Youtube comments of Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago).
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@suhsnow yeah but do they? I wouldn't trust anybody behind a badge in this country. Just last year the LAPD responded to a report of a minor incident in a department store with a slightly agitated patron, a blue thug showed up and shot him for no reason, and then also accidentally killed a young girl because he shot into a busy store not looking where he was shooting and the bullet unintentionally went into a nearby dressing room where the girl was changing. I think the family is currently suing the department. But even if they win, and I'm sure they will that's not going to bring their daughter back. This kind of gross negligence is common with these psychos.
I'm sure that cop hasn't even been so much as reprimanded much less charged with negligent homicide or gross irresponsibility with a weapon. It is the LAPD after all, one of this country's most violent publicly-funded gangs.
I'm sure occasionally cops take down a shooter but I've also heard too many disturbing reports of where they literally just won't act. They literally will stand around and doing nothing while people die. They will refuse to do their job and they will never pay a price for it. The one time we need them to LEAP into action and supposedly use their training to stop a dangerous deranged killer, they do nothing.
These people don't care if we live or die, they are textbooks sociopaths. Look up the 77 minutes case and by now I'm sure you've heard of the crime against the community that happened in Uvalde last year??? There was a teenaged shooter who was holed up in a classroom shooting kids and for almost eighty minutes almost 400,yes you heard me right that's 400 badge thugs refused to move a muscle to step in. They did absolutely nothing and not a single one of them feel guilty about it. More kids died because they stood around and did absolutely nothing for over an hour. There was 376, yes this can be verified easily, 376 human fking beings who were armed and had law enforcement and public safety training on scene that day!
Also there was a similar incident at a McDonald's near the Mexican border in San Diego in 1980. Now maybe these are just isolated incidents, I would like to believe that, but the fact they can happen at all tells us something. It tells us that we CANNOT trust these pieces of shit who claim they care about us in any way, shape, or form. They exist to steal from us, exploit us and run right over us if they perceive doing so as being some kind of a benefit or career boost.
There are no good people behind the badge in the US, I wish there was and good luck finding them I hope you can, because to this day I have never seen nor heard of them. I wish it was different but I don't have the luxury of hiding from the truth. As far as I'm concerned they're all a bunch of opportunistic jerks, violent thugs, or trigger-happy nutjobs.
Edit: if there are good ones then I will recognize that but I don't hear any good stories I only hear bad stories. Not to mention my own limited experience with these people, mainly small-time types but they were still assholes who caused me problems for no other reason than because they could. It's all very pointless.
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Thank you for this report. Educational as always.
Here's what I see happening, in a nutshell, as a US citizen.
Those who make major foreign policy decisions here have two main goals: control all the world's money and control all the world's oil, or as much of it as possible. The more capitalist-based a country or a particular set of leaders are, the more amenable they will be to US-based corporations exploiting their markets and resources. That's all they (my govt) cares about. To that end, my govt will provide financial assistance to countries they see as friendly to western Big Capital interests (but always with special strings attached and usually to the detriment of the common person in said country, eg world bank or IMF loans); and use influence, threats, or attempt CIA coups for the purposes of regime change in nations they see as opposing Western Capital expansion. Amy nation not willing to be manipulated or influenced by the US to the degree they demand is at risk of one or more methods of US govt muscle-flexing and coercion. In extreme cases, this means my govt will come up with a dummy reason to invade and send in our military, such as what happened in Vietnam, the Korean war, Iraq, the small island of Grenada, and now with Ukraine, although that's what we call a proxy war. You can best believe my govt is doing everything possible to cause and deliberately escalate this current conflict between Ukraine and Russia due to Putin's opposition to being a continued target of NATO and to submit to a US agenda of dominance and control. Yes there are most certainly pre-existing local tensions but as they have always done, my govt is very expertly maximally exploiting these to their own ends.
It's what they like to do.
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I live in the US and the people who make the major foreign policy decisions here have two main goals: control all the world's money and control all the world's oil, or as much of it as possible. The more capitalist-based a country or a particular set of leaders are, the more amenable they will be to US-based corporations exploiting their markets and resources. That's all they (my govt) cares about. To that end, my govt will provide financial assistance to countries they see as friendly to western Big Capital interests (but always with special strings attached and usually to the detriment of the common person in said country, eg world bank or IMF loans); and use influence, threats, or attempt CIA coups for the purposes of regime change in nations they see as opposing Western Capital expansion. Amy nation not willing to be manipulated or influenced by the US to the degree they demand is at risk of one or more methods of US govt muscle-flexing and coercion. In extreme cases, this means my govt will come up with a dummy reason to invade and send in our military, such as what happened in Vietnam, the Korean war, Iraq, the small island of Grenada, and now with Ukraine, although that's what we call a proxy war. You can best believe my govt is doing everything possible to cause and deliberately escalate this current conflict between Ukraine and Russia due to Putin's opposition to being a continued target of NATO and to submit to a US agenda of dominance and control. Yes there are most certainly pre-existing local tensions but as they have always done, my govt is very expertly maximally exploiting these to their own ends.
It's what they like to do.
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Thanks again Brian for a factual grounded report. I always now consult your channel as often as possible after I hear the latest development in the western media regarding this conflict. As a fellow US vet post 2000, who now seize the world very similarly, I really appreciate your points of view and I consider you a trustworthy source of information. You don't make your reports with any emotionality, not that I necessarily have a problem with that, but when you give an opinion or statement you clearly show where you're gathering that from. Anyone can research the links or the information that you base your conclusions on; none of this is simply pulled out of the sky and I think it's obvious that you are not intentionally making any of it up. As others have said it's so refreshing and I just wish that we had many more like you right now even if they differed in their viewpoints to myself. Simple fact-based news reporting is such a breath of fresh air on an age of clickbait, hot takes and entertainment-based "news" media.
It's clear that you have your own views and who you feel is the more respectable side of this affair and that is there's nothing wrong with that; everybody has the right to have their views on who they agree with when it comes to world events, that doesn't make your reporting illegitimate at a. You simply do everything that you can to prove that what you're saying is actually the truth, and as we know by now that is not done by even some very mainstream outlets. They're more than willing to falsify or misrepresent or "creatively" report on whatever happens to be going on in whichever way best serves their current agenda and audience.
I do not agree that you have an agenda; I do agree that you have convictions, as I'd like to think I do, but that you back them up with real world, verifiable information and I just want to thank you for that. You're not just someone giving their opinion, you are inviting everyone to do their own research and to see that what you're saying will most likely be shown to be a verifiable reality. It is just a shame that we can't get any oppositional viewpoints on any kind of televised MSM these days, not even a watered-down version. The only way a person can find oppositional viewpoints when it comes to world events in the West is to use the Internet or social media these days, and so that's what we do.
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I've long made the case that shoplifting isn't a crime per se as no is harmed, simply annoyed, and provided it's not part of some industrial operation that cleans out a whole business, shouldn't be considered criminal at all, but a civil charge. After all, if small claims court uses $10,000 as a limit, how is helping oneself to some mostly valueless property which is always far below that value any different???
Any low-level nonviolent property offense should be treated as a civil matter not a criminal one. Implying anyone is actually harmed by minor inventory loss is silly. Give someone community service, call it a civil infraction and a low fine and call it a day. Anything more is overkill and unnecessary. Penalizing people for taking things from a store, which already wastes a nonzero amount by choice every week, plus, the total losses of which would add up to no more than a rounding error in the daily ledger, is just wrong as far as I'm concerned. This isn't the same as breaking into someone's home with deliberation or violence and taking someone's personal items of monetary or sentimental value. It is taking something without paying for it, but often times, the price contains an excessive markup margin, and it's taken from a place which is publicly accessible, ie you're not trespassing on private property.
I could go on and on. How about mandating all stores must turn over whatever they voluntarily choose not to sell or have leftover instead of just throwing it out? If sent to a local collection center where they can be donated or resold at a steep discount, the poors (that's me) can go there for what they need instead of trying to palm it out.
I mean considering the amount of goods that virtually all stores either deliberately waste or have in excess to share, even after ensuring high profits - it is obvious they are never harmed in any real way by petty inventory loss. And the dumb thing is, if you've noticed, I almost guarantee all of these stores that invest in security guards and all these elaborate loss prevention schemes, are most likely paying much more for those measures then they would if they just let people do what they needed to do and attended to business as usual.
I got caught taking some tasty snacks from a gas station. The young male who I'm guessing was as assistant manager decided that was something he just couldn't handle. He wouldn't let me buy some beer I was trying to actually buy at the same time and and he banned me from shopping or getting gas there in the future. I see. So what's do a little calculation on this shall we? For a potential loss of $10 to $15 in snacks, he turned away thousands in future sales.
This guy really took it personally like someone had just forced him to swallow a really hard d**k and he just didn't want to.
What an absolute moron. I mean these people don't even succeed at business much less life. Sure, it was a little awkward and embarrassing for me but I got over that in two minutes. This idiot lost all our future sales and for what? Because he couldn't let me take some goddamn snacks??? I guess I just don't get other people I really don't.
Seems like a totally irrational and ridiculous overkill response. Well it doesn't seem, I mean it was.
So yeah all that's to say is I have absolutely no problem with shoplifting. Store owners need to f*cking cope and get a f*cking life. It's called the price of doing business, like any other expense out there. Like car maintenance. And because it is simply the cost of doing business, it shouldn't be criminalized. Sometimes people who help themselves to a few pieces of your inventory, that's just life. So long as they don't take the safe and take the contents of your bank account, you're fine. I've had things taken from me before on a personal level. I didn't love it, but I got over it, and those items are far more important and useful to me, then one of hundreds of thousands of nameless items are to Walmart.
That's how I sincerely feel about it and I'd love to see shoplifting totally decriminalized from the books throughout this state. Meaning it's removed from any misdemeanor classifications and turned into an infraction enlisted as a civil offense. There are enough acts that are perfectly harmless or within the tolerances of everyday risk that are already criminalized, and it's all in an attempt to maintain mass incarceration. Pretty sure we have the most criminalized society in the developed world. That needs to change.
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In theory I'm always open to new ideas or new implementation of older ideas, however in reality, I have to be cynical. These do really just sound like company towns or towns that work great for the tech elite but not so great for everyone else.
I'm willing to allow others the opportunity to try it out, but I'm rather pessimistic at first blush.
I think alternative social models should be tried. I think we always should be trying to improve on the current status quo. There's a lot to complain about regarding our current institutions. However, experience has shown that these communities can easily be corrupted.
How are the social services in this utopia? Would the disabled, the old, or the sick be welcomed, or would it only be a shining city on the hill for the beautiful, the smart, or the capable?? How would public goods be provided? Would there be a limited judicial system?, because disputes will inevitably arise.
I'm all for a less oppressive more democratic society, but the devil is always in the details. Look I'm even willing to try benevolent dictatorship because I think in the short term it can be useful, but we have to take a long look at all of these alternative propositions with a weathered eye.
Everything can sound wonderful on paper. The proof is where the rubber meets the road.
If a group thinks they can start a new town to function as a mostly autonomous city-state that will be positive and desirable to all, then by all means I would be open to seeing it tried and I hope they succeed. I just hope it doesn't degenerate into problems.
If one thinks a new town can function more smoothly and in a superior to other given towns based on the principle of looser restrictions on business entities then by all means let's try it out, but I'm skeptical. I mean most US towns have always bent over for business especially big business and we have the highest and growing rates of poverty in the last 100 years. Was that a strong social safety net and at least some social programs I don't see how this wouldn't repeat itself in this new utopia. The only way I could see this being prevented is if only healthy people were allowed to take part in this experiment. But for how long would that be kept up? Perhaps for some time but how would it be enforced if indeed that was the agenda?
I'm willing to consider any reasonable alternative to our current models but I'm not so sure if the primary team who is behind this idea has truly thought through all the possible complications. On one hand I'm curious and so I'd like to see if some encouraging progress could be made but on the other hand I'm also skeptical. Ideas can sound great but I really need to hear the nitty gritty before I feel more comfortable giving my personal seal of approval.
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The majority of people have been cheated in this country. Not all, but most. By paying shit wages employers have gotten away with stealing the vast majority of the fruits that workers produce. And then they have the gall to say they earned it. The majority of business in this country has always been a swindle. It's nothing but a softer form of feudalism.
I appreciate that some founders do work hard and do risk some money to start up a new business venture, but that doesn't entitle them to all of the profits in perpetuity, just some.
We need a huge value shift in this country. It starts with declaring that everyone matters not just elites, and LABOR deserves empowerment and reward.
We need a labor movement NOW more than ever. The large majority of people in this country are either barely getting by, slightly comfortable, or very poor and why? Well there's a combination but chief among them are terrible wages, no labor laws that matter, a devaluation and soft enslavement of Labor in general and refusal of these scum who hold political office to pass national healthcare.
Everyday I become redder and redder (ie communist) and I couldn't be more proud of myself. There's MORE than enough to go around- but if we let the elites take all of it what does that say about us? Should a given economy work for everyone or just the top 10% who are fortunate enough to win the birth lottery or to get really lucky???
There's room for everyone to have their own little bit of wealth and for some groups to have a bit more than others, but nowhere should there be an elite class that is hoarding obscene amounts. Nowhere.
I know my values, principles, laws and policies would fix everything but will I ever get a chance to push my agenda? I don't know - I'll try but I doubt the forces united against me will allow me to get very far.
My vision is simple - an excellent quality of life for everyone. It could be done easily. You control the elites, and you control big business. You provide enough support through government programs and you control the private sector so that everyone gets what they need. If they want more they can work for it but they'll always have enough to keep a roof over their head, decent food in their fridge, and a modest amount of creature comforts to ensure enjoyment.
It's actually extremely easy but when government is owned and operated by and caters to the infinitely rapacious 2% elite, everything gets thrown out of balance and the bottom 2/3 are thrown on the sacrificial altar for that top 2%. It doesn't have to be this way.
No one deserves to be sacrificed for the greed of anyone else, that is my first human rights and economic principle!! NO ONE! My second is that anyone who would seek public office has a moral duty to put the general welfare of the general public first and foremost over their own selfish petty concerns and over anything that a special interest or an elite person would demand. My third is that giving a shit about others is a virtue and a privilege. If we all have a little bit of regard for others in our community and they do the same for us, that is a lot healthier and more enlightened of a society then that where the opposite is true.
Neoliberalism tells us that we all should be happy to sacrifice ourselves for a dollar. That's not my value system. Money makes a good servant but a rotten master.
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If only everyone had that kind of decency. The limitless evil and willful cruelty in people's hearts today both in the public and in the power structure never fails to shock me too my core. Such as today in fact.
Revolting case in point: for the first time in a long time, possibly ever, the city of LA literally passed an ordinance 13 to 2 to CRIMINALIZE being homeless and effectively prevent them from putting their tents up anywhere within city limits. THIS JUST HAPPENED TODAY. Homeless rights groups are going through the roof. I don't know what satanic cruelty possessed them to do this or how exactly they plan to enforce this as there are at least 50,000 homeless individuals throughout LA county.
I've been sick all day about it.
These people have lived through traumas we'll never know, and they have nowhere else to go. As if we all still aren't in the middle of a vicious pandemic which has only increased homelessness including many households who have become homeless for the first time ever.
How the city council can do this, knowing full well all these obvious facts, and still do this with a clean conscience, is something I feel shocked and angered beyond words in response to.
LA county has access to some of the richest tax base in the country and they offer next to NOTHING for their mentally ill and/or homeless. Rent is a crime and out of control yet someone with severe mental illness or who lost their job and home due to the pandemic is just supposed to find $4000 lying around somewhere and be able to afford a new residence. All while living out of a tent. It's gobsmacking and absolutely beyond comprehension.
Because those people WANT to be on the street, right!! Right! Or they're all there because of drugs, RIGHT! and what- so that means they don't deserve help??? Support??? Access to treatment if they want it?? Of course nothing could be further from the truth. Drug use is only one of many causes of homelessness.
Welp, let politicians both local or federal NEVER disappoint you with their infinite and rapacious attitude for inherent cruelty and predation on the weakest of the weak. I hope there's a very hot, very hateful place waiting for these monsters in the afterlife.
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@KingJuggernaux333 he's probably not actually traumatized; what he's saying is that it was a jarring and upsetting interaction.
My problem is your justification of the act of treating homeless like they're less than human and forcing them to leave where there are safe and aren't bothering anyone just because it's fun to pick on the weak and hurt someone in need. So you're sort of obliquely justifying sadism. Do you think people who need to sleep in their car out of necessity should be treated like animals?? Like trash?? Like vermin???? Is the mere act of temporarily being homeless mean you're not human anymore? You have no rights??? No needs??? You're somehow a criminal?? Somebody's the victim of YOUR homelessness now- but not you- right??? Because God forbid you're temporarily in financial need, so you should be treated in a dehumanizing manner??? Walmart has huge parking lots with so many places to go on the outskirts of those lots that wouldn't bother anyone but a person shouldn't be allowed because they should be treated like an animal..... because they're homeless right??!!????? Those spaces can be used to help people in serious need but they shouldn't because the homeless should be killed off right?? If you're homeless you're somehow not human and you shouldn't be able to sleep at night, right?? The cop should come around and just torment you all night by making you do dehumanizing things, is that right? Cuz if you're homeless you're not really human right? Everybody should turn you away, you shouldn't be able to sleep ANYWHERE, you should just be forced to walk until you drop then you should DIE because you became HOMELESS and that meant you're not HUMAN.
Right!??!!!!!?!? RIGHT!!!!???????!!?!
How comfortable, protected, easy, perfect, cosseted, privileged and lucky has your life been so far that you can be so dismissive to those that have known struggle???
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I live in the US. I'm not an expert on our history but I know enough to have a good general lay knowledge. Everything said in this sad video is true. I have much more to say about it which I will later. I would say most US citizens don't give much thought to what happened to the indigenous people that lived here first. Some of us however, are unwilling to let the present state be the end of the story for America's indigenous people. We don't know exactly how but we resolved to be organized with them and do what we can to demand reparations and land return for every current surviving tribal Nation, federally recognized or not, within the lower 48 states and Alaska.
Most people in the federal government have chosen to genocide and forcefully assimilate those indigenous to this continent in all the ways described in this video and more. It's very tragic. It never should have happened, there were always alternatives. Treaties could have been respected, and buffalo herds could have been protected and harvested sustainably instead of intentionally driven to almost extinction.
It's probably going to take at least another 100 years but some of these crimes can be undone. Land can be returned, sovereignty finally granted (it still isn't) and for Great Plains-origin tribal Nations who wished they can raise bison again on their lands. The only thing that's stopping all of that from going forward right now are POS State authorities in some cases and federal authorities.
Oh, and just to show you the idiocy and the egos of those in power here, I live in California and every year we have worse catastrophic wildfires then the last. To my knowledge, the California fire authorities have not yet started to employ the most simple of measures to minimize this huge risk, called control burning. Any native community in a fire prone area knows all about controlled burns. Now maybe I'm wrong as I'm not up on the latest details of CalFire, but I think I would have heard about it if they started using controlled burns. To this day they don't use them, that I'm aware of. And guess what? Every YEAR our fire damage gets worse and worse. It's at apocalyptic levels now every summer. Billions of dollars property lost, 100s of lives lost. Now controlled burning wouldn't prevent all of that, but it has the potential to minimize a lot of it. But I guess the CalFire bosses right now think they know better than anyone else, and that's why keeps getting worse every year. So I'm sure whatever they're doing they should just keep doing it since clearly it's been so effective. Or, just maybe, if they had any shred of sense in their head or humility or desire to truly limit the impact of our fire season, maybe they would consult with some of the Native communities we have up and down the state of California, see what they can recommend about control burning and what kinds of ancestral knowledge they can pass along. It certainly wouldn't hurt. The worst it can do is nothing and I have a feeling that knowledge would be very helpful. Anyways yeah we'll see if they ever do that. Far as I'm aware, it hasn't happened yet. And so the rest of us pay a price for their arrogance.
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Of course it was self-defense, it was ALWAYS self-defense, but federal courts are as crooked as a 3 1/2 dollar bill. There's absolutely no justice to be had in federal courts-they control the jury, I mean those judges are puppets or willing participants, and the DA's are just as joyfully evil and sick as the agents who send people there, so it's really very much a team effort andva gong show. I mean it's a show trial period. I mean it makes the Cardassian trials from the TV series Star Trek look like a paragon of equanimity and citizen justice.
Its all very sad. I mean federal judges and anyone high enough of the food chain have had 50 years to right this issue and no one has touched it. The federal government club is lost; they are really pure evil & they will never stop doing evil. I don't know what the future will bring but anyone who thinks there's anything that could be morally saved about these Federal demons I think has not been paying attention for their adult life and I think they should start. These are people who love evil passionately, and they will seek to destroy or harm by any means necessary ANYONE who doesn't immediately bow down to them and empower their lust for destruction and it is just very sad. The world's enemy is the feds, that is certainly been made clear so many times over and domestically they certainly wreck plenty of harm on their own. Hopefully one day their power will end, they're evil will end and simple humanity and decency will return to not just this land but all the lands and countries on Earth that the US has destroyed in its ugly, vial 200 year plus history. One can only hope. Including Palestine. In my eyes in its current form, under its current agenda the federal structure of the US has no right to exist. That's what I have to say about that and I told people that when I speak on political topics everywhere I go. They are cancer on the world and they have nothing positive to offer but death, suffering, destruction, and resource theft. Thats all the DC club is about. It's just about all that is bad. There's nothing good in their agenda and that is sad and I hope more people start waking up to it.
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@jerronng6036 I can explain that actually. It wasn't a military loss it, was a deliberate walking away by US forces. I'm not defending what my government does, I don't support imperialism or the bullying or brutalization of ANY other country or region by my government or our security forces and we shouldn't have occupied Afghanistan unless we had genuine concern about helping them become self-sufficient.
However the Taliban are not good guys either, they are very fanatical, most are very violent, and they have an extreme problem with the female gender for whatever reason they should be nowhere near power or control of any region. they live in the Stone age and they want to make everyone else live in the Stone age too. It was good that we removed them in 2001 HOWEVER that should have been a relatively short-term operation, it certainly shouldn't have extended to 20 years, and whether we left with the client government in charge, or the Taliban, we did very little else to advance the general welfare in that country. But I can go into more detail about how the Taliban ended up back in power and how they were able to run the US client government out from Kabul last august. Basically are US forces were ordered to withdraw and they did, leaving only the other non-taliban Afghanistan security forces in place to fight against the Taliban and here's the problem. This is what I've been able to gather. The non-taliban forces were deliberately deprived of resources, weapons, and food by the US, whom they had come to rely on. The Taliban were likewise helped and supplied by my government in order to ensure that they would be able to take over again. My government also applied heavy pressure to Pakistan and Kabul to release 5,000 Taliban fighters including a very senior commander. Which they did, so basically they engineered the Taliban takeover. This happened under Trump and it was basically the brainchild of a man called Mike Pompeo who was the ex-head of the CIA. So essentially what the US CIA did in 2014 with the Azovs in Ukraine, they did almost the exact same thing for the Taliban in Afghanistan between 2019 and last year 2021. What the world saw in the deplorable and disgraceful exit of our forces from the region and the corresponding panic that that caused many local residents was just the tail end of an operation that began somewhere back in either late 2018 or into 2019.
Our domestic MSM here barely covered that whole sequence of events from this point of view. I am not certain what agenda it serves to have the Taliban back in charge but it's obviously not a positive one. but if you do a little digging you will most certainly find that this is exactly what happened and it happened at the behest of Mike Pompeo ex-boss of the US CIA. I am glad for the most part that we are out of Afghanistan however if it comes up the cost of putting the Taliban back in charge I feel that cost is too high. And I believe that the majority of other Afghans would agree. However I also understand that many US affiliated persons committed deplorable acts while we were there and they have every reason to hate us. And finally to top it all off, the drone strikes which I don't know if they're still continuing or not are never acceptable and our crime against humanity and should be banned under the Geneva convention. We're not for the constant drone strikes we may have been able to engender better goodwill amongst the local population. But the fact that my government chooses to use DRONES for anything and EVERYTHING, committing mass murder in the name of fighting terror, when what they're really doing is CAUSING terror to defenseless non-combatant human beings and local defenders, is something that will ALWAYS make me sick until it stops. I say this as an ex-Navy person myself.
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@NIN0ID We live in a dystopia where some people have the gall to try to intentionally prevent others from meeting their basic needs simply because that person wants to feel superior to that other person and the other person, for whatever reason doesn't have enough money at the moment of need to meet the price demanded. It's especially revolting when this happens in regards to Goods Already Disposed Of (GADO). In my future policies, it will be ILLEGAL to attempt to prevent access to GADO. When you actively dispose of something you are releasing your claim in it and from that moment on you have NO moral or legal right to prevent anyone else from accessing it. It's called the Law of Claim Transferrence- or it would as soon as I can get that passed.
No one has the right to throw something away, declaring officially THEY DO NOT WANT THAT ITEM ANYMORE, but then have the gall to say BUT NO NOT THEM! THEY CAN'T HAVE IT!
The moment something goes in the trash, IT'S NOT YOURS ANYMORE, ITS UP FOR GRABS. This is basic common sense and anyone who values property rights would have to agree. Your property is yours up until the moment you dispose of it. If one still wants to lay claim to an item or items, THEN DONT DISPOSE OF IT. It's very simple. This is a simple right-and-wrong principle as true for businesses as individuals.
How disgusting is it that we live in a place where people are made to feel guilty for taking what others have WILLINGLY THROWN AWAY. Yes we have reached full absurdity and injustice.
I am SO far outside of these sick paradigms. I mean I guess compared to most people I'm WAYYY out here on the bleeding edge of Leftness but to me it's like, this is simple Right and Wrong. I feel like the whole country is caught up inside a mental r4pe scarcity cult, and it starts at the TOP.
In MY world (if I'm ever in a public position of authority), ANYONE caught artificially producing scarcity via any means gets a 25K $$ fine, if they are a business, and it only goes up from there. For an individual islts community service. Second offense for a business, 30 days in jail for the owner, with worker release.
I am so sick of this shit. This shit of ENFORCED ARTIFICIAL LACK must end. I want to be the one that ends it.
We have enough to go around TWICE. There is no excuse for all this waste and corresponding poverty. Poverty is a public policy choice NOT an unfortunate unavoidable reality we can't do anything about, like it's a fixture of the universe. 99% of scarcity in our world is artificially created through ignorance or active malice by those at all levels in the supply chain.
I intend to try to force ballot measures in my state to try to force Comprehensive Anti-Scarcity Policy among other things, at my earliest opportunity.
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I'm not even against a decent landlord. If I have an extra room or two, or small property someday, I'm sure I would like to consider renting it out for a little extra money. The problem is Big Business/ corporate landlords who own/ manage complexes, duplexes and individual homes.
If everyone in the public is made to believe that any landlord has the god-given right to charge ANYTHING they want if there's someone fool enough to pay it, and the only people who can afford to rent actual shelter have to make $4000/mo plus, where EXACTLY is everyone else who's not so fortunate to have those means supposed to live?? Visibly homeless persons are already treated as outright criminals or something on the level of invading animals in many municipalities. This of course is a crime against their basic human dignity and civil rights, but who's going to stop it? The Supreme Court just justified it in their eyes (we knew they would, not that that matters to me, as if I would ever allow one of these vipers to dictate my moral code to me), so I doubt any lower court is going to try to stand up for the humanity of those who happen to be in need and have no choice but to seek survival on the streets.
For how much longer should we be having this problem?
I don't know anyone that's asking for totally free housing, although I could think in a few situations where it would be justified as a transition measure. I do know is that all anyone is asking for acceptable or better housing that we can afford, along with basic rights to get some flexibility if we make can't provide the entire rent for any particular reason during our lease, without being instantly evicted. Emergencies and unexpected things happen - people should not be thrown out like trash because something happened that they had no way of predicting. We saw this with COVID and it was disgusting. A medical emergency, an arrest, a job loss, a family emergency- it could be anything!!!! Where are our protections against loss of our income so we don't have to lose our housing!!!???
But unfortunately so many landlords are natural full sociopaths so they don't lose sleep over it, and the law doesn't protect us. Listen to them talk online. Read their comments. these people are devoid of even the barest humanity or desire to understand others' struggles. Their greed is all they know or want to know.
Everyone has a human right to decent shelter, sufficient desirable food and comprehensive medical care. Most people are no are more than willing to pay what they can for these things- yet everyone in this country who has these to provide wants to intentionally keep them out of more and more hands, while at the same time having the nerve to complain about rising poverty and those living on the streets. Where (and when) does this end??? When does access to these building blocks get to be considered a RIGHT, not a privilege for the lucky few!?!
This country is full of evil and greed. Sad.
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Yeah I don't agree with property tax in most cases. Maybe all.
And it's absolutely vile that local officials use lack of payment for property taxes as an excuse to take your home, which is a crime against humanity and the rule of decency.
It is morally repugnant and reprehensible on all levels.
For one it is a grossly unequal exchange, usually by a 10:1 margin or more. What happens in these cases its literally HOME THEFT and FAMILY EVICTION, which is always amoral, unacceptable and vile. But hey, that would make it perfect for the demons who have control here.
We need public funds for public needs and services but there are other ways to provide them than private household property taxes or income taxes.
I have a big problem with the way taxes are assessed in this country in general. I do NOT support 99.8% of current tax law, esp where the top 5% and big business gets infinite breaks and majority of the tax load is placed on average people. This should be the exact reverse.
Also I'm not just comfortable with any govt structure demanding the right to take what you worked for under threat of violence. Is this really fair???? Should a group of people be able to take what is yours by force, regardless of their title? I don't think so. However, if taxes on the 99% were light, nobody would much mind, principles aside. However, taxes on average people AREN'T always light, and this is the main problem.
I support generous public services but all these needs can easily be funded through taxes on big business, the 1% and federal spending, which SHOULD be high but it isn't, as this federal/state gestapo gangster murder cartel doesn't like to help any common citizen. It's a criminal cartel set up to nurture and protect big business and corporate profit by all available means, not the 99%, meaning us. This is another problem.
Anyone else want more facts, just ask. Flaming Anarcho-Communist, at your service.
Yes i said it. You all need to learn that FOX IDIOT NEWS DOESN'T REPRESENT YOUR FUCKING INTERESTS.
Nobody does in the fucking red-blue grifting uniparty duopoly madhouse.
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Its very tragic and evil what's been done to this man. Shame on every monster who helped put him away. I hope they get theirs in an afterlife. We got cops, Pigs, FBI agents, anyone with a so-called badge in this country openly killing people right and left and never have to answer for it. Meanwhile you have this man and other activists like him, as well as citizens in general who are simply defending themselves and are doing nothing wrong; who are not trying to take life but simply defend their own against those who want to take it, and those who wish to continue a cycle of hateful oppression against them and their community. These people are either framed when this happens, or who if they do kill their attackers are convicted of first degree murder and give a life or a very long sentence. This is how are you as government works. The vast majority of the people in it, I am 100% confident in saying, after now watching and observing for the last 20-some years of my adult life, have a breathtaking capacity for evil, sadism, and cruelty.
How many murderous agents of the government should be in prison right NOW for deliberate murder towards domestic US citizens? Hundreds? Thousands? At least thousands- especially if you consider the last 100 years as a time frame.
Because of vast majority of those who are in the federal government or psychopaths. Take a look at them. Scratch the surface. They want the privilege to murder and kill with impunity and they don't even want to give us the ability to defend ourselves against it, much less the right to do the same. Just ask any racial minority Justice group The Black panthers, aim, but it doesn't have to be even a ustice group the same could apply to any common citizen. Yes it's frequently motivated by white supremacy but not always. There's also just a general psychopathy and evil involved from those who have no soul or conscience and can use their badge or their government connections as a shield for any accountability or responsibility for the crimes, and they do- they deploy this against anybody who they perceive as an enemy or an opponent for any reason not always a racial reason.
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Yeah it makes a major difference.
Training here is appallingly brief and abysmal. Entrance standards are non-existent. Good and intelligent people are denied admittance while pieces of shit are sought out.
HS diploma is the only education required, if that.
Six months max of actual training, if we're lucky. No national standards, each county can set their own training and entrance standards.
Zero professional licenses or insurance required.
Zero legal accountability. Zero civil accountability. Taxpayers via the local city and county pay for every successful civil suit brought against a local PD or cop.
A popular training method is literally called "KILL- OLOGY". Yeah. There's that.
The psychopaths are having the time of their lives. Every year they (Metro PDs) get more money and military equipment than before and there's less than zero accountability how they use it.
I guess the politicians won't be happy until everyone's dead or behind bars because that's where this is headed.
Cop City in Atlanta or as I call it, American East Coast Nazi Central, is being attempted forced through over massive public opposition. One activist was already killed by these animals with 57 bullets at point blank range while he sat peacefully with his hands up.
It's not just the joyful murders, it's the fact they prowl the streets on foot or in their Nazi cars stalking people looking for easy victims to harass, extort, steal from, inconvenience, or in more extreme cases, assault or kill. This serves no moral purpose. It is criminal behavior legally sanctioned.
Pigs are desperate to make arrests here because they're rewarded and promoted based on numbers of arrests by their higher-ups, all because cash bail (mass extortion) is a mega-multibillion dollar national industry. Counties make millions from cash bail every year.
Lockup is one of the #1 businesses in the US on a county, state and national level. One-third to half of all metro area public budgets are given to the Pigs and local jails.
Mass Incarceration ( a practice officially began in 1982) is increasing because, while it continues to cost taxpayers billions, it MAKES billions for opportunistic corporations attached to the ever-increasing Big Business of American Lockup Complex.
The Blue Nazi cartel is pure in their psychopathy and is well organized. This includes the COs, the correctional officers (aka jail and prison guards). Their lobby groups keep the politicians well-bribed and paid off so that they will have job security and big paychecks. They don't care that it ruins good lives- they thrive on evil and sadism and savagery. As long as their paychecks and benefits are fat, and their total sanctioned legal impunity continues, they don't care how this affects communities.
They're parasites - and they deserve extermination.
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@DellikkilleD lol no I just like to help the big box stores help out the non-priveleged in their community which really, they should be happy to do considering their profits. And smaller stores shouldn't sweat the small stuff. I wouldn't. I really wouldn't. Stores can't just give it all away of course but a 1-5% loss is nothing. It's nothing. Only the most reactionary or greedy would want to be upset over that. Hell I ever have my own business I will never care if I lose up to even 10-15% of profits. It won't come anywhere l near that but provided I was in the black and in no financial trouble, that's within a margin I'm willing to tolerate. But I've always been a giving person so... It would be very nice if everyone was less self-focused and more willing to share. There's more than enough to go around. The surplus should go back to the community, not be wasted. I hate waste. If we eliminate resource waste, we mostly eliminate poverty.
Anyways look I agree with what you're saying about work. Nobody should tolerate a bad workplace, for any reason. I have before and it was a very tough time. Sometimes looking back I do wish I walked out much sooner. But its easier for some to quit than others. Especially if you're a single parent, have a disability, are a minority, have no savings or family to fall back on, or anything else which can make it a shittier and less certain prospect to quit a job, even if you're skilled or educated.
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40 years of predatory reaganism has destroyed whatever hope the US ever had at being a decent and respectable nation. I'm a proud, drum-beating Socialist who lives in California so anyone who knows me knows what to expect from me in response to these situations.
I could go on and on with my hate for this third world devolving nation and great Satan in the world. I'm going to fight like hell to do what I can to make it better, and then I'm going to leave. Maybe Mexico, maybe Canada, I don't know. I love everywhere I've lived in the US but 30% of the people are nuttier than a fruitcake and the power structure is so corrupted, and peopled by such willfully evil predators, I just don't know if it can be fixed. I dream of Canada invading and taking over bit they haven't exactly been a bastion of human rights either; not in regards to their First Nations people's or their low-skilled migrant population that they are currently exploiting. Still, a damn sight better than the US, I'm sure.
My heart breaks for all the people victimized by the psychopaths in power here, from the demonically-evil state Pigs aka State Troopers, local street police, DAs, evil judges, metro area city councils and everyone in between. I don't mean to be too pessimistic but I look out, I carefully gather my evidence both past and present, and all I see is absolute pathological predation and cruelty on steroids and attitudes in the public of shocking levels of apathy or approval to it.
I cross my fingers California will secede. Maybe we can do better on our own. Then again, the internal oppressors and corruption-lovers would still be here, within the state's power structure, and independence wouldn't change that. So I guess there is no goddamn easy answers.
As a human-centered Socialist I know exactly what the answers are, but I doubt I'll ever have the power to enact them.
I pray every day something changes drastically here in the next ten years. I don't know what it's going to take.
Maybe we'll finally have a real mass uprising for a change, idk. There's got to be a better way and I pray we get there before more millions suffer or die needlessly and avoidably to crimes of cruelty, neglect, and high-level capitalism; because right now that's exactly where we're headed for far too many and it's happening exactly as we speak. A lot of people are suffering, a lot of people are desperate for help and aren't getting it.
I never understood the elites' and the politicians' boundless appetites for cruelty and apathy towards the working and lower classes here. And God forbid if you're a person with a disability, a serious physical health need or a mental health condition. Those are almost concrete guarantees you're going to flirt with poverty all your life and have a very high likelihood of ending up on the street or in a homeless status at least once in your life.
I dont know why the powers that be are so corrupt and cruel here. Those that can make it on the private market for jobs and support do so, and those that can't fall thru the cracks and have to scramble for help from friends or family, or they end up on the street or a shelter (if they can even find one that will take them and that has an opening).
What a tragic state of affairs. It doesn't have to be like this, but the phenomenally abusive and predatory ruling class and their servants in govt ensure it stays this way. Then they can't even have a modicum of understanding and compassion for the homeless on the street that their system helped create, and instead prefer to demonize them and subject them to dehumanizing treatment. It's ... I don't even know what to think anymore. It's a cavalcade of sadism and a merry-go-round of savagery.
Millions are doing great, to be sure; and millions aren't. Every year I keep wondering when the sadism in our system here is going to stop, and every year it just keep doubling down over and over. Forty years of Reaganism has done exactly what it set out to do, create havoc in the bottom 40-50% of the population here. It's done all that , and so much more. What will the next 40 years bring I wonder???? More of the same? Worse?? Private charity is simply not able to meet the needs of everyone who needs help here, and govt at all levels for the most part couldnt care less. So where in the FUCK does that leave us??? I honestly don't know but it causes those of us who care about these issues a lot of pain every day.
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@drcatrinaking I'm not sure about that. Increasing the minimum wage to a strong level is step one. Forcing some level of rent control is step two. Employing a full suite of food repurposing, redistribution, supplemental and food saving programs is step 3. Having price controls, limitations on executive pay, market share limits, markup limits, anti-monopoly limits and such is step 4. Employing full public healthcare is step 5. Placing a strong full suite of Labor protections into law is step 6. Guaranteeing a limited amount of UBI for those under a determined income threshold based on household size is step 7. And so on.....
Poverty and insecurity is what happens when the ruling class is unchecked and the 99% don't matter- in short it's a policy failure. It's the me-first ideology, where nobody and nothing else matters, all workers are disposable, and only money matters. It's bogus and destructive.
I'm not against the business sector but the worker HAS to come first; as do our communities, as do our environment. Without that our lives don't have much value & companies can do whatever they want (which they do) and I'm sorry I cannot support that.
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@lubu2960 nu person chiming in here- yes I'm by no means an expert but I have heard due to the conquest by the Spanish invaders in the 16th C., whiteness became a prized trait and has historically been viewed as more desirable, granting one access to the higher rungs of society. I don't know if this was true for everyone everywhere in South America, but this has been my impression that a prejudice in favor of whiteness was present. I imagine that even today there are lingering effects of this throughout the regions, considering these social realities presumably existed to a greater or lesser degree for 100s of years. There certainly is the case here in the US. I mean, it still amazes me when I look back over the last 400 years just how extreme and entrenched the policies of Black slavery (and later 100 years give or take of Jim Crow), and Native American removal/annihilation became amongst those who carried them out, and their sympathizers in the public.
The legacy of bigotry and white supremacy in the South still holds strong with a fair-sized segment of the population today unfortunately. You can see this in a lot of subtle and not-so-subtle ways, altho people are fighting back and this is changing, some in more symbolic ways and some more substantial.
I can only hope in time this prejudiced racialized nonsense will continue to die off, and not be replaced by getting passed down to the next generation as it has been in too many cases so far. I do think we're finally turning a corner on the last holdouts of bigotry and ignorance here, at least in the public sphere, altho it's by no means over. We still have a long ways to go to marginalize a major political party called the GOP, one whom openly courts racism and xenophobia in it's voters and members and leads attacks on voting rights for POC. We still have a lot of work to do to dismantle the system of mass incarceration, a racially-motivated system of oppression that has been in place now for 40 years, craftily begun under Reagan and carried out faithfully in many states since. There's still a LOT of hard work ahead of us to be done before anything like full equality, dignity and opportunity can be said to exist for ALL US citizens regardless of their color or financial background- and that is a shame. It sure as shit shouldn't be taking this long- but it is. (I'm sure there will probably always be some people who will refuse to give up their carefully-held prejudice for whatever reason, but as long as they keep it to themselves and don't use it as an excuse for violence, I can live with it.)
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The problem is that every corporation sees workers as slaves and property and they want to keep the vast majority of the profit they make to themselves, their top executives, and their shareholders. Nobody else.
Even those wages and the giveaways that the gentleman at 2:00 what's discussing was nothing but a crumb off of the masters table. I know to him it seemed like a nice gesture and a sizable award, but it was still next to nothing compared to the overall largest and profit that company had made that year. Even back then the company was taken advantage of and stiffing their workers, it just didn't seem that way to that guy because his usual we've all been socialized to accept so little and so when they give just a little bit more than we expect we suddenly feel like the heavens have shined upon us. I mean in the 90s $15 an hour STILL wasn't very much. I guess the cost of living where he lived was low so he could have a reasonable standard of living on that, but the truth is, even back then he was taking it raw from the company. The executives were making six and seven figure paychecks while he was barely topping out at $30 or 50K a year IF he was lucky. So even back in the good old days it WASN'T that good- it was still highway robbery. These corporations will NEVER treat you right or give you anything more than crumbs unless they are legally forced too. It's ALWAYS been a scam. It's always been a criminal enterprise, from Day 1.
Even though the workers are 99% of the reason why the company is successful and profitable, by some sick twist of logic corporate bigwigs don't think workers deserve anything. The workers do almost everything. The c-suite is dependent upon the workers, and yet the workers are the first to go out the window when they need to make "cutbacks". These places just see workers as their objects, as their meat robots to be used as needed and thrown away when necessary. They're angry they even have to pay them at all.
They have this sociopathic sense of entitlement that tells them that they're entitled to everything, and the workers are just something that they have to use in order to get it, but in reality if the world was fair to the poor suffering business owner, then they would bring slavery back so they (corporate boss) could get their labor for free again which is what they really want.
Because even though the collective efforts of their employee base is the ONLY reason the company exists and is staying alive, somehow the company brass who lives off of these selfsame producers doesn't feel they (workers) deserve to see the profits their work has generated.
Everybody else in a company is literally a parasite, wholly dependent on the collective body of the workers, including the upper management, and yet company ownership rarely if ever feels they deserve to be compensated accordingly.
Such is the crime and the gangster nature of every large corporation.
A large company is nothing more than organized crime masquerading as a legal entity.
Its workers are robbed blind everyday and everyone else runs off with the loot. Since this is legal it's considered fair and just; or at least, that's what they keep trying to make us believe. Apparently their constant non-stop brainwashing efforts in western society have yielded great results. Every time we talk about Labor Justice it never fails to provoke one of the brainwashed dogs piping up in opposition- and you just know that fool is either unemployed or makes shit money. The only difference is, we have enough self-respect to know when we're getting fucked, and the other guy seems to love it, as he doesn't seem to want better for himself or for his fellow workers/professionals out here.
In a just world, this would never happen (corporate abuse) because it would be seen for what it is, massive robbery, but there's some kind of evil spirit or dark magic that holds this world together and the good guys don't rule here, the criminals do; the users, the killers, the exploiters, and so on; and all Western governments seem to serve this goal. Hopefully that won't always be true, but that certainly true today, and it's been true for a long time. I mean any so-called divine power didn't seem to care that the new world was being plundered and centuries of slavery and all kinds of crimes against humanity were being happily carried out by many powerful interests; as they are today still.
If by chance we can get real leftists into office we can start instituting hard and fast labor laws that can mandate labor protections of all sorts, but until we do this kind of nonsense will just continue.
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I live here in San Diego and I've been following this. Frankly it hasn't shocked me. I don't think anyone who sits on a city council position in any medium sized city or above honestly has a conscience or embraces anywhere near moral values in the way they see the world. So this doesn't shock me at all. Especially knowing that this is in LA.
I'm very proud of these people to be keeping up the pressure. This is exactly what I was hoping would happen. I knew the local news were lying bastards when they lied the second day and said the crowd was much diminished and they went out of their way to emphasize that. I thought maybe I was reading too much into it but I don't think so, in thinking that they were trying to communicate to their viewership in a subtle way that these comments by these council members weren't so bad and that very few people were actually genuinely upset by them, and even if they were they didn't possess the determination or the focus to stick it through even past one day. And of course that's all bullshit.
But looking back it seems pretty clear that's what the local news media coverage was trying to do when they made a point of stating several times that even the very second day after the incident blew up, that the public response was noticeably diminished from the previous day. It might have been temporarily diminished only because they opened up the street in front of the City council building to traffic again. So they couldn't accommodate as many people as the day before, when they were spilling out into the roadway.
Anyhow, I'm relieved and deeply gratified to see these people keeping up the pressure. I don't know the ethnicity of the other five council members but given that the vast majority of people who find their way into the city council are scumbag human filth, it we would be wise to go over ALL of their previous communications over the past years with a fine-tooth comb. God knows what they've been saying behind the scenes. They probably feel real lucky right now as any damning information about them hasn't yet seen the light of day. But that can always change. I can only imagine what other explosive comments have been made that if they were to be released, would instantly spell the end of the careers of others as well.
I just think City councils are trash anyways and shouldn't exist. But that's another discussion. Good for these protesters, good for LA, thank you Status Coup for following this. I will be continuing to follow the story.
These counselors should be ashamed of themselves, there were disgraceful reflection on their own race, and they should never again be able to touch a public political seat. These are the REASONS why the black community is ALWAYS under attack. If it's not coming from the white devils it's coming from some of these Brown bastards. it's disgusting that people of color can't unite for each other's dignity and advancement.
There's a coldness and a sociopathy and a hatefulness that in my perhaps limited experience (although one that I believe is representative), virtually all people who seek public office in this country have. This isn't the first time I've seen revolting and heartless attitudes from local so-called representatives. I don't believe I'm too cynical when I say in this case it's very much as above so below. Scumbags and sociopaths at the state level, at DC, and locally too. Politicos are not necessarily any different just because they might be located down the street from you.
Anyway this disgraceful bitch and her wannabe Brown Nazi little buddy need to resign and disgrace and never be heard from again.
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If the FTC really wanted to be a hard regulator they would have their work cut out for them for the next 100 years, bec big biz has the nothing but get away with one thing or another over the past 60 years as it has bribed or convinced govt groups to look the other way or back off.
Honestly the most glaring lack of oversight is in the Care industries. Nursing home facilities and behavioral care centers, esp that focus on minors. For anyone who's followed this issue at all, as I do occasionally, the abuses and misconduct are shamefully rife. It's because criminal for-profit corporations are allowed to participate and run the centers and that right there should be a no-go from the start, but it isn't, because in this country nobody guards the gate. Really, they don't. It's always a crooked collusion between so-called regulators, Court officials sometimes even social workers and hospital workers and these types of places. I'm willing to grant that sometimes some of these workers honestly do not know better and thought these places were responsible, but I know sometimes they do know. A lot of exposes in lawsuits have come out regarding these facilities over the past ten years.
I'm fine with cracking down on various consumer goods I don't care about that, as long as they don't make that they're so focused but were their efforts are desperately needed are in healthcare and behavioral care. A little enforcement and a few simple regulatory changes could have huge ripple effects.
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For some reason I am highly surprised to learn that there are/were "native" Scandinavian communities AND that they were even discriminated against.
I don't know why I find the hard to believe, but I guess I always thought it was more enlightened up there. And not only that..... How do I say this .... You're both WHITE, right??? There's no major ethnic difference between them and yourselves?? In the US it's always been white VS non-white (it still is, unfortunately, in some ways), so it's a strange thing for me to think of actual tensions and prejudice arising when there's no racial difference (I know, "race" isn't actually a scientific term, but I just use it here as shorthand).
Then again non-Jews and Jewish people in Germany were racially identical so, yeah, color isn't always the deciding factor where prejudice is involved.
I'm curious, what's the current status of relations with the Sami? And how were they treated in the past, are they still being treated wrongly today?
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@Leyrann that doesn't justify inhumane treatment. Detention is one thing - inhumane treatment is another. I know some people are evil for lack of a better word but most are not, and you can't fix evil imo you can just keep them in a facility where they can't do any more harm.
I understand the desire for revenge for truly evil acts, but they are already paying for their choices by losing their future. We don't need to subject them to further harm intentionally. In the worst cases I'm sure they would deserve it, but I'd prefer to let other inmates make that decision. Official prison policies should remain civilized, bec otherwise abusive treatment becomes normalized in general and can be applied to the average inmate.
I believe there are many abusive and unjust standards and policies that are par for the course in most US prisons today. This isn't right.
Most inmates aren't evil per se but disturbed or simply made a wrong choice. Detention may be called for, but intentional abuse is not. Traumatizing someone on purpose is also a crime - and it's no way to attempt to fix someone who may well be fixable. Only actual rehabilitation and getting them to face the consequences of their choices does.
Also, most people are locked up for pretty petty reasons. Not all- but most in my opinion. Once you start learning the facts of the mass industrial incarceration system you'll see this very quickly.
In short - if a person is capable of improving only humane treatment will help them reach that point. Opportunities, recreation, work training, basic life skills training, education, counseling, constructive therapy programs, and healthcare. If we want people to make different choices in life we have to give them the tools, it's that simple. It's the difference between constructive detention and just warehousing people and treating them like animals without rights. One is right and actually helps to fix a problem, and the other doesn't and just keeps the cycle going.
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Here's my plan to address all affordable housing needs that I have posted elsewhere, updated with some key points from this video-
This problem is so easy to solve, here's how:
1. Hard and binding rent control NOW.
Details as follows:
- Rent pegged to income, max 20% of net income, OR no more than 125% of landlords' mortgage installment of the unit currently under mortgage; whichever is larger.
- for units owned free and clear, tenant pays landlord no more than a maximum of 20% of net income
For designated low-income tenants (based on household size): 15% of income to be set as maximum rent amount, no exceptions. In cases where this is insufficient to cover the desired rent being assessed (provided it is within the 125% limit), govt subsidies can be used to supplement the difference.
2. Full eviction protections in both public and private housing. Aggressive support and intervention given via local housing agencies to attempt to resolve all disputes positively and prior to resorting to eviction proceedings. Enact comprehensive Distressed Renter programs to include periods of partial rent, paused rent and rent cancellation for predetermined qualified circumstances. Where this would affect an owner's ability to make their mortgage payment, owner can be automatically entered into a "special temporary adjustment" program which adjusts the required mortgage payment accordingly during duration of tenant's participation in program.
3. Mandate universal Section 8 acceptance, no Section 8 discrimination allowed.
4. Sharply increase the Section 8 program in coverage amounts and numbers of persons covered
5. Sharply increase public housing inventory in all 50 states. Make wide use of manufactured home communities and small plexes when possible, over high-density high rises, but use both as necessary.
6. Provide prompt assistance to any renter at risk of homelessness for any reason
7. Actual justice in Tenant Court mandated with full legal representation guaranteed for EVERY tenant under eviction proceeding.
8. Community protection, anti-gentrification and gentrification-limiting measures
9. Finally, let's all remember that housing security matters. Housing stability is the foundation for a better life we all deserve. Affordable housing is EVERYONE'S right.
BAM I've done it. Am I a genius??? No. Just a person with common sense and a conscience.
Why won't politicians do this?? Because they're trash, they're elite, they don't have the empathy, and they just don't care. We need people who will.
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@cjhooray Aw man thanks. I worked such a long time to save up for this T-shirt and I would like think my mother, my father, everyone who ever believed in me, my dog Patches, my fish Freddy, my cat Snuggles, the squirrels who live across the street in the park who never forgot me, and everyone who stood by me through this long difficult process. It hasn't been easy but because of my faith in God and my lucky rabbit's foot (and a few sacrifices, I mean animal sacrifices), we made it to this point and I want to thank Target for being such a great example of retail sprawl and believing in me, and choosing to recognize me for years of hard work and dedication. I know earned a right to wear this T-shirt with pride. So many times I wanted to give up in this journey but I realized that no matter how difficult things got, the reward would always be worth it and with hard work and steadfast commitment I was able to keep going. And now the final reward is here. I have my very first T-shirt, and I couldn't be more proud. Truth is I'll never forget this day.
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@kevinperry581 I find it hard to believe the beef market could ever be saturated. Everyone wants beef. Well, everyone who's not against eating meat. That is not the problem, I believe. As usual, it's due a mega-corporate takeover. Corporations are always the problem, they always have been and until they're crushed they always will be.
Big Business has always bought the US govt going back to to the days of the industrialists and the robber barons and by doing so has tried to destroy the medium and little guy along the way, and it continues today.
Until we crush the power of the big business cartel savages in this country, who's only credo is infinite greed and will destroy ANYTHING in service that goal, the rest of us will suffer. We already do, in many ways.
It happens across every industry everywhere you look.
In my eyes, corporations are pure cancer.
Not all businesses, just Big Business.
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@johnlast6066 lol maybe in a few counties but it's not typical. Again in the US there are next to no requirements. You just have to be somebody that likes bullying and harming and stealing from others and picking on the weak and you're in. A big plus if you're racist. I don't even know if a diploma is required in some places.
Training is piss-poor, six months at the most and they're completely above any law or censure. 100% totally lawless in virtually all situations. They answer to no one.
They aren't taught the law they're told to basically go out and steal as much as they can from the public and try to round up as many people for the jail as they can because more arrests equals more bail that the city can charge. It's pretty much a criminal racket.
They're just mindless goons for hire that's all. They'll shoot at and kill anyone they're told to. They're mindless savages and robots. They're the worst dregs of humanity. They're miserable and full of hate and they want an excuse to vent it on the world.
Maybe not all are racist psychopaths but they're all bastards and they're all doing wrong and they're all corrupt. These are the streetwalking Pigs I'm talking about here not necessarily the detectives although there are plenty of bad detectives too.
Just face it your dad's in the blue gestapo dude.
Responsible safety responders are one thing, that's all that safety requires and if we had that I wouldn't have a problem with it, but most cops here are not responsible. Also, patrol cops are criminals. Every patrol violates human and civil rights, every single one. Patrols are anti-human dignity. Anytime Street Pigs initiates a hostile contact to a peaceful citizen they're committing a crime.
It's all about control and profit. The blue gestapo just wants to control others and live above the law while doing no work and living off the hard work of others. There's nothing honorable to it quite the opposite. If they didn't have that gun they would be hiding under their bed, it's a job for cowards. Straight Pigs are some of the most psychotically paranoid freaks on this planet. They're literally the last people should be carrying a lethal weapon.
They make homeless people's lives hell for sport. They thrive on picking on the weak.
I've never met a street cop that had an IQ above 5. They're literally brainwashed af. I've talked straight to them in a very polite voice asking to stop what they were doing and at least explain it and hear me out, and was just ignored as if I wasn't there. I knew they'd heard me but either they couldn't comprehend what I was saying or didn't care, probably both.
It's like talking to a wall. There are incapable of questioning why they do what they do, like all brainwashed robots. They would have given the Jonestown victims a run for their money.
They're just animals that should be put down. They're nothing but a scourge and curse on the world. They prey on the poor and people of color. They're terrorists and thieves.
A free society doesn't allow patrol Pigs to exist. They're just gang members by another name.
They know they're nothing but that gun gives them an unfair advantage over others and due to that it inflates their ego which encourages them to be more aggressive and initiate more hostile contacts. In some cases they engage in violence for sport.
Patrols are done in enemy territory NOT in our communities. Any Pig that walks the street looking for a victim is committing a crime. They are community infiltrators and oppressors. At best they are pests, at worst, stone-cold psychopaths.
Responsible investigators and 911 responders would be permissible if we could get that all the time, but apparently we can't. When and if we do, I'll appreciate it, but it seems pretty rare.
The blue street patrol gang is a gestapo and should be destroyed by fire.
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@Account NumberEight ok fine, there's nothing wrong with that, but others want to be believe in some sort of afterlife, me included. Anything that inspires people to come together for a positive purpose, in a positive form of community is great in my book. Also, you don't have to believe everything being talked about or covered in a given church or religious organization to enjoy being part of their community or going to their services. Maybe you agree with only part of it, or none if it, but it's still nice to come together IF there's a positive message being given. I don't stick around for churches that promote stupidity, or anti-science or LGBT hate, but I do go to those that preach love and support, even if I don't believe in every last detail of whatever their particular belief system is.
Unless you're very antisocial, and it's ok if you are, getting together in groups it's something very healthy for most people.
Seriously you should try a spiritual group or the Unitarian universalists. They welcome everyone and every belief background, or lack of belief, so long as it's not based on hate.
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I mean for me it's a very simple- it comes down to how much power do you want an outside authority to have? If people want to bow down and worship authority or violence no matter how abusive it gets I guess that's their prerogative but I don't want to live that way. No thank you. If people want the citizens to be a pseudoslave I guess that's their prerogative but I don't share that view. People seem to have it twisted here, they think we exist to serve the feds and the governmental structure, not the other way around.
I'm all for fair courts, Fair legal procedures, fair whatever, with many levels of independent oversight and checks and balances, and the right to seek help from State force if one so desires it. But I don't agree with the prison State in its current form, I don't agree with most cops, I don't agree with cops being able to do whatever the hell they want and having total impunity the way we do now, I don't agree with the prison industrial complex, I don't agree with the 1984 pseudo-State we have now, I don't agree with a lot of it. I don't agree with drugs or the drug trade being illegal nope sure don't. I don't agree with large corpos and Wall Street being able to run away with everything and I don't agree with the current extent of IP law. I don't agree with the public not having a say on many matters, we should have direct voting on most items, other than those that are self-evident to be needed immediately & serve a life-affirming purpose; etc. I don't agree with HOAs because I mean, for SO many obvious reasons. I don't agree that cops have the right to occupy public land at any time for ANY purpose without being on an emergency call or a legitimate investigation. That means all patrolling, stalking and the endless river of thieving & unnecessary bodysnatching they get away with must be stopped IMMEDIATELY, it's crime that we've all been nass brainwashed to accept as normal! It's CRIME ffs!! Its not right.
There's a LOT I don't agree with. We can have a small State while still managing our affairs in a positive, efficient, forward-thinking way that serves everyone.
I'm all for rational fair and positive public management that strives to serve the needs of everyone while doing its best not to infringe on citizens' autonomy.
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@smokingfast lol "handouts". That word again. Yes, for those who need them, aka public housing, I most certainly agree with "handouts" as you feel necessitated to call them.
The only reason public housing has failed in this country because it was deliberately CAUSED to fail by corrupt local city leaders or state officials. If you don't water a plant will die. If you constantly starve a housing complex of the basic minimum needed money for it to survive, and neglect its residents of course over time the place will deteriorate. At any time local officials could have decided to manage it like any other property. They deliberately let it fail, they deliberately CAUSED it to fail. if you don't know this, you're not very bright. For a perfect visual explanation of this watch The Pruitt-Igoe Myth.
Social housing can work just as well as anything else if it's managed properly AKA not deliberately and maliciously neglected. Everywhere else in the world where social housing is provided by an ethical government it works wonderfully.
Maybe you honestly don't know but stop trying to gaslight me and spread misinformation in order to justify the fundamentally exploitative nature of landlording, where LLs can charge excessive if not outrageous amounts of rent off the backs of the working and lower middle class, literally stealing the wealth that they could have to stored up for their future. LLs buy off government officials at all levels to make it legal to do what they do, then they charge the maximum they can get away with thereby literally /stealing/ the future savings and potential of each tenant. That's not right.
In a private housing market, the only fair and ethical way to assign rent is by income limit- no more than 20% of a tenant's income in absence of mortgage, OR, a reasonable amount over the amount of the mortgage - I prefer 15% of the monthly amount - when a mortgage is present.
Your point of view is ignorant and very typical of a right-wing person who allows themselves to watch Fox News and lacks awareness.
How is one able to save for a house on a low or average income if the rent I'm obligated to spend is up to 60% of what I make? That's unacceptable and unethical. I don't deserve to be rapidly impoverished just to make some lazy piece of shit rich on MY hard work. That makes me an indentured servant and him a parasite. Now it's true I'm living in a property he owns, but he is morally obligated not to demand excessive rent. If the laws were moral and not completely tilted in favor of the 1%, this would already be in place and be considered the normal way of doing business.
I actually will be moving out of the current complex I'm living in but I have to stay in my area for several reasons, not the least which is my job. Unless I take on a roommate or two, and we may (I have a partner), my rent will not go down very much regardless of where I go right now within my local area. The best I could find at that bogus immoral SCAM con-artist off-the-street"market" rate is $1800 for a standard 2-bdrm.
"Market rate" is a criminal con term and is nothing but an excuse to price-gouge. Imagine letting property owners demand their own rent and disqualified anybody who can't afford to pay whatever hefty amount they choose. so what are poor people supposed to do? I mean people who are very low income? There are some limited resources for the low income but not nearly enough. Market rate leaves out and overcharges at least half of all renters out there. It just should be illegal. it's wrong it's a ripoff it's a gouge it's immoral. Period. Because most landlords are extremely greedy and want to get rich fast they gouge rent as much as they can, leaving poor and lower income people high and dry. This is what happens when private GREED gets to set the agenda. It's WRONG.
I don't usually mind independent landlords IF they don't charge too much for rent and they don't slumlord. Unless you are unethical, you're not the main problem. I'm usually not opposed to single households renting out an extra property to bring themselves a little extra income. Those types aren't the problem- usually.
It's the large corporate holders that I have the problem with. For them, this setup gets them phenomenally rich while we stay increasingly rent-burdened, increasingly impoverished to pay for their lavish and indulgent lifestyles. It's wrong and if you agree with it you're wrong.
I'm not a dumb person, I have a decent amount of skills and education, and I consider myself reasonably intelligent, but not all of us can make 90K+. Rent should be fair and reasonable and sent low enough on a sliding scale so that all can afford it. Housing is a human RIGHT and it should NOT be turned over to be turned into a form of debt-slavery to serve the depredations of those who are ruled by their greed.
You should think about this for a while.
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Yes it's very sad and enraging. I've watched several explosive documentaries on this issue. It's incredibly tragic. Basically state and federal regulators are ruthless thugs (or do their best imitation of one) and seemed to take special pleasure in destroying or attempting to destroy the small family operations in their jurisdiction. It's utterly bizarre. You have to wonder how they got to be that way I mean it's. .. it's nothing that any normal human being with a normal conscience and a rational brain would behave like.
The small competitor and the small business is at risk in every industry. Around me I see them going after small cannabis shops and getting them shut down or forcing them to move across the county or switch to a delivery-only platform. Of course I know this problem goes far beyond just legal weed shops.
So long as you have dirty judges and disgusting State Police Pigs and local police that will do the will of these corrupt judges without question, whose judges will then obey the corrupt policies of shamelessly bought-and-sold politicians and industry regulators, then we're going to have a problem.
Small operators in every industry are at real risk. Big business is a ginormous ruthless cartel in this country and they have their fingers everywhere. If small operators come under fire by a big player, they always seems to be those in government or enforcement that will be more than happy to target them without a a second thought.
Once you're attacked by these people you can stop being naive. I hope nobody watches these shorts ever says back the blue. As I always say, don't say back to Blue they will never ever back you. They exist to thief serve and protect themselves at YOUR expense. and if you're not a big player AKA a big corporate big shot in some way or another, the local state or federal agencies almost certainly don't give a flying f*** about you and, if convenient or if they need to just help themselves to some quick cash may come and raid your business on alleged Petty violations, or just make new ones up on the spot. That's how they've been attacking all the small independent cannabis shops in my area.
Unfortunately these people have no conscience. Their predators. If they see you as easy game they're going to target you.
We can make better laws and that's one good step forward if we could ever get there, which it seems like we can't, but again, everything depends upon enforcement and justice in the courts and that is something I have seen is just as rare in this place.
I'm not sure what the perfect solution is but we have to keep fighting for one that's for sure.
Small operators in every industry are under attack by corporate predators and those who work for them and this shouldn't be allowed to stand.
It's really stunning that these dogs who work for these corporate scum can do what they do. What kind of country do they want to see, I mean why are they so loyal, it's something I would ask? I mean do they think only large corpus deserve to do business? It's truly a mindfuck. I'm just curious what their end goal is. If they even have one. Put every small and medium-sized operator out of business? It's amazing too because these giant corporates are making money hand over fist and yet that's still not enough for them.
And the fact that they actually find protection and enablement from policy makers, local enforcement judges agencies is what really gets me. This sickness is served by these people. It really is amazing to me. They seem to have zero awareness of what they're doing or could care less. What in the world would possess any human being to attempt to significantly harm or deprived another small operation of the right to make a living!?!?!? They're living in honest lifestyle trying to live off of their honest labor, harming nobody and they are certainly not commanding a large market share. There's more than enough market share out there for large players, medium-sized regionals or smaller corps, and small mom and pop operations
It's just a mind fuck It's just an absolute mind blow.
Edit: sorry for the rough unedited text to speech transcript everyone. Editing on a phone is such a pain.
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@bortsimpson4536 knock it off with your attitude towards those with addiction. Have some compassion. A lot of addicts have been thru severe trauma in their lives that you will never know. Nobody sets out with the express intention to end up with a severe substance abuse problem. Instead of judging, if you really wanted to reduce the number of addicts, you should support the extreme need for housing reform and a sharp increase in free drug and alcohol treatment programs, including provisions for compassionate rules where a program participant isn't immediately thrown out of they slip up and have a relapse. Achieving sobriety is a serious challenge for anyone who's been using. If it was easy and could be done by simply wanting to in an afternoon everyone would do it and rehabs wouldn't be necessary. Relapses are part of the process- substance abuse counselors who are often ex-users themselves you'd think would know this, but I've known those who were sincerely trying and were almost through yet we're kicked out at their first relapse. How tf does that help anyone??? I hate seeing that and I believe it's very wrong to do so. Just because someone can't be perfect on their first try doesn't mean they don't want to get clean and aren't trying!
It really outrages me when those who have been doing their best to stay clean are punished for not being perfect in these programs and I wish that would be stopped.
But even outside of that, a person who's ready to quit can't rightly do so when they're on the street and every day is a hand to mouth struggle. There's no way someone can go from using to clean under those conditions.
If you care about your fellow man you should want them to get any help they need to find stable, adequate housing, regardless of their drug status. Any social worker will tell you, without security, safety and housing FIRST- navigating the difficult journey to sobriety is impossible. People aren't superhuman. Unless someone truly wishes to be homeless, and most don't, stable housing must absolutely come FIRST before a person can start to make progress on other issues or needs. I mean this is just common sense.
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Cops have no right to be violent, EVER. These are DEMONS who belong in PRISON. POLICE VIOLENCE IS UNACCEPTABLE- ANY NON-DEFENSIVE VIOLENCE IS IMMORAL AND UNACCEPTABLE, AND THAT IS WHY WE FIGHT.
STREET COPS ARE NOTHING BUT DEATH SQUADS, AND MURDER, BRUTALITY, AND RAPE GANGS- AND THAT'S ALL THEY ARE. THEY EXIST TO STEAL AND EXTORT FOR THEMSELVES AND OCCASIONALLY THE COUNTY COFFERS. THEY ARE ORGANIZED CRIME UNDER ANOTHER NAME AND ITS ONLY DUE TO A CENTURY OF BRAINWASHING AND PR SCAMS THAT MAKES THE PUBLIC BELIEVE THESE PEOPLE ARE THE GOOD GUYS. BELIEVE ME, THEY MOST CERTAINLY ARE NOT. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM IS A VICIOUS, BLOODTHIRSTY PREDATOR- AND IF THEY ARENT TARGETING POC THEY'RE TARGETING HOMELESS PEOPLE. THEY INFEST OUR ROADS AND HIGHWAYS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR EASY VICTIMS.THEY ARE CROOKED, DIRTY, CRIMINAL, SAVAGE SOCIOPATHS!
THEY ARE THE WORLD'S MOST PROTECTED AND IMPUNE VIOLENT, THEIVING GANG.
THEY ARE A MAFIA, A MOB OF ANIMALS!! THE WORST OF THE WORST IS WHO THEY ARE AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM DESERVES EITHER JAIL, PRISON, THE ICU, OR DEATH!!!!
THE ONLY PIGS THAT WILL EVER HELP YOU ARE DETECTIVES- AND THAT'S MAYBE!!! Definitely no guarantee even with that. Just ask rape victims who tried reporting their crime and in some cases were belittled and told they were lying.
WE ARE PAYING FOR THIS MAFIA OF ABSOLUTE PSYCHOPATHS WILL PUBLIC MONEY. NOW SOMEONE TELL ME- WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON WITH THAT!!!??!
AND THESE LOBOTOMY VICTIMS OUT HERE SCREAMING "BLUE LIVES MATTER". THATS LIKE SAYING "RAPISTS' LIVES MATTER" OR "LAWLESS PSYCHOPATHS' AND PREDATORS' LIVES MATTER". Because that is what you are really saying when you say "blue lives matter".
THEY ARE A BRUTALITY, THEFT AND MURDER RING. THAT IS LITERALLY ALL THAT THEY ARE IN ANY MAJOR CITY AND EVEN OUTSIDE OF IT.
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Hakim I think you're great but life is complicated. The modern world is more complicated than ever. Economies are not simple things and are going to need a mixture of nationalization, private ownership and worker ownership, imo. This is going to sound cheesy but I think life is similar to golf in that there's not one golf club that works in every situation. I see something as complicated and multifaceted as a national or local economy as something that should be diverse and flexible in order to meet the needs of everyone. Even under private ownership, it doesn't mean Labor can't be protected and get their full profit shares, provided their rights are spelled out in the law.
That's where I'm at with it.
I think when we're younger it's easy to fall into a little bit of magical thinking "well what if ONLY we just had this" and I know how tempting that can be and I really appreciate the enthusiasm that young people bring, I mean it wasn't all that long ago for me I'm only 41, but you know when you do get a little older than you kind of realize okay, we have certain restraints on us just by the reality we live in, huge systems are already in place and they have their inertia and their protections, but that certainly doesn't mean we can't apply ourselves in the most efficient ways to try to achieve our desired outcomes.
Why don't we start by goals that we can achieve in our lifetime?? Full comprehensive labor rights under law. More welfare, for lack of a better word. Ethical tax reform. Comprehensive environmental safeguards. Green energy plus nuclear energy support. Justice issues, which will vary from country to country. (Do women even have anything approaching equal rights in the middle-east yet? I'm honestly asking- in the US it's gross racial issues)
I'm willing to hear criticisms of this approach but in reality, what else is there?? Anyhow for people who want to make real change we can always try. We got to try to come up through the existing system however. At least for now. Who knows where things will be in 20 years or 50 years, more options may be possible, but now we have to start where we're at. Meaning for me we have to try the political approach because really we don't have the means to force anything else- yet. That's just how I see it. I think a revolutionary agenda can be achieved more than one way.
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I really do appreciate you guys and what you do, and I support everyone on TYT crew; but you DO know that the ONLY reason the Talban are back in charge is due to what Trump and Pompeo gave them last year right?? And that Biden allowed and refused to reverse course??? You DO know about the released 5000 Taliban prisoners from Kabul, plus their #1 leader who was held in Pakistan until Trump demanded they release him last year??? And that Trump removed 12,500 US personnel and closed TEN US airbases, leaving much of our heavy weapons and ammo behind (to be found and appropriated by you know who)?? And that the local Afghan forces had been drastically under-equipped and some were reported as starving or severely underfed by the central govt, which would appear to be Ghani's fault on the surface, but I have also heard US sanctions played a role; but regardless of who is at fault, how exactly is one supposed to fight off opponents effectively under those conditions???
Trump and Pompeo GAVE Afganistan back to the Taliban on a big silver platter and worthless Joe let it happen. They didn't win ANYTHING. If we had stayed at previous numbers before Trump did this, which was around 15,000 I believe; NONE of this would be happening right now. No humanitarian crisis, no mass exodus, nothing.
Trump and Pompeo started this and Joe Biden finished it. THE TALIBAN WON NOTHING. This is a 9/11 era vet telling you this. Under Trump's orders, WE turned around, crippled the Afghan people's ability to defend themselves by not ensuring they had what they needed, and RELEASED a Taliban at full strength inside the country, WITH 5000 people plus their top commander; PLUS planes, tanks, and weapons of ours that just "happened" to fall into their hands.
Now you tell me who won what and who actually beat who. If it wasn't for Trump's treasonous activities, which he began in secret backroom deals with the Tallybons in 2019 that the regular Afghan govt was completely shut out from, and Biden not reversing any of it after he took office; the Tali-fucks would have NOTHING right now. Just what they had before the 2020 drawdown, which was only some fringe territory.
So think a little harder next time if you could please before you decide to act like this was all just so "natural" and (my favorite goddamn word) "inevitable"- because the Tali-fucks are just such god-level fighters, because literally NOTHING at all could be FURTHER from the truth. They are no more committed or especially brilliant then a first week boot camp recruit. The ONLY reason they were able to take over so quickly is because Trump's admin made sure they had all the advantages, which they were able to exploit to the fullest; and that the normal Afghans had none by this point, including knowing that most of the Americans had already left the country; which as HR McMaster says, and I have to fully agree with him on this, certainly would have a very negative psychological effect on them.
Our people could have wiped the Tali-fucks off the face of the Earth if they so chose- but that was never in the plans during 20 years of agenda coming down from the top. Why it wasn't, I honestly don't know.
Trump and Pompeo gleefully betrayed those people, but Biden allowed it to go forward which makes him just as guilty in my book. Biden has been in charge for 7 months- there was absolutely NO pressing reason for any of this to happen now; not the withdrawal and not any of the evacuations. At some point, yes, maybe even soon; but not yet for several key reasons, the pandemic being a huge one; a crippled refugee immigration department thanks to Trump and his nazis, for another.
So I'll just wrap-up now by saying that, I do not now, not will I EVER BELIEVE THAT THIS OUTCOME WAS INEVITABLE, IT WAS NEVER INEVITABLE. WE BROUGHT THIS INTO BEING, STARTING IN 2019.
THE TALI-SCUM ARE MOST CERTAINLY NOT LIVING LEGENDS OF REINCARNATED MASTER SUPER-SOLDIERS AND I REALLY WISH PEOPLE ON THE LEFT, of which I most certainly place myself all other days of the year, would start getting a goddamn clue and start seeing this situation accurately for once! Biden is a piece of shit for carrying out this craven tactic by Trump, and allowing this Taliban takeover to stand, and both Trump and Pompeo should be shot by a firing squad for conceiving it and putting it into motion. Now the entire region is going to almost certainly descend into some level of civil war and now there's massive displacement and destabilization. I know the occupation had problems and corruptions, and those should not have happened, but is this better now???? Is any of this better??? I don't think so. And I don't think millions of other non-brainwashed or non-ultra-fundamentalist Afghans, whom I believe to be the large majority, would think so either.
But yes, HC was certainly right when she made these statements. The govts foreign policy has been insane since 1945. These losers just have to have an enemy, even when it's utterly irrational to do so, and back then it was Russia; now with people less likely to be scared by the big red Russian menace as they used to, China has to be the new rising threat. When that fizzles out, I wonder who they plan to demonize next. Lol good luck at that point- Bec we just ran out of superpowers to use as excuses to keep the war machine going.
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Or, and just hear me out my based friends, just be out, strong and proud. Don't EVER apologize for who you are.
Don't hide who you are to ANYONE. It's their problem if they can't realize that 95% of us are on the same page and want roughly the same things.
I say things like "to me socialism is simply humanism- it's putting people before greed" or 'its putting people and the planet FIRST" "naked greed by the top 5% and their servants in the power structure are rapidly making this planet uninhabitable" or "the US PPIC is savage and immoral in many ways" and then I go on to list a few.
You just have to learn how to speak in effective nutshells. Have videos and links ready to share if the discussion is online, or even if it's not. (You can always write something down for someone etc etc)
But don't be afraid of owning your righteously moral worldviews. Everywhere I go if I'm talking on serious issues the first thing I say is that I'm a marxist-leaning socialist and civil Libertarian. Then I go from there.
People who were too ignorant and reactionary weren't gonna be able to think Clearly enough to hear you out anyways. No sense being afraid to state without a shadow of a doubt who the fuck you are and what you believe in. If previous justice fighters could risk death or prison, some of whom are still being held, we can face down any ignorant or unaware person in front of us, in fact I say it's our moral duty to do so. It's easier to do online but we can just as easily do this in casual P2P conversations as well.
OWN YOURSELVES PEOPLE. IF SOMEONE DOESN'T LIKE IT, THEY CAN GO F7CK THEMSELVES OR POUND FUCKING SAND. FINITO. THE MOMENT ONE GETS AFRAID TO STAND STRONG IN WHO THEY REALLY ARE is the moment our ability to be efficient and effective starts to erode. Plus I just don't think we like how it feels. I know I don't.
STRENGTH, WHEN USED FOR GOOD, IS NEVER A MISTAKE.
Anything less than aggressive and uncompromising total ownership of who you are and what you believe in is only counterproductive in the end, imso.
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@Bewefau yes, and the federal govt can choose to do so. It gives billions and millions to the biggest industries aka "wall Street" every year, plus 1T for the military industrial complex, but comparative pennies for social needs. You should see this as wrong.
In a country as well off as ours, there's no reason for everyone not to be able to access methods to meet their basic needs.
Also, we can all continue to pay our taxes while demanding they are used in better ways.
Finally - what should happen to you if you ever fall on hard times?? If you don't have friends or family to help you? Perhaps some charity will step in. But if there isn't one when you need it to meet your need??? What then?? You just suffer?? Why?? I don't want that. No, you should have another option.
OR - we can have, at a minimum, enough public programs and services in place, aka "safety net programs" to help take care of people in need. I mean these things will exist for you too if you ever need them. By raising taxes on big business and the 1%, we can easily provide for everyone.
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@scrubjay93 outside of the Nazis, or maybe even with, the US federal government has been responsible for more death and destruction than anyone else on this planet, ever. And the crimes against humanity continue right up to today in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afganistan, and Palestine.
How about what happened in Chile in 1973? That's just one of the CIAs many little tricks.
How do I know this?? The information is all out there. You can access it anytime you wish.
I wish our hype were true, I really do, as a former non-combat vet post-'99, I wish we were the protectors and defenders, but unfortunately we're not. (Not that most active duty know this, however, altho some figure it out quickly)
Now, that doesn't mean we can't change and start being the good guys, I'm just saying it hasn't happened yet. Not that I'm aware of.
The day the CIA and most of the Pentagon goes up in flames for good, is the day the Earth will finally be free of our murderous imperialism and provocations.
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Thanks for the video, Johnny.
Sanctions are always a terrible idea, but they are a great excuse to economically and materially harm a country's entire population, in some cases severely and homicidally (such the sanctions the US placed on Iraq since 1991), when a Western govt wants to.
And they never work. The populace may suffer but that doesn't turn them into ninja commandos who they go on to physically overthrow their current govt- as supposedly the US claims will happen. Even if such a population wanted to do this, it's almost always impossible. Seats of govt have the tendency to be protected by various groups like the military and police. So unless a population is backed up by that country's military, a direct physical violent overthrow is all but impossible.
Yet this is what the savages who run the govt here in the US claim will happen with each new round of sanctions they initiate. They must know it's s totally garbage and irrational claim- and I think they do, they just want to harm another nations economy.
I mean Cuba is a nation of only 11M people today, under a 60 year embargo for ACTUALLY overthrowing their previous govt and choosing a new one, except not the guy the US wanted, so they placed the embargo. Gotta give it to these thugs for consistency. Sixty years later and gee let's see, is Cuba any closer to magically changing their govt to align with US imperial interests??? Nah, can't say they are..... Most are prouder than ever of the revolution and the small island nation they've been able to build against all odds, even when things really became difficult since the old USSR wasn't able to be it's prime trade supporter since 1991.
The sanctions may have made life more difficult in some ways for Cubans, but it's only strengthened their resolve. Hmmm, yes very effective, clearly achieved what it was set out to achieve. Maybe another 60 years will get the job done. I don't know, maybe another decade. I mean it's only been 60 full years, how can you judge the success or failure of her measure it's such a short time period???
I'm totally against sanctions for any reason anywhere now due to the fact that they only cause harm to a general population, never the leadership. It is risable to think that they will EVER spark some kind of general revolution and even if they do, that that will occur in the direction that the US wants. Most people in other countries aren't stupid, if they're experiencing difficulty to due the sanctions they aren't idiots, they know where those sanctions are coming from. They usually won't blame their own govt but the source of those sanctions.
So no, sanctions are just an excuse to cause collective harm to large swaths of innocent people that have no control whatsoever over what their government chooses to do or not do. It's just another tool for the US and it's echo States to try to dominate the globe in a harmful manner. I believe they are not justified, ever, and in the most serious cases they do kill, such as the 500K estimated deaths of children in Iraq due to those sanctions. Sanctions are just war on civilians without bullets; an evil act to purposely cause millions of innocent and powerless people to suffer.
I must hand it to Russia tho. With their vast land mass, they are simply learning to be more self-sufficient and resourceful than ever. Any sanctions will simply increase this resolve and will only have a limited effect at best.
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@riunikii of course he does. Thank you so much for caring tho. That's more than my bizarre trash older only brother of ten years (I'm now 40, he's 50) ever did for me. I have very dysfunctional narcissistic (I think) older parents (weird sad very bizarre backstory there) and I wouldn't know what a friendly, kind or loving sibling was if it slapped me in the face. I think I'm a pretty decent person, I have empathy for others and have always worked hard. I'm by no means perfect, but I've never ever felt an instinct to harm another person or even say something cruel. I will never understand why my own blood hates the ground I walk on. They are just so confused... It's unfortunate for me because the older I get doesn't seem to helping me understand it any better. It's such a waste. I'd like to know what a nice, reliable, stable, rational, caring non-dysfunctional bio-family feels like before I die, maybe I will someday; just not mine I'm sure.
I really appreciate you being there for your brother. My only living sibling has treated me like absolute trash and feels no guilt about it so I can't even fathom what it would feel like if I had somebody close to me that not only didn't treat me like trash but was actually kind??? Wanted to give me help was actually there for me if I had a problem? I mean what is that?? I have literally no idea what that feels like. Yeah not sure how I would react to that bec I don't know what that is. The parent situation is a little bit more complicated, I would say in my adult years they have been there for me a little, a very little, but yeah, that's the sibling situation.
Maybe I appreciate it more than he even does. Who knows what the future will bring? It's never too late to make a positive change. Thank you so much for being good. I hope it's not too rare.
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@covertpuppytwo3857 first of all, I mostly hate the Taliban so I certainly wouldn't mind if they were all disappeared at tomorrow, but they ARE from the region and we DID invade their country and they have every right to strike back at people they see as an enemy invading force. The Taliban just want to control Afghanistan they could give a fuck less about anything else in the universe. When we interrupted that of course they saw us as the enemy and rightly so. Not that I agree in any way with their silly ideology, but if I was in their shoes I would have done the same thing.
So on to the next thing in your comment then.
How exactly is this our money? Was there a 9B gift to Afghanistan directly from some billionaire's hands or from the hands of our government at some point in the past? This was money that from my understanding had been placed into the repository by the previous Afghan government. So even though it's unfortunate that the Taliban took over, which by the way I want you to understand something- the CIA literally helped the Taliban take back over from 2019-2021, thats our media really isn't covering- but just because the government has now changed hands into the "wrong" people that doesn't mean that the entire country deserves to be robbed of the money it needs to survive. The rest of the people are not responsible and have no control over what the Taliban do. There were groups that tried to fight off the Taliban's advance but in the end they lost. At least for the time being. Now everybody just has to find a way to survive and what our government is doing is super illegal and just inhumane. If our government wants to pressure the Taliban to do something or to abdicate they can do so. But removing one of the main means of survival from 20 to 40M people is evil. Those people do not control the Taliban and they do NOT deserve to suffer for what the Taliban choose to do. It would be like if you had a family member say an uncle who swindled somebody or did something wrong, and the person they defrauded decided to come after your whole family and burn your house down or send goons to beat up on everyone in your family. That would be criminal and wrong. That person would be morally and legally obligated to take their grievance up with your uncle, not go after you or your family which are innocent bystanders. Attacking anyone else connected to him might make the attacker feel better but is an immoral act. You are not responsible for what your uncle does and you should not have to pay for his wrongs or misdeeds. Likewise, if our government wants something from the Taliban then they should have handled that before the Taliban took over. Or maybe we should still have troops there which would have prevented the Taliban from completing their takeover anyways. I'm not saying we ever should have been there to start with, but at least we kept the Taliban at bay in some regions and that's a good thing.
Considering last year Biden ran at full speed to rush this evacuation to where we literally left Afghans behind who worked with us to be at risk of attack from the Taliban, where does he get off making demands now? Nobody made him complete the troop withdrawal that's something he and his administration decided to do themselves. Why did they comply with a troop drawdown if they had something to say about the Taliban taking power? As much as I hate Joe Biden, at the time he was the commander-in-chief. Every president is. He could have said "we're not going to finish this draw down right now". We're going to leave some troops behind; we're going to do this, we're going to do that. He didn't do any of that. he chose to rush full speed into the worst planned and conducted military evacuation I've ever seen. By what rights does our government now say to the Taliban "no you're going to do x y and z" when we turned around and left knowing that they would move in the moment we were gone? What I'm saying is if Joe Biden care that much about it, we wouldn't have evacuated every last servicemember last year. We would have kept things as they were and maintained a small troop presence which would have at least been more stable than the old government fleeing and panic setting in and all of the instability that's there now. And to add insult to injury now they're literally in a sense just robbing the country of its means of survival, which is this money. They can't just go back to a barter system; even in Afghanistan there's a money economy. They need this money, and regardless of whether our government thinks it has a justified reason or not to hold on to this money, (and they don't it's basically massive theft at this point) this is causing huge suffering to ordinary Afghans and therefore that money should be released immediately. Ordinary Afghans don't deserve to suffer and die because our government has a beef with the Taliban. And besides, our government's allegiance is not based on morals but convenience. In the late '80s and early '90s they was more than happy to link up with the mujahideen of the day (original Taliban) to try to expel the current Soviet-backed government. Now since 2001 the Taliban is our enemy? Taliban doesn't give a fuck about the United States. They were even more than happy to give us Bin Laden in late 2001 but Bush refused because he wanted an excuse to send military into the region. We invaded Afghanistan because it had a strategic location for military operations in the middle east. It was the wrong thing to do even though one benefit was that we pushed the Taliban out of power in most places which allowed that society to move forward again. Now they're back in power, thanks to US, again- and Biden STILL can't stop murdering these people and tormenting them and making their lives wretched. Hes not alone though, every previous president since 2000 has done their part to treat every Afghan life in the region like it was expendable and of little value.
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US-backed murderous extermination or suppression campaigns either on our own soil or around the world are just never talked about in the same breath as the supposed ugly massacres by "evil" or suppressive regimes abroad. Naturally this wouldn't be good for domestic propaganda. The average citizen here has never heard and likely will never hear about them.
I think its clear that this political entity known as "the US" or "federal interests" is the most violent, aka terroristic and bloodthirsty, in the world, on par with Israel, their favorite buddy and incest partner. Here, evil reigns supreme in the agendas of those with access to levers of control - and has since before independence in some ways; and one wonders how long this will last. Will this always be the case??? Destructive agendas winning out, hate winning out; psychopathy winning out.... I I often wonder when I think about these topics.
I have two theories, one scientific and one conjecture. I wonder if it's possibly a medical issue; ie, a genetically higher proportion of raging psychopathy distributed in our population; then many of these persons finding their way into positions of control and power ie; police, courts, government, etc. Or, amongst the unrepentant filth who do this dirty work (mindless murder, violence, etc), is it a spiritual issue, ie wanting to do evil for evil's sake? Due to influence of dark powers perhaps?? Guess it's hard to say. The former can at least be tested for, the other cannot.
So it's really hard to know what is behind all this. I don't know if we'll ever know and I don't know if it's ever going to end.
I mean I sure fucking hope so. There's plenty of ruthless non-violent domestic policy (let alone the acutely violent incidents) that's severely damaging lives here... ending some prematurely. Not everyone to be sure, but enough. Too many. Millions. That alone is discouraging. Few people hate the elite interests that dominate and control domestic US policy here on a local, regional, state and federal level more than me.
People keep voting for the same two parties made up the same kinds of filth that are responsible for all these realities and then wonder why nothing ever changes. To say it's maddening would be an understatement.
Guess it's near impossible to get anywhere near a halfway legitimate sincere organized and ferocious Left party going here. The ones we had before all petered out or were stamped out. But that was 50 years ago, what the FUCK are we doing today?? Where's the resurgence?
As for what I'm doing to be part of it, well, I'm getting there. Trying to work on it. Those red/blue scum are organized and monetized AF, and they are smart in the extreme. They know all the dirty tricks. But I'm not afraid of those filth, I just can't do it on my own.
Maybe the public is just too stupid to vote for their own basic interests here. It seems to be the case. I mean after 200 years we can't get an established legitimate viable third-party going??? Even a weakly Left party?? Something doesn't seem to add up.
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This is a very excellent question, one that I've asked myself many times, and I'm one who lives here in the US.
In my view the way I see it is, these people are just extremely mentally ill, and unfortunately our entire MSM media machine goes right along with it. It's really unfortunate. Clearly what these people want is ongoing destruction and violence. The reasons why don't really matter- I understand the reasons, it's as others here have said- they want to feel like they own the world, like they rule the world, that they are the economic masters of the universe; and so on. since they don't value any human life besides their own, they're willing to sacrifice hundreds of millions of other lives and untold amounts of infrastructure damage in order for them to believe they are achieving this goal, with coup after coup and war after war. That should be condemned.
I look forward to an overthrowing or at least a fundamental changing of my govt in my lifetime, by any means necessary. If and when it happens, I intend to be a part of it.
When it comes to land outside our borders, all they do is destroy. This should not be preserved, these should not be our long-term goals. These people are wholly illegitimate in my eyes and I just see them as a bunch of out-of-control gangsters, with a thirst for blood, answering to no one; nothing more.
The direction of civilization should be MORE peace, LESS violence, MORE cooperation, and more stability; not the opposite. The current regime is in direct opposition to that and has been since at least the close of WW2, altho imperialism within this part of the world by the US had been going on for many decades before that.
We can have a more peaceful, stable, cooperative, and rational world order if we choose to, or we can have the opposite. I believe most governments, even if they are highly corrupt, want the former. I believe it is MY govt and mine alone that is THE most dangerous threat to ongoing, unnecessary violence and destructive activities the world over.
Those of us who live here and are aware and can see what is happening want this to stop. We want A-bombs to drop on Langley, Virginia, the home of the CIA (just the buildings, not the rest of the area of course). There is no legitimate reason why the entire globe cannot cooperate economically for mutual benefit of all. The only question is, is that going to happen prior to another world war, and will a major war be averted, or only after it??? If those who are currently setting the agenda in the US State Dept agenda get their way, it will only be after, because by then I predict they will be out of power, and rational sane people with a peace agenda will have taken over for the first time since at least 1963.
I hope it doesn't take another world war to get us there, but it very well may.
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@AV57 (abc) sounds like a pretty cool system especially given the time period. again, let me be clear, as a far leftist I want maximum public goods and this will partially need public money to fund them aka taxes. I'm not against taxes per se, I'm just against mandatory income taxation for the most part. Again if you read my post I say I'm okay with land taxes, I'm iffy on property taxes and still reconsidering my position on those, and I fully support point-of-use taxes aka sales taxes.
I'm not saying my opinions are going to change anything this is just where I stand and where I hope to move the needle in my lifetime.
Having thousands of elites vote is still not the same as full direct or common democracy. Anything short of full referendums on all public matters isn't democracy its being ruled by an elite and I'm way way past that by now. The only true representation as where I represent myself. Nobody can speak better for me than myself. Also, representatives can easily be co-opted and bought, as ours are.
I believe in majority rule. Why would I support minority rule? Most people are decent, ergo I support majority rule. Especially today when all information is available for all if they wish to look. It's not the 1700s anymore. Anyone who wishes to vote can find all the information out there. Honestly political parties and representatives are way obsolete in my eyes. They never really served the common man in this country anyways (a few exceptions but mostly no imo).
I wouldn't say it's theft not to put in a figurative quarter for the public road. People pay in other ways or for other services, besides what about those who can't afford to pay or are homeless or whatever? Everyone deserves access to all public goods all the time regardless of their ability to pay or whether they paid taxes for it or whatever. I don't think everyone should have to pay for every little thing. Perhaps I help pay for the roads, perhaps tomorrow my neighbor helps pay for the water and so on. We each do our part in our own way. Maybe I don't pay for the water, but I pay for the parks and vice versa. I don't want public goods to run on the "toll" system. I see what you're saying, you feel that everyone should contribute, but everything evens out in the end. Sooner or later, almost everyone contributes to something and that's good enough for me. I don't care if somebody never wanted to pay a dime in taxes- maybe he was a really great friend or helped his family. Sure that's a private matter, but sooner or later that will pay public dividends. That's part of the reason why I don't believe that taxation shouldn't be mandatory for most people. It really should be everyone's personal which public goods they support and how much, for the most part. and absolutely federal taxes should not exist. The federal government is outrageous too demanding. They don't need them, they literally create the money. They don't need to take back money they've already released into circulation. They have an almost unlimited spending capacity so why do they need to take our money?? Well I posit that there is no good reason and it needs to end.
Do I think voluntary taxation would work well in practicality? I certainly do; I think it work way better than the system we have now. Any shortfalls could easily be made up through federal funding or mandated taxation of the 1% and/or corporate bodies, where most taxes belong anyways.
I believe that the common good is most important value but also the individual's rights to have autonomy over their own life and make their own choices without being dictated to by a tyrannical, coercive or overreaching State. Just where I'm at with it.
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Punishing people with extreme censure for minor violations including including shoplifting or being late to an appointment is one of these monsters favorite things to do.
Yes shoplifting is a misdemeanor but it will stay on someone's record for up to three years in most municipalities which means it's possible for future employers to discriminate based on that. They shouldn't be able to but I've known people it's happened to. So for some tiny shoplifting nonsense, it can potentially keep you unemployed and broke. So if you want someone to become financially self-sufficient where they won't be tempted to shoplift, is setting them up for unemployment and homelessness really the way to do that? DOES THAT MAKE SENSE??? It's so disgusting. But they always want more feesh meat sacrifices to enter into the prison system. Their dream is to lock up 50% of the population. I believe they're deeply unhappy with their current levels of incarceration, they want extra supermassive incarceration, simple mass incarceration isn't enough for them. These are monsters who are possessed of an evil that we cannot fathom. They are all the devil's payroll.
Now you can see the inherent immorality and stupidity and cruelty of the system. It's shockingly immoral. It's all about cutting people's legs out from under them, then blaming THEM for not being able to walk, then locking them up for as long as possible. They do this in California with disgusting efficiency. Nobody seems willing or able to stop it. It's amazing because evil keeps winning on a large scale and it really is in mindfuck. The satanic demons won't be happy until there's a prison on every corner and everybody that country and their cousin is behind bars.
Shoplifting doesn't hurt stores. I understand that it is an annoyance but it doesn't hurt the stores and no one should have to be punished for it.
Negligible amounts of inventory loss are the cost of doing business and if stores don't like it, they can close. It's that simple. Government has no obligation to protect the stores greed or guarantee their profits. Sure, there's consequences for high-level theft, but petty floor theft shouldn't fact be treated that way. A given business's profits are business owners responsibility, not Uncle Sam. What about that free market they love to claim we should have? The free market includes ebbs and flows, including sales going up and down, customers making choices where they want to shop, and a small amount of leak. Stores owners really are pathetic people because they're so greedy they see every lost dime as an outrage and they want govt to destroy shoplifters as if the shoplifters were professional thieves taking their entire billion-dollar inventory and bank account. It's MADNESS.
Bottom line, shoplifting isn't a crime. It just isn't. The store's can afford to part with this material. it's not going to hurt their overall bottom line in any significant way. It's always less than 1% of their total sales which negligible amount, something they should just get over, accept and move on from. Besides, they'll have loss insurance so for them to get their panties in a bunch over the losses they claim they suffer from shoplifting, just shows them to be the disgusting liars that they are. Stores do not suffer from shoplifting, and that's a fact. So shoplifting should not be criminalized at all, it just kicks people in the mouth who are desperate and trying to survive and that's shameful.
Desperate people shouldn't have their futures thrown in the shitter just cuz they took a few petty items from the store that most likely that the store would have thrown out anyway. Stores waste a mind-boggling amount of inventory, which should be illegal because those things could go towards a needy family in their community. Useful items and food should never be allowed to be legally wasted by choice. There should be steep penalties for this.
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Its usually just a fine but it can be a lower misdemeanor charge. Sometimes some pettier jobs and apts might use that as an excuse not to hire or approve you. It's pretty unfortunate but some people are so limited in their worldview that they think store shoplifting is something deserving of some kind of moral judgement. A lot of people don't know how to distinguish between petty theft, "so petty as to be negligible" theft serious larceny, theft from a store, theft from a private person, or theft from place of employment. They want to equate them all the same when they're nowhere near the same but their brain doesn't know how to make the distinction and judge between them. Likewise if they think someone isn't entirely truthful on an inconsequential matter, and/or for a good reason, these people, suffering from a very black-and-white value system, being unable to distinguish or evaluate any kind of shades of grey or nuance or extenuating circumstances, may assume that this kind of person is just entirely untrustworthy or some other kind of person not worth investing in, or a "shady" kind of person, when to most reasonable people who have some life experience would usually believe otherwise.
Most places probably won't use it as any kind of a disqualification measure as they have better things to think about, but a few may. I knew a couple people that ran into that after a local Walmart manager was extremely vindictive and pursued them on a very petty very low-level theft charge. These Walmart senior staff are something else I tell you.
Really I wish I could just call for the immediate shutdown of all 10,000 Walmarts in the US, and the complete giveaway of all of their stock to the needy in their community. Maybe if that happened some of the many thousands of small or regional businesses that Walmart has put out of business over the years would have a chance to come back.
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No they're not and I'm a US vet (not boots on the ground I was more of a tech).
They're more than happy to commit mass murder and set the stage for great violence just to get a govt that will let the US govt come and plunder their resources. This is shit. We need to stop this. Fair global trade is the only way. Violent colonialism is bad. It presupposes the absence of human rights.
So they are definitely the bad guys. The US military is the muscle and the CIA is the brains of the US govt world domination agenda.
If ONLY US lives and dollars matter, then yes, CIA is necessary, definitely. If the whole planet exists to serve corrupt US interests, then necessary. If however ALL lives on the globe matter, if everyone is inherently equal and everyone born has a right to a a good life, if being alive has intrinsic value and human rights are a thing, then no, the CIA deserves hatred, shame and destruction. They deserves to be shamed as the world's largest terrorist organization.
Big bombs to Langley, as I always say. 💣💥😃🤗👍
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@smellymala3103 lol damn. Thanks? 💀 Perhaps might I suggest another hobby besides social media trolling?? I get it it can be tempting....
All jokes aside, other than speed, TTS is almost worse than keyboard because of the amount of backtracking and fixing you have to do. it's pretty bad. Because I don't do two-handed phone typing, like I just don't know how to do that, it takes me longer than just doing it with my dominant hand, a lot of my time online is spent editing my TTS comments. Another thing about TTS that is ridiculous is that it automatically inserts capitalized proper nouns where none should be. I can't stand that. TTS does save time overall but it comes at a high price of frustration. It's helps, but it also sucks. So I get it.
As far as this issue, these extremists have been trying to divide people on these issues for decades. I don't know if I'll ever fully understand their core motivation but I find it bizarre. Every human being deserves pregnancy options. You know if someone believes all fetuses deserve to live it's not right to force it on to someone else. Everyone deserves a choice. This is not Battlestar Galactica the human race is not on the brink of extinction. Forcing people into pregnancy or birth is just not right; and now they want to take away birth prevention options to? I mean these people are really crazy. Like I said I'll never understand their true motivation. Well like any so-called controversial issue it serves as an easy distraction from the real issues out there, climate change big business poverty and the like. And that's probably why they're pushing it so hard. It's a distraction. If people are fighting about this they're not demanding that politicians do the real work on controlling big business and helping more people get out of poverty. I'm sure that's what's behind it all- that's what it usually is. That's why they call them wedge issues. I'm just tired of big government being in my body, I mean some people got very upset when Big Brother was telling them to put on a mask which is pretty ridiculous, but some of the same people don't seem to have any problem with Uncle Sam reaching up into people's crotches and fallopian tubes, or pharmacy counters. The hypocrisy is real.
If they care so much about small lives let them help every single born child and infant that's out there now that needs support. Until they do that I know they are liars and completely unserious.
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Wow that's a powerful story, EN.
I'm sure you did the best you could. I'm sorry you had to experience this kind of abusive environment as an observer, knowing how wrong and misguided it was and not being able to really do anything about it.
The problem is lawmakers won't do their job bec they're scum too! Most of them are craven corrupt utterly self-serving sociopaths. They take the bribes or payoffs to have ZERO regulation or look the other way. State workers won't properly vet or review these places, EVEN THO VULNERABLE CHILDREN ARE DEPENDING ON THEM, it's just a failure on all levels. Stories like this constantly remind me how disgraceful and shameful and derelict most State workers are, elected or not.
Maybe now FINALLY things can change. I know how to change it with one fell swoop. When you need to kill the snake, you do it by cutting off the head. And you know what would solve this entirely at the root?
No private providers in the congregated are industry!!! NONE!!!
I can see that these kinds of places are a DELIBERATE racket and maybe only the Baptist Church has sincere intentions even tho they're were abusive and maybe just can't recognize it- or maybe they can and they're just as corrupt too. Either way, private providers shouldn't be allowed in this field! Profit-seeking has no place where vulnerable people and youth are concerned!! It attracts the vultures, the sociopaths, the ignorant and the incompetent, deliberate or otherwise.
It's so sad most of our lawmakers are just as worthless and corrupt as the sources they take bribes from. Because if they weren't this wouldn't have happened in the first place due to stringent regs and licensing and none of these con jobs and abuse factories would have been able to pass muster, or just wouldn't have been legal period.
It's just disgusting that so many white-collar vultures were allowed to shamelessly profit from the hardship and mistreatment of youth for so long. They weren't even TRYING to help the kids. I can forgive genuine ignorance, but most if not all of their stories indicated deliberate crookedness, incompetence, or predation. It's shameful that none of those who committed the worst offenses will ever face criminal charges.
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I'm just way too Left for this country.
Maybe I should just move to Russia, who unfortunately has been savaged by neoliberalism, or Cuba, or even Canada, where at least they have a semi-left party there, amongst other multiple parties. I'm serious. I wish I could live in a place where the People had a full voice and the govt wasn't owned by the 1% , Wall Street and the CIA.
Not saying any place is perfect, each State has problems, but Socialist-leaning countries place the general welfare and the good of everyone as a value above elite private profit and heavy capitalistic control. That's what I certainly value.
And as for civil liberties, I feel they're at least as good as here, if not significantly better for POC. Not saying every state is a paragon of perfect freedom, but we are the LEAST free first world nation in the world by any metric, including way of mass incarceration which after 40 years sadly only seems to be getting worse, because those who control it love to oppress and also, it's phenomenally profitable.
Other nations no doubt have their injustices, I'm sure every place does, but I don't see the gross systemic abuse via lawfare and lawless crazy Pigs and blood-loving DAs in certain other States as I do see here. At least nowhere near to the same degree.
If for nothing else, I'll take that universal covered healthcare.
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This young woman's partner sounds like a wonderful young man but it's pretty shameful that he had to go through the process that he did just to enter the country "legally" and that's also EASY version?!! And people wonder why others try to subvert the system when that's what they're going to have to go through!
Not everyone has the luxury to be young, childless, full of energy, super healthy, suffer from no mental health or trauma experiences, have outstanding psychological stability and so on and so forth. Not everyone has those kinds of emotional resources to sustain this kind of neverending Kafka-esque process.
There's a reason why tens of thousands are trying to come into this country through the southern border. They're desperate for very knowable and understandable reasons and they don't have 10 years to wait. There is no sane legal way for them to come in. When they try they're treated like animals and criminals and were recently forcibly separated even from their own infants. Such is the hatred for the person who doesn't have white skin by the feds. This policy was undertaken joyfully by those barbarians under the Trump administration but little has changed since. They claim they're not performing family separations anymore, any maybe not, but migrants are still being held like cattle in for-profit private immigrant jails, instead of humanely processed and admitted as political, violence or poverty refugees.
There's no excuse other than racism to make immigration here so difficult. It was OBVIOUSLY designed to limit influx of those from non-white majority nations. Let's just admit it people- Congress and unelected significants on the Hill are a bunch of sick destructive psychopaths who are happily destroying the world right now, starting here at home.
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Don't denounce Russia's invasion. Once you uncover all the facts, you realize that it really was the only option left given the past 80 years of unceasing aggression by the US and it's latest tool/pawn Ukraine. Unfortunately, under the current circumstances, it was necessary.
If I was in Putin's shoes I would have done the exact same thing. They actually did nothing for eight years while the Azovs and other Ukrainian forces rained violence and death in the Eastern regions, where a Russian-ethnicity majority live, since the violent US-backed coup took place in 2014 in Kiev (the Ukrainian capitol); and now 14,000 are dead, 3000 of them civilians apparently.
I'd say he waited eight years too long. I'm glad he's intervening now. How much longer Should they have waited??? Until their border is full of NATO Javelins??? Until another 14000 are killed due to attempted ethnic cleansing by hyper-nationalist Azovs and Nazi-wannabes groups within the Ukrainian military???? What would we do as a State if similar events happened on our border?
Sometimes you have to take action. Staying passive at all costs isn't what we should be aiming for. Russia sees this action as both responsive defense of the Donbass regions, and preemptive defense of itself against NATO's (basically the US's) very naked hostile agenda. Does Russia have a legitimate security concern with NATO? I would say yes, absolutely.
One could argue the current US-puppet regime in Kiev is illegitimate, as it took power violently through blood and foreign interference and not due to popular vote, and thus as such Russia has no obligation to respect it. That, coupled with the other two issues, makes a pretty serious trifecta of concern for the RF (Russian Federation).
One has to look at the whole picture to fully understand what's happening here. It's too easy to say, oh, they took an aggessive step, ergo they are in the wrong. One has to evaluate every action in it's full context, before you judge it one way or the other.
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Just a word about the crazy dancing betsh at first- She does NOT have the right to confiscate the personal belongings/ personal property of her tenants EVER, regardless of what she thinks she's owed. No landlord does. That is THEFT. She has the right to pursue legal or personal measures to collect unpaid rent, but that is all. It is illegal to help yourself to the physical possessions of your tenant just because you feel they owe you. THAT IS EXTORTION and that is theft. Only if the apartment is deemed abandoned, or in the case of intentionally left behind property does a LL then have the right to take possession. We definitely need that to be codified into stricter law, even though it's already technically illegal, but LLs are scandalous and get away with illegal and crooked behavior all the time.
There are actually some very shameless for-profit car towing places here in the States that will try to pull the same shit. They will claim that they have the right to hold on to your personal property until you pay their bill. It's organized crime, it's extortion, it should be grossly illegal but it's not in most places (for car lots), and they get away with it because the local Pigs are always in on it (this is true everywhere. Local tow shops would go out of business if they didn't have the local Blue bangin' hoods and Pig gangsters collecting cars for them. It's a tag-team affair). Happened to me. I was willing to give up my vehicle (it was a hoopty, no big deal) and they STILL tried not to give my personal belongings back. Talk about about non-stop grand theft! But I kept on it, I wouldn't let it go and eventually they had to relent. I kept bugging the cops, I kept threatening to bring a lawsuit, I kept harassing the business, etc etc. They actually had the gall not to feel ashamed about what they were doing and acted like there was nothing wrong with it when we spoke. When I was told I would finally be allowed to get my property it was either a person at the police station or someone from the business that said "we've decided to make a one-time exception in your case" as if they were doing me a favor. These criminals.... Amazing. I was in a small town too so this shamelessness isn't always confined to a big city. People everywhere are crooked and thugged out. Money does pretty sorry things to people.
(BTW for my friends in the States, this was Medford OR. Watch out for those criminal Talent PD filth, they have nothing better to do than try to lie in wait and snatch you for doing nothing wrong. Once they got you pulled over then they'll try to take anything and everything from you they can. Street Pigs are the devils own servants but what can you do; you can't escape the filth, they're everywhere. The US is a goddamn rotten Police State, you can't even escape these thugs in a small town. I forget the name of one of the major car tow lots but they're the one who held my vehicle. They're located on a street corner. They are definitely criminals. Pretty sure they're the biggest car tow salvage ring in town. The local corrupt judge is most likely in on it, or at least one of them is. He won't help you. He didn't help me and I had a perfect case to have my car released without pay, a false stop and a violation of my fourth amendment rights. But then at the he lied like the dog that he was and said that the cop did nothing wrong, after already admitting I was making my case, and therefore couldn't release my vehicle. Lol... you gotta love it. These judges and Pigs ALWAYS got each other's backs in their theft rackets. It is amazing. They feel NO shame.)
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Its not wokeness that brothers me, I want diversity in my media bec I'm not an ignorant asshole (altho tbf, I wasn't thrilled about Incredibles 2, when it seemed that they rushed the storyline process in order to give the female villain more centrality, but In fairness to that film, while enjoyable, it had a lot of weaknesses that weren't only due to the Screenslaver character), but it's the willful censoring of Black faces in their posters, and similar that I'm pretty pissed about. That should never be done. That should have been a red line. I don't know if Chinese audiences are that racist but if they are they don't need to watch Disney's films basically.
A small alteration that doesn't result in a structural change to an advertisement or story element is one thing, but if Disney can't release a film in China without making significant alterations which change the quality and the substance of their films or advertisements, then they need to forget about selling to China or they need to stand by their creative product.
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@whyamimrpink78 nonsense. THEY WERE EXERCISING THEIR GOD-GIVEN HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL RIGHTS TO ORGANIZE, MOBILIZE AND MARCH AGAINST NAZI STATE MURDER BY A KENOSHA POLICE KKK-THUG AND OTHER PATTERNS OF PIG VIOLENCE, WHAT ABOUT THAT CANT YOU UNDERSTAND???? And Kyle, being highly racist, doesn't like this so he swoops in, starts INSTIGATING and PROVOKING, then when he's verbally confronted by unarmed protestors and citizens he starts shooting wildly at people and now two are dead and and a third seriously injured.
You are fucked in the brain if you think ANYTHING he did that night was justified, just plain FUCKED.
KYLE WAS THE INSTIGATOR THAT NIGHT. The only shots fired and people killed came from KYLE. NOBODY ELSE, not even the cops.
You can shit on the victims all you want that still doesn't change the fact that Kyle killed them without any moral justification. He blew them away because he didn't like that they were supporting a BLM protest. Otherwise why even be there in the first place??? He's legally underage, nobody requested his assistance, the excuse about "businesses" was just that. He went there looking for trouble and a fight, and he found it. Kid is guilty of at least two counts of manslaughter and one attempted manslaughter. I'm sure he'll get off because of how this greivously and openly this biased judge has conducted himself in front of the jury and all the evidence he has banned the admission of; but he is definitely morally guilty of those two crimes. Of course lucky him, he's white so he will almost certainly walk away from this scot-free. That's how it usually works in cases like this in the US of white priveledge.
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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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I've used a number of shelters in the past. Most were okay but sometimes there were issues with behavior from the staff.
I'm not saying they shouldn't have any rules, of course any group living environment needs some, but by the same token if you're going to run a shelter you should have empathy for the people that you claim you're trying to help. I would say a fair amount of people who work at shelters don't and that's the problem. They really shouldn't be working there but maybe they do because it's easy or they don't have many qualifications to get other work, I don't know.
Unfortunately when you get the wrong kind of people working in these places you get problems. It's as if they blame the guests for their own situation and act as if they deserve it and actively don't WANT to help them. This is really gross but isn't all that uncommon.
These are the ones who seek or use unnecessary reasons to kick current shelter residents out either temporarily or permanently.
Nobody objects to fair or commonsense rules but I do object to unfair or abusive behavior from staff or staff that chooses not to understand why things happen and the struggles that the current residents are dealing with.
For instance you might come back 15 minutes late due to any number of things. You might have missed the last bus and now you're trying to find a different way back. Nobody's perfect, a lot of these things happen in spite of our best efforts.
You might call ahead and say hey " I ran into some trouble I'm going to be a little late but I'm on my way and I'll be there soon as I can". That should be enough but some staff are so petty and so unkind that they use that as a reason to claim you violated a rule and might make you leave for the night, knowing full well you have nowhere to go and if this is in the colder months now you're really fucked. It doesn't always happen but I've seen it happen at times. It's really gross so the problem is, what kinds of people are working at these places? If you get sadists or abusers or people who don't understand what the word compassion means this is what you're going to get.
Some people are literally the genetic mental equivalent of snails, they CANNOT think for themselves. THEY CANT DO IT, IT HURTS THEM TO TRY. I've seen it happen and it blows my mind. So they see any rule violation as a major crime and they literally will just blindly and callously and force a penalty on these people when nothing to that level is necessary. They expect perfection from the clients and of course when none of us can provide it 24/7 because none of us have the ability to be perfect around the clock, these kinds of people now have an excuse to censure or penalize said clients. Naturally, if someone feels they are being treated unfairly they will sometimes speak out about it. Sometimes arguments will ensue. And then this quickly becomes an escalating situation where the client is blamed for being combative and threatening even if they definitely weren't but were simply justifiably frustrated at the situation.
It all comes down to the staff. If you get cruel unkind unsympathetic or irrational staff you're going to have people being mistreated or overly penalized and that is going to leave a bad taste in the mouths of whoever it happens to and of course they're not going to want to deal with it again and would rather just be left alone on this street to take care of themselves.
It all depends on how her a shelter is run and manage. If it's run relatively fairly and unobtrusively than yes most people will take advantage of their services but if not then yes they'll try to simply make the best of the situation on their own.
Some staff's bad attitudes may not even be coming from a place of cruelty it's often just coming from a place of inability to think rationally. I've seen it time and again. It all depends if a person is able to think clearly and has empathy. If neither of those are in place then sooner or later a client is going to be treated unfairly and pay the price.
A lot of people are unintelligent and honestly barely above the level of savages. If you put these people in some kind of administrative or control position they usually will end up in a situation where they feel the need to do harm through excessive enforcement to whoever is under them. It's unfortunate but not uncommon. I hate people like this but they're everywhere.
Trying to educate these people and civilize them doesn't work. They don't have the moral awareness for the IQ to be able to see what they're doing as wrong.
So yes this is a long-winded way of saying there are a lot of reasons why plenty of homeless people would much rather just be left alone and have the freedom to come and go as they please rather than deal with potentially unjust or unfair bad treatment in the local shelter.
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@johnadams9193 no they're not. The Eastern part of Ukraine to my understanding is very ethically Russian and either in general doesn't care which nation they are a part of, or wants to return to Russia.
Anyhow I'm not the expert here, but I do know that the CIA wanted to have its way with Ukraine, no doubt for oil profit reasons, and funded and provoked the Maidan Square massacre in 2014, by promoting and supporting rabid-anti Russian elements and neo-nazi groups, which were able to take over the government and have been in power ever since.
If one half of Ukraine wants to be independent, then that should remain. If the other half wants to rejoin Russia, then they should be able to. This is between Russia and Ukraine. Thirty years ago before Boris Yeltsin dissolved the USSR with help from the US, Ukraine was the second-largest member of the union after Russia. They have a long shared history together, like any two neighboring states, but even more so than say, the US and Canada, because they were both sub-states of the same federation at one point.
The US govts only interest here is money, corporate money. They have no ethical interest here, they never do. They support whatever the big corps want. If the big corps (or whoever's really pulling the strings) wants to fan the flames this conflict, my govt will be only too happy to comply.
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@TheHedgehogsDelimma you're right, I think the Taliban are terrible, and I've explained why. I can't be 100% pacifist in all situations; all I can do is try to do my best recognizing all the complexities and the true forces of savagery or exploitation that contribute to a bad geopolitical situation; not to mention local domestic issues within the US.
All I can do is my best, man. I just want to know the truth.
I think it's pretty true by now that the US occupation of Afganistan produced immoral war crimes, and I would never stand by that, but most conventional US service-members bought the hype they were told and believed they were serving a greater good. To the extent that the Taliban was kept at bay did give many people a chance at a better life.
I see now the fatal flaws from the beginning were an immoral and relentlessly corrupt and neoliberal economic agenda that could only bring limited tangible gains for the people at best- so that's a problem- but keeping down violent extremists matters too. Based on all my knowledge so far, in the regions where the Taliban were removed, both women and men could be free to live more or less normal lives. Now that's all gone, thanks to several factors, at least for the immediate future.
But I would NEVER support that thru drone strikes or willful and irresponsible disregard of civilian life. The ends never justify the means for me.
So I can now clearly see how gross the core flaws in the system were, and there was plenty of corrupt and immoral neolib/corporate/business interests in this mess, but also some of what I believe were sincere and decent ones too, mostly from at least some of the military commanders in the field. Plus, the CIA were allowed to get involved and that's never good. They only bring terror, death and torture. They never should have been allowed to touch the soil, but all past presidents either didn't care what they were doing, or were afraid to oppose them.
So yeah, it was a clusterFuck, but it didn't have to be. There were good people of conscience that wanted to help build a better Afghanistan but I can only assume they were ignored.
Just because most of the US actors were scubags or clueless or exploiters that doesn't make the Taliban the good guys now by default does it?? They're still cultists, they're still screwed in the head. They still deny the humanity and equal rights of women. They're still primitives who wish to be totalitarians. I just heard they assassinated a pregnant female police officer in one of Roha province (I might not have that name exactly).
So this is all shit.
I would really like to see a free and stable Afghanistan, I guess given the corruption and amorality of my govt it's not got going to be us who creates that. Of course I want regions to be able to govern themselves but not if extremists and subjugators are in charge! China just wants to do business, I doubt they'll have interest in removing the Taliban. It would have to be Russia. I'm still learning more, but it sounds like before my immoral and illogical idiot gov got involved in the 80s, they were doing good works there. That's all I want to see. Putin is a thug but if he or others from the gov could bring legitimate positive developments, civil order, and opportunities for the region as they tried to do in 1980, yeah, I would want to support that.
I believe all the extremists should be destroyed or removed. They keep the country in the Dark ages and they keep millions of women and sometimes others from accessing basic skills, education, work, and even healthcare.
It's like if all the crazy "white Taliban" took over here in the US, which they are hard at work trying to do, starting with removing reproductive rights/bodily autonomy. This is obviously a big problem for those of us here on the Left who don't like fascism and see this as oppression.
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@theprinceofcrows8691 yes.
Of course. You certainly don't have to convince me. I'm as much a critic of this gov as anyone. I find most if not all of what they do inexcusable and reprehensible.
I think you're likely right about Afg. I wouldn't be surprised if an attitude such as that factored into the decision of the planners in 2001 and possibly since. Most of us here who follow world issues are now fully well aware that Bush and his flunkies were just waiting for an excuse to come along to invade Iraq, long before 9/11, whether that included Afghanistan as well I'm not sure.
Regardless of the exact specifics, we can all be 100% certain that it boils down to the following: the endless desire for more profits by the military supply sector who work hand in hand with the White House and the State Department, and one or more strategic goals that boils down to "what other poor middle east country can we exploit for either natural resources or its location, while pretending to fight either totally invented or greatly overblown and exaggerated threats to "national security"?
Shame. 2T down the drain what do we have to show for? How are the Afghans lives better than when we first got there? They sure aren't now- now that we helped the Taliban take back over. I mean you couldn't write this shit. It's it's really, really hard for a normal person with a semi-decent set of ethics to try to wrap their head around it. I guess when you're so high up, when there's nobody above you, you just start seeing the entire globe as your chessboard, your playpen, everything- its just a game and it's never going to touch you, you're never going to bleed, so why shouldn't you see it as a game??? I imagine, whether they want to admit it or not, that's exactly how they see it. Some kind of game to see who wins in the end, and nobody else besides you and your big-shot buddies matter.
That's their mentality, you know? I'm pretty sure that's exactly their mentality.
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I don't think it's this simple. Euros had guns and germs, that's what it came down too. Now if you want to say the guns made them strong, I guess so, but I say it was the guns that were strong, the euro colonizers just carried them. Plus let's not ignore that in Africa and the New World, white diseases killed up to 90% of the natives.
So in reality, one could say the white viruses were strong, having evolved thru the black death and who knows what else.
Between killer germs and guns, native people were hardly on equal footing.
Still, could they not have banded together to use mass numbers to overthrow their occupiers??? It's a fair question. I'd wager there's a good answer to that altho I'm not fully informed right now on it.
Either way, we have a decision to make going forward - to work together as equal partners all over the world for the common good of everyone, or continue to allow exploitation of the global South i.e. economic racism???
Should we seek global fair trade en route to a goal of eliminating global poverty?? Well yes of course, if you ask me.
Fair trade empowers communities, but extractive capitalism only exploits them.
It comes down to a difference of values and principles.
I believe human beings are more important than a company's greed. I also know and believe we can manage the world's resources in an ethical and sustainable way that benefits everyone - but not under the current greed-first capitalist-only model.
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Clearly from the Ukrainian side there appears to be much psychopathy and lust for blood. The gratuitous violence of the Azovs and their collaborators were on full display the night of the coup in 2014 and has caused 14,000 deaths in the Eastern regions since that date. I have heard these estimates from multiple alternative sources by now.
Given what I believe are the facts, I would be much more likely to suspect the Ukrainians were responsible for both of these incidents, this and Bucha; then the RF military. It's not out of the question that any military could commit war crimes, but I have yet to hear a report that I consider credible that would lead me to suspect that the RF were the ones responsible for either of these incidents. If I do, I will adjust my views at that time, but it hasn't happened yet.
Knowing all of the US-aligned Western MSM is against them, I'm not sure what Russian military forces would have to gain by this, if they were to do it. Also, I think it's significant they called immediately for a full investigation into the allegations over Bucha, and were so far brushed off by the UK on the UNs behalf. It sure doesn't seem like Russia is the one with anything to hide here.
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The fact that an organized stable government does not consider itself morally obligated to provide basic guarantees to its citizens (who pay taxes but as we all know taxes aren't absolutely necessary to pay for public services, govt can print what it wants if it so chooses) included but not limited to: food, shelter, clean water, medical care and substance treatment, higher education or training, transportation assistance, child care support, eldercare and mental health support, a basic living stipend, or any other quality of life issue that any reasonable person would agree is valuable; has always blown my mind.
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Well, yes. You hit the nail on the head.
Whether it's due to allegiance to Wall Street and corporate imperialism, or their own crazed obsessions, the Pentagon wants permanent war, served up hot or cold, including coups. Obviously, this is unsustainable, not to mention immoral and criminal. Putin is no doubt a stone cold thug, and other heads of state could be ultra-corrupt, but thay doesn't make the Pentagon's overall agenda morally acceptable..
1T every year now goes to the Pentagon. That's 53% of the US's (my country's) total national budget.
I'm not against having a military, and some BUT THIS IS ACTUALLY FUCKNG NUTS.
This is ongoing madness. Up to 80% of the population here as some level of unmet needs. THAT IS ALSO APPALLING and REALLY pisses me off.
Until we get a Congress and/or president that wants to oppose the Pentagon and what they represent, and isn't afraid to boldly come out publicly doing so; if one wants to pursue an even slightly less predatory agenda towards the rest of the world and will take action towards such ends, then I don't know how this will change. It seems clear now that JFK was wanting to do this- not to totally disarm and mothball every gunboat and plane- but to seek the beginnings of a better and mutually beneficial agenda based on non-violent cooperation with Russia, Vietnam, and throughout the world, including deescalating tensions with Cuba. Well that was enough to get him marked for death from powerful interests within the Pentagon and possibly some collaborators in the public (elements of some mafia have been implicated over the years. The allegations are interesting but I'm not sure if they are true or not).
I don't know if Jimmy Carter has any personal desires to try to push for more diplomacy and a turn away from militarism. Nixon was ultra-corrupt and murdereous and only too happy to prolong and escalate the Vietnam War.
Every admin since, including every Congress, have been the absolute lapdogs of the Pentagon, willingly or unwillingly; I think overall, with few exceptions from a few principled congresspersons, VERY willingly.
So that brings us to now.
Who will make the first move to oppose the Pentagon? To demand a return to diplomacy and a beginning of dismantling many of the 800 US bases that exist throughout the world??? The answer is we don't know. The last major opposer was JFK, and we all know how they responded to that.
I believe most Americans who follow world issues want to pivot to peace, but the Pentagon wants death, war, destruction and coups. Let me clear, I'm not totally against any or all militant aggression or defense, but it should be limited and only as a last resort. Also the CIA should be smashed to 1000 pieces (just as JFK claimed he wanted) and scattered abroad. All they do is evil, and leads to more violence and harm and extreme poverty abroad.
I honestly don't know when this will end. Congress could defund the Pentagon any time they want, by any amount they choose, but they don't want to. They are all bought by the bribers and lobbyists to keep upping the ante on the budget every single year.
People could stop paying their federal taxes if they owe any, and I wish they would, I will be; but not enough people will do so in order to make any kind of real difference in the yearly national treasury. Most people are wary of breaking the so-called law and risking being put in the crosshairs of Big Brother, especially if they have a family or a small business. It's understandable.
At this point in time, I am honestly unsure what it's going to take to force Congress to reduce funding to the Pentagon, to take some of their power away from them, to end the CIA, and to prioritize diplomacy and a scaling back of the entire war machine. All educated voters here who can get past nationalist propaganda want this, but Congress and the POTUS, no matter what corporate-owned party is in power, of course, so far has refused.
I don't know what it's going to take to break this logjam. I hope not another world war.
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Anything that the states and the federal government can do to make it both financially easier and to help people be more prepared for parenting responsibilities is something that should be taken for granted as necessary public policy. But as we can see, that rarely if ever happens. Welfare for those who need it has been decimated, mass incarceration increases out of control taking many breadwinners and the soul sources of financial support out of many lower-income families, hel, the GOP claims to be so pro-life they voted unanimously NOT to help desperate mothers get even baby formula recently. I mean these people are just ghouls. And then they turn around and want to say "why don't you want to carry your pregnancy to term? a fetus is superior to you, you exist to serve the fetus, every fetus has a right to live!"
The hypocrisy of these people is quite amazing. I think that there is at least some who are considering termination who might reconsider if they felt that they would be able to properly support that child, and if they couldn't get family support at least they can get support from the State. But thanks to our cruel and indifferent lawmakers over the past 40 years there's virtually no State support anymore. yes there's a little but it's a patchwork and it varies from state to state and county to county. And as far as parenting classes there's a few, but they are by no means standard or everywhere. And how many social workers are available in a given county to support at risk families or first-time parents? Not nearly enough if any. So the Right wing wants to force women into giving birth, but they steadfastly refuse to do a single thing that would contribute to the well-being of that child and the mother or even the mother's partner after that point. So you see, you don't have to scratch far to see what their true agenda is. It has nothing to do with protecting lives of the unborn and future children or even helping mothers. It's all about some sick domination and control agenda. And if they claim it's not that then I ask them to prove it. Prove to me that is not their agenda and that their motivations lie elsewhere. They can't. Their actions dictate otherwise.
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@junkequation you were correct until the end... the majority of wages are not very livable right now when you take into account the inflexible cost of living, ie not lifestyle spending that can be curtailed at will. We do live in a Land of huge abundance and plenty and that's why it's a crime against humanity that we have any poverty at all! It's being hoarded buy those at the top or wasted through poor policies throughout the supply chain.
We don't have a production issue, we have a distribution issue.
Unfortunately you can't see the big picture the way I can. It takes massive change in laws and public policy to do the redistribution necessary and put the labor laws in place and the rent control in place and the cost of living limitations in place to stop the runaway extraction that at the moment is only making the very rich richer and the poor and precarious, poorer. Because right now the top 2% has run away with near everything, and the laws have allowed them to do so because frankly they have bought the laws, it's that simple. Of course there's still the middle class with its varying degrees, that hasn't gone anywhere yet, but the problem is a good 2/3 in this country are not making it; barely making it, or very precarious where just one setback that isn't immediately resolved could start them on a negative self-reinforcing downward spiral. If we lived in a civilized country that wouldn't happen. You're falling for the personal responsibility mantra- it's a con. Sure sure sure we can all do better , we can all make smarter choices that goes without saying, but it really comes down to public policy.
Without hardcore changes in laws to at least move us in a strong socially Democratic direction, more and more people's lives will be seen as not worthy, expendable, easy sacrifices to be thrown on the altar of greed of those at the top.
I can post a follow-up reply where I try to summarize all my points in brief bullet format of what needs to be done by LAW to ensure prosperity for all for the foreseeable future.
I wish you were correct I wish all it took was changes in our individual atomized personal habits, but while there's a place for those, it's not going to solve the systemic issues that start at the very top. I'll post more- just stay tuned.
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@Joe S how do we know he rode the brakes???? DID HE SAY SO???
WHERE IS THE PROOF OF THAT??
JUST THE DA CLAIMING THAT?? OF COURSE. THIS IS WHAT THEY DO! THEY MAKE UP THINGS THAT SOUND LIKE THEY "MUST" BE TRUE TO THE JURY WHO THEY BET WONT BE CHOOSE TO THINK CRITICALLY ABOUT SUCH STATEMENTS. THE TRUTH IS WE HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING IF THE BRAKES WERE RIDDEN IN THE WAY THE EVIL PROSECUTION CLAIMS. IN THE ABSENCE OF CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE, I WILL BELIEVE THE DRIVER. YOU ARE TRYING TO PAINT HIM AS A MONSTER FOR SOME REASON BECAUSE IT SERVES YOUR AGENDA IN WANTING TO HAVE A CONVENIENT AND TIDY GUILTY PARTY TO BLAME FOR THIS TRAGIC INCIDENT.
WHAT CONDITION WERE THE BRAKES WHEN HE BEGAN THE ROUTE AND IF THE COMPANY SAYS THEY WERE PERFECT (OF COURSE THEY WOULD- TOTAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST!), HOW COULD WE POSSIBLY TRUST THEM GIVEN THEIR DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF MAJOR SAFETY VIOLATIONS???
If he was unqualified for that route IT WAS BEHOLDEN ON THE COMPANY NOT TO ASSIGN HIM UNTIL HE WAS BETTER TRAINED. IF HE HAD NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF THAT ROUTE, AND NO ONE ADVISED HIM OF THE DIFFICULTY, WHY WOULDN'T HE ASSUME IT WOULDN'T BE ANY HARDER THAN ANY OTHER MAJOR ROUTE HE'S DONE UP TO THIS POINT, AND ASSUME HE WOULDN'T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS??? CLEARLY HE HADN'T HAD ANY UP UNTIL THAT POINT IN TIME- HE PROBABLY FIGURED HE KNEW HOW TO DO HIS JOB AND WOULD BE FINE. AGAIN, I STRESS!!!! IT IS THE COMPANY'S RESPONSIBLY TO ENSURE ALL THEIR DRIVERS ARE ADEQUATELY PREPARED FOR THE ROUTES THEY ARE GIVEN!
HE WAS GREEDY??? SO WANTING TO EARN MONEY MAKES ONE A CRIMINAL NOW!?!? slaps face Do you hear yourself????? WOW SO IN ORDER NOT BE CALLED "GREEDY" BY YOU, WHAT- HE SHOULDN'T EVEN WORK, AND THEN BE CALLED A DEADBEAT RIGHT?? Classic example of damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Missed off-ramps?? Maybe he panicked?? How do we know they weren't occupied??? How do we know the brakes hadn't given out yet and he didn't yet perceive a problem???? YOU ARE ASSUMING FACTS NOT AT OUR DISPOSAL!
WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO BLAME THIS MAN WHERE THERE WAS NO CRIMINAL INTENT, AND I DONT EVEN BUY THE POOR JUDGEMENT ARGUMENT.
SO THE COMPANY WHO COINCIDENTALLY JUST DISAPPEARED INTO THE NIGHT BY GOING OUT OF BUSINESS ALL OF A SUDDEN IN ORDER TO AVOID PROSECUTION WHO HAD A RECENT AND FULLY DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF AT LEAST 30 DELIBERATE SAFETY MAINTENANCE VIOLATIONS INCLUDING BRAKES!!! BEARS ZERO RESPONSIBILITY IN YOUR MIND???
SO DON'T PUNISH THE CORPORATION, PUNISH THE INDIVIDUAL FOR THE CRIMES OF THAT CORPORATION. THAT'S YOUR JUSTICE??
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@Joe S NOT FOR ONE SECOND. NOT ONCE I LEARNED THE FACTS OF THIS CASE!
HE KILLED FOUR PEOPLE ON UNAVOIDABLE ACCIDENT!!! NOT GROSS NEGLIGENCE (THE COMPANY COMMITTED THE NEGLIGENCE, NOT HIM), AN ACCIDENT!! Do you know the meaning of the word ACCIDENT????
SO ITS OK TO PUNISH SOMEONE WHO'S NOT GUILTY JUST TO SATISFY YOURS AND EVERYONE ELSE'S BLOODLUST FOR ANYONE TO BE HELD RESPONSIBLE!?!? AND HE'S THE CLOSEST AND EASIEST SO FUCK HIM RIGHT?! FORGET ABOUT THE COMPANY WHO LEFT THOSE BRAKES IN SUBSTANDARD CONDITION AND HAD A LONG HISTORY OF SAFETY VIOLATIONS INCLUDING..... Wait for it..... BRAKES!
No no you're right, he's convenient, so let's all get our emotional demand for blood satisfied by going after him, not the real criminal in this situation. Sure he's innocent of any criminal intent nor could he have possibly avoided what happened once it began (I have heard the escape ramps he was accused of purposely passing up were occupied, if they were not, it's quite possible the brakes hadn't failed yet. Until I hear from him personally, I'm in no way going to assume he didn't choose the off-ramps on purpose because he just wanted to kill people 🙄, Bec that would be insane), but LOGIC BE DAMNED, PEOPLE ARE DEAD DAMMIT, HE "MUST" GUILTY, SO LET'S HANG HIM HIGH!
Geez. You people are scary. Your kinds of "mob justice" desires and irrational thinking is EXACTLY what a cruel and predatory prosector counts on! Guess the rest of the jury thought just as people on this thread have been. However even some of them are now saying they would NEVER have voted guilty if they knew he would be given anywhere near a life sentence!
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My close friend lost 18 years to the satanic Three Strikes law in California. His "strikes" were minor weed possession and two petty thefts. One charge was not legal to be used as a strike, yet it was.
For that, a satanic judge very happily gave him 28 years to LIFE. For nothing. Not a rape, not a murder, just a satanic law. For this sentence, for doing nothing more than ever smoking weed and having two petty thefts, he was placed into a maximum-security prison for his entire 18 years with many actual violent offenders where he was given next to no opportunities to better himself. He's doing ok today and just trying to move forward with his life but because the lock-up system in California was so unfathomably evil, he ended up losing half his adult life to a cage, and for what heinous offenses? Nothing more than weed use, some drug use, and petty thefts. The system is and was bound and determined to destroy him and anyone like him by any means necessary; through manufactured parole violations or probation violations they looked for any excuse to lock this man up over and over and over again. His PO went out of his way to try to harm his housing and employment opportunities. They were down there way to find incredibly minor violations and then give him up to two extra years in prison for absolute nonsense non-violations. When I tell you these people are pure evil believe me I know what I'm talking about. I know I use the words a lot but it's because words start to fail when I try to report on the pure hatred of the monsters who work within the system to try to destroy people. I wish I could find other ways to describe them, but I don't have the best vocabulary.
They saw this man as a target from Day 1 and they all zoned in on him. You who don't know anyone who's been touched by the system CANNOT understand the hate that lives inside the heart of every PO, every CO, every judge, most metro cops, and every DA. They see a Black person and all they think is "torture, throw away, seek and destroy". I'm not exaggerating- talk to those who have survived the system. They'll tell you. The Pigs who put them there are absolute monsters and if you're Black they WILL force any charge on you, you won't be able to defend yourself once in court, and the DA will try to come after you for the worst possible outcome to scare you into taking a plea. Next thing you know you're doing 2 to 10 years behind bars for either nothing at all, or a minor incident where you weren't guilty of anything more than possibly yelling at your girlfriend. And if there is a female involved, NOT underage, then they'll try to get you for a sex offender charge even though you did nothing wrong. It's happened to deserve for people I know, coincidentally, POC. Those of you who haven't had any contact with the the system CANNOT understand it- I don't mean to be hyperbolic it's just that I have seen so much either firsthand or closely secondhand and it is as bad or evil as you can possibly imagine.
My friend has been made extremely poor through this process. He is able to survive on benefits today but isn't able to work the way he was before he was locked up or even five years ago. He would like to work again but he would need to improve his basic stamina, strength and energy first. Those aspects of health became more difficult to maintain the longer one is on a dialysis program, and he's been attending for nine years so far.
When he was detained I don't even think they allowed him to attend his parents' funerals. I mean you think you've known evil, and then you see the monsters who run these prisons and sit in our state Congressional halls. Maybe this is hyperbolic but it's also true, Satan owns this country through and fucking through.
He now deals with health issues due to getting older and has to undergo kidney dialysis due to not getting adequate treatment for yellow fever when he was in state prison.
He is brave and just tries not to focus on it too much and live in the present, but the California courts destroyed his entire adult life time and again for no reason at all. He lost everything he ever owned, he hasn't been able to buy a house yet (though he might be able to in the future) and all for what?? To fill a cage? To fill a cell with an innocent person? And who benefited from this- that's all I want to know. Who benefitted from this?!?
I frequently fantasize about hunting that judge down and blowing him to hell, or choking him out with my bare two hands. I have a feeling he's still alive. Evil has staying power. I want to be the reason he leaves this world and wakes up in hell.
So tell me this isn't the devil's agenda. Satan is some kind of all-powerful superbeing and he hates humanity with a passion that is unfathomable to us and he comes up with many ways and many agendas to destroy human lives.
Every DA is the devil's child, every judge, every cop who willingly participates in this system to destroy a maximum number of human lives, especially Black lives, I hope get the full measure of their evil upon their death. I hope in the afterlife they learn true pain. Let them see what it's like.
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Yeah he was right about that. For whatever reason, willingly or unwillingly, at the end of the day sadly he always plays ball with them. And that's a damn shame. When extra push comes to extra shove, he does seem to fold- although perhaps to him he doesn't see it that way he sees it as keeping things copacetic, making a strategic compromise, or etc etc. I can even understand that butif he was really serious about spearheading positive change, he would realize that there are some times that he needs to be willing to go it alone if the values and agenda that his party is embracing are two divergent from his own (and they are). From out here, he seems unwilling to take that final step and to make his stand with her without the worthless Blue party's approval, and that's too bad. If the Blue party always knows that eventually he's always going to fall in line, what's there to make them take him seriously? That's not good for either him or us. Unless what he perceives as 'good' is always meeting with Chuck Schumer's approval, which if true, I think is a real bummer and Bernie is doing a disservice to himself by doing so.
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@youtubesucks1499 I don't care how you slice it. Exploiting workers/employees via bad pay is non-moral and must be stopped by any means necessary. I wish success for any business from the smallest up to a fairly large size, but NOT if that means workers are exploited. Nobody deserves to profit at the expense of workers. Either reduce your number of workers so that each worker can be paid better, or rethink your entire business. I hate to see layoffs and the number of open positions reduced, but I believe it's better for each worker to be adequately paid so they can have financial security versus twice as many workers making half the wages, which keeps them in a perpetual cycle of financial insecurity and struggling to make ends meet.
Also- reduce high level and executive pay significantly if necessary in order to pay everyone else in the company properly and retain positions. How many times have we seen greedy owners and executives continue to get paid certainly more than was necessary, when all other employees were being told to tighten their belts or that they had to take one for the team because the company has to go through some cutbacks right now, but isn't it funny the cutbacks only happen for the workers and employees not those at the top? Obviously this is totally bogus. I would love to see legal regulations that would stipulate that the highest paid employee/owner of any private business cannot be paid more than 40 or 50 times what their lowest-paid worker receives. The age of out-of-control pay and benefit packages for the executives in large companies needs to come to an end. In this pandemic, thousands of not millions of hard-working low and mid-level employees were let go because of supposed cash flow and profitability problems for certain companies, yet the selfish, self-serving executives and owners impose NO such cutbacks on themselves; gee what a surprise. If they had taken a 50% cut from their already excessively high pay and benefits how many tens, 100s or 1000s of standard employee positions and pay levels would have been able to be retained/saved??? Very many I am sure.
When there's trouble within a large company or firm, it shouldn't be the general employees whose heads are always first on the chopping block.
Perhaps we need laws to prevent this from happening.
I'm sure there are some emergency situations where some positions have to be cut in order to save others, but in general, belt tightening should have to start at the top and work its way down NOT the opposite. It's unfair to always ask the lower level and least paid employees to always take the hit if something within a company goes awry and cutbacks are being considered.
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Just don't pay your taxes and pay independently towards what you want, i.e. schools. If you're charged just defend yourself. Compulsory taxation is unethical. You worked for that money, YOU have the right to determine how it's used.
Edit: in my case, I make donations towards my local parks, schools, roads, and any other public entities that I want to support. I don't support the PDs because I know they're already going to be overfunded. I'm not saying we should have none, I just don't agree with a budgetary choices of my appointed leaders. I object to 1/3 to 1/2 of all public monies going directly into the local PD and Sheriff's Department. Their values are not my values.
If money is indeed speech, then I have the right to speak with mine. Considering SCOTUS went out of their way to claim that, then what's good for the goose (corporate America) is good for the rest of us. I will speak with my money. And if I have to go to court over it and risk being locked up that's a risk I'm willing to take at this point in time.
I understand it's a little different with property taxes; if those aren't paid the bank will foreclose on one's home. So those may be unavoidable. But I haven't filed my state or federal taxes for quite some time now. I haven't made very much so it's hardly worth the IRS's effort to pursue me, but if they feel it's necessary that's fine. They can charge me with tax evasion all they want. I refuse to pay to a machine I have next to zero voice on anything. I understand there are periodic local and State ballot measures and I do vote on those. But that's not enough. There's much more that gets decided every day where the majority voice of the constituents is routinely ignored.
It's not like local municipalities or states have to be dependent on tax revenue anyway. They could ask for allotments from the federal government or their respective state governments. Plus they can make billions more by assessing taxes on the very rich and the wider commercial sector. If they choose not to that's their own damn fault. It's outrageous that they expect the middle class and the poor to constantly support the public costs for everyone. Not that I don't want to do my part- I do. But in the way that I choose. I believe that every private citizen, at least those under a certain income level say 500K, have the right to determine how their own tax dollars are spent. If a local municipality or a state assembly wants more on top of that, they have two very usable and quality alternative funding sources - the federal/state gov, or the 1% and commercial business, esp the bigger side; their age-old friend.
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@PvblivsAelivs @John Undefined it's still bullshit. I agree an owner is entitled to some of the profits but the LIE and the vicious amorality of crapitalism is that owners deserve EVERYTHING... less perhaps something for their investors. One, why do investors deserve ANYTHING besides the repayment of their investment with some profit on top?? Its completely unjust and unfair to pay someone PERMANENT rewards for a ONE-TIME contribution. It's a ludicrous Ponzi scheme and it should be illegal!!! It's a way to reap profit with no work! It's WRONG. IT'S ABSOLUTELY WRONG and criminal and it's THEFT!!!! It's big-time theft.
WORKERS GIVE THEIR HEARTS, MINDS, AND HANDS- AND FOR THAT WE DESERVE FAR HIGHER WAGES THAN ARE CURRENTLY GIVEN, PLUS OUR FAIR SHARE OF THE PROFITS THESE MINDS, HANDS, AND WORK HAS CREATED. A fair profit share for all workers is at least 60%, divided among everyone, on top of high base wages.
Yes owners might have founded it and made some decisions and had some ideas. Let it be said I don't deny that. But don't act like that is the whole equation. Without workers HEARTS, MINDS, and HANDS that "OWNER" WOULDN'T HAVE JACK SHIT!!!!!!!!!!
So unless that owner can clone himself 1000 times over, he better recognize that at least 50% of the net profits generated by his company's workforce belong to those employees. Really more like 60%. Once a business is up and running and established, owners and top execs aren't very useful.
I WANT MY PROPORTIONAL 60%, WE ALL DESERVE IT! You people live in a gross mass of self-delusion and conceit when you deny that WE DO IT ALL!!! You're lucky we don't demand everything! I'm being generous by saying an owner's share if 40-50% of total net profits. That's very generous, because the 50-60% left over still has to be split among all employees.
The fact that owners provide starting materials is nice, but immaterial. Without US, namely our HEARTS, HEADS AND HANDS- YOU DONT HAVE JACK SHIT. YOU GOT NOTHING! Most of what Labor produces should stay with them, including any intellectual property discoveries, and profits, less a reasonable return to the owners for said materials.
All non-compete agreements are likewise abusive and over-the-line and should be flatly illegal.
Workers have to make decisions all day long- there are plenty of up-to-the-moment on-site decision-making many employees and middle management make during their shift or work hours, so I don't buy that just because a few pampered C-suite desk jockeys, who do zero productive work, who may make a few company-wide decisions or craft a few ideas, justifies a grossly excessive paycheck far in excess of everyone else who does the real work in the organization.
Can you understand this, you capitalist apologist? You can nod yes.
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@OP yep.
Look, no system is perfect. For the few who can't hack it or won't try, there are simple enough measures to deal with those guys. Carrots and sticks, like anything else. Worst case scenario they can be let go. Do I think it would be any kind of a serious problem? Nah I def don't.
I used to be in the Navy. In govt jobs every rank makes a certain amount, which is openly known and easily accessible to all. The money is decent but nothing special. It's modest at the lower ranks, not bad as you get higher up. And yet, even tho the money wasn't all that great, (but decent) most of us chose to work hard and go above and beyond many times. Why is that? Well, various reasons. To gain a positive reputation among peers or superiors as hardworking or knowledgeable or skilled; to feel a sense of accomplishment or satisfaction after completion of a project, to gain expertise we think we may need later, to feel like noble heroes doing our part for the country's defense (I'm over this now, I hate the feds, but I'm a grizzled 40yo sourpuss now, when I was younger I knew less so I thought the feds were honorable and their agenda was honorable. Boy talk about being wrong).
But the point is, there are a lot of reasons people can be motivated to put in their share of the effort to a cause above and beyond money. And for those who don't want to, or can't keep up, there are ways to work with that person usually. If the best thing to do for them and the organization is to cut them loose, that's easy enough to do.
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@PvblivsAelivs btw, it seems we can agree that if one can successfully start their own business then that's fine. It's fine just fine. I want everyone to have their own independent business if that is what they want. Why do you think I hate corporations so goddamn much? Because they make it harder and harder and harder and harder for small and independent businesses and local chains to survive and thrive. Of course worthless politicians at all levels are equally guilty of this because they are bought and paid for and they pass the ordinances and the policies that serve and protect corporate dominance in in our neighborhoods and all over.
So you see, living under a corporate dominance dictatorship is pretty crappy for a lot of different people and interests.
But the fact is no matter what size business it is sooner or later you come back to the fact that you are going to have a business owner, some management, and some workers.
Or, in the case of a university or a school, a president, some higher-level administrators, and the staff.
It is time to respect and reward labor of all collars at all levels properly.
Well well the elites have certainly enjoyed buying and owning the government for the last 200 years, what do you say it's time for the People to have that same privilege??
I bet you're not rich. You're the People, foo'. Time you wised up.
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@BigBadWolframio you know, you brought up a few points that I hadn't even considered. I really appreciate you doing that. I was considering more of the idealized situation of a caring single woman who's not necessarily poor, and another couple seeking a child, here in the us. I'm sure it's not ideal even here. I don't know much about the state of surrogacy within the states, but I'm sure there are plenty of issues with how it's practiced here. But you bring up really good points about how poor women may be targeted by wealthier usually white couples, and pressured or end up feeling pressured into doing something she doesn't really wish to do other than for the fact, of her desperate financial situation. I could certainly see where the agreement could become exploitative in that case. I don't know if I would call it necessarily buying a baby, although I can certainly see why it could be seem that way, but my understanding is that the money that changes hands is just to ensure that the pregnancy is healthy and that the woman carrying the child has what she needs during the process.
I don't know how many wealthy people currently live on the island of cuba. It would be interesting to read the entire text of the provisions on surrogacy under the new law.
As long as it's fully consensual by the woman carrying the child I would consider her exploited and I'm not sure if it would really qualify as child trafficking, although I even though there's money involved since both parties were consented to the arrangement, and no one is losing a child here per se, or through abduction or other nefarious means.
But I agree that the details of each laws specific provisions are very important. I don't know exactly how to prevent wealthy Western couples from perhaps misusing their privilege, to manipulate a poorer more vulnerable person perhaps a POC into agreeing to a surrogacy arrangement. I'm just not sure how to really prevent something like that. Unfortunately there's no way to prevent all forms of unethical negotiations or arrangements. I wish I had a better answer than that though because I'm sure it happens. It seems quite common that privileged White westerners will adopt from poor countries believing they're doing a good deed and giving a desperate child a much better life than they might have otherwise. It seems on balance this is a good thing, but I can see how it might be seen by the host country as insulting or perhaps undesirable, as if local citizens of that country who might want to be prospective adoptive parents and happen to be financially stable aren't good enough.
Anytime we're dealing with family arrangements and family protections under the law, it's an extremely delicate and complicated issue. I'm sure most countries are probably not doing enough to protect vulnerable citizens from potential exploitation by privileged outsiders, regarding family arrangements or not, or have provided enough
Still come on balance, the entirety of this law seems to be quite progressive and one whose time has certainly come. I haven't seen the text of it so I don't know about the specifics but from what I gather it seems to be a great social advance and an acknowledgment that all families matter and all sexualities are human, and as human have the right to build their family.
But surrogacy is indeed a very unique and delicate subject and I'm sure there's not enough protections out there for those who might wish to abuse their position in order to fulfill their dreams of the perfect family. Thanks for your response. I didn't expect to get one.
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Very simple- set hard quantifiable market share limits by law, say 50%. No single firm may dominate or merge into controlling more than 50% of a single industry.
Big business is a curse on this planet and is the root cause of everything wrong. I'm 100% hostile to them and I'll never be changing my position. I'm not saying businesses can't or shouldn't be allowed to grow, but there should be a hard and enforced upper limit.
They want to have absolute power over this planet and that should not be allowed. Nobody wins this way other than their chief shareholders and managing board. Literally everybody else loses- consumers, the environment, indigenous communities, the developing world, the developed world, workers in these firms, etc.
Big business is tantamount to organized crime and it should be subject to extreme controls otherwise, it will never stop trying to consume everything in its path and nothing matters other than that next worthless quarterly profit. It's a model based on infinite greed, and it's absolute bullshit. Workers in these criminal enterprises don't even benefit- only those at or near the top do.
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So you claim to be Progessive but don't want us to fight??? While we keep getting ass-rammed and preyed on by the heavily-moneyed class?? Why???
THAT IS WHAT FIGHTING BACK LOOKS LIKE. IF YOU DONT LIKE GO JOIN THE BAD GUYS ON THE RIGHT AND THE FAUX-CENTER IF IT GETS YOUR TENDER PANTIES IN A BUNCH MY GUY. Better this than doing nothing which is what they want.
Most judge's are paid off tools of the well-insulated elite and thru their callous and cruel indifference have caused extreme harm to the most vulnerable and they continue to do so. Some judge or judges helped kept a perfectly healthy woman under the legal slavery for 13 fucking years! Her name was Britney Spears and she was for all intents and purposes enslaved under her so-called "conservatorship" which is a disgusting and grossly immoral set of statutes, massively abusable, which essentially turns a person into property. They should not exist- but they're a highly useful tool for those that wish to prey on others and judges readily administer them.
It is my personal belief that a large percentage of the evils that plague our society are directly due to judges and how much authority they claim and are granted and how they use it. Judges greenlight vicious and unjustified mass evictions and unjust criminal rulings, esp when it comes to getting Pigs off for first degree murder and people like Kyle Rittenhouse. They are as corrupt and evil and immoral as they come. I guarantee that judge deserved everything that happened to them and probably much more.
JUDGES ARE GIVEN VIRTUAL OMNIPOTENCE, WHICH I DON'T AGREE WITH, TO AFFECT RULINGS AND POLICIES. THESE PEOPLE ALMOST ALWAYS SUPPORT THE KILLERS, THE OPPRESSORS, AND OTHER ELITES WHO ARE CONSTANTLY DOING HARM TO THE REST OF US. THEY ARE ELITES THEMSELVES AND MOST OF THEM CAME FROM PRIVELEGE, SO HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO HAVE EMPATHY FOR US? MOST OF THE TIME, THEY DONT.
So cry me a river dude. I hope that judge burns. If they don't like receiving what they deserve, then they should try being the people's judge for a change. I don't know the details of that particular case, but I feel certain that treatment was well deserved. And why would the family feel threatened?? No one's going to harm them and no one's harming that judge. I doubt anyone from the crowd made any threats to that judge's safety. I don't know of the specific incident but I doubt anyone who was present that night was advocating any violence.
So cmon. Is that really who you should be feeling sorry for?? You can do better than that, can't you? Next thing I know you're gonna tell me how Kyle Rittenhouse did nothing wrong and your evil governor isn't a vile elite and elite-serving psychopath for PURPOSELY forcing the eviction moratorium to expire in November instead of next April or May, WITH THREE DEADLY WINTER MONTHS LITERALLY APPROACHING with zero provisions given for those will likely be forced out into their car where the temperatures will be dropping into the freezing range (and for those who end up on the street and can't get into a shelter, guess they get to freeze to death), and into a long cycle on transience and insecurity. I wish I could say I was shocked- but this is hardly atypical for anyone in a senior govt position. They exist for one purpose only- to serve the predatory rich and dirty big business. Conscience not required. I mean it's not like Inslee is alone in this regard.
Occasionally if it's easy for them, and they don't get too much pushback from the 1% class or the Pigs' lobbyists, they will do a modestly positive thing for the rest of us, but it will always be something totally defanged and of no serious consequence to ever threaten the current status quo with regard to anything justice or economic-related.
Can't you see the deliberate savagery and brutality of the ruling class yet??? These people don't have consciences- human beings are nothing to them and poor human beings even less. The rest of us are only as good to them as what they can streal/take/maximally extract from us.
You want to be a tool of these animals. You want to play pattycake with them and ask their pretty please permission before fighting back against their aggressions and abuses and monopolization of opportunity. Come on. Can you hear yourself??? You sound like right-wing centrist. Maybe financially you're doing great and if so good for you, but if not, your class and justice consciousness needs some serious rehabilitation- because its on life support my guy.
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I dealt with an extended series of court headaches in a bad county in Kansas one time over two driving on a suspended DL tickets. The suspensions were unwarranted and unfair and I've never driven unsober, but idiotic judge had the gall to act like I'd committed a major crime. What a scumbag (but then most judges are).
Five weeks in jail cuz I couldn't afford bail. Utter insanity. What if I had a job, kids, taking care of a sick or elderly family member??? Maybe I would have been able to get them to waive bail in those cases, considering I was there for nonsense, I would certainly hope so. Either way, they gave me bail, which is just another name for random or extortion.
This is why bail is immoral and wrong in 99% of cases. All bail, with very rare exceptions, must be abolished. It's a financial inducement to abduct people by police and issue bogus warrants!
They had the gall to put a bail on me of $2500 each for this shit. Finally my mom helped me with 10% of it and I got out.
And there's a lot more to the story too. I got over it, but it was outrageous and bogus. We live in a VERY immoral country run by scam artists, predators, users, big-time theives and in some cases stone-cold killers (more on the police side but yeah), never forget that
It's all about getting money out of you. It's not about safety or justice it's about MONEY and that's all. NEVER FORGET THAT! It's a despicable system run by immoral people that preys on the poor. Well it preys on everyone but the middle class and above can more easily avoid it or just pay to get out of it. When you're broke or poor, it's not that easy.
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@chrisperez3614 yes that's what usually happens. I'm sorry it happened to you. Our system is evil through and through. Unless you're privileged enough to afford a fancy lawyer you're fucked, my close friend found this out firsthand in a series of injustices is that I think even you would find hard to believe. PDs are worthless in this country. Either they care but don't have the bandwidth to handle all the cases that they're assigned, or they don't care, or they are too afraid to care. One of the above.
But think about it, if you wanted to design a system that was breathlessly efficient, one that was truly sociopathic in its efficiency at being a mass-production/mass incarceration system, you would create the one that we have, would you not??? Of course you would.
I can't even imagine another system that's EASIER to get caught up in, HARDER to defend yourself from and HARDER to get out of once you're caught up in it.
I'm not saying the truly guilty and truly dangerous shouldn't be held accountable, but we really have a system designed by very smart sadists. How many hundreds of thousands of decent people are caught up as meat sacrifices to this system????? It's happened to several people close to me. It's this massive evil that continues to just have this dark power and recharge year after year. It's been at least 40 years now since official mass incarceration began, but even before there were gross abuses and injustices. Sadly the US has always been an extremely savage barbaric country run by sadists, barbarians and evildoers at all levels who see human beings as easy objects to exploit and take advantage of.
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I like Jon and to his credit, he actually made modest criticisms of the I/P conflict last night, much more than I expected. I would say he's willing to speak in a slightly more left-leaning manner while on camera than your average well-known neoliberal, which in today's climate is rather impressive and refreshing. Still, whether he honestly feels any differently internally or not, he'll never go further while on camera and that's disappointing - but not too disappointing because I always expected as much . Whether it's his choice or the choice of comedy central's network bosses, his criticism of DC's actions and agenda will always remain watered down at the very best.
I was actually pleasantly surprised he was able to get the words out tho that Palestine has the right to actually be free and sovereign, & that Israel is committing active genocide. MUCH more than I'd thought I'd hear from him on a semi-mainstream platform honestly.
So I give credit where it's due but while I personally like the guy and know he has a good heart, I just keep my expectations very very managed around him. He's a nice guy but I don't think he's capable of the awareness necessary to be a full truth teller on these issues, that takes a particular ability to see which most in privilege just don't have, maybe they can't have it, idk.
Until people get over their long-indoctrinated childish need to feel patriotic to the gubmint (as opposed to the general population) they'll never stop whitewashing DCs crimes in their head (and that's if they don't outright embrace them as part of some modern version of manifest destiny right.)
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(long post)
People just don't understand that in this country, it's quite clear that those who who ascend to public office here have very little conscience. This seems to have been a constant over many generations.
This isn't the right or left thing and I started realizing this long before I subscribe to this channel.
Unfortunately it seems quite clear to me now that in a very large number of cases, you cannot count on your public officials or publicly elected persons to care about you in this country or even try to do the right thing. They answer to big-money donors and big money interests and not you. They're in it for themselves, and to satisfy whatever big money interests are behind them.
If you think your party of choice cares about you I'm sorry, please think again. This is equally true of the GOP or the Dems.
The GOP-controlled Texas has sold it to the large corporations (which of course has happened in every state) which has directly and indirectly killed quite a few Texans over the past several years.
By and large public officials in this country only care about themselves feel little to no obligation or responsibility towards the public that they claim to represent/make decisions for.
I'm on the far Left but that doesn't mean I would ever vote for any Democrats anymore. Democrats aren't on the Left; they're just as much corporate and elite money-captured as anyone else. It was Democrats who poisoned Flint and then lied and intentionally buried the evidence over and over and over again to cover it up; acts which caused very significant and real harm to thousands of men, women, and children, mostly poor and minority. There were severe consequences from that that those people are still living with. To my knowledge it has still not been made right, almost 10 years later, and nobody guilty has been brought to justice.
It's a good idea not to trust or respect any public official in this country. Either they're criminally incompetent by choice or because they can't do any better, or openly malicious or sociopathic or disregarding of the needs or rights of the public that they claim to serve.
Are there a few public officeholders out there who are generally decent and generally mean well? I'm sure there are, but I don't believe they're the majority, I just don't. I've lived too long and seen too much malfeasance at this point. Of course there's plenty of malfeasance in the private sector also, no doubt about that, but we're talking about the public one right now.
Just be aware that in a significant majority of cases in my opinion, public officials in this country are anything from truly incapable or genuinely clueless and useless, to openly hostile, harmful or indifferent to their constituents or their sphere of the public that their office is supposed to administer to.
Whether you're on the right or the left these cases really aren't the exception.
Hurricane Katrina wouldn't have been near the apocalyptic catastrophe that it was if local city officials hadn't completely paved the way for that disaster 15 years prior by refusing to reinforce and shore up the city's levies, and had not chosen to remove massive swaths of the mangrove forest which conduct a vital buttressing function against hurricanes and ocean swells. Was it because they weren't warned and begged not to do so by scientists and civil engineers? No not at all, quite the opposite. But Big Real Estate controlled them all apparently and wanted to build over the mangroves. As to why they didn't at least build up their levies better, knowing the potential for heavy damage if they got a bad storm, god who knows. I guess they hated the city they had chosen to manage.
You'd think that's one thing - basic weather safety - we could all agree on. God forbid one spends money on vital public infrastructure.
There's going to be a lot of suffering in this country until we find a way to control the people who get into public office better. Because right now the vast majority of them are basically what I would call a quasi-sociopath. Weather we vote or don't vote, regardless of what their political party affiliation is at the end of the day, I don't believe hardly a single one of them gives a single flip about any of us. And I believe this goes all the way back to the early 1800s.
Look at what East Palestine, Ohio is dealing with right now. The governor and the state's EPA doesn't care about them them, are you kidding? They answer to Norfolk Southern, the big villains in this story. Industry and big real estate has been running it's own people for public office or public agency positions for decades - and when they win, which they often do, of course they make sure that that office will never stand in the way of anything Industry or Big Real Estate wants, or if they're a politician, will take the bribes aka campaign donations and always vote the way they're told.
It's wise to have a healthy distrust if not an outright hatred for the vast majority of public officials in this country. I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them. They just don't seem to have any ethics or willingness to have any sense of responsibility towards those they claim to represent. Until this changes, regardless of one's political persuasion, we need to be on our guard and constantly watching our back around these people.
I won't say all government is bad, some of it is useful and necessary, but as anyone who's been following this channel and probably has just lived a little bit of life knows, those who occupy it can frequently become tyrannical, abusive or flagrantly criminal. Even in some cases downright evil. Local, county, state, or federal – for the 90% of us that are average Joes, we just need to be aware that the vast majority of people in this government don't work for us and don't care about us, regardless of what their lying mouth says, and always be willing to fight back. The challenge is finding a lawyer who's not a coward or just uninterested to take our case, but we have to keep trying. In my life experience so far, I see people who ascend to government, public agency, or legal positions in this country as selfish, cold-hearted, crooked, often criminal, and, esp of police, frequently bullies or predators.
