
has co-opted the worst & dumbest working-class people, having tricked the worst & dumbest working-class people into blaming their troubles on the better & smarter working-class people.
Instead of blaming the wealthy-class people who are responsible for the system of inequality and inequity under which we all live, the worst & dumbest working-class people blame each other.
I don't hate America.
I hate that the wealthy-class has corrupted EVERYTHING.
I hate that the wealthy-class has corrupted national governments, international markets, and entire groups of working-class humans, including you.
I hate that I have working-class friends and family members, like you, who are so stupid that they would murder their own working-class friends and family, or other working-class humans in foreign countries, if some wealthy-class addict or jarhead addict in a uniform told them to.
I don't hate America -- I don't even hate you -- I pity you.
At the very least, shut the fuk up while better and smarter people try to clean up after you and the rest of the addicts.
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@robertfelts8773 So you're voting for a RWer. It's great that you can admit it, but it's still ignorant at best. Stein is just another member of the wealthy-class, just like Harris & Trump are. But they are not all the same.
RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class & anti-working-class politics.
BOTH Capitalism&Fascism are RW-economic-system of politics.
RW-politics ALWAYS enable disproportionate benefits for the wealthy-class.
RW-politics ALWAYS cause disproportionate detriments to the working-class.
So, even though Stein, Harris, & Trump are ALL RWers they are not all the same.
Trump is a RW-extremist (fascist) -- he will bring about fascism more quickly, which will cause greater detriment to working-class people.
Harris & Stein are moderate-RWers (capitalists) -- they will bring about fascism more slowly, giving working-class people more time to rebuke it.
So, if you're a working-class person who is going to vote, then the only reasonable, logical, & intelligent choice is to vote for Harris who will do less harm to the working-class. Stein has NO chance of winning.
Not to mention the fact that Stein has done next-to-nothing in the decade+ that she has been involved in the top levels of the Green Party. She is either a knave, or she's a fool like the working-class dupes who support & vote for the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
Don't be the obtuse working-class dupe that the corrupt wealthy-class has designed you to be with their corrupt RW-politics. Voting for Stein is a waste.
I don't vote for personal reasons, but I'm not a completely obtuse working-class dupe, either.
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I agree with you, Jose. Trump, Harris & Stein are not the exact same. But they are ALL bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the same wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics.
Vote RW-extremist Repubs, for the fast, open-road from Capitalist-enslavement of the working-class, to Fascist-enslavement of the working-class people.
Vote for the moderate-RW Dems, for the slower, disguised-road from Capitalist-enslavement of the working-class, to Fascist-enslavement of the working-class people.
Because of those wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics, a vote for any member of the wealthy-class (which Trump, Harris, & Stein ALL are) will still cause further regression into the depths of the RW-politics of the enslavement or working-class people.
Trump, Harris, & Stein are definitely not the same, but their RW-owners from the wealthy-class are all forcing working-class people down the same RW-road, with the same threat of RW-terror.
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@spoonikle I agree with your sentiments.
And I would add the following:
Addiction permeates class. And people can be addicted to more than drugs and alcohol.
People can be addicted to unhealthy foods(caffeine & sugar).
People can be addicted to driving fast, or sports.
People can be addicted to pushing their bodily capabilities.
People can be addicted to testing the laws of physics.
People can be addicted to money-accumulation, land-ownership, resource-hoarding, private-property, human-manipulation, labor-exploitation, social-status, promiscuous-pursuits, substance-abuse, ease-of-living, materialism, consumerism, polluting, and so many other things.
The wealthy-class are addicted to their lifestyles, and all of the laziness and parasitic-nature that comes with those lifestyles.
And, there are members of the working-class who are addicted to striving to obtain the same lifestyles as the wealthy-class, and and all of the laziness and parasitic-nature that comes with those lifestyles.
But, it seems that most people -- especially the people whose common interest is living a wealthy-class lifestyle -- understand that not everyone can live like the wealthy-class. And that is where spoonikle's words come into play.
Those wealthy-class-minded addicts need to have an enslaved working-class to produce the products and provide the services that are enjoyed by the addicts.
I could go on. But I'll end with this, perhaps, most important part:
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class politics.
Right-wing politics are anti-working-class politics.
If all working-class people could realize and adopt this reality, then the working-class majority would be much better able to unite and fight against the right-wing wealthy-class minority of lazy, parasitic addicts.
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@OscarLangleySoryu I don't think you're being "dog-piled." I just think that @temboesmeray disagrees with your first-point.
I'm with you on your second-point, for the most part, which is why I posted, what I thought was, an agreeable-reply.
But I'm only partially with you on your first-point.
You said: "if you want to post that she’s pretty maybe do it separately..."
And I say: I partially-agree -- MAYBE do it separately. But I'm inclined to mostly-agree with @temboesmeray, it's better just to NOT do it at all, especially to strangers.
You said: "...that implies less that it’s the only thing that matters, than when you interrupt other topics with it."
And I say: I mostly agree -- interrupting the video-topic, and the original-comment, with such an unrelated, unsolicited opinion is [insert any of the negative aspects here -- ignorant, childish, creepy, sexist, etc].
But, personally, I think that ALL remarks regarding appearance & attraction / attractiveness have no business on the job-site or in the work-place. And the woman in the video is ONLY in the video as it relates to her job/work. So, in my opinion, the reply by @jamesmcelroy5830 is entirely negative/wrong.
I'm not sure if my opinion encompasses that of @temboesmeray -- but I'll just reiterate: I don't think you're being dog-piled, I just think you're being disagreed with.
Don't have hard-feelings; (I think) you were correct to call out @jamesmcelroy5830 -- but that doesn't mean that everyone who agrees with WHAT you did, is going to agree with HOW you did it.
✌🤟✊🙏
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I say 25 for MOST everything. Particularly anything associated with dopamine-inducing substances, alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. I would go as far to include driving, home ownership, positions of authority in the workplace, LEO and MIC jobs. I could be persuaded to put voting at 21 -- one POTUS election-cycle before 25.
I mean, the proof is more than clear that 18-21 isn't old enough to reduce the treachery imposed upon the majority of the citizenry by the child-brained minority.
Oh yeah, marriage and procreation at 25, too. No child-brains should be allowed to have actual children. Although, I'm an antinatalist, so I don't think anyone should be forcing the unborn to be birthed into this sh!te world that sh!te humans have fabricated.
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These working-class dupes fell for the RW-propaganda of the wealthy-class that says, "sMaLL gOvErNmEnT gOOd!!!"🤪 These working-class dupes are now living the truthful-consequences of the faux-truth they voted for.
Also, I would bet that most anyone in NC, who is "living in a tent" related to the hurricane, is doing it (a)by choice, and/or (b)for clout, to (c)fuel the misplaced-outrage.
But even if these working-class dupes ARE living in tents against their will, it is important to remember, again, that they voted for their own suffering.
I've had to live in a tent against my will. BUT, I didn't vote for it.
My suffering, and the suffering of MILLIONS of people was caused by (a)the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics, and by (b)the working-class dupes who voted for the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
I have sympathy & empathy for the working-class dupes who are suffering, but most of them voted for their own suffering, and they voted for the suffering of countless other innocent working-class people.
But, just because I have sympathy & empathy for the ignorant, working-class dupes who voted for their own suffering, that doesn't mean I'm going to coddle their ignorance.
Perhaps these working-class dupes, who voted for the "tough love" espoused by RW-politics, need to experience the "tough love" which they have repeatedly voted for.
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@stevepi1 If you even ask the question, you're one of two things: (a)a fool who doesn't comprehend class-consciousness or corruption, or (b)a knave who pretends not to comprehend class-consciousness or corruption because you benefit from other people remaining ignorant to those things. And whether you're a fool or a knave, neither is anything of which to be proud.
But to answer your ill-framed question: Yes, the DA and prosecutor are working-class. Just as much as any cop or soldier is a member of the working-class -- even though cops and soldiers generally do the bidding of the populace-minority of lighter-complected right-wingers from the wealthy-class who have corrupted most of government and the world.
But just because the government and world are mostly controlled by the corrupt, lighter-complected right-wingers from the wealthy-class, that doesn't mean that every working-class person in the government is bad, or that all working-class people in the government only do bad things on behalf of the corrupt, lighter-complected right-wingers from the wealthy-class.
Sometimes, the working-class people in the government do good things on behalf of the populace-majority of working-class people in society.
And when good working-class people in the government do good things for the working-class-majority of people in society, that upsets the corrupt, lighter-complected right-wingers from the wealthy-class-minority who continually try to keep the government in a state or corruption to benefit themselves.
And when the good working-class people in government do good things on behalf of the working-class-majority, they become the targets of the corrupt, lighter-complected right-wingers from the wealthy-class-minority.
Another example of a good working-class person in government is Cori Bush: she is a pro-working-class legislator who is now being investigated for allegedly doing the same thing that countless other, lighter-complected, right-wing Congresspersons from the wealthy-class have done.
Meanwhile, dozens upon scores of other, lighter-complected, wealthy, right-wing Congresspersons get away with brazen, and sometimes admitted, corruption.
But, yes, to further answer your ill-framed question:
In a constitutionally-mandated Democratic-Republic, the jobs of DAs and prosecutors, and all other government jobs should be held by people from the populace-majority. And the biggest populace-majority in EVERY country is working-class people.
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@RevAnakin Public Records prove that RFKJr is (a)funded by the same corrupt wealthy-class, and (b)a promoter of the same corrupt RW-politics, as Trump & Biden. They are ALL bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class and their corrupt RW-politics, just like BOTH political parties.
RFKJr, Trump, & Biden are ALL members of the corrupt wealthy-class.
RFKJr, Trump, & Biden are ALL supporters of their corrupt RW-politics.
And, for now, that is ALL provable with public records.
If you disagree, then you're either (a)an ignorant working-class dupe who doesn't comprehend the corruption that is inherent to RW-politics, or (b) you're a complicit working-class knave who pretends not to comprehend the corruption that is inherent to RW-politics because you benefit from the corruption.
Whether you're a dupe or a knave, neither is anything of which to be proud.
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@7heHorror Bob is only mirroring what right-wing, authoritarian countries use their militaries to do -- particularly the American and Israeli militaries.
They murder innocent children so those children don't grow up to be vengeance-seekers.
Of course, that's really f*kcing dumb, but, on the international stage, Americans have never been accused of being the brightest. Just the most self-centered, ignorant, fearful, angry, hateful, violent, murderous, and genocidal.
It's not surprising that otherwise good working-class people -- which perhaps Bob is one of -- are now considering the use of the same tactics utilized by the wealthy-class right-wingers.
Disclaimer: I'm a lonely, decrepit, and non-violent member of the working-class.
I'm ready to die at the hands of the wealthy-class right-wing mob without resisting. But many of my working-class mates are not.
And the wealthy-class right-wing mob will never willingly give up their addictions and power.
It seems that -- if history is any indicator of the future, which it is -- violence is inevitable.
I won't participate in it, but I'm not the slightest bit surprised by those who would.
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Yup. TYT taking money from corrupt rich people, w/ their corrupt RW-politics, is part of what has ruined TYT. Besides that, Cenk is a self-proclaimed Capitalist, and Capitalism is a RW-system, just like Monarchism, Feudalism, Corporatism & Fascism. All of the RW-political-systems are just systems of slavery with different names, and Cenk wants the moderate-RW politics of Capitalist-slavery, but not the RW-extremist politics of Fascist-slavery.
I've been watching TYT for over a decade. Cenk used to be center-left, advocating for social-democracy and/or democratic-socialism, but he dragged the audience to the center-right, advocating for capitalism. Capitalism is an authoritarian system that is antithetical to democratism/democracy.
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@dickcastle Mouth-breathers who have been indoctrinated by propaganda aren't going to believe that.
Mouth-breathers have bought into the propaganda which states that Joe Biden & Joe Manchin are leftists when, in reality, they are both moderate-Republican Capitalists.
Mouth-breathers think that actual leftists and right-winger Joe Biden want to do away with the private ownership of all guns, which they don't.
Mouth-breathers don't know that there is a Socialist Rifle Association, nor do they know about the militant-solidarity among the working-class people in modern-leftist societies or the working-class people in early 20th-century America.
Mouth-breathers don't comprehend the dynamics of the two-dimensional political spectrum which describes economic-issues in one dimension and social-issues in the other dimension.
Mouth-breathers don't comprehend the left-wing economic structures of socialism, communism, and collectivism versus the right-wing economic structures of capitalism, feudalism, and servitude -- nor do they have a grasp of the left-wing social structure of democracy versus the right-wing social structure of authoritarianism.
Mouth-breather's lack of understanding in regards to all of these things makes it impossible for them to recognize that behind the fall of every economically left-leaning economic system has been two-fold:
One, the sabotage inflicted by other economically right-wing capitalist countries, systems, and persons throughout the world, most notably the U.S.
And, two, the totalitarian nature of the socially right-wing authoritarian countries, systems, and persons throughout the world, along with the nature of the leaders of those left-leaning economic systems.
Long-story-short, behind the demise of every left-leaning economic system, throughout history, there has been a bunch of wealthy-class capitalists and/or authoritarians pulling the strings and pushing the buttons.
In regards to guns, those very same capitalist-authoritarians who want one of two things;
One, they want most, if not every working-class person to have guns in hopes that the working-class will only use the guns to fight among each other, thus allowing the wealthy-class capitalist-authoritarians to continue their pursuits of power and the satisfaction of their addictions.
Or, two, they don't want any working-class people to have guns, in case the working-class was to solidify and turn their collective working-class anger against the wealthy-class authoritarian-capitalists who are responsible for all of the terrible social and economic structures under which the working-class lives.
Mouth-breather's ignorance of social and economic politics in international and historical contexts makes it impossible for them to understand why actual leftists don't want to get rid of guns, let alone why the working-class wasn't allowed to bring guns to a Mikey P. speech.
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The corrupt Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, & atheist RWers from the corrupt wealthy-class don't care about the religious & nonreligious people from the working-class. The corrupt people of the wealthy-class, religious or not, prioritize their allegiance as follows:
(1)to the corrupt RW-politics with which they maintain their corrupt wealth & power;
(2)to their lifestyle-addictions;
(3)to mammon;
(4)to other members of the corrupt wealthy-class.
The wealth, power, & lifestyle-addictions of the corrupt wealthy-class take priority over any of the inhumane afflictions they impose upon the working-class.
Rather than ever give up any of their lifestyle-addictions, the corrupt wealthy-class will use their corrupt RW-politics to fabricate & facilitate predictable atrocities upon the working-class. Just like they always have.
Just like the wealthy Europeans & Confederates did to the Africans.
Just like the wealthy N@zis did to the trade unions, communists, socialists, Jews, Romas, the mentally & physically challenged, and other ethnic, religious, & sexual minority groups.
Just like the wealthy Saudis did to the Yemenis
Just like the wealthy Israelis are doing to the Palestinians.
Just like the wealthy Russians are doing to the Ukrainians.
Just like the wealthy Brazilians are doing to Amazonians.
Just like the wealthy RW-extremist Repubs & wealthy moderate-RW Dems are doing to working-class Americans now, and have done for the last 75+ years.
But no single religion is the problem -- corruption, laziness, & parasitism; ignorance, fear, anger, & hate; oppression, repression, suppression, & subjugation; sabotage, violence, murder, & genocide; these things aren't intrinsic to any single religion -- people are the problem.
The problems are the people who are corrupt, lazy & parasitic; ignorant, fearful, angry, & hateful.
The problems are the people who are narcissists, sociopaths, & psychopaths, who are willing to commit acts of oppression, repression, suppression, & subjugation; sabotage, violence, murder, & genocide.
The problems are the wealthy-class people who perpetrate & perpetuate their corrupt RW-politics, by which they promote & praise their own corruption, laziness, parasitism, narcissism, sociopathy, and psychopathy, while giving out awards for committing acts of oppression, repression, suppression, & subjugation; sabotage, violence, murder, & genocide.
Those corrupt, lazy & parasitic narcissists, sociopaths, & psychopaths exist within every religion -- some of them are from the wealthy-class and some from the working-class.
But the corrupt, lazy & parasitic narcissists, sociopaths, & psychopaths from the wealthy-class are all on the same team and they work together to pool their wealth, and they use their pool of wealth to corrupt governments.
Then, the wealthy-class uses their corrupted governments to "hire" cops&soldiers who are the most ignorant, fearful, angry, & hateful, most corrupt, lazy & parasitic, most narcissistic sociopaths & psychopaths from the working-class.
And the jobs of those ignorant, fearful, angry, & hateful working-class cops&soldiers are to:
1. To Serve the corrupt wealthy-class and their corrupt RW-politics.
2. To Protect the corrupt wealthy-class and their profits, property, power, & lifestyle-addictions.
3. To Commit acts of oppression, repression, suppression, and/or subjugation, as well as sabotage, violence, murder, and/or genocide against the least-fortunate & most-vulnerable people of the working-class.
4. To Defame, demean, and/or disparage, as well as deport, disappear, and/or dispatch any of the intelligent, logical, reasonable, and/or morally-decent people of the working-class who even attempt to expose or critique anything about numbers 1, 2 and/or 3.
The corrupt wealthy-class uses their wealth to corrupt the working-class dupes who work in governments, enticing those working-class dupes to corrupt the systems of government to (a)further propel the personal wealth of their corrupt wealthy-class masters & themselves, to (b)more entrench their corrupt RW-politics, to (a)further propel the personal wealth of their corrupt wealthy-class masters & themselves, to (b)more entrench their corrupt RW-politics... and on-and-on the cycle goes.
All for the disproportionate benefit of the corrupt RWers in the wealthy-class & the working-class dupes who work in the corrupted RW-government, to the disproportionate detriment of the working-class people who don't work in the corrupted RW-government.
This is the reality of the countries & governments of the world, all corrupted by the lifestyle-addicts of the wealthy-class who represent all of the major religions of the world, and it has been this way for a long time.
We already know that the corrupt wealthy-class is willing to fabricate & facilitate wars, and that there are plenty of working-class dupes who are willing to help them, all so they can maintain their corrupt RW-politics & lifestyle-addictions. And they will give up their own religions before they ever give up their lifestyle-addictions. I surely hope that nobody thinks nor professes otherwise.
Don't be an ignorant working-class dupe who offers support to, or falls for the ruses & propaganda of, the corrupt wealthy-class. Regardless of religion.
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RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class politics & RW-politics are anti-working-class politics. BOTH political-parties in the US are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics. The corrupt wealthy-class will NEVER willingly give up their lifestyle-addictions or seek treatment for their mental-illnesses
All the problems in the world are perpetrated & perpetuated by (a)the corrupt wealthy-class w/ their corrupt RW-politics, and by (b)the working-class dupes who support the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
If you want to abolish corruption, then you're going to have to abolish RW-politics.
If you want to abolish RW-politics, then you're going to have to abolish the corrupt wealthy-class.
If you want to abolish the corrupt wealthy-class, then you're going to have to abolish an extremely large number of working-class dupes (cops&soldiers) who support the corrupt wealthy-class.
But that's not going to happen, because most of the working-class people in the US are ignorant-dupes who embrace & suffer from the sam lifestyle-addictions & mental-illnesses as the wealthy-class.
And those ignorant, addicted, & mentally-ill dupes from the working-class continue to vote for the RW-extremist Repub & the moderate-RW Dem politicians who are BOTH bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class w/ their corrupt RW-politics.
There is likely only thing that will save the vulnerable & decent working-class people in the US from the corruption of (a)the indecent wealthy-class knaves, and from (b)the indecent working-class dupes who support the wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
And that one thing is the same thing that saved the vulnerable & decent working-class Germans from the RW-extremist N@z!s:
Direct-intervention from other, better, smarter working-class people from other, better countries around the world.
And I just hope I live long enough to see it.
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@itsjustme4848 Well, I can't decipher whether or not there's some backward-underhanded snark in your comment. So I'll just presume there isn't and agree with you.
Being unemployed, unemployable, or wanting to work but not being able to, are all tough situations in which to be stuck.
But I include all the people stuck in those situations under the umbrella of the term, "working-class."
To me, the internalized mental and emotional frustration and desperation that comes with being stuck in those situations IS work.
I have disabled friends who want to work. They want to work so badly and can't get anyone to hire them. Some of my disabled friends seem to have come to terms with this reality, but I know others who take it very hard.
Personally, my last full-time job ended in December 2014, and my last part-time job ended in June 2017. I would like to work, but it's not feasible.
So, instead, I communicate here. I'm not great at it, but it is what I can offer at this point in life. And while I'm thankful that I can at least do that, I still have bouts of waning-faith where times are more difficult than others.
Anyway, as far as the dichotomy of "working-class" and "wealthy-class" people goes, those two phrases, to me, are useful for encapsulating all people. Those who would, could, have to, want to, and do work, and those who won't and don't have to work.
But, maybe my view is wrong, or too simplistic. And if it is, then oh well. It's not like I have the agency, autonomy, or capacity to affect any real and meaningful change in my own life, let alone society at-large.
The best and nearly only things I have to offer anyone are my knowledge of faith and my prayers. Most people don't want either.
Thanks for your comment. Sorry if I got too morose in my reply.
Take care.
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@michaelleahy123 Economic and authoritarian extremists from the right-wing, have been trying to censor the humanitarian-left for longer than you can obviously comprehend.
Cain "censored" Able.
Pharaoh tried to "censor" Moses.
Harrod "censored" John the Baptist.
The Pharisees and Sadducees "censored" Jesus.
Europeans "censored" native Africans and native North and South Americans.
Pillaging American-whites "censored" natives and slaves.
Nazis "censored" Jews.
Republican right-wingers censored modern leftists in America from the 1930s right up until today.
Republican extremists dismantled left-wing political parties and dispelled left-wing leaders.
They disappeared and deported left-wing supporters.
They disenfranchised left-wing voters.
They dispatched left-wing human beings.
The right-wing finally dissuaded the only remaining left-wing political party in the country when, in the late 1970s, they infiltrated and debased, corrupted and co-opted the Democratic party to become a Republican-lite party. Now we have two Republican parties in America.
But a majority of the lower-class has been tricked, propagandized, and indoctrinated into believing that Republicans and Democrats are very different. Yet, the party's leadership votes very similarly on policies.
In any of the higher-quality industrialized democracies, Republicans and Democrats would be the same right-wing authoritarian-extremist party or part of a coalition government.
The difference between the right-wing and the left-wing is as follows.
Right-wingers utilize violence preemptively to maintain superiority.
Left-wingers engage violence reflexively to strive for equality.
This has been true throughout recorded history.
Donnie may not comprehend this, but his wealthy donors do.
Donnie the Dupe was used by his wealthy-class donors so they could garner more wealth and, in turn, Donnie has duped his lower-class donors to do the same for himself.
Now duped Donnie is whining, and so are his duped followers.
Oh, and Donnie hasn't been "censored" -- he's been refused service by a right-wing corporation, whose business practices are supported by the leadership of both right-wing political parties, who are all sick of him exposing their ruse.
Like Donnie's followers, he thinks he's being persecuted when, really, he, and they, would be fine if they just shut the f*@# up and learned how to quell their incessant wants and polluting desires.
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Cenk owns TYT and he is a Capitalist.
Capitalism is a RW-economic-system of politics.
Thus, Cenk is an economic-RWer.
And the only way for the corrupt wealthy-class to maintain their corrupt RW-economic-politics of inequality, is for them to also impose RW-social-systems of politics.
RW-politics are anti-working-class politics & RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class politics.
Monarchism, feudalism, capitalism, corporatism, fascism, and republicanism are ALL corrupt systems of RW-politics, and they ALL involve the corrupt wealthy-class enslaving the working-class.
Cenk is either a fool who doesn't comprehend that he's a RWer, or he is a knave who is pretending not to comprehend that he's a RWer because he benefits from the inherent corruption of RW-politics
And, whether they realize it or not, the working-class dupes who are employed by Cenk are helping to advance RW-politics. Just like the working-class dupes who continue to vote for the RW-extremist Repubs & the moderate RW-Dems.
BOTH of the major political-parties in the US are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled y the corrupt wealthy-class w/ their corrupt RW-politics.
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@StatusCoup It's sad (and planned) how stupid most working-class people are. The wealthy-class owners planned it that way.
But YOU, Jordan, are not to blame for the corruption of a country that was started by, of, and for the corruption of the wealthy-class. To underhandedly blame you is absurd.
You post a video showing the contradictions, inconsistencies, hypocrisy, and weakness of the corrupt politicians in BOTH right-wing parties, and then the Rusko's of the world blame YOU for the etiquette of corrupt politicians.
The Rusko's can't even walk and chew gum at the same time, let alone think with logic and reason. But they sure can scratch their butt-cracks and sniff their own fingers, and then they blame YOU for the smell at the same time.
You're doing great Jordan. And if you're ever not doing great, I'd tell you that too.
But to blame you for the corruption of others would be absurdly-Rusko.
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Ahh, Tulsi 'Skunk-Stripe' Gabbard. I knew that Hawaiian fish stunk long before the 2020 Democrat-party primary was rigged by the wealthy-class, right-wing arsonists at the DNC.
Disclaimer: Yes, right-wing wealthy-class Democrats are bad. But right-wing wealthy-class Republics are just as bad.
Both parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class right-wing billionaires, and those billionaires select which millionaires will lead the parties.
If you want open-door hypocrisy and the fast-road to fascism, vote for right-wing wealthy-class Repubs.
If you want closed-door hypocrisy and the slow-road to fascism, vote for right-wing wealthy-class Dems.
McConnell, Schumer, McCarthy, Pelosi, Reagan, Bush (x2), Clinton (x2), Obama, Trump, and Biden are all wealthy-class, right-wing millionaires. They were all selected and groomed by billionaires.
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@trusty_bear-v1h I was talked out of driving drunk in the past.
All it took was a one-on-one conversation, initiated by an incredibly kind and compassionate African-immigrant who came from much more inequitable place than I did. He was nearly a stranger to me, but quite possibly saved my life. I can't say I never drove drunk again, but I didn't drive drunk that night, and that conversation was a defining moment on my road to recovery.
Meanwhile, my American 'friends' had taken advantage of my stupidity for years. My friends condoned and encouraged my foolish behavior, getting rides from me regularly, while they would not reciprocate and drive drunk themselves. I've been sober for seven years now, and I don't hang out with those 'friends' any longer. So, my answer is yes.
Some people can be persuaded and changed solely by one-on-one discussions. Some folks might need visual aides or group-shaming, or even more drastic measures.
I am religious, but I still don't believe in caging humans. It is scientifically proven to NOT rehabilitate them. Again, caging humans is not rehabilitative. It is another trauma to be added to the list.
Perhaps, if we start folks on a good foot, with robust infrastructure and equitable opportunities, then perhaps we could have a more healthy society with equitable outcomes.
But, maybe I'm wrong.
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@mastadon Firstly: ALL working-class people are personally affected by the autocratic minority-rule of wealthy right-wingers. And, secondly: MOST of the ones I know, personally, write just as poorly as you do.
If I were as ignorant as most working-class people, I would ask the following:
1. Who failed you in your youth by teaching/allowing you to write so poorly?
2. Which right-wing, red-blue state did you receive such substandard education in?
3. When did you decide to stop trying to get any better at writing, OR do you not realize how bad you are at it, thus preventing you from choosing to improve?
But I'm not ignorant, so I don't need to ask those questions.
I already know that you're in the same anti-intellectual, anti-education, anti-self-aware bubble as most working-class American dupes. And I know it simply based on the low-quality and obtuse-context of your reply.
Perhaps that's why my writing style/quality is something you're not accustomed to -- because you've chosen to dwell in a bubble of duped working-class right-wingers who reek of low-quality steeped in obtuse-context.
Or, maybe you don't have the cognitive-ability to realize the bubble you're in, thus preventing you from choosing otherwise.
But I do not share the same cognitive-condition as you and the people you've surrounded yourself with, all of which have caused you to reply to me as you have. Nor do I want to be like you all.
I don't want to be anything like the 150+ million working-class American dupes who voted for two right-wingers in the last election for POTUS. Nor do I spend my time around such dupes.
So the answers to those 3-questions in regards to you, personally, don't matter to me -- you're in the same bubble as most working-class American dupes, and I'm not.
I'm not so obtuse that I don't realize that I am also in a bubble.
In fact, maybe I'm in more than one bubble.
Let me take a moment to self-reflect -- to engage in the introspection that caused me to choose to become better at communicating in writing -- and let's talk about the bubbles I'm in:
1. The disabled bubble -- even though I have the willingness, motivation, and skills to work.
2. The debt bubble -- even though I never intended to be, and would like to be free of said debt.
3. The homeless bubble -- even though I know of countless duped working-class right-wingers who COULD help me, but WON'T help me because they are duped working-class right-wingers.
4. The unemployment bubble -- even though I have searched for and applied to many jobs, I have no job prospects because right-wing Repubs and right-wing Dems don't/won't hire people who are disabled, in debt, and/or homeless, with gaps in their employment-histories.
So, yes, I do reside in some bubbles, you're right about that.
But the bubbles in which I reside are all perpetrated and perpetuated by the political choices of right-wing Repubs and right-wing Dems.
The bubbles in which I dwell are the cause of BOTH right-wing political parties, BOTH of which are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class knaves who choose to exploit and manipulate the working-class.
And BOTH of those right-wing political parties have been supported by working-class dupes who have chosen to vote for BOTH of those right-wing political parties.
And those working-class dupes have chosen to vote for BOTH of those right-wing political parties for one of a couple of reasons:
1. Because they're too ignorant to comprehend the extent of the inherent exploitation and manipulation in right-wing politics, which are perpetuated by BOTH right-wing political parties, which they and their working-class mates are victims of.
OR
2. Because they are PRETENDING that they don't comprehend the exploitation and manipulation inherent in right-wing politics while being fully aware of said exploitation and manipulation. And so they vote for one of the two right-wing political parties with the hopes that the working-class people from the other right-wing political party will remain more victimized than themselves.
And just for the record; if a working-class person were pretending not to know such a thing for their own personal benefit, to the detriment of other working-class people, then that pretending would cause a working-class fool to be reclassified as a knave and a class-traitor.
Whether a working-class person is a duped unknowing-fool or a devious knowing-knave, it is possible to care about them as humans, even if I don't want to be like them, or even be around them.
But, whether you're a duped-fool or a devious-knave, neither is anything of which to be proud.
You know, I don't even understand what depth you're trying to reach with your response to my original comment, because, your response is so shallow.
But your words alone won't drown me. I won't stop until some right-winger, like you, chops my fingers off or buries me in the dirt, which I fully expect to happen.
If history is any indicator of the future (which, it is) then I fully expect my demise to come at the hands of you, or someone like you.
But, until then, I'm going to continue swimming in the sea of the written-word.
And until then -- with all the respect you deserve and kindness I can muster -- you should try to write better, and/or GFYS.
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Brian Tyler Cohen is the Democrat-party equivalent to Candace Owens, Dave Rubin, Tomi Lahren, Scott Presler, and Lauren Boebert of the Republic-party. They all failed in the entertainment/Hollywood segment of the Media Industrial Complex, so their agents and managers got them into sensationalizing news and politics instead.
Cohen, Owens, Rubin, Lahren, Presler, and Boebert all had the financial backing of wealthy and powerful people who helped them become talking-heads, with Boebert being the most horrific success for the wealthy-class.
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The Green Party is corrupted by the SAME corrupt wealthy-class & the SAME corrupt RW-politics as the RW-extremist Republic party, the moderate-RW Democrat party, the RW-extremist Libertarian party, the RW-extremist Tea Party, and the RW-extremist Freedumb Caucus.
The US is a RW-sh!thole because the working-class dupes in the US are too self-involved, self-aggrandized, & lifestyle-addicted to bother educating themselves regarding the historical & international contexts of politics.
And because of their ignorance, the working-class dupes in the US continue voting for the corrupted RW-political-parties -- namely the RW-extremist Repubs, the moderate-RW Dems, as well as the other, smaller corrupted RW-political parties -- ALL of which parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
The Green Party is just as corrupt as the other US political parties. The RW-American sh!tehole needs an intervention, just like the RW-Confedrate & RW-N@z! sh!teholes needed interventions.
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The right-wing "Parental Rights" extremists are in the same boat as the right-wing "States' Rights" extremists: They just want the right to exploit, manipulate, oppress, and enslave the most vulnerable people in society.
"Parental Rights" shouldn't allow working-class parents to have the right to abdicate their parental duties to trinkettes and gadgets.
Just because the sh!thole of American society is corrupted by wealthy-class right-wingers, that shouldn't give working-class parents the right to follow the parental-dicates of wealthy-class right-wingers who have used their wealth to corrupt everything.
That being said, one of the last people I want to hear from, especially on such a matter as important this, is a child-brained victim/addict who is much more messed up than her child-brain is capable of comprehending.
She was made a victim by the wealthy-class right-wingers who create and sell the addictive trinkets and gadgets. And she was made an addict by her own ignorant, neglectful parents.
It's all well and good that she is putting her energy toward a good cause, but she has no expertise worthy of a news program, and neither do her ignorant parents or the corrupt wealthy-class right-wingers.
She needs help -- just like her ignorant parents and the corrupt wealthy-class right-wingers. But she doesn't deserve a platform -- and neither do her ignorant parents or the corrupt wealthy-class right-wingers.
She should be a data-point in the larger set of scientific data used to identify/solve this problem, but she shouldn't be praised and paraded around on a pedestal.
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Cenk, Ana, Newsom, and Bass are ALL Capitalists (Newsom might be a Corporatist, and Trump is a Fascist). Capitalism, Corporatism, & Fascism are ALL RW-political-systems. And, thus, Cenk, Ana, Newsom, Bass, and Trump are ALL RWers.
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@itsirrelevant4565 Hey, thanks for the acknowledgment.
I actually stopped listening to Jimmy Dore when he went after Ana Kasparian for wearing a skirt that was so short that she flashed everyone at work -- which caused me to also lose respect for Ana.
Subsequently, that whole drama-fest was about the same time that Ana started to pedal the same RW-apologia as Jimmy.
Apparently, allegedly, Ana was assaulted in public, and that traumatic-event seems to have broken her brain so that she now believes that caging(TORTURING) troubled working-class people, for the profits of the wealthy-class, is the solution to all of the RW-induced problems in society.
And I can't take someone seriously if they think that more corrupt RW-politics (like caging/torturing humans for profits) are the solutions to the societal-problems that are caused by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics. More RW-politics are NOT the solutions to the societal-problems that are caused by RW-politics.
IMHO, Jimmy & Ana are just a couple of working-class dupes who are trying to make it into the corrupt wealthy-class by latching onto the anti-working-class & pro-wealthy-class teats of corruption RW-politics. Again, that's IMHO, of course.
Again, thank you for the acknowledgement.
And sorry for the rant -- I know not everyone knows who Ana Kasparian is, and I know that not everyone agrees with me if they do know her.
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@terencefield3204 You working-class, right-wing dupes, who stand up for wealthy-class right-wingers, are going to have to learn the hard way, just like the duped, working-class, right-wing Nazis, and the duped, working-class, right-wing Confederates.
While the working-class dupes like you hold the line, the wealthy-class right-wingers will be sneaking out the backdoor, leaving you dupes holding the bag.
Hopefully you haven't reproduced. And if you have, hopefully the crotch-fruit of your loose-loins have learned to be unlike you, lest they suffer the indignities brought on to them by the ignorance of their duped, working-class fathers.
You are the weakest link among the lowest common denominator of humans.
You are the worst of humanity.
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@blogintonblakley2708 J GALT is a class-traitor to the working-class and a troll for the wealthy-class. A low-quality troll at that. I mean, look at that "writing." If the wealthy class is paying him, they are getting ripped off.
I'm sure other adjectives could describe J Galt, especially if he were ever given charge over any vulnerable groups. Personally, I wouldn't trust him with a piece of tupperware, let alone children, the elderly, or animals.
However, I also believe that addicts should have a chance to be rehabilitated through a system of relearning. That includes J Galt, the class-traitor addict, and the wealthy-class capitalist addicts. If they don't want to be better, cooperative, educated humans, then that's their choice.
If the wealthy-class addicts want to continue perpetuating a system of inequality -- whereby a few privileged-people have access to a lot of "stuff" while some people don't have access to "necessities" -- and if J Galt wants to continue enjoying his own addictions while shilling for the corrupt wealthy-class, then that's their choice. But, remedies must be sought.
Protecting the less-abled folks within the working-class majority from the exploitative and manipulative mob-rule of the wealthy-class minority and their J-Galt-shills should be a priority for the more-abled folks within the working-class majority.
Now, as for me, I don't believe in caging humans. That is a practice of wealthy-class addicts. So I couldn't support that as a remedy, not even for those who impose it on others. But I would be willing to compromise.
I could be persuaded to go along with various remedies, but one compromise I've kicked around is as follows: Scatter J Galt and the wealthy-class addicts across the readily-available remote islands that exist around the globe. Then and there, the addicts will be able to live out their individual-extremist, unilateral wet-dreams.
So, again, I say let them choose.
Option one: Get rehabilitated from their addictions, become better educated, relearn how to interact (selflessly instead of selfishly), comprehend that no one is self-made, and figure out a way to contribute to the communities which have reared them.
OR
Option two: Go be in a place (a lovely island in this case) with people who don't value those things.
I don't vote (because I'm a leftist-Christian in America, and America only has right-wing political parties for X-tian$ ). But, I could be persuaded to vote for those options, or better humane options, as a compromise.
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I agree with AtheistEve -- Every citizen should be a permanent shareholder of shared infrastructures with no right to trade it.
I don't think individual-persons should be allowed to profit off the necessities that all communities require for a functionally equitable and egalitarian society.
I would rather see the profit-motive and greed-addiction eliminated entirely, but let's start with necessities.
(Don't get too excited/angered; I've thought about these lists a lot but never written them down so extensively. This is essentially a first written draft.)
Primary necessities: food, water, clothes, shelter
Secondary necessities: family, community, security, safety
Tertiary necessities: farmland, aquatic areas, animals, forests, mines
Quaternary necessities: rest, relaxation, sleep
Quinary necessities: necessity-based education, sanitation, illness prevention
Senary necessities: love, acceptance, appreciation, belonging, validation
Septenary necessities: communally-decided education, bodily autonomy, sickcare/healthcare
Octonary necessities: self-chosen human interaction, friends, and intimacy, trust
Nonary necessities: self-selected education, privacy spaces, physical strength&conditioning(?)
Denary necessities: consequence-free failures, consequence-inducing mistakes, personal reflection, sorrow for one's own negative actions
11ary necessities: some form of rehabilitation(what is now incarceration), reintegration, forgiveness from the community
Duodenary necessities: ...
Maybe I'll stop here.
I wrote and rewrote, organized and reorganized, questioned and re-questioned, added to and subtracted from the lists.
I also tried to alternate between necessities for a person to survive and necessities for a society to thrive. I'm not sure that I succeeded in that goal.
And I never even got to mention anything directly about labor or production, nor did I really say anything about compassionately and nonviolently raising children to become caring and nonviolent adults.
Either way, it's something. Feel free to discuss, critique, ignore, ridicule, point and laugh -- whichever.
And, if anyone knows of lists like these that already exist, I would love to see/hear/read about them.
Oh, AtheistEve, I agreed with you initially and then kind of stole your thunder and went off on this tangent. If I should be sorry, then indeed I am. :)
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You mean Ben Gleib the RWer? Have you met the RWer, Ana Kasparian?
The only reason to watch the TYT Main Show is to get the perspective of comfortable moderate-RWers.
In the US, the only option is to vote for RWers, like Ben, Ana, & Cenk, and Trump & Biden.
Vote RW-extremist Repubs, for the fast, open-road from capitalism to fascism.
Vote moderate-RW Dems, for the slow, disguised-road from capitalism to fascism.
Disclaimer: John Iadorola might be a LWer, but I'm not entirely sure.
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They voted for it. These working-class dupes fell for the RW-propaganda of the wealthy-class that says, "sMaLL gOvErNmEnT gOOd!!!"🤪 These working-class dupes are now living the truthful-consequences of the faux-truth they voted for.
The intolerant, working-class dupes in the US have continuously voted for the inherent intolerance of RW-politics. They need to learn the Paradox of Tolerance & how their intolerant political-ideology, which primarily harms the most vulnerable people, can come back to harm themselves when they are most vulnerable, too.
Also, I would bet that most anyone in NC, who is "living in a tent" related to the hurricane, is doing it (a)by choice, and/or (b)for clout, to (c)fuel the misplaced-outrage.
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Bring on the cameras. Gen-Z has it right. The only people who are scared of the cameras are the vile, violent, and corrupt right-wingers, from the wealthy-class knaves to the working-class fools, who want to abuse and exploit vulnerable people, and animals, in private.
It's normal & reasonable for vulnerable people & groups to want to be protected. But it's not the fault of vulnerable Gen-Z Americans that they've grown up in a sh!thole country that has been corrupted by right-wing knaves from the wealthy-class and right-wing fools from the working-class.
A majority of the Gen-Z Americans are not yet corrupted like the majority of American adults. And, at the same time, Gen-Z doesn't fully comprehend the corruption inherent in American life and gov't.
And, so, those Gen-Z Americans answered the question correctly based on the dynamics of corruption they comprehend: They WANT an UNCORRUPTED gov't to protect them! They want an uncorrupted gov't to be in charge of the cameras.
I'm sure that the African chattel-slaves would have LOVED for cameras to have been present to catch the right-wing corruption of right-wing slave-owners in Confederate-America.
But those cameras would not have helped to protect the African chattel-slaves in The Confederacy, because those cameras would have been under the charge of other corrupt Confederates in the corrupt Confederate gov't.
It's not that f*kcing difficult to understand why Gen-Z would want the cameras.
It's not that f*kcing difficult to understand that Gen-Z doesn't want corruption.
GFYS.
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@Kate-nl4lz Power has NEVER switched groups in America -- for as long as white European right-wingers have been involved -- America has always been a right-wing sh!thole controlled by right-wing sh!!theads
The funding of the exploration was provided by wealthy, white, European right-wingers.
The founding of the entity was conceived by wealthy, white, European right-wingers.
The binding documents were written by wealthy, white, European right-wingers.
The extortion and genocide of the rightful native owners was perpetrated by wealthy AND working-class, white, European right-wingers.
And, so, again, I say:
America is now, and has always been, a right-wing sh!thole controlled by right-wing sh!theads -- and, more specifically, wealthy and working-class, white, European, right-wing sh!theads.
The fact that you think otherwise -- that "power switches between groups regularly in the U.S." -- means one of two things:
1. You're a fool who can't/doesn't comprehend the corruption inherent in right-wing America
OR
2. You're a knave who pretends not to comprehend the corruption inherent in right-wing America, because you benefit from said corruption, so you pretend it doesn't exist.
Whether you're a fool or a knave, neither is anything of which to be proud.
Now that you've finished one free lesson, let's try another.
The only people afraid of cameras, are corrupt people.
The only people who shouldn't be in charge of the cameras, are corrupt people.
The only people who would use the cameras improperly, are corrupt people
No sane people want corrupt people in charge of the cameras. So, in America, that rules out all right-wing Republicans and right-wing Democrats.
Remember, the poll on cameras was just that, a poll. So, it's not a policy that is likely to take effect anytime soon. But, really, a policy doesn't need to exist. Because the wealthy right-wingers who own the right-wing Repub and right-wing Dem politicians are the same wealthy right-wingers who own the corporations that make our tech devices. They already have cameras, on nearly every person. Every day, all across the country.
So, really, this rhetoric -- "cAmErAs iN eVeRy hOmeEeE" 😱-- is basically fear-mongering by corrupt, wealthy right-wingers.
They are the ones who produce the propaganda of fear with this poll -- "iT cOulD hApPeNnNn!!!" 😱 -- when in actuality, it already exists. The cameras are everywhere, and those same corrupt, wealthy right-wingers are in control of the cameras.
So, to anyone with half-a-brain in their head, and a mustard-seed of good-faith in their arguments, it's only natural to think that good, anti-right-wingers, who are not corrupt, would want to control some uncorrupted cameras of their own.
And, if right-wingers continue being sh!theads, -- which, they will -- then it's only a matter of time before they are again defeated, as they have been defeated throughout history, by good, anti-right-wingers.
But, any defeat will only have the chance to maintain its desired outcome if the good, anti-right-wingers do a better job than their compatriots from the past.
If the good, anti-right-wing people are serious about making the world a better place on their terms, then they need to deal with right-wing extremists in the same way that right-wing extremists attempt to deal with their problems.
If the good, anti-right-wing people are serious about making the world a better place, then, the next time that right-wing extremists bring about violence -- like the right-wing extremist Confederates and right-wing extremist Nazis brought about violence -- those good people need to eradicate the right-wing extremists instead of letting them off the hook like so many Confederates and Nazis were let off the hook.
If the good people would criminalize right-wing politics, to protect the vulnerable people from the exploitation and manipulation inherent in right-wing politics, then the cameras would never again be under the control of wealthy-class right-wing knaves and working-class right-wing fools.
The right-wing extremists -- particularly Americans, from both the wealthy-class and the working-class -- are mentally-ill addicts. And they will NEVER willingly give up their addictions. Just like the right-wing extremist, mentally-ill addicts from Confederate America and Nazi Germany wouldn't give up their addictions.
But I'm non-violent and anti-violence. And I fully expect to be persecuted in this right-wing hellscape of a world. And I'm fully equipped to deal with said persecution. So I really dgaf.
All I'm saying is, if anti-right-wingers want to have a better world, then they need to do much better than was done after the Civil War and World War Two.
So, sure, the good, anti-right-wing people need to win the next right-wing-induced war. That goes without saying.
But, then, the good, anti-right-wing people need to do a number of things:
1. Absolutely annihilate the working-class right-wing fools who take up arms
2. Absolutely annihilate the wealthy-class right-wing knaves who funded and instigated the working-class fools.
3A. Criminalize right-wing politics and the greed, manipulation, and exploitation inherent therein.
3B. Abolish the wealthy-class and the greed, manipulation, and exploitation inherent therein.
3A & 3B should have been done many times throughout history, but the wealthy-class has always been able use their wealth to be steps ahead of their opposition, and they sneak out the backdoor, leaving the working-class holding the metaphorical bag.
4. Put up the cameras to identify any remaining greedy, exploitative, and manipulative right-wingers hiding in the shadows.
Obviously this is a rough sketch. And, as I said., I'm non-violent. So, I won't be playing in the silly games.
I'm just saying, *under ideal conditions*, the cameras would be used to protect society from the slow-creep of the poison that is right-wing politics.
But you all are so indoctrinated with the propaganda -- of "iNdiVidUaLiSm" 🤪 and "all gov't is corrupt," 😱 -- you can't fathom trusting anyone but yourselves and people exactly like you, or people who lie to you the way you like.
You can't even bring yourselves to comprehend a gov't by which, not only are you protected yourselves, but, Heaven-forbid, a gov't that could consider protecting others who are more vulnerable than you are.
Your ignorant-fear is as entertaining as it is horrifying. Your well on the path that wealthy right-wingers have set out for chattel, debt and wage slaves. And that path is: ignorance > fear > anger > hate > sabotage > violence > murder > genocide.
Good luck in the impending militarized conflict. And the next one. And the next one.
Because, ain't nothing gonna change if you keep doing' the right-wing same-same.
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These working-class dupes fell for the RW-propaganda of the wealthy-class that says, "sMaLL gOvErNmEnT gOOd!!!"🤪 These working-class dupes are now living the truthful-consequences of the faux-truth they voted for.
Also, I would bet that most anyone in NC, who is "living in a tent" related to the hurricane, is doing it (a)by choice, and/or (b)for clout, to (c)fuel the misplaced-outrage.
But even if these working-class dupes ARE living in tents against their will, it is important to remember, again, that they voted for their own suffering.
I've had to live in a tent against my will. BUT, I didn't vote for it.
My suffering, and the suffering of MILLIONS of people was caused by (a)the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics, and by (b)the working-class dupes who voted for the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
I have sympathy & empathy for the working-class dupes who are suffering, but most of them voted for their own suffering, and they voted for the suffering of countless other innocent working-class people.
But, just because I have sympathy & empathy for the ignorant, working-class dupes who voted for their own suffering, that doesn't mean I'm going to coddle their ignorance.
Perhaps these working-class dupes, who voted for the "tough love" espoused by RW-politics, need to experience the "tough love" which they have repeatedly voted for.
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@davidj669 Nope. WE could help all humans in need if YOU right-wingers, who are too ignorant, selfish, and/or socio/psychopathic to think otherwise, would stay out of the way, keep quiet, and do your jobs. Then, those of us smart people who aren't too ignorant, selfish, and/or socio/psychopathic, who can walk and chew gum at the same time, who prioritize human-lives in need over imaginary-lines on a map, who know that running a government&world aren't remotely similar to running a household or a business, could get things done. Smart people know that people like you are the weakest-links among the lowest-common-denominator of humans. 🙄
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HA! They're ALL economic-RWers. Cenk&Ana are Capitalists (moderate-RWers, and Charlie is a Fascist (RW-extremist). And you working-class dupes are too self-involved, lifestyle-addicted, and intellectually-stunted to even begin to be able to comprehend these things, just like the corrupt wealthy-class designed you to be via their corrupt RW-politics.
Vote RW-extremist Repubs, for the fast, open-road from Capitalism to Fascism.
Vote moderate-RW Dems, for the slower, disguised-road from Capitalism to Fascism.
Cenk, Ana, and Charlie have MUCH more in common than not. Just like the wealthy Repub&Dem politicians.
Congratulations...🥳
...you're a moron.😒
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@dashx1103 My comment was partly facetious and partly sarcastic. Perhaps I should have noted that.
I am fully aware of the hypocrisy and exceptionalism that is embodied by the mentally-ill owners and masters within the wealthy-class of America.
I am also aware of how those mentally-ill owners and masters within the wealthy-class have corrupted the government by co-opting the ill-educated within the poor, debtor, and working-class.
The wealthy-class' hypocrisy, exceptionalism, and mental illnesses -- mental illnesses which are exasperated by addictions to pursuing and obtaining the dopamine-highs associated with money-hoarding, social-status, material-acquisition, easy-living, human-exploitation, and substance-abuse -- accompanied by the wealthy-class' efforts to defund education for the poor, debtor, and working-classes, are all a means by which to render those within the lower-classes more corruptable, easier to co-opt, and thus more volatile and desperate. All of the factors listed above are combined to construct a society that is not easy nor adaptable to change.
The following is my speculation: The wealthy-class will continue degrading the United States' reputation within the international community until the United States' reputation is no longer defensible, valuable, nor reparable. When the United States is no longer salvageable, the international community will intervene in the United States, bringing the country to a level of despair which the nation has never seen. Then, the wealthy-class will use their money and assets to sneak themselves and their families out the proverbial backdoor, thus leaving the poor, debtor, and working-classes holding the metaphorical bag.
That is what the wealthy-class Nazis did to the poor, debtor, and working-class Germans after the international community got involved in World War Two.
After the wealthy-Nazis reduced the German-society to intellectual-ruins and then destroyed societies in other countries by invading them, the international community got involved. At that point, the wealthy-Nazis were able to depart from Germany thus leaving the lower-class Germans to bear the brunt of the retaliation from the international community.
I fear a similar scenario is taking place at present in the United States, and the outcome will be something similar.
One of my fears is this: Humans will never fully learn from the past, and history will continue to rhyme and repeat into the future.
The right-wing economic-extremists and social-authoritarians within the wealthy political parties of the United States will go on to wreak further havoc in other parts of the world, just like the right-wing economic-extremists and social-authoritarians within the wealthy-Nazi party went on to do.
One of my hopes is this: The United States will become a better society in the long run.
The Germans within the lower-classes became a better, more united people in the long run. They became more compassionate in their social-safety-nets, and they became more united as the exploited poor, debtor, and working-class majority against the exploitative, wealthy, mentally-ill, capitalist-class minority.
Perhaps the same will be true for the lower classes in the United States.
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If you're just learning about "libertarianism," then you need to know that the libertarian-concept in historical-practice has NOT been the same as the Libertarian-party in modern-practice. The Libertarian-party is bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the same corrupt wealthy-class, with their corrupt RW-politics, as the Repub&Dem parties.
Libertarians, Repubs&Dems, ALL espouse a small government, and they view the libertarian-concept to mean the inequitable "freedom TO oppress others" and NOT the equitable "freedom FROM oppression by others."
If the government isn't strong enough to ensure "freedom FROM oppression," then the biggest, strongest, and most vile&violent people would impose their "freedom TO oppress" the smallest, weakest, kindest & most-vulnerable people (instead of just having the people from the wealthy-class oppressing the people of the working-class, like we have now).
The people in the modern Libertarian-party advocate for small government and the individual freedom TO oppress others.
The people for the historical libertarian-concept advocate for a government that is big enough to protect the weakest&poorest individual's freedom FROM oppression by the strongest&wealthiest.
The Libertarian-party was literally started by some corrupt billionaires from the wealthy-class, because the Repubs&Dems weren't shrinking & destroying the government fast enough for them & their corrupt RW-politics.
Don't be fooled -- the political-Libertarians of the present are NOT the conceptual-libertarians of the past.
And when push-come-to-shove, the working-class dupes in the Libertarian-party will do whatever their masters in the wealthy-class tell them to do.
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Because those right-wingers aren't pro-life -- they are pro-slavery. The wealthy-class right-wingers didn't write the 13th Amendment to end slavery -- they wrote it to expand slavery to include everyone from the working-class.
The 13th Amendment allowed slavery to be imposed on anyone from the working-class who could be convicted of a crime. And the wealthy-class who wrote the 13th Amendment is the same wealthy-class who writes the laws in the present.
After the Civil War, MANY of the slaves who were freed were re-enslaved because of the 13th Amendment. Even though the slaves were freed, they had no money or land and had nowhere to go. And the wealthy-class slave owners were big-mad about losing their "property."
So, those wealthy-class slave-owners set out to use their wealth to take more control of state and local governments. They used their wealth to rewrite old laws and make new laws.
They made new laws that made it more difficult to do the normal things that all people need to do to survive. They made it illegal to do those normal things in the ways the poor and homeless people need to do them.
For example, sleeping: all people need to sleep. But if a person doesn't have a home, and if the wealthy-class can make a law that says it is illegal to sleep in public, then that sleeping person can be lableld a "criminal". And once a person is in the legal-system, that person becomes a slave. The 13th Amendment allows it.
So, then, the wealthy-class right-wingers wrote new laws that made it more difficult for people to get out of the legal-system. They designed the legal-system and prisons to be even more oppressive and more entangling than the original plantation-system.
Anyone from the working-class who gets convicted of breaking laws can be forced into slave-labor for the wealthy-class.
The laws are crafted and written by the wealthy-class.
The cases are adjudicated in courts funded by the wealthy-class.
The courts are presided over by judges who are in the wealthy-class.
The slave-labor is for corporations owned by the wealthy-class.
The prisons are owned by the wealthy-class.
The wealthy-class right-wingers who 'invented' America, who stole the land and committed genocide the against the original inhabitants, are the same wealthy-class right-wingers who control America today.
The wealthy-class right-wingers have bought and bribed both the major and minor political parties in America. The leadership in every party, along with every POTUS, are all wealthy-class right-wingers, just like the original, pro-slavery founders who were also wealthy-class right-wingers.
McConnell, Pelosi, McCarthy, Schumer, Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush x2, Clinton x2, and Reagan are/were all wealthy-class right-wingers. Just like the original, pro-slavery founders, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Adams, and others, were all wealthy-class right-wingers.
So, of course, even today, the wealthy-class right-wingers are pro-slavery. But there are also plenty of working-class dupes who are pro-slavery. Even though those working-class dupes are slaves too, they are okay with slavery as long as they can be the house-slaves who get to help the wealthy-class owners to subjugate the field-slaves.
The duped, working-class house-slaves continue to vote for wealthy-class right-wingers because they currently benefit from the wealthy-class being in power. They are too dumb to realize that they could end up being forced to become field-slaves someday.
Prisons are little more than modern-day plantations.
The wealthy-class owns the prisons, just like they owned the plantations.
The duped, working-class right-wingers are the guards in the prisons who act as the house-workers and slave-drivers on the plantations.
The working-class victims in the right-wing prisons are like the field-slaves under the thumbs of the working-class dupes and under the boots of the wealthy-class parasites on right-wing plantations.
I could go on.
Those right-wingers aren't pro-life. Those right-wingers are pro-slavery.
P.S. I know Alan was being facetious/sarcastic with his line of inquiry, but I answered it as if he was being serious.
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@charlesandrews2360 Listen-up-Chuck, I don't mean to be brash, or crass, or alienating, or a fee-fee-hurting-bad-boy, but we don't have a lot of time.
You must be an absolute ignoramus...
...If you think the concept of working-class class-traitors, those who glorify the wealthy-class, are some 21st Century phenomenon, then you've got a lot of work to do. As do I. So, let's get on with it, shall we?
Have you never heard of the Roman Empire (the wealthy-class), or the Pharisees and Sadducees (the working-class class-traitors who chose the wealthy-class empire over the working-class Jesus)?
Have you never heard the story of class-traitor Uncle Tom, his working-class mates, and his wealthy-class masters?
How about the Hebrews and Egyptian pharaohs?
All are examples of class-struggle, class-sabotage, and/or class-solidarity.
Get off the internet and get your head into a book.
Or hundreds.
It's likely to take hundreds of books worth of education to get your head out of the rut of the hyperbole and propaganda of the wealthy-class minority, and into a sense of connection and solidarity with the working-class majority, especially in regards to international and historical contexts.
Neither the wealthy-class, right-wing, Pharisee-Republic party nor the wealthy-class, right-wing, Sadducee-Democrat party will be the saviors of the working-class. Both parties are parties of the wealthy-class minority who oppress the working-class majority.
If you're voting for Repubs of Dems, or Libertarians for that matter, you are voting for your own suffering or the suffering of someone else. And what you're definitely voting for is the further solidification of power for the wealthy-class.
Nothing I've said is my own making. People much smarter than I have already pointed these things out in perpetuity.
I'm not stupid, and I'm not special either.
But to act like the progression of ignorance>fear>anger>hate>violence>murder>genocide is something new, instead of the age-old tool used by the wealthy-class to provoke the working-class to fight against itself...
Well, that takes a special kind of stupid.
There are millions like you, I've got a lot of work to do, so this will likely be my only response.
So get up Chuck, you've got work to do. Search up some Richard D. Wolff or Michael Hudson videos.
Good day, sir.
P.S. Chris Hedges videos, too.
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@Krill_all_health_insuranceCEOs I just looked it up too -- "garnishing social security for student loans".
I stopped reading after I found 20 articles from 20 different sources -- including law firms, the AARP, and government websites. The articles I read said Social Security payments can be garnished for unpaid student loans, especially Federal Loans. And the Parent PLUS Loan Program was a Federal Program.
I would post the links for you, but YouTube deletes my comment when I try to post the links.
As for asking my mom anything -- HA! -- she's a doctor-enabled opioid addict of over 40 years. She's an emotionless liar, thief, cheater, and manipulator.
As for asking my dad anything -- HA! -- he blames me for not paying the loan, which I never knew existed until after I was out of college. Unfortunately, he's not very smart, and he thinks his financial decision and mistake are my fault.
As for getting a lawyer -- HA! -- those are for people who can afford to pay their student loans. My dad, for about 40 years now, has actually been the caretaker for the second-home of a lawyer-couple, but they're right-wingers. They don't help people who are in need. They put people who are in need into cages.
Anyway, in my search, I also came across an article from 2018 which said the following:
"Senators Ron Wyden (D-Or.) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) introduced the Protection of Social Security Benefits Restoration Act which would prohibit the federal government from garnishing Social Security retirement and disability benefits to cover a beneficiary's defaulted student loans, according to the article."
But, of course, that legislation didn't pass. And introducing pro-working-class legislation is merely theatrics in a government where both right-wing political parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class right-wingers.
On a whole new note -- story time -- I actually did stop paying my student loans a loooong time ago.
After college, I could never get a job where I made enough money to make the minimum monthly payments. I was juggling which bills to pay and which ones not to pay every month.
I was trying not to become homeless or lose the first car I purchased. So, under the free-advice of a good Samaritan attorney, I stopped paying the student loans.
The good Samaritan attorney told me to make sure I had my necessities taken care of -- food, clothes, shelter, car to get to work -- and he told me to keep good records of my finances for when I would inevitably be taken to court. So I did keep good records.
But, I haven't been taken to court (yet), and I haven't made a student loan payment in about 15 years. Of course, I'm not glorifying my position -- I'm in a world of sh!te -- and I wouldn't recommend anyone go about things the way I have.
Obviously, my credit is absolute garbage. I'll never be able to get a mortgage to own a house or property. I'll never even be able to get an apartment that requires a credit-check. I have been homeless before, but I'll probably be house-less for the rest of my life.
I'll never be able to get a loan for a car, so I'll only be able to own cheap used cars.
I'll never be able to get certain jobs, or even a "good" job (whatever that is), especially a job that requires a credit-check. Some jobs won't hire/will fire you if/when they find out they have to deal with the gov't to facilitate wage garnishments.
At this point, I've been unemployed for seven years, stuck in rural America, and living at the whims of family members who basically use me as an indentured servant. I don't have a car, so even if I could get a job, I wouldn't be able to make it to the job.
The nearest town is 15-minutes by car and hours on foot. There are no taxis or public transportation. And, where I live, we can't get high-speed internet that is fast enough for any work-from-home jobs.
I could go on.
But, despite all that, I am thankful, and I am blessed. I've got enough clothes to last the rest of my life (I think), and, as long as I don't get kicked out, I've got a roof over my head and leftovers to eat.
Anyway, uh... Thanks? I guess, for your advice. And, sorry? I suppose, for over-sharing,
In The Spirit of love and solidarity, may peace be upon you and yours.
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No, not wrong. Just lacking nuance. "Rigging" every system on earth is a uniquely wealthy-class tradition.
Since the invention of currency, the people with the wealth, and the people who strive to be like the people with the wealth, are the ones who do the rigging.
And I'm not sure if you meant "Gerrymandering" when you said "jerry-rigging," but those two things are not the same. However, Gerrymandering electoral maps and manipulating citizen-representation is also part of the wealthy-class tradition of "rigging" everything.
Wealth, power, greed, laziness, sabotage, and the underlying addictions to those things, are not uniquely American. They are unique to the wealthy-class, and to the working-class dupes who want to be like the wealthy-class.
Your sentiments are on the right track, though.
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Most restaurants are priced toward attracting working-class people, many-to-most of whom can't afford to be eating out anyway.
The kinds of restaurants that are priced to attract working-class people also attract specific kinds of working-class customers -- the kind who wish to emulate the wealthy-class people who believe they are worthy of being served.
The kinds of restaurants that are priced to attract working-class customers are venues for working-class servers & cooks to be exploited by their fellow working-class mates.
Meanwhile, the profits from the restaurants go to the wealthy-class owners who then use those profits to eat at home or at better restaurants where working-class people can't afford to go.
I don't want to be like the wealthy-class, forcing working-class people to do everything for me: Planting and watering the seeds, cultivating the crop, weeding the garden, harvesting the bounty, cleaning the harvest, packaging it, storing it, shipping it, storing it again, cleaning it again, preparing it, cooking it, and serving it.
Next thing you know, wealthy-class people, and the working-class people who try to emulate them, will want working-class people to chew the food and spit it into their mouths for them. Then they'll want working-class people to follow them around until they sh!t it out. Then, they'll want their A$$ wiped.
No thanks.
Working for work's sake -- chasing currency that was invented by lazy, wealthy-class parasites -- isn't virtuous.
F*kc restaurants.
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Climate wouldn't be a problem if there wasn't so much production.
Production wouldn't be a problem if there weren't so many consumers.
Consumption wouldn't be a problem if there weren't so many addicts.
Addiction wouldn't be a problem if there wasn't a wealthy-class.
The wealthy-class wouldn't exist if they were eradicated, frequently and on a schedule.
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class politics.
Right-wing politics are anti-working-class politics.
Wealthy-class right-wingers will never willingly give up their addictions, and they'll always try to enslave the working-class to produce those addictions.
The wealthy-class right-wingers will co-opt the dumbest fools in the working-class and turn those dumb working-class fools into cops and soldiers.
The wealthy-class right-wingers will give a few extra crumbs to those foolish working-class cops and soldiers, and, in exchange, those those foolish working-class cops and soldiers will protect the addictions of the wealthy-class right-wingers.
Then, the wealthy-class right-wingers will give those foolish working-class cops and soldiers a taste of the addiction to power, turning those foolish working-class cops and soldiers into power-addicts.
Then, those armed, foolish working-class addicts will be just like their wealthy-class overlords -- they will NEVER willingly give up their addictions.
Those armed, foolish working-class addicts will murder you and your entire family to maintain those addictions.They'll murder their own friends, families, and neighbors if the wealthy-class overlords tell them to -- just like the Nazi and Confederate soldiers did.
The wealthy-class knaves and the working-class fools will sabotage the entire earth just to maintain their addictions.
Until the wealthy-class knaves and the working-class fools, and the countries that give them harbor, are brought to heel, the Earth's problems will persist.
Do the unborn a favor: start practicing antinatalism. Do your part to breed the parasitic human race out of existence.
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@skeptick Hey, thanks for the compliment.
Feel free to add and/or subtract whomever you wish from the list.
It's not a copyrighted list. I don't have it published to earn a living. I'm not the arbitrator of whatever it is you're trying to arbitrate.
My point was, and remains, as follows. There are remnants of Dr. King all around us, with his semblances expressed through the lives of many.
The people listed have thrown themselves into the fires of the courts of public opinion, like King.
Some got hauled into actual courts of law, like King. Some faced the tyranny of the multi-tiered justice system, like King. Some have been thrown into the human-cages of for-profit torture, like King. All of those systems were designed by, and for the benefit of, wealthy-class white supremacists.
The people on that list have had their lives changed and some ruined by the same wealthy-class white supremacy which Dr. King fought. They have all felt the kind of heat that one doesn't feel simply sitting behind a keyboard.
I'm able to admit that I am imperfect, as the people on the list are imperfect, as Dr. King was imperfect. I am not infallible, nor are the people on the list infallible, nor was Dr. King infallible. And neither are you.
But I can admit, ALL of those people have been better examples than I have been able to be. Even though I do what I am able, most of what I contribute is direct to my family or to those who read the words I write from behind the comfort of my keyboard.
If you want to subtract AOC's name from the list, that's your prerogative. Go for it. Her rhetoric has flattened. My rhetoric would probably follow suit if I received as many credible threats against my life as she has.
I've only had my life threatened a handful of times. I've still got some conviction in my rhetoric, but that's probably due to my lack of prioritizing self-preservation. I suppose that's one thing I have in common with Dr. King. But don't fret; I won't add my name to the list.
By you and Funny Farm's standards, Dr. King's family probably wouldn't be on the list either -- how dare his teenage granddaughter not speak to the extent that the state threatened her life like her grandfather.
Like, of course AOC and Amy Goodman aren't Dr. King -- fucking physics and my own two eyes can explain that. Both AOC and Goodman receive threats in perpetuity; Goodman for decades and AOC for years. What do you want to do, force them? It seems to me you'd rather do that than contribute anything of actual value.
I only wonder, WHO THE FUCK IS ON YOUR LIST? YOURSELF?
While you suckle at the teet of the dead -- and my critique of you is in no way a critique of King -- I'm going to continue adding to the list, trying my best to identify coalitions among the living who are carrying on King's legacy of bringing people together from all walks of life.
I'll add Mumia Abu Jamal, Leonard Peltier, and Ed Poindexter.
I'll add Elie Mystal, Adrienne Lawrence, Jayar Jackson.
I'll add Gerald Horne and Adolf Reed Jr.
I'll add Jordan Chariton, Katie Halper, and Matt Taibbi. Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, and Reality Winner. Daniel Hale, Daniel Ellsberg, and John Kiriakou.
And if some of those people stumble -- if they choose self-preservation over public glorification and vilification -- I'm still capable of seeing the good they did when they had the platform. They still deserve to be on the list for the work they did that was greater than the work I, and likely you, have contributed.
You subtract whoever doesn't live up to your standards.
I've admittedly contributed less than any of the people on the list. You and Animal-clown Farm-circus have contributed even less than that in this thread.
If you don't have any names to add to the list, that's ok. If you can't contribute any names for others to aspire or look up to (besides King WHO 'S FUCKING DEAD NOW), that's ok, too. I understand. There are many like you.
You moderate-liberals are the hindering bane King spoke about -- too ignorant to contribute, too comfortable to contribute, but plenty comfortable complaining that you didn't get any jelly with your peanut butter.
If one person inspires millions as King and others did, THEY END UP DEAD. But if millions, inspired together, stand in solidarity, they can achieve the equity and equality toward which King aspired.
If we're ever going to "strike fear in the establishment," the people on the list, you, Animal-shite Farm, me, and everyone else, are going to have to learn to live with a lot less than pb&j, because the establishment will burn it all down and sneak out the back door before they give up their power.
They'll just go somewhere else and colonize it. It's already happening -- been happening for decades.
Adult-sized wealthy-class children are the addicts responsible for the majority of the world's ills, and adult-sized working-class children are the addicts who help them to perpetuate those ills.
Damn, solidarity-stifled, wannabe-rulers -- you're nearly as insufferable as the working-class, right-wing, class-traitor trolls, trying to take up the time of better people doing better work.
If all you want to do is bitch and moan and complain about other people who are trying or have tried, then pretty please, with a fucking cherry on top, keep it to yourself, mind your fucking business, and STFU.
Got people out here, fucking, wasting their time on your ignorant-asses, you fucking hanger-oners and dragger-downers...
But, hey!!! Thanks again, for the quasi-compliment and underhanded criticism!!! 😃
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@ @SunFlower-1221 It's Tytler -- not Tyler -- and he was a "Lord" (anti-Christ), and a member of the populace-minority known as the wealthy-class (anti-Christs). His views were as autocratic & authoritarian then as they are now.
His rhetoric was projection in practice. He tried to trick working-class people into believing that, if working-class people had a choice/vote, they would "ruin" society.
But, in reality, it was, and still is, the wealthy-class knaves, like Tytler, who ruin society for the working-class people.
The absence of majority-rule(democracy) is called minority-rule(autocracy and/or authoritarianism), in which the lazy ,wealthy-class minority uses their wealth to rule & reign over the laboring, working-class majority, just like slavery.
If the working-class laborers are unable to vote-down the addictions, greed & selfishness of the mentally-ill, narcissistic, sociopathic & psychopathic authoritarians of the lazy wealthy-class, then the only other option is violence.
Now, I am non-violent & anti-violence, because I'm a Jesus-Christian (not a Capitalist-Christian or Fascist-Christian, not a Judaeo-Christian, Catholic-Christian, or Protestant-Christian, not a Repubocrat-Christian or a Demlican-Christian). So I'm not going to participate in the violence. But I bet you will, when your wealthy-class masters tell you to.
Based on your post, you appear to be another working-class dupe who has fallen for the rhetoric, projection, and trickery of the lazy, wealthy-class knaves.
God gave us all free-will -- voting & democracy correspond directly with the expression of that free-will.
To use your free-will to take away the free-will of others -- either by disparaging voting, disenfranchising others, and/or destroying democracy -- is as anti-Christ as it gets. Tytler was an anti-Christ.
Based on your post, you appear to be an anti-Christ, too.
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CardiB didn't get betrayed -- she got played.
She is literally part of the problem & shouldn't be taken seriously.
And Kyle shouldn't be taken seriously for giving publicity to her ignorance.
Cardi, like Kyle, is a former working-class dupe who got lucky in the inequitable economic-lottery that is perpetrated & perpetuated by the hereditary members of the corrupt wealthy-class, who maintain their lifestyle-addictions via their corrupt RW-politics. And, now, Cardi, like Kyle, is so addicted to her lifestyle that she's unwilling to make meaningful sacrifices to help the least-fortunate for the betterment of society, just like the other lifestyle-addicts from the corrupt wealthy-class.
And there are the millions of other working-class dupes who strive to become just like CardiB, and like Kyle. And just like Cardi, those other working-class dupes are too dumb to realize, and certainly too egotistical to admit it, that they are part of the problem. Just like all the egotistical wealthy-class knaves who are unwilling to (a)admit that their lifestyle-addictions are toxic, and (b)sacrifice their lifestyle-addictions to help the least-fortunate for the betterment of society.
CardiB, like Kyle, is just one of the many working-class pawns who have been given entry into the corrupt wealthy-class by the corrupt, hereditary members of the corrupt wealthy-class. And she, like Kyle, is too dumb to comprehend that she's just like the house-workers from the past who were used by those same hereditary members of the corrupt wealthy-class as pawns against the field-workers.
RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class & anti-working-class politics.
CardiB is a house-worker, but she's been allowed into the wealthy-class, and now she benefits from the same corrupt RW-politics as the wealthy-class, and she knows it. She doesn't want to risk being demoted to a field-worker again, so she will vote for Trump or Biden, or she won't vote at all.
Vote RW-extremist Repubs for the fast, open-road from capitalist-slavery to fascist-slavery.
Vote moderate-RW Dems for the slower, disguised-road from capitalist-slavery to fascist-slavery.
CardiB didn't get "betrayed" -- she got played like a pawn, and she'll continue to be played for as long as she continues to prioritize her lifestyle-addictions over education.
But she's certainly not someone who should be taken seriously by serious working-class people. Just like Klandace Owens, Larry Elder, Jesse Lee Peterson, Senator Tim (UncleThomas) Scott & (in)Justice Clarence (uncle)Thomas shouldn't be taken seriously.
And Kyle, as a moderate-RW member of the wealthy-class, shouldn't be taken seriously for giving her publicity.
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These working-class dupes fell for the RW-propaganda of the wealthy-class that says, "sMaLL gOvErNmEnT gOOd!!!"🤪 These working-class dupes are now living the truthful-consequences of the faux-truth they voted for.
Also, I would bet that most anyone in NC, who is "living in a tent" related to the hurricane, is doing it (a)by choice, and/or (b)for clout, to (c)fuel the misplaced-outrage.
But even if these working-class dupes ARE living in tents against their will, it is important to remember, again, that they voted for their own suffering.
I've had to live in a tent against my will. BUT, I didn't vote for it.
My suffering, and the suffering of MILLIONS of people was caused by (a)the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics, and by (b)the working-class dupes who voted for the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
I have sympathy & empathy for the working-class dupes who are suffering, but most of them voted for their own suffering, and they voted for the suffering of countless other innocent working-class people.
But, just because I have sympathy & empathy for the ignorant, working-class dupes who voted for their own suffering, that doesn't mean I'm going to coddle their ignorance.
Perhaps these working-class dupes, who voted for the "tough love" espoused by RW-politics, need to experience the "tough love" which they have repeatedly voted for.
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RW-politics = enslavement politics. Monarchism, Feudalism, Capitalism, Republicanism,* Corporatism, Oligarchism, & Fascism are ALL systems in which the populace-minority of wealthy-class people enslaves the populace-majority of working-class people. Democracy & socialism are two of the antidotes to the inequality & enslavement that are perpetuated by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
All of the problems in the world can be traced back to two main sources: (1)to the corrupt wealthy-class knaves & their corrupt RW-politics, and (2)to the few working-class dupes who support the corrupt wealthy-class knaves & their corrupt RW-politics.
For example: The Confederates & Nazis were both RW-political parties that were founded & funded by (1)the corrupt wealthy-class, and were supported by (2)a few working-class dupes.
The Repubs & Dems are both RW-political parties that were founded, and are still funded, by (1)the corrupt wealthy-class, and supported by (2)a BUNCH of working-class dupes.
BOTH parties have enabled & legalized bribery.
BOTH parties engaged in Gerrymandering & voter-suppression.
BOTH parties have made it harder to vote.
BOTH parties have decreased the ease of voting.
Question: Why have BOTH parties worked together on those things?
Answer: Because BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed & controlled by the same corrupt wealthy-class and their corrupt RW-politics.
Footnotes: *Republicanism includes BOTH the Republic-party AND the Democrat-party in the US. BOTH parties adhere to, and promote, the system of a Republic over the system of Democracy.
Although, the US is barely even a Republic anymore -- it's closer to a Technocratic/Theocratic Fascist Kakistocracy, just like the Confederate-South and Nazi-Germany were, just like Zionist-Israel is.
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I don't know if having "more trauma" is the way to describe them, though I do believe that "unaddressed traumas" is a huge factor.
The things that are referred to as "trauma" by civilized and educated people are called other things by some Trump supporters. Such as, "rights of passage" or "deserved punishment" or "traditionally necessary" or "Deity approved" experiences.
The Trump supporters who go along with that line of thinking don't comprehend that everyone's life-experiences shape who we become. They don't realize that their traumas have emotionally, psychologically, and intellectually stunted them.
Group-1 believes that people who admit to being affected by traumas are submitting to the defeatism of victimhood. They believe that "tough love" for the traumatized will make the world a better place.
But Group-2 believes that they have been traumatized, and they admit to it. But instead of blaming the people who directly (family, friends, neighbors) or indirectly (the wealthy-class) brought on their trauma, they blame other powerless strangers with identities different than their own. They believe that bringing vengeance and trauma to other powerless people is the best way to defeat their own victimhood and will make the world a better place.
However, I would argue that neither group is in direct denial; Group-1 because they can't even comprehend what they are/should be denying, and Group-2 is because they do address trauma, even if they incorrectly identify the causes and lash out at them unjustifiably.
But I would say that both groups are dissociated from reality.
Group-1 is generally happy-go-lucky in their dissociation -- they think the world is grand, including themselves. And if you don't think the world is grand, then you must deserve it. They'll sleep happily without you in their lives, because ignoring people is a form of tough love, and they think that tough love makes the world a better place.
Group-2 is generally loathsome, vile, and violent in their dissociation -- they think the world is brutal, except for themselves. And if you don't think the world is brutal, they will show you that it is. They'll sleep happily knowing they showed you brutality, because they think that spreading the same kind of brutality that they have endured makes the world a better place.
