Comments by "Animal Farm" (@animalfarm7467) on "NYT Columnist Blames Palestinians For Being Shot" video.

  1. Jimmy, I have a problem with your use of pronouns. When you say, 10:00 “All our wars are complete, amoral, for-profit enterprises”, or when you say, 10:15 “Our Government”, 10:26 “What the f@#k we’re doing with our foreign policy”, 10:30 “We’re starting wars, we’re murdering people, and we’re all doing it for money”, why do you use the words “we” and “our”? When you say it’s our Government, it’s our military; or it’s our foreign policy, there is a definite problem. You are aligning yourself with institutions and policies that are outside of your control and the control of the people. After presenting so many facts about the corruption of the US electoral process ad democracy, how can you use the word “our” and claim ownership when the oligarchs are the real masters of the corrupt US electoral process resulting in a deceptive and fake democracy? Also, think about the psychology of other people hearing you and others use the personal possessive pronouns when describing something outside your control. It is not only unintentionally deceptive, it gives a sense of uselessness and impotence and that can’t be healthy. So Jimmy, might I suggest you start differentiating between democracy and plutocracy and start using the pronoun “they” meaning the oligarchs. With all the mechanisms put in place by the oligarchs to corrupt elections, you have very little say in the outcome. Forget about the gerrymandering, or the oligarchs’ money “Citizens United” or the controlled and biased media, or the electoral college, or the superdelegates, or those who are just removed from the electoral roll, or those who wait in lines for hours to vote, or the electronic voting machines where the code is intellectual property and cannot be audited, or, or, … The oligarchs give the people two puppet candidates after the primaries from the two allowed parties and a smattering of imaginary candidates with no chance of winning and then call it a democracy. Even The Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index describes the US democracy as flawed and that’s from a magazine owned by an oligarchical family. So Jimmy, just remember it is the oligarchs who own and control the system and present their two puppets every four years from which you are expected to choose. It is the oligarchs and their media that pushes the flag, pushes nationalism, promotes the military and pays to promote the honoring of veterans to ensure the “Useful Idiots of Empire” are aligned with their imperialism. So please refrain from using the pronouns “my”, “our”, etc., when claiming ownership of institutions, policies and actions that are totally outside your control.
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