I wish it was otherwise but it doesn't seem to be. We can help ourselves by staying aware, always educating ourselves about their continued misdeeds, and forming or joining various citizens' defense groups, both militia and legal.
TDLR: I don't really know why but a great number of public officials here are simply terrible people, for whatever reason. This is bad for us. Let's stay aware and be willing to fight back if and when we need to.
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@chompythebeast ok. Yeah that's all true. You're right I probably shouldn't have said 'grow up' like that. It's a bit petty that's true. I guess some of us just have a gut feeling that there's more than just this life, and I sometimes assume everyone has that feeling but perhaps not. So that's why for me it's very natural to believe in a spiritual reality. That plus the plethora of personal reported experiences by multitudes of people through the years of various forms of contact was supposedly spiritual beings, claims being able to see other realities, of near death experiences, and so on. Now it stands to reason that not all of them are true, perhaps most of them are just misinterpretations of feelings, but I don't believe they're all false. I do think some of them are real. As to how many and which ones who knows? But I have heard some very compelling personal testimony that caused me to believe the person who was speaking
But yeah you're right I mean there's no scientific proof of anything non-physical obviously, at least not of an afterlife or spiritual matters. I just feel pretty convinced that there is a spiritual reality, that our awareness comes not just from the fact we are physically alive but there's something that goes beyond the brain that animates us. A consciousness or a soul if you will. Anyhow there's a material reality and for some of us there's an immaterial reality and I won't know until obviously I kick the bucket if any of my assumptions are correct. I've always believed in the non-physical, I've just always been one of those people. I've just always been comfortable believing in a higher power out there. It's impossible to prove but it's just what I think is true. I'm very comfortable believing that souls continue after the death of the physical body. As for how long I really don't know. A trillion years? Who can say? There's a lot we just don't know. For instance, what existed before the universe? I find that an unanswerable question. If there are higher powers, which religion is right? Another unanswerable question. If there are higher Powers why do they allow evil and traumatic experiences? Another unanswerable question. Different religions give their different answers. Yeah I mean it's a lot to think about for sure. I believe that ghosts may exist, and I do believe most of the reports I hear about NDEs. I look forward to seeing what's on the other side when this life has passed me by. I hope that people who do harm to others in this life who have awareness of what they are doing are held accountable on the other side. I also think there's a strong possibility that multiple lives may exist. I do wonder why, if there is a spiritual reality and our loved ones continue on, why don't they routinely come back and talk to us just to give us comfort and to let us know that they're still out there and that the love is still there? I think that's a really good question because most people have lost somebody that they've cared about and most don't report being able to communicate with them again, although I have heard some instances where people claim they have been able to. I actually find the spiritual/new age field very fascinating. I'm sure there's a lot of hucksterism in it but I try to be discerning and keep my BS meter up. But I do think there's something to it. It could all be nonsense I admit that but then again maybe its not. It's unsatisfying but I think we all have to admit that we just don't know. And since there's no way to really verify any of the claims from practitioners from the new age or spiritual or religous sector, I guess you just have to go with your gut when it comes to that stuff. So I do. I base a lot on my gut feelings and instincts. Which is not to say logical analysis doesn't matter but you know, both are important.
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Rental housing should NOT be for business investment, ie private equity. Period. That needs to be BANNED.
Numerical limits need to be placed on numbers of units any rental business can own, ie 100. Same for apartment complexes, say two maximum.
HARD RENT CONTROL WITH RENT CAPS, ie no more than 20% above owner's mortgage payment, OR the following amounts; $400-550 for 1 bdrm, $450-600 for 2 bdrm, $600-725 for a 3 bdrm, $800 for 4 bdrm, $900-1500 for a house; whichever is more.
No limits on luxury units but should have to meet a high bar to qualify as such.
Other hard controls for distressed renter protections, eviction protections, low-income renter protections, elderly renter protections, etc. Hard regs on landlords and serious penalties for abusive landlords and criminal penalties for slumlords.
ONLY hard Leftists, if elected, would do this. The red-blue uniparty filth who work only for Big Business and don't care if we live or die NEVER will.
We need a hard Left political party that most people would vote for in the US yesterday. Unfortunately for all of us, this does not seem forthcoming, because most voters like voting for corporate parties and human filth who don't care if they live or die. Seems to be a psychological cult-learned behavior and until that changes we are all FUCKED.
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@riclatham5869 the SCOTUS has almost always served and slobbered at the foot of big business, aka large corps. But then again, the whole govt was built by and created for the wealthy and ultra-wealthy elite. I'm sure there were a few reps or senators over the years that didn't come from priveleged families but probably not many.
Not a whole ton has really changed. And today we're more of an oligarchy then we've ever been.
How many SCOTUS judges ever came from a poor home??? Even lower court judges are usually priveleged. I doubt many have ever known real struggle; which gives them no experience to have any empathy with poor and disabled people who might come before them. When the ravages of greed/capitalism are so brutal, it's always the poor and most vulnerable that are hurt the most, but most judges have no sympathy for them. Record numbers of evictions proceeded across the country even with the so-called moratorium in place.
A poor person can almost NEVER get justice or even compassion in America, where the rich ownership class rules and only money matters.
I heard of an elderly blind man being evicted for smoking one single cigarette inside his unit in the middle of the pandemic. I hope I got some of the details wrong on that story and I'm misremembering it. It made me sick to read it. He told the judge he would be homeless if evicted, he lives only on his SSI, and was still evicted. It was hard for me to believe what I was reading.
It's really hard to get out from under rule by the rich and very rich- but I hope we can. Otherwise, not to be too dramatic or negative; but dystopia for anyone in the bottom 60% awaits. The casual and deliberate cruelty and apathy I see readily displayed throughout all levels of our court systems is literally revolting.
But I have no respect for the SCOTUS. They are the most priveleged of all, working for what keeps them priveleged and rich, not for you and me.
Anyways I don't respect or believe in the institution. Too much power for just a few people; all too easily compromised and appointed to serve narrow special agendas. I want it gone. Not that Congress is much better, but at least there's 435 of them. Matters of legality can be settled by voting on bills.
Just because nine racists said black people were inferior in Dred Scott, didn't make what they said true or moral.
I think it would be best if the SCOTUS was disbanded. It's nine kings with total power versus one.
Nah, no thanks. I really just don't agree with that.
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These Pigs UTTERLY showed their immense contempt for Black and Brown life and life in general four days ago. They had ALL the protective gear they needed. ALL they had to do was literally rush the classroom. The crazed kid with the gun was something like 140 lbs soaking wet. They had 20 big burly cops out there with tac gear and all the guns they needed, and they did NOTHING by CHOICE for an HOUR. It's virtually guaranteed that some of the children and one or both of the adults died NOT as a result of the gunman but as a result of this shameful and deplorable inaction and deliberate abandonment.
The fact that they could have had the shit shut down in under a minute if they simply rushed the classroom, but they decided to do nothing and claimed they were afraid is equal parts evil, sick, revolting, and inexcusable. That kid would have been dead or in custody in no time if those 20 Pigs on the scene had acted the moment they had him confined to a single classroom and both exits guarded, but they waited for an hour for Texas Border Patrol to respond ALL THE WHILE KNOWING THE SHOOTER WAS NOT ALONE BUT HAD SHUT HIMSELF INSIDE WITH OVER 20 OTHER CHILDREN, and even AFTER BP got there they told him not to engage!!! So I guess they were just going to wait until kingdom come or until the shooter decided to come out of his own free will no matter how many other people were killed in the meantime. The ONLY reason this nightmare was brought to an end was because one or more border patrol agents disregarded the orders of the local Pigs on the scene and rushed into finally END this, which BTW, could have easily been accomplished an hour previously if the Pigs had just done it themselves!!
BY THE WAY, AND WHY IS NOBODY ASKING THIS WHERE THE FUCK WAS SWAT FOR THIS COUNTY DURING ALL OF THIS????
No more donuts and YES to prison time for these disgusting wastes of space and taxpayer money. Two tragedies happened at Uvalde 4 days ago; the shooting, and the gross and excessive loss of life that resulted from every SINGLE City Pig on scene completely and willfully abandoning their basic duty to guarantee basic lifesaving action children inside that school.
Supposedly the DOJ is investigating but I doubt they'll hold these men accountable. Merrick Garland is a complete fascist and a corrupt criminal piece of sh7t in my eyes I trust nothing coming out of his DOJ. They should be found guilty of multiple counts of depraved indifference to human life and criminal and pathological dereliction of duty resulting in death to minors and public servants (aka teachers) and most certainly should have to do time. And it goes without saying that they should be fully banned from ever working in any law enforcement or protective capacity AGAIN.
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@tanawilliams7498 well that's well said.
I'm happy to try to work to build up a workable third party but will take time and no guarantee it will be able to change anything. We should still try, but in the meantime we have the same problem.
Yeah it sucks balls. It's a tough one. How to get politicos that aren't in it for themselves, don't want bribes, don't want cushy jobs as lobbyists themselves down the line, and how to stop or at least limit big business from having their lobbyist orderlies write the laws that then get rubber stamped????
Man I straight up don't know.
IS there a way??? I hope so. But your guess is as good as mine.
If politico will ALWAYS sell themselves the highest bidder, then the only surefire way that we have a voice is to demand full direct democracy. EVERYTHING has to be ratified through a public vote or originate thru a ballot measure.
Of course that would take a change in law in the legislature. Lol and when would they vote to remove their own influence? Pretty doubtful.
But IF a ballot measure was put forth under ballot measure rules to insist on those changes and call for a changing to the CA constitution, which necessitates a public vote, it may be possible.
I'd have to look into that because it seems the only way.
Same for insisting on uniform election standards, paper ballots, and strict limits on public campaign financing. The crooks will never vote to un-crook themselves but maybe if Left groups organize together and try to get it passed as a BI, a ballot initiative it may work. I'm sure they'd try to stop it somehow but if all the rules are being followed about BIs, I don't see how legally they could.
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Really not sure why he's still wishes to praise them, after everything he has gone through; they are a plague on this planet. There's no positive purpose for their existence. Is he afraid of being currently targeted or opening up the door to becoming a future hard target??? Perhaps.
Maybe he's afraid of something, Idk. It's like those jelly spine yellow bellies or deeply misinformed people who, upon seeing mass examples of police criminality, continue to insist that those represent only a few bad apples, ie individual failures, but the institution as a whole is of course beyond reproach. You know, the always-useful 'few bad apples' argument.
Well, maybe those people really do feel that way but I would say if so they're not looking closely enough, if something is holding them back from making a systemic judgment. I think the issues with both institutions are pretty obvious and systemic, not individual. Obviously many individuals in both groups are bad, but they're bad because the standards and goals of both groups are bad. They're bad because the accountability is non-existent... and so on. They're bad because crime and aggressive harmful behavior is not only tolerated but encouraged, esp for street gestapo. So yes, I should think this systemic evils should be quite obvious for anyone who's not deliberately trying not to see.
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Fantastic news. Good to hear that the good guys won one. Not to be too dramatic but as it seems that we live in a time of complete social decay and government complicity in such, news like this seems harder and harder to find.
Ah yes ruling by paradox AKA what EVERY county does in this union. Such as how they choose to levy massive fines against you if you don't pay a simple traffic ticket but then when you can't pay such resulting extortionate criminally excessive fines they take your driver's license, meaning if you get caught driving they can then take your car and ransom it back to you at even more extortionate rates- I've had to live through this pleasurable experience at least a dozen times by now. It's called debt trapping and municipal city councils are quite happy and proud of it. Of course it's criminal but who's going to stop them? The feds?? The state? Lol sure. So they demand huge sums of money from you but legally take away your right and your way to earn of that money. Police are such absolutely satanic operators I've told these monsters "look I'm homeless right now so even if I wanted to abstain from using my vehicle I don't have a choice" and they still towed it on a handful of occasions. Let nobody think for one second that anybody in a position of power in this country has a conscience. They don't. Five minutes as a poor person, a street person, or a marginalized demographic will cure you of that idea real fast.
I mean how can they sit there and look you straight in the face demand you pay $3000 when you have nothing and say "but you don't have the right to use your car because we took your license"??? I literally had to do three weeks in jail one time because I couldn't afford my low bail when I got arrested for two driving on suspended license tickets. Being temporarily homeless I suppose I was just supposed to sit on the sidewalk all day and do nothing since legally they were trying to tell me I didn't have the right to use my personal vehicle because I couldn't pay thousands of dollars in extortion from another state, because by the way, all 50 states are linked up in a database so if you get license revoked in one state they'll ban you from renewing it in another state. I mean obviously they have to trap you like this in order to force you to pay their extortion, otherwise if they violate your basic rights in such a manner in one state you can simply relocate to another state, renew your license. And what started all this in my case? When I received two minor traffic tickets which all together I think totaled no more than $150 several years prior in VA, altho it could have been anywhere. Of course this is all a criminal money-making scheme, literally a grand theft auto racket and mass extortion, completely illegal under federal law but who's going to stop them????
This racket has happened in just about every zip code I've ever lived in. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
Let everyone realize that government is just another name for gangsterism. Just another name. There is literally zero daylight between them. Zero. It's essentially evil and definitely amoral.
I don't know what's wrong with the animals who hold public office here, but they are always shameless, both towards average citizens and even more so those in need. Absolutely shameless. They are corrupt, hateful cruel, sociopathic and proudly so, and in my eyes, criminal. This particular area here isn't even that big from all appearances, so you might expect a little bit better decency perhaps, but as we can see how, that would be mistaken.
It never ceases to boggle my mind the immorality and utter lack of empathy proudly displayed by all of those in a public position of authority in this country. In this case these are people that just need help. I don't know what rent costs are locally but as politicians are absolutely corrupt amoral trash and as they utterly refuse to limit the cost of rent, they are pushing more and more people into in unhoused status, combined with other factors from.
We need MORE shelters, many more, not less, and I can't understand why anyone would oppose this small unobtrusive building regardless of it's purpose. It's not like if there's ever a problem the police can't be called. And of course it's in an appropriate location away from schools and residential zoning, not that really that should bother anybody because I've been homeless before and I don't understand this insane prejudice towards homeless people as if they're just monsters and Tasmanian devils waiting to strike at anyone and to eat your kids. I know I wasn't like that and nobody around me was when I was temporarily homeless either. In fact we were incredibly average and if you looked at us you'd never know that we temporarily didn't have a fixed address. Even the more traditionally thought of homeless people that appear sloppy aren't trying to harm you. In fact they just want to be left alone! Believe me they're praying you and the Pigs will leave them alone so they can exist in peace, since they feel no one's trying to help them, all they want is to be not agressed on by anyone in a uniform but that seems to be impossible in many localities.
I DON'T understand the hate towards the homeless from metro city councils which is then carried out without thinking by local cops who are nothing but meat machines who have no conscience because they'll mindlessly carry out any order no matter how indecent it is, and that's EVERYWHERE you go. I've been homeless before and a lot of times I've been able to make it through the night unbothered, but other times I haven't been so lucky. The campaign against street homeless by police and councils is something to this day I cannot fathom and honestly it should not be legal. This is harassment and cruelty based on one's economic status and it's wrong on every level. Every one. It's like back in the old days of harassment based on skin color or religious affiliation. And it's accepted everywhere just like Jim Crow was back in our grandparents' time.
I guess I'm the only one that's disgusted by it and finds it shocking that it's allowed and it's considered normal and it's organized and systematic.
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@kar9990 yes I agree the gov is corporate-captured, that's all true, but that doesn't change the fact that masks are proven to work. And even if they don't, (which they do) they are painless and a minor inconvenience, which causes zero harm to the user; and (since in reality they do in fact work very effectively) they are a small price to pay for the prevention of the spread of disease.
Masks just work, they always have. Why do you think doctors wear them during surgery, or hazmat workers wear them at the worksite?? Why does any breathing protection exist?? To keep harmful particles out, and to prevent potential infection to self and others.
If you don't think so you don't know what a virus is or how a respiratory disease/dangerous particulate matter operates. Just gugle it, it will literally take you 5 seconds to learn why masks are the single most effective method after vaccines and hand-washing to prevent infectious disease.
And while I agree that other vaccines given during the first 5 years of life could be questionable, maybe even dangerous, 100M have now taken the adult covid vaccine around the world, with no serious side effects. My 80 year old parents had it, nothing; my two 70 year old acquaintances had it, nothing. The entire vulnerable elderly population of the country has had it, all have seen absolutely nothing in the way of side-effects and have been protected ever since.
The covid vax is very safe.
At least wear a mask indoors for the foreseeable future or if you come in close contact with others if you cannot be convinced to take the vaccine. You have no right to refuse the vax AND also demand the right to refuse to mask up. That's not fair. If you want to deny that covid is deadly and contagious, that's your business, but you have no right to put anyone else at risk due to your ignorance. Science and reality-deniers have no right to be that selfish. You have no right to refuse to comply with simple mask requirements when now all legitimate medical science now knows the facts about COVID and that hasn't changed in at least 15 months. I recognize there was a small bit of confusion at first amongst the medical community but that's long gone.
If you don't want to mask up, then stay home or don't get close to people you don't already live with, it's that simple.
If you can be rational, you would not deny the benefit of masks. That's like denying germs exist and that hand-washing or any other sanitary measures don't work, which frankly takes us all back to the middle of the 1800s. Please stay in the 21st century and admit the science.
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Yeah Steve you said it that's what it's all about. It just comes down to these people are shameless and they don't have souls. I don't know about pramila maybe she's just a coward, but Joe Biden all of these scumbag typical Democrats it's all about giving everything to the rich people. You know what they say, when the rich steal from the poor it's just called good business but when the poor steal from the rich it's called crime. because we have a rapacious class of people that own elected officials at literally every level of government local common state common Federal, they've officially brainwashed most of the public into believing nobody has any basic human rights to anything including clean air to breathe apparently; if you can't afford to pay you serious prices for every basic need in life you don't deserve them, if you steal food out of a grocery store for your family you're a petty criminal, and on and on and on. Landlords have the right to charge everything out the ass. and if we don't pay it that's our fault we can go live on the street but oops we can't do that anymore because local thugs AKA pigs AKA cops will come around and give people holy hell or just harass them to death about it. I do think things will change eventually but for now this just keeps getting bleaker and bleaker. Sure the top half will manage, but what about the bottom half? I guess they don't care if we die. It's just so crazy what's happened in this country with past 50 years. It says if a white economic Taliban has slowly but surely put its hands around the throat of every government apparatus in this country and now these criminals own the government and so and they're only agenda is to continue taking from the bottom and the lower strata and shoveling it up top and if that denies people basic needs oh well, they don't care because they don't recognize human rights.
We are living in truly insane times. there's more than enough in this country to go around for everyone and we could easily distribute enough to everyone, while still allowing all private for-profit businesses to stay profitable. This is a known fact and it's not just my belief and opinion, but this is been proven many times over. I don't have the date in front of me but it has been proven in black and white and in numbers. But no your local grocery store chains would rather throw out 40% of everything in that store then give it away to local distribution networks so it can be distributed throughout the community through different food banks and community centers.
This could change if new laws were passed against this but guess what, who makes the laws? So far nobody that wants to do right by the majority of the people. Yep sad times indeed.
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@Bara7187 yeah I mean it's like where exactly are skateboards and bikes supposed to go? Why would anyone have a problem with people engaging in good clean fun and being healthy doing it? I don't understand why anyone has a problem with skateboarding. It's a recreational activity, it doesn't do any harm, so to have a problem with it to me is just odd. Skate parks are nice and I'm glad that today they're common today, but there's certainly nothing wrong with skating anywhere else that's publicly accessible. It's not like it damages property. I remember in 2020 I think in chula vista there was a water park that was shut down because of covid but a bunch of young people jumped over the fence or got in somehow and were skating. Just skating.
Okay what's the problem? They were just using the property when it wasn't in use. It's not damaged, they weren't taking anything, there's no harm done it shouldn't have been a problem. But it was on the news and then of course they had to run somebody complaining about it or commentary from the Park's owner or something or saying that they were going to have to get security guards to keep people out. Why? You're just wasting money! Again, this had nothing to do with vandalism, and nothing was being harmed here. They were just using the unoccupied surfaces for skate practice. Nobody in their right mind would really have a problem with that. If it's not going to be used for its intended use and there's nobody else there come on now, who cares? Why shouldn't someone get the benefit of it if it's just unoccupied empty space?
People just want something to complain about and to criticize somebody else about. That's really all it comes down to. It's like they don't want anybody else to enjoy themselves. Maybe cuz they're so grumpy or unhappy most of the time they get offended when other people are out there enjoying their life. Because otherwise why take offense when people are having a good time?
Doesn't make much sense. It's not like they're being asked to give up their personal home or backyard.
Now I do understand the concern about street racing, there is a possibility of risk there if someone loses control since they're using vehicles I understand that. But again, provided it's done AWAY from any residential areas or development, where nobody else is coming andor going, I don't have a problem with it. Whether it's a dedicated facility or just a stretch of road far enough away from everything that gets little to no traffic and is separated off during use, then I'm fine with it.
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Corporate criminals will never be harmed in this country. NEVER.
I sent 6 weeks in a county jail because I didn't have $250 bail for a driving violation. Now that's a local injustice, but it's what this system is set up to do to its poorest, which is kick them in the face repeatedly while stepping on their neck until they die. THAT'S what the legal system in the US is set up to do.
This legal system is designed to be a form of entrenched slavery, opportunity destruction, and extortion for poor people, usually Black or brown, and has NO desire to target the corporate rich. State and federal prosecutors LOVE those people, they want to BE them. They take massive bribes from them or are partial to politicians who do. They could care LESS about corporate goons' many endless crimes against the public which include endless counts of intentional disregard and depraved indifference to human life, among others.
I don't know how to fix this problem. The red-blue uniparty is bought and paid for by the rich corporate class and is only too happy to serve them, this includes keeping them beyond the reach of the courts, which they gladly do by appointing crooked or outright criminal federal court judges and prosecutors and the same for State AGs (see Billionaires and Ballot Bandits p. 125, top paragraph, for an example of this regarding voting suppression).
THERE ARE NO ACCOUNTABILITY MEASURES FOR THE MASSIVE CRIMINAL CORPORATE CLASS IN THE US- the marriage between big corporate money and the political class is too tight.
I HOPE in the future that can change, but as of right now I'm not sure exactly how.
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@Graeberwave I'm not an expert here so I don't even know if that's true. They've literally been one country before so it's not like they're strangers and this has no previous context. Maybe all invasions are wrong on principle, but there are pretty clearly understandable reasons behind this latest so-called aggressive action by the Russian state. And since others know more than I do about these things, I will now direct you to other sources. First, the other videos on this topic on this channel, guess you haven't been there yet. Also- The Socialist Program podcast.
Second, The New Atlas. Maybe he's lying, but I don't think so.
Third, while I differ with him on some things, Bad Empanada has some good takes.
Fourth, Revolutionary Blackout.
Fifth, WSWS podcast (world Socialist website- I don't know of they have a yt channel).
So. If you like world issues you can go scrounge around those for a while. I usually agree with them. Maybe you won't, but there they are.
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I have no problem usually with Evangelical believers, they're usually kind people who mean well. The only issue I have is that they seem to be a particularly vulnerable group to manipulation by Right and Far Right politicians. It's sad. They are easily convinced to vote again their own best interest economically, to vote against providing or protecting human rights to all people regardless of race, national origin, other belief system, or LGBT status.
If Jesus really existed he would be a Socialist and he was. He stood for the poor and the downtrodden. He stood for equality of all. He wouldn't want anyone to be left behind and he sure as hell wouldn't want any fascist to come to power. I have no problem with evangelicals personally, I just think it's unfortunate that they become easy and willing political stooges for right-wing politicians and this seems to be the case in every country. It certainly true here in the US and it seems clear it's just as true down in Brazil. I wonder how many evangelicals voted for that quasi-Nazi, indigenous-hating, Amazon forest-destroying SOB evildoer and semi-fascist, Jair Bolsonaro. If only people could wear their moral corruption and their lack of a moral center on the outside of their body so we could easily them for who they really are. Thanks to Bolsonaro as just as his counterpart where I live in the US, Mr. Trump, Brazil has been damaged and countless ways. And yet I wonder how many millions STILL voted for that hyper-corrupt, ruthless destroyer in this past election, and how many of that group would identify as religiously Evangelical.
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This problem is SO easy to solve, here's how you do it-
1. Hard and binding rent control now. Details as follows-
- Rent pegged to income, max 20% of net income, OR no more than 120% of landlords' mortgage installment of unit currently under mortgage; whichever is larger.
For designated low-income tenants (based on household size): 15% of income maximum rent amount applies across the board, no exceptions. In cases where this kind of tenant seeks to rent a unit with a mortgage expense, govt subsidies can be given to supplement the difference.
2. Full and rational eviction protections in both public and private housing. Aggressive support and intervention given via local housing agency to attempt to resolve all disputes positively and prior to resorting to eviction proceedings. Enact comprehensive Distressed Renter programs to include periods of partial rent and paused rent for qualified circumstances.
3. Mandate universal Section 8 acceptance, no Section 8 discrimination allowed.
4. Sharply increase the Section 8 program in amounts and numbers of persons covered
5. Sharply increase public housing stock in all 50 states
6. Provide full assistance to any renter at risk of homelessness for any reason
7. Actual justice in Tenant Court made a thing, with full legal representation guaranteed and mandated for EVERY tenant under eviction proceeding.
8. Anything else I forgot here
9. let's all remember that housing security matters. Housing stability is the foundation for a better life we all deserve. Affordable housing is everyone's right.
BAM I've done it. Am I a genius??? No. Just a person with common sense and a conscience.
Why won't politicians do this?? Because their trash, they're elite, they don't have the empathy, and they just don't care. We need people who will.
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I'm a vet. Im a Socialist, and I'm not the only one. LMFAO these Right-wing cucks really think all vets are stupid or still brainwashed. Not true my man, not in any way true. In fact if I had to guess, among vets with political opinions and who go out to vote, I would guess the right vs. left split is probably around 50-50. Oh yeah I do. Especially as we get older and gain more knowledge of the world and start seeing things in much bigger context and grow up and out of all past and previous rah-rah "'Murikka!!" war-drum-beating propaganda.
By the same token I do think Biden and Trump both screwed up royally, whether intentionally or not, and I personally want them to both pay a heavy price for it. I mean, maybe it was inevitable the Talibs were gonna take back over eventually, but we didn't have to HELP them, which Trump did on a platter; on a PLATTER. And then I've never seen such DEPLORABLE botching of what should and could have been a very orderly and staggered evacuation process by that lying, good -for-nothing, Mass Incarcerating, Backtracking and proud, Strom Thurmond-loving, Labor-hating, Anita Hill-attacking, corporate-ballsack-slobbering, elitist ASF, good-for-nothing JOE. I wanna see him impeached over it. I know, that sounds extreme to some but it's not like the GOP would take over, Kamala would. Which is no different to me. She's a cold-blooded and cunning self-serving operator, I'm sure she'll do just fine.
I pretty much have equal opportunity hate for almost everyone in mainstream politics today bec by my standards they're ALL awful and terrible and after a while all the cunning, or corruption, or apathy, or sociopathy, or grifting, or willful incompetence, or dereliction of responsibility or duty, or middle-finger-giving just starts to be WAY too much ongoing bullshit to have to deal with to try to sift thru for that ONE small faint hopeful ray of positive public policy.
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It would be one thing if federal energy policy was anywhere remotely ethical based on not only what generates profits for the fat cats who own these conglomerates but what provides great wages and benefits, super low cheap and affordable rates for consumers & end-users; while regulators continually seek ways to minimize environmental impacts and require all energy companies to aggressively capture, negate, neutralize or process all polluting output they produce. Also, superfund and sacrifice zones do not exist under this plan. Any excessively polluting zone is carefully located to have the absolutely minimal possible impact on surrounding communities, humans and wildlife. Any unavoidable pollution found and attributed to an offending company who had approval for knowledge or does not take aggressive steps to remediate after being informed, will be severely punished through fines or criminal penalties.
Of course- that's not the policy we have, and all of us pay in one way or another for the endless greed and rush to extraction from these worthless fat cats CEOs who the entire federal structure bends over to serve. And I mean entire. Judges, federal prosecutors, they're all so many puppets on a string for these people. Theyre white collar bodyguards for big business boardroom jockeys in every industry, but especially energy.
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@sallyjackson8129 Cops have no right to be violent, EVER. These are DEMONS who belong in PRISON. POLICE VIOLENCE IS UNACCEPTABLE- ANY NON-DEFENSIVE VIOLENCE IS IMMORAL AND UNACCEPTABLE, AND THAT IS WHY WE FIGHT.
STREET COPS NOTHING BUT ARE A DEATH SQUAD AND A MURDER, BRUTALITY AND RAPE GANG- AND THAT'S ALL THEY ARE. THEY EXIST TO STEAL AND EXTORT FOR THEMSELVES AND OCCASIONALLY THE COUNTY COFFERS. THEY ARE ORGANIZED CRIME UNDER ANOTHER NAME AND ITS ONLY DUE TO A CENTURY OF BRAINWASHING AND PR SCAMS THAT MAKES THE PUBLIC BELIEVE THESE PEOPLE ARE THE GOOD GUYS. BELIEVE ME, THEY MOST CERTAINLY ARE NOT. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM IS A VICIOUS, BLOODTHIRSTY PREDATOR- AND IF THEY ARENT TARGETING POC THEY'RE TARGETING HOMELESS PEOPLE. THEY INFEST OUR ROADS AND HIGHWAYS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR EASY VICTIMS.THEY ARE CROOKED, DIRTY, CRIMINAL, SAVAGE SOCIOPATHS!
THEY ARE THE WORLD'S MOST PROTECTED AND IMPUNE VIOLENT, THEIVING GANG.
THEY ARE A MAFIA, A MOB OF ANIMALS!! THE WORST OF THE WORST IS WHO THEY ARE AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM DESERVES EITHER JAIL, PRISON, THE ICU, OR DEATH!!!!
THE ONLY PIGS THAT WILL EVER HELP YOU ARE DETECTIVES- AND THAT'S MAYBE!!!
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@chocomalk well if it is being mismanaged I'm very sorry to hear that but man all I can tell you is private healthcare ain't no panacea. For those of means who want to pay more, in some cases much more, for healthcare they feel they can trust that's fine, but if you're lower-income or no-income what are you supposed to do? There should be robust public healthcare available for everyone as well as private healthcare for those who want it and can afford it.
Once you turn healthcare over to the profit motive things can go downhill fast. I won't say it's always bad but it can get bad quickly. High premiums, getting denied services you desperately need that you were supposed to be covered for, $1000 ambulance rides, unaffordable medication. It's a real mess here for a lot of people. I think it's something like 100,000 people here die every year for lack of healthcare access, millions more struggle to afford their prescriptions and so on. Essential medications are being priced out of reach on purpose by these hyper greedy Pharma Bros. I think if you knew the extent of it you'd be pretty shocked.
It can be a mess. Like I said some people who can afford it might be really happy with their private health provider here in the States and I'm happy for them, but you're just as likely to hear horror stories from people who basically were taken for a ride from their pricey health insurer. There is a patchwork of some forms of state health coverage plus Obamacare but both of those programs have a lot of issues and leave a lot of those who need them unable to qualify. Also I forgot to mention, medical bankruptcy is I think the first or second leading cause of bankruptcy in the US. I think the leading cause of debt overall is student loan debt followed by general credit card debt.
We're kind of a worst-case scenario for a lot of things but my point is, a totally unregulated free-for-all for-profit healthcare system can cause a lot of harm. Now if it was more regulated a lot of those harms would be prevented or at least minimized.
I thought that private healthcare was available in Canada?
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I do not defend serious and present violent actions, but other than that, and other than serious white-color crime, I'm not so sure what actions are referring to that need, as you say, "correction". News flash boo, we're ALL criminals. Meaning we've all broken some stupid ordinance or some bogus law at some point in time, most of us have just been lucky enough not to get caught.
The bottom line is, most Pigs and prisons should not exist. There's no need. The US is becoming one insane out of control police state. There are a few that need to be kept around as there are genuine predators out there and every county needs a small number of emergency responders, but the majority should be done away with, ESPECIALLY the patrol unit. Those filth are the ones that are just in it to destroy and steal you blind. "Patrol" is just another name for a State-sanctioned gang.
Street Pigs who choose to aggress on the street (engage with those not necessary, intentionally seek victims for targeted harassment, operate outside of emergency response needs) just represent oppression and suppression and there is nothing moral or uplifting or protective or beneficial about that. They're just another band of sorry crooks stealing and seeking easy targets to drag down to jail so they can be extorted for bail money. It's a really corrupt and rotten system and it's all done for profit. That's how I know it's unethical and immoral to the extreme. it should be severely limited and changed.
I don't deny we need emergency responders for those limited situations that warrant them, but all the rest I call foul on. I do not support ANY version of intentional patrolling or occupation of our communities and I feel they are scourges in our communities to the maximum.
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@lochnessmunster1189 Aye prepare for a copypasta dump.
>My principles of an ideal society are as follows:
*Minimal State- loose, small govt, limited in scope, with ACTUAL checks and balances
*No Gestapo aka Street Pigs, aka cops, no domestic occupying force. Fascism is never allowed in any form. Pigs 🐷 stay in their pen upon penalty of law until summoned for an emergency. Street patrols are expressly forbidden and punishable by law.
*Modest-size military in a standby "reserve" status. All foreign bases are CLOSED. Imperialism is OVER. Consigned to the dustbin of history. The age of peace and free collaboration begins.
*All imperialized and targeted minority and Indigenous groups are given full reparations in whatever form they prefer. Equality under the law for every human is spelled out in detail and when necessary or requested sovereignty and autonomy for every subgroup is affirmed.
*Limitations on business size (#s of locations, 100 max)
*Limitations on private wealth (100M max)
*Circular economy- all new goods and food items subject to: redistribution, recycle, repurpose, reuse. NOTHING is intentionally wasted, upon penalty of law. 'resource reclamation depts' are installed in every municipality. Every usable item not sold in the retail sector is sent there for community distribution.
*Human Rights are extensive, enumerated and protected. A new constitution is drafted and is exhaustive. Subjected to public referendum. All can contribute towards final draft.
*Maximum individual liberty (within a few basic restrictions) is the defining new value, free of any State tyranny both obvious and less so.
*Tangible guarantees to all citizens (food, clean water, shelter, education, healthcare, UBI, mental health support, enrichment programs, transportation assist, etc). UBI is means tested but adequate.
*Humane Justice System- 20 years max time for any offense in "Seperated Living", if still a threat, can choose lethal injection. In rare extreme cases sentences can be extended to life but only if absolutely necessary and must be proven against strict reqs. Most offenses receive five years or less. Conditions of SL are exhaustively regulated and humane. ALL staff is subject to the highest standards and oversight. Two strikes you're done. Can't reapply for 10 years. If severe enough permanent ban.
*Public Security apparatus: highly trained, fully professional, fully accountable, full oversight by a separate authority, many redundant checks and balances; only unavoidable defensive violence allowed. Street occupation and any form of aggression or initiated contact are wholly prohibited upon threat of instant termination.
*Public referendum ONLY way to pass policy. Politicians may exist but as advisors only. ZERO private money can ever be used towards any campaign- no exceptions. The days of hired politicians is over.
*Labor- workers' rights fully enumerated and protected. Labor and management are equal. Labor laws are comprehensive.
*Strong (privately-available and govt-provided) wrap-around community supports for any who seek them at low or no cost
*Borders- may exist but must be considered open to all at all times except for rare emergencies. Free travel between nation-States is considered the default norm.
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@joshualfalken as I said I'm not totally against landlords but you have to understand, most rental contracts today are signed under what is essentially duress. People need a place to live more than a landlord usually needs someone to occupy their space, and most people do not make great money and therefore their choices are limited in some degree. So when faced with a contract with a bunch of stipulations that they don't want and don't prefer to agree to, they really don't feel like they have a choice to say no. Same for the obscene or excessive rent many people are getting charged today. High rent is very unfair to those who are in the middle, lower middle, or lower income bracket.
I want to be fair. If a landlord conducts himself responsibly I usually don't have a problem with them. However, acting like landlords and prospective tenants come together and equal ground is disingenuous. Usually that is not true (unless the tenants are well off).
So the solution is of course to have more tenant protections, more tenant rights, fairer rules in general, and the like, so that when tenants DO sign that contract they actually are signing it out of their own free will, not under a feeling of pressure or duress, and not signing to things that they do not want but feel they don't have a choice to refuse because they need a stable place to live.
I'm happy to sign a contract where my rights and my wants matter just as much as the other party's. A truly equal contract. Right now landlords are given all the power and all the control. As a landlord no doubt this is a great deal but obviously they're not the only ones who matter. So yes, as a current tenant I do have a problem with this and this is what needs to change.
Again I'm not against considerate and responsible landlords per se but I do not feel that tenant rights and wishes are adequately protected or respected under the law right now.
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@LRRPFco52 The one child policy had issues but it was understandable at the time, and it's no longer in practice. I'm not sure when it was repealed but I think it's been over for at least 10 years now.
In a nation with over 1 billion people it's understandable they would try to limit reproduction.
It is unfortunate mistakes happen but life is nothing but trial and error, and hopefully learning from past mistakes. This goes for individuals, families, companies, organizations, local groups, or nations. All we can do is try to do better than the past.
Well I guess we won't be seeing eye to eye today. I can see that your mind is made up. I'm very sorry for whatever your family members went through at the time, but just because there were problems under the old USSR, that doesn't mean that a people-first government is not what we want.
Yes, we either run society as best we can for the common good or we let giant multinational corporations set the agenda. There's not much middle ground. Your choice.
Here's the evil that giant corps do, just to keep in mind; and this is just the most recent, naturally there are many decades of other like crimes and nefarious actions:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr6RPTR1TaL9Rts5Llwotd9plCheWx2-4
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@erikt454 if non-military non-political, purely civilian locations have been deliberately targeted, I will indeed condemn Putin for it. That is never okay for anyone to do, not my govt, the US, CERTAINLY not Israel, not anyone; not in a world war, not anytime, and I will be disappointed and somewhat shocked if this is indeed happening now. I'm all for coming to the aid of the Donbass/Eastern regions and removing the rabid Nazis from whatever hold they have over the Ukrainian govt, and striking infrastructure like a dam that has been put in place to prevent eastern Ukraine from accessing drinking water, which is now flowing again thanks to Russian forces; but I can not ever accept that's it's necessary to ever intentionally target non-combatants. However, how do you know that there already been thousands dead? I was under the impression that the death toll was not yet very high. Can you verify somehow that your information is true?
Regardless, and I would need to know more before I conclude that an immoral use of force has occurred, I'm inclined to agree with the person above me. Putin is a corrupt thug and all that, but I maintain he had justifiable ground to open these hostilities. I would be lying, however, if I said I didn't find the idea of deliberately using civilian locations (esp hospitals) as target practice disturbing. I don't see any need for that in any war and I hope it hasn't happened in this one. If it has, then that's wrong. That needs to stop NOW. They can carry on with the rest of conflict as both sides see fit but that should end immediately. In war tragic accidents happen and innocent people will sometimes get caught up in a crossfire but no, it's not ok for any army to target vulnerable civilian targets by choice. I hope that's not the case here. Random Ukrainian non-govt civilians are not in control of anything and are not Russia's enemy.
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@alexscott6095 I get where you're coming from but don't blame the Afghans. As youre about to see that's not really fair and it's a convenient cop-out, and I think it's really cheap and dishonorable that Biden blamed them entirely in his addresses, making them a convenient scapegoat, which thus removes any possibility of blame from himself over his choices re: Afganistan since he took office.
Regarding the Afghan security forces, I had heard they were significantly under-equipped and some, I don't know how many, or where, were half-starving Bec they had food supply problems. Then Trump orders 10 AIRBASES closed during 2020 and most US personnel to leave, while bumping up the Taliban forces by 5000 and their recently-released from jail supposedly top commander. I'm sure the Afghans did what they could but of they were outnumbered, or weren't properly equipped. Also they had been replying on US assistance thru air support but while the Talibs advanced, we had already left and stopped helping.
Yeah maybe some just decided it wasn't worth it and quit, I'm sure that happened; but I'm also sure others tried to stay and fight but logistically based on all this info they were at a significant disadvantage to the Taliban at this point from all my reports. Also I heard all that extra equipment was left at US airbases by US personnel, not turned over to the Afghans. I did hear some of it was in damaged or inoperable conditions but I don't know how much was usable vs. unusable.
This was BOTH Biden and Trump's fault. Biden is a POS by my Socialist justice standards but if you want to be a simple liberal and love him Bec you don't know any better, that's fine. That's certainly your prerogative.
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@baizhanghuaihai2298 (this is in response to your reply to me earlier:)
I understand that viewpoint. You know, cities in this country could be so beautiful and work so well were it not for the Pigs. I understand the need for rapid responders if someone calls for help, cuz legitimate situations do happen, break-ins do happen etc etc. and if that's all the Pigs ever did I would support them 100%, as long as they didn't act crazy once they showed up as they frequently do. But that's not all they do. They want to occupy the streets so they can steal, kill, commit crime with impunity, and oppress poor people and people of color. It's really tragic. I have some ideas on how we can start dismantling that, but I know it's going to take time. Local city councils and state legislatures either don't care or openly support what they do. They aren't on our side. So it's hard. It's really hard. These Pigs have NO ONE checking their criminality, behavior or power. It's a sad sad shame.
I mean it's going to be hard as fuck to dismantle this disgusting system but I'm willing to try.
Just getting them off the street unless they've been specifically dispatched to a 911 incident would fix I think, 95% of the problems, and that's my goal right now. I think it's going to be hard though because they lived occupy the street because that's where they do all their damage. They don't want to just be a response-only force because there wouldn't be able to commit mass theft, and they wouldn't be able to commit mass body-snatching for the bail and jail racket.
So I know when I'm up against, which is a huge mountain of resistance, but we have to try. I believe we can get these thugs off of our streets the majority of the time. it may take a long time, and I know it doesn't seem possible now but I believe that can be the reality. That's my goal; to get these pieces of filth off the streets to literally be effectively banned from being on the street unless someone has specifically requested police backup in an officially dispatched 911 call.
What do you think about that?
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@dumbdumber7203 more likely I'll stay average, which is good enough for me. Doesn't change the facts that unless tightly controlled, Big Business (aka capitalism, aka private ownership of the means of production and the wrongful appropriation of the majority of profits that employees create) and the endless worship of greed, are deplorable things to base any society on. Doing business is FINE, doing trade is FINE, but when Labor and workers aren't respected and given their due, or when greed is considered a virtue instead of a vice, and human rights are completely sublimated to the rapacious desires of Big Industry, we have a problem.
Socialism is based on the recognition of the intrinsic value of human life. Human life has value JUST because it exists. The Left recognizes the intrinsic human rights of every individual to a dignified existence, and dignity demands certain guarantees like enough food, clean water, medical care, good living conditions, healthy communities and positive futures.
Oppression is bad, bad business practices are BAD, and people have a right to dignity both in the workplace and outside of it. People don't exist for the sole purpose of make MONEY for someone else. Life has a worthwhile purpose COMPLETELY outside of making money and having to "produce" got anyone! Being a good person or a kind person is JUST as morally important as being a good worker.
So while I recognize that work for the time being is part of life and probably always will be, "work" is not the PURPOSE of life!! Capitalism says it is. Capitalism reduces every human being to an exploitable object. Socialism says hey, that's wrong. Human beings all have intrinsic value JUST for being ALIVE.
The purpose of life just to try to find happiness, to try to build a healthy community, to try to exercise one's particular gifts if they have any, and to try to better oneself.
Nowhere in there does it say "be a drone for Corporation XYZ".
So yeah, I'm okay with work, but I'm not okay with too much work and I'm not okay with exploitation and I'm not okay with a capitalistic reductive exploitative view of the world.
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@otov100 I still can't believe you said democracy is mob rule..... although technically you are correct, your negative connotation notwithstanding.
So you do want to be a serf, it seems. You want a master. You want no direct control over the laws that affect you. Ok. Got it. Fine. I do not.
Why doesn't everyone deserve a voice? Sure I'm not going to always love everyone's opinions around me, but with constant referenda and limited govt (in the right ways), I trust in due time most will choose to enact the most empowering and ethical policies from among the possible choices.
Nobody has the intrinsic right to rule over another. I mean man, they just DON'T. I'm not saying ANYTHING goes, but we all should have the right to be as free and empowered as possible within rational limitations. In my mind, so-called representative "govt' has long outlived it's usefulness, if it ever had one, and should be replaced or at a minimum expanded in it's numbers and supplemented by direct debate, commentary and referenda from the public.
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Thank you so much for sharing a very painful story with us. I know it cannot have been easy. You can see that I'm very moved by your words as I sort of went on a commenting binge here in this section. The podcast INTERCEPTED aired an episode on this very issue a few months back which first opened my eyes to what was going on. Needless to say I was very angry and disturbed by the time I was through listening. If you're interested you can find it in their episode list on any podcast application. I think it would be very helpful for those such as yourself who have survived going through these unethical programs to draft a prototype bill and testify before the CA Congress about your experience, and keep fighting until it is passed. You can see where I commented here that is outrageous that these are both unregulated and be private. It seems to me that 95% of the problems in this sector would not be occurring if these facilities were not privately run. Obviously lack of oversight, whether it's public or private, is going to lead to abuses, but how much more so is that going to occur on a for-profit, private facility?? Beyond anything else, fundamentally these programs should never ever ever be allowed to be done on a for-profit basis. All other regulations and oversights can stem from that. I think the only way to stop this abusive industry from continuing just the same as it always has is to relentlessly hound lawmakers no matter how long it takes into passing ironclad legislation that comprehensively address every single issue that has been brought up tonight, including the outrageous middle of nowhere locations of these places. That, also, should not be allowed, IMO.
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WinCo may SEEM good, I've lived up there so I'm familiar with them, but I have no respect for them anymore. I'll explain.
I believe they embrace just as many exploitative business practices as any other large chain. I now believe their "ethical business persona" to be just a facade. I was homeless living out of my car in Happy Valley OR in 2017 and I will admit I took about 20$ worth of essentials from the WinCo. Got caught and the fellow acted like he just prevented a capital crime. I could tell he was the type that goes home to masturbate to pictures of badges and police uniforms. He threatened me with police action (remember, all I had on my person was a maximum of $20-25), then forced me to sign a paper agreeing to be extorted to the tune of $360, all under duress. Nice scam eh? They must make a lot of money off the desperate that way, some erroneously believing if they don't pay the would be charged with some kind of crime or sued. Of course I never paid, I'd seen this kind of bullying before, and they would have had to pry that money out of my cold dead hands. You think I'm gonna pay what little money I have to some scam artists at a billion-dollar enterprise?? Oh man yeah right. Nope, I wouldn't give that fascist a nickel to save his life OR mine. $20 give or take wouldn't even show up as a miniscule blip on their daily balance sheet, but those few items sure would have made a very real difference in the next few days of my life. (It was mostly packaged food and on-the-go food prep materials). Of course I adapted and figured it out some other way which I now don't remember and I don't mean to necessarily advocate sticky-fingerism, but at that moment I needed them much more than WinCo did considering how massive they are, and sometimes when you're up against it you have to do what you have to do. Anyone who's ever been in a hard place or financially broke or both knows exactly what I'm talking about.
The cold undeniable fact is, any and all large chains could donate half their inventory and still be in the black many times over. This has been verified by data. Approve or disapprove of petty theft, the cold statistics clearly prove that the totality of any kind of shoplifting never exceeds more than .1 to 1% of overall profits of any business. That's how inconsequential it actually is, utterly negligible from a business perspective, yet an inordinate amount of effort and expense is expended trying to prevent it by most if not all retail chains. Those caught are sometimes just removed from the premises and the items taken (and extortive documents pushed), other times low-level criminal charges are brought. I find the latter morally repugnant and greatly unjust, due to the appallingly excessive penalities in place for minor violatons in almost every jurisdiction.
Yet, at the end of EVERY week, they WILLINGLY destroy perfectly sellable, usable food and other items a grateful yet economically distressed public desperately needs or would want. Maybe this meets with your approval, but as a humanist and humanitarian disgusted when I see disparities of justice, it sure asf doesn't meet with mine.
Regarding the store-created waste, unfortunately I don't have any links in front of me rn but I have seen them.
I've written extensively in other comment sections how I would deal with that if I'm ever in a position of public office, and it would be JUST as swift, punishing, and crushing as they have the nerve to approach desperate or destitute "sticky" customers now.
I'd like to have faith in a chain..... But I'm too cynical now and much, much too aware. They're all the same in my eyes. I don't believe WinCo deserves your respect or gratitude. They don't do anything to provide for desperate people who are in genuine need and I've watched them put a lovely location of a smaller actually-local chain out of business in other areas. I'm sure it wasn't the only time.
They are no different than Walmart. Giant, wasteful, cold-hearted, unfair to employees and desperate community members alike, cancerous to similar local businesses, and only in it for the maximum, maximum profit.
I advocate for and demand radical and compassionate change to the current extractive, exploitative corporate food store model we are all currently surrounded and screwed by, and I'm happy to go into more detail about that in another post if you're interested.
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Sounds like the RF decision-makers are doing everything in their power to prevent loss of life especially civilian loss of life and to end this conflict without any further bloodshed or property damage. Zielinski should wise up. It is obvious no Western power is going to come to his aid, certainly not the US, so what does he have to gain by putting out an order for any of his ground forces to continue? He's either being real stupid or naive, I don't know which. They're not going to be able to win this conflict, that should have been obvious before it even started. And if it wasn't then, it sure is heck should be now. Looks like Putin has effectively proved his point so far. And all they wanted was simple neutrality and meeting them halfway on his security concerns; that's all Zielinsky had to do from the beginning. But instead he would rather be the tool of the West, well mainly just the US, cuz I don't think the EU was trying to provoke this the way the US did. I would hope they have better things to do.
The US's agenda was always to go after Russia. And of course they're more than happy to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian. our state department sure does love at some proxy wars.
At this point if Zelensky has any brains at all he will cut his losses and agree to end the conflict and sit down at the negotiating table with Putin, which is what Putin asked him months and months ago. But I've also heard that Zelinsky is just a figurehead at this point, and that the actual military orders are coming from the Azovs and other Nazi-like elements within the military structure and elsewhere in his government, and that they're the ones who are setting the agenda and basically telling Zelinsky what to do and say. I've even heard that he's been threatened that if he gives one inch to Russia they will basically assassinate him, tho I don't know if it's true or not.
Bottom line, if the Azovs want to sacrifice themselves in a fruitless continuation of this conflict with the RF, they can do so, but they have no right to trap others inside with them whether they be other Ukrainian non-nazi average military soldiers or any of the local civilians. Guess they were foolish enough to think that their puppet president in Kiev was going to somehow be able to get NATO forces to come to their aid, not realizing that the rest of Europe has no intention of being drawn into this regional conflict and that the US is only using their fanaticism and brutality and their penchant for violence as a useful pawn as part of a much larger strategy of continuing aggressive provocational moves against Russia. In short, the US was just using them, as they use everybody, and they're foolish to count on it. And now knowing that they have a decision to make- fight to the death or try to come out of this alive. Guess the choice is up to them.
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I live in this US. What my govt is doing in inhumane and without any moral justification. These are innocent civilians- they have a right to survive and not starve to death!!! They CANNOT control the Taliban. Torturing an entire region for the behavior of it's crazy leaders is evil and wrong! This is literal THEFT of Afghanistan's money by those who control the world bank and IMF- my govt. Absolutely inexcusable and vile. My govt knows damn will the Taliban aren't going to be anything other than who they are- and starving the whole country, besides being evil, isn't going to make them change. They are in a CULT. They have never thought or functioned any other way than the way they're doing right now. If my govt didn't want the Talibs to have power than maybe, just temporarily, they shouldn't have continued the evacuation of the entire fucing country!!! We saw the Taliban making a play to take over- we could have stopped it, but we didn't. Ok fine- but then we don't get to bankrupt the entire nation as if it's THEIR fault the Talibs took over again and therefore THEY deserve to starve! Appalling, isn't it?
My govt has zero excuse or moral justification for criminally withholding this money. It's not theirs- it never was. And when we evacuated that country we gave up any rights or interest to determine what happens there or to access it's belongings, including its financial resources. We didn't have a right to be there to begin with, but at least we did keep the Taliban at bay for a time. Probably the only decent thing we did while being there.
I don't know what's going to make my government stop doing what they're doing right now their conscience won't, because they have none. Western Europe won't because they just do whatever this gov tells them. Russia won't because it's otherwise involved. China is currently dealing with some internal issues and its own dispute with my gov right now. I don't know what's going to make the monsters who call the shots in my government release this money but I pray it is soon. Children and babies will start dying soon if they haven't already, then the old people, then the younger previously-healthy people.
I hate my federal government and I'm proud to do so. I'll be speaking out against them for the rest of my life. They're a criminal regime in my eyes and they need to be brought down before they cause even more mass destruction with WW3- which as of right now I have no doubt they will eventually achieve.
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@jonasvogel3672 yeah I live in the US, and yeah, like everything else having to do with surviving, it's beyond disgusting. I have to pay $2000 for a 2bdrm unit barely worth $600 by my estimation- it doesn't even have laundry machines- and if you all could see it you'd no doubt agree. I could find a better quality rental unit in my area and I have plans to move soon, but I'll be lucky to find anything under $1850. This isn't a beautiful house we're talking about, this is for a very BASIC very average apartment.
With this kind of money I should be looking at homes and duplexes for real- if I'm going to be robbed blind every month it should at least be for something nice.
And believe me it's not that I'm not willing to work hard in order to try to save up for a house, but I just haven't been able to do that yet. This kind of rent extortion really isn't helping!
There are ways to try to defray my rent costs like having a paying roommate and I might do that and that would certainly help, but I don't think people should necessarily have to do that just to bring their rent down to an affordable level.
Without AGGRESSIVE and lasting rent price controls and strict provisions for renters'rights, NONE OF WHICH WE HAVE, this will never improve. But good luck with that. I have ZERO faith in these psychopaths and sociopaths in public office here. From a local level up to the White House, they are beyond corrupt and morally-bankrupt. They ALLLLL would sell their first-born and their mother for a shiny nickel. Other than in smaller towns with very little large commercial development, this is most certainly not an exaggeration.
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I consider myself a civil libertarian, and agree with this gentleman on most what he has said so far. Unless they're a rabid Nazi, I want to see ANYONE get into office who is outside the filthy hypocritical hyper-corrupt hyper-fortified duopoly establishment at this point. The dominant two parties have failed us spectacularly. On a federal level they can't even protect and recognize a woman's basic human right to be the final authority over own body and life. That should have been the easiest, most no-brainer, most dead-brain, lay-up issue for Democrats since EVER. at a minimum under Obama when he had the veto-proof majority for those first two years; it could have been handled then. As a woman I find it completely unacceptable and unforgivable that they've allowed it to get to this point. ( It's not even issue that should be up for DEBATE in government. It shouldn't even BE a public issue, I find it stunning and unacceptable that it is, and yet here we are. I understand some may find the concept distasteful, they liken a fetus or zygote to a born child or full adult, I understand and acknowledge that, but it is still a PRIVATE choice and it will never NOT be that and NOBODY has the right to rule over that choice other than the pregnant woman involved.)
We need nothing BUT third and other parties at this point to replace these absolutely good-for-nothing useless, feckless trash and conscienceless GOP hyper-scum if we are going to have any hope of a collective stable, hopeful future. If and when that happens, it's going to take DECADES to undo the damage the two-party machine has caused/ allowed to happen under their watch since basically ever.
It's going to be /extremely/ difficult to break through the duopoly wall at any level but I DON'T believe it's impossible.
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First of all, I think what so many people fail to grasp, is that most drug users are NOT ADDICTED, it's a myth that every user is an ABuser (of drugs); that's just not the case,
but I'll grant some are. And it is true some will commit self-destructive acts in order to feed their addiction, which can cause problems depending on what they are, and that does need to be dealt with if or when that happens, but that DOESN'T mean that its not in ALL of our interest to make drug treatment programs available for all those who want them, and also to ensure that these programs are fairly run and don't insist on total perfection in order to stay in the program. (This last part is important bec I've seen very good people try their best to comply perfectly with all rules of a given program but they are human and they slip up and give in to temptation by using and than once that happens they are often kicked out, losing all the progress they just made. I think that's counterproductive and unfair).
Also, it's very unfair and unkind to assume any drug user will automatically cannibalize a residence in order to support their habit. I'm not saying this has never happened, but it's certainly shouldn't be used as an excuse not to provide all possible supportive services including housing to these people. I mean that's just common sense AND compassionate. You can't just write off a whole class of people because you want to ignorantly maintain a belief and moral judgement about them. Everybody deserves a chance to get help with their substance use problem; and even if they blow it or make a mistake, that just means they're human. They should be held accountable, but after that, they should be given another opportunity to move forward.
Whether it takes one try or 10 tries, if a person is ready to try to improve their situation, regardless of what it is, they deserve help to do so. None of us are perfect. Any single ONE of us could easily be in that persons shoes we look down on if just one thing had been different in our lives, and that's no bull.
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@annjepsen1621 keep fighting Ann! Every human being has a human right to live pain-free. That's right, pain-FREE!! Something has gone severely and grossly wrong in our culture where it's considered almost good for the soul to suffer to the point where we want to take our own life!! The values in our society both materially and socially are inside out and backwards!
Opioids, under a doctor's supervision, are more than safe enough for most adults! After all long before the modern Age human beings were using various natural forms of pain treatment and opioid plants since the beginning of time! But only now because we're all enslaved to various Big Brother entities is this suddenly becoming a problem!!!
NOTHING IN THE WORLD COMES WITH A PERFECT ZERO-RISK PROGNOSIS. NOTHING!! MERELY WAKING UP IN THE MORNING CARRIES WITH IT A SMALL AMOUNT OF RISK. SO DOES WALKING OUTSIDE OF ONE'S FRONT DOOR! TO TAKE AWAY PERFECTLY EFFECTIVE DESPERATELY-NEEDED MEDICAL TREATMENTS FROM DESPERATE PATIENTS, SIMPLY BECAUSE IT'S SAFETY RECORD ISN'T 150%, IS THE HEIGHT OF BRUTALITY, INHUMANITY, AND AN OUTRAGEOUS LACK OF BASIC LOGIC!!
EVERY patient has the right to decide for THEMSELVES which treatments are right for them, not some uninformed mindless federal govt CRIMINAL obsessed with sadism and domination- a drug-hating zealot with zero medical training and can't find his ass with both fucking hands if his life depended on it!! Know this now- I'm not some radical, I am a square and as sensible as anyone you could happen to meet, but the vast majority of animals associated with this so-called organized crime government we have are absolute psychopaths and psychotics, and ignorant ones at that!!
Please stay strong and exhaust all options for your treatment both natural and pharmaceutical. I wish you only positive progress in your health journey! I believe you'll get there.
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@chrisoher well all I can say is what I've heard. I think I heard it from Randi Rhodes on FSTV (I watch on Sling, also YT), altho it may have been Thom Hartmann; that when Trump decided that it would be a great idea to betray the regular Afghans and do a secret deal with the Taliban, he then put the screws to the Kabul govt thru harsh sanctions to release 5000 Taliban prisoners that were currently being held. The president, I forgett his name, understandably did not want to do this. Then he pressured the Pakistan govt to release the #1 Taliban commander. Then when the various scattered Afghani fighting forces tried to fight off the Taliban for weeks before the US left, apparently according to this info, they had next to food, were starving, and lacked proper weapons and ammo.
I don't know what our people were doing while this was happening. Supposedly this happened at points throughout last year and this year.
I'm going to continue to try to get more info on this. Right now it looks like our govt, under Trump and maybe Biden idk, COMPLETELY set Afganistan up to have no choice but to be overpowered by the Taliban esp when instead of giving all our arms and weapons to the Afghans before we left, it sounds like they ended up directly into Taliban hands.
I don't know if our people were ordered to give them to the Taliban or simply leave them unsecured to be taken by whoever got there first.
It's all incredible to me because after all we've done over there, to be informed that we wouldn't do everything in our power to make sure at least that the Afgans had all our gear and the best possible chance to defend themselves; when now it seems like just the opposite, is something that I find so unbelievable. And also, if any of this is true, how much did Biden and the new admin have to do with this???
Anyhow I'm trying to find more information and corroboration on this as I go.
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@CLUB-th7pp as I said to madd, they really are monsters. I wonder what makes these SATAN-SERVING psychopaths tick..... Every time I try to understand their depraved minds I just come away feeling horribly confused, helpless, and a bit exhausted. There is no rhyme or reason to these demons. It's all just hate gate hate hate hate hate hate, and desperately needing to dominate and destroy.
Come to think of it, that's exactly how most cops function too (above I was speaking of DAs and judges).
They really are the world's most unhappy and miserable people, they have a black hole of misery and emptiness and hate inside of them, so they think if they unleash cruelty onto others, they'll feel better, but it never works, so they just keep trying, racking up ever more victims, until they quit, die, or get fired.
Sad.
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Minors should never be tried as adults- they aren't adults! I think it's absolutely wrong to ever charge minors as adults. There's a reason a seperate juvenile justice system exists! A very good one, and it shouldn't be legal to just toss it over at yet another "king judge's" whim.
This was a heinous crime but he's obviously deeply disturbed. He should be charged as a youth, as that is what he is, for the crimes he committed.
This prosector is just another opportunitistic b7tczh looking to make her bones and career on this case. She cares nothing for the victims, she just figures if she goes way over the top and throws cartoonishly excessive charges at everyone, she'll look like a real justice warrior and that will put her in line for the state's AG position. I guarantee it. That's how these people work. It's just a game to 99.3% of them; they don't care about victims, they care about how easily they can capitalize on a case to their benefit and how many charges they can make stick, whether they are deserved or not. I have nothing but utter contempt and in certain cases outright hatred for the entire American prosecutorial class- and that's Bec I'm old enough to know who they really are; and in my bitter and cynical opinion most of them are opportunistic, and even sociopathic trash.
As far as this young shooter, either the school, the parents, or both should have done better in this situation. I don't understand why the school didn't give him a non-disciplinary suspension for the day and also search his bag or request a security guard or officer to do so??? It's always better to be safe than sorry, esp in the age of school shootings! Of course the parents were outrageously negligent to buy their young teenaged son a goddamn firearm, but I'm not ready to say they knew he was troubled. Youth are very good at hiding things from their parents they don't want them to know. I'm not ready to condemn them as monsters just yet, deploringly irresponsible, yes- but also perhaps simply naive and tragically stubborn, in not wanting to believe anything was wrong with their precious baby. They wouldn't be the first parents to react that way. As for running, I doubt they planned to leave the country, but probably were just in a panic and were desperate. Overnight, their entire world was thrown into chaos. They very likely didn't think or know there was anything wrong with their son, and may not even have known he took the gun to school. Until I hear more I'm going to assume this is true. They wouldn't be the first parents to be more oblivious than they should be. Until I hear more, I'm going to assume the news that their son was involved in a mass shooting was just as much a shock to them as anyone else. I imagine they felt an terrible horror at the news.
I can understand why someone might temporarily flee under those circumstances. I doubt they ever had intentions to go far or disappear for long. They probably just wanted somewhere to go to try to process all the madness that just happened.
They made mistakes to be sure, but I'm sure they loved their son. I'm sure they had no intentions of taking off forever and leaving him to face his court case alone.
Anyway- it's another heartbreaking tragedy all around. But this DA is being a predatory bi7tzch IMO and soaking this up for all it's worth, portraying herself as a heartbroken party with a rending heart for all the victims. I call mthfkg BS on that. A terrorism charge and adult characterization in this situation is bogus and pure positional opportunism by her, which is definitely not coming from any sincere desire to help the survivors heal. I feel the same about the parents' charges. Yes they were idiots and bought him his own gun- but I find it hard to believe they thought he would bring it school. It's more logical they just assumed he would behave himself and be using it at home when they were around. I doubt they imagined for a second he had the gun with him when they were called into the meeting in the counselors office- but they most definitely should have consented to or performed a search of his bag. If they were so sure, what would be their objection to getting confirmation?? So yes, there they were negligent and willfully didn't take the school's concern seriously. But that is not the same as involuntary manslaughter.
So until I hear anything else damning, for now I'm not with those who feel that is a fair charge, because its just not supported, in my view.
Negligence of some sort- sure. But not any kind of manslaughter charge. I honestly believe they don't deserve it, as tragic as this incident was.
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@youtubesucks1499 As long as any function is not performed with the desire to exploit it for outrageous profit, I don't see why it can't work well, no matter the specific industry.
I'm not against the private market if it's well-regulated. People who love money can go there. I don't love money. I don't really care about it. I like some things and all that but that's about it. Greed is not anything we should be basing an economy around. If I can ever make 80-90K a year I'll consider myself extremely fortunate. What more is really necessary? Large estates are beautiful but those should be reserved for the very very few. Those shouldn't be everyone's goal, and it's definitely not mine. All I want is a decent house on one acre of land and I'll be happy.
I believe in strong public guarantees and strict caps on personal wealth and corporate expansion.
In the public sphere, we should have a strong universal healthcare system to include mental health care support and substance rehab, subsidized public transit, a public child Care network, subsidized higher public education, stronger K to 12 schools, a large supply of social and subsidized housing for those who need them, and social outreach workers for the sick, the elderly, or those who just need extra support. By generously taxing the corporate sector and the top 10% of incomes and increasing Federal allotments to all 50 states based on need, this can easily be accomplished.
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@kylea1436 you're probably right. I think one could primary though if they could stand their ground. Then again a lot comes down to the voters. Most people give very little thought to voting regardless of what party they vote for. Whether they are low income or middle class or privileged, most people vote along party lines and their minds were made up long ago. Most people aren't paying close enough attention to understand why the Blue party is an absolute clusterf**k unless you're in certain privileged groups and they certainly don't deserve our votes and should be made obsolete. Unfortunately the 95% of casual voters that exist that only vote once every 2 to 4 years, dont see this. Even though neither major party has delivered on anything beneficial to the bottom 80%, let's say in the last 40 to 50 years, all these casual voters continually think that maybe this time will be the one that makes the difference and that these people are still worth being trusted.
Likewise, as they blindly follow all the ads for the standard Blue candidates, they choose to regard with suspicion or more questioning any outside candidates, such as Bernie. Then some jackass POS tool of the DNC like Biden comes along who has name recognition which I guess is all it takes these days and a wholly undeserved reputation for benevolence simply because he stood within striking distance of Obummer for 8 years, and people fall all over themselves trying to cast that vote. In short, I wish more people knew better when it comes to the voting process and their voting choices, but it doesn't seem that they do. So this is hard for any semi-outsider candidate to overcome. I don't mean to criticize, but I really do think that majority of middle and working-class voters become mentally-handicapped when it comes to the political process. They allow obvious and misleading TV ads to dictate to them. They don't realize that there's only one or two genuine people's candidates on the federal level.
The GOP of course are just shouldn't even be allowed to participate, they truly are a bunch of escaped inmates from facilities for the criminally insane trying to pass themselves off as responsible citizens.
Unfortunately the Blue party still has a lot of sway and has a lot of not very informed people convinced they're the good guys, and so when somebody who, compared to other nations, is suggesting even the most mild of reforms, is portrayed as a hyper-out there person, and all the other stupid negative hype that was leveled against Bernie last time, yeah unfortunately people being rather clueless as they are, end up voting for the establishment Blue candidate, instead of the challenger and obvious choice. It's pretty infuriating to see this happen cycle after cycle. Even beyond that, it's disappointing to see right wing trash get reelected in this country over and over again, although I understand that the 2000 election was stolen, likely 2004 too, but if it wasn't so damn close it would have been able to be stolen. And etc.
I'd still like to think for somebody articulate enough and determined enough they could be a Progressive and win a Blue primary. There's always a first time I suppose. Hasn't happened in the last 60+ years tho. The two big duopolists do an excellent job of controlling the entire process from start to end and keeping any genuine challengers effectively locked out. Would def love to see that end in my lifetime.
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@dreamsdocometrue33 M, were not denying that, but just like you and me aren't cavemen any more, today's housecats who were never feral aren't accustomed to having to hunt for their food. Now some could probably relearn that if they had to, but not all of them. I've always had cats that could go outdoors, and some of them would hunt cuz I'd watch them or they'd being back little trophies, which was amusing (and gross btw lol), but a lot of cats have only been indoors all their life and probably wouldn't know the first thing to do if they had to live outside. The best thing to do if people want to give away their kitties is find a good shelter or person to adopt them, unless they know their cat is strong and has good wild instincts, like most have mine have been but even then, why leave a cat homeless if you don't have to? Bottom line some cats will be fine outdoors depending on where they are but others won't, and people in general just need to take better care of their pets that's all.
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As long as private equity is still legal, everyone will pay, sooner or later. You can't legalize gross larceny and harmful business practices and expect everything is just going to be okay.
Maybe if every mainline politician wasn't a literal proud blazing psychopath with a low price for ownership, we wouldn't be in this position.
You think it's not as much true of the Democuhnts as the insane nazified GOP? Please, people. How many generations do we have to go through this??? It's a brutal and ruthless Wall Street dictatorship through and through. Is that what we want!?
The two-headed snake will eat your face EVERY time! News flash, they are BOTH the party of Leopards that Eat People's Faces!! Do we really want this?? I'm tired of my face get eaten, in small ways or big, what about y'all???
Vote for the two-headed purple snake (the Red-Blue single-party) and you vote for Wall Street serfdom, zero personal rights, climbing poverty, and an avoidable premature death (unless you're very lucky and the intentional depredations of public policy in this country, state, and your local area pass over your house).
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@z1az285 that's what it is exactly! They want to use as much force as they can to brutalize and destroy any possible competition. So much for the free market huh???? The hypocrisy is at brain-melting levels.
These people who are part of the government or who use government animals to do their dirty work for them are lying, amoral, organized criminal savages to rival the most violent so-called organized crime syndicates out there. Watch a couple of documentaries, one called KIM DOTCOM and another called FARMAGEDDON. It shows you how ordinary people were targeted for massive assaults and destruction of their livelihoods and property by US federal agents and why do you ask? Well you'll see. It'll leave you pretty enraged and disgusted.
The US federal govt, with possibly a few exceptions, is THE most vicious, amoral, evil gang of destroyers that I think I've ever witnessed or analyzed in my adult life and I say this is someone who lives here.
There are countless examples of this, these two documentaries just point to a few. If you have the time you may be interested in seeing how ordinary citizens who aren't giant corporations fare under the criminality, gleeful savagery, and oppression of US-employed thugs and feds.
I think what sickens me the most is how much these psychopaths will constantly pay a fountain of lip service to the so-called free market when meanwhile they are going around using force to brutalize and destroy anyone who their owners in big business and Private Industry tell them to. The collective market in the US is ANYTHING but free and fair, thanks to ANIMALS like these, who are conveniently free of all provincial senses of right and wrong or senses of fair play and basic things like ethics or basic regard for their fellow man. You'll see what I mean if you watch the docs. The fed gov, and it's agents and State Pigs (like many local ones), are nothing but shameless gangsters for their own gain, and that of the already absurdly and outrageously rich mega-corps whom they serve.
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@bobitussinX no kidding 😂
Petty shoplifting is not a crime. It's not polite, but unless it's a high level professional op that literally clears out the entire store, it's not a crime. I'd consider calling it an infraction, but not a crime.
A CRIME MEANS A VICTIM WAS HARMED. A VICTIM. CRY ME A RIVER, STORES, WHEN YOU VOLUNTARILY WASTE UP TO 60% OF YOUR STOCK. Even if they didn't, it still wouldn't be a crime. Why?? BECAUSE IT'S PEANUTS. ITS NOTHING. IT DOESN'T CHANGE THE OVERALL PROFITABILITY OF AN ESTABLISHMENT IN ANY WAY. ALTOGETHER IT ADDS UP TO LESS THAN THE MARGIN OF ERROR. Of error.
SHOW ME A STORE THAT WENT OUT OF BUSINESS DUE TO LIFTERS. 😂 YOU CANT.
AND THOSE PIGS. ALWAYS RUSHING TO COME DEFEND INANIMATE WORTHLESS PROPERTY- EVEN WHEN ITS NOT THEIRS- BUT BLACK LIVES OR HUMAN LIVES IN GENERAL??? NOT SO MUCH. ALWAYS CAN COUNT ON A SINGLE-DIGIT IQ PIG TO WORSHIP COMMERCE , MONEY AND PRIVATE JUNK THAT PROBABLY COST THAT BUSINESS NO MORE $2 WHOLESALE MORE THAN REAL HUMAN VICTIMS OF REAL CRIMES. WHAT ABOUT ALL THOSE CAUGHT UP IN SEC TRAFFICKING??? WHERE ARE THE OPS FOR THAT? BUT CHARGING SOMEBODY WITH PETTY DEFRAUDMENT OF A RICH BUSINESS?? LMAO ON IT! Good to know we have our priorities in order.
Your tax dollars at work, folks. Hey, that's capitalism baby!
These stores are making 100,000s of not millions. THEY ARE NOT VICTIMS OF ANYTHING. EVER.
Oh wow look at all the chuds I just triggered. 😂 C'mon chuds. I'm ready if you are. I'm Jenny, the happy Communist. And you are??
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@christopherchurch9874 if there's a deficit it's because the local or state governing authority refuses to tax at the top from the mega rich and the elite business class. That's THEIR failure as corrupt officials, not a failure of the system. The money is always there, somewhere; the only question is WILL government officials take it FROM the right place and apply it TO the right place?!? That is the question. The money is ALWAYS there at the TOP, and it's regional government's job to tax there far above from anyone else, because that's where the greatest amount is - and it's the fairest place to take it from for obvious reasons.
Now when it comes to Congress they can choose to fund whatever they want, because they literally create the currency via the National Mint. If they choose not to fund something it's because they don't want to, not because they can't, always remember that (because these goon-demons do lie like dogs and they will ALWAYS lie, always). That, plus some digital black magic mojo, is where all our money actually comes from. You didn't think it came from a money fairy did you??
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@ZIGZAG12345 agree. The hypocrisy is something else. It's almost funny. Well they play verbal games for each other on the congressional floor. They don't think anyone from the public is watching, and for the most part, they're right. Few people have the time or desire to follow Congress closely- I still don't as much as I'd like. I choked on my tongue when whoever that was had the gall to say Russia didn't want to provide healthcare and other goods to it's people. I couldn't believe he had the nerve to say that out loud. I think that was Adam Schiff??? Yeah Adam, are you on drugs??? THIS IS AMERICA. THE LAND OF A TOTAL LACK OF UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE (only for veterans and only those with above a certain level of rated disability). THE MOST POVERTY IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD. MOST STUDENT DEBT. RENTS OUT OF CONTROL FOR MANY PEOPLE. FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION EVERYWHERE. In other words, an ongoing capitalist hellscape. Unbelievable.
The nads on these guys.
Hypocrisy is not a word these people acknowledge, for clear reason.
But most uninformed people will fall for it who may be watching, (and ofc they (Congress and state reps) know this), bec they just don't know any better, or they have been consuming the kool-aid from the dominant media.
These reps are so owned, and they have their playbook well rehearsed and always at the ready. Criticizing other nations for human rights violations, imperialism, political prisoners, political targeting of dissidents, and not providing for the material needs of the non-rich????? Huh. You DON'T say.
Well god none of that dirty business transpires on these utopic shores!
God I can't
The amazing hypocrisy-
Let's take a tour of the US govs more colorful history of domestic crimes shall we? Start with the MOVE bombing and carry on with Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Leonard Peltier, and Mumia Abu Jamal. That's just the beginning.
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Ending the existence of a piece of tissue or fishlike fetus may be seen as unfortunate - but the life of the adult woman has value, much more than immature tissue. A fetus has no thoughts, it is unaware. It is only a physical organism at this point, and dependant on the mother's body.
She can always get pregnant again if she chooses, but if she is harmed or dies from complications of the pregnancy, that's it, it's over. She's gone. She may have other children or a mate who needs her. She may have been raped. Things happen. No one should be forced to stay pregnant against their will. That is inhumane.
Pregnant woman >>>>>>>> fertilized cell, cell glops or fetus
That's how it works. And when you get a uterus, your opinion can matter. If it's not your fetus, whether your the mother or the father, then it's simply not your choice.
Mind your own goddamn business. Please. Ok???? MY HEALTH CHOICES ARE NOT YOUR RIGHT TO MAKE, AND VICE VERSA.
These rights apply to you as well. I mean this is a basic human right.
Women aren't property, nor are our bodies.
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Funny, if all states and counties taxed big business and the top 10% of incomes appropriately, and the top tax rate was 96% like it was under FDR, there would be plenty to go around for all public needs and wants.
The MIC is a 1T a year, Big Ag is 2T a year, Big Pharma is approx 3-5T a year.
There's MORE than enough for all of us to live like kings, it's just being 99% concentrated in the top 2% of hands.
Yeah I think that's filth. I believe EVERYONE under 60K deserves a basic UBI and public goods should come first. What are my public goods??? Where do I start?? Anything that makes life worth living. Healthcare, education, transportation, rent fairness, homeowner protections, public utilities, corporate control etc etc etccccc
ALTERNATIVELY; could not the federal government simply pay for everything on allotment? Or am I missing something? As in every county sends the state a bill for what it would like to publicly spend the following year and these states then send the government the bill totaled from all it's counties? So basically the fedgov can allocate [X] amount of monies either directly to each county or to the government of each state each year to be then distributed down through the counties? We do this already to a degree, correct? But wouldn't this be able to be scaled up to be used basically in lieu of taxation? Or am I missing something???
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@jdg7327 loool. Oh man that would never happen here. Here, with Fox Fake News, sensationalism rules. I would say CNN and MSNBC are definitely better, more intelligent and professional; but they have their own slants to things. Here all the major news outlets are privately owned and while they do report accurately sometimes, they are all corporations and as such are meant to generate as much profit as possible. We do have one publicly-owned media outlet called PBS, the public broadcasting system, and they have affiliates in all major metro cities. I would say out of all US msm, they provide the most substantial, professional and an unbiased coverage of domestic or international matters.
I really personally appreciate the rise of social media esp YT bec without it I may never have discovered foreign news outlets and YT channels that cover events and issues I may never have heard about, or only heard one side of, from US-based providers.
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And this is why price controls and profit controls are so necessary. Market controls easily prevent this. None of which this country has btw because lawmakers are bought and paid for here by big business. So until that changes, big business will continue to run the show.
A rant:
F8ck the "free" and unchecked market. What a misguided phrase that I am so sick of hearing at this point in my life.
Besides, the private sector isn't "free" in the US, it's rigged as hell. It's absolutely rigged in favor of the biggest firms in every industry, and that mean customers, communities and workers LOSE.
These giant corporations don't deserve "freedom", they don't even deserve to exist in their present form as far as I'm concerned. There is such a thing as a business getting too big in my view.
When huge businesses are allowed to 1) exist and 2) be the boss of the economy, we all lose by having less competition and thus greater vulnerability to price hikes and costs.
This is why I believe in heavy market control. It's time to enact some control over these firms. The fact they have been allowed to totally run rampant over the better part of the last 150 years and the last 60 in particular just amazes me.
We either use the State to limit big business and control the market, or they keep running the show and leaving more and more families behind. Its happening across every industry. That, coupled with depressed wages and lack of meaningful public assistance, is why poverty exists as far as I'm concerned.
Wow those letters are really gonna help. I guess you could say it's a good first step but much more is needed. Now if I was in a position to do something, big corps wouldn't exist above a certain size, say 5000 persons, and all larger companies would know REAL fast what would happen if they became too greedy. I'd give them on warning and then they would be shut down until they fixed the problem.
Some profit is necessary and fine, nobody is saying otherwise, but there has to be a limit. Otherwise product quality goes down, customers lose out, prices start going up unreasonably and so on.
Unlimited greed is root cause of all the world's problems in my belief. Hate is a problem too, but I believe all the world's poverty and instability both now and at any time in history can easily be traced back to the unchecked greed of either a ruler or their proxies, the landowning class, or a modern corporation, starting with the British East India company in the 1600s.
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Yes that's how the MIC wants people to view it. Full Metal Jacket showed this well. War is a fun game for the bosses at the very top when you don't care about the ones on the ground doing the dying and the getting injured and all the PTSD. A very typical American tragedy.
There are limited cases where I would support militarized action but never an all-out long-term occupation; and most of those would have to be legitimate defensive responses. And I want to see reform in age reqs for combat roles (25 MIN no exceptions), limits in how long one can serve in a combat theater, and recruiting practices.
Veterans' services are a lot better now then before, but they can always be better, esp for housing assistance. No defensible reason any vet (or person) need be unhoused in the USA.
(If you're stable in housing tho, you may want to check with local vet orgs and your VA for some good programs and services if you aren't already. There are some good ones now just fyi)
You guys deserved better. It was the CIA and Nixon's fault, not yours. Fuck, you guys had to deal with a fucking draft. Insane. Absolutely unacceptable to force someone to risk their life, regardless of the reason. That's a choice that no one has the right to make for anyone else.
I'm not trying to be glib, but have you ever tried hallucinogens??? You may well have, I know that was a common thing back in the 60s and 70s. Shrooms are now legal in Oregon, which makes it easier to obtain them at least. I only mention them bec they are reputed to help those with PTSD and other emotional struggles significantly.
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Tom I love you but I guess I got to take the libertarian view on this one. As a 40 year old adult I grossly resent the fact that a government thug feels they have the right to tell me what I can and cannot put in my own god-given body. IF I DON'T EVEN HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXERCISE FULL AUTONOMY AND CONTROL OVER MY OWN BODY WHAT EVEN AM I? BECAUSE I'M NOT A FREE HUMAN BEING IF THAT IS THE CASE, I'M A SLAVE; AND YET WE ARE ALREADY THERE.
WOULD-BE MASTERS OF ALL ARE FORCING US INTO EVER SMALLER AND SMALLER BOXES WE ARE NOTHING BUT POWERLESS OBJECTS, AND THIS IS JUST ONE OF MANY STEPS THEY HAVE TAKEN OVER THE PAST 100 YEARS TO DO SO, ESP THE PAST 40.
I can go on and on but what's going on right now is 'reefer madness' all over again. The criminalization of harmless vices or pleasures, THE CRIMINALIZATION OF EVERYTHING, whichever word you prefer, by a Big Brother political class that only wants to increase the ways they can oppress us, steal from us, and worst case scenario throw us behind bars should disturb everyone! This isn't a class issue. Everything doesn't go back to class, it goes back to basic civil rights. Without rights we are nothing!
I guess you all truly do want to live as dogs under a total dictatorship. Sorry- not me.
NOBODY should be supporting this constant desired expansion of State powers to take away ALL areas of self-ownership. This is disturbing and we should all push back against this vociferously. It is NOT the government's business who chooses to smoke, or consume alcohol, to seek a consenting prostitution partner, or any other private habit. I mean when we start looking to government to be our parent, to literally turn over our most precious rights of Free Will to, we become little better than pause, then slaves. This is something we should be highly disturbed by. The more power we give government the more they will use it against us. Why do we want masters? I don't want an owner, I have a brain. I have personal pride. I have self-respect. I shouldn't have to bow down to anyone. Why do YOU want to, Tom? You're too smart for that.
The ideal world is where there's no government at all, however I know we don't live in an ideal world. A minimum amount of fair regulation and organization is necessary for the ideal functioning of a healthy society, I know this. HOWEVER, when it comes to my personal life what I choose to do as a free will hard-working ADULT, and others like me, IS OUR HUMAN RIGHT TO DECIDE and they have gone WAY too far when they take it away. Why didn't we learn these lessons from Prohibition in the 1920s? Yes of course we did and yet these fucking filthy fucks just won't stop coming trying to take away every last zone of Free Will and control over our own lives that we have left. EVERYONE should be disturbed by this. THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT OR PROPER PURVIEW OF ANY GOVERNMENT PERIOD!! I DON'T NEED A FILTHY CRIMINAL FUCK WHO WOULD JUST AS SOON ROB ME BLIND TELL ME HOW TO LIVE MY LIFE OR MONITOR MY PERSONAL FREE WILL PRIVATE LIFE CHOICES FOR ME AND NOBODY ELSE SHOULD WANT THIS EITHER!
There is NOTHING wrong with an adult choosing to exercise their god-given free will to consume a substance of any kind!!. That is NOT the purview of government. Never has been and never will be. I mean where do we draw the line? I don't understand why I'm the lone voice of sanity on this. I didn't take you all for fools. Was I wrong?
NOBODY, no authority on the planet has the right to interfere with are basic human rights to choose when it comes to most situations in life, to choose our hobbies, to choose our personal pleasures, to choose anything in that category. In fact, unless it's causing deliberate harm to another human being or unjustly depriving them of their property, government has no right to step in at all! Here's what they DO have the right to do:
✓ Engage in common sense public education campaigns
✓ Encourage individuals to be more conscious of their health in general
✓ Place age limits and ID requirements for sale of tobacco and alcohol related items
✓ provide full comprehensive publicly-funded healthcare and never abridge it
✓ provide comprehensive drug and alcohol treatment facilities for all those who develop a usage problem, cost-controlled so all can afford access
AND THAT'S IT!!!! THAT. IS. IT!!!! THAT IS IT!
ANYONE WHO WANTS ANY MORE THAN THIS IS A MENTAL CHILD AND WANTS TO LIVE UNDER A TOTALITARIAN DYSTOPIA BECAUSE HONESTLY WE ARE NOT THAT FAR OFF FROM THAT RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHERE IT STARTS. And it's already started in many obvious and not so obvious ways. We are long past the canary in the coal mine stage regarding the constant creep against our personal rights and the rights of small businesses to thrive. Living under a totalitarian big business corporate hellscape is like this. Respecting personal civil rights has never been the corporates first priority, or any. Not only that there are plenty in government who would just as soon see themselves with absolute power. None of us should be enabling this.
THE DRUG WAR WAS THE DEVIL'S GIFT TO DESPOTS TO DESTROY LIVES AND EMPOWER GOVERNMENT CRIMINALS TO ENRICH THEMSELVES TO THE TUNE OF BILLIONS AT THE COMMON PERSON'S EXPENSE & LIKE AN INFINITELY GREEDY CRIMINAL EMPIRE, THEY WANT TO EXPAND. DESPOTISM ALWAYS DOES.
I find it shocking that people think government has any role in dictating what a full-grown adult can and can't do with them themselves. After everything I've gone through in life, the LAST thing I need is government filth decapitating my head and feeling like they have the right to dictate anything to me about my personal life or who I choose to do business with. Absolutely not what I ever support such a measure, absolutely fucking not!
But if you people want to live in a hellscape dystopia who am I to stop you? We already have government filth telling women they don't have the right to own and control their own bodies why not just expand that to everyone now? Isn't that what the drug war is all about? We're all just government property, we're all just government slaves right?? So we don't have the right to use our bodies how we would choose? That seems to be the thesis of poorly thought-out reaction videos such as these and others that support these outrageous creeping attacks on personal sovereignty.
By all means, slaves, seek your dystopia if you must, but keep that away from me. Just don't try to force it on me because I WILL fight it tooth and nail by any means necessary.
There is a limited role for government in human society, yes, AND THIS ISNT IT!!!! EITHER WE OWN OURSELVES OR WE DON'T! WHAT'S IT GOING TO BE, SLAVES???
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE USE OF NON-FOOD SUBSTANCES FOR FREE WILL LUCID-MINDED MENTALLY DEVELOPED ADULTS OVER THE AGE OF 18 AND THE MOMENT WE ALLOW GOVERNMENT CRIMINALS TO TELL US OTHERWISE WE HAVE OPENED PANDORA'S BOX. PROHIBITION NEVER WORKS AND IT IS VILE AND IT GRANTS GOVERNMENT FILTH FAR TOO MUCH POWER THAN ANY HUMAN BEING DESERVES. IT BECOMES NOTHING BUT A LICENSE TO DESTROY YOUR LIFE AND RIGHTS AND DEPRIVE YOU OF ALL OF YOUR MATERIAL PROPERTY REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE GAINING OF SUCH WAS RELATED TO THAT PARTICULAR PROHIBITED ITEM OR NOT. AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN THINK CLEARLY HERE AND SEE WHY THIS IS MADNESS!?! Guess so.
DO YOU ALL WANT FREE WILL AND RIGHTS .... OR NOT!?!?
Sorry Tom love you but Big L on this one. I just don't think you're old enough to understand as I am how this can go wrong so fast. I've lived a bit longer than you so I just have the benefit of experience. I'm not particularly smart I'm very average in fact I think you're much smarter than I am however life experience counts for a lot. Here in the US we proudly boast the world's largest prison colony and it's only getting worse. Any laws to increase government's power even beyond their already bloated distorted state should be fought against by every citizen. And ftr, I'm not on the Right that. I am left of left of left. But anyone with common sense, with or without political opinions should agree with me on this. I mean do you want to live under dystopia or do you want to be free- that's what it comes down to??
I mean this is insane. You'd think govt despots would have learned their lesson from alcohol prohibition, but apparently not and they won't stop trying to come for every other substance in creation including harmless and beneficial kratom. Don't you all wonder why that is? Or you all such so desperate to be slaves of someone you never question the chains as they continue to gather around your neck????
What's next, a government food cop banging down the door to my house shoving an AK-47 my face and telling me I can't have that cheeseburger or that sandwich or that soda or that beer!?!? It's literally already happening in some cases for those who make and or consume raw milk. You guys just don't understand what despotism really is cuz I guess you've never lived it personally.
You all are just too young to know what you're talking about, because unfortunately on this subject, and any that has to do with gross vicious violent ugly government despotic ovaries, you really don't. I've seen it. I've had people who have lost huge chunks of their life to it. I know exactly of what I speak. I see it in small ways and occasionally large every single day. I KNOW. YOU PEOPLE DONT, or you wouldn't be supporting this CONSTANT overreach and dangerous expansion of the powers of nameless faceless State authority. You just wouldn't.
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@dunia ☪ I believe in higher powers than Man but I don't believe that everyone, even the incredibly good people, are destined for hell unless they embrace Jesus in just the right way. It's bullshit logic and it's nonsense. Not much of a choice is it! So much for the Almighty respecting our right to choose. And notice these people never tell you exactly what sins are! No no, it's always just "your sins this" or "your sins that". So I'm supposed to magically know huh???? Why can't they tell me specifically what their god-concept says is no bueno, and what is supposedly ok??? They can't! I guess we're all just supposed to magically know. Like how strict is this guy??? Am I going to hell if Im rude or unkind to someone, or does god not bother with the pickaninny stuff and do I only get a permanent vacation with Old Scratch if I do something on the scale of a Hitler or a Pinochet, or idk, the US government???? Inquiring minds must know!
You can't expect logic and intelligent thought from deeply inculcated religious people, they're in too deep. At that point it's analogous to a cult and everything comes back to "the Bible said" or "because God said". Ok I mean that's fine but don't expect me to accept your nonsense that flies in the face of logic, has no proof, and often contradicts what I would judge as basic morality.
No. If there's a hell than people go there who DESERVE to go there, and no one else, based on their actions in life ALONE, NOT because of what their mouth claims they believe in or not. Anything else is mind rot and gibberish and nonsense!
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@juliemunoz2762 not really a good cause, more like a manufactured cause like any other when the mighty defense contractors and those who profit off war demand more war.
According to sources I believe, the Taliban said they could easily get to and deliver bin laden just a few months after 9/11, in exchange for being left alone. But that didn't work into Darth Rumsfelds war plans. Going after OBL was the only thing that would have been certain to sell the war to millions of gullible American citizens (I live here, so I remember).
The WMD lie was the ruse for Iraq and the Bin Laden and Al Queda lie was the Big Lie that got people to blindly wave the flag and not ask questions and support going into Afganistan. So the top Pentagon officials pretended not to know anything about OBLs wherebouts for 10 years until Obama finally decided to go after him for real, so that they could start and continue a forever war for as long as it takes. And while it was an outrage to pull another disgusting Vietnam and we never should have been there en masse bec we could have most likely gotten OBL by early 2002; I don't support leaving them in the clutches of the Taliban either!
If we weren't going to remove the Taliban then we should have either never gone or left after OBLs capture- but no war, no billions and billions of dollars from and to the US govt and the Pentagon and it's big corporate buddies wouldn't want that so, here we still are.
At this point, as we have clearly never even tried to rout the Taliban, we should reverse course and go back and get RID of them by any means necessary. They ARE domestic terrorists and nutjobs. I can't possibly accept that the majority of Afganistan wants those wackjobs to be in power. No I don't believe that to be true at all. Therefore WE must go back and do something moral for a change and liberate that country FROM the savage Taliban who I'm sure have no intention of supporting human rights and GENDER EQUALITY, OH RIGHT yeah right!
What we helped do in Iraq is on a whole new level of war crime.....
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@C.J. Antinori I didn't know that about the gov. Thank god, that means most likely he'll do the right thing and free this man from this monstrosity of a deliberate ass-ramming of a prosecution. Just another miscarriage of justice out the 10,000s that happen every day in this s-hole second-world nation. I don't know why we have such vicious bloodthirsty people in positions of power here BUT WE DO and more than almost anywhere else it seems, and that means if any of us are ever half as unlucky as this man was that day we are ALL at risk of being summarily and efficiently destroyed in similar manner. I'd like to say things are better in CA, where I live, they are more diverse to be sure, but we also have just as bloodthirsty a "legal" system in different ways. Three Strikes (to hell, I call it) is still legal here; not nearly satisfied are it's deployers (DAs and their willing rank and file servants, the more aggressive of the Pigs) in their insatiable lusts for blood and life theft yet. 25 years and counting of 100,000s of undeserving man-years lost. Mass Incarceration in it's cruelest and most savage forms continues apace..... to our vast national shame.
But lockup is a perennial business model in the US and no use waiting for the genuinely evil and dangerous to commit actual crimes- that won't leave you with nearly enough warm bodies to keep a 300B+ business a year booming! Better extend the claws of the cages to everyone and anyone who's ever smoked a joint, stole a shirt, or lived in the wrong neighborhood. Who cares about 100,000s of innocent or undeserving lives lost or forever damaged thru the system!? The god of blood and the Blue Crime Cartel must be paid! And no one feeds them as efficiently as the beautiful state of California. Reformers are courageously fighting back against this as we speak, and you can imagine the organized rage and backlash extending from those who would do anything to keep this system of extreme power, appetite for destruction, and control going indefinitely. I hope to join their efforts in defeating these predators from on high within the system who figuratively feed on human flesh in my very, very near future.
Anyways, thank great Odin and his sidekicks for that gov being who he is- if he was a Republican the driver would be lost- a Repub pukes at the thought of justice or empathy. I just hope the gov isn't weak. Now I know this young man has a fighting chance. That's a huge relief.
Now all that's left is to grossly reform the remaining criminal laws on the books and trash those vestiges of evil known as mandatory minimums and mandatory consecutive sentence assignment. I pray this happens soon to protect future victims from the depredations of more skillful, aggressive and conscience-free DAs ( including these same ones who took out this man), a lethal combination as 100,000s of decent people coast to coast have learned to their own dismay TOO many times over.
Humanity is never safe from the machinations of the cruel, calculating and powerful it seems- there is always a need for a savior. What a f*cking world.
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@john-paulsilke893 what could he have done differently if his brakes honestly gave out? If he panicked and the runaway off-ramps were full? I don't 100% know why he didn't take the off-ramps IF they were unoccupied; I will reserve judgement until I can get an answer from him or his lawyer. It's possible the problem hadn't started yet.
The crazed DAs claimed, without conclusive proof it appears, that he "rode" his brakes on the route in a manner that he shouldn't have. Did he admit to this??? Is there any proof of this???? If not why should we assume it?
I understand he was the operator of the vehicle at the time, and that is unfortunate for him, but that alone does not indicate culpability.
If you just want to have a convenient person to blame EVEN THOUGH 100% OF THE FAULT LIES WITH THE COMPANY, then give him 12 months and call it a day. But again, tell me SPECIFICALLY what he did wrong in the operation of the CDL vehicle, why it's punishable by criminal detention, and what specifically he should have done differently.
Look my heart bleeds for the victims; it's not I don't care that innocent lives were lost. It was a terrible heartbreaking random tragedy that is one of the sad realities of modern life. However, it is the TRUCKING COMPANY who was 100% at fault IF they sent that vehicle out with brakes in unacceptable condition. THAT IS WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED IN THE CASE, and i don't know if it was or not.
This is a typical shady AF, fly by night company apparently, who very CONVENIENTLY are now all the way out of business (imagine that), and they had sustained at least 30 serious safety violations in the previous 24 months to this very accident. It is only reasonable to assume the brakes or brake system on THIS truck were similarly compromised and that is the most important aspect of the case that should have been proven one way or another, and right now I don't know enough verifiable details of this case to know if it was or wasn't. Without knowing that, we can't really move forward. In the absence of knowing that as a certainty, I will believe the driver when he claimed that his brakes failed as he was beginning the downgrade.
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Imagine looking at war as a business. War should be the absolute LAST resort that everyone should want to avoid at all costs- only choosing it when all other avenues have been truly exhausted- especially the way those ZionNazi bloodthirsty thugs and the US security sector wages it- as an intentional and happy bloodbath on non-combatants and civilian infrastructure.
317% of the US economy is based off war. We're not ferengi here or the cartels, we're supposed to be better than this.
Anything for a dollar, eh? But it's still illegal to make money in the drug business because "violence".
Lol both state and federal authorities are the biggest, most ruthless gangsters in town- AND those whose interests they represent. No difference at all- one just wears a suit, and one walks a little closer to the street but inside, they are EXACTLY the same in fact I'd say the govt decision-makers are worse, due to their scale, which is global. Even the most ambitious Latin American cartels only operate in this hemisphere for the most part- and while they might do some very bad things- most people only buy their product voluntarily, and to my knowledge, contrary to some entertainment programs, they do not commonly or willingly engage in wanton violence to general civilians.
I'm not trying to be cynical or edgy it's just a fact. Just like many local cops are on the take, state and federal authorities are some of the most organized gangsters around, but instead of it being about drugs or other contraband it's about fomenting war and destabilization abroad and serving multinational transnational top-of-the-food-chain multicorporate interests.
I'll give them that they got brains that's for sure, they just use them for bad aims unfortunately. They never met a violent ruthless fascist dictator they didn't like, unless that fascist dictator didn't do what they wanted, then of course he had to go.
Just like drugs is one of the most profitable games around, the war businesses clearly going to be extremely profitable for the foreseeable future and as such I do not see the policy of the federal interests changing anytime soon. It's too damn bad.
I envision a much better world without these DC gangster nutcases ruining it for everyone else.
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Now and forever
FUCK OCCUPIERS all 🖕
And yet somehow they still got people convinced stateside that they're the good guys. But that's because propaganda is powerful and far-reaching.
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I knew this was going to happen. I was afraid it was going to happen and sure enough I saw it start to happen over the past 5 years especially.
Of course weed should be legal, ALL drugs should. Nobody should go to fucking prison for wanting to get high or engaging in a consenting drug trade with another freewill adult. It's just NOT government's business- IT'S NOBODY'S BUSINESS! These are OUR bodies and NO ONE has the right to tell us what we can or cannot do with them!!! That is such a vast abuse of power, and look where it's gotten us. Adults have the right to make their own fucking choices when it comes to what they consume or do business in without it being called criminal and viciously attacked by government tyrannical filth. But then again if the drug war and the war on human freedom went away, how would the satanic Street Ferals make billions in pure naked theft??? They couldn't, and there would be no point in being a Pig otherwise because the profit just wouldn't be there. Policing is nothing but organized rank theft. It's nothing but massive legalized organized crime. It's ALL theft. It's not about safety it's about the mass production grand THEFT.
But getting back to this, I knew this was going to happen in the legal weed industry. These corporate vultures skinsacks are ALWAYS ready and poised to jump in the moment the clear. They know that the world is their oyster because all they have to do is wave a few dollar bills under their local politician's nose and they've got him by the balls, and willingly so.
Local city councils seem very willing to bought and paid by these corporate filth and will then be their loyal slave attack dogs towards the smaller operators. They seem bound and determined to drive the small mom-and-pop independent shops out of business. Here in my area they've been conducting raids, claiming that these weed shops are in violation of some intentionally expensive or unclear or complicated regulation, which gives them an excuse to rob these businesses blind and shut them down either temporarily or permanently, all while seizing or freezing their assets. The attack on the independent weed shop is shameless, pure evil and absolutely organized. I see it in this county and I'm sure this isn't the only area this is happening. The Pigs are absolutely shameless here, because why shouldn't they be? Who's going to stop them? Nobody. They are there a legal murder and theft gang, that's what police ARE. They're aggressive and ruthless and they all want the money that these shops have. So they pressure City councils to make it very difficult for these places to operate legally, so they can then swoop in and commit these raids. They don't want weed to be legal at all or to be a normal business to run because they want excuses to steal from them. They aren't stupid- they know what to do. Both of the corporate operators and the local blue criminal filth know just what to do to go after the small shops. They get the councils pass intentionally excessive taxes and excessive and unfair burdensome compliance requirements that only the larger and more corporate-backed weed shops can afford to satisfy. I haven't been out to the weed shops in my area for a while so I'm not sure how bad it's gone but the last time I checked it was getting pretty bad. It's sad when your local politicians are just as shameless, ruthless, criminal and greed-infested as the Blue criminals and corporate skinsacks who lobby them. Local politicians near me have no conscience and no soul they'll just go where the money is, which is very sad. The big money has taken over this industry like they've taken over everything else. I don't think it's too late to push back and and undo this but it's going to take a LOT of work.
I was worried about this happening and sure enough on clockwork, it did and I knew it would. Everyone who runs for office in America is a satanic soulless money-grubbing animal so I mean of course the corporates would be successful in plundering and dominating this industry the same way they've done to everything else- with the full compliance and protection of the political class.
I don't know where it's going to end. Judges are in on this, mayors are in on this, with very few exceptions they're all in on this. They ALL want this attack on the independents to continue. Some local politicians or or judges want some quick money so they'll order the Pigs to to assault a local weed shop, even one that's in perfect compliance, and claim they're in violation but won't tell them what their in violation of. This is how local governments have been fattening their wallets for years now. There's no racket as criminal as the government racket.
They are shameless, and nobody seems willing or interested in stopping them. They are fully in league with the corporate filth to point guns to our heads and to get us out of the way. I'm not sure how to stop this but I hope we can figure out a way.
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Kamala Harris, like virtually everyone else in this govt at ANY level, is a sociopath. (I live in the US). Among other corrupt uses of her power, she's been accused of keeping an innocent man on death row, someone she knew full well was innocent. I don't know if this is true or not, but it wouldn't shock me. She's a cold-hearted b8tch, just wants the power and control- has zero empathy, less than zero if that's possible- but so do 99.2% of the rest of these sociopath-spectrum tyrants esp if the courts. Its my view that the vast majority of anyone with a slight bit of power or authority, within the courts or the govt, based on my observation, research, and some first-hand experience going back a good 20+ years, and studying my history are total utter socio/psychopaths and happy to be so.
As for the solution, I don't really know. Taking them all out one by one with a great piece of steel doesn't seem possible.... very sadly. In lieu of that I guess just try to build a viable hate Left party and run out own people..... If we could ever have a chance here considering the vast majority of voters are still dumb enough to willingly choose either the red or the Blue candidates, believing their words and not their actions or voting record. We got a really brainwashed electorate here, and it's going to try to be like moving mountains to make inroads into all that. It's gonna be like trying to cut thru ice with a butter knife.
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@youtubesucks1499 regardless of whether a business has investors or not, and I don't know how many times I have to say this, all workers at any level of the company, skilled or unskilled deserve Fair and livable wages. everybody in the universe can't open a business, it has nothing to do with smarts, it's just not in the interest of a lot of people. For everybody who wants to open their own business, there's a hundred people who don't want that extra responsibility or who just simply don't have the interest. Where does this attitude of yours that is so disrespectful come from? how would any business operate without their workers? You should be getting down on your hands and knees and thanking people who are willing to do the dirty work, the hard work to keep your stupid business moving. Once again I see a complete disrespect and lack of appreciation coming from types like you. Why is this? Also for your information, I'm sure there are plenty of people that have ideas for opening their own business but they're just not ready to for whatever reason, yet it could very well be in their future plans. So nurses in your estimation shouldn't be paid comfortable professional wages for the life-saving and vital work that they do? Their workers. So are teachers. You see not all workers are janitors or street sweepers as you seem to think, not that there's anything wrong with those occupations, after all didn't the pandemic just teach everybody who's an essential worker and who's not? For people who are so essential people like you sure want to pay them slave wages. Is that right? anybody who would deliberately underpay workers at any level is an immoral person and they should be ashamed of themselves. you are completely over valuing the usefulness and the need for fools at the top, the exploiting class, and completely undervaluing the people who make the world turn which is all the rest of us the non-ceos, the actual workers. And if you don't think a lot of jobs require plenty of brain power in addition to muscle power as well, then you don't know much.
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@youtubesucks1499 as I mentioned in my previous statement I'm not referring to recently open businesses for the most part for the purposes of this discussion. I did acknowledge that those who invest usually want a return on their investment, and that is fine. I'm not saying they shouldn't receive that. As for ongoing shareholding, I suppose it's not necessarily a bad thing as long as it's NOT used as an excuse to shaft the workers aka the PRODUCERS, that group of people without which the business wouldn't exist because there would be no labor AKA no work done AKA no profits to distribute.
For the purposes of this discussion being "what is a fair minimum level of compensation for employees?", I'm really not referring to startups, but generally established businesses. Also not all businesses are publicly traded, many businesses are not including small businesses, and many businesses get initial funding either from it's owner's savings and/or a small business loan from a bank or loans/seed money from others they know personally. Not all businesses are gotten off the ground via investor groups.
Your opinion seems to be workers really aren't people and they don't deserve comfortable compensation. I still don't understand why you think that way. Have you never been a worker before? Whether it's from the entry level worker all the way on up to a senior level manager, at the end of the day everyone has to go home and pay their bills and try to live a life worth having. Just because someone is newer on the job and hasn't gained extra skills yet, doesn't mean they should be paid like shit. I'm not saying more senior or skilled persons shouldn't make more than those who are less senior or less skilled, but the minimum level should be ethical. My minimum wage ideally is $24 for every position with a small business exception of $15. If you think that sounds like a lot, that's only bec you and many others have been gaslit and brainwashed from 40 years of anti-worker propaganda which has been successful in getting many people to view abnormally low wages as acceptable and justified.
The minimum wage used to track directly with inflation from its inception in the 1930s until around 1980, not coincidentally when Reagan became into office. You can look this data up yourself, but a properly-adjusted minimum wage today would be $18-24. Why is it that real wages have been virtually unchanged for the last 45 years across most industries for most workers, yet overall net productivity has soared? Where has all that extra profit gone? To the top of course into a tiny, tiny number of hands. In essence a tiny very rich parasite class has managed to legally pilfer gobs of wealth generated via the aggregate labor of millions of workers across hundreds of industries over the last roughly 40 to 50 years.
We want this wealth back and we deserve it. ALL wealth has its origins in the physical and mental work that employees across all sectors produce. therefore it is absolutely wrong that it should be concentrated in outsized proportions in a tiny few filthy rich hands.
We are living in a new gilded age, even worse than the first one. There is more outrageous wealth concentrated in a relatively very few hands at the very top right now than ever before in US history. This must end. In my lifetime, I pledge to do whatever it is within my power to do to retake most if not all of this excess wealth and get it redistributed back down throughout the middle and lower working classes where it belongs.
That's why I stand for socialism and justice, prosperity for all by any means necessary. It's not radical, it's just right. It's Justice that's all. it's fairness. Nothing weird or exotic or extreme about it. Paying all workers fairly, and making sure all households receive at least a small portion of the excess profits from some of our wealthiest industries, in the form of dividend payments the way shareholders receive, and/or the company in which they work.
That's the kind of socialism that I believe in and will work towards. Prosperity and security for all, not just a lucky few, or even one half.
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@@apsoypike1956 you're saying a private market can be a good thing and I agree with you, we definitely should continue to have the private sector, it would be far too cumbersome to do everything thru a public mode, however I find the presence of big business disturbing, not to mention their conduct. I want to see a hard limit in the size ANY private company can reach coupled with strict regulation of their behavior and ironclad Labor rights and protections including a guarantee of Labor Equality and Fair Profit sharing. I can give more details on that later. Also, the public sector, as in what the State provides, guarantees and manages, should be sharply increased. Together, in my opinion, this would fix everything and provide a guarantee for everyone.
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The evil is so broad it's staggering. It's like breathing to convict someone. A poor or average income person doesn't stand a chance. My good friend lost almost 20 years to Three Strikes in California, convicted in 1996. Illegally convicted. It didn't matter - the judge was a very evil man, he didn't even try to hide his obvious prejudice and racism. My friend was poor, couldn't afford a lawyer, his PD literally did nothing, in the blink of an eye his "trial" was over. For three petty theft misdemeanors he received a 28 year to life sentence. 28 years to LIFE. For non-offenses.
THREE MINOR OFFENSES. First of all, only felonies are supposed to count as strikes, and my friend didn't have one felony.
To this day, 30 years later, nobody has been held accountable. When everyone in the system is a monster, you can. Nobody at any level is trying to stop it.
The evil just goes completely unchallenged today - it's so far beyond being controlled or censured. I have no idea where this is going to end.
These are the devil's agents. I just hope and pray it stops one day. The goal is to destroy or lock up every black or poor person in this country. That is the absolute deliberate goal. It's an ongoing crime against humanity.
NOBODY'S STOPPING IT. I don't know what it's going to take to stop. The evil is thorough, relentless, and everywhere today, in the legal field and beyond.
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I'm really sorry that happened to you, but you should feel good that you stood up for yourself. And once you got back on your feet you should have tried to find an employment lawyer, and sued them. Perhaps your friend would have been willing to work on contingency.
I'm sorry your other friend chose to work 20 years for some place where he's being exploited and used. I'd rather flip a burgers than tolerate that for five minutes. If that company wants to close their plants so much, the employee should force their hand.
It's almost always a bluff.
I would rather go hungry and live out of my car then be a slave.
If I'm not treated with dignity in the workplace I won't work their simple as that. My pride and my dignity mean more to me than all the money in the universe.
I'll never work somewhere where I'm treated like a slave or like shit. Sometimes I think people just like to suffer.
There are so many other options in life than putting up with that. Your friend chose his fate. The company is mistreating him, but like a battered wife he sticks around. That's his choice. The more people choose to accept that kind of treatment, that just tells the company that they can get away with it. It just reinforces that bad behavior. If everybody quit and nobody tolerated that well guess what the company would be forced to change.
It would be nice if the government and the laws were on our side, but they're not. And nobody wants to come out as a communist or socialist so nothing's going to change. Do you know that by voting Republican or Democrat this is exactly what we asking for?? You think either of those Thugs and those parties give a flying F about the working man? If you believe that I got some waterfront property in Arizona to sell you.
By being weak, fearful and ignorant, we decide our future. We vote for the same corporate-protecting parties and wonder why nothing ever changes in public policy. We do this to ourselves. We accept these atrocious conditions at work and then complain about them as if we deserve sympathy.
But we don't become communist or socialist and organize for better. We don't walk away. We don't accept responsibility for the fact that we have a lot to do with this by accepting this madness.
We could also try to start our own businesses. I know it's hard. I know it's not a level playing field. I know the system is against us and everything is unfair. However, if we don't even try, we only have ourselves to blame.
There are good jobs in good employers out there. If we don't even try to find an alternative, whose fault is that?
So we have a choice. Do we stick around in one of these abusive work relationships, or do we do what's necessary and find something better, weather in pay or treatment or both, no matter how long it takes? Well it's up to each person to decide that for themselves. I'm not excusing this horrible company behavior- no they shouldn't get away with it, but since they are, what are we going to do about it???? Sometimes our only option is to walk away. If a person isn't willing to do that then I'm sorry but they're choosing to accept this kind of treatment. I know I wouldn't. I'll live on the street if I have to but I won't be anyone's slave and I sure as hell won't work for peanuts.
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[incoming text wall dump]
I support the Russian invasion- in this case I do. Let me explain.
I will always deeply regret any innocent person caught in the crossfire or displaced due to this conflict, but after learning everything I have of relevant events leading up to this point in time, I honestly fail to see what other option Russia had at this point. Considering the last 20 years of non-stop US aggreession via NATO encirclement, and the last 76 years of attacks, interference, and posturing by our govt; in addition to the ongoing civil war against the Donbass with 14,000 dead since 2014 thanks to a neo-nazi-infiltrated military apparatus, the violent coup thanks to the US that occurred in 2014 that supported and funded those assholes, etc; after a point, one realizes peaceful or nonviolent methods aren't going to work, no matter how sincerely they may be attempted. Without the USs involvement it's possible a regional conflict could have been worked out in due time by diplomatic means, with our involvement, and all our efforts at provocation, it's quite obvious that's been made impossible. I do hope Zelensky realizes what an absolute pawn the US is making of him and that US considers nobody it's partner, only a means to an end. The US only cares about the US. I wish it did give a genuine shit about other nations, but they don't. Surely Zelensky is not so naive as to trust anything my govt has to tell him or to expect them to substantiate any of the empty promises it has given them??
I don't know a ton about Putin, maybe he's a bad guy, maybe he's has some good aspects; he's certainly been vilified in our media more than anyone else in modern times; but if I were in his shoes today, assessing everything that has transpired thanks to the US in that part of the world since 1946, I would most likely be doing exactly what he's doing right now. Staying passive at this point won't help anything- the US will continue to aggress and the residents of the Donbass regions will continue to languish under or be killed thanks to Kiev's deliberate attacks.
To my knowledge, at every step along this process and for years previously Putin has begged Zelensky to come to the table to work out an agreement regarding matters of high concern for both of them.
I've also heard, tho I don't know if this is true, that an aggessive military invasion of Moscow by Ukraine was planned this month or next month, no doubt urged by the US.
What I see Putin doing now is preempting that threat, if it is to be believed, interrupting the violence perpetrated against the Donbass regions (finally), protecting its own security interests, and denying the US it's ability to use Ukraine as it's latest pawn in a clearly hostile agenda against them that goes back to the very end of WW2.
I've also heard that the Russian forces are being ordered to conduct their operations in very careful manners, taking significant care to minimize damage or death to civilians and city infrastructure, the sheer opposite of what US forces were allowed, trained, or ordered to do in literally every conflict they have ever been in. I'm American, I do know our history. I'd love to be proven otherwise, but conducting or even attempting to conduct ethical, precise strikes with the express purpose of minimizing/preventing non-combatant death and damage to non-military physical targets is not what our people do. Our people destroy everything in their path. Our people commit war crimes. Our people are taught to dehumanize and disregard the lives of civilians and non-combatants in foreign zones, along with opposing combatants.
IF this information is true about the Russian military apparatus today, then they or it's leaders have a moral development that is far beyond anything our ground and air forces have EVER embodied.
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LoL this isn't exactly the question I would ask. Politicians on both sides are jokes - we are living in a wasteland and political cesspool of organized crime; awash in the neverending insanity and political THEATER of two amoral corporate parties, or in other words, ONE amoral corporate party with two faces.
When are people going to get this through their heads??? This channel unfortunately is full of delusion.
The red-blue snake serves hyperelites and business elites; NO ONE ELSE. NOT TODAY, and almost always not ever. There IS no active organized political party for the bottom 95%. We are just out here, unrepresented as fuck, being deluded every 1-4 years into voting for our enemies who will NEVER care about our welfare.
The big business elite control all in this country when it comes to public policy. They have purchased it very well. This is nothing new. This began shortly after the civil war and it has never stopped.
You are fools if you think a milquetoast lying fake blue "progressive" cares about you. "Progressive" is the new word for "liberal", meaning absolutely nothing.
Without some sort of deep fundamental change, violent or non-violent, things will just get worse. Tent cities will be the norm, the bottom 85% will continue to be robbed without end so the 1% can satisfy their infinite greed.
You're sick deluded fools think that ANY change will come from ANYONE ascribing to one of the two mainstream corporate parties; you're sicker than a rabid dog and I can't help you. Lunacy.
When anyone here is ready to recognize that we see absolute and total change and the Red-Blue snake needs to have its head cut off and be entirely discarded, come talk to me.
Maybe it's time ordinary people's lives mattered in this country in public policy instead of just the ruthless hyper-rich and big business reps. This will take active, aggressive, organized, tireless, ruthless if necessary people's parties, AKA socialists or communists. I'm under no illusion that we can take over- the common people are way too stupid for that- they're way too stupid to vote for their own interests above their enemies' interests, but we could at least start by trying to get SOME of our people into public office at all levels. This would at least BLUNT the effect of the CPIGs (corporate parties of infinite greed), and create some harm reduction from their control of the system. It starts there.
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Due to the depravity and violence of the long-term entrenched political elite class in this country, this country is set up to serve the top 1% to 2% at everyone else's expense. If we got better people elected this could change, bar none; but people keep voting for the same evildoers and are shocked when nothing changes, and the business and private elites continue to take more and more which causes poverty to expand and trickle upward at alarming rates.
I'm all for fair and ethical business provided it is indeed fair and ethical and everyone is benefiting from it; which isn't the case in most enterprises today imo.
With a few simple legal changes ALL effective poverty could be ended tomorrow but that won't happen until people of actual conscience get elected in this country and start taxing and regulating all of the excess loot away from the top and funnel it back downwards where it belongs. People can still be wealthy, just not to the ludicrous degree they are now.
To think that people have a right to infinite accumulation is something that has always been obscene and appalling to me and I oppose it in my bones. NO private business, no corporation and no single individual or private household has the right to accumulate bullshit amounts of wealth without end. There should be upper limits to income and business size across the board. We can debate where these limits should be but they should most definitely exist. We have to set them somewhere.
All families and children under certain wealth levels should get absolute ironclad guarantees of access to comprehensive medical care, a variety of nutritious and desirable food, housing, mental healthcare support, quality public schools, access to public transportation, emergency services and emergency safe housing, and any other basic need government can assist with.
If these political filth only want to serve the crassness and the evilness of the ultra elites then they needs to go. The bottom 90% matter TOO. If only we could pull a 1917 today.
It has to start by demanding better for ourselves and all other ordinary people in the country. We CAN do it; it just takes political will, which unfortunately is about as craven, corrupt and evil in my eyes as it gets.
If we want public policy to work for the bottom 90% we're going to have to throw out the corrupt Red and Blue nonsense clown show and put in some communists and socialists that will do what I have described. Things absolutely WILL NOT change and will only get worse until we do that.
I think we can indeed vote our way out of this but only if actual human beings step up and run for office. Short of that I don't actually know because then that means we're stuck with the status quo, and I find that unacceptable. We certainly not going to shoot our way out of this, so voting and debating is the only way.
I don't know- it may take a lot longer than our lifetime to change it. Really sucks.
Life could be materially secure for all at virtually every moment but not with this kind of Satan-loving political structure in place. One way or another we better start demanding change, organizing for and doing what we can to get there. Every little bit helps.
Poverty and lack is absolutely unnecessary and a stain on our social conscience in a nation as materially blessed and plentiful as this one. Bar fucking NONE.
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@thomaskalbfus2005 ready for a smackeroo of text wall? Sweet let's get going.
I didn't say no police I said much less. As in yes, a baseline number of emergency responders are necessary for the time being (although from all the tales I've heard plus some personal experience, a great deal of them do not know how to act and are highly insufficiently trained and probably shouldn't be in the profession at all because they don't have the right ethics, brains or temperament) and should be kept on but all the rest , ie the street cartel, is beyond wrong and should not be maintained.
The for the sake of argument let's say all emergency responders are excellently trained and have the most ideal responsible temperament and are galaxy brains. What's really wrong about PD's are the patrol units, those who stalk our citizens and our communities with only harm and harassment and theft in mind. I could launch into a massive screed about why it's amoral and in some cases I'll go so far as to call them evil but you probably don't want to hear all that at this very moment, so I'll just say that I oppose them on a fundamental moral level and so do other people and I'd you do too you just haven't stopped yet to think about it.
All patrol units are evil things and shouldn't ever exist in any way and I think it's an interesting, curious and sad phenomena that we have so been ingrained, brainwashed and gaslighted to accept them as totally normal and NOT WRONG and I find it unfortunate to look back over the bizarre history of patrolling punks in this country. As we all know today's PDs are outgrowths of the old slave patrols but even if they weren't they would still be amoral entities when they choose to aggress into our lives and commit crimes as all patrolling units do. At best they are a temporary nuisance, at worst they commit evil or criminal acts. They are a legalized gestapo gang AKA an organized crime unit and I think that's pretty damn bad.
Pigs also exists above the Law all the time; as American Gestapo in this country they are totally lawless and they know it. I know it, everybody knows it and any mayor would probably look you dead in the eyes if he was being honest and say he knows it and he supports it. So that's really shitty. Pretty fascist that.
Nobody but Pigs is afforded such special treatment in this country. And they have to do so little to get it- six months or less of training, zero emotional qualifications, in some cases don't even need a high-school diploma- it's truly appalling- they literally just have to be able to scratch their crotch and wipe their ass and they're eligible. What a world. And for that they get to get away with whatever they want and they're almost certainly will never be convicted of any wrongdoing or see a day in jail or even be held financially liable. They have 1000% civil and criminal immunity. They are accountable only to each other so you know, absolutely no conflict of interest THERE; no actual accountability to any sort of independent civilian authority whatsoever. What a brilliant racket. The Gambizi family couldn't ask for as much.
No professional licensing is required and when they mess up as many will, no revocation of professional licensing is performed as a consequence as no professional license exist to be revoked. And what other job field does one have such a protected status???? Six months of training and then they're allowed to go out there and steal, harass, extort, seize, waylay, and in some cases commit violence or fatal shooting with the best of them.
Six months of training to have the status of a god... wow what a deal! Best racket ever.
I think having a Gestapo is a bad thing and I don't think we should have to live under violent gangsterism of any kind or this kind of tyranny.
But of course that's just me.
It's possible I'm a total weirdo and violent gestapo sociopaths are an awesome thing to have for society and maybe we should have totally way more; I don't know, I could be totally out to lunch and crazy and god-knows-what.
In short: a relatively small baseline of emergency responders is an unavoidable reality in modern times. Even though ours are usually poorly trained and don't handle situations responsibly at this moment in time, for now it's the best we got (this is pretty sad). However I totally think it's insane that we maintain an militarized paramilitary psychopathic-ready Gestapo in every metro area which is probably a bad thing but then again who knows maybe I'm just a weirdo and on wacky drugs and these things are awesome and we should totally have more violent Gestapo Police State from coast to coast.
Add to the fact that all Metro PDs are essentially jail-filling machines and don't really exist for any other purpose but to shit on the poor and homeless and ensure those populations keep the jails full because a full jail is highly profitable for its respective counties. Why do you think we still have mass incarceration after 40+ years? Mass incarceration including local incarceration is big BIG bucks. Why do you think they don't want to get rid of cash bill? That's their cash fucking cow. Cash fkng cow. That's their golden goose. There's RIVERS of billions wrapped up in the mass incarceration complex and the patrol complex and you better believe it's all about the benjamins hun. They have absolutely no reason to arrest the vast majority of people and would probably stop if there wasn't such financial inducements involve. But then again where would the Blue bullies get their rocks off pushing people around then? I mean that's no fun! It's not like they have any positive skills and could actually help society; they only know how to do one thing- to be a punk, a criminal, a thug, a bully, or a jerk. I'm referring mainly to street cops here although there are some trash detectives as well. The rot can run pretty deep in these groups.
Sources to learn more: the free thought project, our enemies in blue, institute for justice, 'why I quit the force', 'an end to policing ' , crimethinc, the real news network, AND just a sense of self-respect that refuses to bow down like a punk.
The only proper role for a State safety apparatus is to provide responsible and accountable detectives and responsible and accountable safety responders. I'm pretty sure the US fails on every single fucking count because the material I've read paints a pretty dismal picture of the quality of detectives in this country and I already know the problem with the patrol criminals, which shouldn't exist under any circumstances. The responders are quite a mixed bag as well. But that's due to all the reasons already stated.
It's because the US has the most appalling and insufficient and poor training of cops in the developed world. We also have zero accountability measures for them plus pretty absent entrance standards.
All in all it's a pretty fascist insane worst-of-all-possible-worlds scenario. It's not bad everywhere but it's very bad many places. The Blue gang is basically an open mass terrorist gang or cartel. They commit grand larceny and or acts of violence or harassment and intentional intimidation as a matter of course. None of this has anything to do with safety, ergo it should be hated and condemned as the vile abrogation of our human rights and dignity that it is.
They're also used to conduct amoral and in my eyes illegal and criminal raids on people and small businesses in cities because the mayors there are basically criminals who were bought and paid for by certain big money interests who are then told to shit on certain persons and businesses which they obediently do through the use of their influence on the local police department.
Any Pig that's willing to walk the streets and do patrol is a predator and deserves to be held in contempt. Even if they are civil if they carry out patrol duties they are committing a crime against their fellow citizens. When they go on patrol they're only looking for two things, victims to arrest or worse, and assets to steal. No you tell me if either of those two things is morally-justifiable, ethical or deserves to exist.
It's an ugly racket and I'm shocked that it exists in these modern times. Safety has nothing to do with State tyranny or the forceful occupation aka "patrolling" of our streets. You patrol in enemy territory? You don't patrol at home! If I'm being served and protected why the F am I being patrolled!?
I don't have a problem with detectives and responders, if they can manage to be both professional and accountable, (apparently a bunch can't but let's pretend they can) but I sure as hell have a huge problem with an American gestapo riding my asshole and destroying lives right left and center in this country and being an absolute swamp thing and a beacon for psychopaths and unstable wackjobs and kill-happy menaces everywhere. It's insane this kind of institution still exists.
Lest you think I'm exaggerating for effect just gain some more information. Just take a look around I don't think you'll find I'm exaggerating very much at all.
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The sociopaths aren't even afraid of showing their true colors anymore. I guess that's what happens when you feel you're bulletproof.
So MANY sociopaths. Honestly I guess that's something for me to learn because I really didn't even think that was statistically possible. I mean when you look at all the Pigs that infest this country, all the bad judges, all the bad mayors, all the bad an unfeeling and uncaring public officials at every level in every corner. Etc etc. I mean how is it even mathematically possible that THIS many psychopaths and sociopaths exist... biologically? Sometimes I just get to a point where my brain just sort of gets that record scratch because I find it hard to understand this. It's like if suddenly 10,000 Jeffrey Dahmers just surfaced in a small area. As in, what are the odds?? Aside from the fact that would be truly terrifying, one could think, huh like really 10,000 people this dysfunctional and predatory? You just tend to think that mathematically the POS's are maybe one out of 100, maybe one out of a thousand. At this rate, damn, it'd be looking like it's one out of FIVE. No wonder the world is so messed up if the rates of genuine sociopathy and antisocial, predatory behavior are indeed that high.
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@redpillbulgaria-v2.063 I live here and I share this view. Just look at history- I know exactly what my govt does, and it's NEVER about helping people or wanting to spread human rights. We did a good thing in WW2, until the end that is. Ever since, just savagery and destruction via invasions and CIA coups, and ALWAYS to install fascists and dictators who would cater to our oil and resource-appropriation interests.
This gov is the world's most violent and bloody imperialiser.
We did a little good in Afg by driving off the Taliban, then Fuckstick45 at behest of the then-CIA boss put them right back in charge and then left. As usual, we left the land even worse than we found it. Couldn't even leave the client govt in charge- at least it would be better than the Taliwackjobs. And then we stole 9B on the way out the door. If that wasn't sick enough, we're now starving half the country through sanctions. 20M innocent people in the crosshairs due to no fault of their own. I mean, it's just cruelty for the sake of it.
Just boggles the mind.
Sad.
Many of us here hate this entire federal govt and the savage empire they promote. Some of us are even vets, like me.
And now these same people are doing everything in their power to provoke a shooting war with Russia over the claim they are trying to annex Ukraine, something I believe to be wholly false.
It's a sad shame what these nutjobs do. I'm just hoping they don't cause WW3 in my lifetime- but I honestly think eventually they will. They're addicted to war and aggression and imperialism- they love death and they love all the profit and blood money they make from it.
I believe the next 25 years on this planet will be very pivotal, possibly catastrophic. I hope we can work things out rationally before an all-out world war breaks out due to these people, but at this point I honestly just don't know.
Just know that not all Americans who pay attention to the news and world events blindly accept the Pentagon-serving propaganda that our mainstream media churns out.
I sure as hell dont.
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@davidswanson5669 I'm sorry you're wrong, the stupid cops need to pay for their mistake, stop trying to obfuscate the issue. I'm sorry you can see what is as clear as the nose on your face. It doesn't matter that it's coming out of taxes, this person needs to get paid. Anyone in this situation would.
You're off on this one. It should actually come from the personal accounts of the SWAT officers involved, they were the ones who did it and made the decision. They were out there having fun; it was not necessary to do what they did. If they want to play GI Joe then they can clean up after themselves or pay for their damages. It's a simple as that. It's about holding the guilty party accountable. Besides you act like this is all going to come from one taxpayer. It all goes into the same pot, the local municipality. It's not like we can say "oh that's Joe's taxes". Technically it's everyone's and that's fine for the time being. There is no alternative at the moment. The City can pay the damages and send a message to the PD to be more careful next time. They can also dock the PD's budget this amount.
I'm not shocked the city of LA is fighting this. They are the lowest filth of the filth out there. I live in San Diego and I follow them a lot. All metro city governments are terrible though. They'll steal, rob and extort local citizens until the cows come home but the moment it comes to pay something for a citizen's benefit, they're nowhere to be found. It's gross.
Please don't bootlick. These stupid cops are out here because they have no useful skills and have no intention of working for a living and some of them are downright malignant or dangerous. They're giant toddlers that just want to smash sh6t up.
I don't think there's a responsible cop, SWAT officer or badgeholder this entire country. I'm sure there's a few somewhere but at this point, I'm just done with them.
That's why we need to abolish all Street police in this country, only 911 responders are needed. Please stand w blm and stand up against Blue crime and criminality and State violence. If you haven't experienced it yourself, that's great I'm happy for you but trust me it's out there. All you have to do is show up with a different skin color or zip code one day and you'll see stuff you thought people were just making up for attention.
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@lynns4426 for sure. I mean I know it's not always easy when you're in a not-great work environment to say 'take this job and shove it', there are practical considerations, most people don't have the luxury of just walking away whenever we want because most of us are not able to put away that much savings due the cost of everything and the fact that wages for most people have been lagging for decades, I fully understand this. I've been there myself. But at the same time, staying at an unhealthy and toxic workplace, regardless of the specific reasons why it's bad, isnt good either. It's not always easy to walk away, especially if we have a little savings to fall back on, and families to help support, but sometimes it needs to be done. I know it can be scary, but what's the alternative? Staying in a dead-end job with a negative atmosphere and a crappy management structure? we got to spend a lot of our lives at our jobs and we don't have to love them they should be something that we can have some positive feelings about.
I'm really happy to see workers organizing and advocating on their behalf in any environment in any industry. You can never have too much of that. But at the same time, one has to ask himself if the prize is worth fighting for, meaning is a long-term position at a place like Amazon with an obviously hostile and toxic management was even worth having? I'm not saying we all have to love our job, but I think it should have to meet minimum tolerability standards. Even with a better pay, is a long-term job working in a floor position at Amazon even worth having? does someone really want to spend 10 years pushing packages on their factory floor? I've heard they're really resistant to promoting their workers into management. so what they really want is a bunch of human automatons not people with needs and aspirations for the future.
It seems like a pretty dead end job to me. The asshole management is never going to come around, and from what we hear the pace of the work sounds completely abusive and excessive. Even if someone enjoyed the work of sorting and processing packages, and I could see how someone could, (I've worked production before and I didn't mind it) but in this case it seems like a completely unpleasant and undesirable situation. Totally hostile management, total disregard for worker safety or well-being, high stress from the unreasonable work speed required ... Sure 15 to $17 isn't a horrible starting wage but unless you're living in a rural area, that's not a lot to live off of. Its better than minimum wage but that's hardly saying anything.
Sometimes a job just isn't worth it. I have to wonder if a lot of these people work at Amazon wouldn't feel a lot better about themselves if they just cut their losses, turned their back on that place and looked for a better opportunity elsewhere. Sometimes something isn't savable. Kind of like a bad relationship.
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It seems so obvious now that the Azovs and other similar groups are totally, totally the commanding force; the main nfluencing force; and the controlling force within the Ukrainian military now. Nobody wants to see any non-combatants aka civilians on either side be harmed, but for anyone to imply that we should feel sympathy for these unabashed ultra Nazi supporters is just a sad state of affairs- and shame on the Western MSM to consistently try to bury this rather important fact as they are and continue to do.
I don't care which country it's from- if a nation's military has been taken over or has become essentially a modern-day Nazi detachment, I support any country who goes against them. We cannot allow something like this to continue to fester and grow in the modern world. These people do great violence and they are stuck on an ideology of hate and misplaced fanaticism, and it is the duty of any decent organization and leadership to oppose such groups and to support any who would take up arms against them. If we could de-radicalize them without violence then by all means we should do so, but clearly in this particular case that seems impossible. It seems way too late for that at this point and now, whether or not we can deprogram any particular Azov soldier, at a minimum we need to bring their reign of tyranny and violence to an end, and for that reason alone but also in addition to others I support Russia in its current venture.
Again I respect any persons right to feel pride in their country but what these guys are doing is clearly far more than that. They claim white and national supremacy and use that as an excuse for ethnic cleansing within their own borders (not to mention all the violence during the night of the coup in 2014). Anywhere else they would be considered a domestic terrorist cell out of control.
They have the right to feel pride of country, even superiority if they want, but NOT to leap to mass murder, heavy violence, or sustained attacks on local military and civilians.
That alone justifies anyone's interference as far as I'm concerned. Should they be allowed to continue another 20 years without any attempts to stop them? Clearly something had to be done, and in addition to the ongoing NATO problem, Moscow chose to act, and I can't blame them for that. I doubt this action was taken lightly.
Life is a constant battle of choosing when to act and when not to act. These interlocking situations clearly fall within the justification for action in my mind, and I would think other reasonable people would agree.
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@YaBoiHakim hi Hakim! Big fan here. Yes they might be rolled back, but that's not a guarantee and that shouldn't be a reason that we don't push full speed ahead on getting UBI installed NOW. You can read my comment if you like. And then any complications can be dealt with later. I can't speak for outside the US, but the bottom half live in varying levels of insecurity, including having nothing at all.
for those who can't get all they need on a shitty private market, the State is the only other option.
I'm a practical person. You know the theory, I only know I'm fucking angry as hell. I'm a US vet non-combat, 9/11 era. I know the criminality of the sociopaths who pull the strings now. It's all so obvious lol.... Funny how I could never see it before.
15 years changes a lot in one's awareness and knowledge of the broader social issues, even a few years has changed my awareness significantly.
In a rich country, it's obvious to anyone with a moral sense that there's no excuse for avoidable poverty or homelessness.
IF we could it thru Congress right now which of course we can't, UBI would be a huge first step to use as a lever to start making other provisions, like jobs, healthcare and housing guaranteed provisions.
I feel it's too important a tool to wait. The FDR New Deal saved millions, I'm sure it should have been better but it was still very vital. I honestly have no idea what would have happened to the bottom 25-60% in the US at that time if not for that. And yes it's been eroded over time, you're quite right how Capital loves to do that, but that doesn't have to be permanent. One way or another, we can change that.
We can agitate to get a New New Deal (or a Green New Deal) domestically or wherever one happens to live, and then just do our best in the future, even under a bougie-dominated system, to keep those gains as unassailable as possible while working towards a more Socialistic future. That's what I think. Interested to hear your thoughts.
I think you know a lot more about the outside world than I do, but here in the US, we HAVE to try to win the election game.... there is no other way. We HAVE to try to beat the interests of big capital even tho 99.8% of our current electeds are wholly or significantly owned by them. Our military is sworn not to get involved in domestic affairs so as not to be a tool of anyone's attempted takeover (Trump found this out to his dismay), and neither they nor the national guards in all 50 States (mini armies), would only take their orders from their respective official chain of commands; there's no way any of them, even if they were personally left- leaning, would lend themselves to any cause of active armed struggle. There are private militias here but most are small and they are all made up of whyte supremacists- not exactly a fertile ground for Marxists or socialists.
It just couldn't happen here. Too many corresponding layers of armed State-affiliated police structures (State troopers, FBI, Federal marshals, national guards, plus the always excessive numbers of municipal cops from the big cities like LA, Chicago, etc).
But I believe if we get much more militant and organized we CAN win political power for the Left! I think I feel more optimistic than you. Thoughts?
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Thanks Lisa for so many facts. Excellent thorough summation.
I guess I look at it like this.
All specifics aside, of which I'd be very happy to expand on further, I am 100% vociferously and militantly opposed the US empire and everything having to do with DC, and I feel the same about israel. Neither one has a moral right to exist in my eyes.
Regarding israel, I would have had no problem with it had it peacefully established a zio-ethnostate somewhere truly unoccupied in the world.
They chose not to do this. Anything else from here is thus illegitimate.
They are violent, cruel, sadistic genocidal occupiers who have stolen, appropriated, occupied, and subsequently genocided Palestine and its citizens for the last 80 years. When will it end?
The District of Columbia is nothing but a giant puppet show for large national and multinational corporations. They're willing to spill any amount of blood to continue to seek infinite profits by attempting to dominate the world and all of its natural resources.
I definitely oppose the federal structure as a political project and an entity. If it all shut down tomorrow I would be very happy.
The only acceptable entities that come out of DC in my eyes are social security, the national parks, and a small smattering of others.
The federal structure was built on two long-term genocidal campaigns- one against native people and one against African-originating people.
They have never been a force for good in the world. DCs violence the world over is legion and known to all.
I stand with brics and the tearing asunder of the Petrodollar at the earliest opportunity.
I say this as a now-veteran. Why the world would I ever feel patriotic to a bunch of bloodthirsty lunatics?? They destroy good people for fun, and not just Congress; all of the sundry federal agents and agencies that comprise the structure. I see them as nothing but willful sadists, dysfunctional sick psychopathic savages in the extreme.
They love war, they love death, and they are shameless. They're also absolute traitors. If they love Israel so much, they need to abdicate their American fkg citizenship and go there!! They are openly and nakedly showing how loyal they are to a foreign power!? there are more loyal to Israel's filth than anyone here. I think they should be forced to give up their US citizenship and take up residence in the land that they clearly worship and have such devotion for.
What is going on here??
Why is all that not seen as an unacceptable compromising of their loyalty first and foremost to our people!?! I would really like to know!?
The feds are evil, worthless and will pass away. The sooner we get to that day, the happier I'll be, and if it doesn't happen in my lifetime, that's fine. It will eventually.
All previous overweening earthly powers have come to an end before. This one will be no different.
For Palestine! 🇵🇸
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@ikilledthemoon but those differences, which are mostly physical, and sometimes experiential, don't matter. They really don't. Everyone wants to be treated with respect, everyone has the right to be treated with dignity, end of story. It's easy in our 20s to get obsessed with trivial and inconsequential matters and discussions, in this case differences between genders. I'm going to let you in a little secret, it does not matter at ALL!! I am sure you are not going to treat your female co-workers any different than your male coworkers. You may talk about different things and that's fine, but you're not going to treat them any differently simply based on their gender. You're not going to treat them any less politely or less respectfully.
You might as well ponder the differences between an laden and an unladen barn swallow. Enjoy contemplating it if you really wish but I'm telling you right now, I'm 41 I went through all this BS in my 20s before. Contemplating our navels or other things which are so obvious to the point they don't even really bear talking about, such as obvious gender differences and philosophical discussions about male and female experiences, aren't necessary or useful or get us closer to having a satisfied life. At least not from a manosphere perspective.
You can't generalize anything to the degree that these faux intellectuals are trying to do. All men are not the same and all women are not the same. It's a focusing on the wrong things. Just work on being a good person and treating others the way you want to be treated and working towards your goals whatever they happen to be and you will have a good life. As far as I'm concerned any difference between men and women are essentially physical and only skin deep. As long as you're not treating anyone like shit for whatever reason you're doing fine, keep it up.
I mean, I could sit around there and say you know what, cats and dogs are different and people say they're the same are just wrong. Maybe I could have fun jackjawing about that but it would be a pretty silly waste of time wouldn't it? So is this whole male- female discussion. It means that they can't think of anything else to say. It's useless filler and it doesn't get us any closer to coming up with solutions to world problems or just having something fun to talk about.
I guess at my age I feel like I've been there done that and I seen it all before so to me it's really old news and just something to laugh at. But in my 20s I used to fall for that shit too believe me. If I had a little more life experience I would have realized they are a total waste of time and just silly.
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@nunyabiznez6381 I agree that when someone's safety could be at risk, if you see something you should always try say something. But if I see someone putting something random in their pocket at a store I'm not going to get involved because it has nothing to do with safety, unless it's someone else's private personal belongings such as a purse or a wallet.
I'm definitely going to speak up in those cases because one, that's against an individual, and most likely that potential victim is in no way wealthy, but even if they were, there's far more than money in purses and wallets and nobody should be robbed of those period. so yes if I happen to see something if I felt I could safely intervene I would most likely do so. But if I see somebody taking a trinket from a big box store or a convenience store no I'm not going to say anything because it's a negligible loss to that store. A store would have 1000 more where that came from, and nobody's being harmed or deprived of something that has personal meaning to them and/or suffering a significant personal financial loss as a result of that taking.
But yes in cases of direct personal theft especially where I can see that the loss of such item would cause serious harm, such as money and personal effects, and other personally significant items that we all have in our wallets or purses, I would do what I could to intervene. But in a store nah, I'm afraid I couldn't care less. I'm just going to mind my own business. It's just meaningless inanimate objects to me at that point.
A store's net worth is millions of dollars; if somebody wants to take some necessities home with them or help themselves to a few things that's no business of mine. Stores would have to be depopulated of something like half their inventory before they felt a significant loss into their profit margins and then even then they have huge reserves in the bank plus no doubt generous loss insurance (referring to the chains, not as much mom and pops). By my understanding, any store, whether independent or a chain, would have to suffer a truly catastrophic level of robbery before their overall operations and solvency were genuinely impacted; and that basically never happens. I mean a hurricane would have to come through and and level that store or some professional criminal group would have to knock it over and make off with 90% of what's on the floor. Even then, worst case scenario that chain would just close that particular location, but they would still have all the others, so their overall operations and solvency would continue without a hitch. So again; even if widespread, the comparatively negligible amount of sticky-fingerism that exists on behalf of sneaky shoppers causes zero net effect to retail outlets. It's just another cost of doing business, that's all, which is negligible in almost all cases. I saw a stat recently which stated that the estimated losses that most retail chains could reasonably attribute to lifting was under 1%. Something so minor is hardly worth being concerned about. Only the greediest and pettiest manager would want to make an issue and spend extra money trying to prevent losses of such an inconsequential level. I'd wager of most stores pay more on their loss prevention efforts then simply just letting some things ride. I don't know if that's true exactly, but I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up being proven true at some point.
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@nunyabiznez6381 eh. I don't know if I agree with those numbers.
I'd have to look them up myself. I just can't take your word for it.
I've never seen pros. Hell maybe they can give me a few tips lol. I have gotten caught twice so clearly I'm doing something wrong.
In all seriousness I know the few times I have it was real small ticket stuff and it was mostly just things I needed.
Look I can't be responsible for who holds what stock. That someone's personal choice. I don't think there's a big problem with pros. You seem to think there is, I don't know who's right. if you have some kind of a citation or website I can check I'll look into it but as of right now I have no way of knowing if your figures are correct. Every store grosses no doubt in the hundreds of thousands every month. What a relatively negligible number of people take out with them I highly doubt makes any difference to a typical Walmart overhead. The size as I explained, I'd love to know how much of the inventory they willingly waste every single week. 10%? 25%? I guarantee it's a significant amount. That could be given back to the community but it's probably easier to just throw it in a landfill so that's what they do. no doubt that includes food as well as the clothing and other household goods. What a waste. Maybe people would be less tempted to take something that they needed or that would give them a little bit of pleasure if they knew there was somewhere else in the community they could go, such as a warehouse we're all excess inventory was dumped, and they could pick through and see what was available kind of like a second hand thrift store in a sense. Until retail establishment start doing that, until the massive waste in this country is redistributed in toward communities, I will not in any way feel wrongly about taking inanimate objects with me if I feel that's what I need to do. I think it's really unfortunate that story is willingly throw out tons of items that people would be incredibly grateful to have, not to mention how many thousands of pounds of food. Sadly in the United States waste is not considered a vice it's almost something that people want to do. Think of the scale of waste from chain stores. When I think of that I ask myself why? Why are we okay with this? If they have it to throw out then they shouldn't be grudge if somebody helps themselves to it while it's on the shelf I say. Why willingly waste so much? why should we waste all these wonderful useful items not to mention food? A necessity of life? Donate it instead of trashing it, that's all I ask.
How can any store call somebody a petty thief when they themselves voluntarily waste X percentage of their inventory for whatever reason? I have read that according to some estimates up to 40%, that's almost half of the food products that are on retail shelves will go to waste in this country. I hope that's not true but imagine if it is? Retail chains are not being responsible and that really bothers me because we have such a high levels of poverty in this country which I do not see as being necessary at all because we have more than enough to go around, and yet it seems as if the majority of our excess resources are being foolishly wasted instead of being redistributed in a beneficial manner. If they're so willing to waste then they shouldn't begrudge if somebody takes something with them. Otherwise why doesn't every store voluntarily make arrangements with their local community to give up whatever they voluntarily choose to no longer sell??
Anyway thanks for the information but I'm not yet convinced and I feel it necessary to verify those numbers you stated before just accepting them. Sorry.
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Good on him for fighting back. It's a lesson to all of us- we HAVE to fight your so-called government. There's nothing ethical and moral about them. They just claim a monopoly on force to use how they will and it's never for our benefit- it's either for a big business or in this case, a fairly big business based on windmills. All they need to be is big enough to pay large enough campaign donations and the local council will kill their own mother to give them what they want.
I mean I'm all for windmills but I see no reason why he should have to abdicate his land for them. Windmills are up in the sky, he's down on the ground.... I mean they could exist literally right next to each other. You can put a windmill literally up to his property line and I doubt he would mind. I don't see how his being there gets in the windmills way, first of all. Secondly did the women company even consider making him a cash offer in order to play some windmills on the parts of his property that he isn't planning on using very much?? Maybe they should just buy the portions of his property that he may decide he no longer wants or needs? But no much easier to just force them off right. Why do things the RIGHT way when you could just as easily ruin someone's life out of pure spite and love of evil?????? Clearly they wanted to do things the evil way when the right way would actually have been much easier and possibly cheaper for them in the the long run. The natural evil, criminality, nastiness, and savagery of government persons and bigger business bosses never ceases to amaze me.
This whole saga was insane, unnecessarily cruel, and criminal and I'm sure there will be no real consequences to those council members. Perhaps they won't be re-elected but that'll be about it. When it's convenient for them I'm sure they'll try it again to the next guy who may not have the willingness or the resolve to fight back feeling it's hopeless, which almost never is. ALWAYS ALWAYS FIGHT BIG BROTHER- ALWAYS! THEY ARE JUST OTHER GANGSTERS WHO DON'T CARE IF YOU LIVE OR DIE. ALWAYS FIGHT. THIS MAN DID EXACTLY RIGHT! FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! GO DOWN FIGHTING IF YOU HAVE TO! BUT FIGHT! GOVERNMENT = EVIL. ALWAYS! THEY DON'T EXIST FOR US; THEY ARE HENCHMEN FOR BIG BUSINESS, ALWAYS!!!
They're just gangsters who clothe themselves in white gloves and business offices. Don't think for one second these monsters are any different, in fact in some cases they're much worse, than so-called street gangs or organized crime. How is this any less organized or less criminal than traditional "organized crime"? Seems plenty criminal and organized to me.
They have an unnecessary or harmful agenda that they're willing to use any level of necessary violence to achieve with no thought of the consequences of any innocent party harmed by such. Sounds just like the operation of a criminal enterprise to me.
There's another word for that, psychopathy. I mean at least they could have made him a cash offer equal to fair market value , or even above fair market value, for his property and all the buildings on it; they didn't even try that. They wanted this kind decent man to walk away with NOTHING, after he paid for the property, bought it legally and put his blood sweat and tears into the place. What absolute dog shit subhuman filth. Sadly his story is not unique. Land grabbing from single households and small communities via State monsters acting on behalf of big money interests is as old as time, and it's repeated all over the globe every day. It's because ultimately they have a traitorous psychopath army of brown shirts (police) that will do their will and what do we have? The courts which are frequently corrupt, bought off or rigged to the high heavens. Without a People's Army to defend our interests if push comes to shove, we are always at a massive disadvantage to government interests- always. And yet our tax dollars pay for those very same brown shirts, or in the US the Blue shirts, that would turn around and shoot us dead at a moment's notice. Ain't that a peach? So much do people love their slavery they spit out ignorant slogans like "back the blue" and "blue lives matter", I guess never noticing that those same Blue lives they're crawling on the ground for are virtually all psychopaths who wouldn't hesitate to harm or kill that person if a judge or a governor or a mayor told them to. Let push comes to shove and then these bootlicking slaves will see where the Blue shirts/Brown shirts' loyalty really lies.. and hint! It aint with us! Truer words were never spoken if I do say so myself.
I am very glad and gratified to see that this kind decent man won his rights which should have been respected from the get-go and he shows exactly what you need to do when targeted by government tyrants and criminals. Stand your ground, know that you've done nothing wrong and fight to the death.
I mean he wasn't doing anything wrong with the property, he bought it fair and square there isn't any gray area here. That should have been the end of it. The windmill company could have offered to buy a portion of his land but if he refused then that's it.
I appreciate that that judge was so humane and relatively decent with him. That's how you handle a situation like this, I only wish there were more like him, but I have a deplorable opinion on judges here. Typically here I found, they're just more psychopathic tyrants like these council persons. They're all cut from the same cloth I have found. But every once in a while one of conscience actually makes it onto the bench, amazingly.
Shame on the jury for treating him like a criminal and playing into the evil hands of these council filth. If they were the ones being targeted I think their tune would have changed fast.
Very very illuminating, ultimately inspirational and unfortunately necessary story.
Also can I just say that it is amazing that local jails in Britain have TVs inside the cell. And did he say a coffee maker as well? What the literal heck?!? Wow now that's a cell I'd like to be in good gosh. ALL cells should be like that, anywhere, well regarding the TV at least. That way if they confine you in your cell for extended periods of time you're not losing your mind. I'm sure I don't need to tell anyone that the conditions in jails and prisons stateside are barbaric, medieval and typically shameful. There are some places where inmates can have a TV inside their cell but it varies. In local county jails I've never seen that- you're limited to the one in the common room so if you're stuck inside your cell, justly or unjustly, you either need a book, a puzzle or good imagination. If you don't have either of those then the mental torture begins. Torture is what American authorities love to do to those trapped in the system so you know- it's by that way by design in almost all cases.
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Blue piracy is everywhere and nobody's stopping it. Politicians don't care because they can get out of it if it ever happens to them. Both parties only care about currying the Blue vote so they let them destroy us. They could make this shit illegal TOMORROW but they wont. These traitors continue to allow these monsters to commit rampant crime and abuse against a mostly unarmed public and not do a damn thing about it.
Think about that next time you're voting for someone, and hopefully you'll realize that NOBODY in either red or blue party gives a single solitary shit about YOU. They only care about getting the vote of the Pigs and taking big-money bribes and payoffs. That is ALL. If their lips are moving in public they are absolutely lying. They take their orders from the big corporate honchos who give them money and their party bosses, they are not there to serve the public- that is a quaint idea that never really existed. They're there to serve themselves at our expense, period.
The biggest, most prolific, most shameless criminal gang in America is the Blue Cartel. They know it,we know it. If they had a conscience they wouldn't do it and they don't care. Mayors won't stop it, governors won't stop it, state legislators won't stop it, so they feel completely bulletproof. Because Congress writes some disgusting immoral laws, such as claiming Pigs have the right to roam the streets, lie their ass off, and etc, Pigs can claim the existence of drugs when there's absolutely no proof and take everything someone has; and being a completely non-human psychopath, these pigs sleep extremely well at night after doing this. And so here we are.
So whenever anybody around you says blue lives matter show them videos like this and say really? Is this what you like? Because if blue lives matter, yours doesn't.. that's just something for a bootlicker to keep in mind because these people are criminals and evildoers they WILL kill you without a second thought, these people are monsters. They answer to no law, and they exist to commit crime and violence. Unless it happens to them, bootlickers will never wake up. It's gross. These people are masters cognitive dissonance. They're incapable of detaching them from their inner subservience and a lifetime of brainwashing.
Drugs are kept illegal so cops and other government officials can steal billions of dollars every year. If drugs weren't legal they would have no justification to steal from us. They would have no purpose for existing. They can't just stop us for no reason, well they do that, but without a zero-tolerance on drugs they have no flimsy justification to violate our rights add to stalk and pursue us and to engage in immoral stops and illegal violating searches.
The only reason mass incarceration and a blue cartel exists is because Congress claims they're trying to stop all drugs and drug use which is absolutely outrageous of course because everybody knows that's beyond impossible. You CANNOT prohibit people from using something that they want to use-they will always find a way, they found that out very quickly with alcohol prohibition in the 1930s. Contrary to what the monsters in Congress think, people are NOT just going to bend over and obey every time they open their mouth. But that won't stop these satanic demons from doing everything in their power to destroy us in order to force their will upon us. And this is Carrie. All down the line, from governors tomatoes refused to stop the lawless blue cartel from comedian organized crime in our municipalities and on our highways. Every single one of them is complicit in it. And this just goes to show how absolutely little, meaning nothing, they care about the public they claim to serve. They don't care that these pigs are out here committing crime and terrorism, these mayors and governors, they could care less. Mayors especially liked having a blue army at their command because this makes it easy to torment the local homeless population, and they use the jail and call racket to the maximum, which is a favorite activity of every mayor I've ever known.
Congress knows there's no way to possibly stop the trade and use of drugs, but but that doesn't stop them from trying. They couldn't subjugate millions of poor people and black people without it. They claim that they have the right to make drugs illegal even though I would say they don't at all because nobody has the right to tell another adult what they can and cannot do with their own body nor what kinds of consenting business or personal trade they can engage in. These are human rights that every human being has the right to choose for themselves. Any right that infringes on a person's human right to make their own personal life choices, to choose what to do with their own body and what kinds of business they choose to engage in is an immoral law and should be fought against without end.
Because Congress is an inherently criminal entity that exists to justify subjugation and grand theft, they have to come up with things to keep illegal to justify the blue cartel getting away with constant murder and billions of dollars of rampant theft every year. Congress doesn't care about anyone, they only care about subjugating people and keeping that permanent underclass, and mass incarceration is the way to do that. This comes with allowing Pigs to prowl the streets for no other reason but to detain drivers and violate all of their civil and human rights in order to try to generate mass arrests and thefts of money. It's organized crime. It's evil, but nobody stopping it. Psychopaths will never stop themselves so it's beholden upon others to stop evildoers from doing their evil. Clearly there's not a single human being of conscience in any public position in this country because nobody absolutely NOBODY is stopping the Blue Crime Family from operating all day and all night everywhere.
The greatest organized-crime racket in this country isn't some family with an Italian name, it's Street "police". They aren't there for safety, they're there to steal everything you HAVE and to try to funnel people into jail for usually very minor charges. Since bail exists in this country, and bail violates human rights, since arrests are profitized in this country, the incentive to make maximum arrests thereby generating millions of dollars in bail for counties all across the country, continues. Counties make huge money on profitized arrests that's why they maintained as largest police forces they can get away with. The jail, bail and court racket goes strong in this country in every single county. It's a racket and a tool of subjugation on the poor, nothing more.
It's organized crime that's all. All of it. The only reason drugs are illegal is to allow a massive organized crime committed by those in uniform, to justify mass arrests, it's ALL about money. It has nothing to do with safety. Some of its about racial hatred, some of it's about oppression, but most of it is about money.
Without creating and allowing an evil amoral psychopathic organized-crime racket from coast-to-coast, govts would not be able to arrest nearlybas many people and in the 1980s the goal was to arrest as many people as possible and lock them up for drugs, preferably black or brown. Why? Well certainly there was a lot of racism and hatred, but I think because people like Joe Biden and other key Congressional lawmakers are literally on the payroll of the Devil. I'm serious. These are people who hate humanity and they were sent here to do evil by an evil force, and they've done it very well. To this day Congress has refused to stop this, governors don't stop it and mayors dont stop it so no matter where we go, this massive organized crime cartel will follow.
So long as Blue Evil is allowed to flourish, because Blue demons are allowed to run the streets instead of being an emergency responder, we will keep being victims.
The most shameless and profligate criminals are those who were able to slime their way through the police academy, which is shockingly easy to do the US bec it's only four to six months and entrance standards are nonexistent.
Neither mainstream party is worth shit on a stick. They will NEVER help you and they WILL sell you out to the Blue pirates as easily as breathing.
They will never stop this evil. They either approve of it or they're indifferent to it. I don't know how to stop it honestly. So long as people keep paying paying their taxes, and mayors and city councils keep funding a localized police state that answers to no rules and is allowed to stalk our streets and highways for purposes of committing crime, this will continue to see this.
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@FallenAngelHiroko She wasn't doing anything wrong. Pigs should not be able to prowl the street looking for victims to extort and prey on. Why can't you see these DEGENERATES and criminals and savages for the monsters that they are???? If you like being tyrannized and stepped all over by government goons go ahead!! I DON'T and I'll be doing everything in my lifetime to defund these satanic mafia degenerate social menaces.
Don't worry. One day a Pig will go upside your head either literally or figuratively and then you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. This is an evil institution that grew out of the slavecatcher patrols out of the 1800s. Now they're just violent lawless thugs given a green light from local governments to terrorize and extort and steal from their local community because it's very profitable for the local coffers. If you don't want your civil liberties, that's fine be a bootlicking boot polish- loving submissive cuckslave. I choose LIBERTY. I oppose Pigs in whatever form they take. Their ONLY moral function is to respond to genuine emergency calls. NOT GANGSTALK, NOT BE A DOMESTIC TERRORIST AND NOT BE A GRAND LARCENIST!!!! (THAT MEANS THEIVERY. LARCENY MEANS THEIVERY IN CASE YOU DONT KNOW)
He stalked that woman in order to extort her. When she stood up for herself he attacked her physically. She had every right to try to avoid the situation. Why would you ever defend this kind of criminal menacing domestic terrorism??? just because he wasn't a screaming and yelling doesn't make it any more morally permissible.
He was being a thug and and a shameless criminal and you're trying to defend him. What a cuck you are. You want to be a slave go ahead- I sure don't.
If you support Street police you support a lawless evil gang who is completely above the law and feels they can prey on you in any physical or tangible means that they so choose. Now if you don't want to have human and civil rights you go right ahead. Personally I think you're batshit crazy. Why would you want to live under a roving gang of evildoers and looters who feels entitled to do anything to you up to including kill you if you look at them the wrong way? But if somebody does it with a magic suit and a little tin badge you fall over yourself defending them. ????? Why would you defend these monsters??? They have no soul. They have no conscience. They have zero respect for human life or human rights or human dignity. They even shoot animals. Their evil is so infinite that they shoot animals, helpless animals- people's dogs sitting peacefully in the front yard. They shoot them simply for barking at them because they've never seen them before and they're doing what any dog would do based on their natural instincts. Look up the stats "dogs killed by police" in any given year. It's truly stunning. These people are raging psychopaths who should be put behind bars for ALL of our safety - yet you're here defending them. I don't understand that. Has the lifelong media copaganda been THAT effective on you? I guess the answer is yes.
They would shoot you without a second thought if they felt like it. You're talking about psychopaths and predators here and you're acting like they're the good guys WHEN THEY MOST CERTAINLY ARE NOT (for proof look up literally ANY incident that included for the last United States), and according to you there's something wrong with ME for wanting to oppose them. How do you square that with yourself and with logic?
You want to be preyed upon by a bunch of uneducated, knuckle dragging criminal psychopaths and savages? Guess so. Well you do that. I think you've lost your goddamn mind. Why ANYONE would support these amoral criminal psychopaths is beyond me. They deserve NOTHING but a pink slip or jail cell or a bullet and a grave. You have taken their cock straight up your ass so far it's touching your back teeth haven't you??
Amazing. Keep on slithering on the ground like a dog and choking on that boot. Tell me how that goes for you. There are no slaves so opposed to liberation as those who love their subjugation and their masters.
You bootlickers prove that every single day to the Nth degree. It's quite unfortunate. You should want freedom from ALL evil and ALL forms of lawlessness. But you don't seem to mind when the evil and criminality is carried out by subhumans with a badges. Interesting that. You don't recognize evil when it's carried out by the State. Why is that, I wonder?? That's sad, yet unfortunately not uncommon. You really do love being a submissive cu_k don't you? If you really don't, you'll consider everything I've had to say here today. NOBODY has the right to exploit, extort, violate, harm, walk all over, terrorize, steal from, oppress, brutalize, or randomly kill another, and if you think the State has the right to do that, then no I can't liberate you.
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@TheGregEgg ok Pig-lover. Not even close but keep on justifying senseless brutality. We can see your mind is fully colonized by these savages. Keep on justifying predatory violence, one of these days it'll hit home and just remember when it does, you're the one that claimed there was nothing wrong with it all along.
You submissive sadism-justifying betches are something else. Never seen people justify their own chains so hard. You REALLY love violence dished out by the State don't you? And would you continue to defend it if you yourself were the target??? If you can't stick up for your fellow citizens' basic human rights against unaccountable State violence and thuggery then what kind of a citizen are you? I don't want ANY of my fellow citizens subjected to this kind of treatment from anybody, State-employed or otherwise. Why do you? Don't you have any basic empathy for your fellow citizens? After all you're not the only person out here. You should care a little something for others in this society that you live in.
You should be ashamed of yourself for justifying this kind of treatment. You have the wrong attitude. But keep on bootlicking. You can write the book on how to be a first-rate cu_k for the rest of us, okay?? Maybe one day these Blue gangster-filth will shove it right up your 🍑 with great force and then I guess you'll really be grateful.
You people are unwell and I do feel sorry for you. You love your chains and are unwell enough to imply that there's something wrong with me for wanting to grant you basic awareness so you can free yourself from them. Interesting. Quite the phenomenon, and not the first time I've seen it either.
God jesus fuck, why you people continue to support rampant Blue tyranny and lawlessness and oppression in this country with the kind of slavish devotion only people who are born into slavery know is something I can never understand.
Copaganda is so powerful in this bootlicking crazy 🐖-worshipping country, and I honestlydon't know why. But it is absolutely no accident that we have the largest prison population in the entire world by many orders of magnitude, and why pigs are never held accountable when they should be rightly executed or put behind bars. There is a very strange mental sickness that pervades the US and it's like the Jonestown Kool-Aid but even more effective. You people love being brutalized and robbed, and you don't seem to have a problem with it happening to others either. Utterly bizarre. I'll NEVER be able to relate to that kind of desire to be a victim, or to see others be victims of such clearly criminal bullying behavior. why in the world would you ever justify such behavior? Absolutely bizarre just bizarre.