I could go on. I grew up surrounded by right-wingers. (Now I'm ideologically farther to the left than anyone I know.)
I think the best thing to realize about Trump supporters is that they aren't all the same. Group-2 is willing to be brutal, and the Group-1 generally isn't. But the first group is willing to aid and abet the brutality of Group-2 because Group-1 doesn't see Group-2 as brutal. Group-1 sees Group-2 as the deliverers and administrators of "tough love."
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@YTsupportsZionaziGenocide Doing the same-old-same, while saying "this is the best we can do," and continuing to use vocabulary that has been hijacked by the wealthy-class/right-wing knaves, is foolish at best and knavish at worst.
And referring to selective-democracies (like Israel & Iran) as democracies is as seemingly-foolish as the moderate-right-wing Democrats and as definitely-knavish as the right-wing-extremist Republicans, both of which parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class/right-wingers.
Some of the language we use needs to change & evolve as it is co-opted & corrupted by wealthy-class/right-wingers.
And I didn't mention my position on the Political Compass as an attempt to engage in a kind of "bigger-d!kc contest." I mentioned it to give a clue that I'm not an advocate of doing the same-old-same and saying "this is the best we can do!" (That's what anti-libertarian Republicans, Democrats, and Libertarians do.)
Democracy & democratism are words that should be kept in use, but libertarian & libertarianism have been ruined. Time to try something new & better.
Stop being so conservative -- it's childishly-foolish at best, and disgustingly-knavish at worst. None of those things should be emulated.
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RWers* rigged the primary. Twice. The moderate-RW Dems & the RW-extremist Repubs are BOTH bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the same corrupt wealthy-class, with the same corrupt RW-politics. They are the ones who rigged the primaries in 2016&2020.
The wealthy-class, with their corrupt RW-politics, are working together behind the scenes, and a majority of working-class dupes continue to strive to be just like them.
The wealthy-class people, around the globe, have a severe & debilitating addiction problem, resulting in a subsequent mental-health epidemic. And they have passed on their addictions & mental-illness to the working-class.
The people in the US & the west are addicted to their lifestyles, and that addiction permeates, both, the wealthy-class AND the working-class.
And just like any other kind of addict, they will NEVER willingly give up their addictions.
The indecent & vile knaves from the wealthy-class will command & fund the destruction, and the indecent & vile dupes from the working-class will submit & commit the destruction -- all against other working-class strangers abroad, all for the cause of maintaining their lifestyle addictions.
In fact, the addicts will not only commit atrocities against working-class strangers abroad, but they ruin the entire earth, including the communities of their own family & friends, in order to maintain their addictions.
"Western-Culture" & "RW-politics" are a breeding-ground for human-parasites, just like the Roman Empire, the Confedrate South, and Nat-C Germany were.
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@logicallydashing Your expectation that the oppressed-descendants of oppressed-ancestors -- who are experiencing new-oppression in the present, while still experiencing the ripple-effects of the old-oppression from the past -- should have a "reasonable reaction" to your privileged-ignorance in regards to the oppression they face, would be blissfully-adorable if your privileged-ignorance wasn't partially-responsible for the continued-oppression that is experienced by the oppressed-descendants who hurt your feefees.
But your "privileged-ignorance" is NOT blissfully-adorable -- quite the opposite. Your privileged-ignorance is abhorrently-deplorable.
The deplorably-abhorrent effects of past-oppression when coupled with the present privileged-ignorance of those who aren't oppressed, is how the new-oppression is able to persist.
The oppressed-descendants of the present aren't so much mad at your privileged-ignorance as they are at the new-oppression in the present.
If you're not smart enough to fully-understand it, then you must AT LEAST have the partial-understanding the that old-oppression from the past still effects the oppressed-descendants, and that those oppressed-descendants are experiencing new-oppression, in the present.
And if you can't/don't/won't understand it, then maybe just STFU while other, better, smarter, & decent working-class people try to remedy the ripple-effects of the old-oppression from the past, while trying to bring an end to the new-oppression in the present.
I long for the days when ignorant people were still smart enough to STFU.
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@PaulMcWheels Spoken like a American/Western exceptionalist.
I look forward to your demise.
I wasn't being rude -- I was offering constructive criticism. Because your first two sentences seemed sensible. But smarter and better people aren't going to take you seriously, as they shouldn't, if you can't even write/read/speak well. And they certainly aren't going to take you seriously if you repel free help when it comes to writing/reading/speaking.
I was only trying to help a seemingly like-minded person, but you've proved yourself to be another right-winger. You are why the smarter and better parts of the world are moving on from American/Western and right-wing ideologies. You are the people "my, me, mine" -- the people of ignorance, fear, anger, hate, sabotage, violence, murder, and genocide.
"I dOn't wRiTe FoR yOu or AnYoNe ElsE..." 🤡
Really? In a public comments section? Where ANYONE and EVERYONE can see what you write? That's really your on-the-record statement? Well, either you are, or you think everyone else is, a CUNextTuseday. And you're certainly a moron.
The more I interact with American/Western right-wingers, the more I look forward to the inevitable, predictable demise of your Confederate-Nazi aristocracy
That's a story I'll read about.
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He's a walking contradiction.
Some of his contradictory statements are listed below.
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First, he says: 'I want to beat up some fucking commies.'
Then he says: 'We do kind of look aggressive... We're ready to get whomped on...'
Then he says: 'We're not aggressive.'
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First, he says: 'I wasn't political at all.'
Then he says: 'I was listening to (right-wing extremist) Alex Jones.'
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First, he says: 'I wasn't political at all.'
Someone asks him: 'You Mexican boys conservatives?'
He replies: 'Yeah!'
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She asks him: 'What do you say to people who say; "Proud boys are just violent. They just want to murder Antifa."'?
He answers: 'Poor media.'
But previously he said: 'Antifa made me want to join... I just want to beat up some fucking commies.'
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First says: 'I didn't care about left or right.'
Then says: 'So I joined the (right-wing extremists) Proud-Boys.'
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He says: 'So there's a group of men...'
But they call themselves boys and have the mindset of children
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First, he says: 'Fighting Antifa is 10 percent of what the Proud-Boys is about.
Then he says: 'There's 98% of what the media doesn't see about us.'
Sooo, if there's 98% that we don't see, but there is 10% which we do see, doesn't that make 108%?
I know, I'm nitpicking semantics. But who's really the idiot here?
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First, he says: 'I want to beat up some fucking commies.'
Then he says: 'We're God-fearing men'
But the Bible is anti-violence.
The Bible says: (Psalms 55:11) "The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked; His soul (God's soul) hates the lover of violence."
The Bible also says: (Proverbs 3:31) "Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways."
Jesus said: (Matthew 5:38-39) "You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you not to resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also."
Jesus also said: (Matthew 26:52) "Put your sword back in its place. For all who live by the sword will die by the sword."
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He says: 'Buy me a beer. You're going to be my friend for the next 30 minutes.'
Then he says: 'We are drinkers. We are brawlers.'
But the Bible is anti-alcohol.
The Bible says: (Proverbs 20:1) 'Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.'
It also says: (Proverbs 23:31-35) 'Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper. Your eyes will see strange things and your mind will utter perversities. You will be like one sleeping on the high seas or lying on the top of a mast: “They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”
It also says: (Ephesians 5:18) 'Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.'
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This kid reminds me of the main characters in the film 'American History X' (played by Edward Norton and Edward Furlong).
I call him a kid because of his child-like demeanor and undeveloped thought process.
He also reminds me of Frank Meeink (https://www.thedailybeast.com/he-was-the-neo-nazi-who-inspired-american-history-x-his-nazi-pals-are-now-cops).
He reminds me of the non-practicing extremists who distort and contort Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, which gives a bad name to decent practicing Christians, Jews, and Muslims.
In the linear progression of ignorance > fear > anger > hate > violence > murder > genocide, as long as a person is one of those things, then the wealthy-class can exploit it to persuade a person to move along to the next level.
This kid is exactly the kind of rube that the wealthy-class loves to mark.
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Police patrols in the present evolved from the slave patrols from the past.
The main purposes of right-wing police patrols in the present is the same as right-wing slave patrols from the past:
(1)To protect the property of white right-wingers in the wealthy&working classes.
(2)To protect the profit-centers of white right-wingers in the wealthy-class.
(3)To oppress, repress, & suppress the anti-racist people from the working-class.
(4)To oppress, repress, and suppress the working-class people who are chattel-slaves, debt-slaves, and wage-slaves.
The white-supremacist right-wingers from the wealthy-class used their wealth to fund the slave patrols in the past.
And the same wealthy, right-wing, white-supremacists use their wealth to fund police patrols in the present.
The wealthy, right-wing, white-supremacists made sure that slave patrollers got paid a higher-than-average wage in the past.
And the same wealthy, right-wing, white-supremacists make sure that police patrollers get paid a higher-than-average wage in the present.
The wealthy right-wing white-supremacists have used their wealth to purchase the services of the most vile and violent working-class fools.
Those vile and violent working-class fools are the first ones in line to become killer-cops, military-murderers, and political-propagandists -- all for the benefit of the wealthy-class minority to the detriment of the working-class majority.
The institutions of patrolling, policing, military, and propaganda -- while being inherently racist and classist -- are building-blocks of the class-warfare that has been waged by the wealthy right-wingers against the working-class throughout all of recorded history.
And throughout all of American history, the wealthy, right-wing, white-supremacists have used their wealth to increase their wealth by infiltrating and corrupting all of those institutions, the government, and politicians.
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class politics.
Right-wing politics are anti-working-class politics.
Right-wing politics are wealthy-minority-rule politics.
Right-wing politics are working-majority-suppression politics
Right-wing politics are pro-autocracy politics.
Right-wing politics are anti-democracy politics.
I could go on. But I'll end with this.
F*kc right-wing politics
F*kc the right-wing, wealthy-class knaves.
F*kc the right-wing working-class fools who serve the wealthy-class knaves.
F*kc the right-wing, white-supremacist ghouls.
F*kc the right-wing slave patrols from the past.
F*kc the right-wing police patrols in the present.
F*kc the right-wing, white-supremacist ghouls.
F*kc ALL the right-wingers.
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@ralph4857 Joke reply: Well, you may be onto something there, Ralph.😃
Serious reply: I know how you feel. I've been there. And then I grew, evolved, and changed. And now I dislike* the people I was trying to be like.
I was trying to be a good little "employee," so that I could make a little more money, so that I could be a good little consumer, and maybe one day I would be the "employer." But all of those things lead to addiction -- not figurative addiction, but literal addiction.
The following are some of the things to which people can become addicted: positions of power, social status, material possessions, money accumulation, wealth hoarding, promiscuous pursuits, along with many, many other things.
Oh, what the heck -- I'll list a few more addictions: video games, film & television, social media, entertainment, alcohol, tobacco, firearms, land & property hoarding, thieving of natural resources, labor exploitation, manipulation of the vulnerable, crimes against humanity...ffs, even the improper disposal of garbage and polluting the earth is something that people can become addicted to.
But the thing that all addictions have in common is that they pollute. Addictions pollute hearts and minds. Polluted hearts and minds pollute human interactions. And human interaction is necessary for the development of functional relationships. And functional human relationships are necessary for the fostering of families, friendships, communities. And families, friendships, and communities are all necessary for a civilized society.
Now, what I'm saying is:
1. The reason that you may dislike* most humans is because most humans are acting in negative ways, and they are ignoring the positive advice from the OP's comment.
2. The reasons that most humans are acting in the most negative ways are: (A)because of the plethora of traumas as was mentioned in OP's comment, and (B)because of the superabundance of available addictions -- some self-medicating, some sociopathically-malicious, and some psychopathically-malevolent -- some of them expensive, some cheap, and some free.
3. I'm not a professional/expert, but I'm fairly certain that when one has a general dislike* of most humans, that stems from struggling with traumas and/or addictions. Either or both of those things, in turn, cause struggles with human interactions, which in turn causes struggles with human relationships.
4. Sooo, even if your traumas and addictions are in check, just try to remember that not everyone else has their sh!t together. Try to think about what some people might be going through, and do your best to give them the grace you would want to be given if you were having a hard time.
5. You know, OP wasn't joking. Even "touching grass" is important for humans -- literally means getting outside into the sun and outside air, which is what we have to do to see each other, face-to-face, in the same physical, three-dimensional space.
Buttt, if you've never done it, I dare you to go somewhere and sit on the grass. Look at it. LOOOOK at it and realize that every piece needs nurturing to be healthy, just like every human and every relationship. And I dare you to hug a tree. Laying on the grass and hugging trees will make you feel some kinda way, just like having human relationships.
You know, I understand that these things may seem weird if you've never done them before. And that's ok. But, maybe you've done them before, but you felt weird doing them. And that's ok.
6. I'm just trying to say that, sometimes, relationships can make us feel some kinda way, whether the relationship is with a person, some grass, a tree, or our community, and that it's okay to feel weird. But don't be scared.
7. Humans need to interact in person, to increase empathy and build social bonds, to edify, nurture, protect, and shelter the weakest and youngest among us, all in hopes of maintaining a civilized society
8. And the only people who don't want to maintain a civilized society are sociopaths and psychopaths, both the wealthy-class knaves and the working-class dupes who, knowingly or unknowingly, support the wealthy-class knaves.
I've worked FOR some wealthy-class psychopaths and sociopaths.
I've worked WITH some working-class psychopaths and sociopaths.
They were all the same.
They cared about no one but themselves -- rarely even family.
They would step on anyone to get what they wanted --sometimes even family.
I was trying to be like them.
Then I realized they were the cause of the world's problems.
People like that are the causes of the traumas that instigate addictions, both of which facilitate the breakdown of civilized society.
9. If you want to dislike* anyone, the psychopaths and sociopaths are a good start.
Leave "most people" out of it -- most people are just chattel-slaves, debt-slaves, and wage-slaves, just like you, trying to live under the boots of their masters.
"Most people" deserve your empathy, not your hate*.
10. If I took your comment too literally -- if you were only joshing around -- then I'm sorry, don't take it personally. Lol.
Maybe someone else will read this and get something out of it.
Good day to you!
*Hate is too strong a word. I don't like to use it -- not even against the sociopaths and psychopaths.
Even though they are the cause of the world's problems, they are still products created by their experiences -- they deserve sympathy at the least, but nothing close to hate.
Hate is one of the primary factors causing the state of depravity in the world, and I don't want to exemplify nor emulate it.
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The only real inquiries that intelligent working-class people need to wonder about a class-traitor are:
Which working-class communities will the class-traitor sabotage and destroy first, at the behest of their wealthy-class masters?
Which of their working-class friends, family members, or neighbors will the class-traitor murder first, when their wealthy-class overlords command them?
Any working-class class-traitor who denies that they will do as they're told by their wealthy-class owners is either a fool who doesn't know the history of class-politics and how the wealthy-class has rhymed and repeated their playbook to co-opt working-class fools throughout history, or they are knaves who are pretending they don't know the history of class-politics.
Whether a fool or a knave, neither is anything to be proud of. Yet, the duped class-traitors from within the working-class have been conditioned by the wealthy-class propagandists to wear ignorance on one's sleeve as a badge of honor.
The majority of class-traitors within the working-class, however, are fools. These class-traitors are ignorant and impressionable. They are too dumb to hide their agenda. They don't hide the hate they have been indoctrinated with. They will run head-long, without disguise, into cannons as fodder if the wealthy-class tells them to. They are easy to spot.
However, the class-traitor knaves are worse. They make up a smaller segment of class-traitors. They are a little more difficult to identify. They will lie to your face and murder you from behind. But, mostly, they are cowards who will enlist the fools to do the most difficult, dangerous work.
Their wealthy-class masters, on the other hand, will do the same thing they have always done throughout history, and that is, as little of the work as humanly possible.
The wealthy-class capitalists will continue to make sure their addictions are met from behind the scenes by manipulating the markets to create false-scarcity, thus forcing enough working-class slaves into labor to meet the demand for wealthy-class addictions. In exchange, the wealthy-class will give a few extra crumbs to some working-class dupes over the other working-class folks. This will make the dupes feel like they are more important than working-class folks.
At the same time, the wealthy-class will also be sure that there are enough working-class fools to sabotage and murder their fellow working-class mates. The wealthy-class will command all this division through violence from behind the scenes as they spout about unity in public.
I could go on.
Be wary of the proud, working-class fools and cunning working-class knaves around you, you decent working-class comrades.
There are traitors in our midst.
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@benjizollman6626 That's some adorable, right-wing revisionist history you've got there. You're a very good working-class dupe, repeating the right-wing propaganda produced by your wealthy-class masters.
By your ignorant logic, all humans have a claim to the land of Noah because Noah is our ancestor. And even though our later-ancestors left the land of Noah, that doesn't matter -- the land still belongs to everyone because we're all descendents of Noah.
By your ignorant logic, ALL native Americans have a claim to the land of the U.S. because the land was stolen from their ancestors, just like you're saying that Jews have a claim to the land of Palestine because that land was stolen from Jews.
So, by your own logic, you must believe that all European-Americans should leave the U.S. and go back to Europe, right? You must believe that European-Americans should give the U.S. land back to the indigenous-tribes, just like you believe all Palestinians should leave Palestine and give the land back to "indigenous" Jews. Right? Riiiight, sure you do.
Personally, I do think that the indigenous-tribes in America should be given back control of all the land, and all European-Americans should either go back to Europe or they should assimilate to indigenous cultures. But right-wingers don't think that.
Right-wing politics are the politics of violence -- they think they deserve America because they won it in a murder-contest. Well, guess what, right-winger: Jews lost their land in a murder-contest, too. So, by right-wing logic, European-Americans get to keep the U.S. land, and Palestinians get to keep Palestine.
And if your retort is; "Well we'll take it back in another murder-contest," then you're just as abhorrent as our ignorant, deceased, right-wing ancestors, and I hope that more abhorrent, ignorant, living/breathing right-wingers like you hurry up and go join them.
You right-wingers, with your inconsistencies and hypocrisy, would be blissfully-adorable if you weren't so abhorrently-deplorable.
GTFOH, you got the wrong one, sweetie.
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@Newton14alan I don't think you're being snide, and I don't want you to think that my following response is meant to be snide either, so I'll offer a retort, and I'll try to be brief.
Communicating can be a pursuit -- a task, a job, an art, and science -- as grueling as any of the other kinds of labor, be it manual or mental labor, powered by muscles or brains.
Arlie has been communicating for much of her adult life, and the quality of her oratory skills are as good as any other in the field, even if her quantity has slowed over time.
Now, she doesn't need me to make any excuses for her, but -- she is 80 years old, and Wolff is nearly 80 himself -- surely, due to the quality of their oration, and the importance of the content which they present, some pardon can be given regarding the quantity of their output.
They are trying to be as thorough as possible, trying to do justice to their craft while living up to the high standards I believe they set for themselves.
I am sure, in their wealth of knowledge, it can be difficult to know where to start when it comes to responding to a question. You'll notice in response to Wolff's first question, she says, "...let me back up from the moment of this alarming...".
She has to decide how far back to go; considering her audience, calculating how much groundwork to lay for that audience, how to appeal to the top of the audience while connecting with the bottom, so that the listeners may be entertained and the information can be retained.
I suppose I've gone on long enough in this respect.
Lastly, I would offer some tips.
When I watch programs on Youtube, I often increase the Playback Speed under the Settings. For some programming, I set the speed to the fastest setting, particularly when I'm listening to slower presenters or viewing content that is less important to me.
Finally, if Arlie's work interests you, her book came out in 2016, and since then she has given numerous lectures and interviews in a longer format.
Just search her name in the Youtube Search Bar, then use the settings to search for videos that are longer than 20-minutes. I found 10 on the first page of results that were longer than an hour, all from within the past four years.
With the garbage-can, trash-bag quality of the wealthy-owned, corporate-controlled, propaganda-machine known as mainstream-media, we have to work a little harder to find real, true, and honest information.
Hope this helps. :)
(Sorry that it wasn't what might be referred to as "brief.")
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A community should be able to initiate the division of a couple/relationship, particularly if/when a couple/relationship becomes toxic to the community, especially for the sake of children.
Under a system like that, my parents could have been divorced for numerous reasons on countless occasions. For examples:
1. After the first of the many times that my mother literally begged my father to hit her. She tried goading him into hitting her for years. He never did hit her though.
But I had to watch her purposefully manipulate him for years, and no kid should have to watch that kind of mind-f*kcing .
2. After the first of many times that my mother tricked me and my siblings into not reporting her to Child Protective Services for abusing us.
She would say things like, "they're just going to come and take you away."
She said it that way on purpose, to make us think it was our fault. Because, as kids, most of us get taught that when bad people do the wrong things, the cops come and take the wrong-doers away.
So, by telling us that "they" were going to "take us away," she tricked us into believing that we were the ones in the wrong.
Then, there was another thing she started doing.
When we would threaten to call CPS on her, she would say the 1-800-number out loud, like she had it memorized. Or, she would write the number on a piece of paper and hand it to us. It was as if she was daring us to call.
Looking back, I don't know if she did that because she believed that we wouldn't call or because she wouldn't have cared if we did call. (It's difficult, and probably futile, to try deciphering the specific and primary motives of consumer-driven socio/psychopathic narcissists.)
But she knew we were more scared of being taken away than we were of her abuse because she had already implanted the fear of "them" taking us away into our minds.
We didn't want to get taken away -- we just wanted the abuse to stop. And we were only scared because we didn't know any better.
Like, sure, for argument's sake, the foster-care system is a gamble. But we didn't know that as young kids in the 1980s.
And, besides, also for the sake of argument, which scenario is actually worse: Staying in an abusive situation or gambling on being moved to a less abusive situation?
Staying in an abusive situation isn't ideal, but neither is gambling. And no kid should have to make that choice.
Anyway. My mother played these manipulative mind-games on us until we stopped threatening to report her abuse. Instead of reporting her, we "learned" to live with the unreasonable and illogical abuse by succumbing to it.
I often wonder what could've been different for me if I would've rolled the dice and made the call to CPS.
Oh, goodness. That was quite a digression from my main point. I'll get back to it and conclude.
Perhaps my parents should have been forced to get a divorce after my mother was provably neglecting me and after she rendered my father into a perception of powerlessness to do anything about it.
You might be asking yourself, "what, why, how?" Well, then, here are your answers.
3. After I almost lost my tongue was two years old.
I was in the garage alone. (WHAT?) Then I climbed up on the four-foot-tall workbench. (WHY?) Then I fell off the bench and slammed my chin onto the concrete floor, nearly biting my tongue in half. (HOW?)
4. Or, the time I ate mothballs.
5. Or, the time I ate rat poisoning.
6 Or, the time I drank ammonia.
7. Or, the time I drank bleach.
8. Or, the time I ate a bottle of children's aspirin. (Which didn't even happen, because I clearly remember pouring the pills down the drain. But I got caught with the empty bottle by my neglectful biatch-mother, so I got treated as if I had eaten the whole bottle).
9. Or, when I was 7 years old, my doctor admonished my mother for allowing me to become obese, at which point my mother stopped using that doctor to prevent the doctor from recording a paper trail of my mother's nutritional-negligence.
10. Or, when my relatives and neighbors started molesting me.
Perhaps my parents should have been forced to get a divorce after one of those instances. Or maybe their divorce should have been required after...
11. ...my mother's first year of doctor-enabled opioid addiction. Maybe that would be a good precursor, indicating that someone would turn into a sh!te-mother and wife.
She's now 40+ years into a doctor-enabled opioid addict. Maybe that's a good clue, explaining why she's still a sh!te-human today.
If you're still asking yourself, "what, why, and how?" The answers are all easy and the same -- because my mother was too busy getting high on opioids to take care of herself and the vulnerable humans she was supposed to protect.
Certainly, there must be something on my list that would incite more than questions, like, what, why, and how"?
Surely, there must be something on my list that would move the better, caring members of the community to seek action, to end my parent's relationship and the misery it brought upon me and others.
There has to be something that will compel the working-class drones into action to protect children.
But, as of today: Nope!
Children are left to suffer without escape.
And these ignorant working-class adults keep pumping out innocent working-class children to continue the suffering. As if there's some magic number of suffering children that, if reached, will make the suffering of working-class adults disappear.
I don't say all these things to get sympathy for me. I don't need it now. But I do say these things to incite empathy for the children who are suffering RIGHT NOW.
I wouldn't change my childhood. My suffering gave me the sense of perception to grasp who is at fault for my suffering. The people at fault are those like J.D. Vance.
And my opening point remains the same:
There should be a system in place whereby the people of a community can initiate the division of a couple/relationship, particularly if/when a couple/relationship becomes toxic to the community, especially for the sake of children.
Until better times, I'll be preaching antinatalism and celibacy.
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@chonzen1764 I suppose you'll never seek out the information necessary to comprehend these things, so I'll try to make it as simple as possible.
Ignorant, propagandized working-class Americans think that Thom is a leftist.
Ignorant, indoctrinated working-class Americans believe that The Democrat-party is a leftist party.
Intelligent, class-conscious, working-class people know that Thom, and both American political parties, are right-wing.
Intelligent, class-conscious, working-class people who understand politics in international and historical contexts, who understand propaganda and indoctrination, know that Thom, and both American political parties, are right-wing.
Both American political parties are right-wing authoritarianists.
Both right-wing parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class.
Thom is a member and supporter of one of those right-wing parties. Thus, Thom, like both American political parties, is a right-winger.
Right-wing politics are wealthy-class politics.
Wealthy-class politics are capitalist politics.
Capitalist politics are corporatist politics.
Corporatist politics are fascist politics.
Fascist politics are authoritarian politics.
Authoritarian politics are right-wing politics.
Thom is a wealthy-class, capitalist business owner. (He has owned and sold several companies out from under working-class employees).
In contrast:
Left-wing politics are working-class politics.
Working-class politics are cooperative politics.
Cooperative politics are community politics.
Community politics are small-business politics.
Small-business politics are decentralized politics.
Decentralized politics are left-wing politics.
Now moving on:
You show your ignorance again when you claim that it is illegal for the Congressional Commission to investigate the criminal activity on January 6, 2021.
The Constitution gives Congress Investigative and Oversight powers. Multiple United States Supreme Court decisions have affirmed and reaffirmed these Congressional powers.
Article 1, Section 2, Clause 8 gives Congress the power to; "constitute Tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court."
Thus, Article 1, Section 2, Clause 8 gives Congress the power to create these investigative bodies called tribunals.
Some such investigative-tribunals were; the committees which investigated the impeachments of right-wingers Clinton and Trump and the commissions which investigated Nine/Eleven and Benghazi.
If the January 6 Commission is illegal, so were the Nine/Eleven and Benghazi Commissions.
Article 3, Section 2, Clause 2, discusses;
"Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party."
The January-6 Commission is investigating public Ministers. Members of Congress -- Josh Hawley, Louie Gohmert, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosart, and others -- are public Ministers.
The Executive Branch under Trump -- Mark Meadows, Bill Barr, Ivanka, and others -- were public Ministers at the time of the January 6 crimes under investigation.
Furthermore, Article 3, Section 2, Clause 2, goes on to say;
"In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make."
The part that applies to our discussion is, "under such Regulations as the Congress shall make." This gives Congress the power to regulate Federal Courts.
Article 3, Section 2, Clause 2 DOESN'T give Congress the power to force a trial nor to convict and sentence criminals.
Article 3, Section 2, Clause 2 DOES give Congress the power to create rules regarding Federal courts -- along with Article 1, Section 2, Clause 8, which DOES allow Congress the power to investigate using prosecutorial committees and tactics.
The Supreme Court has upheld these Congressional powers of oversight and investigation. Most recently, the Supreme Court decided 8-to-1 in favor of Congressional oversite-powers.
The Trump folks sued to prevent the Congressional investigation.
The Trump folks wanted to keep documents secret under the guise of Executive Privilege.
The Supreme Court disagreed with the Trump folks.
The Supreme Court, occupied by right-wingers, disagrees with you.
The Supreme Court decided that the Congressional Oversite & Investigative powers to utilize the January 6 Commission to investigate crimes supersede the Executive Privilege of Trump's former Executive-Administration.
Three out of the four extremist Justices -- Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett -- say you're wrong.
One extremist Justice -- Thomas -- agrees with you. But only because he is trying to protect his wife, who perpetrated the crimes on January 6, 2021.
If Thomas were an ethically-principled human, he would have recused himself. But he isn't ethically-principled. He's a right-wing extremist authoritarian trying to protect right-wing extremist authoritarians.
I could go on. But, that's enough free education for one day.
Get out of whatever you're into, and into a book.
Or several.
Hundred.
It will take several hundred books-worth of reading to undo the indoctrination of wealthy-class propaganda which has shaped and conditioned your mind.
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Ezra is either a fool or a knave. He's is either [a]a fool who DOESN'T comprehend that the rich people in the US have corrupted politics, elections, campaigns, & the gov't, OR he's [b]a knave who DOES comprehend that the rich HAVE corrupted politics, elections, campaigns, & the gov't, but he's PRETENDING to NOT comprehend it, because he benefits from the corruption, & expects he'll be safe from the Fascism that is being fabricated & facilitated by the very same rich people.
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Yes. He (Biden) could have nominated someone else when he became POTUS. But he (Biden) nominated Powell again, and The Senate confirmed Powell again.
Why would Biden nominate a right-winger? Because Biden is also a right-winger.
Both of American's major political parties, and all of the minor parties, are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class right-wingers.
Pelosi, McConnell, Schumer, McCarthy, Trump, Obama, Bush x2, Clinton x2, Reagan are/were all wealthy-class right-wingers. They are/were all millionaires who do/did the bidding of billionaires.
When working-class Americans finally understand that right-wing politics are wealthy-class politics, then maybe working-class Americans will stop voting for Repubocrats and Demlicans.
Of course, Americans will also have to realize that their campaign-finance and electoral systems have been rigged by wealthy-class right-wingers in favor of wealthy-class right-wingers. So that will have to be addressed, too.
Jerome Powell is certainly a stink. But he's only one wealthy-class turd in the wealthy-class septic tank.
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Don't pray for me either. Jesus wasn't a right-winger(RW). He wouldn't have been a RW-Republican nor a RW-Democrat, and He won't recognize anyone who is.
Instead, pray and ask God to send His Spirit to make you wiser, and to move you to action. Because faith without works is dead.
Instead, pray and ask God to allow you to experience true suffering, so that suffering can change your heart and mind. Because the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure while the heart of the wise is in the house or mourning.
As well-fed, well-clothed, and well-housed RW, you are contributing to the suffering of other humans, through your ignorance, your actions, and your votes.
But DO NOT for a second waste your RW prayers on me -- on my God, my Christ, or my Holy Spirit.
THEY are the ONES who created the short-term weather and the changes in the long-term climate, and THEY are the ONES who have allowed the activities of ignorant RW humans to change it.
May you be forgiven, for knowing not what you've done.
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Wealthy-class right-wingers have bought and bribed both American political parties. They own and control both parties. This kid is not equipped to comprehend or deal with that.
The right-wing Democrat party will do the same thing to this kid that the right-wing Republic party did to Madison Cawthorn.
Maybe they won't do him as dirty as they did Cawthorn, but there are plenty of ways for wealthy-class right-wingers to get what they want.
They could do the same thing to this kid as they have done to "The Squad" -- silence him. Or they could do the same thing they have done to Kyrsten Sinema -- bribe him. Those are adults, and they have succumbed to corruption.
But even if the wealthy-class right-wingers who control both parties weren't as corrupt as they are, I still wouldn't want this kid, or any kid, controlling anything. We don't need kid-brains. We need adult-brains.
And considering the 100-year assault on education by the wealthy-class right-wingers and how successful that assault has been at dumbing-down Americans, I would prefer the voting age be increased to the age when neurological and psychological experts say the human brain is at peak development -- 25-years-old.
No children with underdeveloped brains should be allowed in positions of control over other people's lives -- no cops, teachers, managers, or military should be under 25 years old.
Pre-developed brains have plenty of work to do in observing, learning, and helping to carry out the democratic will of the people with developed-brains who have already observed, learned, and helped.
Of all the supposed adult-brains who are currently elected to Republic or Democrat parties, I wouldn't follow any of them into ankle-deep water (maybe Bernie). But I'm certainly not going to follow any child-brains either, no matter how well rehearsed their speeches are.
Long story short: I don't want any of the addict-brains from the wealthy-class minority, nor vulnerable undeveloped-brains from the working-class running for any of the public-offices that dictate the policies which control our lives.
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"Who is the spiritual leader?"
Well, if they are a RWer, then their leader is mammon -- ignorance, fear, anger, hate, selfishness, greed, violence, murder, & genocide.
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Home Healthcare would benefit many people in my life, and the RW-extremist Repubs aren't going to do anything to help. But neither are the moderate-RW Dems. BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics. And working-class dupes, like @sorcelord & @johmyh, continue voting for BOTH corrupt RW-parties.
Vote for the wealthy, RW-extremist Repubs, for the fast, open-road from Capitalist-enslavement of the working-class to Fascist-enslavement of the working-class.
Vote for the wealthy, moderate-RW Dems, for the slower, disguised-road from Capitalist-enslavement of the working-class to Fascist-enslavement of the working-class.
If you really can't comprehend why voting for the slow-road is better than the fast-road, then you're exactly the kind of working-class dupe that the corrupt wealthy-class has designed you to be, with their corrupt RW-politics.
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The moderate right-wing Democratic Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, just signed a similar bill into law the other day. As a rule, I don't believe what the extremist right-wing Republicans OR the moderate right-wing Democrats say until a bill is signed into law.
And I don't rest any easier until a law has been functioning for at least a decade without some moderate-to-extremist right-wingers running it through the right-wing American court system. People rested easy for decades after Roe V. Wade, and look where that got 'em.
Furthermore, I don't really trust any laws or outcomes produced by jurisdictions controlled by right-wingers, which is basically 95% of all jurisdictions in the world.
People trusted that chattel-slavery was over when the right-wing extremist Confederacy was defeated. But the right-wing moderate Americans let the right-wing extremist Confederates off the hook.
In fact, the moderate right-wing Americans helped the extremist right-wing Confederates to develop a caste-like system to separate chattel-slaves and wage-slaves. And, now, slavery is still alive and well in America.
And people trusted that Nazism was over when the right-wing extremist Nazis were defeated. But the right-wing moderate Americans let the right-wing extremist Nazis off the hook.
In fact, the moderate right-wing Americans brought the right-wing extremist Nazis right in the front door and put the Nazis into positions of power in American government and society. And, now, Nazism is alive and well in America.
I could go on, but I'm trying to regulate my blood pressure before the moderate-to-extremist right-wing American-Confederate-Nazi enslavers come knocking.
...I wonder how large the contrast will be between the quality of the lunches provided by the extremist and moderate right-wingers to the children of wage-slaves in the public schools and the chattel-slaves in the prisons/jails/detention centers, in comparison to the lunches they'll provide to actual Leftists at the "camps." 🤔
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Good luck getting rid of the RW-political-systems & the minority-rule ingrained within them. Monarchism, Feudalism, Mercantilism, Republicanism, Capitalism, Corporatism, & Fascism are ALL [a]systems of RW-politics, [b]authoritarian in nature, and [c]systems which enable the disproportionate control of society by the populace-minority of the wealthy, to the disproportionate detriment of the populace-majority of the workers. ALL of the RW-systems are just systems of slavery by different names.
Galt will never admit any of that, because they're pro-slavery, because they're one of the disproportionate beneficiaries of slavery.
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Bernie has family. He's more concerned with what could happen to them after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows what the right-wingers have done to working-class leftists through history.
Bernie sees the rhyming-nature of that history coming back around.
Bernie lived through the "Red Scare" and "McCarthyism."
Bernie doesn't want those kinds of things to happen to his family after he dies.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that there are too many foolish, working-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many knavish, wealthy-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many right-wing addicts with mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Berne knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts will willingly give up their addictions.
Bernie knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts can cure their own mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that, in order to maintain their addictive lifestyles, the mentally ill working-class fools will do whatever the mentally ill wealthy-class knaves tell them to do; just like they did during the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie has now entered the phase known as, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
Bernie is MORE concerned with the quality of life his family will have when he dies.
Bernie is LESS concerned with the quality of life for the working-class.
Bernie is ONLY concerned with his own family-unit minority
Bernie is NOT concerned about the working-class majority.
Bernie is the perfect example of why any effective leader(s) on the left-wing will have to be someone(s) without family -- it's too easy for the wealthy-class right-wingers to corrupt left-wingers who have families, and Bernie is a prime example.
Bernie has exchanged his working-class principles to secure a wealthy-class standard of living for his family after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the anti-wealthy-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given up on the pro-working-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the anti-working-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the pro-wealthy-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given up.
It's only surprising/upsetting if one doesn't know the facts, or rhyming-nature, of history.
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First: Vapes, soda, and Twinkies shouldn't exist.
Second: Working-class people need help rewiring how they think about things, because the wealthy-class right-wingers have been so successful with their propaganda campaigns, and Kyle is proof here.
Even though the wealthy-class makes up a minority of the population, they still rule over the working-class majority. Kyle knows this, he talks about it, and it's no secret. And Kyle has also expressed that he doesn't like that dynamic, whereby the wealthy-class minority rules over the working-class majority.
But, on this topic of vapes, Kyle doesn't even want the working-class majority to rule. Kyle wants what Kyle wants, just like wealthy-class right-wingers.
Wealthy-class right-wingers believe they have the right to do whatever they want, no matter how many people have to suffer. And they pass on that individualist doctrine to the working-class via propaganda. And Kyle has embodied that doctrine here.
Kyle has been indoctrinated to believe that his personal decision (as the autocratic minority) outweighs the collective decision (of the democratic majority), just like the wealthy-class propaganda tells us to.
All that said, I'll get back to my original statement: Vapes, soda, and Twinkies shouldn't exist.
One: No working-class person should have to spend time producing poisonous vapes, soda, or Twinkies.
Two: No working-class person's livelihood should depend upon their willingness to work in the production of poisonous vapes, soda, or Twinkies.
Three: No working-class person should have to spend their time taking care of people who over-consume poisonous vapes, soda, or Twinkies.
Four: The wealthy-class shouldn't be able to use poisonous vapes, soda, and Twinkies to create more wealth for themselves.
Anyway, it's not surprising that so many working-class people suffer. I mean, of course, some working-class people suffer because of the wealthy-class people who cause their suffering. But some working-class people suffer because of the behaviors, addictions, and indoctrinations of fellow working-class mates. That's the kind of working-class mate Kyle is being here.
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RW-politics are ruining both states.
RW-extremist Repubs run Florida. Moderate-RW Dems run California.
BOTH parties, in BOTH states, are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class with their corrupt RW-politics.
And working-class dupes, like YOU, continue to vote for BOTH of the corrupt, wealthy-RW parties.
Working-class dupes, like YOU, and the wealthy-RWers whom you support, are the reasons why the US is such a sh!tehole, from Florida to California.
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Chattel-slaves, debt-slaves, and wage-slaves: the wealthy-class right-wing Capitalists (and the working-class right-wingers, for that matter) don't care which kind of slave each of us are. They have addictions that need servicing.
They don't care if we're in metal-chains, concrete-cages, or cardboard-cubicles. You'll service their addictions one way or the other, or they'll make sure you end up in a wooden-box. There are plenty more forced-birth slaves coming after you're gone.
The entire goal of the wealthy-class right-wing Capitalists is to remain lazy and addicted -- whether they achieve those ends through a system of master vs. slaves, lord vs. serfs, or employer vs. employees, they do not care.
Right-wingers don't care how their lifestyles are achieved, so long as they don't have to do very much, and certainly no manual labor, or as little of it as possible.
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There were also countless humans who were born into the hierarchical/RW system of slavery, in the same United States as you, and many of those slaves didn't comprehend that they were slaves, either. So you're in the same position of ignorance, regarding the hierarchical/RW system of patriarchy, as the countless humans who were born into the hierarchical/RW system of American-slavery, without even realizing it.
Many of those slaves in the American-past didn't comprehend that they were living in slavery, because the RW-masters didn't allow the slaves to be educated.
So, not only did many slaves not realize the concept of a better life, many of them didn't even comprehend the concept of slavery. Just like you don't seem to comprehend the concept of patriarchy, or that patriarchy exists in practice, or that you are entrenched in that patriarchy.
However, the slaves of the past had an excuse for their ignorance; they were prevented from learning under penalty of violence. But you have a device with limitless information, and answers to countless questions, right at your fingertips, and you're still ignorant.
The slaves in the past could NOT just learn about slavery, even if they wanted to.
But the patriarchs, and their beneficiaries, in the present COULD learn about patriarchy, but, instead they choose to:
(a)remain foolishly-ignorant about patriarchy -- it's easy for ignorant-patriarchs to remain ignorant regarding the hierarchical/RW system of patriarchy.
AND/OR
(b)act knavishly-ignorant about patriarchy -- it's easy for knavish-patriarchs to pretend to act like the hierachcal/RW system of patriarchy doesn't exist, just like many slave-owners pretended like the hierarchical/RW system of slavery didn't exist.
Throughout history, the wealthy-class-RW knaves have pretended that they weren't the perpetrators & beneficiaries of hierarchical systems. And throught that same history, those same wealthy-knaves have indoctrinated and co-opted the most ignorant & vile members of the working-class (who don't comprehend hierarchy, let alone slavery) to commit violent-subjugation of other working-class humans at the behest of the wealthy-class.
So, if you can't comprehend patriarchy, then it's no surprise that you're exactly the kind of ignorant working-class slave that the hierarchical/RW wealthy-class masters want you to be.
Congratulations...
...you're a moron. 🥳
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Oh, but indeed they can. Mental health institutions are IN communities, and they are staffed by people IN those communities. Everyone is a product of communities; not just the unbroken-people, but the broken people, too. Most people aren't born broken -- they become broken while living IN their community. If communities were more humane, then there would be fewer broken-people.
Now, if mental health institutions were operated like humane communities, then most of the broken-people who need to be taken care of, could be rehabilitated and go on to live normal lives in which they, too, serve a purpose in their communities.
I agree with your first sentence. But not the second -- everyone NEEDS to be taken care of by the people in their community, and everyone NEEDS to care for the people in their community.
Be well. :)
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@observer2817 It seems like a little ad hominem got your big man-sobs in 'em.
But, aww, look at you, having "hope" for me. You're just a big pile of "thoughts and prayers," huh? How unsurprisingly right-wing of you.
I don't need your sympathy, but there are plenty of other suffering people who do need it.
The other people who need your sympathy are suffering because of people like Destiny (whom I've watched plenty of) and yourself (who follow the likes of Destiny), whose religion is Capitalism and whose lord and savior is Mammon.
'BuT, mOmMmMm, DeStInNy Is BeInG A pRaGmAtIc PrAgMaTiSt pRaCtIcInG pRaGmAtIsMmMmMsSsS!!!'
Sure he is. And you're just bro-bserving.
Well, sorry, buddy. You'll get no coddling here, pal. There's nothing pragmatic about incremental solutions to existential problems.
People like you and your "different views" on the left-side of the right-wing are all-too-common reasons for the suffering of others.
The only reason anyone knows "Destiny" exists is the same reason anyone knows Steven Crowder. It's because rubes like yourself have been dumbed-down by the wealthy-class's propaganda.
You all don't even realize how you're class-traitors to the working-class. You do the labor for the wealthy-class to perpetuate their system of inherent supremacist-superiority for a few people and stagnant-suffering for most others.
But, somehow, little ol' me advocating for suffering-others has offended big-bad you who causes it.
Maybe, if you took an actual ideological-position (besides Destiny-good & Wolff-bad) and used your adult-words to disseminate that position, you wouldn't be the object of deserved-ridicule.
If you weren't so ignorant, maybe you wouldn't feel so often defensive of your position or lack thereof.
If you didn't seem so abhorrent, perhaps you wouldn't be so often offended by truthfully-critical "ad hominems."
Have you suffered? Maybe? Are you suffering now? Perhaps.
Have I suffered? Sure. Am I suffering now? Some would say so, but I say less than ever before.
Whether or not the two of us are suffering doesn't negate the fact that some other people ARE suffering. And more of the same-old, centuries-long, left-side of the right-wing, wealthy-class Capitalism (which Destiny promotes) isn't going to change that suffering.
I am constantly learning to grow, and I'm growing to live with less. I have fewer material possessions now than I've ever had (and getting rid of more all the time), and I'm as serotonin-content as I've ever been.
I don't watch motion-picture stories on the television. I don't consume mood-changing substances. I leave my property as little as possible to avoid making unnecessary busy-work for my fellow working-class mates.
But I do partake in a little dopamine-happiness, from time to time, by putting loathsome rubes, like yourself, in their place. Also, reading and writing.
The fact that some poor and suffering working-class mates could stumble across our exchange someday and be encouraged or changed, just by reading the words of a true leftist calling out a whatever-it-is-you-are, is all the satisfaction I need.
Now, cry more because some ad hominems have caused you sad somber-isms.
Good day, sir.
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@observer2817 You're literally utilizing the tactics of trolls.
At this point, troll or child are the only words that could describe you, and if I could teach you, I wouldn't. You've proven yourself an annoyance at best and malicious at worst.
You've asked the same question THREE TIMES now.
I've directly responded to your questions TWO TIMES.
You are LITERALLY using a tactic exploited by trolls (which makes sense since Capitalism is exploitative).
That tactic is circular-discourse: By asking the same question over and over, you take up the time of genuine persons so that they can't be combating you and your disingenuous-ilk elsewhere.
If you're not a troll, then you're a child (which could be intellectually true since you're a Destiny fan). If you're a child, I hope you don't act like this in public when you grow up. Good people, if you're lucky, will have called the police and reported you for harassment by now. Or worse if you're unlucky.
Troll, I've exposed you.
[OR]
Child, I've got things to do.
You pick whichever one that applies.
There are numbers for you to call if you're a lonely, troubled adult or a neglected child.
I've even admitted my own shortcomings. I'm smart enough not to expect the same from trolls or children, fools or knaves.
I won't be responding to you further.
I SAID GOOD DAY!
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Cenk, Ana, Newsom, and Bass are ALL Capitalists (Newsom might be a Corporatist, and Trump is a Fascist). Capitalism, Corporatism, & Fascism are ALL RW-political-systems. And, thus, Cenk, Ana, Newsom, Bass, and Trump are ALL RWers.
Furthermore: Ana is a talk-show host who can BARELY read the news that is written by actual journalists -- she bumbles ALL the time, and she has ALL DAY to prepare. Trump can BARELY speak -- he bumbles ALL the time, and he has ALL the time he wants to prepare. But Ana says Newsom is incompetent? Riiiiight. Newsom definitely sucks, but so does Trump, and so does Ana. She should keep throwing those stones from her glass-house in a dry-desert, girl-boss! 🤣
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You already put your child at risk.
I mean, if the world is so bad -- with all the disasters and human beings using toilets -- why would you bring an innocent human life into that?
That's some messed up "pro-life" logic.
Now, let's just suppose that you're going to come-back and say something like, "But I"m pro-choice!!!"
Right. Sure you are.
People like you are only pro-choice as long as you're the ones who get to present the "acceptable" options.
You're pro-choice for some things, but not when it comes to human beings choosing which bathroom they're going to use.
Your kid didn't have a choice. It was born without consent, simply for your own personal lifestyle satisfaction.
Instead of reading stories being presented as "horror" regarding other human beings who p!ss and sh!t the same way you do, perhaps you should have read about antinatalism.
Be honest with yourself -- YOU put your own child at risk by raising it to be just like you:
Ignorant, fearful, angry, hateful, violent, murderous, and genocidal.
Addicted to materialism, consumerism, social-status, and easy-living.
Exceptionalist, colonialist, interventionist, imperialist.
Here is another word to describe people who think, talk, and act like you: minority.
A majority of people think better than you.
Most people know that human beings p!ssing and sh!tt!ng in toilets is not a real problem.
A small minority of people, distracting from real problems by fussing about human beings using toilets, is one of the real problems.
Your group is small, but you're not alone.
Knowledge is the key to breaking the cycle of ignorance>fear>anger>hate>violence>murder>genocide -- and the wealthy-class doesn't want you to learn anything, especially not acceptance for your fellow working-class humans.
Your ignorance, and all the subsequent steps, are purposely and purposefully planned.
The wealthy-class wants you to believe that "different" working-class humans (who p!ss and sh!t just like you) are responsible for your troubles in life.
So get back to work -- the wealthy-class has addictions and they need you to continue producing those addictions and maintaining the system which disproportionately distributes them.
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@Keli-z5z Don't despair -- It's okay to cry. Just because you cry, that doesn't mean you are not strong. I consider tears to be a sign of strength -- it takes strength to care for others -- and your tears express the depth & strength of your caring. So, do not shun the tears. Welcome the tears as proof of your humble humanity.
Instead, be wary of those who do not cry. Because the absence of their tears is a sign of the absence of their humanity, which has been either (a)taken from them against their Free-Will (these people are victims), or (b)given away of their own Free Will (these people are suspects).
The suspect-people who don't cry, who have given away their humanity, and who take humanity away from others, should be exposed & rehabilitated.
The victimized-people who don't cry, who have had their humanity taken from them, should be welcomed & rehabilitated. But they will also need rehabilitation of a different kind than the suspect-people.
Don't you dare let the suspect-people take away your humanity, Keli, and don't you dare give it away of your own Free-Will.
You keep on caring for others, and let those tears flow.
You are welcome here. ✌🤟✊🙏
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I can't offer anything of material value, friend. But, I can present the concept of antinatalism and the spirit of solidarity.
I was born to working-class turned debtor-class absentee parents as well.
My father is the son of working-class parents, and my mother is the daughter of debtor-class parents.
My mother utilized abortion(s) in her late teens/early twenties before I was born in her early 30s. Due to complications from her abortion(s), so I've deciphered, the doctors determined she could no longer have children.
However, at 30ish years old, I was conceived -- a miracle as my family called it.
Before my birth, I believe my mother felt like she had to offer some form of recompense to God for having utilized abortion. So, she decided that running foster kids through the house would be restitution to God.
I believe this was against my father's wishes. He is not a book-smart man, but he knew the struggle of the laborious work to which he would be subject for the rest of his life. He knew what he would be able to afford based on his abilities.
My father didn't know that my mother had any abortions (until I told him a few years ago in his 60s), nor did he understand why she was so adamant about having foster kids. I don't believe my father wanted children at all. He was no genius, but he was smart enough not to want kids.
On the other hand, my mother, who is also a doctor enabled opioid-addict of over 40 years now, could not be convinced by my father to live a life more in tune with necessities rather than wants. My mother wanted to use these foster kids, so she got them.
Some of my earliest memories are from inside a playpen with other small children. Depending on which memory comes to mind, I can see one to three other children in the playpen with me. I can see a half-dozen other children scattered throughout the living room of what was our two-bedroom trailer.
I have earlier memories of strangers than I do of my own mother. Back in those days, (some) opioids were prescribed in vials and delivered by syringes.
So while my mother was presumably high as a kite in her bedroom, she left the older foster kids to tend to the younger foster kids, and to me, which is why I probably have no early memories of her.
If you're at all curious, to this day, my mother sees nothing wrong with her addiction, but she would be happy to cage others for their addictions.
So, I recall being in a playpen, with children whose names I don't know, watching these other children, whose names I also don't know, all lined up in our living room watching television.
Eventually, the foster kids disappeared, although I never knew why, nor do I recall being upset about the loss. That's probably because I was too young to have developed bonds with any of them.
But by the time I was three years old, the foster kids were gone. However, my parents adopted my older brother, four years my senior, and my younger sister, one year my junior.
I grew up watching my parents slide further and further into debt, evolving to despise each other. They are now in their late 60s, both over $100K in debt each. My father finally gave up and started acquiring the things he wanted. He did this by accruing debt, which he obtained via the legalized predatory-lending scams that are so prevalent in this country.
Having grown up in such turmoil, experiencing many traumas, I floundered with my self-medicating addictions throughout my high-school and post-college years. But now I'm sober, going on ten years and six months this month. In this period of sobriety, I've grown more resilient than I could have ever imagined when I was at my lowest points.
I've worked A LOT in my life. I started at a very young age by force and coercion. And though I managed to graduate college, I took on the debts myself. I owe over $100K and I've been out of school for about twelve years.
In those ten years, I've been homeless. But, luckily that happened after I got sober. However, now, I'm going on my 7th year of unemployment.
I'm stuck in rural America without transportation, living in a state of quasi-indentured servitude at the whims of right-wing family members. They can't/won't help me get out of this situation (they can barely help themselves) and threaten me with homelessness regularly if I don't do what they say and keep my mouth shut.
I suppose, at this point, it seems like I've hijacked the thread, so I'll try to wrap it up.
Despite it all, I wouldn't change my past for anything. I know that if I end up homeless again, I'll be able to handle it. I also know that if I'm ever given a chance to get out of this mess, I'll be able to be a great advocate for people who are in worse positions than I'm in now.
However, even though I wouldn't change my past, I certainly wouldn't wish my life experiences on anyone. I most DEFINITELY wouldn't willingly bring another human into this world, knowing what I know about the depths of despair that exist in the lottery-like system under which we live. Hence, this is why I share the concept of antinatalism.
I say all that to say this: Be strong, my earthly sibling.
You are valuable, and you matter, and you are loved by people who don't even know you. ✌🤟🙏✊
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I've been watching TYT for years, and John's disposition has deteriorated -- like his soul is slowly leaving his body -- as he continues working for an economically-RW, anti-populist channel. John is great & I hope he can get out soon, and speak the truth like other, former TYT employees have. If John "looks" a certain way, it's because of [a]the economically-RW, anti-populist, wealthy-knaves like Stelter&Watters, and because of [b]the duped working-fools, like you, who fall for the economically-RW, anti-populist, wealthy-knaves like Stelter&Watters.
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A community should be able to initiate the division of a couple/relationship, particularly if/when a couple/relationship becomes toxic to the community, especially for the sake of children.
Under a system like that, my parents could have been divorced for numerous reasons on countless occasions. For examples:
1. After the first of the many times that my mother literally begged my father to hit her. She tried goading him into hitting her for years. He never did hit her though.
But I had to watch her purposefully manipulate him for years, and no kid should have to watch that kind of mind-f*kcing .
2. After the first of many times that my mother tricked me and my siblings into not reporting her to Child Protective Services for abusing us.
She would say things like, "they're just going to come and take you away."
She said it that way on purpose, to make us think it was our fault. Because, as kids, most of us get taught that when bad people do the wrong things, the cops come and take the wrong-doers away.
So, by telling us that "they" were going to "take us away," she tricked us into believing that we were the ones in the wrong.
Then, there was another thing she started doing.
When we would threaten to call CPS on her, she would say the 1-800-number out loud, like she had it memorized. Or, she would write the number on a piece of paper and hand it to us. It was as if she was daring us to call.
Looking back, I don't know if she did that because she believed that we wouldn't call or because she wouldn't have cared if we did call. (It's difficult, and probably futile, to try deciphering the specific and primary motives of consumer-driven socio/psychopathic narcissists.)
But she knew we were more scared of being taken away than we were of her abuse because she had already implanted the fear of "them" taking us away into our minds.
We didn't want to get taken away -- we just wanted the abuse to stop. And we were only scared because we didn't know any better.
Like, sure, for argument's sake, the foster-care system is a gamble. But we didn't know that as young kids in the 1980s.
And, besides, also for the sake of argument, which scenario is actually worse: Staying in an abusive situation or gambling on being moved to a less abusive situation?
Staying in an abusive situation isn't ideal, but neither is gambling. And no kid should have to make that choice.
Anyway. My mother played these manipulative mind-games on us until we stopped threatening to report her abuse. Instead of reporting her, we "learned" to live with the unreasonable and illogical abuse by succumbing to it.
I often wonder what could've been different for me if I would've rolled the dice and made the call to CPS.
Oh, goodness. That was quite a digression from my main point. I'll get back to it and conclude.
Perhaps my parents should have been forced to get a divorce after my mother was provably neglecting me and after she rendered my father into a perception of powerlessness to do anything about it.
You might be asking yourself, "what, why, how?" Well, then, here are your answers.
3. After I almost lost my tongue was two years old.
I was in the garage alone. (WHAT?) Then I climbed up on the four-foot-tall workbench. (WHY?) Then I fell off the bench and slammed my chin onto the concrete floor, nearly biting my tongue in half. (HOW?)
4. Or, the time I ate mothballs.
5. Or, the time I ate rat poisoning.
6 Or, the time I drank ammonia.
7. Or, the time I drank bleach.
8. Or, the time I ate a bottle of children's aspirin. (Which didn't even happen, because I clearly remember pouring the pills down the drain. But I got caught with the empty bottle by my neglectful biatch-mother, so I got treated as if I had eaten the whole bottle).
9. Or, when I was 7 years old, my doctor admonished my mother for allowing me to become obese, at which point my mother stopped using that doctor to prevent the doctor from recording a paper trail of my mother's nutritional-negligence.
10. Or, when my relatives and neighbors started molesting me.
Perhaps my parents should have been forced to get a divorce after one of those instances. Or maybe their divorce should have been required after...
11. ...my mother's first year of doctor-enabled opioid addiction. Maybe that would be a good precursor, indicating that someone would turn into a sh!te-mother and wife.
She's now 40+ years into a doctor-enabled opioid addict. Maybe that's a good clue, explaining why she's still a sh!te-human today.
If you're still asking yourself, "what, why, and how?" The answers are all easy and the same -- because my mother was too busy getting high on opioids to take care of herself and the vulnerable humans she was supposed to protect.
Certainly, there must be something on my list that would incite more than questions, like, what, why, and how"?
Surely, there must be something on my list that would move the better, caring members of the community to seek action, to end my parent's relationship and the misery it brought upon me and others.
There has to be something that will compel the working-class drones into action to protect children.
But, as of today: Nope!
Children are left to suffer without escape.
And these ignorant working-class adults keep pumping out innocent working-class children to continue the suffering. As if there's some magic number of suffering children that, if reached, will make the suffering of working-class adults disappear.
I don't say all these things to get sympathy for me. I don't need it now. But I do say these things to incite empathy for the children who are suffering RIGHT NOW.
I wouldn't change my childhood. My suffering gave me the sense of perception to grasp who is at fault for my suffering. The people at fault are those like J.D. Vance.
And my opening point remains the same:
There should be a system in place whereby the people of a community can initiate the division of a couple/relationship, particularly if/when a couple/relationship becomes toxic to the community, especially for the sake of children.
Until better times, I'll be preaching antinatalism and celibacy.
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The NC voters are getting the suffering that most of them voted for. They just thought they were voting for other people to suffer, not themselves. They don't need government help -- they can pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, just like they want the "others" to do.
And, besides that, these are the same people who have voted, for decades, to shrink the government to a size that could be drowned in a bathtub. They don't want government help -- they voted against having a government. I sure hope they figure out how to manufacture towels to go along with their bootstraps.
Morons, like you, with moronic ideas, like yours, are exactly why these morons are in this situation.
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Cameras SHOULD be put in the homes & businesses of the authoritarian right-wingers who proclaim the supremacy of "State's Rights," "Property Rights," "Privacy Rights," and/or "Parental Rights."
The authoritarian right-wingers want to control the gov't so they can legalize their "Right" to abuse and exploit the most vulnerable -- including their own children, the elderly, cultural-minorities, and animals -- in their "State" and on their "Property." And, to top it off, they want the "Right" to abuse and exploit in "Privacy."
Those authoritarian right-wingers are EXACTLY the kinds of intolerant parents who should be watched, so that, maybe, their kids can be protected from, and free of the social-hierarchy and economic-slavery of right-wing politics.
All the right-wing Repub & right-wing Dems who are whining, are EXACTLY the ones who need to be watched, because the American/Westernized lifestyles are the most disgusting lifestyles in recorded human history. That's why the American Repub & Dem right-wingers don't want their lifestyles to be recorded.
Right-wing America is as bad as the right-wing Roman Empire, the right-wing Confederacy, and right-wing Nazi Germany: it's a small minority of wealthy-class knaves tricking, enslaving, instigating, and enlisting a majority of working-class fools to maim, murder, and ruin their own friends, families, neighbors, and communities.
Hopefully some better people in the world will come along and teach the right-wing American sh!theads the meaning of the Paradox of Tolerance, just like the Romans, Confederates, and Nazis had to be taught.
F*kc 'em.
F*kc ALL the right-wingers.
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Cenk, Ana, Newsom, & Bass are ALL Capitalists (Newsom might be a Corporatist, Carlson and Trump are Fascists). Capitalism, Corporatism, & Fascism are ALL RW-political-systems. And, thus, Cenk, Ana, Newsom, Bass, Carlson, & Trump are ALL RWers. The US is a RW-sh!tehole -- it was designed by, of, and for wealthy-RW-sh!theads.
Furthermore: Ana is a talk-show host who can BARELY read the news that is written by actual journalists -- she bumbles words ALL the time, and she has ALL DAY to prepare. Trump can BARELY speak -- he bumbles sentences ALL the time, and he has ALL the time he wants to prepare. But Ana calls Newsom is incompetent? Riiiiight.
Newsom definitely sucks, but so does Trump, and so does Ana. She should keep throwing those stones from her glass-house in a dry-desert, girl-boss! 🤣
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Right, when the bills being voted on are full of unmentioned, unpublicized right-wing, capitalist-extremism, it doesn't matter what caucus you're apart of.
It only matters which caucus you were sucking on, in private, when the bill was being written.
99% of Republic-party legislators are corrupted by money in politics, along with, probably, around 90-95% of Democrat-party legislators.
Thom saying that only a few Democrats are holding up these Infrastructure Bills makes him a fool or a knave.
A fool, because maybe he doesn't know that a wide variety of Dem-legislators vote with Repub-legislators ALL THE EFFING TIME.
Or a knave, because Thom actually DOES know that a wide variety of Dem-legislators vote with Repub-legislators ALL THE EFFING TIME, but he pretends not to know.
I have a hard time believing Thom is just a fool.
Whether Thom is a fool or a knave, it's time for a new line of work.
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@couchgrouches7667 Oh, I'm non-violent, I meant the concept. But, in order to eradicate the worst characteristics of "whiteness," some authoritarian-right-wingers are going to have to be dealt with in some kind of meaningful way.
And, if history is any indicator of the future -- which, it is -- the authoritarian-right-wingers in America are in for a bad time.
Of course, I'm talking about working-class authoritarian-right-wingers having a bad time -- the working-class will take it the hardest -- because the wealthy-class authoritarian-right-wingers will sneak out the backdoor, leaving the working-class authoritarian-right-wingers holding the metaphorical bag.
But, one way or another, the rest of the world is going to deal with the worst of America's white-supremacist, right-wing-authoritarianism. Just as history indicates.
Just like the the rest of the world had to deal with the worst of "whiteness" in the authoritarian-right-wing hellscapes of Nazi-Germany and the Confederate-South. And we know how the rest of the world dealt with that.
:)
Alas, I'm non-violent. So I'm just hoping that the knavish, wealthy-class, right-wing-authoritarians and the working-class fools who worship them, breed themselves out of existence. I don't want good working-class people to suffer just because the white-supremacist right-wingers had to be regulated again.
But the odds aren't on my side.
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Regardless of what he claimed to have been trying to prove, nothing of value was, nor could've been proven.
This was just "entertainment" for the feeble-minds of the pro-violence simpletons within the working-class who make up his audience.
Entertaining society's dumbest citizens, while also placating to their ignorance, fear, and anger, in an effort to compel them to hatred, violence, murder, and genocide, are the driving factors behind the actions of any grifter and shill for the wealthy-class.
You aren't supposed to "get it" because there's nothing to "get" -- but ignorant, working-class right-wingers will think and claim that they "got it" even though they wouldn't be able to explain it.
I hope your question wasn't rhetorical. :)
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Working-class people are dupes if they think that the corrupt knaves from the wealthy-class are on the side of the working-class. Trump & Biden are BOTH members of the corrupt wealthy-class, and, thus, BOTH are corrupt-RWers.
The moderate-RW Dems are offering Neoliberal-Capitalist enslavement of the working-class.
The RW-extremist Repubs are offering Neoconservative-Fascist enslavement of the working-class.
BOTH political parties in the U.S. are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
The entire world is bought, owned, bribed & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
And all of these corrupt, wealthy-class knaves work together, behind the scenes, all around the world, to maintain their lifestyle-addictions, supremacy, and power, all to the detriment of the working-class.
The wealthy-class is comprised of addicts, and they will NEVER willingly give up their addictions.
And the working-class dupes continue to vote for mottoes & slogans, just like the moderate-RWers at MorePerfectUnion instruct them to. 🙄
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Republican and Democratic party leadership; the same coin, but different sides. They have the same corporate and tribal wealthy-class agenda, but with differing levels of subtlety.
Republican and Democratic party membership; same coin, and mostly the same side. They have the same communal and familial lower-class agenda, but with varying levels of ignorance.
The only real difference is that some of the most ignorant folks in the lower-class have been fooled into believing that they are only temporarily-displaced members of the wealthy-class. They are ignorant enough to believe that if they do the bidding, and obey the orders of the wealthy-class, then someday the wealthy-class will allow them into their club.
The wealthy-class political leadership loves these ignorant lower-class conservatives. These wealthy-class intellectual-brutes build their fortunes and empires on the backs of lower-class ignorant-brawns.
As has been the case throughout history, the wealthy-class uses their money as a means to relegate the lower-class into positions of ignorance.
An example of this is; the deprivation of education, which was imposed by the wealthy-class white-Americans on the lower-class Africans during the time of more-direct slavery.
Another example is; the defunding and destabilization of public education, which has been imposed by wealthy-class white-Americans on the lower-class since the creation of the New Deal right up until the present.
The lower-class whites have never been equal with the wealthy-class whites when it comes to the accessibility of high-quality education. The lower-class whites are closer to blacks when it comes to socioeconomic class-status than they have ever been to wealthy-class whites. This was true during slavery and it is still true in the present.
The lesser-educated lower-class, which consists of all races, make up the societal-majority. The better-educated wealthy-class, which consists disproportionately of whites, make up the societal minority.
But because of the manipulative abilities of those who are better educated over those who are under-educated -- because of the power which can be bought through the manipulation of money and information -- the wealthy-class minority maintains their power over the lower-class majority.
The wealthy-class uses its wealth to influence public policy in their favor. They use their influence over public policy to arrange that public policy in a way that manipulates the mass of people into masses of influenced-ignorance.
If a person is ignorant enough, then that person can be easily influenced and persuaded into further denigrating, debilitating, or destructive states of mind and action. Those states of mind and action often progress as follows: Ignorance, fear, anger, hate, violence, murder, and genocide. Each level relies on the previous level.
If a person can be rendered ignorant, then a person can be broken mentally, emotionally, and physically.
If a person is ignorant then they can be fooled into being afraid of other people.
If a person is afraid enough, then they can be coerced into anger toward the people whom they have been fooled into fearing.
If a person is angry enough, then they can be compelled to hate the people whom they have been coerced into anger toward.
If a person is hateful enough, then they can be provoked into violence against the people whom they have been compelled to hate.
If a person is violent enough, then they can be forced into murdering the people whom they have been provoked into violence toward.
If a person is murderous enough -- broken enough -- then they will have no problem committing genocide upon the people whom they are ignorant and fearful of, angry at, hateful toward, and violent against.
Because of this progression of digression, the wealthy-class has been enslaving the lower-class in various ways throughout all of history.
The wealthy-class Republican leadership imposes ignorance upon the lower-class to control them, while the wealthy-class Democratic leadership provides a faux-opposition. Then, every few generations, the parties switch sides and change roles right under the noses of the ignorant lower-class.
For example, in the past, the Republicans have espoused 'liberal' ideology and the Democrats have espoused 'conservative' ideology. But both parties have always been most dedicated to the sustainment of the wealthy-class, white-patriarchal hierarchy.
But the more-ignorant 'conservative' members of the lower-class majority are always the easily compliant aggressors, while the less-ignorant "liberal" members are passively resistant victims.
Lower-class conservatives are ignorant enough to scroll Facebook for memes, but they aren't smart enough to search for meaning.
Lower-class conservatives are ignorant enough to search Facebook for memes, but they aren't smart enough to research for meaning.
Lower-class conservatives are ignorant enough to repeat and regurgitate, but they aren't smart enough to be discreet and separate.
Lower-class conservatives are ignorant enough to say the intended quiet parts aloud, but not smart enough to realize it makes them appear less-endowed.
Lower-class conservatives are ignorant enough to follow, but they're so far behind that they think they're leading.
The intelligent, wealthy-class political leadership love these ignorant, lower-class conservatives because they are so ignorant that they can be convinced turn against the people who are most like them.
The wealthy-class, with a few memes, can convince ignorant-conservatives into kicking down at the least-fortunate and elbowing side-to-side at those who are most akin to themselves, rather than punching up at the wealthy-class who are the perpetrators of the misinformation which divides us and the perpetrators of the inequality which oppresses us.
Combine all of that with the following facts:
1. The wealthy-class of both political parties have been dragging the Overton window to the right-wing for the last one hundred years, and drastically so over the last 50 years, essentially turning Democratic leadership into Republicans and Republican leadership into fascists.
2. In any of the other developed countries -- countries where there are multiple political parties on the political left and right -- where the citizens have actual freedom of political choice, those countries would have Republicans in Democrats either in the same political party or part of a coalition government.
3. In some of those other developed countries, the disparities in the U.S. election system -- from the campaign finance laws to the voter suppression tactics -- would have the wealthy-class leadership imprisoned.
4. The similarities between present-day America, the empires of old, and the Third Reich -- coupled with the discontent which America has sewn around the world -- are too numerous to count.
Anyone with a comprehension of socioeconomic politics in international and historical contexts has got to be able to see that this America-aggression is bound to come to a head sooner than later.
My only fear is that, much like other countries which have become the brunt of international retaliation, the ignorant lower-class of all proclaimed political persuasions within America will be the ones left holding the metaphorical bag while the intelligent wealthy-class sneak out the proverbial backdoor.
Yes, wealthy-class Republicans and Democrats love the lower-class, ignorant-conservative David-Lafleches of the world.
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"There's great honor in serving our country..."
*clutching chest, craning neck, clenching anus
The greatest of great honors, with the greatest servants, in the greatest country, on the greatest planet, in the greatest solar system, in the greatest galaxy, in the greatest universe, in the greatest dimension. Ever. Period. Full-stop. Period. Period-period.
It is a great honor to prostitute oneself for a corporate, oligarchic kleptocracy -- which is operated by the wealthy-class, who in turn bribes the rich-class to administer the enslavement of the working-class, who all then shit on the poorest-classes all across the country and around the world -- whose main goal is to pillage the lands and hoard the resources of other nations while exploiting those nation's human-labor to commandeer all of that nation's industries -- so that the masters within the wealthy and rich-class minority, with the help of the class-trading crumb-catchers within the working and poor-class majority, can maintain their addictions to materialism, social-status, and easy-living which is expressed as the mental illness known as 'greed' -- all the while preaching against the very things one is servicing into perpetuity.
*from one side, speaking from the mouth
*sips tea, high up with the pinky
Cease THESE regime-change wars. Period.
This commander-in-chief is atrocious. Period.
*sports more flowers, round about the neck
*from the other side, speaks the same mouth
Commence THOSE regime-change wars. Period.
I'll command-and-chief astonishingly. Period.
Yes! 'Tis as noble a pursuit as any other for one to embrace the irony of one's hypocrisy!
*sips more tea
*sports more flowers
*solicits more power
*suppresses more people
/S
In the U.K., they would call her a C-U-Next-Tuesday.
In the U.S., it's simply another day that ends in 'Y' and another politician who starts and ends with 'I'.
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This is NOT astonishing, unless your blind or stupid. This is the normal right-wing politics of autocracy, feudalism, capitalism, oligarchy, monarchy, & theocracy. Right-wing Saudis & Americans are autocrats, feudalists, capitalists, oligarchs, monarchists, & theocrats.
This right-wing bulllsh!t is as old as the invention of currency.
This right-wing bullsh!t has been going on for all of recorded history.
If you're only just now finding yourself "astonished," then, either:
(A)You haven't been paying attention to the astonishing historical and international contexts of right-wing politics.
OR
(B)you've been incapable of comprehending the astonishing historical and international contexts of right-wing politics.
The thing that I find most astonishing is the ignorance & astonishment of most working-class Americans who have allowed themselves to be governed by two corrupt right-wing political parties that are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by corrupt, wealthy right-wingers.
This is NOT astonishing -- this is normal right-wing abhorrence.
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There is nothing shocking about this. This kind of thing has been going on for the entirety of recorded history, more so since the creation of money/currency, and more so since the creation of "America."
This kind of thing has been the norm throughout the history of the US -- from the funding of the "exploration" to the founding of the government entity -- beginning when wealthy-class right-wing Europeans stole the American-landscape from the rightful owners and committed genocide against them.
Here's your free lesson(s) for the day:
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class politics.
Right-wing politics are anti-working-class politics.
The exploration of the American-landscape was funded by European wealthy-class right-wingers.
The founding of the American government-entity was perpetrated by European wealthy-class right-wingers.
BOTH the Republican & Democrat parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class right-wingers, most of European ancestry.
Slavery, manipulation, and exploitation are all inherent in the politics of the wealthy-class right-wingers, and in America.
Hoarding, materialism, and addiction are all inherent in the lifestyles of wealthy-class right-wingers, and in the working-class fools who vote for wealthy-class right-wingers.
The wealthy-class owners of American businesses used chattel-slave labor in the past, and working-class leftists fought against it.
The wealthy-class owners of American businesses use wage-slave labor in the present, and working-class leftists are fighting against it.
But there are too many working-class morons in America who vote for wealthy-class right-wing Repubs and wealthy-class right-wing Dems, rather than standing up to those wealthy-class right-wingers.
These working-class voters are dumb, so they vote against their own best interests. And the wealthy-class right-wingers love stupid people, because stupid people make better slaves.
That is why the wealthy-class right-wing plantation owners prevented their slaves from learning in the past, and it is the same reason why wealthy-class right-wing business owners want to defund public education in the present.
The wealthy-class right-wingers don't want educated citizens -- They want stupid slaves who are incapable of identifying their own oppressors. But, working-class leftists keep fighting against the wealthy-class right-wingers.
In fact, despite the sabotage committed by their own working-class mates who do the bidding of wealthy-class right-wingers, the working-class leftists have been somewhat successful.
Wealthy-class right-wingers have been exporting American jobs and businesses for decades because working-class American leftists have been so successful at fighting against the chattel-slavery and wage-slavery imposed by wealthy-class right-wingers. These wealthy-class American right-wingers are doing the same thing that wealthy-class Nazi right-wingers and wealthy-class Confederate right-wingers did: FLEEING.
Of course, after the wealthy-class Nazis and Confederates snuck out the door and left the working-class Germans and Southern-Americans holding the metaphorical bag, there were troubling times for the working-class Germans and Southern-Americans who couldn't afford to flee. And working-class Americans should expect the same.
When the wealthy-class right-wingers finally decide to focus all of their exploitation, manipulation, and slavery on some other group of working-class people in some other country, working-class Americans should expect to come to know the true meaning of the word "struggle."
I could go on. But, for anyone who would use such a hyperbolic phrase as "shocking" to explain something so regular as American-slavery, I presume I've already given such a person more information than they can comprehend in one sitting.
Long story short: This video/story is just continuing the exposure of the right-wing politics that are ingrained by the wealty-class into the American sh!thole.
There is literally -- not figuratively -- NOTHING shocking about this.
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This is why education and historical context are so important. The way Biden used the word makes perfect sense to people who are educated. Only uneducated fools would believe otherwise. Only educated knaves would pretend otherwise. So, the questions you should ask yourself are the following: "Is Kyle a fool who doesn't comprehend what Biden meant? Or, Is Kyle a knave who is pretending not to comprehend it, for clicks?"
Disclaimer: I do not support the right-winger, Joe Biden. Nor do I support the right-wingers Trump, Pelosi, McCarthy, Schumer, McConnell, Bush, or Clinton. F*kc the right-wing Democrats AND the right-wing Republicans. F*kc ALL the right-wingers.
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There's nothing more blissfully-ignorant or purposefully-knavish than the working-class non-Yts (like Bunk-David) who spread the right-wing, Yt-supremacist propaganda of "the wealthy-class club" -- just like in-Justice Clarence uncle-Thomas does (along with so many others). 😛
But who are we kidding -- Bunk-David and uncle-Thomas would give each other the JFK-Epstein-treatments if they thought it would get them into "the club" of their wealthy-class, right-wing, Yt-supremacist masters. 😆
Watching working-class C. |_| |\| TS (like Bunk-David and uncle-Thomas) defend and vote for the pro-wealthy-class right-wing politics of Yt-supremacist violence, murder, and genocide -- the anti-working-class right-wing politics of Yt-supremacist segregation, oppression, repression, and suppression -- is like watching a bunch of working-class jesters punching themselves in the face as their own friends, families, and communities are murdered and sabotaged by a bunch of other working-class jesters at the command of wealthy-class, right-wing monarchs & CEOs. 😅
It's as if the ignorant working-class fools are running around and fisting their own bumholes until they gape, because the connoving working-class knaves (like Bunk-David) have told the ignorant working-class fools that it's easier for the poop to get out that way. And, then, after the ignorant working-class fools finish fisting themselves, those same ignorant working-class fools shove their own fecal-fists into their own mouths, licking and sucking their fists like ice-cream-cones, because the conniving working-class knaves (like Bunk-David) and the parasitic wealthy-class right-wing masters have conditioned the ignorant working-class fools by force-feeding them propagandist-sh!t. 😂
Nom-nom-nom, you ignorant working-class right-wingers. Keep eating up that anti-working-class right-wing sh!t, just like the conniving working-class knaves (like Bet-David) and your wealthy-class masters tell you to. 🥲
Keep following those wealthy-class right-wing orders. 🙂
Just like the working-class right-wing Confederates followed orders. 🤨
Just like the working-class right-wing Nazis followed orders. 🤔
You'll figure it out. 😑
Eventually. 😶
Probably the hard way. 😮💨
Just like the working-class right-wing Confederates and working-class right-wing Nazis had to figure it out. 😨
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
America is such a right-wing sh!thole. 🙄
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BOTH American political parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy right-wingers. Biden is a wealthy right-winger, just like Trump, Obama, Clinton, Bush, Schumer, and McConnel. I hope you're not too shallow to know the truth, Patty.
