Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "Andrewism"
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@davak72 I don't know if this is going to be helpful suggestion or not, possibly not, but if you're able to ever afford it- and I don't mean to be a shill, but just being from personal experience, if you ever decide to get professional neurofeedback you may be delighted with the results that you get. A few years back I took a few initial sessions I would swear by the fact that I did notice some improvement; unfortunately I couldn't afford to finish so I had to drop out, but I am now hoping to continue as soon as my means will allow. If you research it I believe you'll find that there's a lot of fascinating and encouraging evidence that brain training, otherwise known as neurofeedback does really provide impressive and long-lasting benefits to people diagnosed with various neurodiverse conditions including ADHD. I just mentioned it to anyone who mentions that they are not neurotypical because it's something they may not have considered and besides medications and coping strategies, it's the only really long-term solution that I see. Unfortunately it does cost money and I hate recommending to people to do something that comes with a significant price tag, but unfortunately there's no real way around that, and I've just heard too many positive testimonials from individuals to ignore it. So if that suggestion is at all helpful to you at any point in the future, then I've done my job. : )
And I say the above to anyone reading this who suspects or has been told that to have any kind of neurodiverse condition. Good luck to all, my neurodiverse fam.
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This is a really deep comment, thank you for sharing. The gentrification of all of our communities for any reason, including increasing tourist-ization, is a real problem. It's not that there's anything wrong with tourism in and of itself, it's what it does to middle class, lower class, and working-class communities. Basically like you said, it's gentrification. I don't know how to stop this just yet because municipal leadership is constantly filled with people who either are from the elite and upper class or want to serve them exclusively. Look anywhere, I've never not known this to be true.
So yeah...for now it sucks. If the top 10% of incomes are the only ones that matter, what exactly are the rest of us supposed to do? Well don't ask your local mayor because he doesn't have an answer and he's not trying to get one.
Something needs to be done. As to what, I don't know yet. These are the same people who keep getting elected so I mean, it's a very sticky problem.
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Thanks for this very learned and thorough response. Be careful about praising the UK however. I don't know if you're from there, but let's not forget that they tried to dominate the entire world and practically genocided India with their 300 year occupation and hallowing out of that country. The fact that they may have contributed to the abolitionist movement and officially prohibited slavery in the UK 30 years earlier than the US is commendable, however that hardly indicates them as champions of human rights and enlightenment worldwide. We're they better than some of the true demons amongst of their contemporaries, for instance the Belgians?? Yes I think so but that's hardly a praiseworthy referendum.
So let's take a look at that first and foremost shall we?
As for the rest of your statement I find it seems quite articulate so I will go to digest the rest of it now.
I think it goes without saying that in any system of large-scale trade or economy, some form of currency is inevitable. What small scale intimate groups do cannot be scaled up to millions of people or simultaneous global transactions. This isn't to say I think we're locked into money as we know it forever, I believe that like in star trek we will in fact have a moneyless future, although I don't know exactly how we will get there or how it will look once we do.
In the meantime we cannot escape the need for currency in our modern world, quite unfortunately. The question is, how do we make lack and poverty extinct within three generations? I think there are many ways to do this but unfortunately in a hyper-exploitive inhumane hyper-capitalist system, supported by absolutely ruthless bloodthirsty govts, chief among them the US where I live, this CANNOT happen.
Hopefully the more socialist People First systems will predominate over the next hundred years and we can start moving in the direction of zero poverty and abundance for all. I mean we're pretty much already there, but much of the surplus goes to waste and doesn't get distributed or tracked to where it is needed for any number of reasons (political, social, cultural, technological).
Hopefully over the next hundred years this can start to change. First, in order for any positive change to take effect and start germinating, DC will have to be nuked into glass one way or another, but at the rate that they're going that well may happen in our lifetime. If that does indeed happen, I sure will miss the stunning architecture, but I sure won't miss who's inside it.
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Britain also justified the predatory and unjust use of public enclosure, an absolutely devastating move to the masses which has not yet ever been fully undone. Monopolizing that which previously was open and freely accessible to all? Oh yeah, the beginnings of modern capitalistic exploitation, dispossession and dignity-robbing. Monopolization, plus unfair wages, plus unequal exchange both at home or abroad- the unholy trinity of exploitive capitalism; not just commerce, but capitalism. Commerce and trade can be fair but when I use the word capitalism as a pejorative, I'm indicating cases in which it is not fair by design. Colonialism brought this into full display but so did domestic practices.
So while they might have done a few decent things in some areas, and I'm fully willing to recognize that, let's not overlook their rather plentiful misdeeds. Every elite class wanted to take it all and were more than willing to screw over the poor or the average Joes to get it. Unfortunately this continues today. Elites are never satisfied with what they have, their greed goes on forever and this is the problem isn't it??
The greed of the elites is the reason why poverty exists, no other reason ever since the beginning of time.
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Good information and something we shouldn't forget. Any organization that seeks to dominate or control, outside of expecting reasonable behavior, should be seen with extreme suspicion.
But let's talk about your segment on MOVE for just a moment.