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@tsbrownie this is why laws are so fkg necessary, and grossly, so far we haven't been able to get them. These FILTH will never do the right thing. Their greed is beyond anything and they will NEVER serve anyone but themselves. The predatory sociopathy is stunning. What's gross is that we can't get decent people elected who will curtail this.
Mass poverty, limited means and insecurities exist the world over for one main reason, an owner or executive class at the top that refuses to pay anything but asshole lint to the vast majority of their employees / producers / workers. Even for those with higher skills and education are affected by this.
Without iron fist laws that recognize that all workers are firstly, HUMAN, and secondly, as a group and individually,
equal to if not superior to ANYONE in that c-suite, nothing will change! It's been a fight since the dawn of the industrial age if not before. Even many educated workers are not getting paid their due- just look around, proof it's not hard to find. Prophets, labor value, and wages have been stolen for generation upon generation in this country and it's going on right now to most of us because the people who set the wage level (employers, companies) do not care, are selfish, and have huge personal greed and self-interest to satisfy first. So when laws don't step in to curtail this, we get what we have now- 80% of the world's population (hell maybe more) being cheated out of a fair return of their labor efforts.
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@tsbrownie I don't know what the hell I always say that triggers the censorbot but it's a real shame because I feel these conversations are important. One of us is going to get elected to public office one of these days and push for changes. In the meantime it's important to try to have these conversations so other people can understand WHY it's wrong to belittle, take advantage of, exploit, abuse, dehumanize and/or underpay workers of all stripes, all backgrounds, ALL educational levels. The fact that predatory business practices have been normalized in our culture for so long is one of the greatest sins of this entire country's existence.
Using or abusing a given business's workforce are social evils that need to end. Should have ended a long time ago. Using or exploiting someone else for personal gain is wrong, especially in the workplace, and it should never be legally sanctioned.
Everyone has a right to be happy where they work, to be treated well, to have positive working conditions, to receive all possible safety measures, and to be rewarded properly for the effort they provide.
Another problem- a lot of companies are not set up to receive and consider input from all employees. The middle and lower ranks might have many valuable ideas all day long but if they don't feel empowered to pass them on, what good is that? It's true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link- and leadership should not be afraid to consider act on ideas from anyone- all while giving proper credit where it's due. In most operations only the executive board gets to make major decisions, rarely hearing from or considering what the lower ranks have to say. I don't think this works very well, and I don't agree with it. For one, if there is a decision that affects everyone, shouldn't everyone, at least those above a certain level, get a vote?
There's got to be a better way where everyone in the company feels open to giving their suggestions or requests through the proper channels with at least some assurance they will be considered by an appropriate person.
In many cases when there is a suggestion box or feedback system in place it's more performative than actual. It would be nice to change this. With humane and respectable people at the helm, it can.
In larger companies it's rare to have a workforce or employee representative on the governing board as is the law in Germany. That should be the law HERE. Who's going to stick up for the workforce's interests better than themselves? Can't count on higher management, they may or may not care or have any awareness. There are extremely moral and ethical ways to run a business, from small to super size, but without hard and fast laws I don't see how we're going to get there. If most businesses were capable of caring about their employees and their in-company practices I would think they would be doing it already. I am sure a few do but it seems to me that most do not.
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When you outlaw non-prescription drugs you also outlaw nature, which is outrageous. I suppose these people are such psychopaths that the only group they want able to access natural substances are Pharma Bros. Well shouldn't everyone have access to it!?!?!
Cannabis, mushrooms, the natural coca leaf, all the hallucinogens, these are all NATURAL substances that are minimally processed from harvest to use. They were ALL put here by God or nature for our use and benefit.
Now these sick filthy fascist psychopaths who seem to be the only type who ever get office in this country are going after kratom. KRATOM, AN HERB. A GROUND-UP HERB FROM ASIA. Kratom has some therapeutic properties but it's basically akin to a dietary supplement. There have been states where they have already banned it because they've claimed it was dangerous. These monsters will just never stop will they????? These people are out of control. They act like our bodies belong to THEM! I mean really, how dare anybody tell another adult what they can and cannot do within their own body and how they're allowed to relax? Disgusting.
And here's the kicker –even if once thought government should Institute a total, no-exception 1984 style ban on all non-prescription drugs- has it been effective? Well it depends in what way- it's certainly been effective in creating the world's largest prison and subjugation State. It's certainly been effective in facilitating the largest organized crime racket from Coast-to-Coast and sea to shining sea, the Blue crime racket. So guessing those whose it's been devastatingly effective, but hasn't actually been effective in stopping or slowing that use or flow of drugs one iota? No it hasnt. Not at all.
I tell you what- every single person in big brother needs to burn in hell. With very few exceptions, what I choose to use or sell to other consenting adult buyers is of absolutely NO business of anyone else!!!!!
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The fact you oppose direct democracy is revolting and shameful.
You think there should be a ruling class answerable to no one. What kind of psychopath wants this??
The fact you think those in positions of so-called influence or power have the right to do whatever they want to do, no matter how amoral or vile, and that we shouldn't be able to stop them, nor have majority rule, means that you got some SERIOUS brain rot going on.
The fact is, "govt" in this shithole tenth-world country is nothing but a non-stop exercise in abuse, grand larceny and evil. It has become nothing but an excuse to violate the innate rights of others 24/7 and to impose tyranny and the constant exercise of sadism for sport.
It's just an excuse for psychopaths at all levels to get away with brazen crime and violence against the rest of us, all while taking non-stop bribes from their filthy .01% buddies at the top. It's evil and rotten to the core. And you say this is good.
Are you sick???
A bare bones version of "govt" may be necessary just so people have somewhere to go if they feel they have been harmed, ie a police station or the courts, but as our cops rarely care about actually doing any work, a victim it's just as likely to be abandoned and shown the door if they go down to the police station with an allegation. Happens all the time. And they really don't seem to care about rape victims as tens of thousands of rape kits lie intentionally untested all across America. So if you think the police are good people, you need to look again, now. They aren't. The psychopaths, killers, people wholly without conscience. They don't want to help, they want to harm, they want to steal, or they really just want somewhere they can sit on their ass for 20 years and do absolutely nothing and then collect a pension for the rest of their life. They're FILTH.
The politicians in this country are about as inhuman and psychopathic as you can get. They arw bought-and-paid-for 100% and the policies they craft are sadistic and cruel to the Maximum. The entire governmental apparatus in this country exists is for one reason only- to crush, to destroy, and to steal billions from American citizens and funnel it directly into politicians and cops' pockets. And they do- very very much so.
You think I'm exaggerating, I'm not. Educate yourself. You'll be shocked. "govmint" in in this country is more brutal and more sadistic and more inherently evil than the most violent organized crime syndicate out there.
The fact you think we should all live on our knees under all this evil and like it is sick. What is your absolute malfunction??
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@ARepublicIfYouCanKeepIt Im down with Russia but it's ok if you're not. Western MSM propaganda is everywhere. I'm on the far Left, so I stand apart from all that.
In fact, you must look what Rosatom is doing. Are you aware of them? Incredible work! I didn't know who they were until last week. Now I'm blown away.
Yes Yucca Mountain! I remember that too. I live here in CA. So silly. That is an ideal location. Unless it's on a reservation, there is no good reason not to proceed that I'm aware of. I don't know how to prove to people that it is safe other than to constantly repeat the facts.
They recently decommissioned San Onofre. I don't know why and I've been too busy to look it up. Do you know? Seems foolish and unnecessary.
This is one area where the public just doesn't understand the facts. I'm not pulling this out of my ass, I've done a lot of lay research. Plants are safe and worth it. Storage casks are safe!!! They are nearly indestructible. I've seen the test footage. Much more so than people realize.
There are even deeper earth repositories to be found than Yucca Mountain. I am sure somewhere in the US we can find a suitable location. Apparently there are several being debated in Canada.
Carter meant well I'm sure but was mistaken. We should start full reprocessing of all fuel stores now.
I'm all for omni-rule, but this is one area that people are just getting wrong, but it just stems from misinformation. Hopefully people will come to realize in time that every nuke plant is not Chernobyl, and safe storage can be achieved.
Nuclear energy is the future and it is far safer overall than any other fuel source. Between reprocessing and deep earth storage, waste is a mostly a non-issue.
Initial costs are high, but so what?? Government funding should and can be given to help offset those. Whatever it costs the point is, it's worth it. Once up and running, plants can last for 50-100 years if properly managed. Nothing is free to start - costs are always high at first, then over time costs drift down. It's the same with any large infrastructure.
All renewables are valuable and important, but clean nuclear can run 24/7 and isn't dependant on battery storage. Plus it uses cool science and provides good jobs, lol.
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@ARepublicIfYouCanKeepIt oh snap. Well thanks for going on ahead. I trained on a fun sub in Charleston SC in '99 that they retrofitted for training. Closest I ever got to a sub after that lol. But they are neat machines, I was fascinated by their systems, and the guys from the sub fleet always seemed like very good guys. I was on the opposite - two carriers. One old, the cvn65, and one brand new, the cvn76. In your day the Enterprise wasn't all that old, but by mine it was a trip. Lots of issues, but it was ok. It had a lot of character - that's what I liked about it, even if the plant layout was complex and the age was causing a lot to go wrong.
They should have turned it into a museum after its decom in '13, but they didn't, to my knowledge, which was just wrong. It was a unique bird, and deffo should be preserved.
Carriers seem huge at first but after a while they start to feel not all that big. You get used to moving around it quickly.
I've often thought how I might enjoy the intimate feel of a small craft. I might have like them a bit better, but never got to find out, heh.
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@lukazupie7220 for one you don't know anything about me. Two, I'm glad you could live frugally and I do know all about that. I've been doing that most of my life. Perhaps costs of living are much cheaper where you live here in the US, I'm sure they are.
I'll reiterate this to you again. In a small number of cases I'm sure people are choosing to live above their means or are not making smart choices with their money, HOWEVER, based on my life experience, my opinion, and all the information I've gathered to date, I do not believe this is the main reason why material conditions for many people where I live are getting worse. Again- this is a broad generalization. Some people are doing just fine, others are doing very well- there's always going to be a mixture of experiences. However, I live here, so you don't have to tell me how it is just as I wouldn't presume to tell you what the average experience is where you live. More and more people here are falling through the cracks or just barely managing to get by- I'm one of them and it has nothing to do with poor spending habits. I've got excellent spending habits and I've always been smart with my money. The politicians here are trash in both both mainstream parties. Covid was handled horribly and probably worse than any other place on the planet, which we have no excuse for as supposedly the resources here are among the best in the world- yeah we couldn't stop over 1M from dying from it due to lack of a capable national healthcare service and stupidity from certain groups. The amount of financial assistance provided to those affected by the disease was minimal and pathetic.
Look with enough determination and resolve a person can overcome just about anything. But you can take it from me and you don't have to only believe me, check around, the truth is that American public policy exists to serve the desires of the filthy rich and the financial elites from banking and big business. It can be a struggle even for middle-class homeowners sometimes to maintain what they have (again I could go into all the details why but that's really not necessary right now).
There are 1000 other causes for poverty and insecurity in the US that stem directly from laws and public policy as drafted by politicians who are 100% in service (paid for by generous campaign donations AKA bribes and promises of future favor) to very wealthy interests here that I could go into, but it's not really necessary. I do know what I'm talking about that's all that matters.
I can see I'm not going to change your mind but again it's just common sense. Sure, there's always an element of personal responsibility to any situation we face in life but you have to ask yourself, what is the systemic broad overarching cause of the issue that we are discussing here? And I'm trying to tell you that at least where I live, its government policy and how it doesn't serve the vast majority of us who live here. I can't speak to where you live, maybe everything's perfect by you. All I know is my experience with this general region. It's very simple. In the US government serves the big Banks and big business and nobody else. Occasionally they throw the common person a very tiny crumb but that's about it. Those of us with brains have a problem with this. It really isn't that hard to change but it's very hard getting different and better people into public office to push for those changes here, for a few reasons. That is the ongoing difficulty that those of us who have these opinions face. It shouldn't be that hard, "change public policy", but it's a lot harder than it looks. There are many many barriers here for an outsider people-first candidate to get into office. In the meantime, public voting via public ballot measures do happen every 1-4 years and can help to an extent.
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@lukazupie7220 @lukazupie7220 for one you don't know anything about me. Two, I'm glad you could live frugally and I do know all about that. I've been doing that most of my life. Perhaps costs of living are much cheaper where you live here in the US, I'm sure they are.
I'll reiterate this to you again. In a small number of cases I'm sure people are choosing to live above their means or are not making smart choices with their money, HOWEVER, based on my life experience, my opinion, and all the information I've gathered to date, I do not believe this is the main reason why material conditions for many people where I live are getting worse. Again- this is a broad generalization. Some people are doing just fine, others are doing very well- there's always going to be a mixture of experiences. However, I live here, so you don't have to tell me how it is just as I wouldn't presume to tell you what the average experience is where you live. More and more people here are falling through the cracks or just barely managing to get by- I'm one of them and it has nothing to do with poor spending habits. I've got excellent spending habits and I've always been smart with my money. The politicians here are trash in both both mainstream parties. Covid was handled horribly and probably worse than any other place on the planet, which we have no excuse for as supposedly the resources here are among the best in the world- yeah we couldn't stop over 1M from dying from it due to lack of a capable national healthcare service and stupidity from certain groups. The amount of financial assistance provided to those affected by the disease was minimal and pathetic.
Look with enough determination and resolve a person can overcome just about anything. But you can take it from me and you don't have to only believe me, check around, the truth is that American public policy exists to serve the desires of the filthy rich and the financial elites from banking and big business. It can be a struggle even for middle-class homeowners sometimes to maintain what they have (again I could go into all the details why but that's really not necessary right now).
There are 1000 other causes for poverty and insecurity in the US that stem directly from laws and public policy as drafted by politicians who are 100% in service (paid for by generous campaign donations AKA bribes and promises of future favor) to very wealthy interests here that I could go into, but it's not really necessary. I do know what I'm talking about that's all that matters.
I can see I'm not going to change your mind but again it's just common sense. Sure, there's always an element of personal responsibility to any situation we face in life but you have to ask yourself, what is the systemic broad overarching cause of the issue that we are discussing here? And I'm trying to tell you that at least where I live, its government policy and how it doesn't serve the vast majority of us who live here. I can't speak to where you live, maybe everything's perfect by you. All I know is my experience with this general region. It's very simple. In the US government serves the big Banks and big business and nobody else. Occasionally they throw the common person a very tiny crumb but that's about it. Those of us with brains have a problem with this. It really isn't that hard to change but it's very hard getting different and better people into public office to push for those changes here, for a few reasons. That is the ongoing difficulty that those of us who have these opinions face. It shouldn't be that hard, "change public policy", but it's a lot harder than it looks. There are many many barriers here for an outsider people-first candidate to get into office. In the meantime, public voting via public ballot measures do happen every 1-4 years and can help to an extent.
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@solobabyface what kind of satanic lawyer tries to destroy a man's life JUST BECAUSE THEY COULD?!
IT IS THE DAs WHO SHOULD BE ROTTING IN PRISON FOR THE NEXT 100 YEARS, NOT THIS MAN. THEY ARE SOCIOPATHS WHO GOT "ANGRY" BEC THE MAN DIDNT TAKE THEIR PLEA DEAL. HE DIDNT FEEL HE DESERVED IT; THAT IS HIS RIGHT!!!
IT IS WELL KNOWN THE DAs IN THE US ARE ABSOLUTE PSYCHOPATHS WHO WOULD JOYFULLY TURN A BLIND EYE TO AN OBVIOUS FIRST OR SECOND DEGREE MURDER BY ANYONE WHO CARRIES A BADGE (THEIR GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD), BUY WILL TURN THEMSELVES INTO PRETZELS TO DESTROY SOMEONE THAT THEY KNOW, THEY ACTUALLY KNOW, IS INNOCENT- OR TO GIVE SOMEONE A GROSSLY EXCESSIVE SENTENCE FOR THE ACT THE DEFENDANT WAS CHARGED WITH. HOW THESE SATAN-LOVING CRIMINALS CAN SLEEP AT NIGHT IS BEYOND ME! THEY WANT TO PUT PEOPLE AS MANY PEOPLE IN CAGES AND DESTROY AS MANY HUMAN LIVES AND POTENTIAL AS THEY CAN- THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT JUSTICE OR GUILT OR INNOCENCE, OR THE VICTIMS, PFFFT!! ARE YOU KIDDING!? THEY JUST WANT TO DESTROY! THEY KNOW HOW TO MANIPULATE JURIES AND THEY DO IT ALL THE TIME. THEY ARE MONSTERS, PLAIN AND SIMPLE, WORKING ON THE DEVIL'S BUSINESS TO DESTROY HUMAN LIFE AND THEY ARE VERY, VERY GOOD AT IT!
THEY PUT DOZENS ON CHARGES ON THIS MAN TO UTTERLY DESTROY HIM ON PURPOSE!
MALICIOUS PROSECUTION IS SUPPOSED TO BE AGAINST THE LAW AND THIS IS AS MALICIOUS AS IT GETS!!!
EVEN IF YOU FEEL HE BORE ANY CULPABILITY (HE DID NOT), HE DOESN'T DESERVE TO LOSE HIS LIFE! ISN'T IT FUNNY HOW THIS JURY WAS NOT INFORMED WHY SO MANY CHARGES WERE BROUGHT AND THAT THEY WOULD BE ASSIGNED MANDATORILY CONSECUTIVELY???? NOW I WONDER WHY A SATAN-LOVING DA TEAM WOULDN'T WANT A JURY TO KNOW THIS, HUH!!!! LETS THINK!!! BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT NO JURY MEMBER WITH ANY CONSCIENCE WOULD VOTE TO CONVICT UNDER SUCH UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND IMMORAL CONDITIONS!!
THE GOVT IS SUPPOSED TO PREVENT CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT!!! EVEN THE FOUNDERS SPOKE OUT AGAINST IT! EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS SENTENCE AND ALL OTHERS LIKE IT ARE PHENOMENALLY CRUEL AND SADLY, BECOMING LESS UNUSUAL AND IF YOU SUPPORT THIS SENTENCE AND ANY OTHER UNJUST PERVERSION OF JUSTICE YOU ARE SICK!!!! AND YOU PISS ON THE IDEALS OF JUSTICE!!!! SHAME ON YOU, YOU LYNCHING VINDICTIVE HATEFUL RACIST PRICK.
I will respond to the rest of your statements in an upcoming comment in a moment.
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It absolutely sickens me to see the types of Alzheimer's brain rot brain worm victims that carried out there policies that we're all still reeling from today. What is WITH the appetite for pure destruction these insane fools once had? Some of these attitudes STILL persist today, and are as resistant to removal and expungement as a malignant tumor. These types of knee-jerk "convenient" projects ARE tumors!
How can the same insane attitude towards public development still persist after so many decades? While maybe not as extensive as before, there are still road and highway expansion projects that in some cases will necessitate the destruction of dozens of functional buildings or hundreds of residential units. It's one thing to build a lasting sports stadium, although for people like me it's a debatable trade-off, but at least that provides a permanent positive community fixture once completed, but many if not all of these slated road projects are set for locations that are already functioning perfectly well 99% if not all the time! Normally I support public infrastructure projects but again the devil is in the details.
If it comes with needed destruction of community then I would almost always oppose it unless it was an extreme unique situation that just couldn't to be done any other way... and I'm not sure I've ever yet seen that.
I've watched a few videos of such proposed projects as well as just having some knowledge, and it's like JESUS- the brain worm is still with us! I don't know how much bleach or chemotherapy it's going to take to eradicate this unusual and malignant form brain cancer, for now it seems unkillable.
Remember friends- Paradise is just one lane, one bulldozed residential area away!! We'll ALL reach nirvana after the next one- we just need one more, I promise!! Just One More!!
When politicians are just hired worthless hacks who are basically programmable slave circuit robot zombies mindlessly enacting the will of their corporate and industrial overlords, then you whatever comes next is going to be bad.
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@slevinchannel7589 on my previous awesome accounts that were sliced and diced into non-existence thanks to the sick bastards at YT for reasons unknown and never explained to me, I used to watch those channels all the time. Truly interesting, entertaining and funny stuff on those. Unbelievable what YT would just destroy in a moment, with no fucking warning or chance to undo it. I had subs to all of them plus all kinds of others and some incredible playlists and saved videos. All that data, now gone forever. I'll never remember it.... Years of exploring, gone just like that. istg, what the wretched slobs at google have done to YT since 2018 is simply deplorable, and I know I'm not the only one who's been a victim to it. Shame on those people, just shame on them.
It's not the ads or the tighter control over the comments that I mind, altho the latter is way out of control, the way they can just destroy an entire account that in my case I've had for years, that contained nothing but positive or inoffensive content on it, even as I begged them not to, over a SINGLE comment that supposedly violated the new terms of use is just appalling. Anyhow thanks for the reminder about those channels, it reminds me of those previous accounts that I had as recently as literally earlier this year, and the one that I had from '18-'20 that I a lot of those skeptic channels subbed on. I'll add them again now, and I'm sure they have cool new material, but it sure won't be the same. The last time I enjoyed them it was pre-covid and pre- all my painstakingly assembled accounts being killed by some snot nose desk jockey.
DarkMatter25 is a great one too if you haven't seen it yet. Very funny. Theres a few others on the same or similar subject matter I would suggest but I can't remember their names now unfortunately.
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Great rundown.
The bottom line is, we can have a government for the greedy, unsympathetic, grasping, self-serving, 1% elite (as the US and to a growing extent the UK is now), or we can have a government that ensures a strong standard of living for every man, woman, and child within any given polity and puts their needs first and foremost. Big Greed vs The People. The first is conservatism and liberalism; the second is Leftism, Marxism, Socialism, or Communism. You choose. I know which I'll be fighting for.
The public good versus elite grasping private greed.
I mean the US federal govt gives hundreds of billions of free gravy welfare away in pure HANDOUTS aka "subsidies" to Wall Street and big corporations every year, plus 1T for world domination, world violence, and mass death. I THINK if we can afford that you we afford to take care of our citizens as well.
FUNNY HOW NOBODY EVER CRIES ABOUT "HOW WE GONNA PAY FOR IT" WHEN IT COMES TO MASS HANDOUTS FOR THE RICH OR THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX BUT ONLY FOR SOCIAL SPENDING AND ANTIPOVERTY PROGRAMS. COINCIDENCE!?? I THINK NOT.
If we MUST have the guns (we don't but let's say we do) then where is the butter??? We CAN do both. ("Guns vs butter debate")
And I'm not even saying we can't have a private sector, we can, it just needs to be properly controlled via proper regulations and wise policy.
We either declare basic lack and poverty unnecessary and something to be considered morally unacceptable, or we don't. I say no, and that's why I'm a bleeding fucking Communist, because I believe that everyone deserves a good standard of living and this is easily doable right now with our current technology and logistics.
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@bensantos3882 CTFU you brainwashed, shucking and jiving Uncle T o m. Just stop. You should be ashamed of yourself. WE HAVE ORDER, EVERY FUCKING DAY. GO OUTSIDE, RIGHT NOW. WHAT DO YOU SEE?? ORDER AND NORMALCY, RIGHT?? BUT WHEN THE VILE LAWLESS OCCUPYING GANGSTER CRIMINALS, AKA PIGS, WHO PROWL OUR STREETS LOOKING FOR WHO TO MURDER, EXTORT AND BRUTALIZE; INEVITABLY KILL AGAIN AGAINST A WHOLLY UNARMED AND NON-VIOLENT, NON-THREAT SO-CALLED "SUSPECT", RAGE ERUPTS, AS IT WELL SHOULD. IF POLICE DIDNT EXIST OR FUNCTION AS THEY DO, IF THEY WOULD STOP COMMITTING EVIL CRIMES AND GROSS MISCONDUCT, THE PROTESTS AND AGITATION WOULD DISAPPEAR!!! NO JUSTICE- NO PEACE! THAT'S HOW IT WORKS!!!
YOU'RE ALL OVER CONFUSING CAUSE AND EFFECT LIKE ALL YOU MENTALLY COLONIZED BOOTLICKERS DO. SAD.
Suck up to Whitey more, you pathethic slave. Maybe he'll let you work in this house this time. 🤮
YOU MAKE ME SICK. YOU ARE A SELF-HATING RACE TRAITOR AND SHOULD GO ASK YOURSELF WHY YOU'RE SO DESPERATE TO LICK PIGS' AND WHITEY'S BOOT.
Sad just sad.
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Why should anyone be locked up for using drugs??
We don't demonize alcoholics why do we demonize drug users???
I'm never understand why drugs came to be the big demon in this country... well actually I do know why. They couldn't subjugate thousands and thousands of poor people and POC without it. They could never sustain mass incarceration without it. It's literally the ONLY way we could have this satanic police-state we have now. It's the only way they could destroy thousands of lives with relatively little effort. Don't you see the only reason exists to subjugate millions of people, esp POC? If you don't see that as it's true agenda then you're just not looking close enough.
Drug addiction is unfortunate but that's why treatment exists. Nobody should be locked up for selling drugs to freewill buyers who choose to use. ITS THEIR BODY. Unless you want to bring back slavery, the government has no right to tell you how to use your own body and what you can and cannot consume. I mean it's just not a crime, I just don't know what else to say. It's a free will choice, nobody's forcing anyone to get involved who doesn't want to, I mean that's all there is to it.
Drugs are the only weapon this satanic Big Brother has against us to come in, steal everything we have and destroy our entire communities. It's truly mind-boggling what they've been able to get away with it these last 40 to 50-odd years.
Literally without trying to hunt down drugs Big Brother would have NO power to steal and destroy. And that is something they cannot live with. Our government is a satanic entity with only one goal- to steal and destroy as it wishes. I mean they have successfully demonized one of god's most precious plants ffs .... People are so weak-minded they still got people out here today believing there's something harmful about cannabis, that's how successful the last 50-years of rampant Uncle Sam shameless lies have been.
We with live free or we remain slaves for the rest of our lives. With mass incarceration as Slavery 2.0, we are STILL not free and that goes for poor white people as well, and it's only getting worse. Local, state, and federal agencies, local PDs, and various courts are full of those who want to control us and destroy people for fun. It's a sport to them. They have no respect and they have no conscience. This is all a fun day at the office for them.
I'm a libertarian and semi-anarchist and I think people should live free with as little government interference on the individual and community as possible. We REALLY don't need government in our lives at ALL other than to provide the bare minimum of a court system for us to report a genuine act of violence against us if it happens (and a few other limited functions). Just think about that. The more you expect some outside authority to be your Nanny/mommy and daddy the more they will continually take more power and easily abuse you with it.
I'm not saying let's have zero government at all, that's just not realistic and even if it was it wouldn't happen here because there are too many damn power-hungry predators here, but definitely I would wish to see a much much MUCH smaller boot than we have now, in fact really a non-existent boot. If we need help from the government that's something WE should be initiating, not the reverse. I don't believe the State has the right to initiate Force, for ANY reason other than rescue of human life.
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@LanaLion517 sounds like the RF decision-makers are doing everything in their power to prevent loss of life especially civilian loss of life and to end this conflict without any further bloodshed or property damage. Zielinski should wise up. It is obvious no Western power is going to come to his aid, certainly not the US, so what does he have to gain by putting out an order for any of his ground forces to continue? He's either being real stupid or naive. I don't know which. They're not going to be able to win this conflict, that should have been obvious before it even started. And if it wasn't then, it sure is heck should be now. Looks like Putin has effectively proved his point so far. And all they wanted was simple neutrality and meeting them halfway on his security concerns; that's all zielinsky had to do from the beginning. But instead he would rather be the tool of the West, well mainly just the US cuz I don't think the EU was trying to provoke this the way the US did. I would hope they have better things to do.
The US is agenda was always to go after Russia, or I should say our State Department does. And of course they're more than happy to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian. At this point if Zelensky has any brains at all he will cut his losses and agree to end the conflict and sit down at the negotiating table with Putin which is what Putin asked him months and months ago. But I've also heard that zelinsky is just a figurehead at this point and that the actual military orders are coming from the Azovs and other Nazi-like elements within the military structure and elsewhere in his government, and that they're the ones who are setting the agenda and basically telling Zelinsky what to do and say at this point.
Bottom line, if the Azovs want to sacrifice themselves in a fruitless continuation of this conflict with the RF, they can do so, but they have no right to trap others inside with them whether they be other Ukrainian non-nazi average military soldiers or any of the local civilians. Guess they were foolish enough to think that their puppet president in Kiev was going to somehow be able to get NATO forces to come to their aid, not realizing that the rest of Europe has no intention of being drawn into this regional conflict and that the US is only using their fanaticism and brutality and their penchant for violence as a useful pawn as part of a much larger strategy of continuing aggressive provocational moves against Russia. In short, the US was just using them, as they use everybody, and they're foolish to count on it. And now knowing that they have a decision to make- fight to the death or try to come out of this alive. Guess the choices up to them.
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You're right. Starting from first contact when European settlers first came to North America, it wasn't always physical attacks or forced to displacement that were responsible for taking the lives of the majority of Native people, it was the unintentional transference of disease, as I'm sure you know, which the Native people had no immunity to. Statistics say up to 90% of Eastern tribes within the first 150 years died as a result of contact with European diseases. I'm sure in some cases it was less but those are the figures that I always remember reading.
Similar thing happened in South america. There was certainly violence on both sides, but I believe it was disease far more than any other that was responsible for decimating the South American indigenous populations. If it wasn't for that, I doubt the Spanish conquistadors would have prevailed anywhere. They were so grossly outnumbered, eventually they all would have been killed, even with some disaffected indigenous populations choosing to side with the Spanish. Eventually a few hundred or a few thousand Spanish troops would have been driven off or killed by the coordinated attacks of the Native South Americans, were it not for the invisible microbes that did their deadly work with unprecedented efficiency.
The Black Plague in the 1300s apparently made surviving Europeans quite resistant to infectious disease. Sadly 200 to 400 years later, the Indigenous in the new world would have no such resistance.
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I'm glad to hear this bec the Taliban are a cancer that should have been excised 15 years ago, but nobody at the top of the food chain saw this happening the moment we left huh???
And what about all the troops that were ordered to sneak out in the middle of the night and didn't have the decency to tell the puppet government in Kabul they were leaving???? Rather dishonorable conduct I'd say. Don't we think they had a right to know US forces and their human firewalls were leaving and they would soon be overrun by 1000s of islamofascist barbarians??? Seems like something they might want to know. They literally had no idea and had to find out from local Afghan forces. I mean WTF RIGHT???
OMG WE ARE SUCH FUCKING CRIMINALS OMFFG. How do you justify purposefully not notifying the people in the nation who you know, we've just been OCCUPYING for the last two decades. But I know the Taliban sure knew! Hell, after the waste of 1000s of young American lives ended FOREVER and 4T of public money, I have no doubt that that AMORAL RAT FUCKER Dump made a DEAL with these savages when they sat down and broke bread together at Camp fucking DAVID!!!
If that's not the ULTIMATE betrayal of all the lives lost over there and those who are left forever damaged from their time in the conflict, then I have no fucking idea what IS and if I lost a loved one or a child over there, seeing and realizing this I would be ENRAGED.
The Taliban are like a tumor. Unless you exterminate (or neutralize) it once and for all, it will merely lie in barely-dormant remission until the right time comes to strike again.
WHY ARE WE STILL PLAYING PATTY CAKE WITH THESE PRIMITIVES?!?!
AGAIN!?!?!!
3000 TROOPS PLUS HOWEVER MANY ARE STILL THERE AREN'T ENOUGH TO DO SHIT!!!! THEY'RE GONNA GET IED'D AND ITS GONNA BE THE LAST 20 YEARS ALL OVER AGAIN!!
WTF IS THIS!?!? SOME SICK GAME ON THE PART OF THE PENTAGON?!?!?
WE NEED TO BE SENDING AT LEAST 50,000 TROOPS NOW AND LIBERATE THE AFGHANIS FROM THESE SICK PERVERTED STONE AGE TYRANNICAL GODDAMN BARBARIAN SAVAGES. FOR FUCKS SAKE!!!!
THEN and only then can we leave with our heads held high, nor do we have the moral RIGHT to leave until then. We INVADED as if we owned the place, now we owe these people their freedom!!! God FUCKING DAMMIT. They've waited long enough, it's only been 20 fucking YEARS.
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Here's a pro tip: if local municipalities hate having homeless in their locality so much here's an idea, mandate that financially accessible housing is a human fucking RIGHT, because it IS. You can't set the minimum limit at $2000+ when a statistically significant portion of residents barely earns that in a month!!! Not every household has multiple income earners letting alone those on fixed income or benefits.
All rent should be income-based outside of genuine elite properties (there are some that actually are).
I set my limit at no more than 15 or 20% of a tenant's income up to a local set maximum. The legal maximum to the tenant will be whichever is lower.
THIS IS HOW YOU GUARANTEE EVERYONE HAS A MOTHERFUKING HOME.
Actual rental protections
Actual homeowner protections
Or maybe we can all just ve grist for the mill of wall street demons.
HIGH RENT SHOULD BE SEEN AS A CRIME BECAUSE IT IS- IT'S A CRIME AGAINST MY HUMANITY AND MY SECURITY!!!!!!!! And yours!
AND IT'S A FORM OF FINANCIAL SLAVERY. It's a form of grand theft- because instead of saving or living on that money I have to give it to a POS who didn't work for it.
Fair rent is fine. High rent is not.
PREDATORY LANDLORDING AND SHOULD BE SEEN AS A PERNICIOUS CRIME THAT ROTS OUR SOCIETY- BECAUSE IT DOES!
Nobody outside of college age is going to live ten people to a motherfucking two-bedroom, and if that's what policymakers THINK we should do they can off themselves NOW.
Everybody has the right to afford a reasonable, non-luxurious functional space to themselves well within their budget!!!!!!
The day livable accessible housing exists for everyone is the day local homeless populations disappear. Not quite entirely, because there are other causes of homelessness, but to a very large degree.
IT'S ALMOST AS IF THE DEMONS WHO SIT IN OUR ELECTED CHAIRS KNOW FULL WELL THEY ARE CREATING THE PROBLEM AND YET CHOOSE TO PUNISH THOSE WHO ARE THE VICTIMS OF IT. It's almost as if they love evil.
I'd say the Right is always worse, but Dems do this as well. Central, regional or local, doesn't matter. Doesn't matter which party, they're both trash.
I'm just tired of living under enemies.
I deserve better than that and so do you.
I've delineated some proper attitudes and actions in response in other comments.
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@therobbieunited but the fetus doesn't have those rights, the mother has the ultimate right to decide it's fate until the last stage of pregnancy where it has a reliable chance to survive on its own. Even then if it's reliably showing that the mother's life is in danger, no ethical doctor would hesitate to remove it and put it to sleep. Would you rather a fetus die or the pregnant mother, if it was due to natural causes? And if it's okay under natural causes why can't we make our delivery decisions based on the same value system??
And if thats okay naturally, and knowing that up to half of all pregnancies end in miscarriage (which is a scientific fact feel free to look it up yourself and confirm that) why is it not okay for women to elect to end her pregnancy within the initial 6-7 month window by choice?
When you deny the primacy of the pregnant woman's life for a non-aware fetus, you dehumanize the mother, a full grown adult or young person, over inert biological tissue smaller than the size of a softball or a baseball or even a peanut. I'm not sure why you're comfortable with this. If this was your mother or sister or close friend, I have to believe you feel differently.
NO FETUS HAS INTRINSIC RIGHTS.
You can believe it does, but I do not. no that the mother herself does not grant. It's part of her body, that's what Nature has ordained. She grants it the rights she wishes it to have or not have. It's not for any of the rest of us to say.
A pregnant woman shouldn't be reduced to her pregnancy. I consider this a grave injustice. If we start protecting fetuses over pregnant women adult mature thinking sensitive functional complete human beings are going to be harmed and in extreme cases, killed through deliberate medical neglect because a doctor is going to be too afraid to perform unnecessary operation in these evil total-ban states. Is that what you want? Some women who seek abortions already have three or four children. They have spouses and children who already need them. We can debate whether or not they should have used birth control and maybe they did and a mistake happened, but we shouldn't debate their right to end their pregnancy if that's what they wish. If we allow pregnant people to die unnecessarily through pregnancy complications, because they don't intervene soon enough, we are taking away in many cases a mother and a wife from a family who needs her. Is that what you want? You see you need to look beyond your own penis, and understand that total bans and restrictive laws have far-reaching consequences that can be extreme and permanent. We have way too many babies and young children and older children in the foster care system already, in states that are already doing a pretty piss poor job of taking care of them. Now you want to add more? It's not going to end up well. All these babies that you're forcing into the world are not going to have the Happy endings that you assume will happen. Some will I'm sure, but a lot won't. They may end up being mistreated or abused or placed into homes where they are not wanted and not giving the love they deserve. If the mother feels she has no choice but to keep it she may not be the best mother she can, she may not be capable of that. We don't know how things are going to turn out and it's cruel and shortsighted and selfish of us to force these innocent babies that you claim to love so much into the world where there's NO guarantee they're going to be giving a safe, loving, happy, stable home.
IF IT WAS REALLY ABOUT PROTECTING BABIES, THEN YOU WOULD REALIZE THAT THE CONSEQUENCES OF ABORTION BANS ARE A THOUSAND TIMES WORSE THAN RESPECTING WOMEN'S BODILY AUTONOMY AND ALLOWING HER TO MAKE HER OWN PRIVATE DECISIONS LIKE EVERY HUMAN BEING DESERVES. ADDING TO THE ALREADY excessive population of youth inside the State foster system is not going to help anyone. If there are enough good safe moral homes for children to go to then we wouldn't hear about all the horror stories of different kinds of abuse and neglect that children have suffered growing up in these terrible or just plain ignorant Foster Care homes.
Other points continuing from above;
IT IS NOT SENTIENT. ITS NOT A PERSON YET. IT SHOULDN'T GET PERSONHOOD STATUS UNTIL JUST BEFORE BIRTH, OR THIRD TRIMESTER EARLIEST. A GLOP OF CELLS OR DEPENDANT IMMATURE BIOTISSUE IS NOT A PERSON. It is madness to call a non-functional group of cells or a two-inch long fishbody a person. Does it think? Feel?? Have friends? Go to school? Pay taxes? Have a hobby?
IF YOU WANT TO BE A MORAL CRUSADER SO BAD GO SAVE THE BABIES AND THE CHILDREN THAT ARE ALREADY HERE. OH WAIT THAT WOULD ACTUALLY TAKE WORK.
THIS WAY YOU GET TO FEEL LIKE YOU'RE A WHITE NIGHT FOR THE UNBORN WITHOUT ACTUALLY HAVING TO PUT OUT ANY EFFORT. THAT'S A VERY SEDUCTIVE IDEA ISN'T IT??
You're a hypocrite. Are you giving everything you own in every waking hour to take care of all the babies that are currently being cared for in the foster care system of your home state? No I didn't think so, so fuck off. You just want to pretend you're better than somebody else. You probably never even had sex with another human being yet you're here in your infinite wisdom presuming to tell other people what to do with their own sex lives and their private lives.
Next time you get someone pregnant unintentionally you'll be changing your tune like everybody else. "Everyone else's abortion is wrong except for mine" is how it ALWAYS goes for pro-lifers. ALWAYS.
Just stay out of other women's uteruses. You don't have the right and neither do I. You wouldn't want me to support legislation that would control your body and when or where or IF you were allowed to beat your meat would you? Or to tell you who to marry? Or to tell you if you even allowed to have a private life or a sex life? So where do you get off telling other women what to do in their private life decisions?
This shouldn't be a debate. Go volunteer every waking out of your time and every penny of your own money to giving a home to all the currently alive babies and children without a permanent family if you care so much. Otherwise you're just being a hypocrite. It is not your right to protect the world's unborn. Nobody has that right. If you don't have genetic non-rapist material in that fetus, YOU DON'T GET A SAY. That's what it all comes down to.
Why is this so hard to understand? If it's not your body, and it's not your DNA, it's not your choice! Surely you can see this. I don't think you're unintelligent I just think you're caught up in the group think and the ignorant clamoring that is gripping the fundamentalist white Taliban right at this moment and believe me I understand, mom think can be very seductive. But if you apply some critical thinking, step a back and take the emotion out of the issue for a minute, and evaluate this issue from an ethical and mature perspective, I'm sure you'll come to the right view. In intimate decisions, nobody has the right to decide for anyone else. Surely you're capable of agreeing with that.
Once we allow for govt control in such intimate matters we're on a slippery slope where human rights increasingly don't matter, government tyranny expands out of control, and we become nothing more than glorified property of the State. I'm sure you don't want that for yourself and I'm sure in your heart you wouldn't want that for others.
Even if I was to claim that there are cases where a woman's right to choose shouldn't be respected, not a single ONE of these evil total-ban states are guaranteeing financial support to these pregnant women or teens who are considering ending their pregnancy. Not a ONE, and don't kid yourself, not a one will be forthcoming anytime soon. This isn't about providing more financial stability, food, and material security to families who need it, including those who are facing an unexpected pregnancy. This is all about controlling and subjugating women, taking away their/our choices, and for some reason exploding the supply of unclaimed children and babies in the foster care system. I don't know anyone who benefits from any of that and I don't think you do either.
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Tbf, any aware voter knows their political process is an absolute brain-rotting joke by now, no matter which side of the aisle you're on.
We vote, it doesn't matter- you know who wins every time? Corruption, bribes, Wall Street, the 1%, the super elite, the war machine. And increasing inequality. Don't forget about that. The faces change, the interests of those who pull the strings don't.
I'm not saying don't vote, do vote locally and in-state, it can help a little, but don't expect it to change much; at least not until Leftists who care more about people than bribes, patronage and corporate profit start getting into the race, which hasn't happened yet in my lifetime, but it still may. So let's be hopeful. The future is always subject to change.
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@jeffsartadventure3634 Because people were left high and dry. I live in the US too man. you know how bogus everybody in public office is here. You think they give a s*** about us ordinary nobodies? Of course not. And that goes equally for both parties. The Dems are a little bit better and if it were up to the GOP filth we wouldn't have got a dime, but they also serve the big money and the rest of us don't matter to them. The reason why the lockdowns caused problems here is because our covid relief was deplorable and insufficient, there was basically no relief coming over the hill for people who were put out of business or lost their job because of covid, they were left to swing in the breeze, meanwhile the top 2%, the big corporate sector, got billions in handouts from our federales up in DC. You do understand that don't you? Our govt didn't provide any material and financial support during this process. Anyone who lost their livelihood or business was left to twist in the breeze. Yes there was an eviction moratorium for a while, but those of all been lifted and they were pretty porous even while they were in place. Hundreds of thousands if not millions were unjustly evicted before during and after the moratorium, and it's still going on now even though the news isn't covering it anymore. Of course a lockdown is going to cause harm to people if proper protections aren't put into place by the local state or federal government so that people can be on lockdown. you can't rightly lock people down and then blame those very same people for losing their jobs due to covid and then allow their landlord to evict them which is exactly what has happened all over the United States and it still happening right now. The people in our government local, state, and federal are the most morally bankrupt self-serving trash that could scam people into voting for them. They do NOT care about the bottom 90% and in some cases they don't care about the bottom 99%. They serve the elite and they sell themselves CONSTANTLY.
They are 100% for hire to the highest bidder; I mean our government is FOR SALE. They call it lobbying and campaign donations, but what it really is is bribes and GRAFT and dark money and not so dark money. That's just how it works here.
This is a banana republic we live in in case you didn't know.
What little covid relief and eviction pauses were provided were significantly inadequate to meet the need. that's what brought the harm from the so-called lockdowns we never really even had a true lockdown anyway I mean nobody was stopped from leaving their domicile it was just recommended that people remain at home as much as possible during covid of 2020 and the first half of 2021.
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I hope you find a better job my friend. But no need to be a slave so loyal to a billionaire master. Please get more class consciousness. Lol they paying you nothing to catch poor people.
Yes I do take from Walmart all the time. Why not???? I need it, and they can afford it and deserve it. They abuse employees, treat petty takers like big-time criminals, exploit their suppliers, willingly waste God knows how much food and goods inventory (while claiming shoplifters are stealing, yet they throw out by CHOICE millions of dollars every month/year), and have put half of America out of business. They should be put out of their misery with fire, basically.
Please don't bend the knee to people who use you to screw over other very poor people. It's like a black slave dancing for massa. They don't give a fuck about you kid. It's a master paying one slave to sell out another. Sad. Don't be a crab in a barrel, help each other up instead. Class solidarity, not bootlicking. Don't be a tool of the oligarchy and your rich GM. Or at least take a different position in the store; but better yet, work somewhere else altogether.
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@buddyclem7328 nah I'm not going to say that because I hate our government too; they're evil bastards who don't care if we live or died and have absolutely no moral center and most of them deserve what they get. It's a citizen's duty to rise up and overthrow their government if it becomes too tyrannical, destructive, or corrupt, although this is obviously easier said than done. Trump is a fool, a goof, and a moron, but I'm for playing target practice with worthless politicians from both sides all day long. Who do the politicians in this country serve?? Well I'll tell you- its Wall Street, billionaires, all big business and the big Banks NOT us. Since this "government" is nothing more than a criminal cartel masquerading as some sort of public entity I'm all for its destruction.
It's because I'm a flaming communist that I can now easily see that both parties are literally the exact same behind the scenes. The Dems are trash and the GOP are extra special trash.
I oppose many powers a centralized federalized government claims for itself. I'm very very small State on the civil side when it comes to that. Government is just people, they aren't more special than you or I, quite the opposite, and I support violence against the State by any means necessary. I find most government, not all but a great deal, to be unjust or tyrannical.
Also DC needs to be destroyed but it's not going to be done so by a bunch of toothless methheads. Hopefully a nuke will take them out in our lifetime. Once you start really looking with an unvarnished eye you'll see what I see, which is a bunch of nutjob destructive bloodthirsty savages, which they are. Certainly with our 900 bullshit bases around the world and plenty of intentional neglect right here at home. DC doesn't need to exist, it doesn't serve any useful or moral purpose. We can create a much better government that serves the cause of peace and serves Left principles for all people.
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@johndoe-ss9bz there's nothing to vote for. There's no People's party, there's no moral party, there's no left party, there's no socialist party, there's no Communist party.
There's two Pig-and-Wall-Street parties is that's it.
Now there might be individuals who don't claim a party who might have decent ethics that I would consider voting for but the vast majority of the time there's nobody of conscience to vote for because the political process is completely controlled by these red/blue superfilth who serve the blue cartel and Wall Street. Take it from an armed communist- I know the drill by now, I wish I didn't- but I do.
Everything in public policy in this country is absolutely evil, tyrannical, amoral, sadistic, or bent. If you can't see it they're trying to increase the police state even passed its current vile level, the trying to increase incarceration even passed its current vile level, things are just getting worse and it's very sad. Poverty and homelessness are exploding because the monsters at the top want it all and they're willing to do anything to take it. Nobody's trying to bring the fist down on the blue cartel or get them off the streets. Conditions in prisons continue to deteriorate. The evil is exploding and has one person I cannot single-handedly hold it back.
I'll be doing my best to advocate for justice causes but we'll see how far I get. Most voters are idiots and vote for people who don't give two shits about them and have no intention on helping the average person- then like absolute morons, they cry about why hasn't anything changed????
So long as average people continue to watch Fox News without laughing themselves into a coma or believe the Democrats are the good guys we are fucked. The Democrats are just as evil, just as a vicious, just as crooked as their filthy red friends. They're all on the same payrolls don't you get it????
It was Democrats that poisoned Flint and then made sure nobody paid for it. Both parties are ruthless- both parties serve the moneyed elite.
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derrickbridges2611 Floyd was a good man beloved by his family who was terrorized and murdered by a Wt Nazi psychopath who couldn't control his insane rage like all city Pigs. All Pigs are wackjobs who are ticking time bombs waiting to happen. These are people who should be inside psych wards not walking around toting guns threatening people.
I would love to into Derek Chavin's eyes as I flipped the switch on that POS. He chose to be full of rage, he chose to be hateful Nazi committing evil, and he never got punished for it and this is what happens and it's going to happen again because Pigs are NEVER punished in this country. No matter what kinds of evil, terrorism or grand larceny they come in they know they will never ever ever suffer for it. If anything will be rewarded for it. No wonder it's a job that attracts the very WORST of humanity. Then they're given zero training, and they're told that essentially they're above any law because the DA, another cold-blooded sociopath, will always protect them. Since they certainly won't hold each other accountable, the only other option is either being fired by their Chief or being brought up on charges by the DA, and that almost never happens. The only group in America that is openly, flagrantly, and brazenly above any repercussions for their behavior.
Every other profession has a strict set of accountability measures what you want to know one group that is accountable to no one and it is allowed to to do absolutely anything, any kind of egregious crime that would get somebody else a life sentence? Yeah that's the Pigs. If somebody in a blue uniform does it somehow suddenly It's not crime. It's just fine. Rape, home invasion, terrorism, grand larceny, murder, homicide, terrorism, stalking, intentional harassment, violent assault.... And the list goes on. City Pigs regularly get away with all this and more isn't that nice??? You may like living under a lawless satanic blue Nazi cartel, but I don't.
I think it's awesome that you think the cold-blooded drawn-out homicide of an innocent man by an unhinges psychotic is no problem if their skin has melanin. Cool story you racist pos.
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@danf4447 it can and that needs attention under the law. I am researching currently to find out if I can legally bring a very serious civil lawsuit against a city that did exactly that to my father 30 years ago - and it caused a lot of strain and a long cascade of problems in our family. However, my parents did not sue at the time, which they certainly should have, no two ways about it. This is still something we have never really talked about. I still don't know why they didn't fight it. He was cheated out of a very good job AND his unemployment compensation at the time. He should have sued for wrongful termination, but for some reason did not.
If there's any legal way for me to get his long-denied compensation and wrongful termination awarded, inflation-adjusted for the present, I'm going to try. My intent is to split it equally with my parents who are still alive. Split, bec some long family issues they owe me for, and because it affected my future at the time too. But even if I didn't see a dime, I would pursue this. It was a completely unethical thing to do to someone and unless there's something huge I don't know, totally unjustified. I want this made right.
Stronger UI laws are needed in cases of quitting and firing too and I'll defend this from any opposition. Not all firings are justified and many quittings are essentially forced.
Then again, standard UBI would serve this purpose and not be dependent on one's qualified job loss reason or job status. If you're under a baseline income for any reason, you get it. End of fucking story. Or we could just do both. Fair UBI, and fair UI. You get to keep whichever is higher.
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@Bobbias yeah. I'm not sure what that would be in US, maybe a little bit less?? Yeah I pay 1850 before anything else for a pretty not great simple 2 bdrm in North San Diego. The grounds are very nice and they fix things promptly but for this price the space size and contents of the kitchen and bathrooms should be much better. And my money is shit. So this is approx 60-70% of what I make rn, which is at least twice what I should have to pay, and I'm still much better off than those who are severely low-income. Yeah it has to end.
Among aggressive rent reform that socialists and Progessives should push for, is a baseline reg that stipulates that ANY household's rent cannot exceed 25% of their income, OR a rate specified by the owner, whichever is less. This would ensure private market housing serves everybody. Obviously, much more social housing and rental assistance programs should be made available. If these would pass, homelessness would virtually disappear. But until politicians on both sides (at least down here) stop serving Big Rental and the Big Banks, yep, that shit will keep being elusive, and record homelessness will continue. It's a gross system and it needs to end.
But hey congrats on going back to school and your gf for graduating. Programming seems like an interesting and fairly well-paid field. I'm late 30s and need to do the same. If I can get my other business in order I may be able to next year.
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@SeraphsWitness well you're wrong. Who determines "worth"?? The govt should, by setting a high bar for minimum wages and protecting the rights of those who DO THE MOTHERFRACKING WORK, not the lazy clowns at the top who steal their labor value and profit from them, leaving them with a relative pittance or a mere fraction of the value of what they have produced. ITS A FOOKING SCAM AND IT NEEDS TO END. As for those who worked their way up and didn't get it through nepotism or a handout, I applaud them. But we both know this isn't the case a lot of the time and even then, all pay scales should be still fair and robust.
All workers deserve their fair dividend of the profits. And by workers I mean those from entry-level up to a PhD or upper management level.
Most execs offer nothing of value, get a massive paycheck for sitting around looking pretty, and, if in Big Business as in this case, are possessed of a filthy greed that always wants more and doesn't care who they have to fuck over to get it. They should be ashamed of themselves. These execs in question clearly are on the narcopath spectrum, and I'd wager that's extremely par for the course in the C-suite... more like the parasite suite.
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Yes everyone deserves good pay just for existing. Please take your 1%-loving market cult Kool-Aid cup and bounce to the house. Please rethink workplace ethics and choose to respect workers. After all, aren't you a worker of some sort?? Most of us are. So really.. don't YOU want a better deal for yourself?? I mean unless you're swimming in rn in which case hey good for you but somehow I doubt that.
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I guarantee every single hotel or motel, from the smallest mom-and-pop operation of to the biggest chain, have had gobs of illegal illegal activity taking place on their property, and it is NOT the proprietors' responsibility or fault if this occurs. THEY CANNOT REASONABLY BE EXPECTED TO CONTROL WHAT HAPPENS ON EVERY CORNER OF THEIR PARKING LOT AT EVERY MOMENT, OR BEHIND THE DOOR OF EACH PRIVATE ROOM.
This behavior from the DEA or any other government agency violates the principle of REASONABLE EXPECTATION, ergo it falls flat on its face. It's a gross obvious money grab, and if there's any judges left in this country of conscience, the case should have been thrown out on its face.
We need to start seeing the federal apparatus for the massive criminal entity that it really is. It's nothing more than other people that claim to have more rights than you, and we have to reject that.
There would be no motels or hotels left in this country if they were all seized due to so-called "illegal" activity.
"Illegal". What a cute code word. Government cartel thugs have gotten away with so many crimes against humanity and eye watering amounts of grand theft simply because they've been able to throw out that word, and as all court rulings hinge on what is so-called legal versus illegal, they always get away with it.
Must be nice to write your own rules.
The thing is I don't oppose the existence of laws themselves, provided they're limited, circumspect and appropriate; I oppose property theft or seizures based on violations of said laws. Unless there's an entire estate which was created due to child sex-trafficking, the government has no right to take what is yours for any reason, supposed illegal activity or no.
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As a 9/11-era veteran and a US citizen, it is now obvious to me drone strikes are a great evil and do NOTHING to promote peace either for us or anywhere in the world. They should be fully banned for air-to-ground use, along with chemical weapons and land mines, under international law.
All my govt and the Pentagon stands for is mass murder and deliberate savagery for any reason, and an incredible scale of destruction to already impoverished or undeveloped countries.
I wouldn't cry for genuine ISIS deaths or other committed terrorists, but as it has now been proven, drones rarely if EVER remove those types of individuals and when and if they do, it's ALWAYS along with some amount of innocent civilians or non-combatants. As the revelations prove and this recent incident is just more perfect proof of, drones almost exclusively kill innocent people including children. That isn't the kind of battle I ever signed up to fight.
Just because we have the technology doesn't mean we have the right to commit egregious mass murder overseas in poor parts of the world to people who might look different than us. Those govts NEVER declared war on us and never took up arms against us. My govts foreign policies are evil, and I will proudly stand against them FOREVER, unless they radically change.
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@chrisj984 I appreciate you feeling this way and congrats on being able to take care of yourself without outside support for this long. That's really commendable. I managed for a while that way until had some real bad breaks in life and needed help; now I'm better off (not exactly crushing it, but I'm ok).
Others in society aren't as healthy, resourceful, hardworking-capable, and/or lucky as you have been, so I appreciate that you recognize and support the need for external support for those in society who need it.
I don't expect you to be become a raging socialist like me, but the simple fact is, govts can CHOOSE to help their general population (not just the elites) or not. They can CHOOSE to be a provider for all, not just a provider for Wall Street or the MIC. They can CHOOSE to do anything they wish. They have a lot of power, a lot more than one small community outreach group or an individual. Remember, poverty (and social injustice) are DELIBERATE State policy choices, and they can CHOOSE to end them any time they wish. If poverty and various forms of social injustice exist near you then make no mistake, they are there because local/county/state/federal powers WANT them to be there and have so far REFUSED to mitigate them. No major social or economic issue in modern world happens by accident, remember that.
On a side but related note, charity and mutual aid is great, and it matters, but it can't reach everyone. Govt HAS to put plans in place that either prevent poverty in the first place, or at least effectively relieve it after it happens for those who fall into it.
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Smart-keem,
Your eminent cogitations on the following: (a bit of a copy pasta to another online amigo-rade if you don't mind. It's US-based as that's where I live.)
"I don't think the answer is to have a State do everything. I think we have to find a way to better manage and regulate the private market in the interests of workers, communities, and the natural environment. I think most people on the Left are bright, and may think having a smart State micromanage is the answer, but it's not. I don't think we really want a State to manage everything, instead let's have a combination.
It's certainly possible.
Think of a nice small town. The small town city council doesn't manage everything, they probably don't do very much at all. Let's assume there are very little to any corporate interests in this community ergo most people's businesses are of a modest size or less. I'm not even against a bigger businesses but I do feel there should be a hard limit at some point. But for sake of discussion let's say in this small community of 20,000 persons there are only local businesses of medium size or less. Provided the standing Labor laws explicitly protects the rights of Labor and all workers, wages are set at a high enough level that anyone can support themselves working full-time even if they are unskilled, and no local business is intentionally polluting the environment, then for the most part, all is well. Businesses and services will run smoothly and customers will feel that they've paid a fair price for what they received. When it makes sense, ongoing price controls and rent controls can be implemented. This way, all non-luxury goods are affordable and rent is never more than someone can afford because it is based on a function of their income not some flat rate that everyone just has to arbitrarily meet. All the excess can be collected after a certain selling cycle, and instead of being simply dumped in the landfill to collect as waste year after year, they can be first sent to a local warehouse, where they can then be redistributed to discount shops and community donations as needed.
This is the ideal situation that we want. A State should certainly set better ground rules for private business, but as far as running them directly I think that's too cumbersome. I just don't think that would work. Enterprises can function well if they are managed by ethical people and if they're forced to comply with proper regulation.
Businesses should be free to manage themselves in the way they see fit provided they abide by these nonnegotiable ground rules. We can adapt regulations appropriately for smaller businesses as well, so that they're not harmed by being forced to comply with a standard that is too restrictive for them due to their overall income and lower profit margin.
We don't have any kinds of enforced proper regulations on the private sector right now and we do have a corporatocracy which does allow for unlimited accumulation and growth, and I don't agree with that at all. We do need rent controls and guarantees through the government that provide all basic tangible needs freely given for any member of society who needs them (not means tested per se but phased out based on household income with small co-pays only if necessary), so that no one has to worry about going bankrupt if anything in their life doesn't go perfectly. I think all of this is easily achieved, but not under a corporatography and certainly not with a corrupt super elite running everything. But I do think it's more or less easily achieved. We can nationalize certain industries, or parts of certain industries if that makes sense. We can put the individual citizen and the worker FIRST and that's what I want to see. That is certainly not the paradigm that those in our government operate from currently, absolutely not. So it's true we do need a major change but it's too cumbersome to expect a small central government to somehow manage all these different businesses and services, but that doesn't mean we can't settle on a degree of central planning that makes sense.
Market socialism is definitely the answer. All taxes can be placed on large businesses, individual households can be encouraged to contribute as they see fit but I certainly would not make the mandatory. If the central government already issues currency it could keep doing that, and print and mint whatever it needs. I believe government inflation doesn't exis- that it's a boogeyman. I believe a sovereign currency issuing Nation can print any amount of currency it wants or needs. So as for how to pay for all of these comprehensive social services to me that's a BS question because I think the answer should be obvious, and as stated.
We can provide responsible and accountable public safety without turning into an egregious and vicious Police State like the US right is right now. All these things are possible and easy, but NOT under a predatory corporatocracy. Not under a State which enjoys incarceration as its number one GROWTH industries. Not when corrupt and hateful sots make all the decisions on social and economic policy.
So yeah it's entirely possible, we can have direct democracy where all public policy is passed through public referenda which is how it should be and politicians, if they even exist anymore play only a minor role mostly figural and advisory. All these things are possible, I just don't know exactly how we're going to get there. Organizing into a viable Left third party is the first step. We can always try to get more Leftists into state by state legislatures to start making these changes at the state level. I don't know if it's going to happen in our lifetime but that's how we need to go if we want to try to force these changes through. We can have rent control and all other public guarantee tangibles that guarantee everyone a baseline of a dignified existence before they even step foot in the workplace, but only if Leftists are able to take over the government. And that's kind of a big challenge in the US but I won't go so far to say it's impossible. How can we force an elected Leftist takeover of our current government?
Only by getting millions more people to vote who typically don't vote, and that's most easily achieved by media presence, of which there is no mainstream Leftist media presence currently. I don't know how to suddenly motivate 30 million more people Nationwide to vote for a currently as yet non-viable Leftist political party but that would seem to be the only way to start electing a bunch of Leftists who will put better policies in place. I mean that's the electoral method. As far as doing some kind of armed revolution that just can't happen in the modern world. Not in this country. That's just not feasible. We don't have a secret army and between State Police and national guard it just wouldn't work. It would be over before it started.
It looks like we got a long road ahead of us if we want to try to do this the electoral route but I think it's very doable. I think if millions of people had a genuinely sincere and ethical party to vote for, then they would. So the first step is then, form a viable Left movement and translate that into a Left Unity party that can fight back against the current duopoly machine and then find a way to get our word out. Find a way to counter the massive corporate MSM with media blaring a leftist message 24/7.
If we can do that, then we got a chance. It's going to take legal battles too because the duopoly scumbags love to prevent third party challengers from even getting on the ballot. Every plan can be strategized and so long as it's well planned out, has an even chance of success."
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They've been trying to undermine, defund, and destroy public education including teacher dignity, teacher unity and teacher control over their working conditions for generations. The right despises public education because they want slaves.
THEY WANT SLAVES. ITS AS SIMPLE AS THAT!!!!!
And by slaves I mean pseudoslaves in the workplace. They want slaves because they demand the right to use human beings as objects to generate mass profit without getting any in return. Slavery is nothing but profit theft and that is what the Right has always been about. All of the racism and race hatreds have been in service to this goal.
YOU CAN'T HAVE SLAVES WITH A STRONG PUBLIC SECTOR. IT DOESN'T WORK. Not when everyone has the same inherent human rights, education rights, housing rights and medical rights as everyone else.
SO THEY'LL TRY TO UNDERMINE AND KILL IT BY DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS. This has been their agenda forever.
Naturally this results in overcrowded classrooms, lack of services to vulnerable students, stressed out teachers, stressed out students, and in general an extremely overtaxed and underperforming system.. ALL BY DESIGN!!!!
THIS HAS BEEN THEIR PLAYBOOK FOREVER.
The Right wing is a satanic cult that says the majority of humanity is worthless and inferior to the master race which is white people and business elites, therefore they don't deserve any resources and they should be allowed to perish or be neglected. This of course isn't the fault of government; this is because of their OWN inborn weakness so government intentionally harming or neglecting these population groups is not the cause but simply the effect, it's simply echoing and acknowledging that any resources made available to these inferior groups would simply be wasted so why give them in the first place?? The false logic of these kinds of hate-filled agendas of course is always lost on these types of people.
The Right orgasms itself on self-fulfilling prophecies.
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ONLY A PREDATORY PSYCHOPATH ENJOYS BEING A STREET COP. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR A HUMAN BEING WITH A SOUL TO WANT THAT JOB AND TO TAKE PLEASURE FROM IT. PLEASE UNDERSTAND WHO YOU ARE DEALING WITH!!!!!!! STOP LETTING HOLLYWOOD AND THE PIG LOBBY BRAINWASH YOU!!! IT IS IMPERATIVE THESE MONSTERS ARE DEFUNDED, DISBANDED AND DESTROYED!!!!!! OTHERWISE THEIR CONSTANT CRIMES AGAINST US AND ASSAULTS AGAINST OUR PERSONS, PROPERTY, LIBERTY, SANITY AND PEACE OF MIND WILL ONLY CONTINUE!!!
WE ONLY NEED TRAINED, PROFESSIONAL AND ACCOUNTABLE "ESSENTIAL RESPONDERS" NOT THESE THEIVING, EVIL, LYING, HORRIBLY-TRAINED, VIOLENCE-LOVING, PREDATORY, UTTERLY-DEVOID-OF-CONSCIENCE SUBHUMAN FILTH GANGBANGING DOMESTIC TERRORISTS WE HAVE NOW!!! PLEASE WAKE UP EVERYONE!!! THESE ARE MONSTERS WHO DESERVE NO PLACE AMONG MORAL SOCIETY!!!
JOIN THE MOVEMENT TO CALL FOR AN IMMEDIATE DESTRUCTION AND ABOLISHING OF EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE VILE TAXPAYER-FUNDED CRIMINAL TERRORISM UNITS NOW!!!!
DETECTIVES FOR THE REAL CRIMES WILL REMAIN. 911 UNITS WILL REMAIN- ALTHOUGH SOME OF THESE SAME CRIMINAL PIGS WILL BE RESPONDING AND OF COURSE THEY WILL ONLY SEEK TO DO VIOLENCE, NOT TO ACTUALLY PEACEFULLY AND PROPERLY RESOLVE THE SITUATION. ENTIRELY SEPARATE EMERGENCY RESPONSE UNITS THAT ARE GIVEN LEGITIMATE FULL-LENGTH 2-YEAR-LONG TRAINING AND ONE WHERE ENTRANCE STANDARDS ARE STRICT, NOT OPEN TO EVERY DEMON SAVAGE WHO DROPPED OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL LIKE WE HAVE NOW, ARE WHAT IS REQUIRED!
But in the meantime we need to to utterly defund and ABOLISH all Street Pig units we have in existence. Their ONLY function is to initiate violence, subjugation, and theft. THIS SHOULDN'T BE OKAY WITH ANYONE! THIS SHOULDN'T BE A POLITICAL ISSUE! THIS SHOULDN'T BE A PARTISAN ISSUE! THIS SHOULD BE A DECENCY ISSUE! THIS SHOULD BE SOMETHING ANYONE WHO HAS A FUNCTIONING BRAIN AND CONSCIENCE SHOULD BE OUTRAGED BY AND SHOULD JOIN ME IN CALLING FOR THEIR IMMEDIATE BANNING AND OUTLAWING.
The only good Pig is a dead Pig. LET ME REPEAT- THE ONLY "GOOD" PIG IS A DEAD PIG!!!!!!
ALL COPS ARE PREDATORS AND DESERVE DEATH.
PIG means street cop. They're Gestapo, they're AMORAL, THEY'RE CRIMINALS, AND THEY DESERVE EVERYTHING THEY GOT COMING TO THEM.
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I always wonder how State-slaves think and reason. I think it will confound me until the day I die because it's like trying to analyze a totally alien species. They're not just different types of humans to me, as far as I'm concerned we have evolved on different planets. When they criticize private citizens banding together and showing agency and taking action and sometimes turning to violence, sometimes not, I always wonder what kind of world do they want to LIVE IN? Because the only alternative to this is a soft dictatorship where nobody has any real rights and the State is the only entity that matters. It's soft 1984. So I guess what I've come to realize is most people, as long as they're not living too terribly uncomfortably, truly want to live in chains because it seems safer to them than taking charge of their own fates and not living on their knees to some so-called higher authority. I think this is the root of where all resistance to justice movements comes from in these populations; these cowards and genetically pre-programmed to be belly-crawling slaves I think. I mean there's a guy just below me that called these people thugs. Can you believe it? How do you explain a mind like that? Aggressively subservient???. I see it online all the time and it always stuns me and I come to realize I am actually deeply deeply deeply a minority where I'm able to think for MYSELF, speak out strongly for myself and what is RIGHT no matter the blowback, verbal or otherwise, and basically not live awash in my own cowardice like 90+% of the population. I am always willing and able to challenge whoever or whatever claims to have authority or power over me or to be in some sort of superior position where they demand my fealty because that I will NEVER agree to. Doesn't mean we can't have an organized society and a limited body of useful laws- the problem is this evil State has overstepped its bounds almost immediately the day it was created. It's been a tyrannical and genocidal force since the start that's the unfortunate truth and it certainly hasn't slowed down today; just the opposite. It's just always endlessly curious to me that some people find government an inherently legitimate body and no matter what they do, no matter how evil satanic violent hateful destructive etc they are or those interests that they represent behave, a huge group of people will just excuse it as if they ("govt" persons) just have that divine right, as if we never overthrew kings in the first place, but anybody else even speaks out once- and the slaves react with verbal violence- like right now with the Palestine demonstrators. People are calling for their arrest, politicians are showing just how amoral and owned they really are, others are demonizing their names, some are calling for violence to be done to them, a few crazies are calling for them to be killed and so forth; like I said when I hear these things I just stand by and think why is everyone (who follows current events) so evil and sick? How did we get to here!?!
Well hopefully at least on this video I'm not the only one who isn't a pathetic coward and who knows basic right from wrong and just how tyrannical and how out of control most "governments" are and that no matter WHAT your label that DOESN'T give you free license or free reign to do terrible things I Don't give a living FUCK what you call yourself!!!! and I also support other groups' decision to use violence depending on their agenda. NEVER will I believe State thugs should have the monopoly on legitimate force or violence. If we don't maintain our 2A rights and claim our right to violently resist if we feel it necessary then why don't we just get down on our knees right now???
As long as we're doing it with a justice purpose in mind and not a hateful or racist one then yes of course it's perfectly justifiable, provide no one innocent gets harmed.
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@richdemanowski2575 I mostly agree. Initiated force is almost always wrong. Idk..... It's kind of mess. Everyone wants more autonomy (except those that seem to want to be told what to do because it relieves them of the burden of having to think for themselves), but where do we draw the line?
The shit is simple and complicated at the same time. We live under a fascist corporate dictatorship right now, from HOAs to the ruthless pursuit of small farmers by corp giants, holistic docs by big pharma, to the gross overextension imo, of IP law regarding online downloading, otherwise called a pirating or filesharing and so on.
Marginalized communities are constantly oppressed and poverty is getting worse. How to resolve these? We have car primacy everywhere and not nearly enough appreciation of multimodal forms of public transit. I believe I have the answers but who am I? If I come out being on the far left I turn some people off, if I come out as a mostly civil libertarian I turn others off.
If I say I'm for open borders because I'm compassionate other people shut down. If I say I have no problem with businesses making a profit because that's what they're there for, but I don't believe it should be unlimited or totally unregulated, I turn others off. I say I love most of the sincere public sector but I hate most cops. I guess there's no way to ever appeal to everybody. I say tenants' lives matter because we do, but I also understand that landlords need to make a profit to make it worth their time.
I think it's pretty clear the big $$ owns, controls, directions & commands both mainstream political parties equally (the red/blue uniparty I call them).
You may not like redistributive financial policies but I see no other way to end poverty. And so the debates begin.
It's kind of a mess. All I know is for sure is thad I hate Big Brother always ready with yet another jackboot with a shove or a smile coming to steal what I have YET AGAIN or stop me on the side of the road for some oppression (I'm W btw but can happen to anyone), telling me I can't enjoy the beauty of a night evening in a public park simply because it's no longer daylight, unjustly sequestering our public spaces either on a time basis or just because (this really offends me); showing intentional cruelty to the unhoused simply because they're in need, I am pretty convinced that our courts in this country are mostly fixed, either intentionally or through poor oversight and poor procedures/bad incentives, and that's just not good.
Ugh its a fuggin mess and I'm still figuring out where I stand and what if anything I hope to do about it.
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@richdemanowski2575 I think I agree with a lot of the above but be careful you don't fall into old racist thought tropes. It was a disgusting and ugly thing that Reagan (an absolute dirtbag or at a minimum of puppet of calculating dirtbags, but that's pretty much all the feds so,) tapped into when he spun the lies of the welfare queens. Nobody talks about welfare queens when it was poor W people getting the help but the moment that we closed the racial gap suddenly there's a problem? That's not right. Besides, the biggest welfare queens in this country are the people and corp interests at the top, that's where billions of subsidies and pure handouts go, not those at the bottom just trying to scrape by hand to mouth. Maybe if there was more control of the private sector, larger companies wouldn't be able to shed workers like underwear and chase poverty wages around the world thus preventing layoffs and offshoring. This is why I'm a pretty committed communist on $$ issues, bec I stand with Labor. I have to, I've been a worker all my life and while I may or may not consider starting my own small business someday, I'm always going to be a worker. I never came from money and I doubt I'll ever have much money and that's fine. As long as I have enough to have a reasonable standard of living that will be perfectly acceptable.
You wouldn't imply that a W girl is out here intentionally having babies with all different fathers just for the welfare benefits. And I doubt you'd say that to a Blk person's face so just be careful, it's easy to get carried away by old outdated abusive hateful dehumanizing stereotypes even if we don't mean to. It's really not fair to anyone to be talked about that way and I don't know anybody who actually lives like that. Plus you wouldn't want people to get married who really didn't love each other and who weren't mature enough to make a real go of it. That just leads to misery and disadvantage and in some cases child abuse or abandonment down the line. It's much better for two people to stay separated but share childrearing in the case of unplanned pregnancy if they aren't in love (and don't choose to abort). There's nothing wrong with being a singular unwed parent, this isn't the 1800s anymore and a person's personal religious beliefs are a private matter and should have absolutely no bearing on our social attitudes. Same for abortion, same for stem cell research, everything. One of the most perceptive concepts that the FFs did get right was the separation of church and State so I always give them credit for that. What's important is that any child has the best possible start in life and that means material security and at least one parent who is responsible and loves them. Two is wonderful and ideal, but at least one is what matters. Nobody should stay married to somebody who isn't ready just because of some piece of paper. Nobody benefits from that. I'm not here to judge on anyone based on their early life experiences, we all have a lot of shared values or we wouldn't be here right now, so all I'm saying is let's just try to be aware and cognizant of the old harmful attitudes we have that we've picked up over the years that might have been more accepted in previous times but are rightfully no longer accepted by sincere well-meaning people today. We can do better now. Racism, fear, xenophobia, ignorance, classism; these aren't things that people like us should be subscribing to. We are much better than that and we should be striving to raise others up to our level.
For the record I'm over 40 so I'm not young if that's what you're thinking. I've been there done that. I think we agree on a lot more than we disagree and I don't really think we disagree other than just have areas where we place more emphasis than others. I totes agree that those in a position of public roles often do a great deal of harm either intentionally or unintentionally, directly or indirectly, with a lot of measures they bring forth however, that doesn't mean that there should be no public management. We have to try to do a better job going forward. There are some key areas where we need to have non-profit interests and ethical people at work, or harm will happen- it already has. Protecting our environment, working on getting us off fossil fuels, proper urban planning, investing in more forms of mass transit, ending all avoidable forms of poverty (material security for all), determining proper business regulations, debating all forms of civic reform, protecting and reinvesting in public education, providing better higher educational opportunities, managing our open spaces properly, racial matters, protecting smaller enterprise and preventing big business domination of all industry, and the list goes on. For-profit interests will never do that, so there's always going to be a place for ethical people who really do care about making a better world for the next generation to step up and get work done. The problem is in this country they all seem to be bought and paid for by the deep pockets (they are) but it doesn't HAVE to be that way. We COULD have an alternative, I just don't know the best way to get there. Anyhow you posted a lot which I appreciate but haven't had a chance to really go over it in depth so I'm going to do that now.
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@andyjin1453 because like it or not, sooner or later we're all connected, one way or another. No man is an island. (Well, few people are)
Whether someone is just a big bad evildoer by nature (I think this is rarely the case but can happen) or because social conditions left one with little choice but to do the so-called "crime", the fact is, a serious crime always affects someone besides its intended or unintended victim. It affects their family and their immediate community, and occasionally those beyond that.
This "me first, I'm the only one that matters" attitude isn't very nice, and it robs us of a sense of social responsibility. Frankly I think it's the moral rot that causes all problems in our society. I hate it, and I'm tired of seeing it.
Wouldn't you rather live in a society where we ALL cared about each other???? Doesn't a sense of community matter to you??
If you don't naturally want an ideal society that gives everyone the best possible opportunities then I say you need to reevaluate yourself. If you matter, then why doesn't everyone else? What makes you so special and everyone else less so?? What you want for yourself should be the right of everyone.
My main question to everyone is why do only "some" lucky people get certain opportunities or benefits??? I'm not referring to special private connections, obviously those are going to vary based on family history and blind luck; I'm referring to those provided by public investment, i.e. government policy.
I'm always shocked that some people so casually accept that THEY deserve all the goodies and opportunities in life but "someone else" out there does not. I find that attitude morally reprehensible but also just kind of stunning. I mean you and I are also "somebodies else" to other people- someone else out there could be saying "I deserve all of these benefits but other people do not", and in this hypothetical case you and I would be those "other people". Do you see what I'm getting at??? If millions of people have this attitude of "me first / screw everyone else / I don't want to be part of a society that gives everyone basic opportunities", how soon before that affects people like you or I????
And like I said if /we/ deserve good things (as I'm sure you believe that you do) then how come everyone else doesn't; what's so special about us?!?
IT'S SIMPLE, EITHER EVERYONE DESERVES THE SAME BASIC OPPORTUNITIES AND SOCIAL INVESTMENT, OR NO ONE DOES. NO ONE IS INHERENTLY BETTER THAN ANY OTHER. It is not right to say that certain demographic groups get all the investment and opportunities and others get next to none and then expect those that were intentionally left out to perform at the same level as everyone else and not have negative socioconomic indicators.
I'M A COMMUNIST. ARE THERE EVERYONE MATTERS, OR NO ONE DOES. THAT'S MY PHILOSOPHY..
It shouldn't be an accident of birth that you get all the special goodies in life. Government should be there to ensure that everyone gets the same generous opportunities and public investment. Whatever ones particular family wants to throw in on top of that that's their business, but the state should be providing generous equal opportunity to all. Ours doesn't do this and that's why I oppose our current government in every form and I want it to be torn down and something better put in its place.
Our current government serves the infinite filthy greed of big business and the rest of us essentially don't matter. I don't agree with this.
We've been raised to believe that selfishness and cold-bloodedness is a virtue and honestly that really grosses me out on every level. That's not the society I want to live in.
It's fine to want good things for ourselves but we should want good things for EVERYONE. Why do other people matter less than we do??? Why do other races matter less than the race we believe ourselves to be a part of (let's not forget that all human DNA is virtually identical so races are mostly a social construct)????
The truth is it's only our singular perspective that makes us believe that by birthright we deserve all the best benefits- what's a random strangers we could just as easily be discounted, the way you casually discounted others just now.
It's not only morally right, it's just logic. Who's to say which deserves the opportunities and the compassionate treatment in the justice system, and who doesn't?!? It's not right to say some people are more inherently worthy than others, a moral society doesn't accept that.
Everyone has potential- it's not all the same, but everyone can do something. Everyone can better themselves with given the opportunity.
Just care about other people. That's all I ask. Others deserve the same opportunities as you, it's that simple.
It starts with the government doing its job properly. Our government doesn't give a shit about you and me. They deserve to be destroyed. We need a government that does. In the meantime we need to insist on better policies and better investments in the bottom 70%.
I don't feel very good if I'm only caring about myself. My purpose is to make a difference in the world. Besides what we want for ourselves shouldn't that be everyone's goal?
Maybe some people just naturally wired it to only care about themselves and their immediate family - I'm not. That doesn't work for me.
I mean it's just basic decency to want other people to have the best possible choices available and even if they make a poor decision (ie "crime) that shouldn't be the end of their life. Even if one feels that they should be locked up for their so-called "crime" there should still be opportunities and rehabilitation provided so that when they are released they can hopefully move on with their life as a much better person because they were given the therapies and the rehabilitation necessary to do so.
People don't get better all on their own and they certainly don't get better from abuse or neglect. If we want people to choose better we have to give them the skills, the tools, the mental health treatment, the support and the chance to do so. Not only is this right, this is only logical. You can't get out what you don't put in.
These things benefit that person and anyone else in their immediate circle, when we do this for every citizen and/or inmate, then obviously over time this improves thousands and then millions of lives. It becomes a virtuous cycle spiraling upwards.
Just think about it. Not only is everything I'm saying clearly right from a moral perspective but it's only logic.
If we don't help and invest in people we can't possibly expect a majority to achieve their best or have the tools to make constructive choices. It's that simple. It's THAT simple. You CANNOT get out of a machine that you do not put into it- first principle of thermodynamics. First. Humans are bio machines with emotions and consciousness. Everyone deserves a fair chance, everyone.
It starts with high government spending and reinvestment in the general public, stopping greed at the top, combined with private contributions from willing givers.
Tl;dr: Bec it's about equal opportunity and full rehabilitation behind bars. Everyone deserves that. No one person has more inherent right to benefits and opportunity than anyone else. I don't want to live in a society or selfish immature people only care about themselves. A great society cares about everyone.
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@andyjin1453 because like it or not, sooner or later we're all connected, one way or another. No man is an island. (Well, few people are)
Whether someone is just a big bad evildoer by nature (I think this is rarely the case but can happen) or because social conditions left one with little choice but to do the so-called "crime", the fact is, a serious crime always affects someone besides its intended or unintended victim. It affects their family and their immediate community, and occasionally those beyond that.
This "me first, I'm the only one that matters" attitude isn't very nice, and it robs us of a sense of social responsibility. Frankly I think it's the moral rot that causes all problems in our society. I hate it, and I'm tired of seeing it.
Wouldn't you rather live in a society where we ALL cared about each other???? Doesn't a sense of community matter to you??
If you don't naturally want an ideal society that gives everyone the best possible opportunities then I say you need to reevaluate yourself. If you matter, then why doesn't everyone else? What makes you so special and everyone else less so?? What you want for yourself should be the right of everyone.
My main question to everyone is why do only "some" lucky people get certain opportunities or benefits??? I'm not referring to special private connections, obviously those are going to vary based on family history and blind luck; I'm referring to those provided by public investment, i.e. government policy.
I'm always shocked that some people so casually accept that THEY deserve all the goodies and opportunities in life but "someone else" out there does not. I find that attitude morally reprehensible but also just kind of stunning. I mean you and I are also "somebodies else" to other people- someone else out there could be saying "I deserve all of these benefits but other people do not", and in this hypothetical case you and I would be those "other people". Do you see what I'm getting at??? If millions of people have this attitude of "me first / screw everyone else / I don't want to be part of a society that gives everyone basic opportunities", how soon before that affects people like you or I????
And like I said if /we/ deserve good things (as I'm sure you believe that you do) then how come everyone else doesn't; what's so special about us?!?
IT'S SIMPLE, EITHER EVERYONE DESERVES THE SAME BASIC OPPORTUNITIES AND SOCIAL INVESTMENT, OR NO ONE DOES. NO ONE IS INHERENTLY BETTER THAN ANY OTHER. It is not right to say that certain demographic groups get all the investment and opportunities and others get next to none and then expect those that were intentionally left out to perform at the same level as everyone else and not have negative socioconomic indicators.
I'M A COMMUNIST. ARE THERE EVERYONE MATTERS, OR NO ONE DOES. THAT'S MY PHILOSOPHY..
It shouldn't be an accident of birth that you get all the special goodies in life. Government should be there to ensure that everyone gets the same generous opportunities and public investment. Whatever ones particular family wants to throw in on top of that that's their business, but the state should be providing generous equal opportunity to all. Ours doesn't do this and that's why I oppose our current government in every form and I want it to be torn down and something better put in its place.
Our current government serves the infinite filthy greed of big business and the rest of us essentially don't matter. I don't agree with this.
We've been raised to believe that selfishness and cold-bloodedness is a virtue and honestly that really grosses me out on every level. That's not the society I want to live in.
It's fine to want good things for ourselves but we should want good things for EVERYONE. Why do other people matter less than we do??? Why do other races matter less than the race we believe ourselves to be a part of (let's not forget that all human DNA is virtually identical so races are mostly a social construct)????
The truth is it's only our singular perspective that makes us believe that by birthright we deserve all the best benefits- what's a random strangers we could just as easily be discounted, the way you casually discounted others just now.
It's not only morally right, it's just logic. Who's to say which deserves the opportunities and the compassionate treatment in the justice system, and who doesn't?!? It's not right to say some people are more inherently worthy than others, a moral society doesn't accept that.
Everyone has potential- it's not all the same, but everyone can do something. Everyone can better themselves with given the opportunity.
Just care about other people. That's all I ask. Others deserve the same opportunities as you, it's that simple.
It starts with the government doing its job properly. Our government doesn't give a shit about you and me. They deserve to be destroyed. We need a government that does. In the meantime we need to insist on better policies and better investments in the bottom 70%.
I don't feel very good if I'm only caring about myself. My purpose is to make a difference in the world. Besides what we want for ourselves shouldn't that be everyone's goal?
Maybe some people just naturally wired it to only care about themselves and their immediate family - I'm not. That doesn't work for me.
I mean it's just basic decency to want other people to have the best possible choices available and even if they make a poor decision (ie "crime) that shouldn't be the end of their life. Even if one feels that they should be locked up for their so-called "crime" there should still be opportunities and rehabilitation provided so that when they are released they can hopefully move on with their life as a much better person because they were given the therapies and the rehabilitation necessary to do so.
People don't get better all on their own and they certainly don't get better from abuse or neglect. If we want people to choose better we have to give them the skills, the tools, the mental health treatment, the support and the chance to do so. Not only is this right, this is only logical. You can't get out what you don't put in.
These things benefit that person and anyone else in their immediate circle, when we do this for every citizen and/or inmate, then obviously over time this improves thousands and then millions of lives. It becomes a virtuous cycle spiraling upwards.
Just think about it. Not only is everything I'm saying clearly right from a moral perspective but it's only logic.
If we don't help and invest in people we can't possibly expect a majority to achieve their best or have the tools to make constructive choices. It's that simple. It's THAT simple. You CANNOT get out of a machine that you do not put into it- first principle of thermodynamics. First. Humans are bio machines with emotions and consciousness. Everyone deserves a fair chance, everyone.
It starts with high government spending and reinvestment in the general public, stopping greed at the top, combined with private contributions from willing givers.
Tl;dr: Bec it's about equal opportunity and full rehabilitation behind bars. Everyone deserves that. No one person has more inherent right to benefits and opportunity than anyone else. I don't want to live in a society or selfish immature people only care about themselves. A great society cares about everyone.
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(While the entire issue sucks and is entirely man-made and can be entirely fixed with simple changes if it weren't for our trash political class, if I could just briefly make a social commentary-)
As far as the part of the issue regarding municipal governments desiring on average higher home values because that leads to higher property taxes I say this; (and thus are presumably hostile to the proliferation of smaller size and lower-valued homes that could be built much more cheaply and go a long way to providing everyone with a positive desirable affordable home;)-
And while I don't have a ton of sympathy for homeowners with net worth of 1M+, however;
As a principle, the truth is as I see it, that residential and land property taxes are WRONG and unacceptable. Absolutely morally wrong- for every obvious moral reason- and we shouldn't be basing any housing-related public policy on the practice of collecting property taxes!!
THERE ARE OTHER SOURCES OF PUBLIC REVENUE!
RIDDLE ME THIS- WHY SHOULD ANYONE HAVE TO PAY THEIR LOCAL LORD OR GANG OF LORDS FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF NOT HAVING THEIR HOME TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM ON A WHIM?!? THE HOME THEY WORKED FOR, THEY EARNED, THEY BLED FOR!!!! THE HOME THEY OWN.
TO WHOM AND WHY DO I OWE A PORTION OF MY BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS THAT I WORKED FOR REGARDING MY ONE AND ONLY FAMILY HOME????
IS THERE A GANGSTER I FORGOT I HAVE TO PAY OFF FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF LIVING IN HIS NEIGHBORHOOD SO HE DOESN'T COME BREAK LEGS???? IS THAT IT!?!?!
Business taxes I can understand, residential property taxes, NO.
THOSE ARE THEFT. THEY ARE VIOLENTLY TAKEN UNDER THE THREAT OF EVEN MORE VIOLENCE. THEY ARE WRONG.
They are doubly evil that they used as a tool to take your home for debt collection. To uproot and even destroy your life in the short- or long-term.
DEBT COLLECTION SHOULD NEVER RESULT IN THIS KIND OF ABUSE! IF ONE IS CURRENT OR RECENT ON THEIR MORTGAGE THAN THEIR HOME SHOULD BE SACROSANCT!! THAT IS ALL THE VAST MAJORITY OF US WILL EVER HAVE!!!!
Will someone kindly explain to me how and when this criminal process of home seizure got started!!? AND WHY DO WE STILL DO IT??? WHY DO WE ACCEPT THIS!?!
Because it's very wrong. IT IMPLIES THAT PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERSHIP NEVER FULLY PROTECTS US FROM A PLUNDERING OUTSIDE FORCE.
NOW I KNOW THAT'S WRONG.
A government gang is hardly better than a criminal; why work for something when you can just steal it right!?!? The way of the gun, is that it!?
Just because someone is in arrears of a modest amount of tax or any other debt does not entitle ANYONE to commit grand theft and gross eviction on an OWNED PROPERTY. It doesn't matter the remainder is returned after the sale; the whole process is criminal. Some things are just wrong.
HOW has this become normalized?!? Or are we so used to gross evil and US State violence we no longer blink an eye?
It shouldn't matter WHAT average local home values are regarding tax collection purposes because residential property and land taxes SHOULD NOT EXIST!
They should not be used as a source of judgment regarding any type of negative policy towards the proliferation of homes evolve varieties at all income levels. Everyone deserves a safe affordable home- from size tiny to very large if that's what they can afford.
So let's be clear -
YOU DON'T OWE ANYONE A KICKBACK FOR THE RIGHT TO OWN LAND OR PROPERTY ON THIS PLANET !!!!? LET'S GET IT THROUGH ALL OF OUR THICK HEADS RIGHT FKG NOW!! PROPERTY/LAND TAXES AND PLAY THAT YOU NEVER TRULY OWN ANYTHING AND YOU HAVE TO PAY YOUR LORD FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING YOUR OWN MASTER!! FALL BEHIND A FEW MONTHS AND FORGET IT THEY GET TO TAKE WHAT IS YOURS, AND CLAIM THIS IS RIGHT.
THE FUCK IT IS!!!!!!!!!
If you bought land or a home fair and square from a seller or a bank, you don't owe anyone one red cent on top of that!!!! IT'S YOURS UNTIL YOU DECIDE TO GIVE IT AWAY OR SELL IT.
THAT'S WHAT PRIVATE PROPERTY MEANS!
WHERE THE HELL ARE THE PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS IN THIS COUNTRY GOD DAMMIT!?!??
THERE ARE A THOUSAND OTHER BETTER AND ETHICAL WAYS TO COLLECT PUBLIC MONEY THAN VIOLATING RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.
I still can't believe any of this is "legal". You never truly free in this country if Big Brother demands residential property taxes. A man's home / land is his castle the one place he can be truly free on earth. So long as he's not harming anyone else (or animals) he has the right to live as he see fits and owes no one obsequious obeisance, or money!!!!!! SO WHILE I CERTAINLY SUPPORT A ROBUST PUBLIC SECTOR, NOT THIS WAY!! BIG BROTHER NEEDS TO GET FUCKED AND GET OFF MY PROPERTY, AND YOURS!!!
I get so angry just thinking about it.
Look I love to support my local community in so far as my personal means world would allow but not this way!!!! Other ways yes, but not this way!! OTHER taxes, but not this.
Wanting higher property taxes from a municipal district has got to be one of the grossest objections to the human right to afford a home of one's exact choosing and financial ability therefore like all the other shameful objections, it must be shown the full contempt it deserves and rejected.
As always, our twin enemies remain local/state government thugs and Wall Street/big business. Talk about getting nailed at both ends. As always, a match made in hell which, as ALWAYS, serves to fuck over the lower 80%.
[The top 20% will always be okay no matter what's happening in the public sector. They are not relevant to this discussion. It's the rest of us who matter here.]
A human being has the RIGHT to live in any type of home or dwelling they so choose, insofar as they keep it within their own designated private property boundaries and commit no harmful behavior on it; whether at the high, middle, or low end of the value scale; the fact that ANY local or regional government groups would oppose this shows their true degeneracy and moral bankruptcy.
As always, government filth only want to serve the rich. The bribes and favors are just better.
We have to show them that we matter too.
They aren't the only foe in this fight, but they ARE a big one.
I'd be shocked if I came across any local municipal and County governments that are openly and aggressively favorable towards affordable rental housing and affordable homeownership of homes of all sizes and styles. I live in Southern California and haven't seen it yet. If someone thinks I'm overlooking something by all means please enlighten me. If I'm overlooking a few bright spots of progress, please correct me.
SO THE FIGHT FOR HOUSING JUSTICE AND RENTAL JUSTICE CONTINUES DOESN'T IT.
fucking hell.
The vultures continue attacking and we have no choice but to continue to fight for OUR RIGHTS to live well and above all, affordably and with dignity and stability.
(the end)
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Hard truth and big facts. And if you speak out against it, oftentimes by other weirdos or let's just say, confused citizens, you're called unflattering names or penalized or attacked, or targeted by government.
Yes the draft is gone in the US now and I don't think it will be back- but back in the 60s and 70s plenty of Vietnam protesters were verbally attacked in the media and by average citizens. Those who took place and demonstrations were arrested and occasionally charged with symbolic felonies and misdemeanors.
IMAGINE THINKING THAT WE ARE ALL SUCH SLAVES AND NON-INDEPENDENT BEINGS THAT WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO DECIDE WHO WE SACRIFICE OUR VERY BODIES, MINDS AND LIVES TO. IMAGINE THINKING ONE DOESN'T HAVE THE **RIGHT** TO REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY CONFLICT- IMAGINE THINKING ONE DOESN'T HAVE THE CHOICE OVER ONE'S OWN VERY LIFE!! That's how you know megalomaniacal wannabe dictators are in charge.
People who spoke out against Iraq and Afghanistan were often jeered at the same way. Service members who went and became disillusioned either had two choices, go AWOL or try to be separated as a conscientious objector; both difficult and some were penalized and charged with bogus crimes for trying. Lunacy.
As for ignorance citizens' response, I don't understand this inborn desire amongst these types to be a willing human sacrifice.... I mean if that's what you want for yourself by all means buddy go put YOUR ass on the line but I don't see how you feel you have the right to criticize someone else who has good reasons for opposing this latest armed conflict..... Fkg A
Look the next time my country is invaded and attacked by a stronger enemy I'll be the first one to volunteer and I mean that, but short of that, and short of actually being part of a moral liberationary force, no hell NO nO, I'm not going to throw my life and possibly my mental sanity away for empty if not deeply immoral reasons. HELL. FUCKING. NO!!
AND NEITHER SHOULD YOU!!
Neither should anyone.
Amazing how much some ignorant citizens seem to NOT want rights. Apparently not just for themselves but for thee and thou as well. amazing.
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Hard truth and big facts. And if you speak out against it, oftentimes by other weirdos or let's just say, confused citizens, you're called unflattering names or penalized or attacked, or targeted by gov groups.
Yes the draft is gone in the US now and I don't think it will be back- although they always leave the back door open via the "selective service "which I consider a violation of human rights which it is and all civil rights- but back in the 60s and 70s plenty of Vietnam protesters were attacked in the media and by average citizens. Those who took place and demonstrations were arrested and occasionally charged with BS felonies and misdemeanors.
IMAGINE THINKING THAT WE ARE ALL SUCH SLAVES AND NON-INDEPENDENT BEINGS THAT WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO DECIDE WHO WE SACRIFICE OUR VERY BODIES, MINDS AND LIVES TO. IMAGINE THINKING ONE DOESN'T HAVE THE **RIGHT** TO REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY CONFLICT- IMAGINE THINKING ONE DOESN'T HAVE THE **CHOICE* OVER ONE'S OWN VERY LIFE!! That's how you know megalomaniacal wannabe dictators are in charge.
People who spoke out against Iraq and Afghanistan were often jeered at the same way. Service-members who went over and became disillusioned either had two choices, go AWOL or try to be separated as a conscientious objector; both difficult and some were penalized and charged with bogus crimes for trying. Lunacy.
As for ignorance citizen response, I don't understand this inborn desire amongst these types to be a willing human sacrifice.... I mean if that's what you want for yourself by all means buddy go put YOUR ass on the line but I don't see how you feel you have the right to criticize someone else who has good reasons for opposing this latest armed conflict.....
IMAGINE THINKING WE WERE BORN ONLY TO SERVE OUR OVERLORDS AS BULLET FODDER....
lunacy
Look, the next time this country is invaded and attacked by a stronger enemy (if it ever is) I'll be the first one to volunteer and I mean that, but short of that, and short of actually being part of a moral liberationary force (if it ever happens), no hell NO I'm NOT going to throw my life and possibly my mental sanity away for NOTHING!! for empty if not deeply immoral reasons. HELL. FUCKING. NO!!
AND NEITHER SHOULD YOU
Neither should anyone.
Amazing how much some ignorant citizens seem to NOT want rights! Apparently not just for themselves but for thee and thou as well. Rights even over one's own very life. As if I was born with some moral duty literally encoded into my DNA to be a willing SACRIFICE for any trivial conflict gobmint persons can come up with.
amazing.
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@krisniznik3953 yes I tend to agree. Look, at the end of the day politicians are just actors and anybody who falls for them is just saying that they want to be led and told what they want to hear, without ever questioning the actual motives behind the person who is saying such messages.
If people think any politician in this country has pure motives other than maybe Bernie and Cori Bush my god do they need a brain transplant.
Very very few US politicians are ever sincere in my opinion. The vast majority are clearly bought-and-paid-for and will go out of their way to completely ignore their constituents. They will perform whichever way they feel they need to in order to generate support but it will all be hollow. Clearly half the country wants to fall for it since roughly half the country votes in every general election; but it's a facade because they're all united behind the scenes and they all serve the same masters.
Perhaps it's a little too utopian to think that we could be free of elected politicians entirely in our lifetime but the longer we stay subjugated to this privileged hyper-corrupt class who work for the big banks, big business, big war, the CIA, big lockup and big racism, the longer WE lose.
We need an aggressive and viable Left party or we just need to somehow force most matters of policy into public votes as default procedure at every govt level. I'm not under any illusions that this is going to be easy, I'm sure it will be very hard and I doubt we'll be able to do it in our lifetime but that's where I'm at with it.
There is no democracy with representative democracy, at least not in this country. It's a faux neoliberal facade of democracy because we know who's really in charge and it's not us.
I mean after all, without direct democracy AKA majority rule we don't really have a democracy we have a fascist dictatorship by Wall Street interests. As to the question, well what if the majority gets it wrong??... I honestly don't think that will happen, not on the important issues. More people have common sense and character then don't, I believe.
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I do hope Satan waits for all predators. The DEA must have thought this would be an easy killing. Elderly couple, few resources, like taking candy from a baby. Easiest kill in the world. Couldn't be easier, they must have thought.
WE NEED IMMEDIATE LAWS INDEMNIFYING ALL APARTMENT OWNERS, LANDLORDS AND MOTEL PROPRIETORS FROM ANY LEGAL LIABILITY REGARDING SO-CALLED ILLEGAL ACTIVITY ON THEIR PROPERTY.
Or at a minimum, full prior knowledge MUST be able to be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt before liability can be enforced. Even so the censure must be reasonable. Unless the property was being used to cause harm to minors AND the ownership was well aware of this, no seizure should ever be allowed.
I live in an apartment currently. Unless I draw attention to myself from local cops, it is not fair in any way to hold my landlord responsible for what occurs inside my apartment. I have an expectation of privacy on this property and within my unit. If I'm doing something wrong, and it comes to the attention of the manager, then that's one thing. But no, without any prior knowledge, you CANNOT hold property owners or managers responsible for what the permanent or temporary users do while on that property, and it's the HEIGHT of evil and viciousness and psychopathy to try to reach into the past and say that someone deserves to pay a price today for something that may or may not have happened years ago, when that issue has already been long concluded. If it is no longer occurring, and there is no recent or long-standing pattern, than then it is over and it cannot be dredged up again as a thin pretext for grand theft.
Even in exterior public spaces, unless there was one or more aspects that were physically unsafe, its not the proprietors fault if someone chooses to do something wrong or so-called illegal. Owners cannot be expected to monitor and control the behavior every single human being that passes through occupies a square foot on their property. This is unrealistic and it's something we shouldn't want. If it comes to their attention that something wrong is happening than they should take appropriate action, but prior to that, they cannot be expected to know in real-time everything that is happening. This would require 1984 levels of surveillance and is something nobody should want.
I can only imagine the inner corruption and psychopathy of the typical federal judge on these trumped-up immoral cases. The defendants in these cases never have a chance.
Government agents are nothing but high-class criminals. I've never understood their evil or anyone's I really haven't.
To breathlessly cause extreme harm to another person either through their property, their finances, or their person, for no other reason other than personal gain, and be able to sleep at night. But sociopathy is a disease which affects unfortunately all too many.
THIS ILLICIT AND EVIL BUSINESS WITH DEMONIZING DRUGS HAS BEEN SO RUTHLESS AND SO USEFUL TO GOVERNMENT DEMONS OVER THE PAST 50 YEARS. HOW MANY BILLIONS HAS IT BROUGHT THEM IN TOTAL THEFT AND ILL-GOTTEN GAINS? HOW MANY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OR MILLIONS OF LIVES AS IT DESTROYED EITHER IN THE SHORT-TERM OR THE LONG-TERM?? HOW MANY FAMILIES HARMED FOREVER BECAUSE OF THE SATANIC EVILS OF MASS INCARCERATION??
I pray to God to bring us out of this dark age when something as worthless and pointless and meaningless as consenting adult drug use are used as the excuse to cause absolute murder, the vicious theft of millions of human beings' lives and potential as they're thrown into ugly cages, and the criminal dispossession of assets on an industrial scale.
I know I sound extreme but I really do pray for the destruction of the entire US government apparatus. It is nothing but a criminal enterprise writ large; based on murder, violence, and industrial scale dispossession both from and to US citizens and dozens of nations abroad. The DEA is just one small part of this monster.
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@oltedders not to my knowledge. Before the beginning of the drawdown, it is my understanding that they held influence or controlled no more than 30% of the country. And if we wished we could have pushed that to zero but it is my understanding that there hasn't been much actual active engagement over the past few years, perhaps due to the ongoing decrease of numbers posted in the country since the high around 2011, where things on both sides had reached a kind of status quo holding pattern for the time being.
Now you might ask, it sounds like I'm being really unfair to the Taliban and treating them like the enemy. It's not because I can't allow for other cultures to have different views than me, I usually can, but not so much with these guys and certainly not with ISIS. I don't even care that they want to be short cultist and fundamentalist in their own lives or community- if they want to live like it's the 7th century or as I usually just call it the Stone Age, hell go for it, it's your life; I'm willing to respect those choices- but I draw the line at them wanting to extend that, by use of violence and murder and barbarism to an entire region of people. They want slaves basically, and who gave them that right??? Nobody has that right. So 40M other persons' wishes and goals in life font matter- only these guys, who want totalitarian rule and who enjoy meting out savage and violent punishments like hand chopping or stoning. Apparently most of them feel these actions are all very reasonable and appropriate.
So at least for the time being yes I support and supported all efforts to limit their influence or drive them from power. In order for them to get what they want, 30-40M others, including at least 15-20M women have to be harmed or held in limbo or have their interests mean nothing, and I don't think either of us thinks that is right.
Dgmw- I know that none of the last 4 administrations ever gave any real fucks about the actual average people of the region when making their self-serving plans, idk maybe Obama did to a point; I'm just saying that I do, some of us out here really do care about the actual people affected by all these changes and we're looking at this issue thru as a humanitarian one, which it is of course.
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@davidbaker1918 (abc) this presumes all our laws are moral and upright which is completely untrue. Lot of our laws are pure trash and shouldn't be upheld at all. Once upon a time slavery was law. If we don't question the laws and stop enforcing the bad ones well guess what??? Those laws continue to be forced onto people and lives get to be ruined or harmed unnecessarily. When you PIGS don't think for yourself WE suffer and that really enrages me.
Same when people to go overseas as military members to commit crimes against strangers (usually civilians) they've never met!!!! I don't understand why people WANT to follow politicians in this country, instead of thinking for ourselves like free human beings!!! especially these evil bought-and-paid-for political skinbags!!! can't you motherfukers think for yourself!?!?? Why are you all such SLAVES!?!?? And WHY DO YOU WANT TO ENSLAVE THE REST OF US??!?! Why don't you stand up for our freedom and liberty provided we're not hurting anybody else, instead of needing to be a tyrant!?!!!!??? I would certainly stand up for yours.
MOST STREET COPS ARE DESPERATE TO BE TYRANTS AND SUBJUGATE OTHERS AND IT'S DISGUSTING AND IT'S WRONG AND IT NEEDS TO STOP. THEY WANT TO TAKE AWAY OUR HUMAN RIGHTS TO MAKE OUR OWN NV OR IN-COMMUNITY CHOICES. This is morally wrong.
Why do you types want everyone to be under the control of the central government WHY!?!?!? What about freedom- provided it's not causing undue harm to anybody else- do you motherfukers have a problem with????
Corrupt politicians with evil agendas shouldn't tell us what's right or wrong, WE should make that decision!!! Plenty of laws belong in the trash in this country. When you blindly enforce laws you allow worthless politicians who would sell their mothers for a dollar be your master AND mine and I oppose that 100%!!!
The only just laws are the prevention of violence to others and working out of property violations. Anything else is sheer tyranny and amorality from the State. Seriously, test me. Throw up a scenario. If I've overlooked something I'll admit it but I don't think I have.
The right likes to talk about small-government but those on the far left want small-government on the individual and independent businesses and the common community. Control is a BAD thing and people have the right to be free, not slaves to some corrupt local or distant authority. I'm not saying anything goes; I'm saying outside of some commonsense and decent restrictions, a few, yes for the most part, anything goes. That's called living in a free country. Free to make most choices for oneself despite with Big Brother demand. If this means drugs this means drugs. If this means militia this means militia. Big brother has few rights. My body and brain are my OWN I have the do with it whatever the fuck I want, provided I'm not violating the safety rights of my neighbor.
Traffic enforcement is deeply evil and a deep violation of human and civil rights. Not accident response- I'm talking about traffic stalking and the traffic stops which are evil and amoral in every sense.
You people worship government because you want to control others. This is why we oppose most of you who take this job- it's a job about subjugation and control and grand theft, not safety rescue. No one sane opposes safety rescue that's what you should be doing, but it's the rest of it that's bad.
You DON'T have the right to control or dominate others EVEN if you think you're doing it for a moral purpose. I've outlined the only justified cases for intervening with force, that's preventing violence to another, and that's the sorting out of property infractions.
I guarantee you did way more than that when you were flashing your badge and gun around on your rounds.
Yes I'm a libertarian and I oppose ALL State control that violates my innate rights. The purview of any government local state or federal should be extremely narrow. The more rights we give away to Big Brother the less we have for ourselves. I don't fancy being a slave and I don't know why anybody else does.
I may not be able to force my agenda through in my lifetime but I'll sure try. Anything that moves the needle forward on this even just a tick is worth doing. I want complete and total freedom for myself and that for every other citizen in this country. Only genuine violent public threats should be intervened on by the State.
Let me be clear, when any safety officer genuinely helps a person in harm's way, that is them doing their job and I appreciate that. But we both know that's perhaps 2% of what cops are told to do or allowed to do . The other 95% is in my eyes TOTALLY criminal, absolutely unacceptable and gross. I'm nobody at all so I can't force the changes I want to see right now but I will be organizing and advocating for then, in whatever capacity I can.
We need skilled (not punk dickless cowardly and shameful) safety officers. Outside of that we don't need ONE THING.
96% of cop work in this country is CRIMINAL. Yes that is correct. Well in my estimation at least. For the 4% that actually helps people, yes I'm grateful for that. That's a whopping 4% (in my judgement).
Again none of this is personal but I just have to tell you where the Left is with this. Control of anyone outside of narrow circumstances (or theft of personal assets) is an immoral act. I'm for true freedom and liberty for everyone and VERY few cops.
First response ONLY or hostage rescue is the only moral purpose for a State-based safety brigade. I'm not crazy I know there are situations which need a safety response- I'm saying that's ALL that a cop should ever be allowed to do EVER.
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@sergeikhripun I will look up your video, because I'm curious to see if it jives with my sources and how the information is presented, but I don't expect it will change my views. As I said, I heard it was carefully edited to present Kyle as the victim.
The bottom line is, he chose to enter a volatile situation certainly without peaceful motives. Pro-BLM activists really bothered him, and he chose to take a loaded heavy weapon into a volatile situation to confront them. He did so, one or more confronted him back, he didn't like that, and that's when he began shooting. The two people he killed were completely unarmed. It's POSSIBLE one person, Rosenbaum?, pointed his hangun towards Kyle. How close it was to Kyle, or if Kyle even saw it is unclear to me. But everything I have heard indicates that this happened only after Kyle shot and killed the two others. So I would need more information to conclusively say whether Kyle had justification in shooting Victim #3 in the arm, the handgun owner. But that still leaves two dead unarmed victims, and Kyle knew they were unarmed. One was shirtless, so no weapons there; the plastic bag guy; and the other had the skateboard. How can we justify Kyle shooting both these people with a huge AR-15??? I can't. A gun that technically he wasn't even supposed to have on him at that time, which of course he knew. And Mom just all okay with this- jesus. So yeah, that's a minimum of two counts of intentional manslaughter for me, and I'd give him 10-15 years due to his age, mental immaturity, bad childhood effects and etc. I think that's pretty fair and I'd hope the victims' families would too. Maybe they wouldn't feel that's enough, but that's something that could be discussed further.
But the whole situation was very unnecessary and avoidable and this is why unbalanced youth with obvious racist issues shouldn't have access to firearms!! Jesus. Mom didn't do her job, period. I'm sure she's trailer-iffic and racist too, but just out of concern for her son alone she was WAY out of line driving him to the site of the protest that evening knowing he intended to get a damn arm cannon when he was there (Kyle says he bought the gun from his friend that evening). And she definitely had to know, I mean he wasn't going to band practice. They were rural types, they probably had had guns around the house before, and now Kyle wanted another one "for self-defense" because he really didn't like those "BLM assholes". Now I don't know if he said those exact words but that was his attitude.
The whole bullshit was a crisis waiting to happen. Maybe Mom should have stepped in and IDK, just done her job by refusing to be his driver, or telling him he couldn't go, and this all could have been prevented. He might have still found another way to go and left on his own, but at least Mom would have been the responsible adult in the room.
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Anytime someone feels the need to seek an abundance of public validation over how deeply they've been wronged by their adult children I see an immediate crimson red flag.
Regardless of your dispute with your family members, unless you are the victim of legitimate serious abuse including SA, I see no reason for you ever to go public with personal family grievances, especially as a parent. That immediately makes me feel you are disingenuous, selfish, and possibly very emotionally immature.
What do you need the public's validation for, I would ask? I'm not talking in general; I'm talking in regards to private family matters. If you generally want to seek a positive or loving resolution to your issues, wouldn't you seek that privately with your family member, and then regardless of the outcome, leave it where it belongs, between the two of you?
Why are you using your big mean family member to garner sympathy??, I think is a fair question to ask.
She's literally saying "poor me poor me- I'm such a victim! feel sorry for me! I am standing up against my mean mean daughter, look at me! parents unite! We have been oppressed for too long! our kids don't appreciate us; aren't they rotten!?!?"
Look; every person is going to have their side and their version of a dispute and their reasons for grievances, but c'mon, I don't want to be unfair to either side but give me a break! What fully grown adult woman (or man) wants to say this to the world in regards to their growing or adult children? If you have any desire whatsoever to besmirch the reputation of your offspring, I think that you are borderline unwell and need to do a lot of work on yourself. That is petty, juvenile and selfish and has no place in a loving mature adult relationship in my eyes.
If you have serious resentment for any reason against your adult children, I'm willing to bet that you are NOT willing to admit any fault whatsoever regarding past points of difference, and don't have nearly the amount of love, respect, and honor towards them that you think you do. A healthy relationship does not have long simmering resentments IMO because both parties truly value, love and respect the viewpoints and well-being of the other and will do the work necessary to work through what issues might exist.
I have a hard time feeling any resentment from parent(s) toward child are justified; a very hard time. Life is very complex though and I'm sure there are some limited cases when I would. But in general I tend to immediately feel my guard going up when I hear that a parent or parents feels "justified" resentment towards their otherwise responsible adult child.
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On a fundamental level the basic tenets of government as practiced by the current demons in charge are nothing but tyranny, violence, grand larceny, and savagery.
How much of that do we really want? I don't want ANY of it... I can't fathom why anyone would. It gobsmacks me when people love their leashes. But most people are obedient and submissive and weak so ....
Yeah I have solutions, I go into detail elsewhere.
Just being able to liberate yourself from the idea that government is inherently moral and somehow created by god or some such lunacy is your FIRST step towards taking back your dignity and freedom.
Govt a wholly MAN-MADE system designed to place total power in the hands of a tiny ruling elite, and YOU get to be a glorified slave. THATS GOVT. The vast majority of govt is nothing but a scam , a mind fuck, a weasel system used by evil people for evil purposes to control YOU, to liquidate you, and to subjugate you. I don't think you should like this.
Nobody should like this.
"Nobody has the innate right to rule or obey" - the first principle of civil libertarianism
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There IS a tiny narrow role for some State force to control corporations and those out there doing genuinely destructive evil acts but beyond that, NO. Not at ALL. We have gone so far beyond the fair bounds of rational governance in this s-hole nation.
In many ways we live in a seriously dystopian 1984 tenth-world hellhole rn. The ONLY way forward that I can see is that people finally get tired of living as slaves subject to the sadistic rules of the demons who would harm us; reject the old order by any means necessary, and come together to build something new and respectable. If that means we burn DC to the ground and the State House AND your local police department I'm all for that. Whatever it takes is what I want.
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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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Even without watching this video through to the end, I intuitively understand why there would be up to one less rotation when Circle A is rotated along a flat surface equal to the circumference of circle B, and I even think I could explain it but I'm afraid it would come out too garbled to be easily understood. But visually, it's quite clear. It's because, in the flatline method, the two tangent points are always going to be closer together then the two sequentially tangent points would be on the two just-touching circles where both circles are curving away from each other at every point. There is literally less vertical and horizontal distance between each possible tangent point in the first scenario when circle A is being rotated along a straight line (of an unrolled, flattened Circle B).
Ergo, it's going to take measurably more rotation in the case of the two opposing circles, for Circle A to come back to its initial position on the edge of Circle B, versus traveling the same distance along a straight uncurved line equal to length of the circumference of Circle B.
I don't know if that makes any sense, I'm not a mathematician and I'm no special brainiac, but that's how I understand it.
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PEOPLE PLEASE LISTEN TO ME OKAY- I just want to talk to everyone here for a moment if I can;
Anyone who comes across this-
I DON'T CARE WHAT YOUR POLITICAL AFFILIATION IS- YOU CAN BE 180 FROM ME ONSOME THINGS THAT IS FINE! WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME SIDE WHEN IT COMES TO EVIL. I WOULD NEVER NOT FIGHT FOR YOUR DIGNITY AND I HOPE YOU ALL WOULD SUPPORT MINE. That's all that matters. This isn't a partisan issue!
THIS IS A MORAL ISSUE!!! ALL HUMANS OF CONSCIENCE HAVE TO COME TOGETHER AND STOP POLICE EVIL. WE HAVE TO.
Govt in this country is just another name for 'absolute tyrannical ruler and destroyer'. Do YOU want that!?!? I DON'T WANT THAT!! I WOULD THINK ANY PERSON OF SANE MIND WOULDN'T WANT THAT.
"GOVT" DEMONS IN THIS COUNTRY MAKE A MOCKERY OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
NO HUMAN HAS THE RIGHT TO DO THIS SHIT TO ANYONE - ANYWHERE - EVER- FOR ANY REASON.
WITHOUT AN ANTI-GOVERNMENT LIBERTARIAN CONSCIOUSNESS, WE WILL ALL STAY SLAVES. I DON'T WANT THAT FOR US.
DON'T LET "GOVERNMENT" DEMONS GASLIGHT YOU INTO THINKING THEY DESERVE THE RIGHT TO HURT YOU!!!*
NOBODY DESERVES THE RIGHT TO HURT YOU OR TO TAKE YOUR BUSINESS OR YOUR HOME!!! Unless you're running a sex-trafficking ring out of it NOBODY has the right to initiate violence against you, ever. EVER!!
IF ANY OF YOU ARE TEMPTED TO TRY TO JUSTIFY THIS EVIL, PLEASE JUST STOP. I BEG YOU. DECOLONIZE YOUR MIND RIGHT NOW.
I DON'T CARE WHAT SOMEBODY CALLS THEMSELVES, THEY CAN CALL THEM THE SON OF GOD, IT DOESN'T MATTER!!!
EVIL IS EVIL. WRONG IS WRONG. WE EITHER HAVE INASSAILABLE HUMAN RIGHTS, OR WE DON'T.
NOTHING JUSTIFIES EVIL.
DONT LET ANYBODY MAKE YOU BELIEVE THAT JUST BECAUSE SOMEBODY CLAIMS A TITLE THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO BRUTALIZE YOU AND STEAL FROM YOU. DONT EVER ACCEPT THAT.
HUMAN RIGHTS TRUMP ALL. IT TRUMPS DOCUMENTS, IT TRUMPS SO-CALLED CONSTITUTIONS, IT TRUMPS THE PSYCHOPATHY OF THOSE WHO WOULD RULE OVER YOU AND DESTROY YOU FOR A THRILL!!* IT TRUMPS EVERYTHING.
A true government doesn't act this way! This is evil, this is satanism, this is joyful psychopathy on display.
This is LAWLESSNESS!
TRUE GOVERNANCE DOESN'T INITIATE EVIL AND IT DOESN'T INITIATE FORCE WITHOUT GOOD CAUSE ( for instance rescuing kidnap victims) AND IT DOESN'T COMMIT LARCENY!!!!!!
Evil is evil.
PLEASE hate police. They are the devil's soldiers. They exist to hurt you. We can have case workers and a few limited 911 takers WITHOUT THIS!! THIS IS EVIL, AND ANY POLITICIAN WHO WOULD PROTECT THIS IS LIKEWISE A LAWLESS ANTI-HUMAN FASCIST AND THUG.
NOBODY HAS MORE RIGHTS THAN ANOTHER NOBODY HAS THE RIGHTS TO DO THIS!! Nobody.
I hope I didn't have to convince anyone.
Rescue yourselves- embrace civil libertarianism NOW. We DON'T have to accept police evil. You DON'T have to accept being slaves! YOU DON'T HAVE TO ACCEPT RULERSHIP!
If we have to die for it, so be it. It's a far better choice than living a slave.
Live free or DIE. I can't see any other philosophy which is worth living by.
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@Flike245 it's because I know them I'm 40 and a 9/11 era US vet. I was in the early campaigns twice in the region, tho not in the ground. Not slaughtered necessarily, I'd settle for removal.
You don't have the experience with this issue that I do.
You're acting like they're the good guys. I guess you just don't know who they are and what they want, which is a fundamentalist ultra cultist theocratic dictatorship.
I've explained in other comments why they are only good for themselves and bad for everyone else.
Even if they never kill anyone, they STILL have no right to rule; as they refuse to recognize the equality and humanity of women and respect their rights, first of all. Most are illiterate with no education and doubtful ability to manage ordinary govt functions, last time they held power they immediately cancelled all access to everything secular such as all entertainments and sports activities. I'm not sure if they restricted access to libraries.
Basically they steal everyone's rights, just more from the women then men.
Yes. For those reasons, in my mind, they deserve two options, surrender or death. You go try to live with/under them for five minutes, and I think you would see how extremely oppressive and totalitarian it is. But feel free to do your own research, you don't have to take it from me.
And I don't buy for 5 seconds they have changed, like some are claiming. That's deeply laughable, just a ploy for the gullible. They want to live like a stone age savage, which I wouldn't mind, but then they ALSO want to force everyone else to do it too, which I most certainly DO mind and is wholly unacceptable and why I didn't want us to leave unless and until they could be fully neutralized once and for all. Now maybe for corrupt reasons that was never the goal from the Pentagon, no doubt bec they intended to use and did use them to do some of our dirty work for us namely against ISIS. Honest to God I don't fucking know why were always trying to outsource our fucking battles. If we have a states enemy then let's engage them, but this cowardly bullshit of beefing up someone else to do our fighting for us is nonsense. But I guess now ISIS and the Tali-fascists have their own beefs going back years, so I guess even without us there they would still be fighting each other. Bottom line, setting IS aside, after all that time and money, it's disgusting just to let it fall right back into Taliban hands. I believe most Afghans have no desire to live under the Taliban and if that's true then I support removing or neutralizing them and I don't know why this wasn't done more thoroughly at any point in the last 20 years.
As to who they are, they like to do forced marriages with girls as young as 13 or 14. They consider them "adults" at age 14. Pedophilia is rampant in Islam, and it all started with their "prophet" who according to all reports got married to a 9 year old when he was around 50. Sick huh? I'm not saying all Muslims agree with pedophilia, Bec I know that's not true, but clearly many do for precisely this reason.
Yeah, these people don't deserve the mean labels I give them. Sure.
Nobody's bad in the world, just misunderstood. Right. I wish that were true.
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@docsavage8640 no the blue punks definitely should pay for it, they caused it. It's pointless to sue the fugitive of course he has no money. When the Blue pieces of shit cause a problem they should be held responsible.
I don't understand why the Blue Filth in this country are above the law and they're even above every civil liability it makes me sick.
Stop respecting Blue scum, they would kill you as soon as look at you. They do not care about you, there on the malignant narcissist/sociopath/bully/narcopath/dirtbag spectrum, a great majority of them. Most of them in my belief. Just listen to more of these stories, these are not unique. Don't ever be a bootlicker, you owe yourself better than that.
Just a side note; I'm sure sure you mean non-violence when you say law-abiding, and that's understandable, but a lot of laws go too far and I will gladly break them or have already broke them if I felt I had good reason. But I know what you mean in this context so that's a chat for another time.
Just keep in mind laws are from man and not god's mouth. Just because something is legal doesn't make it right and vice versa. just because current people in power say something is okay or isnt okay doesn't make it so; we have to be able to think for ourselves that's very important.
You shouldn't let politicians tell you what's right and wrong, those are the worst kinds of people to give that authority to. Most laws are bullshit; I think for myself and I make my own rules. I also respect other people and I respect their property. I don't scam anyone nor do I break and enter private homes. I respect human rights and what I call 'natural law' and that's good enough for me. I think for myself and I don't need big brother and the narcopath worthless bought-and-paid-for
scumbag politicians that get into office in this country to think for me, yeah that'll be the day. You shouldn't either.
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Well when you let the rich and big business take everything, ie; an ever-growing outrageous disproportionate share, and refuse to fund basic needs properly, sadly this is what you get.
It's been SOP in the US as long as I've been alive with all predictable negative and disastrous results.
Some people are doing very well but I would say at least half the country is insecure or poor, possibly more. I would say up to 70% live paycheck to paycheck with few savings.
And all this because a psychopathic tiny elite want everything, and they control the political discourse, via both Wall Street parties. (GOP and Democrats)
I think it's a shame that worthless selfish sociopathic people are still driving public policy via literal bribery to PACs and promises of future favor. It's the simplest thing in the world to end all poverty and provide equal opportunity to all, it just takes the political will. You literally HAVE to tax at the top and you redistribute downwards, and then you ensure basic needs are always properly funded in the future via fair tax policy and material guarantees enumerated under law. Providing actual job security, home security, food security, guaranteed medical treatment, better wages and labor protections, guaranteed education, public transport, some form of UBI and more.
The resources are there and then some, it's just getting them to where they're needed. But that's never going to happen when big business and the psychopathic 1% of private wealth gets to dictate everything.
Only a dictatorship of the people would ensure everyone had enough while also allowing business to operate within proper confines of heavy regulation (mostly directed at bigger business).
Also, federal governments literally create their own money, so no central government can ever claim they don't have money and be telling the truth. UK, like the US, creates its own currency. It can print more or digitally create more as needed. So I don't understand where this claim of having no money comes from- all currency-independent nation-states produce their own currency, or they can tax it, or they can borrow it. The money is always there somewhere but when these elite scum don't want to step on the toes of other elite scum, I guess they feel that they can't spend or raise anything. This of course is ridiculous because that ignores the reality of the federal Mint, or whatever the equivalent is in the UK. I mean where do people think the physical currency comes from in the first place???
Obviously all the money in circulation has come from somewhere, it didn't come from a goddamn money fairy, so where did it come from?? Obviously it came from whatever central authority prints money in that given country. Up to a point a country can for the most part print its way out of any economic problem. As currency is just a point of exchange for goods and services and labor man-hours, provided the amount of printing doesn't get super ridiculous, pumping more currency into a nation by funding worthwhile needs and increasing direct benefits will only help a population.
True, there have been very limited cases where central govt spending went awry but these were extremely rare and due to very specific conditions; which are not at all the case with the US and the UK today. "But Zimbabwe and Weimar Germany" are idiotic examples when compared to today's secure established major Western countries. (But don't take my word for it, feel free to look it up yourself)
While there might be some limited and modest cost increases by some merchants in response to perceived extra income by consumers, these tend to be transitory, cyclical, and relatively manageable.
Usually it's big business corps that are choosing to raise prices or gouge consumers when they feel they can get away with it, regardless of any pre-existing localized or national economic conditions. The only way to really stop this are laws and legislation, which never happen here in the US because big business owns every politician. Both parties here are but one single Wall Street party with two heads.
And until that changes, until we get government that puts average people's needs first, aka a Left government, then the parasitic 1% will continue to claim the right to serve their unlimited greed, and poverty will continue to plague the lives of more and more of the common population.
It's the same story everywhere. Refuse to limit business and 1% greed, watch poverty and avoidable death claim more lives. It really is incredibly simple when you boil it down. That's all fine of course with the elites, but it shouldn't be fine by us. Any average income or poor person that votes Tory or centrist in the UK, or for either of the two Wall Street parties here in the US and isn't already super financially secure, is a moron. They keep on voting for the same people who have no intention of doing anything to help them and will actively harm them through their tenure, one way of another. It's quite amazing to me actually.
I guess people think that government should be of, by, and FOR the elites and 60% of the population should have to live hand to mouth or with a very little actual security, all so the top 2% can live like kings and gods. I can't understand why everyone isn't a pro-fair trade communist like me. A lifetime of propaganda I guess.
I don't understand the logic behind thinking we should be ruled and impoverished by a parasitical 2% and this is good.
Humans are strange.
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Those ultra libertarians make me blush. I think of myself as a left libertarian but come on, we don't want our mind so open that our brains fall out. I think a license to drive is fair however, it should not ever be used as a weapon by local government scum to extort you and even give you a short lock up in local county because you can't or won't pay those extortion fines, and/or as a crooked prelude to seize your only major asset that you rely on to get around, manage your life, and occasionally even live out of from economic necessity (guess who's talking from experience??).
But overall no I don't think that licensing and testing new and ongoing drivers is a bad thing, I would like them set at ten-year intervals, so long as the exams are reasonable and fair. A DL just shouldn't be ripped away from you for corrupt or criminal purposes the way literally every local municipality in this country does now. Because of bad luck I've had extreme headaches and major short-term and occasionally longer-term issues in every state that I've lived in which is been four so far, because they have a completely criminal extortion/ asset theft system set up and it all starts with entrapment and ballooning fines. They do the same thing to seize/take people's entire homes/land from them if you fall behind on your property taxes. I find it outrageous, shameful and criminal and I hope to lead the charge to change these kinds of ultra-crooked criminal racket-level policies in my lifetime.
This isnt a problem with the driver's license itself, its just how local government crooks and tyrants use them to fatten their pockets and keep the boot on the neck of the local poor.
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@darkrooster5751 some thoughts I had on that.
Isn't "time" fundamentally simply a perception of changing external events?? What I mean is, it isn't a "thing" or a visible observable process, it's just a shorthand label. To a rock or an animal time doesn't really have any meaning. To a horse the past and future arent concepts that really exist for them. It's only a concept that humans have, because we are capable of complex higher thought. "Time" to us is merely a means to differentiate between Not Now and Now; the past, present and future.
You seem to consider it actually a Thing. Time is just an idea, no more no less. A concept, like "justice". You can't hold a "justice" or make it speed up or slow down, but it is a concept that we can identify. I see "time" as exactly the same way. In essence, "time" doesn't exist, but our concept of it does.
I mean yes we can create clocks and other calibrated devices to so-called measure the passage of "time", which helps us manage our activities and structure our lives more easily by giving us numerical values to assign to different positions of the sun in the sky, but these are simply organizational tools. It gives us a universal standard to organize our lives by.
Basically, regardless of anything, I fail to understand how any instrument anywhere can measure this uh, "concept" any differently than any other instrument anywhere in the universe or under any other conditions.
Does any of this make sense to you and do you agree or disagree? If you think I'm missing the point how so?
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@darkrooster5751 yes ITA about a God subject. I'm just saying it is a possibility. I do personally believe there are higher powers out there than Man and a reality after death, just based on a few reasons. But that's not very scientifically useful I fully agree.
I only mean to infer that if a God didn't cause the big bang, I am at a damn hard impasse to understand what did. Logically we understand something can NOT just suddenly manifest from nothing. Also, how can no "space" exist?? No empty space. Seems impossible, doesn't it??
Nobody can say how or when a god was created....if one even exists. It is extremely puzzling, bec there can always be the question of what came before? How could an all-powerful being come into being? And if they were once created, who created them?? And so on, thru infinite regress. Truly unanswerable questions. And if God always existed, how can this be???? How can anything, even "god" truly be infinite???? It seems impossible, at least to me. Surely, my brain tells me, EVERYTHING had a discrete beginning, but of that's true, what was the very First Thing??? Before all the universes that ever existed??? Before "God"?? Smashes head
It's a damn mystery. It's wild stuff. I don't know if any human mind can fully answer these questions. I'm at a loss. How can anything REALLY go on forever?? What tf REALLY is "space"??? Or energy?? Crazy right??? I have no clue- do you??? If you do you're smarter than me, if so, good job. Cuz I they are beyond my personal understanding.
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Yes it must be a real struggle.
Not to get you down but everything in this country is fucked. A lot of jobs, a lot of wages, social security, all of it. I don't want you to have a bad day but the truth is I would say, 60% of people in this country are getting fucked in one way or another right now.
Government is not a positive force in this country government is a ruthless gangster that will throw us all in a pit for the big Banks and big corporate profit and they sure as hell won't help people get decent benefits if they're on public assistance. They already destroyed most welfare and what remains is pathetic and so minimal as to be useless.
The government structure in this country only serves the top 1%, both parties are the same party behind the scenes, don't believe their lies. There's not a Democrat or Republican currently live that has any intention of trying to change this.
Soap the rest of us are stuck in constant and poverty and/or insecurity. They won't bring down the cost of rent, they won't do anything. There are some housing assistance programs out there and Senior living which is usually lower cost than elsewhere, and perhaps something like that might help you, but you have to look in your area and try to find a resources may be available.
I don't mean to end on a negative but unfortunately this is where a lot of us are at right now.
I don't even think they give food stamps to those who are on social security. These people are very evil and very sick in the head. They seem to think that a person can survive perfectly fine paying for rent and food and anything else out of 700 or 900 or $1200 a month, which in most cases and most areas is impossible. And then of course if you're on disability there are low limits to how much you can have in the bank at any given time.
So. Their agenda seems to be to kill us all through slow starvation or homelessness. I guess they feel for those who reach a certain age or those that are disabled don't have a right to live anymore. I guess that's their philosophy. And of course even for those that do work a huge number of people live under the poverty line because wages are so pathetic, and rent is going up; even some professionals don't make a secure salary anymore.
Yep it's pretty sad times. I've never seen it even near this bad in all my life.
Meanwhile we're a wash and plenty, the stores have much more than they need, but instead of donating it back to their community it all goes to waste. All that food all those useful household goods, right in the trash because there are no laws against it.
We live in mad times and I don't know when it's going to get better.
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@mattbasford6299 choosing a pet over a human mate is a little extreme, but perhaps that particular relationship has other issues. The point is, love for our animal companions is real, natural and shouldn't have to be explained. If it does, there's something wrong with you.
Just say you can't love. No need to beat around the bush. You're a sociopath. You've never felt love or tenderness and you never will. Just admit it. The world is full of dead-inside people, my brother is one of them.
It's nothing to be ashamed of. Felt sorry for, yes, but not anything necessarily ashamed of. It's too bad for you, but I don't it's anything you can control.
You may literally be physically incapable of feelings even. Who knows how the brain fully works?? There's still much we don't know.
My pity to you nonetheless. I'm glad I'm not like that, beyond glad. You can't even truly love yoor family, because any human with an open heart doesn't have to be lectured on why they should love their pet. Literally facepalm moment..
Love touches all. We love our family, and we love our furry family members just as much, just in a different way.
Listen to you try to explain away your dead-inside-ness. Bruh I get it, just move on. Everything is a transaction to you, everything is reductive. Utilitarian. You'll NEVER know the true magic or joy that comes from life and for that, I'm truly sorry.
You're a one-dimensional person. It's sad.
You're basically a machine. But all sociopaths are. You're not alone. At least you know you're not the only one with this disorder. Good luck on your feeling-less existence.
Are you sure you should even be having kids?? Someone who can't understand love for companion animals can hardly be expected to feel the kind of all-consuming love that normal parents feel for their children. I doubt a person like you can feel human love any easier that you feel animal love.
I'm just thankful my heart works. Maybe with therapy you can change yours, idk.
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@Gingerblaze I mean, I appreciate him on some issues but I'm not sure what his ultimate agenda is, and I'm not sure if he's really serious about running. Either way I think at this point it's pretty impossible for an outside candidate to win. The "two party" red-blue system is an efficient machine and they work together to shut down anyone from the outside pretty efficiently, even challenger candidates like Bernie Sanders they always find a way to neutralize. They know what they're doing, I'll give them that. They are smart organized and have very deep pockets. They found a way to shut down Ross Perot in the 90s quite effectively and they have the same procedures in place anytime someone from the outside tries to muscle in.
Unfortunately it's extremely difficult to bust through the red/blue juggernaut in this country. Or it has been so far.
I'm not the expert, I don't know everything, but I think that politics can help if we can get better politicians in office, I do think it's possible, but so far this seems a tall task in this country. I think the best thing we can do for ourselves if we want to try to get some more humane politicians in office since For better or For worse, they can push different agendas, if that's possible, focus on your state, focus on your local county, and focus on your local city. There may or may not be some good people running but local and in-state politics affects our lives a lot more than federal. I think it's pretty clear that the federal apparatus exists to legitimize and protect all the largest corporate Capital Wall Street interests, and that's about it. They do a few other things that are somewhat positive, like national parks and the VA, but by and large their point is to protect Wall Street and the large organized corporate class by any means necessary.
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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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Well there is a huge racial component but you are absolutely right.
When the goal is mass incarceration you want as few people to be able to afford representation as possible, because then it wouldn't be as easy to lock up the maximum numbers of people in the fewest unit of time.
When you have a for-profit, highly racialized mass incarceration system this is what you get.
It's done en masse as you say, it's an assembly line period- they don't care WHO goes behind bars just so long as a poor body DOES go behind bars, hopefully for long enough to secure job security for the average CO. Very occasionally they target the slightly wealthy and that's usually only for bogus federal charges. Look up what's going on to the Chrisleys right now for an example of that.
It's because the goal is immoral and cruel, more bodies in slavery AKA behind bars AKA today's plantation. When you need more bodies, there's nothing you won't do to get them. It was as true in slavery days as it's today.
If they wanted as FEW as possible behind bars everything would be the opposite then it is, literally everything.
Cops wouldn't prowl the streets, public defenders would be the way DA's are; hyper-aggressive, knowledgeable, and with all the resources they need, and so on and so forth. It would be considered outrageous and bizarre and unusual for someone to feel like they got railroaded. It would be considered one of society's greatest shames if the goal appeared to be caging someone just for the sake of doing it, or giving them an unintentionally long sentence, or trying to subvert evidence or making it more difficult for them to appeal or challenge their sentence. All of that and more.
Imagine living in a society like THAT.... I can't, because for at a minimum 43 years it's never been like that; although in all honesty the shitty justice system might have been a little less of a prolific but it extended way before 1980.
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The fact that Pigs are allowed to roam free out of their pen in this country continuously astonishes me. Pigs have NO right to leave the station unless they're in DIRECT response to a 911 distress call, or returning from one. They have NO right to patrol ANYWHERE or to move around of their own volition causing ENDLESS criminal behavior, including but not limited to: assault, racketeering, terrorism, theft, robbery, murder, or any other verbal or physical assault wherever they go. It is insane that this is perceived as normal and acceptable by our extremely brainwashed, ass-cucked and lobotomized society.
Why are these amoral predators above the law?!?? WHY are they allowed to openly gangb_ng (that is in essence exactly what they do when they roam around looking for victims and people to intimidate or steal from) when it's considered criminal and unacceptable for any other group to do so??? How much longer will this continue to go on in this fascist sh*thole known as the US of A???? Both internal affairs and the DA's office are jokes. They're pathethic!! They're amoral sinks of ultimate corruption and lawlessness, enthusiastically and joyously and aggressively seeking every opportunity to get ANY Pig off the hook from ANY charge scot- fucking-free. Until that changes we don't HAVE a free society, we have a society that's constantly at risk from violent criminality and animal behavior from the Black & Blue gang of lawless criminals.
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@sodman4874 well without being legally sanctioned by a judge it's hard. If a group of people try to march on Nestle for instance, they would just call the local cops and say 'hey we're being threatened by these people we demand to be defended' and next thing you know cops show up and order everybody to disperse or threaten trespassing charges.
Protests matter. I could see a citizens' movement being made right outside the front gate of every Nestle facility that's using water taken from the local aquifer. I would definitely support something like that so long as the people involved are in it for the long haul and know that they may have to be there for months and months before anything happens. The problem is these big corporations expect to be protected by either local cops or the national guard. If they feel threatened they get special treatment that we as citizens don't have access to. If they feel threatened they'll just straight up call 911 or the mayor's office and the cops will rush over like they're defending the baby Jesus. Local cops don't care about their local community. They don't care where the orders come from. They are robots and they'll follow any order they're given because one, it's much easier than thinking for themselves and two, it's easier than having to work. And that's exactly why they became street cops to begin with. You do NO work, you get a good paycheck, and you pretty much have legal impunity from any bad behavior. What more could it good-for-nothing want?
Street cops are the laziest bitches EVER!! They do NO work and just menace people for a living. (Truthfully they shouldn't exist but people have been brainwashed for so long that they're necessary for safety sl they keep getting funded and re-funded and so on.)
So if they're ordered to go protect the Nestle plant from local citizens demanding action, they'll do it.
If they're it's a larger movement depending on how far it goes, Nestle might call up the governor's office and request backup by the National Guard and most likely the governor will only be too happy to grant their request, cuz all governors in this country are exceedingly corrupt and super bought-and-paid-for by billionaires and large corporations.
So any large corporate boss knows that all he has to do is call the local mayor or governor for some muscle and they'll get it.
So it's definitely an uphill battle to fight these kinds of interests because they have access to support systems that we don't have.
Still, sooner or later we should fight them. Doing nothing should not be an option. We can fight them on the street and we can also take them to court. Both ways are important and both ways matter. I would say the courts are probably the one to focus on more just because protests on the street can be forcibly dispersed by cops if they choose to, although if it's a large enough crowd the cops may have less success. Also, provided the protesters aren't on privately property, the cops have no legal basis for ordering any removal.
But I would say to focus on lawsuits and courtroom battles is the way to go. I wish we could overwhelm these folks with force but we just don't have it. Most people aren't plugged into this these issues. It is possible we could temporarily take over a plant if we had enough numbers however eventually, a local SWAT team or the National Guard would just remove those people.
So fighting these people in the courtrooms is the way to go. And it may take a very long time because obviously Nestle has very deep pockets but as far as I know that's the only other option. Sure a group could do guerilla terrorist actions such as stealth bombings and such on their property, taking care to avoid any human life, but Nestle would probably just step up security in response to that. I doubt that would be enough on its own to force them to shut down that particular location. Nonetheless for me it's a great adjunct tactic to deploy in addition to a long-term courtroom strategy.
And that's how you got to do it. It's kind of a triumvirate. Organized public protests, guerilla tactics possibly, and long-term lawsuits.
Does that help?
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NO EXCUSES. FIRE EVERY LAST ONE NOW. DON'T EVEN LEAVE A JANITOR EMPLOYED IN THAT POLICE DEPARTMENT. SO SO SAD. WHEN DEPLORABLES WEAR BADGES, AND THAT'S 99.99% OF ANYONE WHO DOES WEAR A BADGE IN THIS COUNTRY, WE'RE ON OUR OWN.
CRIMINAL CHARGES NOW. DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE TO HUMAN LIFE, FELONIOUS DERELICTION OF DUTY, MIGHT AS WELL THROW COWARDICE IN THERE, AND 23 COUNTS OF INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER THAT I DEEPLY WISH I COULD MAKE VOLUNTARY BECAUSE THERE WAS NOTHING INVOLUNTARY ABOUT PURPOSEFULLY SITTING ON ONE'S ASS FOR 77 MINUTES, WELL I'M AT SHOOTER WAS ON THE LOOSE AMONGST HELPLESS CHILDREN. THAT IS AN ETERNITY.
THESE PEOPLE SHOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO GET SO MUCH AS A JOB AS A RENT-A-COP AGAIN. THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE. HOLDING THESE RAT FUCKING ACCOUNTABLE IS NOT HYPERBOLE. THERE IS NO EXCUSES FOR THEM TO BE AFRAID THERE IS NO EXCUSES FOR THEM NOT TO HAVE ACTED. YOU HAVE TO BE A FUCKING PSYCHOPATH TO SIT STILL AND COMFORTABLE AND PRETTY FOR 1 HOUR AND 17 MINUTES WHILE THIS IS WHAT'S HAPPENING. YOU GOT PEOPLE MOURNING THE DEATHS OF THEIR KIDS RIGHT NOW WHO WOULD HAVE LIVED IF THESE DEGENERATES HAD HAD ONE SHRED OF HONOR OR DECENCY IN THEM.
I'M GUESSING ALL THESE OFFICERS WERE ALL WHITE BECAUSE THEY CLEARLY DIDN'T CARE FOR ONE MOMENT THAT THROUGH THEIR INACTION THEY WERE ALLOWING AN UNKNOWN NUMBER OF CHILDREN TO COME TO FATAL HARM, AND ALL THESE CHILDREN HAD ONE THING IN COMMON BESIDES THEIR AGE; LATINO ANCESTRY.
PROTECT YOURSELF PEOPLE! AS PEOPLE OF COLOR HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN, SADLY THERE'S VIRTUALLY NOBODY OF CONSCIENCE WHO WEARS THE BADGE IN AMERICA. SO DON'T EXPECT THEM TO COME TO YOUR AID IF YOU'RE EVER IN SERIOUS DISTRESS. IF THEY DO CONGRATULATIONS YOU LUCKED OUT. BUT MORE OFTEN THAN NOT THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN UNLESS YOU'RE A CEO OR VERY HIGH UP THE FOOD CHAIN. THESE BARBARIANS DON'T CARE ABOUT ANYONE OR ANYTHING BESIDES THEMSELVES. THESE SAVAGES ARE REWARDED WITH HAVING NO EDUCATION, BEING BARELY LITERATE AND DOING NOTHING OF VALUE FOR THE COMMUNITY WITH VERY GENEROUS PAYCHECKS AND COMPLETE IMMUNITY FROM ANY CRIMINAL CULPABILITY!!!
It is a very sad shame that the public security apparatus in America is filled with 99.9% scum, villainy and trash. There are good people out there, there are people of soul and ethics and conscience and decency. But they don't wear badges. Or at least, they're so few and far betweenthat their presence and effect on the whole is negligible.
Badge-wearing in the US nothing but State-sanctioned gangsterism. Is it any shock that it only attracts the WORST of our society, the most callous instead of those who truly wish to help and serve??? I don't think so.
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If we don't get our asses back and end the Taliban once and for all, we (meaning the US govt, I live in the US) are truly damned. WE HAD 20 YEARS TO CLEAN THESE LOSERS UP. 20!!!!!! This is one of those "Nazis marching across Europe" moments except it's a lot worse.
IM NOT GOING TO MINCE WORDS. IF YOU'RE AN EXTREMIST AND YOU WANT TO MAKE OTHERS YOUR SLAVES AND DENY THEM THEIR GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS, YOU BELONG IN THE GROUND AND I WANT YOUR HEAD ON MY WALL. NO QUARTER. NO NEGOTIATION. NO BARGAINING, YOU MADE YOUR CHOICE, AND IF YOU REFUSE TO STOP, THEN YOUR FATE SHOULD BE DEATH. BAR MOTHERF8CKING NONE, THIS ISN'T A GAME.
THESE PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE BEEN OVER IN 2001, NOW IT IS 2021. THAT WAS NO ACCIDENT, THE PENTAGON IS JUST PURE EVIL, THATS ALL.
SO NOW WE HAVE A CHOICE. PUT OUR OBSCENE 1 TRILLION DEFENSE BUDGET TO A MORAL USE FOR ONCE IN THE LAST 76 YEARS, OR DO NOTHING AND LET THE AN ENTIRE NATION FALL TO A TERRORIST GROUP.
So now I will post the same shit I've been posting on every related video for the past week. It's long and I don't expect anyone to read it, but I feel it's important.
What I am watching (mostly in reference to fleeing civilian videos) is making me sick. If the Afghanis didn't mind, or even embraced the Taliban so much as some have claimed, then why are they fleeing?!? Because they hate them and they know they're evildoers and thugs, THAT'S WHY.
YOU CAN'T REASON WITH MENTALLY ILL FANATICS, AND THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE. Since they only understand force, then it is our job to take the fight TO THEM.
If we allow the Taliban to take over when we could easily prevent it and end these SOBs and terrorists once and for all, we are truly without conscience and deserve to be likewise invaded and conquered.
I DO NOT SUPPORT THE MIC AND ALL THE PATHOLOGICAL EVIL OF THE US PENTAGON COMPLEX AND WHAT ITS TRUE AGENDAS ARE, I CERTAINLY DONT WANT FOREVER WARS OR ANY WAR UNLESS ITS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, BUT RIGHT NOW, THIS RIGHT HERE WITH THESE PEOPLE CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO STAND.
WE, THE US, MUST ACT NOW.
WE NEED TO SEND THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF TROOPS TO STOP THIS *NOW*. I DONT WANT ANY OF OUR PEOPLE TO BE KILLED, BUT THEY ALL SIGNED UP VOLUNTARILY, AS DID I IN '99. I wasn't front lines, but at age 19 I really did know the risks.
Most of us did. At least if are killed now they know that at least THIS TIME for ONCE in our post-WW2 history it will NOT have been in vain!!!
If we don't stop and reverse this process and end the Taliban once and for all, we (and by that I mean our top leaders) are truly monsters who deserve damnation.
WE INVADED THE COUNTRY, NOBODY ASKED US TO SHOW UP. WE BROKE IT, ITS OUR JOB TO FIX IT. WE OWE THEM THAT MUCH. THEY NEED PROTECTION AND DEFENSE NOW!!! The rest of the world has their own problems, this is a job only we can do.
WE HAD 20 YEARS TO ELIMINATE THE TALIBAN AND OUR LEADERS IN THEIR INFINITE AMORALITY CHOSE NOT TO. THIS WAS MADNESS.
SINCE WE DIDNT DO IT BEFORE, WE MUST DO IT NOW, OR WE AS A PEOPLE STAND FOR NOTHING BUT EVIL AND CIA TORTURE AND LAND PIRACY.
HOW DOES IT LOOK WHEN THE STRONGEST ARMY IN THE WORLD FLEES FROM FRINGE ELEMENT PRIMITIVES WHOM WE COULD EASILY ELIMINATE IN A PROTRACTED BATTLE??
WE OWE AFGHANISTAN FREEDOM. WE OWE THEM PROTECTION FROM ANYONE WHO WOULD SEEK TO CONTINUE TERROR AND MASS MURDER THRU DOMINATION AND FEAR. WE OWE THEM AT LEAST THAT MUCH.
WE HAVE NO RIGHT TO LEAVE YET. NO. RIGHT. AT ALL.
#BIDEN MUST NOW FOR ONCE IN HIS MISERABLE DESTRUCTIVE NEOLIBERAL MASS-INCARCERATING SELF-SERVING LIFE, DO THE RIGHT THING AND BEGIN AN ALL-OUT ASSAULT ON THESE TERRORISTS AND THIS TIME WE SEE IT THRU UNTIL THE END. WE HAD 20 YEARS TO DO THIS. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DONT DO THE RIGHT THING WHEN YOU HAD 20 YEARS OF AMPLE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO!
Then and ONLY then will we have ANY right to leave.
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Yeah but the Blue tyranny of these demons will never stop in this fourth-world 1984 shithole. They want absolute power for any reason and millions of happy slaves want to give it to them. I don't know what the solution is. There doesn't seem to be one.
People hate freedom. People WANT to live under the boot of others- I don't know what else to say. There it is, there's our problem. Am I wrong? Are not millions of slaves happy to fly the blue lives matter sticker?!?? Don't they salivate over shows like 'law & order' or even 'the wire' that show them happily willingly and without fear getting away with every crime and violation known to man??! I don't know how to explain it, you tell me, friends.
Voters in this country seem to love being enslaved. They certainly don't seem to oppose it when it happens to anyone else. If those chickens ever come home to roost, then that might be another story, or possibly not even then. How many people how many people will actively bootlick and excuse State evil and violence even when the evidence is overwhelming or it's happening to someone close to them? Some people wake up when the evil comes home, and sometimes not even then.
The US is the world's most aggressive, evil-embracing, oppressive, subjugating, modern-day 1984 shithole the world has ever known, and we and victimized communities are the only ones that seem to care. Largest and growing lockup industry in human history. Pigs, never satisfied with having absolute power, constantly demand even more. Dominating, destroying, stealing ti to endless levels, and controlling is all they want. They are murderous evil parasites, and live with the type of impunity non-uniformed gangsters can only dream of.
The Gestapo will never stop coming, and millions of mostly white citizens will cheer them all the way- until the violations happen to them of course. Then they've got righteous outraged for miles... Sometimes. Of course by then it's too late.
I wish I knew the perfect solution. People keep voting for this. Our entire government is nothing but a multi-layered super sandwich of evil and psychopathy from top to bottom.
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@artimiss1238 wow sounds like some insane fossils are/were in charge. What insanity. God help you folks growing up in these stone age localities in the south. I grew up in southern Cali, in a bit of a rural area. No major issues that I can recall. Proper sex ed instruction from grade 6 on up, good EC programs, limited dress code, no Pigs on campus (that would have been utterly bizarre), no school security other than like one guy who was also the maintenance man, open campus, no gates, no locker searches that I recall, no major violence, no major gangs, mostly a laid back vibe from start to finish. As for medical needs I'm not sure cuz I don't remember but I'm sure people just kept their devices to themselves and I doubt any teacher would have made an issue about it.
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@Joce123 your attitude is a big part of the problem thinking all they want to do is be on drugs. You have no idea what some of these people have been through. Just one of incident of what some of these people have experienced would probably drive a lot of us to seek out drugs to numb our feelings. Any one of us could end up in that situation if enough things go wrong in our life. You have no compassion and therefore no solutions and no right to be part of this discussion. Contrary to popular and ignorant belief, the majority of people experience homelessness on or off the street are not addicts. looking down on them as animals who only want drugs is a convenient way to excuse you from having to understand how easy it is for anyone to become homeless and excuses you from caring and seeing them as human beings. For the record, we all deserve a free social services.
Just another brainwashed brainlet out there sucking up typical MSM agenda.
Every homeless person was once upon a time someone's daughter, father, husband, best friend or mother. They deserve our compassion and our help.
It really could easily be any one of us if just one thing went wrong. I hope you're rich beyond belief because your tone deafness on this issue is cute.
And even if they do want to be on drugs, how does that affect me? Or you? That should be their right. They should be allowed to live in a tent if that's what they want, unmolested by local city gestapo, as long as they're minding their own business. There's literally nothing inherently wrong with wanting to live outside the mainstream, it's a right we all should have! But the vast majority of people on the street do not want to continue in that way, they want a more normalized existence and permanent housing and they should receive it. If local city authorities really wanted to help the homeless as they claim they would but all they really want them to do is go away and die quietly. There is no humanity in any politician in this country not locally or on Capitol Hill or anywhere in between. If I ever saw it I think I would die of shock because I haven't seen it yet. I will certainly acknowledge it if I do, and I'm eagerly awaiting that day..... Still waiting.
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@Jacosmi yeah the ivies don't really bother me, they originated for the east coast elite and naturally that's who they will cater to. It's just one of those things that I don't see changing any time soon.
What is wrong to me is the fact that public institutions are increasingly costly forcing many students to take out predatory student loans. This is really bogus and needs to be changed yesterday. For us average slobs, a State U should always be affordable or even free.... but at least affordable. For those with bougier tastes, they know where to go. I would love a 4 yr degree and I can still get there with some extra work, but it does suck that at the time of my HS graduation (2000) my parents couldn't afford to help me so my options for college were few. I was a decent student but not a spectacular one so I knew I wouldn't qualify for many scholarships (and an athlete I was not lol). I did start at the 2-year level, didn't stay tho I should have, and ended up going sideways into the Navy bec it seemed like a fair opportunity for some skills training. It was to a point and they do provide some decent financial aid for college if you choose it, plus officer programs if you're interested. (I applied twice, tho I had high marks in all areas, positive recommended, and was from a desirable demo and specialty, I was denied. They never tell you why. To this day it's a mystery. Second time I couldn't manage the required number of female pullups so on that one technicality I was out, tho on every other metric I was strong. Perhaps if I had appealed to someone higher up they could have granted me a pass, but I didn't. I probably didn't want it bad enough so I just accepted it).
I still have the educational benefit available and I hope to use it soon.
So long as you don't choose the front line (and please don't anyone, none of our conflicts are moral), some time in the armed services may be beneficial. Outside of the front it's like any other job, tho sometimes more stressful.
However, how much easier would it be for everyone from the bottom 60% if State schools were just cheap? At least community colleges are still semi-reasonable, tho you would still need a plan for your last two years, plus any masters or PhD programs you wanted.
Your program sounds awesome by the way. If you ever feel like being more specific let me know because now I'm curious. I think it's amazing that school is paying you well. I wish that was the standard. Do you feel comfortable saying what school you're working at? There have been a lot of strikes lately especially at UC schools here in California because of the pretty terrible pay and treatment of lower-level professorial staff and PhD students and service staff.
I'm not sure as to their latest status but I'd def like to know.
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The woman who was thrown in the hood of her car should bring a lawsuit for excessive force and criminal damage.
All these defendants deserve a huge settlement for false arrest, false imprisonment, grand theft auto, terrorism, racial profiling and racketeering.
Since justice never happens on this planet all I can do is hope that Satan waits for these people.
This happens to one degree or another in every city. There's not enough IFJs to stop them all.
DONT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT UNTIL YOU SHUT DOWN EVERY SINGLE ORGANIZED CRIME UNIT, AKA THEIR LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT, THESE EVILS WILL NEVER STOP!?! As for where to report crimes and respond to 911, the vast majority of calls can be handled by community workers and detectives can remain as before.
ALL BAIL, ALL TICKETS, ALL CITY FEES, AND ALL FINES ARE FORMS OF MASS THEFT BECAUSE IT'S EXTORTION. They are always steep and very burdensome on the poor and working class. NONE of these should be legal.
And this still isn't enough for these satanic demonic savages. They will still try to steal MORE! Because now they can take anything from you, claim it's because you sold drugs AND THEY NEVER HAVE TO PROVE IT!!!!
The only good fate for a street cop is deafth by fire. Maybe some prison r4p3 too.
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@ ø
Perhaps we could have a chiller discussion and try to leave the emotional language and over-generalities aside. we may find we have some areas that we agree on more than we disagree.
The term I identify with most is Libertarian Socialist. I'm economically a Socialist,
but a civil libertarian. I could go into long detail on this but in a nutshell that means I believe in dropping the hammer on big corps and the 1%, ending poverty thru many detailed means; and dismantling the police and prison state by any means necessary. Liberty IS under attack from would-be fascists in DC but not because of the ridiculous reasons the dumb yokels claim- but due to attacks on truth tellers like Assange and Edward Snowden, and other lesser-known whistleblowers, and an unholy agenda of mass incarceration here at home which preys on the poor and those of color. I want to end all economic state extortion and theft, and I mean ALL. This includes all policing-for-profit, jailing-for-profit and adjudicating-for-profit. I'm mostly against forced taxation for most households, and I'm currently working out the finer details on my position on that. I'm fine with minor and reasonable use taxes, including property taxes so long as the public gets a vote on how much; but I believe the majority of the tax burden belongs at the top, especially in business.
I would readjust how schools are funded so they never have to worry about lack of funding again.
I believe in taking an iron fist to the big corps in all deserved ways and responding to threat of climate change by any means necessary.
I would rationally but radically decriminalize, decarcerate, and defund ALL organs of State force and oppression. Radical reform and radical accountability would be the new norm.
I believe in responsible and rational maximum access to firearms, with a period of required safety training; but if a type of gun or tool has proven especially deadly, then I say its fair to ban it from common use if that protects innocent lives. Such weapons can still be used at designated recreational gun ranges, but not be able to leave the premises. That's a fair compromise, I believe.
Native nations and black communities would get the entirety of the land justice and the reparations they have up until now so long been denied.
I support fully open borders, with those arriving to be met by 'processing agents', not militarized and savage border thugs; and I always have. I would mandate the immediate end of the brutalization of those who come here, and I welcome every person in pain who needs to relocate here for survival. If the wealthiest nation-state in the world can't help the most destitute and the wretched of this earth, something must be wrong.
Basically I just consider myself a common-sense hard-core compassionate Liberal, but compared to the savagery that's passed for governance here for the past 50+ years, I suppose to most I'd be considered some kind of radical; but I'm OK with that.
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@NewOrleansSeptember I think so. Think about it. Home-based business has the lowest barrier to entry so this opens up opportunities for anyone who wishes to start a small business. Local and state authorities should be making it easier for people to start businesses, if that is what they wish, not harder. But when they're in the pocket of the big money that's not what they want to do.
All red-blue politicians are puppets owned by the big money, this is why the economic reality is getting progressively harder for I would say, mmm, the lower 2/3 of our population roughly.
Bottom line, when the elites at/near the top want it all they're not going to make it easy for others to get ahead and have a right to what they've earned- these people can control the politicians and feel entitled to want and take everything.
If you vote Republican or Democrat you are contributing to this cuz any red or blue politician serves that agenda and that class. Prove me wrong if you can, but I don't believe you can. History shows otherwise. The middle class, and much more so the working class and the poor, have always been under attack in this country. By ensuring roughly 2/3 of the country stays pretty poor or limited most of the time all of the excess wealth created can flow to the top. It's simple math really.
The answer is to become radicalized and realize that this is not fair and should be amended, then to seek outside answers through trying to get outside Left parties into office.... Also, organizing for better ballot measures can help. I think voting directly on our own measures is the best way forward. I really don't need or want anyone else to speak for me; nobody else can represent me better than I can represent myself, I mean that's pretty obvious. After all, none of our current reps give an F for us regardless of what they say so.... My hope is to increase the ballot measure process and access over time while gradually decreasing the power of elected politicians who again- work for, are financed by, are bought by, and are very happy to serve the elite business interests in their jurisdiction. (As I said, if they are red or blue, this is true)
A lot of this starts on the local level. Local ordinances, demanded by the local elite and enforced through the local bought-and-paid-for city council, can affect many.
Until people start putting working class and middle class interests FIRST and start becoming unabashed leftists this shit ain't going to change. You can serve elite big money interests at the expense of yourself, or you can serve yourself (poor/working/middle class). It's up to everyone who votes to choose.
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@weirdshibainu in agriculture? I can think of a lot. Maximum acreage limits. Last in line for local water use after local small farmers; must pay fair market rate or better for all local water use, bans on harmful pesticides ie glyphosate; minimum land area set aside for natural practices (ie 15% total crop area); chemical input limits, natural pest control encouraged, high animal welfare standards for all livestock on corporate animal farms, mandates against animal waste leakage and secure storage with severe financial penalties to be paid to the surrounding locality if violated, animal feed minimum quality standards, no loopholes, minimum standards for free movement of all animals, bans on antibiotic use (creates zombie resistant strains that transfer to humans), minimum grass space and outside access for livestock; sunlight, green space, and free movement requirements for all poultry, strong safety standards for all staff, maximum line speeds, extremely strong farm worker protections, no exploitative business arrangements with small independent farmers/suppliers; etc..
Big corps will never do right by themselves. I wish they would but I've never seen it. Strict regulations allow them to operate but in a way that is not abusive or harmful to the community, workers, animals if applicable, or the general environment.
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@weirdshibainu in agriculture? I can think of a lot. Maximum acreage limits. Last in line for local water use after local residents; must pay fair market rate or better for all water, bans on harmful pesticides ie glyphosate; minimum land area set aside for mandated natural practices (ie 15% total crop area); chemical input limits, natural pest control encouraged, high animal welfare standards for all livestock on corporate animal farms, mandates against animal waste leakage and secure storage with severe financial penalties to be paid to the surrounding locality if violated, animal feed minimum quality standards, no loopholes, minimum standards for free movement of all animals, bans on antibiotic use (creates zombie resistant strains that transfer to humans), minimum grass space and outside access for livestock; sunlight, green space, and free movement requirements for all poultry, strong safety standards for all staff, maximum line speeds, extremely strong farm worker protections, no exploitative business arrangements with small independent farmers/suppliers; etc..
Big corps will never do right by themselves. I wish they would but I've never seen it. Strict regulations allow them to operate but in a way that is not abusive or harmful to the community, workers, animals if applicable, or the general environment.
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@lochnessmunster1189 responding to your criticism of rent control, I understand what you're telling me I have heard these arguments frequently before. I'm not against a private housing market but I will not be changing my mind that it needs to be much more heavily regulated than it currently is. If developers don't like having to meet a certain amount of rent control then I don't know- they can do whatever. I'm all for private builders making a fair profit and I'm sure they will with or without rent control. Obviously government should be providing an abundance of livable public housing, or social housing as you limeys call it, and ensuring that anyone who has special needs has a safe, secure and pleasant place to live. As for the private market, rent has to be limited there's just no other way. They're various ways we can do this. We can do it as a function of income- no more than 10 or 20% of anyone's net pay or benefits. Tenants and landlords can always negotiate about themselves a separate rent amount if they wish, but we need to start squashing the cost of rents aggressively. Food, water, and shelter are every ones three fundamental needs. If the State can't even assure that, in the State is a corrupt criminal body that is not serving the people, they are serving themselves.
You're acting like rich developers' profit matters more than a human being's right to a place to live. I have accommodated for those who rent from a landlord who has to pay a mortgage; the rent limits in those case will be no more than 20% on top of the base mortgage amount. in that case the landlord will always make up to a 20% profit so they have nothing to complain about. So my standards are as follows, whichever is less, maximum of 20% above mortgage, or maximum of 15% of one's take home income. I don't think it gets much fairer than that. As an alternative to this, in an ideal society a person can choose from a generous supply of public housing, based on availability.