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This reads like it was written by a bot that was programmed by someone for whom English is a second language.
Or, by a working-class dupe who went to school in the RW-states of America.
Imagine having such substandard writing skills, finishing up that mess and thinking, "yup, nailed it -- now I'll share it with the world."
Imagine being such a moron.
Vote wealthy RW-extremist Repubs, for the fast, open-road from trash-capitalism to garbage-fascism.
Vote wealthy moderate-RW Dems, for the slower, disguised-road from trash-capitalism to garbage-fascism.
With the corrupt wealthy-class in charge, with their corrupt RW-politics, you can become an oblivious working-class dupe, just like @ronaldluning4010
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Yup. If the rich want to leave the US to avoid the laws that The People want passed, I say, fine, let them go. But if they go, then they forfeit their assets & currency to the gov't on their way out. And if they don't comply with forfeiture on their way out, then The People will take it by Eminent Domain. If they sneak US-currency out & try to use it on US-goods from their new country, then they can pay double; half to the business from which they are purchasing, and half to the gov't.
We need to elect [a]intelligent, modest, working people as legislators, who are smart enough to out-smart [b]the conniving, rich, non-working people.
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America is such a shite-hole. Of course, you have two political-parties that are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class greed-addicts, and both of those corporate wealthy-class parties are FULL of conspirators, aiders, and abettors of organized crime.
But you also have a majority of the working-class population who are indoctrinated by the propaganda of the wealthy-class addicts; you have an entrenched majority of the working-class who are striving after the very same lifestyles which direct the actions of wealthy-class addicts.
The lack of class-consciousness ingrained into the American working-class by the wealthy-class's individualism-propaganda is (one of the many, many reasons) why the rest of the class-conscious world laughs in amusement and trembles in terror at America.
I won't prejudge Brana and family, but it sounds like the same Modus-Operandi of corruption and addiction that drives the actions of the wealthy-class political parties is the same corruption and addiction that is ruining this working-class political party.
Sadly, this is not at all surprising.
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Definitely: Don't be like those right-wing Q-nutters who murdered their living, breathing children because 'the voices' told them to.
But, by all means, right-wing Q-nutters, PLEASE DO have all parasitic gametes, zygotes, and fetuses, along with other bio-hazardous material, evicted and removed from your bodies, so you don't introduce any further neanderthal-genetic carriers into society for the rest of us to have to worry about.
BilbOb The DildOb should be all the motivation for abortion, and swallowing, anyone needs.
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If you're more concerned with feeding the addictions to aesthetics, vanity, and consumerism than you are concerned with substance, I'm pretty sure you'll find what you're looking for over on right-wing MSNBC and right-wing Fox News.
"...get Jordan a suit." Really? Ffs, with takes like this, not to mention all of the other sh!te-lib right-wing takes on this video, it's no wonder America is a steaming sh!tehole.
That suggestion is as useless and distracting as any of the other bullsh!te suggestions for incremental change to deal with existential problems.
It's like hearing, "THE SHIP IS GOING DOWN," and responding with, "Oh, goodness me, I need to grab my slicker."
It's like responding to the gun-violence epidemic with, "we need more guns!"
How f*kc!ng ignorant.
You working-class dupes have fallen for the aesthetic-addictions offered to you by the wealthy-class addicts. You can't focus on substance because you're so addicted to aesthetics. You are working-class addicts who are helping the wealthy-class addicts maintain their control.
And if you're going to respond with, "iT wAs JuSt aN oBsErVaTiOn! i'M eNtItLeD tO mY oPiNiOn!" Well, sure you are. But it's not helpful, nor useful, nor worthwhile. It's a distraction.
Jordan needs a suit like the wealthy-class needs more tax cuts for their textile conglomerates.
Repel your addictions to licking the boots and sniffing the cracks of the wealthy-class.
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@planetarean The ignorance of your statement is why the US is such a sh!tehole. You working-class dupes either can't, don't, or won't even try, to comprehend class-politics.
It is ABSOLUTELY Left vs. Right, and just because you're too dumb to comprehend it, that doesn't mean it isn't.
RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class (or "Up", as you so childishly put it) and anti-working-class (or "Down", as you so childishly put it).
LW-politics are pro-working-class (or "Down", as you so childishly put it) and anti-wealthy-class (or "Up", as you so childishly put it).
All the major problems in the world, and most of the smaller problems, are caused by (a)the corrupt wealthy-class knaves & their corrupt RW-politics, and by (b)the ignorant, working-class dupes who, intentionally or unintentionally, support the corrupt, wealthy-class knaves & their corrupt RW-politics.
The ignorance of working-class dupes, like you, is how & why the wealthy-class continues to rule the working-class. Your ignorance helps the wealthy-class to maintain their power over the working-class.
The concepts of Class-politics are THOUSANDS of years old.
Maybe less time with the entertainment and more time with the education, for you.
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Cenk is a RWer. He's a self-proclaimed Capitalist, and Capitalism is a RW-system, just like Monarchism, Feudalism, Mercantilism, Republicanism, Corporatism, Fascism, and Slavery.
All RW-systems involve the populace-minority (known as the wealthy-class) controlling the populace-majority (known as the working-class), just like Slavery.
Besides being a Capitalist, Cenk is also a union-buster. He's a couple steps shy of being a Corporatist and a few steps shy of being a Fascist.
And, if/when push comes to shove, Cenk will willingly do the goose-step to maintain his lifestyle-addictions, just like all the other lifestyle-addicts who will never willingly give up their addictions.
Cenk is really no better than the corrupt, lifestyle-addicts from the wealthy-class, with their corrupt, RW-politics of authoritarianism, against whom & which he so bombastically rails.
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The same right-wingers who own and control the Republic-party are the same right-wingers who own and control the Democrat-party. Those same right-wingers own and control the Forward-party.
The right-wing strategists and consultants who operate the Forward-party are the right-wing strategists and consultants who left the Republic&Democrat parties.
The Forward-party is offering the same right-wing, pro-wealthy-class capitalist platitudes as the Republic&Democrat parties.
These Forward-party promoters, pundits, and would-be politicians are already being publicly called out for the fecklessness of their right-wing policy-positions, and they are already scurrying for the hills. Just like right-wing Repubs & right-wing Dems.
The Forward-party isn't a left-wing, pro-working-class, progressive party. They are a right-wing, pro-wealthy-class party, conservative party. They are trying to conserve the systems of right-wing neoliberal capitalism whereby the wealthy-class controls the functions of economic life via the co-opting and corrupting of the government.
I know this may be difficult to comprehend, but wealthy-class right-wingers have designed the system this way on purpose.
But, this situation is like when you're watching/reading something in the genre of mystery-suspense, and you realize who the killer is before the writers/authors reveal it: Once you see it, you can't "unsee" it.
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Thom still believes that the values of the "Democratic" Party in the past are the same priorities espoused by the current leadership of the "Democrat" Party in the present.
It's either that, or Thom is in on the act, and he's playing dumb.
He fully understands the SCOTUS decisions from over the past 70 years, which have allowed the wealthy-class capitalists to corrupt the campaign finance and election systems while consequently co-opting the politicians to do the bidding of that wealthy-class.
Thom has talked about those SCOTUS decisions repeatedly throughout the years. Although, he only mentions a specific set of decisions while ignoring others.
Thom calls out the systemic corruption of the Republic-party but only calls out singular Democrats. He never cites that the systemic corruption, allowed by the SCOTUS decisions, has taken over the Democrat-party too.
So, it's one of a few possible things.
One: Thom sincerely, ignorantly believes that the current wealthy-class capitalist-leadership of the Democrat-party is the same leadership, with the same ideals of the working-class Democratic party from when Thom was growing up (in the 60s and 70s). And, thus, Thom says the ignorant-sounding things he says at times.
Two: Thom knows that the wealthy-class capitalists who fund the Republic-party are the same ones who fund the Democrat-party. He knows that the Democrat-party is nothing more than a paid-opposition whose main goal is to seem as though they are fighting against the Republic-party. And, thus, Thom pretends not to know.
Three: The first two sentences from number two above, but instead of pretending not to know that both parties are corrupt and working in tandem, what we are seeing is Thom treading lightly. Rather than blatantly calling out the mutual corruption of both parties, he merely presents the corruption of the Democrat-party in pieces.
Maybe he does this to maintain access to Democrat-party executives and politicians. Maybe he does it to coddle potential or current viewers. Maybe he does it to placate capitalist Youtube executives.
Personally, I think it's the two-three combo. There's no way he can be smart enough to paint the who, what, when, where, why, and how of duopolistic corruption, while being too stupid to see the monopolistic masterpiece of suffering and discontent it has created
Whether Thom's antics are the product of one, two, or three, my retort is as follows:
"BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! BOOOOOO!!! GET OFF THE STAGE!!!"
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Abolish private property, private companies, and private profit.
Privacy is where slavery, abuse, and corruption are cultivated to fester and thrive.
The human-parasites who advocate for private property, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private property" to refer to the humans they enslaved in the past.
The human-parasites who advocate for private companies, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private companies" to refer to the plantations where they enslaved said humans in the past.
The human-parasites who advocate for private profits, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private profit" to refer to the money generated by the labor of the humans they enslaved on plantations in the past.
The kinds of human-parasites who advocate for private property, private companies, and private profits, in the present, are the same as the human who advocate for "States' Rights" and slavery in the past.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people from other countries.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people from other states.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people of other colors and religions.
And if you don't think those kinds of human-parasites still exist, then look no further than your county Republic/Democrat political-party meeting, your local police/sheriff department, or your nearest military recruiters office.
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While there are some human-parasites who want to enslave any family but their own, on the macro-level, there are some human-parasites who want to enslave their own family members, on the micro-level, under the guise of "privacy" and "parental rights."
The kinds of human-parasites who advocate for private property, private companies, and private profit, are the same kind of human-parasites who advocate for "States' Rights" to enslave and abuse other humans in privacy.
And the kinds of human-parasites who advocate for "States' Rights" are the same kind of people who advocate for "Parental Rights" to enslave and abuse children in private.
And kinds of human-parasites who advocate for unfettered privacy are the kinds of human-parasites who want to keep their corruption and their victims private.
The more adamant a person is about "privacy," the more suspicious of them I become, and the more parasitic they reveal themselves to be.
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Absolutely.
I'm no clinician, but...
I believe greed is the very same thing as an addiction -- money is literally a security blanket for these people, and they cling to it like an addiction.
The greedy, wealthy people hoard money and resources similar to the way poor people hoard newspapers, empty coffee cans, plastic shopping bags, and other useless gadgets and trinkets -- hoarding itself is a form of mental illness.
The wealthy-class has an addiction to money and resources, as well as an addiction to social status and easy living -- and these addictions have rendered them mentally ill.
The mental illnesses associated with addictions and hoarding causes the wealthy to justify abuses of all kinds, as well as obfuscation, lying, cheating, stealing, murdering, and genocide.
This has been the relationship between the rich and the poor for as long as history has been recorded.
Kings versus subjects, lords versus serfs, and masters versus slaves -- White people versus native-Americans, white people versus native Central and South Americans, white people versus Africans, Nazis versus Jews, Nazis versus minorities, government-supported Buddhists versus Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh -- these dynamics are all relatively similar. Some people would rather work to oppress other people rather than work with other people so that no one is oppressed.
Some people are so mentally ill, they get off on the suffering of others. Supremacy is the addiction associated with hoarding power. An addiction to hoarding money allows the wealthy to purchase more power. Power buys further supremacy.
...I could go on, but only as far as unprofessional opinions and observations would allow.
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A community should be able to initiate the division of a couple/relationship, particularly if/when a couple/relationship becomes toxic to the community, especially for the sake of children.
Under a system like that, my parents could have been divorced for numerous reasons on countless occasions. For examples:
1. After the first of the many times that my mother literally begged my father to hit her. She tried goading him into hitting her for years. He never did hit her though.
But I had to watch her purposefully manipulate him for years, and no kid should have to watch that kind of mind-f*kcing .
2. After the first of many times that my mother tricked me and my siblings into not reporting her to Child Protective Services for abusing us.
She would say things like, "they're just going to come and take you away."
She said it that way on purpose, to make us think it was our fault. Because, as kids, most of us get taught that when bad people do the wrong things, the cops come and take the wrong-doers away.
So, by telling us that "they" were going to "take us away," she tricked us into believing that we were the ones in the wrong.
Then, there was another thing she started doing.
When we would threaten to call CPS on her, she would say the 1-800-number out loud, like she had it memorized. Or, she would write the number on a piece of paper and hand it to us. It was as if she was daring us to call.
Looking back, I don't know if she did that because she believed that we wouldn't call or because she wouldn't have cared if we did call. (It's difficult, and probably futile, to try deciphering the specific and primary motives of consumer-driven socio/psychopathic narcissists.)
But she knew we were more scared of being taken away than we were of her abuse because she had already implanted the fear of "them" taking us away into our minds.
We didn't want to get taken away -- we just wanted the abuse to stop. And we were only scared because we didn't know any better.
Like, sure, for argument's sake, the foster-care system is a gamble. But we didn't know that as young kids in the 1980s.
And, besides, also for the sake of argument, which scenario is actually worse: Staying in an abusive situation or gambling on being moved to a less abusive situation?
Staying in an abusive situation isn't ideal, but neither is gambling. And no kid should have to make that choice.
Anyway. My mother played these manipulative mind-games on us until we stopped threatening to report her abuse. Instead of reporting her, we "learned" to live with the unreasonable and illogical abuse by succumbing to it.
I often wonder what could've been different for me if I would've rolled the dice and made the call to CPS.
Oh, goodness. That was quite a digression from my main point. I'll get back to it and conclude.
Perhaps my parents should have been forced to get a divorce after my mother was provably neglecting me and after she rendered my father into a perception of powerlessness to do anything about it.
You might be asking yourself, "what, why, how?" Well, then, here are your answers.
3. After I almost lost my tongue was two years old.
I was in the garage alone. (WHAT?) Then I climbed up on the four-foot-tall workbench. (WHY?) Then I fell off the bench and slammed my chin onto the concrete floor, nearly biting my tongue in half. (HOW?)
4. Or, the time I ate mothballs.
5. Or, the time I ate rat poisoning.
6 Or, the time I drank ammonia.
7. Or, the time I drank bleach.
8. Or, the time I ate a bottle of children's aspirin. (Which didn't even happen, because I clearly remember pouring the pills down the drain. But I got caught with the empty bottle by my neglectful biatch-mother, so I got treated as if I had eaten the whole bottle).
9. Or, when I was 7 years old, my doctor admonished my mother for allowing me to become obese, at which point my mother stopped using that doctor to prevent the doctor from recording a paper trail of my mother's nutritional-negligence.
10. Or, when my relatives and neighbors started molesting me.
Perhaps my parents should have been forced to get a divorce after one of those instances. Or maybe their divorce should have been required after...
11. ...my mother's first year of doctor-enabled opioid addiction. Maybe that would be a good precursor, indicating that someone would turn into a sh!te-mother and wife.
She's now 40+ years into a doctor-enabled opioid addict. Maybe that's a good clue, explaining why she's still a sh!te-human today.
If you're still asking yourself, "what, why, and how?" The answers are all easy and the same -- because my mother was too busy getting high on opioids to take care of herself and the vulnerable humans she was supposed to protect.
Certainly, there must be something on my list that would incite more than questions, like, what, why, and how"?
Surely, there must be something on my list that would move the better, caring members of the community to seek action, to end my parent's relationship and the misery it brought upon me and others.
There has to be something that will compel the working-class drones into action to protect children.
But, as of today: Nope!
Children are left to suffer without escape.
And these ignorant working-class adults keep pumping out innocent working-class children to continue the suffering. As if there's some magic number of suffering children that, if reached, will make the suffering of working-class adults disappear.
I don't say all these things to get sympathy for me. I don't need it now. But I do say these things to incite empathy for the children who are suffering RIGHT NOW.
I wouldn't change my childhood. My suffering gave me the sense of perception to grasp who is at fault for my suffering. The people at fault are those like J.D. Vance.
And my opening point remains the same:
There should be a system in place whereby the people of a community can initiate the division of a couple/relationship, particularly if/when a couple/relationship becomes toxic to the community, especially for the sake of children.
Until better times, I'll be preaching antinatalism and celibacy.
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@bushwacka5187 Since the removal of qualified immunity, those stupid cops have decreased the enforcement of what little bit of the law they are actually capable of understanding.
Qualified immunity allows cops to be ignorant, brutal criminals. And without qualified immunity, those stupid cops are realizing that they don't even know just exactly how stupid they actually are. It is frightening for stupid people who are realizing just how stupid they really are. And new fears stifle people, especially the stupidest people, like cops.
So, those stupid cops, who are having life-changing epiphanies about their own deficiencies, are resigning themselves, internally. They are choosing to not do their jobs, thus reducing the chances of themselves committing any stupidity, thus relieving themselves of any responsibility or consequences.
If they don't do anything stupid, then they won't get in trouble for being stupid.
If they don't do anything at all, then they won't get in trouble at all.
And, thus, if the stupid cops don't do anything at all, then crime goes up. And then, the stupidest working-class citizens get mad at other citizens instead of getting mad at stupid, brutal cops for not doing their jobs. Working-class dupes get mad at their working-class mates instead of getting mad at the wealthy-class, right-wing parasites who perpetuate the conditions which make crime more probable.
Then, the cops use the increase in crime, which they helped to create, to make the case for more cops and less transparency and accountability for cops.
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Now I'm wondering if what I said has much to do with what you said. Maybe I'm stupid.
Well, if I am stupid, then at least it won't get anyone killed.
And, despite the difficulties that come with abolishing qualified immunity, I still very much agree that it should be abolished.
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The Democrat party's owners don't care what you do. They own the Republican party, too. And if you start a third party, they'll buy that party out from under you, too. You're too late, and too ignorant, for party-politics.
Ever since the SCOTUS ruled to legalize bribery & corruption with their decisions in the cases of Buckley v. Valeo[1976] and First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti[1978], BOTH major political-parties in the US (and most of the smaller parties) have been bought, owned, and controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics. And they've been solidifying their power, with the help of both major parties, ever since.
Working-class dupes in the US are too late, and too ignorant, for party-politics.
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Geez, bud. You have a decent message when it comes to imperialism. But you come across as no better than the wealthy-class imperialists.
You do a disservice to all of the less-fortunate and suffering lower and working-class people around the world with your demeanor and shortsightedness.
I've been watching your comments for a while now. On one hand, you're so damn condescending and accusatory. On the other hand, you're secondarily-victimizing and hypocritical. You completely detract from the most important parts of the anti-imperialist message.
The way I've seen you treat people with your words in the past, and the way you've treated me with those words now, I feel nearly the same way about you as I do the wealthy-class imperialists.
Lower and working-class people have already been victimized by the wealthy-class imperialists. Then, you come along and revictimize them with the rhetoric you choose. You're certainly not helping the plight of lower and working-class people.
The lower and working-class people around the world, who have been victimized by the wealthy-class imperialists, are the same kind of lower and working-class people who have been victimized by the wealthy-class imperialists in America.
The wealthy-class is the problem, not the lower and working-class victims who have been coerced and constricted in all sorts of situations by the wealthy-class imperialists.
I'm not at all well-off, by any means. In some ways, I was better off homeless. But no matter what your formerly caged-brain has been traumatized into believing, lower-class people like me, who don't have the agency to advocate or affect change, are not the problem,
The way you degrade people with your self-aggrandizing comments is disgusting. I'm almost not surprised you were formerly caged.
Good for you, though -- you lucky upper-lower-class genius, you -- for being able to be all out and about, running around.
But everyone isn't you.
Everyone is in different places mentally, emotionally, financially, spiritually, and so on.
Maybe, since you aren't participating in any imperialist-aiding activities, besides your self-admitted international traveling, you could take some of your free time to consider that everyone isn't like you or able to do what you've done.
A tiny bit of self-introspection might turn you into a better voice for those who suffer.
A little ego-busting could allow you to become a better helper for all of the less-fortunate victims of the wealthy-class imperialists throughout the world with whom you seem so concerned.
At this point, though, I have as little hope for you as I do for the wealthy-class imperialist addicts.
At this point, I hope YouTube censors you or all of your devices break.
Maybe then you'll move on to doing something actually useful, instead of blaming your fellow lower and working-class victims of the imperialist wealthy-class suspects.
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@Scruffy Topaz You are right. And when the bills being voted on are full of unmentioned, unpublicized right-wing, capitalist-extremism, it doesn't matter what caucus you're apart of.
It only matters which caucus you were sucking on, in private, when the bill was being written.
99% of Republic-party legislators are corrupted by money in politics, along with, probably, around 90-95% of Democrat-party legislators.
Thom saying that only a few Democrats are holding up these Infrastructure Bills makes him a fool or a knave.
A fool, because maybe he doesn't know that a wide variety of Dem-legislators vote with Repub-legislators ALL THE EFFING TIME.
Or a knave, because Thom actually DOES know that a wide variety of Dem-legislators vote with Repub-legislators ALL THE EFFING TIME, but he pretends not to know.
I have a hard time believing Thom is just a fool.
Whether Thom is a fool or a knave, it's time for a new line of work.
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@alexanderthompson-rq7nx Well, your inclination toward "maybe" that's what wealthy right-wingers want is better than the working-class dupes who claim that it's "definitely not" what the wealthy right-wingers want.
But I don't know what more proof one would need, beyond the historical-record and present-situations, for one to go from the incorrect answers of "definitely not" and "maybe" to the correct answer of "absolutely."
I can only write so much. What more proof do you need?
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class politics.
Right-wing politics are anti-working-class politics.
The hierarchical dynamics and systems of slavery STILL exist. There are STILL slaves in the world.
And WHO benefits from slavery? The wealthy-class people at the top of the socioeconomic hierarchy, that's who.
And who is always complaining about labor-costs? The wealthy-class people who own businesses, that's who.
And which side of the political-spectrum is constantly promoting and enforcing social and economic hierarchies within society? The right-wing side of the political-spectrum, that's which side.
And, thus, who is ABSOLUTELY striving for the decrease of labor-costs by increasing the number of chattel-slaves? THE WEALTHY RIGHT-WINGERS, THAT'S WHO.
Right-wing politics are pro-autocracy politics.
Right-wing politics are anti-democracy politics.
After the US Civil War, the autocratic wealthy right-wing slave owners were mad that they didn't have their chattel-slaves anymore.
So, the wealthy right-wingers in the US wrote the 13th Amendment to The Constitution, so that they could legally move the autocratic institution of chattel-slavery from plantations to prisons.
And in the same 13th Amendment, the wealthy right-wingers expanded the legalization of chattel-slavery to not only include black people, but to also include ANYONE who could be convicted of a crime.
And, then, the wealthy right-wingers began using their wealth to influence the creation of all kinds of petty new laws that only working-class people would likely be convicted of, like homelessness.
Which brings us back to my original post.
I could go on...
Maybe I will...
The systems of slavery, monarchism, feudalism, capitalism, and fascism, are all hierarchical right-wing systems of the wealthy versus the workers
In slavery, the roles in the hierarchy consist of the wealthy master versus the working slaves.
In monarchism, it's royalty versus subjects.
In feudalism, its lord versus serfs.
In capitalism, it's employer versus employees.
In fascism, it's still wealthy-class versus the working-class.
The wealthy right-wingers would PREFER to turn as many working-class people into chattel-slaves as possible, because that is most beneficial for wealthy right-wingers.
But they'll SETTLE for turning working-class people into wage-slaves and debt-slaves, too.
Because the wealthy right-wingers know that once a child evolves into an adult wage-slave, the downward-slope from housed wage-slave to homeless debt-slave to imprisoned chattel-slave is steep and slippery.
The wealthy right-wingers designed the system that way. And they'll continue to tweak the systems to maintain their power.
Wealthy right-wingers are like any other addict with a mental-illness: they will NEVER willingly give up their addictions until they are forced to confront their mental-illness.
Wealthy right-wingers are not "MAYBE" trying to expand slavery.
They are ABSOLUTELY trying to expand slavery.
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I come to Thom's videos for a neoliberal perspective, which is a moderate conservative perspective. Aside from Richard Wolff's working-class point of view, neoliberal-conservatism is the best you can expect from Thom's show.
Thom, and many of his guests, still toot the horn of the Democrat party, which has become the left-leaning arm of the Republic party.
Thom, and many of his guests, seem to believe that meaningful "reform" can happen through the Democrat party, even though the Democrat party is corrupted by the funding from the same wealthy-class which funds the Republic party.
Just as the wealthy-class promoting Republic party cannot rid itself of the many racist, misogynist, compassionless, nihilistic, supremacist voters, many Democrat party voters cannot rid themselves of the wealthy-class promoting Democrat party. They are married to it, acting as if the relationship were to end it would reflect poorly on themselves within society. They tow the party-line because of how they feel they will be perceived, rather than ending the relationship for the toxicity it breeds in their lives.
There is no viable leftist, employee-labor, or lower-class political party in America. There are two economically right-wing, socially-authoritarian, anti-small business, pro-corporate, anti-worker, pro-employers, anti-poor, pro-wealthy-class, extremist political parties.
Lastly, these short-form interviews do a disservice to the American citizens who are duped into wasting their time by following Thom. Especially when those citizens could be following much more substantive channels and better pundits.
Thom is as equally as bad at messaging as the Democrat party leadership, but the Democrat party leadership is paid to be bad at it. They are paid-opposition, funded by the wealthy-class. The question is, rhetorically, if Thom is bad at it on accident, or on purpose.
My advice, for what little worth it may have, is to stop wasting your time here.
Good day.
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The old "Paradox of Tolerance" is sneaking up on the primate-brains of these working-class right-wing dupes who vote for the pro-wealthy-class/anti-working-class politics of wealthy-class right-wingers. It can be amusing to observe primates.
For example, watching primates struggle with a puzzle or trying to learn new things, in hopes of earning a banana-award, can be entertaining. But, sometimes, the primates get violent.
The wealthy-class right-wingers have everything they need and more. They don't care if they never "eat out" again. They can afford to hire working-class right-wing dupes to cook for them at home.
But the duped working-class right-wingers don't have everything they need. And they want to "eat out," so other working-class people have to serve them because it makes their primate-brains feel like they are members of the wealthy-class.
The wealthy-class right-wingers don't care if they aren't tolerated by the non-duped members of the working-class, because they can use their wealth to alleviate the societally-imposed consequences of their actions.
But the duped working-class right-wingers with primate-brains don't have the wealth to alleviate the societally-imposed consequences of their actions. And those working-class right-wing dupes, who idolize the wealthy-class, will learn one way or the other.
The working-class dupes, who vote for the pro-wealthy-class/anti-working-class politics of wealthy-class right-wingers, are going to find out what it's like when the better humans of the working-class no longer tolerate the dupes who believe that having wealth, or just acting wealthy, somehow makes them superior.
The primate-brains of the working-class right-wing dupes are going to learn, or they won't be getting any bananas.
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@pattjai82 Disclaimer: The following list is of my own making. I am not an expert or professional of any kind.
This list aims to offer some options to people who are seeking seemingly-likeminded humans to follow.
The "decent" humans on the list are of my own choosing, using my own subjective standards for the term "decent."
It IS NOT a list of infallible, humble saints. It IS a list of imperfect homo sapiens. And as the creator of this list, I am also imperfect.
I add to the list when I feel moved to do so, and I subtract from it in the same manner.
Some of the people on the list I do not follow regularly, and some I do not follow any longer. Some of the people on the list perhaps shouldn't be on it.
Some of the people on the list are deceased, and I try to label them as such when I become aware of their passing. Some people may be on the list twice.
It is a semi-organized, semi-categorized list. But, I admit, it could be in a better format with better groupings.
Thus, I consider the list to be an incomplete work in a perpetual state of progress.
I am open to suggestions and critiques.
With all that said, let's get on with the list:
Rev. Dr. William Barber, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, Cornell West, Chris Hedges, and Rev. Ed Trevors.
Daryl Davis, James Lawson, Andrew Young, Charles Evers, Charles Sherrod, Angela Davis, and Nikki Giovanni.
Danny Sjursen, Mike Prysner, Abby Martin, Medea Benjamin, and Justin (Beau of the Fifth Column) King.
Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Reality Winner, Daniel Hale, Daniel Ellsberg, John Kiriakou
Marshall "Eddie" Conway, Mansa Musa (aka Charles Hopkins), Mumia Abu Jamal, Leonard Peltier, Ed Poindexter, and many other prisoners.
Taya Graham, Stephen Janis, Jacqueline Luqman, Juan Gonzalez, Amy Goodman, and Greg Palast.
Richard D. Wolff, Thomas Picketty, Stephanie Kelton, Dylan Ratigan, Michael Hudson, Paul Cockshott, and Mark Blythe
Dr. Hunter Patch Adams, Dr. Harriet Fraad, José Andrés, and David Graeber (deceased).
Jimmy Carter, Noam Chomsky, Gabor Mate, Johann Hari, and Robert Reich.
Ibram X. Kendi, Sonia Sanchez, Cornell William Brooks, John Lewis(deceased), and Jennifer Eberhardt.
Gerald Horne, Adolf Reed Jr., Elie Mystal, Adrienne Lawrence, Jayar Jackson.
Frances Crowe, Kelly Lytle Hernández, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Deborah Parker, Dolores Huerta, and Winona Laduke.
Ralph Nader, Mike Gravel (deceased), Howie Hawkins, Yanis Varufaukis, and Bernie Sanders.
Glenn Greenwald, Ben Norton, Aaron Mate, Max Blumenthal, and Anya Parampil.
Kyle Kulinski, Cenk Uyger, Richard (R.J.) Eskow, and Jordan Chariton.
John Stewert, John Oliver, Lee Camp, Ron Placone, Graham Elwood, Jimmy Dore, Trey Crowder, Matt Taibbi.
YouTube Channels:
Positive Leftist News
The Real News Network
Status Coup (w/ host Jordan Chariton)
UnvoicedProject (w/ Justin King, aka Beau of the Fifth Column)
Rev. Ed Trevors
TakeActionNewTV (w/ R.J. Eskow)
Second Thought
DeadHeadAnimation (w/ Eron, aka Re-Education)
ComradeLenin (w/ Hakim)
Yugopnik
Marxist Paul (w/ Paul Morrin)
Long Island Audit (w/ Sean Paul Reyes)
Empire Files (w/ Abby Martin)
Three Arrows
azureScapegoat
Bad Empanada
Damon Garcia
LaborKyle
I hope this is helpful.
May Peace be upon you.
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@jenkinsljenkinssquire9137 For ignorant working-class dupes, they don't need to be specifically-told nor brutally-beaten like dogs in order to be provoked to commit violence. They only need dog-whistle rhetoric from their wealthy-class masters. And working-class dupes have been loyally following the dog-whistle-rhetoric of wealthy-class-RW masters for millennia, and Jan6 was no different.
I look in the mirror everyday -- literally and figuratively -- and I am just another of God's children. I live in a state of perpetual sin just like everybody else. But I live in submission to Christ, and the ONLY source of my validation is (a)through Him and His saving-grace, as He (b)intercedes between me and God, with (c)the guidance and indwelling of His Holy Spirit.
And, since I asked, They have imparted wisdom upon me so that I know not to seek my validation in, nor from, the economically-liberal, wealthy-RW-extremist Republicans OR the economically-liberal, wealthy-moderate-RW Dems. Just like Jesus didn't seek validation in, nor from, the economically-liberal, wealthy-RW-Pharisees OR the economically-liberal, wealthy-RW-Romans. Both of which wealthy-RW groups eventually murdered Jesus.
But, somehow, you don't have the same wisdom as I have (maybe you're too proud to ask -- maybe you're too vile to be given it). Somehow, instead of repelling the two wealthy-RW political parties, you've been duped into worshiping one of the wealthy-RW parties over the other, instead of worshiping God, Christ, & the Holy Spirit.
If Jesus showed up tomorrow, preaching His message of anti-wealth, anti-materialism, and anti-violence, the pro-wealthy, pro-materialist, and pro-violence RW-extremist Repubs & moderate-RW Dems would crucify Him all over again, just like the pro-wealthy, pro-materiailst, and pro-violence RW-Pharisees & RW-Romans did 2000 years ago.
If Jesus showed up tomorrow, and you people tried to force Him into choosing between the pro-wealthy, pro-materialist, and pro-violence RW-Repubs or the pro-wealthy, pro-materialist, and pro-violence RW-Dems, I imagine Jesus would say something like this:
"I wouldn't choose the pro-wealthy, pro-materialist, and pro-violence RW-Pharisees.
And I wouldn't choose the pro-wealthy, pro-materialist, and pro-violence RW-Romans.
I won't choose the pro-wealthy, pro-materialist, and pro-violence RW-Repubs.
And I won't choose the pro-wealthy, pro-materialist, and pro-violence RW-Dems.
So, you better go get that cross ready, again, and send me back to My Father. Because I'm not choosing between the lesser of two RW-evils. I choose neither of the RW-evils."
That's what Jesus would probably say. And you would probably do it.
But even if you wouldn't do it, there are plenty of ignorant working-class dupes, like you -- who vote for the pro-wealthy, pro-materialist, and pro-violence RW-Repubs & RW-Dems -- who would help the wealthy-RW-Repub & wealthy-RW-Dems to crucify Jesus all over again. I'm not like them. And I'm not like you.
I don''t want to be a RW-extremist Repub Christian, nor do I want to be a moderat-RW Dem Christian -- BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class, and RW-politics are pro-wealth, pro-materialism, and pro-violence.
I don't want to be an Anglican-Christian.
I don't want to be a Baptist-Christian.
I don't want to be a Catholic-Christian.
I don't want to be a Lutheran-Christian.
I certainly don't want to be a Judaeo-Christian.
They have ALL justified the RW-politics of pro-wealth, pro-materialism, & pro-violence, and those are anti-Christ politics.
RW-politics are anti-Christ politics.
You got the wrong one, here.
Not today, Satan.
Be gone.
P.S. It was wrong of me to call you a moron, Jenkins. I apologize.
So, don't take it as discouragement from me -- after all, I'm "irrelevant & unimportant.
Instead, take it as conviction from God and His encouragement for you to be a better, non-moronic human -- or don't.
✌🤟✊🙏
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You're either walking around asleep, too stupid for your own good, or disingenuous. The wealthy-class has been using economics to justify killing for hundreds and thousands of years.
Wolff doesn't read the comments (most ignorant people understand this, why can't you?), and if he did, he wouldn't waste time addressing the lowest common denominator of humans. No matter how much you try to veil your ignorance with sucking-up and brown-nosing.
Whether you're walking around asleep, too stupid for your own good, or disingenuous, it doesn't really matter. You're either a C |_| |\| T, or you think everyone else is, to be spewing such foolishness equating clumps of parasitic bio-material with human life.
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The "School Choice" propaganda is the same as the "Right To Work" propaganda. BOTH of those propagandist-slogans were developed by the wealthy-class to trick the working-class people. Those propagandist-slogans were attached to policies, that were ALSO developed by the wealthy-class, to disproportionately benefit the wealthy-class & disproportionately harm the working-class.
"Right to work" really meant; "The wealthy-class owners of a business have the RIGHT TO force the working-class people to WORK however the wealthy-class owners demand, and if the working-class people don't like it, too bad."
"School Choice" really means; "The wealthy-class owners of the SCHOOL get the CHOICE to decide which working-class students get to attend the schools, and if the working-class pople don't like, too bad."
And the efforts of the wealthy-class, with their propagandist-slogans -- "School Choice" & "Right To Work" -- have been incredibly effective, especially when coupled with the successful efforts of the wealthy-class to defund, deregulate * destandardize the public schools & education of working-class people.
The working-class people in the US have been rendered so ignorant by the wealthy-class, that the working-class people continue to vote for the RW-extremist Repubs & moderate-RW Dems, BOTH of which parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class and their corrupt RW-politics.
The corrupt wealthy-class, with their corrupt RW-politics, have won modern-day America, just like the wealthy-class won Germany in the 1930s & the Confedracy in the 1850s.
But I don't think that other, better working-class people are coming to "save" the working-class people in the US, in the way that other, better working-class people went to "save" the working-class Germans & the working-class Confedrates from the corrupt wealthy-class and their corrupt RW-politics.
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@eemoogee160 Don't want to be a working-class murderer who commits genocide? Don't volunteer to be a working-class cop/soldier/guard who commits genocide. Don't want to be complicit in murder & genocide? Don't vote for the lesser of two right-wing evils from the wealthy-class who promote murder/genocide.
Spoiler: Every candidate you mentioned is a right-winger from the wealthy-class. Every candidate whom working-class Americans have the option to vote for is right-winger from the wealthy-class -- MAYBE with the exception of Cornel West (he may be slightly 'wealthy' in comparison to most working-class people, but he's not a right-winger).
The wealthy-class/right-wingers will NEVER willingly give up their lifestyle-addictions -- in fact, they'll incite violence, and provoke murder and genocide to maintain their lifestyle-addictions.
These things are difficult for working-class dupes to comprehend and accept. And it's particularly harder for the working-class dupes who have their own lifestyle-addictions.
And, just like the knavish wealthy-class/right-wing addicts, the working-class addicts will NEVER willingly give up their lifestyle-addictions either.
In fact, the duped working-class addicts will volunteer to be the cops/soldiers/guards commit the murder & genocide against other working-class humans, all for the minimal-benefit of themselves, and at the behest and maximal-benefit of their wealthy-class/right-wing masters who incite and provoke said murder and genocide.
Don't want to be complicit in the inherent sociopathic/psychopathic corruption of right-wing politics? Then stop voting for sociopathic/psychopathic, corrupt wealthy-class/right-wingers.
I don't want to be complicit in the inherent sociopathic/psychopathic corruption of right-wing politics. But the only candidates to vote for are sociopathic/psychopathic, corrupt wealthy-class/right-wingers.
So I don't vote.
I work within my own community to help the least-fortunate and educate them about class-consciousness and right-wing versus left-wing economic & social politics.
But you go ahead and keep voting for moderate-right-wing Dem candidates from the wealthy-class, who are bought, owned bribed, and controlled by the same wealthy-class/right-wingers as the right-wing-extremist Repub candidates from the wealthy-class.
Or, keep voting for third-party candidates who have a near-zero-percent chance of winning, and every chance of being corrupted by the wealthy-class/right-wingers even if they do win. (The Green Party is corrupted by wealthy-class/right-wingers -- sorry, not sorry, to be the one to inform you.
I'm not voting for ANY of the right-wing evils, let alone the lesser right-wing evil. 🙄
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Yup. They're all right-wingers (besides Bernie), and America is already a sh!tehole because of right-wing politics.
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class and anti-working-class politics.
America is a sh!tehole because of pro-wealthy-class/anti-working-class right-wingers like Pritzker, Shapiro, Newsome, Klobuchar, Harris, Booteigeig, Biden, McConnell, McCarthy, Trump, Bush Jr., Bush Sr., Clintons, Reagan, Pelosi and Thom Hartmann.
F*kc 'em all.
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Well, maybe if the wealthy-class/RW minority (like Abigail, Rogan, Trump, & Biden) would stop conserving, & actively trying to regress to, a world that is such garbage for the working-class majority, then maybe(DEFINITELY) there would be fewer social, mental, & physical problems & anomalies.
It's a fact: When humans live in economic-equality (of opportunity & outcome), economic-justice (for all, not just some) & economic-stability (a minimum amount of, & standard for, food, clothes, & shelter), those humans, their families, & communities have fewer social, mental, & physical problems & anomalies.
But the wealthy-class/RW minority has developed systems to extract profits & pillage fortunes from the working-class majority for all of the social, mental, & physical problems.
And those same wealthy-class/RWs have used those profits & fortunes to corrupt the government, electoral,& campaign systems. And they also own the media companies, where millionaires are paid by billionaires, to propagandize & try to indoctrinate the working-class majority, while pushing the candidates & policies for the benefit of the wealthy-class/RW minority.
Most, if not all, of the problems that Abigail, Rogan, & wealthy-class/RWS complain about can be solved by themselves. All they have to do is undo their own lifestyle-addictions and reverse their own policy-positions. But they won't. The worst addicts will NEVER willingly give up their addictions. Some will do anything to maintain their addiction -- and I mean ANYTHING.
Whether people realize it or not, the wealthy-class benefits from the suffering of the working-class, and they absolutely, purposely & purposefully include the suffering of children. And wealthy-class/RWs will do ANYTHING to maintain their profit-pillaging addiction from that suffering -- and I do mean ANYTHING.
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These working-class dupes fell for the RW-propaganda of the wealthy-class that says, "sMaLL gOvErNmEnT gOOd!!!"🤪 These working-class dupes are now living the truthful-consequences of the faux-truth they voted for.
Also, I would bet that most anyone in NC, who is "living in a tent" related to the hurricane, is doing it (a)by choice, and/or (b)for clout, to (c)fuel the misplaced-outrage.
But even if these working-class dupes ARE living in tents against their will, it is important to remember, again, that they voted for their own suffering.
I've had to live in a tent against my will. BUT, I didn't vote for it.
My suffering, and the suffering of MILLIONS of people was caused by (a)the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics, and by (b)the working-class dupes who voted for the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
I have sympathy & empathy for the working-class dupes who are suffering, but most of them voted for their own suffering, and they voted for the suffering of countless other innocent working-class people.
But, just because I have sympathy & empathy for the ignorant, working-class dupes who voted for their own suffering, that doesn't mean I'm going to coddle their ignorance.
Perhaps these working-class dupes, who voted for the "tough love" espoused by RW-politics, need to experience the "tough love" which they have repeatedly voted for.
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I cry for every working-class dupe who has been tricked into volunteering to commit atrocities against other working-class strangers abroad, all for the benefit of the corrupt, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics.
Soldiers&cops serve a couple-few purposes:
1. Serve the interests of the wealthy-class.
2. Protect the property wealthy-class.
3. Generate profits for the wealthy-class.
4. Regulate, subjugate, brutalize, & terrorize other working-class people.
I cry that the wealthy-class is intentionally, purposely & purposefully trying to create more working-class dupes who will be dumb enough to volunteer to commit more atrocities against more working-class strangers.
If working-class dupes weren't so ignorant, then the wealthy-class knaves wouldn't make another penny in profit from war.
And if there weren't so many working-class dupes, then maybe the smarter working-class people could do something about the corrupt, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics.
But, noOOOoo.
There are too many working-class dupes who suffer from the same lifestyle-addictions, sociopathy, psychopathy, & narcissistim as the wealthy-class knaves, and those working-class dupes act as the human-buffers between the wealthy-class knaves & the smarter working-class people.
The world could be a better place if it weren't for [a]the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics, and [b]the indecent, working-class dupes who support he indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics.
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@kenuffff Nonsense.
My underfunded rural public high school had economics classes.
Twenty years ago.
Then, in college, I did take several economics classes.
Neither public high school nor private college taught the differences between the right-wing extremist economics (which is NOT conservative in any sense of the word as a non-proper noun) as practiced at the behest of the wealthy-class minority throughout most of the world, and the moderately neoliberal economics that is partially practiced in some parts of the developed and undeveloped world.
Sure, you could make arguments about varying degrees. But, as a far-leftist, I find that there are no countries where progressive economics is practiced at the behest of the working-class majority.
The world lives under the mob-rule of the wealthy-class, who make up a minority of the population, who are addicted to wealth and all of the practices necessary to maintain that wealth.
What's worse is, the wealthy-class has also allowed the working class to obtain some of the addictions that are available to the wealthy-class.
By allowing the working-class to sporadically taste some of the addictions that the wealthy-class indulge in all the time, the wealthy-class has basically tricked some working-class people into believing that they can become part of the wealthy-class someday.
These little tastes of addiction provided by the wealthy-class have compelled the worst people within the working-class to turn against the better people in the working-class.
The wealthy-class has manufactured a desperation that is imposed on certain working-class people, causing those desperate working-class people to do things they wouldn't normally do.
From there, those desperate, working-class humans are thrown into cages where they are exploited and forced into labor, thus turning them into slaves as allowed by the 13th Amendment to The Constitution (which was formulated by the wealthy-class and passed by corrupt politicians).
The American wealthy-class not only controls the economy with their wealth, but also the campaign and electoral processes, and the politicians whom they successfully corrupt and elect. Then the politicians pass laws in favor of the wealthy-class, especially pertaining to education.
Which is why they don't teach THAT in high school OR college.
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Thom is a Capitalist member of the right-wing wealthy-class, just like Trump, McConnell, Biden, and Pelosi.
Thom has owned and sold multiple businesses out from under working-class employees.
Thom promotes the right-wing Democrat party that is bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the same corrupt, wealthy-class, right-wing Capitalists as the right-wing Republic-party.
Thom is who he's always been -- a right-wing Capitalist. He masquerades as a "left-winger," just like the Democrat-party.
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@Above-Ground Golly-gee-whiz: I don't know that I would call Ana a "lame, deflecting troll" -- I mean, she's obviously a talk-show host, and seemingly a human.🤪 Seriously, though, I wouldn't call her a troll for the right-wing extremists in the wealthy-class just yet, even though she's made it perfectly clear that she's jealous of them and wants to be just like them. But, for certain, she has already proven herself to be either (1)a fool like most of the right-wingers in the working-class, or (2)a knave like all of the right-wingers in the wealthy-class. If she keeps on her current path of right-wing apologetics and concessions, I may have to start referring to her as a "troll."
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@observer2817 Why are you asking me? I'm unintelligent, right?
Go ask Destiny. He'll just tear my ideas apart and put them all back together for you.
Go ask your wealthy-class overlords. They'll tell you all their secrets and invite you into their big-tent club.
Or, you could go do some research on your own.
If you're really interested, go to Wolff's accounts and click on the videos-tab, enter Yugoslavia into the search bar, and let Wolff, whose job is a teacher, try to teach you. Then, after watching his videos on the topic, you can read the comments-sections and look for the folks who live/lived there.
I'm not above admitting that I can't teach you in this medium, and you've made it clear that you're uninterested in or incapable of learning in this medium. Wolff, though, he's a teacher.
The best I can offer you is this truth: Behind every left-wing movement, organization, or government of the working-class majority, you'll find the right-wing wealthy-class minority and their duped working-class class-traitors trying to sabotage the left-wing working-class majority.
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@observer2817 Riiiight, I'm the troll. You're literally utilizing the tactics of trolls.
At this point, troll or child are the only words that could describe you, and if I could teach you, I wouldn't. You've proven yourself an annoyance at best and malicious at worst.
You've asked the same question THREE TIMES now.
I've directly responded to your questions TWO TIMES.
You are LITERALLY using a tactic exploited by trolls (which makes sense since Capitalism is exploitative).
That tactic is circular-discourse: By asking the same question over and over, you take up the time of genuine persons so that they can't be combating you and your disingenuous-ilk elsewhere.
If you're not a troll, then you're a child (which could be intellectually true since you're a Destiny fan). If you're a child, I hope you don't act like this in public when you grow up. Good people, if you're lucky, will have called the police and reported you for harassment by now. Or worse if you're unlucky.
Troll, I've exposed you.
[OR]
Child, I've got things to do.
You pick whichever one that applies.
There are numbers for you to call if you're a lonely, troubled adult-troll or a neglected child.
I've even admitted my own shortcomings. I'm smart enough not to expect the same from trolls or children, fools or knaves.
I won't be responding to you further.
I SAID GOOD DAY!
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The "School Choice" propaganda is the same as the "Right To Work" propaganda. BOTH of those propagandist-slogans were developed by the wealthy-class to trick the working-class people. Those propagandist-slogans were attached to policies, that were ALSO developed by the wealthy-class, to disproportionately benefit the wealthy-class & disproportionately harm the working-class.
"Right to work" really meant; "The wealthy-class owners of a business have the RIGHT TO force the working-class people to WORK however the wealthy-class owners demand, and if the working-class people don't like it, too bad."
"School Choice" really means; "The wealthy-class owners of the SCHOOL get the CHOICE to decide which working-class students get to attend the schools, and if the working-class pople don't like, too bad."
And the efforts of the wealthy-class, with their propagandist-slogans -- "School Choice" & "Right To Work" -- have been incredibly effective, especially when coupled with the successful efforts of the wealthy-class to defund, deregulate * destandardize the public schools & education of working-class people.
The working-class people in the US have been rendered so ignorant by the wealthy-class, that the working-class people continue to vote for the RW-extremist Repubs & moderate-RW Dems, BOTH of which parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class and their corrupt RW-politics.
The corrupt wealthy-class, with their corrupt RW-politics, have won modern-day America, just like the wealthy-class won Germany in the 1930s & the Confedracy in the 1850s.
But I don't think that other, better working-class people are coming to "save" the working-class people in the US, in the way that other, better working-class people went to "save" the working-class Germans & the working-class Confedrates from the corrupt wealthy-class and their corrupt RW-politics.
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@Diana-si5xn Cenk's a Capitalist. Capitalism is a RW-system. Thus, Cenk is a RWer, whether or not he's (a)intelligent enough to comprehend it or (b)honorable enough to admit it. Corporatism & Fascism are farther RW-systems, and Cenk is getting cozy with Corporatists & Fascists.
Kamala, Biden, Obama, Pelosi & Schumer are Capitalists/Coprporatists.
Cheney, Trump, McConnell, Johnson, & BushJr are a Corporatists/Fascists.
You seem like you're about to cozy up to corporatists and fascists, too, just like Cenk.
Nooo. 🙄 Thanks. 😒 🤮
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Cenk's a Capitalist. Capitalism is a RW-system. Thus, Cenk is a RWer, whether or not he's (a)intelligent enough to comprehend it or (b)honorable enough to admit it. Corporatism & Fascism are farther RW-systems, and Cenk is getting cozy with Corporatists & Fascists.
Kamala, Biden, Obama, Pelosi & Schumer are Capitalists/Coprporatists.
Cheney, Trump, McConnell, Johnson, & BushJr are a Corporatists/Fascists.
You seem like you're about to cozy up to corporatists and fascists, too, just like Cenk.
Nooo. 🙄 Thanks. 😒 🤮
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Abolish private property, private companies, and private profit.
Privacy is where slavery, abuse, and corruption are cultivated to fester and thrive.
The human-parasites who advocate for private property, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private property" to refer to the humans they enslaved in the past.
The human-parasites who advocate for private companies, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private companies" to refer to the plantations where they enslaved said humans in the past.
The human-parasites who advocate for private profits, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private profit" to refer to the money generated by the labor of the humans they enslaved on plantations in the past.
The kinds of human-parasites who advocate for private property, private companies, and private profits, in the present, are the same as the human who advocate for "States' Rights" and slavery in the past.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people from other countries.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people from other states.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people of other colors and religions.
And if you don't think those kinds of human-parasites still exist, then look no further than your county Republic/Democrat political-party meeting, your local police/sheriff department, or your nearest military recruiters office.
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While there are some human-parasites who want to enslave any family but their own, on the macro-level, there are some human-parasites who want to enslave their own family members, on the micro-level, under the guise of "privacy" and "parental rights."
The kinds of human-parasites who advocate for private property, private companies, and private profit, are the same kind of human-parasites who advocate for "States' Rights" to enslave and abuse other humans in privacy.
And the kinds of human-parasites who advocate for "States' Rights" are the same kind of people who advocate for "Parental Rights" to enslave and abuse children in private.
And kinds of human-parasites who advocate for unfettered privacy are the kinds of human-parasites who want to keep their corruption and their victims private.
The more adamant a person is about "privacy," the more suspicious of them I become, and the more parasitic they reveal themselves to be.
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Adorable. You people think Democrat-party leadership cares if you don't support them over a social agenda. They don't care.
If you don't support the Democrat-party, that will make it easier for the Republic-party to win, thus making it easier to push through the pro-wealthy-class and anti-working-class economic agenda on which the Republic&Democrat party-leadership both agree.
Both parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class.
Of course, the American sh!tehole was funded and founded by the wealthy-class, but in this most recent iteration of wealthy-class corruption and control, the Repubs have been owned for a century, and the Dems have been owned by the same wealthy-class since the Buckley v. Valeo SCOTUS ruling in 1976.
You've been living under the rule of two pro-wealthy-class, anti-working-class parties for nearly 40 years. If either party "goes down" there is still the other party to do the economic bidding of the wealthy-class.
I could go on, but it's as futile trying to explain the historical and international contexts of politics to right-wing Democrat-liberals as it is trying to explain it to right-wing Republican-liberals, neither of whom understand that liberalism is a right-wing political ideology.
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That is an ignorant comment.
Lowes & Home Depot are BOTH corporations owned by wealthy right-wingers.
RIght-wing politics are pro-corporate/anti-small-business politics.
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class/anti-working-class politics.
The police patrollers are the modern-day version of slave patrollers from the past.
The police patrollers and slave patrollers are/were the working-class thugs who are/were hired to oppress other working-class people.
The slave patrollers of the past were funded by wealthy people to protect the "property" of the wealthy, and to bring back chattel-slaves when the chattel-slaves ran away.
The police patrollers of the present are funded by the wage-slaves and debt-slaves who pay the most taxes -- working-class people literally pay to be oppressed by the dumbest working-class people who have been given a few extra crumbs and shiny badges.
The police patrollers job is to agitate and arrest debt-slaves and wage-slaves from the working-class.
Then, after they are arrested, those debt & wage slaves can be turned into chattel-slaves to be thrown into modern-day plantations known as for-profit "prisons."
The for-profit prisons are corporations.
And the prison-corporations are owned by wealthy right-wingers.
Just like plantation-corporations were owned by wealthy right-wingers.
Just like Lowes & Home Depot are corporations owned by wealthy right-wingers.
The wealthy right-wingers own Lowes, Home Depot, and prisons. They don't give a flying f*kc if people working-class wage & debt slaves are arrested, because, then they can be turned into chattel-slaves for free labor.
The wealthy right-wingers who own Lowes & Home Depot benefit from this oppression -- they are modern-day slave-drivers, slave-owners, land-property owners, and prison-plantation owners.
Now you've been educated -- it's up to you to stop saying ignorant things.
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@adlucem9845 Chelsea Manning, Danny Sjursen, Reality Winner, Mike Prysner: those are just a few of the countless working-class people who were duped into "signing up" by the right-wing, wealthy-class fascists who control the MIC, Mainstream Media, and the US Government.
Manning, Sjursen, Winner, and Prysner were once sleeping dupes being used as pawns. But now they are awake and they speak in opposition to the right-wing, wealthy-class fascists who control the MIC, Mainstream Media, and the US Government
The original poster, Pondart Inc., is now doing the same thing: voicing their opposition to the right-wing, wealthy-class fascists who control the MIC, Mainstream Media, and the US Government.
Well done, Pondart Inc.
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The ACA is based on the Massachusetts healthcare plan that was signed into law by Republican Governor Mitt Romney. Romney&Massachusetts got the plan from the right-wing extremist Hermitage Foundation. The Heritage Foundation is funded by wealthy-class, right-wing extremist billionaires.
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class & anti-working-class politics.
Pelosi, McConnell, Schumer, McCarthy, Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush x2, Clinton x2, and Reagan are/were all wealthy-class, right-wing millionaires who do/did the political bidding of wealthy-class, right-wing billionaires.
America was founded by wealthy-class right-wingers, and it is still controlled by wealthy-class right-wingers to this day.
Your problems don't rest solely with Biden. Your problems are the result of centuries of wealthy-class corruption and their right-wing politics.
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"A fellow was stuck on his rooftop in a flood. He was praying to God for help.
Soon a man in a rowboat came by and the fellow shouted to the man on the roof, "Jump in, I can save you."
The stranded fellow shouted back, "No, it's OK, I'm praying to God and he is going to save me."
So the rowboat went on.
Then a motorboat came by. "The fellow in the motorboat shouted, "Jump in, I can save you."
To this the stranded man said, "No thanks, I'm praying to God and he is going to save me. I have faith."
So the motorboat went on.
Then a helicopter came by and the pilot shouted down, "Grab this rope and I will lift you to safety."
To this the stranded man again replied, "No thanks, I'm praying to God and he is going to save me. I have faith."
So the helicopter reluctantly flew away.
Soon the water rose above the rooftop and the man drowned. He went to Heaven. He finally got his chance to discuss this whole situation with God, at which point he exclaimed, "What am I doing here? I had faith in you but you didn't save me, you let me drown. I don't understand why!"
To this God replied, "What ARE you doing here? I sent you a rowboat and a motorboat and a helicopter, what more did you expect?""
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From The Bible:
From the book of Matthew, chapter 4, verses 5 - 7:
5 Then the devil took Jesus to the holy city and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple.
6“If You are the Son of God,” the devil said, “throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He will command His angels concerning You, and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”
7 JESUS REPLIED, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’
From the book of Luke, chapter 4, verses 9 - 12:
9 Then the devil led Jesus to Jerusalem and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple. “If You are the Son of God,” the devil said, “throw Yourself down from here.
10 For it is written: ‘He will command His angels concerning You to guard You carefully;
11 and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”
12 But JESUS ANSWERED, “It also says, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’
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It seems that the devil has put you in a high place, like the top of your roof during a flood, or the pinnacle of the temple during a time of distress, or in the height of your own mind during a pandemic, and the devil is tempting you to drown, jump, or contract the sickness.
God has already sent you a row boat, masks, and prayer.
God has already sent you a sail boat, social distancing, and faith.
God has already sent you a helicopter, a vaccine, and the ability to act.
We wouldn't have the knowledge regarding masks, social distancing, and vaccines if God didn't want us to have that knowledge.
Stop testing, tempting, and challenging God to keep you safe even more than He already has.
Stop testing, tempting, and challenging God to do even more for you than He's already done.
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@martinfishersings Cenk's a Capitalist. Capitalism is a RW-system. Thus, Cenk is a RWer, whether or not he's (a)intelligent enough to comprehend it or (b)honorable enough to admit it. Corporatism & Fascism are farther RW-systems, and Cenk is getting cozy with Corporatists & Fascists.
Kamala, Biden, Obama, Pelosi & Schumer are Capitalists/Coprporatists.
Cheney, Trump, McConnell, Johnson, & BushJr are a Corporatists/Fascists.
Nooo. 🙄 Thanks. 😒 🤮
You're right to be curious, but when you understand what I wrote, you won't be confused anymore.
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LOL @ the working-class fools obsessing over "cognitive decline."
As if Fetterman needs to be any better or worse than he is now to do the bidding of wealthy-class right-wingers who own and control the Republic and Democrat parties.
If moderate right-winger, Dianne Feinstein, can be propped with a rectum-rod for the past five years, then Fetterman will be fine.
If right-wing extremist, Donny Two-Scoops, can bumble through an entire term as POTUS while having the vocabulary of a toddler with a TBI, then Fetterman will be fine.
If right-wing extremist and murderer Dan Crenshaw can do the job -- after likely suffering multiple TBIs, while no longer having the legs to stand on principles nor the eyes to see logic and reason at the same time -- then Fetterman will be just fine.
If "The Squad" can be forced to espouse moderate right-wing positions on numerous policies within four years' time, then Fetterman will be just fine.
If supposedly sane liars, Kyrsten "The C. |_} |\| T" Sinema and Joe "The Geriatric" Manchin can vote with right-wing extremist Republicans, then Fetterman will be just fine.
And don't get me started on Lauren "The Dolt" Boebert, Margarine Traitor Greed, Louie "Gomer-Pile" Gohmert, and the rest of the intellectual regressives from the right-wing extremist Republic-party and the right-wing moderate Democrat-party.
They are all elected members of the right-wing wealthy-class, with 7-9-figure fortune$, doing the bidding of unelected wealthy-class right-wingers with 10-13-figure fortune$.
If all of those elected right-wing moderates and extremists can pass pro-wealthy-class and anti-working-class legislation, then Fetterman will be more than just fine: He'll be in sh!tty-good company.
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@StatusCoup Jordan, this guest is a joke.😒 "JuSt PaY yOuR dOcToR cA$h," he says!🤪
Really, that's his advice? And you, Jordan, are giving him airtime on the channel that WE pay you for?? People are literally suffering & dying out here, Jordan, and this is the best guest you could find to bring on your show??? Do better than bringing on new charlatans, they're the same as the old charlatans. So disappointing, but not surprising.🙄
I hope you at least got paid by the guy paid your for giving him the advertisement-time -- although, that would make you as corrupt as the mainstream-media you constantly rail against.
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@milesobrien2694 It's time to leave your privilege bubble. The intelligent workers have figured out that technology is monopolized, under the control of the worst, lesser-working and non-laboring humans to enslave the better, working humans.
Better, intelligent humans have figured out that technology is utilized by the worst supremacist humans to perform increasingly less work and to maintain dominance over the less-fortunate better humans.
As for the U.S. BEIR report on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation: You're repeating the talking points in a report commissioned and written by imperialist parasites of the U.S. empire.
You're justifying the victimization and suffering caused by power-hungry, property-owning, wealthy-class parasites because those electricity-generating, resource-pillaging, wealthy-class parasites benefit you and your parasitic way of life to the detriment and off the backs of less-fortunate better humans.
You're using that garbage-bag report, written by trash-can supremacist sellouts who downplayed the nuclear-suffering of a "negligible" amount of unfortunate people, while at the same time you're what-about-ism-ing the coal-suffering of other unfortunate people. (Are you really this dense? -- That's a rhetorical question: you are that dense.)
On the other hand, I want to live in a world where NONE of the good working people have to suffer for the profits and lifestyles of the worse, non-working people.
As for those unfortunate folks who are suffering due to coal mines: Fuck the terrible, privileged, pro-coal wealthy-class responsible for the suffering. Fuck them right along with the pro-nuclear wealthy-class also responsible for the suffering.
Fuck the wealthy-class and their duped working-class supporters who are responsible for the unnecessary suffering of better humans. They are all human-parasites.
That's you.
You're the parasite.
I want to live in a more equitable world than the one you strive to justify while clinging to it like a fiend-addict. And I'm willing to pay more in taxes than I already do and decrease my standard of living even more than I already have to achieve that world.
You and I are not the same.
GFYS, you boomer-to-zoomer consumer-doomer.
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Cenk's a Capitalist. Capitalism is a RW-system. Thus, Cenk is a RWer, whether or not he's (a)intelligent enough to comprehend it or (b)honorable enough to admit it. Corporatism & Fascism are farther RW-systems, and Cenk is getting cozy with Corporatists & Fascists.
Kamala, Biden, Obama, Pelosi & Schumer are Capitalists/Coprporatists.
Cheney, Trump, McConnell, Johnson, & BushJr are a Corporatists/Fascists.
You seem like you're about to cozy up to corporatists and fascists, too, just like Cenk.
Nooo. 🙄 Thanks. 😒 🤮
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Somehow, you're going to have to convince the most ignorant & vile working-class dupes that (a)their economic-struggles as working-class people ARE NOT caused by other working-class people who are racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual minorities, and that (b)their economic-struggles as working-class people ARE caused by the intelligent & vile wealthy-class knaves with their corrupt RW-politics.
And, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but neither (a) nor (b) are ever going to happen. The most ignorant & vile working-class dupes will sooner volunteer for the military, to bring misery to other working-class strangers, than they will educate themselves to a level that would be necessary to change their hearts & minds.
If you want to know what happens to the US from here, you can study US history from 1860-65, and German history from 1939-1945. Spoiler Alert: the wealthy-class-RWers win & the working-class loses.
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I've said similar things myself. I honestly can't tell if Thom is a fool or a knave.
Is Thom A or B? Is he...
A) a fool who really believes that the Democrat-party of today is the same Democrat-party of pre-1990?
Or
B) a knave who knows that the wealthy-class that owns the Republic-party is the same wealthy-class that owns the Democrat-party, but he pretends not to know?
Is Thom...
A) old and stupid, trapped in his own little bubble, unable to comprehend the complexity of the corruption?
Or
B) aware of the corruption of both parties, but pretends not to be aware of the corruption because he benefits from it?
I lean towards B.
Because, if a person can explain the web of corruption and bribery that has been legalized by the right-wing SCOTUS like Thom is able to explain it, then that person has to also understand the strength of the grasp that the corruption of the wealthy-class has on both political parties.
If a person can explain the corruption the way Thom can, but somehow can't comprehend that the corruption has infiltrated both political parties, then that person is either A) dumb as dirt, or B) a lying piece of human excrement.
And like I said, I lean towards B.
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Bernie has family. He's more concerned with what could happen to them after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows what the right-wingers have done to working-class leftists through history.
Bernie sees the rhyming-nature of that history coming back around.
Bernie lived through the "Red Scare" and "McCarthyism."
Bernie doesn't want those kinds of things to happen to his family after he dies.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that there are too many foolish, working-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many knavish, wealthy-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many right-wing addicts with mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Berne knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts will willingly give up their addictions.
Bernie knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts can cure their own mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that, in order to maintain their addictive lifestyles, the mentally ill working-class fools will do whatever the mentally ill wealthy-class knaves tell them to do; just like they did during the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie has now entered the phase known as, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
Bernie is MORE concerned with the quality of life his family will have when he dies.
Bernie is LESS concerned with the quality of life for the working-class.
Bernie is ONLY concerned with his own family-unit minority
Bernie is NOT concerned about the working-class majority.
Bernie is the perfect example of why any effective leader(s) on the left-wing will have to be someone(s) without family -- it's too easy for the wealthy-class right-wingers to corrupt left-wingers who have families, and Bernie is a prime example.
Bernie has exchanged his working-class principles to secure a wealthy-class standard of living for his family after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the anti-wealthy-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given up on the pro-working-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the anti-working-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the pro-wealthy-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given up.
It's only surprising/upsetting if one doesn't know the facts, or rhyming-nature, of history.
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@tuckerbugeater Saying that your parasitic, insentient, unborn, non-breathing embryo or fetus should have been evicted isn't remotely similar to saying that you, as a parasitic, (barely)sentient, already-born, now-breathing human should be eradicated.
The former is advocating for you to have never come to life.
The latter is advocating for you to not have life any longer.
Removing not-yet-human cells from an already-living human is not murder.
Murdering living, breathing humans is murder.
No one is advocating for murder besides the right-wing conservative, anti-Christ, pro-Taliban terrorists from parasitic red-states.
Try to keep up, baby-brain.
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@ RWers were in charge. The Dem-party is a moderate-RW party, and the Repub-party is a RW-extremist party. BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
Your ignorance, and the collective-ignorance of working-class dupes in the US, particularly when it comes to the international & historical contexts of politics, is the reason why you've allowed yourselves to be ruled by TWO parties that are pro-wealthy & anti-worker.
Your ignorance is why you live in a RW-sh!tehole, where you vote for your own enslavement by the wealthy-class who owns BOTH of your two political-parties.
Who was in power? Wealthy-RWers, that's who.
Wealthy-RWers have been in power since the inception of your sh!tehole-country. And working-class dupes, like you, continue voting for BOTH of the RW-parties that they control.
So congratulations... 🥳
...you're a moron. 🙄
You're exactly the kind of working-class dupe that your corrupt, wealthy-class masters have designed you to be, with their corrupt RW-politics. 😒
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@Kevin-k1v RWers were in charge. The Dem-party is a moderate-RW party, and the Repub-party is a RW-extremist party. BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
Your ignorance, and the collective-ignorance of working-class dupes in the US, particularly when it comes to the international & historical contexts of politics, is the reason why you've allowed yourselves to be ruled by TWO parties that are pro-wealthy & anti-worker.
Your ignorance is why you live in a RW-sh!tehole, where you vote for your own enslavement by the wealthy-class who owns BOTH of your two political-parties.
Who was in power? Wealthy-RWers, that's who.
Wealthy-RWers have been in power since the inception of your sh!tehole-country. And working-class dupes, like you, continue voting for BOTH of the RW-parties that they control.
So congratulations... 🥳
...you're a moron. 🙄
You're exactly the kind of working-class dupe that your corrupt, wealthy-class masters have designed you to be, with their corrupt RW-politics. 😒
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@jessicabosco3009 You mean capital-L "Libertarian." NOT small-l "libertarian." It's best to not even use the word, when PLENTY of other words are better.
NONE of America's major political parties are "libertarian" in concept -- they are autocratic in concept.
The capital-L "Libertarian Party" IS NOT the same as the small-l "libertarian" concept.
In America, the word "libertarian" is nearly useless. Just like the word, "literally."
The wealthy right-wingers who created the "Libertarian" party co-opted the word "libertarian" to trick working-class fools into joining the party. Even though the party name runs counter to the concept of the word, there are plenty of Americans are too dumb to comprehend the contradiction between the corruption of The Libertarian-Party and the anti-corruption of the libertarian-concept.
Just like the word "literally" has been co-opted to now encompass the definition of the word "figuratively" which runs counter to the concept of "literally." Americans are so dumb, they allowed and helped in the reduction of the concept of the word "literally."
So, when people say "libertarian" in America, they usually have no clue what they are talking about, or they're talking about the political party which has no basis in the definition and concept of the word "libertarian."
The word "libertarian" has been twisted by wealthy, right-wing propagandists. We don't need working-class fools helping the wealthy-class by spreading that propaganda and diluting the meaning of words (as your comment does).
At this point, it's best for working-class Americans to cease using the word "libertarian," until the word can be reclaimed to its literal meaning, or until working-class Americans can stop using it so figuratively (as you did in your comment).
Otherwise, America will continue sinking into the anti-intellectual sh!thole of right-wing history. Just like the right-wing Confederacy, and right-wing Nazis.
You might think I'm nit-picking, and that's exactly what the wealthy-right-wingers want you to think. But I just want a better world, and that can't happen if the working-class majority doesn't do better.
Maybe working-class Americans should try reading more, instead of wasting time with ill-placed comments, with ill-placed words, and ill-placed commas.
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Money in politics is what allows this to persist.
The wealthy-class right-wingers who own the for-profit corporations in the Prison-Industrial-Complex are the same wealthy-class right-wingers who donate to the electoral campaigns of right-wing Repubocrats and right-wing Demlicans.
Then, those elected Repubocrats and Demlicans pass laws to benefit and perpetuate the Prison-Industrial-Complex. (BOTH American political parties are actually corporations, and BOTH of those corporations are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class right-wingers.)
And, then, when we couple the fact that wealthy-class right-wingers owned plantations in the past, and the fact that wealthy-class right-wingers own the Prison-Industrial-Complex in the present, it becomes very clear what the goal is -- to control and enslave people.
Mostly to control and enslave people of a particular color. But, since the 13th Amendment, the PrIson-Industrial-Complex has been used as a way to break up families, ruin communities, and enslave working-class people of all colors. The 13th Amendment allows for the enslavement of anyone committed of a crime.
And who wrote and ratified the 13th Amendment? Wealthy-class right-wingers did. They did it as a way to recoup their losses and start a new Slave-Industrial-Complex after the Civil War freed the slaves who were enslaved at that time. And, so, enslavement on plantations morphed into enslavement in prisons.
And right-wing Repubocrats and right-wing Demlicans have been aiding, abetting, and allowing the torture the entire time.
And, prisons and jails aren't the only industry in which this round-robin of wealthy-class right-wing money in politics, campaigns, elections, and government.
This kind of industry-government corruption, that is funded by wealthy-class right-wingers, is the entire basis for the American Yt-supremacist, fascist-capitalist system.
Wealthy-class right-wingers founded the American government, and they did their very best to write their never-ending supremacy into the documents.
It's all about a wealthy-class right-wing minority maintaining their addictions, by maintaining their control over the working-class majority.
And the wealthy-class right-wing minority will NEVER willingly give up their addictions. They'll oversee the poisoning, murdering, or enslaving of as many people as they are able. Just like the right-wing Romans, Confederates, and Nazis did.
Getting money out of politics is one of the many ways to begin unrooting corruption from America.
But, unfortunately, I think America is a lost cause, on it's way toward the same fate as the Romans, Confederates, and Nazis. And all because a group of yt-supremacist, wealthy-class and working-class right-wingers, couldn't be brought to sacrifice any of their addictions.
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These working-class dupes fell for the RW-propaganda of the wealthy-class that says, "sMaLL gOvErNmEnT gOOd!!!"🤪 These working-class dupes are now living the truthful-consequences of the faux-truth they voted for.
Also, I would bet that most anyone in NC, who is "living in a tent" related to the hurricane, is doing it (a)by choice, and/or (b)for clout, to (c)fuel the misplaced-outrage.
But even if these working-class dupes ARE living in tents against their will, it is important to remember, again, that they voted for their own suffering.
I've had to live in a tent against my will. BUT, I didn't vote for it.
My suffering, and the suffering of MILLIONS of people was caused by (a)the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics, and by (b)the working-class dupes who voted for the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
I have sympathy & empathy for the working-class dupes who are suffering, but most of them voted for their own suffering, and they voted for the suffering of countless other innocent working-class people.
But, just because I have sympathy & empathy for the ignorant, working-class dupes who voted for their own suffering, that doesn't mean I'm going to coddle their ignorance.
Perhaps these working-class dupes, who voted for the "tough love" espoused by RW-politics, need to experience the "tough love" which they have repeatedly voted for.
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Cenk, Ana, Newsom, and Bass are ALL Capitalists (Newsom might be a Corporatist, and Trump is a Fascist). Capitalism, Corporatism, & Fascism are ALL RW-political-systems. And, thus, Cenk, Ana, Newsom, Bass, and Trump are ALL RWers.
Furthermore: Ana is a talk-show host who can BARELY read the news that is written by actual journalists -- she bumbles words ALL the time, and she has ALL DAY to prepare. Trump can BARELY speak -- he bumbles sentences ALL the time, and he has ALL the time he wants to prepare. But Newsom is incompetent? Riiiiight.
Newsom definitely sucks, but so does Trump, and so does Ana. She should keep throwing those stones from her glass-house in a dry-desert, girl-boss! 🤣
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Clare Stucki and J GALT are two of the many resident trolls here, wearing clown shoes and dunce caps, trying to sabotage this community.
There will be no way out of capitalism -- as long as the wealthy-class addicts keep producing working-class dupes like Stucki and GALT through addictive bribes and coercion.
Stucki and GALT, and the other foolish working-class addicts like him, are the reasons why the better humans in the working-class majority have to live under the mob-rule of the wealthy-class minority.
Because Stucki, GALT, and their ilk will sabotage the communities and extinguish the lives of their fellow working-class friends, family, neighbors, and strangers when their wealthy-class overlords tell them to. And Stucki, GALT, and their ilk will commit that violence, for a few extra addictive crumbs from the tables of their wealthy-class masters.
Stucki, GALT, and the other dumbed-down working-class addicts live in the individualist wet-dreams of their own minds, while they simultaneously serve as the co-opted collective army of the wealthy-class addicts.
Stucki, GALT, and the other right-wing, red-flag, nutjob-addicts like them, are the weakest links among the lowest common denominator of humans, and the wealthy-class knaves have fashioned them that way.
Be better than Stucki and GALT.
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@suezbell1 As to the corruption of U.S. elected-officials, and the U.S. electoral-system, the speaking fees and book deals are more akin to actual income. The legalized bribery comes in the form of:
(A) Private "donations" from the wealthy-class to the public-campaigns of public-candidates and public-politicians.
The corruption in the U.S. electoral system stems from the private-financing of public-campaigns via private-donation-bribes from the wealthy-class.
In other, better countries, private-donations by the wealthy-class are illegal in public-elections.
In other, better countries, the campaigns and elections are publicly-funded via tax dollars, NOT privately-funded by wealthy-class profit dollars.
That is why, in other, better countries, the campaigns and elections are less corrupted by the wealthy-class minority and more fair for the working-class majority
(B) Collusion between the campaigns of public-candidates/public-politicians and the PACs/SuperPACs that are funded by the wealthy-class minority.
The perpetuation of corruption in the U.S. stems from the private-financing of PACs/SuperPACs that are funded by the wealthy-class minority.
In other, better countries, wealthy-class PACs and SuperPACs are illegal.
In other, better countries, campaigns and elections are publicly-funded, NOT privately funded.
That is another reason why the campaigns and elections in other, better countries, are less corrupted by the wealthy-class minority and more fair for the working-class majority.
(C) The revolving-door that is used by the wealthy-class to more easily go back-and-forth between government-public-service and business-self-service.
The wealthy-class spends their time in "government public service," trying to dismantle, sabotage, and corrupt the public-government.
By making the public-government weaker, the wealthy-class corruptors make it easier for themselves to do the corrupt business of self-serving corruption when they leave the government.
A weaker government means fewer laws and regulations.
A weaker government means less enforcement and oversight.
A weaker government, coupled with less law-enforcement and fewer regulation-oversights, means more profits for the wealthy-class corruptors.
In other, better countries, the revolving-door is illegal, to keep the inevitable autocracy of wealthy-class corruptors in check.
In other, better countries, the autocratic, wealthy-class minority of corruptors are kept in-check by a class-conscious, working-class majority of egalitarians (something the U.S. doesn't have).
That is another reason why the campaigns and elections in other, better countries are less corrupted by the wealthy-class minority and more fair for the working-class majority.
So, yes, corruption is a very real problem, not just among the wealthy-class across the U.S., but among the wealthy-class around the globe.
However, as far as the corruption of the U.S. is concerned, the U.S. is now and has always been a corrupt nation:
(A) The exploration of the American landscape was funded by wealthy-class corruptors.
(B) The theft of that landscape and the genocide of its rightful native owners was committed by wealthy-class corruptors.
(C) The founding documents of the nation-state were written by wealthy-class corruptors.