I'm sure that MOVE made some mistakes, but just understand that whether or not they were engaging in less than ideal behavior as neighbors, or if they were cult-like or not, the out-of-control hyper-racist white psychopathic police force along with the FBI and the self-hating Sambo who was the mayor of the time, wanted all of them dead and those complaints were just an excuse. If they had come out immediately as first ordered during the confrontation, they would have all been executed. The mayor and his henchmen knew there were women and children inside and didn't care. (Not all kinfolk are skin folk as they say. Not all Black people have respect for their own people or human life in general. IMO most if not all black mayors fall into this category.)
This country is full of hate-filled psychopaths, mostly white, occupy influential positions in local, state, or federal politics. Sometimes they are aided and abetted by Black faces in high places, such as in Philly, historically one of the most segregated and racist locations in the North.
I'm sure that the adults of MOVE knew one way or another they were probably going to die that night or come close to it, I'm sure they had forewarning of the attack. They did their best to protect their children from the monsters who were attacking them but a few were killed due to the satanic savagery of the unrelenting assault, and naturally, in the finest tradition of American politicians, the mayor felt no guilt about it because he has no conscience to feel any guilt from, and that's pretty par for the course for politicians in this country, most police officers and sometimes even fire departments. (Various forms of ignorance and racist behavior has been found within the ranks of many urban centers' fire departments throughout the years).
MOVE may have talked about committing certain acts of violence but they never actually did it to my knowledge, other than as you describe, perhaps minor, relatively non-violent arguments or moderately heated interchanges with their neighbors. That hardly justifies them becoming targets of assassination and extreme violence. Also, please understand, the fire that the fire department started that night was intentionally allowed to burn out of control. As this was happening a crowd gathered around the police and fire personnel yelling "murderers, murderers! why won't you stop this fire?!" Up to 200 other families were left homeless from this fire which was allowed to burn without stopping until it put itself out with help from some desperate citizens.
The mayor who hated his own Black skin, the fire department, the FBI, and the police were only too happy to kill Black people and and try to assassinate an entire African-American neighborhood that evening. The following day the local news reported on it but nothing was done at the state level, as the governor was almost certainly complicit, and Congress said not one word though they must have known about it. Naturally, Ronald Reagan didn't say a word. Every authority locally and above was complicit in this heinous crime.
Before 9/11, the most vicious and hate-filled terrorist attack on American soil was carried out by municipal authorities in 1985 in the black suburbs of Philadelphia.
Localized attempted black genocides are nothing new, mass mob attacks by insane white psychopaths go back until shortly after the civil war. But we don't expect them in our so-called modern era.
In the case of MOVE, it's killers were hate-filled genocidal whites in concert with the worst kind of Black person - the self-hating Black man.
So all I agree, it sounds like there was some concerning conduct of MOVE members, but let us be clear, NONE of that justified the attack on them on the part of the murderous hatemongers from the city in partnership with the FBI. In order to justify this great violence, the FBI had deemed MOVE a terrorist organization though they never openly committed any violence to date. Killing people who chose to live in different ways is nothing new for the feds. It also happened in Waco, 10 years later, that time to a white community. The feds are a curious kind of non-human psychopath, driven to kill and cause harm; no doubt driven to distraction from non-stop thoughts of murder and violence in their heads 24 hours a day. Their courts are corrupt af, their judges are unelected lifetime kings, their prosecutors are sociopaths; the entire federal structure is a cesspool of dystopian violence.
I don't recall if the surviving MOVE members were tried locally or in a federal court but it doesn't really matter- it's obvious that they were targeted for destruction. To give someone a 100-year sentence when they had committed no crime and they're not even alleged to have killed anyone is just so, so vile- but acts like these against Black activists in this sick third world country controlled by unhinged hate-filled wackjobs are unfortunately not unique.
So I can understand the danger of cults of all kinds, but I'm not so sure if the tragic story of the MOVE members would qualify. I believe their mention in history is more illustrative of the absolute hate and depravity that American authorities are capable of, especially where race is involved.
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This is really well explained and yeah you're right.
At a large scale a universal medium of exchange will work or be needed. However at a smaller scale, sharing or bartering systems can work well.
Currency isn't necessarily bad in itself I think, but the problem results when groups of people have trouble acquiring enough local currency needed in order to get the things they need or want in life (re: want, not so much luxury items but just ordinary non-essentials that bring us pleasure). The standard answer is 'well just go get a job', and sure that can work sometimes l, whether in the modern world or the ancient one wherever currency already existed, but one doesn't have to think long to see the problems with this. What if there aren't enough jobs to go around? What if not all jobs pay a good enough wage? What if someone is unable to be seen as employable? What if someone has a disability or mental trauma that gets in the way of them being able to work? This is where welfare comes in, but I wonder how many societies ensured that there would be enough welfare provided to meet the need???
We know ours certainly doesn't, as in the US. Certainly not everyone is having their basic needs met on a global scale as at least half the world lives in some level of poverty.
Relying on currency may be necessary for complex economies to run, including large-scale operations, but it brings with it a whole host of its own set of problems. It seems only governments can fill this gap by being willing to provide welfare to any who need it, but how many of them actually do or have done so in the past? Not nearly enough I'm sure.
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