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@lochnessmunster1189 The problem is some people who are migrating are doing so out of a life and death necessity and or to escape poverty. They're going to come penniless. They deserve help. I don't expect Lithuania to take in 2 million refugees. But average size and leading Nations can and should. Why shouldn't they be given assistance? They need food, a place to live, medical care. Come on. There's more than enough to go around. For people who are better off they won't need it. They may have a job waiting for them, or they may just have their own money. They may be connecting with family who will take care of them until they can get on their own feet. But what of those who don't have those advantages? It's morally right to give them everything they need. Free healthcare should be available for citizens and immigrants alike. For people who come with nothing they'll need wraparound supports until they can support themselves. I'm sorry for people who don't want to do that but I can't go along with that. If you were penniless refugee or even just depending an immigrant with no family to assist you, how would you go about building a life for yourself? There's more than enough to go around. Refugees and migrants can be given all the assistance they need. A food card, a cheap cell phone, a public transit pass, vouchers for housing, assistance with clothing, connections with social workers and mental health support, referrals to medical care, connections to employers, etc. Even now in the US there's a bureau called Office of Refugee Resettlement. You would agree it exists for a legitimate reason yes? I would just expand this and make this available to everyone whether they qualify as a refugee or not. I would also expand the amount and types of assistance provided.
Objections?
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@lochnessmunster1189 I think there is stunningly more than enough to go around in food and goods. Mind-blowingly more. It seems like the excess is being deliberately wasted either due to malice or incompetence. It's a tragedy really. This is where my Department of Resource Reclamation comes in (sounds lame but stick with me). From the smallest convenience store to the largest megastore, these places will not sell everything in a given month. I just know they don't. Same for food retailers. So then what becomes of the leftover inventory which is sizable? Is it not a crime against humanity that these places are allowed to be so casual about waste when millions in given country are desperate or would be extremely grateful for them? Is it not appalling that they should not be redistributed? I don't mind private retailers, they are a major industry and need to exist, but their deliberate waste should be against the law. I also think the large corporate retailers should be broken up several times over. Large mergers always lead to way too much market share and are cancer.
But back to the food-
Most food expiration dates are bogus and need not be abided by. They need to be reformed or abolished all together. Scientists will tell you there's no way to scientifically prove exactly when a food item is going to be unsafe for consumption especially considering everyone's physiology is different. What name makes one person ill may be easily tolerated by somebody else. Ergo this unscientific food waste producing expiration dates should be abolished in my opinion. Also all restaurants should be required to hand over expired or passed over unopened food inventory, and any unconsumed prepared food at the end of the day MUST be given to employees who want it or to a local community kitchen. Speaking of kitchens, a community kitchen should be mandated in every incorporated city or town, multiple locations within a given city when needed. A public cafeteria supported from the local public good bank (in turn supplied by the mandated redistribution) and private donations. A lot of churches already do this, but there I've never found a public one. That should change. There's a jail in every county, there are parks in every municipality, but no free community public cafeteria running on redistributed goods and private voluntary donations. Thats sus AF and needs to change.
Redistribution solves EVERYTHING. It is the answer. Redistribution of ALL unsold excess tangible goods will solve all material lacks and help people have a higher standard of living. Redistribution within a town, city, county, state, nation and then the entire GLOBE. ALL poverty will end when ALL excess materials (pre- or post-sale) are redistributed to where they're needed most.
Fair UBI based on household size for households under 75K will provide people a minimum financial cushion regardless of their income or health so destitution is no longer the threat it is today.
Now what about rent? Please refer to the comment where I went through my details on what I feel is fair in that regard. Corporate landlords and some individuals are SURELY charging way more than they need to meet their bills and provide a fair profit for themselves. So that's more that has to come out of the pockets of average income and poor people. That's not okay.
And what about healthcare? Universal comprehensive national healthcare certainly is a human right and should be treated as such. At our current level of technology is there any excuse not to provide this? The only people who don't care if people die due to lack of ability to pay are the greedy grasping profiteers at the top of this pyramid, specifically the sorry health insurance companies in the US and the greedy bastards who own the for-profit hospitals and want to bleed it dry so they can maximize profits. Well that's not right either. That's an affront against the community not to mention the nurses who keep the place running and are the ones providing the care. I'm not against a private market in medicine provided there's a comprehensive universal public one so people have a choice. There is certainly no real choice in healthcare in the us, unless you're a veteran and can go through the VA but that's less than 2% of the population. There is Obamacare but that's a poor substitute for comprehensive universal healthcare and leaves too many people out.
And hell, what about transportation? All public transport should be free at point of service so that even those without a penny on hand should be able to use it, but should ask those who can afford to pay to do so. The rest can be financed through private donations and public funding from federal and/or local sources.
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@evananderson1455 the LAST thing I want is government tyrants and gestapo controlling my access to ANY form of prescription medication or even street drugs (amongst so many other things). I should think that as a full-ass grown adult I should have the right to decide that for myself, or perhaps I need my elected betters to do that for me because my poor little brain can't handle such things. As for availability to youth, no ethical doctor would prescribe to somebody under 18 and not check them against an ID if they are a new patient.
Many things in life can be dangerous or harmful if misused or given to someone who is too young. If we bam everything, life would be unlivable and unmanageable.
If your brain works at all, meaning you are capable of rational thought and making your own decisions, you should want government out of your life virtually completely. You should want that for the rest of us too.
The more government looks over your shoulder and controls things, the more it all goes to hell. The only exception for this would be towards big business because no individual or private organization has the power necessary to control those assholes, and anyone with eyes can see the damage that they caused from their excess. So that is an exception. But as for virtually all the rest of society I say hell no.
FUCK the Man. FUCK govt overreach. I want people to be safe too, but if you're over 18 it is incumbent upon YOU!!!! to educate yourself about any potential risks of any choice you make in your life, not just with your healthcare but with anything. I mean after all, do you want your government to be your mommy and daddy and Nanny or do you want the freedom to make your own decisions and NOT go to prison and have your life fucked to hell because they said you couldn't??? Of course you should get all the assistance necessary, this is why public education campaigns a free resources are so damn important; but to treat us like infantile robots incapable of thinking for ourselves, that is dangerous and gad, it just makes my skin crawl. Without choice we are all just pseudoslaves. And I'm not just saying with this issue, this can be applied anywhere. More government control means more fuckups, more people harmed and a loss of freedom to live our own lives. I'm not saying there should be no government- just it needs to stay within the lines, that is all; and these guys don't.
I prefer freedom to paternalistic tyranny that only wants to fill cages with warm bodies.
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I've already tried to comment a few times so hell why not go for another one, but yep OP, you're absolutely right. Collective punishment basically. Ensure that millions in this case have difficulty or cannot get what they need because less than 1% had a problem. Outrageous logic and even they, the feds, can't be THIS stupid. It must be sadism and or an evil attitude that is based in such a sick and unhealthy desire to control others that they won't stop anywhere. What else would they like to control or take away from us, I wonder what else are they working on?
Imagine if we extended this outrageous logic to other areas of life? We already tried alcohol prohibition- saw how well that worked, as in not at ALL, the street drug war exists for one reason only- to oppress marginal populations and to maintain the Prison State, so I would say that's not working- although it IS working as intended but it's not working in a functional moral ethical sense.
Do we try to ban other things that have shown a non-zero risk of use? Such as driving, skydiving, junk food, sodas, bull-riding, motorcycle use, hell even hiking or raising farm animals? Of course not that would be ludicrous and silly on its face and nobody would agree to that and yet, it's totally cool to do it when it comes to medical treatment, in this case necessary pain care. I wonder why that is! I'll tell you what it is it's because the federal drug psychopaths are just out of their fucking minds with absolute psychopathic madness and they act like they own us!!!!!
The DEA is Satan's own special club and it needs to be utterly destroyed. We will never have a moment's peace until it is.
NOBODY has the right to get in between a licensed medical professional or a trusted practitioner and their patient. And nobody sure as HELL has the right to tell me what I can and cannot consume out of my own free will or what drugs I cannot put on or in my own goddamn god-given BODY.
Government is such absolute filth in this country. Tyranny and dystopia are accurate words for them.
Like Susan Powter said, stop the motherfuking insanity! Enough madness.
BECAUSE IF WE OPERATE FROM THE ASSUMPTION OR POSIT THAT BIG BROTHER DOES HAVE THESE RIGHTS, THEN WE DONT HAVE RIGHTS! WE ARE SLAVES AND OUR BODIES ARE NOTHING BUT GOVERNMENT FUCKING PROPERTY - AND I DO NOT ACCEPT THAT AND I WILL FIGHT THAT TO THE DEATH..
I don't mean to be overdramatic but these topics and other related topics are near and dear to me because they are an outrageous and a disgusting overreach of these demonic government tyrants wrecking absolute havoc in all our lives! If we don't stand up, refused to comply and fight back these filthy animals will not stop!!!
So yes this policy is evil and this is just one of many criminal tyrannies that the feds are absolutely famous for. There's a reason people sent them anthrax. Most of them in my eyes deserve it. Yep and I do mean that.
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I've already tried to comment a few times so hell why not go for another one, but yep OP, you're absolutely right. Collective punishment basically. Ensure that millions in this case have difficulty or cannot get what they need because less than 1% had a problem, ergo now everybody has to suffer to supposedly protect this 1% or less than 1%. Wow- real fabulous thinking there! Outrageous logic and even they, the feds, can't be THIS stupid. It must be sadism and or an evil attitude that is based in such a sick and unhealthy desire to control others that they won't stop anywhere. What else would they like to control or take away from us, I wonder what else are they working on?
Imagine if we extended this outrageous logic to other areas of life? We already tried alcohol prohibition- saw how well that worked, as in not at ALL, the street drug war exists for one reason only- to oppress marginal populations and to maintain the Prison State, so I would say that's not working- although it IS working as intended but it's not working in a functional moral ethical sense.
Do we try to ban other things that have shown a non-zero risk of use? Such as driving, skydiving, junk food, sodas, bull-riding, motorcycle use, hell even hiking or raising farm animals? Of course not that would be ludicrous and silly on its face and nobody would agree to that and yet, it's totally cool to do it when it comes to medical treatment, in this case necessary pain care. I wonder why that is! I'll tell you what it is it's because the federal drug p sychopaths are just out of their fucking minds with absolute psychopathic madness and they act like they own us!!!!!
The DEA is S atan's own special club and it needs to be utterly destroyed. We will never have a moment's peace until it is.
NOBODY has the right to get in between a licensed medical professional or a trusted practitioner and their patient. And nobody sure as HELL has the right to tell me what I can and cannot consume out of my own free will or what drugs I cannot put on or in my own goddamn god-given BODY.
Government is such absolute f ilth in this country. Tyranny and dystopia are accurate words to describe them and what they want.
Like Susan Powter said, stop the motherfuking insanity! Enough madness.
BECAUSE IF WE OPERATE FROM THE ASSUMPTION OR POSIT THAT BIG BROTHER DOES HAVE THESE RIGHTS, THEN WE DONT HAVE RIGHTS! WE ARE SLAVES AND OUR BODIES ARE NOTHING BUT GOVERNMENT FUCKING PROPERTY - AND I DO NOT ACCEPT THAT AND I WILL FIGHT THAT TO THE D EATH.
I don't mean to be overdramatic but these topics and other related topics are near and dear to me because they are an outrageous and a disgusting overreach of these demonic government tyrants wrecking absolute havoc in all our lives! If we don't stand up, refused to comply and fight back these filthy animals will not stop!!!
So yes this policy is evil and this is just one of many criminal tyrannies that the feds are absolutely famous for. There's a reason people sent them a nthrax. Most of them deserve it imo, esp depending on the agency.
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(abc) .I've already tried to comment a few times so hell why not go for another one, but yep OP, you're absolutely right. Collective punishment basically. Ensure that millions in this case have difficulty or cannot get what they need because less than 1% had a problem, ergo now everybody has to suffer to supposedly protect this 1% or less than 1%. Wow- real fabulous thinking there! Outrageous logic and even they, the feds, can't be THIS stupid. It must be sadism and or an evil attitude that is based in such a sick and unhealthy desire to control others that they won't stop anywhere. What else would they like to control or take away from us, I wonder what else are they working on?
Imagine if we extended this outrageous logic to other areas of life? We already tried alcohol prohibition- saw how well that worked, as in not at ALL, the street drug war exists for one reason only- to oppress marginal populations and to maintain the Prison State, so I would say that's not working- although it IS working as intended but it's not working in a functional moral ethical sense.
Do we try to ban other things that have shown a non-zero risk of use? Such as driving, skydiving, junk food, sodas, bull-riding, motorcycle use, hell even hiking or raising farm animals? Of course not that would be ludicrous and silly on its face and nobody would agree to that and yet, it's totally cool to do it when it comes to medical treatment, in this case necessary pain care. I wonder why that is! I'll tell you what it is it's because the federal drug p sychopaths are just out of their fucking minds with absolute psychopathic madness and they act like they own us!!!!!
The DEA is S atan's own special club and it needs to be utterly destroyed. We will never have a moment's peace until it is.
NOBODY has the right to get in between a licensed medical professional or a trusted practitioner and their patient. And nobody sure as HELL has the right to tell me what I can and cannot consume out of my own free will or what drugs I cannot put on or in my own goddamn god-given BODY.
Government is such absolute f ilth in this country. Tyranny and dystopia are accurate words to describe them and what they want.
Like Susan Powter said, stop the motherfuking insanity! Enough madness.
BECAUSE IF WE OPERATE FROM THE ASSUMPTION OR POSIT THAT BIG BROTHER DOES HAVE THESE RIGHTS, THEN WE DONT HAVE RIGHTS! WE ARE SLAVES AND OUR BODIES ARE NOTHING BUT GOVERNMENT FUCKING PROPERTY - AND I DO NOT ACCEPT THAT AND I WILL FIGHT THAT TO THE D EATH.
I don't mean to be overdramatic but these topics and other related topics are near and dear to me because they are an outrageous and a disgusting overreach of these demonic government tyrants wrecking absolute havoc in all our lives! If we don't stand up, refused to comply and fight back these filthy animals will not stop!!!
So yes this policy is evil and this is just one of many criminal tyrannies that the feds are absolutely famous for. There's a reason people sent them a nthrax. Most of them deserve it imo, esp depending on the agency.
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(abc) I've already tried to comment a few times so hell why not go for another one, but yep OP, you're absolutely right. Collective punishment basically. Ensure that millions in this case have difficulty or cannot get what they need because less than 1% had a problem, ergo now everybody has to suffer to supposedly protect this 1% or less than 1%. Wow- real fabulous thinking there! Outrageous logic and even they, the feds, can't be THIS stupid. It must be sadism and or an evil attitude that is based in such a sick and unhealthy desire to control others that they won't stop anywhere. What else would they like to control or take away from us, I wonder what else are they working on?
Imagine if we extended this outrageous logic to other areas of life? We already tried alcohol prohibition- saw how well that worked, as in not at ALL, the street drug war exists for one reason only- to oppress marginal populations and to maintain the Prison State, so I would say that's not working- although it IS working as intended but it's not working in a functional moral ethical sense.
Do we try to ban other things that have shown a non-zero risk of use? Such as driving, skydiving, junk food, sodas, bull-riding, motorcycle use, hell even hiking or raising farm animals? Of course not that would be ludicrous and silly on its face and nobody would agree to that and yet, it's totally cool to do it when it comes to medical treatment, in this case necessary pain care. I wonder why that is! I'll tell you what it is it's because the federal drug p sychopaths are just out of their fucking minds with absolute psychopathic madness and they act like they own us!!!!!
The DEA is S atan's own special club and it needs to be utterly destroyed. We will never have a moment's peace until it is.
NOBODY has the right to get in between a licensed medical professional or a trusted practitioner and their patient. And nobody sure as HELL has the right to tell me what I can and cannot consume out of my own free will or what drugs I cannot put on or in my own goddamn god-given BODY.
Government is such absolute f ilth in this country. Tyranny and dystopia are accurate words to describe them and what they want.
Like Susan Powter said, stop the motherfuking insanity! Enough madness.
BECAUSE IF WE OPERATE FROM THE ASSUMPTION OR POSIT THAT BIG BROTHER DOES HAVE THESE RIGHTS, THEN WE DONT HAVE RIGHTS! WE ARE SLAVES AND OUR BODIES ARE NOTHING BUT GOVERNMENT FUCKING PROPERTY - AND I DO NOT ACCEPT THAT AND I WILL FIGHT THAT TO THE D EATH.
I don't mean to be overdramatic but these topics and other related topics are near and dear to me because they are an outrageous and a disgusting overreach of these demonic government tyrants wrecking absolute havoc in all our lives! If we don't stand up, refused to comply and fight back these filthy animals will not stop!!!
So yes this policy is evil and this is just one of many criminal tyrannies that the feds are absolutely famous for. There's a reason people sent them a nthrax. Most of them deserve it imo, esp depending on the agency.
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Not a landslide - just a loss. Reagan's false victory in '80 was a landslide, this was just a loss. Let's not be ridiculous!
As usual both candidates were jokes. Kamala was saying all the right things, but I have extreme trouble believing she meant any of it. Looks like I wasn't the only one.
Still, Trump empowers Nazis and crazies and human Filth , not to mention he purposely ignored PR after Hurricane Maria, and didn't have any problem with the kids in cages at the border and the human rights crimes that precipitated, so anyone who would vote for him deserves a nine-iron to the face by my hand.
Trump is an absolute idiot and a raging moron and dangerous because of the filth he attracts but there are a lot of incredibly stupid people here who are easy to influence who's racism and inner worthlessness overpowers any of that and they still choose him.
I have zero respect for DC anyways; I see them as hostile occupiers who need to be removed. They're hateful irrational psychopaths who have no purpose for existing other than to provide muscle to protect multinationals on Wall Street, and I think that's pretty sad. They have no relevance or purpose towards the average citizen, and only exist to steal from us via bogus federal court cases and the IRS. It's Lunatic Central as far as I'm concerned, and other than social security which is PATHETICALLY and insultingly insufficient, (same for Medicare) - I have zero use for them. They could shut down and the world would be infinitely better off- so would the rest of us, esp if the individual states actually stepped in to take over providing welfare to those who need- which they won't unfortunately.
So for now we're stuck with the lunatics in DC. Isn't that nice? It doesn't matter who's so-called in charge. The faces change; the hateful destructive policies remain- both abroad and domestic.
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These kinds of posts always make me livid. The infinite nerve of these absolute phylth. The casual easy turn to psychopathy, the the outrageous vindictiveness and reeking entitlement, the malignant narcopathy on full display from these people is always a wonder to behold. But these are traits of all human phylth who want power and control.
So long as armed Blueslave Stormtroopers are always willing to jump to the defense of these phylth, they will continue to feel bulletproof.
I hope this young man sues them for millions. HE'S GOT A MESSAGE TO SEND TOO. JUST BECAUSE YOU HOLD OFFICE DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE SUPERIOR TO ANYONE AND IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU DON'T HAVE TO OBEY RULES, LIMIT YOURSELF, RESPECT YOUR CONSTITUENTS, BE TRANSPARENT, AND BE SUBJECT TO ANY AND ALL CRITICISM, RIDICULE, AND RECALL!!!
I HOPE THAT MAYOR, THAT POLICE CHIEF AND THAT DA'S FUTURE IN THAT TOWN IS DONE!!! DAs constantly show that they dance to the devil's tune! They are the most unabashed demons I've ever known! And they prove it every DAY- every single opportunity- they don't miss ONE to prove it.
Having a city council is a bad idea anyways. We pay THEM so they can find new corrupt uses for OUR money that we would never choose for ourselves. That's not right. We have the right to choose to WHOM and how MUCH we spend into the public coffers and we have the right to VOTE on EVERY public matter that affects our lives!!! We will NEVER have our rights respected with a corrupt group of white-collar thugs acting in our stead.
City councils are an unacceptable level of tyranny and unfortunately they're everywhere because they've been so normalized in our culture. It's sad. ALL the dirty deals happen because mayors and city council persons exist. ALL OF IT. If it weren't for corrupt mayors working hand-in-hand with their scumbag local criminal Blue Stormtrooper Slave-units, these Pigs wouldn't be able to get away with half the shit they do.
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She's for herself, I think that's the one thing now that's abundantly clear. You can't be a real Progessive or SocDem or other leftist without having a genuine desire to improve the lives of others AND to be against predatory, immoral, or unjust intervention in other nations on basic principle. It's clear now she didn't care about either of those, just wanted to rise on the political ladder. She just wants power for herself. I imagine she'll be coming out as a Republican any day now and I'm sure she'll be back in the future to try again. I'll be honest it was awesome seeing her smackdown Kamala in the debates, though it didn't end up changing anything in the final results; unfortunately, while that scored points with me as I know full well who Kamala really is, I'm sure that had little to do with the inherent injustice of the issue to Toolsi than with trying to score points against any leading rival.
I'm mildly curious what her field specialty was while she was in the service. It doesn't matter but I'm a vet too and I'm just curious. I was just enlisted though and I moved on after eight years and I'm glad I did. There a LOT of good people in the military who think they're making all these sacrifices for a noble purpose and the very very sad fact is, they aren't though. They could be, but they aren't. We AREN'T going around liberating and rescuing people, nations or communities- I wish we were but we aren't.
Most won't realize this or question the ultimate structure of the US govs foreign involvements until they're out however, unless they've seen combat first-hand like many Iraq and Afghanistan vets have.
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@BryanTorok I don't agree with that at all. Why do you think it's okay for judges to throw cases? My god that's reprehensible. That violates every principle of right to a fair trial! Allowing a dictator judge king to control what the jury hears- my god this takes away the rights of the jury to make an informed decision and provide Justice to the defendant!!! Far as I'm concerned the judge should have very LITTLE power whatsoever and ALL relevant information should be able to be presented, even from the jury. The jury should be able to ask any question they wish and present any piece of information they wish that they think is relevant. All juries should have an active empowered role because to leave it in the hands of a viciously immoral judge or psychopathic DA who ses this as a sick game is just asking for defendants to get shitcanned like they always are!!
Having a cucked jury is disgusting and an appalling way to ensure defendants rights are trampled. So no wonder it's SOP in this tenth-world shithole.
The more critical thinking minds involved in determining the truth of the matter and relevant guilt or innocence the better. With the jury there is no conflict of interest, with the attorneys and the judge they're very much is. For all we know the judge is crooked AF and it's already made a deal with the DA behind-the-scenes to rig the trial by preventing crucial evidence, or took a bribe or payoff or orders from on high to do the same. Clearly these judges are not as impartial as they would have us rubes believe. But the jury ALWAYS is because they never met the person before and they never will again. They have no personal connection to him. They have nothing to personally gain from a defendant's conviction or their acquittal.
NOBODY is more qualified to judge the quality of information than a jury made up of complete strangers to the defendant. There's complete lack of conflict of interest and that CANNOT be assured with any of the other three principal parties.
I have found the omnipotence that judges are granted in this country to be appalling, sickening, shocking and uncivilized and to shamelessly make a mockery of the concept of ethical jurisprudence.
For this and so many other reasons our courts are tenth-world level; they are appalling, they are damned near barbaric at times and they are rigged to high heaven. Just look at the revoltingly insane and pathetically rehearsed clown show that the Kyle Rittenhouse case was. Same for all cop trials. Rigged and disgusting. Pigs lie like the rest of us breathe- it's easy to do when you're a predator and you have no conscience. Juries are often tampered with. Same for trials of poor defendants. It's ALL the same when the outcome is decided far in advance by commiseration between the judge and DA or other corrupt interests. Or the playing field is so revoltingly unequal by design that the defendants never have a chance. That's pretty much the exact description of the American courtroom.
As far as I'm concerned unless you're extremely rich or extremely lucky there ARE no fair trials in this shithole country, and that is very MUCH intentional and by design.
One can never hope to get a free trial when PD's are jokes and either have no ethics or no energy to care and that's very MUCH that way by design, and when the judge has absolute power and can use his omnipotence to decide what information can or cannot be considered by a jury!!. I find this appalling. This means vital exculpatory or contributing evidence is routinely denied because a judge does not want to give the defendant a fair trial, he wants to see him convicted even if he is innocent or far less guilty than the Satan-serving psychopath-of-the-week DA would have the jury believe. How many poor people and people of color are rotting away in a jail cell TODAY that never deserved their conviction because they received a sham trial because their PD didn't even try or was so pathetically unequal to the task or the judge just wanted to make sure they were convicted so he threw the case by using his omnipotent powers???? A shocking number no doubt. You don't get more than two MILLION mostly decent people behind bars in the world's largest satanic gestapo-led Prison State without a vile inescapable psychopathic assembly-line of unfair trials and unconscionable practice.
You have a lot of unfounded faith in the system and I do NOT know why. Have you been a comfortable white man all your life? That must be it.
So if the evidence a judge rejects is exculpatory? What then? They are psychopaths, they don't ever want to admit they did wrong, they'd rather let an innocent person died in prison they admit they sold him down the river on purpose. Evil-doers will never admit their evil. And you can't hold them criminally accountable they have immunity!!!! Same for Gestapo agents, same for DAs. Omg I see a pattern. I'm feeling the bile rising in the back of my throat as we speak. And it happens every damn day!
All you've done is make me realize that my sense of justice and values are indeed infinitely superior to the senseless evil that passes for jurisprudence now and I'll be doing whatever I can, which probably isn't much, to bring real change to the way trials are conducted in these third world disgraceful kangaroo US courtrooms in my lifetime. Everything.
Literally a judge can force attorneys to present a false case which results in a false verdict that the jury wouldn't NOT have selected if they had all of the facts. This is CRIMINAL.
But the overall agenda is obvious to anyone who can see evil. The agenda is a bunch of drumheads to ensure mass incarceration of the undesirables never ends. That's all it's ABOUT, that's all it was ever about!!!
You'd NEVER get mass incarceration with rights for defendants and fair trials. That's why we live in Kafkaville. The Constitution is toilet paper in this shithole.
You should rethink your acceptance for our tenth-world system.
It's perfect for injustice and mass incarceration, but it's an all-around resounding failure for justice and decency and the rights of defendants and civil rights and constitutional rights. On that matter it fails miserably and deliberately so.
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@BryanTorok I don't agree with that at all. Why do you think it's okay for judges to throw cases? My god that's reprehensible. That violates every principle of right to a fair trial! Allowing a dictator judge king to control what the jury hears- my god this takes away the rights of the jury to make an informed decision and provide Justice to the defendant!!! Far as I'm concerned the judge should have very LITTLE power whatsoever and ALL relevant information should be able to be presented, even from the jury. The jury should be able to ask any question they wish and present any piece of information they wish that they think is relevant. All juries should have an active empowered role because to leave it in the hands of a viciously immoral judge or psychopathic DA who ses this as a sick game is just asking for defendants to get shitcanned like they always are!!
Having a cucked jury is disgusting and an appalling way to ensure defendants rights are trampled. So no wonder it's SOP in this tenth-world shithole.
The more critical thinking minds involved in determining the truth of the matter and relevant guilt or innocence the better. With the jury there is no conflict of interest, with the attorneys and the judge they're very much is. For all we know the judge is crooked AF and it's already made a deal with the DA behind-the-scenes to rig the trial by preventing crucial evidence, or took a bribe or payoff or orders from on high to do the same. Clearly these judges are not as impartial as they would have us rubes believe. But the jury ALWAYS is because they never met the person before and they never will again. They have no personal connection to him. They have nothing to personally gain from a defendant's conviction or their acquittal.
NOBODY is more qualified to judge the quality of information than a jury made up of complete strangers to the defendant. There's complete lack of conflict of interest and that CANNOT be assured with any of the other three principal parties.
I have found the omnipotence that judges are granted in this country to be appalling, sickening, shocking and uncivilized and to shamelessly make a mockery of the concept of ethical jurisprudence.
For this and so many other reasons our courts are tenth-world level; they are appalling, they are damned near barbaric at times and they are rigged to high heaven. Just look at the revoltingly insane and pathetically rehearsed clown show that the Kyle Rittenhouse case was. Same for all cop trials. Rigged and disgusting. Pigs lie like the rest of us breathe- it's easy to do when you're a predator and you have no conscience. Juries are often tampered with. Same for trials of poor defendants. It's ALL the same when the outcome is decided far in advance by commiseration between the judge and DA or other corrupt interests. Or the playing field is so revoltingly unequal by design that the defendants never have a chance. That's pretty much the exact description of the American courtroom.
As far as I'm concerned unless you're extremely rich or extremely lucky there ARE no fair trials in this shithole country, and that is very MUCH intentional and by design.
One can never hope to get a free trial when PD's are jokes and either have no ethics or no energy to care and that's very MUCH that way by design, and when the judge has absolute power and can use his omnipotence to decide what information can or cannot be considered by a jury!!. I find this appalling. This means vital exculpatory or contributing evidence is routinely denied because a judge does not want to give the defendant a fair trial, he wants to see him convicted even if he is innocent or far less guilty than the Satan-serving psychopath-of-the-week DA would have the jury believe. How many poor people and people of color are rotting away in a jail cell TODAY that never deserved their conviction because they received a sham trial because their PD didn't even try or was so pathetically unequal to the task or the judge just wanted to make sure they were convicted so he threw the case by using his omnipotent powers???? A shocking number no doubt. You don't get more than two MILLION mostly decent people behind bars in the world's largest satanic gestapo-led Prison State without a vile inescapable psychopathic assembly-line of unfair trials and unconscionable practice.
You have a lot of unfounded faith in the system and I do NOT know why. Have you been a comfortable white man all your life? That must be it.
So if the evidence a judge rejects is exculpatory? What then? They are psychopaths, they don't ever want to admit they did wrong, they'd rather let an innocent person died in prison they admit they sold him down the river on purpose. Evil-doers will never admit their evil. And you can't hold them criminally accountable they have immunity!!!! Same for Gestapo agents, same for DAs. Omg I see a pattern. I'm feeling the bile rising in the back of my throat as we speak. And it happens every damn day!
All you've done is make me realize that my sense of justice and values are indeed infinitely superior to the senseless evil that passes for jurisprudence now and I'll be doing whatever I can, which probably isn't much, to bring real change to the way trials are conducted in these third world disgraceful kangaroo US courtrooms in my lifetime. Everything.
Literally a judge can force attorneys to present a false case which results in a false verdict that the jury wouldn't NOT have selected if they had all of the facts. This is CRIMINAL.
But the overall agenda is obvious to anyone who can see evil. The agenda is a bunch of drumheads to ensure mass incarceration of the undesirables never ends. That's all it's ABOUT, that's all it was ever about!!!
You'd NEVER get mass incarceration with rights for defendants and fair trials. That's why we live in Kafkaville. The Constitution is toilet paper in this shithole.
You should rethink your acceptance for our tenth-world system.
It's perfect for injustice and mass incarceration, but it's an all-around resounding failure for justice and decency and the rights of defendants and civil rights and constitutional rights. On that matter it fails miserably and deliberately so.
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To answer your question- I don't think he's doing anything wrong in this situation so far. The US has forcefully invaded and mass murdered civilians (or supposed those who did) and couped all over the world, and somehow we have the moral right to intervene on this regional issue claiming Putin is overstepping his bounds?? I mean sure Putin is murderous thug, and normally I would say that's bad (which it is ofc), but that doesn't mean we have any moral right to intervene or escalate this incident. So far, there has been no bloodshed that I'm aware of, and unless Biden continues trying to inflame things, I don't think there will be.
I'm sure Ukraine and Russia can work this out amongst themselves. Putin is opposed to the continuing escalating of hostilities and aggressions by NATO (and it's current goals of admitting Ukraine at the behest of the US) which was founded by the US in 1949 to be a direct opposer of Russia just existing because they didn't want to be so-called capitalist. I mean that's my understanding. The US has been attacking Russia and causing them grief for the last 75 years. They opposed the USSR until they finally got it dissolved in 1991, and even now, 30 years later (which wasn't the will of the people from what I understand), they still won't stop provoking hostilities and aggressions against them. I guess the US State Dept feels if they work peacefully with Russia, US multinational corporations will make less money, and I guess that's just unacceptable to them. So they just keep doing this shit.
All I've heard that Putin has done so far was recognize the autonomy of two eastern Ukrainian regions, that apparently want independence to themselves, and include a majority of citizens who ethnically identify as Russian. Ok so who cares? If they want to be independent, then let them I say. What really changes other than the regions manage themselves?
I don't think Putin has any plans of trying to "take over" any part of Ukraine, but I guess we'll find out soon enough.
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I didn't know that it was legally mandated. I wonder if this is true in all states. I know that a lot of apartment complex choose to bar people with felony convictions but yeah I didn't know this was under the law.
It may not be true in all states but either way, for the most part, it's wrong.
I can see special cases for those convicted of sex crimes, because you never know for sure if they're not going to do it again so I can understand that concern of a given property manager, especially if there are families on the property, but outside of that, regardless of the conviction, if they have paid their price, served their time and are deemed safe for release then yes of course, they should be as able as any one else to secure stable housing.
Alternatively, why aren't we creating adult-only rental complexes with those with severe criminal pasts, whether their convictions were deserved or not, can live?????
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I don't mean to keep belaboring the same point and saying the same thing over and over again it's just really bothering me today.
I understand why the business ruling class is a psychopath but I guess I'm still somehow taken aback by the fact our ENTIRE elected political class hates us and wants us dead. Local, regional, state or congress - all the same.
Im pretty sure they want us all dead or in a prison cage.
Otherwise, why would they be going out of their way to try to destroy most of us by making sure we can't afford to live, even if we live like a flagellating monk?
Depopulation agenda at work? I think so.
I suppose they feel that we are all expendable and they hate humanity.
Otherwise they would be working hard to regulate us out this mess and guarantee a basic humane standard of living to all citizens. Nothing luxurious just very basic but reasonable. Proper housing, clean water, public transport, public ed, healthcare, youth support, childcare, elderly support, etc. Job rights and Labor rights.
I sure wish politicians weren't strange freaks who hate us because WITHOUT public policy change I'm not sure the way out of this.
They are intentionally making survival impossible and then criminalizing those who have to break the rules usually in extremely minor ways just to survive.
My only question, is why. Why do they hate humanity so much??? Why don't they want to do better???
Why won't they respect an inherent human beings right to survive and live with basic dignity?? Why are they full of hate? Why do they want to take on the devil's agenda?
I would put these questions to every mainstream politician from main street up to Wall Street up to 1600 Penn right now. I'm honestly academically curious about the answer-
Because I mean this is just insanity for Insanity's sake.
Price the bottom 2/3 out of survival- then watch what happens?? what is this like some kind of gross way they get their jollies??
Anyone else's theories are as good as mine.
Just wondering why we can't get some humanity into public policy in this country..
Most people just want to survive and live simply and save a little for a rainy day. Just enough to be modestly comfortable nothing more. Its the minority that has huge material appetites.
Why can't this be allowed????
I'm just goddamn curious.
I've seen it get worse almost every day of my life for the past 44 years...
Keep waiting to reach that inflection point.
I mean people are fired for giving bags of donuts to homeless that would otherwise be put in the trash why is moral depravity racing like a virus throughout our society today???
I mean I could go on and on about this...
Where is our conscience? I mean it is an honor to serve our communities in whatever way we can and treat our employees with respect, so everyone wins. WHY ARE THINGS SO UPSIDE DOWN THAT THIS IS FOREIGN?
Sometimes I'm just rather at a loss to understand the intentional sociopathy, like today.
I bet everyone who has a story of workplace abuse or exploitation, or being jerked around by their medical insurance company. That isn't okay.
Can't we do better by each other?!?! Or are we all just a bunch of savages????
Corporations are killing us all out here; boy oh boy are they out of control. Madness.
Why our political class wants to aggressively enforce their complete rule to crazy extents is beyond me. I mean I know they get paid for it but come on.... Even those crazies have to know it's not sustainable.
Nobody should have to voluntarily accept violent corporate rule in every or ANY area of their life. We all deserve better. by all means enjoy your iPhone or android but those are not absolute necessities, they are commodities; you have a choice to consume them.
But Wall Street and other exploiters wants to totally dominate all of our necessities as well. The politicos seemed only too happy to help them.
Sure hope in my lifetime things can change. All of this is wrong.
I'm not against private business but I am against unregulated big business.
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The thing is, unless you're in a unique situation most of these increase in productivity gains just go to your boss or your corporate overlord. It would be one thing if we were getting the benefits ourselves, but are we? I think in most cases the answer is no. So this is a problem.
We need a better quality of life with less work hours. This isn't hard to do but it will take being willing to make some changes in our attitudes and our voting behaviors.
Not everyone is the same, some people genuinely want to work 70 hours a week. By all means they should be allowed to. I'm not here to coerce anybody to do anything they don't want to do. But most people work too much and are left precious little time to have a life outside of their job and we all suffer when this is the case.
I say that 30 hours a week should be the maximum for full-time, with overtime starting at Hour 31. These hours can be split up any way that that workplace and those employees choose, but that is where I would cut it off.
Every job gets paid a bare minimum living wage of $24 an hour. Also aggressive rent control needs to be implemented and this is easy to do. Only very greedy individual landlords and the corporate landlord community will be pissed about this, but they've been breaking off in our asses long enough. It's time for people to be able to afford to live on every paycheck!
We can go further than this. A few simple safeguards will guarantee everyone a bare minimum acceptable living standard. Guaranteed profit shares are next. Every employee deserves their proportional profit share dividend, not just the bullshit coddled executive class.
Life doesn't have to be miserable, but people need a decent work-life balance in order to stay healthy.
This is easy to do and we could do it tomorrow if the political will was there. Of course since we have two far-right parties that bend their knees and answer to the their corporate masters this is impossible. So we are left with a quandary- how to pass human-centered policies that protect our quality of life and our right to dignity when the red/blue duopoly team doesn't care if we live or die. That is a serious problem and one that there are no easy answers to, so it's time we got busy working on it. The solutions are going to boil down to the following; are the reform new viable left people first parties, or we organize and put everything on the public ballot that we want to see passed, or both.
So that's what it's going to take. It's doable, though it's usually not easy. But it's definitely doable.
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@dannywindham3295 I hear you. Are you sure spending causes inflation- again maybe I'm missing something quite simple but that alone I don't see how. Maybe you're right or are we just assuming those two things are connected? I'm not seeing a direct throughline from spending either from one person or a million people to any level of inflation on consumer costs, and over what span of time are were talking about- 6 months, 2 years, 5 years? Because clearly if I go buy something today I expect it to cost the same price tomorrow, if I go back to the same store. But if I go back 5 years from now I won't be surprised if it's price has gone up slightly, but I will be surprised if it has gone up by a lot and I'll wonder why does this particular store think that they can charge so much more for this XYZ product then before, or what other thing could be causing such an unexpected jump in its price?
Also, is it actually necessary to remove demand, as you call it, from the economy? I'm not necessarily pro or against taxes per se, as an academic concept obviously if we are going to have taxes I want a fair tax system, but what if we simply never taxed anyone??? Would everything suddenly just stop??
I guess I'm still just not seeing the need for taxes, when the govt can simply choose to print what it claims it needs and however much it wants to circulate amongst the general population.
Am I missing anything explanatory? Maybe I'm making this more complicated than it has to be. 🤔
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@dannywindham3295 well what do I know??? It's just a thought experiment as nothing to that level would ever happen, but my gut feeling is it wouldn't be a major problem. Of course my gut feeling may be all wrong, but for now that's where I sit on it. Also while I can't provide specific stats, the raw amount of food and goods at the retail level that appear to go to waste every week, month or quarter makes my brain hurt. This is both terrible for the environment and it offends me on a psychological level, since as a Leftist I am fundamentally driven to seek to eliminate all material needs amongst a given population and to provide greater opportunity and quality of life.
The concept of significant waste is incredible toxic to me. I HATE it, and I'm driven to want to eliminate it by any means necessary. Either we scale back production across all manufacturing and agriculture sectors, we distribute all the excess for free (my preferred option), or if everybody hypothetically got a $10,000 or a million dollar check they could buy all these excess goods at the local rate.
I think we produce too much. I think the excess should be either given away or is just ready and waiting for people to have greater spending power in order to purchase it.
As for services, these being non-tangible things, they can expand or contract based on demand as necessary. This is especially fantastic for small businesses. A great increase in demand would only benefit them.
We have up to 40% poverty in this country and a shocking amount of waste both in the early supply chain stages but also at the retail/consumer level. I don't want to wait for a million-dollar check, I want to redistribute the excess food and goods that is desperately needed for the majority of households that lives under the median income level and under the poverty line right now, but I cannot exactly put this plan into practice as I hold no public office. So that's too bad.
If my gut feeling is correct and if it's true that we have a vast overproduction of food and goods right now in all 50 states then getting extra money into most people's hands could only be a good thing. Plus as I stated before, some will choose to save the majority of it, so even if there is a somewhat risk of overspending I think you always have a certain percentage of people that are going to be cautious and just deposit it into their bank, so we wouldn't have to be worried about everybody going hog wild and spending everything at once even IF we accept the assumption that that would be an objectively bad thing, which at this point I don't think it would be.
But does all of this answer my original question of "do we need to tax the general population?" Ummm, well for now, no I don't think we do. Who makes the decision as to what the magic amount of total legal tender there is within the US's borders? When do we go into the "red zone" from whence we must release the excess through taxation? Is it fitting and accurate to view the economy as a potentially over-inflated tire? I don't think so personally, but I guess we would only know for sure by actually trying it out. Maybe that's what we should do. That would be interesting to see what the end result would be. Local and state governments would probably need to continue taxing unless they were simply distributed money directly from DC. In which case, why would they need to tax if they were getting the funding straight from the central government? Seems to me either way works, either way gets the job done more or less sufficiently. I'm not saying what you're just so switch over to doing it that way, but it seems like it would certainly work. you have DC as essential origin point simply distributing a certain amount of federal funds to the states and the states can just distribute them as necessary amongst all of its counties and municipalities. seems like a usable alternative to the taxation model.
As far as spending, I could be wrong, but it seems to me what the majority of households in the US need is much more spending power right now, not less, and perhaps that should continue for some time, maybe for the long-term. I mean we're producing out the yin-yang, and then 50% of it goes into the landfill which environmentally very bad instead of helping needy families and persons and ending poverty and killing two birds with one stone? That's just crazy to me. Man I'd really like to change that. I mean I /reeeaally/ want to change that. I mean it's common sense. ANY excess in domestic supply of any useful item or foodstuff should be automatically redistributed to where it's needed most OR at a minimum sold at a price people can afford. Or both!*
*I know we recently had a baby formula shortage but that is very very rare and that was because they had a problem in one of the plants which I just heard came back online and shouldn't be a problem for the foreseeable future. This is the only time in my adult life I've heard of an actual shortage of any necessary good that couldn't be resolved via domestic supply from another location. I mean there were temporary shortages in the early stages of those pandemic but those were pretty rapidly resolved.
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@ttmfndng201 maybe someday but not all business owners are bad. Some have worked hard to get to where they are, I can't ignore that. Sometimes they do provide a good idea or two. Some have real respect for their staff. We can't ignore that. It's not as simple as owners bad, workers good. Ofc workers are good, but not all owners are bad. You got small business, midrange local chains, small corps, and then the multinationals, who are indeed the enemy. The smaller players aren't all bad and many strive to run a fair business. Think of private preschools, doggy day cares and local furniture chains or eateries, the local photo store, the local glassworks studio, the local non-corporate market..... And etc. I have a big business problem - but I can't say I have a business problem period, bec that wouldn't make sense.
Do workers need profit share? Yes of course. Without a doubt. More guarantees and protections? Yes of course. All specified in exact detail in law.
I think there needs to be a limit on corporate business size, without a doubt, say 5000 persons, 100 locations. Not sure if this be done they legislation but I'm willing to try.
It's possible. Without a secret store of nukes we're stuck having to try to use the political process. I believe it's very possible to propagate legislation forward but it takes a long-term strategy. Ballot measures can help .... There are steep barriers yes, but that's why we need to organize and reorganize.... And organize again.
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@gbone3879 ha! I think that's it for real.
Taking away someone else's rightful power of choice and authority over their own life is so gross. Anyone who supports that on any issue is truly sick in the head and needs to take a good long hard look at themselves in the mirror and ask themselves why???? Why would they want this for their sister, their mother, their female friends, or any citizen or human being anywhere? Shouldn't we want for others what we want for ourselves- which is complete power control and autonomy over our own lives and our own decisions??? I certainly don't want to make State property out of any US citizen or any non-citizen. I want EVERYONE to have complete and total freedom in their life. Now obviously there are small and reasonable ways in which we're going to give up small amounts of freedom for public benefit, such as wearing masks indoors during times of health crises, which no sane person has a major issue with. But taking away bodily control rights is a cosmic distance away from that! It is another animal ENTIRELY.
It's wrong, it's fascism, it opens the door to a whole Pandora's box of evils. We have a far too over-reaching fascist-like government as it is, and a lot of people may not be aware of it because it hasn't touched their lives yet, but but it certainly touched others. From mass incarceration to inhumane prison conditions, to predatory financial abuses by local and State governments; to our JOKE of a court and legal system, the list goes on and on in the US.
It's bad enough that people who choose to use substances just within their own life (I'm not even talking about dealing here per se), are called criminals and attacked by our courts.
We are NOT all that free here and we are not nearly as free as we should be. The more power we give a fascist s-hole central government the less we as persons have and why anyone wants to accelerate this process and sooner or later turn us all into quasi-slaves I have no fucking idea. Your guess is as good as mine.
Everyone supporting turning women into State property needs to ask themselves if they would support the same being done to them, in one or more ways??? And if the answer is no then how can they in good conscience ever support this kind of gross, grievous, egregious attempted tyranny by those who claim to have power in our so-called govt??
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@Ajente02 I appreciate your response. I find myself agreeing with most if not all of that, but I still don't see the harm in a well-managed private sector and FAIR trade agreements, not "free" trade per se.
I still want us, the workers, to have all necessary input and control, along with any owners. An equal partnership. I envision a vibrant private sector with hard upper limits on how large any individual business can grow as set by law. Taxation voluntary for all but the highest incomes and any private enterprise over a certain size.
State-provided material guarantees paid thru taxation and federal currency issuing.
Strong regulations on private enterprise to protect all consumers, smaller businesses, workers, animals, and the environment.
I do support most restrictions on IP being ended, but I think a few basic ones make sense.
I believe we're pretty close in vision, possibly I'm getting caught up in semantics.
Regardless, considering the death grip the ugly mega-capitalist class has on the rule of the US, I feel installing even a lukewarm social democracy here will be a Herculean task, one I hope to see completed in my lifetime and I feel it's unproductive to expect anything better than that in our lifetime- not that we shouldn't be embracing a more ideal end state, but we also need to be practical and focus as much on our tangible reality, real world capability, and the level of entrenched opposition forces as possible.
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Always based to hear from Leeta!
Well of course it's because the interests behind the White House are basically infinitely greedy and they don't want to share the wealth. Not even a little bit. They want it ALLL. A dictatorship of Western hypercapitalist corporate interests, no matter the costs to anyone else.
And this is a problem, because for whatever other faults a given communist leader or national administration my have, it won't be the bitch of Big Capital. And of course for this, it must die.
And the shit continues today. Washington won't stop attacking, provoking and instigating unnecessary conflict with Russia (see proxy war in Ukraine, forced shutdown of the USSR in 1989 and the terrible economic neoliberal carnage in the region that followed and to some extent continues today). When that fails they try to foment completely unnecessary drama with Beijing/China. And its happening now.
You have to ask yourself what their end goal is?? Is it, if we can't have it all we're going to start another world war, a war over the Pacific? Because if they do continue to provoke and refuse all attempts at sensible diplomacy, that's where it's going to end. I fail to see what anyone has to gain from that. Let's say WW3 happens, 40M die, a few nukes get dropped, all in all, a pretty shit time ..... and then what??? Then you're back to where you started, having to work out a way to coexist on the globe peacefully with other nations.
So why not skip all that destruction and just do that now?? That's not as "fun"? Yeah for these lunatics probably not.
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@Dowlphin I've had a couple incidents of those shadowbans, a while apart. It took me a second each time to figure out why I couldn't post. I saw my account wasn't cancelled like all my previous ones had been, so it was puzzling me at first why my posts weren't showing up, but I did get it, lol.
Yeah it's a mess. I've lost 5-6 great accounts with ZERO prior warning just a TOTAL ban one day and of course any appeal attempts were useless. I don't mind the cancelled comments as much as the knee-jerk account cancelling and then you lose all your data along with it. Wasteful, unnecessary, and purposefully malicious if you ask me. Totally unnecessary. You can remove temporary posting priveledges from users for ant length of time without deleting all their information, most or all of which is likely to be completely acceptable.
It's really a shame how destructive, disrespectful and wasteful the new policies are.
If they could just stop the rampant account terminations or at least provides warnings beforehand and fair methods for getting them restored, I would be fine with it. The comment blockers are annoying, but I could live with that, the bullshit and capricious ways that accounts and creators are treated however I think is pretty shit and unfair.
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@Rafalski7 you know so little. Amazing. The Right, as embraced and exemplified by those in office with Rs next to their name; is pure ignorance, pure hate, pure filth, pure violence, pure creeping totalitarianism, pure cruelty, pure white supremacy, pure corporate crime, pure impoverishment of the masses, pure savagery, pure rejection of knowledge and Science, pure anything else bad you can think of.
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@HeatherHotcakes I don't why you think the HOA is a moral entity. It's a fucking scam and you've been brainwashed. Anyone who moves into a nicer community is going to maintain their home in a perfectly acceptable way. That goes without saying. The HOA serves no needed or useful purpose. NOBODY has the right to force homeowners to conduct their property in any certain way. Provided general safety and a basic cleanliness is being maintained - that's all that matters. Anything beyond that falls under OWNER'S RIGHTS TO DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES! Nobody should want to live anywhere where they or others are forced to comply with a long list of excessive and unjustified and ridiculous rules!!!! You already have rules - it's called laws. Anything beyond that is unacceptable as an enforcement measure. Anything beyond LEGAL LAWS is merely a preference of someone WHO HAS NO LEGAL RIGHTS TO HAVE A SAY and ergo their voice, aka in this case a HOA, is way out of line!
The HOA is NOT municipal govt. THEY HAVE NO LEGAL RIGHT TO MAKE DEMANDS OR SET STANDARDS OR DEMAND MONEY. THEY ARE OPEN CRIMINALS DISGUISING THEMSELVES AS A BENIGN NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP.
YOU SHOULD KNOW- Your property values aren't going to change because Bob didn't rake his leaves and it's madness if you think so. THUS KIND OF THINKING HAS ALLOWED THESE PREDATORS TO GASLIGHT YOU INTO ACCEPTING THEIR ONGOING GRIFT AND LARCENY. If I was you I'd demand their immediate dismissal, never to return.
You see, the HOA is a group of thugs who bully and threaten residents over insanely petty and unjustified aesthetic property standards in order to extort large sums of cash.
It isn't okay. It's thuggery, and it's already illegal as NO ONE has the legal authority to do what they do BUT govt. Why state govt has refused to intervene so far boggles my mind- they must be on take from these groups. That's the only explanation.
NOBODY SHOULD BE PENALIZED OR THREATEN TO BE PENALIZED OVER
EVERY HOMEOWNER HAS THE RIGHT TO SET THEIR OWN STANDARDS WITH HOME MAINTENANCE AND CONDUCT.
AND EVEN IF THE HOA WANTED TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS OR OFFER ASSISTANCE, WHICH WOULD BE FINE AND I WOULD HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEM WITH, THEY HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO RIGHT TO DEMAND MONEY FROM YOU! THEY ARENT GOVERNMENT!!! THEY ARE JUST A BUNCH OF DEMONS WHO ARE HOPING THEY CAN JACK SOMEBODY UP ENOUGH TO WHERE THEY STEAL THEIR HOME FROM THEM FOR THE COST OF KIDS MEAL!!
they aren't the government!! They have no legal enforcement rights!!
NOBODY SHOULD BE GIVEN A "RULE BOOK" WHEN THEY BUY THEIR HOUSE!! THAT IS IN-FUCKING-SANE!!!
You want to know what your rules are? Your rules are whatever your local municipal, county, and state governments say!!! THOSE ARE YOUR FUCKING RULES!!!
MY HOUSE IS MINE TO DO WITH AS I SEE FIT- I WILL /NOT/ TURN OVER THAT VERY SPECIAL RIGHT TO ANYONE!!!
And honestly you should feel the same. HOAs are satanic evil things.
Most homeowners take pride in their property. They don't need to be policed or intimidated or bullied by anyone to take care of their property.
IF THE HOA REALLY EXISTED FOR THE GOOD OF THE RESIDENTS THERE WOULD BE NO MONEY INVOLVED. THIS THING IS A RAMPANT GRIFT OPERATING RIGHT UNDER YOUR NOSE AND YOU'RE REFUSING TO SEE IT.
FORCING PEOPLE TO PAY HUNDREDS A MONTH IN ORDER TO BE BULLIED AND BE AT RISI OF HAVING MY HOUSE STOLEN?!??
AND NOTHING SOUNDS ILLEGAL OR IMMORAL ABOUT THIS TO YOU???
I maintain that you have been drinking the Kool aid too long. Step away - maybe your basic horse sense will come back to you.
The infantilization of the American citizen continues. UNDER WHAT LEGAL AUTHORITY DOES ANY HOA JUSTIFY THE MONEY THEY DEMAND (EXTORTION) AND THE PENALTIES THEY DISH OUT (EXTORTION)???
As if I would ever pay anyone to take more of rights away and institute more control over my life. I swear people are just losing every last semblance of mind they ever had. WHERE DOES THE CONTROL END!?!
You don't need to seek your soul to an evil mob of theives and RACKETEERING criminals to enjoy living in a nice looking community.
HOAs are crime rackets. Believe me or don't. I mean it's as plain as the nose on your face. I suggest you reject yours and stop giving them your money and call for their immediate disbandment and vacating of whatever space they congregate in.
It's nothing but a massive crime and theft racket Heather. Please face facts. YOU'RE GETTING FUCKED. YOU ARE GETTING FUCKED.
THESE PEOPLE ARE FILTH. YOU SHOULD WANT THEM OUT OF YOUR COMMUNITY. Everyone should.
NOBODY DESERVES TO BE FORCED TO MEET ARBITRARY, SENSELESS, AND UNNECESSARY PROPERTY STANDARDS AND THEN BE ROBBED BLIND WHEN THEY DONT. ALSO, THEY ARE FORCED TO PAY FOR THIS PRIVILEGE - 100s A MONTH!?!? FOR WHAT!? IT SURELY IS ILLEGAL TO FORCE ANYONE TO PAY INTO ANY ORGANIZATION THAT THEY HAVE NO WISH TO BE A PART OF!
You do know these people are just pocketing all these money right??? WHY DOES THE HOA DEMAND MONEY WHEN ALL OF YOU ALREADY PAY LOCAL TAXES FOR MUNICIPAL SERVICES???? ITS THE LOCAL GOVTS RESPONSIBILITY TO HANDLE ANY CITY-RELATED UTILITY OR INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUE! SO HOAs ARE DEMANDING YOU PAY TAXES TWICE! FIRST YOU PAY THE CITY, THEN THEM!
You really don't think this is wrong??? C'mon of course it is!!!
A PERSON'S MAINTENANCE AND AESTHETIC CHOICES ARE THEIR SOLE RIGHT TO DECIDE AS A HOMEOWNER!! ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF THAT FALLS UNDER CITY PURVIEW. SO AGAIN I ASK YOU, WHAT PRACTICAL PURPOSE DOES AN HOA SERVE AND ON WHAT MORAL, LEGAL, AND ETHICAL GROUNDS DO THEY JUSTIFY THEIR EXISTENCE??
well they can't. They most definitely can't.
THEY ARE A FILTHY MONEYMAKING GRIFT - NOTHING MORE. People would actually probably be MORE motivated to go the extra mile on their property if they weren't being terrorized by these demons and being forced to live in fear of a vicious HOA and it's capricious greed and constant hyper-scrutinization. It's never fun living under the constant threat of extortion and financial harm from a ruthless group which, for one, surely is patently illegal, and two, conducts itself like a cartel.
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@keirfarnum6811 I agree with everything you said other than "incredible airlift". He should have been airlifting for MONTHS before August. What POSSIBLE excuse was there not to?? Biden fucked this up in almost unbelievably incompetent ways. What president or PM waits until the so-called "enemies" of your current government or client govt ARE IN YOUR CITY TO REMOVE YOU before he removes ONE LIVING BODY from that place? Was he even going to evacuate anyone!?!?? Or pull a Trump???? Because it honestly looks like he never even had a evacuation even planned!
Yes, there was absolutely nothing incredible about that process other than pure, shitfuckery and necessity. he should have reopened the 10 AIRBASES Trump closed and organized months of orderly removals simultaneously! Some people had to drive 12 hours to get to Kabul and still didn't make it into a flight I have read. Sickening, just appalling and looks ALMOST intentionally handicapped and done this way, if you ask me.
I heard Biden flatly refused to listen to any of the top generals (because he's so experienced on foreign soil that's right, like Trump he knows everything of course) on how to effectively and rationally conduct a capable withdrawal. He's such an immoral POS. He's just as bad as Trump. Less than zero sense, HIS WAY or the highway. And then he refuses to extend the evacuation THAT HE PUT OFF TO THE VERY LAST SECOND by end two hours!! I mean....... I don't know if this is weakness or Trump-level idiocy and sociopathic obstinacy. I really don't. Here we are running scared, LEAVING PEOPLE BEHIND, BECAUSE oh no, a TALI-swine might get butthurt and say something?!? Has the world gone MAD?!? ANY POTUS WHO HAD HALF A DICK WOULD HAVE SAID "LOOK- WERE LEAVING- YOU'RE GETTING YOUR CITY BACK (not really theirs but that's how they see it), YOU THREATEN US OR ANY OF OUR PEOPLE OR CONNECTED AFGHANS, WE WILL FUCKING END YOU. WE WILL BE DONE, WHEN WE'RE FUCKING DONE. WE ARENT GOING TO LEAVE A SINGLE PERSON BEHIND AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT, THATS YOUR PROBLEM. ANY THREATS OR ACTIONS AGAINST US WILL BE MET WITH OVERWHELMING MILITARY FORCE".
THATS how you handle a situation like that. And Biden is just an 80 year old in diapers, as is Trump- and both of this geriatric fucks just completely rolled over and allowed these ignorant primitives to take total control and set the agenda. It's absolutely breathtaking. Trump willingly did everything in his power to give the country to the Talibs and cut out the pre-existing so-called civilian govt in Kabul, and Biden acted like he wanted to set records for how much of a coward and a complete b7tch he could be, while willingly leaving some people behind. The willful incompetence, sabotage and failure is more than my brain can handle honestly.
I'm disgusted by how Biden chose to handle this and I would love to see him impeached over it. I believe he deserves it. Kamala will take over in that case it would be NBD. I suppose this is the only time in my entire life I will EVER agree with republican swine on anything.
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I've never agreed with eminent domain.
Let's talk about what it really means. It's merely the State or the feds saying "we have more thugs than you to do what we say, so fuck you. We can take what you have and you can't do a goddamn thing about it."
End of story.
I've never supported eminent domain, because first of all, a claim of public value is entirely subjective and cannot be proven in any kind of objective way by any outside observer, and even if it could that STILL doesn't justify the forceful taking of one's home or business by an outside authority regardless of whether fair compensation was provided or not. (The State's definition of 'fair' and the owner's definition are probably quite far apart from one another.) An unwilling taking is a theft plain and simple; it's Might makes Right, nothing less, the underlying foundation of all so-called government actions ("do what we say, or else!")
I do not believe eminent domain has ever been needed, let alone justified. Since government is just the assembly of force directed towards a particular goal for a particular interest, and these interests are usually based in corrupt cronyism, I do not believe an ethical argument could be made for any incident of eminent domain over the past 200 years.
I find ED to be just dressed up bullying. It's the schoolyard bully taking the weaker kids' lunch money, nothing else. Let's not be fooled; those making public policy are usually nothing more than a bunch of corrupt pieces of dogcrap who don't want to play fair, ergo they try to dress up their wrongful behavior with fancy words and special procedures in order to make what they are doing appear more palatable or morally justifiable.
Let's be smarter than that.
Eminent domain is the State using its excess of force against an individual or a group for any reason. I can't possibly support that; I don't care how supposedly publicly valuable the planned project is, as I've already stated, perceived value is purely subjective and nowhere provable. I'm literally a communist but that doesn't mean I believe we should all be slaves to government bureaucrats and pseudo-dictators.
If any citizen does not wish to sell then that should be their right, end of story, no more discussion, PERIOD. The individual should have some rights in this country and right now, we don't IMO. (I can't believe how property taxes are used to literally violently take homes from hard-working families who worked all their life for them and I truly hope this is not done elsewhere. I find this to be a monstrously evil practice that is somehow so normalized to the point I feel as if I'm living in bizarro world when I encounter it.) The greed-obsessed filth who gain power here are literally doing everything in their power to take EVERYTHING we have by any means necessary. (It's always easier committing grand larceny to another then putting in the hard work of earning it oneself.)
If we're not getting reamed by Wall Street, it's the local county, state or the feds coming around. I don't know if we can change any of this in my lifetime but I would sure like to try. I find the current status of what government superfilth gets away with at the moment quite intolerable. The amount of intentional destruction, harm , and larceny from the State to the average citizen in this country is just beyond, IMO.
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We CAN'T continue to allow the psychopaths to set the agenda. None of this shocks me. I can only imagine the amount of legal food wastage that happens at these satanic shitholes. I've seen them with literally security guards out front (this is how deep we fallen into the moral abyss, hungry desperate people don't have the right to take a few ounces of food if it'll put something in their stomach that day- never mind that every store, Whole Foods especially but any chain really, makes money hand over fist and could EASILY donate half of their products and still make a very significant profit).
Hopefully in our lifetime we can push for actual laws that have teeth and real force behind them that can crack down on every company, EVERY business that conducts itself in an unacceptable way in regards to consumers or workers.
There should be a strict legal code of conduct and laws that every business has to abide by or else it gets one warning, one give me and that's it it's shut down and slapped with massive fires and upon repeated violations, whoever is at the top goes to jail. If you don't play extremely ruthless and hardcore with the vast majority of businesses out there they will do anything they want, and they will be menaces instead of benefits to their community.
BUSINESSES NEED TO LEARN THAT THEY ARE HERE TO SERVE, YES AT A PROFIT THAT'S WHAT A BUSINESS IS- BUT ULTIMATELY THEY ARE HERE TO SERVE THEIR COMMUNITY NOT SHIT ALL OVER IT OR USE IT OR ANY OTHER PSYCHOPATHIC SICK VENAL MALIGNANT NARCISSIST MORALLY BANKRUPT IDEOLOGY THAT THEY'VE TOLD THEMSELVES!
Too bad we have a completely psychopathic state and government at all levels in this godforsaken shithole fourth-world country. That's why 70% of this country is either deep in poverty or literally one wrong move away from it! Meanwhile the waste of food and usable products is off the charts and the 1% are taking everything!!!! And I really do mean everything. I predict a complete failed state of this so-called United States within 100 years. I have zero doubt at this point. The demons have completely taken over. Homelessness and poverty are out of control and continue to be enforced on greater and greater numbers of the population and those caught in it's wake are increasingly criminalized. There's only one step that the authorities have left to go in this country and that's death squads and concentration camps. I wonder when that will happen???
As for now, all we need is extremely strict standards of business upheld under law. Etched in stone comprehensive Labor rights AND consumer rights, signed into every state's Constitution (yeah I'll hold my breath). The more these standards are enumerated in black and white and passed as legal bills, the more these misgotten Satan's-anus companies can be crushed with the iron fists of law, ie courts. Look, I think most of the courts in this place are a disgrace against humanity but they COULD actually work for good if ever operated by people of conscience for laws created also by those of conscience.
It all depends who's making the so-called laws and policies, and what kind of judges get on the benches. (Individual judges shouldn't have any authority anyways. This literally turns a judge into an absolute tinpot dictator psychopathic DESPOT and I thought that's everything this country stood against? Whatever happened to absolute power corrupts absolutely??????!? It's certainly everything I believe against. There should be no "King" judge or "emperor" judge, not here not anywhere not EVER. But that's a separate discussion)
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Tom I love you but I guess I got to take the libertarian view on this one. As a 40 year old adult I grossly resent the fact that a government thug feels they have the right to tell me what I can and cannot put in my own god-given body. IF I DON'T EVEN HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXERCISE FULL AUTONOMY AND CONTROL OVER MY OWN BODY WHAT EVEN AM I? BECAUSE I'M NOT A FREE HUMAN BEING IF THAT IS THE CASE, I'M A SLAVE; AND YET WE ARE ALREADY THERE.
WOULD-BE MASTERS OF ALL ARE FORCING US INTO EVER SMALLER AND SMALLER BOXES WE ARE NOTHING BUT POWERLESS OBJECTS, AND THIS IS JUST ONE OF MANY STEPS THEY HAVE TAKEN OVER THE PAST 100 YEARS TO DO SO, ESP THE PAST 40.
I can go on and on but what's going on right now is reefer madness all over again. The criminalization of harmless vices or pleasures, whichever word you prefer, by a big brother political class that only wants to increase the ways they can oppress us, steal from us, and worst case scenario throw us behind bars for should disturb everyone. This isn't a class issue. Everything doesn't go back to class. It goes back to basic civil rights. I guess you all truly do want to live as dogs under a total dictatorship.
NOBODY should be supporting this constant desired expansion of State powers to take all areas of self-ownership from. This is disturbing and we should all push back against this. It is NOT the government's business who chooses to smoke, or consume alcohol, or any other private habit. I mean when we start looking to government to be our parent, to literally turn over our most precious rights of Free Will to, is this not something we should be highly disturbed by??? The more power we give government the more they will use it against us. Why do we want masters? Why do you, Tom? You're too smart for that.
The ideal world is where there's no government at all however I know we don't live in an ideal world. A minimum amount of fair regulation and organization is necessary for the ideal functioning of a healthy society, I know this. HOWEVER, when it comes to my personal life what I choose to do as a free will hard-working ADULT, and others in the same situation, IS OUR HUMAN RIGHT and they have gone way WAY too far when they try to take it away. Why didn't we learn these lessons regarding Prohibition in the 1920s? Yes of course we did and yet these fucking filthy demons just won't stop coming trying to take away every zone of Free Will and control over our own lives that we have left. EVERYONE should be disturbed by this.
There is NOTHING wrong with an adult choosing to exercise their god-given free will to consume a substance. That is not the purview of government. Never has been and never will be. "Big Brother Stay Back!" is what I hope they put on my tombstone. I don't understand why I'm the loan voice of sanity on this. I didn't take you all for fools. Was I wrong?
NOBODY, no authority on the planet has the right to interfere with are basic human rights to choose, to choose our hobbies, to choose our personal pleasures, to choose anything in that category. In fact, unless it's causing deliberate harm to another human being or unjustly depriving them of their property, government has no right to step in at all! Here's what they do have the right to do:
✓ Engage in common sense public education campaigns
✓ Encourage individuals to be more mindful of their health in general
✓ Place age limits and ID requirements for sale of tobacco and alcohol related items
✓ provide full comprehensive publicly funded healthcare and never tried to avruge it
✓ provide comprehensive drug and alcohol treatment facilities for all those who develop a use problem, cost-controlled so all can afford access
AND THAT'S IT!!!! THAT. IS. IT!!!!
ANYONE WHO WANTS ANY MORE THAN THIS IS A MENTAL CHILD AND WANTS TO LIVE UNDER A TOTALITARIAN DYSTOPIA BECAUSE HONESTLY WE ARE NOT THAT FAR OFF FROM THAT RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHERE IT STARTS. And it's already started in many obvious and not so obvious ways. We are long past the canary in the coal mine stage regarding the constant creep against our personal rights and rights of small businesses to thrive.
THE DRUG WAR WAS THE DEVIL'S GIFT TO DESPOTS TO DESTROY LIVES AND EMPOWER GOVERNMENT CRIMINALS TO ENRICH THEMSELVES TO THE TUNE OF BILLIONS AT THE COMMON PERSON'S EXPENSE.
AND LIKE AN INFINITELY GREEDY CRIMINAL EMPIRE, THEY WANT TO EXPAND. DESPOTISM ALWAYS DOES.
I find it shocking that people think government has any role in dictating what a full-grown adult can and can't do with them themselves. After everything I've gone through in life, the last thing I need is government filth decapitating my head and feeling like they have the right to dictate anything to me about my personal life or who I choose to do business with.
But if you people want to live in a hellscape dystopia who am I to stop you? We already have government demons telling women they don't have the right to own and control their own bodies why not just expand that to everyone now? Isn't that what the drug war is all about? We're all just government property, we're all just government slaves right?? So we don't have the right to use our bodies how we would choose? That seems to be the thesis of poorly thought-out reaction videos such as these and others that support these outrageous abridgements.
By all means, slaves, seek your dystopia if you must, but keep that away from me. Just don't try to force it on me because I will fight it tooth and nail by all means necessary.
There is a limited role for government in human society BUT THIS ISNT IT!!!!
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE USE OF NON-FOOD SUBSTANCES FOR FREE WILL LUCID-MINDED MENTALLY DEVELOPED ADULTS OVER THE AGE OF 18 AND THE MOMENT WE ALLOW GOVERNMENT CRIMINALS TO TELL US OTHERWISE WE HAVE REALLY OPENED PANDORA'S BOX. PROHIBITION NEVER WORKS AND IT IS VILE AND IT GRANTS GOVERNMENT SCUMBAGS FAR TOO MUCH POWER THAN ANY HUMAN BEING DESERVES. IT BECOMES NOTHING BUT A LICENSE TO DESTROY YOUR LIFE AND DEPRIVE YOU OF ALL OF YOUR MATERIAL PROPERTY REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE GAINING OF SUCH PROPERTY WAS RELATED TO THAT PARTICULAR PROHIBITED ITEM OR NOT. AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN THINK CLEARLY HERE AND SEE WHY THIS IS MADNESS!?!
DO YOU ALL WANT FREE WILL AND RIGHTS OR NOT!?!?
Sorry Tom love you but Big L on this one. I just don't think you're old enough to understand as I am how this can go wrong so fast. I've lived a bit longer than you so I just have the benefit of experience. I'm not particularly smart I'm very average but I think you're much smarter than I am however life experience counts for a lpr. here in the US live on the devil's favorite world's largest prison colony and it's only getting worse. Any laws to increase government's power even beyond their already bloated distorted State should be fought against by every citizen. Unless you think I'm on the right please don't believe that. I am left of left of left. But anyone with common sense, with political opinions and not should agree with me on this. I mean do you want to live under dystopia or do you want to be free that's what it comes down to??
I mean this is insane we're now I mean it's so funny cuz they learned they did learn their lesson with alcohol prohibition but they won't stop trying to come for every other substance in creation including kratom. Don't you all wonder why that is? Or you all such so desperate to be slaves of Big Brother you never questioned the chains as they continue to gather around your neck????
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I believe Trump or people directly under him ordered it. He made a traitorous deal to do everything possible so the Taliban could take back over and they did. If you don't believe me I have a great deal of further information for you.
He openly and, for reasons currently still unknown, completely betrayed the civilian Afghan govt that we, the US, had helped put together and been dealing with Day 1. Now here comes Trump and for reasons still publicly unknown destroys all of that, and Biden for his part, let it stand. If we were going to withdraw, and at some point we were, all hardware and weapons should have been immediately turned over to the Afghanis so they could keep themselves free from the Taliban so this exact disastrous outcome would not have happened. It isn't just that the Afghanis didn't do their part, they did the best they could, but between 2019-2020 Trump went to extreme lengths by all accounts to harm them and help the Tallybons. Why?????? I don't know. I have three theories tho and if you want to know more let me know and I'll go into more detail.
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@MrKase420 it's both. Stop defending that sociopath known as Trump. You're nuts if you think he has a conscience. He started this. He set it into motion. He did it all and and Bidens fault, in my eyes, was not reversing it. Trump put this together, betrayed the Afghan people, and ensured a Tali-crazy takeover. He also abandoned all the Afghan partners who worked with any US company or the military at any point in the last 20 years. His Nazis stopped all visas to any non-americans. He gutted the State dept and the Visa office and relevant Refugee govt agencies and apparently Biden didn't rebuild them before doing all this, which further has greatly hampered efforts to evacuate more Afghans wanting to flee. I don't know the current status of the Afghan "partners", if some are still stuck in Afghanistan. I'm sure some are, let alone the 100,000s who will now be refugees or want to flee; of which we could help evacuate many more than we are if Biden fixed the agencies before starting any drawdown, and if he removed the disgustingly low cap on refugees that Trump's Nazi administration proudly put into place.
Please look up this info I'm not making it up.
The man is a monster. I agree with everything you say other than the fact you absolve Trump. You're not that stupid are you?? Trump did ALL of this; he's 90% responsible. I just don't understand why Biden carried it out, and that's why I blame him and if he's impeached over this he would deserve it.
Trump and Pompeo should be shot and hung over this however.
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@carolbradley4845 I hope the Chinese do not do anything for the Taliban. They had an Afghan govt to work with, why didn't they talk to them??
The Taliban should be locked out of the world stage. I don't want to see anyone giving these people legitimacy. They want to live like 7th century savages, I say fine, knock yourselves out, but you have no right to steal 40M other people's lives and human rights to force them to do the same. Nobody not already brainwashed wants their goddamn shitsville dark ages lifestyle.
I have no quarrel with China, despite all the ramped up anti-china propaganda from the MSM media, but if that is the next step they take, they better be prepared to deal with some pretty serious blowback. I agree the country still needs development and infrastructure help- and that is something China does quite well; and that would certainly help the people; but at what price? To keep legitimatizing the Tali-fascists?? How good will these deals be for Afghanistan??? I find it hard to believe the 7th century uneducated savages, many whom are illiterate, will be able to make really crack deals for "their" nation.
NOBODY should be working with the Taliban. I highly doubt they have plans to be a fundamentalist version of FDR, meaning I highly doubt they have plans to redistribute any wealth to be gained by doing business deals with other govts to the people around the country.
Even if they do- which I strongly doubt- you can't put a price on freedom and human rights. I would love to see all Afghans pulled out of poverty with the proceeds from their govt making smart business deals with other nations; but I find it hard to believe the Taliban are going to be willing or able to do this.
They just have to go. I know the costs to us have been outrageous over these last 20 years; but right now I'm just thinking of the people. The Tali-crazies have to go. They have no right to impose a theocratic totalitarianism on 40M people. The Ghani govt had a lot of problems, but at least the country was moving forward, with hopefully more progress to come in the future, but now all that's over with these guys around.
They just have to go and I hope someone, anyone, steps up to remove them; by any means necessary. I mean not one that harms great numbers of civilians; but targeted ethical use of force if necessary.
And now here comes ice-iss K, another fun wrinkle in all this. Russia or China needs to move in, since we walked away, drive out the Taliban, and bring order and safety. Or maybe they won't be interested, idk. But now that we're gone they're the only civilized hope for the immediate future for Afghans.
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@thomasgriffin2326 um Kay... but what does that have to do with what she stands for, or in her case doesn't stand for?? Politics is about the issues, how someone looks is irrelevant. She is indeed conventionally attractive, and Sinema is cute, but the more I see Tulsis actual value system come to the foreg and it becomes clear she was never genuinely Progessive or SocDem or anything Left, the less outwardly attractive to me she is becoming. It's clear her principles, whatever they are are totally fluid, and she'll espouse any talking point that she feels will connect her to an audience and get her a seat at the table. I guess I can't blame her, that's what almost all of them do, but if she's not a committed Leftist, even though she tried to falsely portray herself as one for a minute, then I can discount her and move on.
A beautiful person can stab a knife into you just the same as an old or unattractive person can. Politics isn't a dating game. It's about ideas, values, and policies.
Maybe you already know all that but js. Let's not get distracted by his someone looks and focus on their words, actions, and policies.
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@HoagMurkula a govt is indeed a monopoly on violence... Which I don't think is right- but total anarchy isn't the answer either. I have some ideas about the problem of tyrannical civil govt and what we should demand instead that I can get into later.
I want a just economic system NOW, there's really no time to wait; not to mention the elimination of all civil rights issues that are rotten here. That requires taking over state govt by a majority of aggressive and unapologetic Leftists. (I'm not even worried about DC right now, that's hopeless.) So taking the State House is going to be very hard, esp under the current death-grip by the big money class; but not impossible. It takes a lot of boring hard work and strategizing, with no guarantees of success, and almost certain guarantees of initial failure, but we have to try. We can't just keep letting the 1% and the corporate elite dictate everything.
Why do I need to wait for others' opinions before I work on my agenda? All leftists want only two things, economic justice and civil justice. It sound so simple stated like that doesn't it? With the kinds of scum we're up against it could take another 100 years to get there. I sure hope it doesn't, but US is pretty deplorable at both, so I wouldn't be surprised if it did. Real-world change is going to take time, but it won't happen without effort. It's going to take non-stop agitation and organization by grassroots groups of all kinds working together for a common socialistic outcome.
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@kawaiidoggo thank you for your well-considered response and I'll think about it and respond again, but I still believe that a representative system is mostly bad and inadequate, one that over time will be totally captured by elites to the general harm or neglect of the majority and that the only real way to prevent this is to ensure every major decision is put to a public vote on a regular basis, ie every month for example, and any interested adult public citizen is a de facto member of the ruling council along with its "official members" and can come and address, meet with, question, and debate any of them at any public session, for as long as is necessary, and not in the token way this is performed now (VERY token if you've seen any metro city council meetings. Those fuckers dngaf what the ordinaries have to say, they let us say our piece and give people usually a max of five minutes each, count the clock until it's over, then do what they were going to do anyways. They know whose interests they represent, and believe me, it ain't ours.)
Not very democratic.
Now sometimes matters do go on the public ballot and that's fine- but once every two years, as is done here in CA both for local and state issues is ludicrous. I guess nothing of public interest happens in between those time frames, having a direct voice once every 24 months is totally sufficient for those who are politically or publicly active. (Note sarcasm)
No this really doesn't work. I mean it works great for narrow special interests, not so much for the bottom 50%. No, a much more flexible and egalitarian system must be created or amended so a "people's Assembly" or a "people's council" can actually exist.
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@jeffreyepstein9641 when I say socialism I just mean material guarantees to all citizens who need them, say those under 60K income. All basic material needs met at a basic level. Not luxury, nothing fancy, but a baseline of protected and guaranteed material security; nothing more but nothing less. Food, clothing, housing, medical care, access to education and training, mental health care support, drug treatment, transportation assistance, and phone/internet help. A strong minimum wage. Labor protected. Homeowners protected, far better than currently. Renters STRONGLY protected. Taxes progressively higher on the top 10% and big business, low to none on everyone else. Corporate sector highly controlled and limited. Private wealth limited to something reasonable, ie 400M. Etc. That's all. When I say socialism all I mean is material assurance by the State. We could have that, if the right people were ever elected. I do think we can vote our way into a better system, but if not, then we do whatever else is necessary.
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@Andrew-qu7lq I guess I have to say it again? NOBODY has the right to overrule a pregnant person, their mate if applicable, and their doctor when it comes to their own body and by extension, anything in it or intimately related to it.
IF IT'S NOT YOUR BODY, IT'S SIMPLY NOT YOUR CHOICE. THIS ISN'T AMBIGUOUS. THIS SHOULDN'T BE CONFUSING. WHY IS THIS SUDDENLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR 20% OF THE COUNTRY AND SCROTUS TO UNDERSTAND???? IF WE DON'T HAVE INVIOLABLE CONTROL OF OUR OWN BODIES AND PRIVATE LIVES THEN WE HAVE NOTHING. DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
The State wants to be god. That is its first sin. I refuse to give up all my power voluntarily to other human beings who colloquially call themselves the government or the State. Not in this lifetime. I will fight it. I will do what I have to. And if I die, I die. Hell, we all got to go sometime. I have no fear of death. It's honorable to die for a worthy cause anyways and if it comes down to that maybe I can take a few fascists and Gestapo with me, if that's how it has to be. Since fat bastard nazi-wannabe Scalia is gone, I'll just settle for Uncle Clarence Thomas. Of course that's providing I can get close enough, and unsurprisingly their security right now is tighter than a new asshole.
But you know what they say, where there's a will there's a way. But hopefully a skillful stealth shooter will save us all the trouble. I'm just an amateur. Surely there's far more skilled individuals out there who can make a difference, shall we say.
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@mikeparker6322 I hear you. Well I mean I'm sure you did what you could in your time. So now it's time for the next generation to step up and do what we can. Whether or not this particular community gets to retain the ability to live in their trailers at their previous rent, while very important to me, isn't as important as the overall question of why the HELL are we allowing every basic necessity in life to be made increasingly unavailable for people in the bottom 60% of incomes?
Obviously these are serious questions that I'm sure I'm not the first to point to as needing immediate change. Some say only a fundamental shift to communism will work, where the profit motive doesn't exist. While that may or may not be true, for the immediate future we need to think on a little smaller scale. Nothing that big will happen in our lifetime BUT we can get laws changed and reignite the Left movement (prioritizing people, the earth & justice) in this country. That's where I'm at right now.
Regarding housing policy, what anyone should be in support of whether they're a homeowner or renter; is hard and fast rent control, strict limits on how many individual units a private or corporate landlord can hold, and WAY tougher regulation on corporate landlords including bans on ANY kind of low-income housing, rent limits, increase limits, eviction protections, and mandatory moratoriums for necessitating circumstances.
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@TheHedgehogsDelimma eyy you're preaching to the choir bruh. I'm on board with all that. I don't know about godless, not everyone believes in a higher power, and I'm ok with that, but if you mean one where the bloodthirsty CIA and its pals in Congress who see themselves as fun n' fash 21st c. cold-warrior nu-nazis who seek one ring to rule them all, via any means necessary, yeah I totally agree with you. I'm not saying things on this planet have to be utopian, I doubt they ever will be, but the planet is finite. I do not believe our current level of consumption can be sustained indefinitely, nor can continued life-and-death competition.
I don't ever expect things to be perfect but some kind of non-predatory better relationship has to be set up between the first world and the third world if there's gonna be any hope for future stability worldwide.
And you're absolutely right, both mainstream corporate-power parties are basically worthless for most people, and only serve their own very narrow agenda.
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(Regarding OPs comment on "drug" use and govt attacks on it, here's my little rant on that in case anyone else was triggered by those references)
Govts are unfortunately frequently inhabited by control freaks and fascists. When it comes to substance use of any kind, not just cannabis or shrooms, it is and will ALWAYS be my position that NOBODY has the right to tell ANY adult what to do with their body or what to put in it (save for an exceedingly rare exception in cases of public health emergency, like covid).
WE OWN OUR BODIES, NOT THE STATE, and WE have the right to decide what happens to them or what we consume or how. This is something that these fascists just can't get through their head, apparently.
Govts will often attempt this kind of tyranny. It is our duty to resist these practices in whatever ways we can. The State has NO moral right to call drug use or distribution a CRIME when it occurs between consenting lucid ADULTS, or interfere between a qualified doctor and their patient, PERIOD! Once again, OUR BODIES ARE NO RIGHT OF THE STATE TO CONTROL OR DICTATE TO!!! If it's one thing in this world I can claim ownership of that no one has the right to take away from me, it's my own body, goddammit.
'Bodily ownership' isn't a concept this as well as some other govts have shown much willingness to respect, which is disturbing and outrageous, and the attacks on it even now are growing much more furious, unfortunately. This goes as much for women's rights as general rights.
Sadly, govt tyranny is evergreen and therefore the fight against the corrupt, racist and immoral US-based drug war and other abuses of govt authority continues. :(
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To OP- exactly. Whenever conditions are "right", life will develop on a planet. Maybe there is a creator, but the universe isn't finely tuned to US, humans, at least not in the way these folks mean- we just happen to be the end products of a planet that ended up with just the right conditions for complex life to occur.
I happen to believe that there are 1000s of planets with forms of life on them in the milky way, I'm sure one day we'll find out. Life doesn't exist most places in the universe- does that mean the universe is tuned against life? Lol no, or at least, not entirely. Limited planets in habitable zones will have life, all others will not.
My car becomes highly tuned for operation when I fill it up with gas. If the tank is empty, it suddenly becomes very untuned.
I'm not an atheist, but the presence or absence of life on a planet can't be used as proof of a creator Being, basically.
Because look at all the places life can't exist.
And then sometimes it does. If there IS a Creator, clearly they only wanted life in some places, under some conditions but not others.
I have no problem with those with religious beliefs, but it's not accurate to say the entire universe is tuned to the existence of human beings, ergo, there must be a Creator. It is more accurate to say, it also very much tuned AGAINST us, and that wouldn't necessarily be proof against a god either. But it's silly to only look at Earth while conveniently ignoring all the places life CAN'T exist, which is most of everywhere else.
It would be more statistically accurate to conclude life on Earth is one hell of a fluke. I don't believe we're alone in the universe, or our galaxy, but life certainly seems to be rare compared to planets without life.
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@DeadmaN-2112 first of all I just want to let you know that I do appreciate your thorough response, but unfortunately I'm not even familiar with this "tic tac" reputed UFO that you referring to. I'm going to have to go look it up to understand what your referencing. I totally get where you're coming from and I appreciate all of your technical details, but I don't think that there's any harm done in merely believing the possibility that aliens may exist. I also think it's very interesting that there have been thousands, not just a few, of anecdotal claims of sightings over the years. I'm sure quite a few can proven or attributed to very mundane or man-made causes, but there are some to this day that remain unexplained.
What is the harm in believing that other advanced ETs exist and may have already visited this planet? It's just an opinion, one that may or may not be proven in our lifetime.
I just think statistically speaking, it's highly unlikely we are the only intelligent life in this cosmic galaxy currently. And if a sufficiently advanced race of aliens did have the technology to visit and observe this planet while keeping themselves concealed from the large majority of people, of course there wouldn't be very many verifiable claims or sightings to be shared. Their position would be analogous to human beings observing animals of the wild from some kind of concealed position that the animals were unaware of. Maybe the guys on Ancient Aliens are all a bunch of hoaxster-pushing frauds and that may well be true, but I'm not ready to write off the entire possibility of alien life somewhere else in our galactic neighborhood just yet.
One that may already be advanced enough to the point that they have mastered space travel and for all we know may have been visiting Earth for decades or centuries. All I'm saying at this point is, we just don't know. I mean we really just don't have any way currently of knowing for certain one way or the other. There's a documentary that you may find not convincing, but I found it to be very thought-provoking, called Unacknowledged. I think Hulu or Tubi has it if you're ever interested.
I just don't see why the concept is considered so far fetched for some. I would say with certainty the possibility is there, not yet the proof. I just think there are too many accounts to be attributed all to people with hallucinations or some kind of mental illness or because they have some kind of agenda. I just don't think that's true in all cases. I think there are a small number of legitimate unexplained encounters out there. You you may write it off as a silliness, but I find the crop circle phenomenons extremely intriguing and I don't believe all of them are hoaxes; they just look too darn complex and they show up overnight and are done in such a way that precludes the possibility of them being man-made with simple boards on strings. The details are in that episode that I mentioned and I actually rewatched it recently, that's how I remember it's number. I guess they could be lying or deliberately trying to fool the untrained listener, but they sounded pretty convincing to me and I may not have an advanced degree, but I like to think that I have a reasonable ability to suss out nonsense when I hear it, and I'll be honest, I found the supporting information regarding the alleged ET-produced formations very fascinating and, at least for now, intriguing and worthy of further study.
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@DeadmaN-2112 it does, but it doesn't say we can't believe in the POSSIBILITY of other realities.
The universe is vast. To think complex life only exists on earth after 13B years is not logical to me. Statistically, I'm sure it's arisen somewhere else, if not 1000s of other planets by now.
And again, maybe not. Maybe we really are the first, but even so, I don't think we'll be the last. But it's the height of human arrogance to discount the possibility of alien life outright. I can't prove or disprove that they have already visited Earth, but I believe they exist somewhere.
Whether humans will ever personally interact with aliens is another question- but I hope we get there eventually. I'd like to think there are many alien world's with complex life on it right now as we speak, as well as civilizations that have long come and gone and those that haven't begun yet.
I hope I'm right. Will a real space federation one day exist???? Who knows???? I'd say it's certainly POSSIBLE. Beyond that, we can't really say because we just don't know. But to say for certain there is no simple or complex alien life?
With billions of planets in this galaxy?????? Nah, I find that too much of stretch and sooner or later I expect to be proven right.
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There are a lot of causes going on here but the solution starts with RENT CONTROL. None of the politicians want to do that because they don't want to actually control the landlord class, because they take massive bribes from them to get into office and to stay in office. So you're asking the fox to guard the henhouse. Politicians say they "want" to fix the problem, but only if it doesn't upset their wealthy patrons.
Without rent control this problem is only going to get worse. Without providing wraparound services at low or free cost, such as mental healthcare, basic physical healthcare, and drug treatment care, this problem will only continue.
The problem is, in LA county, a full HALF of their total budget goes to their local police Nazi terrorist State and their local incarceration complex. Obviously this is a huge problem. That number should be less than 10%. Instead it's a full HALF of the budget. Half of every public tax dollar in LA county pays a ruthless LAPD PREDATOR or pays to put somebody in a cage for almost certainly unnecessary or wasteful reasons.
With evil such as this being fully condoned and nurtured by the animals we elect to local public office, how can we ever hope to fix this problem?!?!?!? All these corrupt psychopaths have for us is poverty and lockup. They only care about serving the wealthiest citizens, the top 5% of voter; the donor aka bribing class.
So honestly, the solutions to this problem are pretty simple but the root cause is that the politicians we elect are filthy trash owned by the Gestapo State AND the ruthless profiteering industries which tell them (politicians) that under NO circumstances will they vote for public healthcare or rent control, because IF they do, they'll take their money and go home; aka, they'll remove their financial support and give it somebody else who will. And so the politicians obey, and usually very willingly because they don't give a flying fuck about poor people they don't even give a shit about the middle class; they only care about the richie rich narrow elite and themselves.
The problem is we don't elect anybody that has any morals in this country. We are voting for people who will and do point guns at our heads. Ultimately, the fault is ours. This goes for Republicans AND Democrats, because they are the same trash behind the scenes. This is the root problem because people WILL NOT vote for socialists or commies who put the public good ahead of ruthless corporate profit. This is it right here.
Until that changes the status quo will just continue and expand.
This problem could get fixed overnight, but the politicians that we elect are owned and operated by ruthlessly greedy interests who tell them outright in an ultimatum 'you WILL NOT control the cost of our rent, you WILL NOT pass public healthcare in the state of California', and so on. And these politicians, being on their knees to these trash, happily obey. If anyone thinks any elected politician gives a flying fuck about them in this country they are sadly and tragically and hilariously deluded. EVERY RED OR BLUE POLITICIAN IN THIS COUNTRY HAS BEEN ON THEIR KNEES WILLINGLY TO BIG CORPORATE MONEY AND BILLIONAIRE MONEY SINCE THE DAY THEY RAN FOR OFFICE. THEY HAVE NO INTENTION OF SERVING THE PUBLIC, THEY NEVER DID. THEY'RE JUST GOOD LIARS AND PEOPLE KEEP FALLING FOR IT.
FACTS.
Therefore the status quo will only continue. All the basics of life will become so cost inflated that only the top 20% to 40% will be able to comfortably afford them. If this isn't stopped then this problem will just increase until we have vast tent cities and ghettos like you see in the third world.
It's not that politicians don't know what this problem is- they know quite well; it's that they don't CARE. They are elites (or wannabe elites) who serve the business elites at any cost, NOT the general public.
Voting for both Republicans OR Democrats brings us this problem because they are both the slaves of the corporate elite. BOTH of them.
To get better people into office you have to VOTE for better people. Better people have to run and make it onto the ballot and the debate stage, which both red/blue parties do everything in their power to prevent. So the rot runs deep. Sure, leftists and socialists can try to make a stand, but it's extremely hard to get elected coming from an outsider party. The average voter is just too brainwashed and unaware to choose that candidate, AND SO THEY FAIL. SO LIKE I SAID, WHILE THERE'S ABSOLUTE MALICE AND VERY ORGANIZED EFFORTS BEHIND THE SCENES TO NOT ALLOW OUTSIDER CANDIDATES TO GAIN OFFICE, ULTIMATELY WE DO THIS TO OURSELVES.
All I can say for people who want to change this at the source is to do your best to run for public office as an outsider Left candidate. The deck is stacked against you and it's a huge uphill battle but you know, I certainly support the effort to try. We have to try to overturn this corporate hellscape dystopia that we're all trapped under. Poverty and homelessness and Justice issues can be solved overnight but not if leftists don't get into office. That's the problem.
There is one other way forward to try to force positive social change, ballot measures. Don't forget that an efforts to put positive measures on the ballot CAN work, it just takes an organized plan.
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I won't go so far as to say we shouldn't have any prisons bc there are genuine violent predators out there, a small number, that do need to be separated from the rest of society so they can't hurt anyone, ie serial killers, unrepented serial rapists, unrepentant DV abusers,, unrepentant child abusers, etc. You know, that group of people. But we both know that is not the majority of people are behind bars right now. We both know why our prisons in the US exist and why these crazy Pig Gestapos exist. What anyone of conscience wants to see is that prisons as we know them are ended and replaced with rehabilitative colonies. That's all. Communities which exist behind a wall where those who have proven their trustworthiness can be given work release and furlough. These are places where rehabilitation happens, not brutality. People are treated humanely, people are not abused or neglected or harmed. These places are where people are given every opportunity to improve themselves and get any help they may need. If someone is truly unreachable or incorrigible or "evil" for lack of a better word than fine, we can quarantine them for the rest of their life, but we still should do so under humane conditions. For all we know they are deeply mentally ill. Yes I think evil is real, however, I think deep and profound mental illness is much more common. Also we need to be much more abhorrent in the future about who we give prison sentences to. Human dignity needs to start to matter in in this fourth-world country. Right now we hand out prison sentences like candy and it's disgusting.
Yep I'm motherfuking disgusted. Beyond disgusted. Outraged really. So many POC and poor people have lost so many years to this ugly system at all for what? So some evil worthless prison guard can have a job?? Goddammit fuck that!!!
There were deep abuses prior to 1980 but this has all been going on mainly in the last 43 years ONLY. That's five years longer than I've been alive.
So just remember everyone, it hasn't always been like this, AND IT COULD CHANGE TOMORROW!
Change can happen in our lifetime and if we stay on the subject, if we stay put, if we organize and if some of us who really really really are committed to this issue STAY committed, we might have a chance of rolling back at least some of it in our lifetime. I live for that chance.
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@matthewingerson I appreciate you letting me know all that. So. They do garnish benefits for people over a 60 for this bullshit. How shameful of them. That is disgraceful. As I said before, all non-mortgage debts should disappear at age 65 latest. At a minimum, if one is on social security or any other benefit resulting in a limited fixed income, it should not be able to be garnished. This is disgraceful. Both parties are deplorable and I would go so far as to say they deserve the wall or madame guillotine.
It's disgusting. I can't even wrap my mind around how many BILLIONS give in sheer handouts to Big Business AKA Wall Street every year. The lion sheriff of the pandemic assistance went to Big Business will average people and small businesses mostly floundered.
They would allow the taking of someone's last breath from them to pay back those same filthy fat cats- the fattest of cats, getting paid by people who can barely keep the lights on.
Something is very sick in this country. I'm not shy about saying I wish we could have a real purge from the top to the bottom of virtually everyone who's in elected public office, and not just at the federal level either.
I COMMEND YOU ON DROPPING YOUR LOAN 15 YEARS AGO. YOU DID THE RIGHT THING. MORE people need to do that. Don't stay in debt slavery to those people! Sure, pay some back if you can, but if you can't, definitely give them the finger and go about your merry way. The worst they can do is garnish, and there's no guarantee they'll take that action for certain. Let them I say.
Hell if they really wanted to find you they could. she need your money a lot more than they do how about that???
I'm sorry to hear you're in some difficulty now. I'm glad to hear you have some family you're able to count on. I hope they're treating you all right. Is there any option you haven't considered yet? Others have been out of work longer than you so if you're still healthy and able to work don't feel bad about it, it's not your fault I'm sure you've done everything you could. Besides living in a rural area and not having a car is impossible basically. I don't know if you're able to use the other cars of whoever you live with but I'm sorry you don't have your own, I know how frustrating and limiting that can be.
Just don't hold back from applying to any job thinking that they might judge it. If they judge you based on your personal private financial history then you may not want to work there anyway. That is none of their goddamn business. I don't know what your field is but the worst they can say is no and you're no worse off than you are right now. I don't know if you're actively looking now but whenever you do, who cares about your past history you did the best you can amongst a predatory system that choose people up and leave them to die basically. you don't know anyone in explanation and your future employer has no right to judge you or inquire about anything in your life that would have no bearing on your job duties and that would occur outside of the workplace. Fuck anyone else's judgment. You didn't do anything wrong, you did the best you could with the hand of cards that you were dealt.
You can't keep them from denying you but don't let that prevent you from putting an application where you think you might be interested working at.
I was wondering, is there any kind of temporary welfare that you would be eligible for in your state that you haven't checked out yet?
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Lol EVERY politician takes bribes. They're ALL corruptible trash. It's why we live in a corporate totalitarian dictatorship. I hate to sound so hyperbolic and extreme but the truth is the citizen doesn't matter in this country, never has; not to the elected and unelected political class; they are the gangster-minded mediators and enforcers for Big Business and the heavy corporates and we are nothing but bugs to them. For any proof of this just see the aftermath of any industrial accident over the past 150 years. Did anybody go to prison? Were the victims promptly attended to and treated as such by government authorities? Was full and proper restitution promptly paid out by the offending corporation?? Were ANY real changes ever made in the aftermath? Or did NONE of these things happen. See East Palestine Ohio February 2023. (Hint: they are still suffering; they are still getting NOTHING, they have been thrown away. Same for the victims of the Lahaina fire in Hawaii. But they made the rookie mistake of not being fetuses so their lives have no value to so-called state and federal authorities.)
Government is nothing but a protection racket for a given interest. It's only as good or bad as the people who occupy it and control it. Ours just happens to be more shamelessly corrupt and ruthless than most most, not just at the federal level but the state and local as well.
Republican, Democrat... in truth they are exactly the same don't fool yourselves. Sure one is unapologetically evil and hatemongers, and the other pretends to care about the average person but behind the scenes the exact same interests pull their chains. Wall Street owns and runs America and the rest of us are just serfs and slaves in their eyes, born to serve. Is this how YOU want to live? I know it's not how I see my life, or this world, or others like me. It's not what I want.
If you don't want to live in a violent big business dictatorship either then you have some decisions to make. Who are YOU going to vote for? ALL red/blue politicians are controlled one way or another by Big Money and big business. There are other outside parties: left libertarian parties, real Left parties, but so far voters refuse to choose them en masse. The brainwashing is real.
People's ignorance, selfishness, savagery, barbarism, cruelty and racial hatred will keep us all mired in backwardness and medieval thinking for centuries if we don't root them out, and corporations will rule us ALL in the meantime like the great eye of Sauron. I don't know about you but I don't fancy living the rest of my life as a glorified serf to the would-be corporate dictatorship class. Those filth deserve the iron fist, nothing less.
Only by uniting ALL creeds, ALL colors, ALL identities, ALL beliefs provided they're not destructive, ALL persons everywhere inside these borders and all newcomers, against our corporate overlords do we have a chance. That's what true Leftism is all about. UNITING TOGETHER FOR THE GOOD OF ALL. Reclaiming the mastery of our existence and our true freedom to live and work in the ways we choose, by defeating, once and for all, slavery to the corporates in all areas of our lives they currently claim the divine right to own and dictate. (And yes, the liberation of marginalized and oppressed groups but that's another discussion)
When you right-wing low-IQ programmed lemmings are ready, people like me will be here. I want to form constructive alliances with everyone, not exclude.
And yeah we definitely need MUCH more nuclear power of all kinds, it's a shame the way that fear and ignorance towards this vital technology has stymied its growth and progress but hopefully that's about to change. It feels like it is. Fast-tracking nuclear will get us off fossil fuels as fast as possible, no other technology comes close.
If all goes well our children or grandchildren may even see functional fusion. That will change /everything/.
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I literally see U-Haul rentals everywhere. It's not unattractive, it's just a business.
Anything we can do to protect and support small businesses, we should do. We have way too many big businesses in this country, it's hard enough for small and independents. They deserve all the support they can get.
Ugly???? What's so ugly about moving trucks?? They're just trucks. They're neither ugly nor beautiful, they're just life.
An auto repair shop isn't supposed to be an art installation. It's useful, that's good enough.
I see the need for some strong laws in place that prevent City council's from going after small and medium-sized businesses unless those businesses have been found to engage in actual human trafficking or violent practices or extreme employee mistreatment.
Other than that- no.
I'm tired of so-called government persons in this country being gangsters and bullies. I'm just sick of it. It's wrong.
Now maybe if they were planning to offer a generous buyout to this business owner, that's one thing, but nonetheless if they rejected it than the matter should be closed.
There's a big problem in this country, and it's called the political class.
I'm on the very far left but I also hate government because they are abusive. There's got to be a better way than ruling by fiat, bribes, theft and bullying. I say there is. I'm SICK of corporate/big business rule!
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@Account Number do you remember the letter on White House letterhead that came with the bullshit $1400 check? Actually I had my direct deposited but I did get a notification letter in the mail. I don't know who was responsible for this, I'm sure not Biden he's making no decisions I guarantee that, It was somebody around him whoever was managing the pandemic assistance- but they had the gall to say right on there that this $1,400 amount coupled with the $600 from December brings the amount up to $2,000 "as promised". You know I didn't even know what to say to that when I first read it. I mean somebody literally just tried to gaslight me to my face as well as millions upon millions of American citizens. As promised???? As "promised"??? Biden and his people sure use a curious definition of the word "promised".
I don't know if this is more sad, tragic or funny in a gross sort of way. Like like us mere mortals out here don't know when the motherforking president was elected? That's $600 was passed under TRUMP. That was the TRUMP admin's pandemic assistance! Biden didn't even take office until February. FEBRUARY.
You know, I may not be a genius but I do know how to use a calendar.
I think I still have that document somewhere in my files. I kept it around because once in a while I just look at it and shake my head. For people who are really on the rocks or who had a low or modest income to start with, that extra $600 would have made a real difference. What a sorry bunch of good-for-nothings that claim to be in charge here I mean it's a real brain melt isn't it?
Perhaps the federal government just shouldn't exist, perhaps by its nature it's a corrupted entity only destined to cause harm to the average person and to be a purveyor of lies. I don't know. But I tell you, there was something really disgusting about that note. They KNEW that note was going out to people of all education levels and people who were NOT morons- who have a memory that goes back farther than 5 minutes ago and who know how to count and who goddamn well know when they're having their face rubbed in bullshit. And yet they had no compunction trying anyway. The arrogance of these people and the nerve is really what gets me. I know that we cannot touch them and many of them are unelected, but whoever that was who made the decision to literally put those words down on paper literally attempting to lie TO OUR FACES (a lie multiplied 50 million times if not more!), I hope that person experiences extreme karma in their lifetime. I don't know exactly how. I'm not saying I wish them death but I do wish them to experience a significant setback in their life due to the shameless duplicity or dishonesty of others, considering they enjoyed treating us like drooling negative-IQ idiots and flat out lying to our face.
I remember when I first read it I'm looking at like this can't be for real can it? Somebody on Joe Biden's staff is actually trying to claim December's $600 payment as his own, and THAT'S why he's already cutting our throats and cutting us out of the minimum pathetic BS that he promised? I said this piece of shit has barely been in office 2 months and he's already doing this? They just can't help themselves can they?. They literally just can't help themselves from going OUT of their way to cut the throats of anybody who's NOT a donor (meaning briber), or the MIC or Wall Street.
Pretty sad.
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@Sapiens_Imperialis I would say most private landlords (including commercial landlords) either charge excessively, actively slumlord, deny unfairly, or evict unfairly. This is a major problem. Recognizing these flaws that cause real difficulty for people, OP probably feels the govt should provide enough quality public housing at an affordable rate, or free for elderly/disabled/special needs, so people wouldn't have to depend on private landlords who are often assholes. I tend to agree with him. I feel we really need that, because we're all getting more and more squeezed and exploited by commercial or private landlords (I'm the US at least) and it needs to end.
There's no regulation or oversight on the private housing market and landlords and this is naturally bad for anyone who's not rich who has to rent. We need a lot of controls on rent limits, fees, eviction justifications and processes, landlord conduct, holding slumlords accountable, and so forth.
Right now it's basically a massive free-for-all for landlords and that's pretty crap for those who have to rent.
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Also, all patrolling is hunting people. ALL patrolling is amoral; it is nothing more than subjugation, exploitation, gangsterism, and racketeering. Unless it is done at the citizen's or business request, "patrolling" is wrong, it is a violation, and morally unjustifiable and I intend to fight for the rest of my life within my state of CA and hopefully beyond to get it ended!! 95% of abuses and crimes from the demon psychopaths who walk among us looking for victims are committed while on "patrol".
What a phylthy idea in the first place, no wonder these savages act like psychotic freaks loose in a war zone, that's how make themselves view their job! It's outrageous!! You're supposed to patrol in enemy territory, not at home!!! The vast majority of streets and zip codes are almost completely peaceful and the Pigs are the ones bringing the unrest, violence and the crime!!! END THE REIGN OF THESE FREE-RANGING DEATH SQUAD VIOLENCE-LUSTING GANG BANGING PSYCHOPATHS NOW!!
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So Sam goes to prison for doing exactly ALL OF WALL STREET AND ALL OF BIG BUSINESS AND ALL THE BIG BANKS DO EVERY FUCKING DAY, yet he was the only one charged.
White collar fraud is literally what Congress gets paid to PROTECT and ALLOW- yet this guy didn't get that same protection. Guess he's not in the US Special Crime club- he's a young punk and they don't like ANYONE WHO ISNT THEM HELPING THEMSELVES TO THE SPOILS. He's not in the club- he didn't pay the right people for protection - so the feds saw him as easy pickings. THEY DIDNT EVEN HAVE TO WORK FOR IT - THEY GOT TWO PATHETIC SNITCHES TO DO THEIR WORK FOR THEM! It's so easy being a fed! People think you have absolute god-level power so they ship themselves when you threaten them even though those threats usually mean less than Aaron can almost never be carried out because they usually have next to nothing on them and give me a non-rigid jury would almost always vote to quit but the person being threatened doesn't know that so they should themselves and turn around and literally throw anyone and everyone including their parents under the bus to save their own disgusting sorry filthy skin.
THAT'S HOW THE PSYCHOPATHIC MIND OF HOW A FEDERAL AGENCY ATTACK DOG WORKS. EVERY FUCKING TIME! And hey- people are raused6ti be afraid of big brother and they usually cave- so why mess with what works?!
what the point of the feds here??? Some young guy got rich DOING EXACTLY WHAT EVERYONE WHO'S EVER BEEN RICH IN THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER DONE, WHAT THE ENTIRE BIG MONEY SECTOR DOES, BUT WE DON'T LIKE IT BUT HE'S NOT IN THE CLUB SO WE'RE GOING AFTER HIM? BASICALLY.
The biggest white collar robbers are literally EVERY LEGACY BANK, EVERY SENATOR AND EVERY WALL STREET OPERATOR and EVERY BIG BUSINESS that ever breathed air - and used the same
2008 anyone?!? Oh no prison time? Aww shucks cuz they didn't really mean to do what they did right!?! Those guys didn't really mean it they totally didn't do anything wrong, poor banksters why are we being so hard on them!?! CMON GUYS!! They only made a few billion while everyone else lost their home and life savings and some killed themselves .... come on what's so bad about that?
Cases like this are to make one point and one point only, if you're not in the club you BETTER stay poor or we're going to come and destroy you because we are PSYCHOPATHS born and forged in hell and that's who we are so don't fuck with us!
If there's one message from federal interests in the US, that is it: to citizens and non-citizens ALIKE. that's who they are- evil incarnate. THEY DESERVE ALL THE MONEY AND ALL THE RESOURCES ON EARTH AND IF ANYONE ELSE THAT DARES TRY TO TAKE THEIR SHARE THEY WILL BE A TARGET.
Pretty fucking evil. I tell you what if it's something that the feds took action against I'm automatically forward on GP alone. The protect and turn a blind eye to white collar or non-white collar evil all day long, if it comes from their club of elites but if someone outside of it dares to think they have the same rights to prosper either through legal or not so legal means boy oh boy the federal filth are going to be on them like stink on shit!
Idk of SBF is a bad guy, all I know is he is NO WORSE than literally ANYONE ELSE in his field, including the entirety of the elite business and Wall Street sector in this IRREDEEMABLY psychopathic disgusting fifth-world country run by shameless demons who will stop at nothing to destroy good people while protecting the true destroyers.
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I don't know how any of them sleep at night. I was just thinking of this kind of evil shit today and trying to ask myself how to stop it. How do you stop ruthless evildoers without shame or fear of retaliation?????
These filth are animals, and they're everywhere. It's psychopathy in motion, it just leaves you breathless. If the business in question was in violation of something they should have been notified peacefully and given a FAIR opportunity to come into compliance.
This was a GRAND LARCENY RAID pure and simple.
Its possible some detectives aren't evil but ALL STREET COPS ARE ABSOLUTE UNREPENTANT CRIMINALS AND PSYCHOPATHS.
it's a parade of neverending evil. I live in San Diego, Todd Gloria is a fucking thug. He loves this shit and has no intention of stopping it, I doubt his future successor will either.
There's been massive attacks on weed businesses here for years, I'm shocked any are still in business.
When monsters exist at EVERY level, from the DA to the judges to the governor's office, what are average people to do????? Even if someone got away with firebombing PD headquarters, new predators would just take their place.
I know there's a solution but I can't see it. These animals have no shame and as everyone keeps paying their taxes, they are able to continue existing.
Taxpayers support the most evil,violent predatory greed-seeking street gang in existence.
These are not isolated incidents!!!! Why do people continue to say blue lives matter!?!?! Would you say ruthless criminals' and killers' lives matter!?!? Because that's what that means!!!!
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We don't have a democracy we have a corporate and lobbyist dictatorship where everything and I do mean everything is for sale to the highest bidder, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
We can nibble around the edges but representative democracy is an oxymoron and is fundamentally flawed. So long as we are passive slaves in our own reality to those who would be our self-appointed masters they will never serve us; I mean if we were a super-elite they would, but as we're not, they won't. Not these rat fuckers. Red or blue it doesn't matter- they're in the race for one reason, to serve their ego and to make piles of money serving the super elite. They dont care about the crimes of "government", they don't care about the harm that all of the current injustices perpetuate. We do because we've been the victims; we live on street level and we know what needs to change, but so long as we're bottlenecked into infantile passivity waiting on others to save us; others who NEVER will, nothing changes.
I appreciate these breakdowns I really do I think they're necessary to spark a discussion but I'm already far beyond this. I'm a Communist, I'm a full public autonomist, meaning I demand actual control over my own life. Govt on the individual should be drowned in the bathtub. There should be VERY small government on the individual, because all government is based on violence, larceny, and control, and politicians should be either non-existent or occupy only a minor ceremonial role and so on. The place for the iron fist is on corporations because of the reach and size that they have. The place for organized government force is to save human lives such as shutting down forced human trafficking, including forced so-called religious ceremonies. Any other use of government force to overstep individual liberties is unacceptable and should be seen as outrageous and unjustifiable.
If we don't have the human rights to determine our own destinies what the fuck are we doing? Either we vote on every SINGLE law and policy or we waste our time and turn our power over to somebody else. Why would we want that? How has that worked for the last 200 years?? The last 50??? Minors have little to no rights to determine their own fates- is that who we are, political minors?
I guess what I'm saying is only functional anarchy works. Politicians should only be able to propose, not dispose- everything should be passed through a certain percentage of public majority vote; if it doesn't reach that earmark, it doesn't pass. People submit their own proposals; after they pass a certain benchmark they can be voted on. I find nothing less acceptable. If the public gets it wrong okay they get it wrong. That's unfortunate but there should be easy ways to repeal a measure as well.
Voting for reps is voting against ourselves. Why would I EVER want to turn my power over to somebody else? I think I know what works best for me and what I feel would best benefit my community and that's why everything should be passed through ballot measure; anything else is a scam, I mean it really is.
Anything else is elite and 0.1% rule; it IS, it just is.
Either we are our own masters or we're not and anything else is just a smokescreen and a waste of time; I mean I really believe it comes down to that.
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@aidanaldrich7795 @aidanaldrich7795 wrong. Common goods are important. Do you think all roads should be toll roads? P iss off. Something should just be provided for the good of everyone whether or not one particular person has "paid" for it or not. Enough of this bullshit already! I mean this is what taxes are for, to pay for public services, but even if someone isn't paying taxes that doesn't mean they don't deserve the right to use your road or use your park. Every public resource can more than provide for any number of supposedly "free" users. The point is that it's there for everyone without charge or with a low fee. We don't have gates to our parks that charge a toll or check that you've paid your taxes last year. F this free rider bs. There's no way you can ever totally prevent the free usage of something that physically exists in the world. At some point some person is going to come across it that hasn't paid for that specific thing but that's okay because that's how life works! They're paying for something else. Trust me, one way or another we all pay. We either pay with our taxes or we pay with our effort or we pay with just being a nice person. That's ENOUGH for me. Somebody might get something for free today and pay tomorrow. Sometimes it's okay to give people things for free. I'm so sick to my back teeth about this antifreeze business. Life is a series of give and take, that's what it is! You give today, you take tomorrow. You take something you need today, but you might give tomorrow. There are various forms of giving, just like there are various forms of taking. I may give a needy person $20 today because he's in need, but maybe next year when he's got himself in a better way he turns around and gives $20 to somebody else. Sure he didn't pay me back but that wasn't the point. It was given freely with only the hope that it would benefit him. As he gets better he can turn around and benefit others. That's called the positive chain reaction of giving. That's where the phrase paying it forward comes from.
Besides it's extremely impractical to enforce or restrict usage of a public resource to only certain approved users. It's not impossible I'm just saying it's impractical. Toll roads are extremely annoying and cause slow downs. There's no such thing as toll parks, or toll emergency rooms.
When it comes to private services and property, that's one thing. But the moment something is deemed public then there shouldn't be a cost that point of service or if it is it should be small.
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@aidanaldrich7795 @aidanaldrich7795 I disagree. Common goods are important. Do you think all roads should be toll roads? Something should just be provided for the good of everyone whether or not one particular person has "paid" for it or not. I mean this is what taxes are for, to pay for public services, but even if someone isn't paying taxes that doesn't mean they don't deserve the right to use your road or use your park. Every public resource can more than provide for any number of supposedly "free" users. The point is that it's there for everyone without charge or with a low fee. We don't have gates to our parks that charge a toll or check that you've paid your taxes last year. There's no way you can ever totally prevent the free usage of something that physically exists in the world. At some point some person is going to come across it that hasn't paid for that specific thing but that's okay because that's how life works! They're paying for something else. Trust me, one way or another we all pay. We either pay with our taxes or we pay with our effort or we pay with just being a nice person. That's enough for me. Somebody might get something for free today and pay for something else tomorrow. Sometimes it's okay to give people things for free. I'm so sick to my back teeth about this anti-free stuff bs. It's nonsense. Life is a series of give and take, that's what it is! You give today, you take tomorrow. You take something you need today, but you might give something back tomorrow. It's a cycle. There are various forms of giving, just like there are various forms of taking. I may give a needy person $20 today because he's in need, but maybe next year when he's got himself better off he turns around and gives $20 to somebody else. Sure he didn't pay me back but that wasn't the point. It was given freely with only the hope that it would benefit him. As he gets better he can turn around and benefit others. That's called the positive chain reaction of giving. That's where the phrase paying it forward comes from.
Besides it's extremely impractical to enforce or restrict usage of a public resource to only certain approved users. It's not impossible just impractical. Toll roads are extremely annoying and cause slow downs. There's no such thing as toll parks, or toll emergency rooms currently, and I sure hope there never is.
When it comes to private services and property, that's one thing. But the moment something is deemed public then there shouldn't be a cost that point of service or if so, it should be small.
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Let it be known that when Pete Buttigieg was Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, he proudly spearheaded a program to do exactly this to 1000 families, mostly minority families, whose ONLY crime was being poor and not being able to afford to fix up their home out of their own pocket in accordance with latest city guidelines. No financial help was offered. Instead the homes were just torn down and I don't know if any compensation was given. Thousands homemade homeless through this process.
What they need to do is band together now for a massive class action suit against the City of South Bend but I doubt that's happened yet. These lives were thrown into the wood chipper, and it wouldn't be shocked if absolutely zero compensation was given at anytime. These people are owed major. They essentially have their homes stolen right out under their feet for no crime other than being poor and a POC in one of the whitest shitholes in the nation.
Last I saw there were huge gaps of completely empty street blocks and grass lots where full neighborhoods once stood. Make no mistake, this was completely racially motivated. Now that hyper-priveleged human ratfilth Pete is happily doing nothing as Transportation Secretary.
People who are poor, at risk of being poor, lower income, working class, or black or brown have very little future in this country run by hostile Satans. They come for us/them by any means possible. When will their evil stop?? I think that's a question we're all desperate for an answer to.
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Imagine thinking an occupied, dispossessed, and almost-genocided people DON'T have the right to demand all their land back and their sovereignty internationally recognized and respected. wow.
All persecuted people have the right to fight back by ANY MEANS NECESSARY. This man doesn't seem to understand that and doesn't seem to want his own liberation or that of his motherland.
WHY IS IT OKAY FOR THE ZIONISTS MILITIAS IN 1948 AND EVERY YEAR UNTIL NOW CAN SHOW THE MOST RUTHLESS MURDEROUS IMPULSES BUT IF ANYONE FIGHTS BACK WITH SO MUCH AS A STICK OR ROCK THEY ARE THE TERRORIST??
THIS GUY'S A SHUCKING AND JIVING NECGRO. AMAZING.
How can you say you love your people when you're willing to give the genocidal OCCUPIER literally 80% of what isyours?? So if I break into my neighbor's house, kill his entire family, drive him out, and make away with all of his possessions would I be in the right to keep 80% of it if I would be willing to give him back 20%?? NO OF COURSE NOT? SO HOW COULD ANYONE WHO IS A TRUE PATRIOT OF THE PALESTINIAN HOMELAND SAY ISRAEL AN ILLEGITIMATE STATE HAS THE RIGHT TO KEEP 80% OF THEIR STOLEN LAND?!?!?
LUNACY!!!!
SO THIS IS WHAT MODERATION TOWARDS PALESTINIAN LIBERATION MEANS?!?!!
Well I can't listen any further perhaps there will be some jewels further in the broadcast that I have neglected to pick up, but I'll move along now. If I was Palestinian there is little I would feel glad about in this interview. Some, but not much.
The demonization of Hamas is my cue to dip out right now. Hama is doing EXACTLY what they should be done as armed liberation force in the face of an overwhelming evil and intractable enemy. And provided they are working indigenously for their people and this isn't some op by Israeli forces to justify even further attacks on Gaza, they are doing the EXACT same thing I would have done in their position. The EXACT!!!
An occupier doesn't deserve jack shit! THEY DESERVE TO LEAVE THAT'S WHAT THEY DESERVE!!!!
TO ALL PALESTINIANS AND ALL THOSE IN THE DIASPORA- I ASK YOU NOW, STAND UP AND SAY WE WILL TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK, WE WILL TAKE OUR NATION BACK, WE WILL TAKE OUR LAND BACK BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!!!! AND IF WE DIE IN THE FIGHT THAN WE DIE!!!
THAT'S THE ATTITUDE OF A WARRIOR. GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!!!!
TAKE THAT TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE YOU SPINELESS SOLD OUT MODERATES!!!!!!!
NO MORE SUBSERVIENCE, GENOCIDE OR SUBJUGATION FOR PALESTINE!!!!!!! 75 YEARS IS ENOUGH!!!!
Defh do the occupiers and the defenders of all Zionazi agenda. ISRAEL HAS DEATH FOR PALESTINE WILL GUESS WHO IS PALESTINE ISN'T GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE AND COME WHAT MAY THIS IS WHERE IT STOPS.
I'D SAY 75 YEARS IS ENOUGH TO WAIT FOR LIBERATION!!! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Who are the true terrorists? Id say it was the Knesset and the IDF considering they intentionally bombed a hospital today killing 500, they've carried out intentional genocides and massive collective punishment on Palestinian citizens since 1948. They have blockaded Gaza for 16 years, in violation of dozens of international laws. They are the world's most committed and most genocidal terrorists and the fact they've been protected in their evil for 75 years by the West is something that will never cease to amaze me.
THE REST OF THE WORLD STANDS WITH PALESTINE AND GAZA AND THEY WILL NEVER BEND.
The Zionazis might win the battle but they'll never win the war. Not ever. Palestine existed yesterday, Palestine exist today in Palestine will continue to exist for many many years into the future. Nobody will ever erase even if every single one of its inhabitants are slaughtered by design Nazis, they will never erase the memory. But it won't need to get to that point. Resistance os starting today, resistance will continue tomorrow, and liberation is coming.
I stand with Palestine today, tomorrow and forever
DEFTH TO OCCUPIERS.
NO MORE GENOCIDE, NO MORE DISPOSSESSION, NO MORE APARTHEID.
The occupation WILL end by any means necessary the only question is when????
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Anyone who believes anything these worthless politicos say in the US is naive. Don't be a child, people.
War is a racket - as Smedly Butler says, and always has been. Other than WW2, and in part even then, every war that the US has started has been for elite profit. No other reason. None.
It's sad people keep falling for this. Don't be a chump, people. Make your own choices. DONT BE USED. WAKE UP, LEARN, BE AWARE. Own yourself. Don't be manipulated by self-serving dirtbags who could care less about you. THINK FOR YOURSELF. You can.
Just be aware, friends. Governments are deeply illegitimate criminal entities in many ways, existing for the protection of the super elite, the big banks, the big corporations, and their money. That is ALL. It's slightly different on a local level but this is 100% true on the state level and federal. At least here in this country it is.
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The future is obviously nuclear and renewables, and hopefully fusion by 2100, the only question is how long until we get there? The cost as far as I'm concerned is immaterial. Everything comes with a certain upfront cost. Overtime all those costs will pay off and there will only be ongoing maintenance costs. Same as with anything.
Everything in life has an initial investment. It would be foolish to be against a particular technology or project simply because of its initial costs. What benefit will provide over its lifetime of function?, is the much bigger question.
I would say the cost to lives, world peace, and localized genocidal destruction can hardly be underestimated when discussing fossil fuels and the current US petro-State empire of death and resource theft.
How long will ruthless fossil fuel gangster jefes control their willing human pets in governments around the world???
We are still finding out. The future will be decided one way or another between powers with represent the interests of psychopaths, global thieves, and destroyers, and those who care for this planet and all those who live here.
DC won't be able to remain in its current form in that new world which I see as an absolute win. Genocidal petro-states will have no role in that world. That's pretty awesome for literally EVERYONE fucking else currently alive. Take it from a vet. Switch to renewables, dethrone fossil fuels and you cut at the heart of these remorseless killers. Other resource conflicts may still exist, but I have more faith that they can be won in the interest of the workers and the local country (tho it may not happen overnight).
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@waspwrap1235 well I don't disagree but i think that's kind of a tautology. Wealthy business owners have the most control because they buy people who are open to being bought.
We agree, but it's as if you're implying there's some other cause going on here than bribery (promises of favor, jobs, gifts, patronage, donations, etc). It's very simple. Everyone who gets into office in this country wants to serve the "Big Money" (as you say, the elite money class) because it's profitable for them. They want to take bribes. If they didn't want to take bribes, then they could not be bribed. Very simple. However, because they do want to take bribes, then those who can bribe them the most will obviously get ahead. Obviously this would include all those who represent interests of the wealthy business class and/or those with high personal wealth like billionaires.
Occasionally some law or public policy measure gets through that has some benefit for the average person but I don't see this happening too often.
This is also why I want to do away with politicians all together which sadly, won't happen in my lifetime. An elite political class is only going to serve the elite business class leaving the other 90+% of the public unrepresented.
Without direct voting on every law basically we're fucked. How can we possibly expect justice for the common person when we're held hostage by a tiny political elite that doesn't care if we live or die? They are good liars tho...that's how they keep getting re-elected. If we bought red or blue we're voting for a gun to our heads essentially. We're voting for people who do not care if we live or die. The red or blue party is a unibody/uniparty that takes its dictats from their wealthy patrons of the 1%. Do we really think they're going to serve us? It would be nice if they would but they don't.
Only direct democracy fixes this. Until the public seizes or earns the right to vote on every single public policy measure ALL the time, then the more or less status quo will just continue.
Alternatively we could create a powerful left, socialist Communist / Labor FIRST party in the US that seizes enough seats at all levels of government to make a difference and..... Yeah. Well I won't hold my breath. I think advocating locally at the county level for left policies can have a lot more effect, however, unfortunately the red-blue uniparty machine has a stranglehold on all seats at all levels of gov at this moment in time.
So if we want friendlier laws that help people live easier lives of greater dignity I see no other way forward then pushing for full public voting on everything. In fact a lot wouldn't have to change. We can keep the loser government bodies as now but in order for any measure to pass as so-called law it would have to be ratified through a full public referendum. Also, anybody or any organization should be able to suggest a policy or change to law. There should be a process before it gets to the ballot, perhaps a preliminary public voting and debate session, but yes.
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@waspwrap1235 well I don't disagree but i think that's kind of a tautology. Wealthy business owners have the most control because they buy people who are open to being bought.
We agree, but it's as if you're implying there's some other cause going on here than bribery (promises of favor, jobs, gifts, patronage, donations, etc). It's very simple. Everyone who gets into office in this country wants to serve the "Big Money" (as you say, the elite money class) because it's profitable for them. They want to take bribes. If they didn't want to take bribes, then they could not be bribed. Very simple. However, because they do want to take bribes, then those who can bribe them the most will obviously get ahead. Obviously this would include all those who represent interests of the wealthy business class and/or those with high personal wealth like billionaires.
Occasionally some law or public policy measure gets through that has some benefit for the average person but I don't see this happening too often.
This is also why I want to do away with politicians all together which sadly, won't happen in my lifetime. An elite political class is only going to serve the elite business class leaving the other 90+% of the public unrepresented.
Without direct voting on every law basically we're fucked. How can we possibly expect justice for the common person when we're held hostage by a tiny political elite that doesn't care if we live or die? They are good liars tho...that's how they keep getting re-elected. If we bought red or blue we're voting for a gun to our heads essentially. We're voting for people who do not care if we live or die. The red or blue party is a unibody/uniparty that takes its dictats from their wealthy patrons of the 1%. Do we really think they're going to serve us? It would be nice if they would but they don't.
Only direct democracy fixes this. Until the public seizes or earns the right to vote on every single public policy measure ALL the time, then the more or less status quo will just continue.
Alternatively we could create a powerful left, socialist Communist / Labor FIRST party in the US that seizes enough seats at all levels of government to make a difference and..... Yeah. Well I won't hold my breath. I think advocating locally at the county level for left policies can have a lot more effect, however, unfortunately the red-blue uniparty machine has a stranglehold on all seats at all levels of gov at this moment in time.
So if we want friendlier laws that help people live easier lives of greater dignity I see no other way forward then pushing for full public voting on everything. In fact a lot wouldn't have to change. We can keep the loser government bodies as now but in order for any measure to pass as so-called law it would have to be ratified through a full public referendum. Also, anybody or any organization should be able to suggest a policy or change to law. There should be a process before it gets to the ballot, perhaps a preliminary public voting and debate session, but yes.
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@waspwrap1235 @waspwrap1235 well I don't disagree but i think that's kind of a tautology. Wealthy business owners have the most control because they buy people who are open to being bought.
We agree, but it's as if you're implying there's some other cause going on here than bribery (promises of favor, jobs, gifts, patronage, donations, etc). It's very simple. Everyone who gets into office in this country wants to serve the "Big Money" (as you say, the elite money class) because it's profitable for them. They want to take bribes. If they didn't want to take bribes, then they could not be bribed. Very simple. However, because they do want to take bribes, then those who can bribe them the most will obviously get ahead. Obviously this would include all those who represent interests of the wealthy business class and/or those with high personal wealth like billionaires.
Occasionally some law or public policy measure gets through that has some benefit for the average person but I don't see this happening too often.
This is also why I want to do away with politicians all together which sadly, won't happen in my lifetime. An elite political class is only going to serve the elite business class leaving the other 90+% of the public unrepresented.
Without direct voting on every law basically we're fucked. How can we possibly expect justice for the common person when we're held hostage by a tiny political elite that doesn't care if we live or die? They are good liars tho...that's how they keep getting re-elected. If we bought red or blue we're voting for a gun to our heads essentially. We're voting for people who do not care if we live or die. The red or blue party is a unibody/uniparty that takes its dictats from their wealthy patrons of the 1%. Do we really think they're going to serve us? It would be nice if they would but they don't.
Only direct democracy fixes this. Until the public seizes or earns the right to vote on every single public policy measure ALL the time, then the more or less status quo will just continue.
Alternatively we could create a powerful left, socialist Communist / Labor FIRST party in the US that seizes enough seats at all levels of government to make a difference and..... Yeah. Well I won't hold my breath. I think advocating locally at the county level for left policies can have a lot more effect, however, unfortunately the red-blue uniparty machine has a stranglehold on all seats at all levels of gov at this moment in time.
So if we want friendlier laws that help people live easier lives of greater dignity I see no other way forward then pushing for full public voting on everything. In fact a lot wouldn't have to change. We can keep the loser government bodies as now but in order for any measure to pass as so-called law it would have to be ratified through a full public referendum. Also, anybody or any organization should be able to suggest a policy or change to law. There should be a process before it gets to the ballot, perhaps a preliminary public voting and debate session, but yes.
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@Ali-e5h1b (part 1) I am so fucking sorry to hear of your experiences.
WE ARE LIVING IN A SLOW HELL AT THE MOMENT AND EVERYONE HAS BECOME A MONSTER AND A SADIST.
WHERE DID THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH GO? DELIBERATELY NOT TREATING PEOPLE'S PAIN IS AKIN TO CAUSING THEM PAIN, WHICH IS CAUSING HARM, WHICH IS A VIOLATION OF THE MOST SACRED PRINCIPLE OF FIRST AID AND MEDICAL CARE!!
I GUESS IT'S CRAZY TO SAY THIS TODAY BUT WHEN THE WORLD IS GONE CRAZY IT TAKES SOME CRAZY FUCKERS TO SET IT RIGHT AGAIN.
You can see how I feel about this whole video; I think it's trash. It very directly and obliquely justifies drug prohibition and even worse, pain medicine prohibition that has been ruthlessly promoted and organized behind by the sick, satan-serving feds for about 10+ years now. All presumably due to the fact some people had some difficulty with their pain meds, which of course is unfortunate, but should never be used as an excuse to deprive the other 99% of desperate people in this country from their human right to receive appropriate medical care!!!!!! THAT IS VICIOUS AND CRUEL!
I WILL SAY IT LOUD AND I WILL SAY IT PROUD. I NEVER BOUGHT IT FOR AN INSTANT; IT WAS JUST YET ANOTHER ONE OF THE OUTRAGEOUS AND BEYOND OBVIOUS EVIL GOVERNMENT MALICIOUS LIES, JUST THE LATEST IN A LONG INFAMOUS LIST. I NEVER BELIEVED THERE WAS AN OPIOID CRISIS! THERE NEVER WAS! PEOPLE HAVE BEEN USING PAIN MEDS SAFELY FOR YEARS, THERE'S NEVER GOING TO BE 100% SUCCESS RATE WITH ANY TREATMENT!! THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE A SMALL SINGLE-DIGIT NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS WHO DON'T SEE SUCCESS WITH A GIVEN TREATMENT, THIS IS NOT A REVELATION! THIS IS MEDICAL CARE 101.
WHILE IT'S VERY SAD AND UNFORTUNATE THAT SOME PEOPLE WHO HAD PRE-EXISTING EMOTIONAL OR MENTAL IMBALANCES AND/OR A LACK OF EXPERIENCE WITH PAIN MEDICATION AND/ OR WEREN'T ABLE TO STAY CLOSELY SUPERVISED BY THEIR MEDICAL PROVIDER OR DIDN'T FOLLOW THEIR PROVIDER'S DIRECTIONS, FOR WHATEVER REASON, RAN INTO PROBLEMS WITH THEIR PAIN MEDICATION HOW THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN THE REST OF US HAVE TO BE PUNISHED LIKE WERE ALL A BUNCH OF INMATES IN A PRISON RUN BY A CORRUPT PRISON WARDEN!?!?
It's funny that the powers that be don't extend this logic to all other categories of medications. Could you imagine the outcry and social unrest that would occur if the PTB tried to remove let's say, blood pressure or diabetes medications from the market and providers were told to stop prescribing them simply because a small minority of users presented various types of issues with the medication? No of course not, if it were anything other than opioid medication that would never happen! But somehow it's perfectly okay to demonize, brutalize, slander, libel, and ultimately abandon chronic pain patients! We are truly living in the devil's dystopia.
WHILE WE FEEL BAD FOR THOSE WHO COULDN'T RESPONSIBLY HANDLE THEIR PAIN MEDICINE, THIS CANNOT JUSTIFY CAUSING GALAXY-LEVEL HARM TO MILLIONS OF OTHER INNOCENT PEOPLE WHO NEED PAIN MEDS TO MANAGE THEIR LIFE AND STAY SANE!!!!!
I'm deeply distressed to hear that the VA is treating you in the same shameful ways as others have lived thru. They should be ashamed of themselves. They took an oath to do no harm, and they are harming a great deal. My partner is an older veteran and also goes to his local VA and has for years. While there was a time a few years ago where they tried to cut him off of his needed pain meds which made his life very difficult, after a short period of time where he continued to speak with them and tell them how much he needed them after a while, his now primary Care finally wised up and placed him back on his original prescriptions and he is now doing just fine. He is also a dialysis patient.
He is doing much better with his chronic pain now, and has actually been able to greatly reduce his usage through diet and lifestyle improvements, but there was a time where he needed fentanyl pain patches just to make it through the day. The point is that he should never be cut off from receiving them should he need them. Now that they're restore, he sleeps much easier. He just requests them when he has a flare-up.
We help out a close friend of ours to get the pain that she needs because she's having difficulty securing it through her own medical providers currently like everyone else in this sorry country, and we will continue to do this as long as we can. She's a good woman of 62 years old, who still works as a home care assistant and nurse and she deserves to live without disabling pain in her life!!! It's shocking that after living a long life and working all of her life and raising a family and surviving the death of her spouse this is what she has to look forward to, not getting relief for her pain. Fortunately she has us so as long as we're around we make sure that she's okay. (Part 1)
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@Ali-e5h1b (part 2) We have entered the darkest timeline until something changes in this country run by vampires and demons. Please hang on brother.
I FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN DROPPED INTO A DEN OF PSYCHOPATHS AND INSANE BLOOD-DRINKING ZOMBIES THE WAY WE'RE ALL BEING TOLD THAT PAIN DOESN'T NEED OR DESERVE TO BE TREATED.
Did you ever think in all your life you would ever be living through a time like this? Where people are literally brainwashed into believing pain isn't REAL and pain patients are somehow shameful or should have a stigma attached to them? Out of all the shit that you've lived through I bet you never thought I would get this bad.
Indeed, it is IS BEYOND INSANE. These animals are now FLYING IN THE FACE OF REALITY as they try to TELL US UP IS DOWN, DOWN IS UP AND DON'T BELIEVE OUR LYING EYES OR OUR OWN SYMPTOMS. THEY'RE TRYING TO TELL US PAIN DOESN'T REALLY EXIST. THEY ARE ALL CERTIFIABLY IN-FUCKING-SANE.
I don't know who's agenda this serves but only a sadist or truly sick or ignorant person could approve of denying vital medical care towards anyone especially chronic pain patients.
So are they cutting off cancer patients too? I wouldn't put anything past them. "Oh cancer pain isn't real was WAA! Get over it druggie!!"
You know what's the kicker? They are pushing people onto the street straight onto heroin and other street drugs since the medical establishment is maliciously and deliberately neglecting them and seems to have no regrets about doing so. Imagine that, who couldn't have seen that one coming? Federal gangsters say we don't have the right to use street drugs, only prescription drugs. Now they say you don't have the right to get the most important drugs, those that treat severe pain, just take this Motrin it's magic! So that leaves people with only one option doesn't it??
Street drug prohibition is of the devil and was as wrong today as the day that it was created initially almost 90 years ago, when the first bans on marijuana were put into place as a racist measure against immigrant Mexican workers. We all know what's happened since.
THE ORGANIZED BANNING, INTERRUPTION OR PREVENTION A LEGITIMATE MEDICAL CARE IS A VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SHOULD BE SEEN AS A SERIOUS CRIME.
While not necessarily illegal under int'l law, NO ONE ON EARTH HAS THE RIGHT TO TELL ANOTHER ADULT HOW TO USE THEIR BODY OR WHAT TO PUT IN IT, OR ON IT; NOBODY!!! THIS IS A MORAL FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH! I mean how could anybody of functioning mind differ with that!?!
Look I'm not a crazy person I just feel so beyond strongly and emphatic on these issues because the actions of the demon feds are literally killing people out here and making millions others miserable unnecessarily and I am sickened to my core at this. I have an older senior citizen lady friend (in addition to the other woman I mentioned before); she's the dearest sweetest lady in the world; a very petite and frail lady, and she deals with chronic pain and has not yet been able to get any pain meds from her medical team. If it wasn't for me helping her out, I don't know how she would be managing. Fortunately, just like the other family friend we have, I'm here for her so I make sure she gets what she needs when she needs it. Now she can make it through her day, take care of herself and her cat and get some sleep at night.
Whoever you are, internet stranger, you DESERVE to get relief from your pain and don't let anybody ANYWHERE tell you you don't have the right to seek it WHEREVER you see fit!. I would suggest perhaps literally walking in to the VA directors' office and demanding why he's got his doctors violating the Hippocratic oath and intentionally putting you through severe medical neglect. Perhaps you may want to bring a copy of your medical records with you. I don't know how easy it is to get an audience with him but that's something you could try. I don't think it should be that hard, he's not the fucking president. Perhaps you could let drop that you would like to go to the local news stations about how the VA is deliberately neglecting pain patients of all ages and forcing them into desperation and suffering, while making them feel like they're nobody.
IT FEELS INSANE I HAVE TO EVEN SAY THIS, BUT I'LL JUST SAY IT NOW, PAIN CARE IS MEDICAL CARE!!! PAIN CARE IS MEDICAL CARE!!! PAIN CARE IS MEDICAL CARE!!
THIS ISN'T THE FKG DARK AGES WE DON'T JUST HAVE TO MIND OVER MATTER ANYMORE, WE DESERVE RELIEF NOW!!!!!! MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DON'T DESERVE TO SUFFER BECAUSE A RELATIVE TINY FEW COULDN'T HANDLE THEIR MEDICINE!! THIS IS WHY DRUG TREATMENT EXISTS. I DON'T SEE PEOPLE GETTING INTO A HYSTERIA OVER ALCOHOL ABUSE EVEN THOUGH IT IS NOT THAT UNCOMMON. WHY AREN'T PEOPLE CLAMORING FOR A NEW ALCOHOL PROHIBITION AND THE ABSOLUTE SHUTTERING AND DESTROYING OF ALL BARS AND ANY DROP OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ANYWHERE!?!?! I'LL TELL YOU WHY, BECAUSE SOCIETY WOULD ERUPT! THE FEDS KNOW THEY DON'T DARE GO THERE UNLESS THEY WANT TO HAVE A REAL REVOLT ON THEIR HANDS. BUT SURE, IMPUGNING DESPERATE PAIN PATIENTS, I GUESS THEY FEEL THAT'S FAIR GAME.
IT'S OKAY TO DESTROY THE LIVES OF MILLIONS OF PAIN PATIENTS AND SUBJECT THEM TO CHARACTER ASSASSINATION, BUY THESE ANIMALS' CALCULATIONS.
THESE ACTS ARE CRIMES.
WE ARE SORRY FOR THOSE THAT DEVELOPED A PROBLEM WITH THESE MEDICATIONS BUT WHAT THE LIVING FUCK DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH US!?!? TO USE THAT AS AN EXCUSE TO CAUSE EXTREME SADISTIC HARM TO THE REST OF THE COUNTRY WHO NEED THESE MEDS IS A LITERAL CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
BY THAT LOGIC, LIFE WOULD BE UNLIVABLE AND NOBODY WOULD BE ABLE TO DO ANYTHING, BECAUSE THE VERY MOMENT A SINGLE PERSON WAS HARMED BY A SINGLE OBJECT OR A SINGLE ACT, IN ANY WAY, THAT OBJECT OR ACTION WOULD HAVE TO BE BANNED. DO YOU SEE HOW INSANE THIS LOGIC IS???? IF APPLIED TO ANYTHING ELSE IT WOULD MAKE LIFE NON-FUNCTIONAL.
LISTEN TO ME, FRIEND. YOU DESERVE TO LIVE PAIN FREE. I MEAN I HOPE YOU KNOW THIS BY NOW BUT JUST IN CASE THEY'VE USED THEIR FLYING MONKEY BEHAVIOR TO CAUSE YOU TO DOUBT YOURSELF, I'M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT YOU DO. BY WHATEVER FUCKING MEANS NECESSARY, CAPICE?! BY WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY! DON'T LET THE MONSTERS BRAINWASH YOU INTO EVER FEELING DIFFERENTLY.
THE WORLD HAS GONE COMPLETELY PSYCHOPATHIC AND INSANE.
If you could possibly be interested in some natural recommendations that might help somewhat, I have a few of those.
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@itsallinmyheds6874 it looks like YouTube, true to form, has aggressively blocked all my replies on the subject, but suffice to say I have some choice words on this topic.
Every time I try to post a emphatic critique of this attack on pain patients and this demonization of pain medicine, my comments are blocked. I just want to offer you my support and empathy and I just hope that your journey gets a little bit easier and people start coming back to their senses soon. No pain patient should be neglected, mocked, impugned, or otherwise treated with anything other than the utmost respect and compassion. I don't know how we got here- well I know a little bit- but it is gross and it is bad.
Everyone who has genuine pain deserves to seek and be given relief for that pain. Opioids are no different than any other medication on the market. Every pharmaceutical comes with a certain amount of possible side effects and possible risks. There is no moral reason to single out opioids as especially riskier, sketchier, or LESS legitimate than any other currently available medical treatment!. It is disgusting what is happening; and this once again has all the earmarks of federal demagoguery and federal criminality, and when they get involved people WILL suffer. All the feds know how to do is destroy, and they do that very well. It is disgusting what they have done and what they are doing, spearheading this amoral crusade to reject and eject pain patients as legitimate patients, and I cannot speak out strongly against it enough.
I only wish the best for you and every other struggling pain patient out there today. I cannot imagine the difficulty and the burden of living with chronic pain. I am fortunate that I do not have to. I cannot fathom the cruelty it would require to actively prevent desperate and suffering pain patients from getting the treatment that they had every right to receive. Those medical professionals who received licensing and took their oath to do no harm should be ashamed
While 99.5 percent of blame needs to go on the federal d emons who have spearheaded this campaign, I also put a large chunk of the blame on the medical profession itself because they have cooperated quite willingly in this team effort to neglect, reject, ultimately abandon pain patients. It is so sad to see and it is clearly the equivalent of second witch hunt in America. It is an immoral and shameful crusade based on hysteria, sadism, and lies.
Never underestimate the viciousness and hatefulness and desire to do harm that comes from those who have great power, in this case the federal agencies. I cannot demean them enough, because in my eyes, they deserve all the hate they receive and much more.
I hope in time your health journey can become easier. Perhaps there are some natural modalities that can help support whatever medical treatment you have ongoing.
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@annjepsen1621 @annjepsen1621 keep fighting Ann! Every human being has a human right to live pain-free. That's right, pain-FREE!! Something has gone severely and grossly wrong in our culture where it's considered almost good for the soul to suffer to the point where we want to take our own life!! The values in our society both materially and socially are inside out and backwards!
Opioids, under a doctor's supervision, are more than safe enough for most adults! After all long before the modern Age human beings were using various natural forms of pain treatment and opioid plants since the beginning of time! But only now because we're all enslaved to various Big Brother entities is this suddenly becoming a problem!!!
NOTHING IN THE WORLD COMES WITH A PERFECT ZERO-RISK PROGNOSIS. NOTHING!! MERELY WAKING UP IN THE MORNING CARRIES WITH IT A SMALL AMOUNT OF RISK. SO DOES WALKING OUTSIDE OF ONE'S FRONT DOOR! TO TAKE AWAY PERFECTLY EFFECTIVE DESPERATELY-NEEDED MEDICAL TREATMENTS FROM DESPERATE PATIENTS, SIMPLY BECAUSE IT'S SAFETY RECORD ISN'T 150%, IS THE HEIGHT OF BRUTALITY, INHUMANITY, AND AN OUTRAGEOUS LACK OF BASIC LOGIC!!
EVERY patient has the right to decide for THEMSELVES which treatments are right for them, not some uninformed mindless federal govt CRIMINAL obsessed with sadism and domination- a drug-hating zealot with zero medical training and can't find his ass with both fucking hands if his life depended on it!! Know this now- I'm not some radical, I am a square and as sensible as anyone you could happen to meet, but the vast majority of animals associated with this so-called organized crime government we have are absolute psychopaths and psychotics, and ignorant ones at that!!
Please stay strong and exhaust all options for your treatment both natural and pharmaceutical. I wish you only positive progress in your health journey! I believe you'll get there.
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@ballman2010 the fact that people are being treated like scum simply because they need a pain relief is something I can't even wrap my head around. I'm sorry to say but shame on your family. They contributed to your father's unnecessary early d 5 th.
Even for people who are actually addicted to Street substances, they don't deserve to be treated like they don't matter. See there's a lot of evil in men's hearts and they look for ideologies to justify. So if they'll just use any reason to look down on somebody. If a person has good in their heart then they will do their part to help another person to the best of their ability.
Sadly people who use drugs have become so dehumanized in our culture it's encouraging and giving free license to those who would otherwise be heartless now they feel morally justified in doing so but the thing is they were always cruel and evil in their hearts this just made it easier for them to feel free license in indulging in that type of hard-headedness.
Meanwhile a decent person like myself never puts down somebody due to their personal habits. Because that has nothing to do with me. There's nothing wrong with using drugs but there can be an issue if somebody feels that they've lost control of the particular substance that they're using same as an alcoholic. there's no moral issue here. They aren't hurting anybody else they're only hurting themselves. So there's absolutely no moral issue and nobody has the right to judge. Even if they felt they did have that right, very few people are in a position to throw stones.
A person who is already internally cruel will just look for excuses to treat others that way. Whether it's casting out somebody who uses drugs or it's being rude or unkind to somebody who is heavy or overweight, either to their face or more commonly you know behind their back, or talking about immigrants or migrants or people of another race in extremely racist or derogatory terms these types of people will always find a reason and an excuse to treat others like shit. It's all about them trying to feel better by tearing others down. This is the way of the Primitive and the Savage.
Good and moral people on the other hand like you and me, have no such urges or desires to behave this way. We look at a person's heart and we judge them from there.
Society is very sick today in my judgment and I just think it's very sad.
For any family to turn their back on their other family member for any reason other than something extremely significant, such as it came out that they were a pedophile or something to that effect, is to me morally unacceptable and is very sad and something they should feel very guikty about.
They were never really family if that's all it took for them to reject your Dad. Sadly your family is far from the only one. I've been similarly treated disgustingly by my family members, not because of drugs, I don't use (although I have absolutely no problem with drugs it's every person's right to use if they so choose), but for other reasons that without going into unnecessary detail were most definitely not just, nor deserved.
This was text to speech and editing will follow..
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@OrinSorinson I think out of all the monstrosities that these demons do, I think that's the one that sickens me the most. They hate to work with a blinding passion, their intrinsic laziness is beyond compare (I guess that's why they chose the job of a parasite, they don't have to work for 20-years while they get to suck off the taxpayer and then they get to suck off the taxpayer again in retirement), they're monsters who won't lift a finger to do anything!! maybe they won't even lift a finger to save their own life if it came down to it. I mean they're categorically opposed to exerting ANY effort whatsoever even though that's what they're being paid for. I don't know how to wrap my head around it.... Do you???? It's not about them doing violence on the street, tho some do, it's about their utter criminal negligence from start to end.
The Chicago PD wanted to go after Jussie Smollett for $10,000 and I some short time in jail because he made them work!!! Yeah he made a false report and he shouldn't have done that but big deal. Those Pigs are getting paid to sit ON their ass and commit evil either by omission or commission, and because they had to do 5 minutes of work he's the bad guy????
I'm sure him being black and gay didn't help CPD filth have any regard for him.
People think they would be terrified with no police precincts but I mean, are we any better off WITH them!?!? I fail to see how!!! The people who wear the badge in this country are Satan's soldiers- they don't give a living fuck about you and never will! Ask how many victims of DV felt like they could turn to their local police filth for help????
If there's somebody out there who has been actually helped by a capable investigation I want to meet them!!!!! I've never heard from them, not once!
I heard a case on an ID channel show where she was viciously attacked by a knife-wielding psychopath I think it was one of her ex's, she fought him off and no choice but to kill him in self-defense in order to protect her and her son, and so of course when it was all over she called the local police. She explained everything that happened. They questioned her and opened an investigation. These sub-human took six months to close this investigation. There was nothing to do! Everything in her story would instantly check out, she had no reason to lie to them. How long does it take to verify a crime scene, verify the veracity of the person reporting the crime, check what whatever little detail still needs to be checked which shouldn't be extreme, and close the fucking case!!! This poor woman had to wait 6 months before they closed the case, and fully cleared her from any liability..
Could you imagine having to wait that long after you've already been traumatized because a maniac attacked you and try to kill you and your child?? No I can't imagine that because I've never lived through it and he seems so extreme.
My point is that police are such demon dogs that they will take the most open-and-shut simple tastes and should take them 3 days at most to close a week at the outside and intentionally drag it out for 6 months were no doubt they did absolutely nothing all the file set on their desk while they took a piss on it every day and then they decided to call it closed six months down the road. There was nothing in this particular woman situation that would have justified anything near that amount of time.
These psychopaths will utterly refuse to help you even if you're dying and if they are working on an investigation will make sure they'll take a two-day case and stretch it out for 6-12 months. I guess so long as they could claim to have an open case when their Chief comes around to check on them, they can make it look like they're working on something when they aren't.
It's utterly gobsmacking.
Let's admit it – the ONLY reason Police department's exist is for show. It's the convince the safe white liberals who live in or around the suburbs that "their authorities are hard at work protecting them and making them safe so they better keep voting for whoever their local and state representatives!"
Let's just all admit it to ourselves, we'll all feel better: police gangs and police departments are 99.99% for show. When it comes time for them to do any work or to help us these psychopaths will be able to sleep perfectly well at night utterly refusing even when the victims are CHILDREN (Uvalde school shooting).
I wouldn't mind a state agency dedicated to Public Safety if those in it had a conscience and did their jobs!. Is that what happens with our local PDs? I don't think so. I've never heard a single positive report of somebody who was grateful to have called 911, who received all of the support and help they were looking for plus more, and or somebody who worked with detectives and felt that they aggressively pursued their case and did all they could to try to find the right person who did the crime.
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@WobiKabobi sure that's fine. I mean some Leftists quibble with that but I understand the difference. Obviously it's not business itself that is the problem, I mean, business is just another form of trade, and I fail to see how modern life can exist without complex networks of trade. However we both know that the bigger a business gets, the more likely they are to engage in dirty tricks, monopolization, shady business practices, and essentially buying the political protection they want in order to fuck over everyone else in the industry and never be held accountable for anything.
This is bad.
If I had a magic wand I would place hard and fast limits on the maximum size any business could grow, market share limits, price markup limits, and I would go so far as to place a minimum 20-50 year freeze on corporate expansion where I live. I would place limits on numbers of locations and maximum employee number.
I don't think most of us have a problem with independent businesses and small businesses it is the big boys that are pretty much ruining it for all of us. Anytime they move into a new area, they place a stress on the surrounding commercial locations. Walmart is the most infamous example of this but it happens across industry.
Large corporate entities should be extremely limited in my opinion.
If all businesses had an upper limit that they were bound by and could not expand beyond then this would ensure that they would not be able to unfairly dominate in their particular field, the field would remain more competitive, and this would be better for workers and consumers.
I just don't understand why any larger corporate entity has been allowed to run roughshod and just grow beyond all reason. It's crazy to me. Especially in heavy industry, they buy local and state politicians and they are allowed to absolutely run the table and dictate public policy. It's really sad. When this happens we all lose.
Corporate greed is the giant drooling boogeyman that is causing all of the problems in the private sector, as far as I can see.
There are other changes I would make to the public ie non-profit sector but this is just regarding the private sector. I think it's pretty clear that the large corporate class is the cancer that is eating the private sector from the inside out.
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@WobiKabobi @WobiKabobi sure that's fine. I mean some Leftists quibble with that but I understand the difference. Obviously it's not business itself that is the problem, I mean, business is just another form of trade, and I fail to see how modern life can exist without complex networks of trade. However we both know that the bigger a business gets, the more likely they are to engage in dirty tricks, monopolization, shady business practices, and essentially buying the political protection they want in order to fuck over everyone else in the industry and never be held accountable for anything.
This is bad.
If I had a magic wand I would place hard and fast limits on the maximum size any business could grow, market share limits, price markup limits, and I would go so far as to place a minimum 20-50 year freeze on corporate expansion where I live. I would place limits on numbers of locations and maximum employee number.
I don't think most of us have a problem with independent businesses and small businesses it is the big boys that are pretty much ruining it for all of us. Anytime they move into a new area, they place a stress on the surrounding commercial locations. Walmart is the most infamous example of this but it happens across industry.
Large corporate entities should be extremely limited in my opinion.
If all businesses had an upper limit that they were bound by and could not expand beyond then this would ensure that they would not be able to unfairly dominate in their particular field, the field would remain more competitive, and this would be better for workers and consumers.
I just don't understand why any larger corporate entity has been allowed to run roughshod and just grow beyond all reason. It's crazy to me. Especially in heavy industry, they buy local and state politicians and they are allowed to absolutely run the table and dictate public policy. It's really sad. When this happens we all lose.
Corporate greed is the giant drooling boogeyman that is causing all of the problems in the private sector, as far as I can see.
There are other changes I would make to the public ie non-profit sector but this is just regarding the private sector. I think it's pretty clear that the large corporate class is the cancer that is eating the private sector from the inside out.
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Just to make it clear, I HATE my govt and I HATE the Pentagon and CIA even more because they are evil to the core BUT, at this point, these Taliban primitives need to be eliminated. Yes, we cannot stay gone. I knew this was gonna happen and this is wrong. This ISNT their country, it's the Afghanis PEOPLE'S country. They are just a megalomaniacal fringe group who has been able to hang on Bec in 20 years clearly our forces never actually made a legitimate effort to engage with and remove them.
Just watch the just-released BBC video of how they are already repressing many locals with their twisted lunatic insistence at shoving their screwed up version Islam down everyone's throat regardless of gender.
These phyllth really believe they have the right to tell others how to live in their everyday lived. It's really amazing. No, they must be destroyed or forced to surrender. Enough is enough. They are persistent I'll give them that. If they want to live like freaks and faux-islamist r8ghead stone age savages then fine, they can go off to some middle of nowhere sh8thole and do so, but by what RIGHT do they have to dckaee themselves the owners of that entire country??!? (well you got demonic women-hating evil and amoral psychotic Christian tyrants and facists in this country so I guess I shouldn't be that shocked. A tyrant is a tyrant).
We NEED to get back in there for one last push and give them two choices- death or surrender. If they weren't stone age savages I wouldn't mind what they do, I really wouldn't, but they are. They must be made to understand that they are the bad guys, whether they realize it or not, and that Afganistan will NEVER belong to them, and they are way WAYYY out of line; and people like them deserve to be killed at will for they are nothing but a fringe lunatic gang and the vast majority of Afghanis want NOTHING to do with them or their sick obsessed pseudo-islamist so-called view of the world!! NOBODY has the right to tell others how to live and to take away others' most basic fundamental freedoms.
Most of the last 20 years were a tragic disgusting waste and a mistake made by sociopaths at the highest levels of our govt, who only sought money for their cronies and political advantage for themselves, and they do not value any human lives outside their own. All that should be obvious by now. But right now, we need to get back in there and this time ACTUALLY GO GET THESE PEOPLE and either kill them in battle or drive them back into their caves or wherever the hell these totalitarian primitives came from.
Lool I would be all for leaving them alone, esp after all this time, but they (Taliban) have made that impossible. I'm thinking of the rest of the Afghanis right now, the ones who don't need these savages shoving their way in and taking away all their basic rights and having the country being thrown back into the stone age.
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Everything here is a Ponzi scheme. It's how the 2% scam all of us into ending up poor and broke after a lifetime of hard work. Even people who have a very comfortable lifestyle and quality income are only a few missed paychecks or one serious health crisis away from potential ruin. What most people don't realize is that both mainstream political parties are 100% responsible for this because they serve the same masters, the financial elites who don't care if the rest of us drop dead. Unless enough voting people reject this model and demand a whole new form of government that places material security for everyone as its cornerstone value - in short unless voters go hard left, this isn't going to change in our lifetime. We're just going to have to hope we're in that lucky group the don't end up losing everything either to local government tyrants and overlords, or some actual Ponzi schemer or our bank or some corporate manipulator, because if we do there's not going to be a single politician that's going to lose a wink of sleep over and they certainly won't be there to catch us (now if we were Wall Street criminal that would be a whole different story).
I'm not a tumor but I do recognize our reality, and right now unfortunately the prognosis is pretty bad for a lot of us. It doesn't have to be this way, but it is right now for all the usual reasons. People keep voting for the same uber-criminals and wondering why nothing ever changes. Everyone says Communism and socialism is bad well then okay if you're not wealthy and you die poor or destitute because you can't get health care for your cancer don't come crying to me.
People cut their own throats in this country. I rejected the current iteration of the political system in this country a while back. Under the current system you have to be either exceptionally hard working or relatively lucky not to have a major crisis in your lifetime. Here in the US there's very little government help for the average person - because politicians in this country are blood drink and vampires who could care less if we live or die and that's the simple unvarnished truth.
If people want better they have to demand an overthrow of these two current political parties and choose Left political parties that care about human well-being. So far half of the country has said they don't want that even though they may continue to suffer and lose under the current political paradigm.
And so with that being said for the most part we're kind of stuck with the shit system that we have. Under the current system we're all just slaves, pseudo slaves and serfs for Wall Street, all the while often getting stuck with aggressive and unfair local city council policy.
People aren't smart enough in this country to want better for themselves and so we keep getting the abusive system that we have. Not saying that we can't still find a way to make it- even though the current system is hugely exploitative, through sheer grit or extra hard work or out of the box thinking a lot of us do, but I'd like to think that our economic rules should be much different than they are, to where people shouldn't have to rely on luck or positive genetics or family just to be able to access the barest of life's most basic survival needs.
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Fucking Brown Nazis. Just when you think the enemy is Whitey, here comes along the House 🐝-ner who wishes they could stand atop that white power structure SO bad. They're like James Clyburn with a little less melanin.
Sadly this isn't anything new though. Historically some of the lighter skinned Hispanic population has always chosen to act like this. They've literally adopted white racism. Frankly it's disgusting. It's the whole crabs in the barrel mentality. it's like when is this ever going to stop? Hey white people- don't ever think for one moment all minorities work together. Some people do, but then you get Brown Nazis like this who want to turn things into a racial hunger games. And of course, these are always the kinds of filth that want to seek public office and authority. Disgusting.
You think in such a heavily diverse large city like LA, everybody by now would have come to appreciate diversity and it would be a better place on average to live for all, but unfortunately this isn't always the case.
The other problem is that the kinds of people who run for public office in this country are almost always blazing sociopaths and proud of it. I think this is pretty clear by now. I have found that to be pretty standard regardless of the color of a particular person's skin. So then you constantly get situations like this. If it's not about racism and hatefulness, it's about something else, usually corrupt private deals that always always always fuck over and sell out the common person, or deliberately doubling down on funding for the Pigs one more than half in the community have made it clear that is not what they want that is not what they support. But I guess we're fated to constantly go through this so long as we continue to elect corrupt pieces of trash. To me this goes to the deeper issueof the flaws in a representative faux democracy like ours. The only people that seek and gain public office in the US are criminal pseudo-sociopaths and sociopaths. Until that changes, the ills in our society that we can see all around us or experience ourselves, will only continue to exacerbate. we either need to start electing angels, or do away with the corrupt representative system altogether and implement full direct democracy NOW.
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We need to though (discriminate based on wealth) especially when it comes to fundamental resources like water. We're not talking about Big Macs here. It is a fundamental principle of humanist socialism that every human being who is alive should have access to clean water, enough food, decent housing, educational opportunities, medical care, social welfare care, and so on. These are my values.
Learn more about these issues and realize that thinking WE might be in their shoes someday is a harmful and deceptive belief prevents us from taking necessary action right now that benefits thousands or millions. It is a virtual statistical impossibility that any human being will become a multi-millionaire or billionaire, but even if it's true that a very few might end up with that kind of wealth, that still does not give them a right to monopolize a basic resource, at the cost of many thousands.
Also, I do not believe that any human being should be legally allowed to accumulate that much wealth in the first place. They don't need it and they'll never need it, so for me, that makes it morally wrong. I support legal limits on personal wealth and business size.
We all deserve a fair share to the resources out here. Nobody has the right to monopolize large swaths of our water supply. Water is a fundamental human need and a human right for all people. We need to distribute it fairly and equitably for all farmers and all our communities.
Bottom line, these people shouldn't be setting water policy or anything else. Neither they nor other elites or large corporations deserve preferential or monopolistic water privileges.
Watch more videos about these topics you'll see that and many of the elites are robbing the rest of us by buying off politicians in order to hog up huge chunks of water resources, or to demanding unfairly generous business deals or loosening of business restrictions which always end up harming the environment, the community, other industry competitors, or the state as a whole. Just keep learning more about this subjects. It's important information to be aware of.
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@chinchilla641 he's right tho, "edgy" fashie-wannabe. I'm glad you love the Blue KKKartel tho. You have the complexion for the protection so I'm sure you do love that boot, dontcha? Maybe if it ever came down on your nuts one of these days you'd see what I'm talking about. Those lawless evildoers and life-and-property stealing fascist thugs count on the blind support of the Caucasian persuasion and good on ya, right, all street Pigs are total heroes my god you're right, it's not like they only exist to harm the weak and marginalized communities and POC but you got it man, they're not cowardly savages, they're fucking superhuman god tier level heroes. They're more worthy than God, Jesus and Mother Theresa all put together! There's nothing oppressive or immoral about what they do at ALL NOPE, NO WAY! I mean there's gotta be a reason they are literally a murder-, oppression- and bodysnatching-for-hire gang by the State.
Here's the unpleasant truth; the large majority are worthless (VERY worthless) parasites who exist to steal (property, freedom, lives) and destroy and cause great unnecessary hardship and various civil rights violations especially to POC; and it's an ugly, ugly institution that should be largely abolished and what can't get abolished, wholly reformed from the ground up.