The corruption of the U.S. is one of the main ingredients baked into the U.S. system by wealthy-class corruptors.
And even though many of the candidates and politicians don't actually write their own books, at least the speaking fees involve them performing some form of labor
But there are MANY other, better, concrete examples of evidence that prove the U.S. to be FAR more corrupt than some book deals and speaking fees.
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@MarmaladeINFP I've never heard of "anti-essentialism" -- But I went and read Galatians 3:28 (my Bible actually has verses 26-29 grouped together under the same sub-header which reads, "Sons through Faith in Christ").
Then, from Galatians 3:28, my Bible directed me to Romans 3:29 (my Bible has verses 21-31 grouped together under the sub-header which reads: "Righteousness through Faith in Christ").
Romans 3:29&30 says:
"[29]Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, [30]since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith."
I believe that we can draw the following further-meaning from that passage: (1)God will also justify the heterosexual-believers and the homosexual-believers by their same faith, and (2)that God will justify the cisgender-believers and the transgender-believers by their same faith. That is also contradictory to modern fundamentalism and anti-traditional conservatism.
I'd be glad to hear/read your thoughts on that, but I understand if you don't have time.
Thank you, though, for taking the time to share what you already did. I found it to be edifying, as referenced in Romans 14:19, in which Paul also tells believers in Christ to be peaceful. Being peaceful seems to be contradictory to modern fundamentalism and anti-traditional conservatism, too.
Thanks again.
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@MrAranton Jesus met people where they were at -- He structured His words around the contexts of the origins, education, financials, and politics of the individual person or the groups of people He was addressing at a given time (such as His disciples, or the Pharisees, the gentiles, or the multitudes.)
Knowing where you're at -- your origins, education, financials and politics -- would only serve to structure my responses.
But, really, God doesn't need me to explain or show you the error of your reading / comprehension / interpretation: He just needs you to submit to Him by asking Him to (a)deconstruct your ego, (b)reveal to you your equitable-inferiority in relation to your fellow humans, (c)have the Holy Spirit give you the strength to deal with your newly deflated-ego and the realization of your equitable-inferiority, and (d)have the Holy Spirit give you the wisdom to comprehend the contexts of the Bible, His words and His will.
Jesus called His followers, and believers in God, to live their lives in non-violence & anti-violence. If you believe the opposite, that it's okay to promote and commit violence, then you can take it up with Him when you see Him.
But I'm non-violent and anti-violence because of the words that were spoken and the example that was set by Jesus Christ (the Bible says that Jesus destroyed some property while protesting in the Temple, flinging His whip around and flipping tables, but it doesn't say He did harm to any people).
I'm not engaging in a rhetorical-p!ss!ng-contest with you -- I asked you a few simple questions, and if you don't want to answer them, then that's up to you.
Unlike many self-proclaimed Christians, I don't believe that God needs me to try to force you to be the kind of person that I think He calls us to be.
Jesus's words are in the book and you don't need, nor do you seem to want, mine.
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The working-class male supremacists here in the comments seem to be as scared of gender/sex equity as working-class white supremacists are of racial equity.
These working-class white-male supremacists seem to be just as scared of gender/sex/racial equity as the wealthy-class supremacists are of economic equity.
Of course, these working-class supremacist dupes are only scared because of the indoctrination imposed on them by the supremacist propaganda produced by other working-class dupes at the behest of wealthy-class supremacists.
Imagine being so submerged in your own white-male privilege that you didn't realize white-male supremacy was the reason for your elevated position in the world, and, at the same time, being such a dainty, fragile snowflake that you thought you were the world's most victimized victim.
As a white male who has benefited from the privilege afforded by the alienation of white-make supremacy, I can vouch for the toxicity in its tentacles.
Having been saved from that toxicity, as someone who is anti-white-male supremacy, I sure wish The Great Replacement was a reality instead of a conspiracy theory.
There are vile, violent, useless skin-bags walking this earth.
In my experience, the knave, white-male, wealthy-class supremacists are the worst, followed by the duped, white-male, working-class supremacists.
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Is he wrong, though?🤨 Just the other day, I overheard my neighbor in their backyard talking to their other neighbor, and they said they heard from the guy around the corner, who works with a lady, who has a relative from out-west, who plays video-games with someone who tried to get some groceries back-east and they couldn't get any. ☹
They said that they heard that the grocery store manager -- big guy, strong guy, from moving so many boxes -- was at the door, with tears in his eyes, and he said, "we only have fentanyl left." 😢
Sooo, you tell me, who's really in the right(WRONG-wing), here, libereenos? 🤔😤😠😡🤬
Disclaimer: *sarcasm
Disclaimer # 2: What a sh!tty right-wing world we live in, that I even have to make the first disclaimer.
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Absolutely, MTG & the Rparty are corrupt, but the Dparty is ALSO corrupt. BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the same corrupt people. And I, like millions of incorrupt people, refuse to support someone based on the letter next to their name. I'll NEVER support the Rs or Ds as long as both are corrupt.
But if I'm even going to bother casting a vote for a D, they are going to have to be A LOT better than the Rs to get my vote. And these social media posts by AOC & Crockett are NOT better than the Rs, let alone even being close to the moral high ground. These social media posts are the SAME kind of childishness & theatrics that Rs engage in, and it's disgusting, no matter which corrupt party it comes from.
If they want to be taken seriously (which I presume they do), then they'll act more seriously (which I presume they won't, and dolts will still support them and the Dparty anyway, just like the dolts who support the Rparty).
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Wealthy right-wingers screwed them over, a system didn't screw over anyone all by itself.
Humans purposely and purposefully screwed over other humans, not a system.
Sure, Capitalism is a terrible system (like slavery, monarchy, and feudalism), but it's not alive.
Capitalism doesn't do anything on its own -- it requires terrible people to wield it for their benefit.
Capitalism is just another terrible system, designed by and for the most parasitic, lazy, vile, and violent humans, to aid the most terrible people in maintaining their control over the world by controlling other humans.
Working-class people need to do a better job of explaining exactly what is happening: The wealthy-class people are purposely and purposefully screwing over working-class people.
I agree with your sentiment: Capitalism is crap.
But I disagree with your substance: Capitalism didn't screw anyone over.
Stop speaking in hyperbole: Systems don't screw over people -- systems can't do anything on their own.
Start speaking specifically:
People screw over people -- people must act to make a system function.
What is really happening?
The populace-minority of lucky people (known as the 'economic wealthy-class') develop systems (known in historical and international contexts as 'right-wing' politics) of authoritarianism (such as Capitalism) to control the world and the populace-majority of unlucky people (known as the 'economic working-class').
That's it.
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I'm just curious: when you're communicating with citizens under your care, do you ever -- pick your word; admit, confess, relay, plead -- do you tell them that you want them to work with you because if they don't work with you the cops could end up and you don't want that to happen?
I understand if you can't/won't answer that. I understand that you might not even be allowed to give vague answers to a specific question like mine. And I understand that there might be rules/regulations against saying something like that about cops to the citizens you care for.
I'm just curious, because I have been trying to explain to my 7yo nephew when he acts really naughty -- i.e. hitting, kicking, throwing and breaking things -- that when he grows up, he can't do those things, because, if he does, the cops could come and take him away.
So, when he's naughty, I sit him and timeout, and I sit with him and talk with him. I kind of plead with him and tell him that I don't want that to happen to him because I love him, and that I want him to be a good boy and not do naughty things so he doesn't get into trouble with the cops. Disclaimer: I don't think my method is the best, but it's the best I've been able to come up with.
Anyway, I was just curious about your approach to helping citizens and if you ever use a similar approach where you warn citizens about the cops and admit to the citizens that you don't want the citizen to have to deal with the cops.
I would be open to any response you might give to any portion of my reply. And if you don't respond at all, that's ok too.
Just... Thank you for what you do. You are so incredibly valuable to our world. Thank you.
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Instead of Kyle making $10K per month through Patreon, maybe I should be making that $10K. Because, for a self-proclaimed commentator of news and politics, Kyle (and others) sure seem to have a hard time putting together the interwoven pieces of wealthy-class corruption.
All of these "local news" stations are owned by a few telecommunications corporations. For example, Sinclair Broadcast Group is the corporation which owns the local station in Albany, New York that ran the story about the Oklahoma gas plant explosion.
Start Side Note: If you're unfamiliar with Sinclair, they are the corporation that was exposed a few years ago for writing a propagandist-script and then forcing all of the news anchors at the local stations to repeat that propaganda on-air. You can find mashup-videos of the Sinclair Propaganda by doing a simple YouTube search. Also, John Oliver did an entire episode about Sinclair. :End Side Note
Those telecommunications corporations, like Sinclair, Hearst Communications, and others, are owned by the wealthy-class. The wealthy-class decides what goes on-air at the stations they own.
So you might be asking yourself: "Why would the wealthy-class want to put indoctrinating-propaganda, puff-pieces, tabloid-gossip, and non-local "news" on local news stations?
And the answer is simple: To increase the distraction and further the dumbing-down of the working-class citizens who are too busy to realize and too stupid to care that they are being force-fed the indoctrinating-propaganda, puff-pieces, tabloid-gossip, and non-local news.
So, now, you might be asking yourself: "Why would the wealthy-class want to distract and dumb-down the working-class citizens?"
And the answer is simple: To increase the power of the wealthy-class parasites over the working-class citizens by confusing those working-class citizens, and by alienating those working-class citizens from their local communities by preventing them from being informed and educated about the local news and politics that most-directly effects the lives and families of the working-class citizenry.
The wealthy-class parasites in the present know the same thing that the wealthy-class parasites knew in the past, and that is that stupid people make better slaves. So the wealthy-class sets out to keep their working-class slaves stupid by preventing them from becoming educated.
And if you're still asking yourself: "How does the wealthy-class keep the working-class slaves stupid and uneducated?"
The answer is simple: With indoctrinating-propaganda, puff-pieces, tabloid-gossip, and non-local news, thus resulting in the dumbing-down of the local working-class citizen-slaves who are too busy to realize and stupid to care that they are being force-fed the indoctrinating-propaganda, puff-pieces, tabloid-gossip, and non-local news.
Kyle spent 30-seconds of a three and a half minute video being baffled by why this is happening and how it happens, rather than explaining to his working-class viewers why this happens and educating those working-class viewers on how it happens.
Maybe I should be making $10K per month through Patreon, instead of Kyle.
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@ytyehyeh
You don't have to explain your 'Uncle-Tom' syndrome to me. I understand it perfectly. I used to be the same way.
I used to make justifications for the hypocrisy, indecency, and addictions of the wealthy-class myself. I used to want to be just like them, but only because my interpretation of success had been skewed by the wealthy-class. I, too, was under-educated and gaslit.
For as long as humans have been keeping records, there have been exploiters and exploitees, employers and employees. For that entire time, the exploiters and employers have been rigging the systems in their favor, all while turning the exploitees and the employees against each other. And really, it's quite easy.
All the wealthy-class has had to do to ensure that the employees fight against each other to maintain inequality, is to make sure certain segments within the employees who are given a few crumbs more than other segments of employees -- just a few crumbs more and that is enough to trick employees into fighting each other.
Just a few cents more per hour, or an extra perk here and there, is enough to keep the workers fighting to protect the hierarchy which provides them a little more than others -- rather than deciding to stand together for equality for all employees.
You have a decent life, it seems -- I mean, we've both got time to put towards arguing with strangers, so we're not so hard-pressed for resources that we've got to get back to scheming for our next meal -- but I'm sure your life isn't a cake-walk. Nor is mine. In fact, my life is rather dreary. But I'm not in the worst position.
I know for a fact there are people who have it harder than I do. I also know that there is a chance I could slip further into the depths of societal-despair. I know for a fact that I could end up homeless any day, at the whims of a wealthy-class who care more about themselves than maintaining the domicile of me and my fellow citizens in the working-class. But the possibility of greater difficulties doesn't make me want to succumb to the destiny the wealthy-class has for me.
I don't want to live out my days feeling like I'm a slave to the second or third-tiers of society. I grew up being taught about equality, only to come to realize that there is no equality. Slowly over time, like most of us, I just came to accept it. I came to aspire to be an exploiter/employer, to capitalize on the weaknesses and ignorances of the exploitable employees. But I eventually realized the crumb-structure, and it's ok if you haven't. There are many like you. I can't save everyone.
We live in an oligarchy, not a democracy. If you want to continue to live the lifestyle of skewed-realities and repressed-possibilities that's your choice. If you want to continue down the path of "this is bad and I do not like it, so I will support mediocre changes, but I will not commit to systemic and systematic change," then that's your choice.
But eventually, sides will have to be chosen. Maybe not by you and me, but by the future generation. It's happening now -- the wealthy are manipulating the poor into firmly choosing sides. In this country, the wealthy have tricked the poor into thinking the Republicans and Democrats are actually on opposing sides when they are very much the same party -- the party of no-government to regulate big-business and big-government to regulate small-businesses and families; the party of environmental and human exploitation; the party of low-taxes on the wealthy-class and high-taxes on the poor-class; the party of wars-for-wealthy-prosperity. I could go on.
In other countries, where there are more political parties and a greater freedom-of-choice politically, the Republicans and the Democrats would either be the same party or part of a coalition-government. In countries where they have more political parties and more freedom of political-choice, they laugh at us because of how ignorant we are. They laugh that we have been tricked by the greed and exploitation which rule us.
I don't have kids, and I don't plan on having any (I'm in my late 30's). I practice abstinence so as not to subject any other human beings to this debacle of a world. Especially now that I'm speaking up for equality -- which would mean the demise of the wealthy ruling-class -- I am very cautious about having children who could one day persecuted for the beliefs of their father by that ruling-class. Speaking of humans keeping records: now that your opinions are forever recorded into the record books of history (yes, this is all being recorded), are you so sure that one day your children won't be persecuted for the beliefs of their father, who stood up for the hierarchy and inequality of the exploiters and employers within the ruling wealthy-class?
You might think this all sounds far fetched, but I implore you to seek out history: slave-workers always rise-up. It's only a matter of time. Both sides always lose. Both sides endure devastation and trauma. Sometimes the wealthy prevail, sometimes the workers prevail, but both sides suffer. Do you want you and yours to be on the side of the exploiters or the exploited? I know which side I'm on -- not halfway, not sometimes, not when it's convenient -- I am on the side of the exploited, the weak, the oppressed, the repressed and the less-fortunate working-class.
Maybe you're a fool, maybe you're a knave, and while there are those folks in the working-class who would ridicule you for standing up for the wealthy-class -- those who would lump you into the guillotine lines with the wealthy-class -- I am not one of them. If you're not a knave and only a fool, then you can be taught.
You can be shown how your support for half-measures only serves the wealthy-class. Just in my short life, the wealthy-class has been using right-wing economics and an authoritarian-sociology to maintain their levels of inequality -- the wealthy have been at it for the entirety of history before we were born -- and if I can be a part of a peaceful-movement to lessen that inequality, then that's what I'm going to do. I won't vote for folks -- Republicans or Democrats -- who vote to send poor people to war with other poor people behind the guise of 'freedom'. Neither will I vote for half-measures. (Honestly, I don't vote period because there hasn't been anyone worth voting for until now, and I still may not vote).
I suppose on that note, I'll admit, I may not be doing all the best and right things, but my heart and my mind are in the right place. Maybe yours are too.
But let me encourage you to be even bolder: Fight for those who are worse off than you.
Forgiving student debt or any other kind of debt that burdens the poor and working-class, in the long run, will benefit everyone in our society more equally than the unequal-benefits of keeping those folks indebted to the wealthy-class. Jubilees have been a part of history since the beginning. In the past, there are examples where that practice was good for the working-class. But in our lifetime, the wealthy-class has been manipulating the jubilees to benefit themselves.
I'm done with jubilee-subsidies for wealthy-class corporations. I'm done with jubilee-tax breaks for the wealthy-class. I'm done with any jubilee that mobilizes resources or specie unequally-upward instead of equally-outward.
I don't care if the electrical grid goes down, I don't care if supply-chains break down. I don't care if life gets harder (life is already hard). I would much rather bring down the wealthy-class to our level than to strive to be like them, ever again. I would rather a system whereby everyone had to do physical labor for food, clothes, and shelter, rather than support a system of exploitation whereby some folks do absolutely no physical labor.
Speaking of inequality -- here is just one example, and not directly related to the topic at hand: https://www.wlwt.com/article/police-store-clerk-fires-shot-during-robbery-attempt-2-in-custody/31084230
That's probably enough.
I would say, "take care of yourself" -- but I mean, "take care of others."
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@AlbertaGeek Democrats had many opportunities to codify abortion-rights into law by passing abortion-rights legislation over the past 70 years. But they didn't do it.
Democrats have had two sessions of control over The House, Senate, and Presidency in the last 20 years, and they could have codified abortion-rights into law by passing abortion-rights legislation. But they didn't do it.
In 2018 and in 2020, right-winger Nancy Pelosi and right-wing Democrats endorsed right-winger Henry Cuellar who is anti-abortion and pro-forced-birth. Nancy and the Dems COULD HAVE endorsed pro-abortion, pro-bodily-autonomy, progressive-leftist candidate, Jessica Cisneros who was running against right-winger Cuellar in Texas, but they didn't endorse her.
Why did Democrat leadership NOT legalize abortion and bodily-autonomy over the past 70 years when they could have?
Why did Democrat leadership NOT legalize abortion and bodily-autonomy during their two sessions of control over the Legislative & Executive branches during the last 20 years?
Why did Democrat leadership endorse a pro-forced-birther like Cuellar?
Why did Democrat leadership NOT endorse pro-bodily-autonomy leftist, Jessica Cisneros in Texas?
Why did Democrat leadership NOT endorse other pro-bodily-autonomy leftists, like Nina Turner in Ohio, or Summer Lee in Pennsylvania?
Easy answer: Because Democrat party leadership is made up of WEALTHY-CLASS RIGHT-WINGERS, just like Republic party leadership.
Only ONE party, the Republic party, openly advocates for 9 year-old rape victims to carry their pregnancies to term. And it is the job of the other party, the Democrat party, to advocate against it while they do absolutely NOTHING to actually stop the Republic party.
The wealthy-class right-wingers who make up the Democrat and Republic party leadership want to be able to keep using the social-issue of abortion as a distraction, to keep the attention of the working-class dupes off the economy while those wealthy-class right-wingers loot the country.
You and the 150-million other Americans who voted for two right-wingers (Biden and Trump) in the last election, are all the evidence needed to prove that the wealthy-class, right-wing ruse is working.
Congratulations. You're exactly the kind of working-class mark that the wealthy-class aims for.
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@ericw9702 Your first line of your second reply: "It's pretty clear..." It's not "pretty clear," or we wouldn't be having this conversation. The only thing that's pretty clear is that the right-wing propaganda that is produced by the wealthy-class is strong in America.
Most Americans have no grasp of socio-economic politics in historical and/or international contexts. You have to stop thinking of politics as merely, red-versus-blue, Repub-versus-Dem.
There are different ways to look at and explain politics. So let's start with an easy way to decipher the political beliefs, ideologies, and positions that people hold.
There are different ways to look at and explain politics. So let's start with an easy way to decipher the political beliefs, ideologies, and positions that people hold.
First, we have economic-policy.
On the right-wing side of the economic political-spectrum, we have capitalism and corporatism. We have liberalism and neoliberalism. And there are some other terms and phrases that are used to label right-wing economic policies, but those four are some of the most basic and widely used.
In those right-wing economic policies, a small group of people -- the "wealthy-class" -- dominates the marketplace, natural resources, and most-to-all of the decisions that take place in the economy. By dominating all of those things, the wealthy-class dominates the working-class. And the wealthy-class maintains their domination via non-transparent, unaccountable back-room deals.
Zuckerf*kc, Bozos, and Gates are wealthy-class, billionaire capitalists and corporatists who espouse liberalism and neoliberal policies. They are on the economic right-wing of the economic political-spectrum, and so are the leadership of the Democrat and Republic parties.
Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, Kevin McCarthy, Chuck Schumer, Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush Jr. and Sr., B&H Clinton, and Reagan are(were) ALL millionaire capitalists and corporatists who espouse(d) liberalism and neoliberal policies.
Those elected millionaires do the bidding of the unelected billionaires. They are allowed to work together because of the right-wing nature of the founding of America, and the right-wing policies that still dominate today.
Via a series of right-wing SCOTUS decisions from the 1970s through today, the wealthy-class right-wingers have legalized bribery in America. You can read about the cases if you wish, and you should, because they affect your life and the life of all Americans, and the lives of citizens around the world:
Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
First National Bank of Boston v. Belotti (1978)
McConnell v. FEC (2003)
Citizens United v. FEC (2010)
McCutcheon v. FEC (2014)
All of those decisions gave a disproportionate amount of voting power to the wealthy-class minority to the detriment of the working-class majority.
Those decisions took away voting power from 95% of the population who live paycheck-to-paycheck and gave more voting power to the wealthiest 5% of the population who live off the interest accumulated by their wealth.
Those decisions made it legal for the wealthy-class to engage in deceptive and unscrupulous electoral and campaign finance practices.
Those decisions made it easier for the wealthy-class to dominate politics and the economy via their non-transparent, unaccountable back-room deals. They made cheating, lying, and bribery easier and more legal.
But in other countries, with stronger working-class solidarity, the American version of these legalized deceptive and unscrupulous electoral and campaign finance practices are illegal.
Those decisions made it easier for the wealthy-class minority of landowners and property-holders to control the outcomes of elections. They made it easier for wealthy-class billionaires to elect wealthy-class millionaires and harder for working-class people to get elected and/or vote.
The Founders of America were all wealthy landowners and property-holders. They were so hellbent on dominating the lives of working-class people that they only gave themselves and other landowners and property-holders the right to vote.
And the same way that the wealthy-class right-wingers dominate the decisions in their corporations, businesses, and the government in the present, the wealthy-class right-wingers in the past did the very same thing.
Not all Americans have the right to vote in elections in the present, and not all Americans had the right to vote in the past. And working-class Americans certainly don't have a say in the final decisions at their jobs because wealthy-class right-wing owners have the final say.
Remember, America was founded by the wealthy-class minority of the population, and remember, right-wing politics are the pro-wealthy-class politics of the wealthy-class minority.
Now, on the left-wing side of the economic political-spectrum, we have ideologies like communalism and collectivism. We have communism and socialism. And there are some other terms and phrases that are used to label left-wing economic policies, but those four are some of the most basic and widely used.
In those left-wing economic policies, a large group of people -- the "working-class" -- dominates the marketplace, natural resources, and most-to-all of the decisions that take place in the economy. But there isn't a country in the world where that takes place, because wealthy-class right-wingers have corrupted politics all around the globe.
I realize this is a lot, and we've only addressed the first line of your second reply. So I'll try to wrap up.
Besides the economic political-spectrum, we have a social political-spectrum.
We can still use left-wing and right-wing to make our classifications.
On the right-wing, a small group of people gets to decide what is socially acceptable via the methods of autocracy. Some of the methods of autocracy are corrupting the government for minority-rule via limitations on voting rights, engaging in campaign-finance bribery with private money, and violence.
And on the left-wing, a larger group of people get to decide what is socially acceptable via the methods of democracy. Some of the methods of democracy are commandeering the government for majority-rule via expanding voting rights, eliminating the campaign-finance bribery and private money through implementing the public financing of elections, and violence.
Violence isn't specific to the left or the right. All people can be reduced to committing violence out of desperation and the mental-instability that comes with it. All people can be persuaded to commit violence through bribery if they are desperate enough.
But the wealthy-class right-wingers get to decide how economic desperation is imposed. They use their wealth to manufacture desperation in the lives of working-class people. Zuckerf*kc, and wealthy-class right-wingers like him, have control over the economy and the government, so they get to decide how economic desperation is doled out, and when and how to mitigate that desperation.
Wealthy-class right-wingers also control the world's militaries. They decide when/where the wars are going to happen. They decide which group of working-class people are going to be forced into economic desperation. Then, those desperate working-class people have little-to-no choice but to volunteer to fight wars so they can feed their families.
Wealthy-class right-wing Dems and wealthy-class right-wing Repubs have BOTH voted for those unnecessary wars. All wars, since the beginning of recorded history, have been because of the selfishness and greed of wealthy-class right-wingers who want to maintain their addictions to superiority and positions of power.
The wealthy-class pays desperate working-class people to fight wars. The wealthy-class purposely uses their wealth to dupe desperate working-class pawns into murdering their fellow working-class mates.
Meanwhile, as the working-class fights among themselves over social issues -- like religion, sexuality, and race -- the wealthy-class are working together behind the scenes to solidify their supply addictions to superiority and positions of power.
What I've just tried to lay out for you isn't my opinion. This framework of two political-spectrums to explain economic and social politics is a framework that is widely used among professionals and experts from the working-class.
But, it is also used among non-professionals and non-experts from the working-class who want to discuss and engage in politics in more meaningful ways. It is a way of defining politics in a succinct, concrete manner.
You should check out The Political Compass Test. It's free and will help you more accurately understand and define the various policy positions regarding social and economic politics. It will also help you to define where you stand on those positions in a more concrete way.
If you do a search for the Political Compass Test, it should be the first link in the results. And just for a frame of reference, Trump and Biden are both in the top-right quadrant of the top-right quadrant of the compass, and I am in the bottom-left quadrant of the bottom-left quadrant.
Good luck to you. Never stop learning.
P.S. Don't forget: wealthy-class politics are right-wing politics, and ALL the people I listed above are wealthy-class right-wingers. Just because they say they aren't, that doesn't mean they are telling the truth. There is no law requiring the wealthy-class to tell truth to you and the rest of the working-class. In fact, it is quite the opposite. They maintain their power by lying to us.
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@renlevy411 Prohibition was a wealthy-class right-wing ploy to do a number of things to benefit themselves and hurt the working-class:
1. To further enslave the working-class.
2. To sober-up the working-class slaves, to get more labor out of them.
3. To put working-class booze-makers out of business, thus forcing them into wage-slavery jobs at businesses owned by wealthy-class right-wingers.
4. To criminalize working-class booze-makers, throw them into for-profit prisons and jails to be used as chattel-slaves, as is allowed by the 13th Amendment, which was written and ratified by wealthy-class right-wingers. Just like the 18th & 21st Amendments.
5. To use the period of Prohibition to take control over as many aspects of the booze-industry as possible -- the kind of control that wealthy-class right-wingers didn't have before Prohibition. (This is very similar to the way that wealthy-class right-wingers have spent the last several decades taking control over as many aspects of the cannabis & psilocybin industries as possible.)
6. To create as much societal desperation among the working-class slaves as possible -- the kind of societal desperation, strain and strife that wealthy-class right-wingers are always creating -- because (A) the wealthy-class right-wingers can always use their wealth to shield themselves from societal stressors, and (B) because desperate working-class people make for better slaves.
And those six things are just SOME of the benefits from, and reasons why wealthy-class right-wingers wanted Prohibition.
Unfortunately, a sober working-class turned into a smarter working-class, which led to two-solid-decades of working-class-majority organizing and solidarity. And the wealthy-class right-wingers HATED that.
So, once the wealthy-class right-wingers had a good handle on the booze-industry, and imprisoned or murdered as much of the working-class competition as they could, they re-legalized booze again, and the working-class-majority organizing and solidarity devolved back to sh!te.
I could go on.
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@josephinetracy1485 I read your YT bio, along with your comments here. Just because you're obtuse, that doesn't mean everyone else is. I would choose a mentally-ill train-addict over you every day of the week.
A self-declared "YT Administer" and "NYC Train Conductor" doesn't hurt anyone. You declaring that you're Chief of Security at Fort Knox doesn't hurt anyone. Especially when none of those things are true.
Based on your thoughts about harmless Darius, it's easy to imagine you ratting out your fellow working-class mates in hopes that the wealthy-class masters will let you into their club. And if they wouldn't let you into the club, you'd settle for an indoor job and a few extra crumbs.
And, not only would you still rat out your fellow working-class sl@ves for those few extra crumbs, I bet you would make up lies about them just to stay in the master's good graces.
You'd likely tell on your own grandmother if she made you a batch of cookies with a little extra sugar in them. Yeah, you're probably a big ol' tattletale.
You're another prime example of the human-products that come out of societies created and ruled by wealthy-class right-wingers.
The wealthy-class right-wingers have rendered you too ignorant to do much of anything besides tattling and consuming, spending your money and running your mouth so you can be like the wealthy-class.
But you could get help for your addictions. Right?
You could get help for being a consumer. Right?
You could get help for your subservience to the wealthy-class. Right?
You could get help for your unhealthy praise of the sh!te culture created and maintained by the wealthy-class. Right?
You could get help for being a class-traitor, especially if it were a crime. Right?
Oh, I bet you could.
I bet all you'd need is some time being tortured in a cage, like Darius. Right? Then you'd be all better, like Darius. Right?
(And if you don't believe that prison/jail is torture, you're even more of a neanderthal than you look.)
I wouldn't be surprised if you're too dumb to realize that I've used your own moronic frame-of-mind against you. I wouldn't be surprised if you still think it's rehabilitative to cage humans just because they can be labeled "criminal."
You know, maybe you don't intend to come across as one, and maybe you don't want to be one, but, based on what little I've read about you, and even though you didn't "declare" it, you sure seem like a giant C |_| N T.
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"...Nearly come to blows..." - that's bullllllllsh!t, Kyle. They were separated by 20-30ft and two tables. Kyle, and other "leftists" need to stop with the hyperbole. Hyperbole is one of many propagandist tools used by wealthy-class right-wingers -- like Mark-Wayne Mullin, the propagandist, hyperbolic, gaslighting, lying, cheating, thieving, parasitic, wealthy-class, right-wing-extremist, hypocrite senator from Oklahoma.
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@chrisj984 Yup.
I bet Christ wouldn't even set foot in a modern church. It would probably be more likely to see Him among desperate-souls on a street corner in NYC, Vegas, or Los Angeles, or in any of the numerous red-states among the lost-souls who have been duped or have duped others in His name.
Christ couldn't continue His works while living, and His Spirit isn't continuing those works today because of the same reasons that leftist communities and governments haven't been able to work. Those reasons are; Saboteurs among His working-class friends/family, class-traitors within the working-class majority that He was part of, and a minority of wealthy-class addicts facilitating His demise.
Where and whenever there has existed a group of working-class humans living in service to each other instead of to profit, there has been a group of profiteering, mammon-worshiping, selfish, wealthy-class addicts who have manipulated, exploited, demonized, and brought about the demise of those more-selfless working-class humans.
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Using the barely-predictable cosmos -- the cosmos that is barely-influenced and barely-affected by humans -- to explain the sh!te-nature of sh!te-humans is as absurd as blaming victims for the wrongs perpetrated against them.
Claiming that the cosmos and birth-dates explain the sh!te-nature of sh!te-humans is nothing more than a way to let the sh!te-humans in the wealthy-class off the hook for the wrongs they commit against the working-class.
Claiming that the cosmos explains the sh!te-nature of sh!te-humans is equivalent to claiming that if some part of the cosmos by some chance didn't exist, then shite-humans from the wealthy-class wouldn't exist either.
It would be like saying that if Jupiter didn't exist, then shite-humans on Earth wouldn't exist. BUT THEY DO EXIST, no matter what the f&kc!ng stars are doing.
New stars are formed every day. Old stars die every day. Yet the sh!te-humans STILL EXIST.
STOP giving the wealthy-class the catalyst to explain away the responsibility they have for the sh!te-actions they take against the working-class.
Kissenger is a sh!te-human because of the sh!te-nature he learned from other sh!te-humans THIS PLANET. Not because of the cosmos.
And if birth-dates had ANYTHING to do with the sh!te-nature or sh!te-humans, then the other people who were born at the same time as other sh!te-humans would also be sh!te-humans. But birth-dates have NOTHING to do with it.
Sh!te-humans have a definable, identifiable free-will to commit their sh!te-actions here on THIS PLANET. The cosmos does not.
The stars are LIGHTYEARS AWAY. The sh!te-humans in wealthy-class are ON THE F&KC!NG PLANET.
Plenty of working-class people need help HERE, in your own community.
Get your head out of the clouds -- no -- get your head out of the realm of things which you CAN'T change and DON'T affect you.
Get your head back in the game here on Earth to help the things you CAN change which DO affect others.
You're equating entertainment, like tabloids, to factual knowledge. You're replacing the explainable, corollary work of economists, doctors, historians, philosophers, journalists, and other professionals with the opposite of those things.
You are doing a disservice to the working-class people who can't understand the explainable, corollary work of professionals by replacing that professional-work with unexplainable, non-corollary distractions.
Leave the cosmos to the creator of the cosmos, or, at least, leave the cosmos to the wealthy-class sh!te-humans who are striving to screw up the cosmos.
There is plenty of work on which to focus here on this planet.
Sorry to be the one to break it to you.
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This is why education is important. These people who volunteer to be "models," like the people who volunteer to be in the military or LEOs, are some of the dumbest & worst wage-slave addicts in society.
The models volunteer to be model wage-slaves, because they are some of the dumbest, but not the worst.
The military/LEOs volunteer to be violent wage-slaves, because they are some of the worst, but not the dumbest.
The military enlistees and LEOs who volunteer, are all working-class wage-slaves, themselves. But they know that their jobs are to (a) protect the wealthy-class slave-owners, and to (b) murder and monitor other working-class wage-slaves in their communities and around the globe.
Both groups -- the models and military/LEOs -- volunteer for these roles because they are addicted to the non-necessity based lifestyles that are pushed onto them by the wealthy-class right-wingers who benefit from the profits produced by the other working-class wage-slaves who aren't models, military, or LEOs.
Sure, it is a fact that this world is a sh!thole because of the lazy, parasitic, wealthy-class, right-wing addicts who promote slavery and diminish education for the working-class. But, the world is also a sh!thole because of the foolish working-class addicts who are addicted to striving for the same kinds of lifestyles as the lazy, parasitic, wealthy-class, right-wing addicts.
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Yup. I lost over a hundred pounds in nine months, just by changing my diet -- no drugs, no workouts. All I did was put knowledge & will-power into practice, and stopped my addiction to unhealthy foods.
Now, this is where I'll lose a lot of people, but all the credit goes to God -- I asked God to give me the knowledge & will-power to do what I did, and God delivered.
The corrupt, wealthy-class knaves, with their corrupt RW-politics, do not want educated & healthy working-class humans. They want desperate & ignorant slaves.
BOTH political-parties in the US are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics, and working-class dupes continue to vote for BOTH of the RW-political-parties.
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Abolish private property, private companies, and private profit.
Privacy is where slavery, abuse, and corruption are cultivated to fester and thrive.
The human-parasites who advocate for private property, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private property" to refer to the humans they enslaved in the past.
The human-parasites who advocate for private companies, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private companies" to refer to the plantations where they enslaved said humans in the past.
The human-parasites who advocate for private profits, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private profit" to refer to the money generated by the labor of the humans they enslaved on plantations in the past.
The kinds of human-parasites who advocate for private property, private companies, and private profits, in the present, are the same as the human who advocate for "States' Rights" and slavery in the past.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people from other countries.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people from other states.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people of other colors and religions.
And if you don't think those kinds of human-parasites still exist, then look no further than your county Republic/Democrat political-party meeting, your local police/sheriff department, or your nearest military recruiters office.
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While there are some human-parasites who want to enslave any family but their own, on the macro-level, there are some human-parasites who want to enslave their own family members, on the micro-level, under the guise of "privacy" and "parental rights."
The kinds of human-parasites who advocate for private property, private companies, and private profit, are the same kind of human-parasites who advocate for "States' Rights" to enslave and abuse other humans in privacy.
And the kinds of human-parasites who advocate for "States' Rights" are the same kind of people who advocate for "Parental Rights" to enslave and abuse children in private.
And kinds of human-parasites who advocate for unfettered privacy are the kinds of human-parasites who want to keep their corruption and their victims private.
The more adamant a person is about "privacy," the more suspicious of them I become, and the more parasitic they reveal themselves to be.
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@jasonmorley9217 You: "You're not wrong..."
Me: Thank you. I already knew that.
You: "...but you’re also talking about a broken political system..."
Me: Correct, I am. And the point of my comments (which implied that the system is broken), was to get ignorant people to engage me regarding that broken system.
But you already know that it's broken, and, somehow, you missed the implication that I, too, know that it is broken.
So, you wasted your time on me by writing your retort, and I've wasted my time on you by responding to your retort.
Hooray!🥳
Honestly, though, I'm just a destitute guy who is trying my best to do the little bit that I can do, before I end up in a work-camp, a metal-cage, or a wooden-box at the hands of RWers.
And I'm just trying to do the best that I can do, while also engaging with others in the best way I know how, before the RWers come to put me in said work-camp, metal-cage, or a wooden-box.
Thanks for your counter-engagement, but I don't disagree with what you wrote, nor does my original comment.
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@clarestucki5151 I remember you from another thread, where you were so intellectually-beaten that you just stopped responding.
So, I'll educate you again, old bird.
There are many places -- towns, cities, and counties -- where corporate lobbyists, who represent water corporations, have come in and manipulated the local governments to make laws against collecting rainwater, or from retrieving water from rivers or lakes. These wealthy individuals have used their wealth to make water collection illegal. Imagine being so dumb that you didn't know that.
Furthermore, it's sad and depressing to see you quote the Bible and then shill for the system of capitalism at the same time. You know, Capitalism? The system where the wealthy people get even more wealthy by manipulating humans and exploiting them for their labor, then stealing the surplus-value of their labor.
Either you comprehend these aspects of Capitalism while pretending not to comprehend them because you benefit from these aspects, which makes you a knave, or you don't comprehend these aspects because you are ignorant. Whether you're ignorant or a knave, neither is anything to be proud of.
Jesus and His disciples had a community purse. Judas was the keeper of that purse. Judas eventually betrayed Jesus for money, similar to the way you betray your fellow citizens within the working-class by shilling for the system of greed and exploitation-driven Capitalism.
Jesus commanded us to love the Lord our God with all our hearts and to love our neighbors as ourselves. We are to serve God and serve our neighbors.
In the parable of the Good Samaritan, from the book of Luke, chapter 10, verses 25 through 37, Jesus concludes by asking: which of three elevated-persons who passed by a person in need was a neighbor to that person in need? Jesus concludes that the elevated-person who helped the person in need was the neighbor.
In essence, Jesus is saying that any person who is in need is our neighbor, and any person who helps us is our neighbor, and, remember, we are to love our neighbors as we love ourselves.
Just because you don't need help, that doesn't mean that there aren't millions of people out there who do. Our job as Christians is to help, freely and willingly. Not to promote a Capitalist system that monetizes helping others.
Additionally, the book of Acts, in Chapter two, talks about the first church after the death of Jesus. Verses 44 through 47 states:
"44All the believers were together and had everything in common.
45Selling their possessions and goods, they shared with anyone who was in need.
46With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courtsl and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,
47praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
They lived as Jesus directed: "Love one another as I have loved you." Jesus sacrificed His life for us, and we are to sacrifice our lives for others.
Moreover, Jesus said in the book of Matthew, chapter 19, verses 21 through 24.
21Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”
22When the young man heard this, he went away in sorrow, because he had great wealth.
23Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I tell you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
24Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
The lesson is also repeated in the book of Mark, chapter 10, verses 17 through 31, and the book of Luke, chapter 18, verses 18 through 30.
Jesus also said not to store up treasures and possessions on Earth in exchange for treasures in Heaven -- Matthew, chapter 6, verses 19 through 21, and Luke, chapter 12, verses 32 through 34.
Any person who sells God's water for profit is a person who is seeking to gain money so they can store up treasures on Earth.
Jesus said; "No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." Matthew, chapter 10, verse 24.
Any person who believes it is his right to sell God's water for profit, depriving other humans of that water, is not a person following Christ.
I fear for the people who are trying to prop up a system that profitizes water, just as I fear for the leaders of the television mega-churches who have profitized the Living Water that Jesus spoke about in the book of John, chapters 4 and 7.
May you submit to God, so that He may intervene in your life and show you where and how you are doing a disservice to others by dishonoring His word.
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@clarestucki5151 You're not sorry, and you don't have to make simpleton-talk by saying that you are.
But you're the one who brought up religion.
It seems as though you tried to make an argument, utilizing a text that you're unfamiliar with -- a text that is anti-greed and anti-exploitation -- to justify your promotion of a system that is based on greed and exploitation.
Now you're backtracking that argument -- indirectly admitting to the fact that you had no clue what you were talking about in quoting the text -- because you're not eager, or able, to discuss the principles of religion.
And, if you're going to make up some disingenuous excuse -- like, "B-b-b-but I didn't bring up religion!!! I only loose-quoted the Bible which is a booooook!!!" -- then you can save your breath and battery. I did it for you.
It's not surprising that you would try to justify the system of inequity and inequality -- a system which you benefit from -- by employing an argument based on the appropriating of a text that you have little-to-no understanding of.
This country is full of self-proclaimed Christians -- I call them X-tians -- who prop up the economic systems of greed and exploitation which go against the teachings of Christ.
It seems that your ability to discuss economic principles is similarly rooted in your inability to discuss religious principles, and those roots are repression, suppression, and oppression of others, the supremacy and exceptionalism of individualism, the exploitation and manipulation of others, resulting in the inequity and inequality which benefits you.
Nope, it's no surprise to me that a working-class right-winger who has been radicalized by the anti-intellectual propaganda, which has been developed and deployed by wealthy-class right-wingers, would utilize anti-intellectual arguments in displaying their owned ignorance.
If I was as ignorant as you, I'd be shocked. SHOCKED, I say!
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Republican and Democratic party leadership, along with their corrupted and corrupting financial-handlers within the wealthy-class, are the same calamitous monopolistic-side of the same duopolistic-coin.
Economically-capitalist and socially-autocratic hierarchical extremism -- both of which have enabled and entrenched the Trump, Biden, Clinton, Bush, Pelosi, McConnell, Adelson, Gates, Murdoch, and Soros parasites of the world -- are the politically right-wing shitholes on which the classist division of humans has been historically and internationally built.
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Hmmm.🤔 Debate with people who ultimately want you to conform on-command, confine you to a concrete-cage, or conceal you in a coniferous-coffin.
Now, I'm non-violent and anti-violence, so, I'm not going to do any of those things to anyone. Because, I'm not a right-winger.
But you let me know how those "debates" with right-wingers turn out.
I don't mean to be snide. But just, no. Enough debating with right-wingers.
No more debating the fact that wealthy right-wingers use their wealth to produce and promote propaganda with the goal of stoking the fear, anger, and hatred of the most ignorant people in the working-class, to the point that those ignorant people will commit sabotage, violence, murder, and genocide.
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class politics.
Right-wing politics are anti-working-class politics.
Wake the f*kc up and stop debating right-wingers, before the wealthy ones pay some worker ones to work you over,
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Alexandre is correct. The owner-class wrote this government into existence. The same owner-class has controlled it ever since.
The owner-class who came up with this government is the same owner-class who made it illegal for their human-property to learn.
Again: The rich people who owned poor human beings in the past are the same rich people who made it illegal for poor human beings to learn in the past.
The rich people who still control the government are the same rich people who are responsible for the defunding, deregulating, and destandardizing of education.
You might be asking yourself, "But why would the rich people in the owner-class want the workers to be stupid? Don't they need workers to be smart?"
Answer: No, the owner-class doesn't want a smart working-class.
The rich people, the owner-class, the wealthy-class, or whatever you want to call them, they all understand: STUPID PEOPLE MAKE BETTER SLAVES.
The rich people, the owner-class, the wealthy-class, or whatever you want to call them, they all understand: THE BEST WAY TO MAKE BETTER, DUMBER SLAVES IS TO DEPRIVE THEM OF EDUCATION.
Smarter slaves can recognize their oppression and their oppressors.
Smarter workers can imagine better ways of doing things.
Smarter humans can come up with ways to undo or escape the oppression of their wealthy-class oppressors.
I could go on, but the expose` above should be enough to change a moronic-mind to agree with the following: During the most formidable years of human brain development (from infancy until about 25 years old), humans should be involved in formal, defined, measured, and adequately-funded education.
If we want a society with "common-sense" then we must strive for the things that produce common-sense: common-education, common-goals, common-opportunities, and common-outcomes.
We can't have those things if the Republic of the wealthy-class minority is constantly allowed to sabotage the Democracy of the working-class majority.
I'm tired of living under the mob-rule of the wealthy-class minority.
Good day.
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@antclerfont8478 Ben's "side?" HA! Ben's side is rooted in the corrupt wealthy-class, their corrupt RW-politics, and their corrupt propagandist lies. RW-extremist Ben -- and moderate-RWer Cenk -- can F.R.O. If you think it's important to continuously hear Ben's side, then you're either a fool or a knave.
If you're a fool, then shut up and stay out of the way of the people who are trying to combat the corruption of RW-extremist Ben & moderate-RWer Cenk, and RW-extremist Trump & moderate-RWer Biden.
If you're a knave then you can go and F.R.O with all of the other RW-extremist Repubs & moderate-RW Dems.
Edit: Intelligent working-class people don't need to constantly hear the propaganda that is produced by the corrupt wealthy-class whose goal is to promote their corrupt RW-politics.
And if you're a working-class fool, you don't need to constantly hear the corrupt, wealthy-RW propaganda either -- you need an education in the international & historical contexts of politics, which means you'll have to make some changes in your life to pursue that education.
Summarily, politics can be understood as follows:
RW-politics = pro-wealthy-class & anti-working-class; unfair, inequitable, & exploitative; sociopathic & psychopathic; violent, murderous, & genocidal...
LW-politics = the opposite of RW-politics.
Your first lesson was free.
Second edit: And if you don't wake up and move past the corrupt RW-politics of Ben, Cenk, Trump & Biden, then the subsequent lessons might end up costing you as much as it has cost the working-class Palestinians.
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ALL Gov't Officials & Employees should be required to wear body cams, so "We, The People" can see how OUR gov't is being conducted. If you don't want to be on camera -- that's fine -- don't work for the gov't. Even more thought provoking: We could create A LOT of jobs by creating Citizen-Recorders who do a number of important tasks. For examples:
1. Video Recorders: Film Gov't Officials & Employees at all times.
2. Telecom Recorders: Intercept all phone calls, texts, & emails to&from Gov't Officials & Employees.
3. Mail Recorders: Screen all mail to&from Gov't Officials & Employees.
4. Records Retainers: Maintain archives of all Video, Telecom, and Mail Recorders.
5. Records Organizers: Compile the retained Video, Telecom, and Mail Records to chronologically show the productivity of Gov't Officials & Employees, following the timeline of different projects, initiatives, and problems within the community.
6. Records Disseminators: Using the organized Video, Telecom, and Mail Records to produce video/print/web media, to show "We, The People" how our Gov't Officials & Employees are conducting themselves, thus, giving "We, The People" more information to use when casting our votes.
We could do a lot of things. If not for the wealthy-class right-wingers, and their wealthy-class right-wing politics.
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@ That... Brenda... Your reply is SO many things, but it is NOT an explanation to my inquiry. At best, it's ignorant, and, at worst, it's knavish.
NPOs (Non-Profit Organizations) are operated by decent working-class people, AND by indecent wealthy-class people (i.e. the Trump's operated an NPO through which they scammed thousands of working-class students, and the NPO was shutdown after the working-class students sued them.)
FPCs (For-Profit Corporations) are MOSTLY owned by the wealthy-class, because working-class people can't afford to own Corporations.
NPOs are one of the few ways that decent working-class people can provide charity, to the least fortunate in society, without having to rely on support from indecent wealthy-class knaves.
I've worked in&around both NPOs & FPCs, and NPOs are much, MUCH more likely to be doing good-works in the communities of working-class people, because, oftentimes, the people who work AT the NPOs are members of the communities that they serve.
I will NEVER willingly work at a FPC ever again. I'm not interested in contributing to the wealth and addictions of the wealthy-RWers, like the billionaires in Trump's cabinet.
And I'll NEVER work for an scam-NPO that is operated by wealth-addicted billionaire scammer, like the scam-NPO that Trump the scammer operated. Nor would I work for the scam-NPOs that the Clinton's operate.
In regards to your initial comment and your reply to my inquiry, you seem to be spewing some sort of "conspiracy theory" but you are unable to articulate it. So, as your fellow working-class mate, I'll leave you with this final summation:
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Some NPOs are good.
Some NPOs are bad.
NO NPO is perfect.
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Some FPCs are good.
Most FPCs are bad.
No FPC is perfect.
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NPOs give working-class people MORE control, not less control.
FPCs give working-class people LESS control, not more control.
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ALL of the FPCs are controlled by wealthy people in positions of power
NONE of the FPCs are controlled by working-class people.
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MOST of the wealthy-class FPC owners don't usually live in the communities where their their working-class employees live.
MANY of the working-class NPO owners usually live in the communities where their working-class mates live.
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NPOs can be the pillar of a community without bringing the entire community down.
FPCs can be the end of entire communities when the wealthy-class owners outsource the jobs or simply close the business.
That's enough for now.
Good day, Brenda.
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@paulvamos7319 You're a fool or a knave. YouTube is a Capitalist corporation, owned by wealthy right-wingers, and it is becoming MORE right-wing authoritarian-capitalist, not Communist.You're either a fool who's too dumb to know that, or you're a knave who's pretending not to know it.
Capitalism and corporatism are right-wing socioeconomic systems.
1. Right-wing socioeconomic systems are pro-authoritarian and anti-democracy, just like YouTube.
2. Right-wing socioeconomic systems are pro-wealthy-class and anti-working-class, just like YouTube.
Right-wingers, capitalists, and corporatists are authoritarian, just like the wealthy right-wingers who own YouTube.
Communism is the opposite of Capitalism.
Communism and collectivism are left-wing socioeconomic systems.
1. Left-wing socioeconomic systems are anti-authoritarian and pro-democracy.
2.Left-wing socioeconomic systems are anti-wealthy-class and pro-working-class.
Left-wingers, communists, and collectivists are egalitarian, unlike the wealthy right-wing Capitalists who own the YouTube corporation.
You're either a fool or a knave -- neither is anything to be proud of.
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Kyle is outlasting his usefulness, for me anyway. Only idiots and elementary political-thinkers would be "shocked" by the Supreme Court decisions. The Supreme Court's right-wing majority isn't pro-Trump. They are pro-right-wing. And right-wing politics are wealthy-class politics.
The Supreme Court is dominated by right-wingers who will do anything to preserve the power of the wealthy-class. And Trump's bombastic style of greed is a threat to the stability of wealthy-class power. So they really do want him gone. They need a gentler face to enact fascism.
The wealthy-class only wanted Trump to use him as a pawn to distract the working-class. Trump is just a pawn -- like MTG, Boebert, Candace Owens, Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, Matt Gaetz, and countless others are also. Heck, even (in)Justice (uncle)Thomas is a pawn. They are all public-facing paws whose purpose is to distract from the wealthy-class right-wing fascism that is being implemented and solidified in private.
I suppose Kyle is still useful as an introduction to American politics for idiots and elementary political-thinkers, but there are actual professionals and experts who would do, could do, and actually do much better than Kyle.
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Hedges knows that the Democrat Party is funded by the wealthy-class, just like the Republic Party is funded by the wealthy-class.
Thom is an apologist for the Democrat Party, and he has spent his life putting energy into the Democrat Party.
Hedges left the Democrat party and became an outspoken opponent of the party when he realized that Democrats were becoming just as corrupted as the Republic Party.
Thom can't seem to get away from the grasp of the wealthy-class financiers who have corrupted our political systems and both political parties, because Thom still believes that the different names of the parties matter more than the similarities of the policies which those parties support.
Even though Hedges and Thom both consider themselves to be politically left-leaning, Hedges is much farther left. Hedges understands that the Democrat Party is a politically center-right leaning political party (with the Republic Party being a far-right political party).
Hedges and Thom have some similarities but, for two self-proclaimed leftists, Hedges is much farther left-leaning than Thom. Thom is an apologist for the corrupt Democrat Party, while Hedges is an opponent of the corrupt Democrat Party.
Very few people in the world want to hear about their shortcomings, face those shortcomings, and then make strides to change them. Thom doesn't want to hear how, by propping up the Democrat Party, he is helping to prop up the corrupt political system which breeds inequity, inequality, suppression, oppression, and repression.
I think the differences between Hedges and Thom are why Thom doesn't have Hedges is on the show more often, or maybe it's because Hedges doesn't want to be on the show.
On a side note, I am somewhat surprised that Thom has Richard Wolff on the show so often. Maybe it's because Wolff is much less direct in his criticism of one party over the other, while Hedges is very direct in his criticism.
I'm not as concerned with why someone is or isn't on this show or that show as I am concerned about the quality of the knowledge provided.
I am very thankful for the knowledgeable voices of Hedges and Wolff, and I am thankful to Thom for helping me to understand the Supreme Court cases of Buckley v. Valeo of 1976, First National Bank of Boston v. Belotti of 1978, Citizens United v. FEC of 2010.
But it bothers me to see and hear Thom prop up the Democrat Party because he should know and understand that the decisions in those Supreme Court cases helped pave the way for the Democrat Party to become corrupt like the Republic Party.
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Dana Bash is a wealthy-class right-winger, just like McConnell, Pelosi, McCarthy, Biden, Trump, Bush(2), Clinton(2), Obama, Reagan, etc.
Bash doesn't care if right-wing Biden or right-wing Trump wins. Right-wing Dana will be just fine no matter which wealthy-class right-winger is POTUS.
Wealthy-class right-wing Repubs and wealthy-class right-wing Dems are all authoritarian conservatives who are trying to conserve the hierarchical systems of neoliberal-capitalism and colonial-imperialism with the master vs. slave, lord vs. serf, laborers vs. loungers, us vs. them, societal dichotomy.
F*kc 'em all, including screw-faced Dana.
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This can all be viewed through the spectrum of the powerful-oppressors versus powerless-oppressed. It is, and has been, masqueraded as racism (even by this "media journalist" lol). But this stuff is much less socially-driven and much more economically-driven.
The economically-powerful U.S. is oppressing economically-powerless Jamaica.
But the socially-powerful Jamaicans discriminate against the socially-powerless LGBTQ+ people, just like the U.S. does.
The socially/economically-powerful U.S. sides with the socially/economically-powerful Saudi Arabians, and both the U.S. and Saudi Arabians discriminate against economically-powerless countries like Jamaica.
But the socially/economically-powerful Americans, Saudi Arabians, AND Jamaicans ALL socially & economically discriminate against the socially/economically-powerless citizens in their own countries.
It is the socially and economically powerful-oppressors, in every country -- from the right-wing, wealthy-class knaves, to the right-wing, working-class fools -- who are to blame for discrimination of, and against, the socially and economically powerless-oppressed people in a given country.
F*kc the oppressive right-wingers -- from the wealthy-class knaves, to the working-class fools -- and their social and economic discrimination of all religious, racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities.
F*kc ALL the right-wingers.
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This is Julio.
Last I knew, Julio loved America so much, he decided to leave America under the excuse of 'employment-opportunities' (or so he claimed on-air some months ago).
In reality, Julio probably left America to expand on his Capitalist GRIFTing-opportunities in other countries, while also taking advantage of the Socialist GIFTing-opportunities which those countries provide to their citizens.
In China -- where their elite-class has been financially propped up by the Western elite-class for whom Julio grafts -- Julio's kids would be taken away from him and they would all be put into concentration camps...
/S
I mean, "re-education centers..."
I mean, "holding cells..."
You know, for "safe-keeping" like we're doing to people here in the states. Julio's fine with doing it to strangers here in the states, I'm sure he'd be fine with it him and his family in China...
/S
Sarcasm aside...
Luckily for Julio, he could afford to move his family away from American-authoritarianism to the more Democratic society of Europe.
Luckily for Julio, he comes from a place that Europe doesn't openly discriminate against (yet).
Luckily for Julio, his grafting has furnished him with the ability to take advantage of the best of both socio-politico-economic systems -- the system here in the U.S. which benefits rich-knaves and their poor-fools, and the European system which is more egalitarian -- just as any regular hypocrite would.
Julio is a fool-shill at best, and a knave-propagandist at worst.
Don't be like Julio.
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Pritzker: Wealthy-class right-wing Republican in wealthy-class right-wing Democrat clothing.
Shapiro: Pritzker wannabe.
Whitmer: Who?
Bernie: Wealthy-class right-wing Dems&Repubs will work together (again) to keep him out.
Newsome: Striving to be even more wealthy, like a Pritzker.
Klobuchar: Another Pritzker wannabe.
Pollis: Who?
Harris: The cop who broke up families & damaged communities? No thanks. Also, a Pritzker wannabe.
Booteigeig: The wannabe cop who damaged communities & volunteered to murder working-class strangers abroad? No thanks. Also, a Pritzker wannabe.
America is a sh!tehole because of right-wing politics.
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class and anti-working-class politics.
America is a sh!tehole because of pro-wealthy-class/anti-working-class right-wingers like Pritzker, Shapiro, Newsome, Klobuchar, Harris, Booteigeig, Biden, McConnell, McCarthy, Trump, Bush Jr., Bush Sr., Clintons, Reagan, and Thom Hartmann.
F*kc 'em all.
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For further reading on this topic, seek out books by Diane Ravitch and Jonathan Kozol. I'm sure there are other valid authors on this topic, but those two are well-researched.
My brief, non-professional point of view is as follows:
Lower-class kids go to defunded and destandardized public schools. Those kids are cultivated to become good-soldiers and obedient-workers, and, if they're unlucky, subservient prison-slaves.
Wealthy-class kids go to over-funded and deregulated private schools. Those kids are coddled to become human-manipulators and labor-exploiters, and, if they're lucky, demanding-sociopaths.
(Disclaimer: I understand that my explanation is a broadly-brushed verbal-painting that isn't representative of the entire educational-canvas nor every education-institution. Just most of them.)
This dual education-structure is a means to continue the division between people -- to maintain the hierarchical systems of class and caste -- in which the wealthy-class minority continues to rule and reign over the working-class majority.
By separating and segregating citizens, it serves to keep the working-class majority in constant competition against each other -- elbowing side-to-side at the people who they have the most in common with, kicking down at the least-fortunate in society -- fighting for the falling crumbs from the master's tables.
Many people in American society want to gripe about the lack of "common sense" within society, but I find that most of those people don't seem to have an explanation for how to achieve or maintain common sense.
I would argue that a basis for common sense can be found in the pursuit of common goals. Those common goals should be achieved by the utilization of common knowledge. That common knowledge should be obtained by a common education. That common education should be taught by common teachers who teach common lessons, learned by common children who attend common schools.
But again, I'm no professional.
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@juniorgod321 Your last question first:
"Do you think that things show up out of thin air?"
Of course not, silly. But your beliefs regarding the source of existence matter.
If you believe in religion, you might believe that God created the Earth's food by His own will -- meaning, God spoke the plants, trees, and animals into existence, thus God created the food and other things. Some people might say that God created the food out of thin air.
If you believe in science, you might believe that the Big Bang created the Earth's food by evolution -- meaning, the Big Bang exploded the matter into existence, and evolution caused the plants, trees, and animals to exist, thus science created the food and other things. Some people might say that evolution created food out of thin air. (Note: food literally requires air, which is free, to grow.)
Whether you believe in religion or science, food was literally here before any human was here, and it was not created by the work or capital of any human.
Your first question last:
"Why don't you tell me how can something that requires lots of work and capital can be free?"
Not all food requires lots of work. Certain kinds of food grow on their own, in the wild, without a single human-input. Certain kinds of food-cultivation require lots of work.
Farming is a human-activity. But the food was growing on the Earth naturally before any human was here. Humans simply picked and chose which foods to reproduce.
Humans generally picked the foods that were the easiest to grow with the highest crop-yields. Some simple kinds of farming can be very high-yielding, and those kinds of farming require minimal work.
Not all food requires lots of capital. Certain kinds of operations require lots of capital. Capitalists require lots of capital. Capitalist agri-businesses are human-activities.
But food existed and was growing on the Earth naturally before Capitalists and Capitalism existed. Capitalists just picked and chose the easiest foods to produce the greatest amount of money and incurred the lowest rate of expenses.
Some Capitalist agri-businesses don't put profits above everything, but those businesses are often beaten out by businesses that put profits over people.
Whether you prioritize profits or people, food is going to continue growing on the Earth without a single human input of work or capital, just as it grew before Capitalism and profits were invented.
There is plenty of Earth to grow plenty of food to feed everyone. The only things that get in the way are Capitalists and their lust for profits.
Without the greed of wealthy-class Capitalists, the working-class humans of the world would stand a much better chance of growing enough food for one another, instead of working to grow the profits of and expand the wealth Capitalists.
Glad you asked.
Lastly, what you didn't ask:
Without the profit-motive of Capitalists, we wouldn't have money corrupting the systems which create the primary-necessities of humans; food, clothes, shelter.
But we do have corruption, so the wealthy-class humans get the good food, the good clothes, and the good shelters, while working-class humans get worse, and poor humans get none.
Without the profit-motive of Capitalists, we wouldn't have money corrupting the systems which create the secondary-necessities of humans; healthcare, education, rehabilitation.
But we do have corruption, so the wealthy-class humans get proactive and preventative healthcare while working-class humans get pills that simply mask symptoms instead of healing the disease or attacking the cause of a disease or sickness.
We do have corruption, so the wealthy-class humans get an education where they are taught to be sociopathic exploiters and manipulators of the working-class and the poor. The working-class and poor kids are taught to be good soldiers, obedient workers, and, if unlucky, subjugated prisoners.
The wealthy-class kids are taught that they are to never admit that they might need rehabilitation, while working-class and poor kids get thrown in cages where they are further exploited for their labor.
Wealthy-class Capitalists are going to do whatever they can to make the most money, to maintain their positions of power over the working-class, even if that means that some people starve to death.
You can either be a slave for the wealthy-class, while stepping on your fellow-man in the working-class, or you can work against the wealthy-class to help your fellow-man in the working-class.
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@juniorgod321 -- I think you're mixing up your social structures and your economic structures.
I think your issue is with authoritarianism as opposed to democracy.
America is much more authoritarian than it is democratic, as is proven by the fact that the policies which Americans are in most agreement on, are not the policies that are enacted into law.
But economic issues are different than social issues.
The USSR was, economically, more socialist than present-day America, but the USSR was on par with the authoritarianism of America. The USSR had starving people, and America presently has millions of starving people.
Maybe you don't know any starving people and so you think they don't exist. Some people think that because they have plenty of food themselves, that no one else can be starving, or even rationing food.
Maybe you don't know any jobless people who live in places where there are no more jobs to be had. Some people think that there are plenty of jobs everywhere because they've never had trouble getting one.
Maybe you think the troubled people are troubled because of their own doing, rather than due to social and economic forces over which they have no control. Some people need to see or experience the hardships of authoritarianism and Capitalism themselves to believe that those hardships exist.
Friedman was, by the way, a shill for the wealthy-class. He sought to uphold the hierarchical nature and the segregationist systems by which a small group of people owns and rules over a large group of people who suffers and works.
Under authoritarianism, the social construct, a minority-population thrives as rulers while a majority-population suffers as subjects to be ruled.
Under Capitalism, the economic structure, a minority-population thrives as owners while a majority-population suffers as workers to be owned.
Based on the fact that you're here, in the Youtube comments section, it is easy to understand that you are in the working-class.
But you've succumbed to the propaganda of the wealthy-class.
You think that if you do their bidding that they will welcome you into their club.
You think that effort has more to do with their social and economic positions than luck and, if you just shill hard enough, one day you will be in the same position as they are.
Like Friedman, you think that your position in the hierarchy depends upon your ability to verbally prop it up. But the fact that you're here in the comments section is evidence enough for me to see that you'll never even get to a social or economic position equal to Freidman, and you think that you will.
That is, in fact, what makes you delusional.
But what can I expect to learn or gain from someone who responds so shortsightedly?
As long as you're doing fine, everyone must be doing fine too, or they aren't worth the air they breathe. Right?
Luckily, I don't expect much from economically-Capitalist, socially-authoritarian right-wingers.
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@juniorgod321 Of course, some markets are less-regulated, or regulated in different ways, but no markets are unregulated.
And I have taken into consideration that some countries make it easier to start businesses than other countries.
For example, in China, the ability to start a business in the Special Economic Zones is greater than outside of the Special Economic Zones.
Inside the Special Economic Zones, the systems are more Capitalistic, but they aren't unregulated. Outside of the Special Economic Zones, the systems are more geared toward Socialism, but they aren't completely authoritarian.
China is a mix of Capitalism and Socialism, but nowhere near the stateless, classless, moneyless society as defined under Communism. Pure Communism exists exactly nowhere, just like complete Capitalism exists nowhere. But that's another story.
However, regardless of which country you use as an example, poverty exists exactly everywhere. There is not a country on the face of the planet where poverty does not exist.
And if there is a correlation between the ease of starting a business and the lack of poverty, I would like to see that data. I'm sure you'll be happy to send that data this way.
I think what you mean to say is this: "in the countries where there’s more freedom to start a business than others, the standards of living are a lot higher" FOR A SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE.
I would contend that the small group of people, who have a higher standard of living, are exactly the problem.
The small group of people only become more well-off because of the value produced by workers. Whether it's a single business owner or a group of stockholders who own a business together, they only achieve a standard of living that is higher because of the workers who create the higher standard of living for them.
Without workers who mine and extract raw materials, there would be no raw materials to make goods.
Without workers who use raw materials to make goods, there would be no goods to sell.
Without workers creating goods to sell, business owners would just be another human.
If you think a singular person deserves to own raw materials -- raw materials which they did not create -- then that is a very elevated place you have put one human over another.
If you think any human is worth more than another human -- when we all came out of the same kind of hole -- then that is a very elevated place you have put one human over another.
If you think that one human is the only human capable of coming up with an idea -- and that their idea makes them more valuable than other humans -- then that is a very elevated place you have put one human over another.
If you think that your worth as a human comes from your ideas, from your ability to impose those ideas on other humans, or from your ability to persuade humans to create the value behind your ideas, just so you can pocket the currency that is produced by their labor, just so that YOU can have a higher standard of living, then that is a very elevated place you have put yourself over other humans.
We have names for people like that -- sociopath, egotist, exploiter, manipulator, conceited, self-aggrandizing -- mentally ill.
Personally, I don't believe in caging humans as a form of "rehabilitation" but these terms that we have come up with to describe terrible humans are exactly the humans for whom the cages should be utilized.
And FYI, I don't care where you come from. It's clear that you think you're better and worth more than other humans, and that you equate your worth as a human to the amount of money that you have. But you would be nowhere without other humans.
And, no matter how much money you have, you got that money in a society that is a mix of Capitalism and Socialism. Everything you have was built by inputs from Socialism.
You aren't a nation unto thyself. You utilize public goods and services every day.
You aren't on a deserted island. You utilize goods and services, that are created off the backs of other humans labor, every single day.
You're just another human, surrounded by other humans, and the thing that makes you a unique-outlier is your willingness to give no credit to the society or community in which you exploit other humans.
I do find it blissfully ignorant of you, though, to support a "free-market" (where a "free-market" doesn't actually exist) in a country where the political-party that touts the "free-market" is also the political-party made up of humans who despise and work to disparage immigrants -- the same political-party that would have you deported just as soon as they no longer had any use for you.
I didn't say ALL people who have suffered ARE better people. I implied that SOME people who have suffered have a TENDANCY to be better people.
SOME people who have suffered do their best to stop the cycle of trauma and human suffering with themselves. They comprehend their own traumas and suffering, and they try not to impose any further trauma or suffering on any other humans.
But SOME people who have suffered turn into terrible narcissistic, abusive, arrogant, vain, psychopaths who take out their past traumas and pains on other humans, from the exploitation of other humans for their labor to the murder and genocide of other humans. The only question I have, is how far are you willing to go?
I would say this, though: Assuming you're not a lying scumbag (like nearly every other Capitalist I've ever known), and you actually are a millionaire, you must live quite a dark, dreary, dull, dismal, and disgusting existence, devolving into the dense-doldrums of desperation, if you're wasting your time seeking attention from me and the other workers down here in the labor-sweat of the Youtube comments section.
But you can stop wasting your time.
You surely aren't going to convince any decent human being down here in the comments section of your lofty existence, nor of your right to own the Earth or portions of it, nor of your worth being greater than that of any other human, nor of your right to live a higher standard of living than any other human being.
Our bodies all came from the same kind of hole, and our bodies are going back to the same kind of dirt.
I hope you can find long-term peace and contentment in the acquisition of serotonin, in replacement of your short-term pursuits of hedonism and accumulation in your chaotic quest for dopamine.
Peace and contentment are all we have to offer down here.
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Isn't Ben Jealous the guy who capitulated to the wealthy-class, right-wing, Yt-supremacists who own the Democrat-Party?(See Edit-1) Just like Tom Perez did, and Jamie Harrison is doing?
Maybe I'm thinking of another class&race traitor who has capitulated to wealthy-class right-wing, Yt-supremacists who own the Democrat-Party. Just like the class&race traitors Candace Owens, Larry Elder, Jesse Lee Peterson, and (in)Justice (uncle)Thomas have capitulated to the wealthy-class, right-wing, Yt-supremacists who own the Republic-Party.
Edit-1: I was wrong. I was mixing up Ben Jealous with Keith Ellison. It was Ellison who shilled for the wealthy-class, right-wing, Yt-supremacists who own the Democrat-Party.
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Biden is a right-wing Dem. He's setting up the right-wing Repubs for a win. Biden is controlled by wealthy right-wingers, just like Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, (injustice)Clarence (uncle)Thomas, & most of the rest of Congress & SCOTUS. Wealthy right-wingers are winners whether a right-wing Repub or right-wing Dem is in office. So Biden the right-winger is doing what he's told to do by the wealthy right-wingers -- He is/They are setting up the win for right-wing Repubs.
Edit: This wealthy-right-wing authoritarian bullsh!t has been dominant throughout history. It's not rocket science.
If the wealthy-right-wingers fail at getting a right-wing Repub elected, they don't care. Because they'll have a right-wing Dem in office.
And, if a right-wing (anti)Libertarian gets elected, they still won't care, because the (anti)Libertarian party is bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the same wealthy right-wingers as the Dem&Repub party. Same goes for that "No Labels" bullsh!t.
And if a left-wing, third-party candidate is elected, the right-wingers still won't care, because they'll still have a Congress full of bought, owned, bribed and controlled right-wing Dems&Repubs in office to stifle any third-party candidate who gets elected.
Or, the wealthy-right-wingers will use their media companies to instigate the most ignorant, most violent and vile working-class fools to maim and/or murder any left-wing, third-party candidate who gets elected.
This wealthy-right-wing authoritarian bullsh!t has been dominant throughout history. It's not rocket science.
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Right-wingers (the wealthy-class knaves and their working-class fools) would ask: "Did you alien-guys come in the right-legal way? Where are your papers? Do you have a job?"
The right-wing, working-class fools would say: "You alien-guys can't come in here if you don't have a job, and you can't get a job if you don't have papers, and you can't get papers if you didn't come in the right-legal way, but you can't even come in if you don't have a job."
The right-wing, wealthy-class knaves would say:"We think it's time for you alien-guys to leave, or step into these steel-chains and concrete-cages, or climb into these one-way wooden-boxes we plan to bury. We were going to use them for our own working-class fools, but we'll just get those morons to build more. Hey, do you guys have any resources we can pillage, or any young, old, or disabled we can exploit? What do you all have between your legs?"
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All right-wingers -- from the working-class dupes to the wealthy-class knaves -- are the worst, most mentally-ill members of society. The duped working-class right-wingers volunteer to act as the violent human-buffers between the rest of the working-class and the wealthy right-wing knaves. They are all psychopaths.
The right-wing slave-patrollers from the past are called police-patrollers in the present. They were and are psychopaths.
The right-wing Confederate & Nazi soldiers from the past are called Republican and Conservative soldiers in the present. They were and are psychopaths.
The right-wingers are trying to conserve the politics of authoritarianism, race-supremacy, patriarchy, misogyny, greed, addiction, and violence, which are all inherent traits of right-wing ideologies, such as Capitalism, Feudalism, and Monarchism.
The working-class volunteer to be brutal thugs against their fellow working-class mates, and they do it all for a few extra crumbs from the tables of their wealthy right-wing masters. They are all psychopaths.
This psychopathic right-wing humansh!t has been going on for centuries.
I agree with the OP's sentiments.
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That is an ignorant comment.
Lowes & Home Depot are BOTH corporations owned by wealthy right-wingers.
RIght-wing politics are pro-corporate/anti-small-business politics.
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class/anti-working-class politics.
The police patrollers are the modern-day version of slave patrollers from the past.
The police patrollers and slave patrollers are/were the working-class thugs who are/were hired to oppress other working-class people.
The slave patrollers of the past were funded by wealthy people to protect the "property" of the wealthy, and to bring back chattel-slaves when the chattel-slaves ran away.
The police patrollers of the present are funded by the wage-slaves and debt-slaves who pay the most taxes -- working-class people literally pay to be oppressed by the dumbest working-class people who have been given a few extra crumbs and shiny badges.
The police patrollers job is to agitate and arrest debt-slaves and wage-slaves from the working-class.
Then, after they are arrested, those debt & wage slaves can be turned into chattel-slaves to be thrown into modern-day plantations known as for-profit "prisons."
The for-profit prisons are corporations.
And the prison-corporations are owned by wealthy right-wingers.
Just like plantation-corporations were owned by wealthy right-wingers.
Just like Lowes & Home Depot are corporations owned by wealthy right-wingers.
The wealthy right-wingers own Lowes, Home Depot, and prisons. They don't give a flying f*kc if people working-class wage & debt slaves are arrested, because, then they can be turned into chattel-slaves for free labor.
The wealthy right-wingers who own Lowes & Home Depot benefit from this oppression -- they are modern-day slave-drivers, slave-owners, land-property owners, and prison-plantation owners.
Now you've been educated -- it's up to you to stop saying ignorant things.
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Dear Hakim,
You have saved me in the past, and I'm glad to see you saving others in the present.
I want to thank you again for saving me from wasting my time analyzing Vaush. I do not doubt that your video(s) on Vaush saved many other folks from wasting precious time as well.
Unfortunately, though, I had to learn about David Pakman the hard way. I am not ashamed to say that I wasted a lot of time viewing his content. Thankfully I haven't wasted any time on Pakman in over a year. Here's to hoping that this video saves many other folks from falling victim to his lure.
Additionally, I wasted a lot of time on Brian Tyler Cohen, but I came to the correct conclusion about him too. He coddles Democrats who are very much like Republicans. His subscriber-count has continued to climb while other creators' subscriber-counts have stagnated. Add to those two things his ties to the entertainment-industrial-complex, and you have a third strike where only one was necessary.
But perhaps other people are stuck in Cohen's rut, similar to Pakman. Maybe you could do a video about Cohen's neolib dip-shittary as well.
Again, thank you for your work.
I pray for good health and safety for you and your family, Hakim.
Sincerely, your brother in humanity,
Matthew
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@buddygrimfield7954 Yup, and they both have more in common with the wealthy-class than they do with the working-class. They are all corrupt-RWers, and that includes Trump, Biden, Obama, the Clinton's, the Bush's, Pelosi, McCarthy, Johnson, Schumer, and McConnell. BOTH parties in the US are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
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Cenk is a self-proclaimed Capitalist who has denounced socialism.
Capitalism is a RW-economic system, and, thus, Cenk is a RWer, whether he's willing or smart enough to admit it. Ana is riding his coattails, and he'll never fire her because [a]they agree on so much, and[b]he knows how petty, vindictive, & jealous she is. She'd sue if she got fired, whether she had a real, legitimate reason or not.
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@ANewPlace That's okay. I probably wouldn't have believed your "citations", anyway. I can't find any literature, or any person, making the claim you made. Besides that, I know people who've gotten help from the Fed&State Gov't without incident. On top of that, you admitted that "they" offered help, but you refused it. That wasn't an intelligent decision if you were actually in need. My only further queries, should you choose to engage, would be:
[1]Do you vote?
[2]How long have you been voting?
[3]What political-party do you subscribe to? ("Independent" is not an answer -- there are NO "Independent" parties in the US, just like there aren't any "Socialist" or "Communist" parties in the US, either.)
[4]Which politicians -- POTUS, VPOTUS, Representatives, & Senators -- have you voted for in the past?
[5]Which politicians -- POTUS, VPOTUS, Representatives, & Senators -- did you vote for in the most recent elections?
I look forward to your replies, but, really, if you're in such desperation, you don't have to bother appeasing my curiosity.
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Heidi Hietkcamp is a Republican dressed in Democrat clothing, just like Pelosi, Hoyer, Clyburn, Jeffries, Schumer, Durbin, Murray, and Klobuchar. They're all wealthy-class right-wingers, just like the McConnell, McCarthy, Scalise, Stefanik, Cruz, Rubio, Scott, and Trump. Americans are duped by TWO right-wing political parties.
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It IS what they are paid to do. Wealthy-class billionaires fund the campaigns of wealthy-class millionaires like Pelosi, McConnell, McCarthy, Schumer, and many others, to be the leadership of BOTH American political parties.
In exchange for the campaign funds, the millionaires do what the billionaires tell them to do. In exchange for doing what the millionaires are told, the billionaires give jobs to the family members of the millionaires in congress. Then, when the millionaires in congress leave congress, they are given jobs by the billionaires.
It's a vicious cycle, and those aren't even all the moving parts. I only explained a few piece of it.
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A community should be able to initiate the division of a couple/relationship, particularly if/when a couple/relationship becomes toxic to the community, especially for the sake of children.
Under a system like that, my parents could have been divorced for numerous reasons on countless occasions. For examples:
1. After the first of the many times that my mother literally begged my father to hit her. She tried goading him into hitting her for years. He never did hit her though.
But I had to watch her purposefully manipulate him for years, and no kid should have to watch that kind of mind-f*kcing .
2. After the first of many times that my mother tricked me and my siblings into not reporting her to Child Protective Services for abusing us.
She would say things like, "they're just going to come and take you away."