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@chinchilla641 oh it didn't age well in the last 5 minutes? Ok. Well I'm glad you love the cops. You must really hate your background if you don't identify on the political Left because if you can't see the willful evil, cruelty, and unending bigotry from the Right and it's GOP officeholders, and the misguided mentality of those who vote for them, and how this causes ongoing generational harm and pain to all communities of color but esp those Black and Brown; then I don't know what to tell you. You'd rather identify with an ideology of Caucasian/white supremacy or at a minimum white dominance, then with the Latino diaspora and being proud of your heritage and and seeing yourself as an ally to the Black liberation and justice movements within the US. Welp, I guess that's your choice.
Far as cops go, the grossly out-of-control and fascistic cop industry in this country has a huge number of problems, starting with the number of violent, racist and/or predatory cops in it. I'm not saying every cop is a crazy mentally-unstable racist lunatic, though many are, but it's not always to that extreme. Some are just scamming opportunists, others are simply harassing assholes, others are equal-opportunity predators. Not all will resort to unnecessary and egregious violence but a whole lot do; and unless you have been living under a rock for the last ten years it should be clear to you by now that the whole lot of them are rotten one way or the other. The whole system is rotten in my eyes.
"A few bad apples" is what most people like to think when confronting this topic and is definitely a useful and convenient lie for the comfortable and middle-class white people to believe in order to get people to keep supporting the ever-growing police state in this country without any question. There are so many rotten or abusive aspects of the entire cop industry in the US it's hard to know where to start; from various SOPs amongst most departments to the latest incidents of gross misconduct or murder that make the news.
Ofc there are always exceptions and it would be impossible to say 100-200,000 people are ALL this or ALL that; that is why I just look at the institution as a whole, how it's used in this country, how it's historically been used, and what those in it are allowed to get away with or even encouraged to do. I could go into great detail why I believe this is very much so, and maybe I will on a follow-up comment.
I understand we need trained first responders to be available for emergency situations and desk jockey detectives to solve serious crimes; although I have my deep issues with them too I understand the function is necessary. It's the otherwise street cops outside of legitimate First Response use that I can't stand. That should be unacceptable. Those "patrols" as they like to call them, are no more than SCAMS. They are looking for anyone that they consider an easy target, usually POC or someone they presume to be poor. These are all rampant violations of civil liberties and human rights. I take massive umbrage to this use of street Pigs to purposefully and predatorily drum up petty arrests, to cause intentional harassment and extortion via tickets and traffic stalking, and incidents of sheer property theft (most commonly through car tows but also thru flat out rampant theft of money or goods inside a car, all they have to is make up a bogus charge of "suspicion of drug possession" and the outrageously lax and criminal, in my view, civil asset forfeiture laws allow them to seize anything they please).
When are you gonna get it thru your head??? It's ALL just a giant grift; an ugly oppressive giant grift targeted almost exclusively at poor people and POC. And worse, they're almost never held even slightly accountable for any kinds of misconduct they commit at anytime, up to and including blatant unjustified homicide, aka murder.
Even worse, there is NEVER any independent oversight of these assholes or depts at any level in the whole rotten system and believe me, that's intentional. We can't even get Congress to pass the goddamn George Floyd Justice in Policing Act even though it doesn't go nearly far enough but at least it would be a start. That's how deep of a stranglehold this dirty powerful industry has (one which is intimately interwoven with the mass incarceration industry) on our lawmakers. It must be fun being part of the only non-legally-bound and wholly legally-immune RACKET in the whole country; one that rarely takes more than a two-digit IQ, a pretty low or lacking value system, and a GED to get into (yay for basement-level entrance standards and zero accountability!).
They are a nearly lawless gang of thugs and assholes who get away with anything and everything they want to and do far, far more harm than good in the communities they "serve". Even minor non-violent harassments can have a real impact on a poor person's life in the short term, and sometimes longer. I know, I've been there. Even the petty stuff they get away shouldn't be allowed, and is highly immoral by my value system, as it causes very real harm to those they target.
Ok I think that's good for now. I really didn't intend to write as much as I did. I encourage you to learn more about this issue. You don't have to take anything from me. The evidence, the reports, the last 30 years of increasingly-militarized metro regional police forces, the historical use of police to oppress, bother, or terrorize targeted groups; the constant uncovering of scams, corruptions, mistreatments and abuses within PDs or county jails; hordes of people's personal experiences, and more are all out there for any who wish to learn about them.
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Mutual aid is fantastic and makes a wonderful society however there will always be a place for some form of organized government
Taking care of a lot of the humdrum tasks and administration as well as the heavier issues like civil rights, justice, economic justice, and public safety.
When enough people get together in a group some form of a State even a very loose one always evolves. Some form of governance; some form of central or regional influence occurs. Even a loose structure naturally appears when humans congregate together- it's an impossibility not to. Even teams tend to have a team leader or "captain ". I'm not saying they control everything but they have a role.
Same thing with " public management " ie " government".
So all I'm saying is perfection in our management systems is impossible but improvement and accountability IS.
Right now it's clear we have megacorp rule- they set the agenda, they send out the dick tats, our state and federal level politicians comply. We've seen how their worldview operates, when they get what they want most of the rest of us lose. Some people do very well under the system, some do okay enough, and others lose out big....
Is there another system that is capable of protecting human rights, civil rights and providing a better quality of life for most if not all people all the time? Yes I believe there is - it's intelligently managed socialism/communism.
My values are human quality of life first and foremost and environmental integrity (the natural environment). THEN business but ONLY under strict guidelines. There's a wrong and a right way to do business- and most if not all corporations will always do it the wrong way.. we can prevent this with laws. The answer is hard limits, actually enforced , and favor given to small and independent businesses. Economic protections given to every average citizen- hard upper limits set on net worth and so forth. I'm fine with some wealth, but unlimited wealth is ridiculous... No one person or organization has the right to become ginormous and monopolize huge swathes of resources. NO WAY. No, by all means there should be strict limits for personal accumulation. I believe my limits would be very fair to all.
As for local state and federal authorities, well it's a tough situation because right now they're securely in the pocket of the Big Money they don't give an f about the rest of us..
I do think that can change but to be dead honest it's a very difficult problem. It's going to be a very hard push for sure. I do think eventually we can get there however.
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@showxating9885 the only people in Iraq we should have ever been fighting, was ISIS. The rest of the time we never should have been there as the Iraqi people suffered unimaginable losses thanks to us and that's a whole other very ugly ball of wax. That's the reason Bush Jr. and every past and former senior CIA official and some special forces members are going to burn in hell for several eternities. Most of our pathologically evil and indiscriminate crimes against humanity occurred in Iraq. I don't blame the average service-member for what happened over there, most of the rank and file are good people who have a conscience and would never intentionally target civilians or commit a war crime. Most of the war crimes were committed by the CIA or a some rogue special forces. Some rank and file did lose their sou and commit evil too though, such as those army soldiers who stood by or participated in torture and dehumanization of prisoners at Abu Graib or our other satanic torture prisons or black sites. Those people who willingly participated in such crimes against will all have to a higher authority someday I believe.
Almost everything we did outside of directly combating ISIS in Iraq was a war crime. The evil our govt allowed to happen there will take
The CIA literally sponsored kidnappings of 1000s of random Arabic males who's only crime was not wanting us there and looking Arabic; and then making up nebulous baseless claims of "terrorism". There are still a few unlucky souls lefts in Guantanamo that our satanic government refuses to release, for no reason at all. Trying to understand how these monsters in the CIA think is a futile exercise. They love death, torture, unlawful imprisonment and suffering for the fun of it. If there's a single organization outside of ISIS and Boko Haram who belong in the deepest depths of hell, it's the CIA.
Iraqi insurgents (not ISIS, just average citizens) had every right to target us, we invaded their country without permission and they didn't know why. They saw us as the enemy and a threat and who can blame them?? Everyone has the right to defend against outside aggression into their homeland. For this, they were relentlessly targeted by some our personnel mostly CIA and subject to unlawful imprisonment in some cases for years and in some cases torture.
The only thing we EVER should have done in Iraq was depose or kill Saddam and his sons, because they were very violent evil people and they deseved it. After that was over, we should have left, or stayed on just long enough to supervise a stable transfer of power. As far as ISIS, if and when they ever developed after that we could always return, but to my knowledge they did not exist in 2005.
I agree, Afganistan is a much different issue and situation than the infinite black hole of evil and destruction we brought to Iraq. It's actually a much simpler story, in a way.
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Until property rights, homeowner rights and affordable housing become legalized in America, ACTUALLY legalized, not just paid lip service to, ANY kind of alternative housing will be aggressively persecuted and destroyed by the monsters we elect to public power.
It's because they're criminal sadists without souls or consciences. They only serve the top 1%. They do not care if we die out here in fact they're hoping we do. They see it as efficient population control. Same for the homeless. They have no intentions on helping the homeless, those are just excess bodies to them. They want them to go away and die.
I know it sounds dramatic but these are the God's honest facts for anyone who's lived long enough to know.
Tiny homes, mobile home parks, all alternative forms of living are legitimate, moral, ethical and should be embraced by everyone. There's no one right way to live and if someone wants to live in a tin can that is their human and god-given right!
Unfortunately our politicians are demonic vomit and so we have to fight these battles just for mere survival. If we're not embracing our assigned role to make their criminal big business buddies richer than God, they want us to die. They don't WANT to give us alternatives because that's a dollar lost to the rapacious filth who put them in office.
Am I wrong???? I know I'm not wrong because these facts are as plain as the nose on all of our faces.
ALL poverty and homelessness could be ended tomorrow, more easily than any of us ever thought possible, the resources are there they're just being intentionally squandered and hoarded and hidden, but the demons we elect to office will not allow this. They WANT us to suffer; they will NEVER allow us to find true independence from financial and legal slavery in this country. Even people who willingly play into the paradigm can't get protected. It's easier than ever for a bank to take your home if you fall just a little bit behind in payments. That is OPEN THEFT!!! Unless they return to every penny you already suck into it that is larceny! Counties will currently take your home if you can't pay your local property taxes because of financial duress. Same thing. The evil is everywhere. They want us to have nothing- they demand to have everything!!!
The system is set up to destroy us from all directions. The evil is everywhere. They see ONE role for the majority of humans in this country: happy slaves who toil forever to make a very very tiny elite richer than god. We are nothing but modern day slaves for which they will extract every breath every iota of gain they can. If you think I'm being hyperbolic and overdramatic, I promise you all, I am so not.
I hate to be so negative but unfortunately it IS this bad right now. The solutions are simple, either overthrow the current system by any means necessary or elect actual human beings who will stop this. One or the other, but it has to be one. The current system is unsustainable for too many people.
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Big business is never going to stop paying it's workforce shit and putting out lesser quality products to return higher profits to POS shareholders.
I don't believe any of them give a fuck about end users or their workforce. It's the same old big business swindle every time imo.
I wish I could be less jaded but I believe it's accurate.
It would be unrealistic to expect every business to take to stay small but I do believe there's a very real limit that needs to be set on bigger business. I'm sure we can debate where are these lines could be drawn but I feel they should be. Say, 20% total market share, 250 national locations; 10,000 employees something to that effect.
Big players in every industry are bad news for all of the midsize and smaller firms. Why do you think they're not afraid to do shameless price increases ie in our food supply industries, now so highly corporate dominated?? This has very serious negative effects for anyone living on any sort of actual limited budget, ie 60-70% of the country.
The big business takeover of the world I feel is a toxic process for everyone but the CEO and the top floor of that company. I don't love it and want to see it limited. More big players leave less consumer choice. I don't want anyone daring to think they have the right to force me to be their customer. That is very offensive. This is the problem with excessive mergers. It all goes back to wanting to monopolize one's industry. Legal limits would ensure no single firm or big players club could do so. It's too bad we don't have those laws right now- we should, yesterday.
Also, predictive policing is literally menacing, profiling and stalking, in other words, patrol. In other words, A VILE ABROGATION OF HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS. ALL policing is immoral, amoral, and unethical. It's just prowling and bullying masquerading as a positive public service. It all sounds cute until you're you're on the other end of it. Pigs do enough harm without tech toys. investigation is one thing, but the LAST thing these savages need is more toys to make it easier for them to commit crime and terrorism on black, brown and poor residents in their area. First response is a vital public service, POLICING IS A FORM OF EVIL AND CRIME. Policing is street patrol. It's legalizing gangbanging. It's evil and anyone of conscience should find it revilable.
Without an iron fist, Wall Street will always be a ruthless gangster. Mass layoffs and stock buybacks should be screamingly illegal. I have no patience with these people. The workers yes, the top floor, fuck no.
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(long)
But we know what the true motivation is, it's to keep people down FOREVER, primarily people who are already poor or those of color, primarily Black. That's ALL it's about. It's been like that for decades likely even before Reagan.
Think about it. If you're high up in the governmental hierarchy; if you have access to creating national policies; and if you're an immoral hate-motivated person like most of them, what kind of system would YOU create???
Of course it needs to change, it's deeply evil and just hateful. I mean nobody who has a conscience would have designed a system this way; I know I wouldn't.
There were people who came before us who had a hateful soul and a dark heart and really hated people of color and thought "what can we do to make sure these people never have a fair shot in life?" And they acted accordingly. It was kicked off by Nixon with the controlled substances act of 1971 and it's been going gangbusters ever since. However the chain gang era, especially in the South, operated for decades and was a way to use superficial, essentially fake, offenses to lock people up and then use them for their slave/free labor. For the immoral, unethical or conscience-free person the opportunities to abuse, exploit or enslave people in this country has gone on for 400 years.
I don't think there's anything about our modern judicial system, even regarding misdemeanors or local issues, that is fair or just. Even minor court/legal issues can cause a lot of harm if you're poor or homeless; I know, I've lived through them.
Even the least sympathetic person would be outraged at a the details in much of our system.
Bottom line, once you come out of jail, the moment that door swings shut behind you your sentence is OVER! And so should anything else associated with it.
ANYTHING ELSE SHOULD BE SEEN AS UNACCEPTABLE, NON-MORAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Deliberately preventing one from accessing self-betterment and opportunity is evil in all facets. (But that's hat's a description that would be apt regarding most who populate our govt ranks and elite business echelon.)
I could agree with a short-term parole supervision of six months at the absolute most, and only in the more serious cases of longer-term incarceration, in order to help somebody more smoothly reintegrate and readjust to normal life. Also, if it was a sex crime conviction that person may have special conditions of release that they will have to satisfy before they will be judged safe to be fully on their own, but these are unique circumstances.
Once the these short-term transitional periods are up and for ANYONE else, they should have ALL of their human and civil rights restored immediately, including automatic expungement of past convictions (the information will be accessible for the highest authorities to view if necessary but not for anybody else), this includes all rights to pursue job advancement and professional licensing.
Anything short of this is the personification of injustice, which is pretty much the tag line for our entire system from youth courts to ours.
It's because it's not about helping people, it's about being the boot that stomps them down and keeps them down and it's really sad it's this way. We're going to have a fight on our hands trying to change this. The goal of the system isn't rehabilitating people and then reintegrating them back into society it's about oppression, chains, and pseudo-slavery. I should know, I've had friends and acquaintances who've been caught up in it's tow and I've had some lesser dealings with it myself.
There's a reason they call it Jim Crow 2.0, and it can affect white people just as easily, although statistically more POC are targeted by a wide margin. Either way it's gross; it's all about job security for jailworkers and keeping people away from opportunity for as long as possible, this maximizing the chance that they'll fall back into the system thus keeping the revolving door of maximum incarceration going.
Very ugly but how else would you design a maximum incarceration system??? Our system is working very well as it was designed to operate. It's amoral, but of course it is. I believe we can fix this In our lifetime but it's going to take a hell of a lot of work and isolated cases here or there aren't going to change the policies. It's hard to get anyone of conscience elected in this country and much less enough to change these organized cartel-like systems of pseudo-slavery.
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Anyone who would support locking somebody in a cage for anything but the most severe and heinous crimes is a satanic monster and should have to spend THEIR life in a cage and then they can tell us how they feel about it. There's NOTHING humane or acceptable about what we have been indoctrinated to accept in these dark, current satanic times. What we have been brainwash to believe is both normal, necessary, and effective in this country, which is our mass, MASS lock up and detention industry, is indeed a phenomenal evil and crime against humanity. We have psychopaths in charge of this banana republic sh*thole country and only PSYCHOPATHS will be happy about this outcome and only sadists and Satan-serving psychopaths will rejoice in the continuing the last 40 years of one of the most evil periods in modern human history outside of the Third Reich, America's mass incarceration Nation and the lives and communities it has decimated and pulverized in its endless and infinite lust for blood and victims. Satan does indeed rule this country and until those of us with a soul band together and figure out a way to defeat him, the anti-human FILTH who rejoice and profit from what is evil will always be able to triumph over those of us trying to defeat the evil.
Today the evildoers won one. We experienced a setback. It happens to the best of them. We will regroup and come back and hit them back twice as hard next time. We will make sure this never happens again. We will end the endless train wreck and crime against humanity that mass incarceration and mass Pig occupation is in the State and later, throughout this country. I expect to see Bresa back again and better than ever. They might have won this battle, but we're going to win this war no matter how many years or decades it takes and how many lives it cost. If it takes another 50 years then it takes another 50 years. This is nothing but Jim Crow 2.0 and a modern version of slavery. We WILL not let it stand, it has left enough destruction and human carnage in its wake.
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@jjoohhhnn I agree. I have a basic strategy that goes a little something like, unite the left and other compatible outsider parties, as you allude, compose EVERY piece of legislation and reform we want to see, from A to Z, draw everything up in full detail; this will be a long process of collaboration and back and forth and adjustment, once it's done get it printed and have on hand for reference,
Then,
start organizing for more ballot measures in CA, where I live and bec it's the most populous, organize to win seats on county boards in populous counties, which will be hard to do as outsiders, and just go from there.
I recommend a county by county methodical approach. Far more effective than shooting for the state House where we will be far outnumbered even if we managed to get in.
Pushing for more ballot measure access and frequency puts policy power more in the hands of the people and sidesteps the big money-owned state legislature. Not sure if that change would have to come from inside the legislature which is a bit of a Catch-22, but one that eventually be overcome I'm sure.
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@jjoohhhnn all that information is gold, the first off I just want to agree with you that it is a 100% insane how at least some people or more accurately, the intent to rile up some people through stupid reactionary issues, continues to push the obsession with trans or gay people or gay sex.
And of course this abortion issue now is back in everyone's face, as if the interests behind taking away one of women's most fundamental healthcare rights gives a flying shit about fetal life or any other life for that matter.
People's private sex-related decisions are a major obsession for the curiously freedom-obsessed Right. Very interesting that one. I guess it's only their freedom to discriminate or their own freedoms they're too concerned about. Why is this such a bone of contention for some of these people?? What other consenting adults do in the privacy of their own home, whether YOU think it's gross or not, is no concern of yours. I mean this is kind of a basic statement of fact. The fact that people couldn't even be gay in public, or in bars, for so long without the threat of violence either from the Pigs or from some random reactionary, is just gross.
The fact consenting sex work among adults is still criminalized I find completely unacceptable. Emphasis of course, on the words consenting and adult. It is no business of the State what I do with my body if I freely choose to do it! Good god, such a 1984 country.
I find it appalling that any person in this country would dare to think they have a right to control the private lives of another consenting adult, whether or not sex or sexual choices are involved.
We have a lot of bizarre sexual fascists in this country, and just fascists period. I don't think they're anywhere near the majority but I do think some of them are a very vocal minority. Frankly, I'm disgusted by it. Gay people had to endure violence throughout the 60s and 70s because of these pieces of shit, mostly the cops, and now millions of women from coast to coast are finding a fundamental right to control their own bodies and futures ripped away, which is vile. And it's not that I don't think that later turned fetal life is precious, I very much do, but I don't put the fetus, or the blastocyst for that matter, before the life of the woman who is carrying it. I think it's very unjust for anyone to do so.
Trans athletes are getting maligned, which is an issue I hope people get tired of soon because it's all much ado about nothing.
There is a very appalling desire from the fascists in this country to completely control other people and their private non-violent choices. Consenting drug use and drug trade amongst adults is the single biggest reason PD's and mass incarceration exists. Now they're attacking kratom, a wonderful natural substance, out of ignorance and malice. Freedom of choice regarding health and food have been under attack for quite some time.
These fascists just don't think anybody should have the right to choose or think anything for themselves. And they call themselves defenders of freedom??? Freedom for who? Freedom to do what?
Yeah we have a hell of a fight ahead of us. The ignorant fascists who have connections to public office or deep pockets are well-organized. Here's hoping in our lifetimes they can be put down once and for all. These people are just gross and so far out of bounds and they just drive me nuts.
Really smart other comments you made there. I'll have some feedback for those later.
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@TimBrown-e9l but we have to criticize them because the abuses are so prevalent. Anyone given control over others should be held to the highest of standards and are cops are held to ZERO standards. Look anyone who commits DV is a is a scumbag, and yeah we need first response, but that is ALL we need from any so-called security apparatus. The rest of it is a moral and borderline evil such as mass traffic thefts human stalking Mass racquets that is completely evil and boil boil am I going to fight against it in my lifetime
So let's just quickly discuss First response. IF an officer can handle it responsibly with the least amount of force necessary and with respect for the people involved, and with an attempt to avoid arrest if at all possible, then I applaud them because that is what is needed. However I'd wager dollars to lawn chairs that rarely happens in this country. I have found It's usually the opposite.
So in my eyes we have structural and unacceptable deep flaws and abuses both in our first response systems and then the rest which is just brazen criminality papered over, ie the prowling of our streets by blue dirtbags looking for victims to arrest for some nonsense, cash bail is DEEPLY evil and incentivizes mass arrests, the traffic racket is immoral and criminal right in front of our eyes but as it generates billions collectively for local counties and they do it with no intention of stopping, and we the People have little power to stop it as it's happening. We do need First Response teams and we can have those, we can also have those who focus on investigating alleged offences, but ANY of the rest of it is pure CRIME and needs to be declared unconstitutional and morally-vile which it obviously is five ways from Sunday.
Presuming that happens which I hope to see in my lifetime, then we are just left with First Response. Having comprehensive quality training and setting high standards for entry and initiating strict accountability measures will ensure that people can count on those who are tasked with first emergency response in this country instead of now when it's literally a death sentence or asking to be abused or treated like less than human being in virtually all cases. Until all three of those things happen will be stuck with the evils we have now. All drug enforcement must end immediately this area is NO business of government, NOT ONE!!!! NO ONE has the right to control another's personal substance use or voluntary trade with another so that's a complete violation of the rights of personal choice and basic human rights right there. But we all know what drug prohibition has been going on for fifty years now there was a weapon to destroy the black community, The architects of it set as much they were not ashamed because they're hate and moral corruption was so pure. America is the world's leading mass incarceration nation and it is only getting worse. Blue Pigs are the driving force of this. They are mindless savages who BLINDLY carry out ANY evil Law & policy that are worthless elected bought-and-paid-for political animals create. WHY?? BECAUSE THE ONLY THING A PIG CARES ABOUT IS DOMINATING OTHERS. HE'S AN EMPTY AMORAL PERSON AND THE ONLY SATISFACTION HE GETS IN LIFE IS FROM BULLYING. But ironically at heart he is also worthless coward that's why he must carry a gun because he will NEVER fight fairly, even if his life depends it. At heart he's a soulless evil predators and he's here to prey. I've had people challenge Pigs to fight without the gun, the Pig lost and got outraged, couldn't handle the fact he was fairly beaten and like the animal he is he had his two Pig backup buddies tackle the guy and arrested him. I'm sure the charges were later summarily dropped but that's who they are, they have to pretend to be the toughest guy in the room even though they know most of the time they aren't and they know if they didn't have that gun they would be nobody, they would be TRASH, they would be a JOKE and that's what they all are- EVIL SOCIAL DISEASES AND JOKES.They are hateful evil satanic predators who hate everyone else and even hate themselves, they know they're worthless but they don't want to admit it so they try to show up there constant inner emptiness preying on others with an unfair advantage of a loaded gun. Anyone who walks the street with a loaded gun NOT in response to a 911 call is a CRIMINAL, someone who should be hated, tarred and feathered, and declared an enemy to their community, the TRUE CRIMINAL.
I don't pay taxes so I can be preyed upon by a satanic evil immoral violent predatory group of thugs who should shoot themselves with that 9mm they carry. These people should be burned at the stake or driven out of town.
Blue Pigs hate the poor and POC and will do anything in their power to make their life harder. POC Pigs are just as bad as Wh Pigs in this way.
The only reason drugs are illegal is to ensure many many blacks and people of color and poor people end up behind bars. If drug prohibition was ended over 95% of all jails and prisons would literally have to close overnight because VERY few people are in there for genuine violent offenses. Anybody who wears a badge doesn't want this because they only care about themselves and are more than happy to enslave, oppress or harm another if it means they will benefit. It's how a narcissist's mind works. ONLY they matter, nobody else's rights or futures matter.
Pigs want mass incarceration in this country to continue because if they COULDN'T work as high-volume jail fillers or jail guards they wouldn't be able to earn a living, because they have NO positive skills, no real skills whatsoever other than being a paid bully, a paid thug and a paid criminal. Stalking, committing Grand theft, bullying and locking weak people up is VASTLY easier than contributing to society in moral and respectable ways and actually WORKING for a living. Police throughout history have been the most immoral violent vicious conscienceless predators who could kill without a thought and were brought out to suppress valiant Labor fighters, you know the human beings who actually WORKED for a living and earning their money instead of preying on others and being satanic parasites. That's all most Blue Pigs are- violent worthless parasites.
They get huge paychecks for doing NOTHING and contributing NOTHING to society. They're uneducated knuckle-dragging thugs. Anywho apply who show intelligence, critical thinking, decency, high character and an empathetic personality are promptly rejected from the police department they applied to. They will tell you so themselves. Street police are nothing but armed thugs who target the poor, POC and the homeless. The stories I've heard about these animals blow even my jaded mind. Most cops are in the job to get paid to be a heartless bully and a thief, NO other reason. They'll come running like it's a life-and-death emergency it when Walmart catches a petty shoplifter with $10 worth of junk in their pocket but when kids are being shot up in a high school or grade school they won't even go in.
When they're not bullying homeless and vulnerable people they're STEALING at a rate that would make your eyes water. Issuing tickets is DEEPLY criminal and just extortion and theft with extra steps; searching people's cars is a satanic violation of people's individual dignity and civil rights; it's all to find things to steal and excuses to arrest somebody so they can be extorted for cash bail which is another crime against humanity. The criminality and amorality of the system just keeps folding back on itself. Courts and the local jail are seen as Gold Rush zones aka money extraction machines by the local city govt AKA tyrants AKA savages. It's a deeply vicious and violent evil racket against the poor and disadvantaged and it runs 24/7 in every Metro city in the country.
There's NO difference between private organized crime and the massive organized crime that hides behind a badge. NOT ONE.
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And the sad thing is, GOVT DOESN'T NEED TO TAX IN ORDER TO SPEND ON ANYTHING- THEY CAN PRINT WHATEVER THEY NEED, AND THE FEARS OF SO-CALLED INFLATION ARE JUST BOGUS PROPAGANDA FROM THE HYPER-CAPITALISTS AND THE RIGHT. Yes this is MMT but it's not a theory- it's OBVIOUS. Taxes are assessed not because the money-issuer needs money (does that make sense?) but because some economists claim they need to remove some currency from the total money supply in order to limit excess inflation. Tbh, I'm not even sure that's necessary. But the point is, THE FED GOVT CAN SPEND MONEY ON ANYTHING IT FUCKING WANTS- IT ISSUES ITS OWN MONEY FOR CHRISSAKES. If it wants to tax back some later fine, BUT IT ISSUES IT'S OWN MONEY THAT THE WHOLE WORLD USES, THEREFORE IT SHOULD NEVER ACT LIKE "but how we gonna afford it!?!" because that's insane. It will afford it by DECIDING TO ISSUE MORE CURRENCY FROM THE FEDERAL MINT OR GET IT FROM THE FEDERAL RESERVE.
Meaning there is NOTHING keeping the fed gov from ending poverty TODAY and paying for everything we need other than brain-dead, ignorant, uneducated, corrupt politicians who work got corrupt interests that want to keep the lower class fucked up and poor because that means they're easier to take advantage of by the major capitalist interests. Also, Bec yes there is a wrong perception among the ruling interests that increased social welfare spending will lead to increased taxes which is NOT the case (not that we shouldn't tax at the top, we definitely should, just not because the gov "needs" that money to fund public programs, obviously it doesn't- cuz it makes its own money in the first place!); and their greed is so profound and infinite that even if they have billions they say hell no to more taxes, and tell the politicians they own to always vote no on any public spending bills (never on huge tax cuts bills or Defense Dept bills of course!).
Bottom line, due to MMT AND SIMPLE COMMON SENSE, there is no moral or rational excuse for the federal government to allow poverty, lack and decay to occur within these borders. Period. All that could have been addressed and spent on decades ago, and if some of the more intelligent elected officials want to tax back a small portion of that (hopefully only from the top), later on to supposedly limit any possible excessive inflation (which sooner or later is going to happen anyways, inflation that is, and it will not be a problem; we always manage), so be it; BUT THESE PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS SHOULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN ORDERED AND BEEN ONGOING SINCE FOREVER AGO.
The ultimate truth is the hyper-elite is a sadist- and it WANTS us poor, Bec they see that as leaving more for them. So they come up with lies, like "runaway inflation" and the nonsense about the deficit to convince the less knowing of us that govt SHOULDN'T spend the proper amount needed to serve we the people's needs, and so we go without and we suffer or lose out; but curiously, THIS HORRIFIC SPECTRE OF FRIGHT- INFLATION- IS NEVER A CONCERN WHEN IT COMES TO GIVING A BLANK CHECK TO THE PENTAGON OR THE TRILLIONS OF CORPORATE HANDOUTS THAT HAVE HAPPENED SINCE EVER!!
Now doesn't that make you think a little bit??
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I believe the future of this planet will be determined by those who have the guts and the courage and the independent thinking ability to oppose ALL forms of evil, no matter who commits them or what label they are perpetrated under, and those that do not.
Sadly , most people seem aggressively incapable of the former. Bootlicking and happy subservience seems to be the norm, not the alternative. Black and white thinking, excessive paranoia, fear of the unknown and fear of greater freedom seem to be the norm in those that knowingly or unknowingly support State lawlessness and violence.
That's why I'll be a minarchist civil libertarian until the day I die. If people want to love the boot let them I say; I just wish they would want better for themselves and people like me.
Ftr, I'm an early middle-aged white lady who looks harmless AF and I hate cops, I say nobody should be allowed to get away with thuggery or trample civil rights and I oppose all forms of 1984, the police state and the incarceration industrial complex.
I just want more autonomy and goddamn freedom, and I wanted for everyone. That doesn't mean people can't seek redress through quartz, it just means that people actually have rights for a change and the state can't s*** all over you and take your property whenever they goddamn please. I also believe in 100% drug legalization. It's a completely by-consent business, there is no crime. The sale and use itself of drugs is nothing criminal in my eyes and should not be characterized as such, yes sometimes additional crimes come along with it, but that doesn't mean the sale, use, or trade of drugs itself is the problem. It's not, any more than the sale, used, or trade of bananas is bad.
That's just my view. All civil libertarians want a vastly freer world even if that brings with it a mild increase in personal risk. For us the gains are infinitely worth it. WE DON'T WANT THE BOOT!!! The losses that come from the boot in our eyes far away any perceived benefit we are told we receive. (For those who dont know, boot = lawless, unaccountable, ever-present, impune police State)
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@fahm8097 I'm a bit of a utopian idealist, but I think it's fair to demand laws that try to limit intentional non-necessary waste. We're literally wasting something that can help keep someone alive and have a better life. I know donuts aren't exactly the most nutritious thing but that's just one item, there's a shocking amount of food of all kinds both perishable and non perishable going to the trash every day and I don't like that. I would like everyone who has a stake in this to realize that we shouldn't do this, we can do better, and we shouldn't be so casual with our resources especially since in a country that is so resource-Rich. other countries with literally kill for our level of abundance. Knowing that, why do we have such a high level of poverty? Why do they say 1 out of every 7 Americans including children may go to bed hungry every night? We can end this. I think with a few simple changes we could pretty much eliminate that. We just need to get into a habit of not wasting anything that can be saved and redistributing our surpluses. I just want to see a little higher public cooperation and public consciousness. Aside from just making it a local ordinance, or state law which is what I'd really like to see, I would just like us to get into this habit and I'll do it too, cuz I've worked in food service before, although it's been a while, but as part of the ordinance we could offer tax and bonus incentives to businesses who go out of their way to contribute all their surplus material (and I'd also like to apply this to goods as well aka household goods hygiene etc). I think once implemented and coupled with a public education campaign through media, it could work really well. It's kind of like recycling now. No not everyone participates it but a lot of people do and most places make it easier for residents to do that by providing containers, pamphlets, etc. I know they did in places I've lived. They usually give you the tubs to help you sort your recycles and so on. So local govts can can help businesses by making it easier for them to participate. We can ask businesses themselves to transfer this material as part of their normal duties, but we can also provide them local city-funded trucks or local food bank trucks or assistance from local charities to help pick up this these items as well. It can be a team effort and if everyone pitches in I think it could work very smoothly and very well.
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@Daveeeeeeyhowyoudoing if that is true that is indeed a serious drop. Of course it's vitally important that we preserve our natural resources for future generations. Regulating fishing like anything else makes sense as long as it's done fairly and not to greatly benefit just a few well-connected players.
By the way that last part based on my observation is exactly what's been happening over the last 5 years in California in the medical and now fully legal cannabis industry. Not much I can do about at the moment but I am very concerned about.it. we used to have a great variety of small weed shops throughout this county now I see far less and many more professional, chain or well-heeled ones. This doesn't happen by accident. Ask anyone who's connected to the industry who isn't backed by deep pockets; they've probably been harassed, raided, or out and out shut down based on spurious or outright bogus reasons. I see it happening in my county and it seems to be more or less statewide, depending on one's local county tyrants.
Selective regulation, spurious regulations, and unjust enforcement- THAT'S how they kill the little guy EVERY time; on purpose, maliciously. It's pretty appalling. Gangsterism doesn't just happen in organized crime, it happens every day in local, state, and federal jurisdictions.
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I don't believe there's ever a good and moral cause for eminent domain.
"Government" here imo is just the biggest and baddest most aggressive bad-boy gang on the block; one who feels entitled to take what's yours whenever they want, at anytime, with or without adequate compensation, without giving you the right to say no. I can't possibly support that.
Their claim of this being done for the public good is purely their opinion and subjective; oftentimes false on its face and almost always due to something corrupt, ie they want to take YOUR land or assets to make one of THEIR rich crony crook buddies even richer. So you know - just theft. Par for the course for these types.
Apparently "goberment" in this country is something of, by, and for the sociopaths and assholes, where thuggery, tyranny, use of indiscriminate force, and gangsterism is the norm.
I don't even know what moral governance, if such a thing is possible, is supposed to be; all I've known first or secondhand is attempted rule by quasi-gangster thugs who had zero respect for the majority of people that they claimed to represent and didn't give a tinker's damn how their policies and attitudes were harming average people.
Anyone that gets in power in this second-world backwater, now knowing that they have the cop-stapo at their command, will almost instantly attempt to use it against anyone they don't like or gets in their way. I guess any tiny bit of influence corrupts.
I'm not saying there should be no governance at all, but I do believe what we have in many of our jurisdictions is just absolutely unlimited blazing joyful unlimited tyranny where systemic theft and rights violations are normalized. It's bad enough the ruthless 1% hyperelites of big business dictate everything out of state and federal level, but we still got to get the business from our local tyrant thugs at a local and regional level. It's bullshit.
What's the agenda of those in power in this country- is it to help the most people possible? Or is it to gain profit for themselves and their corrupt crony buddies by any means necessary, and choosing to be destructive, hateful or harmful for the fun of it, even when obvious alternatives exist?? I have seen the latter far more than I have ever seen or heard or read about the former.
Maybe we should stop electing sociopaths and happy crooks and thugs. If we can't demand ethical, moral servant-leaders in this country, then our future is unsure at best.
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Free and low-cost/affordable child care and Pre-K should be the national standard. It was once before and it never should have been taken away. But even if it never was, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be now.
The priorities of where federal and most state funding goes in this country is extremely sad for anyone who has a conscience and a sense of social responsibility.
There's always infinite money for oppression, locking people up for bullshit, and waging death aroaund the world, also massive handouts to Wall Street, aka the wealthiest companies and the various robber barons who are always holding us over a barrel, but there's never much for the little guy- isn't that funny??
Either people matter or they don't.
So do they???? Do we???? Of course we do, but duopoly politicians say no, so where does that leave us? As always, help for the common person and the working class is rarely if ever going to come from these red-blue vampire bats, so we need new actual Left political parties and other options.
There are two ways to pay for basic services for the general public; increased federal funding, which doesn't rely on taxes but Congressional appropriation (Washington DC prints and creates it's own money, that's where all the money comes from), or increases in state or local funding, which DOES rely on taxes. So where should we place these taxes? On the poor? On the middle class? Or on big business and the rich- where they belong? Well I think the answer is clear.
Bottom line, unless we can get our Congressional scumbags to set aside more funding for social needs, we HAVE to get it from our counties and states- unfortunately, they don't care about us either. If they did, they would tax at the top and redistribute this money downwards as needed.
So we have some choices, either we can elect better people who will care about us not just big business (which we do need to do), OR we can push for public ballot measures which call for better social services, including affordable & free childcare. These are our options; not just on this issue but on every political issue.
To recap, our options for any political change are-
1) get better people elected from the Left (duopoly serves Wall Street/big $$$ and no one else, so we need something else)
2) use ballot measures to push our constructive agenda
3) use the courts- sometimes lawsuits can be helpful
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I don't agree with that at all. I guess it's your prerogative to feel that way but I definitely don't agree. Communities were vibrant and thriving long before the interstate highway system came along. I'm not saying we never should have had any interstates, I'm sure some were helpful and served a purpose but our position is that they got way out of control. Huge highways and giant stroads had NO place in dense urban environments. The pre-existing streets were functioning just fine. For a minor uptick in perceived convenience and travel time city planners literally bulldozed half their city; vibrant communities were plowed right through or torn down. Private homes, businesses and lovely pre-existing streets that still had plenty of travel space and greenery were just obliterated. It wasn't necessary and to me that's far too high a cost.
No highway or wider street is worth the loss of dozens or hundreds of functional buildings, neighborhoods, community character or urban life in my eyes.
Nobody is saying have no streets, highways or interstates- obviously some are necessary - but there's a right and a wrong way to build and improve road infrastructure. After learning about this issue for a time. I believe that almost all the time we have gone about it the completely wrong way, and the losses have been incomprehensible. For the most mild of benefits, benefits which can be debated depending on who's talking, we threw our communities and neighborhoods away. Mind-blowing to me.
If they wanted to build expanded roadways in the suburbs and various interstate exchanges between the states, that's one thing. You can place those in mostly open, unoccupied areas, but these insane city planners seem to have an incurable appetite for destruction towards their own municipalities. Racism had a lot to do with it, as always, but many areas that were white majority at the time were just as much affected. It was mass destruction in the name of progress. If you call something progress you can justify anything. Progress for whom??
And what did we get for it? We got bullshit imo. In the Metro areas the loss of everything, in exchange for what? A slightly smoother or faster driving route, if even that? Is that worth destroying previously functional human ecosystems for? Certainly not in my eyes.
You should study this is you should make a casual study of this issue to really understand the impacts these decisions caused. Unfortunately there are plenty of municipalities whose officials still seem to be afflicted with car-itis. Again - not saying we don't need functional streets and roads and connecting highways, of course we do, just not at the expense of our communities.
If they had kept car-based development under control throughout the last 75 years, we wouldn't have these issues today.
We gave up so much community, history and positive development for nothing. Literal voids, parking lots and byways that never needed widening in the first place. Businesses can supply some minimum parking flats, without being forced to go crazy. The insanely high parking minimums that have become the default practice in so many of our areas is just lunacy. Every business, large or small should be able to decide for themselves what amount of parking they feel best suits their business. I find it outrageous that public officials feel this is an issue that they have the right to rule on. Because of these anti-logical ideas, most parking lots set half or more empty the vast majority of the time. It's a waste, and I hate waste in all forms.
It makes me very sad to learn the extent of these but the only reason why I do is that so perhaps someday I can help be part of positive change. I hope over the next 100 years we can find ways to reverse an offset at least some of this loss of history and community that these projects caused.
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As a pro-dignity humans-first communist i definitely approve this message.
I respect what founders do, but most of our current employment model is exploitative and trash. Millions are kept in poverty because of poor pay and it's wrong.
our current system only provides wealth and comfort for relative few while the masses go without.
there's no excuse for worker exploitation anywhere whether it's entry level up to PhD or highly skilled, it's just that certain groups have gotten away with it for so long that we've all been gaslit into believing its natural. It doesn't have to be.
Guaranteed labor equality laws, high wage floor and profit share laws could start to reverse this.
if labor isn't seen as at least equal to ownership we're never going to escape this current bullshit pseudoslavery model and we have to.
LABOR IS PRIME ABOVE ALL. CREATORS, WORKERS AND PRODUCERS SHOULD OWN THE WORLD NOT THE PUNKS WHO CLAIM TO OWN THE MAJORITY OF OUR OUTPUT, BUT WHO NEVER LIFTED A FINGER IN ITS PRODUCTION.
I'm okay with owners taking a cut, but it has to be a limited. the age-old LIE has been that they deserve virtually everything simply because they were able to found or buy the business. well I don't ever understand how that justifies them taking 95% of the collective profits and paying people shit just because they were in a lucky or privileged position. even if they were the original founder that worked very hard and took a risk, good for them, they definitely deserve a considerable reward for that but not everything in perpetuity! A good share, no more.
when do the producers' rights start to matter? Labor is just the rights of the actual producers which have been successfully trashed by the upper class for so long.
It's long past time for that to change.
Only labor empowerment, protection and equality laws, and mandated "producers' rights" laws, including rights to our fair share of the profits, will change this.
I doubt today's hellscape dystopian US corporate State is rushing to provide this however. How we get to a worker State from here, even in part, is truly the challenge of our time.
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@Just_A_Goose1 I understand what may have been past problems, and I welcome all that information, we certainly should study history, but the future hasn't happened yet- we can't say for certain what would or wouldn't work under these unique conditions.
As far as taking over, that sounds great and all, and I'm not opposed to violence if it's necessary, but I don't see how that's actually possible here. You've got local and state police, plus the NG, and all that. I'm willing to hear Bob Avakian's thoughts on it- but I'm afraid I don't see the nuts and bolts path forward with that, at least yet. Besides, we'll never be able get more than a couple 1000 together at any one time, if that. I don't see that being enough.
Now if the majority just up and decided to stop paying their local county and city taxes (with the exception of property Bec that supports our schools), that would suddenly change matters. If we want to radically defund the police gangs and limit their function and reach, and we know most city councils are corrupt and literally set up for the cops, they clearly could give a fuck about anyone else, then just stop paying these fools. What if everyone did that??? JUST STOP BEING EXTORTED BY THIS SYSTEM. The courts can't arrest, steal from (sieze), or prosecute everyone now can they? I don't support mandatory taxation on private incomes below $400,000 anyways.
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Perhaps a 100% police-free society is unrealistic, but we can certainly prohibit all street occupation and Blue crime number one (the "roadside rackets" aka traffic stops are CRIME [extortion, harassment, intimidation, theft, arbitrary detention, violence, etc], patrols outside of 911 should be absolutely prohibited, it should not be legal or acceptable for any cop to initiate unwanted contact with any citizen for any reason who isn't presenting an immediate danger to anyone), and instantly demand MUCH higher entrance standards, quality of training, training length, ongoing training evaluations, and actual legal accountability (details on what this requires to follow). All Pigs should should be required to be fully licensed and carry personal insurance. If they are accused and convicted of wrongdoing they pay out of their own pocket.
If this isn't sufficient, the city will pay the remainder.
Right now they are completely lawless and immune from any civil prosecution as well. I find this evil, outrageous, disgusting, and enraging.
I also support a maximum time limit how long one can work in the profession, I set it at 10 years. Why treat it as a career? Take away the retirement incentive and I think the coasting smart-ass abusive types won't be drawn to it because they know they won't be able to skate for 20 years and then enjoy it a nice pension for the rest of their life.
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Until we get federal or state by state legislation that recognizes and codifies the human rights of all people, especially those unhoused, this shit will just continue.
99% of police need to be abolished period. We can keep the desk jockey detectives and a minimum number of first responders but the rest need to GO. They are just paid muscle for the mayor with no morals or conscience. And then they expect us to support that with our tax dollars. And moreover- taxes on anyone who isn't Big Business has no right to be mandatory. I actually WANT to give, quite a lot in fact, but to the entities and people I support, and not under a mandate. If I worked for that money God himself has no right to tell me what to do with it.
I just don't see myself as a subject to a State that way and I don't see why anyone should. I can't stop them from taking what is mine by force, like any common criminal, but I can refuse to give to them what they demand it; and this is exactly what I have been doing for the past seven years. I make my own contributions to the public entities I respect or wish to support and keep a record of it, ie parks, schools, DOT, a little bit for fire, etc; but I do NOT pay my forced/demanded taxes, and I never will. I don't approve of governance by secret committee. If you want my money, A) ASK FOR IT, DONT DEMAND IT; nobody has the right to demand it from anyone, THE CHOICE IS MINE BY RIGHTS and B) respect everyone's voice on the major issues, put every notable issue to a public vote. Otherwise it's a tiny group ruling over everyone else, for their own benefit, and I'm not down with that. Those who want a voice in what public decisions are made deserve one, plain and simple. Otherwise, our rights and voices matter less and less.
Back to this issue, shame on Pigs. They are rotten miserable creatures who are nothing but organized racketeering gangster squads who exist for one main reason- to defend cold-blooded business interests, and hopefully (they very much hope) to skim as MUCH off the top as possible. All PDs are theft-based mafias. Everything they do is meant to enrich the city's coffers by theft, seizing, extortion, or running the arrest-court-and-bail racket; none of them really care about your safety or mine; they're uneducated oafs who demand special priveleges, even respect, for being an illegitimate parasite. And that's that irrational coplogic hard at work again! They're parasitical filth who live off the sweat of others and would instantly fail in any other job, yet they commit themselves to making poor people's and small business owners' lives harder and this never troubles them as you need a conscience and set of scruples first to be troubled.
Somehow they've gotten an undue perception by unaware members of the public that they are unseverable from and crucial to public safety, which is pure hogwash. They're untrained low level hoods, no different than any other street gang looking to steal and take by force and corrupt means anything they can get their hands on. They have zero empathy. They have zero respect. They only care about themselves and they're insanely jealous and deferential to anyone they see as being wealthy, having money, or owning a business; unless it's a very small business then they seem not to care and see those persons as paupers.
They ONLY care about money and are more than happy to screw over the little guy, even people who have nothing, IF THEY SEE IT AS BEING SOMETHING IN IT FOR THEM.
THEY'RE PARASITES AND THUGS, people who would do ANYTHING for money, they're GOOD-FOR-NOTHINGS and MENACES whose guns make them brave (as they do for all cowards), and who without it they would NEVER speak to the rest of us or treat them the way they do, with unwarranted aggression, unnecessary disrespect, or threats; and they sooner we ALL stop supporting these crooks and criminals with OUR money, the sooner all of them would fade away into nothingness and we would be free of their oppressions, rackets, injustices, and constant indignities. They are a GANG of cowards; and to me, a criminal and illegitimate one at that.
They should not exist. There are FAR better ways to support public safety than these single-digit IQ street rats and wannabe hoods.
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How can someone say killing one FBI agent is wrong when that FBI agent was trying to kill YOU so one, it's self-defense, and he and other feds have been there on what little land you have left, attempting to kill and terrorize you for nothing, after having been forcefully removed from your actual land and seen as animals and dehumanized, simply because you wanted to exist simply because the feds and other whites at the time throughout the 18th and 19th centuries didn't want to share any land with any indigenous people, and while it's possible that there were crimes on both sides towards non-combatants and that is wrong, there was an organized campaign of total extermination and then removal and once this happened it was hoped that all indians would just die off on the reservations. The troubles of the American Indian communities only started in some ways once they moved to these reservations where they were ill supplied, the quality of land was poor, and they were actively sent poor supplies, rotten food and the little ones they were supposed to get from the federal government were routinely robbed by corrupt officials so on. We actually learned this believe it or a little bit in my elementary school and continuing into my high school although a lot of this I did pursue on my own, but I think it should be commended that this was taught somewhat in the curriculum in California in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it still is today.
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Neoliberalism just tries to make people believe that evil is good and that good is evil. Its brainwashing in the extreme and it's propaganda is neverending.
It is set up to ensure, thru thousands of obvious and not so obvious ways that ALL of the resources in a given nation-state flow upwardsy without interruption to the top 2% and the bare minimum are left over to be divided amongst the rest of the vast population. It is a ruthless dictatorship of a rapacious elite totally unencumbered by any vestiges of conscience. And you're right- the human sacrifice is endless. Human life and quality of life are concepts that don't exist under neoliberalism because they doesn't make the hyperelite rich. If a million lives need to be thrown away either immediately over time so a few hyperelite could double their wealth from 2 billion to 4 billion, well that's a GOOD thing; why wouldn't anybody want that!?!
Under neoliberalism, ONLY the hyperelite matter. Everything else is just food for the trough... Grist for the mill of the hyperelite. Sure people can forge good lives even under the system, but it will take great effort and they will always be at risk of total financial ruin or the vices of the fates.
How many people have done everything right and then been betrayed by a cruel twist of fate in the last chapter of their lives? Local governments, full of the same ruthless psychopaths who occupy our federal ranks, will just as soon gleefully ruin a person over a $1200 or $5000 property tax debt, as they would if they discovered someone committing embezzlement from the public coffers to the tune of tens of millions.
Many slaves abide in this system. When average people see these constant violations of decency and inhumanity they simply shrug their shoulders and say "oh well that's the law", as if that's some grand checkmate-level statement, as if that makes it all alright and justifies anything. That's how you know that their brain has been fully rotted by hyperelite messaging. These are the people who have long ago ceased the ability to think independently and are now mere appendages of the system that sees them as nothing but a glorified slave and objects to be exploited.
When the hyperelites see fit to go on an excessive binge of plundering, they'll never be punished; instead they'll be rewarded by attaboys, pats on the back and bailouts from their Congressional pets (which are ALL of them) who loyally serve them.
It's also the mass hypnosis of a population to get them to vote for the the same criminal psychopaths who uphold and promote the system time and time again, being told is the system that's best for everyone when by definition it negates the value of anybody else outside of this narrow 2% hyperelite class. But good luck telling that to the large majority of the voting public in this country. They don't want to hear it.
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@usernameryan5982 look I'm on the far left. Everyone has the right to live in safe habitable decent housing. So whatever needs to be done to that end needs to be done aggressively NOW. I don't care how it happens I just want to see it done. We have lived under abusive economic LIES in this country forever and I've had it. We have more than enough of everything to go around TWICE and for everyone to live quite well.
Resources are being artificially denied and price-inflated in this country so a tiny fraction of the public can make huge windfalls what others cannot find a way to meet their basic needs or are living extreme financial precarity, and I do not agree with that. I'm okay with some things being done for profit but yes the entire private sector should be regulated, and certain practices should be VERY heavily regulated.
In addition there should be public not-for-profit provisions for every major need, ie housing, healthcare, transportation, jobs, grocery and food, etc.
I'm not sure that so-called regulated private housing results in higher rent than the alternative, I would have to see more data on that but if it does then those regulations for token and bogus and were clearly nothing but ornamental. Clearly they were never meant to actually regulate the cost of rental housing, because if they were they would have done so, it's that simple.
Nobody should have to pay more than 15% for their rent, it's that simple. If a person wants to pay more let them but no average or poor person should have to, in fact low-income persons should not have to provide more than 10% of their income in rent since they have so little to work with to start with.
Rent is the single biggest evil cause of homelessness and insecurity in this country. I'm not against all private sector housing but it just needs heavy regulation, that is all.
It should not be acceptable to try to get away with scalping people to death on their rent. This should be seen as morally gross.
I'm willing to allow for a reasonable profit for a landlord but that is all.
So I'm not totally anti-profit like some leftists but I am saying first we need to make sure everyone is provided for, and one major way we do this is by insuring rent is never allowed to rise above a certain limit. Others are increasing the amount of public housing, other low-cost housing, and moving all the current homeless into currently vacant and or unclaimed units.
Clean dry safe livable acceptable shelter AKA housing is a human right and we have to treat it like that. I don't mind if luxury developers want to charge big bucks to stupid rich people hell it's their money to throw away so let them, but for the masses we need cheap affordable rental housing NOW. Right NOW. We all benefit from cheap rent. Rent simple. Landlords themselves will still make some profit they just won't be able to break it off in our assholes like most of them do now.
I mean this is clearly a win for everyone.
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@siobahnhurley85 well that's not entirely true, there were millionaires but I don't think there were any billionaires yet. Not sure when the first billionaire was created but I'm sure a quick Wikipedia search could tell me; but both parties are full of people that serve themselves and the elite now. In truth, elite big money interests have always pretty much pulled the strings of the political structure here. There have been some notable exceptions along the way, but this is/was generally true.
Even local government in major and medium tier cities are run now and usually have been run by heartless self-serving money-seeking elitists who serve developers and big real estate and keep funding their local PDs and local lockup generously while working-class communities struggle, who utterly refuse to do local rent control (because in most cases they're taking bribes and payoffs from the local corporate landlord class), who hate the homeless and pretty much want them all to go away and die quietly out of sight.
As a far-left communist-lite civil libertarian, who now sees the idiocy of the red-blue game, I'm far beyond it all now. They are two sides of the same coin. To think there's any such thing as good Democrat today I feel is delusional. That hasn't been true for a long long time. Yes Bernie is a good man but he's also weak, and he's getting old and needs to rest. And so on. There might be some individual nice Dems but they can't do much good from where they're at, and most of them propose such weak tea neoliberal policies that even if they were passed, which they won't be, wouldn't change much.
One party is insane yes and that's the GOP but both parties are in it for themselves by serving elite big money interests. That's what they're there for and they take their orders from their party boss who takes it from whoever pays them, the big money. They're not in it to do good, there in it to make money and they and they do, via favors, outright bribes, insider stock tips and the like. It's a fantastic system for those who are unconcerned about anyone welfare. You look out for yourself, and everyone else is on their own. You may talk the talk of helping the little guy on the campaign trail but of course you don't mean it.
The Dems are hardly much better. They're corporate servants too. I mean they're basically just an interest group for Wall Street and continued militancy abroad.
There are competing no people's parties, aka socialists or communists or Labor-first parties, we would have to try to build them up again. Unless somebody is already wealthy they should not be voting for either the red or the blue team, because there is nothing in the party agenda for any ordinary person, absolutely nothing. All they have is a hundred years of excuses why they can't give the rest of us a better deal. I think sooner or later we have to stop being Charlie Brown with the football.
Besides, so long as we have other people making decisions for us, esp corrupt politicians, these problems aren't going to change. Only direct voting on all policies AKA public referendums do that and even then that's no guarantee but it's better than the current alternative imo. At least then we all get a direct vote,, but they don't want that because then there would be some control on corporate greed and we can't have that. We could easily revamp our tax system to supply plenty of funding for public needs in perpetuity, but not if our political class is a criminal rogues' gallery proudly in the pocket of 0.1% interests. Same for other issues.
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I'm so tired of government criminals. They are psychopaths and monsters. What they want to do is outright grand theft. These are absolute criminals masquerading as public servants. I don't know when it will end, but it needs to. It's so hard to watch. Why do you think they keep targeting the little guy??!?? Because they know average people don't have money to afford a good lawyer and are more easily intimidated due to lack of knowledge and experience tangling with govt criminals.
Our entire government is run by psychopaths and malignant narcissists. It's very very sad. Also, just because Congress passes another one of its bullshit tyrannical "laws" doesn't make it morally right.
No I DON'T believe Congress deserves dictatorial and absolute power over the rest of us, I find that an outrageous and disturbing thought. Only laws that are passed by a public referendum have any moral footing.
I've never understood people that equate legality with morality. They have absolutely NOTHING to do with each other. Ideally they should, but in this country they definitely do not.
Civil asset forfeiture is just a cute way of saying armed robbery, just like the other guy said. Let's just call it what it is, mass grand THEFT. When you're a sociopath, these things don't bother you however. These feds no doubt have done this a thousand times over.
Even if the agents didn't pocket the money, what they did was entirely wrong and unnecessary on every level. Does that business really look like it's a front for a drug empire or an organized crime syndicate? I mean where's the sense in even choosing to target the business? It's a waste of time for them and it certainly unjust to the proprietors. At least go after another business that is likely to turn up some sort of underworld connection, since they claim that was their intent.
The government and those associated with it is really just biggest organized crime cartel. They want to be able to take what they want by force. They can dress it up with a cute word or a cute phrase or claim that it's legal (which is really just a weasel word), but that doesn't change the inherent criminality of what they're doing. Besides, it doesn't matter if it's "legal"- we didn't get the opportunity to vote on these laws. Nobody in their right mind would ever vote Yes to approve open armed theft or most of what else the feds engage in.
People that go into underground organizations are wasting their time, the real hard game is government. They claim to have a right to do what they do, right? Because Congress says they do? Oh come on of course Congress says yes, Congress doesn't represent us, it's a criminal cartel representing Big Banks, billionaires and the Police State, which includes the feds. Just because Congress is going to do what they're told by the big money interests who own them, certainly doesn't make it morally right to Grant's power to commit open and brazen crime to federal agents or anyone else in a law enforcement capacity. It's easy to get Congress to pass a law that grants things that are inherently morally wrong a patina of acceptability, all you have to do is be connected to the interests who pull their strings.
Those criminals AKA those agents were looking for an easy score and they found it by picking on a small business. I bet they've done this tens or hundreds of times before and it probably usually works out well for them because the little guy gets scared when they see agents even though they really shouldn't. The vast majority of time the agents are outright lying or exaggerating in order to try to get them to roll over and take whatever kinds of racket the agents are trying to perpetrate without a fight. To the uninitiated it can sound scary and intimidating when you get these gangster thugz coming in, flashing their badges and making it sound like you've done something wrong when you know you absolutely haven't. Everybody should stand their ground when they're attacked by feds because 99.999% of the time these filthy subhuman feds know that they're perpetrating an immoral act that most juries would absolutely condemn, "legal" or not. In short, they know that most of what they have on anyone if not all wouldn't stand up five minutes in court, that's why they try to intimidate business owners or individuals into giving in before they can realize that they're being played.
Even if you were running a so-called illicit business that's STILL not the government's right just to come and take what they want and / or destroy it. Considering they're operating from a massive conflict of interest which is the desire to profit from the seizure of such business, they should not be allowed to carry out such attacks. Unless the business was based on human trafficking, environmental destruction, animal abuse, or child abuse then any government should have NO say in its conduct or activities whatsoever.
The only reason Congress chooses to keep most things illegal, esp drugs, is so they can literally steal endless amounts of money and labor fruits from the American public. There's no difference between the mafia and other organized crime cartels and the federal apparatus. None at all.
They make their own rules, that's inherently amoral right there and then. Of course they're going to vote to give themselves the power to steal!!! Stealing the land of fruits of others is literally the only reason the federal government in this country exists!!! Just ask the Native Americans or ask pretty much the rest of the world.
No human being has the right to take the fruits of others hard work, nobody! The federal government doesn't have the right to demand you give them one red cent! (Hell, why do they need our money when they literally create their own?!! Right!?!? Let's not forget this part!) Neither does any criminal organization neither does any human being on the planet. They demand the right to take what's yours because they want to be rulers and overlords and I oppose that on every level and I say that's wrong. I don't care WHO you say you are, you DON'T have the right to take by force what is someone else's ! This means most mandatory taxation is theft. Anything that you take from someone by force is THEFT and it doesn't make it any less morally wrong if it's done by somebody who's in uniform or flashes a badge. I don't care about those! Those don't change a motherfuking thing. A wrong is still a wrong no matter who does it!
Bottom line, the evil criminals who call themselves feds want special privileges and they don't deserve it. They are the last kinds of people who would deserve that. Nobody deserves to be in a privileged class, nobody. Not that way, no way.
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@talyahr3302 we'll have to see what happens. I know some people think this is the equivalent of shooting a 5-year old child, and I understand some of their reaction if they've never been in the position of having an unwanted pregnancy. But but it's not like that at all. It's putting the woman and her needs FIRST, and I know that's something these fundamentalists for some reason can't wrap their little heads around.
These SCOTUS justices are illegitimate and no less than six of them openly lied thru their teeth and perjured themselves at their confirmation hearings. They should ALL be impeached. The pressure is mounting now on the Democrats in Congress to open impeachment hearings on all of them. Also Biden has several other options. He could increase the number of justices on the supreme Court to 11 or 13 or 15, and when he's confirmed more justices he can make their majority an instant minority. He has the authority to do this and he knows it. So we'll see what happens. The Dems have had 50 years to guarantee in law a woman's right to choose the fate of her pregnancy before birth. Clearly they haven't given a shit. All people can do now is keep up the pressure and show that this is not trivial, this is going to directly and indirectly kill adult and adolescent-aged women, and cause trauma and great hardship for others, which ofc the pro-life movement could care less about showing the hollowness and hypocrisy of their claims to respect the so-called sanctity of life, all they really are is pro-fetus, they are in NO way pro-human or pro-dignity of all women. So I'll be doing my part, I'll do what I can and I have a feeling that the fight back against this has just begun. It may take some time, but I have a feeling that these fundamentalist thugs who wish to destroy basic human rights in the name of their white Taliban version of wackjob fringe fundamentalism (which flies in the face of the separation of church and state) will soon find out that this time they bit off more than they can chew and I have a feeling they're going to come to regret this day very much. I don't know exactly how it's going to end but if people organize show that they won't back down in all the ways that are possible than we've done our best. If the Dems neglect to open impeachment hearings on these five amoral crooked justices, then they're just showing how complicit they are in the ultra far right white-Taliban attempted to take over this country.
And if it has to come down to blood in the streets I'm ready for that too. I would kill and die for my rights. I find these people to be utterly without a soul and utterly without conscience, and if it comes down to making a sacrifice if I have to I'm ready for that too. I don't know why they want to take away human rights and basic common liberties from others, but no matter what it takes I'm willing to join the crowds in the street to do whatever is necessary to teach them a lesson and force them to reverse course immediately. I really think the fight is just getting started that's all I can say. For now they think they've committed this great coup and in their arrogance they think they've won something, but that's only because they live in these hyper-insulated bubbles that wholly separate them from the real world. If people protest outside of their house loudly and continuously as they have been doing and continue to do and not give them a moment's peace, then maybe sooner or later they will start to realize that even though they may have gotten away with scamming Congress, with Congress's complicit approval of course, doesn't mean the rest of us are going to participate in their attempted theocratic takeover and naked power grab peacefully. we see through this shit and the only thing that's keeping them alive right now honestly after this, is whatever little bit of security they got that I presume at this point is following them around 24/7.
I wouldn't be shocked if I saw the first American suicide bomber result out of this. What they've done is open Pandora's box and they're not in any way going to be prepared for the result. When their asses get handed to them one way or another all they need to know is that this is what they asked for.
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@TheAnalyticalFailure YOU DONT GET TO USE LETHAL FORCE AT OBVIOUSLY NON-LETHAL THREATS, NOT TO MENTION THIS ALL BEGAN WHEN ON PERSON NOTICED KYLE RAISED HIS GUN TO POINT AT A PETTY VANDALIZER, WITH PRESUMABLY INTENTION TO SHOOT. SOMEONE YELLED "GUN GUN GUN!!" AND THATS WHEN ROSENBAUM APPROACHED KYLE, WITH NO WEAPONS, JUST A PLASTIC BAG, WITH PRESUMABLY INTENTIONS TO STOP HIM. KYLE SHOT AT HIM FROM CLOSE RANGE FOUR TIMES, THE LAST THREE AFTER HE WAS ALREADY DOWN AND THE LAST SHOT HIT ROSEN IN THE BACK.
But Rosen was a lethal threat right??? With his plastic bag and all. Man was killed after he was already on the ground, and shot in the back. THERES NO WAY TO JUSTIFY THAT, ESP SHOOTING SOMEONE IN THE BACK.
I'll check this Matt orfaela guy but what do I want to bet that he's an uber right-wing NRA nutfuck, and if so, I could hardly find his interpretation trustworthy.
FOUR TIMES, ONE IN THE BACK, THREE AFTER HE WAS ALREADY DOWN, NONE WERE JUSTIFIED. ALL KYLE HAD TO DO WAS LEAVE OR STOP AFTER THE FIRST SHOT. NOBODY ELSE WOULD HAVE TOUCHED HIM AND ROSEN (AND EVERYONE ELSE) WOULD STILL BE ALIVE.
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@Holly-jp6vr indeed. And I'm sure we both know why. One needs to look no further of course than the massive, massive, bleedingly-huge profit interest of Big Pharma, who will of course hire politicians from both parties (the uniparty is more like it) to be their biggest cheerleaders and to push their products thereby protecting these self-same profits, while out of the corner of the same mouth the govt continues to demonize and keep illegal these other harmless "soft drugs". Even cocaine is not that bad provided you don't overdo it.
It's so sad.
Add to that the multibillion-dollar industry of Mass Incarceration and desired job security for other prison-related industries and prison workers, and the only way to keep this unholy machine chugging forward at full speed is by continuing to demonize and fear-monger around drugs in order to keep them illegal.
Making something illegal justifies all types of violations against a person including the removal of their freedom. (Well not to me, but in the minds of the general public who tend to not question anything that government does, preferring assume that there must be a moral basis behind it - which with these rotten people is laughably misguided, but hey. Most people are busy and don't realize how outrageous these worthless politicals really are)
Add to THAT, we have the multi-billion-dollar MASSIVE grand larceny/ asset theft racket that every single county and police department and state police unit uses from coast-to-coast in this country to confiscate aka flagrantly steal eye-watering amounts of money and physical assets from American citizens every goddamn year and all on the basis of "looking for drugs". Of course virtually none of these assets are ever be proven to have been obtained from drug sales, but that doesn't matter. Who's going to stop them? So long as judges are corrupt and crooked and continue to justify this immoral deplorable behavior, and trust me they do (as you can probably tell I've been following these issues for some time), these disgusting practices will just continue.
I won't say everything government does is wrong- just most things. The US government and its various officials both elected and non-elected are the most organized ruthless and committed organized criminals in the country in my eyes, even when compared to say, a traditional so-called organized crime operation such as the Gambizi and Gottis. Now, one could say that's a bit of an exaggeration but once you really start delving into this and looking at how the machinery of both groups operate, what their goals and their methods, that they are both predatory, well-organized and ruthless, there's really very little difference.
When it comes to massive grand larceny racket, road piracy racket, constant rights violations against the common citizen, and the mass incarceration machine, I see our government structures no different than the most ruthless and bloodthirsty "actual" organized crime syndicates out there.
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@christopherchurch9874 well there IS the federal Mint, not to mention all the money that is digitally created out of thin air by Congress or banks, so I mean it doesn't come from taxpayers. where does all the printed money come from in the first place!? I think it was all dropped here by a money fairy it had to be created somewhere, it's called congress. Ever read the constitution, Congress holds the power of the purse. They choose what to spend on federally. A large they literally allocate funds that have nothing to do with anyone's taxes.
The federal mint prints of money literally every second of the day, as for digital money I don't know the inner workings of that, I just know that weather by the big Banks of congress, huge amounts are literally created out of thin air AKA digitally, the electronic means.
So Congress can choose to literally fund anything at almost any level, if it's so chooses. Nothing has to come from taxpayers endless local, county, state or federal lawmakers decide it will. Capisce?? K??
Come on man you are idiots get on my nerves. You think everything has to come from taxes. You do know that Congress literally can fund everything out of thin air, between digital forms of currency and the mint, they create new money literally all the fkg time. Okay? F... Everyone out here feels like a smooth brain.
God damn are you still in high school?? The "how we're going to pay for it!?!??" crap is literally one of the greatest testaments to public ignorance found online. Amazing.
Nobody fkg knows job one of how Congress or the federal government actually works, I guess this is what happens when they take civics out of the schools.
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@christopherchurch9874 well there IS the federal Mint, not to mention all the money that is digitally created out of thin air by Congress or banks, so I mean it doesn't come from taxpayers. where does all the printed money come from in the first place!? I think it was all dropped here by a money fairy it had to be created somewhere, it's called congress. Ever read the constitution, Congress holds the power of the purse. They choose what to spend on federally. A large they literally allocate funds that have nothing to do with anyone's taxes.
The federal mint prints of money literally every second of the day, as for digital money I don't know the inner workings of that, I just know that weather by the big Banks of congress, huge amounts are literally created out of thin air AKA digitally, the electronic means.
So Congress can choose to literally fund anything at almost any level, if it's so chooses. Nothing has to come from taxpayers endless local, county, state or federal lawmakers decide it will. Capisce?? K??
Come on man you are idiots get on my nerves. You think everything has to come from taxes. You do know that Congress literally can fund everything out of thin air, between digital forms of currency and the mint, they create new money literally all the fkg time. Okay? F... Everyone out here feels like a smooth brain.
God damn are you still in high school?? The "how we're going to pay for it!?!??" crap is literally one of the greatest testaments to public ignorance found online. Amazing.
Nobody fkg knows job one of how Congress or the federal government actually works, I guess this is what happens when they take civics out of the schools.
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@christopherchurch9874 well there IS the Federal Mint, not to mention all the money that is digitally created out of thin air by Congress or yhe banks, so I mean it doesn't come from taxpayers. Where does all the printed money come from in the first place? You think it was all dropped here by a money fairy??? it had to be created somewhere, and that place is called Congress, most specifically the Mint. Ever read the Constitution??? Congress holds the power of the purse. They choose what to spend on federally every year. They literally allocate funds that have nothing to do with anyone's taxes. Nothing.
I don't even know why the IRS exists. To me it's a criminal organization because morally no state has the right to take anything from the middle of working class by force, especially the central governing body. But even besides that, they certainly don't need it, as they can access the Mint anytime they wish. Since they don't redistribute the money within the states, they just steal it for themselves, and I don't even know what happens to it after they receive it. Perhaps it goes into the federal Treasury- and honestly don't know if anything ever comes out of it or money only goes in. I have no idea how the US Federal treasury works; but I do know that the federal meant is the national money printing machine and it works 24/7, and whether it be a digital currency or physical, Congress can choose to fund anything at once. They can literally say "we will fund this program to the tune of $500 billion a year" and it's done.
As for digital money I don't know the inner workings of that, I just know that whether by the big Banks or Congress, huge amounts are literally created out of thin air AKA digitally, via electronic means.
So Congress can choose to literally fund anything up to almost any level, if it so chooses. Nothing has to come from taxpayers to fund any federal program. Capisce?? K??
Please stop thinking everything has to come from taxes. Now you know that Congress can literally fund everything out of thin air, between digital forms of currency and the Mint. They create new money literally every day
Nobody knows job one of how Congress or how the federal government actually works, I guess this is what happens when they take civics out of the schools.
So now you know. Taxes only apply to states, counties and towns - federally we are not dependent on any type of taxation. Why?? Because of the Central Mint and today's digital technologies that's why.
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@christopherchurch9874 well there IS the federal Mint, not to mention all the money that is digitally created out of thin air by Congress and/or banks, so I mean it doesn't come from taxpayers. Where does all the printed money come from in the first place? You think it was all dropped here by a money fairy??? it had to be created somewhere, and that place is called Congress, most specifically the Mint. Ever read the Constitution??? Congress holds the power of the purse- they determine what will get funded nationally and how much. They allocate funds that have nothing to do with anyone's taxes. Nothing.
I don't even know why the IRS exists. To me it's a criminal organization because morally no State has the right to take anything from the middle or working class by force, especially the central governing body. But even besides that, they certainly don't need it, as they can access the Mint anytime they wish. Since they don't redistribute the money within the states, they just take it for themselves (and I don't even know what happens to it after they receive it), then I can't support it. Unless the money was redistributed for the public good, there's no way I can support what the IRS does.
Perhaps it goes into the federal Treasury- and if so ok, but then what? Who gets the benefit of what's in there? Does it just sit there collecting dust?? I have no idea how the federal treasury works; but I do know that the federal Mint is the national money printing machine and it works 24/7, and whether it be digital currency or physical, Congress can choose to fund anything at anytime. They can literally say "we will fund this program to the tune of $500 billion a year" and it's done. Boom. It's just that simple .
As for digital money I don't know the inner workings of that, I just know that whether by the big Banks or Congress, huge amounts are literally created out of thin air, aka digitally.
So Congress can choose to fund anything up to almost any level, if it so chooses. Nothing has to come from taxpayers. Capisce?? K??
Please stop thinking everything has to come from taxes. Now you know that Congress can literally fund everything out of thin air, between digital forms of currency and the Mint. They create new money literally every day.
Nobody knows Job One of how Congress or how the federal government actually works, I guess this is what happens when they take civics out of schools.
So now you know. Taxes only apply to states, counties and towns - federally we are not dependent on any type of taxation. Why?? Because of the Central Mint and today's digital technologies that's why. As for details I don't know any more than that- there's always more to know- but I know as much as I need to know and this should make it plain to you too I hope.
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@christopherchurch9874 If there's a deficit it's because local or state governing bodies refuse to tax at the top from the mega rich and the elite corporate class. That's THEIR failure as corrupt officials, not a failure of the system. The money is always there, somewhere; the only question is WILL government officials take it FROM the right place and apply it TO the right place? The money is ALWAYS there at the TOP, and it's regional government's job to tax there first because that's where the greatest amount is - and it's the fairest place to assess for obvious reasons.
Now when it comes to Congress they can choose to fund whatever they want, because they literally create the currency via the National Mint. If they choose not to fund something it's because they don't WANT to, not because they can't, always remember that (because these goon-demons do lie like dogs and they will ALWAYS lie, esp about this). That, plus some digital black magic mojo (electronic forms of currency), is where all our money actually comes from. You didn't think it came from a money fairy did you??
Yes of course taxpayers are responsible for funding public works from the state level on down, but not at the federal level.
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@christopherchurch9874 If there's a deficit it's because local or state governing bodies refuse to tax at the top from the mega rich and the elite corporate class. That's THEIR failure as corrupt officials, not a failure of the system. The money is always there, somewhere; the only question is WILL government officials take it FROM the right place and apply it TO the right place? The money is ALWAYS there at the TOP, and it's regional government's job to tax there first because that's where the greatest amount is - and it's the fairest place to assess for obvious reasons.
Now when it comes to Congress they can choose to fund whatever they want, because they literally create the currency via the National Mint. If they choose not to fund something it's because they don't WANT to, not because they can't, always remember that (because these goon-demons do lie like dogs and they will ALWAYS lie, esp about this). That, plus some digital black magic mojo (electronic forms of currency), is where all our money actually comes from. You didn't think it came from a money fairy did you??
Yes of course taxpayers are responsible for funding public works from the state level on down, but not at the federal level.
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Obummer was such a fraud. I read that he gave clemency and pardons to fewer than even Bush 1 and Bush 2 did. None of his inspiring words lined up with his actions, and I used to believe that wasn't his fault when that happened; that it was out of his control, but I now realize that that was naive. Especially in his second term, there was nothing holding him back from giving the whole damn country clemency if he chose. He must have had stacks of petitioners a mile high. I read an article that I wish I could still find that said basically that he was so slow to act, by choice, and he only chose the the weakest and lightest convictions, and on many he didn't even grant immediate clemency- some of them still had to do one or two years before they would even become eligible for release, and even at that he left thousands behind by choice. Of course we can't expect one man to right the injustices of an entire country like the US, he would have spent his entire second term and part of his first just going over files. But he also had a staff and he could have had that staff review these files and only inform him of the necessary bullet points that he felt it important to know. In fact, he didn't have to spend any time on the matter at all. He could have simply been the fin rubber stamp. He could have empowered his staff to review and approve clemency for any person they wished and he just would have been the the final signatory. He could have turned this into an efficient assembly line of pardons. It sounds like what he did was the exact opposite. Given that he had nothing holding him back in a second term from being as compassionate and generous as he wanted towards these men and women, I can only conclude that his public words do not reflect his genuine internal nature and that while I don't consider him a "bad" person per se, he is FAR from the empathetic crusader for justice and champion of the common American citizen that he presented himself as long before he ever got elected.
he had a golden opportunity to save so many lives that he would never have again and according to this article if it is true, he pissed it away from simple apathy and lack of compassion.
Obviously top of those lists I would have put Leonard Peltier's name as well as any other then-current US political prisoners. If he were a man of TRUE conviction and who believed in justice, he would have had NO problem at a minimum in his second term (if he was afraid of blow back from propagandized voters and fascist elite interests during his re-election campaign), freeing any person clearly targeted for destruction and harm by the US State. Very sadly, as we all saw quite clearly, none of this was to be true.
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@nicksanti2308 I understand but I'm not a Democrat, I'm a very far left Socialist. When I say agenda I mean a Leftist agenda. The corpDems are obviously useless and are just Republicans without the outward bigotry and ignorance. I never look to them for anything, altho I will give NP a tiny bit of credit, she did claim to introduce the PRO act and HEROES act, neither of which got passed ofc at the time, which was 2020, which they could now with all 50 Dems on board, which ofc Manchinema no doubt would tank bec they're miserable ultra-corrupt misanthropes and totally sold out.
Personally I wish the SCOTUS and Senate didn't exist at all, I wish a simple representational body settled ALL federal matters with frequent public input and NO corporate input, but for now it does, so if we have national goals we have no choice but to work within those limits for now and to try to gain the majority.
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@kevlar7669 funny thing about government not taking care of people, if you ever were really really hard up your tune would change in a jiffy.
So if a governmental system doesn't exist to help us, who do they exist for??? Oh I know! The red-blue uniparty grift machine exists maximize the massive endless superprofits of the business executive class of big business. Ah!!! Got it! In other words they are in bed with, take massive bribes from and will do anything to protect and represent the interests of the large corporation over everyone and anyone else. Nobody and nothing else matters and both parties do this although the GOP seem to be especially aggressive about it.
Do you think with those economic objectives in mind they give a fukk about you??? Or anyone like you? Or anyone like me?
Or anyone not in that elite class???
No of course they don't. And if you know this, which I'm not sure you do, why is this okay with you?? Why should I tolerate or respect or feel favorable to an association of people, the political class in this country, who dont care if I live or die?? That wouldn't be very smart.
All red-blue purple politicians in country don't work for me OR you, they work for big business and that is all.
This is bad for the rest of us. I guess I have the weird idea that if I'm being mandated to pay taxes and subject to these ridiculous laws I deserve something from my government, or am I really just a slave??
Tldr: we definitely need a national healthcare service, its inhumane not to have one. For those who want to stay private I'm not suggesting that they'd be forced to switch.
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Great points as usual Hakim. So... I live here, and that has its plusses and minuses. Some pluses, certainly, but a lot of minuses. And as anyone who's managed to put down the kool-aid can see, anytime the Pentagon and by extension their loyal lapdogs in Congress (usually a GOP jerkwad but not always) want to drum up public support for a new and shiny or ongoing foreign intervention (always a hostile one of course), they will have a "verified testifier" or group of persons ready to testify to how terrible said foreign country is. Of course the MSM them does their part and disseminates it, and suddenly it's the new narrative; and unless one digs or looks beyond those that's all anyone will hear. Very standard propaganda 101; manufactured consent, etc.
Even I'm starting to question the NK stories that I used to take as gospel just a relatively short while ago. It never occured to me that any of them would be falsified in any way to serve the US's political agenda, bec clearly life in NK "must" be that bad! It certainly was in line what I had always heard. Ofc now seems quite clear (at least to an extent) that that is exactly what's going on. And ofc, as you know, it wouldn't be the first time demonstrably false or misleading characterizations of "enemy" states are allowed to percolate and propagate through the American consciousness.
When the business of the US stops being war and mass death abroad, including sanctions, this may stop, but not until then. In order to always have an enemy, demonization of targets must continue. But now with social media I think more and more people in the West are able to sift thru all the Pentagon-sponsored agenda, and recognize it for what it is. Not that those who were determined couldn't do so before, but I'd definitely say it's easier now thanks to the online world.
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Believe me, I know full well the crimes my govt and it's agents commit, and the evils it supports, and I don't support ANY of it; but I that doesn't mean the Tali-fucks are the good guys either. They most certainly are NOT.
I can only hope they will not be in power long. These savages are straight out of the 7th century and must be ended one way or another. The cause of human rights and freedom will NEVER be extinguished, even if for now it's prospects look dim.
Today, the Taliban have won; but tomorrow is another day. The Nazis ruled for 12 years, then they were dead or defeated FOREVER. The same can be done for these animals.
NO ONE can be free under the Taliban, other than the Tali-fucks. Most especially women and girls.
Let's hope the people, along with outside help from someone else, perhaps Russia if necessary, can free themselves from these totalitarian primitive savages who would reject all that is good and beautiful and moral in life. The evils of my nation's aggressions don't mean I'm going to start seeing these cultists as the "good" guys. That would be a betrayal of every moral, decent and human rights-loving Afghani citizen of either gender.
I hope and pray they will be defeated soon, same for all militant izlamic thugs who want to plunge the world into instability, darkness, ignorance, savagery, mass murder, and constant brutality.
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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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I don't know about that. Basic human rights which include absolute bodily ownership apply to everyone, male and female alike, doesn't seem like color would change that. If they think that they can push this over on this country and we're going to take this lying down they got another thing coming. This is one of the most egregious evil demonic assaults on personal autonomy that the United States has ever come up with and it's behoven on all of us to fight back with EVERYTHING we have and put these demons down like the dogs they are. I don't see where this is a color issue, every single person on this planet is the absolute ruler and decider of their own fate and their own body and if governments try to interfere with that they are doing Satan's business. But the US government has always done Satan's business, it's never actually done a good thing for humanity or for people; well very rarely; there are one two or three exceptions tops, so sadly this is nothing new, they're just suddenly more brazen about it. Make no mistake- these are FASCISTS and evildoers enlisted to bring Satan's agenda to the planet which is to make all human beings into slaves and I guess the SCOTUS thinks that they're going to be the gods who rule on Earth after this has happened... I guess.... Otherwise I have no idea why they're trying to push this issue now. They know this is going to inflame activism and fighting in the streets like never before; they know that 70 plus percent of this country would never stand by such a decision; all they're going to do is increase danger to themselves and cause Blue Waves in every state that isn't outrageously gerrymandered. They're going to inspire more people to come out to the polls and vote Blue then at any point in history. This is going to backfire so spectacularly in their face I guess they're just sick enough and evil enough and arrogant enough and stuck in their own echo chamber long enough that they literally think they're going to get away with this. Far from succeeding, they're going to inflame the most virulent and violent backlash against government overreach, tyranny, and domination that this country has EVER seen- so if that's what they want, well, they're certainly going to get it.
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The high courts these days on both sides of the Atlantic are nothing but sham kangaroo courts; nothing but props, formalities and hand tools for the agenda of the Corporate State and the US Pentagon.
Its really sad that every single president since JFK including half-comatose Joe Biden has been either too afraid or unwilling to oppose, or else totally in support of the CIA or NSA and all their evil, amoral, and destructive deeds.
And the UK PM is totally in the US's pocket as well. So gross. It's not like they need our so-called protection lol, oh hell no. And from whom even?? No it's just that Boris and his team of merry fascists are just little corrupt wannabe fiefs and so they have no problem allowing American totalitarianism to call the shots. If they think they're going to start turning the UK into some semi-repressive shithole I think they better think again. I don't see the British people standing for that- or sitting either.
If the CIA and those in charge of our elite forces didn't like their crimes against humanity being revealed, maybe they just shouldn't do them. Idk just a thought.
I will assume Assange will ultimately prevail. And when he does I hope he sues first the UK and then the US at the ICC and addresses the UN while demanding they officially condemn the team effort by the US, Australia and Sweden to persecute and destroy him.
Even now Edward Snowden is still in Russia for something that happened ten years ago. Wonder if they're still trying to get him. Probably. For serving US- THE PEOPLE, they want to harm him. Well that's fascists for you, and our Pentagon is at least as fascist and vicious as ANYTHING they have over there in the so-called DPRK.
And our govt of monsters and gangsters has the gall to call others fascist, oppressive, and in violation of human rights. But when you're a fundamentally evil person who loves to destroy for destruction's sake- like most of those calling the shots in our govt body- I mean why wouldn't you BLATANTLY lie and gaslight on a world-class level???? It's what every totalitarian-wannabe regime and tyrant does! Why should ours be any different???
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@aleklja9036 I mean, it all starts with exploring the issues and boning up on knowledge first. Then yes, let's get down to the nitty-gritty and make a plan. My plan rn is to conceptualize as many Dem-soc and Socialistic solutions to broader social issues as possible, then write them down in as much detail as possible. Take a page for every problem- then write down every improvement you want to see. Organize and adjust for clarity as necessary.
I also resolve to vote for the most progressive/Left candidates as I can find. I also resolve to join a local PSL or DSA or Greens or even Revkom chapters and continue brainstorming solutions, then decide where to begin our advocacy- local, county, or state level. Then, we just start advocating. We will go and make our proposals, make some presentations and demands, do some begging/ lobbying of the people in office, and see how far that gets us. Hopefully somewhere. If necessary we can always escalate things to lawsuits. One way to handle things is the ballot box, the other is the courts. The courts can often be infiltrated by shady, corrupt assholes in the judgeships, but we still have to try to give it our best, so at least we can say we did all we could to achieve XYZ.
Finally, some of us will have to be willing to run for public office.
It's important to always have a detailed plan on every issue, so that unlike most piss-ass politicians, we can point to tangible information when people ask us what do we stand for, what we want to see done, etc. And ofc all this can go up on our party or campaign websites.
Federal is almost hopeless and the hardest to affect, so I don't even worry about bothering with that at this juncture. Just keep calling our reps and pushing more real Progessives into office is the best we can do there rn I think.
So I mean, that's a plan anyone who's interested in making public change can get on board with.
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We get near nothing for our taxes here. A few nice parks ok- in San Diego metro they still don't keep all the park bathrooms all year round- but overall I do see nice public park areas by me and I'll grant that one.
Roads? Eh, some are fine and I've seen some highway expansion projects that I'm going to hope were needed and done after a smart analysis, but what about poor quality local city streets that the city so far wont fix!?!? Theres always an excuse.
Stealing taxes yet again, ok. Per usual.
Sky high rent. Wont demand rent limits and controls.
Food insecurity amid mass intentional food waste. No guaranteed access to healthcare. Few homeless assistance programs. Low-cost four-year and career schools?? Where???? Free community college for those who need it???? A living stipend for poor college students????? Anywhere near livable minimum wage statewide, even countywide? NOOOPE!!!!! better funding for all non-rich k-12 school districts?!? Free or low-cost subsidized childcare for those who need it?!? NO WAY BETCH! Fuggedabttit!! Supporting all small farmers and homesteaders??? Nah!!!! Providing better drinking water quality????? More support for those in foster care from time of entry until age 30??? Nah! Extra income and family programs for low-income families? Maybe some of the latter, none of the former... I'm sure we need more.
The only thing political demons DO WANT TO SPEND MONEY ON in California and locally is ALWAYS MORE POLICE and lockup. Amazing.
Won't help the masses by funding services properly, but DO have a neverending appetite to steal freedom and break up a family - for longer and and longer stretches for more and more minor alleged so-called offenses.
Their appetite for stealing life seems unshakeable. Its stupendous to me. They really are destroyers and stone-cold predators.
Of course science is important - as are so many other social needs. Too bad the vast majority of our corrupt bought-and-paid-for political filth who assess our taxes and determine where they go, dont value anything but their personal profit and advancement. Too bad the entire political sphere only serves big business lobbyist mega money- not the small taxpayer. Politicians here only want to serve big-time elite money - not the average citizen. They continually set new lows for filth and amorality and venality.
One wonders if this will ever change or if it even CAN change.
I mean, as a people-matter justice-matters co/mmunist leftist - I deeply doubt it. I haven't seen it yet.
I mean - some hyper-crooked bogus hyper-scam company gets 500K a year from the State of California for supposedly providing re-entry services to a handful of released sex offenders. I mean what do you want to bet 99.5 % of those funds went into the pockets of the criminals who ran that sham "non-profit"??? Amazing... And everyone seems fine with this!
Politics is beyond filth in the US. The 99% get boned every time. I dont know how to change this.
We elect trash crooks and people who fuck us every time.
Edit: for that scam so-called re-entry "company" I actually now believe it was up to 500K per person!! Because of course an ex-SO deserves half a mil to readjust to civilian life. Even if you believe these types are redeemable, and I believe that's highly arguable, obviously its outrageous larceny of the most disgusting scale to put that high of a price tag on it but of course, I would be highly naive NOT to believe that 99.5% of that money is literally going straight into the pockets of the director of that criminal and bogus operation. The re-entering person is lucky to see 10% of that , if that, I'm sure. (And with no law against these essentially shell companies existing just to funnel gobsmacks of public money up to the top management/ owners, I'm sure it's very common).
The non-profit sector is rife with pretenders and scammers like this I'm sure. Just look at the Meals on Wheels program..... But I'll go into that at another time.
I just love that my taxes I worked for are going to fatten already fat worthless cats and not to genuine public needs or those in need. Hyperselfishness at its finest.
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Yep, sad state of affairs. Our entire federal gov is a scam honestly. It runs on nothing but bribery and open corruption which the SCOTUS criminals give their blessing to while trying to cloak in legalese.
It's by and for the large corporate class, in every industry, including the police and prison industry, with crumbs if anything for anyone else. Period.
It is indeed a giant grift and scam. It exists for one reason only- to extort money from the middle and poor classes and funnel them upwards at light speed to the top 10% and billion dollar corps.
DD budget at 50% of the entire budget??? Congress never blinks when rubber stamping it, but claims we can't afford the BAREST of essentials for the bottom 90%, even wants to go so far defunding food stamps and social security?!? Refuses to cover some 9/11 era VETS AND 9/11 FIRST RESPONDERS for their serious illnesses they developed from their time in service? Wouldn't even consider giving the most basic of COVID UBI and guaranteed rental or mortgage protections thru at least early next year.
Yep that's our gov alright!
Our gov is one of if not THE most amoral, evil money-laundering and extortion scheme currently in existence. The IRS will go after every modest income person or small business owner for claims of back taxes owed but pay zero thought to millionaires and billionaires hiding billions off-shore or flat out refusing to pay what they owe. Giant corporations and big business practically has no tax to pay anymore after 45 years of them of outrageously unceasing cuts.
Madness. I haven't paid a dime in federal taxes for years, mainly because my income has been spotty and low but regardless of what I make in the future, I'm never paying the US GOVT another cent. Let them come after me, at this point I couldn't care less and I'll be proud to tell my story in court. If they really want to steal my assets I can't stop them anyways. It's what they always do to those whom they target.
They're just well-dressed criminals, no different than any other gang, just slightly more articulate.
Let them print their own money or demand payment from all the megacorps and billionaires they love so much. I'm good with standing up for my principles.
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Yep, in any industry that's legal the corporate vultures will be poised to come in and pull the same organized gangster takeover bullshit that they do everywhere else.
I'm not sure how to stop it but I'd like us to get together and figure out a way, otherwise the average person doesn't have a future in this industry.
Any business that's legal is all the same to these Wall Street criminals. All they see is green. All they want to know is how they can most quickly take over 90%+ of market share and establish a monopoly. Bribing and paying off local and state politicians is by far the most efficient way to achieve this.
The war against the small and independent weed shop is real, as it is across every it has been going on for some years now. It's happening where I live in southern CA. Sometimes there's a news segment that I can easily read between the lines and see what's happening or sometimes I can just drive around see less small shops that I used to, and more of the slick, obviously well-funded, obviously corporate-backed, upscale shop. Sometimes I walk by a recent small shop that I patronized and really appreciated and was hoping to see you again, and I see that it's been raided and shut down by the local Gestapo filth, no. Looking to make a huge score in the process. It's very sad. Local politicians using their control of the local gangster Pigs to do their evil bidding. Really crazy and sad. The sad thing is that human beings in this country have been sold a crock of shit since day one that police are necessary for safety and yet all they do is cause and cover up more crime than most gangs out here. It's so sad.
When politicians are more shameless, more brazen and more aggressive than most of the criminals and organized crime operators out there, than yeah, our life is cheap and our business entities are NOT secure because the politicians who control the Blue Filth are always against us.
So yeah, as always, the bottom 70-80% loses in this arrangement. It's up to us to try to fight back and to try to find a way to reverse this. I do believe it's possible I just think it's going to be very hard. The political scum in this state and country just want is the money. We can't afford to buy them, and that's all it comes down to. So now what?? We can't afford to be the highest bidder so we lose in a competition it comes down to how much you can pay for political favor/protection.
I'm not sure what the way out of this is but I do hope we find it. It's not just about weed it's about small operators being allowed to exist and even prosper in every business where the big players are without soul, without conscience and will do everything legal or illegal to exterminate them.
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I mean we can live under a class of absolute dictators like in the medieval ages with the lords and the various elites and members of the court and the king and so forth but I thought we decided we were done with that. We can have a class of persons totally impune from any consequences to their actions but why would we want that? Of course the supreme court would create this, I don't even believe we should have a supreme court for the most part, but anyone who enters any so-called government role just wants absolute power. If you're anything besides a basic administrative bureaucrat, you want impunity, and so they get to write their own rules and surprise surprise they got their friends on the court to say "oh yeah well basically there's like this thing that like like like like like says we get to do whatever we want and like that's just how it is". I mean- we don't have to accept this. We don't have to accept anything the Supreme Court says as legitimate. We don't have to accept anyone's judgment in place of our own. Now of course somebody can always come and put a gun to our head and force us to comply, that'll never change, but we don't have to morally agree with anything that we find wrong for any reason and we can come together to resist it and fight it at anytime. No human being should have more rights than another. That's my position. There are always going to be rare exceptions in edge cases but by and large and almost all situations that is my position. Nobody should be supporting increasing government power and control or increasing immunity or impunity of government thugs, especially Pigs, to constantly infiltrate and aggress into our lives and continually whittle away at more and more of our individual rights and choices. So long as we are not using our rights to cause intentional and deliberate harm to an innocent person or animal we have the right to do just about anything we goddamn well please. That's what freedom of choice IS. People say they want to live in a free country usually just means they want freedom for people who look like themselves but they want subjugation and slavery for anybody who disagrees with them in any way or who looks different from them. It's pretty ugly but this is a land full of hypocrites. I, on the other hand, want freedom for EVERYONE, because I am a truly moral and upstanding person. My list of limited or prohibited actions or practices is very small. Only large corporations have freedom in the US the rest of us are chained by various unjust measures, some worse than others.
Just because somebody is in a public role doesn't mean they don't have to answer to anyone, but they feel it does. Any and all public agencies and all Pigs feel they have a god-given right to murder as they please and inflict harm and violence as they please. They do love their evil that's for sure.
It's not just that, it's on the white collar side too.
The collision, cooperation, corruption, and protection between big business and politicians in this country would make one's eyes water.
Well it's because this government is nothing but an assembly of force for the protection of large corporations. Corporations, through their lackeys at all levels in our government, want absolute power and so naturally they are going to lean on pretty much everybody including members of the high courts that they have influence with, to create these doctrines. It's up to us in the public if we wish to bend the knee or not to these decrees. I know I don't but I may be in the minority. I don't believe that anybody is one's my inherent superior and I don't care if you're the president or a janitor, you're just another human being and I have no inherent respect for anyone due to their title. That doesn't mean shit to me. I might have more respect for the homeless guy on the street who is doing his best to survive in a incredibly difficult situation than some privileged piece of shit who bought his way into the the governorship. These are all just elites who believe that they are inherently superior to the rest of us. We don't have to accept it. We can fight it through the courts, through the ballots, through public discourse.
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@yvetteschneider5172 out of my private home??? Probably not. nowhere did I say I agree that casual home invasion or violating private property with the intent to do harm or steal is okay. Out of a publicly operated store, dealing in general merchandise?? Probably. It depends how valuable the items were. If I caught someone on the way out and was able to take back whatever they were trying to nick I would just tell them to leave and don't come back until they intended to pay, and go on about my day. Shit happens. Some people are kleptos, some people are desperate, some people are looking for cheap thrills, either way, there's a lot worse going on in the world.
If somebody took the safe, or cleared out a whole floor overnight AKA a professional operation, well that's a different matter. No I wouldn't concern myself with minor leaks, they're bound to happen sooner or later it's just another cost to doing business. As long as my profits were in the range I wanted them to be it's nothing I would stress over. Besides don't all stores carry loss insurance?? So even if significant losses happen they're covered are they not??
I imagine that a typical medium or large size store would have to lose a truly massive amount of inventory to threaten their viability, possibly the whole entire store. Small leaks don't threaten the store. They might be annoying but we both know they don't threaten a store. Stores have thousands and thousands of items, there's no way the loss of a negligible amount is going to put them in the red. I understand nobody likes to lose money I'm not saying it's everyone's favorite situation from the perspective of an owner, I'm just saying it's it's negligible and it's not a threat. Every chain store I know is a mess of brand and is making billions. The whole store could be blown off the face of the map and it wouldn't affect the company in any way to my knowledge. They could have a new one built an up and running tomorrow with negligible comparative loss.
I don't understand why everyone loses their s*** over negligible Petty shoplifting in this country. I'm not talking about professional hit jobs on talking about the penny-ante stuff that mostly homeless people do (or kleptos). I believe at last study that I read it was less than 1% of total sales and the average store? Is that something we should really be focusing on, investing thousands and thousands rent-a-cops and loss prevention measures? I don't think so. No maybe a jewelry stores it's different, because most likely they would be targeted by professionals and it would be more than a minor loss if someone successfully pulled a job on them, but I'm talking about mostly chain convenience stores and big box stores and really poor people - not heist masters.
I'm sure can't speak for every business but other than the very tiny stores who don't experience a lot of foot traffic, I imagine the vast majority of stores have quite high profit margins. If they didn't, why would they willingly waste so much?? I understand with food there are food safety laws that mandate certain items must be disposed of by a certain date but I'm talking about still salable food items or non-food items. All the research I have read has claimed that the amount of willful waste by private businesses in this country is truly embarrassing. At a minimum if those items are just destined to feed landfill worms shouldn't they go back into their community first? I would certainly say so. Willful commercial waste is bad, there should be regulations against it.
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@kurt.wilkinsongardendesign A meritocracy is great and ideally that's what we want in most cases in any organization, sure. Ofc right now from the county to the state to the federal level you can see that within the political structure that's not what we have, by most people's definition, including mine. Those with the deepest pockets who can afford the most TV ads and news coverage are almost always the ones who end up getting voted in, regardless of their so-called personal merit or quality of character. They will say whatever people who typically vote for that party want to hear, whether they mean it or not, (most don't, if they are sprogressive statements) and the advertising and media coverage usually does the rest.
This doesn't mean I'm going to say we shouldn't have a voting democracy, Bec if that's your view that's just nuts. At least with a vote we have some kind of mild choice- without voting we would have none. We just need a much better democracy than we have right now, and that's possible.
As for economics, what's wrong with socialism? Maybe you're thinking I'm talking about a political dictatorship, which is exactly what I'm NOT talking about. When I say Socialism I just mean an economic system that distributes money and resources to all human beings within a given nation equitably and fairly and acceptably, by any means necessary, hopefully through political will and concensus aka what the EU does but even more so, ideally. And than yes, when appropriate and where it's warranted (not all may need it but for those who do), making workplaces into partnerships and co-ops.
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Literally every president uses the military as props. Its for people who want to be suckered in by propaganda and actually think government is something to slobber over instead of seeing it for exactly what it is (at least in the US): a bunch of absolute criminally-insane sociopaths doing everything to blow up the planet so Chevron can have bigger quarterly profits while continuously impoverishing every state back at home to the point that we've never had more homelessness, bankruptcy, or poverty in this country in my lifetime. Oh and making sure mass incarceration continues.
Yeah let me sign up to die and get maimed for this organization 🙄
I feel sorry for the poor kids who do get taken in by it. I just hope they get taken care of eventually, because these monsters in the VA at the top can't even do that unless they're injuries are visible. Tbf, they are offering better PTSD resources then before, but they are literally STILL rejecting vets who were poisoned by toxic exposure, just like they did for gulf war vets in the '90s. how these people sleep at night is a galactic-level phenomena that will never be understood. I was at one time in a branch of service, then I got out, learned a hell of a lot and now I see these people in DC for exactly who they are; disgusting psychopaths who serve their big business corporate masters and no one else. Party affiliation doesn't matter.
They wouldn't even take care of the 9/11 responders until they were publicly exposed as the ghouls and monsters they are and then they grudgingly released the funds for it. And this is what kids are signing up to fight and die for. Sad. People need to wake up to the evilness and the violeness of who these people really are- who the US government really IS; not what some bogus State-sponsored propaganda piece says they are; and take a glance at their crimes against humanity around the world for the last 80 years, longer if you count domestic agendas. But deprogramming your brain from a lifetime of heavy propaganda is no easy task, so I can understand how some people struggle with it or still haven't been able to break away from it yet.
Aside from from all that, Brianna's commentary was just dumb and it was no doubt written specifically by CNN's new (or maybe not so new) conservative overlords.
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If certain people are too stupid to know that the GOP want to shit on them even harder than the Democrats do, than they deserve what they get. I'm tired of trying to educate the single digit IQ fucking working class idiots. I'm broke AF and very much working class, but I have NEVER in my life over the last 20 years as an adult, thought for one SECOND that the Republicans weren't anything other than exactly what they are. And I am not a genius. The fact that they continue to win in EVERY area that isn't the epicenter of a major city says a lot about the political IQ of these places, and probably the IQ's overall. Maybe there's just widespread lead poisoning in this country because otherwise I fail to see how anybody who's not in a coma would want to vote for the GOP if they're not already privileged and very comfortable. Look the Democrats are super trash, but they say all the right things and they've never been bigots at least not publicly. If I'm somebody who would like to increase my material conditions or even just get a little bit more security, and I'm not a raging bigot, why in the living FUCK would I ever consider voting for GOP sociopath DEGENERATE subhuman????
Of course the Democrats are not anyone's saviors either, and I hate lesser-evil-ism as much as the next person, but I think a very good question is, how is the GOP continuing to win ANYWHERE!?!? Does the entire country have battered women's syndrome? Do they LOVE voting for people who hate them and who will never, not even if they were given infinite time, willingly do anything to help them?
Just a side point because the bigger point is how both parties are complicit in serving the interest of the ruling class and the elites overdoing anything for average people. I guess big-picture-speaking, it would be a little easier to deal with a large majority of Dems versus a large majority of GOP thugs.
There would still be the bigger problem of Dems only catering to a narrow elite, but at least they wouldn't be making all out assaults on women's bodily autonomy rights or going out of their way to do horrible things to migrants. And if the GOP wasn't a factor, I imagine it would be easier for progressives and Leftists to push the agenda through.
We still need a genuinely left party in the US, but after 60 years of sociopathyand obvious open hostility to anything remotely benevolent for people, I continue to be at a loss to understand how the GOP continues to win anywhere. I guess I just don't understand why voting redn____s or voting non-rich white people are so stupid.
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@StatusCoup
Hi Jordan! I'm extremely sorry to hear that Jordan. Of course I have very little faith in corporate media but I did think perhaps 60 MINUTES would at least give it a small segment. I mean after all there are thousands of innocent victims here and I thought maybe they had a LITTLE bit of journalistic integrity left in them, because even recently they have seemed to cover SOME stories that weren't 100% echo chamber-y from the Pentagon or Big Corporate. I'm curious if you at all expected them to give you an honest hearing and consideration of your findings, and were you disappointed when they rejected it? Did they give you any specific reason besides a generic form answer why they rejected the story from you?
Maybe I naively have too much respect for them, but like I said they seem like they're still trying at least a little to be genuine journalists, at least that's my take so far, so I'm sort of holding out on forming too harsh of judgment of them yet. I hope they understand that by not profiling this issue, they're turning their back on tens of thousands of desperately poor and significantly suffering people that have so far been betrayed by anyone and everyone else in a position to do anything moral regarding the situation, and they (60M) literally could be the ONLY reason why something changes for the better for them, because they still have a positive reputation in the eyes of many, and I'm not a media insider - I don't know anything about this I'm just a layperson, but they still seem to reach a large audience. In short just by nearly talking about it much less giving it the full in depth 60 Minutes treatment, they could have made a huge impact. But I guess they just didn't care. They could have saved lives. I think it's pretty sad that they found it unworthy to even give it some truncated coverage to. I mean who TF are they trying to protect even??? Such a shame there are no mainstream media outlets to turn to to expose crimes against common people in this country.
I still can't get over how local newspapers in Flint didn't cover this??! Who the fuck are they owned by?!? I live in San Diego and you can believe that there are plenty of issues here, but I have to believe that if anything even remotely like this happened here, which I don't think it would, but if it did, I have to believe that the Union-Tribune would be exploding with sensational coverage and so would our local KPBS station.
Damn man I hope things get better in the future. We've got local press and local city leadership that is in it together to just what- throw people down a ditch??????? Of course the city councils are corrupt af but I guess I was naive to think that the local papers in most areas would want to give an unflinching reporting of any local shenanigans because, hell I don't know, they care about their community?????
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Well, maybe if we had labor laws in this country this wouldn't happen. Every single worker deserves overtime. I don't care their title, their function, their industry, it DOES NOT MATTER. Also OT should begin an hour 33 not 41.
Company executives are the demons' semen spawn and will do everything to cheat anyone. They should have no legal status.
ave never been more than slaves in america. Slavery never ended. This country was built on the concept that it's okay to own and use another human being for your gain and profit, regardless of the harm caused to that person, and that belief from a tiny psychopathic elite has never gone away. Now it's just moved into our business sector where it has been for the last 200+ years.
Until the whole concept of worker or employee is synonymous with "human being" and "hunan rights" in this country nothing will change. Only hard leftists in the political sphere will demand this.
Voting Red or Blue is the height of lunacy if we want change. They will NEVER see us as human and care about our rights. So we're back to the same old bullshit of being stuck with no active viable political parties to defend the 95% of people in this country that work for a living. Until that changes we will all live under the thumb of psychopathic demons who see us as objects to be used, abused, and the vast majority of our profits stolen from, until we are no longer useful and then thrown away like the nothing's we are. I mean these political satanic ghouls won't even pass national healthcare so people can reach their best health so they CAN keep working. I mean these demons are so evil they're even illogical! The Red and Blue parties see us as less than ants and that will NEVER change so I guess this is our fate and this is what we're stuck with, cuz voters are ignorant things easily emotionally controlled and constantly thrilled and ecstatic to vote for people who will take the knife to their throat. We get the government and the laws we deserve. People clearly want to suffer so they keep voting for the political parties that represent their enemies. And we get exactly what we deserve to get, what we asked for- a political structure that doesn't care if we live or die. (Oh sure the lips on those subhuman politicians might say one thing but how long are we going to keep falling for that? 200 more years????)
If we want a better life for us and our descendants, and a better life in our workplace, the Red and Blue party doesn't care if we live or die so they're not exactly the ones we should be voting for are they????!? But try telling that to 100M totally ignorant, low IQ, dumber than dogshit voters. Good luck!
People vote for their own pain in this country. If they didn't like pain maybe they would vote for people that actually cared about them and wanted to give them a better living experience aka people-first cmmunists and socialists. But they won't because they're ignorant, they're lemmings, they're asleep, their slaves, and their propagandized. They want a master even if that Master completely cuts their throat every time. They don't want to have to think for themselves even if by thinking for themselves they could have a better life and change the political structure that's been keeping them down all their life.
So I guess we're stuck with the demons that we have. Sure seems that way to me. I don't see a way out because of public weakness and ignorance, do you???
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@morenitomoreno1282 fuck you're telling ME! Most people here aren't stereotypical gun nuts per se, but a some-sized minority are. They can't approach the issue rationally.
Govt is for sale here, which won't surprise anyone. The NRA (which apparently is bankrupt now?) has totally abandoned any pretense of being a benign sporting organization and has been ceaselessly paying off all GOP lawmakers for decades to prevent any kind of national gun control laws from being passed. There was an assault weapons ban from '94-2004 but the Bush admin let it lapse (of course) and it hasn't been even voted on since.
I don't personally mind assault rifles (in non-crazy hands), but I feel there should be greater obstacles to owning one then a standard rifle, shotgun, or handgun due to their higher lethality.
I'm all for gun ownership by most, but yes ofc there should be rational regulations on such, but the chuds can't seem to get this. It's f'n stupid. Just like blind people aren't allowed to drive, we should be able to enact reasonable limits (not bans) on firearm ownership. Right now it's handled at the state level. Blue states have stricter regs than Red states. As long as one doesn't get caught, it's very easy to buy guns in a loose state and take them to a stricter state.
Simple things I'd like to see on a 50-state basis are: licensing reqs, req safety training, 7-10 day waiting period before purchasing, and basic background checks just to screen out red flag indicators (recent violent DV conviction, other relevant conviction, mental health concerns).
Also temporary mental health restrictions in times of crisis if ordered by a judge (personal firearms are confiscated then returned after a period of time).
I don't think these simple proposals are oppressive but the knee-jerk reactionaries want to claim disengenuously that we're coming for their guns. I haven't yet met anyone that feels all personal firearms should be banned.
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@jamesmorrow1646 You can call them separatists if you like and they're glad to be so. Why should they stay in a country that's been taken over by rabid racists who hate them simply for their ethnicity or cultural identity? Why not be independent or agree to be brought into the borders of a country where they can feel safe, which is the Russian neighbor?
Putin's doing nothing I wouldn't do in his shoes on this issue. If you want to be anti-Russian this isn't the channel for you. Russia has a right to exist, to prosper, to be strong and to defend its borders. If the CIA never empowered, funded, and trained violent fascists and Nazi-identifying racists who then were able to commit a violent coup in 2014 in Kiev and then over the next 8 years, thanks to US influence but also their own racist zealotry, completely refuse to abide by the Minsk accords and to stop doing ethnic cleansing and civil War in the Donbass regions, then yeah none of this would be happening right now. Notice nowhere in the above was it Putin's fault.
Honestly he would have been justified as acting a lot earlier. If he sits back and does nothing, and fascist Nazis continue to pull the strings in Kiev and allow NATO to do what they want, which is to come in and stage a bunch of javelin missiles in the Eastern regions pointed at Moscow then what? Should he act then? Since NATO won't stop trying to instigate WW3 with Russia what EXACTLY is the Russian government supposed to do in response? Wait until they're encircled by NATO weapons? I don't think so.
I mean Russia has a right to exist and to be strong. I don't know why NATO has a problem with this. NATO should be destroyed.
I'm not Russian, I don't have any Russian family members I just know that they along with every other human being on this planet have a right to exist!!!! Something that for some bizarre reason the CIA has denied since 1947.
Go Russia!!! 🇷🇺 Down with NATO!!!!
The CIA is the world's biggest terrorist and war-fomenting organization. They should be destroyed and their names shamed.
And what is their primary objective, one might ask? Why do they do what they do? I mean it's the most nihilistic thing you can imagine, they try to overturn governments and commit local genocides also that American corporations have free reign within that country. The CIA has been directly or indirectly responsible for something like 20 million deaths if not more since 1945. All this so that large Western corporations could make more money.
Is this what life is all about? Everyone just a tool for endless corporate expansion?
No, they need to be destroyed. And the special forces to help them should think long and hard who they're getting in bed with and why they're doing what they're doing. If they're still naive enough to believe it's all for liberty and democracy or some other vague bullshit that has never been true they should think twice. The only liberty and democracy they're defending, whether they realize it or not, is the liberty of giant Western, mostly US corporations and Western oligarchs to enter a country, strip it of natural resources, deeply impoverish many of the native citizens, and move on. It's financial imperialism
And for that, thousands of US personnel and tens of thousands or millions of foreign persons should die?
According to the US federal government, yes. Yes, to them that is worth the rest of us dying for.
Make no mistake, the US federal government doesn't value human life (outside of their own that is) and never has (or at a minimum, very rarely).
Putin's not nearly as based as I'd like but he's not about to sit back and allow the Russian State to be plundered and dominated or assaulted by corrupt Western interests. He's not about to swing the door wide open and allow Russia's vast natural resources to be plundered even more than they already have over the past 30 years by Western multinationals. Russia's natural resources belong to Russia and if he was wise he would order the removal from all Western economic entities/corporations currently located within the country. In a way it would be like a reverse sanction. He's a good leader insofar as maintaining Russian sovereignty and I'm sure Russian citizens appreciate him for that.
It's clear he's not trying to take over Ukraine; just trying to neutralize the rabid Nazi threat, protect the newly independent Donbass regions and insist on NATO-neutrality from the regime.
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Well don't you think it's a problem that you don't get better wages? Don't you think it's a problem across the entire employment sector that wages are being kept unfairly low?; you probably are being cheated, but that's a political problem. Why don't we have politicians that want us to have a better life, and that starts with getting better wages in our jobs? Why is it okay to pay people poverty wages in this country in this year???
I mean, a person can't always find a better job that easy. Maybe there aren't enough better jobs to go around.
All I know is, if you guys want a better life you're going to have to go socialist and hard left, there is no way that any Republican or Democrat will ever stick up for you making a better wage. They don't care about ordinary people and they've proved that for many decades now if any of you have been paying attention.
Bernie might say all the right things but he can't do it by himself. His colleagues have shown they do not care about people on the ground and will not vote for his bills.
if you think working ans average people deserve a better quality of life, which starts with a better deal in the workplace, then you should become politically motivated and demand that actual Left parties come out of the woodwork and represent us. The red and blue duopoly serve Wall Street and rich employers, they will never stand up for the bottom 90% of the population that works for a living and doesn't own a business. Actually, they won't even stand up for small business owners. They stand for big business and that's all.
So if you vote Republican or Democrat congratulations, you're voting for people that don't care about you and will never care about you. Something to think about I'd say.
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This happens everywhere. Cars are Pigs' cash cow and the tow yards are their partners in crime.
ITS A THEFT AND RANSOM RACKET.
WHERE'S THE FBI WHEN YOU FUCKING NEED THEM!?! BANKRUPT THAT TIWN!!! EVERY HEAD IN THE PD NEEDS TO ROLL. THE TOW YARD OWNER AND HIS EMPLOYEES SHOULD BE BROUGHT UP ON RICO CHARGES AND BANKRUPTED!
If nobody goes to prison over this they will just
CANT PEOPLE SEE IT UET!?!?! ALL POLICE ARE PSYCHOPATHIC CRIMINALS!!! DO YOU AGREE WITH ABOLISH THE POLICE YET!?!? THE WORD "POLICE" IS JUST A EUPHEMISM FOR ORGANIZED CRIME!! THIS HAPPENS EVERYWHERE!!!!
Keep a few detectives and a few for First Response only, but the rest HAVE to go!!
THIS IS YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK PEOPLE!!!!
By requiring insurance and increasing registration fees, plus slamming people with outrageous ticket fees you massively increase the chances drivers can't afford insurance or their renewal fees and will drive without them. Then the satanic Blue Gestapo predator swoops in and claims he has a right to impound the vehicle. Of course it is prohibitively expensive to get your vehicle out, as the tow yard will make sure to extract a criminal ransom. So you lose your one and only vehicle and now your life is thrown into total disarray. This exact thing happened to me three times when I was living out of it. I was flat broke and had to temporarily live in my car. Because states are monsters, enforce new car owners to pay for the previous car owners unpaid fees or fines on the vehicle, I couldn't afford the $700 I was being charged it to register it. The car actually came to me by way of donation through a charity group. Apparently the previous owner I'd had some fees accrue. Because everybody in government is a psychopath and feels that what's ours is theirs, they force the next owners to pay off those fees before they're allowed to complete the registration. Naturally eventually this came to the attention of a local road Pig. He was a real sociopath, he had those are real dead eyes and you could tell he was a 1-inch away from completely blowing up when I showed up resistance to what he was doing. So they have all these criminal tricks now. I was told if I didn't sign the ticket I would be arrested. I don't know if it's legal to do this or not, for all I know he could have been lying like all the other Blue demons do. So just to get him out of my face I signed it and he took my car away..
You have to understand every road police officer is a proud psychopath. They are HAPPY when they caused you pain, suffering or loss.
So think about that next time if any of you balk at the defund or abolish the police movement. There's no criminal entity more prolific than your local police department. They exist to hurt you and to steal from you and they will never EVER lose sleep over it. These are not humans are dealing with, these are monsters.
Every county use uses the cops as their local gestapo to steal as much as they can from the local populace.
BY ENSURING TRAFFIC FINES AND FEES ARE EXORBITANT THEY SET POOR CITIZENS UP TO GET THEIR VEHICLES TOWED, FROM WHICH THE TOW COMPANY AND THE GESTAPO MAKE A KILLING AND SPLIT THE ILL-GOTTEN GAINS.
I HOPE PEOPLE CAN SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING. THIS IS THE DEFINITION OF A PREDATORY VICTIMIZING RACKET AND PURE ORGANIZED CRIME!!
SO LONG AS THE BLUE CARTEL IS ALLOWED OUT ON THE STREETS TO ROAM FREELY LOOKING FOR CRIMES TO COMMIT, NAMELY GRAND THEFT AUTO AND UNNECESSARY ARRESTS, THIS WILL NEVER STOP!!!!
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Until local state and federal government takes a much more aggressive role towards the private sector especially bigger business, and mandates better conditions and much higher pay for all m, guess what? We're ALL All going to be fighting like crabs in a barrel over a smaller and smaller piece of the pie and that's just what the demons at the top want. Why don't you guys pull your asses back and start to see the bigger picture for what it is? Until government stands up for the 99% and the working class in this country sooner or later the large majority of us who aren't in the privileged bigger business owning class are going to get fucked. It's already happening in so many ways. A decreasing number of available jobs, shit wages, piss poor job conditions, pay, and benefits, and a constantly increasing cost of living.
This is called getting fucked at both ends and I for one am pretty sick of it.
Or we can just keep fighting amongst ourselves on a sinking ship because that always works! Maybe if we just play the music a little bit louder we don't have to notice it.
OR we can demand that our rights and empowerment are actually acknowledged and respected by laws that put more money and control in our pockets. Without a political party that unapologetically and aggressively stands up for the 99% and the working class essentially we're just getting fucked in more oblique ways for the benefit of oligarchs, billionaires, and midsize to larger business owners.
Until that happens they will keep getting us to fight amongst each other and that's how the filth at the top win, by divide and conquer. That's how they've always done it. Get the working class to attack itself, that's how it's always been. it's gross and it doesn't have to be this way.
when we unite we win it's simple as that it's working class over the tiny elite ownership class. I'm not against business actually not at all it just needs to be heavily controlled that's all. either our rights matter or they don't. What's it gonna be?
We've all been socialized to be happy in our slavery.
I reject that. I'm not happy in chains - are you?!?
Everyone should have a positive working story and if they don't don't you think there's something wrong with the system not ourselves? Having us look down or inward instead of up is the favorite tool of the destructive ruling elite. I'm sure it's what the many elite lords of the middle ages did to their serfs all the time. We don't have to play into it anymore.
The privileged class is mostly united for themselves. When are we going to do the same?
It's up to us.
Life doesn't have to be one miserable kick in the crotch after another but until we elect people that give a living fuck about us guess what? Things won't change.
Pro tip: if you think people who give a fuck about us come from either the Red or the Blue party my god you might as well let a pedophile into your local preschool. You've definitely missed the bus on that one.
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Until local state and federal govt takes a much more aggressive role towards the private sector especially bigger business, and mandates better conditions and much higher pay for all, guess what? We're ALLbgoing to be fighting like crabs in a barrel over a smaller and smaller piece of the pie and that's just what the scumbags at the top want. Why don't you guys pull your asses back and start to see the bigger picture for what it is? Until govt stands up for the 99% and the working class in this country sooner or later the large majority of us who aren't in the privileged bigger-business owning class are going to get fucked. It's already happening in so many ways. A decreasing number of available jobs, shit wages, piss poor job conditions, pay, and benefits, and a constantly increasing cost of living.
This is called getting fucked at both ends and I for one am pretty sick of it.
Or we can just keep fighting amongst ourselves on a sinking ship because that always works! Maybe if we just play the music a little bit louder we don't have to notice it.
OR we can demand that our rights and empowerment are actually acknowledged and respected by laws that put more money and control in OUR pockets. Without a political party that unapologetically and aggressively stands up for the 99% and the working class essentially we're just getting fucked in more ways for the benefit of oligarchs, billionaires, and midsize to larger business owners.
Until that happens they will keep getting us to fight amongst each other and that's how the exploiters at the top win, by divide and conquer. That's how they've always done it. Get the working class to attack itself, that's how it's always been. But it doesn't have to be this way.
when we unite we win it's simple as that it's working class over the tiny elite ownership class. I'm not against business actually not at all it just needs to be heavily controlled that's all. either our rights matter or they don't. What's it gonna be?
We've all been socialized to be happy in our slavery.
I reject that. I'm not happy in chains - are you?!?
Everyone should have a positive working story and if they don't don't you think there's something wrong with the system not ourselves? Having us look down or inward instead of UP is the favorite tool of the destructive ruling elite. I'm sure it's what the many elite lords of the middle ages did to their serfs all the time. We DON'T have to play into it anymore.
The privileged class is mostly always united for themselves. When are we going to do the same?
It's up to us.
Life doesn't have to be one miserable kick in the crotch after another but until we elect people that give a flying fuck about us guess what? Things won't change.
Pro tip: if you think people who give a fuck about us come from either the Red or the Blue party my god you might as well let a pdf file into your local preschool. You've definitely missed the bus on that one. Absolutely not! those are the two parties that got us here that could care less if we live or die it's like Lucy with the football if we keep going back to the same abusers that keep kicking us in the crotch and the face over and over again we only have ourselves to blame; we need an absolutely entirely NEW left political party that rejects ALL of what they have to offer and puts working people, the environment and average people FIRST.
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Yeah there's a lot of psychopathy in policy here. It's a real shame.
It's what happens when you get this many psychopaths and malignant narcopaths all together. I'd wager most people are very decent however the ones that rise up here are either corrupt or worse. And the Pigs?? I wouldn't say they're all raging psychopaths but I would say a fair number are and the rest are still more than willing to commit criminal or abusive acts. It's a rotten system.
It's ONE thing to provide a local municipal emergency response force, it's quite another to maintain a psychopathic steroid-raging hyper-militarized paramilitary Gestapo force.
I'm just waiting for this shit to hit an inflection point. Like when does it end???? That's all I want to know.
Unnecessary poverty is growing. Mass incarceration is STILL growing.
The US's two longest standing political prisoners are getting older, STILL on death row. Mumia and Peltier. 45 years and counting.
I'm exactly 40 years old so I have not seen anything get better in my lifetime when it comes to the macro issues. I really am hoping we hit an inflection point before I die.
Anything I can do to help on a local level I will try to do, I will try to even run for office. I will not hide who I am but watch me get only 3% of the votes. Part of the blame has to be put on the voters. They keep voting for the same clowns and criminals and sociopaths. If they don't vote for the good guys, what are we supposed to do???? We cannot force them to vote for us. The public refuses to make a better choice.
Everybody keeps voting for the red-blue uniparty grifters. Half the country doesn't vote and the other half chooses red or blue EVERY single time. Maybe 2% choose "other".
If the public refuses to vote for the alternative, and an armed takeover is not exactly possible, what exactly are the good guys supposed to do????
We know we need and deserve changes to public policy around here but it does start with the vote. Of course there are huge influences behind the scenes, but it does matter who gets voted in.
It's certainly possible to vote for people who can't be bought, who aren't neoliberal, but so far the American public refuses to do this.
So you guys tell me because I'm at a loss. I won't stop trying to provide a Left Socialist alternative, but will the American public embrace it? I mean, they haven't yet, so you guys tell me.
After while you get sick and tired of this same nonsense playing out over and over every single time.
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Big facts. Mass incarceration is for the poor, the average income, and the marginalized. It's today's slave plantation system. The crimes might be truly heinous or massive from a corporate or political or well-connected big shot, or a Pig, but they will NEVER see the inside of a jail cell. N-ever! DA's, AGs, judges, and some probably stacke5 juries just utterly REFUSE to hold Nazi Bluethugs or big business corporate top-levels accountable. Blatantly refuse! It's absolutely beyond. The most heinous crimes against the public by corps are routinely are given mere fines as punishment. And where does that money go btw??? Nobody ever asks that, whether the state courts or federal courts- where the HELL does all this supposed good money go?????? Does it go to the victims of whichever latest corporate crime du jour has happened, or do their partners in crime, the federal or state authorities themselves just pocket it and move on????
Our court and court procedures are absolute jokes, for several incredible reasons such as judicial conduct and powers, the absolute appalling ease of stacking juries, the lack of qualified standards for one to be a jurist, the absolute lack of guaranteed powerful representation for the defense, and so on. The list just goes on forever. They need to be completely overhauled, but I doubt they will be. They're working extremely well for the agenda they were designed for- total injustice, mass incarceration of the masses, alongside total impunity for "protected classes"- copfilth, politicians, DAs, judges, big biz big shots, banking big names; etc.
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Big facts. Mass incarceration is for the poor, the average income, and the marginalized. It's today's slave plantation system. The crimes might be truly heinous or massive from a corporate or political or well-connected big shot, or a Pig, but they will NEVER see the inside of a jail cell. N-ever! DA's, AGs, judges, and some probably stacke5 juries just utterly REFUSE to hold Nazi Bluethugs or big business corporate top-levels accountable. Blatantly refuse! It's absolutely beyond. The most heinous crimes against the public by corps are routinely are given mere fines as punishment. And where does that money go btw??? Nobody ever asks that, whether the state courts or federal courts- where the HELL does all this supposed good money go?????? Does it go to the victims of whichever latest corporate crime du jour has happened, or do their partners in crime, the federal or state authorities themselves just pocket it and move on????
Our court and court procedures are absolute jokes, for several incredible reasons such as judicial conduct and powers, the absolute appalling ease of stacking juries, the lack of qualified standards for one to be a jurist, the absolute lack of guaranteed powerful representation for the defense, and so on. The list just goes on forever. They need to be completely overhauled, but I doubt they will be. They're working extremely well for the agenda they were designed for- total injustice, mass incarceration of the masses, alongside total impunity for "protected classes"- copfilth, politicians, DAs, judges, big biz big shots, banking big names; etc.
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Big facts. Mass incarceration is for the poor, the common person, and the marginalized. It's today's slave plantation system. The crimes might be truly heinous or massive from a corporate or political or well-connected big shot, or a StreetPig, but they will NEVER see the inside of a jail cell. N-ever! DA's, AGs, judges, and some probably stacked juries just utterly REFUSE to hold N.azi Bluethugs or big business corporate top-levels accountable. Blatantly refuse! It's absolutely beyond. The most heinous crimes against the public by corps are routinely are given mere fines as punishment. And where does that money go btw??? Nobody ever asks that, whether the state courts or federal courts- where the HELL does all this supposed good money go?????? Does it go to the victims of whichever latest corporate crime du jour has happened, or do their partners in crime, the federal or state authorities themselves just pocket it and move on????
Our court and court procedures are absolute jokes, for several incredible reasons such as judicial conduct and powers, the absolute appalling ease of stacking juries, the lack of qualified standards for one to be a jurist, the absolute lack of guaranteed powerful representation for the defense, and so on. The list just goes on forever. They need to be completely overhauled, but I doubt they will be. They're working extremely well for the agenda they were designed for- total injustice, mass incarceration of the masses, alongside total impunity for "protected classes"- copfilth, politicians, DAs, judges, big biz big shots, banking big names; etc.
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Big facts. Mass incarceration is for the poor, the common person, and the marginalized. It's today's slave plantation system. The crimes might be truly heinous or massive from a corporate or political or well-connected big shot, or a StreetPig, but they will NEVER see the inside of a jail cell. N-ever! DA's, AGs, judges, and some probably stacked juries just utterly REFUSE to hold Bluethugs or big business corporate top-levels accountable. Blatantly refuse! It's absolutely beyond. The most heinous crimes against the public by corps are routinely are given mere fines as punishment. And where does that money go btw??? Nobody ever asks that, whether the state courts or federal courts- where the HELL does all this supposed good money go?????? Does it go to the victims of whichever latest corporate crime du jour has happened, or do their partners in crime, the federal or state authorities themselves just pocket it and move on????
Our court and court procedures are absolute jokes, for several incredible reasons such as judicial conduct and powers, the absolute appalling ease of stacking juries, the lack of qualified standards for one to be a jurist, the absolute lack of guaranteed powerful representation for the defense, and so on. The list just goes on forever. They need to be completely overhauled, but I doubt they will be. They're working extremely well for the agenda they were designed for- total injustice, mass incarceration of the masses, alongside total impunity for "protected classes"- copfilth, politicians, DAs, judges, big biz big shots, banking big names; etc.
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@goodun2974 big facts. Mass incarceration is for the poor, the common person, and the marginalized. It's today's slave plantation system. The crimes might be truly heinous or massive from a corporate or political or well-connected big shot, or a StreetPig, but they will NEVER see the inside of a jail cell. N-ever! DA's, AGs, judges, and some probably stacked juries just utterly REFUSE to hold Bluethugs or big business corporate top-levels accountable. Blatantly refuse! It's absolutely beyond. The most heinous crimes against the public by corps are routinely are given mere fines as punishment. And where does that money go btw??? Nobody ever asks that, whether the state courts or federal courts- where the HELL does all this supposed good money go?????? Does it go to the victims of whichever latest corporate crime du jour has happened, or do their partners in crime, the federal or state authorities themselves just pocket it and move on????
Our court and court procedures are absolute jokes, for several incredible reasons such as judicial conduct and powers, the absolute appalling ease of stacking juries, the lack of qualified standards for one to be a jurist, the absolute lack of guaranteed powerful representation for the defense, and so on. The list just goes on forever. They need to be completely overhauled, but I doubt they will be. They're working extremely well for the agenda they were designed for- total injustice, mass incarceration of the masses, alongside total impunity for "protected classes"- copfilth, politicians, DAs, judges, big biz big shots, banking big names; etc.
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The only problem I see is this- so long as US politics and other major countries' politics are for sale to the highest bidder nothing will change. Those whom our sociopathic worthless trash political scum are happy to serve will always be the most ruthless, the most predatory, the wealthiest and have the biggest bribes to offer. Not only that, so long as the vast majority of the non-rich public continues to vote for the trash red-blue duopoly - blood-drinking leopards who eat their faces (and serve the megacorp order) - this won't change. This selfsame public doesn't have the intelligence or the rationality or the awareness to NOT cut their own throat, ergo we're stuck. Say a few racist or ignorant words and you have half the voters by the balls. As for Blue voters, idk- they're ignorant too. Some are privileged but many are middle or lower class yet still buy the propaganda that the Blue party is the " good guy" party. I certainly wish that were true.
So long as courts and cops bow down to EVERYTHING that issues from a politician's pen no matter how poisonous or unethical, we are stuck with this shithole pay-to-play system, enforced by low IQ robot-minded aggressors and (often) predatory DA's and judges.
This is my experience first- and secondhand in my country at least 🇺🇲
Perhaps in time with greater public awareness, greater public unity, or something else we can start to force cracks into this destructive system.
A violent and ruthless megacorporate dictatorship is NOT how I see our global society in any way, shape, or form.
Perfect communism is a completely unattainable myth however I see no reason why we can't have a more positive, moral, collaborative global society i see absolutely no reason at all.
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The Right desperately looking for more nonsense culture war material to throw out there because what else do they have???? Their whole schtick is lgbt-bashing, some abortion bitching, and racism, thinly veiled or not. They have nothing else!!!!!!! Economically they have no answers bec they could care less, they got theirs by serving the interests of the rich and major industry, and fuck anyone else. If you're poor that's YOUR problem.
Their whole platform is ignorance, cruelty, faux outrage, white entitlement, bigotry and bigotry-lite, and baseless fear. Guess that's enough to keep control of a majority state assemblies and the US Congress since at least 1981 not to mention all the previous eras where no racial justice legislation was ever passed between 1864 and 1965. 100 years. That's how long the powers of evil have held onto "leadership" in this s-hole nation-state, and in key ways, it continues today.
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Well see the problem is the top brass see enlistees as expendable. They just do. Maybe it's hard not to for people in their position that high up, everything looks like a board game, names are just so much numbers on a page.
No matter how many you use up, screw up, and throw away, there's always more right behind them, and sadly they're right- there always WILL be more; there's always another generation, another person who either willingly or unwillingly chooses to sign up (and by unwillingly I mean those who essentially are trying to escape poverty and meet their basic needs not because they have a strong desire for military life).
Until /every/ enlisted and officer's life matters to the kings at the top who drive recruitment and deployment policy, honestly I don't see these tragic events changing. They know they can always replace used up and damaged persons with new ones. It's an ugly utilitarian philosophy but it's the one that by all appearances they operate from.
Until this attitude changes, I don't see these incidents stopping.
Multiple deployments to active war zones should not be allowed, at least not without a minimum of 12 months in between and then only once, for twice total. I believe in a minimum age of 26 for all frontline combat roles. I believe if just these minimum restrictions were put in place, let alone others, a lot of lives and mental sanity would be saved and vital injuries avoided. A LOT.
These events are tragic, and I don't know what the core reasons are behind each one, but PTSD will continue to drive tragedies until we can get every returning vet adequately treated and use every measure to prevent PTSD in the first place.
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And the crazy thing is I see in those photos a lot of very wide streets! Sure it wasn't a highway, but they look extremely wide with plenty of room for multiple Lanes of traffic in both directions if necessary.
Un-fucking-believable. Look some development is inevitable and of course sensible development is desirable, but this is crazy. Apparently the prevailing attitude in the brain damage victims who always seek and gain public office in this country is "anything that happened before this very moment is trash and disgusting and gross and unworthy and needs to be destroyed. Anything that comes AFTER no matter how objectively poor in form, function, or corollary effects, is automatically GOOD, awesome and perfect!." Yeah why preserve anything? Super gay and faggy and did I mention gay?
And who needs community right!? we should all be virtual prisoners all day long- going from work to home home and work nary a moment in between!! Who needs public community gathering spaces!
I don't want to be too melodramatic and negative because there are pockets of absolute beauty and fantastic preservation in this country but not enough.
Like I said, when politicians are nothing but slaves for whoever is paying them the most money which is always Big industry and will always include include the auto industry, big retail, and big real estate, then everyone else is going to lose.
Things may change in the future.. we may have a renaissance of ideas and values amongst those who rise to public office who actually give a fuck about the general public as a whole and the value of community, but we're not there yet. I mean we can't even stop homelessness from being considered and treated as a blight or a low-level crime by every municipality that I've ever passed through lived in or been made aware of. Even the standard public seems to be having its rights and desires constantly minimized or shit on by local officials. Parks always close at 9 and it seems local StupidPigs always want to discourage informal public space usage. This has to stop. These hard and soft forms of enclosure are not moral. It goes to basic rights to exist and to move about. These scum are taking our Commons away and that should not be allowed to happen.
Why these crazy filth want to sequester and prevent the average citizen, housed or no, from having 24-hour access without harassment to any piece of publicly-accessible space that exists is a mystery to me. Provided the activities don't cause an undue disturbance, then there should be no external involvement. We need a new movement that is militant and organized and directly attacks these policies and intentions by local authorities. ALL public space belongs to US, the PUBLIC, by RIGHTS, no matter what our of the day! We support it by our taxes and we supported merely by existing. Anyone who claims local authorities have the right to sequester public space for any reason outside of maintenance or special usage is somebody I oppose on fundamental grounds and would fight. The prohibition against overnight vehicle occupation or parking in large commercial parking lots or other public grounds or appropriate publicly accessible areas, whether you're homeless or just a traveler trying to save money, needs to stop. I find these restrictions very unjust and not reasonable at all.
Seriously WE have the right to fucking be OUTSIDE, for any reason, and nobody should have to defend or explain themselves if doing so, and I would like to know why that offends these crazy StreetPigs who have nothing better to do at night but drive around looking for easy targets to harass. We are turning into a revolting Nazi level police State where "papers please" is the new normal.
This attitude from some regarding the rest of us, that seems to believe that UNLESS a person is patronizing a particular business or going to a particular function or transiting, they DON'T have the human right to simply be out and about at night just enjoying the night air and not being under forced confinement is really disgusting and needs to stop.
Fascist only know how to destroy and have an unholy desire to control and dominate everything. Because of them our lives are immeasurably more difficult than they have to be. I hope to do what I can in the future to push back against these patterns of encroachment in my community.
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@codenamepyro2350 I never suggest that we can be allowed to do actual harm to others. But this is going too far.
I know I'm a little hyperbolic but this is a very important issue to me because as a left libertarian it's very emblematic of the problem of creeping State oppression. I mean how much control and subjugation do we want?
We need business, but I agree that there need to be humane limits. I talk about this all the time in other forums.
But for God's sake there's nothing wrong with adults augmenting their existence with pleasant substances. In fact that's what humanity has been doing since before the dawn of time. We shouldn't be punished for this; we shouldn't have to apologize for this; we shouldn't have to request permission for this, etc!
I love drugs, but I also know how to use them responsibly. I don't have to answer to anybody for that. It's my body, god (or nature) gave it to me, and I don't have to bow to ANYONE for the rights to exercise self-ownership.
There's a place for sensible limitation, I agree, but not here.
In fact if they really truly wanted to get all unnecessary chemicals out of our food supply why don't they mandate that tobacco companies cannot add any non-tobacco chemicals into their cigarettes? Interesting that after supposedly 60 years of tobacco awareness they haven't done that? I smoke American Spirits and I feel very comfortable that I'm not harming my body because they don't have any of the toxic sludge that are in commercial cigarettes. Also, if Big Brother cared so much about our fragile little bodies they would go after the big corporates for the tens of thousands of harmful chemicals that they use evetyvsay. But they don't want to do that because they are on their knees to those groups so they come after our rights instead. Why? cuz we're the peasants and they feel empowered to fuck us over but they would never do so to their big money clients AKA owners aka big donors.
I'm not as extreme as a classic libertarian but yeah I will say that this is definitely serious Big Brother-ism. even here where I live they've had a ridiculous anti-vaping crusade going on for the past few years and while I don't even vape, I do respect the rights of other adults to do so if they so wish.
Adults shouldn't have to apologize or beg a government thug to allow them to enjoy a goddamn smoke! I mean I just find this bizarre and a complete misuse of State power.
The more power you give government thugs, the more they want to use it against you.
For hecks sakes what is the point of being an adult in this country anymore since all our rights are getting flushed down the toilet?
Look I consider myself to be a reasonable person so I understand that we can draw fair outlines- it doesn't have to be either/or. There's plenty of room for compromise and I'm willing to do it in most cases.
But the vape wars (ongoing), the alcohol war which ended in 1933, the drug war, the pain medicine war (ongoing), these are all gross things that government gestapos have used to do nothing but real harm and I believe with fully known malicious intentions, and that is why I am very enthused to speak out against them in very certain terms.
I didn't always feel this way, 20 years ago this might have sounded pretty strange to me, maybe extreme. But I've had time to ruminate on this for some years now and that's why I've become more decided and critical as I've gotten older.
Basically people have the right to indulge their bodies and their personal habits in whichever way they choose provided they don't get behind the wheel in an impaired state or deliberately harm another human being in the conduct of such. Now that's fair. Anything beyond that I will oppose and I've got to oppose.
Surely that is not unreasonable. We also have the right to conduct free trade provided it doesn't harm anyone. As an adult if I wish to patronize a smoke shop or a vaping business my god I want that right!
Don't get me wrong like I said there is definitely a place for a fair and controlled amount of limitation, but this just isn't it.
But I agree any big business that uses harmful or deceptive practices should be controlled. I've never wavered from that.
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@uzoamaka oh someone like me would never go to hell sweetheart. Hell is reserved for those who deserve it. I do too much good out here; my values are among the highest possible, because I believe in universal human rights to a good life, and everything that entails. The implications of that are vast, and those guide my political goals and objectives. I want a better world for everyone and I'm willing to work for it, unlike those who are content to wait for some fictional second coming or life after death. That's all well and good, but how exactly does that help us in world matters?!
It's irrelevant what happens in the afterlife to me bec what matters to me is making THIS world better NOW, not in 1000 years from now but NOW, and I'd wager that's a million times more useful than any religious belief. Now I'm not saying people shouldn't have their beliefs. Faith has its place and brings comfort to many people. I'm happy for that. But I don't give a flying fuck about your faith or anyone else's. They can believe in a flying spaghetti monster for all I care, what I DO care about, is what I can do to advance my hard Left political goals now which would bring PRACTICAL benefit and a better life to many. I don't give a fook about religion bec it's ust not my focus. I can appreciate some of it but it's not my interest or emphasis. My goals are 100% tangible and of this world.
Look, enjoy your religion. I'm not necessarily against it I just disagree with your conclusion that Jesus (if this person even exists!) is the only way and I always will. I have always disagreed Bec I just know it's nonsense and the height of arrogance! Anyone who deserves it will have a good afterlife, their outer religion or lack thereof is totally irrelevant. Only one's ACTIONS matter. Can you understand that? No I guess not. You're stick on this other bullshit and evangelical Christian supremacy and One True Faith bullshit. Ugggggh. Oh well who cares, believe what you want and I'm sure I'll do the same. Just to keep it to yourself or those that asked for it. That's fair.
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@purklepanda5574 I said non-defensive violence, as in force. And even then, it should only be permitted within very strict limits to ensure its not excessive and not part of the typical criminal assaults that these Pigs get away with every goddamn day in this Pig-infested society, esp towards minorities.
I will bet my life that 90+% all so-called police are wholly unnecessary and people who really need the help from these so-called public safety agents rarely (not never but rarely) get it, such as sex trafficking victims aka "sex slaves", domestic violence victims, and rap3 victims (I mean that certainly was the case for a long time- I'm sure their were exceptions but given how ignorant, non-empathetic, uncouth and low-IQ most cops are and always have been- is it any shocker they rarely care about violence against women??? Hell many of them are abusers themselves).
Someone's been on the sauce again I see; that crazy neverending pro-Pig propaganda sauce. Look- No matter how many of these trash we infest our streets with, they and their lobbying groups will ALWAYS claim it's never enough, and they will have gullible people like you and much of middle America believing that without question. That's too bad.
Just look at any Twitter thread categorizing all the heinous acts of violence that these ANIMALS willfully perpetrated on the GF protestors. American CITIZENS exercising their civil rights to assemble and agitate for change. Yet so many of them who were merely marching and organizing, not causing any kind of violence or damage in most cases, and they were viciously attacked by these paramilitary savages. You should watch the footage. It's all out there to see. It's graphic, and shocking and really shows you the kinds of evildoers we're dealing with.
Pigs are the biggest cowards in the world. They will NEVER take on another person in a fair fight. It's always two or more on one, who of course is always unarmed, these satan-loving criminals even attack women. A few unlucky victims will likely be left with permanent injuries from these monsters. Why did they do such an evil thing??? Because they have hate raging inside of them, towards anyone who's not them in general, but towards minorities specifically and they want to savagely harm or hurt any POC or wht ally that stands with them in solidarity for their human rights and against these animals' violence, attacks, murder, and persecution. They even physically attacked journalists. Maybe not every Pig is a violent psychopath, but enough ARE. I believe it's more than 50%.
C'mon. 95% of all police are either morally unjustified, or just plain unnecessary. Maybe 5% are needed to maintain basic 911 response, WHICH IS ALL THEY SHOULD EVER BE DOING (even then some of them can't refrain from willingly using violence or committing murder). The rest are just there to indulge their own lust for violence, savagery, and criminal activity (by way of property seizures if not outright evidence thefts and other "off the books" activities) and to unleash animalistic savagery on their own fellow American citizens at civil protests.
Just admit what we all know- the vast majority of Pigs are violence-loving wht supremacist ANIMALS. Watch the footage- it's all out there now. And of course they choose to kill and never lose so much as a day's pay over it. Why society seems to have become so highly desensitized to their violence and murders, esp if the victim isn't wht, is beyond me. Guess it's the legacy of racism in America plus all the decades of Blue propaganda. They always love doing that and they will kill far more POC than otherwise- altho occasionally it happens to W people too.
And these animals are wholly above the law in every way- and almost never accurately held responsible in cases of clear misconduct or crime. Our paid-off amoral politicians and corrupt, wht-supremacist-infused higher courts have made sure of that thru decades of unjust rulings and giving them wall-to-wall protected status to insulate them from every consequence.
Just admit it. The metro city regions are awash in these essentially-lawless gangster phylth (YT comment bot-approved alternative spelling), and that harms ANY of us who aren't rich or especially priveleged, or are POC. I've been there myself.
Also, Pigs willingly feed the revolving door of local jailing which is largely done to extort bail, not for safety, and the broader problem of prison-based mass incarceration, still on the cruel rise after 40 years. Obviously some people do some very bad things and should have to answer for that thru some level of State detainment- but after becoming progessively more aware of this issue over the past ten years I now do not in any way agree with up to 90% of the incarceration that occurs in the US, the world's biggest and oftentimes most inhumane jailer.
Watch some empire files (on the YT) on this issue- and some 'second thought', and Gravel Institute, and any other fact-based related dissertations; you might be shocked, or at least surprised.
Bottom line, I'm in the "(mostly) abolish, then defund significantly, then ultra-radically reform what can't be abolished" camp when it comes to this frequently-criminal cartel.
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@megacide84 indeed. Well I do not for one want to see self-driving trucks, even if they are perfectly capable of not running off the road. The real solution to this problem is for all those fuckassed greedy bosses to DOUBLE all current pay and benefits and watch a million more people flock to the Industry overnight. Make it a job worth having.
It's too bad this won't be legislated, as I would force it into law tonight if I could. But that's what a Socialist country would do, which is of course, the opposite of what we are. We are the United States of Corporations, and don't we forget it.
If this was done, as I would like to see, then all truckers, new and old, would gain and so would the rest of the country- more truckers means a stronger supply chain which is the bedrock of everything else.
But nope, the greed of the corporates would rather spend millions to invest in robot trucks instead of giving that money to workers. Shame!
This is why I say we NEED laws to come down on the corporate class hard, because they will NEVER do the right thing without it when money is involved. I'd like to believe they would, but almost all of them won't, and they show that each and every day. They fight tooth and nail to pay workers as miserly as possible and it's disgusting.
Too bad we don't have any laws that actually put workers first.
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@joshuaburns1772 things will change for the better for all workers when Socialists like myself start taking office. Unfortunately, the two corrupt corporate lapdog parties make this very hard, to no one's surprise. They have all kinds of voter suppression and election suppression techniques that they have honed down to a science by now. But we'll keep fighting and eventually we'll get there.
Just tell all your uninformed trucker buddies- if you're gonna vote, Dems are crap, but the GOP will ALWAYS FUCK YOU. Once in a blue moon the Dems might do something to help you. Only Progessives might fight for meaningful changes for the working class, but it's no guarantee they will fight hard enough or succeed. Still, best of the three choices. The fourth, real Socialists, are only now just starting out seeking offices at the local, county, state or federal level. If there's one in your area, you should highly consider giving them your vote.
So that's where we're at. To me it's clear for anyone who works for a living why only Leftists make sense from any logical or moral worldview, but it's everyone's choice to decide for themselves.
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Appreciate the video which was very well made and put together and clearly the mark of an intelligent man, but you forget to include some very relevant points, such why the murderous Maidan Square massacre REALLY happened and who was really behind it- hint hint- it rhymes with Que Ness. Well wouldn't you know? The good ol' US up to its old tricks again??? Who'd'a thunk?? Funding, training and arming literal neo-nazi battalions in order to provide them an opportunity to violently attack their own democratically-elected govt three months short of an election, as well as their own fellow citizens where tens of people were violently killed and the entire square set on fire, where local police were either overpowered or prevented from responding, or in some cases chose not to??? Is that what you call a "patriotic revolution"?? I think you overlooked some fairly crucial details regarding that part of the video, friend.
Coming back to that issue in a moment, Ukraine should know better than to get in bed with US-based multinational fossil fuel companies- they will plunder their host country dry and leave them no more than crumbs for the privelege. Happens every time.
The bottom line of everything is this- the US wants to plunder Ukraine for fossil fuel profits, just like it does anywhere else, and drive a wedge between it and Russia to do so. It wants to use Ukraine as a tool to provoke Russia, as it has now done, to give them an excuse to apply crippling sanctions, which it is now in the process of doing. Trying to twist Ukraine's arm into joining NATO was just a ruse, an excuse to provoke it's neighbor to the East, but make no mistake- were the Ukraine to actually join NATO it will mean absolutely nothing for Ukraine- they would get no tangible benefit from it. Even now the US has no intention of escalating this localized conflict by adding any significant number of US troops to the region- the US has no desire to personally cause destruction to Ukraine- they'll let Russia do that if necessary- they just want access to those ungodly levels of fossil fuel resources Ukraine's sitting on and they will do almost anything to get them- while at the same time snatching up more profit from EU countries by forcing them to buy oil and gas from US corporations instead of Russia. THIS IS WHATS GOING ON.
Ukraine should really think hard about getting in bed with the US and spitting in Russia's face over this. The US will use you and drop you flat, it's what they do, it's what theyve always done, they even threaten their friends; highly developed first-world nations. Trust me I KNOW my govt, and as a hard Leftist I oppose them on just about everything they've done in my lifetime and pretty much most of what came before. Any country thinking they can count on the US for anything better listen up-
Here's a BIG hint-
My govt cares for NO ONE but itself. Seriously- absolutely no one. If that wasn't always true it is now. The CIA and the Pentagon have a literal world domination agenda, and it doesn't even respect it's friends/allies half the time so how well and how loyal does any lesser smaller state think the US will treat it, especially once it no longer has use for it??? Here's a hint- NOT WELL.
I'm not saying I agree that aggressive military maneuvers are the right move in this case, but having now educated myself on the full historically context of this situation both recent and past, I certainly understand where Putin is coming from and why he has responded in this manner. I do hope the active military operations cease asap in order to minimize loss of life and material damage. For Ukraine's part, if Zelensky had half a brain, he will reject all outside foreign influence most especially the US's and come to the table with Putin as Putin has been asking/begging him to do for years. The more Zelensky allows US multinational companies to rape his country out of natural resources and revenue, or promise to allow them to do so in the immediate future, regarding fossil fuels or any other resources; the more he allows the US to provoke unnecessary hostilities between him and the Kremlin; the more he's a tool, a puppet, and a FOOL.
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@AdamRitchie2 Nah I think I have a really good view that balances the need to end avoidable poverty and homelessness, redistribute wealth downwards, and maximize liberty. I don't think it's possible or even desirable to fully get rid of govt. There has to be some central management of public issues. Who would protect the environment, national parks, and endangered species for one? Respond to natural disasters? Regulate predatory corporations?? Set labor standards?? Only govt can do this. I'm not saying the current good-for-nothings in govt do a good job of this, just that these are the jobs of public governance (or management if you will). If you think private companies can do these things better, that's been proven wrong 100 times. That's a fallacy. Once you put profit motives (usually the "profit-at-all-costs" motive) into where it doesn't belong, into things that should be done for the public good, you get very bad outcomes. PGE and CA proves this, and they still haven't been held accountable by the gov (because they paid him off, of course, it's the same story everywhere).
The freezing disaster this past Feb in TX is another. The evil scum at ERCOT refused to do necessary maintenance on TXs power grid so in a severe winter storm it failed and over 200 people froze to death, 1000s others incurred serious damaged to their homes from burst pipes or what have you. To make matters worse, the evil GOP gov Ted Abbot willingly removed the entire state grid from the rest of the country's grid (this way federal authorities couldn't force him to do vital and necessary maintenance which his owners/friends/bribers at ERCOT didn't want to do); which resulted in the entire state having no backup and thus nowhere to supply power if or when it fails, which of course it did. Abbott is indirectly responsible for all those peoples deaths, and ERCOT is directly responsible.
These are the tragedies that happen when vital public goods are privatized. I wish I could trust these corporations out here but they constantly prove how corrupt they are and how they only give a damn about maximizing profit, human welfare be damned
This is a more extreme example but stuff like this happens all the time in this country, all the time.
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@AdamRitchie2 I know that the federal govt is a bunch of goons and blood-drinking sociopathic ghouls and reptiles, but some of what they do, a small amount, is good. The VA, OSHA, and social security are all good. People depend on them and need them. The EPA and FDA could be good if they weren't bought off and intentionally sabotaged. Like I said before, the national parks are a treasure, and I believe the BofLM serves a positive purpose. The CDC has some issues and some corrupt people but they also serve a critical need for public health.
FEMA sadly is worthless and proves it every time. But its worthless bec trash people are in it. ICE is the Gestapo and Nazi and fascist central, same for DHS and the DEA as far as I'm concerned. I don't agree with drugs being criminalized for all the usual serious reasons that I'm sure you're familiar with.
I don't know. I think we just have to keep trying to elect better people to DC AND do everything else to improve our local communities and states. Destroyers and the uber-corrupt will always draw together, both in private enterprise and govt, but that doesn't mean ethical people can't also seek public office or roles, and get them. I don't think every ethical politician or senior-level employee will be corrupted. I don't know if I'm ready to make that assumption.
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@duellinksantimeta7636 ok the follow-up as promised-
It's because I believe I know the facts of the situation. I believe in what Russia is doing right now. I don't believe it has anything to do with any kind of imperialist agenda- at least not primarily.
I watch The New Atlas for analysis on the developing situation and their analysis sounds believable to me. I have no way of verifying it obviously, I'm just an average nobody, but he sounds like he is telling the truth about it. You can go look for yourself and see what you think. The New Atlas with Brian Berletic is the ch____l.
Far right ultra-nationalist fascists who are self-proclaimed Nazis violently took over in 2014 thanks to tons of support and funding for two years from the US CIA, in a very bloody and violent coup, and they have embraced the US's agenda of NATO expansion towards Russia. The previous president who was democratically elected favored a peaceful neutral relationship with Russia and refused to agree to NATO expansion from the US. That is why he had to be removed and that is why the CIA supported a coup against him in 2014. These far right Azov battalions, who embrace a Nazi ideology, from what I understand, have been folded into the Ukraine's military structure, and apparently are now setting the agenda. Over the last 8 years, the Ukrainian eastern regions have been victims of sustained ethnic cleansing and attacks by the Ukrainian military, or parts of it.
Throughout these eight years the Russian government requested that the new Ukrainian government negotiate with them good faith and abide by the Minsk 1 and 2 accords which pursue a policy of neutrality and does not allow NATO expansion. The Kiev government agreed to abide by them but they never did.
Apparently as late as March, Zelensky was indicating he was willing sit down for peace talks with Russia, but the US and certain leaders from the EU basically ordered him not to and from what I understand he had severe pressure and threats from Nazis within his own administration and he complied. Shortly thereafter Putin began military operations.
So- the Russian govt tried for 8 years for a peaceful resolution to their differences which hinged on Zelinsky's inability to commit to refusing to allow NATO expansion through Ukraine all the way up to Russia's border. So that sounds reasonable to me and was a pretty sustained effort. Eventually when it seemed as there was a dead end and in no way a peaceful path forward he made a decision to take military action.
It's unfortunate that the matter is escalated, but I can't really blame him for that under these circumstances. I Iikely would have made the same decision in these circumstances. Sitting back passively and allowing NATO expansion right up to their border was an unacceptability to the Russian govt, and I certainly can't blame them for that. How many governments would just casually accept a hostile force amassing just outside its borders? As a side objective, the Russian military was able to come to the aid of the Donbass regions who, as I have already mentioned, have been under frequent shelling and assault over the past 8 years by Azov-controlled Ukrainian military forces.
To my understanding by now Russia has rescued most of these regions and has annexed parts of them into Russian territory WITH the full permission from the majority of the citizens parts of those regions, per a successful public referendum. Of course the US and some in the EU will claim the referendum was illegitimate but I don't believe that. I heard that Russia invited independent observers from the UN into the region to see for themselves. If they chose not to go or were pressured not to participate by the US, that's not Russia's fault.
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@FloatingLeaf1111 lol perhaps. And one day we might actually have a moral and fair court system in the US, where it's not just a gross joint show between the DA and the judge, but where a human being's right to an aggressive and complete defense is actually taken seriously and strong, experienced, capable Public Advocates are provided so that defendants are not just sitting ducks for the lying cops and any interests favored by the State. Where the jury pre-qualification system is highly thorough and all necessary steps are taken to prevent any form of bias. Where racial representation on a jury commensurate with the defendant is mandated by law, and where juries are fully trained and most importantly, fully empowered to exercise all rights of judgement, to evaluate the case properly AND NULLIFY the charges if they see fit. I believe juries should discuss and decide on the sentence if a conviction is given, not the judge or DA, and take the victims'/victims' families into account when doing so.
The problem is, THERE IS NO TRAINING OR LICENSING FOR A JURY HERE. YOU'RE POTENTIALLY DECIDING A PERSON'S FATE, AND OTHER THAN A FEW RULES AND GUIDELINES - THERE IS NO FKG TRAINING OR REQUIREMENTS FOR THAT MATTER. Well fuck me hard, no wonder we have such an abysmal standard of jurisprudence in this country. Wouldn't it make more sense to provide a short-length but rigorous body of training and certification for prospective jury members, grouped separately for misdemeanor, civil and criminal cases, and then anytime there is a trial a group of these certified jurors can be selected at random- no influence and essentially stacking by the prosecution??? Yeah that sounds like a lot better to me.
Above all, in an ACTUAL genuine system not a kangaroo court system, the DA or state or federal prosecutor won't be all powerful with complete license to do as they please; and there will be HEAVY penalties including jail time for proven malicious and wrongful prosecution. There will actually be standards of professional conduct and if they fuck up even ONCE, by deliberate intent not accident or unintentional mistake, they're disbarred for 10 years for the first offense and life for the second, with prison time if the consequences to the original defendant were serious. As it is now there are no rules. Even when it's proven a prosecutor intentionally committed crimes of wrongful prosecution such as deliberately concealing exculpatory evidence - literally nothing happens to them and shockingly they are allowed to continue to practice law as even remain as a DA. It's truly appalling once you've followed some of these situations.
Let's not forget that half of a DAs entire job is to cover for their local cop thugs accused of crimes, especially shootings.
So yeah. Our system is constructed currently to be mostly a show and a farce. Juries aren't trained and easily tampered with, and are often misled by a judge, intentionally or otherwise,
DAs have essentially total control and zero consequences for criminal behavior, same for judges. The grand jury process is likewise usually nothing more than a hollow token exercise where the outcome is all but known beforehand, instead of a additional layer of public oversight as it should be.
It's pretty bad. I really hope one day we start doing better.
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@martincline2994 HOAs are organized crime. Aren't people forced to agree to these things??? It's literally a cartel to bully, abuse, and steal from you if you don't satisfy to the Nth degree all of their arbitrary, Petty unjustified, and irrational rules.
It's just a setup for a gang to steal money from you and in extreme cases, apparently your home.
Seriously this is racketeering which is a federal crime I don't even understand how these groups operate without getting their headquarters barged in buy some beefed-up government badge-swinger.
I can't fathom why I would pay somebody to conduct organized crime and psychological abuse of me. This is puzzling.
Is there was no attempted coercion and no money involved, I wouldn't have a problem but there is and that makes it crime. EXTORTION, NUMBER ONE. INTIMIDATION AND HOME TITLE FRAUD, #2.
Let's get one thing ramrod straight -
👉 NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO CONTROL HOW YOU MANAGE OR OCCUPY YOUR OWN HOME! 👈
NOBODY!!!!!! That's why it's YOUR home, and no one else's!!
Provided it's not a noise issue - NO ONE!!!!!
Okay I'll amend that, government claims they have the right to control you, now we can debate to what degree but at least they can claim semi-legitimacy. Only govt has the power to enact restrictions on activities and functions related to one's home.
HOAs are literally a white-collar suburban Mafia claiming they're going to break your legs if you don't give them what they want. The. Fuck??
If anyone tries to control what I do in or on my own home and they are not a government agent their life is going to get messy very, very quick..
Very quick.
I can't IMAGINE submitting to this kind of abuse. Like I bought my home to achieve freedom but all I did was get another form of slavery. Madness.
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@nomore6167 oof, well said my man. Couldn't agree more. That's it. We shouldn't NEED unions in the first place; but without them, what's to stop greedy large-scale employers from always trying to cheat and screw the workers?? Honestly nothing really- outside of state of federal law. (And as we know for 99% of it's existence the US State has only existed to serve the elite, naturally, which today is the large corporate class).
Hell they try to do it WITH the unions, and usually by compromising the office-holders, which unfortunately seems to be a common practice. Hopefully not all unions have been so compromised.
The good news is more workers are waking up to this problem in affected industries and banding together to form new rank-and-file genuine unions which are of, by, and FOR the workers. (Or just replace the infiltrating scumbags with those from the body of workers and send the crooks packing. If 100 workers came together at once to have elections and to throw the bums out, they would have no choice but to leave. And come armed- as long as your sober, it can never hurt)
But hey- somebody get this guy a Schlitz already, cuz he was on point! Or are you a PBR guy???? The classics never go out of style you know. No? Ok ok don't be a snob- we have some Michelob in the back. geesh.......
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@sindelscat9336 you're right, he survived thankfully. But the cop is guilty of attempted manslaughter then.
Ftr, I do not think all street cops are terrible people, but most are pretty bad IMO. If they work the street they aren't doing any good and they should quit and get a job they can be proud of that ACTUALLY helps people, or at least does no harm.
I hope you're as callous towards yourself as you are towards Mr. Blake the next time a trigger happy crazy killer cop fills you full of lead just because he can, or because it's Tuesday.
We really should value each other's lives more than this. I do. Even if Jacob Blake did something wrong in his past, provides it wasn't a heinous crime and it wasn't, he didn't deserve to be shot seven times IN THE BACK for it. Anyone who shoots someone in the back esp multiple times is a coward and s terrible person and should never be allowed to touch a gun again.
Cop thugs get to murder at will, and very, very rarely have to answer for it, but if we touch a hair on these wrongdoers' heads, we could be charged with assault. Why are they so worthy of being such an untouchable precious species, I ask? Well there are millions of us find this morally objectionable, and we are organizing and taking action. Everyone should have to face accountability for their actions- right now most cops don't. This absolutely should change and must change.
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I think that there should be two groups of housing, the not-for-profit sector and the for-profit, tho it should be strictly regulated. But I think if we simply forced a large amount of the available housing a fall under the non-profit heading we could easily solve this issue.
The truth is there are always going to be businesses and people who want to profit off others. I don't see this ever going away. We're never going to have a pure world where we all just work for each other in harmony. That would be lovely but we have to face the reality that some people rightly or wrongly just aren't built like that. All they care about is that next dollar. I'm not saying I support that, I'm not saying that our government or our laws should be built around that at all... I consider myself very left but I do recognize that not everyone is the same as I and we do live in a diverse world.
I believe there's a place for the for-profit sector including a limited amount of for-profit housing. However the majority should be not-for-profit and government provided.
I believe the solutions to our housing issues are simple but diverse. I don't think there's a one-size-fits-all model. I think multiple approaches will ensure that everyone has safe comfortable desirable housing that they can afford.
Life isn't black and white. Sometimes there have to be a multiple multi-pronged attack to a problem to fully solve it.
Effective rent control, tenant protections, landlord licensing requirements, fairer rules for tenants, a sharp increase in public housing, housing with supportive services, limits on the maximum numbers of units a private or corporate landlord can own, and a sharp increase in private but not-for-profit housing will get us to a fully housed society IMO.
I have seen a lot of great private housing in my lifetime. The only issue with it where I live is rent. Obviously the cost of a basic necessity should not be allowed to increase to set an obscene level that it is in many places now in this country. Ergo, effective rent control is needed.
Also those other things I mentioned could stand to be sharply improved as well including eviction protections and distressed renter protections.
If we can get these measures passed, and in the US, and that's a giant IF, then I believe this problem will rapidly start resolving itself.
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@SuperDuckyWho I mean you could report it to the police but it would be medical personnel who would take the rape kit and try to give you treatment and comfort.
We just don't have many people if any in uniform who are professional, trained, intelligent, rational, compassionate or anything. If we did maybe things could be different but I have yet to see people like that in this country behind a badge. They might exist somewhere I just haven't been made aware of them yet.
Those people who say that to you are strange. The police aren't going away, at least yet, the point is just to try to delegate as many calls as possible to trained community workers instead of them. Most police don't need to take these calls- they've shown how they have no patience and no empathy and they don't care about trying to help somebody, usually; the moment they get the tiny bit inconvenienced they're just going to shoot somebody so they could go on to the next call or go home. When you don't really have a conscience or empathy these things are easy. I don't know if they're all evil per se or simply empathy-challenged.
Unless it's literally an active shooter or a report of a robbery in progress or kidnapping or a hostage situation or severe DV, what do you really need the police for? I mean what do you need them for?? Most 911 calls are non-violent; they're not serious and they can be handled by people trained in conflict resolution and deescalation. Nine times out of ten that's not a Blue in this country.
All cops know how to do is arrest somebody- is there any for the adrenaline rush or the action they're never going to try to deescalate or simply talk somebody down- they literally don't know anything else. They're trained to do only two things in this country- throw cuffs on somebody and take him to jail and book them for something, or kill them. That's really it. They're not trying to care, they're not trained to deescalate, they're not trained to do any of that. Obviously this is a major problem. So until we decide to start training these people and have actual standards for entry, we need to find an alternative, and that alternative is social workers or community workers.
I mean a "good" person will take the time to try to talk somebody down, but I don't believe there's that many good people behind the badge. Most of them just seem not to care or to be actively unstable or have anger issues.
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Everyone in this govt is for sale to the highest bidder so I could give a fuck what the feds say about this guy. He's just another con artist. Washington DC is so full of filth and corruption on both sides of the aisle and they serve Wall Street to their dying breath. Did they ever punish or penalize any of the corporate giants for any of their crimes ever? Hardly. A little during the S&L crisis in the '80s, nothing since. I guess this guy didn't buy enough politicians to get enough protection for his white collar crimes. He should have.
Obama gave them one bit fat happy check after they crashed the economy in 2008. BP was forced to pay some settlements due to deepwater Horizon but because federal judges are mostly criminals, they kept challenging the amounts and judges kept a lowering how much they were forced to pay out. How many people lost their livelihoods and how much damage to the local environment happened that day that people still haven't fully recovered from?! A lot, to be sure.
Large corporations get away with murder and environmental crimes of a huge magnitude in this country every day. Neither State nor Federal authorities have any desire to punish them, why would they? They're the highest bidder! And when you're corrupt scumbag-for-hire, aka a politician, you don't want to go against your highest bidder do you?? Nah.
I don't know if there's any such thing as an ethical government but I know what we have in the US is a fully criminal gangster-ocracy. They're bought-and-paid-for by Wall Street giants to protect them at any cost.
So this guy was a skillful con artist. OK no doubt he was. And now they want to get him for it. I guess he didn't buy enough political protection. Too new to the game I guess. Look at the oil Giants or the energy giants, or the private prison opportunists, or the food Giants or the Pharma giants. You can commit any kind of crime in the US if if you can get the US political gangster filth from DC or a governor on your side, which isn't too hard to do. It all comes down to Money baby. He who pays, plays. They went after Elizabeth Holmes from theranos because compared to the big players she's small fry. It was easy to go after her. You think the prosecutors have any morals or ethics? You think they gave one fuck about how she either intentionally or unintentionally defrauded the public? We are nothing to them of course not. But she didn't give her fat cat investors the return they expected so they claimed fraud. Uh oh- and they no doubt had political pull so they called in a federal prosecutor to go after her and guess what- now she's convicted (acquitted of any crime against the public btw. That's who you're dealing with with these federal demons. They only want to fry you if you offend one of their all-powerful friends). And she never had enough clout or money to buy herself a state's AG or federal political protection. And that's why she's looking at prison time now.
It's not about right and wrong, it's not about protecting the public, States' AG's are the biggest most sociopathic ruthless gangsters out there. They're there to make ruthless efforts at protecting the big boys who pay them. That goes double for the Federal DOJ or any random Federal so-called prosecutor out there. You piss them off or threaten one of their Wall Street friends and they're coming after you.
This isn't being too cynical, this is just knowing the world that I live in. There is NOTHING morally motivating within the heart of any of this swamp filth/gangster filth/ Mafia-identical filth in both red-blue political parties who rise to the top, whether in the so-called legal apparatus or as elected politicians. It's all about being ruthless and without conscience if one is on the legal side, and selling yourself to the highest Wall Street bidder on the political side. They fool a dumb public into believing that just because they label themselves "govt" everything they do is somehow magically ethically, morally, or existentially correct and nobody in the public has the right to oppose it or question it. People then turn their brains off and use public officials and whatever happens to be legal at the moment as the arbiter of their own personal moral system. In essence, the common fool never questions what comes out of government's mouth, and is a willing subject no matter HOW much those in public positions screw them over and fuck them over with flourish and behave in distinguishably from common criminals and organized mafiosos.
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@worfoz well that's not how I see it. I'm sorry for what is happening in your country right now, and I hope that it will be resolved peacefully soon. But given the information that I believe to be true, I can understand Russia's actions at this time.
It would take too long to post all the details, I'll try to post them later.
I do not believe NATO to be a legitimate pro-democracy organization. I believe they represent an imperialist agenda, primarily pushed by the US.
I do support all nations' right to self-determination. That includes Ukraine.
I do not believe Putin has any imperialist objectives with the military operation, but I believe they have a serious objection to the current regime in your country that took over eight years ago. I believe they consider it a threat to their security, given how they have been closely aligned with the US since that time, and given that the US govt has shown consistent hostile intent towards Russia for many years, and I believe US govt involvement and behind-the-scenes manipulations is one of the main reasons this conflict has escalated to it's current point.
I'm not an expert, I just try to stay informed from various independent sources. I don't know the specifics of what is happening on the ground.
I think it's really unfortunate events have turned out this way and and as I said, I hope a peaceful solution can be found as soon as possible.
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@bafumat interesting. Do you feel nothing at all?? Pleasure, anger, happiness, regret, worry, curiosity? Do you like to achieve goals??? Do you appreciate nature? Animals??? Music?
None of that?
Do you have friends? Have you ever wanted them?
I think I get where you're coming from. It's different than me, no doubt.
As long as you're not intentionally causing harm to another, or planning to do so, I see no problem interacting with or studying so-called "sociopaths" or what have you.
What about your family you grew up with, if it's ok to ask? We're they loving, or abusive? If they were good, did you feel anything for them?
Have you ever wanted to have a pet?
Do you enjoy books or TV or movies?
Pretty banal questions, I admit. I'm afraid I'm just curious
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On poiiiiint 150%.
There was nothing kind or gentle or empowering or human rights-based about the British empire. It was extractive and pseudo-slavery based and that is all. Of course they weren't the only Western powers to do so but were one of the most successful. How many African tribes, groups, settlements are villages were almost totally wiped out because they had the honor and the courage, and the bravery to resist??
The only thing the old British didn't do was wholesale genocide and slaughter like the Belgians did. So on a scale of shit and evil to even more shit and evil, I'd say compared to the worst maybe they weren't quite as bad but that doesn't mean they were "good".
Great interview. These are all simple facts that anyone can learn for themselves. The information is readily available.
If one believes in white supremacy and might makes right, then they won't find anything wrong with empire, now or then. If on the other hand you find something fundamentally objectionable and repugnant those world views, if you think everyone has the same inherent rights to exist and prosper and no single person or race or ethnic group is inherently inferior to another, then yes, you will.
The global South deserves parity, reparations and empowerment going forward. This world could be constructive place not one human rights genocidal disaster after another. I mean why should the world be constantly a cycle of mass casualty and mass death events? Why can't we just work together for the betterment of all?
Time to free and re-establish a new free sovereign Palestine bamn. 🇵🇸🇵🇸
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@joseeguizabal6712 I am and no, you're totally right. The whole idea of a war purely for the profits and initiated aggressively based on utter fabrications is about the most amoral thing possible. I'm not against all possible interventions, there are always justifying examples, but must be judged very thoroughly and seriously and thru due process; and I'm glad we kept the Taliban at bay to the extent that we did and took down Saddam & his evil sons, they were very, very vicious, but NO you're 100% correct- this whole project was 99.9% immoral from the start and even I, after all this time haven't learned the full extent of the disgusting levels of ongoing war crimes, appalling tactics, unbelievable incompetence or corruption which sabotaged some of the efforts that could have achieved a better outcome; and an almost total disregard of the indigenous population who ended up as intended and unintended (but never dwelt upon) victims of drone bombing and indiscriminate strafing; and most vile and evil of all, the CIA- led death squads and kidnappings, imprisonment and torture on baseless intelligence.
Guantanamo STILL isn't closed.
Psychopaths from and associated the Pentagon operate with key members of our govts express and tacit permission, including all PMCs.
The business of indiscrimate death and torture is a booming one thanks to the US.
All those responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity on behalf of our gov will never pay. Where's the Nuremberg trials for these people??? For the deaths our immoral sanctions cause, esp in Iraq??? For our efforts throughout Latin America, mostly CIA-sponsored??
Yes, EVERY Prez since 2000 bears shared responsibly in the killing fields that we created overseas all so that 6 defense contractors could experience legendary profits, and ALL previous Prez's bear the responsibility for openly endorsing or turning a blind eye to the savage and murdereous exploits that the CIA have lavishly dealt out all over the world. Not to be too big picture, but the entire foreign policy mission of our govt organization is comply or suffer or die. No one is too young or too innocent to get targeted or dismissed as no more than collateral detritus from covert overthrows or overt attacks.
TLDR: You're goddamn right.
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@LethargicSquirrel right. It's obvious that the vast majority of the reason we have such a ridiculous unjust expansive Prison State today is for free labor. That is by far the main driver. So the plantations just changed. While there's always going to be a minority of truly violent or antisocial predators, you CANNOT have a ginormous inhumane prison industrial complex like we have and NOT have free labor be the driving reason! Who are the targets to be selected for this very special program? Very simple, you just have to be a person of color or poor, that's it. If you're privileged you almost never see the inside of a cell except perhaps in a federal prison because that's its own kin of poisonous worms (but even so much more unlikely).
It's costing hundreds of billions a year to cage up to 2M people, most for nonsense, and for what??. I hope it's working out for those in charge on the balance sheet because honestly, I don't even think they're coming out ahead cost wise, but maybe they are, maybe that's why they keep doing it.
Imagine a country run by such miserable subhuman evil hateful wretches that cost is no object to continue to cage and oppress and subjugate up to TWO million people, just because (free labor but overall, just because). NOT because they are bloodthirsty predators in most cases but because they smoked a bowl or sold some substances or committed a minor crime. And ftr I'm all for people being held accountable but not the way ours are. They don't want you ever getting out. Laws like three strikes are proof of that, and while these laws that the devil himself cooked up are only supposed to apply to felonies (which by the way everything's a felony today, for this exact reason) they're frequently applied to misdemeanors as well. If you're not familiar with the issue as I am you really cannot believe the evil that goes on behind the scenes. A very easy evil by these judges and DAs and lawmakers. The goal is to Shanghai as many people into the system as possible (guilt or innocence is absolutely irrelevant, applying a just sentence is absolutely irrelevant, does it matter who they are as long as they're an easy target, constitution? Civil rights? Nobody cares), keep them there as long as possible, make it as difficult for them to get out as possible and as difficult to stay out as possible. Think I'm exaggerating? Do the most superficial research into this issue and you will see I am NOT. I also have some personal experience with the system with close contacts of mine.
I guess all the authorities feel the cost is well worth it because they make back several times that in all the essentially free labor.
I mean really most people who are lucky enough never to have to tangle with government destroyers in this country just don't get it bec they don't see it. We are still very much a SLAVE State. It's insane. Shame on these hateful crazies! They'll fight to the death to keep others in chains, directly or indirectly. Hard to believe it's still happening. I don't know what it's going to take to change this. The people in power are fkg amoral. They LOVE using people as disposable objects to make money off of, they can't get enough of it.
I am mindfucked to understand what it's going to take to bring this to an end. The trade of human flesh in this country never stopped it just changed in outward form.
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@LethargicSquirrel . @LethargicSquirrel right. It's obvious that the vast majority of the reason we have such a ridiculous unjust expansive Prison State today is for free labor. That is by far the main driver. So the plantations just changed. While there's always going to be a minority of truly violent or antisocial predators, you CANNOT have a ginormous inhumane prison industrial complex like we have and NOT have free labor be the driving reason! Who are the targets to be selected for this very special program? Very simple, you just have to be a person of color or poor, that's it. If you're privileged you almost never see the inside of a cell except perhaps in a federal prison because that's its own kin of poisonous worms (but even so much more unlikely).
It's costing hundreds of billions a year to cage up to 2M people, most for nonsense, and for what??. I hope it's working out for those in charge on the balance sheet because honestly, I don't even think they're coming out ahead cost wise, but maybe they are, maybe that's why they keep doing it.
Imagine a country run by such miserable subhuman evil hateful wretches that cost is no object to continue to cage and oppress and subjugate up to TWO million people, just because (free labor but overall, just because). NOT because they are bloodthirsty predators in most cases but because they smoked a bowl or sold some substances or committed a minor crime. And ftr I'm all for people being held accountable but not the way ours are. They don't want you ever getting out. Laws like three strikes are proof of that, and while these laws that the devil himself cooked up are only supposed to apply to felonies (which by the way everything's a felony today, for this exact reason) they're frequently applied to misdemeanors as well. If you're not familiar with the issue as I am you really cannot believe the evil that goes on behind the scenes. A very easy evil by these judges and DAs and lawmakers. The goal is to Shanghai as many people into the system as possible (guilt or innocence is absolutely irrelevant, applying a just sentence is absolutely irrelevant, does it matter who they are as long as they're an easy target, constitution? Civil rights? Nobody cares), keep them there as long as possible, make it as difficult for them to get out as possible and as difficult to stay out as possible. Think I'm exaggerating? Do the most superficial research into this issue and you will see I am NOT. I also have some personal experience with the system with close contacts of mine.
I guess all the authorities feel the cost is well worth it because they make back several times that in all the essentially free labor.
I mean really most people who are lucky enough never to have to tangle with government destroyers in this country just don't get it bec they don't see it. We are still very much a SLAVE State. It's insane. Shame on these hateful crazies! They'll fight to the death to keep others in chains, directly or indirectly. Hard to believe it's still happening. I don't know what it's going to take to change this. The people in power are fkg amoral. They LOVE using people as disposable objects to make money off of, they can't get enough of it.
I am mindfucked to understand what it's going to take to bring this to an end. The trade of human flesh in this country never stopped it just changed in outward form.
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@LethargicSquirrel right. It's obvious that the vast majority of the reason we have such a ridiculous unjust expansive Prison State today is for free labor. That is by far the main driver. So the plantations just changed. While there's always going to be a minority of truly violent or antisocial predators, you CANNOT have a ginormous inhumane prison industrial complex like we have and NOT have free labor be the driving reason! Who are the targets to be selected for this very special program? Very simple, you just have to be a person of color or poor, that's it. If you're privileged you almost never see the inside of a cell except perhaps in a federal prison because that's its own kin of poisonous worms (but even so much more unlikely).
It's costing hundreds of billions a year to cage up to 2M people, most for nonsense, and for what??. I hope it's working out for those in charge on the balance sheet because honestly, I don't even think they're coming out ahead cost wise, but maybe they are, maybe that's why they keep doing it.
Imagine a country run by such miserable subhuman evil hateful wretches that cost is no object to continue to cage and oppress and subjugate up to TWO million people, just because (free labor but overall, just because). NOT because they are bloodthirsty predators in most cases but because they smoked a bowl or sold some substances or committed a minor crime. And ftr I'm all for people being held accountable but not the way ours are. They don't want you ever getting out. Laws like three strikes are proof of that, and while these laws that the devil himself cooked up are only supposed to apply to felonies (which by the way everything's a felony today, for this exact reason) they're frequently applied to misdemeanors as well. If you're not familiar with the issue as I am you really cannot believe the evil that goes on behind the scenes. A very easy evil by these judges and DAs and lawmakers. The goal is to Shanghai as many people into the system as possible (guilt or innocence is absolutely irrelevant, applying a just sentence is absolutely irrelevant, does it matter who they are as long as they're an easy target, constitution? Civil rights? Nobody cares), keep them there as long as possible, make it as difficult for them to get out as possible and as difficult to stay out as possible. Think I'm exaggerating? Do the most superficial research into this issue and you will see I am NOT. I also have some personal experience with the system with close contacts of mine.
I guess all the authorities feel the cost is well worth it because they make back several times that in all the essentially free labor.
I mean really most people who are lucky enough never to have to tangle with government destroyers in this country just don't get it bec they don't see it. We are still very much a SLAVE State. It's insane. Shame on these hateful crazies! They'll fight to the death to keep others in chains, directly or indirectly. Hard to believe it's still happening. I don't know what it's going to take to change this. The people in power are fkg amoral. They LOVE using people as disposable objects to make money off of, they can't get enough of it.
I am mindfucked to understand what it's going to take to bring this to an end. The trade of human flesh in this country never stopped it just changed in outward form.
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@RextheRebel that is completely bizarre you would argue that people shouldn't have freedom to go where they wish. That's pretty fash of you. You want people to have LESS freedom??? Why? I mean that's pretty 1984 of you to say that people shouldn't be able to emigrate where they wish.
I get your sensitive about immigration but I hope you don't feel that people should be prisoners of their stupid government. Obviously citizens should be able to leave their home country whenever they want and reenter whenever they want. Maybe you were trying to say that immigration should be controlled but not emigration- the outflow of citizens from a given country to another nation for temporary travel or permanent move (legal immigration or passport travel)
But I get it you're afraid of outsiders and non-whites. That's too bad. That's just so unnatural for me. I'm Wht but my partner is Black. I've been around other races all my life.
I don't know what to say to change your mind & I probably won't today but these are just insights into my values. I'm not xenophobic so I mean I don't understand why people are afraid of other people who were born elsewhere; doesn't really make sense to me. We're all human beings. There are different cultures with different belief systems, I don't agree with every type of belief but I try to respect other cultures.
This country is currently full of people from dozens and dozens of racial and ethnic backgrounds, including Native Americans whose roots go back 10-20,000 years. This country was built on non-stop immigration since 1609 (& no one asked the natives if they minded if other people came here). Now you act like we should put up a wall. That's just crazy. For positive or negative reasons people have always moved around. I understand in the ancient world they had walls but it was a completely different world, a simple world. Those measures were to try to keep out military invasions, not regular people. (And then there was the Berlin Wall which was a unique situation)
This country is extremely racially diverse right now, and while it's certainly not evenly distributed, overall it's a melting pot; and you're worried about adding other non-white people into our mix?? I hate to break it to you but you're too late. Diversity is here.
Yes it's a finite planet but there is more than enough to go around in my belief. We have so much wealth in this country; most of it gets horded amongst the ultra-wealthy or wasted, which is pretty sad, but even what remains is still plenty. I don't know how to prove this to you but I know it's true.
You think there's millions of migrants coming in? Lol no. You are misinformed. There's 10-40K a year max. Now that is a number that can be verified.
We COULD accept millions comfortably but there's only 25K roughly give or take each year, a tiny fraction. Even if it were true, 10M is nothing in a country as large as ours. There's 330M people in this country among mostly 48 lower contiguous states. You really think we don't have room to put people?? Obviously they're not going to be evenly distributed but we certainly have room for people to spread out.
As far as physical resources we have those coming out the yin yang. There's more than enough raw materials, housing, & food to go around. The problem is as I said too much is being wasted, a disgraceful reality, but believe me it's there. This is the most abundant (or at least one of the most abundant) nations in earth. I mean if our population jumped up 10M over the next two years we could easily accommodate that. After all, 20 years ago the population was maybe 290M. How did we possibly accommodate 40M new people in just 20 years; People who were born here and legal immigrants? Well we did. They're out here & the world didn't end or the sk fall down. So what does it matter if we add 2M more next year? Provided they don't all converge in one town or city it would be fine. Again I'm not suggesting we take in 2M tomorrow, but I believe we could easily accommodate that much & more, especially if they were given transitional assistance including financial benefits meaning they would be able to buy what they needed thus providing commerce and consumption locally.
The point is there's no magical number that this ginormous piece of land we call the US can comfortably accommodate. We could probably easily double our current population if resources were more efficiently allocated.
You're welcome to believe as you wish, I don't think I'm going to be changing your mind tonight but I am telling you that you believe a myth that we have scarcity in this country, or even the world. There are stats on this, I don't have them in front of me but if you're curious the videos are out there and they're very informative.
Fact is there's no need for anyone to be poor in this country. ALL poverty here is artificially created either directly or indirectly, via things like piss poor wages, lack of healthcare, no job security, lack of psych support, lack of affordable housing, unaffordable higher ed, etc.
Something like 40% of all food produced is wasted via various means. Supposedly we have something like 5 or 6 housing units for every homeless person. Oh we have plenty here to go around you can best believe me on that, or look it up yourself. It's just being misused.
Secondly, consider appreciating diversity. Wouldn't it be boring if everyone was the same? I live in San Diego which is close to the US/Mexican border. I've lived around diverse regions all my life, to me it's natural.
Maybe it's time to try to expand your horizons a bit. Like it or not the US has been racially diverse since before it was even created. Not as much so as today ofc but increasingly so every year.
Just some stuff to keep in mind. I know it's tempting to always want to be afraid of something out there but to me that's just not a very constructive attitude. It's not empowering. I mean aren't we all more or less the same on the inside? Yeah yeah I know that's a trite saying but isn't it true?? Aren't we all human beings? Does national origin even matter? Well it doesn't matter to me- at all. I don't care where someone's from I just need to know that they don't mean me any harm and as long as I can be assured of that then I welcome them to this land and I wish them well. I mean people bring their hard work, their talents, and their contributions. You act like all they do is take. Sure they take but they pay for what they use in most cases and they give their work and their various knowledge bases in return. Same as the rest of us. Life is a never-ending cycle of give and take with everyone.
You shouldn't look at legal versus illegal immigration any differently. It should all be legal because the door should be open to everyone. I want everyone to feel like like they have a place here. Why would I want some people to feel shut out, especially if they're desperate?? If we have the means to help, them we should. That's my value. Of course we should help our own people too and I talk about that all the time but regarding outsiders we should just open the goddamn borders, let everyone come through and help those who need it. I mean we could get this done tomorrow. I just want to get it done! I can't believe our gross political system is stretching out this issue for votes. That's really disgraceful. People will spread out & filter out just the way that local domestic citizens do now. They're not all going to go to one city or town, it's not going to be a glut, if that's what you're worried about. Plus we can set up efficient temporary housing near the border while we're processing everyone. They do this elsewhere to handle large temporary population. Plus, with better urbanism and city management we can safely house and service more people more efficiently in denser areas- which would benefit local populations as much as immigrants.
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These types of restrictions on land use when it's privately owned are not morally right and will NEVER be morally right.
ALSO; let's just make it clear right NOW, "GOBERMINT" is just another word for CRIME without consequence and GANG RULE, and ergo they have NO RIGHT TO TAKE WHAT'S OURS OR DEMAND OUR MONEY WITHOUT OUR PERMISSION! THEY HAVE NO MORAL RIGHT!!!! (Public funding should be based on a mostly voluntary basis, I can go into more detail later)
THIS IS CALLED GRAND LARCENY, VIOLENCE, EXTORTION AND RACKETEERING. All obviously unethical and immoral actions that should be called out and violently opposed by all means necessary.
I have much much more I'd like to say but every time I try to expand, it gets blocked and I'm not sure what's triggering the AI bot.
We DON'T have to tolerate this, people! We DON'T we don't deserve it. We HAVE to know what's right and what's wrong, AND THIS IS WRONG. THEY are WRONG!!!
Ownership needs to MEAN something, or we have very little rights indeed!! Nobody has the right to dominate and control another's property not an HOA not anyone!!! NOBODY!!!! Evil is SO rife in this country I don't know where to start.
THIS, and all actions like it are WRONG. They are just unequivocally black and white morally wrong, and must be a post and thank you to IJ for doing so! We need much more of that.
ONLY by fighting can we free ourselves from these tyrannies and tyrants and these human philth and all their many MANY attempts to destroy us for profit!
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Neoliberalism is just the lack of any basic decency in governing values. It just means rule by the rapacious and ruthless hyperelite, whose interests are protected and promoted and aggressively served by an equally ruthless and morally bankrupt State. That's all it is.
Human rights don't exist, Labor rights don't exist, even to an extent children's rights don't exist. It's the absolute abnegation of ANYTHING that distinguishes the human race from the beasts. Only pure greed matters, and only greed of those at the top. If you try to do the same thing as an average or poor person the State will find you and do everything in their power to stop you or destroy you. You are not their friend. Non-elites have no value and aren't even seen as human beings by members of the State under this system. In short, it's a system of, by, and for the ruthless infinitely greedy psychopath class.
Under this structure, the State exists to be the enablers, protectors, and facilitators of the hyperelite in all ways. They believe that only THEY have the right to all of the usable resources in a given society or even this entire planet.
Under this system the bottom 90% have no right to exist other than as a slave force for the hyperelite. Everything is set up to facilitate, see,rve promote, protect, and enrich the hyperelite. What the hyperelite want, the hyperelite get. If you are a commoner, yes you get to exist and you can try to seek an extremely modest income and some very limited modest wealth but if you somehow magically overcome the odds and exceed that, chances are these deeply evil and degenerate State demons will try to find something to injure you with because again, you are not their friend and in their eyes you have no rights to wealth, that right is reserved ONLY for the hyperelite. They are the only humans under the system who have any rights to wealth and gain. Through excessive property taxes, unjust and trumped up federal charges, or any other single one of many nefarious means, the State WILL try to harm you if you seek wealth under the system, legally or especially illegally, if you are not a member of thd special hyperelite class that they serve. If you oppose any of this and speak out you will be targeted and be attacked in many different ways. There are tens of thousands of ruthless Blue Gestapo that for whatever reason (since I know they're not benefiting directly financially,) are only too happy to inflict mindless and increasing levels of violence on citizens that publicly voice their oppositions to this system.
Basically neoliberalism is a takeover by psychopaths and backed up with enough Blue psychopaths to enact their will. That's it in a nutshell. It's what we're all trapped under right now. It doesn't mean life is impossible and no one can make a living; that's not true per se; it just means that survival becomes increasingly tenuous and impossible for vastly increasing numbers for obvious reasons. It also means small business owners, small operators and small farmers are always at risk of big business expansion and the power of State force that the entire big business class holds in the palm of their hand.
Under this kind of no holds barred psychopath-takeover system, if you're not a member of the very special elite class, made up of billionaires, mega millionaires and all big business, you don't exist and your rights are about as durable as tissue paper.
Sadly, it has been this way now for at least 50 years but then again, going back over all of incorporated us history, the financial elites have always had an outsize level of control and this only deep into an exploded starting with the rise of the industrialists in the 1870s.
It doesn't mean no one can make a good living here or even achieve wealth, just that it's statistically almost impossible for an average person to achieve any real wealth during their life, as the intentional obstacles, traps and sabotages that the stayte puts in place to ensure that ALL the money goes to the hyperelite are legendary, ruthlessly effective, and myriad.
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@HappyBump-ts2gw . @HappyBump-ts2gw @HappyBump-ts2gw @HappyBump-ts2gw I get it, you hate the homeless and see them as animals and wish that they would go away and die. Cruelty towards the less fortunate is very popular today, you're in a lot of great infamous company, you should be proud. Got it loud and clear. Why don't you move along to a channel that you feel much more comfortable on? We don't cater to your attitude type here.
Before you go, something to keep in mind -
One,, somebody else's drug use issue is NOT YOUR BUSINESS. they have the right to put ANYTHING THEY WANT into their own BODY. We all do. So long as they aren't affecting your personal rights, your liberty to come and go, or your property, you have no right to say anything against them. Why do you want them to be arrested? HOW DOES THEIR EXISTENCE AFFECT YOU IN ANY WAY? That's incredibly ignorant of you. Do you smoke cigarettes? Should you be arrested for smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, or eating sugary foods? Why should someone's Free Will choice of a particular substance or food that they consume be treated as a crime? This is wholeheartedly fascist-level thinking. You just want an excuse to look down on other people, probably because you know deep down you're a l oser who hasn't done a thing with their life but since it's easier to pick on others than admit that, that's what you do.
You're ignorant. I don't know why you hate homeless people but they deserve our compassion. "There before the grace of God go I" have you ever heard of that??? It could easily happen to each and every one of us. Anyone. All they want to do is be treated like human beings and be left alone. They're trying to survive don't you get it? THAT IS THEIR HUMAN RIGHT.
I guess your parents never taught you compassion or empathy.
There are tons of right-wing ignorance-spewing hate channels that will welcome you with open arms. Why don't you go find them?
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@mr.horrorchild4094 Federal monies are minted and printed on a set schedule, go out towards the central banks, and are utilized every time Congress decides to spend on something.
Regardless of the specifics the federal government creates money you know that right? All independent nations create their own currency - it's one mark of independence aka sovereignity.
Federal government could spend on anything it wants because it creates its own money. it's decides the size of spending from year to year. That's literally the first privilege of a so-called legitimate federal government. It creates money and the people in that so-called nation use it, and sometimes people outside that nation as well.
I mean if the federal government didn't create legal currency, where would all our money come from? Kind of a logical question there.
The reason counterfeit money is considered bad or illegitimate is because it was never sanctioned by Congress and the IRS. However, functionally it's as legitimate as anything else. Anything accepted by a taker as an acceptable means of exchange does in that moment become functional currency.
Anyhow watch mmt videos it's extremely simple. The central gov set a budget every year, they can set it for as high as low as they like because that's one of their main responsibilities and the choice is theirs, they sent a certain amount of legal currency into circulation every year by choosing to fund different federal programs, projects and agencies, and that's that.
If I'm ever mistaken about anything above I'll gladly admit it but I doubt it. I mean how else could it even work? The money has to start somewhere, it starts with the central govt.
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You know why I know the bullshit fearmongering about inflation is wrong? Because you never hear about it when when they are cutting blank checks for Wall Street and the DOD. You NEVER hear about that and the amounts they spend are truly astounding. When they're giving hundreds of billions in corporate welfare to these worthless fat cats who don't deserve a PENNY because they already have millions or billions (so how dare they turn around and ask the government for basically a welfare check), they never talk about inflation then, oh no. Look people, It's ALL a scam. Not enough to help the poorest on the bottom stay housed or meet their basic needs, but there's ALWAYS enough to give a check for a billion or 500M to their rich buddies on Wall Street who already made them a campaign contribution, not to mention spend 1T for the DOD yearly. People crying about inflation are just misinformed and it's all part of the inflation scam which is an easy cop out for those in government not to put one PENNY towards relief for the ordinary person. I mean if excessive government spending was a problem then they would stop spending overall don't you think??? Not just curiously when it comes to doing something for regular people? I mean this is common sense, you don't need a PhD to be asking these questions. The tap never once runs dry for Wall Street and DOD. Just the rest of us. I can't be the only one that sees an issue with this.
It's like when you were in school and either you or somebody else would call up one of your friends and say "hey you want to hang out" and they said "no I'm a little busy right now I can't do it because of XYZ", and you thought "okay", but then you see them later hanging out with somebody else. I'm sure every one of us has been through that sometime or another. Turns out they had plenty of time, they just didn't want to go out with you, but they didn't want to be rude or impolite, so they made up an excuse. But when somebody else asked them they were ready to go. It's the exact same thing. These dogs out there in DC that control the purse, the vast majority just don't give a shit about us even if their lives depended on it, and they don't want to give us one cent to help with our needs- that's it. But of course they will never neglect Wall Street or big business and certainly not the misnamed "Defense" dept.
SO PEOPLE PLEASE STOP FALLING FOR THE INFLATION SCAM. EVERY TIME THEY TALK ABOUT DOMESTIC SPENDING THAT'S THE FIRST THING OUT OF ALMOST EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEIR MOUTHS. It's a lie, and it's bogus. These bought and paid for posers don't give a SHIT about spending if it's for Wall Street or the DOD. They just don't WANT to spend any on you or me, get that through your head. Not that they can't AFFORD to, they just don't want to, and inflation is the easy excuse to say we can't or we shouldn't.
Inflation is rarely if ever caused by government spending- let's get that through all of our heads right NOW. It's caused by corporate greed and the lack of anti- price- gouging laws or price controls coming from the government.
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@skaareen THATS HOW IT SHOULD BE. PIGS SHOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED TO JUST ROAM AROUND OUTSIDE THEIR OWN LOOKING FOR VICTIMS TO HARASS, STEAL FROM, SHAKE DOWN, WRITE TRAFFIC TICKETS TO (EXTORTION/THEFT), LIE TO AND SAY THEY CAN'T PARK LATE/OVERNIGHT SOMEWHERE EVEN THO ITS A COMPLETELY LEGAL SPOT AND ITS PUBLIC PROPERTY, ROUTINELY VIOLATE BASIC CIVIL RIGHTS, ETC!!! You know, like they do everywhere in the US.
The US is a totally Gestapo-fash-infested state because mass Incarceration and mass menacing by Pigs has been most counties' policy for at least 40 years. Why?? Some of its due to hatefulness and racism, but also because even tho it costs billions upon billions to maintain this evil Gestapo prison-state, it also makes certain interests huge profits and provides endless job security to prison guards and local Pigs who no doubt wouldn't be able to get a job anywhere else, because as long as you're breathing and can speak, you can get a job as a Pig in the US. The training is 6 months tops and in some cases you don't even have to
And after this you get a gun and you're put on the streets and given a patrol route. You're supposed to try to arrest as MANY people as you can and steal as MUCH as you can from your community, because after all most of that money that comes in from tickets, car thefts (tows), and bail (bail is everywhere), goes right back into the budgets of the local PD or sheriff's department and eventually into these criminals' paychecks. And bail-extorting is a mega-billion-dollar industry in this country.
Policing in the US is a ruthless profit-making PONZI scheme. It also serves to keep the local jails full (again more bail = More profit for the county, so it's basically like ransom money) and keep the state prisons likewise full. Again, the stated policy from even the federal govt since 1981 has been Mass Incarceration and it's only getting worse.
If Denmark doesn't do this, and I know it doesn't, than I'm really happy for you guys. I'm not saying it's all bad here, so long as the Pigs stay out of your life it's not; but the systems of DELIBERATE violence and oppression are GROSS.
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[long post]
It would be one thing if our wars were just, and only defensive, but they aren't. Everyone connected to the US military machine should ask themselves exactly what agenda they are actually serving? Whose will they are actually carrying out? I understand needing a job, skills training, a path to college and everything else - but the problem is, nothing DC does is moral. It's all about maintaining a big stick in order to commit violence to any country that doesn't do our will- which is letting multinationals enter another nation and take its resources as they see fit. This is what tens of 1000s have died, gotten seriously injured and gotten serious PTSD for. And how many 1000s or millions of innocent civilians and noncombatants have died both directly or indirectly as a result of our coups, sanctions and military interventions????? Something like at least 10M at last estimate, some claim as high as 20M.
Not exactly a noble purpose. All for the profits of big business, especially Big Oil. All for nothing, essentially. Are corporate profits worth 20M dead?? The rest of us don't even see much benefit from the end result of all these resource seizures. Sure we have oil- but it hasn't been all that cheap since the early 2000s, and it isn't now.
Big business is hardly even taxed here. On those taxes alone we could easily provide for all the basic needs of everyone in the country. But DC and states don't do this. Isn't this interesting?? Could it be because they are owned by and serve these interests?
So the only people who REALLY benefit from our imperialism is Wall Street and the weapons the military equipment industry. These DC snakes wouldn't even pay to cover the medical bills for a few thousand sufferers of toxic dump exposure post 9/11 until two years ago. And remember when they refused to help Gulf War vets in the 90s with Gulf War syndrome?? I will say overall the VA is getting better now and offers quality care, but that wasn't always true. It's a special evil and cruelty to deny basic covered care to veteran's. And they still don't ensure all homeless vets get housed and connected to the proper support services. There should be guaranteed federal housing and psych care for ALL vets who need it!
People should think long and hard before serving THIS govt. They are definitely sociopaths and won't think twice about disposing of those once they no longer need them. Not to mention, why serve the financial interests of people who do nothing to help support the bottom 70% in this country?? They're more than happy to take your death, but what about doing something for your life?
The very fact 18yo are allowed to be posted to the front line is shameful. There should be an age limit, at least 25 years, for durect combat positions. And NO REPEAT DEPLOYMENTS, unless expressly requested by the servicemember and only after a mandatory interim period of 12 months. If the military REALLY cared about the young people in it and sll it's members, it would observe limitations like this and it wouldn't nickel and dime them once they get back!!! And they would keep base housing in safe and proper condition, my goodness the defense budget is 1T, and we cant maintain our base facilities?? Not to mention the lack of critical equipment at vital times in the field. With such a ginormous budget, how can any aspect of any part of this complex system be neglected??? Especially when servicemembers' lives depend on it!?! But that's exactly what happened during the first 3-5 years of the Iraq occupation. Donald Rumsfeld tried to defend it, almost implying the troops were weak and effeminate to dare complain about not being given the vital battle-ready vehicles and equipment they needed to stay alive. But that's what happens when you see all servicepeople as easily expendable and replaceable, as cannon fodder. Shameful. But that's how it often is among the top DOD brass and officials.
If I felt the federal govt had a just or at least a defensible policy towards the rest of the world, I wouldn't oppose the military structure. But I do, and therefore I can no longer in good conscience support our massive military machine. It serves an immoral and indefensible goal. We have never liberated or saved a single people since the close of WW2. (With perhaps a small exception marginalizing the Taliban in Afghanistan. Thanks to our evil drones and special forces crimes, they wanted us out and of course who could blame them. Now thanks to Mike pompeo who cut a special deal with the Taliban, the talibs were able to take back over and that of course is bad for everyone in the region. Also Biden is evil and he stole all of the previous govts money that was in the Afg central bank - all 9B of it. Now most of the country is suffering or going hungry or flat out starving because they cannot access the money they had, since the talibs now have no way to pay anyone.)
And this is made much worse by sanctions which are harming everyone in Afghanistan. It is truly evil what Biden and his people are choosing to do to the people of Afghanistan and have already done. He cannot claim the sanctions are in response to the Taliban because they were only able to take over in Kabul due to the troop withdrawal which was the worst planned and most rushed I've ever seen. Sanctions aren't going to do anything to the Taliban, but they will cause extreme hardship to millions of dirt poor civilians. Disgusting.
So what DC does is cause mass death and hardship all over the world to absolutely powerless and innocent people. As regular Americans, we shouldn't tolerate this or voluntarily serve in any of forces used to enable these tactics, or to actively brutalize and intimate any other nation, usually comparatively poor and undeveloped nations.
So for all these reasons, any thinking person of conscience should now oppose the USs military machine including it's service academies UNTIL the savagery against other nations and regions stops and moves to one of equal economic exchange and a just peace. There is nothing wrong with a defensive military apparatus, but that is not what we have. We are very much the aggressor and brutalizer and usually of completely innocent civilians. A moral power doesn't do that. We must stop killing the world and learn to respect all life and seek peace with all.
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Dancing Candle let's not assume that yet. I read in another website discussing this case that they were occupied. IF not- and I really wish I had access to the tangible facts, but we don't as of yet- then all I can say is perhaps he panicked?? Perhaps the problem hadn't started yet??? Perhaps he thought he would have another better opportunity to get off the road for some reason, which turned out to be wrong?
I would like to hear what the driver had to say about this. This makes assigning certain aspects of personal guilt difficult without knowing certain key facts for sure.
IF he made an unwise decision not to use an available and unoccupied escape ramps, IS THAT CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE, if he HONESTLY believed he would have a better opportunity to save himself, the truck, and everyone else around him shortly after????
I don't think so. He made a poor judgement call MAYBE, MAYBE! but a criminal one??? I don't see how.
1-3 years in minimum security MAX, is all I would say if I was being forced to assign him time for that.
Here is what I say:
IF he was unqualified for that specific route,
AND/OR the brake system on his CDL vehicle was in unacceptable condition WHEN HE PICKED THE TRUCK UP, AND/OR IT DID INDEED FAIL MID-ROUTE;
AND ALL THIS CAN BE VERIFIED BY A TRUSTED INDEPENDENT SOURCE TO A REASONABLE COURT-ACCEPTED STANDARD; OR ALTERNATIVELY, THE DRIVER'S TESTIMONY PROVES TRUSTWORTHY (so far for me it is);
THEN; THAT IS 100% HIS BOSSES FAULT AND IT IS THEY WHO MUST BE HELD BOTH CRIMINALLY AND CIVILLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VICTIMS' SAKES, especially given their profuse and recent history of KNOWN SAFETY VIOLATIONS!
NOT this man who was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time!
IF you at all disagree, please say why and be SPECIFIC.
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@keithrowell8895 that may be true, I'm not a skilled mechanic and wouldn't know from experience, so let's assume that's true. Isn't it also true that other faults could be in the brake parts and system that aren't visible to an external visual inspection? I would certainly think so.
Regardless, I fail to see how the driver intentionally did anything wrong or demonstrated criminally culpable negligence. As far as the off-ramps, IF it was proven he passed them AFTER the problem began AND they were open and available, I would need to hear his explanation why he didn't choose to take them. Clearly it wasn't because he wanted to cause a 27-car pileup. He may have made the wrong choice, but for understandable reasons. He may have thought a safer opportunity would present itself. Clearly he was wrong, but that does not make him criminally culpable in my eyes because there was no malicious intent. It was the trucking company who chose to assign an inexperienced driver to a route that had steep declines. Sounds like this driver had never driven this route before. It is an ethical trucking company's responsibility to ensure each driver has the skill level necessary to safely navigate each route.
Everyone wants an easy scapegoat due to the level of the tragedy so they're going to sacrifice an innocent man. I'm sure he feels horrific over what happened and could have easily died in the crash himself. The prosectors are pure evil who deserve bullets so they never do this to anyone else, and if it was up to me they would get them. They are psychopaths, as are so many other DAs and judges in our sick current faux-justice system.
It wasn't him at fault, it was the COMPANY who owned and maintained those trucks and controlled who drove the routes. They were the derelict ones. THEY ARE THE ONES WHO SHOULD BE FULLY PROSECUTED AND PUNISHED HERE. BLAME THE REAL CULPRITS HERE. Don't just lash out at whose convenient. And that goes for EVERYONE.
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@keithrowell8895 Texas is flat. CO is not. He should not have been given that route before he was ready and with a truck that hadn't been maintained properly. AGAIN, WHO'S FAULT IS THAT!?!? THE TRUCKING COMPANY THAT EMPLOYED HIM, OBVIOUSLY! He has no control over where he gets assigned OR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE VEHICLES HE GETS ASSIGNED TO. If he volunteered not knowing the nature of the route, his managers or bosses should have at first denied him, informed him of it's challenges, then had him train on it first before sending him out there as a solo driver. One time of training on this route likely could have prevented all of this, not to mention a vehicle that was properly-maintained, as this one appears not to be. AND, AS ALWAYS, WHO'S F-ING FAULT WAS THAT!?!? A MERE DRIVER'S, OR THE F*CKING OWNERS OF THIS UNSCRUPULOUS FLY-BY-NIGHT COMPANY?? The answer should be obvious.
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@melissakennedy1506 sure, I agree that CDL drivers should be held to a much higher standard but I've explained ad nauseum and at length why I don't find him culpable of negligence. I would have to hear directly from him why he didn't take the off-ramps but I'm sure he could give an understandable reason. As if he would have wanted a horrific crash to happen?
In another reporting of these events I heard the off-ramps were occupied, which if so, obviously removes him from any responsibility over that decision. You can't fit two CDL trucks on a single runaway ramp, right??
And clearly, if it's that easy for unscrupulous companies to test, employ, use, and assign insufficiently-skilled drivers to routes; not properly maintain their CDL vehicles, then simply shutdown and scatter into the ether to escape criminal prosecution; much more stringent regulations governing the functioning of CDL businesses seem vitally necessary to me at this point. Again, I am just layperson, I can only judge this situation from where I sit. But I see unacceptable practices being carried out by these companies looking to cut corners by any means necessary and NEVER be held accountable by the courts (SHAME ON THE COURTS FOR THIS, THEY ARE JUST AS LIABLE AS THE COMPANIES IN THIS!), while some poor innocent driver is left holding the bag and hangs for it. Un-fucking-acceptable!
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@kimread8977 I'm very relieved to hear Jay Polis already ruled on it, I'm surprised he acted that fast. Very surprised. I had already called his office twice and was geared up for a long battle.
God if it was a GOP governor he would have laughed at the petition and gone back to taking bribes. I criticize the Dems a lot from the Left but it's situations like these and others why VOTING ACTUALLY DOES MATTER. It actually really does. Electing someone with some strains of empathy and humanity in them, versus a soulless right-winger MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD IN SITUATIONS LIKE THESE. Thank fucking GOD the CO gov has a soul is all I can say. I'm sure he's far from perfect, but he saved a life right here and RIGHT now, and that's one more than yesterday that won't have to be obliterated on the altar of blood and dust that is our national disgrace of a prison system.
The disturbing thing is these two prosectors are still very much employed and certified by the state of CO. Every moment they are allowed to function means another vulnerable defendant in another shit situation is at risk from the same treatment, the same viciousness. Even if they are partially liable, these monsters will go for the most extreme maximum, wiping their ass with the Constitution (as most of them do). They really are hate-filled psychopaths, and they're far from the only ones. I wonder what kind of public push can be done to remove them?
Also, until ALL mandatory minimums and mandatory consecutive sentencing is repealed within CO (and everywhere) sooner or later this will all just happen again. Hopefully a groundswell of public outrage in CO will build and continue giving their racist, bloodthirsty SICK-MINDED legislature no choice but to repeal these sick unconstitutional perversions of justice. We have a lot of similar work to do right here in CA where I live. Actually every state does, but some far more than others. CA's one of the absolute absolute worst, and I'd say LA and IL and PA second. And now ofc CO. Didn't know that these sick failed 80s-era bloodthirsty "tooof on chryme, aka POOR PEOPLE" laws had made it to CO, but now I do; and that's BAD.
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@AndiDelMar I know, I couldn't agree with you more. But there was a huge outcry over this fortunately and the CO gov already reviewed the case and changed it to 10 years. With good behavior he'll be out in 3-6. Also, since the deaths were obviously unintentional, I'm hoping he will be assigned to a minimum or medium security facility.
I believe he was offered 10 or 20 years as a plea deal to start with, but I don't blame him for not taking it!! I wouldn't have either. So the DAs, psychotic as they are, decided to destroy him. Just goes to show you how malleable a jury is, as they voted to convict on all 30-some seperate charges. Talk about being mind-controlled. In their somewhat defense I will say this- a number have spoken out saying they were deliberately NOT informed how the sentence would be applied and CO's horrific "new" mandatory CONSECUTIVE minimums that their VERY VERY EVIL State assembly have passed into "law" (no doubt at the deliberate request of the DAs within the state- see that's how it works- when you're a Pig or a DA or a corporate interest you just send up your "wish list" to your respective State legislature, and you get it! Just like that. The rest of us, on the other hand.....) would affect the defendant, and they said had they known it would be abused in such a manner, they never would have voted guilty. So that's something. And this goes to the deeper immorality and abuses that plague the courts here in general, and how juries are FREQUENTLY intentionally deceived by DAs (and judges too, I can only assume), when crucial facts regarding the legal rights of the jury that of known, could lead to a different verdict or ruling than the DA wants, are purposely concealed from them. DAs are notorious for profligate liars when they want to secure a conviction against someone they know is innocent or far less guilty then they are accusing him of being. Happens all the fucking time and that's what there needs to be fundamental reform at the highest level regarding the rights of the accused, because right now, unless a defendant is priveleged and can hire a strong defense attorney who knows how to recognize and object when this shit happens, those rights get trampled or ignored every DAY in the courtrooms. I know this because you always hear about the more egregious of these types of situations where this happens, and you know they can't be the only isolated instances of such.
To start with ALL juries must be notified of their rights to nullify ANY case they hear, and they MUST be notified of both the minimum and probable amount a time a defendant would receive if they were found guilty. I also believe that a jury MUST be provided the right to recommend or choose a sentence to the judge, if they vote to convict. If there are living victims of a crime, they should be given an opportunity to speak freely in their own words at some point during or after the trial (but prior to sentencing) as well, and recommend a sentence if they choose.
As far as this company you're absolutely right. You see what they did- and this happens fairly frequently from what I understand. They chose to go out of business so they wouldn't be held liable. THEY are the ones who should have been ruthlessly investigated and prosecuted from the start, but you see, DAs are very sick people! It was THEY who committed willful negligence regarding the maintenance of their vehicles and chose to put an inexperienced driver on a mountain route alone, that he had never driven before. It also appears it was their lack of proper maintenance that allowed the brakes to fail when the driver approached the difficult parts of this route. The DA tried to blame the driver for causing the brakes to go out by "riding" them or some shit- well I would like to hear his testimony I'm response to that but I doubt that is what happened- and even if it did, it doesn't mean they weren't in unacceptable condition prior to starting the route anyways NOR that he should have been assigned the route alone without any prior exposure to the steep nature of mountainous routes. You do know that prior this trip he had only driven in Texas. Well guess what- Texas is flat as fuck! He might have thought he could handle this kind of route based on having general driving experience, but if the brake system wasn't in proper condition, and if he wasn't trained on how to handle the unique descents, then he found out all too late that he could not.
What enrages me is how OBVIOUS the trucking company's CULPABILITY in all this was from the start- yet the DAs only went after this one single solitary man- because he was relatively poor, because he was considered more "convenient". Isn't that disgusting??? 100% of the guilt lies with the company- but they don't care! They DON'T CARE. Let that be a lesson to you that DAs virtually never care about justice and any utter nonsense such as " protecting the public"; EVERYTHING these animals do is for an agenda, and a usually (though not every single time) very dirty one at THAT.
And so not only did they hold him solely responsible they tried to DESTROY him. Just because they could. They didn't actually find him criminally culpable in any serious way, or at all, but they saw this as a useful care they could easily manipulate for their own purposes, given the gravity of the tragic outcome and victims involved; but I guarantee, PRIVATELY THEY KNEW THERE WAS LITTLE IF ANYTHING THEY COULD HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY, AND YET- they still tried to portray him as some deliberate monster and skee the facts. And why did they do all this????!? They're evil, that goes without saying- but either, they thought this would somehow boost their careers and reputation; and/or simply because they COULD. And you know- shame on the jury for allowing it, altho I've discussed that, and shame to that judge who had the balls to claim he had no power to change the sentence. HE IS THE JUDGE- HE CAN DO VIRTUALLY ANYTHING HE WANTS IN THAT ROOM. THAT WAS A LIE AND A COPOUT FOR A COWARD, and I say shame on him too. He should step down from the bench TODAY and never set foot in another courtroom. If it was up to him, this man would still be looking at a life sentence.
But sadly, cases like this aren't unique. Cowardly, shameful judges who don't deserve to sit on the bench together with weak, deceived and misinformed juries convict and over-convict thousands and thousands of good people every year.
Today a man who was caught in a horrific no-win situation has a future thanks to the humanity of CO's current governor. THIS EASILY COULD HAVE GONE A DIFFERENT WAY.
Some things I want to see happen immediately now (they won't, but hopefully with more public outrage over cases like this they will soon).
The entire trucking industry standards, accountability, and training need to be overhauled. THIS particular company needs to civilly and criminally prosecuted. Going out of business shouldn't protect them from being held accountable. According to what I've heard, they had a KNOWN documented history of at least 30 significant safety violations including brake systems within the previous 24 months to when this incident originally occurred.
These vile amoral mandatory minimums need to repealed in every state starting with CO.
Court processes need to aggressively change to empower juries and protect the rights of the accused. The omnipotence and legal impunity of DAs needs to be ABOLISHED IMMEDIATELY. They're as bad as the goddamn Pigs.
Far more checks and balances need to be built into the legal and court systems at EVERY stage and level.
And last but most certainly not least, these filthy subhumans who went after this man FOR SPORT, should be permanently disbarred and charged with malicious prosecution, or they'll just do this to someone else. Fuck, they're probably planning it right now. They must be so displeased that they couldn't unjustly steal a decent person's life, and as soon as they're able and see a good opportunity, they'll just ramp up and just do it someone else. To save future citizens from this kind of malice and viciousness, they should be removed immediately and held accountable. I honestly don't see that happening, and it's a goddamn shame. These kinds of psychotics who treat our lives like a game shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a courtroom.
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@Hydrangea-jr6 It's just THAT simple. All this insanity could have been avoided from the start, if the State, by way of the DAs, had used a CONSCIENCE and DID THEIR FUCKING JOB; if they didn't go evil, and if they pursued the ones who were ACTUALLY responsible FROM THE BEGINNING, NOT JUST WHO WAS THE SIMPLEST, and didn't try to WASTE significant public MONEY AND TIME on a VICIOUS witch-hunt to destroy a man who just happened to be operating the vehicle at the time of the crash (and who cleared all DUI tests) and no doubt did the best he could under the circumstances to prevent a terrible tragedy, and who MAY have made a wrong decision re: off-ramps while panicking (that's IF he even knew what they were- he may never have seen them before or been tested on them, and under a panic maybe he didn't realize their purpose. I honestly don't know but I'm sure he regrets his decision not to take the escape ramps IF they were even available at the time, every moment of every day), but who ultimately had ZERO control over the maintenance of the vehicle and shouldn't have been on that route to BEGIN with due to his lack of previous experience with mountainous terrain. Even if he volunteered, he likely didn't know the difficulty, and his supervisors should have assigned someone else in his place.
IF they had done do, and IF the braking system had been properly maintained and was functional, then none of this would have ever happened.
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Unfortunately when you get this type of intentional divestment and essentially looting by oligarchs and/or well-connected behind the scenes interests, sadly this is what happens.
When two-thirds or four-fifths of the population are considered extraneous or unworthy or unnecessary by those public roles, these are the inevitable results.
I'm on the far left because no other value system actually works, if by working one means "care for everyone".
At least SOME control of big business and downward redistribution through fair taxation, is necessary, or more and more money is hollowed out of our communities and flows upward and ends up in fewer and fewer hands, either inside or out of the country. We are seeing results of decades of this shitty neoliberal con game both within the US and the UK right now.
In addition, central government funding is very important. But since everyone outside of a far leftist doesn't give a flying fuck about the vast majority of the populace, then when all of these non-Left persons are in charge they aren't going to maintain or increase funding to necessary public needs. As it is with our two bought-and-paid-for corporate right-wing parties in the us, the GOP and the Democrats, they really don't care if the anyone in the public lives or dies. They're not here for us, they don't see themselves as public servants, they find that to be a joke (GOP esp). They are out here to get rich by serving the big money, which means very wealthy individuals and big business. Here in the US, being a loyal servant and protector of big money interests will provide you a fabulous lifestyle both while in office and definitely beyond. If you only care about yourself it's a perfect career choice.
At the state and federal level in the US has been virtually impossible to elect even pretend left candidates much less actual. We have no left party here outside of fringe associations that unfortunately they so far are not organized enough to even break into big city politics much less state level. I'm sure they're trying though it's just that for whatever reason, if they do field candidates the voters don't choose them. Well I chalk this up mostly to billionaire owned media. Outsider candidates are rarely if ever given any time on MSM. The pathetic duopoly (GOP/Dems) are very proficient at making it next to impossible for any challenger parties or candidates to mount a successful campaign.
Electoral politics is completely controlled by a very smart web of interlocking Big Money interests; the problem lies in that average and poor people continue to vote for the same assholes who serve them, which I can only assume means they don't want better for themselves or anyone else.
Here in the US we do have public ballot measures at the local and state level. All matters imo should be going to a public referendum on a regular schedule but that isn't a reality yet, but at least there are various public voting cycles where we can make our views heard directly. Unfortunately we have a lot of shameless politicians that really don't give a fuck, even when the public votes strongly in favor or against something they will use whatever methods they can to do an end run around or subvert it. This can happen on a local or a state level. Yeah a lot of them are pretty shameless; they refuse to give up pushing their own agenda even when the public voice is strong on a particular issue.
So the 99%'s enemy is and has always been various unfeeling lowlife political types, and elite level greed, but beyond that, a public that continues to choose these interests knowingly or unknowingly.
Knowing this, it's frustrating and difficult to try to imagine an effective strategy to rest power away from these interests and back in the direction which would serve the dirty hoi polloi and not narrow elites. This is the difficulty all those on the Left who have political opinions always face. The wider public, while full of mostly good-hearted people who are probably smart enough in other ways, collectively seem to be quite politically stupid and consistently are willingly bamboozled by elite-driven political figures. When Left candidates stand up and preach prosperity for all and justice for all they get ridiculed. Ok then.... It's the same conundrum here in the US and I'm not sure if it has any easy answers. If enough voters don't want to choose unapologetically or militantly Left candidates then..... Nothing I guess?? More status quo? For now I suppose so. Maybe those on or near the bottom that are struggling so hard feel that there's nobility in suffering and poverty. That's certainly what religion teaches.
You see, there's more than enough to go around but it can't constantly keep being siphoned off by sociopathic elites or wasted. Poverty and malaise are COMPLETELY fixable but only if a given govt group wants to do so; wants to make life better for everyone. Short of that, there will always be a chunk of the population seen as expendable and left to die. The specific details can and will vary, but it's the same broad dynamic everywhere.
There's more than enough for everyone to be at least comfortable but ONLY if government bodies are willing to apply more control to the business sector via sufficient regulation; apply tax at the top, NOT the middle or bottom, and chooses to fund public needs and wants PROPERLY. Also strong Labor laws is a MUST. Piss-poor wages/benefits and no employee rights (ie family leave, layoff protections, sick days, union empowerment) should not be acceptable. These are gross values passed down by a cruel and exploiting super elite that wanted to use workers as pseudoslaves (or actual slaves in some cases). It's sad that in the 21st century we still have to battle this kind of thinking.
Regardless of what class one is born into, EVERYONE has the right to seek and desire a reasonable quality of life. Without the right people in government I just don't see how this can happen for everyone tho. If it could have done so on its own it would have happened by now. It's true, sometimes government can easily go too far and can do the wrong things and can overreach but that's what public discourse is for. The moment government forces do go too far, that's where an empowered public and a vibrant press should immediately push back on.
In short, ALL poverty and lack is fixable. It would be done so tomorrow if those in certain public decision-making roles wanted to do so. Clearly they do not. I would like to fix this but for some reason way too much of the public doesn't want to embrace a more empowered and comfortable lifestyle. Propaganda is a big reason for this, perhaps also religious conditioning. I'm not yet exactly sure how to negotiate this phenomena. That's where I'm at now in my political development; how exactly to chart a path forward for Left idealists who demand at least some public role... And I'm honestly not sure yet.
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I can't stand people like Brown. He cares nothing for POC, or anyone outside of his priveleged circle. Just loves the money and so-called prestige. We see this all over.
A melanated OrangeMan-lover (Kentucky's AG) loves feralboars SO much he spit in the face of Breonna Taylor and her family and committed criminal fraud at the Grand jury hearing so as to protect and not indict her badge-toting gangland killers. And this happens all the time; you just hope something can be different with a political POC and all too often you find out it's not; and until we start giving these thugs street juicestice in cases like that, NOTHING WILL CHANGE. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS IS A WAR, and like all wars it has its traitors. A MELANINATED MAYOR GAVE THE GREEN LIGHT TO COMMIT THE CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY THAT WAS THE PHILADELPHIA MOVE BOMBING. A BLK mayor. Yeah he didn't care. A ⚫ person in power can kill and victimize and destroy just like a ⚪ person. When it comes to politics, which some say is all based in violence, color frequently doesn't matter. Look at Harris. She's nothing but a stone-cold thug in a suit, and she's just one of many.
FOR FUCK'S SAKE BUFFALO, GET SOME TERM LIMITS INSTALLED!!! GET THESE GODDAMN THUGS OUT OF OFFICE!!!
Unless and until we find a way to get rid of these white-collar thugs and rich elites OUT of public office NOTHING WILL CHANGE FOR US, on any level. They're grifters and criminals and thugsters who care ONLY for themselves.
I salute India Walton for her excellent effort this time around and there are some lessons to be learned here in how she ran her campaign, but if she takes those lessons and moves forward there's no reason she can't come back and win next time.
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Lol yeah. 100%.
Government shouldn't be picking winners or losers in anything but of course that's the only reason why they exist in this country- to serve and protect elite business interests in every industry, at everyone else's expense. Just look at the violence and MASSIVE property theft and displacement these demons caused to random homesteaders and Native Americans because they send the US army to protect the massively predatory railroad rail baron interests as they built the first Transcontinental railroad in the 1870s. People who were unfortunate enough not to warrant government protection lost their lives, their homesteads, or their livelihoods, all because the sociopath railroad barons didn't want to stop for one second or tolerate any delays in construction because they saw that as a loss to their already outrageous profits that almost no one other than they would even be seeing. In order to satisfy their endless filthy greed, thousands upon thousands of workers will worked very heavily and paid peanuts for their efforts, labor strikes were met with violence or stonewalling.
Everybody lost during the construction of the Transcontinental railroad other than the political trash in Washington who tirelessly worked for the elite money of the rail barons, who stood to profit millions from railroad expansion while undergoing minimal risk to themselves. This type of crony elite back-and-forth is what this government has been since Day 1. Government is nothing but a shameless and brazen and ruthless mostly criminal organization composed of, by and for the elites.
What is government but an assembly of force and political propaganda to protect elite business interests? When has it ever been otherwise????
Politicians hire themselves out like good whores to the big money in every industry and promise them fealty, lifelong service and protection. This is as true as much today as it was 150 and 200 years ago.
It's a sweet racket. I sure wish I could get that some sort of service and protection, but I can't afford a fancy lobbyist and I'm not an elite business interest so you know, no political protection for me! Essentially that means I have no real rights in this so-called bullshit republic that works of, by and for the elite money only.
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For someone who hasn't been able to put away enough or any money for retirement, good luck living on social security alone- its levels are pathetic and wont do a damn thing for you unless your home is paid off. Oh but can't afford your ongoing property taxes? Enjoy losing your home and facing homelessness if you cant persuade your local county to grant you a deferral or some sort of reduction. It's totally ok to rip a family's/person's only home away from them simply because one cant afford their latest round of property taxes. I find this morally repugnant and evil. If I have any way of changing it in my lifetime, in my state, I'm going to try to do so. Imagine thinking it's okay to steal someone's home sometimes even literally stealing the equity, because you couldn't pay a few thousand dollars. Truly satanic but that's the kind of animals we elect in this country. These kind of practices are considered normal because they have been normalized for so long and just like slavery, we're being forced to accept evil as good.
The RIGHT to a decent retirement has been attacked from every direction for so long and the fact that you're acting like Labor is responsible for this is risible, Patrick.
Maybe if we didn't have a federal, state and even county body of goons/demons/lunatics that only care about blowing the top 2% for kickbacks and favors, working tirelessly for their rich cronies and coming up with ever more ways to transfer more wealth from the bottom and the middle to the top, at an ever-increasing speed, gobbling up all of the available wealth for themselves, leaving a steadily- shrinking piece of the pie for the rest of us, there would be enough to go around. Maybe then we wouldn't have exploding homelessness, early death and a massive debt crisis for 2/3 to 3/4 of the American population.
Patrick, you're an absolute c7nt if you sincerely blame this on hardworking working people. I really wish I could say that to your face. Blaming working people who have EVERY RIGHT to demand these standards for political self-servingness and the greed of CEOs and business elites is not a new one but it's as wrong as ever.
FIRST of all, it's a federal government's responsibility to offer robust national healthcare as a human right to ALL, so that private businesses don't HAVE to pay that kind of expense if they don't wish to. These filth on the federal mint, they can pay for anything thet goddamn well please! Comprehensive head to toe healthcare is a basic human need and ergo a human RIGHT!!!!! MAYBE businesses should start demanding Congress do their job and stop offloading is there a fundamental responsibilities to private providers!
Healthcare should never have to come out of company expenses; outside of the very largest companies, that is an outrageously unfair burden. That is the job of regional and central government!!! Could you imagine a privately funded VA system? There would be no way. Maybe if a billionaire chose to but otherwise, no. The elite political filth that occupy DC's shelves are always operating from the model of privatizing the costs and socializing the benefits, that's the age-old name of the game for Wall Street and their protectors on capitol hill. MAYBE if we had a so-called government that felt a shred of a moral obligation to give a living fuck about the people who elect them (I MEAN WHAT THE FUCK AM I PAYING MY GODDAMN TAXES FOR?? BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THE IRS IS FUCKING ALL OF US IN THE A$$ AND WE'RE GETTING SHIT FOR IT and I don't see that changing); instead of taking bribes to put more money in their own pocket and protect big business at all costs.
There are easy ways to provide for EVERYBODY at EVERY age but it won't be done under our current model of privatizing ALL the gains and socializing ALL the losses and giving everything to the top 2%.
I literally can't believe you're blaming working people for demanding what they should have been given in the first place my guy. Where do you think all the wealth on this planet comes from? It ALL goes back to sweat equity. NOTHING happens without work or an idea- mental and physical labor generates everything on this goddamn planet that is then seized by some other cuntsucker who usually has no right to it.
When labor makes their demands they have every right and much more. Imagine a house that needed to get painted, now imagine nobody actually painted it. There would be no house painted, and no money will change hands.
WORKERS CREATE EVERYTHING ON THIS PLANET AND WE DESERVE EVERYTHING THAT WE PRODUCE!!!
As for investors and shareholders, they deserve a fair return for whatever they put in- BUT NOT ONE PENNY MORE!! Right now shareholders and the board of directors take next to everything and that is absolutely goddamn fucking guts-out disgusting and bogus.
Every single amount of wealth on this planet was produced from someone who worked for it! An idea is beautiful but it's nothing without others heads and hands to carry it out!!!!! I think you need some help seeing the big picture Patrick.
As for me I'll probably be broke as fuck as I have been most of my life. I'm not rich enough to buy any politician so there won't be anything there for me when my time comes, while big business billionaires and mega-millionaires continue to proliferate and take everything the bottom 90% create; meanwhile of course we're still expected to pay our taxes, given next to no government assistance (bailouts are only for billionaires and Wall Street in this country, naturally) and of course, rent costs for those who haven't been fortunate enough to buy or inherit continue to explode. For now I'm ok but I definitely expect to be homeless in my future and so will millions of other people - I mean how can it be OTHERWISE given the current trajectories of public policy and unfettered banking and landlord greed?? Even certain professional and paraprofessional jobs don't pay much (some do, it depends); if you work for a large employer they're always trying to shit on your wages, stab you in the back and take your benefits), and so on.
More and more homes will be seized and taken wrongfully by county-level mafioso demons, or gobbled up by private equity gangsters; more and more people won't be able to afford rent for a broom closet and where will this leave us? The only destination possible, mass tent cities. So either that's going to be the new normal or hired death squads will be the political response. I mean that's what Henry VIII did in the Middle Ages; he just killed a few thousand of his poorest citizens. Easy solution as he saw it. Hang some kids, who cares? Of course that just made the next group the poorest but I don't expect logic was his strong point, nor is it for our current band of political vultures and policymakers - the bottom 80-90% have rarely mattered to political trash this country and they don't matter now. As usual, we're almost entirely on our own and we're being set upon by predators from all directions, some government; some private business. Its the name of the game in America. Only the top 5% matter, everyone else can go hang.
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There are 100 ways to end poverty NOW. I could give them to all in detail. They are simple and straightforward.
Neither political party wants to- it's that simple. Until that changes, until we elect actual Leftists who put people before money - widespread poverty in the US will continue, and only increase, this is by design.
You don't have to go full communist to end poverty but you DO have to go in an aggressive social democratic direction. This means hard slapping the corporate dictatorship down, regulating every last thing they do, and putting average people FIRST.
Ruthless corporate capitalism is paving the way to hell, and only heavy market controls and a strong public sector including welfare based on common prosperity for all will save us from it. And that means real welfare, not this insanity of pennies that is called welfare today.
And also maybe we should stop the rivers of billions in CORPORATE welfare aka handouts to Wall Street and corporate america. Why are welfare handouts being given to the very people WHO DONT NEED THEM the most????? This is madness.
The 1% has stolen EVERYTHING - and both political parties have allowed it and enabled it. That is who they serve. Until that changes, 60-70% of households will continue to be precarious if not dirt poor.
We are a THIRD WORLD NATION with working plumbing and sewers, and sometimes not even that.
The bottom 70% will continue being robbed and impoverished and all red-blue uniparty grifters will help this process EVERY step of the way, unless something radical changes soon.
Unfortunately NOTHING WILL CHANGE until people stop voting for the same demons who have created this evil mess in the first, and that's BOTH criminal evil Ponzi scheme-serving parties.
A new fully Left, outspoken, ruthlessly organized and militantly revolutionary Left movement and party is needed NOW, one that puts people, justice, and the environment above corporate and 1% rule. Poverty will end everywhere when human rights matter and socialism, meaning public rights to wealth, triumphs over the viciousness of amoral big business corporatism.
This will probably be a fight to death, because the forces of evil and big business are ruthless, but it's a fight that needs to happen. NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO EXTRACT RESOURCES FOR PRIVATE PROFIT AND HORDE ALL THE WEALTH TO ONESELF- NOBODY. NO PERSON, NO COMPANY.
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I'm impressed #CNBC. How did a business channel suddenly care about human rights issues and justice????
Who the hell took over????
Edit: as I can't independently post for another 8 hours, to the person below, LMFAO. You know nothing. F7ck outta here serf and dicksucker to 1%, unless you have the basic IQ capable of debating your opinion.
Edit 2: devastating argument you got there Chief. With debating skills like that, you'll go far. Way to checkmate me brah. You really proved your case, case closed and then some. Brilliant just brilliant. You really rekt me with facts and logic there big fella. Lemme guess, just another diamond of brilliance that gently tumbles from your lips via your galaxy brain amirite?
Edit 3: I loved the part where you proved your point.
Edit 4: looks like as usual, the coward troll below me, like all of his kind, has nothing whatsoever of substance to offer and has crawled back under his rock. Well I'm shocked I tell you shocked.
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Because of abusive fines and fees and constantly having to get new tickets, I haven't been able to renew my drivers license in many years. It all started in 2008 over two very minor unpaid traffic tickets. I didn't realize those were going to balloon to $3000 from $100+ within two years. I would have easily been able to pay them off in 2009 if they had stayed at the original amount.
As I of course couldn't pay the outrageous sum they were demanding, and there were times when I couldn't even afford monthly payments even if I wanted to, naturally over time I accrued more tickets and more tickets for driving on suspended and vehicle tows for driving on suspended, and I even had to do 5 weeks in local county jail for two counts of driving on suspended because I couldn't pay my $500 and then $250 bail (I had it lowered finally and was able to get my mom to pay it, I had nothing at the time).
Bail is fucking satanic. They literally kidnap you for weeks or months on end and if you don't have anyone to help you your entire life can go to hell in the meantime, all because you can't afford a few hundred or a few thousand dollars of EXTORTION.
EVERYTHING CITIES DO IS EXTORTION TO THE MOST OBSCENE DEGREE AND THE POOR ARE ALWAYS THE ONES WHO SUFFER THE MOST.
So because I can't afford outrageous extortion via constantly cascading fees, fines and tickets, I'm a criminal for driving my car!?!?!?! Even if I wanted to pay those outrageous funds I would need to be able to go to work to do it which meant I needed my car!!!! IS THIS NOT MADNESS!?!?! THIS WASN'T NEW YORK CITY WHERE THIS HAPPENED, I WAS LIVING IN SUBURBAN AND SEMI-RURAL AREAS WHERE BUS SERVICE WAS LIMITED TO NONEXISTENT. SO BECAUSE I WAS HOMELESS, AND I HAD NOBODY ELSE TO HELP ME WITH TRANSPORTATION, WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO? SITTING AROUND ALL DAY AT THE HOMELESS SHELTER WAS NOT AN OPTION. Even if I had a normal place to live the bus service was very limited in this area. As I knew I'd done nothing wrong and the fines themselves were criminal there was no way in hell I was going to deprive myself of my human right to drive MY vehicle that I owned!!!!! I mean the expectation is beyond revolting and outrageous, that I should punish myself for doing nothing wrong. For not participating in criminal extortion! Even if I wanted to I couldn't afford it. I didn't have any income at the time, and whatever I had I needed to survive on. I sure as hell wasn't going to use it to help satisfy a worthless city gang their criminal greed.
I tried to explain all this to the judge, about my situation, the wrongness of the fines and my inability to pay, and it was like talking to a wall. Truly these people are demons. Words cannot describe the subhuman filth that they are. They are truly evil to every last pore of their body. I don't know if they're staggeringly stupid and they don't understand what they're doing, or they do and just don't care. You can't tell someone to pay you outrageous fines for doing nothing wrong and then tell them they don't have the right to drive their vehicle until they do! People have jobs and lives to lead! This is breathless extortion on a level that would make the mafia proud.
Truly we live in hell.
Cities and police departments are monsters and I hope they all burn in hell. I would love to go to sleep with the sounds of their screams in my ear.
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@monmixer Trump did initially make this evil deal with the Tallybons. Sold out all the entire country and all Americans who ever fought and died there, and all their families, probably all for the promise of a Trump tower in Kabul. I mean that's why he have the command to turn our backs on the Kurds in 2018 or didn't you hear?? Reportedly Erdogen from Turkey wanted to kill all the Kurds, I don't know exactly why, but it's been going on for a while; and all he had to do was promise Trump a glittering new Trump tower in Instanbuul all for the low low price of the Kurds, a group we were official allies of at the time and boom!, deal done before the ink dries, if there was any ink.
And I have no idea what's going on with the Kurds today, our media has moved on. But basically it was the same scene. Terror, panic, and fleeing. On a small level, like Afganistan 1.0.
Anyone who still thinks Trump isn't a complete emotionless sociopath is a seriously deluded fool at this point. He is a toxic super-narcissist who only and ever cares about himself and his money. I mean that's just so glaringly obvious to anyone with eyes. How stupid does one have to be to see more in him then that??? That's called self-delusion at that point.
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@Mith Ra bruh nobody with a brain respected Trump. Why do you?? He's a more-on. He is a very stupid man and at times exhibited dementia signs. He had been a grifting shuyster all his life making one after another shady real estate deals. He never knew what he was doing and he ran the most chaotic and incompetent admin basically ever, while attracting fascists and white nationalists and the ultra-corrupt and criminal to his side. I think something like 10 members of his cabinet or close associates were criminally indicted either while he was in office or after he left. He was great at getting the feeble-minded to support him, he seems to have that knack for PR, but it's all an act. What does he know?? What could he ever offer other than ignorance, stupidity, and stoking people's racism?? He also did some terrible things while president, altho that could probably be said of just about any president we've ever had.
Anyhow according to my reports he and that weirdo Pompeo got together starting in 2019 to sit down and break bread with the Taliban and discuss how they were going to just GIVE Afganistan over to them. I wonder if this was the CIAs plan all along. I have since heard that when various Afghan forces tried to fight the Taliban off when they started advancing, our govt literally applied sanctions to THEM which I heard left them without food and ammo supplies. We actively aided, abetted and made sure the Taliban would take over, knowing exactly that women's lives would suddenly grind to a halt. As it seems most people in Afghanistan don't want anything to do with them, that was a grossly immoral thing to do.
I'm not sure if these supposed sanctions happened this year under Biden or last year under Trump. I'm still trying to find some more details about this.
But my point is, and your welcome to look it up, that I heard that this all began under Trump at his or Pompeo's behest, in 2019. I agree Joe Biden picked up where he left off and may have even been a party to those sanctions. Just doesn't make a lot of sense does it? 20 years supposedly trying to help a country then this govt goes out of its way to break the legs of said country so it's fringe group that most citizens appear to oppose could waltz in and take right over?? Kinda shits on everyone's efforts and sacrifice up to this point doesn't it?
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@Noadvantage246 I don't agree Mr. Reese. Nothing about the Tallybons is legitimate. Now, I understand about being there 20 years, immoral uses of our military by our gov, all kinds of bullshit on both sides, CIA evil, problems with local govt, and billions of dollars spent.
But there's nothing we can do about that now. Nothing. So let's do right from here on out.
I'm nobody, just another non-combat naval vet but if I had the power I'd send all willing (key word willing) US troops back NOW. This is a humanitarian mission now. I want a free Afganistan because they are PEOPLE and they deserve it- everyone does, and they don't deserve THIS. Not to mention we should make our people's sacrifices count for something for a change.
The Taliban will be ordered go or be shot. PERIOD. 100K+ united US and/coalition troops against them??? No contest. WE NEVER ENGAGED THEM DIRECTLY AS AN ENEMY. Not once. That's the only reason they're still around. Can you understand that??? We never actually targeted them. We mostly drove them from power but never for elimination.
Now we see that's a mistake. I've heard some of them have already taken underaged brides- I can't corroborate that tho.
Look. I don't care what they think they're entitled to. They are totalitarian primitives who deserve NOTHING. NOTHING!! They had their time from '96-'05ish. No more.
They are illegitimate and criminal.
Thanks to Pompeo and Trump 5000 prisoners were released from Kabul last year and the top commander from Pakistan to help them take over the country. THE KABUL GOV WAS SHUT OUT, and might not have even known what was coming. Local forces were STARVED by US sanctions to weaken them.
POMPEO AND TRUMP DID THIS. Biden allowed it to continue (I don't know about the food sanctions), and for that he should be removed, but 45 and probably the CIA CAUSED THIS. I CALL THIS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY aka the people of Afganistan. WE JUST ATTACKED THE AFGHAN NATION THRU DELIBERATE MALICIOUS INTERFERENCE AND GAVE IT ON A PLATTER TO THE CRIMINALS!!
This is a mind-boggling cruel betrayal.
This should be an unacceptably appalling development to anyone who has any vested interest in the Afghan people and their quest for durable HUMAN RIGHTS.
Nobody can tell me most if not all Afghans want the Taliban.
I choose the Afghan people and I'm willing to die for it.
No terrorists, no Nazis, no islamofascists, no despots anywhere deserve quarter in our world today. They do NOT. THESE GROUPS DO NOT DESERVE TO RULE. ESP ISLAMIST EXTREMISTS. You can understand this can't you???
We all must come together to
#FREEAFGHANISTANNOW.
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@bigbruv5328 low level theft has existed from the dawn of time and somehow businesses still prosper. It's not worth getting worked up over. Cops flat out steal millions if not billions of dollars a year from the public in various ways. Landlords charge excessive rent, that could be considered a form of theft although it's not always thought of as such. Many companies do not always pay their employees the full wages that they're entitled to, commonly known as wage theft.
I don't have a handy link but I've looked into recent studies that shows that no more than 1% at best of a company's total profits are lost through shoplifting. Just another very minor cost of doing business. Even a small convenience store isn't going to be harmed by the negligible amount of snacks or drinks that some people might sneak out of the door with them. to me it's a non-issue and nothing we should be worrying about. And I'd feel the same if I had a store. As long as I'm clearing a good profit I don't care about people who take a few things. Inconsiderate how every store has lost insurance, then they're really not going to be harmed even if somebody was able to magically run off with half the store. When every store commits to producing zero waste, and doesn't intentionally dispose of their unsold inventory to include food into the trash, but redistributes it into their local community, then I'll consider low level theft as an issue, but not until then. Even then, I wouldn't care about it cuz you have to understand even when taking all together it is a negligible amount compared to the profits of any given store. Unless a professional theft ring came and emptied out the store overnight, a store isn't harmed by the occasional sticky finger shopper. I usually pay for what I want or need, but I won't deny I've been that sticky finger shopper at times. I have my reasons and I sleep just fine at night. Those stores are usually corporations and even on the occasion they're not I know those stores' profits are still very, very strong regardless of what I do or don't do.
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A one-State solution can never happen in a land like Palestine after 80 years of Israeli occupation, in my eyes. I absolutely fail to see it. There needs to be a 30/70 partition or the entire region has to be declared Palestine, where Israel is now the occupied territory. It was Palestine from time immemorial and simply because it was invaded, overtaken by force, chopped up, with many thousands or low millions genocided, and renamed Israel, doesn't change the fact that the soul of that land was Palestine. Several generations of crazed bloodthirsty Zionists won't change that. From my understanding, prior to the Zionist takeover, the region was fairly pluralistic and peaceful without major conflicts in the modern age, yet once the Zionists arrived, they did not want to share one inch with the indigenous and then-current occupants of the region. They began discussing and behaving as if the region was theirs and there's alone and nothing has changed.
The roughly 50/50 1947 UN proposal was probably very reasonable and considerate at the time. I could understand why Palestine's leaders would reject it however.
To think somehow any of the crazy modern-day Israelis are going to be able to live side-by-side and intermix in a peaceful pluralistic idealistic society with anyone they see as non-Jewish or Arab is the height of false naive idealism unfortunately, imo.
They've been bred on hate for too long unfortunately.
So the answer is clear to me.
Either a 60/40 or 70/30 partition in Palestine's favor or just call the whole land Palestine, after all that's what it actually is and has always been, and inside the larger state you can have pockets of localized Jewish-majority.
I think both sides would want the partition at this point, the key is to ensure Palestine retains a majority of land and key areas; since they shouldn't have to give up anything to these murderous 80-year-long occupiers, nonetheless in the interests of practicality and peace, the price may be worth it, provided for once, their legitimacy and rights are recognized.
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@tijgertjekonijnwordopgegeten I thought she looked great personally. I think it's pretty clear that those genteel white people who are clearly part of the upper crust of their society and always have been were on some level offended by Serena's figure and probably, if they were to be honest, her race... but of course they would never admit to that.
Tennis, along with fencing and horse riding, is one of the most bougie, snooty, snobbish, classist, whitest, most insular recreational hobbies and sports to ever have been created and historically pursued. If you don't think there's some lingering bias or some sort of low-level racism percolating among at least some of the people within the administrative structure of these that sports, I think you're just being naive.
I can't read their minds, I can't guarantee they were being ignorant or biased, but after reading about it and hearing about it it struck me that they were.
I mean after all, what legitimate criticism could they have? Her entire body was covered so they couldn't claim that her outfit was too revealing. The only thing her outfit revealed was her natural body shape.
There's a lot of implicit bias within the well-heeled, more white bread, more square sectors of society in every western country.
But yes it's possible that their motivation was entirely separate from that and not motivated by any sort of knee-jerk distain or dislike for her racial identity. Yes of course it's entirely possible. I don't think that's what was going on here but you're right, it's possible.
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I hope we go back to take them out once and for all. They are savages and while I certainly don't support our war machine and the amoral purposes it's used for, the Taliban have showed that they are terrorists and savages. All wackjob fundamentalist lunatics are.
Afganistan was on its way to stability and advancement until the Russians invaded but what really put them back into the stone age is these fucksticks.
If we don't eliminate them who will?????? They are genuine domestic terrorists of the Afghan variety. These aren't kindler, gentler "Taliban" killers.
I hope we go back and this time FINISH THE JOB. Clearly the locals can't do it ok their own. The Taliban made their choice, in this situation I support an offensive, yes, bc the Tallybons are legit threats and have proven this 1000 times over. We had at least 10-15 years to go after these fucks, instead, some of our people trained and outfitted death squads who would rather kill innocent uninvolved civilians including whole families than actual Taliban. Watch "Death squads of Afganistan" on the EMPIRE FILES yt channel for more info.
I find it hard to believe the general population are okay with living under terrorist fascists. We should go back, neutralize them once and for all, and the leave. This right now, in my eyes, is bullshit.
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@edelweiss2.0 She should have gotten another lawyer.
THAT LAWYER IS A LIAR.
In no way is it legal to force anyone to join ANYTHING, and pay ANYTHING, not related to a legal debt, against their will. NO true law anywhere in the US would would justify this. HOAs ARE NOT LEGAL ENTITIES, not the way they are currently run. But they ARE criminal mobs and gangs.
Any group that isn't government that claims to have the legal right to force you to join AND PAY MONEY, and they are NOT the legal owner of your home or any of your property, is a criminal enterprise!!
She should have gotten another lawyer and sued. That lawyer must have been lying to her, probably was taking a bribe or in some way connected to the HOA, because no true lawyer would ever say to an American citizen that any other person unrelated to local, state, or federal government, unrelated to the enforcement of rules of private property (ie, no trespassing, disorderly conduct, etc), has the power or the legal right to force them to do ANYTHING. They're betting people won't know any better and will give in to their criminal lies.
Unfortunately in your grandmother's case it sounds like they were successful.
What that HOA did and what all HOAs do, and what that lawyer was clearly complicit with, was rank and flat-out racketeering, intimidation and extortion- ALL federal crimes.
No group has the right to shakedown anyone for money. If it's not in relation to the collection of a legal debt, they have NO legal right and certainly no moral right.
As the HOA had no legal power over your grandmother or her home, they had no legal authority to force or coerce or compel her to do anything. If she had stood her ground they would have had no choice but to leave her alone. Like how criminal psychopaths HOAs our betting that people will get scared and will give it to the bullying, and won't fight back.
Since their name wasn't on the title of your grandmother's home, and they are NOT local, state or federal government, they have NO legal standing to demand ANYTHING from your grandmother or any other resident.
It would be as if I went to my neighbor's house and said "pay me $1000 right now or I'll bust up every window in your home!" Of course I have no legal right to extort and steal money from my neighbor but if they're scared of me they'll probably pay me just to get me to go away.
That's how HOAs traffic in their crime. Through fear, lies, extortion, and intimidation.
People need to start filing charges and taking these monsters to court. They are criminal enterprises. No different from organized crime.
FORCING OR ATTEMPTING TO FORCE SOMEONE TO PAY THEM "PROTECTION MONEY" EVERY MONTH AND JOIN THEIR ORGANIZATION IS EXACTLY WHAT ORGANIZED CRIME AND CRIMINAL GANGS DO, AND IT'S FLAGRANTLY ILLEGAL!
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@avenue8822 yes but nevermind that. I agree the filibuster was used by the Dems as well however, while it's in place they can't get anything done, or next to nothing. If they think purposely doing nothing, or next to nothing, is going to help them in the midterms, either willingly or unwillingly, I'd say they're crazy. It's true the GOP are absolute phylth with an amoral and harmful agenda; but the Dems are completely disabled with the filibuster in place. Better to get rid of the filibuster now, get things DONE, and deal with whatever comes later. If they dont, next to nothing will happen, they will lose wildly in 2022, the GOP will have the majority again, and yes maybe they'll be able to filibuster some things but one way or another the GOP crooks will find a way to pass more disastrous legislation. They always do. Filibustering doesn't always work. Didn't Kevin McCarthy do an 8 hours filibuster on the BBB just recently and then when he was done, the BBB just passed by an expected narrow margin the moment he ctfu???? The Dems have only one year left to get anything worthwhile donr and they've completely neglected to do anything of value so far, (the BIB and BBB are jokes now, BIB from what I hear is worse than nothing and the BBB is just a small fraction of what's needed with all the social programs stripped out); every so-called campaign promise of Biden's was just empty words as most of us knew they would be. It is my view that they are doing far more harm than good to themselves by keeping the filibuster around.
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The future will be determined by those who want non-stop government control and those who do not.
This guy was way out of line but he's no different than a thousand million other gestapo that roam these streets; stealing, killing , taking as they wish, answering to no one and cock-slobbered by many.
I'm not proposing total anarchism, that's undesirable and impractical, but how much goddamn subjugation and control do we want!?! Government control and management is fine provided its limited and kept within its proper role.
There's a limited place for a fair amount of law, but the moment you allow it to expand like a tumor, you've lost, imo. I feel in this country we never really had a free country, free for some maybe, and over the last 50 years, free for less and less and less.
95% of people who currently live in this country seem to be more than happy to be a passive obedient blind unquestioning voiceless powerless slave to any bullshit Big Brother agenda no matter how violent, abusive, or violative.
Those who oppose violent rule always seem to be in the minority don't we?
I don't support the IRS. I don't support most federal agencies. I don't support the DEA. I don't support drug criminalization in any form. I don't support Big Brother, I don't support the police State, because the vast majority of what they do is nothing short of criminal and shouldn't be tolerated by anyone; I don't support any of the feds claims that they own us and that we owe them our servitude and loyalty- that's actual madness; I don't support mass incarceration, the claimed supremacy of Congress, or the lunacy of single judge rule, I don't support any of this 1984 madness that we've had shoved down our throats since longer than we've all been alive. I find congress's agendas to be outrageous, harmful and intentionally cruel, and the lengths will go to try to enforce them appalling and unacceptable (ie; a military draft; stop loss, etc). I find all of these to be serious infringements.
I find the fact that the public has next to no say on public policy in this country unacceptable.
I'm not saying there should be no cops or courts, again, if they were wrong with a shred of civilized agenda I would feel a lot better about it; but imo they aren't. All we ask for is responsible courts, no gestapo on the road, an end to the divine right of judges, and public oversight on all matters.
Everything is illegal, with vicious, evil, cruel and draconian punishments so as to justify and provide continued mass incarceration.
No one should want this. Other than those guilty of truly heinous crimes, this system protects no one.
When it comes to federal agencies don't support the TSA, I don't support Customs, I sure as hell don't support the DEA. The only materials that beat that should be prevented from entering the country are possibly dangerous or invasive plant or animal species. That is all.
Sadly, I know I'll never see the world I want, or the country I want, in my lifetime.
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@CockleAndHen I get what you're saying Louisa but what you're referring to is political repression, paranoia, excessive control, and versions of tyranny. Maybe not the worst of the worst but by Western standards, not really acceptable. Ok so I agree that was a problem within the East German State- it was clearly a pretty heavy police state, which I consider oppressive; but what does that have to do with a socialist-based economy???
Political repression or excessive State power can happen anywhere, it can happen right here in the US on occasion and in certain ways and it has.
A government that limits civil liberties and becomes oppressive can occur in a capitalist economy just as easily as a communist or socialist one.
A for-profit economy is not the same thing as civil freedoms. You can have both at the same time, or one or the other. Likewise, a socio/communist economy =/= lack of personal freedoms in day to day life. You CAN have both at the same time, OR you can have one or the other.
You seem to believe one creates the other, and I'm saying I think that's silly. They don't always occur together and when they do, correlation doesn't equal causation.
If a particular govt wants to be repressive for whatever reason, they will do so, regardless of what kind of economy they are using, whether it be a mostly capitalist one, a more communist one, or something in between.
I hope that makes sense. If you disagree, feel free to let me know.
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@CockleAndHen lol well I'm halfway eh? Trying to stay as young as possible, for the foreseeable future, other than one troublesome but ultimately solvable issue, so far I think I'm ok. Let's hope that continues, eh?
Yeah I mean.... I don't disagree, I guess it depends what you focus on. The problem for those of us out here trying to get educated and aware in order to make lasting change is that these poverty and justice issues unfortunately are really widespread. Now outside of those, the world is a beautiful place with wonderful possibilities and I try not to forget that. I mean it really is. It's important not to forget that.
The problem is INSIDE of those issues, it's really shit. Like 11M people now faced with the amoral reality of predatory pandemic evictions thanks to our unapologetically heartless SCOTUS. But perhaps there's a saving grace yet, Congress can still pass protections if they choose to act, but will they???? Not if the scumbags inside it have their way.
A better world means less or NO predatory capitalism and better systems for all. Getting there of course is not going to be easy. But I do not find the current status quo sustainable. It requires TOO many victims, economically, politically, etc. So no matter what the sacrifice I certainly hope we do.
But if you're ever interested in more Socialist content I mean, I got it coming out the wazoo insofar as websites, podcasts,articles, etc. Just let me know. Take care.
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Fu** off fascist. It's not murder, it's a human f****king RIGHT and if you don't respect women's rights to control their own bodies and futures you don't deserve to LIVE. Pre-viable fetuses and splooges don't HAVE rights, unconscious biological tissue in uteruses don't deserve rights, they aren't there yet, they're just globs, they NEED the mother to survive. Without her they are NOTHING. If she chooses to rescind that privilege, that is her right.
WOMEN deserve rights. ALL human beings do, not immature undeveloped unconscious tissue you F***KING tool.
I had an abortion 15 years ago and I'd have a thousand more! I am superior to a two-month glob and I always will be! it's MY right to determine my future, nobody else's!!! The fact you want to give superior human rights to unconscious biological GLOBS and splooges says a lot more about your lack of moral development and respect for the basic rights of half of the people on this planet.
In the end it doesn't matter what you think. EVERYONE has the right to control their own body and NOTHING will ever change that, not a criminal SCOTUS, not you ChristoNazi barbarians. If it's not your body, it's NOT your f***king CHOICE and we WILL fight all of you to the death and you WILL lose, again, so chew on that B.
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@nates9105 I mean they're really just puppets for the big money and the corpos; they don't even craft any of our laws anymore - I mean all of our laws are written behind-the-scenes now, mostly by lobbyists. In fact, I doubt it's anything new; there have been lobbyists in some form or another going back to the 1800s. There have been a favors and bribes given to get the laws and favorable policies that elites have wanted going all the way back. With pretty rare exception, politicians have always been mouthpieces for the rich and elite in this country and I don't see that ever changing.
So what are our options? Oh sure we can hope for a change and strategize and imagine that one day somehow WE will be able to have political influence of our own, WE will be able to get different/ better politicians in office and that may happen eventually, but that takes a long time. And still, even if it does, allowing only a teeny tiny group of people to affect law is a bad idea in my eyes. Human beings are human beings, and even if we could get a quality few people of high character in office I still feel that the majority would still be trash, self-serving, easily co-opted and slaves to their own prejudices; not only that, even the most sincere amongst them can't possibly hope to represent the diversity of views among their many thousands of constituents. I just think it's a foolish foolish system that sure, at the time of the revolution was indeed revolutionary, but it's NOT anymore. It's bullshit and bogus. Street Pigs and detectives are utterly unwell mindless evil zombies ruthlessly willing to carry out the will of corrupt politicians no matter HOW damaging, unjust, vicious, unnecessary, or wrong they are. These filth don't care so long as they get to be the ones carrying the gun and inflicting the pain. They're modern-day low-level nazis. So having an extreme and violent police state at the beck and call of a corrupt political structure is a pretty bad reality. (Asking a Pig to think and to question the wrong/evil that they do is like asking a brick wall to do calculus. It won't happen. Actually occasionally it does happen, but it's rare.)
So in order to get better laws, even even if we don't make any major changes to curtail police power, it's pretty clear that that isn't going to come from the current rogues gallery of scumbags that we have at the moment.
I think the only way to do an end run around the current worthless political class in this country is to remove their monopoly on policy control aka law . They're all filth, they're ALL shameless, and the few good ones are extremely outnumbered and powerless to do anything on their own; they don't represent 90+% of us and they shouldn't have the power to enforce minority elite will on everyone else, it's that simple.
Here's the only system that I see as fully sustainable and fully just: I say ANYONE should be able to craft a law and then submit it to public critique for a proscribed length of time, then if it passes that it is sent for a preliminary vote and if it passes that with a high enough margin then it gets sent on to the final vote where if it passes THAT, then it's accepted into law. Voting, campaigns, politicians- it's the same old clown show decade after decade. They DON'T serve us and they don't care. Elections can be fun but ultimately they are distractions. It's theater, that's all. Soon as that politician, regardless of party affiliation, gets into office he is going to do the exact same thing his predecessor did and all the others before him have done since forever. He'll take orders from the party boss and both parties (which are really one party with two chapters) will continue serve the financial elite and the Police State. This is bad.
Being held hostage by these worthless clowns isn't helping 90+% of us.... These people will never care about us and will NEVER represent our interests. If any of them at any level truly cared about basic public needs they would have be doing a lot differently for decades now.
Can anybody truly represent you better than you can represent yourself?? Maybe in a court of law (only because there are special tricks, techniques, keywords, tricky phrases and buzzwords that they force lawyers to use) but outside of that? No I don't think so.
I just don't like being totally powerless in this society. ITS NOT FOR ME. EVERYONE should be able to be a politician- if they so choose. Being a passive subject to a tiny representative body shockingly doesn't help any of us decade after decade. These slick political elites will never serve the masses (well, very rarely imo).
Reps could still a have a role for additional debate and ceremonial roles, but always subject to final approval and ratification done by the public. Without a system like this we really don't have a voice. Have you ever noticed how incredibly disempowered our ridiculous governmental system is in this country?? and its that way by design. It was never meant to serve the 95%, it was always meant to serve the top 5%.
No thanks. I'm for anarchy, but as pure anarchy has rarely existed and isn't possible today, then I'm for this.
The only law in this country that really exists are laws that criminalize and penalize the poor and the working class for existing, that is all. When's the last time a corporate CEO or a company's senior governing board member, a political bigwig, or a Pig cop went to prison? Right virtually never. Those filth refuse to bow down to anyone and, like true psychopaths, feel like they have the right to do anything they want and that they are superior to all others.
Where is the law on those filth in this country?? Well it's nowhere. Big surprise right?
Until we get a political body that doesn't protect and serve the unaccountable elites, we're all going to be subject to completely unjust laws that the courts will enjoy using to crush us for sport. Happens every day. We didn't get from zero to mass incarceration via nothing - it was designed and carried out perfectly (and is still being done so).
The only way to to make change is to take power away from these filthy reps and put it back in our hands. I don't know exactly how to do that, all I know is that without the public having the final say on all law and anybody being able to craft and submit law proposals, we are all FUCKED... and I'm tired of getting fucked. I'm tired of people being sacrificed on the altar of infinite profits for the big banks, big corpos, unfair tax structures, general injustice, and abusive local policy.
I would like less law overall but I'm sure there's a place for some rational law and I have zero confidence in these wholly corrupted bought-and-paid-for suit-wearing thugs to provide it.7
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This is a very interesting ethical debate. I guess for me, it would come down to whether the person with these so-called conditions has harmed anyone and if so how much? If a person has been convicted of a serious violent crime and there is a treatment that we can use to make them better able to control these impulses, feel more respect for others, and to become more empathetic, would it not be irresponsible not to use it? I think I agree with the person up top where in these cases it should be presented as a choice. So we're still respecting the person's right to choose but we're also taking current and potential future victims rights' in consideration. So yes I think should be a choice between incarceration as both a punishment and future prevention, or institutionalizing while sending them through a particular treatment for a particular period of time to see if they can be trusted not to reoffend in the same violent manner upon completion of said treatment. I guess so long as a so-called socio- or psychopath is not out there actively harming anyone it wouldn't be right to take them by force and force them to undergo an invasive psychological process. However, once they cross over that line towards committing that violent crime, at that point then the matter has changed. It should either be up to a judge or jury to be give them a choice between treatment and just being incarcerated. I think that's as fair as possible under these circumstances. Basically, if a person has shown that they constitute a grave enough public threat that at the moment they need to be detained somewhere for public safety, then even though they may be undergoing a punishment, they should be given all opportunities to be rehabilitated. So based on current scientific and psychiatric knowledge we can try to rehabilitate a person and then of course we have to come up with ways to try to judge if these rehabilitative strategies have made a difference. This sort of dovetails into the bigger debate about the purpose of a Justice system. It's easy to just lock people up and forget about them. Weather person is a so-called sociopath or not, everyone should be given the opportunity to undergo and seek rehabilitation if they so choose. If they refuse then I guess that is their choice as well. Then they can simply remain incarcerated while serving other time. But any kind of incarceration without comprehensive rehabilitation programs and therapies automatically fails both the inmate, the victim, and society 100%, IMO.
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@carpetcrawler79 in places with real national healthcare and that instituted effective protective measures, they limited their outbreaks. No doubt some outbreaks and some numbers of deaths were always inevitable, there was going to be a non-zero number of deaths, but it was no accident with our amoral clusterfuck government, the least organized and most bungled COVID response around, and no national healthcare, why we had the most deaths in the world by far. I've heard that China had no more than 5,000 COVID deaths and that's in a large nation of 1.4B people. and supposedly that's where it started, so they must have been doing something right to keep their death rate so astonishingly low. Even if that's an exaggeration, even if they had 50,000 deaths, that's comparatively a very very small number to their overall population.
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Good for Wayne for speaking up and may he have many more years of sharing his expertise! We should be applauding his generosity of spirit for doing pro bono work. We need more people like that. As usual, shame on the local government gangsters who came after him. They were just trying to cover up for their own incompetence and malfeasance and like truth sociopaths they wanted to shoot the messenger.
I wish it were otherwise, but after only ten short years of paying attention and being aware of these situations, I've come to the conclusion that EVERY single person who gets into a position of authority, power, or control in this country is one or more of the following:
A sociopath
A psychopath
A malignant narcissist
A natural sadist
or a criminal (yes the term criminal is subjective but I think most here will agree in this context)
Don't EVER respect these people (I prefer the term other-than-human), don't EVER respect them or fly the flag- I never do and never will (patriotism feels nice but when I analyze it, I find it hollow and pointless and cult-like, and misleading as it implies we have a respectable elite political class to kneel in front of, and even if it were true which of course it isn't, I still wouldn't believe in blind nationalism, we are all equal and government doesn't deserve any special privileges or rights over anyone else) fight them EVERY chance you get.
"Government" is just a weasel word for 'yet another organized crime cartel using dirty and ruthless tactics to get what they want and destroy anyone who opposes them'. (As far as ethical government, if one such could ever be created here, which seems entirely doubtful, I think a preferable term would be "public resource management". That connotes much more legitimacy, morality, ethics and public responsibility in my mind then the term we've all come to fall back on "government"... something about that word seems to connote superiority and divine legitimacy in some people's minds and this really bothers me)
Local government in Carlsbad CA ruined my father in the 90s after fifteen years of loyal service as a civil engineer. He should have sued but didn't for whatever reason and I was too young at the time to help him. And now I'm sure it's too late, it's been over 20 years.
I don't know why anybody respects or trust ANY government persons ANYWHERE, they are just PEOPLE and when it comes to people you are going to get all kinds, from the best to the worst, and this is nowhere more true than in government, (although it's quite clear in that group which part of the human spectrum will predominate). They are certainly NOT special or superior in anyway, ha ha quite the opposite; they are usually not there by merit, but nepotism or bribery or patronage, all illegitimate and unethical means of advancement.
So WHEN will people wake up and get off their knees and stop being slaves!??? That's all I want to ask. Here's hoping more in time will.
The govt class in this nation is ruthless, they are amoral, they deserve NO QUARTER when it's time to fight. They are just other people and they usually have no soul and no conscience. It's a shame we can't handle things wild west-style with these people, but at least we can try to ruin them in the courts.
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I can't even believe what I'm hearing about this.
I guess that interview with Cenk did absolutely nothing for Ro huh??? And Cenk was entirely respectful. Just ..... couldn't get the message across, could he????
I get Pramilya and Ro are well intentioned and pure-hearted, but I didn't think they were stupid.
Is this weakness, or stupidity?? They're working in the middle of an ultra-corrupt graft machine- and they're asking for "gentleman's (and ladies') assurances" from these people??? From THESE people???? Surely they don't for one second take them at their word???? I get sometimes it's "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine", but even so, the person who's promising to give you a scratch has to be at least slightly trustworthy. HOW TF ARE ANY OF THESE PEOPLE TRUSTWORTHY IN THE SLIGHTEST?!
Maybe some of the less bad CorpDems are, but Manchin or Sinema????! Are you fucking KIDDING!????
They can't possibly be this naive at their age and in that environment.
Look, I appreciate both of them for their fundamental decency, but they just aren't strong enough. They have good hearts, like Bernie, but good hearts around a bunch of snakes and quasi-white collar crooks and Ponzi schemers doesn't help the rest of us. At this point now I'm starting to look at strong Left primary challengers.
I mean I like Ro and Pramilya, but they can't stand firm. Maybe they will be able to later, but this was a pretty important and necessary bill. When will later be??? When the fascists take back over in '22? Or '24??
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Not the first time I've heard of this, I think this is disturbingly common. I read of similar case not that long ago with a local PD and a nice middle-class home that was absolutely trashed by them and SWAT assaulting it as if it was an underground bunker and for what egregious life-threatening reason you may adk??? Were they trying to save hostages from a crazed madman with his finger on the trigger of a timed bomb? No ofc not.
It was all to find ONE suspected shoplifter who refused to come out, that was all.
A fucking petty store thief. A Walmart thief and a petty one at that.
Good to know Walmart inspires such robust devotion in the local authorities. Would we all deserve such dedicated "service".
We under the purview of literal jungle animals and psychos. Yep, active psychotics and unstable on-the-loose destructive criminals.
So they gave her $5,000 for it. Imagine being such a psychopath that you intentionally destroy someone's home for for kicks, through gross negligence and gross malfeasance and reckless irresponsibility, then look them dead in the eye and give him a $5000 check to cover the massive repair costs. The repairs alone would have come to at least $100,000 in this family's case.
Your first impulse is to call it unbelievable but when you know the kinds of jungle animals and psychos that we are all in danger of being attacked by in this country, aka the badged cartel syndicate then it all becomes quite clear.
When you don't have a conscience these things come easy to you.
I just choose to see our unvarnished reality for what it is. I refuse to live under a disempowering false illusion. People need to understand what's happening out there. The vast majority of cops are criminals and thugs, the vast majority of those in government are criminals and white collar thugs, they are abusive, they are destructive, some of them are downright evil; they do NOT care about us and they'll destroy us and what we have as easy as blinking. These animals do it all the time and laugh about it. It's fun for them. It's how the B-cluster brain works.
They're not really human, they just look human but they have nothing going on inside of them. I wish it were otherwise but it's not and it doesn't do anybody any good to pretend that we live in a land of fairytales and lollipops where the so-called authorities are these larger-than-life valorous heroes and white knights who would throw their lives in the line of fire to save a fly. That's so beyond any possibility in reality, it's hilarious.
That is Hollywood sheer nonsense and copaganda and it's a lie. That is nowhere near true. I think anybody who's lived through the consequences of these animals' actions will be the first to tell you who these savages and predators really are.
This poor man needs full damages plus extra for his pain and suffering. Thank you IFJ for using your expertise and experience for the little guy. We have so few options out here against these thugs, thieves, and destroyers.
People need to understand that anybody given power is a dangerous thing because it can be easily misused. We may need a minimum of government to simply keep the contents of this country organized and that's fine, but these savages overstep their bounds every single day in so many ways and every time we see this we should speak out, we should call it out full force and we should fight back with everything we have. I've never understood people who prostate themselves at the flag. That's pathetic. You're saying you worship a tyrannical government who doesn't give a flying fuck about you. Wake the fuck up!! Government towards the individual and small-business is mostly an evil thing but kept within strict limits can be a useful tool, but anything outside of that it becomes a tyrannical force and needs to be stopped.
Why do people want to be slaves to neofeudal overlords? I'll never understand it. I guess some people are just natural subservients and prostrate slaves. I guess.
The more power Pigs in government have, the less you have! We should want the maximum autonomy authority and control over our OWN lives. It doesn't mean total anarchy it just means that those who are given discretionary authority are kept extremely circumspect and circumscribed. Clearly in this country that isn't happening and hasn't happened for a long time and that's why you have incidents like this everywhere.
Government is just other people, the vast majority of politicians are on the sociopath spectrum. Don't ever give these thugs you respect they do NOT deserve it and will laugh in your face if they were being honest. Govt is simply other people who piss and shit like you and me. Don't ever respect authority, because nine times out of ten they have zeto respect for you and only want a feeling of dominance and control and NOBODY deserves that, NOBODY!. This is why all PD's as we know them should be disbanded. Nobody should be lying in wait on the street to prey on others and commit crime under the color of law. What does "law" mean anyways?? Special privileges for the so-called exercisers of such "law"?? Yeah no that's NOT okay but we live in a world of slaves and it's really hard waking people up to this.
NOBODY is qualified to rule or obey and NOBODY is inherently superior to others.
NOBODY has a right to rule or to dictate or to do ANYTHING that it would be illegal or wrong for us to do as single individuals. NOBODY.
When you don't have a conscience, and even worse in the case of most Street Pigs, you have an impulse to destroy, then you're going to find targets and you're going to harm people, and that's exactly what they do. It needs to be opposed.
People who say back the blue are in one of the deepest cults out there. It's a real shame. No class of humans deserves dictatorial power over others or a license to kill with impunity or to initiate theft, harassment, violence or persecution. Absolutely no one.
Might as well say Back the Gestapo, same exact thing, same exact meaning. They just don't get it and don't want to get it bec they're either naturally subservient or just stupid. It's a damn shame.
Tldr: the blue gestapo is as criminal as any other organized crime syndicate out there, only this one masquerades as servants of the people when they are no such thing. It's a criminal predatory cartel like any other, and when is the last time a criminal syndicate wanted to pay for the damage they caused? Responsibility and criminal syndicates don't go together. Deafth to these Pigs and these blue terrorism units, they're ALL criminals.
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Politicians don't want to stop it though, at any level. They're completely owned operated and report to all of these large firms who are doing this. They're only too happy to take their money and let them dictate policy.
Wall Street won't stop until half the country is bankrupt and/or homeless, and what then? No honestly I'm curious what politicians' agendas are then when half the country can barely afford to eat, live, keep a roof over their head, drive, etc. When the 1% has succeeded in their goal to take everything, then what? Do we all die, live on the street, what??? Since Wall Street and it's clones will never stop trying to take everything, I'm just curious how politicians think this will end.
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@drcatrinaking lady, are you dense? Ive thought more about this than most and I'm not saying overthrow anything I'm saying to better regulate the private sector, mostly at the top, while providing a better public sector to all. Try to read what I'm saying a little more carefully, and less patronizing if you don't mind thanks. I'm 40 and I think I get it. You also seem to think supply and demand is some holy concept handed down by god when it's nothing of the. You act like there's no place for regulation and laws. Ok that's your view but mine is different. Stop worshipping this nonsense handed to you about a so-called free market. First, there's no such thing as a "free market", our private market is quite rigged for the top 1% and business elites, all I'm suggesting is that be changed through intelligent and proper regulation to protect all workers from entry to PhD, our communities, and our environment; along with the beefing up of the public sector to include better guarantees such as modest UBI for lower-income households, better family and early childhood programs, and comprehensive national public healthcare (and much more but that's just to name a few). This could all easily be financed by better taxation at the top and greater federal funding.
The solutions are simple, but they won't come from this current government, the two main parties are shameless and proud corporate servants and all fully bought and paid for down to a man. It would have to come thru electing better people (nigh impossible here for whatever reason, but maybe more possible in the future) or public ballot measures (much more possible imo).
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I've often thought it was the most disgusting perverse idea that we could have actual billionaires and nobody thought there was a problem with this. By what right in the UNIVERSE does one person have, to use criminality and their ability to buy government favor, to accumulate SO MUCH to themselves that they could never consume within 100 lifetimes even if they tried!?! What in the actual FGCK.
Why are we in the minority that we want a simple and effective economic system that guarantees a strong and healthy standard of living to all people while also allowing for a reasonable amount of profit and wealth, but WITHIN LIMITATION and moral reason!! Everybody's entitled to a certain amount of material minimums and there would be a set maximum of private accumulation that no one can go above. The same would apply to business entities.
We don't have to go full communist to ensure that everyone can achieve a healthy and positive standard of living, we just have to stop the greed of the fanatical and the inhuman and the revolting and the sub-human top 2% that won't stop themselves! That is the cornerstone.
Control business, control private greed, guarantee a healthy and desirable standard of living to ALL citizens.... And the end!
Why is this so goddamn hard to achieve!?!? Well it's not if the political will was there. Not only should no business grow so large as to rival small nations in size and revenue, no private household should be able to either. There should be SERIOUS limitations to business size and personal wealth- set high enough to satisfy virtually all people's dreams of possibly achieving wealth but low enough to ensure that there is plenty to go around for all.
I don't understand why this is so impossible for the ruthless gangster criminals that have run this 8th world country for the last 200 years to get done. (Well actually ofc I do)
Just set maximum private wealth at 100M, and the maximum business size to something like 500 locations, crush businesses for outsourcing for cheaper slave labor, and demand the other fair rules that all businesses must abide by.
Like it's so common sense, moral, ethical and simple it does amaze me that it hasn't been done yet but then again, I know why- the why is obvious. The filth and the the evil who have grabbed control and held it for a very long time I have no intention of doing the right thing; unfortunately that's not going to change soon and I don't know when or how we're going to be able to force it to change. That is the terrible conundrum.
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@zippythechicken I understand about genuine violent acts, that is what a justice system is supposed to intervene on. However our system goes far beyond that I think in ways that can be clearly seen once one starts to look.
Look I don't think that everyone can be redeemed but I do think most can.
There should be certain protections against those with violent convictions, however once someone has served their time and is deemed rehabilitated they should still be able to seek appropriate employment and housing provided it doesn't take them into contact with vulnerable groups. So for instance, perhaps someone convicted of a serious sex crime won't be allowed to work in schools or around children, but there's no reason why they shouldn't be able to get a job working at an industrial plant, or in a store where they'll be in plain sight of other adults at all times.
There should be certain types of housing set aside for those with past sex-crime convictions. Some people really can be rehabilitated and change. Everybody needs a place to live.
Also not every sex crime conviction is for a violent act. A lot of people are victimized by the sex offender classification every year who did nothing more than take a picture of a classmate in a bikini or forward a picture of a girl who happen to be underage who was scantily-clad. it doesn't mean they were looking at child po8n, this could have been a 15yo girl. Teens go to the beach and go to school in many places with relatively small amounts of clothing. I'm not trying to justify genuine sexual predators I'm talking about what all teens which is go which is go to parties, have fun take pictures of each other and so on. An 18yo having consensual sex with his 16yo gf is NOT a rapist, yet the law says he is. That is outrageous. I briefly dated a 26yo when I was sixteen 25 years ago. Man today I guess they'd arrest him as a rapist (we weren't even sexual active). Our laws are screwy and sick. They are written to totally victimize people of color and poor people in every way. They are just a tool to hurt and harm people that is all.
I've heard that people who get cited for public urination now can get called sex offenders. This is absolute madness and sadism.
The sex offender label is being applied to everyone and everything now creating a permanent underclass of perceived predators were none such exists.
You cannot overestimate the maliciousness and the evil of the monsters who control our courts I'm sorry. They hate human beings and they really want to destroy them and so if you do any little thing wrong they will use that as an opening to try to charge you as if you were some kind of genuine evil predatory sociopathic person. I've seen it happen time and time again and I have talked to quite a few people who have lived through it. All of these people were poor or POC.
Cops are so evil you cannot begin to imagine the moral bankruptcy in these demons. They take pleasure from harming people either through violence or through the system. Had a friend who got a six-year sentence because he had an argument with his girlfriend. Voices were raised, a neighbor called the police and from there just got out of hand. I'm fuzzy on the details now because this is going back a ways but I think they charged him with some form of sexual or physical assault and pressured the woman to claim it happened. Apparently she did try to speak up and say nothing like that occurred but that didn't stop the cops. You see my friend is very dark-skinned and very black. Of course his public defender was worthless and did nothing for him so he got a six-year sentence, ended up having to do three years in one of the California prisons, got out and still had to be three years on parole which is pseudoslavery. For nothing.
Cops are from Satan in this country, once you see them that way everything else makes sense. They hate Black people with a blinding passion that a normal person could never understand. They want them all to to die. Short of that they want them all to be locked up. This friends name is Chris, he is a very sweet young man, he never means any harm to anyone. He's doing fine today but that was six years out of his life for absolutely no reason at all.
99% of our current lockup system is evil, damn near satanically so. It's designed to attempt to destroy people and to destroy the black community with industrial efficiency and that's exactly what it does.
Of course genuine evildoers need to be intercepted and handled, but our system goes far far far beyond that and it does so intentionally.
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@sergeyn.syritsyn6748 or violent felons. The court's definition of violence and mine might differ. But look, we all might do bad things under the right circumstances. Unless what somebody did was truly extreme like serial murder, child murder, serial violent sexual assault, serious DV, violent pedophilia, or something else very extreme, a drive by of a home for instance, I'm willing to bet it wasn't all that violent.
The human race has always been a pretty violent race. I'm not saying that there shouldn't be consequences but it's interesting that a lot of people are being locked up for relatively minor so-called violent offenses today when for most of our history nothing like that would have been batted an eyelash at.
Such as simple fistfights btwn two adult males, revenge killings (the devil is always in the details but let's presume the motive of the would-be avenger is justified), snapping and killing one's longtime abuser, etc.
These acts are all extremely understandable if not justified given the circumstances. But the courts want to take an ignorant sadistic very black-and-white reductive immoral and unethical simple-minded anti- justice view of life. Any act of violence is considered a crime no matter what preceded it no matter what any other details regarding the situation may be. Context and background and mitigating circumstances and all of the other 98% of relevant information means nothing in our fifth-world courts.
But if the courts don't ultracriminalize everything how will they keep a full docket and ever-increasing incarceration?
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@zippythechicken It really depends what they were convicted of. Most convictions are non-violent or minor. Even some DV or sex-offense convictions are unjust and not deserved. I'm not saying nobody out there is a bad guy, there are certainly those, I've just known people who have been totally victimized and railroaded and screwed over by the system because the system is an assembly line. It is an industrial process meant to suck as many people in as possible and keep them down for as long as possible, there's no justice about it. A lot of people have unjust convictions or charges that look a lot worse on paper then they really are. Two people could get into a fight and it could be charged as a felony assault making one or both of them look like crazy people when really they were just two people that got a little hot under the collar where nobody got seriously hurt and it would have been fine had the Blue gestapo not gotten involved, but the Pigs are psychopaths; they receive credit for how many people they arrest, they don't care whose lives they destroy or people they hurt, that's why they're evil. They will do this until their dying day, it's a psychopath's/narcopath's dream. They always defend it like the evil robots they are by simply saying "we are just upholding the law"- yes that's what's wrong with you absolute demon- that's what's wrong with the whole system, fool. These laws are what are evil and are designed to ruin lives for sport.
Asking these negative-digit IQ Pigs to think for themselves is like asking a rock to get up and dance the hoochie coochie. Evil, brainless savages all. Sick, brain rotted scum just looking for a rush of adrenaline by pushing someone else around. The system is designed to subjugate not to protect or rehabilitate.
I'm not saying everybody on the outside doesn't have the right to be safe of course they do but based on my experience, a huge number of people get fed through the system unjustly far more than who deserve it, and even picking up a minor charge can screw one over for a long time depending on their situation.
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There's NO WAY a hotel or motel proprietor can control what happens in every single guest room, that's an outrageous expectation. Provided a given guest doesn't cause a commotion or draw attention to themselves, what they do behind the closed door of their own room is known only to them.
There might be drugs, there might be prostitution and you know what, that's perfectly fine provided it's done between consenting over-aged adults.
Even if it's sex trafficking, which is heinous and which should be rightfully prosecuted, a motel proprietor shouldn't be held responsible because they are not going to have every room under surveillance nor should they be able to. The problem with a guarantee of privacy to all guests is that some guests will misuse it.
You can't hold hotel owners responsible for what to guests do in the privacy and concealment of their own room. That is vile and revolting. Now, once it comes to the attention of the proprietor, they will have a choice how to respond, but even if they choose to allow it, it doesn't mean they deserve to lose their entire business, I don't see how those two connect. If local authorities want to charge business owners with aiding and abetting, that's one thing, provided they can prove foreknowledge took place; but that in no way gives them anymore right to take their private property or any of their income.
No public agent should have a financial stake in someone's private property. I mean the conflict-of-interest is beyond outrageous!
This isn't about stopping or slowing down so-called crime, this is about Mass Grand theft!!! The proceeds of the sale were going to go directly into the DEA agents' pockets.
May every government agent in this country, every corrupt cop, every crooked public official rot in hell! While they're out they're destroying small-town and small-business America, they're dicksucking and enabling massive tax crime and other crime for the 1%.
Just look at East Palestine for what big business giants get away with.
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@robertko5425 the Taliban are scum and savages. Either mentally ill, cult-brainwashed, or amoral. They kidnap teenage girls for forced "marriages"; they killed this woman's two sons for no reason on a report I was just watching, and she is hardly unique, took her two adolescent daughters, she's trying to find them now but has no idea where they are. I don't agree with most of what happened under the occupation, nor any of what the Pentagon has provoked and caused around the world in their bloodlust; but Pompeo basically gave Afganistan back to the Taliban by releasing 5000 of their members plus their top commander in early 2020, cut out our own so-called client govt in Kabul that had been our point of contact for 20 fucking years. Pompeo and Trump should be shot for this, or locked up on charges of crimes against the Afghan people. I know the Kabul govt had a lot of problems and I know a lot of Afghans were very sick of all their corruption and continuing sexist attitudes from some of them, but I highly doubt anyone wanted ruthless extremists to take over. Now things in the region are in turmoil, and only the stone age inbred savages aka Talibs in Afghanistan are happy. It's shameful. I'm so sick of these islamist PHYLTH and their cults of DEATH and slavery for women! ALL islamofascist evildoers and savages deserve death as far as I'm concerned.
At this point the only thing that can help re-stabilize and liberate the region in Russia, their neighbor. To my knowledge they were actually doing good things in the region and bringing progress and development when they were there the first time, before the US so rudely forced them out for literally NO reason other than they were who they were- the USSR, and the US decided they were the enemy a long time ago. Honestly I find it all ridiculous, but I do hope Russia re-enters the region and makes short work of the Taliban so that country can know some peace and stability for a change.
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Like you know one way or the other. You get your news from corporate MSM. Based on my knowledge, which if true, shows the Russian objective of taking on neo-nazis and violent hyper-nationalists in Ukraine to to be VERY rational.
If you wanna claim the loonies in our govt are somehow better than anyone else's, go ahead, but learn about their LONG LONG list of human rights crimes first. Just look up "CIA abuses abroad" or "last 150 years of US foreign intervention". If I could post a link I would. And I'm not saying other govts are perfect, far from, most govts have committed wrongs, but none of the scale of ours, imo. Not based on what I know. Besides, 800 bases around the world??? That's just insane. Look it up. 800. Most are small refueling stations but many are not. This is nuts tho. There is no justifiable reason that I can think of to maintain a permanent presence in another country- other than to keep that country in a more or less secondary/subject state. I think the world is getting sick of this and has had enough.
Most countries have a large ongoing movement from the local citizens towards their respective govt to close the US military base or bases in their country. Is it fair for ANY nation to believe they own the globe and to commit great violence against any other state that doesn't kowtow to it's wishes or allow itself to be exploited?
I don't know what's wrong with those crazies who call the shots in DC, both elected and unelected. All they want is permanent violence and they are clearly pushing for WW3 rn with their continued exploitation of Ukraine as a tool to antagonize and provoke the Russian govt.
Honestly it's just bizarre. Like I don't even know how they in their fevered minds think this is going to end.
I can only conclude they want a third world war and a nuclear war. If not why not shut down all the foreign bases?? Why not seek peaceful cooperation?? Yeah because they prefer war and violence, provided they're not personally affected of course.
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@mobilusinmobili8321 wow. So whites don't commit crime is that it?
It's so easy being racist isn't it?
Bootlick elsewhere Pig-lover, and leave this channel, because your ignorance and bigotry is not needed or wanted.
I don't even know what you call a crime. As far as I'm concerned the government doesn't have the right to tell me (for the most part) what it is or isn't permitted in my personal life. But I know you enjoy being a slave you want to bend over and spread your aS$h0le for mommy and daddy government, you love yourself some Big Brother, and you're upset that we don't want to follow suit. All slaves operate like that. They don't understand what having self-respect is, they get irate when others don't want to be submissive little cucks like they are.
Slaves (that's you) are outraged when others think for themselves.
We aren't slaves. WE don't like being abused and trod upon. Clearly you do.
If you love it so much then go down to the Pig station and get on your knees- oh wait I'm sure you already do- well go do it some more. But just know this, the more you worship violent authority the more you give it permission to operate so don't be shocked when it turns around and fucks you up to hell. These people out here they don't give a damn about you. The ones on the street are out here to steal anything they can get their grabby dirty hands on. I guess you're still naive enough because you've been lucky so far in life and and haven't seen how they really operate. From completely unnecessary petty arrests so people can have on a completely unnecessary cash bail extorted onto them, to tickets which are just theft with extra steps, to outright naked thefts from illegal car searches, to towing cars for trivial vehicle code violations, it's one giant revenue-generating mass grand larceny racket that the Blue gangsters engage in every day and night. It's wrong, it's disgusting, and it needs to stop. It has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with profit and gain thru theft.
Bottom line, on the liberty issue, I don't give a F**K what my neighbor's doing, it's his right to live as he pleases provided he's not harming anybody else and isn't violating any of my civil rights or my property.
I don't care if those in govt says it's wrong, they're bought and paid for, they have a corrupt agenda, why tf would I ever respect their judgment over mine??? I don't need Big Brother to give me permission to exist.
I stand by my rights to choose and everyone else in my community to choose. Clearly you don't. Take your slavitude somewhere else.
Anyone with self-respect would choose NOT to live under a violent, sometimes vicious, unaccountable, rank-thieving, criminal, amoral street-prowling destructive and tyrannical Blue Gestapo State. You and the other bootlickers are on your own with that one.
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@lukeamato2348 he hasn't learned from shit! Why have drugs EVER been criminalized??? That was a revolting overreach of government authority and power from Day 1! It's a personal choice and was never any business if the State's anyways!! What business is it of the motherfking State what we choose to do in our spare time?!?! Not content to destroy people over 100% adult and consenting drug sales or use, our govt did everything in their power to coerce and bully other nations into criminalising drugs and bringing vile, satanically long and barbaric sentences against users or sellers. And why??? WHY?
I'll tell you why, TO DESTROY LIVES THATS WHY!!, MOSTLY LIVES OF COLOR- NO OTHER REASON!!!
AND MISTER RAT BASTARD RACIST AF IGNORANT, INFINITELY CORRUPT, PATHOLOGICAL LIAR, ALLEGED-RAPIST, FATHER-OF-MASS-INCARVERATION JOE BRANDON WAS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT, HELL, HE WAS THE CHIEF ARCHITECT!!
THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX NEEDS DRUGS TO BE ILLEGAL, OTHERWISE 90% OF THEM WOULD HAVE TO BE CLOSED.
AND THE POLICE STATE AND FOR PROFIT PRISON INDUSTRY WOULD HATE THAT.
AND DO YOU THINK THATS A *MORAL*REASON TO KEEP USING THE DEMONICALLY EVIL BARBARITY OF THE AMERICAN INCARCERATION SYSTEM TO HURT DRUG USERS AND DRUG SELLERS SELLING TO CONSENTING ADULT USERS??? BECAUSE MANY PIGS WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO MAKE THEIR LIVING OFF OF STEALING HUMAN LIVES ANYMORE???
Lol but so far as Brandon and the other rotten miserable CorpDems, bruh they're merely desperate. They've INTENTIONALLY failed on everything and betrayed EVERY campaign promise flagrantly. The infrastructure bill is beyond pathethic and a giant privatization scheme. This is just a last ditch effort at not being destroyed in the midterms. You're beyond ignorant of you believe EITHER vile major corporate party, no matter their color scheme, cares about YOU and has anything other than complete greed and sociopathy as their guiding principle.
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@lukeamato2348 why do you reinforce your desire to stay in your ignorance???? I'm trying to educate you and empower you with knowledge. I may not do it in the most articulate or polished manner but I am telling you the TRUTH!!! THIS STUNT IS NOTHING!! DO NOT FOR ONE SECOND PUT YOUR FAITH IN MONSTERS AND PSYCHOPATHS LIKE JOE BRANDON!!! HE WAS THE CHIEFS ARCHITECT OF THESE MONSTROUS LAWS THAT VILE COPS AND JUDGES RAN WITH TO DESTROY SO MANY HUMAN LIVES, MOSTLY BLACK AND BROWN!!
THEY CALL HIM JIM CROW JOE FOR A REASON!!! He loves what is evil and has a burning hatred for Black and Brown citizens. He has always been a rotten Klansmen in disguise.
My guy, this nonsense does nothing!!! It helps VERY few people and gets NO ONE out of prison!! It changes no laws and does nothing to even ATTEMPT to make up for 40 years of attempted GENOCIDE by the federal govt against black and brown America.
THIS IS A PATHETHIC BOGUS LIMP-WRISTED ATTEMPT NOT TO BE DESTROYED IN THE MIDTERMS AS THEY NO DOUBT WILL BE, AND NOT JUST BY GOP VOTERS BUT SANE PEOPLE ON THE LEFT LIKE ME WHO SEE THIS RAT-DEMONS FOR WHO THEY ARE! THIS IS ALL SO DELIBERATE- CANT YOU SEE THAT?!?! DO YOU SEE ANYTHING OR ARE YOU too lost in your shitlibism?????
HE AND ALL OTHERS LIKE HIM ARE DESTROYERS, PLAIN AND SIMPLE!! Who do they want to destroy?? Bitch US!!!! US, motherfcker! Where have you been?!? Wake up! They seek to destroy us for the sheer pleasure of it, and they seek to destroy us for endless rapacity and infinite greed of Wall Street corporate profit-seeking.
JOE BRANDON HAS NO INTENTION OF EVER STOPPING THE MOSTLY BLACK-AND-BROWN-CENTERED GENOCIDAL POLICIES OF MASS INCARCERATION AND MASS DEPORTATION. NONE!!!!
Praise this monster at your peril, fool. If however you choose to be red-pilled, allow me to recommend ACTUAL LEFT SOURCES OF THOUGHT, NEWS, AND COMMENTARY- NONE OF THIS BOGUS LIMP-WRISTED SHITLIB CENTRAL NONSENSE DAVID NAIVE DUMBASS IS PUTTING OUT!
If you really want to open your eyes, please consider ACTUAL Left sources, not this ridiculous SHITLIB nonsense! If you are over 30 and you are not reacting negatively and critically to all of these crazy shitlib takes, you are DESPERATELY uninformed.
Please consider the following sources for Left commentary and information:
Status Coup
revolutionary blackout
Hakim
New Atlas
Sabby Sabs
Second thought
More Perfect Union
Breakthrough News
Viki 1999/2000
Act.tv
Jimmy Dore
George Galloway show
Richard Medhurst
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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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@travistphoenix8634 I'm so sorry to hear about your struggles. Are you in a weed-legal state because Cannabis can work wonders for many ailments. Look up the Rick Simpson story. Look up videos on hemp. I truly hope you find relief. Have you tried the pain patch???
Yes, it is an opioid, but the point is to get relief so you can function. Do you have a good care team that is getting you the pain treatment you need??? Sometimes opioids are the only thing that provides full relief.
Can I recommend Marvlix as a supplement?? I haven't yet tried it but it seems promising.
Don't worry about any judgement. I'm not religious anymore, but my belief is that it's OUR loves and our bodies- god wouldn't want you to suffer needlessly. By all means have hope, but if you're certain you'd rather move on my position will always be that's your human right to do so. Nobody should suffer needlessly or endlessly. NOBODY. No moral god would harm you for choosing to end your own life. It's your Life, YOUR decision.
I've thought about myself at times, most people probably have. But, for now, I'm still here. If you're not ready to give up yet consider the suggestions I gave you.
If you don't live in a weed legal state, maybe you would want to move to one. While I always prefer natural solutions, if you need severe relied fast, the fentanyl pain patch is probably the way to go. My partner gets hers from the VA for a chronic condition she deals with. So just a suggestion in kindness. All I want is to see people pain-free or ad close to it as possible- by whatever means necessary. I hope some of this helps.
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@aranos6269 Indeed. They are shameless. Wanna know how much the US Congress just approved for Ukraine (as if this will change the eventual outcome- which I doubt, it may give a little edge to a few battles but overall at this point I have every certainty that Russia will choose to wrap up this conflict in whichever way they choose. I don't know the raw numbers of Ukraine's forces but I'm sure Russia has them outnumbered, out-trained, out-organized, outplanned and better equipped. That is what I see. Plus they have right on their side. They're not trying to take over the country or commit its own coup, they're saving the besieged people of the eastern regions and striking against the violent neo-nazis that have taken over the govt and military, while defending it's border from known planned future aggressions by NATO. Sounds upstanding and reasonable to me)????
40 Billion, bringing the grand total so far to 57B. as to how much of this money is going to filter down and actually be felt or used on the ground and Ukraine, nobody knows. But like you said got to keep that river of blood money and war profits going to the weapons makers and anyone else who stands to profit from this deal.
Would be nice if our national Congress wasn't wholly owned and operated by Wall Street and the pentagon. We sure could use just a little bit of that money right here at home. On the streets of the US of A. Flint, Michigan still doesn't have clean water after 7 years. This is supposed to be a first world country- is it? Not everywhere it sure ain't. Homelessness at an all-time high. National healthcare?? Not even close. (Obamacare helps a little but it leaves too many households uncovered)
There are a lot of people here that need a lot of help. And there are some that don't- but of those who do, it is REALLY sad that most state governments and most certainly our federal Congress gives them the giant middle finger year after year.
I'm not against people making money or having a successful business (provided it's an ethical business). I AM against THIS level of poverty and THIS level of neglect in the richest country in the goddamned world. It's morally reprehensible, it's not necessary, and it's wrong.
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@Ch-xc4fo . @Ch-xc4fo as far as the disinvestment in our rust belt and other mostly neglected areas, it comes down to the control of the corporate sector. We have a corporate State where politicians do the bidding of the large corps not the other way around. This is bad for almost everyone.
When they refuse to make large economic actors in the private sector treat their workers and their communities right , in the industry or large employer moves on, then they should be replacing the loss of those resources and salaries with some amount of federal funding, which they refuse to do. Alternatively, state governments could choose to aggressively tax the remaining big business and high incomes in their state, and redistribute those monies as necessary to prevent long-standing poverty and to ensure more equal opportunity for everyone, but they don't. (But they never stop funding mass carceration do they? This is where their priorities are. They'll spend billions to oppress and enforce large swaths of the population into poverty and to keep them down for as long as they can, but they won't invest a fraction of those monies in giving people a hand up. That's a nutshell statement of politics in America sadly)
This is why we live in the new Gilded Age where we have the fastest growing poverty rate in the past 120 years, even more than the Great Depression by some metrics.
It all comes down to political will- who do the politicians really work for and who do they really care about? I think it's obvious that for most of this country's history they haven't cared about the general public. There are always exceptions and outlying situations but by and large they operate for the elites. When political malfeasance, political maliciousness and willful political ignorance collide, what you get is growing poverty and constant resource extraction from more and more communities.
When political elites serve big business elites and don't care about doing anything for the people, this is what you get.
I keep saying this is wrong and I would do what's best for everyone if it were me and I get called a communist. Okay fine then I guess I'm a communist then- what's wrong with that? Don't we all want a good life at the end of the day? I'm for universal prosperity. This doesn't mean that everyone is rich this just means that everyone has enough to get by and be secure. I think this is easy to do but not without access to political office, and therein lies the big rub.
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@Ch-xc4fo @Ch-xc4fo @Ch-xc4fo as far as the disinvestment in our rust belt and other mostly neglected areas, it comes down to the control of the corporate sector. We have a corporate State where politicians do the bidding of the large corps not the other way around. This is bad for almost everyone.
When they refuse to make large economic actors in the private sector treat their workers and their communities right , in the industry or large employer moves on, then they should be replacing the loss of those resources and salaries with some amount of federal funding, which they refuse to do. Alternatively, state governments could choose to aggressively tax the remaining big business and high incomes in their state, and redistribute those monies as necessary to prevent long-standing poverty and to ensure more equal opportunity for everyone, but they don't. (But they never stop funding mass carceration do they? This is where their priorities are. They'll spend billions to oppress and enforce large swaths of the population into poverty and to keep them down for as long as they can, but they won't invest a fraction of those monies in giving people a hand up. That's a nutshell statement of politics in America sadly)
This is why we live in the new Gilded Age where we have the fastest growing poverty rate in the past 120 years, even more than the Great Depression by some metrics.
It all comes down to political will- who do the politicians really work for and who do they really care about? I think it's obvious that for most of this country's history they haven't cared about the general public. There are always exceptions and outlying situations but by and large they operate for the elites. When political malfeasance, political maliciousness and willful political ignorance collide, what you get is growing poverty and constant resource extraction from more and more communities.
When political elites serve big business elites and don't care about doing anything for the people, this is what you get.
I keep saying this is wrong and I would do what's best for everyone if it were me and I get called a communist. Okay fine then I guess I'm a communist then- what's wrong with that? Don't we all want a good life at the end of the day? I'm for universal prosperity. This doesn't mean that everyone is rich this just means that everyone has enough to get by and be secure. I think this is easy to do but not without access to political office, and therein lies the big rub.
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@zoec968 no problem. But these two did nothing wrong. Look, it was a 3 second display of standing in one place. Now if standing is a crime I think we've reached a sad place. I'm guessing they had nothing to do at that moment until the plane reached cruising height. I'm also guessing that the passengers couldn't see them. If you've ever flown then you know that flight workers have their own little areas that are usually behind barriers which are out of the direct line of sight of the passengers unless they're walking up to the cockpit or all the way back to use the lavatory.
I am also sure that so long as there is no extreme turbulence, the flight workers are allowed to be up and about if their job requires it, even if the fasten seatbelt sign is on for the passengers. And while this moment of good-natured display wasn't exactly a job requirement, they're still allowed to stand up if they feel it's necessary, unless the plane is taking a nosedive (or flopping around like a dying fish) in which case it doesn't much matter anyways. I've flown a fair bit and I'm pretty sure I've seen them walking by when my seat belt light was on. I don't know why everyone else here is having a conniption fit but I guess you guys are drinking some sweet-ass Kool-Aid I don't have access to. People saying they're making the airline company look bad or whatever are smoking crack. One, who's watching? Two, how are they making them look bad? If I saw that I would get a good laugh and appreciate that my flight attendants had a little sense of humor
Now maybe if they were breakdancing in the middle of the aisle or playing games with the emergency hatch or playing beer pong that would be a different story but pretty sure that's not what happened.
Whatever they should just get their jobs back. It seems that gratuitous, unfair, arbitrary, trigger-happy firings are all the rage today and that's bogus. People deserve way better job protection than that. If they are permanent hires, not temps, and I'm sure they are, then they have rights and I say the company stepped way over the line and I hope they get a good labor lawyer and fight it. Is there otherwise good employees, then this was a wrongful termination. This was not genuine misconduct, and even if their superiors thought it was I am sure a warning would suffice. But it wasn't. Leaning over for two seconds is not going to make the world stop spinning. If the plane is on a gentle ascent, then short of all the engines just suddenly going out and the plane going into a free fall, they know that the momentum will not change hence there's no risk of injury from a sudden trajectory change by the plane, as every dumbass keyboard overnight physicist here suggests. As experienced flight workers I'm sure they know how to gauge approximately how long it will take the plane to climb and what to expect while it is doing so.
It's not like they ran into the cockpit with silly string and lawn darts, as entertaining to watch as that episode would be.
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@achimwokeschtla7582 thanks for this breakdown! That's sounds so rational. Yeah I don't know why things are so retarded here. Not a lot of things on a gov level (let alone a policy level) make sense here, the more I learn about them.
Having a normal multi-party parliamentary system should not be a pipe dream! Isn't that what every other first world nation uses?? It's the only rational way to have an at least semi-representative government.
Is RCV used where you live?? Now that would be a helpful voting method to lead to a better result than simply more bogus FPTP methodology.
Is open bribery (it's not called that here officially but that's exactly what it is) and paid lobbying and limitless "donations" allowed in Germany?? Because that's literally what 95% of the federal and a good portion of the State govs run on here. [I won't say everything depends on a big-money interest, industry, or organized lobby being behind it; but most matters that get taken up and discussed and put into bills (or blocked from becoming bills), along of course with details that that benefit that particular corporate interest or industry, do.]
Our so-called "democracy" really is shit here. "Most advanced nation"?? Ehh, idk- not politically for sure.
250M voting age adults, half who don't vote (some for good reason I'm sure), with zero choice other than two corporate and Pentagon-owned parties, one just a lot more openly racist and fascistic than the other. What a shithole system for real, jeesus.
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@John Doe or simply just don't waste the excess. Managing and regulating the private sector solves many of the issues.
You don't have to centrally manage everything, that sounds like a lot of work and in my eyes isn't necessary or desirable, you just have to mandate that all the excess currently produced gets redistributed back to society, not the farking landfill. Common sense.
Unfortunately, we don't currently do this and that's a problem. Waste is the problem. We have more than enough production right now, but are the end products being needlessly wasted? And then some.
So step one is eliminate all waste of resources and stop what I call Resource Loss. All of it.
Provide a better baseline of tangible guarantees from the central govt, including actual welfare and safety net programs is next. More public goods in the form of education, childcare, medical care, public transit, infrastructure, housing, positive community enrichment programs, and so on. This means we need a better non-federal tax policy which I define elsewhere.
We don't need a totally communist economy, tho we do want a strong public sector. We just have to successfully regulate the private sector to stop the waste and to ensure fair resource distribution.
Poverty is completely unnecessary. It only exists because of criminal crooked unjust governments. It can be solved easily thru the methods I have outlined.
We can encourage the adoption of worker co-ops in the private sector while having better labor laws that mandate fair wages and more equal profit-sharing.
The public sector can continue as it has been, but expanded as necessary to provide more services, and hopefully given more oversight to ensure their functions are actually carried out with the public's welfare in mind.
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Are we shocked at any of this when our entire govt is bought by open graft????? I'm not. Maybe Ro meant well, I don't know, but as we all know the far bigger problem is that Big Business and any big money special interest has their candidates selected WAYYY ahead of time, from both fake parties.
Most city politicians only care about the big money interests, not the average resident, and the cops of course, can't forget those! So is it a shock in as greed-centered and ruthless a culture as ours, WHERE GOVT IS FOR SALE TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, 99.99% of ANY group of so-called public "servants" at the State or federal level most certainly DO NOT work for us. If you're outside of the top 5-10%, they do not care. If you aren't a CEO of a big Corp, they do not care. They are grifting grifters who grift, and they could care less about the peasants.
I'm sure I'm not blowing anyone's mind here with these absolutely not shocking revelations, I guess sometimes I just like stating the obvious to remind myself of why nothing ever changes and why the non-priveleged among the People consistently get nothing.
Either we find a way to elect a majority of strong Progessives and Leftists from the ground up in a necessity of states or we resign ourselves until WW3 breaks out, cuz it's not like we can take over with our million man army that doesn't exist.
And yes, the Senate and EC among other things needs to get blown to kingdom come.
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@jessewilson8676 @jessewilson8676 well they shouldn't be seen as the owners. That's what private property means. They only have the rights to public property- although I would say they're only entitled to the management of public property as we all maintain our local public grounds with our various tax contributions. The scam regarding property taxes has been going on a long time but that doesn't make it right. A criminal grift is still a criminal grift no matter how many generations it's been going on. I don't mind property taxes provided they are kept modest, progressive but limited, and fair; and in ___NO___ way used as an excuse to come after one's actual HOME! That is the massively ugly criminal heart of the property tax scam. I'm happy to help support my local community and our school system but if I cannot pay I in no way deserve to lose my entire home because of that! That's just evil! Some counties are so far beyond the pale; so happily and joyfully conscience-absent they literally steal your entire home's value from the sale. Not all but quite a few have and it's called stealing your home's equity. Essentially they rob you blind and leave you with nothing other than the clothes on your back, whatever you have in the bank, and whatever you've been able to salvage from the home. Of course it's an outrageous crime but it depends on how dirty the local courts are if they will help you get redress or not.
In no way does any government entity have the right to come after a person's primary home that is legally in your name for ANY reason (with perhaps one caveat, that being an extreme crime was committed on the premises and the property is being sold to compensate the victims).
Any violation of this is non-negotiable in my book and completely morally unacceptable.
I'm tired of government behaving like filthy absolute rulers that feel they have the right to do ANYTHING they want at anytime and take anything they want from anyone with or without due process. They are gangsters and I'm sick of it.
Long ago, trash people without ethical compunction discovered many ways to get away with flat-out stealing what is rightfully ours, and they called it "law" so no one would question it. That doesn't make it right, it just means that these government crimes, abuses, practices and tyrannies have been going on a long time and it's going to take a very long fight to stop them.
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I made a minor edit to my comment where I was criticizing the property tax system and the way it's used to justify outright naked home and/or land theft- and it is home (land) theft, I don't care what anyone says- and the afterwards it wouldn't post again.
But it's a MASSIVE crime and a serious problem, and because they control the local organized force, they believe can get away with it, and they usually do. it is deeply morally and ethically wrong and I will do anything I can in my lifetime to stop it. NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO TAKE YOUR HOME FOR ANY REASON I DON'T CARE HOW THEY TRY TO JUSTIFY IT IS A CRIMINAL ACT! Nobody should be taxed on their property if it means they get to be turned out of house and home like they were only squatting... in some cases with these vile local government degenerates outright keeping the remainder of the equity- a compounding act of astounding criminality. I mean these people love what is evil and if you're an average nobody they feel that you can't fight back. I was just watching a video about this- not only are home seizures due to property taxes non-payment a moral outrage, but some of these municipalities literally have the gall to take it ALL.
Your excess home value is supposed to return to you if your home is sold, but sometimes your local county will choose to just keep it. They have no respect for you; you're less than an ant to them. It's astounding. The people who seek power in this country only seem to love evil and barbarism.
It's just a filthy rotten system all the way around and I would love to know how it originally got started. Some crooked f**k got a bright idea someday and we've been fgcked ever since.
Why do homestead protections extend to private debts but not public officials? Public officials aren't special - they don't deserve jack fgcking shit! They don't deserve special dispensation to come in and rob you blind I don't care how they try to justify it, ITS FGCKING FRAUD!
And why all this? Well, basically as far I'm concerned, in my eyes, it's bec the county is usually made up of scandalous degenerates and greed-infested shameless goons who feel entitled to behave this way because they feel no one can stop them.
Some things are just wrong. If you're current with your payments with your bank or in good standing with them them your deed should fgcking MEAN SOMETHING and nobody should be able to fgcking assault it for any reason- idgaf WHO THEY ARE!!
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I'm pretty rabidly Left and hate the federal apparatus with all my heart. These are astonishingly destructive, evil and hate-filled people. They delight in what is evil and cruel. And not just the GOP, the Dem filth are in lockstep with these goons just as much, there's no daylight between them. They all play a game for the camera of opposition but they are best friends behind closed doors.
I'm just waiting for BRICS or anyone to glass the hell out of DC then we can all be free.
I mostly an anarchist/autonomist anyways because I see the kinds of evils that are justified by a State organization. There's a place for limited law, key word being limited. All the rest? NEVER.
I'm definitely with the absolutely small govt crowd. Nobody has the right to control another. NOBODY.
Control should be applied to corporations not individuals. Any attempt at fascism or control of the individual is inherently evil, amoral, unjust and wrong. It is tyranny in the pure.
People who want to be owned commanded and controlled will love their government, because it takes the place of their parents. People who demand the dignity of self-ownership will always fight the State to the death if necessary. I intend to.
But yes we definitely should have an open border at all times. Why shouldn't people be able to enter the country if they wish? We're not a restaurant or an airplane, there isn't a maximum capacity here and even if there were, a few tens of thousands per year certainly not going to exceed it.
Obviously the true reason is hate-mongering in white supremacy as it always has been.
We are always free to go into Mexico and we're acting like we need or want a Berlin wall with them? This is nonsense.
They should always be free travel between states. If a certain country's authorities are is looking for a wanted person from the neighboring or nearby state, and if they have credible info than they can seek them, but other than extreme emergency, borders should never be closed. It's cruel and wrong.
Sure they should always attempt to stop forced human trafficking usually sex trafficking but consenting intended willful movement should never be abridged.
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You know how I know the goals of our bogus and bloodthirsty US Military-Corporate-Industrial complex aren't ethical or moral in the slightest??
Well let's see. We literally could kick the entire world's ass many times over, but can't seem to route and eliminate some derkahderkah lunatics and savages (Taleebahn- who do actually deserve the bunker buster salute, IMO) in the afgan mountains after TWENTY fucking years.
Now, something about both sides of that equation don't fucking add up. I guess actually accomplishing the mission after 3 months as we could have if we were actually trying, wouldn't be as exciting for the Pentagon war room, and it certainly wouldn't pay all their sponsors (defense industry) nearly as well. So keeping an unnecessary engagement going for 19 years longer than necessary regardless of the cost to human life on either side is preferable to them.
Twenty years ago when I first enlisted, I had no idea as to the true nature or motivating forces behind US expansion and our MIC (just money, that's all. Money and resource stealing. So honorable, huh?). Now, even though it took me a while to catch on, I'm happy to say at least I do now; and as usual, one finds the lifelong knee-deep MSM propaganda never quite lines up with the truth regarding "US goals and methods abroad".
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@youtubesucks1499 excuse me I don't work at McDonald's but I AM going to stick up for workers no matter where they work. I understand we're talking about primarily lower skilled positions but most of these people still need to live and support themselves, they don't all live at home with Mommy and Daddy and come from comfortable upper middle class backgrounds like people like you assume.
Minimum wage should be at LEAST $18 an hour across the board. I told you I don't have the stats in front of me, but you can go look it up. Go look up when minimum wage used to track with inflation, and then when they started letting it fall behind right around 1980, unsurprisingly when that shit-sandwich Reagan and his filthy fascist dirtbag robber barons came into office. And it's never caught up since.
If a business can't meet that standard, perhaps they shouldn't be in business. You seem to forget that LABOR is made up of human beings, not robots. You are dehumanizing them, do you understand? Workers are you and me; are everybody that isn't privileged with a silver spoon in the mouth. How dare you ask labor to be content with poverty wages! You should be ashamed of yourself. EVERYONE DESERVES FAIR WAGES, EVERYONE. NOT JUST THE WHITE COLLARS BUT ALL BLUE COLORS AND UNSKILLED WORKERS TOO. I DON'T GIVE A SHIT IF YOU'RE SCRUBBING TOILETS BECAUSE THAT STILL WORK, YOU DESERVE A GOOD WAGE!!! OTHERWISE WHY WORK IF YOU'RE JUST GOING TO BE EXPLOITED? SELLING DRUGS OR SOME OTHER HUSTLE WOULD BE MUCH MORE PROFITABLE.
No business has the right to stay profitable on the backs of employee exploitation. WORKERS CREATE EVERYTHING THE BUSINESS HAS. WAGES SHOULD AT A MINIMUM BE LIVABLE. YOU WANT WORKERS TO BE SLAVES HAPPY WITH CRUMBS. YOU ARE WRONG.
I am not saying a doctor and a janitor should make the same wage, but the lowest wages should be fair and livable, period. Doesn't that janitor have to live? Don't people on the bottom have bills to pay? Yeah I think so. They're not all teenagers living at home, not by a long shot.
And that is why unions are so goddamned necessary. Finally after decades of suppression, unions are growing again in the United States and they need to grow a hell of a lot faster and they will. How dare you suggest a business should balance its books on the backs of workers? Perhaps prices need to be raised modestly or executive pay needs to be cut back. Either way in most cases there's plenty room to pay frontline workers a good wage. Must be nice to see workers as slaves and expendable objects as you seem to. Unfortunately, that denies them their rights. It is wrong and YOU are wrong if you support it.
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@youtubesucks1499 Yes. Where would you be without the workers????? I understand- nobody wants to share. That's a value we've been taught in this society, to take as much as you can, f*ck your neighbor and sharing is for weak p8ssies. I get that. I also reject it.
Under hyper-capitalism, workers are devalued in some cases almost to the level of indentured servants. This is wrong.
Frontline workers, the upper management, and the owners, are all working to the same end (in the private market): a profitable business. Each deserves relevant and fair compensation for their part of the effort. Not 99% for some owner who doesn't do shit but decorate up an office, not 99% for faceless investors, but an equitable distribution of the profits among EVERYONE. It doesn't all have to be the same, but I'd say it should be fair. It can decrease or increase proportionately based on a given employee's seniority, position, and job difficulty.
All workers, based on their level, deserve a piece of the profits. Hourly wages are fine, altho for most people they are too low, but why shouldn't they receive an additional bonus from the the profits at the end of given cycle? Didn't they help create those profits?
I understand initial investors, if there are any, eventually want a return on their investment. I suppose that makes sense. But after that? After that time period is passed?
The workers are also taking a risk. If it doesn't work out they need to find a new job. they say up to 60% of America citizens cannot afford a $400 emergency. Is this because everybody is just blowing their whole paycheck at the casino? Hardly it's because most people who work for average or lower than average wages can hardly afford to save anymore. This is mainly due to rising rents, stagnating wages and other rising costs of living. so if somebody without significant savings suddenly finds themself without employment I'd say that they are in a much more difficult than urgent position that somebody who is already rich who supposedly took on some limited financial risk. As for the owner of said company and other higher level persons, I never suggested that they shouldn't be fully compensated based on their position and hopefully, whatever contributions they were making to the company. I don't agree with outrageous compensation for corporate executives however not at ALL, not ever, and I could go on about that another time.
Anyhow most workplaces are well established by now. I'm not talking about brand new companies, I'm talking about the majority of workplaces from small size to large corporates than have been around for some time, when this risk factor that you refer to is no longer relevant.
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@youtubesucks1499 I understand some skills are more valuable or entertaining or rare than others. So be it. Haven't I already addressed this several times by now? Look, professional athletes make what they make due to the popularity of sports, and the willingness of many people to pay a certain price for admission to sports games. It's not just because that level of talent is very rare, it's that there is a hefty base of the public, including myself, who appreciates sports and are willing to pay for the privilege of experiencing them. In short they have strong popularity. If a certain sport does not have strong popularity it's players or owners could not make as much. So clearly in the world of private professional sports and many private businesses in general, desirability and popularity are the determining factors in a given business's ultimate success. Now within that single business entity, whether it's a large corporation or a mom and pop shop, as I've already stated pay can be determined along seniority, responsibility, and skill level. So I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but I am claiming that your view is incomplete. Again, whether at a lower or higher skill level, my minimum wage, if I had my wish right now, would be $24 an hour (or $15 for a small independent business under 25 employees).
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@youtubesucks1499 Your constant desire to use McDonald's as a catch-all example of an unskilled worker is getting tiresome. There are hundreds of other better examples. Not all low-skilled jobs are McDonald's or food service. Many are I grant, but many are not.
But on this I've made my position clear. Unskilled or low skilled labor still deserves a decent wage. Your issue is that you seem to think it's still 1980 where $12 an hour can get somebody an acceptable standard of living. I wish that were true; but with a few exceptions in perhaps some rural regions, that has not been true for a long time.
Did you know that many nurses in the county where I live have had to go on strike one or more times over the past 5 years? Turns out that even though registered nurses are considered professionals they are STILL exploited and taken advantage of by greedy for-profit hospital owners. Now isn't that a shame? First of all, I'm morally opposed to a for-profit hospital. I oppose all forms of a for-profit healthcare system. We should have universal healthcare from coast to coast to coast in all 50 states and all US territories. We should have had that decades ago. But for the time being, sadly this gross ultra-profitized system has infiltrated all sectors of our society, much to the harm of the rest of us, and some of these ridiculous hyper-greedy owners have found their way into the medical industry, where they have bought hospitals which may have been non-profit previously and are using any number of methods to unscrupulously extract maximum profits. This then often includes medical understaffingand underpaying nursing staff to a greater or lesser degree.
This has led to nursing staffing shortages which impact nurses heavily and patients both. So really it should be illegal because worst case scenario this can result in wrongful patient death, which besides causing wrongful loss of life, could end up harming the hospital if it results in successful malpractice suits against it from the grieving family. So these unscrupulous managers now blatantly allow understaffing because they don't want to hire more nurses and they don't want to adequately pay the ones that they do have. So even these professionals have been disrespected by their unethical greed-seeking management group, which has led to various strikes within the industry of nurses and nursing-related technicians in recent years.
I'm glad you value our noble nursing professionals. Clearly not everyone does. Clearly even highly educated higher-skilled professionals are not always safe from the threat of various levels of exploitation by those at the top, in the cases where a hospital has been bought by these types of greedy business interests.
It seems to be that there are many instances of even higher- skilled and/or experienced workers having trouble getting their due.
Clearly some or many owners/managers are allowing their personal greed to take over and are refusing to adequately compensate even their skilled Labor.
It's nice that you claim to value skilled labor but clearly even skills aren't enough to protect those who do the work in many different workplaces across the us. I wonder why this is? Could it be perhaps an ideology amongst those in private business that justifies, as you seem to do, shafting workers as often as possible, whether it is the unskilled ones or in these other cases even those who bring skills and trained knowledge to the table??? That ideology that says it's okay to exploit workers or cheetah or pay them as little as you can legally get away with after all they're not really people and the only people that matter are owners and shareholders? Does this seem fair?
Well it doesn't to me.
Skilled and experienced labor will naturally be valued at a higher level than unskilled and inexperienced; no one really disputes this. But if a strong high floor is not set for minimum wages, then even those who bring skills and experience and education to the table will, in some or many cases, be at risk of being paid less than what they deserve. In a sense it's like a trickle up effect. If it's okay to shaft unskilled labor. Sooner or later it's going to be okay to shaft those who perform skilled labor.
It seems only logical to me that setting a ridiculously low minimum wage under values everyone's perspective wages, because the minimum wage is the starting point that all other wages are compared to. If an hourly wage was compared to $8 an hour then it would look a lot better, then if that same wage was compared to $20 or $24 an hour.
I suppose some business owners will always want to take it all and will always foolishly and unjustly refuse to appreciate the Labor pool where the totality of their skilled, semi-skilled, or unskilled workers comprise the engine that makes their entire business possible, and will thus try to devalue their wages as much as they can get away with.
I say that's a damn shame.
Owners and executive level managers need to stop feeling so entitled, stop seeing greed as some kind of virtue, and gain some more basic respect and appreciation for their workforce. I don't understand why this doesn't come naturally to these people, it's easy to sit around in a suit at a desk and do nothing all day. I mean I understand that some desk jobs do require mental effort, but I wager it's far easier to be a pretty-face executive and wear a fancy suit all day, then do the real work, skilled or unskilled, on the factory floor, or in the classroom, or in the community, i.e. a field repair technician for example.
The workforce IS the business. All profits and end products generated FIRST has to be work exerted by the labor pool (skilled or less skilled). Trying to suppress the wages of these people under any justification is completely unjust. Instead, owners and managers should be grateful for these people and respect them, for where would their business be without them?
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@youtubesucks1499 and this goes to show the lack of ethics amongst the ownership class sadly. I guess we need laws to prevent your class's greed.
If it's going to take the force of law to keep your class from exploiting us then we will keep fighting until we get the laws on OUR side for a change.
Outside of that I have already acknowledged that in the long run I believe it's worth it to lose a few positions so that all the remaining positions can be paid at the proper level. However if this can be achieved just as easily through cutbacks to the probably-not-essential executives then that should be done first and foremost without hesitation.
We will most certainly win. LABOR has all the power. LABOR can walk out anytime it wants. It's true it's not always easy, but this is why strikes happen. And the more we're willing to strike the more we show that we aren't to be f*cked with and that we mean business and that you give us our due or find someone else willing to accept exploitation. More and more won't.
It is sad you see this as a competition. You do not respect your labor force. Shame on you.
Therefore you don't deserve to have a business because your labor force is literally GIVING you your business and you do not want to compensate them more fairly for their efforts. I suppose that's unsurprising. That seems to be a bizarre longstanding idea that's been around since the dawn of industrialization, hell maybe before. Somehow the people who perform the mental or physical Labor aka the work itself isn't seen as vital human resources worthy of the highest respect and fair pay. Somehow this wacky pernicious idea trickled through all of the private business community long ago and unfortunately still seems to be kicking around. One of these days it'll die a bloody and long overdue death.
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ALL labor deserves an EQUAL voice at the negotiating table with FULL veto power and this is why we need a new union movement in this country.
It's obvious to any politically active person that we need many reformations to pre-existing labor law and new labor laws put in place in this country. We will get those once we kill the amoral and sociopathic GOP for all time and get genuine Leftists into office that represent the PEOPLE for a change, not the bloodsucking elites. It's true that this process of political change won't happen overnight; the well-connected and entrenched interests aren't going to give up easily, but we will never give up and will do whatever is necessary to bring positive change to this country for those who work for a living.
All Labor (skilled or otherwise) and it's genuine representatives deserves fair and quality pay, and in most cases, an equal voice to management. Anyone who opposes this is my enemy and I will fight them. I'm a very politically active person and I will only continue to be more so in the future.
There's truly no need to even fight over this issue. People like you just need to do what's right and there would be no conflict at all. When it comes to business, we should be partners not opponents. There is enough to go around for everybody, but if Some people want it All and are willing to shaft others to take it, this is going to lead to problems.
If people in your position continue to deny half of the workforce their due, or more, then you leave us no choice but to fight back. It's a shame though because it shouldn't even come to that. We're all on the same team- but if you choose to underpay or undervalue anyone who works for you, you are doing wrong and should stop immediately. We all want the same thing, a profitable return. But if you think that workers only deserve some piss-poor or mediocre wages and that's all, then you are wrong. ALL workers deserve a say in the conditions of their workplace. ALL workers deserve a vote and say in issues relating to pay and benefits, and then from there, let the majority win.
I suppose unscrupulous owners want workers to be content with being treated like slaves or indentured servants. Well sorry, we won't. Treat us like human beings, meet our fair and justified demands, or we can go round and round and have conflict for the foreseeable future. I would prefer to avoid that, but if we have to fight and strike for what we believe we deserve, we'll do it. If some workers want to accept a shit deal, that's their business. But the more Labor as a whole organizes and the more militant we become, the lower and lower the chance of settling becomes for any given lower-skilled jobseeker.
Stop trying to f*ck your workers. It makes you a bad person. Do what's right. You owe everything you have to your workers, skilled or unskilled, so why do you think it's okay to mistreat them and pay them crap or, less than what you could? And I would say the same to any senior decisionmaker within any business organization.
You can try to justify it any way you want but it's never morally okay to pay people shit wages, I don't care if they're entry level or not.
No matter how long it takes, ALL of us out here will do whatever is necessary to put workers on the equal par with anyone who would make decisions above them. This is primarily accomplished through unions. So if you unethical owners want to f*ck US, you're going to have to go through the Union, and; (provided the union is working the way it's supposed to); that's NOT going to work.
A strong federal minimum wage of say, $22/hr with a small business exception, and limits on executive pay (and remember my limits are pretty generous- up to 50 times what the lowest paid worker gets, that adds up to a heck of a lot); would solve all these problems. Why go round and round in circles forever just because you people want to be stubborn? If your people just do the right thing then there's nothing to fight about.