She said it that way on purpose, to make us think it was our fault. Because, as kids, most of us get taught that when bad people do the wrong things, the cops come and take the wrong-doers away.
So, by telling us that "they" were going to "take us away," she tricked us into believing that we were the ones in the wrong.
Then, there was another thing she started doing.
When we would threaten to call CPS on her, she would say the 1-800-number out loud, like she had it memorized. Or, she would write the number on a piece of paper and hand it to us. It was as if she was daring us to call.
Looking back, I don't know if she did that because she believed that we wouldn't call or because she wouldn't have cared if we did call. (It's difficult, and probably futile, to try deciphering the specific and primary motives of consumer-driven socio/psychopathic narcissists.)
But she knew we were more scared of being taken away than we were of her abuse because she had already implanted the fear of "them" taking us away into our minds.
We didn't want to get taken away -- we just wanted the abuse to stop. And we were only scared because we didn't know any better.
Like, sure, for argument's sake, the foster-care system is a gamble. But we didn't know that as young kids in the 1980s.
And, besides, also for the sake of argument, which scenario is actually worse: Staying in an abusive situation or gambling on being moved to a less abusive situation?
Staying in an abusive situation isn't ideal, but neither is gambling. And no kid should have to make that choice.
Anyway. My mother played these manipulative mind-games on us until we stopped threatening to report her abuse. Instead of reporting her, we "learned" to live with the unreasonable and illogical abuse by succumbing to it.
I often wonder what could've been different for me if I would've rolled the dice and made the call to CPS.
Oh, goodness. That was quite a digression from my main point. I'll get back to it and conclude.
Perhaps my parents should have been forced to get a divorce after my mother was provably neglecting me and after she rendered my father into a perception of powerlessness to do anything about it.
You might be asking yourself, "what, why, how?" Well, then, here are your answers.
3. After I almost lost my tongue was two years old.
I was in the garage alone. (WHAT?) Then I climbed up on the four-foot-tall workbench. (WHY?) Then I fell off the bench and slammed my chin onto the concrete floor, nearly biting my tongue in half. (HOW?)
4. Or, the time I ate mothballs.
5. Or, the time I ate rat poisoning.
6 Or, the time I drank ammonia.
7. Or, the time I drank bleach.
8. Or, the time I ate a bottle of children's aspirin. (Which didn't even happen, because I clearly remember pouring the pills down the drain. But I got caught with the empty bottle by my neglectful biatch-mother, so I got treated as if I had eaten the whole bottle).
9. Or, when I was 7 years old, my doctor admonished my mother for allowing me to become obese, at which point my mother stopped using that doctor to prevent the doctor from recording a paper trail of my mother's nutritional-negligence.
10. Or, when my relatives and neighbors started molesting me.
Perhaps my parents should have been forced to get a divorce after one of those instances. Or maybe their divorce should have been required after...
11. ...my mother's first year of doctor-enabled opioid addiction. Maybe that would be a good precursor, indicating that someone would turn into a sh!te-mother and wife.
She's now 40+ years into a doctor-enabled opioid addict. Maybe that's a good clue, explaining why she's still a sh!te-human today.
If you're still asking yourself, "what, why, and how?" The answers are all easy and the same -- because my mother was too busy getting high on opioids to take care of herself and the vulnerable humans she was supposed to protect.
Certainly, there must be something on my list that would incite more than questions, like, what, why, and how"?
Surely, there must be something on my list that would move the better, caring members of the community to seek action, to end my parent's relationship and the misery it brought upon me and others.
There has to be something that will compel the working-class drones into action to protect children.
But, as of today: Nope!
Children are left to suffer without escape.
And these ignorant working-class adults keep pumping out innocent working-class children to continue the suffering. As if there's some magic number of suffering children that, if reached, will make the suffering of working-class adults disappear.
I don't say all these things to get sympathy for me. I don't need it now. But I do say these things to incite empathy for the children who are suffering RIGHT NOW.
I wouldn't change my childhood. My suffering gave me the sense of perception to grasp who is at fault for my suffering. The people at fault are those like J.D. Vance.
And my opening point remains the same:
There should be a system in place whereby the people of a community can initiate the division of a couple/relationship, particularly if/when a couple/relationship becomes toxic to the community, especially for the sake of children.
Until better times, I'll be preaching antinatalism and celibacy.
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When the bills being voted on are full of unmentioned, unpublicized, right-wing, wealthy-class extremism, it doesn't matter what caucus you're apart of.
It only matters which caucus you were sucking on, in private, when the bill was being written.
99% of Republic-party legislators are corrupted by money in politics, along with, probably, around 90-95% of Democrat-party legislators.
Thom saying that only a few Democrats are holding up these Infrastructure Bills makes him a fool or a knave.
A fool, because maybe he doesn't know that a wide variety of Dem-legislators vote with Repub-legislators ALL THE EFFING TIME.
Or
A knave, because Thom actually DOES know that a wide variety of Dem-legislators vote with Repub-legislators ALL THE EFFING TIME, but he pretends not to know because he benefits from their corruption.
I have a hard time believing Thom is just a fool.
Whether Thom is a fool or a knave, it's time for a new line of work.
A majority of Americans might CLAIM be "done with corruption" but actions speak louder than words. So don't forget about the MILLIONS who acted by voting for corruption over the last 50 years.
If you voted for any candidate from either of the two monopoly-parties, as they masqueraded as a duopoly, you voted for corruption, because you're either a fool who didn't know any better or a knave who benefited.
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If you go back about ten seconds (2:50), you'll hear him use these things called; "contextual identifiers." Contextual Identifiers are necessary for listening and reading comprehension.
In context, during the video, they discuss Conviction Rates, Charging Rates, and Reporting Rates. Those three contextual identifiers are important. Conviction Rates, Charging Rates, and Reporting Rates are not the same.
He did not "admit rape is up," as you have misidentified. In context, he said:
"CONVICTION RATES for homicide cases have increased."
"CHARGING RATES" for drug sales and sexual assaults have increased."
Conviction Rates go up if the Reported Cases are investigated with integrity by the police, who then bring the cases to prosecutors, who then lay the charges based on the quality of the police investigations.
Charging Rates go up if the police do a good job investigating the crimes that are reported by citizens and victims.
Reporting Rates will only go up if crimes are actually being committed, and if the citizens and victims feel that a dignified police force will actually put in the work when the citizens and victims report crimes.
Again, Conviction Rates, Charging Rates, and Reporting Rates are not the same. Conviction and Charging Rates could be up while the number of Reported Cases could be down in comparison to prior years.
As for the different methods utilized to deter crime in various jurisdictions, the data are already in: Caging humans doesn't prevent crime. Caging humans increases crime.
If caging humans was an effective crime deterrent, there would be data to support it throughout the thousands of years that humans have been caging other humans.
But that data doesn't exist. Because caging humans isn't rehabilitative. Caging humans is torture. Confinement is torture. And humans who are tortured often seek retribution.
And, so, better people in better places are trying to prioritize rehabilitation and eliminate recidivism.
Although, based on your screen name and the fact that you just joined YouTube two months ago, I'm guessing that context, integrity, and rehabilitation aren't priorities of yours.
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TYT taking money from corrupt rich people, w/ their corrupt RW-politics, is part of what has ruined TYT. Besides that, Cenk is a self-proclaimed Capitalist, and Capitalism is a RW-system, just like Monarchism, Feudalism, Corporatism & Fascism. All of the RW-political-systems are just systems of slavery with different names, and Cenk wants the moderate-RW politics of Capitalist-slavery, but not the RW-extremist politics of Fascist-slavery.
I've been watching TYT for over a decade. Cenk used to be center-left, advocating for social-democracy and/or democratic-socialism, but he dragged the audience to the center-right, advocating for capitalism. Capitalism is an authoritarian system -- that is antithetical to democratism/democracy -- just like ALL of the RW-political-systems.
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@Einzige We all have deficiencies, and I was aware of Hasan's before you felt it necessary to bring it up.
The point is, he has assumed a position of power, and with that comes responsibility.
If he can't take the slight-heat of critiques, he'll get out of the fire and make room for better people who can.
If he has no interest in becoming better -- changing his format, paying the fck attention to his work, taking it more seriously, suppressing his mirth -- then hopefully the free-marketplace of ideas will find those who do.
Critiques aren't insults, but, where I come from, calling someone "addlebrained" is.
Hope your input made you feel better.
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@fredo3161 Anyone who's spent time in a reputable classroom beyond high school knows that Wikipedia isn't an acceptable source of information due to its RIGHT-WING BIAS.
Anyone without a right-wing, wealthy-class propagandized brain, who's spent time outside the U.S. -- or in the presence of actual working-class conscious leftists -- knows that every MSM source in the U.S. is a right-wing source.
The leadership of both major parties is all right-wingers. They're all from the wealthy-class.
Wealthy-class politics are right-wing politics.
Corporate-politics are right-wing politics.
Fascist-politics are right-wing politics.
Capitalism is right-wing politics.
Bankers, financiers, the KKK, and Nazis cling to right-wing politics.
Right-wing politics are the catalyst for the mob-rule of the wealthy-class minority, and they utilize working-class fools as the mob. Every class-conscious person understands this.
This is why the working-class in other, better countries laugh at the U.S.
You have gone-done let yourselves become ruled by two right-wing wealthy-class parties.
You've been convinced to sell out your families, friends, and neighbors for a few extra crumbs. Worse than that, many of you are willing to do much worse than sell them out.
It won't be long until the better parts of the world do the same thing to the right-wing U.S. that was done to right-wing Germany in WW2.
I'll be surprised if this posts, because the YT cents'r'ship alg-rhythms are designed and regulated by corporate right-wingers. Just like Facebook, Twitter, etc. Oh yeah, technocrat-politics are right-class politics, too.
If this does post, you owe me for the best education you've ever gotten.
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[1]Cenk is a self-proclaimed Capitalist. [2]Capitalism is a RW-economic system (just like Corporatism, Fascism, Monarchism). [3]RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class politics & anti-working-class politics. [4]Cenk is a Capitalist & a member of the wealthy-class, and, thus, he is a RWer,
Furthermore; moderate-RW Capitalists (like Cenk) will always capitulate to the RW-extremist Fascists & Corporatists before they EVER side with ANY position of LW-politics that would truly benefit the working-class.
Cenk's lifestyle-addictions, and those of the wealthy-class, depend on the inherent corruption & inequality of RW-politics. Cenk, and his wealthy-class mates, will NEVER willingly give up their lifestyle-addiction & they will NEVER seek treatment for their associated mental-illness.
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Imagine, being a working-class fool who is in favor of the pro-wealthy-class/anti-working-class nature of right-wing politics, while not being able to comprehend (a)how you're one of the primary catalysts for planetary-sh!t, or (b)what a piece of human-sh!t you are?
Imagine being pro-parasitic-economic-liberalism and anti-sustainable-economic-collectivism; pro-lazy and anti-labor; pro-autocracy and anti-democracy; pro-mob-rule and anti-majority-rule; pro-capitalism-to-fascism; pro-segregation; pro-inequality.
Imagine being all that and not being able to comprehend how Capitalism only and always leads to enslavement -- chattel-slaves, wage-slaves, debt-slaves -- which is the exact opposite of the libertarian concept.
The blissful ignorance of duped, working-class, American Libertarians would be adorable if they weren't such deplorables -- monarchists, corporatists, parasites, groomers -- who are the promote the opposite of the libertarian concept.
The American-Libertarian right-wingers could ask the right-wing 1930-1945 Nazi Army or the right-wing 1861-1865 Confederate Army what happens to right-wingers like them. All they have to do is find a Nazi or a Confederate.
In fact, that would be a good way to keep the moronic, working-class, American-Libertarians busy: send them out to find a Nazi or Confederate soldier. 😂
While moronic, working-class, American-Libertarians are out looking, it would give the better, smarter, working-class American-majority an opportunity to put the wealthy-class addicts into reeducation and rehabilitation centers.
Or, if the wealthy-class addicts prefer to remain uncivilized, they can go into one of the millions of for-profit cages they've built to enslave working-class people.
Then, after the parasitic, wealthy-class minority has been dealt with, the better, smarter working-class people can deal with the duped working-class class-traitors (like Galt) who strive to be like the parasitic wealthy-class addicts.
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This is RW-politics in action. Police-patrols are modern slave-patrols. The RW-Confederacy didn't lose the Civil War; they just pretended to forfeit, then scattered themselves across the country, and then continued to play outside of the original field. And now, ALL working-class people are considered slaves, not just people from a specific race. You working-class dupes who keep voting for the RW-extremist Re[pubs & the moderate-RW Dems should stop with the gadget-screens and sports-ball entertainment, and start educating yourselves about political-theory and the historical & international contexts of politics. Maybe if you weren't so ignorant, you'd stop voting for your own enslavement, and that of your family, friends, & neighbors. Again, it is not only the Confederate-states that are sewage-pits of RW-politics -- the entire US is a RW-sh!tehole because of (a)the corrupt, wealthy-class knaves & their corrupt RW-politics, and (b)the ignorant working-class dupes who support the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
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@kennethmarshall306 Still, whatever you "thought" about his wearing of hats, your expression is, at best, foolish like school-yard bullies on one hand, and, at worst, as menacing as right-wing authoritarianism on the other hand.
School-yard bullies: (Amused) Look at Jimmy's clothes, everybody! Stupid Jimmy! You SHOULDN'T wear those clothes, Jimmy! Haaaaha!
Right-wing authoritarians: (Angered) Look at those religions. Look at those races. Look at those poor people. DON'T practice those religions. DON'T allow those races to be equal. DON'T help those poor people. And whatever you do, DON'T listen to those people because they can't possibly have any insight as to how to make a better, more equitable society.
Now, Kenneth, I'm not trying to be superior or anything. I'm not perfect. I used to think the same thing and feel the same way about Rashad Robinson. He wears a hat all the time, and I don't think he's trying to hide his head.
But I realized, Rashad is accessorizing, just like the majority of people do in developed nations. We are constantly being propagandized with ads and inundated with new purchasable-addictions by the wealthy-class, and it becomes difficult to break the dopamine-addiction associated with purchasing things.
I mean, I despise hoarding. Unnecessary trinkets and gadgets are a great way to distract the working-class majority from wielding their power.
But having a cluttered house gives people a cluttered head, distractions everywhere people look, unable to concentrate on anything important.
And cluttered heads make for cluttered hearts, judgments to give and receive everywhere people turn, unable to care about other humans for the simple fact they are human.
Do I like that Rashad wears hats? No. But I realized it's not a hill to die on, nor even a point worth bringing up.
Do I like that people are duped into becoming consumption-addicts? No. But I realized it's not a hill to die on, nor even a point worth bringing up.
Why not?
Because, even though Rashad wears a hat, which I currently find pointless and maybe even useless, I've been persuaded to care less about the hat, especially if he were hiding some self-consciousness under that hat.
Because even though people are hoarders of resources that serve no necessitating purpose -- like food, clothes, shelter, education, healthcare, rehabilitation, and community -- I have been persuaded to care less about the trinkets and gadgets people buy.
Why?
Because people are only doing what their lived-experiences compel and, in many cases, coerce them to do.
Just because I think people are foolish for wasting their money on non-necessities (I do it too, even if to a lesser degree), that doesn't mean those people aren't valuable.
Just because I don't like Rashad's hat (I used to wear hats too, I even still have some, decades-old, just in case I ever find a purpose for them), that doesn't make Rashad's words of his lived-experiences any less valuable.
I now have sympathy/empathy for those who have been propagandized and indoctrinated, coerced into believing that purchasing and having stuff is a source of happiness (short-term happiness and long-term contentment are very different things).
I try to not offend my working-class mates (the hoarders and hatters) because they are valuable. I could learn something from them. I might even be able to teach them something. But that's unlikely if I go around criticizing people's hat-hoards.
It takes a practiced gentleness to make a connection with people that might lead to mutual respect and a sharing of lived-experiences. Maybe some people would think that I'm not being gentle or respectful. That decision is up to the person based on their lived-experiences, and I'm glad to share a bit of mine, even if others are not.
I've digressed.
The same way people have been propagandized and indoctrinated regarding wasteful-consumerism, people have also been propagandized and indoctrinated when it comes to the news, information dissemination, and critical thinking altogether.
Our society is molded by the wealthy-class who own the main-stream-media. That wealthy-class has used their wealth (which they manipulatively-extracted from the working-class via exploitative-practice) to pay other working-class people, to sit in a nice suit (sans hats), behind nice desks on fabricated-stages and read the talking-points of the wealthy-class.
Our society has been trained, tricked, compelled, coerced, duped, devolved, and so on, into believing that our working-class mates who wear "daft hats" are "less-serious" -- and that training has been at the hands of the wealthy-class minority to the detriment of the working-class majority.
Listen, I get it. Really, I do. As I said before, I used to think the same thing that you typed. But I realized that some people have a preference for hats like I have a propensity to dislike them.
But those people's desire and wanting for hats is as trained as my disdain was for "serious people" wearing them.
Now, I probably couldn't care less about the hats.
I care more about the wealthy-class getting wealthier from hats.
I care more about the wealthy-class who purposely want me to take my working-class mates who wear hats less seriously.
I care more about the wealthy-class who have aimed to dumb-down the working-king class and pit us against one another over something as trivial as a head covering.
Anyway, at this point, if you're still reading, you're probably either offended, bored, or both.
I didn't intend tho offend, and I can certainly understand being bored.
So I'll close here.
If you're still here, I bid you good day, sir.
P.S. Sorry if this doesn't read easily. I tried my best to make it easy.
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As a (non-voting) Christian with a leftist (not liberal) political ideology who is stuck in rural Trump-country, surrounded by right-wingers who claim to be Christians, I agree with the sentiments of your statement.
These people have hurt me, tutored me, and basically turned me into an indentured servant because they know I have no where to go and no way to get there. Yet, I can still say, without a doubt, they are victims just as much as they are suspects.
Their inability to read for comprehension has inhibited their prospects of ever thinking critically.
Anyone could move into this area, start a church, give it a Jesus-like name, and they could literally convince these idiots to murder their friends, families, neighbors, and entire communities, because 'God said so.'
I'm a victim of victims who don't know any better, because they've been indoctrinated with anti-Christ hate by charlatan-suspects who claim to be Christians in God's love.
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The wealthy-class masters have co-opted enough working-class laborers to set up all of the private flying infrastructure they need. The rest of the working-class doesn't need to be flying anywhere, there's work to be done. We don't need more stinkin' pilots.
1st sentence: Not sarcastic.
2nd sentence: Not sarcastic.
3rd sentence: Not sarcastic.
All 3 sentences: Slightly sarcastic.-- not so much the first sentence.
In all seriousness; my following opinions aren't popular with the wealthy-class addicts who benefit from flying, nor with working-class people who are striving to achieve the same addictions as the wealthy-class.
Humans are supposed to stay on the ground.
The primary benefits of flying are economic, and those benefits go to the wealthy-class. Working-class people think they benefit from flying, but the costs outweigh the benefits.
The negative results of flying are burdens on communities, society at large, and the environment.
I disagree with Jordan. People don't need to fly. People don't need to get places.
People need to create palatable personal spaces, functional familial/friend group homes, and collective communities.
Garbage-people need to stop pushing vulnerable-people out of their homes and communities, and garbage-people need to stop being allowed to bring their garbage-selves into other communities.
Dunbar's Number: Learn it. Live it.
Antinatalism, too.
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@lepidoptera9337 You do know that your poor syntax gives you away as a substandard, white-privileged writer, right? :-)
I've read a bunch of your replies, and what I've gathered is that you are incapable of making it clear who you really are, what you believe in, where you stand, why you're here, and how you think.
I can't tell if you're a shill, trolling for the wealthy-class.
I can't tell if you're bored, throwing word-crap against the comments-wall.
I can't tell if you're lonely, hoping that someone, anyone, will reply.
I can't tell if you're like JGalt, Clare Stucki, Son of the Republic, juniorgod, or chuck leaf, or one of the many other right-wing extremist class-traitors who come through here.
What is evident, and common among the previously mentioned dupes, is that you put forth the least amount of effort into your comments and responses as possible.
I hope no one is paying you, because, if they are, they're getting ripped off.
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Ha! Ana is a talk-show host who can BARELY read the news that is written by actual journalists -- she bumbles words ALL the time, and she has ALL DAY to prepare. Trump can BARELY speak -- he bumbles sentences ALL the time, and he has ALL the time he wants to prepare. But Newsom is incompetent? Riiiiight. Newsom definitely sucks, but so does Trump, and so does Ana. She should keep throwing those stones from her glass-house in a dry-desert, girl-boss! 🤣
Furthermore: Cenk, Ana, Newsom, and Bass are ALL Capitalists (Newsom might be a Corporatist, and Trump is a Fascist). Capitalism, Corporatism, & Fascism are ALL RW-political-systems. And, thus, Cenk, Ana, Newsom, Bass, and Trump are ALL RWers.
Congratulations, Jeff... 🥳
...you're a moron. 🙄
You're exactly the kind of working-class dupe that your corrupt, wealthy-class masters have designed you to be, with their corrupt RW-politics of imposed ignorance, fear, anger, & hate. 😒
🤢🤮
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Richard, Thom did a segment on Medicare Advantage recently (he talks about it a lot).
I believe that by signing up for Medicare Advantage plans (offered by private, for-profit corporations with no accountability) which you must pay extra for, then you waive your rights to unconditional future enrollment in Medicare (which is public, non-profit, and transparent) which you have already paid for your entire life.
Again, I think that by signing up for Medicare Advantage with a private company, and then trying to switch to Medicare with the government, this allows the government to refuse you based on the quality of your health, just like private insurers are allowed to refuse to pay for your care.
I could be wrong. I hope I am.
Now, you might be wondering, "Why would the government be allowed to refuse my enrollment in Medicare?" Answer: Because people like Charles Sauer -- corrupt, devious people who have many addictions to pay for -- are allowed to write the laws.
I know everyone's situation is different, but wtf were you thinking?
If you're healthy, what are you getting from Medicare Advantage besides, maybe, dental and vision, and how much are you paying the Medicare Advantage company? I'm guessing thousands of dollars per year.
One out-of-pocket eye-doctor appointment per year: couple hundred bucks, at most?
You can buy eyeglasses online for a tenth to a quarter of the price you get them in a retail store (see Zenni Optical online).
One out-of-pocket dental appointment per year: couple hundred bucks, at most?
Your primary doctor, local hospital and emergency room can handle any major issues.
They won't let your teeth just fall out of your head, although they will help you get them removed if need be.
If you're healthy, you're paying the Medicare Advantage company for nothing, and if you're not healthy, they can refuse to pay for any care anyway.
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A bunch of working-class dupes whose ignorance would be blissfully-adorable if they weren't so abhorrently-deplorable.
A bunch of working-class dupes who don't realize that they're the slaves doing the bidding of wealthy right-wing masters.
A bunch of working-class dupes who don't realize they're doing exactly what the wealthy-right-wingers want.
A bunch of working-class dupes, tricked by right-wing extremist Republicans and right-wing moderate Democrats.
A bunch of working-class dupes who don't comprehend The Paradox of Tolerance.
You see, currently, the better people of the world are simply tolerating the right-wing sh!theads in the right-wing American toilet.
But, eventually, the better people of the world are going to flush you, just like the better people of the world flushed the right-wing Confederates and right-wing Nazis.
And when the better people of the world come to flush the American sh!thole, the wealthy-right-wingers are going to sneak out the backdoor, just like the wealthy-right-wing Confederates and Nazis snuck out the backdoor.
And, when the wealthy-right-wingers sneak out the backdoor, you working-class American dupes, who voted for right-wing Repubs and right-wing Dems, are going to be left holding the metaphorical-bag, just like the working-class Confderate&Nazi dupes were left holding the metaphorical-bag.
I only hope I live long enough to see it.
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@rainbowwarrior3570 You don't comprehend that Newsom is a moderate-RWer, do you? 😊 You're incapable of conceptualizing that RW-politics are anti-working-class & pro-wealthy-class politics, and that Newsom is a member of the wealthy-class, aren't you? 🙃 You've been tricked, like so many other working-class dupes, into thinking that Newsom is a "Marxist", haven't you? 🤪
The corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics are overdone on this plant, and your nonsensical reply is all the evidence needed to to prove that your working-class brain has been cooked in the fumes.
RW-politics are the politics of psychopaths. At worst, you're a psychopath. At best, you're an aider&abettor of psychopaths. If you don't want to be associated with psychopathy, then stop espousing the politics of psychopaths.
Be best!
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Lazy, capitalist right-wingers from the wealthy-class know that broken families and communities lead to emotionally broken and mentally stupid humans, and they know that broken and stupid humans make better slaves.
In the past, lazy, capitalist right-wingers from the wealthy-class needed chattel-slaves to do the work. So those lazy, wealthy-class right-wingers tried very hard to break up the families of chattel-slaves in the past.
In the present, lazy, capitalist right-wingers from the wealthy-class need wage-slaves to do the work. So those lazy, wealthy-class right-wingers try very hard to break up families of wage-slaves in the present.
Lazy, capitalist right-wingers from the wealthy-class love broken families and stupid people, because they know that stupid people make better slaves.
The lazy, capitalist right-wingers from the wealthy-class will never willingly give up their addictions or power. Working-class people must never forget that, because the lazy, capitalist right-wingers from the wealthy-class will never stop trying to break up families, sabotage communities, and enslave people.
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@observer2817 You're literally utilizing the tactics of trolls.
At this point, troll or child are the only words that could describe you, and if I could teach you, I wouldn't. You've proven yourself an annoyance at best and malicious at worst.
You've asked the same question THREE TIMES now.
I've directly responded to your questions TWO TIMES.
You are LITERALLY using a tactic exploited by trolls (which makes sense since Capitalism is exploitative).
That tactic is circular-discourse: By asking the same question over and over, you take up the time of genuine persons so that they can't be combating you and your disingenuous-ilk elsewhere.
If you're not a troll, then you're a child (which could be intellectually true since you're a Destiny fan). If you're a child, I hope you don't act like this in public when you grow up. Good people, if you're lucky, will have called the police and reported you for harassment by now. Or worse if you're unlucky.
Troll, I've exposed you.
[OR]
Child, I've got things to do.
You pick whichever one that applies.
There are numbers for you to call if you're a lonely, troubled adult-troll or a neglected child.
I've even admitted my own shortcomings. I'm smart enough not to expect the same from trolls or children, fools or knaves.
I won't be responding to you further.
I SAID GOOD DAY!
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The decent & intelligent members of the working-class people realize that they are slaves to the indecent & intelligent parasites of the wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics. The indecent & ignorant members of the working-class are too stupid to realize that they are also slaves.
But, instead of confronting & combating the indecent & intelligent parasites of the wealthy-class and their corrupt RW-politics, the indecent & ignorant members of the working-class do whatever they are told to do by their wealthy-class masters.
All of the biggest problems in the world, and most of the smaller problems, are caused by (a)the indecent, wealthy-class knaves and their corrupt RW-politics of authoritarianism, and by (b)the indecent, working-class dupes who support the indecent, wealthy-class knaves and their corrupt RW-politics of authoritarianism.
Galt is one of the indecent, working-class dupes who willingly slaves away for his indecent, wealthy-class masters.
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Riiight, Thom, "Democrats aren't fascists (as you said in another video), some are just sellouts."
You're either a moronic-fool or a sellout-knave, Thom, and neither is anything to be proud of.
The Democrat-party apparatus is bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the same wealthy-class fascists who own the Republic-party apparatus. Jack Reed knows this, Thom, and Jack plays his role as a capitulator to the Republic-party, just like he's bought and bribed to do.
At best, you're an moronic-fool apologist for the Democrat-party apparatus.
At worst, you're a sellout-knave capitulator, no better than Jack Reed who doesn't give a shite about raped women.
Frankly, I think you're a knave -- the same as Robert Reich labeled Steven Mnuchin some years back. You pretend to be clueless about the corruption of the Democrat-party leadership and owners.
You're about as worthless as Bill Maher, Michael Moore, and Jimmy Dore.
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Bernie has family. He's more concerned with what could happen to them after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows what the right-wingers have done to working-class leftists through history.
Bernie sees the rhyming-nature of that history coming back around.
Bernie lived through the "Red Scare" and "McCarthyism."
Bernie doesn't want those kinds of things to happen to his family after he dies.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that there are too many foolish, working-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many knavish, wealthy-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many right-wing addicts with mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Berne knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts will willingly give up their addictions.
Bernie knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts can cure their own mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that, in order to maintain their addictive lifestyles, the mentally ill working-class fools will do whatever the mentally ill wealthy-class knaves tell them to do; just like they did during the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie has now entered the phase known as, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
Bernie is MORE concerned with the quality of life his family will have when he dies.
Bernie is LESS concerned with the quality of life for the working-class.
Bernie is ONLY concerned with his own family-unit minority
Bernie is NOT concerned about the working-class majority.
Bernie is the perfect example of why any effective leader(s) on the left-wing will have to be someone(s) without family -- it's too easy for the wealthy-class right-wingers to corrupt left-wingers who have families, and Bernie is a prime example.
Bernie has exchanged his working-class principles to secure a wealthy-class standard of living for his family after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the anti-wealthy-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given up on the pro-working-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the anti-working-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the pro-wealthy-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given up.
It's only surprising/upsetting if one doesn't know the facts, or rhyming-nature, of history.
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Many? You mean MOST! Most of the problems in the world are caused by (a)the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics, and (b)the working-class dupes who support the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
Vote for wealthy, RW-extremist Repubs, for the fast, open-road from RW-capitalist enslavement to RW-fascist enslavement.
Vote for wealthy, moderate-RW Dems, for the slower, disguised-road from RW-capitalist enslavement to RW-fascist enslavement.
BOTH political-parties in the U.S. are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class and their corrupt RW-politics of capitalism&fascism.
MOST governments in the world are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class and their corrupt RW-politics of capitalism&fascism.
The corrupt wealthy-class is composed of lifestyle-addicts who will ALWAYS strive to more easily acquire & access their addictions by corrupting everything around them, and they will NEVER willingly give up their lifestyle-addictions.
If the corrupt wealthy-class had their way, working-class people would have the same rights as hogs & chickens.
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SMH. Sabine has used her wealth and free-will to willfully remain bored and useless. Too many chattel, debt, and wage slaves from the working-class have already suffered to produce Sabine's necessities for her. Someone ought to show Sabine the necessities of life that need producing, then allow her to use her free-will to choose one, and, then, put her to work producing it.
Humans are different from animals, just as both humans and animals are different from the molecular-matter they are composed of. And If a person can't/doesn't/won't comprehend that, then it's easy for a person to justify the animalistic tendencies of themselves and those of other animalistic humans.
The denial of free-will, or belief in it, is an attempt at rationalizing and solidifying a perpetual get-out-of-jail free card for the worst and most animalistic humans -- which is par for the course when it comes to "Libertarians."
Carnivorous animals don't make free-will decisions in the same way that humans make free-will decisions, because carnivorous animals are different from humans.
A carnivorous animal has a different kind/level of free-will -- and maybe no free-will at all. They don't freely decide how to act in the same way that most humans freely decide to act.
And even though there are humans who use their free-will to consciously decide to act in an animalistic manner, there is only a low percentage of humans who don't have the capacity to make the conscious, free-will decision to act animalistic.
For example: Sharks and humans have different capacities to consciously make free-will decisions.
A shark doesn't use its free-will capacities to consciously decide to bite off Sabine's arm when it encounters her in the ocean in the same way that a human uses its free-will capacities to consciously decide NOT to kick Sabine in the teeth when they encounter her on the street. Because sharks and humans are different and, thus, so are their free-will capacities.
To be a human who believes that humans don't have free-will is to have the intellectual-depth of a shark or the knavish-intentions of a liar, cheater, thief, and/or murderer.
Free-will deniers, like Sabine, need greater levels of structure and discipline imposed upon them. They need to be monitored and mentored.
And it is up to the better, smarter people to use their humanistic free-will to protect vulnerable humans from Sabine, and people like Sabine, who use their animalistic free-will to bring harm to vulnerable humans while simultaneously claiming that they don't believe in/have free-will.
We already have labels for people who don't believe in, or claim not to have control over, their free-will decisions:
Sociopaths. Psychopaths.
F*kc these nutty-turd brains.
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@Seekthetruth3000 It sounds like you might have some daddy issues.
Simply having a dad present in your life does not equal success as an outcome.
Having a dad around does not mean that you are a better person than the people who don't.
I know plenty of people, 99% of them being white, who have their dads around and are also garbage-humans.
I don't believe that anyone can ever be perfect.
My dad has been in my life since I was born, and I am not perfect.
My dad is, in many ways, imperfect, just as you and your dad are imperfect.
My dad is, in many ways, a piece of shit. In some ways, I grew up to mirror my dad's shitty ways.
But I realized what a piece of shit my dad is, and I repelled his shitty ways. I struggled to become a more compassionate, more kind, and more caring man than my dad is, or ever was.
I still aspire to be an even better man tomorrow than I was today. My dad thinks he is as good as he needs to be.
Since no one can ever be perfect, I think we can all continuously self-improve.
I want to be a better man. My dad doesn't.
Judging by your narrow-sighted point of view, I would venture to make the following guess.
Either your dad wasn't around -- and that is what compels the daddy-issues which are semi-apparent in your demeanor -- or your dad was around but he was also a garbage-human piece of shit, which is more apparent in your demeanor.
Whether your dad was around or not, it is obvious that he failed you in various ways.
It appears as though you need some sort of healing or deliverance.
I pray that the Heavenly Father grants you that healing and deliverance, along with a greater attitude of sympathy, empathy, and consideration for others who are less fortunate than you.
But you'll have to submit to Him first. You'll have to admit to your imperfections and weaknesses, and then ask Him for that healing and deliverance.
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If religious-fundamentalists(RFs) of all religions were to join forces, more-so than they already have, to combine the worst parts of their religions that coincide with atheism and right-wing(RW) politics, and they create a quasi-theocracy, they will eliminate any & all semblance of transparency & accountability. And if that happens, not Social Security will be the least of your worries -- the size of your concrete-sneakers and noose-circumference will be much more relevant than not having Social Security.
Most religious-fundamentalists(RFs) are more akin to autocratic right-wingers(RWs) than not.
Many atheist RWs believe in the cycle of violence & vengeance, just like many Muslim, Jewish, & (anti)Christian RFs do.
Many atheist RWs believe they are entitled to excessive wealth, just like many Muslims, Jewish, & (anti)Christian RFs do.
I'm not surprised that atheists & (anti)Christian RFs vote for RWs. I'm surprised that more Muslim & Jewish RFs don't.
How do you like your theocratic fascism?
Vote wealthy, right-wing extremist Repubs for the fast, open-road to fascism.
Vote wealthy, right-wing moderate Dems for the slow, disguised-road to fascism.
BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy right-wing fascists.
My comments are in response to Kyle's fear-mongering about Muslims choosing to vote for the right-wing extremist Repub-party instead of the moderate right-wing Dem-party -- it's a wonder they haven't already. Once they realize they agree on RW-material-possessions, RW-wealth-hoarding, and RF-autocratic-theocracy that will do it.
Ffs, the (anti)Christian RFs in the Bush-family and the Muslim RFs in the House of Saud realized their RW agreements decades ago. Not to mention RWRF-Ronald Reagan and the RWRF-Iranians before the Bush-fam & the Saudis.
I'm already planning my foot-migration to Canada, where I fully expect the moderate right-wingers who control the country will deny my request for asylum -- no security, no debates.
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Ignorance comes first on the path of right-wing regression:
Ignorance➡fear➡anger➡hate(racism&bigotry)➡sabotage➡violence➡murder➡genocide.
If a person is ignorant, then you can make them afraid.
If a person is afraid, you can make them angry.
If a person is angry, you can make them hate.
If a person is hateful, you can make them commit sabotage, violence, murder, and genocide.
Committing enough violence, murder, and genocide causes a person to become more like animals, neanderthals and denisovans, and less like humans, over time.
But the vile right-wing knaves from the wealthy-class LOVE the ignorant working-class dupes, because the wealthy-class nows that ignorant people make better slaves.
And the working-class dupes are so ignorant that they actually volunteer to be cops and soldiers with two jobs: (1)Protect the property and power of wealthy right-wingers. (2)Oppress, repress, and suppress the rest of the working-class.
Those ignorant working-class cops and soldiers are so dumb, they don't even comprehend that they're slaves.
And the wealthy-class knaves give the working-class cops and soldiers a few extra crumbs, and those extra crumbs are enough to convince the working-class cops and soldiers that they're better than the non-duped members of the working-class who aren't cops and soldiers.
I could go on, but I think you get the idea. This has been the playbook of wealthy right-wingers since the invention of currency.
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DON'T murder living humans. Thanks for the tip, Stubby.
To the sentient persons with a uterus experiencing unwanted pregnancies: By all means, please DO eradicate any unwanted clumps of NONLIVING, insentient, parasitic-cells from your body.
Please eradicate them under the private consultation of a physician. Please do so with the support of the folks in your life who aren't ignorant and judgmental.
And to all humans, with or without a uterus: By all means, please DO eradicate the unwanted clumps of LIVING, barely-sentient, parasitic-cells from your life. With any luck, these right-wing, forced-birther, anti-life, authoritarian deplorables, like stubby-bilbob7624, can be bread out of existence.
Oh yeah, learn about and teach antinatalism to others. It is a concept I find myself wishing that more parents, like those of stubby-bilbob7624, would've adhered to in practice.
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Not bad at all! I'd make some artistic-suggestions, but it's your piece, and I agree with the sentiments.
My offering for substance-amendments are as follows:
There are good atheists and agnostics, just like there are good Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and Christians.
Some non-religious folks are better than religious folks, and some religious folks are better than non-religious folks.
Here would be my main amendment; "The U.$. is an X-tian nation under the buy-bull of Mammon."
As a Christian, I try to embody the working-class spirit of Christ. Meanwhile, Christianity has been co-opted by the wealthy-class to dupe the working-class.
I refer to the wealthy-class version as X-tianity, and its followers as X-tians. They worship Mammon, whether they are willing or smart enough to admit it or not.
The ignorant MuXlisms who committed nine'leven are in no way a representation of the good Muslims. And the Xtians who retaliated against innocent people for the 20 years since nine'leven are in no way a representation of the good Christians.
Not all religious people nor all Christians wish to impose their way of life through force. Many would much rather die, as Christ did.
I don't want to alienate non-religious working-class people any more than I want to be alienated by non-religious working-class people.
Let's try not to alienate our working-class brothers and sisters, no matter their choices or rejections of personal spirituality.
Just food for thought.
Now, I'm hungry -- going to go try to eat something without inadvertently consuming any petrol products.
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Right-wing politics = pro-wealthy-class supremacy&segregation politics.
Right-wing politics = anti-working-class democracy&equality politics.
BOTH of America's political parties are bought, owned, bribed, controlled, and lead by anti-working-class, pro-wealthy-class right-wingers.*
BOTH wealthy-class, right-wing parties want to divide the working-class by race, religion, sex, gender, and other social/cultural identities because it's easier to economically subjugate a large group by dividing it up.
Read it again: The wealthy-class uses propaganda around social policies to divide the working-class so that the wealthy-class can more easily dominate economic policies.
Then, when the wealthy-class has divided the working-class people, they take the working-class people with minority-identities and give them different economic labels and tasks. And therein lies the difference.
The wealthy-class Repubs want to turn social-minorities into economic detainees.
The wealthy-class Dems want to turn social-minorities into economic employees.
The Repubs want to turn the working-class into prisoners, chattel-slaves, fooled collaborators, and corpses
The Dems want to turn the working-class into debtors, wage-slaves, duped compliers, and customers.
Vote wealthy-class Repubs for the fast, blatant road to totalitarianism.
Vote wealthy-class Dems for the slow, disguised road to totalitarianism.
That's the f*kcing difference.
The same wealthy-class right-wingers who own the Repubs and Dems are the same wealthy-class right-wingers who own corporations. Media companies, for example.
While the economic-minority of the population -- the wealthy-class right-wing-- uses their media to present the Repub and Dem parties as divided fronts, those same people work together behind the scenes to advance and maintain the economic power of the wealthy-class.
While the wealthy-class minority works together behind the scenes to continue their mob-rule and subjugation of the working-class majority, the rube working-class voters continue to vote for Red-right-wingers and Blue-right-wingers like it's some game.
The wealthy-class uses those media-farms to pump out the propaganda of p!ssy-social-waters, and the working-class voters slurp that p!ss-propaganda up like pigs in a wallow.
The wealthy-class has done a fine job of infiltrating and ruining the government while simultaneously corralling the working-class like beaten animals.
And, now, the animals are too broken and desperate to identify their wealthy-class captors, even as those captors openly rain p!ss all over them. So the animals fight each other for the p!ss instead.
That's the f*kcing problem.
*Footnote: Pelosi, McConnell, McCarthy, Schumer, Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush x2, Clinton x2, and Reagan are/were all wealthy-class right-wingers.
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Reproductive rights for the C|_| |\| T-holes of a few doesn't mean f*kc-all if countless people can't feed their face-holes.
You're exactly the kind of working-class mark the wealthy-class aims for.
Just because a few people have vaginal-autonomy socially, that doesn't mean sh!t to the countless people who never had it before the repeal of Roe. AND vaginal-autonomy for a few people doesn't now, nor has it ever, negated or outweighed the atrocities of the countless people who didn't and don't have bodily-autonomy economically.
Your distraction by the former instead of paying attention to the latter is exactly what the wealthy-class farmers want from working-class animals.
Just because some people have social-control over their 👶-holes, that doesn't make it more important than the countless people who are getting their 💩-holes economically r@ed and pillaged.
Prioritizing the former over the latter makes you exactly the kind of social, working-class mouse that the economic, wealthy-class cats want you to be.
The wealthy-class right-wingers from the Repub and Dem parties put on a public-show of social-opposition to one another, and it riles you into a viewers-frenzy about the theatricalized social-issue of abortion.
Meanwhile, those same theatrical foes from the Repub and Dem parties are working together behind the private-scenes to continue their non-theatrical, very real economic dominance over the working-class.
You're distracted by the wealthy-class, right-wing theatrics of the abortion-show.
Meanwhile, countless numbers of your working-class mates, including the theater workers, can't afford dinner before the show, a snack after, or breakfast the following morning.
Creating a facade that distracts and addicts the working-class viewer is exactly what the wealthy-class producers want, and you're proof of their success.
I could go on, but I'll wrap it up.
The intellectual inability of working-class Americans to comprehend the contrasts of social and economic politics in the comparisons of historical and international contexts is why the smarter working-class people in other, better countries laugh in disbelief and cry in fear.
The world laughs and cries because the present-day, red-versus-blue, working-class American appears so similar to the duped working-class citizens who were socially-complicit in the reigns of economic-terror imposed by Confederates and Nazis on the weakest working-class citizens among them.
You, the working-class majority in America, have allowed yourselves to be ruled and lorded over by two right-wing, wealthy-class political parties. You've succumbed to the social-depravity and mob-rule of the wealthy-class minority. And you've done so at the expense and economic-desperation of the weakest working-class mates among you.
You've been indoctrinated by watching the social-trees, and now you're addicted to watching them. And it's causing you to miss the economic-forest.
You pay more attention to "unspecific gibberish" (the social-issues), instead of paying attention to the specific garbage (the economic-issues) that more directly affect your life and the lives of your working-class mates.
For goodness sake, I sure hope that you haven't produced any crotch fruit -- There are already too many innocent children who have lived and suffered the ignorance of duped, working-class DNA-donors, like you.
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Plantations became prisons. The corrupt, rich, Southern-Democrats migrated, geographically & politically, to become corrupt, rich, Northern-Republicans. Now, BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the same corrupt rich people.
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@reddoggie554 Tell Lucy that Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Clinton, Bush, Bush, Obama, Reagan and their voters, along with Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Rebecca Mercer, Alex Jones, Alex Acosta, law enforcement, FoxNews, CNN, and Jeffery Epstein have those things all sorted out, so she doesn't have to worry.
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If religious-fundamentalists(RFs) of all religions were to join forces, more-so than they already have, to combine the worst parts of their religions that coincide with atheism and right-wing(RW) politics, and they create a quasi-theocracy, they will eliminate any & all semblance of transparency & accountability. And if that happens, not having debates will be the least of your worries -- the size of your concrete-sneakers and noose-circumference will be much more relevant than not having debates.
Most religious-fundamentalists(RFs) are more akin to autocratic right-wingers(RWs) than not.
Many atheist RWs believe in the cycle of violence & vengeance, just like many Muslim, Jewish, & (anti)Christian RFs do.
Many atheist RWs believe they are entitled to excessive wealth, just like many Muslims, Jewish, & (anti)Christian RFs do.
I'm not surprised that atheists & (anti)Christian RFs vote for RWs. I'm surprised that more Muslim & Jewish RFs don't.
How do you like your theocratic fascism?
Vote wealthy, right-wing extremist Repubs for the fast, open-road to fascism.
Vote wealthy, right-wing moderate Dems for the slow, disguised-road to fascism.
BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy right-wing fascists.
My comments are in response to Kyle's fear-mongering about Muslims choosing to vote for the right-wing extremist Repub-party instead of the moderate right-wing Dem-party -- it's a wonder they haven't already. Once they realize they agree on RW-material-possessions, RW-wealth-hoarding, and RF-autocratic-theocracy that will do it.
Ffs, the (anti)Christian RFs in the Bush-family and the Muslim RFs in the House of Saud realized their RW agreements decades ago. Not to mention RWRF-Ronald Reagan and the RWRF-Iranians before the Bush-fam & the Saudis.
I'm already planning my foot-migration to Canada, where I fully expect the moderate right-wingers who control the country will deny my request for asylum.
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@robertcoplin2731 You asked, "How would you get..."
Answer: Well, Ralph Nader has said repeatedly, for decades, that it only takes about 3% of the population to propel meaningful change. But of course, Ralph was defamed and slandered into oblivion by the propaganda that was produced by the wealthy-class who own all of the "news" outlets.
Anyway, to answer your question more directly: General Strike.
For a period of time -- not just one day, but as long as it takes until those wealthy-class C |_} |\| TS and the politicians they've co-opted actually give in -- we would need collective and direct action.
And not just thousands of people taking part in these petty one-day marches. That's not going to cut it, as we have already seen.
It would take hundreds of thousands to millions of working-class people to participate. Enough people so that Property&Profit Protectors, known as the police, wouldn't be able to arrest and cage everyone.
But it would take working-class solidarity, which requires class-consciousness, which does not exist at the necessary levels to bring about change in America.
It would take many millions of people to commit to the following:
1. Calling in sick to work, repeatedly, even if it costs them their job in the long run.
2. Not spending ANY money, even if it means going without food, shelter, entertainment, drugs, alcohol, etc.
3. Peacefully occupying the private properties, offices, and businesses owned by the wealthy-class parasites, along with the public buildings and offices of the corrupt government-officials who are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class parasites.
Notice that I said PEACEFULLY. None of that January 6 right-wing-nut-job militia-incel nonsense. We want change. We don't want a massacre. And doing the January 6 thing is how you end up with a massacre. So it has to be more peaceful than that.
The key is to make the wealthy-class uncomfortable. They have to eat too, and they have numerous addictions which are serviced by the working-class. No one will be eating or snorting anything if the working-class isn't working.
There are likely other collective and direct actions that could be effective. But this will likely never happen anyway. There are too many comfortable, white moderates, as MLK said.
Those comfortable, white, working-class moderates have been indoctrinated by wealthy-class propaganda. And that propaganda has produced the false hope that one day the comfortable, white moderates will break out of the working-class and into the wealthy-class as long as they keep following the propaganda.
Just as the wealthy-class will never willingly give up their numerous addictions, there are too many comfortable, white, working-class moderates who are perfectly happy with their few addictions, and they won't give theirs up either. I call those comfortable, white, working-class moderates "class-traitors."
There are too many class-traitors who are happy to elbow side-to-side at the other working-class people who are most like them, while kicking-down at the least-fortunate, just to get a few extra crumbs from the wealthy-class master's table.
The comfortable, white moderate class-traitors from the working-class will literally side with the wealthy-class oppressors.
I could go on, and I hate to burst your bubble. Steve has said numerous times that he is an optimist. But I'm not. My optimism starts where this life ends.
However, I do wish you well on the impending journey into fascist-sl@very. Whether we get there on the fast-road with the Republic-party or the slow-road with the Democrat-party, it's coming.
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Being a right-wing conservative IS BAD, because right-wing politics ARE BAD.
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class, pro-autocratic-minority politics.
Right-wing politics are anti-working-class, anti-democratic-majority politics.
Conserving right-wing politics IS BAD
When the things you're trying to conserve are inequality, inequity, and injustice, THAT'S BAD.
When you're trying to conserve white-supremacy & racism, THAT'S BAD.
When you're trying to conserve patriarchy & sexism, THAT'S BAD.
When you're trying to conserve segregation & separation, THAT'S BAD.
When you're trying to conserve labor-exploitation & worker-manipulation, THAT'S BAD.
When you're trying to conserve resource-hoarding & land-pillaging, THAT'S BAD.
When you're trying to conserve monetary-accumulation & possession-collection, THAT'S BAD.
When you're trying to conserve familial-dynasty and nepotism, THAT'S BAD.
When you're trying to conserve social-status and kakistocracy, THAT'S BAD.
When you're trying to conserve work-avoidance & easy-living, THAT'S BAD.
When you're trying to conserve mob-rule BY the economic-minority, THAT'S BAD.
When you're trying to conserve the autocratic-rule OF the economic-majority, THAT'S BAD.
When you're trying to conserve the systems of chattel-slavery, debt-slavery, & wage-slavery as a means to enslave the working-class-majority, THAT'S BAD.
When you're trying to conserve right-wing-conservatism, THAT'S BAD.
And, unfortunately, MOST of America -- from the wealthy-class-minority of knaves to the working-class-majority of fools -- is trying to conserve some aspect of right-wing politics, because MOST of America benefits from the inherent corruption of right-wing politics in one way or another.
When you're a working-class fool who doesn't have a f*kcing clue what right-wing politics are, THAT'S BAD
When you're a working-class fool who votes for right-wing Repubocrat and right-wing Demlican knaves, THAT'S BAD.
America is a sh!thole because of the working-class fools and wealthy-class knaves who fight to conserve right-wing politics and all of the poison that comes with it -- Nazi Germany and Confederate America were sh!tholes for the same reason -- THAT's BAD.
It's time for the rest of the world to flush the modern American-Nazi-Confederate right-wing sh!thole.
Because IT'S BAD!
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Useless people say "We can't help these people."
Evil people say, "We won't help these people."
Useful & decent people tell the useless & evil people to get out of the way.
A bunch of useless, evil Americans, like CD_0413 appears to be, need to get out of the way.
These destitute working-class migrants are not the cause of suffering for working-class Americans.
The cause of working-class suffering is right-wing political ideologies -- monarchism, feudalism, and capitalism. These are all systems of working-class oppression, repression, and suppression by the wealthy-class.
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class politics.
Right-wing politics are anti-working-class politics.
The sooner that working-class American dupes come to realize the corruption inherent in right-wing politics, the sooner something can be done about it.
Right-wing politics should have been criminalized after the right-wing French monarchs were dispatched. And after the right-wing Confederates were devastated, and again after the right-wing Nazis were defeated
Useless & evil working-class Americans, like CD_0413 appears to be, whine and complain about their own suffering, but they can't comprehend that the cause of their suffering is the same as the cause of the suffering of the working-class people from other countries who are trying to get to the U.S. And the cause of their suffering are wealthy right-wingers and their corrupt right-wing politics.
Oh yeah: This fear-mongering bullsh!t about "wOrKiNg-cLaSs tAx DoLLaRs" is just f*kcing nonsense.
The budget of the Federal Government is NOT the same as the budgets of families, communities, towns, cities, and states.
The Federal Government is the sole issuer and printer of currency -- families, communities, towns, cities, and states can't print currency.
The Federal Government can/could print as much money as is necessary to make sure that all human-necessities are provided for (not to mention the fact that the Federal Government could impose price-controls, maximum-wages, and taxes on wealth and inheritance). But the Federal Government doesn't do that.
And why doesn't the Federal Government make sure that all human-necessities are provided? The answer is simple: because the Federal Government is controlled by wealthy right-wingers.
Those wealthy right-wingers (much like many working-class right-wingers) are lazy, mentally ill addicts. They don't ever want to do any manual labor. So they manipulate the economic system to make sure that working-class people remain stupid and desperate.
Because the wealthy-class knows that stupid working-class people make better slaves. And they know that desperate working-class people will murder their own friends and families just to get some crumbs from the master's table.
And as far as deserving the right to vote goes: ALL people who will be affected by a given decision deserve the right to vote on that decision. NOT just taxpayers.
Ffs, MANY working-class Americans don't even earn enough money to pay taxes. So if you're saying that those poor people don't deserve the right to vote, then you're just as bad as the wealthy right-wingers who commit gerrymandering and voter-suppression.
Goodness-gracious; I could go on. But I'll wrap it up by saying the following.
The Earth has enough resources to support the entirety of the current population, and enough decent people to produce those necessities, so that no one has to suffer in this world.
But the Earth also has plenty of right-wingers -- both corrupt wealthy-class knaves and duped working-class fools.
And right-wingers, with their corrupt politics, are the reasons why people suffer in this world.
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@jackienevels2710 Your writing is so terrible, I have to ask for clarification.🤨
You aren't implying that decent people having sympathetic & empathetic emotions, for other people in need, is a bad thing, are you?
You're not saying that the decent people who want to help people in need, should do it all individually, are you?
You aren't of the belief that decent people coming together to form a government, to help people in need, is a bad thing, are you?
You're not blaming an inanimate object(government) for the bad things that bad PEOPLE do while they're in government, are you?
Please, let me know if I've misunderstood your true meaning. Because your poor writing makes it seem as though you meant all of those things I questioned above.
Certainly, you can't be that stupid.🤔
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LOL @ the working-class fools obsessing over "cognitive decline."
As if Fetterman needs to be any better or worse than he is now to do the bidding of wealthy-class right-wingers who own and control the Republic and Democrat parties.
If moderate right-winger, Dianne Feinstein, can be propped with a rectum-rod for the past five years, then Fetterman will be fine.
If right-wing extremist, Donny Two-Scoops, can bumble through an entire term as POTUS while having the vocabulary of a toddler with a TBI, then Fetterman will be fine.
If right-wing extremist and murderer Dan Crenshaw can do the job -- after likely suffering multiple TBIs, while no longer having the legs to stand on principles nor the eyes to see logic and reason at the same time -- then Fetterman will be just fine.
If "The Squad" can be forced to espouse moderate right-wing positions on numerous policies within four years' time, then Fetterman will be just fine.
If supposedly sane liars, Kyrsten "The C. |_} |\| T" Sinema and Joe "The Geriatric" Manchin can vote with right-wing extremist Republicans, then Fetterman will be just fine.
And don't get me started on Lauren "The Dolt" Boebert, Margarine Traitor Greed, Louie "Gomer-Pile" Gohmert, and the rest of the intellectual regressives from the right-wing extremist Republic-party and the right-wing moderate Democrat-party.
They are all elected members of the right-wing wealthy-class, with 7-9-figure fortune$, doing the bidding of unelected wealthy-class right-wingers with 10-13-figure fortune$.
If all of those elected right-wing moderates and extremists can pass pro-wealthy-class and anti-working-class legislation, then Fetterman will be more than just fine: He'll be in sh!tty-good company.
I agree with the sentiments of Christine's original comment.
I disagree with the replies saying that Fetterman won't be able to serve the purpose of a corrupt, wealthy-class, right-wing government that was designed by corrupt, wealthy-class, right-wingers.
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I come to Thom's videos for a neoliberal perspective, which is a moderate conservative perspective. Aside from Richard Wolff's working-class point of view, neoliberal-conservatism is the best you can expect from Thom's show.
Thom, and many of his guests, still toot the horn of the Democrat party, which has become the left-leaning arm of the Republic party.
Thom, and many of his guests, seem to believe that meaningful "reform" can happen through the Democrat party, even though the Democrat party is corrupted by the funding from the same wealthy-class which funds the Republic party.
Just as the wealthy-class promoting Republic party cannot rid itself of the many racist, misogynist, compassionless, nihilistic, supremacist voters, many Democrat party voters cannot rid themselves of the wealthy-class promoting Democrat party. They are married to it, acting as if the relationship were to end it would reflect poorly on themselves within society. They tow the party-line because of how they feel they will be perceived, rather than ending the relationship for the toxicity it breeds in their lives.
There is no viable leftist, employee-labor, or lower-class political party in America. There are two economically right-wing, socially-authoritarian, anti-small business, pro-corporate, anti-worker, pro-employers, anti-poor, pro-wealthy-class, extremist political parties.
Lastly, these short-form interviews do a disservice to the American citizens who are duped into wasting their time by following Thom. Especially when those citizens could be following much more substantive channels and better pundits.
Thom is as equally as bad at messaging as the Democrat party leadership, but the Democrat party leadership is paid to be bad at it. They are paid-opposition, funded by the wealthy-class. The question is, rhetorically, if Thom is bad at it on accident, or on purpose.
My advice, for what little worth it may have, is to stop wasting your time here.
Good day.
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@acworthian7340 Many, if not most, of the MAGAt-nationalists who are working-class dupes will do whatever they're told when their wealthy-class masters tell them too. Just like the working-class dupes who supported the wealthy-class masters who controlled the Nazi&Confedrate nationalist parties.
If a working-class dupe finally stops supporting MAGAt-nationalism, then that person will have successfully made it out of the MAGAt-nationalism cult that they've been sucked into by the wealthy-class masters.
But you're ignorant at best, and delusional at worst, if you think that the true MAGAT-nationalist believers, especially the most ignorant working-class dupes, won't continue to support the corrupt wealthy-class masters & their corrupt RW-politics.
All the wealthy-class has to do is say the commands -- "DEI", "WOKE", "ILLEGAL: ALIENS", "TRANS", "MULTI-RACIAL", "GLOBALISTS" -- and many, if not most, of the ignorant & scared MAGAt dupes of the working-class will do whatever they're told to do.
Working-class MAGAts are puppets for the wealthy-class who created MAGAts. If you think otherwise, you're ignorant at best and delusional at worst.
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That's RW-politics in action -- media control, surveillance, suppression of independent voices, censorship, and targeting dissent -- and neither the RW-extremist Repubs nor the moderate-RW Dems will do anything about it, because BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics. And working-class dupes in the US are so ignorant, they continue voting for BOTH of these indecent RW-parties.
The corrupt wealthy-class has been using those techniques to maintain their corrupt RW-politics since the invention of currency, and it's not likely to come to a head in the US, because their are too many indecent, working-class dupes who are striving to be just like the indecent, wealthy-class knaves.
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Do NOT read Americans Anonymous. The author, Mel K, is a RW-reactionary who believes in the inequitable, hierarchical-division of humans based on class, as well as race, religion, sex, gender, & nationality. Mel K is no better than Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, or Nick Fuentes.
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@Ezekiel903 That was not my point, so I'll make it clearer for you. The people who take ambien or percocet, especially with any kind of regularity, are less reliable than the people who don't. So, I do not want to be a passenger in the vehicle of anyone who takes ambien or percocet, and they shouldn't be allowed in positions that could endanger the lives of people who don't.
Furthermore, I've had enough experience around those people, and, not only do I not want to be a passenger in the vehicles of people who take ambien or percocet, I don't want to be around them anymore -- not at work, not at home, and not at the grocery store -- period.
I don't want to be around them, I shouldn't have to be around them, and there shouldn't be a law that forces me to be around them.
But there should absolutely be laws to protect the people who don't take those medications from the people who do take those medications.
And, as I mentioned before, I don't want their lives to be ruined just because they take those medications. But there is plenty of work for them to do which doesn't put them in positions to endanger the lives of people who don't take those medications.
Do I know how many people take medication everyday? (1)No, I don't know exactly how many. (2)I don't care how many. (3)I know it's too many. But none of that was ever my point, so your question is moot.
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@kurtis_schmurtis I've never heard of Snyder v. U.S., but I've heard of Citizen's United. It seems that you care enough to know, so you should also check out:
1. Buckley v. Valeo(1976)
2. First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti(1978)
3. McCutcheon v. FEC(2012)
The rulings in ALL of those cases, including Citizens United, essentially give the corrupt wealthy-class the right to corrupt campaigns and elections. They have legalized bribery.
The rulings in ALL of those cases were decided by RW-Justices on RW-courts.
ALL of those cases impose a disproportionate disadvantage upon the working-class.people who make up the populace-majority -- the rulings are Anti-Democracy in nature.
ALL of those cases give a disproportionate advantage to the populace-minority of the corrupt wealthy-class knaves and their corrupt RW-politics -- the rulings are Pro-Authoritarian in nature.
Honestly, though, this is really nothing new.
The people in the wealthy-class have been on a quest to remain in the wealthy-class since the invention of currency.
They become like the worst addicts -- they will NEVER willingly give up their addictions.
They become addicted to their lifestyles -- they'll do ANYTHING to maintain their lifestyle-addictions.
They will purchase or bribe anyone, and they'll lie to, cheat, and steal from anyone, just to maintain their lifestyle-addictions.
They'll incite sabotage, violence, murder, and genocide just to maintain their lifestyle-addictions.
And they've even devised a way, via their corrupt RW-politics, to extract endless-wealth from the sabotage, violence, murder, and genocide: Endless Wars.
Endless Wars need endless supplies. Those endless supplies come from private-businesses. Those private-businesses are owned by the corrupt wealthy-class.
And it is that very same wealthy-class that benefits from the rulings by the RW-justices in those court cases above -- Those rulings, which essentially say that the wealthy-class has the Constitutional Right to corrupt elections and campaigns, thus corrupting politicians and the government.
So, then, those corrupted politicians use their positions in government to vote for the military-legislation that authorizes war, and then they vote for the budget-legislation that pays for the supplies that come from the private-businesses which are owned by the corrupt wealthy-class.
Then the wealthy-class uses some of the profits from their private-businesses to give to the campaigns of the politicians who will then use their positions in government to vote for their corrupt RW-politics.
That whole "Endless War" scheme -- being fueled by a corrupt, authoritarian wealthy-class and their corrupt RW-politics, and being funded by corrupted, authoritarian politicians in a corrupted government -- is now called the military-industrial-complex.
They really started kicking the scheme into high-gear in the U.S. after WW2. General Smedly Butler warned that the wealthy-class was trying to take over the government via coup. But, luckily the coup failed.
Then, in the 1950s, Eisenhower warned that the wealthy-class was trying to take over the government via the "military-congressional-industrial-complex" -- essentially a slower coup.
And each of those RW-SCOTUS rulings, mentioned above, have been small steps towards the slower coup.
The RW-SCOTUS ruling, from the other day, on Immunity for POTUS was another step towards the slower coup.
Add in Project2025 and the U.S. will be many, many steps closer.
The wealthy-class has been using that RW-political scheme of "Endless War" for millennia: the Roman Empire, the British Empire, the Confedrates, the N@z!s. And if the U.S. continues to elect the corrupt, RW-extremist Repubs and the corrupt, moderate RW-Dems, then the U.S. is eventually going to meet the same results...
The wealthy-class will start a war INSIDE the U.S., and while the working-class dupes are fighting in the war, the wealthy-class will sneak out the backdoor with their wealth.
It's not just getting worse -- It's getting dire.
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All RW-political-systems are just authoritarianism & slavery with different names, whether it be the RW-system of Monarchism, Feudalism, Republicanism, Capitalism, Corporatism, or Fascism.
Only a strong LW-government of decent-people can protect the most-vulnerable people from the corruption of the indecent-people and their RW-politics.
Without a strong LW-government to impose decency, equity, and equality, then vulnerable-people will be the slaves & prey of the corruption & indecency of corrupt-RWers & their corrupt RW-politics.
RW-politics are anti-working-class politics.
RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class politics.
RW-politics are anti-democracy & anti-populist.
All the problems in the world are caused by (a)the indecent, corrupt, wealthy-class knaves & their indecent, corrupt RW-politics, and by (b)the indecent, ignorant, working-class dupes who support the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
Vote for the wealthy, RW-extremist Repubs for the fast, open-road from Capitalist-enslavement, to Corporatist-enslavement, to Fascist-enslavement.
Vote for the wealthy, moderate-RW Dems, for the slower, disguised-road from Capitalist-enslavement, to Corporatist-enslavement, to Fascist-enslavement.
In the last US election for POTUS, 74+million working-class dupes voted for the RW-extremists, and 80+million working-class dupes voted for the moderate-RWer.
That's why the US is such a RW-sh!tehole.
You've exposed yourself as an indecent ignorant-dupe or an indecent cunning-knave. Neither is anything of which to be proud.
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Ro & his family's net-worth starts with a "B", just like the lazy-rich people who are ruining the gov't, country, & the world. When push-comes-to-shove, Ro will take the side of the lazy-minority of rich people, before he ever sides w/ the laboring-majority of poor people. At best, Ro is (A)feckless-opposition TO the rich -- at worst, he's a (B)traitorous-saboteur FOR the rich. I think Ro is (B).
As for Susan's original-comment: Ro and other Representatives can't vote if they aren't made aware that there is going to be a vote.
In the past, Congress had a very detailed schedule, posted long in advance, so Representatives could plan accordingly. That doesn't seem to be the case any longer.
That being said, I still believe Ro is a Trojan-Horse, working on behalf of the rich, with the purpose of tricking the laborers & the poor.
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That's RW-politics: violence, harm, contradictions, and crime.
And it's been going on for millennia.
Working-class people in the US need to STOP voting for the RW-extremist Repubs & the moderate RW Dems.
Because BOTH of the US political-parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
And BOTH of those RW-politrical-parties have allowed, enabled, and legalized the violence, harm, & contradictions.
Working-class people need to START educating themselves about classism, because classism is the main type of segregation that the wealthy-class is trying to impose & maintain -- they want to maintain the economic-segregation of the wealthy-class and the working-class.
The wealthy-class maintains their economic-segregation from the working-class by imposing the social-segregations known as racism, ethnocentrism, nationalism, sexism/genderism, heterosexism, theism/religionism to create divisions among working-class people.
The wealthy-class has spent millions upon billions upon trillions of dollars, all throughout history, to produce RW-propaganda, and the sole-purpose of that propaganda was/is to indoctrinate working-class people.
The wealthy-class designs their RW-propaganda to trick & confuse working-class people; to convince working-class people that their problems are caused by other working-class people. The wealthy-class wants working-class people to hate each other.
Now, if you're asking yourself, "why does the wealthy-class want working-class people to hate each other?" The answer is simple:
Because as long as working-class people are busy fighting among themselves over social-politics, then those working-class people won't be able to confront all their problems that are perpetrated & perpetuated by the corrupt, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-economic-politics of enslavement.
The corrupt wealthy-class has been weaponizing their corrupt RW-economic-politics since the invention of money/currency -- and they will NEVER stop doing it unless they are stopped.
The corrupt wealthy-class will NEVER give up their lifestyle-addictions; they will NEVER seek treatment for their mental-illnesses; they will NEVER stop trying to avoid physical & manual labor, and they will NEVER stop trying to enslave the people of working-class.
This corruption by the wealthy-class, with their RW-politics, has been going on for millennia, and working-class people have NEVER been able to confront it.
Not even the working-class Union soldiers in the 1860s, nor the working-class Allied soldiers in the 1940s were able to bring the corrupt wealthy-class to heel and put their corrupt RW-politics to rest.
So, working-class people are going to have to get a lot smarter if they plan on doing anything in the present of the future.
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@jeffgojail Quit and go someplace else, huh? And, what? '...SeNd ThE EnTiRe FoOd SuPpLy iNTo cHaOsSsS' ??? 😨😱
Oh, I wish they would.
There are a bunch of you fortunate working-class right-wingers who have been duped by one of America's two right-wing wealthy-class parties. A bunch of you fortunate working-class right-wingers have been tricked into thinking you're suffering because of working-class migrants and minorities who actually are suffering.
Oh, how I long for the real suffering of duped, fortunate working-class right-wingers. The only suffering you people seem to understand is when the suffering happens directly to you. I say, bring it on.
As someone who has suffered, and knew empathy before I actually suffered, I say bring on the real suffering to you who have never really felt suffering.
Bring on the suffering to those who have no problem wishing suffering on others who are less-fortunate.
I say bring on the suffering until it changes your heart, or until you pickle or splatter your own brains.
Get back to making playlists, hon: https://www.youtube.com/user/jeffgojail/featured
I'll have mama make you a sammich. Dunce 🧢.
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@jeffgojail Aren't your own feelings of terror the reason you wish to impose that terror upon others?
Isn't the reason that the KKK and Nazi organizations adhere to the right-wing in every society because the right-wing wealthy-class are the perpetrators and perpetuators of inequality and terror?
Isn't the reason that you want to force other people, whom you view as inferior, to remain in terrible working conditions because you're terrified that the wealthy-class you shill for will force you to do the work if those other people don't?
Isn't the reason that you are fine with denying protection to other people because you are afraid that if the other people achieve power, they will do the same things to you that you're doing to them?
Do you think tying other peoples' life, liberty, and pursuits of happiness -- their food, clothes, shelter, healthcare, and education -- to the job they can do for you and then threatening them with joblessness, is not terror?
Of course, those are all rhetorical questions.
All Capitalism is, is the imposition of terror by the wealthy-class upon the working-class. And working-class people like you have been turned into class-traitors by the wealthy-class for a few extra crumbs.
You've been convinced that other working-class people who are most like you are the cause of your suffering, when, in fact, you are the cause of your own suffering by supporting the wealthy-class system of Capitalism and the segregation Capitalism relies upon.
The Roman Empire was a terrorist.
Nazis and the KKK are terrorists.
Working-class soldiers, who volunteer to murder other working-class humans abroad, are terrorists.
The American Empire is a terrorist.
Republican, Democrat, and Libertarian leadership and their voters are terrorists.
The wealthy-class addicts and their working-class-traitor crumb-catchers are terrorists.
You are a terrorist.
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@Phatkillz Check your tone, buddy ol' pal. You didn't just "forget to say..." Your words implied that it hadn't been happening in perpetuity by saying, "never thought I'd see corporations using our police to protect their interests."
So, there are one of two options:
One, you didn't know the millennia-long history of the correlations between the wealthy-class, money, privilege, and coercion, and the working-class, slavery, subjugation, and desperation, nor the racism incurred therein.
Or, two, you knew about the history, but you chose your words foolishly by utilizing hyperbole rather than saying something more direct.
It's understandable if you didn't know the history that has constantly repeated itself up to the present. You're not alone.
It's understandable if your way of life prevents you from considering the history that is taking place in the present right in front of you. You're not alone.
But it's not understandable to just run-mouth and type-fingers with expressions of hyperbole. Hyperbole is a tool utilized in the propaganda produced by the wealthy-class.
Don't do that.
Get yourself together.
Working-class people are suffering.
Other working-class people are trying to do something about the suffering of their working-class mates.
So say what you mean.
Or say less.
Or say nothing and find a way to do something.
Oh, how I long for the days of the literal town-square where the stupidest people got no audience, and the less-stupid people knew when to STFU.
And, by the way, corporate socialism (an oxymoronic term coined by the wealthy-class propagandists) isn't why we can't have nice things.
Corporate socialism (such a foolish term to be utilized by working-class people) is a byproduct of the actual reasons why we can't have nice things.
Moderate, white, working-class liberals who make up the majority of the electorate are why we can't have nice things. (For those who don't know, in international and historical contexts, liberalism is a right-wing political ideology.)
Moderate, white, working-class liberals who support the right-wing Demlican-Repubocrat parties are why we can't have nice things. (For those who don't know, in international and historical contexts, both US political parties are economically right-wing and socially authoritarian political parties.)
An ignorant working-class dominated by moderate, white liberal individualists who aren't willing to change their lifestyles -- who are rendered inactive and apathetic by the few extra crumbs they get from the masters' tables -- are why we can't have nice things.
Sure, the wealthy-class is responsible. But the government in and of itself is not the only problem.
Sure the wealthy-class has bought, sold, bribed, and control the government. But they have done so with the consent of the governed majority of moderate, white liberals.
Working-class people -- particularly those who are okay with their level of oppression because they aren't the most oppressed members of the working-class -- have tried to relieve themselves of responsibility by claiming forgetfulness or ignorance.
The complacent, right-wing liberals in the working-class are as much to blame as the conspiratorial, right-wing liberals in the wealthy-class. They are why we can't have nice things.
Don't be like them.
And don't throw your attitude around because you've been called out.
Good day.
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@PoochieCollins Cenk's a Capitalist. Capitalism is a RW-system. Thus, Cenk is a RWer, whether or not he's (a)intelligent enough to comprehend it or (b)honorable enough to admit it. Corporatism & Fascism are farther RW-systems, and Cenk is getting cozy with Corporatists & Fascists.
Kamala, Biden, Obama, Pelosi & Schumer are Capitalists/Coprporatists.
Cheney, Trump, McConnell, Johnson, & BushJr are a Corporatists/Fascists.
You seem like you're about to cozy up to corporatists and fascists, too, just like Cenk.
Nooo. 🙄 Thanks. 😒 🤮
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Cenk's a Capitalist. Capitalism is a RW-system. Thus, Cenk is a RWer, whether or not he's (a)intelligent enough to comprehend it or (b)honorable enough to admit it. Corporatism & Fascism are farther RW-systems, and Cenk is getting cozy with Corporatists & Fascists.
Kamala, Biden, Obama, Pelosi & Schumer are Capitalists/Coprporatists.
Cheney, Trump, McConnell, Johnson, & BushJr are a Corporatists/Fascists.
You seem like you're about to cozy up to corporatists and fascists, too, just like Cenk.
Nooo. 🙄 Thanks. 😒 🤮
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Modeling... Advertising... What a bunch of right-wing, neolib-conservative garbage, just like all the other non-necessity and for-profit industries. They're all top-down poison. From the lazy, wealthy-class lifestyle-addicts who consume the profits like parasites, to the lazy, working-class, lifestyle-addicts who consume the compliments like parasites.
These lazy, parasitic people should be laboring over the production and procurement of their own life-sustaining necessities, instead of making slaves out of other people who do all the labor for them.
This world is such a sh!tehole, all because of the lazy, parasitic, right-wingers -- from the wealthy-class right-wing lifestyle-addicts to the working-class right-wing lifestyle-addicts.
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Cenk's a Capitalist. Capitalism is a RW-system. Thus, Cenk is a RWer, whether or not he's (a)intelligent enough to comprehend it or (b)honorable enough to admit it. Corporatism & Fascism are farther RW-systems, and Cenk is getting cozy with Corporatists & Fascists.
Kamala, Biden, Obama, Pelosi & Schumer are Capitalists/Coprporatists.
Cheney, Trump, McConnell, Johnson, & BushJr are a Corporatists/Fascists.
Nooo. 🙄 Thanks. 😒 🤮
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@ivnarc6430 Yup. Cenk's a Capitalist. Capitalism is a RW-system. Thus, Cenk is a RWer, whether or not he's (a)intelligent enough to comprehend it or (b)honorable enough to admit it. Corporatism & Fascism are farther RW-systems, and Cenk is getting cozy with Corporatists & Fascists.
Kamala, Biden, Obama, Pelosi & Schumer are Capitalists/Coprporatists.
Cheney, Trump, McConnell, Johnson, & BushJr are a Corporatists/Fascists.
OP would cozy up to corporatists and fascists, too, just like Cenk.
Nooo. 🙄 Thanks. 😒 🤮
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Yup. I've been watching TYT for over a decade. Cenk used to be center-left, advocating for social-democracy and/or democratic-socialism, but he dragged the audience to the center-right, advocating for capitalism. Capitalism is an authoritarian system that is antithetical to democratism/democracy.
TYT taking money from corrupt rich people, w/ their corrupt RW-politics, is part of what has ruined TYT. Besides that, Cenk is a self-proclaimed Capitalist, and Capitalism is a RW-system, just like Monarchism, Feudalism, Corporatism & Fascism. All of the RW-political-systems are just systems of slavery with different names, and Cenk wants the moderate-RW politics of Capitalist-slavery, but not the RW-extremist politics of Fascist-slavery.
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Kenneth Copeland, The Jimmy Swaggart family, Crefflo Dollar, Joel Osteen, The Jerry Falwell family, The Pat Robertson and family, The Mike & Sarah Huckabee family, Mike Pompeo and family, The Clinton Family, The Bush Family, The Cheney family, The Trump family, The Biden family, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, -- they are all advocates of the same corruption and worshipers of mammon.
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If she is an actual left-wing, anti-establishment progressive, she and Beto aren't going to get along.
Beto is a pro-establishment, neoliberal-conservative right-winger, just like Pelosi, McCarthy, Schumer, McConnel, Biden, Trump, Bush(2), Clinton(2), and many, many others. These people are all wealthy-class conservatives -- they are trying to conserve the system of neoliberal-fascist capitalism.
Both American political parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by right-wing, fascist billionaires who fund the campaigns of (s)elected right-wing, fascist millionaires.
The (s)elected fascist millionaires -- Beto, Pelosi, McCarthy, Schumer, McConnell, and the others -- vote to pass laws that exponentially benefit the wealthy-class while paying theatrical lip service to the policies which are wildly supported by the working-class.
In any of the other, better countries of the world, the Repubocrat and Demlican parties would either be the same right-wing political-party or members of a right-wing coalition.
Beto is NOT a friend to the working-class at large, and certainly not to the left, and definitely not to the international-left. Again, the American left is considered right-wing to the class-conscious international-leftists in other, better countries.
But do you know who were anti-establishment friends of the working-class? JFK, MLK, Malcolm X, Abe Lincoln, Rosa Luxemburg, and Jesus Christ. That's who. And what do those folks all have in common? They were all murdered at the behest of wealthy-class right-wingers. And if those wealthy-class right-wingers could have, they would have gotten FDR, too.