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@youtubesucks1499 who says they have to risk everything? Who's asking them to put their entire life savings in? Isn't that their choice to risk everything? Again my aim of this debate wasn't really to focus exclusively on startups.
I failed to see how a salary at 50 times a person making $10 an hour is insufficient to live the high life. Are you telling me a yearly salary that breaks down to $500 an hour, isn't a phenomenal salary?? Because if that's not sufficient for somebody then I see that as a personal problem. I mean how much money are we talking about here? A zillion borZacks a year? Is that enough? I mean when is enough ENOUGH?
You're really going to love this next part. As you know by now I am a hardcore Socialist so, naturally, I believe in wealth caps. Not to have personal wealth caps by law is obscene to me. Of course I always strive to be reasonable. I do not feel I am extreme in any way. My chosen personal wealth cap would be a yearly income NOT to exceed 10M per year, and a net worth after taxes of no more than 100M.* Now, please entertain me with your retorts of how a filthy rich asshole can't live like an emperor on 100M net worth????? And you expect me to listen to that with a straight face when the median income in America is something like $55,000????? And everyone else is supposed to be happy and satisfied with that but some freaks who hit the lottery, figuratively speaking, don't have to be satisfied with untold millions, and it's okay for them to demand more?? That may make sense to you but I'm sorry it does not to me.
If I had my honest to god most truest wishes I would set the limit at 50M. You tell me how a net worth of 50M isn't an incredible amount of wealth. Unless you're trying to buy a yacht a minute who in the world couldn't live like a king on that kind of money?? Honestly nobody deserves more than that. Nobody in the world does. If a person can't be happy on THAT kind of money there ain't NO amount of money in the world that's going to fix their problem. That kind of a problem can't be fixed by money.
Where do you people, or people that you evidently look up to, get off being so greedy? I would just like to know. Who in the world gave them that kind of entitlement? Or is that just what you aspire to have later in life sometime, some kind of ridiculous wealth and you think it'll make you happy, correct? Are you that empty inside and you think that if you just keep stuffing more money inside, it'll somehow bring you a fulfillment that you've never felt? News flash- material things can't do that for you. That's a spiritual problem.
The problem with this culture we live in is that people like you (or at least people that you look up to) worship money as an end to itself. That's where the problem starts. I agree that in our modern society money is necessary to live, for good or for ill, but for you people that's your entire reason for living! I think that's a real shame. I can't imagine that's a very fulfilling way of life, and I wouldn't want to live that way. I've been flat broke for a large chunk of my adult life, other times I've had an okay amount of money. I've never had a lot and I can't imagine I ever will have a lot and you know what- I'm okay with that. I grew up middle class, my parents came up from the working class, and if someone threw a million dollars in my face I wouldn't know what to do with it. I probably give most of it away to people who are worse off than I was. And that's what I want, to make sure others have enough. I'm sure I'd save some for the future and I probably buy myself a few things that I've always wanted but I've never been able to afford, including most likely, a house. But after that? Why would I need much more than that? I can't speak of you personally, cuz I don't know anything about you, but the greed in this country for a certain % of the population is out of f-king control. Money accumulation for people that you seem to aspire to be like is an addiction. I think that's insane. It's literally an addiction.
When is enough enough? When is it ever enough lives are being destroyed all across America because some very rich people are mentally sick because no matter how much they have they always want MORE. There's a hole inside of them that cannot be filled with physical things but they are not well, so they think it can so they keep on grasping and grasping and grasping, and they seek all kinds of manipulative ways in the private business world to impoverish others on a mass scale, in hopes of filling that hole all to no avail; such as the disgusting trend that's happening right now with a bunch private equity criminals from back East, who are buying up vast tracks of single-family homes and mobile home parks, jacking up the rents out of range of most of these residents who are low or modest income, slumlording in some cases, and forcing thousands into homelessness and destabilizing thousands of innocent lives in the process. This is a slow moving crime, a crime against humanity. All for what? The perversion of infinite greed that refuses to be satisfied.
WHEN IS ENOUGH ENOUGH?
Well I suppose that's a philosophical question now isn't it?
I stand by my standards. I feel they are very sensible, and quite generous. Maybe it's because I don't love nor worship nor even desire money very much. I mean why would I? What's the point? I love things as much as the next person but I don't make my whole life about THINGS. I wouldn't mind having more than I have now, but I wouldn't need THAT much more to feel satisfied, and believe me at the moment I don't have that much. I've gone through some unfortunate loss incidents, and I used to have more in the past, but I've made my peace with those and I'm doing fine.
A whole society based on greed is very unhealthy, and causes a great amount of harm to many millions of good people, ALL of which is avoidable. I don't agree with that, and I don't like seeing it. Unlimited greed by relative tiny few is causing the bottom 40 to 50% in this country to be pushed further and further into poverty and insecurity. And yeah I stand against that 100% I feel that is so deeply wrong. I stand for a moral redistribution of wealth that eliminates poverty once and for all and that stands against the mindless, endless, pathological accumulation of the crazy few at the top. I wouldn't say I'm a communist per se, I don't feel that label fully describes me, but I am most certainly very much a Socialist.
Getting back to the hard data for a minute-
Prior to 1980 based on my research it was common for CEOs and execs in larger companies not to make more than 40 to 50 times their lowest paid workers. They were living pretty high on the hog and didn't seem to feel deprived. Now it's out of control thanks to 40+ years of plundering by the 2% class. I'm asking for the bare respectable minimum for the people on the bottom, you seem to feel that's excessive; yet you're arguing for unlimited riches in fir those that occupy the most senior levels in a given firm? So those who are already well off if not quite rich they deserve [unlimited], but those on the very bottom who are barely scraping by (set aside teenage minors who live at home with their parents in the comfortable suburbs for a minute- that is not the population that needs the help nor are they the cases in point that I'm debating about right now, okydoke?) don't deserve better wages, which btw has a nice knock-on effect of raising all other wages on the lower end as well.
Recall I did not say that all compensation should be equal. I never said that I said it should be proportional to the level of one's position. But yes the floor should be exactly where I said it should be in the ceiling, if it was all up to me, would be exactly where I want it, which is 50 x LPW. Obviously I can't wave them actual wand and make this the law of the land right now but yes I believe this is where we need to have our limits. I don't accept your claim that that suddenly makes some businesses not worth the effort. That doesn't sound straight to me. You're trying to tell me that those returns for a given investor wouldn't be high enough? Huh. Sounds like that investor has a greed problem to me.
Again, I'm really not trying to debate the finer points of the minimum standards necessary to make startup successful. I'm referring to the 90+ percent of businesses that have already been open for at least one year and are projected to continue for the foreseeable future. Maybe the startup sector requires a slightly modified approach, maybe I'm sure it depends on many factors, but let's set that aside for a minute as I've asked you to do already, and focus on stable businesses. Startups are one thing that is a niche sector I'm not really trying to debate those right now. I'm willing to grant that under limited circumstances, maybe MAYBE, there may need to be some exceptions to my preferred requirements. Fine, now that I've granted that, let me refer back to the rest of the private sector which is NOT a startup, ok?
In the case of businesses that have already reached a reasonable level of stability, I demand a much higher minimum wage for their entry level workers. That is my position. I need the working class and those on the bottom to get a bigger piece of the pie right now, and this is the most effective way to do that.
*I understand that this requirement might have to have exceptions for those who have irregular income such as professional athletes or film stars. Nonetheless, the overall net worth limit could certainly still apply.
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@youtubesucks1499 If you stand against workers and unions you are an immoral person. In which case I suppose this conversation is over. I did hope you were able to listen to reason and had a decent heart inside of you, I suppose I was wrong. I believe I've said all that I came to say.
You wish to dehumanize workers, at least unskilled ones. That is immoral. You should change. If that's how you treat your own workers, guess what? Your business deserves to fail. If only you could see reason, you wouldn't not deny that workers have rights and you are wrong to deny those rights. If you are doing well, that's all well and good, but if that is at the expense of your workers, then that's not so well.
I hope in time you choose to see the error of your ways and gain a moral sense of right and wrong. Workers are people. We have rights and we will demand what is our due. If you don't like that that's too damn bad. It's no longer legal to own slaves in America. Guess you were born too late. Sucks to be you.
I believe any business can succeed and be profitable while paying its workers $20-25 an hour or $15 if they are legitimate small business. You are trying to tell me that's not the case, but I've seen no proof of that just your opinions based on the fact that you don't want to share a LITTLE bit more out of the amount that you are currently taking for yourself.
Sure of course you love capitalism because unlimited capitalism plays to immoral people because it says go ahead and exploit workers, keep all the profits for yourself. It justifies the shafting of workers and calls it "good business sense". Since you stand to benefit from this arrangement of course you defend it. You don't care if others lose so long as you win. Well that's wrong.
If a deal isn't win-win it's not ethical and it's worth having. Both parties deserve to receive a fair deal.
You're not more special than anybody else. That's great that you started the company if he did but you're not the first mfer to start a business and you're certainly not going to be the last.
Workers deserve a say in their workplace and to be paid well, according to skill level yes, I never said differently, but well. and that's the difference between you and me, because you think just because somebody doesn't have a college degree or advanced skills they deserve poverty or slave wages. They do not. especially in today's world, all wages must become living wages and I've told you for me what I consider to be a living wage.
And that's the bottom line and there's nothing in the world you could say or ever will say that will make me change my mind on that because that is one of THE most fundamental core values that I could ever have regarding economic justice.
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@youtubesucks1499 I can't talk to anybody says unions are worthless. I can only talk to people that recognize human worth and human rights. How can you say unions are worthless? Look man I- I'm sorry I like to think I can have a good faith debate with anybody but it looks like we have differences that we cannot bridge. Unions are the ONLY thing that have preserved human dignity from the evil capitalistic predators that that would have used and abused them for decade after decade after decade, that clearly clearly you seem to think are perfectly good people. It's like you're trying to tell me Nazis are really just misunderstood and in actuality they're actually pretty decent people. You may think what you're saying is entirely reasonable but from my worldview and my value system, I'm hearing the statements as extreme thoughts and value judgments that I stand totally opposed to.
Its like we're speaking two different languages man. It's like you're saying "uh you know slavery ain't that bad slaves aren't really people it's perfectly okay to own other human beings".
there comes a point where my moral system is just incompatible with somebody else's and it seems pretty clear that there's just no room for compromise.
I'm glad you recognize that nurses are valuable professionals, I appreciate it hearing you say that, but you still think it's okay to take advantage of people who haven't had a chance to gain that same level of ability, knowledge, or experience; aka the low-skilled worker. I feel that's completely wrong, I don't accept that and I don't believe any employer should do that. all workers have value within an organization. ALL workers are entitled to Fair working conditions, Fair wages, and to be free from any kind of exploitation or taking advantage of.
I'd like to think I could at least attempt to form common ground with almost anybody if they generally mean well, but sometimes there's no common ground to be found. It seems this is one of those times.
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@youtubesucks1499 I get the basic mathematics that go into running a business for profit and what a profit margin is. I respect all successful businesses at most sizes. Only ones I really have a problem with are the large corporates. I oppose very large businesses, possibly all large businesses. They're too big, they exploit their workers, they put smaller businesses out of business, they criminalize and over-criminalize poor people and homeless people, and depending on their industry they caused massive levels of harm to the environment. In some cases they're irresponsibility has literally killed their employees and poisoned or killed tens of citizens in the public. How many oil spills has the fossil fuel industry been responsible for? Ecosystems decimated? Corporate greed and corporate malfeasance has caused intractable damage to our communities, mostly from heavy industry but I don't have any love for the retail giants either, AND the country at large, and they will CONTINUE doing so until we get a political class that isn't their b*tch.
No offense to business owners but I don't think it's exactly brain surgery to understand the basics of running a business. If you know how to add and subtract, if you know what being in the red and being in the black means, I think one has the basics down.
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@nateb118 With 12 100M, or 300M. 400M maybe at most. There has to be a limit somewhere. To allow unlimited wealth while 40-50% of the planet, maybe more, live in some level of poverty and/or recurring insecurity is madness.
If you're not worried about the rest of the globe then just focus on the situation here at home. I assume you live in the US. If not you can correct me. we have the worst rates of poverty and inequality in the developed world. This does not need to exist. There's more than enough to go around but there NEEDS to be better rules to ensure everybody has enough and nobody has stratospheric sums that boggle the mind. If somebody can't be happy with 300M then doesn't that sound like insanity to you? Would an extra 100M make the magical difference??? If someone can't be happy at 50 or 250 or 300M, that's not a problem money can fix.
What entitles someone to that kind of money anyways? Nothing I can think of.
I'm not opposed to all wealth but I am opposed to nonsense levels of wealth. They serve no useful purpose.
We should get to work on meeting everyone's basic needs. We can do it. People can't strive towards their potential if they're constantly worried about going without one or more basic material needs, ie food, shelter, medical care, transportation, childcare, mental health support, etc.
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@youtubesucks1499 With a basic plan of some startup capital and the ability to follow through anyone could start a small business. Who knows what the future holds? I may choose to do that at some point. I'm a little busy right now and it's just not something that I feel the need or the desire to do at the moment. But that may change, who knows? I understand the allure of working for oneself. I'm sure it's very rewarding.
I agree a business has to remain profitable over the long-term in order to stay in business. I'm sure you can't stay in the red forever and not eventually fold. A major part of the problem is medium- and large-scale landlords who provide rental units. They seem to think there's no limit to the kinds of rents they can charge. Without a flattening and a sharp decrease of rents, all that's going to do is put pressure on the working class and while in the short term it's going to cause them lots of problems, it's also going to cause an overall demand for higher wages because that's the only way that working class people are going to be able to afford to keep their housing.
So who's really that fault here? Obviously everybody would like to make more money as a matter of principle, but it's not just that. What's the root cause? If you're looking for someone to blame look no further then property owners who rent out rental units, especially large holders. They're the ones that constantly want to more money and constantly charge an arm and a leg for rent. My current rent is outrageous. The only way I'm able to make it currently is because I have somebody else in my household who is also contributing to it. If there was hard and fast rent control from coast to coast, and it can be county adjusted because COL does vary by ZIP code, but nonetheless overall, if rent control was a thing then it wouldn't be as critical to raise wages on the bottom. So if you want to consistently pay people on the bottom low wages, which I disagree with but if you want to continue that ethically, then the first thing you should support is aggressive and universal RENT CONTROL. Forget about your business personally, there are people from all backgrounds without a college degree who start at these lower positions and yet most of them still have bills to pay and are trying to support themselves. We both know a lot of these people are not just teenagers living at home in a nice house in the burbs.
Even if rent was cheap, I would still support better wages at the bottom because it raises wages overall, and everybody who works for a paycheck below the executive level deserves more as far as I'm concerned. We all deserve more security. There is such a thing as saving for the future, to buy a house, provide for a family, or have an emergency fund.
You seem to think only people at the top deserve any money. That's just not fair. Well news flash, so long as money exists, we all need money to live.
The point is, I may even be inclined to deal with a lesser wage if I felt it was something people could reasonably expect live off of, but that is not really the case anymore, at least in a growing number of counties. When the owners of rental units consistently increase rents because they want to make big profits, and lawmakers refuse to put a limit on this to protect those who rent, then that leaves workers no choice but to demand higher wages so that they can pay this and not be forced to leave their home.
It's all connected and it's not rocket science. I'm sure you can see that.
People understand more education and higher skills will almost always lead to better pay and benefits from an employer. That's fine. But those who work the first level jobs have no choice but to demand better wages. They have a right to be able to pay all their bills AND have a little left over at the end of the month AND support their families too. Perhaps in the past they could do this but more and more this is getting to be impossible for the reasons I've already said, mainly the continually rising costs of food and rent.
Obviously those costs are outside of their control. So don't blame the workers. Blame the other large companies that are continually choosing to raise end costs, including the grocery stores but mostly the suppliers to the stores, and of course the landlords themselves. Landlords are demanding massive rents because of their greed. Well shit rolls downhill. You demand massive rents of people who work for modest money of course you're going to cause a lot of harm in the short-term, and the people who work for those modest wages have no choice but to demand more from employers. Would you not deny that someone who's willing to work for their money deserves a home? Of course they do. (I believe everyone deserves a home but that's a separate discussion. We're just talking about working people right now)
So the root cause is landlords as usual. So if you're looking for someone to blame, blame them. Even if rents were cheap I would support better wages as I told you, but I could be persuaded to accept not-so-great wages if rents were stable and cheap. This really isn't the case anymore.
People on the bottom deserve I respectable wage regardless of what's going on in the broader economy. That's a principle that I'll always fight for. But it's a practical matter now because landlords, for lack of better word, are getting extremely greedy. They're leaving people no choice but to demand better wages because they're demanding higher rents. It's a one-to-one relationship. So if you think higher wages for the unskilled worker is a problem, don't blame the unskilled worker. He usually doesn't have much of a choice anymore. Blame his landlord.
If lawmakers recognized that safe and quality housing was a human RIGHT, and limited rents to a decided upon amount based on relative COL in each county, then perhaps people could afford to be satisfied with being paid less. I shouldn't have to spend $2000 for a below average box where I live when it's worth $650 at most. I'm going to have to try to get around this unjust system because I would like to own a house someday, unless my parents leave me theirs which I'm expecting. However if that doesn't happen then I'm mostly screwed. I'll figure out something but that's another problem right now- homebuying cost , but that's a separate discussion.
My fundamental principle is that every worker no matter how lowly deserves a good wage. There is some work which is pretty easy that may not necessarily justify 25 bucks an hour but we have to set the standard somewhere. I don't see how practical it is to apply a different wage for "easy" work versus hard work or more demanding work. Once we set the wage by law that wage applies to all positions. So it's true a few people might be getting an extra advantage for work that may not seem to justify it, BUT overall I believe most people deserve that wage because I believe MOST jobs at the lower level do involve some level of labor and/or tedium and aren't always easy.
Secondly, there's never been more practical need for better wages than now because landlords in my lifetime have never been more aggressive and unreasonable about jacking up the rents. So you can set principles aside and just look at this from a dollars and cents POV. People at the lower end of the work ladder are being squeezed by very greedy and demanding landlords. That's out of their hands. Most people prefer to stay housed so without help from the government, they have no choice but to try to pay these, and they are human beings they shouldn't have to work 25 hours a day. they need to sleep, eat, relax, and haven't at least some time with their family too. That leaves no choice but to demand better wages. I'm sure you can understand this.
Think about all this.
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Guardianship abuse should be a first-level felony, with a mandatory minimum of five years, ten if they take the home, and all those found guilty should have to pay restitution to the victim.
Seems to me like there's a deeply evil partnership between some hospitals, SNFs, and social workers to funnel vulnerable previously scoped-out elderly citizens into these facilities and into guardianship, then drain their assets until they die. Obviously, the PE brokers are behind this, in partnership with hospital management with which no doubt gets a generous kickback for their criminal participation.
This is a massive criminal conspiracy and it should be criminalized for what it is. 5-10 years in the Pen minimum and that's probably being generous.
This is kidnapping, libel, deceit of the highest order, elder abuse, and grand asset theft. If we had an FBI that cared more about people than assassinating civil rights activists or protecting NFL profits they would be all over this.
We have some very sick laws on the books that allow this evil to happen so easily and SO smoothly. The fact that it takes but one easy lie from a credentialed social worker to get this whole ball rolling is frightening and disturbing. The fact judges give her okay so readily to this is truly sick. They are social workers and they shouldn't be able to judge in this case at a minimum these cases should be judged by panels of other legitimate social workers. I don't doubt there were many cases where the judge themselves was in on it. (That's what I suspect happened in the Britney Spears case. Nobody could look at her and say she wasn't a young healthy woman completely in control of her faculties and shouldn't be controlling her own finances; yet she was completely robbed of her human rights SIMPLY because a judge said so. As long as a judge says yes cops won't get involved. This is an incredibly dangerous setup for many reasons. So this woman was held hostage by her sociopath malignant NPD father who likewise drained her assets and used her as a work slave to get richer and richer. If she was so incompetent how could she be forced to work and perform on stage as he demanded? The really sick thing is it's obvious he's a malignant narcissist and yet her whole FAMILY stood by while this was happening and did nothing. Where was her mother, her sister, her brother during all this- did ANYBODY in that white trash family have a conscience? Apparently not.)
It's very sad we live in a country where laws like this exist- because they were either written for this express evil purpose or by very stupid people who couldn't see the obvious truck-size loopholes that would make them breathlessly easy to abuse.
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@goldenmemes51 No I don't think so- I don't think China gives any craps about world domination, or Russia either. I think they care more about regional power, which to me, seems like they already have. I definitely do not agree with all of China or Russia's actions, but I don't see them nurturing any goals for worldwide power. Again, maybe that's wrong and I don't claim to be an expert (yet) but I don't think so.
I'm not saying we have to totally vacate all bases and 100% shut down the entire military apparatus we have, but based on all the information I have gathered and continue to seek out, I do not agree with this constant expansion of our military and the goals of the Pentagon which is clearly world domination. I'm not privy to classified information, but I'm willing to bet that 90-95% of our overseas bases aren't really necessary. I'm not saying we should never be prepared to use military force as a last resort IF legitimately necessary, but I believe this crazy world-wide empire that we, the US, is maintaining now is ONLY about producing profits for the defense industry and/or advancing major corporate interests, and NOT in fact having anything to do with actually "keeping us safe". It seems to me that all these never-ending overseas aggressions are actually making us less safe in the long run.
But I don't know everything. Im learning more every day on the topic and if I hear or see anything that significantly changes my current outlook I'll say so. But this is where I stand now.
I've watched a lot of documentaries and read some excellent written pieces that have helped me come to this point in my mindset. If you're interested, "Free Speech TV" is a streaming app and a website that carries a lot of programs critical of US foreign policy since WWII and on other Progessive political subjects.
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@leeadickes7235 IM VERY PROUD OF MEDICAL PROCEDURES THAT KEEP WOMEN HEALTHY AND IN CONTROL OF THEIR LIVES! I care about the born and living. Fetuses don't matter. They just don't. They matter if the mother wants them to matter. There ARE a few natural orders in the world, and ANY born person is worth a HELL of lot more than immature, undeveloped, non-functional, non-capable, dependant biological tissue! If we make splooges and tissue glops equal if not superior to living, growing, feeling, working women then up is truly down and we are living in insane, immoral, lunacy times.
You bet Lee. You bet. Few things mean more to me than keeping this holy right intact. NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO CONTROL ANOTHER'S BODY, NOBODY. EVER. EVER CAPICE??
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I don't care if they were running a massive drug ring out of that place, or a massive prostitution ring, they worked for that place. Nobody was forced to stay there, nobody was harmed on the property that we know of. There's nothing wrong with drugs or consenting prostitution and it's just that the government is made up of psychopaths who will use any pretext to come in and destroy you and take everything you have. They claim they have the right because..... well because nothing, they just claim they have the right. They love to commit crime, so they do, but they pretend it isn't crime. It's not a crime if Uncle Sam does it right???
Unless somebody was being held hostage on that property or something else heinous was going on, nobody has the right to commit violence or theft against the owners.
Too many people get on their knees and obey. They like being ruled, they don't seem to really want rights. I find it strange but idk, everyone rolls over the moment they hear the word "law", as if that word actually means anything. Do these laws come straight from the mouth of the divine, or are these made by corrupt individuals who are only out for themselves and who are menaces to society?? As if by the mere existence of calling something a law makes it unquestionable and right. Ugh that's how you get people to follow and obey without question. Ugh. So if they came out with laws against eating bananas, or bringing back human property, or child marriage, or any other heinous or outrageous thing, would these other people just roll over and take it? I guess so. People act like laws shouldn't be challenged, I don't get it. I really don't. Anytime you vote for an all-powerful State to exist you are voting for yourself to have no power. Why would anyone want to live like that?? The word "law" is just a trick of language to make people slaves to corrupt politicians who represent elite interests. Give me a break. ALL laws should be subject to challenge at any time.
If it wasn't drugs, it would be something else. In the 1920s it was alcohol tho even then, based on my knowledge they never used that as a reason to destroy an entire owner's business or give someone a long jail sentence. It was usually just a fine and a destruction of the alcohol on hand.
Govt people are animals. Nobody in government has a conscience, it's just an excuse to commit crime with impunity. Look how long they protected Jeffrey Epstein.
They don't want to work so they want to take what we have. It's THAT simple. Same as Pigs everywhere.
It's the mob all over again, just more pernicious because this one has a patina of legitimacy.
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@chericrabbypelley not as common as you think! WE'VE ALL BEEN FED LIES FOR SO LONG WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S TRUE ANYMORE. THAT'S THE PERNICIOUS ASPECT OF PROPAGANDA- YOU LOSE THE ABILITY TO JUDGE WHAT'S REALLY TRUE AND IT'S ABSOLUTELY CORROSIVE TO SOCIETY!
You were correct in your first several sentences. As for the rest, what's your point?? NOBODY makes ANYBODY take ANYTHING!! Is there a gun to these people's heads? Or are they victims for some other reason?
PERHAPS IF WE ALL JUST TAKE A SMALL STEP BACK AND SAY THIS OUT LOUD WE CAN WAKE OURSELVES FROM THIS INSANITY.
REPEAT AFTER ME-
NOBODY MAKES ANYBODY TAKE ANYTHING!!! IF ONE DEVELOPS A SUBSTANCE ABUSE ISSUE, FOR WHICH THEY HAVE MY GREATEST SYMPATHIES, THAT IS THEIR FAULT!!! DID THEY NOT MAKE THE CHOICE TO CONSUME THE SUBSTANCE? DID SOMEBODY HOLD A GUN TO THEIR HEAD?? DID THEY THREATEN TO KILL HIM OUTRIGHT IF THEY DID NOT IMMEDIATELY CONSUME THE SUBSTANCE? OH NO? OH THAT'S INTERESTING! SO EXPLAIN TO ME AGAIN HOW THE WORLD, THE UNIVERSE, GOD, THEIR DOG, OR ANYBODY ELSE WHO'S CONVENIENT IS MORE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM USING OR ABUSING A GIVEN SUBSTANCE THEN THEY THEMSELVES ARE IF THEY ARE OVER 18?? NOTE, I AM NOT SAYING THEY DON'T DESERVE ALL OPPORTUNITY TO GET CLEAN IF THAT IS WHAT THEY WISH. THAT IS NOT UP FOR DEBATE.
EVERYBODY DESERVES ACCESS TO MEDICAL CARE AND TREATMENT WHICH INCLUDES SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT. THAT IS MY WHOLE POINT REGARDING THIS WHOLE SORRY SHAMEFUL ISSUE REGARDING THE CRIMINALIZATION OF PAIN AND THOSE WHO SUFFER FROM IT!!!
WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY IS IT TO DO THEIR DUE DILIGENCE? TO USE A GIVEN PRESCRIPTION PHARMACEUTICAL ONLY AS DIRECTED? TO DO THEIR OWN RESEARCH? TO ASK QUESTIONS? ENSURE TO ACT LIKE A FLAMING ADULT AND STOP BLAMING OTHERS FOR THEIR IRRESPONSIBILITY!!! IF YOU TURN YOUR MIND AND POWER OF DECISION-MAKING OVER TO SOMEBODY ELSE, WHOSE FAULT IS THAT!? IF YOU DON'T DO YOUR SIMPLEST OF DUE DILIGENCE AND ARE NOTHING BUT A PASSIVE CHILD WHEN YOU ARE IN FACT 26 OR 35 YEARS OLD WHOSE FAULT IS THAT!?! AND IF YOU DO CHOOSE TO DO THAT AND EXPERIENCED A NEGATIVE RESULT AS A RESULT, AS UNFORTUNATE AS THAT MAY BE IS THAT ANY REASON WHY OTHER DESPERATE PAIN PATIENTS SHOULD BE DENIED ACCESS TO THEIR VITAL MEDICAL CARE? BY THAT LOGIC WE WOULD BAN EVERYTHING CURRENTLY IN SOCIETY BECAUSE THERE IS A NON-ZERO CHANCE THAT SOMEBODY MIGHT ABUSE IT! DO YOU SEE HOW IRRATIONAL AND BOGUS THIS QUICKLY BECOMES IF WE EXPORT THIS RIDICULOUS IDEOLOGY OF SIMULTANEOUSLY INFANTILIZING BUT ALSO CRIMINALIZING AND DEMONIZING PAIN PATIENTS, INTO OTHER SECTORS OF SOCIETY???
MY GOD WHY ARE USERS AND PATIENTS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN ACTIONS NOW!?? WHY THIS SUDDEN MADNESS!!!?
I'LL TELL YOU WHY- BECAUSE IT SERVES AN EVIL GOVERNMENT AGENDA. BECAUSE IT IS CONVENIENT FOR THEIR AGENDA, AS ALWAYS, THAT IS WHY!!! WHEN THEY NEED POOR BLACKS TO BE SEEN AS THE DEVIL'S OWN BELIEVE ME, THEY'VE GOT A PROPAGANDA FOR THAT! WHEN THEY NEED PAIN PATIENTS TO SUDDENLY BE POOR LITTLE VICTIMS PREYED UPON BY EVIL DOCTORS IN A BIZARRE AND ZEALOUS EVIL AGENDA TO INCREASE DRUG PROHIBITION IN VICTIMIZED MILLIONS OF DESPERATE WILLING AND INFORMED PAIN PATIENTS, THEY'VE GOT A PROPAGAND FOR THAT!
STOP YOUR BOTH-SIDES IDIOCY PLEASE. THERE AREN'T TWO SIDES THIS ISSUE. IN SOME ISSUES THERE IS ONLY ONE SIDE THAT'S RIGHT.
Should all laws be repealed now because suddenly our ability to be held responsible for our OWN actions is no longer being acknowledged by the courts when the issue is opioids!?? I mean am I right or am I right?? Do you not see how this is all INSANE!?!? Well I hope next time I'm accused of a crime I can walk into court and say "hey guys I shouldn't be held responsible for my actions now, I'm just a poor little victim come on everybody, I thought we decided personal responsibility isnt a thing anymore! If it's good enough for drug patients and users isn't it good enough for me???" Funny how I doubt it would work for me in that case.
What I'm saying is that nobody is guilty as a pain patient. All people want is relief from their terrible pain, and it is a crime against humanity not to give it to them, which is what these Federal psychopaths have been spearheading for the last 10+ years. Simply because a statistically very small minority of people misused their medical treatment which was prescribed in good faith, that has should have absolutely no moral bearing on the rights of millions of other patients who desperately need this medicine to live.
My god whatever happened to personal responsibility?!!! GONE? That only applies to teenage black kids or when a poor person gets caught up in the courts now??? Kid should have had the foresight of a Fu Manchu master but when it comes to pain relief patients, they're all victims now is that what you're trying to tell me?? And for that reason we should continue on the sadistic path that we're on right now!? God I hope you're not that nuts and I hope you're not that weak-minded. I really do.
People deserve their pain care. IS THIS A RADICAL STATEMENT NOW? HAS THE EARTH SO SPUN OFF THEIR AXES THAT IT'S A RADICAL STATEMENT TO SAY THAT HUMAN BEINGS HAVE A HUMAN RIGHTS TO ACCESS MEDICAL CARE??? JUST LIKE ANY OTHER TYPE OF MEDICAL CARE, PAIN PATIENTS DESERVE TO BE TREATED!! END OF STORY, NO QUALIFICATIONS; NO EXCEPTIONS!
This insane and dangerous implication that pain patients are victims being preyed upon by the evil white coats is merely a slight reappropriation of the insane street drug propaganda that has been responsible for the largest prison state in in this misbegotten nations history. Not satisfied with the many thousands of lives they were able to ruin through current incarceration, they had to expand their drug war from the streets now to doctor's offices with disastrous, inhumane and vicious results that anyone can see if they wish to look.
What government psychopaths have done in this area over the past 15 years has been UNFORGIVABLE and it was NOT meant well; do not believe that for a second and if you do you're brainwashed.
The drug war is the devil's business. Patients are suffering and dying because of this SICK expansion of the street drug war (just a war on human rights and poor people), now to target patient privacy, more human rights, doctors' rights, patients' rights, and the medical field. It's a crime against humanity and every person of strong character should repudiate it with the strongest language.
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@suetrublu I appreciate you commenting this. I don't know how many of my comments have shown up; the AI censorbot is always working overtime on YouTube these days. I've gone off about 5 or 6 times trying to post on this thread and a couple others in this video and I think they've all been chopped. I did post a separate OP comment which looks like it did show up.
I have nothing personal against Adam or this guest but my feelings on this issue are extreme. I was somewhat disappointed to hear their pearl-clutching responses and I had to turn it off fairly early on. It's just not something I agree with, and I will never ever ever ever agree with it. There's no such thing as a little bit of rape that's ok, and there's no such thing as a little bit of something that is objectively evil and cruel and unethical and based on malicious intent, and therefore I can't in any way try to justify what the feds have been doing towards people regarding this hateful and sadism-based drug war assault over the past 80 years, and 45 most specifically.
A drug war is just a smokescreen operation by govt "criminals" to justify the mass destruction of individual rights, an individual's given property, and to cause a WHOLE lot of harm towards targeted and marginalized communities. You don't get to the state of mass incarceration without this kind of extended organized assault.
Few things illicit more feelings of outrage from me then things that this federal government does, that local governments who follow along in lockstep like an evil sheepdog do, especially in response to drugs (fear! shudder! The greatest evil man has ever known!! BE AFRAID!), our civil and human rights, and especially our medical needs.
In short, I will ALWAYS oppose the drug war; I will always oppose any harm done to those who seek recreational or medical drugs of ANY kind. I oppose most government authority because to me, it's just wrong. There's a small role for some administration and public authority but this isn't the place for it in my view. I won't go into extreme detail about that now but overall I am a very committed anti-government libertarian from the Left.
I don't support making ANYTHING illegal for adults who are 18+ (with an exception for acts that deliberately and knowingly cause harm to others- obvious examples of this would include forced human trafficking, environmental crimes, harm against animals, workplace violations, etc- all very commonsense and moral objections that any good person would agree with).
No patient should EVER have to suffer because of government evil or government tyranny. I don't know how much plainer or stronger I can make this. Likewise, NO public citizen should ever have to suffer because they dared to make a freewill choice for themselves that they had every human right to make, ie, what to put on or IN their own body. No human being has the right to tell another human being what they can or cannot put on or in their own adult body, or what types of medical treatment they have the right to seek, unless they proceeded from the assumption that we are all slaves and the government owns our bodies - an assumption that I hope most people are still yet not so mindfucked to choose.
Those who support drug illegalization and the demonization of pain patients are either deeply misinformed, or have been mentally colonized to subconsciously believe you can't question self-proclaimed government overlords; and those who are carrying this out (cops, judges, for-hire political trash) are either truly evil and enjoy sadism, which is what I believe, or are stupid to a level that is hard to believe.
This attack on pain patients and pain medications has no moral justification anywhere; is a great evil, and is just another example of the mental sickness that defines today's modern age of public policy.
Never underestimate the complete depravity and love of evil that comes out of Washington and it's federal network of courts. It's not just on this issue, literally everything they do is designed to either kill people or cause pain. I would grant that there are a few exceptions to this, there are always exceptions, but just look at them. See what's going on currently, look at the past 100, 200 years of history of "federal" acts and actions.
The only people they DON'T want to hurt are those that pay them, and those are the big monies that come straight from Wall Street that fund their campaigns and keep them in those seats. But as far as the unelected agencies such as the DEA, these are very very satanically sick people (imo) who aren't happy unless they're destroying somebody. Far as I'm concerned about 90% of the federal juggernaut needs to be destroyed. Not all.... There are some limited sectors of it that I feel sort of a positive purpose, but a lot. It won't happen in my lifetime (unfortunately) but that's what I would like to see. There's a limited positive role for sensible consent-based governance, but these people I see in roles of power currently are nothing but evil tyrants.
I could just go off on this all day, but I think by now you get my drift.
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@debraandreason6865 one of the few rational comments on this thread so thanks for chiming in. I'll say this, I'll have empathy for anyone who's in a bad way and needs help, whether that be addiction or illness or what have you. What I DON'T have empathy for is those who have the gall to blame OTHER people for their deliberate bad choice and then want to take away THEIR rights to access something so supremely vital such as pain relief medicine, or or a particular type of food, or a particular so-called health supplement or a particular practice or could be anything! Because they couldn't be responsible I deserve to lose the right to choose. Does this make sense!?;?? That's what outrageous me and that is what is very disturbing and very concerning and I see 000 awareness of that on this sheeple comment thread.
Essentially with these slaves are saying is "I'm too much of an infantile juvenile to be allowed the freedom to make my own decisions so I want to demand that everybody else suffer for my deliberate incompetence. I want to disempower my fellow Americans by granting abusive powers towards an external authority even to the point that I will justify the horrific consequences of this disgusting decades-long attack on drug users, their families , and their communities; even now expanding into the medical sector and causing an appalling amount of unnecessary suffering. All because I refuse to stand up and be a goddamn motherfuking adult and take responsibility for my own choices and mistakes!!!"
I do find that disgusting. I find that shameful, I find that disgraceful, and I find that enraging. MY rights are being trampled on because other people categorically refuse to grow the fuck up and take responsibility for themselves and yes I find that shockingly outrageous. Because THEY want to be slaves I ALSO have to be a slave, is essentially is their agenda. I think we should all find this deeply unacceptable and highly gross. Because THEY couldn't handle being given the precious freedom to to choose, a freedom that previous generations would have killed for - the right to take an effective medical treatment for pain, one that we all should get down on our knees and thank the gods we have access to - because they literally couldn't handle being given this simple relief, this simple precious access that so many people in the world still don't have access to, somehow that has to become our problem? They want the government to become their mommy and daddy because they are still mental 5 year olds? Am I the only one that find this stomach churning and fucking disgraceful!?;?
By that logic as I told the other person, literally everything in life should be illegal because there's a non-zero risk to literally everything we do from the moment we wake up in the morning to the moment we go to bed at night. If they don't want to have to exercise the minimum amount of self-control and self-management and personal responsibility that we all have a moral obligation to exercise, they should have to live with the consequences but that doesn't give them the right to take away our precious freedoms and our rights to access medical care or even just to access bulshit recreational drugs if that is something that we choose!!!
YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO TAKE AWAY OTHERS RIGHTS BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO BE A FUCKING GODDAMN RESPONSIBLE ADULT!! THIS IS FUCKING MADNESS!!!!
That's all i have to say about it. Now i'm fucking all pissed off again. This subject disgusts me so goddamn much. The malicious nutbag fear-mongering about this gross subject has caused millions of people to suffer unnecessarily not to mention the many many thousands who have suffered over the past 40 years because of the outrageous 'street' drug wars and the harm its brought to our communities.
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@Nortius Maximus Cool story bro. Well I'm sure by running everything in an ultra-for-profit way is the best way for every person in society to have their basic needs met..... Oh wait. Let's look around the US, with the most poverty and unnecessary strife due to financial lack in the First World. Oops, guess not.
NHS failed??? Guy you just gonna lie now??? LMFAO failed how?!?! The millions of people it provides for every year?? The only thing failing about it is that those right-wing bloodsuckers in the UK in the political class that are trying to make it fail by starving it of funds so they degrade people's confidence in it this paving the way to health care privatization like we have here, which would be a disaster for everyone over there who is in the bottom 50% of income strata, as it is here. HEALTHCARE IS A RIGHT, and if taxes are going to exist then healthcare should be one of the major services provided to a given population. Same as for education, housing, basic living supplement, jobs programs, safety officers (altho most are evil thugs in the US), fire protection, and etc. All public services and guarantees that should be generously funded thru taxes and public management. That's what civilized governance does- but ours is too busy squandering half of our annual national budget on the DOD to fruitlessly export violence and instigate destructive conflicts of aggression the world over; than do its job which is to adequately meet the material needs of the American people.
Oh and we need open borders NOW. I stand with my human family, not just those that look like me, and I'm not the only one. 😙 Bye Rightie.
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The top 2% are using their influence and control over public policy to ensure that they seize more and more of our money and wealth. In short, via various pathways, the majority of all money and resources is going to the top and has been for a while. Through continually ridiculous tax breaks for the very wealthiest, through the cost of everything going through the roof, and through frozen or decreasing wages, those at the top are taking more and more and have no intention of stopping. Their greed is infinite, and they want it ALL. I don't know where this is going to end- they own both mainstream political parties in this country, they effectively control government policy so I really don't know. This is certainly unsustainable. A relatively small elite CANNOT continue to seize all of the functional wealth and money in a given economy and expect that country or region to stay stable for long. It breeds instability, resentments, flare-ups of ethnic hatreds, family instability, social instability and more. It leads to more and more third world-like outcomes. During the Great depression, shanty towns and tent cities were common. We're not too far away from that right now in most major metro areas.
How long does the political class think they can keep allowing their super elite amoral patrons to suck up all the wealth without dealing with any possible consequences? Shanty towns will become Tmthe new normal if this is allowed to continue, and then what will be local and state governments' response? I'm honestly curious because I wonder if they've even thought further out than the nose on their face. Death squads? They don't seem to have any empathy or compassion for the current population of homeless even though the vast majority of them are not there by choice and or due to their own fault, so I'm honestly curious. The cops already act inhumanely and viciously towards homeless in many areas, how long before they elevate this to the simple cold-blooded efficiency of death squads? I think it's a fair question.
I believe we have never had a greater amount of income inequality and financial exploitation then now. Many are calling this the new gilded age, and I believe the moniker is apt.
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I don't agree with eminent domain under the vast majority of conditions. There might be one very extreme very unique, very rare case that I might agree with, but I haven't heard it yet.
This is all just take what they want by force by corporation. They don't even have the decency to give proper compensation. They're all just ruthless thieves and common criminals. Occasionally the government will try this for their own reasons, although every time I've seen them try to pull eminent domain they're always acting on behalf of the large corporation- the only group they ever truly serve.
You shouldn't be anywhere on the political Right in this country because if you are you missing the forest for the trees. Government at ALL levels of this country is a sadistic joke on the rest of us. They are nothing but a very well-armed and organized gestapo gangster cartel for corporate power, corporate immunity, and corporate rule. That's who they are, that's why they exist, and if you vote Red or Blue- I said if YOU vote Red OR Blue that's what you're voting for. So DON'T vote Red OR Blue if you don't think that you should be a serf, a slave, an object of possession, a subject, a meaningless peasant with no functional civil rights in a dystopia of ruthless totalitarian corporate rule which is exactly what government at all levels in this country has been enforcing on the rest of us for the past 150+ years.... and sadly succeeding quite well.
I'm a blazing Leftist Socialist Communist because people should ALWAYS come first not corporate profit. The corporations should be treated to the iron fist, because otherwise they'll take that fist and try to shove it right up our ass. Case in point, and there are countless others. Once they get big enough they'll never do right by themselves, never!! They know every politician in this tent strait country is for sale and so they make the proper payments like any good drug lord, or business lord in this case, and carry on with what they were doing before, whether it's land thieving or displacement through aggressive gentrification or mass poisoning or aggressively attempting to put down Labor/employee rights, take your pick. They're ruthless, they're destroyers, they're criminal thieves and more. Are these really the ones who should have absolute power in this country? I should think not.
They need to be heavily controlled and put on a very very short leash so they don't commit the crimes and misconduct that they're so famous for.
Why isn't everyone standing behind me screaming hell yeah with their hands up? Isn't this what we all believe in?? What does everyone here still have Kool-Aid ingestion disease??? Because if you think the Socialists and Communists aren't the ONLY way forward you have mainstream media government brainwashing disease, congratulations! We either enshrine human rights and human well-being and individual autonomy as the governing principles we live by or we live as essentially powerless slaves under a 1984 corporated dictatorship, which is more or less what we have now.
Which one do you want?
But no go ahead keep voting mainstream, keep voting Red or Blue thinking your chosen criminal gestapo cares about you when absolutely nothing further to be the truth.
WE EITHER TAKE BACK OUR RIGHTS AND DIGNITY AND AUTONOMY BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY OR WE ARE ALL GOING TO BE SLAVES AND THIRD-CLASS CITIZENS IN OUR OWN LAND. LARGE CORPORATE RULE AND WILL IN THIS COUNTRY WILL BE ALL THAT MATTERS WHICH WHICH IT ALREADY HAS FOR THE LAST 150 YEARS. FOR HOW MUCH LONGER DO WE TOLERATE THIS? WITHOUT A VIOLENT OR NON-VIOLENT PEOPLE FIRST SOCIALIST LEFTIST COMMUNIST REVOLUTION OF SOME KIND, NOTHING WILL CHANGE. I JUST WANT EVERYONE READING THIS RIGHT NOW TO UNDERSTAND THAT. BUSINESS-AS-USUAL MEANS WE ARE FIFTH CLASS CITIZENS IN OUR OWN LAND. THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT FILTH WHO DEMAND OUR SERVITUDE, OUR UNQUESTIONING OBEDIENCE, AND OUR TAXES DOESN'T GIVE A FLYING FUCK IF WE LIVE OR DIE, DOES LESS THAN NOTHING FOR US, AND FAITHFULLY ABANDONS US AT THE EARLIEST OPPORTUNITY WHILE JOYFULLY ALLOWING CORPORATIONS TO DESTROY OUR LIVES. JUST ASK THE RESIDENTS OF EAST PALESTINE WHO ARE LIVING THROUGH IT RIGHT NOW, ALTHOUGH THERE ARE COUNTLESS OTHER EXAMPLES AND JUST THE DAILY EXISTENCE OF OUR LIVES WITHOUT FAIR WAGES OR ANY KIND OF GUARANTEE OR ANY KIND OF CONTROL OF CORPORATE GREED OR CONDUCT IN THIS TENTH-WORLD COUNTRY.
IS THIS HOW YOU WANT TO LIVE??? IF NOT JOIN ME BY TURNING PEOPLE-FIRST AKA COMMUNIST NOW.
The only thing "communist" means to me is that the health of the community, meaning our society as a whole, is the only moral value any governing structure should abide by. Independent businesses are protected and nurtured while big business is controlled so it can't cause harm. Rational individual liberty, individual autonomy and civil freedoms and rights are founding values. Government should exist to manage, organize and provide, not rob, kill or destroy like the devil of the Bible.
Usually it's the Feds that push this land seizure thuggery but not always. Sometimes the state governments get in on it too and occasionally even local ones.
It's just simply wrong. The authorities in this country are ruthless and feel totally entitled to rob, kill, and destroy without a moment's hesitation and to take what they want at any moment. That's what malignant narcopaths feel every waking moment- an absolute malignant outsized entitlement and sense of superiority and grandiosity, and they will never ever feel a moment's remorse to their actions. That's not how sociopaths and narcopaths roll. Remember, they're predators. Predators seek prey. We really do need an absolute overthrow of these animals and some better people of conscience put in, but I despair that I will ever see that happen in my lifetime.
I'm grateful there's at least one organization out there, IFJ, although I'm sure there are others, that are fighting back against the practices these people who are ruthless and will stop at nothing to achieve their goals and have zero respect for other human beings' rights in this country.
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Wow thank you so much for sharing. Hearing from actual students and teachers is absolutely vital to knowing what the public system needs to change.
You know there's just so many people that were never suited to be parents because they only care about what they want and they have no f**** blazing concept of what's best for their kids.
Your parents wasted your time and they owe you an apology. If the school couldn't offer you accelerated classes then yes you should have been able to skip a grade. So what if you ended up being younger than most of your classmates you would have adjusted to that.
Your mother should admit today that she failed you out of fear and ignorance and she owes you a sincere apology. Your well-being should be her number one concern and clearly it wasn't. Giving our kids the best possible options in life starts with giving them the best possible educational opportunities.
I'm incredibly disgusted at your parents apathy. You have every right to confront them and hold nothing back. THEY OWED YOU OPPORTUNITY- IT'S CALLED BEING A PARENT.
Every student has the right to proceed with their education at their own pace. There should be remedial, average, above-average and highly accelerated classes in every k-12 school district.
We have 12 year olds graduating high school in some cases. Some children are just very gifted. It's outrageous to intentionally handicap them. If she was worried about your social development that's an ignorant consideration. Being one or two grades ahead is hardly being that far behind socially. Without a doubt you would have been able to make the adjustment. If 12 year olds can somehow manage to be happy and still graduate high school, I'm sure you could have navigated your situation.
Kids adapt that's what they do. Sure, being 14 in college is awkward but you know what, it can be dealt with.
The problem with public education is that it tries too hard to fit everyone into one mold. This is it's fatal flaw as far as I'm concerned. I understand part of the problem is limited funding and the reason for this are terrible people who control the funding, aka our politicians on both sides. However I think it's more than that I think it's a lack of ability to realize that the most successful outcomes are with schools and educational attitudes that try their best to leave no student behind (not of course to justify the disastrous intentionally poor approach of the Bush era NCLB).
One size doesn't fit all. If public schools simply diversified their approaches to meet the needs of all students I guarantee all of their behavioral issues would drop like a rock. Some students need a more vocational, some need to be in remedial classes, some need extra mental health support some need intervention because of abuse at home, some need highly advanced and accelerated classes, SOMEONE TO MORE HANDS-ON SENSORY-RICH APPROACH, SOME DON'T MIND SITTING STILL FOR BORING LECTURES- WHY CAN'T WE DO ALL OF THIS!?!
I think it's a tragedy that only people who are middle-class and above can afford to give their children a world-class education.
I see no reason why public schools can't diversify and until they do they're going to continue to have a lot of students fall through the cracks. Even with piss poor funding I don't see why this is necessary. Of course all public schools deserve generous funding but until we fix the moral rot at the heart of our political class which controls the disbursement of public monies, this will continue to be a completely unavoidable issue and self-inflicted injury.
In the meantime why don't all public school districts do their best to succeed with what they have and tailor their approach to as many students as possible instead of just demanding all students be perfect and fit themselves into the traditional model that doesn't serve a great many students.
In short public schools need to start now if they haven't already by providing:
-way more Hands-On trade-based voc-tech approaches for those who want that
- a much more accelerated pipeline for those who are advanced
- more active sensory-rich approaches in as many subjects as possible
-respect and support given to those with any type of neurodivergence
(I would like to add; in part related to the above; provided it is not done loudly or overly disruptively late entrances to classrooms or breaks should be permitted without explanation or special pass. This is how it works in college and I see no reason why high school can't work the same way. For how much longer are we going to infantilize our young adults? If you're 14+ I say you're well old enough to be given the right to have some say over your educational future and how you get there. If teachers can't accept this then they can find another job. Not every student needs to be in rapt perfect attention every moment- not every student is going to be in raptured by every subject taught ; this is just pie-in-the-sky nonsense thinking. Despite our best efforts some students will never be motivated for academic study and that's just life! The fact that some teachers can't grasp this is stunning to me. Human beings are a diverse species and huge swaths of them have no interest in academics. It's just not in their DNA and literally NOTHING in the world can change this. Some teachers are emotionally immature and live in a fantasy world of self-entitlement where they somehow expect every student to fall madly in love with every subject taught (because they the teacher already have) and it's just an insanely silly, self-indulgent and ridiculously out of touch mentality to feel this way. Even students who enjoy learning are not going to prize every subject equally, and it would behoove certain teachers to remember as much.
Ultimately each student will pass or fail a given class based on a variety of factors, not just attendance, and live with the consequences. It should be their choice if they wish to step out of class for whatever reason provided they do so quietly)
Also I would demand that HS students be allowed more input and control over their schedules and curricula. The infantilization of our older youth has to stop. If you're a freshman or above you deserve some say in your educational career.
Failure to do these things will lead to unnecessarily substandard outcomes and continued behavioral issues in classrooms, in my belief.
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Well, I find it bizarre and perverse that this government or any other feels the need to ban any drugs, which I've never agreed with. It implies that the so-called State owns my body, owns my free will, owns my rights, and has the right to dictate the private choices I make in my personal life. This of course is outrageous, and a gross overstepping and abuse of any so-called authority. Sure it's unfortunate when addiction happens (in the case of substance use) but everyone knows there are certain risks that come with drug use. Everyone. If they wish to assume those risks, that is their RIGHT.
Nothing in life is 100% risk-free. As adults we have the right to choose to engage in any activity we wish that doesn't knowingly harm another person- and we do so with full knowledge of the risks involved. Nobody has the right to dictate how I may use my very own body or what private non-coercive activities I engage in. Skydiving is risky, race car driving is risky, serving in war is risky, even driving on public roads entails some basic risk, but no one's trying to ban those practices , nor should they. Almost everything contains some inherent level of risk involved. Living means being aware of those risks and choosing to accept the risks we are comfortable with.
We can't go around banning everything because it comes with some nonzero level of risk; life would become unmanageable.
These are choices that every adult has the human right to make for themselves, and no man-made authority has the right to attack or otherwise harm anyone for it.
We're just so used to being pseudo-slaves we've forgotten what true freedom and human rights are all about, and that's a real shame. We ALL have the right to command our own destiny and make our own choices. Sure there's a place for a small amount of government and law, exercised in the right ways, keyword being SMALL. I'm so tired of the tyranny in this country and others. At this rate we will all be lucky in 50 years if we can still choose what to eat, where to live, and even when to piss and sh*t.
But yes, hallucinogens specifically most definitely have amazing healing powers and along with the wonder plant that is cannabis, most definitely should not ever be regarded in the same manner as so-called harder drugs (not that, in my view, any consumable substance should be under purview of any so-called authority. The only substances that I want to see government taking action against are industrial toxins and unhealthy food additives.) If these goons gave two fucks about our actual well-being this would have been done decades ago, but they wont. They're too busy taking generous bribes from the industries who make them, and that's the bottom line. MONEY is all politicians care about and it's all they ever will care about.
Well, with all drugs being legal, law enforcement groups would lose hundreds of billions of stolen private assets a year and mass incarceration would simply cease. Prison industry beneficiaries don't want to lose a job so they make sure that doesn't happen. So here we are. Lots n lots of tyranny for the big profits of a few.
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Perhaps it's because supply-side 1%- "give it all to the rich" "let the billionaires and bosses do whatever they want" "economics" is a scam and just morally wrong.
I believe I know more about "economics" than those at the most elite institutions because to me understanding how money, the federal govt, and basic math works is pretty much common sense and can be easily gained online if you don't have it (the knowledge... not the common sense; that may be harder to remedy).
If you have a sense of justice, and are on the Left you don't need a traditional voodoo economics "degree". Those in the ivory tower who live in privilege will almost always be subject to what elite, self-serving interests demand. Fortunately for me, living and having to survive in the real world, I have no such bias.
In fact I would claim the field of economics doesn't exist at all, it just gives a patina of respectability to a Wall Street agenda. You might as well create a Department of Astrology. Anyone can slap a nameplate on a door. It doesn't make it a science or even a discipline.
Sorry to any econ degree-holders out there, no personal attacks are meant, I just don't accept "economics" as a study discipline. It's the same as witchcraft to me.
As a rabid Marxist and Leftist, the fact of the matter is there IS no secret science of economics, in my view. It's all opinion and fancy words. It's social opinion, nothing more. Actually it's more like a value system, as well as personal opinion.
The root issue is very simple and what it comes down to is, Governments either support the People, and puts their needs first and foremost in ALL public policy, aggressively managing the private sector through wise regulations and limits, or they can support and serve a predatory, very aggressive, very ruthless 1%/big business/big banking elite, as ours does, while giving nothing but generations of lip service to everyone else. You can't do both. Everything flows from there.
We have Reaganomics being taught in the US because that's what elite interests are telling big-name and middle-ranking schools to teach.
You don't need a physics or a rocket science degree to know why Reaganomics and lassiez-faire attitudes are bullshit, you just need common sense and a fundamental sense of right and wrong. There's no science to it.
I'm not against the private sector or some wealth-seeking, but it has to have LIMITS and WORKERS and COMMUNITIES interests' need to be protected and letting big business do whatever it wants, and even subsidizing the fuckers, is of course NOT going to do that.
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@samspade8830 there's always some kind of abuse or mistreatment going on behind bars in our prisons. You may not be as aware of it as I, but I've been following now this issue for a good 10 years. It comes in a lot of ways. Unjust policies at the prison, lack of enough prison staff, forced work crews in exploitive conditions, financial exploitation out the wazoo, documented sexual assaults from staff, abusive treatment from guards, I mean the list just goes on. I'm not saying it happens to every inmate, some are lucky and are able to do their time in peace and go home relatively unharmed. But others are not so lucky. Had a friend of mine who was saddled with a horrifically unjust 20 year sentence for nothing; I talk about that elsewhere, he sustained an extreme assault by two guards one day, which left him with pretty serious injuries, all of which he did eventually recover from, and when he tried to report it he was quickly transferred to another facility. That's another thing that the prisons like to do a lot- they'll just transfer you around like a hot potato for no reason at all because they know it's disorienting to you and you have to get re-established each time and that can be quite an effort, and you're also leaving any friends behind so it's going to be painful to you. they do it to silence any inmates that may want to come forward about abuse or mistreatment. Did you watch the whole video to the end, because it talks about this. I already knew about it but it does discuss it in the video. I call it the Hot Potato Shuffle. Prisons love doing and it should be illegal. Once an inmate is assigned to a facility they shouldn't be transferred against their will to any other facility unless there's some legitimate need.
Getting accountability for abusive and/or violent prison staff is almost impossible for inmates. I could try to help him file a lawsuit now but I'm not sure if there's a statute of limitations in place, but it's something we may try in the future. Either way, it's definitely impossible for inmates to report abuse and mistreatment and get appropriate action while they're behind bars.
There's a large class-action lawsuit going on right now for female victims of past sexual assaults by male guards at Chowchilla women's prison in California. It's been going on for decades and nobody did anything because nobody valued the lives of those women, most of whom were black and brown and poor, and were there for poverty-related reasons or drugs, or occasionally for killing their abuser. See, in our justice system the victims get no empathy, only blame. A person who was in an abusive relationship has every right to blow the hell out of their abuser if the abuse is severe and chronic. If that abuser refuses to stop or get help, then they should forfeit their right to live. It's only fair. You shouldn't be able to get away with constantly beating on someone or sexually assaulting them. I'm sorry, that's just not right that anybody should have. You have no right to cause others to live in constant fear of your violence. So if a woman feels like she cannot leave, or she already tried and he came after her, then yes she has the right to fight back and defend herself and her children.
However the system blames the victim for that homicide calling it a murder. This is wrong.
And even now when all of these women are coming forward they're still not being respected as full human beings with rights. This class action lawsuit is being strangled by a restrictive time period for filing. That is one way that dirty judges disempower past victims from trying to get their full restitution. By placing a time limitation on this class action lawsuit that minimizes the amount of victims that will learn about it and thus be able to come forward within the necessary time frame. This is why statutes of limitations are totally unjust. These kinds of class action lawsuits seeking compensation for past sexual abuse should never have an expiration date or a ticking timer set on them- that is completely unjust. The same thing applies for lawsuits against corporate polluters and violators.
So this comment was kind of all over the place but the things I said are true.
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@samspade8830 sure I agree I'm sure sometimes people do a bad thing for a selfish reason. They know if they get caught there's going to be a consequence. But it shouldn't be years and years. Provided they don't shoot anyone or deliberately escalate the situation, I'll be willing to let someone go with no more than one year for an armed robbery incident.. During that time I would make all resources available to them and let them know they need to find a more constructive path. I would connect them to school programs, job training and benefit assistance if they need it. If they do it again they know that they're liable to face a harsher consequence next time- but even so, unless somebody was killed or seriously roughed-up I would not apply a long sentence. Sometimes it takes people a while to get the point, to break old habits and form a new identity for themselves. Sometimes it takes people screwing up more than once to turn things around.
I agree we have some good public assistance programs here and they are a lifeline for millions of families but I can tell you from experience they are definitely not always sufficient. They do help but there's a lot of issues with those programs; for various administrative reasons a lot of people who really need them sometimes cannot get them. They often don't go far enough. If we want to truly end poverty and insecurity in this country there are few key things that we could do tomorrow.
Specifically these are: raise wages to at least $24/hr, severely control rent, provide housing guarantees, provide more food assistance, provide more mental health support, provide guaranteed childcare and preschool, provide transportation assistance, provide low-cost or free college and skilled training programs, and provide guaranteed medical care, plus generalized infrastructure repair everywhere. These are the material logistics that are necessary to end the poverty rate in this country. It's about guaranteeing basic opportunities and resources to communities that have been denied them for too long. When you provide people with the tools they need to succeed in life very few will reject them.
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Just a little something to keep in mind if any are still possibly on the fence about this-
Taking away someone else's rightful power of choice and authority over their own life is gross and shouldn't be in our value system. Anyone who supports that on any issue is truly unwell in the head and needs to take a good long hard look at themselves in the mirror and ask themselves, why???? Why would they want this for their sister, their mother, their female friends, or any citizen or human being anywhere? Shouldn't we want for others what we want for ourselves- which is full power, control, and autonomy over our own lives, and our own decisions??? I certainly don't want to make State property out of any US citizen or any non-citizen for that matter. I want EVERYONE to have complete and total freedom in their life. Now obviously there are small and reasonable ways in which we're going to give up SMALL amounts of freedom for the public benefit, such as wearing masks indoors during times of health emergencies, which no sane person has a major issue with. But taking away bodily control rights from anyone is a cosmic distance away from that! It is another animal ENTIRELY.
It's wrong, it's a door to fascism, it opens the door to a whole Pandora's box of evils. We have a far too over-reaching fascist-like government as it is, and a lot of people may not be aware of it because it hasn't touched their lives yet, but it certainly touched others. From mass incarceration, to inhumane prison conditions, to predatory financial abuses by local and State governments; to our JOKE of a court and legal system, the list goes on and on in the US of A. It's bad enough that people who choose to use substances just within their own life (I'm not even talking about dealing/selling here per se), are called criminals and attacked by our courts. So in that sense our laws have long disregarded the sacred principle of bodily ownership and are individual rights of self-determination in civil and private matters, which as a civil libertarian I am disgusted by. But at a minimum at least since 1973 women's rights to bottle control have been respected on the federal level and now because of six evil, evil corrupt and crooked fascists, that's all about to change. These are dark and troublesome times.
We are NOT all that free here and we are NOT nearly as free as we should be. The more power we give a fascist central government, or even local, the less we as persons and families have, and why anyone wants to accelerate this process and sooner or later turn us all into quasi-slaves I have no fucking idea. Your guess is as good as mine.
EVERYONE supporting turning women into State property needs to ask themselves if they would support the same being done to them, in one or more ways??? And if the answer is no, which I would imagine it is, then how can they in good conscience ever support this kind of gross, grievous, egregious, attempted ugly tyranny by those who claim to have power in our so-called govt??
All I know is we won't accept this sitting down. We will fight this together, united, for as long as it takes; and we will go to our deathbed fighting this by any means necessary if that is what is required.
Join us! 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫
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I'm sure RW knows the owner does a little for that business, if they're the founder. If they're not the founder, I'm not sure what they do. But sure, let's give founders credit where credit is due. I want to be fair. As for later owners, ehh, in many cases they don't contribute a whole heck of a lot. Most if not all of the thinking and planning and labor is carried out by the employees. And this is true of any business no matter where you go. Therefore it's wrong to allow owners to take home most of the profits. Even if they were the founder, they didn't earn them all. Workers at all levels deserve both a decent wage AND A PROFIT SHARE. After all, without the workers THERE IS NO BUSINESS.
So yes owners deserve credit for something, and the employees deserve credit for what they do.
One example of of a profit split would be:
owner/founder- 35%
Workers - 65% (remember that this has to be divided among all of them- so the owner is still going to have the majority split by far)
Workers are getting cheated of their profit share every day. It's a sweet deal for owners, not so much for workers.
Owners do deserve their share, just not all of it.
If you want to put down your role as an employee that's your choice. But wherever I work I'm always considering better ways of doing things. Most jobs have some built-in level of micro-decisionmaking in them. To imply employees don't need to use their heads along with their hands when they work is just ignorant. Most jobs take a mixture of both. Workers of all levels are the ones interacting with the public or patients, making moment by moment decisions, who have the necessary skills that make the business/school/hospital/office work. Most managers (and forget about overpaid empty suit execs) would be lost without their mid-level and first level workers.
So not only are you giving yourself short shrift, you're giving the rest of us short shrift as well. Don't do that. It's easy to be a manager, and even easier to waste space as an executive. It's much harder to actually do the work/teach the class/ care for the patient. Get it???
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Just to add, I don't feel competition in the private market is necessary and I deny it leads to a higher quality overall. Sometimes it leads to cheaper products that fail sooner so they'll need to be replaced aka planned obsolescence.
I don't mind if there's more than one kind of supplier or producer per industry, that's all well and good, but I don't see economic competition as some great benefit, but often a hindrance. I don't mind a basic private sector, but trying to be too greedy or out-compete one's so-called competition leads to bad business practices and harmful behavior.
When it comes to consumer goods a private market works fine, but in a situation such as a space project or a major public works project, or seeking medical advances, being able to share knowledge and ideas freely becomes much more important. I believe humans do their best work when they collaborate and share what they know.
This is why I oppose most forms of IP, because I feel it places an unjustifiable restriction on access to knowledge, including the mediums of knowledge or entertainment.
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The thing is there is no special secret. Now we could switch over to a totally communist economy where nobody is allowed high profits but everyone has more than enough, not necessarily saying we should; but there's no secret special way to get to a six or seven figure income without any of the following: engaging in currently illegal activities, winning the lottery, being born rich, being lucky enough to make it in athletics or the entertainment industry, being a high paid lawyer or white collar professional, or being a business owner who is lucky enough to succeed long enough where his share of the business is in that range. That's it. There is NO other way.
I've got nothing wrong with motivational meetings and seminars and large events like these, the positive energy can be quite infectious and energizing but at the end of the day people need to understand that 999 times out of 1000 they are being sold a bill of goods. That's all it is.
If there was one secret special shortcut that wasn't drugs, literally wouldn't everyone be doing it?
Now my solution goes further into public policy and my own political opinions, which is my desire to radically end all poverty by redistributing wealth downwards from the 1%, but that's obviously not going to happen by me wanting it and I doubt it's going to happen in my lifetime. When everyone has enough and at least part of the surplus is always made available to the public, then the pressure to strike it rich ( just so that they don't end up in poverty getting paid dogshit wages for hard work) tends to subside.
So I'm definitely very socialist but we don't even have to go that far. We just have to have a little bit of horse sense and realize that these guys are just the new generation of entertainers and carnival barkers. These types have been around as long as time.
They might be fun they might be entertaining but at the end of the day they're snake oil salesman. No one is going to trade their way into a seven-figure salary, I imagine it's hard enough for the actual so-called professional traders working on the actual Wall Street. No one is going to get rich selling Mary Kay or Brand X products out of Amway. You might have fun you might make a little pocket money but that is it! Pyramid schemes don't work unless you can find huge downlines of suckers and one, sometimes it's harder to find suckers than you think, and secondly, is that really what we want to focus all our time on? Why don't we just focus on getting training or going to school for something that fulfills us?
Why don't we just focus on seeking out a career in a field that makes us happy? Granted many wages should be better but finding something to do for work in life that we want to do is a very necessary and worthy challenge. Even if we could be successful at trading, would that really bring us the fulfillment that we seek?
I got caught up in the Amway craze of the early 2000s and while I had some fun because of the people I got to meet and the social aspect, I couldn't help wondering, " if this is so great what isn't everybody doing it" and then secondly, this isn't exactly a "career". Even if I was successful at it I thought to myself would I really feel fulfillment satisfaction from doing this full-time? And my answer was no, I didn't see how. And thirdly I realized that I didn't know enough people that I could convince to spend time as my downlines so after about a year and a half I walked away from it. I wasn't bitter but I could just see that it was never going to do anything that it's hypers said it would.
It's like somebody saying you can sell enough magazines and end up a millionaire. The only people who can achieve significant income from selling products are those that are able to sell nationally in the many thousands or millions. The best pyramid scheme in the world isn't going to set you up that way.
There's a snake oil salesman born every minute, hell even every second. I suppose it's human nature to always want to chase that pot of gold and to hope against hope there's a shortcut, but short of drugs, I don't see one.
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The thing is there is no special secret. Now we could switch over to a totally c, ommunist economy where nobody is allowed high profits but everyone has more than enough, not necessarily saying we should; but there's no secret special way to get to a six or seven figure income without any of the following: engaging in currently illegal activities, winning the lottery, being born rich, being lucky enough to make it in athletics or the entertainment industry, being a high paid lawyer or white collar professional, or being a business owner who is lucky enough to succeed long enough where his share of the business is in that range. That's it. There is NO other way.
I've got nothing wrong with motivational meetings and seminars and large events like these, the positive energy can be quite infectious and energizing but at the end of the day people need to understand that 999 times out of 1000 they are being sold a bill of goods. That's all it is.
If there was one secret special shortcut that wasn't drugs, literally wouldn't everyone be doing it?
Now my solution goes further into public policy and my own political opinions, which is my desire to radically end all poverty by redistributing wealth downwards from the 1%, but that's obviously not going to happen by me wanting it and I doubt it's going to happen in my lifetime. When everyone has enough and at least part of the surplus is always made available to the public, then the pressure to strike it rich ( just so that they don't end up in poverty getting paid dogshit wages for hard work) tends to subside.
So I'm definitely very socialist but we don't even have to go that far. We just have to have a little bit of horse sense and realize that these guys are just the new generation of entertainers and carnival barkers. These types have been around as long as time.
They might be fun they might be entertaining but at the end of the day they're snake oil salesman. No one is going to trade their way into a seven-figure salary, I imagine it's hard enough for the actual so-called professional traders working on the actual Wall Street. No one is going to get rich selling Mary Kay or Brand X products out of Amway. You might have fun you might make a little pocket money but that is it! Pyramid schemes don't work unless you can find huge downlines of suckers and one, sometimes it's harder to find suckers than you think, and secondly, is that really what we want to focus all our time on? Why don't we just focus on getting training or going to school for something that fulfills us?
Why don't we just focus on seeking out a career in a field that makes us happy? Granted many wages should be better but finding something to do for work in life that we want to do is a very necessary and worthy challenge. Even if we could be successful at trading, would that really bring us the fulfillment that we seek?
I got caught up in the Amway craze of the early 2000s and while I had some fun because of the people I got to meet and the social aspect, I couldn't help wondering, " if this is so great what isn't everybody doing it" and then secondly, this isn't exactly a "career". Even if I was successful at it I thought to myself would I really feel fulfillment satisfaction from doing this full-time? And my answer was no, I didn't see how. And thirdly I realized that I didn't know enough people that I could convince to spend time as my downlines so after about a year and a half I walked away from it. I wasn't bitter but I could just see that it was never going to do anything that it's hypers said it would.
It's like somebody saying you can sell enough magazines and end up a millionaire. The only people who can achieve significant income from selling products are those that are able to sell nationally in the many thousands or millions. The best pyramid scheme in the world isn't going to set you up that way.
There's a snake oil salesman born every minute, hell even every second. I suppose it's human nature to always want to chase that pot of gold and to hope against hope there's a shortcut, but short of drugs, I don't see one.
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The thing is there is no special secret. Now we could switch over to a totally cmmunist economy where nobody is allowed high profits but everyone has more than enough, not necessarily saying we should; but there's no secret special way to get to a six or seven figure income without any of the following: engaging in currently illegal activities, winning the lottery, being born rich, being lucky enough to make it in athletics or the entertainment industry, being a high paid lawyer or white collar professional, or being a business owner who is lucky enough to succeed long enough where his share of the business is in that range. That's it. There is NO other way.
I've got nothing wrong with motivational meetings and seminars and large events like these, the positive energy can be quite infectious and energizing but at the end of the day people need to understand that 999 times out of 1000 they are being sold a bill of goods. That's all it is.
If there was one secret special shortcut that wasn't drugs, literally wouldn't everyone be doing it?
Now my solution goes further into public policy and my own political opinions, which is my desire to radically end all poverty by redistributing wealth downwards from the 1%, but that's obviously not going to happen by me wanting it and I doubt it's going to happen in my lifetime. When everyone has enough and at least part of the surplus is always made available to the public, then the pressure to strike it rich ( just so that they don't end up in poverty getting paid dogshit wages for hard work) tends to subside.
So I'm definitely very socialist but we don't even have to go that far. We just have to have a little bit of horse sense and realize that these guys are just the new generation of entertainers and carnival barkers. These types have been around as long as time.
They might be fun they might be entertaining but at the end of the day they're snake oil salesman. No one is going to trade their way into a seven-figure salary, I imagine it's hard enough for the actual so-called professional traders working on the actual Wall Street. No one is going to get rich selling Mary Kay or Brand X products out of Amway. You might have fun you might make a little pocket money but that is it! Pyramid schemes don't work unless you can find huge downlines of suckers and one, sometimes it's harder to find suckers than you think, and secondly, is that really what we want to focus all our time on? Why don't we just focus on getting training or going to school for something that fulfills us?
Why don't we just focus on seeking out a career in a field that makes us happy? Granted many wages should be better but finding something to do for work in life that we want to do is a very necessary and worthy challenge. Even if we could be successful at trading, would that really bring us the fulfillment that we seek?
I got caught up in the Amway craze of the early 2000s and while I had some fun because of the people I got to meet and the social aspect, I couldn't help wondering, " if this is so great what isn't everybody doing it" and then secondly, this isn't exactly a "career". Even if I was successful at it I thought to myself would I really feel fulfillment satisfaction from doing this full-time? And my answer was no, I didn't see how. And thirdly I realized that I didn't know enough people that I could convince to spend time as my downlines so after about a year and a half I walked away from it. I wasn't bitter but I could just see that it was never going to do anything that it's hypers said it would.
It's like somebody saying you can sell enough magazines and end up a millionaire. The only people who can achieve significant income from selling products are those that are able to sell nationally in the many thousands or millions. The best pyramid scheme in the world isn't going to set you up that way.
There's a snake oil salesman born every minute, hell even every second. I suppose it's human nature to always want to chase that pot of gold and to hope against hope there's a shortcut, but short of selling drugs, I don't see one.
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The high courts these days on both sides of the Atlantic are nothing but sham kangaroo courts; nothing but props, formalities and hand tools for the agenda of the Corporate State and the US Pentagon.
Its really sad that every single president since JFK including half-comatose Joe has been either too afraid or unwilling to oppose, or else totally in support of, the CIA or NSA and all their evil, amoral, and/or destructive deeds.
And the UK PM is totally in the US's pocket as well. So gross. It's not like they need our so-called protection. They can handle themselves. And from whom even if they claimed they did?? Who's trying to invade the UK!? Right. No it's just that Boris and his team of merry fascists are just little corrupt wannabe fiefs and so they have no problem allowing American totalitarianism to call the shots. If they think they're going to start turning the UK into some semi-repressive shithole I think they better think again. I don't see the British people standing for that- or sitting either.
If the CIA and those in charge of our elite forces didn't like their crimes against humanity being revealed, maybe they just shouldn't do them. But they are evil, and they love what they do. They have so much hell coming to them in the next world; BUT THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH. THEY SHOULD HAVE TO PAY NOW.
I will assume Assange will ultimately prevail. And when he does I hope he sues first the UK and then the US at the ICC and addresses the UN while demanding they officially condemn the team effort by the US, Australia and Sweden to persecute and destroy him.
Even now Edward Snowden is still in Russia for something that happened ten years ago. Wonder if they're still trying to get him. Probably. For serving US- THE PEOPLE, they want to harm him. Well that's fascists for you, and our Pentagon is at least as fascist and vicious as ANYTHING they have over there in the so-called DPRK.
And our govt of monsters and gangsters has the gall to call others fascist, oppressive, and in violation of human rights. But when you're a fundamentally evil person who loves to destroy for destruction's sake- like most of those calling the shots in our govt body- I mean why wouldn't you BLATANTLY lie and gaslight on a world-class level???? It's what every totalitarian-wannabe regime and tyrant does! Why should ours be any different???
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@radishpineapple74 property taxes support public schools, which should be generously supported, but not through property taxes alone, but through a combination of federal funding and other monies from the general fund. If PT should exist, and I'm not so sure they should, they should be less than what they are now, no more than 1%, and become optional after 5 or 10 years. At a minimum, no authority should ever be able to take your primary home if you can't or won't pay them; at least if you cant. Think about it, for perhaps a claimed debt of $10,000 they're going to take a home worth $400,000? I presume they then auction it and give you back the difference, but it's still a cruel inhumane process. And what if they don't give you back the difference? I haven't researched it specifically yet, so I'm not even sure if they do, which makes it all the more evil and criminal. But for the moment, for the sake of argument, let's say they do. Let's say you received the difference in money that they received from the sale. So you're not left completely penniless but I doubt you received the full value of what that home is worth from said sale, so now in addition to being temporarily homeless you have lost some value of your home most likely in some level of excess from your original alleged tax debt. IE, if your home was fully worth $400,000 but only sold for $310,000 and your tax debt was only $10,000, you have lost $80,000 above and beyond what you ever legally owed.
If you owe me $500 would I be justified in taking your car worth $20,000, selling it and then giving you back the difference? That wouldn't be moral. Or even worse, not giving you the difference back at all? So that essentially I stole your car from you??? I took a huge asset from you for a tiny fraction of its actual worth- now that's a crime.
People want to be out here literally screaming about poor people taking toothpaste and baby formula from Walmart or clothes from some random big box store, stores that could give away 80% of their inventory and still make a profit, absolutely minor meaningless street level petty theft from multi-millionaire stores and billionaire chains, but people don't seem to realize the massive amounts of government theft and crime that we have to live with every day.
Even if those rules exist for the purposes you claim, it hasn't stopped anything. Billionaires and mega millionaires can still easily buy as much land or property as they want, and they are. Bill Gates owns more land than 60% of the population put together. Corporations own the rest.
So if that was its purpose, it's not working. There are plenty of land monopolies out here. There are quasi- monopolies of property in rental housing, including SFDHs, by mega corporate bodies like Black Rock. The corporate mega-consolidation of all our essential resources is well underway.
Land taxes may be fair if they are progressive and rise as a proportion based on the value and amount of land, but I would have to look into them further. Again, the same principle applies- they have no right to take the land if you're unable to pay these taxes. The land might be worth 2m, the tax that on it may be 20,000; they are in no way equal and then no moral universe does one equate to the other.
Seizing your two most important assets, your land and/or home, is just another way publicly-funded criminals (govt bureaucrats) destroy you for sport and profit. It's certainly inhumane and causes a lot of harm to people. I imagine most people who haven't paid their recent property or land taxes do so more out of lack of ability than personal opposition. Anything to keep government thugs out of our lives is probably an expense most people would be willing to pay IF they could afford it. What hardship programs exist for those who literally just don't have the means at the moment? Are there any? I don't know the answer to this but I'm willing to bet the answer is no. How easy it is for a megabank to foreclose on one's home??? All too easy, as too many good people found out in the wake of 2008, and this is by design.
Human well-being and personal property rights are a joke in a society administered by bloodthirsty tyrants who want material accumulation by any means necessary. It's far too easy to evict a rental tenant and with a little extra effort, a homeowning family, and this is very MUCH by design. Families' lives can be upended for years and years, their future renting or home purchasing ability can be seriously affected, so they stay in the cycle of homelessness and destabilization sometimes for decades but certainly for some years, unless they are fortunate and have a family to reach out to or get lucky in some way.
As a humane person I find this wrong, I find this unjust, and I demand a different system of laws which haven't been bought-and-paid-for by big banks and corporate rental landlords, and supported by greedy ruthless local municipal government officials.
We can discuss tenant and rental reform later but at a minimum homeowner and land-owning reform seems urgently needed.
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@Mel-iy5ih hi fellow local. New study says it's the most expensive in the US comparable to incomes now. Well you don't say.
My parents are still alive and do have a home here, but they live too far out to really be manageable at the moment, plus we aren't on the best of terms right now.
It's really a mess. Not everyone can pull in a high 5 or 6 figure salary even if they're educated or skilled. Average wages may be higher than other areas, but that doesn't mean much if basic COL is just as high. And if course the politicos don't care, not in Sacramento and not in City Hall. They will take the payoffs ("contributions") from the developers and landlord lobby/real estate sector and give them free reign to set whatever rent price they choose and call it "thuh market" rate, which most people who are not yet in a position to own have no choice but to pay if they wish to have stable housing. Of course then they (corporate owners and some individual landlords) can claim bogusly "hey, it's just what thuh "market" chose, I mean WE had nothing to do with it!"
I mean come on- like most other sectors of our economy dominated by corporate interests, IT'S A RACKET.
People who live under the median income have a right to afford to live too!
So as usual everything in this gddm hyper-capitalist economy is a gouge aimed at ensuring MAXIMUM ridiculous profits for the rich. And let me be clear- I'm not saying housing has to be free, or the price of a couple of sodas and hot dog. I AM saying it should be FAIR and $2000 give or take before anything else is anything but fair.
Of course the deep pockets in the priveleged top 5% will do anything to keep the politicians from passing any hint of rent control. And then they wanna sit around and wonder WHY homelessness just seems to be getting worse every year. HINT- it's not JUST due to drug abuse or mentally illness- that's an easy copout for those with decision-making authority to pawn off the issue on those suffering from it so they don't have to do anything about it. AND supposedly LA did get a large grant to create more low-income/transitional housing for their local homeless- I wonder how quickly that was lost to corruption and mismanagement. I'm not up on the latest details of progress up there in that regard, but I've heard little has been done despite receiving significant additions of state funds over the last few years.
As for down here well, it's just wrong. Just because others who have the means to pay for extortionary rents can and will, doesn't mean we all should have to.
I'll say it again- I DON'T (usually) begrudge a landlord making SOME profit of a property they legally own IF they are fulfilling their obligations as a landlord ethically- but this has become egregious. Because of their greed, those at or below the median must be further and further squeezed, leaving barely enough for other necessary expenditures, or not enough as the case may be.
I guess some of us are just going to have to keep advocating no matter how long it takes until we get changes to the law. What other choice is there? To wait until a box goes for $3000 a month? We seem to be headed there.
Here's what I demand- corporate landlords do NOT get to set their own rent. That nonsense should end.
As long as a household can show stable income and meet any other acceptable requirements, they will only be charged a set proportion of their income to ensure they are not unfairly burdened. I want the limit at 20%. I would really prefer 15%.
If that is insufficient for a particular unit due to their mortgage, an alternative amount equal to the current mortgage plus no more than 15% can be used.
I think that's the only fair way. It covers properties under mortgage, while ensuring that everyone can afford their rent.
There are more radical proposals by others on the Left who want to see rent done away with all together which of course would be wonderful for people in our position, but I understand that it's very unlikely we will see anything like that in our lifetime. so therefore as an alternative to that I propose my system and I think it's pretty straightforward and common Sense. It's the only way that I see this working going forward.
I'm not against landlording per se, but I AM against this kind of runaway greed that turns one of our most basic needs into this highly unjust scenario where up to 60% (maybe more?) of households are increasingly rent burdened which throws their entire existence into financial insecurity, and should just one thing go wrong, as we saw with the pandemic, and it all quickly falls apart and now people are looking at eviction, bring homeless if they don't have family to fall back on, and etc.
That is not right. It is my belief that that that shouldn't to be the case.
We can ensure housing security in this country but I just don't see how it's possible without serious rent control. Even if we doubled the number of housing units on hand, which would certainly be important as there is literal lack of enough physical housing in some areas, that alone wouldn't fix the cost issue, not without govt intervention, I doubt.
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I'll say one thing, I would rather starve to death than work anywhere I felt I was disrespected, used or exploited. I dealt with a toxic workplace once in my twenties for some years and I'll never ever do that again. It's out of my system now and there's no way in hell I would ever enslave myself like that again. I have a high tolerance for discomfort but I will never do anything that I feel compromises my basic self-respect or human dignity. ITS NEVER WORTH IT. I'll live out of my car if I have to, I'll get public assistance if I have to, but I will NEVER work out of fear. I will NEVER turn my power over to somebody else, I will never ever ever compromise myself for ANYONE, least of all a fucking boss. I'll be more than happy to go above and beyond if I'm certain it will be appreciated and/or returned to me either in respect or compensation, but if not, sorry, no. I feel happy when I'm achieving something or getting something done, but I won't allow that to be taken advantage of. Not anymore.
I will absolutely not allow myself to be exploited by anyone, anywhere for any reason.
I don't know why anybody would. Now it's true I have a little bit more freedom to say this as I don't have a family to support right now, and If I did I would lower my threshold a little bit for the amount of bullshit I was willing to tolerate since it would be for those that I loved but even then, I wouldn't just tolerate anything. There would still be an extreme calculation happening. If I absolutely had to take a bad job it would only be done for the minimum amount of time necessary and then it would be disposed of asap.
Life is meant to be enjoyed to our fullest ability. Sometimes this isn't always possible believe me I know that. I've had mostly a shit life which is why I realize even more now that in the time I have left, possibly 50 years if I'm lucky, I am in NO way going to allow anyone to keep me down for any goddamn reason, not at work, not anywhere.
In short I'll starve for a year if I have to versus take a bad job. Hopefully it won't come to that but I'll do what I have to do. But I will never ever get on my knees for ANYONE in any way- I can promise you all that right now.
There were times when I really needed a job and the jobs I was looking at were paying very poorly. I brought moderate skills to the table and the pay and work policies of a number of the places I was looking at just weren't acceptable. So I passed them up and I don't regret it at all. I found other ways to get by in the meantime and when I found something that bit my minimum standards I took it and moved forward.
Bottom line, at the end of the day, the only person who can exploit you is yourself. If you won't put up with an abusive relationship in your home life, why would you EVER do so at work? If you're miserable at a job then at the earliest opportunity, walk away. There are almost always other options.
Life is too short to take bullshit from ANYONE.
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@lynnjacobs9885 Well that's brilliant see I didn't know that cuz I really don't know much about Hawaii or Maui other than the broad strokes of how they were essentially kidnapped into being part of the United States.
Well ty for telling me no doubt you're exactly right, what is good for cattle may not be so good for fire management. And if their money can control the political process then they get what they want everyone else be damned. Same story just a different damn day.
And people do vote for all these crooks all the time because crooks are excellent liars and people just keep voting for the liars in both parties. I don't know why.... everyone thinks THEIR politician is the sole good guy amongst a sea of crooks. So everyone keeps voting for the same usual suspects always thinking oh no its the OTHER guy that's bad. What people forget is that with rare exception THEYRE ALL BAD!!!... and it is the height of naivete to pretend otherwise. (So what's the solution? Well a different actual people-first party for one that could help. But we can talk about that later.)
I am now wondering because of all of this terrible news that has come out if the fire was deliberately started but even if it wasn't, the way that island has been land managed over the past 100 years clearly contributed to high fire conditions.
When the big money is allowed to dictate public policy this is exactly what happens everywhere all the time. It's literally a crime because thousands or tens of thousands of people suffer because a few pieces of shit wanted things their way.
Do you remember the big fires in Northern California few years ago that destroy the town of Paradise? Now I'm not a 100% certain but I live in southern California and believe those were started by negligent maintenance from PG&E. PG&E is essentially a criminal enterprise at this point which has complete legal immunity because they buy our governors. Doesn't matter which party, they buy them all. The parties are the SAME that's what people can't seem to understand. There's no politician whose Red or Blue in this country that serves us, well there's a few but it's very few and they're not enough to make a difference; the vast majority serve MONEY, not us, period end of story. Why can't people get this after last 150 years of this being true? That is why all these disasters keep happening. Look over the past 100 years of natural disaster I'm the US, I bet you'll find an underlying pattern because I have. All of them could have been avoided or greatly reduced in severity if local and state governments had managed even halfway ethically. But it didn't matter because they were bought and paid off and they didn't give an F about the public not a single F. So they mismanaged public resources for the big pockets and then when the natural disasters hit, The fallout was way worse than it had to be because all of the countermeasures weren't properly maintained or had been removed entirely, such as the mangrove wetlands outside of New Orleans which allowed Hurricane Katrina to become much worse than it would have been otherwise (and due to other factors such as delivered and obvious neglect of the city's levees).
If we keep electing psychopaths and criminals and narcopath crooks and willfully terminally stupid dangerous lunatics, we're all going to suffer and I don't think we want that so I'm really hoping and praying something changes but you know, I mean it hasn't yet so I don't even know what to say at this point anymore. I'll be fine but it really breaks my heart to constantly see these disasters that for the most part don't have to happen , not to mention all the other mess that happens in politics.
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I talked to one person who tried to justify this exact pov, saying "what do you expect? The company doesn't exist to adopt you it exists to pay you a wage."
And yes, that's true, but usually these wages are piss poor and come with few to no benefits unless you are a higher level professional.
We have no protections against sudden or automatic layoffs, no guarantees of severance, piss-poor sick days, unfair attendance policies, no protection against unfair firings, I mean it's literally indentured servitude today. Not everywhere, but a lot.
Unfortunately our human rights don't matter to the politicians in this country as both parties are shamelessly owned and operated by this self-same large corporate class.
This person I was debating with didn't seem to understand why all job positions, including the rank and file, everyone, deserved to make a decent livable wage under good conditions. We didn't get around to talking about workplace safety and a positive work environment, although I imagine his attitude would have been the same.
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This is literally just Think and Grow Rich for a new generation. This is "the secret".
It promises that we can make reality our fantasy - that if we just THINK hard enough we can "draw" what we want to us. It's incredibly seductive - and utter BULLSHIT! there is no way out but through!
This is magic tricks, absolute smoke and mirrors. Nobody over the age of 30 should be falling for this.
This guy is an entertainer, nothing more.
It's all feel-good nonsense. It's kind pap. YOU CANNOT THINK YOUR WAY TO WEALTH! THAT'S ALL ABSOLUTE BOGUS CON-ARTIST NONSENSE! The only way to financial gain is either crime, or work - and sometimes not even then unfortunately.
It's all style, no substance. Playing on the oldest of desires - profit and gain without work- what previous generations of evildoers used as the catalyst for creating slave societies, such as what founded this criminal country.
I don't blame people for hoping for a special secret, esp those coming from poverty, but I'm very sorry to tell them, there literally IS NO secret. Sadly, due to how our economy is set up, the vast majority of us will never be wealthy and we'll be lucky not to die in poverty. I wish it were better and I very much want it be better, and have many opinions how, but this is how our reality is structured right now. It's better that we fully acknowledge this then pursue con artists and snake oil salesmen. These are just new silly pyramid schemes.
There have always been skilled con artists in society, probably in some form or another going back to ancient times.
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@GeorgeLiquor who said anything about having zero police, courts and prisons? That probably wouldn't work. In a small community it could work, but in a large complex modern society that wouldn't work- a minimum of those is necessary for the rare violent crimes.
But they can be cut way back, minimized, and subject to much heavier oversight. I would like to change a lot about how our courts are run, jury procedures, how judges are selected, number of judges on the bench, severely limiting the prosecutor's power, changes to reqd standards for criminal investigations, etcetera. All drug laws need to be repealed. I would institute sweeping sentencing reform.
The Blue street punks who prowl the street need to be abolished, I would abolish that today. That kind of prowling in our community is absolutely unacceptable. The roadside rackets by Pigs are piracy and crime, that needs to stop. I'm shocked they're still getting away with it honestly. Emergency responders can be kept for actual emergencies and the majority of calls can be handled by trained community workers. In this way we almost entirely abolish police as we know them, only using them for those very rare cases that need a quick armed response.
Most prisons can be shut down but we can keep a minimum number for genuine cases of real crimes. We should certainly reform conditions within prisons and all prison procedures.
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It's vile that being homeless is considered a form of criminality just because it's not the most attractive thing to look at. It should never be an affront to someone that another human being is temporarily in need of shelter. These people are human just like the rest of us should never be treated as less than. The very FACT that they ARE human beings who are doing what they need to survive should secure them from all forms of harassment, cruelty, harm, aggression, or other types of negative action from any local so-called authority period, and yet it does not. It should be patently against the law EVERYWHERE to target someone or even contact them solely due to their status or perceived status as an unhoused person, and it should ALWAYS be illegal to try to make money off these people via extortion (tickets) or vehicle tows aka thefts (esp considering the damage that can cause to a person who is relying on that vehicle for shelter). When it comes to private property the same rules apply as with anyone else, that's perfectly understandable, but when it comes to public areas or private property with permission, these people should be automatically protected from targeted violence or attack, verbal or physical.
The crux of the issue is, do human beings have the human RIGHT to survive and exist in public space if necessary?? Well of course the answer is YES, the very Constitution entitles people to the basic rights of LIFE and LIBERTY, I'll assume that means Liberty to exist outside.
So that should cover that. Basically you CANNOT morally criminalize being in NEED. Since poverty will ALWAYS exist in this country unless radical steps are taken, you can never criminalize voluntary or involuntary poverty, that that flies in the face of all moral decency. People have the right NOT to be targeted due to their temporary financial status or to be subjected to dehumanizing, degrading, or cruel treatment by ANYONE, public authority or not.
It should be considered a serious felony to cause abuse or harassment against a person due to their perceived housing status. Just like other protected categories in discrimination & civil rights law, why should financial status or housing status be any different?? QUITE SIMPLY, BEING HOMELESS, ALMOST ALWAYS INVOLUNTARILY, IS A PERSON'S HUMAN AND CIVIL PROTECTED RIGHT BECAUSE IT HAS TO DO WITH SURVIVAL.
Considering that there is no such thing as affordable housing almost anywhere anymore and the most vital services that many people need are being defunded or removed or were never available in the first place, how could authorities NOT expect homelessness to exist in this country?!? THEY'RE THE ONES CREATING IT! WHY DON'T THEY LOOK IN THE MIRROR IF THEY WANT IT TO STOP!?
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Adam, as always I agree with just about everything you say and you guys did exactly right. This country is a bullshit political project meant to only serve the top 5%; the rest of us are not represented in the laws or by those who speak into the politicians' ears and we're just supposed to get in where we fit in and submit like slaves. It's disgusting. You know- I'm armed legally, and I see myself as a full leftist who also supports positive business, because business CAN serve a good purpose as long as it functions appropriately, the only problem is in this country is it rarely does- at least on the bigger side.
You guys did exactly what you needed to do. Sadly people at the top of these corporate structures are amoral thugs. You tried to negotiate in.good faith, you might as well have been talking to pigs.
When it comes to a sociopath, their sense of entitlement is infinite; it's quite a stunning psychological and academic phenomenon. They're entirely without soul and without conscience and I would hesitate to call them human beings.
Hopefully the near future we will have a copious and comprehensive suite of laws that spells out an in excruciating detail ALL of Labor's rights and what we deserve. That has been denied intentionally for the last 200 years. Thus must change. WE ARE THE PRODUCERS, THAT MEANS WE SHOULD DICTATE THE TERMS- NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!!!!!!!!
What is a nation-state? Nothing but an assembly of force toward a goal. What is the goal of the so-called US nation-state? To keep the elites rich through any means necessary. Obviously this is bullshit.
If a State's goals don't serve the majority of the masses then it is wrong. 𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑦𝑝𝑒𝑟-𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑒-𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚.
We can be cucks to elite rule or we can demand better. I DO demand a workers' State. I am a very real communist. I stand for the rights of all, not just a lucky few.
We have let psychopaths set the agenda in this country for far too long and I hope in my lifetime that starts to change.
The theft of labor value and human rights in this country goes back to before it's founding. When will it stop? I hope that time is now.
We all should oppose corporate rule. I oppose the so-called "free" market. I oppose unrestricted business. I oppose all of that. I oppose any government philosophy which doesn't set the Working Man as the hero above all.
We have all been raised and forced to believe in this country that ownership deserves to be treated as a GOD and we are infinitely privileged to exist in their shadow and should be grateful to bow and scrape before them, shaking with gratitude at our meager wages, be it one crumb or two. Is this disgusting or what?
Not me. Labor Suite Empowerment Laws (LSELs) are coming and I will do everything in my power to get these passed in California in my lifetime. Hello ballot measures. It will be hard getting stupid people to actually be smart for a change and vote FOR themselves not against; many voters are beyond stupid and embrace propaganda- but I'm up for the fight.
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I know the Pentagon is nothing but shit, by why shouldn't people get their own sovereign region if they choose?????
There is a real gross amount of statism and lord-worship on this channel. A REAL LOT. Yes I know just how immoral the Pentagon is BELIEVE ME. I live here, I know. I stopped drinking the kool-aid a long time ago. I know those sociopaths for who they are.
BUT, SAYING THIS PARTICULAR GROUP DOESN'T DESERVE THEIR OWN NATION SOUNDS LIKE BULLSHIT. I never support mindless violence or acts of terrorism, and whoever did those should be caught and arrested. But if millions of ethnic turkic Muslims (or what have you) want their own nation, why shouldn't they have it???? China is big, yes?!?? Pretty fucking huge? If there's been a legitimate movement for East Turkestan than why shouldn't it come to fruition??? Because the Sino lords on high wont like it???? Because they don't have enough territory right??? With land that's there times the size of the US or so?? Right.
I CAN'T GET BEHIND THIS STATISM WORSHIP. You guys can suck Winnie the Pooh's dick all by yourselves. I appreciate the info on most things covered here, bec the Pentagon really is a murderous, evil organization- but I support anyone's right to self-determination. ANYONE'S. Not sure why you act like these people (the ones who refute the terrorist violence) should just passively accept their current status.
I wouldn't, if I felt that strongly about it.
BORDERS CHANGE. THATS FUCKING LIFE. The only thing constant in life is change. You think the borders looked the same 200 years ago??? No ofc not and they won't look the same 200 years from now.
If they legitimately want this, China's gov should step aside and work with them on this to make a smooth and mutually beneficial transition.
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@sentientnatalie I agree deeper change sooner or later is probably going to be necessary but I'm trying to look at tangible gains that we could get now. And even those will be really hard to get passed In our lifetime. When you say end capitalism and that is so broad but I understand what you mean. I fully understand. But we are only a certain number of people okay, and we don't have superpowers. I think we need to set achievable goals and try to reach them in the next 20 years.
I'm trying to push for progress, the more the better ideally.
With the amount of extreme greed out in the world and how these interests basically own regional and federal governments, that's just not something you overthrow in an afternoon. That's going to take something a lot bigger and it may not happen in our lifetime.
But we can push for limits on personal wealth, business size, rent control, price controls, we can push for all these market controls essentially. Well at the same time demanding various increases to the amount of public input on policy, and the economic supports that are provided to each citizen who needs them.
We're going to have to go about this in a step by step process.
If something happens that allows us to make more radical changes in a much faster period of time that's great. However that may not be the case. We can't say for sure at this point what's going to happen but we may have to be satisfied with a little bit more incrementalism than we'd prefer. At this point it's too early to tell but for now, I'm setting my sights on social democracy within my lifetime, with a further goal of more radical change to come in the future.
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Didn't know the Russian forces were so capable. No idea, at all!! Six years ago I still was buying the standard US MSM narrative of Syria. Now I believe a different narrative.
Well, it makes me sad to say but yet again MY govt has brought nothing but pain, death, and life-threatening disorder to a region, this time in Afghanistan. If this conflict on Ukraine can be resolved soon, and I think we all can be united in hoping that it does, and that Zelensky makes the right decision; Putin can go back into Afganistan and straight up save them by restoring order, ending the famine, and routing the Talibs once and for ALL. Without outside interference, I am deeply afraid conditions will only worsen there. Even tho this ongoing theater has dominated the news lately I still get occasional emails or notices about conditions there and it just breaks my heart.
I don't think he will, but if they could, that would be so beautiful, not to mention ironic. Thirty years after being driven out by outrageous and misguided US interference that boosted the WORST wackjob elements of the fringe fundamentalist fanatics, Russia returns to liberate its neighbor and partner AGAIN. History repeats itself. (Altho in the '80s the talipunks didn't have power yet, at least in the cities)
I mean, when you look at it, Putin is Afganistan's only hope right now. Between the savagery and cruelty of the US, esp in detaining it's 9B in funds, even though 20M Afghans DESPERATELY need that money to avert starvation; and the stone-age fanaticism of the Taliban, Afganistan has never been in more desperate need.
Putin has his hands full right now but honestly, ever since I saw the Talibs take over last year (and learned why that happened, it was WITH the full support and help of the US under the Trump administration, and I don't know why they did it, tho I have a theory), I've been racking my brain trying to see a way out of this for them. ONLY the strength of resolve of Russia's troops could liberate them now and reinstall a competent government and help them recover from what Biden is allowing to transpire there- nobody else is able or willing to at this point.
Man.......
If only.
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@layinlow77 thanks I'll look at it.
Here's a comment I was gonna post right before yours came up.
@bryan s it does seem horribly planned and I don't understand after all this fucking time what the true goal was. How could this not have been articulated ever?? Ok, to keep the Taliban at bay- but that's wasn't the primary mission, just a byproduct; and to the extent that occurred I'm glad; because in the regions it did women and Afghans in general were able to resume their more-or-less normal lives.
But now we hear about these warlords who were hardly better than the Tali-fucks in many cases if not worse. I mean we really are the Evil Empire. We did a partial liberation if that, and we set up these pedophiles and demons to rule with just as much an iron fist as anyone else and when they begged us for help we did nothing?!? Fucking god.
Not to mention the CIA-sponsored Afghan-staffed death squads and how many locals were terrorized by night raids both them and our US special forces.
So we really are absolutely evil and while our individual soldiers and ground commanders may have wanted to do the right thing or a good thing, no doubt much of the Pentagon higher-ups clearly could care less.
The totality of all this information is an serious fuck
And I still didn't want to leave with a Tali-fuck takeover as that isn't acceptable to me either
I guess like all these other good people are saying it really really WAS for no other reason than JUST to make the defense contractors rich, while 1000s of servicemen died or contracted PTSD and something like 50,000 or more Afghans died as a result of our involvement, either directly or indirectly.
It is really hard for me to wrap my head around that kind of industrial level disvaluation of human life, but I guess it's part for the course for US empire.
I know some of the military commanders legitimately had unselfish motives, at least I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on that, but clearly those at the very top, most certainly the CIA, very much did not.
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Yo there, Mr Climate Town! Alright alright alright - just step right here, I have a request for you!
I have a lot to say about this topic covered in this video- but before I go further, just would like to tell you're one of my favorite commentators on all of our social evils. That's why I got a big one for you. I actually can't say what it is because for some bizarre corporate circlejerk reason YouTube is aggressively censoring this. But imagine what's happening in the suburbs right now that is destroying and harming thousands upon thousands of lives, HOMEOWNERS' LIVES..... criminally. An association, if you will.
The devil's own. The suburban fascist criminal network themselves. I want you to d estroy them, but with something so naturally evil you won't have to work very hard. The story writes itself. It's not just the extreme cases, it's literally they're very PREMISE which should be vile and unacceptable to everyone.
I'll be more than happy to supplement your patreon for this noble task. They are evil, they are CRIMINAL, and somehow they're allowed to operate in BROAD daylight as if they aren't committing crimes every moment of their existence. I have a feeling why this is so but I would love to hear it explained in detail. Political corruption aka bribery? Of course, what else?? Public policy is 99.5% for hire in this country; always was, probably always will be.
Everything they do is a violation of a human, civil, personal, property or constitutional right.
They deserve utter d estruction and their activities banned for all time and anyone who chooses to be the leaders of such should receive criminal charges if they choose to continue. These are illegal criminal syndicates being treated as if they are legitimate and this should not stand.
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Holy fuck.
All of this should be illegal 25 ways from Sunday.
HOAs are organized crime. This actual organized crime. This is nothing but grand larceny, EXTORTION, and home seizure scams. This is flagrant and open organized CRIME. This is a money and asset-stripping mob-style RACKET.
NOBODY HAS THE LEGAL RIGHT TO FORCE YOU TO PAY "DUES" TO ANYONE AGAINST YOUR WILL!
NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO COERCE ANYONE INTO MEMBERSHIP INTO ANY ORGANIZATION THEY DONT WISH TO BE A PART OF AND TO DEMAND OUTRAGEOUS FEES FOR THE PRIVILEGE!!
This is literally gangsterism, this is what the mob does, only when they do it it's called racketeering and it's ILLEGAL. SO HOW ARE THESE PEOPLE GETTING AWAY WITH IT??
HOW DOES THIS NOT VIOLATE A SHITPILE OF ALREADY EXISTING LAW!?!
Well it does! So why aren't these criminals being hammered!?!
ALL STATE AND LOCAL GOVTS SHOULD BE BANNING THESE GROUPS WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE. THESE ARE OBVIOUS SCAMS AND GRIFTS! THEY PURSUE SO-CALLED STREET GANGS- HOW IS THIS ANY DIFFERENT? Because it takes place in suburbia??
THIS IS GIVING POLICE AND TAXING POWERS TO A NON-GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY. HOW IS THAT NOT ILLEGAL BY DEFINITION?
WHY DOES ANYONE TOLERATE THIS??
People need to start taking these filth to court. This is a criminal private organization using intimidation and just sheer flagrant nerve to pretend they have some kind of legal authority over you in order to extort anything and everything they can from you. That's called grifting.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT EXTORTION AND ASSET STRIPPING IS!!! THESE PEOPLE ARENT GOVT- and ergo NONE OF THIS CAN BE LEGAL.
THIS IS JUST ANOTHER CRIMINAL PONZI SCHEME IN A LONG LINE OF SUCH ATTEMPTS by various group over the years.
START SUING THESE DEMONS, PEOPLE. THEY HAVE NO LEGAL CLAIM TO YOU, YOUR HOME, OR ANYTHING ON YOUR PROPERTY!!! THEY ARE A PRIVATE CRIMINAL GANG MASQUERADING AS SOME KIND OF GOVT BODY! This is nonsense.
This is an illegitimate organization bent on grand larceny and mass theft. C'mon people.
I CANNOT BELIEVE THEY ARE GETTING AWAY WITH THIS AND IF CHALLENGED IN COURT THERE IS NO WAY ANY OF THIS WOULD STAND UP.
THESE ARE GANGS OF PSYCHOPATHIC HOMEOWNERS AND OPPORTUNISTIC AMORAL LAWYERS PREYING ON OTHER HOMEOWNERS.
AGAIN - THEY HAVE NO LEGAL AUTHORITY! NOBODY CAN FORCE YOU TO JOIN OR PAY INTO ANY PRIVATE ORGANIZATION AGAINST YOUR WILL!! THEY ARENT GOVT. THEY HAVE NO LEGAL AUTHORITY TO TAX YOU OR CHARGE YOU OR DEMAND MONEY IN ANY WAY!!!
IT IS NOT A LEGAL CRIME TO HAVE YOUR HOME APPEAR IN ANY KIND OF WAY! THESE PEOPLE ARENT POLICE! THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO ENFORCE OR DEMAND ANYTHING! ONLY LOCAL MUNICIPAL OFFICERS OR OFFICIALS DO!
WHY IS ANYONE TOLERATING THIS!?! THESE PEOPLE ARENT COPS SO WTF!?! STOP GOING ALONG WITH THIS, EVERYONE! JEEZ!!
HOW TF IS ANY OF THIS EVEN CONTINUING TO BE A THING?????
Shame on local and state authorities for looking the other way on this. Guess the HOAs are making sure to keep the payola to them delivered on time.
ALL HOAs SHOULD BE CLASSIFIED IMMEDIATELY AS CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ORGANIZED CRIME BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE!!! WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS HOME THEFT, ORGANIZED ASSET STRIPPING, RACKETEERING AND ABOVE ALL EXTORTION.
Last I checked pretty sure those are all crimes.
IF I PAY TAXES TO MY LOCAL GOVT I EXPECT CERTAIN SERVICES. I WILL NOT PAY AGAIN TO A LOCAL GROUP OF WHITE-COLLAR THUGS FOR THE PROVISION OF THE SAME OR SIMILAR MUNICIPAL SERVICES THAT I ALREADY JUST PAID FOR!!!! NOR WILL I PAY TO HAVE MY RIGHTS OF CHOICE FOR HOW I MAINTAIN OR CONSTRUCT MY PROPERTY TAKEN AWAY FROM ME!!!!! ARE PEOPLE SO DESPERATE TO BE CONTROLLED THEY WILL GO TO ANY LENGTHS TO BE SO??? IS THAT WHY THEY ALL GO ALONG WITH ALL OF THIS WITHOUT PROTEST?? What is happening to us out here?
This is madness. This is flagrant organized crime and I don't understand why it's being allowed to continue.
THE DEVELOPERS DONT LIVE THERE. THEY SOLD THEIR INTEREST IN THE HOMES WHEN THE OWNERS PAID FOR THEM. THE DEVELOPERS ARE GONE!!! THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO HAVE A SAY ON ANYTHING ONCE THE NEW OWNERS TAKE LEGAL POSSESSION OF THE DEED! THESE HOMES AREN'T THE DEVELOPERS' ASSETS ANYMORE TO BE LOOKED AFTER- THEY ARE THE OWNERS! SO I DONT EVEN SEE HOW AN HOA IS SUPPOSED TO BE HELPING THE DEVELOPER - THEY ARE GONE AND HAVE NO LEGAL CLAIM TO THESE HOMES ANYMORE.
YOU KNOW, I've heard of HOAs before - but I didn't know it was like this. All of this is so flagrantly illegal and I'm shocked anyone is accepting this. Every HOA office should be raided by local or state police or the FBI and it's members charged with felony extortion and asset stripping scams.
Somebody is profiting BIG off these HOAs. It's Gangsterism in the Suburbs and it's a billion ways wrong from Sunday. Appalling.
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So Faux News is infiltrating CNN now? Weird, although I guess not really surprising. Good thing I walked away from MSM years ago. As a far left Socialist/civil libertarian they have nothing to offer me. I mean if they're simply reporting on a non-controversial incident like the weather that's fine but their overall agenda is and will always be more corporate rule of America no matter this harm causes to the bottom half in this country. And not even the bottom half anymore. After the '08 crisis there were people of fairly high income who also suddenly found themselves in a situation that they never foresaw for themselves.
But predatory unregulated capitalism spares no one and when you own the government like big business and 1% class does down here, you face no consequences. Scam artists like Barry O will bail you out while leaving average homeowners high and dry as usual. Our entire government is a joke. I'm now so far Left because I feel like my eyes are so far open that I'm in the burn it down crowd. A system this far gone in broad terms in my opinion cannot be reformed. So what that means for us on the Left down here can be a number of things. For me it's to work hard towards the creation and viability of a hard Left "left Unity" third party here based on simple, ethical, common sense principles of economic justice, civil freedom, and protection of the natural world, AKA eco-socialism.
And if we can't vote our way out of this then fine. There are other things we can do. One thing's for certain, if you want to take action against a given system which sets no rules on itself only for you, you have to be willing to be as dirty and ruthless towards them as they are prepared to be against you. Once you've made that decision as I know I have, then you're ready to move forward.
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Imagine being stinking filthy rich, (which I classify as making anything more than 1M a year), NOT being satisfied with it, and spending every waking moment thinking how you can destroy the rest of the world to pilfer its wealth, its peace of mind, its security, and its future in order to benefit your own bank account- and desiring no end to this process. In other words there is no final goal. if each one of them could own a trillion dollars, they certainly would.
This is what sociopathy looks like in $2000 suit.
I've always been militantly politically radical, but never more than in the last 3 years. I do believe ONLY bloody revolution will put these kinds of people out of business permanently along with the entire organized Right in general. These kinds of mentally-ill sociopaths, as far as I'm concerned, don't deserve to live. They should be, ahem, put out of business in a breathing sort of way and their assets equitably distributed amongst the lower half of the economic strata in whatever nation they claim residence. Short of that, at least we can work to make this kind of economic wackjob extremism non-grata in in the public sphere and to disconnect the Right from all levers of influence and control one by fucking one (no doubt will not be achieved overnight).
In the meantime, you're doing a fantastic job, Zoomer UK Doogie Howser MD PhD BA SmartBro™️, by spreading awareness through full-frontal-assault education, which is always the vital first step in this unfortunately long and ongoing process of achieving the eventual permanent disempowerment of these Rodeo Drive barbarians and the types of destructive interests they represent.
You're doing god's work out there, my amigo. Big Yeezy's work, no doubt about it.
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I mean I don't even feel that way (safe) and I'm an average-sized W lady. I won't say every average street cop is violent because that hasn't been my experience but they are assholes. They have no business being out there and they're looking for money that's what it comes down to. That, and someone to fuck with, usually someone homeless. They're looking to steal from you, either your vehicle if they can find some minor violation, or your money through a ticket extortion or even perhaps a on-site theft of whatever money you have on you after they intimidate you into an illegal and violative vehicle search.
The only time that I'm not worried is if I'm driving past in a car and they're clearly not paying any attention to me.
It's sad that so-called security officers or safety officers in this country make exactly no one feel safe. It's because most of them are sociopaths, many of them are predators, and they are in a criminal gang bound on exploitation, harm and grand larceny. Yes there are detectives who are supposed to investigate alleged crimes but let's just look at this comment section, how many people have felt validated, respected, and treated respectfully by responding officers and/or detectives?? I'm not hearing one story to that end. It may be happening somewhere and I hope it is, but I just never get to hear about it.
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@barrypoontang I've had nothing but extreme problems from Street blues when they have initiated unwanted contact with me. I haven't needed them for a damn thing and my life would be supremely better off if I'd never crossed paths with any of them. When they come up to you on the street, they intend to steal something from you, push you around, violate your civil rights or cause you some other kind of aggravation, harassment, or harm. They're never there just to say hello so don't buy their bogus, obvious, insincere buddy-buddy attitude. It's insulting. They are a criminal/crooked syndicate in my eyes, nothing more.
Edit: I guess I feel I should say that sure sometimes a few them probably do try to help or are not overly abusive. Okay that's great really, I want to make it clear that I recognized the possibility of that, it is just my opinion but that rarely happens and that it's much more common that every single time they initiate contact with someone on the street it's for an overtly negative reason that I will call either unjustified or unethical. For those who respond to 911 calls responsibly and try to handle it without an arrest or force, unless it's unavoidable, and treat everyone on scene with some basic courtesy and dont end up making anything worse or act annoyed that they were even asked to show up as I've heard many times, then I thank them. Unfortunately it is just my belief that this is all too rare.
At a minimum in clear cases were obvious misconduct happened I want to see heads roll and they don't. Also the entire practice of what I call the "roadside racket", AKA patrols AKA traffic stops, I find outrageous from a moral perspective, I do feel it violates the Constitution clearly, and Im stunned that it's still legal. But we know I actually go because they intercept a huge amount of cash and valuables that way and they can easily find people to give a spurious arrest to that way. And one of their main objectives is to keep those jail cells full. If you take a look inside your local county jail at any given time, 99.9% of people are there for silly/minor charges, usually missing a court date for a similarly minor case, or just some general nonsense. Someone can ask, well why are they there at all? Well to make money of course. Not everyone brought to jail will be assessed bail, but many will. A full jail cell is in the court's eyes another opportunity to assess bail, which is how they make money.
I support the complete abolishment of all bail because it's a massive financial incentive and inducement to maximize arrests, which keeps the stupid cop-pigs on the street patrolling looking for easy targets, usually the poor and homeless. Street cops are nothing if not lazy to the extreme and they'll always choose the path of least resistance. And if someone really IS danger to the community they shouldn't be able to buy their way out! So any way you analyze it I find the very concept and practice of bail atrocious. It absolutely harms and penalizes poor people and it's just not morally justifiable.
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Zal-Zhurk🇷🇺 well, I don't know about that. We need shorthand terms. Most people have a basic understanding of of what left-right means in relation to politics. Even the normies can grasp it.
I guess you can say I'm a bit of a quasi-anarchist. Most of the State is unnecessary or vile, that much is clear. There's a need for some public management, and a limited amount of on-call security who's ONLY function is to assist citizens when requested or other genuine emergencies as necessary, and what I would call a limited number of humane facilities for proven actual offenders, mostly violent; but that's far from what I see around me where I live. Economically we need major shifts, to say the least.
The US govt body, in my current view from one who lives here, is nothing but a savage, sadistic, sociopath-filled corporatocratic oligarchy which delights in arbitrary domestic mass detention and maintains the only known currently functioning concentration camp in Guantanamo. These people ARE a WMD.
I hope we can make at least SOME inroads into dismantling that in my lifetime. I got 60 more years if I'm very lucky, probably more like 50.
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Zal-Zhurk🇮🇷 I agree the US has committed crimes there. That is beyond dispute. I'm sure they're planning more interference as we speak. You were probably right... . until your last sentence.
All islamists are extremists and filth who abuse and oppress women.
The vile Iranian Gestapo DID kill that one girl who was protesting the violation and degradation of her human rights. She's dead- her head bashed in. Her crime??? SHE REFUSED TO DENY HER HUMANITY AND RIGHT TO BE TREATED EQUALLY- SHE TOOK OFF HER HEADSCARF, A SYMPTOM OF OPPRESSION AND SUBJECTION- AND BURNED IT!!! BRAVO TO THIS BRAVE YOUNG GIRL, young enough to be my daughter. She said NO! NO MORE!!!! THAT'S courage. At her age I had no CLUE about protests- because I didn't have to. Yeah (govt and some people within) the US are evil for other reasons- but I have NEVER been oppressed or harmed here because of my GENDER. NEVER!!
You lack knowledge and awareness. Two wrong things could be happening at the same time. I hate my govt, but this one time, I won't criticize their efforts if it removes the hate-filled wackjob sick-minded Stone Age islamists.
IT IS BECAUSE OF THEM WOMEN HAVE NO RIGHTS IN IRAN AND CAN'T WEAR NORMAL CLOTHING!!!! ISLAMISTS HATE WOMEN AND SEE THEM AS LESS THAN HUMAN. THEY OBEY SATAN, AND DO EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER TO MAKE WOMEN SLAVES.
THERE SHOULD BE NO RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE. EVER! I have no problem with most religious beliefs, but to allow them to ever impact government is outrageous!! Without a light-years wide line between CHURCH and STATE, fundamentalists TYRANTS will never stop trying to destroy freedom, civilization, human rights and liberty but turning society into their own personal Handmaid's Tale or other theocratic hellhole- like what the Taliban did and ate doing again in Afghanistan right now. What the religious fundamentalist rat fucks are working overtime to do and to an extent are doing in half of this country and desperately trying to grab the other half.
Allowing religious would-be tyrant-filth to have ANY influence on public policy is a betrayal of EVERYTHING necessary to have a civilized society. FUNDAMENTALIST PSYCHOPATHS HAVE NO RIGHT TO INFLUENCE PUBLIC DIALOGUE!! ZERO!! They MUST be suppressed if not eliminated of they try to make inroads. They have NO right to subjugate others to their bizarre views!
I cannot believe to this day the islamists barbarians haven't been driven from the government. 43 years of dealing with these savages.
Well. We will help them then. Normally it's absolutely wrong to interfere in another nations affairs, esp for reasons Washington uses, my govt is scum too. They were wrong and amoral to do what they did in 1953 in Iran. But you know what??? Forty-three years of oppression and abrogation of human rights by these pieces of shit. I'd say enough is enough.
If and when they're gone, and hopefully sooner rather than later, perhaps then women will FINALLY get their human rights back that religious extremists stole 43 years ago. My govt is full of evildoers and they aren't getting involved for altruistic reasons. I know full well who they are, and their motives are always destructive. But in this case, even a no-good thug can do the right thing for the wrong reason. Think of a sex trafficker who lets his victims go; not because he's realized the evil of what he's done, but because he's worried about getting caught, or bec his contact didn't come through. He's still a psychopath, but that doesn't make the victims any less free. Sometimes the right thing can happen for the wrong reason.
Recently a young female protestor was brutally murdered by an animal who was part of the Orwellian 7th century monster who is part of the "morality police", and he did this for the great crime of protesting for her human rights and against the law requiring headscarves. She was brave and she did a hero. Now she will be a martyr for other freedom-fighters within Iran.
Islamists like the Iranian hardliners/extremists want the world to be savage, barbaric, like they are, violent to women, like the animals they are, and most of all, they want women to be SLAVES. They want to live in the Stone Age, like savages. It is up to the rest of US who are not savages to "educate" them as to their error. This is a battle of conscience, civilization and TRUE morality, one that recognizes the human rights of ALL people, against ANIMALS who hate the fact (for some irrational reason- maybe they're all repressed homos) that we live in a bi-gendered society!!
There are still some revolting ANIMALS on this planet that for some reason still deny they fact that we are ALL equal and every living human being on this PLANET deserves human motherfcking rights, and that really makes me sick!! So for whatever crimes the western imperialist forces are about to commit or are currently working on, that's wrong. But if that pushes the islamist scum out of power in that country once and for all, than that's a very very GOOD thing.
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Good to know a fetus and a splooge is MORE of a person now than a 15-45 year old woman. Not just equal to, but MORE OF, as in superior to. Under abortion denial laws, that is what they mean. FETAL CELLS HAVE MORE LEGAL RIGHTS THAN AN ADULT FEMALE. THAT is what these new laws mean..
Guys- this is madness.
Time for action, violence, whatever it takes. When we tell people they don't even own their own bodies, what is next??????? This is outrageous.
A PRE-VIABLE FETUS OR SPLOOGE DOESN'T HAVE RIGHTS, ITS NOT A CONSCIENTIOUS, CONSCIOUS BEING!!! IT DOESN'T FEEL PAIN, IT DOESN'T HAVE THOUGHTS, ITS MORE AKIN TO A FISH AT THIS STAGE THAN A HUMAN CHILD. IT IS DEVELOPING BIOLOGICAL TISSUE AT THIS POINT- NOTHING MORE.
IT IS DEPENDANT ON THE MOTHER FOR SURVIVAL AND IF SHE CHOOSES TO RESCIND THAT STATUS- THAT IS HER RIGHT!!!!
I TERMINATED A PREGNANCY AT TWO MONTHS 15 YEARS AGO AND IT WAS THE RIGHT DECISION. I'd do it again 1000 times.
A FETUS OR SPLOOGE IS /NOT/ EQUAL TO A MATURE FEMALE AND NEVER WILL BE!!!!!!
NO ONE HAS A RIGHT TO RULE OVER ANOTHER'S BODY- PERIOD!!!!!
WE HAD A NAME FOR THAT ONCE- IT WAS CALLED SLAVERY- AND ITS SUPPOSED TO BE CONFINED TO THE DUSTBINS OF HISTORY.
EVERY WOMAN HAS THE RIGHT TO RULE OVER HER OWN BODY WITH ABSOLUTE POWER AND NO LAW THAT ABRIDGES THAT RIGHT CAN BE SAID TO BE MORAL OR LEGITIMATE. EVERYONE, MALE OR FEMALE, DESERVES THEIR BIRTHRIGHT OF BODILY AUTONOMY RECOGNIZED WITHOUT RESERVATION. ANYONE WHO CLAIMS OTHERWISE FOR ANY REASON, IS EITHER SICK, BRAINWASHED OR DEEPLY MISINFORMED.
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Police are really evil. Are you telling me in Brooklyn there are no animal shelters that rescued animals are taken to? People please understand this people- I know this might sound disturbing to some of you who have lived a more protected and sheltered life, but 98 out of every 100 police officers is a raging psychopath. There would be literally no reason to just kill this sweet dog. Please don't think police officers are your friends or the good guys. 99 times out of 100 they're not. Especially the ones that roam the street. These are EVIL depraved cruel people with no feelings, no heart, & no soul. They're sociopaths. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news this morning but I feel compelled to be honest right now. These are bad people. These are FILTH. I'm not saying a few decent and I'm not saying we don't need emergency responders and special investigators. We DO need a minimum amount of those two professions I will grant. But the ones who roam the street and in this case the ones who responded, there was NO moral justification for being willing to put this dog down without even calling ONE single animal shelter to see if they had space to take another rescue dog. So people PLEASE just understand who you're dealing with. The VAST majority of police should be fired a LOT of them belong in prison. I'm not being overdramatic. Take it from someone who knows. I'm not trying to be Debbie Downer I just think awareness is the best gift somebody could give someone. It doesn't change the beautiful nature of the story but if I could plant a seed of awareness in some of you guys then I feel like I did my job. Just know that these people don't have hearts and the vast majority of them don't have consciences, ESPECIALLY in New York city. Especially in the big city and sometimes even outside of it. Their next step should have been taking the dog to a shelter. This isn't rocket science. Notice how he didn't hesitate to say they were going to have to kill it. PLEASE reconsider your suspicion for the defunding and the abolishment of the street police movement. These are people who are just as easily SHOOT you without a second thought, even when you pose no threat or assault you even when it was in no way justified or shoot your own dog. These are PSYCHOPATHS. Stonehearted irresponsible BARBARIANS. They should be FIRED and never be given a position of public responsibility again and all of those wasted billions should be shifted to DESPERATELY needed social needs. Now some of you may have already tuned me out but those who haven't, please look into this issue more. PLEASE don't let Fox News do your thinking for you. Just because they wear a uniform doesn't mean they're the good guys. At some time in the near future please reconsider what I've said. I understand that this incident required police involvement, but they always show their true colors sooner or later. A trustworthy public servant would have IMMEDIATELY contacted a qualified Animal shelter and made arrangements to transport that animal. Instead they IMMEDIATELY moved to violence. I understand sometimes euthanasia has to be done but in this case they did it out of convenience. That's the kind of people you're dealing with. They are SO dangerous because they are so lazy and because they crave violence. they literally crave violence because they are evil in their hearts. They are sociopaths. They see a helpless innocent victim in a sweet helpless animal and they immediately think " I don't want to deal with this". Even though their job description is to try to save life whenever possible and that doesn't mean just human life. Do you think they care? Even though they're on the clock, they could have had a whole shift ahead of them, but what's the easiest solution for a barbarian in this situation? Put the dog down. Kill it. VIOLENCE. Take life not save it. So PLEASE people understand that the ANIMALS in Blue ONLY serve themselves and they are PREDATORS. The vast majority are not good and if you care about your safety and the health of our entire society you'll want to abolish Street police ENTIRELY and only deal with essential emergency responders. Even those guys aren't always the good guys but it's a hell of a lot better than dealing with a violent cruel evil unstable unhinged army that roams the street looking for victims. Just the fact these Pigs immediately thought they would rather kill the sweet precious animal then try to help it should tell you everything you need to know about the total moral bankruptcy of the NYPD.
If anything I said today has served to open the eyes of even one reader I consider myself blessed and successful in the attempt of spreading awareness this fine Thursday morning. Please have a blessed day 🙏.
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@diggernash1 [AB25]
riiiight ....
So you truly believe we should be governed by others, bec you assume they have some sort of "superior" quality simply because they won some sort of bogus election, which is phenomenally easy to do if one has enough money- not to mention all the elections that are stolen- but this a system that makes sense to you... Is this correct?
Have you been asleep all your life? How can you possibly trust the integrity of any of our elections in this country? You ARE asleep. From voting machines to straight up ballot tossing, BOTH major political parties (really just a single uniparty) but especially the GOP, engage in every scandalous election-stealing scheme they can, and not just on the federal level.
Trusting these ridiculous representatives who want to be our dictators, who are bought and paid for ceaselessly by the big money, is a fool's errand AF and you have brain rot if you support it. Even if they were somehow these perfectly wise superhuman non-existent sober statesmen with the benefit all seeing wisdom (NONE of which exists btw,) I STILL WOULDN'T WANT TO TURN MY VOICE OVER TO SOMEONE ELSE! And why tf would you?? This isn't about trusting somebody with superior knowledge about a specialized area (ie medical doctors), this is about, essentially, personal freedom versus dressed up slavery. I have a problem with being considered human cargo to my so-called political "superior", when they are nothing of the sort!!!
That's a separate discussion than the one about the corrupt owning of our reps by the Big Money which is always gone on since its early days, but they dovetail together.
Why would you EVER want to be subject to someone else's will, especially when that person is utterly worthless and self-serving, aka reps, instead of having direct control over your own destiny, which comes from voting DIRECTLY on public policies that affect you???? You know - THE BALLOT?? Why do you prefer slavery to freedom??? If you want slavery for yourself that's one thing, but don't try to force that on others. I certainly do not. I want autonomy and I don't need nor want anybody else to speak for me! Why would I ever want to voluntarily subject to myself to somebody else's will that I don't agree with??? This goes for all of the US government's political would-be dictators, ie SCOTUS, the Senate (a worthless body that needs to be swept away), the House, the state houses and so on. We live in an incredibly fascist revolting police state in the US whose business is it to ruthlessly enforce the will of these political wannabe masters, often in full conflict of the public's will, and I will fight that to my last breath.
The more government control exists, the less power and control we have to control our own destinies. I find this disturbing and so should you.
If I have to live under certain laws, I have the right to have a controlling interest in those laws. I deserve to have my vote to count and I deserve to vote on EVERYTHING. Without that we are a little more than slaves, which you seem eminently comfortable with. Bizarre.
So not only do we need a better representative body in this country we need either a more representative House with no Senate bodies at all, or more preferably, direct public voting on every matter of importance, totally bypassing the stranglehold of these political wannabe masters.
You can stand with the elite money or you can stand with the public. Your choice.
It's funny that you totally support majority rules for electing bogus representatives but you DON'T support all of us being ACTUAL adults and being able to vote on our OWN policies, not subject to these same bought-and-paid-for corporate-owned representatives..... weird.
I don't know how to get through to people like you. You're smoking the dicks of the founders so hard and the nonsense myths that have sprung up since, and I don't know how to dislodge your jaw from their genitals.
You seem to want fascism and financial elite rule. Well you should be VERY happy right now! the government of this country is exactly that! It has never been more criminal than it is today. It is now nothing but an amoral cartel for the ruthless enforcement of the corporate will at any cost- and destroying the world in the process, and that has been the case going back a long ways. This government was NEVER a body for the average person, it was for the tiny elite, always, and you support that right? You must LOVE the way things are now then! Decades of ruthless corporate rule has harmed whole sectors of society and completely flies against the wishes of a good 90+% of the country. Ask the victims of massive corporate criminality in East Palestine how they feel about corporations being held to no law at all while their lives are destroyed or forever changed.
It must be nice to be completely above all accountability, the way all Blue Pigs and corporations are in this tenth-world s-hole.
So you need to leave this channel because you are a rightoid who cannot be reached. I am an armed hard leftist but I'm also a libertarian and quasi anarchist- NOBODY has the right to be anyone else's owner or master and you puzzle me that you think that is how we should structure ourselves.
Quite gross.
If we MUST have a representative body, it should be limited in it's scope and be forced to represent the interests of the People, not a corrupt destructive corporate Wall Street elite. After all, why am I paying taxes if I'm considered to be a non-entity by these worthless scumbags reps if my wishes don't matter in this corrupt criminal organization we call "government"??? I mean, you would agree that is a fair question, is it not?
Rightoids - you're a weird bizarre breed. Totally unassailable by logic. Better off not to engage in most cases.
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@diggernash1 once again you defend the barbaric concept of might makes right. I don't know why. I don't believe you really believe this because if might makes right, why have any laws at all? Let the bigger and stronger have their way with the weaker. Only might matters, not rights. I doubt you truly believe that.
There WILL be a Palestinian State, and I'm sure whatever was proposed in 1922 was unacceptable for legitimate reasons but I'll be happy to look it up for more details as I'm not aware of any legitimate and fair two-State proposition at any point in time; but again, why should they have had to give up any of their territory? The region was PALESTINE- if I come into YOUR house with guns and say "hey you! You give me 90% of your house and if you fight back I'll kill you", would you say that would be a fair arrangement? Would you say that would be a "good faith" negotiation? No I don't think you would. Now instead of "house" just substitute "whole territory" in it's place.
if Jews wanted to come and live in Palestine peacefully as part of a pluralistic, equal society they were not opposed, they were welcomed, but they wanted a Jewish-only ethnostate and they have subjugated the indigenous Palestinian people ever since. And they have only achieved such with at first the UK and now the USs enabling, funding and protecting. They would have been helpless on their own and would never succeeded in fire in one shot if it wasn't for being armed by the UK in 1948.
So Israel's Zionazi movement has never achieved anything on their own. They're nothing but a weak pathetic murderous expansionist empire wannabe State and they have only been able to achieve anything because they had powerful benefactors. So even under your barbaric value system of 'might makes right' they would have failed because on their own they had nothing! Nothing.
They have done nothing on their own but been puppets of Western gestapo-style empire.
All political evils come to an end, the only question is when. I believe we are watching the beginning of the end now.
Keep on supporting the Zionazi scum. I hope that's not the best you can do.
I AM on the far left bro where the hell did you think I came from? As left as you can go and even further.
I am proud to stand with Palestine until my last day because they are HUMAN, they have a right to EXIST, they were there LONG before the Zionazis invaded and they have a right to DEFEND themselves and regain their lost lands. Nobody deserves to be colonized, nobody.
Full Palestinian dominance and independence will come- the revolution is inevitable and I believe we're seeing it now. Everyone has the right to freedom, liberation, self-determination and justice. It's that simple. I'm so proud to support my Arab global family - and I'm not arab, but right is right.
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(ABC) Maybe to some people I what I say sounds extreme but come on, even for those street cunts that don't resort to physical violence it's still a criminal gang, I'm referring to the blue street boys (and sometimes females), not necessarily the detectives altho I'm sure there's plenty of shit detectives too. Any group that gets their kicks from or is told to go out into the community to commit aggressions, microaggressions, obvious thefts, unjust action, intimidation, or worse is absolute crime!!! AND WE SHOULDN'T TOLERATE THIS!!
And if they abuse their 911 response duties they should be held responsible for that too!! All safety responders should. They're being granted a LOT of authority, they damn well should be held extra responsible and they certainly aren't right now and we can see this everywhere we go.
How this got started I don't know, okay I do know and I have pretty a good idea why it's continued this long but that doesn't matter, just like slavery or any other gross injustice it needs to end now, like RIGHT fucking NOW.
Contrary to popular belief this problem is eminently easy to solve but the evildoers and the corrupt assholes that benefit from it don't want to so they try to gaslight us by obfuscating the issue but please everyone BELIEVE me like any black-and-white right and wrong issue this issue is SO easy to solve!!!
It takes a belief that State aggression is WRONG under any non-defensive circumstance. It takes changes to the laws. It takes people of conscience into office at all levels, starting at the county level. It takes the public waking up and stopping being gross slaveitude bootlickers. There's a fool, a mark and a slave born every minute. We don't have to be one of them.
Imagine, if you will, an ideal society where every single human being had total human rights guaranteed by law and had complete and total autonomy over their own lives provided they didn't abuse it to cause undue harm to another. A government existed but it was LIMITED and careful not to overstep its bounds. It provided necessary functions in an HONORABLE and ACCOUNTABLE way. Corporations, if they existed at all, were held in heavy check by this government; the individuals rights and the communal good (surprise! I'm a big fat commie don't all shit yourselves now) were the highest values. The State was limited but effective and abjured any semblance of tyranny and if it tried employ any it was quickly hard checked into the next millennium legally or otherwise by the People AND if necessary, overthrown and replaced. Individual dignity and the health of our communities were the highest values embraced by all and those who pursued policies that went against those were stigmatized, discouraged, marginalized, or opposed. Justice was humane and based on an optimistic view of human nature not a pessimistic or negative one. The Earth was respected. Fossil fuels (as much as I love muscle cars as much as the next guy) were history. Energy was clean and freely available.
We CAN get there!!! It starts with a decision to no longer permit State abuses or State violence. Reject the exploitation of the State. Reject the shittiness of ruthless corporate rule and destruction. Reject the tyranny of the red-blue monopoly/duopoly uniparty grifting machine that protects these assholes. Seek external political parties if you're going to vote. Organize. Keep at it, assholes always push back, real change takes time, we probably won't see any of this in our lifetime but it's worth fighting for. People will take up the fight after us and so it goes.
Above all, always demand BETTER! Without demanding better we can never get it. Demand, organize, fight, organize some more, continue demanding, reevaluate, re-strategize, start again- THAT'S how it works!
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@jaymethysell5111 I don't think it's right wing though. We have to be careful of drawing the wrong conclusions. I think I explained it pretty clearly. If we had a large platform like CNN or Fox News I think all of a sudden millions of people would suddenly start having ideas they never had before and realize "oh yeah why don't we do this- why don't we do XYZ?" A lot of it comes down to simple control of media. I think it's a misnomer to say people are on the Right. That's too easy. I think it's like I said. You have your minority of nuts at the fringes, you have a large majority who don't know a damn thing about politics but vote the way their friends and family do, whether that's Blue or Red, and then you have people that are always ambivalent and that go either way based on a gut feeling. If you're trying to tell me the majority is ideologically right wing I completely differ with that. And don't forget, half the country doesn't even vote, and that could be for any number of reasons. It's not a right-wing country any any more than it's a Marxist country or a Protestant country or Catholic country or a white country or brown country. It is a big mix. having only two worthless dominant political parties doesn't give most people a lot of choice either. If we had 6 to 10 political parties you would suddenly start seeing a lot more diversity and voting patterns and then stated position. Being given only two choices shoe horns people into a box that a lot aren't comfortable with.
At the end of the day a lot comes down to propaganda. If we had 100% aggressive voting access, and a fully competitive parliamentary multi-party system, along with the abolishment of the Senate and the induction of rank choice voting, you'd start seeing big changes overnight. The problem is our current system in which the majority of sane voices are silenced. We currently have a pathetic system that makes it incredibly easy for the top 2% to own all the politicians. We can't even get universal voting rights passed! That criminal body otherwise known as SCOTUS did their part to see to that, and Congress refuses to pass their own voting access bill. So what does that tell you? That the tiny corrupt elite that are running the game in their favorite are desperate to do anything to cut the rest of our throats and kneecap the rest of us so we can't have a system that works for everyone. I mean you do know we live in a banana republic right? It's just large and highly developed but it is as much a banana republic as any in the so-called global South or anywhere else.
Independent and left voices need a large media platform comparable to Fox or CNN. Media seems to run the show in this country. If we had that media platform people who thought they were Democrats or thought they were so-called Republicans would be coming over to our side in droves. Because why wouldn't they? Anyone who's not a committed fascist would embrace our values of universal human rights, absolute justice and economic dignity. There's nothing radical about it- it's what any normal person would want not just for themselves but for their neighbor. Obviously the forces of evil and corruption don't want that so of course they're going to fight us tooth and nail but don't let them obfuscate the issue to you. It's not a right-wing country or a Left per se, more than anything I say it's a confused country thanks to the elites doing what they do for the last 75 or so years and the duopolists doing everything in their power to crush any genuinely organic people-centered political parties whether they be Left or independent/libertarian.
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But how many other 100s or 1000s of attacks have been accomplished far out of public view???? As if this show of faux contrition and crocodile tears is all that's needed after 10 people incl 7 children were killed on knowingly empty information. The fact that at least two people were willing to give the order and press the button on this drop based on such laughably bad information, is something I find extremely disturbing. And of course, nothing will be done to either individual or chain of command that enabled this process and carried it out like so many before it; and most of not all of those, I'm willing to wager, having been done so on similarly appallingly poor or flat out absent "intelligence".
Like land mines and chemical warfare, drones are immoral and evil. At least if indiscriminate targeting and utter disregard of non-combatant/civilian life is going to be the goal, and it has been for 20 years; then at least make a human being fly the planes that drop those bombs!!!! How much more evil can we get?! So this is what we've become??? Just fire all the servicemen and women then, since they are no longer needed anymore as the new policy is literally video game warfare towards places that have NO defense against it.
Anyhow, I'm a non-combat role US veteran and I'll NEVER fight or work for for this military empire again thru any military or civilian role. Why???? Are we saving the world???? Are we taking out the genuine bad guys??? That's what I used to believe but not anymore. I no longer can morally support in any way a military and "defense" machine that so willfully disregards the lives of civilians and ignores, either intentionally or unintentionally, the actual dangerous terrorists and threats.
I'm all for going after genuine bad actors and there are some of those, and I want to remove them, because somebody needs to; but not like this. This is amoral, and vile, and it's happened 1000 times before, and it's evil. I do not see a morally-acceptable use or role for drones in modern warfare- perhaps in incredibly limited scenarios but in general I want to see them banned. I believe it's been proven 100 times over why they should be. No more US-caused remote terror from the skies to innocent communities!!! I want this to end and I'm not the only one, many other US citizens stand with me, both in the veteran and non-vet civilian community.
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Tragic. I would have advised your friend to do his best to bring a lawsuit. He has proof, and therefore at at a minimum he deserves his money returned. He also could sue for violation of Fourth Amendment rights, compensation for pain and suffering, etc. It sounds like he never fought to get the money back and that's the worst thing you can do with these psych0paths. That only encourages them to do it over and over and over, unfortunately.
Not only are pigs wholly criminally immune in this evil nation, they are civilly immune. It's disgusting how they've got it locked up right now. All we can do, is to do our best to be on guard against these monsters and every time they violate us don't just take it, but resolve to fight back. I haven't been seriously harmed by them, but I've certainly been harmed in many "minor" ways, and I've certainly known people who have been harmed in very serious ways, and the moment that we're free to bring a lawsuit we owe it to ourselves and future victims to do so. Even if we lose at least we knew we took a shot and gave it our damnedest. Sooner or later their civil immunity is going to get destroyed and their criminal immunity is going to get destroyed and their entire demonic house of cards that federal judges and Congressional lawmakers have built for them since at least the early 1980s is going to come crashing down with an ear-splitting noise. But we're not there yet, sadly. But we can be eventually if we keep fighting back. Sooner or later one of us will be the straw that breaks the camel's back and brings this vile system of State-sanctioned murder, Mass grand larceny and domestic terrorism to an end.
Keep hope alive brothers and sisters. A little bit at a time we can end this.
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NEVER consent to a car search. You can't stop them if they do it by force, but never give your consent to it. And if they do it without your consent you can bring a lawsuit later for breach of your fourth amendment rights.
NEVER ever give your consent.
They're only looking for what they can steal. Even if you have fully prescribed legal pharmaceutical drugs will try to use that against you. That happened to me one time but I showed up the very next day and then to my court appearance with proof of prescription and of course that was immediately dropped along with the other petty charges that the Pig tried to get me for.
Petty charges exist for one reason only, to set you up for extortion AKA possible bail if you're arrested or a series of fines if you show up to court. In short it's a scam. It's a racket and it's a river of ill-gotten money games for every single county in the nation. That's why they're so aggressive about it.
I don't know how they sleep at night. I really don't. it's nothing but open gangsterism, Mass racketeering, mass Grand larceny, and constant civil liberties violations.
also I don't know the laws in your particular state but some states have laws that say that if you stopped for a petty traffic violation they're not allowed to do anything else other than worn and or cite you for that violation. In short they're not able to conduct a false stop under the false pretext of giving you a minor citation and then just proceed to totally shred your personal, civil, and constitutional rights. They shouldn't be able to run your ID or license either which they do to check for petty warrants, but so far I'm pretty sure that's still legal in all 50 states. If I'm ever elected anywhere which I'm considering trying for, I'm going to be pushing to basically ban cops from the roads permanently and completely with the exception of unavoidable 911 response. They shouldn't even be on the roads, that should be considered criminal occupation and gangsterism, which it is but they've been able to flagrantly get away with that for decades because the public is brainwashed into accepting more and more slavery and more and more State subjugation and I just think it's very sad.
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I don't disagree with most of your statement but the Taliban are extremely bad news and if you don't think so, you're nuts and have eaten the insanely misguided "pro-taliban" propaganda that seems to be getting passed around at the moment.
The US committed MANY sins while we over there and I don't want any of those minimized, and those who deliberately did wrong should pay, regardless of their station, but that doesn't make the Taliban good by comparison. They aren't good whatsoever. They'll never stop being nutfuck cultists who oppose every possible basic human right for women, and many of them are willing to be ruthless killers. Are you familiar with or do you remember Malala, the young Afghan girl who they tried to assassinate at age 16 because she refused to stop going to school? Yeah they did that and thats the kind of thing they do. I'm not saying every single one is willing to do that but most probably are. They support medieval-level punishments for minor infractions. Not only that I highly doubt they are going to be able to logistically manage anything. How can they?? According to all my information, they are all illiterate asf as they don't believe in secular education, only reading their fucking cult book.
I have heard their economy is currently in tatters and half the population faces hunger, serious hunger, or food scarcity. I have zero faith they will be able to remedy this or if they will even care so long as it doesn't affect them.
It is still my position that the Taliban should be removed or eliminated any rational means necessary. That doesn't make the wrongful or immoral acts that any US personnel committed while we were there or any of the willful unnecessary prolonging of the occupation acceptable; it just means both of these realities can be true at the same time.
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For those of us ready to do more, we should be trying to get into local politics one way or the other. Jonathan is right. Everything else is nice, but won't change anything at the public policy level. Get involved in your local city or town management any way you can, or at least strive to.
Maybe you think you're too young for that but for anyone who's 35+, I would seriously advocate this. This is what I'm working on at the moment.
Start with writing out in extreme detail all of the very specific tangible changes you would like to see in public policy, even if some seem impossible to accomplish in our lifetime. Just organize these points and break them down into smaller and smaller pieces that if given the opportunity you believe you could take some small steps towards. (Examples, better urbanism, better social programs, rights for the homeless, better homeless services, public space rights, tax policy change, refunding our schools, homeowner protections, police reform and reduced funding, bans on all patrols (911 response is all they should be doing), decriminalization of drugs, criminal justice reform, food policy reform, rent control and housing reform, zero goods waste programs, local ubi, better healthcare services, community gardening initiatives, etc etc)
For anyone in or around LA I would highly recommend getting involved with the people's city council. They are an absolutely fantabulous alternative to their pretty much hypersociopathic and corrupt local "actual" council full of bought and paid for hyperdicks.
In short if you really want to change public policy in our cities, towns, or counties we have to get on the councils. This can be easier said than done because the police apparatus and the big business sector will always want to control these individuals by funding their campaigns and giving them favors. But it's not impossible. We have to try. As much as we may fantasize about some great noble movement bubbling up from the outside unfortunately at least in the US that is just not going to happen. We have to try to get ourselves into public office and even that's no guarantee we'll be able to get the changes we want because of course the red-blue machine controls pretty much everything but what I'm saying is if we don't try, it's definitely not going to happen. We can also try to force through ballot measures that we believe in. It will always be a steep uphill battle because we don't have the money to buy media advertising the way they do but like I said, we just have to try.
Here in CA I'd like to try reaching out to other outside parties in the areas that we agree on. The more hands on deck the better. It's a long-term process, but not entirely impossible.
Otherwise there are always many many private mutual aid organizations that do a lot of fine work and those are by no means unimportant. But if we do want to seek at least even modest political changes we're going to have to try to get into some of these offices ourselves. I know it won't be easy but if people from the Left or the outside never try, voters never get a chance to choose anything outside of the status quo of the red-blue paradigm.
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So long as people continue to worship "government" power, State power and being ruled by violence and total lack of restraint, and enjoy their own total subjugation and complete lack of rights, this will never change.
Just note how many "gestapo lives matter" stickers you see around town next time you're out on your local roads.
The vast majority of people want chains. They seem to hate having personal rights. I don't know what there is to be done about this on a macro scale. Everyone wants chains in this country.
People have tried fighting back before, they've also been killed or harassed. Most recent 2020 & 2021.
Should one group get to totally dominate, destroy, steal from, abuse and invoke all manner of aggression on others whenever they choose? Should everything be illegal and every moment we spend outside of our homes controlled and surveilled?? I would think that the rational answer would be no but ask that of a thousand people and I expect to be in the minority.
We'll never find freedom in a country that was so ostensibly founded on freedom (altho mainly the freedom to own people, steal Indian lands, deny equal rights to 50% of the population, and so on), yeah today rarely knows anything of the sort.
If you willingly bow down before the State, don't expect it to show remorse when it ruins your life. That's what they do. That's what they want to do. They're leopard to eat people's faces. This is what psychopathy IS, and more and more people seem to want that. Clearly everyone wants total subjugation to Wall Street and their loyal Street servants AKA badged gestapo in this country.
People constantly flaunt how quickly they can subjugate themselves to the demands of private thugs speaking through political mouthpieces.
No of course I'll never understand it but there seems to be no escaping it, that's the truly discouraging thought.
Eminent domain, stop and frisk, constant patrolling, home invasions, rank theft cutely called civil forfeiture (implying one day we just decided to up and part with our personal property, for kicks!); and more. Where does it end???? there's no limit for psychopaths in this country, and while it's good to speak out about it, good luck getting a broad base of support to disempower these filth.
The vast majority of people's natural slaveitude will instantly come out and object. To be the first ones cheering when a cop bloodies your nose. They may not cheer so loudly when the leopard chooses to eat THEIR face, but of course in their fantasy fever bubble, that will never happen. Sure, they could care less that its happening to someone else, so long as the leopard never turns around on them. (But of course, sooner or later it eventually will, and then they'll be shocked, shocked they tell you!! (They never thought unchecked government gestapo aggression could turn on them- I mean who could have possibly predicted that!?))
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@erok268 hey man I just wanted to say regardless of anything else, I truly hope you get the help you need and if you're trying to quit meth that you are able to. No matter what the addiction I know it's not easy to quit. Relapses are going to happen. We're not robots. These things are biochemical, it takes a lot more than willpower to get there. I truly wish you all the best in this struggle. I hope you don't blame yourself for being addicted, it could happen to anyone under the right circumstances. I'm sure you'll get there. Just take it one day at a time and don't come down on yourself. The very fact you're trying to quit takes a lot of courage. I'm not against consenting drug use by adults but I know that like anything, it can become unhealthy. There's a difference between use and abuse, and sometimes abuse can happen. I hope you have a caring and respectful support system around you to help you in this journey, I think it makes the difference. No matter what happens, stay strong and love yourself. You're gonna get there! I know it's easy to say, much much harder to do. Just try to take it one day at a time. If the 12 steps help you, great, if not I'm sure there's something out there that will.
Stay strong big fam, you got this.
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@erok268 @erok268 hey man I just wanted to say regardless of anything else, I truly hope you get the help you need and if you're trying to quit meth that you are able to. No matter what the addiction I know it's not easy to quit. Relapses are going to happen. We're not robots. These things are biochemical, it takes a lot more than willpower to get there. I truly wish you all the best in this struggle. I hope you don't blame yourself for being addicted, it could happen to anyone under the right circumstances. I'm sure you'll get there. Just take it one day at a time and don't come down on yourself. The very fact you're trying to quit takes a lot of courage. I'm not against consenting drug use by adults but I know that like anything, it can become unhealthy. There's a difference between use and abuse, and sometimes abuse can happen. I hope you have a caring and respectful support system around you to help you in this journey, I think it makes the difference. No matter what happens, stay strong and love yourself. You're gonna get there! I know it's easy to say, much much harder to do. Just try to take it one day at a time. If the 12 steps help you, great, if not I'm sure there's something out there that will.
Stay strong big fam, you got this.
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Repost: Well that's how most government (organized force) gets away with doing mess and nonsense all the time. They presume that the vast majority of the electorate will be too busy or too distracted to care, and usually we are. And when there is organized resistance that's when they pull out the violence and suppression. Do YOU complain when you see black lives matter demonstrations or so-called riots?? Look at what's happening in France right now. Those farmers are getting organized and fighting back because they feel the new agriculture bill is harmful to them. I love seeing that because if we don't then we are consigned to being passive and voting for people who we hope might eventually do something that helps us and that is just not efficient or effective. Of course if we could simply BUY them that would be so much more efficient but most of us out here aren't organized like that or don't have that kind of money- but perhaps we should be. In the US ALL politics is for hire- every single one is for sale one way or another and if they say they aren't they are lying. If they're a Republican and Democrat and they claim that they are certainly lying, if they are from an outsider party (virtually nobody is but there are a brave few who try), I'd be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. But from the duopoly?? Yeah they serve the Big Money, not us, but then they lie like dogs about it, lol. The keep on fooling approximately half the population every four years so why not keep going? And locally and in the states, similar.
Anyhow I don't mean to be overly simplistic but in very very generalized terms we can have two forms of government, one that represents the interests of the common people, being us, or one that represents the interests of the nobility, today's corporate landscape aka 'big business' at our expense. I know which one I want to live under.
Leftism vs Rightism; in broad terms.. Left means For the People, Right means For the Elite Few, usually with some good racism thrown in for food measure......
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@LeejaMiller it would be nice if we could but I mean it hasn't happened yet. How exactly are we to do that? Big business isn't going to give up and go away. I'm not saying give up, I'm just saying it seems to be a nut we're not going to be able to crack in our lifetime. Not that we should stop trying - I have no intention of giving up; I'm just saying we're up against Mount Everest with nothing but twine and slippers to work with.
The current political structure wants to serve the big money and they have a media to promote their views which seems to work for most voters. I don't see what we can do to change that in our lifetime too much.
But we do have some options with court cases and public ballots. But most courts are pretty dirty and judges seem easily bought so once again here we are trying to scale a steep wall with jelly on our feet.
It's a hell of a situation you have to admit. Seems like in this country big money always gets what it wants. They seem to have it in the bag- local guns, State Police and the FBI are out there to ensure their interests are protected.
I don't know, kind of sucks. Socialist and communist parties have tried to make headway before with some limited success but eventually petered out or failed. At a minimum it would be nice if the People had a voice that put their welfare and concerns first for a change - but again in the last 50 years hard left militant movements have all been stymied. There's a lot of angry sociopaths that don't like when outsiders challenge the system. Leonard peltier is still on death row. Wonder how often he gets to come out of his cage.
Hard to imagine the kind of hatefulness and evil we're up against, and it all seems to circle back to money sooner or later - are in the situation with native americans, the theft of their land, a major resource. The big powers feel to have the right to take anything they want at any time from anyone and they don't like when someone opposes that. Morals? Respect for others' rights? That's for the weak.
I don't know, I guess hope always springs eternal. There's always a first time. Maybe some change can happen in our lifetime I mean it sure would be nice. There's more than enough for everyone but good luck getting big business to back off. They want it all and intend to take it all so I don't not sure where this will end up, when their influence pulls the strings of the political assembly at all levels including down the road at city hall. But we the people aren't completely powerless, we have social media, we have each other, we have the ballot, and we have the courts, such as they are. It's up to us to make use of them.
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I'll start by saying I'm not a truck driver, so I don't know the details of commercial truck operation.
That said, THIS WAS A SHAMEFUL, DEMONIC, OBVIOUS, INTENTIONAL, DELIBERATE, AND VILE RAILROAD OPERATION FROM THE VERY FIRST JUMP!!!
ALL FAULT LIES WITH THE TRUCKING COMPANY. THIS MAN SHOULD BE RELEASED IMMEDIATELY! Was he too inexperienced to have driven that route? Probably- but again, WHO'S FAULT IS THAT?!? THAT COMPANY HAD 30 VIOLATIONS IN THE PREVIOUS 24 MONTHS, INCLUDING BRAKE MALFUNCTIONS! HELLO, MCFLY! SO THAT MEANS NOTHING?!? WTF ARE YOU SMOKING, CHANNEL OWNER?!? THE TRUE CRIMINAL HERE WAS THE COMPANY RESPONSIBLE FOR KEEPING IT'S VEHICLES PROPERLY MAINTAINED AND NOT SENDING OUT DRIVERS ON DIFFICULT ROUTES WITHOUT PROPER TRAINING!!! HERE'S A GUY WHO'S JUST TRYING TO FEED HIS FAMILY AND KEEP HIS JOB. HE DIDN'T KNOW THE EXACT ISSUES WITH THIS ROUTE, IF HE WAS TOLD TO DO IT HE PROBABLY THOUGHT HE WOULD BE FINE BASED ON HIS PREVIOUS DRIVING EXPERIENCE; HE PROBABLY DIDN'T THINK HE HAD ANY REASON TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT THE ROUTE; OR CONVERSELY, IF HE REFUSED IT, HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORRIED ABOUT LOSING HIS JOB.
HE WAS MADE A DELIBERATE AND MALICIOUS SCAPEGOAT BY THE TWO PSYCHOPATHS WHO PROSECUTED THIS CASE! They literally set out to DESTROY him AS A GAME BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO ADMIT GUILT THAT HE DID NOT BELIEVE HE HAD!!
I know how the system works. I've had loved ones who had half their lives destroyed by it, who had done nothing wrong; but because of the satanic-level sadism and savagery of our system who sets as a goal for itself to steal unjustly all the life and hopes it can; my loved one and close friend lost 18 and 23 years to the state of CA unjustly. And these DEMONIC evils continue unabated EVERY SINGLE DAY.
These CO DDAs are made of pure evil. They CONGRATULATED themselves for needlessly destroying this man by giving a "brake trophy" to the other. That is REVOLTING.
Several things must happen now in the interests of justice and the righting of this vicious wrong:
The CO governor must pardon this man immediately and this entire case expunged.
These two DDAs MUST be removed from their and disbarred for life, then charged with felony MALICIOUS PROSECUTION and awarded a minimum of 20 YEARS IN PRISON.
The trucking company involved MUST be located and all senior members CRIMINALLY and CIVILLY charged for gross intentional negligence and involuntary manslaughter for not ensuring the brakes were working properly on that truck when the driver picked it up.
The governor MUST overturn ANY LAWS PERTAINING TO MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCING STATUTES so this NEVER happens again.
And finally, the governor MUST institute a hard and fast law PROHIBITING, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, ANY VERSION OF DELIBERATE, VENGEFUL, OR MALICIOUS PROSECUTION AND THE PRACTICE OF GRATUITOUSLY STACKING CRIMINAL CHARGES NOR THREATENING A DEFENDANT WITH THE THREAT OF DOING SO EITHER TO ELICIT A PLEA BARGAI OR ANY OTHER REASON. ALSO, ALL JURIES MUST BE INFORMED OF THE ENTIRETY OF THE SENTENCING GUIDELINES FOR EVERY CHARGE THEY ARE CONSIDERING AND GIVEN THE OPTION TO CHOOSE A DIFFERENT CHARGE OR SENTENCING RANGE.
THIS WAS PURE AND SIMPLE, A DEMONICALLY-CRUEL AND INTENTIONALLY MALICIOUS PROSECUTION ATTEMPT BY A SOCIOPATHIC DA WHO CHOSE TO PURSUE AN INNOCENT YOUNG MAN WHO WAS MERELY IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME! KNOWING HE WAS A WEAK AND EASY TARGET, WHERE THEY HAD THE ADVANTAGE, THE DDAs, RATHER THAN PURSUE THE TRUE GUILTY PARTY, THE OWNERS AND OPERATIONAL MANAGERS OF THE TRUCKING COMPANY IN QUESTION, (ONE THAT IS NOW MYSTERIOUSLY MISSING, AKA "OUT OF BUSINESS, MEANING THEY'VE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT), WHILE AN INNOCENT YOUNG MAN HAS TAKEN THE FALL FOR THEM!! THIS SHOULD NOT STAND!!! THIS MUST NOT STAND!
I DO NOT FIND THE MAN CULPABLE IN ANY WAY, IT WAS A TRAGIC ACCIDENT CAUSED WHOLLY BY THE GROSS NEGLIGENCE OF THE TRUCKING COMPANY OWNERS AND OPERATORS. I also take umbrage with some of the details you mentioned, Speaker. They do not comport completely with the information regarding the case that I have.
A DEMONICALLY-CRUEL TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE HAS OCCURRED AND WHILE I THANK THE ONE JUROR FOR REVEALING HOW THE COURT LIED TO HER IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A GUILTY VERDICT, I WISH THEY HAD BEEN ABLE TO THINK MORE CRITICALLY WHEN IT MATTERED, AND REALIZED WHAT A DISENGENUOUS AND LYING HOUSE OF CARDS THE DDAs HAD BUILT. ALSO SHAME ON JUDGE CHIEF COWARDICE #1, NOBODY HELD A GUN TO HIS HEAD. IF YOU KNOW A LAW TO BE EVIL OR UNJUST YOU REFUSE TO APPLY IT, PLAIN AND SIMPLE! HE IS THE "JUDGE!* HE HAS ALL THE POWER IN THE WORLD, YET HE DARES TO ACT LIKE HIS HANDS ARE "TIED"?? THOSE ARE THE WORDS OF AN IMMORAL COWARDLY LOOKING FOR A CONVENIENT COP OUT AND A WAY TO COVER HIS BETRAYAL OF AN INNOCENT YOUNG MAN AS CONDEMNS HIM TO DIE IN PRISON FOR A CRIME HE DIDN'T COMMIT. THIS IS THE KIND OF JUDGE DESERVES TO WAKE UP WITH A BULLET IN HIS SKULL. HE MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE BENCH PERMANENTLY SO NO OTHER VICTIMIZED AND RAILROADED DEFENDANT SUFFERS A SIMILAR APPLICATION OF THIS JUDGES "SUDDEN ONSET OF POWERLESSNESS".
EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS CASE WAS VICIOUS AND WRONG FROM THE OUTSET. THEY WANTED AND EASY VICTIM, A PERFECT AND CONVENIENT SCAPEGOAT- AND BY GEORGE THEY SURE FOUND ONE. AS WITH MOST DAs, THEY SERVE SATAN AND UNREMITTED PSYCHOPATHY IS THEIR EXCLUSIVE MODE OF OPERATION.
SHAME ON THE SPEAKER OF THIS VIDEO, I COULDN'T DISAGREE WITH YOU MORE- AND I TREMBLE FOR ANYONE WHO EVER GETS YOU AS A DEFENSE LAWYER (IF YOU ARE A LAWYER) AND I CALL INFINITE SHAME FOREVER ON THE COLORADO LEGISLATURE FOR CRAFTING SUCH SATANIC LAWS (AT THE OBVIOUS BEHEST OF THE PROSECTORS IN THE STATE NO DOUBT), WHICH MUST BE STRUCK DOWN WITHOUT DELAY, SO THIS KIND OF INSANE, SADISTIC TRAGEDY, INTENTIONALLY CAUSED BY TWO INSANE AND CORRUPT COURT OFFICERS NEVER HAS TO HAPPEN AGAIN (but this is that second world s-hole known as the United States, so it certainly will. There's a reason why no other nation steals as much life, liberty, and hopes from mostly undeserving victims as we do; 25% of the world's prisoners are located right here in the USA, even tho the nation itself is only 5% of the world's population).
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State and local authorities always have three choices regarding this issue. Help those in need get rehoused by making the necessary resources available, including mental health supports and drug treatment if necessary; do nothing and ignore the problem (a perennial favorite), or allow and perpetrate abuse and discrimination of these innocent people by passing abusive local dehumanizing bylaws and encouraging disgusting police violence and/or harassment.
Hmmm, three guesses which one every single central municipality that I've ever known has chosen?
Obviously ONLY (A) should be seen as the morally acceptable solution in this so-called enlightened first-world country we all like to pretend we're a part of.
I mean when you think of what large cities finance it is beyond shameful that they do so little for their local homeless and poor. The resources are ALWAYS there, it's just how they will be appropriated. But that's all by design, friends. Make no mistake people, poverty in America is ALL BY DESIGN. ITS VERY MUCH INTENTIONAL. IT IS PLANNED AND ENFORCED DAILY VIA MANY MEANS.
I think we all know that the political structure works for the top 1-5% in this country with everyone else being aggressively left to sink or swim on their own on a highly unlevel playing field. Where the political will is, so also are the solutions. Simple as. When a politician wants something done and they have the votes, it gets done- good, bad or otherwise. So isn't it curious that this issue just continues year after year, everywhere, never getting better? Gee I wonder why that is??
Given all that, isn't it interesting that this measure is going on the public ballot? It's just like Prop 1 here in CA about making billions available to help homeless veterans. Now who could oppose that? Of course no one with a decent heart would so that leads me to my next question, WHY then are these measures on the ballot in the first place?? I mean isn't that curious? Something that is so self-evidently humane and life-affirming and necessary, where there can be no debate amongst decent people; where's the need for it to go on the ballot? Why take the chance of it not passing? Why allow deep pocketed issues to even know about it and to oppose it publicly? Now isn't that interesting??