Again, Beto is a pro-establishment, pro-wealthy-class right-winger, like 95% of American politicians.
If the woman in this video is planning on standing up to that, then Beto will want to sabotage her, just like right-wing Democrat, Bakari Sellers is trying to sabotage left-wing Rashida Talib.
I could go on, but explaining American politics to Americans is f*kcing exhausting.
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Democracy is fragile, huh? Well, you don't say, Captain-obvious Cheney. Thanks for the heads up. After you're done with this "trial," do your murdering, war criminal, garbage-can father and his trash-can accomplices next.
Just as democracy is extreme in its ease to be broken, it is also extreme in its difficulty to be created, as evidenced by the fact that this sh!tehole country has never been nor had a democracy.
I sure wish it had been/was/could be a democracy, but the wealthy-class will not willingly give up their addictions.
There will be no democracy until the mob-rule of the wealthy-class minority is stifled by the working-class majority.
So, basically, never.
Ok, ok. Perhaps I'm exaggerating.
MAYBE fascist-Amerikkka will be a democracy after the rest of the better countries do the same thing to the fascist-Amerikkkan, wealthy-class Repub&Dem Nazis that the better countries of the world did to fascist-German, wealthy-class Nazis.
But that's a BIG MAYBE
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Gavin Newsom is a RWer. In the historical & international contexts of politics, RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class & anti-working-class politics. Gavin Newsom is a member of the wealthy-class. And, thus, he is a RWer.
All the problems in the world are perpetrated & perpetuated by (a)the corrupt wealthy-class and their corrupt RW-politics, and (b)the working-class dupes who support the corrupt wealthy-class and their corrupt RW-politics.
BOTH American political parties are bought, owed, bribed, & controlled by the same corrupt wealthy-class.
Vote for the corrupt, RW-extremist Repubs, for the fast, open-road from Capitalism to Fascism.
Vote for the corrupt, moderate-RW Dems, for the slower, disguised-road from Capitalism to Fascism.
America's working-class dupes continue to support BOTH of these corrupt, RW-political parties and their corrupt RW-politics.
America is the kind of country you end up with when the corrupt wealthy-class is allowed and enabled to implement their corrupt RW-politics.
The American wealthy-class has succeeded at dumbing-down the American working-class, rendering the working-class too ignorant to comprehend politics in historical & international contexts.
And that includes you, as you've proven by implying that Gavin Newsom ISN'T a RWer, when he very much IS a RWer.
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@DonRua So, you're unfamiliar w/ the American history of right-wing McCarthyism & the Red Scare, during which working-class people were disparaged, deported, disappeared, & dispatched(MURDERED) for standing up to the wealthy-class & their right-wing politics. Well, let me educate you.
The right-wing-driven sabotage and violence of McCarthyism and the Red Scare had profound dumbing-down effects on all of society, including the things educators could safely teach or not teach.
The violence eased up for a while, because education and educators moved swiftly toward the right to avoid the violence perpetrated by the right-wing. But the right-wing-driven sabotage and dumbing-down of the working-class has been ever-present.
However, in the present-day, we're witnessing the rhyming-nature of history, as evidenced by a right-wing-driven increase in the dumbing-down of education in southern states and right-wing jurisdictions, and in the increase of right-wing-driven violence taking place around the country.
And if you keep voting for right-wing politics -- the politics which are inherently pro-wealthy-class and anti-working class, and the very politics that are espoused by right-wing Repubs and right-wing Dem -- the right-wing-driven sabotage and dumbing-down will continue, and the right-wing-driven violence is going to get much, much worse.
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The U.S. is not now, nor has it ever been, a Democracy (it seems you know that).
Ffs, the sh!thole is barely even a Republic.
The right-wing-extremist U.S. is more accurately labeled as the following:
1. an autocratic oligarchy.
2. a technocratic police-state.
3. a plutocratic kakistocracy.
4. a wage, debt, and chattel slave-state.
5. a gerontological, white-supremacist patriarchy.
6. an infantile, god-complex psychopathy.
7. a narcissistic, gaslighting sociopathy.
8. an excessive consumer and polluter.
9. a materialism sanctifier.
10. a trinkette and gadget hoard.
11. A mammon-worshipping theocracy.
12. The worst neighbor to have in the porta-potty next to yours.
And speaking of which -- the U.S. is a right-wing extremist toilet, just like the Confederacy and Nazi Germany were.
I only hope that I live long enough to see the U.S. sh!thole get flushed, just like the Confederacy and Nazi Germany got flushed.
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Abolish private property, private companies, and private profit.
Privacy is where slavery, abuse, and corruption are cultivated to fester and thrive.
The human-parasites who advocate for private property, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private property" to refer to the humans they enslaved in the past.
The human-parasites who advocate for private companies, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private companies" to refer to the plantations where they enslaved said humans in the past.
The human-parasites who advocate for private profits, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private profit" to refer to the money generated by the labor of the humans they enslaved on plantations in the past.
The kinds of human-parasites who advocate for private property, private companies, and private profits, in the present, are the same as the human who advocate for "States' Rights" and slavery in the past.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people from other countries.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people from other states.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people of other colors and religions.
And if you don't think those kinds of human-parasites still exist, then look no further than your county Republic/Democrat political-party meeting, your local police/sheriff department, or your nearest military recruiters office.
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While there are some human-parasites who want to enslave any family but their own, on the macro-level, there are some human-parasites who want to enslave their own family members, on the micro-level, under the guise of "privacy" and "parental rights."
The kinds of human-parasites who advocate for private property, private companies, and private profit, are the same kind of human-parasites who advocate for "States' Rights" to enslave and abuse other humans in privacy.
And the kinds of human-parasites who advocate for "States' Rights" are the same kind of people who advocate for "Parental Rights" to enslave and abuse children in private.
And kinds of human-parasites who advocate for unfettered privacy are the kinds of human-parasites who want to keep their corruption and their victims private.
The more adamant a person is about "privacy," the more suspicious of them I become, and the more parasitic they reveal themselves to be.
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@earlviney5212 How imbecilic to blame those who lack the agency or autonomy to affect meaningful change.
Blaming a kid for being "mischievous" and "rotten" is as moronic as blaming a r@p3 victim for "looking" and "acting" a certain way, instead of blaming the parents for raising the kid that way and blaming the r@p!st for r@p!ng.
Kids aren't responsible for the way parents, teachers, politicins, and society raises them, just as victims aren't responsible for the actions of their attackers.
Oh, and by the way...
Only SOME teachers are good and decent.
Only SOME teachers are working hard.
MANY are not.
Your parents sided with the teacher because, like most corrupt people in positions of power, your parents and the teacher didn't want to take responsibility for their inability to raise you better. And they were too scared to stand up to the politicians responsible for shaping society in their own favor instead of in the favor of parents, teachers, and children.
Respect is earned, not given. But in your day, kids and adults alike were indoctrinated into the inferiority-mindset of verbally-fellating a person just because they were older or in certain positions of power, or because a person had died. Those days, thank goodness, are over. Respect is earned, not given.
Many people in positions of power, including many teachers, are human-garbage. They deserve no respect. Of course, some teachers are good.
George Bush Sr. and Ronald Reagan are dead. They were lying, murderous, wealthy-class pieces of human-excrement who didn't give a bird-sh!te about the working-class. Those dead sh!tes deserve no respect. Of course, some politicians are good.
And your statement is not respectable. But you're still alive. You have time to do better than the backward way of thinking imposed upon you by your oppressors.
Don't blame kids or victims for the faults ingrained in and assigned to them by their oppressors.
Don't blame parents and teachers for not having the tools they need to raise better humans. But certainly don't blame the kids.
In every situation, blame the persons in positions of power who can make changes for the better, but choose not to employ that power to produce that change.
Don't be hurt by words. Be better.
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Ana is a talk-show host who can BARELY read the news that is written by actual journalists -- she bumbles ALL the time, and she has ALL DAY to prepare. Trump can BARELY speak -- he bumbles ALL the time, and he has ALL the time he wants to prepare. But Ana says Newsom is incompetent? Riiiiight. Newsom definitely sucks, but so does Trump, and so does Ana. She should keep throwing those stones from her glass-house in a dry-desert, girl-boss! 🤣
Furthermore: Cenk, Ana, Newsom, and Bass are ALL Capitalists (Newsom might be a Corporatist, and Trump is a Fascist). Capitalism, Corporatism, & Fascism are ALL RW-political-systems. And, thus, Cenk, Ana, Newsom, Bass, and Trump are ALL RWers.
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Bernie has family. He's more concerned with what could happen to them after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows what the right-wingers have done to working-class leftists through history.
Bernie sees the rhyming-nature of that history coming back around.
Bernie lived through the "Red Scare" and "McCarthyism."
Bernie doesn't want those kinds of things to happen to his family after he dies.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that there are too many foolish, working-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many knavish, wealthy-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many right-wing addicts with mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Berne knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts will willingly give up their addictions.
Bernie knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts can cure their own mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that, in order to maintain their addictive lifestyles, the mentally ill working-class fools will do whatever the mentally ill wealthy-class knaves tell them to do; just like they did during the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie has now entered the phase known as, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
Bernie is MORE concerned with the quality of life his family will have when he dies.
Bernie is LESS concerned with the quality of life for the working-class.
Bernie is ONLY concerned with his own family-unit minority
Bernie is NOT concerned about the working-class majority.
Bernie is the perfect example of why any effective leader(s) on the left-wing will have to be someone(s) without family -- it's too easy for the wealthy-class right-wingers to corrupt left-wingers who have families, and Bernie is a prime example.
Bernie has exchanged his working-class principles to secure a wealthy-class standard of living for his family after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the anti-wealthy-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given up on the pro-working-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the anti-working-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the pro-wealthy-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given up.
It's only surprising/upsetting if one doesn't know the facts, or rhyming-nature, of history.
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Most religious-fundamentalists(RFs) are more akin to autocratic right-wingers(RWs) than not.
Many atheist RWs believe in the cycle of violence & vengeance, just like many Muslim, Jewish, & (anti)Christian RFs do.
Many atheist RWs believe they are entitled to excessive wealth, just like many Muslims, Jewish, & (anti)Christian RFs do.
I'm not surprised that atheists & (anti)Christian RFs vote for RWs. I'm surprised that more Muslim & Jewish RFs don't.
If RFs of all religions were to join forces, more-so than they already have, to combine the worst parts of their religions that coincide with atheism and right-wing politics, and they create a quasi-theocracy, they will eliminate any & all semblance of transparency & accountability.
And if that happens, not having debates will be the least of your worries -- the size of your concrete-sneakers and noose-circumference will be much more important than not having debates.
How do you like your theocratic fascism?
Vote wealthy, right-wing extremist Repubs for the fast, open-road to fascism.
Vote wealthy, right-wing moderate Dems for the slow, disguised-road to fascism.
BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy right-wing fascists.
I'm already planning my foot-migration to Canada, where I fully expect the moderate right-wingers who control the country, will deny my request for asylum.
My comments are in response to Kyle's fear-mongering about Muslims choosing to vote for the right-wing extremist Repub-party instead of the moderate right-wing Dem-party -- it's a wonder they haven't already. Once they realize they agree on RW-material-possessions, RW-wealth-hoarding, and RF-autocratic-theocracy that will do it. Ffs, the (anti)Christian RFs in the Bush-family and the Muslim RFs in the House of Saud realized their RW agreements decades ago.
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"There's great honor in serving our country..."
*clutching chest, craning neck, clenching anus
The greatest of great honors, with the greatest servants, in the greatest country, on the greatest planet, in the greatest solar system, in the greatest galaxy, in the greatest universe, in the greatest dimension. Ever. Period. Full-stop. Period. Period-period.
It is a great honor to prostitute oneself for a corporate, oligarchic kleptocracy -- which is operated by the wealthy-class, who in turn bribes the rich-class to administer the enslavement of the working-class, who all then shit on the poorest-classes all across the country and around the world -- whose main goal is to pillage the lands and hoard the resources of other nations while exploiting those nation's human-labor to commandeer all of that nation's industries -- so that the masters within the wealthy and rich-class minority, with the help of the class-trading crumb-catchers within the working and poor-class majority, can maintain their addictions to materialism, social-status, and easy-living which is expressed as the mental illness known as 'greed' -- all the while preaching against the very things one is servicing into perpetuity.
*from one side, speaking from the mouth
*sips tea, high up with the pinky
Cease THESE regime-change wars. Period.
This commander-in-chief is atrocious. Period.
*sports more flowers, round about the neck
*from the other side, speaks the same mouth
Commence THOSE regime-change wars. Period.
I'll command-and-chief astonishingly. Period.
Yes! 'Tis as noble a pursuit as any other for one to embrace the irony of one's hypocrisy!
*sips more tea
*sports more flowers
*solicits more power
*suppresses more people
/S
In the U.K., they would call her a C-U-Next-Tuesday.
In the U.S., it's simply another day that ends in 'Y' and another politician who starts and ends with 'I'.
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RW-politics are rich-people politics. All the major problems in the world, and most of the smaller problems, are caused by (a)the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics, and by (b)the ignorant, working-class dupes who support the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics.
If there weren't so many ignorant, working-class dupes (particularly the dupes who volunteer to be cops&soldiers) acting as the human-buffers between the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians and the smarter, better members of the working-class, then those smarter, better members of the working-class would be able to do something about the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics.
Here's a pro-tip for the ignorant, working-class dupes in the US: the RW-extremist Repub party & the moderate-RW Dem party are BOTH bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics.
If you vote for either the RW-extremist Repubs OR the moderate-RW Dems, then you're just voting for the wealthy-class to continue using the RW-political systems of Monarchism, Feudalism, Capitalism, Corporatism, Republicanism, and Fascism to enslave the working-class.
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@judithcastanedo2778 Soo, you suffered, and now you want other people to suffer, too. That's a real right-wing, exceptionalist point of view you've got there. I bet you vote for the right-wing Repubs and/or right-wing Dems who have amplified your suffering. Good job, genius.
Do the decent and needy people a favor: keep going to work, and stay out of the way of the very real, very decent people who are (a)trying to help stop the suffering of the needy people, or (b)trying to help spread out the suffering a little more evenly.
Oh yeah, by the way, just because people "need stuff," that doesn't automatically mean that taxes go up -- that's not how that works.
I can't imagine being an adult, like you, with such an infantile understanding of how taxation-legislation works.
If this were the old-days of the town-square, you'd be standing alone, talking to yourself, as other, better people walked by and laughed at you while they were on their way to get things done.
Really, please, for the good of mankind, stay out of the way.
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Wolff has been telling people for years how to revolt and build a better society: Revolt with more democracy. Rebuild with more education. Repeat.
So, the real question is: Are you a fool or a knave?
Are you a fool -- one who CAN'T comprehend the consistent suggestions Wolff provides?
OR
Are you a knave -- one who CAN comprehend Wolff's advice, but pretends not to?
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and presume that you're just a regular, idiotic American right-winger -- one who votes for right-wing Repubocrats and/or right-wing Demlicans -- and I'll give you some food for thought, presuming your capable of such a thing.
Wolff believes that a peaceful revolution is a better revolution, because he values human-life more than right-wingers do.
Wolff knows that wealthy-class right-wingers will never willingly give up their power and addictions, and he knows that working-class right-wingers are the same kind of addicts.
Wolff knows that the right-wingers will lie, cheat, and steal to maintain their power and addictions. He knows that the right-wingers will commit sabotage, murder, and genocide to maintain their power and addictions.
Do yourself a favor and investigate the Red Scare and MCCarthyism. Wolff was alive when those things were happening, and that is how he knows what right-wing addicts are capable of.
Wolff isn't doing what you want, because he's not a complete moron, nor a piece of human excrement, and he doesn't want to be dead or disappeared at the hands of modern day neanderthals and denisovans with addiction-driven mental illnesses.
If you're looking for the "old-fashioned" kind of revolution, you'll get all the fear mongering, hate mongering, war mongering, and instigation you're looking for from the right-wing propagandist networks -- Fox News, OAN, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, Prager, Daily Wire/Caller, Washington Post, NYT, WSJ, and many, many more.
Good luck with all that.
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@avishevin1976 Oh, "non-combat" roles, huh? So, you're not the murderer, you're just an accomplice & accessory to murder.🙄 If the world wasn't run by corrupt, wealthy right-wingers, then the working-class dupes, like you, would be in one of those for-profit prison-cages that are owned & operated by your wealthy right-wing masters. And if the world was based on justice, those corrupt, wealthy right-wingers would be in the cages with you.
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Chattel-slaves, debt-slaves, and wage-slaves: the wealthy-class right-wing Capitalists (and the working-class right-wingers, for that matter) don't care which kind of slave each of us are. They have addictions that need servicing.
They don't care if we're in metal-chains, concrete-cages, or cardboard-cubicles. You'll service their addictions one way or the other, or they'll make sure you end up in a wooden-box. There are plenty more forced-birth slaves coming after you're gone.
The entire goal of the wealthy-class right-wing Capitalists is to remain lazy and addicted -- whether they achieve those ends through a system of master vs. slaves, lord vs. serfs, or employer vs. employees, they do not care.
They don't care how their lifestyles are achieved, so long as they don't have to do very much, and certainly no manual labor.
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@ronaldmarbut8104 🤣But you'll believe a political party that tells you; "trans men CAN'T have babies," and "white right-wingers aren't racist because racism DOESN'T exist." Even though trans men having babies, and white's racism as a right-wing facet, have been documented throughout history. I know history & facts aren't your people's strong suits.
You should do a couple of things:
First, you'll need to learn what introspection is.
Then, you'll need to learn how to think introspectively.
Then you'll need to examine the historical ways in which the WEALTHY-CLASS, America/MAGAt right-wingers are similar to the WEALTHY-CLASS, Nazi/Confederate right-wingers.
Then you'll need to examine the historical ways in which the WORKING-CLASS American/MAGAt right-wingers are similar to the WORKING-CLASS Nazi/Confederate right-wingers.
You'll need to recognize the differences between the wealthy-class right-wingers and the working-class right-wingers.
SPOILER ALERTS:
What you'll find is that the wealthy-class, right-wing masters use their wealth to manufacture working-class dupes, like you. Because wealthy-class right-wingers want you to be stupid.
Because, in the same way that wealthy-class right-wingers didn't want their chattel-slaves to learn in the past, they don't want their debt-slaves and wage-slaves to learn in the present.
The wealthy-class, right-wing MAGAts in the present, know the same thing that wealthy-class, right-wing Confederates knew in the past: Stupid working-class people, like you, make better slaves.
And, so, your wealthy-class, right-wing masters use their wealth to produce propaganda to fuel your ignorance.
The wealthy-class right-wingers know that once they have rendered you ignorant enough, they can convince you and the other working-class dupes to act as mouth-pieces to spread pro-wealthy-class and anti-working-class propaganda. Just like they did to the working-class Nazi/Confederate dupes.
The wealthy-class right-wingers know that you and the other working-class dupes will help to indoctrinate your own friends, families, and neighbors. Just like the working-class Nazi/Confederate dupes did.
The wealthy-class knows that once they have made you dumb enough, they can trick you and and your working-class friends, families, and neighbors into volunteering to be used as cannon-fodder. Just like the Nazis/Confederates.
What you'll find is that the wealthy-class simply used the dupes in the working-class, like you, to solidify their power over the working-class.
What you'll find is that the wealthy-class Nazi/Confederate knaves used their wealth to destabilize the working-class, and working-class dupes like you helped them.
Then, when the rest of the working-class world got tired of the right-wing Nazis/Confederates, the rest of that working-class world united to come against them.
Then, while the duped, working-class Nazis/Confederates, like you, were acting as the cannon-fodder-diversion, the wealthy-class Nazis/Confederates snuck out the backdoor, and left the working-class Nazi/Confederate dupes, like you, holding the metaphorical bag.
And, now, you working-class MAGAt right-wingers are in the process of repeating the same rhyming-mistakes in the ongoing poem of history.
You're a bunch of foolish, working-class slaves, doing the bidding of your knavish, wealthy-class masters. And you're doing it, for what? A few extra crumbs? So you can call people mean names? LOL. You're pathetic.
Just look at the duped, working-class morons who committed the January 6th insurrection. Just go and ask those working-class, right-wing dupes what they got out of the deal.
Just like the working-class Nazi/Confederate dupes, and just like the working-class Jan6th dupes, your own ignorance and inabilities will be your demise.
Your inability to:
1. Think introspectively, and change accordingly.
2. Comprehend politics in historical and international contexts.
3. Understand power, manipulation, and exploitation.
5. Repress your self-aggrandized exceptionalism.
5. Express sympathy and empathy.
All of these inabilities are, more likely than not, to be the death of you.
All the consequences could be avoided. But it would take meaningful, productive work on your part
It would mean you would have to spend less time licking the boots and sniffing the butt'oles of your wealthy-right-wing, addiction-driven masters, whom you're trying so hard to impress and striving so hard to be like.
It would mean you would have to spend more time trying to defeat your own addictions -- to ignorance, fear, anger, hate, sabotage, violence, murder, and genocide -- that have been fed to you by your wealthy-right-wing, addiction-driven masters.
But you white-supremacist right-wingers are lazy -- both the wealthy-class AND the working-class right-wingers.
And you would rather listen to wealthy-class right-wingers, who are even more lazy than you are, than you would join together with the working-class trans-gender and non-white people who aren't right-wingers.
You would rather turn the working-class trans-gender and non-white people into slaves, like you are, than to complete the manual labor necessary to provide your own necessities.
You would rather be angry, fearful, and hateful, than work with the working-class trans-gender and non-white people whom you have more in common with.
You would rather commit sabotage, violence, murder, and genocide against the working-class trans-gender and non-white people whom you have more in common with.
And it's not surprising. Just as it won't be surprising if you decide not to become a better human.
It is mostly expected that you don't want to be a better human, because there have been millions of working-class dupes, just like you, all throughout history. You're not special. You're a regular.
A regular, ignorant, fearful, hateful, right-winger.
A regular, violent, murderous, genocidal right-winger.
A regular, patriarchal, misogynistic, sexist, white-supremacist,right-winger.
Your right-wing kind has been dealt with before -- Nazis, Confederates, Jan6th MAGAts
Your right-wing kind will be dealt with again.
I only hope I live long enough to see the working-class, American/MAGAt dupes, who vote and die for the wealthy-right-wing Republicans and wealthy-right-wing Democrats, suffer the same consequences as the working-class German/Southern dupes who voted and died for the wealthy-right-wing Nazis/Confederates.
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Yup, and when the small minority of wealthy-class parasites lose control in one area, they fabricate the demise of that area and sneak out the backdoor leaving the working-class holding the bag. It's a tale as old as time.
The small minority of wealthy-class parasites have been sabotaging state and local governments and communities throughout the US since they created the country. And while they've been sabotaging state and local governments and communities, they have been simultaneously planning to do the same thing to the federal government.
That small minority of wealthy-class parasites has been slowly leaving the country for decades, little by little, dollar by dollar, resource by resource. But their pace has increased over the past decade.
The most conniving of the parasites realized that the ruse was up a long time ago. That is why they pushed through NAFTA, to help them facilitate their departure from the country (NAFTA was developed by right-wing Republicans and passed by right-wing Dems, just like Obamacare).
The American working-class is on its way to reaping the worldly repercussions of allowing themselves to be controlled by wealthy-class right-wing parasites, the same way that working-class Germans allowed themselves to be controlled by wealthy-class right-wing parasitic Nazis.
The better countries of the world are sick and tired of America's bullsh!te, just like they were sick of the Nazis.
The American working-class will be lucky if they don't reap the same demise as the working-class Germans did during and after World War Two.
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Elon is a Capitalist/Corporatist. Harris is a Capitalist/Corporatist. Trump is a Corporatist/Fascist.
Capitalism, Corporatism, & Fascism are ALL systems of RW-politics.
Vote for the RW-extremist Repubs or Libertarians, for the fast, open-road from RW-Capitalism to RW-Fascism.
Vote for the moderate-RW Dems or Greens, for the slower, disguised-road from RW-Capitalism to RW-Fascism.
ALL of the political-parties in the US are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
If you're voting for the RW-extremists or the moderate-RWers, then you're voting for the same results.
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@mummaki5169 LOL. Did I find one?
⬆⬆⬆⬆⬆ Did I find an uneducated, drooling, mouth-breathing, right-winger.
And in the context you wrote; it's "you're" -- not "your".
Also, you only used one instance of punctuation, and it's not even placed correctly. And not a single comma.
You can't honestly expect to be taken seriously with written-communication like that.
In the old-days of the town-square, you'd be laughed into silence, or you'd be talking to yourself.
Try reading what I wrote again: I wrote that not all right-wing voters are incapable of comprehending the true oppression inherent in right-wing politics, and even my uneducated uncle understood. That is hardly rude or divisive (not "devisive" as you spelled it).
Try reading what I wrote again, and this time, try reading it for comprehension.
I have faith in you. But you'll have to try harder than you have thus far in your life.
If you choose not to try, then you are choosing to remain the one who is obnoxious, talking to themselves in the town-square.
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@davidepling724 Words have meanings. And I'll try to explain. But, if you're anti-education and anti-intellectualism, you might as well stop reading right now.
And even if you are pro-education and pro-intellectualism, I won't be surprised if, in one YT comment, you can't comprehend that which took me years of formal & informal education to learn.
But here we go.
Right-wing social politics are pro-autocracy and anti-democracy politics.
Right-wing economic politics are pro-wealthy-class and anti-working-class politics.
Right-wing socioeconomic politics are pro-hierarchical-inequality and anti-anarchical-equality politics.
Capitalism -- like feudalism and monarchism -- is a right-wing, autocratic, hierarchical economic system.
Right-wing political systems have been the metaphorical-vehicles in which wealthy-class right-wingers have been the drivers of manipulation and exploitation into society throughout recorded history -- all to the detriment of the chattel-slaves, debt-slaves, and wage-slaves in the working-class who are nothing more than pedestrians to be aimed at by the wealthy, right-wing psycho/sociopaths behind the wheel.
The world has had a right-wing bent throughout most of recorded history, ESPECIALLY since the invention of currencies. And, by that vein, the USA has ALWAYS been a right-wing country.
Wealthy right-wing monarchs funded the exploration of the American-landscape.
Wealthy right-wing landlords stole the American-landscape from, and then committed genocide against, the rightful-owners.
Wealthy right-wing landholders, property-owners, and enslavers wrote and signed the inequitable and corrupt government documents.
Wealthy right-wingers have ruled the world for millennia. But wealthy right-wingers have been corrupting the American-landscape since before they arrived on its shores, and they've been doing so ever since.
Wealthy right-wingers wrote the 13th Amendment to The US Constitution. The 13th Amendment enshrines slavery into the already-inequitable, already-corrupt Constitution.
And, now, because of the 13th Amendment, the wealthy right-wingers can continue to increase their wealth through the enslaving-incarceration of the working-class in prisons -- just like the wealthy right-wingers increased their wealth through the enslaving-incarceration of the working-class, kidnapped Africans on plantations.
Additionally, wealthy right-wingers have used the corrupted government to sabotage the working-class in modern times. In the same way that wealthy right-wingers were mad after The Civil War, they were also mad after FDR worked on behalf of the working-class.
FDR wasn't perfect. But he wasn't a psycho/sociopathic addict. He didn't want another civil war.
In fact, FDR was a wealthy right-winger himself. But the other wealthy right-wingers hated FDR because he didn't allow them to pursue their addictions to their psycho/sociopathic heart's content.
FDR didn't permit the wealthy right-wingers to continue their unfettered manipulation and exploitation of the working-class.
And, so, after FDR died, the corrupt, wealthy right-wingers used the government, which they corruptly invented, to impose term limits on future presidents to prevent the harnessing of their wealthy right-wing addictions to corruption and greed.
After the wealthy right-wingers imposed presidential term limits, they set out to undo all of the working-class benefits put into place by FDR. They are still working towards undoing those working-class benefits today. For example, they are trying to undo the Social Security program.
Then, after World War Two, came the era of McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare. During that time, working-class people were detained, deported, disappeared(kidnapped), and dispatched(killed) -- all at the behest of wealthy right-wingers.
The detaining, deporting, kidnapping, and killing were committed by the working-class dupes who were dumb enough to "jUsT FoLLoW ThE OrDeRs." of wealthy right-wingers -- just like the working-class fools who followed the orders of wealthy right-wing Confederates and Nazis.
That, by the way, has been one of the biggest problems for the working-class majority throughout history; there are so many ignorant dupes in the ranks, and that is by the design of wealthy right-wingers.
Wealthy right-wingers knew then, in the past, what they know now, in the present -- they know that stupid working-class people make better slaves. That's why wealthy right-wing slaveowners prevented their working-class slaves from learning in the past.
That's why wealthy right-wingers don't want an educated working-class in the present -- they know that stupid working-class people make better slaves. That's why wealthy right-wingers are trying so hard to defund public education.
The wealthy right-wingers know that ignorant working-class people are easily manipulated and convinced to sabotage communities of their own working-class friends and families and those of working-class strangers abroad. And broken working-class homes and communities anywhere are to the benefit of wealthy right-wingers everywhere.
Wealthy right-wingers want their kids to go to overfunded schools where they learn to become manipulators, exploiters, and enslavers.
Wealthy right-wingers want working-class kids to go to underfunded schools where they learn to be wage-slave soldiers, debt-slave workers, and chattel-slave prisoners.
Whether you're a chattel-slave on a prison-plantation, a debt-slave on a battlefield, or wage-slave on a factory floor, the wealthy right-wingers do not care. They'll take whichever kind of ignorant slave they can get.
Now, moving forward a few decades away from McCarthyism, we see the continued corruption of the wealthy right-wingers in their efforts to re-infiltrate and resolidify their control over the judicial systems.
Knowing and understanding the decisions from a few Supreme Court cases from the last four-plus decades will help any working-class person better comprehend wealthy right-wing corruption.
To ease the intake of the information, I'll chronologically list the cases below:
1. Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
2. First National Bank of Boston v. Bellott (1978)
3. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)
4. McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission (2014)
All of those cases, decided by right-wing jurists in a right-wing country, were to the benefit of the wealthy right-wing minority to the detriment of the working-class majority.
I could go on. And on. And on. But I've given you the beginnings of an education rooted in socioeconomic politics in international & historical contexts.
You know, honestly, I'm a Christian -- a real one. I'm not one of those right-wing, mammon-worshipping, violently-theocratic authoritarians. And I don't vote. So I've really got no skin in this game.
Because, personally, I'll die willingly, like Christ did, before I commit violence against anyone just so I, or some wealthy right-winger, can sh!t more comfortably than someone else.
But something tells me you're a right-wing Republican, right-wing Democrat, right-wing Libertarian, or a right-wing NoLables voter. And ALL of those parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy right-wingers.
(Side note: There aren't any wealthy-elitists who are economically-left-wing, by the way -- because to be wealthy is to be a right-winger, because right-wing politics are wealthy-class politics That's.
There might be some socially-left-wing wealthy-elitists, but only in so far as they want to allow their slaves to be whatever religion/gender the slave chooses -- because that helps to sustain the pro-wealthy-class/anti-working-class system by preventing another civil war. End side note.)
And something tells me that you WOULD commit violence if they told you to -- just like the working-class, right-wing Confederates and Nazis who did what their wealthy right-wing masters told them to do.
So, I don't expect anything I've written to turn you into a non-violent, anti-violence Christian -- I'll leave the conversions to God, Christ, and The Holy Spirit.
But, hopefully, you've learned something new from what I've written, or you have been compelled to learn something new from somewhere else.
And, hopefully, you've had a revelation to the class-war being waged against the working-class majority by the wealthy-class right-wing minority.
And, hopefully, that revelation drives you to solidarity with the working-class people with whom you have more in common than you do with the wealthy right-wing tyrants.
P.S. Learn about austerity and neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is a right-wing political ideology in line with the capitalist economic system.
Austerity and neoliberalism benefit the wealthy-class to the detriment of the working-class.
Neoliberal-austerity policies are the current economic-policies that capitalist/conservative Repub&Dem right-wingers are trying to conserve.
Also, learn about Modern Monetary Theory. Currencies are, and should be, created by one entity, and that entity is the government. Just because most of the governments in the world are corrupted by wealthy right-wingers, that doesn't mean it has to be that way.
If a government can print money to manufacture the bombs and bullets that kill working-class people abroad, then a government can also print money to create domestic jobs that ensure all citizens have food, clothes, and shelter in their own countries.
And no autocratic person or company should be able to create their own currency -- and certainly not the corrupt, wealthy, right-wing addicts -- f*kc this crypto-currency bullsh!t.
Anyone who says otherwise is a fool who doesn't comprehend corruption, or a knave who pretends not to comprehend corruption because they benefit from corruption.
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Capitalism, Corporatism, & Fascism = minority-rule, authoritarianism, tyranny, and inequality.
Socialism, majority-rule, democratism, liberty, and equality.
I'll take the latter, every time. And so will most of the truly decent people.
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@BB-km9yx She has mentioned her teaching gig countless times. Just as Cenk has said countless times that he is a talk show host. He's said it more times than I can count.
But I don't need them to tell me that they're talk show hosts. I have the eyes to see. They are talk show hosts.
They take articles that are written by corporate journalists* from corporate mainstream-media publications and read those articles on-air, just like other folks do on their talk shows.
Then, after reading the articles written by corporate journalists* from corporate mainstream media publications, on-air, they discuss and opine on what they've read, just like other folks do on their corporate, mainstream-media, cable-television talk shows.
And, even though Ana teaches journalism, I don't need her to tell me that she's not acting as a journalist in the capacity of this show. She's a talking-reader and a talking-pundit, just like Cenk.
*Journalists in the context of corporate, mainstream media companies owned by the wealthy-class, such as those Somner works for, aren't journalists at all.
They're stenographers for the wealthy-class. They're regurgitators of wealthy-class propaganda. They're class-traitors to the working-class who have been co-opted by wealthy-class right-wing conservatives who want to conserve the right-wing ideology and systems of liberal/neoliberal capitalism.
Journalist* Somner's debunking of this story is as shallow as its unveiling. I don't need this story to be true to prove that Boebert is a hypocritical, co-opted class-traitor, and an overall despicable human. I don't need this story to be false to prove that the journalists* and politicians who are owned by the wealthy-class are all frequent and capable liars.
Joe Manchin calls himself a Democrat, but I have eyes to see. Just because Joe says he's a Democrat, that doesn't make his Republican voting record disappear. Joe Manchin is a right-winger, just like 95% of American politicians.
Some people are what they say they are, like Cenk is a talk show host and Ana is a teacher and a talk show host.
Some people aren't what they say they are, like Joe the "Democrat" and Somner the journalist*.
Critical thinking is hard. But I have eyes to see.
And I see the kind of wealthy-class, stenographic-propaganda journalism* you're trying to push -- you and dmoney: "tHiS iS jUsT gOsSiP!!! IsN’t iT????"
Well, as the kids say, you can GTFOH and miss me with that sh!te, B.
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Ana is a talk-show host who can BARELY read the news that is written by actual journalists -- she bumbles words ALL the time, and she has ALL DAY to prepare. Trump can BARELY speak -- he bumbles sentences ALL the time, and he has ALL the time he wants to prepare. But Newsom is incompetent? Riiiiight. Newsom definitely sucks, but so does Trump, and so does Ana. She should keep throwing those stones from her glass-house in a dry-desert, girl-boss! 🤣
Furthermore: Cenk, Ana, Newsom, and Bass are ALL Capitalists (Newsom might be a Corporatist, and Trump is a Fascist). Capitalism, Corporatism, & Fascism are ALL RW-political-systems. And, thus, Cenk, Ana, Newsom, Bass, and Trump are ALL RWers.
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[1]Cenk is a self-proclaimed Capitalist. [2]Capitalism is a RW-economic system (just like Corporatism, Fascism, Monarchism). [3]RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class politics & anti-working-class politics. [4]Cenk is a Capitalist & a member of the wealthy-class, and, thus, he is a RWer,
Furthermore; moderate-RW Capitalists (like Cenk) will always capitulate to the RW-extremist Fascists & Corporatists before they EVER side with ANY position of LW-politics that would truly benefit the working-class.
Cenk's lifestyle-addictions, and those of the wealthy-class, depend on the inherent corruption & inequality of RW-politics. Cenk, and his wealthy-class mates, will NEVER willingly give up their lifestyle-addiction & they will NEVER seek treatment for their associated mental-illness.
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@galticchezburger1905 Ah, I feel foolish for not having considered that. Thank you for replying.
It seems that EK's condition may affect his cognition, logic, and reasoning ability, which, in turn, affects his self-actualization, worldview, and empathy, similar to John Fetterman, DJT, Musk, and countless others in undeserved positions of power.
But, in the realm of doctoring/medicine, I'm the equivalent of the person who washes the instruments of proctologists, when the aforementioned folks need neurologists & psychiatrists.
So, unlike the aforementioned folks, I'm able to admit the areas in which I should be taken with a "grain of salt," and such.
However, speaking of proctology & the aforementioned folks -- the fact that any of them hold any position above farm-hand or button-pusher, speaks volumes to the indoctrinated-stupefaction of the electorate -- none of them should be allowed to make any decision beyond when they take a dump, ever again.
Thanks again for your reply.
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@hailandfire1822 Friend, you might be on to something there. Having been homeless before, I can't tell you how good that sounds.
You just made me think: Why not re-purpose homeless folks to give them a sense of purpose in their communities, rather than forcing homeless folks to jump through the hoops designed by people who aren't suffering?
Just give them ways to feel useful. Give them an objective. Let them know that people recognize their efforts. Reintegrate homeless folks back into the community at their own pace and on their own terms
I wish I had the resources to pursue such a venture: to reach out to homeless people, find out what they are good at, and figure out a way to utilize their strengths to make them feel like valued members of the community, instead of demanding they check off a bunch of boxes on a piece of paper before offering any help and allowing them to reintegrate.
But I'm nearly homeless myself -- been homeless in the past, and I'm not too naive to think it can't happen again. I feel as helpless while housed as I did hopeless while homeless.
I can't imagine how I would have felt if someone would have noticed all the good things I did while I was homeless and actually acknowledged those things.
I'm sitting here now, damn near in tears, wondering how that man would have felt if someone would have brought him a uniform and said, "Hey, guy. We see what you're trying to do here, and we are really glad you're doing it. Thank you. If you need any help with this alley, please let us know."
It would open the door for him to reach out. By allowing him to feel like he could reach out and ask for help with the alley he was guarding, that would open the next door for the community to find out what kind of help he needed for himself.
Thank you for provoking my thoughts with your comment.
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Wait. At this point, firstly, I think we need to offer these parasitic right-wing people the opportunity to be rehabilitated and re-educated, so that they may become functioning members of a fair and equitable society...
And if they don't want to be rehabilitated and re-educated functioning members of a fair and equitable society, then we should drop them off on a remote-island where they can be free to live out the individualist-dystopia of their unilateral-wet-dreams.
And if all of that doesn't work, then I won't be surprised if the good and better working-class people decide to go all Union-Allied-Soldiers on these right-wing, neo-Confederate & neo-Nazi deplorables.
When there are too many working-class right-wingers can't comprehend, and too many wealthy-class right-wingers who stop respecting The Paradox of Tolerance, that is when the good and better working-class people bring about [redacted] against the parasitic, wealthy&working-class right-wingers .
And, honestly -- a someone who possesses a profound respect for socioeconomic politics in international and historical contexts -- I really hope that I live long enough to see [redacted] happen to the right-wing U.S. sh!theads in the right-wing U.S. sh!thole. It's one of the only things that keeps me going.
But, first, we should try more civil means. And I understand, civil means have and are being tried, but I think we can try a little harder, for a little longer.
Peace be upon you all.
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This is RW-politics. The working-class dupes in the US are going to have to stop voting for the RW-extremist Repubs & the moderate-RW Dems if they want any meaningful change. Because BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics. And the working-class dupes in the US continue to vote for BOTH of these corrupt, RW-political-parties.
All the major problems in the world, and most of the minor problems, are perpetrated & perpetuated by (a)the corrupt wealthy-class with their corrupt RW-politics, and by (b)the working-class dupes who support the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
Most of the working-class in the US is so stupefied & self-involved in their lifestyle-addictions, they can't even get out of their own way, let alone educate themselves regarding political-theory and the historical & international contexts of politics. And until the working-class wises up, they will continue to vote for the RW-politics of enslavement for themselves, their families, friends, and neighbors.
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@jasonfrodoman1316 I can honestly say that I'm mostly unfamiliar with the main characters from other religions.
So, when you say, "the main spiritual character[s] [are] always born from a virgin," that is honestly new information to me.
If that is true, I find your question valid and intriguing. If true, then it's a question I have in common with you. So, I guess I'll add it to the list of things to explore.
I just started researching the Quran. I'm trying to decide which version/translation to read. Knowing what I know about the different versions of the Christian Bible, I'm finding it to be a difficult task to pick a version of the Quran.
I could write some thoughts about why this might be. "Why are the main characters in these holly books born to virgins?" But my answers would only be guesses, and I try not to do that.
If I know or believe something to be true, I try to articulate it. But, if I don't know something, I try to admit it. If I'm not interested in something, I try to admit it. But this does interest me.
So, even though I don't know for sure, here's my short answer.
Presuming that God is God (I believe this), and presuming there is only one God (I believe this); and further presuming that the one God is actually the God of all religions, instead of God only being the God of one true religion (as most religions seem to claim); then the consistency of there being only one God would explain the consistency of the main-characters of different religions being born of virgins across religions.
I hope that makes sense.
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@StatusCoup Jordan, do you remember when Alex Jones threatened to eat his literal human-neighbors? I remember. It's probably very easy to find clips of. He said it live, on his show. It was a big deal at the time.
On a side-note: Honestly, at this point, I would trade away a single spoon-fed, shoe-footed, American RWer in exchange for a hundred hand-fed, bare-footed migrants. I already know what kind of vile garbage the American-RWer is, so I'll take my chances with the migrants. 🙄
Thank you, and Steve, for your service. You've both done more for working-class people than any cop or soldier ever has.
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Cenk, Ana, Newsom, and Bass are ALL Capitalists (Newsom might be a Corporatist, and Trump is a Fascist). Capitalism, Corporatism, & Fascism are ALL RW-political-systems. And, thus, Cenk, Ana, Newsom, Bass, and Trump are ALL RWers.
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It's not incompetence: It's RW-politics. RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class and anti-working-class politics. Biden is a wealthy-RWer, just like Reagan, Bush Sr., Mr&Mrs Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama, and Trump. Biden is doing the same things that the other wealthy-RW Presidents have done.
Edit: The incompetence is evident in the working-class dupes who continue to vote for the RW-extremist Repubs and/or the moderate-RW Dems, both of which parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by wealthy-class-RWers.
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@bootmii98 The hateful, supremacist, right-wing sects of Arab-Muslims are as bad as the hateful, supremacist, right-wing sects of European-Christians&Jews. That's the reason why "other Arabs kinda don't like Palestinians..."
The hateful, supremacist, right-wing sects of Arab-Muslims are willing to ignore the decimation of non-hateful, non-supremacist, non-right-wing Arab-Muslims, just like the hateful, supremacist, right-wing sects of European-Christians&Jews are willing to ignore the decimation of non-hateful, non-supremacist, non-right-wing European-Christians&Jews.
Because right-wingers and their politics are not about helping oppressed people, even if those oppressed people share the same religious beliefs. Right-wing politics is all about the addiction to the inequality of power and oppression.
The populace-majority of Muslims are in the Sunni-sect of Islam. They discriminate against the populace-minority of Muslims who are in the Shia-sect of Islam.
The populace-majority of Christians are in the Catholic-Protestant-Orthodox-Evangelical-sects of Christianity. They discriminate against the populace-minority of Christians who are in the smaller-sects of Christianity.
But the Muslims in Palestine are mostly Sunni-Muslims. So, why aren't the other countries with Sunni-Muslim majorities helping the oppressed Sunni-Muslims in Palestine?
Simple: for the same reason that European-American Christians don't help the oppressed Christians in other countries. And that reason is right-wingers and their politics.
Because right-wingers and their politics are not about helping oppressed people, even if those oppressed people share the same religious beliefs. Right-wing politics is all about the addiction to the inequality of power and oppression.
The collusion of the populace-minority of wealthy-right-wing Christians&Jews, wealthy-right-wing Muslims, and wealthy-right-wing Atheists is the culmination of the worst authoritarianism the world has ever known. Not only will these wealthy-right-wingers turn a blind-eye to ignore the oppression of other humans, they have found multiple ways to profit from it.
And those profits are the reason why "other Arabs kinda don't like Palestinians..." -- and those Arabs will NEVER willingly give up their addictions which they fund with those profits.
Wealthy-right-wing Christians&Jews, AND wealthy-right-wing Muslims, AND wealthy-right-wing Atheists, have all found ways to profit from war, and they will NEVER willingly give up their addictions which they fund with those profits.
Forcing addicts to give up their addictions isn't going to end soon, nor easily, nor peacefully.
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That lady is a moron -- she called Harris a progressive. 🤣 Harris is a capitalist/corporatist (like most of the Repub & Dem politicians are), and capitalism/corporatism are RW-systems. Harris is a RW-conservative, NOT a progressive. 🙄
Other RW-systems include Monarchism, Feudalism, Republicanism, Corporatism, & Fascism. All of those systems involve the knaves of the wealthy-class subjugating & enslaving the people of the working-class.
Some Repub-politicians are regressive, and they want to go back to the RW-systems of monarchism & feudalism to enslave the working-class (just like their campaign-donors from the wealthy-class).
And some Repub & Dem politicians want to bring about the RW-system of fascism to enslave the working-class (just like their campaign-donors from the wealthy-class want to do).
But most of the Repub & Dem politicians are conservatives who are trying to conserve the RW-systems of republicanism, capitalism, and corporatism to enslave the working-class (just like their campaign-donors from the wealthy-class).
Harris may not want to regress to RW-monarchistic & RW-feudalistic enslavement, and she may not want to move toward RW-fascistic enslavement, but she is plenty comfortable with the conservative plot to maintain RW-republican, RW-capitalist, and RW-corporatist enslavement for working-class people.
RW-politics are anti-working-class politics.
RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class politics.
All RW-systems involve the wealthy-class enslaving the working-class, and enslavement is the thing that the wealthy-class is trying to conserve.
All the problems in the world are perpetrated & perpetuated by (a)the corrupt wealthy-class with their corrupt RW-politics, and by (b)the working-class dupes who are dumb enough to support the corrupt wealthy-class with their corrupt RW-politics.
Harris is a member of group (a). And any working-class person who supports Harris or Trump is a member of group (b). That includes the working-class dupe being interviewed in the video, and it includes anyone in the working-class who agrees with her.
So, congratulations... 🥳
...you're a dupe. 😒
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I'm no expert, but I believe that "homeless" and "unhoused" are just two words used to explain the same systemic condition -- the suffering of not having a modern dwelling to call your own. But, on a more specific note, the CAUF Society defines six situations most commonly experienced by those who are homeless/unhoused, and Six Types of homelessness, which I've copied from their website and pasted below:
Six Situations:
1. Staying with friends and family.
2. Staying in a bed-and-breakfast or a hostel.
3. Living at risk of violence.
4. Living in poor conditions that pose a risk to your health.
5. Living in overcrowded conditions.
6. Living with insecure tenancy.
Six Types:
1. REVERSIBLE HOMELESSNESS:
"The reversibly homeless, relative to their community’s cost of living, possess the propensity to pay current rent prices either now or sometime in the future. Only momentarily can they not. Perhaps they are recently unemployed or victims of domestic violence. Maybe they are impermanently injured, heartbroken, mournful, depressed or addicted. Whatever their unfortunate may be, the temporary homeless can eventually earn enough for shelter, they need just to jump through some hoops. They need to get a job. They need to see a doctor. They need to get back on their feet."
2. IRREVERSIBLE HOMELESSNESS:
"The irreversibly homeless on the other hand, are, for the rest of their life, people who lack the propensity to increase their income significantly enough to meet their cost and need for shelter. It’s not that they need a job – they are unable to work! It is not that they need to get back on their feet – they have no feet! The irreversibly homeless are prisoners of mental and physical disabilities, financial dependents of family members and governmental agencies, characterized not by the duration of time they have been homeless, but by the assumptive likelihood that they will always be homeless."
3. CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS:
Chronic homelessness is the most familiar type of homelessness. We can define it as the state of being homeless for more than a year. This usually results from long-term struggles with addiction, mental illness, or poverty. Chronically homeless people are typically older individuals.
4. EPISODIC HOMELESSNESS:
Episodic homelessness is a state in which a person has experienced three episodes of homelessness within a single calendar year. After four episodes in a year, the person qualifies as a chronically homeless individual. This type of homelessness usually affects teenagers or young adults struggling with addiction and health issues.
5. TRANSITIONAL HOMELESSNESS:
Transitional homelessness is yet another common type of homelessness. It affects individuals going through a significant change in life or a disastrous event. Such changes usually result from an abrupt loss of employment or termination of tenancy. These individuals are likely to be young and end up staying in shelters for a brief period.
6. HIDDEN HOMELESSNESS:
Hidden homelessness is the unfamiliar fourth type of homelessness. This is the one that goes unreported and undocumented. Individuals in this state are called “provisionally occupied”, too. Specifically, such individuals engage in ‘couch-surfing’. This is the act of temporarily living with others with no guarantees for the long term. They don’t have any immediate prospects of getting permanent accommodation. Any homeless person who stays with friends or relatives because of a lack of housing options falls under this category. Such individuals comprise the ‘hidden homeless’ because they don’t access homeless support services. Thus, they don’t feature in official homelessness statistics.
I'm currently living in Situations 1, 3, & 6 and Types 1, 3, & 6.
In the past, I've lived through all Six Situations and all Six Types.
And I fully expect I'll be in the worst of those Situations and Types, again, someday. Any day, really.
But I'm as prepared as can be. I just wish I could do something for the people already there. I hope none of you ever are again
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These working-class dupes fell for the RW-propaganda of the wealthy-class that says, "sMaLL gOvErNmEnT gOOd!!!"🤪 These working-class dupes are now living the truthful-consequences of the faux-truth they voted for.
Also, I would bet that most anyone in NC, who is "living in a tent" related to the hurricane, is doing it (a)by choice, and/or (b)for clout, to (c)fuel the misplaced-outrage.
But even if these working-class dupes ARE living in tents against their will, it is important to remember, again, that they voted for their own suffering.
I've had to live in a tent against my will. BUT, I didn't vote for it.
My suffering, and the suffering of MILLIONS of people was caused by (a)the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics, and by (b)the working-class dupes who voted for the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
I have sympathy & empathy for the working-class dupes who are suffering, but most of them voted for their own suffering, and they voted for the suffering of countless other innocent working-class people.
But, just because I have sympathy & empathy for the ignorant, working-class dupes who voted for their own suffering, that doesn't mean I'm going to coddle their ignorance.
Perhaps these working-class dupes, who voted for the "tough love" espoused by RW-politics, need to experience the "tough love" which they have repeatedly voted for.
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It's pretty easy.
RW-politics = bad.
LW-politics = good.
RW-politics = anti-working-class & pro-wealthy-class politics.
LW-politics = pro-working-class & anti-wealthy-class politics.
RW-politics = anti-equality & pro-inequality politics.
LW-politics = pro-equality & anti-inequality politics.
RW-politics = anti-selflessness & pro-selfishness politics.
LW-politics = pro-selflessness & anti-selfishness politics.
RW-politics = anti-democracy & pro-autocracy politics.
LW-politics = pro-democracy & anti-autocracy politics.
RW-politics = anti-majority-rule & pro-minority-rule politics.
LW-politics = pro-majority-rule & anti-minority-rule politics.
RW-politics = anti-autonomy & pro-slavery politics.
LW-politics = pro-autonomy & anti-slavery politics.
RW-politics = anti-integration & pro-segregation politics.
LW-politics = pro-integration & anti-segregation politics.
RW-politics = anti-meritocracy & pro-kakistocracy politics.
LW-politics = pro-meritocracy & anti-kakistocracy politics.
RW-politics = anti-transparency & pro-ambiguity politics.
LW-politics = pro-transparency & anti-ambiguity politics.
RW-politics = anti-compassion & pro-callousness politics.
LW-politics = pro-compassion & anti-callousness politics.
RW-politics = anti-humanity & pro-barbarity politics.
LW-politics = pro-humanity & anti-barbarity politics.
RW-politics = anti-intellect & pro-impetuous politics.
LW-politics = pro-intellect & anti-impetuous politics.
RW-politics = anti-evidentiary & pro-conspiracy politics.
LW-politics = pro-evidentiary & anti-conspiracy politics.
RW-politics = pro-monarchism, pro-feudalism, pro-capitalism, pro-corporatism, pro-fascism politics.
LW-politics = anti-monarchism, anti-feudalism, anti-capitalism, anti-corporatism, anti-fascism politics.
RW-politics = anti-collectivism, anti-humanitarianism, anti-internationalism, & pro-nationalism.
LW-politics = pro-collectivism, pro-humanitarianism, pro-internationalism, & anti-nationalism.
RW-politics = pro-racism, pro-ethnocentrism, pro-nationalism.
LW-politics = anti-racism, anti-ethnocentrism, anti-nationalism.
RW-politics = pro-sexism, pro-genderism, pro-misogyny, & pro-patriarchy.
LW-politics = anti-sexism, anti-genderism, anti-misogyny, & anti-patriarchy.
RW-politics = anti-democratism & pro-authoritarianism.
LW-politics = pro-democratism & anti-authoritarianism.
I could go on.
It's pretty easy.
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Working-class people need to get it through their heads: Working-class people CANNOT get away with the same corruption as the wealthy-class/right-wingers. The wealthy-class/right-wingers WILL make examples out of you, and all working-class people will suffer because you acted like a corrupt, right-winger from the wealthy-class.
Working-class people who are racial-minorities also need to get this through their heads: you cannot get away with the same corruption as the racial-majority.
Working-class people who are racial-minorities cannot get away with (a)the major kinds of corruption engaged in by the racial-majority of the wealthy-class, nor (b) the minor kinds of corruption engaged in by the racial-majority of the working-class, nor (c)the systemic corruption that is engaged in by all right-wingers of the racial-majority and by most people with a light-shade of complexion(whether they realize it or not).
The lightly-complexioned wealthy-class/right-wingers WILL make examples out of you, and everyone within your racial-minority will suffer because you tried to act like a corrupt right-winger with a light-complexion.
If there was an adequate education system, working-class people would know these things.
But the corrupt right-wingers with a light-complexion from the wealthy-class don't want an educated working-class -- the corrupt right-wingers with a light-complexion from the wealthy-class want an obedient slave-class.
The corrupt right-wingers with a light-complexion from the wealthy-class want obedient slaves who are dumb enough to commit the kinds of corruption they see the lighter-complexioned, wealthy right-wingers committing. So that those dumb, obedient-slaves can then be made an example of.
It's a vicious cycle, whereby the economic-minority of the wealthy-class maintains their power and control over the economic-majority of the workers-class, and there are countless fact-patterns stretching back hundreds-upon-thousands of years.
Ignorance is a tool used by the wealthy-class/right-wingers against the working-class.
Education is the tool used by the working-class against the wealthy-class/right-wing enslavers.
The working-class people in this video did not have an adequate education. The wealthy-class/right-wingers are watching this video with glee.
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There are too many duped, working-class addict-buyers in America to achieve real change. The working-class addict-buyers are addicted to spending money, addicted to acquiring possessions, addicted to sparkly stuff, shiny things, flashy trinkets, and blinking gadgets. They're addicted to emulating the lifestyles they think right-wing, wealthy-class addict-dealers live.
But the real cause of inflation is the right-wing, wealthy-class addict-dealers who own businesses. Those right-wing, wealthy-class addicts-dealers who own businesses are the ones who set prices. Those right-wing, wealthy-class addict-dealers are stockpiling money and rigging supply-chains for when they put a stop to the addiction-economy to cull the masses of working-class addict-buyers who don't want their addictions mitigated by wealthy-class addict-dealers.
If you think crime is bad now, wait until the right-wing, wealthy-class addict-dealers who own businesses feel really threatened by the working-class addict-buyers. Then those right-wing wealthy-class addict-dealers will absolutely beat the economy into a coma, and then the working-class addict-buyers will really be suffering.
And do you think those duped, working-class addict-buyers are going to turn on the right-wing, wealthy-class addict-dealers? Nope! The working-class dupes will turn against each other instead of turning against the right-wing, wealthy-class addict-dealers who hold the keys to the supply of addictions.
And, if anyone needed any clarification, Pelosi, McConnell, Schumer, McCarthy, Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush x2, Clinton x2, and Reagan are/were all right-wing, wealthy-class addict-dealers. But I just call them C. |_} |\| T S.
Glad I gave up my addictions years ago. :)
Good luck everybody!
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@shannonedwards818 The wealthy-class owners of YT are allowing spambots to overrun YT comments.
The wealthy-class created YT, in the same manner and purpose as they have created countless products of non-necessity: to attract, addict, and pacify the working-class.
To simplify the intentionally-nefarious actions of the wealthy-class by blaming their nefariousness on "spambots" alone is exactly the slight-of-hand that the wealthy-class has been engaging in since the invention of currency.
SOMEONE(S) created spambots for the purposes of money.
SOMEONE(S) funded spambot-creation for the purposes of money.
SOMEONE(S) allow(s) spambots on YT for the purposes of money.
Money was invented in the past by lazy parasites.
Monetary systems are maintained in the present by lazy parasites.
The lazy parasites created the wealthy-class versus working-class dichotomy.
The money creators and system maintainers are addicted to their laziness. And unfortunately, many working-class people have been duped into supporting the monetary systems, and the subsequent societal lottery-system (also created by the wealthy-class) by which a few working-class people are economically-elevated over other working-class people.
And just like any other drug-addict, these lazy, parasitic right-wingers -- wealthy-class knaves and the co-opted working-class dupes, alike -- will never give up their addictions willingly. They will betray their families, give up their friends, and sabotage the communities of working-class strangers just to maintain their addictions.
In the past, the wealthy-class right-wingers did their best to prevent chattel-slaves from learning.
In the present, the wealthy-class right-wingers do their best to prevent wage-slaves from learning.
And to say that "spambots are overrunning YT comments" is an explanation that is as simplified as the wealthy-class right-wingers have planned for the working-class to be able to comprehend.
Now, just to bring everything full-circle, I'll refer back to the original comment by 50-50 Grind with the following:
Since the wealthy-class right-wingers have succeeded in turning YT into another tool of working-class addiction and pacification, the wealthy-class is changing the tool. They are deliberately hiding, deleting, and censoring the comments of working-class people.
Censorship has always been a tool of wealthy-class right-wingers to intentionally suppress working-class people and prevent them from communicating with each other, thus, turning the working class against each other. Because as long as working-class people are fighting with each other, they won't be able to address the lazy, parasitic, wealthy-class, right-wing addicts who are the causes of the world's ills.
So, at best, saying that "Spambots are overrunning YT comments" is naive and foolish. It lets the wealthy-class off the hook for nefariously funding the creation of spambots and intentionally allowing spambots to persist.
At worst, saying that "spambots are overrunning YT comments" is knavish. It's something the wealthy-class parasites pay working-class dupes to say while trolling the comments section.
At mediocrity, saying that "spambots are overrunning YT comments" is hyperbolic, and hyperbole is another propagandist tool of the wealthy-class. For example, the hyperbolic phrase "less is more."
Well, when it comes to the act of writing/explaining the existential crises working-class people face at the hands of the wealthy-class oppressors, writing less isn't more.
And whether a person is a fool or knave -- neither of those things are anything to be proud of, although the former condition is generally easier to treat -- they aren't someone to be emulated or followed.
The same goes for mediocrity and the mediocre.
Have a good day! :)
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It's important for working-class people (especially the working-class dupes who support right-wing politics, like MrYellingdingo,) to understand the Paradox of Tolerance and its historical application to the difference between the intolerant right-wing autocracy-of-exclusion versus the tolerant left-wing democracy-of-inclusion.
Throughout history, the tolerant majority of working-class people have tolerated living under the rule of the intolerant minority of right-wing people, most of the time.
But every so often, the intolerant minority of right-wing people become too intolerable -- they become so intolerable that the tolerant majority of working-class people can no longer tolerate them. And when that happens, the tolerant majority of working-class people decide to stand up to the intolerant minority of right-wing people.
For examples:
(1) When the tolerant people in the working-class majority could no longer tolerate the intolerant minority of right-wing Confederate people who were enslaving the black working-class humans -- They had a war.
(2) When the tolerant people in the working-class majority could no longer tolerate the intolerant minority of right-wing Nazi people who were murdering Jewish and marginalized working-class humans -- They had a war.
And if history has the nature of rhyming into the future (which it does), and if history is any indicator of the past (which it is), then it is likely that the same thing will happen to America.
America will become another example:
(3) The tolerant people in the working-class majority of the world are approaching the point where they can no longer tolerate the small minority of intolerant right-wingers who have used the police-state, prison-industrial-complex, and military-industrial-complex to turn America into modern-day versions of the Confederate and Nazi hellscapes.
So, those are three examples of the Paradox of Tolerance and its past & present application to the intolerant right-wing autocracy-of-exclusion versus the tolerant left-wing democracy-of-inclusion.
It has been said that "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." And, so far, that observation has held true.
But that historical-arc also bends toward the politics of a democracy-of-inclusion; a tolerant majority of working-class people who favor inclusion, acceptance, and compromise.
And that historical-arc also bends toward the politics of a democratic-majority of people who are intolerant of the autocracy-of-exclusion by which a minority of right-wing people stay in power by using the exclusionary tactics of intimidation, sabotage, segregation, subjugation, incarceration, violence, murder, and genocide.
As the arc of history continues to bend toward a future of democracy and justice, just as it always has, it's only a matter of time before the tolerant majority of working-class people get to the point where they decide, via democratic-vote, to no longer tolerate(CRIMINALIZE) the right-wing politics that allows a small minority of intolerant, autocratic right-wingers to rule the world.
Disclaimer: I am non-violent and anti-violence. As a member of the working-class majority, I would rather die than commit violence against other working-class humans -- modern violence is a benefit to the small minority of lazy, parasitic, vile, right-wing humans.
But not all tolerant working-class people are like me -- some will commit violence against the intolerant right-wingers (examples: the Union and Allied soldiers).
So, to the ignorant, American, working-class dupes (like MrYellowdingo) who do the bidding of wealthy knaves to further the right-wing autocracy-of-exclusion: Do yourselves a couple of favors...
1. Understand that you're no better than any other human.
2. Learn history.
Or don't do those two things and learn to cope harder while you're stuck in the toilet-bowl of right-wing history, swirling toward your inevitable demise, just like the ignorant working-class dupes who have come before you (examples; the Confederate and Axis soldiers).
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That TransKidMafia person is either (a)a fool or (b)a knave. By making the joke -- "my newborn decided to come out as trans" -- that means that this TransKidMafia person is either;
(a) a fool who accidentally made a joke about "intersex" people(who are actually born that way) without knowing that "intersex" people exist; OR they're a fool who does know that intersex people exist, and they do know that intersex people are born that way, but they are too blissfully-ignorant to comprehend that transgender people are ALSO born that way;
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(b) a knave who knows about intersex people, and about transgender people, and that BOTH groups are born that way, but they're acting ignorant, on purpose, to deceive people in the comments, trying to get you riled up, to get you to waste our time arguing with a bad-actor on the internet, while they're giddy with socio/psychopathic hate.
But, no matter whether TransKidMafia is a foolishly-adorable, child-brained fool, or an abhorrently-deplorable, adult-sized knave, one thing is for sure: neither is anything of which to be proud.
Every parent needs to make sacrifices to engage their children, to make sure that they don't turn out to be a foolish-sociopath or a knavish-psychopath like TransKidMafia.
Another thing is for sure: TransKidMafia is one of the weakest-links among the lowest-common-denominator of humans.
Take heed of people such as these.
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Edit: ORRRR☝ -- and, hear me out, here 🤔 -- perhaps I've misunderstood, and now I owe someone an apology. 😶
And I'm perfectly at ease with that being a very real possibility. 😅
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The working-class people who continue to volunteer their labor for the benefit of the corrupt right-wingers from the wealthy-class who own Boeing, are as bad as the working-class dupes who continue to volunteer their labor for the benefit of the corrupt right-wingers from the wealthy-class who own the MIC(1) & PIC(2) who use those ICs(3) to control the world.
Soldiers, cops, and prison/jail guards are some of the most ignorant, vile, and violent working-class humans on the planet -- they are the second worst group of humans behind the corrupt right-wingers from the wealthy-class who employ the working-class dupes.
And, the third worst group of humans are the working-class people (who aren't necessarily dupes), who continue to volunteer their labor for substandard-companies that are owned by corrupt, wealthy right-wingers, that provide substandard products and services at the behest of corrupt, wealthy right-wingers.
And the excuses of the working-class dupes is pathetic:
"We're just following orders, so screw everyone who didn't follow orders."
"We've got families who need to eat, so screw everyone else's family."
Sure, the world is a sh!tehole because of the corrupt right-wingers from the wealthy-class, but those corrupt right-wingers from the wealthy-class wouldn't have power if it weren't for the working-class dupes who volunteer to murder, maim, and cage other working-class people for the benefit of the corrupt right-wingers from the wealthy-class.
And, sure, not all working-class people are purposely nefarious like their wealthy right-wing masters, but plenty of them are. Just like their corrupt right-wing masters from the wealthy-class.
Footnotes:
(1)Military-Industrial-Complex
(2)Prison--Industrial-Complex
(3)Industrial-Complexes
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Khanna doesn't want to do that. Khanna's family is tied to Billionaire Oligarchs. So really listen to what he says @1:01 of the video. He says, "we need 'progressive Capitalism.'" But Capitalism is a RW-economic system. And RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class politics & anti-working-class politics. So you need to understand that Khanna does NOT want to do away with (a)the corrupt, Billionaire Oligarchs known as the wealthy-class, or (b)their corrupt RW-politics. Because Khanna is a member of the same wealthy-class as the Billionaire Oligarchs.
Furthermore, Capitalism just leads to Corporatism, which leads to Fascism, and all three of those systems are RW-economic systems.
We don't need "progressive Capitalism" (what an oxymoron -- Capitalism is a regressive system in which the wealthy-class maintains their power over the working-class).
We need to Abo l!sh Capitalism, and Khanna isn't going to help with that, because HE is a member of the wealthy-class, just like Krystal&Kyle are. All three of them will support the corrupt wealthy-class and their corrupt RW-economics of Capitalism, Corporatism, & Fascism.
I've suspected Khanna of being a knave, who really doesn't care about the working-class, for a long time now. But that statement at the beginning of the interview -- "we need 'progressive Capitalism" -- that really sealed it for me.
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@UNOEWAT I come to Thom's videos for a neoliberal perspective, which is a moderate conservative perspective. Aside from Richard Wolff's working-class point of view, neoliberal-conservatism is the best you can expect from Thom's show.
Thom, and many of his guests, still toot the horn of the Democrat party, which has become the left-leaning arm of the Republic party.
Thom, and many of his guests, seem to believe that meaningful "reform" can happen through the Democrat party, even though the Democrat party is corrupted by the funding from the same wealthy-class which funds the Republic party.
Just as the wealthy-class promoting Republic party cannot rid itself of the many racist, misogynist, compassionless, nihilistic, supremacist voters, many Democrat party voters cannot rid themselves of the wealthy-class promoting Democrat party. They are married to it, acting as if the relationship were to end it would reflect poorly on themselves within society. They tow the party-line because of how they feel they will be perceived, rather than ending the relationship for the toxicity it breeds in their lives.
There is no viable leftist, employee-labor, or lower-class political party in America. There are two economically right-wing, socially-authoritarian, anti-small business, pro-corporate, anti-worker, pro-employers, anti-poor, pro-wealthy-class, extremist political parties.
Lastly, these short-form interviews do a disservice to the American citizens who are duped into wasting their time by following Thom. Especially when those citizens could be following much more substantive channels and better pundits.
Thom is as equally as bad at messaging as the Democrat party leadership, but the Democrat party leadership is paid to be bad at it. They are paid-opposition, funded by the wealthy-class. The question is, rhetorically, if Thom is bad at it on accident, or on purpose.
My advice, for what little worth it may have, is to stop wasting your time here.
Good day.
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This is why the voting-age should be periodically adjusted, to account for the deficiencies of a generation that have been bred by wealthy-class, right-wing, fascist extremists and the propaganda they produce to confuse child-brains.
Those child-brains have obviously never heard, or they are incapable of comprehending, the history of the Republic-party over the past 100 years.
I say raise the voting age to 25 for the foreseeable future -- the average age when the consensus of medical professionals agree that the nervous system and the brain are mostly finished developing.
That will give the adults in the room/communities some time to remove the wealthy-class, right-wing, fascist extremists from their addictions and positions of power, without being hampered by the electoral-sabotage committed by child-brains who have been duped into becoming soldiers by and for those wealthy-class, right-wing, fascist extremists.
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That's RW-politics. RWers will murder working-class people. Cops & soldiers are NOT designed to protect working-class people -- they ARE designed to (1)protect the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics, and (2)control working-class people like chattel-slaves. So, working-class people need to STOP a couple of things:
(1)STOP admitting to having mental-illnesses. Having a mental-illness is NOT like a badge of honor and working-class people should NOT act like they are. Announcing one's mental-illness to the world is like putting a bullseye on yourself. And the cops WILL gladly aim for that bullseye if they get the chance.
(2)STOP calling the cops on your working-class family members. Cops do NOT wear badges of honor, and they do NOT care about working-class people or their mental-illnesses. Calling the cops and telling them that your family member has a mental-illness is like putting a bullseye on your family member. And the cops WILL gladly aim for that bullseye if they get the chance.
The corrupt wealthy-class does NOT care about human-life, and neither do the cops & soldiers who protect the wealthy-class. They only care about themselves & the social-circles they can control like authoritarians.
The corrupt wealthy-class does NOT see working-class people as humans, and neither do the cops & soldiers. They see working-class people as property to be controlled by authoritarians.
The do NOT see working-class people with mental-illnesses as humans who need to be helped, they see them as wild-animals that need to be euthanized. And you better believe that the cops & soldiers WILL euthanize any of the working-class people whom the wealthy-class tells them to euthanize.
So, I'll say it again:
Working-class people need to STOP calling the cops, because cops are NOT here to help working-class people.
Cops & soldiers ARE designed to protect the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
The wealthy-class WILL direct their cops & soldiers to murder working-class people in order to control them like property.
They have proven it, repeatedly, all throughout history.
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@bilbobaggins9451 Excuses, reasons -- semantics. Working-class Americans are following the lead, and striving after the lifestyles of their wealthy-class right-wing masters. American addicts, just like Nazi and Confederate addicts, will NEVER willingly give up their addictions.
Another way of putting it would be:
A majority of working-class Americans are the most privileged working-class people on the planet. The wealthy-class right-wingers have allowed so many working-class Americans to taste the addictions enjoyed by the wealthy-class. And those working-class Americans, just like the wealthy-class, don't want to lose their addictions.
Unfortunately for the working-class Confederates and Nazis, there were enough other, better people in the world who finally got tired of Confeder-Nazi sh!t and rose up against them.
And, then, while the working-class Confeder-Nazis were distracted and fighting the Liberators, the wealthy-class Confeder-Nazis snuck out the back door and left the working-class holding the bag.
I presume that America is already too far down the sh!tehole, and the same thing will have to happen to working-class American-Confeder-Nazi addicts before any real change happens.
Based on some of your replies, I believe you're capable of grasping mine. I mean absolutely no snark nor sarcasm.
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Bernie has family. He's more concerned with what could happen to them after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows what the right-wingers have done to working-class leftists through history.
Bernie sees the rhyming-nature of that history coming back around.
Bernie lived through the "Red Scare" and "McCarthyism."
Bernie doesn't want those kinds of things to happen to his family after he dies.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that there are too many foolish, working-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many knavish, wealthy-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many right-wing addicts with mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Berne knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts will willingly give up their addictions.
Bernie knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts can cure their own mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that, in order to maintain their addictive lifestyles, the mentally ill working-class fools will do whatever the mentally ill wealthy-class knaves tell them to do; just like they did during the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie has now entered the phase known as, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
Bernie is MORE concerned with the quality of life his family will have when he dies.
Bernie is LESS concerned with the quality of life for the working-class.
Bernie is ONLY concerned with his own family-unit minority
Bernie is NOT concerned about the working-class majority.
Bernie is the perfect example of why any effective leader(s) on the left-wing will have to be someone(s) without family -- it's too easy for the wealthy-class right-wingers to corrupt left-wingers who have families, and Bernie is a prime example.
Bernie has exchanged his working-class principles to secure a wealthy-class standard of living for his family after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the anti-wealthy-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given up on the pro-working-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the anti-working-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the pro-wealthy-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given up.
It's only surprising/upsetting if one doesn't know the facts, or rhyming-nature, of history.
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The Yt-supremacist right-wingers from the wealthy-class & working-class love this sort of thing. It gives them another issue to further propagandize.
For examples:
(1) The Yt-supremacist right-wingers from the wealthy-class & working-class have sabotaged the gov't for centuries, from the IRS to Public Education and more. And now, those same Yt-supremacist right-wingers from the wealthy-class & working-class spew propagandist rhetoric, saying; "SeEeEeE? GoV't DoEsN't WoRkKk!"
(2) The Yt-supremacist right-wingers from the wealthy-class & working-class have economically sabotaged ethnic-minority communities for centuries, thus causing crime in those communities. And now, those same Yt-supremacist right-wingers from the wealthy-class & working-class spew propagandist rhetoric, saying; "SeEeEeE? eThNic MiNoRiTiEs ArE cRiMiNaLsSsS!!!!"
(3)The Yt-supremacist right-wingers from the wealthy-class & working-class have sabotaged the character of black people for centuries by referring to and treating them like animals. While, at the same time, the Yt-supremacist right-wing cops have been acting like animals, for centuries.
But now, since some black right-wing cops f*kced up by acting like Yt right-wing animal-cops, it has allowed those same Yt-supremacist right-wingers from the wealthy-class & working-class to spew propagandist rhetoric, saying; "SeEeEeE? bLaCk pEopLe ArE aNiMaLsSsSs!!!"
Yt-supremacists & right-wingers from the wealthy-class are the worst smart people in society.
Yt-supremacists & right-wingers from the working-class are the worst dumb people in society.
The smarter Yt-supremacist right-wingers from wealthy-class rely on the dumber Yt-supremacist right-wingers from the working-class.
The wealthy-class right-wingers rely on working-class people remaining stupid, because stupid people make better slaves, and working-class right-wingers are the dumbest and best slaves in society.
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@spockvulcan398 Not even close. "They" want stupid working-class people to THINK that "they" are scared of one ant -- but, really, "they" aren't scared. But, you might ask yourself, "why?"
1. "They" have enough money to insulate themselves from danger. Sure, the CEO-bro was wealthy, but he wasn't aware of the severity of the threat against him, so the CEO-bro did nothing to protect himself, like a moron. Now that "they" have a better perception of the threat, you can bet that "they" won't be carrying on as usual like the CEO-bro did.
2. "They" know that working-class people do not have enough money to insulate themselves and their working-class families from danger.
3. So "they" are using this opportunity to fear-monger -- "they" are trying to scare the dumbest working-class people into thinking the sky is falling, so that "they" can pretend to be the only ones who can fix it.
4. If "they" can scare enough of the ignorant working-class people, then those ignorant working-class people will vote for whomever "they" tell the ignorant working-class people to vote for.
5. If the ignorant working-class people vote for whomever "they" want, then "they" will have more sway over policies -- policies which would help to make "they" even more wealthy&powerful.
I could go on.
This whole fiasco is all about wealth-accumulation & power-solidification for "they".
This is all basically theatrics that come straight from the script of wealthy-RWer's politics, and many, MANY working-class dupes will fall for it.
Based on your comment, it would appear that you're somewhere on the road to "falling for it" because -- the truth is, your statement is false -- "THEY" are NOT scared.
"THEY" want YOU to think "they" are" scared, because they know that ignorant, scared, and misled people make better sl@ ves, both on the metaphorical & proverbial plantation, and in the literal & political voting-booth.
The "wrestling" on TV isn't real, and neither is the fear that "they" want you to think "they" are feeling.
Your comment is incorrect -- "they" are lazy, psychopaths, sociopaths, & narcissists -- "they" fear nothing but socioeconomic-equality & manual-labor.
"They" do not fear the working-class ants -- "they" have the working-class ants contained & constrained, and they have all the ant-eaters they would ever need.
Don't be fooled.
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People who use right-wing hyperbole and propaganda, and who consume substances, all to try to maintain positions of power and privilege over other humans, need help.
Real healthcare would provide actual help for right-wingers with mental issues who harm themselves, sabotage communities, genocide ethnicities, taint societies, and pollute the earth.
The wealthy-class right-wingers, and the dumbest dupes from the working-class who strive to be like the wealthy-class, are all suffering from mental issues by:
...negatively changing their brains and organs by consuming alcohol.
...affecting their relationships with other humans by consuming alcohol.
...producing low quality goods because of alcohol consumption.
...performing substandard services because of alcohol consumption.
...covering up mistakes caused by the self-shame of consuming alcohol.
...projecting that self-shame onto others, because of alcohol.
...ruining their skin with tattoo ink.
...putting others in danger by speeding while driving.
...committing to hobbies related to petroleum production and consumption.
...designating themselves as "superior," and "other" humans as "inferior."
...segregating their "superior" selves away from those deemed "inferior."
...occupying more land than is necessary to self-sustain.
...consuming more resources than is necessary to self-sustain.
...hoarding more possessions than necessary to self-sustain.
...relying on "other" people to sow, harvest, clean, and cook all their food.
...relying on "other" people to farm, harvest, and sew all their clothing.
...relying on "other" people to build and maintain all their shelter.
The worst people from the working class are the dupes who go along with the corrupt parasites in the right-wing minority. These working-class dupes want to be like the wealthy-class parasites.
With the help of the working-class dupes, the parasitic wealthy-class minority wants to subjugate the better, non-duped members of the working-class majority.
In the past, the wealthy-class, right-wing owners utilized the chattel-slaves who worked in the house as tools to further subjugate the chattel-slaves who worked in the fields. The wealthy-class literally turned the house-slaves against the field-slaves by tricking the house-slaves into believing that they were better than the field-slaves. And the duped house-slaves were dumb enough to believe the wealthy-class, right-wing owners.
Those same wealthy-class tricks, designed to turn the working-class wage-slaves against each other, are still used by the wealthy-class parasites in the present by utilizing propaganda.
That propaganda is designed to trick the working-class, wage-slave dupes believe that they are better than their working-class, wage-slave mates. And the dumbest members of the working-class are duped into believing the wealthy-class propaganda.
There are countless humans with mental issues.
I am LEAST worried about the working-class humans with mental issues who DO NOT have the power nor desire to affect my life.
I am MOST worried about the right-wing, wealthy-class parasites with mental issues who DO have the power and the desire to affect my life.
I am MOST worried about the right-wing, working-class dupes with mental issues who DO want the power and DO have the desire to affect my life.
I'm most worried about the right-wing working-class dupes and the right-wing wealthy-class parasites who want to groom children into becoming the kinds of adults to whom the working-class dupes and the wealthy-class parasites are attracted.
I'm most worried about the right-wing working-class dupes and the right-wing wealthy-class parasites who are trying to groom society's most powerless humans for their own right-wing sexual gratification.
I am MOST worried about the parasitic, wealthy-class right-wingers, and the working-class dupes who want to be like them.
If it wasn't for the right-wing, wealthy-class parasites and the right-wing, working-class dupes who have been co-opted to do the bidding of wealthy-class parasites, then the world would be a better, safer place for the better, saner working-class humans.
Be a better human and stop spending so much time worrying about genitals that aren't yours.
Stop trying to be like the parasitic, wealthy-class C |_} N TS. And I'm not talking about genitalia.
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Kyle IS a "rich," moderate, white, liberal-conservative -- but Kyle IS NOT a "wealthy," extremist, white, liberal-conservative -- so, of course Kyle thinks that "people" SHOULD be allowed to get "rich," but SHOULDN'T be allowed to get "wealthy."
Kyle, and the other rich, moderate, white, liberal-conservatives are barely better than wealthy, extremist, white, liberal-conservatives. But the moderates and extremists are BOTH on the same team.
Rich-Kyle, along with the people who are most like rich-Kyle and the people who are aspiring to be like rich-Kyle, are all on the same team as the wealthy, extremist, white, liberal-conservatives. Whether the moderate fools are capable of comprehending it or not. And whether the extremist knaves are willing to admit it or not
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The addictions of the wealthy-class are a far-worse bane on the world than any working-class addict.
The addictions of the wealthy-class are the literal catalysts by which families and communities are broken.
These broken families and communities -- which are perpetrated and perpetuated by the wealthy-class -- are the reasons that cause working-class folks to choose the sweet-release of drugs.
Nobody is forcing anyone to use meth.
No one is forcing anyone to be mentally ill.
But there is a group of wealthy-class addicts making a concerted effort to bring about the circumstances under which MOST people will seek out addictive-behavior.
Whether the addiction is coffee, cigs, weed, booze, pills, spending money, eating pizza, punching kittens -- the wealthy-class has found a way to monetize the working-class people.
These are just a few of the addictions of the wealthy-class; money, and monetizing the suffering of other humans through manipulation and exploitation.
(Edit: Once the wealthy-class manufactures a way to monetize 'rehabilitation' there will be plenty of it available. Just like they have done with cannabis.
When wealthy-class white people couldn't make money off cannabis, they made laws to make money off cannabis users.
Now cannabis is legal because wealthy-class white people manufactured a way to make money off of it via the government that is corrupted by the wealthy class.)
P.S. I agree with you Joel, I just chose to reply this way in hopes that the people in this thread who needed to read this would have it pop up in their alerts.
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All the major problems in the world, and most of the smaller problems, are perpetrated & perpetuated by (a)the authoritarian, wealthy-class knaves & their corrupt RW-politics, and by (b)the ignorant, working-class dupes who are dumb enough to support the wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics. And that includes the politics of Capitalism.
All RW-politics are inherently corrupt & authoritarian politics -- Monarchism, Feudalism, Capitalism, Corporatism, Cronyism, Fascism. They are just systems of slavery, with different names, in which a populace-minority of wealthy-class people rule & reign over the populace-majority of working-class people. And those authoritarian systems of enslavement are perpetrated & perpetuated by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
And, all throughout history, we've seen that every time a significant portion of working-class people become aware of, and stand up to oppose, their enslavement by the corrupt, authoritarian knaves of the corrupt wealthy-class, the wealthy-class has then used their wealth to fund & fabricate wars, in which they incite working-class people to commit violence (and worse) against other working-class strangers. Only the dumbest working-class people volunteer to participate in, or give lip-service in promotion of, these needless & unnecessary conflicts.
And no matter what name is given to a system of RW-politics, that RW-system ALWAYS devolves into more & more corruption being committed by the indecent people in the wealthy-class, and worse & worse enslavement of the decent people in the working-class by the indecent people in the wealthy-class.
And, as long as they are allowed to go unchecked, the corrupt, authoritarian, & indecent wealthy-class knaves will NEVER willingly give up their lifestyle-addictions & they will NEVER willingly seek treatment for their mental-illnesses, and they will burn the entire earth to the ground before they do.
The authoritarian wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics need to be brought to heel, along with the working-class dupes who support them, in the very same way that the corrupt, authoritarian, RW-Confedrates&RW-N@z!s were brought to heel.
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The books "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James W. Loewen and "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn go about explaining and undoing some of the indoctrination.
The current education system is just an example of the inequality that has existed throughout history and intertwines through all aspects of life.
Lower-class kids go to defunded and depressed public schools. Those kids are cultivated to be subservient citizens who become good soldiers and obedient workers. If they're unlucky, they become subjugated prisoners.
Wealthy-class kids go to over-funded and deregulated private schools. Those kids are coddled to be oppressive citizens who become wealth-hoarders, resource-pillagers, labor-manipulators, and human-exploiters. If they're "lucky," they become unmitigated and unrepentant demanding-sociopaths.
I understand that my explanation is a broadly brushed, verbal painting that isn't representative of the entire educational canvas, nor every educational institution. But it's representative of most of them.
No matter what the lower-class people do to strive for equity and equality, the wealthy-class people will do everything in their power to combat it. The wealthy-class will do anything to maintain their addictions to a fabricated social-status, an easy standard of living, and substance abuse.
The wealthy-class will partake in lying, cheating, stealing, and murdering to maintain their addictions. They will propagandize populations by fearmongering and hatemongering, they will overthrow governments, sabotage infrastructure, destroy communities, murder individuals, genocide ethnicities, and enslave the survivors.
The lies and indoctrination happening in the public and private school dichotomy is just a less violent tactic in the class segregation that aids the wealthy in upholding their lifestyle.
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Self-proclaimed Capitalists have committed preemptive, unprovoked v!olence.
Self-proclaimed "Communists"* have committed preemptive, unprovoked v!olence.
What do the people who commit preemptive, unprovoked v!olence have in common?
They are all authoritarians -- and authoritarianism, like Capitalism, is a r!ght-w!ng ideology.
Non-authoritarians(left-wingers) don't provoke others to v!olence, nor do they commit preemptive, unprovoked v!olence.
Non-authoritarians(left-wingers) only commit v!olence as a reaction to preemptive, unprovoked v!olence inflicted by authoritarians(r!ght-w!ngers).
People can claim to be "communists" all they want, but if they commit preemptive, unprovoked v!olence, then they are authoritarians, just like Capitalists.
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Wish we could get some of those re-education camps around here.
75ish million morons voted for a wealthy-class, right-wing extremist, grifting criminal painted-clown, and 81ish million idiots voted for a wealthy-class, right-wing extremist, grifting criminal. Only a small portion of those people actually do anything related to societal and human necessities, but that's another topic entirely.
Those wealthy-class, right wing-extremists would be lucky to get a re-education camp -- especially considering what those wealthy-class, right-wing extremists, and the worst working-class rubes who vote for them, have been willing to do to leftists and the better working-class humans throughout history -- a re-education camp would be a cake-walk for the cake-eaters in the wealthy-class compared to what they've done and continue to do to the working-class.
The wealthy-class extremists and their ignorant working-class puppets will let desperate, good, working-class people rot in cages -- they will let you be raped, they will let you be tortured -- and they'll do anything they can to make money from your unfortunate working-class misery.
I don't believe in caging humans as a means of rehabilitation -- it can't be rehabilitative, but can be conforming -- although I would be totally down for re-education/rehabilitation camps.
Wealthy-class people, and the working-class people whom they have duped, need to be rehabilitated from their addictions to material-acquisition, land-pillaging, resource-hoarding, monetary-gain, human-manipulation, labor-exploitation, substance-abuse, social-status, and overall easy standard of living. Re-education seems like a good way to rehabilitate.
Yes, bring on the re-education camps, or drop the worst people off on remote/deserted islands. See, I'd even give the terrible people a choice. Am I not merciful? (That's a rhetorical question; compared to wealthy-class right-wing and white-ring extremists, I'm a saint.)
If you don't understand what I mean by working-class dupes and rubes, just look around the comments section of Wolff's videos and read the foolishness from class-traitors like JGalt (especially), Clare Stucki, juniorgod, son of the republic, and there are some others whom I have forgotten.
Those are the kinds of working-class extremists who will allow other working-class people to suffer, and, what's worse, they will do harm to their own working-class families and communities if the wealthy-class extremists tell them to.
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Clare is retired, and the admitted decedent of a parasitic-banker. Clare believes in the kinds of "laws" that are made up by the wealthy-class to control the working-class. "Laws" like supply and demand, which aren't laws at all, but fabricated ruses.
Clare isn't to be taken seriously. Unless you're seriously taking Clare to a re-education camp where Clare can learn about equity and equality, how to grow their own food, cook their own meals, clean up after themselves, clean up a horse stall or a chicken coop, and things like that.
Clare class-traitor who will need to earn the trust of the working-class majority, after spending so much time shilling for the mob-rule of the wealthy-class minority.
Clare is the weakest link among the lowest common denominators of humans. I wouldn't entrust Clare with my worst enemy, let alone vulnerable humans or livestock.
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HA! Ana is a talk-show host who can BARELY read the news that is written by actual journalists -- she bumbles ALL the time, and she has ALL DAY to prepare. Trump can BARELY speak -- he bumbles ALL the time, and he has ALL the time he wants to prepare. But Ana says Newsom is incompetent? Riiiiight. Newsom definitely sucks, but so does Trump, and so does Ana. She should keep throwing those stones from her glass-house in a dry-desert, girl-boss! 🤣
Furthermore: Cenk, Ana, Newsom, and Bass are ALL Capitalists (Newsom might be a Corporatist, and Trump is a Fascist). Capitalism, Corporatism, & Fascism are ALL RW-political-systems. And, thus, Cenk, Ana, Newsom, Bass, and Trump are ALL RWers.
Keep voting for RW-extremist Repubs & moderate-RW Dems. BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics, and you working-class dupes keep voting for BOTH corrupt RW-parties.
Congratulations... 🥳
...you're a moron. 🙄
You're exactly the kind of working-class dupe that your corrupt, wealthy-class masters have designed you to be, with their corrupt RW-politics of imposed ignorance, fear, anger, & hate. 😒
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@JonS You're not seeking a position of power??? I've literally seen you on TWO channels, now, whining because they wouldn't platform you when you were RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT!!!
Your "advice" is not plausible for me. But you don't have the capability, nor the willingness, to comprehend the various troubles & situations of the people of this country, let alone the world.
I'm basically stuck -- a hostage, an indentured-servant -- living at the whims of people who threaten to make me homeless ALL THE TIME.
My advice to you is to quit whining in the comments-section, and use your accumulated-wealth to help those in need. Because this thing that you're doing -- whatever it is you want to call it -- is not remotely helpful.
I understand you, now -- you got yours, and it's everyone for themselves -- you're very much a product of this knavish-system, which you've very clearly benefited from (I've seen your LinkedIn page and your property-listing on Zillow).
Your "advice" is substandard-foolishness at best, and standard-knavishness at worst.
"PaiNt a hoUsE!" 🤡
SMH. Sickening.
🙄😒🤢🤮
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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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@undefinedlastname3011
Imagine being as ignorant as you...
Nazi's were socialists as much as the leadership of the Republic and Democrat parties are public servants. They're all Capitalists and servants of the wealthy-class.
Present-day Democrat-leadership is, basically, Republicans, and present-day Republic-leadership is, basically, Nazi-fascists. All are promoters of Capitalism and the inequity and inequality that comes with it.
The leadership of the Nazi party and the leadership of the Republic and Democrat parties had many things in common. Here are a few other things.
They all serve the socio-psychopathic money-hoarders, resource-pillagers, labor-exploiters, and human-manipulators within the wealthy-class minority who control the corporations and big businesses.
They all utilize austerity politics to repress, suppress, and oppress the working-class majority while propping up the wealthy-class minority.
The wealthy-class uses their wealth to co-opt and corrupt the elected officials who in turn corrupt the government.
The corrupt wealthy-class and elected officials push for policies that deplete education quality and standards for the working-class.
Effectively, the wealthy-class tries to dumb-down the working-class, just the way the wealthy-class, white Capitalists did to African slaves in this country.
Then, the wealthy-class uses their wealth to create and distribute propaganda to the dumb-downed, desperate working-class people.
They use the propaganda to manipulate the dumbest and most desperate citizens within the working-class into blaming each other, instead of the working-class blaming the wealthy-class who are responsible for imposing the desperation.
I could go on.
In one ignorant sentence, you made it clear that the corrupt wealthy-class, and the elected officials who serve at their behest, have succeeded in hitting their mark.
I know many people like you. Admittedly, I was on a similar path until I quit drinking and watching the propaganda-box (television). Then I remembered that I knew how to read and started learning as an adult.
The only concern I have is, which of your fellow working-class citizens or family members are you going to harm or murder first.
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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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Chris Sununu & his wealthy-class, right-wing family are mentally-ill addicts. The main goal of wealthy-class right-wingers is to conserve their lifestyle addictions via the inequitable, corrupt system of Capitalism. He/they need rehabilitation & re-education.
They need rehabilitation for their addictions and the terrible things they have done to maintain those addictions.
They need re-education to prevent them from relapsing and doing terrible things in the future.
Their rehabilitation and re-education should focus on:
1. community-service over family-serving
2. public-good over private-gain
3. collective-edification over individual-amplification
4. majority-rule over minority-rule
5. democracy over autocracy
6. people over profits
7. sharing over pillaging
8. selflessness over selfishness
9. collaboration over competition
10. necessities over wants
11. sympathy, empathy, and compassion
12. ethics, morals, and values
13. equity, unity, and community
14. meritocracy, nepotism, and luck-of-birth
15. corruption, bribery, manipulation and exploitation
Without rehabilitation and re-education, the lazy, parasitic Sununu family, and those like them, will cause them to continue striving to maintain systems of inequity to service their addictions. They will NEVER, EVER willingly give up their addictions.
Not only will they continue striving to maintain the inequitable system of Capitalism, but they will absolutely continue to strive to regress society back into the systems of lord-vs-serf Feudalism and/or owner-vs-owned Slavery.
Without rehabilitation and re-education, they will continue to uphold slavery, feudalism and capitalism, under which systems the wealthy-class addicts do none of the manual labor, while forcing chattel-slaves, debt-slaves, and wage-slaves to do all the labor for them.
Chris Sununu and the wealthy-class right-wingers can't save anyone -- they need to be saved from themselves.
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@klavczarkalafan4191 You can replace "capitalism" with "RW-politics." Because ALL of the RW-political-systems involve the things that you associated with Capitalism / Neoliberalism in your comment. And you wrote it so well, too.
RW-politics are anti-working-class & anti-democratarian politics.
RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class and pro-authoritarian politics.
ALL of the RW-political-systems are just systems of slavery with different names.
Monarchism, Feudalism, Republicanism, Capitalism, Corporatism, and Fascism are ALL system in which the wealthy-class rules over the working-class, just like slavery.
ALL of the empires throughout history have operated this way: the Egyptian-Pharaohs, The Ottomans, The British, the Confdrates, the N@z!s, and now the US empire. And there are others that I haven't listed, and others I don't even know about.
However, as a Christian, I don't believe that this dynamic -- the wealthy-class waging class-war upon the working-class -- will ever end. And if it does end, it won't likely be in my lifetime.
Although, I would like to live long enough to see the US empire come to the same result as the past empires.
Again, I enjoyed your well-written comment, and I hope mine was any bit helpful.
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@manosijroy8282 Firstly, treat her/women with the same kind of consistent respect & dignity that you treat men with. Consistently treat all people, including women, in the way that you want to be consistently treated with. Then go from there.
First, learn to be a consistently good human(it seems like you are), then you can become a consistently good friend.
Then, be a consistently good friend(it seems like you want to be), and you can become a consistently good confidant.
Then, be a consistently good confidant, and you can become a consistently good intimate-partner for someone in a consistent, long-term relationship.
You DON'T need to TRY to ACT a certain way -- you DON'T need to ACT macho, or tough, or strong, or aggressive.
You ONLY need to BE the kind of person who you WANT to be, and you need to be consistent about it.
And if you don't know what kind of person you want to be, or if you can't be consistent in your personal-character or consistent in the way you treat women/people, then you have no business being in a relationship.
But you DO need to be able to do is TALK TO THEM. 🙂
Talk to them in a "friendly" kind of way.
Do NOT talk to them in an "I think you're attractive and I want to make babies with you" kind of way.
Be FRIENDS with women first (just like you're FRIENDS with men), and then move forward from there.
I hope this helps. ✌🤟✊🙏
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"There's great honor in serving our country..."
*clutching chest, craning neck, clenching anus
The greatest of great honors, with the greatest servants, in the greatest country, on the greatest planet, in the greatest solar system, in the greatest galaxy, in the greatest universe, in the greatest dimension. Ever. Period. Full-stop. Period. Period-period.
It is a great honor to prostitute oneself for a corporate, oligarchic kleptocracy -- which is operated by the wealthy-class, who in turn bribes the rich-class to administer the enslavement of the working-class, who all then shit on the poorest-classes all across the country and around the world -- whose main goal is to pillage the lands and hoard the resources of other nations while exploiting those nation's human-labor to commandeer all of that nation's industries -- so that the masters within the wealthy and rich-class minority, with the help of the class-trading crumb-catchers within the working and poor-class majority, can maintain their addictions to materialism, social-status, and easy-living which is expressed as the mental illness known as 'greed' -- all the while preaching against the very things one is servicing into perpetuity.
*from one side, speaking from the mouth
*sips tea, high up with the pinky
Cease THESE regime-change wars. Period.
This commander-in-chief is atrocious. Period.
*sports more flowers, round about the neck
*from the other side, speaks the same mouth
Commence THOSE regime-change wars. Period.
I'll command-and-chief astonishingly. Period.
Yes! 'Tis as noble a pursuit as any other for one to embrace the irony of one's hypocrisy!
*sips more tea
*sports more flowers
*solicits more power
*suppresses more people
/S
In the U.K., they would call her a C-U-Next-Tuesday.
In the U.S., it's simply another day that ends in 'Y' and another politician who starts and ends with 'I'.
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Abolish private property, private companies, and private profit.
Privacy is where slavery, abuse, and corruption are cultivated to fester and thrive.
The human-parasites who advocate for private property, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private property" to refer to the humans they enslaved in the past.
The human-parasites who advocate for private companies, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private companies" to refer to the plantations where they enslaved said humans in the past.
The human-parasites who advocate for private profits, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private profit" to refer to the money generated by the labor of the humans they enslaved on plantations in the past.
The kinds of human-parasites who advocate for private property, private companies, and private profits, in the present, are the same as the human who advocate for "States' Rights" and slavery in the past.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people from other countries.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people from other states.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people of other colors and religions.
And if you don't think those kinds of human-parasites still exist, then look no further than your county Republic/Democrat political-party meeting, your local police/sheriff department, or your nearest military recruiters office.
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While there are some human-parasites who want to enslave any family but their own, on the macro-level, there are some human-parasites who want to enslave their own family members, on the micro-level, under the guise of "privacy" and "parental rights."
The kinds of human-parasites who advocate for private property, private companies, and private profit, are the same kind of human-parasites who advocate for "States' Rights" to enslave and abuse other humans in privacy.
And the kinds of human-parasites who advocate for "States' Rights" are the same kind of people who advocate for "Parental Rights" to enslave and abuse children in private.
And kinds of human-parasites who advocate for unfettered privacy are the kinds of human-parasites who want to keep their corruption and their victims private.
The more adamant a person is about "privacy," the more suspicious of them I become, and the more parasitic they reveal themselves to be.
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This is RW-politics in action.
Vote for the wealthy, RW-extremist Repubs, for the fast, open-road to working-class enslavement.
Vote for the wealthy, moderate-RW Dems, for the slower, disguised-road to working-class enslavement.
BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
And THAT is why the US, like most of the world, is such a RW-sh!tehole.
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The Yt-supremacist right-wingers from the wealthy-class & working-class love this sort of thing. It gives them another issue to further propagandize.
For examples:
(1) The Yt-supremacist right-wingers from the wealthy-class & working-class have sabotaged the gov't for centuries, from the IRS to Public Education and more. And now, those same Yt-supremacist right-wingers from the wealthy-class & working-class spew propagandist rhetoric, saying; "SeEeEeE? GoV't DoEsN't WoRkKk!"
(2) The Yt-supremacist right-wingers from the wealthy-class & working-class have economically sabotaged ethnic-minority communities for centuries, thus causing crime in those communities. And now, those same Yt-supremacist right-wingers from the wealthy-class & working-class spew propagandist rhetoric, saying; "SeEeEeE? eThNic MiNoRiTiEs ArE cRiMiNaLsSsS!!!!"
(3)The Yt-supremacist right-wingers from the wealthy-class & working-class have sabotaged the character of black people for centuries by referring to and treating them like animals. While, at the same time, the Yt-supremacist right-wing cops have been acting like animals, for centuries.
But now, since some black right-wing cops f*kced up by acting like Yt right-wing animal-cops, it has allowed those same Yt-supremacist right-wingers from the wealthy-class & working-class to spew propagandist rhetoric, saying; "SeEeEeE? bLaCk pEopLe ArE aNiMaLsSsSs!!!"
Yt-supremacists & right-wingers from the wealthy-class are the worst smart people in society.
Yt-supremacists & right-wingers from the working-class are the worst dumb people in society.
The smarter Yt-supremacist right-wingers from wealthy-class rely on the dumber Yt-supremacist right-wingers from the working-class.
The wealthy-class right-wingers rely on working-class people remaining stupid, because stupid people make better slaves, and working-class right-wingers are the dumbest and best slaves in society.
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Thom still believes that the values of the old "Democratic" party are prioritized by the leadership of the party.
It's either that or Thom is in on the act and he's playing dumb.
He fully understands the SCOTUS decisions, from over the past 70 years, which have allowed the wealthy-class capitalists to corrupt the campaign finance and election systems while consequently co-opting the politicians to do the bidding of that wealthy-class.
He's talked about those SCOTUS decisions repeatedly throughout the years (even though he only mentions a specific set of decisions while ignoring others). Yet, somehow, he only calls out the corruption of the Republic-party.
So, it's one of a few possible things.
One: Thom sincerely believes that the current capitalist-leadership of the Democrat-party is the same leadership, with the same ideals, from when Thom was growing up (in the 60s and 70s). And, so, Thom says the ignorant-sounding things he says at times.
Two: Thom knows that the capitalists who fund the Republic-party are the same capitalists who fund the Democrat-party. He knows that the Democrat-party is nothing more than a paid-opposition whose main goal is to seem as though they are fighting against the Republic-party. But, Thom pretends not to know.
Three: The first two sentences from number two above, but instead of pretending not to know that both parties are corrupt and working in tandem, what we are seeing is Thom treading lightly. Rather than blatantly calling out the mutual corruption of both parties, he merely presents it. Maybe he does this to maintain access to Democrat-party politicians. Maybe he does it to coddle potential or current viewers. Maybe he does it to placate capitalist Youtube executives.
Whether it's one, two, or three, my retort is; "BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! BOOOOOO!!! GET OFF THE STAGE!!!"
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Of course the Democrat-party politicians are terrible; most of them are funded by the same knavish, parasitic, right-wing extremists from the wealthy-class who fund the terrible Republic-party politicians.
BOTH major American political parties, and most of the lesser parties, are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by right-wing extremists from the wealthy-class.
The working-class dupes in America continue to vote for two right-wing extremist political parties, because those working-class dupes are too dumbed-down and enslaved to comprehend that they're continuously voting for right-wing extremist slave-owners.
But the working-class dupes who vote for Republic-party politicians are the dumbest. They'll do, say, and believe anything that their right-wing extremist masters from the Republic-party tell them to do, up to and including genocide.
And, meanwhile, those right-wing extremist politicians from the Republic-party are working behind the scenes with the right-wing extremist politicians from the Democrat-party to screw over working-class people. But working-class dupes, like @mm-dj6gk , are too afflicted with Dunning-Kruger syndrome to comprehend it.
And as for the working-class dupes, like @mm-dj6gk, who don't comprehend the corruption inherent to right-wing politics: the President doesn't set prices.
In right-wing economic sh!teholes, like the right-wing American sh!tehole, prices are set by the right-wing extremists from the wealthy-class who own businesses and political-parties.
In the right-wing American sh!tehole, the right-wing extremists from the wealthy-class who own businesses are the same right-wing extremists from the wealthy-class who have corrupted America's politics, politicians, and political parties.
The right-wing extremists from the wealthy-class set prices higher or lower depending on which party is in office.
When Democrats are in office, the wealthy-class sets prices high, and then they tell working-class dupes, like @mm-dj6gk, to blame other working-class strangers who have no power to set prices. So working-class dupes, like @mm-dj6gk, blame other working-class strangers who have no power to set prices.
When Repubs are in office, the wealthy-class sets prices slightly lower, and then they tell working-class dupes, like @mm-dj6gk, that the prices could be lower if it weren't for other working-class strangers who have no power to set prices. So working-class dupes, like @mm-dj6gk, blame other working-class strangers who have no power to set prices.
And the cycle never ends, because the knavish, parasitic, right-wing extremists from the wealthy-class have used their corrupted government to defund and deregulate public-schools to such an extent that the working-class dupes who attend those public-school are increasingly being taught how to be good-little indoctrinated slaves, like @mm-dj6gk.
Don't be like @mm-dj6gk.
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George was correct about so many things.
But I would amend his words to the following...
"America is a pro-wealthy-class & anti-working-class monopoly, that is controlled by a populace-minority of educated, wealthy-class, right-wing, addicted knaves -- all of which, and whom, are protected by a populace-majority of armies & gangs made up of uneducated, working-class, right-wing, addicted dupes."
...or something like that.
The working-class world has benefited from Carlin's words and works from the past. His words have been, and will continue to be shown as, more prophetic and exposing as time goes forward.
But I sure would love to hear his commentary on the present-day regression back into the rhyming-history of the socioeconomic & political doldrums that are inherent in the right-wing systems of slavery, monarchism, feudalism, and capitalism.
I'm sure that he hoped for these wealthy-right-wing systems to be relegated to the international-dustbin of history, and I sure do envy his not having to witness where the world is today. But I wonder if Carlin realized that this rhyming-nature of history would come back around so quickly and furiously.
Carlin has helped me so much, and I do miss him greatly -- even more so than I miss some deceased family members who have harmed me.
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You're projecting racism onto other people. The comments are expressing various sentiments in regards to a working-class man committing self-sabotage by (a)wearing that costume and, most-importantly, (b)voting for wealthy-class-RWers, who would rather see him in steel-chains, a concrete-cage, or a wooden-box, and, the only reason he's voting for them is because he's been duped by wealthy-right-wing propaganda, just like you.
Again, you're not reading racism; you're reading the responses of working-class people who are responding to a working-class dupe who's voting for the corrupt pro-wealthy-class/anti-working-class RW-ideologues who are responsible for the subjugation of working-class people.
Furthermore, the reason why neo-Confederates & neo-Nazis vote for RWers, is because Confederate-Nazi politics are RW-politics, hence the RWers who fly those flags at RW-political rallies and on their vehicles.
You've had a lifetime of wealthy-RW propagandist indoctrination that has told you the opposite of the following two truths:
1. RW-politics are pro-hierarchical-politics, hence the pro-racial-hierarchical structures therein.
2. LW-politics are anti-hierarchical-politics, hence the anti-racial-hierarchical structures therein.
Hopefully it doesn't take you the rest of a lifetime to learn those two truths.
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That's what you get for putting your trust in the laziness-inducing technology that has been developed by the lazy & corrupt wealthy-class to advance their corrupt RW-politics.
I have the links to all my preferred YouTube channels saved in Bookmarks folders based on the frequency with which I visit each channel -- daily, weekly, monthly. Yes, that means I actually go to my preferred YouTube channels directly to see the newly uploaded videos.
I have also listed the links to all of my preferred YouTube channels in an email, and then I emailed the list to myself, just in case the Bookmark folders get deleted. And every time I add or subtract a YouTube channel from my Bookmark folders, I send myself a new, updated email.
If the garbage-system that you're using doesn't work, then stop using the garbage-system and come up with a newer, better system.
And stop looking for the lazy way to do everything, like the corrupt wealthy-class does.
Or, you know, don't do something different, keep doing what you're doing, and suffer.
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Fools and Knaves
Joe is a rich guy, yet he realizes greedy people are the problem. Not just the greedy, wealthy-knaves, but the greedy, poor-fools too. Joe realizes that the greedy, poor-fools make good pawns and shills for greedy, wealthy-knaves. Greedy fools are dumb enough to believe that one day they can be greedy and wealthy instead of just greedy and poor. This belief by the poor-fools is what turns poor-fools into poor-pawns. Joe is rich, but he's smart enough to know he'll never be wealthy, and I think he's smart enough to not want to become wealthy because I think he realizes that excessive wealth is what corrupts people.
Joe said he is likely supporting Bernie Sanders. Joe said he doesn't mind paying more in taxes. Joe isn't a greedy, wealthy-knave or greedy poor-fool. Joe understands he is lucky -- luckier than you and luckier than most people -- yet Joe is humble in his good fortune, and he is willing to contribute more of his money in taxes to help benefit the team.
It doesn't surprise me that you don't understand these things. I mean, you are promoting "the festival of ignorance" -- you don't even understand how Fox is against your own best interest, and how Joe now argues for your best interest.
You think it's 'Red vs. Blue' because you've been dumbed-down by right-wing propaganda. You don't even know that right-wing economics promotes policies that help make the rich get richer and you get poorer, and left-wing economics promotes policies that help make people more equal. You've been educated by schools that were under-funded on purpose because of those right-wing economic policies. The same authoritarian, right-wing policies which disallowed slaves from learning are the same authoritarian policies that have reduced you to the level of an ignorant Uncle-Tom. Right-wing economic policies only work if there are stupid poor people to prop up the smarter wealthy people. You're so dumb, you don't even know what socioeconomic-class you belong to. You're so dumb, you would give up your own family and neighbors for just a few more crumbs from the master's table, or a few more platitudes to coddle your attitude.
It's not 'Red vs. Blue' -- this isn't neanderthal-sports-ball. Isn't it interesting how a rich jockey like Joe knows he's not on the wealthy-team and never will be, and somehow you've been duped into thinking you already are on the wealthy team? Here's a clue: wealthy-knaves don't comment on Youtube videos, their poor-foolish pawns comment on Youtube videos. I'm sure wealthy-knave Martha McCallum is happy to have you as a poor-foolish pawn to promote her wealthy-class economic policies while detracting from your own best interest.
Speaking of teams, watch this. Maybe realize which team you're on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjSHffIbVMA
Oh yeah, another thing. CNN isn't a left-wing news outlet. CNN and the DNC are both economically-right-wing, like Fox News. The 'establishment political parties' -- both the Republicans and Democrats -- are economically right-wing parties. Both parties argue and compromise for the same pro-wealthy-people & anti-poor-people economic policies as Fox News.
The only difference between CNN and the DNC, and Fox and the RNC, is that CNN and the DNC are slightly more socially-liberal. The RNC wants to be able to discriminate against the people who they don't like, and the DNC wants to sell to anyone. The RNC only wants to deal with people who believe the same things the RNC believes, while the DNC wants to deal with anyone. The difference between the present Democratic and Republican parties is so small, only misinformed people think there is a difference. Unfortunately, most Americans are misinformed, while the rest of the first-world countries laugh at us. Most Americans are tricked. They think they have freedom of political choice, and they only have two parties to choose from. Nearly every other first-world country has multiple political parties -- some countries have as many as ten political parties to freely choose from.
You're probably fully confused now.
The most important thing to remember: It's not 'Red vs. Blue' like the wealthy people want you to believe. It's the '1% vs 99%' -- masters vs. slaves, lords vs. vassals, royals vs. peasants, employers vs. employees, the owners vs. the owned.
Joe realizes he isn't part of the 1%. Joe has evolved over his years of conversing with people who are smarter than him, like Lee Camp.
If Joe can realize it and evolve, if a lowly peasant like me can, then there is hope for you. You don't have to be a fool who is dumb enough to be a pawn for wealthy-knaves. Joe isn't giving up on fighting for all people, including you, and neither am I.
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@Theonewhowonders92 Hey, if you know & understand the Powell Memo, and the plan to legalize corruption to gain power, then you would also benefit from knowing about the SCOTUS decisions in the following cases:
(1)Buckley v. Valeo[1976]
and
(2)First National Bank Of Boston v. Bellotti[1978].
Those cases were precursors to the cases of:
(3)Citizens United v. FEC[2010]
and
(4)McCutcheon v. FEC[2014].
The SCOTUS enshrined the legalization of corruption & inequality into law, but they did so under the guise & cover of The Constitution, while claiming to support the incorruptibility & equality that The Constitution is supposed to represent.
The SCOTUS Justices in those four cases committed four GIANT bait&switch frauds on the working-class people in the US, and they did it on behalf of the wealthy-class people in the US.
All of the decisions in those cases gave disproportionately unequal benefits to the wealthy-class, to the disproportionately unequal detriment of the working-class.
I hope that makes sense the way I wrote it out. I'll do a brief recap.
(1)The Powell Memo was, as you put it, "the plan to legalize corruption to gain power".
(2)The decisions in those cases are what the SCOTUS Justices did to "legalize corruption." The SCOTUS rulings in those cases were the manifestations of the plan.
I don't need a lengthy reply, but a confirmation that you saw this would be appreciated.
Be well. :)
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Because, right-wing politics are wealthy-class politics, and both of America's political parties are right-wing, wealthy-class political parties that are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class right-wingers.
Pelosi, McConnell, Schumer, McCarthy, Trump, Biden, Obama, Clinton x2, Bush x2, and Reagan are(were) all wealthy-class right-wingers who promote(d) wealthy-class right-wing politics.
If working-class Americans are ever able realize that their suffering is caused by the wealthy-class and right-wing politics, then America might get a chance to try out left-wing working-class politics.
I share your frustrations.
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BOTH political parties in the U.S. are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class knaves & their corrupt RW-politics. All RW-politics involve the wealthy-class enslaving the working-class. And those corrupt, wealthy-class knaves don't care if working-class people are chattel-slaves, debt-slaves, or wage-slaves -- they'll take whatever kinds of slaves they can get.
Vote for the wealthy, RW-extremist Repubs, for the fast, open-road from Capitalist-enslavement of the working-class to Fascist-enslavement of the working-class.
Vote for the wealthy, moderate-RW Dems, for the slower, disguised-road from Capitalist-enslavement of the working-class to Fascist-enslavement of the working-class.
ALL RW-politics are pro-autocracy & anti-democracy, and those RW-politics involve a populace-minority of the wealthy-class enslaving the populace-majority of the working-class.
If the working-class dupes in the U.S. continue supporting and voting for the corrupt RW-Repubs & corrupt RW-Dems, both of which parties act as agents of the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics, then those working-class American dupes can expect to experience the same consequences as the working-class dupes who supported and voted for the corrupt RW-Roman Empire, the corrupt RW-Confederacy, and the corrupt RW-N@z!s.
I just hope I live long enough to see them suffer those consequences.
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If you want "common sense" in a society/community, then people need to have things IN COMMON: common rights, common responsibilities, common goals, common opportunities, common education, & common outcomes. All of those things are exactly the opposite of what the wealthy-class-RWers strive for with their hierarchical RW-politics.
So, if you really want "common sense" you're going to have to stop voting for the RW-extremist Repubs & moderate-RW Dems, both of which parties are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class.
Otherwise, expect more of the same "common nonsense."
Vote RW-extremist Repubs for the fast, open-road to fascism.
Vote moderate-RW Dems for the slow, disguised-road to fascism.
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[1]Cenk is a self-proclaimed Capitalist. [2]Capitalism is a RW-economic system (just like Corporatism, Fascism, Monarchism). [3]RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class politics & anti-working-class politics. [4]Cenk is a Capitalist & a member of the wealthy-class, and, thus, he is a RWer,
Furthermore; moderate-RW Capitalists (like Cenk) will always capitulate to the RW-extremist Fascists & Corporatists before they EVER side with ANY position of LW-politics that would truly benefit the working-class.
Cenk's lifestyle-addictions, and those of the wealthy-class, depend on the inherent corruption & inequality of RW-politics. Cenk, and his wealthy-class mates, will NEVER willingly give up their lifestyle-addiction & they will NEVER seek treatment for their associated mental-illness.
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@somchai272 Know how I know you're dumb?
I never said anything violent or about violence.
Know how I know you're dumb?
You invoked tribalism to contrast my non-violent rhetoric with most tribal, right-wing fearmongers, hatemongers, and warmongers in the country.
That's how I know you're dumb.
You working-class dupes sure do bend over backwards to brown your noses and blacken your tongues on the stink-bums and jack-boots of your wealthy-class right-wing overlords.
And, although I am non-violent, most people are not.
While I'm ready to allow my own life to be taken by right-wing savages, most people will not.
The same way that the working-class Germans were duped by right-wing, wealthy-class, Christian-nationalist Nazis, so too are working-class Americans duped by right-wing, wealthy-class, Christian-nationalist Repubocrats/Demlicans.
And the same way that the rest of the world got sick and tired of the German Nazi's wealthy-class, right-wing fascism, so too is the rest of the world is getting sick and tired of the American Nazi's wealthy-class, right-wing fascism.
You working-class dupes who try to make comparisons where no comparison exists -- like the comparison you tried fabricate make by conflating my non-violent rhetoric with the rhetoric of right-wing murderers -- are on the fast-track to finding out what the Paradox of Tolerance is.
You working-class American dupes have allowed yourselves to be ruled over by a right-wing political monopoly masquerading as a duopoly.
You've allowed history to repeat itself by voting for the politics of right-wing, wealthy-class Nazis, and you strive to be just like them.
That's how I know you're dumb.
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His show is supposed to be a reciprocation of the right-wing radio-sphere. He is combating sensationalist theatrics with theatrical sensationalism.
I would argue: SOMETIMES Thom makes good points. But Thom's capitulation to the Democrat-party -- the same Democrat-party that capitulates to right-wing wealthy-class politics of the Republic-party -- is what weakens any of the good points Thom makes.
Of course, political-novices and the "blue-no-matter-who" crowd, who have no sense of class-consciousness, won't understand these complexities.
If one doesn't yet see that the wealthy-class has bought, sold, bribed and controls both Republic and Democrat parties, then one is still politically-asleep. This is why the smarter working-class folks in better countries laugh at America's working-class.
When you come to realize that Thom capitulates to the party that capitulates, then you'll start to question:
Is Thom a fool who doesn't understand that the Democrat-party is the left-leaning arm of the Republic-party?
OR
Is Thom a knave who knows that both parties are corrupt, but he pretends not to know because he benefits from the corruption?
I say the second one.
He doesn't care about the quality of his show, so long as he maintains a certain level of ignorant-viewers, preventing those viewers from realizing that the Democrat-party apparatus IS the Republic-party apparatus, all corrupted and controlled by the wealthy-class.
Thom's a millionaire, and an employer who profits off his employees' labor, by the way. To me, and true leftists, that makes Thom a member of the wealthy-class and, thus, a right-winger by international and historical standards.
Whether a fool or a knave, neither is anything to be proud of.
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That's RW-politics -- the corrupt wealthy-class, with their corrupt RW-politics, creates propaganda to "other" small, powerless segments of working-class people, and then the larger, dumber segments of working-class people fall for the propaganda. It's really international, but the US is the current front-runner.
The RW-extremist Repub party & moderate RW-Dem party are BOTH bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
BOTH of the wealthy-RW parties in the US engage in the the propaganda of "othering" small, powerless segments of working-class people in the US, and the larger, dumber segments of working-class people in the US fall for the wealthy-RW propaganda.
The same thing happened in the Confedrate-South & NatC-Germany.
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Yup. One whole week per month and one whole month per year, Congress-critters should be required to participate in a blue-collar, manual-labor job inside their district.
Congress-critters should be required to experience all of the rigors, unfairness, manipulation, and exploitation that their blue-collar, working-class constituents are subjected to. If the Congress-critter can't do manual-labor, or if they can't hold down a blue-collar job, then they shouldn't be allowed to be a Congress-critter.
And don't give me any sh!te about the disabled/handicapped Congress-critters. MOST of the disabled/handicapped people I know are also participants in the labor-force. And the disabled people I know who don't participate in the labor-force, WOULD LOVE to participate, but the wealthy-class employers are greedy, discriminatory pieces of human-excrement.
America is a sh!thole because the lazy, greedy, discriminatory, right-wing pieces of human-excrement from the wealthy-class have made the U.S. their home.
It's time for the world to give the wealthy, right-wing Americans the flush. Just like the world flushed the right-wing Confederates and right-wing Nazis.
But, this time, there needs to be a double-flush.
And a plunging for good-measure.
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Hey Jordan, this segment could have easily been part of the Economic Hunger Games Series. Perhaps Veronica cannot currently fathom and explain her family's economic difficulties from when she was a child, but economics most certainly affected her parent's decisions and, thus, lead to Veronica's subsequent and continued suffering.
Whatever economic situation her family was in, it was a situation shared by most working-class people. Working-class parents have to struggle to make ends meet, and so they have to make sacrifices in their lives to maintain the struggle. Those sacrifices made by working-class families cause residual suffering throughout families, communities, and society.
One of the sacrifices made by working-class parents is reducing the number of relationships and limiting the amount of effort they put into each one. Working-class people have to ration their energy, so they have to decide how much effort to put into different relationships. Children have been the greatest victims of this energy-rationing strategy by working-class parents and communities.
The economic difficulties of working-class people are unique to each individual who experiences a specific difficulty, even though the number of economic difficulties that can be experienced is finite.
However, despite the internet's ability to expose all of the different economic difficulties and suffering that come from those difficulties, the cyclical nature of working-class suffering and sacrifice expands and expounds with every generation.
We now have generations of children who have grown into ignorant adults. Some of the children were raised by other ignorant children, causing them all to become ignorant adults. Some children were raised by trinkets and gadgets. Some by tech devices and television. All of these scenarios are nothing less than neglect.
Some adults are incapable of parenting, and some are unwilling, and of course, there are combinations. The ones who are incapable are ignorant, and the ones who are unwilling are lazy. If a child was, or is, forced to suffer under the guardianship of ignorant and lazy adults, that child is a victim. As a society, those children are owed a debt by those who cause and allow their suffering.
The neglect of a child by its parents increases the chances of that child neglecting their own children and families in the future. The neglect of a child by its community increases the chances of that child neglecting society in the future.
A neglected child is more likely to become an incompassionate and careless adult who is more likely to value possessions over people, among numerous other negative ramifications on the individual in adulthood which inevitably spill over into society.
Then, when neglected children act up or act out, the neglectful working-class parents do terrible things to the children whom they have neglected. For example, sending their neglected children to places that are run by other desperate working-class people, such as Veronica's case.
And, when neglected children turn into troubled working-class adults who act up or act out, the desperate working-class society does terrible things to the troubled working-class adults. For example, sending the troubled adults to places that are run by other desperate working-class adults, such as Veronica's case.
What Veronica went through, what I went through, and what countless other kids have gone through can all be linked and attributed to economics.
What Vernonica, myself, and countless other kids have gone through is due to our working-class parents and their inability to define the economic-system of perpetrated-desperation and perpetual-struggle, and to identify the wealthy-class people who have forced the working-class to suffer and struggle under their boots.
The ignorance of our working-class parents is the product of subpar education.
That subpar education is the product of subpar funding.
That subpar funding is the product of subpar legislation.
That subpar legislation is the product of subpar legislators.
Those subpar legislators are the products of subpar government.
That subpar government is the product of the subpar humans from the wealthy-class who created the country.
The subpar humans from the wealthy-class who created this country didn't want a fair government with equitable rules.
The subpar wealthy-class humans who created this country wanted the right to own other humans, child-bearers, and children as property.
The subpar wealthy-class humans who started this country passed on their knowledge of manipulation and exploitation to the subpar wealthy-class humans who control the country today.
The wealthy-class of old knew what the wealthy-class of today knows, and that is this: Stupid people make better slav... I mean, workers. Stupid people make better workers.
The wealthy-class in the past didn't want intelligent citizens. They wanted stupid workers. The same is true for the wealthy-class of the present.
What really brings this story full circle is this:
1. Wealthy-class people like Mitt Romney created MONEY and have perpetrated and perpetuated this rigged, hierarchical economic-system to create cushy lifestyles for themselves off the backs of working-class suffering.
2. Veronica's parents suffered to earn MONEY in the rigged economic-system that was created and has been maintained by the Mitt-Romneys of the world.
3. While Veronica's parents suffered to earn the MONEY, Veronica was suffering, too, in the absence of her parents.
4. Then, after Veronica's parents suffered working in Mitt Romney's rigged economic-system, her parents turned around and gave the MONEY right back to Mitt Romney to take Veronica away and cause her to suffer more.
And the full-circle of this story, along with the countless others just like it that ring and rhyme throughout history, is disgusting.
P.S. To anyone who says that Veronica's family couldn't have had economic difficulties because her father had $40,000 to spend: You are delusional. Having $40,000 doesn't mean you graduate from the working-class into the wealthy-class.
Quite the contrary; all the proof needed to assert that her father is bogged down by planned-ignorance -- the kind of ignorance that comes under the boot of wealthy-class oppression -- was when he gave $40,000 to strangers to take his daughter because he didn't get along with her.
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TYT has taken $$$ from RWers, on multiple occasions. Most recently from Polymarket, which was founded, and is operated by RWers. Not to mention, Cenk is a RWer, himself. He's a self-proclaimed Capitalist, and Capitalism is a RW-system, just like Monarchism, Feudalism, Mercantilism, Republicanism, Corporatism, Fascism, and Slavery.
All RW-systems involve the populace-minority (known as the wealthy-class) controlling the populace-majority (known as the working-class), just like Slavery.
Besides being a Capitalist, Cenk is also a union-buster. He's a couple steps shy of being a Corporatist and a few steps shy of being a Fascist.
And, if/when push comes to shove, Cenk will willingly do the goose-step to maintain his lifestyle-addictions, just like all the other lifestyle-addicts who will never willingly give up their addictions.
Cenk is really no better than the corrupt, lifestyle-addicts from the wealthy-class, with their corrupt, RW-politics of authoritarianism, against whom & which he so bombastically rails.
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LOL @ the working-class fools obsessing over "cognitive decline."
As if Fetterman needs to be any better or worse than he is now to do the bidding of wealthy-class right-wingers who own and control the Republic and Democrat parties.
If moderate right-winger, Dianne Feinstein, can be propped with a rectum-rod for the past five years, then Fetterman will be fine.
If right-wing extremist, Donny Two-Scoops, can bumble through an entire term as POTUS while having the vocabulary of a toddler with a TBI, then Fetterman will be fine.
If right-wing extremist and murderer Dan Crenshaw can do the job -- after likely suffering multiple TBIs, while no longer having the legs to stand on principles nor the eyes to see logic and reason at the same time -- then Fetterman will be just fine.
If "The Squad" can be forced to espouse moderate right-wing positions on numerous policies within four years' time, then Fetterman will be just fine.
If supposedly sane liars, Kyrsten "The C. |_} |\| T" Sinema and Joe "The Geriatric" Manchin can vote with right-wing extremist Republicans, then Fetterman will be just fine.
And don't get me started on Lauren "The Dolt" Boebert, Margarine Traitor Greed, Louie "Gomer-Pile" Gohmert, and the rest of the intellectual regressives from the right-wing extremist Republic-party and the right-wing moderate Democrat-party.
They are all elected members of the right-wing wealthy-class, with 7-9-figure fortune$, doing the bidding of unelected wealthy-class right-wingers with 10-13-figure fortune$.
If all of those elected right-wing moderates and extremists can pass pro-wealthy-class and anti-working-class legislation, then Fetterman will be more than just fine: He'll be in sh!tty-good company.
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@stephenboud1711 Well, I don't think any job associated with the stock market should even exist, but they do. Nor do I think that lazy billionaire/millionaire parasites should be able to eat without performing some manual labor in the field or factory, but they do.
All I'M saying is that for ME to be the one deciding what IS and ISN'T "normal," would be as authoritarian in nature as the wealthy-class billionaire and millionaire parasites who have caused the economic desperation which forces working-class folks to believe that selling their bodies, and, in many cases, their souls, to feed themselves is somehow normal and/or admirable.
Those wealthy-class parasites are no better than an average addict. But the wealthy-class parasites aren't only addicts; they are also the dealers of addictions.
The wealthy-class has manufactured this system, whereby ALL of their addictions are catered to by working-class humans. At the same time, the wealthy-class has teased the working-class by dangling cushy, wealthy-class lifestyles in the faces of the working-class.
The wealthy-class has purposefully gotten MOST Americans addicted to various aspects of wealthy-class lifestyles, and they've done it on purpose as a means of distraction, intending to dumb down and stupefy the working-class.
The lifestyle of the woman in the video, and the lifestyles of the COUNTLESS working-class addicts just like her, are the societal consequences of the wealthy-class addicts/dealers creating a working-class population full of people who idolize and strive to BE members of the parasitic wealthy-class.
I'd settle for actual left-wing, working-class politics, like universal suffrage, free and fair elections, nationalized campaign financing, the abolition of private wealthy-class money in politics, an income guarantee, and a wealth-cap. But none of that is going to happen under the "western" governments that are corrupted by parasitic, wealthy-class, right-wing addicts.
And, since that corruption isn't going to go away, you'll have to EXCUSE THE F*KC OUT OF ME while I advocate for exploited working-class people to be able to eat. Or don't excuse me. IDGAF. And neither does the troubled-addict of a woman.
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class politics. And wealthy-class politics are the politics of proud addicts, proud dealers, proud parasites, and proud folks who have to share their orifices for sustenance.
If you want to continue to have the right to say things like, "All I'm saying is it shouldn't be normalised as a everyday profession," and if you want to have any chance of creating a society in which young women AND men don't have to sell images of their bodies and/or orifices for sustenance, then you better not be voting for wealthy-class right-wingers in the Republic-party of the wealthy-class right-wingers in the Democrat party.
If you don't want lifestyles like hers normalized, you better do more than you're doing. You better think long and hard about YOUR OWN complicity. HER lifestyle is already normalized because of the right-wing, wealthy-class addicts who have fashioned the world this way, and the duped working-class addicts who voted for the right-wing, wealthy-class addicts.
I wish working-class lifestyles like hers weren't normalized just so people like her could eat, either. But they are.
I wish wealthy-class parasites actually had to perform manual labor before they could eat. But they don't.
It's not likely that either of those groups of people are ever going away. The wealthy-class will never willingly give up their lifestyle-addictions, and, sadly, neither will most working-class addicts who are trying to make it into the wealthy-class.
Figure out a way to be a good working-class mate, even to the working-class addicts you don't agree with. Or don't.
Good day.
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How do you like your fascism?
Vote wealthy, right-wing extremist Repubs for the fast, open-road to fascism.
Vote wealthy, moderate right-wing Dems for the slow, disguised-road to fascism.
BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed and controlled by wealthy right-wing fascists.
Edit: And when Independents start to make headway, they'll also become corrupted by wealthy right-wing fascists, just like the Lolbertarian party.
Wealthy right-wingers own the corporate "news" channels and the corporate social-media companies, and they've corrupted the campaign-finance and electoral system by using their channels and companies to push right-wing propaganda and politics into every aspect of life.
The right-wing American sh!thole is headed the way of the right-wing Roman Empire, the right-wing Confederacy, and right-wing Nazi Germany, and you're going to help by voting for right-wing Independants, or No-Labels right-wingers.
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Thom's a wealthy-class right-winger. What do you expect? (That's a rhetorical question, there.)
Tribalism is just one of the "isms" that the right-wing wealthy-class minority uses to keep the working-class majority divided.
Racism, sexism, antagonism, extremism, and many others, are the tools of wealthy-class supremacy.
The most important "ism" that eludes the working-class majority is classism.
The right-wing wealthy-class minority will do anything to hide classism from the working-class majority.
The wealthy-class is responsible for perpetrating and perpetuating the inequitable systems under which working-class people suffer.
The wealthy-class will do anything to maintain the systems of inequity and power with which they rule, reign, and lord over the working-class.
Thom is just another wealthy-class ruler, reigning and lording over his working- class employees and listeners.
If the working-class majority would realize that, "there ain't no war but the class war," then the working-class could come together to force the wealthy-class minority into submission.
I, along with many others, am sick and tired of living under the mob-rule of the wealthy-class minority.
But I and the others are still few.
The majority of the working-class has not yet woken.
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It wouldn't matter if Fetterman were a military officer with combat stripes on his uniform and owned a reputable old-folks home with a daycare attached to it. He would still be dragged to the moderate right-wing position by wealthy-class, right-wing extremists in the Democrat-party who are working in cahoots with wealthy-class, right-wing extremists in the Republic-party.
Remember how young, vibrant, and healthy "The Squad" was when they were elected? Well, look at "The Squad" now. Most of them, if not all, have regressed to wealthy-class, moderate right-wing positions on one policy or another. They were all dragged to that moderate right-wing position by right-wing extremists in the wealthy-class Republic and Democrat parties.
Pelosi, McConnell, Schumer, and McCarthy, as well as Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush x2, Clinton x2, and Reagan, are/were all wealthy-class, right-wing conservatives. They're trying to conserve the white-supremacist systems of neoliberal & neoconservative, authoritarian capitalism.
Wherever, throughout history, you find a failed working-class movement, experiment, or government, you'll find wealthy-class, right-wing, extremist capitalists behind the scenes, trying to cause the failure of the working-class.
The wealthy-class right-wingers fabricate the desperate conditions under which working-class people volunteer to sabotage, murder, and torture other working-class strangers and their communities.
The wealthy-class right-wingers bribe working-class people to murder their own friends, families, and neighbors, and sabotage communities.
Neither "The Squad" working together on their worst days, nor Fetterman working alone on his best, will be able to break the bonds that the extremist, wealthy-class, right-wing minority has on the working-class majority.
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@kathysmith6413 -- Preach, Kathy!
Furthermore: 1 Peter 4:7-8 says;
7 "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God."
8 "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."
Then in 1 Peter 4:18 says:
18 "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love."
I interpret that to mean this: If any person or administration would try to use fear, torment, war, or murder in their efforts against anyone whom they disagree with, then that person or administration is wrong.
Jesus said, multiple times, that we are to love one another...
Matthew 5:44, Matthew 19:19, Matthew 22:39, and in other scriptures in the books of Mark, Luke, and John.
Also, before Jesus is born, in Leviticus 19:17-18, God says;
17 "Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him."
18 "Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD."
I interpret all of that to mean this: It is better to die at the hands of your enemy than to bring judgment, fear, and death to your enemies. Show love and peace to your enemies and let God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit do their work through that love.
Tax me at 100% if it will help others see God's love for them. I don't need money or possessions. God will provide all that I need in order to fulfill His will for my life and for the lives of others.
Philippians 4:19 says:
19 "But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus."
I'm going to continue onward without fear, following the teachings of Christ. In Luke 12:7-8, Jesus says;
7 "...Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows."
8 "Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:"
Jesus says to not be afraid, but to love people, and if you love people then you won't bring fear to them, because there is no fear in love.
Don't be fooled by false prophets like @we thepeople
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@kathysmith6413 --
I think you may have misunderstood my first post. I was agreeing with you. It seems as though you didn't understand. Your response has me wondering if English is your first language. But again, I agree with you.
The elite and wealthy people who control the U.S. government are radical fundamentalists. The elite and wealthy people misuse the Bible. They misuse God and Christ for their own gains.
I don't believe that the love that is shown to those in need in my country is profound. We have hundreds and thousands and millions of people suffering here in the USA. In one way or another, many people suffer here.
We do find ways to help some people in need, but many people are in need and they go unnoticed. We can do much better, but the elite people in charge choose not to help.
We may have ended slavery here in one sense, but since the American Civil War, many more people have become enslaved. Slavery is no longer based on race. Slavery is now based on economic class. If you're born poor in the USA, you are most likely going to die poor. There are millions of people living in the USA who are nothing more than slaves to the elite and the wealthy.
I don't believe in building walls as a way to keep people divided. There is no love in keeping humans separated. I don't believe in building physical walls made of stone, and I don't believe in making metaphorical walls made of money and possessions.
I don't encourage anyone who acts like Hitler. I believe my government makes rules that help the rich and the elite at the expense of the poor and the meek, just like Hitler did. Again, I do not agree with this.
I do not agree with the actions of my government. My government commits murder and genocide. My government degrades the standard of living for many people, in an effort to elevate the standard of living for a few people.
But I believe the Founding Documents are good documents that can be used to create an atmosphere of equality. Unfortunately, the government has been infiltrated and corrupted by evil in the form of greed for wealth and power.
I hope this is more clear for you to understand.
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@kathysmith6413 -- No worries. Communication is the key to understanding.
I believe your understanding of immigration law is correct.
I believe the current Administration is breaking the law.
There have been many court cases brought against Trump and his Administration regarding immigration law and how the Executive Branch is not adhering to the law.
Many of those court cases have been lost by Trump. But he and his people continue to break the law anyway, because there is no mechanism for the courts to stop them.
Not to mention how much Trump and his people lie on camera. The mainstream media reports on the lies, but there doesn't seem to be any remedy to stop Trump and his people from telling lies.
There is no accountability and no punishment for the wealthy and the elite in this country. Very rarely are the wealthy and the elite held accountable and punished for their wrong and unlawful actions.
If the wealthy are ever held accountable, they get fractional punishments compared to poor people. We call this the "Two-tier Justice System" -- one justice system for the wealthy and a separate justice system for the poor -- one set of punishments for the wealthy and a separate set of punishments for the poor.
In my experience, the right-wing extremists in the USA do not understand love or mercy. The right-wing extremist-Christians use the Bible to justify their evil. They tend to use the Old Testament (the Jewish part of the Christian Bible) to justify their violence and hate. Rarely do they use the New Testament, because the New Testament is very much non-violent.
Just like some Muslims use the Quran to justify violence and hate, some Christians use the Bible to justify violence and hate.
But there are some good Christians and some good Muslims who embrace the good parts. Some people embrace the love, peace, and mercy that is expressed in the Bible and the Quran.
Unfortunately, there are so many ignorant people who are unable to comprehend the books they claim to adhere to.
The wealthy and intelligent right-wing extremists need poor people to be ignorant. just like slave owners needed the slaves to be ignorant. The smarter a person becomes, the more difficult it is to enslave them. This country has millions of stupid slaves.
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@davidlafleche1142 Please site, in context, where Jesus was anti-abortion. (Save your time. I know it doesn't exist.)
In fact, Jesus never forced Himself, nor his way of life on anyone.
In fact, when push came to shove, Jesus chose to die at the hands of the wealthy-class right-wingers, rather than force Himself on them by calling legions of angels to help Himself.
I may not like abortion. But I despise the wealthy-class right-wingers and their co-opted working-class class-traitors even more.
The wealthy-class right-wingers, and their co-opted working-class class-traitors, have created such a shite-world. Many people turn to sex for pleasure as a means of escaping the shite-reality created by the right-wing wealthy-class and their co-opted working-class class-traitors.
The wealthy-class right-wingers, and their co-opted working-class class-traitors, have created such a shite-world. Plenty of good, hardworking people want to have sex for pleasure, but they don't want to bring any more children into this shite-world to be exploited by wealthy-class right-wingers and their co-opted working-class class-traitors.
I can't blame the people who want to evict unwanted cells from their bodies before those cells evolve into a human-turned-profit motive for wealthy-class right-wingers and their co-opted working-class class-traitors to exploit.
The same way Christ didn't force Himself on anyone, I'm not going to force women to do anything with their bodies, and I'm not going to prevent women from doing what they want with their bodies. That's between them and God, and it's not for me to judge them.
But I certainly have no delusions about the countless reasons why decent, hardworking people don't want to have children.
Jesus was never anti-abortion anymore than He was pro-birth. He was, however, anti-exploitation, anti-wealthy-class, anti-chauvinism.
My job, as Christ commanded, is to love others. Our job is to love the aborter and the abortionist just as much as the aborted. We're even supposed to love the exploiters, such as yourself.
In the words of Christ, I'll direct these toward you: "Get thee behind me...", 'Away from me...". (Matthew 16:23 & 4:10)
I won't let you, under the power of the evil one, come between me and my love for those who suffer, even though I may not like what they do.
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[1]Cenk (like Ana) is a self-proclaimed Capitalist. [2]Capitalism is a RW-economic system (just like Corporatism, Fascism, Monarchism). [3]RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class politics & anti-working-class politics. [4]Cenk is a Capitalist & a member of the wealthy-class, and, thus, he is a RWer (Ana is riding his coattails).
Furthermore; moderate-RW Capitalists (like Cenk) will always capitulate to the RW-extremist Fascists & Corporatists before they EVER side with ANY position of LW-politics that would truly benefit the working-class.
Cenk's lifestyle-addictions, and those of the wealthy-class, depend on the inherent corruption & inequality of RW-politics. Cenk, and his wealthy-class mates, will NEVER willingly give up their lifestyle-addiction & they will NEVER seek treatment for their associated mental-illness.
Ana is just riding Cenk' s coattails. I bet Ana's RW-tilt is partially the result of Hasan's success & her failure to reach the same level of wealth in the same business. Ana has had a few different solo-projects that all failed. Even John Iadorolla has been more successful in his solo-endeavor than any of Ana's solo-endeavors.
Ana will likely show up on a legacy RW-outlet, or a new RW-outlet, before the end of her career.
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@mikew6060 I put on a display of right-wing theatrics to pander to the shallow-brained, lowest common denominator of working-class humans (like you).
No. Wait. That's what wealthy right-wingers, like Mullin, do. And you're the shallow-brained, lowest common denominator of working-class human whom he is pandering to.
O'Brien baited the dummy-Mullin, and dummy-Mullin took the bait.
Then, dummy-Mullin put on a tough-guy act, and dummy-you bought tickets to the show.
Order of intelligence, from greatest to least: O'Brien, Mullin, chimpanzee, you and the other working-class dupes (like you) who are too ignorant to comprehend politics in international and historical contexts and how right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class and anti-working-class politics.
And to answer your question -- What do I do when someone uses words against me? Nothing. Because I don't have a child-brain stuck in an adult-sized body.
I pay attention to people's actions -- particularly how they vote -- and whether or not they're working in the interest of wealthy right-wing minority or the working-class majority.
GTFOH, sweet summer child. You got the wrong one.
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Vote RW-extremist Repubs for the fast, open-road from RW-capitalism to RW-fascism.
Vote moderate-RW Dems for the slow, disguised-road from RW-capitalism to RW-fascism.
Both parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
And if/when the Independent party makes any meaningful progress, the same wealthy-class-RWers, for whom you voted your whole life, will corrupt that party, too. Then you'll just be voting for RW-Independents instead of RW-Repubs and/or RW-Dems.
RW-politics are anti-working-class politics.
RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class politics.
Working-class dupes, like you, who lack the critical-thinking & reading-comprehension skills that are necessary to develop principles, morals, values, and ethics, are why the U.S. is such a RW-sh!tehole.
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Schultz's willingness to oppress working-class people (like Nazis did), is as disgusting as the African-Americans who are willing to oppress working-class people in their communities (like slave-patrollers did).
Schultz is a descendant of the oppressed, working-class, Jewish victims of the enslavement and genocide perpetrated against them by Nazis. People like Schultz enslaved and murdered his ancestors.
African-American LEOs are the descendants of the oppressed, working-class, African victims of enslavement and genocide perpetrated against them by Confederate, American and European slave-patrollers. People like African-American LEOs enslaved and murdered their ancestors.
The phrase, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," comes to mind.
Schultz is a perfect example of the phrase, "If you can't beat the Nazis, join the Nazis."
African-American LEOs are perfect examples of the phrase, "If you can't beat the slave-patrollers, then join the slave-patrollers."
If I was a proponent of hyperbole, I might say something like:
"The murdered ancestors of Schultz and African-American LEOs are rolling over so fast in their graves, I'm surprised the Earth hasn't spun off its own axis and flung itself out of orbit."
But I'm not hyperbolic -- hyperbole is part of the propagandist tool-chest used by wealthy-class right-wingers -- and I'm not a wealthy-class right-winger.
So, instead, I'll say something like:
"Schultz acts like he's trying to help the Nazis win the war, over a hundred years later. And African-American LEOs act like they're trying to help the Confederates win the war, over 150 years later.
But one thing is certain, and that is that both Schultz and African-American LEOs are acting to help right-wing Conservatives to conserve their white-supremacist power under the inequitable system of Capitalism.
F*kc 'em all.
And f*kc anyone who disagrees."
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@hermes7587 That would be a fine question, for a human with a God-complex. But for humans with a shred of empathetic-decency, the answer would be simple.
There are some intelligent people who are completely innocent on all accounts, and those innocent people don't deserve to suffer at the hands of ignorant people who are easily led by devious people.
As a German who claims to have "saw this coming when you heard Trump´s campain speeches in late 2015," you should also be smart enough to understand how this could happen somewhere besides your country.
After WW2, a bunch of your Fascists invaded the US and implanted their poison.
As a German, you should understand, more than most people, just how ignorant & devious people can be.
They are literally making a comeback in your country right now.
But, you stay up there, and don't fall off your pedestal, you simpleton. 🙄
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Trudeau is a right-winger, just like Trump, Biden, Pelosi, McCarthy, McConnell, Obama, Bush(2), Clinton(2), Reagan, Putin, Macron, B.Johnson, Bin-Salman, and many, many more.
They are all members of the wealthy-class.
They are all authoritarian conservatives who are trying to conserve the hierarchical systems of neoliberal-capitalism and colonial-imperialism with the master vs. slave, lord vs. serf, laborers vs. loungers, us vs. them, societal dichotomy.
F*kc 'em all.
When you come to understand the international and historical contexts of socioeconomic politics, it all makes perfect sense.
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@Bryanbkk I won't have to go to China because China is coming to America, because working-class American dupes (like you) have voted for wealthy right-wing American knaves (like Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush Jr., Clinton, Bush Sr., & Reagan) who have sold America to wealthy right-wingers.
An anecdote in 4-steps:
1.Western working-class dupes (like you), out of one side of their mouths: "eAt tHe WeAlThY-cLaSs!!!"
2.Wealthy right-wing knaves who control the CCP: *Only superficially crack-down on the Chinese wealthy-class
3.Wealthy right-wing knaves who control the West, to the CCP: "How dare you???"(Fake-outrage to incite working-class dupes, like you.)
4.Western working-class dupes (like you), to the CCP, parroting the fake-outrage of their wealthy right-wing masters out of the other sides of their mouths: "Yeah!!! How dare you??? That's not what we meant!!!"
Do yourself a favor:
Climb off the fists of your wealthy right-wing masters and stop being a puppet.
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Some(MANY) working-class people are incapable of being woke -- they are too ignorant to comprehend the multi-faceted, multi-layered oppression that the corrupt wealthy-class has imposed, with their corrupt RW-politics, upon the working-class.
In fact, some(MOST) working-class people in the US are so ignorant, they continuously vote for the two RW-political-parties that are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
In the US, the working-class is so ignorant, they vote for the oppression of others, while also voting for the oppression of themselves. And THAT is exactly what the corrupt wealthy-class has designed working-class dupes to do.
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Tens of thousands of unplanned suicides to be stumbled upon, and cleaned up, after the fact? Orrr, hundreds of thousands of planned suicides, with no stumbling, and minimal clean up? Hmmm, as someone who's spiritual beliefs support free-will but denounce suicide, this is a tough one.
Good thing those spiritual beliefs also discourage voting for pro-wealthy-class, pro-authoritarian, anti-working-class, anti-democracy governments.
No voting = no dirty hands on the 20,000 versus 200,000 suicide debate.
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Question: IS SOCIAL MEDIA HURTING KIDS??
Short Answer: Yes.
Long Answer: Yessss, because of the right-wingers who allowed it.
Spoiler Alert: It was right-wing adults who allowed social media to hurt me. It was right-wing adults who hurt me.
My hurt as a kid WASN'T caused by the unsupervised access to pornographic material when I was unsupervised as a kid. (However, yes, the viewing of pornographic material by children is ALSO harmful and detrimental to child-development, just like social media is.)
My hurt, as a kid, WAS caused by adults (and by other unsupervised kids).
My hurt, as a kid on social media, was caused by:
(a) the ignorant working-class adults, who;
(b) voted for the wealthy-right-wing Republican & wealthy-right-wing Democrat adults, who;
(c) deregulated the wealthy, right-wing, adult owners of unfettered corporations, who;
(d) developed social-media platforms, earning unmitigated profits, which;
(e) exponentially increased the ability of adults who socially condition, exploit, and hurt innocent children like me.
This is a problem created by right-wing knaves from the wealthy-class and by right-wing dupes from the working-class.
This style of systemic corruption and the continuous exploitation of children and the most vulnerable humans in society have been going on throughout history, right up to the present.
It is a problem that WAS perpetrated by right-wingers.
It is a problem that IS perpetuated by right-wingers.
Society's problems are the direct product of the hierarchical, authoritarian, right-wing humans from the wealthy-class-minority who are pro-autocracy and anti-democracy.
The hierarchical, authoritarian, right-wing humans from the wealthy-class-minority use the autocratic and hierarchical socioeconomic systems of Capitalism, Corporatism, Feudalism, Monarchism, and Fascism to maintain their profits. And, then, they use those profits to preserve the social-hierarchy and their autocratic-power of minority-rule over the working-class-majority.
All of the world's problems can be traced back to the greed, supremacy, exceptionalism, sociopathy, psychopathy, and addictions of the right-wing humans from the wealthy-class, who are more akin to parasites than they are to other, better working-class humans.
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Bernie has family. He's more concerned with what could happen to them after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows what the right-wingers have done to working-class leftists through history.
Bernie sees the rhyming-nature of that history coming back around.
Bernie lived through the "Red Scare" and "McCarthyism."
Bernie doesn't want those kinds of things to happen to his family after he dies.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that there are too many foolish, working-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many knavish, wealthy-class, right-wing addicts.
Bernie knows that there are too many right-wing addicts with mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Berne knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts will willingly give up their addictions.
Bernie knows that NONE of the right-wing addicts can cure their own mental illnesses.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie knows that, in order to maintain their addictive lifestyles, the mentally ill working-class fools will do whatever the mentally ill wealthy-class knaves tell them to do; just like they did during the Red Scare and McCarthyism.
And, so, Bernie has given up on the working-class.
Bernie has now entered the phase known as, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
Bernie is MORE concerned with the quality of life his family will have when he dies.
Bernie is LESS concerned with the quality of life for the working-class.
Bernie is ONLY concerned with his own family-unit minority
Bernie is NOT concerned about the working-class majority.
Bernie is the perfect example of why any effective leader(s) on the left-wing will have to be someone(s) without family -- it's too easy for the wealthy-class right-wingers to corrupt left-wingers who have families, and Bernie is a prime example.
Bernie has exchanged his working-class principles to secure a wealthy-class standard of living for his family after he dies.
Bernie has given up on the anti-wealthy-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given up on the pro-working-class nature of left-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the anti-working-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given in to the pro-wealthy-class nature of right-wing politics.
Bernie has given up.
It's only surprising/upsetting if one doesn't know the facts, or rhyming-nature, of history.
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Abolish private property, private companies, and private profit.
Privacy is where slavery, abuse, and corruption are cultivated to fester and thrive.
The human-parasites who advocate for private property, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private property" to refer to the humans they enslaved in the past.
The human-parasites who advocate for private companies, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private companies" to refer to the plantations where they enslaved said humans in the past.
The human-parasites who advocate for private profits, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private profit" to refer to the money generated by the labor of the humans they enslaved on plantations in the past.
The kinds of human-parasites who advocate for private property, private companies, and private profits, in the present, are the same as the human who advocate for "States' Rights" and slavery in the past.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people from other countries.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people from other states.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people of other colors and religions.
And if you don't think those kinds of human-parasites still exist, then look no further than your county Republic/Democrat political-party meeting, your local police/sheriff department, or your nearest military recruiters office.
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While there are some human-parasites who want to enslave any family but their own, on the macro-level, there are some human-parasites who want to enslave their own family members, on the micro-level, under the guise of "privacy" and "parental rights."
The kinds of human-parasites who advocate for private property, private companies, and private profit, are the same kind of human-parasites who advocate for "States' Rights" to enslave and abuse other humans in privacy.
And the kinds of human-parasites who advocate for "States' Rights" are the same kind of people who advocate for "Parental Rights" to enslave and abuse children in private.
And kinds of human-parasites who advocate for unfettered privacy are the kinds of human-parasites who want to keep their corruption and their victims private.
The more adamant a person is about "privacy," the more suspicious of them I become, and the more parasitic they reveal themselves to be.
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Instituting a UBI in the current right-wing extremist economic system is a gift to the populace-minority of autocratic, wealthy, right-wing extremist parasites. So, no thank you, to a UBI.
What is needed is:
(1)Increasing the participation in democracy by the populace-majority of working-class people to take back control of the government from the grasp of the populace-minority of corrupt, autocratic, wealthy, right-wing extremist parasites.
(2)Using the working-class democracy to increase public-education for working-class people; education is incredibly important to reduce and eliminate the conditions of societal-inequity and slave-labor imposed on working-class people by the the populace-minority of parasitic, autocratic, wealthy right-wing extremist owners/masters.
For example, in the pre-Civil War days of America, the wealthy right-wing slave owners prevented their slaves from being educated, because the wealthy, right-wing, slave owners knew that stupid people made better slaves. The wealthy right-wingers knew it then, and they know it now, which is why wealthy right-wingers are constantly trying to decimate the public schools that are attended by working-class people.
(3)Using the working-class democracy to increase taxation on the populace-minority of autocratic, wealthy, right-wing extremist parasites. Then using the increased tax revenue to increase funding for public schools, and then defunding and eliminating private schools.
(4)Using the working-class democracy to undo the right-wing farce known as "No Child Left Behind" -- that right-wing legislation has turned diplomas and graduations into participation-trophies, allowing people to pass when they don't comprehend the material. People who fail shouldn't be allowed to pass. If a person doesn't comprehend the material, they should have to stay in school until they do. No matter how much money their parents have.
(5)Using the working-class democracy to undo the right-wing farce known as privatized schools. Private schools are how the wealthy-class maintains dominance and class-segregation. The wealthy right-wingers over-fund private schools where they groom their wealthy-class kids to become manipulators, exploiters, and parasites (owners, investors, executives). At the same time, those wealthy right-wingers use their corrupting control over the government to under-fund the public schools attended by working-class kids.
As the public schools for the working-class kids are drained of resources, those working-class kids are groomed to become chattel-slaves(prisoners), debt-slaves(laborers), wage-slaves(supervisors), slave-drivers(mangers), slave-patrollers(cops), or slave-k!llers(soldiers). That is exactly what wealthy right-wingers want the working-class to be.
Anyone who really wants a society with equality-of-opportunity knows that it starts with equality-of-education. Anyone who really wants a society with "common sense" understand that everyone in a society has to be educated "in common" -- common-schools with common-goals, common-requirements, and common-standards. (Remember: Wealthy right-wingers don't really want "common sense" -- they want obedient slaves.)
(6)Using the working-class democracy to institute the following: a minimum-wage AND a maximum-wage, along with price-controls.
(7)Using the working-class democracy to remove the private-ownership and profit-motive from necessities -- primarily food, clothes, and shelter, and the land/natural resources from which those necessities are derived.
Additionally, if everyone really has the right to the necessities of;
(A)life
(B)liberty
(C)the pursuit of happiness...
Those three things correlate directly to the necessities of;
(A)healthcare
(B)rehabilitation [currently known as incarceration, in which the 13th Amendment to The Constitution allows people to be used as chattel-slaves]
(C)education
Anyone who truly believes in equality of human-rights understands that the wealthy-class does NOT believe in the equality of human-rights. The wealthy-class believes in their right to supremacy.
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I could go on, but I'll end with this:
If we had an equitable society, or even a more-equitable society, where the basic necessities for everyone were guaranteed by an uncorrupted government, then there would be no need for a UBI.
Edit: As it stands now, with a government controlled by wealthy right-wingers, those wealthy right-wingers could just increase prices, thus causing a person to spend their entire UBI, thus handing over all that money to the wealthy, right-wing, capitalist business owners and land holders.