Could it BE... that our elected leaders are so cold-hearted and corrupt that they don't WANT these bills to pass and they're hoping that enough reactionary people will defeat them in a public vote, thus relieving them of the burden of looking like the villain if they vote against it in council chambers? NO! THESE guys?!
I mean I don't think that's too paranoid to think that that's how these people are. It's how they always are are. MAKE NO MISTAKE- THE HYPER CORRUPT POLITICAL SLIME IN THIS COUNTRY IS THE REASON WE HAVE THESE PROBLEMS IN THE FIRST PLACE. (We would never have gotten to here if we'd had even a tiniest shred of more humane public management over the decades.)
ANYHOW YES I HOPE IT PASSES OF COURSE BUT IT'S A SHAME THAT THE PUBLIC HAS TO ACTUALLY WEIGH IN ON A MEASURE LIKE THIS. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE LOCAL LEGISLATION SHOULD ALREADY HAVE VOTED ON BY NOW AND HAVE BEEN WELL PAST THE EARLIEST STAGES OF IMPLEMENTATION.
Lastly, just a word, ALWAYS know who your friends are and who your enemies are when it comes to these issues. Here's a hint, our friends are NEVER in elected office in this country. Maybe one day, but not today. (And please don't think red or blue makes a difference; they are identical behind the scenes; everything they do that indicates otherwise is strictly for public performance. They are ALL OWNED by the big $$$.)
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Without a legal wealth limit, these financial obscenities will only continue. There is more than enough to go around for everyone- but it's all concentrated hugely in the top 10%. If it were up to me, I would start with the following. For one, 300-400M should be the absolute limit of personal wealth. I mean FFS, who TF needs more than that??
UBI, food, housing, healthcare, and transportation guarantees next, with hard rent control for the private market.
And so on. Amazing how if given the time, FDR would have done all this and possibly more. For reference see "Economic Bill of Rights 1946".
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Well it's a club for psychopaths, that's why. This is one of my choice negative subjects to expound on and I can go on forever about it but in short, cop gangs are simply a club for psychopaths. It's a Blue Gestapo that's gets paid to do evil or unethical deeds and commit crimes with impunity and get rewarded for it. Is this not a Cluster B person's dream come true?? It's a club for predators, pure and simple.
True, they mostly exist to protect big business profit and harass the homeless and other illegitimate shameful uses but honestly if we didn't have any Cluster B psychotics or thugs running around this institution would cease to exist. The problem is that we DO have Cluster B psychotics running around and they just so happen to be useful to another sociopathic group of people, the political class.
These cunts have an agenda of doing anything to protect mass corporate profit and they seem happy to be the lynchpin of public oppression, ergo mass incarceration and a hyper-violent Police State continues apace.
So we're stuck with these jackals and jackholes occupying our streets. When's the last time psychopaths played fair? When's the last time psychopaths stopped being psychopaths??? When's the last time psychotics and psychopaths wanted to be held accountable for their actions??? It's a joke, right? Of course it is.
And yet you still see 'back the blue' stickers thanks to 100 years of nonsense blue propaganda from Hollywood. A lot of people still don't see what's really going on and don't seem to want to. Hence the fools who run around with idiotic BTB stickers on their cars and other asinine pro-police slogans.
What anyone would want to cheer for an amoral, evil, vicious, violent, lawless, murderous domestic terrorism unit is beyond me, and yet many do. I think it could be chalked up primarily to ignorance, the propaganda, willful blindness, and lack of personal experience.
The problem is in this country is that we have conflated legitimate safety response with criminality and murder-death-kill judge dredd paramilitary-style organized domestic terrorism. These two things have NOTHING whatsoever to do with each other and the need for one certainly not justify the existence of the other.
The former can be fully legitimate while serving a genuine social need, the other is simply a playtime for psychopaths and all Cluster B disordered persons and local thugs.
Nobody should accept a violent psychoterrorist blue gang as normal or necessary and yet how many people in our culture currently do?
Sadly, there's a fool and a brainwashing victim born every minute.
YES we need to abolish the street police because they are a death squad/abuse squad/ grand theft squad/ lawless paramilitary cartel gang with no moral purpose and certainly no moral methods. In a free society how is this even partially acceptable? It should never be.
Responsible crime investigation and responsible safety response are genuine functions that sometimes need to be exercised; death squadding, mass racketeering, grand theft, and violence squadding certainly does NOT.
Blue terrorism in this country must end. We MUST stop rewarding evildoers, psychopaths, psychotics and Cluster B predators and evil-lovers with grossly undeserved respect and a great retirement. This is easy to do, and this is what the "abolish the (street) police" movement is all about.
And finally, for the ones who are left, holding them rigidly accountable for each and every misdeed and substantiated incident of misconduct needs to actually occur. This shouldn't be hard to do and yet in this country so far it's been impossible. That is interesting and I think we all know why. We can change this in our lifetime with the right strategy. It starts with pushing ballot measures which list in detail all of the reforms and changes to safety divisions that are needed and pushing these measures aggressively until they pass no matter how long it takes; and then getting more Leftists into political office at all levels. Without that I don't see how this issue can change.
Just remember, the large majority of police officers are not really "people", they're unstable and/or psychotic Cluster B disordered non-humans and they don't deserve to get paid to exercise their disordered mentality and predatory desires, and even when they aren't physically violent they engage in all kinds of civil and human rights violations and many, many theft and extortion rackets (tickets, open asset theft, and tows) from coast to fkg coast. This, plus generalized harassment, causes very real harm to the poor and working class in all municipalities. This can stop being accepted in our society but much more work regarding public awareness is needed.
We eventually abolished slavery, we can abolish Blue slavery and Blue abuse (and mass incarceration) too, it's just going to take a hell of a lot of work. It's just another form of socialized institutionalized injustice and abuse that benefits those at the top and those doing it.
Some human beings are Cluster B. Some human beings enjoy exploiting and abusing and/or stealing from others. We CAN stop this it's just going to take continued action.
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On a fundamental level the basic tenets of government as practiced by the current demons in charge are nothing but tyranny, violence, grand larceny, and savagery.
How much of that do we really want? I don't want ANY of it... I can't fathom why anyone would. It gobsmacks me when people love their leashes. But most people are obedient and submissive and weak so ....
Yeah I have solutions, I go into detail elsewhere.
Just being able to liberate yourself from the idea that government is inherently moral and somehow created by god or some such lunacy is your FIRST step towards taking back your dignity and freedom.
Govt a wholly MAN-MADE system designed to place total power in the hands of a tiny ruling elite, and YOU get to be a glorified slave. THATS GOVT. The vast majority of govt is nothing but a scam , a mind fuck, a weasel system used by evil people for evil purposes to control YOU, to liquidate you, and to subjugate you. I don't think you should like this.
Nobody should like this.
"Nobody has the innate right to rule or obey" - the first principle of civil libertarianism
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There IS a tiny narrow role for some State force to control corporations and those out there doing genuinely destructive evil acts but beyond that, NO. Not at ALL. We have gone so far beyond the fair bounds of rational governance in this s-hole nation.
In many ways we live in a seriously dystopian 1984 tenth-world hellhole rn. The ONLY way forward that I can see is that people finally get tired of living as slaves subject to the sadistic rules of the demons who would harm us; reject the old order by any means necessary, and come together to build something new and respectable. If that means we burn DC to the ground and the State House AND your local police department I'm all for that. Whatever it takes is what I want.
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Someone far enough up the food chain is still alive who was alive in 1973 who is bound and determined to see this man die in prison and it's very sad. They all know he didn't do anything and if he did he would have been eminently justified because it was self-defense. They fixed his conviction like they fix so many others. I believe the vast majority of court convictions in this country especially those that are notable, are rigged and fixed extremely without a shadow of a doubt far ahead of time. I believe it's virtually impossible to have a fair hearing or significant court case in this country even on a local level. Sometimes you do, but I believe it to be very rare. Judges and DA's are dirty and ruthless, why would they want to lose?
What I do hope now is his lawyer pushes for full and total exoneration. The fact is he didn't even do what they claimed he did, there's zero evidence, it's ALL been fabricated, EVERYONE knows this, the feds know this of course, and the entire prosecution was a vengeful act and as you say, only done as a hateful example to anyone who would oppose the violent dictatorship and abuse that the feds like to display towards communities it doesn't like.
The bottom line is this, does any group of human beings REGARDLESS of what they call themselves, deserve absolute power and control over another? The feds say "YES we are special, WE deserve to do whatever we want and we will do violence forever and NO ONE can stop us." And people like Leonard and others who have pushed back since Day One and have often had to pay a steep price for it- because the feds are crafty and evil is forever well-rested and inventive in its revenge- have said "no you are wrong and we will oppose you no matter what". And they are very brave heroes for doing so.
The US government is a group of people who love evil and will fight to the death to do evil. It is up to people of conscience to say "no more- we don't have to tolerate this, you don't have the right to do this and we don't choose this and we have the right to say NO to this".
That's what Palestinians and the citizens of Gaza and other occupied Palestinians territories have done since 1948 and they're still fighting that as we speak.
So long as they continue to have criminal federal judges that feel they should have absolute power, things like this will never end. That's all. they believe they are endowed by a higher power (if they even believe in one), that they should have absolute power over everyone, regardless of what any so-called principles of this country's founding say, they demand the right to kill and to do as they please to anyone on this planet. We got rid of the absolute power of kings and we placed it in our courtrooms. They believe they are inherently above all other human beings and should not be subject to any restrictions and those who as you say, resist or fight back must pay. They're incredibly evil, harmful and destructive. It's been 50 years and that's still not enough for them. Leonard is still alive, he's still a martyr, and they're not going to be satisfied until he's dead under their control. They knew they had zero evidence so they couldn't go for the death penalty, I guess they figured they couldn't get away with that, but of course they were able to easily get themselves some life sentences because after all, a judge essentially has absolute power and it's beyond easy to fabricate evidence if you are the State and to stack or control a jury. I mean let's see who these jurors were. What were they told behind the scenes? What were they promised? What were they promised with where did they come from? I bet all kinds of interesting details will emerge if investigations open on the jurors at the time of this trial and if any of them ever regretted their actions and tried to come forward later and change their ruling.
Unfortunately this country thinks it's totally okay to have godlike omnipotent judges where anything they say goes and it's very difficult to get that reversed at any point in time- how many power-crazed sociopathic judges want to admit they were wrong and took part in a criminal conspiracy? Or simply just admit they were wrong at the time, even if it was unintentional, or that they should have anything less than total power?? And so here we are.
The fight continues. He who is the most determined wins in the end.
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Although I'm not very well versed in this subject, yet; to my current understanding, our current US copyright and IP law is literally only in existence to benefit sociopath-level corrupt lawyers and of course, the big corporations.... Like everything else specifically legislated for in this country. I find it impossible to believe that any IP law written in the last 45 years was done to promote greater opportunity for the little guy. Why?? Who owns this govt??? Who do they bend over and get the kneepads for??? Yeah well, you get the idea.
Can't even get crumbs after a worldwide pandemic and 10 months after Biden took office.
So I may not know the ins and outs of who IP law helps, but I know who the fuck it DOESN'T help, because I know the scandalous good-for-nothings who hold office here. Know the tree, know the fruit.... If you know one, you certainly know the other.
Any IP law which protects ordinary creators but limits corporate monopoly and control is one I want to get all up close and personal with. Maybe swap bodily fluids with.... And so forth. I don't think the specifics matter as much (altho they matter) as do the broad strokes and goals of the law. Is this going to empower and protect the regular guy, or be yet another tool of wrongful accumulation by a business that's already far, far too large???
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@alexalbuquerquerodriguesal108 thanks so much for this intelligent and articulate reply. That's impressive. And if you're in your early 20s that's even more impressive. I had low to no awareness of social issues in early 20s. Yes I forgot Brazil did have that military dictatorship back then. That must have been pleasant. I can't even imagine what that would even feel like. Such a thing would be quite unimaginable here. I may look up some of the some of the facts about that piece of Brazil's history, I'm a little curious now.
I agree with you with the rest. The demonization of minorities, refusal of those in positions of power to take aggressive steps on providing equal opportunity and closing the inequality gap, etc. I am worried about the fate of Brazil's indigenous populations. Ever since Bolsonaro was elected I heard that he was willingly allowing ruthless mining interests to kill them and the fires to burn in the Amazon. God, fascists are insane. Their only desire is to kill and destroy. What a crazy bastard. I don't know their current status or what steps are being currently taken to protect them and Amazon, if any. I know Lulu isn't perfect but perhaps he can try to help?
Not really related to anything, I had a chance to visit Rio for few days quite some time ago. I know there's a lot of poverty there but I did appreciate it, it was pretty special. I took many fantastic photos. I was actually in the Navy at the time. This was in 2004. It's hard to believe it's almost been 20 years. Sometimes when naval ships port in sensitive areas they're given special instructions. Our instructions were to go nowhere by ourselves and only travel in groups of six or more. They actually wouldn't let us to disembark unless we could point to a group we were in. I pretended to be in one group and that went off by myself lol.
I had a good time. I didn't run into any problems. I actually can't remember everything I did it even though it was four days... Which is odd . I only remember traveling to the top of the Sugarloaf mountain, visiting the Christ statue, and walking some of the side streets just to get a feel of the area. I know I had to do more than that because we were there for four days but I can't remember anything else. But I definitely appreciate it and stop over at the chance to get to know the city a little bit.
Some of us talked about possibly trying to plan a visit in the near future after we returned to the States, but unfortunately that never happened.
We have poverty hete, far too much, but I'm not aware of any place where you can look up in the hills and see favela districts. It's interesting here that it's kind of the reverse of what I saw in Rio, the more desired and fashionable locations for wealthy homes is often in hilly or secluded areas, a low-income neighborhood would more likely be down towards the city center. The more removed or suburban a home is here, usually indicates a higher value. There is definitely quite a bit of rural poverty here unfortunately but those are usually in areas that have a low population density and are quite rural overall. When a secluded or natural area surrounds a major city though, those properties are usually for the wealthier citizens. Think the Hollywood Hills or similar.
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@lillia5333 I believe that if someone is truly evil or criminally insane no amount of harsh treatment is going to change them, so why traumatize and brutalize everyone else for that tiny minority that can't change? And for that other majority who CAN improve and CAN reform (not to mention that percentage that doesn't even belong there, which is a big percentage here in this country in my belief), why shouldn't we have humane and positive conditions in these detention facilities?? By neglecting or abusing these people we are just maximizing the chance that they're going to reoffend either in prison or the moment they get out. Even from a totally selfish perspective, is this even smart?? If the end goal is to maintain supermassive incarceration in the answer is yes, but for anyone else who has a conscience and a sense of right and wrong, this pattern is not acceptable.
I see no reason why all the detention centers (prisons) can't be reasonably comfortable behind the wall where everyone is allowed to move freely and have some kind of a life. Also, why does everything have to be a concrete cell? I know, I know- in this country's human rights don't matter and it's all about what saves the most bank, but I'm done with that. Why can't we have dorms? They don't have to be fancy but can't they be comfortable in a simple and basic way?? Can't they be like sort of basic mini dorm-style apartments?? Why is that so unheard-of???
I have seen some cells in some reality shows that actually didn't look too terrible but we don't have to keep doing this. We can just use normal rooms. I mean why is that unthinkable?? Normal rooms- normal beds, carpet on the floor, a desk, a window, some shelves, why is this impossible??
And if the goal is to protect society from those who have chosen violence or done something harmful, then one, separation is the goal and that is achieved with pleasant or unpleasant conditions, and two, I know everyone here wants to fixate on punishment but why not allow these people to have a semi-normal life while they're doing their time?? As far as I'm concerned, all prisons here should be no more than minimum security. The wall will be full security but inside, the grounds should be decent and in the style of our current minimum security facilities- or even better. If they need to have a small area that's dedicated to higher security, that's fine but that shouldn't be the condition of the whole facility.
That's my vision for the future. Nobody's saying build a luxury camp for so-called inmates, we are just saying make it humane, tolerable and dare I say, positive?? You know, like a community college campus. What's wrong with that?? One with ample green space and access to nature and the outdoors.
Neglecting, abusing and warehousing people with little access to positive activity and forcing them to live in shit conditions is in no way going to help them rehabilitate or improve! Look, separating them from their family community and giving them time to serve, I think is punishment enough. Treating them inhumanely is just wrong. I have seen no evidence that intentionally unkind or cruel treatment of inmates ever leads to better behavior or better long-term outcome.
And like I said, for those who are genuinely evil (quote unquote) barbaric or inhumane treatment isn't going to make any difference on them anyways, so why allow that to be the standard. Why not treat everyone humanely and give the most of them a chance at getting better? That's my philosophy and it seems the most commonsense one to me.
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So unlike people who can't think and live in the land of paranoia - who are on right-wing lunatic fringes of everything and never made it past high school and barely out of that, I like to apply some basic logic to life and take things on an case by case basis and evaluate them in their full context whenever possible.
I hope I'm not the first person in this room to bring this up, as the mere mention of vaccine shenanigans brings the tinfoil Qanon idiots running - but Dr, while I can honestly say I appreciate your time analyzing this report, I'm sure you yourself would be the FIRST to recognize this is but ONE bad result out of millions of other positive and adverse-free ones.
What of the MILLIONS around the world that have had no adverse reactions to the COVID vaccine??? Is THAT a conspiracy??? A lie?? A cover-up??? Is all that data being faked?
I'm no genius - but this is basic logic.
It's vital to have all the necessary information all of the time, as you say no matter where it leads, but you're intentionally stoking the idiots here and my only question is, why?
You show one bad result- and I agree this is very sad and unfortunate if it can be conclusively linked to vaccine exposure- but how does this scientifically disprove the other millions of proven successful ones???
And the irony is, I have NO love for Big Pharma OR even vaccines. I hate the greed and natural sociopathy of Big Business and I believe early childhood vaccines can be harmful and already have been for some children, and I want that acknowledged, but even so, that itself doesn't mean all ADULT vaccines are. Just because I believe there are possible problematic uses for a given medical treatment doesn't mean I MUST now assume it is always harmful in all cases. That would be blatantly unscientific and unhelpful, and I don't believe the known data supports that.
How is ONE case of a documented negative reaction proof positive that these particular vaccines don't work and indeed that the entire field of adult vaccine science is a fraud?? HOW?
Dr, let me ask you- do you or do you not have a agenda?
All the brainless rubes beneath me are falling all over themselves in fits over this video - apparently I'm the only genius capable of asking the basic questions here?
This gentleman in this case you cited was elderly. That always brings inherent risks. How much of his adverse reaction can be attributed to his age and a likely sub-optimal immune system?? I'd be willing to assume at least part.
I'm afraid the simple fact is Doc, ONE BAD CASE DOES NOT DISPROVE TEN MILLION OF NO KNOWN SYMPTOMATIC REACTIONS.
The fact is 100s of millions of human beings around the world gave received the COVID vaccine safely. If you wish to prove an international intentional cover-up of COVID vaccine-related injuries and deaths, ONE DATA POINT ISNT ENOUGH. You're going to have to work a lot harder rhan that, Dr, if you want to change thinking people's minds.
And for the record as I've stated, I hate Big Pharma as a general principle and I have ZERO association with any pharmaceutical company or product. I understand all they care about is making money- and like all big business they have no morals and take that to an extreme and that's why they're dirtbags and scum of the highest order - but that also doesn't automatically make the adult COVID vaccines unsafe.
It's very possible the covid vaccines can be quite safe for almost all adults, AND Big Pharma can also be a dirtbag. Two things can be true at the same time.
For people with IQs above room temperature (apparently I'm the only one here) - you're gonna have to work a lot harder to convince them/me that all COVID vaccines are bad than that Doc. A LOT harder. Sorry.
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@KevinWood44 yikes. The brainwashing on you is deep. You must have taken one too many bogus college econ 101 classes. If so then that would explain it.
Btw I've worked my fair share of private sector jobs. I've worked for both low wages and medium wages, I know how it goes.
Now I don't know about a wage race upwards, but I do know real wages (adjusted for inflation and increases in costs of living) for the working class and even some professionals has been frozen virtually in the same place for the last 40-odd years. That's not ok.
Govt can set hard minimum wages and labor standards that all businesses and in the past they have. I just want them to do more. I stand with workers and Labor and I always will. I don't know why you don't. You want me to feel sorry for the rich executives who only have their wealth in these large companies due to their rank and file employees.
I stand against ALL abusive and unjust practices of Big Business anywhere. I stand against the conduct most if not all of the large corporations who dominate the US landscape. I want to make it easier for small and mid-level businesses to succeed, which would happen if the megacorps were limited in their disgusting constant expansion into every corner of the country (and some overseas but that's out of our hands).
So I'm super "pro" business I'm just not pro-heavy corporate. Now what does this have to do with wages?? Well it's all related to the subject of economic justice. I stand with LABOR. Management will ALWAYS be fine- THEY DONT NEED ADVOCATES, especially in large and very large entities.
LABOR, skilled or unskilled, deserves STRONG, livable wages; SAFE working conditions, FAIR benefit packages and acceptable labor standards including PROPER OVERTIME PAY.
My minimum wage standards are as follows:
Small biz- 15
Med biz- 18
Large company- 22
XL company- 24 and up
Also I believe in 30 hours mandatory for FT status, not the 40+ that's considered standard now. If a person's wants to work longer that's fine, and that's when they can get overtime.
WE ALL WORK WAY TOO FUCKING MUCH IN THIS THIRD WORLD-WANNABE SH7THOLE TO PLEASE THE FILTHY OWNER CLASS AND THEIR GREED, AND WE'RE ALL SUFFERING FOR IT.
WE ARE THE MOST OVERWORKED, DISEMPOWERED AND MISTREATED LABOR CLASS IN THE FIRST WORLD. THIS ISNT OK ANYMORE!
Oh and you can easily look that up. FAMILIES CANT EVEN GET PAID FAMILY OR PREGNANCY LEAVE IN THIS COUNTRY OR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE!! THESE THINGS ARE CONSIDERED NON-NEGOTIABLE IN EVERY OTHER DEVELOPED NATION. It's really quite amazing. But that's because the evil, amoral mega-capitalist megacorp class OWNS our federal govt and most if not all of our state govts; and that's obviously bad for the rest of us.
Even now, the billionaire class was successful at getting the pushover corporate Dems in Congress to take EVERYTHING that was a help and support to working Americans such as paid family leave from the BBB act. The BBB act is now not even worth the paper it's printed on. SUCH a shame. But that's what happens when you live in a criminal kleptocracy mafia State which runs on open corruption and endless graft from the big business class.
Forty years of evil and amoral Reaganism and lying VOODOO economics has DESTROYED a good portion of the middle class and created MASSIVE poverty, which was their goal all along. They see it as more for them, so why would they care??? Well of they don't and that is why the United States of Banana Republicism is a very WEAK democracy at best. In reality it's just an oligarchy.
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It never ceases to amaze me how much Washington loves death. I really don't understand this. They don't want to make positive partnerships; they don't seem to have any capability for any moral thoughts; any type of positive or ethical value system or even fleeting positive goal. Everything has to be destructive and result in harm to innocent people, the poorer the better.
They just seem to want to position themselves in a place that will bring maximum death to as many non-combatants as possible the world over.
They really do have nothing positive to offer anyone. They seem to be enemies to life and most of the world.
It's too bad. I don't know why they're obsessed with violence so much or why they love death so much. As a citizen I'll be glad if and when they're ever gone. They always find ways to treat plenty of my fellow citizens with as much disregard to life and rights as they do their foreign targets. And to this day they are very proud that they have nothing but abuse and neglect for 99% of the American people. (Yes there is a smattering of a few support programs but a very few and the support they provide is very weak for most). There is still no legally-recognized right to healthcare in this country or even to have the ballot, let alone other things. 2025. Still no right. Incredible.
Apparently there was a vote at the UN a while back to recognize a right to food as an inherent human right of all people and the only country to vote against it was a representative from this country, the US. Maybe one or two others, I don't remember for sure.
So that's who they are. Plus they really love localized genocide.
Truly we are occupied by savages and demons. What a shame. The sooner a nuke takes out 1600 Pennsylvania Ave the better off the world will be. What they love is death and they find many ways to get there.
Unless someone thinks this is a good status quo, and I would hope most wouldn't, I wholeheartedly support the neutralization of DC as a worldwide threat. Let's hope by 2100 it's real.
I mean thanks to our savages, the Taliban took back over in Afghanistan thanks to a special deal brokered under the first Trump administration, crafted by Mike Pompeo and some random Taliban reps. How's that going for that region today? I'm sure the female half of the population is doing fabulous under these new arrangements. I presume that the price of this assistance was free access for any big multinational to any natural resource they might have found, specifically minerals. There were some rumors of this at the time. I'm sure it's true.
I mean it's stunning sometimes when I step back and just take a full look. I'm well aware of all the details of our domestic and international history. They really do have ZERO positive goals for anyone in the world, or the majority of I and my fellow citizens even. Just wild.
I'm sure I won't live to see it but I'll be glad when DC no longer matters. Unless one thinks the world is way too overpopulated, and some do, why support an empire based on so much death and violence?? These agendas aren't helping anyone.
The whole legacy of Washington is nothing but blood. I'm pretty sure the entire sane world is tired of it, I know I am.
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To OP: just like on a local level, state lockup is a vast moneymaking scheme. As you state, EVERY aspect and step in the process is based on maximum extraction and extortion.
It's a genius system if one is a sociopath and sees poor humans as cargo to be maximally exploited.
Notice how often well-off or rich people end up behind bars - it's virtually a non-happening.
Yes the reforms I would make are vast starting with taking ALL of the profit motive and profiteering out of the system -ALL of it, from BAIL, to county court fees to state fees to prison fees to phone fees to commissary fees to all the specific work crew-based fees you bring up here. It's ALL dirty and it's all about financial plundering and it's just gross and I'm just sick of it. There's so much about our lockup system that violates human rights with abandon.
Companies make a killing using pseudo-slave labor and and inmates are saddled with small or large mountains of debt that can follow them outside the prison walls.
Yes I intend to stop this, by doing whatever I can. If if the state claims someone deserves to be detained, they shouldn't be able to make a goddamn penny off of them! So much for being about Justice and Public Safety, I think we see the true motivating reason behind maximum Lockup in the US. Besides generalized racism, it's naked profit, what else? Sure, it costs states billions to keep the maximum lockup racket going but clearly they feel they end up in the positive after they've soaked all the state inmates and county inmates for as much as they can.
Prison debt is routinely used in shitholes like Florida not to give someone's voting rights back to them. So there's also that, although I know not every state does that. But it is done in some.
It's all about keeping the hard boot of savagery and suppression on a permanent underclass- mostly POC and poor people.
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@jskyg68 a lot of our laws are unjust, most sentences are evil and are are done to provide maximum sadism and crush the human spirit, we have mass incarceration as a policy goal which is evil, most people currently behind bars DON'T belong there, too many prisons do not provide adequate or humane conditions and rehabilitation opportunities, the sadism in our system is increasing, abuse behind bars by prison guards is common, be it physical or sexual, policies used to extend people sentences once they're behind bars are common, debt slavery is frequently applied to inmates both inside and outside the prison grounds, the policies once someone comes out of prison are as inhumane as they were previously, people are routinely denied employment and enrichment opportunities simply due to a past conviction which is cruel and immoral, parole is an evil tool of oppression used to lock people up for longer and send people back to prison on the cruel whims of a power-tripping PO, private for-profit prisons exist, this alone is vile, profiteering exists before during and after Lockup in a million ways, Pigs are rewarded for how many people they arrest and charge, many of these charges are patently false or exaggerated. They're nothing but slave-catchers and jail fillers- they intentionally target black and poor communities at far higher rates than anyone else.
Need more? If you think any of these statements that I just made are in anyway morally acceptable, then you definitely have a problem with your moral outlook on life.
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@youtubesucksbutts I would be willing to hear that argument but if they paid for their mistake and made a reasonable restitution, idk I think people should be allowed to continue on with their life without any restrictions. If they pull a fast one again after time #2 then I could understand saying " ok you're doing this again, we don't like this, therefore we're going to take away your right to work in this field". But if it's their first conviction, where they make a proper payment for whatever they did wrong, then I don't have a problem with them going back into the same field because they might be ready to play it straight now and I certainly want to give them that chance. Some might say that's too forgiving but but I don't think so because that's what making restitution is for, you screw up, you pay your price, you start over..... Isn't that how it's supposed to work? if somebody makes proper restitution for their mistake then that needs to count. So I say all rights and privileges should be be restored once somebody makes a proper payment for what they've done. I'm sure there's room for a gray area and discussion of opposing viewpoints but this is my founding principle that I base my view of fairness on.
We all screw up, the only question is to what degree and are we going to be caught? None of us are perfect, even Jesus said so (im not religious). Provided we don't do something truly heinous, as long as we're willing to pay the price for our screw-up, that should be enough shouldn't it??
As for binding restrictions going forward I would need to have a longer discussion and break it down by each group of crimes/violations. I'm sure there's some limited cases where they may be justified but in general I don't want to have them.
So I would certainly consider exceptions but by and large if someone's paid their price and the price was fair then yes I want to see them go on with their life as if nothing happened. But I understand the argument for those exceptions.
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@jskyg68 okay I'll say this I partially understand where you're coming from, but by the same token, if there are problems with the way cops conduct themselves or if we oppose the whole damn system then it's incumbent upon us to try to unite and do what we can to change it. I know people are afraid of disorder and they think if we don't have this all-powerful blue gestapo that we have to comply with it allll times things will get out of control but I DON'T agree with that. I know there's a way to provide for basic public safety without trampling all over people's civil freaking rights. The question you raise is, should resisting arrest and fighting back against a police person be sanctioned? Yes I think so. These assholes start bogus interactions all the time and I don't feel like they should be impune from getting put in their place. If any police agency is intervening in a genuinely violent situation nobody would oppose them. But if you got these POS street punks initiating contact for no reason, or trying to make an unnecessary or an oppressive arrest, or everything else they try to get away with yes, I'm sick of it and I think people should certainly be able to defend themselves against Blue aggression. I don't think blue aggression should be sanctioned at all. This is the problem we have, it IS sanctioned and they're told they have every right to initiate force and mistreatment. This is the fundamental gross conceptual error I have with what these crooked politicians think.
I oppose policing in all forms. Policing is the active initiation of State force or police contact where it is unwanted.
This isn't the same as defending the public against a violent attacker- this is totally different.
The libertarians make a crucial distinction between defensive force and initiated force. They are right. There are exactly right. There was a dividing line between what kinds of force are acceptable in a civil society. Blue punks shouldn't be allowed to roam the streets seeking whom they may harm, rob, harass, spuriously arrest, kill, or mess with. It's not okay. It's wrong.
We need to end policing 100% everywhere today now. 911 yes, POLICING NO. That's the problem isn't it?? we have all been brainwashed to accept this constant violation of our rights by be forced to accept street occupation and Street extortion and piracy (the "roadside racket").
fyi sometimes people do get away from fleeing police if they have a big enough head start and they're fast enough. it happens occasionally. If you're in the middle of an unwanted police interaction it's usually best and easiest just to go along with it, even if it's wrong and imo it usually is, but I can't blame someone for trying to make a break for it if they think they can make it. It should NEVER be legal to kill a fleeing suspect, this is just an obvious fact that certainly shouldn't need any debate. Killing a fleeing suspect is definitely murder. You're shooting someone in the BACK deliberately, in the wild West that used to be a hanging offense, the worst offense possible. It still should. Cops have been trained to have no respect for life, this needs to change. None of us should find this acceptable.
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@Kyarrix (long post)
Part 1-
I can appreciate this point of view. I wish I could be less cynical, I would like to be, but it's hard given to apparent ratio of 99% scumbag pigs to that 1% who generally have empathy for the fellow man and do their best not to violate others' rights. And you know, try to help. I would love to believe that we all live in the Adam-12 or Officer Barbrady universe but we both know that's not true. Until we make incredible structural changes to our entire police selection, training, screening, and management system, nothing will change.
Until we make them answerable to somebody besides the local DA (the local elected sociopath) and themselves, nothing will change. We all know they will shamelessly lie and cover up for each other. Gangs protect their own. Imagine literally being so above any authority you get to investigate yourself with a sham department. I love it! If I was an unethical crooked abusive SOB I'd know where I want to work!! Get to be a parasite for 20 years and then get a sweet retirement? Nothing could be better!
The older I get the more politically radicalized I become. It just seems to be happening to me without my intent- I don't feel like I'm doing anything to honestly direct it. I just wake up one day and I can see things I couldn't see before and and all of a sudden I'm mad as hell. Ten years ago I wouldn't stress about stuff like this at all. It was nice not being aware, I often wish I could go back to those days. But now at 42 I'm old and crusty and can see it all so I can't unring that bell so I just have to go forward.
People need liberation and autonomy and that means the State needs to be either crushed, or barring that, deeply minimized. Will happen in my lifetime? No, but we can lay the seeds, or we can at least try.
I don't think there are any good police out there- there are less aggressive or more laid-back ones but they will still F you over if given half a chance.... They are programmed to do so and even if they don't do it with aggression or violence they're incapable of NOT doing it. I've had cops arrest me in a friendly manner before- I went along it smoothly - it was for stupid bench warrant for a petty case. And then I resumed my life. But it was unnecessary and the warrant never should have existed because the court case never should have existed. But none of these little road piglets could stop themselves from aggressing into my life even in a civil manner. Of course I made it easy for them as I was homeless at the time, an absolute favorite choice target of road porcine. Like moths to a flame they are powerless to resist the siren call of "fucking with the helpless destitute homeless person who's trying to exist peacefully and unobtrusively, a true public threat!". Yep, outstanding serving and protecting right there! Absolutely outstanding- come on let's double, no triple, that budget! F the schools - let's build a bigger center for these uneducated slackjaws!
Filth can't help bullying the weak, it's the only thing they live for.
I love farm piglets but road piglets need to be destroyed. They're doing a very bad thing, and if they had any personal ethics they would stop.
We all know how the courts operate- they're goddamn money making scam, so is county jail, so is bail, so is everything, and it's gross and I WILL fight it. I don't stay on yt all day I actually do things. I hope to place myself in a position one day to have a chance of bringing this criminal racket to a screeching halt.
I take the completely radical view (although I don't think it should be considered radical) that 99% of what we've come to expect as police work shouldn't even exist because it's wrong and abusive and unnecessary and it abrogates people's rights. Will I ever be able to change this completely? Probably not in my lifetime but I prefer to have these views that not have them, if for no other reason than they exercise my mind. And I will indeed do my level best in my lifetime to force these changes on a local level. I will organize, I will push for ballot measures, maybe run for office, maybe, and of course individual and class-action lawsuits are a perennial way to to try to shut this shit down.
I'm becoming more rabidly libertarian with every passing day it seems. I'm not saying there should be no public management aka "govt" I am just saying I'm coming to hate the State more with every passing day because, and your opinion as an attorney would be interesting to me, I don't believe people should have masters. I don't think people should live in pseudoslavery. I don't think poverty should be a crime. I don't think the corporate State should rule all. I don't think we should live under blue gestapo occupation of our roadways and highways.
In short government as practiced in the US is pretty effing gross most of it should not exist.
This doesn't mean anything goes. Nobody wants that, just most things go. Commonsense limitations apply ie, respect others property and respect their physical person. I would also add to respect the environment and the health of our communities, something every large corporation routinely violates on the daily and of course face no punishment for it because we live under the boot of the ruthless corporate State buttressed by politicians who are worthless puppets not public servants.
And that's just lame.
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@Kyarrix Part 2-
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Occasionally government's crimes against the People also go ruthlessly unpunished, IE the Flint water l soft genocide. The sociopaths who were the architects of that are living free as a bird today. They didn't even bother covering up the cover-up. You think the criminal fbi is going to do shit???? That's a good one! The FBI has the biggest thug game around. Same for DOJ. Those people don't work for us, they work for Wall Street.
It's hard facing evil. The advantage evil has is its utter lack of moral limitation of any kind. It's quite an advantage.. quite an advantage indeed.
Politics in this country is a show, it's a sport or entertainment. We don't have any say over what happens accept on limited ballot measures, the politicians are puppets and who pulls the strings? Well besides BlackRock, the big Banks and the big corporations. A few billionaires thrown in for fun. Who else?
Local mayors seem to be totally sociopathic and only care about pleasing the top 5% in their area, chiefly the rapacious real estate developers. God it's so shit. That's certainly true here in San Diego. This entire county has extortionate rent, a coincidence? Of course not. When your entire political club is for sale to the highest bidder, how can it be otherwise?
I want to drive a stake into the police state and the dominance of big money on a local level. I don't know if I'll ever be able to do so but I'm trying to strategize a way. It's so trash, and it needs to stop. Unfortunately the bootlickers seem to be a loyal and plentiful group, but they can be gotten around. Like somebody once said, there's a slave born every minute. Okay, a sucker- but same thing.
As I tend to repeat myself, I'll always admit that skilled 911 response is occasionally necessary, however having a roaming Street Gestapo is amoral and must be obliterated with nuclear efficiency. The Blues don't answer to anyone and this is obscene.
We can change this TODAY. We can reform all our public safety measures and destroy the incarceration state. Mass incarceration is ugly and a crime against humanity and why do we keep doing this? Close down 95% of prisons and send everyone home NOW TODAY. This needs to happen. The jail guard sadists are going to have to find someone else to brutalize and sexually assault.
Someone like me who sees the State as an 85-95% harmful entity will naturally run up against the dominant narrative of the need for State control that we've been fed most of our life.
Free simplify our legal code and only have corrective measures in place for a relatively small number of laws, then I believe for once, a civilized society can prevail. I see only a few genuine crimes, arms against a person, arms against another person's assets (but we can't use this as an excuse to have disgusting IP bogus overreach like we have now), harms against the environment including animal species, or harms against the community as a collective body.
Nowhere in this paradigm does anything justify restrictions on the autonomy of the individual. A person's body is their own, no human being or a State has the right to restrict how one uses it or what one puts in it at any time. How about the right to participate in consenting business ventures that do not harm another person? This includes the drug trade, the private trade of alcohol manufacture, forest goods, and so on. Perhaps if individuals had hard-and-fast civil rights in this country and not just rights of the filthy corporation, we could have a civil society based on human values for a change. The liberty of the individual to CHOOSE, to organize and do business has been trampled on a long time ago, not to mention the rights of Labor, oh boy, has that been shredded to the bone. We're all just corporate slaves now, the corporate State has many gestapo to ruthlessly enforce their will. This is gross. I will fight it, for whatever little bit I can do in my lifetime. Then I'll reincarnate and do it again.
Everyone knows it's not right to initiate unjustified violence on another or take what is theirs. Nobody would argue against consequences for that- provided they were fair. So funny how the Constitution has been turned into toilet paper in this country, the only maxim today's justice system adheres to is "definitely MUST do cruel and unusual punishment". And they do so joyfully because they're all sadists.
Laws should be simple, FEW, and based on universal moral principles that virtually everyone can agree on. Consequences should exist, but be humane and fair and adequate.
But thanks for your time. I'm sure as an attorney you're pretty busy. So you say that you are a justice-minded individual, does this mean you do pro bono??
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@Kyarrix I just now saw your additions. Please don't hold me in a literal way to these percentages, obviously it would be impossible for me to know an exact percentage of security personnel who I feel are "bad" especially since bad is a subjective term. I was being a little tongue in cheek there, but it is my opinion that the large majority of badge-toters are trash people who lack any internal set of moral principles and enjoy causing great harm to others. Either that, or they don't have any self-awareness whatsoever. Is that wrong of me?? I mean... It depends how much you believe the copaganda out there. People have been brainwashed by Hollywood to see these people as god-heroes and so some will of course we'll take issue with me on that, but it's because they've never lived the reality of an urban youth or a poor person or been the victims of these kunts and the oppressive and abusive jail and prison systems that they enable. In the 1800's Pigs were slave-catchers. Now, a lot of them aren't much different. They're slave catchers for the mass incarceration machine. It's pretty sad. Nobody's seen don't catch the genuine predators who have no desire to change, but the vast majority of people Street Porks go after are harmless people, they're just too poor to afford a fancy-pants lawyer to get themselves out of whatever bogus charge they're being r4ped with.
I do believe we need to abolish the police as we know them, and replace them with an extremely limited 'safety force' that is held to extreme standards of accountability and responsibility. Also any Street patrols are evil by their nature and should never be tolerated by anyone a civil and free society. State agents should ONLY respond when they are called, they should NEVER be allowed to initiate unwanted contact. To do otherwise places us in an extremely submissive and subjugated status and I'm unwilling to accept that under any conditions, there's just no way. And I'll be fighting for this for the rest of my life.
Neoliberals love licking the police boot. I don't think you're a neoliberal but I feel your career has brought you in extreme and frequent contact with genetic neoliberals and privileged kunts have no idea what it's like for the rest of us and the other half.
I don't know if I said it in this comments string but I try to address the issue of police abolition/fundamental change with nuance and as much distinction as I'm capable of in other comment sections.
I take issue with a large majority of our laws, it starts there. So long as we live under a tiny super amoral corrupt hyper-elite group of puppet slaves AKA politicians we will never be the masters of our own destinies. Anything short of full direct democracy or every Law & policy has to be ratified by a majority of the public, isn't acceptable to me.
So long as we have blue gestapo who are going to carry out with ruthless efficiency anything the political filth ink into so-called law we're going to have a problem. That means if the politicians band the eating of bananas tomorrow to pigs would only two joyfully going around cracking people heads and throwing people behind bars for eating bananas. Do you not see where there's instantly sets up tyranny and evil?? Neoliberals presume all of our laws are just, when I say most of our laws are NOT just and many of them are very tyrannical or very wrong.
I guess it take issue with the very concept of a coercive dictating government itself.
I'm somewhat of an anarchist, I'm somewhat of a minarchist, a great deal of a left libertarian, and an autonomist. Yes we need to drown government in the bathtub but from a civil freedom point of view, not from a laissez-faire point of view. Laissez-faire only helps the top 1%, and we're all living with the consequences of that immorality. We certainly need reasonable controls on the private sector, that should go without saying. Social provisions, etc. But control of the individual? That should be almost nonexistent. Many communities know how to handle their problems themselves, if anyone feels that someone is harming them and they want help from the State they certainly know how to dial 911 or find a police precinct, but in no way should State thugs enter our communities or neighborhoods declaring our associations and our ways of handling her own internal matters are criminal or unacceptable by their tyrant standards. It's none of their goddamn business!!!! If govt thugs can leave corporations alone, they can leave our neighborhoods and communities alone today!!!! If someone is genuinely being harmed they should always be rescued, but again I stress, everyone knows how to call for help if they need it. Everyone knows where to go to report an alleged crime. Estate agents have no right to initiate Force for any reason, outside of rescue, or two into our communities or clubs or malicious or political groups with the aim of abatement, arrest, or other hostile act. People say games in the inner-city need to be dealt with, my responses why? Who's forcing you to join? It is a volunteer organization that in most cases doesn't export violence. If they do exporting violence then yes they should be dealt with probably, but they don't in general export violence. If there is violence is usually contained internally. It's not a government matter unless somebody wants to report a kidnapping a sexual assault or something of the like. Obviously all drive-by shootings and violence towards innocent bystanders should not be tolerated, this goes for any gang or any association.
The problem with the sick filthy feds is that they feel that OUR property and assets are their property and assets and that OUR private business is their business. It's just beyond all reason. They want to control everybody and everything and it's entirely 1984 and it needs to stop. I'm far from the only one who feels like this. There are many thousands of others like me who refuse to accept aggressive State authority, we just won't. We'll die first and we're not afraid of prison. I know I'm not. We're not saying you should be allowed to harm others, that is not in our agenda in anyway, but we do demand literally self mastership and self ownership. Bending the knee to government feels is not in our agenda. Forced taxation in most cases is wrong- but there's nuance to this issue when I go into it in detail elsewhere. Everything the way government is handled right now is nothing but warmed over gross tyranny. So I'm with a group that's going to push back against that no matter what it takes. Politicians are pathetic filth who are bought and paid for by elite money, who would only too gladly sell their sister for a dollar, and the presumption that I should passively accept them as my masters I find astonishing. No thanks lol. My civil libertarian heart isn't going to bend for anyone.
Ultimately its about how much State Force do we feel is acceptable. How much government am I supposed to get on my knees for? And I draw the line extremely narrowly. I want the absolute LEAST government that's possible within an organized society, and I feel that's a very small amount, and I talk about that more elsewhere. We need government on the corporation, and that's about it. Any government on the individual beyond the bare necessity of saying "don't hurt others, don't take what isn't yours, don't pollute, fair IP law", is unacceptable in my view.
I won't say we're to the point where we need zero organized state force, because there are those rare circumstances when there may be no choice but to deploy armed persons but those cases are rare. The large majority of 911 calls that cops are currently deployed to can be taken over by empathetic, responsible and trained community workers.
Our national policy should be MINIMUM incarceration not supermassive ever-growing incarceration. Humane rehabilitation and detention, not brutality and neglect.
Anyhow I can always go into more detail if you like, I'm sure we're both busy but these are issues that I feel passionately and deeply about so if you have any questions just ask.
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@Kyarrix I know we can have a valuable discussion because I appreciate your POV where you've seen things from the other side and so you have a valuable perspective. We don't have to agree on everything to have a productive discussion.
I'm under no fantasy that I'm going to be able to wave my magic want to change things the way I want them to be however I am making plans and decisions today that I hope will put me closer to a position where I can make some changes that I believe in.
I do oppose big brother in most things, I impose supermassive incarceration, I oppose inhumane detention, I oppose the way our courts are run and conducted, I oppose the existence of a city hall and not a "People's Hall", I oppose a disempowered public that doesn't vote on every issue, I oppose the lack of human rights being inked into law-
I guess you could say I oppose everything... Because I feel these things are inherently cruel and unjust. I oppose the corporate State, I oppose a 1984 State. I oppose all forms of non-defensive State violence.
I oppose rule of the 1%. I oppose representative rule AKA 'we should all just be passive slaves to punkass self-serving representatives who don't give an F about us and who take their orders from Wall Street and dark money'..
I see the need for radical change. I oppose the existence of masters and slaves under different labels. I oppose Pig rule. I oppose government control over all aspects of our lives. I oppose most forms of mandatory taxation- but not all, details matter, I explain this elsewhere. I oppose the idea that some people should be the subjects of others. With minor exception, NO class or group has the right to rule over another.
No one is inherently qualified to rule or obey.
I'm with the Communists, I'm with the anarchists, I'm with the libertarians, I'm with Labor, I'm with everyone that wants to shrink the State down to their rightful size. The abuse today is rife. Watch IFJ- I knew it was bad but I didn't know was that bad and I will eternally thank them for waking me up to the true scope of the abuse out here.
There's a place for organized public management (an alternative name for government), but it shouldn't be in service to Wall Street, rapacious real estate developers and gentrifiers, and a supermassive carceral tumoric complex with its loyal blue Nazis keeping its wheels turning.
Also with a simple changes all poverty could disappear tomorrow.
I love that you're an attorney and I hope I have what it takes to get my law degree too. I can't wait to be a broke-ass mf'er defending the disadvantaged from unjust charges. I mean they deserve help too, and they almost never can get it. PDs won't or can't help, another one of the ugly fatal flaws of our kangaroo court legal system- where DAs and judges reign supreme with unquestioned absolute power but defendants don't have the right for a vigorous capable defense- sometimes I wonder what century we're living in. If only we didn't have a third-world legal system in this so-called first-world country.
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You think you've seen evil, then you realize you haven't seen anything. The bloodless evil those in public roles commit dwarfs any I've seen on the street or from random private groups. They may not commit physical violence, but they destroy people's lives either in the short-term or the long-term with their larceny and their arbitrary detention and ransom business. I've never known such calm bloodless committed shameless psychopathy.
Fines and fees for ANY reason should not exist. Governments in this country CANNOT be trusted not to abuse them. They quickly become a prelude to mass grand theft because local authorities are so proudly satanically amoral.
I can't get over how government functions in this country. I can't deal with it. I just can't believe how amoral it really is. It's based on sheer destruction, it's based on a hatred of life. They look for the weak and they just keep going. The arrest and bail racket destroys lives on an industrial scale; it causes incredible family destabilization. I don't even have the words anymore. This is all Satan's business.
Everything local govts do is for evil. It's all to take what is ours through intimidation and violence.
Now I can see how foolish I was to EVER trust government when I was younger. It's made up of nothing but predators, demons in human form; conscienceless destroyers. Its pretty much like this everywhere. Every single place I've lived or passed through I was targeted for being poor, for being homeless, for having an invalid driver's license due to past or present predatory fine schemes.
I don't know why only monsters get elected here. Its like some kind of black fucking magic at play.
They will NEVER tax their rich and elite friends, they seek only the weak to prey on; people they judge as too poor to fight back- then they pounce.
EVERYTHING they do destroys lives.
It's all CITY HALL. It's not the public departments themselves that are the problem, it's the cops and the demons in CITY HALL. IT ALL BEGINS THERE!!
WHY SHOULD WE PAY THEM, when all they have for us is hate, cruelty, destruction and theft?? Why do THEY deserve our hard-earned taxes? WHY CAN'T WE JUST PAY THE PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS DIRECTLY?? Why go through the criminal middleman????
Is this the best way to fund our Public services? Not in the slightest.
Why should taxes have to go through ANY city hall period? Why shouldn't taxes go directly from the citizen to whatever public department they choose?? Do we REALLY think paying GANGSTERS first is the most efficient and ethical way of funding our needs???? No wonder the poor stay poor and the super rich get richer!
WE ARE PAYING MONSTERS AND THEN WONDERING WHY THE MONSTERS AREN'T FUNDING OUR TOWNS AND CITIES PROPERLY!
THEY ARE KEEPING IT!!! THEN THEY COME AFTER US FOR EVEN MORE TO POCKET!!
How did we get to here???? How is this evil so widespread, so organized?
I hope hell waits for all of them. God, every single City Hall in every single zip code acts this way doesn't it????
EVERYTHING LOCAL STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS DO DESTROYS THE POOR AND THE WORKING-CLASS AND SOMETIMES EVEN THE MIDDLE CLASS!!
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I appreciate the effort but this question misses the point.
You're opening assumption is what we used to call GCE, Gross Conceptual Error, back in my military days.
Policing itself is amoral and a force for evil a violation of human rights. It's murder, violence, subjugation, psychopathy and grand larceny. It's vile and disturbing. You can put lipstick on that pig all you want but it's still evil.
WHO THE HELL WANTS TO LIVE UNDER A GESTAPO, BLUE OR OTHERWISE?!?! WHO SHOULD HAVE TO????
That isn't right. Nobody should have to live like that. That's not freedom, that's slavery.
HOW DID WE GET TO HERE??
Metro Police depts are terrorist organizations and should be destroyed. These people are demons and criminals and sociopaths and predators of the highest order.
A Dept of Emergency Services can supply 911 Safety Responders and a few qualified people can remain on for investigations. What else is necessary?? Well nothing is. And yet the satanic Blue Gestapo remains. Now why is that??? Well it's simple I'll tell you- because the people who make policy in this country are evil and embrace evil with both hands. It's a bipartisan collaboration.
Mass Incarceration can't happen without a satanic lawless Police State to capture the bodies.
The Slave Patrols never left.
What a shock - we create a satanic lawless Gestapo State / lawless murderous theiving paramilitary force to prey on weak and unarmed citizens, what could POSSIBLY go wrong?!?!
Over 25% of the entire US population has been directly or indirectly affected by the American Gestapo system and Industrial Incarceration Complex.
I DONT WANT ANY GESTAPO IN MY LIFE OR ANYONE ELSE'S AND NO ONE WITH ANY SENSE OF DECENCY OR SELF-RESPECT SHOULD.
So the opening question misses the mark in my eyes.
Do we need a limited number of 911 responders? I'll agree we need better people serving this function. But that won't happen in the US because mayors and reps from both sides don't WANT better people in these roles- putting people of conscience in these positions reduces arrests and violence - that's not what they want. They LOVE seeing Blue murder and above all the cop lobby and it's interest groups have no intention to stop Mass Incarceration. That would reduce their job security. These are natural predators who have no INTENTION of working for a living - aka not being a cop, actually doing something positive and constructive instead; being amoral parasites is what they do.
Even if we managed to get better Emergency Response, 95% of "policing" is physical aggression, criminal stalking, and "patrolling" which is no more than Gestapo-style occupation which I call community terrorism because it's literal stalking and looking for victims to prey on.
That is wrong and amoral on EVERY level. Living under criminal predation is NOT what I call freedom or human rights.
If some of you filth want to live under the murderous theiving boot of a conscience-less Police State have at it, I DO NOT.
STREET POLICE ARE EVIL AND ONLY 911 BACKUP AGENTS ARE NECESSARY FOR A CIVILIZED SOCIETY TO FUNCTION.
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I don't have the time or discipline to read theory right now. It would be an utter waste of time. I don't need a book to tell me what I know to be right and wrong. I'm 40 and I'm behind on too many damn things as it is. Reading is for kids with no life that don't have any responsibilities or students. So on that fun note, let's cut to the chase.
Hakim I'm confused. Collective farms? What in God's fucking asshole is this shit? You're telling me people shouldn't be able to have their own small family farm? Im sorry but I CAN'T support that. I aspire myself to have have a small holistic family farm someday. I'm not saying people can't go in voluntarily with their neighbors or community, I think that's a beautiful thing when it's taken on as a community project voluntarily. Look I'm very Left but isn't it true that the forced collective farming killed thousands? How would you feel if you worked hard all your life on your family's farm and some State ghoul came along and said "this isn't yours anymore go be a farm slave with 200 other farm slaves on this State land over here"? Would you REALLY appreciate that?? God damnit PRIVATE PROPERTY MATTERS!!!!!
THIS IS NOT THE SAME THING AS BIG UNREGULATED UNFETTERED MONOPOLY BIG BUSINESS CAPITALISM I'M TALKING ABOUT AT THE FAMILY LEVEL AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL AND AT THE PERSONAL LEVEL PRIVATE PROPERTY MATTERS GOD DAMMIT.
Are we all just to be drones for the State?? Because by God I don't want that anymore than I want to live in a dystopian ultra-capitalist hellscape.
Why do you state communists always have to take it too far?
Do you not see exactly where this plays into all of the anti-communist criticisms in the heated rhetoric from the center and the right?
I'm not saying we shouldn't have a more socialist economy and that everyone doesn't have the right to a basic standard of living. But people want something that is their OWN. Surely you can understand this. How are people supposed to live? In dormitories? Maybe we shouldn't have any private homes for families anymore everyone should just live with everyone else in dorm like conditions? Who needs privacy!? Maybe we shouldn't even have families anymore maybe we should just wait for big government to assign us a mate like in the handmaid's tale is this what you want??? Where does it end???? Who needs personal space or private property anymore??? Nobody gets a yard anymore, God forbid that's private!!
Having the State commit grand theft of small-scale farming communities is not exactly going to engender my respect for whatever it's supposed reformist agenda is.
The problem in the modern age is large-scale ginormous monopolistic big Capital aka Big Business and the big corporation. As for what existed back in 1917 in Russia yes it was mostly agrarian. I'm assuming the only elites was the small aristocracy at the time. It was a completely different universe. But without knowing more, forced collectivization sounds like a TERRIBLE dystopian thing and far from catalyzing support amongst the farming families I can only imagine it nurtured huge resentment and hatred for forcibly dispossessing them of their families' ancestral lands that they had put their blood sweat and tears into for generations! There IS such a thing as pride and ownership and I tell you this- if ANYONE from the government came to try to take my family's homestead and lands I would fight them to the death.
Really, we have to do better than this if we want the world to accept Leftist and communist principles.
Don't get me wrong Hakim I think you're great and if you think I have my facts misplaced on this one feel free to let me know but I can't agree with you on this point.
I'm sorry I have to draw a line I cannot follow you ultra-communists down this particular rabbit hole. There is a happy medium. People should be able to own their own property and land and, within fairly low limits, more than one home. People should be able to own their own farms for god's sake!!!!! It's not private ownership that's the problem it's unfettered corporatism. aw fuck what the fuck.
Go ahead please it's nothing personal explain to me why you think I'm wrong. You people just go way too far.
If you think the millions of average families want to live in a commune like summer camp you're wrong. Now I've got nothing against communes and communal living for those who want it. Do you guys not care at all about free will and consent for god sakes????? Oh tyranny is fine if it comes from the so-called Left? Have you guys even thought this one through at all or are you too lost in your own echo chamber? How far do you think your support amongst the general public would run if one of your first moves was to dispossess them of their private land holdings, not the corporations mind you, but private individual households. Don't you THINK we should greatly limit and expropriate the holdings of the corporate giants? The whole point is to take back what the corporations have stolen from us over the past 80 years. As for what individual households do or have that's immaterial. And if you kids can't see that then you're really getting lost in the weeds and missing the WHOLE fucking point from my perspective.
And what do you mean by commodity???? Basic consumer goods? So when your ideal society people shouldn't be able to go buy basic consumer goods like a kitchen mop, an area rug and some decorative plants from their favorite establishment? So what, the State's going to just magically be able to prevent provide all this? That's the height of nonsense.
Are you saying you don't want to have a private market at all? Because I'm going to tell you right now you're smoking a sugared dickstick if that's true.
Why do you absolute us always have to take it so God damn far why do you always have to be so goddamn extremist? Believe me I believe there should be strong controls on the market, I don't like large corporations and I would like something to be done about them, we need wedge controls, price controls rent controls all of that in spades and I'll be the first to demand it, but if you're to ask me should we just have no market whatsoever? When markets have existed from the times that humans have been alive- considering that from the earliest human organized existence they have traded with each other and markets spring up to facilitate this trade and eventually buying and selling, then I think you're living in a fantasy world!
Why in the fuck would I want to live in a society where I couldn't open up my own shop if I wanted to? Where I couldn't put my blood sweat and tears into an enterprise, build It up from nothing, and watch it grow? Not to become some giant dystopian nightmare but to become a respectable small or medium sized enterprise where I and the other workers were equal partners and we worked together; where we shared the profits and the responsibilities?? No I don't agree employers should be able to take the majority of the value that workers produce, but does that mean I don't believe in a private market, no it does not! That's like saying I recognize that SOME relationships are toxic and destructive does that mean I'm against the existence of intimate relationships? Of course not! You're throwing the baby out with the goddamn bath water!
How am I wrong????
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@meee2014 @meee2014 dth isn't the problem, that's inevitable, it's the intentional understaffing and the shockingly legal criminal profit-thieving that these high-class business plunderers do, these PE cancers and any others like them.
For-profit and healthcare or dependency care should never be in the same sentence. Even higher class facilities shouldn't be run at a high profit. Of course they'll need to make some profit to stay viable but so long as everyone makes a decent wage and management is ethical and satisfied with the reasonable profits, then they can maintain a high standard of care for their guests. This should be the same philosophy applied to all facilities.
Nobody deserves to make a profit in the sense of "high returns" in essential health care. It's garish, it's barbaric, it's amoral. If we didn't have blood drinking vampires who made the laws and policies in this country who had absolutely no ethics or principles and thus were so easily bought by the most harmful and destructive industries out there, there would already be heavy regulations and prohibitions against this.
I guess old people in this country aren't considered worth treating decently. I guess nobody wants to live by the adage "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". If they don't have family to look after them they're seen as lower than animals, according to all these reports, and this isn't the first time I've been made aware of this problem.
A private facility doesn't mean ruthlessly for-profit. A private facility strictly regulated and run by ethical people can be fantastic.
Bottom line, nobody should be investing in any healthcare facility!!! This is the most perverse perversion of the social construct and so representative of all the evil that has taken for granted in our society today when it comes to making a buck. It's just appalling and disgraceful.
None of this should be legal but the thing is- nobody is at the wheel in this country. The criminals are in charge. The politicians are the criminals and other white-collar criminals have a direct line to the politicians & these scum are only too happy to be in their back pocket. When government intentionally abdicates the regulatory or prohibitory role, the predators in private industry have an open season on the rest of us.
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@jessl1934 bruh idek. It just seems like in an information world (DC freaks notwithstanding) provided we get our message out to enough people and get organized enough, enough awareness will be raised and honestly any kind of armed backlash from the fascists or the entrenched elite class will be obsolete. I just don't think it will work anymore.
You get enough groundswell with something and you're not going to be able to stop it I don't give a fuk how many nukes or bluepigs you have.
If we want to go hardcore where is our secret army??? Right now we're just a citizens movement and that's fine, that's where everything starts. But that's all we got, which I figure given enough time and organizations should be enough. If not we'll find out but in a new century with new technologies and a lot of new people sick of old bullshit, I think so.
After DC gets its ass kicked by Brics in 20 yrs because it won't leave them alone, I think most people, of those who are paying attention, are going to see just how ridiculous the feds are and are going to reject violence as acceptable means of solving our problems.
I mean I could be wrong but I think so.
Of those who can be induced to vote or have political opinions, I think more and more are going to realize that only leftism is the moral way forward because it puts the common good and the health of the planet first, and why should anything else be acceptable?? How can there be anything else that is sustainable? And I know I'm annoying some people with the follow but I'm also for business but I'm for regulated business, a big difference in my opinion, because not all business is bad- we live in a messy world and it would be too onerous to expect everything to be centrally managed.
If we can't get it done through slower political means that I'm not sure how we expect to. We don't have a secret army you know what I mean?
Organization, outreach, building a movement, using technology, yeah I think it's totally doable. Quantum computers are on the horizon and fusion technology possibly by 2100- Rosa Luxemburg couldn't have imagined this world and I don't know I just think a world this connected isn't going to always behave the exact same way as a world whose highest technology was the early internal combustion engine.
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STOP BEING AN ANTI-CHOICE POS PLEASE
WHAT SOMEBODY DOES WITH THEIR BODY AND INTERNAL ORGANS AND WHATEVER BIO-TISSUE MAY OR MAY NOT BE INSIDE THEM IS NOBODY'S FUCKING BUSINESS- CERTAINLY NOT THE GOVTS, STATE OR FEDERAL.
SCOTUS SHOULDN'T EVEN EXIST. Lifetime appointments??!?!?! That sounds a lot like a King to me! it's a bogus archaic institution meant to take even more power away from you and me and put it in the hands of 5-9 fascist would-be petty dictators.
Congress is bad enough, but a bench full of fascist-leaning unaccountable petty kings and queens is even worse.
NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO FORCE ANOTHER INTO GIVING BIRTH. NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO MAKE ANOTHER INTO A SLAVE, TO OVERRULE WHAT THEY WOULD CHOOSE FOR THEIR OWN BODY AND LIFE. Even after all this time I'm shocked this continues to be a point of public debate! it is not a public issue, it never should have been a public issue! it is an outrage that it has been turned into divisive a public issue. No other private medical procedures and private personal decisions whatever have been commodified like this and debated as a point of so-called law. I find it outrageous that this has been turned into a political football for as long as it has been. this government has virtually never cared about the living and you're going to tell me their heart breaks for the precious little splooges, glops, and feti? Yeah right.
How DARE this govt claims it's hearts bleed for the little fetuses while showing just how anti-life and indifferent to the already born and living it truly is!
The radical lunatic fringe insane-o fascist ultra-far Right is desperately trying to take over this country and turn the rest of us into slaves to their whack job agenda. Considering how deeply in the minority they are, I'm shocked honestly- that's some hutzpah. All they will succeed at doing is igniting a civil war, in which they will most definitely be the losing party. We will fight this to the death and in the end, they will lose spectacularly as they always have.
The latest three Trump justices are wholly and embarrassingly unqualified and never even should have been considered as potential justices. One is a drunk and a rapist, another is a fringe, nakedly partisan, inexperienced and professionally unqualified quasi-cult member, and Gorsuch may not be on the religious fundamentalist fringe, but is professionally inexperienced and unqualified and has a horrific set of values nonetheless. he must be a borderline sociopath, because he ruled against the trucker in the Frozen trucker case meaning he basically was telling the trucker you should have stayed in the Frozen truck and died just so you could save your company a few pennies what kind of madmsn would even think something like that, much less try to defend it and put it over as a respectable legal decision??? Some sick minded conservative trash that's who. that's who these conservatives are, profits over lives EVERY time so you tell me how pro-life they really are??????? Because their sure as hell not pro--already-BORN life, I guess only the PREBORN stirs their tender sympathies.
All three never should have made it through the selection process, they never even should have been considered, but the GOP has been an illegitimate monstrously evil hypercorrupt gangster-org for the last 40+ years.
Imagine, a serial sexual assaulter in Faux-Justice Kavanaugh now being in a position to tell millions of women they don't have the right to rule their own bodies and make their own intimate healthcare decisions. Now that's some pretty gross irony isn't it??????
You want me to feel sorry for these poor criminal partisan hack fake-justices at their homes?? I feel sorry for the millions of lives that they're about to destroy and damage, esp in poor communities and communities of color, and I think you should too. If it were up to me, these five fascists would be riddled with bullets and their corpses hung in the town square. The other four would be fired, I would thank Sotomayor for her efforts, but she's the only one, all the rest are trash in my eyes; and the SCOTUS building would be burned down and it's ground salted. That's if it were up to me of course.
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@deadpoolongoogle9682 yes I agree. I mean look I'm all for people getting out of debt and there's nothing wrong with wanting to have a nice standard of living, I wish that for everyone- but it's my opinion that Dave misrepresents himself as this "Christian" guy (and you just know he fell all over himself choking on Trump's [blank] the last few years, either not knowing or caring that Chump was one of the biggest most self-serving grifters that ever lived, bec these ___necks are so politically short-sighted and ignorant, not to mention knee-jerk brainwashed against Democrats), who wants to help people, when he just wants to maximize his profits. He has 15-some properties and he's very wealthy and he couldn't even give his tenants a break during the pandemic who had been affected by COVID; it's not enough he's already making great profit from his properties he has to make the utter MAXIMUM possible under law- oh yeah how Christian!! I mean that's just pure phylthy greed. He may not be as bad as large corporate real estate holders, but he's still the epitome of the greedy, exploiting landlord that make life so impossible for anyone who's on a modest income or who lose their incomes for any reason.
Until we pass hard rent control and unit ownership limits (I say no more than five per private household, ten for corporations), this crap will just continue.
Why do landlords feel entitled to "market tate" anyways??? "Market" rates leave half the population who needs to rent behind!! These animals feel so ENTITLED to profit at everyone else's expense! They need to get it into their head that they're not entitled to outrageous profits!!! Modest profits, fine, but not extreme! And in Dave's case it's even worse because he doesn't need ANY income from his rental properties to live; he's already very wealthy from all his book sales, radio shows, and seminars and yet he just can't help himself from being so greedy he won't NOT demand the highest possible rent on ALL his properties, won't even cut a single person a break, even though it wouldn't have harmed him in any way. I think that's low, and not at all what his acclaimed savior purportedly taught.
I'd have more respect for him he just admitted his church bro persona was all a grift and he just wants to be maximize his money by any legal means possible.
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@KieranHelix ok fair enough I'll watch it, thanks.
Look I'm not saying Dave is a "bad" person per se, but the ol' trusty standby "market" excuse is a made-up convenient excuse to scalp rent by owners and exploit tenants. They act like God himself and a magical genie set the "market" rate and this magical rate has been ordained by the universe and all the angels in the heavens when in reality it's just whatever maximum limit landlords can extort out of enough desperate or willing households. Most landlords "operating costs" are low, especially corporate holdings of large complexes. Most rent is pure profit, NOT AT ALL A FINANCIAL NECESSITY.
It's all a grift, that's all. That caller was a kind person who had been raised with good values. It's too bad he's so much in the minority in the rental industry. And he's a small landlord with only a few properties, which means for the most part he isn't the problem. He still has empathy for neighbors and doesn't try to justify excessive greed.
When the poor, modest income and working class can't afford to rent or have to spend almost their entire income on rent and essential bills, something is wrong. Adequate housing IS A HUMAN RIGHT, GREED IS NOT A RIGHT, or a virtue. I said I'm not against people being able to make a limited and fair profit from housing if it's on the private market, as long as that's within fair limits of affordability for all families/persons, and apparently rent control and rent cost limits are the only ways to effectively do this.
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@FrogWalrus you're a dumbass of you still believe that, but I will agree that all major corporate media outlets have an agenda, especially US ones, and it's either a neocon, W supremacist agenda; or an imperialist, pro-big-corporate, Pentagon-mouthpiece agenda.
I like to think I have a questioning mind, so other than for simple topics like natural disasters, I stay far away from all corporatized mass media outlets and do my best to only consult a variety of independent media that support my values of Socialism, civil liberties, the dismantling of the spread of the Pig State and the evils of incarceration, anti-exploitation, Labor value, our natural environment, anti-corporatism, and human rights. You should do the same. I have plenty of choices and channels if you're interested.
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@drewharrison6433 drug criminalization was one of it not THE most evil and vile political campaign in modern times. And this Biden demon was its most unapologetic, most aggressive, most psychopathic architects. To give you some perspective he was worse than Reagan. That fascist public-betraying w/s himself felt a then Joe Biden went too far and was too barbaric in his then-brand new drug legislation. Biden has been nothing but a cheating, plagiarizing THUG and sociopathic savage all his political life.
His and others' goal was ALWAYS mass incarceration, mass evil, a massive expansion of the police state and predatory fascism within the US, and mass violence to marginalized communities and you just can't DO that without a massive attack on and criminalization of drug users and sellers. Funny how alcohol Prohibition was quickly seen as unmanageable and wrongly conceived, yet these demons are choosing to double-down on the concentrated evil of drug prohibition even after 40 years of blatant failure and domestic crimes against humanity. You wanna know the difference???? Booze prohibition affected everyone and nobody liked it, dope prohibition primarily affects poor people and COMMUNITIES of color, and 50 years of intense propaganda has millions still convinced "droogs" are the root of all evil!
So that's how we got to here and yeah, it's vile and it's evil and intentionally so and it never should have happened much less for 45 fucking years- longer than I've goddamn been alive. But the evil of fascists and the bloodlust of our prison industry never dies, so the continued attacks on anyone even tangentially associated with street substances by the Blue psychopaths, always looking for the easy score while they endlessly rob, kill and/or destroy anyone they can, continues apace.
If you REALLY want to raise your political IQ, stop larping as a shitlib on this shitlib-magnet channel and join us on the awakened Left. Checkout my subs for others to follow if you're interested.
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@sethzwicker3631 yes good for them, but please, don't give this monster credit for ANYTHING!!!! If you do you are UTTERLY brainwashed. This is NOTHING!! It's ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! It's 1/3 of a motherfking CRUMB!! These people never had a soul and carry the devil with them everywhere they go. Nothing else can explain their abject hatred for the rest of us. It's quite stunning. They don't just want us not to have ANY of the priveleges they take for granted, they want is to suffer and DIE. They prove that with every breath they take. They HATE doing anything for us. Anything they do they only do when they feel they have no other choice and then it's as miserable and little as possible. The first thing the Biden demon did when he came
AND THIS WAS THE PERSON OBUMMER SHILLED FOR IN THE 2020 CAMPAIGN AND EMBRACED FOR 8 YEARS.
wake UP. IF THEY AREN'T TRYING TO KILL US OUTRIGHT WITH water poisoning or lack of healthcare they're doing everything possible to turn us into de facto debt slaves for life or outright bankrupt us and leave us dead and homeless on the streets!!! 2008 housing crisis- Biden played a huge part betraying everyone affected to Wall Street, but he was hardly alone!! Obama was only to happy to promote and get behind this! Wall Street committed crimes against the entire American public and got REWARDED for it while MILLIONS of desperate homeowners lost their home!!!! How about something more recent????
We got virtually no help during the pandemic, millions suffered and got virtually no help to stave off evictions or closures of their small business. Meanwhile billionaires DOUBLED their wealth!!! We couldn't even get the full $2000 ONE-TIME MOTHERFKING CHECKS THAT WERE PROMISED!!!! GODDAMN CANT YOU SEE WHAT'S GOING ON!?!?! THEY WANT US DEAD, BANKRUPT, STARVING OR HOMELESS- and they want the local
Can't you see that these demons have an endless supply of evil to deploy against us in the form of policy????
If we don't find a way to kill these people and find a way to destroy this demonic genocidal system before it destroys us, we only have ourselves to blame!!! These satanic fiends are going to kill this entire planet and everyone on it one way of another!!
I'm not being alarmist just educate yourself. It's literally going to be THEM, or us. Short of Nazi death camps everywhere it CAN'T be any worse. This latest stunt is a revolting disgusting slap in the face by Biden, the devil's own, and is just another remindee of how much they have STOLEN FROM US AND DESTROYED OVER THE PAST 60 YEARS!!!
If I was a domestic abuser and I stopped beating the shit out of my wife for one half hour on Sunday would you call me a good person??? I stopped the violence for 30 minutes but continued it the others six days and 23 hours and 30 minutes, do I deserve praise??? Do I deserve respect for doing so??! No of course not!!! Because I'm intentionally and JOYFULLY committing malice and evil to an innocent person the other 99% of the time!!! Guess what!!! THATS EXACTLY THE SITUATION OF THE FEDERAL GOVT AND EVERY INDIVIDUAL STATE'S GOVT IN THIS HORRIFIC SHITHOLE CORPORATE-MAFIA-RUN monstrously evil satan-serving state.
All this is is a satanically-evil and evil-loving entity being a TINY bit less evil 1% of the time. It's like trying to put out a massive house fire with a broken water pistol.
IT'S SURGICALLY TARGETED TO DO NOTHING!!!!! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!
All the US govt does and have almost always done against the bottom 80% in this country is unmitigated VIOLENCE!!! AND IT HAS ONLY BEEN PUT ON STEROIDS SINCE 1980! BIDEN, OBOMBER, AND CLINTON, AND OFC REAGAN AND ALL OF THEIR LACKEYS WERE SOME OF THE MOST PIVOTAL, WILLING, AMORAL SHAMELESS PSYCHOPATHIC CREATORS AND CORNERSTONES OF THESE SYSTEMS, POLICIES AND PRACTICES. And no matter how long they live they will NEVER be able to atone for the evil they've caused, nor do they ever have any intention of even trying!!!
The biggest gift you can EVER give yourself is know the depths of satanic depravity and pure, unending evil and HATRED that these demons monsters have for us. Until you truly grasp that, you won't understand why these satanic laws and policies exist.
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@siddhesh US is not a real democracy. We have some voting yes but by and large, all the politicians care about from the local to the Federal are bribes from Big Money interests. BRIBERY AND WHOLESALE CORRUPTION IS LEGAL IN THE US AND MOREOVER IS WHAT IS CONSIDERED NORMAL HERE.
Govt in the US IS voted on, but our votes don't really matter. Only the Rich Business Interests and Pig Unions (police) matter to politicians here. The political structure in the US only serves Large Corporatizations and Wall Street Interests.
It's a corrupt 4th-world PLUTOCRACY, let no one tell you different. Most of the people here are decent, but the political structure including heartless judges like the one profiled in this video, are completely amoral, corrupt, and utterly anti-life in their decisions and policies. If I could drop a dirty bomb on every city council chamber, Governor's Mansion and DC, I'd probably do it. It's basically like being ruled by a very cruel, very ruthless, and very efficient criminal syndicate.
That sounds dramatic but I can promise you I am NOT exaggerating. For people who don't see this it's just because they've been fortunate enough never to have been poor or had to struggle financially. I'm happy for them, but they don't see how it really is for the rest of us who HAVE had to struggle and have been the victim of these cruel and exploitative policies that have affected us in one or more ways, i.e. as shown in this video, and other similar situations.
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@highbrass3749 I don't know if people are saying owed but yes, I believe that access to safe shelter fit for human habitation is a human right. You don't have to agree, but that's a pretty old school way of thinking. Do people have a human right to be free from violence? To be free from fear? And if we don't have any numerated human right to housing then why aren't they leaving the homeless alone who have no other choice but to pitch a tent somewhere? it's pretty cruel to put housing behind a paywall basically, and then treat them like animals if they have no choice but to move out onto the street. Most zip codes are harassing their homeless these days. And by that I mean the police of course. Housing can't be reserved just for those lucky enough or capable enough to be able to pay a special amount. For people who fall through those cracks, what then? Yeah I do believe humans have certain fundamental rights and that they're wider society should be able to provide for them in some fashion reasonable access to things like healthy and various food, clean water, sanitation, safe shelter, Fair wages, dignified treatment at the workplace, a non-rigged economy, comprehensive healthcare, and more. yeah I believe every human being in a civilized society deserves reasonable access to these things regardless of their individual capability to pay. If they can pay the asking price great. If not they still deserve it in some fashion, usually provided by the government or at some reduced cost to the user. this shouldn't be too hard to do especially in a developed rich country like ours.
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@highbrass3749 I'm 40. I won't be changing my mind. Certain things are guaranteed in life and certain things aren't. I'm not guaranteed a rolls-royce. I'm not guaranteed a million dollars. I do believe I should be guaranteed a base amount of food, and so should you. Likewise with every other basic material guarantee. I mean we can go around and round on this if you want.
Also, while work is necessary and important, not everyone needs a quote unquote "work" to contribute to society. Or in other words, there are many things that currently go unpaid but are absolutely vital. Caregiving, housework, a lot of daily survival activities, especially if they're for the support of someone else besides just yourself. Other things of that nature. Finally, even if someone may not be working at the moment perhaps they're working on themselves, investing in themselves (ie education, training, or other learning activities) so they could give more in the future to the people in their life and by extension their community. So I say we need to widen our definition of what we consider qualifies as work. you've been raised in the old school method which is very black and white, very didactic and doesn't have any nuance. I'm saying for me that's insufficient and I qualify that as I've explained.
PS. For some people who are dealing with significant issues, sometimes simply surviving is a job all unto itself. If somebody cannot currently manage to work in the traditional sense of the word, due to mental illness or physical illness or something else whether it's temporary permanent they still deserve to survive and access the means of subsistence. I hope you would agree with that.
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Lino Andrade The sad thing is some working class people STILL don't understand why unions (even with all their problems today and with their corruption in the leadership) are SO absolutely vital. I am so happy that I just read that you benefited from a union, that it changed your life so now you can work a sane amount of hours and still have a life and still survive. People who don't work in an industry where unions have had a presence or have had a good income without them don't have the awareness to understand how crucial their union work has been over there past 100 years and that is WHY the right wing, who has consistently represented big business interests in this country, has tried their DAMNEDEST to assault them for so long at least since the late 1970s. I have more to say but I'll just post this for right now. I'm happy you have the skills to find a skilled union job. By all means, people who have the capacity to do so and that includes myself, need to advance their skills by any means necessary so they have more options.
Thank God the Reaganites haven't been able to kill everything the unions have done over the years, though that hasn't stopped them from trying. The advances were so strong from the 30s through the early seventies that even with their very coordinated concerted efforts against them they haven't been able to undo all the good they did from those previous eras and thank goodness for that because our lives are better as a result. Unfortunately the bigger picture is that a very small percentage of job positions and industries in this country are unionized. I think it's something like union membership right now is only 11% in the US. But they say that even even the mere presence of unionized protections in an industry has a knock-on effect of keeping wages and benefits MUCH better than they would be otherwise without that union for non-unitized jobs in thar industry.
People think $18 is a good wage, that's not really true anymore. And those of us who are economically literate are well aware that real wages for the vast majority of people have been frozen for 40 years when you take into account the massive increases in cost of living. Wages of actually backslid in some cases. So a comparable person making XYZ in 1980 money is STILL making essentially that same amount today. People are having to live on 1980 money in 2022. you think that's going to work? Of course not why do you think we see spiraling homelessness and financial insecurity? Because 1980 money doesn't go very far in 2022 now does it? The cost of living is in 2022 dollars, but our wages for the majority of people continue to be paid out in 1980 dollars basically. As you can see this is an extreme mismatch- no wonder you had to work 60 to 80 hours a week. in 1984 my dad made $18 an hour at his local towns water district job. We were able to live really comfortably we had a nice condo and I remember at 5 years old thinking lived as well as we did. Now of course we were still lower middle class but when we got for that money back then was more than enough to feel comfortable and like we weren't missing out on anything. $18 today? Maybe in the rural areas it's considered desirable, but anywhere outside of that usually it's not enough unless you're splitting expenses with someone else or you have a housing subsidy.
And that's just not right. Unless you're one of those few people that truly is a workaholic and doesn't want to do anything else In his waking hours, but work, people shouldn't have to work that much just to get by. 30-40 hours should be sufficient for unacceptable, not fancy but acceptable standard of living at LEAST for a single person.
Most people even if they really like their job don't want that kind of a workload because that doesn't leave you time for anything else. What about family, friends, or just taking care of ourselves? You barely have time to take a shower if you work that much.
So economically you see that there are so many inequities today that need to be reversed and resolved so that everybody can access a dignified standard of living without having to sell their soul to the workplace or become a robot who trains themselves to sleep as a luxury. There's nothing wrong with working hard- working hard SHOULD be a way to get ahead- but not if the wages and benefits aren't keeping up and not if you have to multiply that hard work for 60+ hours a week.
We can get this stuff sorted out but the current political duopoly take turns deep drilling us. They're two sides of the same ass. ONLY Left independent candidates will reset the system to where everybody has a fair chance and labor standards and work standards and wages are dignified for everyone.
That's where I'm at now. We're at the very BEGINNING of trying to get around the juggernaut of the two-party criminal syndicate as I call them and bring economic justice BACK to the bottom 70% of this country- because they've done an incredibly efficient job at removing it over the past 50 to always years; (depending on what specific metrics or details you use to judge).
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@francoislechanceux5818 I know Putin is a thug and I'm under no illusions about him, but you DO know that nowhere in the world has the red scare govt-dissemineted hysteria and USSR demonization been more propagated and inflamed then here in the US? Are you speaking from France or here?
I am sure the place is not a perfect paragon of human rights, but neither is the US! My god, the violence from the Pigs here against our black and brown communities, and sometimes anyone at all, is satanic and demonic and shows no signs of stopping (they are very rarely punished for it). And it's nothing new!!! How about the destruction of the Native communities and their continued abuses and denials of sovereignty and even a small portion of stolen land returned?? Not yet! 150 years on, most tribes and reservations are still waiting for any kind of justice and/or reparations. Some encouraging process in some cases has been made, and that brings me some peace, but much more needs to be done before all the Native nations can claim any real kind of restoration of their futures.
We lead the world in subjugated and imprisoned people, by a very long distance, most of them for petty charges. We have a very serious homeless problem I don't see the powers that be give a damn about.
This s-hole nation was NEVER great, in a broad sense. The average citizen is mostly a decent person in my belief, but much of the US State has ALWAYS been comprised of murderous and violent committed W supremacists. In the past, many private citizens took the evildoing and violence into their own hands, to initiate domestic terrorism and harassment on Black citizens. Occasionally some still do today. When it comes to Wht Pigs, this is highly commonplace. You probably wouldn't want to see the footage I've seen of constant egregious and shocking examples of this.
The brutalities and violent suppressions continue today, in the responses to racial justice protests and anti-pipeline environmental campaigns. There's probably much you don't know, given that you probably don't live here. (Un)luckily for me, I follow all of this very closely and have for years.
I'm sure Russia has issues and abuses, and I don't know enough about them specifically to comment-
but based on the long litany of abuses towards targeted or marginalized communities and persons here, the US is hardly in a position to criticize or take the moral high ground, bc from where I sit, it has none. (This doesn't even touch it's crimes overseas, such as being Israel's proxy, or Guantanamo.)
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@Michael-uj2fb all street cops are filth and criminals. It's a cult of death and violence and a cartel of reckless murderous predatory unstable violent cluster B psychotics, nothing more. When will more people wake up to what' going on out here?? Responsible safety response is one thing, but what these things do is something else entirely. It's rarely if ever "responsible" and it's rarely if ever simply "response";, it's lying in wait, it's aggression, it's following, it's stalking, it's grand mass theft, it's escalation, it's gross intimidation, it's gross entitlement, and it's all criminal behavior under another name.
It's a gang, just another gang, like any other, just under a different name.
Crime investigators and 911 responders are one thing, if they can do so responsibly, but many can't or won't. That's largely due to the fact that anyone can become a cop in these United States. Our training is shockingly abysmal. Most countries insist on at least two years of training sometimes up to four, and you literally have to write a thesis to be allowed to graduate or advance, hear any savage barbarian who can breathe and can make it thru through four to six months of bullshit training gets a badge. We are being policed and patrolled by the worst among us and that is not an exaggeration.
Then once they come out they're assigned to the Blue street gang, the ones that intentionally aggress into our communities and occupy every square foot they can in order to steal, extort and hopefully arrest as many people and as much property and money as they can.
All patrols, lying in wait, and street occupation must cease immediately. They won't of course because it's far too profitable (like any good criminal operation) and the industry of mass incarceration CANNOT survive without the slave patrols, I mean Street Pigs, I mean Street Hunters. And mass incarceration is insanely profitable. That, plus a good deal of racism, is the only reason why it hasn't stopped yet.
It's pretty pathetic we've all been gaslit all our lives to accept this incredible subjugation, tyranny, and abrogation of our simple rights to travel outside of our homes without being mobbed or hunted like animals. We're not even safe in our homes from these monsters and their violent home invasions. Sickening. But this is why they're all psychopaths and cluster B psychotics. Psychotics want to do this kind of thing- killing, hurting, stealing from, or pushing around others is what they live for. And they sure as hell don't intend to work a single honest day in their lives. Standing around, initiating violence, ruining others' lives for kicks and stealing from others is what every good criminal wants and that's what every city street cop wants.
Any crime that isn't a property infringement or based on violence to another isn't a crime at all, so all drug enforcement or gang intervention needs to end immediately unless its in response to alleged killings, however whatever so-called gang members wish to do to each other I don't believe should be a matter of outside business, government or not. This is an organization they chose to join knowing how business was conducted, as far as I'm concerned it's an internal matter of no outside business to anyone. If someone is killed as a result that is sad but these individuals knew exactly the risks and the nature of this organization when they joined it, same as any other unofficial or underground group. Therefore really they are not victims. However if individuals from these groups harm anyone outside of their organization than they should have to pay for it according to outside law. Unaffiliated persons never chose to be in the group therefore any harm done to them is a crime. But no, internal matters of any group, unless they involve harm to children or animals, or organized property violence to an outside person or organization, is of NO business to any outsider, government or not. I believe in autonomy and the rights to form our OWN groups away from the control and exploitation of Big Brother.
We truly live under Big Brother here it's just a lot of people don't see it because it's not as obvious as the more traditional forms. It's no business of any class of people what two or more consenting adults do provided that doesn't include intended harm to other human beings or animals. Yet the feds, state troopers and local Pigs are everywhere. It may not always look like it, but we live under a massive police state and and it's just not what I want. If others want to live under a police-state if it makes them feel more secure, great let them be controlled, occupied, felt up, stolen from and just utterly tyrannized at every opportunity. I don't WANT that and I wouldn't think you would either.
I don't like a big government when it comes to individual rights. I have the strange desire to maintain my autonomy in life. I don't like government period mostly. Another word for government is control. There's a lot of slaves out here that want to be controlled apparently. The under the mistaken infantile impression that people who ascend to public positions are somehow qualified to do so or have some sort of superior moral judgment, which in this country is a hysterical joke. Absolutely nothing further could be the truth.
Govt is important for some things on the management and organizational level but when it comes to the abrogation of individual and group rights that's where I draw a big fat line. Government should be for the management of public resources, maintaining a fully voluntary defense force, and ensuring limited and ethical courts with full public oversight, nothing more. Anything else is tyranny in my judgment.
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@davidswanson5669 you know I stand with black lives matter right? I'm a flaming communist and I support armed uprising at every opportunity to overturn govt violence and oppression. Or to at least try. An eye-for-an-eye I say.
I don't care WHO they are, if you break it, whether on accident or due to intentional recklessness, irresponsibility or negligence, you pay for it. Why do think they deserve special rules?? You're welcome to your opinion but I just disagree. If City Pigs run wild then I'm sorry their City owners need to pay for what their Blue idiots have caused. That's how it's got to work otherwise the average citizen is left holding the bag with a 400K bill and that's not right. Stupid cops don't get to come inside, bash shit up, then run off saying "oops! guess you got a problem on your hands".
Even if they felt they had no choice but to cause the damage, the city should then pay for repairs.
There's a weird cult and culture in this country of acting like Blue trash shouldn't be held responsible for anything. This is truly reaching gross heights. Is this not the most bizarre thing ever?? In what other job field are it's members not held responsible?? Can you think of a teacher, a social worker, a medical doctor, even a golf instructor that isn't held responsible for their mistakes, whether intended or not?? I can't. Yet Pigs in this nation are truly a law unto themselves.
We all need to clean up our mistakes. I'm so tired of Blue Pigs getting away with everything including vicious violence and murder. It's wrong.
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@derrickgates42 oh I do. People have EVERY right to fight back against their satanic tyrant would-be destroyers. I'm not afraid to rot in prison or die. I would prefer that not to happen but if worse comes to worst, if it ever happens to me, yeah I'll face it head on. I won't run away from government demons. I'll fight to the death and take whatever happens. If they think I'm going to run away in fear, they have another thing coming. That means government agents and Pigs can NEVER control me through fear. Think about that. A tyrant's ONLY power is FEAR. Neutralize their ability to assert fear over you and you crush their power.
Why would I be ok having masters??? Why should anyone??
Live Free or Die. How could I possibly want to live any other way??? I won't live on my knees, I'd kill myself first. Whenever anyone dares to assert that they have the right to do violence to you because you didn't kneel in front of them and do or give what they demanded, ask yourself why??? By what right do they behave in such ways? By what right does anyone??? Why would we grant anyone such rights??
By what right does ANY government thug presume to control you in any way, provided you aren't causing any undue harm or loss to any other person? Persons in govt and affiliated with govt and those who tote a badge constantly plumb new depths of evil, casual evil, criminality and savagery.
How could I be happy as a shucking and jiving slave??? I would easily die fighting anyone who claimed the right to control me by force or take what was rightfully mine. Everyone should at a minimum be willing to fight both commercial and government filth in court. Those of us willing to be armed and do more, can.
The State is an entirely evil entity. It lives on the maxim that Might makes Right. We can't keep allowing this.
This is the law of evil and the law of the jungle. I would gladly eat the heart of president and the pope with hot sauce if that's what it took to regain full control over my destiny and the future of ALL us out here in We the People.
Govt is simply the biggest, most violent gang on the map, nothing more. They have NO divine mandate, and deserve NO SPECIAL RIGHTS, far from! They are simply people- worthless opportunists and tyrants, nothing more. They are nothing but the most aggressive and the most psychopathic players on the block. In their malignant narcissism they demand unquestioned fealty and our servitude.
I say we force them to eat their own ass.
THEY DO NOT DESERVE YOUR RESPECT. They do deserve your hatred however.
We CAN have a modest and fair 'public management system' without reverting to 1984 all-out dystopian sadistic murderous larcenous totalitarianism which is VERY very close to what we have right now.
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As someone who wants satanic Big Brother (extreme descriptor but I believe mostly apt) out of my life at ANY cost, including when it comes to what I put in or on my body; as I have the bizarre idea that I was not born to be the property of another human being or any organization of human beings IE government; I don't see what hard drugs have to do with it. I mean if we support the war on drugs by immediate extension we support mass incarceration, mass subjugation, mass State slavery, and a mass 1984 tyranny State that feels that they have the right to tell us what to do down to the slightest detail, and are entitled to wholly destroy our lives and criminally thieve us of all of our assets if we don't comply. Drugs on a base are just like drugs in prison, nothing of concern, any more than cigarettes or alcohol or pr0n is. Drugs don't matter, they never did. Those with foul play or SA intentions do - now if those exist at a higher rate on Fort Bragg or Fort Hood than anywhere else then I think that bears much deeper investigation. (I don't remember now, but where do they have the torture school for South American dictators and crazed bloodlusting military troops, is that Fort Bragg or somewhere else???)
Sometimes incidents really are just isolated- bad people aren't confined to the non-military sector- and sometimes they indicate a deeper problem with base leadership that may be allowing a deeper rot to percolate throughout a particular command. Speaking as ex-navy (non-combat).
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Local governments continue to plumb the depths of cruelty, corruption, and unjustness. Nothing new unfortunately. As the other person said, so long as Pigs (who are really just evil nazis aka psychopaths with badges) continue to roam the streets looking for weak people to push around, steal from, harass or in worst cases kill, none of us are safe.
It's all police are, evil robots who will do anything you tell them- the more unjust, violent, unfair or just plain wrong the better.
That's what an abuser and a bully is. They don't have a soul and what brings them satisfaction is picking on the weak. At heart they are disgusting cowards because they will never intentionally engage in a conflict or battle with somebody of equal or greater ability to defend themselves.
All violent and non-911 street cops deserve one or more of the following: a pink slip, a long stay in the ER, or permanent stay in the funerary grounds.
These people are just parasites and dregs of society and they're being given guns and badges and told that they have the right to go out and commit crime and grave injustic amongst an unarmed public. I mean even if your armed are you going to draw on a cop when he has backup? No I don't think so. But most people they engage they know they aren't armed. That much is clear.
I mean look for the record I have no problem with Pigs if they are doing what they were originally supposed to do which is come to the rescue. If they're doing anything outside of coming to the rescue of someone who's in danger or called for help they are committing CRIME or an evil act.
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This little inspired bit of genius inspired me to write my own review one might find from the popular review sources -
"Both of these characters displayed such multi-layered nuance that I am absolutely blown away. The themes each brought to bear in their own striking mind-bending way really makes one contemplate savage emptiness of postmodern existence. The social commentary on display was an explosive tour de force that raped my brain from every position and direction, sometimes taking turns with its best mate and using various apparatus to heighten the experience. When it was done I felt completely jerked off on, and all I can say is that I wanted more! Watching this work was the very height of my experience as a living being, one I can never EVER hope to duplicate- even if forever lasted for a very long time.
I can't decide which protagonist I admired more. Obsequious Earnest Employee just tugged at my heartstrings, heroically refusing to be beaten down by the horrific mediocrities of life thus showcasing the best of what humanity has to offer, overcoming staggering odds that would challenge god himself, managing to deftly fulfill the savagely oppressive tasks which a mediocre and barbaric society places before him, all while somehow not allowing them to destroy his humanity and burning talent within desperately seeking an outlet and yet finding none among the cold hard barren rocky hardpack soil that is a craven and empty society.... but Strangely Endearing Overbearing Hack Boss wasn't far behind in sheer power of virtuoso performance, as a haunting reminder of all that is wrong in modern society distilled down into one explosive persona. This is a seminal work, one meant for every living soul- every pair of gelatinous eyeballs surrounded by a large sack of flabby and bony tissue....
This work will change the very course of all humanity.
See this short with all your family and friends. Your life will never EVER be the same... for at least five minutes.
This is Oscar material. Greater than Schindler's List, greater than anything that has come before or could ever possibly come again! Nothing else compares to this explosion of genius. Not just the Oscars, but the Olympic gold and the Nobel Peace prize as well. Oh and a BAFTA one of those.....
The creative team behind this earth-shattering masterpiece deserve EVERY accolade. I think what we've seen is a truly fantasmagorical shift in our reality... this is art like humanity has never known or could ever know.
All thanks to a Man..... With a vision so profound SO DEEP, we couldn't hope to truly grasp its meaning even if we did nothing else but dwell in silent meditation for the 30 years. The level of genius displayed here rivals the greatest minds this planet has ever known or will ever know.
If you don't watch the short at least 534 times you'll regret it for at least ten minutes. WATCH THIS FILM NOW- WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW, and prepare to have your entire reality raped by multiple genitalia sets into all new dimensions. You'll never EVER ëvÊRRR regret it!"
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The best contract that unions will be able to extract will pale in comparison to what the law will demand if we could ever get anyone elected in this crazy 10th-world s-hole that cared about working people.
It's going to be hard, but labor laws is what it's going to take. I appreciate unions that try to help, but what they get is crap. 25% raise..... Over four years????
I mean I don't know maybe I'm just the one that's out there but that doesn't sound like anything to celebrate. I mean to me it just sounds like you got a few more crumbs. They didn't get their 32 hour work week, they didn't demand a doubling or tripling of salary, they they didn't get better work days or more PTO, they still were begging for mere minor increases. I mean I think even for the most positive worker empowerment groups, ie these unions, we still seem to have this idea that we don't deserve anything! What good are unions if even at their most aggressive all they get are five more crumbs, not real gains???
I don't care if these workers are only taking out the trash. Their collective labor is generating 100% of the profits this company has and they're getting back about 2%. With a union's help they might be able to get back about 10%.
That still leaves 90% still being sucked up by the top 1% of the company and passive shareholders. I'm sorry, I just find that highway robbery and I cannot approve of that. It's still the business model that is based on watered down institutionalized slavery, ie Labor should be slaves and they don't deserve to be properly remunerated.
Even with all the incredible nose to the grindstone hard grinding efforts from a union, it looks to me that you don't get more than shit. IS THAT KIND OF DISAPPOINTING PAYOFF WORTH ALL THAT EFFORT? I don't think so.
I appreciate what Sean Fain tried to do but I heard their final contract was not all that impressive, especially given all of their effort. So it seems to me even under the BEST of conditions the most aggressive and militant of unions are not able to force these companies' hands. So what's the other option? Only laws.
WHAT ELSE IS THERE? WE CAN'T TAKE IT BY FORCE, THEY'LL BE ABLE TO CALL ON STATE FORCE IN RESPONSE.
And if unions have been so watered down or infiltrated, or weekend in other ways that even at their best they're barely getting out anything worth writing home about, then that doesn't seem to be the way anymore either. So what does that leave us? Only laws.
So let's get back to the political organizing the previous generations knew they needed in order to secure their rights under law.
Never vote red or blue again. They are for the 1%. Don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise, they are either lying or misinformed.
Go socialist or communist if you really care about this issue. They're the only ones that put workers first.
Finally, just don't work for these slavers anymore. If you have to live in poverty or on the edge, at least do that at a better workplace. Go for the job satisfaction and the positive work environment first, and then if you still get paid poorly at least it's easier to put up with. Work somewhere that takes less of a toll on your body. Seek public assistance if you have to. Reach out to your community and your family if you have one to count on
Don't let one of these evil workplaces ruin your life and DON'T work for one any longer than absolutely necessary because they will NOT treat you right. It's not just Toyota, its industry-wide. It's everywhere. A big corp almost never wants to properly remunerate their staff. Its owners and top decision makers want to see all of the profit for themselves and they honestly don't care if every single one of their workers drops dead because they see them as expendable. There are other options out there I am sure so sometimes walking away is the best option. If that means you encounter more financial struggles so be it at least you'll know that you'll have your self-respect intact and you won't be putting up with substandard treatment or exploitation by a company. There are some good places to work even though sometimes it seems like they don't exist anymore, but they're out there sometimes they're just hard to find. Sometimes a public sector job can be the answer. Of course our individual solutions will depend on our individual situations but, being unwilling to constantly put up with these types of workplaces I think is the first step. If we cannot force them to change and to value and care about those who generate the profits they demand, then our only real choices to walk away. The more people walk away from this crap, the sooner these companies will learn that it's not okay to treat people this way. All workers deserve generous profit share and high base wages for their labor.
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All drugs should be legal. I mean it's not govts business what consenting adults do with their bodies. Such a crime against humanity. Keeping substances illegal doesn't keep anyone from using or selling it. You can cry about people getting addicted but if these evildoers in power cared a shit about addiction, they would make many more resources available for substance abuse treatment and stop trying to use cages as subjugation and profit-seeking tools. But we know what their real agenda is, and it's just that. It would be one thing if just dealing was illegal, altho I don't support that, but the fact that mere usage is is outrageous, amoral, and criminal. It's not the govts business what I do with my body, so long as I'm not using it to commit harm to anyone else!! We are truly living under a 1984-wannabe tyrannical fascist State that has the gall to feel entitled to dictate and control everything we do in our private lives!!!! As one can tell from my tone not to mention my YT page, this pretty much makes me sick. Unless someone is committing a financial or violent crime, GOVT HAS NO FUCKING RIGHT TO EVEN SPEAK ON IT!! WHEN IS RATIONAL FREEDOM GOING TO BE LEGAL IN THIS MTFKG COUNTRY!!!??? god DAMMIT.
You can tell this man is speaking fr the heart. Fuck I hope he makes it!! The only good govt is SMALL GOVT- govt that keeps the big corps in check- and stays the FUCK OUT OF OUR PRIVATE LIVES with very few exceptions (ie public health such as COVID etc)!!!!! God dammit I'm so sick of living in a Gestapo state!!! The ONLY reason any drug is still illegal is so govt ANIMALS have a reason to subjugate- PERIOD!! I'm so goddamn sick of it. Mass incarceration exists for ONE reason only- mass subjugation.
Many props to this good man, I'll be rooting for him.
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To me it's simple. Maybe I'm simplifying it too much, but the way I see it, it just means that the federal government can print and mint as much money as it goddamn wants. And if by some determination they feel there's too much money circulation, they can choose to tax back whatever they decide. But what is keeping the federal government from printing and minting 2 , 3, 4, 5, 10 times as much as they're printing right now? For whatever purpose? Hopefully for the general good but for any purpose? we've been sold a bill of goods for so fucking long that says oh if you print too much money it'll cause XYZ to happen, usually referring to inflation. I don't believe that and that's what it sounds like MMT is saying to me. If I have any of this wrong in whole or in part, anybody may freely step forward to correct me, but I think that's the gist of it and that's how I understand it.
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I'm very limitedly sorry for a small business that loses a tiny amount of value from lifting, but that's not going to put them out of business or anything close. I have even LESS sympathy for any store or chain of any actual size.
It may be germaine to this subject to know that I am a proud Marxist. A Socialist. A communist, by some people's definition. I believe in these principles and will be fighting for them until the day I die.
I do not value inanimate objects NOT held as personal/home property, and sold by evil/unethical/greed-soaked corporations and some already VERY rich people as worthy of time under any moral law code. It shouldn't currently be part of ours but a) little in the US law code is fair or moral and b) sadly under the greed principle of 'maximum extractive infinite capitalism' that all US govts at every level, esp the state and federal, live to worship and protect at all costs, even large-scale human life; public store lifting is going to be criminalized for the foreseeable future. I fully oppose this and I find this misguided and unfortunate. If I'm EVER in a political position to change this I'll be obliterating this as my first order of business. Stores are open to the public. If they can't abide one more minor cost of doing business then they should close up shop and go home. Lifting has never affected profits in any meaningful way and I don't believe it ever will. Most people don't lift and those who do, who cares???? They clearly need it more than the store does and the store should be glad and willing to part with it.
The only reason lifting is criminalized is due to corporate greed, which makes it automatically illegitimate in my eyes on every level.
It is corporate greed in every industry that destroys lives and the planet. It is corporations that by and large that are driving climate change and every other form of destabilization on the planet. If I had my way most large corporations wouldn't even exist. In my world corps would be paying 100X more tax than they do currently and be obeying far stricter regulations than they do currently; so if they were smart they'd count their lucky stars they've been able to buy politicians and fleece the American consumer to the outrageous point that they already have, and stop constantly giving in to their infinite greed by wanting to vindictively add even more criminalization into our already demonically-cruel and over-punitive justice system. I'll state it again- some lifting is to be expected. It's inevitable. It's a fact of life, just like if one drives a car, getting cut off from time to time in traffic is inevitable. If a store or a chain doesn't want to deal with or accept that fact, then they shouldn't be in business- BAR F7CKING NONE!
WAHHWAAAHH I'm such of fucking hearing these rich slimeballs crying about how they're not rich enough yet as an owner of a rich chain they are making 7 figures every goddamn fucking year!!! Honestly the hate I have for these kinds of human phylth, when 70% of Americans have no choice but to live with less than $500 in the bank at any one time, is overwhelming. Yet they want desperate and mostly poor people, and just those who have a tough time fighting off temptation, to be labelled a CRIMINAL, because they took some minor property from a publicly-accessible location (not from a home invasion). FUCK THAT!!!
STORES DO NOT DESERVE OUR SYMPATHIES, EVER!!! Unless a small biz is the victim of geniune person to person violence, no, THEY DO NOT!! STORES HAVE NO RIGHT TO CLAIM PUBLIC PROPERTY CRIME (AN OXYMORON IN MY BOOK), WHEN THEY WILLINGLY WASTE BILLIONS OF FOOD AND USABLE GOODS EVERY WEEK, MONTH AND YEAR!! THERE SHOULD BE STANDING LAW FORCING THESE STORES TO DONATE ANYTHING THEY WILLINGLY CHOOSE NOT TO SELL BACK TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY THEY ARE LOCATED IN. PERHAPS IF THEY DID THAT, POOR AND STRUGGLING CITIZENS COULD GET WHAT THEY NEEDED WITHOUT BEING CHARGED MONEY THEY DONT HAVE AT THE MOMENT, (REMINDER: IF YOU FALL INTO MISFORTUNE, HUNGER AND ALL YOUR MATERIAL NEEDS DONT JUST CONVENIENTLY STOP UNTIL YOU CAN START MAKING A HIGH 5-FIGURE SALARY AGAIN), JUST FROM THE WILLING EXCESS OF LOCAL RETAILERS, THEY PROBABLY WOULDN'T FEEL COMPELLED TO SNEAK ITEMS OUT OF A GIVEN STORE.
UNTIL GREED-INFESTED RETAILERS STOP CAUSING ENTIRELY WILLFUL WASTE, THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO SAY THE WORDS "SHOPLIFTING" LIKE THEIR RICH GOUGING ASSES ARE ACTUALLY BEING "VICTIMIZED" OUT HERE BY THE "ORGANIZED" AND DASTARDLY GANGS OF VIOLENT "PETTY THEIVERS" SWEEPING THE LAND. Give me a motherfckg break.
(by the way for those that couldn't tell, tho I'm sure most could, the forgoing was all complete sarcasm)
FUCKING GODDAMN CAPITALISM. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
That's all I have to say about it.
FUCK CHAIN AND BIGGER STORES, FUCK OWNERS' GREED WHILE AT THE SAME TIME THEY WILLINGLY WASTE 1000s IF NOT MILLIONS, THAT THEY COULD BE HELPING THEIR COMMUNITIES WITH ALL WHILE HAVING THE GALL TO CRY ABOUT PETTY "THEIVERS".
Fuck. that. nonsense.
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Here's all any of you need to know. Of course we're not going to have a perfect world or a Utopia but we could have a far better one no doubt if all these thuglife fake-smoothie fuckers weren't in charge.
Half to 2/3 of the world lives in some level of poverty and I don't accept that that's just the "natural order of things" because it doesn't have to be.
The ultimate goal of the vast majority of local city governance here in the US is pleasing rich local business owners and wealthy business interests, chiefly real estate developers, plus giving the local cops everything they want while screwing over anyone else; or more accurately, giving schools and social needs whatever's leftover. This is usually accompanied by increasingly inhumane policies towards the local homeless.
The main agenda of state politicians is pleasing top-of-the-food-chain corporate interests especially the ones that funded their campaigns. These be anything but they're the big ones. This is 100% bipartisan. All internal state authority goes towards protecting big corporate interests within said state. They almost always oppose prison or court reform and reducing the prison population. Mass incarceration starts within each of the states first.
The main agenda of the federal apparatus is protecting the largest transnational corporate interests especially fossil fuels by any means necessary and any body count necessary, and to keep their boot on the neck of the rest of the world with either with a light touch or a very heavy touch, but make no mistake - the security state is designed to keep the US government as the ONLY boss on the playground. Anybody that doesn't do what we say has to be taken out or taught a lesson. It starts with lessening trade, trying to trash talk said nation in the eyes of other nations to foment discord, then sanctions, then it progresses to coups, then finally invasions if necessary.
Fascists love this while big fat commies like me think this is bad because we recognize the rights of other people and we have utopian visions of fair trade and peaceful resolution.
The end. So that's basically the entirety of local plus global geopolitics in a nutshell. It may seem complicated but trust me, it's really not it's not at all. It's pretty simple. It's just gangsterism for Big Money and the police State, just scaled up a bit. Other details may vary along the way but it all mainly boils down to that.
Questions? As a giant vegetarian rodent I love to talk so fire away.
Solutions vary but unless we're planning on running for office there's not much we can do besides getting ourselves together and engaging in mutual aid - which does vital life-saving work and we should all be proud of.
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FDS I thought this was brilliant. I consider myself extremely conscious (I'm W, full disclosure), but your videos CONSTANTLY teach me something new. So thanks for always being able to distill it down for me.
Let's talk about Pigs, arguably the worst social problem in society today.
Here's the right take on those trash.
A minimum number of responders is necessary to have on reserve. Ergo, some number of First Responders is acceptable. In NO way does this justify the current dystopian police-state the US maintains in every metro region. ALL Metro PDs are white supremacist community terrorist criminal organizations.
They need to be seen this way by all, because it's the truth.
Here's the correct way to structure our Public Safety needs-
1) a Dept of Investigations - cases are opened and investigated here
2) an Emergency Services Dept
A. Fire
B. General Safety (usually unarmed)
C. Traffic Accident response (always unarmed)
D. Medical
E. Mental health
F. Critical Safety Response (SWAT, special teams, armed response)
3) THAT'S IT!
I don't know who these Black house negroes and these corporate monsters are or what they think they're getting from this, but they are helping to create a death squad paramilitary force within each Metro region. My only question is- why???
I guess they want to do some genocide of minority communities. There can be no other reason. Current training facilities already exist. Why are they insufficient?? There is no moral or ethical justification for a whole new Pig City, and certainly not in Atlanta's precious forest.
Everyone needs to take a stand against Pig City and ANY expansion of Pig training facilities.
SWAT already exists. Why do we need even more Pig-nazis for the critical calls when we have already SWAT for the serious incidents??
No public entity has MORE funding than Metro Pigs in these United States. They certainly do NOT need an expansion of their current facilities and the outrageous levels of funding they already receive.
All Metro PDs need to be abolished in their current form and restructured as stated above. They are all criminal in their current form and practice.
Training needs to be completely overhauled to be be two years long, require heavy licensing, severe criminal and civil accountability, continuing mental health evaluation, and to be answerable to an independent public Department of Public Accountability manned by all qualified civilians run at the state level. Would such a Dept become corrupted over time?? Possibly, and steps can be taken to try to minimize the likelihood of this, but it's good to at least have the structure in place than not have it at all. What are the qualifications of those on the board? Well that can be debated and established when necessary.
No matter how, the lawless of impunity of Blue Nazis needs to end. Enough is enough.
All free-roaming Pigging, currently called "patrolling", and community criminal predation will be BANNED under this new system, as the ONLY morally-justified function of State-provided safety is RESPONSE and RESCUE. Ergo, ANY street prowling, community occupation for the purposes of harassment or worse, traffic-based aggressions, or ANY independent Blue aggressions not associated with a documented response dispatch, conducted via car or by foot, will NO longer be tolerated.
Until we get to here, we will continue to live under Blue Tyranny aka rule by the Blue Gestapo or Blue Nazis, and it ISNT ok.
The simple question is, do we want to live under a lawless violent Police State??? I know I sure as hell don't.
Ninety-eight percent of the current Police State SHOULD NOT exist.
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Yeah even I could tell that they went out of their way to make PW into a live-action fairy tale when I saw it for the first time maybe around 11 or 12. I enjoyed the film because it ends on a high note and all, but I did get the sense that there was something else going on though I couldn't exactly put my finger on it.
Even if they didn't want to make it gritty and hard-hitting if they had just left that last scene out of the film it would have been a pretty solid three-star general entertainment film, but they just couldn't resist tacking that fairy tale bullshit on right at the end. So Julia's character never has to actually make it on her own without falling back into the exploitative life of sex work, she just gets rescued by her fairy prince. I mean I guess if that's what stupid unthinking people want to see then I guess audiences got what they wanted. Personally if they had just left those last 5 minutes off I thought the film stood up well, everyone learned a lesson, the evil business guy got the punch in the nose that he deserved , and I thought it was a great way to send everybody off.... But what do I know? So even without going full realism and full grittiness it still could have been very good / great if they had just left well enough alone. I don't know who forced that on there but I really wish directors and other creative staff would stand up for themselves. It's so obvious when network supercunts decide to try to force something that doesn't belong and that really doesn't serve the characters or the audience for the matter. It's sad when the administrative bean counters get their way and not the writers, although I don't know specifically in this case who was responsible for that last scene, for all I know maybe it was the director, maybe it was one of the writers , I'm just presuming it was one of the businesspeople because it's so obviously fake and cheesy and cheap and easy.... Either way I wished they had been able to hold themselves back they would have had a far better film. It's still fun and enjoyable but that last scene kind of ruins the whole film because what was the point of Julia's characters growth if she's just going to get saved by Prince charming in the end? I didn't watch it to see a modern fairytale you know, the whole point is to watch someone come to at least some realization or point of growth that they didn't have before.
Ok well that's my $5. Thanks for coming to my Frank talk.
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@arcanineryu well there have definitely been a lot of issues with gender equality through the last 500 years, I really honestly don't know why tbh. I don't know what's wrong with people. We all can walk, we all can talk, we can reason, we think therefore we are, and yet gender discrimination has been a problem for a long time and still exists in some places.. Just strange. Human beings are a very bizarre species. I can understand the roots and factors of racism before I can understand gender bias honestly.
It's true that women's property rights in the West and I'm sure elsewhere were routinely denied for far too long. What a really inexcusable thing to do to someone. The more I learn about it the more I really find it amazing. Just stunning anybody thought this was okay to do this to anyone, to provide them so few enumerated rights, to force them into economic slavery and dependency. Just shocking. Intentionally denying anyone their full rights to inheritance, property, divorce, divorce settlements, and employment is really quite amazing to me. How do you just deny a whole group of people their most basic rights to exist?? Strange stuff.
I was just watching a fascinating video last night from what seemed like a pretty informed history YouTuber talking about the how the enlightenment wasn't all positive although it did bring some good things to the fore, but specifically it actually wasn't very great for women's political rights after it was all said and done. This is actually something I really wasn't that familiar with and it was disappointing to hear.
I don't know, it's crazy. How do you not see full grown adults as adults with inherent rights, at least if they're part of the dominant ethnic group? Yes there's a size disparity on average between the genders but is that really what people are going to justify their ignorance with?? Yes there are biological differences, I mean there have to be, who the hell cares, and how could it be otherwise?? I don't know if ingrained bias comes from selfishness or insecurity or ignorance or what. It starts somewhere. A desire to see the world as a rigid hierarchy, an up and down order, and feeling the need to apply that to human beings I guess....
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So for govt bootlickers I don't know what to say to wake them up from their slavery cult, but words cannot describe how much hate I have for the feds in this country. It is not ignorance, they are intentional malicious sadistic criminals. Everyone has known for generations weed is a wholly harmless plant and even if it wasn't it's NOT the government's PLACE to control MY body and MY personal choices! And yet we STILL have a harmless plant listed as a dangerous substance, worse than meth. Similarly psychedelics are mostly benign provided you pursue them with a little common sense but even if they weren't it's still not the government's place to play fascist Darth Vader Mommy and Daddy and to tell us what we can and cannot touch of our own free will. Outrageous and appalling.
It's unacceptable. I mean for those who want to be controlled and dictated to from a higher authority because they can't think for themselves, have at it. I do not!
The drug war of course is one of the most evil things that the govt has ever come up with, but you can't commit mass incarceration, mass murder, and national grand larceny to the tune of billions without it, you just can't. And that's why nothing changes. Its the greatest crime against humanity since the atom bomb.
I am SO sick of the feds it is my dearest dream that they all exit in a fire someday. They are fascists, control freaks, unstable unhinged psychopaths, filth. They all deserve to exit violently in a blaze and I just wish I was there to see it.
If they all go up in flames one day, it will well-deserved a million times over. The drug war is the most racist evil vicious sadistic thing that these monsters could have ever come up with short of gitmo and black sites and MOVE and their political prisoners. Yes Nixon and Reagan were deeply at fault but there were scores of others around them who informed them and were even guiltier than they in getting this national disgrace and generational tyranny going. One of them has even managed to slime his way back into the POTUS chair today.
I'm an ADULT. No human being on EARTH has the right to control me or my body under ANY circumstances, short of intervening if I'm causing intentional harm to another human being, the planet, or an animal, or to enforce property rights. Short of that there is NO ONE who has a right to control me as if I'm a piece of property. Absolutely no one. Same for everyone else on Earth. If I wish to use a drug or substance that is my right. If I wished to sell them to a consenting buyer that is my right. If I wish to purchase them from a consenting seller THAT IS MY F**KING RIGHT!!
Government itself is just a deeply evil entity when it oversteps its bounds from a public organizational and management tool into a fascist and satanic tyrannical dictatorial savage cruel hate-filled violence-loving tool of death and destruction.
Dth to the feds. Dth to DC. Dth to fascists everywhere.
We live under a serious dictatorship in the US and I know I'm not the only one who sees it.
Don't people want to wake up and take their power back?
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I've never fully understood this nonsense that's been going on the last 50 years with this so-called war on drugs. I mean obviously I know it serves a wonderful purpose of keeping the prison population exploding. But is that all? Like this other gentleman said it even prevent you from getting forms of public assistance. maybe I need to do a little bit more research. I thought I was well educated on this but there's a few tiny pieces of the puzzle I think I'm still not 100% sure on. Other than keeping mass incarceration going and growing, is there another motivation to using drugs as an excuse to enforce poverty on people? Because it's obvious they ARE trying to enforce poverty. Which of course is pretty cruel and pretty hateful, but we aren't dealing with a boy scouts and respectable people here. They're all antisocial sadists and pseudo-sociopaths at this level, I believe.
Besides keeping the prison industry booming, I just have no idea who is served by keeping street drug use and drug sales illegal. I really don't but maybe I'm looking right at it and just can't see it.
Anyone know? I mean I get it Big Pharma has a big voice in this too but I'm thinking there is more to it than just that. But maybe not. It's just confusing. Well anyone let me know if I've missed anything.
regardless of who benefits, I think the sad tragedy is that elected leaders at every level right now by and large are a very destructive dysfunctional kind of person and whoever the answer to seems bound to determine to want to enforce poverty. So I think that's the big threat we're up against. you can enforce poverty through various means some violent some not so violent. But the end goes the same. Some of these vested interests far from wanting to give people more ways into a better standard of living, want to make it a guarantee that some sector of the population will be in very real poverty at any given time. That's quite evil you know, but that's who they are. Because the solutions that would resolve this are simple, well understood by anyone who serious about the issue, and Far Far cheaper than even one month of funding the MIC. So the solutions are relatively simple, easy to do and well-known by all, despite what they may claim to the contrary. They just don't want to implement them because it doesn't serve their agenda. So as always, the Left in this country is up against a very callous predatory type of person. I guess we have to just keep organizing and try to get better people to public office who can make policy changes so that no family or no person in the US is deliberately priced out of or forced to go without one or more of their basic daily survival needs being met.
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@silverdamsen2680 thanks for your comments, I def agree. Some of the 1% may not be, but I am convinced a large majority of the past or present political class is. Perhaps I'm too cynical or maybe not enough. I'm convinced natural sadism and toxic contempt are the only two major emotions the majority of elected politicos feel. Look at how they deep throat the police state, look at their callousness to the most vulnerable, look at how they refuse to back off from austerity and economic unjustness, look at the policies of mass incarceration, look at the decision, as this gentleman referenced, to arbitrarily use past drug convictions to deny someone food assistance, and the examples continue on and on. I think the majority of these people live, eat, and breathe sadism, corruption, deliberate callousness, and quasi-sociopathy every minute of every day of their waking lives. Perhaps I've witnessed too much firsthand or observed too much secondhand, but more and more so every day I'm convinced this is true. We are up against a hard enemy. Some are less bad than others I'm sure but the large majority in my eyes on both sides are scandalous, shameless, ever open to a bribe or payoff, wholly devoid of character, and deliberately hateful/toxic to the non-privileged public.
I don't believe they're capable of being reasoned with, not by us. And since we can't buy them off because we're not the wealthy elite, our only choice is to do everything possible to politically organize and replace them .... Which is going to take no small feat.
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RHH, yeah I don't think the answer is to have a State do everything. I think we have to find a way to better manage and regulate the private market in the interests of workers, communities, and the natural environment. I think most people on the Left are bright, and may think having a smart State micromanage is the answer, but it's not. I don't think we really want a State to manage everything, instead let's have a combination.
It's certainly possible.
Think of a nice small town. The small town city council doesn't manage everything, they probably don't do very much at all. Let's assume there are very little to any corporate interests in this community ergo most people's businesses are of a modest size or less. I'm not even against a bigger businesses but I do feel there should be a hard limit at some point. But for sake of discussion let's say in this small community of 20,000 persons there are only local businesses of medium size or less. Provided the standing Labor laws explicitly protects the rights of Labor and all workers, wages are set at a high enough level that anyone can support themselves working full-time even if they are unskilled, and no local business is intentionally polluting the environment, then for the most part, all is well. Businesses and services will run smoothly and customers will feel that they've paid a fair price for what they received. When it makes sense, ongoing price controls and rent controls can be implemented. This way, all non-luxury goods are affordable and rent is never more than someone can afford because it is based on a function of their income not some flat rate that everyone just has to arbitrarily meet. All the excess can be collected after a certain selling cycle, and instead of being simply dumped in the landfill to collect as waste year after year, they can be first sent to a local warehouse, where they can then be redistributed to discount shops and community donations as needed.
This is the ideal situation that we want. A State should certainly set better ground rules for private business, but as far as running them directly I think that's too cumbersome. I just don't think that would work. Enterprises can function well if they are managed by ethical people and if they're forced to comply with proper regulation.
Businesses should be free to manage themselves in the way they see fit provided they abide by these nonnegotiable ground rules. We can adapt regulations appropriately for smaller businesses as well, so that they're not harmed by being forced to comply with a standard that is too restrictive for them due to their overall income and lower profit margin.
We don't have any kinds of enforced proper regulations on the private sector right now and we do have a corporatocracy which does allow for unlimited accumulation and growth, and I don't agree with that at all. We do need rent controls and guarantees through the government that provide all basic tangible needs freely given for any member of society who needs them (not means tested per se but phased out based on household income with small co-pays only if necessary), so that no one has to worry about going bankrupt if anything in their life doesn't go perfectly. I think all of this is easily achieved, but not under a corporatography and certainly not with a corrupt super elite running everything. But I do think it's more or less easily achieved. We can nationalize certain industries, or parts of certain industries if that makes sense. We can put the individual citizen and the worker FIRST and that's what I want to see. That is certainly not the paradigm that those in our government operate from currently, absolutely not. So it's true we do need a major change but it's too cumbersome to expect a small central government to somehow manage all these different businesses and services, but that doesn't mean we can't settle on a degree of central planning that makes sense.
Market socialism is definitely the answer. All taxes can be placed on large businesses, individual households can be encouraged to contribute as they see fit but I certainly would not make the mandatory. If the central government already issues currency it could keep doing that, and print and mint whatever it needs. I believe government inflation doesn't exis- that it's a boogeyman. I believe a sovereign currency issuing Nation can print any amount of currency it wants or needs. So as for how to pay for all of these comprehensive social services to me that's a BS question because I think the answer should be obvious, and as stated.
We can provide responsible and accountable public safety without turning into an egregious and vicious Police State like the US right is right now. All these things are possible and easy, but NOT under a predatory corporatocracy. Not under a State which enjoys incarceration as its number one GROWTH industries. Not when corrupt and hateful sots make all the decisions on social and economic policy.
So yeah it's entirely possible, we can have direct democracy where all public policy is passed through public referenda which is how it should be and politicians, if they even exist anymore play only a minor role mostly figural and advisory. All these things are possible, I just don't know exactly how we're going to get there. Organizing into a viable Left third party is the first step. We can always try to get more Leftists into state by state legislatures to start making these changes at the state level. I don't know if it's going to happen in our lifetime but that's how we need to go if we want to try to force these changes through. We can have rent control and all other public guarantee tangibles that guarantee everyone a baseline of a dignified existence before they even step foot in the workplace, but only if Leftists are able to take over the government. And that's kind of a big challenge in the US but I won't go so far to say it's impossible. How can we force an elected Leftist takeover of our current government?
Only by getting millions more people to vote who typically don't vote, and that's most easily achieved by media presence, of which there is no mainstream Leftist media presence currently. I don't know how to suddenly motivate 30 million more people Nationwide to vote for a currently as yet non-viable Leftist political party but that would seem to be the only way to start electing a bunch of Leftists who will put better policies in place. I mean that's the electoral method. As far as doing some kind of armed revolution that just can't happen in the modern world. Not in this country. That's just not feasible. We don't have a secret army and between State Police and national guard it just wouldn't work. It would be over before it started.
It looks like we got a long road ahead of us if we want to try to do this the electoral route but I think it's very doable. I think if millions of people had a genuinely sincere and ethical party to vote for, then they would. So the first step is then, form a viable Left movement and translate that into a Left Unity party that can fight back against the current duopoly machine and then find a way to get our word out. Find a way to counter the massive corporate MSM with media blaring a leftist message 24/7.
If we can do that, then we got a chance. It's going to take legal battles too because the duopoly scumbags love to prevent third party challengers from even getting on the ballot. Every plan can be strategized and so long as it's well planned out, has an even chance of success.
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@sarahjames5176 I'm sure I support that, as I support all workers getting their fair share of the profits they help create, and I certainly support all collective bargaining for Labor and their representatives and that they should receive a say in the decisions regarding their particular company. This can be accomplished various ways, one of them being requiring that one or more worker representatives are always present in the boardroom with fill participatory say, and so on. So I think you and I are more or less on the same page in that regard.
Can you be more specific on how exactly how this collective ownership would be administered and look like? Is it the same as I've stated here or is there something else? Also can you be more specific on how we would get there and what laws would need to be passed in order to enumerate and protect that model?
I just get a little tired of all the constant generalities. If you can't provide a step-by-step distinct and well thought-out mature plan to achieve what you say you want, then all you're really doing is navel gazing. I'm pretty Left, and I'm pretty sure we want more or less the same things, but all I hear from most people on the online Left is vague terms, lots of complaining, and key words and tricky phrases. Ok fine- I feel the same way, but how is that a PLAN???
To force real change in the real world, an actionable plan will require concrete and mature thinking. If you haven't been willing to think anything through yet, you should ask yourself why? Are you just here to talk, to feel woke, or do you have an actual goal?? And if it's not to gain office with a viable Left third party then it seems to me you're living in la-la land. Armed takeover doesn't happen in the West and it's a pipe dream. So that only leaves politics.
If you disagree with anything I stayed in my post by all means tell me so and explain why your view differs.
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@sarahjames5176 I don't necessarily disagree with that, and you might be right, but I still maintain that just because something failed in the past doesn't mean the time won't be right for it to succeed in the future under different conditions. Attitudes change, technology changes, new factors come into play. There is always a first time for everything, etc.
Can you give me a small summary of your ideal view of a future society then, with as many specifics as possible, and how you think we can get there by 2200 with or without winning public office? Do you understand that in our lifetime in the US little will change, but that doesn't mean nothing will change, but our goals must be grounded in reality? We should shoot for the moon but let's understand that we may not get there in the next 50 years. I don't want a slow rate of change, but it may happen despite our best efforts.
Have you read my whole above post where I state specific details of the milestones I wish to see? Do you differ with those in whole or in part and if so, how?
In other words - what is your SPECIFIC end goal for the US and the world, and what is your specific plan to get closer to that, in whatever degree possible, by 2070?
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@eugenevoltaire8681 Biden is full of sh*t (when he isn't sleeping that is), but so are both mainstream political parties. neither of them would ever get my willing vote, but I was unwilling to allow Trump and all his dangerous, unhinged and looney tunes W supremacists, fascists and loyal psychopaths ONE MORE MINUTE in power. Still, considering I'm a far Left armed Socialist committed to human rights, world peace, the destruction and containment of fascists and nazis and most police bodies everywhere, the welcoming of ALL immigrants, a new world order of based on equality, mutual prosperity, the liberation of all oppressed peoples, and mutual cooperation between nations; I recognize that obviously Biden is a loser and isn't going to do anything to bring us closer to those aims, neither domestically nor abroad, nor would any mainstream US politician. That is not the CIAs/Pentagon's agenda, clearly. Their agenda is the opposite of that. Only a few outspoken Leftist outlying politicians embrace these values and there aren't enough of them currently to make a difference.
So when I voted for Biden it was ONLY to get Trump out of office, NO other reason. If I had an opportunity I would have voted for Bernie, but the DNC shut him out in the primaries as all of us on the Left more or less expected they would.
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A lot of localities have ordinances against it but they don't always enforce them because they know it would be a nightmare to do so. They also know on some level that it is vile and outrageous to criminalize somebody who is doing no harm to anyone and is merely unfortunate and trying to survive.
Homeless people simply existing shouldn't bother anyone. The fact ANYONE is still making an issue out of this I find shocking even after all these years. I've always seen homeless people on and off throughout my life, I never once thought "how DARE that person be over there, existing!"
However the more evil, psychopathic, and heartless subsequent local politicians are, the more they may choose to try to force enforcement of such ordinances. Well I hate to tell them, unless they try to literally kill these people I don't know how they expect to remove them. I've been homeless before- you can't just force somebody into housing if they don't have the means, and you can't just tell them to stop being homeless. People are either homeless because they lack the money to afford the rent in their area or they have functioning issues that prevent them from securing housing on their own or they have something in their background which usually prevents them from being rented to.
I mean do local city council really think people are homeless by choice!!? Like all these people just have millions of dollars sitting in their bank account but they would much rather struggle and live on the sidewalk instead?!?!?????? Because how can you say oh well your status is illegal now, they don't have the means or the money or the ability to NOT be that way!?!???
I guess politicians in this country take pride in being satanically perverse, intentionally obtuse, and deliberately savage and cruel.
Local tyrants who tell them "hey just don't be that way!", doesn't exactly work.
When you have barbarians and moral savages in charge tasking other barbarians and moral savages to do their dirty work, this is what you get.
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@johnlast6066 (abc) they are supposed to follow all laws, but that doesn't say much. They get away with anything they want; we all know this. Also many laws are dirty as hell and shouldn't exist. Many laws cover for activities which shouldn't be tolerated and are inherently criminal; that abrogate or violate human rights or civil rights, or just common standards of decency. The amoral political class in this country- those elected or who have aspirations to office- want to gaslight the rest of us into accepting Blue subjugation and endless aggressions against our persons and property. This is disgusting and wrong.
Responsible 911 responders and investigators are something that society occasionally needs, Street gestapos are NOT. Street gestapo-ism is inherently criminal and morally wrong. Sending an armed gestapo punk out to violate our communities and our roads shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.
Just because they follow the law doesn't mean they're doing what's right. The law tells them they can murder at will, commit mass grand theft, commit stalking, lying in wait, entrapment, harassment, violent non-hostage-related home invasion, general terrorism, intimidation, and anything else they wish to do to citizens that strikes their fancy. This is outrageous and should not be tolerated. However at the the moment it's all legal. The word "legal" means nothing to a genuinely moral person such as myself.
Politicians are an amoral class of people, highly corrupt and always serving themselves. What they deem as legal or not has no standing with me and many others who know what genuine right and wrong is. We oppose their agenda and will continue to oppose it for the rest of our lives. We are United against State violence and Blue violation we are United against the violence and criminal blue gang violating our communities every chance they get.
Even small things they do are unnecessary like strolling through parks at closing time (public property should never have a "closing time") to find homeless to harass and hopefully arrest just for kicks. I've had it happen to me. I wasn't homeless at the time but I was harassed because I wanted to be on public property in the evening. How shocking and dangerous; I enjoy the peacefulness and privacy that comes with the evening hours and I wanted to be outside of my home during this time. How suspicious!! I certainly deserved the third degree and an aggressive disrespectful attitude.
All these Pigs want to do is harm somebody, push somebody around, bully somebody, dominate somebody etc; these are evil sorry people who deserve to be put in a ditch.
I think I deserve to access public property for peaceful means any goddamn time of day I demand. After all that's MY motherfucking taxes supporting that property.
But back to our issue- Legality has nothing to do with morality. Just because a bunch of corrupt bought-and-paid-for filthy worthless political hacks sign their names to something thereby making it a "law" doesn't mean it's in any way morally right or that the majority of citizens agree with it.
Plenty of unjust US laws need to be repealed, and/or just laws created that don't currently exist.
Never make the common mistake equating legality to rightness. Many things have been govt -approved in the past which I would morally oppose. Slavery, unequal rights for women, lack of protections for workers, genocidal policies against the indigenous and so on.
Government is nothing but a group of people with an agenda. It has no more bearing on ethics or uprightness than anything else. Many times that agenda is not ethnically right at all but it serves their interests or the interest of those that they answer to (various special groups).
I doubt your claim that police officers have more degrees on average than an average US citizen. Citation is needed. Most street cops are dumber than a box of rocks that's why they've taken the job. They have no useful skills and they don't want to work for a living. Joining the local organized crime cartel/gang is way easier than working for a living. They're lazy taking bastards that's what it comes down to. I'm sure there are some decent detectives but those on the street are usually crooked and shameless. Either they outright steal through traffic stops (all tickets and non-safety-necessary tows are thefts and open extortion) and/or they seek easy targets to find some flimsy excuse to arrest because we have a mass-arrest-and- cash bail extortion racket going in the US. Cash bail is one of the biggest ongoing rackets and crimes against the American people.
Street punks comfortably retire after causing non-stop unnecessary harm and hardship all their careers, picking on the weak, and living off of others' hard work.
All street gestapo deserve one of the following: a bullet, a pink slip or a stay in the ER.
All non-911 non-office police should be hated and abolished. It's an ongoing organized-crime racket against local citizens and I'm sick of it. It's not just the buildings that are stolen from the American people every year it's a ninety-nine percent totally unnecessary arrest which are conducted which continually funnel more and more people most of them not inherently violent or harmful into the system for which some will be quickly released and others will get dragged down into it over and over and over again because that's what an ugly evil system does. It keeps you trapped in a continuous cycle of oppression
Street Blues are a criminal cartel nothing more. There are essentially modern-day slave patrols and stagecoach robbers. That's exactly what they are. Also, all those who respond to emergency calls but intentionally or unintentionally bungle them should be held aggressively responsible under the law both criminally and civilly. "One strike you're out" should be the motto. That's if citizens' rights actually mattered in this country.
We can live under a violent lawless Blue dictatorship or we can have a country where every citizen's right to exist with dignity are zealously guarded- but we can't have both.
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@RevShifty re: your earlier comment; yes exactly. It's the fact that patrols are allowed to exist at ALL is the problem. It is such a criminal institution I can't even put into words. The fact that an army of little gestapo is allowed to patrol our streets seeking whom they will screw with, harm, steal from, harass, or worse, I find just stunning. If anybody else did this, anyone outside of a uniform, it would be considered org crime! And don't even get me started on the ridiculous jonestown level bootlickers out here that claim 'back the blue' or some other mindrot who don't seem to understand why this is an amoral practice. If they want to abrogate their own rights FINE that is their prerogative, but jesus have a little bit more concern for mine- like please! Jesus. If you think it's cute and cool to live under a police-state fine, but why must we all accept this???? Well we shouldn't and that's just the facts. Those who love the boot can move to a deserted island where they can live under the boot that they love so much.
Lot of these comfortable white people will never get it. I'm white but I've been poor, homeless, and plus I'm simply just aware, unlike many people who simply haven't lived through the necessary experiences or just don't have the capacity to have awareness on this issue. Nobody should be a victim of asymmetrical State thug aggression for any non-acceptable reason which is anything outside of a 911 report or a hostage rescue raid. Drugs should most definitely not be a State matter. No government will ever stop the street drug trade or people from using what they wish, whether they like it or not, so why continue to waste hundreds of billions on this outrageous overreach and lunatic nonsense? Just more insanity.
The differentiation between legit and non-legit cops is obvious. This shouldn't be confusing to anyone. 911 response? Clearly legitimate if not abused (a big if in these parts). Detective work? Same. "Patrols"!?!?!? NOT FOR ONE MOMENT. THAT'S THE PART THAT NEEDS TO BE ABOLISHED AND STOPPED. I don't know how it got started but it needs to be destroyed with extreme prejudice.
Stop ALL criminal patrols (a redundant phrase) and hold all remaining officers accountable when they step out of line. That's all, it's that's simple. That's the core of the black lives matter movement, that's the core of any movement that's tired of this.
It should have happened 100 ago but it didn't. So here we are with this worthless continuing organized nonsense which is causing a staggering amount of harm coast-to-coast every year. The institution of police as we know them needs to be destroyed. Leave the safety responders and the investigators, but hold them to some standards for a change and then just move on.
Anybody who wants to be policed as they live their life needs their head examined. Any police initiated contact not directly related to a 911 call should be seen as illegal or as a violation. So long as there's a responder if you call 911, why the hell would you want them to occupy your streets and shove a boot up your ass?!?? Do traffic stops and initiate other nonsense? Madness.
The 70s there was a was a major push back against the (street) police movement sadly this died somewhere in the 80s. You can see it dramatized in popular entertainment, it's quite striking.
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@RevShifty (abc) yes I agree it's seriously crazy. All I ask from any existing government as far as safety measures go, is someone to answer the phone if I have to place an emergency call. Anything beyond that is an oppression. Investigations can carry on, but should be subject to strict standards and oversight. NO I don't want to allow any home invasions that aren't for the express purpose of rescuing hostages or kidnap victims. Anything else is pure terrorism. NO IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO SELLING DRUGS AND WHO'S DOING DRUGS FFS THE STATE NEEDS TO GET THE F OUT OF OUR LIVES ON THAT MATTER GOOD FKG GOD!!!! People have always done drugs they will ALWAYS do drugs they're always be some form of drugs floating around society. this isn't a criminal matter, it's just reality and I fail to see how any entitled political body has a right to take an interest in this. THIS IS A PRIVATE MATTER! They saw real quick how alcohol prohibition went off the rails yet drug prohibition is still booming full speed ahead 50 years later. This is curious. However, I have a few theories why. Mainly because it keeps the engine of mass incarceration turning. Without it most prisons would have to close. Alcohol prohibition rarely resulted in a jail sentence. You can't have mass incarceration without drugs being illegal. You can't hold power over others without making everything illegal. It's all about power and control in this is where it gets dirty. In some zip codes up to one in three young black man or adult black males are caught under State monitoring or incarceration in this gross nation.
People have the right to live and prosper. We got some real sickos in charge right now.
I just want Big Brother out of my goddamn motherfuking body and my life (and everyone else's) unless I ask for help. Yes there should be a place for victims to go and rescue raids conducted (ie sex trafficking) but beyond that, NO. Nothing is needed.
No I don't support hyper-violent State power, of course not. In a free society nobody lives in fear, certainly not from their own goddamn blue thug gang, or any tyrannical arm of the State.
There's a need for legitimate protection in a limited number of situations but anything beyond this is tyrannical in my eyes.
Absolutely right that caring mental health professionals can answer 99.5% of all 911 calls and they should. These blue savages don't value human life, the moment they see a person having a crisis they want to shoot them. Mental health workers can do so alone or accompanied by an armed agent who won't intervene unless something extreme happens, if they so wish.
Traffic response officers shouldn't be armed and should be designated for that purpose only.
All lying in wait, traffic or foot stalking and any other criminal behavior AKA patrolling aka "policing" MUST end. It was never right and it will never be right. Nobody should be policed just living their life. It's madness. It's high time we took our streets back from the Blue occupiers The libertarians are completely right on this issue. The State must never initiate force. It's morally wrong. When is it acceptable? I can't think of a single instance where I would support it. Initiating force is not the same as defensive force. One is acceptable, the other is not.
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You might want to give a donation to the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta. It's really heating up out there. All these hyper-violent psychotics want to tear down massive acreage in their local forest, the last large open green space in the greater Atlanta area, so they can have a place to play GI Joe. Its just pathetic. So many psychopaths and they all want the badge so they can offend with impunity. Very very gross. Over 80% of the local population spoke out against it City council of still trying to ram it through. We truly are occupied by people who hate us. Or if they don't hate, they certainly have zero respect for.
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@RevShifty (def) last thing I'll say for now is, you can maintain a(n)
Ready,
Capable,
Respectful,
Trained,
Responsible,
Professional,
Quick-acting,
Ethical,
And above all,
ACCOUNTABLE,
Response Force without ever initiating a single act of aggression, violence or theft from or towards anyone. The fact we've all been conditioned for so many eons into accepting said aggression, violence or brazen thefts (aka seizures, but sometimes open theft) says a lot about our society.
People who say back the blue are serious future Jonestown II members. Either they want to be future blue thugs themselves or they're just a bunch of natural slaves. Weird and tiresome. You can always spot the mindslave who wants to kneel at the jackboot of State violence. Ugh. "Don't they have any self-respect????" I find myself asking myself over and over. Where is their awareness?? When they joke about maintaining order or killing protesters I always ask myself what the hell is wrong with these people?? 1984 much??? Are these sociopaths??? Do they WANT to be a slave?? Why do they like violence being done to others for any reason?? Is there something wrong in their head??? Well I certainly think there is. Surely they wouldn't approve of it being done to themselves. I guess provided it happens to a poor person or POC its totally fine and totes hilarious.
What we have been gaslit all our lives into accepting as necessary and part of civilized society is actually incredibly UNcivilized, and often savage, dangerous and outrageous. It is immoral, unethical and at its extremes, evil.
State aggression and violence is /never/ okay except during unavoidable defensive situations ie mass shooter, etc. I just don't agree that any official corpus has the right to initiate force or violence. I got to go with the civil libertarians on this one. Mass seizures aka thefts by State agents are likewise never okay, unless they are recovering confirmed stolen property. The rest is all just pure personal profit motivation and that is absolutely corrupt and crooked and should not be tolerated in any public entity. If you want to profit get your overtime or go into business for yourself or take a job in the private sector, don't use our currently perverse laws to justify you stealing billions from the american taxpayer- which they do collectively every goddamn day. One way or another, 99% of policing in this country is basically dressed-up theft and extortion. That's what the road racket is all about.
I find it a deep irony that the largest chunk in any public municipal budget is always the local PD, instead of social programs or schools or the public water department, so here we are paying for this institution which on paper is supposed to serve and protect but 90+% of the time they clearly do not but they will employ many crooked and organized-crime-style tactics.
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@dahleno2014 there's a risk with every pharmaceutical on the market. Every medical treatment every pill that's ever been designed or devised will come with a non-zero amount of risk. THIS CANNOT BE AVOIDED.
Have you ever spoken to a desperate patient who has been denied their desperately needed pain meds???? THEY ARE LIVING IN A SPECIAL KIND OF HELL THAT I WOULDN'T WISH ON ANYONE.
Nobody should be have their legal and legitimate medication taken away from them because a tiny few had some unfortunate struggles with it. By that logic nobody should be allowed to drink alcohol, use any prescription medication at all (not just pain meds), drink sodas, go skiing, own a horse, go hiking, drive a car or go skydiving. Do you see how quickly this gets ridiculous?
Next time before you just accept the malicious government lies and propaganda without thinking, realize that this issue is a more complicated one and the people who are really suffering from this ugly crusade against medical treatment are the vast majority of legitimate pain patients. They are suffering deeply right now because the federal government suddenly decided to treat them like pseudo-criminals simply because they were unlucky enough to develop pain. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
The sackler family may not be a bunch of heroes, but at least they helped bring something to market that millions of people can consider life-saving.
Also, don't let Uncle Sam colonize your mind. Opioids, plant medicine, herbs, and derivatives of the poppy flower have been used by humankind for millennia to help negotiate our pain and to seek better health. Government should have nothing to do with this and have no right to interfere. Their agenda is only a destructive and harmful one.
For any more based health freedom facts feel free to follow me around youtube.
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@WestTexasSmallTown they do have an unlimited budget that's their dirty little open secret. All currency-issuing federal governments do. I'm sure that they can't print out a trillion dollars every single day but I'm saying within reason, within a very high bar, for all intents and purposes, they essentially have an unlimited budget.
They just don't have an unlimited budget for you and me, but they have an unlimited budget for their criminal buddies on Wall Street, for the business of war and death and world domination, and for endless massive gravy train corporate welfare handouts to the richest multibillion-dollar corporations aka "subsidies", a cute word that just means welfare for the rich, or federal money for the rich.
So there's no limit on how much they want to spend on that; now for social needs or ethical purposes that's true, they have a very relatively low budget for that but that's not because they have to that's because they WANT to.
They could pump virtually as much money into the economy as they wanted and that money would be transferred into work hours and materials.
Don't buy the lie that social spending causes inflation that's just bogus. It's a lie, like so much else that comes out of the government's mouth. Money is money. If unlimited spending for Wall Street, war business, and mega-rich handouts doesn't cause cost inflation, which it doesn't, or if it did they don't care about (but it doesn't), then how could a tiny bit of social spending do so? Well of course it can't.
As usual those assholes in DC are lying to you they're all lying to you. Everyone has an agenda and if its mainstream news weather at CNN or Fox or anything else there's a good chance that they're either lying or not giving you the whole truth.
Within the states (who do not make their own money) and have to fund themselves through internal taxes, with a relatively small percentage of redistribution from the top to the bottom, all essential lacks could be filled.
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@Dragoon91786 thank you for this sad story. Yes we live in a cruel society; the people in charge have embraced cruelty and neglect. It doesn't matter what political party both have done it gladly. Red or Blue, both are clowns. Voting for either is throwing a vote away at this point. They're BOTH criminal they're BOTH on the take, they BOTH don't care if any of us live or die- these are the hard facts and I wish more people would face them.
There is only ONE option- provide the funds necessary to meet everyone's minimum material needs by any means necessary. Either we resolve to do this or we don't.
Anything else is BS. I'm not ready yet but I'm getting organized so that in a few years I'll be ready to start stepping out on the political stage locally; small races at first, nothing big. I'll be way out here on the Left, I'll be all on my own I won't have any special connections so it's going to be a challenge. But I have to do it because nobody else is doing what needs to be done, nobody else is ensuring people get their basic material needs met.
There isn't a middle ground. It's kind of like parents; either you're loving and self-sacrificing or you're not. Sure parents are going to make mistakes, but either you love your children and put them ahead of yourself, or you don't. Either they matter to you and you're willing to do what's necessary for them, or you're not.
There's not much in between.
You can't be a little bit pregnant.
I'll do whatever's necessary within my jurisdiction within my power to provide for everyone's "BMNs", basic material needs.
Things like this should be considered to be minimum tasks of a governmental body. MINIMUM. Not optional, not considered above and beyond, but MINIMUM. What else is govt for????? To provide positive public spaces, to provide a minimum of safety, and to provide for material needs. That's IT. (Well a few other more specific things but mainly those)
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@skonther0ck bruh, you're not gonna change my mind. I believe in souls and a spiritual reality. You don't, that's ok! But I do. What else is there really to say about it??? I believe in ghosts, demons, NDEs, higher powers of some sort, having to answer for ones wrongs or evils in life (like real evils; not petty stuff); alternate realities, special energies, life on other planets, the possibility of angels, talking to the dead, our souls carrying on, and all that.
I'm not telling you or anyone to believe that, just that I do. That's all.
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Just another American gestapo doing what the gestapos do, trying to spread fear and intimidation among the populace, especially those groups dedicated to racial justice.
The FBI's probably just mad that they couldn't get away with another MOVE mass murder/mass neighborhood destruction like they did in 1985.
Where do people go who can't put aside their racial hatred and their local PD ain't hiring? Easy! The big bad FBI founded by real son-of-a-bitch cross-dresser.
The FBI must be so proud of themselves all the blood on their hands. Leonard Peltier still locked up after 46 years for a crime he never committed. MOVE. Coddling out-of-control police departments from coast to coast. Even going so far as to board a plane and fly thousands of miles away to terrorize a completely innocent decent man living in NZ at yhe time who wasn't even an American citizen ever!!
It's just a terrorist organization for white supremacy and corporate heavy hitters. It needs to be shut down we get no value out of it it helps nobody that's all it is a bunch of loonies with guns what's new??????
Watch some of those natural farming or natural food documentaries see how these innocent families were terrorized by FBI goons coming into the homes of completely innocent non-violent people, pointing guns at women and children. Totally over-the-top, totally beyond aggressive, completely unnecessary, just absolute madness.
These people are just psychopaths, they're completely unstable, they don't know what to do with themselves, they're full of violence that is just desperate to get out, and this is the best they can come up with.
It's sad.
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@jerm8146 I can imagine all that! Cool reflections. I think I would appreciate the close knit aspect the most. I always wanted that and didn't much find that when I was in.
Carriers and larger ships can have a lot to offer as far as size, variety, diversity, options, open space, crannies, noise, recreational choices, more people... But you don't have that socially intimate feeling usually. Sometimes you do if you have a close workcenter and enough supportive folks in your division, and/or decent people in the upper ranks, but that greatly varies. I did not that feel that from my group on ship 1 but ship 2 was somewhat different. Less stressful by leagues so that helped, and kind of nice to be on a brand new ship. Incredibly clean and fresh feeling as contrast to the very old enterprise.
Do sub crews have access to radio and TV??? Do you surface regularly? Are there swim days? We swam in the gulf and lemme say that was a trip. Water was like bath water (so awesome) and the heat in the engine spaces was unbelievable. We had to wear ice vests which were incredibly relieving for about 10 minutes, then they wore off. I had it easy as an EM with AC, my mechanic friends had it much harder.
Gulf heat will rapidly give you your heat wings. July and August in the gulf regions will rapidly build your heat tolerance to new levels. I've known desert heat before but this was still a serious experience. I would occasionally wake up with my eyes puffed almost shut from the stuffy air. But we managed to roll with it. Sweating was the default lol.
Is there a way to smoke on subs?
I love water and being underwater but a long underwater cruise would be different, but I imagine you get used to it, like most things. I probably would too I suspect.
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Thatcher was Reagan in a dress and both were shite. I live in the US and the curse of Rightoid neoliberalism continues today and yeah, it's bad. But when you live under the iron fist of the capitalist State these are to be expected.
Things can always get better so that's what we work towards. Frankly, there needs to be a nonprofit alternative to provide every need and it's a betrayal of a country's people not to have this. The private sector alone cannot meet all needs at a price everyone can afford. And what of those that have needs, but little money??
People deserve the choice whether they want to patronize the for-profit provider or not, and so long as that choice is given, I don't have a problem with the private sector. The problem is it isn't given here, in the US, AT ALL, and that's why we have up to 80% of household existing in an economic gradient from extremely poor, to precarious, to managing but just barely, to living paycheck to paycheck and having less than $500 in reserve, to being generally OK in the middle class provided nothing serious goes wrong.
Next to no public healthcare means one serious medical problem and you are easily screwed. Medical bankruptcy dwarfs all of the causes of bankruptcy in the US.
This just isn't right. We can do better. I'm not totally against the private sector but it needs to be aggressively managed via hardcore regulation. Every country deserves a fully-funded public aka nonprofit sector to provide the universal basic services that life requires.
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Any kind of cop is a natural bully and a thug otherwise they wouldn't be in the job. Now I'm not saying that you can't have ethical police for ethical reasons but anytime you hear something like this that's when somebody has a tiny dick and is trying to compensate by feeling like they have power over you. Here's the problem- anytime you give anybody a tiny bit of power somebody is going to abuse it- the problem is here is that none of these Pigs are ever censured, disciplined prosecuted, giving a jail sentence or a steep fine, or removed when that happens. From the SCOTUS all the way down to your local mayor we are run and administered by gangster filth who see no problem with a lawless gestapo force on our streets and in our backcountry.
I'm glad there was a positive outcome in this case but in so many times there isn't because all cops are literally lawless. They're allowed to investigate themselves which if it wasn't our reality we would laugh ourselves crazy because we would find that unbelievable; I don't understand how that hasn't been crushed by any Supreme Court over the last 100 years. We are living in a madhouse where dental hygienists have to go for more training before they're allowed to get certified and have to answer to MORE oversight then somebody who can use lethal force or ruin your life either in the short-term or the long-term at any moment. THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT!!!
Now for a moment where I need to make a simple declaration of facts:
I HATE PIGS SO GOD DAMN MUCH. Most of them deserve pain, nonexistence, prison, or at minimum, unemployment and badge banning.
MAY ALL NAZIS, FASCISTS, BULLIES, THUGS, BADGE-WEARING CRIMINALS, DESTROYERS AND HUMAN TRASH ROT IN HELL.
Nobody should ever be threatened with jail for doing nothing wrong and standing up for their personal and or civil rights!
THESE EVIL FILTH LOVE DOING THAT IT'S HAPPENED TO ME ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.
Rot in hell Pigs
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People can claim shoplifting is wrong but I say it's not.
Corporations are cutting our throat to the bone every possible way and here we are acting like impinging on their outrageous profits with relative pennies-worth of loss is a crime? They are literally criminals who know only one god, greed- so no, I view taking from corporate entities as my right. The laws (that they pay for) will desperately attempt to brainwash all of us to see them as victims (and about a joke) but fortunately for me I can think for myself.
They have NO rights and they deserve to go out of business. They are nothing but a drain and a parasite on our communities. We should see them as the criminals and thugs that they are.
They could afford to donate half their inventory to the community to relieve some of the grinding poverty out here, but they don't because they are 1000% selfish. They don't even take care of their own employees! EVERYONE should be taking from these companies! they shouldn't find a single friendly face out here! Trust me people , they don't deserve it!!!!
For all these reasons and many more, lifting from corporate stores is most definitely NOT a crime. I would say it's a civil infraction at most, but I wouldn't even call it that. I say it's a public's right.
Crime is always in the eye of the beholder so it's not a shock that this ruthless brutal hateful anti-life anti-human megacorporate bought-and-paid-for injustice system is going to call me the criminal when I need to survive, while corporations out here are raping all of us.
Basically, for so many reasons, a person is incapable of violating or wronging a corporation, esp a retail corporation.
We need a values adjustment in this country yesterday.
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It's a lovely mural and there's nothing wrong with it. Also it's his business on his property and nobody should have been able to say anything. It's a stupid rule and needs to go.
This is dumber than hell. And so what if it is a sign???? Don't people have the right to put up SIGNS for their business??????? The code against signs is wrong and once again - in a small but real way this is just showing how those in local "govt" never have morals or decency at heart or concern for their community at heart, but are instead gangsters, criminal, savages, tyrants and wannabe dictators. There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with this work, whether it is a sign or mural.
The community made it clear, call it what you will they want this sign/artwork to stay. But that wasn't good enough for these local tyrants.
It is the ridiculous anti-sign code stipulation which needs to go.
Everyone needs to start suing their local city much more often. They are thugs. And if that sounds like rather strong words to describe them, that's just because most people don't have the pleasure of dealing with them more often. These are people who are desperate to be autocratic absolute-power dictators in all matters small and large. These are nothing crooked thugs in suits, taking back room bribes and payoffs to do the will of big-money interests. And although this is a relatively minor matter, it shows how they behave in general. And anyone who's had the misfortune of dealing with these criminals knows just what I'm talking about. They want to rule with an iron fist, usually though not always, in a totally corrupt away, in a way that helps their rich big business friends. The local community can demand and speak till they're blue in the face but these local tyrants have a breathtaking way of being made of Teflon; nothing the community says or does makes an impact and just rolls right off. That's why I say usually only suing works bec it's really only a show of force that thugs understand. This man gave many reasonable responses explain why the ordinance needed to be reformed or simply removed and they didn't want to hear it. It's a non-violent minor matter but its illustrative to show how these types of people are. They are would-be iron fist tyrants that want to use force and tyranny to impose their will on the world around them.
Some ordinances may make sense, but this one is foolish and stupid. No one is being harmed by a cheerful mural on the front of a donut shop. And it certainly should fall until the rights of a business owner to put up an appropriate sign related to his business.
Even though this is a relatively small matter, it still matters. Because simply they are being unfair and unreasonable on this issue, and when the community spoke out they should have realized that they were taking the ordinance too far. Clearly they have no respect for the small business owners in their community or they wouldn't be trying to force the issue, even going so far to demand outrageous usurious fines.
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@daniellarson3068 you don't support this liberational push by Russia?? You do know hardcore fascists and UkroNazis took over in 2014 in a bloody coup, funded and trained by the CIA?? This push from Russia is simply in response to that and the ensuing 8 years of ethnic cleansing in the Ukraine's eastern regions and the govt being an obvious tool of NATO and West. Knowing the US's hostile agenda against it, for 8 years Russia tried to negotiate a workable solution with Kiev, all to no avail. They were left no other option.
Military ops are always unfortunate but sometimes they are necessary, if the goals are defensible.
If you want to know more look up The New Atlas, the Duran, Multipolarista, Bad Empanada 2, etc. Yes of course they are Leftist, there's no reason for me to listen to right-wing or neoliberal crap, but I believe they are telling the truth. You can see for yourself.
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When one rant just wasn't good enough -
I don't understand how HOAs aren't organized crime. Aren't people forced to agree to these things??? So that's crime One in my book. Only government has the power to coerce citizens into anything. It's literally a cartel to bully, abuse, and steal from you if you don't satisfy to the Nth degree all of their arbitrary, petty, nonsense, unjustified, overbearing, and irrational rules.
It's just a setup for a gang to steal money from you and in extreme cases, apparently your home.
Seriously this is racketeering which is a federal crime! I don't even understand how these groups operate without getting their headquarters barged in buy some beefed-up government badge-swinger.
I can't fathom why I would PAY somebody to conduct organized crime and psychological abuse of me. This is puzzling. Why are all these other poor people doing this??
If there was no attempted coercion and no money involved, I wouldn't have a problem but there is and that makes it a crime. Attempted coercion, One. EXTORTION, NUMBER TWO. INTIMIDATION AND HOME TITLE FRAUD, THREE and FOUR.
NOBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO CONTROL HOW YOU MANAGE OR OCCUPY YOUR OWN HOME! Okay I'll amend that, government claims they have the right to control you, now we can debate to what degree, but at least they can claim semi-legitimacy.
HOAs are literally a white-collar suburban Mafia claiming they're going to break your kneecaps if you don't give them what they want. And..... they claim this is legal???
If ANYONE tries to control what I do in or on my own home and they are not a government agent their life is going to get messy very, very quick.
I can't imagine submitting to this kind of abuse. Like here I bought my home to achieve freedom but all I did was get another form of slavery and a local mob boss. Madness.
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@mip4422 honestly it's a large store it's not going to go bankrupt from losing $50 worth of junk. They clear at least $50K every single day, probably much more. Their profit margins are more than high enough to cover the relatively low amount of petty theft that's out there. there are some studies done recently and the figure was something like less than 1% of a store's losses are due to shoplifting. I'd understand being concerned if they ran off with the whole store but the typical amount that a shoplifter takes is so low it makes less than negligible difference on the store itself. it's like comparing $5 to a million dollars. It's such a small fraction it becomes effectively meaningless. The way I look at it is, if you're going to be in business it's inevitable that some people are going to have sticky fingers. If you can catch them fine, if not get over it. Low level petty theft is one of the costs of doing business. You're never going to eliminate it entirely and that's just one of the facts of life.
If a business isn't ready to accept that then they don't have to open their doors. If you want to go be a little goody two shoes and prove to the world what a little virgin you are go right ahead. Maybe the owner of that store will give you a gold star and make you the best human of the month. Otherwise I wouldn't worry about it. Did you know that wage theft by mid-size and large size companies (some small ones too I'm sure) dwarfs all other theft in this country combined many times over? I don't have a link handy but please, feel free to look it up yourself.
This particular video was funny because it was so outrageous, obviously there's no way to hide a damn chainsaw in one's pants I don't know how she thought she'd get away with that walking out, but if I ever see someone who swiping something in real life I just look the other way in mind my own damn business. It's not that serious. Unless I see someone stealing the whole diamond I see no reason to get involved. Besides while a chainsaw isn't exactly an essential item, a lot of poor people and homeless people have no choice but to try to steal essentials such as food or personal hygiene just to survive another day. If you've never been there you wouldn't understand. I've been in plenty of difficult straits before so I know what it's like. besides most stores have insurance to cover losses anyways. So they're never losing. And knowing that, I don't even know why petty theft is considered a crime since it harms no one and in some cases is necessary. I guess because it's yet another thing which is semi common and it's easy to find somebody over. That's how local municipalities make most of their money, through fines and property seizures, justified or not.
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Funny how no one in either party ever talks about getting rid of the massive socialist(!!!) govt welfare programs Wall Street and Big Business enjoy every SINGLE year in the form of nearly unlimited govt handouts.... because after all, these corps bought and PAID for those politicians dammit and they are GOING to get their money's worth! Or what about stopping insider stock trading, an ludicrously corrupt practice and unethical practice if there ever was one? Well of course not, no one wants that! It's a two-way street of mutual cooperation (more like masturbation) between those with the Big Money looking for political favor and handouts, and those within the two major corporate parties.
So it's totally okay for Congress to protect and enable those with a whole lotta money, to issue them massive corporate welfare check or bailout check after another, but do nothing for the average Joe. This is what many average people have been told is totally fair and normal and that they should accept, and they do. I mean people just ACCEPT this.... Which has always kind of amazed me, but a lot of people either aren't aware this is exactly what's happening since forever or have been socialized to accept it as fine. To which I always say- why?!?!? Why don't I deserve a govt that works for ME!? Because otherwise, I don't see why I or any average Joe is paying state or federal taxes.
In fact, considering how dirty and worthless the feds are, and knowing that federal taxation has nothing to do with funding federal spending (more on this later), and considering how upside down and corrupt and unjust the federal tax system is, and considering the crimes against humanity federal agencies have perpetrated in this country over the years, and continuing today, both by action and inaction, I WHOLEHEARTEDLY reject the right of the feds to demand anything from ANYONE, including taxes.
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On the list of 24537 reasons why Pigs are filth and nothing but community terrorists and parasites, here's one more.
Last time I checked larceny (or in common parlance, theft) was illegal and considered a crime. So why don't those who do it on an industrial scale go to jail??
Thank god there's one judge in this country who isn't wholly corrupt and sociopathic-adjacent, and is standing up for decency, but he's one out of many thousands who won't. So many judges are just as evil as the blue filth they protect. They feel entitled to take whatever they want and to ruin lives for sport.
I guess if you do something in a uniform it's not wrong. It's not crime if you all wear the same outfit when you're doing it right??? Guess that means me and the boys will get our own little theft ring started. Wonder how long we'll be able to get away with it.
This isn't a racial thing, this is basic right and wrong. We don't just need to defund to the Gestapo, we need to ABOLISH the Gestapo. 911 will remain, detectives will remain, but all the rest is Gestapo. Nobody should want this.
Support them at your peril because they're going to come for you and they're NOT going to think twice about destroying you- these are NOT people that have consciences, they're criminals. If they were capable of remorse they wouldn't be doing what they do.
This is taxpayer-funded crime, people.
It's ugly, and it's wrong. Ninety-nine percent of Pigs on the street deserve one of two things- a small metal projectile, or a long stay behind bars.
They bring nothing to society but violence, grand theft, and in some cases, murder. I'm not talking about those who respond to genuinely dangerous situations and do their job- which doesn't seem to happen today at all- and even four decades ago apparently didn't happen too often, I'm talking about all of the rest which is about 98% of it. You know, the gangsterism. 98% of police is nothing but a violent homicidal larcenous gang and that's all. NOBODY should support this. I mean all it takes is ONE time for a person to become a victim, for it to happen to them and then they get it.
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