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Really, as travel Go said, do yourself a favor and just don't pick it up. Just because it rings, that doesn't mean you have to pick it up.
I NEVER answer the phone if I don't know who's calling. EVER.
Anyone important will show up on the caller ID, and anyone who thinks they're important will leave a message. If I want to talk to them, I'll call them back.
Nor do you have to explain your whereabouts to your boss when you go back to your next scheduled work day.
"I don't want to discuss personal, private matters." You can't use this excuse if you normally and willingly discuss personal, private matters at work.
"I had a prior commitment that I would rather not discuss." You can't use this if everyone at work knows you smoke weed and have no social life.
"I was at an unplanned family function." You can't use this if everyone at work knows your family is all dead.
"I was out of town." You can't use this if everyone knows you never leave town.
"I was completely covered in baby oil." Ok, maybe don't use that one.
My point is, STOP giving out personal information to your bosses and people you work with. They WILL use it against you.
On your days off, if you're lucky enough to have them, TAKE THEM OFF!!!
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This guy, and anyone who follows him, is a fool to think this is about race -- it's about control and oppression. If this guy, and the people who follow him, weren't so ignorant, he, and they, would be able to see that all Jamaica has to do is pass equality-laws on in favor of LGBTQ+ people, and, then, simply not enforce those laws while continuing to oppress LGBTQ+ people, just like the U.S. and Saudi Arabia do. Imagine being such fools/knaves as this guy and his followers... SMDH. 🙄
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It's not wild at all. It's all by design. You see, both the Republican AND Democratic party apparatuses are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-right-wingers. And the current immigration-system stays this way because it benefits those wealthy-right-wingers.
Don't forget, for longer than a hundred years, Repubs and Dems have been the ONLY two parties in control of the government.
During that time, both parties have switched places on various policy positions -- both parties have taken their turn as the right-wing extremist and the right-wing moderate party.
Right now, the wealthy-right-wingers have the R's set up as the extremists and the D's set up as the moderates. But the important thing to remember is that BOTH parties have ALWAYS been on the right-wing side of socioeconomic politics.
But, as for the immigration issue, over the last hundred years, NEITHER of the wealthy-right-wing political parties has put forth a humane, hospitable, or habitable solution.
Have they made tweaks? Yes.
Have some of them been good? Yes.
Have more of them been horrible or indifferent? Yes.
But for the most part, it's been a lot of the same-old-same. But, why? Especially considering that's not what most people want. Why have the wealthy-right-wingers willingly and willfully kept the immigration system this way? Why would they subject people to such unnecessary suffering on purpose?
The first answers are narcissism, sadism, sociopathy, and psychopathy.
The second answers are:
(A) Because the current immigration system benefits the wealthy-right-wing minority, they don't care that it bothers the working-class majority.
(B) Because the societal disarray and intraclass tension among the working-class majority are beneficial to the wealthy-right-wing minority who have corrupted most of the government, the economy, and society.
(C) Because the more effort that the working-class puts into fighting among themselves about immigration, the less time they can spend paying attention to the wealthy-right-wingers who are corrupting everything.
I could go on. But my point is this:
While I DO agree with your sentiments, I DON'T agree with your statement that it's wild -- because it's not wild.
This is all going exactly the way the corrupt wealthy-right-wingers want it to go.
Oh yeah, by the way...
F*kc the trolls.
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@OddWoz Biden is a RWer, and Trump is a RWer. The Dem-party is a moderate-RW party and the Repub-party is a RW-extremist party, but they are both RW-parties. BOTH parties have ALLOWED & ENABLED these catastrophes. They are BOTH 'paid off' by the SAME people.
RW-politics are anti-working-class politics.
RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class politics.
Biden, and the moderate-RW Dem party -- like Trump, and the RW-extremist Repub party -- are ALL 'paid off' by the SAME corrupt wealthy-class with their corrupt RW-politics.
There are other, smarter working-class people in other, better countries, who understand that (a)BOTH political-parties in the US are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics, and (b)THAT is why the US is such a sh!tehole.
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Cenk, Ana, Newsom, & Bass are ALL Capitalists (Newsom might be a Corporatist, and Trump is a Fascist). Capitalism, Corporatism, & Fascism are ALL RW-political-systems. And, thus, Cenk, Ana, Newsom, Bass, & Trump are ALL RWers. The US is a RW-sh!tehole -- it was designed by, of, and for wealthy-RW-sh!theads.
Your comment is great, btw. :)
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@Liberals H8 Facts Haaaaaa!
No.
Gamete, zygote, embryo, fetus: parasitic-cells inside of a host-human.
Infant, toddler, child, adolescent: parasitic-humans outside of another human.
Parasites and cells DO NOT have the ability to exert free-will, and die without the host.
Hosts and humans DO have the ability to exert free-will, and live without the parasite.
(Of course, most of the human-parents living in developed-countries are also parasites, but that's another discussion entirely.)
P.S. Imagine being such an ignorant American-conservative that you didn't know that "liberal" meant the same thing as "American-Conservative" before American-Conservatism even existed.
Like, Con-Lib-Bro-Lib-Con is literally saying he hates facts with his own username, then proves it with his posts, and is too obtuse to understand the meanings of words, like irony and self-deprecation.
You can't make this stuff up. It's hilarious and horrifying all at the same time.
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@Liberals H8 Facts You silly liberal who hates facts. Humans aren't living until they receive their first breath of life.
Your parents and family must be of the trash-can, garbage-bag variety if they didn't teach you that. (See the Book of Genesis, chapter 2, verse 7, by the way.)
Until the first breath of life, it's a clump of cells at best and a parasite at worst.
Considering how poorly you communicate in writing, it wouldn't be surprising if they didn't teach you the importance of reading either.
I mean, if you knew how to read, you might know that Jesus stood up to male-dolts like you, who were trying to murder a woman for doing something you male-dolts didn't like. Jesus said: "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her." (Book of John, chapter 8, verse 7.)
People like you are whom Jesus would be against, as He tried to defend the women seeking abortions.
God doesn't NEED you to judge them (God doesn't even need you to be alive for Him to carry out His will), but God COMMANDS you to love them.
Somehow, though, you dolts have managed to misconstrue Jesus saying "don't judge her for having sex" and exchanged it with "shove something inside her body, to prevent anything from coming out, until WE'RE ready to allow it."
Women seeking abortions are not judging you. They quite literally want nothing to do with you. But you are commanded to love them.
Jesus said to let your enemies do wrong to you if they want to. Not only did Jesus say NOT TO RETALIATE, but to LOVE AND PRAY FOR YOUR ENEMIES (Luke 6:27-31, Matthew 5:38-42).
Women seeking abortions are not enemies committing wrongs against you. They quite literally want nothing to do with you. But you are commanded to love them.
Jesus scolded Peter for using violence, for cutting off the ear of one of the guards who came to arrest Jesus (Matthew 26:47-56, Mark 14:43-52, Luke 22:47-53, John 18:1-14). Jesus ALLOWED the Pharisees and Sadducees (Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives) to take Him and end His life (Matthew 26:53).
Women seeking abortions are not trying to take your life or commit violence against you. They quite literally want nothing to do with your life. But you are commanded to love them.
Instead of judging, maybe it's time you started selling all of your possessions, giving to the poor (Luke 12:33), and letting God show you what it's like to be a true believer (Matthew 6:25-34).
God is much more graceful than I am. I think you should have been expelled from the womb while you were still a clump of non-living, non-sentient, no-free-will-having, parasitic-guest cells inside of it.
For anyone still reading:
None of the minor inconsistencies nor the blatant hypocrisy exhibited by the self-proclaimed Evangelical-Christian Conservative right-wingers are surprising.
They choose to exert their free-will over others in direct contradiction to the ways Christ commanded them to live.
Simply considering the celebration of pagan-holiday$ (that Jesus never spoke a word about, including His own birthday) proves how lowly-regarded the right-wing holds Jesus and The Bible. Let alone all of the complex ways they disregard Jesus and The Bible.
It's almost like they believe everything they're told by politically-religiou$ grifter$ on televi$ion, without ever actually having read The Bible for themselves.
It's almost like they (have been tricked to) believe that working for human$ is more valuable than waiting on the Lord and reading His Word.
All of these pro-birther, self-proclaimed "Christian Conservatives" rave about their concern for human-life, but they don't seem to comprehend when life begins. They care less about their living-human neighbors than they do about a clump of cells.
I call these extremist, sacrilegious, right-wing hate-affected individuals what they are:
Pro-birth and anti-life.
Pro-self and anti-neighbor.
Pro-selfishness and anti-selflessness.
Pro-fortune and anti-unfortunate
Pro-sacrificial and anti-sacrifice.
Pro-violence and anti-peace.
Pro-murder and anti-dying.
Pro-consumption & anti-conservation (it's a real expose` of their hypocrisy that they call themselves conservatives).
They are anti-Christ, in word and deed.
They are X-tian$ who celebrate X-ma$.
Mammon is their god-ma$ter who provides the sand upon which X-tian$ build their houses.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go and pray about my own judgmental-approach to calling out the human-tools of Satan who have commandeered my religion for their own blasphemous, anti-Christ lifestyles.
Good day.
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The military-industrial-complex is an exasperation, an embellishment, an inflated view, of all the problems with Amerikkka. Mental illness abound -- in association with greed, corruption, materialism, symbolism, pollution, looting, hoarding, pillaging, manipulation, exploitation, violence, hate, murder, r@pe, torture, hedonism, hierarchy -- it's all there. The lowest on the totem pole are slaves, and the highest are owners. What a disgusting country.
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@bobshea6523 I tried posting several different links several different times, but YouTube or this channel won't allow me to post the links. But you can go to the Minnesota State website for the Minnesota Secretary or State and the numbers are there for anyone and everyone to see. You can also find the numbers on Wikipedia.
I'll even copy and paste the numbers from The Minnesota Secretary of State Website in case you can't figure out how to get there yourself.
The Minnesota State website lists the name of the Presidential candidate first, followed by the name of the Vice-Presidential candidate, followed by the name of the political party for each set of candidates, followed by the number of votes they received, followed by the percentage of the vote they received.
Donald J. Trump and Michael R. Pence Republican 1,484,065 45.28%
Joseph R. Biden and Kamala Harris Democratic-Farmer-Labor 1,717,077 52.40%
Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente and Darcy Richardson Independence-Alliance 5,611 0.17%
Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker Green Party 10,033 0.31%
Kanye West and Michelle Tidball Independent 7,940 0.24%
Brock Pierce and Karla Ballard Independent 5,651 0.17%
Gloria La Riva and Leonard Peltier Socialism and Liberation 1,210 0.04%
Alyson Kennedy and Malcolm Jarrett Socialist Workers Party 643 0.02%
Jo Jorgensen and Jeremy "Spike" Cohen Libertarian Party 34,976 1.07%
WRITE-IN Write-In 9,965 0.30%
That's all of them.
If Trump would have gotten all of Kanye and Jorgenson's votes, he still would have lost Minnesota.
Even if Trump would have gotten ALL of the votes from ALL of the other candidates, he still would have lost Minnesota.
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War is just one of the many profit-centers of the corrupt wealthy-class, with their corrupt RW-politics of ignorance, fear, anger, hatred, sabotage, violence, slavery, murder, & genocide.
You can replace war with some other words, but your sentiments are spot-on, sir!
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He's correct. Only working-class fools are dumb enough to be duped into volunteering to murder other working-class fools. It's working-class fools who are too dumb to comprehend the international/historical fact that murderous governments are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by murderous, yet lazy, wealthy right-wingers.
And maybe the murderous, working-class fools don't deserve the same punishments as the murderous, wealthy-class, right-wing knaves. But the murderous, working-class fools certainly shouldn't be trusted in positions of public trust, just like the murderous, wealthy-class, right-wing knaves shouldn't.
The murderous working-class fools exposed their own ignorance, fear, anger, and hate when they volunteered to murder strangers abroad. They've shown they can be duped by the worst people (the wealthy-class right-wingers) in a society. They've proven their willingness to commit unprovoked violence on other working-class humans.
Both, the murderous working-class fools and the murderous wealthy-class knaves, should never be trusted with decing anything, other than when they get to p!ss & sh!t, ever again.
F*kc the military and anyone who volunteers for the military. The military is a working-class fool's attempt at garnering unearned respect through unmitigated violence, and it's the wealthy-class knave's attempt at garnering slaves through unmitigated deception -- and f*kc anyone who disagrees.
Disclaimer: Trump isn't really correct. He's a wealthy-class, right-wing deceiver. And if you didn't already know that, or if you disagree, then you can go ahead and keep your military-rank, or civilian-envy, a secret. Shut your mouth until you need to take a p!ss or a sh!t, and then you can open wide.
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Cenk's a Capitalist. Capitalism is a RW-system. Thus, Cenk is a RWer, whether or not he's (a)intelligent enough to comprehend it or (b)honorable enough to admit it. Corporatism & Fascism are farther RW-systems, and Cenk is getting cozy with Corporatists & Fascists.
Kamala, Biden, Obama, Pelosi & Schumer are Capitalists/Coprporatists.
Cheney, Trump, McConnell, Johnson, & BushJr are a Corporatists/Fascists.
Nooo. 🙄 Thanks. 😒 🤮
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Cenk's a Capitalist. Capitalism is a RW-system. Thus, Cenk is a RWer, whether or not he's (a)intelligent enough to comprehend it or (b)honorable enough to admit it. Corporatism & Fascism are farther RW-systems, and Cenk is getting cozy with Corporatists & Fascists.
Kamala, Biden, Obama, Pelosi & Schumer are Capitalists/Coprporatists.
Cheney, Trump, McConnell, Johnson, & BushJr are a Corporatists/Fascists.
Nooo. 🙄 Thanks. 😒 🤮
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@_ncko Cenk's a Capitalist. Capitalism is a RW-system. Thus, Cenk is a RWer, whether or not he's (a)intelligent enough to comprehend it or (b)honorable enough to admit it. Corporatism & Fascism are farther RW-systems, and Cenk is getting cozy with Corporatists & Fascists.
Kamala, Biden, Obama, Pelosi & Schumer are Capitalists/Coprporatists.
Cheney, Trump, McConnell, Johnson, & BushJr are a Corporatists/Fascists.
Nooo. 🙄 Thanks. 😒 🤮
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I think it's adorable, hilarious, disgusting.
This guy is "concerned" with how this could happen to a combat veteran in his own country when his own country sent him to commit the same atrocities against innocent working-class people abroad.
The wealthy-class apparatus that sent him to do these things abroad is the same wealthy-class apparatus that compels the same injustices here. That apparatus is manufactured and maintained by the wealthy-class off the backs of the working-class.
The wealthy-class creates a society of desperate and dumb working-class people. Then the wealthy-class recruits those desperate and dumb working-class people, gives those desperate-dumb people guns and/or badges, and empowers the desperate-dumb working-class people the authority to lord over the other working-class people.
Sure, this guy is a victim in this case, but it's simply one desperate-dumb guy being lorded over by other desperate-dumb guys. His choices in life put him into a position where he helped to create thousands, with the ripple-effect reaching millions if not billions, of victims abroad, and now he's a victim of desperate-dumb guys like himself.
Like, bro, you literally committed the acts you're now complaining about. You're either a fool who is too stupid to see the correlation between the tears you're crying and the tears you've caused or, you're a knave who pretends not to see the correlation because you don't care about the victims you created.
Sure, this situation sucks.
But if you're surprised, then attention you've not been paying.
If you're voting for either of the two political parties -- BOTH of which are bought, bribed, corrupted, and co-opted by the wealthy-class -- then you're not helping.
My sympathies, in this case, go out to the real victims. His children.
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Abolish private property, private companies, and private profit.
Privacy is where slavery, abuse, and corruption are cultivated to fester and thrive.
The human-parasites who advocate for private property, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private property" to refer to the humans they enslaved in the past.
The human-parasites who advocate for private companies, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private companies" to refer to the plantations where they enslaved said humans in the past.
The human-parasites who advocate for private profits, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private profit" to refer to the money generated by the labor of the humans they enslaved on plantations in the past.
The kinds of human-parasites who advocate for private property, private companies, and private profits, in the present, are the same as the human who advocate for "States' Rights" and slavery in the past.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people from other countries.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people from other states.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people of other colors and religions.
And if you don't think those kinds of human-parasites still exist, then look no further than your county Republic/Democrat political-party meeting, your local police/sheriff department, or your nearest military recruiters office.
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While there are some human-parasites who want to enslave any family but their own, on the macro-level, there are some human-parasites who want to enslave their own family members, on the micro-level, under the guise of "privacy" and "parental rights."
The kinds of human-parasites who advocate for private property, private companies, and private profit, are the same kind of human-parasites who advocate for "States' Rights" to enslave and abuse other humans in privacy.
And the kinds of human-parasites who advocate for "States' Rights" are the same kind of people who advocate for "Parental Rights" to enslave and abuse children in private.
And kinds of human-parasites who advocate for unfettered privacy are the kinds of human-parasites who want to keep their corruption and their victims private.
The more adamant a person is about "privacy," the more suspicious of them I become, and the more parasitic they reveal themselves to be.
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Wealthy-class minority runs the world
Vs.
Working-class majority runs the world.
Well, the world has been under the autocratic mob-rule of the corrupt, wealthy-class, right-wing minority since the invention of currency.
And, at this point, I've done as much as I can to minimize my participation in their corrupt system.
So, I'm holding out for a world that is run under the democratic collective-rule of the communitarian, working-class, left-wing majority.
And if I die -- whether it be by the will of The Creator or at the hands of right-wingers -- before such a world is achieved, then so be it.
Unlike the wealthy-class right-wing knaves, and the working-class right-wing dupes who strive to be like the wealthy-class, I don't have a self-aggrandizing mental illness coupled with an addiction to remaining "here" and trying to collect more bank-account-point$ like a child playing a game.
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@fleurosea The right-wing-extremist Confederates&Nazis BOTH used cherry-picked verses from the Bible to justify their authoritarianism when it came to racial-slavery & religious-genocide. And the right-wing-extremist Republicans & moderate-right-wing Democrats do the same cherry-picking with the same book to justify the same authoritarianism when it comes to the sexual-slavery of women, and when it comes to the impending genocide they're trying to incite against the LGBTQ+ humans.
Being from New Zealand, I'm just presuming that you know that BOTH major American political parties (and most of the minor parties) are right-wing parties. And you need to understand that your country has chosen to be allies with those American right-wing political parties -- many of the policies & decisions that your country makes are based on capitulating to the Americans, Brits, and Aussies who use the same book to justify their authoritarianism.
Anyway, the world is bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class/right-wingers -- it always has been, since the invention of currency, and it probably always will be. And if/when you come to comprehend that truth, then you'll stop seeing authoritarianism as "bizarre" and start seeing it as the normal playbook for lightly-complexioned heterosexual right-wingers and their corrupt, supremacist politics.
Because none of this current right-wing authoritarianism is bizarre. And the future of right-wing authoritarianism won't be bizarre, either. Right-wing authoritarianism is all COMPLETELY predictable when one learns the history of right-wing authoritarianism.
I hope you learn it soon. ✌🤟✊🙏
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The corrupt wealthy-class, & their corrupt RW-politics, NEEDS those dopes & psychos to maintain wealthy-class dominance over the working-class. So, the wealthy-class uses their wealth to produce propaganda, which indoctrinates working-class people, turning them into dopey&psychotic dupes who volunteer to be vile&violent cops&soldiers. They wealthy-class has been running this ruse for literal millennia, and working-class people have never been able to overcome it.
Sure, the working-class makes gains here & there. But never collectively, all at once. The wealthy-class is, and has always been ten steps ahead. Because they don't have to worry about food, clothes, and shelter, and they have departments, squads, and armies full of vile&violent dopes&psychos protecting them, and all of that gives them ample free-time to conspire against the working-class.
I was trying to think of something positive to end with...
✌🤟✊🙏
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The Democrat party's owners don't care what you do. They own the Republican party, too. And if you start a third party, they'll buy that party out from under you, too. You're too late, and too ignorant, for party-politics.
Ever since the SCOTUS ruled to legalize bribery & corruption with their decisions in the cases of Buckley v. Valeo[1976] and First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti[1978], BOTH major political-parties in the US (and most of the smaller parties) have been bought, owned, and controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics. And they've been solidifying their power, with the help of both major parties, ever since.
Working-class dupes in the US are too late, and too ignorant, for party-politics.
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This Malcolm X quote, and the MLK quote about white moderates, will unfortunately always be evergreen in global politics until something is done about (a)the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics, and about (b)the indecent, working-class dupes who support the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians & their corrupt RW-politics.*
RW-politics are anti-working-class & pro-wealthy-class politics. And ALL of the RW-political-systems (not just capitalism) are systems of slavery with different names.
The RW-systems of monarchism, feudalism, republicanism, capitalism, corporatism, & fascism are all systems in which the populace-minority of people from the wealthy-class enslave the populace-majority of people from the working-class.
The corrupt wealthy-class will NEVER willingly give up their lifestyle-addictions, they will NEVER seek treatment for their mental-illnesses, they will NEVER stop trying avoid manual-labor, and they will NEVER stop trying to enslave the people of the working-class.
For as long as a wealthy-class is allowed to exist, the people in the wealthy-class will continue using their wealth to impose their corrupt RW-politics of authoritarianism, they will continue to subvert & suppress the LW-politics of democratarianism, and there will NEVER be freedom or equality for working-class people.
And if/when the people of the working-class are able to become unified in their knowledge of class-consciousness and RW-vs-LW politics, only then will the working-class people be able to combat their enslavement by the indecent, wealthy-class authoritarians, regardless of which name the wealthy-class decides to give to their RW-political-system.
As for Malcolm & Martin; they were both intelligent working-class people, but the differences between them were catalysts for the further division of working-class people. And the division of working-class people is one of the primary ways in which the wealthy-class is able to maintain their existence & their corrupt RW-politics of enslavement -- unfortunately, not even Malcolm & Martin were intelligent enough unite against the wealthy-class.
And I'm not trying to imply that I'm smarter than Malcolm and/or Martin, nor am I saying that I have the "solution" to the "problem" of the wealthy-class -- heck, I'm not even saying it's possible to "solve" the "problem."
I mean, ffs, this very comment is likely to be sh@dow-b@nned or entirely cents-or-shipped by this platform that is owned by wealthy-class-RWers. So I'm certainly under no illusions about the challenges that we face as working-class people today -- they are the same challenges that confronted Malcolm & Martin in the past.
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I'd like to see the 'tale of the tape' on it before I make a bet. JC might have some weight on NM, but NM probably learned some hand-to-hand combat skills at The Citadel. NM looks scrawny, but if NM knows how to grapple better than JC, then NC will have the upper hand on JC, even if NM is lighter than JC.
Of course, this is all nonsense, and, in a civilized society, threatening violence would result in automatic removal from office and a special-election planned for that district.
Mace is as dumb as MarkWayne Mullin from Oklahoma, who tried to incite Sean O'Brien in a Senate Hearing. Mace & Mullin are both puppets, like a bunch of ConfedState Reps & Senators.
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@Col Who Just because you want to wear your struggles like a badge of honor, doesn't mean you should try to impose your version of masochistic-honor on other people.
Claiming to "struggle" in such a way, while also implying that you refuse to accept or believe in the societally-agreed upon assistance for your struggle, doesn't make you virtuous. It makes you stupid.
I struggle too -- and I have found ways to bear the mental, physical, emotional, and financial burdens of those struggles -- but I certainly don't wish my shit-position on anyone.
I do what little I can to help people who are even worse off than me.
I do what little I can to help people understand the value of helping others who are worse off than they are.
But you are a special one.
You are the kind of person who needs to be taught for the first time (or reminded because you've been conditioned to forget) that seeking help isn't a negative thing.
Literally, no one goes through this life alone, without interaction or help from other individuals or from the government -- from friends, family members, the community, society at large, or institutions.
It's ok to take the food stamps if you need them.
But don't be a shill for the wealthy-class by spreading their talking points. Stop discouraging other working-class people from getting help if they need it.
In other words -- Don't be a class-traitor.
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There isn't a "free market" in the entire world. There never has been and there never will be.
A person would have to be a complete dolt to let the sociopathic, mentally-ill addicts within the owner-class have free-reign over the way they manipulate and exploit the labor of the working-class, or the way they pillage the land and hoard the resources.
A person would have to be a babbling neanderthal to want mobs of working-class people "handling" the mentally-ill addicts within the owner-class, in the streets, for the way the sociopathic owner-class manipulates and exploits the labor of the working-class, or the way the owner-class addicts pillage the land and hoard the resources.
Even though you might be on one in your own mind, this isn't a deserted island.
Although you might believe that you are one, you aren't a nation unto yourself.
Societies have rules for a reason, and you're part of a society whether you like it or not.
Those rules are mostly to protect good humans from mentally-ill, sociopathic exceptionalists who are addicted to manipulating, exploiting, pillaging, and hoarding.
Those rules, however manipulated and deteriorated by the owner-class, serve to protect good working-class people from the bad owner-class people who will resort to all measures, including violence, murder, and genocide, to maintain their addictions.
America is one of the most deregulated countries in the world -- although the regressive right-wingers within the working-class, who have been indoctrinated by the repressive right-wing propagandists within the owner-class, would claim otherwise.
Because of the levels of deregulation in pursuit of the "free market" myth, America ranks lowest on many matrices in comparison to other, better developed-nations. In some cases, America ranks on par with some third-world nations.
The "free market" myth of advancement is devolving America into an excrement-hole country -- for example, the rural areas of red-regressive states where working-class people don't even have modern plumbing as their personal excrement flows into their own backyards.
I could go on, but I've probably already said enough to make your free-market brain explode due to the deregulated servant-education that was imposed upon you by your propagandist owner-class lords and masters.
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@craic90ify Cenk's a Capitalist. Capitalism is a RW-system. Thus, Cenk is a RWer, whether or not he's (a)intelligent enough to comprehend it or (b)honorable enough to admit it. Corporatism & Fascism are farther RW-systems, and Cenk is getting cozy with Corporatists & Fascists.
Kamala, Biden, Obama, Pelosi & Schumer are Capitalists/Coprporatists.
Cheney, Trump, McConnell, Johnson, & BushJr are a Corporatists/Fascists.
You seem like you're about to cozy up to corporatists and fascists, too, just like Cenk.
Nooo. 🙄 Thanks. 😒 🤮
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@vincesmith2499 I'm pretty sure you're not alive. And if you are alive, you're brain-dead. And if you're not brain-dead, the depths of your intelligence are akin to that of a Dixie Cup. And, btw, plants aren't sentient, and neither are gametes, zygotes, embryos, nor fetuses. Ffs, you might be alive, and not brain-dead, but you're BARELY sentient. 😅
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I wish I had a specific answer for you -- that's a good question. But, to the best of my knowledge, McCarthy was in collusion with the wealthy-class. Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class politics, and McCarthy was a right-winger.
As to who could/would have paid him? As in, who could/would have bribed him? I don't know for sure. He was a scumbag, and he might not have needed to be bribed or paid.
But, I can certainly speculate in regards to who/what his influences were:
1. Most likely, the Military-Industrial-Complex -- all of the companies involved with supplying a military, from ammo to airplanes, bullets to beds, guns to gauze, tanks to trains... you get the idea. This was during the Cold War -- billions of dollars were spent by the right-wing government, purchasing equipment from wealthy right-wing business owners, all for a war that never took place. Anyway, moving on.
2. More than likely, the other largest business and property owners in the country/world who weren't directly involved in selling military equipment.
3. Probably, local, state, and national Chambers of Commerce groups.
4. Presumably the 2nd through 4th generation descendants of the wealthy-class families from the former Confederacy.
5.Possibly the wealthy-class Nazis who were smuggled into to the states by American right-wingers after WW2.
6. Working-class fools, who vote(d) against their own interests, would probably donate to various causes. Kind of like the working-class MAGAs, who vote for wealthy-class right-wingers, while donating whatever they can spare to the orange "billionaires."
There are probably others who would have tried to bribe McCarthy, but those are the likely culprits.
And, today, right now, in the present, those very same wealthy-class right-wing groups are the ones pushing a corrupt agenda, very similar to McCarthy's.
And before McCarthy, it was someone else.
And after Trump, Pence, DeSantis, Boebert, Gaetz, Greene, Paul, Crenshaw, Rubio, Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, Obama, Clintons, Bushs, Jefferees, Manchin, and Sinema, it will be another group of right-wingers who will do the bidding of the wealthy-class.
This country was founded by wealthy-class right-wingers. It was designed for wealthy-class right-wingers. And they will never, ever willingly give up their addictions.
Hope this helps.
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So, rich-people want to leave the country to avoid the laws that WE want to pass? I say, fine, let them go. But if they go, then they forfeit their assets & currency to OUR gov't on their way out. And if they don't forfeit their assets & currency on their way out, then WE will take them by Eminent Domain. And if they sneak currency out of the country and then want to spend it on US-goods from their new home-countries, then they can pay double; half to the business from which they are purchasing, and half to OUR gov't.
We need to elect [a]intelligent, modest, working people as legislators, who are smart enough to out-smart [b]the conniving, rich, non-working people.
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Stein did an interview and wouldn't call Putin a war-criminal, nor would she call him a RW-extremist. And, by the same token, there are countless Republicans who have done interviews in which they wouldn't call Putin a war-criminal or a RW-extremist, either. Perhaps Stein is a RW-extremist like the RW-extremist Repubs who use the same rhetoric as Stein.
Vote for the corrupt, RW-extremist Repubs&Russians, for the fast, open-road to Fascism.
Vote for the corrupt, moderate-RW Dems, for the slower, disguised-road to Fascism.
BOTH political-parties in the US are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics. Stein AND Putin are BOTH members of the SAME corrupt wealthy-class as the Repubs & Dems, and, thus, they are BOTH RWers, just like the Repubs & Dems.
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Kyle & Ana "The Aryan" Kasparian, and everyone else, need to stop laughing at Trump. It's not funny when he's bombastic, hyperbolic, or deceptive. He acts that way to incite his ignorant, vile&violent followers. Laughing at Trump is like laughing at a sadistic prison-warden who allows the inmates out of the prison on leashes, that are just long enough to get to you, as you walk or drive by the building, and they catch you having a laugh at their expense. Or something like that. Makeup whatever analogy you need to, in order to smarten yourself up and stop laughing. He hurts the very people who are dumb enough to follow him, and they will hurt you and anyone else if he tells them to. It is NOT funny. 🙄
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My fellow working-class citizens: I rise today to advocate for renouncing the use of the term 'douche-bag' and replacing it with a clearer identifier for those who deserve it. Please, citizens, hear me out...
The phrase 'douche-bag' should be exchanged for the phrase 'enema-sack' when referring to the wealthy-class right-wingers like Manchin, McConnell, Pelosi, McCarthy, Reagan, Bush(2), Clinton, Obama, Trump, and Biden. For example: "What a bunch of enema-sacks."
Oh, and if you don't think all those people are right-wingers, then you've been blinded by the splatterings of the wealthy-class's enema-sacks.
See? It works. :)
I yield back the remainder of my time.
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@proverbs31woman29
I believe all war is violence and murder.
I am anti-violence and anti-war.
Christ on Earth was anti-violence and anti-war, and I can use scriptures to prove it.
Number 1:
In the Bible, in the book of Matthew, Chapter 5, Verses 5, 7, and 9, Christ said: (Verse 5)Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the Earth. (7)Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. (9)Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the sons of God.
You can't be pro-violence and pro-war and also be meek, merciful, and a peacemaker.
To be pro-violence and pro-war is the opposite of meek, merciful, and peaceful.
To be pro-violence and pro-war is not following Christ.
Some of the Representatives and Senators in the Republican and Democratic parties are anti-violence and anti-war, but most of them are pro-war. Most of them, in the last 40 years, have voted for violence and war. The Republicans and Democrats who claim to be Christians should not be voting for war.
Number 2:
In the Book of John, Chapter 8, verses 1 through 10, some men bring an adulterous woman to Jesus. The men want to kill the woman by stoning her to death, but Jesus convinces them not to. Jesus says, (Verse 7) Whoever is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
You can't be pro-murder and be without sin.
To be pro-murder is sinning.
To be pro-murder isn't following Christ.
No one in the Republican or Democratic parties is without sin. They have no right to cast the first stone, bullet, or bomb at other people.
Those Republicans and Democrats who claim to be Christians should not be voting for murder.
Number 3:
Christ commanded us to love God first and to love each other second (Matthew, Chapter 22, Verses 38&39 -- Mark, Chapter 12, Verses 29-31 -- Luke, Chapter 10, Verses 25-28 -- John, Chapter 13, Verses 34&35). This would mean we should love ourselves last.
JOY
Jesus first.
Others second.
Yourself last.
You can't be pro-war and pro-love at the same time.
There is no love in war.
If you are bringing war, then you are bringing fear.
There is no fear in love (1 John, Chapter 4, Verse 18).
You can't show love by bringing war and fear to others.
To bring fear to others is not following Christ.
If Republicans and Democrats were trying to express love like Christ, they would not be voting to bring fear to others.
Number 4:
Christ said to love your enemies. Christ said to pray for those who persecute you and to do good to those who hate you (Matthew Chapter 5, Verse 44 -- Luke Chapter 6, Verses 27&28).
You can't be pro-war and also love your enemies.
Loving your enemies does not include murdering them.
To hate your enemies is not following Christ.
Christian Republicans and Democrats should not be voting for hateful policies against their enemies.
Number 5:
Christ said not to seek vengeance. Christ said if someone slaps you on your right cheek, then let him slap your left cheek. (Matthew, Chapter 5, Verses 38-42 -- Luke, Chapter 6, Verses 27-31)
Furthermore, God told Moses to tell the people not to seek vengeance. God said to love your neighbor; "Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD." (Leviticus, Chapter 19, Verse 18)
If some people blow up some of your buildings by flying airplanes into them, you don't go and blow up the buildings of those people.
If some people commit acts of war against you, you don't commit acts of war against those people.
Vengeance is for God to deliver, not for us to deliver.
You can't be pro-war without being vengeful.
To be pro-war is to seek vengeance.
To be vengeful is not following Christ.
Republicans and Democrats have both voted to deliver vengeance by way of war. Both parties are guilty of doing exactly what God and Christ said not to do. If they are Christians, they should not be doing that.
Number 6:
When the Pharisees brought soldiers to arrest Jesus, Simon Peter cut off the ear of one of the soldiers. Jesus told Simon Peter to put his sword away. Jesus knew that his death was part of God's plan. (John, Chapter 18, Verses 1-13)
Jesus said that those who live by the sword will die by the sword. (Matthew, Chapter 26, Verse 52)
Jesus could have summoned an army of angels to protect himself, but Jesus did not do that. Jesus chose not to use violence against those who came to arrest him. Jesus allowed God's plan to unfold, even though Jesus knew the Pharisees were going to kill him. (Matthew, Chapter 26, Verses 53&54)
Jesus knew his time on Earth was limited.
We should also understand that our time on Earth is limited.
We should not seek to extend our time on Earth by ending the lives of other people.
We should become content with the possibility that other people may seek to end our lives on Earth by bringing wars to us.
We should be prepared to give our lives for God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit at any moment.
To be unprepared is not following Christ.
Christian Republicans and Democrats should be voting for measures to extend all life, but instead, they vote for policies to end the lives of others.
Number 7:
Jesus said, there is no greater love than to lay down your life for your friends (John Chapter 15, Verse 13). Notice Jesus says 'to lay down your life for your friends.' Jesus doesn't say to murder other people for your friends.
He says to give up your life for your friends.
That could include trading your life for the life of your friend.
That could include offering yourself as a slave to save the life of your friend.
To give up your life is following Christ.
To take the life of another is not following Christ.
Republicans and Democrats who are Christians should find ways to use their lives to help their friends and their enemies.
Number 8:
When Jesus was being murdered, He asked God to forgive the people who were murdering Him, because they didn't know what they were doing. (Luke, Chapter 23, Verse 34)
Even as Christ was murdered, he had forgiveness for the murderers,
As we live, we should have forgiveness for those who would murder us.
To be unforgiving is not following Christ.
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Capitalism, like all wealthy-class/right-wing politics, is a means to an enslaved end. Capitalist-competition inevitably leads to the "winners" buying up the "losers," thus creating monopolistic slaves-owners.
Then, the wealthy-class/right-wing monopolistic slave-owners turn to corporatism, then cronyism, and then to fascism as they try to maintain their wealth & power over the working-class slaves.
Smart working-class people rebel the entire way, while duped working-class people become addicts for the shiny-sparkly-flashy products that are sold by the monopolistic wealthy-right-wing masters.
By the time things get to fascism, the products stop getting produced and the duped working-class addicts can no longer get their addiction-fix.
So, finally, the duped working-class addicts rebel, causing death&destruction for the smart working-class people, and, meanwhile the wealthy-class/right-wingers use their extorted-stolen wealth to isolate themselves from the damage caused by their right-wing politics.
I could probably go on, but the point is this:
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class & anti-working-class politics. As long a wealthy-right-wingers are able to persist, they will ALWAYS ruin the working-class in favor of slavery and destruction.
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RWers will murder working-class people. Cops & soldiers are NOT designed to protect working-class people -- they ARE designed to (1)protect the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics, and (2)control working-class people like chattel-slaves. So, working-class people need to STOP a couple of things:
(1)STOP admitting to having mental-illnesses. Having a mental-illness is NOT like a badge of honor and working-class people should NOT act like they are. Announcing one's mental-illness to the world is like putting a bullseye on yourself. And the cops WILL gladly aim for that bullseye if they get the chance.
(2)STOP calling the cops on your working-class family members. Cops do NOT wear badges of honor, and they do NOT care about working-class people or their mental-illnesses. Calling the cops and telling them that your family member has a mental-illness is like putting a bullseye on your family member. And the cops WILL gladly aim for that bullseye if they get the chance.
The corrupt wealthy-class does NOT care about human-life, and neither do the cops & soldiers who protect the wealthy-class. They only care about themselves & the social-circles they can control like authoritarians.
The corrupt wealthy-class does NOT see working-class people as humans, and neither do the cops & soldiers. They see working-class people as property to be controlled by authoritarians.
The do NOT see working-class people with mental-illnesses as humans who need to be helped, they see them as wild-animals that need to be euthanized. And you better believe that the cops & soldiers WILL euthanize any of the working-class people whom the wealthy-class tells them to euthanize.
So, I'll say it again:
Working-class people need to STOP calling the cops, because cops are NOT here to help working-class people.
Cops & soldiers ARE designed to protect the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
The wealthy-class WILL direct their cops & soldiers to murder working-class people in order to control them like property.
They have proven it, repeatedly, all throughout history.
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@thinkharder9332 I'm not.
It's not.
It's not.
It doesn't.
I'm not, and they don't.
It is.
You're proof.
It's not, and I'm not.
I'm not, and you're disingenuous.
I don't lack it.
I didn't once, I'm unarmed and you're armed. I'm not, hence advocating for strict regulation.
Wrong spectrum, you non-comprehensive-reading dolt.
Don't choke on your own tongue.
You did and you are, and I'm neither.
I'm not, I literally said they shouldn't exist, you dolt.
I didn't once, and I am which is why I don't do it.
Over half the country agrees with the policies I agree with, but the parties don't represent the popular policies.
America's election system is corrupted by the wealthy -- the workers have no representation.
Revisionist, right-wing, white-supremacist, theocratic history.
I'm pro-consent and anti-torture, so I'm antinatalist -- you've nothing I want.
Blahblahblah.
Disarming is not the same as strict regulation -- Marx was right to be wary of right-wingers like you, Bloomberg and Soros.
I never did once -- using history to warn about the future isn't remotely advocating. No one. No one. And GFYS.
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Provide parents with the necessities -- food, clothes, shelter, education, healthcare, rest, and rehabilitation -- so that the parents don't become neglectful and abusive while trying to manage a job to provide the necessities AND raise children.
A person can have a job making profits for the wealthy-class, or they can adequately raise their children to be the best, most thoughtful, and compassionate version of themselves. Doing both is impossible.
Tossing one's children around -- to friends and relatives and strangers -- is a drain on the community and the children. It is nothing less than child neglect. Not to mention the exponential opportunities it creates for people to abuse children. I can't count the number of abused and neglected people I know. I've tried.
If we can print money for wars, we can print money to develop thoughtful, compassionate communities at home by allowing parents to raise the children they create. But that wouldn't serve the wealthy-class and their addict-addled lifestyles.
The wealthy-class literally allows their countrymen to suffer at home while facilitating wars abroad. The wealthy-class manufactures the economic desperation felt by the working-class.
That manufactured desperation causes working-class youngsters to sign up for military service to go and murder strangers in exchange for food, clothes, and shelter. The wealthy-class keeps up this scam to maintain their lifestyles of addiction at the expense of working-class children and their families.
Working-class people trying to be worker-bees AND parents is impossible to do effectively. It is one of the main causes of community and societal breakdown.
Parents get so stressed out trying to work and raise children, they become abusive and/or neglectful parents. It's not anecdotal. It's a fact.
Parents are so exhausted having a job that, when they get home, they don't want to be parents. They want to live the fanciful lives they see on the television programs created by the wealthy-class propagandists.
Working-class people are nothing less than indoctrinated by the propaganda produced by the wealthy-class. The indoctrinating propaganda is perpetrated and perpetuated with a purposeful precision that is no less than demented.
Working-class parents have no personal ideals about parenting because they are rendered so clueless by the propaganda. They do what they see in the media -- the media that is owned by the wealthy-class.
Working-class parents have no sense of class-consciousness and solidarity. They can't even get on the same page to demand a standard of living from the government -- a government that is under the control of the wealthy-class -- let alone demand a standard of parenting.
This inability of working-class parents to organize stems from the educational-stagnation experienced by parents after they leave the education system -- an education system that is constantly under assault by the wealthy-class.
Reading anything outside the realm of work seems pointless to parents who are so busy, burnt out, and dumbed-down. My parents couldn't help me with my homework after the 5th grade. For one, they weren't smart enough.
My dad wouldn't even try to help. He didn't think kids should have homework. He believed homework was a hindrance, preventing the lifestyle he was trying to achieve. He thought kids should have chores and that he couldn't attain the lifestyle he wanted because he didn't have the free-labor of his children.
My mom was college-educated, but her goal for doing so was to maintain her doctor-enabled opioid-addiction through employer-tied health insurance -- no job, no insurance, no drugs. She was a preschool teacher for 30+ years while addicted to opiates. But she was a shite-parent, barely smarter than the preschoolers she taught.
The community loved her. She was drugged-up all day. By nighttime, withdrawals set in, turning her into a piece of human-excrement. She wouldn't/couldn't help with homework. But, she was sure concerned with how my grades would make her look to the community.
They both worked -- they prioritized it over everything, for their own reasons.
They both sucked -- they would tell my siblings and I that we were lucky when we would confront them about their abuse.
My mom even gave us the phone number for CPS. But she told us that the state would just take us away. What a mind-f@ck. We didn't want to get taken away, we just wanted the abuse to stop.
Imagine how many working-class kids are presented with the logic-twisting scenario by working-class parents, turning those kids into illogical adults who are unable to communicate reasonable, personal boundaries and expectations
Now, my parents are near 70-years-old, both still working full time, both hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt each, and both dumb as dumb can be.
Both are unable or unwilling to admit they were abusive and neglectful. And when they are confronted with their shortcomings, they are unapologetic.
These are the kinds of broken families, homes, and communities the wealthy-class wants.
As long as the working-class is broken, it gives the wealthy-class a larger pool of people from which to manipulate and exploit.
I don't tell this story for pity -- it's too late for that. I don't tell it for sympathy -- it would be a waste at this point.
I tell this story to educate, to illuminate, to light a fire under the people who are in a position to help the most vulnerable among us.
I tell my story for the children for whom it is not too late.
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@harimauindia5775 If a person is from the US, they can vote for RW-extremist Repubs or moderate-RW Dems, both of which parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by wealthy-RWers. Or, they can vote for non-viable 3rd parties. And even if they don't vote at all, they're still constantly & consistently exposed to moderate-RW to RW-extremist propaganda from birth.
If a person is from the US, there is a moderate-to-extreme probability that they're an open & proud supporter of the RW-extremist Repubs or the moderate-RW Dems. Or, at the very least, they espouse some RW-political views, whether they're capable of comprehending it or not.
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Well, let's start here. It's legal for politicians (and police) to lie to citizens. But then, you might ask, "why is it legal for them to lie?"
Well, our government has been corrupted by the wealthy-class.
It's the same wealthy-class that funded the invasion and theft of this land.
It's the same wealthy-class that committed genocide against the rightful owners.
It's the same wealthy-class that kidnapped Africans and forced them into slave labor.
Those atrocious wealthy-class landholding property-owners from the past prevented their kidnapped-slaves from learning. They made it illegal for slaves to learn.
Throughout history, right up until today, that same brand of atrocious wealthy-class, landholding property-owners use the corrupted government to defund public education.
Now, you might ask, "why would the wealthy-class defund public education and prevent people from learning in the present?"
Well, for the same reason the wealthy-class prevented their slaves from learning.
The wealthy-class knows that stupid people make better slaves.
The wealthy-class also knows that slaves fighting against themselves (with nearly unlimited access to guns), prevents those working-class slaves from rising up against their oppressive, wealthy-class masters.
And, if the slaves are too busy and ignorant to rise up against their oppressors, then they definitely won't be smart enough to realize that the oppressors have made it legal for the wealthy-class owners to lie to the working-class slaves.
Short answer: The corrupt wealthy-class and their corrupted government haven't made laws to make it illegal to lie to the working-class citizen-slaves. So, It's legal.
Maybe your inquiry was rhetorical. But, if it wasn't, I hope this can be helpful to someone in some way. In any way.
Peace and love, to you and yours, neighbor.
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Of course, probably the most difficult part for the working-class will be taking control of the government away from the parasitic, individualist, sociopathic&psychopathic lifestyle-addicts from the wealthy-class/right-wing.
And, if history is an indicator of the future (which, it is), then we know that the wealthy-class/right-wing lifestyle-addicts will NEVER willingly give up their addictions, just like most working-class addicts won't.
However, unlike the working-class lifestyle-addicts, the wealthy-class/right-wing lifestyle-addicts have a lot more to lose, and they'll do/incite some incredibly heinous things to maintain their lifestyle-addictions.
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It's not mind blowing at all.
The EPA is controlled by corrupt, wealthy-class right-wingers.
America's "founding" was funded by corrupt, wealthy-class right-wingers.
The German-Nazi army and Confederate-Enslaver army were both bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by corrupt wealthy-class right-wingers. And working-class fools volunteered for both armies.
The corporate-Repubocrat party and corporate-Demlican party are both bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by corrupt, wealthy-class right-wingers. And working-class fools vote for both parties.
The only thing mind blowing is how dumb the working-class Germans and Confederates were in the past, and how dumb the working-class Americans are in the present.
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Ana is a talk-show host who can BARELY read the news that is written by actual journalists -- she bumbles ALL the time, and she has ALL DAY to prepare. Trump can BARELY speak -- he bumbles ALL the time, and he has ALL the time he wants to prepare. But Ana says Newsom is incompetent? Riiiiight. Newsom definitely sucks, but so does Trump, and so does Ana. She should keep throwing those stones from her glass-house in a dry-desert, girl-boss! 🤣
Furthermore: Cenk, Ana, Newsom, and Bass are ALL Capitalists (Newsom might be a Corporatist, and Trump is a Fascist). Capitalism, Corporatism, & Fascism are ALL RW-political-systems. And, thus, Cenk, Ana, Newsom, Bass, and Trump are ALL RWers.
Keep voting for RW-extremist Repubs & moderate-RW Dems. BOTH parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics, and you working-class dupes keep voting for BOTH corrupt RW-parties.
Congratulations... 🥳
...you're a moron. 🙄
You're exactly the kind of working-class dupe that your corrupt, wealthy-class masters have designed you to be, with their corrupt RW-politics of imposed ignorance, fear, anger, & hate. 😒
🤢🤮
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Also Brian Mast: "Firstly, I'm a fool sometimes, a knave other times, and a hypocrite always. Now, the violent Palestinians are only doing the SAME things to non-violent Zionists that violent Zionists have done to non-violent Palestinians. They're doing the SAME things that violent Americans have done. Ffs, I even lost my legs while doing the SAME thing as violent Palestinians. And Rashida Tlaib's decision to post a Palestinian flag at work is simply the SAME kind of theatrics that I engaged in when I decided to wear an Israeli military uniform to work. Yes, I'm a fool, just like my working-class voters, but I'm also a knave & hypocrite, just like my wealthy right-wing campaign donors. And wealthy right-wingers, like me, support Israel while condemning Palestine & Tlaib because we're HYPOCRITES. But, thankfully, my working-class voters are too foolish to comprehend that, so please don't educate them."
⬆That's Brian Mast.⬆
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@kevincrady2831 Alright, then. If I should be sorry, then I am. I wasn't trying to be confrontational (that would have come in subsequent responses, ha.) I just couldn't catch the tone of what you wrote.
Admittedly, I didn't know what Project Blue Beam even was, and I didn't look it up until just now because I thought you were being some-kind-of-offensive in the post where you mentioned it.
Anyway, how about that Project Blue Beam? Huh? Eh? :)
I don't know about the psycho/sociopaths in your life, but I wouldn't put it past those kinds of people to try something like that to maintain or gain power. Especially the ones with the money to attempt it.
I don't know about the idiots in your life, but I wouldn't put it past the ones in my life to obey a holographic sky projection.
The wealthy-class addicts are vicious when it comes to maintaining their addictions, just like poor idiots are.
Anyway, here's to hoping that big projection of turds never happens.
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@pebblepod30 Let's suppose my living-fist is INSIDE your body.
Let's say you wanted it in there, asked me to put it in there, enjoyed it being in there, and accepted it in there.
Let's say you liked it, found delight from it, and gushed over it, repeatedly. Until, suddenly, you decided you didn't want it in there anymore.
Shouldn't I be able to keep it in you as long as I'd like since I'm alive and not part of your body?
Suppose I got used to having it INSIDE you, right up to the elbow. Suppose I could get all the nutrients I needed while it was INSIDE you. Suppose I could still live while it was INSIDE you.
Do you acknowledge the fact that if my fist were INSIDE you, my fist would still be growing while INSIDE your body, or do I cease to exist once I'm inside you?
Do I have to take my fist out of your body when I'm good and ready -- you know, since you wanted it in there -- or should I have to remove it when you decide you want it removed?
There's no point in getting enraged, attacking me, judging me, nor accusing me. I'm sure you'd blow that too, just like your feeble-minded attempt at communicating in writing in this thread.
You are the weakest link among the lowest common denominator of humans.
I hope beyond hope that no one got duped into procreating with you.
If they did, I hope your offspring know and practice antinatalism.
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⏫⏫⏫ That's you.
You're the baby-brained clown.
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@jasonninja55 How do you quantify justice? I'm glad you asked, though I can't give you a full, free education here. But, for a brief introduction, we can use classified gov't documents. For example:
Case 1: If a 20-year-old steals documents, then the 20-year-old gets 20-years in prison.
Case 2: If a 45-year-old steals documents, then the 45-year-old gets 20-years in prison.
Case 3: If a 70-year-old steals documents, then the 70-year-old gets...
Question: What does the 70-year-old get?
I could have presented this "education" in a few different ways, but I thought I'd arrange it in such a way that would allow you to learn something about yourself at the same time.
What I mean is, if you answer the question correctly, then you will have learned that you already knew that justice could be quantified. before you even asked the question.
If you answer the question wrong...
...then, well, I guess I'll be no more surprised than any of the other nonsense that has taken place in the US, and around the globe at the direction or behest of the US, over the past 250 years.
Edit: But, if you answer the question wrong, then I won't be glad you asked, anymore.
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I became unemployed in 2015. Then I got sick in 2017 with no insurance and no money.
I went to the hospital. They coerced me into signing up for state Medicaid.
One group of doctors said I needed surgery. A second group of doctors said I didn't need surgery.
The first doctors kicked the second doctors out of the room. Then the first group of doctors scared me into believing I needed the surgery and would die without it.
Some other folks I know had the same issue as me, but they had insurance and they were told they didn't need surgery.
I was coerced into having a surgery I didn't need because Medicare money comes directly from the government and goes directly into the hospital's and doctor's pockets.
The first group of doctors committed Medicaid fraud, and the second group of doctors did nothing to stop it because they needed to keep their jobs.
It took me a couple of years to piece together the ruse. But lawyers could have figured out the ruse in a much shorter time span.
But all the doctors knew that if I figured out their ruse, I would have no financial way to bring legal recourse against them. I didn't, and I still don't.
Meanwhile, the people that I know who had the same issue as me and did not get surgery, are all healthy.
I'm under 40 years old, and my body hasn't been right since the surgery.
I was butchered for profit. My life has been ruined.
I still think everyone deserves healthcare. But, the entire system needs to be nationalized with greater oversight, transparency, and accountability.
Profits need to be removed from the system. Good and qualified people will still do these jobs without getting filthy rich and coercing citizens.
I'm glad you have healthcare, but be careful. When you walk in the door, you are a source of free money for doctors and hospitals.
I hope you're never put through what I was put through. I also hope everyone gets the care they need.
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Right, when the bills being voted on are full of unmentioned, unpublicized right-wing, capitalist-extremism, it doesn't matter what caucus you're apart of.
It only matters which caucus you were sucking on, in private, when the bill was being written.
99% of Republic-party legislators are corrupted by money in politics, along with, probably, around 90-95% of Democrat-party legislators.
Thom saying that only a few Democrats are holding up these Infrastructure Bills makes him a fool or a knave.
A fool, because maybe he doesn't know that a wide variety of Dem-legislators vote with Repub-legislators ALL THE EFFING TIME.
Or a knave, because Thom actually DOES know that a wide variety of Dem-legislators vote with Repub-legislators ALL THE EFFING TIME, but he pretends not to know.
I have a hard time believing Thom is just a fool.
Whether Thom is a fool or a knave, it's time for a new line of work.
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The US is not now, nor has it EVER been a Democracy, and it's BARELY ever been a Republic. The US has always been a RW-sh!tehole that was designed by, of, and for the RW-sh!teheads of the wealthy-class. And I agree with your sentiments.
RW-politics are pro-wealthy-class, pro-authoritarian politics.
RW-politics are anti-working-class, anti-democratarian politics.
Vote RW-extremist Repubs, for the fast, open-road from capitalism to fascism.
Vote moderate-RW Dems, for the slower, disguised-road from capitalism to fascism.
If more working-class people comprehended these things, then the pro-wealthy-class authoritarians from the RW-extremist Repub party, & the pro-wealthy-class authoritarians from the moderate-RW Dem party, would NEVER win another election again.🙄
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RWers will murder working-class people. Cops & soldiers are NOT designed to protect working-class people -- they ARE designed to (1)protect the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics, and (2)control working-class people like chattel-slaves. So, working-class people need to STOP a couple of things:
(1)STOP admitting to having mental-illnesses. Having a mental-illness is NOT like a badge of honor and working-class people should NOT act like they are. Announcing one's mental-illness to the world is like putting a bullseye on yourself. And the cops WILL gladly aim for that bullseye if they get the chance.
(2)STOP calling the cops on your working-class family members. Cops do NOT wear badges of honor, and they do NOT care about working-class people or their mental-illnesses. Calling the cops and telling them that your family member has a mental-illness is like putting a bullseye on your family member. And the cops WILL gladly aim for that bullseye if they get the chance.
The corrupt wealthy-class does NOT care about human-life, and neither do the cops & soldiers who protect the wealthy-class. They only care about themselves & the social-circles they can control like authoritarians.
The corrupt wealthy-class does NOT see working-class people as humans, and neither do the cops & soldiers. They see working-class people as property to be controlled by authoritarians.
The do NOT see working-class people with mental-illnesses as humans who need to be helped, they see them as wild-animals that need to be euthanized. And you better believe that the cops & soldiers WILL euthanize any of the working-class people whom the wealthy-class tells them to euthanize.
So, I'll say it again:
Working-class people need to STOP calling the cops, because cops are NOT here to help working-class people.
Cops & soldiers ARE designed to protect the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
The wealthy-class WILL direct their cops & soldiers to murder working-class people in order to control them like property.
They have proven it, repeatedly, all throughout history.
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The Democrat-Party AND Republic-Party are both bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by the wealthy-class. The economic goals of the leadership in both parties are the same economic goals as the wealthy-class campaign donors. When you learn to accept that, you'll start to see why the Democrat-party appears so useless and feckless.
The Repubs are fashioned to be the dominant party the Dems are fashioned to be the theatrical opposition.
When the wealthy-class Repubs are in power, they always move the country and policies toward the political right-wing, which is a benefit to the wealthy-class and a detriment to the working-class. Because right-wing politics are wealthy-class politics.
Then, when the wealthy-class Dems are in power, they always stop the country and polices from moving toward the political left-wing, which is a benefit to the wealthy-class and a detriment to the working-class. Because left-wing politics are working-class politics.
The leadership of both American political parties is made up of wealthy-class millionaires who are selected by wealthy-class billionaires. They are all right-wingers. From McConnell to Schumer and McCarthy to Pelosi, they are all right-wingers. Reagan, Bush Sr. & Jr., Bill & Hillary Clinton, Obama, Trump, Biden, are all wealthy-class right-wingers.
But working-class Americans are ignorant. They've been made ignorant on purpose by the wealthy-class. Which is why you "cAn’T uNdErStAnD wHy BiDeN iS bEiNg thIs wAy."
Biden is being this way because he's paid by wealthy-class right-wingers to be this way. Because he benefits from the same wealthy-class, right-wing politics as the wealthy-class. Because HE IS a wealthy-class right-winger.
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And "Neoliberalism" is a RW-economic-ideology that is based on the corruption of society by the corrupt wealthy-class (just like all RW-conomic-ideologies). For the past 50-years, all Repub-politicians, and most Dem-politicians, including Harris, Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton, & Reagan, are/were ALL conservatives when it comes to RW-economic-politics. And the RW-economic-system they are/were trying to conserve is called Neoliberal Capitalism/Fascism. All RW-political-systems (monarchism, feudalism, capitalism, fascism) are just forms of sl@very by other names.
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Abolish private property, private companies, and private profit.
Privacy is where slavery, abuse, and corruption are cultivated to fester and thrive.
The human-parasites who advocate for private property, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private property" to refer to the humans they enslaved in the past.
The human-parasites who advocate for private companies, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private companies" to refer to the plantations where they enslaved said humans in the past.
The human-parasites who advocate for private profits, in the present, are no better than the human-parasites who advocated for the term "private profit" to refer to the money generated by the labor of the humans they enslaved on plantations in the past.
The kinds of human-parasites who advocate for private property, private companies, and private profits, in the present, are the same as the human who advocate for "States' Rights" and slavery in the past.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people from other countries.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people from other states.
Some of these human-parasites want to enslave people of other colors and religions.
And if you don't think those kinds of human-parasites still exist, then look no further than your county Republic/Democrat political-party meeting, your local police/sheriff department, or your nearest military recruiters office.
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While there are some human-parasites who want to enslave any family but their own, on the macro-level, there are some human-parasites who want to enslave their own family members, on the micro-level, under the guise of "privacy" and "parental rights."
The kinds of human-parasites who advocate for private property, private companies, and private profit, are the same kind of human-parasites who advocate for "States' Rights" to enslave and abuse other humans in privacy.
And the kinds of human-parasites who advocate for "States' Rights" are the same kind of people who advocate for "Parental Rights" to enslave and abuse children in private.
And kinds of human-parasites who advocate for unfettered privacy are the kinds of human-parasites who want to keep their corruption and their victims private.
The more adamant a person is about "privacy," the more suspicious of them I become, and the more parasitic they reveal themselves to be.
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America has literally NEVER been a government of, by, or for the people.
It has ALWAYS been a government of, by, and for wealthy, right-wing Europeans.
The exploration of America was funded by wealthy, right-wing Europeans.
The theft of the American landscape was perpetrated by wealthy, right-wing Europeans.
The genocide of the Native rightful-owners was committed by wealthy, right-wing Europeans.
The kidnapping and enslavement of Africans was perpetuated by wealthy, right-wing Europeans.
The founding documents of the American criminal-enterprise were written by wealthy, right-wing Europeans.
The 13th Amendment to The U.S. Constitution LEGALIZES slavery for ALL working-class people, and that Amendment was written by wealthy, right-wing Europeans.
America has NEVER, EVER been a government of, by, or for the people. And when the wealthy, right-wing Europeans lose control of America, they will go somewhere else to maintain their addictions and continue their cancerous nature.
F*kc 'em -- from the wealthy-class right-wing knaves, to the working-class right-wing fools, both European and otherwise -- f*kc all the right-wingers.
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@helene420 If you're just learning about "libertarianism," then you need to know that the libertarian-concept in historical-practice has NOT been the same as the Libertarian-party in modern-practice. The Libertarian-party is bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the same corrupt wealthy-class, with their corrupt RW-politics, as the Repub&Dem parties.
Libertarians, Repubs&Dems, ALL espouse a small government, and they view the libertarian-concept to mean the inequitable "freedom TO oppress others" and NOT the equitable "freedom FROM oppression by others."
If the government isn't strong enough to ensure "freedom FROM oppression," then the biggest, strongest, and most vile&violent people would impose their "freedom TO oppress" the smallest, weakest, kindest & most-vulnerable people (instead of just having the people from the wealthy-class oppressing the people of the working-class, like we have now).
The people in the modern Libertarian-party advocate for small government and the individual freedom TO oppress others.
The people for the historical libertarian-concept advocate for a government that is big enough to protect the weakest&poorest individual's freedom FROM oppression by the strongest&wealthiest.
The Libertarian-party was literally started by some corrupt billionaires from the wealthy-class, because the Repubs&Dems weren't shrinking & destroying the government fast enough for them & their corrupt RW-politics.
Don't be fooled -- the political-Libertarians of the present are NOT the conceptual-libertarians of the past.
And when push-come-to-shove, the working-class dupes in the Libertarian-party will do whatever their masters in the wealthy-class tell them to do.
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Biological-Sex = Male, Female, some a little bit of both, some neither.
Sociological-Gender = Man, Woman, Boy, Girl, some a little bit of both, some neither.
Mind your business. And, btw, congratulations... 🥳
...you're exactly what you've been designed to be, by your wealthy-RW-masters.
🎉
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Is Liz Cheney a hero? HA! Only dumb people are still asking themselves. And the worst of the smartest and dumbest people argue over "yes" and "no."
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class&anti-working-class politics, and Liz Cheney is a wealthy-class right-winger.
For decades, Cheney and her pro-wealthy-class/anti-working-class cohorts have acted as metaphorical leopard-breeders. They coddled the working-class leopards, using the same kind of faux-working-class politics that wealthy-class right-wingers have always used.
Then, when the working-class leopards began to catch on to the wealthy-class ruse, those leopards not only began eating each other's faces, but they began eating the faces of the less-intelligent and less-wealthy right-wingers in the wealthy-class.
Meanwhile, Cheyney and her conniving, wealthy-class family are safe in their bunker. And, while the wealthy-class, right-wing Cheyney family have been at their debauchery for decades, wealthy-class right-wingers have been at it for millennia.
The wealthy-class right-wing minority of the population aren't heroes. They aren't to be emulated or praised. And the only reasons they should be considered noteworthy are their catastrophic cultivations leading to the degradation of the planet and their culpable contributions to the suffering of humans in the working-class majority around the globe.
I don't believe in caging humans as a form of rehabilitation. But the right-wingers from BOTH American political parties -- both the wealthy-class knaves and the working-class dupes who do the bidding of the wealthy-class knaves -- are exactly the kind of socio/psychopathic people that need to be segregated and monitored. And the better people in the working-class need to figure out what to do with the right-wing dupes and knaves.
But, referring back to the question at hand: Is Liz Cheney a hero?
Of course, the wealthy-class right-wingers say "yes." As far as they are concerned, Cheney has done well at performing her pubic-facing theatrical role as a failed leopard-tamer. Because, of course, the point is never to tame the leopards -- the point is to turn the leopards against each other.
And, of course, some of the dumb right-wing dupes (working-class Democrats) are still contemplating the question.
Meanwhile, the dumbest right-wing dupes (working-class Republicans) are the leopards answering "no" in anticipation of eating the faces of any other leopards who disagree.
True leftists know the answer is "no," but we'd rather not eat anyone's faces.
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Yup. I've been watching TYT for over a decade. Cenk used to be center-left, advocating for social-democracy and/or democratic-socialism, but he dragged the audience to the center-right, advocating for capitalism. Capitalism is an authoritarian system that is antithetical to democratism/democracy.
TYT taking money from corrupt rich people, w/ their corrupt RW-politics, is part of what has ruined TYT. Besides that, Cenk is a self-proclaimed Capitalist, and Capitalism is a RW-system, just like Monarchism, Feudalism, Corporatism & Fascism. All of the RW-political-systems are just systems of slavery with different names, and Cenk wants the moderate-RW politics of Capitalist-slavery, but not the RW-extremist politics of Fascist-slavery.
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@raymondhardie3880 Learn MMT. The money in your pocket, and in your savings & checking accounts, is NOT the same as the sovereign currency of a nation.
With comments like yours, it's no wonder the US is such a RW-sh!thole.
You working-class dupes in the US continuously vote for the RW-extremist Repubs & moderate-RW Dems, both of which parties are bought, owned, bribed, & controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
The wealthy-class knaves have got you working-class dupes regurgitating talking-points that are decades-upon-centuries old, and, meanwhile, those same wealthy-class knaves are using MMT for bad, to pillage the country.
If you working-class dupes in the US would stop fawning over the wealthy-class, stop engaging in the lifestyle-addictions they're feeding you, and pick up some books, you could be using MMT for good, just like they do in other, better countries with better, smarter working-class people.
Crawl out of the ancient-caves of propagandist-indoctrination that the corrupt, wealthy-class knaves have constructed for you, with their corrupt, RW-politics of authoritarianism..
Society doesn't have to be rigged by the wealthy-class, but you working-class dupes have to get out of your own way. A good place to start is MMT.
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In The Bible, there were times where people got upset and disagreed with Jesus, When the people wanted Jesus to leave them alone, Jesus left them alone. Jesus didn't stay and force Himself on people. Ed Trevors knows that.
Then, in The Bible, when the people wanted to kill Jesus, Jesus didn't fight back.
Jesus knew that God didn't need Jesus to be alive to carry out God's will.
Jesus knew that God didn't need Jesus to force God onto other people.
So, Jesus let the people kill Him.
Christians know that God doesn't need them to force God onto other people for God to carry out God's will. X-tians do not understand this. X-tians try to force their religion on the world. God doesn't need their particular religion.
Christians know that God doesn't need them to be alive for God to carry out God's will. X-tians do not understand this. X-tians try so hard to live it up, large and in charge, foring their God-like tough-love on the world. God doesn't need them to deliver punishment or vengeance.
There is a huge difference between the working-class, non-violent Christian Jesus of the Bible and the wealthy-class, strong-armed, X-tian Ge$u$ that has been fabricated by wealthy-class right-wingers.
One other way to tell the difference between a Christian and an X-tian:
X-tians celebrate X-mas, for one period per year, loudly and proudly, with their glamour and dollars. They want to show others their superiority.
Christians celebrate Christ, all throughout the year, quietly and humbly, with their prayers and actions. They want to help others through inferiority.
I don't mean to generalize or judge anyone, but I know non-Christians who act better than X-tians AND Christians. God can work in and through anyone He chooses, and He has used non-Christians to do more good in my life X-tians, or even Christians.
I am thankful to Got for that, and I'm thankful for the non-Christians who do good works for their earthly brothers and sisters who are also God's children.
May The Spirit of Peace and Love be upon you all.
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@hui975 Like, how to become sociopathic, psychopathic, ignorant, scared, angry, hateful, & violent? Nah. Already learned about the working-class dupes who volunteered to be Confedrate&NatC soldiers.
Congratulations... 🥳
...you're an indecent, working-class dupe. Just like you were designed to be, by your indecent, wealthy-class masters & their corrupt RW-politics.
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Those five Yt-supremacist, house-wage-slaves (known as black-cops) are about to learn the hard way: Only the light-skinned slave-patrollers/slave-drivers (known as Yt-cops) are allowed to kill citizen-chattel-slaves and sabotage citizen-chattel-slave communities on camera, and then go home to beat their families.
Only SOME of the black, Yt-supremacist, house-wage-slaves, like (in)Justice Clarence (uncle)Thomas and (aunty Tomina)Candace Owens, are allowed to help fashion the Yt-supremacist system to make the murder of citizen-chattel-slaves by light-skinned slave-drivers/slave-patrollers (known as Yt-cops) more probable, and get away with it.
Many of the black, Yt-supremacist, house-wage-slaves, like Clarence and Candace, will likely never reap any consequences for their actions as class-traitors and race-traitors.
But those five black, Yt-supremacist, house-wage-slaves (known as black cops) are going to learn the hard way: Only SOME Yt-supremacists, such as the black house-wage-slaves and the light-skinned slave-drivers/slave-patrollers, are allowed to cause and commit murder against citizen-chattel-slaves.
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I envision a time when all child bearers stand together to utilize the legal system against uncontrolled and uncontrollable semen-shooters -- the very same legal system that is used by uncontrolled and uncontrollable semen-shooters to oppress, subjugate, and force those capable of bearing children to do so.
Child bearers need to get together and create a list of demands for semen shooters. Perhaps a contract-based system by which child bearers can hold semen shooters accountable for the demands.
I think one thing that could be done is for child bearers to require that any semen shooter(s) who wish to fornicate have an escrow-type account in which the semen shooter has deposited an as-of-yet-undetermined amount of dollars.
The funds in these accounts will be rendered to the child-bearers who are forced to give birth. The child-bearer will also hold sole rights to the child and whether or not they wish to be involved with said semen-shooters. After all, 100% of all pregnancies, wanted and unwanted, are caused by uncontrolled and uncontrollable semen-shooters.
If semen-shooters can force child-bearers to have children through the force of law, then child-bearers should be able to force semen-shooters to stay the f*kc away from the child-bearer and child through the force of law.
If uncontrolled semen-shooters don't want to take responsibility for the results of their uncontrollable semen, then those semen shooters should keep their clothes on and their legs closed.
Child bearers, and semen shooters who stand in solidarity with child bearers, stop letting uncontrolled and uncontrollable responsible semen-shooters off the hook so easily after the fact. Require them to step up to the plate, and put the money in the account, before the fact.
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1. "Fed land to build cities" -- Nope. The earth doesn't need more people (let alone more Americans). And, thus, neither the earth nor America need more cities.
Furthermore, the wealthy-class wants the working-class to come up with ideas so that the wealthy-class can steal and exploit the best ideas for themselves. Meanwhile the wealthy-class wants to continue to perpetuate a society in which working-class people suffer.
Sure, fix the cities that already exist.
And then depopulate them.
Spread people out so they aren't packed in like sardines, suffering from all the mental and physical health conditions that come with city life.
Start designing communities to be most compatible with "Dunbar's Number" so we can; (A) better identify the people who are the worst addicts (wealthy-class and right-wingers) and/or the people most in need of mental-health-care (working-class right-wingers), and (B) come up with plans on what to do with them.
Living in communities that are sized according to Dunbar's Number is one of the best ways to have fewer/prevent future/heal from instances of addiction, violence and mental illness.
Lastly, and most importantly: eliminate and prevent private people/companies from extracting profits from housing, communities, and government.
2. "Develop flying cars" -- Nope. The transportation that already exists, especially in America, is already substandard (on purpose), and it causes incalculable and unpredictable detriments to people and communities.
Sure, fix the transportation we already have.
And then reinvent it.
Start designing transportation to best suit the purpose. Transporting resources and humans should be done on separate infrastructures.
Individualized human travel should be minimized, for EVERYONE. Communal and group travel should be equitablely accessable for all people who want to. And trips should be well planned and prepared for, giving the people who live in the destination-communities plenty of time to prepare for the travelers.
And -- this should go without saying, but -- having massive, city-sized transportation methods, for the purpose of transporting thousands of working-class humans to the lands of other working-class humans with the intent to murder them, should be abolished.
Lastly, and most importantly: eliminate and prevent private people/companies from extracting profits from transportation, communities, and government.
3. Revitalize Rural Industries: Nope. That sounds a lot like, "spread out the production, and thus, spread out the pollution."
I could say more, but I'm bored.
So I'll end with this.
Right-wing politics are pro-wealthy-class politics.
Right-wing politics are anti-working-class politics.
F*kc the wealthy-class right-wingers, their private companies, and their profits. And f*kc the working-class fools who worship them.
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You might just be joking about this story in the moment, but, historically, this is where things are headed; crimes are only crimes for the people whom the dictator doesn't agree with. For example(s):
The suspect in this story committed a crime against an immigrant, and the dictator doesn't like immigrants, and, thus, the suspect is innocent. But the suspect is also gay, and the dictator doesn't like gays, and, thus, the suspect is guilty. In this case, if the suspect was hetero, then the suspect would be innocent.
Makes me sick just typing about it.
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Logic, reason, cognitive dissonance, The Dunning-Kruger Effect, The Four Stages of Competence, The Paradox of Tolerance, equity, equality, oppression, repression, and suppression, micro/macroeconomics, propaganda, indoctrination, social/psychological conditioning.
All of those things are understood by the wealthy right-wingers who own the Repub & Dem parties. And those wealthy right-wing Repubs & Dems remain in power because the working-class Repub & Dem right-wingers do not understand those things.
Ignorant working-class fools were the reason why wealthy Confederate & Nazi right-wingers were able to remain in power. And that's why wealthy right-wingers don't want an intelligent working-class -- because ignorant working-class fools will vote against their own interests, and they won't even be able to comprehend it.
Ignorant working-class fools will be the reason the U.S. sh!thole will fall. Just like ignorant working-class fools were the reason the Confederate and Nazi sh!tholes fell. I just hope I live long enough to see it.
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@joed7185 My agreement with you goes like this:
We -- the working-class people -- will all sink with the ship, just like the working-class Germans after WW2.
MOST working-class Germans had no say in what the wealthy-class German-Nazis were doing. Just like most working-class Americans have no say over what the wealthy-class Repubocrat and Demlican Nazis are doing now.
When the better parts of the world finally got tired of the wealthy-class German-Nazis, those better parts of the world moved against the empire of the wealthy-class German-Nazis.
And when the wealthy-class German-Nazis realized their time was up, they snuck out the backdoor and left the working-class Germans holding the metaphorical bag.
That is exactly what will happen to the working-class Americans when the rest of the world finally rises up against the empire of the wealthy-class American-Nazis. The wealthy-class American-Nazis have already moved most of their money offshore, and they are already picking up and moving their families in droves.
This has all happened in various iterations throughout the past.
History doesn't repeat itself -- that's impossible.
But history is cyclical -- it rhymes with the intonation of a poem.
Again, this has all happened in various iterations throughout the past.
The laboring people will continue to suffer, just like they have since the lazy people invented money to use as a tool of manipulation and exploitation, thus creating the dichotomy of the wealthy-class versus the working-class.
But that's my opinion which is like @$$holes. Mine doesn't matter.
And Wolff, a much more knowledgeable historian than I, has said repeatedly that he is more optimistic now than at any other time of his life.
So, maybe don't pay any attention to me.
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J GALT is one of the many resident trolls here, wearing clown shoes and a dunce cap, trying to sabotage this community.
There will be no way out of capitalism -- as long as the wealthy-class addicts keep producing working-class dupes like J GALT through addictive bribes and coercion.
J GALT, and the other foolish working-class addicts like him, are the reasons why the better humans in the working-class majority have to live under the mob-rule of the wealthy-class minority.
Because J GALT and his ilk will sabotage the communities and extinguish the lives of their fellow working-class friends, family, neighbors, and strangers. And GALT 's ilk will commit that violence, for a few extra addictive-crumbs, when their wealthy-class overlords tell them to.
J GALT and the other dumbed-down working-class addicts live in the individualist wet-dreams of their own minds, while they simultaneously serve as the co-opted collective army of the wealthy-class addicts.
J GALT and the right-wing, red-flag, nutjob addicts like him, are the weakest links among the lowest common denominator of humans, and the wealthy-class knaves have fashioned them that way.
Be better than J GALT.
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Working-class dupes in the US are too late, and too ignorant, for party-politics.
Ever since the SCOTUS ruled to legalize bribery & corruption with their decisions in the cases of Buckley v. Valeo[1976] and First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti[1978], BOTH major political-parties in the US (and most of the smaller parties) have been bought, owned, and controlled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics. And the wealthy-class has been solidifying their power, with the help of both major parties, ever since.
The Democrat party's owners from the wealthy-class don't care what the working-class people do. The wealthy-class owns the Republican party, too. And if working-class people in the US try to start a third party, the wealthy-class will buy that party out from under them, too.
The US is too late, and too ignorant, for party-politics. If you want to know about the historical solutions for problems such as this, you'll have to learn about the Union, circa 1860-1865 and the Allies, circa 1939-1945.
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@breft3416 Have you not yet realized that "reason" is not comprehensible for this class-traitor?
At best, they're a regular (ignorant) working-class class-traitor with the worst writing abilities -- formatting, mechanics, grammar, usage, and vocabulary.
At worst, they're a (intentional) class-traitor with the worst propagandist and persuasive capabilities.
Both are indicative of a defunded public education or a dumbed-down private education.
I don't know how much more of their nonsense you have to read to realize what you're playing with.
"...the problem is the FORCE of government..." Really?
Really, it's the force of government that is the problem, and not the greedy, wealthy-class addicts who have corrupted and co-opted the government(s), and who have turned the working-class into addicts of a smaller caliber?
I only wonder this about J-clown Galt-shoes: without the force of government, how many (additional) bodies would they have hidden.
The best non-violent thing that can be done to class-traitors is to simply point them out for other people who stumble across the thread -- trying to reason or argue with this idiot only serves their purpose.
But, you know, do what you want. All the other JGalts are.
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